Note how none if it is being done by "the invisible hand" but by actual government and industry backed efforts.
The large number of people who continually remain long term unemployed or dropping out of the workforce (and its subsequent shrinkage) indicates that this is simply not the case i.e. there are no meaningful government or industry efforts in this area.
There's another word for your analysis: denial.
It's cheaper for the IRS to pay the dime to continue to make patches so that they will be available to countless others who are caught with their pants down, costing far more in the economy and thus ultimately reducing revenue headed to the IRS.
They might actually make a profit off from doing this.
'm sure Windows 9.5 will be revolutionary, unlike anything we've seen before, and Windows 9.8 will continue to improve on it.
Imagine all the improvements that Windows 2000 will bring!
So they didn't whack ham radio for this? I'm really glad they did not. I have not been able to follow it as much as I would like.
Great minds think alike. Came here to post this.
It should also be noted that much, if not all, signal generation on the satellite is going to be traceable to an atomic clock.
Why do the books need to be piled on in the first place? Does it make students somehow better? Does it help them get a job after highschool - in a world where a college degree doesn't get a job anymore?
Instead of calling B.S. on whether parents should not help with homework, let's call B.S. on the whole notion of homework in the first place.
What would have been a lot more meaningful of Fluke to do would be to cancel the trademark.
I wonder if it should have been granted in the first place. Yellow rubber meter holders existed far before 2000 when this color trademark was granted. Which means that Fluke may have not been entitled to it in the first place. Maybe the fine legal minds on Slashdot can help explain it to me.
I understand Fluke's desperation at wanting to stop low cost meters from undercutting their business, but let's face it, China has been undercutting everyone's business. I don't see what makes them so special to avoid it other than making better products, certainly not through a yellow rubber holder that's been used since nearly the beginning of digital meters.
I spent five minutes trying to figure out if Slashdot once again misspelled something, i.e. "porno."
Really, thanks OP for your pursuit of the truth here. This is part of the technical excellence that I came to expect of the Slashdot of the days of old. Good job.
Does anyone else remember when IBM would be the one to do something like this?
RadioShack can branch out all it wants, as long as its stores continue to offer the core services (hacker parts, electronics, and knowledgeable staff) front and center.
The sad fact is they have lost that core demographic that would shop there. They have found workable replacements for whatever Radio Shack used to sell them, and even at cheaper prices that the internet can offer.
I have a difficult time seeing how it is not too late. There are a few corporate businesses that struggled in the past, closed stores, and then were able to make a comeback after restructuring and reinventing themselves. But for the vast majority, it just signals the beginning of the end.
If I had a hand in Radio Shack, I'd fire anything that called itself a manager, and get rid of positions in corporate that seem to be merely taking up space. Maybe that's what will happen with all these store closings. Get rid of quite a few district managers.
Somehow Ironic that they will be forced to go through now what they forced countless salesman to do - walking the plank of unemployment.
However, if you notice, every store is focussed on the upsell. It's more rare that I walk into a store and be left alone than it is where I walk into one and they try to upsell me.
It happens online too. Look at Amazon's "ad ons."
The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization. -- Alan Coult
