Or, on a more cynical note, they can undercut AMD and Via by offering a really sweet deal on AV software for OEMs. McAfee may make a lot of bank in the enterprise, but if they can get more OEM sales of home PCs/netbooks with McAfee software on them, that means a LOT of easy money for Intel.
Devious and underhanded, but it's what I've come to expect from them.
"There is only one CEO of the company... only one he can bend to his will; and he does not share power!"
* Yes, the CEO is subject to the board of directors, who are (theoretically) subject to the shareholders. That's why they get the big salaries, stock options, and golden para-- er, severance packages.
President Obama had a super majority. The Republican party could do nothing to stop any bill from passing. And still you want to blame somebody else.
A supermajority of what? In what electoral body?
Progressives in the Senate? Please. There are exactly 3 truly left-leaning Senators in Congress-- and one had to fight out a recount battle with an establishment politician for months! There are 40 more who are essentially "Third Way" as they're too damned scared by over a decade of GOP bullying to be principled, and the rest (enough to kill a cloture vote) are actually center-right.
Democrats in the Senate? You do realize that they've been harder to herd together than a bunch of starving cougars since Clinton? You do realize that even though he's showing signs of being a vertebrate, Harry Reid would beg and cajole those caucus members of the center-right persuasion (Nelson, Conrad, Lieberman, etc.) and they would tell him to fuck off?
The idea that President Obama could have smashed any bill through Congress like he were a Prime Minister or a Republican Vice President is pure fantasy, because (1) Democrats are not nearly as well-organized as Republicans when it comes to procedural discipline, and (2) the vast majority of them will prefer keeping their seat over risking it for the greater good.
I'm not sure labor conditions regulations compare here, especially considering that deregulation of mine safety, not over-regulation, caused one of the most high-profile mining accidents in recent memory-- one that cost several lives. It was similar deregulation and/or poor oversight that was at least a significant contributor-- if not direct cause-- of the biggest environmental disaster ever experienced by Americans, that likewise took several lives.
Bottom line, business has a horrible track record in terms of work condition management. Before laborers got the idea of organizing and presenting a united front to business owners, American industry resembled the sweatshops in Asia that we decry-- child labor and minimal safety were a fact of life, rather than an aberration.
Besides, in a society where the legislators are elected democratically, our "only" choice (nice false dilemma, by the way) is NOT to leave the industry. We can and should elect legislators who will represent our interests.
Yeah, I know. Money talks in Washington and London. But that's a horrible excuse for letting the true elites fuck us around, don't you?
Knowing that other manufacturers may dream up their own way of detecting a wall-wart, I'm guessing non-iPhones are either going to have to figure out a sane data resistance or be SOL for the next MintyBoost.
The legal and marketing geniuses* at Apple probably will construe that to mean, "we'll start thinking about developing the iPhone 5 with a micro-USB socket in 2010."
There's a big shitstorm over political news submission skewing over at Digg, but the related bit is the online actions of one of the alleged co-conspirators-- namely, falsely accusing those involved in a Youtube youth group of being pedophiles.
This would work fine if the typist's fingers are accurate in the sense that they move the correct fingers in the right sequence. However, not all typos are of this variety-- using my habits as an example, sometimes I type out of seuqence (faster fingers tend to beat the weaker fingers to the punch), sometimes I dont put enough pressue on the keys/touchscreen for them to register, sometimes I get the finger right, but on teh wuong hand. (I'm also horrible with grammar, and tend to write in free verse more than actual prose... thank goodness for backspace.)
Of course, correcting these typos requires just a few more conditional checks and/or hash lookups in the algorithm, so it shouldn't impact performance much-- but it would probably impact the size of the dictionary.
True, they may have a higher rate of failure due to what you mention, but they still sold enough to make a tidy profit. It's a case of an accepted failure (the RRoD has become rather mundane) because the library of software and online service is so compelling to consumers.
The better examples would be Zune and Kin, both of which are mobile devices designed and built (albeit in a Chinese factory) by Microsoft. Zune is selling, sort of, while Kin has all but failed. Not an auspicious track record.
It's not much different (other than perhaps scale) to the announcement of Chrome, IMO. Someone at Google observes a problem to solve, then he gets a team together to solve it. Not everyone will agree with their solution (remember all the "no Adblock, no dice" comments when Chrome went live?), but at least they're putting one out there.
The other thing is, they're spending millions, possibly billions, on PR stunts. The 4th of July fireworks in Denver, CO? $100 million or so, courtesy of BP. I'm sure if I looked harder, I can find more examples.
That PR money can easily go towards ordering more boats, hiring more cleanup personnel. But that doesn't get sales or drilling contracts next year, does it?
Meanwhile, they're counting "inability or refusal to help" as a cost (potential income declined), and will deduct this cost from compensation claims by spill victims and businesses.
Show me where BP has officially said oil isn't that dangerous.
Maybe not those words, maybe not officially (you're poisoning the well, by the way), but CEO Tony Hayward referred to the spill as (paraphrased) a drop in the bucket.
I heard that the Dutch offered help immediately, when the administration (having been lied to by BP) didn't know the full extent of the spill yet; the EPA flatly said no then, are they allowed in now?
An alternative I can think of is "cold" backup (in this case, an infrequent backup made only when the drive is plugged in) or data archiving, assuming hard drives last longer when powered down.
Depends on the array-- A RAID-5 or a RAID-1 variant would be fine, but a RAID-0 (which is fairly common for those looking for cheap speed boosts to their OS) would be about as reliable as this external drive.
Well, the old-school trademark|copyright|patent enforcement meant that if you didn't have complete control of "intellectual property", you will lose control. The music and movie industries still by and large operate under this ethos, as evidenced by their continued efforts to try to intimidate ordinary Internet users. It's also the same ethos that compels record labels to force new artists to sign away all their copyrights, and movie studios to use crafty accounting to avoid paying movie casts and crews their fair share of the box office/DVD take.
So far, the most proactive of the major media industries in not only allowing, but actually embracing, fan content, are game developers. Blizzard* is at least encouraging fans using their artwork, albeit in a controlled fashion, to promote their upcoming games in a more organic fashion, and I don't think I've seen a game company quite so permissive* about letting users create new content for their games than Valve.
Unfortunately, copyright law still needs both a shorter term and stronger protection of affirmative defenses like fair use, for, IMO, the desire for the media industry to retain control over their works is still quite powerful. We shouldn't have to fear ASCAP if they should hear us listening to the radio loudly without a broadcast license, nor should we fear SoundExchange when they try to collect for a non-RIAA member artist.
* Of course, try to emulate an old-school Battle.net server and Blizzard sends the hounds-- er, lawyers. And just because Valve allows fans to build on what they made, doesn't mean that they necessarily always made it easy-- case in point, the I Hate Mountains' installation readme contains a few rants about how Valve didn't make it very easy for them to mod Left 4 Dead. Perhaps Valve could say that heavy modification on that level wasn't one of the intended purposes of custom maps for Left 4 Dead...
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Or, on a more cynical note, they can undercut AMD and Via by offering a really sweet deal on AV software for OEMs. McAfee may make a lot of bank in the enterprise, but if they can get more OEM sales of home PCs/netbooks with McAfee software on them, that means a LOT of easy money for Intel.
Devious and underhanded, but it's what I've come to expect from them.
Picture the two of us alone inside my golden submarine
While up above the waves my doomsday squad ignites the atmosphere...
-- Jonathan Coulton, "Skullcrusher Mountain"
Oblig. movie reference:
"There is only one CEO of the company... only one he can bend to his will; and he does not share power!"
* Yes, the CEO is subject to the board of directors, who are (theoretically) subject to the shareholders. That's why they get the big salaries, stock options, and golden para-- er, severance packages.
Yeah, but so does Verizon in the wireless US market, and the wireless carriers generally follow one another when it comes to policies like NN.
What would be even better: At the end of the song, it reminds you in Patrick Stewart's voice, "Next time, order it hot, not black."
A supermajority of what? In what electoral body?
Progressives in the Senate? Please. There are exactly 3 truly left-leaning Senators in Congress-- and one had to fight out a recount battle with an establishment politician for months! There are 40 more who are essentially "Third Way" as they're too damned scared by over a decade of GOP bullying to be principled, and the rest (enough to kill a cloture vote) are actually center-right.
Democrats in the Senate? You do realize that they've been harder to herd together than a bunch of starving cougars since Clinton? You do realize that even though he's showing signs of being a vertebrate, Harry Reid would beg and cajole those caucus members of the center-right persuasion (Nelson, Conrad, Lieberman, etc.) and they would tell him to fuck off?
The idea that President Obama could have smashed any bill through Congress like he were a Prime Minister or a Republican Vice President is pure fantasy, because (1) Democrats are not nearly as well-organized as Republicans when it comes to procedural discipline, and (2) the vast majority of them will prefer keeping their seat over risking it for the greater good.
And upon further reflection, I realized that you were likely being ironic/sarcastic.
Unfortunate that irony and sarcasm are often hard to convey online. If you were not serious, I apologize.
(Sacrificing mod points... done.)
I'm not sure labor conditions regulations compare here, especially considering that deregulation of mine safety, not over-regulation, caused one of the most high-profile mining accidents in recent memory-- one that cost several lives. It was similar deregulation and/or poor oversight that was at least a significant contributor-- if not direct cause-- of the biggest environmental disaster ever experienced by Americans, that likewise took several lives.
Bottom line, business has a horrible track record in terms of work condition management. Before laborers got the idea of organizing and presenting a united front to business owners, American industry resembled the sweatshops in Asia that we decry-- child labor and minimal safety were a fact of life, rather than an aberration.
Besides, in a society where the legislators are elected democratically, our "only" choice (nice false dilemma, by the way) is NOT to leave the industry. We can and should elect legislators who will represent our interests.
Yeah, I know. Money talks in Washington and London. But that's a horrible excuse for letting the true elites fuck us around, don't you?
Knowing that other manufacturers may dream up their own way of detecting a wall-wart, I'm guessing non-iPhones are either going to have to figure out a sane data resistance or be SOL for the next MintyBoost.
The legal and marketing geniuses* at Apple probably will construe that to mean, "we'll start thinking about developing the iPhone 5 with a micro-USB socket in 2010."
* Tongue in cheek...
There's a big shitstorm over political news submission skewing over at Digg, but the related bit is the online actions of one of the alleged co-conspirators-- namely, falsely accusing those involved in a Youtube youth group of being pedophiles.
As the Sun resembles a head more than a phallus, you could call it astronomical puke.
Of course, that would bring up other NSFW memes.
This would work fine if the typist's fingers are accurate in the sense that they move the correct fingers in the right sequence. However, not all typos are of this variety-- using my habits as an example, sometimes I type out of seuqence (faster fingers tend to beat the weaker fingers to the punch), sometimes I dont put enough pressue on the keys/touchscreen for them to register, sometimes I get the finger right, but on teh wuong hand. (I'm also horrible with grammar, and tend to write in free verse more than actual prose... thank goodness for backspace.)
Of course, correcting these typos requires just a few more conditional checks and/or hash lookups in the algorithm, so it shouldn't impact performance much-- but it would probably impact the size of the dictionary.
True, they may have a higher rate of failure due to what you mention, but they still sold enough to make a tidy profit. It's a case of an accepted failure (the RRoD has become rather mundane) because the library of software and online service is so compelling to consumers.
The better examples would be Zune and Kin, both of which are mobile devices designed and built (albeit in a Chinese factory) by Microsoft. Zune is selling, sort of, while Kin has all but failed. Not an auspicious track record.
It's not much different (other than perhaps scale) to the announcement of Chrome, IMO. Someone at Google observes a problem to solve, then he gets a team together to solve it. Not everyone will agree with their solution (remember all the "no Adblock, no dice" comments when Chrome went live?), but at least they're putting one out there.
The other thing is, they're spending millions, possibly billions, on PR stunts. The 4th of July fireworks in Denver, CO? $100 million or so, courtesy of BP. I'm sure if I looked harder, I can find more examples.
That PR money can easily go towards ordering more boats, hiring more cleanup personnel. But that doesn't get sales or drilling contracts next year, does it?
Meanwhile, they're counting "inability or refusal to help" as a cost (potential income declined), and will deduct this cost from compensation claims by spill victims and businesses.
Maybe not those words, maybe not officially (you're poisoning the well, by the way), but CEO Tony Hayward referred to the spill as (paraphrased) a drop in the bucket.
Well, Microsoft ClearType was designed with the assumption that "better" = "readable on screen", not "faithful to the typeface design".
Enough to create a market for alternative baggage handlers.
I heard that the Dutch offered help immediately, when the administration (having been lied to by BP) didn't know the full extent of the spill yet; the EPA flatly said no then, are they allowed in now?
Sorry to hear that, Mr. dull. I can sympathize, as my real name is boring.
An alternative I can think of is "cold" backup (in this case, an infrequent backup made only when the drive is plugged in) or data archiving, assuming hard drives last longer when powered down.
Depends on the array-- A RAID-5 or a RAID-1 variant would be fine, but a RAID-0 (which is fairly common for those looking for cheap speed boosts to their OS) would be about as reliable as this external drive.
If that's the case, it'll also be the slowest USB3/Firewire drive on the market. Mac users and those using newer USB3 boards will probably notice.
Well, the old-school trademark|copyright|patent enforcement meant that if you didn't have complete control of "intellectual property", you will lose control. The music and movie industries still by and large operate under this ethos, as evidenced by their continued efforts to try to intimidate ordinary Internet users. It's also the same ethos that compels record labels to force new artists to sign away all their copyrights, and movie studios to use crafty accounting to avoid paying movie casts and crews their fair share of the box office/DVD take.
So far, the most proactive of the major media industries in not only allowing, but actually embracing, fan content, are game developers. Blizzard* is at least encouraging fans using their artwork, albeit in a controlled fashion, to promote their upcoming games in a more organic fashion, and I don't think I've seen a game company quite so permissive* about letting users create new content for their games than Valve.
Unfortunately, copyright law still needs both a shorter term and stronger protection of affirmative defenses like fair use, for, IMO, the desire for the media industry to retain control over their works is still quite powerful. We shouldn't have to fear ASCAP if they should hear us listening to the radio loudly without a broadcast license, nor should we fear SoundExchange when they try to collect for a non-RIAA member artist.
* Of course, try to emulate an old-school Battle.net server and Blizzard sends the hounds-- er, lawyers. And just because Valve allows fans to build on what they made, doesn't mean that they necessarily always made it easy-- case in point, the I Hate Mountains' installation readme contains a few rants about how Valve didn't make it very easy for them to mod Left 4 Dead. Perhaps Valve could say that heavy modification on that level wasn't one of the intended purposes of custom maps for Left 4 Dead...