If you are ever curious about what the safest way to run a store is, find out what the requirements to get a store, its merchandise, and the life and health of its employees insured. Here's a hint: the policy will require that the store NOT have a gun and that the employees provide NO resistance to armed robbers. THAT'S the safest way to deal with robbery.
Yea, sure, in a gas station for crying out loud. How much cash do you have in the register? And what are they gonna steal, a six pack and a bag of chips? And do you think they are gonna go through the liability of licensing a bunch of 18-21 year olds to fire said weapon? Hell no.
Switch over to robbing something high(er) profile like... a gun store, a pawn shop, a mall with a jewelry store and the statistics change. You get a security guard with a gun, in most cases. Think about the situation. Not everything can be extrapolated back to a gas station.
We tend to haul something at least a few times a month. Our only other options would be to rent a truck or borrow someone else's truck. It's also nice having a heavier vehicle during our Wisconsin winters.
Its obvious he didn't need it to build the house... but since he heeded it several times a month anyways, it comes in handy for the building of a house. And I can vouch for the Wisconsin winters.
No, I'm supposing that he will spend his billions to have an experiance - the presidency - as he has already spent millions buying cars, a fancy home, and on other amenities 99% of us will never have the experiance of enjoying.
Again this is all a thought idea... he hasn't said a word about it, this is Scott Adam's thoughtchild.
would not pollute my beautiful new dual core machine with proprietary software
nVidia or ATI video codecs? Binary drivers tainting your kernerl? Oh, I'm sure there is plenty of proprietary software 'tainting' your dual core machiene.
A relative thinks it's a bad investment because it "only" returns 5%/year.
5% is crappy, it is barely beating inflation. I mean, its not bad for an investment you don't have to do anything for (I'm assuming you aren't farming the land yourself, subletting it, correct?) but my 401k / Roth IRA's are both around 12% and we aren't even at the end of the year yet.
The collapse of the economy as we knew it is well underway, with housing leading the charge.
The price of land and housing is relative. I purchased a house a year ago, after my son started crawling we decided we couldn't stand the 1-bedroom apartment any longer. We moved into a relatively new community, a new house actually. A few months ago one of the homes, identical layout to ours, sold for 20% more than we paid for it. Housing prices are relative to the economy. Some areas of the country are doing crappy right now - including most of the ones included in your blog link, the rust belt. Other areas are the exact opposite, like where I live (Huntsville, AL... lots of high-tech workers and lots of growth)
I do agree with your comments on gold. It isn't for investment purposes, just barter if the dollar were to collapse. Same with silver, although, I think it will be recovered more easily than you envision. There are already companies that have processes to scavenge "tech graveyard" (landfills of computer waste) for silver, mercury, platinum and other "precious" metals, the hold factor right now is getting the price on the process down to where it is profitable (this was features in Fast Company three issues ago).
But yet you will find that the optimum speed for a car is not 5-40 miles an hour but rather probably about 60 miles an hour. For my Saturn it is 67 miles an hour. While it is true the drag is much higher, it is in high gear and the RPM's are lower than, say, at 50 MPH before it would switch from 4th->5th gear. So it is consuming less gas. I am spinning at, maybe, 2700 RPM and getting 40 MPG interstate. At 70 miles an hour this decreases to 35 MPG. (I know. I regularly make 1000+ mile trips back home to WI and SD from AL. I have this well parsed out.)
So the moral of the story is, due to the gearing of the engine, at high speeds you can be really damn efficient.
like the GP I grew up in Wisconsin and my family always drove large vans - before the Minivan came into existance. Sure we could have driven smaller cars but the thing is it wasn't just one project (lifting the roof to re-do a bedroom and triple the space) but it seemed like we were always doing projects. We pulled the seats out of the back and you had tons of room for 4x8 sheets of plywood, drywall, lumber, whatever you needed to fix the polebarn / make the treefort / fix the bathrooms when they flooded over family vacation (ironically to Niagara Falls) / build the dogs a playpen / etc. Utility is handy it isn't just a one time deal. And like he said, for vacations and hauling stuff... once you have 2 kids and the third one on the way you kinda hit the point where you need to think about something bigger.
Damn. You had to wait a **whole month** for medical service? Here in the states we get it prettymuch instantly... I'll pay a few extra $$'s (and seriously, it is only a few extra bucks, looking at my paycheck I pay well less than 5% towards insurance for myself and my entire family... the single guys get by for half of that) to be seen immediately. And I do mean immediately. My wife's side of the family has problems with gall stones, her sister had a preemptive surgery scheduled a day in advance.
I was one of the ones that was addicted to Evercrack but made it through school... now a successful engineer who still plays (just put my trader up in the bazaar... things never change:)
On the flip side, special interest groups declare bankruptancy. Groups claim they became ineffective because when ever they tried to buy Bill Gates he declined expressing that he already had enough headaches trying to spend the billions he already has.
He would have the capability to do his own thing, 100%, all the way. No political backing, no SIG's, no anything. Pick his agenda, pick his priorities, open office to anyone without a corporate interest. Now that would be interesting.
1) Knoppix Live CD
2) BartPE (live windows CD)
3) All the free windows utilities you need to overcome miscellaneous problems
4) Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
Become an RA, get all of the above **and paid**, no dues, no hazing or indoctrination, free housing and food and good friends I still hang out with years later and connections for later in life...
Scripting, as you mentioned. And lots of little things. If you want to have a series, like =(A1+B1), and then drag it down a column, you get prompted with a dialog box asking if you really want it to fill those (previously empty column cells) with the formula or with another series (I forget all the options, one is linearly increasing, ie, 1, 2, 3, 4)... well, duh, I want the formula I dragged! And plotting is pretty atrocious, the options are limited compared to Excel, the formatting is pretty weak. It is also prone to crashing if you have 2 copies open. I don't know why.
But this case is different, becuase Novell and Microsoft have created a legal fiction of covenants rather than licenses in order to do what my license prohibits.
As another poster said... if they really did 'do what [your] license prohibits', that is, break your license, then take them to court. put up or shut up already. And if you can't take legal recourse - that is, they really didn't break your license - suck it up and be a man and stop bitching about it already.
the open source project to build an exchange alternative
Theres like, 5 different projects trying to achieve the Holy Grail of replacing Exchange. And Hula was far from the leader of the pack.
Exchange is what keeps people locked into windows, honestly. That and Excel - 'calc' in OpenOffice blows. Open source projects have been trying to replace Exchange. I think the projects are just too fragmented, trying to compete with each other. If their forces combined maybe something would coalesce. There also seems to be a prevailing thought among a lot of developers of 'screw the corporate user' that as long as Linux works for hobbyists that's what its there for. Not everyone, but enough people to keep it from becoming mainstream.
But yes, Excel and Exchange are the two things Microsoft did absolutely right.
You don't know until you check the references and see who has peer reviewed them.
No shit. At least I know when I submit my papers to the AIAA they are peer-reviewed by PhD's and that when I pick up a journal from them, those papers have been too. Same goes for ASME, etc. Wikipedia has no such level of validation, because any asshat can go in and change the math/science/engineering, not just the mathematicians/scientists/engineers. There have been cases of 'vandalism' per see where an expert in her field has posted a perfectly valid page on Wikipedia and then had it changed by someone who doesn't understand the underlying science. It has been posted here before. A system that allows that is not a system that can be relied on for any meaningful data.
Reference books and articles (in my industry at least) are peer-reviewed, if you are getting them from the major outlets. You know they are credible, or at least validated by several other PhD's in the field.
The good company pays attention to what their customers do with their purchases and upgrades so that the next version will be able to do it better.
A lot of products have a dropproof/waterproof/dustproof alternative, at an increase in cost. People opt for the cheap model. The consumer makes the choice in the end.
Here's to you, Mr. Anonymous Coward Sony Fanboy Troll! Mr. Anonymous Coward Sony Fanboy Troll!
Sitting at home in your parents basement with your PS1 and 2 and 3...
Maaaaaaan, thats a lot of consoooooooles....
Or, Mr. Troll, are you playing with a wii? Tell me, Mr. Troll-man?
So here's to you, Mr. Anonymous Coward Sony Fanboy Troll... Mr. Anonymous Coward Sony Fanboy Trooo-oooll!!!
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If you are ever curious about what the safest way to run a store is, find out what the requirements to get a store, its merchandise, and the life and health of its employees insured. Here's a hint: the policy will require that the store NOT have a gun and that the employees provide NO resistance to armed robbers. THAT'S the safest way to deal with robbery.
... a gun store, a pawn shop, a mall with a jewelry store and the statistics change. You get a security guard with a gun, in most cases. Think about the situation. Not everything can be extrapolated back to a gas station.
Yea, sure, in a gas station for crying out loud. How much cash do you have in the register? And what are they gonna steal, a six pack and a bag of chips? And do you think they are gonna go through the liability of licensing a bunch of 18-21 year olds to fire said weapon? Hell no.
Switch over to robbing something high(er) profile like
Generic drugs at WalMart: $4. Therefore, generic birth control (you know, the pill, not the trendy patches or implants) is incredibly affordable.
We tend to haul something at least a few times a month. Our only other options would be to rent a truck or borrow someone else's truck. It's also nice having a heavier vehicle during our Wisconsin winters.
... but since he heeded it several times a month anyways, it comes in handy for the building of a house. And I can vouch for the Wisconsin winters.
Its obvious he didn't need it to build the house
... with all the supposed "rewards" of a fraternity. The money flowed in the opposite direction.
Basically, a fraternity is like a job, except you pay for it, instead of getting paid. Thank you, captain obvious.
No, I'm supposing that he will spend his billions to have an experiance - the presidency - as he has already spent millions buying cars, a fancy home, and on other amenities 99% of us will never have the experiance of enjoying.
... he hasn't said a word about it, this is Scott Adam's thoughtchild.
Again this is all a thought idea
would not pollute my beautiful new dual core machine with proprietary software
nVidia or ATI video codecs? Binary drivers tainting your kernerl? Oh, I'm sure there is plenty of proprietary software 'tainting' your dual core machiene.
Your kinda right, kinda wrong...
... lots of high-tech workers and lots of growth)
A relative thinks it's a bad investment because it "only" returns 5%/year.
5% is crappy, it is barely beating inflation. I mean, its not bad for an investment you don't have to do anything for (I'm assuming you aren't farming the land yourself, subletting it, correct?) but my 401k / Roth IRA's are both around 12% and we aren't even at the end of the year yet.
The collapse of the economy as we knew it is well underway, with housing leading the charge.
The price of land and housing is relative. I purchased a house a year ago, after my son started crawling we decided we couldn't stand the 1-bedroom apartment any longer. We moved into a relatively new community, a new house actually. A few months ago one of the homes, identical layout to ours, sold for 20% more than we paid for it. Housing prices are relative to the economy. Some areas of the country are doing crappy right now - including most of the ones included in your blog link, the rust belt. Other areas are the exact opposite, like where I live (Huntsville, AL
I do agree with your comments on gold. It isn't for investment purposes, just barter if the dollar were to collapse. Same with silver, although, I think it will be recovered more easily than you envision. There are already companies that have processes to scavenge "tech graveyard" (landfills of computer waste) for silver, mercury, platinum and other "precious" metals, the hold factor right now is getting the price on the process down to where it is profitable (this was features in Fast Company three issues ago).
But yet you will find that the optimum speed for a car is not 5-40 miles an hour but rather probably about 60 miles an hour. For my Saturn it is 67 miles an hour. While it is true the drag is much higher, it is in high gear and the RPM's are lower than, say, at 50 MPH before it would switch from 4th->5th gear. So it is consuming less gas. I am spinning at, maybe, 2700 RPM and getting 40 MPG interstate. At 70 miles an hour this decreases to 35 MPG. (I know. I regularly make 1000+ mile trips back home to WI and SD from AL. I have this well parsed out.)
So the moral of the story is, due to the gearing of the engine, at high speeds you can be really damn efficient.
like the GP I grew up in Wisconsin and my family always drove large vans - before the Minivan came into existance. Sure we could have driven smaller cars but the thing is it wasn't just one project (lifting the roof to re-do a bedroom and triple the space) but it seemed like we were always doing projects. We pulled the seats out of the back and you had tons of room for 4x8 sheets of plywood, drywall, lumber, whatever you needed to fix the polebarn / make the treefort / fix the bathrooms when they flooded over family vacation (ironically to Niagara Falls) / build the dogs a playpen / etc. Utility is handy it isn't just a one time deal. And like he said, for vacations and hauling stuff... once you have 2 kids and the third one on the way you kinda hit the point where you need to think about something bigger.
Damn. You had to wait a **whole month** for medical service? Here in the states we get it prettymuch instantly... I'll pay a few extra $$'s (and seriously, it is only a few extra bucks, looking at my paycheck I pay well less than 5% towards insurance for myself and my entire family... the single guys get by for half of that) to be seen immediately. And I do mean immediately. My wife's side of the family has problems with gall stones, her sister had a preemptive surgery scheduled a day in advance.
I was one of the ones that was addicted to Evercrack but made it through school... now a successful engineer who still plays (just put my trader up in the bazaar... things never change :)
"Oh yes, oh yes, put it in my mouth" ...
(family guy)
On the flip side, special interest groups declare bankruptancy. Groups claim they became ineffective because when ever they tried to buy Bill Gates he declined expressing that he already had enough headaches trying to spend the billions he already has.
He would have the capability to do his own thing, 100%, all the way. No political backing, no SIG's, no anything. Pick his agenda, pick his priorities, open office to anyone without a corporate interest. Now that would be interesting.
1) Knoppix Live CD
2) BartPE (live windows CD)
3) All the free windows utilities you need to overcome miscellaneous problems
4) Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
Become an RA, get all of the above **and paid**, no dues, no hazing or indoctrination, free housing and food and good friends I still hang out with years later and connections for later in life...
Scripting, as you mentioned. And lots of little things. If you want to have a series, like =(A1+B1), and then drag it down a column, you get prompted with a dialog box asking if you really want it to fill those (previously empty column cells) with the formula or with another series (I forget all the options, one is linearly increasing, ie, 1, 2, 3, 4) ... well, duh, I want the formula I dragged! And plotting is pretty atrocious, the options are limited compared to Excel, the formatting is pretty weak. It is also prone to crashing if you have 2 copies open. I don't know why.
But this case is different, becuase Novell and Microsoft have created a legal fiction of covenants rather than licenses in order to do what my license prohibits.
... if they really did 'do what [your] license prohibits', that is, break your license, then take them to court. put up or shut up already. And if you can't take legal recourse - that is, they really didn't break your license - suck it up and be a man and stop bitching about it already.
As another poster said
the open source project to build an exchange alternative Theres like, 5 different projects trying to achieve the Holy Grail of replacing Exchange. And Hula was far from the leader of the pack.
Exchange is what keeps people locked into windows, honestly. That and Excel - 'calc' in OpenOffice blows. Open source projects have been trying to replace Exchange. I think the projects are just too fragmented, trying to compete with each other. If their forces combined maybe something would coalesce. There also seems to be a prevailing thought among a lot of developers of 'screw the corporate user' that as long as Linux works for hobbyists that's what its there for. Not everyone, but enough people to keep it from becoming mainstream.
But yes, Excel and Exchange are the two things Microsoft did absolutely right.
Just because your petition drive has stagnated (still under 2100 signatures, I see) doesn't mean you get to troll Slashdot...
Or maybe they are corporate funded propaganda.
Oh. Sorry. Left my tinfoil hat at home.
You don't know until you check the references and see who has peer reviewed them.
No shit. At least I know when I submit my papers to the AIAA they are peer-reviewed by PhD's and that when I pick up a journal from them, those papers have been too. Same goes for ASME, etc. Wikipedia has no such level of validation, because any asshat can go in and change the math/science/engineering, not just the mathematicians/scientists/engineers. There have been cases of 'vandalism' per see where an expert in her field has posted a perfectly valid page on Wikipedia and then had it changed by someone who doesn't understand the underlying science. It has been posted here before. A system that allows that is not a system that can be relied on for any meaningful data.
Reference books and articles (in my industry at least) are peer-reviewed, if you are getting them from the major outlets. You know they are credible, or at least validated by several other PhD's in the field.
The good company pays attention to what their customers do with their purchases and upgrades so that the next version will be able to do it better.
A lot of products have a dropproof/waterproof/dustproof alternative, at an increase in cost. People opt for the cheap model. The consumer makes the choice in the end.
Here's to you, Mr. Anonymous Coward Sony Fanboy Troll!
Mr. Anonymous Coward Sony Fanboy Troll!
Sitting at home in your parents basement with your PS1 and 2 and 3...
Maaaaaaan, thats a lot of consoooooooles....
Or, Mr. Troll, are you playing with a wii?
Tell me, Mr. Troll-man?
So here's to you, Mr. Anonymous Coward Sony Fanboy Troll...
Mr. Anonymous Coward Sony Fanboy Trooo-oooll!!!
I have never come upon a post which makes its point so excellently, and also contains so many F-words.
We call them trolls. You fed one. Bad Bruce.