"Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."
OK, so it's not made from metal, or an alloy of metal. It's just data.
Unless they decide that the "coins" are made of bits of the hard drive, and the hard drive is an alloy of metal... just a minute, there's someone at the door...
She could have gone private. The UK privates system is likely to be cheaper than the US private system, as it has to compete with public health.
Would she have gotten that pap smear in the US? It depends. Maybe she didn't have insurance. Maybe her insurance company though 23 was too young for the test. Well, she could have gone private...
Public sector bureaucrats aren't the only ones who don't give a damn.
And that's just the presidential candidates. Giving money to a presidential campaign has sweet-FA ROI. They don't need the money (their PR flacks will work for the love and fame, and the ads they buy will be nothing compared to the more independent media circus - look at how much free advertising Obama got just by being, well, Obama); and they are under enormous scrutiny. If the President pardons the head of GS, it kinda smells a bit funny.
A grunt congressman has virtually no free help, no free coverage, and bugger-all scrutiny. But put a bunch of them together, and they have more influence than the president. If a motion to investigate the financial sector is watered down in back-room negotiations, the average voter won't be any wiser. The president doesn't have to veto motions that never reach his desk.
Not really. A lot are just "little emperors" - only children (boys to boot!) who can do no wrong. Oh, except they have to study 18 hours a day, but a few rebel, for some reason.
- Apple, for forcing people to play nice in their App store. - Games Workshop, for suppressing 3rd party miniatures. - Ford and GM, for attempting to monopolise parts. - Disney, for suing virtually any cartoon character with prominent, round ears.
Look, nearly every company fights dirty within their niche. But to understand what people outside the industry think, you really have to look at the broader picture - how they treat their people, environmental standards, releasing safe products, being honest with consumers, charity work, etc.
I'm not saying that industry outsiders have a better view, they are probably really ignorant of how dirty companies are in their niche. Which is really important, since that's what the company *does*.
Sorry, I don't really have a conclusion. There's two sides here.
A 1990s Toyota is "easy" to make today, but if China starts making them in bulk then Toyota wouldn't be happy.
In a world where slightly outdated chips are "good enough", and the marginal cost of making them is probably a few bucks, I'd be very worried if a really big competitor was breathing down my neck.
It would be commercially suicidal to try and undercut AMD, because a price war would leave no profits for either competitor. So even if it's "easy" to start a price war, nobody wants one. Unless, of course, they happen to be a very large country, that would like to buttress their national accounts by driving down the price of chips.
Chip manufacturers are near monopolies, who invest their profits into research. Great. But chip design is becoming one of those problems that doesn't *really* need solving. Incremental upgrades will be nice, and I'm sure that there will still be some innovation, but many people would rather have slower innovation and cheaper parts than expensive parts and faster innovation.
Well, human have sex when the female is not in heat, which is rare. Usually, the female goes in heat; then the dominant male, her mate, or every adult male in a 10km radius (depending on the species) mates with her.
Humans conceal ovulation (very strange), and have sex whenever the couple wants. Which is not like animals at all.
Humans have huge brains, and lots of free will. There's no way couples would stick together (and ensure their kids were well trained) if it weren't for sex.
And the really observant will notice that despite having "a burning platform", Nokia are about a billion dollars less desperate for a mobile strategy than Microsoft. RIM would be somewhere in between.
* The restaurant you work for captures stray dogs, and serves them to the guests as "chicken".
* Your commanding officer was sending files to wikileaks.
* Your boss took bribe from a supplier.
Really, some shit needs evidence. Especially if you are in a position to know.
I'm all for "Anonymous Cowards" claiming strange things about presidential candidates, but you know to take them with a grain of salt. If somebody with inside information starts speaking, they better have, well, inside information.
A real OS is built to be interactive (lots of gizmos to click), has a high resolution (little icons), and is optimised for people who have used it before. People can see the little "mailbox" icon amongst all the other icons, because they already know where to look. People in the cinema might have a different mail client, so they would be confused.
Also, a "Hollywood OS" often does things that is either impossible or just stupid, often to help cue the views in on what's happening, or to look "cool" - matching faces - flashing hundreds of faces to the screen instead of just pulling it out of a database... 3D file systems in Jurassic Park (ostensibly UNIX)... satellite views zooming in with way too much drama... countdowns... flashing DENIED signs... databases with very strange schemas... it just never ends, so they have to fake the OS anyway.
With iOS applications, it's a bit different. Small screen, and built to be much more intuitive (at the cost of features). I bet you'll see some of those in the near future.
Another point, Macs are often on slow wireless connections (home laptops), while Windows machines are wired into a T3 (corporate network). Fast connections are worth more than slow connections.
Also, I bet more people do their banking at work than at home. After all, it's not like you can watch YouTube or poke your friends on Facebook, and you gotta pay those bills sometime. Bank accounts (if they can be stolen) are worth more than facebook accounts, I would guess.
A good Pentium 4 will handily spank an Atom at most tasks. An Atom does have advantages over a P4 (especially power efficiency), but it's not a powerhouse.
I guess it would be better than a P3, but that's a long time ago.
Intel has been working on better "scaling", so that for normal use (3 cores idle, and one at 100% trying to run a buggy Flash app, or a Javascript monster) it doesn't waste too much power.
Remove unacceptable hazards (hot oil, going to a sleep over with a kid you have only chatted to online, and playing in traffic), but don't about acceptable ones (hot metal, p0rn, and other non-life-threatening things).
The US has not been honoring ANY of their treaties. They have their money fixed to the RMB. They have trade barriers in place (especially agricultural ones, which disadvantage poor farmers in poor countries). They subsidize and dump on the market. They refuse to let Mickey Mouse onto the public domain, long after he should have been freed. They invade oil producing countries all over. They make software like Bittorent, Limewire, TOR, and Linux which are all just tools for piracy. Per their own legislation, they are required to have low emission cars. W SHOULD have taken care fo this last decade, but did not. So, now, China decides to borrow just a little bit of source code, and you think that they are to blame?
PS, I think that the alleged code theft was done by a contractor producing the code. Kind of a Blackwater or HBGary kind of thing./troll
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Once it reaches terminal velocity, it would be at 1G again. Then it would hit the ground.
18 U.S.C. 486:
"Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."
OK, so it's not made from metal, or an alloy of metal. It's just data.
Unless they decide that the "coins" are made of bits of the hard drive, and the hard drive is an alloy of metal ... just a minute, there's someone at the door...
She could have gone private. The UK privates system is likely to be cheaper than the US private system, as it has to compete with public health.
Would she have gotten that pap smear in the US? It depends. Maybe she didn't have insurance. Maybe her insurance company though 23 was too young for the test. Well, she could have gone private ...
Public sector bureaucrats aren't the only ones who don't give a damn.
Otherwise, we'll never be able to play Crises 16 on Windows 2030.
And that's just the presidential candidates. Giving money to a presidential campaign has sweet-FA ROI. They don't need the money (their PR flacks will work for the love and fame, and the ads they buy will be nothing compared to the more independent media circus - look at how much free advertising Obama got just by being, well, Obama); and they are under enormous scrutiny. If the President pardons the head of GS, it kinda smells a bit funny.
A grunt congressman has virtually no free help, no free coverage, and bugger-all scrutiny. But put a bunch of them together, and they have more influence than the president. If a motion to investigate the financial sector is watered down in back-room negotiations, the average voter won't be any wiser. The president doesn't have to veto motions that never reach his desk.
Not really. A lot are just "little emperors" - only children (boys to boot!) who can do no wrong. Oh, except they have to study 18 hours a day, but a few rebel, for some reason.
Other radically unethical companies:
- Apple, for forcing people to play nice in their App store.
- Games Workshop, for suppressing 3rd party miniatures.
- Ford and GM, for attempting to monopolise parts.
- Disney, for suing virtually any cartoon character with prominent, round ears.
Look, nearly every company fights dirty within their niche. But to understand what people outside the industry think, you really have to look at the broader picture - how they treat their people, environmental standards, releasing safe products, being honest with consumers, charity work, etc.
I'm not saying that industry outsiders have a better view, they are probably really ignorant of how dirty companies are in their niche. Which is really important, since that's what the company *does*.
Sorry, I don't really have a conclusion. There's two sides here.
IIRC, they say Bill Gates *screamed* at one of the first MS secretaries, because she had the gall to claim overtime that she was legally owed.
A 1990s Toyota is "easy" to make today, but if China starts making them in bulk then Toyota wouldn't be happy.
In a world where slightly outdated chips are "good enough", and the marginal cost of making them is probably a few bucks, I'd be very worried if a really big competitor was breathing down my neck.
It would be commercially suicidal to try and undercut AMD, because a price war would leave no profits for either competitor. So even if it's "easy" to start a price war, nobody wants one. Unless, of course, they happen to be a very large country, that would like to buttress their national accounts by driving down the price of chips.
Chip manufacturers are near monopolies, who invest their profits into research. Great. But chip design is becoming one of those problems that doesn't *really* need solving. Incremental upgrades will be nice, and I'm sure that there will still be some innovation, but many people would rather have slower innovation and cheaper parts than expensive parts and faster innovation.
Well, human have sex when the female is not in heat, which is rare. Usually, the female goes in heat; then the dominant male, her mate, or every adult male in a 10km radius (depending on the species) mates with her.
Humans conceal ovulation (very strange), and have sex whenever the couple wants. Which is not like animals at all.
Humans have huge brains, and lots of free will. There's no way couples would stick together (and ensure their kids were well trained) if it weren't for sex.
Have you *played* Sonic? It's got more bondage and S&M themes than Prince of Persia; all of it laid on fluffy (or spiky) animals.
And then there's Tails, the foxy sidekick with two "tails".
And the really observant will notice that despite having "a burning platform", Nokia are about a billion dollars less desperate for a mobile strategy than Microsoft. RIM would be somewhere in between.
How about "Windows Highly Integrated Nimble Ecosystem", or WHINE. It's tag-line? "Better than WinCE".
Other analogies:
* The bank you work for was about to collapse.
* The restaurant you work for captures stray dogs, and serves them to the guests as "chicken".
* Your commanding officer was sending files to wikileaks.
* Your boss took bribe from a supplier.
Really, some shit needs evidence. Especially if you are in a position to know.
I'm all for "Anonymous Cowards" claiming strange things about presidential candidates, but you know to take them with a grain of salt. If somebody with inside information starts speaking, they better have, well, inside information.
Darth Vader, and Jar Jar Binks would be more like it.
That's not how patents work. See "Submarine patent".
"Rushed" is probably more like it. I bet Apple has ordered a large number of items in a short time.
Good, Fast, or Cheap. Pick one.
A real OS is built to be interactive (lots of gizmos to click), has a high resolution (little icons), and is optimised for people who have used it before. People can see the little "mailbox" icon amongst all the other icons, because they already know where to look. People in the cinema might have a different mail client, so they would be confused.
Also, a "Hollywood OS" often does things that is either impossible or just stupid, often to help cue the views in on what's happening, or to look "cool" - matching faces - flashing hundreds of faces to the screen instead of just pulling it out of a database ... 3D file systems in Jurassic Park (ostensibly UNIX) ... satellite views zooming in with way too much drama ... countdowns ... flashing DENIED signs ... databases with very strange schemas ... it just never ends, so they have to fake the OS anyway.
With iOS applications, it's a bit different. Small screen, and built to be much more intuitive (at the cost of features). I bet you'll see some of those in the near future.
Another point, Macs are often on slow wireless connections (home laptops), while Windows machines are wired into a T3 (corporate network). Fast connections are worth more than slow connections.
Also, I bet more people do their banking at work than at home. After all, it's not like you can watch YouTube or poke your friends on Facebook, and you gotta pay those bills sometime. Bank accounts (if they can be stolen) are worth more than facebook accounts, I would guess.
Well, they could just cut out the middle-man, and let artists sell direct to their fans through some kind of online site.
Wait, cut out the middle-man? The music industry is 99% middle-men! Now friggin' way!
A good Pentium 4 will handily spank an Atom at most tasks. An Atom does have advantages over a P4 (especially power efficiency), but it's not a powerhouse.
I guess it would be better than a P3, but that's a long time ago.
Only with all 4 cores blazing.
Intel has been working on better "scaling", so that for normal use (3 cores idle, and one at 100% trying to run a buggy Flash app, or a Javascript monster) it doesn't waste too much power.
Remove unacceptable hazards (hot oil, going to a sleep over with a kid you have only chatted to online, and playing in traffic), but don't about acceptable ones (hot metal, p0rn, and other non-life-threatening things).
The US has not been honoring ANY of their treaties. They have their money fixed to the RMB. They have trade barriers in place (especially agricultural ones, which disadvantage poor farmers in poor countries). They subsidize and dump on the market. They refuse to let Mickey Mouse onto the public domain, long after he should have been freed. They invade oil producing countries all over. They make software like Bittorent, Limewire, TOR, and Linux which are all just tools for piracy. Per their own legislation, they are required to have low emission cars. W SHOULD have taken care fo this last decade, but did not. So, now, China decides to borrow just a little bit of source code, and you think that they are to blame?
PS, I think that the alleged code theft was done by a contractor producing the code. Kind of a Blackwater or HBGary kind of thing. /troll
you mean Roman Polanski? he's on the lam, and of course interpol has better things to do than bother with mere cross-border rape cases.
I'm waiting for somebody to respond to you, so I can say "whoosh".
Hello?
Anybody?
*whoosh*