Primary purpose is a slippery concept best avoided when analyzing behavior.
A primary decision driver of any "managed, budgeted organization" is how to reduce expenses and or increase income to support and protect the activities management wishes to pursue.
A common goal is keeping people employed, and people are expensive.
Your epilepsy is a 1% neurological condition (99% of people don't have it)
Your ability to learn and apply new (to you) concepts after age 40 is similarly rare.
The old saw about "anyone can learn anything if they just apply themselves" is not true for some people, and as people age it becomes not true for more and more of them.
Insurance is a profit center with administrative costs. The insured, on average, lose.
Now, if you are an above average risk and you can weasel your way into a pool of lower risk insured, then you personally could stand to win. Above average risk includes those who abuse their equipment and then lie about having done so, etc.
If you're not one of those people, consider the fact that you're buying into an insurance pool with people like that in it - potentially a lot of them.
The Canadian TV series was kinda fun too... guilty pleasure. There's plenty of room for more storytelling in the Highlander Universe - it's just that Highlander 2 was from another universe, one that I don't want to understand.
Highlander 2 didn't happen - it was an alternate, dead-end timeline. Nothing to see there, move along.
If Disney is going to ruin Star Wars, they're going to do it by appealing to the broadest possible market, something Lucas was desperately trying to do himself, and mostly succeeding. Did anybody here actually eat any C3P-Os in the 1980s?
>less experience developers be able to create fancy websites by just using DOM and not having to learn jquery
and you expect more experienced developers to make this happen? Look at lawyers and the law since the 1600s - when has it ever gotten simpler or easier for newbies?
>quality of engineers coming out of college or universities is declining at an alarming rate
In the U.S. we are far ahead of Europe, the quality of engineers graduating from Universities has been dismal for at least 30 years now. In an average class of 20-30 engineers, there were typically only 1 or 2 that "got it" back in the late 1980s, the rest were skating by on minimal effort.
Depends on where/when - some places there are piles of "town cars" with drivers loitering nearby who are more than willing to book a ride to the airport for, well, how about right now? They're not taxicabs, wink wink.
If it gets up on a plane, 45mph on water is entirely believable - 45mph limit on land is likely for safety, not lack of power to go faster. I took an ATV up to 50mph on a backwoods trail once - was great fun as a branch whizzed past my head... decided that was enough fun for one lifetime and I keep the ATVs under 30 in the woods now.
Amphicar was just silly, it couldn't motor in water against a stiff breeze.
When I lived on one side of Biscayne Bay near a boat ramp, and worked on the other side of the bay near another boat ramp, I looked into the amphi-cars of the time... they're always expensive, never very good cars, and often quite terrible boats. $40K for a jet-ski/ATV is not too bad, if you have a place to use both... it's not for the daily commute.
Work out a technical solution to get rid of the boom, and you can fly over populated areas.
One hundred people getting to their destination a couple of hours earlier isn't a good reason to roll thunder across tens of millions of people's heads. IMO, it's not a good reason to disturb a couple of thousand whales and dolphins, either, but they've got bigger problems than supersonic planes.
All a matter of perspective - if you live in a neighborhood where people are shooting and killing each other every weekend, then it's good to have the "imaginary" role play there to help deal with reality.
Personally, we were pretty shocked when our kindergartener came home with a library book from 1970's urban America about some young kids who were running through the neighborhood hiding from bigger kids who were going to beat them up. It's not the world our kids live in, and it's not one we want them to get mental pictures of...
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Their primarily purpose is to generate revenue.
Primary purpose is a slippery concept best avoided when analyzing behavior.
A primary decision driver of any "managed, budgeted organization" is how to reduce expenses and or increase income to support and protect the activities management wishes to pursue.
A common goal is keeping people employed, and people are expensive.
Your epilepsy is a 1% neurological condition (99% of people don't have it)
Your ability to learn and apply new (to you) concepts after age 40 is similarly rare.
The old saw about "anyone can learn anything if they just apply themselves" is not true for some people, and as people age it becomes not true for more and more of them.
Simple logical proposal:
Insurance is a profit center with administrative costs. The insured, on average, lose.
Now, if you are an above average risk and you can weasel your way into a pool of lower risk insured, then you personally could stand to win. Above average risk includes those who abuse their equipment and then lie about having done so, etc.
If you're not one of those people, consider the fact that you're buying into an insurance pool with people like that in it - potentially a lot of them.
It's called rank & yank. Great to keep a culture of stress and fear bubbling over, which is how they seem to like it at EA.
The Canadian TV series was kinda fun too... guilty pleasure. There's plenty of room for more storytelling in the Highlander Universe - it's just that Highlander 2 was from another universe, one that I don't want to understand.
Highlander 2 didn't happen - it was an alternate, dead-end timeline. Nothing to see there, move along.
If Disney is going to ruin Star Wars, they're going to do it by appealing to the broadest possible market, something Lucas was desperately trying to do himself, and mostly succeeding. Did anybody here actually eat any C3P-Os in the 1980s?
Party of the people:
https://www.google.com/search?q=planking&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N
Hydrogen Sulfide gas is naturally occuring in deep groundwater, at least in Florida and similar places.
>less experience developers be able to create fancy websites by just using DOM and not having to learn jquery
and you expect more experienced developers to make this happen? Look at lawyers and the law since the 1600s - when has it ever gotten simpler or easier for newbies?
Lightweight is no longer about size... cheap systems are coming with 8GB of Flash and 2GB of RAM these days.
What's important is speed on relatively (400MHz) slow/weak low power processor cores.
>quality of engineers coming out of college or universities is declining at an alarming rate
In the U.S. we are far ahead of Europe, the quality of engineers graduating from Universities has been dismal for at least 30 years now. In an average class of 20-30 engineers, there were typically only 1 or 2 that "got it" back in the late 1980s, the rest were skating by on minimal effort.
Pretty much empty describes taxi business in Little Rock... I think NYC would more resemble this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_la_Defense
or this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_%E2%80%93_Live_in_Berlin
Ever been to a free concert?
Depends on where/when - some places there are piles of "town cars" with drivers loitering nearby who are more than willing to book a ride to the airport for, well, how about right now? They're not taxicabs, wink wink.
At least he's having fun, and spending his money instead of using it for insulation in his mansion.
If it gets up on a plane, 45mph on water is entirely believable - 45mph limit on land is likely for safety, not lack of power to go faster. I took an ATV up to 50mph on a backwoods trail once - was great fun as a branch whizzed past my head... decided that was enough fun for one lifetime and I keep the ATVs under 30 in the woods now.
Amphicar was just silly, it couldn't motor in water against a stiff breeze.
When I lived on one side of Biscayne Bay near a boat ramp, and worked on the other side of the bay near another boat ramp, I looked into the amphi-cars of the time... they're always expensive, never very good cars, and often quite terrible boats. $40K for a jet-ski/ATV is not too bad, if you have a place to use both... it's not for the daily commute.
Mod parent up. Free, fun, community, easy, challenging.
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>I want to start a business. Where do I find these people who do it for me?
Just give your startup capital to me, I'll take total control, it won't be scary at all.
I'd say its downfall was the sonic boom, period.
Work out a technical solution to get rid of the boom, and you can fly over populated areas.
One hundred people getting to their destination a couple of hours earlier isn't a good reason to roll thunder across tens of millions of people's heads. IMO, it's not a good reason to disturb a couple of thousand whales and dolphins, either, but they've got bigger problems than supersonic planes.
The solar system. Over and over and over and over again...
Or dinosaurs, trains, cars, or all four - depends on your kid (and what you teach them.)
All a matter of perspective - if you live in a neighborhood where people are shooting and killing each other every weekend, then it's good to have the "imaginary" role play there to help deal with reality.
Personally, we were pretty shocked when our kindergartener came home with a library book from 1970's urban America about some young kids who were running through the neighborhood hiding from bigger kids who were going to beat them up. It's not the world our kids live in, and it's not one we want them to get mental pictures of...
And who did your 5 year old learn all of this from?
Entertaining, creative, non-violent.
Sounds like you need 12V applied directly to the forehead. Good to energize programmers young and old.