this is not a standard winged vehicle, and so it can probably be expected to get dismal gas mileage.
Which is offset by 1) being far lighter than a ground car, 2) being able to go point-to-point, instead of having to stay on paved roads, 3) spending far less time in transit, and 4) the savings in road-building costs.
It's not just classified material that they're worried about, they're also concerned with access to facilities, opportunities for sabotage, and industrial espionage. Not everything that's sensitive is classified secret or higher.
Crap. I hate it when I miss a tag. Anyhow, what I was trying to say was:
Since Wal put so many places out of business,
Bullshit. Wal-mart doesn't put anyone out of business, the customers do. It's the customers that choose where to spend their money, and that's exactly how it should be.
Since Wal put so many places out of business, customers do. It's the customers that choose where to spend their money, and that's exactly how it should be.
Look at the prices and capabilites of the iPod since its introduction. Apple will probably keep the top price point the same, you'll still be able to get something better than today's iphone for less money.
Good luck. The pharmaceutical companies would love to be able to opt out of lawsuits in Mississippi, but to get a change of venue you have to show that the jury pool in the jurisdiction has something against one of the parties in particular. A general fuck-the-big-company attitude won't cut it.
I was a little fearful of Apple getting into the store business after Gateway failed.
I had my doubts about Apple retail until the first time I saw one of the stores. Then, I met Ron Johnson, and had a chance to hear him speak to a group of recently-hired Apple employees. The man knows things about how to sell stuff in stores that I had no idea there was to know. When Apple decided to go for retail, they did a serious search to find the best possible VP to lead that group, and they certainly got him.
Their stores were what killed them. They spent a pile of money and put stores up everywhere, with little to no thought about whether any given location made sense or not. Apple's retail operation is a textbook case on how to do it right. Gateway's is a textbook case on how to botch it.
Nope. They offer what they're willing to pay, some people take them up on it, and others don't. The only way to "drive wages down" is by force, like when Dick Nixon instituted wage and price controls to keep the economy from coping with inflation.
So what? Wal-mart is entirely within their rights to close a store for any reason or no reason at all. Unions have this bizarre idea that a job is some kind of birthright.
I can show you a custom-hardened build of Windows Server 2003
Umm... So what? You go to great lengths to lock down a windows machine, and good for you. It doesn't help the millions of people affected by the bugs present in a pristine install of any MS product.
We don't get infected, but UNIX users still have to deal with the spam that the botnets are spewing.
I am really bloody sick of Microsoft's shoddy work. The spammers are arsonists, but Microsoft are the company that keeps building the houses out of gasoline-soaked balsa wood and flash paper.
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Why not?
Because flying at 100 feet over someone's house is already a violation of FAA rules in most areas.
-jcr
this is not a standard winged vehicle, and so it can probably be expected to get dismal gas mileage.
Which is offset by 1) being far lighter than a ground car, 2) being able to go point-to-point, instead of having to stay on paved roads, 3) spending far less time in transit, and 4) the savings in road-building costs.
-jcr
Moller's been "five years away" from delivering the skycar for at least 20 years. I'll believe it when I see it.
-jcr
That depends on the agency. The CIA and the military agencies all use polygraphs. The Department of State doesn't.
-jcr
It's not just classified material that they're worried about, they're also concerned with access to facilities, opportunities for sabotage, and industrial espionage. Not everything that's sensitive is classified secret or higher.
-jcr
Crap. I hate it when I miss a tag. Anyhow, what I was trying to say was:
Since Wal put so many places out of business,
Bullshit. Wal-mart doesn't put anyone out of business, the customers do. It's the customers that choose where to spend their money, and that's exactly how it should be.
-jcr
Since Wal put so many places out of business, customers do. It's the customers that choose where to spend their money, and that's exactly how it should be.
-jcr
Look at the prices and capabilites of the iPod since its introduction. Apple will probably keep the top price point the same, you'll still be able to get something better than today's iphone for less money.
-jcr
Are you serious? There's a finite, global limit on how many windows can be created, and the handles aren't reclaimed?
I'm stunned. I don't know how they can even consider Windows a shippable product with that kind of brain-damage in place.
-jcr
something that functions even better than the iPhone for a much cheaper price.
Just wait a year or so, and you'll be able to get that from Apple.
-jcr
Good luck. The pharmaceutical companies would love to be able to opt out of lawsuits in Mississippi, but to get a change of venue you have to show that the jury pool in the jurisdiction has something against one of the parties in particular. A general fuck-the-big-company attitude won't cut it.
-jcr
Didn't know procmail went that far back, but I wrote code in 1990 that incorporated automated e-mail handling for booking conference rooms.
-jcr
I was a little fearful of Apple getting into the store business after Gateway failed.
I had my doubts about Apple retail until the first time I saw one of the stores. Then, I met Ron Johnson, and had a chance to hear him speak to a group of recently-hired Apple employees. The man knows things about how to sell stuff in stores that I had no idea there was to know. When Apple decided to go for retail, they did a serious search to find the best possible VP to lead that group, and they certainly got him.
-jcr
My statement and yours do not conflict.
-jcr
Wow, talk about damning with faint praise...
-jcr
Their stores were what killed them. They spent a pile of money and put stores up everywhere, with little to no thought about whether any given location made sense or not. Apple's retail operation is a textbook case on how to do it right. Gateway's is a textbook case on how to botch it.
-jcr
Walmart drives wages down in areas they go into.
Nope. They offer what they're willing to pay, some people take them up on it, and others don't. The only way to "drive wages down" is by force, like when Dick Nixon instituted wage and price controls to keep the economy from coping with inflation.
-jcr
So why is their a small group of idiots protesting against them?
Because the protestors hate poor people, and want them to pay more for the things they buy at Wal-mart.
-jcr
So what? Wal-mart is entirely within their rights to close a store for any reason or no reason at all. Unions have this bizarre idea that a job is some kind of birthright.
-jcr
Nope, state interference in markets in action. This story is an object lesson in why governments shouldn't keep competitors from entering a market.
-jcr
I can show you a custom-hardened build of Windows Server 2003
Umm... So what? You go to great lengths to lock down a windows machine, and good for you. It doesn't help the millions of people affected by the bugs present in a pristine install of any MS product.
-jcr
Love your expression!
Thanks, but I'm not sure I came up with it. It was either me or Hugh Daniel, in a conversation we had many years ago.
-jcr
Because this is purely a matter of the number of machines in the field; it's how attractive the target is.
Bullshit. This is an excuse that MS has been using for decades, while they continued to make the same mistakes that UNIX fixed twenty years ago.
-jcr
We don't get infected, but UNIX users still have to deal with the spam that the botnets are spewing.
I am really bloody sick of Microsoft's shoddy work. The spammers are arsonists, but Microsoft are the company that keeps building the houses out of gasoline-soaked balsa wood and flash paper.
-jcr
Well, Bloom County was funnier than Doonesbury..
Oh, wait.
-jcr