Well, no, I think this is one of the few times that the "terrorists", so to speak, actually won.
LulzSec said they would do this as revenge for Sony taking legal action against someone for jailbreaking the PS3. LulzSec has successfully cost Sony far, far more than jailbreaking ever would have.
I remember Zero Hour as being a partial reboot and supposed to resolve many continuity issues in the mid 90s and in the mid 80s you had COIE, and IC partway between.
I wonder if they are just trying something new, as the comic industry surely is only a fraction of what it once was.
I wonder if any kids read comics anymore or if they are all too busy with higher-tech pursuits?
The fiduciary duty of the decision makers in this organization is not to bankrupt their company battling in court the deepest pockets they can find so posters on/. are satisfied for the moment. Their duty is to maximize shareholder wealth.
Precisely. HTC probably decided that it was worth $5 per handset to indemnify themselves from litigation.
Whether the fee is paid to MSFT or gobbled up by patent lawyers seems like a morally neutral thing. It's not like one group is significantly less sleazy or sucks less scum than the other.
Precisely - many other airlines had already replaced these faulty pitot tubes, but Air France knew about the problem but was going slowly, presumably to increase their profits.
I think I'll add Air France (and since they merged, also KLM) to my short list of airlines on which I shall never fly again.
From my reading, it sounds like the stall warnings were not heeded due to the inputs mainly being nose-up, which is not how a stall is dealt with. The proper course would normally be nose down to regain speed and lift.
There would have been less room for error as the stall began because the plain was near its operating ceiling which would be around 38k feet, and speculation is that the plane may have been in a deep stall, where the AOA is sufficient to wash out the rear stabilizers behind the wings.
I think this will go down as pilot error, but the main question for the recording is... why was it not recognized with three qualified pilots in the cockpit...?
So the proposal is that all these people should spend hours (days? weeks? months?) meticulously burning their purchased music to audio CD, 10-12 at a time, then reimporting them and renaming all the tracks and such?
What about all the music purchased from iTunes in the years and years prior, when it wasn't DRM free? Will Miro play that?
If people have to leave behind all their m4p and other protected format music (a substantial amount of their collection, for many), they won't switch over.
I like how they call it a black box, to equate it with safety, as if it's going to be used to investigate crashes and nothing else.
The only question is, will they speed-limit every car to the speed limit on that road, force your car to brake in time to make the red lights, etc.? Or will you still be free to break the law, but check your email for the ticket and fine?
(Like there's any question which one the government would prefer, "safety" or fine revenue...)
I was just pondering, however - not being a developer any longer, I don't see why I couldn't be as productive with an OSX desktop. The enterprise stuff I administer comes mainly through Citrix. We've recently switched to a remote-desktop substitute that is kicked off from a browser as well.
I don't see what, for me, would count as "advantages", but I don't see any costs, per se.
This is an interesting change. At my former employer, they piloted a program to allow developers to develop on a Linux box rather than a Windows one, but it was not utilized by many and the desktop team found the support too painful for their taste.
"What's driving the growth? Wolf writes, "Notwithstanding its premium prices compared with Windows PCs, the Mac should continue to grow faster than the PC market, propelled by the halo effects now emanating from the iPod, iPhone and iPad along with the international rollout of Apple Stores. The cost of ownership is emerging to be another key factor. Square Group chief, Darren King, notes, "Total cost of ownership (TCO) for a Mac vs a comparable Wintel device over 3-4 years is actually lower!" Think about that."
"Eight out of 10 organizations said they are "more likely to allow more users to deploy Macs as their enterprise desktops" in 2010-2011, up from 68 percent in the 2009 survey," the researchers said."
It's interesting that the coming decade might herald, rather than the switch we might have anticipated to Linux desktops (following the Year of Linux on the Desktop of course), a switch to desktop autonomy and self-governance at work.
I know this will get modded down, but I think AC has a point.
People will say "It is open - I can see the source". But shouldn't it mean something, in practice?
If we only have a platform that is open on the theoretical level - if users have to root a phone (something most people will never do) for it to be open, if making your phone open entails giving up other features, if manufacturers are actively hostile to people doing this and attempt to install countermeasures to rooting and sideloading...is this really "open"?
Or do we have a situation not unlike the iPhone and jailbreaking - a walled garden?
Smells like desperation - MSFT has really been losing the market of people in their late teens/twenties to Apple lately. This does not bode well for their future prospects because losing a customer to Apple carries the potential of being a lifelong loss.
Without some of the revenue streams they used to have, they really have to protect their market share in Windows consumer licenses.
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Well, no, I think this is one of the few times that the "terrorists", so to speak, actually won.
LulzSec said they would do this as revenge for Sony taking legal action against someone for jailbreaking the PS3. LulzSec has successfully cost Sony far, far more than jailbreaking ever would have.
So we put Beiber down there and tie some sort of underwater speakers onto his body...
I remember Zero Hour as being a partial reboot and supposed to resolve many continuity issues in the mid 90s and in the mid 80s you had COIE, and IC partway between.
I wonder if they are just trying something new, as the comic industry surely is only a fraction of what it once was.
I wonder if any kids read comics anymore or if they are all too busy with higher-tech pursuits?
The fiduciary duty of the decision makers in this organization is not to bankrupt their company battling in court the deepest pockets they can find so posters on /. are satisfied for the moment. Their duty is to maximize shareholder wealth.
Precisely. HTC probably decided that it was worth $5 per handset to indemnify themselves from litigation.
Whether the fee is paid to MSFT or gobbled up by patent lawyers seems like a morally neutral thing. It's not like one group is significantly less sleazy or sucks less scum than the other.
Precisely - many other airlines had already replaced these faulty pitot tubes, but Air France knew about the problem but was going slowly, presumably to increase their profits.
I think I'll add Air France (and since they merged, also KLM) to my short list of airlines on which I shall never fly again.
"Presumably to increase their profits?"
eyeroll...
It's routine for the captain to take a break on longer flights, FWIW
It was a known issue that these speed sensors were prone to icing over. I think they were modified to be heated at some point.
Perhaps they were aware of this and disregarded the stall warnings, as they are predicated on calculations involving airspeed?
From my reading, it sounds like the stall warnings were not heeded due to the inputs mainly being nose-up, which is not how a stall is dealt with. The proper course would normally be nose down to regain speed and lift.
There would have been less room for error as the stall began because the plain was near its operating ceiling which would be around 38k feet, and speculation is that the plane may have been in a deep stall, where the AOA is sufficient to wash out the rear stabilizers behind the wings.
I think this will go down as pilot error, but the main question for the recording is... why was it not recognized with three qualified pilots in the cockpit...?
This was not a whoosh. It was an unrelated joke.
When Appil Computering tells me only $100 per month, most premium mobile package.... I jump in it!
Numbers are stupid, there are only 0-9. Using letters is safer as there are 26. "password" is a much better password.
So the proposal is that all these people should spend hours (days? weeks? months?) meticulously burning their purchased music to audio CD, 10-12 at a time, then reimporting them and renaming all the tracks and such?
The general public's reaction : "F*ck that"
I agree. That's like printing out a web page so you can read it.
I see even they are on the "Democracy is over" bandwagon...
What about all the music purchased from iTunes in the years and years prior, when it wasn't DRM free? Will Miro play that?
If people have to leave behind all their m4p and other protected format music (a substantial amount of their collection, for many), they won't switch over.
Note that all these things are coming to pass and the Year of Linux on the Desktop (tm) seems as far away as ever.
I like how they call it a black box, to equate it with safety, as if it's going to be used to investigate crashes and nothing else.
The only question is, will they speed-limit every car to the speed limit on that road, force your car to brake in time to make the red lights, etc.? Or will you still be free to break the law, but check your email for the ticket and fine?
(Like there's any question which one the government would prefer, "safety" or fine revenue...)
Bernardine Dohrn lol
Peacenik is an interesting label for someone who expressed admiration for the Manson family and formerly headed a domestic terrorist group.
Could be.
I was just pondering, however - not being a developer any longer, I don't see why I couldn't be as productive with an OSX desktop. The enterprise stuff I administer comes mainly through Citrix. We've recently switched to a remote-desktop substitute that is kicked off from a browser as well.
I don't see what, for me, would count as "advantages", but I don't see any costs, per se.
This is an interesting change. At my former employer, they piloted a program to allow developers to develop on a Linux box rather than a Windows one, but it was not utilized by many and the desktop team found the support too painful for their taste.
Now looking at a different article from TFA: http://blogs.computerworld.com/18330/apples_mac_steals_windows_enterprise_sales
"What's driving the growth? Wolf writes, "Notwithstanding its premium prices compared with Windows PCs, the Mac should continue to grow faster than the PC market, propelled by the halo effects now emanating from the iPod, iPhone and iPad along with the international rollout of Apple Stores. The cost of ownership is emerging to be another key factor. Square Group chief, Darren King, notes, "Total cost of ownership (TCO) for a Mac vs a comparable Wintel device over 3-4 years is actually lower!" Think about that."
"Eight out of 10 organizations said they are "more likely to allow more users to deploy Macs as their enterprise desktops" in 2010-2011, up from 68 percent in the 2009 survey," the researchers said."
It's interesting that the coming decade might herald, rather than the switch we might have anticipated to Linux desktops (following the Year of Linux on the Desktop of course), a switch to desktop autonomy and self-governance at work.
"Hello." -Carl Sagan
I know this will get modded down, but I think AC has a point.
People will say "It is open - I can see the source". But shouldn't it mean something, in practice?
If we only have a platform that is open on the theoretical level - if users have to root a phone (something most people will never do) for it to be open, if making your phone open entails giving up other features, if manufacturers are actively hostile to people doing this and attempt to install countermeasures to rooting and sideloading...is this really "open"?
Or do we have a situation not unlike the iPhone and jailbreaking - a walled garden?
Smells like desperation - MSFT has really been losing the market of people in their late teens/twenties to Apple lately. This does not bode well for their future prospects because losing a customer to Apple carries the potential of being a lifelong loss.
Without some of the revenue streams they used to have, they really have to protect their market share in Windows consumer licenses.
Smells like desperation - MSFT has really been losing the teens/twenties market to Apple in the last 5 years.