I think google needs to review its own corporate philosophy again. The "Ten things we know to be true" page apparently is just a sort-of loose guide line and not a hard list of rules: http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tenthings.html/ Rules 1, 4 & 6 especially appear to be mere lip-service for us puny consumers to follow, not really applicable to google. I also again reiterate my belief, as mistaken it may be, that in a lot of these cases its possible that the retained corporate lawyer stable is justifying its existence by exercising corporate rights that may actually not be in the best interest of the corp.
You're right, having opposite characteristics of one quality doesn't make it quantum, but more correctly, if you can divide it (or rather, break it apart, or split it), its not a quantum. Since atoms can clearly be split, ipso-facto, buppity buppity boo. This is an "atomic-sized" motor, I guess. Still pretty cool.
Sorry to burst your bursting of my bubble but YES ONE DOES. ONE that I KNOW OF- SPRINT. ONE. MIGHT EVEN BE MORE, BUT ONE THAT I KNOW OF. Get your FACTS STRAIT before making stupid ASSERTIONS.
No fraud per se, but I love this; "Tethering is not currently offered in the U.S. and some other countries...", in the country that invented most of the means of producing the digital revolution cell phone tethering is not available. It sort of couches it as some kind of shortcoming of the prevailing technology. No, not at all. Tethering is accomplished by other carriers and other phones with no additional effort. Makes me more than comfortable with my decision to not go iPhone more than ever.
...clever, useful, amusing, seems to be on Apple's kill list. Makes the famous 1984 ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 something less of a promise and more of a PALE LIE.
Because unless M$ have moved away from the way they implemented Windows XP "Media" Center Edition to require the user to buy extra media licenses from third parties just to play DVD's, you'll be partying like its 1999, before dvd drives came with PC's. Or you can ditch microsoft and install Linux, just about any distribution and a few package commands sill install a dvd player for free.
Its got to be the height on irony to call an os distro "Media Center Edition" and not include some way of playing the current popular home entertainment digital format.
Its the end of another era. Back in the day the Sun Campus in Santa Clara, Ca. was teh $h!t. It was THE place to be for employment, demonstrations, lectures, all kinds of stuff. It was on the Sun campus that I was told "Learn Java, now." (Lots of good that did...) I myself have been there for a number of reasons, not only to get a job (which I didn't get). And all the geek employers near by. Back then, I remember that when Scott McNealy said something, Silicon Valley generally listened, so long as Bill Gates or Larry Ellison didn't currently have the spotlight. Sun, ye fallen, mightily.
As always, the nattering neybobs of negativism chime in. Because he could. That's all the reason a geek needs. Anyway, I think its a cool hack. Maybe he can turn the whole bash into a Star Trekian Tricorder thingamabob.
Backup: depends on the backup strategy. I could make this happen for less than an additional 10%. But ok, point taken.
Redundancy: You mean as in plain redundancy? These are RAID arrays are they not? You want redundancy at the server level? Now you're increasing the scope of the project which the article doesn't address. (Scope error)
Hosting: Again, the point of the article was the hardware. That's a little like accounting for the cost of a trip to your grandmother's, and factoring in the cost of your grandmother's house. A little out of scope.
Cooling: I could probably get the whole project chilled for less than 6% of the total cost, depending on how cool you want the rig to run.
I think you're looking for a wrench in the works where none exist.
Like what, a force of nature? As though internal pressure from the Earth's core conspired with the Illuminati and the Fiendish Fluoridators (aka The Communists) to make sure a few American Consumers purchased some cheaply made Chinese equipment in an evil plot to see Apple fail. I love these stories.
@xigxag: "Being beat up doesn't equal "blank check," nor should it."
Ok, what kind of world do you think we live in? You're describing reasonable people in a reasonable, civil suite. Or, put it another way, your describing two private parties that might have a little money who met at a bar and one got off a sucker punch. The reality is much different. I was describing the reality. For one, an argument could be made, as they often are in these kinds of suites, that the tech was acting as an agent for Verizon, and as such, for all the victim knew, was carrying out Verizon's customer support policies. Bring in Verizon to refute that claim. More money. The tech went to the guy's house; an argument could be made for home invasion, the tech could simply refute that, but it still carries the possibility of tainting Verizon further; more money. And so on. When you're involved in something like an assault, and your acting as an agent for somebody else, I would be very surprised that the scenario spills out quite the way you seem to be implying; ie; a simple disagreement that ended with a bloody nose. No freakin' way.
...that the customer could essentially sue Verizon and win a blank check, assuming the suit is heard by the right judge. If I was Verizon I think I would fly down (over, up to) the customer with that check and assure him that the tech is not ony fired, but charged.
Then again, we are dealing with US Cell Carriers. The reality is probably more likely that the tech won employee of the month.
Ah, "poppycock" to the rest of your post. 1) I was making a point. 2) Losing a suite doesn't make your action illegal. It merely allows the winner of the suite to attempt to collect some kind of restitution from you. Legality has nothing to do with civil suites.
@HTH NE1; "Firing a weapon in a pressurized cabin is serious business."
Oh, I agree, the last time I fired one of those toy swords my pirate ship's skysail slipped off my mainmast and slammed on the the deck tearing a hole in it, yea matey.
You've got to be kidding me. Does forcing blue-haired Jewish ladies to empty out their shampoo bottles and making them take off their shoes really make you feel safer? Please. Its all about power and appearance. Those in power are powerless to do anything about terrorism, but they have the power to make YOU do tricks like a trained monkey in an effort to make you feel safe. You're a fool. Look around at what the Fed does and how they achieve power, and if your sharp you'll see its all a stupid game. You're no safer riding in a plane now than you were before 9/11.
You would be wrong. Its not "illegal", a take down notice is an action taken by a private party, not by a public enforcement agency. Unless you have signed an agreement (and even then its an agreement by two private parties) you've done nothing wrong by writing anything you want about any product. Don't forget; reverse engineering is legal.
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Dammit. Why can't I NOT add that last slash??????
I think google needs to review its own corporate philosophy again. The "Ten things we know to be true" page apparently is just a sort-of loose guide line and not a hard list of rules:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tenthings.html/
Rules 1, 4 & 6 especially appear to be mere lip-service for us puny consumers to follow, not really applicable to google. I also again reiterate my belief, as mistaken it may be, that in a lot of these cases its possible that the retained corporate lawyer stable is justifying its existence by exercising corporate rights that may actually not be in the best interest of the corp.
You're right, having opposite characteristics of one quality doesn't make it quantum, but more correctly, if you can divide it (or rather, break it apart, or split it), its not a quantum. Since atoms can clearly be split, ipso-facto, buppity buppity boo. This is an "atomic-sized" motor, I guess. Still pretty cool.
If he asked ME for money I'd pay him in Imperial Credits and tell him to buggar off.
Got it. Atlas shrugged.
What is that passage from? I want that book/letter/poem/bathroom scrawl.
Sorry to burst your bursting of my bubble but YES ONE DOES. ONE that I KNOW OF- SPRINT. ONE. MIGHT EVEN BE MORE, BUT ONE THAT I KNOW OF. Get your FACTS STRAIT before making stupid ASSERTIONS.
No fraud per se, but I love this; "Tethering is not currently offered in the U.S. and some other countries...", in the country that invented most of the means of producing the digital revolution cell phone tethering is not available. It sort of couches it as some kind of shortcoming of the prevailing technology. No, not at all. Tethering is accomplished by other carriers and other phones with no additional effort. Makes me more than comfortable with my decision to not go iPhone more than ever.
Even if you yank the dongle out without unmounting it, NTFS partitions seem pretty stable. Not that I yank out portable file systems as a rule...
...clever, useful, amusing, seems to be on Apple's kill list. Makes the famous 1984 ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 something less of a promise and more of a PALE LIE.
Don't feel alone. I'm a US Citizen and I get the rude treatment whenever I want back in. Makes kinda wonder why I want back in so badly.
@neonprimetime: "I don't see the need for this fancy motor scooter crap."
And if God had meant for man to fly he'd have given us wings. Men on the moon??? Bah... humbug! And your little dog Toto too.
@flymolo: "How many of these scams and hack originate in the US...?"
Probably at least as many as originate in China and Russia.
Because unless M$ have moved away from the way they implemented Windows XP "Media" Center Edition to require the user to buy extra media licenses from third parties just to play DVD's, you'll be partying like its 1999, before dvd drives came with PC's. Or you can ditch microsoft and install Linux, just about any distribution and a few package commands sill install a dvd player for free.
Its got to be the height on irony to call an os distro "Media Center Edition" and not include some way of playing the current popular home entertainment digital format.
Its the end of another era. Back in the day the Sun Campus in Santa Clara, Ca. was teh $h!t. It was THE place to be for employment, demonstrations, lectures, all kinds of stuff. It was on the Sun campus that I was told "Learn Java, now." (Lots of good that did...) I myself have been there for a number of reasons, not only to get a job (which I didn't get). And all the geek employers near by. Back then, I remember that when Scott McNealy said something, Silicon Valley generally listened, so long as Bill Gates or Larry Ellison didn't currently have the spotlight. Sun, ye fallen, mightily.
@nateboy: "No, the REAL question is... why?"
As always, the nattering neybobs of negativism chime in. Because he could. That's all the reason a geek needs. Anyway, I think its a cool hack. Maybe he can turn the whole bash into a Star Trekian Tricorder thingamabob.
Backup: depends on the backup strategy. I could make this happen for less than an additional 10%. But ok, point taken.
Redundancy: You mean as in plain redundancy? These are RAID arrays are they not? You want redundancy at the server level? Now you're increasing the scope of the project which the article doesn't address. (Scope error)
Hosting: Again, the point of the article was the hardware. That's a little like accounting for the cost of a trip to your grandmother's, and factoring in the cost of your grandmother's house. A little out of scope.
Cooling: I could probably get the whole project chilled for less than 6% of the total cost, depending on how cool you want the rig to run.
I think you're looking for a wrench in the works where none exist.
@dissy: "An "external force..."
Like what, a force of nature? As though internal pressure from the Earth's core conspired with the Illuminati and the Fiendish Fluoridators (aka The Communists) to make sure a few American Consumers purchased some cheaply made Chinese equipment in an evil plot to see Apple fail. I love these stories.
@TheRealMindChild: "Isn't that, by the very definition, what a blog is?"
You sir, are the Real Genius.
@xigxag: "Being beat up doesn't equal "blank check," nor should it."
Ok, what kind of world do you think we live in? You're describing reasonable people in a reasonable, civil suite. Or, put it another way, your describing two private parties that might have a little money who met at a bar and one got off a sucker punch. The reality is much different. I was describing the reality. For one, an argument could be made, as they often are in these kinds of suites, that the tech was acting as an agent for Verizon, and as such, for all the victim knew, was carrying out Verizon's customer support policies. Bring in Verizon to refute that claim. More money. The tech went to the guy's house; an argument could be made for home invasion, the tech could simply refute that, but it still carries the possibility of tainting Verizon further; more money. And so on. When you're involved in something like an assault, and your acting as an agent for somebody else, I would be very surprised that the scenario spills out quite the way you seem to be implying; ie; a simple disagreement that ended with a bloody nose. No freakin' way.
...that the customer could essentially sue Verizon and win a blank check, assuming the suit is heard by the right judge. If I was Verizon I think I would fly down (over, up to) the customer with that check and assure him that the tech is not ony fired, but charged.
Then again, we are dealing with US Cell Carriers. The reality is probably more likely that the tech won employee of the month.
I never use IE, by choice.
Ah, "poppycock" to the rest of your post. 1) I was making a point. 2) Losing a suite doesn't make your action illegal. It merely allows the winner of the suite to attempt to collect some kind of restitution from you. Legality has nothing to do with civil suites.
@HTH NE1; "Firing a weapon in a pressurized cabin is serious business."
Oh, I agree, the last time I fired one of those toy swords my pirate ship's skysail slipped off my mainmast and slammed on the the deck tearing a hole in it, yea matey.
You've got to be kidding me. Does forcing blue-haired Jewish ladies to empty out their shampoo bottles and making them take off their shoes really make you feel safer? Please. Its all about power and appearance. Those in power are powerless to do anything about terrorism, but they have the power to make YOU do tricks like a trained monkey in an effort to make you feel safe. You're a fool. Look around at what the Fed does and how they achieve power, and if your sharp you'll see its all a stupid game. You're no safer riding in a plane now than you were before 9/11.
You would be wrong. Its not "illegal", a take down notice is an action taken by a private party, not by a public enforcement agency. Unless you have signed an agreement (and even then its an agreement by two private parties) you've done nothing wrong by writing anything you want about any product. Don't forget; reverse engineering is legal.