I would agree. Upgrading desktops is now mainstream, blue collar. I see it roughly analogous to earlier hotrodding by young dudes. You go in whitebox shops, mobos and drives, etc on the shelves. Empty fancy cases for sale, etc. It has become quite commonplace for people to be doing this in joe and josephine bubba land, and that's because it has gotten loads easier to do. Blue collar guys have no problems with tools in their hands, none whatsoever. There's little reason to drop several hundred on a new machine when one hundred fifty worth of mobo and chip and some new RAM does the trick more than adequately.
...and push away from the table? How much money and marketshare does a company need anyway before it becomes gluttonous? I understand shareholders demand profits, etc, but a long forgotten part of incorporation -which is the license the public grants you to form this business concern, it is NOT a "right"- is to be of the public interest.
It is both these things, at least theoretically if you look way way back in our history.
Is the public really interested in making MS all powerful forever and ever? Can MS ever be happy already being billionaires and millionaires?
I guess I just don't get all the greed that leads to these corporate excesses. I know it's a human trait, and we shouldn't apply human-ness to corporations, but really, they get treated like living people legally, in terms of profits, but not for responsibility, nor for "neighborliness". Maybe they should have a little societal shaming, as in "you have eaten ENOUGH". A good friend would point that out to a neighbor, being tactful but firm. whether it's gluttony or excessive drunkenes, etc, sometimes people-and corporations- might need to be told they are overextending what is "right", just using normal ethics and some common sense.
This is like haliburton, I mean, do they REALLY have to get all the lucrative government contracts? Sucking down all the cash in afghanistan, iraq and now they will be in the devasted areas of NOLA. uhh-why? don't they get enough money already, can't someone else get it?
Does the business world REALLY need to keep shoveling money in MS direction for mediocre products? Or is this just inertia, lack of vision, and more than a touch of corruption and easy money? I can't help but think that broken or near broken MS products are a huge cash cow, keeping consumers perpetually in debt,trading broken machines for broken in advance promises of "corrections", and keeping half the IT workforce (and hardware vendors) employed doing what is in essence busywork instead of cool innovative and fun (and probably still lucrative) work.
so far,just from the article not the PDF, it looks to me like if it passes that corporations offering broadband to the public can no longer insist that you use only approved hardware/software combinations. For example, trying to get satellite broadband in the sticks, they require you to have a windows machine else no service (last I have checked, might be different now). You are required to use their hardware installed by their vendors, etc. Looks to me like this could change if this passes.
linspire= one click installs. My fedora box, check off what you want to install in a menu (using yumex for example), click install, it checks dependencies, asks if that is ok, click go for it. Updates are the same thing.
Really, short of thought control, how much easier can it get?
If you go way to the bottom, it says they are not counted for the official figures. So you are correct, but so am I, because they are not counted. They are (mostly) classed as long term "discouraged workers", and are thrown directly out of the calculations. You have to both have actively sought employment within the past 4 weeks, as per your link, and also be in the survey, as per your link, to be counted as unemployed. Skip either of those two things, not counted. Long term off the unemployment compensation folks are heavy into the "discouraged workers" class of non persons, so I guess this is where that "myth" got started.
Of course, this is further skewed by gray and black market "employment" and by illegal alien employment, so I doubt anyone has any totally real numbers anyway.
good luck! What's theirs is theirs! What's yours is theirs! from the PR:
"The system's "initial operating capability" should be available during Fiscal Year 2007. Weinstein noted that "the system's architecture makes it flexible enough to accommodate evolving policy change," including the importance of "providing public access while protecting privacy and sensitive information.""..HAHAHAHAHA! Anything even *remotely* important or interesting, paid for by tax payers or not, sorry, "terrorism, security", yada yada yada.
Several years back now (1995) Hurricane Opal did considerable damage as far inland as Atlanta. I know just in my neighborhood at the time the smashed trees wiped out quite a few houses. This was not any sort of minor event.
Hurricanes start to dissipate over land, but it is a huge variable how much this really is, it isn't near total or immediate, and they also have the potential to spawn a lot of tornadoes.
...you'll need to do a lot of the DIY, perhaps just in the configuring. You can always sub out the actual work. You'll be retrofitting the entire drive train, plus adding space for batteries as well if you want any sort of at least minimum range before you are forced to use the fueled engine. What you are contemplating is a self propelled generator basically, with you along for the ride. That is in essence what a hybrid is.
As another poster pointed out, this is a fabulous new industry idea, some places are doing it, but it's still in the mom and pop shop stage most places, sort of like the original mom and pop whitebox shops back in the haydays of making decent money at it.
Now what I think might be a useful idea, one already built at ACPropulsion, is to make the vehicle pure electric, and have the generator part that makes it a hybrid be in a tow behind trailer. Short range, run pure electric, extended range, tow the trailer.
read about that and more info here, these guys know their stuff
tractor trailers could have done it, along with emergency trainloads, at least a shuttle to get them out of the immediate disaster area.
Here's a theoretical choice-stay in area about to get massive flooded, or ride out in a big trailer or on a boxcar. Give people the choice, let them decide. Big cities all over get 50 to 100,000 people in and out of sports stadiums all the time. In an emergency, you don't need a comfy padded seat, floor space is good enough, people all over the third and second world ride rough like that daily as a matter of course, sitting on the tops of busses or trains, etc. It's an option at least that wasn't used.
look at the relative size of two common gadgets, the small smartphone/pda/music player gadget and a mouse. Now that would be an interesting combination. Plus security, the mouse could be tied to the computer and it would be needed to turn the computer on and authenticate it for the user.
You could have had more than adequate funding for repairing and maintaining the levees by charging a ten cent per alcoholic drink "levee levy" tax. Of course now it's all wiped out, not much drinkin' going on. But, the tourists would have paid off the infrastructure cost in advance.
Basically, I am much more in favor of direct use taxes, rather than general taxes that have to be shuffled through 18 layers of expensive bureaucracy first before they do any good.
Latest estimates for rebuild on drudge I see are 150 billion, last week it was 25 billion. Next week maybe half a trillion or something, who knows. It's wiped out and contaminated now though, that's a gimmee. Where are you planning on dumping an entire giant city that is basically contaminated trash? You have to move that crap out before you rebuild. Plan on using every dump truck in the US?
I don't see it as being cost effective. Perhaps if they redisgned the city like a big venice instead? just accept reality that the water needs to be there and have canals instead of streets? Approach it from that engineering angle instead of trying to maintain it perpetually as dry land. Or contract with some state out west and buy raw dirt and fill that sucker up, then add twenty more feet, just bury it. Build on top, STRONG. Massive concrete, thick, reinforced. Bottom floors designed to shift water and flood occassionally.
I like the canal idea better actually. Would result in an even more interesting tourist town, and lead to advanced port rebuilding. The techniques learned would be applicable to other coastal areas as well.
I won't pay such a tax. We don't need 7/8th of the population calling themselves "artists" so they can get a check from my ISP bill. Not happening. society is already past the point of full time support for those folks. that is one of the reasons that they are complaining, but it's just economics, that "art" market is beyond saturated, it's flooded. They can't all be full time at it.
aaakkkkk The more I think about it the more I realize it is totally out of the question. No, nein, nej. Put your art out there some other way if you want to sell it, but no overall tax. We already did that with blank recording media and it "wasn't enough".
I tell you what I *would* support, a modest in size but useful and functionallinux distro, that had those programs included that were voted on by the purchasers, where all the devs got a piece of the profit. ONE cd max, once a year updated max. Those who didn't care, swell, those who produced the OSS and wanted a chance at a collective micropayment could offer what they had. the incentive is, want to keep getting those payments, keep working on your software, make it better so it stays in the distro come vote time. The distro producers/packagers get a small percentage, the rest all divvied up to the other devs. The folks who use it get to vote on what is included because they come up with the coin, those who don't, no vote. That would eliminate dozens of redundant programs, and reward the devs who actually produce useable stuff beyond pre beta ware. I would pay a reasonable yearly fee for such a distro. I wouldn't pay 100 dollars, but perhaps under 50$ or so, perhaps even less,25$ maybe, but I WOULD like to support all the free coders out there without having to personally do a thousand paypal payments. We have paid distros now, but only a relatively few of the devs involved in the programs on the disk(s) get any money. Just not fair.
Serious waste from what I see. There's an elementary school roughly 5 miles from me, the closest school. I drive by it to get to town. I'd say a significant percentage of the kids get driven to and from school by their parents, covering the same area that the busses cover. I have no idea why they do this either, this is not a huge crime area with kids getting snatched or anything like that. I mean the line of cars picking up kids at 3 o clock in the afternoon is HUGE. A lot of redundant driving there.
latest I heard was that some folks shot off guns when helocopters were coming by in order to get attention, as in "over here, help!" The FAA claims no aircraft have been shot *at*. Sorry, no link but I was reading it last night.
with that said, sure, you get the best in people and the worst in active emergencies. I have been through a few riots, glad I was armed for self defense. Some people looking for an excuse to go medieval all the time, whereas most folks just want to get by. No one race or culture or society has a lock on "all good folks" or "all bad folks". the civilization veneer is quite thin, no one would be immune to becoming desperate I would think.
Not sure about the rest of the nation, but we just came back from our weekly trip to town, in just our little community I counted ten tractor trailers being loaded up with provisions to be sent down there (we chipped in of course). This is probably happening all over the USA.
I got one sitting right here, got it a month or two ago. My friend in town who has DSL downloaded it for me and burned it, and it came from their bit torrent link. free as in gratis. They offered it as the live cd version, but apparently you can install from it as well. You DON'T get the click n run access for free though, although this new one they are offering I guess you would. It's basically tweaked debian, kde desktop, lotsa smoothing and tweaking.
...with decades of provable payola, collusion to fix prices, accounting tricks to make hundred million dollar movies always look like losses, screwing talent out of any decent cut, and etc that someplace sometime some DA might apply RICO to them, because it sure fits. They should be the last people pointing fingers and accusing someone of being a crook.
This was at a large private pool run by a condo association. You recognized the residents fairly soon after working there, they only needed to be tested once. After that, not too many new people, and when they came in (friends of the residents), they would usually have been told they needed the swim test.
..big. Always loved Vans. Vws or detroit iron. -> Hippie girls. I mean,for real, games or girls...hmmmmm
50's and 60's don't count according to the criteria, but if they did I would add monster tube radios, the first portable transistor radios (oh MAN was that cool when you could actually carry around a PORTABLE RADIO that fit in your pocket kinda sorta or at least lug around easy), and color TVs. Reel to reel and making copies from the OTA radio or from the "HiFi". Good times...
OK, one more gadget from back then was uber cool-heathkit walkie talkies.
And 8 tracks ALWAYS sucked. ALWAYS. No one liked them, but the doofuses still made and sold them. Early DRM more than anything else from das "moozik industry". Only saving grace was it was hard to miss the insert-slot-to-play no matter your "condition".....
When I was a lifeguard, we made people, no matter how old or fit looking, do a several lap swim test, starting at the shallow end of course. No test, no going in the deep end. Had to call the cops a few times with (usually drunk/stoned) belligerent young males who insisted they could swim when they obviously couldn't. The women and kids were always OK with it though, never any trouble with them that I recall.
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I would agree. Upgrading desktops is now mainstream, blue collar. I see it roughly analogous to earlier hotrodding by young dudes. You go in whitebox shops, mobos and drives, etc on the shelves. Empty fancy cases for sale, etc. It has become quite commonplace for people to be doing this in joe and josephine bubba land, and that's because it has gotten loads easier to do. Blue collar guys have no problems with tools in their hands, none whatsoever. There's little reason to drop several hundred on a new machine when one hundred fifty worth of mobo and chip and some new RAM does the trick more than adequately.
...and push away from the table? How much money and marketshare does a company need anyway before it becomes gluttonous? I understand shareholders demand profits, etc, but a long forgotten part of incorporation -which is the license the public grants you to form this business concern, it is NOT a "right"- is to be of the public interest.
It is both these things, at least theoretically if you look way way back in our history.
Is the public really interested in making MS all powerful forever and ever? Can MS ever be happy already being billionaires and millionaires?
I guess I just don't get all the greed that leads to these corporate excesses. I know it's a human trait, and we shouldn't apply human-ness to corporations, but really, they get treated like living people legally, in terms of profits, but not for responsibility, nor for "neighborliness". Maybe they should have a little societal shaming, as in "you have eaten ENOUGH". A good friend would point that out to a neighbor, being tactful but firm. whether it's gluttony or excessive drunkenes, etc, sometimes people-and corporations- might need to be told they are overextending what is "right", just using normal ethics and some common sense.
This is like haliburton, I mean, do they REALLY have to get all the lucrative government contracts? Sucking down all the cash in afghanistan, iraq and now they will be in the devasted areas of NOLA. uhh-why? don't they get enough money already, can't someone else get it?
Does the business world REALLY need to keep shoveling money in MS direction for mediocre products? Or is this just inertia, lack of vision, and more than a touch of corruption and easy money? I can't help but think that broken or near broken MS products are a huge cash cow, keeping consumers perpetually in debt,trading broken machines for broken in advance promises of "corrections", and keeping half the IT workforce (and hardware vendors) employed doing what is in essence busywork instead of cool innovative and fun (and probably still lucrative) work.
so far,just from the article not the PDF, it looks to me like if it passes that corporations offering broadband to the public can no longer insist that you use only approved hardware/software combinations. For example, trying to get satellite broadband in the sticks, they require you to have a windows machine else no service (last I have checked, might be different now). You are required to use their hardware installed by their vendors, etc. Looks to me like this could change if this passes.
I like Opera's x to close on every tab. Much more cooler
something in FF bugs me, and that is alert messages stealing window focus, MAN IS DAT UH NOY INGGG.
linspire= one click installs. My fedora box, check off what you want to install in a menu (using yumex for example), click install, it checks dependencies, asks if that is ok, click go for it. Updates are the same thing.
Really, short of thought control, how much easier can it get?
If you go way to the bottom, it says they are not counted for the official figures. So you are correct, but so am I, because they are not counted. They are (mostly) classed as long term "discouraged workers", and are thrown directly out of the calculations. You have to both have actively sought employment within the past 4 weeks, as per your link, and also be in the survey, as per your link, to be counted as unemployed. Skip either of those two things, not counted. Long term off the unemployment compensation folks are heavy into the "discouraged workers" class of non persons, so I guess this is where that "myth" got started.
Of course, this is further skewed by gray and black market "employment" and by illegal alien employment, so I doubt anyone has any totally real numbers anyway.
The government does not count people if they are past the time for receiving unemployment checks. they become non persons and are not counted
The government counts as employed anyone who has even a minimal few hours per week job
The real numbers are probably close to equitable between the US and France right now, once you filter out the econo numbers juggling BS
"The system's "initial operating capability" should be available during Fiscal Year 2007. Weinstein noted that "the system's architecture makes it flexible enough to accommodate evolving policy change," including the importance of "providing public access while protecting privacy and sensitive information.""..HAHAHAHAHA! Anything even *remotely* important or interesting, paid for by tax payers or not, sorry, "terrorism, security", yada yada yada.
...one of those multiple flash card readers in a bay. Or a ramdisk.
Several years back now (1995) Hurricane Opal did considerable damage as far inland as Atlanta. I know just in my neighborhood at the time the smashed trees wiped out quite a few houses. This was not any sort of minor event.
Hurricanes start to dissipate over land, but it is a huge variable how much this really is, it isn't near total or immediate, and they also have the potential to spawn a lot of tornadoes.
...you'll need to do a lot of the DIY, perhaps just in the configuring. You can always sub out the actual work. You'll be retrofitting the entire drive train, plus adding space for batteries as well if you want any sort of at least minimum range before you are forced to use the fueled engine. What you are contemplating is a self propelled generator basically, with you along for the ride. That is in essence what a hybrid is.
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Here is a generic link to get you going
http://www.evworld.com/
As another poster pointed out, this is a fabulous new industry idea, some places are doing it, but it's still in the mom and pop shop stage most places, sort of like the original mom and pop whitebox shops back in the haydays of making decent money at it.
pure electric conversion kits and links
http://www.electroauto.com/
Now what I think might be a useful idea, one already built at ACPropulsion, is to make the vehicle pure electric, and have the generator part that makes it a hybrid be in a tow behind trailer. Short range, run pure electric, extended range, tow the trailer.
read about that and more info here, these guys know their stuff
http://www.acpropulsion.com/ACP_FAQs/FAQ_products
good luck and do a blog on it, would like to see the project as it unfolds
tractor trailers could have done it, along with emergency trainloads, at least a shuttle to get them out of the immediate disaster area.
Here's a theoretical choice-stay in area about to get massive flooded, or ride out in a big trailer or on a boxcar. Give people the choice, let them decide. Big cities all over get 50 to 100,000 people in and out of sports stadiums all the time. In an emergency, you don't need a comfy padded seat, floor space is good enough, people all over the third and second world ride rough like that daily as a matter of course, sitting on the tops of busses or trains, etc. It's an option at least that wasn't used.
look at the relative size of two common gadgets, the small smartphone/pda/music player gadget and a mouse. Now that would be an interesting combination. Plus security, the mouse could be tied to the computer and it would be needed to turn the computer on and authenticate it for the user.
really, about the best. It's an "us versus them" situation for his case, he needs more allies, and that will happen one ally at a time.
And it's certainly better than what I was thinking, which had a 12 guage and a case of beer in the solution....
You could have had more than adequate funding for repairing and maintaining the levees by charging a ten cent per alcoholic drink "levee levy" tax. Of course now it's all wiped out, not much drinkin' going on. But, the tourists would have paid off the infrastructure cost in advance.
Basically, I am much more in favor of direct use taxes, rather than general taxes that have to be shuffled through 18 layers of expensive bureaucracy first before they do any good.
Latest estimates for rebuild on drudge I see are 150 billion, last week it was 25 billion. Next week maybe half a trillion or something, who knows. It's wiped out and contaminated now though, that's a gimmee. Where are you planning on dumping an entire giant city that is basically contaminated trash? You have to move that crap out before you rebuild. Plan on using every dump truck in the US?
I don't see it as being cost effective. Perhaps if they redisgned the city like a big venice instead? just accept reality that the water needs to be there and have canals instead of streets? Approach it from that engineering angle instead of trying to maintain it perpetually as dry land. Or contract with some state out west and buy raw dirt and fill that sucker up, then add twenty more feet, just bury it. Build on top, STRONG. Massive concrete, thick, reinforced. Bottom floors designed to shift water and flood occassionally.
I like the canal idea better actually. Would result in an even more interesting tourist town, and lead to advanced port rebuilding. The techniques learned would be applicable to other coastal areas as well.
I won't pay such a tax. We don't need 7/8th of the population calling themselves "artists" so they can get a check from my ISP bill. Not happening. society is already past the point of full time support for those folks. that is one of the reasons that they are complaining, but it's just economics, that "art" market is beyond saturated, it's flooded. They can't all be full time at it.
aaakkkkk The more I think about it the more I realize it is totally out of the question. No, nein, nej. Put your art out there some other way if you want to sell it, but no overall tax. We already did that with blank recording media and it "wasn't enough".
I tell you what I *would* support, a modest in size but useful and functionallinux distro, that had those programs included that were voted on by the purchasers, where all the devs got a piece of the profit. ONE cd max, once a year updated max. Those who didn't care, swell, those who produced the OSS and wanted a chance at a collective micropayment could offer what they had. the incentive is, want to keep getting those payments, keep working on your software, make it better so it stays in the distro come vote time. The distro producers/packagers get a small percentage, the rest all divvied up to the other devs. The folks who use it get to vote on what is included because they come up with the coin, those who don't, no vote. That would eliminate dozens of redundant programs, and reward the devs who actually produce useable stuff beyond pre beta ware. I would pay a reasonable yearly fee for such a distro. I wouldn't pay 100 dollars, but perhaps under 50$ or so, perhaps even less,25$ maybe, but I WOULD like to support all the free coders out there without having to personally do a thousand paypal payments. We have paid distros now, but only a relatively few of the devs involved in the programs on the disk(s) get any money. Just not fair.
Serious waste from what I see. There's an elementary school roughly 5 miles from me, the closest school. I drive by it to get to town. I'd say a significant percentage of the kids get driven to and from school by their parents, covering the same area that the busses cover. I have no idea why they do this either, this is not a huge crime area with kids getting snatched or anything like that. I mean the line of cars picking up kids at 3 o clock in the afternoon is HUGE. A lot of redundant driving there.
thanks!
of course I feel older now.....
speedos I know of, but what are jammers and a drag suit?
latest I heard was that some folks shot off guns when helocopters were coming by in order to get attention, as in "over here, help!" The FAA claims no aircraft have been shot *at*. Sorry, no link but I was reading it last night.
with that said, sure, you get the best in people and the worst in active emergencies. I have been through a few riots, glad I was armed for self defense. Some people looking for an excuse to go medieval all the time, whereas most folks just want to get by. No one race or culture or society has a lock on "all good folks" or "all bad folks". the civilization veneer is quite thin, no one would be immune to becoming desperate I would think.
Not sure about the rest of the nation, but we just came back from our weekly trip to town, in just our little community I counted ten tractor trailers being loaded up with provisions to be sent down there (we chipped in of course). This is probably happening all over the USA.
I got one sitting right here, got it a month or two ago. My friend in town who has DSL downloaded it for me and burned it, and it came from their bit torrent link. free as in gratis. They offered it as the live cd version, but apparently you can install from it as well. You DON'T get the click n run access for free though, although this new one they are offering I guess you would. It's basically tweaked debian, kde desktop, lotsa smoothing and tweaking.
...with decades of provable payola, collusion to fix prices, accounting tricks to make hundred million dollar movies always look like losses, screwing talent out of any decent cut, and etc that someplace sometime some DA might apply RICO to them, because it sure fits. They should be the last people pointing fingers and accusing someone of being a crook.
This was at a large private pool run by a condo association. You recognized the residents fairly soon after working there, they only needed to be tested once. After that, not too many new people, and when they came in (friends of the residents), they would usually have been told they needed the swim test.
..big. Always loved Vans. Vws or detroit iron. -> Hippie girls. I mean,for real, games or girls...hmmmmm
50's and 60's don't count according to the criteria, but if they did I would add monster tube radios, the first portable transistor radios (oh MAN was that cool when you could actually carry around a PORTABLE RADIO that fit in your pocket kinda sorta or at least lug around easy), and color TVs. Reel to reel and making copies from the OTA radio or from the "HiFi". Good times...
OK, one more gadget from back then was uber cool-heathkit walkie talkies.
And 8 tracks ALWAYS sucked. ALWAYS. No one liked them, but the doofuses still made and sold them. Early DRM more than anything else from das "moozik industry". Only saving grace was it was hard to miss the insert-slot-to-play no matter your "condition".....
When I was a lifeguard, we made people, no matter how old or fit looking, do a several lap swim test, starting at the shallow end of course. No test, no going in the deep end. Had to call the cops a few times with (usually drunk/stoned) belligerent young males who insisted they could swim when they obviously couldn't. The women and kids were always OK with it though, never any trouble with them that I recall.