You can, of course, still view the adobe website without flash installed. It degrades gracefully, which is more than can be said for some of us/. posters.
Silly rabbit, games are for consoles. Seriously, no PC game has interested me since MS Allegiance, and they dumped that. If MS ever builds something like that for the 360, I'll be the first one in line to buy one. Halo2 game play online is just too boring to hold my attention.
I hope the mainstream media picks this story up in a big way. If the free world can be convinced that Google is run by a bunch of Chinese Communist sympathizers, it will be a good time to short their stock.
I think that is actually the way it should work. Anti-trust law and regulation are supposed to work to put the brakes on business when it becomes anti-competitive. I think the real problem is that our government is bought and paid for by the very big businesses they are supposed to keep in check. If it were up to me, you'd never see another fortune 1000 merger/acquisition.
I didn't mean to give the impression that I don't think the Chinese are a threat to the world both militarily and economically.
What I'm saying is that I don't think the Chinese would be able to dump their US TBill holdings fast enough the really cause that much dammage. You can't simply demand that the US government pay off your TBill at will. They mature on the date specified on each TBill. If you want to redeem them early, you're really just selling them in a secondary market at auction.
If the Chinese decide to stop rolling their holdings, they would depress demand for treasuries. The real question is can they do it to such a large degree that the US will have saturated the market for US TBills and they can no longer borrow additional funds. I really have no idea what percentage of the TBill market is held by the Chinese government, but I'm sure that all the institutional investors and all the other countries of the world hold a substantial portion of that market.
Lets assume that the Chinese are able to completely saturate the USTbill market. That would cause a reduction in Federal spending to the point where the supply o f TBills meets the demand.
I think that after being "attacked" by the Chinese in such a way, you might see a 9/11 style financial rally where American citizens and allies (If any are left at that point) would move some of their savings into Government securities and look to save more.
Congress would have to eliminate the pork projects and maybe even decrease entitlements. Could they do it? Who knows.
We're about to hit the $500Billion point with Iraq and Afganistan. Maybe we get a year or two without a war payment before China decides they want to crush us. I just don't think that dumping all of their US holdings would destroy the US economy. Our economy is actually improving during the current situation and the American people have a MUCH greater capcity for sacrifice if suddenly faced with a big red enemy.
They can't just turn those T-bills into the government and ask for them to be redeemed. They would wind up going into auction if they try to redeem them prior to their maturity date. Chances are, there would be a lot of people making a killing buying low priced T-Bills becuase the Chinese decided to flood the market with them. My guess is that the Chinese would take a beating trying to get out of the market quickly.
A law doesn't have emotions or feelings, so I think we can be pretty sure the term "respect" was used with the "pertaining to" definition in mind.
If we use the word in that way, I don't think we would have to get rid of the laws giving tax breaks to religious groups. It's really the lack of a law to tax a religious group, even though congress, in it's boundless lack of tax wisdom, has found it necessary to codify the lack of a law.
Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed.
I haven't paid a cable company or a dish company for their service for over 15 years. I would actually consider cable tv if they decided to offer a la carte options that let you change your selection at will. Otherwise, it's over the air broadcast and the occasional rental for me.
Funny thing is, the most interesting channel in my area isn't even carried by the cable companies. It seesm so strange that I get to watch lots of interesting stuff that my friends with cable never get to see. We've actually had get-togethers at my place specifically because I could see Aussie Rules Football.
The other thing to consider is that it takes me a lot less time to flip through 5 channels of crap than it does you to flip through 200 channels of crap. It lets me beat you to the bar;)
I've been following this story quite closely, and I've never heard anyone call Jack Murtha a terrorist. For some reason, people think that if a person served honorably in a prior war, that they know how to conduct the current one. I find it even stranger that we look to Vietnam war veterans for guidance, when you could easily make the argument that they knew how to loose that war, maybe they can help us loose this one.
Jack Murtha is a stand-up guy. I think he is one of our better statesmen. On this issue, he is just wrong.
It will be even hard when the ip addresses start to look like this: http://2001:4860:3F5F:1891:1A55:FB1C:1113:191D. Just looking at that thing makes me cross-eyed.
I agree with the scientist completely, and apparently so do the Chinese. The best approach to conservation is not having kids. Unfortunately, you have to figure out a way to survive the "tragedy of the commons".
Strange that this is the first post I've seen that mentions Sun's system. I used to run Netscape Messaging Server and Exchange side by side for two groups in the same building. It was amazing how much more milage we got out of our Netscape setup than we could with the MS box. I'd say we must have been supporting 5 times the number of users on the ns box and spent less time doing it.
Of course that was many years ago. I'd still have to give Sun a crack at something like this though. With their stock trading at about $4, you could probably just buy them if they gave you any trouble (just kidding).
I don't have any problem not producing versions of their products in Chinese until China recognizes the concept of intellectual property and enforces it. Fair Use is one thing, compaies set up to mass market copies is another.
They don't plan on going public, just becoming for profit. No stock market, no employee stock options, etc. They claim the company will be 100% owned by the non-profit.
It may shield you from civil dammages, and prevent you from loosing your house because the company didn't pay it's debts, but you never escape criminal liability. Piercing the corporate veil is done routinely in the US.
Stock-based compensation is just a way for a company to hold something over you. You are encouraged to continue working for the company because you can't actually get the money you've already earned.
If you could change your compensation to cash, you would be better off (less risk). Your interest is not so much in your company's success as it is your future ability to get your money.
All of this is compensation related anyway, which generally doesn't do much to increase employee motivation (although it does work to prevent decreases in motivation).
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Interesting note: Zogby has Cain ahead of Romney by 20 points! http://news.yahoo.com/poll-cain-surges-opens-20-point-lead-romney-132015440.html
Romney, Huntsman and Gingrich should challenge Obama in the Democratic primary.
and the Flex SDK.
A Microsoft keyboard and mouse on a Mac? WHERE'S YOUR SENSE OF STYLE, MAN!?
You can, of course, still view the adobe website without flash installed. It degrades gracefully, which is more than can be said for some of us /. posters.
Silly rabbit, games are for consoles. Seriously, no PC game has interested me since MS Allegiance, and they dumped that. If MS ever builds something like that for the 360, I'll be the first one in line to buy one. Halo2 game play online is just too boring to hold my attention.
I hope the mainstream media picks this story up in a big way. If the free world can be convinced that Google is run by a bunch of Chinese Communist sympathizers, it will be a good time to short their stock.
It would be so much better if Google just redacted the objectionable content. Show the space of the censored search results.
I think that is actually the way it should work. Anti-trust law and regulation are supposed to work to put the brakes on business when it becomes anti-competitive. I think the real problem is that our government is bought and paid for by the very big businesses they are supposed to keep in check. If it were up to me, you'd never see another fortune 1000 merger/acquisition.
I didn't mean to give the impression that I don't think the Chinese are a threat to the world both militarily and economically.
What I'm saying is that I don't think the Chinese would be able to dump their US TBill holdings fast enough the really cause that much dammage. You can't simply demand that the US government pay off your TBill at will. They mature on the date specified on each TBill. If you want to redeem them early, you're really just selling them in a secondary market at auction.
If the Chinese decide to stop rolling their holdings, they would depress demand for treasuries. The real question is can they do it to such a large degree that the US will have saturated the market for US TBills and they can no longer borrow additional funds. I really have no idea what percentage of the TBill market is held by the Chinese government, but I'm sure that all the institutional investors and all the other countries of the world hold a substantial portion of that market.
Lets assume that the Chinese are able to completely saturate the USTbill market. That would cause a reduction in Federal spending to the point where the supply o f TBills meets the demand.
I think that after being "attacked" by the Chinese in such a way, you might see a 9/11 style financial rally where American citizens and allies (If any are left at that point) would move some of their savings into Government securities and look to save more.
Congress would have to eliminate the pork projects and maybe even decrease entitlements. Could they do it? Who knows.
We're about to hit the $500Billion point with Iraq and Afganistan. Maybe we get a year or two without a war payment before China decides they want to crush us. I just don't think that dumping all of their US holdings would destroy the US economy. Our economy is actually improving during the current situation and the American people have a MUCH greater capcity for sacrifice if suddenly faced with a big red enemy.
Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail.
They can't just turn those T-bills into the government and ask for them to be redeemed. They would wind up going into auction if they try to redeem them prior to their maturity date. Chances are, there would be a lot of people making a killing buying low priced T-Bills becuase the Chinese decided to flood the market with them. My guess is that the Chinese would take a beating trying to get out of the market quickly.
That would be great! You could help us get our trade deficit back in line.
It would probably be outsourced to companies in India, Pakistan, Mexico or China where the monitoring dollar goes much further.
A law doesn't have emotions or feelings, so I think we can be pretty sure the term "respect" was used with the "pertaining to" definition in mind. If we use the word in that way, I don't think we would have to get rid of the laws giving tax breaks to religious groups. It's really the lack of a law to tax a religious group, even though congress, in it's boundless lack of tax wisdom, has found it necessary to codify the lack of a law. Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed.
I haven't paid a cable company or a dish company for their service for over 15 years. I would actually consider cable tv if they decided to offer a la carte options that let you change your selection at will. Otherwise, it's over the air broadcast and the occasional rental for me.
;)
Funny thing is, the most interesting channel in my area isn't even carried by the cable companies. It seesm so strange that I get to watch lots of interesting stuff that my friends with cable never get to see. We've actually had get-togethers at my place specifically because I could see Aussie Rules Football.
The other thing to consider is that it takes me a lot less time to flip through 5 channels of crap than it does you to flip through 200 channels of crap. It lets me beat you to the bar
I've been following this story quite closely, and I've never heard anyone call Jack Murtha a terrorist. For some reason, people think that if a person served honorably in a prior war, that they know how to conduct the current one. I find it even stranger that we look to Vietnam war veterans for guidance, when you could easily make the argument that they knew how to loose that war, maybe they can help us loose this one. Jack Murtha is a stand-up guy. I think he is one of our better statesmen. On this issue, he is just wrong.
It will be even hard when the ip addresses start to look like this: http: //2001:4860:3F5F:1891:1A55:FB1C:1113:191D. Just looking at that thing makes me cross-eyed.
I agree with the scientist completely, and apparently so do the Chinese. The best approach to conservation is not having kids. Unfortunately, you have to figure out a way to survive the "tragedy of the commons".
Strange that this is the first post I've seen that mentions Sun's system. I used to run Netscape Messaging Server and Exchange side by side for two groups in the same building. It was amazing how much more milage we got out of our Netscape setup than we could with the MS box. I'd say we must have been supporting 5 times the number of users on the ns box and spent less time doing it. Of course that was many years ago. I'd still have to give Sun a crack at something like this though. With their stock trading at about $4, you could probably just buy them if they gave you any trouble (just kidding).
What a great example of "What not to do with flash". Before they hire all those scientists, maybe they should invest in a webmaster that has a clue.
I don't have any problem not producing versions of their products in Chinese until China recognizes the concept of intellectual property and enforces it. Fair Use is one thing, compaies set up to mass market copies is another.
They don't plan on going public, just becoming for profit. No stock market, no employee stock options, etc. They claim the company will be 100% owned by the non-profit.
It may shield you from civil dammages, and prevent you from loosing your house because the company didn't pay it's debts, but you never escape criminal liability. Piercing the corporate veil is done routinely in the US.
Who buys the secretary's copy of Office?
Stock-based compensation is just a way for a company to hold something over you. You are encouraged to continue working for the company because you can't actually get the money you've already earned. If you could change your compensation to cash, you would be better off (less risk). Your interest is not so much in your company's success as it is your future ability to get your money. All of this is compensation related anyway, which generally doesn't do much to increase employee motivation (although it does work to prevent decreases in motivation).