google doesn't pay dividends, and has said they never will. So basically you have a stock which gives you no voting power (even if you bought all the class A common stock out there you would still be automatically outvoted by Sergey Brin and Larry Page based on how the stock offering was structured), and pays no dividends.
'Down here in the Netherlands?" You are pretty north. Let me rephrase- come hang out with us in southern Europe, where our universities are crap, our roads are even worse, and 20% of the population works for the government and can never be fired. We are the guys you let in to the EU so you'd have a place to go on vacation when you get tired of your ultra-efficient, freezing cold, and very flat country.
I was just in the Netherlands- I love Smullers and poffertjies. Not quite sure how that's related. And what's with the aggression- very un-Dutch.
As a middle-class European, let me tell you that these great consulting jobs just don't exist outside the US. The US is the land of opportunity, where if you are educated and reasonably intelligent you can find a good, rewarding job, maybe even do something that you like.
Come hang out with us in Europe for a while- see how the public sector works, watch people with PhDs in Astrophysics give math lessons to high-schoolers. While you are at it, have fun forking over 40% or more of your income in taxes, and don't bother trying to start a business cause you won't be able to fire anyone you hire, even if its running you into the ground. Assuming the tax authorities don't get you first.
But, we do have great healthcare, great culture, and great social support systems, so its a tradeoff.
I would think the reason they are programming calculators is because most calculator languages are alot simpler to master than modern programming languages. No graphics libraries, no weird memory management stuff, etc.
With modern object-oriented programming languages, it takes a while to learn how to do useful stuff- not so with a calculator.
methinks if you spend so much time in front of a computer that your wrists are getting damaged, perhaps its time to go do something else.
As for those who work with computers... you should still get off the computer. Go work on a farm, or heck, failing that- most Western countries have reasonably good welfare systems.
well, I own an Inspiron 600m, and have never had a problem with it getting hot- its pretty compact, but well engineered. The only part that gets warm on occasion is the lower left hand corner, which houses the hard drive (in newer 600ms, this is a 5400 rpm Toshiba drive, so that could explain the heating)
As someone else mentioned, the 600m pulls cool air in from below, and ejects it out the back, so unless you block off the vent, and then convert a DVD to Divx with it on your lap, then I can't see it getting too hot.
In my line of work, I end up taking laptops apart quite a lot, and the 600m is definitely one of the better machines out there, definitely one of the best Dells. Overall, Dells have mediocre quality, but the 600m is top notch.
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Our generation views porn all the time, and this is detrimental to our mental health...
but our fathers and grandfathers fought in wars where they may have blown people's brains out at close range, and witnessed a hell of a lot of death and destruction. If they managed to come back and live as good men, I fail to see how porn can destroy us. Not to mention that not every guy is into the kinky stuff.
The size of China's population is irrelevant. Statistically speaking, yes, there may be more bright people born, but political factors take a much more prominent role.
Take 16th century Venice, for example. With 200,000 citizens, it had a technological advantage and military parity with the Ottoman Empire, which had 20 million residents and thousands of times more landmass. The reasons? The tradition of free & rational inquiry, some free market mechanisms, and substantially more individual liberty.
The point is, firstly that population size doesnt matter, and secondly, that, as long as the US encourages free thought more than China, it will always come out on top. It is no coincidence that revolutionary R&D (microprocessors, telephones, nuclear power) have come from the West, while evolutionary R&D (the latest in motherboard designs) comes from the East.
It is true that there are gaps in the math and hard sciences taught at American schools when compared to some European countries or Asia.
However, no other country's educational system creates leaders and free thinkers the way the US does, by teaching initiative and encouraging children to actually have their own opinions.
I experienced a European high-school education first hand, and you do learn alot of math and science, but most of it is by rote. Nobody over asks you to show personality or have your own opinion- a marked contrast to the American system, where people even have *gasp* class discussions.
using.50 caliber machine guns against human targets; grenade machine guns.
Both of which the US does. As far as the Geneva Conventions are concerned, Captain Barbossa said it best:
"First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement, so I must do nothin'. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the Pirate's Code to apply, and you're not. And thirdly, the Code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules."
So what if its a dupe? Some of us missed it the first time. It doesn't hurt you to ignore it and skip on to the next story, and I'm glad it got reposted cause I got to read it.
And I'd like to see them run a company like that without freedom.
Freedom is an even more fundamental component of the market economy than money. Without money, you could still barter; without freedom, there'd be no market.
What I've heard from management and IT consultants is that, for the most part, IBM's services division (especially their IT consulting) is basically seen as a way for them to sell their enterprise-grade hardware- this is why all the PriceWaterhouseCooper consulting folks were so unhappy when they got bought out by Big Blue. IBM still has its feet on the ground (in goods)- they've been talking about services for a while, and only really put their money where their mouth was with the Lenovo deal.
A bucket? That guy was real lucky. Im a Dell Cert. Tech. at an East Coast Uni., and we get alot of work that is basically swapping every component of a laptop down because someone spilled water/beer/vodka/puke all over their laptop and fried it (whether it was on or off). And yup, the expensive dell warranties cover it, as long as you don't mention the water factor...
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google doesn't pay dividends, and has said they never will. So basically you have a stock which gives you no voting power (even if you bought all the class A common stock out there you would still be automatically outvoted by Sergey Brin and Larry Page based on how the stock offering was structured), and pays no dividends.
'Down here in the Netherlands?" You are pretty north. Let me rephrase- come hang out with us in southern Europe, where our universities are crap, our roads are even worse, and 20% of the population works for the government and can never be fired. We are the guys you let in to the EU so you'd have a place to go on vacation when you get tired of your ultra-efficient, freezing cold, and very flat country. I was just in the Netherlands- I love Smullers and poffertjies. Not quite sure how that's related. And what's with the aggression- very un-Dutch.
As a middle-class European, let me tell you that these great consulting jobs just don't exist outside the US. The US is the land of opportunity, where if you are educated and reasonably intelligent you can find a good, rewarding job, maybe even do something that you like.
Come hang out with us in Europe for a while- see how the public sector works, watch people with PhDs in Astrophysics give math lessons to high-schoolers. While you are at it, have fun forking over 40% or more of your income in taxes, and don't bother trying to start a business cause you won't be able to fire anyone you hire, even if its running you into the ground. Assuming the tax authorities don't get you first.
But, we do have great healthcare, great culture, and great social support systems, so its a tradeoff.
I would think the reason they are programming calculators is because most calculator languages are alot simpler to master than modern programming languages. No graphics libraries, no weird memory management stuff, etc. With modern object-oriented programming languages, it takes a while to learn how to do useful stuff- not so with a calculator.
methinks if you spend so much time in front of a computer that your wrists are getting damaged, perhaps its time to go do something else. As for those who work with computers... you should still get off the computer. Go work on a farm, or heck, failing that- most Western countries have reasonably good welfare systems.
over here in South/Eastern Europe, everything is 1970s cement apartment blocks. Good luck sawing into one of those.
Paris Hilton had a T-Mobile Sidekick, not a BlackBerry.
well, I own an Inspiron 600m, and have never had a problem with it getting hot- its pretty compact, but well engineered. The only part that gets warm on occasion is the lower left hand corner, which houses the hard drive (in newer 600ms, this is a 5400 rpm Toshiba drive, so that could explain the heating)
As someone else mentioned, the 600m pulls cool air in from below, and ejects it out the back, so unless you block off the vent, and then convert a DVD to Divx with it on your lap, then I can't see it getting too hot.
In my line of work, I end up taking laptops apart quite a lot, and the 600m is definitely one of the better machines out there, definitely one of the best Dells. Overall, Dells have mediocre quality, but the 600m is top notch.
Our generation views porn all the time, and this is detrimental to our mental health... but our fathers and grandfathers fought in wars where they may have blown people's brains out at close range, and witnessed a hell of a lot of death and destruction. If they managed to come back and live as good men, I fail to see how porn can destroy us. Not to mention that not every guy is into the kinky stuff.
The size of China's population is irrelevant. Statistically speaking, yes, there may be more bright people born, but political factors take a much more prominent role. Take 16th century Venice, for example. With 200,000 citizens, it had a technological advantage and military parity with the Ottoman Empire, which had 20 million residents and thousands of times more landmass. The reasons? The tradition of free & rational inquiry, some free market mechanisms, and substantially more individual liberty. The point is, firstly that population size doesnt matter, and secondly, that, as long as the US encourages free thought more than China, it will always come out on top. It is no coincidence that revolutionary R&D (microprocessors, telephones, nuclear power) have come from the West, while evolutionary R&D (the latest in motherboard designs) comes from the East.
It is true that there are gaps in the math and hard sciences taught at American schools when compared to some European countries or Asia. However, no other country's educational system creates leaders and free thinkers the way the US does, by teaching initiative and encouraging children to actually have their own opinions. I experienced a European high-school education first hand, and you do learn alot of math and science, but most of it is by rote. Nobody over asks you to show personality or have your own opinion- a marked contrast to the American system, where people even have *gasp* class discussions.
Um, also banned by various military treaties:
.50 caliber machine guns against human targets;
using
grenade machine guns.
Both of which the US does. As far as the Geneva Conventions are concerned, Captain Barbossa said it best:
"First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement, so I must do nothin'. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the Pirate's Code to apply, and you're not. And thirdly, the Code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules."
So what if its a dupe? Some of us missed it the first time. It doesn't hurt you to ignore it and skip on to the next story, and I'm glad it got reposted cause I got to read it.
And I'd like to see them run a company like that without freedom.
Freedom is an even more fundamental component of the market economy than money. Without money, you could still barter; without freedom, there'd be no market.
What I've heard from management and IT consultants is that, for the most part, IBM's services division (especially their IT consulting) is basically seen as a way for them to sell their enterprise-grade hardware- this is why all the PriceWaterhouseCooper consulting folks were so unhappy when they got bought out by Big Blue. IBM still has its feet on the ground (in goods)- they've been talking about services for a while, and only really put their money where their mouth was with the Lenovo deal.
A bucket? That guy was real lucky. Im a Dell Cert. Tech. at an East Coast Uni., and we get alot of work that is basically swapping every component of a laptop down because someone spilled water/beer/vodka/puke all over their laptop and fried it (whether it was on or off). And yup, the expensive dell warranties cover it, as long as you don't mention the water factor...
I never thought I'd see Free Republic cited on Slashdot. All I can say is... ping!