(Over company intercome)Could I have your attention? Someone left an unparked car out front with the motor still running. Did one of you engineers drive your wife's car again today?
Did that mathematical expression say that the chances of re-using one of the 2000 most used words is slightly less than one?
That, of course, includes words like a, and, but, if , or, and many others. And the chances of a musical note or sequence being used again is also slightly less than 100 percent?
Duh! What are the chances that you will use a word that you don't know the meaning of, or that you will hum a tune you don't know? Slim, but not zero of course!
For two years the company has free use of the gift card money to obtain free interest. Sure there is some maintenance cost, but not much. After that time the money is unused and really does not belong to the company. For the benefit of all people, the money could best be used as other taxes to the state or federal government, although I don't think the federal gov is allowed to collect those kinds of revenue as tax.
Perhaps the card agreement should have an opt-in/out clause of whether they want the expired card money to go to the corporation or the state.
I hate to be off topic, but I believe that is the longest "sentence fragment" I have ever read. Did I miss the verb and end of the sentence? You are mostly right, but some of your rantings are common to both Republicans and Democrats who have a strong religious belief. The part about finances and programs that benefit the rich and not the poor are right, I believe. After all, most of our lifelong politicians are relatively wealthy, at least after they have served a few years. That may be why neither party is very good at passing programs that REALLY benefit the lower middle class of people.
THere is an interesting article in EE-Times. There is also another article in EE Times for June 24.
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID =22100684
This week's issue of EE-Times has a front page article about this type battery developed by MTI Micro of Albany, New York, USA. The article mentions competitors developing this technology as Casio, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Medis Technologies, NEC, Samsung and Toshiba.
The article in your link says it was developed at Los Alamos National Labs. Motorola was working with them. Translate that as "providing monetary support fot the research project".
The real conversion (for those who can't find it anywhere else) is 1 inch = 2.5400000 cm. A google search of NIST did not even give easy access to this number as they give approximately 2.5.
Any good backup system that really needs to protect data needs backup on more than one system. Although power supplies may have some internal protection, a sudden surge from a suddenly failing supply could take out every hard drive in your raid system. Backing up to a completely separate system might be safer than a straight raid system.
The old audio casettes I purchased years ago came with a "lifetime" guarantee. I wish I had kept the guarantees so that I could go back to them now and ask for a replacemant for those tapes that squeal and won't work anymore.
I have an idea the CD, DVD and game companies could all have lifetime guarantees so defects sent in could be replaced for free. And, doing so would bring so much good-will to the industry that most people would not see them as the greedy moneygrubbers they seem to be now, and sales might actully go back up. Of course, the overall way of doing business has to change so people are not forced to buy music they don't want to listen to.
Read the article and ask yourself exactly what questions are being asked and answered. Then follow this scenario.
If I buy components from China or India instead of your company, and your company loses business and you get layed off, I have outsourced your job as part of the global economy. However since I am getting lower cost components and become more profitable, I can hire more people to assemble my product. Then as I realize that other local companies are eating into my business by selling at a very slightly lower price, I now start looking for offshore manufacturing and shift my workers to other jobs required by the additional volume. I become more competitive and profitable, but my local competition loses business and has a layoff. So far I have outsourced your job and the jobs of another local company. Both of these companies had layoffs that were not due to outsourcing.
So far I have outsourced your job and the your company's manufacturing by putting you out of business.
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics asks mine and the two other companies about outsourcing, two of them have lost jobs but not due to outsourcing. I have done outsourcing but have hired some people to help with the additional volume.
Net result of the survey? Few or no jobs have been outsourced, and the jobs that were outsourced did not result in a layoff. So much for government statistics!
Now I know there are a lot of/. readers out there like me who hit the link every time there is a new SCO story. But it seems SCO is going under and we will be left with only M$ to bash. Of course M$ has a lot of lousy security and other problems, but they just keep on going and doing their thing like they don't care if we complain or not. Day by day there is nothing new; just new versions of viruses, worms and back doors. They are underhanded and quiet and like to do things like third party funding of SCO.
SCO is not like m$. Every few days they have a new exciting story' some believable and some not, but what will we do when they're gone? I shudder at losing my sole internet entertainment and so far, you readers have been very stingy with your money. SCO has come up with a lot of ideas for emergency funding, but none seem to be working well.
What can we do? Well, I have a plan. It's called "SOSco" for "Save our SCO". Shortly, I will be starting up a small company to help provide "stay alive" funding for SCO, at least until their court case. Except for my salaries and actual overhead expenses, the remainder will all go to SCO. With nearly 100,000,/. readers and just a few dollars each (we will accept non USA currency also) I think we can keep things going for one or two more years. That's a small price for this kind of entertainment. Oh, I forgot! I will have to put aside enough funds for a good lawyer team just in case someone tries to sue us for using SOS (since it may have other meaning)and most likely from SCO themselves for using a derivitive of their name without their permission. Be watching daily, because this will be an exclusive story on/. as my company will depend on you readers for it's major funding.
The first truly Stealth ship has not YET been detected. And as long as it remains truly stealth, you will never hear about it or see it. So There!! Bad exclamation- "So not there!"
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I think you should be modded "F" for Funny!
I searched for 'panasonic digital camera' and got no results - Google had thousands.
I tried to submit a comment. The link was bad.
I wanted them to add a new feature to the search engine. "Find something!!!"
I can hardly wait for this search engine to go mainstream.
See http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/backslash.h tml
You instructed your novice to press "full stop" Are you using one of those new automobile keyboards? (If it still says "h tml", I did not do it!)
(Over company intercome)Could I have your attention? Someone left an unparked car out front with the motor still running. Did one of you engineers drive your wife's car again today?
Where are they when you need them?
THanks, you made my day! Best laugh I've had since ... last time.
Did that mathematical expression say that the chances of re-using one of the 2000 most used words is slightly less than one? That, of course, includes words like a, and, but, if , or, and many others. And the chances of a musical note or sequence being used again is also slightly less than 100 percent? Duh! What are the chances that you will use a word that you don't know the meaning of, or that you will hum a tune you don't know? Slim, but not zero of course!
For two years the company has free use of the gift card money to obtain free interest. Sure there is some maintenance cost, but not much. After that time the money is unused and really does not belong to the company. For the benefit of all people, the money could best be used as other taxes to the state or federal government, although I don't think the federal gov is allowed to collect those kinds of revenue as tax. Perhaps the card agreement should have an opt-in/out clause of whether they want the expired card money to go to the corporation or the state.
My last two e-Gift Cards from Amazon were used within the last month before the published expiration date.
I hate to be off topic, but I believe that is the longest "sentence fragment" I have ever read. Did I miss the verb and end of the sentence?
You are mostly right, but some of your rantings are common to both Republicans and Democrats who have a strong religious belief.
The part about finances and programs that benefit the rich and not the poor are right, I believe. After all, most of our lifelong politicians are relatively wealthy, at least after they have served a few years. That may be why neither party is very good at passing programs that REALLY benefit the lower middle class of people.
THere is an interesting article in EE-Times. There is also another article in EE Times for June 24. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID =22100684
This week's issue of EE-Times has a front page article about this type battery developed by MTI Micro of Albany, New York, USA.
The article mentions competitors developing this technology as Casio, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Medis Technologies, NEC, Samsung and Toshiba.
The article in your link says it was developed at Los Alamos National Labs. Motorola was working with them. Translate that as "providing monetary support fot the research project".
My girlfriend never would have thought of that.
The real conversion (for those who can't find it anywhere else) is 1 inch = 2.5400000 cm.
A google search of NIST did not even give easy access to this number as they give approximately 2.5.
I don't remember anything about that!
Sorry, but I seem to be on the trailing edge of technology today. What is this invite stuff? Seems I don't get invited to nothing anymore!
Any good backup system that really needs to protect data needs backup on more than one system. Although power supplies may have some internal protection, a sudden surge from a suddenly failing supply could take out every hard drive in your raid system. Backing up to a completely separate system might be safer than a straight raid system.
I have an idea the CD, DVD and game companies could all have lifetime guarantees so defects sent in could be replaced for free. And, doing so would bring so much good-will to the industry that most people would not see them as the greedy moneygrubbers they seem to be now, and sales might actully go back up. Of course, the overall way of doing business has to change so people are not forced to buy music they don't want to listen to.
If I buy components from China or India instead of your company, and your company loses business and you get layed off, I have outsourced your job as part of the global economy. However since I am getting lower cost components and become more profitable, I can hire more people to assemble my product. Then as I realize that other local companies are eating into my business by selling at a very slightly lower price, I now start looking for offshore manufacturing and shift my workers to other jobs required by the additional volume. I become more competitive and profitable, but my local competition loses business and has a layoff. So far I have outsourced your job and the jobs of another local company. Both of these companies had layoffs that were not due to outsourcing.
So far I have outsourced your job and the your company's manufacturing by putting you out of business.
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics asks mine and the two other companies about outsourcing, two of them have lost jobs but not due to outsourcing. I have done outsourcing but have hired some people to help with the additional volume.
Net result of the survey? Few or no jobs have been outsourced, and the jobs that were outsourced did not result in a layoff. So much for government statistics!
SCO is not like m$. Every few days they have a new exciting story' some believable and some not, but what will we do when they're gone? I shudder at losing my sole internet entertainment and so far, you readers have been very stingy with your money. SCO has come up with a lot of ideas for emergency funding, but none seem to be working well.
What can we do? Well, I have a plan. It's called "SOSco" for "Save our SCO". Shortly, I will be starting up a small company to help provide "stay alive" funding for SCO, at least until their court case. Except for my salaries and actual overhead expenses, the remainder will all go to SCO. With nearly 100,000, /. readers and just a few dollars each (we will accept non USA currency also) I think we can keep things going for one or two more years. That's a small price for this kind of entertainment. Oh, I forgot! I will have to put aside enough funds for a good lawyer team just in case someone tries to sue us for using SOS (since it may have other meaning)and most likely from SCO themselves for using a derivitive of their name without their permission. Be watching daily, because this will be an exclusive story on /. as my company will depend on you readers for it's major funding.
Thanks,from the team as SOSco
lcsjk
The first truly Stealth ship has not YET been detected. And as long as it remains truly stealth, you will never hear about it or see it. So There!! Bad exclamation- "So not there!"
I went there and could not see it. Good stealth boat if I ever saw one. Whoops! I mean didn't see one.
One of my nightmares is that I'll be 30 miles out and discover that I suddenly have one of those "silent" boat engines.
Was that "Blue Screen" in windows invented to help ships blend in with the water?
Enlighten Me. How long did it take to get the M-16 into production?