You laugh. I've played this game on a Comcast cable internet connection. It's frustrating. You get ahead for an hour or two but in the end it's just like Vegas: the house always wins.
I've been watching my nation's highest court for thirty years. In all that time the only thing I've learned is that I never know what they're going to do.
I don't know why you're arguing with me. You said the exact same thing. And I agree with you. A nice steel can to hold the ice can hold ablative shielding, makes a good candidate for a railgun second stage (explosives only get you so far), and gets to orbit some additional necessary machinable materials.
Sendo did take them to court. The suit was settled in 2004 for money and Microsoft giving up their ownership stake. In 2005 Sendo finally went under and what's left was bought by Motorola.
This is in no way related to Microsoft's outright buyout of SideKick and Danger, which at last report was a square deal for cash and going swimmingly except for the minor data loss issue, the defections and the total absence of morale since the Pink Slips incident.
So apparently this whole SideKick/Danger thing had gotten completely out of hand even before they lost everyone's data, and people aren't being shy about calling the whole thing dead. The first link even calls doom on Windows Mobile according to Gartner. That's a shame. I really liked WiMo except for the performance, the interface, the reliability, the paucity of third party apps, the retro hardware compatibility, the need for a stylus and the utter lack of any compelling features.
Microsoft really needs to bust into the phone market and now it ain't gonna happen. They're not gaining share anywhere else and their stock is tracking the S&P for the last decade while Apple has grown from nobody to a $170B company. And now they've demonstrated their fickle partnership loyalties to every single player in the phone market and brilliantly demonstrated their inability to execute as their attempts at an own-brand phone erupt into flames. The complete loss of opportunity in the massive growth smartphone market really has to sting. Between this and the field of dreams that is Zune they're completely discredited in the CE space. I really wish I was a furniture salesman in Redmond today.
I had never heard of Roz Ho before today. I think I'll send her flowers.
If we try hard enough we should be able to think up a form of rocket fuel that survives the transit. Oh, there it is: water ice. Just freeze a slug and toss it up to the satellite with solar power to be remanufactured into oxygen and hydrogen for use as a fuel or breathable air or potable water while in orbit.
The idea works better shooting from Mars, but whatever...
They got involved in corporate finance, this isn't any farther out of their historical scope. If anybody can master a new technology process and deliver ever-increasing gains, it's them. Besides, more biodiesel means more fuel for the generators that power their chips in the third world. Maybe they can consider it a CO2 offset.
Granted, this isn't cheap, but our data isn't either.
Microsoft bought Danger for half a billion dollars. Current estimates of the value of this data are roughly... half a billion dollars, plus a little. There's little doubt that in addition to destroying the entire value of the acquisition they've created a connection between "Microsoft", "Danger" and "data loss". In their release T-Mobile isn't being shy about tying those things together. Not good. That's going to have impacts even for some completely unrelated cloud-based products like Azure.
Somebody's about to get a really awkward performance review.
Some of us maintain these things by the many thousands. They do fail. I've seen processors fail, in service. Likewise RAM chips, voltage regulator modules, Northbridge chips, network ports and every other component, at least a few times. You're right that it's often the software but when it's isolated in hardware one thumb rule has held steady for me for nearly 30 years: 90% of the time it's the cables.
Only summer comes, and the code isn't ready. It isn't ready in the autumn, either, and this starts to play hell with Sendo's budgets. December rolls round, and according to Sendo, bugfixes that carriers have requested are being refused by Microsoft. Sendo is in a cash crisis, and a call to VCs is spurned. So Sendo asks Microsoft for a further cash injection, which is declined:
"Microsoft refused with the full knowledge that this refusal would push Sendo to insolvency", claims Sendo in the filing.
How did it know? Well, meet Marc Brown, who was by now acting in his capacity as a Sendo board member while continuing his day job as the director of Microsoft's corporate development and strategy group.
In the end Microsoft winds up with all of Sendo's cellular phone intellectual property as the company is liquidated:
"They were not entitled to such information under the terms of the SDMA" - the precursor to the February 2001 agreement that the two inked in the fall of 2000.
In fact, this SDMA turns out to have been Sendo's death warrant. As the company explains:
"Under the SDMA, in the event of a Sendo bankruptcy, Microsoft would obtain an irrevocable, royalty free license to use Sendo's Z100 intellectual property, including rights to make, use, or copy the Sendo Smartphone to create other to create other Smartphones and to, most importantly for Microsoft, sublicense those rights to third parties."
So... two years, 12 million dollars and a board member, and it does appear that it was a trap the whole time. To anybody who remembers IBM's partnership with Microsoft on OS/2 this tale will sound familiar. If you dance with the devil, you will pay his fee.
erm, no. Our only hope of beating China to Mars and beyond is that their leadership is even older, more hidebound and less imaginative than ours. They are not in the least unwilling to risk ten lives or a million to achieve a worthy goal. They just don't see it yet.
If you're over 50, it's your fault. If you're under 40, blame your parents. If you're under 25, do something about it: remind yourself that new lands belong to them what claim them.
Somebody's going to Mars. I hope it's us. It's not just that there's all that stuff to claim ownership of. You see... in orbit around the sun, right by Mars, there's this huge pile of rocks...
It turns out that if you live uphill from some really obnoxious people, you can just roll some big rocks down the hill to make them shut up. In order to make you stop they have to climb up that really steep hill, so it's likely they'll just see reason. Some of those rocks are really big. Killing the dinosaurs type big.
Nuclear energy plus plasma rocket equals nuclear drive.
There's a good chance given the history of Chinese information gathering that they have enough details to get it done. Now the question is, do they want the prize badly enough?
Apparently they care enough about the geek market to try to appeal to the router-modders and to try to build some momentum with astroturfing.
Now if they could just figure out that it's cheaper, more effective and more reliable to just do it right then everybody wins including them. Do it right and you don't have to astroturf - the grass roots want to grow.
It's readily apparent here that they hold the copyright on all of calculus. By publishing a calculus book, in whole or even just an equation, you are obviously in violation.
And a well-earned copyright that was. People don't just invent a calculus every day.
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You laugh. I've played this game on a Comcast cable internet connection. It's frustrating. You get ahead for an hour or two but in the end it's just like Vegas: the house always wins.
Don't hate the player. Hate the game.
I have a lot of respect for the SFLC and hold their lawyers in as high esteem as is possible for me to consider a lawyer, which aint much.
But they're fighting a war on a foggy field. There's mayhem afoot and nobody knows what the balance of power is.
I've been watching my nation's highest court for thirty years. In all that time the only thing I've learned is that I never know what they're going to do.
Somebody's about to get a really awkward performance review.
Apparently the reviewee's name is Roz Ho. We should all send her flowers. Thanks, Roz. Write if you find work.
I don't know why you're arguing with me. You said the exact same thing. And I agree with you. A nice steel can to hold the ice can hold ablative shielding, makes a good candidate for a railgun second stage (explosives only get you so far), and gets to orbit some additional necessary machinable materials.
Sendo did take them to court. The suit was settled in 2004 for money and Microsoft giving up their ownership stake. In 2005 Sendo finally went under and what's left was bought by Motorola.
This is in no way related to Microsoft's outright buyout of SideKick and Danger, which at last report was a square deal for cash and going swimmingly except for the minor data loss issue, the defections and the total absence of morale since the Pink Slips incident.
So apparently this whole SideKick/Danger thing had gotten completely out of hand even before they lost everyone's data, and people aren't being shy about calling the whole thing dead. The first link even calls doom on Windows Mobile according to Gartner. That's a shame. I really liked WiMo except for the performance, the interface, the reliability, the paucity of third party apps, the retro hardware compatibility, the need for a stylus and the utter lack of any compelling features.
Microsoft really needs to bust into the phone market and now it ain't gonna happen. They're not gaining share anywhere else and their stock is tracking the S&P for the last decade while Apple has grown from nobody to a $170B company. And now they've demonstrated their fickle partnership loyalties to every single player in the phone market and brilliantly demonstrated their inability to execute as their attempts at an own-brand phone erupt into flames. The complete loss of opportunity in the massive growth smartphone market really has to sting. Between this and the field of dreams that is Zune they're completely discredited in the CE space. I really wish I was a furniture salesman in Redmond today.
I had never heard of Roz Ho before today. I think I'll send her flowers.
If we try hard enough we should be able to think up a form of rocket fuel that survives the transit. Oh, there it is: water ice. Just freeze a slug and toss it up to the satellite with solar power to be remanufactured into oxygen and hydrogen for use as a fuel or breathable air or potable water while in orbit.
The idea works better shooting from Mars, but whatever...
They got involved in corporate finance, this isn't any farther out of their historical scope. If anybody can master a new technology process and deliver ever-increasing gains, it's them. Besides, more biodiesel means more fuel for the generators that power their chips in the third world. Maybe they can consider it a CO2 offset.
Granted, this isn't cheap, but our data isn't either.
Microsoft bought Danger for half a billion dollars. Current estimates of the value of this data are roughly... half a billion dollars, plus a little. There's little doubt that in addition to destroying the entire value of the acquisition they've created a connection between "Microsoft", "Danger" and "data loss". In their release T-Mobile isn't being shy about tying those things together. Not good. That's going to have impacts even for some completely unrelated cloud-based products like Azure.
Somebody's about to get a really awkward performance review.
Oops. I accidentally the whole SAN.
That must be embarassing.
Some of us maintain these things by the many thousands. They do fail. I've seen processors fail, in service. Likewise RAM chips, voltage regulator modules, Northbridge chips, network ports and every other component, at least a few times. You're right that it's often the software but when it's isolated in hardware one thumb rule has held steady for me for nearly 30 years: 90% of the time it's the cables.
A whole week? Here'a a nice memory jogger for you:
Only summer comes, and the code isn't ready. It isn't ready in the autumn, either, and this starts to play hell with Sendo's budgets. December rolls round, and according to Sendo, bugfixes that carriers have requested are being refused by Microsoft. Sendo is in a cash crisis, and a call to VCs is spurned. So Sendo asks Microsoft for a further cash injection, which is declined:
"Microsoft refused with the full knowledge that this refusal would push Sendo to insolvency", claims Sendo in the filing.
How did it know? Well, meet Marc Brown, who was by now acting in his capacity as a Sendo board member while continuing his day job as the director of Microsoft's corporate development and strategy group.
In the end Microsoft winds up with all of Sendo's cellular phone intellectual property as the company is liquidated:
"They were not entitled to such information under the terms of the SDMA" - the precursor to the February 2001 agreement that the two inked in the fall of 2000.
In fact, this SDMA turns out to have been Sendo's death warrant. As the company explains:
"Under the SDMA, in the event of a Sendo bankruptcy, Microsoft would obtain an irrevocable, royalty free license to use Sendo's Z100 intellectual property, including rights to make, use, or copy the Sendo Smartphone to create other to create other Smartphones and to, most importantly for Microsoft, sublicense those rights to third parties."
So... two years, 12 million dollars and a board member, and it does appear that it was a trap the whole time. To anybody who remembers IBM's partnership with Microsoft on OS/2 this tale will sound familiar. If you dance with the devil, you will pay his fee.
But the supreme court may void software patents, so it might not spring.
China is notorious for being risk adverse.
erm, no. Our only hope of beating China to Mars and beyond is that their leadership is even older, more hidebound and less imaginative than ours. They are not in the least unwilling to risk ten lives or a million to achieve a worthy goal. They just don't see it yet.
If you're over 50, it's your fault. If you're under 40, blame your parents. If you're under 25, do something about it: remind yourself that new lands belong to them what claim them.
People who play Halo reproduce? How?
It turns out that the absence of water at the impact site is also data. And that's "great!" Because we learned something.
Next stop... Mars.
Somebody's going to Mars. I hope it's us. It's not just that there's all that stuff to claim ownership of. You see... in orbit around the sun, right by Mars, there's this huge pile of rocks...
It turns out that if you live uphill from some really obnoxious people, you can just roll some big rocks down the hill to make them shut up. In order to make you stop they have to climb up that really steep hill, so it's likely they'll just see reason. Some of those rocks are really big. Killing the dinosaurs type big.
Nuclear energy plus plasma rocket equals nuclear drive.
There's a good chance given the history of Chinese information gathering that they have enough details to get it done. Now the question is, do they want the prize badly enough?
They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back?
But Apple by no means has a monopoly on PCs.
No, but they're very close to a monopoly on good ones.
Apparently they care enough about the geek market to try to appeal to the router-modders and to try to build some momentum with astroturfing.
Now if they could just figure out that it's cheaper, more effective and more reliable to just do it right then everybody wins including them. Do it right and you don't have to astroturf - the grass roots want to grow.
It's readily apparent here that they hold the copyright on all of calculus. By publishing a calculus book, in whole or even just an equation, you are obviously in violation.
And a well-earned copyright that was. People don't just invent a calculus every day.
Oh, and Rick? That skirt really doesn't go with those pumps.