It is perfectly possible to imagine the iOS outpacing Linux+Android in the mobile market.
The only OS with a visible upward trend in other markets is Windows 7. The geek who insists that Win 7 is "Vista+" might usefully be reminded that Vista plus Win 7 is 30% of the market as a whole.
Then try googling east german border guard trial and learn something instead of lazy comments like that. Surprise surprise there have been prosecutions. Are we learning history yet?
The game punishes the border guard retroactively.
That doesn't honestly reflect why he was chosen for a station on the wall or the choices he was likely to make at the time.
Projecting your fate and that of East Germany 40 years into the future scarcely seems probable.
There were prosecutions.
But the outcome of these trials seem both morally and legally ambiguous.
The verdict set a legal precedent, establishing that officials from what was once the Communist state of East Germany could be punished for actions that were not only legal under East German law, but which were compulsory for them to carry out. 2 East German Guards Convicted Of Killing Man as He Fled to West
This was the last fatal shooting at the wall. (February 1989)
One conviction was on a manslaughter charge, the other a suspended sentence for attempted manslaughter.
Wilfried Tews, who was just 14 years old at the time of his escape, was hit eight times as he swam through a canal under the Berlin Wall in 1962. West Berlin border guards provided covering fire for a passerby who pulled the boy to safety. In a statement from East German records that was read to the court, a border guard who has since died said he heard shouts from the West of "Stop shooting! You are Germans too, aren't you?" An East German border guard, the 21-year-old Peter Göring, died in the firefight and the communist authorities turned him into a secular martyr. Schools, streets and barracks were named after him. Hundreds of former East German border guards and officials have been convicted since 1990 for shootings at the former border. Most have received suspended sentences.40 Years On, Boy Shot at Berlin Wall Faces Attackers
That smart-ass bomb threat going to get them classified as a "terrorist group." Then you can bet every agency will want "in" on the action; busting a bunch of (misguided) geeks is a lot safer than going after heavily armed drug dealers and much easier than tracking down serial killers.
"Whah! I want my Mommy!
The Feds are at the door because I have been playing with C4!"
Here again, the geek presents himself as a misunderstood and persecuted minority --- but in a very strange juxtaposition with the drug dealer and serial killer.
I'm not justifying the actions of those who made the bomb threat or who are behind the DDoS attacks, but if US Copyright Group is going to act like a bully they are going to experience some backlash in a variety of forms. They think they can do as they wish just because they're lawyers, etc, but they're discovering that the public doesn't like a bully, plain and simple.
I'd be very much surprised if a measurable fraction of "the public" has ever heard of the US Copyright Group -
or the bomb threat.
Google News (at 11:30 AM ET) returns only two hits for the story, one from TorrentFreak. No surprise there.
Slashdot completes the circle.
On the record, whenever the geek does get his day in court, the jury tends to hammer him into the marble flooring. The outside world isn't as friendly as it seems.
Which is what makes the bomb threat so stupid and so dangerous.
For REAL archival what's needed is an active system like the Internet but one that guarantees n redundancy. Perhaps a p2p like system with nodes backing up files. This abstracts away whether they are going on SATA, IDE, SCSI, Tape, whatevs. The local machine handles all the hardware details. When newer, better, cheaper technology comes along, the old data is automatically able to propagate onto the new storage mechanisms. I see this all the time working in the IT industry. I have backups from 10 years ago I can not read because we no longer have a working tape drive to read it.
You haven't lifted a finger to track down, replace and restore the tape drive you need.
Why then should we be trusting our data to an (allegedly) fully automated - autonomous - system which is equally likely to be neglected and ignored?
TFA finally gets around to pointing out that players who choose to shoot and kill those who attempt escape face the consequences for their actions by having their character stand trial later for the crime. They also give the choice of killing or not killing.
The East German at the Wall was chosen for his absolute loyalty and obedience to the State.
Not to mention that he was in immeadiate danger of being shot out-of-hand as a traitor if he let someone make it through.
I can't imagine that fear of trial by the West at some later date ever entered his head.
I would be even more surprised to hear that any East German border guard was ever successfully prosecuted for a killing at the wall.
b) A professional marketing plan to make it the default choice in Western Schools where it can get mind-share. (Why are disadvantaged kids being taxed to use Microsoft?)
The Help Wanted adds, your state employment office, volunteer services and social welfare agencies can help answer that one.
You might also usefully spend time reading through the catalogs of night courses currently being offered by through your local high schools, senor centers, community colleges and so on.
MS Office skills are marketable at any age.
It may not be an exaggeration to call teaching MS Office a profit center for your local schools.
c) A results-driven steering committee so that goals and objectives are established and prioritized based on USER-driven wishes.
One of Microsoft's great strengths in the enterprise market is in centralized management and distribution. You need to be clear about the needs of those who will be deploying your office suite - not just the needs of the clerical worker at her keyboard.
e) Make working on it part of every computer science curriculum.
Another of Microsoft's great strengths is the time and money it puts into study of office work. This isn't a problem for the CS major. - you need the social scientist. You need the office manager. You need the 9 to 5 office worker.
You need to have a clue about medicine and psychiatry. What makes a font readable. What makes a task stressful.
Tragic, of course, that people would buy something so crippled and locked down they must "jailbreak" it to make it more useful.
The iOS device - like the PS3 or Wii - is pefectly tuned for success in its core markets - and there the jailbreak doesn't happen because no one gives a damn about the OtherOS - or whatever else it is that the geek is pining for.
Unless, of course, that what the geek is pining for is a free copy of Fallout: New Vegas or the Blu-Ray screener of Iron Man 3.
The geek buys into the walled garden because the hardware looks cool, stylish and well-built - and because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that he can bend it to his will.
Let's hear it for a sudden outbreak of common sense from the judiciary!
Just a word of caution here.
Your video becomes evidence for both the defense and the prosecution. Bith the good bits and the bad bits (from your point of view) can be shown to the jury.
"Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself."
The one thing I don't understand is why have him actually serve his sentence? Doesn't this just cost people more money in the end.
It may be that Slashdot has made me cynical.
But always seems to come as a surprise to the geek when one of his own is sentenced to do hard time.
Ten years is meant to hurt.
To teach a lesson.
To warn others like you not to take this path.
In the American federal system, economic and property crimes with an interstate dimension are a federal responsibility - and they are never taken lightly.
I'd say the only real mistake Sony made there was not continuing to make an OtherOS PS3 and simply sell it at $700 as a "research tool" and been done with it.
The cluster was built from purchases of the PS3 in wholesale lots.
It will be chill day in Hell before Sony allows another mass market consumer product to cannabalize its sales in other - more profitable - markets. It will be colder still before the OtherOS makes a return.
I figure its just a matter of time before we see hacked PS3s all over Craigslist like we see the hacked x360s now.
I have yet to hear that the OtherOS is running on a PS3 Slim.
The Fat is aging and out of production. The Cell never quite lived up to its promise.
The truth of it is that the PS3 is video game console - and support for the OtherOS of symbolic importance only. Every vote for the MOVE, for 3D in PS3 gaming, is a vote from the player's wallet for the firmware upgrade.
In the early days, studios tried very hard to avoid giving production credit to anyone.
Until they discovered - as promoters always do - that the star is bankable. The best guarantee of a return at the box office.
The star can be an actor or actress. Cary Grant. Audrey Hepburn.
The star can be a director. D.W. Griffith. John Ford. Alfred Hitchcock. The star can be a cinematographer, a stunt man, or a master of sound and special effects. Ray Harryhausen. Ben Burtt.
Production credits are not an act of charity.
They are proof of performance. They define future compensation and editorial control.
The PlayStation MOVE starter sets and MOVE controllers rank #4, #7, #12, and #36 in video game sales at Amazon.com.
"Civilization V" ranks #2 and "Halo: Reach" #1. If you understand the strengths of the PC platform, you can still make your mark in the top ten. Bestsellers In Video Games (Updated hourly)
This is why your boss drives a better car than you and has a bigger house while you do all the work
It's part of the boss's job to see that you have some work to do - and to impose enough order and discipline so that the work he assigns you is completed on time and on budget.
It's his job to fit all the pieces together.
Finance. Production. Marketing and Distribution.
He can both the visionary and the public face of the business.
But ask them to picture a hypothetical situation where they are given an order about how to accomplish a goal. But the order is poorly conceived and will get themselves and their squad killed. But they have a better and safer way to accomplish the task. What do they do? Inevitably, the ex-military folks get this blank look and respond, "Follow orders".
You work from a playbook until your responses become instinctive.
Everyone in your unit knows where they have to be and what they are expected to do.
Maybe you have a better plan - and maybe if your buddies understand it perfectly they just might be able pull it off.
But the place to test your ideas and work out the bugs is not on the front line.
I was in the USAF and had to deal with pilots fairly often. It's true they are good with their planes, but most of them are rather stupid and would fail most logic tests.
You haven't told us in what way you were dealing with pilots.
You haven't told us how someone with so inadequate and illogical a mind can sucessfully fly a high performance aircraft.
What if I decide to commit a crime and I 'arrange' a nice alibi with pictures and well timed postings on my FB page? Could I use that to defend myself in court?
You could try.
But, on the record, I would argue the geek doesn't have it in him to lie in a way that will persuade a jury.
He over-complicates things. His notions of plausibility are nuts.
He should be in the grave. I know I can shoot better than that.
The insurance investigator has a boss.
Surevillance operations are planned. When the investigator doesn't phone in his report on time the boss will ask questions. He will call the police - and he can tell them exactly where to start looking.
Your insurance fraud has escalated to Murder 1 and the chances that you will escape conviction on the capital charge are nill.
When I bought the PS3, it had OtherOS and was not as locked down. They changed all that after purchase, which is ridiculous and I haven't bought any more PS3 games.
The PS2 "Slim" [2004] also ditched expansion options and the OtherOS. Something that seems to have been forgotten in the geek's nerd rage.
It retails for $100 and weighs 1.3 lbs.
The video game console is a social experience.
It is shared with your family and connects to the 60" Panasonic.
The geek has no leverage.
No firmware upgrades means no new Blu-Ray videos.
Try selling that idea to your wife and your kids when they spot the next Pixar flick on the shelves at WalMart.
No Red Dead Redemption. No MOVE. No 3D. No download content. No video on demand. No PlaystationHome. Social networking and gaming for 14 million.
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I'd like the airbag to be controlled by something too simple to be considered a computer.
I want the airbag to fire when needed and only when needed.
Simplicity for it's own sake is not a virtue.
Net Applications tracks any device which can access the web -
which these days can be your smart phone, mobile touch pad, video game console and HDTV.
The market has grown larger and more complex.
You don't own a single "internet appliance," more likely two, three, four or even five.
The Net Applications stats have not been kind to Linux. iOS tops Linux, Top Operating System Share Trend
It is perfectly possible to imagine the iOS outpacing Linux+Android in the mobile market.
The only OS with a visible upward trend in other markets is Windows 7. The geek who insists that Win 7 is "Vista+" might usefully be reminded that Vista plus Win 7 is 30% of the market as a whole.
The game punishes the border guard retroactively.
That doesn't honestly reflect why he was chosen for a station on the wall or the choices he was likely to make at the time.
Projecting your fate and that of East Germany 40 years into the future scarcely seems probable.
There were prosecutions.
But the outcome of these trials seem both morally and legally ambiguous.
The verdict set a legal precedent, establishing that officials from what was once the Communist state of East Germany could be punished for actions that were not only legal under East German law, but which were compulsory for them to carry out. 2 East German Guards Convicted Of Killing Man as He Fled to West
This was the last fatal shooting at the wall. (February 1989)
One conviction was on a manslaughter charge, the other a suspended sentence for attempted manslaughter.
Wilfried Tews, who was just 14 years old at the time of his escape, was hit eight times as he swam through a canal under the Berlin Wall in 1962.
West Berlin border guards provided covering fire for a passerby who pulled the boy to safety. In a statement from East German records that was read to the court, a border guard who has since died said he heard shouts from the West of "Stop shooting! You are Germans too, aren't you?"
An East German border guard, the 21-year-old Peter Göring, died in the firefight and the communist authorities turned him into a secular martyr. Schools, streets and barracks were named after him.
Hundreds of former East German border guards and officials have been convicted since 1990 for shootings at the former border. Most have received suspended sentences. 40 Years On, Boy Shot at Berlin Wall Faces Attackers
Knives have been regulated - and some types banned - for something like 200 years. Knife Laws
"Whah! I want my Mommy!
The Feds are at the door because I have been playing with C4!"
Here again, the geek presents himself as a misunderstood and persecuted minority --- but in a very strange juxtaposition with the drug dealer and serial killer.
I'm not justifying the actions of those who made the bomb threat or who are behind the DDoS attacks, but if US Copyright Group is going to act like a bully they are going to experience some backlash in a variety of forms. They think they can do as they wish just because they're lawyers, etc, but they're discovering that the public doesn't like a bully, plain and simple.
I'd be very much surprised if a measurable fraction of "the public" has ever heard of the US Copyright Group -
or the bomb threat.
Google News (at 11:30 AM ET) returns only two hits for the story, one from TorrentFreak. No surprise there.
Slashdot completes the circle.
On the record, whenever the geek does get his day in court, the jury tends to hammer him into the marble flooring. The outside world isn't as friendly as it seems.
Which is what makes the bomb threat so stupid and so dangerous.
ooh good point it should be mostly self repairing too. The safest place from attack would be high in the sky.
The geek will rant on and on about Steamboat Willie.
In its original form: nitrate stock.
Cinephone [aka Phonofilm] sound-on-film.
It takes time and money to preserve stuff like this.
The point here is that Disney built and maintained a studio archive long before it had any obvious commercial potential.
For REAL archival what's needed is an active system like the Internet but one that guarantees n redundancy. Perhaps a p2p like system with nodes backing up files. This abstracts away whether they are going on SATA, IDE, SCSI, Tape, whatevs. The local machine handles all the hardware details. When newer, better, cheaper technology comes along, the old data is automatically able to propagate onto the new storage mechanisms. I see this all the time working in the IT industry. I have backups from 10 years ago I can not read because we no longer have a working tape drive to read it.
You haven't lifted a finger to track down, replace and restore the tape drive you need.
Why then should we be trusting our data to an (allegedly) fully automated - autonomous - system which is equally likely to be neglected and ignored?
TFA finally gets around to pointing out that players who choose to shoot and kill those who attempt escape face the consequences for their actions by having their character stand trial later for the crime. They also give the choice of killing or not killing.
The East German at the Wall was chosen for his absolute loyalty and obedience to the State.
Not to mention that he was in immeadiate danger of being shot out-of-hand as a traitor if he let someone make it through.
I can't imagine that fear of trial by the West at some later date ever entered his head.
I would be even more surprised to hear that any East German border guard was ever successfully prosecuted for a killing at the wall.
... and doesn't know it.
Take a look - a good, long, look - at the posts here.
If you despise the masses, the software and services they use, you are not going to accomplish anything.
iOS tops Linux
b) A professional marketing plan to make it the default choice in Western Schools where it can get mind-share. (Why are disadvantaged kids being taxed to use Microsoft?)
The Help Wanted adds, your state employment office, volunteer services and social welfare agencies can help answer that one.
You might also usefully spend time reading through the catalogs of night courses currently being offered by through your local high schools, senor centers, community colleges and so on.
MS Office skills are marketable at any age.
It may not be an exaggeration to call teaching MS Office a profit center for your local schools.
c) A results-driven steering committee so that goals and objectives are established and prioritized based on USER-driven wishes.
One of Microsoft's great strengths in the enterprise market is in centralized management and distribution. You need to be clear about the needs of those who will be deploying your office suite - not just the needs of the clerical worker at her keyboard.
e) Make working on it part of every computer science curriculum.
Another of Microsoft's great strengths is the time and money it puts into study of office work. This isn't a problem for the CS major. - you need the social scientist. You need the office manager. You need the 9 to 5 office worker.
You need to have a clue about medicine and psychiatry. What makes a font readable. What makes a task stressful.
Tragic, of course, that people would buy something so crippled and locked down they must "jailbreak" it to make it more useful.
The iOS device - like the PS3 or Wii - is pefectly tuned for success in its core markets - and there the jailbreak doesn't happen because no one gives a damn about the OtherOS - or whatever else it is that the geek is pining for.
Unless, of course, that what the geek is pining for is a free copy of Fallout: New Vegas or the Blu-Ray screener of Iron Man 3.
The geek buys into the walled garden because the hardware looks cool, stylish and well-built - and because he thinks, rightly or wrongly, that he can bend it to his will.
OpenOffice.org was - for all practical purposes - a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun.
Management. Staffing. Money and Resources.
Rather a lot of money - as I recall - some hundreds of millions of dollars spent in trying to make OpenOffice.org a competitive office suite.
Second-tier to this day - and far from the integrated office solutions being offered by Microsoft.
USERS paid developers over $1 billion, and Apple snatched over $300,000.
Reading comprehension, D-.
It is $1 billion to developers and $429 million to Apple (with a 70/30 split.)
The iOS as a platform for the web and the web app has a larger market share than Linux and five times that of the Android OS. iOS tops Linux
Let's hear it for a sudden outbreak of common sense from the judiciary!
Just a word of caution here.
Your video becomes evidence for both the defense and the prosecution. Bith the good bits and the bad bits (from your point of view) can be shown to the jury.
"Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself."
The one thing I don't understand is why have him actually serve his sentence? Doesn't this just cost people more money in the end.
It may be that Slashdot has made me cynical.
But always seems to come as a surprise to the geek when one of his own is sentenced to do hard time.
Ten years is meant to hurt.
To teach a lesson.
To warn others like you not to take this path.
In the American federal system, economic and property crimes with an interstate dimension are a federal responsibility - and they are never taken lightly.
The Enron executive learned that much.
I'd say the only real mistake Sony made there was not continuing to make an OtherOS PS3 and simply sell it at $700 as a "research tool" and been done with it.
The cluster was built from purchases of the PS3 in wholesale lots.
2,000+ units for a single USAF project.
Sony had a brief swing at commercializing PS3 tech in its own HPC product. Sony Unveils Cell-Based Image Processing Appliance
It will be chill day in Hell before Sony allows another mass market consumer product to cannabalize its sales in other - more profitable - markets. It will be colder still before the OtherOS makes a return.
I figure its just a matter of time before we see hacked PS3s all over Craigslist like we see the hacked x360s now.
I have yet to hear that the OtherOS is running on a PS3 Slim.
The Fat is aging and out of production. The Cell never quite lived up to its promise.
The truth of it is that the PS3 is video game console - and support for the OtherOS of symbolic importance only. Every vote for the MOVE, for 3D in PS3 gaming, is a vote from the player's wallet for the firmware upgrade.
All films have one and only one director.
In the early days, studios tried very hard to avoid giving production credit to anyone.
Until they discovered - as promoters always do - that the star is bankable. The best guarantee of a return at the box office.
The star can be an actor or actress. Cary Grant. Audrey Hepburn.
The star can be a director. D.W. Griffith. John Ford. Alfred Hitchcock. The star can be a cinematographer, a stunt man, or a master of sound and special effects. Ray Harryhausen. Ben Burtt.
Production credits are not an act of charity.
They are proof of performance. They define future compensation and editorial control.
"Han shot first." "There can be only one."
watching Sony waste time, money while losing customers is entertaining
This is fantasy.
The reality is sales of 39.1 million units.
50 million PlayStation Network accounts.
14 million PlaystationHome social networking accounts. PlayStation Network
The PlayStation MOVE starter sets and MOVE controllers rank #4, #7, #12, and #36 in video game sales at Amazon.com.
"Civilization V" ranks #2 and "Halo: Reach" #1. If you understand the strengths of the PC platform, you can still make your mark in the top ten. Bestsellers In Video Games (Updated hourly)
This is why your boss drives a better car than you and has a bigger house while you do all the work
It's part of the boss's job to see that you have some work to do -
and to impose enough order and discipline so that the work he assigns you is completed on time and on budget.
It's his job to fit all the pieces together.
Finance. Production. Marketing and Distribution.
He can both the visionary and the public face of the business.
Edison. Ford. Disney. Sarnoff.
But ask them to picture a hypothetical situation where they are given an order about how to accomplish a goal. But the order is poorly conceived and will get themselves and their squad killed. But they have a better and safer way to accomplish the task. What do they do? Inevitably, the ex-military folks get this blank look and respond, "Follow orders".
You work from a playbook until your responses become instinctive.
Everyone in your unit knows where they have to be and what they are expected to do.
Maybe you have a better plan - and maybe if your buddies understand it perfectly they just might be able pull it off.
But the place to test your ideas and work out the bugs is not on the front line.
I was in the USAF and had to deal with pilots fairly often. It's true they are good with their planes, but most of them are rather stupid and would fail most logic tests.
You haven't told us in what way you were dealing with pilots.
You haven't told us how someone with so inadequate and illogical a mind can sucessfully fly a high performance aircraft.
What if I decide to commit a crime and I 'arrange' a nice alibi with pictures and well timed postings on my FB page?
Could I use that to defend myself in court?
You could try.
But, on the record, I would argue the geek doesn't have it in him to lie in a way that will persuade a jury.
He over-complicates things. His notions of plausibility are nuts.
He should be in the grave. I know I can shoot better than that.
The insurance investigator has a boss.
Surevillance operations are planned. When the investigator doesn't phone in his report on time the boss will ask questions. He will call the police - and he can tell them exactly where to start looking.
Your insurance fraud has escalated to Murder 1 and the chances that you will escape conviction on the capital charge are nill.
When I bought the PS3, it had OtherOS and was not as locked down. They changed all that after purchase, which is ridiculous and I haven't bought any more PS3 games.
The PS2 "Slim" [2004] also ditched expansion options and the OtherOS. Something that seems to have been forgotten in the geek's nerd rage.
It retails for $100 and weighs 1.3 lbs.
The video game console is a social experience.
It is shared with your family and connects to the 60" Panasonic.
The geek has no leverage.
No firmware upgrades means no new Blu-Ray videos.
Try selling that idea to your wife and your kids when they spot the next Pixar flick on the shelves at WalMart.
No Red Dead Redemption. No MOVE. No 3D. No download content. No video on demand. No PlaystationHome. Social networking and gaming for 14 million.