The reason for the discrepancy between the nutrition information on the bacon and the weight on the front of the box is that the nutrition info applies as typically consumed. A substantial amount of the weight of bacon cooks off as grease, which (hopefully) you don't eat.
You are cooking the bacon before you eat it, right?:-)
Exactly. In "On Writing," Stephen King says something to the effect that you can teach a decent writer to be a good writer, but no amount of teaching will turn a good writer into a great writer. Same goes for programming, and probably most any other endeavor as well.
They don't just discount the product because they have no way to make sure the retailer then passes that markdown on to the customer. If they drop the price $100, the retailer could drop their price $50 and keep an extra $50 profit. By offering it in the form of a rebate, they guarantee that the full $100 savings is passed on to the consumer.
Assuming, of course, that the consumer can successfully collect. I hear all sorts of horror stories about rebates (such as the many here), but I've never had any problem at all collecting on them.
I suspect you hit it on the head here; I've had similar experiences. Judging from the OP's resume, he probably isn't cheap, and companies like Google would (by and large) prefer young, cheap employees. It's also possible that he really wasn't right for the job, for whatever reason. "Not having the right experience" could be a diplomatic way of saying "we just didn't like you" just as easily as "we want someone from a Great School."
By and large, that isn't true. Taxes paid to a state other than the one in which you live are deductible on your own state's taxes. For example, New York taxes people who live in NJ but work in NY, but the taxes you pay to NY are deductible from your NJ income. However, you are well and truly hosed if you live in a state with no income tax but are taxed by one with (as in the TN/NY court case).
No kidding. I'm setting up a music/file server right now, which I'd love to be a DVR as well - except that my best salvage machine is a 400MHz P3. My very best machine is less powerful than his salvage machine.
Amen. Having easy, legal access to past TV episodes would be valuable enough to me that (assuming this were technically possible) I'd be willing to let them disable my ffwd/skip capabilities on those downloaded broadcasts. Or banner them, or whatever. Never mind the (relatively small) community of filesharing pirates, the networks are missing a huge, mainstream advertising market of people who would love on-demand access to old episodes.
I don't know what Google's lockout restrictions are, but at the startup where I worked I saw the stock climb past 40 during my 6-month lockout, but by the time I could sell it was well under 20. If the optionees at Google are locked out, then it's all purely on paper at this point.
Yeah, I was immediately reminded of the (not very good) movie Pacific Heights, where Michael Keaton moves into the basement apartment of a couple's big Victorian house in San Francisco and then proceeds to drive them out of their own house. Except his behavior seemed more conscionable than the people who are bullying Katie Jones.
That's a bullshit argument all around. Do you have any data to support that assertion? As for your "solution" (tongue in cheek though I think it was), good idea. Maybe that's why we never see any H2's on the road, because their owners don't want to drive them because of the poor mileage. Oh, wait, we see them all over the place. Because people don't care how much gas costs; gas prices are inelastic, like cigarette prices: price fluctuations affect people's behavior very little.
This isn't because it's electric; this is a pretty standard European urban small-car form factor. See also the SmartCar, which is gas-powered, or for that matter, any number of past Renault and Peugot designs.
BTW, the EV1, the only all-electric car to come anywhere near mass production in the US, did look more or less like a normal car, and it still died. Until our politicians get out of the auto industry's pockets, we're not going to see electric cars succeed here. (See my rant on the subject if interested.)
I've long ranted about the poor usability of consumer electronics. In particular, many of the problems here aren't that the advanced features are present, but rather that the sorry interface designers have tried to put them all front-and-center and cluttered up the entire interface, even the simple, basic stuff that everyone wants to do. Taking their camera example, of course it's ludicrous to suggest that the camera shouldn't be able to adjust shutter speed or f-stop. However, the casual user who just wants to point and click need never know those features exist, and certainly they shouldn't get in his/her way from just using the camera. Certainly cellphones are very guilty in this regard.
I want these all over my house. They can work as an LCD screen, showing a picture of outside -- it's like a Steven Wright joke.
Only you could make it seem like your house is in a space warp -- make windows show pictures of what's on other sides of the house. Or what's outside someone else's house.
Mapquest is great, but you really have to pay attention. It gave me directions to a friend's house, which included a turn on Vista Ln. I missed it, that time and on several subsequent trips, and eventually I figured out that Vista Ln was an alley between a Blockbuster and a Chinese restaurant, barely wide enough for my car and with a street sign only at one end (the one opposite the direction I came from).
Anyone remember the movie "Looker"? (I didn't think so.) In there, there was a mention that advertisers would show a swimsuit-clad woman, and then switch to their product, centered right where the "boob region" just was, because they know that's where your eyes are probably pointing.
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Eliminating the penny wouldn't have to effect the stock market, since (a) people rarely pay for stock in cash, and non-cash transactions could freely go on using penny amounts, and (b) the market already works in sixteenths of a dollar, which you can't make exactly in cash anyway.
For a second I thought this was going to implement an idea I had a long time ago, namely to use one's bookmarks to rank search engine results. That is, give higher rankings to pages that are similar to pages I've bookmarked.
However, in this case, it's not just my bookmarks, it's everyone's, and the bookmarks are the source of the database, not just its ranking technique. As many have already pointed out, this seems really closed and inbred.
A bunch of people have already pointed out how much "work" time most of us spend goofing off -- playing games, surfing the web, having nerf gun wars, whatever. I just wanted to chime in that the traditional separation of work and home is, IMHO, artificial and not particularly useful. I telecommute full-time, so my time is all my own, in a sense. As a result, I am very conscious of the work/home/leisure decisions I make. That is, time I spend surfing isn't just killing time until the whistle blows, it's time that I could just as easily be spending playing with my kid, or getting my work done so I can knock off early. It puts a really interesting perspective on things when the only thing that matters is getting your day's work done.
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The reason for the discrepancy between the nutrition information on the bacon and the weight on the front of the box is that the nutrition info applies as typically consumed. A substantial amount of the weight of bacon cooks off as grease, which (hopefully) you don't eat.
You are cooking the bacon before you eat it, right? :-)
Exactly. In "On Writing," Stephen King says something to the effect that you can teach a decent writer to be a good writer, but no amount of teaching will turn a good writer into a great writer. Same goes for programming, and probably most any other endeavor as well.
They don't just discount the product because they have no way to make sure the retailer then passes that markdown on to the customer. If they drop the price $100, the retailer could drop their price $50 and keep an extra $50 profit. By offering it in the form of a rebate, they guarantee that the full $100 savings is passed on to the consumer.
Assuming, of course, that the consumer can successfully collect. I hear all sorts of horror stories about rebates (such as the many here), but I've never had any problem at all collecting on them.
I suspect you hit it on the head here; I've had similar experiences. Judging from the OP's resume, he probably isn't cheap, and companies like Google would (by and large) prefer young, cheap employees. It's also possible that he really wasn't right for the job, for whatever reason. "Not having the right experience" could be a diplomatic way of saying "we just didn't like you" just as easily as "we want someone from a Great School."
Anyone else reminded of Maxx Barry's novel _Syrup_? (Recommended.)
By and large, that isn't true. Taxes paid to a state other than the one in which you live are deductible on your own state's taxes. For example, New York taxes people who live in NJ but work in NY, but the taxes you pay to NY are deductible from your NJ income. However, you are well and truly hosed if you live in a state with no income tax but are taxed by one with (as in the TN/NY court case).
3) Grandma is visiting and wants a print of a picture you just showed her on your computer.
No kidding. I'm setting up a music/file server right now, which I'd love to be a DVR as well - except that my best salvage machine is a 400MHz P3. My very best machine is less powerful than his salvage machine.
Yes, this is very cool. It has been very cool for almost FOUR YEARS now.
Amen. Having easy, legal access to past TV episodes would be valuable enough to me that (assuming this were technically possible) I'd be willing to let them disable my ffwd/skip capabilities on those downloaded broadcasts. Or banner them, or whatever. Never mind the (relatively small) community of filesharing pirates, the networks are missing a huge, mainstream advertising market of people who would love on-demand access to old episodes.
I don't know what Google's lockout restrictions are, but at the startup where I worked I saw the stock climb past 40 during my 6-month lockout, but by the time I could sell it was well under 20. If the optionees at Google are locked out, then it's all purely on paper at this point.
Yeah, I was immediately reminded of the (not very good) movie Pacific Heights, where Michael Keaton moves into the basement apartment of a couple's big Victorian house in San Francisco and then proceeds to drive them out of their own house. Except his behavior seemed more conscionable than the people who are bullying Katie Jones.
That's a bullshit argument all around. Do you have any data to support that assertion? As for your "solution" (tongue in cheek though I think it was), good idea. Maybe that's why we never see any H2's on the road, because their owners don't want to drive them because of the poor mileage. Oh, wait, we see them all over the place. Because people don't care how much gas costs; gas prices are inelastic, like cigarette prices: price fluctuations affect people's behavior very little.
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BTW, the EV1, the only all-electric car to come anywhere near mass production in the US, did look more or less like a normal car, and it still died. Until our politicians get out of the auto industry's pockets, we're not going to see electric cars succeed here. (See my rant on the subject if interested.)
Joe Ganley
I've long ranted about the poor usability of consumer electronics. In particular, many of the problems here aren't that the advanced features are present, but rather that the sorry interface designers have tried to put them all front-and-center and cluttered up the entire interface, even the simple, basic stuff that everyone wants to do. Taking their camera example, of course it's ludicrous to suggest that the camera shouldn't be able to adjust shutter speed or f-stop. However, the casual user who just wants to point and click need never know those features exist, and certainly they shouldn't get in his/her way from just using the camera. Certainly cellphones are very guilty in this regard.
I want these all over my house. They can work as an LCD screen, showing a picture of outside -- it's like a Steven Wright joke.
Only you could make it seem like your house is in a space warp -- make windows show pictures of what's on other sides of the house. Or what's outside someone else's house.
Joe Ganley
Mapquest is great, but you really have to pay attention. It gave me directions to a friend's house, which included a turn on Vista Ln. I missed it, that time and on several subsequent trips, and eventually I figured out that Vista Ln was an alley between a Blockbuster and a Chinese restaurant, barely wide enough for my car and with a street sign only at one end (the one opposite the direction I came from).
Joe Ganley
Anyone remember the movie "Looker"? (I didn't think so.) In there, there was a mention that advertisers would show a swimsuit-clad woman, and then switch to their product, centered right where the "boob region" just was, because they know that's where your eyes are probably pointing.
Joe Ganley
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However, in this case, it's not just my bookmarks, it's everyone's, and the bookmarks are the source of the database, not just its ranking technique. As many have already pointed out, this seems really closed and inbred.
Joe Ganley
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Joe Ganley
Brain cancer causes excessive cell phone use.
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