Maybe this is the problem. Should a religion be used to influence politics, as many movements are. You know what they say about politics (state) and religion. Look at what politics does to business, namely the slave trade.
How about an ARM netbook with Ubuntu on it! Would't that be better than multi-touch? You could even sell it of your website and make some cash out of it! Who knows it may even sell so well shops may want to stock it? putting Linux into public eye.
he felt he would not be arrested again because he had created the manga images for Ikatako himself, therefore avoiding a violation of the copyright law.
If one of the motivations for such people to hack others computers is to prove how smart they are, this is epic fail.
Perhaps we need to just take the micky out people like this so at least younger kids don't see hacking others computers as a very smart thing to do.
most businesses would probably do the same damn thing.
What give out confidential information about there own company so their suppliers could get better deals. Or do you mean the suppliers paying the bribes for inside information, that would make more sense; you where't clear.
The indictment describes a scheme in which Devine used his position at Apple to obtain confidential information, which he transmitted to Apple suppliers, including Ang. In return, the suppliers and manufacturers paid Devine kickbacks, which he shared with Ang. The information enabled the suppliers to negotiate favorable contracts with Apple, according to the
indictment.
In case you wanted to know what the scam was, and not read the article.
But basically, and in a similar manner to Katrina, Google came and washed everything else away for a time.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin must not have looked at it that way. They could see the answer, they had studied the problem of internet search and had found the solution. While Eric Schmidt knew how to monetize it. But your right it is easy to say with hind site look at the mistakes they made. They would have looked at the problem of Google being better. Looked at how, if they did the same thing they would threaten their revenue stream as (at the risk of stating the obvious) large companies would pay large sums to advertisers, to them its chump change, but to me and you its to large a pile of cash to compete with.
There's not much we can learn from Yahoo's first fatal flaw. It's probably too much to hope any company could avoid being damaged by depending on a bogus source of revenue.
At the risk of saying the obvious if Yahoo had been looking to please the consumer, and solve a problem that they were having (in regards to finding information on the internet) they could have avoided bogus sources of revenue. Media companies have a split business model where consumers (the people buying the goods) and customers (those providing the revenue, the advertiser) are different groups. Perhaps they should have looked at pleasing the consumer, as there is no business if the media company has no eye balls to distribute adverts to.
Regards Omar
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The goal is unique in that Volvo Cars has designated a year and is showing a social responsibility that also extends to people in other vehicles and pedestrians,
. Please heed this advise kids before its to late, and you make an ass of your self.
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
To the guy who said
But what about those outside the Volvo?
its still a good question though, those outside matter. I hope Volvos goals are not so narrow they haven't forgotten them.
Plus I hope this is't a marketing ploy.
In self defence yes! If I may qualify self defence it is the use of minimum force necessary to defend one self. That means no killing if it can be avoided.
Would you object to other religions killing ?
Under the above logic then yes, they can defend them self's, as can anyone, whither they have a religion or not. In fact the prophet said "You must always help your brother" meaning Muslim. When asked by a companion "What if your brother is the oppressor" then he said "Then you help him by stopping him". Islam does not accept any killing or injustice full stop. Please go and learn something about Islam.
Can you say "making excuses" ? And quite pathetic ones at that, don't you think ?
How do you square yourself with this "literal order from allah" ? (if you don't believe the quran is the literal orders from allah, please don't claim you're a muslim)
What!
I'm a Muslim, and believe everything that entails. Islam does not condone wanton killing you're taking that verse out of context. I'm no Scholar of Islam but that verse sounds like a time when the prophet was at war with the Qurash clan (leaders in Mecca). A war he did not start and did not want. Even the most negative voices don't fault him in his time at Mecca. What did he get for his efforts, his weaker followers were tortured. That's why (once the Muslim community emigrated to Medina) they fort.
There are over 1 billion Muslims in the world, 1/5 of the world is Muslim, do you mean to tell me that every one (including me as I'm a follower in Islam) of them is out to get none Muslims. I'll agree there are a lot of jerks who want to kill. But the can not effect what Islam really is. There is the Qur'an and what is commonly interpreted by the most qualified scholars and what their consensus therein is, this is a normative understanding of Islam. There are several works dating from over a thousand years ago that are viewed as authoritative.
So, to put it extremely frankly : choose. Do you (a) refuse allah's orders, and are therefore not a muslim (b) you're a murderer.
So to answer you're question frankly: I accept all of Allah's commands. Does that make me a (a) A killer, along with one 1/5 of the planet or (b) You are narrow minded bigot filled with hatred. Please do not reply if it is (b) I don't want to talk to some like that.
But this is the problem - what is meant by "cool"?
If you have to ask then you'll never know.
Besides even the future needs time to build up, reaching a tipping point, to become the new main stream. Provided Apple and Android keep growing and changing the markets they are in, they will take over. Many other companies in the phone market only have the benefit of previous business (which is a big advantage). This is why they are big sellers due to familiarity from customers and suppliers alike.
How exactly will documenting abuses help against this ?
I agree that in many of the countries you mentioned peoples rights are safe guarded better here. However there are examples were interference from us leads to much greater harm in a country than would normally be the case. Our polity views conflict as an opportunity to be exploited. An example would be in one of the countries mentioned,Turkey, in 1996 there was an assault on Kurdish communities in the south. 30000 villages were bombed and the were 1 million refugees. The American government responded by making Turkey the number one country to receive US aid.
In Europe there were certain changes within the thinking of the polity. Some of these include splitting church and state and others involved liberalism. We were allowed to do this at our own pace. This is not going to happen in Arab countries firstly because the leadership is so weak and cruel that any speech critical of them is a threat that needs to be dealt with. Even if there are people who are not political (but have a large following from masses of people) they are a threat purely because of the ability to influence the masses. This has happened to popular spiritual leaders who are not political. Secondly we are willing to support tin pot dictators. We like them, they're good for business, and with modern tech we can help the oppressors win their battle against peoples freedoms, in ways we never had to battle with in our history.
Documenting abuses means that what happened in Turkey (and many other countries) will be much harder to get away with, thus leading to fewer incidences.
One more point! you said many things about other cultures some of them quite insulting like these people had inherently weaker values because of there cultural or religious views. Some of this is wide of he mark, I don't know the details but a lot of what you said about Islam is false. Islam is a religion that does not like black and white distinctions in judging people. You're a Muslim a kaffir (unbeliever) or a munarfiq (hypocrite) in Islam. A kaffir is someone who understands Islam but rejects it. To qualify this, unless someone explained Islam to you, you're not an unbeliever. Hearing it on TV is not an invitation to Islam. Most of the people reading this can not be a kaffir. The munarfiq (hypocrite) is the worst person, and Islam has real problems with these, the lowest part of hell being reserved for them. How do we judge them. In the words of the Prophet "The characteristics of the hypocrite are three: when he speaks, he lies; when he gives his word, he breaks it; and when he is given a trust, he is unfaithful." Someone who was born a muslim can be a hypocrite, making him the worst person of all. Add to this that in Islamic theology your final assertive act will decide how your life will be judged. I don't know how my end will be (if I will even be a Muslim at the end of my life). I don't know how your end will be, so how can I judge you. It seems with these basics of Islam many of the things you have mentioned are false, they can not be true if we logically extend from the most basic principles. Some of the things you have mentioned are merely corrupt cultural practices, not Islam.
One other note because of said corrupt (and rich) rulers state versions of Islam have spread as the one true Islam. Even many Muslims are confused about there religion. Good authorities on Islam can be found in California
and Chicago
Yes I was serious, please excuse my ignorance of legal issues. Remember I said
widely used feature being banned or avoided
I also don't know enough about big companies and their risk avoidance behaviour. It may well be this patent would ensure companies avoid the technique to insure them self's against risk, however negligible.
The new technology could spell an end to split-screen gaming
I'm wary of patients too, but can this really happen. I understand lawyers are paid to fight their clients corner and not pay attention to anything else. Could any one give examples of one widely used feature being banned or avoided due to a superficial similarity with a newer patented technology.
if you can upload ASP web pages with exploit code to a MS Internet Information Server (IIS) 6, 7 or 7.5 running in default configuration you will be able to fully compromise the Windows server.
So don't use Microsoft products and you're safer!!! To be fair to Microsoft their products have been steadily improved over the years. There products are now acceptable in regards to competitors.
win 95, usability of GUI
win xp, stability of software, less crashes
xp service pack 2, and vista, security (security was not optional in vista, you had to develop you're code in a more secure way, ignoring these guidelines was not over looked for compatibility with older versions of software this caused many problems with programs breaking due to incompatibility)
windows 7, all the above and smaller foot print when installed
One thing you get a lot on slashdot is user options in tools, Geeks love options and would rather have that over simplicity and clarity. I like them to understand that every one thinks differently than them and there is no market for only designing for Geeks. If you argue about learning you're tools than you don't understand my point. Devices should be simple and intuitive, we can't learn to use every day items like phones toasters etc they should be intuitive. A question how would you live if you had to master every tools you touched.
Get up in the morning turn off radio alarm clock (learn the exact procedure to do this)
walk to door, (master exact procedure to turn handle)
wash face and hands (master exact procedure to use powerfull feature laden tap)
turn on radio (master exact procedure to use powerfull feature laden radio).
We haven't even had a shower and got out the front door. Secondly we need not trade powerful options for simplicity. Good design is about not losing powerful features while maintain simplicity.
I don't know if this would be helpful, but the people of Wikipedia must know a far amount about running crowed sourced sites. Even if you can't talk with the higher ups there would be contributors who would know about best practices. Also when you deal with people they would be a lot more helpful if they benefit from helping you.
This is not really about Nokia, its about Apple. Old rod-style antennas are ugly and cumbersome, I would trade that for slightly worse internal antennas, if that's the trade-of. As I said Steve Jobs has form for design related issues that can backfire, this has been covered at www.folklore.org a site written by people who know and have worked closely with Jobs. Having said this I would rather have a CEO like Jobs, I don't want to fault the man for caring about his products.
Meanwhile, Nokia, noting that they are pioneers in antenna design and were the first company to bring to market a phone with an internal antenna, prioritizes 'antenna performance over physical design if they are ever in conflict.'"
Och!
This hits the nail on the head. The original Apple Macintosh used to over heat because it did not have a fan! Why did it not have a fan, because Jobs wanted a quiet machine. To be far though the case was designed to keep the machine cool and it worked, but there was a problem with the hardware running hotter than it should. Even the circuit board/mother board (don't flame me if I got the terminology wrong I'm no computer engineer) had to be redesigned to look pretty because Jobs wanted it that way. The man has form!
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Maybe this is the problem. Should a religion be used to influence politics, as many movements are. You know what they say about politics (state) and religion. Look at what politics does to business, namely the slave trade.
How about an ARM netbook with Ubuntu on it! Would't that be better than multi-touch? You could even sell it of your website and make some cash out of it! Who knows it may even sell so well shops may want to stock it? putting Linux into public eye.
If one of the motivations for such people to hack others computers is to prove how smart they are, this is epic fail.
Perhaps we need to just take the micky out people like this so at least younger kids don't see hacking others computers as a very smart thing to do.
What give out confidential information about there own company so their suppliers could get better deals. Or do you mean the suppliers paying the bribes for inside information, that would make more sense; you where't clear.
In case you wanted to know what the scam was, and not read the article.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin must not have looked at it that way. They could see the answer, they had studied the problem of internet search and had found the solution. While Eric Schmidt knew how to monetize it. But your right it is easy to say with hind site look at the mistakes they made. They would have looked at the problem of Google being better. Looked at how, if they did the same thing they would threaten their revenue stream as (at the risk of stating the obvious) large companies would pay large sums to advertisers, to them its chump change, but to me and you its to large a pile of cash to compete with.
Hi
In the article "what happened to Yahoo" http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html you said
At the risk of saying the obvious if Yahoo had been looking to please the consumer, and solve a problem that they were having (in regards to finding information on the internet) they could have avoided bogus sources of revenue. Media companies have a split business model where consumers (the people buying the goods) and customers (those providing the revenue, the advertiser) are different groups. Perhaps they should have looked at pleasing the consumer, as there is no business if the media company has no eye balls to distribute adverts to.
Regards Omar
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Thanks foor the advicer, resident grammmer nazi.
. Please heed this advise kids before its to late, and you make an ass of your self.
To the guy who said
its still a good question though, those outside matter. I hope Volvos goals are not so narrow they haven't forgotten them.
Plus I hope this is't a marketing ploy.
Eric Steven Raymond in his how to be a hacker is a good start, some say a Real Programmer Can Write in Any Language.
One thing I'm assuming is that all those companies ran there code on windows. Microsoft have measures for dealing with such market conditions.
You did't give me an answer. I am a Muslim does that make me a
In self defence yes! If I may qualify self defence it is the use of minimum force necessary to defend one self. That means no killing if it can be avoided.
Under the above logic then yes, they can defend them self's, as can anyone, whither they have a religion or not. In fact the prophet said "You must always help your brother" meaning Muslim. When asked by a companion "What if your brother is the oppressor" then he said "Then you help him by stopping him". Islam does not accept any killing or injustice full stop. Please go and learn something about Islam.
What!
I'm a Muslim, and believe everything that entails. Islam does not condone wanton killing you're taking that verse out of context. I'm no Scholar of Islam but that verse sounds like a time when the prophet was at war with the Qurash clan (leaders in Mecca). A war he did not start and did not want. Even the most negative voices don't fault him in his time at Mecca. What did he get for his efforts, his weaker followers were tortured. That's why (once the Muslim community emigrated to Medina) they fort. There are over 1 billion Muslims in the world, 1/5 of the world is Muslim, do you mean to tell me that every one (including me as I'm a follower in Islam) of them is out to get none Muslims. I'll agree there are a lot of jerks who want to kill. But the can not effect what Islam really is. There is the Qur'an and what is commonly interpreted by the most qualified scholars and what their consensus therein is, this is a normative understanding of Islam. There are several works dating from over a thousand years ago that are viewed as authoritative.
So to answer you're question frankly: I accept all of Allah's commands. Does that make me a (a) A killer, along with one 1/5 of the planet or (b) You are narrow minded bigot filled with hatred. Please do not reply if it is (b) I don't want to talk to some like that.
If you have to ask then you'll never know.
Besides even the future needs time to build up, reaching a tipping point, to become the new main stream. Provided Apple and Android keep growing and changing the markets they are in, they will take over. Many other companies in the phone market only have the benefit of previous business (which is a big advantage). This is why they are big sellers due to familiarity from customers and suppliers alike.
I agree that in many of the countries you mentioned peoples rights are safe guarded better here. However there are examples were interference from us leads to much greater harm in a country than would normally be the case. Our polity views conflict as an opportunity to be exploited. An example would be in one of the countries mentioned ,Turkey, in 1996 there was an assault on Kurdish communities in the south. 30000 villages were bombed and the were 1 million refugees. The American government responded by making Turkey the number one country to receive US aid.
In Europe there were certain changes within the thinking of the polity. Some of these include splitting church and state and others involved liberalism. We were allowed to do this at our own pace. This is not going to happen in Arab countries firstly because the leadership is so weak and cruel that any speech critical of them is a threat that needs to be dealt with. Even if there are people who are not political (but have a large following from masses of people) they are a threat purely because of the ability to influence the masses. This has happened to popular spiritual leaders who are not political. Secondly we are willing to support tin pot dictators. We like them, they're good for business, and with modern tech we can help the oppressors win their battle against peoples freedoms, in ways we never had to battle with in our history.
Documenting abuses means that what happened in Turkey (and many other countries) will be much harder to get away with, thus leading to fewer incidences.
One more point! you said many things about other cultures some of them quite insulting like these people had inherently weaker values because of there cultural or religious views. Some of this is wide of he mark, I don't know the details but a lot of what you said about Islam is false. Islam is a religion that does not like black and white distinctions in judging people. You're a Muslim a kaffir (unbeliever) or a munarfiq (hypocrite) in Islam. A kaffir is someone who understands Islam but rejects it. To qualify this, unless someone explained Islam to you, you're not an unbeliever. Hearing it on TV is not an invitation to Islam. Most of the people reading this can not be a kaffir. The munarfiq (hypocrite) is the worst person, and Islam has real problems with these, the lowest part of hell being reserved for them. How do we judge them. In the words of the Prophet "The characteristics of the hypocrite are three: when he speaks, he lies; when he gives his word, he breaks it; and when he is given a trust, he is unfaithful." Someone who was born a muslim can be a hypocrite, making him the worst person of all. Add to this that in Islamic theology your final assertive act will decide how your life will be judged. I don't know how my end will be (if I will even be a Muslim at the end of my life). I don't know how your end will be, so how can I judge you. It seems with these basics of Islam many of the things you have mentioned are false, they can not be true if we logically extend from the most basic principles. Some of the things you have mentioned are merely corrupt cultural practices, not Islam.
One other note because of said corrupt (and rich) rulers state versions of Islam have spread as the one true Islam. Even many Muslims are confused about there religion. Good authorities on Islam can be found in California and Chicago
I also don't know enough about big companies and their risk avoidance behaviour. It may well be this patent would ensure companies avoid the technique to insure them self's against risk, however negligible.
I'm wary of patients too, but can this really happen. I understand lawyers are paid to fight their clients corner and not pay attention to anything else. Could any one give examples of one widely used feature being banned or avoided due to a superficial similarity with a newer patented technology.
A $200 - £100 computer (with linux or windows) is the future! Can windows maintain its profits at these margins, if not Linux wins the end.
So don't use Microsoft products and you're safer!!! To be fair to Microsoft their products have been steadily improved over the years. There products are now acceptable in regards to competitors.
If you argue about learning you're tools than you don't understand my point. Devices should be simple and intuitive, we can't learn to use every day items like phones toasters etc they should be intuitive. A question how would you live if you had to master every tools you touched.
We haven't even had a shower and got out the front door. Secondly we need not trade powerful options for simplicity. Good design is about not losing powerful features while maintain simplicity.
I don't know if this would be helpful, but the people of Wikipedia must know a far amount about running crowed sourced sites. Even if you can't talk with the higher ups there would be contributors who would know about best practices. Also when you deal with people they would be a lot more helpful if they benefit from helping you.
This is not really about Nokia, its about Apple. Old rod-style antennas are ugly and cumbersome, I would trade that for slightly worse internal antennas, if that's the trade-of. As I said Steve Jobs has form for design related issues that can backfire, this has been covered at www.folklore.org a site written by people who know and have worked closely with Jobs. Having said this I would rather have a CEO like Jobs, I don't want to fault the man for caring about his products.
Och! This hits the nail on the head. The original Apple Macintosh used to over heat because it did not have a fan! Why did it not have a fan, because Jobs wanted a quiet machine.
To be far though the case was designed to keep the machine cool and it worked, but there was a problem with the hardware running hotter than it should. Even the circuit board/mother board (don't flame me if I got the terminology wrong I'm no computer engineer) had to be redesigned to look pretty because Jobs wanted it that way. The man has form!