No. The internet was designed to keep computers connected during a nuclear war. Everything else was added on later. The web was really for publishing documents and accessing scientific information - it wasn't meant to let everyone know that you're a Justin Bieber fan.
But hey, everything morphs and now the scientists can look at porn while surfing for the latest on particle physics.
In all my searching, I very rarely get naked pictures from searches (unless I'm searching for them) and when I do, it's because I have the Google safe search off.
I think what they're saying is all marketing BS to drive traffic to their sites. I WISH naked pictures popped up that often!
NGOs and organizations representing journalists will have to take no action to get the blanket license. Microsoft software running on their computers will be covered, Smith said.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is Slashdot and the parent has a sub 1,000,000 UID - I got it.
I'm not criticising this move. It's the start of the right thing to do. But lets not forget that although the price will be zeroed, the NGO's will still not be able to see what the software is doing, will still not be able to change the software.
NGO's should use free software.
Considering what they have to go through, what MS might be doing under the covers is the least of their problems. And who says that they aren't already using F/OSS and the police are just using the piracy of MS software as an excuse?
its not worse either, and whats it got to do with this new administration, really?
-- brought to you by the captcha "totality"
Many of us naively thought that maybe a new Administration, especially one led by a legal scholar, would be privy to things like the Fourth Amendment and other Civil Liberties.
And social conservatives really need to understand that Civil Liberties also include the Second Amendment - they're not just some "Liberal" thing.
When Government starts restricting information it means they are hiding something.
My only guess is that some of the Canadian Federal scientists have discovered things about climate and the oil sands that the Canadian Government is terrified of releasing. It's obviously a conspiracy among the Canadian big shots.
The Canadian people should demand all of their resignations and get a new PM in there pronto before what's ever going on the we don't know about happens and destroys Canada and possibly the World!
I don't care if a politician was caught watching internet porn. A lot of people (if not most) do it and politicians are no exception.
I do care if a politician was caught paying for internet porn. That tells me a lot about whether he's able to spend money wisely.
There you go!
And they should just fess up to it - regardless of what they say in public, they're all hypocrites and they all look at porn, or are really gay, like to gamble and are cheating on their wives. AND the more "pro family values" they are, the more likely they are closet perverts. Really anti-gay? Pffft! They're getting blowjobs in a bathroom somewhere while looking all hetero-sexual and whatnot in public.
The "intellectual capacity to store information" and the "ability to think innovatively" are controlled by two completely different cognitive mechanisms.
I agree. But doesn't one feed into the other?
All of the great scientists and inventors I have read about would study a subject as well as related things for long periods of time. Their minds would stew that information and then make the connections for that "A HA!" moment - usually when they're doing something completely unrelated; like sleeping in Linus Pauling's case. If their brains didn't have that information stored, it wouldn't have been able to make those connections.
In the long run, HP will be selling all this crap off to make itself look better to Wall St. and we'll all be talking about how HP went off the rails right around the time they forced Hurd out.
It could be: GE went through this. Now, GE makes about 2/3rds of their money from finance. Time Warner/AOL is another example.
Many times these huge corps go apeshit with their cash buying things up only to have the purchases be detrimental to their performance. They do it mostly just to do something - anything with their cash and the purchases may not be appropriate. Right now, there's a huge push in the computer industry to make acquisitions - it's a mature commodity business now and the only way to grow to to buy.
I have no idea what HP's upper management has in store for this purchase - the article is nothing but PR fluff - but they better have a plan or you'll be right and they'll be sticking their fingers down their throats in 10 years to get rid of this business at a fraction of the price.
Seriously a bunch of consultants are about to become filthy rich.
If his plan was to slowly bleed the US to death with enormous security consulting fees, I suspect his plan will be a success.
Cool. Where do I $ign up?
No need to sign up - hit the pavement.
You do the marketing and then farm out the tech work to India - that's how it's done these days. Although, people are starting to figure out that they can just cut out the American salesman and go directly to India and save all the American overhead and commissions that just pay for the fancy suits, Exlax watches, and huge CEO salaries.
For the exception of the microscope, everything in his setup can be purchased from your local home center and Walmart and the big food grade white drums you can get from a distributor for about $10 a piece.
I can dupe his setup for less than a hundred bucks - no microscope. The microscope - monocular with an effective mag of 1000x would run at least $250 (Konus.) I can't tell what he has, though.
Yeah, factory would be more economical - when it's achieved but in the meantime, it's cheaper to do it at home. Go to a Wholefoods and see what the Spira is going for. Your own setup would pay for itself in less than a year. Faster if you're really into the stuff.
I read it as being able to see who truly adds something to the company as opposed to the BS'ers and the folks who take credit for others work.
And, I think this is wonderful for the shy folks who aren't very good at self promotion. I've seen too many times the big talkers gets ahead while the person that has the actual imagination and talent get left behind because no one noticed them - they're just not the type of people who "toot their own horn" and they're humble.
George Westinghouse was the one that really fucked Tesla over. It didn't help that Tesla was pretty naive in business.
I wish some Westinghouse award winner would say "In the name of Nicolai Tesla, I say shove it up your ass! I don't accept awards from a company started by a thief."
The plant wasn't profitable currently, was going to be made obsolete by law in a couple of years, and was not even remotely profitable to refit to producing the CFLs.
Calculated by whom?
I find it interesting that according to GE accounting, it's cheaper to to just move everything overseas than to retrofit. It amazes me that someone just has to say that their numbers show whatever it is and people think it's an indisputable fact based on physical laws. And of course, most people hear "numbers" and think some scientific analysis was done and there's "proof" that it's the case. Accounting is NOT a science. Accounting is not based on physical laws. Even if you follow GAAP and FASB rules, there are still quite a few different ways of calculating things - AND those rules are just for reporting only. Management can calculate things ANY WAY THEY WANT TO.
Maybe it is cheaper to go overseas and honestly in this economic climate, it probably is. After all, GE isn't going to throw money away. BUT my point is, just because it doesn't make sense for GE with all their corporate overhead, doesn't mean it wouldn't be unprofitable for another company - the Japanese have proven that they can make things here in the US and still make a very nice return - even with US lazy expensive Americans.
Also, just because it may be cheaper now, doesn't mean it will be in the future because: the Yaun wiil increase in value, transportation costs will increase as fuel prices go up and the surplus of shipping declines.
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But hey, everything morphs and now the scientists can look at porn while surfing for the latest on particle physics.
That space is up.
You see, they'll fire the spacecraft horizontally and it'll fly really really fast until it falls off the World into orbit.
You don't need to search for answers in Buddhism because the answers are within.
Indeed. Maybe it's just me, but "jewogle" sounds like a porn site featuring jewish models to me.
Yes please!
Alan Turing was also gay. Can't have his "type" of people and math polluting the minds of our young folks!
Or, "Allah's will!" button.
Or give me the "Wholesale - never retail! search" button.
I think what they're saying is all marketing BS to drive traffic to their sites. I WISH naked pictures popped up that often!
Weird shit has been happening to me since I started taking Ambien!
NGOs and organizations representing journalists will have to take no action to get the blanket license. Microsoft software running on their computers will be covered, Smith said.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is Slashdot and the parent has a sub 1,000,000 UID - I got it.
I'm not criticising this move. It's the start of the right thing to do. But lets not forget that although the price will be zeroed, the NGO's will still not be able to see what the software is doing, will still not be able to change the software.
NGO's should use free software.
Considering what they have to go through, what MS might be doing under the covers is the least of their problems. And who says that they aren't already using F/OSS and the police are just using the piracy of MS software as an excuse?
its not worse either, and whats it got to do with this new administration, really?
-- brought to you by the captcha "totality"
Many of us naively thought that maybe a new Administration, especially one led by a legal scholar, would be privy to things like the Fourth Amendment and other Civil Liberties.
And social conservatives really need to understand that Civil Liberties also include the Second Amendment - they're not just some "Liberal" thing.
When Government starts restricting information it means they are hiding something.
My only guess is that some of the Canadian Federal scientists have discovered things about climate and the oil sands that the Canadian Government is terrified of releasing. It's obviously a conspiracy among the Canadian big shots.
The Canadian people should demand all of their resignations and get a new PM in there pronto before what's ever going on the we don't know about happens and destroys Canada and possibly the World!
I don't care if a politician was caught watching internet porn. A lot of people (if not most) do it and politicians are no exception.
I do care if a politician was caught paying for internet porn. That tells me a lot about whether he's able to spend money wisely.
There you go!
And they should just fess up to it - regardless of what they say in public, they're all hypocrites and they all look at porn, or are really gay, like to gamble and are cheating on their wives. AND the more "pro family values" they are, the more likely they are closet perverts. Really anti-gay? Pffft! They're getting blowjobs in a bathroom somewhere while looking all hetero-sexual and whatnot in public.
Family values == closet pervert.
There are no exceptions.
The "intellectual capacity to store information" and the "ability to think innovatively" are controlled by two completely different cognitive mechanisms.
I agree. But doesn't one feed into the other?
All of the great scientists and inventors I have read about would study a subject as well as related things for long periods of time. Their minds would stew that information and then make the connections for that "A HA!" moment - usually when they're doing something completely unrelated; like sleeping in Linus Pauling's case. If their brains didn't have that information stored, it wouldn't have been able to make those connections.
In the long run, HP will be selling all this crap off to make itself look better to Wall St. and we'll all be talking about how HP went off the rails right around the time they forced Hurd out.
It could be: GE went through this. Now, GE makes about 2/3rds of their money from finance. Time Warner/AOL is another example.
Many times these huge corps go apeshit with their cash buying things up only to have the purchases be detrimental to their performance. They do it mostly just to do something - anything with their cash and the purchases may not be appropriate. Right now, there's a huge push in the computer industry to make acquisitions - it's a mature commodity business now and the only way to grow to to buy.
I have no idea what HP's upper management has in store for this purchase - the article is nothing but PR fluff - but they better have a plan or you'll be right and they'll be sticking their fingers down their throats in 10 years to get rid of this business at a fraction of the price.
Seriously a bunch of consultants are about to become filthy rich.
If his plan was to slowly bleed the US to death with enormous security consulting fees, I suspect his plan will be a success.
Cool. Where do I $ign up?
No need to sign up - hit the pavement.
You do the marketing and then farm out the tech work to India - that's how it's done these days. Although, people are starting to figure out that they can just cut out the American salesman and go directly to India and save all the American overhead and commissions that just pay for the fancy suits, Exlax watches, and huge CEO salaries.
I can dupe his setup for less than a hundred bucks - no microscope. The microscope - monocular with an effective mag of 1000x would run at least $250 (Konus.) I can't tell what he has, though.
Yeah, factory would be more economical - when it's achieved but in the meantime, it's cheaper to do it at home. Go to a Wholefoods and see what the Spira is going for. Your own setup would pay for itself in less than a year. Faster if you're really into the stuff.
It's true. We came from a planet of Apes.
Some may learn "pigeon" relativity,...
Is that like the pigeon "Quantum Mechanics" that Deepak Chopra uses?
Another scenario:
Poster was trying to pull something on his employer, gets caught, posts on /. pleading innocent for help on how to dig himself out of the shit he's in.
And, I think this is wonderful for the shy folks who aren't very good at self promotion. I've seen too many times the big talkers gets ahead while the person that has the actual imagination and talent get left behind because no one noticed them - they're just not the type of people who "toot their own horn" and they're humble.
I wish some Westinghouse award winner would say "In the name of Nicolai Tesla, I say shove it up your ass! I don't accept awards from a company started by a thief."
The plant wasn't profitable currently, was going to be made obsolete by law in a couple of years, and was not even remotely profitable to refit to producing the CFLs.
Calculated by whom?
I find it interesting that according to GE accounting, it's cheaper to to just move everything overseas than to retrofit. It amazes me that someone just has to say that their numbers show whatever it is and people think it's an indisputable fact based on physical laws. And of course, most people hear "numbers" and think some scientific analysis was done and there's "proof" that it's the case. Accounting is NOT a science. Accounting is not based on physical laws. Even if you follow GAAP and FASB rules, there are still quite a few different ways of calculating things - AND those rules are just for reporting only. Management can calculate things ANY WAY THEY WANT TO.
Maybe it is cheaper to go overseas and honestly in this economic climate, it probably is. After all, GE isn't going to throw money away. BUT my point is, just because it doesn't make sense for GE with all their corporate overhead, doesn't mean it wouldn't be unprofitable for another company - the Japanese have proven that they can make things here in the US and still make a very nice return - even with US lazy expensive Americans.
Also, just because it may be cheaper now, doesn't mean it will be in the future because: the Yaun wiil increase in value, transportation costs will increase as fuel prices go up and the surplus of shipping declines.
In a nutshell, GE is being very shortsighted.
Haven't you heard? Stem cells == Dead Babies. And don't bother trying to convince them otherwise - they know better!
Open any type of bank account and they want your life story - no thanks to the PATRIOT Act.