MS = Microsoft and MS = Multiple Sclerosis therefore Microsoft = Multiple Sclerosis! You're right! This is pure mathematical proof that Windows is a disease.
I could see this becoming a new business in the third world. Selling children's blood would not be far fetched. Look up were all (or most) of the hair for natural wigs and extensions comes from: Little girls in India.
Correct, Obama is not the politician the American people hoped for, but he is what a pragmatist would expect. He could not get elected without owing several very powerful (wealthy) individuals and corporations no matter how much individuals gave to the campaign. He can not change a power structure that has developed and entrenched itself since 1776, at least not in two years. What he has done is concentrate on the one goal he had above all others, health care reform. This by itself raises the standard of living in the US for middle class Americans who make up the bulk of the source of both tax dollars and GDP. However, with the complexities of Washington and the perversely unyielding stance of the Republicans the White House has not achieved what the people who supported him expected Obama to achieve. Thus we had the backlash in the mid-terms. More of a throwing out of the incumbents over disappointment rather than enthusiasm for Grand Old Party candidates (in a two party system who else do you vote for when voting someone out?).
It seems that a new party needs to be created, Democrats being ineffectual even when owning both houses, and the Republicans denying any help to the people (failing to pass unemployment extensions as an example) and screaming small government and less spending while doing neither. The Tea Party seems to instinctively know this, however, judging by the members, they certainly did not seem to plan it in a planned, sober or thoughtful way. America can use a third party but it will have to one that does not preach what seems to be thinly veiled anarchy (by the government, not the people) with a mind set bent on starting world war three. The TP are feeding off of the opportunity that the average American distrusts and fears the government. In Washington state the people voted down I-1098, which would have created a tax rate of 5 percent on annual income exceeding $200,000 for individuals and $400,000 for couples, and a 9 percent rate on income that tops $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for couples and cut the state portion of personal property taxes by 20 percent, about a 4 percent reduction in the annual overall property tax bill. Also, I-1098 also would have exempted an 118,000 businesses from the business-and-occupation tax on gross receipts. All of the money was to be spent on education (70%) and healthcare directly benefiting the poor and middel class. I-1098 lost with more than 65 percent of voters rejecting it, losing in every county. Obviously it was not only the people earning more than $200,000 that voted against it. My brother-in-law lives in Whatcom county Washington and I asked him why hew voted against the initiative. He said that if the state started to tax the rich they would not stop and soon he and everyone else would have to pay more income tax no matter how little they earned. He, like the majority, does not trust the government and the system in place is not working as anyone/everyone wants. But, it is stable and works to a degree that the standard of living in the USA has gone from thirteenth place in the United nations Human Development Index (HDI) list in 2009 to fourth (although in the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index the USA places 12th) in 2010.
This leads us back to offshoring:
Since FDR reduced government controls of business in order to stimulate the economy in the thirties there has been less and less direct government control of the economy which, of course, led to the banking collapse of 2008-2009. This also caused more and more businesses to be able to move operations offshore or over border. Many large Manufacturing companies like GM increased profits (or be more competitive - depending on who you ask) by moving operations to Mexico. Oregon based Nike does not produce a single shoe in the US. Almost the entire US agricultural business is completely dependent on Mexican labor. IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and other IT firms have made large investments in India and other countries.
I suppose it's because big-name mobile carriers are run by the same Ivy League taught greedy corporate dullards that run most other large US corporations and banks (nearly destroying the world economy 2 years ago) and can't think past three month quarterly earnings. Walmart management has a long term plan - fear them!
Speaking of waters...I thought the 'Sea Kittens' campaign was the silliest PETA would ever get, now this happens. I'm all for animal rights but how about the ethical, or at least reasonable, treatment of people.
Uuuuuuuuuuuhuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh... drool, pass out. No wonder adding comments has been disabled for the video. This reminds me of anti-smoking ads that are so lame and stupid (usually directed at teens) that they make you want to smoke.
The Stanley Steamer record is vastly more impressive. Tires, brakes, and suspension in 1906 were primitive, materials were not nearly as reliable, and design was done on a drawing board.
"That smashes the previous official record of 204 km/hr (127 mph) set in 1906 by Fred Marriott of the US in a modified version of the then-popular steam car known as the Stanley Steamer."
Sorry, but only going thirteen (13) miles an hour faster than a record more than a _century_ old is shit. He might have done better by using a replica Stanley engine made from modern materials (to allow heat increase without a boiler explosion) instead.
Playing GTA or Splinter Cell is probably a lot safer than Prozac or Paxil. As for the weight stop ordering to much Popeye's chicken and start using the Wii games, they really work up a sweat.
Yeah, Obama is evil and the Democrats are psychotic control freaks who want to do weird medical experiments on the US people and create an army of mutant zombie liberals that derive pleasure only by paying 80% taxes...
For crying out loud, boy, get a grip. The people at your HMO will do everything that they legally can to kill you rather than pay for your medical treatment. You should fear the people who want everything to be the same.
There have been several in eye (it's not a HUD, that's a projected screen) displays available through the years. They all sucked and disappeared. The military targeting versions seem to be pretty good though.
Agreed. Pascal to learn structured programming, then assembler to understand how a computer works, then C/C++ and Java to learn objects and threading, then C# to be employable.
Lisp is not much used outside of AI and difficult to understand without experience.
I guess I should call up the USPTO and apply to patent the alphabet. I would probably get it since it seems to be obvious that no one working there can read.
You may be right. My wife tried to get me to patent a portable telephone that I built the OS and HW drivers for and two EE grads did the hardware design. It contained an interface that worked like much the iPod, a database that you could scroll through and auto-dial like all cell phones now do, and had a voice activated command like hands free sets. She was convinced it would be a money maker. This was 1986. I said: "who the hell wants a phone in the car?". OK, I'm a moron.
If she brings it up I can always point out that her company offered her 150 Microsoft shares in 1987 or a cash bonus. I said to take the shares - DOS is the dominating PC OS, PC are getting less expensive and very popular, the development tools are good, and the Office software is getting popular. She wanted to take the kids to Disneyland. She won. A quick internet search says the stock is worth about 95 times what they were worth in 1987. Close July 31, 1987 $94. Adjusted value.27. Today's adjusted value 25.56. So, 150 * $94 * (25.56/0.27) = Today's value: around $1,334,800. I sleep on the couch when I use that, but I never lose a 'best judgment' argument.
Ideas, like idioms, are a dime a dozen - I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole.
A women is not a good source of criticism if she wants to sleep with you. Oh, yeah.. like others have pointed out - he is, like me, a member of Slashdot. She'll tell the truth.
Just as Windows 7 still can not copy more than one file at a time between directories without possible problems (abort on a locked file fails the copy and there is no return to original state ability, very large collections can take hours - Linux can handle this very well) I'm sure Office 2010 Excel is still limited to 65536 rows (I miss Quattro) and Word completely screws up with constant re-pagination that takes forever with large documents containing heavy graphics content.
Please give me a version that works for what I need to do. Not a version with mostly useless features that no one uses and features that are useful buried in impossible to find new places in the menu structure (it's a menu - not a 'Ribbon').
The $18 million dollar price tag is very reasonable. $500,000 for the systems analysis, design documentation, technical documentation, hardware and software design documents, load balancing Web servers, database servers, programming, testing, and deployment. $200,000 for 1 year of support, training, and operations until the passover to the government department that will take over operations. The rest ($17.3M) breaks doen into standard goverment overheads:
$5 million for contracts to idiot nephews/nieces/in-laws.
$300,000 for hiring mistresses as consultants.
$5 million for waste, mismanagement, and failed design. This is usually due to the project being sent to an overseas firm instead of hiring locally.
$50,000 for the single expert consultant that comes in at the end and fixes the mess in the last month.
$6.95 million for the trips, cars, jewelry, bags of cash, hookers, and cocaine.
This is meant to be a joke, but let me go in with a team of accountants and investigators after it's done and I will find at least a few examples of the above.
The best example so far has to be the Canadian Firearms Registration System - $2 billion and it still does not work.
Well said. I like to program solutions for problems I have that do not exist. An example is that my bank can allow downloads of transactions in several formats including Quick Books format but none in a format directly usable by Excel. I wrote a utility that converts the file from QIF to CSV by dragging and dropping the QIF file onto the dialog box (I like a minimal interface).
There are a lot of open source project out there looking for collaborators. Also, you could create your own open source project and solicit contributors. A Fire Fox add-in as an example.
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MS = Microsoft and MS = Multiple Sclerosis therefore Microsoft = Multiple Sclerosis! You're right! This is pure mathematical proof that Windows is a disease.
Matt and Trey don't seem so crazy now. Do they?
I could see this becoming a new business in the third world. Selling children's blood would not be far fetched. Look up were all (or most) of the hair for natural wigs and extensions comes from: Little girls in India.
...but Trudeau's dead...
Correct, Obama is not the politician the American people hoped for, but he is what a pragmatist would expect. He could not get elected without owing several very powerful (wealthy) individuals and corporations no matter how much individuals gave to the campaign. He can not change a power structure that has developed and entrenched itself since 1776, at least not in two years. What he has done is concentrate on the one goal he had above all others, health care reform. This by itself raises the standard of living in the US for middle class Americans who make up the bulk of the source of both tax dollars and GDP. However, with the complexities of Washington and the perversely unyielding stance of the Republicans the White House has not achieved what the people who supported him expected Obama to achieve. Thus we had the backlash in the mid-terms. More of a throwing out of the incumbents over disappointment rather than enthusiasm for Grand Old Party candidates (in a two party system who else do you vote for when voting someone out?).
It seems that a new party needs to be created, Democrats being ineffectual even when owning both houses, and the Republicans denying any help to the people (failing to pass unemployment extensions as an example) and screaming small government and less spending while doing neither. The Tea Party seems to instinctively know this, however, judging by the members, they certainly did not seem to plan it in a planned,
sober or thoughtful way. America can use a third party but it will have to one that does not preach what seems to be thinly veiled anarchy (by the government, not the people) with a mind set bent on starting world war three. The TP are feeding off of the opportunity that the average American distrusts and fears the government. In Washington state the people voted down I-1098, which would have created a tax rate of 5 percent on annual income exceeding $200,000 for individuals and $400,000 for couples, and a 9 percent rate on income that tops $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for couples and cut the state portion of personal property taxes by 20 percent, about a 4 percent reduction in the annual overall property tax bill. Also, I-1098 also would have exempted an 118,000 businesses from the business-and-occupation tax on gross receipts. All of the money was to be spent on education (70%) and healthcare directly benefiting the poor and middel class. I-1098 lost with more than 65 percent of voters rejecting it, losing in every county. Obviously it was not only the people earning more than $200,000 that voted against it. My brother-in-law lives in Whatcom county Washington and I asked him why hew voted against the initiative. He said that if the state started to tax the rich they would not stop and soon he and everyone else would have to pay more income tax no matter how little they earned. He, like the majority, does not trust the government and the system in place is not working as anyone/everyone wants. But, it is stable and works to a degree that the standard of living in the USA has gone from thirteenth place in the United nations Human Development Index (HDI) list in 2009 to fourth (although in the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index the USA places 12th) in 2010.
This leads us back to offshoring:
Since FDR reduced government controls of business in order to stimulate the economy in the thirties there has been less and less direct government control of the economy which, of course, led to the banking collapse of 2008-2009. This also caused more and more businesses to be able to move operations offshore or over border. Many large Manufacturing companies like GM increased profits (or be more competitive - depending on who you ask) by moving operations to Mexico. Oregon based Nike does not produce a single shoe in the US. Almost the entire US agricultural business is completely dependent on Mexican labor. IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and other IT firms have made large investments in India and other countries.
The American economy is no longer based
I suppose it's because big-name mobile carriers are run by the same Ivy League taught greedy corporate dullards that run most other large US corporations and banks (nearly destroying the world economy 2 years ago) and can't think past three month quarterly earnings. Walmart management has a long term plan - fear them!
I use lighter fluid. I hate stickers: I am currently looking at four on this laptop and 5 on my desktop.
Speaking of waters...I thought the 'Sea Kittens' campaign was the silliest PETA would ever get, now this happens. I'm all for animal rights but how about the ethical, or at least reasonable, treatment of people.
Uuuuuuuuuuuhuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh... drool, pass out. No wonder adding comments has been disabled for the video. This reminds me of anti-smoking ads that are so lame and stupid (usually directed at teens) that they make you want to smoke.
The Stanley Steamer record is vastly more impressive. Tires, brakes, and suspension in 1906 were primitive, materials were not nearly as reliable, and design was done on a drawing board.
"That smashes the previous official record of 204 km/hr (127 mph) set in 1906 by Fred Marriott of the US in a modified version of the then-popular steam car known as the Stanley Steamer."
Sorry, but only going thirteen (13) miles an hour faster than a record more than a _century_ old is shit. He might have done better by using a replica Stanley engine made from modern materials (to allow heat increase without a boiler explosion) instead.
Yes, these are my thoughts too.
Playing GTA or Splinter Cell is probably a lot safer than Prozac or Paxil. As for the weight stop ordering to much Popeye's chicken and start using the Wii games, they really work up a sweat.
ha haha hahaha haha ha ha ha ha ha!
OMG! You are Rush Limbaugh!
Why is Google and Apple Missing? I think MS is blowing smoke up our collective backsides.
Yeah, Obama is evil and the Democrats are psychotic control freaks who want to do weird medical experiments on the US people and create an army of mutant zombie liberals that derive pleasure only by paying 80% taxes...
For crying out loud, boy, get a grip. The people at your HMO will do everything that they legally can to kill you rather than pay for your medical treatment. You should fear the people who want everything to be the same.
Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
There have been several in eye (it's not a HUD, that's a projected screen) displays available through the years. They all sucked and disappeared. The military targeting versions seem to be pretty good though.
He he, good one. I wish I thought of that.
Sounds like the result of Mathew Broderick movie festival and too many Red Bulls.
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Bomb Mars now!
Agreed. Pascal to learn structured programming, then assembler to understand how a computer works, then C/C++ and Java to learn objects and threading, then C# to be employable.
Lisp is not much used outside of AI and difficult to understand without experience.
I guess I should call up the USPTO and apply to patent the alphabet. I would probably get it since it seems to be obvious that no one working there can read.
You may be right. My wife tried to get me to patent a portable telephone that I built the OS and HW drivers for and two EE grads did the hardware design. It contained an interface that worked like much the iPod, a database that you could scroll through and auto-dial like all cell phones now do, and had a voice activated command like hands free sets. She was convinced it would be a money maker. This was 1986. I said: "who the hell wants a phone in the car?". OK, I'm a moron.
.27. Today's adjusted value 25.56. So, 150 * $94 * (25.56/0.27) = Today's value: around $1,334,800. I sleep on the couch when I use that, but I never lose a 'best judgment' argument.
If she brings it up I can always point out that her company offered her 150 Microsoft shares in 1987 or a cash bonus. I said to take the shares - DOS is the dominating PC OS, PC are getting less expensive and very popular, the development tools are good, and the Office software is getting popular. She wanted to take the kids to Disneyland. She won. A quick internet search says the stock is worth about 95 times what they were worth in 1987. Close July 31, 1987 $94. Adjusted value
Ideas, like idioms, are a dime a dozen - I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole.
A women is not a good source of criticism if she wants to sleep with you. Oh, yeah.. like others have pointed out - he is, like me, a member of Slashdot. She'll tell the truth.
Just as Windows 7 still can not copy more than one file at a time between directories without possible problems (abort on a locked file fails the copy and there is no return to original state ability, very large collections can take hours - Linux can handle this very well) I'm sure Office 2010 Excel is still limited to 65536 rows (I miss Quattro) and Word completely screws up with constant re-pagination that takes forever with large documents containing heavy graphics content.
Please give me a version that works for what I need to do. Not a version with mostly useless features that no one uses and features that are useful buried in impossible to find new places in the menu structure (it's a menu - not a 'Ribbon').
I switched to Open Office.
The $18 million dollar price tag is very reasonable. $500,000 for the systems analysis, design documentation, technical documentation, hardware and software design documents, load balancing Web servers, database servers, programming, testing, and deployment. $200,000 for 1 year of support, training, and operations until the passover to the government department that will take over operations. The rest ($17.3M) breaks doen into standard goverment overheads:
$5 million for contracts to idiot nephews/nieces/in-laws.
$300,000 for hiring mistresses as consultants.
$5 million for waste, mismanagement, and failed design. This is usually due to the project being sent to an overseas firm instead of hiring locally.
$50,000 for the single expert consultant that comes in at the end and fixes the mess in the last month.
$6.95 million for the trips, cars, jewelry, bags of cash, hookers, and cocaine.
This is meant to be a joke, but let me go in with a team of accountants and investigators after it's done and I will find at least a few examples of the above.
The best example so far has to be the Canadian Firearms Registration System - $2 billion and it still does not work.
Well said. I like to program solutions for problems I have that do not exist. An example is that my bank can allow downloads of transactions in several formats including Quick Books format but none in a format directly usable by Excel. I wrote a utility that converts the file from QIF to CSV by dragging and dropping the QIF file onto the dialog box (I like a minimal interface). There are a lot of open source project out there looking for collaborators. Also, you could create your own open source project and solicit contributors. A Fire Fox add-in as an example.