You realize that "not-for-profit" only means that the company doesn't post a dividend: all revinue is reinvested into the company. In the case of unscrupulous CEOs, all that reinvestment is appropriated for his use.
They're talking about best buys that will work out of the box. Sure you can save some dough by building it yourself, and MAYBE you could save some dough by buying from a local vendor, but I challenge you to find a national brand selling consumer level computers for less than HP/compaq, or Dell.
Well they're pretty tricky to make. If it's really IR, of the see through walls variety and not just "near" IR of the TV-remote variety, you need to chill the entire system from the optics to the CCD to eliminate "dark" noise. Liquid nitrogen temperatures are probably good enough, and relatively convenient.. but not all that convenient. You still need to design optics that survive temperature stresses without defocusing, and that gets exotic and expensive right quick.
The "early adopters" for infrared tech are astronomers, not the military. Even amateur astronomers. They are also the majority market.
Sure, the crashes are why YOU watch. and why I occasionally watch... But there are people who, admittedly very likely drunk, actually find a buncha cars turning left - a lot - exciting. And there are a lot of them.
Why do we keep using that phrase, "computer literate" when what we mean is "computer savy?" If we let ths poor analogy to be codified in the language, it will become that much more entrenched. As if understanding computers opens anywhere near the possibilites that being able to read does.
The vehicles tended to slip when turning at full tire pressure, so they specified a lower pressure. Ford initially estimated that the increased wear from the lower than recommended tire pressure was an acceptable tradeoff. Of course, if they'd bothered to mention that explicitly somewhere, they wouldn't have been as exposed, but they probably also wouldn't have sold as many units.
also, an experiment I don't recommend you try: let out some pressure on your own tires and see how smooth the road becomes. I think you'd be surprised. (speaking as someone who had to buy those low-pressure indicator caps because I forget to check often.)
My point was that both of those people lost their jobs because of their failings. and one of them was prosecuted. (according to the wikipedia, the trial starts in january) and Carly shouldn't be *criminaly prosecuted* just because she made some perfectly legitimately poor decisions, they were in fact, the decisions one would expect from someone with her background: MBA with liberal arts bachelors. She had "business sense" but no ability to understand the nature of her business, which means her strategy must necessarily have been based on aquiring and leveraging assets rather than encouraging and promoting the core business or HP.
Huh? Enron: Ken Lay defrauded investors, was canned, and the court case is pending. HP: Carly Fiorina tried to turn it into a middleman company focusing on volume. It failed and she was canned.
Ms. Fiorina's lack of vision is comletely saparate from Ken Lay's willful defrauding, though it has a similar effect on share price.
wait what? They failed to dump huge resources into a novelty item? You're telling me their current problems are completely unrelated to their vast amount of accumulated liabilities in the form of pensions and benefits?
Imports succeeded because due to process improvements, relatively young (read: unencombered) industry, and favorable exchange rates despite the various exise taxes, which allowed them to sell quality cars for much less than the US companies. For a brief period, their reliability may even have been superior. GM has been prevented from creating so-called "fully-automated" plants by the unions, promises to which are the major contributor to GM's overhead.
Failing to build the particular novelty car you want them to did not cause their current woe. It could cause future woe if the direction of the market pushes hybrids from novelty to mainstream, but at the current purchase rates, they would've been a drop in the bucket sales wise for a significant research overhead.
If you fail to change and adapt you lose. Sometimes the impediments to change are not obvious.
A Substantial Number of Wal-Mart Associates earn far below the poverty line
* In 2003, sales associates, the most common job in Wal-Mart, earned on average $8.23 an hour for annual wages of $13,861.The 2003 poverty line for a family of three was $15,260. ["Is Wal-Mart Too Powerful?", Business Week, 10/6/03]
Even if Wal-Mart sales associate was supposed to be a fullfilling lifetime career choice, annual wages of 13,861 for one associate would mean that the "family of 3" would have combined annual wages of $27,722, or comfortably above the $15k poverty line.
* A 2003 wage analysis reported that cashiers, the second most common job, earn approximately $7.92 per hour and work 29 hours a week. This brings in annual wages of only $11,948. ["Statistical Analysis of Gender Patterns in Wal-Mart's Workforce", Dr. Richard Drogin 2003]
I fail to see how paying MORE than the average minimum wage job for the same sort of work makes Wal-Mart evil. How much is K-mart paying? How much Publix, Albertsons, Stop&Shop, Costco? How about the dozens of mall-retail shops that combined equal the service (but not the price) of Walmart?
Then dozens of lines about Wal-Mart's health care plan not being adequate or somesuch. It's an entry-level service sector job! Why would you expect ANY health care plan for such work?
I'm not saying wal-mart isn't evil. It might be. But the evidence provided so far seems like just so much whining about this or that. At any rate, it's irrelevant:
The real question is, what would a company have to do to convince you that it isn't evil.
You know it's not that big of a leap from "If the stores don't notice they programmed the wrong prices it's not my problem" to "If the stores don't notice I switched the tag, it's not my problem" to "If the rubes don't figure out not really a nigerian prince, it's not my problem"
No, speed limits are a crutch for the law. You must specify exact circumstances which are violations. If the law was instead, "No one may drive unsafely" then the police would have WAY too much leeway in enforcement, and great difficulty in getting convictions. A capricious cop may ticket you for driving "too fast" on a whim one day and ignore speed altogether on another. A good lawyer would be able to aquit on the basis of vague law.
Everyone in the Q continuum is called Q. So the parents of amanda rogers were, respectively, Q and Q. and lets us completely gloss over the fact that in their case, Qs killed Q &Q, but in other cases, killing Q was unthinkable so they banished Q to some kind of rock or something.
How does a race that is omnipotent fail to invent proper nouns.
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You realize that "not-for-profit" only means that the company doesn't post a dividend: all revinue is reinvested into the company. In the case of unscrupulous CEOs, all that reinvestment is appropriated for his use.
How is that different from playing James Bond?
They're talking about best buys that will work out of the box. Sure you can save some dough by building it yourself, and MAYBE you could save some dough by buying from a local vendor, but I challenge you to find a national brand selling consumer level computers for less than HP/compaq, or Dell.
Well they're pretty tricky to make. If it's really IR, of the see through walls variety and not just "near" IR of the TV-remote variety, you need to chill the entire system from the optics to the CCD to eliminate "dark" noise. Liquid nitrogen temperatures are probably good enough, and relatively convenient.. but not all that convenient. You still need to design optics that survive temperature stresses without defocusing, and that gets exotic and expensive right quick.
The "early adopters" for infrared tech are astronomers, not the military. Even amateur astronomers. They are also the majority market.
Sure, the crashes are why YOU watch. and why I occasionally watch... But there are people who, admittedly very likely drunk, actually find a buncha cars turning left - a lot - exciting. And there are a lot of them.
NASCAR. It's not even fun to watch and it's way more popular than hockey.
I believe it is only if you are actually deployed.
You want to build robots that can eat people?
I certainly can't envision something like THAT coming around to bite us in the ass.
Why do we keep using that phrase, "computer literate" when what we mean is "computer savy?" If we let ths poor analogy to be codified in the language, it will become that much more entrenched. As if understanding computers opens anywhere near the possibilites that being able to read does.
springs!
well at least baygen freeplay did that once.
actually, it was about control:
The vehicles tended to slip when turning at full tire pressure, so they specified a lower pressure. Ford initially estimated that the increased wear from the lower than recommended tire pressure was an acceptable tradeoff. Of course, if they'd bothered to mention that explicitly somewhere, they wouldn't have been as exposed, but they probably also wouldn't have sold as many units.
also, an experiment I don't recommend you try: let out some pressure on your own tires and see how smooth the road becomes. I think you'd be surprised. (speaking as someone who had to buy those low-pressure indicator caps because I forget to check often.)
My point was that both of those people lost their jobs because of their failings. and one of them was prosecuted. (according to the wikipedia, the trial starts in january) and Carly shouldn't be *criminaly prosecuted* just because she made some perfectly legitimately poor decisions, they were in fact, the decisions one would expect from someone with her background: MBA with liberal arts bachelors. She had "business sense" but no ability to understand the nature of her business, which means her strategy must necessarily have been based on aquiring and leveraging assets rather than encouraging and promoting the core business or HP.
Huh?
Enron: Ken Lay defrauded investors, was canned, and the court case is pending.
HP: Carly Fiorina tried to turn it into a middleman company focusing on volume. It failed and she was canned.
Ms. Fiorina's lack of vision is comletely saparate from Ken Lay's willful defrauding, though it has a similar effect on share price.
I like to make patterns in the keyboard. My only problem is that as a touch-typist, I never actually look at it.
wait what? They failed to dump huge resources into a novelty item? You're telling me their current problems are completely unrelated to their vast amount of accumulated liabilities in the form of pensions and benefits?
Imports succeeded because due to process improvements, relatively young (read: unencombered) industry, and favorable exchange rates despite the various exise taxes, which allowed them to sell quality cars for much less than the US companies. For a brief period, their reliability may even have been superior. GM has been prevented from creating so-called "fully-automated" plants by the unions, promises to which are the major contributor to GM's overhead.
Failing to build the particular novelty car you want them to did not cause their current woe. It could cause future woe if the direction of the market pushes hybrids from novelty to mainstream, but at the current purchase rates, they would've been a drop in the bucket sales wise for a significant research overhead.
If you fail to change and adapt you lose. Sometimes the impediments to change are not obvious.
cookies? maybe you have them turned off?
Wait.. I thought walmart was evil for not paying their employees enough. Which is it?
Pretty quick? it ran for four seasons. Pretty good for a glorified car commercial that basically just copied Knight Rider.
A Substantial Number of Wal-Mart Associates earn far below the poverty line
* In 2003, sales associates, the most common job in Wal-Mart, earned on average $8.23 an hour for annual wages of $13,861.The 2003 poverty line for a family of three was $15,260. ["Is Wal-Mart Too Powerful?", Business Week, 10/6/03]
Even if Wal-Mart sales associate was supposed to be a fullfilling lifetime career choice, annual wages of 13,861 for one associate would mean that the "family of 3" would have combined annual wages of $27,722, or comfortably above the $15k poverty line.
* A 2003 wage analysis reported that cashiers, the second most common job, earn approximately $7.92 per hour and work 29 hours a week. This brings in annual wages of only $11,948. ["Statistical Analysis of Gender Patterns in Wal-Mart's Workforce", Dr. Richard Drogin 2003]
I fail to see how paying MORE than the average minimum wage job for the same sort of work makes Wal-Mart evil. How much is K-mart paying? How much Publix, Albertsons, Stop&Shop, Costco? How about the dozens of mall-retail shops that combined equal the service (but not the price) of Walmart?
Then dozens of lines about Wal-Mart's health care plan not being adequate or somesuch. It's an entry-level service sector job! Why would you expect ANY health care plan for such work?
I'm not saying wal-mart isn't evil. It might be. But the evidence provided so far seems like just so much whining about this or that. At any rate, it's irrelevant:
The real question is, what would a company have to do to convince you that it isn't evil.
You know it's not that big of a leap from "If the stores don't notice they programmed the wrong prices it's not my problem" to "If the stores don't notice I switched the tag, it's not my problem" to "If the rubes don't figure out not really a nigerian prince, it's not my problem"
What would it take for you to believe that the CEO of a Walmart-like organization is honest.
No, speed limits are a crutch for the law. You must specify exact circumstances which are violations. If the law was instead, "No one may drive unsafely" then the police would have WAY too much leeway in enforcement, and great difficulty in getting convictions. A capricious cop may ticket you for driving "too fast" on a whim one day and ignore speed altogether on another. A good lawyer would be able to aquit on the basis of vague law.
Everyone in the Q continuum is called Q. So the parents of amanda rogers were, respectively, Q and Q. and lets us completely gloss over the fact that in their case, Qs killed Q &Q, but in other cases, killing Q was unthinkable so they banished Q to some kind of rock or something.
How does a race that is omnipotent fail to invent proper nouns.
To be fair though, both of those treaties were with a country that no longer exists.
In Soviet Slashdot, Al-Jazeera = teh good but Foxnews = teh nazis.
How the heck a buncha hippie socialists justify supporting islamic fundamentalism is a mystery to me.
This is why I browse at +5 flamebait.