Honestly, why would anyone want to roll-out something like this on Windows. .
Development tools. Something Microsoft is very, very, good at. And missing from the summary is this little note: Just a year ago, the best Microsoft could do was 116th place based on rankings from Top500.org, which has been benchmarking supercomputers since 1993 with its bi-annual tests it calls "runs."
If you were convinced that you were morally right and upholding 'God's Law' would you really act suspiciously? Those who act suspicious know what they are doing is wrong.
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To understand what will look suspicious you have to understand the culture and environment you are entering.
This isn't as easy as it looks and old habits can betray you.
How does an agent of the Taliban react when he sees an independent woman, an educated woman, a woman in a position of authority?
It seems to me that a reasonably creative mind could find something productive to do for ten or fifteen minutes --- are you really so wired into the machine that your mind goes blank whenever someone cuts the cord?
For something to be considered prior art it must have been publicly available in some form. For example, a released product is prior art, a prototype or in-house product is not. A paper published in a journal is prior art, a internal whitepaper or lab notebook is not. .
There is the second problem:
To contribute anything of value you have to read and understand the patent. What geek ever RTFA.
It will be easy to find something that bears a superficial resemblance to what you have read in an abstract or summary.
You need to keep in mind the imagination of the inventor. What seems easy and obvious in retrospect may not have seemed easy or obvious at the time.
The cotton gin is, after all, fundamentally nothing more than a comb - tech that could plausibly have been found buried with the pharaohs.
Getting chatted up and being sexually harassed are not even remotely the same thing.
There is often more than a little truth to the stereotype that the geek doesn't know or doesn't care about how others perceive him. That he can't see - or refuses to see - what makes his conduct so offensive.
Most of the modern world is now on city treatment, no ceptic here at all.
That doesn't mean the camera clears every drain, filter, pump and trap. It would be - difficult - to explain why you can't call in a plumber when sludge backs up into your tub and toilet.
The investigation also included checking more than two miles of sewers using underground cameras.Murder on Main Line
If they could have convinced a big manufacturer to do this in the first place they could have saved a lot of time and effort.
They did go to the "big manufacturer" for the display tech and OEM manufacturing. The problem is that none of the technical innovations of the OLPC remain exclusive to the OLPC. The problem is that sales and distribution outside of Uruguay, Colombia and Peru has been unimpressive - a less charitable word would be "negligible."
I'd think putting the rad source right next to your brain, without even the skull material as a blocker, would be a pretty bad idea.
But, if she wants to be the guinea pig...go for it.
I suspect my HMO would describe the rig as an unlicensed - untested - modification to the prosthesis, with all the risk of infection and other complications that implies - and they wouldn't want any part of it.
I don't see that as being a bad dream. Is there a necessity for software to be proprietary? .
You could argue - with more than a little truth, I think - that OpenOffice.org is proprietary in everything but name. You look at funding, staffing, management and direction and what you see is Sun.
The geek tends to see software simply as a programing challenge - and runs aground when a project demands something more. It might be a deep knowledge of business standards and practices.
The video game producer needs to build a team who understands story and scripting, art design and direction - along with a hundred other specialized and well-paid skills.
Talents with professional and creative traditions which have evolved independently of F/OSS.
The licensing of a game has to satisfy everyone engaged in its finance and production.
If his engineers can deliver something new in animation and effects, so much the better. But with a $50-$100 million investment to recoup, that marketing advantage isn't going be surrendered lightly.
Shazam? Shazam!?! Don't these people actually think ahead as to how silly some of these things will look on the big screen? .
The 1941 live-action Republic serial "The Adventures of Captain Marvel" was released six months before Fleischer's "Superman." Captain Marvel Both characters have had a rather long life on screen and in the comics.
From May to November 2008, ClickStream Technologies recruited 2,400 U.S. internet users over the age of 18 to complete a survey and install ClickSight®, a patent-pending data collection tool which records click-level user behavior data across all browsers and applications.
Participants were recruited through a market research firm which awards cash and prizes in exchange for completing online surveys.
Sample is self-reported (in initial recruitment survey) as 65.5% female, 34.5% male; 48.4% married; 76.4% Caucasian, 5.5% African American, 1.58% Asian, 1.73% Hispanic.
[A note to the geek: "MS Office" has expanded far beyond Word and Excel, or even PowerPoint. You need to be clear about that before suggesting OpenOffice.org as a plug-in replacement.]
I removed MS Office from over 100 lab computers in my organization last year in favor of OOo. I'm also strongly urging staff to use OOo for at least a month. If, after that, they still insist on MS Office, I get it for them. Sadly, most opt for MS. Blows my mind. .
1 Fearless Leader replaces his lusers core apps without asking first.
2 The peasants rebel - and Fearless Leader is forced into an inglorious retreat.
3 Without ever quite understanding what went wrong.
The first shuttle mission was in 1981 - 27 years ago. You'd hope that in all that time, NASA would've cracked the major problems and the number of issues being raised now would be close to zero - reflecting the 30-odd years of development. .
There have only been about 125 shuttle launches. The Boeing 747 has been in development and in daily use since 1970 with 1400 built to date.
seriously why the fuck should a person get prison for something like that? .
When you ask Willie Sutton why he robs banks, the expected reply is "Because that is where the money is."
Banks aren't doing so very well right now.
Looking elsewhere:
The Dark Knight cost $185 million to produce and in theatrical release sold $528 million dollars worth of tickets in the US alone.
Clean industry.
Skilled labor and high-tech. High-paying on the production side.
Hog Heaven.
Generates billions in export dollars.
It doesn't matter whether your home district is in New York or Toronto, Vancouver or L.A. Protecting this industry is not a tough sell politically.
The genuine Sutton might hit the geek a little too close to home:
"Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all."
Access to funds/influence is usually a non-trivial prerequisite for success. Did Gates or Jobs have "connections"? .
Microsoft went from $22,000 in revenues to $1 million in about three years.
Its business was publishing the must-have versions of BASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL for damn near every commercially significant micro in the eight bit era.
I view universities as a service I pay for. Therefore anything I create at a university (unless employed to work on) should inherently become my property. Even if I use school resources to create the item (I'm paying for those services). The one situation that may change this is if my education is being subsidized, such as at a state college.
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It would be - let us say - unusual - if your tuition and fees were covering all your school's expenses.
No less unusual if no part of that tuition was being subsidized by private and public donors - and the return they expect can only come from you.
Your promise to work diligently towards a degree and your express or implied promise to give something back to your school whenever you are able.
I view universities as a service I pay for.
I can't shake the feeling the the geek's sense of entitlement begins at birth.
That's why Microsoft was able to outmaneuver IBM on a one-way exclusive contract for PC DOS .
Gates was selling an MBASIC interpreter to damn near everyone on the planet who bought a PC. He didn't need Dear Old Dad to tell him to keep his independence from IBM The deal was never exclusive - that is what made it so profitable. There were competing MSDOS machines on the market before the cloning of the PC BIOS.
Yet, only Bill Gates had both the contacts at IBM and the luck that IBM didn't can the PC project
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There can't have been anyone in the tech industry who wasn't aware of Microsoft before 1980.
Microsoft was selling BASIC to customers like General Electric as early as 1976. The MBASIC interpreter became the de-facto standard for the eight-bit micro.
It had compilers for MBASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL on the market no later than '77-'78.
In 1979 Microsoft 8080 BASIC is the first microprocessor product to win the ICP Million Dollar Award. Traditionally dominated by software for mainframe computers, this recognition is indicative of the growth and acceptance of the PC industry.Microsoft Timeline
DR in those days was still Intergalatic Digital Research. and ambling along like a one-man band.
Not the best image to project when negotiating with IBM.
The main reason we have a lot of bullying is that we have policies that don't allow students to ever confront bullies and use force to defend themselves when attacked. If a student punches a bully in the face for trying to do some sort of nasty physical bullying, like locking them in a locker, they can get suspended/expelled and arrested. .
Real-world examples seem in order here.
Because in searching Google they are mighty hard to find.
The arrest of the victim, one suspects, is most likely to happen when he responds with a gun and not with his fists. When he strikes back later - and lethally.
To encourage this cycle of action and reaction is in no healthy or productive of a solution.
Slashdot Mirror
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Insert disk. The movie plays.
That is the out-of-box experience your customers are looking for and it is the only thing they care about.
The geek is 1% of your market and he will always be bitching about something.
Sony's 18-inch Blu-ray laptop is our portable home theater favorite
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Development tools. Something Microsoft is very, very, good at.
And missing from the summary is this little note: Just a year ago, the best Microsoft could do was 116th place based on rankings from Top500.org, which has been benchmarking supercomputers since 1993 with its bi-annual tests it calls "runs."
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To understand what will look suspicious you have to understand the culture and environment you are entering.
This isn't as easy as it looks and old habits can betray you.
How does an agent of the Taliban react when he sees an independent woman, an educated woman, a woman in a position of authority?
What activities did the video game console replace in the home and what were their energy requirements?
It seems to me that a reasonably creative mind could find something productive to do for ten or fifteen minutes --- are you really so wired into the machine that your mind goes blank whenever someone cuts the cord?
or perhaps the "Insightful" mod explained. You need only to bait the hook.
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There is the second problem:
To contribute anything of value you have to read and understand the patent. What geek ever RTFA.
It will be easy to find something that bears a superficial resemblance to what you have read in an abstract or summary.
You need to keep in mind the imagination of the inventor. What seems easy and obvious in retrospect may not have seemed easy or obvious at the time.
The cotton gin is, after all, fundamentally nothing more than a comb - tech that could plausibly have been found buried with the pharaohs.
There is often more than a little truth to the stereotype that the geek doesn't know or doesn't care about how others perceive him. That he can't see - or refuses to see - what makes his conduct so offensive.
That doesn't mean the camera clears every drain, filter, pump and trap. It would be - difficult - to explain why you can't call in a plumber when sludge backs up into your tub and toilet.
The investigation also included checking more than two miles of sewers using underground cameras. Murder on Main Line
They did go to the "big manufacturer" for the display tech and OEM manufacturing. The problem is that none of the technical innovations of the OLPC remain exclusive to the OLPC. The problem is that sales and distribution outside of Uruguay, Colombia and Peru has been unimpressive - a less charitable word would be "negligible."
Summary of laptop orders
But, if she wants to be the guinea pig...go for it.
I suspect my HMO would describe the rig as an unlicensed - untested - modification to the prosthesis, with all the risk of infection and other complications that implies - and they wouldn't want any part of it.
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You could argue - with more than a little truth, I think - that OpenOffice.org is proprietary in everything but name. You look at funding, staffing, management and direction and what you see is Sun.
The geek tends to see software simply as a programing challenge - and runs aground when a project demands something more. It might be a deep knowledge of business standards and practices.
The video game producer needs to build a team who understands story and scripting, art design and direction - along with a hundred other specialized and well-paid skills.
Talents with professional and creative traditions which have evolved independently of F/OSS.
The licensing of a game has to satisfy everyone engaged in its finance and production.
If his engineers can deliver something new in animation and effects, so much the better. But with a $50-$100 million investment to recoup, that marketing advantage isn't going be surrendered lightly.
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The 1941 live-action Republic serial "The Adventures of Captain Marvel" was released six months before Fleischer's "Superman." Captain Marvel Both characters have had a rather long life on screen and in the comics.
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The fine print.
This is an unscientific - self-selected - on-line survey. "Your chance to win."
Home use only.
The demographics reported bear only a coincidental relationship to what is known about the U.S. population as a whole. Population of the United States by Race and Hispanic/Latino Origin, Census 2000 and July 1, 2005
From May to November 2008, ClickStream Technologies recruited 2,400 U.S. internet users over the age of 18 to complete a survey and install ClickSight®, a patent-pending data collection tool which records click-level user behavior data across all browsers and applications.
Participants were recruited through a market research firm which awards cash and prizes in exchange for completing online surveys.
Sample is self-reported (in initial recruitment survey) as 65.5% female, 34.5% male; 48.4% married; 76.4% Caucasian, 5.5% African American, 1.58% Asian, 1.73% Hispanic.
[A note to the geek: "MS Office" has expanded far beyond Word and Excel, or even PowerPoint. You need to be clear about that before suggesting OpenOffice.org as a plug-in replacement.]
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1 Fearless Leader replaces his lusers core apps without asking first.
2 The peasants rebel - and Fearless Leader is forced into an inglorious retreat.
3 Without ever quite understanding what went wrong.
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There have only been about 125 shuttle launches. The Boeing 747 has been in development and in daily use since 1970 with 1400 built to date.
You might begin by asking what she has against the nerd. Of course, there is always the chance she might begin by pointing to Slashdot...
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When you ask Willie Sutton why he robs banks, the expected reply is "Because that is where the money is."
Banks aren't doing so very well right now.
Looking elsewhere:
The Dark Knight cost $185 million to produce and in theatrical release sold $528 million dollars worth of tickets in the US alone.
Clean industry.
Skilled labor and high-tech. High-paying on the production side.
Hog Heaven.
Generates billions in export dollars.
It doesn't matter whether your home district is in New York or Toronto, Vancouver or L.A. Protecting this industry is not a tough sell politically.
The genuine Sutton might hit the geek a little too close to home:
"Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all."
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Microsoft went from $22,000 in revenues to $1 million in about three years.
Its business was publishing the must-have versions of BASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL for damn near every commercially significant micro in the eight bit era.
Those were "the connections" that mattered.
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It would be - let us say - unusual - if your tuition and fees were covering all your school's expenses.
No less unusual if no part of that tuition was being subsidized by private and public donors - and the return they expect can only come from you.
Your promise to work diligently towards a degree and your express or implied promise to give something back to your school whenever you are able.
I view universities as a service I pay for.
I can't shake the feeling the the geek's sense of entitlement begins at birth.
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Gates was selling an MBASIC interpreter to damn near everyone on the planet who bought a PC. He didn't need Dear Old Dad to tell him to keep his independence from IBM The deal was never exclusive - that is what made it so profitable. There were competing MSDOS machines on the market before the cloning of the PC BIOS.
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There can't have been anyone in the tech industry who wasn't aware of Microsoft before 1980.
Microsoft was selling BASIC to customers like General Electric as early as 1976. The MBASIC interpreter became the de-facto standard for the eight-bit micro.
It had compilers for MBASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL on the market no later than '77-'78.
In 1979 Microsoft 8080 BASIC is the first microprocessor product to win the ICP Million Dollar Award. Traditionally dominated by software for mainframe computers, this recognition is indicative of the growth and acceptance of the PC industry. Microsoft Timeline
DR in those days was still Intergalatic Digital Research. and ambling along like a one-man band.
Not the best image to project when negotiating with IBM.
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Strip away the add revenues from Google search and how much is left? When consumer sales hit bottom what happens to Google?
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Real-world examples seem in order here.
Because in searching Google they are mighty hard to find.
The arrest of the victim, one suspects, is most likely to happen when he responds with a gun and not with his fists. When he strikes back later - and lethally.
To encourage this cycle of action and reaction is in no healthy or productive of a solution.
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The "marque" is more than a instantly recognizable brand-name.
The Porsche. The Rolls-Royce.
To say the word is to conjure up the entire world which surrounds it in popular mythology.