Are they trying to actually buy the company or do they just happen to have cameras in place at the Yahoo Shareholders Meetings. Maybe Ballmer just wants to have some footage of some other hypertensive sweaty jumping exec to replace his favorite internet memes.
Manned space travel equips us with the tools to spread humanity off the planet eventually. Getting humanity off the earth and in as many self-sustaining redundant locations as possible is the only defense against the annihilation of the species due to a cataclysmic event on earth. The probabilities are such that given a long enough time-frame, the earth WILL be destroyed or failing that the biosphere such that humans can survive will be changed.
The only defense against this is to get our eggs into more baskets.
Manned space travel is one of the few advances that is actually possible to maintain our species in the very long run rather than just having us be a "eh, they had a good run, they made it to 100 episodes!" kind of ending. Add to that the possibilities of mineral/resource exploitation off planet, the research possible from different vantage points and frames of reference, and the exposure to all that we dont know because it does not exist on earth.
That's a big possible RoI compared to the budget imo. Plus, on a slightly darker but no less important note, the group with the keys to the tools will be the one who controls who goes where, when, and how in space.
THIS IS TREASON, and HAPPENS WAY TOO OFTEN with little real consequence. EVERY American should be pissed as hell about this, and (in my opinion) a very public example needs to be made EVERY time something like this happens.
While i agree with your points theres one problem.
It's too late. China already owns your manufacturing infrastructure through supply cost efficiency, your raw materials processing through process cost efficiency, and a lot of your politicians through good old fashioned bribery. No one will have the guts to try to hardball this guy. Although it would definitely hurt chinas economy to embargo the us, it would DESTROY the us economy. It's an ace in the hole that definitely has no counter that i can think of. Sadly, pissing off china is one of the most suicidal things america as a nation could do at the moment even when they're in the right about it.
If this guy gets anything beyond a fine and/or a short white collar prison term i'd be amazed.
That would definitely make for some serious comparisons if they were to use that terminology.
Get out of their groupthink!
(i'd like to say most canadian tourists know enough to not do such things, but given the current state of my generation and earlier here i sadly hear you...)
Testing on granite, carpet, marble, and other surfaces, the reviewers were impressed with the responsiveness of BlueTrack, but they also noted that laser mice were competitive on these surfaces as well. Even though the mice didn't get a recommendation from the reviewers (price being a major concern), they did admit that this BlueTrack is the best tracking system available today.
I wonder if they realize that this is flat out saying "yeah its nice tech, but no one really noticed much of a difference and isnt worth the price". Slashvertisements are getting a little weird these days.
We watch awkward anti-piracy spiels in cinemas before movies, why couldn't ISPs incorpoate anti-spam messages into their sites, marketing material, bills, etc?
Because in the end, the bandwidth will be paid for. If not by the consumer, then by the spammer, if not by the spammer then by the 30K people infected with spammers trojan-of-choice.
Something that inflates usage and reduces overall quality is something that increases sales and pushes upselling to "faster" plans. Being able to use it as an excuse for why ISP's are somehow allowed to sell more potential service contracts then they can support is simply a side bonus.
Or, if those students were just a little bit more numerate they would realize that for every high-paid star there are 10,000+ burger-flippers who didn't make the cut. Its a lottery mentality at its worst that they can only see the exaggerated success of that 0.01% and not the corresponding failure of the other 99.99%.
But then, that lack of numeracy seems to be a real catch-22.
Funny, when i had to do my junior and senior year in the USA your exact quote would have been categorized "The American Dream".
Touche, i was not even thinking of the fact that all those users are squished at the under sea backbones. Reduces the point, but does not eliminate it COMPLETELY it as it still creates a situation where it becomes much easier for those bottlenecks to be maxed out. I suppose anyone reviewing this would just have to change their analysis to be based on the maximum throughput out of japan not the number of gigabit connections.
Wait. Does anyone have the figures of how much bandwidth is available when counting the backbone routes? All i can find (between cases at work) is some stodgy old article from 1999 thats useless. If it's a fat enough pipe the fact that its bottlenecked might be moot to begin with.
It does for sites that have the lower total throughput but have a fair bit of redundancy in place for security sake. If your disaster recovery analysis is based on the average zombie having access to 3-10Mbit, then a sudden influx of zombied 1Gbps links would definitely pooch the whole deal and make your "redundancy" rather useless. THAT is where the difference would be seriously noticeable.
You're right though for cases of smaller providers using a single connection for the entirety of their service. In those cases, this issue is definitely moot (and obviously not involving a very large user base unless someone is being extremely stupid about their security).
Imagine a botnet of 10000 zombied windows machines on 3.0Mbps up/down.
Now imagine a botnet of 10000 zombied windows machines on 1Gbps up/down.
Now if you're the target of the latter botnets DoS attack, i'm sure you'd be asking "what in the hell do they need that much upstream for to begin with!".
Some would have very good uses for that bandwidth but if their market is anything like what I see in north america, at least half or more will be people who get it because of shinyness or the myth of the best. Depending on the ToS, this could be quite the liability for the rest of the world at large unless enough of the worlds backbones are similarly upgraded to handle the home user market hitting 1Gbps+. Not saying it is a bad thing overall, simply that the concern is valid and that given time it will no longer be a problem. Right now, he has a point.
have no idea what possible use Google (or anyone) could make out of knowing how much of which shares I own
Here's a freebie, despite not believing that they'd try it. With enough correlated stock portfolios they can get an advance look at the movement of volume for those people or at least project such movement. If the information is significant enough, they can alter their own trading strategies based on the extra statistics.
Not exactly something to make people stab eyes out, but its still an unethical possible use of such data. The power isn't in knowing YOUR data, it's in knowing a populations data.
Also, i entirely agree that removing O-Chem and still calling them MD's is rather silly. We've already been through all this with the Psychology versus Psychiatry fields.
We already have RN's, Nurse practitioners, etc. People who do not wish to do Organic Chem are people who should not be Medical Doctors. This does not mean they can't do what they're describing with a different title (and the problem for most, a different salary...).
My algorithms would die without having learned calculus. You can definitely follow your reasoning there and have most CS students not require calculus, but you'll never get hired for a developer shop that does any significantly scientific or even just statistical work.
All you're saying in the end though is that you'd want CS degrees to be split into two kinds, one where they know and are recognized as knowing and one where they don't.
Then when you're applying for a job that DOES require those skills...well its a personal preference at that point. Personally, i find Calculus and basic statistics to be incredibly useful even on the day to day (min/maxing, risk assessment, etc) but i'm quite aware that it's not REQUIRED by any means.
Back to the point: Removing organic chem from premed will just create two disciplines just like it did for the Psychiatrist versus Psychologist field.
You present the problem that many find themselves in, but thats merely because you're working off the assumption that there isn't much non-riaa controlled music out there (there's lots, its just not as easy to browse). Granted, it's not publicized as well but there are a lot of good suggestions in this older thread.
People often forget the option of searching for independent groups for genres they enjoy and paying the group (good) without it going anywhere near the RIAA (also good). Remember if you find yourself saying "oh it's just too much effort keeping track of who is RIAA and who isnt technically", this is a STRATEGY of the riaa not a failing of the independent artists who remain unaffiliated in any way.
You're assuming they do not want the patent to be mishandled.
The higher the revenue from the purchasing company, the better return in overall taxation on both the company's revenues and the purchases from the customers. Seems ass backwards but I certainly can't think of a LOGICAL reason for them to be doing this.
Easy answer with a question: Why would they set up a licensing setup (with all the overhead and fun as their investment) when the government can instead get the big boost from the initial sale and then tax both the sale itself, the revenue of the company, and the sales of the consumer? This would then shunt any overhead of profiting off the patent to the winning bidder as well.
Granted, the answer only makes sense when it goes with the assumption that it can be spun such that your objection doesn't become the 51%+ demographic as you're exactly right that this is complete bull.
If these systems are successful, i'm sure it will not be long before municipalities have them rigged with automated photo-radar/imaging systems for automated ticketing...in areas where such things dont have precedents against them at least.
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Maybe Microsoft wants to get into cataloging porn? lulz.
If so, i hope that the companies involved realize that Embrace, Extend, Extinguish does NOT only apply to the wacky snuff fetishists.
44 billion to 20 billion.
Are they trying to actually buy the company or do they just happen to have cameras in place at the Yahoo Shareholders Meetings. Maybe Ballmer just wants to have some footage of some other hypertensive sweaty jumping exec to replace his favorite internet memes.
What benefit does man space travel provide?
Agreed, but to be specific.
Manned space travel equips us with the tools to spread humanity off the planet eventually. Getting humanity off the earth and in as many self-sustaining redundant locations as possible is the only defense against the annihilation of the species due to a cataclysmic event on earth. The probabilities are such that given a long enough time-frame, the earth WILL be destroyed or failing that the biosphere such that humans can survive will be changed.
The only defense against this is to get our eggs into more baskets.
Manned space travel is one of the few advances that is actually possible to maintain our species in the very long run rather than just having us be a "eh, they had a good run, they made it to 100 episodes!" kind of ending. Add to that the possibilities of mineral/resource exploitation off planet, the research possible from different vantage points and frames of reference, and the exposure to all that we dont know because it does not exist on earth.
That's a big possible RoI compared to the budget imo. Plus, on a slightly darker but no less important note, the group with the keys to the tools will be the one who controls who goes where, when, and how in space.
THIS IS TREASON, and HAPPENS WAY TOO OFTEN with little real consequence. EVERY American should be pissed as hell about this, and (in my opinion) a very public example needs to be made EVERY time something like this happens.
While i agree with your points theres one problem.
It's too late. China already owns your manufacturing infrastructure through supply cost efficiency, your raw materials processing through process cost efficiency, and a lot of your politicians through good old fashioned bribery. No one will have the guts to try to hardball this guy. Although it would definitely hurt chinas economy to embargo the us, it would DESTROY the us economy. It's an ace in the hole that definitely has no counter that i can think of. Sadly, pissing off china is one of the most suicidal things america as a nation could do at the moment even when they're in the right about it.
If this guy gets anything beyond a fine and/or a short white collar prison term i'd be amazed.
That would definitely make for some serious comparisons if they were to use that terminology.
Get out of their groupthink!
(i'd like to say most canadian tourists know enough to not do such things, but given the current state of my generation and earlier here i sadly hear you...)
what employer would be willing to risk taking a new employee that might have a possible contractual obligation?
Chili Palmer.
should just grin and bare it?
Well yes, actually, as depending on what you bare to them it can be a very effective statement.
ESPECIALLY if you're grinning while you bare it.
Testing on granite, carpet, marble, and other surfaces, the reviewers were impressed with the responsiveness of BlueTrack, but they also noted that laser mice were competitive on these surfaces as well. Even though the mice didn't get a recommendation from the reviewers (price being a major concern), they did admit that this BlueTrack is the best tracking system available today.
I wonder if they realize that this is flat out saying "yeah its nice tech, but no one really noticed much of a difference and isnt worth the price". Slashvertisements are getting a little weird these days.
We watch awkward anti-piracy spiels in cinemas before movies, why couldn't ISPs incorpoate anti-spam messages into their sites, marketing material, bills, etc?
Because in the end, the bandwidth will be paid for. If not by the consumer, then by the spammer, if not by the spammer then by the 30K people infected with spammers trojan-of-choice.
Something that inflates usage and reduces overall quality is something that increases sales and pushes upselling to "faster" plans. Being able to use it as an excuse for why ISP's are somehow allowed to sell more potential service contracts then they can support is simply a side bonus.
What? Me? Cynical?
Or, if those students were just a little bit more numerate they would realize that for every high-paid star there are 10,000+ burger-flippers who didn't make the cut. Its a lottery mentality at its worst that they can only see the exaggerated success of that 0.01% and not the corresponding failure of the other 99.99%.
But then, that lack of numeracy seems to be a real catch-22.
Funny, when i had to do my junior and senior year in the USA your exact quote would have been categorized "The American Dream".
You want. To go. To the Island.
Touche, i was not even thinking of the fact that all those users are squished at the under sea backbones. Reduces the point, but does not eliminate it COMPLETELY it as it still creates a situation where it becomes much easier for those bottlenecks to be maxed out. I suppose anyone reviewing this would just have to change their analysis to be based on the maximum throughput out of japan not the number of gigabit connections.
Wait. Does anyone have the figures of how much bandwidth is available when counting the backbone routes? All i can find (between cases at work) is some stodgy old article from 1999 thats useless. If it's a fat enough pipe the fact that its bottlenecked might be moot to begin with.
I suppose, if you want to pay for the 10000 concatenated links to withstand what I was describing.
It does for sites that have the lower total throughput but have a fair bit of redundancy in place for security sake. If your disaster recovery analysis is based on the average zombie having access to 3-10Mbit, then a sudden influx of zombied 1Gbps links would definitely pooch the whole deal and make your "redundancy" rather useless. THAT is where the difference would be seriously noticeable.
You're right though for cases of smaller providers using a single connection for the entirety of their service. In those cases, this issue is definitely moot (and obviously not involving a very large user base unless someone is being extremely stupid about their security).
Actually, he has a very good point.
Imagine a botnet of 10000 zombied windows machines on 3.0Mbps up/down.
Now imagine a botnet of 10000 zombied windows machines on 1Gbps up/down.
Now if you're the target of the latter botnets DoS attack, i'm sure you'd be asking "what in the hell do they need that much upstream for to begin with!".
Some would have very good uses for that bandwidth but if their market is anything like what I see in north america, at least half or more will be people who get it because of shinyness or the myth of the best. Depending on the ToS, this could be quite the liability for the rest of the world at large unless enough of the worlds backbones are similarly upgraded to handle the home user market hitting 1Gbps+. Not saying it is a bad thing overall, simply that the concern is valid and that given time it will no longer be a problem. Right now, he has a point.
Or Holdingdownholdingdownholdingdowncrapupupupenter-jacked.
have no idea what possible use Google (or anyone) could make out of knowing how much of which shares I own
Here's a freebie, despite not believing that they'd try it. With enough correlated stock portfolios they can get an advance look at the movement of volume for those people or at least project such movement. If the information is significant enough, they can alter their own trading strategies based on the extra statistics.
Not exactly something to make people stab eyes out, but its still an unethical possible use of such data. The power isn't in knowing YOUR data, it's in knowing a populations data.
Don't feed the trolls - when an AC says something stupid, let it slide.
But...But....someone's wrong on the internet!
Also, i entirely agree that removing O-Chem and still calling them MD's is rather silly. We've already been through all this with the Psychology versus Psychiatry fields.
We already have RN's, Nurse practitioners, etc. People who do not wish to do Organic Chem are people who should not be Medical Doctors. This does not mean they can't do what they're describing with a different title (and the problem for most, a different salary...).
Just to clarify, this warm-air evacuation phenomenon is powered by the force of suck.
Actually, according to another commenter to the parent you replied to, it's gone from suck to blow.
My algorithms would die without having learned calculus. You can definitely follow your reasoning there and have most CS students not require calculus, but you'll never get hired for a developer shop that does any significantly scientific or even just statistical work.
All you're saying in the end though is that you'd want CS degrees to be split into two kinds, one where they know and are recognized as knowing and one where they don't.
Then when you're applying for a job that DOES require those skills...well its a personal preference at that point. Personally, i find Calculus and basic statistics to be incredibly useful even on the day to day (min/maxing, risk assessment, etc) but i'm quite aware that it's not REQUIRED by any means.
Back to the point: Removing organic chem from premed will just create two disciplines just like it did for the Psychiatrist versus Psychologist field.
You present the problem that many find themselves in, but thats merely because you're working off the assumption that there isn't much non-riaa controlled music out there (there's lots, its just not as easy to browse). Granted, it's not publicized as well but there are a lot of good suggestions in this older thread.
People often forget the option of searching for independent groups for genres they enjoy and paying the group (good) without it going anywhere near the RIAA (also good). Remember if you find yourself saying "oh it's just too much effort keeping track of who is RIAA and who isnt technically", this is a STRATEGY of the riaa not a failing of the independent artists who remain unaffiliated in any way.
You're assuming they do not want the patent to be mishandled.
The higher the revenue from the purchasing company, the better return in overall taxation on both the company's revenues and the purchases from the customers. Seems ass backwards but I certainly can't think of a LOGICAL reason for them to be doing this.
Why not NASA as well?
Easy answer with a question: Why would they set up a licensing setup (with all the overhead and fun as their investment) when the government can instead get the big boost from the initial sale and then tax both the sale itself, the revenue of the company, and the sales of the consumer? This would then shunt any overhead of profiting off the patent to the winning bidder as well.
Granted, the answer only makes sense when it goes with the assumption that it can be spun such that your objection doesn't become the 51%+ demographic as you're exactly right that this is complete bull.
If these systems are successful, i'm sure it will not be long before municipalities have them rigged with automated photo-radar/imaging systems for automated ticketing...in areas where such things dont have precedents against them at least.
I suppose, but then microwave bridging with enough power makes for christmas.
You there, Boy! What day is this!
Sounds like a good replacement in terms of energy use for microwave bridging and other methods that require LoS already.
Of course, packetloss due to geese...