Smoking affects the company's bottom line if they self-insure, meaning they partially or fully fund the payments to your doctors. Many large companies do this to save money. They pay [insert insurance company] a small fee to handle the paperwork and all of that but then the insurance company pulls funds to pay for procedures/drugs/whatever from an account funded by your employer.
233 MHz minimum required 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space* Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor CD-ROM or DVD drive Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device/how's your sarcasm filter now?
I don't trust the 'wholesale' price of any product when the same company mines, refines, and sells the finished product. I'm not saying that they're necessarily price gouging, just saying I don't trust it.
There's already a Google operating system. What's running the Google enterprise appliances? Plus it's well known they have their own linux distro used only within the Goog.
The odds are pretty good if you can steal a Ford Escape, you can steal other cars using the exact same methodology. Maybe not every car, and maybe not even every other Ford car, but certainly other cars. That's why the title makes sense.
First of all, calling me comrade is the complete opposite of the insult you were trying to make. Secondly I don't mind helping people with a real physical or mental disorder. However, if you rape or kill someone then fuck you you're getting shot and I'm sending a bill for the bullet to your family. Holding you indefinitely is a waste of resources.
Rehabilitation is not a deterrent. Public hanging is a deterrent. I would rather deter crime than help people who commit it. I mean hey, it's my money.
It appears obvious to me, though I've been wrong plenty of times before, that this is another part of the puzzle for Google Docs. Once they've 'perfected' the system you won't have to worry about your link being up to be able to get to your docs. The next step is an intranet version for the enterprise. All in good time...
Yeah, the guest operating systems (like your linux) run within a virtual machine which does not allow access to the higher end graphics capabilities of the PS3.
It's getting better though. The problem is that people will turn to news aggregators before the problem fixes itself, I fear. I know it's largely a problem of matter of perspective but I view the news aggregators as forcing news sources to improve the quality of their material. If you have the best material you'll likely be on the front page at the news aggregator site/feed. If I like your material enough I may just RSS feed your news stories to my personal aggregator or my Google home page. I may even give up the news aggregators (google news) and just come straight to you. However, I would've never found you without the aggregator.
Perhaps the "free" part of it is to blame, maybe its more that people that make good videos don't like Heinz enough for make an ad for them?
I mean would you really spend your free time making a video for a ketchup company? College students who are majoring in marketing or film making/directing anything of the sort would absolutely LOVE to get their commercial on television. These things usually are not won by average Joe. They're won by college students or amateurs trying to work their way into the business.
Correct, easily sold items such as ipods, laptops, etc. are the target of most CC fraudsters. Back when I followed the 'scene' the most common solution was to have the products delivered to vacant houses (remove the for-sale sign the day before expected delivery). As for tracking IPs, you could go to an internet cafe or simply hijack some unprotected wifi driving through pretty much any upper middle class neighborhood. The CC company doesn't charge the 'victim' and they also don't send money to the store where the item[s] where purchased. In this system the only one that can press charges is the CC company who has lost nothing in the transaction so they don't care. The store where the items were purchased could file a civil suit but won't because it's not worth the $1000 laptop that was purchased. I may not have my terms right with respect to the civil/other charges but that's basically the racket in a nutshell...
Maybe it shouldn't be the TSA's job to monitor whether or not I have a script for my inhaler. Maybe the whole point of carrying bottled water is that water from the tap is a disgusting cesspool. Maybe there's a huge amount of money and wasted time with almost zero additional security and it pisses people off. Maybe with more people expressing dissent there's a snowball's chance in hell of things changing.
Thing 1: You're absolutely right. The average household income in the US is something like $48k. The reason it's that level is because most households have two income earners. You can thank the women's liberation movement for increasing competition for jobs thereby dilluting the salary base and making it difficult for the stereotypical 'man earns the bucks, wife stays at home' family. [note: I'm not opposed to women's lib, just noting a negative side-effect]
Thing 2: If you're doing actual science and you're only making $30k you're either A) not very good at your job, or B) your particular brand of science isn't very lucrative for your boss. If it bothers you so much that someone else has a more marketable job skill than you, learn the job skill. If you're so good at math/science it's likely you can pick up almost any technical skill you want.
I'm not contradicting your statement in the least but did want to comment that this idea of innovation invented elsewhere is the norm for big business. Big businesses tend not to take risks. They let smaller companies farm markets for new products and then they buy into the market. Apple, for instance, didn't invent the portable music device or the online music store. Microsoft (and Al Gore) didn't invent the internet. Rupert Murdoch didn't invent MySpace. That's the way it works.. small companies start out with an innovation and either become big business or big business buys them out. IBM is an example of a company that became big business rather than being bought out. However, nowadays they mostly purchase or recreate technology.
Yet demand never has gone down. This further illustrates (and debunks) the complete idiocy with which people attempt to apply supply/demand/price explanations to a major global real world market. It may work for apples and oranges in the classroom, it may work for five cent lemonade stands in the streets, but it damn sure doesn't work that simply within a socially stratified society. Actually, when oil prices spiked to $70/barrel in the 1970s global consumption of oil DID decrease as represented in this chart. The price cannot go infinitely high or there will be no demand. The price/demand curve just isn't where we're comfortable with it being. That doesn't discount your theory about sinister minds working the market. It just means that it is unlikely to go on forever.
MS can't acknowledge that a decent business can operate using FOSS so they can't buy a company that does well using open source as their SoE - that would discredit the whole FUD about FOSS. So what you're saying is that it costs twice as much because they have to pay for all those MS licenses? Figures...
Step 1: Raise minimum standards
Step 2: Whine to Congress that it's too expensive
Step 3: Get infrastructure tax breaks and funding
Step 4: Screw customers by charging them for the full value
Step 5: Profit
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Smoking affects the company's bottom line if they self-insure, meaning they partially or fully fund the payments to your doctors. Many large companies do this to save money. They pay [insert insurance company] a small fee to handle the paperwork and all of that but then the insurance company pulls funds to pay for procedures/drugs/whatever from an account funded by your employer.
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Windows XP Pro minimum requirements
/how's your sarcasm filter now?
233 MHz minimum required
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended
1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*
Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
CD-ROM or DVD drive
Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
Yeah, I can see it now. "Don't worry, all the missiles in this giant missile silo are for... ummm... defense, yeah defense, that's it."
If there ever comes a time when $1CAD == $1,000,000US I will still make that joke.
$670 CAD is $266 USD
I don't trust the 'wholesale' price of any product when the same company mines, refines, and sells the finished product. I'm not saying that they're necessarily price gouging, just saying I don't trust it.
There's already a Google operating system. What's running the Google enterprise appliances? Plus it's well known they have their own linux distro used only within the Goog.
I think you ought to research the crime rate in Singapore today where deterrence seems to be working just fine.
The odds are pretty good if you can steal a Ford Escape, you can steal other cars using the exact same methodology. Maybe not every car, and maybe not even every other Ford car, but certainly other cars. That's why the title makes sense.
First of all, calling me comrade is the complete opposite of the insult you were trying to make. Secondly I don't mind helping people with a real physical or mental disorder. However, if you rape or kill someone then fuck you you're getting shot and I'm sending a bill for the bullet to your family. Holding you indefinitely is a waste of resources.
Rehabilitation is not a deterrent. Public hanging is a deterrent. I would rather deter crime than help people who commit it. I mean hey, it's my money.
Their customers are not the ones writing journals.
It appears obvious to me, though I've been wrong plenty of times before, that this is another part of the puzzle for Google Docs. Once they've 'perfected' the system you won't have to worry about your link being up to be able to get to your docs. The next step is an intranet version for the enterprise. All in good time...
Yeah, the guest operating systems (like your linux) run within a virtual machine which does not allow access to the higher end graphics capabilities of the PS3.
I mean would you really spend your free time making a video for a ketchup company? College students who are majoring in marketing or film making/directing anything of the sort would absolutely LOVE to get their commercial on television. These things usually are not won by average Joe. They're won by college students or amateurs trying to work their way into the business.
Correct, easily sold items such as ipods, laptops, etc. are the target of most CC fraudsters. Back when I followed the 'scene' the most common solution was to have the products delivered to vacant houses (remove the for-sale sign the day before expected delivery). As for tracking IPs, you could go to an internet cafe or simply hijack some unprotected wifi driving through pretty much any upper middle class neighborhood. The CC company doesn't charge the 'victim' and they also don't send money to the store where the item[s] where purchased. In this system the only one that can press charges is the CC company who has lost nothing in the transaction so they don't care. The store where the items were purchased could file a civil suit but won't because it's not worth the $1000 laptop that was purchased. I may not have my terms right with respect to the civil/other charges but that's basically the racket in a nutshell...
Maybe it shouldn't be the TSA's job to monitor whether or not I have a script for my inhaler. Maybe the whole point of carrying bottled water is that water from the tap is a disgusting cesspool. Maybe there's a huge amount of money and wasted time with almost zero additional security and it pisses people off. Maybe with more people expressing dissent there's a snowball's chance in hell of things changing.
Two things...
Thing 1: You're absolutely right. The average household income in the US is something like $48k. The reason it's that level is because most households have two income earners. You can thank the women's liberation movement for increasing competition for jobs thereby dilluting the salary base and making it difficult for the stereotypical 'man earns the bucks, wife stays at home' family. [note: I'm not opposed to women's lib, just noting a negative side-effect]
Thing 2: If you're doing actual science and you're only making $30k you're either A) not very good at your job, or B) your particular brand of science isn't very lucrative for your boss. If it bothers you so much that someone else has a more marketable job skill than you, learn the job skill. If you're so good at math/science it's likely you can pick up almost any technical skill you want.
Linux nerds will reinstall the OS no matter what.
I'm not contradicting your statement in the least but did want to comment that this idea of innovation invented elsewhere is the norm for big business. Big businesses tend not to take risks. They let smaller companies farm markets for new products and then they buy into the market. Apple, for instance, didn't invent the portable music device or the online music store. Microsoft (and Al Gore) didn't invent the internet. Rupert Murdoch didn't invent MySpace. That's the way it works.. small companies start out with an innovation and either become big business or big business buys them out. IBM is an example of a company that became big business rather than being bought out. However, nowadays they mostly purchase or recreate technology.
So what you're saying is that it costs twice as much because they have to pay for all those MS licenses? Figures...
Step 1: Raise minimum standards
Step 2: Whine to Congress that it's too expensive
Step 3: Get infrastructure tax breaks and funding
Step 4: Screw customers by charging them for the full value
Step 5: Profit
Somewhere, I forgot the ??? step...