If you think a fake blog or website is bad, check out this article about Sony paying people to ask other people to take their picture with Sony's hot new phone. It is pretty much proof that Sony is run by assholes, who don't mind taking advantage of other people's kindness. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/HolidayTheme/story? id=2690905&page=1
I agree, FUCK YOU SONY
Nah, what's amusing is the fact that exactly zero (0) slashdot nerds know that this is in fact the correct answer, and that the professor is wrong.
0 / 0 = lim x->0 (0 / x) = 0
What's amusing is that you think a limit is the same thing as equality, and accuse slashdotters of ignorance because they all don't make the same false assumption that you make.
You have to create history to get the experience I am referring to. Instead of just opening a tab, and then one page, then closing the tab. Try the following, and let me know if you have the same experience.
start with the google.com
open a tab. Go to 4 big sites in this tab
open another tab. Go to 4 more big sites
open another tab. Go to 4 more big sites.
close all but the google tab.
Do the same in IE (I only have IE6, so I have to do it with windows.)
Let me know if you still get the same results.
yes, IE 6 does this (albeit without tabs.) When I open 10 windows with pages like cnn.com, abc.com, nbc.com, nytimes.com. Memory usage goes in excess of 200 megs. When I close 9 IE windows, memory usage drops to ~50megs. In firefox, when I open a bunch of tabs and surf around, then close the tabs, memory usage barely decreases at all.
I once gave up watching tv to free up time in my life, but I found I spent so much time telling other people that I didn't watch tv and explaining to them that there is only crap on tv, that it was less time consuming just to watch tv in the first place.
The thing is that when I have lots of tabs open, I want firefox to use lots of memory so I get the benefit of the hyperfast back and forward. I just don't want history cached after I close tabs. With the config settings, I can either turn off the fast back/forward(practically no caching), or limit the total memory usage. Neither of these solutions is proper. When I have 10 tabs open with lots of history, Firefox should use ~200 megs of memory. When I close 9 of the tabs, the memory usage should drop to ~30megs. This way, when I am primarily surfing, I would have a nice fast experience, and when I switch to working with a memory intesive application, I can just close a bunch of tabs and I don't have to worry about crap getting written to the swap. Do you know a way to achieve what I want?
A lot has been said about the memory issues in Firefox, and I agree that it probably isn't a "leak" as the developers claim. But why the hell does Firefox continue to cache all of the history for a closed tab in memory. If I close a bunch of tabs, I want the memory freed up! I have no need to be able to instantly reopen a closed tab with all of the history, which is possible today with a simple extension. When I close a tab, I am not going back in the near future, and if I do, Firefox should just reload the page.
Another thing to consider is where you live. In hot climates, where the excess heat from incandesent bulb must be transferred outside, the total household consumption from a 60W bulb can be closer to 90W when including the A/C. Thus by switching to CF, one can save more than 60W by replacing one 60W bulb. The reverse is true in cold climates... The excess heat from an incandesent bulb serves to heat your house, there by lowering your gas/electricity/heating oil/etc. costs, and so the total power savings is less than the difference between comparable bulb power ratings.
Personnally, every bulb in my NY apartment is CF, primarily because I am not charged for heat and electricity costs a ridiculous $0.20 per kW-hr
Close, but you forgot one step, and that is if the moon is moving 1.6 inches a year, then the barycenter is moving at 1.6 * Mass of the Moon / (Mass of the Moon + Mass of the Earth) I think you are low by a factor of 80, so the correct math works out to approximately 3 billion years, consistent with the article.
I'm confused... It appears you are only using 7 bits. I can't register that. The parent says something along the lines of "Yep that's the only f'ing way"
Too bad you don't watch the Tivo commercials. You probably missed this. It was on my Tivo last night bundled with a 24 trailer. Definately worth the 32 seconds.
A company of this size and portfolia could litaerally drag the entire economy to a standstill if allowed to patent everything.
That is exactly what we need -- a reason to reform the patent system. The status quo will not get changed until people start caring. I hoped the RIM case would be the spark that fixed the system, unfortunately it appears I was optimistic.
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being listed on the S&P 500 will do nothing to mainain the value of the company. The stock price is based on the price at which two parties are willing to trade. Mutual funds owing the shares does nothing to support the price, although the automatic required buying can have temporary, albeit a modest impact on the stock price.
Dada21,
You seem to blame this multiplier effect on the Federal Reserve, but this all actually started before there even was paper money. I know you are a gold freak, so you might find this interesting.
Before there was money, there was gold. People found carrying around gold cumbersome and risky, so they stored the gold with a goldsmith and he issued receipts for the stored gold. People used these gold receipts to pay for things and the merchants could go and redeem the gold from the goldsmith. Knowing all of the gold was never redeemed at once, the goldsmiths began writing gold receipts for gold that wasn't in inventory and loaning the receips for interest. This works great so long as everyone doen't redeem all the gold receipts at once. The goldsmiths effectively created "new money". This whole system dates back to the good ole' gold days.
I know you are paranoid about money, and I am sure most of your savings are tied up in the yellow metal, but I sure hope you have more than gold receipts because to issue gold receipts you aren't actually required to have all of the gold in vaults.
What are you talking about? See here or here. Just because you and your friends use "right to work" and "at-will employement" interchangably, doesn't make it right.
Most states are right to work so they can do that.
"Right to work" has nothing to do with termination rules. It basically means that a worker isn't required to join a union. Many union factories require that all blue collar workers are part of the union, but in "right to work" states, these policies are outlawed. Hence the term "right to work(without joining the union)".
I make between 20% and 50% on my various businesses, annually.
Now I know why there are so many CPA's. What you said makes no sense whatsoever. 20% Return on Sales? Equity? Btw, are you taking into account your own salary?
Most stocks pay no dividend,
Again, not true. Companies that don't pay dividends are the exception not the rule. If the only companies you look at are tech stocks, maybe I can understand why you are confused
so they actually make their owners no profit (except on sale, which is ridiculous as companies should pay profits).
There are a couple of ways to pay profit other than a dividend, including share buyback programs.
Just about everything is a remake of something that's already been made.
Funny, people have been bitching about this for hundreds of years.
Shakespeare based many of his plays on the work of other playwrights and recycled older stories and historical material.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare
Good data, but it is also worth pointing out that income disparity is also growing. See here for the share of income by quartile. Notice the poor have an ever decreasing portion of total GDP.
I did a quick search for soybean oil and it was $8.99 (USD)
Funny I just did a quick search (on a trading platform, not google) and found that Chicago Board futures deliveries have traded between $0.26/lb and $0.21/lb in the past 12 months. So assuming ~7.3lbs/gallon that implies a raw material cost of around $1.53-$1.90. There is additional cost to convert to bio-diesel, delivery, gas station markup etc. People in the industry tell me the cost is around $3.20/gal all-in. While bio-diesel is probably not practical for mass consumption, the price today is not outrageous.
What you don't realized is how little is actually spent on Windows as a percent of anything in the US economy. M$ revenue worldwide is around $30 bils, so if everyone in the world stopped using MS software today it would add less than.1% to the Global economy. People in america spend roughly $300 bils on illegal drugs, so the average american spends more than 10 times as much on drugs as MS software. The liscensing cost of the MS Software I am forced to use right now represents less than.1% of my salary (not much of a raise opportunity by switching to linux), and is trivial compared to the cost of healthcare, education, etc. MS Software is actually very inexpensive, just not compared to linux. Free software is not going to have a material impact on healtcare, transportation, or education, but better software may. I personnally believe that FOSS is better software, but it is certainly a debateable point.
Sure, but try to find a lawyer to take this case. Damages = prize * probability of payout. So let's see that is $350/100,000 + 16,000/50,000,000 = $0.004 per entry. If a blind person claimed they would have entered 25 times per day for 100 days you come to a fair settlement of $9.55. Even if you formed a class action, the settlement would be less than the postage required communicate with the members of the class.
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If you think a fake blog or website is bad, check out this article about Sony paying people to ask other people to take their picture with Sony's hot new phone. It is pretty much proof that Sony is run by assholes, who don't mind taking advantage of other people's kindness.? id=2690905&page=1
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/HolidayTheme/story
I agree, FUCK YOU SONY
0 / 0 = lim x->0 (0 / x) = 0
What's amusing is that you think a limit is the same thing as equality, and accuse slashdotters of ignorance because they all don't make the same false assumption that you make.
You have to create history to get the experience I am referring to. Instead of just opening a tab, and then one page, then closing the tab. Try the following, and let me know if you have the same experience.
start with the google.com
open a tab. Go to 4 big sites in this tab
open another tab. Go to 4 more big sites
open another tab. Go to 4 more big sites.
close all but the google tab.
Do the same in IE (I only have IE6, so I have to do it with windows.)
Let me know if you still get the same results.
yes, IE 6 does this (albeit without tabs.) When I open 10 windows with pages like cnn.com, abc.com, nbc.com, nytimes.com. Memory usage goes in excess of 200 megs. When I close 9 IE windows, memory usage drops to ~50megs. In firefox, when I open a bunch of tabs and surf around, then close the tabs, memory usage barely decreases at all.
I once gave up watching tv to free up time in my life, but I found I spent so much time telling other people that I didn't watch tv and explaining to them that there is only crap on tv, that it was less time consuming just to watch tv in the first place.
The thing is that when I have lots of tabs open, I want firefox to use lots of memory so I get the benefit of the hyperfast back and forward. I just don't want history cached after I close tabs. With the config settings, I can either turn off the fast back/forward(practically no caching), or limit the total memory usage. Neither of these solutions is proper. When I have 10 tabs open with lots of history, Firefox should use ~200 megs of memory. When I close 9 of the tabs, the memory usage should drop to ~30megs. This way, when I am primarily surfing, I would have a nice fast experience, and when I switch to working with a memory intesive application, I can just close a bunch of tabs and I don't have to worry about crap getting written to the swap. Do you know a way to achieve what I want?
A lot has been said about the memory issues in Firefox, and I agree that it probably isn't a "leak" as the developers claim. But why the hell does Firefox continue to cache all of the history for a closed tab in memory. If I close a bunch of tabs, I want the memory freed up! I have no need to be able to instantly reopen a closed tab with all of the history, which is possible today with a simple extension. When I close a tab, I am not going back in the near future, and if I do, Firefox should just reload the page.
just my two cents.
Personnally, every bulb in my NY apartment is CF, primarily because I am not charged for heat and electricity costs a ridiculous $0.20 per kW-hr
9 is the generation, and 8 is the class. The next generation they used X to refer to the 10th generation, and X1 is the 11th generation.
Close, but you forgot one step, and that is if the moon is moving 1.6 inches a year, then the barycenter is moving at 1.6 * Mass of the Moon / (Mass of the Moon + Mass of the Earth) I think you are low by a factor of 80, so the correct math works out to approximately 3 billion years, consistent with the article.
q = 1 is fine. The condition is that q and p are both integers, and q != 0.
I'm confused... It appears you are only using 7 bits. I can't register that. The parent says something along the lines of "Yep that's the only f'ing way"
Too bad you don't watch the Tivo commercials. You probably missed this. It was on my Tivo last night bundled with a 24 trailer. Definately worth the 32 seconds.
That is exactly what we need -- a reason to reform the patent system. The status quo will not get changed until people start caring. I hoped the RIM case would be the spark that fixed the system, unfortunately it appears I was optimistic.
being listed on the S&P 500 will do nothing to mainain the value of the company. The stock price is based on the price at which two parties are willing to trade. Mutual funds owing the shares does nothing to support the price, although the automatic required buying can have temporary, albeit a modest impact on the stock price.
You are forgetting that lava rock is very porous.
Before there was money, there was gold. People found carrying around gold cumbersome and risky, so they stored the gold with a goldsmith and he issued receipts for the stored gold. People used these gold receipts to pay for things and the merchants could go and redeem the gold from the goldsmith. Knowing all of the gold was never redeemed at once, the goldsmiths began writing gold receipts for gold that wasn't in inventory and loaning the receips for interest. This works great so long as everyone doen't redeem all the gold receipts at once. The goldsmiths effectively created "new money". This whole system dates back to the good ole' gold days.
I know you are paranoid about money, and I am sure most of your savings are tied up in the yellow metal, but I sure hope you have more than gold receipts because to issue gold receipts you aren't actually required to have all of the gold in vaults.
What are you talking about? See here or here. Just because you and your friends use "right to work" and "at-will employement" interchangably, doesn't make it right.
"Right to work" has nothing to do with termination rules. It basically means that a worker isn't required to join a union. Many union factories require that all blue collar workers are part of the union, but in "right to work" states, these policies are outlawed. Hence the term "right to work(without joining the union)".
Now I know why there are so many CPA's. What you said makes no sense whatsoever. 20% Return on Sales? Equity? Btw, are you taking into account your own salary?
Most stocks pay no dividend,
Again, not true. Companies that don't pay dividends are the exception not the rule. If the only companies you look at are tech stocks, maybe I can understand why you are confused
so they actually make their owners no profit (except on sale, which is ridiculous as companies should pay profits).
There are a couple of ways to pay profit other than a dividend, including share buyback programs.
Funny, people have been bitching about this for hundreds of years.
Shakespeare based many of his plays on the work of other playwrights and recycled older stories and historical material. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare
Good data, but it is also worth pointing out that income disparity is also growing. See here for the share of income by quartile. Notice the poor have an ever decreasing portion of total GDP.
Funny I just did a quick search (on a trading platform, not google) and found that Chicago Board futures deliveries have traded between $0.26/lb and $0.21/lb in the past 12 months. So assuming ~7.3lbs/gallon that implies a raw material cost of around $1.53-$1.90. There is additional cost to convert to bio-diesel, delivery, gas station markup etc. People in the industry tell me the cost is around $3.20/gal all-in. While bio-diesel is probably not practical for mass consumption, the price today is not outrageous.
What you don't realized is how little is actually spent on Windows as a percent of anything in the US economy. M$ revenue worldwide is around $30 bils, so if everyone in the world stopped using MS software today it would add less than .1% to the Global economy. People in america spend roughly $300 bils on illegal drugs, so the average american spends more than 10 times as much on drugs as MS software. The liscensing cost of the MS Software I am forced to use right now represents less than .1% of my salary (not much of a raise opportunity by switching to linux), and is trivial compared to the cost of healthcare, education, etc. MS Software is actually very inexpensive, just not compared to linux. Free software is not going to have a material impact on healtcare, transportation, or education, but better software may. I personnally believe that FOSS is better software, but it is certainly a debateable point.
Sure, but try to find a lawyer to take this case. Damages = prize * probability of payout. So let's see that is $350/100,000 + 16,000 /50,000,000 = $0.004 per entry. If a blind person claimed they would have entered 25 times per day for 100 days you come to a fair settlement of $9.55. Even if you formed a class action, the settlement would be less than the postage required communicate with the members of the class.