First, there was less money going around - not "we made less and someone else made more".

Secondly, the job market always lags behind all other areas of the economy when going into a recovery. There will be jobs again, it just takes time to get back to where companies feel confident enough to hire / have enough business to justify hiring new people.

As for your last bit, that only applies if they somehow had TONS of money invested and sold it ALL at the same time. If you had that much invested, you wouldn't be the type to sell it all at once. Also, your last bit just sums up your jealousy that some people have more money than you.

Superconductivity was originally found in mercury, and it was turned off by magnetic fields. This turned out to be a distraction, since alloys and ceramics were discovered that had no such problem.

I have a one day 1099 job coming up as well as some web sites I can make a little money on I'm trying to start on so I thought I would like this up for California.

Some how I found a site, not quite what I was looking for, that mentions submitting filings on IBM 3480 or 3490 tape cartridge. Perfect!

I think I'd like to do this just to see the look on the face of the state employee that has to take such a cartridge...

Let it never be said California is some how behind the times technologically!

Ok Perhaps I'm missing something obvious...

Oh my word!

The older generation of HP printers are about the best one can get. The LaserJet 4/5 series were built like tanks, using steel for the frame and being very, very simple to repair.

Since HP 4s and 5s use standard PCL and PS languages they are very easily able to work across platforms. (One note however - if using PostScript with a LaserJet 4 or 5 be sure to have enough printer memory or you'll have a few issues with the printer becoming overwhelmed).

Before Carly Fiorina destroyed HP they used to be the leader in printers (or at least in the very top tier). Now they crank out plastic pieces of shit that break after a year, are difficult to repair using off-the-bench tools, and try to market a new toner cart to you when the old one is still at 20% capacity. Seriously, our LaserJet 4200 will not go into powersave mode when it is telling me to order a new cartridge with 1/5th the life remaining. It is very annoying.

While the LaserJet 4/5 series of printers are not small, personal-type lasers they are workhorses. As I stated before parts are cheap and are easy to replace should that be necessary. Toner carts are prevalent and are reasonable. I'd go with these tried-and-true printers if you are looking for another decade-plus of worry-free operation. Personally I'd go specifically with the LaserJet 5m, but if you don't like the size/heft of that perhaps a LaserJet 4p would be more to your liking, though they can be a bit more difficult to work on because of their small stature.

Use different resources? I would say that when all resources are used, evolutions typical answer is not to use different resources, but to take those resources from someone else that is using it. Its called predation.

The flaw is not the chemistry.

The flaw is the economics. This company claims it can make $10/barrel oil, but that calculation is based-upon getting scrap plastic for essentially free. What happens a few years from now when people discover their scrap plastic, like scrap gold, silver, or copper, has value? They will stop throwing-it away, and start demanding that Envion pay for the scrap plastic. Then the $10/barrel plastic-oil will skyrocket to a much higher value.

It is the wisdow of the crowds. There are two words, one is a normal mangled (and known beforehand) captcha, the other is one that the best OCR google got its hands on couldn't solve.

People still have to solve the first one correctly, and if enough people give the same answer to the second one, it is added considered correct.

Check out this Google book.... about the 7th page down.

http://www.google.com/books?id=Y0OOlnDFUM8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Le+Morte+d'Arthur&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

I thought these were scanned in by robots? If so it looks like it has well kept fingernails.

This totally makes sense. See unexploited market, then focus on exploiting it.... I don't thinks so....

Ten years ago only "geeks" like myself used to have a PC and know how to use it and play MUDs online. Since then the market has changed - more and more people have at least one computer in their house and Internet. Where games used to be for a few dedicated hardcore games before, they have since changed to cater to all (or at least try to cater to all).

I've also been a huge WoW fan in the past and seen it grow from game catering to hardcore gamers to catering 13 year olds. Don't get me wrong, there is still content to hold a hook in for some of the hard core gamers, but with every patch and expansion pack it's less and less. As more and more games become so generic to try and hook larger demographic, new games will start to come out that will focus and specialize on hardcore gamers, casual gamers, kids... etc. Games with broad appeal will die, as a game that does not cater to and individual audience will not hold anyone's interest. Sometimes by trying to satisfy everyone, you don't satisfy anyone... MMOs market is still in it's infant stage...

Games, like movies are made for niche market - specific audience, and Blizzard is just greedy. How many people would watch a movie that contains all of following: porn, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, drama, thriller, action, gore.... I'd rather watch one good comedy, or one good action movie than any movie containing all aspects of the genres.

Blizzard will fail if they don't start making individual audiences happy with their games. In ten years or less WoW will turn into a MMO Whack o Weasel.

Of course I know the British court system was around first. I was just under the impression that the 'innocent until proven guilty' thing was inspired from across the pond, but it does not seem that that is the case.

are you serious ? I didn't rtfa but do you have a source on this ? Stuff like this scares the hell out of me. You see France starts then rest of Europe wants to follow suit. Government mandated software ? Not on my box , reminds me of the trojan the german government is trying to push on all their citizens.

The article asks why they didn't do ASLR, especially since snow leopard is touted as a "performance and reliability" update...
Since when does ASLR improve performance or reliability? If anything, it would decrease performance and could cause compatibility issues with some badly written code (and exploits) and thus decrease reliability too...

Also, the article talks about windows but doesn't mention that linux had dep and aslr long before windows did, and still has a far more complete implementation.

So what, he got arrested, people get arrested all the time.. some backstory behind the arrest might be useful...

I like Autumn best of all, but I like the Wi->Sp transition best, it being the greatest improvement. I used to like Winter a lot more before my bones got brittle; now I might easily break a leg, and then break a coccyx kicking myself for not moving to Washington or Oregon.