The online search market is very fickle. Google maybe top of the heap now but in the future? I suppose we'll see if Microsoft *can* or want to compete on quality of offering.
Is this some kind of clever troll? How is it "interesting"? It reads as twitter had never been inside a SME or larger. Every company I've ever worked for - including a small start-up - had comprehensive backups. My last company wasn't that big and it had 100% disk recovery across all platforms, including Windows, HPUX, IRIX, Linux, classic Mac, Mac OS X.
Greenpeace have a point, none of you address it. If you bothered to read the Greenpeace website, or the link to the original article (the link is suspiciously missing even in the blog article referenced.)
Why won't Nintendo publish their disposal policy? Who knows. I think it reasonable they should. I'd like to see it.
The one fact - power consumption - has been done to death. The lower power consumption still doesn't avoid the fact that the wii is made of something very, very poisonous.
"Our guide focuses on toxic chemicals and takeback policy because of the rapid growth in quantities of toxic e-waste being dumped in developing countries like China and India. While Nintendo's Wii console appears to be more energy efficient compared to the Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation, energy use is not yet covered in the ranking."
Very suspicious that not mentioning the power consumption because they don't include it in the ranking - yet. Wearing all that tin-foil must have leached into your brains guys.
And they had the temerity to criticize the saintly Apple. Get a grip. Most of you sound as bad as a bunch of creationist fundamentalists.
In before a bunch of nutjobs who can't see past the end of their hummer. It's no wonder the US has such a shite environmental record. Actually, the level of anti-Greenpeace vitriol on this topic has made me re-consider Greenpeace. I may well contribute to them in the future.
I'd rather have the govt in the tent and pissing out than outside the tent and pissing in... Seriously, domain names should be clearly attached to edits, people named, and NO ANONYMOUS editing. Just like the article says. At least then we'd have a fair chance of detecting bias, changing the really biased information etc etc.
The BBC have taken off the comments from the web-page. Probably because they were a) too many and (b) too liberal.
The whole case really is too much. It's irrational, it's making sloppily worded laws based on cases taken out of context. Opportunist politicians trying to look good for the newspapers. Cracking down on 'crime.' It's the thinnest end of the wedge. It offends me in the deepest possible sense. I hope, now, that the court cases that arise out of this case - and I think they will come thick and fast and very soon - will, literally, be laughed out of court. I hope that an administrative review will be called.
A patent is a matter of policy designed for the public good. What comes under that policy is worked out by that favourite species of person, the lawmaker. Maybe we should influence them? Tell them that it's too late to start patenting software?
Yes, it's a Good Thing that maths wasn't patented; however, it's also a Good Thing that scientists - or natural philosophers in the 16th and 17th centuries argued for openness in science.
That's right. It can be seen as a barrier to trade.
I've said this before, but I think software patents are essentially sound: they describe how a to turn a general purpose machine into a particular machine. However, companies who patent software should have to provide a working implementation. Now that would cut down the number of phoney and idiotic patents.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - I refer to your post where you say you gleaned this information by discussing this with a counseller in the next office, not one whom you've actually worked. Not exactly a basis for the sweeping generalisations you make.
I went to a counseller for 4 years and it did me good. I agreed goals with my counsellor, not exactly something you'd do with a friend. Our relationship was very productive.
It was a wierd feeling, recounting my life to her, and in the process relearning the ability to feel good about myself, learn to deal with the negative aspects of my character. I have the greatest confidence in her. In some respects, she was a paid friend. In other respects she was a solid professional who would make me see things that no friend would ever could or would.
As to the drugs, for me they were a temporary stabiliser which allowed me time to fix myself. In short, sir, I think you're full of shit.
Once I found the functions startswith and endswith, my need to use for regular expressions dropped away, fast. Occasionally, I'd have to pony up for a more complex pattern match, still a pain though even though I'd "cracked" regex. I wonder if the rest of regex could be done away with in a similar fashion?
The assertions that MS make are assertions only - I'd treat them with the caution they deserve rather than the solid-gold statements you seem to think they are - and I don't care how often they repeat things in public. Repeating them won't make them come true. The Hotmail case is a tried and tested example of their work.
So, just how much are MS paying you to catch flak on/. today?
One person's civil disobedience is another person's act of terrorism. Read some of the postings on this forum which regularly portray civil disobedience as acts of terrorism. Bill O'Reilly? Rush Limbaugh? Please: it's civil disobedience when it suits you, I know. In fact Revolutionary - or Patriot if you were on the other side - is the 1770s version of terrorist.
In the UK Health Service there's been a scare about cleanliness in hospitals, and the bug MRSA running rampant. Now part of the problem is down to the nurses, and they took a fuck-load of blame but the other part of the equation is that the hospital authorities ("trusts" as they're called now) used "normal" business logic and immediately tried to save money by *outsourcing* cleaning; and so IMO, this started the decline. The problem is that that cleanliness is a core function for hospitals, and saving money by outsourcing you always lose a degree of control. As anyone who's used sub-contractors will tell you.
From Google's POV, owning the pipes make perfect sense. Politics - they don't get screwed if net neutrality goes away. It's an end-run around all those eyeing their profit enviously. You own the pipes, you get to see what goes through them. I'd be dieing for data like that.
The only way to make a profit will be to own the pipes.
every gadget will have NO REPEAT NO lights, not even the smallest flicker. Even the damn mac has the green light on the power line. My epson printer has three, and one continually blinks.
Profound changes must take place, and NO LIGHTS is one of them.
My original point still stands: the mounting testimonies of ex-Co$ members convinces me that the Co$ is a malevolent organisation. I am not a judge, this is not a court of law. Please kindly take that talk elsewhere.
I guess you must really be a scientologist as they seem to favour legal tactics as a means of silencing their opposition. All because the Co$ took some, or several, poor (and I do mean poor) shmucks to the cleaners via the lawyers doesn't mean that the case rests there, not by a long chalk. It amuses me greatly that you think the court of law is the final bee-all-and-end-all of conflict resolution. In any society, there are other, sometimes more important, arenas in which people can make their voices heard. Often, these peaceful (and law-abiding) ways are more effective. We shall see.
For the record, I am more in favour of the tactic of making Co$ a laughing stock, ridiculing the whole rotten edifice and it's members. The attention drawn to the Cruise video was a good start. However, if there is a protest in my vicinity, I shall certainly be attending.
I don't know what the assertions of Anonymous *are*. They seem to have no message except "we don't like it."
the known tactics of the Church of Scientology: to attack, by any means necessary, anyone who brings attention to their shady past. What means exactly? Far as I'm aware none of these "any means necessary" include breaking the law.
Every time I hear these accusations against the CoS I wonder how old the people making them are. If you slander or libel them, why are you surprised when they sue you for slander or libel. If you claim you are "telling the truth" then just calmly show up to court with your evidence and win the case. As someone else noted, a very careful, almost legalistic defence of the CO$. Also, the age of the protester. Should that matter? The last sentence made me laugh, though. Clearly, this person is a lawyer or someone who has not dealt with the legal system. Logic and the legal system do not go together; money matters in law, and the rich usually win.
I don't understand why the Co$ has tax exemption. I agree with the Germans, who regard the Co$ as a cult. I go further: it's a dangerous cult with enough ex-members testifying of brutality to cause legitmate concerns. Indeed, it is these concerns that Anon was highlighting with this protest as any quick perusal of wikinews would tell him.
I agree in principle with you but it's a nuance easily missed. My major point is that the US cannot use the torture argument anymore, cannot be holier than thou with resorting to the form of words that you use.
The USA has broken it's long tradition, and it's a hard to wash your hands clean. Whether the torturees are domestic victims or foreign, it doesn't matter. The US government has sanctioned tortured, has been seen to re-define the terms of the Geneva convention with weasel words (courtesy of Rumsfeld), has been seen to bully, intimidate and degrade prisoners. And the kidnappings? Who's to say what's happening these days in the USA? Everyone is under restraint orders, orders that one can't even talk about. Phones are being tapped, habeas corpus has gone AWOL.
Slashdot Mirror
The online search market is very fickle. Google maybe top of the heap now but in the future? I suppose we'll see if Microsoft *can* or want to compete on quality of offering.
Listening to Nick Cave's Mercy Seat as I read this topic. I don't *think* it's related.
lots of companies don't allow USB keys to be used on the premises.
Corporate users - the ones twitter references - are usually the ones with access to the ultra-reliable backups.
Is this some kind of clever troll? How is it "interesting"? It reads as twitter had never been inside a SME or larger. Every company I've ever worked for - including a small start-up - had comprehensive backups. My last company wasn't that big and it had 100% disk recovery across all platforms, including Windows, HPUX, IRIX, Linux, classic Mac, Mac OS X.
RULE 34 on Cmdrtaco. No, wait ...
because someone criticizes their toys. And mildly
Greenpeace have a point, none of you address it. If you bothered to read the Greenpeace website, or the link to the original article (the link is suspiciously missing even in the blog article referenced.)
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/game-consoles-no-consolation200508
Why won't Nintendo publish their disposal policy? Who knows. I think it reasonable they should. I'd like to see it.
The one fact - power consumption - has been done to death. The lower power consumption still doesn't avoid the fact that the wii is made of something very, very poisonous.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/greener-electronics-ranking-6-291107
"Our guide focuses on toxic chemicals and takeback policy because of the rapid growth in quantities of toxic e-waste being dumped in developing countries like China and India. While Nintendo's Wii console appears to be more energy efficient compared to the Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation, energy use is not yet covered in the ranking."
Very suspicious that not mentioning the power consumption because they don't include it in the ranking - yet. Wearing all that tin-foil must have leached into your brains guys.
And they had the temerity to criticize the saintly Apple. Get a grip. Most of you sound as bad as a bunch of creationist fundamentalists.
In before a bunch of nutjobs who can't see past the end of their hummer. It's no wonder the US has such a shite environmental record. Actually, the level of anti-Greenpeace vitriol on this topic has made me re-consider Greenpeace. I may well contribute to them in the future.
I'd rather have the govt in the tent and pissing out than outside the tent and pissing in ... Seriously, domain names should be clearly attached to edits, people named, and NO ANONYMOUS editing. Just like the article says. At least then we'd have a fair chance of detecting bias, changing the really biased information etc etc.
The BBC have taken off the comments from the web-page. Probably because they were a) too many and (b) too liberal.
The whole case really is too much. It's irrational, it's making sloppily worded laws based on cases taken out of context. Opportunist politicians trying to look good for the newspapers. Cracking down on 'crime.' It's the thinnest end of the wedge. It offends me in the deepest possible sense. I hope, now, that the court cases that arise out of this case - and I think they will come thick and fast and very soon - will, literally, be laughed out of court. I hope that an administrative review will be called.
A patent is a matter of policy designed for the public good. What comes under that policy is worked out by that favourite species of person, the lawmaker. Maybe we should influence them? Tell them that it's too late to start patenting software?
Yes, it's a Good Thing that maths wasn't patented; however, it's also a Good Thing that scientists - or natural philosophers in the 16th and 17th centuries argued for openness in science.
That's right. It can be seen as a barrier to trade.
I've said this before, but I think software patents are essentially sound: they describe how a to turn a general purpose machine into a particular machine. However, companies who patent software should have to provide a working implementation. Now that would cut down the number of phoney and idiotic patents.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - I refer to your post where you say you gleaned this information by discussing this with a counseller in the next office, not one whom you've actually worked. Not exactly a basis for the sweeping generalisations you make.
I went to a counseller for 4 years and it did me good. I agreed goals with my counsellor, not exactly something you'd do with a friend. Our relationship was very productive.
It was a wierd feeling, recounting my life to her, and in the process relearning the ability to feel good about myself, learn to deal with the negative aspects of my character. I have the greatest confidence in her. In some respects, she was a paid friend. In other respects she was a solid professional who would make me see things that no friend would ever could or would.
As to the drugs, for me they were a temporary stabiliser which allowed me time to fix myself.
In short, sir, I think you're full of shit.
Quebec is a communist country? WTF? That inaccuracy does undermine what you say ...
If you're paying for high res South Park, I have a nice, shiny bridge to sell you
Once I found the functions startswith and endswith, my need to use for regular expressions dropped away, fast. Occasionally, I'd have to pony up for a more complex pattern match, still a pain though even though I'd "cracked" regex. I wonder if the rest of regex could be done away with in a similar fashion?
"millions of missing emails"
My believability barrier just snapped.
I believe the word "criminal" is all to apt for this administration.
turns you furry?
The assertions that MS make are assertions only - I'd treat them with the caution they deserve rather than the solid-gold statements you seem to think they are - and I don't care how often they repeat things in public. Repeating them won't make them come true. The Hotmail case is a tried and tested example of their work.
/. today?
So, just how much are MS paying you to catch flak on
One person's civil disobedience is another person's act of terrorism. Read some of the postings on this forum which regularly portray civil disobedience as acts of terrorism. Bill O'Reilly? Rush Limbaugh? Please: it's civil disobedience when it suits you, I know. In fact Revolutionary - or Patriot if you were on the other side - is the 1770s version of terrorist.
In the UK Health Service there's been a scare about cleanliness in hospitals, and the bug MRSA running rampant. Now part of the problem is down to the nurses, and they took a fuck-load of blame but the other part of the equation is that the hospital authorities ("trusts" as they're called now) used "normal" business logic and immediately tried to save money by *outsourcing* cleaning; and so IMO, this started the decline. The problem is that that cleanliness is a core function for hospitals, and saving money by outsourcing you always lose a degree of control. As anyone who's used sub-contractors will tell you.
From Google's POV, owning the pipes make perfect sense. Politics - they don't get screwed if net neutrality goes away. It's an end-run around all those eyeing their profit enviously. You own the pipes, you get to see what goes through them. I'd be dieing for data like that.
The only way to make a profit will be to own the pipes.
The USSR installed nukes in Cuba because the USA had just installed nukes in Turkey, IIRC. Tit for tat.
Also, again IIRC, land-based missles are always more accurate. Somone will correct me if I'm wrong.
every gadget will have NO REPEAT NO lights, not even the smallest flicker. Even the damn mac has the green light on the power line. My epson printer has three, and one continually blinks.
Profound changes must take place, and NO LIGHTS is one of them.
My original point still stands: the mounting testimonies of ex-Co$ members convinces me that the Co$ is a malevolent organisation. I am not a judge, this is not a court of law. Please kindly take that talk elsewhere.
I guess you must really be a scientologist as they seem to favour legal tactics as a means of silencing their opposition. All because the Co$ took some, or several, poor (and I do mean poor) shmucks to the cleaners via the lawyers doesn't mean that the case rests there, not by a long chalk. It amuses me greatly that you think the court of law is the final bee-all-and-end-all of conflict resolution. In any society, there are other, sometimes more important, arenas in which people can make their voices heard. Often, these peaceful (and law-abiding) ways are more effective. We shall see.
For the record, I am more in favour of the tactic of making Co$ a laughing stock, ridiculing the whole rotten edifice and it's members. The attention drawn to the Cruise video was a good start. However, if there is a protest in my vicinity, I shall certainly be attending.
Every time I hear these accusations against the CoS I wonder how old the people making them are. If you slander or libel them, why are you surprised when they sue you for slander or libel. If you claim you are "telling the truth" then just calmly show up to court with your evidence and win the case. As someone else noted, a very careful, almost legalistic defence of the CO$. Also, the age of the protester. Should that matter? The last sentence made me laugh, though. Clearly, this person is a lawyer or someone who has not dealt with the legal system. Logic and the legal system do not go together; money matters in law, and the rich usually win.
I don't understand why the Co$ has tax exemption. I agree with the Germans, who regard the Co$ as a cult. I go further: it's a dangerous cult with enough ex-members testifying of brutality to cause legitmate concerns. Indeed, it is these concerns that Anon was highlighting with this protest as any quick perusal of wikinews would tell him.
I agree in principle with you but it's a nuance easily missed. My major point is that the US cannot use the torture argument anymore, cannot be holier than thou with resorting to the form of words that you use.
The USA has broken it's long tradition, and it's a hard to wash your hands clean. Whether the torturees are domestic victims or foreign, it doesn't matter. The US government has sanctioned tortured, has been seen to re-define the terms of the Geneva convention with weasel words (courtesy of Rumsfeld), has been seen to bully, intimidate and degrade prisoners. And the kidnappings? Who's to say what's happening these days in the USA? Everyone is under restraint orders, orders that one can't even talk about. Phones are being tapped, habeas corpus has gone AWOL.