Google is in no way too big to fail, technology companies always seem to have a more than ample supply of other companies willing to take the market share.
The competing companies don't make a difference in that regard. You don't think any of the other car manufacturers might have wanted GM's shares when they were too big to fail?
Google IS too big to fail - are you saying that if they were in trouble the government wouldn't subsidize them like they have other tbtf companies? Google and Microsoft are both too big to fail, maybe even Apple. Everyone uses Google - the search engine, almost every day. Lots of people use their services, like email and docs. If they closed up shop overnight it would be sheer chaos, not a nice transition to Bing like I think you would be expecting, especially with the way Bing presents the data. Also, people forgot what it was like using multiple search engines to find what they want, and those that do don't want to go back to it.
I never said they didn't have to deal with them - just that they can depend on it to happen. If you had said that a Linux Administrator NEVER dealt with infected windows machines, than we'd have countering points.
I've gotten around every single pat down without having my genitals felt up by simply making eye contact with the security guard, eyeing him up and down once, and cocking an eyebrow.
I'm sure one day I WILL come across a homosexual security guard and that will eventually backfire, but to this day I haven't had them reach more than 6 inches above my knees.
The summary says that the positive effects from the current retained for 6 months. They didn't mention whether the negative ones did or not. Possibly just left that part out...
Right... but I don't see your point... I know it didn't make them incredibly stupid drooling zombies or anything like that - but their ability to learn was affected? What if they started a new job soon - wouldn't it be nice to be the quick learner you have been throughout all your life and not have been screwed over by a scientific test?
those given stimulation running in the opposite direction, left to right, did markedly worse at these puzzles than those given no current, with their ability matching that of an average six-year-old... The effects were not short-lived, either. When the volunteers whose performance improved was re-tested six months later, the benefits appear to have persisted.
What about the other sides, were the negative effects persistant? Did you just create a group of idiots? Is this legal?
It's the environment. They would date a girl if she would play the video games with them, if they'd play the D&D, if they'd stay up all night watching the Alien Marathon.
There is just an imbalance, there aren't as many females into that kind of stuff, and theirs and our social tendancies (or lack there of) don't really let us branch out much further than our tight group of friends.
It IS too much effort to go to a party, meet a girl a few times, ask her out on a few dates, see her more often, only to discover that its not working, give up and start all over. Many geeks COULD do that but don't see the benefit, time better spent elsewhere.
What works for them is coming across a partner who does the same things as they do.
What you described sounds a lot more like dating - I've had more relationships come out of friendships that just grew naturally because we had the same interests, than I have from finding a girl I like and asking her out on a date.
I can't imagine what it is like to have not have had at least ONE girlfriend by the time you finish Post secondary.
For a girl, if you have an issue like you love playing Halo for 4 hours a day, even if you fix that, most girls will stay mad even after the issue is fixed.
Your issue isn't that you love playing Halo for 4 hours a day, your issue is that you can't find a girl who loves it as much as you do, or will completely accept it because they have their own vice they spend 4 hours a day on.
Since the U.S. (and many other countries) uses the name "Burma", due to not recognizing the Military Junta that currently rules this country, should/. not follow suit?
They decided to cave in just this once to everyone's demands about Slashdot users not being US centric.
Don't worry, your polls will still be in inches and pounds.
Oh it definately will. But it will have nothing to do with bandwidth costs, upstream this or downstream that. It won't be an issue for ISP's, or have anything to do with network stablity, neutrality, or anything else you'd normally expect.
Netflix is part of an inter-communal group of corporations with "Net" in their name. NetZero. NetPlus. To name a few. Netscape is their browser of choice, and for very obvious reasons. If any of you have ever used Netscape, you know that it likes to freeze and crash, very often. However, it's not actually freezing and it's not actually crashing. It's only just letting you think that. It's actually donating compute cycles to their secret project, Net@home. The Founder and master of this group is of course, NetNet. They have the most Net so they have the most say.
As you might have googled, NetNet is a long distance learning association based out of NorthEast Texas, with a sub-par web site that actually hurts my eyes a little to read, something about the black on white or tiny fonts. What could they possibly want to do with all the extra processing power they get from the Net@home project? It's simple, they're into learning, intelligence, they want to build an AI. They've actually written all the code, but it is massive, and their C++ compiler is taking a while. The end goal? SkyNet.
So you might be asking, what is Netflix's part of this grand-scheme? Well - the internet is one of the best mediums for communication to date. Any direct attacks on it would be met with resistance, and possibly blow the whole plot wide open. So they subtly take up more and more bandwidth just to slow the internet. Every second counts when the war breaks loose. And If they can disrupt our communication just long enough to get the upper hand... well... you can imagine what comes next.
I think this is the part where I tell you I'm a robot who has come back in time - but that would probably violate causality, and I don't want that stigma hanging over my head. In fact, forget everything I just said.
I'm being a bit sardonic here, but why can't we have commercial software that we pay for this well thought out?
What are you talking about? We totally do!
That program that Jim in IT whipped up last night? It doesn't actually calculate the revenue for this quarter, it just displays a pre-made chart when you press the button, thats all. Basically the same thing here.
Point is though - the bot net operators now know who is gunning for them. This is a disadvantage for the researchers, it'll make it harder for them to track down the operators.
Actually Leo Apotheker is one of those unique individuals who can fit inside a regular computer box without any issues. He hid inside one of the HP boxes when he got the letter, knowing that this would be the one opportunity his rare skill might become handy.
Warning to HP Customers - if your new HP computer looks suspiciously like a human being, do NOT attempt to plug it in - that is not a power adapter.
Slashdot Mirror
Google is in no way too big to fail, technology companies always seem to have a more than ample supply of other companies willing to take the market share.
The competing companies don't make a difference in that regard. You don't think any of the other car manufacturers might have wanted GM's shares when they were too big to fail?
Google IS too big to fail - are you saying that if they were in trouble the government wouldn't subsidize them like they have other tbtf companies? Google and Microsoft are both too big to fail, maybe even Apple. Everyone uses Google - the search engine, almost every day. Lots of people use their services, like email and docs. If they closed up shop overnight it would be sheer chaos, not a nice transition to Bing like I think you would be expecting, especially with the way Bing presents the data. Also, people forgot what it was like using multiple search engines to find what they want, and those that do don't want to go back to it.
For whatever reason this story gets a lot of coverage and has its own set of Memes up here in Canada. It's like our little inside joke.
However, no one has been able to report WHY he did this. It's a little frustrating.
Speaking of which - what does Slashdot use? I don't see an HTTPS in my urls...
Couldn't someone sidejack a Slashdot Session?
I never said they didn't have to deal with them - just that they can depend on it to happen. If you had said that a Linux Administrator NEVER dealt with infected windows machines, than we'd have countering points.
If anything, your post supports my post.
And Any good Linux administrator knows that you can rely on a Microsoft Product alone to acquire virus/trojan/keylogger/spyware/whatever problems.
I've gotten around every single pat down without having my genitals felt up by simply making eye contact with the security guard, eyeing him up and down once, and cocking an eyebrow.
I'm sure one day I WILL come across a homosexual security guard and that will eventually backfire, but to this day I haven't had them reach more than 6 inches above my knees.
Which is still a negative effect - destroying someone's ability to learn is just as harmful as taking away their intelligence.
Perhaps even more so (with the whole give a man a fish idea)
The summary says that the positive effects from the current retained for 6 months. They didn't mention whether the negative ones did or not. Possibly just left that part out...
Right... but I don't see your point... I know it didn't make them incredibly stupid drooling zombies or anything like that - but their ability to learn was affected? What if they started a new job soon - wouldn't it be nice to be the quick learner you have been throughout all your life and not have been screwed over by a scientific test?
those given stimulation running in the opposite direction, left to right, did markedly worse at these puzzles than those given no current, with their ability matching that of an average six-year-old ... The effects were not short-lived, either. When the volunteers whose performance improved was re-tested six months later, the benefits appear to have persisted.
What about the other sides, were the negative effects persistant? Did you just create a group of idiots? Is this legal?
I'd much rather we have someone like CowboyNeal as national CTO.
What makes you think he isn't?
What's this thing at the bottom of my page?
"All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2010 Geeknet, Inc."
It's the environment. They would date a girl if she would play the video games with them, if they'd play the D&D, if they'd stay up all night watching the Alien Marathon.
There is just an imbalance, there aren't as many females into that kind of stuff, and theirs and our social tendancies (or lack there of) don't really let us branch out much further than our tight group of friends.
It IS too much effort to go to a party, meet a girl a few times, ask her out on a few dates, see her more often, only to discover that its not working, give up and start all over. Many geeks COULD do that but don't see the benefit, time better spent elsewhere.
What works for them is coming across a partner who does the same things as they do.
What you described sounds a lot more like dating - I've had more relationships come out of friendships that just grew naturally because we had the same interests, than I have from finding a girl I like and asking her out on a date.
I can't imagine what it is like to have not have had at least ONE girlfriend by the time you finish Post secondary.
For a girl, if you have an issue like you love playing Halo for 4 hours a day, even if you fix that, most girls will stay mad even after the issue is fixed.
Your issue isn't that you love playing Halo for 4 hours a day, your issue is that you can't find a girl who loves it as much as you do, or will completely accept it because they have their own vice they spend 4 hours a day on.
I like your taste in humour.
Why, because the only people who react negatively to jokes are under the influence of a jedi or sith lord?
Since the U.S. (and many other countries) uses the name "Burma", due to not recognizing the Military Junta that currently rules this country, should /. not follow suit?
They decided to cave in just this once to everyone's demands about Slashdot users not being US centric.
Don't worry, your polls will still be in inches and pounds.
install new capacity
Did you just say that ISP's will upgrade?
How long have you been using the internet?
Oh it definately will. But it will have nothing to do with bandwidth costs, upstream this or downstream that. It won't be an issue for ISP's, or have anything to do with network stablity, neutrality, or anything else you'd normally expect.
Netflix is part of an inter-communal group of corporations with "Net" in their name. NetZero. NetPlus. To name a few. Netscape is their browser of choice, and for very obvious reasons. If any of you have ever used Netscape, you know that it likes to freeze and crash, very often. However, it's not actually freezing and it's not actually crashing. It's only just letting you think that. It's actually donating compute cycles to their secret project, Net@home. The Founder and master of this group is of course, NetNet. They have the most Net so they have the most say.
As you might have googled, NetNet is a long distance learning association based out of NorthEast Texas, with a sub-par web site that actually hurts my eyes a little to read, something about the black on white or tiny fonts. What could they possibly want to do with all the extra processing power they get from the Net@home project? It's simple, they're into learning, intelligence, they want to build an AI. They've actually written all the code, but it is massive, and their C++ compiler is taking a while. The end goal? SkyNet.
So you might be asking, what is Netflix's part of this grand-scheme? Well - the internet is one of the best mediums for communication to date. Any direct attacks on it would be met with resistance, and possibly blow the whole plot wide open. So they subtly take up more and more bandwidth just to slow the internet. Every second counts when the war breaks loose. And If they can disrupt our communication just long enough to get the upper hand... well... you can imagine what comes next.
I think this is the part where I tell you I'm a robot who has come back in time - but that would probably violate causality, and I don't want that stigma hanging over my head. In fact, forget everything I just said.
I'm being a bit sardonic here, but why can't we have commercial software that we pay for this well thought out?
What are you talking about? We totally do!
That program that Jim in IT whipped up last night? It doesn't actually calculate the revenue for this quarter, it just displays a pre-made chart when you press the button, thats all. Basically the same thing here.
Point is though - the bot net operators now know who is gunning for them. This is a disadvantage for the researchers, it'll make it harder for them to track down the operators.
Actually Leo Apotheker is one of those unique individuals who can fit inside a regular computer box without any issues. He hid inside one of the HP boxes when he got the letter, knowing that this would be the one opportunity his rare skill might become handy.
Warning to HP Customers - if your new HP computer looks suspiciously like a human being, do NOT attempt to plug it in - that is not a power adapter.
Well it's the only place he can have his affair without his wife finding out.
You mean the whole "Go Forth and Multiply" line?
I don't think he specified Asexually or not, or who knows, maybe he just wanted us to work on our Mad Minute Math skills.