The results, which were based on 7,500 online questionnaires submitted to the consumer electronics review company Retrevo, support commonsense assumptions in some cases about where certain devices might be hot.
It's called zoning and planning, but what it is, is malignant interference with your liberties.
If it's your land, and what you do there does not physically affect anything beyond your land's boundaries (chemical, fire, high level sound waves, overhangs, undermining, water flow... the obvious things) then I really can't see the government having any role at all.
The swimming pool is considered an "attractive nuisance." On a hot summer's day it has the potential to draw in every kid in the neighborhood.
Your neighbors don't like coming home to see a hearse pulling around the back of your house. They don't want to hear that a toddler drowned in your pool.
They don't want to hear that a nine year girl old was electrocuted in your pool.
It's getting harder and harder for Steve Ballmer to point to his resume and be able to justify his work over the past decade. While Microsoft has pushed out upgrades to all its software, the big picture is gloomy enough to make him sweat at upcoming board meetings
You want the big picture:
MEASURED by profits, Microsoft trounces Apple and Google. In the most recent three months, Microsoft earned $4.52 billion, versus Apple's $3.25 billion and Google's $1.8 billion. Lost from view is what arguably is Microsoft's very best story -- its transformation into a powerhouse supplier of the specialized software that meets the complex needs of large corporations, what the trade calls selling to "the enterprise."
Microsoft's enterprise software business alone is approaching the size of Oracle. But despite that astounding growth, Microsoft must accept that, fair or not, victories on the enterprise side draw about as much attention as being the No. 1 wholesale seller of plumbing supplies. Microsoft won't receive the adoring attention that its chief rival draws with products like the iPad.
"Tech investors pay for growth," says Sarah Friar, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, who believes that those investors do not appreciate the durability of Microsoft's cash cows, Windows and Office. She has many positive things to say about Microsoft's ability to innovate, pointing in particular to the robust sales of server and database software, which are now almost equal in size to Windows revenue.
BRENDAN BARNICLE, a software analyst at Pacific Crest Securities...praised its enterprise software business, formally labeled "Server and Tools," as "an incredible business," accounting, he said, for about 24 percent of the company's revenue and with an operating margin of 40 percent.Even With All Its Profits, Microsoft Has a Popularity Problem
Twelve of the Top 100 Software Bestsellers at Amazon.com are editions of MS Office 2010 or the Win 7 OS retail boxed. MS Office Home & Student for the PC and the Mac are currently - and typically - #1 and #3.
There is not a single PC or console video game in the top 100 list.
if there's an actual paper trail proving that you _knew_ about the copyright infringement, you HAVE to take some legal action to enforce it - otherwise, your copyright can be overturned.
You are confusing trademarks and copyrights. But the Pac-Man characters - and the other distinctive design elements of a Pac-Man game - almost certainly are trademarked.
He's been punished way more than enough by now. I hope the judge gives him credit for time served and ends this.
It's not that simple:
Jackson ruled Friday that under a new California law that went into effect this year, Childs would receive fewer jail credits because he has prior felony convictions for robbery and burglary.Judge Delays Sentencing For SF City Tech Worker
No matter how old it is, a felony conviction tends to stick like glue. It surprises me a little that Childs is being cut any slack at all.
it's all right to change the Microsoft icon. It was funny twelve years ago. It's kind of retarded now. Especially since the company now looks to be run by the three stooges after a weekend bender.
The geek is easily distracted by glitz:
In the most recent three months, Microsoft earned $4.52 billion in profits, versus Apple's $3.25 billion and Google's $1.8 billion. Lost from view is Microsoft's very best story -- its transformation into a powerhouse supplier of the specialized software that meets the complex needs of large corporations. Microsoft's enterprise software business alone is approaching the size of Oracle.Even With All Its Profits, Microsoft Has a Popularity Problem
So, let me get this right. A tax code is so confusing and complicated - in part because of lobbyists and politicians carving out special exceptions for each other and special punishment for their enemies - that even cash-strapped California sees the need to assist its citizens with compliance?
So, let me get this straight.
The ever-paranoid geek trusts a bankrupt California to cut him a better deal on his taxes than he can get through an independent tax preparation service or an accountant.
The accountant who will stand by you when the state demands a claw-back on your refund check or a much stiffer set of penalties.
The insurance file's contents could include the 15,000 reports Assange said Wikileaks held back last week to protect human intelligence sources on the ground, Young suggested.
If true, that would be a dangerously provocative escalation.
In response to news that names and even GPS coordinates of some informants were nevertheless included, [Assange] blamed the US military. "This material was available to every soldier and contractor in Afghanistan," he claimed, stretching the truth. However, the material was classified only as Secret, so would be relatively widely available to security-cleared individuals. As far as we know none of them published it, though. Challenged that he had put lives at risk Assange responded: "Well, anything might happen, but nothing has happened."
When something does happen, expect all hell to break loose.
Why do I hate 3D glasses? Because I'm near sighted and had to wear glasses every day of my life... now watching movies or television is going to require a SECOND pair on top of the first one?
The OLPC is pretty much dead and has been dead ever since they sold out to Intel. What was initially supposed to be a rugged notebook for developing countries ended up mostly being sold to mid-level countries such as Uruguay and Peru.
There has to more to it than that.
The kid with an XO laptop is almost certain to be Hispanic-American and Roman Catholic.
60,000 to Brazil. But over 500,000 to Peru. 100,00 units - of 1.5 million - went to Rwanda. But Rwanda is the only significant - confirmed - deployment of the XO outside the Western Hemisphere. OLPC: Deployment of XO laptops
The OLPC was originally presented to the Education Minister as a one-size-fits-all, take-it-or-leave-it, bundle of hardware, open source software and a Constructivist philosophy of education straight out of the Western media lab.
When your product doesn't sell worth shit outside of Latin America, than any claims of universality are officially bogus. Until proven otherwise.
Before WW-II was the Great Depression. Unemployment was over 50%. I doubt that many had hired help during that time.
Unemployment was high - but at its peak, more like 20% than 50%. Great Depression in the United States Race and sex could up those numbers dramatically, of course.
Not everyone goes bust in hard times - not everyone prospers in boom times.
If you had a middle class income in the Depression, domestic help was easy to find and cheap.
The alternative is an archaic system of elder care called "families". I understand it was practiced in some parts of the world back in the 20th century.
Families were often much larger.
Three kids. Six kids.
Families were often much less mobile.
Five generations of our own family still live within the same township.
Jobs for women outside the household were still scarce.
Before World War Two it wasn't at all unusual for a middle class family of relatively modest income to employ full or part time help.
The alternatives to home care were few and often quite bleak.
Even today, there are only two nursing homes locally that I would willingly place anyone.
If I had alzheimers to the point where I was wandering off into the woods somewhere, unable to get home, I don't think I'd like to be "rescued" with a GPS device.
What makes you think you would remember that you had Alzheimer's Disease?
It is arrogant and irresponsible to project your own motives and emotions into the mind of someone with a senile dementia.
My own grandfather (alzheimers) tried to commit suicide at least once by sitting in his car in his garage with the engine turned on
How can you be so certain that he was trying to commit suicide - rather than simply unable to do more than start the engine?
Unable even to remember that he had started the engine?
There is a major difference. The big moment that happens at 93:27:34 in the movie will always happen at 93:27:34. There is no such dependability in live performance.
There are really two differences.
In the silent era, musical accompaniment looked something like this:
"Picture Palace" theater orchestras.
Prestige productions and venues. First Run. Premium ticket prices. The house offers live entertainment as part of the regular program.
The grander suburban theaters will have a Wurlitzer theater organ for music and sound effects and an orchestra pit which sees at least some use.
The neighborhood or Post theater has only a piano.
The problem, of course, is that you need to produce and distribute three or four versions of the score.
You might be distributing three versions of the score to the same house, to accommodate low-budget matinee screenings and so on.
The devices are being designed to thwart the user's attempt to install software without thwarting the manufacturer. That is a strike against us and our rights, regardless of how you phrase it.
These calculators are designed to thwart cheating in the middle and high school grades.
The educational market is the only commercially viable market.
If TI takes the product off retail shelves, you will have one less thing left to play with.
If you have to infringe because the legitimate publisher doesn't want to take your money, then copyright is failing "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
You don't "have" to infringe.
You can do without - or make something better. That is what drives things forward.
The fan has been obsessed with recreating Star Trek: TOS. But the technology is there for the him to make on original space opera, action adventure, or whatever he chooses.
If he needs a starting point, there are classics in the genre that haven't been dramatized in the last half century or so and are accessible to anyone: Science Fiction (Bookshelf)
It doesn't matter, because the feds will just bail them out. Can't have poor innocent institutional traders going out of business, we'll just stiff all the mom & pops with a bigger tax bill.
The day trader works for a bank.
You don't want to see the big banks go belly up because that takes huge chunks of the economy down with them.
Slashdot Mirror
Obscene prices. sorry but $69.99 for a book on Python programming is robbery. When I can get the same book on Amazon.com for $29.95.
Every inch of shelf space has to generate its share of income for the store.
How many copies of your Python textbook do you think leaves the mall each day?
Amazon stocks a number of Python texts that list for $100 - in paperback:
Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python, A Multimedia Approach (2nd Edition)
Expect to see a relatively modest 12% discount here.
The Ansel Adams coffee table book in hardcover that lists for $150? 25% off. The American Wilderness
The results, which were based on 7,500 online questionnaires submitted to the consumer electronics review company Retrevo, support commonsense assumptions in some cases about where certain devices might be hot.
The geek is a sucker for the online poll.
It's called zoning and planning, but what it is, is malignant interference with your liberties.
If it's your land, and what you do there does not physically affect anything beyond your land's boundaries (chemical, fire, high level sound waves, overhangs, undermining, water flow... the obvious things) then I really can't see the government having any role at all.
The swimming pool is considered an "attractive nuisance." On a hot summer's day it has the potential to draw in every kid in the neighborhood.
Your neighbors don't like coming home to see a hearse pulling around the back of your house. They don't want to hear that a toddler drowned in your pool.
They don't want to hear that a nine year girl old was electrocuted in your pool.
Before or after the planes were sold to BOAC at distress-sale prices?
It's getting harder and harder for Steve Ballmer to point to his resume and be able to justify his work over the past decade. While Microsoft has pushed out upgrades to all its software, the big picture is gloomy enough to make him sweat at upcoming board meetings
You want the big picture:
MEASURED by profits, Microsoft trounces Apple and Google. In the most recent three months, Microsoft earned $4.52 billion, versus Apple's $3.25 billion and Google's $1.8 billion. Lost from view is what arguably is Microsoft's very best story -- its transformation into a powerhouse supplier of the specialized software that meets the complex needs of large corporations, what the trade calls selling to "the enterprise."
Microsoft's enterprise software business alone is approaching the size of Oracle. But despite that astounding growth, Microsoft must accept that, fair or not, victories on the enterprise side draw about as much attention as being the No. 1 wholesale seller of plumbing supplies. Microsoft won't receive the adoring attention that its chief rival draws with products like the iPad.
"Tech investors pay for growth," says Sarah Friar, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, who believes that those investors do not appreciate the durability of Microsoft's cash cows, Windows and Office. She has many positive things to say about Microsoft's ability to innovate, pointing in particular to the robust sales of server and database software, which are now almost equal in size to Windows revenue.
BRENDAN BARNICLE, a software analyst at Pacific Crest Securities...praised its enterprise software business, formally labeled "Server and Tools," as "an incredible business," accounting, he said, for about 24 percent of the company's revenue and with an operating margin of 40 percent. Even With All Its Profits, Microsoft Has a Popularity Problem
Twelve of the Top 100 Software Bestsellers at Amazon.com are editions of MS Office 2010 or the Win 7 OS retail boxed. MS Office Home & Student for the PC and the Mac are currently - and typically - #1 and #3.
There is not a single PC or console video game in the top 100 list.
These numbers are astonishing.
MS Office Professional 2010 is $10 if your employer participates in Microsoft's Home Use Program. $80 with student ID. Office Professional Academic 2010
if there's an actual paper trail proving that you _knew_ about the copyright infringement, you HAVE to take some legal action to enforce it - otherwise, your copyright can be overturned.
You are confusing trademarks and copyrights. But the Pac-Man characters - and the other distinctive design elements of a Pac-Man game - almost certainly are trademarked.
Can someone please provide a list of countries that won't extradite to the US? Soonish, please.
Every country has ways of dealing with the dickhead. Some are more permanent and more painful than others, so make your choice wisely.
He's been punished way more than enough by now. I hope the judge gives him credit for time served and ends this.
It's not that simple:
Jackson ruled Friday that under a new California law that went into effect this year, Childs would receive fewer jail credits because he has prior felony convictions for robbery and burglary. Judge Delays Sentencing For SF City Tech Worker
No matter how old it is, a felony conviction tends to stick like glue. It surprises me a little that Childs is being cut any slack at all.
Exactly. If Pac-Man was 3 or 4 years old and still sold on store shelves I would have infinitely more understanding and sympathy for the IP owners.
Pac-Man is 30 years old and still on the shelves.
Google shopping returns 8,000 hits for licensed Pac-Man games and related products.
Namco sells $3000 full-sized replica Pac-Man Arcade Games for the family room.
I thought the three stooges sounded pretty good as an icon for Microsoft.
It's not.
The Stooges were in their prime in 1940. The Borg made their first appearance in Star Trek:TNG in 1989. Cowboy Bebop aired in 1998.
Slashdot could stand to look a little less adolescent and a little more trend-forward.
it's all right to change the Microsoft icon. It was funny twelve years ago. It's kind of retarded now. Especially since the company now looks to be run by the three stooges after a weekend bender.
The geek is easily distracted by glitz:
In the most recent three months, Microsoft earned $4.52 billion in profits, versus Apple's $3.25 billion and Google's $1.8 billion. Lost from view is Microsoft's very best story -- its transformation into a powerhouse supplier of the specialized software that meets the complex needs of large corporations. Microsoft's enterprise software business alone is approaching the size of Oracle. Even With All Its Profits, Microsoft Has a Popularity Problem
So, let me get this right. A tax code is so confusing and complicated - in part because of lobbyists and politicians carving out special exceptions for each other and special punishment for their enemies - that even cash-strapped California sees the need to assist its citizens with compliance?
So, let me get this straight.
The ever-paranoid geek trusts a bankrupt California to cut him a better deal on his taxes than he can get through an independent tax preparation service or an accountant.
The accountant who will stand by you when the state demands a claw-back on your refund check or a much stiffer set of penalties.
The insurance file's contents could include the 15,000 reports Assange said Wikileaks held back last week to protect human intelligence sources on the ground, Young suggested.
If true, that would be a dangerously provocative escalation.
In response to news that names and even GPS coordinates of some informants were nevertheless included, [Assange] blamed the US military. "This material was available to every soldier and contractor in Afghanistan," he claimed, stretching the truth. However, the material was classified only as Secret, so would be relatively widely available to security-cleared individuals. As far as we know none of them published it, though.
Challenged that he had put lives at risk Assange responded: "Well, anything might happen, but nothing has happened."
When something does happen, expect all hell to break loose.
That - or lenses made to your prescription.
The OLPC is pretty much dead and has been dead ever since they sold out to Intel. What was initially supposed to be a rugged notebook for developing countries ended up mostly being sold to mid-level countries such as Uruguay and Peru.
There has to more to it than that.
The kid with an XO laptop is almost certain to be Hispanic-American and Roman Catholic.
60,000 to Brazil. But over 500,000 to Peru. 100,00 units - of 1.5 million - went to Rwanda. But Rwanda is the only significant - confirmed - deployment of the XO outside the Western Hemisphere. OLPC: Deployment of XO laptops
The OLPC was originally presented to the Education Minister as a one-size-fits-all, take-it-or-leave-it, bundle of hardware, open source software and a Constructivist philosophy of education straight out of the Western media lab.
When your product doesn't sell worth shit outside of Latin America, than any claims of universality are officially bogus. Until proven otherwise.
Prince warns S. Arabia of apocalypse
THe UAE is not Saudi Arabia.
Before WW-II was the Great Depression. Unemployment was over 50%. I doubt that many had hired help during that time.
Unemployment was high - but at its peak, more like 20% than 50%. Great Depression in the United States Race and sex could up those numbers dramatically, of course.
Not everyone goes bust in hard times - not everyone prospers in boom times.
If you had a middle class income in the Depression, domestic help was easy to find and cheap.
The alternative is an archaic system of elder care called "families". I understand it was practiced in some parts of the world back in the 20th century.
Families were often much larger.
Three kids. Six kids.
Families were often much less mobile.
Five generations of our own family still live within the same township.
Jobs for women outside the household were still scarce.
Before World War Two it wasn't at all unusual for a middle class family of relatively modest income to employ full or part time help.
The alternatives to home care were few and often quite bleak.
Even today, there are only two nursing homes locally that I would willingly place anyone.
If I had alzheimers to the point where I was wandering off into the woods somewhere, unable to get home, I don't think I'd like to be "rescued" with a GPS device.
What makes you think you would remember that you had Alzheimer's Disease?
It is arrogant and irresponsible to project your own motives and emotions into the mind of someone with a senile dementia.
My own grandfather (alzheimers) tried to commit suicide at least once by sitting in his car in his garage with the engine turned on
How can you be so certain that he was trying to commit suicide - rather than simply unable to do more than start the engine?
Unable even to remember that he had started the engine?
Looks to me like a potential good enough niche market for some startup (or a cooperative) to build and sell a really open calculator.
But when your kid - and ten million others - enters the middle grades you will have to buy him that locked-down TI for his class work.
Do you really think you can match TI's economies of scale in production?
Where do you sell your "open" calculator?"
Not at Walmart, certainly. Not in any store which wants a slice of the back-to-school market. You aren't worth the shelf space.
There is a major difference. The big moment that happens at 93:27:34 in the movie will always happen at 93:27:34. There is no such dependability in live performance.
There are really two differences.
In the silent era, musical accompaniment looked something like this:
"Picture Palace" theater orchestras.
Prestige productions and venues. First Run. Premium ticket prices. The house offers live entertainment as part of the regular program.
The grander suburban theaters will have a Wurlitzer theater organ for music and sound effects and an orchestra pit which sees at least some use.
The neighborhood or Post theater has only a piano.
The problem, of course, is that you need to produce and distribute three or four versions of the score.
You might be distributing three versions of the score to the same house, to accommodate low-budget matinee screenings and so on.
The devices are being designed to thwart the user's attempt to install software without thwarting the manufacturer. That is a strike against us and our rights, regardless of how you phrase it.
These calculators are designed to thwart cheating in the middle and high school grades.
The educational market is the only commercially viable market.
If TI takes the product off retail shelves, you will have one less thing left to play with.
There have been so many companies in denial lately...
There have also been a lot of folks playing for the jackpot in the class-action lawsuit lotto.
If you have to infringe because the legitimate publisher doesn't want to take your money, then copyright is failing "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
You don't "have" to infringe.
You can do without - or make something better. That is what drives things forward.
The fan has been obsessed with recreating Star Trek: TOS. But the technology is there for the him to make on original space opera, action adventure, or whatever he chooses.
If he needs a starting point, there are classics in the genre that haven't been dramatized in the last half century or so and are accessible to anyone: Science Fiction (Bookshelf)
It doesn't matter, because the feds will just bail them out. Can't have poor innocent institutional traders going out of business, we'll just stiff all the mom & pops with a bigger tax bill.
The day trader works for a bank.
You don't want to see the big banks go belly up because that takes huge chunks of the economy down with them.