It is also commonly misunderstood. You cannot have a command economy. It is impossible. The free market and its invisible hand are always present, no matter what you do, except on very small scales. The best you can ever hope to do is influence the costs somewhat, and drive the free market in the direction you'd like, but even here, the free market is better than the internet at routing around damage, and you might just end up driving the free market in a direction precisely contrary to your intentions. For instance, Prohibition.
It all comes down to who funds the companies. If you believe question mark guy on late night TV, who wants to find "free money" for you to get a degree, or a GED, or work on your invention! then I suppose you have a point. In any society where property rights mean something, you have to be able to distinguish between what belongs to the company and what belongs to the employee. By definition, it doesn't belong to the company if the company cannot decide how it is to be used.\
Frankly, I find any assertion that using company resources for non-company related tasks without specific approval to be somewhat vile. I consider it akin to theft. I understand that some people might want to watch pornography, download "free" music, and browse slashdot on the company dime, but that doesn't mean you should assume you can simply because the company hasn't thought to tell you you can't. I'm suggesting that the assumption should be the other way, regardless of what the law says right now.
The "mafia" is just the free market answer to national governments. Whether it's called "organized crime" or "public service" depends mostly on the number of customers paying for protection.
That's perfectly alright. It's just that the employee shouldn't expect to use company equipment unmonitored or for personal use unless explicitly stated by the company. Well, except for the lavatory of course, but any code for determining the morality of a situation should be able to differentiate between the restroom and a tabulating machine.
But the court is wrong. At least in any reasonable, non-lawyer, interpretation of the law. The Company has a reasonable expectation that its equipment is used for company use, up to and including monitoring that equipment. She should've assumed that unless given explicit permission to use that equipment for personal use that it was not allowed, and potentially monitored.
Electric motors have a lot of torque when they're not moving. In fact, they will never have more torque at any other point in their performance envelope. This is why they do great against sports-cars in the quarter mile.
But they get worse as you increase the speed. Which is why Prius may never reach 200 mph, and if it does it won't have much left for maneuvering. I would not anticipate a hybrid competing in a Daytona 500 similar race any time in the near future.
48 and 49 *show* four element stacks (well the 49 will show fewer if you turn on algebraic mode, but only because formatted equations take up space). But the stack is limited only by available memory (or some very large number) afaik. I have no experience with any more recent HP calculators, and haven't used either of those series in a long time either, having largely abandoned graphing calculators: they're not nearly as useful as you'd think, at least for math. A simple scientific calculator is often more useful, and doesn't give you the potential crutch of a computer algebra system.
Further, their functionality surely must by now have been surpassed by PDAs.
What makes eating for the general populace worthwhile? Personally, I don't see any real purpose for this, other than mere maintenance of population, and the energy used and pollution generated to make all that food for people to do nothing more than continue to exist seems to significantly decrease any possible worth.
Is mere survival a worthwhile goal for the whole human race?
To be fair, he shouldn't have to wait three weeks to get a stupid tech support question answered or download a driver. They should have some kind of backup plans in place (or make a new one up, with a three week window, there's even time for that) in the event that the website is going to be down for that long. Especially if they know it's going to be down for that long.
Three weeks is a long time for a total tech support blackout.
Slashdot Mirror
MATLAB?
It's based on Fortran though...
Well.. do they get their opinions from reading slashdot posts?
If people from Nintendo thought there would be a lackluster launch, what do you think Nintendo's announced predictions would've been?
It is also commonly misunderstood. You cannot have a command economy. It is impossible. The free market and its invisible hand are always present, no matter what you do, except on very small scales. The best you can ever hope to do is influence the costs somewhat, and drive the free market in the direction you'd like, but even here, the free market is better than the internet at routing around damage, and you might just end up driving the free market in a direction precisely contrary to your intentions. For instance, Prohibition.
You mean like tetrafluoroethane found in "canned air" in office supply stores and automobile refrigeration systems?
Where did you get the idea that lead-acid batteries have good energy density?
With what guns?
It all comes down to who funds the companies. If you believe question mark guy on late night TV, who wants to find "free money" for you to get a degree, or a GED, or work on your invention! then I suppose you have a point. In any society where property rights mean something, you have to be able to distinguish between what belongs to the company and what belongs to the employee. By definition, it doesn't belong to the company if the company cannot decide how it is to be used.\
Frankly, I find any assertion that using company resources for non-company related tasks without specific approval to be somewhat vile. I consider it akin to theft. I understand that some people might want to watch pornography, download "free" music, and browse slashdot on the company dime, but that doesn't mean you should assume you can simply because the company hasn't thought to tell you you can't. I'm suggesting that the assumption should be the other way, regardless of what the law says right now.
The "mafia" is just the free market answer to national governments. Whether it's called "organized crime" or "public service" depends mostly on the number of customers paying for protection.
That's perfectly alright. It's just that the employee shouldn't expect to use company equipment unmonitored or for personal use unless explicitly stated by the company. Well, except for the lavatory of course, but any code for determining the morality of a situation should be able to differentiate between the restroom and a tabulating machine.
Only if we fail to invent caretaker robots first.
Funny, I'm glad you don't live here for exactly the same reason...
You've got some weird views about property rights if you think employees should have a right to use company resources for personal use.
What is the value of Paintings? Movies? Collections of poetry? Superconducting Supercolliders? National parks?
No, I think you are right. We should just live in dormitories and eat Spirulina.
Short the company stock?
But the court is wrong. At least in any reasonable, non-lawyer, interpretation of the law. The Company has a reasonable expectation that its equipment is used for company use, up to and including monitoring that equipment. She should've assumed that unless given explicit permission to use that equipment for personal use that it was not allowed, and potentially monitored.
But that's still advertising. They just happen to be advertising their own stuff.
Torque != speed.
Electric motors have a lot of torque when they're not moving. In fact, they will never have more torque at any other point in their performance envelope. This is why they do great against sports-cars in the quarter mile.
But they get worse as you increase the speed. Which is why Prius may never reach 200 mph, and if it does it won't have much left for maneuvering. I would not anticipate a hybrid competing in a Daytona 500 similar race any time in the near future.
Yeah, I never understood that. There is nothing about the display that forces it to be 30fps. Why can't it be automatically configured on the fly?
The middle road approach typically works itself out eventually. see the French Revolution.
48 and 49 *show* four element stacks (well the 49 will show fewer if you turn on algebraic mode, but only because formatted equations take up space). But the stack is limited only by available memory (or some very large number) afaik. I have no experience with any more recent HP calculators, and haven't used either of those series in a long time either, having largely abandoned graphing calculators: they're not nearly as useful as you'd think, at least for math. A simple scientific calculator is often more useful, and doesn't give you the potential crutch of a computer algebra system.
Further, their functionality surely must by now have been surpassed by PDAs.
What makes eating for the general populace worthwhile? Personally, I don't see any real purpose for this, other than mere maintenance of population, and the energy used and pollution generated to make all that food for people to do nothing more than continue to exist seems to significantly decrease any possible worth.
Is mere survival a worthwhile goal for the whole human race?
Inflation is caused by a government that is *not small enough*. Well that and counterfeiters. But at some level, they're basically the same entity.
But that plane doesn't fly all that much faster than cars on a highway under ideal conditions anyway.
To be fair, he shouldn't have to wait three weeks to get a stupid tech support question answered or download a driver. They should have some kind of backup plans in place (or make a new one up, with a three week window, there's even time for that) in the event that the website is going to be down for that long. Especially if they know it's going to be down for that long.
Three weeks is a long time for a total tech support blackout.