This article indicates that the four boosters on the outside of the rocket comprise the first stage, and separate into four pieces that fall north of the launch site, presumably in un-inhabited area, sort of like our New Mexico/Nevada desert where the US does stuff at White Sands or Groom Lake.
All Russia has to do is threaten to move the facility. The space center is probably the area's only source of jobs. Russian just has to pretend he's Pappa John Pizza-man, and start firing people who are local because of the "onerous healthcare taxes" or something that Cossak-Stan is asking for.
Geeze. We need to get Fox News in Russia. Those guys are not corrupt enough.
So, I hope they build in hardware that if one CPU fails in a multi-CPU server, the whole machine just keeps chugging along on less CPUs. And every OS had better build in fault-tolerance for this sort of thing, because once upon a time, we had to open the machine and replace failed CPUs on the mobo before the damn thing would even boot. If you had a 4CPU machine and even one went down, it was out until the bad one was replaced. Now you're saying you gotta swap the whole mobo? Really?
Well, Intel may be shooting itself in the foot. Then again, the "enthusiast" market is now starting to grow around the RaspberryPI, and other small systems that have practically unlimited expansion potential (if you're willing to hack) -- so the point is; maybe intel doesn't even see that bright a desktop future -- maybe they've already mapped 10 years down the road, and by Windows9 everyone will be using mobile devices.
Murray Energy, run by a dipwad that poured a huge amount of cash into Mitt Romney's presidential aspirations, layed off miners and other workers the day after Obama's re-election claiming that Obama's war against coal meant that he could no longer afford to keep people employed.
Yet, Slashdot has posted a story saying worldwide demand for coal is up. So, either the numbers are wrong, or Murray made a half-assed political statement that had nothing to do with facts.
Please don't run any other companies into the groud. Please stop whatever you're doing and go home, and avoid public life as a CEO, or politician. You've both proven you don't know jack. The world would be better off without either of you.
If you got together all the Rich Bastards that want to flee the American Tax System (Mitt Romney, I'm looking at you), want to live their libertarian lifestyle, why the heck don't they pool their resources and simply BUY a freakin' country?
Seriously, the number of billionaires right now building gated fortesses with private security in places like Belize, Costa Rica, Brazil and the good old USA amounts to a number of dollars great enough to buy a nice secluded country and simply take over the government.
Then they can impose whatever "law" they like, and run the place the way Shieks do in places like UAE and Dubai.
And when you consider that, as a foreign country, they can continue to earn profits by applying for aid from the USA to feed their poor, and the stupid Middle Class will continue to sudsidize their lifestyles.
They'd be safe, their money would continue to grow, and the police would answer to them. Are these rich people just that stupid that they can't figure this out?
You car analogy holds up, ONLY if these devices continue to be used within USA borders. Just visit Albania for an example. Any luxury car you see there is stolen.
These iPads are likely to be resold within China, where property laws are as lax as intellectual property laws.
So, I've just figured out the business model for Quibids dot com. No wonder they can advertise on TV that they are selling Macbooks for $67, and iPads for $19 -- and I sat there thinking, "how the hell do they make money doing that?"... Well, now I know.
Wait a minute... We gotta strip search grandmas and children before they get on a plane, but someone can roll a truck into the airport containing *anything* and just roll out again with NO SECURITY?
Then there's the incident with the Jet-skier who ran out of gas and washed ashore at JFK, hopped over a fence and then was able to walk through the airport and wasn't detained until *he* alerted security???
Seriously, next time the terrorists attack, it won't be vai the normal vector of waiting online to go through the naked scanners. The TSA is a complete waste of time, money, liberties, dignity, and human rights.
Back in the 80's when Guiliani started his campaign of terror to Disnifi New York, he demanded the closure of strip clubs in NYC.
That's when they started to become renamed as "gentleman's clubs", and changed their MO from seedy pole dancing to upscale entertainment for men, ala the playboy clubs from the 60's.
However, one such seedy place still existed on 24th street, 3rd Ave, called "Billy's Topless" It was a straight-out bar that served food as well (good burgers!), and yes, the ladies were showing ta-tas.
So, the mayor's office demanded they close or change their name so no one could recognize the place as a nudie-bar.
When a robot replaces an MBA. Right now, robots are only useful at the lowest rung of business -- the factory floor worker.
But when robots finally get into management, that's when you'll hear the screaming as thousands of coddled, bonused, outsourcers finally get what's coming to them...
Like, notice the housing crisis wasn't a crisis until it started to affect boomers and upper middle class? For 2 years before the crisis, lower middle class and poor were getting "underwater" in their mortgages, but it wasn't widely reported.
The problem you're going to experience is that; unless the headhunter knows you're brilliant with tons of experience and willing to do the job for the same pay as some wet-behind-the-ears kid who'll never cut the mustard, when you get to HR, the clueless twit who works there will look at you and show you the door because you're 60.
Start making Android or iPhone apps. Make a name for yourself by consulting; get yourself going with a IT temp shop. Having A+ is like having a driver's license, it's not a path to anything.
If you were with the financial industry and really understand the ins and outs of that, you should be able to get a job in the investment banking sector, as HFT is always looking for guys who are good, and don't make mistakes -- because as we've seen, mistakes can cost millions or even billions in HFT -- so they want really good people, not cheap people who will ultimately cost them even more.
Something to think about: the partisan divide is mostly media driven, and most of the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of Fox News. Our country is being ripped apart because of Fox.
The second biggest investor in Fox is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. While I'm not against Arabs or Muslims, I don't believe Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a friend of the US. Not when he is holding fundraisers for the families of suicide bombers, giving poor middle easterners a reason for what they do. I just can't vote for anyone endorsed by Fox.
He has boasted he gets Fox to change their programming. So much of the division and hate in the US comes from Fox News. Seems to be a reflection of the owners. The percentage of Fox owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal keeps Rupert Murdoch from a hostile take over. That gives Prince Alwaleed bin Talal a lot of power over Fox.
It also makes me believe that Fox News is a psychological terrorist attack, and that the GOP has fallen for it.
Our number one export apparently, in terms of money spent. And yet, we can't actually have democracy at home. How much of a banana republic do we need to become before the UN starts to intervene and forces us to be monitored by their people to make sure we have a fair election?
And they spent a lot of money through SCO to try and sue Linux and IBM. And got their asses handed to them.
What MS *should* have done with that time and money was to find every patent troll that was going to harm them, and take them out with extreme prejudice.
Now they've been harmed by Eolas, which has opened the door to trolls like this one. MS has been hoisted by their own petard, so to speak. They were *for* software patents, and now they have discovered that you can't swing a dead cat in the tech sector without being sued by someone claiming to own a software method.
Software patents harm innovation and business. They do more harm than good and need to be repealed, for the sake of the economy.
in other words, supported for a few years and then dropped when there's zero financial incentive to keep it going. It will be treated by developers as a dead-end, so there will never be compelling apps, which will sign the death-warrant.
Can you imagine how rich this dude would have been had he actually patented every concept he came up with for Star Trek? Fortunately, back then you couldn't patent a concept, because our government wasn't as corrupt.
And therein lies the ultimate irony of Star Trek; for everything Gene got right about the tech, he failed miserably predicting human nature and greed.
Once again, we're seeing that Corporations have more rights than American citizens. These corporations can influence politics, influence elections, yet pay no income taxes (or practically nothing), provide nothing back to their host country, and yet have gamed the legal system so that they hold all the cards and it's like gambling against the house to go against them. Only when we've risen up with pitchforks and torches will things be able to change. It's going to take an act of civil war or something akin to the French Revolution to get us our country back from those greedy bastards that have stolen it from under our noses.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/soyuz/st25/120628newdate/
This article indicates that the four boosters on the outside of the rocket comprise the first stage, and separate into four pieces that fall north of the launch site, presumably in un-inhabited area, sort of like our New Mexico/Nevada desert where the US does stuff at White Sands or Groom Lake.
All Russia has to do is threaten to move the facility. The space center is probably the area's only source of jobs. Russian just has to pretend he's Pappa John Pizza-man, and start firing people who are local because of the "onerous healthcare taxes" or something that Cossak-Stan is asking for.
Geeze. We need to get Fox News in Russia. Those guys are not corrupt enough.
So, I hope they build in hardware that if one CPU fails in a multi-CPU server, the whole machine just keeps chugging along on less CPUs. And every OS had better build in fault-tolerance for this sort of thing, because once upon a time, we had to open the machine and replace failed CPUs on the mobo before the damn thing would even boot. If you had a 4CPU machine and even one went down, it was out until the bad one was replaced. Now you're saying you gotta swap the whole mobo? Really?
Well, Intel may be shooting itself in the foot. Then again, the "enthusiast" market is now starting to grow around the RaspberryPI, and other small systems that have practically unlimited expansion potential (if you're willing to hack) -- so the point is; maybe intel doesn't even see that bright a desktop future -- maybe they've already mapped 10 years down the road, and by Windows9 everyone will be using mobile devices.
Murray Energy, run by a dipwad that poured a huge amount of cash into Mitt Romney's presidential aspirations, layed off miners and other workers the day after Obama's re-election claiming that Obama's war against coal meant that he could no longer afford to keep people employed.
Yet, Slashdot has posted a story saying worldwide demand for coal is up. So, either the numbers are wrong, or Murray made a half-assed political statement that had nothing to do with facts.
Hrmm... Wonder which it could be?
This is a love letter...
Please don't run any other companies into the groud. Please stop whatever you're doing and go home, and avoid public life as a CEO, or politician. You've both proven you don't know jack.
The world would be better off without either of you.
Thanks;
The rest of the planet.
"Poke, Poke, Poke, Poke, Poke... Wham "Ow mommy, he hit me!" "
And yet, very few, if ever, make this connection between America's foreign policy and why 9/11 happened.
Seriously;
If you got together all the Rich Bastards that want to flee the American Tax System (Mitt Romney, I'm looking at you), want to live their libertarian lifestyle, why the heck don't they pool their resources and simply BUY a freakin' country?
Seriously, the number of billionaires right now building gated fortesses with private security in places like Belize, Costa Rica, Brazil and the good old USA amounts to a number of dollars great enough to buy a nice secluded country and simply take over the government.
Then they can impose whatever "law" they like, and run the place the way Shieks do in places like UAE and Dubai.
And when you consider that, as a foreign country, they can continue to earn profits by applying for aid from the USA to feed their poor, and the stupid Middle Class will continue to sudsidize their lifestyles.
They'd be safe, their money would continue to grow, and the police would answer to them. Are these rich people just that stupid that they can't figure this out?
How many blowjobs does it take to "pay a ticket" in Mexico???
That would be anyplace run by the Dutch, or Switzerland, Luxemborg, or any European nation that's not a British Isle or former British Isle.
Another F-22 crashed recently, and that's about the same value...
You car analogy holds up, ONLY if these devices continue to be used within USA borders. Just visit Albania for an example. Any luxury car you see there is stolen.
These iPads are likely to be resold within China, where property laws are as lax as intellectual property laws.
So, I've just figured out the business model for Quibids dot com. No wonder they can advertise on TV that they are selling Macbooks for $67, and iPads for $19 -- and I sat there thinking, "how the hell do they make money doing that?" ... Well, now I know.
Wait a minute...
We gotta strip search grandmas and children before they get on a plane, but someone can roll a truck into the airport containing *anything* and just roll out again with NO SECURITY?
Then there's the incident with the Jet-skier who ran out of gas and washed ashore at JFK, hopped over a fence and then was able to walk through the airport and wasn't detained until *he* alerted security???
Seriously, next time the terrorists attack, it won't be vai the normal vector of waiting online to go through the naked scanners. The TSA is a complete waste of time, money, liberties, dignity, and human rights.
Back in the 80's when Guiliani started his campaign of terror to Disnifi New York, he demanded the closure of strip clubs in NYC.
That's when they started to become renamed as "gentleman's clubs", and changed their MO from seedy pole dancing to upscale entertainment for men, ala the playboy clubs from the 60's.
However, one such seedy place still existed on 24th street, 3rd Ave, called "Billy's Topless" It was a straight-out bar that served food as well (good burgers!), and yes, the ladies were showing ta-tas.
So, the mayor's office demanded they close or change their name so no one could recognize the place as a nudie-bar.
They changed the name to "Billy Stopless".
When a robot replaces an MBA. Right now, robots are only useful at the lowest rung of business -- the factory floor worker.
But when robots finally get into management, that's when you'll hear the screaming as thousands of coddled, bonused, outsourcers finally get what's coming to them...
Like, notice the housing crisis wasn't a crisis until it started to affect boomers and upper middle class? For 2 years before the crisis, lower middle class and poor were getting "underwater" in their mortgages, but it wasn't widely reported.
Your basement with a computer full of pr0n does not count as a sex dungeon...
I hope they are only being paid the standard blogger rate of $10. Because you get what you pay for.
Dude;
Apple III
Mac II FX
eWorld
Newton
ANYTHING under Spindler
The Cube
Taco's review of the iPod
The problem you're going to experience is that; unless the headhunter knows you're brilliant with tons of experience and willing to do the job for the same pay as some wet-behind-the-ears kid who'll never cut the mustard, when you get to HR, the clueless twit who works there will look at you and show you the door because you're 60.
Start making Android or iPhone apps. Make a name for yourself by consulting; get yourself going with a IT temp shop. Having A+ is like having a driver's license, it's not a path to anything.
If you were with the financial industry and really understand the ins and outs of that, you should be able to get a job in the investment banking sector, as HFT is always looking for guys who are good, and don't make mistakes -- because as we've seen, mistakes can cost millions or even billions in HFT -- so they want really good people, not cheap people who will ultimately cost them even more.
Something to think about: the partisan divide is mostly media driven, and most of the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of Fox News. Our country is being ripped apart because of Fox.
The second biggest investor in Fox is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. While I'm not against Arabs or Muslims, I don't believe Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a friend of the US. Not when he is holding fundraisers for the families of suicide bombers, giving poor middle easterners a reason for what they do. I just can't vote for anyone endorsed by Fox.
He has boasted he gets Fox to change their programming. So much of the division and hate in the US comes from Fox News. Seems to be a reflection of the owners. The percentage of Fox owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal keeps Rupert Murdoch from a hostile take over. That gives Prince Alwaleed bin Talal a lot of power over Fox.
It also makes me believe that Fox News is a psychological terrorist attack, and that the GOP has fallen for it.
Our number one export apparently, in terms of money spent. And yet, we can't actually have democracy at home. How much of a banana republic do we need to become before the UN starts to intervene and forces us to be monitored by their people to make sure we have a fair election?
And they spent a lot of money through SCO to try and sue Linux and IBM. And got their asses handed to them.
What MS *should* have done with that time and money was to find every patent troll that was going to harm them, and take them out with extreme prejudice.
Now they've been harmed by Eolas, which has opened the door to trolls like this one. MS has been hoisted by their own petard, so to speak. They were *for* software patents, and now they have discovered that you can't swing a dead cat in the tech sector without being sued by someone claiming to own a software method.
Software patents harm innovation and business. They do more harm than good and need to be repealed, for the sake of the economy.
I remember Windows NT for Alpha.... Yeah, the DEC Alpha.
in other words, supported for a few years and then dropped when there's zero financial incentive to keep it going. It will be treated by developers as a dead-end, so there will never be compelling apps, which will sign the death-warrant.
Can you imagine how rich this dude would have been had he actually patented every concept he came up with for Star Trek? Fortunately, back then you couldn't patent a concept, because our government wasn't as corrupt.
And therein lies the ultimate irony of Star Trek; for everything Gene got right about the tech, he failed miserably predicting human nature and greed.
Once again, we're seeing that Corporations have more rights than American citizens. These corporations can influence politics, influence elections, yet pay no income taxes (or practically nothing), provide nothing back to their host country, and yet have gamed the legal system so that they hold all the cards and it's like gambling against the house to go against them. Only when we've risen up with pitchforks and torches will things be able to change. It's going to take an act of civil war or something akin to the French Revolution to get us our country back from those greedy bastards that have stolen it from under our noses.