Actually, according to the link you provided, it wasn't John Delorean (the CEO) that swindled the money out of the UK, it was Arthur Andersen, the U.S. accounting giant that handled DeLorean accounts.
The Delorean had so many problems with tariffs and shipping and just a mess that many of the 9,000 cars they made sat in parking lots waiting to come to America.
To call John Delorean a thieving bastard is to not understand everything that happened. John DeLorean has stayed out of the limelight. He's been entangled in about 40 legal cases stemming from his company's bankruptcy. He personally declared bankruptcy in September 1999. He was evicted from his house in 2000.
I repeat, the overtime rules were reworked at the last minute!
The Bush administration on Tuesday pulled back from a planned overhaul of the nation's overtime rules, allowing more white-collar workers -- including those earning as much as $100,000 a year -- to continue collecting premium pay if they log more than 40 hours a week.
MS hires the core kernel development team behind Linux!
Today Microsoft hired the entire core development team of the Linux kernel including Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton to head up Microsofts OS development department. Each will recieve a starting salary of 100 million dollars a year plus stock options. Overnight the core team became billionaires.
When asked about the future of the Linux kernel, the team laughed all the way to the bank to deposit their new cash.
Now, don't tell me this hasn't crossed Microsoft's collective minds from time to time...not that Linus and the rest would ever do this.
I've also stopped using tools because the military uses it.
I don't use hammers or screwdrivers...they use those in the military.
I don't use computers or clothes or shoes or autos or medicine or....
Ok, you get the picture...
Also, you'll notice that he says:
NewsForge: But what does this have to do with a Linux Users' Group? Or do you just feel your time can be of more benefit applied elsewhere?
Claiborne: Nothing directly, and I will still participate in the LUG, just let new leadership come to the fore.
And from the rest of the article, Claiborne really isn't saying he's quiting because the military uses Linux. I think he may have been going in that direction until he stopped and thought how silly that sounds.
The War and the use of Linux in the War are really not an issue. Linux is just a tool. Does the inventor/developer of the screwdriver (if he/she were alive today that is) not want their tools used in the war?
Claiborne seems a bit flakey to me...at least the article makes him seem that way. He may be the nicest guy in the world, but the NewsForge article paints him otherwise.
I would say gasoline in a bottle with a burning rag attached is kind of a bomb...I should know, I had a chunk of glass rip through my leg from a thrown moltov cocktail in a riot that broke out in Huntington Beach California many years ago.
But I've seen tests on hydrogen tanks in fuel-cell cars (still experimental of course) that are as safe as gasoline tanks. If I find the link I'll certainly share it here.
But I can see your points. More testing is needed.
yes, this is probably what is going to slow down hydrogen fuel cells in the US with fears that cars will start exploding like the Hindenburg (even though it was the Aluminum paint on the skin of the airship that caused the explosion I belive...at least this is one of the theories).
Yet people drive around with a tank full of gasoline which we all know is VERY explosive....and people cook with tanks full of propane that also is explosive. (no, I don't sell propane and propane accessories).
But you say Hydrogen and they think Hindenburg and the Bikini Atoll...(as in the Hydrogen Bomb).
Really, this "new" suit better have that tape recorder strapped to his chest like the "old" suit had.
The only thing really cool about the old suit was the mask...everything else was the tape recorder and a Batman utility belt with little flashies on it. Oh, and a big flowing cape.
I started out on dial up way way way back when the only access was dial up BBS's...like The Ward Board and other BBS's in the Chicago area. Then moved to dial-up Internet usage through Interaccess...also in Chicago. Through Interaccess I then moved up to ISDN connection...then finally AT&T came to my area and I signed up with @home/ATT.
I went through the @home/ATT/Comcast shake-ups, but I ALWAYS loved my broadband. Even with Comcast I didn't have much downtime and the speeds were just great. I loved it.
But now, me and my family had to move to St. Joseph, Michigan and the only high-speed (where I am) is this fly-by-night ISP called "Green County Cable". I mean, they SUCK. They are down quite a bit, and their speeds are 400 kilo bits sec...down from the great 3Mega bits sec I was getting when I was last on Comcast (they upgraded from 1.5 to 3).
Add to the fact that I'm paying the exact same price I was paying for Comcast...and it SUCKS. But even after all that, no way would I ever ever ever go back to plain dial-up. It's just way too slow.
I have a feeling that if all those people that are satisfied with dial-up were given a taste of broadband, they'd never go back. I know from experience my mother-in-law. She's been on AOL for years, and had no intention of ever switching. But Comcast came through her neighborhood and offered to hook her up for free for 30 days...and she's never gone back to dial up.
It's like the drug pushers...the first hit is always free.
I'll admit, I took a cheap shot at the NYT. But they did really drop the ball with that reporter. I mean, the NYT is the freaking paper of record for God's sake!!
I still read it daily, but I was more than a bit upset when that happened.
How is it that I can get my sound working perfectly using one of the most obtuse Linux distros out there and I'm a complete idiot? Yet this guy, writing for a major computer magazine couldn't get one of 9 distros to run the sound?
I'm wondering if it was working fine and he just didn't have the PCM sound up using the ALSA-mixer...wouldn't it be SO funny if it was working all along and he didn't know how to turn the sound up?
There is a labor shortage? I know NOTHING about cars, but am willing to retrain. Doesn't sound like a bad gig.
When I was fresh out of high-school (1981) computers were going to be the next big thing with "learn how to fix computers and you'll have a job for life". But it seems like everyone else took that same advice and now there is a labor surplus in computer techs.
But I'm 42, would switching careers be too late for me perhaps? Interesting problem...
Really? Wow, and to think I was just watching them because I kinda dug the music/images.
Foolish me.
Re:I like my entire music library on shuffle...
on
The Joy of Random Shuffle
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I remember stations playing whole albums...one station used to play a whole album every night at midnight. They would play one side...play 2 or 3 commercials, then play the second side.
It was great, we would record on cassette our favorite albums! And then we'd play them over and over when we wanted.
Where was the RIAA then? I rarely bought music back then as I always taped it off the radio.
But you then can't play games like putting the check for the phone into the electric bill envelope and vice-versa...thereby saving you a week or so before everything is shut off.
You can't do that every time as they quickly catch on...
But then again, I haven't needed to do this since college...which seems like several life-times ago.
I consider myself an "old fart" that the guy in the article refers to, but I enjoy listening to my big collection of songs placed on shuffle most of the time.
I DO enjoy listening to whole albums when I'm in the mood to actually sit back and just relax and listen to the music.
But when I'm playing music in the background as I do something else...which is most of the time...it's like my own privatly programmed radio station with all different styles of music.
I like transitions that range from "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" to "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music soundtrack to "Who Was in My Room Last Night" by the Butthole Surfers to...well, you get my point. My tastes are all over the road.
Slashdot Mirror
Is this like the hydrogen peroxide you put on cold-sores and boo-boos...stored in your medicine cabinet?
So just pouring this over a silver screen or something similar and you've got rocket power?
Sounds kinda easy.
The simulation MMO isn't very realistic at all if you ask me.
There are no rocket jumps, no teleporters, no rail guns, no quad damage...you can't even capture the enemy flag for god's sake!
Doesn't sound very real to me...
Also, the firm of Arthur Andersen isn't/wasn't known for their totally legal business practices...as they were also the accounting firm behind Enron.
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."
Actually, according to the link you provided, it wasn't John Delorean (the CEO) that swindled the money out of the UK, it was Arthur Andersen, the U.S. accounting giant that handled DeLorean accounts.
The Delorean had so many problems with tariffs and shipping and just a mess that many of the 9,000 cars they made sat in parking lots waiting to come to America.
To call John Delorean a thieving bastard is to not understand everything that happened. John DeLorean has stayed out of the limelight. He's been entangled in about 40 legal cases stemming from his company's bankruptcy. He personally declared bankruptcy in September 1999. He was evicted from his house in 2000.
So much for the "thieving bastard".
It seems that depending on what news source you read from, IT is and isn't cut off from overtime.
I've read several conflicting news items on different sites that seem to contradict each other.
I repeat, the overtime rules were reworked at the last minute!
The Bush administration on Tuesday pulled back from a planned overhaul of the nation's overtime rules, allowing more white-collar workers -- including those earning as much as $100,000 a year -- to continue collecting premium pay if they log more than 40 hours a week.
From The Oregonian
MS hires the core kernel development team behind Linux!
Today Microsoft hired the entire core development team of the Linux kernel including Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton to head up Microsofts OS development department. Each will recieve a starting salary of 100 million dollars a year plus stock options. Overnight the core team became billionaires.
When asked about the future of the Linux kernel, the team laughed all the way to the bank to deposit their new cash.
Now, don't tell me this hasn't crossed Microsoft's collective minds from time to time...not that Linus and the rest would ever do this.
I've also stopped using tools because the military uses it.
....
I don't use hammers or screwdrivers...they use those in the military.
I don't use computers or clothes or shoes or autos or medicine or
Ok, you get the picture...
Also, you'll notice that he says:
NewsForge: But what does this have to do with a Linux Users' Group? Or do you just feel your time can be of more benefit applied elsewhere?
Claiborne: Nothing directly, and I will still participate in the LUG, just let new leadership come to the fore.
And from the rest of the article, Claiborne really isn't saying he's quiting because the military uses Linux. I think he may have been going in that direction until he stopped and thought how silly that sounds.
The War and the use of Linux in the War are really not an issue. Linux is just a tool. Does the inventor/developer of the screwdriver (if he/she were alive today that is) not want their tools used in the war?
Claiborne seems a bit flakey to me...at least the article makes him seem that way. He may be the nicest guy in the world, but the NewsForge article paints him otherwise.
I would say gasoline in a bottle with a burning rag attached is kind of a bomb...I should know, I had a chunk of glass rip through my leg from a thrown moltov cocktail in a riot that broke out in Huntington Beach California many years ago.
But I've seen tests on hydrogen tanks in fuel-cell cars (still experimental of course) that are as safe as gasoline tanks. If I find the link I'll certainly share it here.
But I can see your points. More testing is needed.
it's kind of a joke from Hank Hill on the cartoon "King of the Hill". He sells propane and propane accessories...it's a common line on that show.
But I guess it's kinda lost on the millions of people that have never seen the show. hehe
yes, this is probably what is going to slow down hydrogen fuel cells in the US with fears that cars will start exploding like the Hindenburg (even though it was the Aluminum paint on the skin of the airship that caused the explosion I belive...at least this is one of the theories).
Yet people drive around with a tank full of gasoline which we all know is VERY explosive....and people cook with tanks full of propane that also is explosive. (no, I don't sell propane and propane accessories).
But you say Hydrogen and they think Hindenburg and the Bikini Atoll...(as in the Hydrogen Bomb).
6 GB/s downloads...but still only 128kb/s uploads...
Really, this "new" suit better have that tape recorder strapped to his chest like the "old" suit had.
The only thing really cool about the old suit was the mask...everything else was the tape recorder and a Batman utility belt with little flashies on it. Oh, and a big flowing cape.
I started out on dial up way way way back when the only access was dial up BBS's...like The Ward Board and other BBS's in the Chicago area. Then moved to dial-up Internet usage through Interaccess...also in Chicago. Through Interaccess I then moved up to ISDN connection...then finally AT&T came to my area and I signed up with @home/ATT.
I went through the @home/ATT/Comcast shake-ups, but I ALWAYS loved my broadband. Even with Comcast I didn't have much downtime and the speeds were just great. I loved it.
But now, me and my family had to move to St. Joseph, Michigan and the only high-speed (where I am) is this fly-by-night ISP called "Green County Cable". I mean, they SUCK. They are down quite a bit, and their speeds are 400 kilo bits sec...down from the great 3Mega bits sec I was getting when I was last on Comcast (they upgraded from 1.5 to 3).
Add to the fact that I'm paying the exact same price I was paying for Comcast...and it SUCKS. But even after all that, no way would I ever ever ever go back to plain dial-up. It's just way too slow.
I have a feeling that if all those people that are satisfied with dial-up were given a taste of broadband, they'd never go back. I know from experience my mother-in-law. She's been on AOL for years, and had no intention of ever switching. But Comcast came through her neighborhood and offered to hook her up for free for 30 days...and she's never gone back to dial up.
It's like the drug pushers...the first hit is always free.
I'll admit, I took a cheap shot at the NYT. But they did really drop the ball with that reporter. I mean, the NYT is the freaking paper of record for God's sake!!
I still read it daily, but I was more than a bit upset when that happened.
How is it that I can get my sound working perfectly using one of the most obtuse Linux distros out there and I'm a complete idiot? Yet this guy, writing for a major computer magazine couldn't get one of 9 distros to run the sound?
I'm wondering if it was working fine and he just didn't have the PCM sound up using the ALSA-mixer...wouldn't it be SO funny if it was working all along and he didn't know how to turn the sound up?
With the scandel they had a few years ago with the reporter that would make up stories.
There is a labor shortage? I know NOTHING about cars, but am willing to retrain. Doesn't sound like a bad gig.
When I was fresh out of high-school (1981) computers were going to be the next big thing with "learn how to fix computers and you'll have a job for life". But it seems like everyone else took that same advice and now there is a labor surplus in computer techs.
But I'm 42, would switching careers be too late for me perhaps? Interesting problem...
So you used to teach an art class where the people couldn't draw...hmmmm...
1. It was a CLASS you TEACH...therefore you are there to TEACH them to draw.
or
2. After the class that you taught they still couldn't draw...who's fault is that really? There's or yours?
Also, how is this modded as interesting?
Really? Wow, and to think I was just watching them because I kinda dug the music/images.
Foolish me.
I remember stations playing whole albums...one station used to play a whole album every night at midnight. They would play one side...play 2 or 3 commercials, then play the second side.
It was great, we would record on cassette our favorite albums! And then we'd play them over and over when we wanted.
Where was the RIAA then? I rarely bought music back then as I always taped it off the radio.
I loved that song...rang in the video generation for MTV as it was the first song played...
MTV was great that first year...NO COMMERCIALS!
Now it's 95% commercials from what I saw last time.
But you then can't play games like putting the check for the phone into the electric bill envelope and vice-versa...thereby saving you a week or so before everything is shut off.
You can't do that every time as they quickly catch on...
But then again, I haven't needed to do this since college...which seems like several life-times ago.
I consider myself an "old fart" that the guy in the article refers to, but I enjoy listening to my big collection of songs placed on shuffle most of the time.
I DO enjoy listening to whole albums when I'm in the mood to actually sit back and just relax and listen to the music.
But when I'm playing music in the background as I do something else...which is most of the time...it's like my own privatly programmed radio station with all different styles of music.
I like transitions that range from "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" to "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music soundtrack to "Who Was in My Room Last Night" by the Butthole Surfers to...well, you get my point. My tastes are all over the road.
But I do NOT have drain bamage!