(from snpp.com) Bart: Telegram for Lisa Simpson. [mimes opening an envelope] Homer: [to Lisa] Don't listen! It's a trick. Bart: Dear Lisa: Psych! Psych, psych, psych. Signed, Super-
psych. Homer: [to Lisa] I think he's trying to psych you out. Marge: Look, we're all trying to have dinner. So why don't we
just -- psych, psych, psych! -- "Tennis the Menace"
1) He's not CTO. He's COO and President.
Greg Papadopoulos is CTO.
2) This is not some official PR vaporware announcement. It's some entry in his blog.
3) If anything, for things like this, I trust the execs that can read C code over the ones that can read a balance and income statement. Nothing worse than management who thinks "Things will just work" and underestimate the technical resources and time required to accomplish tasks.
From Tim Keown of ESPN:
When high-brow attempts middle-brow, hilarity ensues: As just part of what you can learn by reading the sports stories in The New Yorker, there's this description of a knuckleball from Robert K. Adair, professor emeritus at Yale and the author of "The Physics of Baseball" -- "To understand how a knuckleball works, it helps to have a basic familiarity with Bernoulli's principle, the Magnus effect, and the Prandtl boundary-layer theory, for a start."
The word proof never appears in the pr response. So I guess the quotes around proof in Greyfox's post are the hand-waving quotes, not the quote-unquote quotes.
Let's see some articles about small companies put out of business for no reason by large companies with software patents. I'm not convinced this happens that much. I'm don't mean MS fighting back at a company that tries to sue it. I'm talking about IBM hearing that a new company exists and just suing it out of the blue (no pun intended).
The only quote from a movie exec is "In the old days...You could buy your gross for the weekend and overcome bad word of mouth, because it took time to filter out into the general audience."
Now, from that we get "Movie execs say text messaging is too blame"?
The real way to solve this is physical violence. Of course, if you're an ump athletes of this capability are only 60 feet, 6 inches away. Nice job Curt
I would like to point out that most companies are not patenting everything possible so they can control the world. My company, a large well-known systems company has about 3000 patents (not IBM, who has 30,000). We have never actively sued someone for patent infrigment. Once we went after someone who sued us for another reason and we counter-sued with patents in hand. But 99% of the time we wait for a start-up or even a large company to come after us and then attend the meeting with 10-15 of our patents in hand.
Actually, now the large companies are using patents defensively. Instead of saying "OK, we'll pay the $20 million" they say "OK, but we have 10 patents that you infringed on. Let's just call it even".
Here's my beef with MLB. mlb.com (which is powered by Sun no-less) lets you hear RealPlayer broadcasts of the audio games. Spring training is free and works great. Once the season starts it's a nominal fee but they use this RealPlayerOnePlusPlus bloated software that only comes on Windows. So I have no way to listen at work! I would gladly pay $20 to hear Cubs games all season.
Proof of what? That I went to Michigan (I can tell describe the smell of each North Campus lab)? That they hire tons of minority interns (you can check the BEECS events and giveaways at such events to see how MS is all over them). As for the fact that there were no minorities present (which I assume is what you really wanted proof of), well, what can I say? You'll have to just trust me.
At Michigan, just about every minority computer engineering student was a Microsoft intern. Yet when I went out to interview for a full-time job there was not a single minority student out there. Microsoft uses their internship program to boost their diversity numbers.
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"Of course,..." [5 dahes, a semi-colon, and a colon later] "...online lexicography"
It won't help much for submission grammar.
Is it like the cleaner or the Dutch football team?
100% faster? Let's see, if I type 60 words per minute now, this keyboard will have me typing 0 words per minute. That's incredible.
Scott has already dismissed this.r umor/2100-7341_3-5689924.html
http://news.com.com/McNealy+dismisses+Sun+buyout+
the longest website title I've ever seen.
(from snpp.com)
Bart: Telegram for Lisa Simpson. [mimes opening an envelope]
Homer: [to Lisa] Don't listen! It's a trick.
Bart: Dear Lisa: Psych! Psych, psych, psych. Signed, Super-
psych.
Homer: [to Lisa] I think he's trying to psych you out.
Marge: Look, we're all trying to have dinner. So why don't we
just -- psych, psych, psych!
-- "Tennis the Menace"
1) He's not CTO. He's COO and President. Greg Papadopoulos is CTO.
2) This is not some official PR vaporware announcement. It's some entry in his blog.
3) If anything, for things like this, I trust the execs that can read C code over the ones that can read a balance and income statement. Nothing worse than management who thinks "Things will just work" and underestimate the technical resources and time required to accomplish tasks.
From Tim Keown of ESPN: When high-brow attempts middle-brow, hilarity ensues: As just part of what you can learn by reading the sports stories in The New Yorker, there's this description of a knuckleball from Robert K. Adair, professor emeritus at Yale and the author of "The Physics of Baseball" -- "To understand how a knuckleball works, it helps to have a basic familiarity with Bernoulli's principle, the Magnus effect, and the Prandtl boundary-layer theory, for a start."
The word proof never appears in the pr response. So I guess the quotes around proof in Greyfox's post are the hand-waving quotes, not the quote-unquote quotes.
Yeah, that's a great example. Show me proof of when MS, IBM, Dell, Sun, etc has done this.
Let's see some articles about small companies put out of business for no reason by large companies with software patents. I'm not convinced this happens that much. I'm don't mean MS fighting back at a company that tries to sue it. I'm talking about IBM hearing that a new company exists and just suing it out of the blue (no pun intended).
The only quote from a movie exec is "In the old days ...You could buy your gross for the weekend and overcome bad word of mouth, because it took time to filter out into the general audience."
Now, from that we get "Movie execs say text messaging is too blame"?
I must be missing something here.
The real way to solve this is physical violence. Of course, if you're an ump athletes of this capability are only 60 feet, 6 inches away.
Nice job Curt
I would like to point out that most companies are not patenting everything possible so they can control the world. My company, a large well-known systems company has about 3000 patents (not IBM, who has 30,000). We have never actively sued someone for patent infrigment. Once we went after someone who sued us for another reason and we counter-sued with patents in hand. But 99% of the time we wait for a start-up or even a large company to come after us and then attend the meeting with 10-15 of our patents in hand.
Once again this is something that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAY!!! (or at least 12 hours ago).
While you're at it, the correct English would be "Apple hasn't".
Actually, now the large companies are using patents defensively. Instead of saying "OK, we'll pay the $20 million" they say "OK, but we have 10 patents that you infringed on. Let's just call it even".
Here's my beef with MLB. mlb.com (which is powered by Sun no-less) lets you hear RealPlayer broadcasts of the audio games. Spring training is free and works great. Once the season starts it's a nominal fee but they use this RealPlayerOnePlusPlus bloated software that only comes on Windows. So I have no way to listen at work! I would gladly pay $20 to hear Cubs games all season.
Proof of what? That I went to Michigan (I can tell describe the smell of each North Campus lab)? That they hire tons of minority interns (you can check the BEECS events and giveaways at such events to see how MS is all over them). As for the fact that there were no minorities present (which I assume is what you really wanted proof of), well, what can I say? You'll have to just trust me.
At Michigan, just about every minority computer engineering student was a Microsoft intern. Yet when I went out to interview for a full-time job there was not a single minority student out there. Microsoft uses their internship program to boost their diversity numbers.