Has it actually worked in those countries? Have they actually reduced their CO2 output, and if so, was it done by just shipping their 'dirty' industries to India or China?
He said that we have to bail out the automakers and not let them file bankruptcy for the good of the US, he only saved the CEOs and investors, then let them file for bankruptcy anyway.
GM's CEO Rick Wagoner was forced out of the company by the Obama administration. The auto companies still had to pay all the UAW workers at the factories that were idled in the meantime. The government got tough with them though: they'll have to work at least 40 hours before getting any overtime.
I think Jobs was really in Memphis to consult with Elvis Presley Enterprises on how to become even richer after ones' death - or faked death for the conspiracy theorists.
At least he didn't end up like Australia's former prime minister Malcolm Fraser when he visited Memphis.
That reminds me of Dale Watson's song: Whiskey or God.
Recording bands in bars helps you meet a lot of musicians and drunk people that want a copy of the show. If the musicians approve of it, you can put it on archive.org or etree.
If you're the "fat WOW-playing" type of geek, lose some weight, unless you're also growing a zz-top beard and riding a Fatboy.
The only problem with growing the beard is that after it gets too long, it starts to drive me batty. I've started trimming it differently lately and hopefully that will help in my goal of having a beard down to my belt. I'll have to work on going to a motorcycle safety course at some point.
Many of these properties in question can often be bought from the city or county by paying the tax lien and were abandoned dumps long before the subprime market crashed. I looked through a listing of these properties a few years ago and was amazed at the number of properties that have been sitting around for several years. A quick lookup on google maps confirmed why.
Families who were priced out of home given the greed of the home investors at the expense of the home owners.
There are quite a few home owners that profited when they sold their homes before the bubble popped. People who willingly signed for loans that they couldn't afford as just as guilty as the bozos selling securities made up of those mortgages.
The cities are interested in doing this because they won't have to pay to run any municipal services into those areas. It also gets rid of large areas of run down eyesores. An empty field or forest looks a lot better than block after block of dilapidated houses, abandoned cars, and other crap. These areas may redeveloped into something useful in the future if the local economy picks back up, though.
I wouldn't think it would be the carrier's responsibility to try to support all types of phones. They could just implement a particular version of a standard, let their customers know what phones support that version, and then work toward adopting the next version of that standard depending on customer feedback and what they're competitors are doing.
If it weren't for the exclusive agreement, the iPhone could work on any GSM network in the US and the carriers would compete based on what network related features. So AT&T could tout visual voicemail as a competitive edge and T-mobile could use some other feature (tethering?, cheaper plans, video on demand to subscribers, whatever). When T-Mobile added visual voicemail, they could include it as yet another feature offered. Let the carriers focus on network related stuff, the phone manufactures worry about their hardware, and the various standards committees work out common details.
BTW, what's wrong with the regular old paragraph tag?
The prepaid vendors are even worse. Even the one that promises "No Evil". Evil must be being able to get your damn contacts off the friggin phone or IF the phone can take pictures, they can't be downloaded directly to a computer. The phone's manufacture offers software to do all of the above? That's evil too, so the phone is lobotomized so these evil tools won't work with the phone. Being able to move a SIM card from one phone to another that you bought from them is evil too.
One would think that it wouldn't be odd to have a hardware manufacturer use an OS that they can change as they see fit in order to develop and test new hardware.
Other countries are basically outsourcing their military responsibilities to the US. Of course, it's convenient that we've set up their governments so enable that.
No, a fanboy would say that Apple is #1 in the smartphone market and that no one has a chance to unseat them. They are in a market where the customer has a real choice and as a result, if another company offers a product that is perceived to be better, they have a shot of unseating the market leader.
Whether or not MSFT OS's since W2K are better than the Win9x predecessors doesn't really matter much. Their licensing agreements with the PC manufacturers and the resulting market inertia has kept their monopoly in the OS market relatively stable even when they produce stinkers like Win ME and Vista. There are technical reasons why those could be considered better than what proceeded it, but you still have many average users with the opinion "damn, this thing sucks", yet they still pay for it if they want to go to a store and buy a new machine. Apple, RIM, Palm, Nokia, and the Windows Mobile licensees don't have luxury: users wanting to buy a new phone will get something else. IMHO, that's a good thing.
Using the Volt's generate for powering other appliances would be great. It certainly would eliminate another piece of equipment to take along when camping. I was thinking more along the lines of: how do I get to work or anywhere else if my electric vehicle is dead, the electrical grid is down, and I don't know anyone who will let me borrow their generator?
The terminology that I've seen is that the Volt is considered a series hybrid and vehicles such as the Prius are parallel hybrids. The series hybrids are probably the less complex of the two arrangements. How long have diesel electric locomotives been around? A series hybrid is the same arrangement with a battery bank that allows the generator to be turned on or off when the battery charge reaches certain levels. GM had similar series hybrid EV1 prototypes years ago, but they were axed along with the rest of the program.
No, the Feds own 60% of GM now, the UAW health/retirement fund gets 17.5%, Canada 12.5%, and the remaining goes to bondholders. The UAW fund owns 55% of Chrysler, though. There has been statements that they'll sell those shares as soon as they're worth something - ("Hey, it's free money, right?" and they won't have any worry about which 'side' to be on. I'm wondering what the TARP money given to GM & Chrysler in December was spent on. "Vacation money" for UAW workers at idled plants? Bonuses for failed executives? Why is it ok to let them go into a quick bankruptcy now and it was unthinkable then?
Lead acid batteries may be dirty and nasty, but they are recyclable. That's one reason auto parts stores will charge you a fee if you don't return the old one.
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Has it actually worked in those countries? Have they actually reduced their CO2 output, and if so, was it done by just shipping their 'dirty' industries to India or China?
GM's CEO Rick Wagoner was forced out of the company by the Obama administration. The auto companies still had to pay all the UAW workers at the factories that were idled in the meantime. The government got tough with them though: they'll have to work at least 40 hours before getting any overtime.
As well as Isaac Hayes and Jeff Buckley.
I think Jobs was really in Memphis to consult with Elvis Presley Enterprises on how to become even richer after ones' death - or faked death for the conspiracy theorists.
At least he didn't end up like Australia's former prime minister Malcolm Fraser when he visited Memphis.
That reminds me of Dale Watson's song: Whiskey or God.
Recording bands in bars helps you meet a lot of musicians and drunk people that want a copy of the show. If the musicians approve of it, you can put it on archive.org or etree.
most of the Mormons I know are geeks or med students.
I'd rather be alone than lower my standards that far.
The only problem with growing the beard is that after it gets too long, it starts to drive me batty. I've started trimming it differently lately and hopefully that will help in my goal of having a beard down to my belt. I'll have to work on going to a motorcycle safety course at some point.
What about OS X updates that enable new features? Why don't they charge for them?
There are quite a few home owners that profited when they sold their homes before the bubble popped. People who willingly signed for loans that they couldn't afford as just as guilty as the bozos selling securities made up of those mortgages.
The cities are interested in doing this because they won't have to pay to run any municipal services into those areas. It also gets rid of large areas of run down eyesores. An empty field or forest looks a lot better than block after block of dilapidated houses, abandoned cars, and other crap. These areas may redeveloped into something useful in the future if the local economy picks back up, though.
I wouldn't think it would be the carrier's responsibility to try to support all types of phones. They could just implement a particular version of a standard, let their customers know what phones support that version, and then work toward adopting the next version of that standard depending on customer feedback and what they're competitors are doing.
If it weren't for the exclusive agreement, the iPhone could work on any GSM network in the US and the carriers would compete based on what network related features. So AT&T could tout visual voicemail as a competitive edge and T-mobile could use some other feature (tethering?, cheaper plans, video on demand to subscribers, whatever). When T-Mobile added visual voicemail, they could include it as yet another feature offered. Let the carriers focus on network related stuff, the phone manufactures worry about their hardware, and the various standards committees work out common details.
BTW, what's wrong with the regular old paragraph tag?
The prepaid vendors are even worse. Even the one that promises "No Evil". Evil must be being able to get your damn contacts off the friggin phone or IF the phone can take pictures, they can't be downloaded directly to a computer. The phone's manufacture offers software to do all of the above? That's evil too, so the phone is lobotomized so these evil tools won't work with the phone. Being able to move a SIM card from one phone to another that you bought from them is evil too.
One would think that it wouldn't be odd to have a hardware manufacturer use an OS that they can change as they see fit in order to develop and test new hardware.
If you let the press hype the shit out it at least.
Other countries are basically outsourcing their military responsibilities to the US. Of course, it's convenient that we've set up their governments so enable that.
Or have them do it on an old CDC Cyber green screen. It's a character building exercise.
They didn't think to recommend something like zBoost to keep your as a customer?
You mean like http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin or http://webkit.org/blog/214/introducing-squirrelfish-extreme for JS?
No, a fanboy would say that Apple is #1 in the smartphone market and that no one has a chance to unseat them. They are in a market where the customer has a real choice and as a result, if another company offers a product that is perceived to be better, they have a shot of unseating the market leader.
Whether or not MSFT OS's since W2K are better than the Win9x predecessors doesn't really matter much. Their licensing agreements with the PC manufacturers and the resulting market inertia has kept their monopoly in the OS market relatively stable even when they produce stinkers like Win ME and Vista. There are technical reasons why those could be considered better than what proceeded it, but you still have many average users with the opinion "damn, this thing sucks", yet they still pay for it if they want to go to a store and buy a new machine. Apple, RIM, Palm, Nokia, and the Windows Mobile licensees don't have luxury: users wanting to buy a new phone will get something else. IMHO, that's a good thing.
Using the Volt's generate for powering other appliances would be great. It certainly would eliminate another piece of equipment to take along when camping. I was thinking more along the lines of: how do I get to work or anywhere else if my electric vehicle is dead, the electrical grid is down, and I don't know anyone who will let me borrow their generator?
In what manner? The different videos that I've seen show that the Pre is much faster when it comes to web browsing.
The terminology that I've seen is that the Volt is considered a series hybrid and vehicles such as the Prius are parallel hybrids. The series hybrids are probably the less complex of the two arrangements. How long have diesel electric locomotives been around? A series hybrid is the same arrangement with a battery bank that allows the generator to be turned on or off when the battery charge reaches certain levels. GM had similar series hybrid EV1 prototypes years ago, but they were axed along with the rest of the program.
No, the Feds own 60% of GM now, the UAW health/retirement fund gets 17.5%, Canada 12.5%, and the remaining goes to bondholders. The UAW fund owns 55% of Chrysler, though. There has been statements that they'll sell those shares as soon as they're worth something - ("Hey, it's free money, right?" and they won't have any worry about which 'side' to be on. I'm wondering what the TARP money given to GM & Chrysler in December was spent on. "Vacation money" for UAW workers at idled plants? Bonuses for failed executives? Why is it ok to let them go into a quick bankruptcy now and it was unthinkable then?
Or if you are unfortunate to be without electrical power for a few weeks due to an ice storm or some other natural disaster.
Lead acid batteries may be dirty and nasty, but they are recyclable. That's one reason auto parts stores will charge you a fee if you don't return the old one.