I kinda like your "hire critics" tactic. Ala hiring ex-hackers to test security. Seems reasonable.
It prevents the Bay-of-Pigs or Yes-men mentality from taking over, wherein bad ideas are applauded for lack of any critical analysis.
When Coca-Cola first came out they DID make such claims as outrageous as the ones you list. But I digress.
Sure, it's fun to listen to old radio tapes, like Amos and Andy, and listen to the preposterous claims made in commercials back then. Now it's all sex and style. Drinking abc-cola makes you sexy while you're doing your extreme thing.
As one who just went through.net training, I think I'll stick with Java for my personal projects. After all, VB.net is almost Java anyway, and the JVM has already been distributed with most copies of Windows, whereas the.net framwork (20Meg download) isn't anywhere near as distributed. Ugh.
An executive decision, where I work, has us adopting.NET Geez. Talk about an utter copy of Java. Worse, I can't see many other people jumping on this bandwagon, because the.NET framework isn't anywhere near as distributed as the JVM, i.e. you have to download it (20Meg) or have XP (or 2000?) with the framework already installed for it to be of much use. Java's got such a leg up, it would suffice to say there are already Java Legacy shops.
It'll probably work ok for internal applications, but books and such are still so new that few are of much help (since many books are written prior to the release and may pertain to Beta features and lack later enhancements.)
I can't imagine it lasting that long, however, the bumbling way they continue to handle such faux pas is indeed timeless. It's like Microsoft needs to hire a few cynics to review what they're up to and weigh their gripes.
I mean, Coca Cola is a popular drink, but you don't see them claiming it builds muscle or makes your penis/breats grow. Such a claim, besides immediately inviting scrutiny, would be so out of character with their product it would make people stop and question why they actually do drink it.
The best marketing machine Microsoft has is dingbat leader types in public and private sectors who shove Office down the throats of companies, because everyone else is doing it (wow, such leadership!) Microsoft needs to cultivate these people (Repeat after me, "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft") and less draw attentions to what they really are doing. For such a successful company, they sure can act foolishly and that doesn't help them any.
Unfortunately, the details are mostly missing in the article.
This, of course, is so they can still write lots of fun papers, argue among themselves and ultimately sell an hour long show on it to National Geographic.
This tactic is unfortunately commonplace and not just to archiologists, paleontologists, etc. Consider ourselves lucky if we don't have to pay to get in and see it, like Meteor Crater, in Winslow AZ
Last I read the Itanium is a very slow seller, like 4,000 units sold. Just for the sake of being conservative, let's say 25,000 have sold now.
That comes out to a $6,000 premium, per processor. Feeling pain, yet?
Assume Intergraph chooses to license for the 100M$ more, that's a premium of $10,000 per. Still no pain?
Intel would need to sell 250,000 Itaniums to get this per item premium down to $1,000. See that happening anytime soon?
Meantime, that 2B$ fab is producing a product which won't actually net Intel a profit until that premium gets below their per item net (less the premium) The investment in the fab won't return a profit until then, and looks like a cash hemorrage until then. Then there's opportunity cost... Intel could have just stuffed the fab money into bonds and shown a profit at the end.
Popular phrases these days are to invest in the technology during the downturn, to be strong when the markets improve. Losing money during these times is a bleak prospect indeed.
You might remember David Ahl, whom published books of basic games you could run on almost any computer. We typed IN Hunt the Wumpus, saved it to Cassette Tape, then played it.
While the 150M$ isn't significant, the injunction of Itaniums may have the undesired, or desired, or who the heck knows, affect of forcing Yamhill.
I'd normally say it's unlikely that Intergraph would push for the injuction, prefering a slice of the pie, they already would have 150M$...
Theft of technology isn't a new thing, for those who have followed the fortunes of the Alpha processors. Intel was charged with 12 counts of patent infringement, and effectively working in bad faith from the moment they entered a technology sharing agreement with DEC to the moment it broke of and they kept many of the ideas. DEC bided their time, built their case, for two years and then lowered the boom. Intel was lucky to get off as lightly, out of court, as they did, because DEC threatened to block all sales of Pentium processors. Intel ended up paying the long price for the FAB, which they shut down eventually. Yet, all the cash Intel handed DEC didn't save them. As you probably know, DEC was bought by Compaq and now Compaq is part of HP.
Maybe more appropriate to suggest Sun and some people at HP (though not those working on McKinley) are jumping up and down with joy. Certainly for anyone who (still) assumed the Itaniums as a threat this holds some interest, but I doubt it really would bring and end to the Itanium line.
I would have to say..."Pooey, from me to you!"
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Mario? Geez, that's, like NEW!
I started playing games on a model 33 Teletype. Then we got an OSI 540 board going and I played Tiger Tank 'til the wee hours. And Wumpus and all matter of things, before discovering $DUNGEO (many refer to this as Zork) and $ADVENT (Colossal Cave), both brought back on a tape from a DECUS. Then there were many others written by students, before the first Apple Lab opened on campus and color was introduced. Eventually arcades sprung up at the mall, where Mario lept over barrels to rescue a princess.
Aging gamers? Well, there's aging games, too, which many call AbandonWare (and many a site dedicated to the nobel cause of keeping these things alive, while EA keeps recreating the same themes over and over...)
It's really a question of what a generation does with its leisure time. Mine spent it gaming. The current one does, too. It's rather hard to imagine future generations not doing it (unless everyone suddenly falls for some absurd cult.
I've had Sirius for a couple months now, and love it. Plain and simple, it's better radio. The subscription isn't necessarily the hurdle, however, as the special receiver costs a couple hundred, plust the antenna (70 after a rebate.)
The nicest thing is: while driving thru the Mojave and hitting the SEEK button and watching it spin through all frequencies, AM and FM, without a catch, I will have 100 channels to choose from day or night. Yeah, I could get KSL (Salt Lake City) and some other clear channel (not the company) stations after nightfall, but it do get boring while driving during the day.
When you have armies of lawyers, you can harrass anyone into submission.
Heck, even that vengful guy who owns petswarehouse, Robert "Look at me funny and I'll sue you" Novak, has demonstrated all you need is the desire and free time and you can fsck up people and businesses.
Somewhere in my Journal I detailed a minor skirmish I had with someone on Hong Kong (where I belive Lik Sang is) over an eBay item worth $30. They hauled the guy in and I finally got something. I was amazed how ready the police were to act on a complaint by one measely american. By that token, I'm assuming, Hong Kong will do it's best to show foreign business that they can count on their support. After all, Shanghai and several other cities on the SE coast of China would be more than happy to take their business.
Power Supply
1200 mAH Li-Polymer or Li-Ion re-chargeable battery. (is this a proprietary batter? I hate those and won't buy anything which requires them.)
Multimedia: No sign of camera or IR.
Most of the KAII.info site is still under construction, isn't this rather premature?
Size, weight and other features look good and at an interesting price. How about a follow-up when their site is actually ready and can give us more information.
Seriously, if CNN.com would have originally linked to DeCSS do you think it would have gotten sued?
You bet they'd get sued. CBS, ABC, NBC, et al get served on a regular basis, sometimes for being unwitting, others for a clear display of corporate disobedience. 60 Minutes, a CBS program, has been the target of many such. Sadly, they've toned down their desire to lock horns (probably advice from their legal department to the producer, i.e. "The show is getting expensive to defend, stop revealing damning things about people and businesses.")
Regarding the original post:
Trying to make a point? Civil disobedience? An honest mistake?"
Yes, Declan makes clear his position:
he copyright clause, which gives Congress the power to create copyright laws for a limited time, and the First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from curtailing speech or expression.
The Appeals Court didn't pay sufficient attention. This time, let's hope the justices do.
I don't think a clue-by-four could make his position anymore clear.
you only see it for such a short time - during assembly
Unless you have something like a Lian Li PC65 and stick in some light strips so people can ooh and aah, "Ooh! it's a black motherboard in a black anodize cabinet! Aah! Does it actually run?"
Of course, that black will show dust very well, don't you think so?
Depends upon whether you're watching, listening or just viewing pages. About three years go I used to watch the BBC over a 56k connection on a laptop, which wasn't too bad after 10pm PDT, any earlier and too much congestion. It's still about the same. During the Tour de France I had no trouble following Phil Liggett's commentary during the early morning (again, PDT) from OLNTV's feed. Had to lobby them to get it same on OLN Radio though, but finally about the last week they did.
As far as internet best medium for world news, I'd say so, the only caveat being the reader should have sufficient skill to seperate the wheat from the chaff, as applies to newspapers, radio, TV and presidential speeches.
I was just looking up "Droit de Seigneur" and it popped urban legends and a few other helpful sites.
Seems it was rarely if ever imposed, and I was sooo looking forward to being a King someday.
BTW, this term used in Terry Pratchett's works, "Wyrd Sisters" and "Lords and Ladies" He's go another work due in Novemeber, but the US cover art looks like crap, again, so I'll be ordering Night Watch from the UK.
I remember waaaayyy back when the geeks really began to lose their lustre.
I think TQM was the harbinger, but once we were called "wizards" and could do no wrong. We provided good service and thought creatively, learning the difference between "want" and "need", and identifying needs well before users ever did. Somewhere along the line, having brilliant, creative people who catered to every need, regardless of appearance (i.e. sneakers, jeans, t-shirts, long hair and facial hair), some felt a need to push these people around, instituting dress codes, regular hours of work, ridiculous "busy-work" projects, etc. That was way before the late 90's. And, granted some geeks were realy jerks to users and needed a slapdown. But now geeks are pretty much ubiquitous in any business and expected to behave like everyone else in a cheap suit and a cubical.
Somewhere geeks still survive, but corporate America (and corporate America wannabees) don't tolerate individualism. The change was bound to happen anyway.
Total Quality Management: A movement which suddenly made MBA feel they had purpose after many years of suffering at the wheel anonymously. Most of the principles of TQM were self-evident to those who actually did work, but that didn't prevent it becoming near religion. Your place of work probably still has a Quality or Vision statement relic buried somewhere. I blame it for making everyone else take the place of the MBA's at the wheel.
I once created an application, 2 years before users described what a tool which was essential to their day to day needs. They ignored it when I first rolled it out, then they were amazed when I told them that such a tool existed. In retrospoect, I probably should have made it look like I actually had to move Heaven and Earth before showing it to them, I dunno sometimes.
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Look at the wall of Gromit's cell for "Feathers Was 'Ere", in reference to the evil penguin (Feathers McGraw) from The Wrong Trousers.
Best line: "Cracking toast, Grommit!"
Best Scene: Grommit releasing the parking brake on the rocket.
Best Book: Electronics for Dogs
It prevents the Bay-of-Pigs or Yes-men mentality from taking over, wherein bad ideas are applauded for lack of any critical analysis.
When Coca-Cola first came out they DID make such claims as outrageous as the ones you list. But I digress.
Sure, it's fun to listen to old radio tapes, like Amos and Andy, and listen to the preposterous claims made in commercials back then. Now it's all sex and style. Drinking abc-cola makes you sexy while you're doing your extreme thing.
As one who just went through .net training, I think I'll stick with Java for my personal projects. After all, VB.net is almost Java anyway, and the JVM has already been distributed with most copies of Windows, whereas the .net framwork (20Meg download) isn't anywhere near as distributed. Ugh.
It'll probably work ok for internal applications, but books and such are still so new that few are of much help (since many books are written prior to the release and may pertain to Beta features and lack later enhancements.)
I mean, Coca Cola is a popular drink, but you don't see them claiming it builds muscle or makes your penis/breats grow. Such a claim, besides immediately inviting scrutiny, would be so out of character with their product it would make people stop and question why they actually do drink it.
The best marketing machine Microsoft has is dingbat leader types in public and private sectors who shove Office down the throats of companies, because everyone else is doing it (wow, such leadership!) Microsoft needs to cultivate these people (Repeat after me, "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft") and less draw attentions to what they really are doing. For such a successful company, they sure can act foolishly and that doesn't help them any.
"D'oh!"
And the Spaghetti Code said, "Goto Hell"
This, of course, is so they can still write lots of fun papers, argue among themselves and ultimately sell an hour long show on it to National Geographic.
This tactic is unfortunately commonplace and not just to archiologists, paleontologists, etc. Consider ourselves lucky if we don't have to pay to get in and see it, like Meteor Crater, in Winslow AZ
Um. No.
Last I read the Itanium is a very slow seller, like 4,000 units sold. Just for the sake of being conservative, let's say 25,000 have sold now.
That comes out to a $6,000 premium, per processor. Feeling pain, yet?
Assume Intergraph chooses to license for the 100M$ more, that's a premium of $10,000 per. Still no pain?
Intel would need to sell 250,000 Itaniums to get this per item premium down to $1,000. See that happening anytime soon?
Meantime, that 2B$ fab is producing a product which won't actually net Intel a profit until that premium gets below their per item net (less the premium) The investment in the fab won't return a profit until then, and looks like a cash hemorrage until then. Then there's opportunity cost... Intel could have just stuffed the fab money into bonds and shown a profit at the end.
Popular phrases these days are to invest in the technology during the downturn, to be strong when the markets improve. Losing money during these times is a bleak prospect indeed.
You might remember David Ahl, whom published books of basic games you could run on almost any computer. We typed IN Hunt the Wumpus, saved it to Cassette Tape, then played it.
While the 150M$ isn't significant, the injunction of Itaniums may have the undesired, or desired, or who the heck knows, affect of forcing Yamhill.
I'd normally say it's unlikely that Intergraph would push for the injuction, prefering a slice of the pie, they already would have 150M$...
Theft of technology isn't a new thing, for those who have followed the fortunes of the Alpha processors. Intel was charged with 12 counts of patent infringement, and effectively working in bad faith from the moment they entered a technology sharing agreement with DEC to the moment it broke of and they kept many of the ideas. DEC bided their time, built their case, for two years and then lowered the boom. Intel was lucky to get off as lightly, out of court, as they did, because DEC threatened to block all sales of Pentium processors. Intel ended up paying the long price for the FAB, which they shut down eventually. Yet, all the cash Intel handed DEC didn't save them. As you probably know, DEC was bought by Compaq and now Compaq is part of HP.
Maybe more appropriate to suggest Sun and some people at HP (though not those working on McKinley) are jumping up and down with joy. Certainly for anyone who (still) assumed the Itaniums as a threat this holds some interest, but I doubt it really would bring and end to the Itanium line.
I started playing games on a model 33 Teletype. Then we got an OSI 540 board going and I played Tiger Tank 'til the wee hours. And Wumpus and all matter of things, before discovering $DUNGEO (many refer to this as Zork) and $ADVENT (Colossal Cave), both brought back on a tape from a DECUS. Then there were many others written by students, before the first Apple Lab opened on campus and color was introduced. Eventually arcades sprung up at the mall, where Mario lept over barrels to rescue a princess.
Aging gamers? Well, there's aging games, too, which many call AbandonWare (and many a site dedicated to the nobel cause of keeping these things alive, while EA keeps recreating the same themes over and over...)
It's really a question of what a generation does with its leisure time. Mine spent it gaming. The current one does, too. It's rather hard to imagine future generations not doing it (unless everyone suddenly falls for some absurd cult.
The nicest thing is: while driving thru the Mojave and hitting the SEEK button and watching it spin through all frequencies, AM and FM, without a catch, I will have 100 channels to choose from day or night. Yeah, I could get KSL (Salt Lake City) and some other clear channel (not the company) stations after nightfall, but it do get boring while driving during the day.
Heck, even that vengful guy who owns petswarehouse, Robert "Look at me funny and I'll sue you" Novak, has demonstrated all you need is the desire and free time and you can fsck up people and businesses.
Somewhere in my Journal I detailed a minor skirmish I had with someone on Hong Kong (where I belive Lik Sang is) over an eBay item worth $30. They hauled the guy in and I finally got something. I was amazed how ready the police were to act on a complaint by one measely american. By that token, I'm assuming, Hong Kong will do it's best to show foreign business that they can count on their support. After all, Shanghai and several other cities on the SE coast of China would be more than happy to take their business.
Luckily, they didn't seem to be considering that option in the first place, but now it's even less likely!
The operative word here is 'if'
Considering their job on the what they'd sell security on, it's an oxymoron just made to order for the gullible.
One Leader
One inner circle of designers
10-15 core group of coders
Dozens of bugfixers, feature submitters
Thousands (and then some) of users
Several Slashdot articles
Hundreds of Insightful, Informative, Interesting posts
A preponderance of troll, offtopic or subjectively funny posts
Priceless
Probably better not to, if you have a weak heart.
Hmm. how about accessing a USB harddrive? :-)
There's some small USB drives, about $160 for 20GB, seems like a nice combination.
Power Supply 1200 mAH Li-Polymer or Li-Ion re-chargeable battery. (is this a proprietary batter? I hate those and won't buy anything which requires them.)
Multimedia: No sign of camera or IR.
Most of the KAII.info site is still under construction, isn't this rather premature?
Size, weight and other features look good and at an interesting price. How about a follow-up when their site is actually ready and can give us more information.
You bet they'd get sued. CBS, ABC, NBC, et al get served on a regular basis, sometimes for being unwitting, others for a clear display of corporate disobedience. 60 Minutes, a CBS program, has been the target of many such. Sadly, they've toned down their desire to lock horns (probably advice from their legal department to the producer, i.e. "The show is getting expensive to defend, stop revealing damning things about people and businesses.")
Regarding the original post:
Trying to make a point? Civil disobedience? An honest mistake?"
Yes, Declan makes clear his position:
I don't think a clue-by-four could make his position anymore clear.
Unless you have something like a Lian Li PC65 and stick in some light strips so people can ooh and aah, "Ooh! it's a black motherboard in a black anodize cabinet! Aah! Does it actually run?"
Of course, that black will show dust very well, don't you think so?
As far as internet best medium for world news, I'd say so, the only caveat being the reader should have sufficient skill to seperate the wheat from the chaff, as applies to newspapers, radio, TV and presidential speeches.
Seems it was rarely if ever imposed, and I was sooo looking forward to being a King someday.
BTW, this term used in Terry Pratchett's works, "Wyrd Sisters" and "Lords and Ladies" He's go another work due in Novemeber, but the US cover art looks like crap, again, so I'll be ordering Night Watch from the UK.
I think TQM was the harbinger, but once we were called "wizards" and could do no wrong. We provided good service and thought creatively, learning the difference between "want" and "need", and identifying needs well before users ever did. Somewhere along the line, having brilliant, creative people who catered to every need, regardless of appearance (i.e. sneakers, jeans, t-shirts, long hair and facial hair), some felt a need to push these people around, instituting dress codes, regular hours of work, ridiculous "busy-work" projects, etc. That was way before the late 90's. And, granted some geeks were realy jerks to users and needed a slapdown. But now geeks are pretty much ubiquitous in any business and expected to behave like everyone else in a cheap suit and a cubical.
Somewhere geeks still survive, but corporate America (and corporate America wannabees) don't tolerate individualism. The change was bound to happen anyway.
Total Quality Management: A movement which suddenly made MBA feel they had purpose after many years of suffering at the wheel anonymously. Most of the principles of TQM were self-evident to those who actually did work, but that didn't prevent it becoming near religion. Your place of work probably still has a Quality or Vision statement relic buried somewhere. I blame it for making everyone else take the place of the MBA's at the wheel.
I once created an application, 2 years before users described what a tool which was essential to their day to day needs. They ignored it when I first rolled it out, then they were amazed when I told them that such a tool existed. In retrospoect, I probably should have made it look like I actually had to move Heaven and Earth before showing it to them, I dunno sometimes.