Haliburton still needs more cash. The terrorists even play along!!!! Haliburton fixes it gets paid, terrorists blow it up, Haliburton fixes it again! Terrorists blow it......... Guranteed growth industry. Bechtel is probably somewhere in the mix as well.
Here in Oklahoma they are putting up ALOT of new windfarms Cheap land, it can be dual use (cows and horses can still graze on a windfarm). Alot of empty land and a calm day here is a 10mph wind, drove back from lunch with a nice 20-25mph breeze blowing over the highway. the plains from the Dakotas down to oklahoma get alot of wind and large expanses of either unused land or land where livestock are grazing and thus could graze in and around the windfarms.
Mr "Slam Dunk WMD Iraq" Tennet. Please Both the R's and D's think this Guy is a loser. He's just trying to stir up something so he'll be invited on with Bill O'Rielly and get some free phone sex............
M$ owns very few foundational patents i.e. threads, semaphoreds, shared memory, file locking, SMP etc..
Why... Because companies like Novell (Remember they still own the unix IP), IBM, SUN (yes SUN), HP, Fujistsu..... All own alot of this why??? Because they were making real OS's while MS was trying to get FAT16 working.... All of these companies have far more patents than M$(in terms of OS stuff that would apply to linux) and guess what?? They all have a stake in Linux. So Linux has very little to fight with, but those that have invested in linux have ALOT to fight with. I've said it before if M$ wants a knock down bloody patent war they will lose.
Not even thier butt buddies in the DOJ can save them from IBM's lawyers.
Wasn't there a press release from some MS bureacrat saying that they had no plans to go after linux with thier IP in court??? Now they turn around and threaten to do just that? Of course we know MS are a bunch of lying bastards, this just confirms again.
I for one would welcome a court fight BECAUSE:
Novell owns the rights to Unix, file structures, shared memory, threads etc... Thats all stuff Windoze is built on just like any other OS. If they come after linux, they will slit thier own throat. Novell and IBM will come after MS... It will be a bloody mess. A mess the M$ will ultimate lose because we know they copy other poeoples stuff and do very little of thier own innovation. They refine the crap out of things, but they don't really invent things:
GUI, Other folks had if first Multi-tasking OS someone else had it first Networking SMP clustering VM email dat abase Almost any patent fight they get into would involve patents that IBM, Novell, Xerox,Apple, Sony, Fujistu, Oracle...... etc. would already have. All those companies have investments in linux or BSD... So let the wars begin, It will be the beginning of end for M$.
I voted for the guy, but he did not do a good job of making a case that he had a plan. Alot of it was I would do that better, well how? I mean he did a poor job of articulating his overall strategy and he still came close to winning.
I think this says more about Bushes weakness than Kerrys strength. A Bill Clinton in his prime would've eaten Bush for lunch.
Last time I checked realestate doesn'nt have constitutional rights. Now with W in for four more years that may change. Right now, land cannot vote, people vote.
He did'nt say they were wrong, he said they were interpreted incorrectly, big difference. If you go with the day being a very long periond of time even Billions of years then from an evolutionairy stand point it makes since. First we know the earth had a thick atmosphere, probably little light got in. THen as the atmpsphere changed light started to hit the surface probably some simple lichen and moss started to form as the very early plants. Hence the first things genesis are plants. THen in Genesis we see animal life started in the seas. Which we know from evolution..
Just because you read it figurativly instead of literally doesn't make it wrong.
Im really tired of the whole it's hard to find blah blah blah in the US. All the developers I've known that were outsourced were VERY competent, In fact more competent than many of the indans who replaced them. They certainly knew the business end better. It was all about money. We can hire 20 indian PHD's for what one american makes, who cares if they turn out crap. It's all about saving a buck or two so some CEO can give himself a nice bonus for cutting costs. Problem is what will all these folks do when everything is outsourced.
Accounting jobs, Programming, Call center, Engineering in same cases lower level Mgmt and I even read that some comp are outsourcing legal services......
We have to do something and make something. We can't all make a living by selling each others crap on ebay...
When the bomb does hit (figuratively) the Companies doing all the outsourcing will be screaming the loudest. Financial institutions are big on outsourcing. Well if everyone is makeing 20grand a year at star bucks or Home Depot we are'nt gonna be getting mortages on $200,000 houses or having money market accounts or any other things that middle income folks do, cause there won't be many middle income folks.
It's funny but all of this paralells nature so perfectly. You have the folks at the top of the food chain, Banks Mega Corps etc... Killing off the very people they feed off of. When they are done they will die themselves... No Indian is gonna pay some American Bank outrageous fees to manage thier money or accounts. You say well the bank will buy an Indian Co..... etc..... thats true, but again how many Indian's making 5-10grand a year are going to be taking out $200,000+ mortages ?? Loans for $30,000 ford suv's??? Nada Zilch Zip...
Just like nature, when the big predators at the top kill all the food, then they will either die off themselves or become smaller because they must now feed on smaller prey.
Welcome to the food chain, watch your head and your back ( for talons) and don't get overly worried about Ideology. A Lion is neither a Democrat nor a republican he merely wants you for lunch. Remeber that when you have to train your indian replacements. Wonder how you are gonna pay medical bills for your family and what the hell you are going to do now..
I would'nt get too excited about ANYTHING 'The Gartner Group' has to say. They should rename themselves Bill Gates little Lap dog and kiss a&& group. Thier Bread and butter is windows, loss of the windoze monopoly would spell thier doom. I think in a way this points to Linux getting a larger desktop share, because the 'Garden compost group' is obviously worried enough about it to manufacture a story like this.
BTW I do folks that pirate windows, but they usually build thier own boxes. My neighbor just built a box for a bit less than 280.
$94 for a Athlon/Mb from Compgeeks (W vid/snd/ethernet)
$16 from a local clone shop for an old generic case
$45 for a refurb 30gig HD
$45 for a refurb DVD/CD_RW combo drive
$70 for some DDR 266 512MB
And some pirated copy of Windows2000 pro that GOK where it came from.
It's not like we watch them for the plot or 'character development'........ Actually the comment Fat Lipps and sucktastic probably nail the reason we do watch her movies. Except my definition of sucktastic is probably different.....
You may think now that you don't need the refferal, however if you find yourself like me and a nice job opens up as working for a company that has fed contracts, trust me they will talk to EVERY employer you have had in the last 10 years...... plus a lot of other stuff. Besides if you make a scene that may be all he needs to have you labled not rehireable, which is something all companies ask when doing background checks.
Be a bigger person than you ex-boss. Besides if he's like most a-hole managers just the fact that you got a better job and are bailing out on him will probably piss him off to no end. If you do cause a scene he can also say 'See I told you that person was......(add ad-hoc derogatory stmts here)'
I know it's tempting, but bite your tounge and be professional.
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They are for the massive fleet of BBD's (Big Black Deltas) the Dod is building. Complete with directed energy weapons and and electro-kinetic drives... They have to have them to fight the aliens that are coming, just ask Budda.
The relatively large herd thing is a left over from the dot com era. At that time a large percentage of folks got into it not because they wanted to do it, but because they could make alot of money doing it. Now thanks to offshoring and falling wages people who were in it just for the money are leaving.
Good Riddance. The Tech employment percentage is getting closer to what it was in the late 80's early ninties. Which is probably about right.
Thats right. I have software that is licensed. I pay a subsrciption fee for it. If I trash the cd's I can either download the binaries for free or get more cd's for a nominal fee. If the license senerio holds then once I buy a CD if it's lost or stolen or destoyed. I should be able to obtain a replacement for a minamal fee.
NOW if I actually own it, then it is my responsibility to take care of it make backups etc. If it gets lost or stolen well I have to buy another.
YOU CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS...........
I either own and can make copies if i choose
OR
I license it and can replace it for free/nominal cost for the duration of the license.
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I checked the NOAA site and OK's average windspeed for november was 9.7 mpg (good guess on my part).
Do you know where Mark Juevara the former youth pastor went? I know they were there through 2002 and we kinda lost track of them. Thanks.
Haliburton still needs more cash. The terrorists even play along!!!! Haliburton fixes it gets paid, terrorists blow it up, Haliburton fixes it again! Terrorists blow it ......... Guranteed growth industry. Bechtel is probably somewhere in the mix as well.
Here in Oklahoma they are putting up ALOT of new windfarms Cheap land, it can be dual use (cows and horses can still graze on a windfarm). Alot of empty land and a calm day here is a 10mph wind, drove back from lunch with a nice 20-25mph breeze blowing over the highway. the plains from the Dakotas down to oklahoma get alot of wind and large expanses of either unused land or land where livestock are grazing and thus could graze in and around the windfarms.
No thanks..... Been there, have the knife wounds on my back to prove it.... As long as your happy thats all that matters, Best of Luck!
So how are things working out at powerhouse Cult Center???
Mr "Slam Dunk WMD Iraq" Tennet. Please Both the R's and D's think this Guy is a loser. He's just trying to stir up something so he'll be invited on with Bill O'Rielly and get some free phone sex............
M$ owns very few foundational patents i.e. threads,
..... All own alot of this why??? Because they were making real OS's while MS was trying to get FAT16 working.... All of these companies have far more patents than M$(in terms of OS stuff that would apply to linux) and guess what?? They all have a stake in Linux. So Linux has very little to fight with, but those that have invested in linux have ALOT to fight with. I've said it before if M$ wants a knock down bloody patent war they will lose.
semaphoreds, shared memory, file locking, SMP etc..
Why... Because companies like Novell (Remember they still own the unix IP), IBM, SUN (yes SUN), HP, Fujistsu
Not even thier butt buddies in the DOJ can save them from IBM's lawyers.
Yeah if the settle with the above mentioned parties, any settlment would have to include them backing off of Linux ( and BSD) So we win either way.
1) M$ goes down in a bloody patent war
2) M$ agrees to lay off linux and BSD to avoid 1.. While they continue to see thier market share fall.
either is a win. And nobody beats IBM's lawyers, even the Govt...
Wasn't there a press release from some MS bureacrat saying that they had no plans to go after linux with thier IP in court??? Now they turn around and threaten to do just that? Of course we know MS are a bunch of lying bastards, this just confirms again.
t abase ...... etc. would already have. All those companies have investments in linux or BSD... So let the wars begin, It will be the beginning of end for M$.
I for one would welcome a court fight BECAUSE:
Novell owns the rights to Unix, file structures, shared memory, threads etc... Thats all stuff Windoze is built on just like any other OS. If they come after linux, they will slit thier own throat. Novell and IBM will come after MS... It will be a bloody mess. A mess the M$ will ultimate lose because we know they copy other poeoples stuff and do very little of thier own innovation. They refine the crap out of things, but they don't really invent things:
GUI, Other folks had if first
Multi-tasking OS someone else had it first
Networking
SMP
clustering
VM
email
da
Almost any patent fight they get into would involve patents that IBM, Novell, Xerox,Apple, Sony, Fujistu, Oracle
As the self proclaimed slashdot rep from oklahoma, I would like to announce that Oklahoma gladly welcomes our Rural Insourcing Overlords.
Dell just located a 700 person call center here and plans to double it's size...... Come on over...
NFM......
I voted for the guy, but he did not do a good job of making a case that he had a plan. Alot of it was I would do that better, well how? I mean he did a poor job of articulating his overall strategy and he still came close to winning.
I think this says more about Bushes weakness than Kerrys strength. A Bill Clinton in his prime would've eaten Bush for lunch.
Last time I checked realestate doesn'nt have constitutional rights. Now with W in for four more years that may change. Right now, land cannot vote, people vote.
Well I was thinking of one of the higher end models... If you get a faster CPU and an LCD monitor...
He did'nt say they were wrong, he said they were interpreted incorrectly, big difference. If you go with the day being a very long periond of time even Billions of years then from an evolutionairy stand point it makes since. First we know the earth had a thick atmosphere, probably little light got in. THen as the atmpsphere changed light started to hit the surface probably some simple lichen and moss started to form as the very early plants. Hence the first things genesis are plants. THen in Genesis we see animal life started in the seas. Which we know from evolution..
Just because you read it figurativly instead of literally doesn't make it wrong.
I play mostly console games now, I would buy a mac if I could afford one, but I can buy 2 or 3 PC's for what a mac costs......
Im really tired of the whole it's hard to find blah blah blah in the US. All the developers I've known that were outsourced were VERY competent, In fact more competent than many of the indans who replaced them. They certainly knew the business end better. It was all about money. We can hire 20 indian PHD's for what one american makes, who cares if they turn out crap. It's all about saving a buck or two so some CEO can give himself a nice bonus for cutting costs. Problem is what will all these folks do when everything is outsourced.
Accounting jobs, Programming, Call center, Engineering in same cases lower level Mgmt and I even read that some comp are outsourcing legal services......
We have to do something and make something. We can't all make a living by selling each others crap on ebay...
When the bomb does hit (figuratively) the Companies doing all the outsourcing will be screaming the loudest. Financial institutions are big on outsourcing. Well if everyone is makeing 20grand a year at star bucks or Home Depot we are'nt gonna be getting mortages on $200,000 houses or having money market accounts or any other things that middle income folks do, cause there won't be many middle income folks.
It's funny but all of this paralells nature so perfectly. You have the folks at the top of the food chain, Banks Mega Corps etc... Killing off the very people they feed off of. When they are done they will die themselves... No Indian is gonna pay some American Bank outrageous fees to manage thier money or accounts. You say well the bank will buy an Indian Co..... etc..... thats true, but again how many Indian's making 5-10grand a year are going to be taking out $200,000+ mortages ?? Loans for $30,000 ford suv's??? Nada Zilch Zip...
Just like nature, when the big predators at the top kill all the food, then they will either die off themselves or become smaller because they must now feed on smaller prey.
Welcome to the food chain, watch your head and your back ( for talons) and don't get overly worried about Ideology. A Lion is neither a Democrat nor a republican he merely wants you for lunch. Remeber that when you have to train your indian replacements. Wonder how you are gonna pay medical bills for your family and what the hell you are going to do now..
Hee heee sorry about that droped a word...
I would'nt get too excited about ANYTHING 'The Gartner Group' has to say. They should rename themselves Bill Gates little Lap dog and kiss a&& group. Thier Bread and butter is windows, loss of the windoze monopoly would spell thier doom. I think in a way this points to Linux getting a larger desktop share, because the 'Garden compost group' is obviously worried enough about it to manufacture a story like this.
BTW I do folks that pirate windows, but they usually build thier own boxes. My neighbor just built a box for a bit less than 280.
$94 for a Athlon/Mb from Compgeeks (W vid/snd/ethernet)
$16 from a local clone shop for an old generic case
$45 for a refurb 30gig HD
$45 for a refurb DVD/CD_RW combo drive
$70 for some DDR 266 512MB
And some pirated copy of Windows2000 pro that GOK where it came from.
It's not like we watch them for the plot or 'character development'........ Actually the comment Fat Lipps and sucktastic probably nail the reason we do watch her movies. Except my definition of sucktastic is probably different.....
I need some kleenex....
You may think now that you don't need the refferal, however if you find yourself like me and a nice job opens up as working for a company that has fed contracts, trust me they will talk to EVERY employer you have had in the last 10 years...... plus a lot of other stuff. Besides if you make a scene that may be all he needs to have you labled not rehireable, which is something all companies ask when doing background checks.
......(add ad-hoc derogatory stmts here)'
Be a bigger person than you ex-boss. Besides if he's like most a-hole managers just the fact that you got a better job and are bailing out on him will probably piss him off to no end. If you do cause a scene he can also say 'See I told you that person was
I know it's tempting, but bite your tounge and be professional.
They are for the massive fleet of BBD's (Big Black Deltas) the Dod is building. Complete with directed energy weapons and and electro-kinetic drives... They have to have them to fight the aliens that are coming, just ask Budda.
PS don't forget about the black helicopters...
Sorry I was all caught up consipircy theory...
The relatively large herd thing is a left over from the dot com era. At that time a large percentage of folks got into it not because they wanted to do it, but because they could make alot of money doing it. Now thanks to offshoring and falling wages people who were in it just for the money are leaving.
Good Riddance. The Tech employment percentage is getting closer to what it was in the late 80's early ninties. Which is probably about right.
Thats right. I have software that is licensed. I pay a subsrciption fee for it. If I trash the cd's I can either download the binaries for free or get more cd's for a nominal fee. If the license senerio holds then once I buy a CD if it's lost or stolen or destoyed. I should be able to obtain a replacement for a minamal fee.
NOW if I actually own it, then it is my responsibility to take care of it make backups etc. If it gets lost or stolen well I have to buy another.
YOU CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS...........
I either own and can make copies if i choose
OR
I license it and can replace it for free/nominal cost for the duration of the license.