"THE American economy is the most creative and enterprising and productive system ever devised," George Bush told a Wall Street audience this week, before moving on to acknowledge some recent embarrassments.
Equally, though, the scandals do show that repairs are needed if the most creative, enterprising and productive system ever devised is to realise its full potential.A good deal of what went on in American (and European) boardrooms in the latter part of the 1990s, which is only now coming to light, should be regarded as no great surprise.
As with e-mail accounts, online banking and shopping Web sites, enterprising hackers can get around security systems when vendors are sloppy.
The arrival of the Psion Series 3 and Apple Newton in the early Nineties kickstarted a new market for handheld computers – or "personal digital assistants" – and enterprising eyes looked toward Nintendo's gaming system.
Ten years ago, enterprising workers at the facility set up the system, which took approximately three images per minute and distributed them on a local network, to spare themselves a long hike to what might be an empty pot.
At any rate, that's hopefully all going to come to an end (no pun intended), at least until enterprising prisoners find a way to beat the system.
These instructions are for converting an Epson Stylus 760 into a continuous ink system, but I'm sure you enterprising young Makers out there can rig up any old printer.
That 90MB/s transfer speed is on par with many solid state drives, so maybe we'll start seeing some super slim systems featuring these new cards from enterprising modders in the coming months.
"It will purge the rottenness out of the system," he added, and values "will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people".
The iPad mini is a near ideal device for inconspicuous installation in kiosk and self-serve terminal applications, and one enterprising company has already leveraged it to create an in-dash entertainment system for cars.
