I quess they used a rather tailored comb to come to that low $80 million:) Atleast it's easy to believe that finding the Linux revenues that are hidden inside business created by it in first place, inside embedded devices and inside a gazillion of developers heads who got their skills because of participating in getting Linux where it is now.
I am not saying that Microsoft would not have hidden revenues;))))))
> But I guess they want to know more than if the sun has risen or not, like if it's clody, looks like it's going to be rain, etc.
Yes, but when the sun is down, the image is totally black. From that you cannot even quess any details. So you might just as well not take the picture at all when it is useless.
They could add some logic in there, which would automatically calculate whether the sun has already risen or not. There's not much point in sending gigabytes of data to just show and convince people that: 'Yes, it's black'. Or atleast they could optimize the image and save some bandwidth, a black-only image does not take many bytes, now it takes 7 kB. Well,
I could mail this to them as well.
when were kids (no wife, I promise I don't do this anymore!:)) we used to extract the spring from a spring piston airgun (you know, every family has...erm... had one:) . Then attach it to an innocent looking thick marker pen, and Voila, you can shoot your schoolmates so accurate and with such power that you are bound to become the Borg and rest of them will be just... assimilated.... well this lasted only as long as that kid with red pimples on his face made up a good design on machine gun, based on otherwise same design, but used compressed air instead... and now you can get those guns in every little shop.
...is to know what to use to make it work on all of your target platforms...and wasn't this supposed to be one of Java's strong points?
So, actually, a fresh start might not be that bad at all.
My ex-workmate is rather convinced (don't ask me why:))) that changes like this are caused by the NT7 asteroid which, he believes, will shift earth's magnetism that everything will basicly destroy. Yup, he belives it does not hit the earth, it just passes by so that everything gets wicked. He might be almost blind, but he is a hellable coder. So prepare to get extincted!
I wonder what material can NOT be used to study the role of women in society and whether the studies already cover enough. Odd that this is what the interviewed professor first thought about. Well, it must be utterly interesting;)
"Vocera find a blood technician."
"Finding blood technician."
"This is sue Sue Harper, blood. tech. I am on 3A right now. How can I help you?"
"We need blood drawn from a patient in 6-103. Can you get up here soon?"
"Sure, I'll finnish here and be up there in a few minutes".
1. The PKI spec and reference implementantion is public.
2. PKI chips are manufactured my multiple 3rd parties.
3. The validation to get your keys will be done by trusted third parties.
4. Nothing changes. In the beginning, things might be easier for those running Windows.
The world is not dumb enough anymore to be fooled by MS, it does not have ultimate control anymore, they are under pressure from many directions in which an OS is used(mobile terminals, embedded devices, consoles, desktop computers, servers) - all of these have multiple serious contenders now with differing interests. No one is strong enough to kill everyone else.
What could be a better chance to market my grid computing sites list. That's how truly massive computational tasks are to be done more and more in the coming years.
> Is there any reason that a phone could not simply fire up the GPS unit when 911 were called? Do any of these GPS-enabled units do this?
No there is not:) And that's why there already are such "emergency phones". To market something else than the giant mobile phone vendors, here's a link to Benefon Esc's product details, including:
Emergency button: in case of emergency, up to five SOS messages with your location is sent, and a voice connection is opened to a predefined number
You could hope that articles like this never got posted on Slashdot - atleast without any critisim in the intro to the article. Slashdot is supposed to have readers that atleast pretend to know something about technology. It is very easy to write a such of terrifying provocating horrorshow of article on about any matter related to technology. The popular science magazine, in this case, is just the "popularism magazine".
A peek in the future: in an embarassing statement the Mars scientist admit that what was previously thought as evidence for great Marsian flood (topomap.jpg) is, actually, the sperm sample (sperm.jpg) of one of the scientists.
Rioters News: Foobaria supports piracy!
After a hot debate, the Government of Foobaria decided to legalize self-serve photo-copying kiosks. Famous book authors are shocked.
CD burner, photocopier, what's the difference? Why does a CD- burner automagically become a piracy tool and at the same time a photocopier is considered just a necessity ?? Is it because the journalists just know how to operate the other one?:))
> This is why the feedback needs to be direct from QA to the developers
I agree. For some reason (maybe it's just me) developers are nowadays too full of false pride as well, thinkin: I am the lead coder, analyzing bugs is the job of trainees. In my opinion the situation should be (atleast in some cases) completely opposite, only veteran coders can make correct assumptions and define pre-cautions for future and fix this particular case in the correct way. Otherwise it might just lead to a decline of the original code - making things even worse.
Working with bugs is a tough job, do it with pride! *with the allbugfixers unite anthem playing gently on background*
The only perverted problem with this approach is that in case you are selling your code to some 3rd party company for example, and you are competing with a set of other companies you might have terribly hard time trying to make the customer understand why your development takes 3 times longer than what is promised in other proposals. This is not so much problem when you have a proven track record clearly stating that the complete time wasted is less using your approach. Still, in some cases, the customer might be stuck to some bizarre outsourcing process with inherently excludes all proposals that exceed the shortest estimate by some magic percent.
The point being that many of current customers for software support this bizarre approach of first jumping to lake and then seeing if you hit a stone or not. Ofcourse its not easy job to decide to pay $100 for a candy, if you can get the same thing with just some dog dung added for $33. Especially if the software provider does not say that the dung is included in the offering.
I believe that most bang per buck can be achieved if the organisation is not too fixated to one or two standard testing procedures. Projects differ a lot. Using 30 percent of testing budget for testing the testing plan might well be worth the effort. If your company is making a set of applications for a fixed platform using fixed components and fixed architecture and these basics have been previously thoroughly tested, then ofcourse what was said above might not be true.
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...and as this article surely was stuff that matters, a liter is a metric unit of capacity equal to one cubic decimeter, for you ounce-bounces :)
> Bambi was a boy
Well, he must be Irish, then.
I quess they used a rather tailored comb to come to that low $80 million :) Atleast it's easy to believe that finding the Linux revenues that are hidden inside business created by it in first place, inside embedded devices and inside a gazillion of developers heads who got their skills because of participating in getting Linux where it is now.
;))))))
I am not saying that Microsoft would not have hidden revenues
... what's left is the trailer for the latest Disney movie, but this time Bambi is wearing a skirt.
> What if you want to see if some guy with a flashlight is hanging around near the camera?
.)
well, if that guy is awfully tall, then it might be a problem, otherwise I don't believe it causes a high-priority danger to the pilots.
Seriously, that's why they should a light-sensor instead, as someone already wrote
> But I guess they want to know more than if the sun has risen or not, like if it's clody, looks like it's going to be rain, etc.
Yes, but when the sun is down, the image is totally black. From that you cannot even quess any details. So you might just as well not take the picture at all when it is useless.
They could add some logic in there, which would automatically calculate whether the sun has already risen or not. There's not much point in sending gigabytes of data to just show and convince people that: 'Yes, it's black'. Or atleast they could optimize the image and save some bandwidth, a black-only image does not take many bytes, now it takes 7 kB. Well, I could mail this to them as well.
when were kids (no wife, I promise I don't do this anymore! :)) we used to extract the spring from a spring piston airgun (you know, every family has...erm... had one :) . Then attach it to an innocent looking thick marker pen, and Voila, you can shoot your schoolmates so accurate and with such power that you are bound to become the Borg and rest of them will be just... assimilated.... well this lasted only as long as that kid with red pimples on his face made up a good design on machine gun, based on otherwise same design, but used compressed air instead... and now you can get those guns in every little shop.
...is to know what to use to make it work on all of your target platforms...and wasn't this supposed to be one of Java's strong points? So, actually, a fresh start might not be that bad at all.
sell 1000000000 spammers now! Sell sell sell!
Yeah, the developers already back then knew that they planted a ...krrrhmm... a few little easter eggs, but we don't want to be unemployed... do we?
My ex-workmate is rather convinced (don't ask me why :))) that changes like this are caused by the NT7 asteroid which, he believes, will shift earth's magnetism that everything will basicly destroy. Yup, he belives it does not hit the earth, it just passes by so that everything gets wicked. He might be almost blind, but he is a hellable coder. So prepare to get extincted!
I wonder what material can NOT be used to study the role of women in society and whether the studies already cover enough. Odd that this is what the interviewed professor first thought about. Well, it must be utterly interesting ;)
from the whitepaper:
"Vocera find a blood technician."
"Finding blood technician."
"This is sue Sue Harper, blood. tech. I am on 3A right now. How can I help you?"
"We need blood drawn from a patient in 6-103. Can you get up here soon?"
"Sure, I'll finnish here and be up there in a few minutes".
Wi-Fi cracker:
"Remember to suck all ten litres".
Something like this takes place,but:
1. The PKI spec and reference implementantion is public.
2. PKI chips are manufactured my multiple 3rd parties.
3. The validation to get your keys will be done by trusted third parties.
4. Nothing changes. In the beginning, things might be easier for those running Windows.
The world is not dumb enough anymore to be fooled by MS, it does not have ultimate control anymore, they are under pressure from many directions in which an OS is used(mobile terminals, embedded devices, consoles, desktop computers, servers) - all of these have multiple serious contenders now with differing interests. No one is strong enough to kill everyone else.
> Rubbish.
:) No offense intended.
So are you talking rubbish as well? Because you seem to share the completely same opinion as I do.
What could be a better chance to market my grid computing sites list. That's how truly massive computational tasks are to be done more and more in the coming years.
> Is there any reason that a phone could not simply fire up the GPS unit when 911 were called? Do any of these GPS-enabled units do this?
:) And that's why there already are such "emergency phones". To market something else than the giant mobile phone vendors, here's a link to Benefon Esc's product details, including:
No there is not
Emergency button: in case of emergency, up to five SOS messages with your location is sent, and a voice connection is opened to a predefined number
You could hope that articles like this never got posted on Slashdot - atleast without any critisim in the intro to the article. Slashdot is supposed to have readers that atleast pretend to know something about technology. It is very easy to write a such of terrifying provocating horrorshow of article on about any matter related to technology. The popular science magazine, in this case, is just the "popularism magazine".
If you want to read something real about the same matter, browse to EFF 'Privacy - Surveillance & Wiretapping' Archive.
The catastrophy about this is that they selected the word catastrophic to send the submiliminal hint about martian life.
A peek in the future: in an embarassing statement the Mars scientist admit that what was previously thought as evidence for great Marsian flood (topomap.jpg) is, actually, the sperm sample (sperm.jpg) of one of the scientists.
Rioters News: Foobaria supports piracy!
:))
After a hot debate, the Government of Foobaria decided to legalize self-serve photo-copying kiosks. Famous book authors are shocked.
CD burner, photocopier, what's the difference? Why does a CD- burner automagically become a piracy tool and at the same time a photocopier is considered just a necessity ?? Is it because the journalists just know how to operate the other one?
> This is why the feedback needs to be direct from QA to the developers
I agree. For some reason (maybe it's just me) developers are nowadays too full of false pride as well, thinkin: I am the lead coder, analyzing bugs is the job of trainees. In my opinion the situation should be (atleast in some cases) completely opposite, only veteran coders can make correct assumptions and define pre-cautions for future and fix this particular case in the correct way. Otherwise it might just lead to a decline of the original code - making things even worse.
Working with bugs is a tough job, do it with pride! *with the allbugfixers unite anthem playing gently on background*
I agree 100%
The only perverted problem with this approach is that in case you are selling your code to some 3rd party company for example, and you are competing with a set of other companies you might have terribly hard time trying to make the customer understand why your development takes 3 times longer than what is promised in other proposals. This is not so much problem when you have a proven track record clearly stating that the complete time wasted is less using your approach. Still, in some cases, the customer might be stuck to some bizarre outsourcing process with inherently excludes all proposals that exceed the shortest estimate by some magic percent.
The point being that many of current customers for software support this bizarre approach of first jumping to lake and then seeing if you hit a stone or not. Ofcourse its not easy job to decide to pay $100 for a candy, if you can get the same thing with just some dog dung added for $33. Especially if the software provider does not say that the dung is included in the offering.
I believe that most bang per buck can be achieved if the organisation is not too fixated to one or two standard testing procedures. Projects differ a lot. Using 30 percent of testing budget for testing the testing plan might well be worth the effort. If your company is making a set of applications for a fixed platform using fixed components and fixed architecture and these basics have been previously thoroughly tested, then ofcourse what was said above might not be true.