An amusing aside, many grocery stores put the "American Cheese" in the refrigerated section because people aren't comfortable buying cheese that isn't refrigerated. It turns out that stuff is perfectly shelf stable on the shelf next to the dried beans.
I hope by rubber cheese you aren't referring to the crimes against humanity that are Velveta and Kraft American "Cheese" as they are mostly cheese flavored vegetable oil. I'm pretty sure they even claim on the packaging that they are "Processed Cheese Food", not really cheese. If you are looking for delicious cheddar, they are indeed available, Wisconsin being one state with many varieties, and Vermont being another.
It serves two purposes. The state is the first to designate a state microbe, and as such will get publicity on news channels for it. Most states have large scale ad campaigns to encourage business and tourism. This is no different. The state is honoring, and making the public aware of one of the important players in one of Wisconsin's most well known industries. Whether it's wholly effective or not, they are, in fact, serving their constituents.
At least in my program, our professors want us to publish a couple papers as a result of our thesis. It doesn't have to be ground breaking, and is usually in parallel with some of their research, but they would like it to be original.
Much like a good work of art, at some point you have to release something to the world. If you refuse to publish anything before you are 100% certain of everything, you'll never get the work out. Which is the point of number 1, if what you have is cohesive and the evidence supports it, you can move towards publishing. If you think there are other areas that can or need to be explored to support it, you can go with those as well as separate papers, rather than waiting a decade for your omnibus paper to come together.
GM and Chrysler are the two American companies coming out of bankruptcy. Ford was, for the most part, alright through the downturn and is gaining market share. They were also the primary stakeholders in two of those British car companies (Jaguar and Land Rover) until two years ago.
Its the same reason the graph shows Apple instead of iPhone, Google instead of Android, and Microsoft instead of Windows Mobile, because RIM is the company that makes Blackberrys.
Culture is not valueless. Some people play mafia wars, others play CoD, others watch American Idol, others follow football, others make beer in their basement. Just because you are fond of one or the other does not make the others worthless. And life filled with only things that are considered purely productive would be dull pretty fast. Japanese people make cool CNC machines, but they also watch TV and sing karaoke too.
If you noticed, "lining" was carved into the helmet... in aluminum. (One of the close-ups of the front shows the dimples on what would normally be lining on the inside.)
There kind of is a market for such a thing. You could short sell the companies who are buying the social media groups, and hope they have a big enough dent in the parent company's stock to give you a hefty difference.
The other problem is that the cars that are a problem (Prius) don't have keys, and don't have a shift lever that physically links to the transmission. They have an electronic joystick that controls shifting. If you press N for neutral, it won't shift to neutral, you have to hold it for a little over a second for it to shift. Likewise, you can't shut the car off by simply pressing the power button. You have to press and hold it for 3 seconds. These things aren't difficult, but 1) a panicked driver is going to try repeatedly pressing neutral or power, and isn't holding the button down, and 2) I'm willing to bet most of these people didn't fully read their owners manual to find out how to do these things when the vehicle is moving. Note: the press and hold thing isn't how you turn the car off normally. As long as you are in park, you can just press the button once and it will shut off.
There are air-breathing engine technologies that can go faster then mach 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet . Unfortunately, with a scramjet the problem is getting the vehicle going fast enough for the jet to work (Almost that mach 5 you mentioned earlier).
Perhaps their licensing model is too granular, but the idea of charging per core is not unfounded. It does, indeed, change their development costs. Oracle has created a nice product that scales very well. Making that software utilize all the resources available to it does cost money. Making it a performance monster does cost money. It sounds more like they are baiting lower volume customers into a cheap toke to get their app out there. The first hit is free, but it's going to be a nightmare to move off them when your applications grow and you need to start paying for a larger system to support it.
It's about the easiest thing to attack, they give it away at the bank, so it's as easy as walking in and picking up a copy. Worse, you know exactly what people will be doing with it when they log in, and because they are directing to a specific bank, you know exactly how they are accessing their bank.
I won't trust that reconciliation will get rid of all of them until I see the final bill. There is a Fox interview with President Obama that I believe is on tonight. In it he is repeatedly asked about specific sweetheart deals and he won't commit to them being out of the bill.
The problem I have is that they are trying to sell this to the American people as health reform. They are appealing to rate hikes, and saying that these are the reason people need to get on board with reform. Unfortunately, there is very little in this bill that does anything to control costs and keep said rate hikes from happening. If we, as a country, want to say that health case is a basic right, then we need to actually... do that. This bill is an entitlement program, much like medicare. It has provisions like forcing all people to have health insurance and forcing insurers to accept people, but generally, it is an entitlement program to subsidize health care costs. Quite frankly, it should be presented as such, because presenting it as reform and cost control is misleading, and will most likely prove itself to be wrong.
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Concessions haven't been made simply to appease republicans. They've been made to try and get more of the citizens aboard, and to try and get more support within the democratic party. Things like the taxes on expensive plans have been relaxed to ease the union opposition. Sweet-heart deals have been made to buy reluctant Senators like the Louisiana or Nebraska deals, etc. Removal of the public option from the House bill was an attempt to get Senators on board. Finally, there are a lot of people in the United States, to whom congressmen have to answer in a few months who aren't fond of either the whole bill, or certain provisions. Trust me, with the filibuster proof majority in the Senate, if they didn't have to fight within the Democratic party, we'd already have a bill completed and out the door (They had this majority long enough before they lost Ted Kennedy's seat).
Tell me where you find these "decent managers". I'm a little intrigued, but mostly skeptical of this unfounded claim.[/sarcasm off]
I most of the cases I've seen, the managers are generally good at their non-managerial role (and therefore got promoted) and not very good at managing, or they are exclusively managers with no understanding of the work their group does. Neither of these lead to a good environment for workers. You can't set clearly defined goals and reward people according to their successes when you don't understand what it is they do. Nor can you properly allocate people and resources. Equally as bad is a person who knows what the team does but doesn't know how to properly manage. I think it's a casualty of MBAs running businesses and hiring others who are equally unqualified in the stated field to do middle management roles.
Finally, there are decent managers in many cases that understand that their employees need these kinds of rewards and treatment, but simply don't have the resources or power to make it happen. Think impossible deadlines and budget cuts.
So, yes, any decent manager can tell you that, but I think it is a rarity in practice.
On paper, what you just said is true. Unfortunately, that's, generally, not how it works. They may understand that replacing employees is expensive and reduces the overall quality of the product. But, generally, they don't actually follow through with steps to avoid burning people out or compensate them appropriately. They see all employees as little cost centers and look to whittle down expenses without considering the implications of lower staff morale. So yes, it is beneficial to businesses in the long term to keep employees happy. Unfortunately, long-term goals don't come over as well as saying you cut costs by X dollars on the next quarterly report or board meeting.
I think you swiftly find that the companies who try to rest on a single product line and stifle competition are eventually squashed. As hard as they try to keep alternatives off the market, they will fail. And when those alternatives come to market, they have a problem. That is why google spends so much time and energy on R&D. It isn't because they expect to turn a profit on every idea tomorrow, it's because 1) they need to support their ad model and driving more consumers to goole via all of these fancy expensive things gives them more revenue and 2) because they want to start working on finding other markets (fiber rollout?) before their business model is taken over or superseded.
The cease and desist was sent by a NewEgg supplier, but not the supplier who shipped the chips. D&H Distributing sent the cease and desist, as they were being accused of shipping fake chips. It was later found out that IPEX was the company that shipped the fake chips.
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Funny, I thought it had to do with people eating too much.
An amusing aside, many grocery stores put the "American Cheese" in the refrigerated section because people aren't comfortable buying cheese that isn't refrigerated. It turns out that stuff is perfectly shelf stable on the shelf next to the dried beans.
I hope by rubber cheese you aren't referring to the crimes against humanity that are Velveta and Kraft American "Cheese" as they are mostly cheese flavored vegetable oil. I'm pretty sure they even claim on the packaging that they are "Processed Cheese Food", not really cheese. If you are looking for delicious cheddar, they are indeed available, Wisconsin being one state with many varieties, and Vermont being another.
It serves two purposes. The state is the first to designate a state microbe, and as such will get publicity on news channels for it. Most states have large scale ad campaigns to encourage business and tourism. This is no different. The state is honoring, and making the public aware of one of the important players in one of Wisconsin's most well known industries. Whether it's wholly effective or not, they are, in fact, serving their constituents.
At least in my program, our professors want us to publish a couple papers as a result of our thesis. It doesn't have to be ground breaking, and is usually in parallel with some of their research, but they would like it to be original.
Much like a good work of art, at some point you have to release something to the world. If you refuse to publish anything before you are 100% certain of everything, you'll never get the work out. Which is the point of number 1, if what you have is cohesive and the evidence supports it, you can move towards publishing. If you think there are other areas that can or need to be explored to support it, you can go with those as well as separate papers, rather than waiting a decade for your omnibus paper to come together.
GM and Chrysler are the two American companies coming out of bankruptcy. Ford was, for the most part, alright through the downturn and is gaining market share. They were also the primary stakeholders in two of those British car companies (Jaguar and Land Rover) until two years ago.
I suspect this was far less of a hypothesis about aliens and far more social commentary on humans.
Its the same reason the graph shows Apple instead of iPhone, Google instead of Android, and Microsoft instead of Windows Mobile, because RIM is the company that makes Blackberrys.
Culture is not valueless. Some people play mafia wars, others play CoD, others watch American Idol, others follow football, others make beer in their basement. Just because you are fond of one or the other does not make the others worthless. And life filled with only things that are considered purely productive would be dull pretty fast. Japanese people make cool CNC machines, but they also watch TV and sing karaoke too.
If you noticed, "lining" was carved into the helmet... in aluminum. (One of the close-ups of the front shows the dimples on what would normally be lining on the inside.)
There kind of is a market for such a thing. You could short sell the companies who are buying the social media groups, and hope they have a big enough dent in the parent company's stock to give you a hefty difference.
Actually, most of that money is owed to the citizens of the USA via "loans" from social security and medicare accounts. Direct foreign ownership of US Federal debt is a little less than 4 trillion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt#Foreign_ownership
The other problem is that the cars that are a problem (Prius) don't have keys, and don't have a shift lever that physically links to the transmission. They have an electronic joystick that controls shifting. If you press N for neutral, it won't shift to neutral, you have to hold it for a little over a second for it to shift. Likewise, you can't shut the car off by simply pressing the power button. You have to press and hold it for 3 seconds. These things aren't difficult, but 1) a panicked driver is going to try repeatedly pressing neutral or power, and isn't holding the button down, and 2) I'm willing to bet most of these people didn't fully read their owners manual to find out how to do these things when the vehicle is moving. Note: the press and hold thing isn't how you turn the car off normally. As long as you are in park, you can just press the button once and it will shut off.
There are air-breathing engine technologies that can go faster then mach 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet . Unfortunately, with a scramjet the problem is getting the vehicle going fast enough for the jet to work (Almost that mach 5 you mentioned earlier).
Perhaps their licensing model is too granular, but the idea of charging per core is not unfounded. It does, indeed, change their development costs. Oracle has created a nice product that scales very well. Making that software utilize all the resources available to it does cost money. Making it a performance monster does cost money. It sounds more like they are baiting lower volume customers into a cheap toke to get their app out there. The first hit is free, but it's going to be a nightmare to move off them when your applications grow and you need to start paying for a larger system to support it.
It's about the easiest thing to attack, they give it away at the bank, so it's as easy as walking in and picking up a copy. Worse, you know exactly what people will be doing with it when they log in, and because they are directing to a specific bank, you know exactly how they are accessing their bank.
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I won't trust that reconciliation will get rid of all of them until I see the final bill. There is a Fox interview with President Obama that I believe is on tonight. In it he is repeatedly asked about specific sweetheart deals and he won't commit to them being out of the bill.
The problem I have is that they are trying to sell this to the American people as health reform. They are appealing to rate hikes, and saying that these are the reason people need to get on board with reform. Unfortunately, there is very little in this bill that does anything to control costs and keep said rate hikes from happening. If we, as a country, want to say that health case is a basic right, then we need to actually ... do that. This bill is an entitlement program, much like medicare. It has provisions like forcing all people to have health insurance and forcing insurers to accept people, but generally, it is an entitlement program to subsidize health care costs. Quite frankly, it should be presented as such, because presenting it as reform and cost control is misleading, and will most likely prove itself to be wrong.
Concessions haven't been made simply to appease republicans. They've been made to try and get more of the citizens aboard, and to try and get more support within the democratic party. Things like the taxes on expensive plans have been relaxed to ease the union opposition. Sweet-heart deals have been made to buy reluctant Senators like the Louisiana or Nebraska deals, etc. Removal of the public option from the House bill was an attempt to get Senators on board. Finally, there are a lot of people in the United States, to whom congressmen have to answer in a few months who aren't fond of either the whole bill, or certain provisions. Trust me, with the filibuster proof majority in the Senate, if they didn't have to fight within the Democratic party, we'd already have a bill completed and out the door (They had this majority long enough before they lost Ted Kennedy's seat).
Any decent manager could tell you that.
Tell me where you find these "decent managers". I'm a little intrigued, but mostly skeptical of this unfounded claim.[/sarcasm off]
I most of the cases I've seen, the managers are generally good at their non-managerial role (and therefore got promoted) and not very good at managing, or they are exclusively managers with no understanding of the work their group does. Neither of these lead to a good environment for workers. You can't set clearly defined goals and reward people according to their successes when you don't understand what it is they do. Nor can you properly allocate people and resources. Equally as bad is a person who knows what the team does but doesn't know how to properly manage. I think it's a casualty of MBAs running businesses and hiring others who are equally unqualified in the stated field to do middle management roles.
Finally, there are decent managers in many cases that understand that their employees need these kinds of rewards and treatment, but simply don't have the resources or power to make it happen. Think impossible deadlines and budget cuts.
So, yes, any decent manager can tell you that, but I think it is a rarity in practice.
On paper, what you just said is true. Unfortunately, that's, generally, not how it works. They may understand that replacing employees is expensive and reduces the overall quality of the product. But, generally, they don't actually follow through with steps to avoid burning people out or compensate them appropriately. They see all employees as little cost centers and look to whittle down expenses without considering the implications of lower staff morale. So yes, it is beneficial to businesses in the long term to keep employees happy. Unfortunately, long-term goals don't come over as well as saying you cut costs by X dollars on the next quarterly report or board meeting.
I think you swiftly find that the companies who try to rest on a single product line and stifle competition are eventually squashed. As hard as they try to keep alternatives off the market, they will fail. And when those alternatives come to market, they have a problem. That is why google spends so much time and energy on R&D. It isn't because they expect to turn a profit on every idea tomorrow, it's because 1) they need to support their ad model and driving more consumers to goole via all of these fancy expensive things gives them more revenue and 2) because they want to start working on finding other markets (fiber rollout?) before their business model is taken over or superseded.
The cease and desist was sent by a NewEgg supplier, but not the supplier who shipped the chips. D&H Distributing sent the cease and desist, as they were being accused of shipping fake chips. It was later found out that IPEX was the company that shipped the fake chips.