Also, the maximum sentence is 20 years, not the average sentence. Obstruction of justice covers a lot of scenarios, so the 20 years is for the guy who goes around cleaning the blood and fingerprints off the murder weapons of a friend of his (yes, accomplice after the fact to murder would cover this, but you get the idea). I have a really hard time believing this guy will get anything close to 20 years.
Obstruction of justice is almost always going to yield a stiffer sentence than whatever the original charge was. I don't think the guy cleaning blood and fingerprints off of a murder weapon would be obstruction of justice unless the police were knocking on the door before he started doing it.
The author does state in the article that he was mistaken about the amount of resources HP has, which amounts to at least $25 billion USD in cash on hand, at least 10x more than HTC and Lenovo (the other big Palm suitors from the past week) have in cash.
He probably thinks HP is just a company that makes printers and also has a side business selling desktops and laptops that don't have a lot of market share. I see HP as the largest server vendor in the world. From a somewhat recent IDC report from the fourth quarter, 2009:
For the 31st consecutive quarter, nearly 8 years, HP is the #1 vendor in worldwide server shipments. HP shipped more than 1 out of every 3 servers worldwide and captured 36.9 percent total unit shipment share.
I think they can easily absorb a struggling handset maker, especially one with Palm's history and IP portfolio.
In the USA if the police knock on your door and ask to come in you can tell them to go away - And they have to.
Hahaha...
Oh wait, you are serious about believing that?
Having been a recipient of a corrupt cop lying in order to come up with a reason to arrest me so he could impound my car and perform a "custodial inventory" (re: search without a warrant), sitting in the back of his squad car for 3+ hours, and then having to pay the impound yard $280 per hour, plus $55 per night plus a $75 processing fee, totaling $970 to find absolutely nothing at all... please don't tell me the cops in america aren't corrupt.
Sounds like you were being a real asshole, so he fucked you over the best he legally could. Why were you originally pulled over?
It's one out of dozens of Android phones, each model with it's own features and price ranges.
Steve Jobs has been quaking like a motherfucker (and not in the fun way) if the reports of his Google tantrums are true...
In the smart phone market, companies like HTC and Motorola may see increased profits due to increased sales of Android phones, but each and every one of them would similarly trade places with Apple in a heartbeat if they could. If Android is bound to knock Apple off its perch, it's going to take many, many years.
So, do explain why you'd think that anyone in Apple's position would be "quaking"?
Personally, if I was going for the smartphone perch, I'd go after RIM...who is actually sitting on the perch with about 42% of the market. Apple? A healthy #2 with 25%. Google is up and coming at 9%, more than doubling their market share from Nov. '09 to Feb. '10. Out of RIM, Apple, Microsoft (looks like they had the lunch that Google ate), Google, and Palm, only RIM and Google gained in that time frame. Hastily searched source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/05/comscore-android-market-share-continues-to-gain-on-the-iphone/
Personally, I think the iPhone has peaked. Most of the people who wanted one have one by now. Consumer phones are also remarkably fad-prone, just ask Motorola. Watch out for Apple entering their "New this year, a *PINK* iPhone" phase. Also, if you want to talk about global phone sales, the top 5 are Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony, and Motorola. Looks like #6 is HTC ( http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222600489 )
There are lots of high tech workers that read slashdot. I'm one of them. I decided, while at university, that I was not going to spend my life building weapons. Working on weapons certainly was an opportunity that presented itself when I was getting my degree in the late 80s. I do not want to create weapons because I would have no direct control over whether those weapons were limited to truly righteous causes.
If you work on software, and don't personally control the licensing to assure who uses it, you risk that it will be used in (or to coordinate the use of, or to support the development of, or in some other way related to) weapons, where you will have no control over whether the weapons are used in "truly righteous causes".
There is a huge difference on working on something that could be used to develop/deliver weapons, and the weapons themselves. Almost all complex weapons engineering is going to use CVS/Subversion/Git, or some other code management system, but the authors of CVS/Subversion/Git, aren't sitting down and thinking "how can I more effectively kill people?". They probably aren't even close to thinking "if we can make code check-in/out more efficient, then it will really help out the people designing Death Robots." The actual moral decision shouldn't be "I only want my weapons used for righteous causes", it should be "how many intentional deaths from my creation can I live with?".
I'm really curious as to when it's acceptable to look at someone’s history for productivity. I mean, Do you do regular checks of employees? Or do you wait until there is a problem and then use web history as another good reason as to why the employee shouldn't be working there?
Just from a union and fairness point of view, it seems a bit off to only check one person’s history. If one person gets regularly checked, so should everybody else... Right?
Why check unless there is a problem? If somebody is goofing off for 8 hours a day, but somehow still manages to get the work done, what is the problem? Of course, in PHB logic, imagine all the work that person could do if they weren't goofing off 8 hours a day! That could probably eliminate 5 redundancies!
What about the diligent workers that spend 6 hours a day chasing their tails on problems that goof-off guy would have fixed in 10 minutes?
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I then file a police report that says my car was worth $6 million... would I be busted for filing a false police report?
Of course not. I mean, you -did- have a few CDs in the glove box didn't you? That's what 100+ tracks that you have just unlawfully redistributed (and you recklessly assisted in this by leaving the car running)... oh... wait, yes that would be a false police report. Your losses are closer to $200 Million.
Actually he would probably be sued the RIAA for redistribution of the CDs.
If the car isn't already moving, sure, the engine won't overcome the brakes. OTOH, when a ton of metal is already moving at considerable speed, and the brakes are trying to slow it but the engine is applying an increasing amount of energy, I think you will find you are quite mistaken, I don't care how good condition your brakes are in.
If you didn't fade the hell out of your brakes, which really is very easy to do unless you're using pads made out of a racing compound, then the brakes will stop the car if they are not otherwise broken.
I would guess that something got stuck in/around the throttle butterfly. An old roomate of mine had an unintended acceleration problem in his toyota years before it was fashionable. He threw the car into neutral and turned it off when the engine started racing for redline and didn't hit anything (don't remember if he used brakes to pull off the road first). Turns out that when he changed the air filter and oil, he put a blue shop towel over the intake when he had the filter out. He put the filter in and didn't take out the towel. It was sucked up into the throttle body, and eventually wedged itself so that it kept the throttle butterfly from closing. The strange thing is, that this took a few days to happen, and the car ran fine until then.
I already see Brighthouse giving some priority routing to bradband.gov. Almost every site I run a tracepath against goes through xxx.xxx.dfw10.tbone.rr.com, at which point the latency drops off a cliff. When I run a tracepath against broadband.gov, the route shoots straight up the eastern seaboard with the best latency times I've seen from any site all month.
Or if you want to avoid closing applications/tabs before you use others without worrying about them leeching CPU cycles.
If only a process state existed whereby a process could use little or no CPU cycles.... Oh wait, it does!
Is this really the mindset Windows has imposed on supposed tech-savvy individuals these days?
It's not too rare that I will find my computer running slow as hell and wonder what is up. A quick look at top shows that firefox is taking up 30% of the cpu, wtf? Oh yeah, my bad...I had a site open that used flash and forgot about it.
But don't you at least follow the news a little? When new stuff (CPUs, graphics cards and so on) comes out there's generally a story here on slashdot with links to benchmarks. It's not difficult or time consuming to read a couple articles a month.
But how do you know if it's actually something worthwhile coming out, or a bunch of marketing spin and a clever name like 90% of product announcements are. "Announcing the new Intel Talladega core processors with SuperFlex(tm)!"
besides, it's rude not to help a fellow time traveler nerd who just emerged from the Past and looks to establish a small base in our times.
That's indeed how it feels. I can usually keep up with the high end x86 processors since we normally buy stuff at work throughout the years. Since everything started tanking, we haven't bought any significant amount of new hardware since like 2007. Now it's time to do a big hardware purchase and suddenly you have to buy RAM as multiples of 6? And it makes a significant difference in configuration depending on what "rank" the dimms are?
The problem is that this doesn't work when you want to find out if it is worth to upgrade or not, as benchmarks always only compare the newest stuff against the other newest stuff, not against your years old hardware at home. Even worse is the special OEM hardware that you sometimes get (Geforce 7600LE for example), as that doesn't show up in benchmarks at all. And on top of that there are of course also compatibility issues, like will this graphics card work with my old power supply and such.
Long story short: I have basically given, its to much trouble to search for updates, so instead I just run what I have till it breaks.
One of the usual sites (tomshardware, anandtech, arstechnica, something I forgot about?) had a recent review where they compared the current crop of processors against each other, but also threw in the 3 or 4 GHz "processor to have" from a few years ago. In the end, it wasn't pretty and even the cheapest $500 setup blew away the old awesome processor.
Why would MS even care? In fact if Novell fails, along with what recently happened with MySQL and Open Solaris, MS can brag about how proprietary software is the way to go.
If Novell fails, then whoever ends up with the corpse gets their patents...like the ones for Unix that SCO was throwing about until Novell stepped in and mentioned that they're the real owners. Why do you think a huge company like Microsoft would enter into a lopsided deal like they did a few years ago? It was all about patent protection and the SLES certificates were just the bribe. Microsoft was reselling those at a substantial loss.
The Linux division has broke even, thanks to Microsoft's coupons, but the point is it is still a drop in the ocean when compared to the total revenue from Netware and other software - even if it is declining. They just haven't worked out what to do with that older proprietary software and haven't worked out what business model they want.
I was actually surprised to see that Novell's "Open Platform Solutions" account for about 21% of their positive operating income ("Identity and Security Management" and "Workgroup" are the other units that made money last year) for 2009 (2008 was about 10%, 2007 was about 6%). Novell still posted a $206M operating loss for the year (SuSE profit was $87.355M). The only time Novell has ever made a yearly profit in the last five years were in 2005 and 2006, thanks only to agreements with Microsoft and lawsuit settlements from Microsoft.
Dude - 90% of these posters are American. They wouldn't know a chav if one hit them over a head with their goldie lookin chain.
Seriously though, your post eeks out a bit of the classism that people argue underlies the chav stereotype. Here in New York we have our guidos, but they mostly do us the favor of localizing themselves to Long Island and Jersey, so we can simply be regionalist and simply call them the "bridge and tunnel crowd".
You MUST be dense. Novell has SUSE Linux, which is the preferred Linux to run on Z series. The consulting services alone for such a venture would be pretty expensive, but worth every penny. SLERT is used by some of the best brokerage houses on wall street and other places as well. They own Ximian, they also have their extensive IDM suite as well as lots of other group and middleware products. The problem with Novell is that they don't market well enough. Given the chance to replace Red Hat with SUSE I would jump at the chance.
No, the problem with Novell is that their products are shit, and their support is even worse. IDM *might* be good, but I don't have enough experience with it to say one way or the other. I wasn't given a chance to replace SUSE with Red Hat, I fought a two year battle for that opportunity, and my enterprise is better for it. I haven't had to fix a server that was badly broken by an update or service pack since kicking out SLES.
...are Novell products still well thought of in the enterprise sector? I know Norton became a bloated piece of crapware a while ago (just like most of their products), but I haven't really paid attention to them in...shit, almost 5 years.
Are they still producing bloated piles of crap, or have the leaned their products down and made them worthwhile again?
No. If anything, they are making them more bloated.
Get some lead (or some other metal) shielding. Perhaps if everyone did this (if they lived near a tower) then, health risk or not, the towers might be moved elsewhere.
I've heard that paint used to be made with lead. Just locate some of this old lead-based paint, and use that to re-paint the walls of your apartment. It's not like you're going to be keeping goats in there.
It's not an error. Errors prevent you from continuing. The only thing approaching an error is the little box telling you there's a problem. That is solved by the user clicking "OK".
The entire way errors are handled is wrong. I don't know what the solution is but I very much doubt it's a simple modification to the current fundamentally flawed system.
WTH was this marked as troll? It is true. How many times have you compiled something and gotten a page of warning messages, scanned through thinking "warning, warning, warning, warning, blah, blah...no errors? Sweet, it worked!"
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i'll one better you.. wearing gloves to prevent fingerprints from being left is obstruction!
Hah! Not committing robbery in the first place is obstruction since that would leave them without anything with which to charge you!
Also, the maximum sentence is 20 years, not the average sentence. Obstruction of justice covers a lot of scenarios, so the 20 years is for the guy who goes around cleaning the blood and fingerprints off the murder weapons of a friend of his (yes, accomplice after the fact to murder would cover this, but you get the idea). I have a really hard time believing this guy will get anything close to 20 years.
Obstruction of justice is almost always going to yield a stiffer sentence than whatever the original charge was. I don't think the guy cleaning blood and fingerprints off of a murder weapon would be obstruction of justice unless the police were knocking on the door before he started doing it.
The author does state in the article that he was mistaken about the amount of resources HP has, which amounts to at least $25 billion USD in cash on hand, at least 10x more than HTC and Lenovo (the other big Palm suitors from the past week) have in cash.
He probably thinks HP is just a company that makes printers and also has a side business selling desktops and laptops that don't have a lot of market share. I see HP as the largest server vendor in the world. From a somewhat recent IDC report from the fourth quarter, 2009:
For the 31st consecutive quarter, nearly 8 years, HP is the #1 vendor in worldwide server shipments. HP shipped more than 1 out of every 3 servers worldwide and captured 36.9 percent total unit shipment share.
I think they can easily absorb a struggling handset maker, especially one with Palm's history and IP portfolio.
In the USA if the police knock on your door and ask to come in you can tell them to go away - And they have to.
Hahaha...
Oh wait, you are serious about believing that?
Having been a recipient of a corrupt cop lying in order to come up with a reason to arrest me so he could impound my car and perform a "custodial inventory" (re: search without a warrant), sitting in the back of his squad car for 3+ hours, and then having to pay the impound yard $280 per hour, plus $55 per night plus a $75 processing fee, totaling $970 to find absolutely nothing at all... please don't tell me the cops in america aren't corrupt.
Sounds like you were being a real asshole, so he fucked you over the best he legally could. Why were you originally pulled over?
It's one out of dozens of Android phones, each model with it's own features and price ranges.
Steve Jobs has been quaking like a motherfucker (and not in the fun way) if the reports of his Google tantrums are true...
In the smart phone market, companies like HTC and Motorola may see increased profits due to increased sales of Android phones, but each and every one of them would similarly trade places with Apple in a heartbeat if they could. If Android is bound to knock Apple off its perch, it's going to take many, many years.
So, do explain why you'd think that anyone in Apple's position would be "quaking"?
Personally, if I was going for the smartphone perch, I'd go after RIM...who is actually sitting on the perch with about 42% of the market. Apple? A healthy #2 with 25%. Google is up and coming at 9%, more than doubling their market share from Nov. '09 to Feb. '10. Out of RIM, Apple, Microsoft (looks like they had the lunch that Google ate), Google, and Palm, only RIM and Google gained in that time frame. Hastily searched source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/05/comscore-android-market-share-continues-to-gain-on-the-iphone/
Personally, I think the iPhone has peaked. Most of the people who wanted one have one by now. Consumer phones are also remarkably fad-prone, just ask Motorola. Watch out for Apple entering their "New this year, a *PINK* iPhone" phase. Also, if you want to talk about global phone sales, the top 5 are Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony, and Motorola. Looks like #6 is HTC ( http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222600489 )
If you work on software, and don't personally control the licensing to assure who uses it, you risk that it will be used in (or to coordinate the use of, or to support the development of, or in some other way related to) weapons, where you will have no control over whether the weapons are used in "truly righteous causes".
There is a huge difference on working on something that could be used to develop/deliver weapons, and the weapons themselves. Almost all complex weapons engineering is going to use CVS/Subversion/Git, or some other code management system, but the authors of CVS/Subversion/Git, aren't sitting down and thinking "how can I more effectively kill people?". They probably aren't even close to thinking "if we can make code check-in/out more efficient, then it will really help out the people designing Death Robots." The actual moral decision shouldn't be "I only want my weapons used for righteous causes", it should be "how many intentional deaths from my creation can I live with?".
http://www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm
The Anthrax found in the letters was allowed to float around in the air in crowded places, too. How many people died?
This guy is giving second-hand and speculative "evidence", and it's not holding up to scrutiny.
Enough to be noticed.
I'm really curious as to when it's acceptable to look at someone’s history for productivity. I mean, Do you do regular checks of employees? Or do you wait until there is a problem and then use web history as another good reason as to why the employee shouldn't be working there?
Just from a union and fairness point of view, it seems a bit off to only check one person’s history. If one person gets regularly checked, so should everybody else... Right?
Why check unless there is a problem? If somebody is goofing off for 8 hours a day, but somehow still manages to get the work done, what is the problem? Of course, in PHB logic, imagine all the work that person could do if they weren't goofing off 8 hours a day! That could probably eliminate 5 redundancies!
What about the diligent workers that spend 6 hours a day chasing their tails on problems that goof-off guy would have fixed in 10 minutes?
(DISCLAIMER: waiting for an install to finish/code to compile)
I'll believe it when I see it.
I then file a police report that says my car was worth $6 million... would I be busted for filing a false police report?
Of course not. I mean, you -did- have a few CDs in the glove box didn't you? That's what 100+ tracks that you have just unlawfully redistributed (and you recklessly assisted in this by leaving the car running)... oh ... wait, yes that would be a false police report. Your losses are closer to $200 Million.
Actually he would probably be sued the RIAA for redistribution of the CDs.
If the car isn't already moving, sure, the engine won't overcome the brakes. OTOH, when a ton of metal is already moving at considerable speed, and the brakes are trying to slow it but the engine is applying an increasing amount of energy, I think you will find you are quite mistaken, I don't care how good condition your brakes are in.
Queue the motortrend brake test? http://www.motortrend.com/features/consumer/112_1003_unintended_acceleration_test/braking_distance.html
If you didn't fade the hell out of your brakes, which really is very easy to do unless you're using pads made out of a racing compound, then the brakes will stop the car if they are not otherwise broken.
I would guess that something got stuck in/around the throttle butterfly. An old roomate of mine had an unintended acceleration problem in his toyota years before it was fashionable. He threw the car into neutral and turned it off when the engine started racing for redline and didn't hit anything (don't remember if he used brakes to pull off the road first). Turns out that when he changed the air filter and oil, he put a blue shop towel over the intake when he had the filter out. He put the filter in and didn't take out the towel. It was sucked up into the throttle body, and eventually wedged itself so that it kept the throttle butterfly from closing. The strange thing is, that this took a few days to happen, and the car ran fine until then.
I already see Brighthouse giving some priority routing to bradband.gov. Almost every site I run a tracepath against goes through xxx.xxx.dfw10.tbone.rr.com, at which point the latency drops off a cliff. When I run a tracepath against broadband.gov, the route shoots straight up the eastern seaboard with the best latency times I've seen from any site all month.
Or if you want to avoid closing applications/tabs before you use others without worrying about them leeching CPU cycles.
If only a process state existed whereby a process could use little or no CPU cycles.... Oh wait, it does!
Is this really the mindset Windows has imposed on supposed tech-savvy individuals these days?
It's not too rare that I will find my computer running slow as hell and wonder what is up. A quick look at top shows that firefox is taking up 30% of the cpu, wtf? Oh yeah, my bad...I had a site open that used flash and forgot about it.
But don't you at least follow the news a little? When new stuff (CPUs, graphics cards and so on) comes out there's generally a story here on slashdot with links to benchmarks. It's not difficult or time consuming to read a couple articles a month.
But how do you know if it's actually something worthwhile coming out, or a bunch of marketing spin and a clever name like 90% of product announcements are. "Announcing the new Intel Talladega core processors with SuperFlex(tm)!"
besides, it's rude not to help a fellow time traveler nerd who just emerged from the Past and looks to establish a small base in our times.
That's indeed how it feels. I can usually keep up with the high end x86 processors since we normally buy stuff at work throughout the years. Since everything started tanking, we haven't bought any significant amount of new hardware since like 2007. Now it's time to do a big hardware purchase and suddenly you have to buy RAM as multiples of 6? And it makes a significant difference in configuration depending on what "rank" the dimms are?
The problem is that this doesn't work when you want to find out if it is worth to upgrade or not, as benchmarks always only compare the newest stuff against the other newest stuff, not against your years old hardware at home. Even worse is the special OEM hardware that you sometimes get (Geforce 7600LE for example), as that doesn't show up in benchmarks at all. And on top of that there are of course also compatibility issues, like will this graphics card work with my old power supply and such.
Long story short: I have basically given, its to much trouble to search for updates, so instead I just run what I have till it breaks.
One of the usual sites (tomshardware, anandtech, arstechnica, something I forgot about?) had a recent review where they compared the current crop of processors against each other, but also threw in the 3 or 4 GHz "processor to have" from a few years ago. In the end, it wasn't pretty and even the cheapest $500 setup blew away the old awesome processor.
Why would MS even care?
In fact if Novell fails, along with what recently happened with MySQL and Open Solaris, MS can brag about how proprietary software is the way to go.
If Novell fails, then whoever ends up with the corpse gets their patents...like the ones for Unix that SCO was throwing about until Novell stepped in and mentioned that they're the real owners. Why do you think a huge company like Microsoft would enter into a lopsided deal like they did a few years ago? It was all about patent protection and the SLES certificates were just the bribe. Microsoft was reselling those at a substantial loss.
I was actually surprised to see that Novell's "Open Platform Solutions" account for about 21% of their positive operating income ("Identity and Security Management" and "Workgroup" are the other units that made money last year) for 2009 (2008 was about 10%, 2007 was about 6%). Novell still posted a $206M operating loss for the year (SuSE profit was $87.355M). The only time Novell has ever made a yearly profit in the last five years were in 2005 and 2006, thanks only to agreements with Microsoft and lawsuit settlements from Microsoft.
Dude - 90% of these posters are American. They wouldn't know a chav if one hit them over a head with their goldie lookin chain.
Seriously though, your post eeks out a bit of the classism that people argue underlies the chav stereotype. Here in New York we have our guidos, but they mostly do us the favor of localizing themselves to Long Island and Jersey, so we can simply be regionalist and simply call them the "bridge and tunnel crowd".
So...chavs are British guidos?
You MUST be dense. Novell has SUSE Linux, which is the preferred Linux to run on Z series. The consulting services alone for such a venture would be pretty expensive, but worth every penny. SLERT is used by some of the best brokerage houses on wall street and other places as well. They own Ximian, they also have their extensive IDM suite as well as lots of other group and middleware products. The problem with Novell is that they don't market well enough. Given the chance to replace Red Hat with SUSE I would jump at the chance.
No, the problem with Novell is that their products are shit, and their support is even worse. IDM *might* be good, but I don't have enough experience with it to say one way or the other. I wasn't given a chance to replace SUSE with Red Hat, I fought a two year battle for that opportunity, and my enterprise is better for it. I haven't had to fix a server that was badly broken by an update or service pack since kicking out SLES.
...are Novell products still well thought of in the enterprise sector? I know Norton became a bloated piece of crapware a while ago (just like most of their products), but I haven't really paid attention to them in...shit, almost 5 years.
Are they still producing bloated piles of crap, or have the leaned their products down and made them worthwhile again?
No. If anything, they are making them more bloated.
Get some lead (or some other metal) shielding. Perhaps if everyone did this (if they lived near a tower) then, health risk or not, the towers might be moved elsewhere.
I've heard that paint used to be made with lead. Just locate some of this old lead-based paint, and use that to re-paint the walls of your apartment. It's not like you're going to be keeping goats in there.
It's not an error. Errors prevent you from continuing. The only thing approaching an error is the little box telling you there's a problem. That is solved by the user clicking "OK".
The entire way errors are handled is wrong. I don't know what the solution is but I very much doubt it's a simple modification to the current fundamentally flawed system.
WTH was this marked as troll? It is true. How many times have you compiled something and gotten a page of warning messages, scanned through thinking "warning, warning, warning, warning, blah, blah...no errors? Sweet, it worked!"
Sometimes Linux errors aren't that useful. Granted they are more useful than most Windows errors.
Your printer is on fire.