This just shows how enormously profitable printing is (for ink makers). HP is giving away a tablet with their printer to make it easier to customers to find things to print. Nevermind the fact that for everyone else, tablets and e-readers are seen as an alternative to printed material. If there's even a chance that this increases the amount of printing that people do, HP will come out ahead.
Not really. This guy is taking the role of CEO, not chief engineer. Elop probably has a proven track record in managing Microsoft's business-software division (which does better than most divisions at MS) so they want him to deliver the same success to Nokia.
Also, it's worth noting that Nokia's financial success is not dependent on competing with Apple in the smartphone market. They could simply continue making featurephones and dominate that segment, and make tons of money doing so.
Microsoft Surface is also much larger (the size of a coffee table or so) where it might make sense to put objects on it. Board gaming on a Surface would be quite an experience, but with an iPad you'd be covering most of the display unless you stuck to just a few playing pieces. You also have to fit the entire board on the screen, as it won't be able to scroll with pieces on it. The example given in the article, Monopoly, just wouldn't wouldn't work at all.
"What can you actually do with them? Plenty, it seems!"
Not really. The article spent 3 pages to say that you could use it as a file server with an external hard drive or... a web server. That's it?
This reads more like a slashvertisement for a product with no real purpose. Yes, it's great that it's cheap and runs linux, but if you need an external hard drive to get any real use out of it, what's the point in making it so small? Just make it the size of a caddy.
Aren't all social conventions arbitrary? Copyright is no different to any other social construct created by people and written into law, such as marriage. You don't have to like it, but don't pretend it's not relevant just because it's "arbitrary".
Not really; Monsanto didn't force farmers to use more Roundup - they just made it easier for them to do so. That widespread use of Roundup has led to the appearance of Roundup-resistant weeds, in the same way that indiscriminate use of antibiotics led to antibiotic-resistant bacteria. You can't sue the antibiotic companies because their products created MRSA, and Monsanto isn't directly responsible for the rise of Roundup-resistant weeds.
They still deserve the blame, however, since they directly profited from the scenario they created, but it'll come back to bite them soon - when all weeds are Roundup-resistant, they won't be able to sell Roundup, nor Roundup Ready crops.
Monsanto has nothing to do with Golden Rice. It was developed by university researchers and is distributed for free. Yes, in an ideal world everyone would have a balanced diet and we wouldn't need vitamin A-enriched rice. But the world is not ideal, and we do.
If you took more than a cursory glance at the wiki page you'll see that HSBC has never been Chinese. Hong Kong was part of the British Empire and the bank was founded by a British citizen. It has been run by British citizens ever since.
At the time, they may indeed have been Chinese... This was back in 1986 and 1987
At that time Hong Kong was still part of the Realm, and the chairman of HSBC was Michael Sandberg, later Baron Sandberg. There is nothing Chinese about HSBC except its location.
Because if my muscle memory is trained for my mouse, I'm going to be nonfunctional when I'm on someone else's machine.
I'm sorry that you become nonfunctional when faced with a slightly different hardware configuration. The rest of us have more than one set of muscle memory and don't feel the need to limit ourselves to the "lowest common denominator".
Do you all just use the 3-button mouse that came with your Dell? Back and forward buttons have been common on mice for the last decade. Why click a toolbar button when you can just use your thumb?
This cheap, easy to use green power source could substantially improve the quality of life of 1.6 billion people
Yep... 1.6 billion people are going to boil potatoes and place them between sheets of copper and zinc in order to light an LED. Who writes this stuff?
The scientists discovered that the simple action of boiling the potato prior to use in electrolysis, increases electric power up to 10 fold over the untreated potato and enables the battery to work for days and even weeks.
Boiled potatoes sitting around for weeks. It's a revolution!
"If you were wondering why Sony is shutting down half the PSN today for maintenance, then wonder no more. We reckon the company's simply gearing up for the launch of the PlayStation 3's first stereoscopic 3D games."
I don't see how graphics-rendering technology requires an overhaul of the network. The third dimension doesn't require more bandwidth.
Seriously, what's the point of this? Ordering things online is already easy. Does Bezos really think there's a whole untapped market out there of people who would like to buy something but find clicking links too exhausting? I wonder how those customers managed to navigate his website in the first place.
Sure, but when making whisky (or any other spirit), the starting material is something one would not normally drink, and the distillation process removes the unpleasant flavours. But in this case, the starting material is beer. There's no need to remove fusel alcohols or methanol because they aren't there to begin with.
If you read the article, you'll see that this is part of the new National Curriculum, ie, all states will be required to teach ID in ancient history class. Blame the federal government, not the Queensland government (or the people there).
The antimissile defense might be flawed but that has nothing to do with reducing America's nuclear arsenal. There'll still be enough nuclear weapons available to act as a deterrent. The anti-missile defense system plays a completely different role, that of deflecting attacks, rather than preventing them. You can't deflect attacks with ICBMs, so Obama's plan for reducing the nuclear arsenal doesn't rely on antimissile defense.
I just checked and I have 9 restore points going back two weeks. I would have restarted several times in that period. The summary makes it sound as if this is a bug that affects all users. I don't think that is the case.
This is an extraordinarily bad bug, which I suspect most Windows 7 users won't realise is affecting them until it's too late.
Yeah or maybe it's not affecting most Windows 7 users.
And this is why Flash will always have a place on the web. There's so much attention these days on Flash as a video player (and how HTML5 will make it all obsolete) but Flash's real strength lies in the ability to produce things like this - there's no (good) alternative. The same goes for all the millions of animations out there (Newgrounds, Homestarrunner etc).
Not true - while we do produce polymer banknotes for most of the countries that use them, we've also licensed the technology to Brazil, China and Israel for their own production. There's no reason the same couldn't be done in the US, apart from the Not Invented Here issue.
Last time I played OpenTTD (a couple years ago), I found it entertaining for a while, but not challenging. The AI didn't present much competition, and I got the impression the game wasn't designed with that in mind. It seemed like it's a game for people who like playing with model trains.
This is not only a dupe of an article published 5 hours ago (still near the top of the front page), it's from the exact same submission. Perhaps samzenpus has been editing slashdot while driving and this is the result?
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This just shows how enormously profitable printing is (for ink makers). HP is giving away a tablet with their printer to make it easier to customers to find things to print. Nevermind the fact that for everyone else, tablets and e-readers are seen as an alternative to printed material. If there's even a chance that this increases the amount of printing that people do, HP will come out ahead.
Not really. This guy is taking the role of CEO, not chief engineer. Elop probably has a proven track record in managing Microsoft's business-software division (which does better than most divisions at MS) so they want him to deliver the same success to Nokia.
Also, it's worth noting that Nokia's financial success is not dependent on competing with Apple in the smartphone market. They could simply continue making featurephones and dominate that segment, and make tons of money doing so.
Microsoft Surface is also much larger (the size of a coffee table or so) where it might make sense to put objects on it. Board gaming on a Surface would be quite an experience, but with an iPad you'd be covering most of the display unless you stuck to just a few playing pieces. You also have to fit the entire board on the screen, as it won't be able to scroll with pieces on it. The example given in the article, Monopoly, just wouldn't wouldn't work at all.
"What can you actually do with them? Plenty, it seems!"
Not really. The article spent 3 pages to say that you could use it as a file server with an external hard drive or... a web server. That's it?
This reads more like a slashvertisement for a product with no real purpose. Yes, it's great that it's cheap and runs linux, but if you need an external hard drive to get any real use out of it, what's the point in making it so small? Just make it the size of a caddy.
Nobody ever got rich by spending more money than they have.
Nonsense. People go in to debt to finance investments all the time. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't.
Copyright is just an arbitrary social convention.
Aren't all social conventions arbitrary? Copyright is no different to any other social construct created by people and written into law, such as marriage. You don't have to like it, but don't pretend it's not relevant just because it's "arbitrary".
Not since November 2009. The banks are now required to prove the customer was at fault.
Not really; Monsanto didn't force farmers to use more Roundup - they just made it easier for them to do so. That widespread use of Roundup has led to the appearance of Roundup-resistant weeds, in the same way that indiscriminate use of antibiotics led to antibiotic-resistant bacteria. You can't sue the antibiotic companies because their products created MRSA, and Monsanto isn't directly responsible for the rise of Roundup-resistant weeds.
They still deserve the blame, however, since they directly profited from the scenario they created, but it'll come back to bite them soon - when all weeds are Roundup-resistant, they won't be able to sell Roundup, nor Roundup Ready crops.
Monsanto has nothing to do with Golden Rice. It was developed by university researchers and is distributed for free. Yes, in an ideal world everyone would have a balanced diet and we wouldn't need vitamin A-enriched rice. But the world is not ideal, and we do.
If you took more than a cursory glance at the wiki page you'll see that HSBC has never been Chinese. Hong Kong was part of the British Empire and the bank was founded by a British citizen. It has been run by British citizens ever since.
At that time Hong Kong was still part of the Realm, and the chairman of HSBC was Michael Sandberg, later Baron Sandberg. There is nothing Chinese about HSBC except its location.
I'm sorry that you become nonfunctional when faced with a slightly different hardware configuration. The rest of us have more than one set of muscle memory and don't feel the need to limit ourselves to the "lowest common denominator".
Do you all just use the 3-button mouse that came with your Dell? Back and forward buttons have been common on mice for the last decade. Why click a toolbar button when you can just use your thumb?
Indeed. This article is painfully embarrassing.
Yep... 1.6 billion people are going to boil potatoes and place them between sheets of copper and zinc in order to light an LED. Who writes this stuff?
Boiled potatoes sitting around for weeks. It's a revolution!
"If you were wondering why Sony is shutting down half the PSN today for maintenance, then wonder no more. We reckon the company's simply gearing up for the launch of the PlayStation 3's first stereoscopic 3D games."
I don't see how graphics-rendering technology requires an overhaul of the network. The third dimension doesn't require more bandwidth.
Indeed. It's a testing ground for various military purposes, and in the 1950s the British government tested nuclear weapons there.
However there is a (small) population there. The mailman has to use a helicopter because the area is the size of England.
Seriously, what's the point of this? Ordering things online is already easy. Does Bezos really think there's a whole untapped market out there of people who would like to buy something but find clicking links too exhausting? I wonder how those customers managed to navigate his website in the first place.
Sure, but when making whisky (or any other spirit), the starting material is something one would not normally drink, and the distillation process removes the unpleasant flavours. But in this case, the starting material is beer. There's no need to remove fusel alcohols or methanol because they aren't there to begin with.
If you read the article, you'll see that this is part of the new National Curriculum, ie, all states will be required to teach ID in ancient history class. Blame the federal government, not the Queensland government (or the people there).
The antimissile defense might be flawed but that has nothing to do with reducing America's nuclear arsenal. There'll still be enough nuclear weapons available to act as a deterrent. The anti-missile defense system plays a completely different role, that of deflecting attacks, rather than preventing them. You can't deflect attacks with ICBMs, so Obama's plan for reducing the nuclear arsenal doesn't rely on antimissile defense.
I just checked and I have 9 restore points going back two weeks. I would have restarted several times in that period. The summary makes it sound as if this is a bug that affects all users. I don't think that is the case.
Yeah or maybe it's not affecting most Windows 7 users.
And this is why Flash will always have a place on the web. There's so much attention these days on Flash as a video player (and how HTML5 will make it all obsolete) but Flash's real strength lies in the ability to produce things like this - there's no (good) alternative. The same goes for all the millions of animations out there (Newgrounds, Homestarrunner etc).
Not true - while we do produce polymer banknotes for most of the countries that use them, we've also licensed the technology to Brazil, China and Israel for their own production. There's no reason the same couldn't be done in the US, apart from the Not Invented Here issue.
Last time I played OpenTTD (a couple years ago), I found it entertaining for a while, but not challenging. The AI didn't present much competition, and I got the impression the game wasn't designed with that in mind. It seemed like it's a game for people who like playing with model trains.
This is not only a dupe of an article published 5 hours ago (still near the top of the front page), it's from the exact same submission. Perhaps samzenpus has been editing slashdot while driving and this is the result?
Why do you write compression algorithms when all you want is uncompressed video?