So that makes 3 people, given HP's serial job cuts.
Actually, committing 3/4 of your research lab on one project is bet that should raise a few eyebrows. Sure, IBM pulled it off with the "bet the company" System/360, and that turned out to be quite profitable for them in the long run.
But today . . . ? It seems more like a desperate move. If the project fails, what will happen? Will HP just shit-can research all together, for ever . . . ?
Wall Street will demand action, and it seems that most companies are slaves to Wall Street opinion now.
Normal Earth fruit flies, yes. But on the Space Station, their Space Station fruit flies apparently live much longer. It looks like they have slipped up, and lets us know what they are *really* experimenting on up there. Obviously, a secret space station longevity serum.
Because they are doing the experimenting up in the Space Station, it probably means that there are still some bothersome side effects, like turning folks into zombies and stuff like that.
Um, some friends of mine got a fatwa from their imam about marriage recommendations last week.
I understand what you are trying to explain about fatwas, but that is still very creepy for me, that someone would go for written approval from a religious figure for any important decision in their own lives. If you told me that your friends went to a Catholic priest, a Hindu Holy man, the Dalai Lama or Oprah Winfrey for recommendations, I would make me feel just as creepy.
Friends of mine are adults, with their own free will, and decided for themselves that they wanted to get married. It was their decision.
So what do your friends do when the their imam issues a fatwa on how to trim their garden . . . ? Or who to vote for in the next election . . . ? Or that their neighbor is a Zionist . . . ? Do they have free will and responsibility in their lives . . . ?
I feel that this reliance on religious authority is exactly what eventually leads folks down the path to commit atrocities in the name of religion . . . because, well, it wasn't their decision . . . it was made by a higher authority.
Aren't they betting that such a system (or its components) cannot be hacked?
No, they are planning to sell data about your home to anyone who will pay for it. It won't need to be hacked, it will able to be accessed by Apple's home cloud data miners, out of the box.
You don't need to be rich to study at Princeton. They have generous financial aid packages, and most students leave debt-free. If you're smart enough, and work hard enough to get in, they will make sure that you can afford it.
You'll meet plenty of smart poor kids at Princeton, who have public education. You'll also meet plenty of smart rich kids, who had the luxury of the best private education.
Any rich dumb kids don't make it through the first year. They have a "Dean of Temporary Bye-Bye", who makes them take a year off, and a "Dean of Permanent So-Long", who kicks them out for good.
HOWEVER, Microsoft as a company has been a very callous, arrogant and standoffish sort with multiple examples of dodgy business practices. Some people might even describe them as evil (which I don't - Hitler was evil, Microsoft aren't in the same league as genocidal killers).
Microsoft tried to kill Linux, by orchestrating the SCO campaign. They didn't try to be better than Linux with their products, no, they just tried to damage Linux with sneaky, dirty tricks. That's technology genocide.
That's why a lot of Slashdot folks are attracted to Microsoft products as Jewish folks are to German products. And you can't really blame either for feeling that way.
Actually, when a German automotive giant, who seems to know what they are doing about building cars, buys your company and can't make it successful . . . that's sad.
That also shows you how bad Communism is. In former East Germany, Communism took a land full of Germans, and made a poor country out of it.
Fehler In Allen Teilen (German for: Faults in every part)
And my personal favorite . . . Fucking Italian Automotive Trash!
To be fair, Ford: "Found On Road Dead", "Fix Or Repair Daily", BMW, "Bring Mir Werkzeuge (Bring me tools), Pontiac, "Poor Old N-word Thinks Is A Cadillac" . . .
As for General Motors, I can't really think of anything worse than being called "General Motors". "General" sounds bland, like "Regular" toothpaste flavor, as opposed to "Fresh Mint" flavor.
Which raises an interesting philosophical question: When Chrysler goes bankrupt again, who bails it out? The US government, bailing out an Italian company . . . ? Or the Italians, bailing out automotive workers in the US . . . ?
. . . but curiosity got the better of those eager NSA employee fans, who have bugged the computer to know what will happen before the rest of the world . . .
Slashdot Mirror
I'll just put on my Google Glasses, and tune in to my destination, and fool myself that I'm already there!
three quarters of the lab
So that makes 3 people, given HP's serial job cuts.
Actually, committing 3/4 of your research lab on one project is bet that should raise a few eyebrows. Sure, IBM pulled it off with the "bet the company" System/360, and that turned out to be quite profitable for them in the long run.
But today . . . ? It seems more like a desperate move. If the project fails, what will happen? Will HP just shit-can research all together, for ever . . . ?
Wall Street will demand action, and it seems that most companies are slaves to Wall Street opinion now.
Fruit flies don't live for "months".
Normal Earth fruit flies, yes. But on the Space Station, their Space Station fruit flies apparently live much longer. It looks like they have slipped up, and lets us know what they are *really* experimenting on up there. Obviously, a secret space station longevity serum.
Because they are doing the experimenting up in the Space Station, it probably means that there are still some bothersome side effects, like turning folks into zombies and stuff like that.
This sort of reminds me of a Monty Python sketch about who to tax:
"I think we should tax foreigners living abroad", and "I think we should tax people standing in puddles of water."
The point being, that everyone thinks that problems can be solved by taxing someone else.
No, I'm sorry, contestants must phrase their responses as questions.
Here are some more clues:
Bucky-ball enema moon tube escalator, Jimmy-Carter-built Baba Yaga affordable housing on chicken legs and dephlogistonated Moebius Yorkshire Pudding.
No, he's going to Nokia it:
Bring Steve Elop in to run the team into the ground.
Keep the Clippers Intellectual Property and Patents and Stuff.
Profit!
Um, some friends of mine got a fatwa from their imam about marriage recommendations last week.
I understand what you are trying to explain about fatwas, but that is still very creepy for me, that someone would go for written approval from a religious figure for any important decision in their own lives. If you told me that your friends went to a Catholic priest, a Hindu Holy man, the Dalai Lama or Oprah Winfrey for recommendations, I would make me feel just as creepy.
Friends of mine are adults, with their own free will, and decided for themselves that they wanted to get married. It was their decision.
So what do your friends do when the their imam issues a fatwa on how to trim their garden . . . ? Or who to vote for in the next election . . . ? Or that their neighbor is a Zionist . . . ? Do they have free will and responsibility in their lives . . . ?
I feel that this reliance on religious authority is exactly what eventually leads folks down the path to commit atrocities in the name of religion . . . because, well, it wasn't their decision . . . it was made by a higher authority.
Let's get kids off the lawns of America, and out on the road behind the wheel where they belong!
Aren't they betting that such a system (or its components) cannot be hacked?
No, they are planning to sell data about your home to anyone who will pay for it. It won't need to be hacked, it will able to be accessed by Apple's home cloud data miners, out of the box.
Consider your home "rooted" . . .
Life is a serious illness . . . no one has survived it yet.
Or eight.
He's just buying eight Surface users, as he'll force the team to use them.
You don't need to be rich to study at Princeton. They have generous financial aid packages, and most students leave debt-free. If you're smart enough, and work hard enough to get in, they will make sure that you can afford it.
http://www.princeton.edu/admission/financialaid/
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/aid/pdf/1213/PU-Making-It-Possible.pdf
You'll meet plenty of smart poor kids at Princeton, who have public education. You'll also meet plenty of smart rich kids, who had the luxury of the best private education.
Any rich dumb kids don't make it through the first year. They have a "Dean of Temporary Bye-Bye", who makes them take a year off, and a "Dean of Permanent So-Long", who kicks them out for good.
. . . how about the money and news coverage for Kim Kardashian's wedding . . . ? The general public just isn't interested in science and space.
Sad, but true. If the general population isn't interested, Congress has no incentive to fund it.
HOWEVER, Microsoft as a company has been a very callous, arrogant and standoffish sort with multiple examples of dodgy business practices. Some people might even describe them as evil (which I don't - Hitler was evil, Microsoft aren't in the same league as genocidal killers).
Microsoft tried to kill Linux, by orchestrating the SCO campaign. They didn't try to be better than Linux with their products, no, they just tried to damage Linux with sneaky, dirty tricks. That's technology genocide.
That's why a lot of Slashdot folks are attracted to Microsoft products as Jewish folks are to German products. And you can't really blame either for feeling that way.
Where's Godwin when you need him . . . ?
Let's see this same thing repeated with these for comparison:
Reading Slashdot.
every damn time people anywhere talk about "drugs" and their effects we need to **compare** it to other similar things!
Comparison does not prove causation! We read and write that multiple times each day on Slashdot.
You must be nude here.
Hewlett-Packard . . . ? A company built up by great engineers, run down by bad MBAs . . .
Actually, when a German automotive giant, who seems to know what they are doing about building cars, buys your company and can't make it successful . . . that's sad.
That also shows you how bad Communism is. In former East Germany, Communism took a land full of Germans, and made a poor country out of it.
Fehler In Allen Teilen (German for: Faults in every part)
And my personal favorite . . . Fucking Italian Automotive Trash!
To be fair, Ford: "Found On Road Dead", "Fix Or Repair Daily", BMW, "Bring Mir Werkzeuge (Bring me tools), Pontiac, "Poor Old N-word Thinks Is A Cadillac" . . .
As for General Motors, I can't really think of anything worse than being called "General Motors". "General" sounds bland, like "Regular" toothpaste flavor, as opposed to "Fresh Mint" flavor.
Which raises an interesting philosophical question: When Chrysler goes bankrupt again, who bails it out? The US government, bailing out an Italian company . . . ? Or the Italians, bailing out automotive workers in the US . . . ?
He said: "that they made him cross-eyed and avoid eye contact"
Which is the way most geeks naturally are anyway. So maybe wearing Goggle Glasses will correct those problem on geeks:
"By wearing Google Glasses, I can see straight! And I try to get eye contact!"
FDA studies with geeks are needed. And maybe normal folks don't want eye contact with us anyway . . . ?
Wait a second, I thought potheads were worthless burnouts who will never amount to anything?
Well, Eric Holder is the Attorney General . . . and any time he opens his mouth . . . I think he's tripping his balls off on LSD.
. Why would they smuggle cigarettes INTO Russia....
In Putinist Russia, cigarette smokes YOU!
Actually . . . the first thing I thought about was when that German teenager took a joyride with a private plane, and landed it on Red Square.
Have the former Soviet air defense systems fallen into disrepair . . . ? Or do the cigarette drones fly too low . . . ?
. . . but curiosity got the better of those eager NSA employee fans, who have bugged the computer to know what will happen before the rest of the world . . .
No, fool, I is Gains Atomic.
Gaines Burgers, not Atomics!
GM got bailed out by the government because it was "too big to fail." Guess what? GM is still "too big to fail."
They can go ahead and try out any screwball idea they want. If it loses money . . . the government will pick up the tab.
It's sort of like a venture capital investment operation . . . except the taxpayers get stuck with the losses, and none of the rewards.
No one will ever trust US hardware again.
No one will ever trust US citizens again.
I expect we'll be getting blacklisted soon from working on projects in foreign countries.