From a business perspective, the Braves needed to cut payroll.
After 12 straight division titles, and only one World Championship to show for it, the fans were getting bored. The win-the-division-easily-then-go out-in-the-first-round routine was getting old. Most Braves fans don't realize how much they sucked before 1991, and have taken the success for granted.
The Braves have one of the best minor league systems around, and Bobby Cox is by far the best manager in baseball from April through September.
More precisely, Time Warner drove AOL straight into the ground.
These were two radically different corporate cultures. The two companies were supposed to supplement each others strengths. However, they merely combined each others weaknesses.
American workers are screwed, especially in large urban areas.
$45k in Silicon Valley is nothing. $45k in L.A. is barely a living wage. $45k in South Carolina is a nice living. $45k in India is a rich man.
This is why jobs are getting outsourced. A company can get the same quality of work and provide the employee with the same standard of living overseas, or even in less expensive areas of the United States.
Corel was creating WordPerfect 4 for Mac, but then gave up. They released WP 3.5e free for binary download. Not as good as the Windows version, but not bad for the price.
About two years ago they took it down with no explanation. Go figure.
You may have been able to make more adjustments and corrections yourself, but I can guarantee that you had to make them a lot more often and they were nowhere near as precise.
With more stringent emissions requirements, (the real reason all the fun cars went away) the engine compartment became considerably more complex. In the 1970's, in the age before computers but after increased emissions reqirements, cars were terrible. The auto makers were forced to detune their cars, which killed performance and fuel economy. Emmissions control was a byzantine maze of vacuum lines contolled by a series of unreliable mechanical valves and switches.
Computers overcame many of these problems in the 1980's. A computer controlled fuel injection system can provide the optimum fuel mixture much more reliably than any old mechanical carbureator. Eventually, computers came to control more and more systems on cars, providing better performance for a lower cost than what they replaced.
Anyone who claims computers are no good for automobiles understands neither computers nor automobiles.
Once upon a time, say the late 1970's, the idea that computers were no good for cars would be true. Early systems were primitive, expensive, unreliable, and not well understood by most mechanics.
However, now computers can control and instantaneously adjust hundreds of setting in a car while driving. Computers are what is responsible for the gains in horsepower and fuel economy in the past 20 years. Computers (and unleaded gas) are the reason cars can go 100,000mi between tune-ups; the car is tuning itself up as you drive! Computers have eliminated the awkward, byzantine, unreliable, and inefficient emmissions systems of the pre-microprocessor era.
Yes, some of the best cars ever built were built before microprocessors. But they were also built before emmissions and fuel economy regulations. I'm sure that breaker point ignition 1960's muscle car is great. And I'm sure it's easy to work on. But I'll bet it gets terrible gas mileage for the horsepower it produces, pollutes like crazy, and is considerably higher maintenance than what they have now.
As for the EMP? If you are getting hit with EMP, you have more to worry about than your car stopping.
Graft, corruption, pork, and incompetence must be factored into the cost of any Government project.
That being said, I think it's a good idea. There are many rural areas of the country where broadband could be useful, but it is not profitable to run or maintain a connection out there.
The old REA (Rural Electrification Administration) was highly successful in bringing telephone service and electricity to rural America. Something similar could be done for broadband.
If you were wondering about paying for it, that's simple: cut agricultural subsidies, especially for ethanol. Those are a massive waste of money, and cutting them while providing rural infrastructure would be at worst a wash for rural America, and at best a better deal.
Verizon's coverage in my area is terrible. Dead spots everywhere.
I'm an AT&T customer and have never had a problem with them. I don't know about Cingular, but they seem to be good in the Southeast (owned by BellSouth).
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Old and Busted: Importing foreign IT workers to the U.S. because there aren't enough Americans to fill the jobs.
New Hotness: Hiring the foreign IT workers in their own countries for a fraction of the price.
That's why they don't make battleships anymore.
The planes on a carrier can spot and sink a battleship long before the battleship gets in range of the carrier.
It should be fine, as long as the memory stays good.
From a business perspective, the Braves needed to cut payroll.
After 12 straight division titles, and only one World Championship to show for it, the fans were getting bored. The win-the-division-easily-then-go out-in-the-first-round routine was getting old. Most Braves fans don't realize how much they sucked before 1991, and have taken the success for granted.
The Braves have one of the best minor league systems around, and Bobby Cox is by far the best manager in baseball from April through September.
They'll rebuild.
More precisely, Time Warner drove AOL straight into the ground.
These were two radically different corporate cultures. The two companies were supposed to supplement each others strengths. However, they merely combined each others weaknesses.
No voting is foolproof. Take your pick of problems.
Would you rather have Computer errors, damaged punch card ballots, broken voting machines, bad optical scanners, or good old fashioned human error?
These companies aren't in the "oil" business. These companies are in the "energy" business.
Their job is to meet consumers needs for energy. They don't care how they do it. Right now, oil is one of the better ways of making money doing it.
A true "oil" company is a company whose product is partially or entirely tied to extracting fossil fuels from the earth.
American workers are screwed, especially in large urban areas.
$45k in Silicon Valley is nothing.
$45k in L.A. is barely a living wage.
$45k in South Carolina is a nice living.
$45k in India is a rich man.
This is why jobs are getting outsourced. A company can get the same quality of work and provide the employee with the same standard of living overseas, or even in less expensive areas of the United States.
Corel was creating WordPerfect 4 for Mac, but then gave up. They released WP 3.5e free for binary download. Not as good as the Windows version, but not bad for the price.
About two years ago they took it down with no explanation. Go figure.
I loved WordPerfect 8 for Windows. WP8 for Linux was a disaster.
It was awkward to use and there were still file conversion issues, even though it was the SAME PROGRAM with the SAME FILE FORMAT.
I wanted to like WordPerfect 8 for Linux, but StarOffice 5.2, even with its many flaws, was a much better program.
That's what Dish Network/DirecTV is for.
Only where prohibited by state law from doing so. If there is no state regulation, then municipalities can be in the telecom business.
The court made the right call. Those state laws do not contradict the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
Dean DID win Vermont.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/VT-D.phtml
He also won the non-binding D.C. primary.
You may have been able to make more adjustments and corrections yourself, but I can guarantee that you had to make them a lot more often and they were nowhere near as precise.
With more stringent emissions requirements, (the real reason all the fun cars went away) the engine compartment became considerably more complex. In the 1970's, in the age before computers but after increased emissions reqirements, cars were terrible. The auto makers were forced to detune their cars, which killed performance and fuel economy. Emmissions control was a byzantine maze of vacuum lines contolled by a series of unreliable mechanical valves and switches.
Computers overcame many of these problems in the 1980's. A computer controlled fuel injection system can provide the optimum fuel mixture much more reliably than any old mechanical carbureator. Eventually, computers came to control more and more systems on cars, providing better performance for a lower cost than what they replaced.
When President Bush raised steel tariffs to protect the steel industry, the more expensive steel led to job losses in the industries that use steel.
In other words, protectionism costs jobs.
Free trade isn't perfect, it's just better than any other trade policy out there.
I can guarantee you that you would NEVER have to flip hamburgers in India.
It was one of Ted Turner's stations.
Microsoft following Apple's lead? What else is new?
I'm well aware that there are plenty of women who are quite mechanicly inclined. And there are plenty of men who are clueless.
For all who don't realize, that first post was a joke.
Insightful, my ass!
Anyone who claims computers are no good for automobiles understands neither computers nor automobiles.
Once upon a time, say the late 1970's, the idea that computers were no good for cars would be true. Early systems were primitive, expensive, unreliable, and not well understood by most mechanics.
However, now computers can control and instantaneously adjust hundreds of setting in a car while driving. Computers are what is responsible for the gains in horsepower and fuel economy in the past 20 years. Computers (and unleaded gas) are the reason cars can go 100,000mi between tune-ups; the car is tuning itself up as you drive! Computers have eliminated the awkward, byzantine, unreliable, and inefficient emmissions systems of the pre-microprocessor era.
Yes, some of the best cars ever built were built before microprocessors. But they were also built before emmissions and fuel economy regulations. I'm sure that breaker point ignition 1960's muscle car is great. And I'm sure it's easy to work on. But I'll bet it gets terrible gas mileage for the horsepower it produces, pollutes like crazy, and is considerably higher maintenance than what they have now.
As for the EMP? If you are getting hit with EMP, you have more to worry about than your car stopping.
This is a Volvo we're talking about here. There aren't any $5 parts on a Volvo. (At least in the U.S.)
As if having they care if the hood is welded shut. /go ahead, mod me down, you know it's true.
It was in last night's episode, in fact.
Graft, corruption, pork, and incompetence must be factored into the cost of any Government project.
That being said, I think it's a good idea. There are many rural areas of the country where broadband could be useful, but it is not profitable to run or maintain a connection out there.
The old REA (Rural Electrification Administration) was highly successful in bringing telephone service and electricity to rural America. Something similar could be done for broadband.
If you were wondering about paying for it, that's simple: cut agricultural subsidies, especially for ethanol. Those are a massive waste of money, and cutting them while providing rural infrastructure would be at worst a wash for rural America, and at best a better deal.
Verizon's coverage in my area is terrible. Dead spots everywhere.
I'm an AT&T customer and have never had a problem with them. I don't know about Cingular, but they seem to be good in the Southeast (owned by BellSouth).
As always, YMMV.