Since thousands of years white males have pushed for the agenda that everyone else needs to be held down forever. You are not the victim just because you are not allowed to own any slaves anymore. Stop crying; it's embarrassing.
You do realise that there were black and asian slave owners throughout history? Even now?
You do realise that white people were sold as slaves throughout history? Even now?
You do realise that many white males support equality, but expect it in return?
Sorry, what? Evil white man must pay the price of a blinkered view of history, irrespective of the broader context or their own individual actions? How about, 'no'.
So, are you saying that those two Black guys in California who killed the 2 students from China are no racist, just because they happen to be Blacks?
I'm confused. Are you saying that the two killers are racist, because they are black?
It's not possible that they killed the Chinese students because they wanted the electronic gear, because they were 'on their patch', because they were high on drugs, because they're just stupid fuckwits or some other reason entirely unrelated to race?
If a white person kills a black person, I don't assume it's due to race, so why change that assumption when the killer's black?
It's situational. Punching a gay man because he knocked your beer over is assault. Punching a straight guy because he propositioned you is a hate crime.
Punching a woman because she wouldn't stop kicking you in the balls is assault, a hate crime and a sexual offence, but that's just the way the law's biased against men.
Just because someone is so fragile, that they can't handle some embarrassment...and decides to off themselves, should in no way constitute a lengthy and harsh penalty for this young man.
30 days doesn't feel like a lengthy penalty. You may consider it unduly harsh, but on a scale of "naughty boy, don't do it again" to "I condemn thee to be hung by the neck until ye be dead, dead, dead" it feels like it's in reasonable territory.
2 years would've been too much, a $60 fine would've been inadequate, something in between doesn't feel inappropriate.
Overclocking the CPU still leaves it slower than the stock CPU in my current phone, and doesn't help battery life at all. And making the device too big to dot in my pocket isn't the answer there - plenty of portable devices needing a bag are significantly better than the N900.
I don't regret buying/owning one, I still have it, but it never had the chance. That form factor and build quality with a more modern screen (even 3 years has seen a significant improvement) and a properly supported OS would still attract me, but until then I'm probably going to stick with Samsung and HTC
I'm not a professional, although I used to write portfolio management software. I guess I learned enough then to know the best strategy is.. hell, you've seen the film.
Anyway.. I feel Apple and Google are both overpriced at the moment. I would expect a correction soon, and wouldn't want to buy at current prices.
Luckily I'm not stupid enough to follow my own advice, so I shall mock anybody else that does:)
Which is fine, and gives Facebook a promising platform from which to generate revenue.
It doesn't necessarily lead to a $100bn valuation of the company. Not least because that high a valuation requires significant exploitation of the user base, and that's not a trivial activity.
Stocks are fundamentally valuable for exactly one reason: because they entitle you to dividends.
Not strictly true. They're worth the value of the company, which includes its assets and its future earnings potential.
As proof, consider if I bought 100% of the stock in Apple and shut the company down. I'd have no future dividend income, but I'd still have $70bn in cash, substantial fixed assets and a non-trivial amount of IP.
That all has value, and that value is reflected in Apple's current share price - along with their anticipated future earnings potential.
Thing is, it's not $16bn, it's $104bn - not all of the company was floated.
So each user is valued at over $120, which makes Instagram look cheap in comparison.
Sadly I suspect $3/user would be a closer true value, and would allow far friendlier user policies too that might help boost site usage. But I'm not a Facebook user..
I'm collecting a young lady from the orthodox Jewish community in around an hour and taking her dancing. Anybody spits on her finds out that I don't give a flying fuck which religion he is, he's subject to English law and I will demand he's prosecuted.
It's racist discrimination, it's inciting religious hatred, it's common assault and it's incitement to a punch in the face.
Indeed. The British are great at designing cars, when allowed to do it properly are great at building cars, and no matter how much help you give them are utterly shit at running car companies.
Which is the model people have used for rapidly scalable hosting needs for years. AWS (and equivalents) just makes it incredibly easy and cheap.
The added advantage is that the cost scales (at worse) linearly with usage, which means that although the total price may be a scarily large number, that'll only be the case if usage is too - which if usage is sales driven, means you can probably afford it.
It's a great model, and I'm delighted that Amazon and other companies are thriving in a competitive market to enable it.
Depends on the game. BF3 requires Origin, which is why I didn't buy it. SWTOR is available via Origin but doesn't mandate it, which is why I did buy SWTOR.
I have no issue with that. Games being available via multiple distribution gives people lots of choice.
If EA were mandating exclusivity then it would be a massive concern, but going with Origin and Steam and Direct2Drive and ThePirateBay and other popular digital distribution channels should assure the highest possible sales and make it easy for everybody that wants to play the game to do so.
And any half-decent auditing system would catch you very quickly indeed.
Indeed. For instance, over 1000 people working for the Government in the UK have been caught illegally accessing data - who'd have thought it, auditing systems working.
I don't think they're terribly widely deployed. And if they are, I don't think very many organisations have processes in place to make sure that action is taken when the audit blows the whistle on someone.
In the UK, they're deployed extensively, and if you don't work for DWP, it's often a sackable offence when the audit controls catch illicit access.
Forget the legal mandate to protect data, we have a duty of care to customers (and, cynically, to protect the company reputation).
Pretty hard to find a precision, purely mechanical one though
Nah, very easy to find.
Somewhat harder to afford though.
. A $10 digital LCD watch is more accurate and durable than most $1000 purely mechanical art watches.
I'd add a few zeros. A $10 digital LCD watch these days is going to hold its time better than most mechanical watches, even the ones costing $800,000. Wont be as nice though.
I wear a mechanical watch. As a timekeeping device, it's the worse watch I own. It's my favourite anyway.
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Since thousands of years white males have pushed for the agenda that everyone else needs to be held down forever. You are not the victim just because you are not allowed to own any slaves anymore. Stop crying; it's embarrassing.
You do realise that there were black and asian slave owners throughout history? Even now?
You do realise that white people were sold as slaves throughout history? Even now?
You do realise that many white males support equality, but expect it in return?
Sorry, what? Evil white man must pay the price of a blinkered view of history, irrespective of the broader context or their own individual actions? How about, 'no'.
I want equality. I don't think that's unfair.
So, are you saying that those two Black guys in California who killed the 2 students from China are no racist, just because they happen to be Blacks?
I'm confused. Are you saying that the two killers are racist, because they are black?
It's not possible that they killed the Chinese students because they wanted the electronic gear, because they were 'on their patch', because they were high on drugs, because they're just stupid fuckwits or some other reason entirely unrelated to race?
If a white person kills a black person, I don't assume it's due to race, so why change that assumption when the killer's black?
It's situational. Punching a gay man because he knocked your beer over is assault. Punching a straight guy because he propositioned you is a hate crime.
Punching a woman because she wouldn't stop kicking you in the balls is assault, a hate crime and a sexual offence, but that's just the way the law's biased against men.
Just because someone is so fragile, that they can't handle some embarrassment...and decides to off themselves, should in no way constitute a lengthy and harsh penalty for this young man.
30 days doesn't feel like a lengthy penalty. You may consider it unduly harsh, but on a scale of "naughty boy, don't do it again" to "I condemn thee to be hung by the neck until ye be dead, dead, dead" it feels like it's in reasonable territory.
2 years would've been too much, a $60 fine would've been inadequate, something in between doesn't feel inappropriate.
Overclocking the CPU still leaves it slower than the stock CPU in my current phone, and doesn't help battery life at all. And making the device too big to dot in my pocket isn't the answer there - plenty of portable devices needing a bag are significantly better than the N900.
I don't regret buying/owning one, I still have it, but it never had the chance. That form factor and build quality with a more modern screen (even 3 years has seen a significant improvement) and a properly supported OS would still attract me, but until then I'm probably going to stick with Samsung and HTC
The value is a complex function of current assets, current liabilities, potential earnings and a few other things.
But yes, defining 'dividends' as you have kind of covers it.
That's one of the most cynical things I've read in 14 years on Slashdot.
Congratulations :)
I'm not a professional, although I used to write portfolio management software. I guess I learned enough then to know the best strategy is.. hell, you've seen the film.
Anyway.. I feel Apple and Google are both overpriced at the moment. I would expect a correction soon, and wouldn't want to buy at current prices.
Luckily I'm not stupid enough to follow my own advice, so I shall mock anybody else that does :)
Which is fine, and gives Facebook a promising platform from which to generate revenue.
It doesn't necessarily lead to a $100bn valuation of the company. Not least because that high a valuation requires significant exploitation of the user base, and that's not a trivial activity.
Stocks are fundamentally valuable for exactly one reason: because they entitle you to dividends.
Not strictly true. They're worth the value of the company, which includes its assets and its future earnings potential.
As proof, consider if I bought 100% of the stock in Apple and shut the company down. I'd have no future dividend income, but I'd still have $70bn in cash, substantial fixed assets and a non-trivial amount of IP.
That all has value, and that value is reflected in Apple's current share price - along with their anticipated future earnings potential.
No, he just knows how expensive he is to maintain.
Thing is, it's not $16bn, it's $104bn - not all of the company was floated.
So each user is valued at over $120, which makes Instagram look cheap in comparison.
Sadly I suspect $3/user would be a closer true value, and would allow far friendlier user policies too that might help boost site usage. But I'm not a Facebook user..
For $1800, I'd use Facebook.
It'd cost a little more for me to actually post useful information about myself though.
Go Catholic, the priest might help you.
Oh, unless you're an adult.
I'm collecting a young lady from the orthodox Jewish community in around an hour and taking her dancing. Anybody spits on her finds out that I don't give a flying fuck which religion he is, he's subject to English law and I will demand he's prosecuted.
It's racist discrimination, it's inciting religious hatred, it's common assault and it's incitement to a punch in the face.
So these extra infrastructure costs.. to support extra people. You don't think the town will tax the extra people too?
There's more than one source of revenue..
Indeed. The British are great at designing cars, when allowed to do it properly are great at building cars, and no matter how much help you give them are utterly shit at running car companies.
JLR are moving head office to Coventry too (from Rugby, so not a major move).
Tata is Indian, but JLR is a wholly owned subsidiary, and run as a standalone company.
Which is the model people have used for rapidly scalable hosting needs for years. AWS (and equivalents) just makes it incredibly easy and cheap.
The added advantage is that the cost scales (at worse) linearly with usage, which means that although the total price may be a scarily large number, that'll only be the case if usage is too - which if usage is sales driven, means you can probably afford it.
It's a great model, and I'm delighted that Amazon and other companies are thriving in a competitive market to enable it.
Depends on the game. BF3 requires Origin, which is why I didn't buy it. SWTOR is available via Origin but doesn't mandate it, which is why I did buy SWTOR.
I have no issue with that. Games being available via multiple distribution gives people lots of choice.
If EA were mandating exclusivity then it would be a massive concern, but going with Origin and Steam and Direct2Drive and ThePirateBay and other popular digital distribution channels should assure the highest possible sales and make it easy for everybody that wants to play the game to do so.
And any half-decent auditing system would catch you very quickly indeed.
Indeed. For instance, over 1000 people working for the Government in the UK have been caught illegally accessing data - who'd have thought it, auditing systems working.
I don't think they're terribly widely deployed. And if they are, I don't think very many organisations have processes in place to make sure that action is taken when the audit blows the whistle on someone.
In the UK, they're deployed extensively, and if you don't work for DWP, it's often a sackable offence when the audit controls catch illicit access.
Forget the legal mandate to protect data, we have a duty of care to customers (and, cynically, to protect the company reputation).
Incidentally, possibly the geekiest watch ever created _is_ a digital watch:
http://www.degrisogono.com/#/en/timepieces/limited-edition/meccanico-dg/products/meccanico-dg-n01
Good luck acquiring one :)
Pretty hard to find a precision, purely mechanical one though
Nah, very easy to find.
Somewhat harder to afford though.
. A $10 digital LCD watch is more accurate and durable than most $1000 purely mechanical art watches.
I'd add a few zeros. A $10 digital LCD watch these days is going to hold its time better than most mechanical watches, even the ones costing $800,000. Wont be as nice though.
I wear a mechanical watch. As a timekeeping device, it's the worse watch I own. It's my favourite anyway.