Actually, it wasn't city money that Salinas gave to the company, it was Federal and State money. The city was merely the bad decision maker and transfer agent for unrestrained spending by the Feds and State of CA.
"Green Vehicles received $300,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant funding in 2009 and about $234,000 in city General Fund money last fall in advance of the company's planned receipt of a $2.05 million grant from the California Energy Commission.
Our Sun Conure is 20 years old, and may outlive us. The one in the picture is not dancing, but rather stretching its wing. I thought this might be a habit of flightless birds (flight feathers clipped), until I saw a raven at the Grand Canyon do exactly the same thing.
I remember in March 1980 when a colleague took me to an Apple computer store in San Francisco, opened VisiCalc, put 100 in one cell, 200 in another, a sum below it, and 300 magically appeared.
My life as an accountant changed forever that day. It took me three months, and many meeting to get the local division of the major oil company I worked for to buy the first Apple in the company. I seem to recall it was $3,000 or so.
After that it was models and spreadsheets galore - well, whatever was 64k or smaller. ("Oh, you want that calculation? Well, I'll have to remove this one.)
Then on to IBM and Lotus 123 and the rest is history.
Were spreadsheets abused, full of errors, and assumed gospel when they weren't? Sure, but they also made clear, in a very short time, important data used to make good decisions.
Now long retired, that moment in SF remains with me as one of those "ah yes" moments in life.
When I finally got the 80+ in-laws to get off dial-up and on to cable high speed, I installed LogMeIn, a great free program and service that allows me to access their computer from 160 miles away and fix most problems that crop up.
It would be helpful if Windows had a "disable right mouse clicks" switch, as random right-clicking gets them into a lot of trouble. Oh, and a "simple menu" switch for outlook express would also save "my icons disappeared" calls.
No one is writing software for the Palm and Pocket PC anymore. Vibrant websites on PDAs four years ago are now dead, with latest reviews being 2006.
If it can't run XP, I don't want it. I'll be buying an Eee PC 900 the week they come out in the US.
--A "proud" owner of two Pocket PCs--
Why did you make me Google 2girls1cup and go to the site? Why did the video play automatically? Why did I watch it? Why did I send it to my perverted friends?
Oh the humanity!
Just like the first world should cut off aid to Africa to ultimately strengthen it, corporations should cut off aid to school districts and other governmental dead beats who think technology will solve education problems.
This is right up their with the Navy funding research a few years ago into using Frisbees as platforms for flares shot from ships. Wonder how that turned out?
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Actually, it wasn't city money that Salinas gave to the company, it was Federal and State money. The city was merely the bad decision maker and transfer agent for unrestrained spending by the Feds and State of CA.
"Green Vehicles received $300,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant funding in 2009 and about $234,000 in city General Fund money last fall in advance of the company's planned receipt of a $2.05 million grant from the California Energy Commission.
Donohue added that he intends to ask the California Energy Commission to reimburse the city the $234,000 it advanced Green Vehicles in anticipation of the $2.05 million CEC award." http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20110719/NEWS01/107190308/Green-Vehicles-experiment-crashes?odyssey=nav|head
Our Sun Conure is 20 years old, and may outlive us. The one in the picture is not dancing, but rather stretching its wing. I thought this might be a habit of flightless birds (flight feathers clipped), until I saw a raven at the Grand Canyon do exactly the same thing.
Name a large city where people in the nearby area don't refer to it as "the city".
We live in Tucson and refer to Phoenix as "The Big Blob".
I can hear it now: "It's been three seconds and still no "desktop", whatever that is, the damn thing is broken!"
He's 53.
My life as an accountant changed forever that day. It took me three months, and many meeting to get the local division of the major oil company I worked for to buy the first Apple in the company. I seem to recall it was $3,000 or so.
After that it was models and spreadsheets galore - well, whatever was 64k or smaller. ("Oh, you want that calculation? Well, I'll have to remove this one.)
Then on to IBM and Lotus 123 and the rest is history.
Were spreadsheets abused, full of errors, and assumed gospel when they weren't? Sure, but they also made clear, in a very short time, important data used to make good decisions.
Now long retired, that moment in SF remains with me as one of those "ah yes" moments in life.
When I finally got the 80+ in-laws to get off dial-up and on to cable high speed, I installed LogMeIn, a great free program and service that allows me to access their computer from 160 miles away and fix most problems that crop up. It would be helpful if Windows had a "disable right mouse clicks" switch, as random right-clicking gets them into a lot of trouble. Oh, and a "simple menu" switch for outlook express would also save "my icons disappeared" calls.
Strings? As in spaghetti-like structures. As in The Flying Spaghetti Monster? Coincidence? I think not!
Tax avoidance is not illegal. It's what us taxpayers call "smart".
When I fired our IT manager I had an employee changing his access rights at the same time I was giving him the bad news. It's a "Duh" sort of thing.
Their latest patch added a right-click control that disables the "control off" warning.
No one is writing software for the Palm and Pocket PC anymore. Vibrant websites on PDAs four years ago are now dead, with latest reviews being 2006. If it can't run XP, I don't want it. I'll be buying an Eee PC 900 the week they come out in the US. --A "proud" owner of two Pocket PCs--
Are those guys Bill bought DOS from still around? He should give them a call to see what they have.
Why did you make me Google 2girls1cup and go to the site? Why did the video play automatically? Why did I watch it? Why did I send it to my perverted friends? Oh the humanity!
Because the left-wing in American politics wants to use this forum to post their political hit pieces just like they do at Digg?
Hey! Don't make me come over there!
Man I hate those tube models!
Just like the first world should cut off aid to Africa to ultimately strengthen it, corporations should cut off aid to school districts and other governmental dead beats who think technology will solve education problems.
610 is not a "team", it's a "sign here to get your name on a paper" gaggle.
that the ten gallons of gasoline left in the bunker is worth more than the car!
And yet they've spent all that money and effort to celebrate the teachings of a Jewish book - the Old Testament! Oh the irony!
Yeah, but when the printer costs $50, and a new manufacturer ink cartridge costs $45,
So just buy a new printer whenever you need a new cartridge. $5 extra and you get all new!
There is one, but it crashed.
Doesn't it just seem wrong that a developer of Word should be a billionaire? Kinda makes you yearn for those yesteryears of 95% marginal tax rates.
This is right up their with the Navy funding research a few years ago into using Frisbees as platforms for flares shot from ships. Wonder how that turned out?