I have modpoints. I want to mod you up for an artful dissonance. But this work is worth far more than that, so instead I'll come here in my right nym and say: "recommended" because I think that is worth more. It's disgusting, vile, and recommended. Art like this is never off-topic. But now I need a shower to feel clean.
Read the damned comments. Are they not as I described? What is your issue? Is an ability to anticipate a regular occurrence insane in your eyes? Call me crazy: tomorrow night it will be dark outside.
As in all threads relating to Microsoft, prepare to be utterly disgusted. The company's defenders are going to be here promoting the most abhorrent and misanthropic arguments, or attempting to deflect the dialog. It is evil, but it works.
Very nice analysis. The PC is the way backward. A vertically integrated platform where they control the UI is the way forward for HP. So WebOS and PC must split.
This is actually very insightful. First let me applaud this very important beginning step.
The goal is for the end-user to be able to port their apps and data to a new architecture. We have known that this is required for continuous IT operations over transformative tech innovations since at least the 1970s.
To achieve the end user must be able to cross-compile the OS, compiler and tools to the new target platform. And when the target is booted, the apps compiled and the data ported over, the end user must be in a position to do it again.
Anything less than this is a trap that relies on others to provide the ability to adapt to change of underlying hardware.
End users don't have to actually use this facility. But it must be present and proven to avoid the trap of dependence on the ability and benevolence of others.
Well yes, and that too. And then there's gifts for the kids. Sure, some people can afford to give their kids a $500 tablet - but not as many as can give a $200 tablet without fear they might drop it.
Not everybody can afford a Lexus, or an iPad. Making a product that's within reach of many people, fairly profitable, and gives good value isn't "shooting yourself in the foot" - it's "putting shoes on your children." If they make and sell a product, earn a profit on each one and sell them all, they win.
With Android tablets it's pretty easy to win because the vast majority of the value isn't in the product itself, but in the vast ecosystem behind it. Apps, books, movies, music, content of all sorts - and of course the web. These Android tablets might be a less perfect glass to see these things through, but the ability to see them at all is easily worth the money asked.
The Android Market has something for developers that your precious WP7 doesn't: hundreds of millions of customers for your apps.
This is a neat little app - one of the first things I show people when they're curious about what an Android phone can do. I'm sure that the StarTrek branding will be filed off and the app relaunched as "Central Built-in Sensors: Scientific Universal Command Kit System" or something like that. In the meantime we'll sideload it, even if we have to download it from a sane country.
Let me guess. Judging by the huge number of Anonymous Cowards in this thread, and how bitter and nearly incoherent they are... I'm going to guess the dev team's launch bash for Mango was open bar tonight, and at the end they told you about the reorg.
The Apple products are a copy of the Motorola wireless. They work just like the Motorola Wireless. That's not something you demand money for, that's something you outright ban.
This is going to be fun. Here's a hint: the Motorola patents are not on "a rectangle". They're on important stuff.
This is just the beginning. Microsoft has used Non Practicing Entities (NPEs) for this for years. Nokia, probably on Microsoft's suggestion, is doing the same. You can't sue an NPE back. They don't make products. But turnabout is fair play and Motorola Mobility has got what it takes to play this game.
Motorola Mobility (MMI) could take a handful of patents, an executive, a lawyer and a dozen paralegals, and stand it up as a business unit and spin it off in an IPO, retaining only a minority interest and with a license back to the patents. Just like the Nokia NPE, they can make the patents revert to MMI in the event of a "change of control," like bankruptcy or hostile takeover. This mini-NPE could then file suit, borrow money against future court winnings and set to work pursuing injunctions of products from companies that suing them directly or standing up NPE sockpuppets to do so - like Apple, Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle. May as well throw HP in there too. The Street just loves these high-risk, high-reward IP pureplay instruments.
And then they could do it again. And again. And on the second day they can do it again three times. They can turn it into a business model, and do it three times a day for a year. MMI has many thousands of very strong patents in hand to do this with. Because the mini-NPEs have differing ownership and different patents at issue the suits don't get joined and have to be defended separately. They can get their lawyers and such at bulk rates and set up a spinoff assembly line.
The load on the courts goes logarithmic. Most mini-NPEs flameout and revert the patents at 0 cost to retry, but some few hit it big and get injunctions until there's no tech product left to ship, anywhere in the world. And none of them settle, ever.
It's the IPocalypse. Mutually Assured Destruction. The end of tech as we know it.
This made us some quarter of an hour late, and when we came to Westminster Hall we found that the day's business was begun. Worse than that, we found such an unusual crowd in the Court of Chancery that it was full to the door, and we could neither see nor hear what was passing within. It appeared to be something droll, for occasionally there was a laugh and a cry of "Silence!" It appeared to be something interesting, for every one was pushing and striving to get nearer. It appeared to be something that made the professional gentlemen very merry, for there were several young counsellors in wigs and whiskers on the outside of the crowd, and when one of them told the others about it, they put their hands in their pockets, and quite doubled themselves up with laughter, and went stamping about the pavement of the Hall.
We asked a gentleman by us if he knew what cause was on. He told us Jarndyce and Jarndyce. We asked him if he knew what was doing in it. He said really, no he did not, nobody ever did, but as well as he could make out, it was over. Over for the day? we asked him. No, he said, over for good.
Over for good!
When we heard this unaccountable answer, we looked at one another quite lost in amazement. Could it be possible that the will had set things right at last and that Richard and Ada were going to be rich? It seemed too good to be true. Alas it was!
Our suspense was short, for a break-up soon took place in the crowd, and the people came streaming out looking flushed and hot and bringing a quantity of bad air with them. Still they were all exceedingly amused and were more like people coming out from a farce or a juggler than from a court of justice. We stood aside, watching for any countenance we knew, and presently great bundles of paper began to be carried out—bundles in bags, bundles too large to be got into any bags, immense masses of papers of all shapes and no shapes, which the bearers staggered under, and threw down for the time being, anyhow, on the Hall pavement, while they went back to bring out more. Even these clerks were laughing. We glanced at the papers, and seeing Jarndyce and Jarndyce everywhere, asked an official-looking person who was standing in the midst of them whether the cause was over. Yes, he said, it was all up with it at last, and burst out laughing too....
"Pray what has been done to-day?" asked Allan.
"I beg your pardon?" said Mr. Kenge with excessive urbanity.
"What has been done to-day?"
"What has been done," repeated Mr. Kenge. "Quite so. Yes. Why, not much has been done; not much. We have been checked—brought up suddenly, I would say—upon the—shall I term it threshold?"
"Is this will considered a genuine document, sir?" said Allan. "Will you tell us that?"
"Most certainly, if I could," said Mr. Kenge; "but we have not gone into that, we have not gone into that."
"We have not gone into that," repeated Mr. Vholes as if his low inward voice were an echo.
"You are to reflect, Mr. Woodcourt," observed Mr. Kenge, using his silver trowel persuasively and smoothingly, "that this has been a great cause, that this has been a protracted cause, that this has been a complex cause. Jarndyce and Jarndyce has been termed, not inaptly, a monument of Chancery practice."
"And patience has sat upon it a long time," said Allan. "Mr. Kenge," said Allan, appearing enlightened all in a moment. "Excuse me, our time presses. Do I understand that the whole estate is found to have been absorbed in costs?"
"Hem! I believe so," returned Mr. Kenge. "Mr. Vholes, what do YOU say?"
Just in case somebody thinks this anonymous coward is a member of the slashdot tinfoil hat brigade, blaming Microsoft for everything...
Halloween Document 10 lays out in intimate detail how Michael Anderer, a consultant to SCO, used Microsoft to gain up to in his on words "$82-86 million." Baystar's manager of their $50 million SCO investment complained: "Mr. Emerson and I discussed a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would backstop, or guarantee in some way, Baystar's investment... Microsoft assured me that it would in some way guarantee BayStar's investment in SCO."
The documents are in the public record, confirmed by all parties and well reported in the press. This is almost all of the money SCO used to fund their meritless 8-year legal campaign against Linux.
First, you might want to consult with your physician about the dosage of your meds.
Second, nobody's reading this old thread except you and me, so we may as well have a private discussion.
2a,b,c - ALL panspermia models have the problem that life has to originate somewhere, either in space or on a planet. Then it has to get here without being destroyed through space. Then it has to proliferate in the extremely different environment on a planet's surface. That is at least one major environmental change (space->planet) which is going to be a bottleneck, along with a (probably) low probability step (non-life->life). That is a pair of low probability events happening pretty independently, so you multiply the probabilities together and get an even lower probability.
No. There are many panspermia models. I only gave a sample. This is slashdot, not an encyclopedia. Your problem is with the word "somewhere." If you replace that word with "Somewhen" and admit that we're 12 billion years in, the rest is easy.
4)I didn't say the projectiles came from Ceres. Naturally at that point Asteroid miners would trade there. But the bigger issues are the waste heat, and orbital dynamics. For each slug launched in one direction, they have to launch another one the opposite way.
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I have modpoints. I want to mod you up for an artful dissonance. But this work is worth far more than that, so instead I'll come here in my right nym and say: "recommended" because I think that is worth more. It's disgusting, vile, and recommended. Art like this is never off-topic. But now I need a shower to feel clean.
And pursuing that shitty experience is why we're here. Well, maybe you. I'm in it for the chicks. Chicks dig my slashdot cred.
Read the damned comments. Are they not as I described? What is your issue? Is an ability to anticipate a regular occurrence insane in your eyes? Call me crazy: tomorrow night it will be dark outside.
As in all threads relating to Microsoft, prepare to be utterly disgusted. The company's defenders are going to be here promoting the most abhorrent and misanthropic arguments, or attempting to deflect the dialog. It is evil, but it works.
It would be nice if this were possible. Unfortunately the PC group cannot survive a naked PC strategy.
Very nice analysis. The PC is the way backward. A vertically integrated platform where they control the UI is the way forward for HP. So WebOS and PC must split.
This is actually very insightful. First let me applaud this very important beginning step.
The goal is for the end-user to be able to port their apps and data to a new architecture. We have known that this is required for continuous IT operations over transformative tech innovations since at least the 1970s.
To achieve the end user must be able to cross-compile the OS, compiler and tools to the new target platform. And when the target is booted, the apps compiled and the data ported over, the end user must be in a position to do it again.
Anything less than this is a trap that relies on others to provide the ability to adapt to change of underlying hardware.
End users don't have to actually use this facility. But it must be present and proven to avoid the trap of dependence on the ability and benevolence of others.
Well yes, and that too. And then there's gifts for the kids. Sure, some people can afford to give their kids a $500 tablet - but not as many as can give a $200 tablet without fear they might drop it.
US here. Been on the site all day, since long before the report. Never hacked from here. Looks like DNS.
Not everybody can afford a Lexus, or an iPad. Making a product that's within reach of many people, fairly profitable, and gives good value isn't "shooting yourself in the foot" - it's "putting shoes on your children." If they make and sell a product, earn a profit on each one and sell them all, they win.
With Android tablets it's pretty easy to win because the vast majority of the value isn't in the product itself, but in the vast ecosystem behind it. Apps, books, movies, music, content of all sorts - and of course the web. These Android tablets might be a less perfect glass to see these things through, but the ability to see them at all is easily worth the money asked.
This is going to be quite a surprise: some people don't have five hundred dollars.
The best we can hope for is "no survivors".
Well, for sure I wouldn't have put the founder's name on the Moorestown product. That's just asking for trouble.
He can't tell you on here. It looks normal when it posts, but for everybody else it just comes up ******
The Android Market has something for developers that your precious WP7 doesn't: hundreds of millions of customers for your apps.
This is a neat little app - one of the first things I show people when they're curious about what an Android phone can do. I'm sure that the StarTrek branding will be filed off and the app relaunched as "Central Built-in Sensors: Scientific Universal Command Kit System" or something like that. In the meantime we'll sideload it, even if we have to download it from a sane country.
Let me guess. Judging by the huge number of Anonymous Cowards in this thread, and how bitter and nearly incoherent they are... I'm going to guess the dev team's launch bash for Mango was open bar tonight, and at the end they told you about the reorg.
Both of them?
The Apple products are a copy of the Motorola wireless. They work just like the Motorola Wireless. That's not something you demand money for, that's something you outright ban.
This is going to be fun. Here's a hint: the Motorola patents are not on "a rectangle". They're on important stuff.
This is just the beginning. Microsoft has used Non Practicing Entities (NPEs) for this for years. Nokia, probably on Microsoft's suggestion, is doing the same. You can't sue an NPE back. They don't make products. But turnabout is fair play and Motorola Mobility has got what it takes to play this game.
Motorola Mobility (MMI) could take a handful of patents, an executive, a lawyer and a dozen paralegals, and stand it up as a business unit and spin it off in an IPO, retaining only a minority interest and with a license back to the patents. Just like the Nokia NPE, they can make the patents revert to MMI in the event of a "change of control," like bankruptcy or hostile takeover. This mini-NPE could then file suit, borrow money against future court winnings and set to work pursuing injunctions of products from companies that suing them directly or standing up NPE sockpuppets to do so - like Apple, Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle. May as well throw HP in there too. The Street just loves these high-risk, high-reward IP pureplay instruments.
And then they could do it again. And again. And on the second day they can do it again three times. They can turn it into a business model, and do it three times a day for a year. MMI has many thousands of very strong patents in hand to do this with. Because the mini-NPEs have differing ownership and different patents at issue the suits don't get joined and have to be defended separately. They can get their lawyers and such at bulk rates and set up a spinoff assembly line.
The load on the courts goes logarithmic. Most mini-NPEs flameout and revert the patents at 0 cost to retry, but some few hit it big and get injunctions until there's no tech product left to ship, anywhere in the world. And none of them settle, ever.
It's the IPocalypse. Mutually Assured Destruction. The end of tech as we know it.
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Just in case somebody thinks this anonymous coward is a member of the slashdot tinfoil hat brigade, blaming Microsoft for everything...
Halloween Document 10 lays out in intimate detail how Michael Anderer, a consultant to SCO, used Microsoft to gain up to in his on words "$82-86 million." Baystar's manager of their $50 million SCO investment complained: "Mr. Emerson and I discussed a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would backstop, or guarantee in some way, Baystar's investment ... Microsoft assured me that it would in some way guarantee BayStar's investment in SCO."
The documents are in the public record, confirmed by all parties and well reported in the press. This is almost all of the money SCO used to fund their meritless 8-year legal campaign against Linux.
/And I'm not that AC either.
Sorry - I get a little cranky sometimes.
Hp didn't declare defeat. They won. The game they won just doesn't have any prize money, so they're going to play a different game.
the "milligoogle"
First, you might want to consult with your physician about the dosage of your meds.
Second, nobody's reading this old thread except you and me, so we may as well have a private discussion.
2a,b,c - ALL panspermia models have the problem that life has to originate somewhere, either in space or on a planet. Then it has to get here without being destroyed through space. Then it has to proliferate in the extremely different environment on a planet's surface. That is at least one major environmental change (space->planet) which is going to be a bottleneck, along with a (probably) low probability step (non-life->life). That is a pair of low probability events happening pretty independently, so you multiply the probabilities together and get an even lower probability.
No. There are many panspermia models. I only gave a sample. This is slashdot, not an encyclopedia. Your problem is with the word "somewhere." If you replace that word with "Somewhen" and admit that we're 12 billion years in, the rest is easy.
4)I didn't say the projectiles came from Ceres. Naturally at that point Asteroid miners would trade there. But the bigger issues are the waste heat, and orbital dynamics. For each slug launched in one direction, they have to launch another one the opposite way.
Whatever. Time for nite nite.
Not much to add. I've gotten a lot of fun out of your creation. Best wishes in your new endeavors.