Unless they applied for this 10 years ago and it is just making it out of the patent office now, then yup there is oddles of prior art. My GPS (Magellan I think) has walking, cycling and bus mode for example. Score another win for the US patent office.
I see a lot of these stories that don't actually claim to be a global warming story (because it isn't) but are presented in a way to leave the person with no other conclusion. The CBC in Canada is getting very good at this kind of sleaze. Their story that last year was the warmest ever in the northern hemisphere would have been put into much better perspective if they had also mentioned that it was one of the coldest on record in the southern hemisphere. But then people wouldn't wander off joining dots that aren't really there.
Here are a few questions. How long has this site been recording temperatures? When was the last time the instruments were calibrated? Lets see some pictures of the site.
Yup. The guy still sounds like a total douche bag. I'll apologise to the gut that can hurt my business but not to the customer. Then I'll turn around and attack the guy that can hurt me any ways. Nice.
The move from init.d to systemd has at least tripped the length of time it takes me to boot. That doesn't even take into account the fact that I often have to reboot several times because the fsck tried to run before the encrypted/home partition was unlocked, or the fsck ran before the now mandatory relabel was done or any number of other combinations that put the machine into a cyclical death spin. Before you used to track maybe 10 start up processes now there are close to a hundred. Trying to keep them in order when every time you upgrade they get shuffled is impossible. And because you are now longer allowed to look at your system while it is booting ( compete stupidity ) you more or less have to use the force to try and guess at what might be going on.
Systemd was a great idea with a pulse audio style implementation.
Actually Green Peace and a boat load of organizations preaching the Global Warming mantra take money from Big Oil as well. So for Green Piece to point the finger here is more than a little hypocritical.
So does this mean that FB isn't worth the $50 Billion or what ever inflated to the bursting point price the banks were trying to offer only their most valued customers?
How does one become a browser consultant? Is there like a masters degree? What are the benefits like? Is it just me or does that sound like a made up for this story title in order to give some schmuck credibility with people who don't want to think to hard?
Amen. What is this "The government just does what they want non-sense. Stop voting for the same two failed parties. Start demonstrating on the lawn of the assemblies. Help to form a new party and fund it, run for office...
Or do you mean when you do nothing they keep doing what ever they want?
Microsoft paid over market value because most of that big pile of cash they are sitting on was made out side of the US and they can't bring it into the US without paying taxes on it. That is why the calls for bigger dividends are being ignored.
So the game plan is to buy some thing out side of the US that may boost the value of some thing with in the US. That way they can avoid paying taxes. There aren't that many large companies that fit the bill. Skype based in Switzerland fits the bill nicely.
My favourite was the web. Mosaic just came out when I was in tech school. When I hit the job market 2 years later they were looking for web developers with a minimum of 8 years experience in web development because that is what their policy was for every thing else. You still see lots of that, especially when working with open source software. Requirements for more experience than the project has been around. Clueless. And the worst of them are the head hunters. There is one where I live that will not put any candidate forward that doesn't have an MCSE even if the position is for a Linux admin or Solaris etc. Because apparently the MCSE is what "professional" administrators have.
The fact that I was running load balanced Linux clusters years years before you could even get certified in Linux makes their heads explode. It just doesn't compute.
Once some one has your mac address (assuming they have the real one) they know the manufacturer of your device. From there they can figure out where it was sold and they tie that to a credit card or bank card if you didn't pay cash. If they can tie your mac to some where that you signed up for an account you are also fingered. Every where you go on line no matter how you got there leaves a trail of things that quickly narrow the field of candidates. Your crazy if you think there is anonymity on line.
That and companies only want generalists. When the job add asks for some one that knows DOS, Window, Exchange, AD, IIS, MSSQL, Linux, Apache, Solaris, Oracle, VMS, IRIX, AIX,Mac, Cisco, Juniper, EMC, Netapp and can program in PHP, Java, C++,.NET and assembler you know the only skill the applicant really has is the ability to hit the speed dial button for the vendor.
Pay now or pay later. It's the age old question, and I bet Sony is wishing they had picked the other option about now.
I could be very wrong. But doesn't AMD already get a piece of the ARM action as every one includes a video chip with their ARM tablet/phone and a good chunk of those are AMD. Set me straight if I am wrong.
I predict that China will dictate IPv6 in the near rather than far future. That will make their addresses as few as they are for a country of that size available. In doing so China will meet its goals of building infrastructure that will work well into the future. Relatively speaking they don't have that much to convert unlike say 10 years from now. The money they make selling their IPv4 addresses will help pay for the migration and China will instantly be the big swinging dicks of IP6 and will own the market for manufacturing and supporting IPv6 network gear.
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Some American company will spend $$$ to buy the block from China but for less than the price of of a migration to IPv6. They will meet their goals of keeping the share price up for the next quarter even if it means that they still have to spend the money some where down the road when some other sap of a CEO is in charge. The company will declare they are "winning".
Slashdot didn't go down so I didn't know about it until some one posted a story. It's not the big things like this that worry me about being in the cloud. It is the small things you are never going to know about until it is to late that worry me.
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Unless they applied for this 10 years ago and it is just making it out of the patent office now, then yup there is oddles of prior art. My GPS (Magellan I think) has walking, cycling and bus mode for example. Score another win for the US patent office.
I see a lot of these stories that don't actually claim to be a global warming story (because it isn't) but are presented in a way to leave the person with no other conclusion. The CBC in Canada is getting very good at this kind of sleaze. Their story that last year was the warmest ever in the northern hemisphere would have been put into much better perspective if they had also mentioned that it was one of the coldest on record in the southern hemisphere. But then people wouldn't wander off joining dots that aren't really there. Here are a few questions. How long has this site been recording temperatures? When was the last time the instruments were calibrated? Lets see some pictures of the site.
Yup. The guy still sounds like a total douche bag. I'll apologise to the gut that can hurt my business but not to the customer. Then I'll turn around and attack the guy that can hurt me any ways. Nice.
... HBGary decided they would teach Anonymous a thing or two. I think Colbert could work with this.
The move from init.d to systemd has at least tripped the length of time it takes me to boot. That doesn't even take into account the fact that I often have to reboot several times because the fsck tried to run before the encrypted /home partition was unlocked, or the fsck ran before the now mandatory relabel was done or any number of other combinations that put the machine into a cyclical death spin. Before you used to track maybe 10 start up processes now there are close to a hundred. Trying to keep them in order when every time you upgrade they get shuffled is impossible. And because you are now longer allowed to look at your system while it is booting ( compete stupidity ) you more or less have to use the force to try and guess at what might be going on.
Systemd was a great idea with a pulse audio style implementation.
Mueller said they were gonna get that money. The judge must have gotten it wrong.
I guess Gnome is becoming more selective in it's appeal just like SpinalTap.
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So does this mean that FB isn't worth the $50 Billion or what ever inflated to the bursting point price the banks were trying to offer only their most valued customers?
How does one become a browser consultant? Is there like a masters degree? What are the benefits like? Is it just me or does that sound like a made up for this story title in order to give some schmuck credibility with people who don't want to think to hard?
A new company called SmartSSL has suddenly started selling certificates and claims to be the worlds most secure vendor. ;-)
When do we get a breath controller like the Yamaha DX-7 had?
Amen. What is this "The government just does what they want non-sense. Stop voting for the same two failed parties. Start demonstrating on the lawn of the assemblies. Help to form a new party and fund it, run for office ...
Or do you mean when you do nothing they keep doing what ever they want?
It's fairly new so most people probably don't know about it. It has been available in Rawhide for a couple of months or so now.
PJ has already chopped the legs out from under this latest troll job.
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How about all the UIDs and GIDs on back up tapes?
Any one who says this is all just trivial doesn't work with big enough systems. And when the auditors ask for the whole process to be documented?
This may need to be done. But if it does I am not sure we should stop at 1000. I wouldn't want to go through this again in 5 years.
Microsoft paid over market value because most of that big pile of cash they are sitting on was made out side of the US and they can't bring it into the US without paying taxes on it. That is why the calls for bigger dividends are being ignored.
So the game plan is to buy some thing out side of the US that may boost the value of some thing with in the US. That way they can avoid paying taxes. There aren't that many large companies that fit the bill. Skype based in Switzerland fits the bill nicely.
Google open source is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.
My favourite was the web. Mosaic just came out when I was in tech school. When I hit the job market 2 years later they were looking for web developers with a minimum of 8 years experience in web development because that is what their policy was for every thing else. You still see lots of that, especially when working with open source software. Requirements for more experience than the project has been around. Clueless. And the worst of them are the head hunters. There is one where I live that will not put any candidate forward that doesn't have an MCSE even if the position is for a Linux admin or Solaris etc. Because apparently the MCSE is what "professional" administrators have. The fact that I was running load balanced Linux clusters years years before you could even get certified in Linux makes their heads explode. It just doesn't compute.
Once some one has your mac address (assuming they have the real one) they know the manufacturer of your device. From there they can figure out where it was sold and they tie that to a credit card or bank card if you didn't pay cash. If they can tie your mac to some where that you signed up for an account you are also fingered. Every where you go on line no matter how you got there leaves a trail of things that quickly narrow the field of candidates. Your crazy if you think there is anonymity on line.
That and companies only want generalists. When the job add asks for some one that knows DOS, Window, Exchange, AD, IIS, MSSQL, Linux, Apache, Solaris, Oracle, VMS, IRIX, AIX,Mac, Cisco, Juniper, EMC, Netapp and can program in PHP, Java, C++, .NET and assembler you know the only skill the applicant really has is the ability to hit the speed dial button for the vendor.
Pay now or pay later. It's the age old question, and I bet Sony is wishing they had picked the other option about now.
I could be very wrong. But doesn't AMD already get a piece of the ARM action as every one includes a video chip with their ARM tablet/phone and a good chunk of those are AMD. Set me straight if I am wrong.
I would only be interested if it ran Moblin.
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Some American company will spend $$$ to buy the block from China but for less than the price of of a migration to IPv6. They will meet their goals of keeping the share price up for the next quarter even if it means that they still have to spend the money some where down the road when some other sap of a CEO is in charge. The company will declare they are "winning".
Slashdot didn't go down so I didn't know about it until some one posted a story. It's not the big things like this that worry me about being in the cloud. It is the small things you are never going to know about until it is to late that worry me.