Bingo. If they ported Word and Excel to the iPad or even better got docs.com to work with it, they would preserve their Office domination. As it is, I can get Pages for $20 and save things to iWork (1 Gig free!)

Instead of going back and trying to fix their decision to abandon ARM processors, they should focus on being where folks need them to be.

You've mistaken me for an Obama disciple. I don't support right wing corporate tools.

Obama is a Left Wing corporate tool.
Remember, there were rich people in the USSR, it's just that the peasant couldn't buy bread or blue jeans.
They're trying to do away with the problem in America.

Actually, as oil prices increase, it'll eventually be cheaper to manufacture low margin goods here than to do it overseas and pay for shipping.

Talked to a guy on a plane who has a Senior Exec for a manufacturing firm. He said that even with the high price of oil (it was much higher during this flight last year) it was still cheaper to build a plant with a 10-15 year lifecycle and ship everything back than to retrofit an existing plant in the US.

It's going to take higher oil prices, plus significant increase in the renmibi (or yuan) and huge salary increases for it to even out - and you still won't have the increased costs of environmental legislation or the CODB for manufacturing in the tort-happy US.

Pack a lunch. We won't be making much of significance for a while on these shores - especially if the Employee Free Choice or 'Card Check' legislation gets passed. In fact what little offshore company manufacturing done in the South will likely go even further south.

Nice charts.
Of course, as imbeciles elsewhere point out, it's Bush's fault.
Not that Barry hasn't had the reins for almost 2 years now.

It was very cool to be in the control room when the first collision took place =)

I have to say, you kept the coffee fresh, even though you forgot to add sweetener to mine.

Thanks for posting this. Take care of yourself so you can take care of her.

Don't really know what to say.
I hope your wife gets the physical and emotional healing she needs.
And don't hesitate to ask for help yourself.
Hang tough, brother.

One app for each function. Warren Woodford was on the NextSTEP team with Steve Jobs.
They used to have Antix for older machines (not that I think your machine is that old.)
Get it here.

The incessant use of blockquotes makes this story unreasonable.

James Taranto had a good piece that compared Bush's ~5% unemployment as HORRIBLE news and Obama's ~9% unemployment as a sign the economy is improving.
Big shock, that.

Armitage worked for Colin Powell. He was not part of the 'Bush' team. He was a career diplomat who worked with both parties which is why nobody wanted him to go down.
Bottom line: he leaked the name and if anyone should go to jail, it's him.
Period.

But the NY Times doesn't want that. They like Colin Powell.

her 'cover' was as the wife of a diplomat, so by outing her, Cheney and the rest of them, now confirmed that every single wife or husband (child, cousin, etc) of a diplomatic officer could be a CIA spy
But Cheney didn't out her. Nor did Libby. Armitage did.
Get that into your thick skull.

If it flies, floats or fucks...rent it.

Don't get me started.

Considering that Bush never put the money or effort into the war that it deserved- and basically turned the Marines and the entire US military into a joke in the Arabic world. (How many US Soldiers does it take to catch one old man with kidney disease living in a cave?)
Why catch him? Seriously.
If you think there's strategic value in catching him, that's your delusion, but quite honestly, we probably know how many meds the dude is taking and when he takes them.
We have his videos before he gets them out of the country.
Leaving him holed up does nothing. We've captured every other head of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But just nabbing bin Laden would do nothing for us and might create a power vacuum and a struggle for power that would make things worse for us.

You know, real Marxists play chess and understand this sort of thing.
Of course, real Marxists would not be interested in bin Lade being captured but in the US looking foolish.
Now give me money for coffee, bitch.