Salesforce tracks sales opportunities, clients, contacts, products, prices, defects, competitive intelligence, product requests, sales tasks, and documents. It also offers an instant messaging application.
Salesforce helps maintain a consistent sales process. It has a reporting system that lets you analyze your pipeline and bookings. The reporting system is good for tracking current sales performance of individuals, product lines, and companies. It's good for evaluating the likelihood of meeting bookings targets in the current month, quarter, or year. In a business, it's important to track bookings because they are a leading indicator for future revenue and, to a lesser extent, costs. You can also use salesforce to help create sales forecasts and targets for future years.
I don't play console games, so maybe I have the wrong perspective on this; however, I think this is a really wrong-headed approach. As far as I can tell, a developer is unhappy because it's possible to buy hardware that really improves a user's experience when they play the developer's game. The game developer, upset that some users have an advantage, wants everybody to get the poorest least-common-denominator user experience. Although the goal is laudable because everybody in a competitive game should have a level playing field, the cure is just as bad as the disease. If the controllers on consoles are worse than a keyboard and mouse, the developer should push for console manufacturers to make better controllers.
The radius of the asteroid does not affect the chances of impact.
The chances of an asteroid hitting the earth, if randomly directed within a circle equal to the mean orbital distance of the moon, is one chance in (Rm/re)**2, which is (384/6.4)**2, or about one chance in 3600. The size of the asteroid does not have a material effect on the chances of impact because ra << re for all asteroids. Even Ceres has a radius that's an order of magnitude smaller than the Earth's.
The size (mass, really) of the asteroid does have a material effect on the energy dissipated on impact, which is (mv**2)/2, where v is the velocity of the asteroid in the Earth's frame.
Digital signatures on every post would work. It would make the site harder to use though, since you would have to share your private key with every machine you post from (even your phone) and it's not easy to implement it in a browser. Not great, but maybe it doesn't quite meet the "impossible" label.
You are taking the position that life expectancy is falling because the population is getting older. While both the premise of the argument and the conclusion are true, I think you will have trouble making the case for a causal relationship. People are dying younger because they are living longer? Give your head a shake.
By the President of the United States of America a Proclamation
Richard Nixon became the thirty-seventh President of the United States on January 20, 1969 and was reelected in 1972 for a second term by the electors of forty-nine of the fifty states. His term in office continued until his resignation on August 9, 1974.
Pursuant to resolutions of the House of Representatives, its Committee on the Judiciary conducted an inquiry and investigation on the impeachment of the President extending over more than eight months. The hearings of the Committee and its deliberations, which received wide national publicity over television, radio, and in printed media, resulted in votes adverse to Richard Nixon on recommended Articles of Impeachment.
As a result of certain acts or omissions occurring before his resignation from the Office of President, Richard Nixon has become liable to possible indictment and trial for offenses against the United States. Whether or not he shall be so prosecuted depends on findings of the appropriate grand jury and on the discretion of the authorized prosecutor. Should an indictment ensue, the accused shall then be entitled to a fair trial by an impartial jury, as guaranteed to every individual by the Constitution.
It is believed that a trial of Richard Nixon, if it became necessary, could not fairly begin until a year or more has elapsed. In the meantime, the tranquility to which this nation has been restored by the events of recent weeks could be irreparably lost by the prospects of bringing to trial a former President of the United States. The prospects of such trial will cause prolonged and divisive debate over the propriety of exposing to further punishment and degradation a man who has already paid the unprecedented penalty of relinquishing the highest elective office of the United States.
Now, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-ninth.
It totally is a throwback to the cold war, but here we are living the real world where some nations get their own separate English term for the job of working in space.
The etymology of astronaut is from Greek astron (star) and nautes (sailor), and the assonance with argonaut - a sailor aboard Jason's ship called Argo. It was coined by a Belgian, mirroring the French aeronautique. Cosmonaut is from Greek kosmos (universe, in Pythogorean usage) and nautes. Each of these words would seem out of place if used in translation - one would almost certainly find it as "Chinese astronaut" or "Chinese cosmonaut" in every actual usage.
I find taikonaut to be a very cool word that blends eastern and western language history in a modern, globalized reality. I like it, even though the Chinese don't use the term.
None of these words are conspicuously English, though. Spacefarer and spaceman probably have the most grounding in English, with etymologies going back to at least Middle English. All of the root words are still quite recognizable in their meaning (unlike astron and nautes). I think it's interesting that the actual Chinese term in use is closest to spaceman, which would probably never be used in translation because of the dismissive, even comical, connotation the word has in English. It's also unlikely that the term would ever be left as taikong ren, because it has no meaning for English speakers. Taikonaut it is.
EMV chip cards will eliminate card present counterfeit fraud. This change will lead criminals online, where EMV will have no impact. Assuming this enhancement works as advertised, it will pinch off card not present counterfeit fraud as well.
Then, the last remaining broad security hole will be lost and stolen credit card fraud. Solving this will require two-factor identification for each purchase. At that point, the US will have to switch to chip and PIN alike the rest of the world, and the credit card may have to be replaced with a phone for online transactions.
I haven't run Windows for over a decade. For all that time, and much more, folks have been writing exactly what you just wrote. I think you imagine that this is an iron-clad point: that the additional security I get from Linux and OS/X is somehow illusory because both are just about as vulnerable as Windows.
The truth is that Linux and OS/X are about as buggy or security-deficient as Windows. And they are also safer.
I don't think the motto has all that much of an effect. In Canada, the RCMP has "Maintiens le droit." Which means "Uphold the law." Or, more poetically "Uphold the right."
Doesn't stop them from shooting a prisoner in the back of the head in self defence.
84% of statistics are made up; however, GP is not 100% wrong, just wrong about what cost should not exceed 20% of your income.
According to AAA, an organization more reputable than Bankrate.com, the cost to own and drive a vehicle in the USA today is $8,558 per year. That's a number with a lot of precision but without a lot of accuracy. They have an article up on the web that talks through their assumptions and calculations, though. Fun fact: they note that the cost of owning and driving a car has fallen to a six-year low, so TFA's author can go peddle their papers someplace else.
Back to GP! 5 x $8,558 is $42,790, which is not so far off what actual people actually working actually make. If you're making less you should consider a small sedan, which AAA estimates costs only $6,579 annually. You can do a little better if you buy a good used car. You can't do much better, though, and there is an element of luck around whether you buy a car from a careful owner or a doofus.
Television advertisements sell for about 2.5 cents per impression, and there are about 40 impression slots available in a one-hour show. Each airing of a show makes about a dollar per viewer in advertising revenue.
An episode on iTunes (admittedly not the cheapest way to watch tv on demand) is about two to four bucks, of which Apple keeps some - maybe around 30%. That means the content producer walks away with somewhere between $1.40 and $2.80 per viewer. More than for ad-supported shows!
As a viewer, I have to figure out what twenty minutes is worth to me. It's not easy, but for most people an hour is worth at least $15, which makes 20 minutes worth five bucks. Even at the prices iTunes charges, it's more attractive than watching ads.
At ten bucks a month, Netflix is a steal. Part of their catalogue is reruns, but part of what I watched on cable/broadcast was reruns as well. I do not think I save 160-odd hours a year. Maybe some people do though. Paying a dollar or two per hour saved is a tremendous bargain.
I think you answered your own question. You pay out if it's cheaper than the amount of lost data (plus any extra downtime that restoring from backup would cause over decrypting all the files, I guess). I assume that UofC officials are competent to make that call.
Saying "gone are the days when you can operate as a singular nation" needs to be explained. First, you'd have to say that anyone is actually suggesting such a thing. Second, whether people are doing that or not doesn't mean that is or is not a good or reasonable idea.
I think that you have misunderstood what Mr. Hawking was referring to with that comment. It seems that the interview was wide-ranging, and covered both Mr. Trump's candidacy and the (concurrent) referendum in the United Kingdom on whether to remain in the European Union. The statement that you quoted referred to Mr. Hawking's belief that the United Kingdom is better off within the European Union than it is without it.
His dismissal of Mr. Trump as a demagogue is given without any support, though demagogue has about the same meaning as populist if not the same connotation. His position that the UK is not an island entire of itself is supported by his experience, as a scientist, that it's very difficult to do research without cooperation between nations. He also points out that British security and economic performance is enhanced by cooperation with Europe. I think that it's well understood that modern human endeavours work best when we work with each other, even though he is only able to speak with authority about scientific research.
Questions about the independence of Mr. Bollea [aka Hulk Hogan], who never mentioned a third-party backer, first emerged when his lawyer removed a claim from his complaint that had the effect of eliminating Gawker’s insurance company from the case. That struck many legal observers as odd, given that most lawyers seeking large payouts want to include claims that are insured against because doing so increases the chances of a settlement.
The thinking goes that if the insurance company is not named in the suit then Gawker would have had to pay more, but the plaintiff would have won a lower settlement or would have risked losing the possibility of an out-of-court settlement. It is possible, though, that both Hulk Hogan and Paul Thiel agreed that the best outcome was the one that made Gawker pay the most, or that they were embarrassed as much as possible by a public airing. In that case, the lawyer acted in the interest of their client.
My understanding is that corporate balance sheets include anything that isn't a business-related asset in "cash".
That is not quite correct. Here is a quick way to get at Google's balance sheet. As of April 31, Google has about $75 million in cash, cash equivalents, and short term investments (US GAAP - will expire, mature, or be sold within one year). Bean counters commonly refer to those three together as "cash". This article has used that shorthand, but reported the cash from December 31 of last year.
One counter-example to a non-business asset outside the "cash" umbrella is long term investments.
You probably didn't get the idea that it's spelled "skimmer" (two M's). You might also try reading your own subject line.
I am afraid it is you who is incorrect. A skimmer is a device, usually electromechanical, that you install in or on a legitimate card reader to illicitly read card numbers. This malware is a new version of "Backdoor.Win32.Skimer" (really, actually spelled with one "m"). While the malware can skim card numbers, it can do much more - including collecting PINs and telling the ATM to dispense cash. Given the capabilities of the malware, it's better to refer to it by it's proper name or as malware. If you read the summary, you will see that the author has done exactly that.
In this thread, we will see numerous posts about the shortcomings of machines that drive. Snow, child in the road, failures and defects, any number of things. Every time you read one of these posts, please think to yourself: "We already have machines that drive as well as humans, because humans are machines that are made out of meat." That is, the hypothesis that it's possible to have a machine that can drive a car as well as a human is proven true by example.
I haven't lived a long time, but I've lived long enough to be shocked at the speed of discoveries that make artificial machines better than humans at human tasks. The mechanical automation period started before my time, and it's been just iterative improvements for my whole life: the combine, the cotton gin, Jacquard's loom. These were transformative, and we have seen incremental changes for over a century. At the start of the 21st century, it's hard to imagine that the bulk of the physical work done in the 19th was by human hands.
Today, we see things done by machines that used to require human heads: bank tellers, train drivers, pilots, and librarians have all seen the value of their work product greatly diminished over just 30 years. Deep learning neural networks have brought a step change to the capabilities of machines to do things that used to require us to think. Go is played better by a computer than a person - and that happened well before most had predicted. The next hurdle will be games like poker and rock-paper-scissors. These advances in the state of the art are not slowing; they are accelerating! I think it is quite possible that trucking, uber/taxis, car sharing, and public transport will start to see human workers replaced with artificial machines within five years.
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Salesforce tracks sales opportunities, clients, contacts, products, prices, defects, competitive intelligence, product requests, sales tasks, and documents. It also offers an instant messaging application.
Salesforce helps maintain a consistent sales process. It has a reporting system that lets you analyze your pipeline and bookings. The reporting system is good for tracking current sales performance of individuals, product lines, and companies. It's good for evaluating the likelihood of meeting bookings targets in the current month, quarter, or year. In a business, it's important to track bookings because they are a leading indicator for future revenue and, to a lesser extent, costs. You can also use salesforce to help create sales forecasts and targets for future years.
I don't play console games, so maybe I have the wrong perspective on this; however, I think this is a really wrong-headed approach. As far as I can tell, a developer is unhappy because it's possible to buy hardware that really improves a user's experience when they play the developer's game. The game developer, upset that some users have an advantage, wants everybody to get the poorest least-common-denominator user experience. Although the goal is laudable because everybody in a competitive game should have a level playing field, the cure is just as bad as the disease. If the controllers on consoles are worse than a keyboard and mouse, the developer should push for console manufacturers to make better controllers.
The radius of the asteroid does not affect the chances of impact.
The chances of an asteroid hitting the earth, if randomly directed within a circle equal to the mean orbital distance of the moon, is one chance in (Rm/re)**2, which is (384/6.4)**2, or about one chance in 3600. The size of the asteroid does not have a material effect on the chances of impact because ra << re for all asteroids. Even Ceres has a radius that's an order of magnitude smaller than the Earth's.
The size (mass, really) of the asteroid does have a material effect on the energy dissipated on impact, which is (mv**2)/2, where v is the velocity of the asteroid in the Earth's frame.
Digital signatures on every post would work. It would make the site harder to use though, since you would have to share your private key with every machine you post from (even your phone) and it's not easy to implement it in a browser. Not great, but maybe it doesn't quite meet the "impossible" label.
You are taking the position that life expectancy is falling because the population is getting older. While both the premise of the argument and the conclusion are true, I think you will have trouble making the case for a causal relationship. People are dying younger because they are living longer? Give your head a shake.
By the President of the United States of America a Proclamation
Richard Nixon became the thirty-seventh President of the United States on January 20, 1969 and was reelected in 1972 for a second term by the electors of forty-nine of the fifty states. His term in office continued until his resignation on August 9, 1974.
Pursuant to resolutions of the House of Representatives, its Committee on the Judiciary conducted an inquiry and investigation on the impeachment of the President extending over more than eight months. The hearings of the Committee and its deliberations, which received wide national publicity over television, radio, and in printed media, resulted in votes adverse to Richard Nixon on recommended Articles of Impeachment.
As a result of certain acts or omissions occurring before his resignation from the Office of President, Richard Nixon has become liable to possible indictment and trial for offenses against the United States. Whether or not he shall be so prosecuted depends on findings of the appropriate grand jury and on the discretion of the authorized prosecutor. Should an indictment ensue, the accused shall then be entitled to a fair trial by an impartial jury, as guaranteed to every individual by the Constitution.
It is believed that a trial of Richard Nixon, if it became necessary, could not fairly begin until a year or more has elapsed. In the meantime, the tranquility to which this nation has been restored by the events of recent weeks could be irreparably lost by the prospects of bringing to trial a former President of the United States. The prospects of such trial will cause prolonged and divisive debate over the propriety of exposing to further punishment and degradation a man who has already paid the unprecedented penalty of relinquishing the highest elective office of the United States.
Now, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-ninth.
GERALD R. FORD
It totally is a throwback to the cold war, but here we are living the real world where some nations get their own separate English term for the job of working in space.
The etymology of astronaut is from Greek astron (star) and nautes (sailor), and the assonance with argonaut - a sailor aboard Jason's ship called Argo. It was coined by a Belgian, mirroring the French aeronautique. Cosmonaut is from Greek kosmos (universe, in Pythogorean usage) and nautes. Each of these words would seem out of place if used in translation - one would almost certainly find it as "Chinese astronaut" or "Chinese cosmonaut" in every actual usage.
I find taikonaut to be a very cool word that blends eastern and western language history in a modern, globalized reality. I like it, even though the Chinese don't use the term.
None of these words are conspicuously English, though. Spacefarer and spaceman probably have the most grounding in English, with etymologies going back to at least Middle English. All of the root words are still quite recognizable in their meaning (unlike astron and nautes). I think it's interesting that the actual Chinese term in use is closest to spaceman, which would probably never be used in translation because of the dismissive, even comical, connotation the word has in English. It's also unlikely that the term would ever be left as taikong ren, because it has no meaning for English speakers. Taikonaut it is.
EMV chip cards will eliminate card present counterfeit fraud. This change will lead criminals online, where EMV will have no impact. Assuming this enhancement works as advertised, it will pinch off card not present counterfeit fraud as well.
Then, the last remaining broad security hole will be lost and stolen credit card fraud. Solving this will require two-factor identification for each purchase. At that point, the US will have to switch to chip and PIN alike the rest of the world, and the credit card may have to be replaced with a phone for online transactions.
If the 80% level is labelled 100, then the 100% level should be labelled 125.
I haven't run Windows for over a decade. For all that time, and much more, folks have been writing exactly what you just wrote. I think you imagine that this is an iron-clad point: that the additional security I get from Linux and OS/X is somehow illusory because both are just about as vulnerable as Windows.
The truth is that Linux and OS/X are about as buggy or security-deficient as Windows. And they are also safer.
It takes on the meaning of increasing closeness to that state.
I don't think the motto has all that much of an effect. In Canada, the RCMP has "Maintiens le droit." Which means "Uphold the law." Or, more poetically "Uphold the right."
Doesn't stop them from shooting a prisoner in the back of the head in self defence.
84% of statistics are made up; however, GP is not 100% wrong, just wrong about what cost should not exceed 20% of your income.
According to AAA, an organization more reputable than Bankrate.com, the cost to own and drive a vehicle in the USA today is $8,558 per year. That's a number with a lot of precision but without a lot of accuracy. They have an article up on the web that talks through their assumptions and calculations, though. Fun fact: they note that the cost of owning and driving a car has fallen to a six-year low, so TFA's author can go peddle their papers someplace else.
Back to GP! 5 x $8,558 is $42,790, which is not so far off what actual people actually working actually make. If you're making less you should consider a small sedan, which AAA estimates costs only $6,579 annually. You can do a little better if you buy a good used car. You can't do much better, though, and there is an element of luck around whether you buy a car from a careful owner or a doofus.
Television advertisements sell for about 2.5 cents per impression, and there are about 40 impression slots available in a one-hour show. Each airing of a show makes about a dollar per viewer in advertising revenue.
An episode on iTunes (admittedly not the cheapest way to watch tv on demand) is about two to four bucks, of which Apple keeps some - maybe around 30%. That means the content producer walks away with somewhere between $1.40 and $2.80 per viewer. More than for ad-supported shows!
As a viewer, I have to figure out what twenty minutes is worth to me. It's not easy, but for most people an hour is worth at least $15, which makes 20 minutes worth five bucks. Even at the prices iTunes charges, it's more attractive than watching ads.
At ten bucks a month, Netflix is a steal. Part of their catalogue is reruns, but part of what I watched on cable/broadcast was reruns as well. I do not think I save 160-odd hours a year. Maybe some people do though. Paying a dollar or two per hour saved is a tremendous bargain.
I think you answered your own question. You pay out if it's cheaper than the amount of lost data (plus any extra downtime that restoring from backup would cause over decrypting all the files, I guess). I assume that UofC officials are competent to make that call.
You are buying a piece of shit. Polished.
5% EBIT percentage and 3% net income applicable to common stock, relative to revenue for the year ending January 31, 2016. You are welcome.
Saying "gone are the days when you can operate as a singular nation" needs to be explained. First, you'd have to say that anyone is actually suggesting such a thing. Second, whether people are doing that or not doesn't mean that is or is not a good or reasonable idea.
I think that you have misunderstood what Mr. Hawking was referring to with that comment. It seems that the interview was wide-ranging, and covered both Mr. Trump's candidacy and the (concurrent) referendum in the United Kingdom on whether to remain in the European Union. The statement that you quoted referred to Mr. Hawking's belief that the United Kingdom is better off within the European Union than it is without it.
His dismissal of Mr. Trump as a demagogue is given without any support, though demagogue has about the same meaning as populist if not the same connotation. His position that the UK is not an island entire of itself is supported by his experience, as a scientist, that it's very difficult to do research without cooperation between nations. He also points out that British security and economic performance is enhanced by cooperation with Europe. I think that it's well understood that modern human endeavours work best when we work with each other, even though he is only able to speak with authority about scientific research.
...none that I know of transit over Antarctica.
AKL-EZE does.
The New York Times has reported that
Questions about the independence of Mr. Bollea [aka Hulk Hogan], who never mentioned a third-party backer, first emerged when his lawyer removed a claim from his complaint that had the effect of eliminating Gawker’s insurance company from the case. That struck many legal observers as odd, given that most lawyers seeking large payouts want to include claims that are insured against because doing so increases the chances of a settlement.
The thinking goes that if the insurance company is not named in the suit then Gawker would have had to pay more, but the plaintiff would have won a lower settlement or would have risked losing the possibility of an out-of-court settlement. It is possible, though, that both Hulk Hogan and Paul Thiel agreed that the best outcome was the one that made Gawker pay the most, or that they were embarrassed as much as possible by a public airing. In that case, the lawyer acted in the interest of their client.
My understanding is that corporate balance sheets include anything that isn't a business-related asset in "cash".
That is not quite correct. Here is a quick way to get at Google's balance sheet. As of April 31, Google has about $75 million in cash, cash equivalents, and short term investments (US GAAP - will expire, mature, or be sold within one year). Bean counters commonly refer to those three together as "cash". This article has used that shorthand, but reported the cash from December 31 of last year.
One counter-example to a non-business asset outside the "cash" umbrella is long term investments.
You probably didn't get the idea that it's spelled "skimmer" (two M's). You might also try reading your own subject line.
I am afraid it is you who is incorrect. A skimmer is a device, usually electromechanical, that you install in or on a legitimate card reader to illicitly read card numbers. This malware is a new version of "Backdoor.Win32.Skimer" (really, actually spelled with one "m"). While the malware can skim card numbers, it can do much more - including collecting PINs and telling the ATM to dispense cash. Given the capabilities of the malware, it's better to refer to it by it's proper name or as malware. If you read the summary, you will see that the author has done exactly that.
But don't get me started on ATM machine.
I can't imagine an A.I. taking into account the ways in which a human jury can be swayed.
You need a better imagination
In this thread, we will see numerous posts about the shortcomings of machines that drive. Snow, child in the road, failures and defects, any number of things. Every time you read one of these posts, please think to yourself: "We already have machines that drive as well as humans, because humans are machines that are made out of meat." That is, the hypothesis that it's possible to have a machine that can drive a car as well as a human is proven true by example.
I haven't lived a long time, but I've lived long enough to be shocked at the speed of discoveries that make artificial machines better than humans at human tasks. The mechanical automation period started before my time, and it's been just iterative improvements for my whole life: the combine, the cotton gin, Jacquard's loom. These were transformative, and we have seen incremental changes for over a century. At the start of the 21st century, it's hard to imagine that the bulk of the physical work done in the 19th was by human hands.
Today, we see things done by machines that used to require human heads: bank tellers, train drivers, pilots, and librarians have all seen the value of their work product greatly diminished over just 30 years. Deep learning neural networks have brought a step change to the capabilities of machines to do things that used to require us to think. Go is played better by a computer than a person - and that happened well before most had predicted. The next hurdle will be games like poker and rock-paper-scissors. These advances in the state of the art are not slowing; they are accelerating! I think it is quite possible that trucking, uber/taxis, car sharing, and public transport will start to see human workers replaced with artificial machines within five years.
Yup. If you meet an asshole, don't let it bother you - it's only one asshole. If everybody you meet is an asshole, it's still only one asshole.