| Drop in home prices accelerating
I could be "savvy" all day, but if I owe 400,000 dollars on a house that's now worth $300,000, how on God's green earth does "savvy" come into play??? ROFL! makes sense wrote on Feb 27, 2008 8:03 AM:that the drop should be fast. The rise was a lot faster than the run-up to the 90s recession. But do you suppose anyone will remember this after we hit bottom and the next rise starts again? It will be a realtor/buyer feeding frenzy all over again. Then in 15 years when the bubble bursts again people will sit there wondering why and how it all went wrong again. Those who fail to learn from history... Concerned-1 wrote on Feb 27, 2008 8:21 AM:There's been an anomoly in the market for the past six to eight months where new home prices are actually lower per square foot than existing homes.
US stocks in doldrums; Chrysler shuts plants
US stocks finished lower yesterday amid scant market-moving news as vehicle maker Chrysler announced it was shutting four plants due to a dispute with a parts supplier. The administration of President George W. Bush meanwhile unveiled a record $US3.1 trillion ($A3.44 trillion) budget proposal for the fiscal year 2009, including an economic stimulus package of about $US145 billion ($A160.91 billion). The leading blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 108.03 points (0.85 per cent) at 12,634.16 after languishing in negative territory during the day's trading session. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite lost 30.51 points (1.26 per cent) to 2382.85 while the Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 14.60 points (1.05 per cent) to a close of 1380.82. Chrysler said workers would be notified by plant officials or local media about future work schedules as it closes plants in Illinois, Delaware, Michigan and Ohio.The shutdown affects about 10,500 employees.
Mother Earth Mother Board
During the decades after Morse's "What hath God wrought!" a plethora of different codes, signalling techniques, and sending and receiving machines were patented. A web of wires was spun across every modern city on the globe, and longer wires were strung between cities. Some of the early technologies were, in retrospect, flaky: one early inventor wanted to use 26-wire cables, one wire for each letter of the alphabet. But it quickly became evident that it was best to keep the number of individual wires as low as possible and find clever ways to fit more information onto them. This requires more ingenuity than you might think - wires have never been perfectly transparent carriers of data; they have always degraded the information put into them. In general, this gets worse as the wire gets longer, and so as the early telegraph networks spanned greater distances, the people building them had to edge away from the seat-of-the-pants engineering practices that, applied in another field, gave us so many boiler explosions, and toward the more scientific approach that is the standard of practice today.
the has-been
That makes the president an honorary soccer dad, too late to win back any suburban swing voters. Bates Motel: Flyer and Fryer have flown off to greener, Barney-free pastures in Disneyland. They don't know how lucky they are. With no help from Washington, some states are finding their own ways to reduce the turkey retiree burden. The Montgomery Advertiser reports on Alabama's solution: coyotes. Every November, Bill Bates, a leading Republican who runs the largest turkey farm in the state, brings the best bird from his flock of 20,000+ to Montgomery for the governor to pardon. Bates, who has been doing this since segregationist days, doesn't need an online naming contest. He gives his best bird the same name every year: Clyde. While a pardon may be the dream of every turkey worth his salt, the Advertiser's account suggests it's not easy being Clyde.
Managing Technology Lights! Camera! Sales!
A host of small businesses are trying this new twist on Web promotion, sending short films to Google Inc.'s YouTube and other popular video sites, advertising everything from root beer to blenders to bullet-resistant backpacks. For one thing, it's hard to beat the price: It costs nothing to put something on a video-sharing site, unlike buying television time or a regular Internet ad. And the videos let companies use a creative and personal touch that wouldn't work in traditional ads. "It's so different than the message-driven approach to marketing that most kinds of advertising is," says David Meerman Scott, author of "The New Rules of Marketing and PR." "You don't have to talk about your product per se. You can just have fun with it." But that leaves some big questions for companies that want to try their hand at videos.
Hoke presented at Builders' Show in Fla
David Hoke, a partner with BLF Marketing, was a featured presenter at the 2008 International Builders' Show in Orlando, Fla. About 100,000 housing professionals turned out for the industry's largest annual trade show and exposition, at the Orange County Convention Center, Feb. 13-16. .
Apple secretly tracking iPhone IMEI numbers? [U]
Apple is keeping abnormal watch on the identity of iPhones making use of online services, some hackers suggest. Buried within the binaries for the Stocks and Weather widgets is code that hands over a user's IMEI number -- the unique identifier for each phone. While IMEI numbers are common to all GSM cellphones, and are regularly used to authorize presence on a network, they are normally unneeded for accessing individual web services. Furthermore, it is impossible to modify the binaries' URLs to omit IMEI data and still retrieve any data from the widgets. Why the information would be needed is unknown, but proposed reasons include the likes of targeted advertising, consumer research, or guarding against unauthorized devices. It is reportedly very easy to spoof an IMEI number however, by using a hex editor to replace the variables in the URLs with any two-digit number, such as 00.
Dreamlinux 3.0 Beta 3 Testdrive
I've followed closely the instructions and, after the installation, I could enjoy Compiz Fusion's effects on the desktop. The Engage dock was replaced with Avant Window Navigator after the driver setup. I wanted to see what caused these problems, so I re-installed everything. It seems that everything's related to the way you boot the Live CD. If you boot into GNOME, you will install on your computer Dreamlinux with GNOME ONLY (there is no way you can change this)! But if you choose XFCE, you will get both desktop environments on your system. With them, you will receive a bonus pack of glitches the ones I mentioned above. .
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