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>He said the chip would soon reside in personal computers, mobile phones and televisions, with a target production of 1 million units in 2003.
>The Chinese Academy of Sciences said about 10,000 chips had already been produced this year.
>Technology analysts have said the domestic CPU is supposed to reduce China's dependence on Intel and other chipmakers such as Advanced Micro Devices for both financial and security reasons.
>China wants to install its own chips in sensitive military devices to retain better control, they say.
"Privacy and Power" Computer Databases and Metaphors for Information Privacy
Daniel J. Solove October 17, 2000
http://law.shu.edu/faculty/fulltime_faculty/solo ve da/Database-Privacy%20FINAL%20VERSION.doc
Now that everyone has a camcorder
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Starcraft
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· Score: 4, Funny
There are markedly fewer alien sightings.
What makes us so fucking special that someone would pack the whole brood into the starcruiser and trudge all the hell way over to this 'hood to gawk at a bunch of monkeys?
Their own flight profiles didn't give the range to even accrue a 2 hr savings.
An hour less to London in day and age is trivial. Between ground delays and head winds you can spend over 11-13 hours on a plane going from Heathrow to Dulles. I do.
An A380 is a terrible idea. How many routes are going to be able to support this unless airlines stop offering more than one a day someplace? I mean look like if airlines do this then air travel will look more like steamships. Everyone will line up for half a day for the daily flight to who-knows-where.
C'mon - I'd have to say that 80% of the time I download a QT piece I need yet another upgrade of QT itself. Currently I have 4 different versions of QT on my machine and each one has been upgraded or patched numerous times. This is unacceptable for a computer let alone a phone.
We get our annual bonuses in May but here's the deal so far. We're graded on a 1-2-3 scale w/ 1 being th highest. Usually 10% get 1 while about 15-20% get 3 which is a subtle "Get another goddamn job message.
This year we've told that there is basically no money, but instead of simply adjusting the payout per grading we're told that no one will get a 1, 60% will get a 2 and the remainder, 40% will get a 3 which this year carries no bonus at all. The pool for the 2's will be cut in half. Now if you were counting on a 1 you were probably expecting a 15%-20% payout (20-25% for same grade if you are a manager), which this year will be reduced to a 2 grading which itself will be cut in half to about 5% payout. And the rest of everyone else gets a "YOU SUCK" rating that goes in the HR record. Which is just fucking lovely if you want to transfer internally and your last evaluation was "YOU SUCK".
They could avoid this by giving everyone the same rating they were supposed to get and simply tell everyone that there are basically no bonuses this year except for those with the Godlike powers of the glowing green sun of Krypton. Instead they've turned the workforce into a brutal Darwinian game where everyone trods on the skulls of their fallen enemies.
God I love this business, give me a grail of human blood!!!
Stop trying to sell us something Marc
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The New IT Crisis
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Your Loudcloud was supposed to do this for us and it failed.
Why did it fail?
1 No one really knows how to do it 2 The infrastructure is too expensive 3 Customer requirements are too dissimilar from one another 4 No one has the balls to tell customers their requirements are crazy and impossible 5 Transition costs are poorly understood 6 Exeutives are measured by overhead and customer satisfaction and not doing the right job the best way 7 People are not a resource they are an overhead item
I'm reporting what I actually did realted to this piece and you call me a troll? Stop huffing the highlighters people and stop taking yourselves so seriously.
Maybe those cute Apple ads are close to how loyal users feel about it. Maybe those Apples just work for the vast numbers of people who purchase them for the specific purpose of being invisible. Apple owners don't own computers. They perform tasks that their Apples enable for them.
PK Dick was the Man. Know why? Because good SF is good writing.
Sorry but Heinlein and Asimov were hacks as writers. I mean how much Lazarus Long can you read before you realize it's 95% dialog.
PK Dick Was the Man. The only SF writer who realized that the future is always bad, and he welcomed it anyhow.
We took the windows out and achieved that
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239 MPG Car
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· Score: 1, Troll
Sure, take a VW Bug - old model, around a 1300cc model and take out the back seat, windshield, backwindow, bumpers and anything else that just adds weight. Drive it like an old lady, goose it all the time and coast wherever possible. Get 60mpg+
C'mon people - a decade ago you'd be questioning the validity of Yet Another DOS or NOS and why anyone would need it.
Why do I need yet another Unix clone for Intel and why would I want to waste any time learing it or supporting it, particularly a version from a company that is ambivalent, at best about it.
Yeah that's right. Let's build a better bovine. One that's immune to this shit. And anyone who wants to take their chances out in the woods with fuzzy wuzzies and eating pine nuts can have at it. Just so long as they don't breed or breathe near me.
Why stop there? Demand that users become vegetarians, go to gay rights rallies, protest globalism, drive hybrid cars and hug everyone in the whole wide world.
Yeah being a code crunching monkey or a help desk luser is not REALLY like working in a plating factory but it has many of the same attributes. Fixed job responsibilities, closely managed performance metrics, lack of independent thought, limited job security....
We think having 91 different card keys is a badge of respect and honor, but it's not. It's just an excuse to overwork people.
All those golly gee whiz bang thingys are all, well, gee whiz. Therefore they will be premium services. Moreover the extended warranty on all this crap will be more or less required because maintenance and repair costs for your voice reco AI internet aware wireless fridge will be astronomical.
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"Programming the McVisual C# Way"
"McVisual Debugging for Dummies"
"Would you like fries with that object?"
"H1B - What is it how it can work for your company"
>He said the chip would soon reside in personal computers, mobile phones and televisions, with a target production of 1 million units in 2003.
>The Chinese Academy of Sciences said about 10,000 chips had already been produced this year.
>Technology analysts have said the domestic CPU is supposed to reduce China's dependence on Intel and other chipmakers such as Advanced Micro Devices for both financial and security reasons.
>China wants to install its own chips in sensitive military devices to retain better control, they say.
That's why.
That is how do you know your're doing the right thing and how do you know you're doing it the right way to the right conclusion?
Nor can you win over crazy. It's fruitless to try and only serves as a solid world troll.
"Privacy and Power"
o ve da/Database-Privacy%20FINAL%20VERSION.doc
Computer Databases and Metaphors for Information Privacy
Daniel J. Solove
October 17, 2000
http://law.shu.edu/faculty/fulltime_faculty/sol
There are markedly fewer alien sightings.
What makes us so fucking special that someone would pack the whole brood into the starcruiser and trudge all the hell way over to this 'hood to gawk at a bunch of monkeys?
Their own flight profiles didn't give the range to even accrue a 2 hr savings.
An hour less to London in day and age is trivial. Between ground delays and head winds you can spend over 11-13 hours on a plane going from Heathrow to Dulles. I do.
An A380 is a terrible idea. How many routes are going to be able to support this unless airlines stop offering more than one a day someplace? I mean look like if airlines do this then air travel will look more like steamships. Everyone will line up for half a day for the daily flight to who-knows-where.
C'mon - I'd have to say that 80% of the time I download a QT piece I need yet another upgrade of QT itself. Currently I have 4 different versions of QT on my machine and each one has been upgraded or patched numerous times. This is unacceptable for a computer let alone a phone.
We get our annual bonuses in May but here's the deal so far. We're graded on a 1-2-3 scale w/ 1 being th highest. Usually 10% get 1 while about 15-20% get 3 which is a subtle "Get another goddamn job message.
This year we've told that there is basically no money, but instead of simply adjusting the payout per grading we're told that no one will get a 1, 60% will get a 2 and the remainder, 40% will get a 3 which this year carries no bonus at all. The pool for the 2's will be cut in half. Now if you were counting on a 1 you were probably expecting a 15%-20% payout (20-25% for same grade if you are a manager), which this year will be reduced to a 2 grading which itself will be cut in half to about 5% payout. And the rest of everyone else gets a "YOU SUCK" rating that goes in the HR record. Which is just fucking lovely if you want to transfer internally and your last evaluation was "YOU SUCK".
They could avoid this by giving everyone the same rating they were supposed to get and simply tell everyone that there are basically no bonuses this year except for those with the Godlike powers of the glowing green sun of Krypton. Instead they've turned the workforce into a brutal Darwinian game where everyone trods on the skulls of their fallen enemies.
God I love this business, give me a grail of human blood!!!
Consoles are for games. Get it strizzait why doncha?
You can't make fun of religion
Your Loudcloud was supposed to do this for us and it failed.
Why did it fail?
1 No one really knows how to do it
2 The infrastructure is too expensive
3 Customer requirements are too dissimilar from one another
4 No one has the balls to tell customers their requirements are crazy and impossible
5 Transition costs are poorly understood
6 Exeutives are measured by overhead and customer satisfaction and not doing the right job the best way
7 People are not a resource they are an overhead item
They're ignoring the Infinite Alternate Universes theory as posited by Dr. Qrlang in New Superman #35.
TROLL?
I'm reporting what I actually did realted to this piece and you call me a troll? Stop huffing the highlighters people and stop taking yourselves so seriously.
Maybe those cute Apple ads are close to how loyal users feel about it. Maybe those Apples just work for the vast numbers of people who purchase them for the specific purpose of being invisible. Apple owners don't own computers. They perform tasks that their Apples enable for them.
PK Dick was the Man. Know why? Because good SF is good writing.
Sorry but Heinlein and Asimov were hacks as writers. I mean how much Lazarus Long can you read before you realize it's 95% dialog.
PK Dick Was the Man. The only SF writer who realized that the future is always bad, and he welcomed it anyhow.
Sure, take a VW Bug - old model, around a 1300cc model and take out the back seat, windshield, backwindow, bumpers and anything else that just adds weight. Drive it like an old lady, goose it all the time and coast wherever possible. Get 60mpg+
No let's breed cows to DRIVE tanks.
C'mon people - a decade ago you'd be questioning the validity of Yet Another DOS or NOS and why anyone would need it.
Why do I need yet another Unix clone for Intel and why would I want to waste any time learing it or supporting it, particularly a version from a company that is ambivalent, at best about it.
Yeah that's right. Let's build a better bovine. One that's immune to this shit. And anyone who wants to take their chances out in the woods with fuzzy wuzzies and eating pine nuts can have at it. Just so long as they don't breed or breathe near me.
Why stop there? Demand that users become vegetarians, go to gay rights rallies, protest globalism, drive hybrid cars and hug everyone in the whole wide world.
Yeah being a code crunching monkey or a help desk luser is not REALLY like working in a plating factory but it has many of the same attributes. Fixed job responsibilities, closely managed performance metrics, lack of independent thought, limited job security....
We think having 91 different card keys is a badge of respect and honor, but it's not. It's just an excuse to overwork people.
All those golly gee whiz bang thingys are all, well, gee whiz. Therefore they will be premium services. Moreover the extended warranty on all this crap will be more or less required because maintenance and repair costs for your voice reco AI internet aware wireless fridge will be astronomical.
What was Gutenberg's press? A presentient nonmobile robot?
C'mon people...
Man will not eat man.
Are we not men?
-Dr. Moreau