When MS released the Win Phone 7 they counted the retail sales, the devices setting on retail shelves, the devices in the retail channel, the devices on manufacturer's inventory shelves and, apparently, the devices being made at the time. All to make it appear that the WP7 was enjoying greater success than it actually was.
Of course, we are assuming that Lenovo is telling the truth which, along with ethics, seems to be scarce commodities in business these days.
Assange is ALL FOR leaks of information about Western Democracies and corporations, especially the US, but I have yet to see a leak from him of Russian or Chinese secrets. That because he knows such a leak would result in his unfortunate "accidental" death.
Crying about leaks concerning his operations is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy.
I would imagine that if his leaks of Western information results in the deaths of one or more ordinary people mentioned by name in those leaked documents then several members of the Wikileaks organization might experience unfortunate "accidents". They can't hide for any length of time.
Why do liberals introduce politics into subjects that are not political? An innate desire to be a "Political Commissar" and suppress or ridicule others?
They were passed in the first place by corrupt politicians to protect corrupt politicians and civil servants from being filmed in the act of violating the law themselves. This beating was a blatant abuse of authority and of the constitutional rights of the victim. Since both White and Black cops were involved I am not sure how charges of Civil Rights violations would play out. Can a Black police officer be charged with violating the civil rights of a Black victim?
Without the recording, any accusations of wrong doing could be denied by the officer, and "witnesses" could be brought in to collaborate the denial. WITH the recording the officer, in this case, could not claim that the victim had "repeatedly attacked him" and he was in "fear of his life" and defended himself with the flashlight, and he would have no help from "collaborating" witnesses, unless they were willing to perjure themselves in court. And, while the officer may be suing the women "on his own", I have no doubt that the Police admin and City authorities are supporting him behind the scenes any way they can, including monetarily, because they cannot afford to have citizens recording their activities.
a.k.a. James Plamondon's "Technical Evangelists" have been busy astroturfing sites that have been posting MS PR Memos. I wonder how many journalists are now the proud owners of expensive laptops from Microsoft after posting favorable Bing articles?
With the best of intentions you've decided that you are going to die when faced with a lethal opponent. Be sure to create a video for your loved ones explaining why you chose to commit suicide and deprive them of your presence rather than kill the person threatening you with lethal force.
If you truly feel that way then you could end up removing yourself from the political debate after you are killed by someone less concerned about hurting you, or, you are sued by the person you shot in the leg after he claims you shot him without warning and the jury believed him and sent you to prison. By all means, continue to hold to your beliefs and convince your friends to do likewise.
People, including police, are killed by knives. A knife is a deadly weapon. If your shots do not immediately drop him you will get punctured, perhaps fatally. After they outlawed guns in Britain knives became the weapon of choice and police began dying of knife wounds. To carry their absurdity a step farther, the English Elite discussed outlawing knives, including kitchen knives. I didn't follow that absurdity to its conclusion but recently bad guys in Britain are resorting to firearms, leading to cries for the rearming of police.
Worse than taking a knife to a gun fight is taking a club or can of mace to a gun fight.
A "warning" shot gives an armed opponent every reason to engage you.
Not only that, it gives rise to the legal defense "he fired at me first and I feared for my life because (insert usual PC excuse here)". End result, the perp goes free, the officer is legal toast. If he doesn't get a prison sentence for abuse of office, he is often fired and/or is sued in civil court. Either way, he puts his life on the line for low wages and less respect.
Good luck with that attitude. I suspect, however, that it will result in you removing yourself from the gene pool.
It reminds me of the early western movies where the good guys always shoot the gun out of the hands of the bad guys, as if that were an easy thing to do. It is not.
"Turning tail" doesn't always mean they are running from the fight. It could also mean that they are seeking cover from which to continue their attempt to attack and/or kill you. You did not "end the threat". You've watch too many movies and TV shows if you think a person who has received a round in "the center of mass" is suddenly and always incapacitated. Except for head or heart shots people who are hit, even fatally, often don't even realize it till later because their adrenaline is so high. They often have time to place a "center of mass" shot on you, unless they, too, are lucky enough to hit your head or heart. Even if you didn't hit the head or heart but managed to sever the spinal cord between T7 and L1 you have only managed to make your assailant a paraplegic. He will continue firing at you while he lays on the ground, unable to move his legs.
IF you don't shoot to kill you might as well not shoot at all, lay down and play dead, which you probably will end up being.
C++ and Qt4, and used them for the next five years to program in-house client-server applications for the state agency I worked for. Qt4 was used to replace Visual Fox Pro 5 apps, which I had learned to use several years before, at 56. The year before I retired I picked up Oracle's APEX and programmed a web based payroll package for that state agency. Since I began programming professionally 40 years ago, beginning with Fortran IV and COBAL, I have learned over a dozen languages and RAD tools. All of them were fun to learn and to use, except for APEX, which is like programming with a mental straight-jacket on, because it requires that you bend your problem to fit the tool in ways no previous tool I have used ever did.
and Cisco's as well, and revealed that the DOJ was nothing less than armed thugs working at Cisco's direction.
I saw the video of the deposition in Canada. It was in Canada because the US wouldn't let Adekeye into the US. Both the Feds and Cisco knew that Adekeye had applied for permission to enter the US and was denied, but they didn't inform the Canadian police of that, leaving them with the impression that he was a fugitive from Justice. IF he were a fugitive they could have let him in and then captured him at the boarder. But, what they really wanted to do was further soil his reputation unjustly. So, they lied to Canada about his status. While he was being questioned by attorneys at the deposition a Canadian constable, uninformed of the situation, barged in and served a warrant for his arrest, interrupting the legal proceeding, which was itself unprecedented. Attorneys for Adekeye wanted to shut off the cameras, but attorneys for Cisco wanted them to run so they was have video "proof" of Adekeye's "guilt", as if being accused is the same as being guilty.
The judges ruling was a very strongly worded condemnation of Cisco and the DOJ, accusing them of collusion in the abuse of power. But, in a country where the government now does the bidding of its corporate overlords, the Canadian ruling bears no weight. It only stands as a moral indictment of both our judicial system and the corrupt corporate environment.
The "Minty Fresh" mp3 player wasn't just examined, or even pried open to see what was inside. It was maliciously torn to shreds. What do those Luddite TSA agents think could be hiding in a millimeter thick sheet of Aluminum lid? It looks like they put it into a blender.
This isn't looking out for "Public Safety", this is intimidation just because they can. Light your next bonfire with a copy of the Constitution. At least the paper it's written on can be used for something, even if the words are worthless.
Google has digitized 5 million books from primarily academic libraries.
Microsoft began their digitization project in 2005 and abandon it in 2008, throwing users onto the tender mercies of book publishers and public libraries for content. Public libraries cannot afford to digitally scan books, even if the publishers would allow it.
Book publishers are the most vocal critics of Google's book scanning project, and to hear them wail you'd think Google was burning books, not scanning them. What the book publishers are wailing about is their perceived loss of profits because digitized books open the barn door, making mute the hope some have of renewing copyrights on material LONG resident in the public domain. In a word, greed.
These are coordinated attacks on Google by those whom Google is out competing on a level playing field.
If marketing the best smartphone OS in the market to give them the #1 market share is evil then Microsoft is a pure saint, so soundly did the public reject Win Phone 7. If helping a company drive its 44% smartphone market share to less than 15% in one year is good competition then Microsoft is saintly indeed. I also noticed that it was that saintly company Microsoft that PR'd a lot about Google's "evil" in tracking wifi with geocordinates, but Microsoft published their own public website with the same information.
And, please tell me you'd rather have Larry Ellison rather than Larry Page influencing your web experience. IF that were the case you'd be paying a micro payment for each search, with extra added for narrowing to specifics, and there wouldn't be any other search game in town. One only has to look at how he's trying to abuse Java to realize what would happen if he ends up winning against Google, which I doubt he will unless he buys off the judge.
1) That old saw about Microsoft being vulnerable because of its market share is hog wash. There were over 3 million viruses and Trojans released last year. Were it a simple matter of market share percentages than about 12% of those would be Linux viruses and another 10-15% would be Mac viruses. But, they are not. Well over 99% of them are Windows viruses. Only 19% of Internet web servers are running Windows but they are the source of essentially all malware.
2) Blaming Windows users for security holes that Microsoft keeps secret from them is worse than obscene. It's fanboism to the extreme.
That 4,300,000 Windows zombie bot farm discovered last year wasn't all Windows because they were hard to break into, and the handful of command & control computers weren't Linux and Mac because they are easy to break into.
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I like the way he did it better than the way you are not doing it.
When MS released the Win Phone 7 they counted the retail sales, the devices setting on retail shelves, the devices in the retail channel, the devices on manufacturer's inventory shelves and, apparently, the devices being made at the time. All to make it appear that the WP7 was enjoying greater success than it actually was.
Of course, we are assuming that Lenovo is telling the truth which, along with ethics, seems to be scarce commodities in business these days.
Not quite.
Assange is ALL FOR leaks of information about Western Democracies and corporations, especially the US, but I have yet to see a leak from him of Russian or Chinese secrets. That because he knows such a leak would result in his unfortunate "accidental" death.
Crying about leaks concerning his operations is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy.
I would imagine that if his leaks of Western information results in the deaths of one or more ordinary people mentioned by name in those leaked documents then several members of the Wikileaks organization might experience unfortunate "accidents". They can't hide for any length of time.
Ya, I closed my FaceBook account too. It was getting too intrusive.
or else I am reading messages from dead people, and video conferencing with several of them at the same time using "Hangout".
I also like that msgs that Linus Torvold posts. He must be dead too, even though he is learning to scuba dive.
Why do liberals introduce politics into subjects that are not political? An innate desire to be a "Political Commissar" and suppress or ridicule others?
These laws do need to die.
They were passed in the first place by corrupt politicians to protect corrupt politicians and civil servants from being filmed in the act of violating the law themselves. This beating was a blatant abuse of authority and of the constitutional rights of the victim. Since both White and Black cops were involved I am not sure how charges of Civil Rights violations would play out. Can a Black police officer be charged with violating the civil rights of a Black victim?
Without the recording, any accusations of wrong doing could be denied by the officer, and "witnesses" could be brought in to collaborate the denial. WITH the recording the officer, in this case, could not claim that the victim had "repeatedly attacked him" and he was in "fear of his life" and defended himself with the flashlight, and he would have no help from "collaborating" witnesses, unless they were willing to perjure themselves in court. And, while the officer may be suing the women "on his own", I have no doubt that the Police admin and City authorities are supporting him behind the scenes any way they can, including monetarily, because they cannot afford to have citizens recording their activities.
a.k.a. James Plamondon's "Technical Evangelists" have been busy astroturfing sites that have been posting MS PR Memos. I wonder how many journalists are now the proud owners of expensive laptops from Microsoft after posting favorable Bing articles?
With the best of intentions you've decided that you are going to die when faced with a lethal opponent. Be sure to create a video for your loved ones explaining why you chose to commit suicide and deprive them of your presence rather than kill the person threatening you with lethal force.
If you truly feel that way then you could end up removing yourself from the political debate after you are killed by someone less concerned about hurting you, or, you are sued by the person you shot in the leg after he claims you shot him without warning and the jury believed him and sent you to prison. By all means, continue to hold to your beliefs and convince your friends to do likewise.
Ah shucks... look what you've don .... you've punctured the Socialist favorite mime, the myth of social injustice!
People, including police, are killed by knives. A knife is a deadly weapon. If your shots do not immediately drop him you will get punctured, perhaps fatally. After they outlawed guns in Britain knives became the weapon of choice and police began dying of knife wounds. To carry their absurdity a step farther, the English Elite discussed outlawing knives, including kitchen knives. I didn't follow that absurdity to its conclusion but recently bad guys in Britain are resorting to firearms, leading to cries for the rearming of police.
Worse than taking a knife to a gun fight is taking a club or can of mace to a gun fight.
A "warning" shot gives an armed opponent every reason to engage you.
Not only that, it gives rise to the legal defense "he fired at me first and I feared for my life because (insert usual PC excuse here)". End result, the perp goes free, the officer is legal toast. If he doesn't get a prison sentence for abuse of office, he is often fired and/or is sued in civil court. Either way, he puts his life on the line for low wages and less respect.
Good luck with that attitude. I suspect, however, that it will result in you removing yourself from the gene pool.
It reminds me of the early western movies where the good guys always shoot the gun out of the hands of the bad guys, as if that were an easy thing to do. It is not.
"Turning tail" doesn't always mean they are running from the fight. It could also mean that they are seeking cover from which to continue their attempt to attack and/or kill you. You did not "end the threat". You've watch too many movies and TV shows if you think a person who has received a round in "the center of mass" is suddenly and always incapacitated. Except for head or heart shots people who are hit, even fatally, often don't even realize it till later because their adrenaline is so high. They often have time to place a "center of mass" shot on you, unless they, too, are lucky enough to hit your head or heart. Even if you didn't hit the head or heart but managed to sever the spinal cord between T7 and L1 you have only managed to make your assailant a paraplegic. He will continue firing at you while he lays on the ground, unable to move his legs.
IF you don't shoot to kill you might as well not shoot at all, lay down and play dead, which you probably will end up being.
??? Which race was even mentioned, to say nothing of being "offended"?
Being Politically Correct is a greater dangerous to freedom.
Fascism? On the Left Coast?
Only if San Francisco residents took an unpublicized dramatic and drastic Right turn.
Obviously you are being cynical.
C++ and Qt4, and used them for the next five years to program in-house client-server applications for the state agency I worked for. Qt4 was used to replace Visual Fox Pro 5 apps, which I had learned to use several years before, at 56. The year before I retired I picked up Oracle's APEX and programmed a web based payroll package for that state agency. Since I began programming professionally 40 years ago, beginning with Fortran IV and COBAL, I have learned over a dozen languages and RAD tools. All of them were fun to learn and to use, except for APEX, which is like programming with a mental straight-jacket on, because it requires that you bend your problem to fit the tool in ways no previous tool I have used ever did.
Of all those languages my favorite is FORTH.
Using the same cover story twice also raises to many suspicions.
and Cisco's as well, and revealed that the DOJ was nothing less than armed thugs working at Cisco's direction.
I saw the video of the deposition in Canada. It was in Canada because the US wouldn't let Adekeye into the US. Both the Feds and Cisco knew that Adekeye had applied for permission to enter the US and was denied, but they didn't inform the Canadian police of that, leaving them with the impression that he was a fugitive from Justice. IF he were a fugitive they could have let him in and then captured him at the boarder. But, what they really wanted to do was further soil his reputation unjustly. So, they lied to Canada about his status. While he was being questioned by attorneys at the deposition a Canadian constable, uninformed of the situation, barged in and served a warrant for his arrest, interrupting the legal proceeding, which was itself unprecedented. Attorneys for Adekeye wanted to shut off the cameras, but attorneys for Cisco wanted them to run so they was have video "proof" of Adekeye's "guilt", as if being accused is the same as being guilty.
The judges ruling was a very strongly worded condemnation of Cisco and the DOJ, accusing them of collusion in the abuse of power. But, in a country where the government now does the bidding of its corporate overlords, the Canadian ruling bears no weight. It only stands as a moral indictment of both our judicial system and the corrupt corporate environment.
The "Minty Fresh" mp3 player wasn't just examined, or even pried open to see what was inside. It was maliciously torn to shreds. What do those Luddite TSA agents think could be hiding in a millimeter thick sheet of Aluminum lid? It looks like they put it into a blender.
This isn't looking out for "Public Safety", this is intimidation just because they can. Light your next bonfire with a copy of the Constitution. At least the paper it's written on can be used for something, even if the words are worthless.
Google has digitized 5 million books from primarily academic libraries.
Microsoft began their digitization project in 2005 and abandon it in 2008, throwing users onto the tender mercies of book publishers and public libraries for content. Public libraries cannot afford to digitally scan books, even if the publishers would allow it.
Book publishers are the most vocal critics of Google's book scanning project, and to hear them wail you'd think Google was burning books, not scanning them. What the book publishers are wailing about is their perceived loss of profits because digitized books open the barn door, making mute the hope some have of renewing copyrights on material LONG resident in the public domain. In a word, greed.
If you think that Google is in decline you must be looking at that graph standing on your head! lol!
These are coordinated attacks on Google by those whom Google is out competing on a level playing field.
If marketing the best smartphone OS in the market to give them the #1 market share is evil then Microsoft is a pure saint, so soundly did the public reject Win Phone 7. If helping a company drive its 44% smartphone market share to less than 15% in one year is good competition then Microsoft is saintly indeed. I also noticed that it was that saintly company Microsoft that PR'd a lot about Google's "evil" in tracking wifi with geocordinates, but Microsoft published their own public website with the same information.
And, please tell me you'd rather have Larry Ellison rather than Larry Page influencing your web experience. IF that were the case you'd be paying a micro payment for each search, with extra added for narrowing to specifics, and there wouldn't be any other search game in town. One only has to look at how he's trying to abuse Java to realize what would happen if he ends up winning against Google, which I doubt he will unless he buys off the judge.
Totally.
Two points:
1) That old saw about Microsoft being vulnerable because of its market share is hog wash. There were over 3 million viruses and Trojans released last year. Were it a simple matter of market share percentages than about 12% of those would be Linux viruses and another 10-15% would be Mac viruses. But, they are not. Well over 99% of them are Windows viruses. Only 19% of Internet web servers are running Windows but they are the source of essentially all malware.
2) Blaming Windows users for security holes that Microsoft keeps secret from them is worse than obscene. It's fanboism to the extreme.
That 4,300,000 Windows zombie bot farm discovered last year wasn't all Windows because they were hard to break into, and the handful of command & control computers weren't Linux and Mac because they are easy to break into.