The boom took the unemployment rate down to just under 4%, but even with the post-boom recession it didn't rise very far, only peaking at just under 6.5% (currently more like 5.5%), a level which most other countries would drool over. Given Perot's predictions, you would have thought we'd be more like double that figure.
As it stands now, if the Lokitorrent folks are in US jurisdiction, they're quite screwed. They have no real defense. What they need the $30 grand for, I can't imagine.
One heck of a party when they shut things down, that's what for!
I've noticed the same thing since I got a Tablet PC that I use at home. It's easy to sit with the wife while she watches TV and surf the web. Of course, I'm talking with her about what she's watching, browsing ESPN.com to see who the Tigers might pick up during the baseball offseason, keeping up on the markets over at Innovation Futures (where I won the Tablet PC), going through the daily email, and playing a Texas HoldEm table over at PartyPoker. All this is after putting my 3 kids to bed for the night, so this qualifies as "relaxation".
Last night, I ditched all of that to watch the Return of the Kind DVD which just arrived from Amazon. It had been far too long since I focused on a single thing for four hours like that, but it was so rewarding. I didn't get to bed until 1:30, but got to work today feeling more refreshed than I have in ages...
What Perot was wrong about, however, was America's ability to grow its economy in new directions. For all his "sucking sound" rhetoric, unemployment didn't shoot through the roof, and instead, new jobs were created in different industries.
I work for a company which recently shut down a Mexican factory and moved that work to China. Why? Besides cost savings, the quality is much higher coming from China. The maquiladora we dealt with siphoned off pay from the employees, acted in their own short-sighted interest instead of delivering goods on-time and on-specification, and basically dug their own grave on this one.
It's called competition - our expanded facility in China delivers better goods more reliably, and for less cost. Mexico needs to get its collective $hit together before more and more large companies make the same decision we did...
According to the article, the system was on track to be replaced in the coming months...
That said, it's very true that many businesses get by "just fine" with existing, antiquated systems. Justifying system upgrades can be difficult from a conventional cost-benefit standpoint, when a large part of the benefit is based on preventing theoretical problems like this one.
It seems that even scientists can't seem to agree on the level of risk of this actually happening. Until they do I'm not leaving Boston for the midwest.
After all, there's about as much a chance of a tsunami sweeping away Boston as there is the Red Sox winning the World Series...
An expert on NPR yesterday referred to the fact that escaping a hurricane and escaping a tsunami are quite different. To get out of the path of a hurricane, you often need to travel hundreds of miles. To get out of the destructive range of a tsunami, just going a few miles can get you far enough inland to avoid the damage...
I'm looking into that. According to Amazon, they dock 2.9% + 30 cents, which is roughly equivalent to credit-card fees that agencies would face anyway. I'm surfing for further info, and if you're right, I'll change my sig...
To further that point, if he really wanted to do the Citrix thing to support IE use where absolutely necessary, he could set up the bookmarks and preferences to support just those sites and applications. Heck, he could even whitelist those sites so IE could ONLY be used at those sites. Firefox could then be the standard for all other web browsing.
That is because Companies don't change technolgies on the basis of Merit.
And why should they? The "merit" must be so strong that it justifies a total rework of a company's systems architecture, and be solid enough to not require another such rework a few years down the road when GeeWhiz Technology 2.0 comes out. For many companies, their basic systems (many even Cobol based - the horror!) work just fine and it doesn't make sense to reinvent the wheel just because you do it in the current hot language...
Actually, personal information is useful to them in terms of selecting which coupon offers to make. If you always purchase generic, sandpaper-grade toilet paper, they might offer you a coupon for a pricier option. If, on the other hand, you already buy the premium brand, there's no reason for them to offer you a coupon on it, is there?
Personally, the only thing that bothers me about those cards is having a different one for each store. I'd happily register my credit and debit cards with them and let them just use that to tag my purchases individually...
I used to work with a guy who at one time was an HP3000 operator back when those things were as big as your average washer/dryer combo. His shop had about a dozen of these things, and one night he and a buddy were playing frizbee with the circular write-protect rings that were used on the reel-to-reel tape drives.
Sure enough, his buddy whipped one at his head, and as he ducked out of the way, he fell back and by accident hit the power switch located on the back of one of the HP3000's. In an instant, all the ticket terminals for one airline (I can't recall which one) at O'Hare airport went down, prompting a frantic call from VP's wondering what disaster had struck. So who knows what could have happened this time around...
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They should include bonus rinks and jerseys to reflect the exhibition games these guys are playing. Heck, you could even include Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow as players so you can have them duke it out at center ice. It would be more entertaining than watching this total lack of negotiation that seems to be going on...
Forget all those minor details. When you add in the fact that pirates blatantly take $4.7 bazillion-gazillion out of the wallets of the gaming companies, you see that the gaming biz by any reasonable measure is the larger of the two.
Of course, by that logic, the music biz represents a $843 googazillion industry, based on theoretical revenue from online file sharing.
Bah - you complicate the issue too much. There's only one thing you truly need to make this a success:
Cheerleaders.
Seriously, an easy way to raise $$$ is by selling t-shirts. Come up with a clever design, and you can easily get people to pay $10 apiece for something that costs less than half that to procure. When I was in high school a group I belonged to did that and we raised well over $2000 in just a couple weekends...
There are manyn exceptions to this, though. Did Office Space do well at the box office? I haven't seen it, but Donnie Darko is supposed to be another film that did lousy box office, but has done much better in the afterlife of DVD sales...
Admittedly we have to blame the whole of the UN Security Council for this,
No, blame Saddam Hussein and his government. It certainly looked like those presidential palaces and other havens of the elite didn't suffer due to sanctions. The manner in which they allocated scarce resources within their own country is the true culprit there...
Kenneth Lay is on his way there. Those kinds of cases are extremely complicated and the prosecutors are working their way up the chain of command. The CFO and his wife are doing time already, I believe, and Lay's conviction is only a matter of time.
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The boom took the unemployment rate down to just under 4%, but even with the post-boom recession it didn't rise very far, only peaking at just under 6.5% (currently more like 5.5%), a level which most other countries would drool over. Given Perot's predictions, you would have thought we'd be more like double that figure.
Face it, Perot missed half the story.
As it stands now, if the Lokitorrent folks are in US jurisdiction, they're quite screwed. They have no real defense. What they need the $30 grand for, I can't imagine.
One heck of a party when they shut things down, that's what for!
I've noticed the same thing since I got a Tablet PC that I use at home. It's easy to sit with the wife while she watches TV and surf the web. Of course, I'm talking with her about what she's watching, browsing ESPN.com to see who the Tigers might pick up during the baseball offseason, keeping up on the markets over at Innovation Futures (where I won the Tablet PC), going through the daily email, and playing a Texas HoldEm table over at PartyPoker. All this is after putting my 3 kids to bed for the night, so this qualifies as "relaxation".
Last night, I ditched all of that to watch the Return of the Kind DVD which just arrived from Amazon. It had been far too long since I focused on a single thing for four hours like that, but it was so rewarding. I didn't get to bed until 1:30, but got to work today feeling more refreshed than I have in ages...
What Perot was wrong about, however, was America's ability to grow its economy in new directions. For all his "sucking sound" rhetoric, unemployment didn't shoot through the roof, and instead, new jobs were created in different industries.
I work for a company which recently shut down a Mexican factory and moved that work to China. Why? Besides cost savings, the quality is much higher coming from China. The maquiladora we dealt with siphoned off pay from the employees, acted in their own short-sighted interest instead of delivering goods on-time and on-specification, and basically dug their own grave on this one.
It's called competition - our expanded facility in China delivers better goods more reliably, and for less cost. Mexico needs to get its collective $hit together before more and more large companies make the same decision we did...
According to the article, the system was on track to be replaced in the coming months...
That said, it's very true that many businesses get by "just fine" with existing, antiquated systems. Justifying system upgrades can be difficult from a conventional cost-benefit standpoint, when a large part of the benefit is based on preventing theoretical problems like this one.
It seems that even scientists can't seem to agree on the level of risk of this actually happening. Until they do I'm not leaving Boston for the midwest.
After all, there's about as much a chance of a tsunami sweeping away Boston as there is the Red Sox winning the World Series...
Feel free to show us the way and start of with yourself!
An expert on NPR yesterday referred to the fact that escaping a hurricane and escaping a tsunami are quite different. To get out of the path of a hurricane, you often need to travel hundreds of miles. To get out of the destructive range of a tsunami, just going a few miles can get you far enough inland to avoid the damage...
I'm looking into that. According to Amazon, they dock 2.9% + 30 cents, which is roughly equivalent to credit-card fees that agencies would face anyway. I'm surfing for further info, and if you're right, I'll change my sig...
Don't know why they couldn't put the link in the article summary, but the Amazon donation link is in the sig below:
To further that point, if he really wanted to do the Citrix thing to support IE use where absolutely necessary, he could set up the bookmarks and preferences to support just those sites and applications. Heck, he could even whitelist those sites so IE could ONLY be used at those sites. Firefox could then be the standard for all other web browsing.
That is because Companies don't change technolgies on the basis of Merit.
And why should they? The "merit" must be so strong that it justifies a total rework of a company's systems architecture, and be solid enough to not require another such rework a few years down the road when GeeWhiz Technology 2.0 comes out. For many companies, their basic systems (many even Cobol based - the horror!) work just fine and it doesn't make sense to reinvent the wheel just because you do it in the current hot language...
Actually, I think that will become the new /.er's pickup line:
"You know we only have 24 more years to live, don't you? Please, hold me..."
Actually, personal information is useful to them in terms of selecting which coupon offers to make. If you always purchase generic, sandpaper-grade toilet paper, they might offer you a coupon for a pricier option. If, on the other hand, you already buy the premium brand, there's no reason for them to offer you a coupon on it, is there?
Personally, the only thing that bothers me about those cards is having a different one for each store. I'd happily register my credit and debit cards with them and let them just use that to tag my purchases individually...
And of course you missed the real winner, no matter what happens:
Consultants!
I used to work with a guy who at one time was an HP3000 operator back when those things were as big as your average washer/dryer combo. His shop had about a dozen of these things, and one night he and a buddy were playing frizbee with the circular write-protect rings that were used on the reel-to-reel tape drives.
Sure enough, his buddy whipped one at his head, and as he ducked out of the way, he fell back and by accident hit the power switch located on the back of one of the HP3000's. In an instant, all the ticket terminals for one airline (I can't recall which one) at O'Hare airport went down, prompting a frantic call from VP's wondering what disaster had struck. So who knows what could have happened this time around...
They should include bonus rinks and jerseys to reflect the exhibition games these guys are playing. Heck, you could even include Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow as players so you can have them duke it out at center ice. It would be more entertaining than watching this total lack of negotiation that seems to be going on...
Forget all those minor details. When you add in the fact that pirates blatantly take $4.7 bazillion-gazillion out of the wallets of the gaming companies, you see that the gaming biz by any reasonable measure is the larger of the two.
Of course, by that logic, the music biz represents a $843 googazillion industry, based on theoretical revenue from online file sharing.
Absolutely - I'll bet they have the guilty parties rowing hard in the belly of a slave galley even now...
Human rights? puh-lease....
Bah - you complicate the issue too much. There's only one thing you truly need to make this a success:
Cheerleaders.
Seriously, an easy way to raise $$$ is by selling t-shirts. Come up with a clever design, and you can easily get people to pay $10 apiece for something that costs less than half that to procure. When I was in high school a group I belonged to did that and we raised well over $2000 in just a couple weekends...
There are manyn exceptions to this, though. Did Office Space do well at the box office? I haven't seen it, but Donnie Darko is supposed to be another film that did lousy box office, but has done much better in the afterlife of DVD sales...
Admittedly we have to blame the whole of the UN Security Council for this,
No, blame Saddam Hussein and his government. It certainly looked like those presidential palaces and other havens of the elite didn't suffer due to sanctions. The manner in which they allocated scarce resources within their own country is the true culprit there...
Seymour Butts, is that you? Or is that Mike Hunt? I lost count partway through the line...
Kenneth Lay is on his way there. Those kinds of cases are extremely complicated and the prosecutors are working their way up the chain of command. The CFO and his wife are doing time already, I believe, and Lay's conviction is only a matter of time.
And how many of these are crackers like this guy? What's your point, exactly?