Customer A comes to GS and says we have views on these pool of players, help us implement that view. Goldman tells Customer B they are interested in structuring a bet (that by necessity, must have another side) with the same pool. Customer B picks the players it likes, based on its own analysis and expertise. Customer A accepts the new list of players. Customer B is initially very happy, but soon the players, for which no entity involved has any influence, start performing poorly. Customer A loses. Customer B wins. Goldman, having retained some of Customer A's stake for itself, loses, but recoups a portion of the loss through fees earned by structuring the deal. All the Goldman execs then get new Ferraris.
But that's not to say it might not have an application some day right? Say like, having to venture outside of the international space station a`la R2D2 to fix a power coupling or something. Just saying!
I'm no physicist, but I'm guessing that a vacuum suction system in space will be about as effective as a ShamWow at the bottom of the ocean.
The number of possible answers to a question has absolutely nothing to do with how rhetorical it is. Rhetorical questions are often asked in a way that doesn't expect an answer, but that quality of a question is distinctive from it rhetorical value.
Ok that's it. Starting now, anyone else who posts a "Just don't... that way" gets modded redundant. Seriously. It's over. And not just in this thread. Forever.
There are plenty of phone manufacturers that make a GSM and a CDMA version of a the same phone. In fact, Samsung is doing just that with their upcoming Android offering, the Galaxy S (and they're planning to release versions of it on 5 of the top 6 US carriers). Did you not catch that there are over 92 million Verizon customers? Then there's also the Sprint, US Cellular, MetroPCS, Alltel et al CDMA carriers. Granted they're not AT&T or Verizon in size, but I'm willing to bet there's at least another 70 million potential customers.
So... if it's worth the time of Blackberry, Samsung, and HTC to make both GSM and CDMA versions of some of their most popular/flagship devices, why would it not be worth it for Apple, who has the most popular smartphone in the world (meaning there's little fear that it won't sell). The only reason is the exclusivity agreement. And the Engadget editor said it best:
Contracts can be canceled, amended, and breached in many ways, and AT&T's spotty recent service history plus the explosion of the iPhone and the mobile market in general have given Apple any number of reasons to revisit the deal
And for those of us not attempting to take professional photography with our cell phones, and those who don't feel the "magic" of pixel density, and those who want to make video calls while not connected to Wifi, and those who don't have vegetarian-starved thin fingers with which to manipulate a tiny (but immaculately crisp, no doubt) onscreen keyboard, and those who want to use, and wirelessly share, a 7-10 Mbps data connection, all while paying less per month - there's the EVO 4G.
Actually, I have it from a reliable source that they're very interested in the most extreme potential consequences of the obesity epidemic. Specifically, as manifested in your mom.:-P
Well I was hopping it explained why Americans are fatter than the rest of the world...
I fail to see how your hopping would explain anything besides minute fluctuations in the gravity between your feet and the ground, and your predilection towards hats with ear flaps.
I read slashdot every working weekday (and have done since 2001) and I don't remember seeing anything called "Bilski" in recent memory.
Wow. Really!? I suggest you get into the doctor to have your short-term memory tested. The last article that referenced Bilski in the summary was 3 weeks ago. There have been 4 since the beginning of this year. 16 in the last 12 months. 26 since March '08.
To be fair, if Facebook became self-aware, and saw what it was composed of, it would probably destroy it's own self-awareness in a bout of nihilistic depression. Some people say this has already happened.
It's men who are dumb enough to tolerate the aspy-programmer types, the sneering arrogant IT guys, the mailing lists full of flaming personal attacks leveled by closet bullies empowered by semi-anonymity, the phallic-compensating gadget consumerists, constantly "helpful" types who manage to insult while trying to rescue, and the sexually inept who use pinup wallpaper and leer at any woman in eyeshot. Membership in (or at least tolerance of) a repellant boys' club is an almost-mandatory feature of our industry.
In a 20 year career as a software developer: 1. I haven't met any programmers suffering from Asperger's Syndrom (I assume this is what "aspy" means, correct me if I'm wrong) 2. I haven't known any "sneering arrogant IT guys". The IT guys I've met have been normal, helpful human beings. 3. I have seen some harsh emails, but not often and nothing like the venom you describe 4. I can't recall any "phallic compensation gadget consumerists", but perhaps I'm not looking hard enough... 5. I haven't met any "constantly helpful types who insult while trying to rescue" 6. I have seen some teenage male type usage of naked women pictures, but that's been quite rare. Do you think that teenage male types only exist in the tech industry?
Do you think that "boys clubs" are more prevalent in the tech industry than other industries? The problems that you cite probably exist in most companies to one degree or another.
Your problem is that you don't work in the make-believe world of television shows and movies - which is pretty much the only place I can think of that has the characters/stereotypes the GP seems to be railing against.
The apple boys have been saving their moderation points.
It doesn't work like that slick. Use 'em or lose 'em.
Uh... you have a couple days to use your mod points. Considering that there's bound to be one Apple story at least every other day (just click on the 'Apple' section to see how frequent they are), it is possible that they refrain from using their mod points until the next Apple story.
That being said, I think it's bat-shit insane to believe in Apple fanboys belonging to a conspiracy like that. There are many reasons such a conspiracy is absurd - the primary being the average fanboy's 1.2 second attention span.:-P
Best rundown I've seen of the current/. camps. I may just be speaking for myself, but a lot of us Android worshipers are really, more generally, Google fanboys.
What's wrong with AOL and ME?! I'm runnin' AOL 9.0 right now on my Windows ME eMachines desktop with Norton, McAfee, and XP Antivirus Pro 2010. I got my Yahoo!, Ask.com, Windows Live, Altavista, and Mapquest toolbars for browsing with IE 6.0. I download all the latest movies before they come out, using Limewire, and all the latest cracked video games as well. Whenever my computer slows down I just call my geek friend to fix it.
The son of one of Hamas's founders admits that the social restrictions on dating and sex in Islam and the Middle Eastern tribal society is one of the leading causes of militarism in Islam.
Or, in the words of Mr/Ms. Garrison:
"Put yourself in the shoes of a Muslim - it's Friday night, but you can't have sex. And you can't jack off. There's sand in your eyes, and probably in the crack of your ass. Then some cartoon comes along from some country where people are getting laid and mocks your prophet. Well, y'know what?! I'd be pretty pissed off too!"
Slashdot Mirror
*cue image of evil looking guy sneaking up on unsuspecting California assembly-person holding large green rock in a menacing fashion*
Well... if that evil looking guy is bald, and if the California assembly-person is Kryptonian - this could be a very serious concern!
Can you put this in car terms?
Customer A comes to GS and says we have views on these pool of players, help us implement that view. Goldman tells Customer B they are interested in structuring a bet (that by necessity, must have another side) with the same pool. Customer B picks the players it likes, based on its own analysis and expertise. Customer A accepts the new list of players. Customer B is initially very happy, but soon the players, for which no entity involved has any influence, start performing poorly. Customer A loses. Customer B wins. Goldman, having retained some of Customer A's stake for itself, loses, but recoups a portion of the loss through fees earned by structuring the deal. All the Goldman execs then get new Ferraris.
But that's not to say it might not have an application some day right? Say like, having to venture outside of the international space station a`la R2D2 to fix a power coupling or something. Just saying!
I'm no physicist, but I'm guessing that a vacuum suction system in space will be about as effective as a ShamWow at the bottom of the ocean.
If a question is meant to illustrate a point or accomplish rhetorical goals, the question is Rhetorical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
The number of possible answers to a question has absolutely nothing to do with how rhetorical it is. Rhetorical questions are often asked in a way that doesn't expect an answer, but that quality of a question is distinctive from it rhetorical value.
Geez. Could you be anymore pedantic?!
:-P
Fixed that for you.
You not only fixed it, you also exploded the heads of at least a dozen grammar nazis.
Ok that's it. Starting now, anyone else who posts a "Just don't ... that way" gets modded redundant. Seriously. It's over. And not just in this thread. Forever.
Lighten up, Steve.
You just used more words than the summary to sum up the summary. Why?
Yo dawg, I heard you like summaries...
Senator Robert Byrd threatened to talk, that's why he had to go.
You're cutting it kind of close in being "too soon" with a comment like that. It's barely been 22.4 years since Sen. Byrd passed away.
There are plenty of phone manufacturers that make a GSM and a CDMA version of a the same phone. In fact, Samsung is doing just that with their upcoming Android offering, the Galaxy S (and they're planning to release versions of it on 5 of the top 6 US carriers). Did you not catch that there are over 92 million Verizon customers? Then there's also the Sprint, US Cellular, MetroPCS, Alltel et al CDMA carriers. Granted they're not AT&T or Verizon in size, but I'm willing to bet there's at least another 70 million potential customers.
So... if it's worth the time of Blackberry, Samsung, and HTC to make both GSM and CDMA versions of some of their most popular/flagship devices, why would it not be worth it for Apple, who has the most popular smartphone in the world (meaning there's little fear that it won't sell). The only reason is the exclusivity agreement. And the Engadget editor said it best:
Contracts can be canceled, amended, and breached in many ways, and AT&T's spotty recent service history plus the explosion of the iPhone and the mobile market in general have given Apple any number of reasons to revisit the deal
And for those of us not attempting to take professional photography with our cell phones, and those who don't feel the "magic" of pixel density, and those who want to make video calls while not connected to Wifi, and those who don't have vegetarian-starved thin fingers with which to manipulate a tiny (but immaculately crisp, no doubt) onscreen keyboard, and those who want to use, and wirelessly share, a 7-10 Mbps data connection, all while paying less per month - there's the EVO 4G.
Actually, I have it from a reliable source that they're very interested in the most extreme potential consequences of the obesity epidemic. Specifically, as manifested in your mom. :-P
Well I was hopping it explained why Americans are fatter than the rest of the world...
I fail to see how your hopping would explain anything besides minute fluctuations in the gravity between your feet and the ground, and your predilection towards hats with ear flaps.
Apparently you have never heard of a process called "tanning".
To be fair, this is /. -- we don't get out much.
... /. crowd.
Oh! That kind of tanning... oddly enough, quite popular among the
I read slashdot every working weekday (and have done since 2001) and I don't remember seeing anything called "Bilski" in recent memory.
Wow. Really!? I suggest you get into the doctor to have your short-term memory tested. The last article that referenced Bilski in the summary was 3 weeks ago. There have been 4 since the beginning of this year. 16 in the last 12 months. 26 since March '08.
To be fair, if Facebook became self-aware, and saw what it was composed of, it would probably destroy it's own self-awareness in a bout of nihilistic depression. Some people say this has already happened.
It's men who are dumb enough to tolerate the aspy-programmer types, the sneering arrogant IT guys, the mailing lists full of flaming personal attacks leveled by closet bullies empowered by semi-anonymity, the phallic-compensating gadget consumerists, constantly "helpful" types who manage to insult while trying to rescue, and the sexually inept who use pinup wallpaper and leer at any woman in eyeshot. Membership in (or at least tolerance of) a repellant boys' club is an almost-mandatory feature of our industry.
In a 20 year career as a software developer:
1. I haven't met any programmers suffering from Asperger's Syndrom (I assume this is what "aspy" means, correct me if I'm wrong)
2. I haven't known any "sneering arrogant IT guys". The IT guys I've met have been normal, helpful human beings.
3. I have seen some harsh emails, but not often and nothing like the venom you describe
4. I can't recall any "phallic compensation gadget consumerists", but perhaps I'm not looking hard enough...
5. I haven't met any "constantly helpful types who insult while trying to rescue"
6. I have seen some teenage male type usage of naked women pictures, but that's been quite rare. Do you think that teenage male types only exist in the tech industry?
Do you think that "boys clubs" are more prevalent in the tech industry than other industries? The problems that you cite probably exist in most companies to one degree or another.
Your problem is that you don't work in the make-believe world of television shows and movies - which is pretty much the only place I can think of that has the characters/stereotypes the GP seems to be railing against.
...would have to be 7"-7.5" big. I'd hit that.
That's what she said.
If slashdot comments are the inane ramblings of semi-literate retards... then I don't know what words remain to accurately describe youtube comments.
The sampling of 50,000 individuals from a million monkey typing pool.
I think the number of monkeys in that typing pool is off by a factor of 20.
still allowed to pedal Microsoft software
"peddle", not "pedal".
I just assumed the parent was talking about the new Natal/Kinect cycling game...
The apple boys have been saving their moderation points.
It doesn't work like that slick. Use 'em or lose 'em.
Uh... you have a couple days to use your mod points. Considering that there's bound to be one Apple story at least every other day (just click on the 'Apple' section to see how frequent they are), it is possible that they refrain from using their mod points until the next Apple story.
That being said, I think it's bat-shit insane to believe in Apple fanboys belonging to a conspiracy like that. There are many reasons such a conspiracy is absurd - the primary being the average fanboy's 1.2 second attention span. :-P
Best rundown I've seen of the current /. camps. I may just be speaking for myself, but a lot of us Android worshipers are really, more generally, Google fanboys.
What's wrong with AOL and ME?! I'm runnin' AOL 9.0 right now on my Windows ME eMachines desktop with Norton, McAfee, and XP Antivirus Pro 2010. I got my Yahoo!, Ask.com, Windows Live, Altavista, and Mapquest toolbars for browsing with IE 6.0. I download all the latest movies before they come out, using Limewire, and all the latest cracked video games as well. Whenever my computer slows down I just call my geek friend to fix it.
bah, it'll all be dust in the wind
Truly, this whole thing is just a tempest in a teapot.
The son of one of Hamas's founders admits that the social restrictions on dating and sex in Islam and the Middle Eastern tribal society is one of the leading causes of militarism in Islam.
Or, in the words of Mr/Ms. Garrison:
"Put yourself in the shoes of a Muslim - it's Friday night, but you can't have sex. And you can't jack off. There's sand in your eyes, and probably in the crack of your ass. Then some cartoon comes along from some country where people are getting laid and mocks your prophet. Well, y'know what?! I'd be pretty pissed off too!"
Why is this flamebait? he was answering a question that was asked above him, and I happen to agree with quite a few of those.
I totally agree with you, and am throwing this reply out in hopes of grabbing some (not insane) mod attention for the parent.