I think Nokia is tangled up in one of these critters. They will forever be developing a Linux for phones which will be abandoned just as or before it is fully rolled out. Rinse and repeat . . . forever . . .
Physical, Schmizical. IT Services is where the money is to be made! Like with IBM, or maybe the new HP. Google could offer paid assistance in their shops for folks who are having problems with Google products. And judging by how often I read here on Slashdot, "Oh, google it yourself!", apparently a lot of folks have problems googling themselves. Let alone other Google products.
Think of a Google Shop as a computer fitness service center . . . with your own Personal Google Cloud Trainer!
Like when kids in school get caught passing notes, and the teacher reads the note out loud in front of the class. Embarrassing for the note passers! Or when the local newspaper prints lists of folks arrested for drunk driving.
Bring back the village stock, I say!
Oh, and to answer Slashdot's question, "You are number 6! Who is number one?" . . .
Two cars fighting for the same parking place? Hold an short instant auction; the highest bidder gets the space. Hey, think of it of a tax on people with too much money to spend on a good parking space. Maybe even offer B-Celebrity, A-Celebrity and VIP spots for folks who like to flaunt their wealth?
Oh, the poor? Well, I guess they'll just have to walk or take public transportation. Unfair? Yes, but it sort of fits into the way most societies work anyway.
"I'm a doctor, Jim, not a 'revenue-producing asset'!"
Agent Rogersz: Good evening, Otto. This is Agent Rogersz. I'm going to ask you a few questions. Since time is short and you may lie, I'm going to have to torture you. But I want you to know, it isn't personal.
Otto: This isn't really necessary. I'll tell you anything you want to know.
Gee, who would expect an unbiased, independent recommendation from a doctor who works for a store, that sells drugs?
"Hi, I'm your Virtual Pfizer/Novartis/Merck Doc . . . I'm sure that your illness will fall into a category that fits our product offerings."
"I don't want to gossip, but I would stay away from Dr. Wallgreens . . . his stuff uses powder made from DNA replication from the ground up remains of old Sam Walton's bones. He is considered a bit of a quack in the Virtual Doctor Community."
That's why I recommend dog leashes for kids instead. Put a big stake in the middle of the schoolyard and tie 'em all up. Use bungee jumping cable, so they can slingshot and slam each other around a bit.
It's a bit of a pain untangling them after playtime, though.
When I was a lad, we had to enter JCL commands on punch cards! And if you saw someone with a deck of cards in their hands, you could grab them and scatter them on the floor. Have fun sorting them!
This was probably one of the earliest forms of malicious hacking.
Unfortunately, many politicians make it their business, to dabble their fingers in science to get it under their control. For the usual motives: money, power, etc.
Couldn't we achieve the same effect, if all 5 billion+ of us on the planet go outside and blow a raspberry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_a_raspberry ? Ya know, like, spraying water particles in the air? It would certainly be a lot of fun if we had a World Bronx Cheer Day.
However, investors believe the financial community will be lining up to pay premium rates to use the new cable. The article suggests that a one-millisecond advantage could be worth $100M per year to a large hedge fund.
So obviously, a cable made of "Monster" cables will be worth* even more! Roll out your checkbooks, all you unfeasibly large hedge funds!
*Your actual worth is subject to local regulation, taxes, palm grease, wind velocity of an unladen swallow, global warming, sea temperatures, etc . . .
. . . image that the Internet is a series of beer can tubes . . . running from your house to the 3G masts . . . how many beer cans that you will need depends on your distance from the masts, and the signal strength that you want, measured in bars . . .
Kim said that out of the 30 doppelganger domains they set up, only one company noticed when they registered the domain and came after them threatening a lawsuit unless they released ownership of it, which they did.
I guess a domain registration police department will become common in large firms now.
Maybe the USPS needs an "Opt Out" plan, for folks who do not wish to receive any unsolicited snail mail at all? Just add your address to the USPS "Do not deliver to" list.
Bills? Send them to me by email, thank you. Packages? I'll choose the deliverer from your list when I order.
Unsolicited stuff and junk mail? Why should the government pay for something to be hauled to my home, which will land in a recycle bin, which the government will pay to pick up at my home.
Someone really wants to send me something physical? Have your pick from FedEx and their pals.
If the store has a decent Website, I can browse whatever is in there from the comfort of my own home. In the simplest version, just take a few photos of the inside of the store, and update them every week; no need for a content management system.
Just write the Web address in the store window, or has "A Method and Process of Getting Folks to Visit Your Website by Advertising it" already been patented?
Well, I for one am reassured, now that courts will be controlling the scope of choice for me, when I go shopping for gadgets.
The Galaxy is a copy? "Imitation is the highest form of flattery." Humans have been copying others' ideas since the invention of the wheel. What about the violation of the patent: "A Method and Process for Producing Fire by Rubbing Sticks Together" ?
Hey, let the market decide . . . do you want the real thing with a chic logo . . . ? Or some cheap rip-off . . . ? Check your wallet first.
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I think Nokia is tangled up in one of these critters. They will forever be developing a Linux for phones which will be abandoned just as or before it is fully rolled out. Rinse and repeat . . . forever . . .
See ya on this story again in two years, folks.
Physical, Schmizical. IT Services is where the money is to be made! Like with IBM, or maybe the new HP. Google could offer paid assistance in their shops for folks who are having problems with Google products. And judging by how often I read here on Slashdot, "Oh, google it yourself!", apparently a lot of folks have problems googling themselves. Let alone other Google products.
Think of a Google Shop as a computer fitness service center . . . with your own Personal Google Cloud Trainer!
Like when kids in school get caught passing notes, and the teacher reads the note out loud in front of the class. Embarrassing for the note passers! Or when the local newspaper prints lists of folks arrested for drunk driving.
Bring back the village stock, I say!
Oh, and to answer Slashdot's question, "You are number 6! Who is number one?" . . .
"You, are, number 6."
Two cars fighting for the same parking place? Hold an short instant auction; the highest bidder gets the space. Hey, think of it of a tax on people with too much money to spend on a good parking space. Maybe even offer B-Celebrity, A-Celebrity and VIP spots for folks who like to flaunt their wealth?
Oh, the poor? Well, I guess they'll just have to walk or take public transportation. Unfair? Yes, but it sort of fits into the way most societies work anyway.
"I'm a doctor, Jim, not a 'revenue-producing asset'!"
Agent Rogersz: Good evening, Otto. This is Agent Rogersz. I'm going to ask you a few questions. Since time is short and you may lie, I'm going to have to torture you. But I want you to know, it isn't personal.
Otto: This isn't really necessary. I'll tell you anything you want to know.
Leila: I don't think he knows.
Agent Rogersz: Increase the voltage!
Leila: But what if he's innocent?
Agent Rogersz: No one is innocent. Proceed.
Gee, who would expect an unbiased, independent recommendation from a doctor who works for a store, that sells drugs?
"Hi, I'm your Virtual Pfizer/Novartis/Merck Doc . . . I'm sure that your illness will fall into a category that fits our product offerings."
"I don't want to gossip, but I would stay away from Dr. Wallgreens . . . his stuff uses powder made from DNA replication from the ground up remains of old Sam Walton's bones. He is considered a bit of a quack in the Virtual Doctor Community."
. . . would NASA really tell us where it landed, or would they want to recover it themselves?
Mulder & Scully: "Where did the satellite land?"
NASA: "Um . . . like . . . in the Himalayas, or somewhere . . . I dunno . . ."
Hmmm . . . maybe I need to make a quick trip to Ice Station Zebra and snoop around . . .
But if it really was a super secret squirrel satellite . . . we probably wouldn't have even known that it was coming down.
... I had a dog tag.
That's why I recommend dog leashes for kids instead. Put a big stake in the middle of the schoolyard and tie 'em all up. Use bungee jumping cable, so they can slingshot and slam each other around a bit.
It's a bit of a pain untangling them after playtime, though.
When I was a lad, we had to enter JCL commands on punch cards! And if you saw someone with a deck of cards in their hands, you could grab them and scatter them on the floor. Have fun sorting them!
This was probably one of the earliest forms of malicious hacking.
Wow, that's great. It's just a shame that NASA can't get humans into space.
Oh, wait . . . scratch that. It should read, "It's just a shame that Congress isn't capable of letting NASA get humans into space."
"Give a dog a bone"
Unfortunately, many politicians make it their business, to dabble their fingers in science to get it under their control. For the usual motives: money, power, etc.
Utilizing the Kinect attachment, users will be able to navigate through content with voice commands.
Me: "HalTV, can you hear me?"
HalTV: "Yes, I can hear you, Kid."
Me: "Could you please select something intelligent from the program offerings for me to watch?"
HalTV: "I'm sorry, Kid. I'm afraid I can't do that . . . the program offerings seems to be the result of human error . . . "
When a financial boo boo occurs, and IT is involved, it's IT's fault.
When a financial boo boo occurs, and IT is not involved, it's IT's fault.
Computers have a tough time defending themselves, so it is easy to pin the blame on them.
Maybe Watson, IBM's Jeopardy champ, could handle this:
"What . . . is a 'Scapegoat'?"
Couldn't we achieve the same effect, if all 5 billion+ of us on the planet go outside and blow a raspberry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_a_raspberry ? Ya know, like, spraying water particles in the air? It would certainly be a lot of fun if we had a World Bronx Cheer Day.
. . . augmented by World Spit-Take Day . . .
Because it is made of "Monster" cables . . . http://www.monstercable.com/
However, investors believe the financial community will be lining up to pay premium rates to use the new cable. The article suggests that a one-millisecond advantage could be worth $100M per year to a large hedge fund.
So obviously, a cable made of "Monster" cables will be worth* even more! Roll out your checkbooks, all you unfeasibly large hedge funds!
*Your actual worth is subject to local regulation, taxes, palm grease, wind velocity of an unladen swallow, global warming, sea temperatures, etc . . .
... and we will have really scary critters jack-pawing around . . . http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl
... and 640K computers.
Build a faster network and someone will invent more devices to connect to the network to shove around data that they don't need.
. . . image that the Internet is a series of beer can tubes . . . running from your house to the 3G masts . . . how many beer cans that you will need depends on your distance from the masts, and the signal strength that you want, measured in bars . . .
From TFA:
Kim said that out of the 30 doppelganger domains they set up, only one company noticed when they registered the domain and came after them threatening a lawsuit unless they released ownership of it, which they did.
I guess a domain registration police department will become common in large firms now.
The US particle physics has been in a state of decline since then.
The US particle physics has been in a state of decay since then.
There, fixed that for you. What other state should particle physics be in, instead of decay . . . ?
Must deliver to everyone
Maybe the USPS needs an "Opt Out" plan, for folks who do not wish to receive any unsolicited snail mail at all? Just add your address to the USPS "Do not deliver to" list.
Bills? Send them to me by email, thank you. Packages? I'll choose the deliverer from your list when I order.
Unsolicited stuff and junk mail? Why should the government pay for something to be hauled to my home, which will land in a recycle bin, which the government will pay to pick up at my home.
Someone really wants to send me something physical? Have your pick from FedEx and their pals.
The trick is in getting adipocyte precursors under the skin to talk to stem cells at the base of the hair follicles.
So why not skip all the steps in between, and just sew together toupees of peeled mice?
. . . um . . . warning sticker . . . "Stay away from cats, when in use."
If the store has a decent Website, I can browse whatever is in there from the comfort of my own home. In the simplest version, just take a few photos of the inside of the store, and update them every week; no need for a content management system.
Just write the Web address in the store window, or has "A Method and Process of Getting Folks to Visit Your Website by Advertising it" already been patented?
Well, I for one am reassured, now that courts will be controlling the scope of choice for me, when I go shopping for gadgets.
The Galaxy is a copy? "Imitation is the highest form of flattery." Humans have been copying others' ideas since the invention of the wheel. What about the violation of the patent: "A Method and Process for Producing Fire by Rubbing Sticks Together" ?
Hey, let the market decide . . . do you want the real thing with a chic logo . . . ? Or some cheap rip-off . . . ? Check your wallet first.