My experience is the very top management at Walmart is sharp, but the middle management is very YMMV and store management is internally promoted so there is usually one that's sharp, two that are average and the rest show signs of to much inbreeding. From that perspective it's easy to see that a $200.00 PC just isn't going to give them the profit/Ft^2 unless they turnover a lot of them which isn't sustainable. Also Everex isn't going to be in a position to offer incentives to Walmart to secure shelf-space like the others probably do, so the result is if you want one, order online and pick-up at your local store. The added advantage of this scheme is the machines isn't in the store, so Billy-Bob isn't going to buy one, fill the hard-disk with Kiddy-Porn picture of him and his wife, then return it because mozilla on Linux don't handle.wmf files out of the box; only to have the computer be illegally re-boxed and sold as new for someone daughter's use.
lets see 1 insult Walmart management 2 add slightly insightfull comment on-topic 3 imply consiracy against Linux on the desktop 4 insult stereo-typical Walmart customers 5 complain about M$ patented technology 6 get +5 insightfull mod woohooo
Issac Asimov is a biochemist, I didn't find his writings as dry as toast in fact "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" is one of my favorites.
You have to absolutely, positively eliminate any and all use of the phrase "The greenhouse effect" because it has been proven over 100 years ago that a greenhouse does not get warm because of "The greenhouse effect"; "The greenhouse effect" is insignificant when compared to the reduced cooling cause by the glass physically stopping convection cooling. Using the term "greenhouse effect" is just shooting yourself in the foot. A precocious 7th grader can disprove you "greenhouse effect" experimentally.
I didn't see the word communist in the article, I did see communitarian, yet it still seems to embody the philosophy of the "greatest good for the greatest number" rather than "the least harm to anyone" that I lean toward. The point I see him missing is first the internet has operated for a long time in a manner similar to a constitutional republic, the constitution convention being the IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force and the "constitution" being the various RFC's, sure there are some problems but are they really "internet"problems? If people are getting shot in road rages on the expressways do we write special laws covering assaults on the expressways or do we tell the dirtbags it's against the law to shoot people period your going to prison. Internet scams aren't any less a fraud than any other wire-fraud, do we need a special law to get international cooperation between countries to fight cross-boarder crime or do we ratchet up the banking laws to prevent money-laundering?
It doesn't seem like it, even if it were, ICANN is still under the Dept of Comm's thumb. Dept of Comm's thumb does seems to be much lighter than it easily could be, BS like this JB vs. wikileaks/dynadns/enom fiasco just seems to give unnecessary ammo to people who would like to change the present politico-bureaucracy with a different politico-bureaucracy. If the status Quo is going to continue, the USG and the Courts are going to have to realize that the ICANN is an international resource that they are holding in trust for the world, there is no since in letting it become politicized.
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Not so on August 14, 2003 at about 1605 hrs, I was going to hit the submit button on a slashdot post when the power failed in what is now called The Great Northeast Power Blackout of 2003 and for 3 days the only light in my house was the dial on my telephone drawing it's power from the POTS line and suppling me with dial tone, phone service including to the County emergency dispatch center running on generator back-up who could dispatch Fire, Police and EMS. My Dad has Comcast Digital-Voice The equipment is rated for 8 hours of battery back-up. POTS has to supply 5-9's of uptime, by that standard, Comcast went through one hundred years worth of downtime during yesterday's snowstorm.
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Can they provide connections to 911 during a 2 day electricity outage over fiber?
Exactly if you don't fix the power plant emissions, fixing the trucks is just everybody feeling good and singing Kumbaya, just like the soccer mom's saying everybody should be driving Hybrids then buckling Junior into the back seat of their Escalade. Still if the truckers are able to pull a "greener than thou" routine on the soccer mom's thing could get entertaining. Making Biodeisel to ASTM standards is just a matter of following the directions and testing, this method is pretty foolproof.
Results 1 - 10 of about 649,000 for linux hacked. (0.28 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 671,000 for windows hacked. (0.23 seconds)
see Linux is more secure, why steal a bicycle when you can steal a Harley? Everybody know zombies run 3000% faster on Linux than on Vista. Any script-kiddy can hack into a windows box but for real street cred the l33t go for the more powerful and tougher to hack Linux boxen.
They use Windows and are working hard to keep it that way. My kid went to a 2 week Linux course they never even learned that X windows was available and did everything from the command line to make Linux artificially difficult. They did the same thing to kill JINTACCS which was a military version of XML; I was an infantryman in the National Guard who wasted a whole day learning to file a Naval mine field report, and that was in a "train the Trainers" class.
Oh and are you gonna be the one to tell the general that if he does not understand how to drag and drop with the "pointer thingy" he can't have access to secure data.:D You mean like this one
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.[1] Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace".
Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City. For her prep school education, Hopper attended the Hartridge School in Plainfield, NJ. She married Vincent Hopper (a Ph.D. in English who for many years was chairman of the NYU English department) in 1930, but they were divorced in 1945. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College with a Bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1928 and pursued her graduate education at Yale University, where she received a Master's degree in those subjects in 1930. In 1934 she received a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her dissertation was titled New Types of Irreducibility Criteria[2]. Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931, and by 1941 she was an associate professor. Grace Hopper
Few professions are expected to have the education of a US Solder, Sailor, Marine or Airman, haa your Employer ever been to a continuing Ed course that was 8 to 16 hours a day for 16 weeks?
You can take pictures of objects 6 months apart so you can have your "eye distance" the diameter of the Earth's orbit which will mike near objects stereographic.
Even when the skies are clear, it's getting pretty hard to find skies that are Dark; it doesn't take much light pollution to wipe out a 3 day exposure to see some really faint object. You have to find a location that typically has clear skies, is high enough to get you above most of the atmospheric turbulence, has dark skies and isn't likely to have a housing subdivision built next door two years after you put a multi-billion dollars instrument into service.
yeah those are real cool instruments. I'd lean toward using a Nasmyth style design and have more separation between the objectives to make the observations more comfortable.
considering the last dental application that ran on anything *nix-ish used a curses based user interface and terminals that were connected by serial cable, I'd find that 1:6 didn't prefer windows a serious put down.
I know, every time I hear about how much more experienced Clinton is compared to Obama, I think "they say that like it's a good thing". In hindsight the Nixon wasn't really as bad as the Clintons.
Your as bad as the GAO report,who looks like they are spinning what has happened to date as insignificant in anticipation of a Democratic administration taking over in the next elections, remember the GAO works for the Democratic congress. Here's the point first we've reduced petro-oil 7 % relative to total consumption but for most of the time that reduction has been occurring petro-oil was running 40-60 dollars a barrel, while occasionally flirting with $70.00-80.00, and many of the alternative had break-even points of $70.00 a barrel. Now with petroleum crude running in the $100.00 investors will not be as afraid to make the investment in capital to make alternatives happen. There is a kind of reversal of the 80-20 rule where 20 % of the R and D is taking 80% of the time, now we are seeing an explosion of technological breakthroughs in alternative energy, major problems are moving from the realm of science to the realm of engineering. Big things are going to start happening during the next administration no matter which party gets in or what the GAO predicts simply because it makes sense economically. We've spent tens of Billions of dollars on alternative energy research but some how none of that counts, because it happened inspite of have a republican at the helm.
I would think that they would use a tunnel boring machine, but I agree this sounds very expensive and impractical, and will probably happen based on "green value" rather than rationality.
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My experience is the very top management at Walmart is sharp, but the middle management is very YMMV and store management is internally promoted so there is usually one that's sharp, two that are average and the rest show signs of to much inbreeding. From that perspective it's easy to see that a $200.00 PC just isn't going to give them the profit/Ft^2 unless they turnover a lot of them which isn't sustainable. Also Everex isn't going to be in a position to offer incentives to Walmart to secure shelf-space like the others probably do, so the result is if you want one, order online and pick-up at your local store. The added advantage of this scheme is the machines isn't in the store, so Billy-Bob isn't going to buy one, fill the hard-disk with Kiddy-Porn picture of him and his wife, then return it because mozilla on Linux don't handle .wmf files out of the box; only to have the computer be illegally re-boxed and sold as new for someone daughter's use.
lets see
1 insult Walmart management
2 add slightly insightfull comment on-topic
3 imply consiracy against Linux on the desktop
4 insult stereo-typical Walmart customers
5 complain about M$ patented technology
6 get +5 insightfull mod woohooo
Issac Asimov is a biochemist, I didn't find his writings as dry as toast in fact "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" is one of my favorites.
You have to absolutely, positively eliminate any and all use of the phrase "The greenhouse effect" because it has been proven over 100 years ago that a greenhouse does not get warm because of "The greenhouse effect"; "The greenhouse effect" is insignificant when compared to the reduced cooling cause by the glass physically stopping convection cooling. Using the term "greenhouse effect" is just shooting yourself in the foot. A precocious 7th grader can disprove you "greenhouse effect" experimentally.
I didn't see the word communist in the article, I did see communitarian, yet it still seems to embody the philosophy of the "greatest good for the greatest number" rather than "the least harm to anyone" that I lean toward. The point I see him missing is first the internet has operated for a long time in a manner similar to a constitutional republic, the constitution convention being the IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force and the "constitution" being the various RFC's, sure there are some problems but are they really "internet"problems?
If people are getting shot in road rages on the expressways do we write special laws covering assaults on the expressways or do we tell the dirtbags it's against the law to shoot people period your going to prison. Internet scams aren't any less a fraud than any other wire-fraud, do we need a special law to get international cooperation between countries to fight cross-boarder crime or do we ratchet up the banking laws to prevent money-laundering?
Besides it's to late Bill Clinton was the first black president.
It doesn't seem like it, even if it were, ICANN is still under the Dept of Comm's thumb. Dept of Comm's thumb does seems to be much lighter than it easily could be, BS like this JB vs. wikileaks/dynadns/enom fiasco just seems to give unnecessary ammo to people who would like to change the present politico-bureaucracy with a different politico-bureaucracy. If the status Quo is going to continue, the USG and the Courts are going to have to realize that the ICANN is an international resource that they are holding in trust for the world, there is no since in letting it become politicized.
Not so on August 14, 2003 at about 1605 hrs, I was going to hit the submit button on a slashdot post when the power failed in what is now called The Great Northeast Power Blackout of 2003 and for 3 days the only light in my house was the dial on my telephone drawing it's power from the POTS line and suppling me with dial tone, phone service including to the County emergency dispatch center running on generator back-up who could dispatch Fire, Police and EMS. My Dad has Comcast Digital-Voice The equipment is rated for 8 hours of battery back-up. POTS has to supply 5-9's of uptime, by that standard, Comcast went through one hundred years worth of downtime during yesterday's snowstorm.
Can they provide connections to 911 during a 2 day electricity outage over fiber?
Wouldn't that be a work for hire and hiring entity be the taxpaying public?
Exactly if you don't fix the power plant emissions, fixing the trucks is just everybody feeling good and singing Kumbaya, just like the soccer mom's saying everybody should be driving Hybrids then buckling Junior into the back seat of their Escalade. Still if the truckers are able to pull a "greener than thou" routine on the soccer mom's thing could get entertaining. Making Biodeisel to ASTM standards is just a matter of following the directions and testing, this method is pretty foolproof.
They use Windows and are working hard to keep it that way. My kid went to a 2 week Linux course they never even learned that X windows was available and did everything from the command line to make Linux artificially difficult. They did the same thing to kill JINTACCS which was a military version of XML; I was an infantryman in the National Guard who wasted a whole day learning to file a Naval mine field report, and that was in a "train the Trainers" class.
You mean like this one
Few professions are expected to have the education of a US Solder, Sailor, Marine or Airman, haa your Employer ever been to a continuing Ed course that was 8 to 16 hours a day for 16 weeks?
You can take pictures of objects 6 months apart so you can have your "eye distance" the diameter of the Earth's orbit which will mike near objects stereographic.
Even when the skies are clear, it's getting pretty hard to find skies that are Dark; it doesn't take much light pollution to wipe out a 3 day exposure to see some really faint object. You have to find a location that typically has clear skies, is high enough to get you above most of the atmospheric turbulence, has dark skies and isn't likely to have a housing subdivision built next door two years after you put a multi-billion dollars instrument into service.
yeah those are real cool instruments. I'd lean toward using a Nasmyth style design and have more separation between the objectives to make the observations more comfortable.
considering the last dental application that ran on anything *nix-ish used a curses based user interface and terminals that were connected by serial cable, I'd find that 1:6 didn't prefer windows a serious put down.
misogynistic bullshit
you have had fun until you've gone to the tity-bar with a lesbian.
I'd be happy with a binocoular telescope that had pair of 15 cm objective mirrors and they get a pair of 840 cm mirrors.
That's just scary to see such marketingdroid behavior attached to BioDiesel! I guess that means that Green has really went main-stream.
My State's constitution recognized the Federal Constitution as superior, is there any that don't?
I know, every time I hear about how much more experienced Clinton is compared to Obama, I think "they say that like it's a good thing". In hindsight the Nixon wasn't really as bad as the Clintons.
Your as bad as the GAO report,who looks like they are spinning what has happened to date as insignificant in anticipation of a Democratic administration taking over in the next elections, remember the GAO works for the Democratic congress. Here's the point first we've reduced petro-oil 7 % relative to total consumption but for most of the time that reduction has been occurring petro-oil was running 40-60 dollars a barrel, while occasionally flirting with $70.00-80.00, and many of the alternative had break-even points of $70.00 a barrel. Now with petroleum crude running in the $100.00 investors will not be as afraid to make the investment in capital to make alternatives happen. There is a kind of reversal of the 80-20 rule where 20 % of the R and D is taking 80% of the time, now we are seeing an explosion of technological breakthroughs in alternative energy, major problems are moving from the realm of science to the realm of engineering. Big things are going to start happening during the next administration no matter which party gets in or what the GAO predicts simply because it makes sense economically. We've spent tens of Billions of dollars on alternative energy research but some how none of that counts, because it happened inspite of have a republican at the helm.
I would think that they would use a tunnel boring machine, but I agree this sounds very expensive and impractical, and will probably happen based on "green value" rather than rationality.