Yeah, I'm an old coot with the same experience.Its too bad that today's geeks have almost no time
in high volume precision manufacturing that drives product design. They think that mechanical integrity, heat dissipation, EMF shielding, moisture and dust resistance along with production efficiency are part of some nefarious plot. Besides the reliability of these devices moots the point, I've owned 7 phones, 4 touchscreen variety with no failures the only replacements were for lost devices.
No one is going to be paid anything from this, the 'revolutionary' process this company was based on is a fraud. Maybe some of the customers of the unreliable tests that were performed will be compensated in court after liquidation. The non working Edison machine is their only asset. Who would buy that?
If what happened here in Illinois is typical there won't be any Nuke plants running. None of the existing nuclear plants cleared the most recent auction to to supply the grid here with power. Below is an excerpt from an Excelon conference call explaining the situation to investment analyst.
"On the PJM auction results, as you know, the auction cleared at $120 a megawatt day, it was higher than most anticipated due to primarily, the rule changes around lower imports, lower demand response, and participants bidding behavior. We think the results are encouraging for our plants that cleared, but there is an opportunity for further improvements in the market rules in the future, such as, firm fuel commitments, anti-speculation rules, and with the recent ruling, court ruling looking for clarity on the role of demand response, energy efficiency in the capacity markets.
Our nuclear units: Oyster Creek, Quad Cities, and Byron, five in total did not clear the auction. For Quad Cities and Byron, these units are important for grid reliability, environmental and from an economic standpoint, are especially critical in helping Illinois meet its environmental goals in light of the recent EPA rules.
To that extent, Illinois House passed a House Resolution 1146 in May recognizing the value of nuclear energy for its reliability and its carbon-free benefits and urged the expiration of our opportunities to avoid closing nuclear plants.
We have agreed not to make any decisions about retiring these units until June of next year to allow for the Illinois legislature time to enact market-based reforms at the state level that this could be items such as joining Reggie or a clean energy standard.
However, as we’ve said in the past, if we are unsuccessful and we do not see a path to sustain profitability for these units in question, we will be forced to retire them to avoid long-term losses. I do want to be clear, again, about one thing, we are not looking and do not want contracts for subsidies from Illinois, only contracts that recognize the environmental benefit in the reliability of the assets."
"The real issue with it is how much of a dork you look like talking to your phone."
Yes, how strange and unusual to see someone speaking on a telephone !!!!! What's next drivers using steering wheels to turn cars?
Never read so much uninformed, belligerently ignorant drivel, by posters that don't know what the word license means, or even that Apple only distributes OS-X as an upgrade outside the purchase of a Mac system.
Buying Borders would give HP about 400 stores in US overnight.
Remove the stationery, most CDs and DVDs, keep the books.
Divide into thirds: 1. HP tablets, phones, computers, printers, Kobo e-reader, show how WebOS connects them;
2. Coffee bar, event space with huge internet TVs, sponsor book clubs and author interviews;
3. Books, magazines, top CDs and DVD/blurays.
HP will need to demo directly to customers why WebOS is great.
HP should either get serious or just give up.
Waste more assets buying a Failed business to market a failed product ?
"Once they get complete dominance that greed will be turned towards reduction in product quality".
Yeah, the iPod touch is the worst quality iPod ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is why my visits to/. have gone from multiple times per day to maybe once a week.
An anonymous reader?@!
For reals?
And then this anonhole writes:
> The decision to release OS10.7, or Lion, for download only is hardly going to endear Apple to IT managers who need to conserve network resources.
Not that IT professionals are that capable anyway.
And writes this:
> Most of all, IT departments would want to see the Mac OS offering full support for virtualization, on the desktop and on the server.
Aside from one or two applications that I use (Touchdown being one of them), the apps on my Thunderbolt are exactly the same as the ones on my Acer Iconia. Most apps are smart enough to know when you're on a tablet and change their function (Shortyz for one).
There's only a few old apps that still assume you're on a phone and look horrible on a tablet, but they haven't been maintained for some time.
Wins on phones? Here in Chicago US Cellular was offering Buy 1 get 5 free on android phones. We all know who has biggest share of smart phone profits which is the point of all of this and has not needed fire sales to pump up volumes.
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Yeah, I'm an old coot with the same experience.Its too bad that today's geeks have almost no time in high volume precision manufacturing that drives product design. They think that mechanical integrity, heat dissipation, EMF shielding, moisture and dust resistance along with production efficiency are part of some nefarious plot. Besides the reliability of these devices moots the point, I've owned 7 phones, 4 touchscreen variety with no failures the only replacements were for lost devices.
I can not believe that anyone would think this is a feasible concept on any level.
Why would we need this?
No one is going to be paid anything from this, the 'revolutionary' process this company was based on is a fraud. Maybe some of the customers of the unreliable tests that were performed will be compensated in court after liquidation. The non working Edison machine is their only asset. Who would buy that?
Hit the nail squarely on the head ! Thanks for your insightful comment.
To be fair, I'm a nerd whose been reading Slashdot since 2000, and I have no idea who Forrest Mimms is either.
No, you are not a Nerd. (From my TV Typewriter)
No you're wrong the 1.8" hard drives are no longer available from Toshiba.
If what happened here in Illinois is typical there won't be any Nuke plants running. None of the existing nuclear plants cleared the most recent auction to to supply the grid here with power. Below is an excerpt from an Excelon conference call explaining the situation to investment analyst. "On the PJM auction results, as you know, the auction cleared at $120 a megawatt day, it was higher than most anticipated due to primarily, the rule changes around lower imports, lower demand response, and participants bidding behavior. We think the results are encouraging for our plants that cleared, but there is an opportunity for further improvements in the market rules in the future, such as, firm fuel commitments, anti-speculation rules, and with the recent ruling, court ruling looking for clarity on the role of demand response, energy efficiency in the capacity markets. Our nuclear units: Oyster Creek, Quad Cities, and Byron, five in total did not clear the auction. For Quad Cities and Byron, these units are important for grid reliability, environmental and from an economic standpoint, are especially critical in helping Illinois meet its environmental goals in light of the recent EPA rules. To that extent, Illinois House passed a House Resolution 1146 in May recognizing the value of nuclear energy for its reliability and its carbon-free benefits and urged the expiration of our opportunities to avoid closing nuclear plants. We have agreed not to make any decisions about retiring these units until June of next year to allow for the Illinois legislature time to enact market-based reforms at the state level that this could be items such as joining Reggie or a clean energy standard. However, as we’ve said in the past, if we are unsuccessful and we do not see a path to sustain profitability for these units in question, we will be forced to retire them to avoid long-term losses. I do want to be clear, again, about one thing, we are not looking and do not want contracts for subsidies from Illinois, only contracts that recognize the environmental benefit in the reliability of the assets."
The "Courier" was a concept, no prototypes, no code written, it was just a video animation.
"Currently I have an Samsung Epic 4g. The processor is overclocked to 4.3ghz ..."
How could this post be rated insightful when it is a transparent lie. News for nerds my ass.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1194840.html
When will we see the Android 3 billion dollar check ?
Reading comprehension seems to be a rare occurrence here.
"I don't know how the economics of the situation actually work" The only phrase in your post that makes any sense.
I, too am shocked at how many people didn't realize this was all done server side -- especially here.
Well lately, especially here you shouldn't be.
"The real issue with it is how much of a dork you look like talking to your phone." Yes, how strange and unusual to see someone speaking on a telephone !!!!! What's next drivers using steering wheels to turn cars?
Never read so much uninformed, belligerently ignorant drivel, by posters that don't know what the word license means, or even that Apple only distributes OS-X as an upgrade outside the purchase of a Mac system.
Buying Borders would give HP about 400 stores in US overnight. Remove the stationery, most CDs and DVDs, keep the books. Divide into thirds: 1. HP tablets, phones, computers, printers, Kobo e-reader, show how WebOS connects them; 2. Coffee bar, event space with huge internet TVs, sponsor book clubs and author interviews; 3. Books, magazines, top CDs and DVD/blurays. HP will need to demo directly to customers why WebOS is great. HP should either get serious or just give up.
Waste more assets buying a Failed business to market a failed product ?
We can see that you are tripe expert.
"Once they get complete dominance that greed will be turned towards reduction in product quality". Yeah, the iPod touch is the worst quality iPod ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is why my visits to /. have gone from multiple times per day to maybe once a week.
An anonymous reader?@! For reals?
And then this anonhole writes: > The decision to release OS10.7, or Lion, for download only is hardly going to endear Apple to IT managers who need to conserve network resources.
Oh, because it's not like you can burn disk image onto physical media or anything like that.
Not that IT professionals are that capable anyway.
And writes this: > Most of all, IT departments would want to see the Mac OS offering full support for virtualization, on the desktop and on the server.
And this is utter FUD as well. It's well known the EULA explicitly allows this.
This mouth breathing OP should be deleted.
Here,here
Aside from one or two applications that I use (Touchdown being one of them), the apps on my Thunderbolt are exactly the same as the ones on my Acer Iconia. Most apps are smart enough to know when you're on a tablet and change their function (Shortyz for one).
There's only a few old apps that still assume you're on a phone and look horrible on a tablet, but they haven't been maintained for some time.
Welcome to the rationalization zone.
As it stands now would you recommend the Galaxy 10.1 over the iPad 2 ?
It is already here: Remember HB Gary working for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America?
Yes, this will probably be known as the Ass-hole epoch.
Wins on phones? Here in Chicago US Cellular was offering Buy 1 get 5 free on android phones. We all know who has biggest share of smart phone profits which is the point of all of this and has not needed fire sales to pump up volumes.