I thought China *has* a totalitarian gov't, albeit one that has grown to wear the familiar yellow happyface also used by one of its bigger customers... what are these retired party members thinking??
Totalitarian: A political system based on absolute power of a single party or dictator.
Star Wars is pure myth and eye candy with a pseudo sci fi coating. Analyzing or myth-busting it is just silly. What's next, Sound of Music? Wizard of Oz?
I didn't see the live event but I saw the replays soon after... I may be wrong but this might have been the first time news networks replayed a live disaster over and over. The disaster was bad enough but the replays made it hypnotizing, overwhelming.
The same thing happened on 9/11 with jets crashing.
I hope when the next thing happens I'll have enough self control to shut the damn tv off. I sure didn't those 2 times.
A really sad commentary...
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MS has failed the user community when it has to say, 'don't keep running the old unsecure shit we sold you last year, buy this new shit. And trust us this time.'
... Steve Jobs finally 'made it'. After all that hard work and risk taking... I sincerely hope he kicks ass and offends people in the Disney board room, and has not mellowed out overmuch the past few years...
Listening to an ipod in my one pocket. In my other pocket I have a phone with PalmOs on it. I really like the simplicity of Palm apps and Palm looked pretty good five years ago when *it* had the market sewn up. But of course today M$ owns the PDA market.
M$ however has so much cash they can afford to wait out just about any contest, waiting for the other guys to stumble just once.
In 1971 Nixon declared war on cancer. Billions of dollars and countless research hours spent on the problem. We have made some progress but cancer is still a major threat.
Nanotech, that is, real molecular, bottom-up technology, will make real medicine possible for the first time ever. But not in 20 years. 50 maybe.
OK, so they have OSX for X86. But what about the apps? What if I like a particular little freeware thing that was done for OSX PPC? I can't run it on X86, can I?
The folks at Redmond are so utterly consumed with the competitive 'urge' that they failed to notice that iTunes makes no money. It exists merely to feed ipods.
And the subscription thing is super... if you plan to be subscribed for years. When you cancel, bye-bye music.
M$ has lots of cash to throw away on loser projects and so they do....
do the U.S. managers (I'm assuming managers, bean counters, and consultants, not techies) who recommend & execute outsourcing plans get their own jobs outsourced?
or are they doing it to save their own scrawny asses?
while Microsoft, Motorola, HP, etc openly have overseas campuses to complement their US staff, many other big co's do it to eliminate U.S. staff, and they do it secretly - you can't get them to talk about this in the open, they say it's a 'trade secret'.
the truth is, if they did admit it openly, they'd face not only the publicity but also the chance that some pissed off lonely geek will take justice into his/her own hands.
I'm shocked and a bit disgusted that there's no mention of the fact that we were paying $3+ a gallon for gas, healthcare costs continue to spiral, and employment is mediocre. The middle class is getting the shit squeezed out of it. This is the 'new good old days'. Who has an extra $30 to blow on a couple Black Eyed Peas CD's? Music is a luxury - you can't eat it or get to work on it. If you get it for free out the radio or by copying a friend's collection, fine. But this attitude of entitlement and head-scratching by record co's is bizarre and ridiculous.
If I were they, I'd be hard at work pricing CD's for the Chinese and Indians, and making pop music for them. They're the future.
On the face of it the idea of a hybrid car is pretty cool but the economics don't bear out. Cities are buying hybrids for their municipal fleets and they're discovering that higher upfront costs more than offset any lifetime fuel savings, even at current high prices. It's a great marketing gimmick that puts fatter margins in the car mfg industry but with questionable (economic) returns. If your concerns are more ecological, yes, smaller engines put out less pollution.
oh, for fucksakes... we *have* been working you a-hole, and we got laid off anyway.
make all the money you want. but instead of the easy way, ie destroying the livlihoods of thousands by cherry picking and lowballing, try doing the hard work of creating your own industries.
If you're insulated with a steady paycheck, bennies up the wazoo, and you're insulated from the top mgt by several layers of other mgt, and they're insulated from you, is that the recipe for bad software & bad stuff in general?
1. Gates tours of college campuses, imploring students to sign up for CS
2. Gates invests heavily overseas for cheap CS labor.
3. People bitch at Gates for investing overseas for cheap CS labor.
4. Gates sez, 'Well, I tried drumming up support here in the U.S. but nobody listened...'
So if you have a tank of these bugs that produces 1 liter of H2 / minute, and a tank that produces H2 by electrolysis at 1 liter / minute, which of the two tanks consumes more energy?
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I thought China *has* a totalitarian gov't, albeit one that has grown to wear the familiar yellow happyface also used by one of its bigger customers... what are these retired party members thinking??
Totalitarian: A political system based on absolute power of a single party or dictator.
Star Wars is pure myth and eye candy with a pseudo sci fi coating. Analyzing or myth-busting it is just silly. What's next, Sound of Music? Wizard of Oz?
I didn't see the live event but I saw the replays soon after... I may be wrong but this might have been the first time news networks replayed a live disaster over and over. The disaster was bad enough but the replays made it hypnotizing, overwhelming.
The same thing happened on 9/11 with jets crashing.
I hope when the next thing happens I'll have enough self control to shut the damn tv off. I sure didn't those 2 times.
MS has failed the user community when it has to say, 'don't keep running the old unsecure shit we sold you last year, buy this new shit. And trust us this time.'
oh yeah.
from the Simpsons:
Chief Wiggum: Engine block eggs! How do you like yours, Lou?
Lou: Easy Over, there, Chief....
The gov't should shut MS down for ten days. Then allow them to reopen. Christ, what's it take to get their effing attention?
errr.. that was meant tongue in cheek....
... Steve Jobs finally 'made it'. After all that hard work and risk taking... I sincerely hope he kicks ass and offends people in the Disney board room, and has not mellowed out overmuch the past few years...
pfft... lots of people in the church already have zero brainwave activity....
Listening to an ipod in my one pocket. In my other pocket I have a phone with PalmOs on it. I really like the simplicity of Palm apps and Palm looked pretty good five years ago when *it* had the market sewn up. But of course today M$ owns the PDA market.
M$ however has so much cash they can afford to wait out just about any contest, waiting for the other guys to stumble just once.
one of the few man made wonders that is visible from space.
using google earth, the roof of my house is visible from space....
.... now there's an idea with potential...
In 1971 Nixon declared war on cancer. Billions of dollars and countless research hours spent on the problem. We have made some progress but cancer is still a major threat.
Nanotech, that is, real molecular, bottom-up technology, will make real medicine possible for the first time ever. But not in 20 years. 50 maybe.
quantum computing leads to uncrackable DRM?
OK, so they have OSX for X86. But what about the apps? What if I like a particular little freeware thing that was done for OSX PPC? I can't run it on X86, can I?
Who cares if someone clones clams?
The folks at Redmond are so utterly consumed with the competitive 'urge' that they failed to notice that iTunes makes no money . It exists merely to feed ipods.
And the subscription thing is super... if you plan to be subscribed for years. When you cancel, bye-bye music.
M$ has lots of cash to throw away on loser projects and so they do....
do the U.S. managers (I'm assuming managers, bean counters, and consultants, not techies) who recommend & execute outsourcing plans get their own jobs outsourced?
or are they doing it to save their own scrawny asses?
while Microsoft, Motorola, HP, etc openly have overseas campuses to complement their US staff, many other big co's do it to eliminate U.S. staff, and they do it secretly - you can't get them to talk about this in the open, they say it's a 'trade secret'.
the truth is, if they did admit it openly, they'd face not only the publicity but also the chance that some pissed off lonely geek will take justice into his/her own hands.
Cowards.
all the $10K/year, no-benefits programming jobs any country could every want and then some!
I'm shocked and a bit disgusted that there's no mention of the fact that we were paying $3+ a gallon for gas, healthcare costs continue to spiral, and employment is mediocre. The middle class is getting the shit squeezed out of it. This is the 'new good old days'. Who has an extra $30 to blow on a couple Black Eyed Peas CD's? Music is a luxury - you can't eat it or get to work on it. If you get it for free out the radio or by copying a friend's collection, fine. But this attitude of entitlement and head-scratching by record co's is bizarre and ridiculous.
If I were they, I'd be hard at work pricing CD's for the Chinese and Indians, and making pop music for them. They're the future.
On the face of it the idea of a hybrid car is pretty cool but the economics don't bear out. Cities are buying hybrids for their municipal fleets and they're discovering that higher upfront costs more than offset any lifetime fuel savings, even at current high prices. It's a great marketing gimmick that puts fatter margins in the car mfg industry but with questionable (economic) returns. If your concerns are more ecological, yes, smaller engines put out less pollution.
oh, for fucksakes... we *have* been working you a-hole, and we got laid off anyway.
make all the money you want. but instead of the easy way, ie destroying the livlihoods of thousands by cherry picking and lowballing, try doing the hard work of creating your own industries.
If you're insulated with a steady paycheck, bennies up the wazoo, and you're insulated from the top mgt by several layers of other mgt, and they're insulated from you, is that the recipe for bad software & bad stuff in general?
1. Gates tours of college campuses, imploring students to sign up for CS
2. Gates invests heavily overseas for cheap CS labor.
3. People bitch at Gates for investing overseas for cheap CS labor.
4. Gates sez, 'Well, I tried drumming up support here in the U.S. but nobody listened...'
Does this guy say or do *anything* honestly?
So if you have a tank of these bugs that produces 1 liter of H2 / minute, and a tank that produces H2 by electrolysis at 1 liter / minute, which of the two tanks consumes more energy?
Or is efficiency beside the point?