If someone hacks Battle.net/etc, you might find out. The cloud is a much larger beast and if some fundamental underlying technology in it is hacked you may never have any clue, Amazon may not ever even catch it. Eventually the systems are just too big to secure based on traffic load and the insane amounts of data, you have to play bug smasher after its already compromised and proactively defend the systems, but there is a critical point at which you just cant prevent, only mitigate, damage that can be done.
You forgot the most important part: He was right about the original iPod. It was a less useful device at a higher price point than the rest of the field.
BBSes, Newsgroups, IRC, AOL Instant Message lists, ICQ, eGroups, Yahoo! groups, LiveJournal, Myspace, Facebook, Google+. You may have started on FB but you were at least 15 years late to the social party, Mr. AC. I'm sick and tired of you dumbass kids thinking Facebook is somehow the first global network oriented around social interaction. Also, get off my lawn.
I say we all start the a software project based on the kumba-ya feeling and come together from all over the world by working together on it. WHO'S WITH ME!?!
I know someone who's MBA finals involved take home tests with direct questions and essays. I looked at his test, then proceeded to explain to him how business works and basically did an entire portion of his test based on the IT related business market... I was floored and exploded about it.. THIS IS WHAT THESE ASSHOLES ARE LEARNING? THIS IS GENERIC BUSINESS STUFF that anyone working and interacting with businesses will learn. ITS LAUGHABLE that they are paying to 'learn' this and shows just how bad their financial acumen is if they are plopping 50-100 grand on it. Smoke and mirrors, all the way down. They get fancy University titles, while folks without college degrees get labelled Con Men.
This has been a production of the MONDAY HATE TRAIN. Its just one of those days.
Nothing will ruin delusions of meritocracy and the rewards of hard work like earning a salary of 60-70k but watching the clients get billed over 300k for your work.
Moral of that story: work for yourself if you want to make real money.
Its been 15 years, time to try again. Its a corporation, upper management has come and gone in that time, you don't think someone will come up with this great idea to entrench MS software further?
Lol, that argument is moot, rich people will play games regardless, this is not any sort of incentive for them to 'start'. If you earn income anywhere in the world as a US citizen you are liable for income taxes. You are being unethical by pretending income is not earned by using shell corporations and holding corporations to limit your personal income on paper. The money is all tied up in the effort to avoid paying any income taxes on it, and that is where the problem lies in our tax system with all of the sheltering loopholes available.
Not that I like paying taxes any more than the next guy, but hiding millions upon millions of dollars of income from the tax man just to keep yourself from having to write a bigger number on a check to send to him (and not, as a result of the reduction in your overall worth, needing to work overtime for a year to afford it, at some point its just goddamn numbers and no real work that involves blood and sweat and energy).
A form of latching device such as robotic actuator arms latch onto the landing vehicle as it descends above or to the side of the landing platform, allowing for minimal damage to the involved equipment and other claims. (Patent Pending.)
If they called it a Samsung iTablet or some such shit I could see a vague argument, but its not, and knock off similarities are perfectly fine in different devices. This whole situation is fucked. Apple has traveled down the wrong road here, their very essence is take OTHER people's developments and making them shinier and simplified. Its not innovation, its turning advanced technology into "McTechnology", easily consumable by the masses (although so far the masses that buy Apple products tend to pay MORE for the privilege than other industry equivalents, lucky Apple).
The Sharp Zaurus could be used as a 'finger' touch screen (although it was a stylus 'pda'). Multi-touch is an improvement, but I'm fairly certain there had been prior multi-touch developments before Apple brought it out with iphone/ipod touch. Hell, there were plenty of touchscreen devices around even in the 90s, the parts just weren't small enough for a tablet sized device and weren't all that great for non-stylus usage. There is nothing particularly 'original' about a tablet, it is an oversized PDA, and its all just a take on science fiction concepts and a natural evolution for a device to become smaller and more portable as technology improves the components.
If you think Apple was the first "tablet" with a touch screen and have to argue specific features that it had, you have lost your mind. It was the first handheld tablet that used new enough technology that it was a generally enjoyable experience, but it was far from any sort of 'first' for what amounts to an oversized PDA. (Oh, and hook that bitch up and transfer files and music to it without using Apple's proprietary iTunes software... hell, the sharp zaurus had an SD slot and a CF slot in it. and a slide down real keyboard.)
That's even worse, you are 'renting' items that expire, where the only work associated is an hour creating the small 3d model and modifying a few lines of text in a config file somewhere that states fire rate, damage, reload time. Its not a Picasso painting or an intensive programming mod. Its a way to siphon money out of people, when its the people themselves that are essentially creating the valuable 'content' of BF Heroes (multiplayer servers require players for the real content of interaction and gameplay, the pretty pictures are actually secondary)
So, instead of drop down text menus, they make it horizontal with tabs and pictures and a few functions take up ALL of the real estate for additional functions due to the graphical nature of it all now? Yeah, the clear benefits of clicking an additional 4-8 times and going through different popups to change something that used to be 2-3 clicks.
Bullshit all the way around. Smear campaign against the very concept of Anonymous by associating it with specific politics and Lulzsec, its an attempt to paint Anonymous in a subtle light of a terrorist organization. Enough reporting in that style and folks will eventually look at Anonymous like another Al Qaeda (or was that El Queso) mishmash of random groups.
So you figured out how black holes work and what dark matter really is? And they have no affect on the laws of 'thermo'? Your argument is full of holes. The universe could in fact have always existed, we simply haven't figured out how yet. Hell, we may not ever really figure it out, we may not be capable of some sort of complex reasoning to properly grasp it all, which of course will lead to a future religion and some sort of God(s) entity that we blame for that first blip of energy, until humanity collapses into a single hivemind in order to find the beginning and end of existence.
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If someone hacks Battle.net/etc, you might find out. The cloud is a much larger beast and if some fundamental underlying technology in it is hacked you may never have any clue, Amazon may not ever even catch it. Eventually the systems are just too big to secure based on traffic load and the insane amounts of data, you have to play bug smasher after its already compromised and proactively defend the systems, but there is a critical point at which you just cant prevent, only mitigate, damage that can be done.
You forgot the most important part: He was right about the original iPod. It was a less useful device at a higher price point than the rest of the field.
You sound like a generic fud-raker...
BBSes, Newsgroups, IRC, AOL Instant Message lists, ICQ, eGroups, Yahoo! groups, LiveJournal, Myspace, Facebook, Google+. You may have started on FB but you were at least 15 years late to the social party, Mr. AC. I'm sick and tired of you dumbass kids thinking Facebook is somehow the first global network oriented around social interaction. Also, get off my lawn.
I say we all start the a software project based on the kumba-ya feeling and come together from all over the world by working together on it. WHO'S WITH ME!?!
Anyone?
*crickets*
I know someone who's MBA finals involved take home tests with direct questions and essays. I looked at his test, then proceeded to explain to him how business works and basically did an entire portion of his test based on the IT related business market... I was floored and exploded about it.. THIS IS WHAT THESE ASSHOLES ARE LEARNING? THIS IS GENERIC BUSINESS STUFF that anyone working and interacting with businesses will learn. ITS LAUGHABLE that they are paying to 'learn' this and shows just how bad their financial acumen is if they are plopping 50-100 grand on it. Smoke and mirrors, all the way down. They get fancy University titles, while folks without college degrees get labelled Con Men.
This has been a production of the MONDAY HATE TRAIN. Its just one of those days.
Hell, IBM only does it to trick people into thinking your not calling India and supporting the outsourcing of jobs...
Nothing will ruin delusions of meritocracy and the rewards of hard work like earning a salary of 60-70k but watching the clients get billed over 300k for your work.
Moral of that story: work for yourself if you want to make real money.
Says the slash-turd with the Death Penalty signature.
thatll teach that cat to try and steal his soul.
Its been 15 years, time to try again. Its a corporation, upper management has come and gone in that time, you don't think someone will come up with this great idea to entrench MS software further?
Always bet on BLACK.
How about we go back to the rugged mini-usb and throw this micro-usb shit out? Night and day difference in robustness.
I think mariadb is probably a better choice... from the site:
MariaDB is primarily driven by developers at Monty Program, a company founded by Michael "Monty" Widenius, the original author of MySQL
Lol, that argument is moot, rich people will play games regardless, this is not any sort of incentive for them to 'start'. If you earn income anywhere in the world as a US citizen you are liable for income taxes. You are being unethical by pretending income is not earned by using shell corporations and holding corporations to limit your personal income on paper. The money is all tied up in the effort to avoid paying any income taxes on it, and that is where the problem lies in our tax system with all of the sheltering loopholes available.
Not that I like paying taxes any more than the next guy, but hiding millions upon millions of dollars of income from the tax man just to keep yourself from having to write a bigger number on a check to send to him (and not, as a result of the reduction in your overall worth, needing to work overtime for a year to afford it, at some point its just goddamn numbers and no real work that involves blood and sweat and energy).
A business lesson in how to ruin a company in just a few short months, from a CEO perspective.
i like how the submitter w00ted despite there being no common sense involved with the entire ordeal.
Every website layout and design I came up with from 1998-2001 was the same as Craigslist. Its not 'special,' its just USEFUL.
A form of latching device such as robotic actuator arms latch onto the landing vehicle as it descends above or to the side of the landing platform, allowing for minimal damage to the involved equipment and other claims. (Patent Pending.)
If they called it a Samsung iTablet or some such shit I could see a vague argument, but its not, and knock off similarities are perfectly fine in different devices. This whole situation is fucked. Apple has traveled down the wrong road here, their very essence is take OTHER people's developments and making them shinier and simplified. Its not innovation, its turning advanced technology into "McTechnology", easily consumable by the masses (although so far the masses that buy Apple products tend to pay MORE for the privilege than other industry equivalents, lucky Apple).
The Sharp Zaurus could be used as a 'finger' touch screen (although it was a stylus 'pda'). Multi-touch is an improvement, but I'm fairly certain there had been prior multi-touch developments before Apple brought it out with iphone/ipod touch. Hell, there were plenty of touchscreen devices around even in the 90s, the parts just weren't small enough for a tablet sized device and weren't all that great for non-stylus usage. There is nothing particularly 'original' about a tablet, it is an oversized PDA, and its all just a take on science fiction concepts and a natural evolution for a device to become smaller and more portable as technology improves the components.
If you think Apple was the first "tablet" with a touch screen and have to argue specific features that it had, you have lost your mind. It was the first handheld tablet that used new enough technology that it was a generally enjoyable experience, but it was far from any sort of 'first' for what amounts to an oversized PDA. (Oh, and hook that bitch up and transfer files and music to it without using Apple's proprietary iTunes software... hell, the sharp zaurus had an SD slot and a CF slot in it. and a slide down real keyboard.)
That's even worse, you are 'renting' items that expire, where the only work associated is an hour creating the small 3d model and modifying a few lines of text in a config file somewhere that states fire rate, damage, reload time. Its not a Picasso painting or an intensive programming mod. Its a way to siphon money out of people, when its the people themselves that are essentially creating the valuable 'content' of BF Heroes (multiplayer servers require players for the real content of interaction and gameplay, the pretty pictures are actually secondary)
So, instead of drop down text menus, they make it horizontal with tabs and pictures and a few functions take up ALL of the real estate for additional functions due to the graphical nature of it all now? Yeah, the clear benefits of clicking an additional 4-8 times and going through different popups to change something that used to be 2-3 clicks.
Bullshit all the way around. Smear campaign against the very concept of Anonymous by associating it with specific politics and Lulzsec, its an attempt to paint Anonymous in a subtle light of a terrorist organization. Enough reporting in that style and folks will eventually look at Anonymous like another Al Qaeda (or was that El Queso) mishmash of random groups.
So you figured out how black holes work and what dark matter really is? And they have no affect on the laws of 'thermo'? Your argument is full of holes. The universe could in fact have always existed, we simply haven't figured out how yet. Hell, we may not ever really figure it out, we may not be capable of some sort of complex reasoning to properly grasp it all, which of course will lead to a future religion and some sort of God(s) entity that we blame for that first blip of energy, until humanity collapses into a single hivemind in order to find the beginning and end of existence.