You could pretty much have anyone, even Arnold as guv and still able to find a million people in California who would like to see him out. The thing that gets to me is the money. There's an apparent realization that consequences of throwing around huge sums of money in political contests produces no backlash and the shame of doing so has faded.
I recall my shock that W. had $70 million before anyone outside Texas even heard he was running for president.
It's been demonstrated that of the undecided voters, spending can influence them. Those set in their minds are far harder to sway and money isn't likely to buy enough ads to do it.
Sorry, but if that were true, it still would have happened before. There are enough pissed off people with a lot of money at any given time, no matter who the governer is, that they'd fork over the cash to do this.
Historically it's been more of a gentlemens agreement that the parties never sunk to this level before. Substantial ire at the grass roots level has been behind previous examples. Darrell Issa, a sitting GOP representative from Norther San Diego County put up the cash. That it has gone this far is an amazement to many and has sent shockwaves throughout the country.
A power-grab? I consider myself objective on this whole thing and feel there is a strong element of that. The bottom line is, whoever sorts out the financial mess in California is going to be reviled, why would anyone want to replace Davis and take the beating?
Darrell Issa (R-49th Dist, North San Diego County-CA) put up the money to fund the recall drive. Then dropped out (with no small amount of frustration) as the Arnold threw his name in the ring.
As it is, other big GOP names are still in the running, but party-wide there's a scuffle concerning whether they should unite behind Arnold, who would probably mop up the floor with them, but could lose if the draw votes away from him and the Dems are unified behind one candidate.
They needed FREAKING EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY THOUSAND VALID SIGNATURES. And that means they need to get twice as many just to make sure.
You honestly think it's hard to find that many people in California, a state of 35+ million, who don't really have a clue, or are just bitter enough about Simon's defeat to take this shot at fscking their own state government? Get real.
If the early half of the 20th century should have taught us anything, it's that instability in goverment leads to chaos and populist leaders with dangerous agendas.
Too bad there's not a political IQ test people have to pass to vote.
In new computers, things will be smaller and faster.
No...
In summary you will now have to ditch all your old grotty cards to get *NEW* cards! New Mobo, new cards, full employment, a chicken in every garage, etc. And you thought you actually had choice in these things?
Further summarized...
All your base are belong to us!
Yes, this means crap like WinModems which may be the only choice for the new standard paint buyers further into a corner, as manufacturers could give a care less as they try to compete in a highly commoditized market.
Why, just because you and thousands like you are unhappy about it? Life sucks for millions of people around the world for various reasons at various times and a lot of them end up dead or losing family and friends to brutal militarism, terrorism, religious persecution, natural disaster, etc. So far it's only annoying. Deal.
When is the US Government, or a federal judge/court system actually going to step in?
Consider what you just asked and the ultra-light tap on the wrist Microsoft got for their lousy behaviour, which was a continuation of their lousy behaviour which got them in trouble with courts and prosecutors and well-meaning people at least once before. In short, you'd get jack.
This just keeps getting more and more rediculous.
As opposed to greendiculous or bluediculous which can be very embarassing when explaining to the significant other.
OK, granted if they had the foresight to know Gray Davis would be running for his life with the Ahnold hot on his heals in a freewheeling recall, they could have capitalized on name recognition and called themselves: Palminator
But, alas the economy is in a malaise, the war for Hearts and Minds (Registered trademark of the Bush strategy) in Iraq is turning rapildy into the kind of mess Mogadishu became (for pretty damn much the exact same reasons his papa went in there.) and peoples expectations just aren't up to the pre-2000 HYPE. We're all a bit over-dazzled and need to return to more mundane, oatmeal and beans kind of approach. Nothing too fancy, we don't trust it anyway, after WorldCon, GlobalDoubleCrossing and ENSCAM, Wall Street appreciates a company with an unimaginative name. That they took years and focus groups and probably spent millions of dollars, simply shows the right approach. At least that money isn't being thrown away in stock options to the worker-bees.
Now all they execs have left to do is pat themselves on the back for such an intelligent, careful move and give themselves big fat raises.
I've always looked for performance over name brand, and if this chip can do what the article says it can do...it could give Intel a run for it's money in the portable marketplace.
I don't know...
I think people are still stuck on the -ium, -on and -ex suffixes. Infineon being the notable exception, but who the heck outside of hardware builder circles knows of them?
Efficeon? Is that supposed to draw attention to efficiency, with that 'Fishy' phone in there? Not very efficacious...
Sure, US$500,000,000 is pocket change to Microsoft, but as I learn with my credit card statements each month, a lot of little $10 and $15 purchases add up to $1,000 pretty fast.
With the constante hemorraging of home entertainment and other non-profitable divisions (look for whichever column.Net falls under to join them with the 5,000 employees their adding on) even the fattest reserves can be frittered away. You have to be aware that the heads at Microsoft are keen not to see that happen too quickly. Especially since things like this can gain momentum all too quickly and next thing you know Micro$oft is Mirosoft.
This review is certainly the kind I've been looking for. There was a review another site had some time back where they loaded each individual PSU until it cracked or shutdown, most cracked into a smoking ruin, which would take who knows what with them. (shudder)
I sprung for a PCP&C silencer 425 last Dec., intending to keep my PC simple, but fretting over what size PSU I "really" needed. Most USENET groups were full of useless information which boiled down to "just throw the biggest PSU you can get" at the problem. Well, informative to see Enermax 550w only pulling 200 actual. With all the voltage conversions going on, and loss therefore to inefficiency, I tried to get a grip on what I really needed, with a suitable safety margin. Since then I've added an ATI AIW 9700 (on a whim, I originally had no intention of adding such a card) and everything is still humming along, nice and cool. Considering it has 2600+ CPU, 768 Meg DDR, 2 80G HD, modem, GPU, 3 fans besides PSU fan, DVD, CDR and a floppy, it seems up to the task.
It really is exasperating how little true knowledge there is regarding piecing together a PC and what power requirements, and what you actually get.
I wonder how many of those alleged 6,000 are real orders. It would certainly be simple enough to clog these bastards right back again with bogus orders.
Come to think of it, what a nifty idea. To bad I don't have access to a server I could perform such a feat from.;-)
Yeah, great fodder for books. The reality is we've had a less transparent version of this going for decades and are now reaping what we've sewn. Central America, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Africa, etc. where our best intentions to shore up or install goverments favorable to us have made it clear to the world that we, who clutch the beacon of liberty so close to our breast, are not to be trusted.
(Posting anonymously on what I think is an excellent post just because I'm so fucking pissed off right now.)
Yeah, so pissed you can't think straight. Too bad.
This is way OT but I've just got to ask what did you not like about the betting on catastrophe idea. Personally I thought it was a great idea.
Seriously, I thought this was something from one of those way-the-heck-out-there Sci-Fi books, the kind where people in a brave new world will do anything and everything without any fear of upsetting anyone because everyone in the entire world is just down and cool with whatever.
It's not just the idea that it's seriously screwed up, but consider for 15 seconds how this kind of thing would be viewed from outside the US. Suppose P.R. China wanted to know what the hell we think we are doing selling futures on an overthrow of the their goverment.
On a lighter note, I'd probably laugh myself into throwing up if I heard Bush try to explain and justify such a thing.
...a 'peice' of the Death Star? Haven't they started reconstructing it yet?!
Considering the Pentagon had a bidding/betting on world catastrophe site, until whiney democrats (myself among them) got them to pull the plug. It's probably, also in the works and we just haven't heard about it yet.
Publicly they pull the plug... but do they really?
This "Regime" (and I use the word purposefully) worries me with their reasoning.
NiMH have been great for me. I have two sets (4 each) of AA cells I've been using for about 3 years, between a Nikon CoolPix digital camera (which are current hogs and kill alkaline cells just from the extreme demand), Sony multiband radio, Garmin eTrex Vista GPSr, and other various thingamabobs. Typically they take a few hours to charge, but with a little planning do the job admirably. I'd have gone through about $500 in Energizers and Duracells by now and added subsequent nasties to the local landfill otherwise.
Cells cost me $7.50 a set at Frys, charger about $14 at another shop. Never look back.
Fact is, most people swapping music, pictures, articles, etc. know quite well, if not precicely, what they are doing, and that it is wrong.
I certainly agree that artists and writers have been screwed by the worst people of the capitalist system, but further ripping people off doesn't justify a thing.
Were the world mine to command then artists would be compensated fairly, without selling their souls, and producers would be fairly compensated for their efforts to recruit talent and sell product. Not being a perfect world, there being all sorts of shades of grey, between ethical and unethical on many fronts, I'm a bit put-out by the holier than thou stance that fileswappers do not participate in criminal behaviour if it defies some unjust laws.
Dump tea in Boston Harbor if you must, just don't blame it on the Indians...
You are driving. Unless the cop has it in for people who drive a car like yours, hasn't made his quota, or is having a generally rotten day and feels like sharing.
Choosing resistors for your home electronics projects, unless perhaps you are aiming for orbit, then you better get the spendy 1% or better kind.
Temerature for frying your pancakes on the stove. Actually, that's a pretty superior stove, as most vary wildly on what the subjective settings: LOW, MED, HIGH mean. At least ovens have degrees, but also seem to have their own opinions of 400 degrees.
Fan speed, processor temperature, etc. unless you're already at the limit and a 5% spike in voltage or temperature means you stop reading this text and start fishing out the backup hardware.
It's your annual cost of living increase. Beats 2% or none at all.
Your opponent just went into the red while you kept alive.
5% is not good enough when...
You understated your income tax three years ago and get smacked down for it.
They're mixing chemo drugs to pump into your veins for the next three months. You want it all exact and guarantees, alas, there are none...
The wing is good for 205% and the foam exerts 206% force.
You spend thousands of dollars on equipment, software and salaries and watch it all general 0 revenue while workers wait for a reboot, or spend hours or days recovering from lost or corrupt data.
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I recall my shock that W. had $70 million before anyone outside Texas even heard he was running for president.
It's been demonstrated that of the undecided voters, spending can influence them. Those set in their minds are far harder to sway and money isn't likely to buy enough ads to do it.
Historically it's been more of a gentlemens agreement that the parties never sunk to this level before. Substantial ire at the grass roots level has been behind previous examples. Darrell Issa, a sitting GOP representative from Norther San Diego County put up the cash. That it has gone this far is an amazement to many and has sent shockwaves throughout the country.
A power-grab? I consider myself objective on this whole thing and feel there is a strong element of that. The bottom line is, whoever sorts out the financial mess in California is going to be reviled, why would anyone want to replace Davis and take the beating?
As it is, other big GOP names are still in the running, but party-wide there's a scuffle concerning whether they should unite behind Arnold, who would probably mop up the floor with them, but could lose if the draw votes away from him and the Dems are unified behind one candidate.
You honestly think it's hard to find that many people in California, a state of 35+ million, who don't really have a clue, or are just bitter enough about Simon's defeat to take this shot at fscking their own state government? Get real.
If the early half of the 20th century should have taught us anything, it's that instability in goverment leads to chaos and populist leaders with dangerous agendas.
Too bad there's not a political IQ test people have to pass to vote.
Dang, it's tough being a geek.
No, of course not. It just adds one more peripheral standard.
Also means getting another pocket or drawer hold more crap in. Smaller, yes, but more diverse.
"Ah, this model uses Newcard and SD and has an adapter for PCMCIA so you can plug in another adapter for your CF card, blah, blah, blah."
Funny how more octopus-like compact electronics get when you finally have everything hooked up to it.
No...
In summary you will now have to ditch all your old grotty cards to get *NEW* cards! New Mobo, new cards, full employment, a chicken in every garage, etc. And you thought you actually had choice in these things?
Further summarized...
All your base are belong to us!
Yes, this means crap like WinModems which may be the only choice for the new standard paint buyers further into a corner, as manufacturers could give a care less as they try to compete in a highly commoditized market.
Whee.
Remember NuBus? For Mac, which now use PCI, it's the OldBus.
Why, just because you and thousands like you are unhappy about it? Life sucks for millions of people around the world for various reasons at various times and a lot of them end up dead or losing family and friends to brutal militarism, terrorism, religious persecution, natural disaster, etc. So far it's only annoying. Deal.
When is the US Government, or a federal judge/court system actually going to step in?
Consider what you just asked and the ultra-light tap on the wrist Microsoft got for their lousy behaviour, which was a continuation of their lousy behaviour which got them in trouble with courts and prosecutors and well-meaning people at least once before. In short, you'd get jack.
This just keeps getting more and more rediculous.
As opposed to greendiculous or bluediculous which can be very embarassing when explaining to the significant other.
Dream on... that would be the ultimate Public Service.
But, alas the economy is in a malaise, the war for Hearts and Minds (Registered trademark of the Bush strategy) in Iraq is turning rapildy into the kind of mess Mogadishu became (for pretty damn much the exact same reasons his papa went in there.) and peoples expectations just aren't up to the pre-2000 HYPE. We're all a bit over-dazzled and need to return to more mundane, oatmeal and beans kind of approach. Nothing too fancy, we don't trust it anyway, after WorldCon, GlobalDoubleCrossing and ENSCAM, Wall Street appreciates a company with an unimaginative name. That they took years and focus groups and probably spent millions of dollars, simply shows the right approach. At least that money isn't being thrown away in stock options to the worker-bees.
Now all they execs have left to do is pat themselves on the back for such an intelligent, careful move and give themselves big fat raises.
C'mon, this is getting so old ... but I guess that's the really pity, isn't it? Gives cities like Munich the last laugh.
I don't know...
I think people are still stuck on the -ium, -on and -ex suffixes. Infineon being the notable exception, but who the heck outside of hardware builder circles knows of them?
Efficeon? Is that supposed to draw attention to efficiency, with that 'Fishy' phone in there? Not very efficacious...
Names they definitely missed out on:
Illudium 236 Laptop Data Modulator
Transmetium
Apteryx
SlashDotEffecteron
CowboyNealexiumron
With the constante hemorraging of home entertainment and other non-profitable divisions (look for whichever column .Net falls under to join them with the 5,000 employees their adding on) even the fattest reserves can be frittered away. You have to be aware that the heads at Microsoft are keen not to see that happen too quickly. Especially since things like this can gain momentum all too quickly and next thing you know Micro$oft is Mirosoft.
I sprung for a PCP&C silencer 425 last Dec., intending to keep my PC simple, but fretting over what size PSU I "really" needed. Most USENET groups were full of useless information which boiled down to "just throw the biggest PSU you can get" at the problem. Well, informative to see Enermax 550w only pulling 200 actual. With all the voltage conversions going on, and loss therefore to inefficiency, I tried to get a grip on what I really needed, with a suitable safety margin. Since then I've added an ATI AIW 9700 (on a whim, I originally had no intention of adding such a card) and everything is still humming along, nice and cool. Considering it has 2600+ CPU, 768 Meg DDR, 2 80G HD, modem, GPU, 3 fans besides PSU fan, DVD, CDR and a floppy, it seems up to the task.
It really is exasperating how little true knowledge there is regarding piecing together a PC and what power requirements, and what you actually get.
Come to think of it, what a nifty idea. To bad I don't have access to a server I could perform such a feat from. ;-)
Particularly like the Dan Sandler design.
(Posting anonymously on what I think is an excellent post just because I'm so fucking pissed off right now.)
Yeah, so pissed you can't think straight. Too bad.
Futures markets are the ultimate in betting. You really are backing up your belief in things with your bucks.
Seriously, I thought this was something from one of those way-the-heck-out-there Sci-Fi books, the kind where people in a brave new world will do anything and everything without any fear of upsetting anyone because everyone in the entire world is just down and cool with whatever.
It's not just the idea that it's seriously screwed up, but consider for 15 seconds how this kind of thing would be viewed from outside the US. Suppose P.R. China wanted to know what the hell we think we are doing selling futures on an overthrow of the their goverment.
On a lighter note, I'd probably laugh myself into throwing up if I heard Bush try to explain and justify such a thing.
Considering the Pentagon had a bidding/betting on world catastrophe site, until whiney democrats (myself among them) got them to pull the plug. It's probably, also in the works and we just haven't heard about it yet.
Publicly they pull the plug ... but do they really?
This "Regime" (and I use the word purposefully) worries me with their reasoning.
Cells cost me $7.50 a set at Frys, charger about $14 at another shop. Never look back.
I certainly agree that artists and writers have been screwed by the worst people of the capitalist system, but further ripping people off doesn't justify a thing.
Were the world mine to command then artists would be compensated fairly, without selling their souls, and producers would be fairly compensated for their efforts to recruit talent and sell product. Not being a perfect world, there being all sorts of shades of grey, between ethical and unethical on many fronts, I'm a bit put-out by the holier than thou stance that fileswappers do not participate in criminal behaviour if it defies some unjust laws.
Dump tea in Boston Harbor if you must, just don't blame it on the Indians...
Do you? I sure as heck don't, maybe John Ashcroft does, or someone at the RIAA, geez. Sure seems to be a lot of it about, huh?
Oh, wait! A clue!
You are driving. Unless the cop has it in for people who drive a car like yours, hasn't made his quota, or is having a generally rotten day and feels like sharing.
Choosing resistors for your home electronics projects, unless perhaps you are aiming for orbit, then you better get the spendy 1% or better kind.
Temerature for frying your pancakes on the stove. Actually, that's a pretty superior stove, as most vary wildly on what the subjective settings: LOW, MED, HIGH mean. At least ovens have degrees, but also seem to have their own opinions of 400 degrees.
Fan speed, processor temperature, etc. unless you're already at the limit and a 5% spike in voltage or temperature means you stop reading this text and start fishing out the backup hardware.
It's your annual cost of living increase. Beats 2% or none at all.
Your opponent just went into the red while you kept alive.
5% is not good enough when...
You understated your income tax three years ago and get smacked down for it.
They're mixing chemo drugs to pump into your veins for the next three months. You want it all exact and guarantees, alas, there are none...
The wing is good for 205% and the foam exerts 206% force.
You spend thousands of dollars on equipment, software and salaries and watch it all general 0 revenue while workers wait for a reboot, or spend hours or days recovering from lost or corrupt data.