But facebook isn't any of these you listed. Facebook is a server owned and operated by someone other then yourself. Just because you gave them your secret information doesnt mean they'll keep it private. So far I'd believe only Twitter keeps this information quiet, and not Facebook what with all the current matter going on with the US government wanting access to those private messages sent that might involve WikiLeaks information. We havent heard Facebook making any comments against any requests and its unlikely the US government would have ignored such private comments on Facebook and only wanted the private messages on Twitter.
For a while, that never worked. I remember that being a major issue in like December. Made trying to created links to other sites a major problem. While it seems that it now has been fixed, you can't ignore the fact that it was at one time a problem.
Sorry, but Google doesn't have any patents in h.264. They had been a solid backer of it, but never had any patents involved in it.
For those curious, the companies that do have patents involved in h.264 are: * Apple Inc.
* DAEWOO
* Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
* Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
* France Télécom, société anonyme
* Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
* Fujitsu Limited
* Hitachi, Ltd.
* Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
* LG Electronics Inc.
* Microsoft Corporation
* Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
* NTT docomo
* Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
* Panasonic Corporation
* Robert Bosch GmbH
* Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
* Scientific-Atlanta Vancouver Company
* Sedna Patent Services, LLC
* Sharp Corporation
* Siemens AG
* Sony Corporation
* Ericsson
* The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
* Toshiba Corporation
* Victor Company of Japan, Limited
Thanks for point it out. Only way to really learn from your mistakes is to know mistakes were made. Don't know how I didn't spell it right, but oh well.
Some pirates may be motivated by greed, but that goes without saying for any criminal. But you have quite a large amount of pirates in a small area which gives rise to wondering why so many get involved in piracy?
While its always easy to look at the problem with these pirates at the one angle ("Its just money and greed"), it is always possible it came from something else. And according to 3 different interviews with 3 different Somali pirates (1 pirate caption, and 2 different pirates). They all said the same thing though of why they became pirates: "I was forced to hijack foreign ships after the central government collapsed. No one was monitoring the sea, and we couldn’t fish properly, because the ships which trawl the Somali coasts illegally would destroy our small boats and equipment. That is what forced us to become pirates." "The men behind bars, however, offered another explanation for piracy. Their story is also rooted in greed — not of their brazen colleagues with the million-dollar ransoms, they say, but of foreign companies that they say have profited from Somalia's lawlessness by fishing illegally in their waters since the 1990s.". 1 23
In short, if all 3 of these different pirates are to believed, this problem of piracy wouldn't be nearly as big an issue (not gone, just not as much of an issue) if other companies and countries hadn't come in and destroyed their livelihoods. In won't be as simple as teaching these people a peaceful means of making money, because they were already doing that. It means they are out of options and are now getting desperate. They lost their jobs (fishing), their tools of their trade (boats and fishing equipment) all by the greed of others and no one caring about them.
I'm pretty sure it is, but more due to licensing fee's. While I'm not sure about how landline fee's work, 3g networks in the UK were bought a while ago (in 2000)2 and now each spectrum is owned by certain companies. Now I don't think they are as limited in their power over their networks (like in broadbands case) which could let them charge more, a lot more, for their usage. Combine this with the fact that they need to build, maintain and power cell towers (which I'm guessing is more expensive then landlines) and you have a recipe for expensive mobile internet. That and the technology for decent 3g internet speeds is newer so they are going to want to charge to recoup their fee's for the upgrades needed to get were they are now.
It was always blindingly obvious that the chaps who developed the WinCE line did so on simulators on their desktops, not on actual phone hardware. The WinCE line has never, ever been designed for actual mobile use.
Your right, it wasnt developed for phone hardware or mobile use. It was made for embedded systems (typically on a ROM chip) in 1996. While it is possible to use it in a phone, its not pretty nor was it designed for them. Its supposed to be just a very trimmed down version of Windows for small devices that didnt need any extensions later on in its life span.
China did pretty much the same thing with Tiananmen Square in 1989, and that didn't go down nearly as well. Pointing to one success doesn't mean that they all will. Also Hafez Assad turned Syria into a Authoritarian government, who bribed and intimidated any would-be dissidents. If this didn't work, he would act with unflinching cruelty to those against him. In short, he still had problems after the insurrection of Islamic fundamentalists, but many people feared for their lives. At least when he became leader of Syria, he already had a unified government that would report to him. Somali doesn't have this, so if they any of the groups of power tried to kill all the pirates (that are no doubt much better armed then the Islamic fundamentalists were) an insurrection would have a lot more of a chance to defeat the group in power (leaving the other group to control the country.) If a foreign nation decided to go in and kill them, it would be condemned by most other world nations (since it would be over kill and most would no doubt prefer a more peaceful solution. Ruling by fear and/or killing isn't the best solution.) It could also be possibly seen as an attempted to conquer Somali because they don't have a unified government making any work like hunting and killing pirates a politically sensitive one.
If a Reality Distortion Field exists in Cupertino, then an alternate reality machine exists at Redmond, one where mediocrity is excellence and complete failure is good enough.
That's pretty much true in any business though. It's part of moral boosting, to make people think and act like they are building a great product during the fact. When it happens, they will still pat themselves on the back, helps their workers keep trying because if you don't you'll either be left with mopey, useless workers or people who quit. Neither one is good for the business and it's a big part of a managers job to prevent it from happening. Businesses that don't do this tend to fail and close up pretty fast.
Apple couldn't really test the iPhone 4 antenna because they would have done most of the testing on site, which as it happens, Apple's HQ has a cell tower on site. They wouldn't have noticed a signal loss being that close. An unexpected side effect that would be hard to have considered during normal QA.
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But facebook isn't any of these you listed. Facebook is a server owned and operated by someone other then yourself. Just because you gave them your secret information doesnt mean they'll keep it private. So far I'd believe only Twitter keeps this information quiet, and not Facebook what with all the current matter going on with the US government wanting access to those private messages sent that might involve WikiLeaks information. We havent heard Facebook making any comments against any requests and its unlikely the US government would have ignored such private comments on Facebook and only wanted the private messages on Twitter.
For a while, that never worked. I remember that being a major issue in like December. Made trying to created links to other sites a major problem. While it seems that it now has been fixed, you can't ignore the fact that it was at one time a problem.
Sorry, but Google doesn't have any patents in h.264. They had been a solid backer of it, but never had any patents involved in it.
For those curious, the companies that do have patents involved in h.264 are: * Apple Inc. * DAEWOO * Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation * Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute * France Télécom, société anonyme * Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. * Fujitsu Limited * Hitachi, Ltd. * Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. * LG Electronics Inc. * Microsoft Corporation * Mitsubishi Electric Corporation * NTT docomo * Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation * Panasonic Corporation * Robert Bosch GmbH * Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. * Scientific-Atlanta Vancouver Company * Sedna Patent Services, LLC * Sharp Corporation * Siemens AG * Sony Corporation * Ericsson * The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York * Toshiba Corporation * Victor Company of Japan, Limited
Thanks for point it out. Only way to really learn from your mistakes is to know mistakes were made. Don't know how I didn't spell it right, but oh well.
The Dark Knight Returns. I mentioned it here.
Doubt it will be /.'d No boobies in this one (unlike the NASA one)
Nah, it's because Bruce Wayne is rich... I mean Batman is rich... argh... I revealed his secret identity.
Its missing the Batmobile from Dark Night Returns comic series. It was designed by Frank Miller.
Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you implying that no one can hear you punch the clown?
Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you saying no one can hear you choke the chicken?
Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you saying no one can hear you going to infinity... and beyond?
Playboy is hardcore porn? Since when?
Since they made Playboy TV.
I remember those days.
ASCII version.
Of course it did, it has boobies. When was the last time /. did an article whose only link was to a nudie picture?
Remain calm ma'am, a waambulance and two morality police cars are on the way!
Wow they work fast, having killed the link already.
Whoops, screwed up the link for the first interview (link 1). It should have been 1
Some pirates may be motivated by greed, but that goes without saying for any criminal. But you have quite a large amount of pirates in a small area which gives rise to wondering why so many get involved in piracy?
While its always easy to look at the problem with these pirates at the one angle ("Its just money and greed"), it is always possible it came from something else. And according to 3 different interviews with 3 different Somali pirates (1 pirate caption, and 2 different pirates). They all said the same thing though of why they became pirates: "I was forced to hijack foreign ships after the central government collapsed. No one was monitoring the sea, and we couldn’t fish properly, because the ships which trawl the Somali coasts illegally would destroy our small boats and equipment. That is what forced us to become pirates." "The men behind bars, however, offered another explanation for piracy. Their story is also rooted in greed — not of their brazen colleagues with the million-dollar ransoms, they say, but of foreign companies that they say have profited from Somalia's lawlessness by fishing illegally in their waters since the 1990s.". 1 2 3
In short, if all 3 of these different pirates are to believed, this problem of piracy wouldn't be nearly as big an issue (not gone, just not as much of an issue) if other companies and countries hadn't come in and destroyed their livelihoods. In won't be as simple as teaching these people a peaceful means of making money, because they were already doing that. It means they are out of options and are now getting desperate. They lost their jobs (fishing), their tools of their trade (boats and fishing equipment) all by the greed of others and no one caring about them.
I'm pretty sure it is, but more due to licensing fee's. While I'm not sure about how landline fee's work, 3g networks in the UK were bought a while ago (in 2000) 2 and now each spectrum is owned by certain companies. Now I don't think they are as limited in their power over their networks (like in broadbands case) which could let them charge more, a lot more, for their usage. Combine this with the fact that they need to build, maintain and power cell towers (which I'm guessing is more expensive then landlines) and you have a recipe for expensive mobile internet. That and the technology for decent 3g internet speeds is newer so they are going to want to charge to recoup their fee's for the upgrades needed to get were they are now.
According to the article, it isn't a problem with world wide users, pretty much only US users. Global users of WP7 dont seemto be having these issues.
It was always blindingly obvious that the chaps who developed the WinCE line did so on simulators on their desktops, not on actual phone hardware. The WinCE line has never, ever been designed for actual mobile use.
Your right, it wasnt developed for phone hardware or mobile use. It was made for embedded systems (typically on a ROM chip) in 1996. While it is possible to use it in a phone, its not pretty nor was it designed for them. Its supposed to be just a very trimmed down version of Windows for small devices that didnt need any extensions later on in its life span.
For a real world non-issue, Apple spent a good amount of money to cover up / fix the issue with buying and paying shipping of those bumpers.
Maybe next time they'll find a way to test it naked outside the lab. :P
Might help with keeping it a secret. "Hey look over there. I dont whats in her hand, or whats shes doing but shes nekkid!!!"
China did pretty much the same thing with Tiananmen Square in 1989, and that didn't go down nearly as well. Pointing to one success doesn't mean that they all will. Also Hafez Assad turned Syria into a Authoritarian government, who bribed and intimidated any would-be dissidents. If this didn't work, he would act with unflinching cruelty to those against him. In short, he still had problems after the insurrection of Islamic fundamentalists, but many people feared for their lives. At least when he became leader of Syria, he already had a unified government that would report to him. Somali doesn't have this, so if they any of the groups of power tried to kill all the pirates (that are no doubt much better armed then the Islamic fundamentalists were) an insurrection would have a lot more of a chance to defeat the group in power (leaving the other group to control the country.) If a foreign nation decided to go in and kill them, it would be condemned by most other world nations (since it would be over kill and most would no doubt prefer a more peaceful solution. Ruling by fear and/or killing isn't the best solution.) It could also be possibly seen as an attempted to conquer Somali because they don't have a unified government making any work like hunting and killing pirates a politically sensitive one.
If a Reality Distortion Field exists in Cupertino, then an alternate reality machine exists at Redmond, one where mediocrity is excellence and complete failure is good enough.
That's pretty much true in any business though. It's part of moral boosting, to make people think and act like they are building a great product during the fact. When it happens, they will still pat themselves on the back, helps their workers keep trying because if you don't you'll either be left with mopey, useless workers or people who quit. Neither one is good for the business and it's a big part of a managers job to prevent it from happening. Businesses that don't do this tend to fail and close up pretty fast.
Thanks, don't tend to proof read as much when I post from my cellphone and it shows with posts like that one.
Apple couldn't really test the iPhone 4 antenna because they would have done most of the testing on site, which as it happens, Apple's HQ has a cell tower on site. They wouldn't have noticed a signal loss being that close. An unexpected side effect that would be hard to have considered during normal QA.