I can hear the Whovians now.. but wait in "End of Time" when Gallifrey appears next to earth it's only like 5 times the size of the earth.. Jupiter is 1321 times the size of the earth and this planet is 11 times that. Besides all the Timelords would be walking around and looking all squatty like Sontarans.
Actually it's the higher ups that are the ones guilty of violating the constitution. You can't call somebody a treasonous baby if the people in power tell you to do something. Most of these folks are doing a job, day in and day out trying to do what's right for themselves, their families and the US. No, the blame needs to be placed on those fuckwads in congress, the feinbitches and the administration for allowing this to happen. We got here because of fear, fear of terrorists, fear of other nations and our rights have been allowed to erode because of the myopic actions of our elected officials. Obama isn't wholly responsible for this but he's a liar on multiple fronts, just like his predecessor and all those that came before them. Also those Senators and Congressmen who've blindly voted in legislation without reading it, they're the treasonous babies because it's much more important to get re-elected than it is to do the right thing for the country. The right thing in this case would be to defend the constitution and our rights before trampling on them in the name of doing something quickly to placate the fear mongers we have in this nation.
Actually they have clutch and brake systems. so they can be stopped at any time and for any reason. Sometimes they get shut down for bad weather and other times it's for maintenance.
Birds are magnificent but also pretty dumb. I have cardinals hitting my windows during the spring, usually just sitting in my study I hear a *thud* and there's a cardinal either shaking off a headache or lying there dead. Eagles are magnificent and protected for a reason. Wind Farms should be able to develop technology that keeps them away from the turbines. This is a Market Opportunity folks, somebody should be able to come up with like the little bird vinyl stickers you can buy to keep birds from hitting your windows.
Maybe train other Eagles to avoid the Wind Mills and chase other Eagles away? I don't know but there should be a better way than saying "Meh, it's okay kill the Eagles."
That agenda is pushing dumbass CIOs into making bad decisions. Cloud Services, Co-Lo Hosting and the services wrapped around them are good tools to have at your disposal but like any tool if you don't know how to use them you can leave your organization high and dry. IDC and Gartner have a vested interest in selling Cloud and their associated third party service vendors to businesses since they're market makers. They're no different that your stock broker calling you up trying to sell a stock that's on their "hot sheets" to drive revenue. Companies pay these idiots for their "research" which is usually some guy sitting down and reading Internet articles and going to conferences where they hear long sales pitches from CSC, Rackspace and Amazon. None of this replaces a good set of people and an Enterprise Architecture strategy that the organization needs to develop and own.
What IDC misses here is two of the big cloud players, Google and Amazon, are growing their own servers so IDC's true "insight" should be that HP, Dell and IBM are going to lose server revenue more not from larger bulk deals with cloud providers but the fact that the bigger players are just going to buy components. Also companies aren't writing blank checks to their IT organization anymore. This means those big budget projects where you roll in racks of servers will be pushed more and more to virtualization. There's also the aspect that there are a lot of businesses who will never let their data or their customers data fall into the hands of any third party, even a hosting provider and they will still need servers and disk and products because year after year their existing footprint gets older and you need more capacity and to refresh your infrastructure.
Chrysler is now Fiat so they're not independent but I agree that the others aren't listed but again, that list was the top 10 worldwide. I'm thinking the good senator probably didn't realize that Chrysler and Fiat are one in the same (thanks to the current administration) and that Hyundai also owns Kia for example. I imagine there's a lot of duplication in his list. Having worked in software in automotive electronics for a short time awhile back (MSFT AutoPC... don't ask..) I can tell you that vulnerability testing wasn't considered until very late in the game and then the customer decided that it wasn't needed. Of course this was 13 years ago.
Electrically heated seats are underrated. Now you can get cooling seats. All the rest, GPS, complicated, vendor-locked in car entertainment, OnStar (which I ripped out of my car) are all wastes of money. It's getting so that you can't find cars (except very small, low-end models) that have hand crank windows.
let's see.. According to Forbes... In order of sales here's the largest 11 in the world.
VW Toyota Daimler Ford BMW GM Nissan Honda Hyndai SAIC (Chinese)
The top 10 up there represent the major manufacturers that sell cars in the US other than Tesla and Fisker is about dead anyway.. SAIC doesn't sell anything in the US, so really what's the other 8 on his list? Some guy in a garage building kit cars?
you don't need a zapper just a good old fashioned slingshot, a dog trained at catching frisbees or a shotgun all of which means that this will never work in Texas.
Old School Technology Rulz while you all with your new fangled infotainment system and ABS and TPS senors and electronic fuel injection will all be hitchhiking, I will be cruising along in my Jerry Garcia special...
Burning/Leaking oil Gas Tank right behind the engine waiting to explode. No Seat Belts
“We have a different perspective,” Mr. Li said. “We don’t want to think about ‘RoboCop’ or ‘Terminator,’ we prefer to think of a mash up ‘Batman,’ ‘Minority Report’ and R2-D2.”
I guess ultimately this product will be a whimsical vigilante that will seal you in a hole in the ground if it thinks you're going to spit on the sidewalk?
I think you have to throw Stalin as well as the PRC in that mix as well. Our focus on using technology should be to enhance our lives not watch everything we're doing. As for wasting money, they also need to stop doing that as well. Frankly if congress would grow a backbone and de-fund 90% of this stuff we'd all be better off but because of the fear mongering won't happen soon because both parties in power love to have their constituents afraid.
Don't tell the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA and the Department of Defense that. Of course the NSA is part of that too. They have programs and payrolls to maintain. Just think of Terrorism as the new Beltway jobs program. Once the cold war ended, how else were we going to keep the DC economy going?
Don't believe me? Just look at home real estate prices over the past few years. While most of the nation suffered home price stagnation or depreciation, there was one area of the country that didn't suffer nearly as bad as the rest of the nation, DC. While there was a net decline in overall Federal Employment all those other programs and deficit spending the Feds have put into place, Obamacare etc. have netted a housing price boom. Up 24% since 2009 while the rest of the nation is down 21% from 2007 highs. All those bureaucrats, NSA snoopers and lobbyists have to have a place to live.
If the god of Plate Tectonics could see fit to put DC over a hot spot I wouldn't shed a tear. Especially K Street North...
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Their statement should read "You're fucking up our business model and shareholder equity, stop copying us!"
I can hear the Whovians now.. but wait in "End of Time" when Gallifrey appears next to earth it's only like 5 times the size of the earth.. Jupiter is 1321 times the size of the earth and this planet is 11 times that. Besides all the Timelords would be walking around and looking all squatty like Sontarans.
Actually it's the higher ups that are the ones guilty of violating the constitution. You can't call somebody a treasonous baby if the people in power tell you to do something. Most of these folks are doing a job, day in and day out trying to do what's right for themselves, their families and the US. No, the blame needs to be placed on those fuckwads in congress, the feinbitches and the administration for allowing this to happen. We got here because of fear, fear of terrorists, fear of other nations and our rights have been allowed to erode because of the myopic actions of our elected officials. Obama isn't wholly responsible for this but he's a liar on multiple fronts, just like his predecessor and all those that came before them. Also those Senators and Congressmen who've blindly voted in legislation without reading it, they're the treasonous babies because it's much more important to get re-elected than it is to do the right thing for the country. The right thing in this case would be to defend the constitution and our rights before trampling on them in the name of doing something quickly to placate the fear mongers we have in this nation.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-do-scientists-determi
The Gravity must be immense, we'll need to ban their Olympic athletes from participating in the summer games.
Actually they have clutch and brake systems. so they can be stopped at any time and for any reason.
Sometimes they get shut down for bad weather and other times it's for maintenance.
Birds are magnificent but also pretty dumb. I have cardinals hitting my windows during the spring, usually just sitting in my study I hear a *thud* and there's a cardinal either shaking off a headache or lying there dead. Eagles are magnificent and protected for a reason. Wind Farms should be able to develop technology that keeps them away from the turbines. This is a Market Opportunity folks, somebody should be able to come up with like the little bird vinyl stickers you can buy to keep birds from hitting your windows.
Maybe train other Eagles to avoid the Wind Mills and chase other Eagles away? I don't know but there should be a better way than saying "Meh, it's okay kill the Eagles."
That agenda is pushing dumbass CIOs into making bad decisions. Cloud Services, Co-Lo Hosting and the services wrapped around them are good tools to have at your disposal but like any tool if you don't know how to use them you can leave your organization high and dry. IDC and Gartner have a vested interest in selling Cloud and their associated third party service vendors to businesses since they're market makers. They're no different that your stock broker calling you up trying to sell a stock that's on their "hot sheets" to drive revenue. Companies pay these idiots for their "research" which is usually some guy sitting down and reading Internet articles and going to conferences where they hear long sales pitches from CSC, Rackspace and Amazon. None of this replaces a good set of people and an Enterprise Architecture strategy that the organization needs to develop and own.
What IDC misses here is two of the big cloud players, Google and Amazon, are growing their own servers so IDC's true "insight" should be that HP, Dell and IBM are going to lose server revenue more not from larger bulk deals with cloud providers but the fact that the bigger players are just going to buy components. Also companies aren't writing blank checks to their IT organization anymore. This means those big budget projects where you roll in racks of servers will be pushed more and more to virtualization. There's also the aspect that there are a lot of businesses who will never let their data or their customers data fall into the hands of any third party, even a hosting provider and they will still need servers and disk and products because year after year their existing footprint gets older and you need more capacity and to refresh your infrastructure.
Chrysler is now Fiat so they're not independent but I agree that the others aren't listed but again, that list was the top 10 worldwide. I'm thinking the good senator probably didn't realize that Chrysler and Fiat are one in the same (thanks to the current administration) and that Hyundai also owns Kia for example. I imagine there's a lot of duplication in his list. Having worked in software in automotive electronics for a short time awhile back (MSFT AutoPC... don't ask..) I can tell you that vulnerability testing wasn't considered until very late in the game and then the customer decided that it wasn't needed. Of course this was 13 years ago.
Electrically heated seats are underrated. Now you can get cooling seats. All the rest, GPS, complicated, vendor-locked in car entertainment, OnStar (which I ripped out of my car) are all wastes of money. It's getting so that you can't find cars (except very small, low-end models) that have hand crank windows.
we shall now call it 'e' or 'i'. Wait, we've used those vowels. I suggest "y"
yAttack..
yDoit
I like it.
let's see.. According to Forbes... In order of sales here's the largest 11 in the world.
VW
Toyota
Daimler
Ford
BMW
GM
Nissan
Honda
Hyndai
SAIC (Chinese)
The top 10 up there represent the major manufacturers that sell cars in the US other than Tesla and Fisker is about dead anyway.. SAIC doesn't sell anything in the US, so really what's the other 8 on his list? Some guy in a garage building kit cars?
More 419 scams from Nigerian princes and Craigslist ads wanting to pay top dollar for iPods, iPhones.
$235 GBP for a paperback? WTF!?!?! This ought to come with a portable emergency beacon or at least a toaster.
The TSA does a weekly Proctology exam on me, I'm clean as a whistle thanks to our never ending fight against terrorists.
you don't need a zapper just a good old fashioned slingshot, a dog trained at catching frisbees or a shotgun all of which means that this will never work in Texas.
Old School Technology Rulz while you all with your new fangled infotainment system and ABS and TPS senors and electronic fuel injection will all be hitchhiking, I will be cruising along in my Jerry Garcia special...
Burning/Leaking oil
Gas Tank right behind the engine waiting to explode.
No Seat Belts
And you all think the Carerra GT is dangerous...
Here's a more complete article from the NYT Here..
Don't tell Twilight fans that. You'll have all the little girls crying out there.
“We have a different perspective,” Mr. Li said. “We don’t want to think about ‘RoboCop’ or ‘Terminator,’ we prefer to think of a mash up ‘Batman,’ ‘Minority Report’ and R2-D2.”
I guess ultimately this product will be a whimsical vigilante that will seal you in a hole in the ground if it thinks you're going to spit on the sidewalk?
In Skeet/Trap shooting skills. Instead of clay pigeons it'll be Amazon drones.
I think you have to throw Stalin as well as the PRC in that mix as well. Our focus on using technology should be to enhance our lives not watch everything we're doing. As for wasting money, they also need to stop doing that as well. Frankly if congress would grow a backbone and de-fund 90% of this stuff we'd all be better off but because of the fear mongering won't happen soon because both parties in power love to have their constituents afraid.
Don't tell the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA and the Department of Defense that. Of course the NSA is part of that too. They have programs and payrolls to maintain. Just think of Terrorism as the new Beltway jobs program. Once the cold war ended, how else were we going to keep the DC economy going?
Don't believe me? Just look at home real estate prices over the past few years. While most of the nation suffered home price stagnation or depreciation, there was
one area of the country that didn't suffer nearly as bad as the rest of the nation, DC. While there was a net decline in overall Federal Employment all those other programs and deficit spending the Feds have put into place, Obamacare etc. have netted a housing price boom. Up 24% since 2009 while the rest of the nation is down 21% from 2007 highs. All those bureaucrats, NSA snoopers and lobbyists have to have a place to live.
If the god of Plate Tectonics could see fit to put DC over a hot spot I wouldn't shed a tear. Especially K Street North...
I have had 6 and other than early Windows 8 driver issues, they've been rock solid.
Asus still makes some great laptops but I still miss 1200P res!