"The plaintiffs allege that Apple failed to fully honor service contracts and warranties, didn't get repair and service businesses properly licensed, stole trade secrets from its own resellers, and sold used computer equipment as new."
I other words some lawyer's trophy wife wants a new yacht.
I have no problem with British beer. That is drink however, not food.
The last time I was in England I had a chance to listen to the speakers at Hyde Park Corner. One gentleman stood up and made the observation that if you travel around the world you will find Chinese restaurants, Italian restaurants, French, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, you name it. But never never an English restaurant. The point is obvious.
great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women.
If there is great food in the UK it must have come over on the Chunnel train from France. The UK has the worst food in the western hemisphere. Fish paste sandwiches YUCK.
The wonderful climate must be if you are allergic to sunlight. The rain and constant dreary grey skies make for a truly depressing lifestyle.
The women are beautiful to the residents of the UK because most have never been to Denmark.
According to well established history, the first application of this will be the porn industry. So it seems to me that the line between human-human sex and human-animal sex is likely to become quite blurred very soon.
Actually the Chakrabarty organism was not genetically engineered. It was the result of accelerating the process of natural selection by exposing naturally occuring organisms to supbrates containing PCBs until one was found that could live on PCBs as it's sole food source.
One, a vague sense of security, that if a file gets corrupted, I can at least make an attempt at manual repair.
The problem is that sense of security is very misplaced. CVS doesn't do any integrity checking. So you can easily have corruption problems and not know it until it is way too late. And if you add a binary that you haven't configured CVS for, well, he's dead, Jim. A scrambled text file isn't going to be any more recoverable than a scrambled binary.
You might not like binary formats. But I don't see how you can avoid them if you are really going to handle binary data well. Otherwise you are ducking the issue.
As far as using grep on a repository, yeah, I have done that too. It's ok if you have small projects. But for larger projects that is not a useful benefit. My current employer has an 11GB SourceUnsafe Repo that has to be a disaster in the making. And of course a $0 budget to move it to something else.
Subversion isn't the cureall either. It's got some bad design in it that has got me holding back from recommending it. What I want is stuff like keywork expansion in Unicode. Merge tracking. etc.
But at least it isn't a one man project like darcs. That would never fly for any sane corporation.
As others here have already pointed out, it says something about the quality of your corporate executive when firing her makes your company 9% more valuable.
I agree with that. In fact I worked for a Dow 30 company whose stock price DOUBLED the day it's CEO retired. He was a jerk. It really frosted my butt to think of the millions this guy raked in when he cashed in his stock options at the new higher price.
I wonder how much in $$$$$ that 9% jump means to Carly.
One thing I found a bit disconcerting is that the North/South directions are not indicated on the maps, especially the small bubbles that are shown at te start and endpoints when a route is displayed.
Others have mentioned power supplies taking out your data - but really the most likely cause of data loss is user error. Other good ways for your data to die in a RAID are controller problems and OS bugs trashing your file system.
DID NOT name this mysterious "D2" sample that was so much better than the others?
While it was not named, I think I can guess. Mitsui/MAM-A. They are stating now that their DVD-Rs are silver/phenothiazine based, which is the same chmistry that kicks serious butt with CD-Rs.
What will be interesting is to see if this chemistry holds up with Blu-Ray. The shorter wavelength may or may not be compatable with the dye.
You generally won't see gold/silver stabilized dye CDRs in stores. They are more expensive, so stores don't carry them. Look online for Mitsui or MAM-A. They certainly identify the dye system in their literature because it is well known to be vastly superior to the others.
It seems to me the best solution is the one where the scientific journal is paying the researcher
I would suspect that this would just result in an increase of the cost of the journal. It's just a shell game hiding the cost of the publication of these journals.
Scientific journals are a funny business. The circulations of the journals is very small, but the information in them can be very important in the long run. Clearly there is an external economy not accounted for in the direct economics. When that occurs the usual solution is to go outside the traditional economic models and get some sort of government regulatory involvement. That seems to be happening in an indirect manner now, with a distortion in the whole process of excess profits to the publisher. Some people are trying to do an end run around the existing process, but the very important tradition of peer review is threatened by this.
It is not going to be easy to come up with alternative to the current system.
The popular image that men of eminence are learning disabled promotes an aura of romanticism around the learning disabilities (LD) field. Albert Einstein, arguably the greatest scientist of all time, is usually at the top of the list of famous dyslexics.
According to LD lore Einstein failed to talk until the age of four, the result of a language disability. It is also claimed that Einstein could not read until the age of nine. To strengthen their case LD proponents point to such facts that Einstein failed his first attempt at entrance into college and lost three teaching positions in two years.
While this makes a nice story, this widely believed notion is false, according to Ronald W. Clark's comprehensive biography of Einstein, and according to Subtle is the Lord: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein, a biography by Abraham Pais (Oxford University Press, 1982).
Pais states that although his family had initial apprehensions that he might be backward because of the unusually long time before he began to talk, Einstein was speaking in whole sentences by some point between age two and three years. According to Clark, a far more plausible reason for his relatively late speech development is "the simpler situation suggested by Einstein's son Hans Albert, who says that his father was withdrawn from the world even as a boy." Whether one accepts this interpretation, other information helps us to judge Einstein's language abilities after he began to speak.
Einstein entered school at the age of six, and against popular belief did very well. When he was seven his mother wrote, "Yesterday Albert received his grades, he was again number one, his report card was brilliant." At the age of twelve Einstein was reading physics books. At thirteen, after reading the Critique of Pure Reason and the work of other philosophers, Einstein adopted Kant as his favorite author. About this time he also read Darwin. Pais states, "the widespread belief that he was a poor student is unfounded."
FAILING HIS COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMS
True, Einstein did not pass the college exam the first time he took it. However, aside from being only sixteen, two years below the usual age, the plain fact was he did not study for it. His father wanted his son to follow a technical occupation, a decision Einstein found difficult to confront directly. Consequently, as he later admitted, he avoided following the "unbearable" path of a "practical profession" by not preparing himself for the test.
It is also true that, after graduating from the university, Einstein had difficulty finding a post. This was mainly because his independent, intellectually rebellious nature made him, in his own words, "a pariah" in the academic community. One professor told him, "You have one fault; one can't tell you anything."
Also true is that Einstein went through three jobs in a short time, but not because of a learning disability. His first job was as a temporary research assistant, the second as temporary replacement for a professor who had to serve a two-month term in the army. Clark remarks that it is "difficult to discover but easy to imagine" why Einstein held his third job, as a teacher in a boarding school, for only a few months: "Einstein's ideas of minimum routine and minimum discipline were very different from those of his employer."
While CableCards in their current state have limitations in functionality, they also have some plusses:
1. Cheaper to rent than STBs. They are about 40% the cost of the STB.
2. Unified remote control. No separate remote for STB.
3. Better picture quality. Often your $4000 HDTV will have a much better tuner than what your $5/mo STB has. Plus there is no cable to run/degrade signals from the STB to the TV.
They have gotten so used to being taught that they find it impossible to do something they haven't learned or to learn through trial and error.
There is a lot of truth to that. Generally one of the best things about graduate school is that they remove the safety net and give you a chance to do something original. If you get a good advisor like I was fortunate enough to have it can be a truly mind expanding experience that puts you in a position to stand on your own.
I've been asked these questions travelling from the US to Canada, to France, to Korea and to the UK. The only place I wasn't asked these questions was on a trip to Chile. Perhaps it was because I was travelling with my wife, and she speaks better Spanish than I do.
Surely this isn't the first time that Doctrow has travelled internationally, so maybe AA was less polite about it. But it is certainly not unusual.
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"The plaintiffs allege that Apple failed to fully honor service contracts and warranties, didn't get repair and service businesses properly licensed, stole trade secrets from its own resellers, and sold used computer equipment as new."
I other words some lawyer's trophy wife wants a new yacht.
I have no problem with British beer. That is drink however, not food.
The last time I was in England I had a chance to listen to the speakers at Hyde Park Corner. One gentleman stood up and made the observation that if you travel around the world you will find Chinese restaurants, Italian restaurants, French, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, you name it. But never never an English restaurant. The point is obvious.
great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women.
If there is great food in the UK it must have come over on the Chunnel train from France. The UK has the worst food in the western hemisphere. Fish paste sandwiches YUCK.
The wonderful climate must be if you are allergic to sunlight. The rain and constant dreary grey skies make for a truly depressing lifestyle.
The women are beautiful to the residents of the UK because most have never been to Denmark.
According to well established history, the first application of this will be the porn industry. So it seems to me that the line between human-human sex and human-animal sex is likely to become quite blurred very soon.
Republican.
welcome our new half-man half-whatever overloards!
genetically engineered bacterium
Actually the Chakrabarty organism was not genetically engineered. It was the result of accelerating the process of natural selection by exposing naturally occuring organisms to supbrates containing PCBs until one was found that could live on PCBs as it's sole food source.
One, a vague sense of security, that if a file gets corrupted, I can at least make an attempt at manual repair.
The problem is that sense of security is very misplaced. CVS doesn't do any integrity checking. So you can easily have corruption problems and not know it until it is way too late. And if you add a binary that you haven't configured CVS for, well, he's dead, Jim. A scrambled text file isn't going to be any more recoverable than a scrambled binary.
You might not like binary formats. But I don't see how you can avoid them if you are really going to handle binary data well. Otherwise you are ducking the issue.
As far as using grep on a repository, yeah, I have done that too. It's ok if you have small projects. But for larger projects that is not a useful benefit. My current employer has an 11GB SourceUnsafe Repo that has to be a disaster in the making. And of course a $0 budget to move it to something else.
Subversion isn't the cureall either. It's got some bad design in it that has got me holding back from recommending it. What I want is stuff like keywork expansion in Unicode. Merge tracking. etc.
But at least it isn't a one man project like darcs. That would never fly for any sane corporation.
Subversion now has a file system version as well, so you aren't stuck with Bezerkly db if you don't like it.
As others here have already pointed out, it says something about the quality of your corporate executive when firing her makes your company 9% more valuable.
I agree with that. In fact I worked for a Dow 30 company whose stock price DOUBLED the day it's CEO retired. He was a jerk. It really frosted my butt to think of the millions this guy raked in when he cashed in his stock options at the new higher price.
I wonder how much in $$$$$ that 9% jump means to Carly.
Superb design and functionality.
One thing I found a bit disconcerting is that the North/South directions are not indicated on the maps, especially the small bubbles that are shown at te start and endpoints when a route is displayed.
Others have mentioned power supplies taking out your data - but really the most likely cause of data loss is user error. Other good ways for your data to die in a RAID are controller problems and OS bugs trashing your file system.
DID NOT name this mysterious "D2" sample that was so much better than the others?
While it was not named, I think I can guess. Mitsui/MAM-A. They are stating now that their DVD-Rs are silver/phenothiazine based, which is the same chmistry that kicks serious butt with CD-Rs.
What will be interesting is to see if this chemistry holds up with Blu-Ray. The shorter wavelength may or may not be compatable with the dye.
You generally won't see gold/silver stabilized dye CDRs in stores. They are more expensive, so stores don't carry them. Look online for Mitsui or MAM-A. They certainly identify the dye system in their literature because it is well known to be vastly superior to the others.
Mitsui licensed the process to Kodak, and still sells the Gold/Silver CD-Rs under either the Mitsui or MAM-A trade names.
That, or clay tablets. Nothing else comes close. And I'm not joking.
Well, my data only has to last another 50 years or so. After that I'll certainly not care.
Clay tablets bring new meaning to the term data density with their low bytes per pound.
It seems to me the best solution is the one where the scientific journal is paying the researcher
I would suspect that this would just result in an increase of the cost of the journal. It's just a shell game hiding the cost of the publication of these journals.
Scientific journals are a funny business. The circulations of the journals is very small, but the information in them can be very important in the long run. Clearly there is an external economy not accounted for in the direct economics. When that occurs the usual solution is to go outside the traditional economic models and get some sort of government regulatory involvement. That seems to be happening in an indirect manner now, with a distortion in the whole process of excess profits to the publisher. Some people are trying to do an end run around the existing process, but the very important tradition of peer review is threatened by this.
It is not going to be easy to come up with alternative to the current system.
Sounds like a definite candidate for this year's Ig Noble prize in biology.
You know HDTV is digital, right? It either comes in or it doesn't..
You also know that most cable boxes have component analog output, and that most cable systems more than a few analog stations too, right?
From his biographers
The popular image that men of eminence are learning disabled promotes an aura of romanticism around the learning disabilities (LD) field. Albert Einstein, arguably the greatest scientist of all time, is usually at the top of the list of famous dyslexics.
According to LD lore Einstein failed to talk until the age of four, the result of a language disability. It is also claimed that Einstein could not read until the age of nine. To strengthen their case LD proponents point to such facts that Einstein failed his first attempt at entrance into college and lost three teaching positions in two years.
While this makes a nice story, this widely believed notion is false, according to Ronald W. Clark's comprehensive biography of Einstein, and according to Subtle is the Lord: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein, a biography by Abraham Pais (Oxford University Press, 1982).
Pais states that although his family had initial apprehensions that he might be backward because of the unusually long time before he began to talk, Einstein was speaking in whole sentences by some point between age two and three years. According to Clark, a far more plausible reason for his relatively late speech development is "the simpler situation suggested by Einstein's son Hans Albert, who says that his father was withdrawn from the world even as a boy." Whether one accepts this interpretation, other information helps us to judge Einstein's language abilities after he began to speak.
Einstein entered school at the age of six, and against popular belief did very well. When he was seven his mother wrote, "Yesterday Albert received his grades, he was again number one, his report card was brilliant." At the age of twelve Einstein was reading physics books. At thirteen, after reading the Critique of Pure Reason and the work of other philosophers, Einstein adopted Kant as his favorite author. About this time he also read Darwin. Pais states, "the widespread belief that he was a poor student is unfounded."
FAILING HIS COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMS
True, Einstein did not pass the college exam the first time he took it. However, aside from being only sixteen, two years below the usual age, the plain fact was he did not study for it. His father wanted his son to follow a technical occupation, a decision Einstein found difficult to confront directly. Consequently, as he later admitted, he avoided following the "unbearable" path of a "practical profession" by not preparing himself for the test.
It is also true that, after graduating from the university, Einstein had difficulty finding a post. This was mainly because his independent, intellectually rebellious nature made him, in his own words, "a pariah" in the academic community. One professor told him, "You have one fault; one can't tell you anything."
Also true is that Einstein went through three jobs in a short time, but not because of a learning disability. His first job was as a temporary research assistant, the second as temporary replacement for a professor who had to serve a two-month term in the army. Clark remarks that it is "difficult to discover but easy to imagine" why Einstein held his third job, as a teacher in a boarding school, for only a few months: "Einstein's ideas of minimum routine and minimum discipline were very different from those of his employer."
While CableCards in their current state have limitations in functionality, they also have some plusses:
1. Cheaper to rent than STBs. They are about 40% the cost of the STB.
2. Unified remote control. No separate remote for STB.
3. Better picture quality. Often your $4000 HDTV will have a much better tuner than what your $5/mo STB has. Plus there is no cable to run/degrade signals from the STB to the TV.
They have gotten so used to being taught that they find it impossible to do something they haven't learned or to learn through trial and error.
There is a lot of truth to that. Generally one of the best things about graduate school is that they remove the safety net and give you a chance to do something original. If you get a good advisor like I was fortunate enough to have it can be a truly mind expanding experience that puts you in a position to stand on your own.
I remember reading that Einstein was considered a "slow learner" back in school
Urban legend. Einstein was an outstanding student.
It requires MS SQL Server 2003.
I've been asked these questions travelling from the US to Canada, to France, to Korea and to the UK. The only place I wasn't asked these questions was on a trip to Chile. Perhaps it was because I was travelling with my wife, and she speaks better Spanish than I do.
Surely this isn't the first time that Doctrow has travelled internationally, so maybe AA was less polite about it. But it is certainly not unusual.