Yeah, because every tech rag on the Internet isn't going to be writing articles about the new OS for the next 5 months, and using every trick they know to raise them up in Google PageRank.
The PowerMac G3 results are going to shrink to irrelevance in a matter of days. For example, it's Wednesday morning now, and I just repeated your search: the Wikipedia article is now #9, and next week it will be off the first page.
Yeah, he looks great if you have your head up your ass and only pay attention to SEC filings.
However, since the time that he took over, he sold the future to pay for the 10Q filings of today. Microsoft is now a barely-player in the mobile space that they were in before Apple (sans Newton), Google, or RIM; their operating system that ran the world is now diminishing in importance, and Office isn't even the vehicle for vendor lock-in it used to be. They have a family of game consoles that may have turned a few bucks in profit somewhere after a decade, but I doubt it because of the massive hardware failures and ill-will caused by the RROD fiasco, and their amazingly short-sighted ideas for the current generation. They've tried the connected TV thing about half a dozen times and failed every time. They had the "tablet computer" for 10 years before Apple showed them what they should have been selling, and why they weren't selling.
At the end of Ballmer's tenure, Microsoft is basically the same company it was when he took over - a company that makes all it's money from Windows and Office. He did nothing to change that, and Windows and Office aren't nearly the must-haves they used to be. The Internet now runs on *nix, front to back - Apache serving the pages, Android / iOS consuming them. Not a line of Microsoft code to be found.
You're forgetting that Slashdot now has corporate overlords, and corporate overlords like click-bait. Any time they can entice people to post comments about sweaty monkey-dancing, off-putting chants of "developers developers developers", or chair throwing they are going to.
Most CEOs actually think that it really does not matter what they're selling, everything is sold the same way according to them. Yes, they don't have a clue what they're selling. They think they needn't have one.
And this explains Microsoft's "lost decade" perfectly.
And somehow, this administration finds these stories and situations to be perfectly fine; but "walling" someone (and leaving them alive) is somehow morally reprehensible.
I find both to be repugnant, but let's get serious: The Obama Justice Department finds killing innocents that happen to be in the same area as a suspected bad guy to be okay, but smacking around known assholes to get information on other known assholes to be a prosecutable offense.
The auction house has been wholesale deleted, and the loot system overhauled to not be a ridiculous farce. 90% of the items that drop have your current character's primary stat on them, and there is a facility to be able to reroll one stat on an item for a handful of junk items and some gold, so you can make that almost-perfect item into a perfect item with enough resources.
The loot system was the reason I stopped playing D3 about 2 weeks after it launched, and the new system is the reason I started remembering the game exists again.
The 2.x version of Diablo 3, even without the expansion, is the version they should have released in the beginning. They did away completely with the ill-advised auction house, and gave the loot system a bit of smarts as to how it rolls the stats in order to give a much better chance of finding useable items.
It's actually worth playing on a continuing basis now, where before it was "okay, I played the story through, now what?"
My office is situated in a suburb where the median real estate pricing is above what I'm willing to spend. I'm not putting myself under a horrendous mortgage to buy a giant house I don't need (and don't want to pay to heat / cool / maintain) just to save myself 20 minutes of driving each day.
If only the government would get off their ass and approve a pipeline to ship that oil, then we wouldn't have rolling fuel-air bombs going through switching yards in major cities...
You do realize that we're talking about nuclear weapons production when we talk about Hanford, right?
The only waste from commercial power generation at Hanford is the actual reactor vessel from the Trojan Nuclear Generating Station that was barged there and buried when it was decommissioned.
Largely, spent fuel remains at the generating station that spent it, because Congress is filled with fuckwads that don't know how to actually progress with dealing with it.
Yes, there were reactors. Yes, the generated electricity. But, it was a byproduct of the primary reason for the reactors - creating plutonium. They used a short fuel cycle in the purpose-built reactors specifically tuned to create the most Pu-239 possible.
The facilities there were never intended to be efficient at commercial electrical generation. They were meant to create stuff to kill people. It just turns out that the people being killed by it is our own citizens because of the incredibly poor way they handled the gigantic mess they created.
If this crap was only uranium, it would have been dealt with decades ago. No, this is a concoction of the most toxic, caustic, and radioactive shit ever produced by mankind. In a liquid form. Underground, predominantly in single-walled tanks. Which are corroding because of the contents.
This crap has been transferred, pumped, and mixed so many times that they don't even know what is in half of these tanks, and in what concentrations. Just mixing up one of these tanks could cause a prompt criticality because they might disturb the settled metals in the bottom of the god-awful compounds floating on top, causing a concentration of daughter products.
It is the worst environmental disaster that humans are capable of creating - we're lucky it's still as contained as it is. And this is right here in the US where our State Department likes to get all high-and-mighty with environmental offenders elsewhere in the world.
Part of the reasoning for burying this crap in storage tanks at Hanford was because they knew the technology for dealing with this shit didn't exist, and wouldn't for some time. This crap is some of the most volatile and deadly shit ever created - it's a sludge / liquid mixture of caustic chemicals and aqueous transuranics that has been pumped around so many times that they don't even know what the mixture is any more. It is literally eating through the steel tanks it's been stored in. The only option for this crap is to vitrify it into ceramic bricks, and dump those into a Yucca Mountain-type repository, or a volcanic subduction vent somewhere.
Oh, and any of the equipment used to vitrify it will also need to be disposed of as nuclear waste, just from being in contact with this shit. And, once it's built and turned on, all maintenance and operation will need to be done remotely because entering the facility after it starts working will kill you.
This isn't your standard spent fuel rods here, this is the shit left over from decades of weapons production, where they only cared about the Pu-239 and nothing else. They didn't even care about the people living down-wind or down-river that they exposed to thousands of TBq of radiation from 1940s to the 1970s through the intentional airborne release of Iodine-131 and Xenon-133 and the release of cooling water back into the Columbia after a mere 6 hours of storage after cooling the site's reactors.
Hanford is probably the most toxic site on the planet. Even worse than Cleveland.
200 to 500 years is still a long time. 200 years ago, steam locomotives were a new idea. And 500 years ago in August, King Henry VIII made peace with France.
That's a hell of a long time for something to be looked after. I'm all for nuclear power and reprocessing of waste to use as fuel, but let's get a bit of perspective.
The public did not know when it was part of the Manhattan Project, because it was the most secret thing the US Government could possibly do. After the propaganda machine started up about how mighty the bombs are, and a series of incredibly poordecisions from the people operating Hanford, the public began to know.
Unfortunately, much of the waste at Hanford is not useable for anything other than killing anything that gets close. It is primarily a radioactive soup of transuranics and caustic chemicals used to remove the not-Plutonium from decades of bomb making.
These aren't spent fuel rods from a commercial reactor - this is liquid or sludge that is left over after running fuel rods through chemical baths to extract plutonium. It is insanely radioactive, and reactive. It's in single-walled tanks that have breached, and is leaking into the ground right next to one of the world's largest rivers. Many of the records as to what is actually in the tanks have been lost, and simply stirring up that shit may cause prompt criticality because they weren't very careful as to how much of what they were putting in there decades ago. Even some of the double-walled tanks built to hold the nastiest of that shit have leaks in the inner shell.
This is what happens when the Government decides they need something, but don't yet have the technology to clean up the mess that gets created. They decide "Oh, we'll just store it until we can properly clean it up." More kicking the can down the road by the Feds - today's behavior is no different than it was in the 1950s.
Perhaps you're just referring to Fox News (clearly a right-wing mouthpiece who laughably claims "balance") or the Wall Street Journal (at least still attempts to be objective) ?
Slashdot Mirror
It's still decaying. Slowly.
Yeah, because every tech rag on the Internet isn't going to be writing articles about the new OS for the next 5 months, and using every trick they know to raise them up in Google PageRank.
The PowerMac G3 results are going to shrink to irrelevance in a matter of days. For example, it's Wednesday morning now, and I just repeated your search: the Wikipedia article is now #9, and next week it will be off the first page.
Then tell them about the bugs: http://radar.apple.com/
1990's?
My Mac 512k had Desk Accessories in 1984.
Get off my lawn.
Yeah, he looks great if you have your head up your ass and only pay attention to SEC filings.
However, since the time that he took over, he sold the future to pay for the 10Q filings of today. Microsoft is now a barely-player in the mobile space that they were in before Apple (sans Newton), Google, or RIM; their operating system that ran the world is now diminishing in importance, and Office isn't even the vehicle for vendor lock-in it used to be. They have a family of game consoles that may have turned a few bucks in profit somewhere after a decade, but I doubt it because of the massive hardware failures and ill-will caused by the RROD fiasco, and their amazingly short-sighted ideas for the current generation. They've tried the connected TV thing about half a dozen times and failed every time. They had the "tablet computer" for 10 years before Apple showed them what they should have been selling, and why they weren't selling.
At the end of Ballmer's tenure, Microsoft is basically the same company it was when he took over - a company that makes all it's money from Windows and Office. He did nothing to change that, and Windows and Office aren't nearly the must-haves they used to be. The Internet now runs on *nix, front to back - Apache serving the pages, Android / iOS consuming them. Not a line of Microsoft code to be found.
Oh, but yeah, he was a great CEO.
You're forgetting that Slashdot now has corporate overlords, and corporate overlords like click-bait. Any time they can entice people to post comments about sweaty monkey-dancing, off-putting chants of "developers developers developers", or chair throwing they are going to.
I LOVE THIS FRANCHISE!!! YEAAAAAAHHHHH!
Most CEOs actually think that it really does not matter what they're selling, everything is sold the same way according to them. Yes, they don't have a clue what they're selling. They think they needn't have one.
And this explains Microsoft's "lost decade" perfectly.
And in no way was he making a joke that charged right past your defense.
And somehow, this administration finds these stories and situations to be perfectly fine; but "walling" someone (and leaving them alive) is somehow morally reprehensible.
I find both to be repugnant, but let's get serious: The Obama Justice Department finds killing innocents that happen to be in the same area as a suspected bad guy to be okay, but smacking around known assholes to get information on other known assholes to be a prosecutable offense.
The auction house has been wholesale deleted, and the loot system overhauled to not be a ridiculous farce. 90% of the items that drop have your current character's primary stat on them, and there is a facility to be able to reroll one stat on an item for a handful of junk items and some gold, so you can make that almost-perfect item into a perfect item with enough resources.
The loot system was the reason I stopped playing D3 about 2 weeks after it launched, and the new system is the reason I started remembering the game exists again.
The 2.x version of Diablo 3, even without the expansion, is the version they should have released in the beginning. They did away completely with the ill-advised auction house, and gave the loot system a bit of smarts as to how it rolls the stats in order to give a much better chance of finding useable items.
It's actually worth playing on a continuing basis now, where before it was "okay, I played the story through, now what?"
Cheap people demand free.
There are people out there that actually pay for things, when they find them to be of value.
Their methodology is completely proprietary and unpublished so I'm not sure how much faith I have in the ranking.
So, just like Google then. Coincidence?
Horse shit.
Ohio minimum wage: $7.95/hour
5x Ohio minimum wage: $39.75/hour
Annual gross salary (8 hour day, 5 days / week, 52 weeks): $82,680 / year
Median 3 bedroom house price for Cincinnati, OH: : $120,000
Yeah, you're full of shit unless your "many cities" remark is restricted to the coastal states, and even then you're pushing it.
My office is situated in a suburb where the median real estate pricing is above what I'm willing to spend. I'm not putting myself under a horrendous mortgage to buy a giant house I don't need (and don't want to pay to heat / cool / maintain) just to save myself 20 minutes of driving each day.
How's that for sustainable?
If only the government would get off their ass and approve a pipeline to ship that oil, then we wouldn't have rolling fuel-air bombs going through switching yards in major cities...
You do realize that we're talking about nuclear weapons production when we talk about Hanford, right?
The only waste from commercial power generation at Hanford is the actual reactor vessel from the Trojan Nuclear Generating Station that was barged there and buried when it was decommissioned.
Largely, spent fuel remains at the generating station that spent it, because Congress is filled with fuckwads that don't know how to actually progress with dealing with it.
Yes, there were reactors. Yes, the generated electricity. But, it was a byproduct of the primary reason for the reactors - creating plutonium. They used a short fuel cycle in the purpose-built reactors specifically tuned to create the most Pu-239 possible.
The facilities there were never intended to be efficient at commercial electrical generation. They were meant to create stuff to kill people. It just turns out that the people being killed by it is our own citizens because of the incredibly poor way they handled the gigantic mess they created.
If this crap was only uranium, it would have been dealt with decades ago. No, this is a concoction of the most toxic, caustic, and radioactive shit ever produced by mankind. In a liquid form. Underground, predominantly in single-walled tanks. Which are corroding because of the contents.
This crap has been transferred, pumped, and mixed so many times that they don't even know what is in half of these tanks, and in what concentrations. Just mixing up one of these tanks could cause a prompt criticality because they might disturb the settled metals in the bottom of the god-awful compounds floating on top, causing a concentration of daughter products.
It is the worst environmental disaster that humans are capable of creating - we're lucky it's still as contained as it is. And this is right here in the US where our State Department likes to get all high-and-mighty with environmental offenders elsewhere in the world.
Part of the reasoning for burying this crap in storage tanks at Hanford was because they knew the technology for dealing with this shit didn't exist, and wouldn't for some time. This crap is some of the most volatile and deadly shit ever created - it's a sludge / liquid mixture of caustic chemicals and aqueous transuranics that has been pumped around so many times that they don't even know what the mixture is any more. It is literally eating through the steel tanks it's been stored in. The only option for this crap is to vitrify it into ceramic bricks, and dump those into a Yucca Mountain-type repository, or a volcanic subduction vent somewhere.
Oh, and any of the equipment used to vitrify it will also need to be disposed of as nuclear waste, just from being in contact with this shit. And, once it's built and turned on, all maintenance and operation will need to be done remotely because entering the facility after it starts working will kill you.
This isn't your standard spent fuel rods here, this is the shit left over from decades of weapons production, where they only cared about the Pu-239 and nothing else. They didn't even care about the people living down-wind or down-river that they exposed to thousands of TBq of radiation from 1940s to the 1970s through the intentional airborne release of Iodine-131 and Xenon-133 and the release of cooling water back into the Columbia after a mere 6 hours of storage after cooling the site's reactors.
Hanford is probably the most toxic site on the planet. Even worse than Cleveland.
200 to 500 years is still a long time. 200 years ago, steam locomotives were a new idea. And 500 years ago in August, King Henry VIII made peace with France.
That's a hell of a long time for something to be looked after. I'm all for nuclear power and reprocessing of waste to use as fuel, but let's get a bit of perspective.
The public did not know when it was part of the Manhattan Project, because it was the most secret thing the US Government could possibly do. After the propaganda machine started up about how mighty the bombs are, and a series of incredibly poor decisions from the people operating Hanford, the public began to know.
What investors?
The collective shareholders of:
General Atomics
General Electric
Westinghouse
Areva
and other companies in nuclear engineering.
Unfortunately, much of the waste at Hanford is not useable for anything other than killing anything that gets close. It is primarily a radioactive soup of transuranics and caustic chemicals used to remove the not-Plutonium from decades of bomb making.
These aren't spent fuel rods from a commercial reactor - this is liquid or sludge that is left over after running fuel rods through chemical baths to extract plutonium. It is insanely radioactive, and reactive. It's in single-walled tanks that have breached, and is leaking into the ground right next to one of the world's largest rivers. Many of the records as to what is actually in the tanks have been lost, and simply stirring up that shit may cause prompt criticality because they weren't very careful as to how much of what they were putting in there decades ago. Even some of the double-walled tanks built to hold the nastiest of that shit have leaks in the inner shell.
This is what happens when the Government decides they need something, but don't yet have the technology to clean up the mess that gets created. They decide "Oh, we'll just store it until we can properly clean it up." More kicking the can down the road by the Feds - today's behavior is no different than it was in the 1950s.
"pub controlled media" - That's a laugher.
Obama, Democrats got 88 percent of 2008 contributions by TV network execs, writers, reporters
There was also an article from the American Society of Newspaper Editors stating 61% of reporters self-proclaim as democrats, while only 15% said their beliefs were represented by the republican party, but the source has gone 404.
Perhaps you're just referring to Fox News (clearly a right-wing mouthpiece who laughably claims "balance") or the Wall Street Journal (at least still attempts to be objective) ?