It's easier to move (Americans move an average of every 7 years)
Gee, is THAT why Americans are so fat? Lack of exercise?
Seriously, nobody's going to be buying a laptop because they're thinking about how hard its going to be to move it in 7 years. Seven years from now, it'll be a piece of crap that they'll tell their friends who are helping load the truck - "Hey, I'm not going to bother moving that piece of junk - if you want it, you can have it. But don't forget the beer!"
As I recall Canada hasn't been an option for escape for at least a decade (they return Americans now)
Whoah! Yes, we will return American criminals provided:
What they allegedly did was a criminal offense in Canada (and just the mere allegation is not enough if the person has a decent lawyer)
The death penalty is off the table in capital cases.
Any American who wants to stay up here gets treated the same as any other country - they just have to follow Canadian Immigration rules:
Get into the country any way they can;
Say they don't have any documentation and are seeking refugee status (you can have your passport clearly visible in your shirt pocket and the immigration agent cannot call you a liar and demand to see it);
You are now a refugee;
Marry a Canadian (of either sex);
You now jump the queue waiting to become a Canadian citizen;
Get your citizenship papers;
Get your divorce, and bring up your past/future American spouse;
As some of the people who posted in the guys' blog point out, their patent isn't innovative - it describes, among other things, CVS, which existed long before they even came up with their "idea".
Just fire the USPTO. It would be so much cheaper, easier, and better.
Okay, here it is in English (no, not Babelfish - me:-)
Étude réalisée entre le 01/10/2004 et le 31/10/2005 sur un échantillon de sites web professionnels audités par XiTi, sur un total de 10 896 812 172 visites)
Study conducted between January 1st, 2004 and October 31st, 2005 on a sample of professional web sites (my note - means no amateur web pages and stuff like that) audited by XiTi, from a total of 10,896,812,172 visits.
Le navigateur alternatif de Mozilla va souffler sa première bougie,
il est donc temps de mesurer le chemin parcouru au cours de ces 12 mois.
It is now time to measure the path taken over these last 12 months.
Observons tout d'abord sa courbe de progression depuis octobre 2004 (pourcentage d'utilisateurs monde).
Please note the progress since October 2004 (global percentage of users)
Après un départ très rapide sur les derniers mois de 2004, on note une progression légèrement plus lente sur le premier semestre 2005, et enfin un nouveau tassement de la courbe depuis juillet 2005.
After a quick start in the last months of 2004, we can see a slight slowing down in the rate in the first week of 2005, and finally another upswing in the curve since July of 2005.
Ceci dit, si la progression est plus lente, elle n'en est pas moins toujours sensible, et elle semble même avoir repris un peu de vitesse sur ces dernières semaines.
This means, even if the rate of adoption was slower, it is still significant, and has even gained speed in the last few weeks.
L'objectif des 10% de part de marché, annoncé par Firefox il y a un an, est quant à lui très largement dépassé depuis plus de six mois.
The objective of 10% of the market, announced by Firefox a year ago, was already largely surpassed at least 6 months ago.
Dans un marché des navigateurs où la domination écrasante d'Internet Explorer était incontestée depuis des années, l'année 2005 a donc indubitablement confirmé l'importance du navigateur libre de la fondation Mozilla.
In a browser market where the crushing domination of Internet Explorer was uncontested for years, 2005 without a doubt confirmed the importance of the free browser offered by the Mozilla Foundation.
=== end ===
How many people do YOU know who still use IE as their main browser? I don't know anyone. I sent my friends stuff to check out to make sure it renders properly under IE, and they all say it looks fine. Then I find out none of them are looking at it in IE. Its too much of a pain to use it, now that its not their default.
why isn't anyone asking why ms would want to buy another browser? They have IE all they need to do is fix it.
Well, first off, because they've reached the point of infinite bugs. Every bug they "fix" exposes another bug elsewhere, or breaks another "hack" that was put in to make something else work right.
Secondly, their idea is to eventually drop all browser support, forcing people onto dot.NET (and sticking with Microsoft) for everything. Technologies such as AJAX scare the crap out of them, because they allow people to do their stuff without lock-in. This was the real reason Microsoft had originally dropped the idea of any new browser after 6.0, then had to reconstitute the IE team in June of 2004 because Firefox was really taking off.
Their problem is they can't keep people locked in with their browser any more (people *are* switching), so the browser has outlived its usefulness. Unfortunately for them AJAX came along and put a huge gaping hole below the waterline in their plans for "planned obsolescence" of browsers. Google maps and gmail showed the masses that browsers can support web apps - no need for dot.NET.
If the market is smart (and they appear to be smartening up - are there still people still use IE as their default browser?) we're seeing the other key "lock-in" product - Office - also under fire.
Longhorn/Vista/Whatever will be the final nail in the coffin. If Microsoft thought adoption rates of XP were "disappointing" (and how they couldn't have predicted that, with businesses telling them they didn't want forced upgrades is beyond mortal comprehension) they haven't seen anything yet.
Remember - they make a profit on only 2 products - the OS and Office. Everything else is just there as window dressing or to "get the brand out", or, in the case of the XBOX, "oops - its not as easy as we thought, we need a few billion and a few years more, and MAYBE if we get lucky and nobody else does anything right...".
Time was, people would get all excited about any new stuff ("oh, wow, Windows 95 - gonna buy me 10 copies"). There's nothing in their 2 core profit centers - Windows and Office - that can't be done with other products. They are almost totally reliant in 3rd-party apps to keep people tied to Windows... and those 3rd-party apps aren't magically going to break compatability with existing versions of Windows when Vista comes out.
So a reasonable assumption is that 10 years from now we'll still be using sql and c++, we'll just have some sort of framework for those who don't want to get their hands dirty.
OS/2 is finally being withdrawn on December 23, 2005. According to the IBM Web site on OS/2 Warp migration (see Resources), there is no replacement product from IBM. IBM suggests that OS/2 customers consider Linux.
How do you think all of those wrestler autobiographies were written?
YOu mean they're not a script, like wrestling itself?:-)
I didn't think there'd be much demand for wrestler bios - after all, the fans would be choosing between four more 6-packs and that 8-track tape in the remainder bin, and a book.
It'll probably take the form of an open, peer-to-peer app that caches different parts of the net on different users machines. Hard disk space is cheap, so is bandwidth. So is idle cpu time (HP can't sell it for a buck an hour!)
but I find it ironic you're making fun of their english when it is you who is having trouble understanding things.:)
We shouldn't have to divine their "true meaning". Next we'll have people claiming that only they can attribute the Holy Wiki. Much easier to say "No autobiographies, please."
Also, and much more important, is that it seems to me that anyone would certainly have the right to edit any article that appeared about them, or even, if they're not a public personage, to demand (not ask) that it be removed entirely.
Even slashdot will remove posts that are way over the line and violate individual's rights, if the case is egregious. Why should the wiki be held to a lower standard?
It CAN'T, by definition, apply to an autobiography, only a biography.
That's why I included a definition of an autobiography.
The second one is a more particular case of writing about subjects in which you are personally involved, in this case the subject being "your own life". Got it?
Nobody else, by definition, can write an "autobiography" of "your own life". They can only write a biography. I got it. So did the moderators. Sorry, but you didn't.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has edited his own entry in the online encyclopedia at least 18 times, in violation of Wikipedia's policy on autobiography.
This is dumb.... the wiki is just as bad
You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This particularly applies to autobiographies
The only person, by definition, who CAN write an autobiograhy about Wales is Wales.
definition: autobiography: The biography of a person written by that person.
Is english the first language of any of the editors of slashdot or wikimedia?
Also, when they first saw the story, maybe there were *no* posts?
Lets face it, it takes a few seconds to hit "reply to this", write your "Hey dummy, its a dupe!" and hit submit - especially since the server is probably responding to 50 people doing it all at once - its getting slashduped.
Besides, what did you expect - its Troll Tuesday and the editors want to play too.
My kid pulled the battery out of hers to swap sims, and the thing rang (Motorola V300-something).
Surprised her! What was even more surprising - she was able to talk for 5 minutes with the battery removed! She swears it really happened. I'm a bit skeptical, but she has no reason to lie. Strange indeed.
The 20% figure corresponds with what I remembered.
Scary how stuff like that can stay with you for so long...
Any previous civ, if organized along our lines, would have had a tremendous impact on the environment, just frm their energy use. The only exception would have been entities that didn't require a lot what we take for granted - for example, the housing of the personality in a single body. Energy requirements go down, whereas computational power goes up, due to parallelism.
The only living things that qualify would be insects and large colonies of molds, slimes, etc. It also wouldn't be that much of a leap to go from manipulating genes with biochemisty to nanotech.
Biochemical reactions would be sufficiently fast - after all, if you're doing calculations in parallel, its not speed - its the number of processors that count.
They also wouldn't leave a waste "footprint" for later, more massive beings to see.
There was a 2-page article in last weekend's newspaper - lawyers are actively looking for plaintiffs in class action suits. They're even taking each other as clients. (
Lawyer 1: I've got a bum ipod. What've you got? Lawyer 2: I've been overcharged for beer. I'll rep you against Apple if you rep me against Labatts. Lawyer 1: Deal!
Its a big-buck business, the government here has a class action fund they can tp into if the judge approves the action (which only needs 1 plaintiff and the ability to show that there may be others who could constitute a class") and they get between 10% and 30% of the total global settlement.
Go grep a dead tree once in a while - not everything is on the net!
The judge almost always rules with the holder of a written contract unless there's fraud, regardless of any verbal promises.
So record it. A mini recorder is $30.00. And don't start with the bullshit about how taping evidence is not legal - do you think it'll even get to court if you've got a tape?
Any verbal promise is binding if yu hae proof, such as witnesses or a recording, and they know it.
Lets put it this way - pretty much everyone on slashdot would like to have one if they already don't, and if they do, they'd like another one.
Gee, that doesn't say much, does it:-)
Unlike my former boss, I have a sense of ethics. He used to have one (at least I htought he did), but over the last few years it just... disappeared... or at least diverged significantly from the "norm". At one point you either leave, or you become part of the problem.
If I wanted revenge, I would have gone through a few proxies and had some fun. I don't want revenge - I like to sleep at night, and I can't do that without a clear conscience:-)
I was TOLD to take out passwords and logins on a database connected to the internet because "its too much bother for the workers to log in."
So if you know the server and the directory, you can "administer" it. Add inventory. Reprice inventory. Remove inventory. Make a contract selling a $10,000 item for $1.99. Change descriptions. And since it also rebuilds the web site, change the product pictures for pr0n and add links to competitors.
... and people wonder why, when I quit, I called the boss a bunch of names.
Slashdot Mirror
Gee, is THAT why Americans are so fat? Lack of exercise?
Seriously, nobody's going to be buying a laptop because they're thinking about how hard its going to be to move it in 7 years. Seven years from now, it'll be a piece of crap that they'll tell their friends who are helping load the truck - "Hey, I'm not going to bother moving that piece of junk - if you want it, you can have it. But don't forget the beer!"
Whoah! Yes, we will return American criminals provided:
Any American who wants to stay up here gets treated the same as any other country - they just have to follow Canadian Immigration rules:
People do it all the time.
For that price and those crappy ram/hd/lcd specs, I'll stick with my current desktop.
As some of the people who posted in the guys' blog point out, their patent isn't innovative - it describes, among other things, CVS, which existed long before they even came up with their "idea".
Just fire the USPTO. It would be so much cheaper, easier, and better.
Okay, here it is in English (no, not Babelfish - me :-)
Study conducted between January 1st, 2004 and October 31st, 2005 on a sample of professional web sites (my note - means no amateur web pages and stuff like that) audited by XiTi, from a total of 10,896,812,172 visits. It is now time to measure the path taken over these last 12 months. Please note the progress since October 2004 (global percentage of users) After a quick start in the last months of 2004, we can see a slight slowing down in the rate in the first week of 2005, and finally another upswing in the curve since July of 2005. This means, even if the rate of adoption was slower, it is still significant, and has even gained speed in the last few weeks. The objective of 10% of the market, announced by Firefox a year ago, was already largely surpassed at least 6 months ago. In a browser market where the crushing domination of Internet Explorer was uncontested for years, 2005 without a doubt confirmed the importance of the free browser offered by the Mozilla Foundation.=== end ===
How many people do YOU know who still use IE as their main browser? I don't know anyone. I sent my friends stuff to check out to make sure it renders properly under IE, and they all say it looks fine. Then I find out none of them are looking at it in IE. Its too much of a pain to use it, now that its not their default.
Well, first off, because they've reached the point of infinite bugs. Every bug they "fix" exposes another bug elsewhere, or breaks another "hack" that was put in to make something else work right.
Secondly, their idea is to eventually drop all browser support, forcing people onto dot.NET (and sticking with Microsoft) for everything. Technologies such as AJAX scare the crap out of them, because they allow people to do their stuff without lock-in. This was the real reason Microsoft had originally dropped the idea of any new browser after 6.0, then had to reconstitute the IE team in June of 2004 because Firefox was really taking off.
Their problem is they can't keep people locked in with their browser any more (people *are* switching), so the browser has outlived its usefulness. Unfortunately for them AJAX came along and put a huge gaping hole below the waterline in their plans for "planned obsolescence" of browsers. Google maps and gmail showed the masses that browsers can support web apps - no need for dot.NET.
If the market is smart (and they appear to be smartening up - are there still people still use IE as their default browser?) we're seeing the other key "lock-in" product - Office - also under fire.
Longhorn/Vista/Whatever will be the final nail in the coffin. If Microsoft thought adoption rates of XP were "disappointing" (and how they couldn't have predicted that, with businesses telling them they didn't want forced upgrades is beyond mortal comprehension) they haven't seen anything yet.
Remember - they make a profit on only 2 products - the OS and Office. Everything else is just there as window dressing or to "get the brand out", or, in the case of the XBOX, "oops - its not as easy as we thought, we need a few billion and a few years more, and MAYBE if we get lucky and nobody else does anything right ...".
Time was, people would get all excited about any new stuff ("oh, wow, Windows 95 - gonna buy me 10 copies"). There's nothing in their 2 core profit centers - Windows and Office - that can't be done with other products. They are almost totally reliant in 3rd-party apps to keep people tied to Windows ... and those 3rd-party apps aren't magically going to break compatability with existing versions of Windows when Vista comes out.
So a reasonable assumption is that 10 years from now we'll still be using sql and c++, we'll just have some sort of framework for those who don't want to get their hands dirty.
FTFA :
oh, the irony.
YOu mean they're not a script, like wrestling itself? :-)
I didn't think there'd be much demand for wrestler bios - after all, the fans would be choosing between four more 6-packs and that 8-track tape in the remainder bin, and a book.
Okay, that's 3 problems off the top of my head, in about the same time it took for your to call me a dumbass. Merry Christmas to you too.
It'll probably take the form of an open, peer-to-peer app that caches different parts of the net on different users machines. Hard disk space is cheap, so is bandwidth. So is idle cpu time (HP can't sell it for a buck an hour!)
And its Yodda-ish motto : "Do!. No evil!"
We shouldn't have to divine their "true meaning". Next we'll have people claiming that only they can attribute the Holy Wiki. Much easier to say "No autobiographies, please."
Also, and much more important, is that it seems to me that anyone would certainly have the right to edit any article that appeared about them, or even, if they're not a public personage, to demand (not ask) that it be removed entirely.
Even slashdot will remove posts that are way over the line and violate individual's rights, if the case is egregious. Why should the wiki be held to a lower standard?
It CAN'T, by definition, apply to an autobiography, only a biography.
That's why I included a definition of an autobiography.
Nobody else, by definition, can write an "autobiography" of "your own life". They can only write a biography. I got it. So did the moderators. Sorry, but you didn't.Nobody else can write your autobiography. To say that you should wait until someone else writes your autobiography is nonsense.
The only person, by definition, who CAN write an autobiograhy about Wales is Wales.
Is english the first language of any of the editors of slashdot or wikimedia?
Also, when they first saw the story, maybe there were *no* posts?
Lets face it, it takes a few seconds to hit "reply to this", write your "Hey dummy, its a dupe!" and hit submit - especially since the server is probably responding to 50 people doing it all at once - its getting slashduped.
Besides, what did you expect - its Troll Tuesday and the editors want to play too.
I mean, just*#($*!googleit: http://images.google.ca/images?svnum=30&hl=en&lr=& imgsz=icon&safe=off&q=dupe&btnG=Search
Don't be too sure.
My kid pulled the battery out of hers to swap sims, and the thing rang (Motorola V300-something).
Surprised her! What was even more surprising - she was able to talk for 5 minutes with the battery removed! She swears it really happened. I'm a bit skeptical, but she has no reason to lie. Strange indeed.
The 20% figure corresponds with what I remembered.
Scary how stuff like that can stay with you for so long ...
Any previous civ, if organized along our lines, would have had a tremendous impact on the environment, just frm their energy use. The only exception would have been entities that didn't require a lot what we take for granted - for example, the housing of the personality in a single body. Energy requirements go down, whereas computational power goes up, due to parallelism.
The only living things that qualify would be insects and large colonies of molds, slimes, etc. It also wouldn't be that much of a leap to go from manipulating genes with biochemisty to nanotech.
Biochemical reactions would be sufficiently fast - after all, if you're doing calculations in parallel, its not speed - its the number of processors that count.
They also wouldn't leave a waste "footprint" for later, more massive beings to see.
Would certainly make a good sci-fi story.
Hey, wakey-wakey - times have changed.
There was a 2-page article in last weekend's newspaper - lawyers are actively looking for plaintiffs in class action suits. They're even taking each other as clients. (
Its a big-buck business, the government here has a class action fund they can tp into if the judge approves the action (which only needs 1 plaintiff and the ability to show that there may be others who could constitute a class") and they get between 10% and 30% of the total global settlement.
Go grep a dead tree once in a while - not everything is on the net!
So record it. A mini recorder is $30.00. And don't start with the bullshit about how taping evidence is not legal - do you think it'll even get to court if you've got a tape?
Any verbal promise is binding if yu hae proof, such as witnesses or a recording, and they know it.
The explanations (from memory - keep in mind this is going back 4 decades):
They'll release parts of their study, but they WON'T release all the JFK stuff. Gee - maybe Bubba Hotep trailers was on to something ...
Good thing he didn't ask for a copy of "Project Blue Book".
Lets put it this way - pretty much everyone on slashdot would like to have one if they already don't, and if they do, they'd like another one.
Gee, that doesn't say much, does it :-)
Unlike my former boss, I have a sense of ethics. He used to have one (at least I htought he did), but over the last few years it just ... disappeared ... or at least diverged significantly from the "norm". At one point you either leave, or you become part of the problem.
If I wanted revenge, I would have gone through a few proxies and had some fun. I don't want revenge - I like to sleep at night, and I can't do that without a clear conscience :-)
Its not just the users who are dummies.
I was TOLD to take out passwords and logins on a database connected to the internet because "its too much bother for the workers to log in."
So if you know the server and the directory, you can "administer" it. Add inventory. Reprice inventory. Remove inventory. Make a contract selling a $10,000 item for $1.99. Change descriptions. And since it also rebuilds the web site, change the product pictures for pr0n and add links to competitors.