Thinking back on high school, omes teachers and school administrators were pretty insecure, petty people who liked to use their positions to bully students. Sometimes teachers/administrators can be just as childish as the students they teach. Most of them will never admit that they're wrong. If you argue them into a corner, you're told to drop the discussion or face disciplinary action. Compared to college, high school was not a place that promoted learning or thinking. There was one thing high school promoted and that was blind obediance to authority. Of course there are many good high schools across this country and obediance to authority to some extend is good. However, I'm not surprised that there are other schools like mine across this country run by insecure administrators who feel the need to bully students.
Ironically, one of the books I had to read for high school was "All Quiet on the Western Front". The drill sergeant in the book was a postman prior to the war so he felt the need to abuse the recruits. He knew that outside of his position in the heirarchy, no one respected him as a person so he abused his powers as a drill sergeant to make himself feel better. Reminds me of some school administrators... Sad bastards.
Even then the risk isn't that high because if the patent application is valid then it will be granted. If it's not, then a similar patent will be rejected so the copycat won't be likley to benefit from it.
Probably because Ivy League schools are almost exclusively focused on Accounting, Economics, Business, Law, etc. They're not hard-numbers schools. Our policy makers and politicians and lawyers and fortune-500-scandal-hiding accountants go to Ivy League schools, along with a number of kids from American dynasty families that are still here from the 1800's. Ivy league schools are hard to get into like Country Clubs are hard to get into. You need to be white anglo, rich, and have connections. Academics rarely has anything to do with it.
I don't know about the other Ivy Leagues but Yale College did not offer a major in accounting, business, or law. Business and law are offered at the graduate level. Ken Lay went to University of Missouri and Skilling went to SMU, neither of which are Ivy League. The Ivy Leagues of the 1800s might have been very economically-socially exclusive but that's no longer the case. The Ivy Leagues statistically have a much higher percentage of non-white students than the average American university, especially in regards to Asian students. Most of them also have need-based financial aid. If a person is accepted, he or she might actually have an easier time financially at an Ivy League than other universities. I don't think many country clubs give that kind of financial aid. Are there students from wealthy backgrounds at the Ivy Leagues? Yes and perhaps disproportionately so. However, that doesn't mean that most of them aren't also qualified academically.
Harvard's math department is known as one of the best, currently have two Fields medalists, IIRC. Benoit Mandelbrot is a professor at Yale. Einstein was a Princeton professor. The list goes on. The Ivy Leagues might not be the best in everything but they're good all around schools.
Google Inc., which runs the largest ad network on the Internet, is making millions of dollars a year by filling otherwise unused Web sites with ads.
Google made 2.253 billion USD in one quarter. While the article was vague how many millions it really is, "millions" instead of "tens of millions" or "hundreds of millions" still seems like a drop in the bucket. It goes on to imply that it's quite a bit by quoting Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google:
Google won't disclose how much revenue it is earning from ads on these types of sites, but chief executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview last week, "It's a lot of money."
Did he mean that Google makes a lot of money from ads in general or from ads on typo sites? I can't tell because the article doesn't give me the source of that quote. However, I find it doubtful that Schmidt would be so explicit about Google making money off of typos, even if they did.
In any case, the issue is not as clean-cut as the article implies. Whose responsibility is it to police trademark infringements? Hasn't it always been the holder of the trademark? Google making money off of it does suggest some kind of responsbility on their part as well though. However, Google does provide an avenue for these people to complain and have the affliates delisted from their ad program.
I once read somewhere, maybe in the Prince or some similar book, that the best way to rule over someone is let them think that they have a choice. Just make sure you take away all the other choices that you don't like first.
But overall, Dell tends to follow Intel's lead and isn't setting the agenda, said Gartner analyst Steve Kleynhans. "They tend to get involved at the point where technology is getting standardized, and they popularize it. They get it out to a lot of people," he said. "But I don't see them as being the driver of a technology or the one that sets the direction."
Right so Intel already made the decision and Dell goes and figures out how to package it and market it. Don't most subordinates do the same?
A friend who works at Universal told me that her manager prevents jobs for her subordinates from being out-sourced by requiring all new hires must know the abbreviations for each state.
Let's just have patents on EVERYTHING, every gene, every molecule, every action you could ever think of. Then in 17 years (or whatever the time limit is) when they expire, we can forget all this patent bullshit and just get on with life again. I'd be willing to wait those 17 years if the patent system would just expire.
Screw you buddy! Do you know how difficult it is to not have sex or, in the case of the Slashdot crowd, masturbate for 17 years
Yeah seriously. Some people here will take every opportunity to bitch about MSFT and I'm not a fan of them either. However, let's be realistic here. Use the best tool for the job..Net was never meant for writing an OS. Why the hell would MSFT want to do that anyways?! Let's just think about that one. MSFT promoting a set of tools to make writing an OS easier... No..Net was created to run on top of Windows. As someone with experience in.Net and Windows application programming would tell you, quite a bit of.Net is not brand spanking new code but wrappers around existing code..Net exists to make programming for Windows easier, thus further promoting MSFT.
It's like this:
WMI and Active Directory both existed before.Net and are not implemented in.Net. However, using.Net makes it trivial to publish and pull data from WMI and read/write from AD.
There's a good chance that by the time Vista launches, a new version of.Net or an upgrade would follow shortly to tap into Vista. They won't be new implementations but would simply be there to make using the components of Vista easier.
...Additionally they announced that their highly anticipated Series 3 HDTV standalone model with CableCARD support will not be available until after "mid year," a new retail partnership with Radio Shack
Boy if a partnership with "You've got question, we got blank stares" formerly run by someone who lied about his degree doesn't get the investors excited, I don't know what will!
Bruce Peren is absolutely right. The community is not for sale. The code is already open source so we'll never have to start from scratch. While some of us worship or at least highly value people like Linus Torvald, but OSS is based on the idea that there are many other people like him. Otherwise there's no point in letting everyone contribute. If Linus gets run over by a bus tomorrow, Linux will still live. So Oracle can buy up the companies but if they go against OSS, I doubt they will succeed. We'll just pick it up again and keep going. I think Elison knows this:
"We are moving aggressively into open source," said Chief Executive Lawrence J. Ellison at a Feb. 8 investor conference. "We are not going to fight this trend."
Seriously, what would be the travel restrictions with these? Will airlines (or more precisely the TSA) allow me onboard with, say a dozen of these? Or even just one?
Answer your question:
Airlines: Yes if you're part of the platinum elite patrician class. No if you're flying as a proletariat.
TSA: Yes if you hand over your DNA, pictures of your family, especially your sexy, hot wife (don't worry about this one Slashdot), and prove that you're a supporter of the current administration. No if you're an average law-abidding citizen.
Jokes aside, it seems to me that if they allow even one, they might as well allow more since a malicious group of people can each carry one and get together while in the air.
Slashdot nerd, Comatose51, announces plans to increase frequency of getting laid by hot women.
In the press release, Comatose51, spoke about his new Laid Me technology, which all Slashdot nerds can use to get hot women to have sex with them. At the core of the Laid Me platform is an innovative service-needed architecture (SNA) server called a "fallus" that connects to many types of end-point devices. To enable and support the rapid development and growth of Laid Me digital services, Comatose51 has introduced the Alcohol For Sex Partners Program(TM). "The best part of Laid Me is that it allows us to 'reach out and touch' those who support BYU athletics (read: cheerleaders) in real-time," said Tom Holmoe, athletic director, Brigham Young University.
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You're quite the opportunist...
Obviously I skipped out on the days when they taught grammar, spelling, and/or typing.
Ironically, one of the books I had to read for high school was "All Quiet on the Western Front". The drill sergeant in the book was a postman prior to the war so he felt the need to abuse the recruits. He knew that outside of his position in the heirarchy, no one respected him as a person so he abused his powers as a drill sergeant to make himself feel better. Reminds me of some school administrators... Sad bastards.
Have the Enterprise and everything else, I call dibs on Seven of Nine/Jeri Ryan.
Even then the risk isn't that high because if the patent application is valid then it will be granted. If it's not, then a similar patent will be rejected so the copycat won't be likley to benefit from it.
I don't know about the other Ivy Leagues but Yale College did not offer a major in accounting, business, or law. Business and law are offered at the graduate level. Ken Lay went to University of Missouri and Skilling went to SMU, neither of which are Ivy League. The Ivy Leagues of the 1800s might have been very economically-socially exclusive but that's no longer the case. The Ivy Leagues statistically have a much higher percentage of non-white students than the average American university, especially in regards to Asian students. Most of them also have need-based financial aid. If a person is accepted, he or she might actually have an easier time financially at an Ivy League than other universities. I don't think many country clubs give that kind of financial aid. Are there students from wealthy backgrounds at the Ivy Leagues? Yes and perhaps disproportionately so. However, that doesn't mean that most of them aren't also qualified academically.
Harvard's math department is known as one of the best, currently have two Fields medalists, IIRC. Benoit Mandelbrot is a professor at Yale. Einstein was a Princeton professor. The list goes on. The Ivy Leagues might not be the best in everything but they're good all around schools.
Google made 2.253 billion USD in one quarter. While the article was vague how many millions it really is, "millions" instead of "tens of millions" or "hundreds of millions" still seems like a drop in the bucket. It goes on to imply that it's quite a bit by quoting Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google:
Google won't disclose how much revenue it is earning from ads on these types of sites, but chief executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview last week, "It's a lot of money."
Did he mean that Google makes a lot of money from ads in general or from ads on typo sites? I can't tell because the article doesn't give me the source of that quote. However, I find it doubtful that Schmidt would be so explicit about Google making money off of typos, even if they did.
In any case, the issue is not as clean-cut as the article implies. Whose responsibility is it to police trademark infringements? Hasn't it always been the holder of the trademark? Google making money off of it does suggest some kind of responsbility on their part as well though. However, Google does provide an avenue for these people to complain and have the affliates delisted from their ad program.
Sweet, now I can program and masturbate to porn at the same time! Unfortunately the code would end up looking like:
...
pubic string Serialize()
{
int i = 0;
int aaaaaahhhhh = "YESS!!!!";
}
But overall, Dell tends to follow Intel's lead and isn't setting the agenda, said Gartner analyst Steve Kleynhans. "They tend to get involved at the point where technology is getting standardized, and they popularize it. They get it out to a lot of people," he said. "But I don't see them as being the driver of a technology or the one that sets the direction."
Right so Intel already made the decision and Dell goes and figures out how to package it and market it. Don't most subordinates do the same?
It's not the difficulty but how totally random it is. It's unexpected, but also justifiable in some ways.
A friend who works at Universal told me that her manager prevents jobs for her subordinates from being out-sourced by requiring all new hires must know the abbreviations for each state.
Well duh, it was obviously inhabited by Thetans.
If only every exec can be so civilized....
Screw you buddy! Do you know how difficult it is to not have sex or, in the case of the Slashdot crowd, masturbate for 17 years
The cost is however much it costs you to put the words "SCO", "Linux", "Bill Gates", "iPod", or "RIAA" into your advertisement.
Didn't RTFA, and this is probably redundant and trolling, but you best mod me up or I'll sue!
I hate to be around when the emacs vs. vi and/or KDE vs. Gnome flame wars erupt. This time, it's going to be a literal flame war.
It's like this: WMI and Active Directory both existed before .Net and are not implemented in .Net. However, using .Net makes it trivial to publish and pull data from WMI and read/write from AD.
There's a good chance that by the time Vista launches, a new version of .Net or an upgrade would follow shortly to tap into Vista. They won't be new implementations but would simply be there to make using the components of Vista easier.
Well you see, his vision expanded and evolved into something we call the "Internet" these days. j/k
Boy if a partnership with "You've got question, we got blank stares" formerly run by someone who lied about his degree doesn't get the investors excited, I don't know what will!
"We are moving aggressively into open source," said Chief Executive Lawrence J. Ellison at a Feb. 8 investor conference. "We are not going to fight this trend."
Yeah and their CDs suck as frisbees! Definitely not cutting edge!
Answer your question:
Airlines: Yes if you're part of the platinum elite patrician class. No if you're flying as a proletariat.
TSA: Yes if you hand over your DNA, pictures of your family, especially your sexy, hot wife (don't worry about this one Slashdot), and prove that you're a supporter of the current administration. No if you're an average law-abidding citizen.
Jokes aside, it seems to me that if they allow even one, they might as well allow more since a malicious group of people can each carry one and get together while in the air.
Wikipedia Reaches 1,000,000 Articles.
j/k
In the press release, Comatose51, spoke about his new Laid Me technology, which all Slashdot nerds can use to get hot women to have sex with them. At the core of the Laid Me platform is an innovative service-needed architecture (SNA) server called a "fallus" that connects to many types of end-point devices. To enable and support the rapid development and growth of Laid Me digital services, Comatose51 has introduced the Alcohol For Sex Partners Program(TM). "The best part of Laid Me is that it allows us to 'reach out and touch' those who support BYU athletics (read: cheerleaders) in real-time," said Tom Holmoe, athletic director, Brigham Young University.