You are a "hyper-neurotic IT student". The reality is that while some people have made a fetish out of frantically worrying (or pretending to frantically worry) about the supermarket knowing what brand of salad dressing they buy and selling that information to someone else, the vast majority of people simply don't care. There was a brief window of history between urbanization and computerization when real anonymity existed; that's closed and we're returning to the way humans have always lived.
If you still want advice: pick some security issues that have practical, bottom-line benefits and persuade your friends of those instead of trying to turn them into crypto-dweebs who brag about encryption measures that they'd never really bother to use.
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Panic at the thought of actually distributing that cash to shareholders, as the law requires.
I'm not sure what law you think requires this -- presumably investors are paying Google's exorbitant P/E because they expect the company to plow their cash into some Magical Free Lunch-Powered GScheme, not because they expect it back in cash tomorrow. Otherwise they'd be buying a utility stock, or T-bills.
The most profitable company this year...Imagine the profits...It would be the most incredible stock the market had ever seen.
At 3 pm on a Friday, I can't even begin to start unraveling that one. You're confusing profit with return on equity with dividends with stock pricing!
My recollection is that the bin Laden family (not Osama) had a trivial stake in Carlyle, and that both President Bushes have served on its board. The GP's "the Carlyle Group is mostly Bush and bin Laden money" is wildly exaggerated, to put it mildly, although I'd be curious to hear more of his theories about "who might actually be doing what, and what's at stake".
If that's the same as the hinges on the T30 and T40 -- yes, they're space inefficient. They may be slightly smaller when closed but the recessed hinges push the opened lid a half-inch or so backwards. When the fat guy in the row ahead of me keeps entertaining himself by free-falling and driving the seat back, tray and laptop into my liver, that's not a tradeoff I'm happy with.
They're solid, performance, business laptops, not balance-on-your-knee make-a-home-video mac commercial laptops.
Maybe your business doesn't involve travel, but balance-on-your-knee usability is precisely what many of us demand of a business laptop. And, even more so, balance-on-your-coach-section-tray-table usability, where Macs particularly shine over the space-inefficient lid hinges on Thinkpads. (At least the older Thinkpads I've worked with. I have no idea about this model.)
These "with the standard battery and DVD drive" weights don't include the power supply, right? I don't know about new Thinkpad models, but back when I had a work-issued T40 the power supply was extremely heavy, and the real weight when carrying it through an airport was much higher than for my Mac, even though the two specced out roughly equal on paper.
And that's not just Mac fanboyism, as the Dell I have now also has a much lighter power supply than the T40, although still bulkier, heavier and far uglier than my old TiBook's.
To quote my good friend, "I've been bored lately, so I started law school, built my own first computer and learned how to use Ubuntu. The writer's strike is the best thing that's ever happened to me!"
That must be quite a selective law school your friend attends, where you can walk into the admissions office and say "There's nothing new on TV tonight. Can I enroll as an L1 in the middle of the year?"
Is he going to stay enrolled, or drop out when the new episodes start airing?
It sent a goddamned message to the public. The fact that this was such a big deal for so many people was absurd; less of life needs to be focused around what happens on TV.
Your goddamned message was completely lost on me -- I watched just as much television during the strike as I did before, and had completely forgotten the strike was happening. Just last night, I happily watched the last period of the Bruins-Hurricanes game and the new episode of Anthony Bourdain Crawls Back To The Food Network. That there was no new episode of CSI: Tuscaloosa went completely unnoticed.
Incidentally, don't *you* have more important things to do with your life than get worked up over how much television I watch?
As it happens, the EU was raiding pharmaceutical companies a few weeks ago over generics pricing issues. Sounds like they're getting pretty, err, proactive on antitrust issues over there...
But mentioning it so often creates an odd and disturbing link between 'murder' and 'linux'. Especially since as far as I know, his work on linux plays absolutely no role in the murder case.
Wired is covering it in detail for the same reason it gets so much mention here: Reiser's filesystem work. It's not like either outlet spends a lot of time on random murder trials.
It's probably not a good idea to generalize about any subject from stories that get posted here, but while WARF is certainly not a "patent troll" by the proper definition of the term, they are extremely aggressive about broadly enforcing their stem cell patents, and it wouldn't surprise me if this is more of the same.
Actually, I'm curious why the only two coherent posts at the time of this writing are jumping to the defense of this patent; one of them noting that he hasn't read the link but that nonetheless "it sounds like this patent might actually be a reasonable one". Normally everyone would be jumping in with thoughts like "Isn't a washing machine prior art?"
For instance, carafe. Hint: It's a three-syllable word. The first time I heard the Americanized pronunciation, it took me a few seconds to figure out what the waitress was talking about.
Kimos or another French speaker can correct me, but don't you have that precisely backwards? The two syllable version (rhymes with "giraffe") is both proper American English and the French pronunciation; three syllables shows that you can't read French. (Maybe I'm wrong, and there's not a native French speaker around to ask, but the final 'e' doesn't appear to be accented.)
Sorry -- I meant that I could never understand why people wouldn't switch from OSF/1 or SunOS or whatnot to Linux, or to at least install modern desktop software on their dinosaur OS.
When using email on a SunOs workstation they had access to, they rejected Netscape Mail and used elm.
I get why people don't switch off Windows, but never understood the people who stuck with their antiquated Unix desktops, usually running on antiquated hardware.
Same here. If a network used the money to pay the Giants and Patriots to play a tiebreaker, it would be more likely to get my attention than new episodes of Law & Order competing with the three Law & Order reruns and eleven CSI reruns on at the same time.
I'm with you on this one. The year of Linux on *my* desktop was 2007.
I wish you luck, but you probably don't understand why those of us for whom The Year Of Linux On My Desktop had a "199" in it laugh when we read comments like the original one here. Replace "Vista" with "Windows 98" and we've been reading that exact pronouncement for the last decade.
Yes, I do. The people with their names on the front kicked in a few tens of millions for construction; they rarely pay for the whole thing, plus a perpetual endowment to keep it staffed and maintained.
Normally, I don't like to link these because I'm never sure what's publicly accessible, but you sound like you're involved enough that you should be able to access Science: NIH BUDGET: Boom and Bust.
The Bush administration's theory is that a 5-year run-up in National Institutes of Health funding, which ended in 2003, left the federal funding picture seriously unbalanced.
Meanwhile, it didn't do it any long-term favors to biomedical research, as the NIH and university leaderships handled their huge influx of money about as well as Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan did with theirs. There are dozens of universities with new buildings they were planning to pay off with NIH overhead, that are now completely screwed.
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If you still want advice: pick some security issues that have practical, bottom-line benefits and persuade your friends of those instead of trying to turn them into crypto-dweebs who brag about encryption measures that they'd never really bother to use.
I'm not sure what law you think requires this -- presumably investors are paying Google's exorbitant P/E because they expect the company to plow their cash into some Magical Free Lunch-Powered GScheme, not because they expect it back in cash tomorrow. Otherwise they'd be buying a utility stock, or T-bills.
The most profitable company this year...Imagine the profits...It would be the most incredible stock the market had ever seen.
At 3 pm on a Friday, I can't even begin to start unraveling that one. You're confusing profit with return on equity with dividends with stock pricing!
I'll give it a shot:
- That you've ever met a Microsoft employee, or anyone in the computer industry besides a Best Buy cashier: Fiction
- That you sincerely think you're impressing us by providing a Wikipedia link to "zombie": Fact
Do I win a t-shirt?My recollection is that the bin Laden family (not Osama) had a trivial stake in Carlyle, and that both President Bushes have served on its board. The GP's "the Carlyle Group is mostly Bush and bin Laden money" is wildly exaggerated, to put it mildly, although I'd be curious to hear more of his theories about "who might actually be doing what, and what's at stake".
If that's the same as the hinges on the T30 and T40 -- yes, they're space inefficient. They may be slightly smaller when closed but the recessed hinges push the opened lid a half-inch or so backwards. When the fat guy in the row ahead of me keeps entertaining himself by free-falling and driving the seat back, tray and laptop into my liver, that's not a tradeoff I'm happy with.
Maybe your business doesn't involve travel, but balance-on-your-knee usability is precisely what many of us demand of a business laptop. And, even more so, balance-on-your-coach-section-tray-table usability, where Macs particularly shine over the space-inefficient lid hinges on Thinkpads. (At least the older Thinkpads I've worked with. I have no idea about this model.)
And that's not just Mac fanboyism, as the Dell I have now also has a much lighter power supply than the T40, although still bulkier, heavier and far uglier than my old TiBook's.
That must be quite a selective law school your friend attends, where you can walk into the admissions office and say "There's nothing new on TV tonight. Can I enroll as an L1 in the middle of the year?"
Is he going to stay enrolled, or drop out when the new episodes start airing?
Your goddamned message was completely lost on me -- I watched just as much television during the strike as I did before, and had completely forgotten the strike was happening. Just last night, I happily watched the last period of the Bruins-Hurricanes game and the new episode of Anthony Bourdain Crawls Back To The Food Network. That there was no new episode of CSI: Tuscaloosa went completely unnoticed.
Incidentally, don't *you* have more important things to do with your life than get worked up over how much television I watch?
As it happens, the EU was raiding pharmaceutical companies a few weeks ago over generics pricing issues. Sounds like they're getting pretty, err, proactive on antitrust issues over there...
The article here left out a few salient details. Like the death threats. I'd say these retards are pretty much the epitome of forum trash.
I very much doubt that Scientology is going to go broke defending itself against a bunch of teenage forum trash...
Truth is an absolute defense against libel in the US, and "cyber-terrorists" is a reasonable synonym for "self-important script kiddie morons".
Wired is covering it in detail for the same reason it gets so much mention here: Reiser's filesystem work. It's not like either outlet spends a lot of time on random murder trials.
Actually, I'm curious why the only two coherent posts at the time of this writing are jumping to the defense of this patent; one of them noting that he hasn't read the link but that nonetheless "it sounds like this patent might actually be a reasonable one". Normally everyone would be jumping in with thoughts like "Isn't a washing machine prior art?"
Kimos or another French speaker can correct me, but don't you have that precisely backwards? The two syllable version (rhymes with "giraffe") is both proper American English and the French pronunciation; three syllables shows that you can't read French. (Maybe I'm wrong, and there's not a native French speaker around to ask, but the final 'e' doesn't appear to be accented.)
Sorry -- I meant that I could never understand why people wouldn't switch from OSF/1 or SunOS or whatnot to Linux, or to at least install modern desktop software on their dinosaur OS.
I get why people don't switch off Windows, but never understood the people who stuck with their antiquated Unix desktops, usually running on antiquated hardware.
Same here. If a network used the money to pay the Giants and Patriots to play a tiebreaker, it would be more likely to get my attention than new episodes of Law & Order competing with the three Law & Order reruns and eleven CSI reruns on at the same time.
I wish you luck, but you probably don't understand why those of us for whom The Year Of Linux On My Desktop had a "199" in it laugh when we read comments like the original one here. Replace "Vista" with "Windows 98" and we've been reading that exact pronouncement for the last decade.
No, that's actually what Arizonans look like on a hot day in Tucson...
I think you have that backwards...
Yes, I do. The people with their names on the front kicked in a few tens of millions for construction; they rarely pay for the whole thing, plus a perpetual endowment to keep it staffed and maintained.
Normally, I don't like to link these because I'm never sure what's publicly accessible, but you sound like you're involved enough that you should be able to access Science: NIH BUDGET: Boom and Bust.
Actually, that is complete nonsense.
Meanwhile, it didn't do it any long-term favors to biomedical research, as the NIH and university leaderships handled their huge influx of money about as well as Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan did with theirs. There are dozens of universities with new buildings they were planning to pay off with NIH overhead, that are now completely screwed.