We need a story now, quick. We need something to put on airtime because our marketing is calling around our advertising clients to see who wants to bid on the next hour of airtime. The big need to get something up quick, even if it's very low quality, such as a poorly recorded video interview without a transcript... oh, wait...
Back on Sept 11, 2001, the media were far worse. Network and news outlets on television and the web were trying to outbid each other on the body count. 5,000, 15,000, could be has high as 40,000. Really appalling. They didn't know what else to do in their own confusion, but play the horrifying videos over and over and try to make the whole thing as grim as they could, to keep viewers glued and ultimately numbing them.
I have a book with collections of newspaper front pages from December 7, 8, 9... 1941. Back in that day the news focused on what was known, body counts were off the pages for the first few days and then only included known dead. The final tally wasn't truly known in the news for almost one year. News moved slower, people gave themselves more time to think.
The idiocy of the AP running a rumor of an arrest and showing how quick every other outlet is willing to parrot this and seek confirmation later, showed what a swarm of locusts mentality there is in the media these days.
The wars have so far cost about 2.3 trillion. That is not even close to the amount of our debt. To say the wars are the cause of our debt is political wishful thinking.
W. never vetoed a spending bill, no matter how bloated it was. He trusted the good people of his party to do what was right. Rather blew up in the entire nation's face in the middle of 2008.
Our job isn't to vote for our own best interests. Its to vote for the best interests of the nation. If that requires us to vote against someone who will help us more personally, so be it.
Not defending any of the three above, 2 of them were horrors and the other was a figurehead do nothing (Arnold). But I get tired of the "own best interest" line.
Try reading it as the Collective "their" as in all of us together.
One of the great disappointments of reading about horrible failures of peoples in history is how they let themselves be duped into being led astray, often the survivors wising up after they final battle or invaders have overrun them. That there are so many people willing to let a few eggs get broken so they can prevent some social thing they dislike being allowed in they take everyone down a very dicey path. We went there in April 1861. When will we go down that road again?
Steve never made it to president, so that should tell you he's not quite as clever as he thinks.
Or maybe the American public is not as clever as we think, or just doesn't like clever people as much as we think.
True dat. California had Ahnold, not once, but twice for guv, Minnesota elected Jesse "The Mind" Ventura for guv and the people put mental lightweight and frat party boy W. into the Whitehouse for 8 years and several trillion dollars of debt, rampant business abuse of the public and two wars, one justified by cooked intelligence.
I'm horrified how easily people will vote against their own best interests in this country. Clearly we are not the great nation we think we are.
I imagine he gets these every single day. It goes with the job.
Oh, wait, we have to take advantage of the bombings! We're still at war with Eastasia, remember!
This whole every-aspect-of-our-lives-must-be-in-the-context-of-1984 conspiracy stuff has really gotten out of hand...
To true. There's clearly a lone nut out there who thinks they are doing something God wants or their personal politics dictate and killing people is how they accomplish their mission. I hope they are found and boxed up securely and as soon as possible.
The thing that bugs me about a Big Bang Theory is where did this singularity come from? Where exactly is it, in some infinite void? Are there more like it, all oscillating between Exapansion and Collapse throughout eternity? For the Universe, as we know it, is only this local body of mass and energy.
and now i need a quiet corner, cuppa hot cocoa and my teddy bear
Considering there's a requirement for the infringed to disclose to the infringer (in this case, the Linux community as a whole...), they're basically guilty of racketeering, extorting agreements and settlements out of the commercial players.
That's NOT how it's supposed to work, folks.
That's now how it's supposed to work, but if we take anything from RAMBUS vs SDRAM manufacturers or SCO vs Linux distributors, just because they are wrong, doesn't mean they can't cover up evidence, shread documents or relentlessly sue people in the hopes of getting them to cave in and using the winnings to augment their warchest for suing more and larger targets. Microsoft already has a Bucket o' Lawyers and plenty of cash on hand so they're doing this. They've lost the innovative edge, if they even had it, because most everything they roll out as a product or service is something someone already had.
Microsoft loses nothing because they are collecting for these patents. Likely they are trying to collect enough that even if they lose them in court, their court costs are covered by the patent fees. Meanwhile they have effectively sown a cloud of trouble over Android even though they (microsoft) don't even have anything competitive in this market.
Tl;dr -- it galls me, the chutzpah of these assholes!
This is Microsoft's new business model: World's Largest Patent Troll.
See, even if they lose in the future of technology, they can leech off those who innovate.
This cartoon is a lot older than you may think. I saw a copy, not including analysts or programmers, very much like this hanging around Dow Chemical back in the 1970s when I was a scout and we had a trip to a lab there.
This is, actually, normal behaviour from phone manufacturers who use Android as OS. There is tons of competition in the area and put blatantly, Android based setups cant stand out for favour that easily. This makes all the manufacturers play dirty, just like Google does. Don't be evil, my ass.
I wouldn't blame Google for for the work of a few minions of another company.
Reviews are the new lies, though. There's a Brooklyn camera/technology distributor, which routinely has glowing reviews in an online rating service, which seem to utterly fly in the face of many extremely negative reviews. Having briefly interacted with the company I see where the negatives are coming from and from reading the glowing reviews realize there's too much similarity, further, customers have accused them of being encouraged with gifts to leave not just positive reviews, but very positive ones. Further, they do quite a bit to try to have the negatives deleted or discredited. Scared me off so I bought my camera stuff elsewhere.
My first thought was that they were simple countdown timers, as there were a couple seconds between explosions. If they were triggered remotely, they would have gone off simultaneously of they were triggered by the same operation,or longer than a few seconds between explosions if they were triggered separately (I guess the bomber could have had 2 phones and dialed the bombs as the same time, but that seems overly complicated). The amount of time between explosions lends credence to the idea that they were simple timers: set one then set the other a couple hours before, drop them off, then get away.
Information which has been coming out sounds like these were pipe-bombs filled with shrapnel, such as nails and small metal shot. Not quite the sort used in the middle east, which favor a larger blast. I have the feeling this is a domestic bomber with a Timothy McVeigh bent on things. Probably nothing more sophisticated than a simple timer or a lit fuse.
Could be any other means to detonate, but doesn't smack of precision. I have the feeling this is a loner, not a coordinated team who did this. So many unexploded packs found.
I can't remember the last time I saw somebody wearing a watch except for some feeb trying to prove something by having a Rolex and pointing it out. If you need the time your smartphone is synched with the USNO and multiple GPS satellites that must know the time to such a degree that your distance from them alters your reference frame. What part of "people don't wear watches any more" is confusing to Microsoft?
This is I think where they're slow-following and don't even understand what they're following. It's sad. Microsoft really needs somebody with a clue, and they haven't got one.
For a while I'd wear happy-type meal watches. They cost $2 and ran for about a year. Accurate enough for time telling.
But having some whizzy Blue-tooth, WiFi, Social Networking piece of glorified plastic jewelry seems to have some marketability. Not for me, as I've got enough junk for that and the form-factor is too tiny to be of much use to me. What worked for Dick Tracy did so because it was in the comics.
Also, as I've said for the past coulple years, the PC is overkill for many people who just want email, social stuff, simple games, they get a phone or tablet for that now.
Hell, the maintenance aspect alone makes PC's not worth it for those uses.
Too true. People forget a PC is at Computer with a BIG FAT Operating System, which has updates, hidden bits, loads of features you can turn on and off and when shit hits the fan, you go through hell getting back to where you were. Just like when I managed a mainframe system.
Slashdot Mirror
We need a story now, quick. We need something to put on airtime because our marketing is calling around our advertising clients to see who wants to bid on the next hour of airtime. The big need to get something up quick, even if it's very low quality, such as a poorly recorded video interview without a transcript... oh, wait...
Back on Sept 11, 2001, the media were far worse. Network and news outlets on television and the web were trying to outbid each other on the body count. 5,000, 15,000, could be has high as 40,000. Really appalling. They didn't know what else to do in their own confusion, but play the horrifying videos over and over and try to make the whole thing as grim as they could, to keep viewers glued and ultimately numbing them.
I have a book with collections of newspaper front pages from December 7, 8, 9 ... 1941. Back in that day the news focused on what was known, body counts were off the pages for the first few days and then only included known dead. The final tally wasn't truly known in the news for almost one year. News moved slower, people gave themselves more time to think.
The idiocy of the AP running a rumor of an arrest and showing how quick every other outlet is willing to parrot this and seek confirmation later, showed what a swarm of locusts mentality there is in the media these days.
"Hey, you got your sushi in my wasabi peas!"
"Hey, you got your wasabi peas in my sushi!"
Two great tastes together!
As a mathematician and programmer I am personnally offended it isn't (n-1)th
So they will play the first 140 bytes of the song ?
You'll all sing like the birdies sing, Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet!
Rep. Mike Rogers == Insensitive Clod
The wars have so far cost about 2.3 trillion. That is not even close to the amount of our debt. To say the wars are the cause of our debt is political wishful thinking.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/29/nation/la-na-0329-war-costs-20130329
W. never vetoed a spending bill, no matter how bloated it was. He trusted the good people of his party to do what was right. Rather blew up in the entire nation's face in the middle of 2008.
Our job isn't to vote for our own best interests. Its to vote for the best interests of the nation. If that requires us to vote against someone who will help us more personally, so be it.
Not defending any of the three above, 2 of them were horrors and the other was a figurehead do nothing (Arnold). But I get tired of the "own best interest" line.
Try reading it as the Collective "their" as in all of us together.
One of the great disappointments of reading about horrible failures of peoples in history is how they let themselves be duped into being led astray, often the survivors wising up after they final battle or invaders have overrun them. That there are so many people willing to let a few eggs get broken so they can prevent some social thing they dislike being allowed in they take everyone down a very dicey path. We went there in April 1861. When will we go down that road again?
That's the great thing about infinity...shit happens!
The Universe: An infinite space where infinite shit happens ... infinitely.
I think I just figured something out.
whoa.
Did anyone else have the sudden feeling that something was just replaced with something even more inexplicable?
or perhaps a feeling this has already happened
Steve never made it to president, so that should tell you he's not quite as clever as he thinks.
Or maybe the American public is not as clever as we think, or just doesn't like clever people as much as we think.
True dat. California had Ahnold, not once, but twice for guv, Minnesota elected Jesse "The Mind" Ventura for guv and the people put mental lightweight and frat party boy W. into the Whitehouse for 8 years and several trillion dollars of debt, rampant business abuse of the public and two wars, one justified by cooked intelligence.
I'm horrified how easily people will vote against their own best interests in this country. Clearly we are not the great nation we think we are.
I imagine he gets these every single day. It goes with the job.
Oh, wait, we have to take advantage of the bombings! We're still at war with Eastasia, remember!
This whole every-aspect-of-our-lives-must-be-in-the-context-of-1984 conspiracy stuff has really gotten out of hand ...
To true. There's clearly a lone nut out there who thinks they are doing something God wants or their personal politics dictate and killing people is how they accomplish their mission. I hope they are found and boxed up securely and as soon as possible.
....we just don't know.
The thing that bugs me about a Big Bang Theory is where did this singularity come from? Where exactly is it, in some infinite void? Are there more like it, all oscillating between Exapansion and Collapse throughout eternity? For the Universe, as we know it, is only this local body of mass and energy.
and now i need a quiet corner, cuppa hot cocoa and my teddy bear
It wasn't a Big Bang, but a Medium Bang!
gotta get out my papers, nobel prize for fizziks here I come!
Considering there's a requirement for the infringed to disclose to the infringer (in this case, the Linux community as a whole...), they're basically guilty of racketeering, extorting agreements and settlements out of the commercial players.
That's NOT how it's supposed to work, folks.
That's now how it's supposed to work, but if we take anything from RAMBUS vs SDRAM manufacturers or SCO vs Linux distributors, just because they are wrong, doesn't mean they can't cover up evidence, shread documents or relentlessly sue people in the hopes of getting them to cave in and using the winnings to augment their warchest for suing more and larger targets. Microsoft already has a Bucket o' Lawyers and plenty of cash on hand so they're doing this. They've lost the innovative edge, if they even had it, because most everything they roll out as a product or service is something someone already had.
Steve Forbes is scared because Bitcoin takes the control away from existing institutions of wealth.
LOL
In as much as an ant picking up a grain of sand has taken over the US Federal Reserve or European Central Bank.
Bitcoins have contextual value - Steve never made it to president, so that should tell you he's not quite as clever as he thinks.
What what exactly is the value of the US dollar?
If it is a Gold Dollar then it's worth somewhere around three hundred paper dollars, depending upon condition, mint mark, date and strike variety.
If it is a Silver Dollar then it's worth somewhere around forty paper dollars.
If it's one of those clad copper/nickel jobs then it's worth about one tenth of a paper dollar.
As the alloy of the Sacagawea and Presidential dollars is an alloy of several metals I'll only guess it's worth about 1/20th of a paper dollar.
When I was young we did not call companies with actual products patent trolls.
Things have changed since then.
Companies can have products AND be patent trolls.
Some people on here must be very old. Thomas Edison knew the value of a patent, which was why he was busy patenting things Tesla invented.
Microsoft loses nothing because they are collecting for these patents. Likely they are trying to collect enough that even if they lose them in court, their court costs are covered by the patent fees. Meanwhile they have effectively sown a cloud of trouble over Android even though they (microsoft) don't even have anything competitive in this market.
Tl;dr -- it galls me, the chutzpah of these assholes!
This is Microsoft's new business model: World's Largest Patent Troll.
See, even if they lose in the future of technology, they can leech off those who innovate.
Just thought I'd mention that manufacturing and marketing have very little to do with each other.
See: http://blog.thingsdesigner.com/uploads/id/tree_swing_development_requirements.jpg there's a reason this cartoon is so popular (it's mostly true & hilarious).
This cartoon is a lot older than you may think. I saw a copy, not including analysts or programmers, very much like this hanging around Dow Chemical back in the 1970s when I was a scout and we had a trip to a lab there.
This is, actually, normal behaviour from phone manufacturers who use Android as OS. There is tons of competition in the area and put blatantly, Android based setups cant stand out for favour that easily. This makes all the manufacturers play dirty, just like Google does. Don't be evil, my ass.
I wouldn't blame Google for for the work of a few minions of another company.
Reviews are the new lies, though. There's a Brooklyn camera/technology distributor, which routinely has glowing reviews in an online rating service, which seem to utterly fly in the face of many extremely negative reviews. Having briefly interacted with the company I see where the negatives are coming from and from reading the glowing reviews realize there's too much similarity, further, customers have accused them of being encouraged with gifts to leave not just positive reviews, but very positive ones. Further, they do quite a bit to try to have the negatives deleted or discredited. Scared me off so I bought my camera stuff elsewhere.
What we need is a reviewer review site.
My first thought was that they were simple countdown timers, as there were a couple seconds between explosions. If they were triggered remotely, they would have gone off simultaneously of they were triggered by the same operation,or longer than a few seconds between explosions if they were triggered separately (I guess the bomber could have had 2 phones and dialed the bombs as the same time, but that seems overly complicated). The amount of time between explosions lends credence to the idea that they were simple timers: set one then set the other a couple hours before, drop them off, then get away.
Information which has been coming out sounds like these were pipe-bombs filled with shrapnel, such as nails and small metal shot. Not quite the sort used in the middle east, which favor a larger blast. I have the feeling this is a domestic bomber with a Timothy McVeigh bent on things. Probably nothing more sophisticated than a simple timer or a lit fuse.
Could be any other means to detonate, but doesn't smack of precision. I have the feeling this is a loner, not a coordinated team who did this. So many unexploded packs found.
Tell me again how gun legislation would have prevented this???
Because you can have guns to keep the government in line or overthrow it if you don't like the way they respond to terror attacks. It's your right.
TMYK
Yes.
With any kind of accuracy? Mmmm. No.
We are getting pretty good at predicting where they can happen, though.
I can't remember the last time I saw somebody wearing a watch except for some feeb trying to prove something by having a Rolex and pointing it out. If you need the time your smartphone is synched with the USNO and multiple GPS satellites that must know the time to such a degree that your distance from them alters your reference frame. What part of "people don't wear watches any more" is confusing to Microsoft?
This is I think where they're slow-following and don't even understand what they're following. It's sad. Microsoft really needs somebody with a clue, and they haven't got one.
For a while I'd wear happy-type meal watches. They cost $2 and ran for about a year. Accurate enough for time telling.
But having some whizzy Blue-tooth, WiFi, Social Networking piece of glorified plastic jewelry seems to have some marketability. Not for me, as I've got enough junk for that and the form-factor is too tiny to be of much use to me. What worked for Dick Tracy did so because it was in the comics.
Also, as I've said for the past coulple years, the PC is overkill for many people who just want email, social stuff, simple games, they get a phone or tablet for that now.
Hell, the maintenance aspect alone makes PC's not worth it for those uses.
Too true. People forget a PC is at Computer with a BIG FAT Operating System, which has updates, hidden bits, loads of features you can turn on and off and when shit hits the fan, you go through hell getting back to where you were. Just like when I managed a mainframe system.
Pick up a phone, turn it on and it works.