"At last a company is shouting at the top of it's voice, engineers make the world."
Any company that gives too much weight to marketing and accounting types eventually runs things into the ditch of bad products...wrong thing - wrong way.
This is a leason that has been learned many times over, by many companies. Google is hardly the first to demonstrate the discipline to stick to it.
Chrysler supposedly learned this lesson the hard way in the 70's & 80's, when bean counters were allowed to decide which models cars and trucks would go to market. The company paid dearly for that mistake, and is only now comng off the ugly results.
Just remember that the group most capable to 'get it right' (right thing - right way) includes design engineers, usability engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, as well as project managers, tech writers and testing types.
Find good ones and give them the tools they need and get out of their way. You'll be a hero without even trying.
Smith: "One more thing" is that the uniprocessor has pretty well run out of steam. Parallelism to date has been a nice strategy for HPC users and an afterthought for microprocessor vendors. Now, it is becoming a matter of business survival for all processor vendors. Parallelism is going to be taken more seriously, starting with the idea of exploiting multi-threading and multiple cores on a single problem. This is a major change. Imagine if Microsoft wanted to write Office in a parallel language. What would that language be, and what would be the architecture to support it? We don't have good answers to these questions yet'
Imagine if you got paid to answer that question? Which, by the way comes out as 'parallel' and 'parallel language' (don't mix them up)...the other shoe drops.
Nokia today announced the demise of the N series, saying they will move to focus on TV on mobiles/handshelds in 2006 (in addition to other things)...
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Someone knows something.
The particular medical code specifically relating to such practices forbids any type of donation or solicitation from associates. In this case, it was clearly outlined that such actions were inappropriate, yet they still took place. Once the Doctor learned about it, he had two choices...foregoe history and play by the same rules as everyone else, or give life to the lie and set special rules for himself.
It's all about ethics, and like brains, either you have them or you don't.
All the worse for Korea, which can't seem to stop shooting itself in the foot when it comes to walking onto the world stage. I lived and worked among them for years, and if there is one thing they do have, it is national pride.
What the Wall Street Journal article failed to capture, however, was the correlation between the recent (mid) production line testing (equipment) glitchs at the factory (PR'd as bottlenecks in the testing methods), and the reality behind those 'two hours or so of automated testing and five minutes of manual testing'...leading us to today's headline.
Those two hours of supposed 'automated testing' are hands-off, burn-in time only (no loaded media)...no system testing involved, only logging the device id and power consumption while it sits on the burn rack. The five minutes 'manual' is more like two, with 'testing' being nothing more than voltage leak checks and on/off stabs.
"It's broke, Jim, and since my expertise is limited to human anatomy, there's no way in hades you're going to use any damn xbox until we get back to earth....sorry."
I was pushing my company three years ago to do this with user docs....they could toss on some promo videos, etc. This is a good idea, as long as they don't pull a Sony.
Helllooo....the topic was---wait for it... MS - I stuck to it (which is why I was m'd up) and all you did was whine:) Nice try, but the L stays on your forehead for another week, now go back to your room.
...OSM PR claims all fuss over nothing, as the correct declared new corporate name was meant to be 'Open Sores Media.' Something about being on the bleeding edge...
Frankly, this couldn't happen to a better bunch. I mean, really....the consumers think they get a deal of a lifetime, and go about their digital lives all happy and proud... Intel dumps some rank chips (last chance they get, now that Dell has seen the AMD light), Uncle Sam misses out (again) on tariffs and taxes he would just as soon spend on Humvees...the Taiwanese do what they do best, the Chinese make a killing in the bargain and I get to watch the whole thing go down from inside the PRC (I know the guys doing the masking):)
'...record companies need to do more to remove the incentive for piracy.'
Which brings up the method, again, of how the 'Dead dealt with bootlegging, by inviting bootleggers to give it thier best shot - This meant more publicity for the band, which led to more sales.
The record companies just won't let go. They want the model that puts them in control. Pricing control where they get to say which track sells for what amount, giving them leverage over the artist - bundleing, where trash tracks have to be purchased, whether the consumer wants them or not - consumer habit tracking, where they get first dibs on mining all that data...it goes on and on. The record companies just need to die, it's that simple.
In Sony's case, I guess this one can be laid at the feet of the lawyers, but hey, they've got their own business model to protect, and we all know where that one leads.
Why not just let the artists be in control for a while. Let the $$$ grabbers sell peanuts and t-shirts while the consumer enjoys decent music for a change.
Triangulation...hand-offs....were'd you get this stuff?...besides your imagination, I mean:)
The technology they (we) are using, as one example, includes multipath reflections (CDMA) and time-delay measurement. All that's needed is the location of one BTS, which is constantly updated using standard GPS. Spread spectrum usage has advanced significantly, and fine grain accuracy is sufficiently progressed to be able to pinpoint which user among hundreds you may want to id. Since it even works indoors, you can expect it to win out over simple GPS based locating technology.
I don't know about you, but the Sony rootkit has managed to turn me off completely to the PS3.
I'm not going to make the mistake of believing that the general public would feel the same way, but I can't understand why anyone who reads/. would even consider sending money to Sony.
Right, that holds water.
You seem to think MS can be trusted to treat you any better? Sony's blunder is just dumb. MS plots this type of think while you sleep...day in and day out.
This is from the recent Wired article on the rootkit debacle:'Microsoft I can understand. The company is a fan of invasive copy protection -- it's being built into the next version of Windows. Microsoft is trying to work with media companies like Sony, hoping Windows becomes the media-distribution channel of choice. And Microsoft is known for watching out for its business interests at the expense of those of its customers.'
Your ire should be 100 times larger over MS....yet you don't mention them - hmmm...MS troll smell?
'If the user has opted to make their information public'
Saturday night at the improv...that ones' just about the best one liner I've heard all evening. Bob Hope's writers couldn't have come up with anything funner...
If....hahahahahahah...that's a killer!!! heheheeh....IFFFF! hahahahahahahaa -...check is in the mail!!! hehehehehehhhhahahahahah!
...the issue was my signature on the Apple forums. I've been on and off the forums for years, and only started using signatures the last year. I rotate thru whatever humors me, and landed on this one a few months ago:
'Technological hubris often results in retribution'
- no specific target or person in mind, I just liked the sound of those words. I'd been using it for approx. 3 months, when I finally got short on time to spend inside the forums, and short on patience with the high signal to noise ratio, and mentioned to a friend that I was abandoning my L4 status and forum account and not looking back. Three days later I get a stern email from Apple forum admins telling me to change those words or be banned.
I replied they were too late, too dumb and I'd banned them intead. I still have no idea why that sentence made them so uncomfortable. And now today we see a photo of Rosa Parks on the main page with the seemingly hollow tag line "Think Different". Me thinks Rosa wouldn't have found any issue at all with my forum sig.
It's my life, online or off, and no chump can tell me what to write, think or say.
Audio Home Recording Act: This 1992 legislation exempts consumers from lawsuits for copyright violations when they record music for private, noncommercial use and eases access to advanced digital audio recording technologies. The law also provides for the payment of modest royalties to music creators and copyright owners, and mandates the inclusion of the Serial Copying Management Systems in all consumer digital audio recorders to limit multi-generational audio copying (i.e., making copies of copies). This legislation will also apply to all future digital recording technologies, so Congress will not be forced to revisit the issue as each new product becomes available.
...the RIAA's main offices in North Hollywood, California were broken into early Friday morning, but the smell aparently was too much for the burglers, who were both found dead at the scene.
When asked about cause of death, the Coroner shrugged and said "I'd guess the poor crooks were dead before they hit the floor... I'm used to the smell of death, but this place seems to have a corner on the market."
Rather than quoting quotes about 'the story'...why not just go see it.
China tightens supervision over online news services
BEIJING, Sept. 26 -- Online news sites that publish stories containing fabricated information, pornography, gambling or violence are facing severe punishments or even shutdown.
These new measures were part of a new regulation on online news services, jointly introduced yesterday by the State Council Information Office and the Ministry of Information Industry.
"We need to better regulate the online news services with the emergence of so many unhealthy news stories that will easily mislead the public," said a spokesman with the information office at a press conference yesterday.
Services that provide online news stories, that have bulletin board systems (BBS) or have the function of sending short messages containing news contents to individual mobile phones are all subject to the regulation.
News sites set up by news organizations but publishing not just their own stories, and sites by other organizations featuring news stories must get approval from the State Council Information Office. Sites by news organizations that only carry their own stories should register at the main office or provincial information offices.
The regulation also spells out that media attached to the central government or directly under provincial governments are not allowed to provide any stories to other online news sites without approval.
A temporary regulation on online news services was published in November 2000. But according to the spokesman, "it has lagged far behind the development of online news services, in technology, content and form. So it is necessary to have an updated version."
The public will help information departments at all levels supervise news sites. Anyone who finds unhealthy online stories can visit http://net.china.cn/ and report.
On hearing a heckler in the front row question his sanity, George Carlin replied... "Nice...I see you've been given the gift of a functional brain - please let us know when you unwrap it and take it out of the box."
Ok, I'll spot you this one, but next time, do yourself a favor and pay attention during class...
Functionalism has three distinct sources. First, Putnam and Fodor saw mental states in terms of an empirical computational theory of the mind. Second, Smart's "topic neutral" analyses led Armstrong and Lewis to a functionalist analysis of mental concepts. Third, Wittgenstein's idea of meaning as use led to a version of functionalism as a theory of meaning, further developed by Sellars and later Harman.
...for something to be a carburetor is for it to mix fuel and air in an internal combustion engine--carburetor is a functional concept. In the case of the kidney, the scientific concept is functional--defined in terms of a role in filtering the blood and maintaining certain chemical balances.
In the world of transistors, during manufacturing, we have functional and non-functional dies, where the non-functional are discarded, and the rest are further tested and assigned a 'functional level'.
This is where we end up with ram (or processors, etc.) being 'speed' rated, such as 80ns, 70ns, 60ns... These different speed components can all surface as part of a yield from the same 'batch', when some refuse to lock at one speed, and then pass inspection at another. Samsung doesn't run production of 60's on one day, and then 70's on the next. It's all about their 'functional' status as they come out of the oven...
A 'functional' transistor can go thru as many as 300 steps before it earns that title.
Puns, as anyone who understands the concept of this particular type of humor knows, generally fall into two categories: obvious and subtle.
In the case of an obvious pun, the tag line has come to be expected, and functions as a means of self-effacement, which is a respected attribute in many cultures. "Oh, wow...look...I just made a funny! I hope everyone appreciates the serendipitous nature and doesn't think I wrote the entire paragraph just for that purpose...? Honestly, it was just luck!"
Then of course, you have the punster who, fearing that their efforts at humor will go unappreciated, use such a tag to help focus/force attention on their autoring prowess, and thereby increase the overall audience. Leave no laughter behind...
In the case of 'i hate when ppl say...', most agree that this is simply an act of jealousy, where the childish hope is a dig will get them part of the (positive) attention as well, when, in fact, it usually warrants little more than pity.
In those cultures where punning is a part of daily life, intended or not, such gestures should be encouraged, not derided, since they help us to identify with others, while allowing us to show our individual ability to give and take - aka share.
Try living in a culture where the pun is non-existent. Conversations become boring rather quickly, and you have to find less elegant means of making a point. Some learn alternate means of expression, and some find it just too much work, and then become nothing but spectators. Personally, I find being able to use a pun means being able to craft better conversations, and I hate it when people don't 'get it'...
Yes, it's very obvious (as are the lurking ms apologists).
Anyone that holds MS stock is helping the practice of off-shoring as well.
Good news is, the Chinese aren't fooled by the likes of MS and Wal-Mart, so we can all rest easy knowing at least those two predators are being kept out of the hen-house.
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"At last a company is shouting at the top of it's voice, engineers make the world."
Any company that gives too much weight to marketing and accounting types eventually runs things into the ditch of bad products...wrong thing - wrong way.
This is a leason that has been learned many times over, by many companies. Google is hardly the first to demonstrate the discipline to stick to it.
Chrysler supposedly learned this lesson the hard way in the 70's & 80's, when bean counters were allowed to decide which models cars and trucks would go to market. The company paid dearly for that mistake, and is only now comng off the ugly results.
Just remember that the group most capable to 'get it right' (right thing - right way) includes design engineers, usability engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, as well as project managers, tech writers and testing types.
Find good ones and give them the tools they need and get out of their way. You'll be a hero without even trying.
Smith: "One more thing" is that the uniprocessor has pretty well run out of steam. Parallelism to date has been a nice strategy for HPC users and an afterthought for microprocessor vendors. Now, it is becoming a matter of business survival for all processor vendors. Parallelism is going to be taken more seriously, starting with the idea of exploiting multi-threading and multiple cores on a single problem. This is a major change. Imagine if Microsoft wanted to write Office in a parallel language. What would that language be, and what would be the architecture to support it? We don't have good answers to these questions yet'
...the other shoe drops.
Imagine if you got paid to answer that question? Which, by the way comes out as 'parallel' and 'parallel language' (don't mix them up)
Nokia today announced the demise of the N series, saying they will move to focus on TV on mobiles/handshelds in 2006 (in addition to other things)... br>
Someone knows something.
The particular medical code specifically relating to such practices forbids any type of donation or solicitation from associates. In this case, it was clearly outlined that such actions were inappropriate, yet they still took place. Once the Doctor learned about it, he had two choices...foregoe history and play by the same rules as everyone else, or give life to the lie and set special rules for himself.
It's all about ethics, and like brains, either you have them or you don't.
All the worse for Korea, which can't seem to stop shooting itself in the foot when it comes to walking onto the world stage. I lived and worked among them for years, and if there is one thing they do have, it is national pride.
What the Wall Street Journal article failed to capture, however, was the correlation between the recent (mid) production line testing (equipment) glitchs at the factory (PR'd as bottlenecks in the testing methods), and the reality behind those 'two hours or so of automated testing and five minutes of manual testing'...leading us to today's headline.
Those two hours of supposed 'automated testing' are hands-off, burn-in time only (no loaded media)...no system testing involved, only logging the device id and power consumption while it sits on the burn rack. The five minutes 'manual' is more like two, with 'testing' being nothing more than voltage leak checks and on/off stabs.
"It's broke, Jim, and since my expertise is limited to human anatomy, there's no way in hades you're going to use any damn xbox until we get back to earth....sorry."
I was pushing my company three years ago to do this with user docs....they could toss on some promo videos, etc. This is a good idea, as long as they don't pull a Sony.
Helllooo....the topic was---wait for it... MS - I stuck to it (which is why I was m'd up) and all you did was whine :) Nice try, but the L stays on your forehead for another week, now go back to your room.
...OSM PR claims all fuss over nothing, as the correct declared new corporate name was meant to be 'Open Sores Media.' Something about being on the bleeding edge...
Sorry for the confusion - back to your nap.
What about language? Chinese ok? Korean? Japanese...? Call now - operators are standing by.
Frankly, this couldn't happen to a better bunch. I mean, really....the consumers think they get a deal of a lifetime, and go about their digital lives all happy and proud... Intel dumps some rank chips (last chance they get, now that Dell has seen the AMD light), Uncle Sam misses out (again) on tariffs and taxes he would just as soon spend on Humvees...the Taiwanese do what they do best, the Chinese make a killing in the bargain and I get to watch the whole thing go down from inside the PRC (I know the guys doing the masking) :)
'...record companies need to do more to remove the incentive for piracy.'
Which brings up the method, again, of how the 'Dead dealt with bootlegging, by inviting bootleggers to give it thier best shot - This meant more publicity for the band, which led to more sales.
The record companies just won't let go. They want the model that puts them in control. Pricing control where they get to say which track sells for what amount, giving them leverage over the artist - bundleing, where trash tracks have to be purchased, whether the consumer wants them or not - consumer habit tracking, where they get first dibs on mining all that data...it goes on and on. The record companies just need to die, it's that simple.
In Sony's case, I guess this one can be laid at the feet of the lawyers, but hey, they've got their own business model to protect, and we all know where that one leads.
Why not just let the artists be in control for a while. Let the $$$ grabbers sell peanuts and t-shirts while the consumer enjoys decent music for a change.
Triangulation...hand-offs....were'd you get this stuff? ...besides your imagination, I mean :)
The technology they (we) are using, as one example, includes multipath reflections (CDMA) and time-delay measurement. All that's needed is the location of one BTS, which is constantly updated using standard GPS. Spread spectrum usage has advanced significantly, and fine grain accuracy is sufficiently progressed to be able to pinpoint which user among hundreds you may want to id. Since it even works indoors, you can expect it to win out over simple GPS based locating technology.
I don't know about you, but the Sony rootkit has managed to turn me off completely to the PS3. I'm not going to make the mistake of believing that the general public would feel the same way, but I can't understand why anyone who reads /. would even consider sending money to Sony.
Right, that holds water.
You seem to think MS can be trusted to treat you any better? Sony's blunder is just dumb. MS plots this type of think while you sleep...day in and day out.
This is from the recent Wired article on the rootkit debacle: 'Microsoft I can understand. The company is a fan of invasive copy protection -- it's being built into the next version of Windows. Microsoft is trying to work with media companies like Sony, hoping Windows becomes the media-distribution channel of choice. And Microsoft is known for watching out for its business interests at the expense of those of its customers.'
Your ire should be 100 times larger over MS....yet you don't mention them - hmmm...MS troll smell?
I doubt your balls have dropped...
'If the user has opted to make their information public'
....IFFFF! hahahahahahahaa - ...check is in the mail!!! hehehehehehhhhahahahahah!
Saturday night at the improv...that ones' just about the best one liner I've heard all evening. Bob Hope's writers couldn't have come up with anything funner...
If....hahahahahahah...that's a killer!!! heheheeh
...the issue was my signature on the Apple forums. I've been on and off the forums for years, and only started using signatures the last year. I rotate thru whatever humors me, and landed on this one a few months ago:
'Technological hubris often results in retribution'
- no specific target or person in mind, I just liked the sound of those words. I'd been using it for approx. 3 months, when I finally got short on time to spend inside the forums, and short on patience with the high signal to noise ratio, and mentioned to a friend that I was abandoning my L4 status and forum account and not looking back. Three days later I get a stern email from Apple forum admins telling me to change those words or be banned.
I replied they were too late, too dumb and I'd banned them intead. I still have no idea why that sentence made them so uncomfortable. And now today we see a photo of Rosa Parks on the main page with the seemingly hollow tag line "Think Different". Me thinks Rosa wouldn't have found any issue at all with my forum sig.
It's my life, online or off, and no chump can tell me what to write, think or say.
Nice try, but your logic folds back on itself.
' From the article: Major labels argue radio subscribers can use new portable devices to illegally download songs.'
Their principal worry is Y (use of), not X (deployment of).
The RIAA wants to stop X, yes...Why? So that Y can't happen. The summation being that once X happens, Y will automatically follow.
In the end, this means they are going after consumer's _choices_, which is, after all, going after the c o n s u m e r.
Audio Home Recording Act: This 1992 legislation exempts consumers from lawsuits for copyright violations when they record music for private, noncommercial use and eases access to advanced digital audio recording technologies. The law also provides for the payment of modest royalties to music creators and copyright owners, and mandates the inclusion of the Serial Copying Management Systems in all consumer digital audio recorders to limit multi-generational audio copying (i.e., making copies of copies). This legislation will also apply to all future digital recording technologies, so Congress will not be forced to revisit the issue as each new product becomes available.
...the RIAA's main offices in North Hollywood, California were broken into early Friday morning, but the smell aparently was too much for the burglers, who were both found dead at the scene.
When asked about cause of death, the Coroner shrugged and said "I'd guess the poor crooks were dead before they hit the floor... I'm used to the smell of death, but this place seems to have a corner on the market."
Rather than quoting quotes about 'the story'...why not just go see it.
China tightens supervision over online news services
BEIJING, Sept. 26 -- Online news sites that publish stories containing fabricated information, pornography, gambling or violence are facing severe punishments or even shutdown.
These new measures were part of a new regulation on online news services, jointly introduced yesterday by the State Council Information Office and the Ministry of Information Industry.
"We need to better regulate the online news services with the emergence of so many unhealthy news stories that will easily mislead the public," said a spokesman with the information office at a press conference yesterday.
Services that provide online news stories, that have bulletin board systems (BBS) or have the function of sending short messages containing news contents to individual mobile phones are all subject to the regulation.
News sites set up by news organizations but publishing not just their own stories, and sites by other organizations featuring news stories must get approval from the State Council Information Office. Sites by news organizations that only carry their own stories should register at the main office or provincial information offices.
The regulation also spells out that media attached to the central government or directly under provincial governments are not allowed to provide any stories to other online news sites without approval.
A temporary regulation on online news services was published in November 2000. But according to the spokesman, "it has lagged far behind the development of online news services, in technology, content and form. So it is necessary to have an updated version."
The public will help information departments at all levels supervise news sites. Anyone who finds unhealthy online stories can visit http://net.china.cn/ and report.
On hearing a heckler in the front row question his sanity, George Carlin replied... "Nice...I see you've been given the gift of a functional brain - please let us know when you unwrap it and take it out of the box."
...for something to be a carburetor is for it to mix fuel and air in an internal combustion engine--carburetor is a functional concept. In the case of the kidney, the scientific concept is functional--defined in terms of a role in filtering the blood and maintaining certain chemical balances.
Ok, I'll spot you this one, but next time, do yourself a favor and pay attention during class...
Functionalism has three distinct sources. First, Putnam and Fodor saw mental states in terms of an empirical computational theory of the mind. Second, Smart's "topic neutral" analyses led Armstrong and Lewis to a functionalist analysis of mental concepts. Third, Wittgenstein's idea of meaning as use led to a version of functionalism as a theory of meaning, further developed by Sellars and later Harman.
In the world of transistors, during manufacturing, we have functional and non-functional dies, where the non-functional are discarded, and the rest are further tested and assigned a 'functional level'.
This is where we end up with ram (or processors, etc.) being 'speed' rated, such as 80ns, 70ns, 60ns... These different speed components can all surface as part of a yield from the same 'batch', when some refuse to lock at one speed, and then pass inspection at another. Samsung doesn't run production of 60's on one day, and then 70's on the next. It's all about their 'functional' status as they come out of the oven...
A 'functional' transistor can go thru as many as 300 steps before it earns that title.
No way...a University offered me that job years ago, and I turned them down.
Writer, actually. But if you learned something from this minor exchange, good deal.
You know the saying...those that can - do. Those that can't - teach.
The ex...she's a teacher.
Puns, as anyone who understands the concept of this particular type of humor knows, generally fall into two categories: obvious and subtle.
In the case of an obvious pun, the tag line has come to be expected, and functions as a means of self-effacement, which is a respected attribute in many cultures. "Oh, wow...look...I just made a funny! I hope everyone appreciates the serendipitous nature and doesn't think I wrote the entire paragraph just for that purpose...? Honestly, it was just luck!"
Then of course, you have the punster who, fearing that their efforts at humor will go unappreciated, use such a tag to help focus/force attention on their autoring prowess, and thereby increase the overall audience. Leave no laughter behind...
In the case of 'i hate when ppl say...', most agree that this is simply an act of jealousy, where the childish hope is a dig will get them part of the (positive) attention as well, when, in fact, it usually warrants little more than pity.
In those cultures where punning is a part of daily life, intended or not, such gestures should be encouraged, not derided, since they help us to identify with others, while allowing us to show our individual ability to give and take - aka share.
Try living in a culture where the pun is non-existent. Conversations become boring rather quickly, and you have to find less elegant means of making a point. Some learn alternate means of expression, and some find it just too much work, and then become nothing but spectators. Personally, I find being able to use a pun means being able to craft better conversations, and I hate it when people don't 'get it'...
Yes, it's very obvious (as are the lurking ms apologists).
Anyone that holds MS stock is helping the practice of off-shoring as well.
Good news is, the Chinese aren't fooled by the likes of MS and Wal-Mart, so we can all rest easy knowing at least those two predators are being kept out of the hen-house.
"Is it possible that Bill Gates' recent lament over the decline of US CS graduates and research spending was merely crocodile tears?"
How many times do people need to be reminded? Investing in MS is risking having your own money used against you in the marketplace.