Another problem with prediciting weather is that it is also dependant on the state of the Sun. Even if we could get an accurate measurement of every mlecule on Earth, over 100 years sun spots and flares and such will throw the models off.
Still, we have to remember that MS is a monopoly and as such is bound by different rules that other players in the same market. It seems anticompetative to me to cut your price with the caveat that you have to pay for a license even when you buy a competing product (RedHat or MacOS). "Why buy RedHat on top of buying Windows?" is the thinking that makes it more than savings for the school, but an anticompetitive tactic to lock out other vendors.
And am I the only one who thinks it's odd that it took an operating system given away for free to begin to threaten MS's hold on the industry.
decapitation, amputation, killing of humans with lethal weapons or through hand-to-hand combat, rape, car-jackings, aggravated assault and other violent felonies
Admit it, you just lifted this from an ad for Grand Theft Auto 3.
I don't see this as a problem. Isn't it one of the arguements around here that the labels should reevalutate and update their business models. If a label run mp3.com because they want to hedge their bets against the future, then more power to them. I hope they are the last one standing.
Virtual Valerie 2, where you manuver your mouse to play with nipples and clit of a girl while sometime controlling a dildo or a weird 3 orafice pentrating machien so that you can get her to cum enough times that you are let onto the secret "dick up her ass" level.
I've seen worse as well. Mostly hentai based games. And of course there's the million and one strip pokers (some pretty good and free if you have a Java enabled browser).
Still, let's face it. You don't have to say something meaningful nor do you have to be smut free to be expressing something. Even if a game is pure entertainment, people saying "it isn't speech" are basically saying "it should be okay for the government to decide how we are entertained." Well, Larry Flint went to the Supreme Court to show that naked women on paper is protected speech, so why not naked women on a computer screen. Why isn't "Doom" speech. Not everything I say is a deep treasie on the state of the world. The government can't tell me that I can't talk about how cool having a flamethrower-rocketpack-mech suit would be.
On the flip side, I think that games should be like movies and not sold to minors if it's graphic/sexually explicit enough. For the parents that want their kids to have the games, they should be allowed to buy the games for them. I like how movies work, despite how some people would prefer to police their children 24/7.
A republic is an implementation of democracy, they aren't mutually exclusive. A democracy is a government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. A republic is a political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
Being a consitutional republic doesn't change that, as the consitution can be ammended to allow killing Socrates. It just makes it harder.
Tax breaks don't really work the way you think they do. They just lower your taxable income. To say that Bill Gates donates money just to get a tax break is to say he spends $2 billion so that he doesn't have to give $1 billion in taxes. If he never donated the $2B, he would be up $1B.
Really, the tax breaks are there to remove discouragement from donation.
While it is true that money is reinvested by putting i into the bank, it can only be done so a certain number of times by law. Having taken an economics class (actually more than one) I know that, although my recollection is rusty as to whether it's 5 or 10 times reinvestment. In any case, it is accomplished by saying a bank must have 20% or 10% (depending on the factor) of the money it has lent out backed by real cash. This does actually put a finite limit on the amount of money at a given time, although more can be printed, of course (with all the caveats that apply there).
These laws were introduced to gaurd against another Great Depression. Remember, we've shown many times through experience that pure, unregulated capitalism doesn't work. It crashes in on itself faster than communism.
Of course, Microsoft is no where near having all the money.
I'm not understanding what you are advocating here. You think if a corporation is found to have killed people through improper engineering that a grandmother who has a few points in a mutual fund that as part of a sector diversification includes that corporation as a small fraction of the mutual fund, should be criminally responsible for the deaths? If I go out and kill someone should my mortgage company be charged too since their capital loan has provided me with a place to live? I suppose then the investors of that company, and in turn their mortgage companies should be charged as well.
Nor should it get there. Postgres is my db of choice, but MySQL is fast because it doesn't have the weight that an ACID database has. It's a tool for a different set of problems (not usually the problems I'm working with) and having a choice of tool to fit your problem is good.
Lack of battery life was a key thing. Even when I was 12 I didn't want to buy a handheld gaming system that would only let me play for 2 hours versus the 8 I would get out of my Gameboy. 2 hours was less than a car trip somewhere and you certainly couldn't get very far in a game. Plus you had to remember to recharge your batteries more often.
It depends. I consider the programming I do to be IT. It's mostly database oriented business applications. I used to do research and that wasn't IT, but the point is that some programming jobs are just IT.
I feel your pain. My suggestion is to switch to mozilla and turn off "Open unrequested windows" in the scripting settings. I haven't had an unrequested popup/popunder since.
I worked for Bell Northern Research (now NorTel) in 93-94. Basically they had the whole, gated entrance, cameras not allowed, magnetic media not allowed unless by authorization or your manager (I had a laptop for a while that I was allowed to take in and out), etc etc. Everyone knew it was because the research we were working on was worth a lot to competitors and, thusly, seeing that kind of protection/paranoia actually boosted morale. It made you feel like what you were working on had actual worth.
Of course, I eventually succumbed to the dilbertesque syndrome of realizing I could flick my finger all day long and it wouldn't impact the company one bit, so now I only work for small-midsized companies. But this security never bothered me: the one time my friend had her film confiscated, they just developed it to make sure there was no sensitive data on it (for free, even) and sent her the pics/negatives afterwards.
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A few months for me. I helped set up a friend's computer that he got for free. DX2/66
Another problem with prediciting weather is that it is also dependant on the state of the Sun. Even if we could get an accurate measurement of every mlecule on Earth, over 100 years sun spots and flares and such will throw the models off.
Still, we have to remember that MS is a monopoly and as such is bound by different rules that other players in the same market. It seems anticompetative to me to cut your price with the caveat that you have to pay for a license even when you buy a competing product (RedHat or MacOS). "Why buy RedHat on top of buying Windows?" is the thinking that makes it more than savings for the school, but an anticompetitive tactic to lock out other vendors.
And am I the only one who thinks it's odd that it took an operating system given away for free to begin to threaten MS's hold on the industry.
decapitation, amputation, killing of humans with lethal weapons or through hand-to-hand combat, rape, car-jackings, aggravated assault and other violent felonies
Admit it, you just lifted this from an ad for Grand Theft Auto 3.
I don't see this as a problem. Isn't it one of the arguements around here that the labels should reevalutate and update their business models. If a label run mp3.com because they want to hedge their bets against the future, then more power to them. I hope they are the last one standing.
How can she offer that when the labels own the rights to her work?
Virtual Valerie 2, where you manuver your mouse to play with nipples and clit of a girl while sometime controlling a dildo or a weird 3 orafice pentrating machien so that you can get her to cum enough times that you are let onto the secret "dick up her ass" level.
I've seen worse as well. Mostly hentai based games. And of course there's the million and one strip pokers (some pretty good and free if you have a Java enabled browser).
Still, let's face it. You don't have to say something meaningful nor do you have to be smut free to be expressing something. Even if a game is pure entertainment, people saying "it isn't speech" are basically saying "it should be okay for the government to decide how we are entertained." Well, Larry Flint went to the Supreme Court to show that naked women on paper is protected speech, so why not naked women on a computer screen. Why isn't "Doom" speech. Not everything I say is a deep treasie on the state of the world. The government can't tell me that I can't talk about how cool having a flamethrower-rocketpack-mech suit would be.
On the flip side, I think that games should be like movies and not sold to minors if it's graphic/sexually explicit enough. For the parents that want their kids to have the games, they should be allowed to buy the games for them. I like how movies work, despite how some people would prefer to police their children 24/7.
And you got +2 Insightful, when you should have got +0 stating what everyone could read in the meassage headers
A republic is an implementation of democracy, they aren't mutually exclusive. A democracy is a government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. A republic is a political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
Being a consitutional republic doesn't change that, as the consitution can be ammended to allow killing Socrates. It just makes it harder.
In case you (or others) didn't know, Robert Walton is the richest person now.
two chicks at the same time
Tax breaks don't really work the way you think they do. They just lower your taxable income. To say that Bill Gates donates money just to get a tax break is to say he spends $2 billion so that he doesn't have to give $1 billion in taxes. If he never donated the $2B, he would be up $1B.
Really, the tax breaks are there to remove discouragement from donation.
While it is true that money is reinvested by putting i into the bank, it can only be done so a certain number of times by law. Having taken an economics class (actually more than one) I know that, although my recollection is rusty as to whether it's 5 or 10 times reinvestment. In any case, it is accomplished by saying a bank must have 20% or 10% (depending on the factor) of the money it has lent out backed by real cash. This does actually put a finite limit on the amount of money at a given time, although more can be printed, of course (with all the caveats that apply there).
These laws were introduced to gaurd against another Great Depression. Remember, we've shown many times through experience that pure, unregulated capitalism doesn't work. It crashes in on itself faster than communism.
Of course, Microsoft is no where near having all the money.
Actually, Robert Walton (Walmart) is the richest person now.
Uh, you do know you died right?
I'm not understanding what you are advocating here. You think if a corporation is found to have killed people through improper engineering that a grandmother who has a few points in a mutual fund that as part of a sector diversification includes that corporation as a small fraction of the mutual fund, should be criminally responsible for the deaths? If I go out and kill someone should my mortgage company be charged too since their capital loan has provided me with a place to live? I suppose then the investors of that company, and in turn their mortgage companies should be charged as well.
After all, they are personally responsible.
Nor should it get there. Postgres is my db of choice, but MySQL is fast because it doesn't have the weight that an ACID database has. It's a tool for a different set of problems (not usually the problems I'm working with) and having a choice of tool to fit your problem is good.
Your understanding is right
Lack of battery life was a key thing. Even when I was 12 I didn't want to buy a handheld gaming system that would only let me play for 2 hours versus the 8 I would get out of my Gameboy. 2 hours was less than a car trip somewhere and you certainly couldn't get very far in a game. Plus you had to remember to recharge your batteries more often.
H1-B are for more than just tech people.
or you can just set it on fire and install debian
It depends. I consider the programming I do to be IT. It's mostly database oriented business applications. I used to do research and that wasn't IT, but the point is that some programming jobs are just IT.
I feel your pain. My suggestion is to switch to mozilla and turn off "Open unrequested windows" in the scripting settings. I haven't had an unrequested popup/popunder since.
a $500K policy isn't really all that special. My $1M policy through metlife only costs $52.20/month. Most people can afford this.
I worked for Bell Northern Research (now NorTel) in 93-94. Basically they had the whole, gated entrance, cameras not allowed, magnetic media not allowed unless by authorization or your manager (I had a laptop for a while that I was allowed to take in and out), etc etc. Everyone knew it was because the research we were working on was worth a lot to competitors and, thusly, seeing that kind of protection/paranoia actually boosted morale. It made you feel like what you were working on had actual worth.
Of course, I eventually succumbed to the dilbertesque syndrome of realizing I could flick my finger all day long and it wouldn't impact the company one bit, so now I only work for small-midsized companies. But this security never bothered me: the one time my friend had her film confiscated, they just developed it to make sure there was no sensitive data on it (for free, even) and sent her the pics/negatives afterwards.