You seem to take the word to mean something like "unimportant".
No, I know exactly what it means.
Perhaps the flaw is that I assumed that creativity, influence, and self-made wealth are desirable personal achievements. Had I asked instead who is most successful at sitting in neat rows doing exactly what he or she is told for hours on end without asking questions, I surely would have come up with more honest examples.
My post wasn't an ad hominem; I wasn't saying that your argument was wrong because you're uneducated, but rather that your argument's lack of merit may be a result of your lack of education.
Good god. I think you should look up "ad hominem" while you're double-checking the meaning of "anecdotal".
a few counterexamples do not disprove a general principle...any data set of a reasonable size will have outliers.
No sh*t. I'm suggesting that these people are not "outliers".
Ask yourself:
Who are the most creative people? Who are the most influential inventors? Who are the most successful self-made women/men?
Then you will see that my list is not anecotal at all, and if you're really honest with yourself you might ask how those people did it in spite of the widely held notion that when it comes to education, more is better.
Perhaps you need the education to understand what "anecdotal" means in this context.
Perhaps you'd care to articulate, as I feel I've roundly refuted the grandparent's argument by any definition of the word. Futhermore, I feel that my vocabulary is quite sufficient despite my shameful lack of edudation, and take no offense at your ad hominem attack since it serves only to bolster my point.
Anecdotal? Hardly. Some of those are among the world's most influential men. We've all heard of Bill Gates, but consider Kamen, for example. He saved countless lives with his development of the heart stent and the insulin pump, but most only know him (if they know of him at all) for that funny scooter. The fact that you'd dismiss these people as anecdotal really speaks for itself.
For some people the socialization aspect of school is far more important than the academic aspect. In my career -- and it's a reasonably technical field-- I've seen time and time again the ability to socially interact well with a wide variety of people is at least as important as technical skills and raw intelligence.
Sure, for some people, probably most people.
However, I submit that there are some smart people whose true talents will never see the light of day because their crazy/creative/entrepreneurial spirit has been beaten out of them by societal pressure.
I got a troll mod, as expected. Just think about that for a second.
Think about how hard it is convince a conformist society, even a microcosm like Slashdot which is supposedly knows full well about the massive amount of information now freely available via IntarWeb to every human on earth, even in the face of interesting evidence, and even in a fully on-topic thread, that school just might be bad for some of us. Think about it REAL HARD (if you still can).
Excessive schooling and socialization could be holding you back, at worst permanently infecting you with an inability to create and lead. A mind is a terrible thing to lose!
Any new system will have problems, but this sounds like a step in the right direction.
Who modded this insightful? Can somebody please point out the insight for me?
You've answered not one of the concerns raised about electric cars. Please explain how an electric car can take energy from chemical to kinetic to electric to chemical to electric to kinetic and possibly be more efficient or cleaner for the environment than a gas car. There is absolutely no way that this is a step in the right direction until we have cheap clean electricity sources to power it.
I ran their slide show through my Vulturecapitalese-to-English translator and discovered that the inventions they're claiming are software algorithms as follows:
1) vanilla load balancing 2) automatically resuming a download 3) playing a download while the entire file is saved to disk (regardless of how much is actually viewed?) 4) caching downloads (and/or partial downloads) on disk instead of asking the server again
I can't bring myself to actually read the patents since my Patentlawyerese-to-English translator is broken but they have a list of them here (pdf).
So some speculator pooled together the [cough]bullshit[/cough] IP of several defunct startups and hopes to sue everybody.
because of that awful screaming of the lambs... er... noise. I googl0red for a fix too, but didn't find either of the ones on that page or i might have been able to fix it (I don't care about 1-2 percent of battery time if that's the only impact).
Based on the 1800SOSAPPL response of "oh that's normal" (after over 20 minutes hold time) while at the same time reading on the web that they were replacing logic boards because of this, I decided this was a pretty filthy cover-up and that I didn't deserve the hassle of sending a $2.5K computer in for repair the day after buying it. The guys at the Apple store were VERY resistant to taking the machine back and tried every way to get me to take store credit, pay a restocking fee, etc. Finally they did take it back though - there was a long line of customers behind me so it would have cost them more to keep fighting.
Maybe other people can't hear it but my first reaction when I heard it was "you've got to be kidding me - the hard drive is burning up already?" because that's exactly what it sounds like. I guess the engineers were all deaf or something - I know some people can't hear anything above 5KHz but to me it sounded worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.
I wasn't upset that there was a bug, but I was steamed that they were lying to me and trying to weasel out of taking the return. Those Apple Store people look and talk real friendly-like, but they will rape you in the cornhole you with extended warranties, restocking fees, gift certs instead of refunds, etc unless you know the game. CAVE TURTLENECKEM.
On my nano it sounds like the amplifier is maxing out rather than the headphones. The difference is when the amp maxes out you'll hear mostly clipping and some bass suppression, but when the headphones are overdriven you'll hear more of noisy/scratching sound until they die, because the drivers are mechanically being driven hard against their full excursion.
The nano sounds like crap at full volume, but for workout music I'm happy enough at one or two clicks below max.
You may want ot try some in-ear headphones - these may give you much better efficiency and bass respsonse allowing you to run the ipod at lower volume for the same result (and save some battery time too). The earbuds lose about half their power due to their loose fit against the ear canal - try pressing them against your ear to hear how much is being lost.
How about encouraging the "patient" to go outside or do something constructive, instead of coercing him into repeating a mindless task for no real reward. Oh, right - because that's what he would have done ANYWAY if he weren't one of the majority who by about age six are infected with an affinity for pointless busywork, and an inability to learn except by rote.
I have no objection to psychotropic drugs and behavioral treatments when used judiciously to relieve real suffering or addiction. But using these tools to homogenize children to the societal norm is absolutely repugnant. How we can get through to these deranged teachers, parents, and psychiatrists?
What sane company in this day and age is moving such a small amount of data around on tapes? Suppose (liberally) an average of 100K of data on each of their 365,000 patients. That would fit ten times over on one hard disk. Furthermore the entire database could be sent over a T1 in
100000 * 8 * 365000 / 1500000 / 60 / 60 / 24 == 2.2 days... and daily diffs probably in a few minutes.
I just think it's really funny how many people still feel like storage and bandwidth are so scarce. A patient database is nothing compared to volume of porno and bittorrents that flows through the internet all day long
The problem is, fast processors are now SO cheap that the applications for a part like this are incredibly limited - you end up with the wrong FPGA and the wrong uP for more than it would probably cost you to buy the right architecture as discrete chips.
I am a firm believer that houses should depreciate over time, not appreciate.
Because there's an endless supply of land, right?
Your trailer will be worth jack squat in 10 yrs but my 10Kft postage stamp will be worth 3x (conservatively, assuming this IS a bubble). I'd suggest putting that $210K into some high growth stocks instead of spending it at the mall. Any assets are better than none, but your cash is doing precisely squat for you now.
What I want to know is if the SqueezeBox itself can run linux.
No - it has a fast 32-bit processor with probably enough RAM and flash, but it's a special architecture intended for low latency, multithreaded, embedded applications. It is a harvard architecture with segmented memory, great for timing determinism, I/O, and DSP performance but not suitable for a large OS. more on the processor..
Cast: Adrian Wapcaplet: John Cleese Mr. Simpson: Eric Idle
Adrian Wapcaplet: Aah, come in, come in, Mr....Simpson. Aaah, welcome to Mousebat, Follicle, Goosecreature, Ampersand, Spong, Wapcaplet, Looseliver, Vendetta and Prang! Mr. Simpson: Thank you. Adrian Wapcaplet: Do sit down--my name's Wapcaplet, Adrian Wapcaplet... Mr. Simpson: how'd'y'do. Wapcaplet: Now, Mr. Simpson... Simpson, Simpson... French, is it? Mr. Simpson: No. Adrian Wapcaplet: Aah. Now, I understand you want us to advertise your washing powder. Mr. Simpson: String. Adrian Wapcaplet: String, washing powder, what's the difference. We can sell *anything*. Mr. Simpson: Good. Well I have this large quantity of string, a hundred and twenty-two thousand *miles* of it to be exact, which I inherited, and I thought if I advertised it-- Adrian Wapcaplet: Of course! A national campaign. Useful stuff, string, no trouble there. Mr. Simpson: Ah, but there's a snag, you see. Due to bad planning, the hundred and twenty-two thousand miles is in three inch lengths. So it's not very useful. Adrian Wapcaplet: Well, that's our selling point! "SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL STRINGETTES!" Mr. Simpson: What? Adrian Wapcaplet: "THE NOW STRING! READY CUT, EASY TO HANDLE, SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR STRINGETTES - JUST THE RIGHT LENGTH!" Mr. Simpson: For what? Adrian Wapcaplet: Uuuh..."A MILLION HOUSEHOLD USES!"
Mr. Simpson: Such as? Adrian Wapcaplet: Uhmm...Tying up very small parcels, attatching notes to pigeons' legs, uh, destroying household pests... Mr. Simpson: Destroying household pests?! How? Adrian Wapcaplet: Well, if they're bigger than a mouse, you can strangle them with it, and if they're smaller than, you flog them to death with it! Mr. Simpson: Well *surely*!.... Adrian Wapcaplet: "DESTROY NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF KNOWN HOUSEHOLD PESTS WITH PRE-SLICED, RUSTPROOF, EASY-TO-HANDLE, LOW CALORIE SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR STRINGETTES, FREE FROM ARTIFICIAL COLORING, AS USED IN HOSPITALS!" Mr. Simpson: 'Ospitals!?!?!?!!? Adrian Wapcaplet: Have you ever in a Hospital where they didn't have string? Mr. Simpson: No, but it's only *string*! Adrian Wapcaplet: ONLY STRING?! It's everything! It's...it's waterproof! Mr. Simpson: No, it isn't! Adrian Wapcaplet: All right, it's water resistant then! Mr. Simpson: It, isn't! Adrian Wapcaplet: All right, it's water absorbent! It's...Super Absorbent String! "ABSORB WATER TODAY WITH SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL WATER ABSORB-A-TEX STRINGETTES! AWAY WITH FLOODS!" Mr. Simpson: You just said it was waterproof! Adrian Wapcaplet: "AWAY WITH THE DULL DRUDGERY OF WORKADAY TIDAL WAVES! USE SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL FLOOD PREVENTERS!" Mr. Simpson: You're mad! Adrian Wapcaplet: Shut up, shut up, shut up! Sex, sex sex, must get sex into it. Wait, I see a television commercial - There's
this nude woman in a bath holding a bit of your string. That's great, great, but we need a doctor, got to have a medical opinion. There's a nude woman in a bath with a doctor--that's too sexy. Put an archbishop there watching them, that'll take the curse off it. Now, we need children and animals. There's two kids admiring the string, and a dog admiring the archbishop who's blessing the string. Uhh...international flavor's missing...make the archbishop Greek Orthodox. Why not Archbishop Macarios? No, no, he's dead... never mind, we'll get his brother, it'll be cheaper... So there's archbishop Macarios, his brother and a doctor in the bath with this nude woman, two doctors and a dog....
First of all any time you want to analyze Google, you have to realize that they've had ten PhDs crunching the problem already for years. Google is designed to give the best results for whatever its users are searching, thus any apparent bent towards egalitarianism, monopolism, antidisestablishmentarianism, or what-have-you, is purely incidental.
If you're searching for something obscure, Google will instantly tell you the one startup company building it. On the other hand, if you want something mainstream, they'll give you a prioritized list of the best sources. There's no alterior motive it seems - they just give you what you searched for... imagine that! I've seen a business through from obscure geek hack to the mainstream consumer, and Google has been there at every step of the way, working exactly as users expect. To accuse them of favoring any particular stratum of that chain is awfully unfouned IMHO unless there are some specific examples. Indeed, answering users' needs instead of pandering to the status quo seems to be he most valuable bit of what google does.
Hope claims that while it is illegal for countries to stake a claim on the moon, it is legal for individuals and corporations to.
Ahhh! You ended a sentence with a preposition!
Hope claims that while it is illegal for countries to stake a claim on the moon, it is legal for individuals and corporations to, you sniveling pedantic twit.
The firm asked 354 companies in various industries about their top legal concerns.
Which 354 did you ask? There are thousands of tech companies! Define "tech company". Or is this just the 354 you could think of who'd pick up the phone?
That probably has something to do with tech companies having by far the greatest number of in-house attorneys managing litigation - an average of nine per company.
Nine lawyers per tech company - w0w! That's amazing considering that the overwhelming majority of tech companies that I can think of don't even have nine employees. Do you have any idea how many startups there are in California alone? Do six PHDs in a small lab working on, say, the next medical laser breakthrough not count?
Nearly a third of these companies spend more than 2% of their gross revenue on legal expenses
Which companies? What about the other two thirds? Are we supposed to think that 2% is a lot to spend on total legal expenses? What's the distribution?
Olga, your numbers are a crock of shit, and they stinketh. If you're going to give us stats, try starting with something like "of the 100 highest-grossing telecom service companies".
It is really astounding to me how few free thinkers there are in the world.
If you compare the behavior of businesses/investors to that of high school cliques, you'll find few differences. It's all about trends and fads and nothing about individual ambition or purpose. Indeed, even the language spoken at the highest echelons of these companies is decidedly more inane than the babbling of a bunch of valley girls.
Kudos to IBM for setting a new and good trend for all the sheep to follow.
Individual with neither passion nor aptitude for engineering attempts engineering degree, finds it tough, fails, and blames the system. Aside from the math being hard, he complains that the parties were dull.
We should make our engineering programs easier and more glamorous so that more people can hack it. This will help our colleges turn out better scientists and innovators.
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You seem to take the word to mean something like "unimportant".
No, I know exactly what it means.
Perhaps the flaw is that I assumed that creativity, influence, and self-made wealth are desirable personal achievements. Had I asked instead who is most successful at sitting in neat rows doing exactly what he or she is told for hours on end without asking questions, I surely would have come up with more honest examples.
My post wasn't an ad hominem; I wasn't saying that your argument was wrong because you're uneducated, but rather that your argument's lack of merit may be a result of your lack of education.
Good god. I think you should look up "ad hominem" while you're double-checking the meaning of "anecdotal".
a few counterexamples do not disprove a general principle...any data set of a reasonable size will have outliers.
No sh*t. I'm suggesting that these people are not "outliers".
Ask yourself:
Who are the most creative people?
Who are the most influential inventors?
Who are the most successful self-made women/men?
Then you will see that my list is not anecotal at all, and if you're really honest with yourself you might ask how those people did it in spite of the widely held notion that when it comes to education, more is better.
Perhaps you need the education to understand what "anecdotal" means in this context.
Perhaps you'd care to articulate, as I feel I've roundly refuted the grandparent's argument by any definition of the word. Futhermore, I feel that my vocabulary is quite sufficient despite my shameful lack of edudation, and take no offense at your ad hominem attack since it serves only to bolster my point.
You point out six or seven
Yes, the number is few, sadly.
anecdotal examples
Anecdotal? Hardly. Some of those are among the world's most influential men. We've all heard of Bill Gates, but consider Kamen, for example. He saved countless lives with his development of the heart stent and the insulin pump, but most only know him (if they know of him at all) for that funny scooter. The fact that you'd dismiss these people as anecdotal really speaks for itself.
For some people the socialization aspect of school is far more important than the academic aspect. In my career -- and it's a reasonably technical field-- I've seen time and time again the ability to socially interact well with a wide variety of people is at least as important as technical skills and raw intelligence.
Sure, for some people, probably most people.
However, I submit that there are some smart people whose true talents will never see the light of day because their crazy/creative/entrepreneurial spirit has been beaten out of them by societal pressure.
I got a troll mod, as expected. Just think about that for a second.
Think about how hard it is convince a conformist society, even a microcosm like Slashdot which is supposedly knows full well about the massive amount of information now freely available via IntarWeb to every human on earth, even in the face of interesting evidence, and even in a fully on-topic thread, that school just might be bad for some of us. Think about it REAL HARD (if you still can).
Drop out.
You don't need a degree to do incredible things.
Excessive schooling and socialization could be holding you back, at worst permanently infecting you with an inability to create and lead. A mind is a terrible thing to lose!
Any new system will have problems, but this sounds like a step in the right direction.
Who modded this insightful? Can somebody please point out the insight for me?
You've answered not one of the concerns raised about electric cars. Please explain how an electric car can take energy from chemical to kinetic to electric to chemical to electric to kinetic and possibly be more efficient or cleaner for the environment than a gas car. There is absolutely no way that this is a step in the right direction until we have cheap clean electricity sources to power it.
1) vanilla load balancing
2) automatically resuming a download
3) playing a download while the entire file is saved to disk (regardless of how much is actually viewed?)
4) caching downloads (and/or partial downloads) on disk instead of asking the server again
I can't bring myself to actually read the patents since my Patentlawyerese-to-English translator is broken but they have a list of them here (pdf).
So some speculator pooled together the [cough]bullshit[/cough] IP of several defunct startups and hopes to sue everybody.
because of that awful screaming of the lambs... er... noise. I googl0red for a fix too, but didn't find either of the ones on that page or i might have been able to fix it (I don't care about 1-2 percent of battery time if that's the only impact).
Based on the 1800SOSAPPL response of "oh that's normal" (after over 20 minutes hold time) while at the same time reading on the web that they were replacing logic boards because of this, I decided this was a pretty filthy cover-up and that I didn't deserve the hassle of sending a $2.5K computer in for repair the day after buying it. The guys at the Apple store were VERY resistant to taking the machine back and tried every way to get me to take store credit, pay a restocking fee, etc. Finally they did take it back though - there was a long line of customers behind me so it would have cost them more to keep fighting.
Maybe other people can't hear it but my first reaction when I heard it was "you've got to be kidding me - the hard drive is burning up already?" because that's exactly what it sounds like. I guess the engineers were all deaf or something - I know some people can't hear anything above 5KHz but to me it sounded worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.
I wasn't upset that there was a bug, but I was steamed that they were lying to me and trying to weasel out of taking the return. Those Apple Store people look and talk real friendly-like, but they will rape you in the cornhole you with extended warranties, restocking fees, gift certs instead of refunds, etc unless you know the game. CAVE TURTLENECKEM.
What gen ipod do you have?
On my nano it sounds like the amplifier is maxing out rather than the headphones. The difference is when the amp maxes out you'll hear mostly clipping and some bass suppression, but when the headphones are overdriven you'll hear more of noisy/scratching sound until they die, because the drivers are mechanically being driven hard against their full excursion.
The nano sounds like crap at full volume, but for workout music I'm happy enough at one or two clicks below max.
You may want ot try some in-ear headphones - these may give you much better efficiency and bass respsonse allowing you to run the ipod at lower volume for the same result (and save some battery time too). The earbuds lose about half their power due to their loose fit against the ear canal - try pressing them against your ear to hear how much is being lost.
How about encouraging the "patient" to go outside or do something constructive, instead of coercing him into repeating a mindless task for no real reward. Oh, right - because that's what he would have done ANYWAY if he weren't one of the majority who by about age six are infected with an affinity for pointless busywork, and an inability to learn except by rote.
I have no objection to psychotropic drugs and behavioral treatments when used judiciously to relieve real suffering or addiction. But using these tools to homogenize children to the societal norm is absolutely repugnant. How we can get through to these deranged teachers, parents, and psychiatrists?
Come back when you get a clue about the size of a real database.
Yes I'm sorry, I'm such an idiot.
Bump the number up to 100MB per client and figure how big a daily diff might be - still no need to be trucking tapes around.
What sane company in this day and age is moving such a small amount of data around on tapes? Suppose (liberally) an average of 100K of data on each of their 365,000 patients. That would fit ten times over on one hard disk. Furthermore the entire database could be sent over a T1 in
... and daily diffs probably in a few minutes.
100000 * 8 * 365000 / 1500000 / 60 / 60 / 24 == 2.2 days
I just think it's really funny how many people still feel like storage and bandwidth are so scarce. A patient database is nothing compared to volume of porno and bittorrents that flows through the internet all day long
Why not make a CPU with a built-in FPGA, then load bits of the kernel into that hardware?
Call me crazy, but that might be more efficient than just throwing more cores at the problem.
Here's one: Atmels' 20 MIPS processor + FPGA
The problem is, fast processors are now SO cheap that the applications for a part like this are incredibly limited - you end up with the wrong FPGA and the wrong uP for more than it would probably cost you to buy the right architecture as discrete chips.
I am a firm believer that houses should depreciate over time, not appreciate.
Because there's an endless supply of land, right?
Your trailer will be worth jack squat in 10 yrs but my 10Kft postage stamp will be worth 3x (conservatively, assuming this IS a bubble). I'd suggest putting that $210K into some high growth stocks instead of spending it at the mall. Any assets are better than none, but your cash is doing precisely squat for you now.
In the mean time, enjoy your trailer!
What I want to know is if the SqueezeBox itself can run linux.
No - it has a fast 32-bit processor with probably enough RAM and flash, but it's a special architecture intended for low latency, multithreaded, embedded applications. It is a harvard architecture with segmented memory, great for timing determinism, I/O, and DSP performance but not suitable for a large OS. more on the processor..
Does the Squeezebox have proper unicode support? I listen to Japanese music mostly, and it would be sad if the device wouldn't display any of my tags.
In fact it does support Japanese very well - also Chinese, Hebrew, and Cyrillic.
Unicode support was one of the major updates that came as part of the 6.2 software update released along with Squeezebox 3.
Sean Adams
CEO, Slim Devices
Squeezebox is now 802.11g, not b
Cast:
Adrian Wapcaplet: John Cleese
Mr. Simpson: Eric Idle
Adrian Wapcaplet: Aah, come in, come in, Mr....Simpson. Aaah, welcome to Mousebat, Follicle, Goosecreature, Ampersand,
Spong, Wapcaplet, Looseliver, Vendetta and Prang!
Mr. Simpson: Thank you.
Adrian Wapcaplet: Do sit down--my name's Wapcaplet, Adrian Wapcaplet...
Mr. Simpson: how'd'y'do.
Wapcaplet: Now, Mr. Simpson... Simpson, Simpson... French, is it?
Mr. Simpson: No.
Adrian Wapcaplet: Aah. Now, I understand you want us to advertise your washing powder.
Mr. Simpson: String.
Adrian Wapcaplet: String, washing powder, what's the difference. We can sell *anything*.
Mr. Simpson: Good. Well I have this large quantity of string, a hundred and twenty-two thousand *miles* of it to be exact,
which I inherited, and I thought if I advertised it--
Adrian Wapcaplet: Of course! A national campaign. Useful stuff, string, no trouble there.
Mr. Simpson: Ah, but there's a snag, you see. Due to bad planning, the hundred and twenty-two thousand miles is in three
inch lengths. So it's not very useful.
Adrian Wapcaplet: Well, that's our selling point! "SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL STRINGETTES!"
Mr. Simpson: What?
Adrian Wapcaplet: "THE NOW STRING! READY CUT, EASY TO HANDLE, SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR
STRINGETTES - JUST THE RIGHT LENGTH!"
Mr. Simpson: For what?
Adrian Wapcaplet: Uuuh..."A MILLION HOUSEHOLD USES!"
Mr. Simpson: Such as?
Adrian Wapcaplet: Uhmm...Tying up very small parcels, attatching notes to pigeons' legs, uh, destroying household pests...
Mr. Simpson: Destroying household pests?! How?
Adrian Wapcaplet: Well, if they're bigger than a mouse, you can strangle them with it, and if they're smaller than, you flog
them to death with it!
Mr. Simpson: Well *surely*!....
Adrian Wapcaplet: "DESTROY NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF KNOWN HOUSEHOLD PESTS WITH PRE-SLICED,
RUSTPROOF, EASY-TO-HANDLE, LOW CALORIE SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR STRINGETTES, FREE
FROM ARTIFICIAL COLORING, AS USED IN HOSPITALS!"
Mr. Simpson: 'Ospitals!?!?!?!!?
Adrian Wapcaplet: Have you ever in a Hospital where they didn't have string?
Mr. Simpson: No, but it's only *string*!
Adrian Wapcaplet: ONLY STRING?! It's everything! It's...it's waterproof!
Mr. Simpson: No, it isn't!
Adrian Wapcaplet: All right, it's water resistant then!
Mr. Simpson: It, isn't!
Adrian Wapcaplet: All right, it's water absorbent! It's...Super Absorbent String! "ABSORB WATER TODAY WITH
SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL WATER ABSORB-A-TEX STRINGETTES! AWAY WITH FLOODS!"
Mr. Simpson: You just said it was waterproof!
Adrian Wapcaplet: "AWAY WITH THE DULL DRUDGERY OF WORKADAY TIDAL WAVES! USE SIMPSON'S
INDIVIDUAL FLOOD PREVENTERS!"
Mr. Simpson: You're mad!
Adrian Wapcaplet: Shut up, shut up, shut up! Sex, sex sex, must get sex into it. Wait, I see a television commercial - There's
this nude woman in a bath holding a bit of your string. That's great, great, but we need a doctor, got to have a medical opinion.
There's a nude woman in a bath with a doctor--that's too sexy. Put an archbishop there watching them, that'll take the curse
off it. Now, we need children and animals. There's two kids admiring the string, and a dog admiring the archbishop who's
blessing the string. Uhh...international flavor's missing...make the archbishop Greek Orthodox. Why not Archbishop
Macarios? No, no, he's dead... never mind, we'll get his brother, it'll be cheaper... So there's archbishop Macarios, his brother
and a doctor in the bath with this nude woman, two doctors and a dog....
I am a Mexican, go, say something about Mexico, it is only a FUCKING JOKE!
Okay... what do you call a Mexican chick with no legs?
Consuelo
First of all any time you want to analyze Google, you have to realize that they've had ten PhDs crunching the problem already for years. Google is designed to give the best results for whatever its users are searching, thus any apparent bent towards egalitarianism, monopolism, antidisestablishmentarianism, or what-have-you, is purely incidental.
If you're searching for something obscure, Google will instantly tell you the one startup company building it. On the other hand, if you want something mainstream, they'll give you a prioritized list of the best sources. There's no alterior motive it seems - they just give you what you searched for... imagine that! I've seen a business through from obscure geek hack to the mainstream consumer, and Google has been there at every step of the way, working exactly as users expect. To accuse them of favoring any particular stratum of that chain is awfully unfouned IMHO unless there are some specific examples. Indeed, answering users' needs instead of pandering to the status quo seems to be he most valuable bit of what google does.
Hope claims that while it is illegal for countries to stake a claim on the moon, it is legal for individuals and corporations to, you sniveling pedantic twit.
Is that better?
The firm asked 354 companies in various industries about their top legal concerns.
Which 354 did you ask? There are thousands of tech companies! Define "tech company". Or is this just the 354 you could think of who'd pick up the phone?
That probably has something to do with tech companies having by far the greatest number of in-house attorneys managing litigation - an average of nine per company.
Nine lawyers per tech company - w0w! That's amazing considering that the overwhelming majority of tech companies that I can think of don't even have nine employees. Do you have any idea how many startups there are in California alone? Do six PHDs in a small lab working on, say, the next medical laser breakthrough not count?
Nearly a third of these companies spend more than 2% of their gross revenue on legal expenses
Which companies? What about the other two thirds? Are we supposed to think that 2% is a lot to spend on total legal expenses? What's the distribution?
Olga, your numbers are a crock of shit, and they stinketh. If you're going to give us stats, try starting with something like "of the 100 highest-grossing telecom service companies".
It is really astounding to me how few free thinkers there are in the world.
If you compare the behavior of businesses/investors to that of high school cliques, you'll find few differences. It's all about trends and fads and nothing about individual ambition or purpose. Indeed, even the language spoken at the highest echelons of these companies is decidedly more inane than the babbling of a bunch of valley girls.
Kudos to IBM for setting a new and good trend for all the sheep to follow.
Individual with neither passion nor aptitude for engineering attempts engineering degree, finds it tough, fails, and blames the system. Aside from the math being hard, he complains that the parties were dull.
We should make our engineering programs easier and more glamorous so that more people can hack it. This will help our colleges turn out better scientists and innovators.