Put three guys in a room (U.S., China, Russia) blindfolded. Tell them the first that leaves the room will live, and the rest will die, but if they all stay put, they will all live. Then tell them there is unlimited power for the first one out the door. What do you think will happen?
They all agree to walk to the center of the room and hold hands. Eventually, they begin singing Kumbaya to pass the time.
I don't know anything about this particular program, but I do run a similar service. On the whole, American kids ARE too fat and the parents usually DO deserve a good chunk of the blame. It is also true that trying to control the children invasive and ultimately counterproductive.
This service is useful in that it is a great monitoring tool. It can give the children the freedom to make their own choices, but also give the parents enough information to know if their children need further education on the value of good nutrition.
As it currently stands, the people are electing the president, but we are treating them as if the states are the ones doing it.
Actually, I think the current system is a pretty good compromise. It removes a layer of abstraction (People->College->President rather than People->Reps->College->President), yet it still blunts the power of populous states ever so slightly.
Having said that, I would still love to see something along the lines of Approval or Condorcet voting replace the current system.
I think the Japanese should stick to trying to determine what actually drives the weather and stay out of the prediction business.
Isn't step one of the scientific method to form a hypothesis? Sure, it'll be wrong on a lot of things, but they'll learn from it. Version two will be less wrong.
Maybe you don't need an SUV for those things. I have no idea; I've never tried to tow anything. I just know that a lot of people the towing capacity as a justification.
No doubt. If you do a significant amount of off-roading, it probably makes sense to buy your own. I was following up on the assumption that most SUV owners don't take their vehicles off-road. Most simply use it for the occasional tow.
Nah, you can't tell someone how to spend their free time and disposable income. It would be nice if we could convince some of them to do the math though. There's no way it makes sense to spend five extra digits (nevermind the mpg cost) on a vehicle just to haul a boat/atv/etc a handful of times per year. I'm sure you could rent something when you need it and save a few bucks.
What they're really paying all that extra money for is the convenience of not having to call Hertz each month. With gas firmly at $3, I imagine that this pool of people is already shrinking. I'm sure it'll dry up pretty quickly when cruise by $4.
If you read TFA... the sail is supposed to assist, not power it. The engine should be running.
I RTFA and it was devoid of any useful information, so I went on to read their site. The way they put it, the engines were optional once you get up to speed. I didn't see any evidence to suggest they had reached that level of performance.
That's SOP for Black Friday. Every store has a few huge loss leaders, but you have to be there well before opening if you want to get them. I checked out BF a couple times, just to see what it's like. Bottom line: it's for stay-at-home moms that love shopping. Anyone else would be better off to just put in a couple extra hours at work and hit up a sane sale a couple weeks later.
Here is a video
from their site. This is obviously a prototype, so they have a LOT of scaling to do. Plus, the only time you see the boat (yes, I said boat, not ship) moving with any significant speed, you can't see the rear, so it's safe to assume that its engine is assisting.
Your post is entirely correct, including the above quote. However, there are a number of dishonest companies online that use rebates to scam their customers. Most B&M companies have worked diligently to make rebates more palatable to customers, but some of the.coms will concoct all sorts of crap to avoid paying.
Please understand that the internet is not only for grandmas web surfing.
The internet is for whatever your TOS say it is for. If your ISP (or uni) provides you with internet service with explicit instructions not to run certain services, you are not authorized to run those services. If you wish to run those services, pay for the extra bandwidth that you will be using. Their enforcement capabilities have been notoriously bad, but that doesn't make leeching proper.
Don't be to proud of the technological terror we have created. Right now, we can't even really handle Iraq and Afghanistan at the same time. North Korea, in our present circumstances, is completely beyond our ability to handle useing "superpower" tools.
I don't disagree with your point, but don't underestimate our abilities. Our technology gives us unmatched stand-off capabilities. It's the occupation part that leaves much to be desired.
I try to answer the estimate and share my confidence level of that estimate. Plus I try list any caveats that might impact the estimate...I find bosses to be far more understanding of missed deadlines if they have a reasonable expection of missing a deadline.
Exactly. In fact, at that point it's more of a goal or projection than a deadline. It only becomes a deadline if you, your boss, or the customer make it firm. You can't control your boss or the customer, but if you imply that it's firm when your confidence is low, you're a fool and you deserve the long nights.
given that Google list plenty of real competitors when you search for "search engine". But somehow this tiny search engine nobody has heard of is worse competition than MSN, etc?
It really wasn't that long ago that Google was a nobody. I know nothing about this company, but if they have good technology, they may pose a threat to Google.
Umm, it's not hidden at all.
'Bills' want cash for any resources provided, just like Mr. Gates.
'Linuses' trade their resources for goodwill, just like our favorite champion of OSS.
Are you really suggesting it's feasible to set aside 50% of your income for retirement?
No, that wasn't was I suggested. I was suggesting that he saved 50% of his base salary. Since he's thinking of taking a second job, that would probably amount to 30-40% of his total income. This is very doable, since it doesn't sound like he has much in the way of family obligations.
I don't necessarily recommend this path, since he's talking about cashing in what should be some pretty fun years, but it would definitely get him ahead.
As has already been pointed out, many of your assumptions are invalid. You can scale your idea back a little bit and find some more modest success.
Typical retirement advice is to set aside 10% of your income throughout your entire career, but anyone with a clue knows that compound interest makes your early savings exponentially more valuable than the savings from the end of your career. If you were willing to bust your hump for 5 years and set aside 5 times as much as you normally would, you might be able to coast through the remainder of your career knowing that your retirement is already handled.
It's unorthodox, but it might work. Do your homework.
Don't be so quick to judge. The rest of your argument may well be valid, but there are a lot of small SUVs on the market that are neither expensive, nor inefficient. Obviously, a Hyundai Accent would be less expensive and more efficient, but that may not meet her needs for some reason.
It has nothing to do with being a corporation. It has everything to do with having money. Corporations simply tend to have more of it.
The law is extremely complicated. If you can afford good lawyers, you can raise enough doubt to defend yourself against most anything. If you don't, you and your public defender will probably just plead to a reduced charge to save everyone time and money.
I'm not saying that this is necessarily the best way for us to live, but if you're gonna be a cynical coward, you should atleast define the situation properly.
Sure, those are three reasonable options that don't require an extraordinary amount of time. The poster, however, said he wanted "Easy import and export of data". I took that to mean that he wanted wizards. He probably even expected the data to output directly to the replacement software.
I can't stand software that makes it extremly difficult to get your data out of
It sounds like you're pretty bitter. Do you think software inherently comes with import/export functionality and these developers take the time to hide it from you, just so they can extract more money?
Import/export functionality takes time. Time costs money. It is also something that most users don't care about. Sounds like a premium feature to me.
BTW, If import/export functionality happens to be especially important to you, it would behoove you to test it out when you're evaluating the software in the first place.
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I don't know anything about this particular program, but I do run a similar service. On the whole, American kids ARE too fat and the parents usually DO deserve a good chunk of the blame. It is also true that trying to control the children invasive and ultimately counterproductive.
This service is useful in that it is a great monitoring tool. It can give the children the freedom to make their own choices, but also give the parents enough information to know if their children need further education on the value of good nutrition.
Actually, I think the current system is a pretty good compromise. It removes a layer of abstraction (People->College->President rather than People->Reps->College->President), yet it still blunts the power of populous states ever so slightly.
Having said that, I would still love to see something along the lines of Approval or Condorcet voting replace the current system.
So the outlining idea wouldn't work, but they can still count the stupid things.
Quit pissin' on their Cheerios.
Maybe you don't need an SUV for those things. I have no idea; I've never tried to tow anything. I just know that a lot of people the towing capacity as a justification.
No doubt. If you do a significant amount of off-roading, it probably makes sense to buy your own. I was following up on the assumption that most SUV owners don't take their vehicles off-road. Most simply use it for the occasional tow.
That's SOP for Black Friday. Every store has a few huge loss leaders, but you have to be there well before opening if you want to get them. I checked out BF a couple times, just to see what it's like. Bottom line: it's for stay-at-home moms that love shopping. Anyone else would be better off to just put in a couple extra hours at work and hit up a sane sale a couple weeks later.
Here is a video from their site. This is obviously a prototype, so they have a LOT of scaling to do. Plus, the only time you see the boat (yes, I said boat, not ship) moving with any significant speed, you can't see the rear, so it's safe to assume that its engine is assisting.
Umm, it's not hidden at all. 'Bills' want cash for any resources provided, just like Mr. Gates. 'Linuses' trade their resources for goodwill, just like our favorite champion of OSS.
I don't necessarily recommend this path, since he's talking about cashing in what should be some pretty fun years, but it would definitely get him ahead.
As has already been pointed out, many of your assumptions are invalid. You can scale your idea back a little bit and find some more modest success. Typical retirement advice is to set aside 10% of your income throughout your entire career, but anyone with a clue knows that compound interest makes your early savings exponentially more valuable than the savings from the end of your career. If you were willing to bust your hump for 5 years and set aside 5 times as much as you normally would, you might be able to coast through the remainder of your career knowing that your retirement is already handled. It's unorthodox, but it might work. Do your homework.
It has nothing to do with being a corporation. It has everything to do with having money. Corporations simply tend to have more of it.
The law is extremely complicated. If you can afford good lawyers, you can raise enough doubt to defend yourself against most anything. If you don't, you and your public defender will probably just plead to a reduced charge to save everyone time and money.
I'm not saying that this is necessarily the best way for us to live, but if you're gonna be a cynical coward, you should atleast define the situation properly.
Sure, those are three reasonable options that don't require an extraordinary amount of time. The poster, however, said he wanted "Easy import and export of data". I took that to mean that he wanted wizards. He probably even expected the data to output directly to the replacement software.
It sounds like you're pretty bitter. Do you think software inherently comes with import/export functionality and these developers take the time to hide it from you, just so they can extract more money?
Import/export functionality takes time. Time costs money. It is also something that most users don't care about. Sounds like a premium feature to me.
BTW, If import/export functionality happens to be especially important to you, it would behoove you to test it out when you're evaluating the software in the first place.