MS is a Mature Company. They are having a hell of time milking their Cash Cows right now. MS Office and MS Server both have significantly declining sales. Everything else they have touched has been a loss leader (xbox, bing, win mobile etc) This is an attempt to capture market share before falling completely into the toilet. Red Hat inc on the other hand has grown from the ether into a profitable company despite a product portfolio significantly smaller than M$. Where Red Hat Shines is the offer the best of the best when it comes to support of their software. Enterprise Red Hat Linux is significantly cheaper when you factor in the level of support you get. Do not forget that even companies as large as IBM outsource or licence Enterprise Red Hat Linux as it feels a niche market that if AIX were to support it would cause a significant profit decline based on AIX market share. I personally have paid for many Domino/Lotus Notes server's installation/migrations from Windows to RedHat as it far more cost effective based on 5-7year hardware cycles. (Which in some government agencies is a short life span. I've seen RS/6000 and IBM PL300's have uptime's measured in thousands of days and life cycles approaching 15years)

HREE's are used in such small quantities that extraction is often impractical to extract them is no economical or environmentally sound. Often they are used as catalysts and are consumed in the manufacturing process etc, or the risk of mixing the compounds and creating a volatile substance is also a risk. Safety Concerns “The fire is not the only safety problem,” says John Michlovic, manager of technical services and marketing for H.H. Robertson Floor Systems. The plastics used in the insulation and jacketing may also release toxic gasses and smoke in a fire scenario. The fire doesn't necessarily ignite the cabling jackets immediately, but the heat can cause it to release clear or white toxic gases that are highly dangerous. These gases can be blind you or shutdown your respiratory system. Incapacitation of the building occupants is a real problem that is not addressed by the testing or the NEC. "Plenum rated cabling may start burning in 35 to 40 seconds to a couple of minutes," says Michlovic. "Currently, there's no toxic gasses-developed criteria for plenum-rated cable, no fuel load standard. Worst of all, there are no toxicity standard and no acid level requirements." Current industry estimates: 1,000 feet of four-pair unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable weighs about 24 pounds -10 pounds of copper and 14 pounds of plastic jacketing and insulation. "When cables are installed in a plenum air handling space, exposure to airflow makes the risk from heat or fire generated toxic gasses and smoke especially dangerous for building occupants when fire breaks out," says John Moritz, principal of JMME consulting firm, well-known safety advocate and NFPA/NEC expert. Fluoropolymer (like DuPont Teflon® FEP) insulated and/or jacketed cabling releases many toxic gases under heat decomposition. Some of the deadly gasses like Hydrogen Fluoride are highly reactive. HF gas, when in contact with any moisture, including humidity, forms hydrofluoric acid. Moritz said, "Hydrofluoric acid is so corrosive that it can destroy most glass and eat away most metals and metal oxides. The damage potential posed by HF to the human body is immediate and it can affect your eyes, throat, and lungs incapacitating someone on exposure. Incapacitation can and does lead to many fire related causalities." Remember: Safety is too important to ignore.

Have a Look at a company Called Matamec Exploration Inc to be specific from what I can see there just scratching the surface of the deposit. Which is located north east of Renfrew Ontario, East of Cobalt Ontario and Sudbury and South of Timmins and Rouyn-Noranda so anyone with a little knowledge of the area knows that this can and probably will be a strategic asset for all of North America soon. Matamec Explorations Inc is a junior mining exploration company whose main focus is in developing the Kipawa deposit. It is also exploring more than 35km of strike length in the Kipawa Alkalic Complex for rare earths-yttrium-zirconium-niobium-tantalum mineralization on the surrounding Zeus property. A timely, high value and low cost mine is projected for early 2016. The viability of the project is emphasized by: a simple mineralogy rich in the rarer heavy rare earths (HREEs); a well defined NI-43-101 compliant indicated and inferred resource with plenty of upside; a flat-lying ore body that extends to surface and is open pittable with a low strip ratio; an ore concentration process that eliminates 65% of the ore; a simple, low cost recipe for extracting the total rare earths as an oxide (TREO). End users, such as the car industry, are interested in our critical metal content (such as dysprosium) and are capable of absorbing most of our product.

Like American Coinage! Have you seen the prices of some of the common coins. Remember an pre 1980 nickel is worth about 8 cents currently just in Ni

And this judge will either A) be unemployed B) The judgment will be repealed by a higher courtC Harper will change the rules

I've never heard of Software Engineer that did not now what a Software Test Engineer does. Perhaps User Acceptance Training? Your the middle man that takes requirements from client and makes sure that what the Developers produce works within the framework the client provided. Generally you create mock ups and run through the data until all the results and the interface are what the client expects.

Yes but did the Commadore 64 have the Game Cartridge "THE COUNT by Scott Adams. 1981." Which for me made the entire purchase of the a Vic-20 an awesome event.

Easier untill you need to replace, repair or otherwise offline the box at the end of the IP address whilst maintaining 99.999 of uptime.

UBB is great when you do not have artificial limits imposed by the people that control the internet backbone and the last mile; that only have that monopoly as it was subsidized by the tax payers in return for ongoing service. While I agree that companies should be able to make a profit but what appears to have happened is some bean counter got a bright idea that people should pay more now per byte than they did even five years ago. I blame the mobile market for jacking up the rates bell figured we can charge $100/Gig for Mobile internet why the hell can we not make more on the broadband connections. If your bill for 20 Gigabytes of data transfer was $200 instead of $20 Would you care? What about $2000 for 200Gigabytes?

In Canada (Ontario specifically) your allowed to spank your child on the bum with an open hand you are not allowed to leave any visible marks ie bruises or welts or it would be considered extreme. I believe your only allowed to spank your child in public up to age 8 perhaps it is 10 years old. After that it better be done in private else not at all.

Yes it would be quite a seen wouldn't it. A local gas station lost close to a weeks sales last year due to a few hives falling off just a pick up truck. No one could get near the gas pumps for some time. Management solution call the fire department (duh!) Try explaining that one to the insurance adjusters.

Well often that truck driver is diverting loads (a not a load of sperm either) or he is transporting drugs/contraband from point a-b. So I can see why the management of these companies are so anal about tracking their equipment and there staff. Just think for a moment about how much profit a company stands to loose if they loose one major bonded delivery run because an employee decided that he would do what he pleased on the companies dime. Park the dam truck at a card lock and take a taxi. It's not like an 18 wheeler is easy to hide, or find a nice big metal dry shed / rock cavern / bridge to drive the truck under and make damn sure the transponder isn't able to reach a satellite or cell tower.

As long as someone finds value in the item and is will to either pay for it or labor for it then it has an intrinsic value so it is a real entity. Be it one you can not yet physically hold.