I was going to order a Dell with Ubuntu, but the price was almost the same!
Instead I buy lightly used IBM and Lenovo laptops and add Ubuntu. They rock.
Be nice if I could find Linux drivers for the fingerprint reader and my camera is kind of dark, but other than those minor niggles, they're great Ubuntu boxes.
But don't worry, this is all the evil Republican's fault.
One of the reasons I abandoned the Republican party was because they could never face up to their own failures or take responsibilities for their mistakes.
Think about that when you're standing next to the coughing homeless person at the train station or one of your kids gets diagnosed with antibiotic resistant TB. It would serve you right for sticking up for governor Penis Head.
When people's lives are at risk in a mercilessly harsh environment, isn't it a bit selfish for us to be asking them to use their solar panels to send us video of their daily lives?
Just who is going to make them do it if they feel it's not in their best interest to burn power that way? If there's a chance of raising enough money for a supply flight, then they have choice.
If circumstances are so dire they can't spare the power for broadcast, which isn't that much btw, provided it's not in real time HD, it's not like they're going to lose their job or get taken to court on Mars.
Would it be more economic for both companies to live and let live, or is there value to be captured in legal finger pointing?
I would be willing to wager that the majority of patent litigation stems from a combination of arrogance and machismo. The exception would be patent trolls, which are leeches on the skin of innovation.
Instead, he said, 'The real culprits are the employers themselves.'
I've heard companies complain about not being able to find qualified applicants, then ignore dozens of qualified people and not even bother to call them. It would be different if they made offers and were turned down, but they don't even call.
You can't claim you can't find qualified applicants if you're not returning phone calls.
Companies are cutting corners all the time. Outsourcing IT support and web site maintenance, so it doesn't surprise me they don't know their own sites are serving up malware.
And it all rolls downhill. The company running their web site runs 5,000 sites with two stressed out staff and can't keep up with sites that get boned. The host probably has thousands of domains and they don't have the staff to check on all their customer sites.
So all this shit falls on a handful of people who are overworked and underpaid by management who don't give a crap about anything but getting their bonus and boning the HR director.
It would be better if developers could sell the apps as well. I paid for Corel AfterShot Pro because it ran on Ubuntu and it rocks. Hopefully Canonical will adopt app store type pricing. It would be a whole new market for app developers.
Lost the mobo on my Ubuntu machine and have been limping along on Windows 7 lately. Swearing the whole time because nothing is in the right place, everything is clunky and lacks the polish of Ubuntu. Windows is at least tolerable with Chrome, but it's still second place imho.
Now with work conditions like that, is it any damned wonder that nobody wants the fucking job?
Ha! Right on target. I would add to that the number of interviews I went to that I was well qualified for the job and the company was holding out for someone younger, or who would work unlimited hours for $30K.
Industry crapped on a whole generation of IT people and now it's coming around to bite them in the ass. Oh, we can't find qualified IT people. Ahhhh. Someone call the waaaaaaaaambulance.
To really figure the electrical cost of gaming, you have to figure out what else people would be doing if they weren't playing games. Some activities, like watching TV, would use as much or more power.
My guess is if we calculated the energy use of those other activities, gaming might be a net energy saving activity.
Chernobyl is not exactly a fair comparison. That was a massive release with so much radiation in some places you could actually taste it.
Like it or not, Fukushima actually demonstrated that in an absolutely worst case nightmare scenario the releases would not be that bad.
What I think is funny are the people who worry about getting cancer from the minuscule, barely measurable radiation drifting in weather patterns and then sit down to a breakfast of bacon and eggs. Processed meats have a much better statistical correlation for cancer than micro levels of radioactive isotopes, some of which occur naturally.
I know, I know. I'm going to burn in hell now for ripping on bacon.
There was plenty of room, but I think most people were glum because we got so close to the launch before they scrubbed it. That at everyone got up at 3 am to get there.
The fact is that solar power is just not that economical on its own
So? Neither is train travel, air travel, or highway construction. A good set of American made solar panels have a life expectancy of 20 years. That's a good investment in my mind, especially if we can hold off building new power plants.
Any big change in civilization comes at a cost that's rarely profitable at first, but it's the right thing to do.
The Chinese we're trying to undermine U.S. manufacturing by dumping panels below cost, it's about time we started fighting back. Republicans would have just gone, "Oh, too bad, the Chinese make panels cheaper...free market blah, blah, blah." And kiss those jobs goodbye.
I was advertising one of my ebooks with adwords and decided to try FB to see how it compared. Though the number of impressions was quite high, sales immediately tanked. As soon as I shut down the FB ad run and switched back to adwords, sales went right back up.
A lot probably depends on the product you're advertising. All I know is my target market wasn't on FB and that is apparently true for GM as well. I'm just glad I tested it before moving a bigger chunk of my advertising.
My sense is people go to FB to advertise what they're doing, not go shopping.
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I was going to order a Dell with Ubuntu, but the price was almost the same!
Instead I buy lightly used IBM and Lenovo laptops and add Ubuntu. They rock.
Be nice if I could find Linux drivers for the fingerprint reader and my camera is kind of dark, but other than those minor niggles, they're great Ubuntu boxes.
They'll definitely miss her distinctive laugh around the hallways I'm sure.
But don't worry, this is all the evil Republican's fault.
One of the reasons I abandoned the Republican party was because they could never face up to their own failures or take responsibilities for their mistakes.
Think about that when you're standing next to the coughing homeless person at the train station or one of your kids gets diagnosed with antibiotic resistant TB. It would serve you right for sticking up for governor Penis Head.
The best part was the way everyone thought that was the opening. Then it dawns, somewhat reluctantly, that was the whole show.
When you sudo it from from my cold, dead hands.
Well, I guess that plan to infiltrate earth in tiny spaceships disguised as water drops is out the window now.
Thanks to the US Navy!
Because by international treaties, the planets belongs to humanity, and are not subject to exploitation.
Tell that to the first country that gets there and establishes a colony.
When people's lives are at risk in a mercilessly harsh environment, isn't it a bit selfish for us to be asking them to use their solar panels to send us video of their daily lives?
Just who is going to make them do it if they feel it's not in their best interest to burn power that way? If there's a chance of raising enough money for a supply flight, then they have choice.
If circumstances are so dire they can't spare the power for broadcast, which isn't that much btw, provided it's not in real time HD, it's not like they're going to lose their job or get taken to court on Mars.
Then move out of Arizona. Moving a tech company is a lot easier than moving a factory.
Would it be more economic for both companies to live and let live, or is there value to be captured in legal finger pointing?
I would be willing to wager that the majority of patent litigation stems from a combination of arrogance and machismo. The exception would be patent trolls, which are leeches on the skin of innovation.
Instead, he said, 'The real culprits are the employers themselves.'
I've heard companies complain about not being able to find qualified applicants, then ignore dozens of qualified people and not even bother to call them. It would be different if they made offers and were turned down, but they don't even call.
You can't claim you can't find qualified applicants if you're not returning phone calls.
Companies are cutting corners all the time. Outsourcing IT support and web site maintenance, so it doesn't surprise me they don't know their own sites are serving up malware.
And it all rolls downhill. The company running their web site runs 5,000 sites with two stressed out staff and can't keep up with sites that get boned. The host probably has thousands of domains and they don't have the staff to check on all their customer sites.
So all this shit falls on a handful of people who are overworked and underpaid by management who don't give a crap about anything but getting their bonus and boning the HR director.
It would be better if developers could sell the apps as well. I paid for Corel AfterShot Pro because it ran on Ubuntu and it rocks. Hopefully Canonical will adopt app store type pricing. It would be a whole new market for app developers.
Lost the mobo on my Ubuntu machine and have been limping along on Windows 7 lately. Swearing the whole time because nothing is in the right place, everything is clunky and lacks the polish of Ubuntu. Windows is at least tolerable with Chrome, but it's still second place imho.
Now with work conditions like that, is it any damned wonder that nobody wants the fucking job?
Ha! Right on target. I would add to that the number of interviews I went to that I was well qualified for the job and the company was holding out for someone younger, or who would work unlimited hours for $30K.
Industry crapped on a whole generation of IT people and now it's coming around to bite them in the ass. Oh, we can't find qualified IT people. Ahhhh. Someone call the waaaaaaaaambulance.
I've invested a lot in the Netherlands over the years; those investments have paid off really well. So did money I put into Canadian stock fund.
Funny how those darn socialist countries continue kicking the crap out the USA, where we're always number one in our own minds.
To really figure the electrical cost of gaming, you have to figure out what else people would be doing if they weren't playing games. Some activities, like watching TV, would use as much or more power.
My guess is if we calculated the energy use of those other activities, gaming might be a net energy saving activity.
Iranian officials stress that Iran's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes
Ha-ha. We say the same thing about ours in the U.S.
Browsers that getted sued for having ad blocking features.
It's only a frivolous lawsuit when someone besides Fox files it.
Chernobyl is not exactly a fair comparison. That was a massive release with so much radiation in some places you could actually taste it.
Like it or not, Fukushima actually demonstrated that in an absolutely worst case nightmare scenario the releases would not be that bad.
What I think is funny are the people who worry about getting cancer from the minuscule, barely measurable radiation drifting in weather patterns and then sit down to a breakfast of bacon and eggs. Processed meats have a much better statistical correlation for cancer than micro levels of radioactive isotopes, some of which occur naturally.
I know, I know. I'm going to burn in hell now for ripping on bacon.
There was plenty of room, but I think most people were glum because we got so close to the launch before they scrubbed it. That at everyone got up at 3 am to get there.
Because the walled garden worked so well for AOL.
Then everything shut down. Drive all that way at 0 dark thirty for a fizzle.
My first thought when it was obvious the engines shut down.
Ah, the good old days when launching a rocket involved someone named "Hans" and a big red button.
The fact is that solar power is just not that economical on its own
So? Neither is train travel, air travel, or highway construction. A good set of American made solar panels have a life expectancy of 20 years. That's a good investment in my mind, especially if we can hold off building new power plants.
Any big change in civilization comes at a cost that's rarely profitable at first, but it's the right thing to do.
The Chinese we're trying to undermine U.S. manufacturing by dumping panels below cost, it's about time we started fighting back. Republicans would have just gone, "Oh, too bad, the Chinese make panels cheaper...free market blah, blah, blah." And kiss those jobs goodbye.
I was advertising one of my ebooks with adwords and decided to try FB to see how it compared. Though the number of impressions was quite high, sales immediately tanked. As soon as I shut down the FB ad run and switched back to adwords, sales went right back up.
A lot probably depends on the product you're advertising. All I know is my target market wasn't on FB and that is apparently true for GM as well. I'm just glad I tested it before moving a bigger chunk of my advertising.
My sense is people go to FB to advertise what they're doing, not go shopping.
I'm using Chrome on Linux and only rarely dust off FF.
The question is not if this was a good policy decision, the question is whether anyone will notice.