HP are still that big? I haven't seen one of their products in years.
300,000 full-time employees. Market cap $125 Billion. Indexed in the Dow Industrials. S&P 100, etc. In the U.S., second only to IBM in computer hardware sales. Does any of this ring a bell?
Remember that juries are made up of the twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The american jury is middle age, middle class, small-C conservative.
Mature. Responsible. Committed.
Men and women have chosen to live up to an ideal they have taught their kids.
They are as smart, tough, resilent and dangerous an adversary as you will ever have to face. Play them as fools and they will pound your sorry ass into the marble flooring.
or, it's just a case of statistics being a bitch. given the number of updates that have to be pushed through the system, it's only a matter of time before the process lets a faulty one through
"Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of the registry to construct a list of services that it must load." A description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP Professional Edition
Your chances of bricking Win XP when you quarantine svchost approach 100%.
They (we?) are... I mean, his name is known, so why not promote one positive thing that has happened for/to him in the last week?
Do you want to be the one to tell your boss you cleared this guy for a security-sensitive job? After he has seen the YouTube videos of him whooping it up in a Munich beer hall at Lufthansa's expense?
Ah, so, your counter to talk about bribery is about how judges "follow a distinct path" and are exceptionally well trained?
Consider how many years you have invested in becoming a judge-for-life. That it is the only life you have ever known. How likely is it that you will consider throwing it all away?
Did you forget that judges will meet quite a few people who choose "lawyer" at the end of that path?
The judge in a German court is more than a referee:
There is no such thing as a jury trial in Germany.
Under German law, as under American law, the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. In minor [criminal] cases there may be only a single judge presiding. Or, if the charges are severe and the accused faces heavy penalties, there may be five persons hearing the case - three professional judges and two lay judges.
Though he has the duty of defending the accused to the maximum of his ability, a German lawyer is not as active in court as an American lawyer. In a German trial, the judge, not the defense counsel or the prosecutor, obtains the testimony of the witnesses. After the judge is finished, the prosecutor and the defense counsel will be permitted to question witnesses. The aim is to obtain the truth from witnesses by direct questioning rather than through the examination and cross-examination generally used in a US trial.German Justice: 2 Days per Murder [2003]
I wonder how much that cost MS. Bribes aren't cheap.
Loose talk about bribery is for losers.
Given the importance of complex legal codes, {German] judges must be particularly well trained. Indeed, judges are not chosen from the field of practicing lawyers. Rather, they follow a distinct career path. At the end of their legal education at university, all law students must pass a state examination before they can continue on to an apprenticeship that provides them with broad training in the legal profession over two years. They then must pass a second state examination that qualifies them to practice law. At that point, the individual can choose either to be a lawyer or to enter the judiciary. Judicial candidates start working at courts immediately, however they are subjected to a probationary period of up to five years before being appointed as judges for lifetime.Judiciary of Germany
The average retail of a PC is US$500, again demanding a lo-res display
Walmart's in-store price for a 64 Bit Win 7 Home Premium Dell desktop with a 23" 1920x1080 screen is $800. Dell Inspiron 570 Desktop. The 1080p monitor at Walmart is $200, and there is nothing much to be gained by paying substantially more or less.
One consequence is that you are blocked from PlayStation Network, which means no online play, no buying downloadable games or mods, and no renting movies
and no playing Blu-Ray disks that require a firmware upgrade either.
He wasn't measured at 5'7" and then measured at 6'1" later. The victim's statement described the attacker as 5'7" in one case, and another victim many years later described the attacker as 6'1
Try judging someone's height without a fixed point of reference.
A doorway, a street sign, something of that sort.
Not easy.
Do you know your own height within an inch?
Could you bear the thought that your attacker was significantly shorter or more slightly built than you are?
Really. Now tehre are still problem with DNA matching, as it seems that collision over a huge population can happen
But do you really have a "huge" population of suspects?
The age and physical condition of the suspect has to make sense. You have to place him plausibly near the scene of the crime. Not stationed in Afghanistan.
What happened to the promise in the commercials that "It does everything?"
The PS3 can't do "everything."
It never could.
The FTC will look at the commercials as a whole and what they will see - and what you bought - is a video game console.
I refuse to install any update that takes away this important functionality, and will continue to use the system as a computer.
Whatever the merits of the Cell - what you have is an aging PS3 FAT that is in many ways more compromised and less versatile a computer than an entry level netbook.
I kicked the shit out of EA by completely bypassing their EULA in court and making it a full property rights issue instead of a contractual one.
Citation needed.
Three searches. Twenty levels deep into Google. I can't find a case that fits this description.
If a decision exists - if it has any value as precedent - it seems to have no visibility whatever: Electronic Arts [Law360: The Newswire For Business Lawyers]
Part of the appeal to content producers and the console makers themselves is having consistent and complete control over the platform. It's things like this that will hopefully keep the PC relevant as a gaming and entertainment platform.
The next PS3 firmware upgrade adds 3D gaming support.
Sony is a major league content provider. It is name-brand in home video and sound. This level of vertical integration - and consistency - doesn't exist in the PC market.
The unbunded PS3 slim at retail list will probably set you back about ten percent of the price of a first-generation Bravia HDTV.
Connect the cables and you are done.
You'll have a very competent Blu-Ray player, solid choices in console gaming, PSN, Netflix and likely much more -
without giving the slightest thought to the risks and complexities of managing a PC.
On the other hand, newsgroups such as comp.lang.c constantly get over 3 thousand posts a month, comp.lang.python also gets around 2500 post a month, comp.lang.c++ gets over 1500 posts a month
Granted.
But Cox Cable has 2.9 million digital cable subscribers, 3.5 million Internet subscribers, and 2.2 million digital telephone subscribers - and Cox is only one of many domestic providers.
In that context, 3,000 global USENET posts a month to comp.lang.c++ is nothing.
Linux is made by skilled folks who were nice enough to share so that other skilled folks can use it and hopefully add something back to the pool. That 95% has very little to offer us.
Serving the user pays the light bill and the rent.
Comments like "linux will never 'win' until it's easy to use" are silly.. Linux already won, it just isn't playing with you.
I'll remember that the next time I'm shopping for a video game console, a tablet or a cell phone. The walled garden the geek so dislikes when he is on the outside looking in.
As to the original topic, putting cows on treadmills, I don't see it being feasible.
You'll find treadmills in the 1897 Sears, Roebuck catalog. They were built for draft animals. What dairy farmer would be idiot enough to stress a cow producing marketable amounts of milk and butter by running her on a treadmill?
This Champion One Horse Power should give you some idea of what it is you are asking the animal to do.
Except that even more widely dispersed countries like Sweden have much lower prices.
Sweden has a population of about nine million, metropolitan Stockholm two million. Sweden has 162,000 km of paved roads. The US closer to four million.
I have no idea why Firefox still fights against the giant and loses money and time on it. Great, they got hw-accelerated Theora to one single mobile phone. What about all the televisions, other mobile phones, computers, airplanes, PS3, 360, and everything else under the sun that has H.264 hw supported? It's a lost battle.
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HP are still that big? I haven't seen one of their products in years.
300,000 full-time employees. Market cap $125 Billion. Indexed in the Dow Industrials. S&P 100, etc. In the U.S., second only to IBM in computer hardware sales. Does any of this ring a bell?
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Remember that juries are made up of the twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The american jury is middle age, middle class, small-C conservative.
Mature. Responsible. Committed.
Men and women have chosen to live up to an ideal they have taught their kids.
They are as smart, tough, resilent and dangerous an adversary as you will ever have to face. Play them as fools and they will pound your sorry ass into the marble flooring.
Actually, movie and music companies make a lot of money selling usage rights, to each other and to advertisers.
The commercial has a short life-span.
Typically that of a single add campaign. It does not cover the costs of a $200 million dollar production.
MacDonald's using movie characters for kids meal toys, and so forth
The tie-in - the sponsor - now dictates what can be produced. No giant transforming robot toy? No Wall-E.
or, it's just a case of statistics being a bitch. given the number of updates that have to be pushed through the system, it's only a matter of time before the process lets a faulty one through
"Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of the registry to construct a list of services that it must load." A description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP Professional Edition
Your chances of bricking Win XP when you quarantine svchost approach 100%.
I'm not saying that Vice President Cheney was involved in any way...
Baloney.
Of course you are.
It's the message you intended to deliver. Don't try to weasel your way out of it.
Either say it - and prove it - or keep your big mouth shut.
They (we?) are... I mean, his name is known, so why not promote one positive thing that has happened for/to him in the last week?
Do you want to be the one to tell your boss you cleared this guy for a security-sensitive job? After he has seen the YouTube videos of him whooping it up in a Munich beer hall at Lufthansa's expense?
I didn't think so.
Ah, so, your counter to talk about bribery is about how judges "follow a distinct path" and are exceptionally well trained?
Consider how many years you have invested in becoming a judge-for-life. That it is the only life you have ever known. How likely is it that you will consider throwing it all away?
Did you forget that judges will meet quite a few people who choose "lawyer" at the end of that path?
The judge in a German court is more than a referee:
There is no such thing as a jury trial in Germany.
Under German law, as under American law, the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. In minor [criminal] cases there may be only a single judge presiding. Or, if the charges are severe and the accused faces heavy penalties, there may be five persons hearing the case - three professional judges and two lay judges.
Though he has the duty of defending the accused to the maximum of his ability, a German lawyer is not as active in court as an American lawyer. In a German trial, the judge, not the defense counsel or the prosecutor, obtains the testimony of the witnesses. After the judge is finished, the prosecutor and the defense counsel will be permitted to question witnesses. The aim is to obtain the truth from witnesses by direct questioning rather than through the examination and cross-examination generally used in a US trial. German Justice: 2 Days per Murder [2003]
I wonder how much that cost MS. Bribes aren't cheap.
Loose talk about bribery is for losers.
Given the importance of complex legal codes, {German] judges must be particularly well trained. Indeed, judges are not chosen from the field of practicing lawyers. Rather, they follow a distinct career path. At the end of their legal education at university, all law students must pass a state examination before they can continue on to an apprenticeship that provides them with broad training in the legal profession over two years. They then must pass a second state examination that qualifies them to practice law. At that point, the individual can choose either to be a lawyer or to enter the judiciary. Judicial candidates start working at courts immediately, however they are subjected to a probationary period of up to five years before being appointed as judges for lifetime. Judiciary of Germany
Windows XP is running on 80% of the PC's and has 32 pixel icons that demand a lo-res display.
The numbers are more like 64% for XP and 26% for Vista and Win 7. Operating System Market Share
The average retail of a PC is US$500, again demanding a lo-res display
Walmart's in-store price for a 64 Bit Win 7 Home Premium Dell desktop with a 23" 1920x1080 screen is $800. Dell Inspiron 570 Desktop. The 1080p monitor at Walmart is $200, and there is nothing much to be gained by paying substantially more or less.
The availability of more 4K displays would not suddenly drive up the price on your 1080p screens so that you could no longer afford to buy a monitor.
Youll get the 4Kx2K monitor when 4Kx2K video becomes mainstream. Astro Systems DM-3400 56" Professional 4K LCD Monitor [$58,000]
One consequence is that you are blocked from PlayStation Network, which means no online play, no buying downloadable games or mods, and no renting movies
and no playing Blu-Ray disks that require a firmware upgrade either.
He wasn't measured at 5'7" and then measured at 6'1" later. The victim's statement described the attacker as 5'7" in one case, and another victim many years later described the attacker as 6'1
Try judging someone's height without a fixed point of reference.
A doorway, a street sign, something of that sort.
Not easy.
Do you know your own height within an inch?
Could you bear the thought that your attacker was significantly shorter or more slightly built than you are?
Again, not easily, I think.
Really. Now tehre are still problem with DNA matching, as it seems that collision over a huge population can happen
But do you really have a "huge" population of suspects?
The age and physical condition of the suspect has to make sense. You have to place him plausibly near the scene of the crime. Not stationed in Afghanistan.
What happened to the promise in the commercials that "It does everything?"
The PS3 can't do "everything."
It never could.
The FTC will look at the commercials as a whole and what they will see - and what you bought - is a video game console.
I refuse to install any update that takes away this important functionality, and will continue to use the system as a computer.
Whatever the merits of the Cell - what you have is an aging PS3 FAT that is in many ways more compromised and less versatile a computer than an entry level netbook.
I kicked the shit out of EA by completely bypassing their EULA in court and making it a full property rights issue instead of a contractual one.
Citation needed.
Three searches. Twenty levels deep into Google. I can't find a case that fits this description.
If a decision exists - if it has any value as precedent - it seems to have no visibility whatever: Electronic Arts [Law360: The Newswire For Business Lawyers]
Part of the appeal to content producers and the console makers themselves is having consistent and complete control over the platform. It's things like this that will hopefully keep the PC relevant as a gaming and entertainment platform.
The next PS3 firmware upgrade adds 3D gaming support.
3D Blu-Ray support a little further down the road. PS3 firmware update to support 3D in June
Sony is a major league content provider. It is name-brand in home video and sound. This level of vertical integration - and consistency - doesn't exist in the PC market.
The unbunded PS3 slim at retail list will probably set you back about ten percent of the price of a first-generation Bravia HDTV.
Connect the cables and you are done.
You'll have a very competent Blu-Ray player, solid choices in console gaming, PSN, Netflix and likely much more -
without giving the slightest thought to the risks and complexities of managing a PC.
On the other hand, newsgroups such as comp.lang.c constantly get over 3 thousand posts a month, comp.lang.python also gets around 2500 post a month, comp.lang.c++ gets over 1500 posts a month
Granted.
But Cox Cable has 2.9 million digital cable subscribers, 3.5 million Internet subscribers, and 2.2 million digital telephone subscribers - and Cox is only one of many domestic providers.
In that context, 3,000 global USENET posts a month to comp.lang.c++ is nothing.
As I said in another comment, their core market is young, rich, art/media types.
Porn is adolescent.
Pixar is adult. The iPad is adult.
That is Job's message - and it is what his young up-scale urban-sophisticate audience wants and needs to hear.
Isn't that called "prior restraint"?
The problem here is that the words aren't your own. They belong to someone else.
Freedom of speech doesn't imply the freedom to publish - or threaten to publish - someone else's work without their permission.
So, if you accidentally fly by a speed camera, you need to report your vehicle as stolen?
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Linux is made by skilled folks who were nice enough to share so that other skilled folks can use it and hopefully add something back to the pool. That 95% has very little to offer us.
Serving the user pays the light bill and the rent.
Comments like "linux will never 'win' until it's easy to use" are silly.. Linux already won, it just isn't playing with you.
I'll remember that the next time I'm shopping for a video game console, a tablet or a cell phone. The walled garden the geek so dislikes when he is on the outside looking in.
The library went to a lot of trouble to prove that their records from the 18th century are probably a bit inaccurate.
The New York Society Library was a private subscription library. Washington would have been charged a substantial annual assessment or membership fee.
As to the original topic, putting cows on treadmills, I don't see it being feasible.
You'll find treadmills in the 1897 Sears, Roebuck catalog. They were built for draft animals. What dairy farmer would be idiot enough to stress a cow producing marketable amounts of milk and butter by running her on a treadmill?
This Champion One Horse Power should give you some idea of what it is you are asking the animal to do.
Except that even more widely dispersed countries like Sweden have much lower prices.
Sweden has a population of about nine million, metropolitan Stockholm two million. Sweden has 162,000 km of paved roads. The US closer to four million.
I have no idea why Firefox still fights against the giant and loses money and time on it. Great, they got hw-accelerated Theora to one single mobile phone. What about all the televisions, other mobile phones, computers, airplanes, PS3, 360, and everything else under the sun that has H.264 hw supported? It's a lost battle.
The number of licensees for AVC/H.264 has passed the 800 mark.
They include - for all practical purposes - every significant player in consumer tech, video production and video distribution in the world.
You could begin, if you like, with