Sure they could afford to bring back a paltry 5000 jobs.
They would be eliminating one of their main competitors, laying off way more than 5000 (more skilled!) workers, and opening the way to raising their prices by grabbing a customer base with even less choice and jacking up their rates.
Nice to see government doing what its supposed to do for a change.
Those aren't the same people. It looks to me like the diplomats of the US embassy are more on the intelligent side compared to the MPAA decision makers.
No, its China trying to sneak its intellectual property into the US through the Zoos!
Actually, in all seriousness, since China "lends" giant Pandas to Zoos (they are considered cultural treasures), can they lay claim to this research as their property (assuming they did not authorize the study)?
Please post a link to a recording of a phone call where you talk your grandmother or parents through that command you just described, on their computer. Maybe after you go through that, you'll understand:)
Heck, OSX has been able to Create ISOs from Disks, and mount them natively for at least the last 6-7 years (not sure if this feature was included in 10.0).
Its an incredibly useful feature in troubleshooting, in a Remote VM environment, or for bringing along a DVD full of (legal) 'old school' games to play (on a convenient USB drive instead of as lots of disks).
Its nice to see Windows catching up with the rest of the world.
Games on my phone are now good enough that it's not worth carrying around a second device just for games. If Sony wants to sell this thing they should make it capable of making phone calls and running standard android apps. Either that or make it wafer thin and close to weightless.
You mean like the Xperia play they are putting out?
- Makes calls - Runs Gingerbread (with Android Marketplace) - Runs PlayStation games
(Again, barring monumental incompetence on the part of at least one party in a hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-on-the-line case) this just isn't the sort of situation where the computer in question would have been left in Sheriff Bubba's evidence locker/misc. supplies closet with a sticky note asking people not to touch it.
Yes, but in this sort of situation, all it takes is one person with a "look at the upside, and what are the chances we'll be caught?" attitude to try to make this sort of thing happen.
I'm not saying it did, but the higher the $$$ on the line, the more people SHOULD be looking at the chain of evidence and all, but also the more incentive to make things "happen".
Good thing the Europeans support projects like the LHC
Yeah... its a good thing Europe's economy is completely unaffected by any sort of economic trouble (downgrading of France's credit rating, rioting in England, Greece/Ireland/Portugal defaulting on loans).
'[The third storm] could exacerbate the disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field caused by the second (storm) or do nothing at all.'"
Oh... is that why my TV is suddenly picking up the ISS.
I figured it was just a new odd run of Big Brother.
I LOVED the episode where they voted the astronaut off the station at the same point the Solar Storm passed through! Gave him super powers he used to swing back and exact his revenge.... no... wait... that was just a troubled fever dream from lasagna too late. So hard to keep track whats "reality" TV.
Oh! The cloud. I thought he might dodge the question with some hand-waving. But he's got the cloud on it.
Yup. Since a Cloud is just a Virtualized Data Center, there's no reason why it will be a problem in a production deployment... I mean, we can always just throw another Cloud at the problem.
Where do I sign up?
I'm sure they'll let you know.
And how do I make sure the guy sitting next to me isn't stealing my signal?
Large bladed object (through the interlopers device of course) should remove all worries (and probably give you some nice breathing room at the crowded cafe... at least till the authorities arrive.
As for these new screens filling the landfills less, that's somewhat offset by their tendency to head there a lot sooner than the older gear.
Agreed, but a large part of that (I hope), is that its a semi-new technology (compared to CRTs).
I hope that once LCD manufacturing has matured more, we might get better lifetime estimates out of the sets. Of course, once the market/manufacturing matures, if the bean counters will move in we might also have sets with cheaper parts and more built in obsolescence, so it might not be as good.
Don't know, but I've got a pre LED, 32" LCD TV from 2006 that is still good sitting in the living room (watch the backlight go right after I write this:) ).
The color still seems fine, and the only reason I would consider replacing it is for a larger model (prices have dropped enough to make that feasible), while I'd move that unit into another room for auxiliary use.
It replaced a 2001 21" CRT that was still good (but with HD TV around the corner I decided to trade up).
That replaced a 1981-2 19" CRT that finally died (no amount of bench-thumping would bring the picture back).
So, so far, the earliest CRT model lasted ~19-20 yrs. Replaced by a CRT that only lasted ~5-6 (before being discarded as obsolescent not due to failure), and the current LCD is approaching the same 5-6 years and shows no problems so far.
I hope it reaches 19-20, but doubt it will. I bet it dies before the 10 year mark, although the biggest weakness from what I understand is the pre-LED backlight, so I have high hopes the next model lasts longer.:)
Not sure about the rest, but I can think of a few answers to these:
(background: no technical experience in the area, but I've been using New York City's subway system for over 25 years, so a fair amount of 'hands on' watching how they work)
Seeing how this is less than the length of a single train car, why don't you just join the trains?
You can't just join two trains, because you are limited in terms of platform that can accommodate the cars. If your platforms can only accommodate 10 cars, then the longest train you can put on that line is 10 cars (so all doors open at all stations). You can get away with a couple of stations not using all doors (for instance the "South Ferry station on the "1" train where only the first 6 out of 10 cars can platform), but it has to be the exception.
Or build more rails, or if that is impossible, build a subway?
Building more rails sounds nice, and in an ideal world you would, but that takes time, space and money. Time is actually the least problematic. The space and money though (for the rails, and stations), especially in an already established urban environment can be incredibly challenging (even leaving aside the politics of it). Take a look at the history of the 2nd Avenue Subway line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway
meters is an insanely close spacing even for regular cars in suburban speeds; for trains, it's insane.
Yes, it is, but the spacing also depends on speed. 5 meters at 5 miles an hour might be enough to stack the trains up so after one clears the station block, the next can just pull in, unload, load and be off, while the next train behind it slowed to a crawl and is waiting as close as possible to repeat the process. I would be surprised if the "under 5 meters" was for trains running a full speed which would be just as insane as for regular cars. On the other hand, when you stop at a red light, most people don't leave that much space between them and the car in front of them.
Power is increased through accumulation (saving), which is reserved not for itself, but for the sake of future spending and investing, whether or not there is a goal in mind for those savings. Whether or not you see it, spending must always come from savings. What about spending on credit? Well that is just a promise that you will save in the future. You are promising future savings for spending today. If you can't learn to save before spending then you will never catch up with your debt, and you will live out the rest of your life as a slave to your debt.
Sounds like Apple's strategy in a nutshell. Oh wait... what was the topic again?
The reason that our space program is dead in the water is that we are pathologically afraid of the risk of anyone dying. If there's an accident, the entire program shuts down.
There are shedloads of astronauts; if a crew was hit by a bus it would be replaced very quickly. What you can't afford is to lose a space shuttle when you only have three of them and can't make any more; that is why the program stops for years every time one is lost.
Agreed. Heck, just polling the slashdot readership, you could probably come up with enough qualified people to crew a couple of dozen flights at least (qualified = meeting basic health/skills requirements to complete astronaut training).
Remember, there are only so many astronauts because they only have so many spots, because they only have so many Orbiters to launch. The launch vehicle is the choke point in the chain.
Worlds grow old and suns grow cold And death we never can doubt. Time's cold wind, wailing down the past, Reminds us that all flesh is grass And history's lamps blow out.
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again.
Cycles turn while the far stars burn, And people and planets age. Life's crown passes to younger lands, Time brushes dust of hope from his hands And turns another page.
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again.
But we who feel the weight of the wheel When winter falls over our world Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes To a silver moon in the opened skies And a single flag unfurled.
For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again.
We know well what Life can tell: If you would not perish, then grow. And today our fragile flesh and steel Have laid our hands on a vaster wheel With all of the stars to know
That the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again.
From all who tried out of history's tide, Salute for the team that won. And the old Earth smiles at her children's reach, The wave that carried us up the beach To reach for the shining sun.
For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again.
... Maybe some indie developer can come up with a revolutionary game where you ride around on a Vespa and go to poetry readings at various coffee shops.
If people, especially authorities can't be recorded when in public, then there is nothing to prevent them from abusing their authority, doing anything they wish, and lying about it.
We've had C-SPAN for decades and it hasn't done anything to restrain congress from abusing its authority.
But of course I agree, we do have the right to monitor our employees.
So? A contribution is a contribution, even if it is for selfish reasons.
Yes, but...
1) All the contributions were within one module (all well and good, and that fine, but people should realize this was not some altruistic move by MS to "help" Linux).
2) Are multiple changes to add/fix comments included in the list of changes? I don't know, but that might artificially increase a contribution count, specifically if MS was working to get this particular module into "production".
Again, I agree it doesn't make a difference in terms of, "hey, they contributed", but it does help put they contributions into context.
In many jurisdictions, you're not allowed to be represented by a lawyer in Small Claims Court.
I would imagine that a Corporate Entity would be allowed to be represented by a member of their Legal Department, since they ARE the representative of Verizon (when it comes to appearing in court), or do they expect the CEO to come out for a Small Claims issue? (or that Verizon should be unrepresented?)
As it was though (according to another poster), the court case was the Penn Utility Commission where the woman filed her complaint.
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Sure they could afford to bring back a paltry 5000 jobs.
They would be eliminating one of their main competitors, laying off way more than 5000 (more skilled!) workers, and opening the way to raising their prices by grabbing a customer base with even less choice and jacking up their rates.
Nice to see government doing what its supposed to do for a change.
Because the US Embassy in Australia doesn't produce and own TV shows?
Really?
I thought they were behind that hit Beijing Show: "Big Brother: US Embassy - Australia"
Those aren't the same people. It looks to me like the diplomats of the US embassy are more on the intelligent side compared to the MPAA decision makers.
I'm not sure that's saying much.
No, its China trying to sneak its intellectual property into the US through the Zoos!
Actually, in all seriousness, since China "lends" giant Pandas to Zoos (they are considered cultural treasures), can they lay claim to this research as their property (assuming they did not authorize the study)?
Please post a link to a recording of a phone call where you talk your grandmother or parents through that command you just described, on their computer. Maybe after you go through that, you'll understand :)
http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=30 Hit the red "Play" button for the free recording.
Heck, OSX has been able to Create ISOs from Disks, and mount them natively for at least the last 6-7 years (not sure if this feature was included in 10.0).
Its an incredibly useful feature in troubleshooting, in a Remote VM environment, or for bringing along a DVD full of (legal) 'old school' games to play (on a convenient USB drive instead of as lots of disks).
Its nice to see Windows catching up with the rest of the world.
Games on my phone are now good enough that it's not worth carrying around a second device just for games. If Sony wants to sell this thing they should make it capable of making phone calls and running standard android apps. Either that or make it wafer thin and close to weightless.
You mean like the Xperia play they are putting out?
- Makes calls
- Runs Gingerbread (with Android Marketplace)
- Runs PlayStation games
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/xperia-play?cc=gb&lc=en
They are working through their Mobile phone arm to create a PlayStation platform in phones.
(Again, barring monumental incompetence on the part of at least one party in a hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-on-the-line case) this just isn't the sort of situation where the computer in question would have been left in Sheriff Bubba's evidence locker/misc. supplies closet with a sticky note asking people not to touch it.
Yes, but in this sort of situation, all it takes is one person with a "look at the upside, and what are the chances we'll be caught?" attitude to try to make this sort of thing happen.
I'm not saying it did, but the higher the $$$ on the line, the more people SHOULD be looking at the chain of evidence and all, but also the more incentive to make things "happen".
Good thing the Europeans support projects like the LHC
Yeah ... its a good thing Europe's economy is completely unaffected by any sort of economic trouble (downgrading of France's credit rating, rioting in England, Greece/Ireland/Portugal defaulting on loans).
I hope you're right, but we'll have to see what happens with the LHC, since the UK, France, Greece and Portugal are all CERN member states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Member_states
That's leaving aside something further happening, like this for instance: http://www.cnbc.com/id/43794479/Let_Greece_Ireland_Portugal_Default_Pimco
FTFS:
'[The third storm] could exacerbate the disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field caused by the second (storm) or do nothing at all.'"
Oh ... is that why my TV is suddenly picking up the ISS.
I figured it was just a new odd run of Big Brother.
I LOVED the episode where they voted the astronaut off the station at the same point the Solar Storm passed through! Gave him super powers he used to swing back and exact his revenge. ... no ... wait ... that was just a troubled fever dream from lasagna too late. So hard to keep track whats "reality" TV.
Oh! The cloud. I thought he might dodge the question with some hand-waving. But he's got the cloud on it.
Yup. Since a Cloud is just a Virtualized Data Center, there's no reason why it will be a problem in a production deployment ... I mean, we can always just throw another Cloud at the problem.
Where do I sign up?
I'm sure they'll let you know.
And how do I make sure the guy sitting next to me isn't stealing my signal?
Large bladed object (through the interlopers device of course) should remove all worries (and probably give you some nice breathing room at the crowded cafe ... at least till the authorities arrive.
It might not be Blackmail, but it sounds an awful lot like Extortion.
As for these new screens filling the landfills less, that's somewhat offset by their tendency to head there a lot sooner than the older gear.
Agreed, but a large part of that (I hope), is that its a semi-new technology (compared to CRTs).
I hope that once LCD manufacturing has matured more, we might get better lifetime estimates out of the sets. Of course, once the market/manufacturing matures, if the bean counters will move in we might also have sets with cheaper parts and more built in obsolescence, so it might not be as good.
(fingers crossed for quality :D)
Don't know, but I've got a pre LED, 32" LCD TV from 2006 that is still good sitting in the living room (watch the backlight go right after I write this :) ).
The color still seems fine, and the only reason I would consider replacing it is for a larger model (prices have dropped enough to make that feasible), while I'd move that unit into another room for auxiliary use.
It replaced a 2001 21" CRT that was still good (but with HD TV around the corner I decided to trade up).
That replaced a 1981-2 19" CRT that finally died (no amount of bench-thumping would bring the picture back).
So, so far, the earliest CRT model lasted ~19-20 yrs. Replaced by a CRT that only lasted ~5-6 (before being discarded as obsolescent not due to failure), and the current LCD is approaching the same 5-6 years and shows no problems so far.
I hope it reaches 19-20, but doubt it will. I bet it dies before the 10 year mark, although the biggest weakness from what I understand is the pre-LED backlight, so I have high hopes the next model lasts longer. :)
Not sure about the rest, but I can think of a few answers to these:
(background: no technical experience in the area, but I've been using New York City's subway system for over 25 years, so a fair amount of 'hands on' watching how they work)
Seeing how this is less than the length of a single train car, why don't you just join the trains?
You can't just join two trains, because you are limited in terms of platform that can accommodate the cars. If your platforms can only accommodate 10 cars, then the longest train you can put on that line is 10 cars (so all doors open at all stations). You can get away with a couple of stations not using all doors (for instance the "South Ferry station on the "1" train where only the first 6 out of 10 cars can platform), but it has to be the exception.
Or build more rails, or if that is impossible, build a subway?
Building more rails sounds nice, and in an ideal world you would, but that takes time, space and money. Time is actually the least problematic. The space and money though (for the rails, and stations), especially in an already established urban environment can be incredibly challenging (even leaving aside the politics of it). Take a look at the history of the 2nd Avenue Subway line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway
meters is an insanely close spacing even for regular cars in suburban speeds; for trains, it's insane.
Yes, it is, but the spacing also depends on speed.
5 meters at 5 miles an hour might be enough to stack the trains up so after one clears the station block, the next can just pull in, unload, load and be off, while the next train behind it slowed to a crawl and is waiting as close as possible to repeat the process.
I would be surprised if the "under 5 meters" was for trains running a full speed which would be just as insane as for regular cars. On the other hand, when you stop at a red light, most people don't leave that much space between them and the car in front of them.
Power is increased through accumulation (saving), which is reserved not for itself, but for the sake of future spending and investing, whether or not there is a goal in mind for those savings. Whether or not you see it, spending must always come from savings. What about spending on credit? Well that is just a promise that you will save in the future. You are promising future savings for spending today. If you can't learn to save before spending then you will never catch up with your debt, and you will live out the rest of your life as a slave to your debt.
Sounds like Apple's strategy in a nutshell. ... what was the topic again?
Oh wait
The reason that our space program is dead in the water is that we are pathologically afraid of the risk of anyone dying. If there's an accident, the entire program shuts down.
There are shedloads of astronauts; if a crew was hit by a bus it would be replaced very quickly. What you can't afford is to lose a space shuttle when you only have three of them and can't make any more; that is why the program stops for years every time one is lost.
Agreed. Heck, just polling the slashdot readership, you could probably come up with enough qualified people to crew a couple of dozen flights at least (qualified = meeting basic health/skills requirements to complete astronaut training).
Remember, there are only so many astronauts because they only have so many spots, because they only have so many Orbiters to launch. The launch vehicle is the choke point in the chain.
On a slightly related note. Just happened on this:
http://filkertom-itom.blogspot.com/2007/07/bonus-track-hope-eyrie.html Hope Eyrie.
Sung by Tom Smith, (Originally by Leslie Fish)
Hope people give it a listen.
Hope Eyrie
Words and Music © 1975 by Leslie Fish
Copyright assigned to Random Factors
All rights reserved - used with permission
Worlds grow old and suns grow cold
And death we never can doubt.
Time's cold wind, wailing down the past,
Reminds us that all flesh is grass
And history's lamps blow out.
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
Cycles turn while the far stars burn,
And people and planets age.
Life's crown passes to younger lands,
Time brushes dust of hope from his hands
And turns another page.
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
But we who feel the weight of the wheel
When winter falls over our world
Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes
To a silver moon in the opened skies
And a single flag unfurled.
For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
We know well what Life can tell:
If you would not perish, then grow.
And today our fragile flesh and steel
Have laid our hands on a vaster wheel
With all of the stars to know
That the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
From all who tried out of history's tide,
Salute for the team that won.
And the old Earth smiles at her children's reach,
The wave that carried us up the beach
To reach for the shining sun.
For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
Is the stock ticker for fake Apple APPR?
I think you mean AAPR
( incidentally AAPR is apparently the ticker symbol for Alcoa who make aluminum )
... Maybe some indie developer can come up with a revolutionary game where you ride around on a Vespa and go to poetry readings at various coffee shops.
Grand Theft Goth?
If people, especially authorities can't be recorded when in public, then there is nothing to prevent them from abusing their authority, doing anything they wish, and lying about it.
We've had C-SPAN for decades and it hasn't done anything to restrain congress from abusing its authority.
But of course I agree, we do have the right to monitor our employees.
That would imply someone was actually watching.
In today's age of Reality TV a'la "Jersey Shore" the only way to get people to watch is the way Robot Chicken jokingly suggested: http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/X-Span_Request_Live
Make it more ... interactive ...
I don't know, it just sounds like a trojan horse out trolling for personal data.
n.t.
stopped reading after "Yes, but ...".
stopped reading after "stopped reading ..."
So? A contribution is a contribution, even if it is for selfish reasons.
Yes, but ...
1) All the contributions were within one module (all well and good, and that fine, but people should realize this was not some altruistic move by MS to "help" Linux).
2) Are multiple changes to add/fix comments included in the list of changes? I don't know, but that might artificially increase a contribution count, specifically if MS was working to get this particular module into "production".
Again, I agree it doesn't make a difference in terms of, "hey, they contributed", but it does help put they contributions into context.
In many jurisdictions, you're not allowed to be represented by a lawyer in Small Claims Court.
I would imagine that a Corporate Entity would be allowed to be represented by a member of their Legal Department, since they ARE the representative of Verizon (when it comes to appearing in court), or do they expect the CEO to come out for a Small Claims issue? (or that Verizon should be unrepresented?)
As it was though (according to another poster), the court case was the Penn Utility Commission where the woman filed her complaint.