Up until a couple weeks ago, I'd agree with you. Unfortunately, they had to go and start showing reruns of Arrested Development, forcing me to watch the network.
You've just captured the essence of why I love private companies: you can do whatever the hell you want with them, and don't have to worry about angering shareholders while doing good work. Case in point: compare the CEO and owner of Polartec, Aaron Feuerstein, to the CEO and founder of Costco (a public company), James Sinegal. When Feuerstein's American factory burned down in 1996, he rebuilt it and reimbursed his employees for the missed time. Now, look at Sinegal. He has a comparatively low salary for a CEO, and Costco is known for its generous compensation and benevolent relationship with its employees. Both people are known for their good work. Feurestein could do whatever he wanted with his company, because he owns Polartec. Last I heard, Sinegal was getting into trouble for not maximizing shareholder value.
But gas prices fluctuate according to position and time. Hence, it would be completely meaningless. For example, if you say that your car gets 8.3 mi/$, do you mean 8.3 mi/$ in 2006 New York or in 1986 Saint Louis? That would make a pretty big difference. In fact, look at the difference between gas prices now and gas prices two months ago. Did everyone's mileage increase by 16%? No, gas prices just went down by that much.
It's kind of ironic that a story about a group of users of a popular web site who became disillusioned with said site and created a new version of it should end up on Digg.
Also, what exactly does "three-dimensional transistor structure" mean? All major transistor structures are three-dimensional. In fact, I don't know how you could even make a useful device with photolithography that isn't three-dimensional.
Have you ever considered the possibility that many of your so-called "good" students could fall into your "other" category if they wanted to? That maybe they just decided to actually get their money's worth by truly learning the material? Or, on the flip side, have you thought that maybe the "other" students are just lazy, and don't know the material as well as they think they do? That a 65% average doesn't indicate good understanding? Just wondering.
Oil is traded on free commodities markets and is a near perfect supply and demand model.
Microeconomics 101: In the long run, it is impossible for any one company to sustain a profit in a perfectly competitive market. Big Oil has been sustaining profits for years. Therefore, it cannot possibly be a "near perfect supply and demand model." In fact, the enormous profits alone are enough to show that the market is either oligopolistic or monopolistic (through illegal collusion, of course).
Instead of monitoring what sites people go to and blocking certain ones, why not allow all sites and try to monitor the amount of time that people are spending on "personal" web sites? Relatively small amounts of time should be permitted, so people won't feel repressed. Moreover, you'll also be able to tell if someone is abusing the privilege, and to discipline him or her appropriately.
Oh please. You sound just like Bob Dylan. As a whole, parenting hasn't really changed in the past 30 years, and kids aren't any better or worse than their parents' generation. You've just got a case of old fogeyism.
Ah, so it seems to me we have three choices on how we could live.
1. Seratonin-flooded people: Like these mice, we are always flooded with it and are happy. We live a pointless life because everything triggers happiness, and as the parent mentioned, we'd be just as happy staring at a wall as raising children or doing a good job at work.
2. Normal people: We live on a treadmill of happiness, where we need these continuous little jolts to have a motivation to do things.
3. Depressed people: We have no motivation to do anything because we get little to no seratonin.
Sure, it might be the fastest silicon BJT, but as TFA alludes to, there are InGaAs HBTs that are functionally equivalent to BJTs and have cutoff frequencies of 710 GHz. Specifically, I'm talking about the one discussed in this paper by Milton Feng's group at the University of Illinois.
People often search for their own names. Even if they don't, it can often be incredibly easy to narrow down who a person is. For example, I often search on my university's web page. I'm sure it would be obvious to anyone who looked at my search records to surmise that if I'm searching for an academic calendar at my college's web page, I probably go here. From there, it would be easy to guess that since I often search for "EE," I'm probably in the electrical engineering department.
But Price is almost never an issue for the "hot product" come holiday season (Remember when tickle me elmo's and cabbage patch kids were going for hundreds of dollars? Parents were fighting each other in Walmart just to get one) and consoles ALWAYS drop in price as time goes on. In a year or two this won't even be an issue.
You're mixing up cause and effect. Though the hot product has sold for hundreds of dollars in previous years, the reason it was so expensive was because it was selling so well that it was impossible to find. Most people who did find it paid for it at retail price, with very few people paying the hundreds of dollars. That is, what you hear about is anecdotal evidence, not the norm. For the PS3 to be the hot product of the year, lots of people would have to buy it in the first place, which isn't likely to happen if you can get a Wii and six games for the same price.
And at the end of the day, it's still considered good PR for all parties involved - Exxon got their point out to millions of viewers
And that point is what, exactly? That the movie and the message are boring? That's no message, it's an ad hominem which has been diluted by the fact that a large company is dealing it.
While you're at it, make a recording of the device. When you call the police about it, if they can't hear the recording or the device itself, play it back in slow motion. Assuming that the microphone can pick up frequencies that high, when you play it back in slow motion, there's a good chance that they'll be able to hear it.
100 years from now, it may be revered as a heroic sacrifice made by the founding fathers of the proud and benevolent Irafganistyiaraq world super-power.
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Up until a couple weeks ago, I'd agree with you. Unfortunately, they had to go and start showing reruns of Arrested Development, forcing me to watch the network.
You've just captured the essence of why I love private companies: you can do whatever the hell you want with them, and don't have to worry about angering shareholders while doing good work. Case in point: compare the CEO and owner of Polartec, Aaron Feuerstein, to the CEO and founder of Costco (a public company), James Sinegal. When Feuerstein's American factory burned down in 1996, he rebuilt it and reimbursed his employees for the missed time. Now, look at Sinegal. He has a comparatively low salary for a CEO, and Costco is known for its generous compensation and benevolent relationship with its employees. Both people are known for their good work. Feurestein could do whatever he wanted with his company, because he owns Polartec. Last I heard, Sinegal was getting into trouble for not maximizing shareholder value.
But gas prices fluctuate according to position and time. Hence, it would be completely meaningless. For example, if you say that your car gets 8.3 mi/$, do you mean 8.3 mi/$ in 2006 New York or in 1986 Saint Louis? That would make a pretty big difference. In fact, look at the difference between gas prices now and gas prices two months ago. Did everyone's mileage increase by 16%? No, gas prices just went down by that much.
It's kind of ironic that a story about a group of users of a popular web site who became disillusioned with said site and created a new version of it should end up on Digg.
Also, what exactly does "three-dimensional transistor structure" mean? All major transistor structures are three-dimensional. In fact, I don't know how you could even make a useful device with photolithography that isn't three-dimensional.
I'd suggest that you watch the Colbert Report. It's a very hilarious take on the O'Reilly format.
Have you ever considered the possibility that many of your so-called "good" students could fall into your "other" category if they wanted to? That maybe they just decided to actually get their money's worth by truly learning the material? Or, on the flip side, have you thought that maybe the "other" students are just lazy, and don't know the material as well as they think they do? That a 65% average doesn't indicate good understanding? Just wondering.
It's also not a truck. It's a series of tubes.
I suspect that the official suspected that the kid was trying to cause a commotion (akin to shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater).
Oil is traded on free commodities markets and is a near perfect supply and demand model.
Microeconomics 101: In the long run, it is impossible for any one company to sustain a profit in a perfectly competitive market. Big Oil has been sustaining profits for years. Therefore, it cannot possibly be a "near perfect supply and demand model." In fact, the enormous profits alone are enough to show that the market is either oligopolistic or monopolistic (through illegal collusion, of course).
Instead of monitoring what sites people go to and blocking certain ones, why not allow all sites and try to monitor the amount of time that people are spending on "personal" web sites? Relatively small amounts of time should be permitted, so people won't feel repressed. Moreover, you'll also be able to tell if someone is abusing the privilege, and to discipline him or her appropriately.
Oh please. You sound just like Bob Dylan. As a whole, parenting hasn't really changed in the past 30 years, and kids aren't any better or worse than their parents' generation. You've just got a case of old fogeyism.
Ah, so it seems to me we have three choices on how we could live.
1. Seratonin-flooded people: Like these mice, we are always flooded with it and are happy. We live a pointless life because everything triggers happiness, and as the parent mentioned, we'd be just as happy staring at a wall as raising children or doing a good job at work.
2. Normal people: We live on a treadmill of happiness, where we need these continuous little jolts to have a motivation to do things.
3. Depressed people: We have no motivation to do anything because we get little to no seratonin.
The human condition sucks, doesn't it?
I think you misspelled "eight."
Ok, now show me a VCR that can let you watch the beginning of one recorded show while the end is still taping.
ReplayTV may have been released before Tivo, but Tivo was announced before months before ReplayTV. By that measure, Tivo was first.
Sure, it might be the fastest silicon BJT, but as TFA alludes to, there are InGaAs HBTs that are functionally equivalent to BJTs and have cutoff frequencies of 710 GHz. Specifically, I'm talking about the one discussed in this paper by Milton Feng's group at the University of Illinois.
John Bardeen. Lesson: Even if you win two Nobel prizes and create the most important device of the 20th century, people still won't know who you are.
I guess what I never understood is where air travel is protected in the Constituion.
Might I suggest that you read the Ninth Amendment?
People often search for their own names. Even if they don't, it can often be incredibly easy to narrow down who a person is. For example, I often search on my university's web page. I'm sure it would be obvious to anyone who looked at my search records to surmise that if I'm searching for an academic calendar at my college's web page, I probably go here. From there, it would be easy to guess that since I often search for "EE," I'm probably in the electrical engineering department.
But Price is almost never an issue for the "hot product" come holiday season (Remember when tickle me elmo's and cabbage patch kids were going for hundreds of dollars? Parents were fighting each other in Walmart just to get one) and consoles ALWAYS drop in price as time goes on. In a year or two this won't even be an issue.
You're mixing up cause and effect. Though the hot product has sold for hundreds of dollars in previous years, the reason it was so expensive was because it was selling so well that it was impossible to find. Most people who did find it paid for it at retail price, with very few people paying the hundreds of dollars. That is, what you hear about is anecdotal evidence, not the norm. For the PS3 to be the hot product of the year, lots of people would have to buy it in the first place, which isn't likely to happen if you can get a Wii and six games for the same price.
And at the end of the day, it's still considered good PR for all parties involved - Exxon got their point out to millions of viewers
And that point is what, exactly? That the movie and the message are boring? That's no message, it's an ad hominem which has been diluted by the fact that a large company is dealing it.
This is heavy, and weight has something to do with it.
While you're at it, make a recording of the device. When you call the police about it, if they can't hear the recording or the device itself, play it back in slow motion. Assuming that the microphone can pick up frequencies that high, when you play it back in slow motion, there's a good chance that they'll be able to hear it.
100 years from now, it may be revered as a heroic sacrifice made by the founding fathers of the proud and benevolent Irafganistyiaraq world super-power.
Don't you mean Israfghyiaanonanaq?