I've been to the US, they don't all speak one language!
I spent time in Georgia and then I went to New York (where I met someone from Minnesota). No one can claim these are all the same language, they are too dissimilar!
I won't even begin with the travesty of calling what they speak "English"!
How do you find them? What is your profession? (what do you primarily do on these keyboards).
My reason for asking is that these days I find my self frequently switching between German & English keyboards and I find it much easier to code on an English keyboard, but it is difficult to use for composing documentation on it. Any way the shifting about of these keys only bothered me for a few weeks, and now I'm OK with that, So I'm thinking hey moving these letters about isn't so bad, maybe I should have an Dvorak keyboard!
Yes, it's funny and I am laughing, but you have to know that this is how the rest of the world is beginning to see Americans.
Here in the EU the US is considered a 'nanny state' with most of the population too stupid to care for themselves or take a positive role in their community.
I agree, but what about the reverse: Genius implies Eccentricity
This applies very much where I work. It's not the sort of warm fuzzy eccentricity you see in movies either. It's annoying and neurotic but we all put up with it because most of us are annoying and neurotic too (in our own way) and we know it.
The only one I really pity is the R&D group secretary, who really has become the R&D group mum.
Neither provide a legitimate archival system. Thank the Gods fax has moved away from thermal paper! But it's still not archival ready.
In the time that follows how do you remember what decision was made, or what was done?
How you record a phone call into a design history file? Meeting minutes are bad enough but to transcribe a phone call is painful, our conference calls are a nightmare to archive!
E-mail must be as reliable as phone or fax services (even if all I get is a record that it was sent properly!). To use phone or fax as a regular replacement for these things is not only archaic but in some instances irresponsible. As a corollary to this: E-mail Storage must be reliable too. You must be able to ensure archival quality reliability and change logging. Microsoft's various PST & OST do not fit this being that they are both unreliable (for some reason they are easily corrupted) and they don't log any changes to content.
I suppose the difference is I use my email as part design history and part document storage! Which it was never designed to do. So I back up early and backup often!
I'm sure apple could buy it; they have significant cash reserves, but why would they?
The G4 is only a very small part of Motorola's semiconductor unit and arguably a 'loss leader'. The largest part of the business is embedded processors like the 68332, HC11&16, and MPC5XXX (the automotive series).
Perhaps a smaller firm would be interested in it then divest the G4 technology and rights to IBM/Apple and retain the rest.
I'm not really sure IBM would be that interested in getting involved seriously in the embedded market, they have shown no real interest previously.
You're right, I remember reading a production survey a few years ago and the 68332 production a few orders of magnitude higher than ALL of the X86 production. So I would imagine that this chip business would still be valuable to the right folks
In my view the best solution to end spam is to stop its real cause: Demand. It should be a civic duty to find these people, who respond to spam (thereby funding it).
Once identified they should be publicly humiliated re-educated and their computer confiscated.
Repeat offenders should be taken to the center of town and publicly beaten.
Only with the reduction of spam generated income will spam decrease! Hey who knows Infomercials and Televised Home shopping may disappear as well!
Given that they accept these things on faith. I expect that another solution for their need to rationalize the beliefs will show itself.
Don't frustrate yourself! Don't worry about these folks!
Probably off topic but my daughter recently learned about how hurricanes form, and what powers them in school and was quite fascinated. My point is that the truth about our natural surroundings can be as interesting to those recently exposed to it (But I suppose it requires an open mind) as the fantasies concocted by the zealots!
This really is one of my pet peeves! This is a great idea with one exception: the companies who are paper mailing me need to remove their collective heads from their collective arses and E-Mail me!
This is one area where the US is behind, far behind.
The concept of Snail Mail bills and account info is painfully outdated. I'm sure some crypto-geek expert could come up with a way that these folks could just E-mail me my data and be safe about it!
The way I see it, these people have paid to cheat or run bots or whatever, but I don't want to play with them at all. So it seems to me (bandwidth issues aside) it would be a better solution to dump all of the known cheaters into their own server as they are identified leaving the folks that don't cheat to play in peace. Probably the servers for the cheaters would become overloaded but hey it's a small price to pay in order to use the game in an unintended way.
Slashdot Mirror
MS/SCO/Sun/United States Federal Government
Now THAT is an 'axis of Evil'(tm)
The Kompany market Kivio & the templates the way flow charting software should be!
So I use it when I can.
I think in practice there is a huge difference between illegal and enforceable. Of this is illegal but how is this particular thing enforced?
Is it possible that they are paid a very low wage per hour (like other salespeople in the US) and then paid a bonus for each victim they ensare?
No they do not taste good.
I've been to the US, they don't all speak one language!
I spent time in Georgia and then I went to New York (where I met someone from Minnesota). No one can claim these are all the same language, they are too dissimilar!
I won't even begin with the travesty of calling what they speak "English"!
How do you find them? What is your profession? (what do you primarily do on these keyboards).
My reason for asking is that these days I find my self frequently switching between German & English keyboards and I find it much easier to code on an English keyboard, but it is difficult to use for composing documentation on it. Any way the shifting about of these keys only bothered me for a few weeks, and now I'm OK with that, So I'm thinking hey moving these letters about isn't so bad, maybe I should have an Dvorak keyboard!
But Someone must be sending money to these thieves, because profit is their only motive.
As I have pointed out before, to stop spam we must find these people and hurt them.
I suppose as a jury refusing to convict someone for assault of a respondent to spam or a known spammer would also help!
Here in the EU the US is considered a 'nanny state' with most of the population too stupid to care for themselves or take a positive role in their community.
I could be wrong but doesn't the Delta V rocket burn tons of fuel a second?
Given that you need to fire the rocket for "150861.4717... seconds" wouldn't that be a fair bit of fuel?
Say more fuel than would actually fit in a Delta V (or even all that were ever made)?
Steve makes for great TV! Especially here where I watch it in (mostly) German.
This applies very much where I work. It's not the sort of warm fuzzy eccentricity you see in movies either. It's annoying and neurotic but we all put up with it because most of us are annoying and neurotic too (in our own way) and we know it.
The only one I really pity is the R&D group secretary, who really has become the R&D group mum.
Still doesn't change the fact that I'd rather use 8 track cassettes than Fax :)
Though one of my gripes with fax is than they are not easily indexed or searchable
Neither provide a legitimate archival system. Thank the Gods fax has moved away from thermal paper! But it's still not archival ready.
In the time that follows how do you remember what decision was made, or what was done?
How you record a phone call into a design history file? Meeting minutes are bad enough but to transcribe a phone call is painful, our conference calls are a nightmare to archive!
E-mail must be as reliable as phone or fax services (even if all I get is a record that it was sent properly!). To use phone or fax as a regular replacement for these things is not only archaic but in some instances irresponsible. As a corollary to this: E-mail Storage must be reliable too. You must be able to ensure archival quality reliability and change logging. Microsoft's various PST & OST do not fit this being that they are both unreliable (for some reason they are easily corrupted) and they don't log any changes to content.
I suppose the difference is I use my email as part design history and part document storage! Which it was never designed to do. So I back up early and backup often!
The G4 is only a very small part of Motorola's semiconductor unit and arguably a 'loss leader'. The largest part of the business is embedded processors like the 68332, HC11&16, and MPC5XXX (the automotive series).
Perhaps a smaller firm would be interested in it then divest the G4 technology and rights to IBM/Apple and retain the rest.
I'm not really sure IBM would be that interested in getting involved seriously in the embedded market, they have shown no real interest previously.
You're right, I remember reading a production survey a few years ago and the 68332 production a few orders of magnitude higher than ALL of the X86 production. So I would imagine that this chip business would still be valuable to the right folks
Sadly the HC11 and HC16 will be around for a long time, I write code for them still....
Once identified they should be publicly humiliated re-educated and their computer confiscated.
Repeat offenders should be taken to the center of town and publicly beaten.
Only with the reduction of spam generated income will spam decrease! Hey who knows Infomercials and Televised Home shopping may disappear as well!
I wish I could mod replies to my own replies +5 funny!
See, some Americans are OK!
As the earth's climate and oceans heat up is the occurrence of large storms going to increase and / or their strength increase?
As sort of way to scrub off excess heat.
Huge Colas and Chips @ McDonalds to fatten up with
Giant SUVs so they can take the comfort of their 4 bedroom house to pick up their daughter from softball practice
A/C so they can recreate winter in summer (in some of the flimsiest houses I've ever seen)
And Three Times the Military Budget of the Entire World put to Together
Now how many 10x10x10 stacks of 100 dollar bills is that?Don't frustrate yourself! Don't worry about these folks!
Probably off topic but my daughter recently learned about how hurricanes form, and what powers them in school and was quite fascinated. My point is that the truth about our natural surroundings can be as interesting to those recently exposed to it (But I suppose it requires an open mind) as the fantasies concocted by the zealots!
This is one area where the US is behind, far behind.
The concept of Snail Mail bills and account info is painfully outdated. I'm sure some crypto-geek expert could come up with a way that these folks could just E-mail me my data and be safe about it!
The way I see it, these people have paid to cheat or run bots or whatever, but I don't want to play with them at all. So it seems to me (bandwidth issues aside) it would be a better solution to dump all of the known cheaters into their own server as they are identified leaving the folks that don't cheat to play in peace. Probably the servers for the cheaters would become overloaded but hey it's a small price to pay in order to use the game in an unintended way.