Obama comes to mind. His 'accomplishment'? Being not-bush. In 2009, he had only been in office a little more than a year or so.
Not even that. While awarded 8 months into his first term, he was actually nominated 2 weeks after taking office.
Obama was the first U.S. president to receive the award during his first year in office (at eight and a half months, after being nominated less than two weeks in office)
Funny you're so confident about that. You should go back and look at the water landings and ask the survivors if they used their flotation seats or life jackets. Life jackets and flotation seats were added, FAA rules making them mandatory, for a reason. While most of the water landings included fatalities, I'm confident the fatality rate would have been higher without the life jackets.
Or they could, maybe only add them to flights that actually go over any large body of water? Which if you look at the flight paths across most continents, most do not.
I do not share this experience. Typically, when the seat in front of me is pushed back, it collides with my knee-caps, sometimes in a fairly painful manner.
Oh boy, here we go on this thread again...
When are they going to do power outlets? I could convince myself to replace each one of my outlets if it had WiFi connectivity and a way to monitor usage and turn it on/off.
A wireless panel usage device would capture individual circuits for whole house monitoring, or for individual plugs, a simple plug in wall wart with pass through outlets. They already have these, it's just likely not as slick or hyped by an ex-Apple employee. Hopefully this type of rethinking common items to make them smarter catches on and makes our houses that much more "intelligent". Not sure I want to rely on a 3rd party service though.
According to sources familiar with the company's operations, as many as 80,000 employees, and possibly more, were working from home in part because the company didn't have desks for them all within its own buildings."
I hear Alcatel-Lucent has some new space available!
(Alcatel-)Lucent involved in a new massive layoff? It's another 90s revival. The scars never quite healed from starting my career there in the 90s.
I still work there. Amazing that through what seems layoffs continuously since 2001 that we are still around. I guess the cash infusion from merging with Alcatel helped push us along for a few more years. Though from what I know, due to unions and such in the EU, they are overstaffed there but it is very difficult to layoff.
Yes, but in A-L's case, they made the mistake of Carly Fiorina. She did what a lot of companies did, she lent money to her customers to buy Lucent stuff. Alcatel was incredibly blind to buy Lucent. After 3 years at L, Carly gave H-P the kiss of death, her being a serial failure.
It started well before Fiorina. And I was dumbfounded at the idea of it when I started working there. Merging with Alcatel was just a cash infusion for Lucent and now it's back down to the bottom. Who will be the next buyer to keep it going!
In India; Alcatel makes smartphones for Idea Cellular; and they are quite good. Very rugged; good specs; fairly low cost - $120 for a 5" smartphone.
Wonder if this move is to get eventually swallowed like Nokia - except the CxOs; nobody else benefits.
My understanding is that they have only lent their name to the phones and don't actually have anything to do with them but are made by a 3rd party.
The US forest service is also part of the USDA and they actually do stuff like manage the national forests.
I believe he mentioned it should only be funded to a few billion, not the $140B+ it is today. A few billion for food inspection (maybe unless it's paid for via mfg fees), and some for forests. Bump it up to say 40B, there, saved taxpayers 100B. That is no small amount.
You should be aware that the Democrats won the congressional popular vote
I'm unaware of any "congressional popular vote". If you mean taking the simple number of voters per winner, then it's a meaningless statistic due to all the obvious factors.
Iran has already done it. It has built an Intranet like network which connects to outside world through few gateways. The transition of the network users to the new Intranet is being done at the time being and will complete in year.
The main purpose is the:
1- Avoid the internal Iranian traffic to travel over the internet (i.e. unknown countries).
2- To control in/out traffic (deep packet inspection, control access to outsider websites, attack and spying control, allow access to Iran-only websites just from inside Iran, emergency kill switch).
3- Force Iranian organizations to host their website in Iranian data centers.
4- Save traffic costs.
5- Flourish local hosting and cloud business and local peering between ISPs.
6. Control the ideas/speech of all websites within Iran.
"imagine the hilarity"
What? Sounds like the submitter has a petty vendetta. Less competition in the market is no cause for hilarity regardless of what you think of the company or it's outgoing CEO. I don't see myself using either, but I know some that have one and love it for their workflows. One size does not fit all and thankfully there are choices and room for numerous players to come and go as we all benefit, even from things we would never use out of need or emotional reasons.
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
