Not turning a profit on any transaction is Against The Ferengi Way
Which Rule of Acquisition is that?
The twenty-first rule is "Never place friendship above profit," according to the appropriately named DS9 episode "Rules of Aquisition". If even friendship is not above profit, then the only reason not to turn a short-term profit is to turn a long-term profit. Ergo, always turn a profit.
Whenever I see the "tablets will replace desktops!" spin, I remember vacuum cleaner ads from before I was born, and how the vacuum cleaner was supposed to replace brooms everywhere, and reduce work too. Funny how almost every home has one vacuum (maybe two or three depending on function), but many homes have more than one broom (standard, whisk, large push broom, etc). The vacuum may leave things cleaner and less dusty, but it requires more work to push it around. Sometimes you just need to brush something up and away.
This is what I wanted to post. Unless this guy is rounding up several employees per hour, the numbers don't work. The only time I've ever seen a PI get used is when someone is making a worker's comp claim or is taking sixty sick days added on to their two week vacation ("got sick on the cruise").
I have an iPhone, and am interested in the "multiple calendar" feature you mentioned. Is there a way of preventing your personal contacts and calendar events from populating your exchange calendar? I'd rather not have my boss/team know when/where I'm going to be when I'm on my own time.
The thing keeping me from using my personal iPhone with my work's exchange server is that I don't want my personal appointments from showing up in the work calendar. Blacklisting the home VM and syncing the work VM would be a nice touch.
The way they discovered it was a gardener simply stepping in some reside, and it blowing up.
Ummm, then it's like jars and jars of Nitroglycerin? And they want to burn it? I keep seeing people on this page saying that C4 is safe to burn; true. But this obviously isn't C4. I hope they buy the houses around the area too.
Then the landlord can sue the tenant. Simple solution.
A gunman is holding a little girl, using her as a living shield.
"I'll kill her,man! I'll really do it!"
ED-209 kills the girl to end the hostage situation, and impress the need for the criminal to surrender. OPC lawyers offer to help the distraught father sue the newly arrested criminal, but disavow any responsibility on the part of OPC or the police.
Browse friendships on the new profile is just downright creepy. I know it's all visible info, but I can't think of a single non-creepy reason anyone would want to click and see every interaction between two other people.
That option has existed for a really long time. It used to be called wall-to-wall before, and you could get to it from a link on every single wall post.
No, it's a lot worse than "wall to wall" which was essentially following a public conversation back when walls used to be used for communication. The "view friendship" feature shows you all the photos where the two people have both been tagged, events that they both attended, notes they were both mentioned in... it's way over the top and extremely stalkerish unless you're viewing the interactions between yourself and a friend.
Not everyone. I keep posting bugs like not being able to change the moderation tolerance (reading things below 1) on an iPhone or other touchscreen. And this forced change to Slashdot 2.0 has made things worse. A simple UI test on touchscreen systems would tell them that Slashdot 2.0 is still Pre-Alpha release quality.
Five most recent profile pics visible to whom, friends or strangers? I know some people who use landscapes or cartoons as their "public" profile pic, and relied on FB access control model to prevent non-friends from seeing the other profile pictures. Now I bet a lot of people will delete their extra profile pics. Then FB's policy will be to delve into the database of deleted items until their year of use is up and declare deleted items "public".
I thought the reason we're talking about iD is the same reason we're talking about Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman: a good idea given out [in small portion] for free, taking advantage of word of mouth and spending almost $0 on marketing. The Wolfenstein 3D Demo was one of the most popular games of its day. GUTEN TAG!
Same thing with the DOOM Demo. Some people bought the full games, but iD won eyes, minds, and hearts for when DOOM II and Quake came out (and kids started getting money).
Will they now ban all existing cars so we have to buy shiny new ones?
No. About twenty years ago they issued a similar mandate for a brake light at or near the bottom of the back windshield (before that, almost no cars had them). The automakers said fine, give us 6-9 months to integrate it into our designs and manufacturing process, the government said OK and that was that. Probably has helped prevent a lot of rear-end collisions, especially on the highway when cars stop suddenly for an obstruction. At any rate, clearly a good bang for the buck. The older cars w/o the extra light were grandfathered and have gradually disappeared from the road.
I remember having to install the middle brakelight in my grandmother's '78 car because of a (state?) law requiring that she have one.
I first became aware of the complexity on both sides when a feminist GF back in the 1980s complained that women's shirts cost more to dry clean than men's shirts, ever if the garments were extremely similar.
I thought about that for a moment. My garments would have to be dry cleaned by gremlins for me to bother going back to complain that it was worse for wear.
Would you care more about the quality if it were to cost more? I complain about poor food and service at sit down restaurants, but don't care at fast food places. When I pay more, I expect more.
Or, if people just mute their TVs during commercials, advertisers will not have any incentive to engage in the practice, and suddenly the problem is solved without a committee deciding what is "too loud."
I advertisers find out people are muting their TVs, then they have a reason to turn it up to eleven. Some TVs, when muted, are just _really_ quiet, and it you listen close, you can still hear stuff. If the ad makers force the volume to crazy levels, you might just hear part of the commercial.
"Someone in the FDIC" didn't want him working at that bank! And social drama in bars is directed at him! Snookie and The Situation are driving him craaaazy!
No, TCP-like! Once the first canister gets diverted, or destroyed, and I send a N-ACK, a second one with my reprovisioned Garlic Triscuts, Peperoni sticks, and egg nog will be resent. When does my crap get here?
Your crap arrives after insertion of your provisions into your personal tubes. With what you're ordering, expect a quick and spicy delivery.
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Not turning a profit on any transaction is Against The Ferengi Way
Which Rule of Acquisition is that?
The twenty-first rule is "Never place friendship above profit," according to the appropriately named DS9 episode "Rules of Aquisition". If even friendship is not above profit, then the only reason not to turn a short-term profit is to turn a long-term profit. Ergo, always turn a profit.
Whenever I see the "tablets will replace desktops!" spin, I remember vacuum cleaner ads from before I was born, and how the vacuum cleaner was supposed to replace brooms everywhere, and reduce work too. Funny how almost every home has one vacuum (maybe two or three depending on function), but many homes have more than one broom (standard, whisk, large push broom, etc). The vacuum may leave things cleaner and less dusty, but it requires more work to push it around. Sometimes you just need to brush something up and away.
The girl is easier to replace than the house.
A girl is easy to replace. The girl is impossible to replace.
This is what I wanted to post. Unless this guy is rounding up several employees per hour, the numbers don't work. The only time I've ever seen a PI get used is when someone is making a worker's comp claim or is taking sixty sick days added on to their two week vacation ("got sick on the cruise").
too big to carry around
Honeycomb's Big!
Yeah yeah yeah!
It's not Small!
No no no!
I have an iPhone, and am interested in the "multiple calendar" feature you mentioned. Is there a way of preventing your personal contacts and calendar events from populating your exchange calendar? I'd rather not have my boss/team know when/where I'm going to be when I'm on my own time.
The thing keeping me from using my personal iPhone with my work's exchange server is that I don't want my personal appointments from showing up in the work calendar. Blacklisting the home VM and syncing the work VM would be a nice touch.
You gotta burn it? So, I guess Beavis and Butthead are the Sheriff and Mayor? Fire! Fire! Fire!
They're not allowed to say that any more. They're retired. Retired! Enh, henh heh henheheneh. Yeah!
The way they discovered it was a gardener simply stepping in some reside, and it blowing up.
Ummm, then it's like jars and jars of Nitroglycerin? And they want to burn it? I keep seeing people on this page saying that C4 is safe to burn; true. But this obviously isn't C4. I hope they buy the houses around the area too.
Then the landlord can sue the tenant. Simple solution.
A gunman is holding a little girl, using her as a living shield.
"I'll kill her,man! I'll really do it!"
ED-209 kills the girl to end the hostage situation, and impress the need for the criminal to surrender. OPC lawyers offer to help the distraught father sue the newly arrested criminal, but disavow any responsibility on the part of OPC or the police.
WTF? Can the editors please stop bashing Facebook every single time they do anything?
I heard Facebook singlehandedly ended world hunger. Farmers out of work; go hungry.
That option has existed for a really long time. It used to be called wall-to-wall before, and you could get to it from a link on every single wall post.
No, it's a lot worse than "wall to wall" which was essentially following a public conversation back when walls used to be used for communication. The "view friendship" feature shows you all the photos where the two people have both been tagged, events that they both attended, notes they were both mentioned in... it's way over the top and extremely stalkerish unless you're viewing the interactions between yourself and a friend.
People got over Slashdot 2.0.
Not everyone. I keep posting bugs like not being able to change the moderation tolerance (reading things below 1) on an iPhone or other touchscreen. And this forced change to Slashdot 2.0 has made things worse. A simple UI test on touchscreen systems would tell them that Slashdot 2.0 is still Pre-Alpha release quality.
Five most recent profile pics visible to whom, friends or strangers? I know some people who use landscapes or cartoons as their "public" profile pic, and relied on FB access control model to prevent non-friends from seeing the other profile pictures. Now I bet a lot of people will delete their extra profile pics. Then FB's policy will be to delve into the database of deleted items until their year of use is up and declare deleted items "public".
I thought the reason we're talking about iD is the same reason we're talking about Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman: a good idea given out [in small portion] for free, taking advantage of word of mouth and spending almost $0 on marketing. The Wolfenstein 3D Demo was one of the most popular games of its day. GUTEN TAG! Same thing with the DOOM Demo. Some people bought the full games, but iD won eyes, minds, and hearts for when DOOM II and Quake came out (and kids started getting money).
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/11/1735253/Stats-Show-iPhone-Owners-Get-More-Sex "iPhone users have more sexual partners than BlackBerry or Android owners." And females use iOS more...
Will they now ban all existing cars so we have to buy shiny new ones?
No. About twenty years ago they issued a similar mandate for a brake light at or near the bottom of the back windshield (before that, almost no cars had them). The automakers said fine, give us 6-9 months to integrate it into our designs and manufacturing process, the government said OK and that was that. Probably has helped prevent a lot of rear-end collisions, especially on the highway when cars stop suddenly for an obstruction. At any rate, clearly a good bang for the buck. The older cars w/o the extra light were grandfathered and have gradually disappeared from the road.
I remember having to install the middle brakelight in my grandmother's '78 car because of a (state?) law requiring that she have one.
posting this in yro./. is like posting someone's pet theories on Hyper/Sub space in science./.
What about neural networks they were supposed to create human like brains.
Like MichaelKristopeit
So that's why Frankenstein went haywire. They applied DC to the bolts in his neck, not AC.
So DC is deadly after all!
I first became aware of the complexity on both sides when a feminist GF back in the 1980s complained that women's shirts cost more to dry clean than men's shirts, ever if the garments were extremely similar. I thought about that for a moment. My garments would have to be dry cleaned by gremlins for me to bother going back to complain that it was worse for wear.
Would you care more about the quality if it were to cost more? I complain about poor food and service at sit down restaurants, but don't care at fast food places. When I pay more, I expect more.
Or, if people just mute their TVs during commercials, advertisers will not have any incentive to engage in the practice, and suddenly the problem is solved without a committee deciding what is "too loud."
I advertisers find out people are muting their TVs, then they have a reason to turn it up to eleven. Some TVs, when muted, are just _really_ quiet, and it you listen close, you can still hear stuff. If the ad makers force the volume to crazy levels, you might just hear part of the commercial.
"Someone in the FDIC" didn't want him working at that bank! And social drama in bars is directed at him! Snookie and The Situation are driving him craaaazy!
No, TCP-like! Once the first canister gets diverted, or destroyed, and I send a N-ACK, a second one with my reprovisioned Garlic Triscuts, Peperoni sticks, and egg nog will be resent. When does my crap get here?
Your crap arrives after insertion of your provisions into your personal tubes. With what you're ordering, expect a quick and spicy delivery.
Most people don't.
Gore does. He %#*€ing invented the thing.