My civic hybrid cost $4000 more than the non-hybrid version. I figured I would have to put about 100,000 miles on it to reach break-even, even with $3/gallon gas. However, I now have over 120,000 miles on it, so it is now actually saving me money. (There have not yet been any additional maintenance expenses because if it being a hybrid, but the IMA light on the dash is now on all the time.) Of coarse buying fuel-efficiency now partially protects you from future volatility in the fuel markets -- I'd be willing to pay extra for a true multi-fueler if one was available.
Actually, the kids gravitate towards people that look like their own family, not that look like themselves. Even then, based on my own experience, your assertion is untrue. My daughter look very African and was bigger than the other kids in preschool, but for some reason the tiny little Asian girls gravitated to her. Now her best friends are mostly white.
I mean the decisions to ditch quality and over-engineering all their products, and instead start buying up other companies like Compaq in order to become a computer services company to compete with IBM, were made by the HP board, not by the CEO. (As opposed to the HP tradition of being a high-end hardware supplier that innovated through basic research.)
I just bought a Samsung 27" 1920x1080 monitor, which is plenty highres enough for me. The monitor only is $330 at Costco, the monitor with digital TV built in is $380, for for $50 I went for the one with a tuner, remote control, and build in speakers.
Actually, only the attractive female contractors will be assumed to have slept their way to the top. The butt-ugly ones will still be presumed to have some skills. For the record, I have worked with women that were both very attractive (to the point of distracting me from my work) and extremely competent and hard working. But I've also worked with a contractor who literally got her job because she was sleeping with another contractor, who then became her boss. This same female contractor then complained when a junior employee made a comment about preferring a blond for the next hire -- fucking hypocrite!
Both Fiorina and Hurd were just following the HP board's road map. When Hurd replaced Fiorina, the road map did not change. Hurd was actually much better than Fiorina at implemented the road map, since Fiorina was an epic fail at getting HP's divisions to work together. Replacing Hurd will not alter the direction of HP -- the old "HP way" is gone forever, and has been for many years.
Carly was ousted for staggering incompetence, not misconduct. HP's stock shot up 6.9% the day Carly's departure was announced, whereas it dropped 4% when Hurd's departure was announced. In other words, stockholders felt Hurd was good for HPs value, but Fiorina was not.
HP stock dropped 4% the day Hurd's departure was announced, whereas is shot up 6.9% (at one point it was up 10.5%) the day Fiorina's departure was announced. Larry Ellison has repeated been accused of sexually harassing, then paying off his personal secretaries, but he's still CEO of Oracle... go figure. Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, screwed around on his wife for years, finally concluding in a Billboard in Times Square, but no impact to his career. I guess it just depends on which company you work for...
I was working at HP as a consultant. One of the machines in my cubicle was running the officially approved HP Linux distro, which was set up to cycle through all the available screen savers, one of which put up quotes from the fortune files, one of which was the Zippy the Pinhead fortune file which contained the quote "I want to kill everyone here with a cute colorful Hydrogen Bomb!" I never saw it on my machine, but months later, a security guard walking through at 3am sees this come up, immediately goes on point, and reports me as a terrorist. I'm called into a meeting, told "It was on YOUR machine, so it's obviously YOUR responsibility!" and suspended from work (with pay, which is stupid for a contractor). A week later, I'm called back in; due to my coworkers efforts, they have finally discovered that ALL the Linux machines were configured to do that. No apology offered, but I'm allowed to come back to work, and my project that I was on the critical path for is behind a week. Of course, I spent that week off applying for other positions, and a month later I got an offer for a better job closer to home, and said "bye-bye!" to HP.
The point is, shit can show up on your computer completely by accident through no fault of your own. Telling people "It's on your computer, therefore it's your fault!" is a pretty naive reaction.
My sister is a veterinarian, and she claims all that pack mentality, alpha male stuff is bullshit -- that your dog will protect you because it loves you, not because it considers you the leader of it's "pack". She sort of has a point -- dogs and wolves are separated by over 10,000 years of diverging evolution, to the point where a dog understands what a human means when they point, but a domesticated wolf cannot.
I used to live in a apartment in a bad neighborhood with a sticker on the window with a picture of a gun and the text "Never mind the dog -- beware of owner!" But, honestly, it was my girlfriend who put up the sticker!
All copyrights good. Taking public domain material, slightly modifying them, and then suing anybody who tries to use the material (which is what Disney does, and sort of what Microsoft does) bad. RIAA do have a right to enforce their copyrights, preferable through take down notices. What we hate about the RIAA is their sleazy methods, e.g. suing children and old ladies that have never used a computer. Apple intellectual property protection good when it covers their actual innovations, bad when it covers stuff they stole from other people (anybody remember Xerox PARC?) See, it's not really as hypocritical as you make it out to be.
My understanding was that signal propagation in glass fiber was actually slightly slower than signal propagation in copper coax. Add to that the delays of modulating the signal from electric to light and demodulating it back into electric. Using optical interconnects can only increase your latency.
The film makers don't want 3D. The moviegoers don't want 3D. The MPAA members do want 3D, because it allows them to charge more per ticket, plus it makes it near impossible to bootleg a film by smuggling a camera into a theater. Now do you understand why 3D is being pushed so hard, and who is doing the pushing?
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My civic hybrid cost $4000 more than the non-hybrid version. I figured I would have to put about 100,000 miles on it to reach break-even, even with $3/gallon gas. However, I now have over 120,000 miles on it, so it is now actually saving me money. (There have not yet been any additional maintenance expenses because if it being a hybrid, but the IMA light on the dash is now on all the time.) Of coarse buying fuel-efficiency now partially protects you from future volatility in the fuel markets -- I'd be willing to pay extra for a true multi-fueler if one was available.
Easier still:
Step 1:
Find a girlfriend that doesn't wear bras!
That would be absolutely tragic if and only if one or more lawyers actually made it off the island!
Actually, the kids gravitate towards people that look like their own family, not that look like themselves. Even then, based on my own experience, your assertion is untrue. My daughter look very African and was bigger than the other kids in preschool, but for some reason the tiny little Asian girls gravitated to her. Now her best friends are mostly white.
I assume they are using water-cooled CPUs?
I mean the decisions to ditch quality and over-engineering all their products, and instead start buying up other companies like Compaq in order to become a computer services company to compete with IBM, were made by the HP board, not by the CEO. (As opposed to the HP tradition of being a high-end hardware supplier that innovated through basic research.)
And those military hardware companies are run by such fine, upstanding CEOs!
I just bought a Samsung 27" 1920x1080 monitor, which is plenty highres enough for me. The monitor only is $330 at Costco, the monitor with digital TV built in is $380, for for $50 I went for the one with a tuner, remote control, and build in speakers.
Actually, only the attractive female contractors will be assumed to have slept their way to the top. The butt-ugly ones will still be presumed to have some skills. For the record, I have worked with women that were both very attractive (to the point of distracting me from my work) and extremely competent and hard working. But I've also worked with a contractor who literally got her job because she was sleeping with another contractor, who then became her boss. This same female contractor then complained when a junior employee made a comment about preferring a blond for the next hire -- fucking hypocrite!
Both Fiorina and Hurd were just following the HP board's road map. When Hurd replaced Fiorina, the road map did not change. Hurd was actually much better than Fiorina at implemented the road map, since Fiorina was an epic fail at getting HP's divisions to work together. Replacing Hurd will not alter the direction of HP -- the old "HP way" is gone forever, and has been for many years.
Carly was ousted for staggering incompetence, not misconduct. HP's stock shot up 6.9% the day Carly's departure was announced, whereas it dropped 4% when Hurd's departure was announced. In other words, stockholders felt Hurd was good for HPs value, but Fiorina was not.
HP stock dropped 4% the day Hurd's departure was announced, whereas is shot up 6.9% (at one point it was up 10.5%) the day Fiorina's departure was announced. Larry Ellison has repeated been accused of sexually harassing, then paying off his personal secretaries, but he's still CEO of Oracle... go figure. Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, screwed around on his wife for years, finally concluding in a Billboard in Times Square, but no impact to his career. I guess it just depends on which company you work for...
"Shit, we're outta gas!"
I was working at HP as a consultant. One of the machines in my cubicle was running the officially approved HP Linux distro, which was set up to cycle through all the available screen savers, one of which put up quotes from the fortune files, one of which was the Zippy the Pinhead fortune file which contained the quote "I want to kill everyone here with a cute colorful Hydrogen Bomb!" I never saw it on my machine, but months later, a security guard walking through at 3am sees this come up, immediately goes on point, and reports me as a terrorist. I'm called into a meeting, told "It was on YOUR machine, so it's obviously YOUR responsibility!" and suspended from work (with pay, which is stupid for a contractor). A week later, I'm called back in; due to my coworkers efforts, they have finally discovered that ALL the Linux machines were configured to do that. No apology offered, but I'm allowed to come back to work, and my project that I was on the critical path for is behind a week. Of course, I spent that week off applying for other positions, and a month later I got an offer for a better job closer to home, and said "bye-bye!" to HP.
The point is, shit can show up on your computer completely by accident through no fault of your own. Telling people "It's on your computer, therefore it's your fault!" is a pretty naive reaction.
Strange how nobody ever mentions all the dog shit...
My sister is a veterinarian, and she claims all that pack mentality, alpha male stuff is bullshit -- that your dog will protect you because it loves you, not because it considers you the leader of it's "pack". She sort of has a point -- dogs and wolves are separated by over 10,000 years of diverging evolution, to the point where a dog understands what a human means when they point, but a domesticated wolf cannot.
I used to live in a apartment in a bad neighborhood with a sticker on the window with a picture of a gun and the text "Never mind the dog -- beware of owner!" But, honestly, it was my girlfriend who put up the sticker!
"There is no problem that cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives." - US Army Demolitions School
All copyrights good. Taking public domain material, slightly modifying them, and then suing anybody who tries to use the material (which is what Disney does, and sort of what Microsoft does) bad. RIAA do have a right to enforce their copyrights, preferable through take down notices. What we hate about the RIAA is their sleazy methods, e.g. suing children and old ladies that have never used a computer. Apple intellectual property protection good when it covers their actual innovations, bad when it covers stuff they stole from other people (anybody remember Xerox PARC?) See, it's not really as hypocritical as you make it out to be.
My understanding was that signal propagation in glass fiber was actually slightly slower than signal propagation in copper coax. Add to that the delays of modulating the signal from electric to light and demodulating it back into electric. Using optical interconnects can only increase your latency.
Those talkies are just a passing fad... I'd take a good, ol' fashioned silent film like Metropolis any day!
That must involve some pretty expensive special effects -- isn't she pretty 1 dimensional in real life?
The film makers don't want 3D. The moviegoers don't want 3D. The MPAA members do want 3D, because it allows them to charge more per ticket, plus it makes it near impossible to bootleg a film by smuggling a camera into a theater. Now do you understand why 3D is being pushed so hard, and who is doing the pushing?
When did RIM start making flashlights? Are they selling it under that same name in the UK?
"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I don't."