Everyone knows that Tabs give you lung-cancer, I'm suprised that in the US people are pushing Tabs onto everyone, even kids, saying they should be the "default". I for one think its dreadful that Mr Hyatt is pushing Tabs and saying "when they are useful", Tabs KILL, simple as that.
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Okay what do _you_ want to see replace ICANN, what would make _you_ happy.
Then look at the real players at this event and think. Is the issue that ICANN has too much control or that...
These people, corporations and goverments want a slice of the pie and to dictate it all themselves.
Now given how these things tend to go I wouldn't bet large amounts of Turkish Lira, let alone Dollars, Euros or Pounds that if ICANN is toppled that the resulting quango isn't just a collection of "interested parties" aka "the usual suspects" who try and define the rules for themselves. Lets face it this goes in with the copyright issues in the US, the WTO "screw the 3rd world" and corporatisation of politics and policy.
ICANN might be total and utter nutters and a total pain in the arse. But are you REALLY sure that what comes next won't be worse ?
I know people in the US don't know kilograms BUT 6.9 lbs. (2.96 kg) and 6.8 pounds (3.1 kg) doesn't work:-)
One not interesting fact at all here is that at approx 235 cubic inches for the Dell and 157 cubic inches for the Apple we can see that by volume the Dell is much lighter 0.03 lbs per cubic inch v 0.043 for the Apple.
So in fact the question is why is the Apple so heavy...
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The new service would only be available to users of Apple's Macintosh line computers and iPod portable music players
Which indicates there is something in it that stops the rest of us using it. This would further indicate either a closed format with codecs only for these two. Or DRM on top of something that exists.
Now is that bad ? Maybe not, but I was pretty sure that the Slashdot perfect model was
Download for.99c and then burn to CD or email to your friends
The answer is simple, make a tri-band GSM phone (only the US could do GSM but require yet another band) and sell it to Europe and the Far East where new and funky phones come out all the time.
With CDMA and TDMA you are buying a brick that does analogue as well and looks like shit, and is also a much smaller market.
GSM IS successful on its own, the issue is that the US hasn't standardised like the rest of planet earth.
Highly skilled jobs remain, and pay well, because basic design, prototyping and pilot production will still be done here, but even if you have skills, there are problems getting hired. Human Resources departments haven't one clue in Hell how to evaluate skilled technical workers. They try to match exact experience and training to exact job requirements, and demand 3 years experience for specialties that have only existed for 18 months. Thousands of technical jobs go unfilled, while thousands who could do those jobs are asking, "Do you want fries with that?".
If you're over 40, the technology employment picture becomes really grim. You have abilities far beyond a 28 year old's, but he's the one that's going to get hired. For over 40s, there are many opportunities in consulting, especially in small and medium business, but that takes social skills and above all, selling skills, exactly what many chose technical careers to avoid.
Ummm and with that beard ? A strange rant in the middle of the article.
Israel ? And what was Donald "lets invade" Rumsfelds job during the 80s... err selling chemicals to Sadam.
We know, beyond any reasonable doubt that the US has helped Israel get WMD, we also know its sold them to Britain as well.
So there are two official cases where it has happened. And officially the US and Britain supplied billions of dollars of arms equipment to Iraq during the Iran v Iraq war.
What else do we know 1) CIA trained Bin Laden and many people in Afghanistan against the USSR, many of these became the Taliban.
2) The US supplied weapons to terrorists in the Iran/Contra scandal.
So yes, apart from these cases and lots more there is no evidence at all to say that the US has potentially the dirtiest hands on the block.
As an old fart, this just sounds like a fancy News GUI... hell even like GNUs. There have been loads of discussions on selling things over Usenet for years and years and years.
Now the argument here is that a "non-participant" doesn't start the disucssion. Or in otherwords... This is a Usenet discussion in which root items are posted by a moderator.
This means I can cancel all of my meetings. After all discussing things on the agenda would violate the patent and I wouldn't want that.
Oh hang on this means that its okay as long as it isn't structured around a topic. Damn you Amazon for condeming us all to a world which only contains long rambling ill focused meetings.
Could do that inside an office, very cheap and already on lots of phones. Blue tooth hardware can be tiny in comparison to 802.11b. And covers small blackspots like in offices.
802.11b would be for bigger blackspots which begs the same question.
And why would 802.11b fix this ? If you can put 802.11b there why not just put up a cell to fix the problem ?
Right now where are the 802.11b networks... for the most part they are in the cities. Where do you not have a problem with reception... in the cities.
Why would someone put an 802.11b network out on Route 100N in Vermont rather than just a cell on the top of the mountain ? I'm obviously Mr Thicky here as it does seem that if you are going to put up a wireless network you might as well put up one that is already supported by phones rather than adding more bulk to the phones with a seperate set of chips to drain the battery.
I've got bluetooth on my mobile, and GPRS. Someone please tell me why I'd want 802.11b as well ?
Is great, having those hours when no-one can contact you. Finding a hotel in a mobile blackspot. Being unable to pick up emails for days knowing that people will just have to cope.
I like being offline, I hate being forced to be online more, with the internet on planes now there goes 8 hours of peace and quiet without an urgent request to do something minor.
The more I'm online the less work that I do, because the more "noise" I receive. Being online all the time means more stupid IM requests, more emails to follow up and more calls asking about something they could have read in a book.
Next year you'll have articles on how far people go to kill their net connection.
We know that having the death penalty doesn't reduce the murder rate. And one of the key elements of doing white collar crime is also a belief that you can "get away with it" by hiring enought lawyers.
So what if it isn't a deterent ? It doesn't look like the drugs sentences are detering smugglers either, should we therefore reduce the sentence ?
White Collar just means "people like us", where "Blue Collar" means "them".
Scenario A: man walks into a store with a gun, demands they empty the till, walks out with a hundred bucks.
Net effect: 100 bucks for the store + mental anguish for people in there.
Punishment: Ten years
Scenario B: Man defrauds investors, pension funds etc out of millions or billions
Net Effect: Pension funds slashed, thousands made unemployed
Punishment: 5 years
We all know that white collar crime gets punished a whole lot less, but is that right ? Why shouldn't execs from the likes of Enron, WorldCom et al be looking at life behind bars for the havoc they have reaked ? Well because there really is a different set of laws for the rich. Sure they might even get 15 years in the cases of these massive frauds, but is this enough given the damage they have caused ?
So maybe the problem is that white collar crime is punished too little, rather than hacking is punished too much. Maybe having sentences for theft, fraud etc (of any kind not involving actual violent which already has punishments) should be related to the amount of money stolen.
Before anyone bleats that this is "the economy" just think for a second.
10 YEARS and only ONE ISSUE turned a profit. This was a cash sink before.coms became standard, it failed to make a profit during the boom, it lost money in the dive, and it lost money at the bottom.
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Everyone knows that Tabs give you lung-cancer, I'm suprised that in the US people are pushing Tabs onto everyone, even kids, saying they should be the "default". I for one think its dreadful that Mr Hyatt is pushing Tabs and saying "when they are useful", Tabs KILL, simple as that.
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The opening line being
..."
:-)
"I might not be a scientist BUT that doesn't mean I shouldn't comment on
something as important as quantum mechanics....
How Challenger blew up and why it was a terrorist attack
Why SUVs are environmentally friendly
etc etc
Oh and anything with an "ology" at the end of it, real biology is called genetics
Okay what do _you_ want to see replace ICANN, what would make _you_ happy.
Then look at the real players at this event and think. Is the issue that ICANN has too much control or that...
These people, corporations and goverments want a slice of the pie and to dictate it all themselves.
Now given how these things tend to go I wouldn't bet large amounts of Turkish Lira, let alone Dollars, Euros or Pounds that if ICANN is toppled that the resulting quango isn't just a collection of "interested parties" aka "the usual suspects" who try and define the rules for themselves. Lets face it this goes in with the copyright issues in the US, the WTO "screw the 3rd world" and corporatisation of politics and policy.
ICANN might be total and utter nutters and a total pain in the arse. But are you REALLY sure that what comes next won't be worse ?
I know people in the US don't know kilograms BUT :-)
6.9 lbs. (2.96 kg) and 6.8 pounds (3.1 kg) doesn't work
One not interesting fact at all here is that at approx 235 cubic inches for the Dell and 157 cubic inches for the Apple we can see that by volume the Dell is much lighter 0.03 lbs per cubic inch v 0.043 for the Apple.
So in fact the question is why is the Apple so heavy...
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In other words....
Your good self.
Because the iPod doesn't have a CD player...
I mean duh, dude do you know whut a iPod is.
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The new service would only be available to users of Apple's Macintosh line computers and iPod portable music players
.99c and then burn to CD or email to your friends
Which indicates there is something in it that stops the rest of us using it. This would further indicate either a closed format with codecs only for these two. Or DRM on top of something that exists.
Now is that bad ? Maybe not, but I was pretty sure that the Slashdot perfect model was
Download for
The answer is simple, make a tri-band GSM phone (only the US could do GSM but require yet another band) and sell it to Europe and the Far East where new and funky phones come out all the time.
With CDMA and TDMA you are buying a brick that does analogue as well and looks like shit, and is also a much smaller market.
GSM IS successful on its own, the issue is that the US hasn't standardised like the rest of planet earth.
I wonder if GSM works in Iraq ?
Highly skilled jobs remain, and pay well, because basic design, prototyping and pilot production will still be done here, but even if you have skills, there are problems getting hired. Human Resources departments haven't one clue in Hell how to evaluate skilled technical workers. They try to match exact experience and training to exact job requirements, and demand 3 years experience for specialties that have only existed for 18 months. Thousands of technical jobs go unfilled, while thousands who could do those jobs are asking, "Do you want fries with that?".
If you're over 40, the technology employment picture becomes really grim. You have abilities far beyond a 28 year old's, but he's the one that's going to get hired. For over 40s, there are many opportunities in consulting, especially in small and medium business, but that takes social skills and above all, selling skills, exactly what many chose technical careers to avoid.
Ummm and with that beard ? A strange rant in the middle of the article.
3 entangled electrons... Which one is Michelle Pfeiffer ?
Steve
If you were an Oil man and say it cost you $14 to produce a barrel of Oil which would you prefer
1) Cheap Oil that is sold at $20 a barrel
or
2) Expensive Oil that is sold at $80 a barrel.
Now simple me says that an Oil man would prefer 2.
Israel ? And what was Donald "lets invade" Rumsfelds job during the 80s... err selling chemicals to Sadam.
We know, beyond any reasonable doubt that the US has helped Israel get WMD, we also know its sold them to Britain as well.
So there are two official cases where it has happened. And officially the US and Britain supplied billions of dollars of arms equipment to Iraq during the Iran v Iraq war.
What else do we know
1) CIA trained Bin Laden and many people in Afghanistan against the USSR, many of these became the Taliban.
2) The US supplied weapons to terrorists in the Iran/Contra scandal.
So yes, apart from these cases and lots more there is no evidence at all to say that the US has potentially the dirtiest hands on the block.
As an old fart, this just sounds like a fancy News GUI... hell even like GNUs. There have been loads of discussions on selling things over Usenet for years and years and years.
Now the argument here is that a "non-participant" doesn't start the disucssion. Or in otherwords...
This is a Usenet discussion in which root items are posted by a moderator.
This means I can cancel all of my meetings. After all discussing things on the agenda would violate the patent and I wouldn't want that.
Oh hang on this means that its okay as long as it isn't structured around a topic. Damn you Amazon for condeming us all to a world which only contains long rambling ill focused meetings.
Hell the Chinese and Russians already know this stuff, and Bin Laden was trained by the US.
Its the FRENCH that this stuff is being protected from.
Bugger that you new fangled whippersnapper.
RCS now that is where the real programmers live.
CVS... PAH!
Could do that inside an office, very cheap and already on lots of phones. Blue tooth hardware can be tiny in comparison to 802.11b. And covers small blackspots like in offices.
802.11b would be for bigger blackspots which begs the same question.
And why would 802.11b fix this ? If you can put 802.11b there why not just put up a cell to fix the problem ?
Right now where are the 802.11b networks... for the most part they are in the cities. Where do you not have a problem with reception... in the cities.
Why would someone put an 802.11b network out on Route 100N in Vermont rather than just a cell on the top of the mountain ? I'm obviously Mr Thicky here as it does seem that if you are going to put up a wireless network you might as well put up one that is already supported by phones rather than adding more bulk to the phones with a seperate set of chips to drain the battery.
I've got bluetooth on my mobile, and GPRS. Someone please tell me why I'd want 802.11b as well ?
Many different machines
A Sun, an IBM Mainframe and even Ozzy and Sharon
Pah, this mod is just rubbish. I rule.
The above was a paid for advertisement on behalf of the "I can do it better association".
Err lets see.... I'd use JNDI which does all the work for me. So in Java a LDAP replicator would take....
A couple of minutes (and yes I've written one). Because JNDI makes all that work totally trivial.
No CSV, no intermediate phases. Give me one ldap URL and I'll copy everything over into another.
NB. This proves nothing but the fact that you don't know what you are talking about.
Is great, having those hours when no-one can contact you. Finding a hotel in a mobile blackspot. Being unable to pick up emails for days knowing that people will just have to cope.
I like being offline, I hate being forced to be online more, with the internet on planes now there goes 8 hours of peace and quiet without an urgent request to do something minor.
The more I'm online the less work that I do, because the more "noise" I receive. Being online all the time means more stupid IM requests, more emails to follow up and more calls asking about something they could have read in a book.
Next year you'll have articles on how far people go to kill their net connection.
We know that having the death penalty doesn't reduce the murder rate. And one of the key elements of doing white collar crime is also a belief that you can "get away with it" by hiring enought lawyers.
So what if it isn't a deterent ? It doesn't look like the drugs sentences are detering smugglers either, should we therefore reduce the sentence ?
White Collar just means "people like us", where "Blue Collar" means "them".
Because all adults will tell you is what they wished _they_ had done.
Scenario A: man walks into a store with a gun, demands they empty the till, walks out with a hundred bucks.
Net effect: 100 bucks for the store + mental anguish for people in there.
Punishment: Ten years
Scenario B: Man defrauds investors, pension funds etc out of millions or billions
Net Effect: Pension funds slashed, thousands made unemployed
Punishment: 5 years
We all know that white collar crime gets punished a whole lot less, but is that right ? Why shouldn't execs from the likes of Enron, WorldCom et al be looking at life behind bars for the havoc they have reaked ? Well because there really is a different set of laws for the rich. Sure they might even get 15 years in the cases of these massive frauds, but is this enough given the damage they have caused ?
So maybe the problem is that white collar crime is punished too little, rather than hacking is punished too much. Maybe having sentences for theft, fraud etc (of any kind not involving actual violent which already has punishments) should be related to the amount of money stolen.
Maybe 1 year per $1000....
Before anyone bleats that this is "the economy" just think for a second.
10 YEARS and only ONE ISSUE turned a profit. This was a cash sink before
Maybe the "sad" reason is really simple....
Do you know anyone who _ever_ paid money for it ?