In my opinion Daily Mail is nothing more than a troll of a newspaper that force feeds its readers exactly what they want to hear, or what they know will rile their readership in order to sell more rags to their core readership. Radiohead felt strongly enough about this rag to write a song about it that nicely sums this up in haunting poetic terms .
I seriously have to doubt a Norwegian based study that (surprise, surprise) discovers that fossil fuels are more environmentally friendly than Electric motors - its just slightly less surprising than this study coming from say a Saudi based institution or Jeremy Clarkson...
According to the article: "My Twitter account was deactivated but before doing so I posted links to my Google+ account, blog and invited people to contact me on Facebook. I'm delighted that a lot of my lovely friends did. I'm also delighted that The Troll did too."
So can anyone explain how you get to someones IP address by inviting people to contact you on Facebook?
Why did the jury foreman consider Google's opinion to be the arbiter of this case? What if Google were just being over-cautious? That was likely the Samsung boards opinion, and why they chose not to pass this onto the engineers. From the BBC article it seems that the Jury's decision was that if Google and Apple says its so - then it must be so.
Every time I read statements from the jury foreman - they seem to be evolving - with the news stories finding holes in his previous statements.
What amazes me is his statement on why they did not consider prior art:
"the software was an entirely different methodology, and the more modern software could not be loaded onto the older example and be run without error." So because they could not run the software from a device produced in the 2010s on a device produced in the 1990s - it was not considered as prior art... astonishing.
Yeah - they're effectively asking a californian based jury if how much money they would like South Korea (Samsung) to donate to the local economy - I find it hard to believe any Californian based jury was going to decide anything different. I wonder what the long term effect will be of US based jurys charging billions of dollars to international firms just to do business in the US...
I first heard of Scrum from my wifes hospital ward - where they were using the technique to manage the activities of their staff. This made me curious as to its origins and it turns out it was first and foremost a product development methodology. So its not that Scrum is spreading from its software origins - it never originated in software in the first place.
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Yeah in the UK the C64 was up against the sinclair spectrum (which was probably more popular at least at the time most of my mates had these) - as well as the Amstrad machines and BBC micro machines - so it had some tough competition. I had the C64 - in fact I still have mine - sat behind me right now in pieces - as it needs a keyboard repair - (need to get a replacement h key from somewhere). I recently picked up my C64 from my mothers attic - even today I think it could well be the best way to get my son into programming - that and the new raspberry PI.
It all depends on what actions are taken with the information - and who does the interviews. A few years ago now - over a period - my company lost several key developers - and tech experts. I don't work for our HR department - but I was working as a peer (with 15+ years experience) to those that had left. I rapidly got fed up with seeing some really good colleagues leave - and so I requested to as many as I could to exit interview them. Noone that I asked declined - as they knew that I wasn't from HR - and I explained that the main reason was to improve the company - and try to fix the issues that they had with it. I had quite a detailed set of questions - and collected answers in the same manner from all. Then I went through the answers - and came up with suggestions to improve things. One of the key things for our company was - that when tech experts / devs get to a certain level - the only career paths open to them - was management or sales - and most wanted neither. I started the changes such that we managed to introduce a technical expert career track - which means that you can now be a tech expert all the way up to the second to top level in our company (top level being director / CEO). Subsequently I got comments from those that left that if this had happened earlier - then they might not have left. There were many other issues that we took forwards and tried to address - some with success - some not. I've always believed that it is best to try to fix the company I work for before looking outside. If the company I work for ever becomes closed to these fixes - then I will up sticks and go elsewhere.
I agree - the underlying figures show that Microsofts core business is actually in pretty good shape. Its just that many people posting here don't seem to realize that Microsofts core business has moved on from Windows if you take a look at the summarised figures:
Windows + Windows live division: 13% loss in revenue Server + Server tools: 13% increase in revenue Online services division: 8% increase in revenue Microsoft business division: 7% increase in revenue Entertainment + devices division: 20% increase in revenue
To say that the D800 isn't anything special - have you really used one? Yes I know the pixel pitch is the same as a D7000 - but the D800 is all about resolution at near to base ISOs - and to be honest the images are useable at higher isos than most medium formats I have seen. The D800 sensor - is pushing the limits of what many of the Nikkor lenses can resolve - at all but their optimum appertures - if you take a look at the D800 review by Advanced Photographer (UK mag) for the current issue - they pixel peep with the 14-24 f/2.8 - and there you can clearly see that definition is lost for all but the optimum apertures. The 14-24 f/2.8G is widely recognised as one of Nikons sharpest lenses. So at around 36MP we are clearly pushing the limits of what a 35mm lens can resolve.
It amazes me that some people can see conspiracies everywhere. I've not posted a story before on slashdot - but it seems to me that you are seeing conspiracies where there are none. I have no relationship to the bbc - I don't live in Britain - and I have no interest in finance organizations - as a software engineer I design and write code for a living (and not for financial institutions). This article interested me from the perspective - that making false assumptions - and misuse of a formula or algorithm - can have unforeseen consequences beyond the original authors wildest dreams - which is what I find fascinating and the sole reason why I posted the story. I can guarantee you that I will not receive a single kronor (as I live in Sweden) for this article. I wonder how you think Slashdot editors are going to police the articles that get posted as you suggest. To my mind that kind of heavy editorial censorship would also be heavily criticised.
You joke of course - but here in Sweden they take this very seriously. I worked as a consultant on a project for a few days - and every time we walked past one of the offices we were supposed to ensure that our mobile phones were switched off. They had stripped the office of all possible forms of source signal. It was quite ridiculous. The fact that the same person lived in a city of approximately 1.5 million people - of which a very large percentage use mobile phones most of the time meant that unless the sufferer lived their life in a Faraday cage - they were gonna have a pretty hard time of it...
As a keen photographer myself - to me these disused areas of the city are areas of public interest - particularly the old closed down underground stations. Rather than slapping down ASBOs on people - London Transport should wake up to the potential of their sites - and turn them into museums or at least offer guided tours of these sites - open them up to the curious public to view the sites in a safe manner - and let photographers take the pictures they want to take. Just stop treating photographers as potential terrorist - because that is the last thing we are!
I used to be an overseas subscriber to PCZONE (RIP) back when I lived in the US just because there was no US pc gaming mag that I could find with anything like a similar sense of humour. I always found that the CD / DVD was an almost complete waste of space - serving only for the publisher to ask an extra few $ on the price - as all material could be downloaded from the web - with the exception perhaps of some of the PCZONEs team videos (some of which were worth the asking price). The US based equivalent publications always seemed to be more about advertisements than the articles. I bought the mag for the article writing not for the bunf.
It was all mayor Daleys doing when he ordered crews of bulldozers to destroy the runway in the middle of the night back in 2003 - only in Chicago... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field
I wonder how the Iranians / Jerusalem Post can be sure this is not an Israeli drone - given that th US supplies billions of dollars worth of arms to Israel - you could assume that drone aircraft - manufactured in the US are included in this. In fact could be seen to benefit Israels position if this drone were misinterpreted to be US origin.
Thanks for the informative reply (I'd mod you up if I could) - I hadn't realised that patent law worked quite like that. I doubt that end users can be sued - unless they can be proven to be profiting directly from their end user activities that violate the patent - also I would imagine that this interpretation of patent law probably varies per country - which is another reason why a European ban enforced by a single European country based on patent law - is unusual - as the interpretation of patent law across the EU is different in each member state.
Correct me if I'm wrong here - but I'm pretty sure that Android 3.0 is for tablets and not for phones. Also why is Samsung being sued and found at fault for a software feature in an operating system that it does not own / write - its just a partner / vendor of Android - not the originator of the OS - so surely this should be a finding against Google - and not Samsung. I wonder what that dutch court is smoking...
BBC news ran a story last night that basically blamed Twitter and Blackberry. When I logged onto Twitter - I would say approximately 95% of the posts that were rioting related were outright condemning the riots - and I could see no signs at all of this "organisation" that the BBC article claimed. It seems to me that journalists are just blaming the technology with no real evidence to back up these claims - apart from the fact that many of the rioters are using mobile phones.
The article is written from a European perspective. I live in Sweden - if I want to watch a televised game of rugby from the UK - the only way that I can do this is to connect to an "illegal" p2p stream. There is no rugby at all on Swedish TV - not even 5 minutes a month. The reason is that the rights holders refuse to allow the distribution of the games outside of the traditional catchment pool that they know they can sell to. They are not interested in selling to a small expat audience in a foreign country. Its artificial border like restrictions like these that he's writing about. Ask why is the BBC restricted solely to the UK? - and everyone in the UK will answer - because we have to pay the licence. Why not allow a licence across Europe though? Why artificially control the audience without providing any legal means to view the content to those you chose to leave out? The result is that the BBC content is widely pirated.
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In my opinion Daily Mail is nothing more than a troll of a newspaper that force feeds its readers exactly what they want to hear, or what they know will rile their readership in order to sell more rags to their core readership.
Radiohead felt strongly enough about this rag to write a song about it that nicely sums this up in haunting poetic terms .
I seriously have to doubt a Norwegian based study that (surprise, surprise) discovers that fossil fuels are more environmentally friendly than Electric motors - its just slightly less surprising than this study coming from say a Saudi based institution or Jeremy Clarkson...
According to the article:
"My Twitter account was deactivated but before doing so I posted links to my Google+ account, blog and invited people to contact me on Facebook. I'm delighted that a lot of my lovely friends did. I'm also delighted that The Troll did too."
So can anyone explain how you get to someones IP address by inviting people to contact you on Facebook?
Why did the jury foreman consider Google's opinion to be the arbiter of this case? What if Google were just being over-cautious? That was likely the Samsung boards opinion, and why they chose not to pass this onto the engineers. From the BBC article it seems that the Jury's decision was that if Google and Apple says its so - then it must be so.
Every time I read statements from the jury foreman - they seem to be evolving - with the news stories finding holes in his previous statements.
What amazes me is his statement on why they did not consider prior art:
"the software was an entirely different methodology, and the more modern software could not be loaded onto the older example and be run without error."
So because they could not run the software from a device produced in the 2010s on a device produced in the 1990s - it was not considered as prior art... astonishing.
Yeah - they're effectively asking a californian based jury if how much money they would like South Korea (Samsung) to donate to the local economy - I find it hard to believe any Californian based jury was going to decide anything different. I wonder what the long term effect will be of US based jurys charging billions of dollars to international firms just to do business in the US...
I first heard of Scrum from my wifes hospital ward - where they were using the technique to manage the activities of their staff. This made me curious as to its origins and it turns out it was first and foremost a product development methodology. So its not that Scrum is spreading from its software origins - it never originated in software in the first place.
but can you do the fandango?
Yeah in the UK the C64 was up against the sinclair spectrum (which was probably more popular at least at the time most of my mates had these) - as well as the Amstrad machines and BBC micro machines - so it had some tough competition.
I had the C64 - in fact I still have mine - sat behind me right now in pieces - as it needs a keyboard repair - (need to get a replacement h key from somewhere).
I recently picked up my C64 from my mothers attic - even today I think it could well be the best way to get my son into programming - that and the new raspberry PI.
haha - pot calling kettle black - I looked at some your old posts and noticed the usage of quite a few hyphens. Take a look yourself...
It all depends on what actions are taken with the information - and who does the interviews.
A few years ago now - over a period - my company lost several key developers - and tech experts. I don't work for our HR department - but I was working as a peer (with 15+ years experience) to those that had left. I rapidly got fed up with seeing some really good colleagues leave - and so I requested to as many as I could to exit interview them. Noone that I asked declined - as they knew that I wasn't from HR - and I explained that the main reason was to improve the company - and try to fix the issues that they had with it. I had quite a detailed set of questions - and collected answers in the same manner from all. Then I went through the answers - and came up with suggestions to improve things. One of the key things for our company was - that when tech experts / devs get to a certain level - the only career paths open to them - was management or sales - and most wanted neither. I started the changes such that we managed to introduce a technical expert career track - which means that you can now be a tech expert all the way up to the second to top level in our company (top level being director / CEO). Subsequently I got comments from those that left that if this had happened earlier - then they might not have left. There were many other issues that we took forwards and tried to address - some with success - some not. I've always believed that it is best to try to fix the company I work for before looking outside. If the company I work for ever becomes closed to these fixes - then I will up sticks and go elsewhere.
I agree - the underlying figures show that Microsofts core business is actually in pretty good shape. Its just that many people posting here don't seem to realize that Microsofts core business has moved on from Windows if you take a look at the summarised figures:
Windows + Windows live division: 13% loss in revenue
Server + Server tools: 13% increase in revenue
Online services division: 8% increase in revenue
Microsoft business division: 7% increase in revenue
Entertainment + devices division: 20% increase in revenue
To say that the D800 isn't anything special - have you really used one? Yes I know the pixel pitch is the same as a D7000 - but the D800 is all about resolution at near to base ISOs - and to be honest the images are useable at higher isos than most medium formats I have seen. The D800 sensor - is pushing the limits of what many of the Nikkor lenses can resolve - at all but their optimum appertures - if you take a look at the D800 review by Advanced Photographer (UK mag) for the current issue - they pixel peep with the 14-24 f/2.8 - and there you can clearly see that definition is lost for all but the optimum apertures. The 14-24 f/2.8G is widely recognised as one of Nikons sharpest lenses. So at around 36MP we are clearly pushing the limits of what a 35mm lens can resolve.
yeah well my language skills (outside of programming languages) have always sucked ;) , I also agree with your statement on the false dichotomy.
It amazes me that some people can see conspiracies everywhere. I've not posted a story before on slashdot - but it seems to me that you are seeing conspiracies where there are none. I have no relationship to the bbc - I don't live in Britain - and I have no interest in finance organizations - as a software engineer I design and write code for a living (and not for financial institutions). This article interested me from the perspective - that making false assumptions - and misuse of a formula or algorithm - can have unforeseen consequences beyond the original authors wildest dreams - which is what I find fascinating and the sole reason why I posted the story. I can guarantee you that I will not receive a single kronor (as I live in Sweden) for this article. I wonder how you think Slashdot editors are going to police the articles that get posted as you suggest. To my mind that kind of heavy editorial censorship would also be heavily criticised.
You joke of course - but here in Sweden they take this very seriously. I worked as a consultant on a project for a few days - and every time we walked past one of the offices we were supposed to ensure that our mobile phones were switched off. They had stripped the office of all possible forms of source signal. It was quite ridiculous. The fact that the same person lived in a city of approximately 1.5 million people - of which a very large percentage use mobile phones most of the time meant that unless the sufferer lived their life in a Faraday cage - they were gonna have a pretty hard time of it...
Actually I think you'll find that Apple had rounded off corners patented a few years before the dinosaurs turned up.
As a keen photographer myself - to me these disused areas of the city are areas of public interest - particularly the old closed down underground stations. Rather than slapping down ASBOs on people - London Transport should wake up to the potential of their sites - and turn them into museums or at least offer guided tours of these sites - open them up to the curious public to view the sites in a safe manner - and let photographers take the pictures they want to take. Just stop treating photographers as potential terrorist - because that is the last thing we are!
I used to be an overseas subscriber to PCZONE (RIP) back when I lived in the US just because there was no US pc gaming mag that I could find with anything like a similar sense of humour. I always found that the CD / DVD was an almost complete waste of space - serving only for the publisher to ask an extra few $ on the price - as all material could be downloaded from the web - with the exception perhaps of some of the PCZONEs team videos (some of which were worth the asking price). The US based equivalent publications always seemed to be more about advertisements than the articles.
I bought the mag for the article writing not for the bunf.
It was all mayor Daleys doing when he ordered crews of bulldozers to destroy the runway in the middle of the night back in 2003 - only in Chicago...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field
I wonder how the Iranians / Jerusalem Post can be sure this is not an Israeli drone - given that th US supplies billions of dollars worth of arms to Israel - you could assume that drone aircraft - manufactured in the US are included in this. In fact could be seen to benefit Israels position if this drone were misinterpreted to be US origin.
"Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull"
George Orwell 1984.
Thanks for the informative reply (I'd mod you up if I could) - I hadn't realised that patent law worked quite like that. I doubt that end users can be sued - unless they can be proven to be profiting directly from their end user activities that violate the patent - also I would imagine that this interpretation of patent law probably varies per country - which is another reason why a European ban enforced by a single European country based on patent law - is unusual - as the interpretation of patent law across the EU is different in each member state.
Correct me if I'm wrong here - but I'm pretty sure that Android 3.0 is for tablets and not for phones.
Also why is Samsung being sued and found at fault for a software feature in an operating system that it does not own / write - its just a partner / vendor of Android - not the originator of the OS - so surely this should be a finding against Google - and not Samsung. I wonder what that dutch court is smoking...
BBC news ran a story last night that basically blamed Twitter and Blackberry. When I logged onto Twitter - I would say approximately 95% of the posts that were rioting related were outright condemning the riots - and I could see no signs at all of this "organisation" that the BBC article claimed. It seems to me that journalists are just blaming the technology with no real evidence to back up these claims - apart from the fact that many of the rioters are using mobile phones.
The article is written from a European perspective. I live in Sweden - if I want to watch a televised game of rugby from the UK - the only way that I can do this is to connect to an "illegal" p2p stream. There is no rugby at all on Swedish TV - not even 5 minutes a month. The reason is that the rights holders refuse to allow the distribution of the games outside of the traditional catchment pool that they know they can sell to. They are not interested in selling to a small expat audience in a foreign country. Its artificial border like restrictions like these that he's writing about. Ask why is the BBC restricted solely to the UK? - and everyone in the UK will answer - because we have to pay the licence. Why not allow a licence across Europe though? Why artificially control the audience without providing any legal means to view the content to those you chose to leave out? The result is that the BBC content is widely pirated.