Oracle is expensive, and it is great at what it does.
Same can be said for Cisco, but...
If you look at what the competitors are offering, neither Oracle nor Cisco are worth what they are charging - except in very rare case where no one else is offering the type of very specialized feature that Oracle or Cisco has.
And to put it in yet another way - the price Oracle / Cisco charge or their products do not guarantee that shit won't happen - I know of cases where shits did happen when Oracle / Cisco are being employed - and no, I can't reveal the detail, for the parties involved don't want the world to know about it.
But the only difference that separate Intel and AMD is that Intel had had a vision, and AMD had not.
AMD, since the beginning, tried to copy Intel.
When Intel was in the NOR flash business, AMD followed. Of course Intel had enough cash reserve to pull out from that business and still was able to fun its R&D.
For AMD, the loss that incurred on their NOR operation meant they had less money for R&D.
Still, AMD did come out with the X64 architecture, so much so that Intel had to follow.
Unfortunately for AMD is that the BOD do not work well with their CEOs. With the frequent change of CEOs, AMD is lost.
It's near the swan song for AMD - believe it or not.
Going for ARM server is but a desperate move, which, IMHO, won't save AMD from its own mess.
... and this is the way we do it when we are in France...
We leave "specially prepared documents" in our hotel rooms every time we went out for dinner, or meeting, or whatever.
Those "specially prepared documents" do that look very genuine, with all kinds of juicy "insider secrets", but in fact, we fill them with half-truths, and spice it up with stuffs that we know would create havocs for those who try duplicating the result.
Why we do so?
Because, the French intelligent agency are in every single hotel in France.
Every single business delegation, every single group of scientists, every commercial entourage will be closely followed by the French secret police, and they will go into your room and scan all the papers they can possibly find.
It's an open secret to those of us who are veterans in the industrial espionage thing.
Let this be a test case for the tweedledee and tweedledum, who wants the job at the White House so badly --- do they support a public fondl... [ahem] a pat down of a 14 year old American girl, in an American air port?
Is there anything new Slashdot can offer, other than this same old China bashing orgy?
If you think that equipments from Huawei is dangerous, what makes you think that Cisco equipment don't come with backdoors?
Which equipment the Stuxnet virus targeted?
Equipment from China or those from the Western countries?
It's easy to bash China - as China has become the poster boy for bashing orgy - from Presidential debate to this one in Slashdot - but I do expect MORE from those who come to Slashdot.
Unlike the tweedledee and tweedeldum on the presidential debate, you guys do have brains.
It's time you use your brain to think, rather than letting others doing the thinking for you.
If Huawei (and all equipments from all Chinese companies) are suspicious, what makes you think that equipments from Germany or Japan or Britain or Korea or Canada or USA aren't?
... this leak may lead to PS3 start selling like hotcakes...... and then...... the introductions of PS3+, PS3mini, PS3-NG....... and PS4...... and finally, Profit !!
Which would you rather see: patents being licensed to the benefit of the licensor and licensee, or unlicensed patents falling into the hands of patent trolls to be used for litigation at a later date?
What makes you think that the patents in question won't fall into the hands of patent trolls at a later date?
Take this scenario for example -
I have 3 patents under my name, and I am earning some royalties out of the patents that I owned.
I feel that my patents can do more but unfortunately I can't think of anything else right now.
So... I tout my patents on Marblar and I, the patent holders, got free suggestions from visitors to the site.
I shift through all those suggestions and found some gems. I immediately start to license my patents to cover the new fields that I hadn't thought of.
Who's winning? Me, the patent holder.
I'm making more money.
Who's losing? The world - now that someone out there has to pay more to do stuffs that was used to do without having to pay anybody.
And that's not all...
Because my patents are worth MORE with the new applications, some patent troll offers to pay me a lot more for my 3 patents.
I took the $$ and they got my patents, and they immediately file lawsuits against any Tom, Dick and Harry that they can locate.
The existence of Marblar isn't going to help protect patents from patent trolls. It may have an adverse effect - by making patents worth more, and thus, more inventors might start considering selling their patents to the patent trolls.
... or is the whole thing gonna become yet another "I can kick China harder than you" pissing contest?
America has a lot of problems right now.
Unemployment Gradual loss of talents Becoming more and more uncompetitive Sky-rocketing crime rate Tanking of morality... and so on...
Are the two men gonna deal with the real problem facing America or are they gonna participating in the "I can kick China harder than you" pissing contest ?
We already know how bad the impact of patent/copyright trolling is, even before they came up with the numbers.
For years and years, - if not for more than a decade, - so many unwarranted lawsuits had been filed just to satisfy the insatiable appetites of the patent/copyright trolls.
I don't, not even for a femto-second, believe that the critters on the Congressional Hill do not know the damage done by patent/copyright trolls.
They already knew what happened, it's just that they had NO INTENTION TO CHANGE.
The more patent/copyright trolling lawsuits got filed, the more the lawyers' lobbyists will pay them congresscritters.
I can bet, with my bottom dollar, that no concrete change will be forthcoming from Washington D.C.
They may pay some lip services - after all, they _ARE_ politicians - they may even "Ooooms" and "Aaaahs", pretending that they are doing something, but the final outcome will be the same old, same old.
As long as the lawyers get paid, they will pay the congresscritters.
And as long as the congresscritters get paid, all of us get screwed.
Company results circulate internally for several days as they are being prepared for public release to strict timetables, normally under strict secrecy. Leaks of the figures are extremely rare, but on this occasion Google tersely blamed financial printers RR Donnelly for filing its draft third quarter results "without authorisation".
you would be getting a much clearer picture of what had transpired.
I don't know why BBC chooses to word its news article in such a misleading manner.
The difference in interpretation might be "minor" but the consequences would be huge, if people only get parts of the main picture.
Samzenpus, can you please do a better job on the submission approval process?
"China's largest electronics manufacturer, the already-loathed Foxconn..."
First of all, Foxconn is from Taiwan, not China.
Second, no matter how much the submitter pigrabbitbear loaths Foxconn, the ill-feeling pigrabbitbear has towards Foxconn is NOT related to the story of TFA, and Samzenpus, the mod who approved the submit, should have known better than allowed "the already-loathed Foxconn" to pass through the approval process.
Slashdot is faltering, and it's not the users who has brought it down.
It's the moderators, such as Samzenpus, who have failed to carry out their job duty, in a professional manner.
Yes, sorry, I didn't notice the 2009 Q4 filing date there. Allow me to revise the argument: "not innovative" (I hesitate to write "obvious", since, it's not really that obvious) if a garage tinkerer can arrive at the same conclusion.
You've brought up a very pertinent point that most people sort of know deep inside but somehow don't wanna to say it out loud --- Patents =! Innovation
Especially under current patent practices, too many things which are NOT even a bit innovative got patented.
When I open sourced the programs that had made me some money, but I had no time nor the stamina to keep working on them, I didn't expect to get paid for that.
Instead, I thought of Johnny Appleseed.
The programs that I open sourced, to me, are old stuffs. I could have kept them under closed source, store them in CD-Rs or external hd or old computers, or....
I could have done that, but if I did that, it wouldn't benefit me, nor anybody else.
When I open sourced those programs, I didn't even know if anybody else wanted them in the first place. I just placed them online, did some advertisement on related sites, and then, let go.
If the "appleseed" blooms, good.
If they don't, well, it'd be the same as I locked them up in CD-Rs.
The most important thing is that I've set them free. Their "lives" after being set free depends on their "fates", or in spiritual kinda speak, "karma".
Once they are open-sourced, they do not belong to me anymore. Now, they belonged to the world.
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Oracle is expensive, and it is great at what it does.
Same can be said for Cisco, but ...
If you look at what the competitors are offering, neither Oracle nor Cisco are worth what they are charging - except in very rare case where no one else is offering the type of very specialized feature that Oracle or Cisco has.
And to put it in yet another way - the price Oracle / Cisco charge or their products do not guarantee that shit won't happen - I know of cases where shits did happen when Oracle / Cisco are being employed - and no, I can't reveal the detail, for the parties involved don't want the world to know about it.
From TFA:
The mismanagement of the $13 billion program to build the next generation weather satellites ...
Would someone please provide a link to the above quote?
And can someone please explain to us why is there no one has been punished for the $13 Billion loss due to mismanagement ??
It was one misstep after another.
AMD had had misstep before - as well as Intel.
But the only difference that separate Intel and AMD is that Intel had had a vision, and AMD had not.
AMD, since the beginning, tried to copy Intel.
When Intel was in the NOR flash business, AMD followed. Of course Intel had enough cash reserve to pull out from that business and still was able to fun its R&D.
For AMD, the loss that incurred on their NOR operation meant they had less money for R&D.
Still, AMD did come out with the X64 architecture, so much so that Intel had to follow.
Unfortunately for AMD is that the BOD do not work well with their CEOs. With the frequent change of CEOs, AMD is lost.
It's near the swan song for AMD - believe it or not.
Going for ARM server is but a desperate move, which, IMHO, won't save AMD from its own mess.
RIM is losing ground, but it has the BB encrypted messaging services, and millions of users worldwide are need that particular service.
Nokia, on the other hand, has the brand "Nokia".
HTC is losing more ground than Nokia or RIM simply because of bad designs.
HTC has neither a strong brand name like "Nokia" nor BB's worldwide encrypted messaging service.
Google Lynas
Wooohooo !
That's a can of worm right there !!!!
... and this is the way we do it when we are in France ...
We leave "specially prepared documents" in our hotel rooms every time we went out for dinner, or meeting, or whatever.
Those "specially prepared documents" do that look very genuine, with all kinds of juicy "insider secrets", but in fact, we fill them with half-truths, and spice it up with stuffs that we know would create havocs for those who try duplicating the result.
Why we do so?
Because, the French intelligent agency are in every single hotel in France.
Every single business delegation, every single group of scientists, every commercial entourage will be closely followed by the French secret police, and they will go into your room and scan all the papers they can possibly find.
It's an open secret to those of us who are veterans in the industrial espionage thing.
I know. But I ain't gonna leak it.
I still want to live.
Are you under the impression that everybody's going to throw away their PC and start using a tablet?
Nope, but I ain't gonna buy any PC/Laptop/Tablet/Smartphone with Win8 either.
Let this be a test case for the tweedledee and tweedledum, who wants the job at the White House so badly --- do they support a public fondl... [ahem] a pat down of a 14 year old American girl, in an American air port?
Is there anything new Slashdot can offer, other than this same old China bashing orgy?
If you think that equipments from Huawei is dangerous, what makes you think that Cisco equipment don't come with backdoors?
Which equipment the Stuxnet virus targeted?
Equipment from China or those from the Western countries?
It's easy to bash China - as China has become the poster boy for bashing orgy - from Presidential debate to this one in Slashdot - but I do expect MORE from those who come to Slashdot.
Unlike the tweedledee and tweedeldum on the presidential debate, you guys do have brains.
It's time you use your brain to think, rather than letting others doing the thinking for you.
If Huawei (and all equipments from all Chinese companies) are suspicious, what makes you think that equipments from Germany or Japan or Britain or Korea or Canada or USA aren't?
... this leak may lead to PS3 start selling like hotcakes ... ... and then ... ... the introductions of PS3+, PS3mini, PS3-NG .... ... and PS4 ... ... and finally, Profit !!
For the young uns ....
There was another Captain in the Star Trek series - Captain Pike - played by Jeffrey Hunter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Pike_(Star_Trek)
Which would you rather see: patents being licensed to the benefit of the licensor and licensee, or unlicensed patents falling into the hands of patent trolls to be used for litigation at a later date?
What makes you think that the patents in question won't fall into the hands of patent trolls at a later date?
Take this scenario for example -
I have 3 patents under my name, and I am earning some royalties out of the patents that I owned.
I feel that my patents can do more but unfortunately I can't think of anything else right now.
So ... I tout my patents on Marblar and I, the patent holders, got free suggestions from visitors to the site.
I shift through all those suggestions and found some gems. I immediately start to license my patents to cover the new fields that I hadn't thought of.
Who's winning? Me, the patent holder.
I'm making more money.
Who's losing? The world - now that someone out there has to pay more to do stuffs that was used to do without having to pay anybody.
And that's not all ...
Because my patents are worth MORE with the new applications, some patent troll offers to pay me a lot more for my 3 patents.
I took the $$ and they got my patents, and they immediately file lawsuits against any Tom, Dick and Harry that they can locate.
The existence of Marblar isn't going to help protect patents from patent trolls. It may have an adverse effect - by making patents worth more, and thus, more inventors might start considering selling their patents to the patent trolls.
An example to many broadcasters around the world, very advanced in its views. Still one of my favourites.
Unfortunately, it's no more.
After Rutgers U turned off Usenet, BBC turned off Ceefax.
Looks like good stuffs just ain't made to last as long as their rotten counterparts.
Wonder what's next ... ?
Maybe if Wayland takes off, Enlightenment can be ported to run there instead of X11
E17 has already been ported to Wayland
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxNjg
Back in 2011 Evas already runs on Wayland
https://plus.google.com/118426816251488376359/posts/AmCFdvRDj9F
M.any years ago they were talking about Enlightenment wanting to replace X11
While E has gone to E17(still beta), it's not replacing X11 yet.
I dunno much about the project that's the topic of TFA, so I won't know how successful it would be in replacing X11
... or is the whole thing gonna become yet another "I can kick China harder than you" pissing contest?
America has a lot of problems right now.
Unemployment ... and so on ...
Gradual loss of talents
Becoming more and more uncompetitive
Sky-rocketing crime rate
Tanking of morality
Are the two men gonna deal with the real problem facing America or are they gonna participating in the "I can kick China harder than you" pissing contest ?
We already know how bad the impact of patent/copyright trolling is, even before they came up with the numbers.
For years and years, - if not for more than a decade, - so many unwarranted lawsuits had been filed just to satisfy the insatiable appetites of the patent/copyright trolls.
I don't, not even for a femto-second, believe that the critters on the Congressional Hill do not know the damage done by patent/copyright trolls.
They already knew what happened, it's just that they had NO INTENTION TO CHANGE.
The more patent/copyright trolling lawsuits got filed, the more the lawyers' lobbyists will pay them congresscritters.
I can bet, with my bottom dollar, that no concrete change will be forthcoming from Washington D.C.
They may pay some lip services - after all, they _ARE_ politicians - they may even "Ooooms" and "Aaaahs", pretending that they are doing something, but the final outcome will be the same old, same old.
As long as the lawyers get paid, they will pay the congresscritters.
And as long as the congresscritters get paid, all of us get screwed.
From TPA:
Research has suggested that human activity triggered an earthquake
Umm ...
It was noted that even without the strain caused by water extraction, a quake would likely have occurred at some point in the area
Please pardon me, perhaps I am being too dense to understand the following intricacies:
How can it be that "Human activity triggered an earthquake" when a quake "would likely have occurred at some point in the area" ?
There's no french money, there's only european money.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2145882/How-tell-euro-note-comes--German-doesnt-beat-Greek.html
If the number of the euro note has a "U" in front, it's French euro.
Example:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/17/article-0-13243611000005DC-4_468x286.jpg
If you read this
Trading in Google shares was suspended for two-and-a-half hours after the internet giant released its third-quarter results early by mistake.
you would have thought that it was Google who had released its third-quarter result, mistake or not.
But if you read this
Google blamed financial printing firm RR Donnelley for filing an early draft of the results ...
or this, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/18/google-shares-suspend-email-22bn
Company results circulate internally for several days as they are being prepared for public release to strict timetables, normally under strict secrecy. Leaks of the figures are extremely rare, but on this occasion Google tersely blamed financial printers RR Donnelly for filing its draft third quarter results "without authorisation".
you would be getting a much clearer picture of what had transpired.
I don't know why BBC chooses to word its news article in such a misleading manner.
The difference in interpretation might be "minor" but the consequences would be huge, if people only get parts of the main picture.
Samzenpus, can you please do a better job on the submission approval process?
" China's largest electronics manufacturer, the already-loathed Foxconn ..."
First of all, Foxconn is from Taiwan, not China.
Second, no matter how much the submitter pigrabbitbear loaths Foxconn, the ill-feeling pigrabbitbear has towards Foxconn is NOT related to the story of TFA, and Samzenpus, the mod who approved the submit, should have known better than allowed "the already-loathed Foxconn" to pass through the approval process.
Slashdot is faltering, and it's not the users who has brought it down.
It's the moderators, such as Samzenpus, who have failed to carry out their job duty, in a professional manner.
Yes, sorry, I didn't notice the 2009 Q4 filing date there. Allow me to revise the argument: "not innovative" (I hesitate to write "obvious", since, it's not really that obvious) if a garage tinkerer can arrive at the same conclusion.
You've brought up a very pertinent point that most people sort of know deep inside but somehow don't wanna to say it out loud ---
Patents =! Innovation
Especially under current patent practices, too many things which are NOT even a bit innovative got patented.
For example: A rectangle with rounded corner.
Make sure, please, that you're contractually permitted to do this. Most paid work I do for companies tends to be owned by those companies.
I am my own boss, and all my programs belonged to me - except those that I've set free via open sourcing. They belonged, as I've said, to the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed
When I open sourced the programs that had made me some money, but I had no time nor the stamina to keep working on them, I didn't expect to get paid for that.
Instead, I thought of Johnny Appleseed.
The programs that I open sourced, to me, are old stuffs. I could have kept them under closed source, store them in CD-Rs or external hd or old computers, or ....
I could have done that, but if I did that, it wouldn't benefit me, nor anybody else.
When I open sourced those programs, I didn't even know if anybody else wanted them in the first place. I just placed them online, did some advertisement on related sites, and then, let go.
If the "appleseed" blooms, good.
If they don't, well, it'd be the same as I locked them up in CD-Rs.
The most important thing is that I've set them free. Their "lives" after being set free depends on their "fates", or in spiritual kinda speak, "karma".
Once they are open-sourced, they do not belong to me anymore. Now, they belonged to the world.