Motorola handset division is not going anywhere. What Nokia Siemens (Not Nokia, Nokia Siemens is a joint venture of Nokia and Siemens focused on networks) bought was the Network Operations division, not the handset division.
Sorry, I couldn't help to laugh and show the story to my co-workers when I read that name.We had to google it to make sure it wasn't made-up
For many spanish-speaking people, 'Allan Brito' is a typical fake name people use to make prank calls and such. (In spanish, 'alambrito' means 'little wire')
I don't mean to insult the guy; but it's funny when you know there is an actual person with a name you always used to laugh at. (Like when Bart calls Moe's and asks for 'Hugh Jass', and there was a person with that name at the bar).
We tell the startups we fund not to worry about infringing patents, because startups rarely get sued for patent infringement. There are only two reasons someone might sue you: for money, or to prevent you from competing with them. Startups are too poor to be worth suing for money. And in practice they don't seem to get sued much by competitors, either. They don't get sued by other startups because (a) patent suits are an expensive distraction, and (b) since the other startups are as young as they are, their patents probably haven't issued yet. [3] Nor do startups, at least in the software business, seem to get sued much by established competitors. Despite all the patents Microsoft holds, I don't know of an instance where they sued a startup for patent infringement. Companies like Microsoft and Oracle don't win by winning lawsuits. That's too uncertain. They win by locking competitors out of their sales channels. If you do manage to threaten them, they're more likely to buy you than sue you.
If you think you have a good product, start working in getting it to market. If you get to a point where you're successful enough to be sued for patent infringment, you will have enough resources by then to deal with that situation.
By the way, Paul Graham has many interesting essays about software startups
In related news, Guatemalan police arrested a twitter user, after he put a message telling people to withdraw their funds from Banrural -the bank involved in the corruption scandal- as a way to protest against these acts. The authorities charged him of "intent to incite financial panic", a crime recently created in order to protect financial institutions from unfounded rumors.
These journals are not only printed media, but peer-reviewed scientific journals. They way scientist publish their findings and theories is through articles in this kind of journals, that get screened and reviewed by specialists of the field before publication; so anything published is supposed to have scientific merit.
Of course, nothing prevents a business to set up an allegedly scientific journal that publishes serious-looking articles that push its products or agenda, but it wouldn't have a great impact because of the lack of reputation of said journal among the scientific community
But in this case, it was Elsevier who acepted to do that. Elsevier is a very reputable publishing company for scientific journals, so any publication under its name will carry that credibility, so Merck choose to use it as a way to push their own interests over the pharmaceutical and medical community.
These incidents hurt Elsevier's credibility, and as other poster have said, raise questions about the current model of scientific publications. Publishers like Elsevier charge very high for their journal subscriptions, and they can do so because of it prestige, no university could do serious research without access to them; and authors keep publishing through them because they need a reputable name to back their articles.
Dawkins freely admits you can't disprove the existance of a God or any other supnernatural being, no more than you can disprove the existance of pink unicorns, FSM or Santa Claus.
IMO, that's his fallacy. That argument is valid if you use it against a person that claims that you should believe in God because you can't disprove his existance; but it's sometimes used as a means to convey the idea that belief in a supernatural being is as delusional or childish, as believing in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy.
Because a MMS isn't really a SMS, it's treated differently by the network. A SMS is a short text string piggybacking in the control messages between the cell phone and the network. A MMS is more like an e-mail with attachments, it gets sent through the data network (the same data network that gets used for mobile web and data plans).
Becasue it might be a good idea, but you're too lazy to implement it or patent it yourself? Or maybe it requires a significant amount of capital investment, that you can't make on your own, but you are a geek and don't want to be bothered with getting people to invest on it?
Yes, because your company is the sole owner of its IPv4 address space; it's not that it was leased from an Internet authority like IANA or something; nor they can ask for your company to give them those addresses back... That would be communism, you know?
What you call a professional, here we call it a suit. A PHB type that pretends to have competence, uses buzzwords and IT lingo to sell his image, but he really isn't that competent. He often values products and technologies by their marketing and he relies on the brand of said products and technologies as warranty for the solutions he implements (Actually he doesn't implement a solution, he only provides a'design' and other people, code-monkeys as he calls them, have to make it work)
No its not, they are the easiest to scam - you just have to make the scam appeal to a different aspect. i.e. solicit donations to non-existent charities, say one of their relatives owes money etc.
Being honest is not exactly the same as being gullible.
Almost offtopic, but I found something interesting in the Wikipedia article you referenced about the Jerusalem Bible:
The translation itself uses a literal approach that has been admired for its literary qualities, perhaps in part due to its most famous contributor, J.R.R. Tolkien (his primary contribution was the translation of Jonah)
Not even if you are buying a used iPhone from someone; you have to get the iPhone package.
If you're buying an used iPhone from someone and you have already a contract with AT&T (or sign up with a dumb phone) nothing prevents you to put the AT&T SIM on the iPhone, no matter what the AT&T support drone tells you.
He had to buy a used laptop with Windows 2000 on it to be able to program his PLC controllers. Vista wouldn't install or run the PLC software it was designed for 2000/XP, and no Vista port has been written yet.
This is currently a common issue within the automation industry. Worse, most laptops currently on sale don't have a RS-232 serial port, which is still widely used to program and monitor PLCs and many serial to USB adapters just don't work.
So, buying a new laptop to do field work is becoming more difficult these days.
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Motorola handset division is not going anywhere. What Nokia Siemens (Not Nokia, Nokia Siemens is a joint venture of Nokia and Siemens focused on networks) bought was the Network Operations division, not the handset division.
Well, it stopped after all... with a little help from the truck.
Sorry, I couldn't help to laugh and show the story to my co-workers when I read that name .We had to google it to make sure it wasn't made-up
For many spanish-speaking people, 'Allan Brito' is a typical fake name people use to make prank calls and such. (In spanish, 'alambrito' means 'little wire')
I don't mean to insult the guy; but it's funny when you know there is an actual person with a name you always used to laugh at. (Like when Bart calls Moe's and asks for 'Hugh Jass', and there was a person with that name at the bar).
I mean, how many societies have plumbers as heroes?
Super Mario World?
According to Paul Graham, software startups don't need to worry about patents:
We tell the startups we fund not to worry about infringing patents, because startups rarely get sued for patent infringement. There are only two reasons someone might sue you: for money, or to prevent you from competing with them. Startups are too poor to be worth suing for money. And in practice they don't seem to get sued much by competitors, either. They don't get sued by other startups because (a) patent suits are an expensive distraction, and (b) since the other startups are as young as they are, their patents probably haven't issued yet. [3] Nor do startups, at least in the software business, seem to get sued much by established competitors. Despite all the patents Microsoft holds, I don't know of an instance where they sued a startup for patent infringement. Companies like Microsoft and Oracle don't win by winning lawsuits. That's too uncertain. They win by locking competitors out of their sales channels. If you do manage to threaten them, they're more likely to buy you than sue you.
If you think you have a good product, start working in getting it to market. If you get to a point where you're successful enough to be sued for patent infringment, you will have enough resources by then to deal with that situation.
By the way, Paul Graham has many interesting essays about software startups
I remember a study was reported a couple of years ago or so saying that incompetent people thing they're great at what they do
Let me guess... You think you're great at grammar, don't you?
I read your post and thought "WTF! A card that can't get 1024x768 without SLI?" and then I realized you meant 3DFX's SLI, not nVidia's current one.
In related news, Guatemalan police arrested a twitter user, after he put a message telling people to withdraw their funds from Banrural -the bank involved in the corruption scandal- as a way to protest against these acts. The authorities charged him of "intent to incite financial panic", a crime recently created in order to protect financial institutions from unfounded rumors.
These journals are not only printed media, but peer-reviewed scientific journals. They way scientist publish their findings and theories is through articles in this kind of journals, that get screened and reviewed by specialists of the field before publication; so anything published is supposed to have scientific merit.
Of course, nothing prevents a business to set up an allegedly scientific journal that publishes serious-looking articles that push its products or agenda, but it wouldn't have a great impact because of the lack of reputation of said journal among the scientific community
But in this case, it was Elsevier who acepted to do that. Elsevier is a very reputable publishing company for scientific journals, so any publication under its name will carry that credibility, so Merck choose to use it as a way to push their own interests over the pharmaceutical and medical community.
These incidents hurt Elsevier's credibility, and as other poster have said, raise questions about the current model of scientific publications. Publishers like Elsevier charge very high for their journal subscriptions, and they can do so because of it prestige, no university could do serious research without access to them; and authors keep publishing through them because they need a reputable name to back their articles.
Then who's on third?
No, Who's on first.
Dawkins freely admits you can't disprove the existance of a God or any other supnernatural being, no more than you can disprove the existance of pink unicorns, FSM or Santa Claus.
IMO, that's his fallacy. That argument is valid if you use it against a person that claims that you should believe in God because you can't disprove his existance; but it's sometimes used as a means to convey the idea that belief in a supernatural being is as delusional or childish, as believing in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy.
Because a MMS isn't really a SMS, it's treated differently by the network. A SMS is a short text string piggybacking in the control messages between the cell phone and the network. A MMS is more like an e-mail with attachments, it gets sent through the data network (the same data network that gets used for mobile web and data plans).
Becasue it might be a good idea, but you're too lazy to implement it or patent it yourself? Or maybe it requires a significant amount of capital investment, that you can't make on your own, but you are a geek and don't want to be bothered with getting people to invest on it?
I don't think many people ever thought that could happen one day....
(Disclaimer: I don't think that the current U.S. administration is socialist/communist.)
The best part is, it never expires!
And it can be exchanged for items not available with other gift cards, like recreational drugs and sex with prostitutes.
Yes, because your company is the sole owner of its IPv4 address space; it's not that it was leased from an Internet authority like IANA or something; nor they can ask for your company to give them those addresses back... That would be communism, you know?
The backdoor is known as "La puerta Negra"
I haven't used Lotus software, but I realize how much does it suck when I see the parent post modded Insightful instead of Funny
I know you're trolling, but I'll answer anyway.
What you call a professional, here we call it a suit. A PHB type that pretends to have competence, uses buzzwords and IT lingo to sell his image, but he really isn't that competent. He often values products and technologies by their marketing and he relies on the brand of said products and technologies as warranty for the solutions he implements (Actually he doesn't implement a solution, he only provides a'design' and other people, code-monkeys as he calls them, have to make it work)
Someone at least tag this with a "pleasestop"??
Sorry, those tags are reserved for 'Slashdot's Disagree Mail' stories
No its not, they are the easiest to scam - you just have to make the scam appeal to a different aspect. i.e. solicit donations to non-existent charities, say one of their relatives owes money etc.
Being honest is not exactly the same as being gullible.
The translation itself uses a literal approach that has been admired for its literary qualities, perhaps in part due to its most famous contributor, J.R.R. Tolkien (his primary contribution was the translation of Jonah)
The speed of java with the ease of assembly language! Yay!
Not even if you are buying a used iPhone from someone; you have to get the iPhone package.
If you're buying an used iPhone from someone and you have already a contract with AT&T (or sign up with a dumb phone) nothing prevents you to put the AT&T SIM on the iPhone, no matter what the AT&T support drone tells you.
He had to buy a used laptop with Windows 2000 on it to be able to program his PLC controllers. Vista wouldn't install or run the PLC software it was designed for 2000/XP, and no Vista port has been written yet.
This is currently a common issue within the automation industry. Worse, most laptops currently on sale don't have a RS-232 serial port, which is still widely used to program and monitor PLCs and many serial to USB adapters just don't work.
So, buying a new laptop to do field work is becoming more difficult these days.