Actually you might want to read the data in the link you just posted. There is a column label "Renewable electicity w/o Hydro (GW hr)". Your link text was "largest producer of clean energy". Texas is, in fact, the largest producer of clean energy (w/o hydro) as it is #1 in that list. Hydro is only available in certain parts of the country so including it will skew the results.
Yep. They're out to make as much money as possible by *DROPPING* the average price by $2.
Reading comprehension for the win!
Maybe you should take a look at who made that $2 claim that you are spouting off as fact. Who made it again? Senator Charles Schumer made that claim in an op-ed to the Wall Street Journal. The SAME Charles Schumer that has taken at LEAST $100k in legal bribes (campaign contributions) from the book industry according to latest figured released.
Maybe you have a reliable source for that $2 claim that isn't getting kickbacks from the same industry?
I really wish that Anonymous would do something useful and setup an automated system that would issue fake DMCA take down requests against these major media corporations that abuse the process. That would get the attention of the politicians fast. If ALL of their videos were taken offline due to a random request from outside the US and they weren't able to go after anyone due to the law having no bite outside the US.....
At the very least, maybe they will remove the provision that says US companies have to follow through on requests they receive from outside the US even though those requests are probably fake. The companies issuing them have nothing to lose.
In my experience over the last 10 years in a military programming shop, it does take a different mindset to be a good programmer. We have had several programmers that just didn't have what it takes to learn even the basics of programming. That doesn't mean they were dumb, in fact some were very smart and motivated. They just that they couldn't comprehend the concepts and reapply them to changing circumstances.
Out of the 20-30 programmers over the years only 2-3 were actually good at programming and 3-4 were not able to function as programmers since they couldn't grasp the concepts. The others might have been classified as 'OK'. BTW the good ones were the enlisted programmers off the street, not the ones with degrees.
And why would this result be impossible? Many have posted that the instruments were flawed or the scientists made a mistake, but not too long ago scientists were 100% certain that the world was flat too. Just because scientists currently believe that nothing can go faster than the speed of light doesn't make it so. Our views of the universe are always changing and saying that a result is "impossible", no matter how unlikely the result, is a bit short sided.
Since many US government agencies requires that all software be on an approved list by version numbers, this version game is shooting themselves in the foot.
The Google Voice app is capable of sending/receiving messages using your phone's data plan already. If you and the people you message have Google Voice you might be able to reduce the amount of actual SMS messages you use per month. Plus it has other useful features too...
I currently work as an Air Force civilian and the biggest single problem is the crazy accreditation process. We would LOVE to use the best and newest open source programs and utilities to do our jobs but we are stuck using technology from 5-6 years ago because the accreditation process was intentionally created by contractors to be as complex as possible so that only they were qualified to get anything approved. (Job security anyone?)
Got a great new product that would save 1,000 lives and countless millions? It *might* be fast tracked and only take 2 years to get approved.... The system IS a mess and our adversaries don't have to deal with it - they can use the best equipment and software immediately....
IANAL but it seems to me that if you have a contract with someone that says you are going to support their hardware they have already purchased, then it is irrelevant that the hardware vendor *might* be discontinuing the product. Even *IF* Intel discontinues it, Oracle should still be bound by their support contracts.
The lack of authentication before forwarding/sending mail has to be one of the biggest issues today. If only the original designers of the software would have thought ahead and verified the sender of the message was legit and that the mail came from the domain specified before blindly sending it along.
Were these run on an administrator account? Also what does 'run' actually mean? Does it mean that the viruses performed their full function or just that they were allowed to run but didn't cause any real damage to the OS? I would be interested if the viruses could still cause OS damage with UAC enabled on a non admin account. The article doesn't do a good job of answering any questions. The articles goal seemed to be to grab headlines.
I'm pretty sure that someone made this story up as a way of characterizing the poor customer service at the individual stores. I'm sure someone thought 'Wouldn't it be great if I wrote a story about them treating a billionaire the same as if he walked into one of their stores and wanted help buying a $200 stereo?'.
I believe that you may have also missed something in the original article:
"Deng Hongji also mentioned that blue light HD the DVD cassette mechanism for the high-capacity, Gao Huazhi, the high analysis's new field of vision, may let the phantom be more lifelike, the picture to be more gorgeous. Its superiority is easier and the present DVD disc maintains the compatibility, and may continue to use the existing DVD disc's production equipment..."
That clearly is talking about HD-DVD which can be created using existing DVD production equipment. Blu-Ray on the other hand requires totally new production equipment. As for the "blue light HD DVD" mentioned in the article, HD-DVD players use blue laser diodes as well as Blu-Ray.
The article isnt very clear and it is a little strange that TDK would be working on a rival format, but I think that this IS referring to HD-DVD and not Blu-Ray. We will have to wait until the official word comes from Walmart to be certain though.
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Actually you might want to read the data in the link you just posted. There is a column label "Renewable electicity w/o Hydro (GW hr)". Your link text was "largest producer of clean energy". Texas is, in fact, the largest producer of clean energy (w/o hydro) as it is #1 in that list. Hydro is only available in certain parts of the country so including it will skew the results.
Yep. They're out to make as much money as possible by *DROPPING* the average price by $2.
Reading comprehension for the win!
Maybe you should take a look at who made that $2 claim that you are spouting off as fact. Who made it again? Senator Charles Schumer made that claim in an op-ed to the Wall Street Journal. The SAME Charles Schumer that has taken at LEAST $100k in legal bribes (campaign contributions) from the book industry according to latest figured released.
Maybe you have a reliable source for that $2 claim that isn't getting kickbacks from the same industry?
It was about the publishers (and Apple) trying to keep the market more open to competition
Do you really believe that? If so, I have some ocean side property to sell you in Arizona...
Apple and the publishers did this to make money (as much of it as possible) and didn't think anyone would notice their backroom dealing.
I really wish that Anonymous would do something useful and setup an automated system that would issue fake DMCA take down requests against these major media corporations that abuse the process. That would get the attention of the politicians fast. If ALL of their videos were taken offline due to a random request from outside the US and they weren't able to go after anyone due to the law having no bite outside the US..... At the very least, maybe they will remove the provision that says US companies have to follow through on requests they receive from outside the US even though those requests are probably fake. The companies issuing them have nothing to lose.
In my experience over the last 10 years in a military programming shop, it does take a different mindset to be a good programmer. We have had several programmers that just didn't have what it takes to learn even the basics of programming. That doesn't mean they were dumb, in fact some were very smart and motivated. They just that they couldn't comprehend the concepts and reapply them to changing circumstances. Out of the 20-30 programmers over the years only 2-3 were actually good at programming and 3-4 were not able to function as programmers since they couldn't grasp the concepts. The others might have been classified as 'OK'. BTW the good ones were the enlisted programmers off the street, not the ones with degrees.
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And why would this result be impossible? Many have posted that the instruments were flawed or the scientists made a mistake, but not too long ago scientists were 100% certain that the world was flat too. Just because scientists currently believe that nothing can go faster than the speed of light doesn't make it so. Our views of the universe are always changing and saying that a result is "impossible", no matter how unlikely the result, is a bit short sided.
Since many US government agencies requires that all software be on an approved list by version numbers, this version game is shooting themselves in the foot.
The Google Voice app is capable of sending/receiving messages using your phone's data plan already. If you and the people you message have Google Voice you might be able to reduce the amount of actual SMS messages you use per month. Plus it has other useful features too...
I currently work as an Air Force civilian and the biggest single problem is the crazy accreditation process. We would LOVE to use the best and newest open source programs and utilities to do our jobs but we are stuck using technology from 5-6 years ago because the accreditation process was intentionally created by contractors to be as complex as possible so that only they were qualified to get anything approved. (Job security anyone?) Got a great new product that would save 1,000 lives and countless millions? It *might* be fast tracked and only take 2 years to get approved.... The system IS a mess and our adversaries don't have to deal with it - they can use the best equipment and software immediately....
IANAL but it seems to me that if you have a contract with someone that says you are going to support their hardware they have already purchased, then it is irrelevant that the hardware vendor *might* be discontinuing the product. Even *IF* Intel discontinues it, Oracle should still be bound by their support contracts.
The lack of authentication before forwarding/sending mail has to be one of the biggest issues today. If only the original designers of the software would have thought ahead and verified the sender of the message was legit and that the mail came from the domain specified before blindly sending it along.
Were these run on an administrator account? Also what does 'run' actually mean? Does it mean that the viruses performed their full function or just that they were allowed to run but didn't cause any real damage to the OS? I would be interested if the viruses could still cause OS damage with UAC enabled on a non admin account. The article doesn't do a good job of answering any questions. The articles goal seemed to be to grab headlines.
A viable launch platform for my Skynet application.
I really hate being weighed down with all the change from my internet transactions :(
My post was a joke as well... *woosh*
So are Macs... oh wait, the official designation for a Mac is 'paperweight'.
NBC? I would imagine seeing this on FOX. They have to find some crap to replace great shows like The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
I'm pretty sure that someone made this story up as a way of characterizing the poor customer service at the individual stores. I'm sure someone thought 'Wouldn't it be great if I wrote a story about them treating a billionaire the same as if he walked into one of their stores and wanted help buying a $200 stereo?'.
I am going to patent all methods and techniques for displaying "Hello World" :)
I believe that you may have also missed something in the original article:
"Deng Hongji also mentioned that blue light HD the DVD cassette mechanism for the high-capacity, Gao Huazhi, the high analysis's new field of vision, may let the phantom be more lifelike, the picture to be more gorgeous. Its superiority is easier and the present DVD disc maintains the compatibility, and may continue to use the existing DVD disc's production equipment..."
That clearly is talking about HD-DVD which can be created using existing DVD production equipment. Blu-Ray on the other hand requires totally new production equipment. As for the "blue light HD DVD" mentioned in the article, HD-DVD players use blue laser diodes as well as Blu-Ray.
The article isnt very clear and it is a little strange that TDK would be working on a rival format, but I think that this IS referring to HD-DVD and not Blu-Ray. We will have to wait until the official word comes from Walmart to be certain though.