In fact, if you read your contract, they have no obligation to deliver ANY text message. They may attempt to. That's it. "We attempted to, It didn't pass through the spam filters. Sux 2 B U"
This is bullshit. "Attempt to" means a best effort or at the very least a reasonable effort attempt. If you didn't deliver the message because your spam filter stopped it, you didn't attempt to deliver it, for any reasonable definition of "attempt".
Of course the court might still agree with you, being run by lawyers rather than reasonable people, but still...
the idea that everyone has a price is a very nihilistic way of looking at the world, and simply isn't true, simply because not everyone is nihilist. some people actually believe in something.
Everyone has a price, however that doesn't mean that any amount of money would be sufficient (since having 2 millions isn't worth twice having one million); but suppose the price is the safety of your loved ones? And believing in something in no way contradicts selling US nuclear secrets. In what, with suitable believes, such a course of action might be one you can't avoid and stay true to them.
because when reading your words, i would much rather this world be populated by people who believe in magical sky fairies, even though i myself don't believe in magical sky fairies, than a world populated by someone like you, who doesn't believe in anything at all, and loves no one and no thing, except your own selfish ignorant self.
This is completely nonsensical. Why on Earth do you think that someone believing in a "sky fairy" would be loyal to the US? And why do you think that not being loyal to the US - or any other country, for that matter - means you don't love anyone or anything?
Because it contradicts the "welfare queens and retirees suck up our tax money" meme, and might even imply that the amount paid by Social Security is insufficient.
Saying "I couldn't care less" implies that you have examined your position and have reached a conclusion, which also implies that you at one time cared enough about the issue to have spent some time thinking about it.
It could also be that you don't care enough about the issue to accurately communicate your level of lack of care, and thus are simply asserting that you couldn't care less without bothering to search your feelings about whether this is true.
It's nothing to do with rights. If you don't like it, don't buy it. That's the only right you have.
You do, however, have the ability to get it, but this violates a government-granted monopoly known as copyright. So the question is: do you have some kind of obligation to respect government-granted monopolies?
SMAs have been well known about for decades, well written about for decades, just what is the point if this article?!
Someone who's education consists of Harry Potter novels just looked at a random Wikipedia article and realized you can do pretty neat stuff with science too. It's kinda cute, really, and we should be kind and supportive of this potential butterfly of wisdom just starting to emerge from the shell of ignorance.
If they will kindly not hide what they put in the food (including the use of newspeak), we can make a rational informed decision about what and how much to eat.
But then you might make the rational informed decision to not eat high fructose corn syrup, or "corn sugar" or whatever it's called, which would affect the bottom lines of corn producers. Since they care more about their bottom line than your health or life, they have made the rational informed decision of trying to hide the fact that foods which include said semi-poison include it.
Basically, if you want businesses to play nice, you have to use government and the law to force them.
However, that doesn't mean that when I buy a Blu-Ray disc, that I can play the movie in Linux without first loading up DVD Fab, ripping the Blu-Ray disc to hard drive, and THEN play the decrypted files. Yeah, that's convenient, and SO superior to the genuine product (NOT).
So ask if the guy who sold you the disinfected DVD could import some disinfected Blu-Rays as well. Or get your HD content from the Swedish supplier at 100% discount. What's the problem?
he point of the GP is about intelligent life out there, they are likely hundreds of millions of light years away, if not more. The milky way galaxy alone (but a small drop in the bucket cosmically speaking) is 100,000 light years across,
And it contains about 100 billion stars, most of which likely contain planetary systems. Even our very Solar System has at least two locations besides Earth that have reasonable chances of having life (Mars and Titan). Add the fact that life on Earth has been producing more and more intelligent life forms through its whole history - hardly surprising, since more intelligence allows much better coordination - and it starts seeming very likely that there's life close to us.
Besides, one thing you need to remember is that the Universe is still very young. The heavier-than-hydrogen materials that make up our bodies were formed in first-generation stars; Earth is likely amongst the oldest planets in the Universe that can support life, which would imply that we are one of the first - if not the first - civilizations to arise after the Big Bang.
So, let's start investing more to space flight and take over the Universe!
That depends on what information encoding system you're using, now doesn't it? Choose the right one, and any sinlge thing you want to express fits into a single symbol. For example, in an encoding system where "n" is a symbol that means the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem, said proof can be expressed as "n" and could thus fit into a tweet 140 times.
s(/.,c(n)>c(t))
Or, in other words: Slashdot says that cardinality of proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is greater than cardinality of a tweet.
In the total scope of running the business you have to decide whether and how much R&D to sink and you know this is going to ultimately affect what you have to charge for your product to make a buck.
No, it affects how much total income you need to get for that particular product to cover the R&D. You charge whatever will maximize the income, regardless of R&D costs. If even maximum expected income isn't sufficient to cover R&D, then it's not worth it to invest on developing that product.
In other words, if companies could make more money by rising their prices, they already would had done just that.
I would most definitely call this passing R&D costs on to the customer.
It isn't, since it's a fixed cost and doesn't affect the price that maximizes company's income. Per-unit cost, however, does get passed on to customer, since it affects profit per unit at particular price.
If I'm following along, your equations support this way of thinking. R&D is only a sunk cost once you make it. But deciding whether and how much investment (and in what) to make is a key aspect of running a successful business, and is a key driver of price in many industries (big pharma for example).
Obviously making correct investment decisions is the key aspect of running a succesful business. However, the R&D cost doesn't directly drive up prices for pharma; it simply acts as a barrier of entry and thus limits supply, which - combined with the extreme strong negotiation position of "you have a deadly illness and I have the only cure" - means that the maximum-income price is very high.
And regarding my background, I helped design, start and manage a business which is now a publicly traded company, so I think I'm reasonably qualified to offer an opinion on this.
So... how did you set prices? Did you try to maximize income, or did you settle for some reasonable profit?
Sure, why not? He'll help me and my fellow directors loot the company and jump ship before it sinks. Then we'll help him get a new CEO position in whatever companies we've spread to, and repeat the process.
The only reason we still have something called a government here in the US is to provide an enforcement arm to the corporations and to keep some semblance of order to provide a conducive environment for corporate profits and growth.
So I guess the Libertarians got what they wanted: all power is held by nongovernmental - "private" - entities, and the Government's only role is enforcing property laws. Isn't Freedom grand?
If the goal of a country's immigration policy is to provide foreigners with a better life (a laughable notion but that's what you seem to be saying)
"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."
It was this notion that built the most powerful country on the Earth. It's abandoning it that has caused said country to decline. People trying to improve their lot usually end up improving plenty of other people's lot too; the worse off they were to begin with, the more driven they are. What the heck happened to you to forget that? Megacorps?
Bloody Hell! I can understand selfish psychopaths - and will argue with them from the understanding that they only care of themselves - but I'll never, ever, understand people who are acting against their own interests, despite presumably being intelligent enough to understand them.
Though society needs both manual laborers and computer programming geniuses, but it seems logical that any one such programmer has work that's more valuable than any one such laborer
Until you actually need some manual labour done and realize just how much work that really is. Then you try it anyway and realize just why the companies that kicked the few actually competent manual labourers out are having such problems. Then you use the remaining hand to type in a want-ad:).
In any case, Linus's work at this point is managering, not programming.
For some reason, It's ok as long as you are making fun of the right here.
It's because most of Slashdot works for a living. Right is for the owning class, left is for the working class. Unfortunately the left in most countries seems to be willing to work with the right for the latter's benefit, so I think I'll have to vote for Communists in the next election to retain at least a bit of my rights and freedoms.
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This is bullshit. "Attempt to" means a best effort or at the very least a reasonable effort attempt. If you didn't deliver the message because your spam filter stopped it, you didn't attempt to deliver it, for any reasonable definition of "attempt".
Of course the court might still agree with you, being run by lawyers rather than reasonable people, but still...
Everyone has a price, however that doesn't mean that any amount of money would be sufficient (since having 2 millions isn't worth twice having one million); but suppose the price is the safety of your loved ones? And believing in something in no way contradicts selling US nuclear secrets. In what, with suitable believes, such a course of action might be one you can't avoid and stay true to them.
This is completely nonsensical. Why on Earth do you think that someone believing in a "sky fairy" would be loyal to the US? And why do you think that not being loyal to the US - or any other country, for that matter - means you don't love anyone or anything?
Because it contradicts the "welfare queens and retirees suck up our tax money" meme, and might even imply that the amount paid by Social Security is insufficient.
It could also be that you don't care enough about the issue to accurately communicate your level of lack of care, and thus are simply asserting that you couldn't care less without bothering to search your feelings about whether this is true.
"Stick it in her pooper" - Old Internet meme. Kinda ruined the scene for me :).
Of course, you could simply cut the wires.
Is that actually provable? And if so, how?
You do, however, have the ability to get it, but this violates a government-granted monopoly known as copyright. So the question is: do you have some kind of obligation to respect government-granted monopolies?
But what do you use when the Democrats are in power?
Someone who's education consists of Harry Potter novels just looked at a random Wikipedia article and realized you can do pretty neat stuff with science too. It's kinda cute, really, and we should be kind and supportive of this potential butterfly of wisdom just starting to emerge from the shell of ignorance.
Yeah. You should ask for tomato wine instead.
But then you might make the rational informed decision to not eat high fructose corn syrup, or "corn sugar" or whatever it's called, which would affect the bottom lines of corn producers. Since they care more about their bottom line than your health or life, they have made the rational informed decision of trying to hide the fact that foods which include said semi-poison include it.
Basically, if you want businesses to play nice, you have to use government and the law to force them.
What geek would prefer a game to a math book?
Not to mention, the people he spied on weren't threatened with Hell if they ever spoke of it.
So ask if the guy who sold you the disinfected DVD could import some disinfected Blu-Rays as well. Or get your HD content from the Swedish supplier at 100% discount. What's the problem?
And it contains about 100 billion stars, most of which likely contain planetary systems. Even our very Solar System has at least two locations besides Earth that have reasonable chances of having life (Mars and Titan). Add the fact that life on Earth has been producing more and more intelligent life forms through its whole history - hardly surprising, since more intelligence allows much better coordination - and it starts seeming very likely that there's life close to us.
Besides, one thing you need to remember is that the Universe is still very young. The heavier-than-hydrogen materials that make up our bodies were formed in first-generation stars; Earth is likely amongst the oldest planets in the Universe that can support life, which would imply that we are one of the first - if not the first - civilizations to arise after the Big Bang.
So, let's start investing more to space flight and take over the Universe!
That depends on what information encoding system you're using, now doesn't it? Choose the right one, and any sinlge thing you want to express fits into a single symbol. For example, in an encoding system where "n" is a symbol that means the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem, said proof can be expressed as "n" and could thus fit into a tweet 140 times.
s(/.,c(n)>c(t))
Or, in other words: Slashdot says that cardinality of proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is greater than cardinality of a tweet.
No, it affects how much total income you need to get for that particular product to cover the R&D. You charge whatever will maximize the income, regardless of R&D costs. If even maximum expected income isn't sufficient to cover R&D, then it's not worth it to invest on developing that product.
In other words, if companies could make more money by rising their prices, they already would had done just that.
It isn't, since it's a fixed cost and doesn't affect the price that maximizes company's income. Per-unit cost, however, does get passed on to customer, since it affects profit per unit at particular price.
Obviously making correct investment decisions is the key aspect of running a succesful business. However, the R&D cost doesn't directly drive up prices for pharma; it simply acts as a barrier of entry and thus limits supply, which - combined with the extreme strong negotiation position of "you have a deadly illness and I have the only cure" - means that the maximum-income price is very high.
So... how did you set prices? Did you try to maximize income, or did you settle for some reasonable profit?
Sure, why not? He'll help me and my fellow directors loot the company and jump ship before it sinks. Then we'll help him get a new CEO position in whatever companies we've spread to, and repeat the process.
So I guess the Libertarians got what they wanted: all power is held by nongovernmental - "private" - entities, and the Government's only role is enforcing property laws. Isn't Freedom grand?
And yet, for their credit, they have done nothing to stop people from leaving. That's better than quite certain states can boast.
"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."
It was this notion that built the most powerful country on the Earth. It's abandoning it that has caused said country to decline. People trying to improve their lot usually end up improving plenty of other people's lot too; the worse off they were to begin with, the more driven they are. What the heck happened to you to forget that? Megacorps?
Bloody Hell! I can understand selfish psychopaths - and will argue with them from the understanding that they only care of themselves - but I'll never, ever, understand people who are acting against their own interests, despite presumably being intelligent enough to understand them.
Because saying "A world-renown programmer/manager moved here legally, therefore anyone could" is a logical non-sequiter.
That was kind of the grandparent's point.
Until you actually need some manual labour done and realize just how much work that really is. Then you try it anyway and realize just why the companies that kicked the few actually competent manual labourers out are having such problems. Then you use the remaining hand to type in a want-ad :).
In any case, Linus's work at this point is managering, not programming.
Technically, if you go back far enough, we're all aquatic creatures. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn, niggers!
It's because most of Slashdot works for a living. Right is for the owning class, left is for the working class. Unfortunately the left in most countries seems to be willing to work with the right for the latter's benefit, so I think I'll have to vote for Communists in the next election to retain at least a bit of my rights and freedoms.
And no, the irony doesn't escape me.