How demoralizing is it to the rank and file at Microsoft when senior executives are going to Google?
Not at all.
Here are some reasons. First, general managers are a dime a dozen at Microsoft -- GMs report to corporate VPs, who are typically four layers of mangement away from Ballmer. Second, his departure will either allow his group to prune a layer of management, or promote someone from PUM to GM. Either operation makes the rather bloated platform org more responsive.
The departures that Microsoft actually cares about are of star ICs. The company has a very deep management bench; it's a lot harder to replace a tester with specialized knowledge of a particular product.
Yes, and I used to work for the mobility group at Microsoft. The billing issues really are overblown, as are the cellular interference issues. I know, you know, and we both know that we both know that the cellular equipment manufacturers made a set of assumptions which proved to be incomplete, but that they could have fixed those assumptions.
And as to "the extra revenue from phone calls"...you know perfectly well that most European carriers operate their voice networks as a way to get people to send SMS's. The voice networks are a loss leader for their profitable services in data.
The GP is spouting nonsense. The reality is much simpler: (1) there is some (valid, although possibly overblown) concern about interference with aircraft telemetry, and (2) the airlines want to make money off phones on the plane. They do not want competition, obviously. (And, (3) imagine being stuck next to Jerry Maguire from New York to Los Angeles if he was allowed to talk on his cell phone.)
During the Three Mile Island "core event" (read: core meltdown), I was employed at Argonne National Laboratory, which was the primary research site for new civilian reactor technologies. I want to correct a couple of small issues with what you said.
When a nuke plant blows, it makes the area around it (possibly for hundreds of miles) too radioactive for humans to live there. [granted, we've only had such a thing happen once. So far.]
Actually, there have been at least three publicized core events: the Idaho Falls failure, TMI, and Chernobyl. Of the three, only Chernobyl proceded from full core failure to melt-through. That was due to the poor engineering behind the Russian plant, not to the intrinsic danger of a core event.
For a sense of what is possible, the French SuperPhoenix and Canadian CanDu reactors have combined for millenia of event-free operation. France, by the way, depends on nuclear power for 80% of its electrical needs -- the French are chuckling over the current energy price crunch...all the way to the bank.
Furthermore, the exclusion zone around Chernobyl is by no means "uninhabitable" when you get more than about 200m from the sarcophagus itself. Ukraine has taken a very reasonable precaution of maintaining the evacuation, but the area is completely habitable, as demonstrated by the variety of animal and plant life which has taken up residence there.
I'm still worried about the viability of Yucca Mountain, and feel strongly that we need a non-proliferative reprocessing technology before the US adopts nuclear power completely -- but don't deceive yourself about the its problems. They're nowhere nearly as bad as you think, and the mass poisoning coal inflicts on children, in particular, is far worse than you imagine.
Welllll...sort of. It's true that fission power is no riskier than fossil fuel technology, if the waste can be reasonably handled. That handling must not leave large stockpiles of fissile material behind, though, and it can't reasonably include the entombment of tonnes of highly radioactive material in glassified form. If we can reprocess and reuse spent fuel with reasonable efficiency, so that we need only entomb a few tens of pounds of material, I agree with you. Until the current state of the art advances to that point, though, I'm reluctant to give my whole-hearted endorsement.
Burning coal releases mercury, lead, arsenic, and almost every other heavy metal you can think of. (Why almost every? Plutonium, Neptunium, Einsteinium, etc.) That's a bit of a red herring, though: electrical plants scrub the very hell out of their effluvia in order to stay in compliance with the clean air act.
Yeah, but single clicking it would just turn on the highlight. You have to double click it to actually activate the elevator.
When you do that, the elevator delivers you wherever it infers you should og. To get the complete control, you hold down the control key while clicking the button, then navigate the contextual menu with your nose.
Sorry, Cowboy, but you're just wrong. The DOJ lost on the bundling issue in US v Microsoft -- the appelate court sent that part of the case back to the district court with instructions that the plaintiffs needed to show that the costs of bundling IE outweighed the benefits. The DOJ was smart, and just bailed. The "seven states" weren't, and got their heads handed to them later on.
If you followed the questioning in the Court of the First Instance, you noticed that the judges there thought that the EC ruling was wrong, which isn't surprising, since court has been steadily moving Europe towards a rational antitrust position. Monti's Mounties are about to have the horns trimmed.
You assume that you have a right to a "legal" backup. You don't -- in fact, making a backup copy or a copyrighted work is quite clearly illegal unless the copyright holder gave you explicit permission to do so.
Sorry, but you're wrong on all points. If you've destroyed a licensed copy of a copyrighted work, then...well, the retailer might by generous, but, no, you do NOT have the right to make another copy.
The actual _Betamax_ decision used one of those wonderful judicial words: "substantial", as in "substantial non-infringing uses". TPB wasn't used "solely" for infringing uses, but there's little doubt that it, as a site, had no substantial non-infringing use.
A decent bassoon for a high-shool performer costs between 6 and 7 thousand dollars. A low-grade professional violin starts at about $12K. A top-uality professional bow starts at about $20K. Double blind studies show that, yes, good musicians really do produce better sounding music working with the good equipment.
Music, at the very least, is fantastically expensive to do at a professional level.
It's certainly possible that Cell is giving poor yields, and I can't speak to that one way or another. What I do know is that nobody actually in or near the industry would ever post anything like the parent. Rumors like the parent can move markets by billions of dollars -- and brokers who've lost gigabucks are both motivated to and able to get revenge, which entails time spent in a Federal prison.
Between-ness is a geometrical concept, not an ordinal one. A point z_1 is "between" z_2 and z_3 is there is a geodesic path connecting z_2 and z_3 which also contains z_1. It so happens that the usual geometry on R_1 yields a notion of between-ness that coincides with the ordinal one, but you can have notions of between-ness in any geometrical system.
Let f be any bijection of R_1 to itself which maps 4 to 0, 3 to 2, and 5 to 3. Inherit betweenness from the normal geometry on R_1 back to its preimage. In that geometry, 5 is indeed betten 3 and 4.
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Here are some reasons. First, general managers are a dime a dozen at Microsoft -- GMs report to corporate VPs, who are typically four layers of mangement away from Ballmer. Second, his departure will either allow his group to prune a layer of management, or promote someone from PUM to GM. Either operation makes the rather bloated platform org more responsive.
The departures that Microsoft actually cares about are of star ICs. The company has a very deep management bench; it's a lot harder to replace a tester with specialized knowledge of a particular product.
Yes, and I used to work for the mobility group at Microsoft. The billing issues really are overblown, as are the cellular interference issues. I know, you know, and we both know that we both know that the cellular equipment manufacturers made a set of assumptions which proved to be incomplete, but that they could have fixed those assumptions.
And as to "the extra revenue from phone calls"...you know perfectly well that most European carriers operate their voice networks as a way to get people to send SMS's. The voice networks are a loss leader for their profitable services in data.
The GP is spouting nonsense. The reality is much simpler: (1) there is some (valid, although possibly overblown) concern about interference with aircraft telemetry, and (2) the airlines want to make money off phones on the plane. They do not want competition, obviously. (And, (3) imagine being stuck next to Jerry Maguire from New York to Los Angeles if he was allowed to talk on his cell phone.)
Actually, there have been at least three publicized core events: the Idaho Falls failure, TMI, and Chernobyl. Of the three, only Chernobyl proceded from full core failure to melt-through. That was due to the poor engineering behind the Russian plant, not to the intrinsic danger of a core event.
For a sense of what is possible, the French SuperPhoenix and Canadian CanDu reactors have combined for millenia of event-free operation. France, by the way, depends on nuclear power for 80% of its electrical needs -- the French are chuckling over the current energy price crunch...all the way to the bank.
Furthermore, the exclusion zone around Chernobyl is by no means "uninhabitable" when you get more than about 200m from the sarcophagus itself. Ukraine has taken a very reasonable precaution of maintaining the evacuation, but the area is completely habitable, as demonstrated by the variety of animal and plant life which has taken up residence there.
I'm still worried about the viability of Yucca Mountain, and feel strongly that we need a non-proliferative reprocessing technology before the US adopts nuclear power completely -- but don't deceive yourself about the its problems. They're nowhere nearly as bad as you think, and the mass poisoning coal inflicts on children, in particular, is far worse than you imagine.
Welllll...sort of. It's true that fission power is no riskier than fossil fuel technology, if the waste can be reasonably handled. That handling must not leave large stockpiles of fissile material behind, though, and it can't reasonably include the entombment of tonnes of highly radioactive material in glassified form. If we can reprocess and reuse spent fuel with reasonable efficiency, so that we need only entomb a few tens of pounds of material, I agree with you. Until the current state of the art advances to that point, though, I'm reluctant to give my whole-hearted endorsement.
Burning coal releases mercury, lead, arsenic, and almost every other heavy metal you can think of. (Why almost every? Plutonium, Neptunium, Einsteinium, etc.) That's a bit of a red herring, though: electrical plants scrub the very hell out of their effluvia in order to stay in compliance with the clean air act.
Yeah, but single clicking it would just turn on the highlight. You have to double click it to actually activate the elevator.
When you do that, the elevator delivers you wherever it infers you should og. To get the complete control, you hold down the control key while clicking the button, then navigate the contextual menu with your nose.
Sorry, Cowboy, but you're just wrong. The DOJ lost on the bundling issue in US v Microsoft -- the appelate court sent that part of the case back to the district court with instructions that the plaintiffs needed to show that the costs of bundling IE outweighed the benefits. The DOJ was smart, and just bailed. The "seven states" weren't, and got their heads handed to them later on.
If you followed the questioning in the Court of the First Instance, you noticed that the judges there thought that the EC ruling was wrong, which isn't surprising, since court has been steadily moving Europe towards a rational antitrust position. Monti's Mounties are about to have the horns trimmed.
Oh, looky! The payed Sony fanboi is back again. Any other good fake talking points to repeat?
Remember, when you've boarded a sinking ship...find a lifeboat.
Personally, I'm voting for Outer Malthusia.
Fewer than 1% of all documents contain an embedded object. But I'm glad to have given you a way to weasel out of having to apologize for lying.
Skykomish, Snohomish, Snake, Squawk...there are a LOT of rivers up here. Some of them even have pronounceable names...
Point to a schema which contains such things outside of either images or OLE objects. (Hint: you aren't going to find one.)
You assume that you have a right to a "legal" backup. You don't -- in fact, making a backup copy or a copyrighted work is quite clearly illegal unless the copyright holder gave you explicit permission to do so.
He talks about the $399 XBox as being w/o an HD. That isn't true, though.
Sorry, but you're wrong on all points. If you've destroyed a licensed copy of a copyrighted work, then...well, the retailer might by generous, but, no, you do NOT have the right to make another copy.
The actual _Betamax_ decision used one of those wonderful judicial words: "substantial", as in "substantial non-infringing uses". TPB wasn't used "solely" for infringing uses, but there's little doubt that it, as a site, had no substantial non-infringing use.
A decent bassoon for a high-shool performer costs between 6 and 7 thousand dollars. A low-grade professional violin starts at about $12K. A top-uality professional bow starts at about $20K. Double blind studies show that, yes, good musicians really do produce better sounding music working with the good equipment.
Music, at the very least, is fantastically expensive to do at a professional level.
Wow! What color is the sky on your planet? What's the solar year length? DO you have an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere like we on Earth have?
The parent sounds like FUD to me.
It's certainly possible that Cell is giving poor yields, and I can't speak to that one way or another. What I do know is that nobody actually in or near the industry would ever post anything like the parent. Rumors like the parent can move markets by billions of dollars -- and brokers who've lost gigabucks are both motivated to and able to get revenge, which entails time spent in a Federal prison.
It would seem to me that in buying eBay, one would necessarily accept PayPal, along with all the attendant legal troubles.
Between-ness is a geometrical concept, not an ordinal one. A point z_1 is "between" z_2 and z_3 is there is a geodesic path connecting z_2 and z_3 which also contains z_1. It so happens that the usual geometry on R_1 yields a notion of between-ness that coincides with the ordinal one, but you can have notions of between-ness in any geometrical system.
Let f be any bijection of R_1 to itself which maps 4 to 0, 3 to 2, and 5 to 3. Inherit betweenness from the normal geometry on R_1 back to its preimage. In that geometry, 5 is indeed betten 3 and 4.
Oh, good. Now we reply to the first lie with the classic slashbot "never trust MS"...oh, sorry, "M$".
Look, if that happens, it happens, and we deal with that then. In the meantime, is the GGP a lie? Why, yes, it is.