Companies off-shored those obs to save costs. If they didn't the cost of everything would be higher the nit is now. Would you want to pay $10 for a gallon of milk? Or how about $50,0000 for that basic car?
Look at the companies that are having pension issues. Most (if not all) also have unions. Those unions were needed back in the 1920s and 1930s. But they have out lived their usefulness. They are now dragging down the companies and the people they are supposed to be protecting.
Airlines, auto makers, truck drivers, manufacturing all have major unions in them. The contracts almost always cost more to the company forcing it to either raise prices or look else where to cut costs. How many jobs do you still get paid even if your job goes away? Welcome to a lot of those contracts. The companies is paying past employees for years after they were laid off. The loopholes are huge. Look at GM's $17 million a year just on Viagra ( http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/04/gm_viagra.html ) The systems is messed up.
Also remember that comcast (and everyone else) got the government to force everyone to switch to all digital. They claimed that the analog signals were eating up too much bandwidth. All digital would be easier to transmit since it was smaller.
I think greed was the main reason. All digital they can charge for each piece (channel, movie, stream, etc) and control easier.
Plus I like to use the things I buy until they break. Yes my TV is old, the picture on it is still perfect. I hate to have to toss it so I can watch the same thing I am watching now next year. I could get the converter and keep my TV. One week the converter is free, the next week we got to pay for it (by me anyway). I have yet to see any drop in price for this (now only) digital service. So come next year, we will have to pay more to watch the same things we watch now. Maybe more if I don't go out and spend $1000 (or more) on a new TV.
Is this limit download only, or is streaming count as well? How much data is really transferred back and forth for those hooked on MMOs? Is the 250GB limit down AND up? Could a person who plays (say 5 hours a day weekdays, 10 hours weekends) hit this limit by just playing the game they like?
250GB sounds like a lot until you really look at it. For desktop (even laptops now) the disk drive is bigger then 250GB to start off with. Most home desktops come with a 400GB-500GB hard drive. If they would have said 1TB that would have been better. Most regular people can hit 250GB (if streaming U-tube videos counts it is really easy to hit) but 1TB a month is out of reach for most regular people.
Those that have the P2P going can hit 1TB quickly. Those are the people that this rule is being made for. 250GB can be hit quickly if the person watches a lot of videos online (unless streaming doesn't count in the 250GB number).
Wait so those 'living' parts of Voyager are becoming reality?
Living batteries could be a good idea. Less bio hazards are good. If these could be powered by garbage, that would rock. Helps get rid of stuff we do not want and give us power to do things we do want.
I have used copied (burned copies) for the reinstall many times. Also you can borrow a friends disk for the check (have done that too). Do they still allow upgrading from win 95, or 98? You can get win 98 for cheap if you want to stay totally legal.
Or you can do what a few friends did. Pirate the OS. If they like it, they go out and buy a copy. Never open the box and continue using the pirated copy. So they did buy a copy they have a valid license (in the box).
If more companies entered the same market that would give us more choices and better prices. I say go for it Nvidia make a cpu and see how you do against Intel and AMD.
I really wish that we could have the same socket in the motherboard for a CPU from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, . That would rock and give a real head to head test of which CPU is best for what you are doing. Never happen, but it would be cool to see.
The leaders do not want to die. And they have convinced many young (often no to educated) to die for them. That way they get to continuing to spread the word and recruit more people to die for them.
If Iran had nuclear weapons, those suicide bombers would be carrying them. Remember a small nuke is portable by a single person. Or they put it in a car/van/truck and just drive it into a town. Stopping Iran (the current government of Iran) from getting nuclear weapons is going to happen.
The world, as much as countries hate each other, should realize the certain governments should never have weapons that could wipe other countries from the planet. As bad as the US is, it hasn't used the current strength nuclear bombs in any war/conflict. The current nuclear bombs (H bomb) make the WWII bombs look like firecrackers. If the US used nukes all the time, how long would A) the Iraq war lasted? If 1/2 or more of the population of the country was killed in matter of weeks, or B) the entire planet was a radioactive wasteland from a nuclear WWIII happening?
I have burned CDs from 1996,1997 that still read and play fine. These were cheapo comp-usa branded ones. I wish I had bought more. The older CD-Rs last longer then the newer ones do. The same may be true for DVDs as well I don't have that many old DVDs (only from 2001-2002) but those I do still play fine. New CD-R and DVD-Rs from the last year I have worn out. (CD-Rs in a CD changer in car) and the DVDs were files that I burned off to make room on the disk drive. It looks like the older CD-R (DVD-R too) were made better then the ones that are made today.
Those files will still have to be stored somewhere. Either on a hard drive, in RAM, flash drive, someplace. You can download the mp3, but you still have to save it to something.
Also when the music was originally recorded, do they record right to mp3 and send it out on the intenet? They usually save it on a master recording which is.. wait for it... physical media.
Perhaps cds are not as popular for some sections of the consumer market. I would not say all sections. I (and a hell of a lot of other people I know) still back up to CD and DVD 9depending on what is being backed up) in case the hard drive dies. Better to have your music/movies/files on a medium that you can readily use to restore in case something bad happens.
The younger a person is the more flexible they are. The younger a person is the less affected they are to pressure. The younger person also is lighter. The younger person has advantages over the older person. These advantages are there an no amount of training can over come them. An older person can be flexible, but no where near as the younger person. The lighter one is the easier they can do the routines. These girls may have done the work but the broke the rules in doing so.
The rules were in place all countries knew them. 65 lbs? Come on, that is really really small and we are talking about people who are usually small to start off.
You realize you have this backwards right? The more you make, the smaller the percentage of your income goes to taxes. Who opposes the flat tax idea the most? Something tells me it is not the lower or middle class people.
look at it this way (numbers are for example only): if a 15% tax on gross income was proposed, who would pay more in taxes? the rich or the poor? Even though the percentage is the same, the rich say that it is unfair since they are paying more.
I do think that it is funny. The rich are opposed to a flat tax rate on income. Yet they favor a flat percentage increase in pay. The company gave everyone a 4% raise. Someone making $40,000 a year now makes $41,600 a year. While someone making $100,000 a year now makes $104,000 a year. So which raise would you rather have gotten a $4000 raise or a $1600 one?
Percentage raises favor the bigger paychecks. Why not have the same thing for taxes? Wait percentage taxes would not favor the rich. They will not stand for that.
The rich pay more in total dollar but not in percentage of their income.
Someone making $45,000 a year pays a higher percentage of their income in taxes the someone making $1,000,000 a year. After $75,000 (got to check) the percentage one pays in taxes goes down. the middle income people get taxed a higher percent on all of their income while the rich get a lower percentage on everything over $75,000.
I am saying percentage not total dollars. That is where most people miss the point. People saying the rich are taxed more then the middle class are wrong. If that is true why is it that once someone breaks that critical tax barrier that they have so much more free cash?
If weed is not addictive, why do so many people have to smoke it (not those or medical reason, regular health people). They crave it, they need it. I have seen a bunch of people (more then 30) where smoking weed was more important then everything else (working, bathing, going to work/school). All those people were weak and could have gotten addicted to anything? Weed is not addicting? Something does not add up.
I know I am going to be flamed into hell for this. But I do not see it. If one smokes weed 1-2 a week so what. The ones who smoke it 5-6 times a day every day and need to smoke it every day, that is an addiction. Most drugs (not all) taken in moderation are not harmful. I would say all drugs taken in extreme amounts are harmful.
Both are cold but one is more cold the the other. Same can be said on the hotter temps.
It really comes down to the people you are dealing with and what you are talking about. If you are dealing with sceince people and talking about the temps of space the deep ocean use Celsius. If you are talking to your kid sister/brother (or other non science people) and talking about the temp outside use what they know.
Remember the articles about how Earth could be saved from a collision with a asteroid by putting a small satellite and changing the orbit enough to miss Earth. Perhaps they are thinking that this will do the same to the moon.
Or maybe they think that movies actually follow the laws of physics instead of the laws of what will get people into the seats.
Remember that the judges have in their minds a picture of what is perfect. It just happens to be that for women's gymnastics, perfections is a small little girls doing the routine. They are lighter, more flexible, and less effected by what is going on around them (younger minds they worry less).
Ontopic:
Maybe the spam servers in China are turned off or being put to other uses? And as others have said, the Russian server are attacking Georgia.
An outlet in the parking lot? Wow! your job must rock. The parking lot for my job is 300 feet from the building. And no outlets are in the parking lot. There is two outside outlets on the building. I wonder if three 100 foot extension cords will melt if I were to use them to charge the car?
I am thinking that I need to get the extra EXTRA heavy duty extension cords.
Can also get H2 from aluminium+gallium dropped into H20. Drop the alloy into H20 and H2 is released. The H20 and gallium+aluminium alloy alone are not explosive. There are a few people (in warmer places FL is one) that are driving their cars by doing this now. The alloy is used since alluminium alone will not create that much H2 when dropped into water. Gallium+aluminium alloy stops the protective coating on the aluminium so more H2 is released. It works, but I do not think there is enough gallium to kame it go mainstream. We need another way to coat aluminium to get the same result.
I think the OP is confusing AppleCare phone service (which is 90 days) with their actual warranty which is 1-3 years depending on if you buy the AppleCare plan. And as anyone who buys a Apple product knows, you ALWAYS buy the Protection Plan contrary what is normal practice for other electronics. I have gotten 2 brand new laptops out of that extra 200 bucks you pay since they will go through hoops to fix things even if its not entirely their fault.
Which Apple are you talking about? The Apple laptops that I have seen sent to service (the extended service plan was purchased) were repaired and sent back with a bill or saying that the damage was outside the coverage of the warrantee and nothing was repaired. This has happened 6 times (6 different laptops) in the last 4 years. Why they broke/Apples response
two were dropped/ not covered
one the power adapter broke off inside the laptop/ this laptop was abused so not covered (this was before the magnet ended chargers but still had over a year left on the warrantee)
another a DVD got stuck in the drive (have no idea how this happened but I did watch the user put the disk in it was not forced)/ Apple said the disk was forced causing it to jam in the drive not covered
the last two the hard drive died / Apple said that since we had opened the case to upgrade the RAM the warrantee was voided. These were powerbooks changing the RAM, remove battery, remove 3 screws holding little plate in place (not near hard drive) change RAM, put stuff back.
I am glad it worked for you. But Apple service record around me is not looking so good. And one more thing, I went to an apple store to pick up a replacement cord for my ipod. The ipod worked fine. The genius person there wanted to show me something on my ipod (I only use it for music he said I was under utilizing the ipod). He messes with it. He pluged it into an powerbook he had at his desk. Wiped out all my music since he synced it. Easy to get my music back but annoying. Ever since that day the ipod locks up every 3-4 days. I need to do that reset thing on it to get it to work. The thing is not new, but the timing is very odd.
Sorry for going against all that is golden with Apple but my personal experience with Apple service is not too good.
If your a good DBA you always want to know how a web site/app/developer/etc is accessing your database. You only give that person/app/what ever the access it needs to work no more. If you can control how they update, insert, select, and delete data from the system the better off you are. The developers may not like it, but you are doing your job if you make sure that they cannot take down or damage the database system or the integrity of the data in the system.
Most likely every developer and contractor is going to disagree with me on this. Then again, are those people the ones whose head is going to roll if the database system is not working as the bosses expect it to?
Fuel cost maybe (depends on how you drive) but repair costs? I have put over 200,000 miles on my v6 auto engine and transmission. The trans is electronic. Other then getting the trans fluid changed every 30,000-40,000 miles it has not cost me anything. No repairs no issues. If it is was a stick, I would have gone through a few clutches (at least) by now along with getting the fluid changed. Actually the engine hasn't been too bad either, besides plugs and wires at 104,000 and just last month, I have but in one water pump, on air mass sensor, and a lot of oil changes. The other stuff, tires, exhaust, shocks are the same for auto or stick. The whole stick is cheaper on repairs I do not think is true anymore. Do the normal maintenance the stuff can last a long time.
If it is one of those XPS laptops the XP drivers are out there just search a bit more. They are not from Dell mind you. But they are out there. We installed XP on 11 XPS 1330, and 1500 series laptops. They are fast little machines with XP on them.
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Companies off-shored those obs to save costs. If they didn't the cost of everything would be higher the nit is now. Would you want to pay $10 for a gallon of milk? Or how about $50,0000 for that basic car?
Look at the companies that are having pension issues. Most (if not all) also have unions. Those unions were needed back in the 1920s and 1930s. But they have out lived their usefulness. They are now dragging down the companies and the people they are supposed to be protecting.
Airlines, auto makers, truck drivers, manufacturing all have major unions in them. The contracts almost always cost more to the company forcing it to either raise prices or look else where to cut costs. How many jobs do you still get paid even if your job goes away? Welcome to a lot of those contracts. The companies is paying past employees for years after they were laid off. The loopholes are huge. Look at GM's $17 million a year just on Viagra ( http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/04/gm_viagra.html ) The systems is messed up.
Also remember that comcast (and everyone else) got the government to force everyone to switch to all digital. They claimed that the analog signals were eating up too much bandwidth. All digital would be easier to transmit since it was smaller.
I think greed was the main reason. All digital they can charge for each piece (channel, movie, stream, etc) and control easier.
Plus I like to use the things I buy until they break. Yes my TV is old, the picture on it is still perfect. I hate to have to toss it so I can watch the same thing I am watching now next year. I could get the converter and keep my TV. One week the converter is free, the next week we got to pay for it (by me anyway). I have yet to see any drop in price for this (now only) digital service. So come next year, we will have to pay more to watch the same things we watch now. Maybe more if I don't go out and spend $1000 (or more) on a new TV.
Is this limit download only, or is streaming count as well? How much data is really transferred back and forth for those hooked on MMOs? Is the 250GB limit down AND up? Could a person who plays (say 5 hours a day weekdays, 10 hours weekends) hit this limit by just playing the game they like?
250GB sounds like a lot until you really look at it. For desktop (even laptops now) the disk drive is bigger then 250GB to start off with. Most home desktops come with a 400GB-500GB hard drive. If they would have said 1TB that would have been better. Most regular people can hit 250GB (if streaming U-tube videos counts it is really easy to hit) but 1TB a month is out of reach for most regular people.
Those that have the P2P going can hit 1TB quickly. Those are the people that this rule is being made for. 250GB can be hit quickly if the person watches a lot of videos online (unless streaming doesn't count in the 250GB number).
Wait so those 'living' parts of Voyager are becoming reality?
Living batteries could be a good idea. Less bio hazards are good. If these could be powered by garbage, that would rock. Helps get rid of stuff we do not want and give us power to do things we do want.
You do know that there is still a motherboard in notebooks right? It is different but it is still there.
I have used copied (burned copies) for the reinstall many times. Also you can borrow a friends disk for the check (have done that too). Do they still allow upgrading from win 95, or 98? You can get win 98 for cheap if you want to stay totally legal.
Or you can do what a few friends did. Pirate the OS. If they like it, they go out and buy a copy. Never open the box and continue using the pirated copy. So they did buy a copy they have a valid license (in the box).
If more companies entered the same market that would give us more choices and better prices. I say go for it Nvidia make a cpu and see how you do against Intel and AMD.
I really wish that we could have the same socket in the motherboard for a CPU from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, . That would rock and give a real head to head test of which CPU is best for what you are doing. Never happen, but it would be cool to see.
The leaders do not want to die. And they have convinced many young (often no to educated) to die for them. That way they get to continuing to spread the word and recruit more people to die for them.
If Iran had nuclear weapons, those suicide bombers would be carrying them. Remember a small nuke is portable by a single person. Or they put it in a car/van/truck and just drive it into a town. Stopping Iran (the current government of Iran) from getting nuclear weapons is going to happen.
The world, as much as countries hate each other, should realize the certain governments should never have weapons that could wipe other countries from the planet. As bad as the US is, it hasn't used the current strength nuclear bombs in any war/conflict. The current nuclear bombs (H bomb) make the WWII bombs look like firecrackers. If the US used nukes all the time, how long would A) the Iraq war lasted? If 1/2 or more of the population of the country was killed in matter of weeks, or B) the entire planet was a radioactive wasteland from a nuclear WWIII happening?
I have burned CDs from 1996,1997 that still read and play fine. These were cheapo comp-usa branded ones. I wish I had bought more. The older CD-Rs last longer then the newer ones do. The same may be true for DVDs as well I don't have that many old DVDs (only from 2001-2002) but those I do still play fine. New CD-R and DVD-Rs from the last year I have worn out. (CD-Rs in a CD changer in car) and the DVDs were files that I burned off to make room on the disk drive. It looks like the older CD-R (DVD-R too) were made better then the ones that are made today.
Those files will still have to be stored somewhere. Either on a hard drive, in RAM, flash drive, someplace. You can download the mp3, but you still have to save it to something.
Also when the music was originally recorded, do they record right to mp3 and send it out on the intenet? They usually save it on a master recording which is .. wait for it... physical media.
Perhaps cds are not as popular for some sections of the consumer market. I would not say all sections. I (and a hell of a lot of other people I know) still back up to CD and DVD 9depending on what is being backed up) in case the hard drive dies. Better to have your music/movies/files on a medium that you can readily use to restore in case something bad happens.
The age restriction is there for a reason.
The younger a person is the more flexible they are. The younger a person is the less affected they are to pressure. The younger person also is lighter. The younger person has advantages over the older person. These advantages are there an no amount of training can over come them. An older person can be flexible, but no where near as the younger person. The lighter one is the easier they can do the routines. These girls may have done the work but the broke the rules in doing so.
The rules were in place all countries knew them. 65 lbs? Come on, that is really really small and we are talking about people who are usually small to start off.
You realize you have this backwards right? The more you make, the smaller the percentage of your income goes to taxes. Who opposes the flat tax idea the most? Something tells me it is not the lower or middle class people.
look at it this way (numbers are for example only): if a 15% tax on gross income was proposed, who would pay more in taxes? the rich or the poor? Even though the percentage is the same, the rich say that it is unfair since they are paying more.
I do think that it is funny. The rich are opposed to a flat tax rate on income. Yet they favor a flat percentage increase in pay. The company gave everyone a 4% raise. Someone making $40,000 a year now makes $41,600 a year. While someone making $100,000 a year now makes $104,000 a year. So which raise would you rather have gotten a $4000 raise or a $1600 one?
Percentage raises favor the bigger paychecks. Why not have the same thing for taxes? Wait percentage taxes would not favor the rich. They will not stand for that.
The rich pay more in total dollar but not in percentage of their income.
Someone making $45,000 a year pays a higher percentage of their income in taxes the someone making $1,000,000 a year. After $75,000 (got to check) the percentage one pays in taxes goes down. the middle income people get taxed a higher percent on all of their income while the rich get a lower percentage on everything over $75,000.
I am saying percentage not total dollars. That is where most people miss the point. People saying the rich are taxed more then the middle class are wrong. If that is true why is it that once someone breaks that critical tax barrier that they have so much more free cash?
If weed is not addictive, why do so many people have to smoke it (not those or medical reason, regular health people). They crave it, they need it. I have seen a bunch of people (more then 30) where smoking weed was more important then everything else (working, bathing, going to work/school). All those people were weak and could have gotten addicted to anything? Weed is not addicting? Something does not add up.
I know I am going to be flamed into hell for this. But I do not see it. If one smokes weed 1-2 a week so what. The ones who smoke it 5-6 times a day every day and need to smoke it every day, that is an addiction. Most drugs (not all) taken in moderation are not harmful. I would say all drugs taken in extreme amounts are harmful.
Which wold rather go out in?
0 degrees Celsius or 0 degrees Fahrenheit?
Both are cold but one is more cold the the other. Same can be said on the hotter temps.
It really comes down to the people you are dealing with and what you are talking about. If you are dealing with sceince people and talking about the temps of space the deep ocean use Celsius. If you are talking to your kid sister/brother (or other non science people) and talking about the temp outside use what they know.
Remember the articles about how Earth could be saved from a collision with a asteroid by putting a small satellite and changing the orbit enough to miss Earth. Perhaps they are thinking that this will do the same to the moon.
Or maybe they think that movies actually follow the laws of physics instead of the laws of what will get people into the seats.
Earth did have a second moon (first moon?).
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/second_moon_991029.html
It grew up and moved out. Now it just visits once in a while.
Remember that the judges have in their minds a picture of what is perfect. It just happens to be that for women's gymnastics, perfections is a small little girls doing the routine. They are lighter, more flexible, and less effected by what is going on around them (younger minds they worry less).
Ontopic:
Maybe the spam servers in China are turned off or being put to other uses? And as others have said, the Russian server are attacking Georgia.
An outlet in the parking lot? Wow! your job must rock. The parking lot for my job is 300 feet from the building. And no outlets are in the parking lot. There is two outside outlets on the building. I wonder if three 100 foot extension cords will melt if I were to use them to charge the car?
I am thinking that I need to get the extra EXTRA heavy duty extension cords.
Can also get H2 from aluminium+gallium dropped into H20. Drop the alloy into H20 and H2 is released. The H20 and gallium+aluminium alloy alone are not explosive. There are a few people (in warmer places FL is one) that are driving their cars by doing this now. The alloy is used since alluminium alone will not create that much H2 when dropped into water. Gallium+aluminium alloy stops the protective coating on the aluminium so more H2 is released. It works, but I do not think there is enough gallium to kame it go mainstream. We need another way to coat aluminium to get the same result.
I think the OP is confusing AppleCare phone service (which is 90 days) with their actual warranty which is 1-3 years depending on if you buy the AppleCare plan. And as anyone who buys a Apple product knows, you ALWAYS buy the Protection Plan contrary what is normal practice for other electronics. I have gotten 2 brand new laptops out of that extra 200 bucks you pay since they will go through hoops to fix things even if its not entirely their fault.
Which Apple are you talking about? The Apple laptops that I have seen sent to service (the extended service plan was purchased) were repaired and sent back with a bill or saying that the damage was outside the coverage of the warrantee and nothing was repaired. This has happened 6 times (6 different laptops) in the last 4 years.
Why they broke/Apples response
two were dropped/ not covered
one the power adapter broke off inside the laptop/ this laptop was abused so not covered (this was before the magnet ended chargers but still had over a year left on the warrantee)
another a DVD got stuck in the drive (have no idea how this happened but I did watch the user put the disk in it was not forced)/ Apple said the disk was forced causing it to jam in the drive not covered
the last two the hard drive died / Apple said that since we had opened the case to upgrade the RAM the warrantee was voided. These were powerbooks changing the RAM, remove battery, remove 3 screws holding little plate in place (not near hard drive) change RAM, put stuff back.
I am glad it worked for you. But Apple service record around me is not looking so good. And one more thing, I went to an apple store to pick up a replacement cord for my ipod. The ipod worked fine. The genius person there wanted to show me something on my ipod (I only use it for music he said I was under utilizing the ipod). He messes with it. He pluged it into an powerbook he had at his desk. Wiped out all my music since he synced it. Easy to get my music back but annoying. Ever since that day the ipod locks up every 3-4 days. I need to do that reset thing on it to get it to work. The thing is not new, but the timing is very odd.
Sorry for going against all that is golden with Apple but my personal experience with Apple service is not too good.
If your a good DBA you always want to know how a web site/app/developer/etc is accessing your database. You only give that person/app/what ever the access it needs to work no more. If you can control how they update, insert, select, and delete data from the system the better off you are. The developers may not like it, but you are doing your job if you make sure that they cannot take down or damage the database system or the integrity of the data in the system.
Most likely every developer and contractor is going to disagree with me on this. Then again, are those people the ones whose head is going to roll if the database system is not working as the bosses expect it to?
Fuel cost maybe (depends on how you drive) but repair costs? I have put over 200,000 miles on my v6 auto engine and transmission. The trans is electronic. Other then getting the trans fluid changed every 30,000-40,000 miles it has not cost me anything. No repairs no issues. If it is was a stick, I would have gone through a few clutches (at least) by now along with getting the fluid changed. Actually the engine hasn't been too bad either, besides plugs and wires at 104,000 and just last month, I have but in one water pump, on air mass sensor, and a lot of oil changes. The other stuff, tires, exhaust, shocks are the same for auto or stick. The whole stick is cheaper on repairs I do not think is true anymore. Do the normal maintenance the stuff can last a long time.
If it is one of those XPS laptops the XP drivers are out there just search a bit more. They are not from Dell mind you. But they are out there. We installed XP on 11 XPS 1330, and 1500 series laptops. They are fast little machines with XP on them.