There is a reason for Cisco, or any other commercial entity, to not exploit their customers. It called business ethics. Neither you nor Cisco seems to have any ethical principles at all.
Cisco Pricing Undercut by $100 Million in Big Cal State University Network Project
The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network revealed earlier this week was based on an identical number of switches and routers in various configurations. CSU allowed Network World to review spreadsheets calculating the eight-year total cost of ownership of each of the five bidders for the project. 'Everybody had to comply with this spreadsheet,' said CSU's director of cyberinfrastructure. 'Alcatel-Lucent won the project with a bid of $22 million. Cisco was the high bidder with a cost just under $123 million. Not only was Cisco's bid more than five-and-a-half times that of Alcatel-Lucent's, it was three times that of the next highest bidder: HP, at $41 million.
So in a practical sense, if you get in the habit of assuming your clients are fools, you will end up looking rather stupid yourself. Over-charging customers makes the implicit assumption that they come back because they never wise up, or you only need to get their business once. It's the attitude of scam artists.
To justify this behavior by saying they didn't exactly break the law is to ignore the basic issue. Without some level of trust there can be no established business relationships, and that is poisonous for commerce. Have you ever gone back to a restaurant when you got sick eating there, or did you never go back and then tell your friends to stay away?
West Virgina is considering barring the Cisco sales rep from doing business with the state. They can't legally bar Cisco itself, but this would make it crystal clear that they are going to cut Cisco out of any future contracts. And guess what? They can do this and obey the law. All they have to do is add some features to the bid that eliminate Cisco. According to your logic, if you follow the letter of the law you are perfectly within your rights. This is the kind of crap that happens when you live in a environment without ethics. Do you like the result?
"'The lack of interest, the disdain for history is what makes computing not-quite-a-field,' Alan Kay once lamented. And so it should come as no surprise that the USPTO granted Google a patent Tuesday for the Automatic Deletion of Temporary Files, perhaps unaware that the search giant's claimed invention is essentially a somewhat kludgy variation on file expiration processing, a staple of circa-1970 IBM mainframe computing and subsequent disk management software. From Google's 2013 patent: 'A path name for a file system directory can be "C:temp\12-1-1999\" to indicate that files contained within the file system directory will expire on Dec. 1, 1999.' From Judith Rattenbury's 1971 Introduction to the IBM 360 computer and OS/JCL: 'EXPDT=70365 With this expiration date specified, the data set will not be scratched or overwritten without special operator action until the 365th day of 1970.' Hey, things are new if you've never seen them before!"
If you assume that you are always smarter then everyone else, and you ignore history, then you are effectively stupid. Google people collectively think way to highly of themselves. Some big failures are inevitable.
That's a damn stupid idea. The impact point would be the worst possible place to put any data recording device, because it would be destroyed before it could gather any meaningful information. You need to be far enough away to survive the impact to get the maximum benefit.
Turn in your nerd card, you just exhibited too little intelligence. Go watch videos of NASCAR crashes instead, it's more up your alley.
I would think that this falls under "Do no evil". If Google is serious about following their own motto it should be a no brainer. It will be interesting to see if they follow suit.
If Google goes this route then what happens to Internet Explorer? Since their effective motto is "Doing evil is our business", it might take a lot of pressure for them to fall into line.
No matter what happens with other browsers, this is a big win for open source software. It shows that open source is really for the good of the user community.
In the Miracle in the Hudson, where Sullenberger saved an entire plane load of people, everyone who made that happen was a union member. Sullenberger was not just the pilot, he was union head for his airline. The flight attendants were all in a union. The air traffic controllers are in unions. The fire/police/rescue responders were unionized. The water taxi and ferry boat personal were also all in unions. The only people involved who were not known to be in a union were the airplane passengers who lived because of all the union people you despise.
Just remember, almost all police, fire and emergency response personal are in unions, as are nurses. If you really hate unions that much I suggest that you never get sick, need an emergency or look to police for anything. Given the self righteous hysterical tone of your rant, I know that you are exactly the kind of person who squeals like a stuck pig when the cops aren't there within seconds of your call. You expect everyone should be at your beck and call.
I know the head of the teacher's union at a local community college. She puts in as much overtime as any software geek I know, and she keeps the self serving incompetent management from driving away all the dedicated teachers who are the only people in the system who give a damn about the students.
All the elementary and secondary teachers I know, who are in unions, buy a large component of the supplies need to teach classes. Have you ever had to buy any supplies for a full time job? i doubt it.
I know people who have done union apprentice programs. It's hard. You are such a whiner I don't think you have what it takes to persevere in that kind of program.
You are ignorant and arrogant. You clearly have no real experience when it comes to labor, and it shows.
Collect appropriate taxes on people like Mitt Romney, who paid a 14.1% tax rate on income of $13 million.
Collect appropriate taxes on corporations like Apple, which paid well less then 10% taxes on it's overseas profits, and now has $120+ billion in cash.
End special tax breaks for oil companies. It's so complicated that you can't even get a vague figure on how much they do or don't pay. Some of their big breaks go back to 1915 and 1926. These are some of the most profitable companies in the world. Why do they get these direct subsidies.
This is just a tiny fragment of the number of corporate leaches who are making vast profit while the rest of the nation crumbles under debt. Just go where the real money is hiding from the tax man.
So much of vehicle manufacturing is done in China that it is foolish to assume that organizations outside of China will continue to call the shots. At some point the Chinese market and manufacturing infrastructure will become dominant, and at that point decision making will start to be driven by those organizations, not external demands.
An existing example in another market is the Boeing/Airbus duopoly. In the current world market no one outside of Europe or the US has a lot of control over what kinds of long and intermediate passenger planes are built. (Short range passenger aircraft are a different story.) The Chinese are already working on joining this club, by the way.
The future is cloudy because the manufacturing base is shifting. Everything else is a secondary effect.
COBOL was defined by the "Short Range Committee". It was never intended to last.
there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range (the last one was never actually formed). It was the Short Range Committee, chaired by Joseph Wegstein of the US National Bureau of Standards, that during the following months created a description of the first version of COBOL. The committee was formed to recommend a short range approach to a common business language.
Sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power. Treason is the violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or state, giving aid to enemies, or levying war against one's state. Sedition is encouraging one's fellow citizens to rebel against their state, whereas treason is actually betraying one's country by aiding and abetting another state. Sedition laws somewhat equate to terrorism and public order laws.
If your are being strict about definitions, it's a stretch to call teaching intelligent design seditious or treasonous. It does harm the state by mandating the propagation of stupid religious dogma, but it is not overtly trying to overthrow the rule of law.
On the other hand, the right wing of the Republican party, including the religious right, is seditious. Every time a law is introduced at the state level that seeks to annul federal legislation, it is a seditious act. This goes on on all the time but is either under reported or assumed to be normal news.
The rhetoric of the angry right is rife with sedition. When Obama is called a "secret Muslim" it is an overt attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the federal government by implying the chief executive is an agent for foreign influences. The more intellectual form of this smear is saying that Obama is a "Kenyan, anti-colonial", as Newt Gingrich did. Considering his central position in the Republican establishment, it's reasonable to infer that sedition is an accepted position in the party.
The nanopaper transistor also showed excellent optical transmittance up to 83.5%. The device configuration can be applied to many other semiconductor materials toward flexible green electronics.
This is confusing. Is it green or is it transparent? Maybe it's a light green. Just make up your mind.
In the indium antimonide device, the retained state is stored magnetically. In the HP titanium dioxide device state is held by the movement of oxygen ions. There are many memristor devices that use different mechanisms to store state, including magnetic spin. Check the Wikipedia article for details.
Besides memory, one of the uses for the HP style of memristor is configuration of FPGAs. If this works it would shrink the size of FPGA cells, which would tend to bring the price down. The indium antimonide magnetic transistor could have a similar use. Describe this to a technically illiterate journalist and you get the kind of confused prose that is in this article.
They don't need a backdoor for the phone itself. They already have access to all the phone data because it is stored on the server, and they have unlimited access to the service providers.
There are a few old farts who still think those terms, although I suspect that they would be satisfied with the kind of economic power that Japan had in before the crash in the 90's. One example is Shintaro Ishihara, former mayor of Tokyo, who just formed a new far right party. But you have to remember he's 80, so he was born in 1932. That means his childhood was spent during the expansionist period, and for him that is the "good old days".
I think that there is not any zeal for expansionist policy in the postwar generation. There is still plenty of cultural/racial prejudice in Japan, but that doesn't always equate with empire building.
MovieBYU was a very early (pre 1980) 3D rendering program from Brigham Young University in Utah. It was written in Fortran, which was the only portable language for high performance computing at that time. It was state of the art as well. The algorithm used scan line rendering, and all the surfaces were built out of polygons.
You could buy the source code on a nine track tape. If I remember correctly the cost was under $2000, If you wanted to see how a real rendering program worked, this was the best thing available.
It was also an early example of Open Source software. There were no restrictions on what you could do once you bought a copy. It could by modified and run on as many machines were available, but not resold or given to other organizations.
The availability of MovieBYU was very important in the growth of computer graphics. It was the basis of software used in the 1980's for feature film CGI work.
Scottish independence is probably a bad move for the people in Scotland. It's not likely that the country would economically viable in either the short or long run.
If independent, would they use the Euro, the UK Pound, or float their own currency? Of the three options, they would be best integrated with the UK Pound right now, but why would England allow that? Not having an automomous economy defeats the point of being a nation. Joining the Euro Zone or having a native currency would require that they establish their own national credit basis. Doing that in the current ongoing world economic climate would be horrendously difficult. It is likely that a native currency would start with a very poor exchange rate and cause huge disruptions to Scottish economy. The future of the Euro is not secure, so that route also has a lot of risk.
They do have an option to remain in the UK but have more local political control. This is happening all across the UK. It's not as nationalistically sexy as independence, but it is a heck of a lot more practical.
Scotland is voting on Independence from the United Kingdom in 2014. A cynic could look at this choice as being an attempt to sway voters to keep Scotland part of the UK.
Fractals have many uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal#Applications_in_technology
It is a perfectly reasonable hypothesis that birds recognize the fractal dimension of plumage in their own species. Conflating this with "being able to compute a fractal" is ignorant. Some birds are known to get information about magnetic fields through their visual channel. This does not mean they are solving Maxwell's equations.
It is possible to extract fractal dimension information from images. Typing in "fractal dimension image detection" into Google Scholar results in over 25000 references. If academics have figured out how to do this then evolution may also embody these concepts.
Posting on Slashdot is an opportunity to share knowledge and learn things. Unfortunately far to many people who post here show that they are ignorant and arrogant. I call them the Slashdot Pundits.
Just because you know one thing does not mean that things you haven't heard of are wrong. With Google and the like, it's easy to fact check. On this topic so far all we have seen is woefully uninformed people criticizing academics and making fools of themselves. I would think that shear embarrassment would tend to eliminate this kind of drivel, but I guess if you are stupid enough to make such uninformed statements, you are also incapable of understanding how bad it makes you look.
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This is not an isolated incident for Cisco. They tried a similar stunt in California with the State College system, and all they got was a bunch of bad press, including here on Slashdot. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/10/27/1943210/cisco-pricing-undercut-by-100m-in-big-cal-state-university-network-project
So in a practical sense, if you get in the habit of assuming your clients are fools, you will end up looking rather stupid yourself. Over-charging customers makes the implicit assumption that they come back because they never wise up, or you only need to get their business once. It's the attitude of scam artists.
To justify this behavior by saying they didn't exactly break the law is to ignore the basic issue. Without some level of trust there can be no established business relationships, and that is poisonous for commerce. Have you ever gone back to a restaurant when you got sick eating there, or did you never go back and then tell your friends to stay away?
West Virgina is considering barring the Cisco sales rep from doing business with the state. They can't legally bar Cisco itself, but this would make it crystal clear that they are going to cut Cisco out of any future contracts. And guess what? They can do this and obey the law. All they have to do is add some features to the bid that eliminate Cisco. According to your logic, if you follow the letter of the law you are perfectly within your rights. This is the kind of crap that happens when you live in a environment without ethics. Do you like the result?
Look at this Slashdot posting from just a couple of weeks ago. They got a patent replicating mainframe techniques from the 1970's.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/02/19/2316227/google-patents-staple-of-70s-mainframe-computing
If you assume that you are always smarter then everyone else, and you ignore history, then you are effectively stupid. Google people collectively think way to highly of themselves. Some big failures are inevitable.
Turn in your nerd card, you just exhibited too little intelligence. Go watch videos of NASCAR crashes instead, it's more up your alley.
That's why I asked the question in the first place. I'm glad at least one person was paying attention.
I would think that this falls under "Do no evil". If Google is serious about following their own motto it should be a no brainer. It will be interesting to see if they follow suit.
If Google goes this route then what happens to Internet Explorer? Since their effective motto is "Doing evil is our business", it might take a lot of pressure for them to fall into line.
No matter what happens with other browsers, this is a big win for open source software. It shows that open source is really for the good of the user community.
In the Miracle in the Hudson, where Sullenberger saved an entire plane load of people, everyone who made that happen was a union member. Sullenberger was not just the pilot, he was union head for his airline. The flight attendants were all in a union. The air traffic controllers are in unions. The fire/police/rescue responders were unionized. The water taxi and ferry boat personal were also all in unions. The only people involved who were not known to be in a union were the airplane passengers who lived because of all the union people you despise.
Just remember, almost all police, fire and emergency response personal are in unions, as are nurses. If you really hate unions that much I suggest that you never get sick, need an emergency or look to police for anything. Given the self righteous hysterical tone of your rant, I know that you are exactly the kind of person who squeals like a stuck pig when the cops aren't there within seconds of your call. You expect everyone should be at your beck and call.
I know the head of the teacher's union at a local community college. She puts in as much overtime as any software geek I know, and she keeps the self serving incompetent management from driving away all the dedicated teachers who are the only people in the system who give a damn about the students.
All the elementary and secondary teachers I know, who are in unions, buy a large component of the supplies need to teach classes. Have you ever had to buy any supplies for a full time job? i doubt it.
I know people who have done union apprentice programs. It's hard. You are such a whiner I don't think you have what it takes to persevere in that kind of program.
You are ignorant and arrogant. You clearly have no real experience when it comes to labor, and it shows.
Fuck you, asshole.
Collect appropriate taxes on corporations like Apple, which paid well less then 10% taxes on it's overseas profits, and now has $120+ billion in cash.
End special tax breaks for oil companies. It's so complicated that you can't even get a vague figure on how much they do or don't pay. Some of their big breaks go back to 1915 and 1926. These are some of the most profitable companies in the world. Why do they get these direct subsidies.
This is just a tiny fragment of the number of corporate leaches who are making vast profit while the rest of the nation crumbles under debt. Just go where the real money is hiding from the tax man.
An existing example in another market is the Boeing/Airbus duopoly. In the current world market no one outside of Europe or the US has a lot of control over what kinds of long and intermediate passenger planes are built. (Short range passenger aircraft are a different story.) The Chinese are already working on joining this club, by the way.
The future is cloudy because the manufacturing base is shifting. Everything else is a secondary effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
If your are being strict about definitions, it's a stretch to call teaching intelligent design seditious or treasonous. It does harm the state by mandating the propagation of stupid religious dogma, but it is not overtly trying to overthrow the rule of law.
On the other hand, the right wing of the Republican party, including the religious right, is seditious. Every time a law is introduced at the state level that seeks to annul federal legislation, it is a seditious act. This goes on on all the time but is either under reported or assumed to be normal news.
The rhetoric of the angry right is rife with sedition. When Obama is called a "secret Muslim" it is an overt attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the federal government by implying the chief executive is an agent for foreign influences. The more intellectual form of this smear is saying that Obama is a "Kenyan, anti-colonial", as Newt Gingrich did. Considering his central position in the Republican establishment, it's reasonable to infer that sedition is an accepted position in the party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus
Paper can cut. Facts can hurt those who are ignorant and arrogant.
This is confusing. Is it green or is it transparent? Maybe it's a light green. Just make up your mind.
In the indium antimonide device, the retained state is stored magnetically. In the HP titanium dioxide device state is held by the movement of oxygen ions. There are many memristor devices that use different mechanisms to store state, including magnetic spin. Check the Wikipedia article for details.
Besides memory, one of the uses for the HP style of memristor is configuration of FPGAs. If this works it would shrink the size of FPGA cells, which would tend to bring the price down. The indium antimonide magnetic transistor could have a similar use. Describe this to a technically illiterate journalist and you get the kind of confused prose that is in this article.
They don't need a backdoor for the phone itself. They already have access to all the phone data because it is stored on the server, and they have unlimited access to the service providers.
See Hardware Section 8, BG/Q Networks
Sorry, none of those people read Slashdot.
I think that there is not any zeal for expansionist policy in the postwar generation. There is still plenty of cultural/racial prejudice in Japan, but that doesn't always equate with empire building.
So how long have you been a member of the KKK?
You could buy the source code on a nine track tape. If I remember correctly the cost was under $2000, If you wanted to see how a real rendering program worked, this was the best thing available.
It was also an early example of Open Source software. There were no restrictions on what you could do once you bought a copy. It could by modified and run on as many machines were available, but not resold or given to other organizations.
The availability of MovieBYU was very important in the growth of computer graphics. It was the basis of software used in the 1980's for feature film CGI work.
If independent, would they use the Euro, the UK Pound, or float their own currency? Of the three options, they would be best integrated with the UK Pound right now, but why would England allow that? Not having an automomous economy defeats the point of being a nation. Joining the Euro Zone or having a native currency would require that they establish their own national credit basis. Doing that in the current ongoing world economic climate would be horrendously difficult. It is likely that a native currency would start with a very poor exchange rate and cause huge disruptions to Scottish economy. The future of the Euro is not secure, so that route also has a lot of risk.
They do have an option to remain in the UK but have more local political control. This is happening all across the UK. It's not as nationalistically sexy as independence, but it is a heck of a lot more practical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence_referendum,_2014
If a tree tweets in a forest, and no one get the tweet, can it still be retweeted?
So many bad jokes in my head. They are clogging my brain so much I can't get them out...
It just makes sense.
Fractals have many uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal#Applications_in_technology It is a perfectly reasonable hypothesis that birds recognize the fractal dimension of plumage in their own species. Conflating this with "being able to compute a fractal" is ignorant. Some birds are known to get information about magnetic fields through their visual channel. This does not mean they are solving Maxwell's equations.
It is possible to extract fractal dimension information from images. Typing in "fractal dimension image detection" into Google Scholar results in over 25000 references. If academics have figured out how to do this then evolution may also embody these concepts.
Posting on Slashdot is an opportunity to share knowledge and learn things. Unfortunately far to many people who post here show that they are ignorant and arrogant. I call them the Slashdot Pundits.
Just because you know one thing does not mean that things you haven't heard of are wrong. With Google and the like, it's easy to fact check. On this topic so far all we have seen is woefully uninformed people criticizing academics and making fools of themselves. I would think that shear embarrassment would tend to eliminate this kind of drivel, but I guess if you are stupid enough to make such uninformed statements, you are also incapable of understanding how bad it makes you look.