How do you cut 5.1 billion and end up with a "savings" of only 4 billion? Are they paying 1.1 billion for early termination fees? What am I missing here?

âoeIf itâ(TM)s hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there's something thatâ(TM)s close to the expiration date, we can lower the price â" thatâ(TM)s the good news,â said Phil Lempert, a grocery industry analyst. https://www.npr.org/2024/06/17... He seems excited by the prospect. While he doesn't work for Walmart, I'm sure they're thinking about it. Meanwhile there's already a class action against Walmart claiming price discrepancies from shelf labels and what's being charged at the register https://www.supermarketnews.co...

What medium, on the market, could even support speeds like this, or is it just good for volume to multiple devices?

At TSTC in Waco, TX, they have a COBOL course. I can't remember if it was two or just the single 4 hour class, but they used it as a means of weeding out people not really prepared for business programming. I got the flu the semester I had the class, and failed horribly. I was a member of AITP, and at one of the monthly meetings we had, the table we were sitting at was attended by a true professional in the telecommunications industry. I point blank asked the guy why they didn't update to a more modern language, and he told me that they had tried numerous times to do just that. Every time, he said, they ran into walls. Some code just wouldn't port over and it threw everything off. For some reason they just couldn't get the same results from modern compilers as they did COBOl. I was really shocked at his response, and this was back in 2001. Today I'm not at all surprised to see an escalating need for COBOL programmers.

The last time I had to get my license renewed, I had to go to the DMV... After finally getting called to have my photo taken, I was asked to remove my glasses for my new picture. The first thing that crossed my mind of facial recognition.

Anybody else experienced this?

But DARPA instead of the CIA...

I don't really have the background for this, just speculation, but how much mass are we talking about removing from the moon?

How much would it take to affect the tides? Could the difference cause the moon to be pulled to the earth because of Earth's increased mass (whatever is brought back)?

Just curious...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090837/

I can't believe I wasted my money on this movie. I download 99% of the movies I want to watch, and I just had to support Card for this movie, and I was completely let down.

Having Bernard in Ender's army, and one his squadron leaders had me questioning whether or not the guy who wrote the screenplay had ever read the book!

In short, don't waste your money!

I just posted that on my FB page, but suggested adblock plus with fanboy and easylist filers

I first started learning about programming on my Commodore 64, real minor stuff around 10.

Then I got a dial up modem, and found a wonderful program called mIRC, and I started learning to script.

After learning to write scripts in mIRC for 2 years, and transferring to a new school, I tried getting into the AP classes in high school. The only problem is that they only offered the classes to juniors and seniors... Once I was finally able to take these classes (Turbo Pascal and VB) I was finally knew what I wanted to do with my life.

Luckily once I got to college these classes helped me jump to second year courses and fly by all the BS intro to computer classes.

Ignore all that crap. Didn't bother to read as Snark suggested.

Referencing an earlier comment "laser placement" to paraphrase. Not that I know how reliable that would be, however, I have seen some interesting articles dealing with the orienting of objects with lasers.

BTW most interesting conversation I've seen at /. in a while here.

Oh wait, I signed up for that and it didn't work. Why would I think this "option" would be treated any different?

I would suggest finding a used Laptop if you want to avoid windows 8. I work for a used computer sales company and we have 40 to 50 laptops a month that we sell with windows 7, vista, and even XP.

Also check Craigslist.

If you aren't buying used I don't know where you might find somebody still selling machines with windows 7.