Fry's Electronics demonstrates the direction that Radio Shack could have taken to survive...hell, Tandy's failed Incredible Universe store in San Diego was purchased and converted to a very successful Fry's store. To be successful Radio Shack would have had to be run by people who understand the needs and desires of today's techno-geek. Like most older technology companies Radio Shack came to be run by people who neither understood how to satisfy this niche market nor had the desire to do so. Instead they tried a "me too" strategy to sell small, high volume, high profit items. Of course there's a lot of competition for that market and RS had no competitive advantage over the competition.
America has become cynical about educating their future generations. We need to expose them early on to good teachers and engaging media that shows them how stuff works and how things are made. This will go a long way towards getting young people interested in science and engineering and provide them the supplies and other support to nurture their curiosity.
Data security doesn't matter where the data is located. It matters EVERYWHERE data is located. Incompetency is everywhere.
All the more reason to take ownership of your data and to get the best people you can to manage it. Would you trust a complete stranger with your child? Then why should you trust a stranger with your confidential customer data? *If* it really matters you need to *treat it* as if it really matters.
Yet another example of why I'm inclined to avoid "cloud" (once known as hosted) services. Your data is at the mercy of people of unknown competency, working for companies with limited responsibility and questionable longevity.
I can't help but wonder if this was primarily a fig leaf for Intel's licensing/acquisition of NVIDIA's GPU technology with which to compete with AMD and its acquisition and incorporation of ATI's graphics products within its own silicon. This may have advantages over the alternative of Intel making an offer to purchase all of NVIDIA.
He is a traitor. Perhaps he thought he was playing, but he will be made an example of and hopefully put up against a wall and shot. What the lawyers think should be in consequential. For me personally I think the leaks have been fun...but for PCF Manning they should be fatal.
Isn't it always the ANONYMOUS COWARD that yells "Off with his head!" the loudest?
Until you have enough courage in your convictions to associate your name with your facile death sentence then I shall ignore your opinions as the inconsequential brutish yammerings of a disturbed mind.
Would you rather him be fed bread & water only? That's also a punishment under the UCMJ. Perfectly legal too.
Punishment comes AFTER you are found guilty and convicted. Remember that silly "presumption of innocence" thing? Look up Coffin v. United States and In re Winship.
Facebook argues: If others could freely use 'generic plus BOOK' [...] the suffix BOOK could become a generic term for [...] 'social networking services'
Cue the lawyers for Act 2:
If others could freely use 'FACE plus generic' [...] the prefix FACE could become a generic term for [...] 'social networking services'
The man who wants to be Australia's next Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, said today 'This idea that "hey presto" we are suddenly going to get 10 times the speed from something that isn't even built yet I find utterly implausible.'"
Yeah, and computers will never get faster, cheaper or smaller. What a tool.
For all the biker-putty on the roads, the mortality stats I've seen show that even casual bikers have longer life expectancies, since the odds of getting roadkilled are so much lower than the odds of being killed by heart disease.
There are safer ways to lower your risk of heart disease than riding a bicycle on a busy urban roadway. My good friend Pete was killed last May when a car hit him while crossing an intersection. The car driver was probably driving towards the setting sun with the sunlight shining in his eyes and never saw Pete on his bicycle. Pete used to tell me how much better he felt from the exercise. I now have a different perspective about the health benefits.
I'm all for bicycling. I'm all for exercise. I'm all for reducing unnecessary use of fossil fuels whenever possible. And I'm not particularly in love with automobiles. But driving in urban traffic on a bicycle leaves you vulnerable and seriously under-protected no matter how much safety gear you use.
I gave up riding my motorcycle on the street many years ago when an older woman rear-ended me when I was stopped at a traffic light. I had no idea she was coming up on me until she knocked me to the ground and into the middle of the intersection. Luckily I was able to get up, brush off and get out of the intersection before getting hit by traffic. The woman who hit me apologized, saying she never saw me. Apparently I was not large enough of a target to register in her field of vision.
As a result my advice to riders of bicycles and motorcycles has been this: Do it off-road or only on lightly used, well-lit, straight, non-urban roadways with few intersections if you wish to avoid being killed or injured.
Thanks for the heads up! I currently don't have any Japanese puzzle boxes up for sale on eBay due to extremely slow sales in this down economy. I usually put them up starting in September when people start buying gifts in preparation for the holidays. Feel free to leave me a message on eBay (username = e-dude2) if you'd like me to list some boxes.
This is such an obviously, outrageously bad idea that it boggles the mind. If HP goes ahead with such a plan it will richly deserve the universal drubbing it will receive. HP would have difficulty escaping the wrath of the marketplace and the brand would be severely tarnished for years to come.
Why tear up land for something like this? I've used trains a number of times, and although interesting rail is just not as good a solution as buses or, especially, air travel.
Trains use much less land than highways to transport an equivalent number of passengers and are more energy efficient than other forms of transportation.
And here I'm not just talking big planes. I'm talking regional airports that, if funded to the same level, could provide an amazing degree of flexibility in travel, to places all over and not just two fixed points.
Regional airports in California aren't equipped to handle large planes nor additional air or ground traffic. They have issues with noise and safety issues and are typically underfunded. They also have insufficient linkage with the local public transit systems.
Airplane travel is not even that much different in terms of fuel consumption than trains, and could be improved if we spent R&D money on that instead of more train follies. For a nation as spread out as America, it's more important to cover more area.
We're not talking about putting bullet trains all across America...only through California's highly populated, highly trafficked west coast transportation corridor. This is one of the busiest transportation corridors in a state with a population of 36,756,666, over 12% of the U.S. population.
Operating airplanes and airports is VERY expensive. Airplanes require carefully formulated, costly, high energy-density fuels. Bullet Trains operate on electricity which can be generated through many technologies. Airport terminals are expensive. Airplane baggage handling and safety precautions are expensive. Many existing California airports are overtaxed and cannot easily be expanded. Our air traffic control system is old, dangerously out of date and frequently understaffed and overstressed.
In Japan, the bullet train does not appear to be very effective in competing with airlines for legs of more than 4 hours, which agrees with your sentiment. It is very attractive at 2.5 hours (Tokyo-Osaka route), winning large market share even though train fare is higher than discount air fare.
That's probably a function of the number of stops the train makes. Japan has a lot of densely populated cities along its bullet train routes. Considering that there are very few large cities south of the SF Bay Area and north of Los Angeles I would expect that California would probably have, on average, many fewer stops per an equivalent number of miles traveled.
are there a lot of San Diego to San Francisco commuters?
Yes, there are. Southwest Airlines has hourly flights between San Diego and San Francisco that are often 100% occupied...and they are only one of many airlines flying that route, not to mention flights from Los Angeles, and flights to San Jose and Oakland.
Also, he should look into California's unique geology and formations between those two destinations.
California's geology has been studied to death. We have no challenges that the Japanese haven't had to face with their bullet trains.
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So why is it that Germany is doing so well and we're doing so poorly?
Fry's Electronics demonstrates the direction that Radio Shack could have taken to survive...hell, Tandy's failed Incredible Universe store in San Diego was purchased and converted to a very successful Fry's store. To be successful Radio Shack would have had to be run by people who understand the needs and desires of today's techno-geek. Like most older technology companies Radio Shack came to be run by people who neither understood how to satisfy this niche market nor had the desire to do so. Instead they tried a "me too" strategy to sell small, high volume, high profit items. Of course there's a lot of competition for that market and RS had no competitive advantage over the competition.
America has become cynical about educating their future generations. We need to expose them early on to good teachers and engaging media that shows them how stuff works and how things are made. This will go a long way towards getting young people interested in science and engineering and provide them the supplies and other support to nurture their curiosity.
Somebody mod this comment "Insightful" please.
but I could have sworn it was twenty-five grammes last week.
On the other hand, do remember that a gramme is better than a damn.
As of earlier today, the law's main sponsor, Dan Patrick, R-Houston, said the law is dead after support for the law collapsed.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/28032459/detail.html
Wow...this story became a non-story tout suite!
Another +1 from RHI
Data security doesn't matter where the data is located. It matters EVERYWHERE data is located. Incompetency is everywhere.
All the more reason to take ownership of your data and to get the best people you can to manage it. Would you trust a complete stranger with your child? Then why should you trust a stranger with your confidential customer data? *If* it really matters you need to *treat it* as if it really matters.
Yet another example of why I'm inclined to avoid "cloud" (once known as hosted) services. Your data is at the mercy of people of unknown competency, working for companies with limited responsibility and questionable longevity.
I can't help but wonder if this was primarily a fig leaf for Intel's licensing/acquisition of NVIDIA's GPU technology with which to compete with AMD and its acquisition and incorporation of ATI's graphics products within its own silicon. This may have advantages over the alternative of Intel making an offer to purchase all of NVIDIA.
He is a traitor. Perhaps he thought he was playing, but he will be made an example of and hopefully put up against a wall and shot. What the lawyers think should be in consequential. For me personally I think the leaks have been fun...but for PCF Manning they should be fatal.
Isn't it always the ANONYMOUS COWARD that yells "Off with his head!" the loudest?
Until you have enough courage in your convictions to associate your name with your facile death sentence then I shall ignore your opinions as the inconsequential brutish yammerings of a disturbed mind.
Would you rather him be fed bread & water only? That's also a punishment under the UCMJ. Perfectly legal too.
Punishment comes AFTER you are found guilty and convicted. Remember that silly "presumption of innocence" thing? Look up Coffin v. United States and In re Winship.
Hell, I have files on my current hard drive that date back to February 12, 1987.
Then how come just about every gay rights group is some variation of a "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered" rights group?
Possibly because they all are discriminated against for not being straight heterosexuals. The thing they share is their desire for equal rights.
Has anyone tried using ClearType Rotator with a rotated LCD to correct ClearType problems?
I found it at http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/pages/CTR.html but I don't have a rotatable LCD monitor with which to test it.
Facebook argues: If others could freely use 'generic plus BOOK' [...] the suffix BOOK could become a generic term for [...] 'social networking services'
Cue the lawyers for Act 2:
If others could freely use 'FACE plus generic' [...] the prefix FACE could become a generic term for [...] 'social networking services'
Perhaps next they'll go after everyone who uses the words cookbook, handbook, and textbook.
The man who wants to be Australia's next Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, said today 'This idea that "hey presto" we are suddenly going to get 10 times the speed from something that isn't even built yet I find utterly implausible.'"
Yeah, and computers will never get faster, cheaper or smaller. What a tool.
For all the biker-putty on the roads, the mortality stats I've seen show that even casual bikers have longer life expectancies, since the odds of getting roadkilled are so much lower than the odds of being killed by heart disease.
There are safer ways to lower your risk of heart disease than riding a bicycle on a busy urban roadway. My good friend Pete was killed last May when a car hit him while crossing an intersection. The car driver was probably driving towards the setting sun with the sunlight shining in his eyes and never saw Pete on his bicycle. Pete used to tell me how much better he felt from the exercise. I now have a different perspective about the health benefits.
I'm all for bicycling. I'm all for exercise. I'm all for reducing unnecessary use of fossil fuels whenever possible. And I'm not particularly in love with automobiles. But driving in urban traffic on a bicycle leaves you vulnerable and seriously under-protected no matter how much safety gear you use.
I gave up riding my motorcycle on the street many years ago when an older woman rear-ended me when I was stopped at a traffic light. I had no idea she was coming up on me until she knocked me to the ground and into the middle of the intersection. Luckily I was able to get up, brush off and get out of the intersection before getting hit by traffic. The woman who hit me apologized, saying she never saw me. Apparently I was not large enough of a target to register in her field of vision.
As a result my advice to riders of bicycles and motorcycles has been this: Do it off-road or only on lightly used, well-lit, straight, non-urban roadways with few intersections if you wish to avoid being killed or injured.
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Thanks for the heads up! I currently don't have any Japanese puzzle boxes up for sale on eBay due to extremely slow sales in this down economy. I usually put them up starting in September when people start buying gifts in preparation for the holidays. Feel free to leave me a message on eBay (username = e-dude2) if you'd like me to list some boxes.
This is such an obviously, outrageously bad idea that it boggles the mind. If HP goes ahead with such a plan it will richly deserve the universal drubbing it will receive. HP would have difficulty escaping the wrath of the marketplace and the brand would be severely tarnished for years to come.
Maybe they only want a powerful government when it's convenient for them?
More accurately, they only want a powerful government when they are in power.
What he said. Mod parent up for concise logic.
Why tear up land for something like this? I've used trains a number of times, and although interesting rail is just not as good a solution as buses or, especially, air travel.
Trains use much less land than highways to transport an equivalent number of passengers and are more energy efficient than other forms of transportation.
And here I'm not just talking big planes. I'm talking regional airports that, if funded to the same level, could provide an amazing degree of flexibility in travel, to places all over and not just two fixed points.
Regional airports in California aren't equipped to handle large planes nor additional air or ground traffic. They have issues with noise and safety issues and are typically underfunded. They also have insufficient linkage with the local public transit systems.
Airplane travel is not even that much different in terms of fuel consumption than trains, and could be improved if we spent R&D money on that instead of more train follies. For a nation as spread out as America, it's more important to cover more area.
We're not talking about putting bullet trains all across America...only through California's highly populated, highly trafficked west coast transportation corridor. This is one of the busiest transportation corridors in a state with a population of 36,756,666, over 12% of the U.S. population.
Operating airplanes and airports is VERY expensive. Airplanes require carefully formulated, costly, high energy-density fuels. Bullet Trains operate on electricity which can be generated through many technologies. Airport terminals are expensive. Airplane baggage handling and safety precautions are expensive. Many existing California airports are overtaxed and cannot easily be expanded. Our air traffic control system is old, dangerously out of date and frequently understaffed and overstressed.
In Japan, the bullet train does not appear to be very effective in competing with airlines for legs of more than 4 hours, which agrees with your sentiment. It is very attractive at 2.5 hours (Tokyo-Osaka route), winning large market share even though train fare is higher than discount air fare.
That's probably a function of the number of stops the train makes. Japan has a lot of densely populated cities along its bullet train routes. Considering that there are very few large cities south of the SF Bay Area and north of Los Angeles I would expect that California would probably have, on average, many fewer stops per an equivalent number of miles traveled.
are there a lot of San Diego to San Francisco commuters?
Yes, there are. Southwest Airlines has hourly flights between San Diego and San Francisco that are often 100% occupied...and they are only one of many airlines flying that route, not to mention flights from Los Angeles, and flights to San Jose and Oakland.
Also, he should look into California's unique geology and formations between those two destinations.
California's geology has been studied to death. We have no challenges that the Japanese haven't had to face with their bullet trains.