Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? IPAD apps have to come from Apple. Without the cloud, it’s really limited. A grand for the pad, capital cost. 250$/year for the 3G, with a bandwidth cap. So far it’s a very small expensive island. We’ll see if it can bridge anywhere.
It has to have a huge value equation if it’s just an island; a bridge can open new worlds.
Jury’s still out imho.
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Speechless!
Audit: NJ Turnpike Wasted Millions On Perks
Updated: Wednesday, 20 Oct 2010, 8:55 AM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010, 10:27 PM EDT
BY LUKE FUNK
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MYFOXNY.COM – Auditors say the New Jersey Turnpike Authority wasted $43 million on unneeded perks and bonuses. In one case, an employee with a base salary of $73,469 earned $321,985 when all payouts and bonuses were included.
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No one should ever have a salary greater than the President or the Governor.
In this case, it’s fraud. If I was the executive or the auditor, I’d want to see time sheets. Did this person ever get sick? It’s at best abuse. Worst, fraud!
Shameful!
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Posted by reinkefj
Ok, maybe I am a “fanboy”. Of new technology. Maybe it’s supplanted my love of new cars. Just maybe.
What attracted me to the IPAD, and made me spend a lot of money imho, was the idea that it is a game changer for children. I’ve seen the stories of younger and younger human beings making use of it. Even those with different abilities seem to be able to deal with it. If they can, why not a fat old white guy injineer?
If it’s that good, then maybe this is more important than a cell phone for children?
At the very least, instead of children hauling a Herculean load of books, they carry an IPAD.
I was interested in the fellow who had the whole Talmud on an IPAD with translations and expectation. You ever seen all the books of the Talmud?
And, how does this change the ability to deliver dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom)?
And, is it a closed infrastructure? Or is it a computing appliance?
And, is it a good Christmas – Birthday – Every Occasion For The Rest Of Your Life type gift?
And, does it need the 3G option?
FIrst blush, after a day out of the box, it’s a game changer. It’s virtually brain dead without the cloud. (Or am I?)
There are a lot of design flaws or tradeoffs I don’t care for.
But, we’ll see if it grows on me.
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PROVISION #691 (10/17/10): Touch Matters
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The Manifesto, titled “How to fix our schools,”
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Sorry, but it asks the wrong question. And, compounds the issue with a bad sentence construction.
“Our schools”. They are NOT, by any stretch of the imagination, “mine”. I get to pay for Gooferment Skrules, but have no input. (I’d shut them down. In an organized fashion. Over 40 years. And return the responsibility to the parents.) And, please don’t tell me to vote and lobby. That’s a rigged game that benefits the politicians, bureaucrats, and their fellow porkers at the trough.
The question SHOULD BE: Why are we using the 1800’s Prussian model for “schooling”? (Hasn’t the world changed a little? Education hasn’t.) That model had different objectives — cannon fodder, factory workers, and Sheeple to be led by the elite. (Notice where politicians send their children. Those are the elite. It ain’t us folks.) Phoenix University, home schooling, and Bill Gates are all clues that education is not found in Gooferment Skrules. Those seem to be nothing but training for prisons.
So we fix the Gooferment Skrules by growing out of them. First, we get Gooferment out of the operation over 20 years; 5% per year. Second, we get Gooferment out of the funding of education over 20 years. A lot of details to work out, but let’s set the direction to free posterity from the tyranny of out-of-control Gooferment.
http://www.spinninglobe.net/amishmudsill.html
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There was nothing popular, local or personal about this artificial conceit of forced schooling; its purpose was to weaken people’s capacity to educate themselves, to break their loyalty to family, church and land in order to release customers and workforce for élite schemes of economics and social ordering.
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Well written, basic little L libertarian doctrine.
http://ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle592-20101017-02.html
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We must choose a different course. No one who claims to be a libertarian can deny that taxation—having begun as nothing more than simple banditry—represents an institution nearly as ancient as Humankind itself. Nor that taxation is still theft. Nor that taxation is slavery. Nor that taxation is the fuel of war. I will reiterate: taxation is theft. Taxation is slavery. And taxation is the fuel of war.
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Posted by reinkefj
This is a guaranteed spam. It came in on the “wrong email account”. I use specific pre-defined email accounts for different purposes. For example, “bank able 1234 @ reinke doc cc” or “bank baker 6789 @ reinke dot cc”. Thus if I receive an email on ANY account but the right one (i.e. bank able message on bank baker’s account), there’s no doubt it’s spam. And, it’s not just bank name @ account, but bank name with random string to prevent a spammer from guessing. If I “see” an alpha attack on the account to find the suffix, I can just change the fixed part of the string. I’ve been preaching the strategy to any one who will listen. Since you have a bigger platform, maybe you’ll recommend the advice to your readers. fjohn, the big fat old blogger hisself
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Posted by reinkefj
“If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.”
— Joe Sobran (1946–2010)
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Posted by reinkefj
I know a baby who needs some blood. Can’t offer you anything much more than “thanks”. Young parent are going nuts. The grandparents are my old friends. Drop me a email or call me.
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http://www.wxpnews.com/LEM1E6/101019-Movie-Reshape
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It’s official. You cannot trust what you see on TV and Film any more. Check out this new technology:
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Wow, everyone will have to think twice about what one sees on ANY screen!
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The Caregiver Reminder Bracelet is a simple, economical device that, when used consistently, can eliminate a tragic problem in our hectic world.
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49 children die? I just find this hard to fathom.
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