You should try reading the article sometime, it is quite liberating.
From the article... "What they did was fire one thorium nucleus after another through a mass spectrometer to see how heavy each was. Thorium has an atomic number of 90 and occurs mainly in two isotopes with atomic weights of 230 and 232. All these showed up in the measurements along with a various molecular oxides and hydrides that form for technical reasons."
Hostile take-over? Maybe if they offered the other private equity holders a dump truck of money.
Maybe this is the conspiracy nut in me typing, but I think is more to just hinder the business operation of a competitor that gives its primary service away for FREE...and is still in business...and people like it.
csnydermvpsoft wrote, "The Internet is becoming much too important to leave a significant amount of the population (pardon the pun) in the dark. We have the technology to help the blind navigate web sites independently. Unfortunately, CAPTCHAs are hindering much of that progress."
No, spammers are. The root problem of this "solution" is the spammers, who do not care our personal feelings of privacy. They don't care that their messages cause everyone else's costs to rise.
Without CAPTHA technology, none of the web mailers would be usable, as they would all be blocked by every known blacklist.
For this reason, I think the penalties for convicted spammers should be far higher than what they are now. Their actions are subverting the ease of use for a very large group of people.
The blind and hard-of-sight have always been poorly served by what is a very visual medium. I don't think will be changing anytime soon. And for that matter (and this may across harsh), I don't if it should be a concern. Do we lament that the blind and h-o-s cannot drive?
The cost of being all-inclusive can be too high for some budgets.
...I am going to interpret this as a victory for the common user, the ones who are saying no to Vista and yes to keeping XP or switching to Linux, that Microsoft is admitting without saying the actual words that they no longer dictate to the market place what we will use, that we refuse to keep buying every larger and faster PCs when do not necessarily NEED a bigger and faster PCs.
The Chinese are not another race, they are humans like the rest of us. Can we please come up with a different word? Maybe "Anti-Chinese" would be a more accurate description?
They do have a better way. Retro rockets to slow the descent to a crawl + springy legs because 1 to 2 m/s is still a hard landing. It comes down to cost. This solution is more expensive.
From the article, "Then why don't Intel and Sun just crank up the speed? Well, just as is the case with cars, the faster chips run, the hotter they get, and IBM has created water-cooling systems akin to the radiators in cars to keep its processors from overheating. Not doing so, Meyerson quipped, "results in setting fire to the user, which is bad.""
This part of the article made me laugh. Sick sense of humor? But, I would formally like to thank IBM for caring about setting me on fire or not.
The parent wrote, "It's been a long time since I had a business class. Isn't this what is called the poison pill? Either buying up things that make the company a poor purchase decision, or entering into contracts that do the same thing etc?"
I think it would qualify more as a poison pill strategy if Yahoo! gave up their own ad service completely and signed a binding long-term agreement with Google, the kind that survives mergers and buy-outs.
From the article... "Microsoft immediately blasted the idea of a search advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google, saying it would be anticompetitive. âoeAny definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would consolidate over 90 percent of the search advertising market in Googleâ(TM)s hands,â Microsoft said in a statement."
For some reason, this cry for justice rings empty. Does Microsoft honestly think THEY can make such complaints given their own gregarious behavior?
I gotta agree with the article. This makes complete sense from a business perspective. As much as slashdot may beat on Windows, many of are using it while we type our abuse. Windows is not going away. If you want a PC to just run out of the box, you install Windows. Linux is getting better, but just isn't to that level, yet.
My XP system is littered with open source apps, at work and home. I use Firefox hourly. I use OpenOffice to type up my messages. I use thunderbird to read my ISP mail. I have sunbird loaded, but have not quite got into using the computer to track my appointments, yet (I like my post-it notes, thank you). Open Workbench does a fair job at project management.
It is the best of both worlds, imho.
I don't see the CD going away in all of this. I do see the effect of this "cherry picking" being that people be able to create their own CDs with the tracks they actually want to listen to, kinda like print-on-demand for books. Except here, we can have a CD with more than one artist and you will know for certain that did not pay for a whole CD just to get one good song.
You get a HD with 10W less power need, a northbridge with 5W less power need, a CPU with 5W less power need, a video card with 15W less power need, a soundcard with 5W less power need, you've saved 40W already with minimal change in performance. I gotta agree whole-heartedly here. For most people, really high super performance numbers are not that big of an issue. Few of us non-Vista people will every stress the max transfer numbers to really notice the small overall drop. For a brand new system, this would seem like a Good Thing (tm) to add to the shopping list. I am just trying to ponder what *I* would need 1 Tb of disk space for, when my 40Gb drive is barely used.
When I'm downloading naked pictures of Bea Arthur Actually, according to this (http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/) study by some bored MIT students, the tin foil hat would HELP you to receive said pictures more effectively, possibly.
It's time to lay off the weed, me thinks. WiFi signals are as harmless as any other radio signal. I suppose they may try to get FM and AM radio blocked, as well? I am curious, though, if these same people just happen to be carrying cell phones.
I don't know if a 3 wheeled vehicle would be a non efficient platform or couldn't cope with all the other requirements, but if they're looking for something extraordinary, why limit themselves with something like "Must have 4 or more wheels"? I question this limitation, as well. Three wheels means less resistance on the road than four tires. Also, 3-wheeled vehicles in many states count as "motorcycles" and are way cheaper to insure as a result. The Aptera (http://www.aptera.com/) is an example of this.
At first, I was thinking,"Oh, maybe some people chose not to vote after calling up either Rep or Dem." But then I realized the math involved. The computer says 60 votes were cast for the Reps, but 61 votes are actually placed.
Sheesh, why does this have to be so difficult. We can conduct trillions of dollars of business electronically, but we still don't have an effective digital voting system? I think the conspiracy here is by someone who hates technology likes to kill trees for paper balloting, not that digital voting is being rigged.
because the show jumped the shark in the third season killing off Starbuck only to show her coming back next season.
Really, I was enjoying the show very well until deep into the third we had four lead character singing that damn song and Starbuck dieing and coming back.
Caprica - subtitled "Oops, sorry 'bout that" Okay, Karma be damned, but I have to say it. This new show jumped the shark when the idiot producer made the changes he did from the actual Battlestar Galactica show. This new show was never BSG, only a poser. There was nothing wrong with the original series, except for being a product of its time. But, change the genders of the most loved character? Bah! Heresy, I say! This show deserves its death. Name the show anything else and it might have had a higher standing in my eyes, but to degrade a classic in such an insipid way?
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You should try reading the article sometime, it is quite liberating.
From the article...
"What they did was fire one thorium nucleus after another through a mass spectrometer to see how heavy each was. Thorium has an atomic number of 90 and occurs mainly in two isotopes with atomic weights of 230 and 232. All these showed up in the measurements along with a various molecular oxides and hydrides that form for technical reasons."
Hostile take-over? Maybe if they offered the other private equity holders a dump truck of money.
Maybe this is the conspiracy nut in me typing, but I think is more to just hinder the business operation of a competitor that gives its primary service away for FREE...and is still in business...and people like it.
There comes a point where designing/making your own chips is more profitable (or less costly) than having someone else design/make them.
Jobs is a control freak, so maybe cost has nothing to do with it, but as a business move, it has the chance to work for you.
As for being a good value for the purchase, Apple seems to think so.
csnydermvpsoft wrote, "The Internet is becoming much too important to leave a significant amount of the population (pardon the pun) in the dark. We have the technology to help the blind navigate web sites independently. Unfortunately, CAPTCHAs are hindering much of that progress."
No, spammers are. The root problem of this "solution" is the spammers, who do not care our personal feelings of privacy. They don't care that their messages cause everyone else's costs to rise.
Without CAPTHA technology, none of the web mailers would be usable, as they would all be blocked by every known blacklist.
For this reason, I think the penalties for convicted spammers should be far higher than what they are now. Their actions are subverting the ease of use for a very large group of people.
The blind and hard-of-sight have always been poorly served by what is a very visual medium. I don't think will be changing anytime soon. And for that matter (and this may across harsh), I don't if it should be a concern. Do we lament that the blind and h-o-s cannot drive?
The cost of being all-inclusive can be too high for some budgets.
...I am going to interpret this as a victory for the common user, the ones who are saying no to Vista and yes to keeping XP or switching to Linux, that Microsoft is admitting without saying the actual words that they no longer dictate to the market place what we will use, that we refuse to keep buying every larger and faster PCs when do not necessarily NEED a bigger and faster PCs.
The parent wrote, "yes its clearly racist."
The Chinese are not another race, they are humans like the rest of us. Can we please come up with a different word? Maybe "Anti-Chinese" would be a more accurate description?
They do have a better way. Retro rockets to slow the descent to a crawl + springy legs because 1 to 2 m/s is still a hard landing. It comes down to cost. This solution is more expensive.
Buncha spelling Nazis...
Stupid spelling checker...
From the article, "Then why don't Intel and Sun just crank up the speed? Well, just as is the case with cars, the faster chips run, the hotter they get, and IBM has created water-cooling systems akin to the radiators in cars to keep its processors from overheating. Not doing so, Meyerson quipped, "results in setting fire to the user, which is bad.""
This part of the article made me laugh. Sick sense of humor? But, I would formally like to thank IBM for caring about setting me on fire or not.
The parent wrote, "It's been a long time since I had a business class. Isn't this what is called the poison pill? Either buying up things that make the company a poor purchase decision, or entering into contracts that do the same thing etc?"
I think it would qualify more as a poison pill strategy if Yahoo! gave up their own ad service completely and signed a binding long-term agreement with Google, the kind that survives mergers and buy-outs.
From the article...
"Microsoft immediately blasted the idea of a search advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google, saying it would be anticompetitive. âoeAny definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would consolidate over 90 percent of the search advertising market in Googleâ(TM)s hands,â Microsoft said in a statement."
For some reason, this cry for justice rings empty. Does Microsoft honestly think THEY can make such complaints given their own gregarious behavior?
I gotta agree with the article. This makes complete sense from a business perspective. As much as slashdot may beat on Windows, many of are using it while we type our abuse. Windows is not going away. If you want a PC to just run out of the box, you install Windows. Linux is getting better, but just isn't to that level, yet. My XP system is littered with open source apps, at work and home. I use Firefox hourly. I use OpenOffice to type up my messages. I use thunderbird to read my ISP mail. I have sunbird loaded, but have not quite got into using the computer to track my appointments, yet (I like my post-it notes, thank you). Open Workbench does a fair job at project management. It is the best of both worlds, imho.
I don't see the CD going away in all of this. I do see the effect of this "cherry picking" being that people be able to create their own CDs with the tracks they actually want to listen to, kinda like print-on-demand for books. Except here, we can have a CD with more than one artist and you will know for certain that did not pay for a whole CD just to get one good song.
Give it some time. The Groklaw article did state that there is a 2-month period for appeals to be filed.
It seems like new lunar tractor can drive forward in any orientation. That is pretty cool.
It's time to lay off the weed, me thinks. WiFi signals are as harmless as any other radio signal. I suppose they may try to get FM and AM radio blocked, as well? I am curious, though, if these same people just happen to be carrying cell phones.
At first, I was thinking,"Oh, maybe some people chose not to vote after calling up either Rep or Dem." But then I realized the math involved. The computer says 60 votes were cast for the Reps, but 61 votes are actually placed.
Sheesh, why does this have to be so difficult. We can conduct trillions of dollars of business electronically, but we still don't have an effective digital voting system? I think the conspiracy here is by someone who hates technology likes to kill trees for paper balloting, not that digital voting is being rigged.
Really, I was enjoying the show very well until deep into the third we had four lead character singing that damn song and Starbuck dieing and coming back.
Caprica - subtitled "Oops, sorry 'bout that" Okay, Karma be damned, but I have to say it. This new show jumped the shark when the idiot producer made the changes he did from the actual Battlestar Galactica show. This new show was never BSG, only a poser. There was nothing wrong with the original series, except for being a product of its time. But, change the genders of the most loved character? Bah! Heresy, I say! This show deserves its death. Name the show anything else and it might have had a higher standing in my eyes, but to degrade a classic in such an insipid way?