They know oil's running out and they know roughly when. This could be a bad sign that they'd fund something like this who's results my never come to bear anytime soon.
I've written all of them and the only one to get back to me
Kay Bailey Hutchison (sp?)
Basically said that taking my money away and giving it to the poor is her choice in the matter of this.
Her opinion of those of us that worked hard for good paying jobs will now have to settle for less and make do when obviously what our money is going to will no doubt come down in price just makes my life that much harder.
And no doubt I wont be voting for her next election.
They're systems are probably 80% auctioned desktops and such from busted dot coms.. and I suspect that many of them are not RAID at all. I have yet to hear of a redundant raid controller either. Your best bet is just replication of data on you backend servers and using something in the nature of a Cisco CSS or some other services balancer device to handle keeping alive servers available while redirecting away from dead servers.
You can still do RAID with this setup but you'd have the added security of 2 or more systems making up your entire functional system so if one is down the other can continue normally. Then it's trivial to repair the dead machine and bring it back into the cluster.
Coders should just look to companies that are doing business with Americans which makes it less likely they'll offshore.
Those same companies and the ones that are offshoring but have a semi-global or completely global reach should also keep in mind that if the majority of their bread and butter comes from American consumers, each one laid off is most likely not buying your products or that of other companies in the US.
On the flipside there's a impending real estate crash possibility in the US which could go a long way to putting us on a more even footing with forein job competitiors. But only if this happens and maybe if it were to cut the cost of housing by 50%. Currently any american that buys a house on a 30 year term pays over double it's worth. Which directly translates into the high cost of your house.
Here in Dallas a house could cost 60k to construct but they're selling for 250k or more. So the builder makes his quater million. Then the bank makes their quater million over 30 years and some change. Does this even sound right? If both parties did this for a reasonable profit of 60k for the builder and 60k for the bank then the buyer would be in for 180k and would leave him with a payment in the ranges of 750-850 dollars vs nearly 2k per month.
This would directly feed back into the economy, back into our companies who would then be able to not only hire american workers but probably hire cheap overseas labor at the same time and still not kill their bottom lines while having the benefit of bringing up global living standards and being able to expand their market vastly as the global markets are able to afford their products.
Oh and for those companies paying 150+ million to their CEO's CXO, CTO ad nauseam add that all up. Then imagine what your bottom line would look like if you just paid each one 1 million dollars a year + reasonable 10-15% bonus and med.. Not only could you hire more workers, improve support for your consumers and make your company better each year.
And if you think those **0's are irreplacable maybe it's time to remember anyone has good ideas and there are leaders out there that would love the money but are not motivated to make all that much and probably could do much better than a overpaid insertwittycomment person. If they find that they're truely replacable then they'll learn to live life with what you give them.
Seriously though I think it's a weak arguement. I would happily pay the 10 dollar fee so I can drive the 30 min commute from home to work without having to listen to the advertisements. 80% of the radio stations I listen to out of 5 are owned by clearchannel and the CC stations all time their 30 minute commercial breaks together so you have no option to switch stations.
Worse is the one non CC station also has similar timing with the CC stations's channels.
Reason I really hate the idea of your "Credit Rating" saying how secure you are is the fact that just becuase someone has bad credit does not mean they're a bad person.
So all the people that have been laid off due to bush's bad economic policies and a war we did not want are now bad people becuase they've had to default on loans or worse.
I recently tried to see about better insurance rates than my current state farm insurance. I was quoted rates 2-3 times what I'm currently paying. This was with Progressive, Nationwide, and Geico. After some digging around and a credit alert from equifax about the inquiries (Paying for that credit watch finally pays off) I call Geico and ask for a manager and after asking them why I get a quote 3x my state farm premiums they said I dont have enough credit for lower rates. I'm ask him what my credit has to do with my driving habits and he said people with bad credit are usually bad drivers. Personally I think this is bull and I ask him if those studies are publically available and he said no.
So my point here is that there may be studies about this and maybe there's a point to the higher rates. However I've been in one wreck when I was 16 and 10 years later I've never had a ticket, accident, or even looked at funny by a cop for bad driving. But now they'll use the same lame excuses about how I'm a security risk becuase of low credit despite having never caused a problem for anyone.
Just remember if you like me have less than perfect credit wear shoes you can slip on and off easily and be prepared to find your luggage ruffled through and items missing on the other end.
Last time I flew my baggage was opened 3 times on it's way from Fargo International to Dallas Tx. Once when I arrived at the airport they opened it and when I got home and reopened it I found 3 seperate inspection notes in there. God knows why it was inspected all those times but I really dont like that many people leafing through my luggage.
I sure hope they liked smelling the dirty laundry in there:)
My dad's a truck driver and keeps a laptop with a 1xRTT card in but also uses his WiFi card when at truck stops. When he was drivng through Utah he kept picking up a SSID and since I setup his wifi equipment he calls me asking what the hell is this SSID he kept picking up and goofing his connections whenever he stoped somewhere to access the net.
Turns out it was a billboard company in Salt Lake who after I contacted them really didnt care that they're systems were out there broadcasting their SSID's and assigning people's laptops a friggin IP!!
I'm curious if someone's managed to redesign a few billboards out there.
Considering my niche might be the top 100 cd's in Rock, Alternative, and R&B I'm surely thinking you're talking about someone else.
Either way me and a lot of my friends who buy online music do so becuase we can preview what we buy and make informed decisions about our purchases. This is much better than the 10 second clips of 3 songs per cd at wall mart or going into the local rock shop in the mall both ways putting nasty headphones that have been on god only knows nasty head.
Recently I bought the Crystal Method "Legion of Boom" CD based on what I liked about it on Napster (No didnt buy from napster becuase Win Media Player 9 breaks it for some reason with my CD/DVD burner) but I think there's only 1 song I'd rather not have on the CD.
I would of never bought it if Napster didnt have a valid model for paying for music I listen to. I think I've subscribed 4 months now and have yet to listed to 8 cd's worth of music.
Either way to hear 5 different companies suddenly raising their prices sounds like price fixing to me even if it's all different prices. Boils down to them all doing it at the same time in a planned manner that makes it criminal. They've all thought this through before they came to the conclusion to try to rip me off.
Personally it's a stupid decision considering kids have a tough time finding any kind of part time work becuase our current administration cannot produce jobs so they can barely afford the 99c songs the first place.
In the end it's probably their idea to shut down iTunes and Napster and company and roll out their own DRM'd to hell stores.
Routers and switches can simply be switched off and then hacked as they boot up. This has been around for a long time.
However I am surprised to see it like this for a WLAN product becuase now someone can sit in the parking lot and hack theirselves into your companies bandwidth.
NEC believes the battery can be used as an emergency power source for computers in case of blackouts as well as in hybrid cars driven by a gasoline engine and electric motor.
Can you imagine the fuel economy of a car with a small gas motor that can fully recharge your batterypack in a few seconds?
Also the post said I doubt that would be in a Laptop. We'll from the above statement it looks like it will make it into laptops.
Personally I cant wait. And these would be great for UPS's also.
Also what about electric tools such as table saws which would run a nil risk of cutting the cord and shocking someone.
I'd be cool to see a small 65k color touch screen that could be put into this unit also. Then maybe a media player could play small videos from the hard drive as well.
I think the "Better features is a bust but the future holds promise"
iPod meshing would be cool to tie into your buddies iPod and access his files and maybe someone could make aftermarket jackets that would let the usb port power a 1xRTT or 802.11x card which could turn the iPod into a digital media device over a network.
A Company as large as MicroSoft cannot just go "Open Source" as easy as that. If they did choose to do so and this is hardly proof that they are turning a new leaf it would take some time.
I would think once they realize that getting into software services vs their current model and can still make money they might embrace open source.
And if that ever did happen KDE/Gnome might have to look over their shoulders.
Until we move past the hard drive of today and to the solid state drives of tomorrow then I'm not too excited about the power of any chip. Current hard drive technology is the archillies heel of any system nowdays in terms of speed.
The PCI bus has come of age but it makes no sense to have all this speed and power if we cant stuff or retreive it as we wish from a 150M/s device.
I would hope if they say you cant share up there then they'll stop the media taxes you currently have to pay. It's by far one of the most idiotic taxes I've ever seen. Guilty before proven and stuff.
I think they really should be astonished that their son used his one phone call to call someone else and not them. Maybe they should be mad at their son for getting arrested in the first place. And not the officers.
Now if he was a Minor then that's another matter entirely.
Long ago scientists knew that the planet has a cold core. How much lower would our oceans be if we had a cold core allowing water to seep under ground. Mars may have had less water and other starting materials becuase earth and venus got most of them.
Jupiter in the same manner sucked up more gasses and is larger than Neptune or Uranus.
It's possible that mars when it's core was warm enough had some shallow seas but then again it also had a thin aphmosphere from the beginning without enough gasses emitted from the time the crust cooled and volcanoes adding to the mix before plate tectonics on the planet shut down which it did so long ago there's no mention of any existance of faults on the surface of mars.
It's my belief that mars by the time it became tectonically stable and then dead not enough gasses were emitted into the aphmosphere to keep things thick enough for water vapor to exist on the surface in large amounts and much of it possibly has been blown into space. The rest is liquid deep below and frozen into the surface.
For any useful terraforming on the planet once we were able to pollute the aphmosphere to thaw things out a bit we'd still be faced with bringing water to the planet. One way would to have robots digest asteroids and free hydrogen to build giant ice blocks and hurl them to the planets surface or bring ice from europa and send it down to the surface of mars.
But first even the thought of terraforming another planet to live on would involve a huge change in the econmic forces driving the world economy. So I doubt it'll even begin during my lifetime.
From all the descriptions here if granted that patent could apply to:
Any type of menu, XP Start Menu, Mozilla file menu etc.
They are also trying to patent the very playlists themselves IMHO Mp3's were the first format out that enabled playlists created from the tags in the songs.
I had expected to see a patent on the physical interface itself as I thought it was very unique and worthy of a patent. However the process of the playlists are hardly new and worthy of a patent at all.
Slashdot Mirror
Considering the site does not load I can only assume they didnt get more bandwidth.
They know oil's running out and they know roughly when. This could be a bad sign that they'd fund something like this who's results my never come to bear anytime soon.
So now it appears that the Ram makers have turned into OPEC thus cutting the supply of ram to drive up Prices.
In other news RamPEC has assured President Bush that they will up the production of Ram modules to drop prices in time for the November election.
I've written all of them and the only one to get back to me
Kay Bailey Hutchison (sp?)
Basically said that taking my money away and giving it to the poor is her choice in the matter of this.
Her opinion of those of us that worked hard for good paying jobs will now have to settle for less and make do when obviously what our money is going to will no doubt come down in price just makes my life that much harder.
And no doubt I wont be voting for her next election.
They're systems are probably 80% auctioned desktops and such from busted dot coms.. and I suspect that many of them are not RAID at all. I have yet to hear of a redundant raid controller either. Your best bet is just replication of data on you backend servers and using something in the nature of a Cisco CSS or some other services balancer device to handle keeping alive servers available while redirecting away from dead servers.
You can still do RAID with this setup but you'd have the added security of 2 or more systems making up your entire functional system so if one is down the other can continue normally. Then it's trivial to repair the dead machine and bring it back into the cluster.
Coders should just look to companies that are doing business with Americans which makes it less likely they'll offshore.
Those same companies and the ones that are offshoring but have a semi-global or completely global reach should also keep in mind that if the majority of their bread and butter comes from American consumers, each one laid off is most likely not buying your products or that of other companies in the US.
On the flipside there's a impending real estate crash possibility in the US which could go a long way to putting us on a more even footing with forein job competitiors. But only if this happens and maybe if it were to cut the cost of housing by 50%. Currently any american that buys a house on a 30 year term pays over double it's worth. Which directly translates into the high cost of your house.
Here in Dallas a house could cost 60k to construct but they're selling for 250k or more. So the builder makes his quater million. Then the bank makes their quater million over 30 years and some change. Does this even sound right? If both parties did this for a reasonable profit of 60k for the builder and 60k for the bank then the buyer would be in for 180k and would leave him with a payment in the ranges of 750-850 dollars vs nearly 2k per month.
This would directly feed back into the economy, back into our companies who would then be able to not only hire american workers but probably hire cheap overseas labor at the same time and still not kill their bottom lines while having the benefit of bringing up global living standards and being able to expand their market vastly as the global markets are able to afford their products.
Oh and for those companies paying 150+ million to their CEO's CXO, CTO ad nauseam add that all up. Then imagine what your bottom line would look like if you just paid each one 1 million dollars a year + reasonable 10-15% bonus and med.. Not only could you hire more workers, improve support for your consumers and make your company better each year.
And if you think those **0's are irreplacable maybe it's time to remember anyone has good ideas and there are leaders out there that would love the money but are not motivated to make all that much and probably could do much better than a overpaid insertwittycomment person. If they find that they're truely replacable then they'll learn to live life with what you give them.
It's your company, your money, not the **O's.
We'll umm.. aww hell they already own it all..
Seriously though I think it's a weak arguement. I would happily pay the 10 dollar fee so I can drive the 30 min commute from home to work without having to listen to the advertisements. 80% of the radio stations I listen to out of 5 are owned by clearchannel and the CC stations all time their 30 minute commercial breaks together so you have no option to switch stations.
Worse is the one non CC station also has similar timing with the CC stations's channels.
Probably in kahootz.
Smell that..
Arrogance
Those Rastafarians will have a hard time keeping their data safe when they run out of zig zags.
Reason I really hate the idea of your "Credit Rating" saying how secure you are is the fact that just becuase someone has bad credit does not mean they're a bad person.
:)
So all the people that have been laid off due to bush's bad economic policies and a war we did not want are now bad people becuase they've had to default on loans or worse.
I recently tried to see about better insurance rates than my current state farm insurance. I was quoted rates 2-3 times what I'm currently paying. This was with Progressive, Nationwide, and Geico. After some digging around and a credit alert from equifax about the inquiries (Paying for that credit watch finally pays off) I call Geico and ask for a manager and after asking them why I get a quote 3x my state farm premiums they said I dont have enough credit for lower rates. I'm ask him what my credit has to do with my driving habits and he said people with bad credit are usually bad drivers. Personally I think this is bull and I ask him if those studies are publically available and he said no.
So my point here is that there may be studies about this and maybe there's a point to the higher rates. However I've been in one wreck when I was 16 and 10 years later I've never had a ticket, accident, or even looked at funny by a cop for bad driving. But now they'll use the same lame excuses about how I'm a security risk becuase of low credit despite having never caused a problem for anyone.
Just remember if you like me have less than perfect credit wear shoes you can slip on and off easily and be prepared to find your luggage ruffled through and items missing on the other end.
Last time I flew my baggage was opened 3 times on it's way from Fargo International to Dallas Tx. Once when I arrived at the airport they opened it and when I got home and reopened it I found 3 seperate inspection notes in there. God knows why it was inspected all those times but I really dont like that many people leafing through my luggage.
I sure hope they liked smelling the dirty laundry in there
My dad's a truck driver and keeps a laptop with a 1xRTT card in but also uses his WiFi card when at truck stops. When he was drivng through Utah he kept picking up a SSID and since I setup his wifi equipment he calls me asking what the hell is this SSID he kept picking up and goofing his connections whenever he stoped somewhere to access the net.
Turns out it was a billboard company in Salt Lake who after I contacted them really didnt care that they're systems were out there broadcasting their SSID's and assigning people's laptops a friggin IP!!
I'm curious if someone's managed to redesign a few billboards out there.
Considering my niche might be the top 100 cd's in Rock, Alternative, and R&B I'm surely thinking you're talking about someone else.
Either way me and a lot of my friends who buy online music do so becuase we can preview what we buy and make informed decisions about our purchases. This is much better than the 10 second clips of 3 songs per cd at wall mart or going into the local rock shop in the mall both ways putting nasty headphones that have been on god only knows nasty head.
Recently I bought the Crystal Method "Legion of Boom" CD based on what I liked about it on Napster (No didnt buy from napster becuase Win Media Player 9 breaks it for some reason with my CD/DVD burner) but I think there's only 1 song I'd rather not have on the CD.
I would of never bought it if Napster didnt have a valid model for paying for music I listen to. I think I've subscribed 4 months now and have yet to listed to 8 cd's worth of music.
Either way to hear 5 different companies suddenly raising their prices sounds like price fixing to me even if it's all different prices. Boils down to them all doing it at the same time in a planned manner that makes it criminal. They've all thought this through before they came to the conclusion to try to rip me off.
Personally it's a stupid decision considering kids have a tough time finding any kind of part time work becuase our current administration cannot produce jobs so they can barely afford the 99c songs the first place.
In the end it's probably their idea to shut down iTunes and Napster and company and roll out their own DRM'd to hell stores.
Is exactly as long as it takes for it to prevent a 911 call resulting in someone's death and the lawsuit resulting from it.
Of course terrorists would be more than happy to blow up theaters knowing the victims may not be able to get help fast due to the scanners.
Routers and switches can simply be switched off and then hacked as they boot up. This has been around for a long time.
However I am surprised to see it like this for a WLAN product becuase now someone can sit in the parking lot and hack theirselves into your companies bandwidth.
Hrm maybe I'll watch the core again a few times.
I did have a unusual amount of birds crap on my car yesterday.
NEC believes the battery can be used as an emergency power source for computers in case of blackouts as well as in hybrid cars driven by a gasoline engine and electric motor.
Can you imagine the fuel economy of a car with a small gas motor that can fully recharge your batterypack in a few seconds?
Also the post said I doubt that would be in a Laptop. We'll from the above statement it looks like it will make it into laptops.
Personally I cant wait. And these would be great for UPS's also.
Also what about electric tools such as table saws which would run a nil risk of cutting the cord and shocking someone.
I'd be cool to see a small 65k color touch screen that could be put into this unit also. Then maybe a media player could play small videos from the hard drive as well.
I think the "Better features is a bust but the future holds promise"
iPod meshing would be cool to tie into your buddies iPod and access his files and maybe someone could make aftermarket jackets that would let the usb port power a 1xRTT or 802.11x card which could turn the iPod into a digital media device over a network.
With Linux the possibilities are endless!
A Company as large as MicroSoft cannot just go "Open Source" as easy as that. If they did choose to do so and this is hardly proof that they are turning a new leaf it would take some time.
I would think once they realize that getting into software services vs their current model and can still make money they might embrace open source.
And if that ever did happen KDE/Gnome might have to look over their shoulders.
Until we move past the hard drive of today and to the solid state drives of tomorrow then I'm not too excited about the power of any chip. Current hard drive technology is the archillies heel of any system nowdays in terms of speed.
The PCI bus has come of age but it makes no sense to have all this speed and power if we cant stuff or retreive it as we wish from a 150M/s device.
I would hope if they say you cant share up there then they'll stop the media taxes you currently have to pay. It's by far one of the most idiotic taxes I've ever seen. Guilty before proven and stuff.
What's the average speed in megabits of a laden sparrow.
African or Europen
What? I Dont know
AHHHHHHHHHHHH
I think they really should be astonished that their son used his one phone call to call someone else and not them. Maybe they should be mad at their son for getting arrested in the first place. And not the officers.
Now if he was a Minor then that's another matter entirely.
Amazing.. so I guess californians will be seeing more of those rolling blackouts.
Long ago scientists knew that the planet has a cold core. How much lower would our oceans be if we had a cold core allowing water to seep under ground. Mars may have had less water and other starting materials becuase earth and venus got most of them.
Jupiter in the same manner sucked up more gasses and is larger than Neptune or Uranus.
It's possible that mars when it's core was warm enough had some shallow seas but then again it also had a thin aphmosphere from the beginning without enough gasses emitted from the time the crust cooled and volcanoes adding to the mix before plate tectonics on the planet shut down which it did so long ago there's no mention of any existance of faults on the surface of mars.
It's my belief that mars by the time it became tectonically stable and then dead not enough gasses were emitted into the aphmosphere to keep things thick enough for water vapor to exist on the surface in large amounts and much of it possibly has been blown into space. The rest is liquid deep below and frozen into the surface.
For any useful terraforming on the planet once we were able to pollute the aphmosphere to thaw things out a bit we'd still be faced with bringing water to the planet. One way would to have robots digest asteroids and free hydrogen to build giant ice blocks and hurl them to the planets surface or bring ice from europa and send it down to the surface of mars.
But first even the thought of terraforming another planet to live on would involve a huge change in the econmic forces driving the world economy. So I doubt it'll even begin during my lifetime.
From all the descriptions here if granted that patent could apply to:
Any type of menu, XP Start Menu, Mozilla file menu etc.
They are also trying to patent the very playlists themselves IMHO Mp3's were the first format out that enabled playlists created from the tags in the songs.
I had expected to see a patent on the physical interface itself as I thought it was very unique and worthy of a patent. However the process of the playlists are hardly new and worthy of a patent at all.