It's a stupid idea to release a device that's still using Android 1.6. Everyone else is wondering if they can upgrade to Android 2.2 and new phones are being built with an eye to Android 3 support and Dell releases an antiquated, obsolete-on-arrival Android 1.6 phone. Perhaps they should just stick with really basic customizations and upgrade to a plain vanilla Android 2.2. They don't have to release that much source code, they don't have to do that much work, and they'll get far better user buy-in than this stupid Android 1.6 monstrosity.
Well, then, it's like lead manufacturers getting really pissed when the government ruins their business by banning leaded gasolines. Governments regulate shit all the time. It's part of the business environment. If you can't adapt, you deserve to get wiped out.
Yes, it sucks that the market for candles disappeared but you have to adapt and compete. If you can't make CFLs competitively, then you lose your job. It's that simple.
The cost of legal compliance in America is pretty high. If you want to hire someone, you have to make sure you don't want to fire them. Even in an at-will state, you have to make sure they don't turn around and sue you for sexual harassment or racial discrimination. For instance, Britney Spear's bodyguard is suing her for sexual harassment. And even if you don't get sued, you have to pay 99 weeks of unemployment insurance. (The premiums are "experience-rated" so the more people you fire the more you pay.) This weakens your ability to hire new workers if business suddenly starts up. You also have to file quarterly tax returns for the federal, state, and city governments. It's pretty bizarre.
LOL. Shakespeare said that the first step for a tyrant to seize power is to kill all the lawyers to make sure that no one can stand up for the rest of the masses as they got arrested and thrown into the company.
We need to train our kids in outside-the-box thinking in order to have them compete in the real world. I remember there was one US war game exercise against an Islamic nation. The US commander thought that he had a huge advantage in communication because he could jam the radio receivers the Islamic forces had to use. The OPFOR commander used minarets to hide giant horns to send signals to his men. The "umpire" for the war game disallowed that hack as outside the rules of the game. Of course, then we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and that's the kind of asymmetric tactics that we're running into.
A similar thing happened during US planning for an invasion of Japan during World War II. All these generals and admirals had differing casualty estimates for an invasion. Nimitz had a very high number because he assumed that the Japanese would use kamikaze aircraft to sink Allied landing craft filled with soldiers before they even got out of the boats. No one else had thought of that; they had only taken casualty estimates after Allied forces had hit the beach. So Nimitz recommended an initial feint with fake landing crafts actually loaded to the gills with anti-aircraft guns. The Japanese would hopefully attack mostly empty ships and give up a huge advantage.
Again, thinking outside the box is something that needs to be fostered in our kids. You have to be able to put yourselves in other people's shoes in order to succeed in many ventures, from warfare to business to life in general.
Why would it? Making a phone call from your computer has always been available using Skype. Gmail Voice would not be creating a new market. Perhaps it would widen the market but it wouldn't be a completely new threat to cell phones. Anyway, Android is allowing cellphone manufacturers to get in the game against iPhone. Before Android, it didn't seem like anyone had a chance against the Blackberry/iPhone juggernauts. Now all the best non-iPhone/Blackberry devices are based on Android.
But the fix is so obvious and easy. Why not save those hundreds of lives as well as prevent all the other non-fatal incidents where tubes were mixed up? Just imagine all the hundreds of lives you'll save in the future just by setting standards! I mean, we can set the freaking GSM and MPEG standards for cell phones and movies but we can't figure out a common color scheme for life-saving equipment?
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Maybe we everyone should just sit down and die. Or you can acknowledge that you just proved the other guys point about how America prevented the suffering of others under Soviet rule.
SpaceX eventually wants to land this sucker on the ground instead of splashing down to save recovery costs. They will need retrorockets and landing gears to do this. I think the landing angle is designed to accommodate a future landing gear.
There are generally exceptions in two-party consent states when recording calls without the consent of the other party if it is reasonably expected to retain evidence of a crime such as harassment or blackmail. In other words, it's generally okay to tape record a prankcaller or blackmailer without their consent.
Actually, the attackers in Mumbai just spoke over the phone with their coordinator. They have the tapes. There was no encryption or plaintext or whatever. They basically called their leader in Pakistan and asked for instructions and provided updates on their slaughtering. The leader was providing real time info based on TV news or something.
Nice strawman you attacked there. I support the disclosure of information BUT not information that can be used to kill Afghans who helped us. The Taliban already said that they were going through the leaks to eliminate these threats. Leaving out the identity of the Afghan informants and the grid squares as well as other "sensitive" information would not compromise the disclosure of real value.
Or do you think Assange gets to decide who gets killed by the Taliban and who doesn't?
Assange doesn't care. His "harm mitigation" only covers people he believes are deserving of such protections, which does not include the US military. He has responded to criticism about outing Afghans who had cooperated with the US by saying that they had done unsavory things that may have constituted war crimes, as though he was judge, jury, and execution.
Maybe it's easier to find pogs to toss into the copyright case than it is to find qualified experts working in well set up labs (that will stand up to cross-examination and inspection by dozens of defense attorneys) so that's why they're increasing the staffing on copyright. Because it's easier. No one's saying that the DNA lab backlog won't eventually get fixed once the labs and stuff get built (if necessary).
... or inspire a debate on the true meaning of "ironic" but having the head of a leading aerospace firm and the former head of NASA die on an airplane seems kind of, well, ironic.
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One factor behind the IPO might be cashing out while business is still good. An eight hundred pound gorilla is entering this ring. Google bought out Gizmo5 last year, ostensibly to beef up Google Voice. Rumors were that Google wanted a desktop VOIP program that would rival Skype. Recently, there has been reports of a leaked prototype app. Last year, it was possible set up a hardware phone to work directly with Google Voice but that door was closed by Google. However, that opens the possibility of Google Voice being made available for hardware phones via an ATA. Google is dedicated to Google Voice because it's their door into the mobile phone/Android market and if they can datamine your phone calls using voice recognition, then they'd be making freaking gold for their search apps.
I think the Supreme Court struck down the FCC's authority to enforce net neutrality laws so it is up to Congress to expressly pass a law requiring net neutrality. That isn't going to happen anytime soon. So Google saw the writing on the wall and tried to make lemonade. Google and Verizon seemed to reach an agreement about not throttling anything except for mobile phones because Android phones are popular on Verizon. So Google's being slightly evil here even if you believe their side of the story.
Well, it might not have hurt that badly if his diabetes was so advanced that all the nerves going into his toe were dead. It sounds like his toe was basically rotting off his body without him being aware of it, so I'm guessing that the nerves were all dead. Dog just ate it all because it was rotten/dead meat to him. Guy didn't realize because all the nerves were dead.
I'm sorry, wait, what? The guys who killed a bunch of volunteer doctors aren't the ones with blood on their hands? On what fucking planet and what fucking logic do you blame the actions of psychopaths on anyone other than the psychopaths?
So is Slashdot responsible for your statements? Look at the blurb at the bottom of Slashdot. Dododododododo. Oh wait, you're zealot. That means you'll make something up on why it's different even though it isn't.
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It's a stupid idea to release a device that's still using Android 1.6. Everyone else is wondering if they can upgrade to Android 2.2 and new phones are being built with an eye to Android 3 support and Dell releases an antiquated, obsolete-on-arrival Android 1.6 phone. Perhaps they should just stick with really basic customizations and upgrade to a plain vanilla Android 2.2. They don't have to release that much source code, they don't have to do that much work, and they'll get far better user buy-in than this stupid Android 1.6 monstrosity.
Well, then, it's like lead manufacturers getting really pissed when the government ruins their business by banning leaded gasolines. Governments regulate shit all the time. It's part of the business environment. If you can't adapt, you deserve to get wiped out.
Yes, it sucks that the market for candles disappeared but you have to adapt and compete. If you can't make CFLs competitively, then you lose your job. It's that simple.
The cost of legal compliance in America is pretty high. If you want to hire someone, you have to make sure you don't want to fire them. Even in an at-will state, you have to make sure they don't turn around and sue you for sexual harassment or racial discrimination. For instance, Britney Spear's bodyguard is suing her for sexual harassment. And even if you don't get sued, you have to pay 99 weeks of unemployment insurance. (The premiums are "experience-rated" so the more people you fire the more you pay.) This weakens your ability to hire new workers if business suddenly starts up. You also have to file quarterly tax returns for the federal, state, and city governments. It's pretty bizarre.
He really shouldn't have disclosed the Twitter connection. Now the terrorists won't let anyone touch a phone!
So you're basically attacking her for jumping to conclusions about a juror jumping to conclusions? That's pretty rich, friendo.
LOL. Shakespeare said that the first step for a tyrant to seize power is to kill all the lawyers to make sure that no one can stand up for the rest of the masses as they got arrested and thrown into the company.
Glenn Beck has said many times how much he HATES FDR. Some wag is having some fun.
We need to train our kids in outside-the-box thinking in order to have them compete in the real world. I remember there was one US war game exercise against an Islamic nation. The US commander thought that he had a huge advantage in communication because he could jam the radio receivers the Islamic forces had to use. The OPFOR commander used minarets to hide giant horns to send signals to his men. The "umpire" for the war game disallowed that hack as outside the rules of the game. Of course, then we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and that's the kind of asymmetric tactics that we're running into.
A similar thing happened during US planning for an invasion of Japan during World War II. All these generals and admirals had differing casualty estimates for an invasion. Nimitz had a very high number because he assumed that the Japanese would use kamikaze aircraft to sink Allied landing craft filled with soldiers before they even got out of the boats. No one else had thought of that; they had only taken casualty estimates after Allied forces had hit the beach. So Nimitz recommended an initial feint with fake landing crafts actually loaded to the gills with anti-aircraft guns. The Japanese would hopefully attack mostly empty ships and give up a huge advantage.
Again, thinking outside the box is something that needs to be fostered in our kids. You have to be able to put yourselves in other people's shoes in order to succeed in many ventures, from warfare to business to life in general.
Why would it? Making a phone call from your computer has always been available using Skype. Gmail Voice would not be creating a new market. Perhaps it would widen the market but it wouldn't be a completely new threat to cell phones. Anyway, Android is allowing cellphone manufacturers to get in the game against iPhone. Before Android, it didn't seem like anyone had a chance against the Blackberry/iPhone juggernauts. Now all the best non-iPhone/Blackberry devices are based on Android.
But the fix is so obvious and easy. Why not save those hundreds of lives as well as prevent all the other non-fatal incidents where tubes were mixed up? Just imagine all the hundreds of lives you'll save in the future just by setting standards! I mean, we can set the freaking GSM and MPEG standards for cell phones and movies but we can't figure out a common color scheme for life-saving equipment?
It's probably a salt for a one-time pad that's used to encrypt shit.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Maybe we everyone should just sit down and die. Or you can acknowledge that you just proved the other guys point about how America prevented the suffering of others under Soviet rule.
SpaceX eventually wants to land this sucker on the ground instead of splashing down to save recovery costs. They will need retrorockets and landing gears to do this. I think the landing angle is designed to accommodate a future landing gear.
There are generally exceptions in two-party consent states when recording calls without the consent of the other party if it is reasonably expected to retain evidence of a crime such as harassment or blackmail. In other words, it's generally okay to tape record a prankcaller or blackmailer without their consent.
Actually, the attackers in Mumbai just spoke over the phone with their coordinator. They have the tapes. There was no encryption or plaintext or whatever. They basically called their leader in Pakistan and asked for instructions and provided updates on their slaughtering. The leader was providing real time info based on TV news or something.
Nice strawman you attacked there. I support the disclosure of information BUT not information that can be used to kill Afghans who helped us. The Taliban already said that they were going through the leaks to eliminate these threats. Leaving out the identity of the Afghan informants and the grid squares as well as other "sensitive" information would not compromise the disclosure of real value.
Or do you think Assange gets to decide who gets killed by the Taliban and who doesn't?
Assange doesn't care. His "harm mitigation" only covers people he believes are deserving of such protections, which does not include the US military. He has responded to criticism about outing Afghans who had cooperated with the US by saying that they had done unsavory things that may have constituted war crimes, as though he was judge, jury, and execution.
Who watches the watchmen? Seriously.
Maybe it's easier to find pogs to toss into the copyright case than it is to find qualified experts working in well set up labs (that will stand up to cross-examination and inspection by dozens of defense attorneys) so that's why they're increasing the staffing on copyright. Because it's easier. No one's saying that the DNA lab backlog won't eventually get fixed once the labs and stuff get built (if necessary).
... or inspire a debate on the true meaning of "ironic" but having the head of a leading aerospace firm and the former head of NASA die on an airplane seems kind of, well, ironic.
One factor behind the IPO might be cashing out while business is still good. An eight hundred pound gorilla is entering this ring. Google bought out Gizmo5 last year, ostensibly to beef up Google Voice. Rumors were that Google wanted a desktop VOIP program that would rival Skype. Recently, there has been reports of a leaked prototype app. Last year, it was possible set up a hardware phone to work directly with Google Voice but that door was closed by Google. However, that opens the possibility of Google Voice being made available for hardware phones via an ATA. Google is dedicated to Google Voice because it's their door into the mobile phone/Android market and if they can datamine your phone calls using voice recognition, then they'd be making freaking gold for their search apps.
I think the Supreme Court struck down the FCC's authority to enforce net neutrality laws so it is up to Congress to expressly pass a law requiring net neutrality. That isn't going to happen anytime soon. So Google saw the writing on the wall and tried to make lemonade. Google and Verizon seemed to reach an agreement about not throttling anything except for mobile phones because Android phones are popular on Verizon. So Google's being slightly evil here even if you believe their side of the story.
Well, it might not have hurt that badly if his diabetes was so advanced that all the nerves going into his toe were dead. It sounds like his toe was basically rotting off his body without him being aware of it, so I'm guessing that the nerves were all dead. Dog just ate it all because it was rotten/dead meat to him. Guy didn't realize because all the nerves were dead.
I'm sorry, wait, what? The guys who killed a bunch of volunteer doctors aren't the ones with blood on their hands? On what fucking planet and what fucking logic do you blame the actions of psychopaths on anyone other than the psychopaths?
So is Slashdot responsible for your statements? Look at the blurb at the bottom of Slashdot. Dododododododo. Oh wait, you're zealot. That means you'll make something up on why it's different even though it isn't.