Sony Corporation is no more an American citizen than my mousepad is.
Hey, I never said it was. If a foreign company can come into America (and pay taxes, too) and do well, that just shows there was a market niche there that wasn't properly filled.
Sony found a market niche (high quality consumer electronics), filled it, and prospered, while increasing the efficiency of the American marketplace.
It may be just me, but $20 million seems like a lot of money for a company that doesn't really do anything. Second, this is going to set a VERY bad precendent for all other cases like this; "maybe if we sue enough people, someone will give in and give us some money." Though I guess that's the American Dream now, isn't it?
To be able to work hard, and profit from your hard work, without worrying about thieving governments or malcontents taking your profits.
But if you think it's alright for people to steal from you, just because they can, please post your VISA number, name, address and expiration date.
By spending all day and night in a chatroom meeting our neighbors through a monitor.
Anyone else see a dichotomy?
I think the reason that Americans are growing apart and volunteerism is dying is that the economy is worse than it was in the 50's and 60s'. My dad could spend 6 hours a week doing volunteer work, I spend that time keeping up on computers.
Good luck, maybe you can set Hollywood straight
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Good luck getting a job like that, but maybe you can set Hollywood straight. Such things like
Big spinning 9 track tapes have been obsolete for years (The X-files had the sense to use DAT).
The rows and rows of blinking lights have move to the server rooms, and are no longer on the front of the computer.
Everything is done with windowing systems, you don't look up a driver's license with a command line anymore (except maybe in a cop car).
If it wasn't for the high cost of doing business in Europe due to the Socialist policies.
Of course, I'm referring to the BMW and Mercedes plants that were built in the US to avoid confiscatory German/Socialist policies. When manufacturing jobs are migrating to the US you know something is wrong.
And you're always reading about the inability of German firms to get enough technical IT workers. It's partly due to the IT boom, but also do to the oppressive employment policies of German businesses making full time, direct hire prohibitively expensive. Enter the guest worker, does anyone know if MS is running MCSE boot camps in Turkey? They should.
Thankfully, dubya is leading in the polls in the states, with a Replublican majority in the house they might be able to reverse American's socialist decline.
And what did they say about Warp? Did they say it was a very nice system, or did they say it was going to take the world by storm?
They said very nice things about Warp (you should look up the article), they made me want to try it, but it tanked. The Atlantic has a bad track record writing about technology.
It's just the predictions, and perhaps advice to switch, that was wrong.
If you can't see that distinction, then you're probably one of those people who judges things by their popularity rather than their merits. I bet you're wearing designer pants, Nike shoes, eat at McDonalds, listen to Britney
Spears/Limp Bizkit, and use IIS for your web server.
Reread what I said, I said it was the kiss of death.
I'm wearing Levi's (made by hard working American's), Bass shoes (made by hard working Americans), rarely eat at McDonald's, preferring to patronize my locally owned and established restaurants, don't listen to Britney Spears (rather, that American band from with RMS stole his ideas on free software and his dress code, the Grateful Dead) and use Linux or FreeBSD for my web server, plus whatever xoom uses.
I remember one of the last times the Atlantic tried to write about computer technology, this was about 6 years ago, and the reviewer was gushing about this wonderful, new, crashproof operating system called...
Warp
Has anyone heard from OS/2 lately? Nope, sunk without a trace.
The Atlantic is so old and crufty, that by the time a technology is noted in it, you might as well give it the kiss of death.
The title is prophetic too, the real action these days is on the Pacific Rim, not the Atlantic, either side.
for me, the biggest reason for me now playing paper based wargames was having a girlfriend, she takes up a lot of time. Ancillary reasons are the cats, even a Tiger Tank counter is powerless against a cat, and a child.
Which is why I really like Panzer General, I can fit in 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, and finish a scenario in a week or two.
A savior to board wargames might be the the Wargame Processor, which lets you play the classic Avalon Hill (and other) games via email, and save everything on your computer. I have yet to try it out, though.
The script of the movie is still unknown at this point, but British website ananova.com reports speculation that the film will end with Anakin Skywalker turning to the Dark Side and becoming Darth Vader.
Like duh, Darth is evil in a new hope (iv), good in ep 1, that leaves 2 for turn to evil and 3 for consolidate evil.
Not only do they not have your address when you walk in the store and get photographed (unless you're foolish enough to get a 'discount card'), the logistics of storing, sorting, and weeding out duplicates from a database of photos makes it pretty much impossible to use the photos in the same way as the information that people are actually worried about the store misusing.
So you think, but if you were to search Slashdot on facial recognition software, you would find this, and this.
The current level of facial recognition software and hardware may be too expensive and reliable to implement in a grocery store now, but would you bet against it 2 years from now?
Slashdot Mirror
s/SuSE/RedHat/g
s/SuSE/Caldera/g
s/KDE/Gnome/g
heh-heh, a neat trick at least for Maddog and Paul Sery.
Can you really blame Sony for the VCR? Weren't they peddling betamax?
Yes, Sony had the Betamax, or better quality than VHS, and still preferred by professionals and studios.
However, they refused to license it for porn, and thus lost lots of market share.
I think the VHS tapes were longer too, I have to check the betamax at my parents.
FWIW, you can still buy blank beta tapes in Rochester, NY, since we were early adopters.
Sony Corporation is no more an American citizen than my mousepad is.
Hey, I never said it was. If a foreign company can come into America (and pay taxes, too) and do well, that just shows there was a market niche there that wasn't properly filled.
Sony found a market niche (high quality consumer electronics), filled it, and prospered, while increasing the efficiency of the American marketplace.
This is why the American economy expands so fast.
It may be just me, but $20 million seems like a lot of money for a company that doesn't really do anything. Second, this is going to set a VERY bad precendent for all other cases like this; "maybe if we sue enough people, someone will give in and give us some money." Though I guess that's the American Dream now, isn't it?
To be able to work hard, and profit from your hard work, without worrying about thieving governments or malcontents taking your profits.
But if you think it's alright for people to steal from you, just because they can, please post your VISA number, name, address and expiration date.
By spending all day and night in a chatroom meeting our neighbors through a monitor.
Anyone else see a dichotomy?
I think the reason that Americans are growing apart and volunteerism is dying is that the economy is worse than it was in the 50's and 60s'. My dad could spend 6 hours a week doing volunteer work, I spend that time keeping up on computers.
Thanks,
If it wasn't for the high cost of doing business in Europe due to the Socialist policies.
Of course, I'm referring to the BMW and Mercedes plants that were built in the US to avoid confiscatory German/Socialist policies. When manufacturing jobs are migrating to the US you know something is wrong.
And you're always reading about the inability of German firms to get enough technical IT workers. It's partly due to the IT boom, but also do to the oppressive employment policies of German businesses making full time, direct hire prohibitively expensive. Enter the guest worker, does anyone know if MS is running MCSE boot camps in Turkey? They should.
Thankfully, dubya is leading in the polls in the states, with a Replublican majority in the house they might be able to reverse American's socialist decline.
How's he gonna find a honey, I mean isn't that how Bill found Melinda?
Or are they the ones made after the kids poked his eye out, without the missile?
Look at the amazingly detailed model of the Space Needle they made.
Wow!!!!
And what did they say about Warp? Did they say it was a very nice system, or did they say it was going to take the world by storm?
They said very nice things about Warp (you should look up the article), they made me want to try it, but it tanked. The Atlantic has a bad track record writing about technology.
It's just the predictions, and perhaps advice to switch, that was wrong.
If you can't see that distinction, then you're probably one of those people who judges things by their popularity rather than their merits. I bet you're wearing designer pants, Nike shoes, eat at McDonalds, listen to Britney
Spears/Limp Bizkit, and use IIS for your web server.
Reread what I said, I said it was the kiss of death.
I'm wearing Levi's (made by hard working American's), Bass shoes (made by hard working Americans), rarely eat at McDonald's, preferring to patronize my locally owned and established restaurants, don't listen to Britney Spears (rather, that American band from with RMS stole his ideas on free software and his dress code, the Grateful Dead) and use Linux or FreeBSD for my web server, plus whatever xoom uses.
maybe a 1st round, and two second round, from the next geek draft.
Speaking of which, when is that Norwergian DECSS hacker free to be drafted?
The articles are longer than what you find in USA Today, and require reading skills and critical thinking skills to comprehend.
Perhaps you should just stick with Aint it Cool News, and other sites that use short words and lots of pretty pictures.
And that's why you rarely see sports references on /.. I know, I've tried in the past, only to get tagged with offtopic or redundant.
Anyhow, we can hope Katz fails a random drug test for crack.
I remember one of the last times the Atlantic tried to write about computer technology, this was about 6 years ago, and the reviewer was gushing about this wonderful, new, crashproof operating system called...
Warp
Has anyone heard from OS/2 lately? Nope, sunk without a trace.
The Atlantic is so old and crufty, that by the time a technology is noted in it, you might as well give it the kiss of death.
The title is prophetic too, the real action these days is on the Pacific Rim, not the Atlantic, either side.
Aces of the Pacific (runs on a 386), Aces over Europe, they may not have been the most realistic, but they sure were fun.
for me, the biggest reason for me now playing paper based wargames was having a girlfriend, she takes up a lot of time. Ancillary reasons are the cats, even a Tiger Tank counter is powerless against a cat, and a child.
Which is why I really like Panzer General, I can fit in 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, and finish a scenario in a week or two.
A savior to board wargames might be the the Wargame Processor, which lets you play the classic Avalon Hill (and other) games via email, and save everything on your computer. I have yet to try it out, though.
Without it, the learning curve can be too steep. I'd rather spend 4 hours on my HOTAS than either fly-pause-n-read or just plain reading.
HOTAS? Please explain, all I can come up with is Hampster Of The Appropriate Sex, but it's probably not that.
The script of the movie is still unknown at this point, but British website ananova.com reports speculation that the film will end with Anakin Skywalker turning to the Dark Side and becoming Darth Vader.
Like duh, Darth is evil in a new hope (iv), good in ep 1, that leaves 2 for turn to evil and 3 for consolidate evil.
I can see that AFS allows client side caching, for better performance.
AFS has server based drive mappings instead of client based drive mappings like NFS does.
AFS has kerberos for better security.
There's more at the AFS Faq.
The IBM link is non-existent, it must have been retracted. I found this faq that explains AFS.
But when Linux incorporates this, it will be a lot easier to cluster servers, and share files. And maybe we can kiss of NFS forever.
And I fell real sorry for that Norwegian kid, is he going to get extradited to the US and put in Leavenworth?
I'm betting on an appeal, any lawyers want to comment?
See this Salon story.
Make me an offer.
Not only do they not have your address when you walk in the store and get photographed (unless you're foolish enough to get a 'discount card'), the logistics of storing, sorting, and weeding out duplicates from a database of photos makes it pretty much impossible to use the photos in the same way as the information that people are actually worried about the store misusing.
So you think, but if you were to search Slashdot on facial recognition software, you would find this, and this.
The current level of facial recognition software and hardware may be too expensive and reliable to implement in a grocery store now, but would you bet against it 2 years from now?
Hmm, well, give me a day or two to build up my sperm count, and we can talk.
Whereabouts are you?