Your neglecting the cost of system administrators installing new software on every machine, and of retraining every employee to use the new software. Actually, you're counting the cost as zero for yourself; how much total time did it take you to install the initial Beta and subsequent updates, and to learn how to use it? Is your time really worth $0/hour? If so, I really pity you... $2000 is about 40 hours of the average employees time. I suspect your total time wasted was probably about half that, but if your time is worth $100/hour, the numbers still add up to $2000.
The cost of software is never zero; the cost of admins installing new software and of retraining every user to use a new release of the software far exceeds the licensing costs of the software in most cases. I believe Microsoft's own estimates for the total cost of upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP were over $2000 per seat; I wouldn't be surprised if it was higher now. Microsoft continually shoots itself in the foot by completely changing the user interface with each new release of software, resulting in massive productivity losses as everyone has to relearn how to do their job. Eventually, people will realize the huge impact this has on TCO. Not having to throw out your OS and apps, replace them all, and retrain everyone every few years on Microsoft's schedule is one of the real, tangible economic benefits of using open source.
we in Canada have the advantage that binding referendums are unconstitutional You also have the advantage of less than 15 million people voting, whereas in the last election in the US about 136.6 million voted. Hand counting ballots is a just a bit harder if there are 10 times as many of them to count. (Yes, you would think this process would parallelize very well, and you could just throw 10 times as many counters at it.)
The guiding principle in ANY election is that there should ALWAYS be a paper audit trail, regardless of what technology is used to do the initial tally. The surest way to show that the SQL code is tampering with the election is to show a discrepancy between the computer generated results and the results of random hand counts.
Why do all consumer electronic devices these days only come in -one- color, white. For the same reason paint primer and t-shirts come in white: it is the easiest color to cover over with another color. If it really bothers you, why not start your own business like this offering people a cheap way to change their "any color you want, as long as it's white" devices?
Mozilla and many other web apps counts every download as a user, ignoring the many users who had to download it multiple times because the download kept failing due to timeouts from their excessively overloaded servers.
Legislating the result, not the means, is a much less effective subsidy to the single manufacturer in the US that makes this glass! Why do you think EVERY fucking car is required to have an expensive catalytic converter, rather than just reduced emissions? Hint: it just might have had something to do with campaign contributions from the company with the patent on catalytic converters. I'd be willing to work for a constitutional amendment to make your 2 simple rules mandatory (especially the first one) but I doubt if it will happen in my lifetime.
Uh, don't most automobile radios have the antenna located OUTSIDE the passenger compartment? If your in-car entertainment system involves a portable radio, then you definitely may be a redneck!
If I recall correctly, it is currently against the law in California to tint the glass in your windshield. Pass this legislation, and both tinted and non-tinted glass will be unlawful. Clearly, this legislation is intended to provide more funding for traffic enforcement -- they can now stop and ticket anyone they choose!
Put this glass in all cars, and people will then need to open their windows and/or sunroof to make a cell phone call or use their GPS. And of course, they then will have to crank up the A/C to compensate for the open windows! (Yes, I have driven convertibles with top down and heater on at the same time. Not the A/C, though.)
Offhand, I'd say it is about one "Hmm... tastes like chicken" comment away from Soylent Green. The taboos against cannibalism exist because it is one of the most effective vectors for spreading disease. Take away the risk of disease, and there is nothing intrinsically wrong or immoral about eating something or someone that is already dead. (Killing it because you are hungry is a different matter, of course.) In my belief system, people that are dead have no further use for their corporeal shell. Your belief system may differ, and I respect that.
Mortages are backed by tangible collateral. Students loans are not. So OF COURSE the interest rates on student loans are higher! In free market, they would essential be priced the same as credit card debt. Would it be in the best interests of our society to subsidize student loans? Yes it would, but that doesn't mean that you as a student are entitled to anything. Most state universities are already heavily subsidized, so if you didn't want to run up $84,000 in student loans, perhaps you shouldn't have gone to a private university. Finally, hey, it's your own fault you didn't choose wealthier parents! (My coworker from India tells me that nobody owes student loans there; the schools are cheaper, and financing their children's education is the top priority of parents.)
I find that women with big tits make the best programmers In my experience, attractive women with big tits severely limit the productivity of their male coworkers, making themselves look good by comparison. It's a basic biological defect, most men would rather stare at tits than computer screens.
No, it's no big surprise. Literally everything is lethal in high enough dosages, including water (it dilutes the electrolytes in the bloodstream and causes death.) I was somewhat puzzled that arsenic is both a known carcinogen and a treatment for some forms of cancer, but at this point it is not difficult to believe the CO can be a double-edged sword.
Agreed, actual threats of physical violence SHOULD be unlawful,,, but if you are threatening to kill someone, it doesn't really matter whether or not you are doing it online, does it? Making a law that ONLY applies to online behavior is assinine -- could she have printed the same statements out on paper and gotten away with it? Why is publishing them online any different?
Good luck negotiating with your employer for health benefits for all 4 of your wives.
Yes, I would like to see ALL tax breaks eliminated, including the joint tax return and mortgage interest subsidy that currently benefit me greatly. Using the tax code to encourage some behaviors and discourage others leads inevitably to corruption as people try to tweak the code to favor themselves. Ideas like this are the modern equivalent to the Romans guaranteeing free "bread and circus" which contributed in no small part to their downfall. The ideal tax would be to simply have the government confiscate 10% of every transaction that contributes to the GDP, with no exemptions. This would have the side effect of forcing the government to run itself on an average of 10% of the GDP.
It isn't an either/or choice! Legally, marriage SHOULD be a contract administered by the state; the legal and economic benefits of being a couple should extend to all couples. From a religious standpoint, any given church has a God-given right not to recognize the union; however, their only practical recourse is to deny membership in the church to the participants.
When your "viral marketing" campaign is indistinguishable from criminal harassment, perhaps it is not a very good marketing campaign!
Of course one must consider the possibility that this woman's complaint is itself a planned part of the campaign, in which case congratulations slashdot on giving Toyota free press.
t's really a sad situation. What are we supposed to do?
Eliminate the surplus population. Start with yourself. If you can't do that, then stop complaining about the problem.
I agree, the Founding Fathers erred when they did not apply the principle of "Separation of Church in State" to marriage as well.
There is another argument nobody seems to bring up: 1 in 10,000 people is medically a hermaphrodite; neither completely male nor female (e.g. the allegations about Caster Semenya). The religious zealots make the snide argument that "Gay men have the same right to marry women that straight men have!". But, if you define marriage as between 1 100% male and 1 100% female, then this small segment of the population must be denied entirely the right to marry. If you define it as bewtween 1 "mostly" male and 1 "mostly" female, then same sex couples would qualify as long as one was willing to claim "I'm more male the female" and the other was willing to claim "I'm more female than male."
This does, of course, ignore the incontrovertible truth that mixed-sex couples are different from same-sex couples in one major way: in a mixed sex couple, one and only one of the participants can write their name in the snow!
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Your neglecting the cost of system administrators installing new software on every machine, and of retraining every employee to use the new software. Actually, you're counting the cost as zero for yourself; how much total time did it take you to install the initial Beta and subsequent updates, and to learn how to use it? Is your time really worth $0/hour? If so, I really pity you... $2000 is about 40 hours of the average employees time. I suspect your total time wasted was probably about half that, but if your time is worth $100/hour, the numbers still add up to $2000.
The cost of software is never zero; the cost of admins installing new software and of retraining every user to use a new release of the software far exceeds the licensing costs of the software in most cases. I believe Microsoft's own estimates for the total cost of upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows XP were over $2000 per seat; I wouldn't be surprised if it was higher now. Microsoft continually shoots itself in the foot by completely changing the user interface with each new release of software, resulting in massive productivity losses as everyone has to relearn how to do their job. Eventually, people will realize the huge impact this has on TCO. Not having to throw out your OS and apps, replace them all, and retrain everyone every few years on Microsoft's schedule is one of the real, tangible economic benefits of using open source.
we in Canada have the advantage that binding referendums are unconstitutional You also have the advantage of less than 15 million people voting, whereas in the last election in the US about 136.6 million voted. Hand counting ballots is a just a bit harder if there are 10 times as many of them to count. (Yes, you would think this process would parallelize very well, and you could just throw 10 times as many counters at it.)
The guiding principle in ANY election is that there should ALWAYS be a paper audit trail, regardless of what technology is used to do the initial tally. The surest way to show that the SQL code is tampering with the election is to show a discrepancy between the computer generated results and the results of random hand counts.
If you don't like it, see figure 1!!!
Is the display any better than the Kindle at displaying porn?
What can you actually display on the tiny color touchscreen? It looks best suited for software-defined buttons.
Why do all consumer electronic devices these days only come in -one- color, white. For the same reason paint primer and t-shirts come in white: it is the easiest color to cover over with another color. If it really bothers you, why not start your own business like this offering people a cheap way to change their "any color you want, as long as it's white" devices?
Couple this with the "Robotic hand that can feel", and you got all the ingredients necessary for the first robotic sexual harassment lawsuit!
Mozilla and many other web apps counts every download as a user, ignoring the many users who had to download it multiple times because the download kept failing due to timeouts from their excessively overloaded servers.
If I try to use a Windows desktop search engine
Well, that would certainly eliminate the "you can't burn them, they're too cute!" argument!
Legislating the result, not the means, is a much less effective subsidy to the single manufacturer in the US that makes this glass! Why do you think EVERY fucking car is required to have an expensive catalytic converter, rather than just reduced emissions? Hint: it just might have had something to do with campaign contributions from the company with the patent on catalytic converters. I'd be willing to work for a constitutional amendment to make your 2 simple rules mandatory (especially the first one) but I doubt if it will happen in my lifetime.
Uh, don't most automobile radios have the antenna located OUTSIDE the passenger compartment? If your in-car entertainment system involves a portable radio, then you definitely may be a redneck!
If I recall correctly, it is currently against the law in California to tint the glass in your windshield. Pass this legislation, and both tinted and non-tinted glass will be unlawful. Clearly, this legislation is intended to provide more funding for traffic enforcement -- they can now stop and ticket anyone they choose!
Put this glass in all cars, and people will then need to open their windows and/or sunroof to make a cell phone call or use their GPS. And of course, they then will have to crank up the A/C to compensate for the open windows! (Yes, I have driven convertibles with top down and heater on at the same time. Not the A/C, though.)
"Ding, dong, the witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!"
Offhand, I'd say it is about one "Hmm... tastes like chicken" comment away from Soylent Green. The taboos against cannibalism exist because it is one of the most effective vectors for spreading disease. Take away the risk of disease, and there is nothing intrinsically wrong or immoral about eating something or someone that is already dead. (Killing it because you are hungry is a different matter, of course.) In my belief system, people that are dead have no further use for their corporeal shell. Your belief system may differ, and I respect that.
Mortages are backed by tangible collateral. Students loans are not. So OF COURSE the interest rates on student loans are higher! In free market, they would essential be priced the same as credit card debt. Would it be in the best interests of our society to subsidize student loans? Yes it would, but that doesn't mean that you as a student are entitled to anything. Most state universities are already heavily subsidized, so if you didn't want to run up $84,000 in student loans, perhaps you shouldn't have gone to a private university. Finally, hey, it's your own fault you didn't choose wealthier parents! (My coworker from India tells me that nobody owes student loans there; the schools are cheaper, and financing their children's education is the top priority of parents.)
I find that women with big tits make the best programmers In my experience, attractive women with big tits severely limit the productivity of their male coworkers, making themselves look good by comparison. It's a basic biological defect, most men would rather stare at tits than computer screens.
No, it's no big surprise. Literally everything is lethal in high enough dosages, including water (it dilutes the electrolytes in the bloodstream and causes death.) I was somewhat puzzled that arsenic is both a known carcinogen and a treatment for some forms of cancer, but at this point it is not difficult to believe the CO can be a double-edged sword.
Those chips in the computer your using to post facetious comments are a spinoff of NASA technology. As is your satellite television feed.
Agreed, actual threats of physical violence SHOULD be unlawful,,, but if you are threatening to kill someone, it doesn't really matter whether or not you are doing it online, does it? Making a law that ONLY applies to online behavior is assinine -- could she have printed the same statements out on paper and gotten away with it? Why is publishing them online any different?
Good luck negotiating with your employer for health benefits for all 4 of your wives.
Yes, I would like to see ALL tax breaks eliminated, including the joint tax return and mortgage interest subsidy that currently benefit me greatly. Using the tax code to encourage some behaviors and discourage others leads inevitably to corruption as people try to tweak the code to favor themselves. Ideas like this are the modern equivalent to the Romans guaranteeing free "bread and circus" which contributed in no small part to their downfall. The ideal tax would be to simply have the government confiscate 10% of every transaction that contributes to the GDP, with no exemptions. This would have the side effect of forcing the government to run itself on an average of 10% of the GDP.
It isn't an either/or choice! Legally, marriage SHOULD be a contract administered by the state; the legal and economic benefits of being a couple should extend to all couples. From a religious standpoint, any given church has a God-given right not to recognize the union; however, their only practical recourse is to deny membership in the church to the participants.
When your "viral marketing" campaign is indistinguishable from criminal harassment, perhaps it is not a very good marketing campaign!
Of course one must consider the possibility that this woman's complaint is itself a planned part of the campaign, in which case congratulations slashdot on giving Toyota free press.
I was referring to already dead humans.
t's really a sad situation. What are we supposed to do? Eliminate the surplus population. Start with yourself. If you can't do that, then stop complaining about the problem.
I agree, the Founding Fathers erred when they did not apply the principle of "Separation of Church in State" to marriage as well.
There is another argument nobody seems to bring up: 1 in 10,000 people is medically a hermaphrodite; neither completely male nor female (e.g. the allegations about Caster Semenya). The religious zealots make the snide argument that "Gay men have the same right to marry women that straight men have!". But, if you define marriage as between 1 100% male and 1 100% female, then this small segment of the population must be denied entirely the right to marry. If you define it as bewtween 1 "mostly" male and 1 "mostly" female, then same sex couples would qualify as long as one was willing to claim "I'm more male the female" and the other was willing to claim "I'm more female than male."
This does, of course, ignore the incontrovertible truth that mixed-sex couples are different from same-sex couples in one major way: in a mixed sex couple, one and only one of the participants can write their name in the snow!