McDonalds corporation has been sued because people who eat quarter pounders three times a day get fat.
Oh, wait. This happened already.
Seriously, people. Just don't put your nanos in your pocket along with the car keys and you'll be fine. I hope plaintiffs get their ass handed to them by Apple lawyers.
Most people are biased AGAINST Microsoft, not FOR someone else in particular. If, let's say, hamburgers were rammed down your throat every day for years, you'd be biased against hamburgers after about a week, and if you also were a writer, you'd praise the virtues of hamburger-free diet. Not because it's necessarily good, but because you HATE fucking hamburgers.
Same here. Plus, Apple makes some stunning products from time to time. This helps, too.
Hey, it's not like "paper" encyclopedias don't have problems. Just open up encyclopedias printed in the 60's-70's in the US and in USSR and read a few chapters on socialism and communism.:-)
Australiand and Indian governments suggest surgically removing the eyes of Australian and Indian citizens. "Those are high resolution, stereoscopic imaging devices coupled with virtually infinite amount of memory. They sure can be used to scope out future targets, therefore in the interest of national security these tools of terror must be removed at birth, and retroactively for all citizens who have not yet undergone the procedure", an Australian official was quoted as saying. Complete removal of cerebral cortex is in the plans, according to a source in Indian government who shared information on the condition of anynymity.
Video off the Torrent, pr0n, video podcasts, music clips and home video. Moreover, its primary function is _audio playback_. Video is just gravy there. The reason why Video iPod will sell insanely well is because it's way thinner than the competition, has the functions that _audio_ competition does not have, and doesn't cost all that much more when compared to it.
IBM donates parts of the most retarded, inefficient, bug ridden and downright atrocious software suite in the world to Open Source. Open Source folks don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Honestly, people. Rational Suite is the shittiest, most pointless piece of garbage I've ever used. The only useful part of it is Rational Rose, and even that you can find a good replacement for.
eBay and PayPal aren't exactly known for instilling confidence in their customer base. This is a slippery slope for Verisign, who issues SSL certs and must by definition be trustworthy.
It's the market economics for you, as simple as that. SJ probably called up Samsung and said, OK folks, I'm ready to buy a shitload of 2GB chips, and I do mean A SHITLOAD (ten million), what's the price you can offer to me so that I don't go to Toshiba. And they made an offer SJ could not refuse.
Now imagine Cowon audio (BTW, what's up with their company name? "Cowon"? Hello?) calls up and says, we're ready to buy ten thousand chips. Of course there will be a different price than for ten million chips! And it of course will be a lot higher, because 10K chips is like a single batch, whereas 10M chips is two years of non-stop production.
Here's a simple task that you CAN'T do with SELinux: set up Apache and Samba so that Apache's html directory is shared using samba. Should be simple, right? Bzzt. Wrong answer. You will have to either turn off SELinux for Samba or for Apache, you can't protect both because they need to access the same files. From what I've seen, most people just turn SELinux off.
Now, from theoretical security standpoint this totally makes sense - you can't guarantee complete isolation between two apps if both access the same set of files and one of them can write. However, in the real world this is a nightmare. SELinux folks rightfully refuse to fix this - they've created SELinux for an entirely different purpose - to build verifiably secure systems, even if they can't run Apache on them.
What Linux needs is a proper ACL implementation a-la Windows (don't laugh - they have a really good one) or Mac OS X.
As long as I can re-sell the software I bought, I'm fine with this. I doubt they'll let me re-sell, though. In which case they can shove this thing up their asses without vaseline.
What if there are _no_ bananas, and your enemy can move faster, "see" better, aim more precisely, carry heavier armor, and not have to sleep or rest. Human reaction time is limited to 0.1 seconds by brain chemistry. Robost have no such limit. Humans get tired quickly. Humans are unreliable, they can't fight if you chop one of their limbs off.
Robots are not quite there now, but this doesn't mean they'll be there in, say, 15 years. I especially like the "spider" idea. That way the robot can stay close to the ground and move so fast, no sniper will be able to take it down.
This is actually the future of combat. Not this particular robot of course, but over time I think these things have great battlefield potential. They just need to become completely autonomous and vastly exceed mobility capabilities of a trained human. Move three times faster, aim better, carry heavier ammunition, see better in the dark or through fog/smoke, use multi-spectral imaging to see humans in IR, or if they can't be seen in IR, see them despite their camouflage in UV spectrum. They could also stay closer to the ground.
You probably haven't worked in a real team yet. Requirements often get formalized way after the code is written. Team members write the code the way they see fit, and not necessarily use your set of assumptions. Moreover, code is often written in parallel and then "integrated" into a feature, which means feature as a whole is often not compile until the last check-in (because chunks of code are missing) let alone polished and testable. So refactoring is a necessary evil. If you'd worked on anything larger than 100K lines of code you'd know this real well.
>> Can you imagine that those are NEW in Microsoft??? What kind of stupid kid-games have they been playing???
No I can't. Because they're not new. I've seen this done a DECADE ago there. It's just that there's a lot more emphasis on automated testing. Which is not necessarily a good thing.
It'll become obsolete even before it comes out
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Fully loaded dual proc G5 with the latest NVidia/ATI video card and 2G of RAM (even overpriced RAM they sell) is still $400 cheaper than this thing. Go check at Apple store.
And Intel has better laptop processors. That's why SJ chose Intel as a primary supplier. When AMD gets its act together wrt laptop processors and kicks Intel's butt there, I won't be surprised to see AMD chips in Apple products side by side with Intel (unless Intel cut them a really hefty discount in return for exclusive contract).
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McDonalds corporation has been sued because people who eat quarter pounders three times a day get fat.
Oh, wait. This happened already.
Seriously, people. Just don't put your nanos in your pocket along with the car keys and you'll be fine. I hope plaintiffs get their ass handed to them by Apple lawyers.
Most people are biased AGAINST Microsoft, not FOR someone else in particular. If, let's say, hamburgers were rammed down your throat every day for years, you'd be biased against hamburgers after about a week, and if you also were a writer, you'd praise the virtues of hamburger-free diet. Not because it's necessarily good, but because you HATE fucking hamburgers.
Same here. Plus, Apple makes some stunning products from time to time. This helps, too.
Hey, it's not like "paper" encyclopedias don't have problems. Just open up encyclopedias printed in the 60's-70's in the US and in USSR and read a few chapters on socialism and communism. :-)
Australiand and Indian governments suggest surgically removing the eyes of Australian and Indian citizens. "Those are high resolution, stereoscopic imaging devices coupled with virtually infinite amount of memory. They sure can be used to scope out future targets, therefore in the interest of national security these tools of terror must be removed at birth, and retroactively for all citizens who have not yet undergone the procedure", an Australian official was quoted as saying. Complete removal of cerebral cortex is in the plans, according to a source in Indian government who shared information on the condition of anynymity.
Video off the Torrent, pr0n, video podcasts, music clips and home video. Moreover, its primary function is _audio playback_. Video is just gravy there. The reason why Video iPod will sell insanely well is because it's way thinner than the competition, has the functions that _audio_ competition does not have, and doesn't cost all that much more when compared to it.
When will you stop beating your wife?
How many chairs does Ballmer go through in a month?
You've said "the Chinese fucked us" to Kai Fu Lee, what exactly did you mean by that?
What do you think about outsourcing?
IBM donates parts of the most retarded, inefficient, bug ridden and downright atrocious software suite in the world to Open Source. Open Source folks don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Honestly, people. Rational Suite is the shittiest, most pointless piece of garbage I've ever used. The only useful part of it is Rational Rose, and even that you can find a good replacement for.
Pr0n podcasting.
If I was Verisign, I wouldn't allow to eBay to touch me with a ten-foot pole.
eBay and PayPal aren't exactly known for instilling confidence in their customer base. This is a slippery slope for Verisign, who issues SSL certs and must by definition be trustworthy.
It's the market economics for you, as simple as that. SJ probably called up Samsung and said, OK folks, I'm ready to buy a shitload of 2GB chips, and I do mean A SHITLOAD (ten million), what's the price you can offer to me so that I don't go to Toshiba. And they made an offer SJ could not refuse.
Now imagine Cowon audio (BTW, what's up with their company name? "Cowon"? Hello?) calls up and says, we're ready to buy ten thousand chips. Of course there will be a different price than for ten million chips! And it of course will be a lot higher, because 10K chips is like a single batch, whereas 10M chips is two years of non-stop production.
Or you could just go here and read them all for free: http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/
Not that I condone this kind of activity.
Here's a simple task that you CAN'T do with SELinux: set up Apache and Samba so that Apache's html directory is shared using samba. Should be simple, right? Bzzt. Wrong answer. You will have to either turn off SELinux for Samba or for Apache, you can't protect both because they need to access the same files. From what I've seen, most people just turn SELinux off.
Now, from theoretical security standpoint this totally makes sense - you can't guarantee complete isolation between two apps if both access the same set of files and one of them can write. However, in the real world this is a nightmare. SELinux folks rightfully refuse to fix this - they've created SELinux for an entirely different purpose - to build verifiably secure systems, even if they can't run Apache on them.
What Linux needs is a proper ACL implementation a-la Windows (don't laugh - they have a really good one) or Mac OS X.
And I, for one, would like to wholeheartedly agree with the underlying meaning of it. :-)
So who will bring in more customers, again?
As long as I can re-sell the software I bought, I'm fine with this. I doubt they'll let me re-sell, though. In which case they can shove this thing up their asses without vaseline.
What if there are _no_ bananas, and your enemy can move faster, "see" better, aim more precisely, carry heavier armor, and not have to sleep or rest. Human reaction time is limited to 0.1 seconds by brain chemistry. Robost have no such limit. Humans get tired quickly. Humans are unreliable, they can't fight if you chop one of their limbs off.
Robots are not quite there now, but this doesn't mean they'll be there in, say, 15 years. I especially like the "spider" idea. That way the robot can stay close to the ground and move so fast, no sniper will be able to take it down.
This is actually the future of combat. Not this particular robot of course, but over time I think these things have great battlefield potential. They just need to become completely autonomous and vastly exceed mobility capabilities of a trained human. Move three times faster, aim better, carry heavier ammunition, see better in the dark or through fog/smoke, use multi-spectral imaging to see humans in IR, or if they can't be seen in IR, see them despite their camouflage in UV spectrum. They could also stay closer to the ground.
You probably haven't worked in a real team yet. Requirements often get formalized way after the code is written. Team members write the code the way they see fit, and not necessarily use your set of assumptions. Moreover, code is often written in parallel and then "integrated" into a feature, which means feature as a whole is often not compile until the last check-in (because chunks of code are missing) let alone polished and testable. So refactoring is a necessary evil. If you'd worked on anything larger than 100K lines of code you'd know this real well.
>> Can you imagine that those are NEW in Microsoft??? What kind of stupid kid-games have they been playing???
No I can't. Because they're not new. I've seen this done a DECADE ago there. It's just that there's a lot more emphasis on automated testing. Which is not necessarily a good thing.
Check this out: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=1146 80 and make sure you watch it to the end.
INSANE stuff. MSFT may have a winner with that one.
Fully loaded dual proc G5 with the latest NVidia/ATI video card and 2G of RAM (even overpriced RAM they sell) is still $400 cheaper than this thing. Go check at Apple store.
Next thing you know, Russians will launch a satellite to shut down this jammer in case it is activated. And they'll be right. :-)
That's more than a dual proc Power Mac G5. Pass me the bong, people.
And Intel has better laptop processors. That's why SJ chose Intel as a primary supplier. When AMD gets its act together wrt laptop processors and kicks Intel's butt there, I won't be surprised to see AMD chips in Apple products side by side with Intel (unless Intel cut them a really hefty discount in return for exclusive contract).