FX: Looks down at latest missive from da management
"Confidently lead the market with differentiated outsourcing services leveraging our key differentiators"
"Market leading unique services"
Just saved them a million or two there. Ah, so your company has decided to realign its best practices along the lines of its core competencies, aiding in the creation of a dynamic synergy with your customers?
"which companies could look their communities in the eye after selling to Microsoft?" ALL OF THEM.
Any that have tech they want, but are at risk of moving to GPLv3, I'd say. Not according to the recent surveys. The GPLv3 seems to be quite UNpopular with developers.
MS Office is a clone of its progenitors as StarOffice/OpenOffice is of MS Office. There were lotsa products out for DOS and Mac before MS Office's components. For a lot of documents, pure TEXT is sufficient for sending, which can be opened by pretty much ANY text editor/word processor. Now THAT, my friend, is truly giving people choice.
And, forcing ODF on people is just as bad as forcing DOC on someone.
OMG they released a Dinosour in Utah! Run for the hills! What, was Newt Gingrich allowed out of his cage? 800 teeth, eh? And here mom and dad were saying that digging in the dirt would never amount to anything.
If I weld four rockets to it, I wonder if my '67 Impala could fly... Or, if you weld 4 '67 Impala's to the X-Wing, will it fly? Er, weld the rocket to the Impala's, then the Impala's to the rocket. Wait, what were we talking about again?
It seems a tad too soon to judge the adoption as being shunned. New licenses take time to be used by new projects and for old projects to adopt (if they were going to adopt). I mean, how old is the GPL2? That is a lot of traction to overcome in a short period of time.
Politicians will simply ignore the facts and press ahead. No, they will turn the stat around. "Look at the additional crimes we were able solve with the aid of the security cameras, solutions not possible before its advent. While we regret the network has not be as effective in deterring existing crime as much as we had hoped, we have created a plan whereby we will spend more of your money to increase training and proficiency of our law enforcement officials. More spending for a safer society."
In a statement issued Friday, SCO said its board of directors "unanimously determined that Chapter 11 reorganization is in the best long-term interest of SCO and its subsidiaries, as well as its customers, shareholders and employees."
Wait...so, there are people who actually still work for SCO? And people who still own their stock? Riiiiigh. And the next thing they are going to tell me is that the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus are real.
Since they kept tweaking the program even between games it wasn't possible for Kasparov to do the same. Are you proposing that Kasparov doesn't "tweak" his game play? That he doesn't learn and adapt?
From the article, "Chess requires brilliant thinking, supposedly the one feat that would be--forever--beyond the reach of any computer."
Oh, please. The hubris is overwhelming.
I play the game. I am not a great players, but it is a fun diversion and can help to develop focus and thinking skills. But, please, to say that Chess could have been beyond a computer? That is small, ignorant thinking.
The human brain excels at pattern matching in massive parallelism. It is this advantage we have over our current computers. But, new computer designs have gotten fast and with lotsa memory and storage space. It was only a matter of time until a computer had the right amounts of that speed, memory and storage space, coupled with programmers to make the best use of it and then no human would ever stand a chance.
As we get better with fuzzy AI type stuff, even games like Poker, Texas Hold 'em and others will even fall from our human hands.
The intuition we exercise is some random choice being made, but based on experience and a factor of acceptable risk of failure.
is this AMDs way of saying "oh look we cant make a proper quad core system like intel so we just make 3 the magic number! and everyone will buy our marketing technobable crap" Anything is possible. The real question is, what is AMD capable of selling. Sure they can add 1 more hypertransport controllers as some of the others posters have mentioned, but what does that to the cost of the chip?
Sometimes, you have to slower to go faster. Or, in this case, you need fewer to do more.
"Without a service pack it just doesn't feel like windows."
It may be funny, but I gotta agree with this one. When Microsoft went away from the Service Packs in favor of the many-downloads method, I was a bit sad. Gone were the days of NT and SP6a. I thought it was rather convenient to have a single service pack that rolled up all of the known fixes into a single run install.
But they never did get away from the service packs, since Win2k had 2 SPs released for it. XP got better after SP1 and it sounds like Vista will be better (relatively) after SP1 than their SP0 states.
with the side-effect of requiring people to upgrade their browser. Um...which people should ALREADY be doing to avoid the security flaws that exist in any current version of your preferred browser. As Microsoft and Mozilla roll out their updates and new versions, HTML 5 will simply be there with no more effort than what would have already been made to begin with.
Pfft, it's "just plain cool" - ain't no way it can be unsafe!
Next week on/. - how to convert your BB gun to fire 9mm rounds! I used to use a BB gun to launch bottle rockets. The trick to learn was when to fire the bottle rocket at the right time before it went off to gain the most height. Sure, we guessed wrong occasionally and the rocket would come flying back to Earth and explode on the ground, but mad science is filled with such "learn" opportunities.
Ah, okay. Math errors happen to us here and there.
This is a very small sampling to making any broad judgements from, but what if this small sample represented the USA? If this study scaled up to an 8 million kids, that would be 6,264.7 kids would have met someone off-line. I pray that the numbers are not truly that bad, otherwise, we have done a poor job of raising our children.
It was written, "Apparently the chances of being taught good fundamental math is lower than the chance of meeting IRL a freak that you chatted with on the internet."
1 / 1277 = 0.0007830853563038371182458888018794
Move the decimal over two places for percent display: 0.07830853563038371182458888018794%
Round up a little and you have 0.08%, as reported by the article.
I am curious as to what fundamental math is being quested here.
For the press to be free, the confidentiality of a journalist contact should be protected. While this power can be abused (as can all laws), it helps to protect both liberals and conservatives from destroying each other. Informants have also helped to bring to light serious ecological, financial and other offenses. For good or bad, this is a right that needs to be protected, because I fear the resulting effects of the lack of protection.
Is it possible that this new generation is different? Where dad made the choice before, we now have the kids knowing more than the parents and telling THE PARENTS what they need to buy.
Schools tend to be on slim budgets and the $0 cost of Linux is mighty tempting to the would-be computer teacher looking for a cheap way to set up 30 PCs for a smaller school.
Some may deride Novell for their deal with Microsoft, but Lenovo is targeting the corporate world, not OS Holy War advocates. In the corporate world, big businesses want certainty, even in the face of possibly-baseless claims. IMHO, the two most important places to target with Linux are businesses and schools. People will tend to use at home what they are around at school or work. Not all, but most. Familiarity breeds sales. Regarding schools, target the K-12 school systems.
Dell, HP/Compaq, Lenovo/IBM...these are the big three that the Linux community needs to really push the off-the-shelf sale. The sales of these three dwarf all of the rest of the competition.
Thus, I say bring it on, Lenovo! Soon, all of the other 1st and 2nd tier vendors will fall into the new order of the world or risk being left behind.
Why not just turn your children over to the government when they're born?
Parents today obviously have ZERO interest in spending time with their children and monitoring their activities and habits.
This is ridiculous. Your assertion is tad broad. I take much interest in my child's activities and what is on the TV when he is around. My wife and I both. Now, maybe YOUR childhood was this way, but some of us has parents that loved us. And this is nothing to do with the government raising our children. It is about putting a chip in a device that allows THE PARENTS to control what their kids watch. The FCC merely requires the chip to be present and that broadcasters have the flags set. Now, where in this scheme is the government taking control of your child?
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Lucas is pretty much denying that The Christmas Special even existed. But we, the fans of Star Wars, never forget.
"Confidently lead the market with differentiated outsourcing services leveraging our key differentiators"
"Market leading unique services"
Just saved them a million or two there. Ah, so your company has decided to realign its best practices along the lines of its core competencies, aiding in the creation of a dynamic synergy with your customers?
Any that have tech they want, but are at risk of moving to GPLv3, I'd say. Not according to the recent surveys. The GPLv3 seems to be quite UNpopular with developers.
MS Office is a clone of its progenitors as StarOffice/OpenOffice is of MS Office. There were lotsa products out for DOS and Mac before MS Office's components. For a lot of documents, pure TEXT is sufficient for sending, which can be opened by pretty much ANY text editor/word processor. Now THAT, my friend, is truly giving people choice.
And, forcing ODF on people is just as bad as forcing DOC on someone.
This will be the most part of Space Camp next year.
It seems a tad too soon to judge the adoption as being shunned. New licenses take time to be used by new projects and for old projects to adopt (if they were going to adopt). I mean, how old is the GPL2? That is a lot of traction to overcome in a short period of time.
From the article, "Chess requires brilliant thinking, supposedly the one feat that would be--forever--beyond the reach of any computer."
Oh, please. The hubris is overwhelming.
I play the game. I am not a great players, but it is a fun diversion and can help to develop focus and thinking skills. But, please, to say that Chess could have been beyond a computer? That is small, ignorant thinking.
The human brain excels at pattern matching in massive parallelism. It is this advantage we have over our current computers. But, new computer designs have gotten fast and with lotsa memory and storage space. It was only a matter of time until a computer had the right amounts of that speed, memory and storage space, coupled with programmers to make the best use of it and then no human would ever stand a chance.
As we get better with fuzzy AI type stuff, even games like Poker, Texas Hold 'em and others will even fall from our human hands.
The intuition we exercise is some random choice being made, but based on experience and a factor of acceptable risk of failure.
is this AMDs way of saying "oh look we cant make a proper quad core system like intel so we just make 3 the magic number! and everyone will buy our marketing technobable crap" Anything is possible. The real question is, what is AMD capable of selling. Sure they can add 1 more hypertransport controllers as some of the others posters have mentioned, but what does that to the cost of the chip? Sometimes, you have to slower to go faster. Or, in this case, you need fewer to do more.
"Without a service pack it just doesn't feel like windows."
It may be funny, but I gotta agree with this one. When Microsoft went away from the Service Packs in favor of the many-downloads method, I was a bit sad. Gone were the days of NT and SP6a. I thought it was rather convenient to have a single service pack that rolled up all of the known fixes into a single run install.
But they never did get away from the service packs, since Win2k had 2 SPs released for it. XP got better after SP1 and it sounds like Vista will be better (relatively) after SP1 than their SP0 states.
Next week on
Ah, okay. Math errors happen to us here and there.
This is a very small sampling to making any broad judgements from, but what if this small sample represented the USA? If this study scaled up to an 8 million kids, that would be 6,264.7 kids would have met someone off-line. I pray that the numbers are not truly that bad, otherwise, we have done a poor job of raising our children.
It was written, "Apparently the chances of being taught good fundamental math is lower than the chance of meeting IRL a freak that you chatted with on the internet."
1 / 1277 = 0.0007830853563038371182458888018794
Move the decimal over two places for percent display:
0.07830853563038371182458888018794%
Round up a little and you have 0.08%, as reported by the article.
I am curious as to what fundamental math is being quested here.
For the press to be free, the confidentiality of a journalist contact should be protected. While this power can be abused (as can all laws), it helps to protect both liberals and conservatives from destroying each other. Informants have also helped to bring to light serious ecological, financial and other offenses. For good or bad, this is a right that needs to be protected, because I fear the resulting effects of the lack of protection.
Is it possible that this new generation is different? Where dad made the choice before, we now have the kids knowing more than the parents and telling THE PARENTS what they need to buy.
Schools tend to be on slim budgets and the $0 cost of Linux is mighty tempting to the would-be computer teacher looking for a cheap way to set up 30 PCs for a smaller school.
I stand corrected. Okay, so Linux fans need to work on Acer and Toshiba next.
Some may deride Novell for their deal with Microsoft, but Lenovo is targeting the corporate world, not OS Holy War advocates. In the corporate world, big businesses want certainty, even in the face of possibly-baseless claims. IMHO, the two most important places to target with Linux are businesses and schools. People will tend to use at home what they are around at school or work. Not all, but most. Familiarity breeds sales. Regarding schools, target the K-12 school systems.
Dell, HP/Compaq, Lenovo/IBM...these are the big three that the Linux community needs to really push the off-the-shelf sale. The sales of these three dwarf all of the rest of the competition.
Thus, I say bring it on, Lenovo! Soon, all of the other 1st and 2nd tier vendors will fall into the new order of the world or risk being left behind.
If you are going to be evil, you might as well go all the way. None of that weak stuff.
Parents today obviously have ZERO interest in spending time with their children and monitoring their activities and habits.
This is ridiculous. Your assertion is tad broad. I take much interest in my child's activities and what is on the TV when he is around. My wife and I both. Now, maybe YOUR childhood was this way, but some of us has parents that loved us. And this is nothing to do with the government raising our children. It is about putting a chip in a device that allows THE PARENTS to control what their kids watch. The FCC merely requires the chip to be present and that broadcasters have the flags set. Now, where in this scheme is the government taking control of your child?