I see this as a symptom of Dell's decline. There was a time when Dell would have told anyone other than microsoft to get lost if they tried to dictate how they should do business.
I'm sure that lathe could be controlled by Linux or QNX running on the same hardware. It amazes me to see the horrendous job that companies who make perfectly good machine tools do on their control software. They wouldn't make the lathe's chassis out of cardboard, why would they build their control systems on windows?
I'm a little surprised that Pickens didn't mention that the USA has been inflating and spending like crazy for decades. We're not going to go broke in a decade, we're already seeing the dollar crash.
Yep. One of the really irritating things about the followers of either wing of the Ruling Party is that they're fine with their own side violating the constitution.
You'll probably have to replace the display since the thermal shock will probably crack it, but when you get the new display from the factory it's likely to be sterile.
Oh, great. Another ignoramus who doesn't know what "theory" means.
The theory of evolution is the framework by which we explain the many, many observed facts about changes in species over time. Evolution is not a hypothesis.
Like all state licensing, the purpose of this measure is to interfere with the market for the benefit of the businesses who are greasing the legislators in question. It has fuck-all to do with quality control or public safety.
Politically motivated perhaps, but it was still the right thing to do. One has only to look at costs before and after the monopoly to realize that AT&T was one more example of a state-granted monopoly that charged its customers far more than they would have paid in a free market.
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I see this as a symptom of Dell's decline. There was a time when Dell would have told anyone other than microsoft to get lost if they tried to dictate how they should do business.
-jcr
I'm sure that lathe could be controlled by Linux or QNX running on the same hardware. It amazes me to see the horrendous job that companies who make perfectly good machine tools do on their control software. They wouldn't make the lathe's chassis out of cardboard, why would they build their control systems on windows?
-jcr
I'm a little surprised that Pickens didn't mention that the USA has been inflating and spending like crazy for decades. We're not going to go broke in a decade, we're already seeing the dollar crash.
-jcr
Such a lawsuit would be dismissed in about five seconds.
It would take a bit longer than that. The circuit court judge would probably take the time to write a hilarious dismissal.
-jcr
The bar brought the suit to revoke his license. The state actually issues the license, and can revoke it when the bar recommends that it do so.
-jcr
He could try suing the Florida bar in federal court, but the chances of the circuit court taking the case are pretty slim.
-jcr
At least the US Gov. managed to do one thing right today.
It's not the US government, it's the state of Florida.
-jcr
Modded "-1, Republican", I see.
Yep. One of the really irritating things about the followers of either wing of the Ruling Party is that they're fine with their own side violating the constitution.
-jcr
This isn't Pelosi versus the internet, it's Pelosi versus the constitution. The first amendment is more important than her partisan agenda.
-jcr
A few 20mm rounds from a cannon (all active USAF/Navy interceptors have cannons) shredding the aft control surfaces or the cockpit is enough to do it.
A single tracer round into any of the fuel tanks would do it, too.
-jcr
If someone is good at something, ferchrissake KEEP THEM THERE!
I see that finishing a project appears to be a foreign concept to you.
-jcr
Most of the R&D in the world is being published in English, but adding either of those languages will get you a pretty big chunk of the rest.
-jcr
Want to talk about scrubbing bubbles? ;-)
You'll probably have to replace the display since the thermal shock will probably crack it, but when you get the new display from the factory it's likely to be sterile.
-jcr
I was thinking more along the lines of camera lenses.
-jcr
Super-clear optics spring to mind.
-jcr
If you could grow a diamond crystal of that size, there are far better things to do with it than make a guitar body out of it.
-jcr
That would sure come in handy if I have occasion to travel to China.
-jcr
I'm not even a Trekkie and I know that.
Yeah, I know it too. It was one of those "oh crap, I already hit the submit button" moments.
-jcr
ICQ is irrelevant. It will be absorbed.
-jcr
Now a theory is a fact.
Oh, great. Another ignoramus who doesn't know what "theory" means.
The theory of evolution is the framework by which we explain the many, many observed facts about changes in species over time. Evolution is not a hypothesis.
-jcr
Like all state licensing, the purpose of this measure is to interfere with the market for the benefit of the businesses who are greasing the legislators in question. It has fuck-all to do with quality control or public safety.
-jcr
*Your* facts.
Facts are facts, they don't belong to anyone.
not just reading some biased wiki page decades later and pretending to be an expert.
Hey, I lived through that period too, sunshine. You're full of crap.
-jcr
Sorry, *no one* can convince me otherwise, ever.
So, facts aren't important to you? Good to know lest anyone were tempted to take you seriously.
-jcr
An advocate for a monopoly isn't necessarily a communist. Many of them are merely misinformed.
-jcr
The breakup was wrong and politically motivated.
Politically motivated perhaps, but it was still the right thing to do. One has only to look at costs before and after the monopoly to realize that AT&T was one more example of a state-granted monopoly that charged its customers far more than they would have paid in a free market.
-jcr