I agree with Icy and everett. The people who run companies have no obligation to release the status of their health. If they are physically unable to run the company effectively, they should step down, but that's a matter for the shareholders and the board.
Skilled trades unions are similar to guilds and seem to work quite well. Membership is optional, you can still be a freelancer if you want, and there is enough competition that rates stay competitive and there is plenty of work for everybody.
What you don't want is a behemoth like the UAW or teamsters barging into your business and telling you how to run it.
I have some friends in IT that are unionized under the UAW and it's a joke. They get paid less than average, they don't have much more job security than anyone else, and the benefits the UAW campaigns for are worthless to most of them. A group of their co-workers had some legitimate concerns over a few work policies, and the union blew them off.
You're right. We need the Secretary of Internet Safety and Niceness to make Norton 360 required software on everybody's computer, so the internet will be safer for all.
No, as strong a denial as can possibly be made is "That is incorrect. It is not true. Our products do not emit the fumes referred to."
The OP is saying, logically, they are the same thing. Scientifically speaking, not having evidence of something is as concrete as it gets, because, except for very limited scenarios, you cannot prove a negative.
I use a T-Mobile burner. Minutes are a little pricey, but get cheaper after you invest $100. It works fine, I spend maybe $5/month, there are no recurring fees. It doesn't do internet, I don't text (It's $0.10/message) It's a pretty barebones phone, but I used to have a fancy unlocked linux phone that worked fine with the SIM.
The ancillary to this is she could have given him tacit permission to make his lexicon, or worked out an exclusive licensing scheme. Of course, she's not always in control of who gets sued - just because she owns the IP doesn't mean she retains all publishing rights everywhere.
Microsoft's new ad was just like Windows - a few good bits, and loads of very expensive and pointless bits, made with parts that don't necessarily go together.
This practice dates back to the Norman invasion, when French was the language spoken by the ruling class in otherwise English speaking, er, England:)
During court proceedings, they'd use both languages, the tradition caught on and stayed with us through common law terminology. So now you have null and void, aiding and abetting, assault and battery, etc...
but I'd rather not give money to a "Democrat" PAC. I wouldn't give money to a Republican PAC, either. If they separated this issue out from the rest of their position I'd be all over it.
It's interesting that when a Republican introduces a piece of brain-damaged legislation like this, that fact is plastered all over the story. When it's a Democrat, things get very generic. "Look at what the government is doing!"-type comments.
I wonder where this is coming from as there aren't a lot of IP-based industries in Michigan. Conyers must be doing someone a favor.
> Come on the Drake Equation has been around for a long time now guys.
The problem with the Drake equation, and most other alien-life-probability theories, is that they are currently untestable and unverifiable. Just because we haven't found any life doesn't mean there is or is not anything out there. Until we thoroughly catalog a significant percentage of planets as lifeless can we say that there *isn't* any life out there. Until we find life, we can't say there *is* anything out there.
Bottom line, and this is a tough one for some to swallow - we have no idea, not even a really good guess, if there is any other life out there.
I've noticed that of all my machines, the one I built myself has the longest MTBF as far as hard drives go. I'm pretty sure it's because the drive cage has a dedicated fan, keeping electromechanical devices cool greatly increases their lifespan.
FTA: $595 million for 525,000 custom handheld computers, which is about $1,100 per machine.
OR - 525,000 iPhones with one year corporate plans and Pharos bluetooth GPS - probably around $1,000 per unit MAXIMUM, which leaves about $70 million to develop a custom web app for the census - which should be WAY more than enough.
Not the best example - but C'mon, how much does a custom PDA app cost? It's a GPS combined with a questionnaire app - for $1,100 a pop!?!?
It would be a cool interface for games. Think of a hacked interface playing supreme commander, zooming in and out of different areas of the battlefield. Get a bunch of them together and it would be some expensive fun. If they can get the unit cost down - maybe some super-cool internet cafe furniture? How about some custom chat/game apps for high end club tables?
There are all kinds of cool niche markets for this thing. Microsoft's creativity stifling bureaucracy is in full effect in marketing this thing.
"What our partners have decided is that they want to skip that stage and go to an integrated experience where they build their own applications."
So, the delay was getting an SDK out the door? Holy cow, MS pumps out half a dozen SDKs a month, it took a whole year to create an SDK for a table? I'm guessing they didn't build this thing from scratch, either - it's probably.NET and DirectX mixed with ActiveSync and their Bluetooth stack - I can't wait for the first bluescreens being posted on flickr...
> The EU negotiates as one block with the outside world where economic treaties etc. are concerned. *That* is what makes it count as a single economic unit.
In that case, the NAFTA bloc is larger than the EU, and in raw dollar terms, OPEC is probably larger than anyone.
> You aren't even the world's largest economy any more and the status of the dollar as reserve currency is the lowest it has been since the signing of Bretton Woods.
The US is most certainly the largest economy in the world, still. Unless you count the whole of the EU as one economic unit, which I'll buy when the EU has one seat at the UN, one vote in the security council, etc...
It's closer to DirecTV and Dish merging. Neither has a whole lot of subscribers, and their real competition is cable and free TV, along with the internet, etc...
Satellite radio's real competition is terrestrial radio (analog and HD) along with MP3 players. That's who they have to compete with, if people don't want to pay for their service they don't have to, there are other places to go.
There are two episodes of This American Life from about six years ago - one about the Republican national convention and one about the Democratic national convention. Ira Glass is, pretty obviously, very liberal, but he was surprised to find that, though he didn't agree with their politics, he liked the Republicans better than the Democrats. The Dems argued and took potshots at each other, and were, in general, very clique-y, while the Republicans just seemed to just get along with each other.
It may be a problem endemic to the Democratic party - it just seems like they don't get along very well.
Cars are a PITA to maintain these days because, to increase efficiency and meet emissions regulations, they have to be lighter and have tightly controlled combustion. The lighter bit means smaller, meaning smaller engine compartments, meaning more difficult to access and repair engines. The tightly controlled combustion means computer controlled fuel injection, and sensors everywhere for feedback.
I don't care much about fixing engines - they are so complex these days you're SOL if you don't have an ODBCII kit (or, heaven forbid, a CAN or MOST bus analyzer - $$$$!!!) My pet peeve is the loss of real, honest-to-god bumpers. Nowadays if you tap a cement parking block going more than a couple miles per hour, you crack your front fascia, and get to spend $600 buying a new one. Ugh.
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The guy plays Segway polo, he has to be nimble on his feet. I suggest he stays away from those Hawaiian shirts, though.
More specifically, this sounds just like a Canon Cat.
I agree with Icy and everett. The people who run companies have no obligation to release the status of their health. If they are physically unable to run the company effectively, they should step down, but that's a matter for the shareholders and the board.
+1 Altoids tin. Just make sure you clean it out first.
Skilled trades unions are similar to guilds and seem to work quite well. Membership is optional, you can still be a freelancer if you want, and there is enough competition that rates stay competitive and there is plenty of work for everybody.
What you don't want is a behemoth like the UAW or teamsters barging into your business and telling you how to run it.
I have some friends in IT that are unionized under the UAW and it's a joke. They get paid less than average, they don't have much more job security than anyone else, and the benefits the UAW campaigns for are worthless to most of them. A group of their co-workers had some legitimate concerns over a few work policies, and the union blew them off.
You're right. We need the Secretary of Internet Safety and Niceness to make Norton 360 required software on everybody's computer, so the internet will be safer for all.
No, as strong a denial as can possibly be made is "That is incorrect. It is not true. Our products do not emit the fumes referred to."
The OP is saying, logically, they are the same thing. Scientifically speaking, not having evidence of something is as concrete as it gets, because, except for very limited scenarios, you cannot prove a negative.
I use a T-Mobile burner. Minutes are a little pricey, but get cheaper after you invest $100. It works fine, I spend maybe $5/month, there are no recurring fees. It doesn't do internet, I don't text (It's $0.10/message) It's a pretty barebones phone, but I used to have a fancy unlocked linux phone that worked fine with the SIM.
The ancillary to this is she could have given him tacit permission to make his lexicon, or worked out an exclusive licensing scheme. Of course, she's not always in control of who gets sued - just because she owns the IP doesn't mean she retains all publishing rights everywhere.
Microsoft's new ad was just like Windows - a few good bits, and loads of very expensive and pointless bits, made with parts that don't necessarily go together.
> The "fix the situation" part is considerably easier with the aid of the union. It's kind of the entire point of a union.
Only if the union agrees to, and that's the problem with unions.
Let me fix that -
1) Unionize and loose your job to outsourcing or contractors in a few years
2) Continue to be abused, until you work with your employer to fix the situation, or quit and go work somewhere else
This practice dates back to the Norman invasion, when French was the language spoken by the ruling class in otherwise English speaking, er, England :)
During court proceedings, they'd use both languages, the tradition caught on and stayed with us through common law terminology. So now you have null and void, aiding and abetting, assault and battery, etc...
but I'd rather not give money to a "Democrat" PAC. I wouldn't give money to a Republican PAC, either. If they separated this issue out from the rest of their position I'd be all over it.
I hate politics.
It's interesting that when a Republican introduces a piece of brain-damaged legislation like this, that fact is plastered all over the story. When it's a Democrat, things get very generic. "Look at what the government is doing!"-type comments.
I wonder where this is coming from as there aren't a lot of IP-based industries in Michigan. Conyers must be doing someone a favor.
> Come on the Drake Equation has been around for a long time now guys.
The problem with the Drake equation, and most other alien-life-probability theories, is that they are currently untestable and unverifiable. Just because we haven't found any life doesn't mean there is or is not anything out there. Until we thoroughly catalog a significant percentage of planets as lifeless can we say that there *isn't* any life out there. Until we find life, we can't say there *is* anything out there.
Bottom line, and this is a tough one for some to swallow - we have no idea, not even a really good guess, if there is any other life out there.
I've noticed that of all my machines, the one I built myself has the longest MTBF as far as hard drives go. I'm pretty sure it's because the drive cage has a dedicated fan, keeping electromechanical devices cool greatly increases their lifespan.
FTA: $595 million for 525,000 custom handheld computers, which is about $1,100 per machine.
OR - 525,000 iPhones with one year corporate plans and Pharos bluetooth GPS - probably around $1,000 per unit MAXIMUM, which leaves about $70 million to develop a custom web app for the census - which should be WAY more than enough.
Not the best example - but C'mon, how much does a custom PDA app cost? It's a GPS combined with a questionnaire app - for $1,100 a pop!?!?
It would be a cool interface for games. Think of a hacked interface playing supreme commander, zooming in and out of different areas of the battlefield. Get a bunch of them together and it would be some expensive fun. If they can get the unit cost down - maybe some super-cool internet cafe furniture? How about some custom chat/game apps for high end club tables?
There are all kinds of cool niche markets for this thing. Microsoft's creativity stifling bureaucracy is in full effect in marketing this thing.
"What our partners have decided is that they want to skip that stage and go to an integrated experience where they build their own applications."
.NET and DirectX mixed with ActiveSync and their Bluetooth stack - I can't wait for the first bluescreens being posted on flickr...
So, the delay was getting an SDK out the door? Holy cow, MS pumps out half a dozen SDKs a month, it took a whole year to create an SDK for a table? I'm guessing they didn't build this thing from scratch, either - it's probably
> The EU negotiates as one block with the outside world where economic treaties etc. are concerned. *That* is what makes it count as a single economic unit.
In that case, the NAFTA bloc is larger than the EU, and in raw dollar terms, OPEC is probably larger than anyone.
> You aren't even the world's largest economy any more and the status of the dollar as reserve currency is the lowest it has been since the signing of Bretton Woods.
:)
The US is most certainly the largest economy in the world, still. Unless you count the whole of the EU as one economic unit, which I'll buy when the EU has one seat at the UN, one vote in the security council, etc...
I agree with everything else, though
It's closer to DirecTV and Dish merging. Neither has a whole lot of subscribers, and their real competition is cable and free TV, along with the internet, etc...
Satellite radio's real competition is terrestrial radio (analog and HD) along with MP3 players. That's who they have to compete with, if people don't want to pay for their service they don't have to, there are other places to go.
There are two episodes of This American Life from about six years ago - one about the Republican national convention and one about the Democratic national convention. Ira Glass is, pretty obviously, very liberal, but he was surprised to find that, though he didn't agree with their politics, he liked the Republicans better than the Democrats. The Dems argued and took potshots at each other, and were, in general, very clique-y, while the Republicans just seemed to just get along with each other.
It may be a problem endemic to the Democratic party - it just seems like they don't get along very well.
Cars are a PITA to maintain these days because, to increase efficiency and meet emissions regulations, they have to be lighter and have tightly controlled combustion. The lighter bit means smaller, meaning smaller engine compartments, meaning more difficult to access and repair engines. The tightly controlled combustion means computer controlled fuel injection, and sensors everywhere for feedback.
I don't care much about fixing engines - they are so complex these days you're SOL if you don't have an ODBCII kit (or, heaven forbid, a CAN or MOST bus analyzer - $$$$!!!) My pet peeve is the loss of real, honest-to-god bumpers. Nowadays if you tap a cement parking block going more than a couple miles per hour, you crack your front fascia, and get to spend $600 buying a new one. Ugh.