Actually, I will let you in a little secret, if you promise not to tell anybody (and I will tell you this reeeeeally silently):/me whispers: Nokia sold it's logo and trademark to some electronics company a few years ago, so they continued producing Nokia branded TV sets, VCRs and Sat set tops. But the guts aren't Nokia.
OK, but now don't tell anyone, expecially don't do something stupid such as publishing this on slashdot, or something..
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OK, well, this might have been your experience, but to be honest, I know of much more people who had an excellent experience with Nokia routers. Some said that they are considered some of the best available, in fact. I wouldn't vouch for one or the other opinion, but fact is, you are the first case of nonworking equipment that I have ever heard of, in contrast with tens of positive feedback.
Heh, yes. Well, that's what a systems engineer should be - a hardware designer AND a system programmer, in one. And the "real nice guy" part I implied it in "noble".
I know of Jack Tramiel. I admire this guy a lot. As for Commodore's demise, I believe it happened because of the choice to market the Amiga as a toy, rather than the professional personal computer it was. Think about it: the Amiga had GUI based applications while the PC was still wallowing in ugly ASCII-graphic stuff (Lotus 123 etc.). Yet, it failed to pick up in the offices because - it could be connected to a TV - keyboard integrated with CPU unit - not expandible
By the time AMiga 2000 came out, it was too late. Amiga was synonimous for good gaming and music authoring.
..why Woz is so respected and admired by some people. Heck, this guy has what one could call, a following of fans. The more I learn about him, the more I feel he'd be my perfect role model - a talented hardware (actually systems) engineer that is also noble.
See, that's what all this spam does to us. And I am not completely joking; all this spam is exasperating me, and I am convinced that spammers have not a shred of human decency.
It fires 20 gramm (308 grains) tungsten dart (fleschette) with muzzle velocity of 1450 meters per second (4750 fps). At 1000 meters this projectile will penetrate a 40 mm of RHA (rollded homogenous steel armour) and will result in serious secondary fragmentation effect behind the armour. That said, it will penetrate two walls of any modern APC at one kilometer range. The trajectory is very flat and does not rise higher than 800 mm above the line of sight when fired to 1000 meters.
Unfortunately, spammers are psychopats: their only care is for their own good, and that alone. They feel no remorse or empathy and are highly destructive towards society and/or the company they work for. Psychopats represent a danger for everybody, as they will kill without hesitation if they think they can get away with it.
The psychological profile of the spammer is exactly the same. Reading some of their statements just enforced my conclusion that they are completely deprived of conscience or empathy. They are more than happy to subvert and abuse the Internet for their profit.
What if you were recorded simply driving down a street within minutes of a crime committed by someone else? What's your alibi? There were no witnesses to the crime other than the database, of course.
Totally weak argument. You could say the same about witnesses: what if you were seen simply driving down a street withing minutes of a crime.." and so on and so forth. I you were seen or recorded driving withing minutes of a crime, it would be useful to contact you because you might know something useful to the investigation.
Not a good argument against car IDs. In fact, it's more of a supporting point, if anything.
My point exactly. You hit me to get me to complain. Did you ever think that I don't want to take that active of a role in your war?
As someone who has to sift through tons of spam every day, I feel no pity for those who feel contempt towards spammers and the ISPs that house them. In fact, I hope that at least some of them are learning their lessons.
One thing you are missing: psychopats are not stupid. They are absolutely insensitive to other people's feelings and needs, to the extreme, in fact (widely considered the most destructive social group in any society), but not stupid.
I would argue that most if not all spammers are, in fact, psychopats!
Thank you very much for this explanation. I did know that the prions are proteins found in the braincells. I didn't know that the broken prions can occur due to genetic mutations - i.e. I didn't know there is a hereditary factor in the CJD and other similar diseases.
Of course, it would be nice to know how these broken prions manage to duplicate themselves, almost analog to the cancer cells.
(I didn't even hope my answer would be picked up, since the story is somewhat old, thanks a lot, dude)
Korvantunturi is not in Lapland. It's more central Finland, near the Russian border. It's a zone interdicted to civilians, so nobody can really check if it's true, except the military (and we all know how the military goes about these things).;o)
Apparently, you aren't justified after all. Sucks to be you.
Finally implants that don't need repeated surgery!
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Implants, pace makers, even artificial hearts! Finally there will be no need to re-open the body to replace the battery, or to have un-hygienic "dongles" with wires going under your skin. This invention is brilliant and extremely usefuly.
I was surprised you folks have not pointed out this most obviious advantage. But that's why you're not physicians, I guess.
But Sun has much more cash (about 60 times more, in fact) and yet, these same./ commenters have so many times predicted it's demise. It wuld be only fair to conclude that RH will be bust 60 times quicker.
NOt exactly the same thing: the lower the income, the more that 1% matters. To bring this into perspective, think of a farmer in Asia, that gets about 1000 $US a year. For him, parting with 10 $US is a very big deal. On the other hand, Bill Gates could part with half of his money, and still have left 25 billion that he wouuld have no idea what the fuck to do with.
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Actually, I will let you in a little secret, if you promise not to tell anybody (and I will tell you this reeeeeally silently): /me whispers:
Nokia sold it's logo and trademark to some electronics company a few years ago, so they continued producing Nokia branded TV sets, VCRs and Sat set tops.
But the guts aren't Nokia.
OK, but now don't tell anyone, expecially don't do something stupid such as publishing this on slashdot, or something..
OK, well, this might have been your experience, but to be honest, I know of much more people who had an excellent experience with Nokia routers. Some said that they are considered some of the best available, in fact. I wouldn't vouch for one or the other opinion, but fact is, you are the first case of nonworking equipment that I have ever heard of, in contrast with tens of positive feedback.
I agree with all you said. I can't help but to think this would be a better world if all wee like Woz.
Heh, yes. Well, that's what a systems engineer should be - a hardware designer AND a system programmer, in one. And the "real nice guy" part I implied it in "noble".
I know of Jack Tramiel. I admire this guy a lot.
As for Commodore's demise, I believe it happened because of the choice to market the Amiga as a toy, rather than the professional personal computer it was. Think about it: the Amiga had GUI based applications while the PC was still wallowing in ugly ASCII-graphic stuff (Lotus 123 etc.). Yet, it failed to pick up in the offices because
- it could be connected to a TV
- keyboard integrated with CPU unit
- not expandible
By the time AMiga 2000 came out, it was too late. Amiga was synonimous for good gaming and music authoring.
..why Woz is so respected and admired by some people. Heck, this guy has what one could call, a following of fans. The more I learn about him, the more I feel he'd be my perfect role model - a talented hardware (actually systems) engineer that is also noble.
What makes that round so special? Is it ultraprecise machining? Special alloy of the bullet?
See, that's what all this spam does to us. And I am not completely joking; all this spam is exasperating me, and I am convinced that spammers have not a shred of human decency.
No, I am not asking you to spend that much on a spammer :o) mine was a comparison on absolute performance, not a cost/effect comparison.
Anyway, can't beat the ballistics on a .50 cal
Oh yes, you can:
It fires 20 gramm (308 grains) tungsten dart (fleschette) with muzzle velocity of 1450 meters per second (4750 fps). At 1000 meters this projectile will penetrate a 40 mm of RHA (rollded homogenous steel armour) and will result in serious secondary fragmentation effect behind the armour. That said, it will penetrate two walls of any modern APC at one kilometer range. The trajectory is very flat and does not rise higher than 800 mm above the line of sight when fired to 1000 meters.
Unfortunately, spammers are psychopats: their only care is for their own good, and that alone. They feel no remorse or empathy and are highly destructive towards society and/or the company they work for. Psychopats represent a danger for everybody, as they will kill without hesitation if they think they can get away with it.
The psychological profile of the spammer is exactly the same. Reading some of their statements just enforced my conclusion that they are completely deprived of conscience or empathy. They are more than happy to subvert and abuse the Internet for their profit.
What if you were recorded simply driving down a street within minutes of a crime committed by someone else? What's your alibi? There were no witnesses to the crime other than the database, of course.
Totally weak argument. You could say the same about witnesses: what if you were seen simply driving down a street withing minutes of a crime.." and so on and so forth. I you were seen or recorded driving withing minutes of a crime, it would be useful to contact you because you might know something useful to the investigation.
Not a good argument against car IDs. In fact, it's more of a supporting point, if anything.
My point exactly. You hit me to get me to complain. Did you ever think that I don't want to take that active of a role in your war?
As someone who has to sift through tons of spam every day, I feel no pity for those who feel contempt towards spammers and the ISPs that house them. In fact, I hope that at least some of them are learning their lessons.
One thing you are missing: psychopats are not stupid. They are absolutely insensitive to other people's feelings and needs, to the extreme, in fact (widely considered the most destructive social group in any society), but not stupid.
I would argue that most if not all spammers are, in fact, psychopats!
No, you aren't. I try to avoid them, myself, and I already am kicking myself for reading some comments here, that spoiled it a little bit.
:o)
Damn slashdot
Thank you very much for this explanation. I did know that the prions are proteins found in the braincells. I didn't know that the broken prions can occur due to genetic mutations - i.e. I didn't know there is a hereditary factor in the CJD and other similar diseases.
Of course, it would be nice to know how these broken prions manage to duplicate themselves, almost analog to the cancer cells.
(I didn't even hope my answer would be picked up, since the story is somewhat old, thanks a lot, dude)
But prions, as far as I know (I might be grossly misinformed) are not living organisms. In fact, they don't rreally multiply at all, do they?
Korvantunturi is not in Lapland. It's more central Finland, near the Russian border. It's a zone interdicted to civilians, so nobody can really check if it's true, except the military (and we all know how the military goes about these things). ;o)
Maybe she was talking about her own boobs, which do seem to shrink as a result of working out and body-building :o)
Interestingly, the parent post was modded down, however, another post, with exactly the same meaning...
But that's not a Fortune 500 company.
Apparently, you aren't justified after all. Sucks to be you.
Implants, pace makers, even artificial hearts! Finally there will be no need to re-open the body to replace the battery, or to have un-hygienic "dongles" with wires going under your skin. This invention is brilliant and extremely usefuly.
I was surprised you folks have not pointed out this most obviious advantage. But that's why you're not physicians, I guess.
But Sun has much more cash (about 60 times more, in fact) and yet, these same ./ commenters have so many times predicted it's demise. It wuld be only fair to conclude that RH will be bust 60 times quicker.
NOt exactly the same thing: the lower the income, the more that 1% matters. To bring this into perspective, think of a farmer in Asia, that gets about 1000 $US a year. For him, parting with 10 $US is a very big deal. On the other hand, Bill Gates could part with half of his money, and still have left 25 billion that he wouuld have no idea what the fuck to do with.