Lying on an SEC document is more serious than run-of-the-mill resume puffery. The time to clean up any inadvertence or carelessness is before filing sworn documents.
Investors deserve complete candor from CEOs. The degree he received in 1979 is not important; lying about it in 2012 is.
Inflated resumes are indeed common among Silicon Valley cubicle slaves, but Thompson should be held to a higher standard. That, as they say, is why he gets the big bucks.
Agreed. Ninety-nine percent is a bit high, but my dictionary and others say that it means to break into a computer illegally. The AP Stylebook, which governs most media coverage, says the term "hacker" "has evolved to mean one who uses computer skills to unlawfully penetrate proprietary computer systems."
Since the meaning of "hack" has evolved, or at the very least is evolving into this negative sense, automated computer systems flag it.
Maybe the magazine can contact a live person. Or find a different word although I'm not sure what it would be.
They take some people off the street who, at the very least, have an abnormally high interest in making war against the U.S. within our borders. More important, it makes terrorists wary of trusting one another, thus disrupting their operations.
At the time of 9/11, people criticized the FBI for sitting on its ass and letting Bin Laden get away with it. Call me crazy, but I'm all for jailing and killing people who want to destroy the U.S.
State and local governments are responsible for the actions of Microsoft and Apple because they passed the laws making such tax avoidance possible. It's unreasonable to think that any company or individual would not try to pay the lowest legal amount.
Companies download software from countries with lower tax burdens, claim their profits there, and now are pushing hard to be allowed to bring that money home free from U.S. tax. It's nice that Apple and Microsoft help Ireland pay for its schools, but not while Cupertino's and Seattle's are cutting educational spending to the bone and beyond.
And if the tiny city of Cupertino has the temerity to ask Apple for something as modest as citywide free wireless, Apple threatens to move out of town, neglecting to point out that, to a large extent, it already has.
To be fair, you could make a similar (if probably shorter) list of Word's advantages that would include superior outlining and cross-reference systems, as well as grammar checking.
One can cure oneself of the NOT 'UN-' formation by memorizing this sentence: A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field.
I'd have expected to see something in slashdot about the huge earthquakes near Indonesia and their results. Why do undersea earthquakes sometimes cause catastrophe and sometimes do not?
The Zimmerman arrest poses no such nerdish question.
For us, this was most practical of the various kinds of Internet connectivity available in those days. It "only" did email--but, jesus--what a productivity boost. Our Fedex bill dropped like a stone.
It's not trying to "look like" a story; the submission is clearly identified as coming from Plantronics PR. Product information is not intrinsically different from scientific information, and few would hear about Boeing or Piper without PR people.
My point is that 80% of/. as well as 80% of the New York Times or 80% of the Wall St. Journal began as a news releases or story pitches.
I'm happy to concede that the vulgar definition of "PR" as "BS" is usually correct--about 80% of the time, I'd say.
They were more like the fuzzy down of a modern baby chick than the stiff plumes of an adult bird,” Xing Xu, a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, said in a news release
Ask your lawyer to write a scary letter with threats. This costs a lot less than $5,000, and at least will help you get a little of your own back. Not your money back, of course, but some self-respect.
Their best offer was half a month of free hosting on their dangerously insecure server? What was their second-bast offer, six week of free hosting?
50 years ago Bobby Fischer published a famous article, "A Bust to the King's Gambit", claiming to have done exactly that. I was curious to see how valid his conclusions were. Turns out they were amazingly accurate. The main line of the King's Gambit, 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3, is indeed winning for Black. Moreover, the only winning move is 3... d6!, just as Fischer claimed.
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Lying on an SEC document is more serious than run-of-the-mill resume puffery. The time to clean up any inadvertence or carelessness is before filing sworn documents.
Investors deserve complete candor from CEOs. The degree he received in 1979 is not important; lying about it in 2012 is.
Inflated resumes are indeed common among Silicon Valley cubicle slaves, but Thompson should be held to a higher standard. That, as they say, is why he gets the big bucks.
Agreed. Ninety-nine percent is a bit high, but my dictionary and others say that it means to break into a computer illegally. The AP Stylebook, which governs most media coverage, says the term "hacker" "has evolved to mean one who uses computer skills to unlawfully penetrate proprietary computer systems."
Since the meaning of "hack" has evolved, or at the very least is evolving into this negative sense, automated computer systems flag it.
Maybe the magazine can contact a live person. Or find a different word although I'm not sure what it would be.
There's more to engineering than classwork. This kid's got it in his genes. Go Bears!
They take some people off the street who, at the very least, have an abnormally high interest in making war against the U.S. within our borders. More important, it makes terrorists wary of trusting one another, thus disrupting their operations.
At the time of 9/11, people criticized the FBI for sitting on its ass and letting Bin Laden get away with it. Call me crazy, but I'm all for jailing and killing people who want to destroy the U.S.
State and local governments are responsible for the actions of Microsoft and Apple because they passed the laws making such tax avoidance possible. It's unreasonable to think that any company or individual would not try to pay the lowest legal amount.
But the lengths to which Apple, Microsoft, and the other tech giants have gone to influence these laws is what offends me. The tech lobby's biggest priority is to allow high-tech firms to bring back profits from overseas operations that were established precisely to avoid taxes in the first place. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-18/technology-companies-lobby-u-s-lawmakers-for-lower-corporate-taxe-rates.html
Companies download software from countries with lower tax burdens, claim their profits there, and now are pushing hard to be allowed to bring that money home free from U.S. tax. It's nice that Apple and Microsoft help Ireland pay for its schools, but not while Cupertino's and Seattle's are cutting educational spending to the bone and beyond.
And if the tiny city of Cupertino has the temerity to ask Apple for something as modest as citywide free wireless, Apple threatens to move out of town, neglecting to point out that, to a large extent, it already has.
Please vote.
Microsoft has the second largest stash, about $25 billion. I think they could replicate the Foxconn Brazil operation out of the interest income.
The author concedes this, in part:
--Politics and The English Language
At $250/copy, this was not a cash cow; it was a cash stampede. I got far more than my money's worth from it--used it hours a days for years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/15/web-freedom-threat-google-brin
Note that he was talking less about "government" in general than about those of China, Iran, and Saudia Arabia.
I look for a pretty girl to rub the dice on her ass before throwing them. Plus, I talk to the ornery little motherfuckers.
Otherwise, I don't believe in spirts, I don't believe in Spiderman, and I don't believe in God.
http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=36679
Oh, you mean do science? But that's such hard work.
In January, Intel said 24 manufacturers embraced Thunderbolt, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, Seagate, Western Digital and LaCie among them.
Intel now says that the number of design wins will reach 100 this year.
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1201&RELTYPE=CES&PRODCODE=000000&PRODLETT=IS&CommonCount=0
I agree. We need better enforcement of laws against cutting off people's hands at the wrist. What we don't need is an over-engineered ATM machine.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2012/0411/A-tsunami-warning-system-makes-waves
I'd have expected to see something in slashdot about the huge earthquakes near Indonesia and their results. Why do undersea earthquakes sometimes cause catastrophe and sometimes do not?
The Zimmerman arrest poses no such nerdish question.
How about just tougher laws against cutting peoples' hands off at the wrist instead? Just a suggestion
The word on Jack was, "He's a great guy, and he'll pay you if he has to."
He bought Atari for a dollar down and a dollar when you catch me, 'cause Warner was a serious don't-wanter.
I don't think anyone with a softer nose could have kept Atari going, but let's remember him as he was, one tough sonovabitch.
For us, this was most practical of the various kinds of Internet connectivity available in those days. It "only" did email--but, jesus--what a productivity boost. Our Fedex bill dropped like a stone.
"Effortless?" That, Sir, is a baseless canard. If operating a Mac is important to your career, you need this guy:
http://www.tvtopten.com/images/video_professor.jpg
Since we're stupid, maybe spell out the acronym? Since Macintosh users are stupid and all.
http://www.acronymfinder.com/MAC.html
It's not trying to "look like" a story; the submission is clearly identified as coming from Plantronics PR. Product information is not intrinsically different from scientific information, and few would hear about Boeing or Piper without PR people.
My point is that 80% of /. as well as 80% of the New York Times or 80% of the Wall St. Journal began as a news releases or story pitches.
I'm happy to concede that the vulgar definition of "PR" as "BS" is usually correct--about 80% of the time, I'd say.
Case in point:
They were more like the fuzzy down of a modern baby chick than the stiff plumes of an adult bird,” Xing Xu, a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, said in a news release
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/120404/t-rex-cousin-sported-downy-feathers
Ask your lawyer to write a scary letter with threats. This costs a lot less than $5,000, and at least will help you get a little of your own back. Not your money back, of course, but some self-respect.
Their best offer was half a month of free hosting on their dangerously insecure server? What was their second-bast offer, six week of free hosting?
You think?
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