Dear Nigerian citizen. I am the son of the late US President Ronald Reagan. I have recently come into the possession of the sum of FIVE US DOLLARS which I need your help in hiding from the US Internal Revenue Service...
You're missing the point. What happens when nobody sells general purpose computers - just special purpose appliances? Think it can't happen? Where do you go to buy electronics parts? That used to be what Radio Shack sold, now I have to buy parts mail order from Digi-key. How about ball bearings? Hardware stores used to sell the raw materials that I used for projects, now it's all special purpose parts that only work with one manufacturer's product.
As an ex hardware guy I don't have any software degree or certifications. I used to buy Redhat releases on floppy back when I had dial-up and install them on my second PC. Learned all about networking, DNS, DHCP, etc. from howtos - which were always out-of-date even then. Anyway, last two jobs have been increasingly Linux and now I'm a full-time kernel hacker. The best source of information for what I work on now is the mailing lists and LWN. Buy a subscription.
Patent trolling took off after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office began issuing a flood of questionable âoebusiness methodâ patents related to things like software and, believe it or not, a crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwich. In 2006, lawyers used such a patent to threaten Research in Motion with an injunction against the BlackBerry and extract a $612 million payout.
Well that's clearly why the BlackBerry has been having trouble in the market, RIM spent too much of their product development time working on sandwiches, and patent infringing sandwiches at that.
Blackberry is an obvious mistake. The crustless PB&J uses strawberry.
Anyway, why hasn't someone pointed out that Intellectual Ventures was founded by the ex-CTO of Microsoft Nathan Myhrvold and still partners with Microsoft on patent deals. Are all the MS haters asleep?
I have such a computer inside my head. It believes that it perceives the world and interacts with it, when in fact it only perceives the world through a set of 5 I/O channels called senses. It could be inside a detailed virtual world and has no way to detect it. It also believes that it has consciousness, although that idea is hard to define and hard to test.
As for whether it is capable of designing its own successor,time will tell.
... because they don't know what the software market was like before them.
A good CAD setup including workstation and licenses could be $100K. A mainframe to handle your accounting could be $6000 per month.
Personal computing - IBM, Microsoft, and Apple - demolished the old model which was low volume, buggy software at high prices. I have no illusions about their intentions, they've made more money than any emperor. But I do appreciate what they created.
I helped someone recover data fram a drive that would fail after about 15 minutes of runtime by alternating between the freezer and my desktop PC. I was able to get almost all the data off that way. I just scrapped the drive after that (with a hammer, since there was personal info) so I have no idea what long term effect there might be. Certainly the freezer worked for the short term.
I haven't seen a cashier with any math skills in quite a while. In fact, if you really want to screw them up give them the extra penny. I had a chat with a cashier when the customer in front of me did that after she had rung up a payment of $10.00 and was unable to deal with being handed $10.01 (for a purchase of $9.51). She felt very abused about not being able to calculate the right change in her head. As far as I can tell, the cash register is in charge. She felt her job was to do whatever the cash register told her to do.
The Mars idea claims that increased solar irradiance is the cause for warming on both Earth and Mars, hence warming is unrelated to human activity. However we've had SoHo measuring the Sun from outside the Earth's atmosphere and it does not show increased irradiance. In fact when I looked at the data we seem to be close to a minimum.
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Were they blind tests?
Spammers go through 100 domains a month.
Except the linked ad never says it is a SATA dock. Thanks for making my point.
Why do so many product ads tell you everything except what the product does?
modus ponens yo mama!
Yes, security through obscurity is the best method.
and why are you posting as AC?
A lot of us depend on tips to get by.
If you define the operator + as +: x +_ y +_ 1 for all x,y in some magma, where +_ denotes the common addition +, then yes.
magma? volcanoes can do math now?
Yes. And they're really bad at it.
Dear Nigerian citizen. I am the son of the late US President Ronald Reagan. I have recently come into the possession of the sum of FIVE US DOLLARS which I need your help in hiding from the US Internal Revenue Service ...
You're missing the point. What happens when nobody sells general purpose computers - just special purpose appliances? Think it can't happen? Where do you go to buy electronics parts? That used to be what Radio Shack sold, now I have to buy parts mail order from Digi-key. How about ball bearings? Hardware stores used to sell the raw materials that I used for projects, now it's all special purpose parts that only work with one manufacturer's product.
As an ex hardware guy I don't have any software degree or certifications. I used to buy Redhat releases on floppy back when I had dial-up and install them on my second PC. Learned all about networking, DNS, DHCP, etc. from howtos - which were always out-of-date even then. Anyway, last two jobs have been increasingly Linux and now I'm a full-time kernel hacker. The best source of information for what I work on now is the mailing lists and LWN. Buy a subscription.
The deaths of Grissom, Chafee and White didn't stop the Apollo program. They were pretty catastrophic.
Patent trolling took off after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office began issuing a flood of questionable âoebusiness methodâ patents related to things like software and, believe it or not, a crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwich. In 2006, lawyers used such a patent to threaten Research in Motion with an injunction against the BlackBerry and extract a $612 million payout.
Well that's clearly why the BlackBerry has been having trouble in the market, RIM spent too much of their product development time working on sandwiches, and patent infringing sandwiches at that.
Blackberry is an obvious mistake. The crustless PB&J uses strawberry.
Anyway, why hasn't someone pointed out that Intellectual Ventures was founded by the ex-CTO of Microsoft Nathan Myhrvold and still partners with Microsoft on patent deals. Are all the MS haters asleep?
That was Duane and Gregg Almond.
I'm not sure what this means, but in the US prosecuting deceptive advertising is the responsibility of FTC Chairman Orson Swindle.
My brother recently found and gave me a copy of What Mad Universe because we had both read and enjoyed it as kids. Fredric Brown was great.
In this case Scripps took down a NASA-owned video, so sounds like the second half applies.
I have such a computer inside my head. It believes that it perceives the world and interacts with it, when in fact it only perceives the world through a set of 5 I/O channels called senses. It could be inside a detailed virtual world and has no way to detect it. It also believes that it has consciousness, although that idea is hard to define and hard to test.
As for whether it is capable of designing its own successor,time will tell.
... because they don't know what the software market was like before them.
A good CAD setup including workstation and licenses could be $100K. A mainframe to handle your accounting could be $6000 per month.
Personal computing - IBM, Microsoft, and Apple - demolished the old model which was low volume, buggy software at high prices. I have no illusions about their intentions, they've made more money than any emperor. But I do appreciate what they created.
This is offical policy. See Bug 374002 - Remove or rename vote support if they aren't still blocking links from slashdot.
Q. Where do you get Maxwell's demon?
A. Monster.com
Why stop there? Maybe the whole galaxy is heating up. Demand the exoplanet termperatures.
I helped someone recover data fram a drive that would fail after about 15 minutes of runtime by alternating between the freezer and my desktop PC. I was able to get almost all the data off that way. I just scrapped the drive after that (with a hammer, since there was personal info) so I have no idea what long term effect there might be. Certainly the freezer worked for the short term.
I haven't seen a cashier with any math skills in quite a while. In fact, if you really want to screw them up give them the extra penny. I had a chat with a cashier when the customer in front of me did that after she had rung up a payment of $10.00 and was unable to deal with being handed $10.01 (for a purchase of $9.51). She felt very abused about not being able to calculate the right change in her head. As far as I can tell, the cash register is in charge. She felt her job was to do whatever the cash register told her to do.
The Mars idea claims that increased solar irradiance is the cause for warming on both Earth and Mars, hence warming is unrelated to human activity. However we've had SoHo measuring the Sun from outside the Earth's atmosphere and it does not show increased irradiance. In fact when I looked at the data we seem to be close to a minimum.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.4524&ei=7IMVUOWhJqTg0QGDoIGACQ&usg=AFQjCNH4sheVAbaAZfcaDDY6LVKdg-MM8A&sig2=4CmVW9NY1BXtoGQrHnyG4w