The DOJ attempt to work with the companies to prevent monopolizing convergence, instead of litigating with them after the fact, causing the companies to lose money and overall hurting the corporate structure, employee salaries, wasting taxpayer dollars, ect...ect...
Althougth I do feel it was definitely a long time coming for the Vet/Mem Day logos, I do realize why they hesitated for such a long time. With such a wide user base, and remember folks, Americans are not the only ones that 'google' things, even referencing to soldiers or an American holiday based on the respectable if not questionable work of our men/women in uniform could cause some flak to head their way by folks who aren't so happy with our soldiers, despite all the respect we do owe them as a nation, others might not feel that way.
If you read into the "Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks, you will see that he points out that Zomified people derive from the spread of the Selanum virus, which is spread only by interchange of bodily fluids, without the possibility of airborne infection. Although Wikipedia classifies this as a fictional virus, multiple ensuing publications and productions regarding the Z-Day apocalypse have mentioned Solanum as the constituent responsible.
While there really hasn't been any hard evidence of such events occurring in the past, there are apparently many stories told by the ancients and now being supposedly researched by 'experts' that conclude multiple outbreaks of Zombiepeople have occurred involving some sort of Zombie type beings, victims of initial exposure to a stimuli or possible through interaction and conversion.
While I don't know if I can believe in such events actually occurring, there are those out there curious enough to seemingly explore it via actual scientific methods. Still no true evidence exist. It is just these speculative tales that seem to propagate stories like this into semi-recognizable media outlets, hence the running theme of the Zombie (joke?).
Regardless, I will always have my food supply in excess, an underground military bunker, shingle/Teflon coated armor , and a chainsaw-spike covered school bus on deck in case this ever occurs. God..er..science..er...human meddling...er..divine intervention...er....fast-food forbid.
Decent Job. Huge employee discount. I generally enjoyed the people I met and worked with, plenty of them on the lower employee level were your run-of-the-mill technophile, although I still feel the core of the business is hindered by the mountains of procedural and bureaucratic garbage that is claimed to be beneficial to increased profits. I mean, is it really necessary to have an acronym for every phrase ever thought up, much worse, to have each employee be forced to memorize all of said acronyms. On the inside, they will come up with blatantly retarded schemes, forcing us to read countless step by step instructions on how to persuade somebody to buy a product they don't really need. I watched a fellow employee sell a $3500 Dual Core, 2gb DDR2, TV Tuner Card, RAID 1+0 PC to a little old lady who only needed email and internet.
The sad thing is these business practices happen in all levels of retail. It is just particularly bad with big box tech retailers because they end up burying themselves in pointless 'optimization', 'streamlining', and 'capitalizing' procedures that end up creating more loopholes for the employees to go through.
This story is quite believable. All the CSA's working returns rarely ever checked the boxes out of sheer laziness. They were either too preoccupied with in-house drama or their next break. Businesses like this need to take the time to hire qualified employees, pay them better, and fire them if they lie, scam, oversell, suggest pointless items, and scheme customers. I know we live in a capitalistic dog-eat-dog economy, but wouldn't you think a business that supported quality customer service would be much more profitable????? I know I would shop there.
If only NewEgg sold out of brick 'n' mortar stores...
Reminds me of the Kit Copters that came about around 20-30 years ago. Go to Sams or Home Depot or whatever, buy the family kit-copter for what was then a price of 40 dollars, and spend hours of good wholesome fun in the garage with pops perfecting that cox motor that probably will never run more than twice. I give the man props for his ingenuity, but safety may be a tiny bit of an issue. I can only imagine to horror of auto-rotating that out of a stall.
Hopefully he won't be sued for pirating and copyright issues for make a mashup of his own favorite parts and then combining them into a usable work that is actually kind of cool. Something people see and say 'ooh' and 'ahh' but doesn't actually cause profit losses to the Motion Picture Ass...I mean the helicopter industry.
Hi. My name is *________*. This goes to all Anonymous Cowards who Troll the earth. I am sure me and the rest of us here at Slashdot would greatly appreciate your opinions if you could refrain from blatantly using perverted childish sarcasm and completely racist corollaries. Unfortunately, it seems you have no other means of communication and diction, hereby eliminating you from ever possibly meeting somebody of the opposite sex, with communication being the foundation of a strong relationship and all, and therefore by posting your highly inspirational post have thus erased your future offspring from the gene pool be preemptive default. Continue your moronic postings to further validate my case.
Might be useful in things like after market automotive applications. Think pimp my rides.
-Dude my car has 2 plasmas on the engine block and ground-fx in my exhaust!
Or - Imagine the possibilities...
-Elementary school kids can put blinking LEDs on their pottery in art class.
-Sparklers that have those embedded electronic voice boxes that sing "Na na...can't touch this."
-I can run a computer in a cooking pot roast for the sake of novelty. (Anyone for the back of CPU magazine, or pot roast?)
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Tesla smiles in his grave as Franklin catches on fire from Nikolai's coil-arcs-of-doom.
Free Market + Government Intervention & Punishment + Taxpayers Dollers = LOLFAILWHALE ECONOMY
Free Market + Government Suggestion & Aid + Taxpayer Dollers = Working Economy
Althougth I do feel it was definitely a long time coming for the Vet/Mem Day logos, I do realize why they hesitated for such a long time. With such a wide user base, and remember folks, Americans are not the only ones that 'google' things, even referencing to soldiers or an American holiday based on the respectable if not questionable work of our men/women in uniform could cause some flak to head their way by folks who aren't so happy with our soldiers, despite all the respect we do owe them as a nation, others might not feel that way.
Regardless, kudos to google for seeing the light.
spare some chaaaaaaange?
If you read into the "Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks, you will see that he points out that Zomified people derive from the spread of the Selanum virus, which is spread only by interchange of bodily fluids, without the possibility of airborne infection. Although Wikipedia classifies this as a fictional virus, multiple ensuing publications and productions regarding the Z-Day apocalypse have mentioned Solanum as the constituent responsible.
While there really hasn't been any hard evidence of such events occurring in the past, there are apparently many stories told by the ancients and now being supposedly researched by 'experts' that conclude multiple outbreaks of Zombiepeople have occurred involving some sort of Zombie type beings, victims of initial exposure to a stimuli or possible through interaction and conversion.
While I don't know if I can believe in such events actually occurring, there are those out there curious enough to seemingly explore it via actual scientific methods. Still no true evidence exist. It is just these speculative tales that seem to propagate stories like this into semi-recognizable media outlets, hence the running theme of the Zombie (joke?).
Regardless, I will always have my food supply in excess, an underground military bunker, shingle/Teflon coated armor , and a chainsaw-spike covered school bus on deck in case this ever occurs. God..er..science..er...human meddling...er..divine intervention...er....fast-food forbid.
Decent Job. Huge employee discount. I generally enjoyed the people I met and worked with, plenty of them on the lower employee level were your run-of-the-mill technophile, although I still feel the core of the business is hindered by the mountains of procedural and bureaucratic garbage that is claimed to be beneficial to increased profits. I mean, is it really necessary to have an acronym for every phrase ever thought up, much worse, to have each employee be forced to memorize all of said acronyms. On the inside, they will come up with blatantly retarded schemes, forcing us to read countless step by step instructions on how to persuade somebody to buy a product they don't really need. I watched a fellow employee sell a $3500 Dual Core, 2gb DDR2, TV Tuner Card, RAID 1+0 PC to a little old lady who only needed email and internet.
The sad thing is these business practices happen in all levels of retail. It is just particularly bad with big box tech retailers because they end up burying themselves in pointless 'optimization', 'streamlining', and 'capitalizing' procedures that end up creating more loopholes for the employees to go through.
This story is quite believable. All the CSA's working returns rarely ever checked the boxes out of sheer laziness. They were either too preoccupied with in-house drama or their next break. Businesses like this need to take the time to hire qualified employees, pay them better, and fire them if they lie, scam, oversell, suggest pointless items, and scheme customers. I know we live in a capitalistic dog-eat-dog economy, but wouldn't you think a business that supported quality customer service would be much more profitable????? I know I would shop there.
If only NewEgg sold out of brick 'n' mortar stores...
Reminds me of the Kit Copters that came about around 20-30 years ago. Go to Sams or Home Depot or whatever, buy the family kit-copter for what was then a price of 40 dollars, and spend hours of good wholesome fun in the garage with pops perfecting that cox motor that probably will never run more than twice. I give the man props for his ingenuity, but safety may be a tiny bit of an issue. I can only imagine to horror of auto-rotating that out of a stall. Hopefully he won't be sued for pirating and copyright issues for make a mashup of his own favorite parts and then combining them into a usable work that is actually kind of cool. Something people see and say 'ooh' and 'ahh' but doesn't actually cause profit losses to the Motion Picture Ass...I mean the helicopter industry.
Hi. My name is *________*. This goes to all Anonymous Cowards who Troll the earth. I am sure me and the rest of us here at Slashdot would greatly appreciate your opinions if you could refrain from blatantly using perverted childish sarcasm and completely racist corollaries. Unfortunately, it seems you have no other means of communication and diction, hereby eliminating you from ever possibly meeting somebody of the opposite sex, with communication being the foundation of a strong relationship and all, and therefore by posting your highly inspirational post have thus erased your future offspring from the gene pool be preemptive default. Continue your moronic postings to further validate my case.
Jobs is now rallying his acquisition hordes.
Timed release heroine. (Drug users applaud unanimously). Aids passed through patches. Story at 10.
Might be useful in things like after market automotive applications. Think pimp my rides.
-Dude my car has 2 plasmas on the engine block and ground-fx in my exhaust!
Or - Imagine the possibilities...
-Elementary school kids can put blinking LEDs on their pottery in art class.
-Sparklers that have those embedded electronic voice boxes that sing "Na na...can't touch this."
-I can run a computer in a cooking pot roast for the sake of novelty. (Anyone for the back of CPU magazine, or pot roast?)