Bingo. Samsung already has a no-lose case going. Either they win, or they appeal the ruling based on the obvious biases of the judge.
The cynic in me can't help but wonder if that's really the plan. She'll rule in favor of Apple, Samsung will appeal, this whole thing will drag on for years... meanwhile the lawyers and judges in the case are making $$$ and both Apple and Samsung get to keep their names in the headlines for a good long while.
You'd be surprised how quickly ideologies can change. Next year will be the 50th anniversary of "I have a dream," and who would have thought that in such a short time frame, black people would go from fighting for equal bus seating and drinking fountain rights to PotuS.
Having spent time over in the Middle East with USMC, a rather surprising amount of the populace over there was relatively friendly, if apprehensive. The "death to Americans" group is a small minority, albeit a very vocal minority. It's not going to be an overnight change, but the group willing to sacrifice themselves will die out much more quickly than those willing to talk things over.
The problem with your suggestion of "being more ruthless" is that we have no where to direct that violence. Japan is a sovereign nation with clearly defined borders, within which to direct our strikes. Japanese soldiers and leaders likely had friends/family in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and felt the devastation on a personal level, driving them to the negotiating table. Taliban, Al'Qeda, etc have no such "home base." I guess we could start nuking the mountains of Pakistan, but that would probably piss off a lot of countries, causing more trouble that it solves.
Oh... well I suppose the "Kate" portion should have tipped me off as to gender and the viability of bowties... but c'est la vie.
If I might make an appended suggestion : skirts/dresses. Not everyday, and certainly not if you're planning on crawling around pulling cables or the like. But once in a while, perhaps on days with more meetings scheduled. Far to few women rock the skirts these days. Nothing wrong with slacks, but mix it up.
I like the geek jewelry option! Hadn't thought of that.
How much does each one of those things cost? Multiply by the number of DMVs that administer driving tests. Might even need 2 or 3 per DMV.
I'm sure there are other reason as well. Moral guardians not being satisfied with "a video game" demonstrating the proper skills of real-world driving (even though you and I know better) or concerned parents blaming their Little Snowflake's failures on the machine. But money is almost certainly the main limiting factor.
The condition of your clothes is just as important as the clothes themselves. As a director, take the extra time to make sure everything fits well, is free of rips/tears, and is pressed (or at very least not wrinkled.) It won't matter what you're wearing if your pants are too short, your shirt if too big, or you're just a wrinkly mess...
The clothes themselves will vary a lot depending on your office and location. I've found that the East coast (particularly from DC, north) is extremely fond of jackets and ties every day, whereas the west coast is much more khakis and polo at best. Just look at what other directors in other departments are wearing and use that as a guideline. If you want to keep the geek references, they're going to have to get a bit more subtle. Wear a bow tie on occasion (I hear they're cool) or a monogrammed polo with some geek reference. A few examples
Or perhaps relegate the geek references to your office (you get an office as a director, right?) On the site I linked above, you'll find Portal inspired book-ends, Tardis coffee mugs, Rubix Cube coasters, etc. More than enough paraphernalia to show off your inner geek. Just keep it somewhat low-key. Don't want people mistaking your office for their kid's bedroom.
Lockheed's response was "Oh, dogfighting is obsolete anyway".
Well, he's sort of correct. At this point, any form of plane-to-plane combat is obsolete.
When was the last time any American pilots were in a dogfight (not a training exercise) or engaged in ANY aerial combat? Or any pilot of any nationality... while I'm not suggesting we abandon our airplanes or any such nonsense, it's just harder and harder to justify the exorbitant costs of any new-fangled airframes in the current environment... but that sure doesn't stop the MIC talking heads from spinning it their way.
Saying "never" is almost stupid beyond words when you look at how many countries have reconciled. How about Britain and the US? Or Japan and South Korea? France and Germany?
You forgot one of the biggest examples : US and Japan. We nuked them. Twice. The two biggest strikes in human history, leaving large swaths of Japan (which doesn't exactly have swaths to spare) uninhabitable for quite some time.
And here we are, a few decades later, best buds.
If Japan can go from nuclear recipient to friends of their attacker in such short order, brokering a peace with someone whose main point of contention is believing in a different bearded sky-fairy should be fairly easy.
The one thing WoW did best was make themselves mod-friendly.
Most of the little 'convenience' stuff wasn't originally a part of wow. The Calender, a much-improved Auction House interface, the ability to switch between specific gear-sets, the more intuitive quest interface, even the clock under the map,.** Originally provided by 3rd party tools because Blizzard didn't have them. The key is that Blizzard embraced that functionality. When you install the game, there is a folder called "AddOns" by default. And not only do they allow such additions, butthey take the good ones and run with it, including them as full-fledged features. Now, instead of having to download all those, and hoping that my clock addon is compatible with my yours, or manually adding each calendar item, we all get the standard clock, and can easily pass appointments between each other.
** There are a TON more, but I've been clean and WoW-free for just over a year now (after being a serious raider for many years prior) so you'll forgive if I don't recall every add-on that graduated into Feature status, or what was added when.
Sadly true... I actually got grief for coming in *under* budget on a project. It was actually a repeat of a previous task, and the gvmt couldn't understand why this one was so much cheaper.
The first one was a completely new item, so I had to draw it up, work out the design, write the tech docs, etc. Took a while but the end result was exactly what the customer wanted. When they asked for a second (identical) item, they assumed the same price. I was able to use all of my drawings and docs from the previous one, and put it together in much less time, resulting in much lower costs.
The customer couldn't figure it all out, and in slightly-more-tactful terms accused us of swindling them on the first one. We ended up wasting any saved money in the time it took to explain what happened. We literally had to get on a plane, fly out (not to any tropical paradise, mind you) and have a week-long face-to-face meeting of a dozen+ people, in order to explain the lowered costs on the second one was due to lack of R&D.
At the end of that meeting, once the dust settled, there was talk of a building a 3rd one. I'm slightly dreading this...
There area actually quite a few pay-as-you-go vendors that support high end phones these days.
If you don't mind eating a $600+ initial investment to buy your own phone outright. Virgin Mobile has good reception in my area, and costs a mere $30/month for unlimited text and data.
Agreed. The "Gun" angle is just to attract attention. People have built guns out of stranger items. There was an article a while back about someone building an AR-15 lower (the 3D-printed part, in the article) out of plastic cutting boards from Target or Walmart. Just whittled them down and taped em together.
If anything, the biggest issue going forward will be "ideas." Companies like Games Workshop, who sell cheap plastic figurines for ridiculous profits, or car dealers who sell little plastic tabs at absurd markup. Once I can scan and print them myself, well...
Even more alarming, SOPA would have made it impossible for a site like Wikipedia to exist, and I've got a term paper due in a month. How would I write it without Wikipedia?? I'm pretty sure over 75% of all college students would crash and burn the instant Wikipedia went away.
if you're using more than three or four chords in a song you're just showing off.
Key words : "in a song" A single song doesn't necessarily need more than 3 or 4 chords, but given that restriction, an album with a dozen songs could contain upwards of 48 different chords (hypothetically) The problem is that the entire album only has 3 or 4 chords, and every other pop musician is using the same 4 chords on their entire album.
Pretty sure the last tine of TFS is talking about the "beat with a blunt object" form of discipline. Not retaining your composure. At a glace, it sure looks like FB has been beaten about the head and shoulders, left bloody and broken while its stock plummets.
In reality, as discussed earlier, MarkZuck is laughing his disciplined ass all the way to the bank.
Backing up User machines? Not a chance. We back up our servers, and provide plenty of storage space on those servers for users to store important docs... but the 2000+ user machines are on their own.
And as a former IT guy, we nuked and reinstalled every computer before it went to a new user. You don't want someone else potentially having access to your old files, and I don't want someone else having to inherit whatever problems have arisen on your PC over the last 10 years.
So, when can we expect the lawsuit to start flying between Ford, Chevy, Toyota, Kia, etc? take off all the badges and I'd have a tough time telling apart every generic 4-door sedan from the others.
he managed to break into the Nokia 9 when his home-made NFC-based device is in very close proximity to the targeted smartphone... NFC works at near-contact range
It doesn't give any actual numbers or distance measurements. Would be nice to have some actual facts and details on this. Suffice to say, if someone walks up next to me waving an unknown device around my crotch, I'm going to be a bit suspicious. The article also doesn't mention what modifications, if any, were made to the target phones. A few posters here have mentioned NFC being turned off by default. Does his methods force NFC on, or work without it? But I guess reporting accurately and completely would make this mostly a non-issue, which doesn't garner nearly as many clicks.
Until a rule is written into the Google-Fiber contracts expressly forbidding servers (and defining what exactly constitutes a "server") I see this as more of a polite request or suggestion.
While it's cool to see 3D printers becoming more and more advanced, the "Gun" part of the article feels like hype and buzzwords to help increase clicks.
People have been mass-producing AK-47s in countries that can't keep cars running. They're about as low-tech as possible. Being able to use a high-tech device like a 3D printer to construct one small section of a rifle pales in comparison, when looking at the possible legal ramifications.
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Bingo. Samsung already has a no-lose case going. Either they win, or they appeal the ruling based on the obvious biases of the judge.
The cynic in me can't help but wonder if that's really the plan. She'll rule in favor of Apple, Samsung will appeal, this whole thing will drag on for years... meanwhile the lawyers and judges in the case are making $$$ and both Apple and Samsung get to keep their names in the headlines for a good long while.
You'd be surprised how quickly ideologies can change. Next year will be the 50th anniversary of "I have a dream," and who would have thought that in such a short time frame, black people would go from fighting for equal bus seating and drinking fountain rights to PotuS.
Having spent time over in the Middle East with USMC, a rather surprising amount of the populace over there was relatively friendly, if apprehensive. The "death to Americans" group is a small minority, albeit a very vocal minority. It's not going to be an overnight change, but the group willing to sacrifice themselves will die out much more quickly than those willing to talk things over.
The problem with your suggestion of "being more ruthless" is that we have no where to direct that violence. Japan is a sovereign nation with clearly defined borders, within which to direct our strikes. Japanese soldiers and leaders likely had friends/family in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and felt the devastation on a personal level, driving them to the negotiating table. Taliban, Al'Qeda, etc have no such "home base." I guess we could start nuking the mountains of Pakistan, but that would probably piss off a lot of countries, causing more trouble that it solves.
Oh ... well I suppose the "Kate" portion should have tipped me off as to gender and the viability of bowties... but c'est la vie.
If I might make an appended suggestion : skirts/dresses. Not everyday, and certainly not if you're planning on crawling around pulling cables or the like. But once in a while, perhaps on days with more meetings scheduled. Far to few women rock the skirts these days. Nothing wrong with slacks, but mix it up.
I like the geek jewelry option! Hadn't thought of that.
Money, my dear boy.
How much does each one of those things cost? Multiply by the number of DMVs that administer driving tests. Might even need 2 or 3 per DMV.
I'm sure there are other reason as well. Moral guardians not being satisfied with "a video game" demonstrating the proper skills of real-world driving (even though you and I know better) or concerned parents blaming their Little Snowflake's failures on the machine. But money is almost certainly the main limiting factor.
The condition of your clothes is just as important as the clothes themselves. As a director, take the extra time to make sure everything fits well, is free of rips/tears, and is pressed (or at very least not wrinkled.) It won't matter what you're wearing if your pants are too short, your shirt if too big, or you're just a wrinkly mess...
The clothes themselves will vary a lot depending on your office and location. I've found that the East coast (particularly from DC, north) is extremely fond of jackets and ties every day, whereas the west coast is much more khakis and polo at best. Just look at what other directors in other departments are wearing and use that as a guideline. If you want to keep the geek references, they're going to have to get a bit more subtle. Wear a bow tie on occasion (I hear they're cool) or a monogrammed polo with some geek reference. A few examples
Or perhaps relegate the geek references to your office (you get an office as a director, right?) On the site I linked above, you'll find Portal inspired book-ends, Tardis coffee mugs, Rubix Cube coasters, etc. More than enough paraphernalia to show off your inner geek. Just keep it somewhat low-key. Don't want people mistaking your office for their kid's bedroom.
Lockheed's response was "Oh, dogfighting is obsolete anyway".
Well, he's sort of correct. At this point, any form of plane-to-plane combat is obsolete.
When was the last time any American pilots were in a dogfight (not a training exercise) or engaged in ANY aerial combat? Or any pilot of any nationality... while I'm not suggesting we abandon our airplanes or any such nonsense, it's just harder and harder to justify the exorbitant costs of any new-fangled airframes in the current environment... but that sure doesn't stop the MIC talking heads from spinning it their way.
Saying "never" is almost stupid beyond words when you look at how many countries have reconciled. How about Britain and the US? Or Japan and South Korea? France and Germany?
You forgot one of the biggest examples : US and Japan. We nuked them. Twice. The two biggest strikes in human history, leaving large swaths of Japan (which doesn't exactly have swaths to spare) uninhabitable for quite some time.
And here we are, a few decades later, best buds.
If Japan can go from nuclear recipient to friends of their attacker in such short order, brokering a peace with someone whose main point of contention is believing in a different bearded sky-fairy should be fairly easy.
The one thing WoW did best was make themselves mod-friendly.
Most of the little 'convenience' stuff wasn't originally a part of wow. The Calender, a much-improved Auction House interface, the ability to switch between specific gear-sets, the more intuitive quest interface, even the clock under the map,.** Originally provided by 3rd party tools because Blizzard didn't have them. The key is that Blizzard embraced that functionality. When you install the game, there is a folder called "AddOns" by default. And not only do they allow such additions, butthey take the good ones and run with it, including them as full-fledged features. Now, instead of having to download all those, and hoping that my clock addon is compatible with my yours, or manually adding each calendar item, we all get the standard clock, and can easily pass appointments between each other.
** There are a TON more, but I've been clean and WoW-free for just over a year now (after being a serious raider for many years prior) so you'll forgive if I don't recall every add-on that graduated into Feature status, or what was added when.
Sadly true ... I actually got grief for coming in *under* budget on a project. It was actually a repeat of a previous task, and the gvmt couldn't understand why this one was so much cheaper.
The first one was a completely new item, so I had to draw it up, work out the design, write the tech docs, etc. Took a while but the end result was exactly what the customer wanted. When they asked for a second (identical) item, they assumed the same price. I was able to use all of my drawings and docs from the previous one, and put it together in much less time, resulting in much lower costs.
The customer couldn't figure it all out, and in slightly-more-tactful terms accused us of swindling them on the first one. We ended up wasting any saved money in the time it took to explain what happened. We literally had to get on a plane, fly out (not to any tropical paradise, mind you) and have a week-long face-to-face meeting of a dozen+ people, in order to explain the lowered costs on the second one was due to lack of R&D.
At the end of that meeting, once the dust settled, there was talk of a building a 3rd one. I'm slightly dreading this ...
There area actually quite a few pay-as-you-go vendors that support high end phones these days.
If you don't mind eating a $600+ initial investment to buy your own phone outright. Virgin Mobile has good reception in my area, and costs a mere $30/month for unlimited text and data.
Agreed. The "Gun" angle is just to attract attention. People have built guns out of stranger items. There was an article a while back about someone building an AR-15 lower (the 3D-printed part, in the article) out of plastic cutting boards from Target or Walmart. Just whittled them down and taped em together.
If anything, the biggest issue going forward will be "ideas." Companies like Games Workshop, who sell cheap plastic figurines for ridiculous profits, or car dealers who sell little plastic tabs at absurd markup. Once I can scan and print them myself, well ...
Even more alarming, SOPA would have made it impossible for a site like Wikipedia to exist, and I've got a term paper due in a month. How would I write it without Wikipedia?? I'm pretty sure over 75% of all college students would crash and burn the instant Wikipedia went away.
I fail to see the downside.
Just to clarify, POP music is getting worse. The study has no findings for music in general
IMO, music isn't actually getting worse, we're just listening to the crap now, and calling it "Pop."
if you're using more than three or four chords in a song you're just showing off.
Key words : "in a song" A single song doesn't necessarily need more than 3 or 4 chords, but given that restriction, an album with a dozen songs could contain upwards of 48 different chords (hypothetically) The problem is that the entire album only has 3 or 4 chords, and every other pop musician is using the same 4 chords on their entire album.
You rang?
Damn homonyms. Get you every time.
Pretty sure the last tine of TFS is talking about the "beat with a blunt object" form of discipline. Not retaining your composure. At a glace, it sure looks like FB has been beaten about the head and shoulders, left bloody and broken while its stock plummets.
In reality, as discussed earlier, MarkZuck is laughing his disciplined ass all the way to the bank.
If you can't beat them ... arrange to have them beaten.
It's called efficiency, you wasteful clod!
Actually, no. We're on a strict 3-year refresh policy for warranty reasons. The 10-year reference was from the original question.
Backing up User machines? Not a chance. We back up our servers, and provide plenty of storage space on those servers for users to store important docs ... but the 2000+ user machines are on their own.
And as a former IT guy, we nuked and reinstalled every computer before it went to a new user. You don't want someone else potentially having access to your old files, and I don't want someone else having to inherit whatever problems have arisen on your PC over the last 10 years.
So, when can we expect the lawsuit to start flying between Ford, Chevy, Toyota, Kia, etc? take off all the badges and I'd have a tough time telling apart every generic 4-door sedan from the others.
While TFA does say:
he managed to break into the Nokia 9 when his home-made NFC-based device is in very close proximity to the targeted smartphone ... NFC works at near-contact range
It doesn't give any actual numbers or distance measurements. Would be nice to have some actual facts and details on this. Suffice to say, if someone walks up next to me waving an unknown device around my crotch, I'm going to be a bit suspicious. The article also doesn't mention what modifications, if any, were made to the target phones. A few posters here have mentioned NFC being turned off by default. Does his methods force NFC on, or work without it? But I guess reporting accurately and completely would make this mostly a non-issue, which doesn't garner nearly as many clicks.
should not != can not
Until a rule is written into the Google-Fiber contracts expressly forbidding servers (and defining what exactly constitutes a "server") I see this as more of a polite request or suggestion.
We're number four!!
We're number four!!
We're number four!!
While it's cool to see 3D printers becoming more and more advanced, the "Gun" part of the article feels like hype and buzzwords to help increase clicks.
People have been mass-producing AK-47s in countries that can't keep cars running. They're about as low-tech as possible. Being able to use a high-tech device like a 3D printer to construct one small section of a rifle pales in comparison, when looking at the possible legal ramifications.