It costs a tremendous amount of money to keep the exhibits up. When the USS Missouri was dry docked for painting and repairs a couple years ago, it cost more than $18m. These museums rarely receive money from the government for upkeep, unless it's part of the Smithsonian (it's free to visit Discovery) so they're forced to charge something for maintenance and developing the tours. I was happy to pay to visit the Missouri, the North Carolina, and the Yorktown so that these monuments to American ingenuity and the free world are preserved for another generation to see.
To be fair, they're building a new facility to house her, off the deck of the carrier. I don't believe it's going to be ready until springtime, so they had assuming, based on past performance, that they'd be able to protect her from the weather within the confines of the inflatable structure. They're actually pretty strong, but even the best made bubble wasn't holding up to that storm. Hopefully they're able to repair her tail and get the final structure completed quickly.
No, this wasn't that kind of NFP, it dealt with children with mental illness with multiple treatment centers all over the US. These aren't the type of kids that would go pawn something, they're the type that are dealing with developmental and learning disabilities.
I used to work for a non-profit called the Devereux Foundation, and we were always accepting computers from organizations that were upgrading. Most of the computers were Windows 98 vintage or older (in 2002) so they were horrendously underpowered at the time (and we were trying to shoehorn XP onto them), but an influx of additional RAM would have made a world of difference. If you can, call around and find out if there's a non-profit that would accept the DIMMs, especially if they're for desktop systems. I can't speak for the organization now, but there weren't many laptops floating around, and their group homes tended to be desktop only.
Agreed 100%. When people ask me which Android phone to buy, I always point them towards Samsung, even though I'm still using an HTC Thunderbolt. Being modder friendly, and even going so far as to employ Steve Condick from Cyanogen(mod), makes me a happy panda!
I think that Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, plus this rumor that Google will be releasing multiple Nexus devices in the next year via multiple OEMs is exactly what the Android ecosystem needs to settle itself. Up until now, each version of their OS, while great in and of it's own, has been an exercise in rapidly releasing new features to either catch up to or exceed Apple's specifications. Android 4.0/4.1, and the to-be-released 4.2 (Key Lime Pie?) are making Android just as mature as any other smartphone ecosystem.
That said, I do believe HTC has put out premium handsets, though generally, they're more a mid-level producer. The Thunderbolt, original G1 and Nexus One, plus their One series, truly are/were premium phones. The Thunderbolt (which I'm still using) is an awesome phone, and although HTC has definitely dropped support for it (even after leaking an ICS build in August), it's still a fast, reliable, well-made handset. Rooted, and running CM7, it's even better.
As a conservative libertarian, I agree 100%. There's simply just no way to change them but to force them to change. Do I want to vote for Mitt Romney? No. Do I 'have' to? Yeah. It sucks. I voted third party in 2008, because I just couldn't get behind McCain, but I live in NJ, and a conservative or libertarian vote means nothing, anyway. That said, I'm moving to South Carolina, where a conservative vote DOES matter. A vote against a Republican candidate will be felt more in an area where they actually have a chance to win. Unfortunately, I'm moving next month, and have to vote in absentia in New Jersey, so I can't enact my bold plan until 2016! Curses!
We might not manufacture the base components here, but we sure as hell build the final assemblies here. I work for Lockheed Martin, and in my facility, we build the SPY-1 radar arrays that are installed on the US, Japanese, Norwegian, South Korean, and Australian Navy's destroyers, cruisers, and frigates. We might import transistors, chips, whatever, but they're just components. A radar array is much more than just the sum of its parts, and the design knowledge, plus the final manufacture, lives and dies with American workers.
As for lasting a year in a world war, you're severely mistaken.
I've been to Five Guys a bunch of times, and they're shite. Greasy burger, no seasoning. Just not very good. If you want a great burger, try Cheeburger Cheeburger.
I do think that there should be something worth seeing in Houston, and wish that they'd have gotten one, but the point of my comment was that NASA, and the museums that have the orbiters, now, should use these as tools to increase interest in math, sciences, and space travel. I was trying to convey the point that they're better tools in a high visibility area than in an area that would offer fewer visitors. From what I've seen, Houston pulls 7 million visitors per year. The Intrepid museum itself draws over 900k per year, in and of itself.
Also, the most visitors of any other US city, by far. If you want people to see these things, they need to go where the people are. I understand that Houston had massive contributions to the space program, much more than NYC, or even the northeast, in general, but how many people visit Houston per year?
Do you have any clue what an oil company makes in profit, per year? According to petrostrategies.org, the top five US oil companies are Exxon Mobile ($41B net profit), ConocoPhilips ($12B net profit), Chevron ($27B net profit), Anadarko ($1B net profit), and Devon ($5B net profit). That's a combined net income of $86B for 2011 alone. You can't honestly believe that these companies couldn't make a business case for a combined large scale ice breaking operation, if they were given the opportunity to drill for and extract oil in arctic areas, given the immense amount of oil stored below ice packs. Given enough leases and rigs in the arctic, I'm sure that they'd sacrifice a few hundred million per year for an ice breaker that could increase their profitability significantly.
You do realize that it's private industry that builds and does the majority of maintenance on US Navy ships, correct? Electric Boat and and Newport News are private companies, and are contracted by the government to design, build, overhaul, and repair the Navy's nuclear powered subs and carriers, and that Northrup Grumman and Bath Iron Works do the same for destroyers, cruisers, and other non-nuclear surface ships. Even when ships are brought in to Navy Yards for maintenance, it's contractors from private industry doing the work, not sailors. The Navy operates them, but the only thing they do is maintain them while at sea. Hell, a lot of ships even keep contractors on board to make repairs while underway!
Well, the whole thing is that the government approvals to obtain the nuclear reactor technology, as well as the nuclear fuel, would be extremely cost prohibitive. If it takes ten years and tens of billions of dollars to get the government to allow you to build a new reactor that doesn't move, what would it cost, in terms of design studies, safety studies, and licensing, to obtain the needed approvals for a moving ship???
I disagree. There's zero reason that a motivated private industry wouldn't contract with Electric Boat or Newport News to create a nuclear powered ice breaker that served them, and them only. Governmental breakers serve industry, in general. Once ANWAR and the oil fields north of there are finally opened and made economical, it would make sense for several of the oil companies operating in the area to operate their own ice breaker, that served all their rigs. You're not going to be able to get the USCG to dedicate a breaker to this activity, and while it might cost upwards of $2B, that's a drop in the bucket for a conglomerate of oil companies......if it weren't for the red tape of actually getting the oil fields opened up for development, and for getting the thing built.
I'm in more of a design engineering role, now, designing physical and virtual architectures for corporate hosting. Because Sharepoint is our document repository, and we use CaliberRM as our requirements repository, both of which don't run under Linux, I'm stuck with Windows.
For what it's worth, though, our bios settings are locked down and password protected to prevent us from booting from media. It's really a risk/reward situation. Do I fight with the desktop team, who thinks that server admins, and the people that set their desktop policy are idiots and will fight me up the chain, or do I just deal with it and run a Linux system at home and on my phone?
Exactly. I actually passed on a job a few weeks ago with a mobile phone software start-up, simply because their profits were increasing TOO quickly, and they were building a product lineup that directly competed with some very lawsuit hungry companies. The profit portion was great; year over year profit increases of 75 - 125%, for the past four years, but the prospect that they'd soon come into the class of some very big names scared me off.
Unfortunately, the name of the game at my company is 'least privilege'. I don't have admin access, and don't have the ability to clone this desktop install and run it in VirtualBox. Back when I was an admin, I was running multiple virtual servers on my laptop so that I could do OE development and test software updates and security vulnerability fixes without doing it on a production system. Those were the days.
Right. And it's not like I'm not a part of the IT department. I work in the Corporate Hosting Services department, and I was a sysadmin for six+ years. I'm no novice, and could build a much more secure Linux image than anyone from the Windows desktop team could do with a Windows image.
That's funny. It's only the desktop support nerds making $50k/year that are running OS(X) in my company. The server admins ($75k - $125k/year) run Linux on their desktops, and the business folks run Windows 7.
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It costs a tremendous amount of money to keep the exhibits up. When the USS Missouri was dry docked for painting and repairs a couple years ago, it cost more than $18m. These museums rarely receive money from the government for upkeep, unless it's part of the Smithsonian (it's free to visit Discovery) so they're forced to charge something for maintenance and developing the tours. I was happy to pay to visit the Missouri, the North Carolina, and the Yorktown so that these monuments to American ingenuity and the free world are preserved for another generation to see.
To be fair, they're building a new facility to house her, off the deck of the carrier. I don't believe it's going to be ready until springtime, so they had assuming, based on past performance, that they'd be able to protect her from the weather within the confines of the inflatable structure. They're actually pretty strong, but even the best made bubble wasn't holding up to that storm. Hopefully they're able to repair her tail and get the final structure completed quickly.
No, this wasn't that kind of NFP, it dealt with children with mental illness with multiple treatment centers all over the US. These aren't the type of kids that would go pawn something, they're the type that are dealing with developmental and learning disabilities.
I used to work for a non-profit called the Devereux Foundation, and we were always accepting computers from organizations that were upgrading. Most of the computers were Windows 98 vintage or older (in 2002) so they were horrendously underpowered at the time (and we were trying to shoehorn XP onto them), but an influx of additional RAM would have made a world of difference. If you can, call around and find out if there's a non-profit that would accept the DIMMs, especially if they're for desktop systems. I can't speak for the organization now, but there weren't many laptops floating around, and their group homes tended to be desktop only.
Agreed 100%. When people ask me which Android phone to buy, I always point them towards Samsung, even though I'm still using an HTC Thunderbolt. Being modder friendly, and even going so far as to employ Steve Condick from Cyanogen(mod), makes me a happy panda!
I think that Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, plus this rumor that Google will be releasing multiple Nexus devices in the next year via multiple OEMs is exactly what the Android ecosystem needs to settle itself. Up until now, each version of their OS, while great in and of it's own, has been an exercise in rapidly releasing new features to either catch up to or exceed Apple's specifications. Android 4.0/4.1, and the to-be-released 4.2 (Key Lime Pie?) are making Android just as mature as any other smartphone ecosystem.
That said, I do believe HTC has put out premium handsets, though generally, they're more a mid-level producer. The Thunderbolt, original G1 and Nexus One, plus their One series, truly are/were premium phones. The Thunderbolt (which I'm still using) is an awesome phone, and although HTC has definitely dropped support for it (even after leaking an ICS build in August), it's still a fast, reliable, well-made handset. Rooted, and running CM7, it's even better.
Paul Ryan's Medicare plan is a thinly disguised effort to replace Medicare with vouchers for cat food!!!!11!!!11!! /troll
As a conservative libertarian, I agree 100%. There's simply just no way to change them but to force them to change. Do I want to vote for Mitt Romney? No. Do I 'have' to? Yeah. It sucks. I voted third party in 2008, because I just couldn't get behind McCain, but I live in NJ, and a conservative or libertarian vote means nothing, anyway. That said, I'm moving to South Carolina, where a conservative vote DOES matter. A vote against a Republican candidate will be felt more in an area where they actually have a chance to win. Unfortunately, I'm moving next month, and have to vote in absentia in New Jersey, so I can't enact my bold plan until 2016! Curses!
We might not manufacture the base components here, but we sure as hell build the final assemblies here. I work for Lockheed Martin, and in my facility, we build the SPY-1 radar arrays that are installed on the US, Japanese, Norwegian, South Korean, and Australian Navy's destroyers, cruisers, and frigates. We might import transistors, chips, whatever, but they're just components. A radar array is much more than just the sum of its parts, and the design knowledge, plus the final manufacture, lives and dies with American workers.
As for lasting a year in a world war, you're severely mistaken.
We don't have In-N-Out on the east coast. It makes me sad. At least we have Sonic.
I've been to Five Guys a bunch of times, and they're shite. Greasy burger, no seasoning. Just not very good. If you want a great burger, try Cheeburger Cheeburger.
I've been pining for the fjords. /offtopic
Not air, vacuum.
I do think that there should be something worth seeing in Houston, and wish that they'd have gotten one, but the point of my comment was that NASA, and the museums that have the orbiters, now, should use these as tools to increase interest in math, sciences, and space travel. I was trying to convey the point that they're better tools in a high visibility area than in an area that would offer fewer visitors. From what I've seen, Houston pulls 7 million visitors per year. The Intrepid museum itself draws over 900k per year, in and of itself.
Also, the most visitors of any other US city, by far. If you want people to see these things, they need to go where the people are. I understand that Houston had massive contributions to the space program, much more than NYC, or even the northeast, in general, but how many people visit Houston per year?
I really wish I had some mod points to up your score! Best thing I've read in at least a week!
Do you have any clue what an oil company makes in profit, per year? According to petrostrategies.org, the top five US oil companies are Exxon Mobile ($41B net profit), ConocoPhilips ($12B net profit), Chevron ($27B net profit), Anadarko ($1B net profit), and Devon ($5B net profit). That's a combined net income of $86B for 2011 alone. You can't honestly believe that these companies couldn't make a business case for a combined large scale ice breaking operation, if they were given the opportunity to drill for and extract oil in arctic areas, given the immense amount of oil stored below ice packs. Given enough leases and rigs in the arctic, I'm sure that they'd sacrifice a few hundred million per year for an ice breaker that could increase their profitability significantly.
You do realize that it's private industry that builds and does the majority of maintenance on US Navy ships, correct? Electric Boat and and Newport News are private companies, and are contracted by the government to design, build, overhaul, and repair the Navy's nuclear powered subs and carriers, and that Northrup Grumman and Bath Iron Works do the same for destroyers, cruisers, and other non-nuclear surface ships. Even when ships are brought in to Navy Yards for maintenance, it's contractors from private industry doing the work, not sailors. The Navy operates them, but the only thing they do is maintain them while at sea. Hell, a lot of ships even keep contractors on board to make repairs while underway!
Well, the whole thing is that the government approvals to obtain the nuclear reactor technology, as well as the nuclear fuel, would be extremely cost prohibitive. If it takes ten years and tens of billions of dollars to get the government to allow you to build a new reactor that doesn't move, what would it cost, in terms of design studies, safety studies, and licensing, to obtain the needed approvals for a moving ship???
I disagree. There's zero reason that a motivated private industry wouldn't contract with Electric Boat or Newport News to create a nuclear powered ice breaker that served them, and them only. Governmental breakers serve industry, in general. Once ANWAR and the oil fields north of there are finally opened and made economical, it would make sense for several of the oil companies operating in the area to operate their own ice breaker, that served all their rigs. You're not going to be able to get the USCG to dedicate a breaker to this activity, and while it might cost upwards of $2B, that's a drop in the bucket for a conglomerate of oil companies... ...if it weren't for the red tape of actually getting the oil fields opened up for development, and for getting the thing built.
I'm in more of a design engineering role, now, designing physical and virtual architectures for corporate hosting. Because Sharepoint is our document repository, and we use CaliberRM as our requirements repository, both of which don't run under Linux, I'm stuck with Windows.
For what it's worth, though, our bios settings are locked down and password protected to prevent us from booting from media. It's really a risk/reward situation. Do I fight with the desktop team, who thinks that server admins, and the people that set their desktop policy are idiots and will fight me up the chain, or do I just deal with it and run a Linux system at home and on my phone?
Exactly. I actually passed on a job a few weeks ago with a mobile phone software start-up, simply because their profits were increasing TOO quickly, and they were building a product lineup that directly competed with some very lawsuit hungry companies. The profit portion was great; year over year profit increases of 75 - 125%, for the past four years, but the prospect that they'd soon come into the class of some very big names scared me off.
Unfortunately, the name of the game at my company is 'least privilege'. I don't have admin access, and don't have the ability to clone this desktop install and run it in VirtualBox. Back when I was an admin, I was running multiple virtual servers on my laptop so that I could do OE development and test software updates and security vulnerability fixes without doing it on a production system. Those were the days.
Right. And it's not like I'm not a part of the IT department. I work in the Corporate Hosting Services department, and I was a sysadmin for six+ years. I'm no novice, and could build a much more secure Linux image than anyone from the Windows desktop team could do with a Windows image.
That's funny. It's only the desktop support nerds making $50k/year that are running OS(X) in my company. The server admins ($75k - $125k/year) run Linux on their desktops, and the business folks run Windows 7.