Well, Cingular top executives were sitting around in a restaurant one day, and one of them said, "How can we permanently lower our sales to computer professionals?" One of them said, "Maybe we can get ourselves on Slashdot for doing evil, mean, sneaky, and nasty things". The others said, "Great. That's it." And they all congratulated themselves for selling their souls to the devil, got drunk as skunks, and made lewd remarks to the waitress. Just at that moment there was the smell of burning sulfur in the air.
That's my theory about how it happened. Any other ideas? I realize that I have already stated the most likely scenario, and that it will be difficult to discover a more plausible one.
-- U.S. government violence in Iraq causes more violence, not peaceful democracy.
Nixon was a pardoned criminal. However, he didn't even come close to the enormous, widespread corruption of the G.W. Bush administration.
Of course, G.W. Bush is someone with an alcoholic personality who mostly just reads what is written for him. Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz are also major abusers of government power.
The U.S. government is more corrupt now than it has ever been.
I wrote a summary of the corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. I hope other people will write their own summaries and send them to their elected representatives. I love the U.S. and the corruption is extremely unhappy for me.
-- U.S. government violence in Iraq causes more violence, not peaceful democracy. Violence breeds violence.
Story Errors: I would have thought that, after all these years,
Slashdot editors would have learned to be editors. Often Slashdot stories are posted that show not even the simplest
examination, such as this one, that references an article that does not
support was said in the Slashdot story.
This is more of the real story Broadcom sees win for 'H.264' industry (January 27,
2007). However, the article does NOT say that the patents were invalidated;
they have not been invalidated.
This statement from the Slashdot story is incorrect: "This ruling
clears the way for H.264 to become a widely adopted open standard." If
that were true, it would be important, but it is not true, for three reasons:
1) The patents have not been invalidated (yet). 2) There can be an appeal.
3) There are other patents.
When there are several installers, AutoIt makes all the entries so that the installers are automatic, and no user entry is necessary other than starting the AutoIt program.
Many programs with installers don't set file and folder permissions so that it is possible for limited rights users to operate the program. AutoIt can set the permissions and do everything that the installers don't do.
Firefox, for example, needs considerable configuration to be completely useful. AutoIt can make all the settings automatically, without depending on the format of configuration files. AutoIt simulates mouse movements and keystrokes and does the same job a human user would do, but without making mistakes, and much faster.
-- Killing people does not create democracy. It creates heartache.
Am I not understanding something? Both AutoHotKey and AutoIt seem to have
everything this new program has, including auto-completion and any amount of
programmability.
Use the free, open source AutoHotkey to make keyboard shortcuts to run programs and enter text.
AutoHotkey is actively developed. Often the AutoHotKey developer, Chris
Mallett, releases 3 versions a month to incorporate user's suggestions.
(Windows only)
Use AutoIt to simulate keyboard entries and mouse clicks and when you
need complicated decision-making. Download AutoIt with the
SciTE auto-completion IDE. The SciTE editor makes writing and testing
AutoIt programs and compiling the finished results very easy.
Both of these programs are very sophisticated, apparently the best
available, come with compilers, and are FREE. Both are completely
programmable.
For example, I've written an AutoHotKey program that uses a shortcut
to toggle between Windows shortcut keys and WordStar/Brief control-key editing
commands. I like to avoid taking the time to touch the mouse.
AutoIt is great for automating installations of software. You can
compile all the installation files into the AutoIt file, and have AutoIt set
permissions and copy files during the installation.
Both AutoHotKey and AutoIt allow programming your own GUIs.
Both AutoHotKey and AutoIt need an addition: A GUI method of defining
keyboard shortcuts, for unskilled users.
-- U.S. government violence in Iraq encourages other violence.
Most CIOs are even more socially backward than most CEOs.
On the other hand, remember Ted Turner saying the AOL acquisition by Warner was "better than sex". Every company I know suffers from the CEO's lack of technical knowledge.
Maybe there are some socially skilled CIOs. However, there is VERY little respect for technical knowledge in our culture, so they are not likely to be considered.
-- U.S. government violence in Iraq caused more violence, not
peaceful democracy.
Read the summary I wrote, linked in the grandparent post. It would be difficult to find an administration more intensely dishonest and corrupt and incompetent. Fernando Collor de Mello's administration in Brazil didn't kill as many people, for example.
-- U.S. government violence in Iraq caused more violence, not
peaceful democracy.
I agree. If there is no trial for treason, then the rule of law has ceased to exist in the United States.
The Bush administration is the most corrupt administration the U.S. has ever had. Here is my summary of the corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy.
I hope you will write your own summary and send it to your elected representatives.
-- U.S. government violence in Iraq caused more violence, not
peaceful democracy.
This comment below the article linked by Slashdot suggests that the article may be part of a pump-and-dump stock scheme: "Re: Who knows? by JRIP 1/23/2007 3:40 PM".
Slashdot has been running a lot of "Investment Opportunity" stories recently.
Be careful. Slashdot has been running lots of stories that are "investment opportunities". Read this, the first comment to the story linked from the Slashdot story. I didn't write it, it was written by someone with the nick Emosson, but it sounds correct. (Also, read the other comments showing skepticism of the idea.):
"Unfortunately EEStor never made and will never make the supercapacitor described in the patent because they ignore a well known physical effect, called "dielectric saturation".
"Barium titanate has been used in capacitors for decades, due to its high dielectric constant: (PDF file).
"At a hypothetical field of 3500 Volts over a thickness of 12.76 micrometers, as proposed in the patent, the dielectric constant of barium titanate would be orders of magnitude lower than the claimed 18500, reducing capacity and energy density by the same factor...
"Further evidences of EEstor's hype! by Roger Pham 1/22/2007 10:41 PM
"In his patent #7033406, Richard Weir, EEstor CEO, cited data published WAY BACK in 1985 from the Japan's Journal of Applied Physics, as basis for the high dielectric property of Barium Titanate (BaTiO3)powder, when coated with aluminum oxide and calcium magnesium aluminosilicated glass. If BaTiO3 capacitor was so good way back in the 1985, the likes of the GM EV1 would be around evey street corners since 1996, or the Prius would have been a PHEV way back in 1997!
"What held back coated BaTiO3 powder from becoming a SuperCapacitor was the fact that BaTiO3 has dielectric property that varies by nearly ten folds with just typical seasonal swing in ambient temperature, and the fact that its dielectric property drops by as much with high electrical field strength, as Emosson has brought up!"
The discussion here makes me uncomfortable because I don't think enough attention is given to Microsoft's record of abusing its customers. As in, "Our customers are beta testers." Windows XP cause a lot of grief until the more than 600 fixes in Service Pack 2, some of which were not documented.
Someone marked this as a troll. Maybe it was a billionaire who didn't like my criticism of billionaires losing control of their lives? Certainly no one can argue with what I say is my experience with PayPal.
Or maybe someone who likes U.S. government violence didn't like this: "U.S. government violence in Iraq caused more violence, not peaceful democracy."
This statement sounds fishy: "He said the Zune had a 10.2 percent market share in the U.S. in the 30 gigabyte category, according to the latest data,..."
I suspect most people don't buy the 30 GigaByte iPod. I suspect that the "latest data" is only for new sales, and doesn't take into account all the iPods already sold in that category.
I also suspect that the "latest data" is a complete lie. Most people who call themselves marketing professionals are professional liars more than anything, in my experience.
I'd like to know how many people with no knowledge of MP3 players bought a Zune to give to someone as a Christmas present. I'd like to know how many Zune owners are dissatisfied with them.
-- U.S. government violence encourages other violence.
My experience with PayPal is also that it is adversarial and tricky.
Billionaires often feel that they are better than everyone else, and that they don't have to be open and honest. The billionaires who run eBay seem to think that way.
-- U.S. government violence in Iraq caused more violence, not peaceful democracy.
The parent comment: "So lemme get this right, Sony and other music companies that force Microsoft do implement DRM... but Microsoft is still at fault? Its not as if Microsoft has a choice in this matter."
It is Microsoft's responsibility to disclose any limiting features of their products that would cause customers to make a different decision about buying. Presumably most people who bought Zunes would not have bought them if they understood the limits.
-- Violence caused more violence in Iraq, not peaceful democracy.
A lot of people think that Microsoft is an abusive software company. However, the facts seem to fit the theory that Microsoft is an abuse company that sells software.
-- U.S. government violence has stopped the centuries-long
violence in Iraq and created a peaceful democracy. NOT!
My experience with Open Office 2.1 is that users are not aware of any difference between that and Microsoft Office. They only want to type a letter, and don't focus at all on software issues. I presume that most businesses have very minimal needs: Click File/ New/. Type stuff. Click File/ Save/. Click File/ Print/. Perhaps 1 user out of 20 has any interest in complicated formatting. For all others, there is Open Office. Price-less.
-- U.S. government violence has stopped the centuries-long violence in Iraq and created a peaceful democracy. NOT!
Quotes from the parent comment: "Wouldn't it be better to have invested in
corn and really push ethanol. " and "No, starting a war for profit in
the way you describe doesn't make much sense."
Most people who try to analyze U.S. government corruption have the
simplistic ideas of the normal, moral way of being. That's one reason why the
corruption works, because the citizens can be confused.
The fact is, although the price of oil is down, because the OPEC
cartel has not been successful recently at getting its member states to limit
production, the price of gasoline is still up. The scheme to make oil prices
higher has made hundreds of billions of dollars for the oil companies, and is
still making billions.
What is your theory? Why did Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bush start a war
that anyone with the slightest understanding of the area knew could not be
won? This was the lie, and U.S. citizens accepted it: "U.S.
government violence in Iraq will create a stable democracy in a region that
has always known continual violence, since more than 2,000 years ago." Of
course, most U.S. citizens cannot find Iraq on a map, even now.
In actuality, violence breeds violence, exactly as the world has seen
in Iraq.
Another issue: Most people don't understand why ethanol cannot replace
oil. The fact is, the energy needs of the world are too great for the amount
of farm land.
Do you think Cheney and Bush follow the rules? Is Halliburton honest? For some companies, violence is extremely profitable.
For the average U.S. citizen, it has been devastating, making each one of them
a little poorer.
Slashdot Mirror
Laughing.
Well, Cingular top executives were sitting around in a restaurant one day, and one of them said, "How can we permanently lower our sales to computer professionals?" One of them said, "Maybe we can get ourselves on Slashdot for doing evil, mean, sneaky, and nasty things". The others said, "Great. That's it." And they all congratulated themselves for selling their souls to the devil, got drunk as skunks, and made lewd remarks to the waitress. Just at that moment there was the smell of burning sulfur in the air.
That's my theory about how it happened. Any other ideas? I realize that I have already stated the most likely scenario, and that it will be difficult to discover a more plausible one.
--
U.S. government violence in Iraq causes more violence, not peaceful democracy.
Nixon was a pardoned criminal. However, he didn't even come close to the enormous, widespread corruption of the G.W. Bush administration.
Of course, G.W. Bush is someone with an alcoholic personality who mostly just reads what is written for him. Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz are also major abusers of government power.
Yes, but Slashdot is a good source for those who don't have the time to read or listen to or watch all the other media.
The U.S. government is more corrupt now than it has ever been.
I wrote a summary of the corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. I hope other people will write their own summaries and send them to their elected representatives. I love the U.S. and the corruption is extremely unhappy for me.
--
U.S. government violence in Iraq causes more violence, not peaceful democracy. Violence breeds violence.
Story Errors: I would have thought that, after all these years, Slashdot editors would have learned to be editors. Often Slashdot stories are posted that show not even the simplest examination, such as this one, that references an article that does not support was said in the Slashdot story.
This is more of the real story Broadcom sees win for 'H.264' industry (January 27, 2007). However, the article does NOT say that the patents were invalidated; they have not been invalidated.
This statement from the Slashdot story is incorrect: "This ruling clears the way for H.264 to become a widely adopted open standard." If that were true, it would be important, but it is not true, for three reasons: 1) The patents have not been invalidated (yet). 2) There can be an appeal. 3) There are other patents.
When there are several installers, AutoIt makes all the entries so that the installers are automatic, and no user entry is necessary other than starting the AutoIt program.
Many programs with installers don't set file and folder permissions so that it is possible for limited rights users to operate the program. AutoIt can set the permissions and do everything that the installers don't do.
Firefox, for example, needs considerable configuration to be completely useful. AutoIt can make all the settings automatically, without depending on the format of configuration files. AutoIt simulates mouse movements and keystrokes and does the same job a human user would do, but without making mistakes, and much faster.
--
Killing people does not create democracy. It creates heartache.
I forgot to mention in my parent comment that finding definitions that way can be made into an AutoHotKey hotkey.
How to find the definition of "proclivity", as mentioned by Walt Mossberg in the linked article: Google define: proclivity.
Am I not understanding something? Both AutoHotKey and AutoIt seem to have everything this new program has, including auto-completion and any amount of programmability.
Use the free, open source AutoHotkey to make keyboard shortcuts to run programs and enter text. AutoHotkey is actively developed. Often the AutoHotKey developer, Chris Mallett, releases 3 versions a month to incorporate user's suggestions. (Windows only)
Use AutoIt to simulate keyboard entries and mouse clicks and when you need complicated decision-making. Download AutoIt with the SciTE auto-completion IDE. The SciTE editor makes writing and testing AutoIt programs and compiling the finished results very easy.
Both of these programs are very sophisticated, apparently the best available, come with compilers, and are FREE. Both are completely programmable.
For example, I've written an AutoHotKey program that uses a shortcut to toggle between Windows shortcut keys and WordStar/Brief control-key editing commands. I like to avoid taking the time to touch the mouse.
AutoIt is great for automating installations of software. You can compile all the installation files into the AutoIt file, and have AutoIt set permissions and copy files during the installation.
Both AutoHotKey and AutoIt allow programming your own GUIs.
Both AutoHotKey and AutoIt need an addition: A GUI method of defining keyboard shortcuts, for unskilled users.
--
U.S. government violence in Iraq encourages other violence.
Most CIOs are even more socially backward than most CEOs.
On the other hand, remember Ted Turner saying the AOL acquisition by Warner was "better than sex". Every company I know suffers from the CEO's lack of technical knowledge.
Maybe there are some socially skilled CIOs. However, there is VERY little respect for technical knowledge in our culture, so they are not likely to be considered.
--
U.S. government violence in Iraq caused more violence, not peaceful democracy.
Read the summary I wrote, linked in the grandparent post. It would be difficult to find an administration more intensely dishonest and corrupt and incompetent. Fernando Collor de Mello's administration in Brazil didn't kill as many people, for example.
--
U.S. government violence in Iraq caused more violence, not peaceful democracy.
I agree. If there is no trial for treason, then the rule of law has ceased to exist in the United States.
The Bush administration is the most corrupt administration the U.S. has ever had. Here is my summary of the corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy.
I hope you will write your own summary and send it to your elected representatives.
--
U.S. government violence in Iraq caused more violence, not peaceful democracy.
This comment below the article linked by Slashdot suggests that the article may be part of a pump-and-dump stock scheme: "Re: Who knows? by JRIP 1/23/2007 3:40 PM".
Slashdot has been running a lot of "Investment Opportunity" stories recently.
Be careful. Slashdot has been running lots of stories that are "investment opportunities". Read this, the first comment to the story linked from the Slashdot story. I didn't write it, it was written by someone with the nick Emosson, but it sounds correct. (Also, read the other comments showing skepticism of the idea.):
"Unfortunately EEStor never made and will never make the supercapacitor described in the patent because they ignore a well known physical effect, called "dielectric saturation".
"Barium titanate has been used in capacitors for decades, due to its high dielectric constant: (PDF file).
"However, the dielectric constant drops as the electric field strength increases: http://www.nap.edu/books/NI000488/html/49.html
http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v71/i12/p890_1
"At a hypothetical field of 3500 Volts over a thickness of 12.76 micrometers, as proposed in the patent, the dielectric constant of barium titanate would be orders of magnitude lower than the claimed 18500, reducing capacity and energy density by the same factor...
"This has been discussed in more detail by Prof. Anatoly Moskalev on December 24th and 26th, 2006 in
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/index.php?p=43
"with an update on January 20th, 2007:
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog1/?p=46."
Also read this comment considerably below:
"Further evidences of EEstor's hype! by Roger Pham 1/22/2007 10:41 PM
"In his patent #7033406, Richard Weir, EEstor CEO, cited data published WAY BACK in 1985 from the Japan's Journal of Applied Physics, as basis for the high dielectric property of Barium Titanate (BaTiO3)powder, when coated with aluminum oxide and calcium magnesium aluminosilicated glass. If BaTiO3 capacitor was so good way back in the 1985, the likes of the GM EV1 would be around evey street corners since 1996, or the Prius would have been a PHEV way back in 1997!
"What held back coated BaTiO3 powder from becoming a SuperCapacitor was the fact that BaTiO3 has dielectric property that varies by nearly ten folds with just typical seasonal swing in ambient temperature, and the fact that its dielectric property drops by as much with high electrical field strength, as Emosson has brought up!"
Maybe Vista is the Zune of operating systems.
The discussion here makes me uncomfortable because I don't think enough attention is given to Microsoft's record of abusing its customers. As in, "Our customers are beta testers." Windows XP cause a lot of grief until the more than 600 fixes in Service Pack 2, some of which were not documented.
Someone marked this as a troll. Maybe it was a billionaire who didn't like my criticism of billionaires losing control of their lives? Certainly no one can argue with what I say is my experience with PayPal.
Or maybe someone who likes U.S. government violence didn't like this: "U.S. government violence in Iraq caused more violence, not peaceful democracy."
And not if they see CNN's opinion: CNN ridicules Micosoft Zune.
"Europeans will be excitedly squirting all over the place!" Not if they watch this video first: An Opinion about Zune.
MOD PARENT UP!!
This statement sounds fishy: "He said the Zune had a 10.2 percent market share in the U.S. in the 30 gigabyte category, according to the latest data,..."
I suspect most people don't buy the 30 GigaByte iPod. I suspect that the "latest data" is only for new sales, and doesn't take into account all the iPods already sold in that category.
I also suspect that the "latest data" is a complete lie. Most people who call themselves marketing professionals are professional liars more than anything, in my experience.
I'd like to know how many people with no knowledge of MP3 players bought a Zune to give to someone as a Christmas present. I'd like to know how many Zune owners are dissatisfied with them.
--
U.S. government violence encourages other violence.
My experience with PayPal is also that it is adversarial and tricky.
Billionaires often feel that they are better than everyone else, and that they don't have to be open and honest. The billionaires who run eBay seem to think that way.
--
U.S. government violence in Iraq caused more violence, not peaceful democracy.
The parent comment: "So lemme get this right, Sony and other music companies that force Microsoft do implement DRM... but Microsoft is still at fault? Its not as if Microsoft has a choice in this matter."
It is Microsoft's responsibility to disclose any limiting features of their products that would cause customers to make a different decision about buying. Presumably most people who bought Zunes would not have bought them if they understood the limits.
--
Violence caused more violence in Iraq, not peaceful democracy.
A lot of people think that Microsoft is an abusive software company. However, the facts seem to fit the theory that Microsoft is an abuse company that sells software.
--
U.S. government violence has stopped the centuries-long violence in Iraq and created a peaceful democracy. NOT!
My experience with Open Office 2.1 is that users are not aware of any difference between that and Microsoft Office. They only want to type a letter, and don't focus at all on software issues. I presume that most businesses have very minimal needs: Click File/ New/. Type stuff. Click File/ Save/. Click File/ Print/. Perhaps 1 user out of 20 has any interest in complicated formatting. For all others, there is Open Office. Price-less.
--
U.S. government violence has stopped the centuries-long violence in Iraq and created a peaceful democracy. NOT!
Quotes from the parent comment: "Wouldn't it be better to have invested in corn and really push ethanol. " and "No, starting a war for profit in the way you describe doesn't make much sense."
Most people who try to analyze U.S. government corruption have the simplistic ideas of the normal, moral way of being. That's one reason why the corruption works, because the citizens can be confused.
The fact is, although the price of oil is down, because the OPEC cartel has not been successful recently at getting its member states to limit production, the price of gasoline is still up. The scheme to make oil prices higher has made hundreds of billions of dollars for the oil companies, and is still making billions.
What is your theory? Why did Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bush start a war that anyone with the slightest understanding of the area knew could not be won? This was the lie, and U.S. citizens accepted it: "U.S. government violence in Iraq will create a stable democracy in a region that has always known continual violence, since more than 2,000 years ago." Of course, most U.S. citizens cannot find Iraq on a map, even now.
In actuality, violence breeds violence, exactly as the world has seen in Iraq.
Another issue: Most people don't understand why ethanol cannot replace oil. The fact is, the energy needs of the world are too great for the amount of farm land.
Do you think Cheney and Bush follow the rules? Is Halliburton honest? For some companies, violence is extremely profitable. For the average U.S. citizen, it has been devastating, making each one of them a little poorer.