I seem to recall Control Data Corp (CDC) buying it from Bricklin, et all for several million and then CDC proceding to screw it up and had the advantage back to Microsoft.
So I think they probably got out at the best time.
I also seem to remember GEM (better product IMHO) coming out around the same time, so the marketplace had plenty of competitors at that time.
Does anyone hear remember in the late 70's(was anyone here born before the 70's?) the uproar after the remains of several marijuana cigarettes were found in one of the ICBM silos??
It was about the same time there was the rash of army personel in Germany that were caught dealing drugs on post(I believe the tip off was the enormous number of enlisted personel driving expensive European cars on a salary of $300/month).
"Take the hard disk and open it, may be you will need a little torx screwdriver if you don't have it, take the hard tools: the drill and eat them with it."
I saw a show on the history of Sony and Sony founder Akio Morita said he was certain no one would ever want listen to music alone and insisted that two headphone jacks be included.
Blue Collar Workers move to China, India to reclaim lost jobs
Mass exodus of manufacturing jobs prompts mass migration of American workers to the Third World.
Kellerman hopes he will fit in at his new job in Calcutta. Free Trade Zone--Thousands of blue collar workers are leaving the United States in pursuit of the 2.7 manufacturing jobs that moved overseas during the past three years.
Deke Kellerman, a worker at the recently-closed Maytag Plant in Galesburg, Illinois, is moving his family to India so that he can keep his job constructing refrigerators. His pay will be cut from $11.95 to a whooping 35 cents an hour.
"There aren't any jobs here in the states anymore," Kellerman said. "So me and Missy, Deke Jr. and Delyn decided we'd move over there and give it a shot. I figure as long as they got a Mickey D's and I can catch the Bears on TV, I'll be happy."
The Kellermans are not the only family from the closed Maytag plant that are moving half-way around the world to save their jobs.
Buel Jackson, his wife, Mary and their children Tucker, Conroy and Beldin followed Jackson's job all the way to the slums of Surat in the Western Indian State of Gujaret.
"Sure, we don't have any running water, tuberculosis is rampant and, last week, a couple of buildings in the slum collapsed, killing a bunch of people, but we're happy...sort of," Jackson said.
In the Jackson family's one-room abode, the children sleep on mats on the floor. The youngest child, Beldin, lay on the floor sweating from a severe bout of dengue fever.
"The hardest part for me has been getting used to the food," said Mary Jackson, as she placed a cool cloth on her son's forehead. "We can't afford any."
The slums of Surat may be infested with diseased rats and open sewers, but at least it's close to the sweatshop where the Jackson family works together.
Mary Jackson who used to weigh a portly 180 pounds has lost 50 pounds since the family moved to India three months ago.
She moved about the apartment wearing an Eskimo Joe shirt underneath a Sari.
While the Jackson family used to regularly throw away several pounds of food per week, they now pour a little water into their bowls after they have had their daily allotment of rice so that they can sop up every last morsel of food.
Besides Buel, the rest of the family also works on the assembly line at the Maytag plant for 12 hours a day eeking out barley enough money to survive.
The mass exodus of manufacturing jobs started during President Reagan's tenure and gained steam when President Clinton signed the NAFTA free trade agreement, which opened up the borders between the US and Mexico. The creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has led to the further loss of jobs. Both groups have loopholes that allow them to overturn national laws in areas such as safety and environmental standards.
"Increasing poverty and joblessness in the United States is not just an afterthought of our policy; it's the main motivation," said Robert Noriega, an assistant secretary of state. "Free trade is primarily about taking jobs away from Americans and creating economies based on slave labor round the world for the financial benefit of multi-national corporations."
Pittsburgh, PA Steel Worker Thomas Barrett, moved his family to Shuiye Town in the Henan Province of China to work for Huaguan Iron and Steel Co. after his company, Bethlehem Steel, shuttered its door earlier this year.
Thomas and Amy Barrett couldn't ask for better jobs except ones that paid enough to friggin' eat on. Barrett works 14 hours a day in unsafe conditions while his children are schooled at the state-run Communist public school where they are taught anti-American propaganda and to hate Buddhists.
"Well, we couldn't continued to compete against the slave wages that they pay over here in China so I decided if you can't beat them join them,
I suspect they're badly wrong about the effects of a 1/363rd kiloton explosion. Only 5,500 pounds of a low-order explosive like blackpowder detonated below ground level would be very unlikely to cause severe structural damage to buildings more than 1/3 mile away, not least because most of the explosive effect would have been directed upwards. Also, blackpowder, like ammonium nitrate/fuel oil, is a heaving explosive rather than a shattering one. The low-frequency ground wave it generated would be unlikely to have sufficient amplitude at that distance to knock down buildings. Indeed, it would likely do no more than shake things up and knock things off shelves, unless London buildings in 1605 were very badly built. Compare, for example, the effects of the Oklahoma City bomb, which was detonated at ground level and used a more brissant explosive.
I agree, I have met a handfull that are actually honest and upstanding.
On the employee side, watch out for the scam where they try to get you in at a lower salary than the company is willing to pay in order to get a cut of the savings from the company in addition to the regular commision.
On the employer side, watch out for the recruiters that taylor their candidates to exactly the qualifications you asked for. Had a few cases where the person being interviewed remarked - "What? Where did you get the idea I have worked with XXXX?" Those type of recruiters are inevitably worthless in the long run and a big waster of your time.
LoudCloud sold all of the data center hosting business to EDS. His company now develops software to 'manage more efficiently' those datacenters they couldn't make any money on. Obviously, the business model is 'if I couldn't do it and make $$$, then no other company in the world can either and they must be willing to pay me lots of $$$$ to allow them to'.
As soon as a cure or effective treatment for one disease is created, somehow a bigger badder uglier disease pops up somewhere.
According to: The River: A Journey to the Source of Hiv and AIDS by Edward Hooper, W. D. Hamilton
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031637137 8/ qid=1030741745/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-4864139-34873 62 The source of HIV stems from efforts to eradicate polio in Africa in the 50'. One of the more intersting facts in the book is the explanation that there are two variations of HIV : HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is similiar to SIV found in Chimps(found in the eastern part of Africa), where HIV-2 is similiar to SIV found in Sootey Managabes(found in the western part of Africa). HIV-1 is more prevelent in the US and younger people, although it is actually possible to suffer from both afflictions at the same time. HIV-2 is more prevelent in African and older people.
He also points out a flaw in the current monkey -> human theory of where AIDS came from. Its an incredible coinicidence that both of the two variations of AIDS are supposed to have jumped from simian to human sometime from 1850(end of slave trade - earliest AIDS identified in the US isin 1970) and 1950(oldest HIV positive blood sample ever found) even though man and ape have lived in the jungle together for a long time(2.5 million years???).
He also details early expirementation with Polio vaccines on children at mental hospitals and prisons in the 50's.
The article also doesn't mention the already existing monorail between the MGM hotel and the Flamingo Hilton(lower part of the map). Right now its free(but you have to walk past the all of the boutiques and gaming areas to get to it).
Another advantage of option 3 is that you can be insulated from billing problems.
This is very true. My experience is been that it is sometimes 3-4 months before getting that first check + dozens of stories (lost your invoice, changing billing systems, waiting for a signiture, accountant out of town for two weeks, etc)in the mean time.
I have found that the larger the company, the larger the delay in paying. Plus, bigger companies for some reason have absolutely no qualms about not paying your at all. Smaller Mom-n-Pop shops have never been a problem to me. Be sure and have a clause in you contract were unpaid balances accrue at an interest rate after 90 days(1% a month at least). And find a good attorney.
I worked at Hughes Aircraft when he became the first CEO hired from outside the company(he was #2 at IBM and Lou Gerstner beat him out there). Does anyone remember that company? Founded in 1924 by Howard Hughes Jr. Launched the first ever communications satillite among other accomplishments? Now just a collection of pieces surviving in other companies...looks like AT&T will probably end up the same way...
And no gay pr0n either please...you guys should put a disclaimer for those of us surfing at work(unless that falls under the heading of 'interesting discussion').
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I seem to recall Control Data Corp (CDC) buying it from Bricklin, et all for several million and then CDC proceding to screw it up and had the advantage back to Microsoft.
So I think they probably got out at the best time.
I also seem to remember GEM (better product IMHO) coming out around the same time, so the marketplace had plenty of competitors at that time.
Does anyone hear remember in the late 70's(was anyone here born before the 70's?) the uproar after the remains of several marijuana cigarettes were found in one of the ICBM silos??
It was about the same time there was the rash of army personel in Germany that were caught dealing drugs on post(I believe the tip off was the enormous number of enlisted personel driving expensive European cars on a salary of $300/month).
Thanks for telling us all how to pronounce ROTC...big fan of Taps are we??
Renewel on carousel!!
More Cheese-Fries!!!!
if you still enjoy wearing furs??
"Take the hard disk and open it, may be you will need a little torx screwdriver if you don't have it, take the hard tools: the drill and eat them with it."
Can anyone translate this for me?
But its that special "wirh " RAM...very hard to get these days, except on eBay. :-)
I saw a show on the history of Sony and Sony founder Akio Morita said he was certain no one would ever want listen to music alone and insisted that two headphone jacks be included.
I think there maybe some NSFW pictures of Tracey on the website somewhere...
http://www.freepressed.com/manufacturing.htm
Blue Collar Workers move to China, India to reclaim lost jobs
Mass exodus of manufacturing jobs prompts mass migration of American workers to the Third World.
Kellerman hopes he will fit in at his new job in Calcutta. Free Trade Zone--Thousands of blue collar workers are leaving the United States in pursuit of the 2.7 manufacturing jobs that moved
overseas during the past three years.
Deke Kellerman, a worker at the recently-closed Maytag Plant in Galesburg, Illinois, is moving his family to India so that he can keep his job constructing refrigerators. His pay will be cut from $11.95 to a whooping 35 cents an hour.
"There aren't any jobs here in the states anymore," Kellerman said. "So me and Missy, Deke Jr. and Delyn decided we'd move over there and
give it a shot. I figure as long as they got a Mickey D's and I can catch the Bears on TV, I'll be happy."
The Kellermans are not the only family from the closed Maytag plant that are moving half-way around the world to save their jobs.
Buel Jackson, his wife, Mary and their children Tucker, Conroy and Beldin followed Jackson's job all the way to the slums of Surat in the Western Indian State of Gujaret.
"Sure, we don't have any running water, tuberculosis is rampant and, last week, a couple of buildings in the slum collapsed, killing a bunch of people, but we're happy...sort of," Jackson said.
In the Jackson family's one-room abode, the children sleep on mats on the floor. The youngest child, Beldin, lay on the floor sweating from a
severe bout of dengue fever.
"The hardest part for me has been getting used to the food," said Mary Jackson, as she placed a cool cloth on her son's forehead. "We
can't afford any."
The slums of Surat may be infested with diseased rats and open sewers, but at least it's close to the sweatshop where the Jackson family works
together.
Mary Jackson who used to weigh a portly 180 pounds has lost 50 pounds since the family moved to India three months ago.
She moved about the apartment wearing an Eskimo Joe shirt underneath a Sari.
While the Jackson family used to regularly throw away several pounds of food per week, they now pour a little water into their bowls after they
have had their daily allotment of rice so that they can sop up every last morsel of food.
Besides Buel, the rest of the family also works on the assembly line at the Maytag plant for 12 hours a day eeking out barley enough money to
survive.
The mass exodus of manufacturing jobs started during President Reagan's tenure and gained steam when President Clinton signed the NAFTA free trade agreement, which opened up the borders between the US and Mexico. The creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has led to the further loss of jobs. Both groups have loopholes that allow them to overturn national laws in areas such as safety and environmental standards.
"Increasing poverty and joblessness in the United States is not just an afterthought of our policy; it's the main motivation," said Robert Noriega, an assistant secretary of state. "Free trade is primarily about taking jobs away from Americans and creating economies based on slave labor round the world for the financial benefit of multi-national corporations."
Pittsburgh, PA Steel Worker Thomas Barrett, moved his family to Shuiye Town in the Henan Province of China to work for Huaguan Iron and Steel Co. after his company, Bethlehem Steel, shuttered its door earlier this year.
Thomas and Amy Barrett couldn't ask for better jobs except ones that paid enough to friggin' eat on. Barrett works 14 hours a day in unsafe conditions while his children are schooled at the state-run Communist public school where they are
taught anti-American propaganda and to hate Buddhists.
"Well, we couldn't continued to compete against the slave wages that they pay over here in China so I decided if you can't beat them join them,
I suspect they're badly wrong about the effects of a 1/363rd kiloton explosion. Only 5,500 pounds of a low-order explosive like blackpowder detonated below ground level would be very unlikely to cause severe structural damage to buildings more than 1/3 mile away, not least because most of the explosive effect would have been directed upwards. Also, blackpowder, like ammonium nitrate/fuel oil, is a heaving explosive rather than a shattering one. The low-frequency ground wave it generated would be unlikely to have sufficient amplitude at that distance to knock down buildings. Indeed, it would likely do no more than shake things up and knock things off shelves, unless London buildings in 1605 were very badly built. Compare, for example, the effects of the Oklahoma City bomb, which was detonated at ground level and used a more brissant explosive.
I agree, I have met a handfull that are actually honest and upstanding.
On the employee side, watch out for the scam where they try to get you in at a lower salary than the company is willing to pay in order to get a cut of the savings from the company in addition to the regular commision.
On the employer side, watch out for the recruiters that taylor their candidates to exactly the qualifications you asked for. Had a few cases where the person being interviewed remarked - "What? Where did you get the idea I have worked with XXXX?" Those type of recruiters are inevitably worthless in the long run and a big waster of your time.
That Great White is playing again?
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_displ
I bet the tickets sell like wildfire!
You forgot my all time fav - Lawn Darts!!
I always tip them a little extra and inform them that mullets are no longer in style and that Poison never did *rock*.
How come I have to keep scrolling to the right to see the cartoons? :-)
LoudCloud sold all of the data center hosting business to EDS. His company now develops software to 'manage more efficiently' those datacenters they couldn't make any money on. Obviously, the business model is 'if I couldn't do it and make $$$, then no other company in the world can either and they must be willing to pay me lots of $$$$ to allow them to'.
As soon as a cure or effective treatment for one disease is created, somehow a bigger badder uglier disease pops up somewhere.
7 8/ qid=1030741745/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-4864139-34873 62
According to: The River: A Journey to the Source of Hiv and AIDS
by Edward Hooper, W. D. Hamilton
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/03163713
The source of HIV stems from efforts to eradicate polio in Africa in the 50'. One of the more intersting facts in the book is the explanation that there are two variations of HIV : HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is similiar to SIV found in Chimps(found in the eastern part of Africa), where HIV-2 is similiar to SIV found in Sootey Managabes(found in the western part of Africa). HIV-1 is more prevelent in the US and younger people, although it is actually possible to suffer from both afflictions at the same time. HIV-2 is more prevelent in African and older people.
He also points out a flaw in the current monkey -> human theory of where AIDS came from. Its an incredible coinicidence that both of the two variations of AIDS are supposed to have jumped from simian to human sometime from 1850(end of slave trade - earliest AIDS identified in the US isin 1970) and 1950(oldest HIV positive blood sample ever found) even though man and ape have lived in the jungle together for a long time(2.5 million years???).
He also details early expirementation with Polio vaccines on children at mental hospitals and prisons in the 50's.
Great read.
The article also doesn't mention the already existing monorail between the MGM hotel and the Flamingo Hilton(lower part of the map). Right now its free(but you have to walk past the all of the boutiques and gaming areas to get to it).
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http://www.cewindows.net/wce/20/ethernet.htm
has a nice list of compatible ethernet cards.
Another advantage of option 3 is that you can be insulated from billing problems.
This is very true. My experience is been that it is sometimes 3-4 months before getting that first check + dozens of stories (lost your invoice, changing billing systems, waiting for a signiture, accountant out of town for two weeks, etc)in the mean time.
I have found that the larger the company, the larger the delay in paying. Plus, bigger companies for some reason have absolutely no qualms about not paying your at all. Smaller Mom-n-Pop shops have never been a problem to me. Be sure and have a clause in you contract were unpaid balances accrue at an interest rate after 90 days(1% a month at least). And find a good attorney.
I worked at Hughes Aircraft when he became the first CEO hired from outside the company(he was #2 at IBM and Lou Gerstner beat him out there). Does anyone remember that company? Founded in 1924 by Howard Hughes Jr. Launched the first ever communications satillite among other accomplishments? Now just a collection of pieces surviving in other companies...looks like AT&T will probably end up the same way...
WT News: Chinese worm attachs Whitehouse
NYT News: Chinese cyber-attack misses
Weekly World Guardian: Ape-boy to star in new TV Series
And no gay pr0n either please...you guys should put a disclaimer for those of us surfing at work(unless that falls under the heading of 'interesting discussion').