coffee makers would get more money for the waste coffee ground, and therefore if at all, the coffee would get cheaper
Wake up (pun intended).
If the demand for biofuel is strong enough and the coffee maker gets more for waste coffee ground than it gets for selling coffee to drink, the coffee maker won't bother making the coffee to drink and will sell straight to biodiesel buyer. Thus, price for drinking coffee will go up and you'll have to pay as much as the biodiesel customer for it (if not more).
While in principle I agree with that, what are they supposed to do? They are quoting you a price for a service they don't provide themselves.
Precisely! You are supposed to have your own service (which looks like USPS's own, i.e. it offers the same WSDL in case of a web service) and include it as a fall-back option if USPS starts failing too many times. Then, it's really a no-issue because you have several different options from a business perspective:
make your service offer a "free shipping special" - then get USPS to give you a credit when you actually ship with them. If you can't get them to do it, be ready to absorb cost.
make your service offer an approximation of a USPS rate - you can make the logic as accurate or as crude as your development resources allow (from maintaining shipping tables, through some statistical approximation based on existing orders, through a simple formula you devise, to a constant cost). Then get USPS to give you a credit for the difference, if there is one.
Ideally, in terms of your own infrastructure or design, your shipping cost services should be abstracted away from vendor-specific APIs so your core sales workflow code calls your own API, which then you implement in various ways. E.g. you end up with 1. UPS, 2. DHL, 3. USPS, 4. your own service). Alternatively, you end up with #1, #2 and #3 only but #3 is designed in such a way that #4 kicks in to replace #3 while #3 continues misbehaving.
This is not too complex, especially if you go for a simpler case, i.e. a formula-based approach.
Of course, from a business perspective, you are facing the decision of whether you're willing to accept some potential loss on a difference in estimated and actual shipping cost while the problem persists or whether you're willing to loose all those orders during the outage.
However, since the carrier is the service provider who failed here, you should be able to justify and negotiate passing on some of that shipping cost difference onto them.
This example is one good reason to (at least) make the blacklist completely public and transparent.
Well, I wouldn't be so sure about that. You see, IWF's filtering system, originally called CleanFeed and introduced initially by BT (British Telecom), was reverse-engineered in 2005. By reverse-engineered, I mean a guy from Cambridge ran a scan outside of the UK and inside the UK and because CleanFeed would serve a fake "not found" page if on the list. This way, he was able to essentially discover the list without it being disclosed. The point here is that this essentially creates (in IWF's own words) "an oracle to locate illegal child abuse websites". I'm not saying that makes censorship conducted by big businesses or government okay, I'm just saying that transparency of the censored list, in today's age of automation (just google for example for all the one-click flash-baed movie downloading apps), it won't even take "specialist knowledge" to access the stuff, once the URLs are known.
Disclaimer: I am not advocating for censorship and in fact think that IWF should be put out of existence by passing laws that make it illegal to censor internet traffic by ISPs.
See, when operators like Sprint, Verizon, etc buy them at a loss (step 1), they get a nice *big* deduction on their Taxes
How could such nonsense ever get modded up?
If you are a business (e.g. Spring) and you buy something from another business (i.e. Nokia), regardless of price, you DO NOT GET A TAX BREAK FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
All you do by doing that is your cash balance and increse your assets inventory. No one gives you anything for doing that, especially not the government.
If by tax break, you meant that temporarily, by making a lump purchase ($300), Sprint's profits will fall into a lower tax bracket while the $300 will be spread out over longer time (lock-in into a service contract), then you are assuming a bracket-style tax system. And while USA might have such a system, it does not change anything from the truth that this is NOT a tax break.
Any accountant can make you familiar with the concept that people know as "writing off" - it's a process by which you choose when your expenditures will "count" against your profits. THAT'S A STANDARD ACCOUNTING PRACTICE, AND NOT A TAX BREAK!!!
Government job security sometimes coincides with running things efficiently spending wisely, but not always.
Not always spending wisely doesn't necessarily mean that you are not a corporation, it just means you can afford to run inefficiently.
Heck, if your corporation's revenues were virtually guaranteed ("what are the only two things that are certain...?"), you would also not sweat it when some inefficiencies popped up in your operations.
After all, the government is not a coorporation, and doesn't need to make a profit to survive.
Yeah sure. And the government doesn't employee people. And the government doesn't earn money by collecting taxes. And the government doesn't need to pay its debts to avoid going bankrupt (payments on bonds that it issues). And of course, to overcome the huge spending "deficit" (=loss), the government doesn't need to have "fiscal responsiblity" (=raise extra revenue or cut costs).
Suuuure the government is not a corporation.
Especially when in case of the Blackberry issue, it first speaks out concerns for its "employees" and not "citizens"...
And while I should know this since I'm in advertising.....how do these companies make sure these kids are actually pitching? How do they know they're not just paying them to go dick around with their friends and not do anything? There's no real sort of metrics for this sort of thing nor is there much control.
It is quite obvious that you can't be in advertising (or even general business for that matter), since otherwise you would surely be aware of performance-based advertising campaign payouts.
The kid who pushes will hand out flyers. Either the mail-in card will contain a code linked to their affiliate membership with whoever they're pushing for or there will be a discount code mentioned on the flyer for online entry to get a "special price". Or "invitation code", or whatever they will call it the next day.
There is a tremendous amount of tracking going on in advertising campaigns. It's an ages old industry and it wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar business if agencies had no clue what they are doing.
Bollywood movies have a huge market in Russia, China, Africa, the Middle East, parts of Europe etc., and quite a few regions Bollywood movies regularly are among the top grossing.
The ls command can already sort by file size (my personal favorite is ls -lart). That was not the point.
The point was, you patched it up as if posting a solution to this one specific problem (top ten biggest files exported into excel) was proof that the unix command line doesn't suck.
There are more complex tasks on the command line that are far more elegant with Monad's approach of piping objects instead of text.
It remains a fact that all shell scripting that pipes things together is in essence text parsing and manipulation. This is the main flaw of paradigm. Unix commands don't even produce XML output, they produce human-readable text.
So instead of getting shit done, one's task becomes how to change that human-readable text into a machine format that the next command will accept as standard input. Over and over and over... So the lengthy unreadable one-liners and Perl scripts are born (and often written poorly), and they get broken (give it enough time and a special case will arise), and fixed (time and time again)...
Scripting in Unix is simply a mess of constantly patching things up.
People need to open their eyes and look at Monad as a solution to a formerly broken way of doing things, instead of dismissing it just because it came from Microsoft.
You are essentially sorting the file list by the permissions (i.e. a file with permisisons "-rw-r--r--" will come before "-rwxr-xr-x" regardless of their name) and not by file size.
I do think that some people think that having a lot of money and possessions will make them happy and then find out that isn't the case once they have them.
Having a lot of money is what will keep you alive longer. Sure, not all diseases are curable at the moment, no one is arguing otherwise. However, if you want to live as long as possible, having a lot of money definitely beats not having a lot of money.
I hope you know where to get the data from and how to adjust the frontier for a variety of inputs, investment styles, tax limitations, bonds, and mutual fund products. (Not that you're likely to know what an investment product is. They're all stocks, right?)
I sense hypocracy here. You are the one who needs to get off his high horse and stop practicing a "holier than though" attitude (quoting your own earlier post).
You are showing off knowledge of a model that has been introduced in 1952 by Markowitz as if this was something unique. You need to realize that you are not the first nor the last person who understands it, uses it or innovates it.
So unless you are Sharpe or a similar capacity, I suggest you STFU for a minute and consult your curriculum vitae and your paycheck for your portion of today's special, the humble pie.
You didn't get it at all... I was arguing that the use of "mfg" as "manufacturer" is incorreect, since "mfg" really stands for "manufacturing" (and therefore is often part of a company name.
Until he/she has a tyre blowout, or comes across an unexpected pothole in the road, or has to swerve to avoid a rabbit running across the road...
Tire blowout, I give you that. But an "unexpected pothole" is negligence of whoever maintains the road, not the driver's. And as far as swerving to avoid a rabbit, you really have got to be a stupid driver to kill yourself over an animal that runs the road. Darwin Award to you if in such case.
Have you looked at a video game's complexity today as compared to a game like monopoly?
Buddy, you picked a wrong game to talk about complexity. You must have never played Monopoly, or never understood it.
The genius of games like Monopoly is not in the mathematicaly (in)complexity, but in the degrees of freedom granted to you as a player.
Monopoly is a game of social skill, more than anything else. The best players of Monopoly are able to win in any situation, because even if "odds are against you", you have an infinite number of possiblities in how you will interact with the other players as a person. And those interactions will influence the rest of the game by not just influencing the power balance, but also the attitude of your oponents towards you. Monopoly boils down to an exercise in social skills - skills that you would have hard time realistically practicing in a computer game (and I mean fully, with person-to-person contact).
That's quite lame, given the fact that they can't even make their own site's back end code work properly:
Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11) in/home/l1lmucke/public_html/functions.php on line 383
Could Not Connect To Database: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11)
I started writing HERMES (a CRM framework/app) in PHP and it is now over 20k lines and when I have time to add enhancements it will grow again. The code is incredibly manageable simply because [...]
I am sorry. Your code is not managable just because you might have separated it enough, but mainly because your application is most certainly NOT a "large-scale web application". If you wrote only 100 lines of code per each file, your project is mere 200 files.
I am not discounting the quality of code you may or may not have produced, but 200 files is certainly not a big application...
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It's not the CDSs that are toxic, it's the CDOs.
Wake up (pun intended).
If the demand for biofuel is strong enough and the coffee maker gets more for waste coffee ground than it gets for selling coffee to drink, the coffee maker won't bother making the coffee to drink and will sell straight to biodiesel buyer. Thus, price for drinking coffee will go up and you'll have to pay as much as the biodiesel customer for it (if not more).
Precisely! You are supposed to have your own service (which looks like USPS's own, i.e. it offers the same WSDL in case of a web service) and include it as a fall-back option if USPS starts failing too many times. Then, it's really a no-issue because you have several different options from a business perspective:
Ideally, in terms of your own infrastructure or design, your shipping cost services should be abstracted away from vendor-specific APIs so your core sales workflow code calls your own API, which then you implement in various ways. E.g. you end up with 1. UPS, 2. DHL, 3. USPS, 4. your own service). Alternatively, you end up with #1, #2 and #3 only but #3 is designed in such a way that #4 kicks in to replace #3 while #3 continues misbehaving.
This is not too complex, especially if you go for a simpler case, i.e. a formula-based approach.
Of course, from a business perspective, you are facing the decision of whether you're willing to accept some potential loss on a difference in estimated and actual shipping cost while the problem persists or whether you're willing to loose all those orders during the outage.
However, since the carrier is the service provider who failed here, you should be able to justify and negotiate passing on some of that shipping cost difference onto them.
This example is one good reason to (at least) make the blacklist completely public and transparent. Well, I wouldn't be so sure about that. You see, IWF's filtering system, originally called CleanFeed and introduced initially by BT (British Telecom), was reverse-engineered in 2005. By reverse-engineered, I mean a guy from Cambridge ran a scan outside of the UK and inside the UK and because CleanFeed would serve a fake "not found" page if on the list. This way, he was able to essentially discover the list without it being disclosed. The point here is that this essentially creates (in IWF's own words) "an oracle to locate illegal child abuse websites". I'm not saying that makes censorship conducted by big businesses or government okay, I'm just saying that transparency of the censored list, in today's age of automation (just google for example for all the one-click flash-baed movie downloading apps), it won't even take "specialist knowledge" to access the stuff, once the URLs are known. Disclaimer: I am not advocating for censorship and in fact think that IWF should be put out of existence by passing laws that make it illegal to censor internet traffic by ISPs.
See, when operators like Sprint, Verizon, etc buy them at a loss (step 1), they get a nice *big* deduction on their Taxes
How could such nonsense ever get modded up?
If you are a business (e.g. Spring) and you buy something from another business (i.e. Nokia), regardless of price, you DO NOT GET A TAX BREAK FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
All you do by doing that is your cash balance and increse your assets inventory. No one gives you anything for doing that, especially not the government.
If by tax break, you meant that temporarily, by making a lump purchase ($300), Sprint's profits will fall into a lower tax bracket while the $300 will be spread out over longer time (lock-in into a service contract), then you are assuming a bracket-style tax system. And while USA might have such a system, it does not change anything from the truth that this is NOT a tax break.
Any accountant can make you familiar with the concept that people know as "writing off" - it's a process by which you choose when your expenditures will "count" against your profits. THAT'S A STANDARD ACCOUNTING PRACTICE, AND NOT A TAX BREAK!!!
Government job security sometimes coincides with running things efficiently spending wisely, but not always.
Not always spending wisely doesn't necessarily mean that you are not a corporation, it just means you can afford to run inefficiently.
Heck, if your corporation's revenues were virtually guaranteed ("what are the only two things that are certain...?"), you would also not sweat it when some inefficiencies popped up in your operations.
After all, the government is not a coorporation, and doesn't need to make a profit to survive.
Yeah sure. And the government doesn't employee people. And the government doesn't earn money by collecting taxes. And the government doesn't need to pay its debts to avoid going bankrupt (payments on bonds that it issues). And of course, to overcome the huge spending "deficit" (=loss), the government doesn't need to have "fiscal responsiblity" (=raise extra revenue or cut costs).
Suuuure the government is not a corporation.
Especially when in case of the Blackberry issue, it first speaks out concerns for its "employees" and not "citizens"...
And while I should know this since I'm in advertising.....how do these companies make sure these kids are actually pitching? How do they know they're not just paying them to go dick around with their friends and not do anything? There's no real sort of metrics for this sort of thing nor is there much control.
It is quite obvious that you can't be in advertising (or even general business for that matter), since otherwise you would surely be aware of performance-based advertising campaign payouts.
The kid who pushes will hand out flyers. Either the mail-in card will contain a code linked to their affiliate membership with whoever they're pushing for or there will be a discount code mentioned on the flyer for online entry to get a "special price". Or "invitation code", or whatever they will call it the next day.
There is a tremendous amount of tracking going on in advertising campaigns. It's an ages old industry and it wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar business if agencies had no clue what they are doing.
Bollywood movies have a huge market in Russia, China, Africa, the Middle East, parts of Europe etc., and quite a few regions Bollywood movies regularly are among the top grossing.
Yeah right.
However, I'd like some consistency in the logic being forced upon society by the religious right.
Sorry pal, religion is never based on logic but rather on conviction.
The ls command can already sort by file size (my personal favorite is ls -lart). That was not the point.
The point was, you patched it up as if posting a solution to this one specific problem (top ten biggest files exported into excel) was proof that the unix command line doesn't suck.
There are more complex tasks on the command line that are far more elegant with Monad's approach of piping objects instead of text.
It remains a fact that all shell scripting that pipes things together is in essence text parsing and manipulation. This is the main flaw of paradigm. Unix commands don't even produce XML output, they produce human-readable text.
So instead of getting shit done, one's task becomes how to change that human-readable text into a machine format that the next command will accept as standard input. Over and over and over... So the lengthy unreadable one-liners and Perl scripts are born (and often written poorly), and they get broken (give it enough time and a special case will arise), and fixed (time and time again)...
Scripting in Unix is simply a mess of constantly patching things up.
People need to open their eyes and look at Monad as a solution to a formerly broken way of doing things, instead of dismissing it just because it came from Microsoft.
ls -l | sort | head -10 | tr -s " " "\t"
You are kidding, right?
You are essentially sorting the file list by the permissions (i.e. a file with permisisons "-rw-r--r--" will come before "-rwxr-xr-x" regardless of their name) and not by file size.
Kudo's to Madison thought
Who is this Kudo fellow you speak of? And why did he have thoughts about Madison? Are you sure you know WTF you're saying?
I do think that some people think that having a lot of money and possessions will make them happy and then find out that isn't the case once they have them.
Having a lot of money is what will keep you alive longer. Sure, not all diseases are curable at the moment, no one is arguing otherwise. However, if you want to live as long as possible, having a lot of money definitely beats not having a lot of money.
I hope you know where to get the data from and how to adjust the frontier for a variety of inputs, investment styles, tax limitations, bonds, and mutual fund products. (Not that you're likely to know what an investment product is. They're all stocks, right?)
I sense hypocracy here. You are the one who needs to get off his high horse and stop practicing a "holier than though" attitude (quoting your own earlier post).
You are showing off knowledge of a model that has been introduced in 1952 by Markowitz as if this was something unique. You need to realize that you are not the first nor the last person who understands it, uses it or innovates it.
So unless you are Sharpe or a similar capacity, I suggest you STFU for a minute and consult your curriculum vitae and your paycheck for your portion of today's special, the humble pie.
Who calls my name?
You didn't get it at all... I was arguing that the use of "mfg" as "manufacturer" is incorreect, since "mfg" really stands for "manufacturing" (and therefore is often part of a company name.
/. special olympics....
conveyor mfg'r in NZ
Which part of the word "manufacturer" contains the letter "g" in it?
Until he/she has a tyre blowout, or comes across an unexpected pothole in the road, or has to swerve to avoid a rabbit running across the road...
Tire blowout, I give you that. But an "unexpected pothole" is negligence of whoever maintains the road, not the driver's. And as far as swerving to avoid a rabbit, you really have got to be a stupid driver to kill yourself over an animal that runs the road. Darwin Award to you if in such case.
Have you looked at a video game's complexity today as compared to a game like monopoly?
Buddy, you picked a wrong game to talk about complexity. You must have never played Monopoly, or never understood it.
The genius of games like Monopoly is not in the mathematicaly (in)complexity, but in the degrees of freedom granted to you as a player.
Monopoly is a game of social skill, more than anything else. The best players of Monopoly are able to win in any situation, because even if "odds are against you", you have an infinite number of possiblities in how you will interact with the other players as a person. And those interactions will influence the rest of the game by not just influencing the power balance, but also the attitude of your oponents towards you. Monopoly boils down to an exercise in social skills - skills that you would have hard time realistically practicing in a computer game (and I mean fully, with person-to-person contact).
No, actually, you can't. The NYT routinely removes accounts that are being used by more than one IP.
I call FUD.
That's quite lame, given the fact that they can't even make their own site's back end code work properly:
/home/l1lmucke/public_html/functions.php on line 383
Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11) in
Could Not Connect To Database: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11)
premium:
adj.
Of superior quality or value: premium gasoline.
I started writing HERMES (a CRM framework/app) in PHP and it is now over 20k lines and when I have time to add enhancements it will grow again. The code is incredibly manageable simply because [...]
I am sorry. Your code is not managable just because you might have separated it enough, but mainly because your application is most certainly NOT a "large-scale web application". If you wrote only 100 lines of code per each file, your project is mere 200 files.
I am not discounting the quality of code you may or may not have produced, but 200 files is certainly not a big application...
Go lubricate yourself.