Being able to develop theories, without worrying some lawyer will come pounding on your door, claiming you are infringing this copyright or that patent.
Dear Sir, it would pleasure us if you would cease and desist with observations on gravity as our client holds the patent on Apples Falling From Trees And Striking A Person Upon The Head. Should you continue with in your present direction we shall have you summoned to the King's Court and sort you out. Dewey, Cheatham & Howe, LLP
Of course they had their battles, who stole an idea from who, but it was usually sorted out with a lot of yelling and smearing of reputation, rather than getting solicitors involved.
You just have to move to a remote mountain town here in the rockies and get real good at farming, ez right?
Sure....
I've read enough to know those little backcountry mountain towns are the power base for the invasive state security apparatus, "I don't care if a few eggs get broken, just so the one or two things we actually care about get overturned or banned." That attitude, on the part of millions of rural Americans paved the way for Iraq.
"Many are upset, however, that the setting defaults to allowing the display of "acceptable" advertisements."
Considering the "acceptable" advertisement criteria (no animations, sounds or similar) I've no problem with that. Text or static ads are welcome, particularly if they are paying the bills for what I'm reading. I intensely despise video/audio ads, anything animated and will stop what I'm doing to kill them dead and do whatever is necessary to never see them again. Pretty galling what some people seem to consider acceptable advertising behaviour. It's really bad when you have two audio/video ads playing at the same time.
A government agency does not want to hand over information that may link it to abusing its power. I've never heard of such a thing. Maybe Eric Holder is advising them as to handle the situation.
Perhaps Putin made some of his fortune as an adviser.
You know, it's bad enough that ISP's, Verizon definitely included, are using bandwidth caps now, which limits the attraction of a service like Netflix.
It's bad enough that Verizon charges you extra to use functions on your phone that don't have a damn thing to do with their network at all (Mobile Hotspot).
I don't think I want to know how they manage to ruin Netflix, if they were to snatch it up.
They'll work it like eBay/PayPal. You sell on eBay, they require you to pay through Paypal.
So Verizon (or Verizster, or whatever they'll be) sets you up with the video/movie you want to watch, then pounds you for the additional overage fee. What's not to like? (from their perspective.)
After their recent misstetp they'll likely be a bargain buy. Expect Verizon to only be interested in the technology, IP and media rights portfolio, while they ditch the people who are running the company.
I'll take some cattle rustlers over militarized police chasing cattle rustlers any day, thanks. Much like the cure/disease metaphor, not every policing measure targeting every crime improves society, even if successful...
Not the rancher, I take it. Funny thing, people are all over the Big Gummint and it's intrusion into their live and property, until that same Big Gummint catches the vermin who have been helping themselves to cattle. Now if that same drone finds the farmer's weed crop in the back forty, they'll be on again about Evil Big Gummint.
I certainly can see a lot of good use for these things - Search and Rescue, scouting forest fires, avalanche control (have one that drops small explosives to trigger intended avalance)...
Though I'm not particularly looking forward to the day the CHP use them to hand out tickets...
Lots of military gear makes its way to civilian police, that is pretty normal.
The time to freak out is when they get armed.
The DHS has been doing this for years - huge budget and give-aways which have left some local LEO's bewildered, such as the Armored ATV some Kentucky sheriffs department recieved. I mean, what are you going to do with with that thing, go Rambo on some moonshiners?
Might as well buy a Kia and complain that it's not as polished of a driving experience as a BMW.
Oddly enough, I rented a Kia several months ago and found it a highly competent car. Didn't have leather seats or seat warmers, but it still accellerated well, was comfortable to ride in and handled well in rain and snow.
As go the Kindle Fire, I saw somewhere there's a planned update for it to address some of the complaints. Once again - Sell now, fix bugs later - as a business model. So this is the future, eh? What next, hand you a box of components you take to a store for them to assemble?
Wrong. In American capitalism, if your company isn't constantly growing or constantly making a bigger profit, then it's "dying". Then your stock will be downgraded by ratings agencies and stockholders will sell it off.
It isn't true for privately-held companies, but for publicly-traded companies it is.
What rubbish!
Go back to playing your video games, twittering or posting your life to Facebook and leave assessment of corporate growth, finances and stock prices to people who have at least a middling understanding of them.
Never seen a stock price go up when a company slashed workforce? That's not what you do when you are growing a company, you're hiring when you are growing (or at the very least you are contracting labour to be performed for your company.) It's hardly anecdotal, either, with decades of this behaviour - Company X culls 4,500 positions in cost savings, stock goes up. Paring losses when a company has stagnated or the market for goods is in decline is alleged to keep a company competitive, but in reality only results in less red in the ledger. Growing companies are rarely turning a profit as net earnings are regularly turned back into the company for expansion. The bet on stock price is for the future of the company when growth tails off and it is making big profits without expending much more on growth or maintaining its position in the market.
Shrinking companies are highly profitable, if only for a few years (until the keystone employees have left) There are vultures who know this and buy up companies only to gut their cash reserves, sell off properties (including IP) and then flip them (re-list on stock exchange) or simply run into the ground (as was done to one of my previous employers.)
SSDs came long long after 1 tera hard disks, so no ssd prices won't drop as a result of this, not by much more than they are already declining anyways. I'd just assume everybody ALREADY HAS their spinning disk storage solution, and if not your timing makes you unlucky unless you can hold off, the prices really are bs right now.
I'm waiting to see how well SSDs hold up. Probably a couple years before I buy a large one. I've had some poor luck with high density non-volatile memory and am interested in the durability and reliability of SSDs.
Something about the way they reached the $1 billion figure smells fishy to me...
Somewhere I saw the figure on how much of their income comes from commodity PCs vs servers - servers are where the money is. Servers without drives would still be in demand, but servers with drives wouldn't meet demand. Not sure what the split is now. I don't think Intel makes much off storage devices.
Well, who would have foreseen this?!? Aside about 10,000 slashdotters, that is.
Planning to build some heavy lifting workstations, have them all spec'd out and all, but everything is on hold until the price on 3TB drives comes back down.
Really sad, too, as I believe Windows CHKDSK corrupted one of my older drives with it's half-arsed attempt to clean it. Anyone know of a good tool to try recovering directory structure and data?
The DPRK is a prime example of why pretty much any real form of Socialism will not work. Ever. I wish the useful idiots within OWS would realize this...but, that's unlikely.
DPRK is not socialist - it's a tyrannical oligarchy. Sweden is more socialist than DPRK.
The horrible state of things in DPRK reminds of what was once a joke, but now reflect sobering reality...
Under Capitalism man exploits man, under Communism it's the other way around.
The state collects everything from these people and gives very little back - effectively the biggest parasite in the country is the military, which consumes the lion's share of the GDP, with of course, the creme given to the top leaders. It's all about sustaining the Kim dynasty in the most brutal, depraved means possible.
OWS are rightly concerned with the declining middle class and the accumulation of wealth and subsequent political power in the top 1% Where does the United States see itself if this trend continues? A nation of apartment blocks, where inhabitants exist solely to support the top 1% who own and control everything?
Across the pond, the American film industry routinely destroyed films after they had been run through theatres in the 1930's, 40's and 50's. Storing film required space and controlled atmosphere so many originals were burned in backlots rather than keep them. Most studios had no plan to redistribute or broadcast on television. Such was their vision. Makes the whole MPAA issue over copying sound laughable, doesn't it?
Slashdot Mirror
Egads! How can you compare reading 16th century works to light?
It helps if you were brought up reading prose.
Like, totally forsooth and verily, dude!
Being able to develop theories, without worrying some lawyer will come pounding on your door, claiming you are infringing this copyright or that patent.
Dear Sir, it would pleasure us if you would cease and desist with observations on gravity as our client holds the patent on Apples Falling From Trees And Striking A Person Upon The Head. Should you continue with in your present direction we shall have you summoned to the King's Court and sort you out. Dewey, Cheatham & Howe, LLP
Of course they had their battles, who stole an idea from who, but it was usually sorted out with a lot of yelling and smearing of reputation, rather than getting solicitors involved.
Do you realize...
you can live life w/o google and facebook?
You just have to move to a remote mountain town here in the rockies and get real good at farming, ez right?
Sure....
I've read enough to know those little backcountry mountain towns are the power base for the invasive state security apparatus, "I don't care if a few eggs get broken, just so the one or two things we actually care about get overturned or banned." That attitude, on the part of millions of rural Americans paved the way for Iraq.
"Many are upset, however, that the setting defaults to allowing the display of "acceptable" advertisements."
Considering the "acceptable" advertisement criteria (no animations, sounds or similar) I've no problem with that. Text or static ads are welcome, particularly if they are paying the bills for what I'm reading. I intensely despise video/audio ads, anything animated and will stop what I'm doing to kill them dead and do whatever is necessary to never see them again. Pretty galling what some people seem to consider acceptable advertising behaviour. It's really bad when you have two audio/video ads playing at the same time.
A government agency does not want to hand over information that may link it to abusing its power. I've never heard of such a thing. Maybe Eric Holder is advising them as to handle the situation.
Perhaps Putin made some of his fortune as an adviser.
being an ex-cagey bee and all...
The rule is: If we don't want you to know, then there's an applicable exemption to the rule.
And we know where you were last Summer...
You know, it's bad enough that ISP's, Verizon definitely included, are using bandwidth caps now, which limits the attraction of a service like Netflix.
It's bad enough that Verizon charges you extra to use functions on your phone that don't have a damn thing to do with their network at all (Mobile Hotspot).
I don't think I want to know how they manage to ruin Netflix, if they were to snatch it up.
They'll work it like eBay/PayPal. You sell on eBay, they require you to pay through Paypal.
So Verizon (or Verizster, or whatever they'll be) sets you up with the video/movie you want to watch, then pounds you for the additional overage fee. What's not to like? (from their perspective.)
After their recent misstetp they'll likely be a bargain buy. Expect Verizon to only be interested in the technology, IP and media rights portfolio, while they ditch the people who are running the company.
this story says otherwise:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/12/sovereign-citizens-members-arrested-with-help-of-predator-drone/
they weren't cattle rustlers, but members of "Sovereign Citizens" movement.
And who are they, pray tell, some people with a "from each herd according to availability, to each larder according to capacity" point of view?
I'll take some cattle rustlers over militarized police chasing cattle rustlers any day, thanks. Much like the cure/disease metaphor, not every policing measure targeting every crime improves society, even if successful...
Not the rancher, I take it. Funny thing, people are all over the Big Gummint and it's intrusion into their live and property, until that same Big Gummint catches the vermin who have been helping themselves to cattle. Now if that same drone finds the farmer's weed crop in the back forty, they'll be on again about Evil Big Gummint.
I certainly can see a lot of good use for these things - Search and Rescue, scouting forest fires, avalanche control (have one that drops small explosives to trigger intended avalance)...
Though I'm not particularly looking forward to the day the CHP use them to hand out tickets...
Lots of military gear makes its way to civilian police, that is pretty normal.
The time to freak out is when they get armed.
The DHS has been doing this for years - huge budget and give-aways which have left some local LEO's bewildered, such as the Armored ATV some Kentucky sheriffs department recieved. I mean, what are you going to do with with that thing, go Rambo on some moonshiners?
three men accused of cattle rustling with the help of a Predator B drone
You know, the story would have been a lot cooler this way.
I see a potential excuse for the US DoD on that captured drone in Iran...
"Yes, we were pursuing some cattle rustlers."
Need Jon Lovitz to make it credible.
Might as well buy a Kia and complain that it's not as polished of a driving experience as a BMW.
Oddly enough, I rented a Kia several months ago and found it a highly competent car. Didn't have leather seats or seat warmers, but it still accellerated well, was comfortable to ride in and handled well in rain and snow.
As go the Kindle Fire, I saw somewhere there's a planned update for it to address some of the complaints. Once again - Sell now, fix bugs later - as a business model. So this is the future, eh? What next, hand you a box of components you take to a store for them to assemble?
This won't solve anything.
The Kirk or Picard, who was best, argument will go on forever.
and it was Kirk!
Wrong. In American capitalism, if your company isn't constantly growing or constantly making a bigger profit, then it's "dying". Then your stock will be downgraded by ratings agencies and stockholders will sell it off.
It isn't true for privately-held companies, but for publicly-traded companies it is.
What rubbish!
Go back to playing your video games, twittering or posting your life to Facebook and leave assessment of corporate growth, finances and stock prices to people who have at least a middling understanding of them.
Never seen a stock price go up when a company slashed workforce? That's not what you do when you are growing a company, you're hiring when you are growing (or at the very least you are contracting labour to be performed for your company.) It's hardly anecdotal, either, with decades of this behaviour - Company X culls 4,500 positions in cost savings, stock goes up. Paring losses when a company has stagnated or the market for goods is in decline is alleged to keep a company competitive, but in reality only results in less red in the ledger. Growing companies are rarely turning a profit as net earnings are regularly turned back into the company for expansion. The bet on stock price is for the future of the company when growth tails off and it is making big profits without expending much more on growth or maintaining its position in the market.
Shrinking companies are highly profitable, if only for a few years (until the keystone employees have left) There are vultures who know this and buy up companies only to gut their cash reserves, sell off properties (including IP) and then flip them (re-list on stock exchange) or simply run into the ground (as was done to one of my previous employers.)
So, they're using AMD processors?
I'm certain AMD are feeling the pinch, as well.
The MPAA must really be getting desperate. I guess owning Congress just isn't what it used to be.
Probably going to throw the clamps on everyone who ever offered Free Wi-Fi and that wi-fi was used to torrent.
"Mr. Starbucks, you owe us 1 million dollars!" *whisper* *whisper* "make that 100 billion dollars!!"
SSDs came long long after 1 tera hard disks, so no ssd prices won't drop as a result of this, not by much more than they are already declining anyways. I'd just assume everybody ALREADY HAS their spinning disk storage solution, and if not your timing makes you unlucky unless you can hold off, the prices really are bs right now.
I'm waiting to see how well SSDs hold up. Probably a couple years before I buy a large one. I've had some poor luck with high density non-volatile memory and am interested in the durability and reliability of SSDs.
Something about the way they reached the $1 billion figure smells fishy to me...
Somewhere I saw the figure on how much of their income comes from commodity PCs vs servers - servers are where the money is. Servers without drives would still be in demand, but servers with drives wouldn't meet demand. Not sure what the split is now. I don't think Intel makes much off storage devices.
Well, who would have foreseen this?!? Aside about 10,000 slashdotters, that is.
Planning to build some heavy lifting workstations, have them all spec'd out and all, but everything is on hold until the price on 3TB drives comes back down.
Really sad, too, as I believe Windows CHKDSK corrupted one of my older drives with it's half-arsed attempt to clean it. Anyone know of a good tool to try recovering directory structure and data?
The DPRK is a prime example of why pretty much any real form of Socialism will not work. Ever. I wish the useful idiots within OWS would realize this...but, that's unlikely.
DPRK is not socialist - it's a tyrannical oligarchy. Sweden is more socialist than DPRK.
The horrible state of things in DPRK reminds of what was once a joke, but now reflect sobering reality...
Under Capitalism man exploits man, under Communism it's the other way around.
The state collects everything from these people and gives very little back - effectively the biggest parasite in the country is the military, which consumes the lion's share of the GDP, with of course, the creme given to the top leaders. It's all about sustaining the Kim dynasty in the most brutal, depraved means possible.
OWS are rightly concerned with the declining middle class and the accumulation of wealth and subsequent political power in the top 1% Where does the United States see itself if this trend continues? A nation of apartment blocks, where inhabitants exist solely to support the top 1% who own and control everything?
Across the pond, the American film industry routinely destroyed films after they had been run through theatres in the 1930's, 40's and 50's. Storing film required space and controlled atmosphere so many originals were burned in backlots rather than keep them. Most studios had no plan to redistribute or broadcast on television. Such was their vision. Makes the whole MPAA issue over copying sound laughable, doesn't it?
just time-shifted. Get your facts straight, DW fans!
In an infinite number of universes there are an infinite number of "Lost Episodes".
Get used to it.
That might still be difficult, there's a metric ton of retconning in that series.
To survive Dr. Who fandom, one must not only successfully disconnect from reality, but from time itself.
Nano-Steampunk Technology!
I'm certaian Studio Foglio could make something of this .. maybe even son nano jagrs.