Perhaps he flew only a hundred miles to the next airfield and then they just hoaxed it all on the www, ya know like how NASA "went to the moon".
Nice piccies of GF over the Atlas mountains? Photoshop.
You have to hand it to them. Cooking up that lost fuel scenario and the GPS outage scenario was a good way of grabbing some media attention. Nothing gets viewer % like the promise of a plain wreck and bodies (or only one body in this case). C'mon folks how do you "lose" 2600 pounds of fuel...
No. The point is not on the company competeing, but whether it is ethical for an employee to up sticks and go to a competitor to help do something competitive.
Given that MS has an history of using any tool available to get their way, you can be sure the ethics card will be played.
If anything remotely looks like a threat to MS, you can bet what you want that they will bodyslam Google.
As adequately demonstrated, MS dominance is through bruiser tactics. Don't expect them to stand idly by while someone else takes whet that consider to be their turf. They don't mind losing a lot of money to get power.
I've only had one turned down out of about 12 applications.
The biggest factor in gaining a patent is to use a nice sound bitey/buzz-wordy title to dress up the obvious. (eg. "data driven" vs "scripting" or "parameters").
That gets you the patent (more or less), but you still have to defend the patent on its substance.
These days, some of a patent's value is in using it to make a news release and create stock buzz as per SCO. If that's the case then any patent is fine even if it is bullshit.
Most stuff on TV is pure crap that people will sit and watch rather than look at, and talk to, their partner/kids/grandma. Are people really going to want to pay for TV on a per-show basis?
The stations make their main dollars from advertising by charging based on viewership. It does not really matter that people get up during the ads to get another beer/take a dump etc. Anything they can do to hike the viewership numbers is considered a GoodThing. If they can do this through counting downloads then they win.
Pay per view is a barrier to hiking the viewership numbers.
Let me clarify what I mean by conservative. I don't mean right wing or whatever, I mean the option with the lowest risk.
If we think that activity X *might* have bad consquences or we don't have evidence that it won't, then we should probably not do it. hence my traffic analogy: Just because we can't see the cars does not make it safe. In the case of global warming, perhaps this is all just greeny bullshit, but there is some evidence that suggests we're doing damage then we should limit what we're doing.
even non-agricultural societies used burning as a hunting tool to either frighten prey, diminish feed or make new lusghh feed to attract them.
However to say that we should not act because there is no proof is not wise. By the time we have proof it will be to late. Rather, we should act on the best, and most conservative, evidence of the day.
Analogy: Go run around in the street with your eyes shut. Just because you can't see any cars does not mean this is a safe thing to do.
2)I quite often need to write and test out code in a test-bed like environment for later inclusion into some other, typically embedded, software. The most productive way I've found to do this is Borland C with MSDOS. I can edit/compile/test small code bodies faster using MSDOS and Borland C than a cute GUI interface with mouse clicking etc. Bummer though when a bad bointer crashes the whole box. Still, a reboot only takes approx 20 sec. I can do almost the same thing under *nix, but it isn't quite as snappy. *nix does same me from nasty ptrs and give better core dumps etc though.
The wait for a sufficiently high level language is probably as fruitless as hoping for a system which understands "hey computer I'm sure you can figure out what I want, so just do it".
In the "old days" we had architecture, design and coding. For all the UMLs, extreme programming, etc. we essentially have these.
FTFA: "may, perhaps, stop some of the development". It is a very long stretch to get to "could halt Linux development" and then "European Linux development to grind to a halt".
It seams that as each person quotes the other: "expert" to ZDNET to/. each quoter wants to out dramatise the previous one.
You know someone is talking shit when they apply three dilutions "may", "perhaps" and "some" in a single statement.
The USA is in the hole for nearly $8 trillion. WTF will the USA find the cash to buy some skyrockets for 4 July, let alone fund a moon program? "My parents' generation went to the moon and all I got was this lousy federal debt."
If you read the really scientifically written article, youd see that you can get 120W per square inch. That means a 4ft x4ft module could deliver 276kW. Should be enough for running a few lightbulbs....
... you know the ones... they **think** they know technical stuff and maybe they did ten years ago. They hear buzzwords and throw them around. They want to be making decisions because not doing so makes them feel not in control. They are influential and the brown-nosers listen to them, so they build momentum with bad ideas that need to be reversed and replaced with good ideas.
Unfortunately good technical savvy requires one stay up to date and keep trying things out.Examples of very stupid stuff I've heard:
"This product must be built with C++": Umm, err, the was no C++ compiler available for the CPU in question. There was one for a similar CPU - it could be made to work but would not exploit some nifty features and would generate bloaty slow code. The current Code base which was to be reused was C, so an effort was started to C++-ify the code. A lot of time was lost trying to comply with, then refute, this "wisdom".
"You can trade off memory against CPU for performance": Semi-true, sometimes. So the system needed about 4 MIPs of CPU and about 128kB of RAM. The CPU could only deliver about 2 MIPs. No problem says the manager, just double the RAM to 256kB. Unfortunately this "decision" was made while the true techies were on vacation. Cost a bundle of money and time to cancel the order and relay the board with a stonkier CPU.
"SPI is better than RS232": True, for many things... except the RS232 interface was removed from the device and the SPI bus was made available to the outside world. Instead of being able to just plug in to a PC for upgrade, a special RS232 to SPI adapter box (which was damn expensive) had to be shipped too. Luckily the product flopped - it would have been a pig to support.
Any article that says that Unix is the free software behind the web is hardly to be taken as a credible source.
I think it boils down to this: There is a difference between a rule and a law. The ID thing is an FAA rule, not a law. The FAA has the legal power to make, and enforce, some rules -- including this one.
OK, I agree with Bill Gates in general. HS does not teach you everything you need to know. All you need is MSN and the Internet right, or maybe that MS Encyclopedia ??Encartia???
The scary bit though is that Bill Gates is making public statements about education. Drawing attention to the fact that the world's richest man (Bill) is a college drop-out cannot help motivate kids to get educated.
As a parent, I think that schools can only teach a certain amount. You don't only learn in a school environment. The most important thing for kids to learn is that life is all about learning.
Are we seeing a generation of "boy gamers" equivalent to the "boy racers" that add big tail-pipes, chrome and LEDs to their cars. 512MB sounds good, but basically you're buying features - not performance.
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Nice piccies of GF over the Atlas mountains? Photoshop.
You have to hand it to them. Cooking up that lost fuel scenario and the GPS outage scenario was a good way of grabbing some media attention. Nothing gets viewer % like the promise of a plain wreck and bodies (or only one body in this case). C'mon folks how do you "lose" 2600 pounds of fuel...
Given that MS has an history of using any tool available to get their way, you can be sure the ethics card will be played.
As adequately demonstrated, MS dominance is through bruiser tactics. Don't expect them to stand idly by while someone else takes whet that consider to be their turf. They don't mind losing a lot of money to get power.
The biggest factor in gaining a patent is to use a nice sound bitey/buzz-wordy title to dress up the obvious. (eg. "data driven" vs "scripting" or "parameters").
That gets you the patent (more or less), but you still have to defend the patent on its substance.
These days, some of a patent's value is in using it to make a news release and create stock buzz as per SCO. If that's the case then any patent is fine even if it is bullshit.
You normally get those rolling eyes "there goes that crazy hippy again" looks.
The stations make their main dollars from advertising by charging based on viewership. It does not really matter that people get up during the ads to get another beer/take a dump etc. Anything they can do to hike the viewership numbers is considered a GoodThing. If they can do this through counting downloads then they win.
Pay per view is a barrier to hiking the viewership numbers.
If we think that activity X *might* have bad consquences or we don't have evidence that it won't, then we should probably not do it. hence my traffic analogy: Just because we can't see the cars does not make it safe. In the case of global warming, perhaps this is all just greeny bullshit, but there is some evidence that suggests we're doing damage then we should limit what we're doing.
If you encounter bugs while using IE, it is not your fault, it is Microsoft's fault.
If you encounter bugs while using Firefox,, it is your fault - you should have been using IE. You screwed up.
That's unfortunately the mentality that will keep MS in business for a long time yet.
However to say that we should not act because there is no proof is not wise. By the time we have proof it will be to late. Rather, we should act on the best, and most conservative, evidence of the day.
Analogy: Go run around in the street with your eyes shut. Just because you can't see any cars does not mean this is a safe thing to do.
Could also use this technology for foolproof facial recogtion. Just need to have barcodes stamped on your face!
Reconstruction of Mafia victims.
1)No www etc to eat away time.
2)I quite often need to write and test out code in a test-bed like environment for later inclusion into some other, typically embedded, software. The most productive way I've found to do this is Borland C with MSDOS. I can edit/compile/test small code bodies faster using MSDOS and Borland C than a cute GUI interface with mouse clicking etc. Bummer though when a bad bointer crashes the whole box. Still, a reboot only takes approx 20 sec. I can do almost the same thing under *nix, but it isn't quite as snappy. *nix does same me from nasty ptrs and give better core dumps etc though.
If you look at some WinCE source it just looks like someone barfed into a voice recognition device.
In the "old days" we had architecture, design and coding. For all the UMLs, extreme programming, etc. we essentially have these.
Some of these grand acts include getting the naming rights on university libraries etc, but all involve a lot of fanfare to boost PR.
Let's face it, this positive PR is working. There are a lot of people who have their opinion of Bill softened by this.
It seams that as each person quotes the other: "expert" to ZDNET to /. each quoter wants to out dramatise the previous one.
You know someone is talking shit when they apply three dilutions "may", "perhaps" and "some" in a single statement.
Following in corporate footsteps, they'd probably outsource a program to India.
The USA is in the hole for nearly $8 trillion. WTF will the USA find the cash to buy some skyrockets for 4 July, let alone fund a moon program? "My parents' generation went to the moon and all I got was this lousy federal debt."
I think we got far better bandwidth when we played discus with a hard drive.
If you read the really scientifically written article, youd see that you can get 120W per square inch. That means a 4ft x4ft module could deliver 276kW. Should be enough for running a few lightbulbs....
:-)
Unfortunately good technical savvy requires one stay up to date and keep trying things out.Examples of very stupid stuff I've heard:
"This product must be built with C++": Umm, err, the was no C++ compiler available for the CPU in question. There was one for a similar CPU - it could be made to work but would not exploit some nifty features and would generate bloaty slow code. The current Code base which was to be reused was C, so an effort was started to C++-ify the code. A lot of time was lost trying to comply with, then refute, this "wisdom".
"You can trade off memory against CPU for performance": Semi-true, sometimes. So the system needed about 4 MIPs of CPU and about 128kB of RAM. The CPU could only deliver about 2 MIPs. No problem says the manager, just double the RAM to 256kB. Unfortunately this "decision" was made while the true techies were on vacation. Cost a bundle of money and time to cancel the order and relay the board with a stonkier CPU.
"SPI is better than RS232": True, for many things... except the RS232 interface was removed from the device and the SPI bus was made available to the outside world. Instead of being able to just plug in to a PC for upgrade, a special RS232 to SPI adapter box (which was damn expensive) had to be shipped too. Luckily the product flopped - it would have been a pig to support.
I think it boils down to this: There is a difference between a rule and a law. The ID thing is an FAA rule, not a law. The FAA has the legal power to make, and enforce, some rules -- including this one.
Notice that it's the comments that show it is a fake, not the editor.
The scary bit though is that Bill Gates is making public statements about education. Drawing attention to the fact that the world's richest man (Bill) is a college drop-out cannot help motivate kids to get educated.
As a parent, I think that schools can only teach a certain amount. You don't only learn in a school environment. The most important thing for kids to learn is that life is all about learning.
Are we seeing a generation of "boy gamers" equivalent to the "boy racers" that add big tail-pipes, chrome and LEDs to their cars. 512MB sounds good, but basically you're buying features - not performance.