Clearly, you've not been to the United States in the past ten years. We still make almost all of our non-retail payments with checks here in the financial Third World.
Not sure where you are from. Most employers I have had contact with almost require EFT for paychecks. If I look through my checkbook, I see checks regularly to two payees. One is a discount store that cuts out credit cards because of their margins (they do accept debit cards). The other is our church (maybe some day they'll pass around a debit card reader in the offering basket). Other than that, my annual insurance is paid by check as they impost a 2% credit card fee.
Bottom line is checks are dead.
(and thanks Slashdot for requiring me to wait five minutes between posts. I get mod points once a week, but I am on some kind of punishment for something. It makes participating in discussions all the more enjoyable).
I have near perfect credit. There are very few professions where my personal handling of credit should have a bearing on my employability. This is about retaining individuals right to privacy.
And frankly, having read several of your posts, I think you are the first four-digit id troll I have ever seen. Congrats.
So, a search doesn't bring up what one person would expect and that means the search engine failed? Sometimes the problem with logical fallacies is that they are so big as to defy categorization.
You mean the one which has them valued as a $208 Billion dollar company? Granted this is off a high of around $300 Billion, but the economy as a whole has dropped the whole market.
Or do you just look at stock prices and not realize you can't compare it directly across companies? Brilliant business acumen you possess.
Yeah, but business is measured in growth. Microsoft may still be profiting in say, five years, but if their stock hasn't gone up how are they to keep investors happy?
Ummmmm. No it isn't. There are plenty of businesses without growing stock prices that keep investors happy. It is called dividends. As long as a company is profitable, it can distribute this money out to its shareholders. This makes them happy as well.
I will gladly bet that Microsoft will still be a highly profitable company in twenty years. The fallacy of this write as with many other prognosticators is that the game is zero-sum. This is false. IT is growing and will continue to grow as long as there is an economy to support.
Microsoft likely will need to reposition itself in the market as Google grows. However, Microsoft will be a big player for at least another generation and likely many more.
It wasn't that hard to get used to. More than five minutes, but now I can get to a ton of features a lot faster than I used to. The first week was a pain in the butt for sure. After that, I have a hard time going back to Office 03 menus.
1) My gas car goes a lot further. 2) Generally I have a place to stop every mile on my commute to work. 3) If I do run out (never have) I can walk to the nearest gas station, buy a can and fill it with a gallon to get me going.
Regardless of whether future marriage occurs, the 40% rate of out of wedlock births strongly indicates that couples are not willing to make a commitment to each other before having a kid. And of the remaining 3/5, 40-50% are projected NOT to stay together. This makes it really hard for a kid to have both a father and mother role model.
Family values are talked about. We have advertising campaigns. But it is projected that in a few years that more kids will be born out of wedlock than in (it is slightly over 40% now). This is trend is being seen in all social levels. So, Family Values are a nice political campaign slogan, but we have rejected them as a society.
If you want the #1 factor in a child's success, look to two-parent households with parents who are actively involved with their children. Forget ethnicity, forget money. They may be big factors, but parents' involvement is #1.
Yup, and you can do a scan to determine if I am awake or asleep, or whether I am thinking or not. This does not, however, indicate it is some type of genetic disorder or environmental variable causing this.
The one fact that keeps rearing its head is that even after you take out other socioeconomic variables, ADD and ADHD is much more prevalent in fatherless households. There is a very high correlation. And yes, I know correlation!=causation. However, you have to make some pretty big leaps of faith to get around it. Dads have a much different parenting style and discipline style than moms. It stands to reason that this would have an impact on the outcome of the children.
And now, in the modern America, where husbands aren't really viewed as necessary (or even desired), we wonder why we have an explosion of these "disorders". Sorry... it ain't rocket science.
Nope. Never had to deal with that. Not sure where you are getting your information from. I've worked with two and three monitor setups (third monitor different resolution) and it is painless.
Ultramon is a nice add-on if you want to have a memorized location where you want things to open. However, even without, I have not experienced what you are talking about.
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Clearly, you've not been to the United States in the past ten years. We still make almost all of our non-retail payments with checks here in the financial Third World.
Not sure where you are from. Most employers I have had contact with almost require EFT for paychecks. If I look through my checkbook, I see checks regularly to two payees. One is a discount store that cuts out credit cards because of their margins (they do accept debit cards). The other is our church (maybe some day they'll pass around a debit card reader in the offering basket). Other than that, my annual insurance is paid by check as they impost a 2% credit card fee.
Bottom line is checks are dead.
(and thanks Slashdot for requiring me to wait five minutes between posts. I get mod points once a week, but I am on some kind of punishment for something. It makes participating in discussions all the more enjoyable).
I have near perfect credit. There are very few professions where my personal handling of credit should have a bearing on my employability. This is about retaining individuals right to privacy.
And frankly, having read several of your posts, I think you are the first four-digit id troll I have ever seen. Congrats.
So, a search doesn't bring up what one person would expect and that means the search engine failed? Sometimes the problem with logical fallacies is that they are so big as to defy categorization.
Their stock says otherwise...
You mean the one which has them valued as a $208 Billion dollar company? Granted this is off a high of around $300 Billion, but the economy as a whole has dropped the whole market.
Or do you just look at stock prices and not realize you can't compare it directly across companies? Brilliant business acumen you possess.
Yeah, but business is measured in growth. Microsoft may still be profiting in say, five years, but if their stock hasn't gone up how are they to keep investors happy?
Ummmmm. No it isn't. There are plenty of businesses without growing stock prices that keep investors happy. It is called dividends. As long as a company is profitable, it can distribute this money out to its shareholders. This makes them happy as well.
Ok, what is the bet, and how should we contact each other in 2029? :)
I will gladly bet that Microsoft will still be a highly profitable company in twenty years. The fallacy of this write as with many other prognosticators is that the game is zero-sum. This is false. IT is growing and will continue to grow as long as there is an economy to support.
Microsoft likely will need to reposition itself in the market as Google grows. However, Microsoft will be a big player for at least another generation and likely many more.
Did you see the subtracts?
Or, radical idea, you make the ribbon disappear when you don't need it.
Damn, you are old.
It wasn't that hard to get used to. More than five minutes, but now I can get to a ton of features a lot faster than I used to. The first week was a pain in the butt for sure. After that, I have a hard time going back to Office 03 menus.
I would say *whoosh*, but the joke went so far over your head as to be inaudible.
Moxie Marlinspike? I thought we had a new Ubuntu release. And I was wondering what happened to the L's.
Never getting laid?
1) My gas car goes a lot further.
2) Generally I have a place to stop every mile on my commute to work.
3) If I do run out (never have) I can walk to the nearest gas station, buy a can and fill it with a gallon to get me going.
It's a pretty big leap of faith to claim parenting style has that kind of effect on a child's brain.
Huh? That parental style means kids are undisciplined and don't respond to authority? No leap at all.
Might it not just be that having a kid with ADHD or ADD puts a hell of a strain on a marriage?
If they don't get married BEFORE the kids are born? I think you have it backwards.
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
Source please?
Pulling numbers out of my ass? Here is the first link that come up in google: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/08/out.of.wedlock.births/index.html
If you only like wikipedia, here is another http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_(law)
Regardless of whether future marriage occurs, the 40% rate of out of wedlock births strongly indicates that couples are not willing to make a commitment to each other before having a kid. And of the remaining 3/5, 40-50% are projected NOT to stay together. This makes it really hard for a kid to have both a father and mother role model.
Expensive, but I would do it if it were for a couple days in orbit...
Family values are talked about. We have advertising campaigns. But it is projected that in a few years that more kids will be born out of wedlock than in (it is slightly over 40% now). This is trend is being seen in all social levels. So, Family Values are a nice political campaign slogan, but we have rejected them as a society.
If you want the #1 factor in a child's success, look to two-parent households with parents who are actively involved with their children. Forget ethnicity, forget money. They may be big factors, but parents' involvement is #1.
Yup, and you can do a scan to determine if I am awake or asleep, or whether I am thinking or not. This does not, however, indicate it is some type of genetic disorder or environmental variable causing this.
The one fact that keeps rearing its head is that even after you take out other socioeconomic variables, ADD and ADHD is much more prevalent in fatherless households. There is a very high correlation. And yes, I know correlation!=causation. However, you have to make some pretty big leaps of faith to get around it. Dads have a much different parenting style and discipline style than moms. It stands to reason that this would have an impact on the outcome of the children.
And now, in the modern America, where husbands aren't really viewed as necessary (or even desired), we wonder why we have an explosion of these "disorders". Sorry... it ain't rocket science.
IMNASS4U
used book store
Shouldn't that be two words? Used bookstore.
Whoa, there's a showstopper. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Nope. Never had to deal with that. Not sure where you are getting your information from. I've worked with two and three monitor setups (third monitor different resolution) and it is painless.
Ultramon is a nice add-on if you want to have a memorized location where you want things to open. However, even without, I have not experienced what you are talking about.