It is all very well saying that this device cranks out more juice than a battery of the same size, but the comparason is a bit flawed.
A battery stores all its fuel + waste products onboard. A turbine needs a bunch of extra peripheral stuff to store its fuel and waste products. Come back when you have a wholse solution.
Selecting Jan 2001 as a comparison point is plain stupid. This is still during the whole dot.com bubble which was an insane anomoly and using this is as dumb as using hurricane Katrina as a reference point for wind speeds.
For anyone that has forgotten, you could get an IT job during dot.com if you could just spell cumputer^Wcomputer. For a more realistic point of reference, choose a point before dot.com, say Jan 1999. Do that and you;ll probably notice some growth.
Offshoring does not apply to IT. No doubt geeks want their overpayed jobs, yet still want cheap labor to supply their clothing, shoes, ipods, RAM etc. Why should the IT industry get any preferential treatment?
I agree with parent. People should consider this in a more balanced way.
Rather than wining that you've lost **your** job to some offshore operation, perhaps you should consider yourself lucky that with your crappy sklillset you were able to hold on to is for so long.
And, while you're considering that, you might also consider other things too. You don't seem to mind wearing those shoes made in Phillipeans, listening to that ipod made in China, or those computer chips made in Korea etc with no caring for the fact that Americans could have made these items (but you were not prepared to pay for them).
While your contribution is measured as a cost, it is open to global commoditisation.
Then why are you just kicking up a shitstorm on slashdot?
If they really are telling lies and they are really using fear mongering instead of honest product comparisons, then contact your fair trading/comsumer protections/ whatever offices instead. Alternatively just contact Vonage and tell them this happened and ask for their help.
Here on old/. a few people will try to pull a few funny points etc, but nothing concrete will happen.
USA won't buy it though. There's a perception that monitoring is only for corrupt third world nations that can't take care of themselves, yet USA is hardly a pristine nation on the corruption front: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1412217.stm
Sure USA beats Zimbabwe etc, but you'd hope the aspirations of most Americans is to be compared with the top few rather than the bottom few.
Yes kiddies there is a monster under your bed, but if you vote for me.... The White House know that nothing is more likely to vote Republican than a paranoid. Keeping the fear alive is a highly effective way of keeping the voters in line. The effectiveness of the measures taken is less important than having them being visible and reenforcing the fear.
Patent protection does not just govern the product development, but also the sale of offending products.
The patent holders can block the sale of offending products in countries that respect the patents, just the same as if those products were locally made. However, it would get a bit more difficult for the courts to demand documentation from a different country.
Further lab analysis shows that this TRex died by rolling in breadcrumbs and jumping into a pool of boiling oil. Either that or a some one on the excatvation site dropped a chicken McNugget.
I'd have thought that smelling means that the plant has sophisticated analytical abilities. Surely calling this "smelling" is like saying that plants that follow the sun are "seeing".
In some parts of the world, mobile content is quite popular, and in other parts of the world it is not.
Some reasearchers have linked this to behaviour on subways etc. In some parts of the world, smart phones and mobile content are seen to be a useful way to kill some time on commuter trains. In other parts of the world it isn't.
Also, you need to be careful of what content you push. Some games (soccer etc) can probably be sent quite well in mobile form since you're probably only going to be looking at a few highlights (goals etc) with relatively low res being ok (a soccer ball is big). In comparison, baseball, American football and ice hockey have dynamics that don't fit well on small low-res screens.
Of course the rules have been twisted to get the MS offering on top. It 2x had not worked, then it would have been 3x or 10x or whatever mgic multiplier would have got the MS device on top.
Of course I have not RTFA, that's not the point of/.ing...
But, I think a points system could make this a winner for MS and be a way to muscle share away from others or help to get other service providers in a nice sit-up-and-beg stance. eg. Use MSN search and earn points, takes share away from Google. Use IE and earn points. Buy goods from SearsOnline/Amazon/whatever and earn points....
Perhaps thus Zune thing is just a tool to gain some leverage in service space. Could it go as far as: Write a pro-MS letter to EU and earn points?
Why does a true democracy need to brainwash its kids from an early age with the declaration of independence?
Why does any challenge of USA being such a great democracy end up with it being compared to how much better it is than China etc.. Surely if it is so great it should be compared to some of the top democracies and not the bottom ones?
Business is hard work and people are always looking for shortcuts. It isn't much different to the whole slimming/diet industry for fat folks. As long as there are people who want shortcuts there will be all kinds of management/software/business fads selling black belts, software components, agile development etc.
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A battery stores all its fuel + waste products onboard. A turbine needs a bunch of extra peripheral stuff to store its fuel and waste products. Come back when you have a wholse solution.
For anyone that has forgotten, you could get an IT job during dot.com if you could just spell cumputer^Wcomputer. For a more realistic point of reference, choose a point before dot.com, say Jan 1999. Do that and you;ll probably notice some growth.
Offshoring does not apply to IT. No doubt geeks want their overpayed jobs, yet still want cheap labor to supply their clothing, shoes, ipods, RAM etc. Why should the IT industry get any preferential treatment?
Rather than wining that you've lost **your** job to some offshore operation, perhaps you should consider yourself lucky that with your crappy sklillset you were able to hold on to is for so long.
And, while you're considering that, you might also consider other things too. You don't seem to mind wearing those shoes made in Phillipeans, listening to that ipod made in China, or those computer chips made in Korea etc with no caring for the fact that Americans could have made these items (but you were not prepared to pay for them).
While your contribution is measured as a cost, it is open to global commoditisation.
This "article" is just a teaser to get people to hit the refered blog to score blogger's karma. C'mon editors.
If they really are telling lies and they are really using fear mongering instead of honest product comparisons, then contact your fair trading /comsumer protections/ whatever offices instead. Alternatively just contact Vonage and tell them this happened and ask for their help.
Here on old /. a few people will try to pull a few funny points etc, but nothing concrete will happen.
Sure USA beats Zimbabwe etc, but you'd hope the aspirations of most Americans is to be compared with the top few rather than the bottom few.
Yes kiddies there is a monster under your bed, but if you vote for me.... The White House know that nothing is more likely to vote Republican than a paranoid. Keeping the fear alive is a highly effective way of keeping the voters in line. The effectiveness of the measures taken is less important than having them being visible and reenforcing the fear.
The patent holders can block the sale of offending products in countries that respect the patents, just the same as if those products were locally made. However, it would get a bit more difficult for the courts to demand documentation from a different country.
and perhaps we should broadcast this to people on earth to see if there are aliens amongst us?
Further lab analysis shows that this TRex died by rolling in breadcrumbs and jumping into a pool of boiling oil. Either that or a some one on the excatvation site dropped a chicken McNugget.
... well the part I'm interested in anyway.
I'd have thought that smelling means that the plant has sophisticated analytical abilities. Surely calling this "smelling" is like saying that plants that follow the sun are "seeing".
Some reasearchers have linked this to behaviour on subways etc. In some parts of the world, smart phones and mobile content are seen to be a useful way to kill some time on commuter trains. In other parts of the world it isn't.
Also, you need to be careful of what content you push. Some games (soccer etc) can probably be sent quite well in mobile form since you're probably only going to be looking at a few highlights (goals etc) with relatively low res being ok (a soccer ball is big). In comparison, baseball, American football and ice hockey have dynamics that don't fit well on small low-res screens.
On Firefox I don't see any stupid questions.
Of course the rules have been twisted to get the MS offering on top. It 2x had not worked, then it would have been 3x or 10x or whatever mgic multiplier would have got the MS device on top.
Thanks for the correction. Getting that wrong seriously dented my argument.
But, I think a points system could make this a winner for MS and be a way to muscle share away from others or help to get other service providers in a nice sit-up-and-beg stance. eg. Use MSN search and earn points, takes share away from Google. Use IE and earn points. Buy goods from SearsOnline/Amazon/whatever and earn points....
Perhaps thus Zune thing is just a tool to gain some leverage in service space. Could it go as far as: Write a pro-MS letter to EU and earn points?
What goes around, comes around
Why does a true democracy need to brainwash its kids from an early age with the declaration of independence?
Why does any challenge of USA being such a great democracy end up with it being compared to how much better it is than China etc.. Surely if it is so great it should be compared to some of the top democracies and not the bottom ones?
... are generally technical wannabes who can't hack the real stuff.
Business is hard work and people are always looking for shortcuts. It isn't much different to the whole slimming/diet industry for fat folks. As long as there are people who want shortcuts there will be all kinds of management/software/business fads selling black belts, software components, agile development etc.
Didn't we all argue about this already yesterday.
Use colour combos that can't be captured. eg. black on black. Jeez, must I think of everything around here?
USA are the only people who've actually fired these things...