This is code for straight-up Socialism or Chinese Style "Capitalism". Picking winners and losers by the Government.

I would instantly agree that we need to stop picking winners like we do now under Crony Capitalism, but putting that power more in the hands of Bureaucrats and Politicians is not the solution.

Along those same lines, Windows 11 is dropping support for older Intel Processors lacking certain features. Supposedly, it's to improve virtualization, but how much would it cost to just not support that virtualization as well on older processors?

It's a boon to PC manufacturers that push Windows 11. The big PC makers say "Works best with Windows!" on their websites and don't highlight or give you any price break on units with Linux installed. Didn't I read that MS requires that they get a payment for every PC sold, whether it runs Windows or not as part of their licensing agreement with the manufacturers? I know the manufacturers get a big break on Windows copies from retail.

I thought Apple should have bought Dell when Dell went private a few years ago, made PCs with no Windows advantage, pushed Linux and maybe even Darwin on these new PCs. I'm not saying don't sell Windows too. They could keep the Dell and marketing separate to not dilute the Apple brand. They would have enjoyed massive buying power for PC parts, screens, batteries, SDs. They could have gotten Dell for a tiny fraction of their massive war chest a few years ago. Could have had most of it financed, too, just like the deal to go private did. This idea might have faced anti-trust scrutiny.

Apple should have recognized that MS wasn't going away and as long as they are there, they are a potential huge competitor in many of their markets.

It would have also been revenge for the obnoxious remarks Michael Dell made back in the 90s when Apple was experiencing hard times.

I'd get a cheap laptop that has the ability to read all of the media you're putting into the chest, into the chest as well. I'm sure you can find something cheap on ebay. Make sure to remove the battery and DO NOT put it in the chest. If the battery blows, there goes all of your data... You can run most laptops just from the power cord without an attached battery.

You may even have an old laptop laying around that you can donate to the cause. Just remember. Remove the battery. Don't even think about putting it in the chest. throw it away so someone else doesn't throw it in there "just because there is room". =)

CD-Rs and DVD-R's tend to loose their 'readability' due to heat and light. If they are stored properly, the data on them should be readable in 25+ years. That being said, if that's your media of choice make sure to make duplicate copies of your data, and store it on different brand's / types of media.

32GB of data, whether it's on DVD, USB hard drives, or SD cards, is extremely affordable nowadays. I think SD cards may loose their charge after 10 years or so but hard drives will always be readable as long as they spin up. For Hard Drives, 25 years ago from today, SCSI/IDE drives were the standard, and I know I can still read them today using a cheap USB interface.

I guess what i'm trying to say here is you have options. Depending on how important this data is, use multiple options to ensure the data is readable. If you include a reader in your chest (the laptop sans battery) you increase your chances of easily being able to read the data.

Oh, and if you do put a laptop in the chest? Don't forget the power cord. ;-)

IANAA (Astrophysicist), but I believe asteroids of that size would reach the earth. Depending what it's made of, it could break into a lot of pieces, though.

This is a pretty small asteroid and (again, I'm no expert) but its orbit means that it wouldn't have a great relative velocity if it did strike earth (nothing like a comet, by comparison). There were some estimates on the damage it would do if it were to strike in the referenced article and this doesn't seem to be a major concern.

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I think this advice is good in most cases, but there are some cases where it might not be applicable.

This might be good advice for people fresh out of school, but I'd like to point out that some companies make it difficult for people to do anything public outside of work.

Also, not everyone is interested in web work. In those cases, I'd expect those people to have blogs where they discuss their projects, show code and relate experiences.

Another issue is that certain school programs are pretty demanding and don't leave much time for work outside. A prospective employee going through one of these schools might be also doing internships at one of the companies that don't allow you to do work outside.

In all these cases, the prospective employee should have code that they can show and explain, a portfolio.

   

I'd use them to assign off-topic to all the posts concerning teacher pay, benefits, workload and state budgets.

Come on people. This teacher is just trying to do a good job and we have to turn into an on-line teaparty or NEA advocacy forum?

Sounds like they've reinvented Broadway.

I always thought it sounded like a neat idea, but it went exactly nowhere 14 YEARS AGO.

Do you have inside information concerning the subsidies, because that's privileged information. I'd be surprised if the adware and MSN pays for the OEM Windows license, but maybe I could be surprised.

I do recall that netbooks used to be cheaper without windows. I think MS has since struck arrangements that make this no longer possible, but that's the way it used to be.

Huh? Of the 3 Republicans you mentioned, there was one alleged gay and two men with women on the side. These are your examples of closted gays and "diaper wearers" in the Republican Party? Mark Sanford resigned. Larry Craig actually resigned, but took it back.

I'm surprised you didn't mention Mark Foley, but then, he did resign, so I guess that wouldn't fit with your theme.

Spitzer resigned, true. He had lots of powerful enemies on Wall Street, he was seriously weakened by "Troopergate" and was under investigation for financial misdeeds surrounding the prostitutes (bribery, misuse of campaign funds) he was procuring that it's hardly surprising that he had to go. Note that Patterson suffered not a bit when he admitted to infidelity.

It's pretty surprising, actually, that Clinton survived. He was caught in a clear case of harassment, it doesn't matter a whit if it's consensual, the difference in power between a President and an Intern would have been harassment in a reasonable world. There was also that little matter of lying in open court. Martha Stewart goes to Prison for lying to an investigator and Clinton skates on lying in open court?

What other Democrat had to resign? Are you saying the Democrats are pure on this account and Spitzer and Clinton are the only examples?

I agree that the media applies different standards to Democrats when it comes to scandal. Like the blackout on the stories about Gore that have been known to reporters for years and are just now coming out.

If I had a girlfriend...

Stop right there.

So, now well-connected sites run by media companies will have more relevance in Search results vs. minority opinions put out on a cheap web host?
'Do no evil' is meaningless if you don't actually examine what you are doing.

If you are into chess, Google Translate opens up a whole world of chess blogs to you. I haven't used it extensively, but I was quite impressed with this translation.

To the chess players out there, note how it picks up notation interspersed with the text. It's not perfect and seems to fall back into Spanish algebraic in odd places, but I think they are the only translation tool that even tries to do chess notation.

I wonder if there are other "special purpose" translations that Google Translate attempts. It's pretty impressive to me that they even bother with the small chess blog reading public.

Oh, Google Translate does a lot better job on the non-chess parts of blogs, too.