It's very difficult to believe what he is saying as it comes from MS.
Very. Probably say something such as "I'd like my Linux device to work with it" or "I'd like my Linux games to run on it" and he'd show some different colours.
I hope for the sake of the consumers, that he get's his way.
And if Sony or Apple were to call me up and say, "Hey, we want to some special things with the 360," I'm on it. I think it would not be in anybody's interest to say, we're not going to work with 360. It's good for them, it's good for us, and it's good for consumers.'"
For Apple or Sony to approach him is a very large 'IF'.
Sony wants to sell its PS[n], while it may be good for the camera end of Sony or the Music end of Sony, they're probably not so far
apart these days as to assist a competitor of the video game console end of Sony.
Microsoft's Corporate Vice President Chief Architect J. Allard said he wants to work with competitors on the XBox 360.
"Come in to my parlour", said the spider to the fly.
I'm sorry to hear that you don't think cheaper clean water isn't going to make for a better world...
This is you talking, not me. But since you were so off initially I figure this is the only way you figure you can save any face, by building a straw-man and then knocking it down.
Sally Ramsey, Ecology Coatings' co-founder and chief chemist, developed the coatings in the early 1990s while looking for an environmentally friendly protective layer for metal products"
To quote the internet, "owned"
Sorry, but that's not in the criteria to apply for the award, it's simply a characteristic of an award winner. You really must try to see the difference.
Parent is an unfair characterization of the WSJ article. Obviously we are talking about companies with a profit motive here, but even nonprofit international aid and development organizations talk about the profit motive-- in the form of "sustainable development." The article specifically cites inventions that are not financially rewarding, for example
"Clean water is not sexy, and $20 a year won't make anyone rich," says Robert Drost, a scientist at Sun Microsystems Inc.
from the overall Honorable mention award. The overall Silver went to a company that is reducing toxic pollutants and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions through energy reduction.
Show me where in this criteria it is mentioned 'altruism', 'environment-friendly' or 'non-profit'
Does the innovation represent a breakthrough from conventional ideas or methods in its field, and does it go beyond incremental improvements on technologies that already exist? Some judges also considered the utility of the innovation.
I see no evidence that the choices will actually lead to a better world. Most will undoubtably spur business, which is very exciting to Wall Street, but nothing bars me from inventing a better thumb-screw or process for manufacturing it and being barred from entering the competition, does it?
How many of these companies will actually be around in 2 years? Great products don't always translate into success.
Their IP will live on forever and be accumulated by some little holding company with a PO Box in rural Wisconsin. A year after any company produces a product anything like what their portfolio includes and they'll up-end the Bucket o' Laywers and it's Game On!
I thought Mini-ITX was a somewhat industry standard form factor? Didn't realize this one guy was responsible for the whole thing!
He also invented Basebale and then he hit the first Homerun! Yeah, that's the ticket!
I remember seeing cabinets, motherboards, etc. even partially assembled ones for sale at a local shop, a couple years ago. This may be interesting to anyone who hasn't built or bought one and is thinking about doing that. As for me I use my Big PC (Tiamat) to cool the apartment in the summer, with it's massive fans, and heat it in the winter, by disconnecting a few.
What I really want to know, however, is why a Mini ITX article, now, without a Pumpkin wrapped around it?
That story is about comment spam, where as this is about people creating spam blogs
Spam in blogs isn't even new. I've seen short comments, best wishes, etc. on blogs for the last couple years, which are then followed by a plug, something like the following:
That's a very interesting point you have raised and deserves great consideration. You might also want to consider visiting my vitamin and supplements site at www.vitacrap.com/~jimbob
Allowing HTML as part of a post is pretty much asking for it.
It's cool how sometimes the shows could even get away with making fun of the sponsor (listen to how Phil Harris' show treated Rex-All). *That* would probably not work these days.
Oh, I don't know. I've seen a number of shows where good natured fun is poked at a sponsor. It doesn't really hurt and possibly helps.
Harlo was notorious for hawking the Johnson Wax Glo-Coat on Fibber McGee, which even the other characters would often mock lightly ("Here it comes, folks.")
Bill Goodwin was portrayed as a rascally character on the Burns & Allen Show, promoting Maxwell House Coffee and Swan Soap (I've nearly got his sales pitch memorized by now!), frequently in funny and even roaringly funny ways.
t was explained to me this way when I was researching the cost of medicine in New Zealand versus the USA. "Look mate, we got rid of all the lawyers in the system and can actually afford to provide healthcare to every single one of our citizens as well as many visitors to our country". Perhaps that is a little simplistic, but there is an element of truth to that.
It's called the Lawyer Tax. Attorneys get their cut of everything, good or bad, for seeing to it that you're protected against greedy, unethical people who are only too happy to make it your fault that something they did blew up on them.
Of course, Microsoft's many faults do very little to help. To be fair, if it wasn't them, it would probably be somebody else.
With the energy company, it's them you sue when you disconnected the gas stove youself, instead of calling them and your house blows up as a result. With tech companies, it's nothing new, Borroughs used to get sued all the time for misrepresenting their products.
Heineken will end TV adverts in the UK due to perception of declining connection with the
core market, 18-26 year olds. It was mentioned on the BBC World Service that a possible
further consideration was the use of Sky+ and TiVo which allow viewers to skip commercials.
It could also be that the core group spend more time on the internet than watching TV.
So less return on television advertising, thanks to the evolution of technology, and what
future does this have for television entertainment, if the place to advertise isn't the tube?
Product placement, I suppose. Let's have a surreptitious party on the show with people having what
is undeniably a very good time and feature Heineken cans/bottles, perhaps have an actor say, "this Heineken
beer is excellent, much more flavourful then other leading brands."
Harlo Wilcox, Don Wilson and Bill Goodwin, your kind we shall meet again.
A. Employees bring in knowlege and train themselves on the rest.
B. Accept task requests
C. If too many task requests then
1. Deny addtional requests
2. Have users fight among themselves to determine what is highest priority
D. Work until you feel like going home. (if you like your job this may be late)
E. Be criticized for when you come in, despite having worked until x:xx AM previous night.
F. When time permits (often on employees on time) develop or research powerful new tools that make everyone's
life easier with greater access to higher quality information and services.
G. Department gets outsourced to a bunch of chislers who end up providing terrible products and service because they
adhere rigidly to terms of the contract.
H. Bonuses all around for executives.
(Ok, that was real and I'm still bitter about it...)
Seriously, you need to develop Positions. A position has defined certain skills and responsibilities and commensurate compensation. Set up a number of these like
Webmonkey I, II, III, IV,... When there is a need for a certain skill and responsibilty, assign the position to it and open it up for candidates to apply for.
I really doubt the guys at PA needed all that extra readers to make a 10K donation, their site has a huge fan base built with years of witty and humorous comics and news comments, and besides that, they hold an annual charity event called Child's Play, which brings about 500K in donations every year. This was just to sting Jack Thompson's pride a bit.
Oh, I know all about PA, I've been a reader for years. I was even a donor when they were still struggling. Certain injunctions could sting them and, like the American McGee incident, could run a bit of egg down their faces as well.
I've saved that American McGee drawing somewhere. It really wasn't as good as all the fuss made it out to be. National Lampoon, ages ago did a Strawberry Cheesecake which was far more outrageous (and funny.)
It's going to happen very soon now, as Jack is getting loonier and loonier. He keeps dancing around direct legal threats, because he knows what will happen. Soon he will slip, and soon after that he won't be a lawyer anymore, and won't THAT be a shame?
How, pray, does an attorney get disbarred for being a loonie? Half the western governments would lose representatives, MPs, etc. on that claim. More to the point:
He has now called the cops claiming harassment.
He will now harass PA and the thing is, he knows full well how to do it and could make PA suffer in the short run.
I have no doubts he has nary a leg to stand on, bringing this all upon himself by raising himself to a Public Figure, which surrenders certain protections.
What's it like to grow up with a name like Gaiman?
It's got to be rough.
I thought Anansi Boys would be somehow a play on the term 'nancy boys', which means bluntly 'girly men', but it isn't.
When I've heard Neil pronounce his own name he says it pretty fast, as if it were one syllable -- no accent stressed anywhere. Maybe he's heard enough about it over the years and pronounces it that way for a reason, you'd have to ask him as I sure don't know. You might also wonder if Phillip K. Dick had issues with teasing kids. Or even Philippe Kahn being called a nut (p. kahn, get it?)
I highly recommend Anansi Boys, I'm halfway through it and it's as entertaining as Good Omens with considerably more imagination.
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Very. Probably say something such as "I'd like my Linux device to work with it" or "I'd like my Linux games to run on it" and he'd show some different colours.
I hope for the sake of the consumers, that he get's his way.
Smells like a hook, are you sure you mean that?
For Apple or Sony to approach him is a very large 'IF'.
Sony wants to sell its PS[n], while it may be good for the camera end of Sony or the Music end of Sony, they're probably not so far apart these days as to assist a competitor of the video game console end of Sony.
Microsoft's Corporate Vice President Chief Architect J. Allard said he wants to work with competitors on the XBox 360.
"Come in to my parlour", said the spider to the fly.
Indeed! I would consider launching dwarfs from a Space Step Ladder.
Your's Truly,
C.M.O.T. Dibbler
This is you talking, not me. But since you were so off initially I figure this is the only way you figure you can save any face, by building a straw-man and then knocking it down.
Sorry, but that's not in the criteria to apply for the award, it's simply a characteristic of an award winner. You really must try to see the difference.
"Clean water is not sexy, and $20 a year won't make anyone rich," says Robert Drost, a scientist at Sun Microsystems Inc.
from the overall Honorable mention award. The overall Silver went to a company that is reducing toxic pollutants and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions through energy reduction.
Show me where in this criteria it is mentioned 'altruism', 'environment-friendly' or 'non-profit'
I see no evidence that the choices will actually lead to a better world. Most will undoubtably spur business, which is very exciting to Wall Street, but nothing bars me from inventing a better thumb-screw or process for manufacturing it and being barred from entering the competition, does it?
Please do keep some perspective.
Their IP will live on forever and be accumulated by some little holding company with a PO Box in rural Wisconsin. A year after any company produces a product anything like what their portfolio includes and they'll up-end the Bucket o' Laywers and it's Game On!
Kinda have to keep in mind what Wall Street is really interested in.
Why don't you grow up and just buy a dual core server and stop trying to use Most-Inefficient-Means? Mini ITX server farm, that's a laugh...
He also invented Basebale and then he hit the first Homerun! Yeah, that's the ticket!
I remember seeing cabinets, motherboards, etc. even partially assembled ones for sale at a local shop, a couple years ago. This may be interesting to anyone who hasn't built or bought one and is thinking about doing that. As for me I use my Big PC (Tiamat) to cool the apartment in the summer, with it's massive fans, and heat it in the winter, by disconnecting a few.
What I really want to know, however, is why a Mini ITX article, now, without a Pumpkin wrapped around it?
I agree with you and feel your pain.
Now, send $5 to:
Spam in blogs isn't even new. I've seen short comments, best wishes, etc. on blogs for the last couple years, which are then followed by a plug, something like the following:
Allowing HTML as part of a post is pretty much asking for it.I've heard several comments to that effect, over the years.
Certainly does make you wonder how we got from the US Constitution to some of the crap people used it for today.
Reminds me of the traveller who didn't pay attention to the numbers on the bill he signed for martinis in Germany about 20 years go. $10,000 each.
bottoms up!
Oh, I don't know. I've seen a number of shows where good natured fun is poked at a sponsor. It doesn't really hurt and possibly helps.
Harlo was notorious for hawking the Johnson Wax Glo-Coat on Fibber McGee, which even the other characters would often mock lightly ("Here it comes, folks.")
Bill Goodwin was portrayed as a rascally character on the Burns & Allen Show, promoting Maxwell House Coffee and Swan Soap (I've nearly got his sales pitch memorized by now!), frequently in funny and even roaringly funny ways.
It's called the Lawyer Tax. Attorneys get their cut of everything, good or bad, for seeing to it that you're protected against greedy, unethical people who are only too happy to make it your fault that something they did blew up on them.
Of course, Microsoft's many faults do very little to help. To be fair, if it wasn't them, it would probably be somebody else.
With the energy company, it's them you sue when you disconnected the gas stove youself, instead of calling them and your house blows up as a result. With tech companies, it's nothing new, Borroughs used to get sued all the time for misrepresenting their products.
Clue #1: Cellphones have become PDAs.
I listen to those 50-60 year old radio shows over satellite (118 on Sirius) and the way they did product placement is often highly entertaining.
So less return on television advertising, thanks to the evolution of technology, and what future does this have for television entertainment, if the place to advertise isn't the tube? Product placement, I suppose. Let's have a surreptitious party on the show with people having what is undeniably a very good time and feature Heineken cans/bottles, perhaps have an actor say, "this Heineken beer is excellent, much more flavourful then other leading brands."
Harlo Wilcox, Don Wilson and Bill Goodwin, your kind we shall meet again.
B. Accept task requests
C. If too many task requests then
1. Deny addtional requests
2. Have users fight among themselves to determine what is highest priority
D. Work until you feel like going home. (if you like your job this may be late)
E. Be criticized for when you come in, despite having worked until x:xx AM previous night.
F. When time permits (often on employees on time) develop or research powerful new tools that make everyone's life easier with greater access to higher quality information and services.
G. Department gets outsourced to a bunch of chislers who end up providing terrible products and service because they adhere rigidly to terms of the contract.
H. Bonuses all around for executives.
(Ok, that was real and I'm still bitter about it...)
Seriously, you need to develop Positions. A position has defined certain skills and responsibilities and commensurate compensation. Set up a number of these like Webmonkey I, II, III, IV, ... When there is a need for a certain skill and responsibilty, assign the position to it and open it up for candidates to apply for.
Oh, I know all about PA, I've been a reader for years. I was even a donor when they were still struggling. Certain injunctions could sting them and, like the American McGee incident, could run a bit of egg down their faces as well.
I've saved that American McGee drawing somewhere. It really wasn't as good as all the fuss made it out to be. National Lampoon, ages ago did a Strawberry Cheesecake which was far more outrageous (and funny.)
How, pray, does an attorney get disbarred for being a loonie? Half the western governments would lose representatives, MPs, etc. on that claim. More to the point:
He has now called the cops claiming harassment.
He will now harass PA and the thing is, he knows full well how to do it and could make PA suffer in the short run.
I have no doubts he has nary a leg to stand on, bringing this all upon himself by raising himself to a Public Figure, which surrenders certain protections.
I thought Anansi Boys would be somehow a play on the term 'nancy boys', which means bluntly 'girly men', but it isn't.
When I've heard Neil pronounce his own name he says it pretty fast, as if it were one syllable -- no accent stressed anywhere. Maybe he's heard enough about it over the years and pronounces it that way for a reason, you'd have to ask him as I sure don't know. You might also wonder if Phillip K. Dick had issues with teasing kids. Or even Philippe Kahn being called a nut (p. kahn, get it?)
I highly recommend Anansi Boys, I'm halfway through it and it's as entertaining as Good Omens with considerably more imagination.
Bet it was absolutely saturated it the stuff.