I was at an industrial robotics trade show years ago, and there was one spray-painting an auto bumper that amazed me how gracefully it moved; at the end of a swing left-to-right, it turned its wrist at the same time it reversed the arm direction. The only word I could apply was "graceful". Later, I found out it had been trained by a human operator, so it was just mimicking what a human spray-painter with years of practice would do.
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Clearly he's been drinking too much fluoridated water and has contaminated his precious bodily fluids. Also, he's probably suffering from multiple subluxations. In his weakened condition, I'm afraid he'll be an easy target for a Mossad or Freemason execution squad.
I highlighted "civil" because insider trading is a criminal offense, while having deep pockets and making yourself a target for fee-seeking, class-action lawyers is a civil offense.
Look, I'm not a fan of HP's management or board, haven't been since Lou Platt. I'm just saying that if the board did something criminal, then they should be prosecuted as such. However, allowing a raft of class-action lawsuits because a stock price went down (temporarily?) isn't a smart way to run society, or a business. Many many many of our ills today are because corporations act in the interest of short-short term profits, often to the long-term detriment of the companies that make them, and society at large. Insisting that profits and stock prices go up every quarter (and suing if they don't) just inflates bubbles and sends (more) jobs overseas.
If HP's execs decided that they'd bail out of the hardware markets in January, but told their shareholders otherwise during the quarterly meetings in an attempt to keep up their stock price while they sold their own shares, then the shareholders have a case against them.
Of course. And so does the SEC. But there's a huge difference between criminal behavior and Monday-morning quarterbacking, which is more like what this civil action looks like.
Shorter answer: No. Should corporations (really management/boards) have to disclose when they're going to release a new product that's going to be the next iPhone (on the good extreme) or the next Matrix Revolutions (at the other extreme). And what time-horizon are people to use for this crystal-ball gazing? Wouldn't IBM's management have been equally culpable for their decision to leave the PC market? Or how about bet-the-company gambles? I think we probably already have enough "you should have....." lawsuits already.
In this case, the "lobotomized drooling morons" are the Congressional spec writers and component selectors who are also happen to be in charge of the budget. Imagine if someone told you to design an airplane, they'd pay for the budget, you just had to include a giraffe and 1963 Volkswagon Beetle in the final airframe design.
Javascript is a language that combines the type-safety of Perl with the object paradigm of pre-ANSI, pre-STL C++, the power and expressiveness of Visual Basic, the ambiguity of HTML, and the readability and maintainability of C.
I'm trying to enter the field. In the last few months I taught myself XML, CSS, XHTML, HTML and AU3 (AutoIT). I'm currently in the first twenty pages of a book on Python and its like pulling teeth
Now all you need to do is learn some programming languages.
The things they did do, they did wrong. They found bugs. They found ways to circumvent all of your carefully constructed system rules and validations. Not because they were master hackers or brilliant technicians...but because they were just stupid. They clicked on things they shouldn't click on. They typed things in that they shouldn't type in. They didn't read simple instructions. They didn't listen in training. They were personally insulting you by being terrible at using your software.
In a field labeled "Enter the number of specimens:" they typed "five specimens."
In a field labeled "Social Security Number:" they typed "he doesn't have one because he is an illegal."
Instead of using the button labeled "Create New Patient Record:" they kept changing the information in a single patient record over and over and saving it.
As the last of the vacuum tubes (incandescent light bulbs and CRTs) get phased out, power consumption goes down. Now if we could just find a way to get rid of (most) fractional horsepower motors.
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I was at an industrial robotics trade show years ago, and there was one spray-painting an auto bumper that amazed me how gracefully it moved; at the end of a swing left-to-right, it turned its wrist at the same time it reversed the arm direction. The only word I could apply was "graceful". Later, I found out it had been trained by a human operator, so it was just mimicking what a human spray-painter with years of practice would do.
And when you post AC after modding, the mods you made are rolled back (and lost).
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Atlanta is leading the charge in becoming London.
Except that the cell phone doesn't give any indication that the person it's with is alive or not. That's why they're called "survivors".
I'm curious. Does it hurt when your knee jerks like that?
Clearly he's been drinking too much fluoridated water and has contaminated his precious bodily fluids. Also, he's probably suffering from multiple subluxations. In his weakened condition, I'm afraid he'll be an easy target for a Mossad or Freemason execution squad.
From the quasi-dupe from the other day, it's probably a flight qualification model.
NOT the KH-9
We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you.
I highlighted "civil" because insider trading is a criminal offense, while having deep pockets and making yourself a target for fee-seeking, class-action lawyers is a civil offense.
Look, I'm not a fan of HP's management or board, haven't been since Lou Platt. I'm just saying that if the board did something criminal, then they should be prosecuted as such. However, allowing a raft of class-action lawsuits because a stock price went down (temporarily?) isn't a smart way to run society, or a business. Many many many of our ills today are because corporations act in the interest of short-short term profits, often to the long-term detriment of the companies that make them, and society at large. Insisting that profits and stock prices go up every quarter (and suing if they don't) just inflates bubbles and sends (more) jobs overseas.
Of course. And so does the SEC. But there's a huge difference between criminal behavior and Monday-morning quarterbacking, which is more like what this civil action looks like.
Shorter answer: No. Should corporations (really management/boards) have to disclose when they're going to release a new product that's going to be the next iPhone (on the good extreme) or the next Matrix Revolutions (at the other extreme). And what time-horizon are people to use for this crystal-ball gazing? Wouldn't IBM's management have been equally culpable for their decision to leave the PC market? Or how about bet-the-company gambles? I think we probably already have enough "you should have....." lawsuits already.
LOL. "Rogers" on that.
I guess if I have to explain the "evolved upward from mindlessly repeating stuff" joke, it wasn't that funny in the first place.
Have you tuned into Fox News lately?
Oh fer chrissake, it's a tech article, not a tinfoil-hat Wikileaks article. Let's talk about how the Keyholes were the prototypes for Hubble.
The "intermediate step" is user intervention, which is the whole point. At least you wouldn't get your BIOS rooted "accidentally".
In this case, the "lobotomized drooling morons" are the Congressional spec writers and component selectors who are also happen to be in charge of the budget. Imagine if someone told you to design an airplane, they'd pay for the budget, you just had to include a giraffe and 1963 Volkswagon Beetle in the final airframe design.
First we fund alternative operating system, then we keel moose and skwirrell!
Javascript is a language that combines the type-safety of Perl with the object paradigm of pre-ANSI, pre-STL C++, the power and expressiveness of Visual Basic, the ambiguity of HTML, and the readability and maintainability of C.
If you're at the fucking keynote, describing a demo as "working wonderfully" you're a Microsoft shill by definition.
Now all you need to do is learn some programming languages.
<sigh> not a lot more needs to be said, does it?
As the last of the vacuum tubes (incandescent light bulbs and CRTs) get phased out, power consumption goes down. Now if we could just find a way to get rid of (most) fractional horsepower motors.