The linked article is one regarding Microsoft giving a large discount to people switching from Lindows. That's not dumping, that's an unfair, monopolistic business tactic.
Actually, fuel cells are remarkably efficient. I have seen specs on some fuel cells that list 90% efficiency, while I've seen most listed between 40 and 60 percent. Not very much heat produced at all.
On a related note (gee-wizz tech that has drawbacks), those new PDA's and cell phones with builtin cameras: you can't take those into secure or otherwise classified facilities. Something to think about if your travels take you thither.
If it's a classified facility, chances are you can't bring a PDA or cell phone in there, period.
Actually, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen are NOT used in most fuel cells because of the dangers involved in using them. Most fuel cells use a redox reaction involving hydrogen and oxygen IONS, thus generating an electric current.
Stop whining. If you really have to have the WIRELESS streaming, buy an AirPort card for the desktop. Some people can't stream to their work from home or vice versa because they don't have a portable. You, on the other hand, have all the equipment to share your libary between your home and office computers, while many others do not. You have permission to whine when you are one of their number.
apple has been known to give the OS at a significant discount to teachers, i'm surprised they made a stink
"A significant discount" is different then a donation. It's not tax-deductable. Also, when they did offer Jaguar to teachers for free, anyone who would take it was probably already using a Mac, as the offer was rather useless to PC users. Mac users didn't have a choice of OS when Apple gave them Jaguar for free. PC users could have chosen Linux (and possibly would have) had Microsoft not given them Windows and taken away the choice.
If AMD had donated $1,000,000 worth of CPUs, no one would bitch because it really only cost them $1,000 to make the CPUs and the rest is just padding on their bottom line.
A CPU rarely has aftermarket costs associated with it. Software generally has more of a tendency to tie people down. People are hesitant to switch away from software they've been using, so they'll pay for future upgrades and tech support, whereas most people have no problem switching from Athlons to Pentiums if the new chips are still free. This is also why you won't see AMD making such a large donation so often. While there is a large tax writeoff, there won't necessarily be a lot of return on the investment later on.
If it wasn't a business tactic, they could have just donated a billion dollars to charity, to do with what they wish. Instead they have given a "billion dollars" worth of software (which in all probability they can't resell) to charities that, had they been enterprising enough, used open source software and spent the money saved on something else.
A few clarifications on what other people have been saying...the Matrix has not been running continuously for 600 years. Every time The One comes along, it's rebooted (or possibly reinstalled, upgraded, whatever). So it's perfectly possible for the Matrix to keep running the years 1900-2000 over and over and over again. That way, they keep the illusion of progress.
The proper action for them to take would have been to simply delete the offending material, thereby eliminating the potential liability to the company and would avoid tarnishing the company's public image.
And leave a felon and a pedophile on the streets? There are enough already. By reporting the professor to their supervisor, they gave the company a chance to do the right thing and report this criminal behavior to the police, which would have kept the company's public image clean.
Also note the timing of the employees being put on probation:
Still, on June 20, the same day the police executed a search warrant on Samuels' office computer, Perry was put on probation for tardiness, excessive phone usage, having visitors at her office cubicle, and dressing provocatively, the suit says. On July 16, Gross was hit with his own probation letter for tardiness, failure to respond to a help-desk call, and lack of knowledge about a Norton application used by PC administrators.
That sound suspicious to me, especially considering they had good performance reviews.
Corporate assets must be protected
At what cost? What if that cost is the obstruction of justice? The employees claim they were told "the police detectives didn't have enough information." In that case, I think the employees were justified in going to the police to make sure they had ALL the information. Their supervisors obviously weren't.
And y'know, just once I'd like to see a CEO as motivated by morality as profit.
It's closer to a combination of the two. Pushing DOWN on the wheel in any of the 4 cardinal directions scrolls. Pushing straight down would be another function, and spinning the wheel clockwise or counter-clockwise woulld be two other functions (scrolling through links, fields, cursor movement, etc.). And with the proper tension adjustment, I can't see slippage being a problem. That same tension adjustment would prevent rotary movement when pushing down. It looks like a rather ingenious design to me.
No Airport Extreme. No Bluetooth. No Firewire 800. All technologies that Apple has really been pushing. Apple is obviously ready to get rid of the iBook or totally revamp them. They've already gotten rid of the original iMac. This is the next logical step.
Yes. Is it practical? That's a different matter entirely.
IF it was to be done, it would have to be done bit by bit, protocol by protocol. You could take SMTP, start work on it, keeping developers in the loop all the while so they could work on incorporating the protocol into their programs. Once the protocol is finalized, you could leave a period of time for developers to finish their programs, then release the new programs and put the new protocol into effect. Of course, rebuilding the internet this way would take a long time.
On the other hand, you have to acknowledge the fact that the internet does behave like a living organism. The internet is very flexible, capable of growing and adapting to meet many different needs. It's a prime example of the fundamental concept of chaos theory: behind chaos, there is order. Do we really want to mess with something that works?
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The linked article is one regarding Microsoft giving a large discount to people switching from Lindows. That's not dumping, that's an unfair, monopolistic business tactic.
Actually, fuel cells are remarkably efficient. I have seen specs on some fuel cells that list 90% efficiency, while I've seen most listed between 40 and 60 percent. Not very much heat produced at all.
On a related note (gee-wizz tech that has drawbacks), those new PDA's and cell phones with builtin cameras: you can't take those into secure or otherwise classified facilities. Something to think about if your travels take you thither.
If it's a classified facility, chances are you can't bring a PDA or cell phone in there, period.
Actually, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen are NOT used in most fuel cells because of the dangers involved in using them. Most fuel cells use a redox reaction involving hydrogen and oxygen IONS, thus generating an electric current.
It fits in a backpack or pocket and weighs nothing.
Oooooh...one of those new massless models, huh? Does it have a built in perpetual motion machine, too?
Stop whining. If you really have to have the WIRELESS streaming, buy an AirPort card for the desktop. Some people can't stream to their work from home or vice versa because they don't have a portable. You, on the other hand, have all the equipment to share your libary between your home and office computers, while many others do not. You have permission to whine when you are one of their number.
...which is why I'll save the $250 for web hosting costs.
apple has been known to give the OS at a significant discount to teachers, i'm surprised they made a stink
"A significant discount" is different then a donation. It's not tax-deductable. Also, when they did offer Jaguar to teachers for free, anyone who would take it was probably already using a Mac, as the offer was rather useless to PC users. Mac users didn't have a choice of OS when Apple gave them Jaguar for free. PC users could have chosen Linux (and possibly would have) had Microsoft not given them Windows and taken away the choice.
If AMD had donated $1,000,000 worth of CPUs, no one would bitch because it really only cost them $1,000 to make the CPUs and the rest is just padding on their bottom line.
A CPU rarely has aftermarket costs associated with it. Software generally has more of a tendency to tie people down. People are hesitant to switch away from software they've been using, so they'll pay for future upgrades and tech support, whereas most people have no problem switching from Athlons to Pentiums if the new chips are still free. This is also why you won't see AMD making such a large donation so often. While there is a large tax writeoff, there won't necessarily be a lot of return on the investment later on.
If it wasn't a business tactic, they could have just donated a billion dollars to charity, to do with what they wish. Instead they have given a "billion dollars" worth of software (which in all probability they can't resell) to charities that, had they been enterprising enough, used open source software and spent the money saved on something else.
A few clarifications on what other people have been saying...the Matrix has not been running continuously for 600 years. Every time The One comes along, it's rebooted (or possibly reinstalled, upgraded, whatever). So it's perfectly possible for the Matrix to keep running the years 1900-2000 over and over and over again. That way, they keep the illusion of progress.
The proper action for them to take would have been to simply delete the offending material, thereby eliminating the potential liability to the company and would avoid tarnishing the company's public image.
And leave a felon and a pedophile on the streets? There are enough already. By reporting the professor to their supervisor, they gave the company a chance to do the right thing and report this criminal behavior to the police, which would have kept the company's public image clean.
Also note the timing of the employees being put on probation:
Still, on June 20, the same day the police executed a search warrant on Samuels' office computer, Perry was put on probation for tardiness, excessive phone usage, having visitors at her office cubicle, and dressing provocatively, the suit says. On July 16, Gross was hit with his own probation letter for tardiness, failure to respond to a help-desk call, and lack of knowledge about a Norton application used by PC administrators.
That sound suspicious to me, especially considering they had good performance reviews.
Corporate assets must be protected
At what cost? What if that cost is the obstruction of justice? The employees claim they were told "the police detectives didn't have enough information." In that case, I think the employees were justified in going to the police to make sure they had ALL the information. Their supervisors obviously weren't.
And y'know, just once I'd like to see a CEO as motivated by morality as profit.
Resident Evil 4 seems to be exclusive to Gamecube, amongst several Capcom exclusives for GC, and there was a short video from its creator.
Capcom announced that the Resident Evil series was going to be exclusive to GameCube when they announced RE for GC in the first place.
It's closer to a combination of the two. Pushing DOWN on the wheel in any of the 4 cardinal directions scrolls. Pushing straight down would be another function, and spinning the wheel clockwise or counter-clockwise woulld be two other functions (scrolling through links, fields, cursor movement, etc.). And with the proper tension adjustment, I can't see slippage being a problem. That same tension adjustment would prevent rotary movement when pushing down. It looks like a rather ingenious design to me.
No Airport Extreme. No Bluetooth. No Firewire 800. All technologies that Apple has really been pushing. Apple is obviously ready to get rid of the iBook or totally revamp them. They've already gotten rid of the original iMac. This is the next logical step.
Yes. Is it practical? That's a different matter entirely.
IF it was to be done, it would have to be done bit by bit, protocol by protocol. You could take SMTP, start work on it, keeping developers in the loop all the while so they could work on incorporating the protocol into their programs. Once the protocol is finalized, you could leave a period of time for developers to finish their programs, then release the new programs and put the new protocol into effect. Of course, rebuilding the internet this way would take a long time.
On the other hand, you have to acknowledge the fact that the internet does behave like a living organism. The internet is very flexible, capable of growing and adapting to meet many different needs. It's a prime example of the fundamental concept of chaos theory: behind chaos, there is order. Do we really want to mess with something that works?
If the winner is any indication, it does not. While I do like his design...shouldn't everybody know that Google is spelled with two o's, not three?