Can't blame Bush. The mandate to have 10% of the cars sold to be electirc was moronic. The auto manufactures can't force people to buy the cars. The EV1 and others have been for sale and there have been very few sales. We don't want these cars. We want our gas powered cars. If this was not true then the electric cars would have sold like cazy.
Even Toyota and Honda are having a hard time selling these cars in this country.
Drug companies invest hundreds of millions into researching new medications that may never make it to market. The ones that do take years to research and develop, then they spend many more years testing and then they have to wait for FDA approval.
U.S. auto makers have been testing and developing electric cars for decades. None have ever made a profit from them.
Millions were spent by our government and by companies in researching some far out idea to network computers across the country. That took decades to start paying off.
Anyone ever heard of that company? I used to work for them back in 1998-2000. It was supposed to be a huge (as Amazon) online store where people could by gifts chosen from our catalog that had thousands of gift items from jewelry (high end stuff) to home and garden, business, kids gifts, kitchen and food items to flowers. There was a gift reminder service (a personal event calendar where you enter event b-day's, etc.) that would remind you to buy a gift for the scheduled event, it would even provide a few suggestions based on info you provided.
The only problem was that the owners allegedly sold private shares of stock illegally. (A court Minnesota ruled against the company is several lawsuits brought by shareholders). The bankruptcy still lingers on. The thousands of shares I received for being an employee are worthless. My belief now is that the owner never intended to make money or operate a successful business. All he talked about was 'going public' and how rich we (he) were going to be.
The "New Economy' taught me a lot. After working to two other companies with the same business model I now work for an 'Old Economy' business that actually believes in making a profit, serving it customers and taking care of it employees. There is no IPO in sight for this company and that's fine with me.
I'll take a steady paycheck today instead of the promise of stock pay offs tomorrow.
here's how I would have started the article about this security hole.
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) warned customers about serious security problems with its Windows software. A Microsoft security executive, Stephen Toulouse, said the flawed software was "an extremely deep and pervasive technology in Windows," and urged customers to apply the patch immediately. Microsoft learned about the flaws more than six months ago from researchers and said the only way to fix the flaw is to apply a patch it offered on its Web site.
This announcement comes after Microsoft's October 21, 2003 announcement where Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, claims that Windows was more secure and had fewer flaws than Linux. Mr. Ballmer also made claims that Microsoft fixes vulnerabilities faster than Linux. His claim was that Microsoft fixes all vulnerabilities within 24 hours. Fast forward to today, six months after the flaw was reported to Microsoft the flaw gets announced then a patch becomes available within 24 hours of the announcement.
Yes I saw that, but that does not change their vote which is recorded in the offical Senate record and can be looked at by anyone at http://www.senate.gov.
Um....Remember that 99 (of 100) members of the Senate voted FOR the Patriot Act.
Furthermore, if the files were left in folders on a shared server and not protected then who is at fault? This is no different than if a A staffer for one party left the docs on a table in the cafiteria and a staffer from another party found them.
Actually the first computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute long before the people at Xerox Park made the office of the future that featured a computer with mouse on each desk. See pictures of the first mouse.
This does not mean that some one at HP never said people wouldn't want to have a mouse.
These words are so true and so obvious that even preschoolers could figure it out. However, the 'Born with a silver spoon in his mouth' Senator from my state can't figure this out.
For anyone who does not know, Senator Dayton is a wealthy millionaire who never worked for his own money. (He inherited his wealth.) He has never paid a tax with money that he had to work hard to earn.
P.S. We don't need a new branch of government. We (IT people) need to start running for political offices.
This is a clear case of Humans polluting the lunar landscape by driving those Lunar rovers all over the place. Now the Lunar ice caps have melted and the rest of the Lunar ecosystem is in jeopardy.
No matter whether it's a republican or democrat as president, they will be looking out for their corporate buddies?
Yeah, that's why Enron was forced into bankruptcy instead of being bailed out by the Bush administration. Enron was helped out by the Clinton administration back in the 90's, but got no help from the Bushies. It doesn't matter if their R's or D's. What matters is their character and integrity. Clinton had neither. Bush has both in abundance.
I'd rather pay the Mac Tax than the Windows Tax. I'd get much more for my money with the Mac. Unless you want to count the security holes and virus' as 'more' features in Windows.
I wish I had bought a Mac last year and not a damn PC.
The planes are safe from lightning. They get struck all the time and go on eiwth out problems. It's only a $10 pocket dictionary that you have to fear.
How long before someone writes a program for a lap top that creates controlled interferance so they can fly the plane with their arrow keys?
Which country gets to control and legislate the moon or Mars? Are we talking about colonies like the Brits had in America hundreds of years ago or are we going to set up another country?
Think of all the law makers that will want to create all sorts of new laws regulating travel to and from the Moon, Mars and Earth.
If you think airport screening is tough wait until you see spaceport screening.
I see bad actors declaring they will leave Earth and not come back if we don't do what they want.
Since creating an atmosphere on the moon is out of the question we will need to build Moon habitats (for humanity).
Will there be private pr0perty rights on the Moon? or Mars?
I want my own moon rover!! SUV's on the Moon!!
Will there be rations on the amount of oxygen you can use?
People from Earth are called Earthlings, people born on Mars will be called Martians. What will people born on the Moon be called? Moonies?
The Republicans never filibustered a judicial nominee. The Democrats created this tactic. Also, anyone thinking Estrada was not qualified is just wrong. He was more than qualified during the Clinton years to work under the Clinton administration. The Dems are just pissed that a Democrat did not nominate the first Hispanic to the Federal Bench. Besides, they know Estrada is a law abiding person that won't create legislation from the bench.
I like statistics. Just remember 'The Figures never lie, but liars always Figure'.
I personally saw a demonstration of this wheel chair in 1999 at Epcot Center. iBot could not be tipped over. The guy doing the demonstration gave the iBot a full on body check, knocking it almost 10 feet across the stage, but it never losts its balance. It is a real invention with a real use. This is where the Segway came from. The FDA has been dragging its feet in approving the iBot for use. My guess is the Segway was created to get public attention about the self balancing technology and to light a fire under the FDA. The Segway is nothing more than a segway from wheel chairs to the iBot.
I wanted to get a cool signature to put here, but they where out.
I would love to put some funny quip here, but I'm not that funny.
I was part of a group of people that started a computer science club at a college that I never finished. The first thing you should do is find a friend or four that share your interest and are willing to work towards the goal of having a operational computer club.
Next like someone else said, find a teacher that wants to help sponsor this club. If you don't have a computer class try one of the teachers that seems to always be playing with his or her computer. Chances are they are a bit of a geek too and might be willing to help.
Once you have your schools blessing you need to get people to be members. This is very hard to do. If you can organize a cheerleading team for the computer club then you have a chance to attracting more people to join. Otherwise, just start with your core group of people who you recruited in step one and begin meeting and setting up the club. We held a pizza party to recruit members and to get people to join the club. This type of thing requires money. Some schools provide a bit of money for club activities. If yours doesn't then you may have to spend a little money out-of-pockect.
Before you do ALL of this you should decide on what you want to do in your club and you want your club to accomplish. Have a goal or two in mind, otherwise you'll end up with a room full of geeks staring at each other or arguing about what to do. Both are fatal to a club.
I've actually seen less than reputable retailers sell a computer that claimed to have a certain speed cpu, but when the customer brought the computer into the repair shop that I used to work for we had the displeasure of reporting to them that their system had a slower cpu that was overclocked and that was causing the problem.
Some people can't be trusted. That sucks!
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Can't blame Bush. The mandate to have 10% of the cars sold to be electirc was moronic. The auto manufactures can't force people to buy the cars. The EV1 and others have been for sale and there have been very few sales. We don't want these cars. We want our gas powered cars. If this was not true then the electric cars would have sold like cazy.
Even Toyota and Honda are having a hard time selling these cars in this country.
Drug companies invest hundreds of millions into researching new medications that may never make it to market. The ones that do take years to research and develop, then they spend many more years testing and then they have to wait for FDA approval.
U.S. auto makers have been testing and developing electric cars for decades. None have ever made a profit from them.
Millions were spent by our government and by companies in researching some far out idea to network computers across the country. That took decades to start paying off.
There are more, but I'll let you post them...
Anyone ever heard of that company? I used to work for them back in 1998-2000. It was supposed to be a huge (as Amazon) online store where people could by gifts chosen from our catalog that had thousands of gift items from jewelry (high end stuff) to home and garden, business, kids gifts, kitchen and food items to flowers. There was a gift reminder service (a personal event calendar where you enter event b-day's, etc.) that would remind you to buy a gift for the scheduled event, it would even provide a few suggestions based on info you provided.
The only problem was that the owners allegedly sold private shares of stock illegally. (A court Minnesota ruled against the company is several lawsuits brought by shareholders). The bankruptcy still lingers on. The thousands of shares I received for being an employee are worthless. My belief now is that the owner never intended to make money or operate a successful business. All he talked about was 'going public' and how rich we (he) were going to be.
The "New Economy' taught me a lot. After working to two other companies with the same business model I now work for an 'Old Economy' business that actually believes in making a profit, serving it customers and taking care of it employees. There is no IPO in sight for this company and that's fine with me.
I'll take a steady paycheck today instead of the promise of stock pay offs tomorrow.
The truth hurts, but the truth also heals.
Yes I saw that, but that does not change their vote which is recorded in the offical Senate record and can be looked at by anyone at http://www.senate.gov.
These guys voted for it plain and simple.
One man with courage makes a majority.
Um....Remember that 99 (of 100) members of the Senate voted FOR the Patriot Act.
Furthermore, if the files were left in folders on a shared server and not protected then who is at fault? This is no different than if a A staffer for one party left the docs on a table in the cafiteria and a staffer from another party found them.
The first two spammers are getting finger printed and photographed...meanwhile the spam is still flowing into my inbox unchecked.
I'll break out the bottle of cheer when the last two spammers are arrested!
> The Collaborative User Experience (CUE) team in IBM Research has spent nearly a decade studying email.
And the Collaborative Linus User Experience (CLUE) team could have done it in a 6 weeks!
SELECT * FROM IBM WHERE heads NOT IN (a*s)
Actually the first computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Institute long before the people at Xerox Park made the office of the future that featured a computer with mouse on each desk. See pictures of the first mouse.
This does not mean that some one at HP never said people wouldn't want to have a mouse.
Funny but, Most Minnesotians are so damn liberal and love to pay taxes that this wouldn't work.
I'm a Minnesotian and I hate taxes and my liberal neighbors that want me to pay more taxes.
These words are so true and so obvious that even preschoolers could figure it out. However, the 'Born with a silver spoon in his mouth' Senator from my state can't figure this out.
For anyone who does not know, Senator Dayton is a wealthy millionaire who never worked for his own money. (He inherited his wealth.) He has never paid a tax with money that he had to work hard to earn.
P.S. We don't need a new branch of government. We (IT people) need to start running for political offices.
This is a clear case of Humans polluting the lunar landscape by driving those Lunar rovers all over the place. Now the Lunar ice caps have melted and the rest of the Lunar ecosystem is in jeopardy.
Stop Lunar Warming now!! Save The Moon!!
No matter whether it's a republican or democrat as president, they will be looking out for their corporate buddies?
Yeah, that's why Enron was forced into bankruptcy instead of being bailed out by the Bush administration. Enron was helped out by the Clinton administration back in the 90's, but got no help from the Bushies. It doesn't matter if their R's or D's. What matters is their character and integrity. Clinton had neither. Bush has both in abundance.
I'd rather pay the Mac Tax than the Windows Tax. I'd get much more for my money with the Mac. Unless you want to count the security holes and virus' as 'more' features in Windows.
I wish I had bought a Mac last year and not a damn PC.
The planes are safe from lightning. They get struck all the time and go on eiwth out problems. It's only a $10 pocket dictionary that you have to fear.
How long before someone writes a program for a lap top that creates controlled interferance so they can fly the plane with their arrow keys?
Which country gets to control and legislate the moon or Mars? Are we talking about colonies like the Brits had in America hundreds of years ago or are we going to set up another country?
Think of all the law makers that will want to create all sorts of new laws regulating travel to and from the Moon, Mars and Earth.
If you think airport screening is tough wait until you see spaceport screening.
I see bad actors declaring they will leave Earth and not come back if we don't do what they want.
Since creating an atmosphere on the moon is out of the question we will need to build Moon habitats (for humanity).
Will there be private pr0perty rights on the Moon? or Mars?
I want my own moon rover!! SUV's on the Moon!!
Will there be rations on the amount of oxygen you can use?
People from Earth are called Earthlings, people born on Mars will be called Martians. What will people born on the Moon be called? Moonies?
To the moon Alice !!
Because the Democrates know that they don't have 51 votes against him. There are more like 54 votes for Estrada which means he would get approved.
The Republicans never filibustered a judicial nominee. The Democrats created this tactic. Also, anyone thinking Estrada was not qualified is just wrong. He was more than qualified during the Clinton years to work under the Clinton administration. The Dems are just pissed that a Democrat did not nominate the first Hispanic to the Federal Bench. Besides, they know Estrada is a law abiding person that won't create legislation from the bench.
I like statistics. Just remember 'The Figures never lie, but liars always Figure'.
I personally saw a demonstration of this wheel chair in 1999 at Epcot Center. iBot could not be tipped over. The guy doing the demonstration gave the iBot a full on body check, knocking it almost 10 feet across the stage, but it never losts its balance. It is a real invention with a real use. This is where the Segway came from. The FDA has been dragging its feet in approving the iBot for use. My guess is the Segway was created to get public attention about the self balancing technology and to light a fire under the FDA. The Segway is nothing more than a segway from wheel chairs to the iBot.
I wanted to get a cool signature to put here, but they where out.
I wanna watch the 'High Speed' chase on TV!!
It might make the record book as the slowest and weirdest police pursuit.
Count me in !!!!
I work 2 blocks from that place.
Root benchmark - The time it takes a script kiddie to root the server. Windows will always have the fastest time !!!
I don't burn CD's because of the toxic fumes.
I would love to put some funny quip here, but I'm not that funny.
I was part of a group of people that started a computer science club at a college that I never finished. The first thing you should do is find a friend or four that share your interest and are willing to work towards the goal of having a operational computer club.
Next like someone else said, find a teacher that wants to help sponsor this club. If you don't have a computer class try one of the teachers that seems to always be playing with his or her computer. Chances are they are a bit of a geek too and might be willing to help.
Once you have your schools blessing you need to get people to be members. This is very hard to do. If you can organize a cheerleading team for the computer club then you have a chance to attracting more people to join. Otherwise, just start with your core group of people who you recruited in step one and begin meeting and setting up the club. We held a pizza party to recruit members and to get people to join the club. This type of thing requires money. Some schools provide a bit of money for club activities. If yours doesn't then you may have to spend a little money out-of-pockect.
Before you do ALL of this you should decide on what you want to do in your club and you want your club to accomplish. Have a goal or two in mind, otherwise you'll end up with a room full of geeks staring at each other or arguing about what to do. Both are fatal to a club.
Good Luck
You should never slap the hand that feeds you. Open mouth and spout off ==> means "no funding for you!"
I've actually seen less than reputable retailers sell a computer that claimed to have a certain speed cpu, but when the customer brought the computer into the repair shop that I used to work for we had the displeasure of reporting to them that their system had a slower cpu that was overclocked and that was causing the problem. Some people can't be trusted. That sucks!