In the age of IP and patents it seems like it is very hard for companies to make major advances [in any field] without some other company cry foul and taking that company to court over patent/IP rights, especially if the alleged infringer is a smaller company (i.e. less lawyers). IBM and MS, among others, are filing dozen if not hundreds of patents a day. What we are seeing as an affect is that innovation is being stifled by litigation.
If a jet crashed and there's a picture, and its not classified info, then there's nothing wrong with it being public information, because it IS public information.
Not with the current administration....remember the casket picture incident? They [the pictures] were not classified, but you better not show them to the people.
People in today's society are so use to computers crashing that most of them accept this type of stuff as part of the standard operating procedure of computers. In what other industry would this be tolerated and allowed to continue to go on? Sure when toilets "crash" you use a plunger, but you are throwing away cap to begin with. I hate to say this, but there needs to be better government regualation of this type of use of computers. Perhaps much as the same way the government regulates telco downtime (telcos are only allowed a certain amoing of downtime a year or they get fined up the a$$ IIRC). If a voting system doesn't have 5/6 sigma reliability that why bother using it at all? "We're a democracy and have free elections as long as the computer is running, but if it crashes, we'll just hope it doesn't happen in the next election."
Gee...from hanging chads to hanging prompts...nice improvement.
over 4 hours better phone and live chat support wasted on getting a replacement subwoofer from my m505 laptop. On top of that, the replacement they finally sent didn't work at all. Now my laptop won't boot up at all (not even to the bios screen) and I dread having to call them nothing that the person on the other end will waste at least another 1-2 hours of my time.
The worst and best part of this is that I had to get really pissy and rude with the "technical" support person on the other end (of the world) before I was finally transfered to a support person in the states. Now I know how to circumvent some of the bs, but I feel bad for the poor soul since they are just trying to do their job. Offshoring may have done wonders to some companies' bottom line, but what has it cost them (and us (no-pun intended)) in customer satisfaction?
Maybe the FBI thought the SG program was for real and that the gate posed a serious risk to national security. If so, the problem should have been turned over to the TSA.
My wife (OMG,./er who is married) calls these parents "Helicopter Parents" because they just hover over their kids, but as soon as there is an incident with regards to the child and the school and/or teacher, they immediately fly on in assuming that they (the school/teacher) are the cause of the "accident".
It's sad when my wife is surprised that the parent(s) supports the teacher's or school's position. She actually got offered $5k by a parent to pass her child so that they could get the kid out of the house (this was in the affluent Plano west high school). She turned it down which is probably why she's a teacher and I'm not...I'd take the $5k and still fail the dumba$$
...with the 3rd dimension, now solitaire cards will feel much better when I play with them. The 2d cards just didn't feel right, especially when shuffling. Of course this will result in me wasting more of the 4th dimension (if that's what you consider time to be anyway)
I knew there was a reason for the program. Next thing you know, the HMOs and managed health care plans will start providing PC insurance and for a $20 co-pay you can get your PC checked out. Actually, I guess that what anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do...and compared to realy health insurance, they are quite a bargain.
a wife (and/or significant other , well if it's an "and" don't let the wife know about it) is one of the best to-do list reminders. As in "remember how you wanted to have....well you better first remember to cut the grass, take out the trash, recompile to the 2.6.7 kernel, bathe the kids, gas the car, rotate the tires...."
Not intentionally trolling, but is it any wonder why other countries don't accept our way of governing with open arms.
US Ambassador sales pitch on democracy: "So look, get get all this freedom in a 'democracy', but the trick, and you'll love this, is that you have the freedom to take away freedom. Now don't do it right away, give them 100 or so years and then start doing it slowly so that no one notices til it's too late. It also helps to get in bed with big business cuase oil or not, cash is king."
How come we never see salary surveys of salary surveyors? Do they not want us to know how little or how much they make? Maybe they are making 6+ figures and just don't want us to know about it so they have they don't have any competition.
Anyway...no big surprise that IT related salaries slide a bunch the past few years. Supply and demand. There are a bunch of IT workers looking for jobs and it has been a "buyers" market, not like in the late 90's.
What I wonder is how do salary trends here [US] compare to those jobs that have been outsourced? Did the outsourcees salary increase/decrease/stay flat? Just wondering if there is any connection between the two.
Cell phone games as they are currently are fun for a few minutes while trying to kill some time, and I guess going accelerated 3-D is the natural evolution of packing more features into a device to try to stand above the competition, but it's supposed to be a phone. I think the big winners here will be the memory manufacturers. As more games and higher device requirements become mainstream, the phone is going to need more memory. How long till we see entry-level phones with 32MB or more of user ram? Samsung is the only phone maker I know of that also makes their own memory...humm, seems like a competive advantage for them right out of the blocks.
Also, what of battery life? With the screen on all the time (while playing the games, that use chip(s)/memory that require more power), battery life could be an issue. Now with OLED screen technology, that should help, but I don't want to have to carry around 3 spare batteries.
Maybe we'll need to carry more than one phone (if you don't already)...one to play games, listen to music on and one to make calls with.
"Ding Dong"..."No one's home" "Ding Dong"..."Not interested" "Ding Dong"..."Go away" "Ding Dong"..."Leave me alone" "Ding Dong"..."porn you say? well come right on in"
Makes me wonder how much of this (if any) is implemented using Websphere and J2EE...product(s) and technology IBM really has been pushing. Sounds like they are just using more of the MQ series stuff for messaging.
Slashdot Mirror
1. Chainsaw
2. Boomstick
3. Super boomstick
4. Chaingun
5. Rockets launcher
6. Plasma gun
7. BFG
and a bit of armor
what more do you need?
Aren't they standard issue for all Space Marines?
In the age of IP and patents it seems like it is very hard for companies to make major advances [in any field] without some other company cry foul and taking that company to court over patent/IP rights, especially if the alleged infringer is a smaller company (i.e. less lawyers). IBM and MS, among others, are filing dozen if not hundreds of patents a day. What we are seeing as an affect is that innovation is being stifled by litigation.
(pat pending)
Not with the current administration....remember the casket picture incident? They [the pictures] were not classified, but you better not show them to the people.
People in today's society are so use to computers crashing that most of them accept this type of stuff as part of the standard operating procedure of computers. In what other industry would this be tolerated and allowed to continue to go on? Sure when toilets "crash" you use a plunger, but you are throwing away cap to begin with. I hate to say this, but there needs to be better government regualation of this type of use of computers. Perhaps much as the same way the government regulates telco downtime (telcos are only allowed a certain amoing of downtime a year or they get fined up the a$$ IIRC). If a voting system doesn't have 5/6 sigma reliability that why bother using it at all? "We're a democracy and have free elections as long as the computer is running, but if it crashes, we'll just hope it doesn't happen in the next election."
Gee...from hanging chads to hanging prompts...nice improvement.
car's face if something like this happened to it.
over 4 hours better phone and live chat support wasted on getting a replacement subwoofer from my m505 laptop. On top of that, the replacement they finally sent didn't work at all. Now my laptop won't boot up at all (not even to the bios screen) and I dread having to call them nothing that the person on the other end will waste at least another 1-2 hours of my time.
The worst and best part of this is that I had to get really pissy and rude with the "technical" support person on the other end (of the world) before I was finally transfered to a support person in the states. Now I know how to circumvent some of the bs, but I feel bad for the poor soul since they are just trying to do their job. Offshoring may have done wonders to some companies' bottom line, but what has it cost them (and us (no-pun intended)) in customer satisfaction?
you'd think that it would be easier for him to come to us. Nevertheless, it's nice to see that we are taking the first step in establishing contact.
Maybe the FBI thought the SG program was for real and that the gate posed a serious risk to national security. If so, the problem should have been turned over to the TSA.
How long before this term becomes popular and associated with google?
....which you can apply to the Dell Ford Explorer
My wife (OMG, ./er who is married) calls these parents "Helicopter Parents" because they just hover over their kids, but as soon as there is an incident with regards to the child and the school and/or teacher, they immediately fly on in assuming that they (the school/teacher) are the cause of the "accident".
It's sad when my wife is surprised that the parent(s) supports the teacher's or school's position. She actually got offered $5k by a parent to pass her child so that they could get the kid out of the house (this was in the affluent Plano west high school). She turned it down which is probably why she's a teacher and I'm not...I'd take the $5k and still fail the dumba$$
...with the 3rd dimension, now solitaire cards will feel much better when I play with them. The 2d cards just didn't feel right, especially when shuffling. Of course this will result in me wasting more of the 4th dimension (if that's what you consider time to be anyway)
...because once we get to 802.11l we're really going to be screwed and nevermind the marketing nightmares.
/."
Sample tech support eamil exchange
"I'm having problems with my 802.11l wireless router"
"Did you say 802.111?"
"No, 802.11l"
"That's what I said"
"No, you said 802.111, that's not due out til next month according to
"Sorry sir, so you have our 802.11/. router?"
I knew there was a reason for the program. Next thing you know, the HMOs and managed health care plans will start providing PC insurance and for a $20 co-pay you can get your PC checked out. Actually, I guess that what anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do...and compared to realy health insurance, they are quite a bargain.
j lo's ass that is...a genetic muscular mutation
Let's get ready to rumble......
a wife (and/or significant other , well if it's an "and" don't let the wife know about it) is one of the best to-do list reminders. As in "remember how you wanted to have....well you better first remember to cut the grass, take out the trash, recompile to the 2.6.7 kernel, bathe the kids, gas the car, rotate the tires...."
Next thing I know, it's morning.
Not intentionally trolling, but is it any wonder why other countries don't accept our way of governing with open arms.
US Ambassador sales pitch on democracy:
"So look, get get all this freedom in a 'democracy', but the trick, and you'll love this, is that you have the freedom to take away freedom. Now don't do it right away, give them 100 or so years and then start doing it slowly so that no one notices til it's too late. It also helps to get in bed with big business cuase oil or not, cash is king."
"Dude, that last set was l33t. I'm stoked that we decided to DP by that wifi convention so the we could haxor their train."
"yeah, their tube was way glassy...no dropped packets...so easy to shred"
How come we never see salary surveys of salary surveyors? Do they not want us to know how little or how much they make? Maybe they are making 6+ figures and just don't want us to know about it so they have they don't have any competition.
Anyway...no big surprise that IT related salaries slide a bunch the past few years. Supply and demand. There are a bunch of IT workers looking for jobs and it has been a "buyers" market, not like in the late 90's.
What I wonder is how do salary trends here [US] compare to those jobs that have been outsourced? Did the outsourcees salary increase/decrease/stay flat? Just wondering if there is any connection between the two.
I too go why 3D for that much money, but then again look at the benefits to the Linux community.
--Linux has been getting mainstream press thanks to SCO, and all the Window viruses; people have heard of it.
--Now you're in come public place with your nice ~$4000 laptop and someone sees the cool 3D effect (hopefully non-porn related).
"Cool, I wish my laptop could do that" (even though the person doesn't know why they wish their lappy could do it) "What version of Windows is that?"
"It's not Windows, it's Linux"
It may just be a small attention getter, but a lot of small attention getters can add up to a big boost of Linux awareness among the [general] public.
/. emulators reviewed...yep we got another
Cell phone games as they are currently are fun for a few minutes while trying to kill some time, and I guess going accelerated 3-D is the natural evolution of packing more features into a device to try to stand above the competition, but it's supposed to be a phone. I think the big winners here will be the memory manufacturers. As more games and higher device requirements become mainstream, the phone is going to need more memory. How long till we see entry-level phones with 32MB or more of user ram? Samsung is the only phone maker I know of that also makes their own memory...humm, seems like a competive advantage for them right out of the blocks.
Also, what of battery life? With the screen on all the time (while playing the games, that use chip(s)/memory that require more power), battery life could be an issue. Now with OLED screen technology, that should help, but I don't want to have to carry around 3 spare batteries.
Maybe we'll need to carry more than one phone (if you don't already)...one to play games, listen to music on and one to make calls with.
"Ding Dong"..."No one's home"
"Ding Dong"..."Not interested"
"Ding Dong"..."Go away"
"Ding Dong"..."Leave me alone"
"Ding Dong"..."porn you say? well come right on in"
Makes me wonder how much of this (if any) is implemented using Websphere and J2EE...product(s) and technology IBM really has been pushing. Sounds like they are just using more of the MQ series stuff for messaging.