Deep breath, dude. The line is from an old joke about the Lone Ranger. LR and Tonto are surrounded by hundreds of Indians preparing to attack.
LR: "Tonto, we're surrounded. There's no way to escape. It looks like we're doomed."
Tonto: What Do You Mean 'We,' Paleface?
The joke is only funny if you know that Tonto was extremely loyal and would never desert LR.
Generally, jokes aren't considered racist if they're complimenting a member of the supposedly-affronted race.
You don't have to install cable before starting the service.
You don't have to install cable every time you want to want to add a new a bus route. This means the routes can change more frequently, or a destination which might not merit a regular route (sports stadium, e.g.) can get bus service only when needed.
No cables means no cable maintenance and no cable theft (theft may not be a problem in Korea, but can be a big problem in some countries).
Cables have their advantages, and a city with cables in place would probably do better to keep them. I would think most places would be better off starting an electric bus system from scratch without cables.
If a $1000 device (after the certification and installation) allows a $100/hour person to be used somewhere else, that device pays for itself pretty quickly. Obviously, a human is much more versatile than some image processing kit, but if ORs have people whose sole function is manipulating images and that job can be replaced, the decision is a no-brainer. Whether you can use the person elsewhere is, frankly, not material - hospitals are not make-work operations. Medical care is far too expensive - I'd much rather see technology reduce costs instead of driving them higher as it so often does.
Now that Google is proving the feasibility of removing piracy-related terms from Autocomplete, the obvious next move by the ??AA will be to insist (or get their legislators to write laws insisting) that the piracy-related terms produce bad or no search results.
Section 1201(a)(1) of the copyright law requires that every three years I am to determine whether there are any classes of works that will be subject to exemptions from the statute’s prohibition against circumvention of technology that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work.
Too bad Oracle now owns the BEA implementation of java too
BEA never wrote a JVM. They bought JRocket shortly before being acquired by Oracle.
I wouldn't consider six years to be be "shortly." Quoth the Wikipedia entry for JRockit: JRockit, a proprietary Java Virtual Machine (JVM) originally developed by Appeal Virtual Machines and acquired by BEA Systems in 2002, became part of Oracle Fusion Middleware in 2008.
I like your proposal re: textbooks not having work problems (although it is nice to keep both text and problems in one book).
There may be other reasons the textbook is revised every quarter. Another reason may be that the professor gets a kickback (or honorarium, or fee for reviewing the book, or whatever they want to call it) from the publisher. I've never been to GA Tech, so I don't know if that's the case here. But there are plenty of profs who require a specific textbook for a very good rea$on.
The problem is that applications that your friends use can "share" (aka sell) your data. In Facebook, under Account -> Privacy Settings, click the "Edit your settings" link beneath "Applications and Websites", then click the "Edit Settings" on the "Info accessible through your friends" row. After you've unchecked all the boxes in a (probably futile) attempt to protect your privacy, check out this blurb just before you click Save Changes:
Your name, profile picture, gender, networks and user ID (along with any other information you've set to everyone) is available to friends' applications unless you turn off platform applications and websites.
Which is why I find this article amazing. Of course these applications "share" your data such as name and user ID - that's why they exist! Facebook hands over all your data to them on a silver platter; are they expected to not use it?
I'm envying you in some respects because you appear to have a functioning medical records system. My recent experience with hospitals is that every time you see a new doctor, it's as if you just got off the boat from Mars with respect to the state of your medical records. Whether the procedure was done yesterday or years ago, the doctors don't know about it until the patient or somebody else in the room tells them. Of course, the medical records system you describe has obvious flaws, but at least it seems to record some data.
If it was the soldier's phone, wasn't the soldier going to figure out how to activate it? If it was the journalist's phone, then the journalist can call customer service again and deactivate it, no?
I did a search for "Ping" on the USPTO.gov site (linked from http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/index.jsp) and got 353 hits, so there's plenty more than golf equipment. Apple's lawyers almost certainly did the same search, though, and they're not worried. Trademarks are generally limited to a particular type of good, and golf equipment and music software are not the same market.
GPS would be nice if you want to use it as a replacement for a TomTom-type device, but other than that, I can't think of much use for it. Since it's WiFi-only, so weren't going to get traffic data or location-aware maps anyway.
I think the resolution is a tacit acknowledgement that the camera will take photos that are middling at best, just like the cameras built into cell phones, regardless of their pixel counts.
Why the dig on PC Magazine? TFA headline is "Sans Dell Match, HP Snaps Up 3PAR for $2 Billion". Sans is French for "without". TFA text continues with "...Dell still maintains the right to match HP's offer if it so chooses..." . So PC Magazine looks spot-on to me.
The fault lies with the Slashdot submitter, who submitted a bad summary to a 2-day-old article, and with Soulskill who accepted the misleading submission, and with you, Lucas123, for not understanding either TFA or the GP's point that TFA was correct.
Blimps are not a substitute for planes. I don't fly very often (maybe twice a year) but when I do fly, it's because I need to get somewhere faster than the 60 mph speed of a blimp.
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2490606.mspx
Deep breath, dude. The line is from an old joke about the Lone Ranger. LR and Tonto are surrounded by hundreds of Indians preparing to attack.
LR: "Tonto, we're surrounded. There's no way to escape. It looks like we're doomed."
Tonto: What Do You Mean 'We,' Paleface?
The joke is only funny if you know that Tonto was extremely loyal and would never desert LR.
Generally, jokes aren't considered racist if they're complimenting a member of the supposedly-affronted race.
Cables have their advantages, and a city with cables in place would probably do better to keep them. I would think most places would be better off starting an electric bus system from scratch without cables.
If a $1000 device (after the certification and installation) allows a $100/hour person to be used somewhere else, that device pays for itself pretty quickly. Obviously, a human is much more versatile than some image processing kit, but if ORs have people whose sole function is manipulating images and that job can be replaced, the decision is a no-brainer. Whether you can use the person elsewhere is, frankly, not material - hospitals are not make-work operations. Medical care is far too expensive - I'd much rather see technology reduce costs instead of driving them higher as it so often does.
1984, not 40 years ago, and it was Farrell's, not McDonalds http://www.snopes.com/military/icecream.asp
>every single fucking dime they and their loved ones had before they died. that's how much
FTFY.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/363322/updated-antivirus-firms-short-changing-customers says, "The two firms have now denied the claims"...
Now that Google is proving the feasibility of removing piracy-related terms from Autocomplete, the obvious next move by the ??AA will be to insist (or get their legislators to write laws insisting) that the piracy-related terms produce bad or no search results.
Why should the federal government "give the state back its land" when the state never owned the land in the first place?
It's kdawson - what else did you expect? And why do I not have a filter on his/her posts?
Methinks you may have missed the sarcasm in the GP's post, part of which appears above.
Too bad Oracle now owns the BEA implementation of java too
BEA never wrote a JVM. They bought JRocket shortly before being acquired by Oracle.
I wouldn't consider six years to be be "shortly." Quoth the Wikipedia entry for JRockit: JRockit, a proprietary Java Virtual Machine (JVM) originally developed by Appeal Virtual Machines and acquired by BEA Systems in 2002, became part of Oracle Fusion Middleware in 2008.
Astroturf much?
I like your proposal re: textbooks not having work problems (although it is nice to keep both text and problems in one book).
There may be other reasons the textbook is revised every quarter. Another reason may be that the professor gets a kickback (or honorarium, or fee for reviewing the book, or whatever they want to call it) from the publisher. I've never been to GA Tech, so I don't know if that's the case here. But there are plenty of profs who require a specific textbook for a very good rea$on.
Which is why I find this article amazing. Of course these applications "share" your data such as name and user ID - that's why they exist! Facebook hands over all your data to them on a silver platter; are they expected to not use it?
I'm envying you in some respects because you appear to have a functioning medical records system. My recent experience with hospitals is that every time you see a new doctor, it's as if you just got off the boat from Mars with respect to the state of your medical records. Whether the procedure was done yesterday or years ago, the doctors don't know about it until the patient or somebody else in the room tells them. Of course, the medical records system you describe has obvious flaws, but at least it seems to record some data.
If you have Verizon Wireless, logon to your account, then go to https://ebillpay.verizonwireless.com/vzw/accountholder/uc/UCServiceBlocks.action and check all the boxes for services you don't want.
TFA linked to the wrong article. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/232825,stallman-crashes-european-patent-session.aspx is the session Stallman "crashed", regarding software patents.
Stallman didn't crash the World Computer Congress presentation described in TFA's link http://www.itnews.com.au/News/233002,stallman-calls-for-end-to-war-on-sharing.aspx - he was giving the keynote! That's like saying Steve Jobs crashed the Apple Developers Conference presentation.
on the date of the first crack to unlock it without paying the fee.
If it was the soldier's phone, wasn't the soldier going to figure out how to activate it? If it was the journalist's phone, then the journalist can call customer service again and deactivate it, no?
I did a search for "Ping" on the USPTO.gov site (linked from http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/index.jsp) and got 353 hits, so there's plenty more than golf equipment. Apple's lawyers almost certainly did the same search, though, and they're not worried. Trademarks are generally limited to a particular type of good, and golf equipment and music software are not the same market.
GPS would be nice if you want to use it as a replacement for a TomTom-type device, but other than that, I can't think of much use for it. Since it's WiFi-only, so weren't going to get traffic data or location-aware maps anyway.
I think the resolution is a tacit acknowledgement that the camera will take photos that are middling at best, just like the cameras built into cell phones, regardless of their pixel counts.
Why the dig on PC Magazine? TFA headline is "Sans Dell Match, HP Snaps Up 3PAR for $2 Billion". Sans is French for "without". TFA text continues with "...Dell still maintains the right to match HP's offer if it so chooses..." . So PC Magazine looks spot-on to me.
The fault lies with the Slashdot submitter, who submitted a bad summary to a 2-day-old article, and with Soulskill who accepted the misleading submission, and with you, Lucas123, for not understanding either TFA or the GP's point that TFA was correct.
Blimps are not a substitute for planes. I don't fly very often (maybe twice a year) but when I do fly, it's because I need to get somewhere faster than the 60 mph speed of a blimp.