Since divestiture in the 80's, technical expertise took a second seat to climbing the managerial org chart. PHB MBAs rose to the level of their incompetency, and investment in the future was traded for the next quarter's profit numbers. Real talent, the people that actually invented things and did the creative work, either retired or left for greener pastures.
AT&T had deep enough pockets, so they could stumble around and sell off assets for almost twenty years. It's finally reached the point that that business model can no longer sustain itself. Shame really.
Adding OGG support to iPod also means that Apple would have to add it to QuickTime for OSX and Windows so that iTunes works with it correctly. And once they start, it has to be supported forever. Maybe it's no big deal, or maybe it is, but there are more complications then just dropping it in the iPod half-assed.
How about you do your own fscking job? What are they paying you for? This is such a difficult job that you need to ask what old computers to throw out? Boy that's such a hard problem...
Not a lot of at-home chip fabrication going on these days. Should they get a one-off board made and populate it with surface mount parts? Even if you had the talent to burn an ASIC to decode a protected bitstream, the DMCA makes it illegal to do so.
BOSTON-A corporation formed by Bain Capital, the Carlyle Group and Spectrum Equity Investors reached an agreement to acquire Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corp. and Grupo Cinemex from Onex Corp. and its partner, Oaktree Capital Management LLC for approximately $1.5 billion.
I can be as caring and compassionate as the next guy but this is./ so WTF. I knew that this Sunday political thread would attract lots of lockstep conservatives, so I thought I'd climb up to the roof and throw water balloons at 'em. It's fun.
At least bush doesn't flip flop on the issues. He sticks with what he believes, popular or not.
Yeah. He believes that an imaginary guy in the sky talks to him every day and tells him to kill people. He also believes that one day, he'll be able to read all of those big words in "My Pet Goat".
Must be nice to be a sheep and not let informed facts get in the way of your half-baked opinions.
On Abu Ghraib, it's the US Government, and agents in their employ that were abusing prisoners, not Mr. Moore. And the private contractors at the prison are what? Working there for free? Suddenly it's Moore's responsibility for allowing the abuse?
Why don't we have headquarters in Saudi? Because we're not their partners, we're their bitch. That's the problem.
Have you seen the film? He supports the troops by not wanting them to die in support of a false pretense to war.
F9/11 is showing in 868 theaters, not the 417 that you state.
Bowling never suggests that gun problems are rampant in schools. Did you see it or are you just parroting what you read someplace else.? Whether or not violence is up or down, Columbine happened. And that was what was examined in the film.
Every statement with substance has a point of view and could be considered propaganda. Mr. Moore assumed that thinking people would understand this without spoon feeding them the concept of the film. Then again, a nation of morons would need everything explained to them, like children.
I've seen the film, and I've also (like most of us) had full exposure to US Government produced media events, press conferences and speeches. Plus the daily feed from Fox, NBC/ABC/CBS, Rush...
I've visited the pro and con blog sites, and read quite a few books that present the current view of the left and the right.
I've read most of the comments posted in this thread so far.
There's one clear point of commonality that runs through all of this: The US is a nation of morons. Shallow, greedy, bullshit artists or duplicitous sheep.
How else can you explain how the current president got elected? King of the morons. We found the dumbest guy we could to represent us and tell ourselves that ignorance is his charm and virtue.
We can't even be honest with ourselves. If we want to take over another country to take it's resources and strengthen our power base, then just say it! Don't wrap it all in ideological bullshit. Don't say it's because the imaginary guy in the sky told us to do it. Don't call ourselves liberators. We're bloodthirsty invaders that worship big cars that go fast, cheap shiny toys, hot sex, big bombs, the winning team, and pity anyone that gets in our way.
Bush will get another four years. Good. We deserve it. Maybe after that, we'll at least learn to be honest with ourselves about who we really are.
Like Ari Fleischer said:
"... to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is. "
Yeah, real nice stuff. I sign up for an account, press submit, and get a "page not found". Try again, it says "that account name isn't available at this time".
The first thing I try, and it breaks. Life's too short to waste time with low quality software. Maybe Microsoft users just have a high pain threshold and they'll tolerate crapware. Where have all the good developers gone?
Probably limited by processor thru-put. That's a tiny little box compared to a Base Station. Don't know yet what it's running, how much is "in hardware". I think that I read once that the Extreme Base Station runs Wind River VxWorks.
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Since divestiture in the 80's, technical expertise took a second seat to
climbing the managerial org chart. PHB MBAs rose to the level of their
incompetency, and investment in the future was traded for the next quarter's
profit numbers. Real talent, the people that actually invented things and
did the creative work, either retired or left for greener pastures.
AT&T had deep enough pockets, so they could stumble around and
sell off assets for almost twenty years. It's finally reached the point that
that business model can no longer sustain itself. Shame really.
One Bell System. It Worked.
Linspire is coming out with a laptop product line named "Linspiron".
It's probably RAM that's integrated into one of the chips, not a separate component.
Adding OGG support to iPod also means that Apple would have to add it to QuickTime for OSX and Windows
so that iTunes works with it correctly. And once they start, it has to be supported forever. Maybe it's no big deal, or
maybe it is, but there are more complications then just dropping it in the iPod half-assed.
Duh!
How about you do your own fscking job? What are they paying you for?
This is such a difficult job that you need to ask what old computers to throw out?
Boy that's such a hard problem...
Build your own?
Not a lot of at-home chip fabrication going on these days.
Should they get a one-off board made and populate it with surface mount parts?
Even if you had the talent to burn an ASIC to decode a protected bitstream, the DMCA makes it illegal to do so.
Feel free to suggest other hospitalization-related acts that could be performed to receive a similarly-themed videogame
/. wants to be Fark?
Now
Poppa Bush makes money on it too....
BOSTON-A corporation formed by Bain Capital, the Carlyle Group and Spectrum Equity Investors reached an agreement to acquire Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corp. and Grupo Cinemex from Onex Corp. and its partner, Oaktree Capital Management LLC for approximately $1.5 billion.
I can be as caring and compassionate as the next guy but this is ./ so WTF.
I knew that this Sunday political thread would attract lots of lockstep conservatives,
so I thought I'd climb up to the roof and throw water balloons at 'em. It's fun.
I'm just in that sort of mood today. Nothin' else going on.
Of course I'm being a Jackass. Duh.
At least bush doesn't flip flop on the issues. He sticks with what he believes, popular or not.
Yeah. He believes that an imaginary guy in the sky talks to him every day and tells him to kill people.
He also believes that one day, he'll be able to read all of those big words in "My Pet Goat".
Have you seen the film?
Mmm. Thought so.
Here's a definition for you.
Moron n.
1. A stupid person; a dolt.
2. Psychology. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years.
Every time i've tuned in, and it's been often over the years,
I enter with an open mind, and leave with disgust,
+4 Insightful.
If there is a massive uprising in Saudi Arabia, they get money from oil in other countries.
They're just hedging their bets.
You know the best way to hedge your bets?
Get the US President to be your bitch.
Who can blame 'em? It's just good business.
Having Republicans produce political movies is a great idea.
It would fit right in with their daily "3 hours hate" radio broadcast with Rush
and the 24/7 Republican entertainment/fantasy channel, Fox News.
My top three research issues:
Have you seen the film?
Are just you responding to propaganda about the film?
Will you be installing a spell checking program any time soon?
Must be nice to be a sheep and not let informed facts get in the way of your half-baked opinions.
On Abu Ghraib, it's the US Government, and agents in their employ that were abusing prisoners, not Mr. Moore.
And the private contractors at the prison are what? Working there for free?
Suddenly it's Moore's responsibility for allowing the abuse?
Why don't we have headquarters in Saudi?
Because we're not their partners, we're their bitch. That's the problem.
Have you seen the film? He supports the troops by not wanting them to die in support of a false pretense to war.
F9/11 is showing in 868 theaters, not the 417 that you state.
Bowling never suggests that gun problems are rampant in schools. Did you see it or are you just parroting
what you read someplace else.?
Whether or not violence is up or down, Columbine happened. And that was what was examined in the film.
Every statement with substance has a point of view and could be considered propaganda.
Mr. Moore assumed that thinking people would understand this without spoon feeding
them the concept of the film. Then again, a nation of morons would need everything
explained to them, like children.
I've seen the film, and I've also (like most of us) had full exposure to US Government
produced media events, press conferences and speeches. Plus the daily feed from Fox, NBC/ABC/CBS, Rush...
I've visited the pro and con blog sites, and read quite a few books that present the current view of the left and the right.
I've read most of the comments posted in this thread so far.
There's one clear point of commonality that runs through all of this:
The US is a nation of morons. Shallow, greedy, bullshit artists or duplicitous sheep.
How else can you explain how the current president got elected?
King of the morons. We found the dumbest guy we could to represent us and
tell ourselves that ignorance is his charm and virtue.
We can't even be honest with ourselves. If we want to take over another country
to take it's resources and strengthen our power base, then just say it! Don't wrap
it all in ideological bullshit. Don't say it's because the imaginary guy in the sky
told us to do it. Don't call ourselves liberators. We're bloodthirsty invaders that
worship big cars that go fast, cheap shiny toys, hot sex, big bombs, the winning team,
and pity anyone that gets in our way.
Bush will get another four years. Good. We deserve it.
Maybe after that, we'll at least learn to be honest with ourselves about who we really are.
Michael Moore will not get another dollar from me...
Maybe it's because you live in Fint and don't have a dollar...
Like Ari Fleischer said:
"... to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do.
This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is. "
Yeah, real nice stuff.
I sign up for an account, press submit, and get a "page not found".
Try again, it says "that account name isn't available at this time".
The first thing I try, and it breaks. Life's too short to waste time with low quality software.
Maybe Microsoft users just have a high pain threshold and they'll tolerate crapware.
Where have all the good developers gone?
Probably limited by processor thru-put.
That's a tiny little box compared to a Base Station.
Don't know yet what it's running, how much is "in hardware".
I think that I read once that the Extreme Base Station runs Wind River VxWorks.