I wish we could do away with our nukes (I'm American) but, with war torn, terrorist lead countries on the verge of being able to design model and acquire materials for even small nuclear weapons I am not sure that is a good idea.
Hopefully we will never use them but I would never disarm our arsenal even unilaterally. We have to maintain our ability to defend and eradicate if necessary any foe that may come against us. Its is the reason we have a government after all. (No lib's it is not there to bailout industry and regulate food or even protect the kids from possible molestation [that one goes to state police].)
Stop the presses! OMG anything dangerous is not terrorism!? That can not be. If he had a working replica, (He Doesn't, and you shouldn't even need to RTA to figure that out.) he clearly built it to destroy the childrenz and make us all fear his aWs0m3 trucking prowess!!!
Now, seriously thank you for pointing out the difference between dangerous and terrorist. So very, very many people have forgotten it.
Yes America is the great melting pot and for years our pot has runeth over. But now we have an economic problem (Yes I said problem because we can mostly still afford gas and food. If you disagree go talk to your grandparents about a real depression.) and if we don't take steps to keep our own country working how are we going to support all the other charity cases around the world? What happens when next year no one is importing goods from China or Labor from Mexico or doctors from India? Do you think they have strong enough economies to support that level of unemployment? If 10% of the factories in China just had to close down what would happen? If I stopped doing tech work and went back to the farm I was raised on that Mexican has to go home, think he'll have luck getting any kind of a decent job there? Can't afford medical?, doctors out of work.
I might sound callous and I know not all H1B's are shipping money home and investing in their own countries. Some are college grads that got a great chance here and are looking to immigrate eventually or maybe transfer out of this country to another and another until they find a place they want to call home or a nice Indian girl or W/E.
That is not the point of the Senators letter, nor do I think he actually intended to make Microsoft -do- anything his way. But in a recession, when we are about to pass a nearly trillion dollar stimulus does it not make since to retain citizen workers?
Just think if only half of that 5000 was h1b workers that's 2500 more employed Americans. Thats a piddly number but it is A number and it's damn sure not piddly to those 2500 Americans
my dad is a trade printer. I remember having an itek sitting in the living room and presses in the garage as a kid. hes not the hippest of the boomers but he has kept up on printer technology because it stole a lot of his business.
I don't know exact models he has now and its not that imnportent. Other posters have commented about there needs for only B&W or specific photo prints. My dad has a (I think cannon) his volume office copier for his in house B&W work ( he will never ever submit to instant printers for a job that is to be delivered to a customer ). He also has an inkjet for doing photo work on, and as the oldest male in our line he take a literal ton of photos stores them digitally and will gladly produce sets for anyone that wants them. I do not know what that printer is but I want to say its a smaller HP and knowing him he wouldn't splurge if time was not important, but the thing does very very nice prints and he gets some UV resistant ink in bulk somewhere online so the they actually last like a real photo.
All that said, my hp printer here at my feet has been empty for months because I just can't justify 50 bucks for a black cartridge. If I replaced the thing and used it as I really wanted to it would cost me more then my car insurance!
yeah I looked up and down thinking it should be there but it wasn't. Normally I'm not the guy to post that but well you know, we all want a YOLD to happen sometime!
the grammar police have arrested well known/.'er timothy for vulgar abuses of the term "per cent" while implying a percentage of a number... More at 11
Women are more interested in immersion into a mental state of connection, while men are more interested in how well they performed the act, and the joke is that these desires are completely incompatible with one another, and therefore we have the war of the sexes still raging today, getting worse and worse until the women win. Do not kid yourself -- they will win.
This statement was obviously written by a female, who is horney for a nerd on her level
I grew up with a Fry's nearby. we had cirtuc city's, best buy's and other smaller electronic stores around.
I have been buying components, A/V gear and about everything else any of these stores sells for well over a decade and this is my take (as a tech junkie) on why CC is going under.
They sell about the same stuff most other consumer electronic stores. They advertise in every paper, radio and TV spot they can get.
The very first time I ventured into a CC I was with my grandmother and we were greeted by a man twice my age with half my knowledge ( I was about 11 my Grandmother was 70ish). We were looking for a gift for my uncle ( he is mentally handicapped, epileptic seizure prone and diabetic to boot [I made a point to mention the seizures to the salesman]) and he led her straight away to the latest and greatest 3D0 consoles and told her some BS about them not having flashing lights. I let them talk while I tried some game out then when he walked off I filled her in on just what a risk that could be ( the poor guy goes into meltdown if you flicker a light switch 5 or 6 times ) and told her maybe a CD player would be more appropriate ( he loves Niel Diamond ). needless to say we walked out with a 10 dollar walkman.
The -only- other time I have considered going to CC was when they advertised a TV for some insane holiday deal and of course I was told they no longer had that model but the comparable model from Sony was just 3 times the price. For contrast Fry's will run a special each week and even if you go in the day before it was over there was still a pallet or two left.
CC can not compete for so many reasons it is almost laughable. The one huge thing I noticed in their last few years though is this. They price everything like a clothing store. Mark it all up 150-200% of market value and each week run numerous sales on the items they want to sell.
And (shoot me grammar cops) well, tech buyers are not the same as someone looking for flattering pants, we will look for deals but we also know the exact model and price point we want and generally will not settle for something else unless there is a knowledgeable salesman there to point out something we missed.
I concur. I fixed my neighbors PC the other day (282 adwares, 59 trojans/viruses) and while I was doing so I "upgraded" her to firefox and got her some plug-ins I thought she would find handy.
After the changes were made and I finished giving her a tour of the new options, and plug-ins and how to use the google search box instead of going to google first etc.., She asked me a puzzling question. "Do I still have the Internet though"
I won't detail the rest of the conversation but needless to say I recommended she get a copy of Internet (not explorer) for dummies.
Ditto. You can't take a group of students (some of whom may very well be doing other drugs) and try to say caffeine now causes them to hallucinate. Lets not forget also that it is winter and if any one of those students had a cold they probably have taken DXM in higher then recommended doses.
The people who did this study should be tied down under an espresso machine and set on slow drip.
Now I'm off on a far out trip to Moxie Java to celebrate.
I can't disagree with that totally but there is one point with which I have to take exception.
School systems are one of the most budget limited govt run orgs. They try everything to shave dollars, like fees for art supplies, to hot lunches paid for by PTO fund raisers. I find it hard to believe the schools would somehow be so blind as to over look an easy "tens of millions" if the case was clear cut.
I while back i posted about an experience I had with a government office, This office was a school and I am here to tell you, while it is true some schools and some teachers are under budgeted. Many only appear so on paper and in fact hemorrhage money.
The real issue I see is the same that occurs in every other aspect of Linux/FOSS adoption. The community, and companies we form around, are behind the curve so to speak. Microsoft was aggressive in there early years and has used there size to push everyone around. From patents to legislation all the way down to your local school district. We wont win this fight by beating there prices just like they can't compete with ours. We have to continually innovate, provide support and help our neighbors adopt FOSS (assimilate those who refuse).
If you want to win schools over you gotta start with yours, get involved with the PTA's and let your Superintendents know they can save money, turn out classes full of seniors with desirable tech skills, and all the other goodies that go with it, and make sure they know how that will play out when it comes time to vote!
Ummm I would say bad headline, but it really is the article that does not follow it's own headline.
Of the 10 companies listed there is only one they note as possibly selling in 2009 (Novell) and they say it highly unlikely they will just go under. So then this is really just a bad end of year lazy editor story. Move along.
On another note, I have only ever taken the pains of looking at one other story from CI (Ad's are bad, Flash is worse.) and it was just as bad as this one.
In a former life I did high balance corporate skip tracing for collection purposes. I just did a quick skip on IPAT Texas Comptroller's Filing Record. I haven't called yet but there's a nice lady that works there that will usually pull up the actual files and get all the goods from the original filings i.e. who signed the original corp documents. However if you look Fischer is the only registered "member" of that corp. Usually in Texas that means he was on the original papers as President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Which if I had to guess means he registered the corporation and "sold" his ideas to it in order to protect himself from backlash of a fraudulent lawsuit. This will be fun to see go to court.
I did not RTA last night and haven't yet today, I have however prepared a solid meal for my child which she is eating now.
The details however I feel are almost semantic issues in this case whether or not they let him leave, fell asleep or were to busy playing WoW is still as you say just appalling. And yes I do fully support the state jailing them and removing this child from there custody _atleast_ untill they have both completed their sentences _and_ an extensive parenting and life skills program, perhaps even obtain a certain number of ECE credits.
As a father and having a wife that was taken by CPS for false and malicious allegations by her mom against her dad. I have a hard time saying take them forever but if they are not willing to complete some extensive re-education then they simply are not fit parents.
Father of a two year old, uncle of a 3 and a 1 year old: Some above comments speak of locking everything down when kids are involved. Well that's just not always possible, however my daughter (or nieces under my care) has (have) _never_ gotten into anything dangerous. Be it cleaning supplies, any of my guns or ammo, toolboxes, knife drawer or even so much as a fire ring while camping.
God forbid it may happen one day, but god willing I or my wife will be there, close by and prepared to handle the situation.
Now jokes aside if this young boy actually spent enough time playing GTA to figure he could drive, and his parents had not yet taught him the difference between a game and reality. AND they allowed this boy to exit the house, keys in hand, and take control of a motor vehicle then there is absolutely no one at fault then his own parents.
You simply do not know what a child will do at any given time. You as the adult, guardian, mentor and/or parent MUST keep one eye or ear firmly dedicated to them. You must take responsibility when they knock things down at the store, show them how to apologize when you walk in front of an old man at McDonalds, and for they're sake monitor what they are doing in the moments before these things happen. It might not be an old guy in a wheelchair sometime, it could be a bus.
Prolly because of DRM. I would assume that they need the date because (i don't know much about DRM) the certificate issued to each player by the computer is only good for a certain amount of time, or something like that.
You should have a new one by the next leap year and if you don't (And assuming it does still work as it should) they will politly tell you they no longer support that device officially and offer to transfer you to some sales department or recommend you to a reseller(payed).
You know first time i saw that picture was when the article was published. Some AC here actually griped about how much money was spent on the project and how "low quality" the picture was.
This is an awesome feat and we should be very proud of the fine engineers and scientists that allow us all to experience such amazing finds.
Their business makes money by issuing certificates to paying customers, not rejecting customers for bad information. The more stringent their policy, the more applicants they reject, and the less money they make. It is simple math..... Who then should issue certificates? The only entity that doesn't have to make money--your governments.
Sir. I am not sure where you live but here in America we have seen countless changes made by various government agencies just so they can grab more tax money for there already inflated budgets.
Allow me to weave a tale for my fellow readers. My very first job was in a paper and printing supply warehouse. Things were great. I worked there for about 6 months before I got a rather strange call. It was a customer of ours who placed regular orders for pens and toner and the like. She said she was going to be placing a year end order and would like to know what our current prices on commodity items were. I gave her the run down for copy paper her normal toner carts and some other odds and ends. She said okay and a few minutes later I had a PO in the fax machine.
Now there normal purchases were anywhere from 5-50 dollars. She sent me a PO for 10000 dollars even. The top of the list was her standard set of supplies there was then a note to fill the rest of the 10000 bucks on copy paper.
Now being young and trying to do a good service i called her back to make sure there had not been a mistake. She told me no, that is correct. "We need to spend the rest of our budget or they will not give us as much next year".
Yes, the current system might have holes but I for one am all for keeping business private and reducing the size of MY current government
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I wish we could do away with our nukes (I'm American) but, with war torn, terrorist lead countries on the verge of being able to design model and acquire materials for even small nuclear weapons I am not sure that is a good idea.
Hopefully we will never use them but I would never disarm our arsenal even unilaterally. We have to maintain our ability to defend and eradicate if necessary any foe that may come against us. Its is the reason we have a government after all. (No lib's it is not there to bailout industry and regulate food or even protect the kids from possible molestation [that one goes to state police].)
Stop the presses! OMG anything dangerous is not terrorism!? That can not be. If he had a working replica, (He Doesn't, and you shouldn't even need to RTA to figure that out.) he clearly built it to destroy the childrenz and make us all fear his aWs0m3 trucking prowess!!!
Now, seriously thank you for pointing out the difference between dangerous and terrorist. So very, very many people have forgotten it.
Yes America is the great melting pot and for years our pot has runeth over. But now we have an economic problem (Yes I said problem because we can mostly still afford gas and food. If you disagree go talk to your grandparents about a real depression.) and if we don't take steps to keep our own country working how are we going to support all the other charity cases around the world? What happens when next year no one is importing goods from China or Labor from Mexico or doctors from India? Do you think they have strong enough economies to support that level of unemployment? If 10% of the factories in China just had to close down what would happen? If I stopped doing tech work and went back to the farm I was raised on that Mexican has to go home, think he'll have luck getting any kind of a decent job there? Can't afford medical?, doctors out of work.
I might sound callous and I know not all H1B's are shipping money home and investing in their own countries. Some are college grads that got a great chance here and are looking to immigrate eventually or maybe transfer out of this country to another and another until they find a place they want to call home or a nice Indian girl or W/E.
That is not the point of the Senators letter, nor do I think he actually intended to make Microsoft -do- anything his way. But in a recession, when we are about to pass a nearly trillion dollar stimulus does it not make since to retain citizen workers?
Just think if only half of that 5000 was h1b workers that's 2500 more employed Americans. Thats a piddly number but it is A number and it's damn sure not piddly to those 2500 Americans
my dad is a trade printer. I remember having an itek sitting in the living room and presses in the garage as a kid. hes not the hippest of the boomers but he has kept up on printer technology because it stole a lot of his business.
I don't know exact models he has now and its not that imnportent. Other posters have commented about there needs for only B&W or specific photo prints. My dad has a (I think cannon) his volume office copier for his in house B&W work ( he will never ever submit to instant printers for a job that is to be delivered to a customer ). He also has an inkjet for doing photo work on, and as the oldest male in our line he take a literal ton of photos stores them digitally and will gladly produce sets for anyone that wants them. I do not know what that printer is but I want to say its a smaller HP and knowing him he wouldn't splurge if time was not important, but the thing does very very nice prints and he gets some UV resistant ink in bulk somewhere online so the they actually last like a real photo.
All that said, my hp printer here at my feet has been empty for months because I just can't justify 50 bucks for a black cartridge. If I replaced the thing and used it as I really wanted to it would cost me more then my car insurance!
yeah I looked up and down thinking it should be there but it wasn't. Normally I'm not the guy to post that but well you know, we all want a YOLD to happen sometime!
the grammar police have arrested well known /.'er timothy for vulgar abuses of the term "per cent" while implying a percentage of a number... More at 11
2009, the year of the linux desktop!
So I know its just a small thing to ask but can we have a president who doesn't desecrate our own flag
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This statement was obviously written by a man.
Women are more interested in immersion into a mental state of connection, while men are more interested in how well they performed the act, and the joke is that these desires are completely incompatible with one another, and therefore we have the war of the sexes still raging today, getting worse and worse until the women win. Do not kid yourself -- they will win.
This statement was obviously written by a female, who is horney for a nerd on her level
I grew up with a Fry's nearby. we had cirtuc city's, best buy's and other smaller electronic stores around.
I have been buying components, A/V gear and about everything else any of these stores sells for well over a decade and this is my take (as a tech junkie) on why CC is going under.
They sell about the same stuff most other consumer electronic stores. They advertise in every paper, radio and TV spot they can get.
The very first time I ventured into a CC I was with my grandmother and we were greeted by a man twice my age with half my knowledge ( I was about 11 my Grandmother was 70ish). We were looking for a gift for my uncle ( he is mentally handicapped, epileptic seizure prone and diabetic to boot [I made a point to mention the seizures to the salesman]) and he led her straight away to the latest and greatest 3D0 consoles and told her some BS about them not having flashing lights. I let them talk while I tried some game out then when he walked off I filled her in on just what a risk that could be ( the poor guy goes into meltdown if you flicker a light switch 5 or 6 times ) and told her maybe a CD player would be more appropriate ( he loves Niel Diamond ). needless to say we walked out with a 10 dollar walkman.
The -only- other time I have considered going to CC was when they advertised a TV for some insane holiday deal and of course I was told they no longer had that model but the comparable model from Sony was just 3 times the price. For contrast Fry's will run a special each week and even if you go in the day before it was over there was still a pallet or two left.
CC can not compete for so many reasons it is almost laughable. The one huge thing I noticed in their last few years though is this. They price everything like a clothing store. Mark it all up 150-200% of market value and each week run numerous sales on the items they want to sell.
And (shoot me grammar cops) well, tech buyers are not the same as someone looking for flattering pants, we will look for deals but we also know the exact model and price point we want and generally will not settle for something else unless there is a knowledgeable salesman there to point out something we missed.
Its a trap! SSBB reference
Had to sorry regulars.
I concur. I fixed my neighbors PC the other day (282 adwares, 59 trojans/viruses) and while I was doing so I "upgraded" her to firefox and got her some plug-ins I thought she would find handy.
After the changes were made and I finished giving her a tour of the new options, and plug-ins and how to use the google search box instead of going to google first etc.., She asked me a puzzling question. "Do I still have the Internet though"
I won't detail the rest of the conversation but needless to say I recommended she get a copy of Internet (not explorer) for dummies.
This is the sort of thing that is going to happen when you give a normal person *nix. Sadly, in this case, Windows "just barely works."
There fixed that for you :)
Ditto. You can't take a group of students (some of whom may very well be doing other drugs) and try to say caffeine now causes them to hallucinate.
Lets not forget also that it is winter and if any one of those students had a cold they probably have taken DXM in higher then recommended doses.
The people who did this study should be tied down under an espresso machine and set on slow drip.
Now I'm off on a far out trip to Moxie Java to celebrate.
Can we please have a mod option for tin foil hat please. This would prevent above problem.
I can't disagree with that totally but there is one point with which I have to take exception.
School systems are one of the most budget limited govt run orgs. They try everything to shave dollars, like fees for art supplies, to hot lunches paid for by PTO fund raisers. I find it hard to believe the schools would somehow be so blind as to over look an easy "tens of millions" if the case was clear cut.
I while back i posted about an experience I had with a government office, This office was a school and I am here to tell you, while it is true some schools and some teachers are under budgeted. Many only appear so on paper and in fact hemorrhage money.
The real issue I see is the same that occurs in every other aspect of Linux/FOSS adoption. The community, and companies we form around, are behind the curve so to speak. Microsoft was aggressive in there early years and has used there size to push everyone around. From patents to legislation all the way down to your local school district. We wont win this fight by beating there prices just like they can't compete with ours. We have to continually innovate, provide support and help our neighbors adopt FOSS (assimilate those who refuse).
If you want to win schools over you gotta start with yours, get involved with the PTA's and let your Superintendents know they can save money, turn out classes full of seniors with desirable tech skills, and all the other goodies that go with it, and make sure they know how that will play out when it comes time to vote!
Ummm I would say bad headline, but it really is the article that does not follow it's own headline.
Of the 10 companies listed there is only one they note as possibly selling in 2009 (Novell) and they say it highly unlikely they will just go under. So then this is really just a bad end of year lazy editor story. Move along.
On another note, I have only ever taken the pains of looking at one other story from CI (Ad's are bad, Flash is worse.) and it was just as bad as this one.
In a former life I did high balance corporate skip tracing for collection purposes. I just did a quick skip on IPAT Texas Comptroller's Filing Record. I haven't called yet but there's a nice lady that works there that will usually pull up the actual files and get all the goods from the original filings i.e. who signed the original corp documents. However if you look Fischer is the only registered "member" of that corp. Usually in Texas that means he was on the original papers as President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Which if I had to guess means he registered the corporation and "sold" his ideas to it in order to protect himself from backlash of a fraudulent lawsuit. This will be fun to see go to court.
I did not RTA last night and haven't yet today, I have however prepared a solid meal for my child which she is eating now.
The details however I feel are almost semantic issues in this case whether or not they let him leave, fell asleep or were to busy playing WoW is still as you say just appalling. And yes I do fully support the state jailing them and removing this child from there custody _atleast_ untill they have both completed their sentences _and_ an extensive parenting and life skills program, perhaps even obtain a certain number of ECE credits.
As a father and having a wife that was taken by CPS for false and malicious allegations by her mom against her dad. I have a hard time saying take them forever but if they are not willing to complete some extensive re-education then they simply are not fit parents.
Father of a two year old, uncle of a 3 and a 1 year old: Some above comments speak of locking everything down when kids are involved. Well that's just not always possible, however my daughter (or nieces under my care) has (have) _never_ gotten into anything dangerous. Be it cleaning supplies, any of my guns or ammo, toolboxes, knife drawer or even so much as a fire ring while camping.
God forbid it may happen one day, but god willing I or my wife will be there, close by and prepared to handle the situation.
Now jokes aside if this young boy actually spent enough time playing GTA to figure he could drive, and his parents had not yet taught him the difference between a game and reality. AND they allowed this boy to exit the house, keys in hand, and take control of a motor vehicle then there is absolutely no one at fault then his own parents.
You simply do not know what a child will do at any given time. You as the adult, guardian, mentor and/or parent MUST keep one eye or ear firmly dedicated to them. You must take responsibility when they knock things down at the store, show them how to apologize when you walk in front of an old man at McDonalds, and for they're sake monitor what they are doing in the moments before these things happen. It might not be an old guy in a wheelchair sometime, it could be a bus.
Prolly because of DRM. I would assume that they need the date because (i don't know much about DRM) the certificate issued to each player by the computer is only good for a certain amount of time, or something like that.
You should have a new one by the next leap year and if you don't (And assuming it does still work as it should) they will politly tell you they no longer support that device officially and offer to transfer you to some sales department or recommend you to a reseller(payed).
You know first time i saw that picture was when the article was published. Some AC here actually griped about how much money was spent on the project and how "low quality" the picture was.
This is an awesome feat and we should be very proud of the fine engineers and scientists that allow us all to experience such amazing finds.
Their business makes money by issuing certificates to paying customers, not rejecting customers for bad information. The more stringent their policy, the more applicants they reject, and the less money they make. It is simple math.....
Who then should issue certificates? The only entity that doesn't have to make money--your governments.
Sir. I am not sure where you live but here in America we have seen countless changes made by various government agencies just so they can grab more tax money for there already inflated budgets.
Allow me to weave a tale for my fellow readers. My very first job was in a paper and printing supply warehouse. Things were great. I worked there for about 6 months before I got a rather strange call. It was a customer of ours who placed regular orders for pens and toner and the like. She said she was going to be placing a year end order and would like to know what our current prices on commodity items were. I gave her the run down for copy paper her normal toner carts and some other odds and ends. She said okay and a few minutes later I had a PO in the fax machine.
Now there normal purchases were anywhere from 5-50 dollars. She sent me a PO for 10000 dollars even. The top of the list was her standard set of supplies there was then a note to fill the rest of the 10000 bucks on copy paper.
Now being young and trying to do a good service i called her back to make sure there had not been a mistake. She told me no, that is correct. "We need to spend the rest of our budget or they will not give us as much next year".
Yes, the current system might have holes but I for one am all for keeping business private and reducing the size of MY current government
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