For a company that has millions in cash lying around and realizing that attracting people is their key corporate goal, I think the screw ups are a bit higher up.
They don't even have a group scheduler? Email for communication? A simple task list?
No one in the company should be of low quality. They might have lost a person that could have given them their next million dollar idea. This is not a "whoops we ran out of pens" situation.
How does one part of the company (the IPO people) know that there are important company assets not registered, and the other part (the asset management people) not realize this information until its released to the public?
>For Google to be in trouble, one of these other companies would have had to actually use the gmail name to provide Internet services or email services before Google.
Read the article, the companies have been using the term this way before Google.
IIIR's Gmail is a service for subscribing clients, including securities traders, bankers, hedge fund brokers and retail investors.
"My firm has operated a service of similar name since May 2002, which is also a Web-based e-mail service," Smith said....
Under that criterion, Precision Research would win the trademark, claiming its used Gmail since January 1998. The Gospel Music Association would be next in line, thanks to its having sent members its Gmail e-mail newsletter since 1999.
There were alot of things which went wrong that could not be predicted/not worth predicting. The weather was less than perfect. A chain broke.
The real world does not reduce nicely down to simple formulas. If anything, this is a sucess because it showed the students the difference between theroy and reality. It also showed the something about failure.
>Considering that we can run uphill fairly fast, the physics indeed says the power to overcome gravity most certainly is there, atleast for short periods of time.
(Sorry if the following is confusing or hard to read, as I realize that english might not be your first language.)
Isn't running up hill, just breaking gravity for tiny (~2 secs) at a time? Each step you take is breaking gravity, but then it reclaims you as shift weight from one foot to another?
Would a better example be doing a chin-up and holding it at its zenith? Your arms are working against gravity lifting up your main trunk and legs? (The forearms are just dangling from the bar.)
"And, even if the founders spoke only about their outside interests beyond Google, the SEC may consider the interview a violation of the quiet period, he said."
>To a great extent IBM has avoided distributing GPL software directly.
Did a 5 second search on google and came up with the link. Behold, a public link of IBM distributing software under the GPL.
Don't think link is an interesting counterpoint, say why. Don't think that the link shows that IBM isn't scared of GPL or doesn't distribute under it, say why.
Just don't insult me by trying to get into nit-picking issues, stick to the point.
Slashdot Mirror
These things are magnatudes faster than spinning cylinders.
You can get your hard read/write times down dramatically and poof! there goes your performance issues.
Its both.
In the "real flesh-and-bones world" security thorugh obsecurity is sometimes good.
For a company that has millions in cash lying around and realizing that attracting people is their key corporate goal, I think the screw ups are a bit higher up.
They don't even have a group scheduler? Email for communication? A simple task list?
No one in the company should be of low quality. They might have lost a person that could have given them their next million dollar idea. This is not a "whoops we ran out of pens" situation.
They all use it in the form of using Internet technologies to provide access of services to the public.
The USPTO just has to approve the first one and it become a legal mess for Google.
"Yes your honor, my client has plans to launch an email service before Google."
How does one part of the company (the IPO people) know that there are important company assets not registered, and the other part (the asset management people) not realize this information until its released to the public?
What a messed up company.
>For Google to be in trouble, one of these other companies would have had to actually use the gmail name to provide Internet services or email services before Google.
Read the article, the companies have been using the term this way before Google.
From the article;
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IIIR's Gmail is a service for subscribing clients, including securities traders, bankers, hedge fund brokers and retail investors.
"My firm has operated a service of similar name since May 2002, which is also a Web-based e-mail service," Smith said.
Under that criterion, Precision Research would win the trademark, claiming its used Gmail since January 1998. The Gospel Music Association would be next in line, thanks to its having sent members its Gmail e-mail newsletter since 1999.
Only on slashdot would someone use a domain name like that to distribute an business/satrical OS analysis white paper. :/
Is 8 inches on the diagonal a good size?
Its bigger than you can fit into one hand, and might be heavy at that size.
Athough it might be a good size for reading text or naturally writing in cursive a few notes.
And depending on the price, I would be very interested in buying it if it had good PC/Linux connectivity.
>These were engineering students
There were alot of things which went wrong that could not be predicted/not worth predicting. The weather was less than perfect. A chain broke.
The real world does not reduce nicely down to simple formulas.
If anything, this is a sucess because it showed the students the difference between theroy and reality. It also showed the something about failure.
>Considering that we can run uphill fairly fast, the physics indeed says the power to overcome gravity most certainly is there, atleast for short periods of time.
(Sorry if the following is confusing or hard to read, as I realize that english might not be your first language.)
Isn't running up hill, just breaking gravity for tiny (~2 secs) at a time? Each step you take is breaking gravity, but then it reclaims you as shift weight from one foot to another?
Would a better example be doing a chin-up and holding it at its zenith? Your arms are working against gravity lifting up your main trunk and legs? (The forearms are just dangling from the bar.)
A human generally is lighter than a combustion engine.
Look at the Vancouver article, the helicopter looks more like a glider.
And couldn't they store up the energy into a big rubber-band, by ten minutes of human energy, let it go and add more energy as it goes up?
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B 3FA7194E%2D79F9%2D4398%2DB541%2DFB46D3E92111%7D&si teid=mktw
"And, even if the founders spoke only about their outside interests beyond Google, the SEC may consider the interview a violation of the quiet period, he said."
"Honest sir, I was just visiting the site for its informative investment insight. Honest."
>I would figure that most of those would be in the U.S., with maybe a few in Canada.
I would count on Canada getting more than just a few.
Same timezone. Same "accent". Same quality (or lack of) education standard. Same work ethic. Lower salaries.
And IBM can say, in this time of outsourcing sensitivity, "We added new jobs IN *cough*north AMERICA!"
Acquistions and what the first post is talking about are different things.
>For heaven sakes when looking for IT applicants don't send somebody from HR.
Um... you do realize that one of HR jobs is to interview IT applicants?
Desktop PC are already throw-away items for alot of companies. Thats why they lease them.
Here is the full story:
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http://www.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=
Still not something the President of the United States should say, in any context.
I ... see ... THREE .... lights!!
A Witty and insightful post!
Why is this FUD? Is any of this incorrect? Should we just be looking at the glowing articles how at $33 billion Google is underpriced?
Its just an analysis of an stock IPO. Articles are written trashing stocks everyday.
I didn't. I took the entire statment;
>To a great extent IBM has avoided distributing GPL software directly.
Did a 5 second search on google and came up with the link. Behold, a public link of IBM distributing software under the GPL.
Don't think link is an interesting counterpoint, say why.
Don't think that the link shows that IBM isn't scared of GPL or doesn't distribute under it, say why.
Just don't insult me by trying to get into nit-picking issues, stick to the point.
Huh?
e ns ource/linux390/linux-2.6.5-s390-06-april2004.shtml
http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/op
Click on the "Download" button and you have to agree to the GPL code.
Section 7 on patents is there too.
Games
full functionality IM
Loads of Windows-specific-only business appliactions
Support from all hardware vendors