This will help kickstart China's economy and lower the trade deficit as in isolating the country in this case would create more demand for local businesses to start cranking out devices that only Chinamen would want. Even better, since China isn't super rich, higher quality of lives would become within reach to more citizens who'd otherwise have to participate in the world markets.
At first glance, this strikes the average person as being another bizarre action of their evil autocratic censoring and repressing government, not to mention it can appear to be gesture to the world that China is not starving to get a better foothold in the global economy. But those people will get over it and it will ultimately help themselves and I would not be surprised if they continue to make extreme decisions similar to this.
On this subject, what I don't get is why the FCC is giving cable companies an ultimatum to phase in high def in broadcast signals.
Put yourself in the eyes of Joe Cubicle or look at it from the perspective of your typical housewife. Mal/*ware invade your machine nonstop, but odds are, as you have no idea what an OS is (let alone alternatives), your anger is directed at the virus writers, not MS. Or, and I see this all the time, when the crap piles up and your system slows down because you're running ninety programs on boot up, you do not realize that your processor still crunches math at the same rate it did when you bought the computer; instead you just toss your box out and be a good consumer and buy a fresh box. Intel's gotta be giving MS some kickbacks.
So, given that it is the hacker who is demonized for costing businesses billions and not the shitty programming, Microsoft can actually get away with selling virus protection programs, directing people to partners' sites who sell anti virus ware, or in this case bundling it with their next OS and marketing the software with the edge of having this high security from the evil doers. The whole deal works out great for the chip makers, the programmers, earnings reports, and of course the gross domestic product. This is capitalism at its best my friends. One more thing I gotta say, get your net install iso of debian (i386 arch)here.
As MSFT's.doc format was their creation and as they have modified it frequently over the years, how is it that OO supports it for opening and saving? Locking down that format would give MSFT good leverage on the word processing market obviously, but how is this legal, was it kosher from the start for others to use the format or did MS "donate" this? Legal loophole? Whatever the answer is, is this also the case for all other proprietary formats?
These DARPA competitions (and those of other organizations) have got to be one of the best ways to come up with new and useful technology. Instead of rowboat races, the bright and motivated students of top universities (as well as other entusiasts) compete against each other for a battle of imagination and ingenuity to win not useless trophies but the thrill of having created something of potential practical use. Also, these competitions help boost the reputations of the colleges and universities as these often get media coverage, and if you've noticed, they've got their school's name on their autonomous submarines. And of course, DARPA gets some cheap R&D.
It's been suggested as a lively possibility, but one thing that won't happen is that if both sides do not compromise, we're going to have separate root nameservers for our country and the EU. And I'll tell you now that America, if we so chose to stand our ground, will be easily able to retain control because Europeans need to go to our websites. Those of you who are in the US and running a web server, just check your logs and you'll see a pie chart with plenty of slices dwarfing US tlds.
They can cry about it and use this to help characterize us as arrogant, but they ain't gettin' shared control so long as we don't want to let them have it.
Forbes is wrong. I'm sure many other posts cover the software specifics and each company's history of innovations, but I want to say something about how Google's been so successfully branded. I cannot think of a more successfully branded company than Google. It's even in the dictionary. Microsoft's software, from OSs to pbrush.exe, is widely regarded by regular users (not the slashdot crowd) as unstable and complicated. The company's brand is not immaculate like Google, for example MS is stained with their relationship with the Dept of Justice while Google is still seen as the underdog. MS is the 800 pound gorilla, Google's founders and top execs are a few kids. Innocence. In addition to its popular search service, people are embracing excitedly the new toys Google hands out (EG Google Earth, Gmail).
Yes, MS has some strong arming advantages in their tactics to protect themselves from Google, but they've already been limited by the government, people are becoming frustrated with MSFT's stock performance over the past five years, and CNBC has been pointing out threats like Linux and the world is taking it seriously.
So, in addition to software quality, Google's war will be helped greatly by their brand, imo.
Nikon's D2X, the holy grail of cameras, can upload wirelessly via ftp when in range. All I'm seeing in the article is that the camera forces you to use some service that they offer, something more annoying than straight up FTP. Nothing to see here. What am I missing?
Apple made a product that seemlessly connects users to their online service, and iTunes as I understand it, and I'm guessing as a result, has a 90% marketshare of online music sales. Though the ability to "view photos stored in Internet photo albums via Kodak's Easyshare Gallery service" without a computer involved is an untapped market, you can expect other companies to follow Kodak's lead. But, in addition to having a great brand, Kodak will dominate this new market largely because they got there first. From the article: "Cameras, I believe, are moving from the wired world towards the wireless world," said Lee, director of consumer services at InfoTrends. "It's not going to happen this year but, starting next year, you're going to definitely see some more cameras coming that incorporate wireless-transfer capabilities."
Microsoft today is where IBM was years ago. And Google is in a position to do to Bill Gates what he did to IBM.
I have no doubt about it, especially in light of Google's recent prolific production of popular services that are eating away the marketshares of multiple internet giants while still maintaining the same clean interface that got the brand in the dictionary! By the way, if you're in the game of slingin' securities, have a look-see at what the article's implications are to GOOG's and MSFT's stock prices compared to each other on this here chart. Middle click that sucker. In the words of Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, frickin' awesome.
I don't have any money to invest, but sitting on the sidelines I really love and am rooting for this company. Go google.
As you just proved, low UIDs does not guarantee intelligence. I was suggesting that in a context like this, people with >1000 UIDs have been around a long time. Lots of posts read, lots of posts posted. Lots of silly shit like trolling out of their system a long time ago. By now they're probably frustrated with how slashdot's gone downhill since they signed up, now he makes a great point and gets modded troll. They, people with ultra low UIDs, deserve a second glance before they are modded down, especially when the modifier is troll. How can you fucking argue with that. In conclusion, go fuck yourself. Parenthetically, nice UID.
In what way is this a troll? Aside from the hundreds of redundant R&D/marketing explanations, rodgerd's is the only explanation that is all that is necessary to dismiss this pricing as unobjectionable.
Firstly, companies are under no obligation to charge at a certain relative to how much their product cost to R&D. This is true so long as they are not engaging in predatory pricing (clearly not here), price gouging (there are even more threats than AMD), not to mention price setting (teaming up with other companies to set a fixed cost like OPEC does). The manufacturing costs are irrelavent so long as they are not guilty of the aforementioned.
In fact, they are required by law to set prices at levels they find to be the most profitable as public companies must maximize shareholder wealth. Before you mod someone as troll, expecially someone with a UID of 402, think a little bit about their argument and moderate the others as redundant if you're so eager to call someone a troll who's clearly not. The only post he's attracted so far is one that critisizes the moderators for their behavior, not a flame. It is you assholes who ignited this flame.
Don't forget the option of doing nothing. Any moves they'd make in response to this embarrassment, whether moves involving lawyers or redesigning, will attract media attention which would be bad for business because of investor perception of the company changing the company's worth in addition to alerting not just more hackers but the Kazaa crowd entirely that there's nothing to worry about anymore regarding wmv (other than malware bugs, of course).
If I were MS in this situation, I'd sweep this news under the rug and pretend nothing happened. They're too late to go back to the drawing board, too much has been invested, and their reputation to other companies they courted into secure media format cooperations would dive even deeper.
Taking the existing extensions and add-ons of both browsers into account (probably a similar list), why are there diehard fans of the opera browser? Unlike IE users, those running either Firefox or Opera, Opera users especially, are aware of the existance of Firefox, so what is keeping the relatively small portion of Opera users from switching to Firefox, and what's still drawing in new users into the Opera club? You'd think Opera's not being freeware (this article notwithstanding) would keep it out of my server logs entirely, but that's not the case.
I hate to be Jonny Raincloud, but pretty soon PHP will be able to do whatever perl does, if it's not there already. And anything that it can't do that perl can will be obsolete. So no, don't waste your time learning perl 6. Do the right thing and brush up on your PHP5. I got my site to print in any font I want the time AND date, powered by php, baby!
But what if we got a space probe to do that Tom Hanks Apollo 13 movie "sling shot" by doing a flyboy of a supermassive blackhole, accellerating it beyond the speed of light? You wouldn't even have to calculate the post-orbital tragectory because we're just trying to go 50,000 lightyears in any direction (minus however out of the way the supermassive black hole is). Might be tricky to keep enough escape velocity to keep it moving with all that black hole debris flying in, but that stuff's mostly in gas form and to get the job done and shut up the environmentalists with one stone, just put a solar sail on the probe. Might want to make it diamond-plated with all that stuff flying around...
If we're talking Supreme Court tweaking of the Constitution and precedents, there is a very low legal threshold of what cops can get away with insofar as using informants with any quid pro quo to procure information that would otherwise be priviledged. However, a photo developer who discovers a customer's roll of kiddy porn or some busybody soccer mom reporting my solicitation of prostitutes is free to tell the cops whatever they want, voila, cops have probable cause.
Otoh, according to Law and Order and HBO's The Wire, cops seem to get away with paying criminal informants cash money for in addition to lighter sentences for leads that may lead to discovery of "fruits" of evidence, all of which cannot be admitted into court, so who knows. So this is the same deal, same kind of freedom/privacy issue (btw the 4th does not offer "privacy" protection), just with geeks and computers. Again, on the other hand, maybe I'm missing something from not having read tfa.
What an asshole reply, from a someone with such a low uid no less. You call him stupid or a troll? How about he came up with a clever and funny post that made me and some other people laugh? Dick.
I know there are probably already a bunch of comments on porn applications but let's just take a moment to thank Science. When they get the kinks out we'll have enough juice for artificial intelligence so we each can get our own porn whore off of kazaa, and if this thing could project opaquely enough to hide surfaces, you engineer some robotic hand and mouth with cybernetic skin surfaces to work in concert with the holowhore. By the way, I just got a "massage" last night (aka rub and a tug). Two hundred bones (manhattan prices), but the girl was so fine and when she asked me to turn over to end the session happily it was like one stroke, done. The thing is, you don't really need to apologize because her job's a lot easier. I guess you just need to take 100mgs of V-dog and "save up" for a while beforehand. With sex without a financial transaction I take forever, often wearing the chick out first and leaving the scene unsassified. Is this massage thing a fetish or anybody know a Freudian explanation for that? And mods, that was adequately tangential from my on topic post so don't mod me up the ass because, though admittedly a stretch, this was on topic. For once don't bust my balls, people need to read this! Gotta stimulate a public debate about the psychodynamics of the hand-release procedure! Btw go on craigslist to find these services! And browse at -1!!
I watched the discovery channel on these suckers but I had taken a bunch of downers washed down with some bourbon so I don't really remember everything. My question is with a Milky Way-like situation, stuff floats toward the barycenter, and that's where cosmic crud clumps up, over time building up more and more mass (and therefore gravity) I'm assuming at an exponential rate. At what point do you call this [theoretically?] a black hole? When it has enough force to retain light? And what's the difference when it's called supermassive (other than it's just a lot bigger)?
It's kinda hazy but I think the show noted that blackholes, even supermassive ones, are no longer theories on account of orbital speed patterns and what-not, stuff getting brighter as it speeds up while bunching up with other stuff on its way into the whole. But isn't that still a theory, saying well we can see this and that and you can only have that if there's something with a lot of gravity so we can declare the mystery of black holes solved?
Also, obviously you can't really send a space probe in to touch the surface, but if you had some kind of anti-infinite-gravity suit on with a really strong jet pack to ease the landing, would the surface of the actual ball be vapor or plasma on account of the heat, or do things chill out once on the hole with crap piling up everywhere? And why do these things die or go dormant or whatever. You'd think the more mass/gravity the merrier. Was the answer that I vaguely remember that the party just gets too hot and bothered that everything repells from one another?
Finally, if one of these babies floated our way [or the opposite, rather], what kind of Bruce Willis tactic could we employ to send us/it off course? Yes I realize it might take more nukes than we have, but if we failed the mission, I bet it'd hurt, albeit for an infinitely short juncture of time, give or take. I appreciate the clarification, I took like six mgs of klonopin with a 100mg trazadone kicker, and I pour my burbon by the glass not the ounce. The TV could have date raped me. Maybe it did but I don't remember. But then it's a Tree falling in the forest issue, so no big whoop, right? Oh yeah another thing, when the sun turns red and gets crazy big in 10 billion years or whenever, maybe in a trillion years of cosmic dancing would it become one of these holes, possibly pick up a lot of universe gunk, and then explode? New big bang maybe? High five!!
Armstrong had rehearsed a slightly different statement that he fumbled on the moon. What he intended to say was "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." That actually makes some sense. What he actually said, if you think about it, don't make much sense... but I suppose it has that profound aura that made the statement it so historical.
With the open source term becoming the latest wall street Good Thing buzzword, the risk-reward ratio of releasing source code, more often than not in a very limited way, is an attempt on behalf of these companies to declare to public investors that the integrity of their product is strong enough to the degree that they have no compunction of releasing their secret blueprints, essentially inviting people to come hack pbrush.exe and VMware. To hackers, most of this OS releasing going on is of software that has no hacking appeal. There's just no motive to capitalizing on these OS releases.
I, for one, am not impressed by what strike me as PR maneuvers which at best are patinas devoid of true significance worthy of a meaningful press release. Otoh, I suppose it may increase shareholder wealth, the legal purpose of a public company.
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I don't remember the exact details of the article from a few months back, but will this have any effect on MySQL's befriending SCO?
At first glance, this strikes the average person as being another bizarre action of their evil autocratic censoring and repressing government, not to mention it can appear to be gesture to the world that China is not starving to get a better foothold in the global economy. But those people will get over it and it will ultimately help themselves and I would not be surprised if they continue to make extreme decisions similar to this.
On this subject, what I don't get is why the FCC is giving cable companies an ultimatum to phase in high def in broadcast signals.
So, given that it is the hacker who is demonized for costing businesses billions and not the shitty programming, Microsoft can actually get away with selling virus protection programs, directing people to partners' sites who sell anti virus ware, or in this case bundling it with their next OS and marketing the software with the edge of having this high security from the evil doers. The whole deal works out great for the chip makers, the programmers, earnings reports, and of course the gross domestic product. This is capitalism at its best my friends. One more thing I gotta say, get your net install iso of debian (i386 arch)here.
As MSFT's .doc format was their creation and as they have modified it frequently over the years, how is it that OO supports it for opening and saving? Locking down that format would give MSFT good leverage on the word processing market obviously, but how is this legal, was it kosher from the start for others to use the format or did MS "donate" this? Legal loophole? Whatever the answer is, is this also the case for all other proprietary formats?
These DARPA competitions (and those of other organizations) have got to be one of the best ways to come up with new and useful technology. Instead of rowboat races, the bright and motivated students of top universities (as well as other entusiasts) compete against each other for a battle of imagination and ingenuity to win not useless trophies but the thrill of having created something of potential practical use. Also, these competitions help boost the reputations of the colleges and universities as these often get media coverage, and if you've noticed, they've got their school's name on their autonomous submarines. And of course, DARPA gets some cheap R&D.
They can cry about it and use this to help characterize us as arrogant, but they ain't gettin' shared control so long as we don't want to let them have it.
And by "we" I mean the American govt.
Yes, MS has some strong arming advantages in their tactics to protect themselves from Google, but they've already been limited by the government, people are becoming frustrated with MSFT's stock performance over the past five years, and CNBC has been pointing out threats like Linux and the world is taking it seriously.
So, in addition to software quality, Google's war will be helped greatly by their brand, imo.
Nikon's D2X, the holy grail of cameras, can upload wirelessly via ftp when in range. All I'm seeing in the article is that the camera forces you to use some service that they offer, something more annoying than straight up FTP. Nothing to see here. What am I missing?
Apple made a product that seemlessly connects users to their online service, and iTunes as I understand it, and I'm guessing as a result, has a 90% marketshare of online music sales. Though the ability to "view photos stored in Internet photo albums via Kodak's Easyshare Gallery service" without a computer involved is an untapped market, you can expect other companies to follow Kodak's lead. But, in addition to having a great brand, Kodak will dominate this new market largely because they got there first. From the article: "Cameras, I believe, are moving from the wired world towards the wireless world," said Lee, director of consumer services at InfoTrends. "It's not going to happen this year but, starting next year, you're going to definitely see some more cameras coming that incorporate wireless-transfer capabilities."
I don't have any money to invest, but sitting on the sidelines I really love and am rooting for this company. Go google.
As you just proved, low UIDs does not guarantee intelligence. I was suggesting that in a context like this, people with >1000 UIDs have been around a long time. Lots of posts read, lots of posts posted. Lots of silly shit like trolling out of their system a long time ago. By now they're probably frustrated with how slashdot's gone downhill since they signed up, now he makes a great point and gets modded troll. They, people with ultra low UIDs, deserve a second glance before they are modded down, especially when the modifier is troll. How can you fucking argue with that. In conclusion, go fuck yourself. Parenthetically, nice UID.
Firstly, companies are under no obligation to charge at a certain relative to how much their product cost to R&D. This is true so long as they are not engaging in predatory pricing (clearly not here), price gouging (there are even more threats than AMD), not to mention price setting (teaming up with other companies to set a fixed cost like OPEC does). The manufacturing costs are irrelavent so long as they are not guilty of the aforementioned.
In fact, they are required by law to set prices at levels they find to be the most profitable as public companies must maximize shareholder wealth. Before you mod someone as troll, expecially someone with a UID of 402, think a little bit about their argument and moderate the others as redundant if you're so eager to call someone a troll who's clearly not. The only post he's attracted so far is one that critisizes the moderators for their behavior, not a flame. It is you assholes who ignited this flame.
Jesus.
It's a good question.
Thank you, George Carlin
Don't forget the option of doing nothing. Any moves they'd make in response to this embarrassment, whether moves involving lawyers or redesigning, will attract media attention which would be bad for business because of investor perception of the company changing the company's worth in addition to alerting not just more hackers but the Kazaa crowd entirely that there's nothing to worry about anymore regarding wmv (other than malware bugs, of course).
If I were MS in this situation, I'd sweep this news under the rug and pretend nothing happened. They're too late to go back to the drawing board, too much has been invested, and their reputation to other companies they courted into secure media format cooperations would dive even deeper.
Taking the existing extensions and add-ons of both browsers into account (probably a similar list), why are there diehard fans of the opera browser? Unlike IE users, those running either Firefox or Opera, Opera users especially, are aware of the existance of Firefox, so what is keeping the relatively small portion of Opera users from switching to Firefox, and what's still drawing in new users into the Opera club? You'd think Opera's not being freeware (this article notwithstanding) would keep it out of my server logs entirely, but that's not the case.
To rephrase, why ought I migrate to Opera?
dude i'll give you eight bucks for your slashdot account ... paypal work for you?
I hate to be Jonny Raincloud, but pretty soon PHP will be able to do whatever perl does, if it's not there already. And anything that it can't do that perl can will be obsolete. So no, don't waste your time learning perl 6. Do the right thing and brush up on your PHP5. I got my site to print in any font I want the time AND date, powered by php, baby!
But what if we got a space probe to do that Tom Hanks Apollo 13 movie "sling shot" by doing a flyboy of a supermassive blackhole, accellerating it beyond the speed of light? You wouldn't even have to calculate the post-orbital tragectory because we're just trying to go 50,000 lightyears in any direction (minus however out of the way the supermassive black hole is). Might be tricky to keep enough escape velocity to keep it moving with all that black hole debris flying in, but that stuff's mostly in gas form and to get the job done and shut up the environmentalists with one stone, just put a solar sail on the probe. Might want to make it diamond-plated with all that stuff flying around...
How 'bout it, Science?
If we're talking Supreme Court tweaking of the Constitution and precedents, there is a very low legal threshold of what cops can get away with insofar as using informants with any quid pro quo to procure information that would otherwise be priviledged. However, a photo developer who discovers a customer's roll of kiddy porn or some busybody soccer mom reporting my solicitation of prostitutes is free to tell the cops whatever they want, voila, cops have probable cause.
Otoh, according to Law and Order and HBO's The Wire, cops seem to get away with paying criminal informants cash money for in addition to lighter sentences for leads that may lead to discovery of "fruits" of evidence, all of which cannot be admitted into court, so who knows. So this is the same deal, same kind of freedom/privacy issue (btw the 4th does not offer "privacy" protection), just with geeks and computers. Again, on the other hand, maybe I'm missing something from not having read tfa.
What an asshole reply, from a someone with such a low uid no less. You call him stupid or a troll? How about he came up with a clever and funny post that made me and some other people laugh? Dick.
I know there are probably already a bunch of comments on porn applications but let's just take a moment to thank Science. When they get the kinks out we'll have enough juice for artificial intelligence so we each can get our own porn whore off of kazaa, and if this thing could project opaquely enough to hide surfaces, you engineer some robotic hand and mouth with cybernetic skin surfaces to work in concert with the holowhore. By the way, I just got a "massage" last night (aka rub and a tug). Two hundred bones (manhattan prices), but the girl was so fine and when she asked me to turn over to end the session happily it was like one stroke, done. The thing is, you don't really need to apologize because her job's a lot easier. I guess you just need to take 100mgs of V-dog and "save up" for a while beforehand. With sex without a financial transaction I take forever, often wearing the chick out first and leaving the scene unsassified. Is this massage thing a fetish or anybody know a Freudian explanation for that? And mods, that was adequately tangential from my on topic post so don't mod me up the ass because, though admittedly a stretch, this was on topic. For once don't bust my balls, people need to read this! Gotta stimulate a public debate about the psychodynamics of the hand-release procedure! Btw go on craigslist to find these services! And browse at -1!!
I watched the discovery channel on these suckers but I had taken a bunch of downers washed down with some bourbon so I don't really remember everything. My question is with a Milky Way-like situation, stuff floats toward the barycenter, and that's where cosmic crud clumps up, over time building up more and more mass (and therefore gravity) I'm assuming at an exponential rate. At what point do you call this [theoretically?] a black hole? When it has enough force to retain light? And what's the difference when it's called supermassive (other than it's just a lot bigger)?
It's kinda hazy but I think the show noted that blackholes, even supermassive ones, are no longer theories on account of orbital speed patterns and what-not, stuff getting brighter as it speeds up while bunching up with other stuff on its way into the whole. But isn't that still a theory, saying well we can see this and that and you can only have that if there's something with a lot of gravity so we can declare the mystery of black holes solved?
Also, obviously you can't really send a space probe in to touch the surface, but if you had some kind of anti-infinite-gravity suit on with a really strong jet pack to ease the landing, would the surface of the actual ball be vapor or plasma on account of the heat, or do things chill out once on the hole with crap piling up everywhere? And why do these things die or go dormant or whatever. You'd think the more mass/gravity the merrier. Was the answer that I vaguely remember that the party just gets too hot and bothered that everything repells from one another?
Finally, if one of these babies floated our way [or the opposite, rather], what kind of Bruce Willis tactic could we employ to send us/it off course? Yes I realize it might take more nukes than we have, but if we failed the mission, I bet it'd hurt, albeit for an infinitely short juncture of time, give or take. I appreciate the clarification, I took like six mgs of klonopin with a 100mg trazadone kicker, and I pour my burbon by the glass not the ounce. The TV could have date raped me. Maybe it did but I don't remember. But then it's a Tree falling in the forest issue, so no big whoop, right? Oh yeah another thing, when the sun turns red and gets crazy big in 10 billion years or whenever, maybe in a trillion years of cosmic dancing would it become one of these holes, possibly pick up a lot of universe gunk, and then explode? New big bang maybe? High five!!
Armstrong had rehearsed a slightly different statement that he fumbled on the moon. What he intended to say was "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." That actually makes some sense. What he actually said, if you think about it, don't make much sense... but I suppose it has that profound aura that made the statement it so historical.
With the open source term becoming the latest wall street Good Thing buzzword, the risk-reward ratio of releasing source code, more often than not in a very limited way, is an attempt on behalf of these companies to declare to public investors that the integrity of their product is strong enough to the degree that they have no compunction of releasing their secret blueprints, essentially inviting people to come hack pbrush.exe and VMware. To hackers, most of this OS releasing going on is of software that has no hacking appeal. There's just no motive to capitalizing on these OS releases.
I, for one, am not impressed by what strike me as PR maneuvers which at best are patinas devoid of true significance worthy of a meaningful press release. Otoh, I suppose it may increase shareholder wealth, the legal purpose of a public company.