The company is large and far reaching. That said with any statistical group of people you will have many different skill sets. I assure you that there are very highly qualified and knowledgeable people here. There are also different cultures and the ability to develop new cultures. Each operating group is for the most part independently managed and could fail, yes. However with any business there are failures and successes. From my experience by and large most projects are successes.
I would encourage everyone to not to write off the possibilities for Symbian and her developers yet. This was a business decision but ultimately if the developers continue to ensure their product is of high quality then there is a future. Trends such that Apple claim to innovate come and go. At the end of the day when people need a phone to be a phone, Symbian will be there.
Disclaimer - My comments are my own and do aim to reflect or speak for the opinions of Accenture LLC.
This is a fact of Business. The 3000 employees that are strong individual performers have nothing to fear. Accenture is not that scary of a company and they certainly are not the axemen that you are making them out to be.
Viruses, depending on your definition, are not even considered life! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus. Nasa's definition of life is "Life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution" Viruses do not strictly meet this criteria. And since we only put "life" on the endangered species list your argument fails.
Listen here the parent obviously did not correctly follow the intentions of both the phone manufacturer as well as the assumption of the software designer. You are supposed to throw the phone into the closest trash receptical after 3-6 months of use and purchase a new $500 phone. By ensuring that your phone is securely in a landfill you can then feel confident that you will be supported to the fullest extent by your software vendor as well as your hardware vendor. Of course both data security and software backups and data transfers are out of scope of both the software vendor as well as the hardware manufacturer. I personally suggest an 8 lb maul against an uneven and sharp surface. Ensure that particles of your previous device are smaller than a dime. As for software backups and transfers I suggest a professional paid service that will steal, ahem, manage that data for you.
If a woman was introduced to me as being really into Comic's, Football, and Beer(microbrew) then I would think "WIN" and not something negative. However the same probably could not be said if someone were to introduce me to a woman in the same way. A similar example from the woman's side might be reading Trash novels, Tennis, and Knitting. I guess I don't see anything wrong with any of these hobbies including Comic's. Shame is a public perception right? My argument for this type of perception is and will always be that a hobby that does not degrade, slander, or harm any person purposefully can be justified as not shameful. Comics, as the article relates to is a medium and is not shameful in and of itself. But a comic individually could be considered shameful. The self esteem portion of comic book reading is an entirely different topic. If someone has low self esteem and feels shameful for having a hobby that is not considered mainstream then they have a personal issue that they need to work on and it could absolutely affect their personal life. At a high level I see where MS's patent filing is going. I disagree that it is original and I think it is a bit trolling, but they have the right to file as any other entity. Comic != nerd, Beer drinker != alcoholic, Trash novel != repressed, Knitting != old.
After reading the article and seeing the typical discussion of audio quality I decided to go back to my trusty vinyl. I put Orion by Metallica which has some nice subtle effects at the beginning. Specifically there is a washboard like electronic effect on the 3 chord intro E5 & Bm/D & Ebm that can be heard on the vinyl record. Going to youtube or from an mp3 demo the intro is much more subdued and all you can hear are the muted chords. When the drums enter on the record you hear a distinct crash of the cymbals where on the mp3 and youtube you hear what sounds like a tambourine or a tin salt shaker. Also I play my records at around -8 db that same -8db for a youtube video or mp3 would blow my ears out. Those I play at around -28 to -30db. There is a difference and what people need to look for isn't that a different exists but rather which one includes more natural artifacts like hearing fingers slide along guitar strings or when a singer takes a breath. Nirvana's Unplugged album is a great example as well. The CD includes a lot of background noise and the talk in between the tracks but it still seems like the sound engineers played around with the sound and some things are difficult to hear. I don't have this on vinyl but I would be curious to know if some of the recordings subtleties are easier to pick up on in a non over-engineered vinyl master.
If this is Verizon DSL home service than it would not be surprising as the only monitoring they typically do is a link dead warning. Home users can unplug their DSL modem from the wall and they won't get a call from Verizon. A business DSL customer/contract would get a prompt call from Verizon if that same modem were unplugged. That is the difference between a Home contract and a Business contract. The cost difference being sometimes hundreds of dollars for the extra monitoring and uptime securities.
Let's say I am a juror candidate and at any point in the process a representative from one side of the court were to approach me and says "here is 100,000 dollars, if you become a juror the money is yours if you show favor for my client". Isn't this illegal? What is the different between X amount of money, a wrist watch, a service provided, or free wifi? The answer is nothing in the sense that it is all bribery. If I were a judge make it be known that I would treat this offense to the fullest of my powers.
After 6pm, Internet traffic for most ISPs goes through the roof. With it, latency and available bandwidth are typically negatively affected.
Internet traffic tends to look like a perfect curve that starts an upward trend around 700-800 for a given timezone and increases in a consistent patterned manor until 12 noon. There is a slight dip between noon and 1300 a second peak from 1300 till 1400 and a steady decline until 2300 to midnight. The decline from midday until midnight is slower but from all my experience in web traffic I don't see an increase in traffic after 1800 compared to the rest of the day.
Nice, I remember my Sr. high school chemistry teacher not smiling a lot, except for on the one day of the year when he demonstrates the power of group 1 alkali metals and acetylene. For the acetylene he would fill a balloon with the gas, open up all the windows as well as open fire doors to the outside, then had a student wearing protective gear use a glowing splint to pop the balloon. He would be giggling the entire time, which to say was a little disconcerting at the time.
Hey! What do you mean 5? There are like 6 people that use JOE(Joe's Own Editor) and Nano is for L user's that don't know word star key binding's./playgeekcard
Hey, just trying to keep mak'in a few bucks here! Nothing to see here move along, move along.
It would be super though if we saw more people in high government positions that didn't have such a strong history of supporting one view or another. On the other hand is does help the informed voter understand where our government's views are at.
I did a search for torrent on goggle the second link goes to a piracy site. I did the same search on Altavista and the top ten results a different torrent clients that I can use to utilize said torrent that I am interested in. Given the term I would say the Yahoo result is more relevant. So maybe google is just trying to keep its searches relevant all while spinning the change in a positive light for a few specific industry interests?
To my darling wife I bequeath my ebay(tm) account with the 100,000+ power seller star status. To my loved sister I bequeath my facebook(tm) account with 4999 friends and 300,000 acre strips of land in Farmville(tm). Finally to my brother who has helped me weather all the storms of my life I bequeath my WOW account with the Shadow Priest with the 6600 gear rating.
The microbe discovered by Felicia is life that is adapted to Arsenic and can substitute P for As but has not yet been found to be entirely As. So it would be more appropriate to explain that this microbe is made from H C N O P As S. This is not a Microbe based on Arsenic.
Congress passed the Case Act of 1972, requiring the secretary of state to send to Congress within sixty days the text of "any international agreement, other than a treaty," to which the United States is a party. If the president decided that publication would compromise national security, he could transmit it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs under an injunction of secrecy removable only by the president. But presidents from Nixon to Clinton ignored or circumvented the statute, and congressional enforcement efforts have been largely ineffective.
The source: http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/A-D/The-Constitution-Executive-agreements.html
It is good to see that the government are using existing technologies for political talking points. Now if government tries to push something other than SSL I would be disappointed.
Zarni Maung shows a long history of accepting broad reaching patents that sadly affect almost everyone in everyday life. Back in 1996 I'm sure it was difficult to see what would happen with all of these idea's but some of the patents accepted by Zarni Maung help to define the internet itself. Also all these companies just need to find examples of prior art to 1996 correct? The other question will be if any other past MMO creaters were sued or paid licensing fees to the group that holds this patent.
Chances are this was a joke, however if it wasn't there has been many studies related to the topic. One interesting note is that "cow farts" or bovine flatulence constitutes only 1/6th of greenhouse gasses and that cow burping constitutes 5/6th. So while I can applaud Mr. Gates for patenting bovine Beano(TM), it would be wiser for him to focus on the gas causing sugars in the feed or the bacteria that create the gasses inside the stomach. Some info http://http//www.fart-sounds.net/educated_fart_analysis.htm/
I live in Minneapolis and our city wide wifi causes more problems than it solves. Once you get into the grid area reception to any access point other than the city wifi is poor. US Wireless ensured that their signals on all three non-overlapping channels are stronger anywhere inside the grid than any other source. That means Joe Bob running a personal wifi out of his home will have poorer reception than if this city wide wifi didn't exist. Oh and the wifi is both not free(actually rather expensive) and low bandwidth. I think that a city wide wireless network can have positive benefits, but I believe it needs to be better designed to not dance around fcc rules of broadcasting radio signals in a spectrum that is designed for general public use.
My best suggestion would be to use a radio spectrum that had decent material penetration, one that is licensed by the FCC so no one else can use it, and uses a relatively cheap to manufacture radio in a number of general purpose packages. If we are going to use tax dollars to put together metro wireless internet grids why not simply design a technology around just that purpose.
Of course I live inside a perfect world so take what I say with a grain of salt.
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I work for Accenture, yes.
The company is large and far reaching. That said with any statistical group of people you will have many different skill sets. I assure you that there are very highly qualified and knowledgeable people here. There are also different cultures and the ability to develop new cultures. Each operating group is for the most part independently managed and could fail, yes. However with any business there are failures and successes. From my experience by and large most projects are successes.
I would encourage everyone to not to write off the possibilities for Symbian and her developers yet. This was a business decision but ultimately if the developers continue to ensure their product is of high quality then there is a future. Trends such that Apple claim to innovate come and go. At the end of the day when people need a phone to be a phone, Symbian will be there.
Disclaimer - My comments are my own and do aim to reflect or speak for the opinions of Accenture LLC.
This is a fact of Business. The 3000 employees that are strong individual performers have nothing to fear. Accenture is not that scary of a company and they certainly are not the axemen that you are making them out to be.
Accenture split from Andersen Consulting in 1989. Accenture is a global software and IT outsourcing company and is not an Financial outsourcing company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture#Splitting_from_Arthur_Andersen
Viruses, depending on your definition, are not even considered life! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus. Nasa's definition of life is "Life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution" Viruses do not strictly meet this criteria. And since we only put "life" on the endangered species list your argument fails.
Listen here the parent obviously did not correctly follow the intentions of both the phone manufacturer as well as the assumption of the software designer. You are supposed to throw the phone into the closest trash receptical after 3-6 months of use and purchase a new $500 phone. By ensuring that your phone is securely in a landfill you can then feel confident that you will be supported to the fullest extent by your software vendor as well as your hardware vendor. Of course both data security and software backups and data transfers are out of scope of both the software vendor as well as the hardware manufacturer. I personally suggest an 8 lb maul against an uneven and sharp surface. Ensure that particles of your previous device are smaller than a dime. As for software backups and transfers I suggest a professional paid service that will steal, ahem, manage that data for you.
If a woman was introduced to me as being really into Comic's, Football, and Beer(microbrew) then I would think "WIN" and not something negative. However the same probably could not be said if someone were to introduce me to a woman in the same way. A similar example from the woman's side might be reading Trash novels, Tennis, and Knitting. I guess I don't see anything wrong with any of these hobbies including Comic's. Shame is a public perception right? My argument for this type of perception is and will always be that a hobby that does not degrade, slander, or harm any person purposefully can be justified as not shameful. Comics, as the article relates to is a medium and is not shameful in and of itself. But a comic individually could be considered shameful. The self esteem portion of comic book reading is an entirely different topic. If someone has low self esteem and feels shameful for having a hobby that is not considered mainstream then they have a personal issue that they need to work on and it could absolutely affect their personal life. At a high level I see where MS's patent filing is going. I disagree that it is original and I think it is a bit trolling, but they have the right to file as any other entity. Comic != nerd, Beer drinker != alcoholic, Trash novel != repressed, Knitting != old.
After reading the article and seeing the typical discussion of audio quality I decided to go back to my trusty vinyl. I put Orion by Metallica which has some nice subtle effects at the beginning. Specifically there is a washboard like electronic effect on the 3 chord intro E5 & Bm/D & Ebm that can be heard on the vinyl record. Going to youtube or from an mp3 demo the intro is much more subdued and all you can hear are the muted chords. When the drums enter on the record you hear a distinct crash of the cymbals where on the mp3 and youtube you hear what sounds like a tambourine or a tin salt shaker. Also I play my records at around -8 db that same -8db for a youtube video or mp3 would blow my ears out. Those I play at around -28 to -30db. There is a difference and what people need to look for isn't that a different exists but rather which one includes more natural artifacts like hearing fingers slide along guitar strings or when a singer takes a breath. Nirvana's Unplugged album is a great example as well. The CD includes a lot of background noise and the talk in between the tracks but it still seems like the sound engineers played around with the sound and some things are difficult to hear. I don't have this on vinyl but I would be curious to know if some of the recordings subtleties are easier to pick up on in a non over-engineered vinyl master.
If this is Verizon DSL home service than it would not be surprising as the only monitoring they typically do is a link dead warning. Home users can unplug their DSL modem from the wall and they won't get a call from Verizon. A business DSL customer/contract would get a prompt call from Verizon if that same modem were unplugged. That is the difference between a Home contract and a Business contract. The cost difference being sometimes hundreds of dollars for the extra monitoring and uptime securities.
Let's say I am a juror candidate and at any point in the process a representative from one side of the court were to approach me and says "here is 100,000 dollars, if you become a juror the money is yours if you show favor for my client". Isn't this illegal? What is the different between X amount of money, a wrist watch, a service provided, or free wifi? The answer is nothing in the sense that it is all bribery. If I were a judge make it be known that I would treat this offense to the fullest of my powers.
After 6pm, Internet traffic for most ISPs goes through the roof. With it, latency and available bandwidth are typically negatively affected.
Internet traffic tends to look like a perfect curve that starts an upward trend around 700-800 for a given timezone and increases in a consistent patterned manor until 12 noon. There is a slight dip between noon and 1300 a second peak from 1300 till 1400 and a steady decline until 2300 to midnight. The decline from midday until midnight is slower but from all my experience in web traffic I don't see an increase in traffic after 1800 compared to the rest of the day.
Nice, I remember my Sr. high school chemistry teacher not smiling a lot, except for on the one day of the year when he demonstrates the power of group 1 alkali metals and acetylene. For the acetylene he would fill a balloon with the gas, open up all the windows as well as open fire doors to the outside, then had a student wearing protective gear use a glowing splint to pop the balloon. He would be giggling the entire time, which to say was a little disconcerting at the time.
who art in heaven hallowed by thy name... It really isn't a perfect translation but the song is basically "The lord's prayer" in Swahili.
Hey! What do you mean 5? There are like 6 people that use JOE(Joe's Own Editor) and Nano is for L user's that don't know word star key binding's. /playgeekcard
Ya sure, Minnesota just don't make http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale presidential candidates like we used to don'tcha know.
Hey, just trying to keep mak'in a few bucks here! Nothing to see here move along, move along.
It would be super though if we saw more people in high government positions that didn't have such a strong history of supporting one view or another. On the other hand is does help the informed voter understand where our government's views are at.
I did a search for torrent on goggle the second link goes to a piracy site. I did the same search on Altavista and the top ten results a different torrent clients that I can use to utilize said torrent that I am interested in. Given the term I would say the Yahoo result is more relevant. So maybe google is just trying to keep its searches relevant all while spinning the change in a positive light for a few specific industry interests?
You mean yahoo? (which acquired AltaVista)
To my darling wife I bequeath my ebay(tm) account with the 100,000+ power seller star status. To my loved sister I bequeath my facebook(tm) account with 4999 friends and 300,000 acre strips of land in Farmville(tm). Finally to my brother who has helped me weather all the storms of my life I bequeath my WOW account with the Shadow Priest with the 6600 gear rating.
The microbe discovered by Felicia is life that is adapted to Arsenic and can substitute P for As but has not yet been found to be entirely As. So it would be more appropriate to explain that this microbe is made from H C N O P As S. This is not a Microbe based on Arsenic.
Congress passed the Case Act of 1972, requiring the secretary of state to send to Congress within sixty days the text of "any international agreement, other than a treaty," to which the United States is a party. If the president decided that publication would compromise national security, he could transmit it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs under an injunction of secrecy removable only by the president. But presidents from Nixon to Clinton ignored or circumvented the statute, and congressional enforcement efforts have been largely ineffective. The source: http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/A-D/The-Constitution-Executive-agreements.html
It is good to see that the government are using existing technologies for political talking points. Now if government tries to push something other than SSL I would be disappointed.
Zarni Maung shows a long history of accepting broad reaching patents that sadly affect almost everyone in everyday life. Back in 1996 I'm sure it was difficult to see what would happen with all of these idea's but some of the patents accepted by Zarni Maung help to define the internet itself. Also all these companies just need to find examples of prior art to 1996 correct? The other question will be if any other past MMO creaters were sued or paid licensing fees to the group that holds this patent.
Chances are this was a joke, however if it wasn't there has been many studies related to the topic. One interesting note is that "cow farts" or bovine flatulence constitutes only 1/6th of greenhouse gasses and that cow burping constitutes 5/6th. So while I can applaud Mr. Gates for patenting bovine Beano(TM), it would be wiser for him to focus on the gas causing sugars in the feed or the bacteria that create the gasses inside the stomach. Some info http://http//www.fart-sounds.net/educated_fart_analysis.htm/
I live in Minneapolis and our city wide wifi causes more problems than it solves. Once you get into the grid area reception to any access point other than the city wifi is poor. US Wireless ensured that their signals on all three non-overlapping channels are stronger anywhere inside the grid than any other source. That means Joe Bob running a personal wifi out of his home will have poorer reception than if this city wide wifi didn't exist. Oh and the wifi is both not free(actually rather expensive) and low bandwidth. I think that a city wide wireless network can have positive benefits, but I believe it needs to be better designed to not dance around fcc rules of broadcasting radio signals in a spectrum that is designed for general public use. My best suggestion would be to use a radio spectrum that had decent material penetration, one that is licensed by the FCC so no one else can use it, and uses a relatively cheap to manufacture radio in a number of general purpose packages. If we are going to use tax dollars to put together metro wireless internet grids why not simply design a technology around just that purpose. Of course I live inside a perfect world so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Ah lighten up Mrs. Brown... I like Jim Post's rendition better than Eric Idle's.