I thought it might be less bad if the proposal stated that someone using a pass would be deemed at fault in any collision
The only problem with this is that it propagates the myth that driving fast is inherently unsafe on its own. If you were to say "jail time for any at-fault collision" I would agree - as this would help to ensure that those not able to do this safely avoid it. The at-fault rule wouldn't even do that much.
The issue with the bill itself is simpler - if it's safe to drive 90 when you pay for it, it's safe the rest of the time. The governor might as well have come out and said, "Our speed laws are arbitrarily set in order to earn revenue for the State."
No MBA or degree program in and of itself is a replacement for industry experience and knowledge
While I tend to agree with you when it comes to technical degrees, the problem with this belief is that it's often accompanied by the belief that managing people, businesses, and projects is a simple process. The fact is that there are a set of accepted practices -- things proven to work over many years. And it's not something that a company can afford to have you pick up along the way with enough time and experience -- they need those skills now, not after a decade of trial and error. And if you come on as a new hire who claims this experience without education, they don't have a way of knowing that you're familiar with that standard baseline.
The fact that businesses so routinely run themselves out of business and do great harm to themselves with ill conceived business strategies ought to be evidence that perhaps something is going horribly, horribly wrong as the status quo at business school.
Any new business has something like a 56% chance of failing within the first five years according to the SBA. While your statement is interesting, there's nothing in those statistics that say whether or not those failed businesses are run by MBAs or high school graduates. Just because a few spectacularly public failures have occurred at the hands of MBAs doesn't really justify painting the rest of them with the same brush. There are undoubtedly a number of quietly successful MBA degree holders for each spectacular failure.
Note: I don't have an MBA (though I may consider getting one at some point).
Why is there this assumption that these suits are intended to turn a profit?
It seems clear to me that the only intention is to discourage file sharing of their content. This isn't to say it will work (it won't, in all likelihood), but pointing a finger and saying "suing for profit! failed business model!" is bit disingenuous.
To an extent, but the poor quality of things like say falling rain and breaking glass has a tendency to stretch the ability of the player to suspend his disbelief.
When you're playing a good game, you suspend disbelief from the start (if you're inclined to do so). Otherwise, we would never have proceeded past the 2600...
I'm thinking without effective spam filters, a more reliable method of email security and sender identification would have been standardized years ago.
In this way, I think that spam filtering has hurt the Internet. People will rely on it over-much -- meaning that something gets past the spam filters, there is possibly a significant subset of the Internet-using population who will assume it's legit. (In this case, significant only needs to be a fraction of a percent for this to be very profitable.)
That being said, one possibility I've wondered about is that while people are paying spammers to do their thing (thus ensuring the spammers a profit), it may not really have a noticeable effect on the product sales. I could see a rather limitless market of people who tried such services once, realized it was a waste and never tried again.
I'd love to hear from someone who actual employed such "services" to find out what (if any) difference they made; if they recouped their costs; and if they tracked how many sales came from spam vs other channels.
Regardless, when you pay $1.65 billion for a business, you probably don't expect it to take three to four years before you start making your money back."
Actually if you spend that much for a business, it would not be unreasonable to expect ten years or more. 1.65 billion is not an investment you make for a quick turnaround.
As far as the dealer markings - refuse to accept delivery of the car unless they compensate you for advertising or remove them. They're not going to refuse -- they don't want to lose a sale over something they can do in 30 seconds. I never understood why so many people leave those on - are they *that* fond of the dealership that they just love advertising for them?
They have them on cars, too -- at least in the US. Ever noticed the number of cars that have dealer stickers/license plate frames/badges indicating where it was purchased from? I make them take it off (since for some reason they're not willing to give me a couple thousand in advertising fees), but it seems that few people do.
I suspect it's the same for laptops; my wife left hers on for months until I took them off. It just never occurred to her to want to remove them. I suspect that for many people who don't use computers all/every day, that's the case.
Athiesm is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.,
Let me correct that for you:
Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps and dedicating a significant portion of time to explaining why only morons will collect stamps in the first place is a hobby. For a certain subset of people, atheism *is* a faith.
It's all good, man. I mean - I would have liked to see a wider range and variety of insults. Still -- if that's the best you can do, I can't hold it against you. We are each limited by our abilities - or lack thereof in some cases.
I wonder how long I can make you keep replying? You're completely under my control.
You asked me a question, I gave an accurate answer. You didn't like the answer and so glossed over the entire reply and began insulting me. Gee, can't figure out why you had to make an alternate account...
that depends entirely on the statements you're making.
are you denying that flash consumes more resources to run (CPU/battery)
I actually don't know. I've seen poorly written apps that consume far more CPU than they should in Flash; and I've seen well-written ones that take up much less than a poorly coded native app.
The reasons I dislike Flash are more because too many web designers find it acceptable to make entire web sites in Flash. However for simple games and other toys, it looks like it's a great tool.
and has higher latency and response time than a natively coded app?
yes and no. will it be slower? Of course - it's not JIT compiled. But that slowness is a matter of microseconds in many cases - and human perception cuts off at 100-200 ms. So as a user, you would see no difference at all.
pple respects their customers more than to offer them a watered down experience in the same way high end audio equipment manufactures would not sell a product with a gimmicky feature that added noise to the signal.
As I said above - that depends more ont he quality of the application than the platform it's written on. Trust me, it's entirely possible to make a native iPhone app that sucks your battery dry in record time.
flash is for lazy developers.
i am a user.
As such, you likely wouldn't understand that constructive laziness is the single driving factor behind most productivity software out there -- and that includes toolkits and platforms (like databases, flash, directX, etc) that can be used to simplify building more complex systems.
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I thought it might be less bad if the proposal stated that someone using a pass would be deemed at fault in any collision
The only problem with this is that it propagates the myth that driving fast is inherently unsafe on its own. If you were to say "jail time for any at-fault collision" I would agree - as this would help to ensure that those not able to do this safely avoid it. The at-fault rule wouldn't even do that much.
The issue with the bill itself is simpler - if it's safe to drive 90 when you pay for it, it's safe the rest of the time. The governor might as well have come out and said, "Our speed laws are arbitrarily set in order to earn revenue for the State."
Borrow some ideas from the utility control rooms I've been in.
Well now *that's* helpful.... ;)
No MBA or degree program in and of itself is a replacement for industry experience and knowledge
While I tend to agree with you when it comes to technical degrees, the problem with this belief is that it's often accompanied by the belief that managing people, businesses, and projects is a simple process. The fact is that there are a set of accepted practices -- things proven to work over many years. And it's not something that a company can afford to have you pick up along the way with enough time and experience -- they need those skills now, not after a decade of trial and error. And if you come on as a new hire who claims this experience without education, they don't have a way of knowing that you're familiar with that standard baseline.
The fact that businesses so routinely run themselves out of business and do great harm to themselves with ill conceived business strategies ought to be evidence that perhaps something is going horribly, horribly wrong as the status quo at business school.
Any new business has something like a 56% chance of failing within the first five years according to the SBA. While your statement is interesting, there's nothing in those statistics that say whether or not those failed businesses are run by MBAs or high school graduates. Just because a few spectacularly public failures have occurred at the hands of MBAs doesn't really justify painting the rest of them with the same brush. There are undoubtedly a number of quietly successful MBA degree holders for each spectacular failure.
Note: I don't have an MBA (though I may consider getting one at some point).
It seems clear to me that the only intention is to discourage file sharing of their content. This isn't to say it will work (it won't, in all likelihood), but pointing a finger and saying "suing for profit! failed business model!" is bit disingenuous.
To an extent, but the poor quality of things like say falling rain and breaking glass has a tendency to stretch the ability of the player to suspend his disbelief.
When you're playing a good game, you suspend disbelief from the start (if you're inclined to do so). Otherwise, we would never have proceeded past the 2600...
I'm thinking without effective spam filters, a more reliable method of email security and sender identification would have been standardized years ago.
In this way, I think that spam filtering has hurt the Internet. People will rely on it over-much -- meaning that something gets past the spam filters, there is possibly a significant subset of the Internet-using population who will assume it's legit. (In this case, significant only needs to be a fraction of a percent for this to be very profitable.)
That being said, one possibility I've wondered about is that while people are paying spammers to do their thing (thus ensuring the spammers a profit), it may not really have a noticeable effect on the product sales. I could see a rather limitless market of people who tried such services once, realized it was a waste and never tried again.
I'd love to hear from someone who actual employed such "services" to find out what (if any) difference they made; if they recouped their costs; and if they tracked how many sales came from spam vs other channels.
I have not read any evidence that a majority of prostitutes work because they enjoy being prostitutes. Have you?
I have not read any evidence that the majority of people work because they enjoy their jobs. Have you?
Regardless, when you pay $1.65 billion for a business, you probably don't expect it to take three to four years before you start making your money back."
Actually if you spend that much for a business, it would not be unreasonable to expect ten years or more. 1.65 billion is not an investment you make for a quick turnaround.
Your helplessness amuses me. But I do weary of it, it's true - it's like poking a stick at a trapped animal. Have a nice day :)
Easy - attach them with stickers.
As far as the dealer markings - refuse to accept delivery of the car unless they compensate you for advertising or remove them. They're not going to refuse -- they don't want to lose a sale over something they can do in 30 seconds. I never understood why so many people leave those on - are they *that* fond of the dealership that they just love advertising for them?
My MacBook had nothing of the like. It just didn't.
Except for that big, fat, glowing apple etched into the back, you mean?
I suspect it's the same for laptops; my wife left hers on for months until I took them off. It just never occurred to her to want to remove them. I suspect that for many people who don't use computers all/every day, that's the case.
Athiesm is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.,
Let me correct that for you: Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps and dedicating a significant portion of time to explaining why only morons will collect stamps in the first place is a hobby. For a certain subset of people, atheism *is* a faith.
And yet not as powerless as you are to stop yourself from replying to this. All you have to do is walk away, but I don't want you to - so you won't.
Yep, I win this round too. Keep 'em coming. How does it feel to be helpless - to be forced to do exactly what I want you to?
I wonder how long I can make you keep replying? You're completely under my control.
Enjoy your day :)
what knowledge is there to have?
that depends entirely on the statements you're making.
are you denying that flash consumes more resources to run (CPU/battery)
I actually don't know. I've seen poorly written apps that consume far more CPU than they should in Flash; and I've seen well-written ones that take up much less than a poorly coded native app. The reasons I dislike Flash are more because too many web designers find it acceptable to make entire web sites in Flash. However for simple games and other toys, it looks like it's a great tool.
and has higher latency and response time than a natively coded app?
yes and no. will it be slower? Of course - it's not JIT compiled. But that slowness is a matter of microseconds in many cases - and human perception cuts off at 100-200 ms. So as a user, you would see no difference at all.
pple respects their customers more than to offer them a watered down experience in the same way high end audio equipment manufactures would not sell a product with a gimmicky feature that added noise to the signal.
As I said above - that depends more ont he quality of the application than the platform it's written on. Trust me, it's entirely possible to make a native iPhone app that sucks your battery dry in record time.
flash is for lazy developers. i am a user.
As such, you likely wouldn't understand that constructive laziness is the single driving factor behind most productivity software out there -- and that includes toolkits and platforms (like databases, flash, directX, etc) that can be used to simplify building more complex systems.
But at first I read the headline as "Ass rape case reopened"....
Yes it was just you. The headline very clearly states "Ass Anger Rape Case Reopened".
Learn to read, man!
At 25 you shouldn't have hit your peak yet. What in the world are you doing to your life to have trouble keeping up.
I posit that he's living it, instead of chained to a softly glowing monitor.
Being said, if your first language was cold fusion and it is all you have done for the last 12 years, you may have a difficult time switching to C!
'course, if that's the case, you have bigger problems, not the least of which being uncontrollable, homicidal tendencies...
Not to mention the twitching.
Wow, I've been programming longer than you've been alive ... surely my experience is worth something, isn't it?
Absolutely! That and USD3 will get you a cup of coffee...
Indeed. When it comes to quickly making charts with minimal tweaking ... it's hard to beat Excel.