Hmm, you're right about shareholders wanting the shares and the money and all, but there needs to be a happy medium. If a software company IPO'd and the shareholders decided they could make more money selling weapons on the black market, they couldn't expect the company to 86 the software side of things.
So for a less extreme example, how would Google "refuse" to incorporate pop-ups if the majority of shareholders thought, "dammit, we want pop-ups cause they mean big monies!"? Is that something they can specify in the charter that makes them "immune" from shareholder demands? I read somewhere on here (which means it's true!) that sometimes shareholders can sue a corporation for not acting in the shareholders' best interests. If the shareholders believe pop-ups are in their best interests, that leads to some tension.
I remember reading about another company that came up with a treatment for some disease. No one would fund the distribution or research they had done. Their charter said something about bettering society and health and what not through any means possible. They used that logic to give away the treatment. The shareholders may not have been too happy, but they did the right thing by their business philosophy.
I haven't read too much here about Archos's line of products, but I got a Jukebox Studio 20, and I'm pretty happy with it. It kind of sucks that you have to hold the on button for 4 seconds to turn it on and has some other odd interface quirks, but it plays every mp3 I've put on it fine.
Does anyone else have any experience with these, and if so, how do they compare to these new players?
In the near term, I think you're absolutely right. Longer term, the form won't be an issue because you probably won't use it. Voice recognition will be good enough so you won't need to type anything - just say a name.
The project represents more than 200 person years of development by Intel's China Software Center in Shanghai, and Intel software labs in Oregon and Washington, Intel says.
Thank GOD they didn't say "man years", since clearly they are different units.
They did have some other errors, such as the next paragraph:
"Because pre-boot firmware is a vital ingredient in all modern platforms, silicon vendors and system manufacturers require stability in the Foundation code to protect their investment in innovation," noted Will Swope, vice president and general manager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group. "They expect unfettered access and collaborative control of changes so that interoperability can be maintained."
should read:
"Because pre-boot firmware is a vital ingredient in all modern platforms, silicon vendors and system personufacturers require stability in the Foundation code to protect their investment in innovation," noted Will Swope, vice president and general personager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group. "They expect unfettered access and collaborative control of changes so that interoperability can be persointained."
I should be allowed to ask about how a tunnel was built; it might be MY life in danger if there's a problem, it might be MY safety.
Damn straight, that's your right - but isn't it someone else's right to wonder why you ask?
The SS didn't do anal probes, or arrest anyone, or detain anyone. They questioned him. I don't see anything unreasonable about that. Sure, it might be scary and uncomfortable, but from some perspectives, he asked a scary question too.
From my point of view, nothing has really gone wrong here.
They knew about it, and they didn't do shit about it.
Alternately:
-- They knew about it, and management wouldn't let them do shit about it.
The company is at fault. Who cares if it was the developers, the team leads, or the janitor? If management lets it through, it's still the company.
-- They knew about it, but addressing it would take significant time and effort, so they opted to defer that to a later release. After all, a million people running a mediocre firewall is better than a million people running no firewall at all.
The company is at fault.
-- They didn't actually realize it until later on. Are you psychic, or do you just happen to have a buddy who was on the ICF dev team?
They added a complex feature without an appropriate level of testing. The company is still at fault
But I suppose those angles would just mess up a good troll.
One may choose to see it that way.. I just look at it as more of the same.. try to add a feature, don't bother to make sure it works right. This is indicative of the state of quality of way too many software companies these days.
That's one thing I enjoy about embedded development.. quality actually means something.
I believe the advantage is to White. There are some positions where having the move is bad (zugzwang), but these are few and far between.
The books I've read generally state that one of White's main goals is to push the initiative with the first move, and one of Black's main goals is to equalize as quickly as possible. As openings have been explored more and more in depth, it generally takes Black longer and longer to equalize. Soooo, I'm guessing that Black being favored to win is highly unlikely.
If I had to choose, I'd guess with perfect play, games are draws. The funny thing is, a lot of the innovation in chess games comes by introducing an uncommon or unforeseen move into a well known opening.. if your opponent doesn't know how to respond, you have an advantage, because theoretically you've worked up some followup strategery to continue. But, if there is so called "perfect play", that would lead me to believe there's one and only one game path to follow - anything else isn't perfect. So it comes down to following the one simple game path to an inevitable draw, or choosing a slightly inferior move with the hopes your opponent can't find the correct move to take advantage. If this is the case, the computer simply (ha) needs to have the perfect game as the default path, and the responses to take advantage of inferior moves that stray from the path.
I spose if this were an easy problem, it would already be solved.
I'd guess the same problem exists for Go, and any other strategy game with full information available to both players - as opposed to say, poker, where you know what cards you have and no one else does. The only difference is the problem space.
I am here to kick ass, and mod this up.. and I'm allll out of mod points.
Seriously, mod this up. This doesn't seem to be mentioned enough at the forefront of the whole SCO thing, when clearly (at least I think clearly) that's what's really going on.
It's like arresting me for possessing the money I found on the street, which was left by rubbers there when they were running away from cops. The court may insist I return money, but they cannot arrest me for the fact I picked them up.
The Fornicating Bank Robbers struck again today, hitting another bank downtown. A bystander tried to recover some of the money, and some.. uh.. other associated paraphernalia, but was ordered to return it.. them.. nevermind.
Depending on your intent, I'd have to disagree. If your intent is to catch people misbehaving, keep it quiet. But that seems wrong to me.
If your intent is to protect privacy, make it public knowledge to all your employees - then they'll know better and have NO excuse. I'd assume everyone working with such data knows the privacy rules/laws/whatever, but informing them that for the hospital's protection these honeytokens are out and about seems fair.
Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was getting tired of being stared at.
What's more, even with the best insulation, as much as 4 percent of the liquid evaporates daily, creating pressure that can only be relieved by bleeding off the vapor. As a result, a car left at the airport for two weeks would lose half its fuel. Scientists need to find a way to eliminate or utilize this boil-off.
In the long run, automobile fuel cells themselves might be tied to the grid, making it possible for vehicles to feed power into the system rather than simply consume energy. That is, electrical meters might run backward some of the time. Futurist Amory Lovins envisions a peer-to-peer energy network in which spot power is distributed to users from the nearest source, be it a utility station or a station wagon.
It seems to me that the peer-to-peer grid idea could possibly take care of the car sitting for long periods of time - just burn off some of that extra energy to provide for a more immediate need and credit the energy back to you.
It still doesn't necessarily solve the problem of being "out of gas", but it sure seems more palatable.
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Fifty bucks!?
Do they have both kinds of music? Country AND western?
Hmm, you're right about shareholders wanting the shares and the money and all, but there needs to be a happy medium. If a software company IPO'd and the shareholders decided they could make more money selling weapons on the black market, they couldn't expect the company to 86 the software side of things.
So for a less extreme example, how would Google "refuse" to incorporate pop-ups if the majority of shareholders thought, "dammit, we want pop-ups cause they mean big monies!"? Is that something they can specify in the charter that makes them "immune" from shareholder demands? I read somewhere on here (which means it's true!) that sometimes shareholders can sue a corporation for not acting in the shareholders' best interests. If the shareholders believe pop-ups are in their best interests, that leads to some tension.
I remember reading about another company that came up with a treatment for some disease. No one would fund the distribution or research they had done. Their charter said something about bettering society and health and what not through any means possible. They used that logic to give away the treatment. The shareholders may not have been too happy, but they did the right thing by their business philosophy.
Discuss.
I haven't read too much here about Archos's line of products, but I got a Jukebox Studio 20, and I'm pretty happy with it. It kind of sucks that you have to hold the on button for 4 seconds to turn it on and has some other odd interface quirks, but it plays every mp3 I've put on it fine.
Does anyone else have any experience with these, and if so, how do they compare to these new players?
In the near term, I think you're absolutely right. Longer term, the form won't be an issue because you probably won't use it. Voice recognition will be good enough so you won't need to type anything - just say a name.
Or Elbonia!
Damn that's hot!
Now that was a little offsides. He'll be cryin himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillow.
The project represents more than 200 person years of development by Intel's China Software Center in Shanghai, and Intel software labs in Oregon and Washington, Intel says.
Thank GOD they didn't say "man years", since clearly they are different units.
They did have some other errors, such as the next paragraph:
"Because pre-boot firmware is a vital ingredient in all modern platforms, silicon vendors and system manufacturers require stability in the Foundation code to protect their investment in innovation," noted Will Swope, vice president and general manager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group. "They expect unfettered access and collaborative control of changes so that interoperability can be maintained."
should read:
"Because pre-boot firmware is a vital ingredient in all modern platforms, silicon vendors and system personufacturers require stability in the Foundation code to protect their investment in innovation," noted Will Swope, vice president and general personager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group. "They expect unfettered access and collaborative control of changes so that interoperability can be persointained."
I should be allowed to ask about how a tunnel was built; it might be MY life in danger if there's a problem, it might be MY safety.
Damn straight, that's your right - but isn't it someone else's right to wonder why you ask?
The SS didn't do anal probes, or arrest anyone, or detain anyone. They questioned him. I don't see anything unreasonable about that. Sure, it might be scary and uncomfortable, but from some perspectives, he asked a scary question too.
From my point of view, nothing has really gone wrong here.
That'll be 10^3 times.
Er, wait.
They knew about it, and they didn't do shit about it.
Alternately:
-- They knew about it, and management wouldn't let them do shit about it.
The company is at fault. Who cares if it was the developers, the team leads, or the janitor? If management lets it through, it's still the company.
-- They knew about it, but addressing it would take significant time and effort, so they opted to defer that to a later release. After all, a million people running a mediocre firewall is better than a million people running no firewall at all.
The company is at fault.
-- They didn't actually realize it until later on. Are you psychic, or do you just happen to have a buddy who was on the ICF dev team?
They added a complex feature without an appropriate level of testing. The company is still at fault
But I suppose those angles would just mess up a good troll.
One may choose to see it that way.. I just look at it as more of the same.. try to add a feature, don't bother to make sure it works right. This is indicative of the state of quality of way too many software companies these days.
That's one thing I enjoy about embedded development.. quality actually means something.
Derivative works.. ha!
That's an integral part of your claim.
We can use the commutative properties of the law to convolute the penalty to its polar opposite.
Ok, ok, i'll stop.
Very few monkeys left?
I believe the advantage is to White. There are some positions where having the move is bad (zugzwang), but these are few and far between.
The books I've read generally state that one of White's main goals is to push the initiative with the first move, and one of Black's main goals is to equalize as quickly as possible. As openings have been explored more and more in depth, it generally takes Black longer and longer to equalize. Soooo, I'm guessing that Black being favored to win is highly unlikely.
If I had to choose, I'd guess with perfect play, games are draws. The funny thing is, a lot of the innovation in chess games comes by introducing an uncommon or unforeseen move into a well known opening.. if your opponent doesn't know how to respond, you have an advantage, because theoretically you've worked up some followup strategery to continue. But, if there is so called "perfect play", that would lead me to believe there's one and only one game path to follow - anything else isn't perfect. So it comes down to following the one simple game path to an inevitable draw, or choosing a slightly inferior move with the hopes your opponent can't find the correct move to take advantage. If this is the case, the computer simply (ha) needs to have the perfect game as the default path, and the responses to take advantage of inferior moves that stray from the path.
I spose if this were an easy problem, it would already be solved.
I'd guess the same problem exists for Go, and any other strategy game with full information available to both players - as opposed to say, poker, where you know what cards you have and no one else does. The only difference is the problem space.
I am here to kick ass, and mod this up.. and I'm allll out of mod points.
Seriously, mod this up. This doesn't seem to be mentioned enough at the forefront of the whole SCO thing, when clearly (at least I think clearly) that's what's really going on.
If they'd just stop printing the stupid one dollar bills, people would start using the coins.
I, for one, welcome our new coin overlords. Or something.
It's like arresting me for possessing the money I found on the street, which was left by rubbers there when they were running away from cops. The court may insist I return money, but they cannot arrest me for the fact I picked them up.
The Fornicating Bank Robbers struck again today, hitting another bank downtown. A bystander tried to recover some of the money, and some.. uh.. other associated paraphernalia, but was ordered to return it.. them.. nevermind.
You know spam's getting to be too much when I see "Cyber Sl.*" and my mind immediately subs in "Cyber Sluts".
Your aunt is a stereotypical caveman?
That's not a very nice thing to say.
At least call her a cavewoman.
Depending on your intent, I'd have to disagree. If your intent is to catch people misbehaving, keep it quiet. But that seems wrong to me.
If your intent is to protect privacy, make it public knowledge to all your employees - then they'll know better and have NO excuse. I'd assume everyone working with such data knows the privacy rules/laws/whatever, but informing them that for the hospital's protection these honeytokens are out and about seems fair.
We can't make this assumption anymore, since AI has allegedly been invented at this point. Maybe some of them did get tired.
Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was getting tired of being stared at.
What's more, even with the best insulation, as much as 4 percent of the liquid evaporates daily, creating pressure that can only be relieved by bleeding off the vapor. As a result, a car left at the airport for two weeks would lose half its fuel. Scientists need to find a way to eliminate or utilize this boil-off.
In the long run, automobile fuel cells themselves might be tied to the grid, making it possible for vehicles to feed power into the system rather than simply consume energy. That is, electrical meters might run backward some of the time. Futurist Amory Lovins envisions a peer-to-peer energy network in which spot power is distributed to users from the nearest source, be it a utility station or a station wagon.
It seems to me that the peer-to-peer grid idea could possibly take care of the car sitting for long periods of time - just burn off some of that extra energy to provide for a more immediate need and credit the energy back to you.
It still doesn't necessarily solve the problem of being "out of gas", but it sure seems more palatable.
One of my programmers is paired up with a programmer from the mainframe side of the house. The MF programmer was cc:ing me...
:)
Does MF stand for mainframe?