Sadly, googling these things, copying and pasting is usually faster than writing it from memory unless you're a really fast typist.
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You are assuming that the stock price stays constant.
What happens if the stock price falls considerably, or the company even goes bankrupt? - He decides it's better to lose the underlying collateral (worth less, or possibly nothing). His loan is "free" and no taxes are paid.
What happens if the stock price rises considerably, let's say doubles or quadruples? He can sell a fraction of the stocks to pay for the loans. He pays taxes, but can keep a bulk of his shares and even take out a new loan on that.
Either way he's never going to lose any money. If the stock price rises taxes will be paid eventually, but it will delayed by many years. If the stock price falls taxes will be avoided. But IT stock has never gone down, so we don't need to worry about that... right?
But the Visicalc info given in TFS is totally wrong. It uses 29K of RAM, which is not the same as the size of the binary.
First google hit for "visicalc binary size" gives this page: http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
which tells us that the binary is only 27,520 bytes, and even gives a download link to a working copy of Visicalc.
I guess 29K is close enough to 27,520 bytes, but it's wrong, dammit!
Having driven (a motorbike) for over 2 years in India, I'm not sure how it would work.
All rules seem to be optional, the traffic school is a joke, with a short written test (identify 6 traffic signs to pass), and an even shorter drive.
Only the golden rule applies - Don't hit anyone else, and they'll try not to hit you.
90% of the effort is spent on watching for other drivers that do something out of the ordinary...
I have gmail accounts for 1) and 2), and Gmail manager addon for Firefox to check on them. Both are about 10% full after years of use.
3) usually goes to no2+tag@gmail.com or mailinator/spambox.
Works pretty well, and I know that any mail coming to 2) is not very important so notifications for that are low priority.
That would be awesome!
1. Get a laptop with lots of USB ports
2. Get a lot of USB->micro-USB cables and connect the USB ports to the charger ports.
3. Never have to charge your laptop again...
By your logic, you can make crossing the street seem as dangerous as being on death row.
death toll of some random activity/average time it takes == 0.0001%/a few minutes >= death toll of on death row/average time spent there == 95%/many years
I actually did that for a year and a half when my wife got a 3-year contract in India for an NGO.
I got a telecommuting job for a programming company I had worked for earlier. Took a 5-10% hit in salary and had to rent an office space in India (paid in part by the company), and fly home about once a year on my own dime, but was still fine for us financially - especially since Indian visa rules forbid working there (on my kind of visa).
Good enough that when the job went sour (mainly for asinine projects and total lack of communication from coworkers) I could afford to stop working for the last year of my wife's contract and just be a stay-at-home husband - thanks to the visa rules.
bad research is bad.
There's a whole community around the url shortening in twitter (bit.ly), and every click on that link is counted. so maybe X people read a tweet AND followed the link in it (possibly filling out a form or buying crap there), but if no one writes a reply it still counts as ignored.
I don't have a car analogy for this, but can't this be compared to a gas stove that must always have a fire going?
The new chip is like a dual-burner model with the third one acting as a pilot light, which makes a lot more sense than running one of the burners at its lowest setting...
Tangentially related, a shaken martini is more watered down than a stirred one. Guess Bond's a sissy.
This has been explained as his way of keeping his wits about while at the casino - after all he wouldn't be much of a spy if he's dead-drunk throwing up in the toilet most of the evening.
On that note, it is worth mentioning that the slashdot front page currently has a story where "Dell Settles with the SEC for $100M" because they were getting shitloads of money for keeping away from AMD CPUs.
It is conceivable that:
(3) they got a similar deal for their choice of OS.
Fixed that for you. Many dime-store novels are ruined if you read them too carefully and slow enough to take time to think about how dumb they are. E.g. anything by Dan Brown.
I respectfully disagree with your notion that Kaspersky is better than MSE.
The notion was that Kaspersky DOES better than the free ones - as in catching viruses, not in performance. It's like Columbo - always catches the bad guy, but it takes forever and annoys the hell out of everybody in the process.
It is wrong to have pillars that close to the track and Stephen Plate shows this to the rest of the world....
I think it is fine for pillars to be that close, on a track for a sport that is participated in voluntarily and with full knowledge that those pillars are there. All it would have taken is for the lugers to say "we aren't going down that course with those pillars there", if it were so clear that the pillars shouldn't have been there.
People train for years for the Olympics. I doubt that safety checks are on the top of their list when they finally get there. Does that mean they deserve to die?
Lugers can still die if they take a wall too high and capsize, smashing their heads into the solid ice track.
If you want to remove all means of death in the sport of luge, you might as well not luge at all. In fact, you won't be luging. You'll have to have a solid tube filled with soft water (instead of the open ice-caked half-tube). That's the "thrill ride" at a water park. How exciting. And someone could still drown if they aren't careful.
So we can't remove any risks (even obvious ones) because that leads to a slippery slope of killing the sport? Straw man, anyone?
How about solid concrete walls at most car race tracks?
They're in a goddamn car, designed so that the driver has a good chance of walking away from such a collision. The lugers are not. You're also forgetting that most of these walls have rows of tires in front to soften the blow (at least in the fastest races like Formula One).
Bugger off IOC and let the rest of the world see what is wrong so it can be prevented next time.
Next on NBC, the 2046 winter olympics. At 8PM, the US and Canada face off for the snowball fights, followed by the mackeral slapping contest between Great Britain and France. At 11PM, Greece and Latvia compete in 'walk around the block', and then Bolivia and Japan face off in a rematch of the famous 2042 "fill the slurpee cup as full as you can without spilling" contest. Stay tuned...
Great - another slippery slope straw man. Didn't you do that already?
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Sadly, googling these things, copying and pasting is usually faster than writing it from memory unless you're a really fast typist.
What happens if the stock price falls considerably, or the company even goes bankrupt? - He decides it's better to lose the underlying collateral (worth less, or possibly nothing). His loan is "free" and no taxes are paid.
What happens if the stock price rises considerably, let's say doubles or quadruples? He can sell a fraction of the stocks to pay for the loans. He pays taxes, but can keep a bulk of his shares and even take out a new loan on that.
Either way he's never going to lose any money. If the stock price rises taxes will be paid eventually, but it will delayed by many years. If the stock price falls taxes will be avoided. But IT stock has never gone down, so we don't need to worry about that... right?
1 pass without verification of the backup is almost equal to going straight to DBAN.
But the Visicalc info given in TFS is totally wrong. It uses 29K of RAM, which is not the same as the size of the binary.
First google hit for "visicalc binary size" gives this page: http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm which tells us that the binary is only 27,520 bytes, and even gives a download link to a working copy of Visicalc. I guess 29K is close enough to 27,520 bytes, but it's wrong, dammit!
I stand corrected.
TFA says she signed up for IMDb Pro in 2008, so she still fits the description.
Her wikipedia page has had her birth date on it since it was first written over 2 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicole_Bilderback&oldid=313831653
All rules seem to be optional, the traffic school is a joke, with a short written test (identify 6 traffic signs to pass), and an even shorter drive. Only the golden rule applies - Don't hit anyone else, and they'll try not to hit you.
90% of the effort is spent on watching for other drivers that do something out of the ordinary...
Sample written test: http://www.drivingtest.in/start-sample-test.php
Video of the drive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGfLNqjh4j0
I guess China is similar...
...car drives you!
I have gmail accounts for 1) and 2), and Gmail manager addon for Firefox to check on them. Both are about 10% full after years of use.
3) usually goes to no2+tag@gmail.com or mailinator/spambox. Works pretty well, and I know that any mail coming to 2) is not very important so notifications for that are low priority.
That would be awesome!
1. Get a laptop with lots of USB ports
2. Get a lot of USB->micro-USB cables and connect the USB ports to the charger ports.
3. Never have to charge your laptop again...
Everything is on YouTube. First hit from "perform this way weird al" search: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M
By your logic, you can make crossing the street seem as dangerous as being on death row.
death toll of some random activity/average time it takes == 0.0001%/a few minutes >= death toll of on death row/average time spent there == 95%/many years
I got a telecommuting job for a programming company I had worked for earlier. Took a 5-10% hit in salary and had to rent an office space in India (paid in part by the company), and fly home about once a year on my own dime, but was still fine for us financially - especially since Indian visa rules forbid working there (on my kind of visa).
Good enough that when the job went sour (mainly for asinine projects and total lack of communication from coworkers) I could afford to stop working for the last year of my wife's contract and just be a stay-at-home husband - thanks to the visa rules.
bad research is bad.
There's a whole community around the url shortening in twitter (bit.ly), and every click on that link is counted. so maybe X people read a tweet AND followed the link in it (possibly filling out a form or buying crap there), but if no one writes a reply it still counts as ignored.
I don't have a car analogy for this, but can't this be compared to a gas stove that must always have a fire going?
The new chip is like a dual-burner model with the third one acting as a pilot light, which makes a lot more sense than running one of the burners at its lowest setting...
Can't you connect any of the portables via HDMI to a monitor already?
GSMArena lists 13 different phones with an HDMI port, and the trend seems to be increasing. http://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sFreeText=HDMI
Why the hell aren't companies making headless Linux servers using these processors?
A 1GHz processor drawing max 40 mAh means that such a device at full load uses less than one Watt a day! (for the CPU)
That's a couple of orders of magnitude over the current wall-wart Linux devices available today...
This is a lot more like Rutger Hauer's Wedlock (1991)
They even had the enforcement in place - using explosive charges...
In all fairness, he did say /. comedian.
/. comedian is to comedian as Monopoly money is to money.
Tangentially related, a shaken martini is more watered down than a stirred one. Guess Bond's a sissy.
This has been explained as his way of keeping his wits about while at the casino - after all he wouldn't be much of a spy if he's dead-drunk throwing up in the toilet most of the evening.
It is conceivable that:
(3) they got a similar deal for their choice of OS.
Some books should be read carefully and slowly.
Fixed that for you. Many dime-store novels are ruined if you read them too carefully and slow enough to take time to think about how dumb they are. E.g. anything by Dan Brown.
I agree. This might well be Microsoft's first patent-worthy patent... ever.
I respectfully disagree with your notion that Kaspersky is better than MSE.
The notion was that Kaspersky DOES better than the free ones - as in catching viruses, not in performance. It's like Columbo - always catches the bad guy, but it takes forever and annoys the hell out of everybody in the process.
It is wrong to have pillars that close to the track and Stephen Plate shows this to the rest of the world. ...
I think it is fine for pillars to be that close, on a track for a sport that is participated in voluntarily and with full knowledge that those pillars are there. All it would have taken is for the lugers to say "we aren't going down that course with those pillars there", if it were so clear that the pillars shouldn't have been there.
People train for years for the Olympics. I doubt that safety checks are on the top of their list when they finally get there. Does that mean they deserve to die?
Lugers can still die if they take a wall too high and capsize, smashing their heads into the solid ice track.
If you want to remove all means of death in the sport of luge, you might as well not luge at all. In fact, you won't be luging. You'll have to have a solid tube filled with soft water (instead of the open ice-caked half-tube). That's the "thrill ride" at a water park. How exciting. And someone could still drown if they aren't careful.
So we can't remove any risks (even obvious ones) because that leads to a slippery slope of killing the sport? Straw man, anyone?
How about solid concrete walls at most car race tracks?
They're in a goddamn car, designed so that the driver has a good chance of walking away from such a collision. The lugers are not. You're also forgetting that most of these walls have rows of tires in front to soften the blow (at least in the fastest races like Formula One).
Bugger off IOC and let the rest of the world see what is wrong so it can be prevented next time.
Next on NBC, the 2046 winter olympics. At 8PM, the US and Canada face off for the snowball fights, followed by the mackeral slapping contest between Great Britain and France. At 11PM, Greece and Latvia compete in 'walk around the block', and then Bolivia and Japan face off in a rematch of the famous 2042 "fill the slurpee cup as full as you can without spilling" contest. Stay tuned...
Great - another slippery slope straw man. Didn't you do that already?