I didn't see any mention of penalties for the other companies involved. If Intel is guilty of offering bribes and kickbacks, doesn't it follow that someone else is guilty of accepting them? Shouldn't they be fined as well?
Did I miss the part where it was definitely established that the bad review led to his termination? I've actually read TFA and the followups, and all I've seen is "No comment" from the principals, and some comments from anonymous sources, some says "Yes it's totally true!" and others saying "No, it was just a coincidence."
And from this people are slamming Gamestop and gaming websites in general, promising never to visit Gamestop ever again, threatening to slit their wrists... doesn't this seem like a bit of an overreaction?
My former didn't stop SSN as employee ID until they launched a two year project to consolidate all the the various HR processes into one big enterprise management software package. Keeping identification numbers straight during the switchover was a huge headache. Every current and former employee had three ID numbers during that time.. SSN, old employee ID (which was 0 + SSN, don't ask me why) and their new randomly-assigned employee ID. Keeping those numbers straight during the transition, making sure every single old database was scoured and updated, knowing which numbers to use in which situation... all of it was a major headache.
It didn't help that we had a couple of major gaffes during the transition. At one point late in the process, a letter was sent out to all 6000+ employees with the information that "Your new employee ID is printed in the upper left corner of the address label on this envelope. If you have any questions call HR at xxx...". Except that somehow they managed to mail out all 6000 of those letters without anyone noticing that actually, the new employee ID *wasn't* printed in the corner of the label. Or anywhere else for that matter.
Even if Intel wins all the benchmarks, AMD can still argue that they only lost by x% and their chips are much cheaper, therefore a much better deal.
Intel can't agree to the contest, because that'll be acknowledging that AMD is competitive with them. If they acknowledge that, then consumers will start considering AMD when they make their purchase decisions.
The only way Intel could come out ahead on something like this would be for them to absolutely trounce AMD on the benchmarks, or for AMD to suffer a hardware failure during the tests.
Sounds to me like a good reason to totally ignore any event occuring in Europe between 2011 and 2013.
Just to be, y'know, totally certain that I'm not unintentionally breaking any law. I suppose I'd better avoid any company claming association with said event(s), since I wouldn't want to give my money to someone who wasn't an authorized sponser.
I mean, the guy still wears glasses, for chrissake. If he hasn't had his eyesight corrected via surgery, do you really think he's going to go for some borglike hardware eyeball replacement?
Unless he's had the surgery done and just wears the glasses now as a fashion statement.
But SSN's don't make very good personal ID #'s. They're not unique forever, because the government recycles them after a few years. I'm assuming the Berkeley has a fair number of foreign students, they probably have to generate some sort of artificial ID number for them... why can't they just generate an artificial ID number for all their students?
To answer my own question... they could, and quite easily. The difficulty lies in transitioning all your data systems from one ID number to the other.
And of course, they can't access their own personal response before... oh wait, they can.
Last week, Metheny would have told you that his companies site was totally secure. This week, he's telling you that yeah, it got hacked, but individuals could only access their own stuff. And of course, he's totally sure about this.
I've been looking for a thumb-wheeled mouse for a while now, so this looks interesting. The thumb seems to be a lot better adapted for... well, rotating little wheels. I'm not sure about the rest of the design, but I'll probably give it a test drive if/when it ever reaches market.
Probably modded down because of the use of the words "cunt" and "balls" in successive sentences, while describing the same thing. Some people around here have hermaphrodite issues.
Well, if he's got godlike, unlimited powers, he could just turn himself back into good 'ol annoying Wesley. Or roll back time a couple of years.
Or that whole sequence could turn out to have been just a dream. Or it happened in an alternate universe. Or... well, you get the point. Trek can *always* find a way around these little plot holes.
You mean Microsoft isn't the only company in the history of forever to use the threat or promise of jobs to try to get favorable decisions from governments?
I'm shocked. Next you'll be telling me that companies decide where to build new factories based on what kind of tax breaks they can get.
Okay, they have a bunch of random number generators all over the world. At certain times, these generators, which should be totally independent of each other, appear to start generating "less random" data simultaneously.
Okay, that's kind of interesting. If everything is set up properly, that sort of thing shouldn't happen.
And obviously, the reason it's happening is because these random number generators are being influenced by subconscious human thought, and they're predicting the future. No other explanation is possible. Or rather, any other possible explanation is even *less* likely.
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I have seen statistics that reliably put the annual loss to to piracy at a figure closer to 47 kajillion dollars.
I didn't see any mention of penalties for the other companies involved. If Intel is guilty of offering bribes and kickbacks, doesn't it follow that someone else is guilty of accepting them? Shouldn't they be fined as well?
Did I miss the part where it was definitely established that the bad review led to his termination? I've actually read TFA and the followups, and all I've seen is "No comment" from the principals, and some comments from anonymous sources, some says "Yes it's totally true!" and others saying "No, it was just a coincidence."
And from this people are slamming Gamestop and gaming websites in general, promising never to visit Gamestop ever again, threatening to slit their wrists... doesn't this seem like a bit of an overreaction?
Is "Screw that, just give my money back and I'll go somewhere else." going to be offered as an option?
Easily read, easily understood, easily spelled, easily remembered - no problem.
Still available? That parts harder.
My former didn't stop SSN as employee ID until they launched a two year project to consolidate all the the various HR processes into one big enterprise management software package. Keeping identification numbers straight during the switchover was a huge headache. Every current and former employee had three ID numbers during that time.. SSN, old employee ID (which was 0 + SSN, don't ask me why) and their new randomly-assigned employee ID. Keeping those numbers straight during the transition, making sure every single old database was scoured and updated, knowing which numbers to use in which situation... all of it was a major headache.
It didn't help that we had a couple of major gaffes during the transition. At one point late in the process, a letter was sent out to all 6000+ employees with the information that "Your new employee ID is printed in the upper left corner of the address label on this envelope. If you have any questions call HR at xxx...". Except that somehow they managed to mail out all 6000 of those letters without anyone noticing that actually, the new employee ID *wasn't* printed in the corner of the label. Or anywhere else for that matter.
Easy enough...
Starcraft
Diablo II
Team Fortress Classic
GTA:Vice City - I just jump in a car and turn up the radio and start racking up wanted levels.
Nethack goes with my on my USB drive, so I can play just about anywhere.
Or they bragged about how 133t they were to the wrong people, and someone decided to turn them in to try and pick up the Microsoft bounty.
Even if Intel wins all the benchmarks, AMD can still argue that they only lost by x% and their chips are much cheaper, therefore a much better deal.
Intel can't agree to the contest, because that'll be acknowledging that AMD is competitive with them. If they acknowledge that, then consumers will start considering AMD when they make their purchase decisions.
The only way Intel could come out ahead on something like this would be for them to absolutely trounce AMD on the benchmarks, or for AMD to suffer a hardware failure during the tests.
Sounds to me like a good reason to totally ignore any event occuring in Europe between 2011 and 2013.
Just to be, y'know, totally certain that I'm not unintentionally breaking any law. I suppose I'd better avoid any company claming association with said event(s), since I wouldn't want to give my money to someone who wasn't an authorized sponser.
Sure you could. Back up your personal data, reformat the hard drive, reinstall OS and apps.
Most of these people would be more comfortable performing an appendectomy on themselves then reinstalling their OS, however.
I mean, the guy still wears glasses, for chrissake. If he hasn't had his eyesight corrected via surgery, do you really think he's going to go for some borglike hardware eyeball replacement?
Unless he's had the surgery done and just wears the glasses now as a fashion statement.
Yeah, we should only teach students in high school stuff that they'll absolutely, positively need in their future careers.
So we can toss out history... English... most math, science, physics...
The we'll have four years to get them *really* proficient on saying "Would you like to supersize that?"
So what happens if I start headbanging during my morning drive to work?
But SSN's don't make very good personal ID #'s. They're not unique forever, because the government recycles them after a few years. I'm assuming the Berkeley has a fair number of foreign students, they probably have to generate some sort of artificial ID number for them... why can't they just generate an artificial ID number for all their students?
To answer my own question... they could, and quite easily. The difficulty lies in transitioning all your data systems from one ID number to the other.
I've found the easiest way to handle EMail when it's in multiple formats like that is to just print everything out and store it in boxes in my garage.
And of course, they can't access their own personal response before... oh wait, they can.
Last week, Metheny would have told you that his companies site was totally secure. This week, he's telling you that yeah, it got hacked, but individuals could only access their own stuff. And of course, he's totally sure about this.
Check back next week, though.
I've been looking for a thumb-wheeled mouse for a while now, so this looks interesting. The thumb seems to be a lot better adapted for... well, rotating little wheels. I'm not sure about the rest of the design, but I'll probably give it a test drive if/when it ever reaches market.
Probably modded down because of the use of the words "cunt" and "balls" in successive sentences, while describing the same thing. Some people around here have hermaphrodite issues.
I hit alt-F4, shut it down without any problems.
Well, if he's got godlike, unlimited powers, he could just turn himself back into good 'ol annoying Wesley. Or roll back time a couple of years.
Or that whole sequence could turn out to have been just a dream. Or it happened in an alternate universe. Or... well, you get the point. Trek can *always* find a way around these little plot holes.
You mean Microsoft isn't the only company in the history of forever to use the threat or promise of jobs to try to get favorable decisions from governments?
I'm shocked. Next you'll be telling me that companies decide where to build new factories based on what kind of tax breaks they can get.
Okay, they have a bunch of random number generators all over the world. At certain times, these generators, which should be totally independent of each other, appear to start generating "less random" data simultaneously.
Okay, that's kind of interesting. If everything is set up properly, that sort of thing shouldn't happen.
And obviously, the reason it's happening is because these random number generators are being influenced by subconscious human thought, and they're predicting the future. No other explanation is possible. Or rather, any other possible explanation is even *less* likely.
Poor Occam...
I think they should go with a licensing per transistor scheme.
But you do need a friend.