Heh... I remember the first time I had the 120-minute and was a bit annoyed it was like $12 for a 4-pack.
Then I drank all four.
It was only the next morning when I learned the ABV in the 120-minute is something ridiculous like 12-14%. It's a shame it's so string when it's so tasty... I would like to be able to drink a few of them[1] without getting kerplatzed.
[1] It might have been different in college... but it's amazing what having kids and real responsibilities does to alcohol tolerance.
Hey, guess what? Acronyms are easier to type, and as they enter into common usage, there is no ambiguity about what as meant (given context).
Perhaps here on slashdot we should never use acronyms like AJAX? Would that make you happy?
As for your argument that "the President" or "the Supreme Court" works well enough, perhaps you should consider that not only is a significant portion of the slashdot readerbase not American, but that some people might be offended by the hubris of assuming that President == President of the US, unless otherwise specified?
Seriously, acronyms are useful.
Never mind the fact that there are tons of organizations with presidents within the US. And that each state (or at least lamost all of them) have their own Supreme Courts?
Resolving ambiguity is a good thing... I would think that anyone on slashdot would agree, since we tend to be literalists.
Anyway, sorry for the semi-rant, but is it really that bothersome for you to learn a few new acronyms now and again? Especially ones like POTUS and SCOTUS which are in widespread use?
That alone makes Delaware worth a vist, if only to check out the brewery and then drink oneself into oblivion... to avoid having to face the reality that you did, indeed, got to Delaware for a vacation.
While it is totally unnecessary, it remains actually illegal that codes of ethical behavior be allowed to hold final say on what actions an American corporate entity takes.
False -- completely, abhorrently false. You spewing misinformation like this doesn't help your cause.
A company whose directors willfully take action that dilutes shareholder value without justification can be subject to civil tort lawsuits fromtheir shareholders. Ethics are a justification. Ignorance is a justification.
Until it becomes legal for a corporation to put human lives ahead of balance sheets, evil will rule.
What are you smoking, and where can I get some? Just because some corporations do not put lives ahead of balance sheets does not mean it is illegal to do so.
Get a clue. There already is a free market for operating systems.
It's important to note, however, that the existence of a free market does not preclude the possibility of a functional monopoly. Actually, due to barriers to entry (in this case, the overhead of developing a truly competitive OS and the interoperability problems with a closed-source OS), a free market will tend towards a monopoly.
The question is, do we want to let a natural monopoly run wild, or do we want to regulate it to ensure that competition can exist in related products (applications)?
To me, there is resounding support for regulation of natural monopolies. There's a reason the Sherman Anti-trust Act (and other acts) were passed and enforced a hundred years ago (give or take a few years).
Almost all economists would agree that regulation is necessary to compensate for natural monopolies (even the Austrian School agrees!) for their models to function efficiently.
But do not confuse the Republican In Name Only's (RINO's, Aka Senator John McCain (Rino) Az, Senator Norm Coleman (Rino) MN, Senator Olympia Snowe (Rino) ME and many many others including President G.W. Bush), with conservatives or conservatism.
The Republican Party is run by these people... the party has been taken away from the old conservatives. I think now it's you and others like you who are the RINOs.
The solution is for conservatives to split off and form their own party... but then the devil Democrats would win major elections, so instead you'll toe the party line and vote for McCain. (Note, I'm generalizing -- you specifically may not do so, but the vast majority of conservatives will).
Note the same logic applies to those unhappy with the Democrats.
There's a reason Jefferson, et al, believe the advent of a two-party system was a disaster... and we're living the nightmare.
I just thought it's important to point out that when your party leadership is nolonger conservative, the conservatives are the ones who are RINOs.
Most glasses are brittle to begin with, and even if not, the same forces that allow crystal growth leading to embrittlement are active in the glass too.
Hruh? That's not true at all, from what I recall. Glass is by definition uncrystallized... I mean, there's a bonding structure, but it's disorderly...
Am I missing something? It's been a while, but I think that still holds.
As for glass formation helping with fatigue, it's a matter of the disordered state being stable enough that it requires more energy (stress) in order to disrupt the structure enough to reform as a more brittle crystalline structure.
Then again, it's been a long time... so maybe someone with a current education in materials science can elucidate (pardon the pun).
As for Internet Explorer, Eich explains how Screaming Monkey will help bring JavaScript 2 to IE should Microsoft drag its heels on providing meaningful support.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm curious why he would name it "Screaming Monkey". I could see maybe an allusion to speed ("screaming" is sometimes a term used to describe something going really, really fast so s/Grease/Screaming makes sense, I guess).
But really I think it shows the understanding Eich has for the thousands of codemonkeys hammering away at JS for IE. I'd be screaming too if I was coding JS for IE.
On the other hand, I've had the (dis)pleasure of a rollicking night of Victory Golden Monkey followed by a visit from the Beer Monkey. Waiting for MS to make IE support JS2 might cause an additional night or two like that.
FWIW, the Beer Monkey usually howls, rather than screams. YMMV... depending on the quantity of Golden Monkeys consumed.
You're right, it is crap... except that the effects we observe were due to the liquidity of glass... albeit when the glass was molten:)
There is another distortion effect that myth attributes to liquid flow of glass... if you observe old architectural glass, you may note "waviness" in the glass. This is cause by how sheet glass was made.
A leader is dipped into molten glass, then raised slowly. While the glass is pretty much of uniform thickness, there is distortion caused by variations in temperature as the sheet cools.
If you're looking at old houses, it's interesting to note what kind of distortion is present in the windows -- this can tell you how the glass was made, which in turn can tell you if it's likely that the glass is original to the house. One needs knowledge of the history of window fabrication, which is often regional... but I digress.
This is yet another example of something making sense, but not being accurate. Yes, glass is technically liquid. But, the flow rate is such that the effects we attribute to the liquidity of glass would take millions and millions of years to occur at STP. Typically any effects in glass that are due to liquid flow occurred during the hardening stage.
Seeing as how our last words as a species are either going to be "Hmm, that's weird..." or "Die, capitalist scum!",
I speculate that the last words will be "Hey Jethro, hold my beer and watch this!" but that will only be after we've designed a small, portable LHC that can be hung from a carport and used to zap bugs.
It seems to make more sense to me when I think of project managers as time accountants.
Time accounting for a project is data collection, that's it. Technically, all accounting is just data collection.
It's the analysis and resultant actions that set apart good financial managers (and project managers) from the dreck.
In my experience, time accounting by PMs is used primarily for budgeting and budget allocation -- more as reporting to their superiors than anything else. I have had the pleasure of working under and side-by-side project managers who use the time data well. These have tended to be with managers who really understood what their staff were working on, and would step in to improve performance when tasks began looking like they would run over budget.
Sometimes this meant coaching (and/or training) staff, sometimes it meant reassigning tasks, sometimes it meant replacing incompetent resources.
I'd just like to add to your point about time reporting and time budgeting -- this only works well if the time budgeting is done well. Someone who cannot budget well will never be able to use time reporting well. Without good milestones/goalposts/need assessments/whatever, it is impossible to use reporting to assess progress.
To sum up, it's not just competent budgeting & reporting that are necessary, but also a good understanding of how to interpret the numbers and apply fixes. I believe this is something very hard to learn other than by experience (both working under a good PM and getting a chance to make your own mistakes as a new PM).
Carter's leadership in the office seems to be a counterexample to the rest of his tenure. Double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, and letting your hostages rot overseas are not ways to serve and inspire your people. Surely this was not all his fault, but he wasn't able to overcome these issues.
This is exactly what I'm getting at. Carter did not need to overcome those issues -- they were necessary in order to fix the economic errors of prior presidents. Just watch what happens in the next decade -- we'll again need high inflation in order to fix the weakening dollar and the debt burden on the economy. But what politician is willing to commit career suppuku to do what is necessary?
As for the hostages rotting in Iran, keep in mind that Carter was in the midst of brokering a deal, until Reagan's people stepped in and convinced the other side to wait until Reagan was in office. Seriously, no joke -- Reagan's regime was responsible for the hostages remaining captive for longer than they otherwise would have been.
We won't get the full picture of Clinton's presidency until he has retired from public life, but there have recently beena couple books that are very enlightening on the subject of 20th century presidents.
I can't recall the names of either of them right now... but I'm sure they have been on the non-fiction best-seller lists sometime in the past two years.
I'm not sure we've had someone in the office of President who actually did any leading since Eisenhower. Perhaps Kennedy or Reagan lead, but most modern holders of the office have been followers elected to lead.
This is really interesting... because the presidents who actually led, and did the necessary unpopular things, are not mentioned in your post. For example, Ford pardoned Nixon... and never recovered politically. Carter took steps to wean ourselves off of foreign oil... and never recovered politically.
One could make the argument that those choices were unpopular because of a failure of leadership (ie, if Ford was a good leader, he would have convinced the American public that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do). But the political system in the US punishes those who do unpopular things... this is a fundamental problem with democracy, and is one of the reasons the US is in an economic mess of debt right now. There hasn't been a time of real hardship during the lifetimes of almost all of the electorate, so I think we're stuck with stupid borrow-and-spend policy until the shit hits the fan.
And a person in an authority role (as a teacher, parent, coach, etc) canesily help build this experience.
You can do your part by lying to them, by making promises and not delivering, by deliberately teaching them falshoods and then laughing when they fail their exams... the possibilities are endless.
Seriously, though. What worked in my family 30 years ago probably works today. Tell the kids increasingly ridiculous bullshit until they figure out it's bullshit. Pretty soon they'll doubt any "fact" you tell them. Pretty soon, they apply it to any "fact" anyone tells them.
we had a neighbor who worked in the rail yards and made presents of things which "fell off a train." [...] I never cared much for the smell of it myself.
I always wondered what happened to the effluent when they emptied the bathrooms on passenger trains. I never would have guessed that some people thought to give it as gifts.
The whole rent thing is just a bit of a bad idea in the case where you get a physical object that cannot be returned, and the leasing company does not ever want it back.
Well, that depends. There can be some serious tax advantages to leasing instead of buying.
This process is not in use for the xbox, indicating that it is NOT a lease, but a sale.
You don't even need to go that far. Look at your receipt of purchase -- it is a sales receipt, not a lease agreement.
As far as licensing goes, that's a different issue. One could, theoretically, sell the hardware but license the use of the software contained on it. That's the crux of the issue -- if the software (and firmware) is sold as a non-transferable license, does the doctrine of first sale apply? Can the software even be sold as a non-transferable license, when it is bundled with the hardware?
In reality, leasing has little to do with licensing. One could, I guess, enter a lease agreement on a license... but that would be silly. I'm not sure why the OP in the thread brought up leasing at all.
Even if the sale has taken place in a "nasty taxation" place like UK, Scandinavia, New York, etc, all taxation can be done in a place with lax taxation like Ireland in the EU or Texas in the USA.
False. Ever hear of use tax? If you use the good in NY, and its a taxable good, be prepared to pay use tax is the sales tax paid on the purchase is less than the sales tax in NY.
If it is a rent it cannot be depreciated and cannot count for capex. It is opex, period.
You sound pretty confident for someone who doesn't know what they are talking about. Capital leases are very common... that's when you have a lease (rental agreement) and you capitalize the asset. The stream of payments for the lease is amortized, and meanwhile you depreciate the asset and record your depreciation expense.
The usual tax evasion practices of big software and hardware vendors are outright illegal and forbidden by law
What are you talking about?
I'd also add that licensing != leasing, I think you're confused on the topic.
I guess, to sum up, I'd say that gettig accounting/finance advice on slashdot is like getting legal advice on slashdot. Some of it seems to make sense, but I'd rather have duct tape ripped from my scrotum than have to go before the courts or the IRS using advice from slashdot as my only source of information.
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Heh... I remember the first time I had the 120-minute and was a bit annoyed it was like $12 for a 4-pack.
Then I drank all four.
It was only the next morning when I learned the ABV in the 120-minute is something ridiculous like 12-14%. It's a shame it's so string when it's so tasty... I would like to be able to drink a few of them[1] without getting kerplatzed.
[1] It might have been different in college... but it's amazing what having kids and real responsibilities does to alcohol tolerance.
Hey, guess what? Acronyms are easier to type, and as they enter into common usage, there is no ambiguity about what as meant (given context).
Perhaps here on slashdot we should never use acronyms like AJAX? Would that make you happy?
As for your argument that "the President" or "the Supreme Court" works well enough, perhaps you should consider that not only is a significant portion of the slashdot readerbase not American, but that some people might be offended by the hubris of assuming that President == President of the US, unless otherwise specified?
Seriously, acronyms are useful.
Never mind the fact that there are tons of organizations with presidents within the US. And that each state (or at least lamost all of them) have their own Supreme Courts?
Resolving ambiguity is a good thing... I would think that anyone on slashdot would agree, since we tend to be literalists.
Anyway, sorry for the semi-rant, but is it really that bothersome for you to learn a few new acronyms now and again? Especially ones like POTUS and SCOTUS which are in widespread use?
Dogfish Head beer is made in Rehobeth DE.
That alone makes Delaware worth a vist, if only to check out the brewery and then drink oneself into oblivion... to avoid having to face the reality that you did, indeed, got to Delaware for a vacation.
A company whose directors willfully take action that dilutes shareholder value without justification can be subject to civil tort lawsuits fromtheir shareholders. Ethics are a justification. Ignorance is a justification.
What are you smoking, and where can I get some? Just because some corporations do not put lives ahead of balance sheets does not mean it is illegal to do so.
That should be Göglegemeinschaftelektronischepostsytemische.
Won't someone think of the umlaut?
The question is, do we want to let a natural monopoly run wild, or do we want to regulate it to ensure that competition can exist in related products (applications)?
To me, there is resounding support for regulation of natural monopolies. There's a reason the Sherman Anti-trust Act (and other acts) were passed and enforced a hundred years ago (give or take a few years).
Almost all economists would agree that regulation is necessary to compensate for natural monopolies (even the Austrian School agrees!) for their models to function efficiently.
The solution is for conservatives to split off and form their own party... but then the devil Democrats would win major elections, so instead you'll toe the party line and vote for McCain. (Note, I'm generalizing -- you specifically may not do so, but the vast majority of conservatives will).
Note the same logic applies to those unhappy with the Democrats.
There's a reason Jefferson, et al, believe the advent of a two-party system was a disaster... and we're living the nightmare.
I just thought it's important to point out that when your party leadership is nolonger conservative, the conservatives are the ones who are RINOs.
Am I missing something? It's been a while, but I think that still holds.
As for glass formation helping with fatigue, it's a matter of the disordered state being stable enough that it requires more energy (stress) in order to disrupt the structure enough to reform as a more brittle crystalline structure.
Then again, it's been a long time... so maybe someone with a current education in materials science can elucidate (pardon the pun).
Don't worry about it. Troll, (s)he is... better ask Surak. Or one of the other sockpuppets.
But really I think it shows the understanding Eich has for the thousands of codemonkeys hammering away at JS for IE. I'd be screaming too if I was coding JS for IE.
On the other hand, I've had the (dis)pleasure of a rollicking night of Victory Golden Monkey followed by a visit from the Beer Monkey. Waiting for MS to make IE support JS2 might cause an additional night or two like that.
FWIW, the Beer Monkey usually howls, rather than screams. YMMV... depending on the quantity of Golden Monkeys consumed.
I see where you're coming from... but time accounting is what I was referring to... which doesn't have much to do with putting out fires :)
You're right, it is crap... except that the effects we observe were due to the liquidity of glass... albeit when the glass was molten :)
There is another distortion effect that myth attributes to liquid flow of glass... if you observe old architectural glass, you may note "waviness" in the glass. This is cause by how sheet glass was made.
A leader is dipped into molten glass, then raised slowly. While the glass is pretty much of uniform thickness, there is distortion caused by variations in temperature as the sheet cools.
If you're looking at old houses, it's interesting to note what kind of distortion is present in the windows -- this can tell you how the glass was made, which in turn can tell you if it's likely that the glass is original to the house. One needs knowledge of the history of window fabrication, which is often regional... but I digress.
This is yet another example of something making sense, but not being accurate. Yes, glass is technically liquid. But, the flow rate is such that the effects we attribute to the liquidity of glass would take millions and millions of years to occur at STP. Typically any effects in glass that are due to liquid flow occurred during the hardening stage.
It's the analysis and resultant actions that set apart good financial managers (and project managers) from the dreck.
In my experience, time accounting by PMs is used primarily for budgeting and budget allocation -- more as reporting to their superiors than anything else. I have had the pleasure of working under and side-by-side project managers who use the time data well. These have tended to be with managers who really understood what their staff were working on, and would step in to improve performance when tasks began looking like they would run over budget.
Sometimes this meant coaching (and/or training) staff, sometimes it meant reassigning tasks, sometimes it meant replacing incompetent resources.
I'd just like to add to your point about time reporting and time budgeting -- this only works well if the time budgeting is done well. Someone who cannot budget well will never be able to use time reporting well. Without good milestones/goalposts/need assessments/whatever, it is impossible to use reporting to assess progress.
To sum up, it's not just competent budgeting & reporting that are necessary, but also a good understanding of how to interpret the numbers and apply fixes. I believe this is something very hard to learn other than by experience (both working under a good PM and getting a chance to make your own mistakes as a new PM).
Oooh, can I volunteer?
Let me just put on my sneakers so I can run faster.
Yes, I know I still won't be able to outrun the lion. But I'll be able to outrun you.
Wise population centers do not locate themselves near large volcanoes. FTFM.
You miss one of the biggest points because of your (common) preconceived notions.
One of the big points is that if no one adheres to your security policy, it is useless.
Hence, you need to design a security policy that users will respect and obey.
You're still responsible for VAT on items purchased elsewhere and imported -- even licenses. This is the equivalent of use tax.
The distinction between licensing and leasing remains.
Also capital leases exist in the UK as well as in the US.
As for the hostages rotting in Iran, keep in mind that Carter was in the midst of brokering a deal, until Reagan's people stepped in and convinced the other side to wait until Reagan was in office. Seriously, no joke -- Reagan's regime was responsible for the hostages remaining captive for longer than they otherwise would have been.
We won't get the full picture of Clinton's presidency until he has retired from public life, but there have recently beena couple books that are very enlightening on the subject of 20th century presidents.
I can't recall the names of either of them right now... but I'm sure they have been on the non-fiction best-seller lists sometime in the past two years.
One could make the argument that those choices were unpopular because of a failure of leadership (ie, if Ford was a good leader, he would have convinced the American public that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do). But the political system in the US punishes those who do unpopular things... this is a fundamental problem with democracy, and is one of the reasons the US is in an economic mess of debt right now. There hasn't been a time of real hardship during the lifetimes of almost all of the electorate, so I think we're stuck with stupid borrow-and-spend policy until the shit hits the fan.
You can do your part by lying to them, by making promises and not delivering, by deliberately teaching them falshoods and then laughing when they fail their exams... the possibilities are endless.
Seriously, though. What worked in my family 30 years ago probably works today. Tell the kids increasingly ridiculous bullshit until they figure out it's bullshit. Pretty soon they'll doubt any "fact" you tell them. Pretty soon, they apply it to any "fact" anyone tells them.
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You don't even need to go that far. Look at your receipt of purchase -- it is a sales receipt, not a lease agreement.
As far as licensing goes, that's a different issue. One could, theoretically, sell the hardware but license the use of the software contained on it. That's the crux of the issue -- if the software (and firmware) is sold as a non-transferable license, does the doctrine of first sale apply? Can the software even be sold as a non-transferable license, when it is bundled with the hardware?
In reality, leasing has little to do with licensing. One could, I guess, enter a lease agreement on a license... but that would be silly. I'm not sure why the OP in the thread brought up leasing at all.
You sound pretty confident for someone who doesn't know what they are talking about. Capital leases are very common... that's when you have a lease (rental agreement) and you capitalize the asset. The stream of payments for the lease is amortized, and meanwhile you depreciate the asset and record your depreciation expense.
What are you talking about?
I'd also add that licensing != leasing, I think you're confused on the topic.
I guess, to sum up, I'd say that gettig accounting/finance advice on slashdot is like getting legal advice on slashdot. Some of it seems to make sense, but I'd rather have duct tape ripped from my scrotum than have to go before the courts or the IRS using advice from slashdot as my only source of information.