Wring every last cent out of the existing technology (i.e. copper wire), pay executives big bonuses and screw customers with rotten customer service. Small wonder we're becoming a backwater.
My take-home is that there may be excellent Russian scientists working on all sorts of interesting projects who could be willing to work for the US instead - provided they can slip out of the country.
The harder they make it for people to go about their life and jobs the easier it be makin' it for them t' jump ship. Arrr! ox)P-)
They don't choose candidates with successful track records, just the ones who they play golf with.
From the sounds of it, Elop completely fucked Nokia, is selling the farm to Microsoft, and will make out like a bandit and get the chance to be considered to run Microsoft.
All in all, I'd say the shareholders of Nokia are getting the shaft here. This is just corporate pillaging.
Aye, squire Anonymous, it be makin' pirates appear nearly civil, by ways of comparison. I be getting downhearted. ox)P-(
Bonny job Master Elop, yer company is headed for Davy Jones locker, here be yer booty!
Mass doesn't disappear just because something is in outer space. That mass carries with it a certain amount of inertia, and the heavier something is on earth, the more energy will be required to manipulate it with any kind of acceleration, even in space.
Avast, ye swab, once ye space corsair be a'sail in deep space, it be carried along on it's momentum as thar be little friction in a vacuum. Life support, unless ye enjoy sippin yer tea at 4 K, be yer greater concern. Also, ye be needin' a wee bit o' energy for changin the tack of yer corsair. Arr. ox)P-)
Researchers use the computer to specify the laser beam shape they require and to programme it into the LCD. By this means, one laser can swiftly produce many different beam shapes. Previously, changing the shape of a laser beam required physically replacing the curved mirror in the laser. As the mirror has to be carefully aligned, this is a time consuming process.
This will be of immense benefit to mankind.
Once I fit one of these in the back of my car it will spell out messages for drivers following me to read; e.g. Your Turn Signal Has Been On For The Past 3 Miles.
Are they just going to change the terms of the contracts to find another way to screw people over? I really just want the price on unlocked devices to come down.
Really.
I'm a pre-paid customer and I just went through a lot of hell getting a new Samsung Galaxy S4 to use with my pre-paid account. They sent me a plan phone, which already had a number in it, so had to go back, but they didn't close the plan when the phone was returned so sent collections after me. Idiots. I just wanted to buy a pre-paid phone which I could switch on premium services for a day or week and then go back to pre-paid. Also able to do wi-fi. Nothing terribly special. All this binding people to contracts is archaic.
I suspect well north of 90%. Anyone know a real number for this?
As the age of XP approaches infinity the percentage ever decreases, usually through attrition of old hardware replaced with new. That's simply going to happen no matter how closely bound some users are to their old XP machines. But as we are now well along with VMs and such, there's no real reason anyone who isn't absolutely determined can't continue to run it in an emulator or VM instance. The limiting factor, however, will be inability to run software, such as browsers, which become more resource hungry with time.
I recall, well into the age of XP there were still large numbers of people still dinking around with Windows 98, determined not to give up until they could not longer start their machines (often the sort of people who thought $2,000 spent on a computer was an investment and it should run for decades.)
I'm getting sick of these companies getting away with fines or other slaps on the wrist. I want to see at least some of these thugs in the upper tiers behind bars!
Mayhap a trail of emails or (shudder) NSA monitored phones can catch them.
Wastewater discharged from natural-gas wells can contain chlorides, barium, strontium and aluminum,
Who cares? You're never going to actually drive it that fast.
Don't get to California much, do you?
Seriously. I was doing about 85 in my Z3 on 101 in Mendocino County and got passed by a silver-blue Ferrari that had to be well over 120. Scared the shit out of me.
I've heard tales of sports car owners going over 150 on I-5. I have no idea when they do this, because every time I'm on there it would seem impossible. Maybe they do this further north, where the traffic is lighter.
Who cares? You're never going to actually drive it that fast.
Don't get to California much, do you?
There's a classic/reallyexpensive car get together in Monterey/Pebble Beach every years and some of these ultra spiff cars go out to Laguna Seca and drive around very fast.
One year I was driving to work and the road I was on was quite possibly one of the most expensive traffic jams you could find anywhere in the world. About a half mile of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Jaguar, Bentley, Porsche, Maserati, Mercedes, et al. Among the Italian cars alone I hadn't seen so much red since the last time I looked into my checking account. But I fit right in, in my bright red Dodge pickup (c:
Oh man, what a great movie plot. If they ever make it into a movie, I hope they cast Harrison Ford, he did a great job playing Han Solo in Star Wars A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.
Yeah, but I just remembered something... he hates snakes.
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Wring every last cent out of the existing technology (i.e. copper wire), pay executives big bonuses and screw customers with rotten customer service. Small wonder we're becoming a backwater.
With himself as god, most likely.
Avast! That scalawag Putin will most likely immanentize the eschaton or claim he has. Arr. ox)P-|
My take-home is that there may be excellent Russian scientists working on all sorts of interesting projects who could be willing to work for the US instead - provided they can slip out of the country.
The harder they make it for people to go about their life and jobs the easier it be makin' it for them t' jump ship. Arrr! ox)P-)
Institute for...
Information Transmission Problems in Moscow.
Avast, Putin be planning some rebadgin - Information We Have No Problems - Is Only You Institute. Arr. oX)P-|
Good to see the old boys network is thriving.
They don't choose candidates with successful track records, just the ones who they play golf with.
From the sounds of it, Elop completely fucked Nokia, is selling the farm to Microsoft, and will make out like a bandit and get the chance to be considered to run Microsoft.
All in all, I'd say the shareholders of Nokia are getting the shaft here. This is just corporate pillaging.
Aye, squire Anonymous, it be makin' pirates appear nearly civil, by ways of comparison. I be getting downhearted. ox)P-(
Bonny job Master Elop, yer company is headed for Davy Jones locker, here be yer booty!
With a $10 Walmart machete from the camping aisle, you can "Hack" off the key for yourself.
Nope. The iPhone, like most modern fingerprint scanners, requires a pulse. A severed finger won't work.
Arr, ye be only needin' a batt'ry and wires fer ye pulse o' a sev'red finger, matey. ox)P-)
Mass doesn't disappear just because something is in outer space. That mass carries with it a certain amount of inertia, and the heavier something is on earth, the more energy will be required to manipulate it with any kind of acceleration, even in space.
Avast, ye swab, once ye space corsair be a'sail in deep space, it be carried along on it's momentum as thar be little friction in a vacuum. Life support, unless ye enjoy sippin yer tea at 4 K, be yer greater concern. Also, ye be needin' a wee bit o' energy for changin the tack of yer corsair. Arr. ox)P-)
Researchers use the computer to specify the laser beam shape they require and to programme it into the LCD. By this means, one laser can swiftly produce many different beam shapes. Previously, changing the shape of a laser beam required physically replacing the curved mirror in the laser. As the mirror has to be carefully aligned, this is a time consuming process.
This will be of immense benefit to mankind.
Once I fit one of these in the back of my car it will spell out messages for drivers following me to read; e.g. Your Turn Signal Has Been On For The Past 3 Miles.
Are they just going to change the terms of the contracts to find another way to screw people over? I really just want the price on unlocked devices to come down.
Really.
I'm a pre-paid customer and I just went through a lot of hell getting a new Samsung Galaxy S4 to use with my pre-paid account. They sent me a plan phone, which already had a number in it, so had to go back, but they didn't close the plan when the phone was returned so sent collections after me. Idiots. I just wanted to buy a pre-paid phone which I could switch on premium services for a day or week and then go back to pre-paid. Also able to do wi-fi. Nothing terribly special. All this binding people to contracts is archaic.
A real number? On Slashdot?
Let me guess: You actually read the article, too.
But I've not run into a single Windows 8 desktop at any business site I've ever worked for or visited, so I suspect your number is lowballing it.
We buy Windows 8 machines, then image Windows 7 over top.
My office is slowly migrating to 7. We have no plans to go with Windows 8 on the desktop.
For home I took one look at 8 and promptly bought 7.
Our office is not in the habit of supporting 8, so we are actively discouraging adoption of it.
I suspect well north of 90%. Anyone know a real number for this?
As the age of XP approaches infinity the percentage ever decreases, usually through attrition of old hardware replaced with new. That's simply going to happen no matter how closely bound some users are to their old XP machines. But as we are now well along with VMs and such, there's no real reason anyone who isn't absolutely determined can't continue to run it in an emulator or VM instance. The limiting factor, however, will be inability to run software, such as browsers, which become more resource hungry with time.
I recall, well into the age of XP there were still large numbers of people still dinking around with Windows 98, determined not to give up until they could not longer start their machines (often the sort of people who thought $2,000 spent on a computer was an investment and it should run for decades.)
Maybe they are migrating to Canada. I hear that it is a nice country.
Well, two from the Enterprise came to the US from Canada (Kirk & Scotty) The Ambassador Bridge goes two ways, eh!
Not that nuts he's aborted http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24076168
Perhaps he will try again. If not we'll have to turn to some other adventurer for our vicarious thrill-seeking.
I'm getting sick of these companies getting away with fines or other slaps on the wrist. I want to see at least some of these thugs in the upper tiers behind bars!
Mayhap a trail of emails or (shudder) NSA monitored phones can catch them.
Wastewater discharged from natural-gas wells can contain chlorides, barium, strontium and aluminum,
Sounds like the average energy drink...
Who cares? You're never going to actually drive it that fast.
Don't get to California much, do you?
Seriously. I was doing about 85 in my Z3 on 101 in Mendocino County and got passed by a silver-blue Ferrari that had to be well over 120. Scared the shit out of me.
I've heard tales of sports car owners going over 150 on I-5. I have no idea when they do this, because every time I'm on there it would seem impossible. Maybe they do this further north, where the traffic is lighter.
Who cares? You're never going to actually drive it that fast.
Don't get to California much, do you?
There's a classic/reallyexpensive car get together in Monterey/Pebble Beach every years and some of these ultra spiff cars go out to Laguna Seca and drive around very fast.
One year I was driving to work and the road I was on was quite possibly one of the most expensive traffic jams you could find anywhere in the world. About a half mile of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Jaguar, Bentley, Porsche, Maserati, Mercedes, et al. Among the Italian cars alone I hadn't seen so much red since the last time I looked into my checking account. But I fit right in, in my bright red Dodge pickup (c:
That's why I bought a Saturn.
Yeah, they're real gone. Literally!
The Veyron costs like 5 times as much.
Also contains massive quantities of unobtainium.
I feel very betrayed.
This message alone means they will not likely be rolling out the red carpet for you in Tel Aviv.
spend your next vacation in scenic lebanon!
No, really, if you ignore all the practical problems with hosting data by letting someone else do it, those practical problems disappear. It's magic!
Sounds suspiciously socialist
Comrade!
Oh man, what a great movie plot. If they ever make it into a movie, I hope they cast Harrison Ford, he did a great job playing Han Solo in Star Wars A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.
Yeah, but I just remembered something ... he hates snakes.
Doctor of Archaeology finds himself battling Nazis for possession of a relic of supernatural power...
Global Humidification
Seriously, ever wear a sweater on a hot, humid day? It'll kill ya!
or make you wish you was dead
Here's what the Tesla site says:
http://www.teslamotors.com/advocacy_texas
Here's the Dallas Observer's discussion:
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/09/tesla_crushed_by_car_dealer_lo.php
And Auto News:
http://www.autonews.com/article/20130909/RETAIL07/130909878/how-texas-dealers-slammed-the-door-on-tesla
Could you put that into a car analogy for us?
...
( ducks and runs for cover )
How about this: Anyone who can afford one of these will simply go to another state to pick up the keys.