It's true that someone's trying to capitalize on the name but it isn't Google.
"She[Peri Fleisher] said that although Google has bought attention to the name, it has not bought attention to Kasner's work. Google was not using the concepts, but just capitalising on the name, she said. And who is the heir to Kasner's work? Step forward Fleisher's son, who has the rights to the book."
"She said she had written to Google but it had never replied. She said that Google is playing off that number and not compensating them even a little bit. Ethically, it could have been more giving. She does not want cash just the opportunity to operate as insiders for the IPO."
Actually to have the benefits of SMP desktops you talk about, all you need is an O/S that's not so efficient at allocating lots of CPU to the CPU intensive task:).
E.g. it only allocates up to 50%, and leaves the other 50% for other stuff (GUI, DVD burning etc).
But then people will complain if only 50% of their CPU is used, oh well...
While two midrange processors are cheaper than one high end processor, SMP motherboards so far have been rather more expensive. Anyway most people can't afford the really high end stuff - and stuff like the P4 "extremely expensive" edition is for the really rich people.
That said AMD may go dual core on desktops, so people might be able to drop in dual core replacements into their single CPU socket motherboards. Probably one of the reason why AMD has the 83W rating for their AMD64 CPUs despite most of them only going up to 50+W - the cooler ones are only 30-40W.
I dunno, I'd still prefer the option to be able to drop TONs of water. For really large fires, if you don't drop enough, by the time you come round again, the fire is back.
The 747's disadvantage seems to be refilling - I don't see how you can quickly refill a 747 with water/retardant. I'd personally go for the russian firefighting planes (11,000 gallons AND quick refills), but hey I'm not from the USA so I guess I'm biased.
"My guess is that when you can carry 24,000 gallons (90000L) of water, you don't have to refill very often."
Yeah, but how long does it take to refill it?
And wouldn't the forest service object because it's too much water?
I mean they objected to the Russian planes coz: "The plane is "too costly and lacks ability to make downhill drops, a necessary maneuver in fighting fires in the mountains. It actually drops too much water."
The russian planes carry 11,000 gallons of water AND they have a proven track record in fire fighting, unlike the 747 "solution" which seems to be a kludge.
Article mentioning 50% of people not noticing that they're talking to a different stranger after being interrupted.
Anyway why it's easy: 1) Most people are trusting and not paranoid. 2) Most people are too busy doing their main jobs. 3) Most people aren't observant. 4) Most people aren't very smart. 5) It's hard to be polite to people especially customers while at the same time be suspicious/wary of them. For most businesses it's better to err on the side of politeness. Let insurance etc take care of the other stuff. Remember if customers don't buy anything coz you pissed them off, the creditors come and take everything;).
6) High staff turnover is bad for security - makes things even harder - as a worker you can't stop every new face you see whilst trying to get you job done so that you don't lose your job. By the time you get around to training newbs about security they're already on their way out - you're lucky if you even managed to finish training them how to do their main jobs.
7) The people who aren't easily fooled aren't cheap and plentiful. Plus they probably got sacked or changed jobs coz they weren't easily fooled by management;).
What I want to know is if there's regenerative braking.
If there is then that's really a big improvement.
Many vehicles are terribly inefficient not because of the poor efficiency of the engines, but because all the kinetic energy is wasted when the vehicle stops. Compare actual city vs cruising mileages in practice.
Like you said, they could always blame the increases on other stuff, but they choose to threaten to charge higher to pay the fines and fees for being found guilty of _overcharging_ etc.
I dunno about you, but to me that's MS flipping the finger to the US of A's blindfolded Statue of Justice.
If you want to let them still operate the company let them email from prison, with the infamous Bubba breathing over their shoulder. Penalizing by time hurts both rich and poor (except in some countries the dirt poor may have a better quality of life in prison - free food, lodging).
In my country, managers risk jailtime for copyright infringement. Believe me, the bosses do get nervous. Fines are paid by the company, but jailtime really hurts - it's paid out of your own life[1].
It's obvious how the MS bosses feel about the whole thing.
The USA seems a bit screwed up in that respect- letting a company found guilty of overcharging pay its fines and legal fees by overcharging some more. Maybe the lawyers are overcharging - but hey no court has found them guilty of it yet.
Was that the highest court the US has? Talk about "contempt of court". Better add earmuffs to the already blindfolded Statue of Justice, to help deaden the sound of laughter around the world.
What next in the US? MS starts making electronic voting systems or buys up Diebold? Talk about X Boxes...;)
[1] Of course some ppl here run businesses fronted by fake bosses, so that if stuff happens, the fakes go to jail, and the fake's families get compensated double the fake's salary or something like that. But you can't really run a big company that way;).
It wasn't a spur of the moment fight etc - it sounds more analogous to a duel. Since the report says nobody was carrying firearms even though gang members probably had easy access to firearms or other deadly weapons, then maybe it was more of a "honour/prestige" thing and they actually did agree to the type of fight. I mean "one person who suffered a broken arm", doh, if bladed/edged weapons were used, broken arms wouldn't be the injury of note.
If it's an "honour/prestige" fight, then hey if the other side doesn't stick to an agreed limit it's major loss of face for them. I'm sure they're not the only gangs around.
We're not talking about politicians here y'know;). Seems more like young kids trying to feel important or something, and trying to create a sense of order, structure out of the chaos that is their world. If a gang loses it's street cred it may actually get picked on by everyone else. Why would a kid want to be part of a group that has even less respect than the kid alone? I'm sure there are tons of unwritten rules, things you don't do, things you can do. Otherwise what defines a gang anyway?
BTW I don't see how it is the classic prisoner's dilemma.
"thus, it simply means that you must be "for the beast" to "buy or sell""
Well I interpret it as if the Beast or his minions figures out that you're not on his side, your certificate gets put on the certificate revocation list, and within a month (or whatever period everyone does their update) your cert is no good for anything - buying, selling, travelling.
When your cert hits its expiry period and you want your certificate renewed - bow down and worship him or the equivalent.
All the tech is there actually. No need for to think its all symbolic.
Unfortunately the part about the mountain that got tossed into the sea doesn't sound too symbolic either, probably a frigging asteroid or something. If that happens I won't be surprised about the part about a "third of the seas" etc.
For the implants mentioned, there is no way to switch the thing off, so people can always buy stuff on behalf of you as long as they can relay the communications.
As it currently is, it's stupid tech.
Might as well carry around those mini creditcards around your neck or something. Those mini creditcards are about 1/4th the size of a normal card, if you don't even have enough clothing to slip a mini card under, buying drinks etc is not going to be a problem to worry about.
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It's true that someone's trying to capitalize on the name but it isn't Google.
"She[Peri Fleisher] said that although Google has bought attention to the name, it has not bought attention to Kasner's work. Google was not using the concepts, but just capitalising on the name, she said. And who is the heir to Kasner's work? Step forward Fleisher's son, who has the rights to the book."
"She said she had written to Google but it had never replied. She said that Google is playing off that number and not compensating them even a little bit. Ethically, it could have been more giving. She does not want cash just the opportunity to operate as insiders for the IPO."
Actually to have the benefits of SMP desktops you talk about, all you need is an O/S that's not so efficient at allocating lots of CPU to the CPU intensive task :).
E.g. it only allocates up to 50%, and leaves the other 50% for other stuff (GUI, DVD burning etc).
But then people will complain if only 50% of their CPU is used, oh well...
While two midrange processors are cheaper than one high end processor, SMP motherboards so far have been rather more expensive. Anyway most people can't afford the really high end stuff - and stuff like the P4 "extremely expensive" edition is for the really rich people.
That said AMD may go dual core on desktops, so people might be able to drop in dual core replacements into their single CPU socket motherboards. Probably one of the reason why AMD has the 83W rating for their AMD64 CPUs despite most of them only going up to 50+W - the cooler ones are only 30-40W.
If I were evil I might sell windows or even give it away for free, but why would I use it myself?
Might pretend to use it.
I dunno, I'd still prefer the option to be able to drop TONs of water. For really large fires, if you don't drop enough, by the time you come round again, the fire is back.
The 747's disadvantage seems to be refilling - I don't see how you can quickly refill a 747 with water/retardant. I'd personally go for the russian firefighting planes (11,000 gallons AND quick refills), but hey I'm not from the USA so I guess I'm biased.
"My guess is that when you can carry 24,000 gallons (90000L) of water, you don't have to refill very often."
Yeah, but how long does it take to refill it?
And wouldn't the forest service object because it's too much water?
I mean they objected to the Russian planes coz:
"The plane is "too costly and lacks ability to make downhill drops, a necessary maneuver in fighting fires in the mountains. It actually drops too much water."
The russian planes carry 11,000 gallons of water AND they have a proven track record in fire fighting, unlike the 747 "solution" which seems to be a kludge.
Looks like he might be closer than the hot fusion people tho :).
Article mentioning 50% of people not noticing that they're talking to a different stranger after being interrupted.
;).
;).
Anyway why it's easy:
1) Most people are trusting and not paranoid.
2) Most people are too busy doing their main jobs.
3) Most people aren't observant.
4) Most people aren't very smart.
5) It's hard to be polite to people especially customers while at the same time be suspicious/wary of them. For most businesses it's better to err on the side of politeness. Let insurance etc take care of the other stuff. Remember if customers don't buy anything coz you pissed them off, the creditors come and take everything
6) High staff turnover is bad for security - makes things even harder - as a worker you can't stop every new face you see whilst trying to get you job done so that you don't lose your job. By the time you get around to training newbs about security they're already on their way out - you're lucky if you even managed to finish training them how to do their main jobs.
7) The people who aren't easily fooled aren't cheap and plentiful. Plus they probably got sacked or changed jobs coz they weren't easily fooled by management
Lance Armstrong isn't an average example of humans, so you can't compare him with the average horse or other animal.
Maybe you could train a horse to pedal, I've wondered about stuff like that...
But if you want to talk about continuous travel, go check out bluefin tuna. They're amazing creatures.
What I want to know is if there's regenerative braking.
If there is then that's really a big improvement.
Many vehicles are terribly inefficient not because of the poor efficiency of the engines, but because all the kinetic energy is wasted when the vehicle stops. Compare actual city vs cruising mileages in practice.
Use LED bulbs and get a better dynamo, that way you don't lose as much power to the dynamo for the same lighting.
But what really would be useful would be regenerative braking.
Patent shouldn't have been awarded anyway. And prior art is not necessary. It falls under obvious.
Any person skilled in fields related to windows would know that translucent or even transparent windows are an obvious or even necessary improvement.
Doh.
I believe Jusco is a Japanese company.
It's a show of strength, defiance.
Like you said, they could always blame the increases on other stuff, but they choose to threaten to charge higher to pay the fines and fees for being found guilty of _overcharging_ etc.
I dunno about you, but to me that's MS flipping the finger to the US of A's blindfolded Statue of Justice.
So what's going to happen to them for doing that?
By that I'd judge the justice system.
Just jail the people in charge.
;)
;).
If you want to let them still operate the company let them email from prison, with the infamous Bubba breathing over their shoulder. Penalizing by time hurts both rich and poor (except in some countries the dirt poor may have a better quality of life in prison - free food, lodging).
In my country, managers risk jailtime for copyright infringement. Believe me, the bosses do get nervous. Fines are paid by the company, but jailtime really hurts - it's paid out of your own life[1].
It's obvious how the MS bosses feel about the whole thing.
The USA seems a bit screwed up in that respect- letting a company found guilty of overcharging pay its fines and legal fees by overcharging some more. Maybe the lawyers are overcharging - but hey no court has found them guilty of it yet.
Was that the highest court the US has? Talk about "contempt of court". Better add earmuffs to the already blindfolded Statue of Justice, to help deaden the sound of laughter around the world.
What next in the US? MS starts making electronic voting systems or buys up Diebold? Talk about X Boxes...
[1] Of course some ppl here run businesses fronted by fake bosses, so that if stuff happens, the fakes go to jail, and the fake's families get compensated double the fake's salary or something like that. But you can't really run a big company that way
You missed out some important details.
MS price gouges, this guy wins a case against MS for price gouging, and price gouges MS.
Then MS says they have to price gouge even more. They've got a real operation running over there...
What next, swindlers being allowed to swindle more people to pay fines and legal fees for _losing_? Being able to say it publicly too.
And people still think MS lost the case.
In contrast this copying stuff for your friends for free is such a terrible evil that must be purged from the world...
It wasn't a spur of the moment fight etc - it sounds more analogous to a duel. Since the report says nobody was carrying firearms even though gang members probably had easy access to firearms or other deadly weapons, then maybe it was more of a "honour/prestige" thing and they actually did agree to the type of fight. I mean "one person who suffered a broken arm", doh, if bladed/edged weapons were used, broken arms wouldn't be the injury of note.
;). Seems more like young kids trying to feel important or something, and trying to create a sense of order, structure out of the chaos that is their world. If a gang loses it's street cred it may actually get picked on by everyone else. Why would a kid want to be part of a group that has even less respect than the kid alone? I'm sure there are tons of unwritten rules, things you don't do, things you can do. Otherwise what defines a gang anyway?
If it's an "honour/prestige" fight, then hey if the other side doesn't stick to an agreed limit it's major loss of face for them. I'm sure they're not the only gangs around.
We're not talking about politicians here y'know
BTW I don't see how it is the classic prisoner's dilemma.
Maybe because:
PC = paper/printer cassette (not sure which).
So PC Load Letter means the printer wants you to load letter sized paper into the paper cassette.
Whereas the variation of "MLF Load Letter" probably means you're supposed to put letter sized paper into the Manual Feed tray.
Someone probably knows the exact terms.
Well, maybe they agreed on the type of weapons?
Reminds me of the NZ Navy's stealth ships
Only 3 frigates listed? That's coz the rest are super stealthy undetectable ships...
What do you see when you run netstat -an on the command line? If you don't see anything listening on any port then congrats, I'm wrong.
When you remove the MS client in Win95 and just have windows logon, tcpip, there's nothing listening on any port.
If a girl wearing a string bikini can't get free drinks, maybe she shouldn't be wearing a string bikini ;).
Anyway there are mini credit cards - they aren't that bulky. People could have fun looking for them...
I dunno about you, but AFAIK the Book Of Slashdot begins like this:
1:1 First Post
"thus, it simply means that you must be "for the beast" to "buy or sell""
Well I interpret it as if the Beast or his minions figures out that you're not on his side, your certificate gets put on the certificate revocation list, and within a month (or whatever period everyone does their update) your cert is no good for anything - buying, selling, travelling.
When your cert hits its expiry period and you want your certificate renewed - bow down and worship him or the equivalent.
All the tech is there actually. No need for to think its all symbolic.
Unfortunately the part about the mountain that got tossed into the sea doesn't sound too symbolic either, probably a frigging asteroid or something. If that happens I won't be surprised about the part about a "third of the seas" etc.
Nonono, I think he woke up missing one of those organs above his neck or something...
1) Which verichip?
2) Man in the middle attack.
For the implants mentioned, there is no way to switch the thing off, so people can always buy stuff on behalf of you as long as they can relay the communications.
As it currently is, it's stupid tech.
Might as well carry around those mini creditcards around your neck or something. Those mini creditcards are about 1/4th the size of a normal card, if you don't even have enough clothing to slip a mini card under, buying drinks etc is not going to be a problem to worry about.