My car accepts MP3 or WMA. As a Linux Geek the latter is out so I rip all my CD's to MP3. In a car the "quality" is really not that important. Factor in road noise, engine noise, etc. and MP3 is wonderful:).
Let's see. If it works, big oil will lobby (bribe) congress and congress (note lower case) will pass a law to "protect" us from this product. Move along, nothing to see here....
Safe or unsafe we will never know. The FDA says what it is paid to say. The safety of the public is really not an issue. Hence, their endorsement means nothing. Caveat Emptor.
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I am running it right now...well actually the Live distribution. My DVD iso has not yet finished. Not bad. I have been running Fedora 5 for awhile and it is time to get with program and update. Maybe over Thanksgiving.
Go ahead and set aside that $500,000 you have laying around and hand it over to an attorney to sue Micro$oft. Good luck. As we have all seen, court cases are typically won based on the amount of money spent. Only occasionally does the law prevail. Judges are bougth and juries are so confused they just go with the best arguments.
Absolutely true. Money equals outcome in America. For example, I wanted to put an addition on my house. Not a chicken coup, but a viable addition which would allow them to up my taxes, etc. The ONLY way to get a property improvement approved is to hand over $1,000 to an attorney who is a friend of the township solicitor and bingo...you get to build your new addition. No money - no approval. If you have enough money you can slash your wife's throat and kill an innocent bystander. We all know that. If your a Senator you can molest children. The "system" is rigged so that you MUST pay to play. If a mortgage, kids and braces get in the way, then you lose. This is why Shakespeare was correct regarding lawyers.
Since I am feeling positive right now, our history is one of correcting ourselves when we got off course. Maybe we don't see the correction as these things take time.
Well written. I tend to agree we probably cannot return to our "old ways" but I think we are being sold out faster than we can cope socially and economically. Couple that with a rapidly declining education system and how can we possibly end-up on top economically. My belief is that the Dollar will at some point collapse and we will have to pay for our excesses. I have had my daughter in three private schools and even they keep lowering their standards. It's sad amd frustrating.
On voting. Mine are protest votes. I have NO confidence in either party. I personally know some politicians who are really trying to do the right thing. Too bad. Yes, the world is changin rapidly, but outsourcing ourselves is not the complete answer. I have friends and co-workers moving BACK to India and China respectively. The reason...greater opportunity. It is already starting. Great 2 cents...makes me think:).
I vote in EVERY election in my precint. I vote against ALL incumbants and against any additional spending. I am doing my part. I think when the dollar finally collapses people will get a clue that deindustrializing along with de-educating our kids was a really bad idea. I am not sure if our Government fully appreciates the impact of a bunch of pissed-off gun-owning "peasants." Shrub never read the history around Viet Nam and wonderfully repeated it. I bet he knows even less about European history...regarding uprisings, inserection and revolutions, etc.
Software Development / Quality Assurance. I wanted to point out that I was not selling those horrible mortgages, just building systems to enable them. Which is worse? I started my career as an engineer and then migrated into software development like so many others.. Given that I am over forty I probably have to think about other career objectives too. As much as I enjoy computer technology, it does not seem like a good choice for a younger person these days. I hope I am just being cynical and stupid:).
People no longer go into the sciences because the career is simply not very enticing. I have an engineering degree from a very well-known and prestigous school. I even renewed my State engineering license on-line last night which is a note on the bottom of my resume. I have a Masters in computer science and teach part-time at a local college at night. My day job? I work for a Mortgage company and make way more than I did as an engineer. Of course, I may be changing careers again the way things are going with subprimes. I work back-office operations not sales. Two of my closest friends from my college days just attained their law degrees and are both working at law firms near their homes. There you have it. The value of a technical degree. As long as there is "free trade" between India and China with respect to labor we have no shot. I submit very few engineers remain in their field. Mine was robotics. With foreign buy-outs and bankruptcy I was happy to leave the field. I guess I made some poor employment choices. Who knows.
Remember, that in America at least, court cases are generally won by money not truth. On television, people win court cases on merit. Frankly, Micro$oft can throw in a few attorney's to fud things up and confuse the judge, then throw in a bribe or two to close the deal. It really is not relevant if M$ has any patents or not. They have money...like O.J. did.
I am not so sure. In the 80's movie themes about the big International corporations running governments and the citizens were roundly laughed at. Nobody is laughing now as we see this unfolding before us. A government that is paid for and owned by the mega-corps and citizens beholded to them for their pathetic materialistic lifestyle.
I can see the middle-class becoming revolutionary due to poor economic conditions in the future.
I can see the Western governments using Orwellian tactics to stay in power over the masses.
This will be the legacy of George W. Bush (George II the Lesser). Since he has basically blown everything else, he hopes that this stroke of brillance will somehow rise above his more challenged efforts at leadership.
This is better than Fedora Core 5 in what way? The current Linux distro's do a nice job of detecting hardware and simply "working." I will be watching to see how they "truly" differentiate themselves.
A few years ago my wife's cousin went out to the Silicon Valley area to potentially transfer. I made sure that he studied the housing market versus any increase in pay. He stayed in PA and eventually moved onto something else. The company was fine - no problems there.
I would make sure (in writing!!) they pay for most everything, but also be aware of the cost of housing and the two hours each-way commute time (I kid you not). If you are cool with that then go for it. I am a graduate of the University of California and I never regretted leaving California:).
With us shutting down our factories, a large middle-class market in India, China, Brazil, or wherever is meaningless to us. We have nothing to sell. I read an article how key components for our U.S. Military now come from China. We have shut down specialty factories that provided vital military components because the Chinese could do it cheaper. Well duh! The CEO's got rich, sent a cut to Washington as a campaign contribution and gradually the Chinese (and other 'cheap' Countries) are taking control of key military infrastructure components for us. When they get tired of our little military trists around the world we can be cut-off. Imagine this. There will never be a war with China because they control our supply chain. Learn Mandarin...
I probably did. I made bad choices going after cool jobs and each company fell on hard times so I had to move on. Early out of college I hoped around alot and got discouraged. I found I was becoming a 'jack of all' and master of none. I went in the direction of programming and system administration - but I did this in a large corporate environment so you perfect political skills not technical skills.
Now I am just a corporate weenie with decent political skills. I get paid well (Not $160,000) but my engineering skills are minimal as a result. Maybe I am whining...
I am an engineer with a Master's Degree and even one of those silly Professional Engineer licenses. I work for a Mortgage company as an analyst / project manager. I gave-up on engineering years ago due to low salaries, poor opportunities and companies going down the tubes. People who fix cars make way more than engineers. Not a slam on them as I am thinking about going to tech school to do such a career change. There is simply a glut of people out there with technical degrees. Try hiring a programmer; you get flooded with thousands of resumes.
I have one of those engineering degrees. It's pretty much worthless. Bail on engineering and get a law degree. You can get rich repossessing wheelchairs from the elderly or randomly suing doctors. Hey it's the only growing field left in America. You might as well jump on the gravy train while it is still roaring forward.
Salaries are declining thanks to outsourcing and the career basically stinks. I teach Java part-time at a local college. My course has been cancelled twice due to inadequate enrollment. The kids are getting a clue that all the hard work to obtain a degree in the sciences is not worth it. CEO's are "C" students at best who excel in lying and bullying. The U.S. will let this one slip, we will mint more lawyers and someday we will be so screwed.
My B.S. is in engineering and I work for a Mortgage Company. They pay better and they don't go out of business after a year. My M.S. is in C.S. and that I believe was a waste of my time.
Pity isn't it?
I live in the Philly area. Fifteen years ago this was probably the best radio market anywhere. There was real music diversity and edgy stations. Now about every six months current stations die and other generic "fat part of the bell curve" stations replace them. The reason listeners are declining is because the music quality is declining. Do you think people really want to buy a satellite receiver and pay $13 a month? They have to if they want good music. The up shot is that I have bought more CD's this year to listen to and from work. I used to only listen to the radio and now the radio is a part time device. What a pity.
No, but the fact is a bond is an IOU and there are two ways to pay it back. Raise taxes or devalue your currency. Reagan raised SS taxes in the 1980's to "save" SS and guess what we started to pull out of our budget deficit some years later. That lock box is empty and always has been. SS relies on an ever growing tax base. Between the retirement of baby booomers and outsourcing the party is over. My prediction is simple: The USD will eventually collapse. It is the only solution...but not until our creditors have had enough of us:).
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My car accepts MP3 or WMA. As a Linux Geek the latter is out so I rip all my CD's to MP3. In a car the "quality" is really not that important. Factor in road noise, engine noise, etc. and MP3 is wonderful :).
If this really works expect the oil industry to either buy the technology rights and hold on to it or simply kill him.
Let's see. If it works, big oil will lobby (bribe) congress and congress (note lower case) will pass a law to "protect" us from this product. Move along, nothing to see here....
Safe or unsafe we will never know. The FDA says what it is paid to say. The safety of the public is really not an issue. Hence, their endorsement means nothing. Caveat Emptor.
I am running it right now...well actually the Live distribution. My DVD iso has not yet finished. Not bad. I have been running Fedora 5 for awhile and it is time to get with program and update. Maybe over Thanksgiving.
They better hurry while the U.S. Dollar still has any value left. Maybe we can use gambling proceeds to pay for it......
Go ahead and set aside that $500,000 you have laying around and hand it over to an attorney to sue Micro$oft. Good luck. As we have all seen, court cases are typically won based on the amount of money spent. Only occasionally does the law prevail. Judges are bougth and juries are so confused they just go with the best arguments.
Absolutely true. Money equals outcome in America. For example, I wanted to put an addition on my house. Not a chicken coup, but a viable addition which would allow them to up my taxes, etc. The ONLY way to get a property improvement approved is to hand over $1,000 to an attorney who is a friend of the township solicitor and bingo...you get to build your new addition. No money - no approval. If you have enough money you can slash your wife's throat and kill an innocent bystander. We all know that. If your a Senator you can molest children. The "system" is rigged so that you MUST pay to play. If a mortgage, kids and braces get in the way, then you lose. This is why Shakespeare was correct regarding lawyers.
Since I am feeling positive right now, our history is one of correcting ourselves when we got off course. Maybe we don't see the correction as these things take time.
Well written. I tend to agree we probably cannot return to our "old ways" but I think we are being sold out faster than we can cope socially and economically. Couple that with a rapidly declining education system and how can we possibly end-up on top economically. My belief is that the Dollar will at some point collapse and we will have to pay for our excesses. I have had my daughter in three private schools and even they keep lowering their standards. It's sad amd frustrating. On voting. Mine are protest votes. I have NO confidence in either party. I personally know some politicians who are really trying to do the right thing. Too bad. Yes, the world is changin rapidly, but outsourcing ourselves is not the complete answer. I have friends and co-workers moving BACK to India and China respectively. The reason...greater opportunity. It is already starting. Great 2 cents...makes me think :).
I vote in EVERY election in my precint. I vote against ALL incumbants and against any additional spending. I am doing my part. I think when the dollar finally collapses people will get a clue that deindustrializing along with de-educating our kids was a really bad idea. I am not sure if our Government fully appreciates the impact of a bunch of pissed-off gun-owning "peasants." Shrub never read the history around Viet Nam and wonderfully repeated it. I bet he knows even less about European history...regarding uprisings, inserection and revolutions, etc.
Software Development / Quality Assurance. I wanted to point out that I was not selling those horrible mortgages, just building systems to enable them. Which is worse? I started my career as an engineer and then migrated into software development like so many others.. Given that I am over forty I probably have to think about other career objectives too. As much as I enjoy computer technology, it does not seem like a good choice for a younger person these days. I hope I am just being cynical and stupid :).
People no longer go into the sciences because the career is simply not very enticing. I have an engineering degree from a very well-known and prestigous school. I even renewed my State engineering license on-line last night which is a note on the bottom of my resume. I have a Masters in computer science and teach part-time at a local college at night. My day job? I work for a Mortgage company and make way more than I did as an engineer. Of course, I may be changing careers again the way things are going with subprimes. I work back-office operations not sales. Two of my closest friends from my college days just attained their law degrees and are both working at law firms near their homes. There you have it. The value of a technical degree. As long as there is "free trade" between India and China with respect to labor we have no shot. I submit very few engineers remain in their field. Mine was robotics. With foreign buy-outs and bankruptcy I was happy to leave the field. I guess I made some poor employment choices. Who knows.
Remember, that in America at least, court cases are generally won by money not truth. On television, people win court cases on merit. Frankly, Micro$oft can throw in a few attorney's to fud things up and confuse the judge, then throw in a bribe or two to close the deal. It really is not relevant if M$ has any patents or not. They have money...like O.J. did.
I am not so sure. In the 80's movie themes about the big International corporations running governments and the citizens were roundly laughed at. Nobody is laughing now as we see this unfolding before us. A government that is paid for and owned by the mega-corps and citizens beholded to them for their pathetic materialistic lifestyle. I can see the middle-class becoming revolutionary due to poor economic conditions in the future. I can see the Western governments using Orwellian tactics to stay in power over the masses.
This will be the legacy of George W. Bush (George II the Lesser). Since he has basically blown everything else, he hopes that this stroke of brillance will somehow rise above his more challenged efforts at leadership.
This is better than Fedora Core 5 in what way? The current Linux distro's do a nice job of detecting hardware and simply "working." I will be watching to see how they "truly" differentiate themselves.
A few years ago my wife's cousin went out to the Silicon Valley area to potentially transfer. I made sure that he studied the housing market versus any increase in pay. He stayed in PA and eventually moved onto something else. The company was fine - no problems there. I would make sure (in writing!!) they pay for most everything, but also be aware of the cost of housing and the two hours each-way commute time (I kid you not). If you are cool with that then go for it. I am a graduate of the University of California and I never regretted leaving California :).
With us shutting down our factories, a large middle-class market in India, China, Brazil, or wherever is meaningless to us. We have nothing to sell. I read an article how key components for our U.S. Military now come from China. We have shut down specialty factories that provided vital military components because the Chinese could do it cheaper. Well duh! The CEO's got rich, sent a cut to Washington as a campaign contribution and gradually the Chinese (and other 'cheap' Countries) are taking control of key military infrastructure components for us. When they get tired of our little military trists around the world we can be cut-off. Imagine this. There will never be a war with China because they control our supply chain. Learn Mandarin...
I probably did. I made bad choices going after cool jobs and each company fell on hard times so I had to move on. Early out of college I hoped around alot and got discouraged. I found I was becoming a 'jack of all' and master of none. I went in the direction of programming and system administration - but I did this in a large corporate environment so you perfect political skills not technical skills. Now I am just a corporate weenie with decent political skills. I get paid well (Not $160,000) but my engineering skills are minimal as a result. Maybe I am whining...
I am an engineer with a Master's Degree and even one of those silly Professional Engineer licenses. I work for a Mortgage company as an analyst / project manager. I gave-up on engineering years ago due to low salaries, poor opportunities and companies going down the tubes. People who fix cars make way more than engineers. Not a slam on them as I am thinking about going to tech school to do such a career change. There is simply a glut of people out there with technical degrees. Try hiring a programmer; you get flooded with thousands of resumes.
I have one of those engineering degrees. It's pretty much worthless. Bail on engineering and get a law degree. You can get rich repossessing wheelchairs from the elderly or randomly suing doctors. Hey it's the only growing field left in America. You might as well jump on the gravy train while it is still roaring forward.
Salaries are declining thanks to outsourcing and the career basically stinks. I teach Java part-time at a local college. My course has been cancelled twice due to inadequate enrollment. The kids are getting a clue that all the hard work to obtain a degree in the sciences is not worth it. CEO's are "C" students at best who excel in lying and bullying. The U.S. will let this one slip, we will mint more lawyers and someday we will be so screwed. My B.S. is in engineering and I work for a Mortgage Company. They pay better and they don't go out of business after a year. My M.S. is in C.S. and that I believe was a waste of my time. Pity isn't it?
I live in the Philly area. Fifteen years ago this was probably the best radio market anywhere. There was real music diversity and edgy stations. Now about every six months current stations die and other generic "fat part of the bell curve" stations replace them. The reason listeners are declining is because the music quality is declining. Do you think people really want to buy a satellite receiver and pay $13 a month? They have to if they want good music. The up shot is that I have bought more CD's this year to listen to and from work. I used to only listen to the radio and now the radio is a part time device. What a pity.
No, but the fact is a bond is an IOU and there are two ways to pay it back. Raise taxes or devalue your currency. Reagan raised SS taxes in the 1980's to "save" SS and guess what we started to pull out of our budget deficit some years later. That lock box is empty and always has been. SS relies on an ever growing tax base. Between the retirement of baby booomers and outsourcing the party is over. My prediction is simple: The USD will eventually collapse. It is the only solution...but not until our creditors have had enough of us :).