Any comment at this point would bring the Political Correctness Police down on me like a horde of avenging non-denominational metaphysical winged beings.
Perhaps because we actually RT 2nd page of the FA, which suggests obliging MS to ship Windows with other browsers installed and presented to the user in addition to IE?
Wait... I'm on Slashdot, aren't I? Sorry, silly response.
We're talking about tiny teeny sub-atomic singularities here. Even if they were big enough to attract matter fast enough to sustain themselves (which they won't be), we could drop a hundred of them into the planet, and it would still be here by the time the sun flickers out. In fact, they might keep our inheritors (I'm betting on the roaches) warm after that happens.
This is why I avoid discussions as to why I became a vegetarian.
Hello, it's ex-POW John McCain calling. As an ex-POW, I don't like to talk about my experiences as a POW, even though I was one. I don't know why non-POWs keep bringing up the issue that I, famous ex-POW John McCain, was a POW.
Uh huh. And when Slashdot runs an article titled "Judge applies law exactly the way that we'd like" (readers: 0, ad revenue: $0), then we can use Slashdot as a statistical reference source to back up "most" claims. And by the way: if you're going to post a "citation" that doesn't lead anywhere useful, in the expectation that nobody will bother to follow it anyway, then you might as well link to Wikipedia rather than Google.
Many judges are not sympathetic towards people who report the "Do Not Call" violators. They see the people who do report them as whiny people who are abusing the judicial system for money.
Many Slashdot posters are inclined to make vague, sweeping populist statements without a shred of evidence to back them up. [Citation needed]
And have you any idea how much it can cost if an elephant falls on you? I have a small rock here that repels elephants. Normally $1000, but to you, only $1500 if you buy today.
Well, I guess the real lesson here is that no matter how much you choose to give away, and to whom, there will always be some smelly fucking hippy whining that you are evil cretins because you didn't give more to them.
As opposed to the inefficiency and red tape necessitated by retaining a huge legal department and strong-arming any competitors who lost the raced to file?
Which still doesn't work, because your competitors either just paint your red McGuffin blue, or simply ignore your patent and damn your eyes. See most of the Far East, where Chinese companies clone and sell whatever they like. The only people profiting from patents are the lawyers.
I'd have thought that weed paranoia would make you less of a road traffic hazard than being hopped up on caffeine. This is not a joke, although that's how it will be treated by all you C8H10N4O2 Fiends.
And if we're really interested in road safety, then let's start getting the significant risks off the road: everyone under 25, then everyone over 65, then all the men in the middle, then the soccer moms. Eventually we'll be left with one 53 year old librarian spinster called Doris, and she can get as stoned and drunk as she likes, since there'll be nobody else to crash into.
That's exactly the problem though: at this price point, volume is critical. For AMD to make the Geode look attractive and get their volumes up, they'd have to pare their margins back to the bone, or perhaps even take a loss on each chip. Given the current climate, you can see why they don't want to take that gamble.
And if they were banking on the XO getting the volume up, well, we all know how that's panning out.
Mmm. Market forces work just fine in a nearly homeostatic state. There's a real choice to be made between cutting costs (bad for the employees) or increasing productivity (good for everyone).
Unfortunately when you throw a market wide open to widely disparate providers - and we're talking about a ratio of 5 or even 10-to-one in salary costs - then market forces dictate that purchasers go for the low cost bidder. Increasing productivity - i.e. training and retaining skilled staff - isn't a realistic option for the high wage bidders; they have to join the rush to the bottom.
That's good for consumers, but not for workers. Unfortunately, a lot of us are workers. What we want - what benefits everyone - is increasing productivity rather than cutting costs. Do you see a lot of that happening in the global knowledge economy at the moment?
Conceivable, you could even have small engine motor shops, that would invest on designing innovative engines, only to license them to big manufacturing companies.
That's... optimistic. When SmallBlock Ltd goes to Zaibatsu Motor Industries and Fish Gutting Mega Concern Incorporated waving their handful of patents, they'll get a hundred waved back at them.
Which is why patent trolls thrive: you can't be countersued if you don't produce anything. So SmallBlock Ltd live long enough to make a minor "invention", sells it to Trollcorp, and vanishes in a puff of stock options. Trollcorp mugs Zaibatsu, who pay up to settle the suit, and then throw the "invention" on the huge slush pile of ideas that their thousands of in house engineers will ignore anyway because it's Not Invented Here.
You do understand the basic concept that email is insecure in transit, and so the security at the sender and recipients' ends is utterly irrelevant, right? My 5 year old son understands this. Shall I get him to explain it to you?
why is he - or his legal team, taking such extraordinary steps to avoid testifying?
Uh... because (they say) that he wasn't actually subpoenead to testify, and so being "compelled" is Bad Juju. (They claim) Profession Nesson actually subpoenead someone other mysterious 3rd party, who is resident in Maryland and so can't be subpoenad to a Massachusetts District court anyway.
Now, maybe they're lying, but that would be pushing it even for the RIAA. It almost sounds as though they created some Fake Oppenheim, let Nesson serve him, and now they bitch-slap him for claiming that he served the Real Oppenheim.
So I guess those would be extraordinary steps too, but at least the reason for taking them is obvious: it'd be damn funny if that's what they've done. Evil Robot RIAA Doubles. It's all true.
Yes, email sent to gmail addresses is insecure, unlike email sent to regular whitehouse.gov addresses, which is magically encrypted by the NSA's army of highly trained ninja code monkeys as it leaves the senders' machines.
It would seem that Professor Nesson actually has pooched his deposition, in several ways. I guess if he was any good at this lawerying stuff, he'd be doing it rather than teaching it.
On the 9th and 10th of March 1945, 325 (three hundred and twenty five) B-29s bombers dropped 1,600 tons of incendiary bombs on Toyko. 167,000 buildings were destroyed, about 25% of Toyko by area. Molten glass flowed down the streets, and superheated updrafts caused more losses among the bombers than the faltering AA defences. One hundred thousand people, mostly civilians, and most of them the elderly, women and children, were killed. Japan was already defeated well before the nukes were dropped. It was the Tokyo firebombings that broke Shwa's spirit, not Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I don't have any moral point to make here, just that nukes were simply the most efficient way to reach the death toll necessary to force a Japanese surrender. The same results (pragmatic and moral) could have been achieved with incendiaries.
I was thinking in terms that solar power is just a question of land area,
So presumably you're going to blow your first wish on making 400 square kilometres of solar panels magically appear? Why not just wish for a nuclear plant, or better yet, Alyson Hannigan riding a pony?
I imagine that their marketing budget will have to dwarf their development budget, since they'll have to create a new market segment.
First problem: how do you sum it up in a short, punchy marketdroid phrase, without making it sound like it's either a overly weedy laptop, or an overly expensive toy?
Second problem: having boasted about how it's a "$200" device, how do you then get early adopters (us!) to pay more than that for it? Or if it has to retail for $200 from day 1, how do you persuade retailers to commit to carry it without a fat margin to balance their risk?
Top marks for their technical prowess, but I fear that they're about to pull an OLPC and EPIC FAIL the delivery-to-market part.
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Any comment at this point would bring the Political Correctness Police down on me like a horde of avenging non-denominational metaphysical winged beings.
Fixed that for you.
Perhaps because we actually RT 2nd page of the FA, which suggests obliging MS to ship Windows with other browsers installed and presented to the user in addition to IE?
Wait... I'm on Slashdot, aren't I? Sorry, silly response.
We're talking about tiny teeny sub-atomic singularities here. Even if they were big enough to attract matter fast enough to sustain themselves (which they won't be), we could drop a hundred of them into the planet, and it would still be here by the time the sun flickers out. In fact, they might keep our inheritors (I'm betting on the roaches) warm after that happens.
Hello, it's ex-POW John McCain calling. As an ex-POW, I don't like to talk about my experiences as a POW, even though I was one. I don't know why non-POWs keep bringing up the issue that I, famous ex-POW John McCain, was a POW.
Uh huh. And when Slashdot runs an article titled "Judge applies law exactly the way that we'd like" (readers: 0, ad revenue: $0), then we can use Slashdot as a statistical reference source to back up "most" claims. And by the way: if you're going to post a "citation" that doesn't lead anywhere useful, in the expectation that nobody will bother to follow it anyway, then you might as well link to Wikipedia rather than Google.
I'm sure that's right out of the CIA 'Robust Interrogation' handbook. When do they get to pulling out the fingernails?
Many Slashdot posters are inclined to make vague, sweeping populist statements without a shred of evidence to back them up. [Citation needed]
And have you any idea how much it can cost if an elephant falls on you? I have a small rock here that repels elephants. Normally $1000, but to you, only $1500 if you buy today.
Don't forget IMDB. Why bother to make a decent movie when you can just pay some shill to astroturf the first "preview" of a mediocre film? It's got to be value for money.
Well, I guess the real lesson here is that no matter how much you choose to give away, and to whom, there will always be some smelly fucking hippy whining that you are evil cretins because you didn't give more to them.
As opposed to the inefficiency and red tape necessitated by retaining a huge legal department and strong-arming any competitors who lost the raced to file?
Which still doesn't work, because your competitors either just paint your red McGuffin blue, or simply ignore your patent and damn your eyes. See most of the Far East, where Chinese companies clone and sell whatever they like. The only people profiting from patents are the lawyers.
I'd have thought that weed paranoia would make you less of a road traffic hazard than being hopped up on caffeine. This is not a joke, although that's how it will be treated by all you C8H10N4O2 Fiends.
And if we're really interested in road safety, then let's start getting the significant risks off the road: everyone under 25, then everyone over 65, then all the men in the middle, then the soccer moms. Eventually we'll be left with one 53 year old librarian spinster called Doris, and she can get as stoned and drunk as she likes, since there'll be nobody else to crash into.
That's exactly the problem though: at this price point, volume is critical. For AMD to make the Geode look attractive and get their volumes up, they'd have to pare their margins back to the bone, or perhaps even take a loss on each chip. Given the current climate, you can see why they don't want to take that gamble.
And if they were banking on the XO getting the volume up, well, we all know how that's panning out.
Mmm. Market forces work just fine in a nearly homeostatic state. There's a real choice to be made between cutting costs (bad for the employees) or increasing productivity (good for everyone).
Unfortunately when you throw a market wide open to widely disparate providers - and we're talking about a ratio of 5 or even 10-to-one in salary costs - then market forces dictate that purchasers go for the low cost bidder. Increasing productivity - i.e. training and retaining skilled staff - isn't a realistic option for the high wage bidders; they have to join the rush to the bottom.
That's good for consumers, but not for workers. Unfortunately, a lot of us are workers. What we want - what benefits everyone - is increasing productivity rather than cutting costs. Do you see a lot of that happening in the global knowledge economy at the moment?
That's... optimistic. When SmallBlock Ltd goes to Zaibatsu Motor Industries and Fish Gutting Mega Concern Incorporated waving their handful of patents, they'll get a hundred waved back at them.
Which is why patent trolls thrive: you can't be countersued if you don't produce anything. So SmallBlock Ltd live long enough to make a minor "invention", sells it to Trollcorp, and vanishes in a puff of stock options. Trollcorp mugs Zaibatsu, who pay up to settle the suit, and then throw the "invention" on the huge slush pile of ideas that their thousands of in house engineers will ignore anyway because it's Not Invented Here.
Nobody benefits from that. There may be a very few exceptions where the patent system plays out in the favour of a genuine inventor, but I'd have to see more case studies to believe that's a statistically significant outcome.
You do understand the basic concept that email is insecure in transit, and so the security at the sender and recipients' ends is utterly irrelevant, right? My 5 year old son understands this. Shall I get him to explain it to you?
Uh... because (they say) that he wasn't actually subpoenead to testify, and so being "compelled" is Bad Juju. (They claim) Profession Nesson actually subpoenead someone other mysterious 3rd party, who is resident in Maryland and so can't be subpoenad to a Massachusetts District court anyway.
Now, maybe they're lying, but that would be pushing it even for the RIAA. It almost sounds as though they created some Fake Oppenheim, let Nesson serve him, and now they bitch-slap him for claiming that he served the Real Oppenheim.
So I guess those would be extraordinary steps too, but at least the reason for taking them is obvious: it'd be damn funny if that's what they've done. Evil Robot RIAA Doubles. It's all true.
Yes, email sent to gmail addresses is insecure, unlike email sent to regular whitehouse.gov addresses, which is magically encrypted by the NSA's army of highly trained ninja code monkeys as it leaves the senders' machines.
It would seem that Professor Nesson actually has pooched his deposition, in several ways. I guess if he was any good at this lawerying stuff, he'd be doing it rather than teaching it.
Virtual +1 Insightful from me. Like priests preaching about the virtues of poverty from a golden pulpit.
Good for you. When the Efficiency Gestapo come, they'll kill you last.
On the 9th and 10th of March 1945, 325 (three hundred and twenty five) B-29s bombers dropped 1,600 tons of incendiary bombs on Toyko. 167,000 buildings were destroyed, about 25% of Toyko by area. Molten glass flowed down the streets, and superheated updrafts caused more losses among the bombers than the faltering AA defences. One hundred thousand people, mostly civilians, and most of them the elderly, women and children, were killed. Japan was already defeated well before the nukes were dropped. It was the Tokyo firebombings that broke Shwa's spirit, not Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I don't have any moral point to make here, just that nukes were simply the most efficient way to reach the death toll necessary to force a Japanese surrender. The same results (pragmatic and moral) could have been achieved with incendiaries.
So presumably you're going to blow your first wish on making 400 square kilometres of solar panels magically appear? Why not just wish for a nuclear plant, or better yet, Alyson Hannigan riding a pony?
I imagine that their marketing budget will have to dwarf their development budget, since they'll have to create a new market segment.
First problem: how do you sum it up in a short, punchy marketdroid phrase, without making it sound like it's either a overly weedy laptop, or an overly expensive toy?
Second problem: having boasted about how it's a "$200" device, how do you then get early adopters (us!) to pay more than that for it? Or if it has to retail for $200 from day 1, how do you persuade retailers to commit to carry it without a fat margin to balance their risk?
Top marks for their technical prowess, but I fear that they're about to pull an OLPC and EPIC FAIL the delivery-to-market part.