John Conyers Jr. is a wennie who is NEVER to be believed when it comes to tax cuts or bans. I condemn the tiny district that continually re-elects him, and inflicts him on the rest of us!
I was a contractor at HP for 2-1/2 years that covered the last days of Lew Platt and the first days of Carley. From what I observed, the decline had started, due to the economy weakening during that time, before Carley.
When I started at HP they were much like the way Google is described to be now. While I'd have to say that Google is HP on steroids, since HP offered great coffee, tea, and often sweet rolls in the well-equipped snack nooks around the cubical farms, and a well-subsidized cafeteria -- in contrast, Google offers free meals and transportation, among other amenities -- but the idea was the same. HP employees had a lot of freedom towards arranging their own transportation to other HP sites as they determined their requirements to be, specified and ordered their own personal computer equipment including printers, and generally were given a lot of freedom to do their jobs.
Over the next year and a half under Lew, much of that went away in ways that make it clear it would never return. It was belt tightening time, and a lot of it happened in areas like this one, including two job freezes.
When Carley did arrive, she was very warmly received by all of HP. There was great enthusiasm -- and perhaps not too much looking back at what she'd (un)accomplished at Lucient. Right up to the time I left, pretty much everyone was behind her, and much jazzed about having a woman CEO -- and a relatively young woman at that.
Yes things got worse after that in ways are that well known. But in fairness, I saw the first signs of decline before she ever arrived.
Best Carley joke from that era: After she visited our facility (contractors not allowed to attend the actual meeting) we were told that the lovely palm trees in the courtyard were going to be cut down after Carley had found out that they weren't going to meet their 15% growth target for the next year.
facilitate 'rapid and easy relocation to another site depending on changing economic factors'.
Considering the rapid advance of technology, anything that's stood in one place for more than a year or two at most is probably not worth moving. A new one would prove cheaper, faster, at least double the capacity, and all within the same energy budget, or less -- which is what I expect will be the controlling factor for all new data centers.
If you don't like eBay's policies, the way they take down legal items too far quickly when certain large companies complain, the way they revoke accounts with no legal backing for it, the way they only accept PayPal for electronic payment, their ever higher fees, the difficulty in getting help from them, the way they won't even list some legal items (e.g. concert tickets), the way...
One would think that a better competitor without many of the above problems could come along and steal eBay's business. What was once innovative with them has become old, rigid, formalized, and preying too often on some of their best sellers. Don't think that an alternative can't come along.
Seems to me that writing to flash is rather slow, Rereading the data afterwards would be much quicker, meaning your best approach would be to find a way to put write-once-read-many data there. What OS supports this?
The major unanswered question here is: How are two people standing next to each other listening to the same radio different than two people standing next to each other each listening to their own radio?
Unless it's a question of paying a radio tax like the British now pay a television tax, there should be no difference at all. It's not like the performing society is getting a cut of every radio sale because it's used to infringe their copyrights or anything.
The difference being that the Radio station is paying the royalties for a public performance.
Actually, not exactly. While radio does pay royalties to the song writer, it is the only major country that DOESN'T pay royalties to the record company and/or performers. Why? Because it's considered free advertising for the sale of that song and the concert performances for the artists.
In fact, to borrow the In The Soviet Union line...
In the United States, Payola goes to the radio station.
Copyright Infringement this! Copyright Infringement that! Making Available == Copyright Infringement. Letting someone overhear your radio == Public Performance == Copyright Infringement. Copyrights that run until the heat death of the Universe!
Talk about the perfect excuse that it wasn't me sharing music over my WiFi router. It was someone else -- and BT make it all possible. Certainly an RIAA nightmare in the making.
Now what's in it for the content industry to beat up private citizens with $220,000 judgements or scrambling to get DeCSS sites shut down within hours, while corporate scammers openly sell pirate DVDs for months on end, unopposed?
There's probably a payoff involved.
Or maybe now the world is so inverted that it's only a crime to share things for free. Making a profit off of selling copyrighted materials isn't such a high priority. Perhaps the MPAA feels that because actual money is involved, less people are likely to take advantage of it.
Or perhaps it's an MPAA-backed scam to punish people who actually send in money for this. After all, people are complaining and angry about what they received. Hey, it's enough to put you off purchasing dodgey material ever again. After all, they've given you just enough that you can't actually sue them for not delivering the goods.
The Media Defender e-mails have revealed just how low and illegal (DDoS attacks) the industry will go to fight "pirates". Why should this be any different. It just needs to be EXPOSED!
The RIAA lawyers have made astonishing and unsupported claims (infringement is ongoing and continuous), outright lies (identified an individual), technical lies, violation after violation of court rules and rulings, and concealment of their reversals, which I'd call baldfaced lying to judges.
WHERE IS THE PUNISHMENT TO THEM FOR THESE ACTIONS? Punishment sufficient to fully deter them from ever trying this again? In the Duke Rape case, the public prosecutor was disbarred - and he only ruined 3 lives along the way (a few more than 3 if you count his own, and that of his family).
While I consider the BluRay system superior, I'd rather see HD-DVD win the format wars. And if the availability of a viable alternative causes fear and quaking at Sony, that's as it should be.
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One Nuke should be all it takes -- and the world will be a much better place.
I don't believe Google here. It's as simple as that!
And Apple's world headquarters is located where?
John Conyers Jr. is a wennie who is NEVER to be believed when it comes to tax cuts or bans. I condemn the tiny district that continually re-elects him, and inflicts him on the rest of us!
It had to happen, sooner or later. Given that he was a person who preyed on other weaker people, I'll save my tears for a more worthy cause.
He may be the Hottest New Actor in town -- until he's typecast as James R^HT Kirk for the rest of his career.
Mulling != Testing.
And just how easy is this to actually test? Should take a couple of minutes -- five tops -- to know if it's actually happening for average users.
Given the move from CEO of a Top 50 company to commentator on a cable television network, it was probably more than 25%.
Such hate is best not paraded in public.
When I started at HP they were much like the way Google is described to be now. While I'd have to say that Google is HP on steroids, since HP offered great coffee, tea, and often sweet rolls in the well-equipped snack nooks around the cubical farms, and a well-subsidized cafeteria -- in contrast, Google offers free meals and transportation, among other amenities -- but the idea was the same. HP employees had a lot of freedom towards arranging their own transportation to other HP sites as they determined their requirements to be, specified and ordered their own personal computer equipment including printers, and generally were given a lot of freedom to do their jobs.
Over the next year and a half under Lew, much of that went away in ways that make it clear it would never return. It was belt tightening time, and a lot of it happened in areas like this one, including two job freezes.
When Carley did arrive, she was very warmly received by all of HP. There was great enthusiasm -- and perhaps not too much looking back at what she'd (un)accomplished at Lucient. Right up to the time I left, pretty much everyone was behind her, and much jazzed about having a woman CEO -- and a relatively young woman at that.
Yes things got worse after that in ways are that well known. But in fairness, I saw the first signs of decline before she ever arrived.
Best Carley joke from that era: After she visited our facility (contractors not allowed to attend the actual meeting) we were told that the lovely palm trees in the courtyard were going to be cut down after Carley had found out that they weren't going to meet their 15% growth target for the next year.
Considering the rapid advance of technology, anything that's stood in one place for more than a year or two at most is probably not worth moving. A new one would prove cheaper, faster, at least double the capacity, and all within the same energy budget, or less -- which is what I expect will be the controlling factor for all new data centers.
(I wish they did. the gCube he's written about would be well worth having!)
Hey, have they put the (c) copyright symbol on all their coins?
Sometimes Canada is just plain stupid. Anything owned by the government is, in the end, owned by the people themselves!
One would think that a better competitor without many of the above problems could come along and steal eBay's business. What was once innovative with them has become old, rigid, formalized, and preying too often on some of their best sellers. Don't think that an alternative can't come along.
Seems to me that writing to flash is rather slow, Rereading the data afterwards would be much quicker, meaning your best approach would be to find a way to put write-once-read-many data there. What OS supports this?
Unless it's a question of paying a radio tax like the British now pay a television tax, there should be no difference at all. It's not like the performing society is getting a cut of every radio sale because it's used to infringe their copyrights or anything.
These people are all just asstunnels!
Actually, not exactly. While radio does pay royalties to the song writer, it is the only major country that DOESN'T pay royalties to the record company and/or performers. Why? Because it's considered free advertising for the sale of that song and the concert performances for the artists.
In fact, to borrow the In The Soviet Union line...
In the United States, Payola goes to the radio station.
ENOUGH FUCKING ALREADY!!!
(Most) Requested Feature: DX-10.
Talk about the perfect excuse that it wasn't me sharing music over my WiFi router. It was someone else -- and BT make it all possible. Certainly an RIAA nightmare in the making.
There's probably a payoff involved.
Or maybe now the world is so inverted that it's only a crime to share things for free. Making a profit off of selling copyrighted materials isn't such a high priority. Perhaps the MPAA feels that because actual money is involved, less people are likely to take advantage of it.
Or perhaps it's an MPAA-backed scam to punish people who actually send in money for this. After all, people are complaining and angry about what they received. Hey, it's enough to put you off purchasing dodgey material ever again. After all, they've given you just enough that you can't actually sue them for not delivering the goods.
The Media Defender e-mails have revealed just how low and illegal (DDoS attacks) the industry will go to fight "pirates". Why should this be any different. It just needs to be EXPOSED!
WHERE IS THE PUNISHMENT TO THEM FOR THESE ACTIONS? Punishment sufficient to fully deter them from ever trying this again? In the Duke Rape case, the public prosecutor was disbarred - and he only ruined 3 lives along the way (a few more than 3 if you count his own, and that of his family).
DON'T SUPPORT DRAM WITH YOUR DOLLARS!