As parent says, dot.bomb was not a technical failure. It was caused by gross business failure, linked to two major effects. This could have happened within almost any industry, but IT was the darling at the time.
Internet stock trading was suddenly made a lot easier which flooded the (previously relatively stable) stock market with a bunch of very inexperienced and irrational traders. They drove volatility and demand. Suddenly a stay-at-home mom could generate thousands a day by logging in a few times a day.
The venture capitalists supply these markets too and recognised a feeding frenzy. Float anything and it would get snapped up. This caused a boom in small start-ups created with no business plans and often no skilled staff/management. It did not matter if these start-ups would make it or not, they were just bait. Many employees of "real" companies got side-tracked into these failed start-ups wich impacted the entire industry.
Of course any such activity is not sustainable and a crash was inevitable.
So what's happening now? Well there's definitely a resurgence, but at least it appears most based on sound businesses principles. This will boom, but should not boil over.
If you can't beat the criminals, just slow them down to the point that it is more lucrative to go back to traditional crimes like robbing corner stores.
They'd be dealt with along the lines of:"Only a criminal would hide their true identity."
Of course real criminals would have ready access to false credentials. There's of course nothing new to fake id, whether that's false passports, drivers licenses or whatever.
You obviously don't steal many Twinkies (or at least you don't often get bust for it).
If people just get fined retail value when they steal something, then there is no punitive/discouragement factor.
Need/want something? Try to steal it. If you get busted then you pay the ticket price and mutter something about bad luck. Clearly that won't work.
There needs to be some sort of punitive damages to discourage further activity. $750 per song is probably a bit steep, but charging any reasonable flat rate per song is probably a crazy way to address the issue. Perhaps they should fine $1 per song plus some punitive damages ($500 for up to 10 songs, $1000 for more).
You can do some useful energy harvesting so long as you are selective as to what energy you harvest.
If the mechanism is just a constant drag on the system (eg. this whole walking thread, or the Brit spinning plate thing, or harvesting the car-made breeze at the Jearsy turnpike), then that is otherwise **useful** energy being diverted and there is no real gain.
But consider regenerative braking (as per Prius). That does not create energy, but just harvests energy that would have otherwise be wasted i heat in the brake pads etc.
This is a Good Idea because it makes a commodity market for car parts, subcomponents and software.
Japan has used the uTRON RTOS specification for ages. This can be though of as similar to a light-weight POSIX specification that allows code to be ported relatively easily across RTOSs that have uTRON interfaces. This makes it realtively simple to interface code at the task level.
Remember folks that cars these days are packed with CPUs and are really just networks on wheels.
This exercise is more about setting a standardised architecture and set of interfaces that allows better integration of more complex elements.
MS has done nothing in the last few years that looks vaguely innovative or business building. Vista makes no new business, XBox and Zune are just lead weights around their necks.
MS is on a glide slope and has been for a while now. Sure they have a lot of cash and altitude and can glide for a while... but decades? I think not!
It is hard to say one is worse than the other since they are very different environmental problems.
Gas engines produce CO2 etc during the running of the engine but reprocessing the engine is relatively straight forward. The CO2 can be offset by growing more trees/algae etc.
Reprocessing heavy metals and lithium etc is far more challenging and leads to far longer term environmental issues.
Not reporting a beating etc is not reporting a crime. That would be comparable to not reporting that people are ripping off the ATM. Actually participating in the crime is a different matter.
Taking stuff that does not belong to you is a crime. If you help yourself to goods from a store because the clerk had stepped out the back for a pee is a crime. Taking money from an ATM that is wrongly configured is also a crime.
A B1 visa should have been enough since he had no intention of living in USA. I have frequently travelled to USA on a B1 for business purposes. For many nationalities B1 falls under the vis waiver program.
However, when you travel into USA there are certain words you should use carefully. "Work" is one of those. Don't say "I am coming to work in USA". Say "I am on business, attending a conference".
As Wikipedia notes, the entymology that sabotage comes from Luddites throwing Frech shoes into English looms seems highly suspect.
The entymology I am more familiar with, and would seem more believable, is rooted in the Fench revolution. The French peasants trampled the landlords' crops by stamping on them with their sabots. Much more believable!
In the old days when you could check in 20kgs and carry on anything (weight wise), some diving friends of mine would carry their lead weightbelts (10+ kgs) and save a significant chunk of their check-in allowance. But back then I never had problems carrying on a lock-blade knife with a 6-inch blade though at least 10 different airports in various countries.
surrounding Seattle, but I think you're right. I would not want to fire one of these in the dust and smoke of a typical battlefield. That energy will just get dissipated locally which can't be a GoodThing.
Sure Wikipedia might have some materials that is more correct than EB, and likely the reverse holds true too. Good research takes more than just having arbitrary contributions from a wide audience.
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Internet stock trading was suddenly made a lot easier which flooded the (previously relatively stable) stock market with a bunch of very inexperienced and irrational traders. They drove volatility and demand. Suddenly a stay-at-home mom could generate thousands a day by logging in a few times a day.
The venture capitalists supply these markets too and recognised a feeding frenzy. Float anything and it would get snapped up. This caused a boom in small start-ups created with no business plans and often no skilled staff/management. It did not matter if these start-ups would make it or not, they were just bait. Many employees of "real" companies got side-tracked into these failed start-ups wich impacted the entire industry.
Of course any such activity is not sustainable and a crash was inevitable.
So what's happening now? Well there's definitely a resurgence, but at least it appears most based on sound businesses principles. This will boom, but should not boil over.
If you can't beat the criminals, just slow them down to the point that it is more lucrative to go back to traditional crimes like robbing corner stores.
Of course real criminals would have ready access to false credentials. There's of course nothing new to fake id, whether that's false passports, drivers licenses or whatever.
suggests the Microsoft table is a vast step forward. Hardly!
Most, if not all, players can be made into multi-zone players by entering a special code etc.
Why spend up on players etc that might go obsolete?
It means you can only use single-sideband modulation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modul ation
If people just get fined retail value when they steal something, then there is no punitive/discouragement factor.
Need/want something? Try to steal it. If you get busted then you pay the ticket price and mutter something about bad luck. Clearly that won't work.
There needs to be some sort of punitive damages to discourage further activity. $750 per song is probably a bit steep, but charging any reasonable flat rate per song is probably a crazy way to address the issue. Perhaps they should fine $1 per song plus some punitive damages ($500 for up to 10 songs, $1000 for more).
If the mechanism is just a constant drag on the system (eg. this whole walking thread, or the Brit spinning plate thing, or harvesting the car-made breeze at the Jearsy turnpike), then that is otherwise **useful** energy being diverted and there is no real gain.
But consider regenerative braking (as per Prius). That does not create energy, but just harvests energy that would have otherwise be wasted i heat in the brake pads etc.
Japan has used the uTRON RTOS specification for ages. This can be though of as similar to a light-weight POSIX specification that allows code to be ported relatively easily across RTOSs that have uTRON interfaces. This makes it realtively simple to interface code at the task level.
Remember folks that cars these days are packed with CPUs and are really just networks on wheels.
This exercise is more about setting a standardised architecture and set of interfaces that allows better integration of more complex elements.
but it does look pretty good.
MS is on a glide slope and has been for a while now. Sure they have a lot of cash and altitude and can glide for a while... but decades? I think not!
Gas engines produce CO2 etc during the running of the engine but reprocessing the engine is relatively straight forward. The CO2 can be offset by growing more trees/algae etc.
Reprocessing heavy metals and lithium etc is far more challenging and leads to far longer term environmental issues.
Taking stuff that does not belong to you is a crime. If you help yourself to goods from a store because the clerk had stepped out the back for a pee is a crime. Taking money from an ATM that is wrongly configured is also a crime.
However, when you travel into USA there are certain words you should use carefully. "Work" is one of those. Don't say "I am coming to work in USA". Say "I am on business, attending a conference".
The entymology I am more familiar with, and would seem more believable, is rooted in the Fench revolution. The French peasants trampled the landlords' crops by stamping on them with their sabots. Much more believable!
an asteroid with botox treatment.
You could then get all the geeks to crank the handles and keep the web running!
In the old days when you could check in 20kgs and carry on anything (weight wise), some diving friends of mine would carry their lead weightbelts (10+ kgs) and save a significant chunk of their check-in allowance. But back then I never had problems carrying on a lock-blade knife with a 6-inch blade though at least 10 different airports in various countries.
surrounding Seattle, but I think you're right. I would not want to fire one of these in the dust and smoke of a typical battlefield. That energy will just get dissipated locally which can't be a GoodThing.
My German is a bit rusty, but I'm pretty sure that "Server Error" is not a very good translation.
Sure Wikipedia might have some materials that is more correct than EB, and likely the reverse holds true too. Good research takes more than just having arbitrary contributions from a wide audience.
OSX has been around for a long while now, so it is hard to expect sudden changes.
What would make far more sense would be to compare Vista + XP vs OSX. That would give a far better MS vs OSX comparison.
Sure some poor sap will be done over, but hopefully it won't be you.
ergo I am unbeatable!