This would appear to be in direct contradiction of the J&J Credo, which they publicise on the front page of their webite. It specifically says:
We are responsible to the communities in which we live and work and to the world community as well. We must be good citizens - support good works and charities and bear our fair share of taxes.
If I were a J&J employee or stockholder today I'd be asking for the name of the person responsible for this embarrasing departure from the underlying company principles.
There is zero chance of this happening. To understand why, you have to understand the population of Aus. Aside from all the convict decendants, the ten pound poms, the former military staff, the asian families who had their land taken away after WWII but who struggled on, the more recent immigrants from Asia, Europe and the Americas, the Aboriginal folks... and the aquaduct: there is an important "other" demographic group. The retired luddite. My dad is one of them. He moved to Aus upon his retirement, and if his former employer couldn't get him to use a computer there's no way he'll allow one in his home now - his screen was famously used as a convenient place for post-it notes. I've tried reasoning with him. I've explained the advantages; sold the concept of video calls to see his relatives overseas, etc. All to no avail. For retired luddites in the sun, broadband is irrelevant. Aus has more than it's fair share of retired luddite poms, many of whom have never operated a mouse and are too old and arthritic to even try. 99% is a dream.
Presumably Intel paid different amounts for different types of CPU endorsement, so given that I have a dual Xeon under the table, should I be looking for my share inside the case or...
Readers are asked to note that whilst Yahoo! is now more popular than sex, it is neither better nor safer - the likelyhood of viral infection remains high with both pastimes and a personal firewall should be worn for the duration of any connection.
If Adobe throws in the towel and uses any other open document format, then they have to write off a lot of their marketable PDF technical skillset. Instead, playing the open-source benefactor is the next logical step.
This therefore does not necessarily "reinforce Adobe's commitment to open standards", it merely illustrates that it is no longer cost effective for Adobe to continue to maintain the PDF format in house.
Also, open-sourcing a mature proprietary format such as PDF (which has been driven by a single company's objectives) may divert attention from other open standards that have been developed from scratch by consensus, so it's not without it's potential downside.
Pirates of the Caribbean was certainly enjoyable, but Keira Knightly's going to look very haggard by the time she's made that many sequels. Oh, wait...
Note however, that if your car is not actually a Ferrari, but an elaborately styled MG with Maranello accoutrements, then reversing does not work. Also, if you discover this and get angry widway through the exercise, under no circumstances should you kick the front fender.
Yeah, but what if they've all found each other already? Either
they declare their search a success and stop looking, or
right now they are amassing terrorist cells behind our borders so we must draft emergency legislation that ignores the Universal Declaration of Sentient Species Rights in order to protect our family's oil interests*.
*early draft - perhaps this should say "our planet"
"Complex mathematics then interprets the signals..."
Swoon! Thats complex mathematics, the kind that we plebs cannot hope to grasp in our tiny little minds. I note also that this is mathematics so complex that it has achieved sentience and now interprets signals itself, no longer needing a computing machine to help. Time to sell INTC and AMD?
The study was commissioned by a hosting company who I won't bother naming, who will no doubt be all too pleased to explain how their servers can avoid such buzzword enriched ailments.
Maybe the season is affecting our editors skeptical filters.
So what's the new name to be...
Skyhacked? Hackjacked? Highhacked?..and how long before the broadsheets use it in a shocking prediction of the kind of social computing phenomena we can expect by combining Web 3.0 with War-on-Terror Service Pack 4?
The KFC ad is 6084m2, 10x larger, but is still only vaguely unlikely to be visible with the naked eye.
To try and imagine the visibility a bit better, scale it down (78m wide & 62 miles becomes 1.4m wide at 1 mile), so paint the KFC sign on a 1.4m x 1.4m board and see if it can be recognized from 1 mile away. The scaling calculation is fairly easy, but what it can't factor in is the fact that there's 62x more atmosphere to look through when you scale back up. I'll believe it when I see it (from space).
Who are you to tell a volunteer what their volunteering should and should not include?
I'm the devils advocate project manager who's also volunteered. X is what we need done, Y is our process for doing things and Z is the toolset. If a volunteer doesn't roughly fit that cookie cutter, then we are deeply appreciative of their interest but we have limited resources so we can't work with them at the moment.
That's the nature of volunteering.
I can see where you're coming from, but I think you're describing donating, not volunteering.
Donating is where I do something that I want to do, and then donate it to the community.
Volunteering is where I ask what needs to be done; and then do what I'm told is necessary.
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No charge for 42 days? That's 1008 hours!
The iPhone's paltry 300 hours without a charge looks pretty lame now.
There is zero chance of this happening. To understand why, you have to understand the population of Aus. Aside from all the convict decendants, the ten pound poms, the former military staff, the asian families who had their land taken away after WWII but who struggled on, the more recent immigrants from Asia, Europe and the Americas, the Aboriginal folks... and the aquaduct: there is an important "other" demographic group. The retired luddite. My dad is one of them. He moved to Aus upon his retirement, and if his former employer couldn't get him to use a computer there's no way he'll allow one in his home now - his screen was famously used as a convenient place for post-it notes. I've tried reasoning with him. I've explained the advantages; sold the concept of video calls to see his relatives overseas, etc. All to no avail. For retired luddites in the sun, broadband is irrelevant. Aus has more than it's fair share of retired luddite poms, many of whom have never operated a mouse and are too old and arthritic to even try. 99% is a dream.
It means sometime between 1915 and 1920. It's like saying "in the mid 70s" or "in the early eighties".
Moore's law?
Presumably Intel paid different amounts for different types of CPU endorsement, so given that I have a dual Xeon under the table, should I be looking for my share inside the case or...
Readers are asked to note that whilst Yahoo! is now more popular than sex, it is neither better nor safer - the likelyhood of viral infection remains high with both pastimes and a personal firewall should be worn for the duration of any connection.
Thankfully the tagging dropdown helped me to spell "antitrust", though I had to manage "coercive monopoly" all by myself.
If Adobe throws in the towel and uses any other open document format, then they have to write off a lot of their marketable PDF technical skillset. Instead, playing the open-source benefactor is the next logical step.
This therefore does not necessarily "reinforce Adobe's commitment to open standards", it merely illustrates that it is no longer cost effective for Adobe to continue to maintain the PDF format in house.
Also, open-sourcing a mature proprietary format such as PDF (which has been driven by a single company's objectives) may divert attention from other open standards that have been developed from scratch by consensus, so it's not without it's potential downside.
Pirates of the Caribbean was certainly enjoyable, but Keira Knightly's going to look very haggard by the time she's made that many sequels. Oh, wait...
Note however, that if your car is not actually a Ferrari, but an elaborately styled MG with Maranello accoutrements, then reversing does not work. Also, if you discover this and get angry widway through the exercise, under no circumstances should you kick the front fender.
...but Windows running on a Mac is just a PC with a nice case. Oh, wait...
- Get three copies.
- Binary diff files 1+2
- Use the diff index to repair file 1 using file 3.
- Strip first 5 seconds.
TFA doesn't give detail, but it can't be that simple, can it?Yeah, but what if they've all found each other already? Either
*early draft - perhaps this should say "our planet"
"Complex mathematics then interprets the signals..." Swoon! Thats complex mathematics, the kind that we plebs cannot hope to grasp in our tiny little minds. I note also that this is mathematics so complex that it has achieved sentience and now interprets signals itself, no longer needing a computing machine to help. Time to sell INTC and AMD?
I agree, tagged as "goslashdotgo"
Did Fon just get a whole new market segment?
The study was commissioned by a hosting company who I won't bother naming, who will no doubt be all too pleased to explain how their servers can avoid such buzzword enriched ailments.
Maybe the season is affecting our editors skeptical filters.
Important correction: The man has been arrested on suspicion of the five murders; he is not, unless proven guilty, "the murderer".
So what's the new name to be... Skyhacked? Hackjacked? Highhacked? ..and how long before the broadsheets use it in a shocking prediction of the kind of social computing phenomena we can expect by combining Web 3.0 with War-on-Terror Service Pack 4?
For an advert to be "visible from space" it must be distinguishable and recognizable by the naked human eye from 62 miles up.
The article says approximately 65000 1 foot tiles were used, that's almost certainly a 256x256 square making 65535 tiles.
If each tile is 1ft across, then the total size is actually 256 feet (78m) squared.
The Eva advert was 697m2, and could certainly not be seen from space.
The KFC ad is 6084m2, 10x larger, but is still only vaguely unlikely to be visible with the naked eye.
To try and imagine the visibility a bit better, scale it down (78m wide & 62 miles becomes 1.4m wide at 1 mile), so paint the KFC sign on a 1.4m x 1.4m board and see if it can be recognized from 1 mile away. The scaling calculation is fairly easy, but what it can't factor in is the fact that there's 62x more atmosphere to look through when you scale back up. I'll believe it when I see it (from space).
...and for water cooled systems do they provide a version with no cooling at all? Still no?
Given the size of the water cooling market, there must be a large enough niche here that it can be commercially exploited.
I'm the devils advocate project manager who's also volunteered. X is what we need done, Y is our process for doing things and Z is the toolset. If a volunteer doesn't roughly fit that cookie cutter, then we are deeply appreciative of their interest but we have limited resources so we can't work with them at the moment.
I can see where you're coming from, but I think you're describing donating, not volunteering.