In most states if your employer cuts your pay and you quit, you get unemployment. A cut in pay is considered breach of contract on the employer's part and your rejection of the new terms is tantamount to you being fired. Hopefully enough IBM employees know of or learn of this and walk out, causing IBM to pay out substantial unemployment compensation.
However, knowing IBM, this is what they planned--with the current economic downturn, they probably want to decrease their payroll anyway and in so doing bolster their stock price. Still, it's critical (IMHO) that employees who quit know they can file for benefits so they don't get double-shafted by IBM.
motorists being forced off the road and into buses. GOOD. That's the whole point of congestion charges. I am a motorist
There are no buses or trains or any other mass transit anywhere near where I live and commute from. Give me the mass transit before you start charging me for not using it (and acting holier than thou.)
Most people won't go anywhere without a laptop mouse
I challenge that. Just because you do so don't assume others do too. Very few laptop users I know use mice with them. Of course, most of those users are MacBook users, so perhaps they are very comfortable with the input abilities Apple provides (that is, they're not stuck with a "nipple" in the middle of their keyboard, etc.)
The suit might have merit if the iPod would not play MP3 files or some other standard format. WMA is not a standard--hell, the "W" stands for "Windows" for crying out loud. Can Microsoft be sued for not supporting "Apple File Protocol" or some other Apple-specific protocol?
It's the pages that are written for IE7 (or IE6 or ANY SPECIFIC BROWSER) that are broken and non-interoperable, not the browser. Why do you and so many others continue to think that websites should be made browser-specific and those who create them be allowed to hold browser authors hostage? Reading the responses to this story I feel as if I've fallen into some bizarro world where Microsoft's promotion of Microsoft-only websites has suddenly become embraced as a good thing. And when I point out how illogical this is, my posts get marked as Flamebait. I wonder how many of these posts advocating MS-specific web development can be traced back to the Redmond area; it's the only explanation I can fathom. Honestly--that's not flamebait, it's simply trying to figure out how all of you who oppose a single company ruling the entire internet have evaporated and been replaced by those who think it's a good thing. What is going on here???
You two are both kidding, right? Re-read the post. IE requires the user to turn on a special "standards mode" to correctly render STANDARD WEBSITES. That is a blatant admittance by Redmond that IE, by default, does not adhere to standards!! And, no, this is not "spin". It's rather straightforward logic. Only a Microsoft shill could possibly think that IE needing a special mode to comply to standards would be a good thing.
Making fun of someone for not knowing how to exit vi is pretty extreme. It's quite possible for an emacs user to not know the obscure vi commands. I'd be the opposite--I use vi exclusively and would be hard pressed to use emacs. The standard control-C doesn't work to get out of vi, so maybe you need to get off your high horse and get some perspective on what a truly clueless user is.
If you are insane enough to open your wifi then for gods sake setup a decent firewall and a proxy so you can log who's been viewing what, otherwise you could find yourself at the wrong end of the law. There is no change there, either.. this law changes nothing.
I'm not sure I can disagree more. First of all, the moment you install a logging proxy, you suddenly become legally responsible for constantly monitoring those logs. Authorities are sure as shootin' gonna ask why you didn't if this law is brought to bear. "Your honor, the logs were right there. He invoked them himself. All he had to do was LOOK to save teh children!" and you're totally screwed.
Next, there are some very valid reasons for there to be open WiFi access points. All coffee joints and hip restaurants in any given town have them, and they should. It is "a good thing"(tm). Unfounded fear of pron should not take away one of the best sociological innovations of our era, and you should not be advocating that it does.
The current situation of constant rate increases far in excess of inflation and retarded technological innovation is definitive proof that sometimes government regulation is sorely needed. I strongly suspect that if you were a coal miner you'd be rather happy that the gov't has rules preventing you from working 15 hour days, 7 days a week, with no air filters. The next time you're in a car accident, you probably won't consider that it's government regulations that mandated crumple zones, seat belts, air bags, and other innovations that saved your life. Open your eyes and you might see that government regulations are not always bad.
he really ought to leave this stuff to the pros and let the market bring prices down.
We HAVE left it to the "pros" for decades and what did they provide this marketplace? Absolutely NOTHING. They completely ignored developing nations in favor of the high margins of the first world. Only now that someone has finally paid attention to the billions of computerless do Intel and Microsoft get off their butts and half-heartedly and belatedly bring a half-assed and overpriced solution to the market. Nice.
I'm not sure who I'm madder at: Intel & Microsoft for their transparent claims of "trying to help", the potential recipients of the XO who are being fooled into not ordering it, or folks like you who are not seeing any problem with this whole cock-up.
50 million lines of code and they couldn't find anything that needed optimization?? Or were their priorities elsewhere? These days, optimization always seems to be relegated to "low man on the totem pole."
Several items about this study are quite notable if you read the whole thing:
1) No reporting of the speeds achieved by the subjects using numeric keypad phones. True, you can assume they were the slowest, but just how slow? Why blatantly omit that data?
2) (As others have reported) Why allow users to go back and correct errors? When you test WPM typing speed on a typewriter/computer you do not allow error correction. Why was that deviated from here?
3) Users of full-keyboard devices (blackberries?) have been using them for years. iPhone users had been using their device for "1 month". Hmmmm?
All this and the way the article is written really does seem like the authors set out to discredit the iPhone. That's not necessarily bad; researchers set out all the time to write papers to confirm or deny hypotheses. But these guys didn't do a good enough job covering their bias with supporting or completeness of evidence. On the contrary, it smells of an attempt to get their firm's name in the news because they used the magig word "iPhone".
Will Netflix incorporate the near-winners' ideas into their current system? If so, won't future teams be aiming at a moving (improving) target? If not, won't current Netflix customers know that their recommendations could be better if Netflix just incorporated a now publicly-disclosed algorithm into their servers?
All too often on Slashdot people actually believe that "Smart==Thinks like me" and "Stupid==Doesn't think like me"
That's definitely not confined to/. Consider the number of Republicans who continue to call Bill Clinton "stupid" when he's demonstrably not, having been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship. (And before you mod me "flamebait", yes, there are examples going the other way too.) It's simply the tendency of the human brain to think all our beliefs are obvious so anyone disagreeing with us is missing the obvious and is therefore dumb. It's unfortunate but since schools don't teach students to open their minds to opposing ideas through debate/rhetoric/satire much anymore, it's not likely to be solved anytime soon.
they all have one thing in common: they're all unpronounceable words. VHS and DVD. Try pronouncing them. I'm thinking HD DVD will eventually come out on top
Then explain why the Wii is outselling both its competitors combined.
Why is 2010 such a "hard" deadline? Was it not created solely by politicians who wanted to divert resources to go to Mars? As such, can it not be moved just as easily as it was created? It is, after all, three years away. If we can't move deadlines that far out, isn't there a chance we're overplanning, and leaving ourselves completely vulnerable to unexpected circumstances, exactly like this solar panel issue?
Today's handheld devices ARE the supercomputers of decades past. Things are always getting faster and smaller. If you took a WinCE device or iPhone back 15 years, you'd blow peoples' socks off.
Without SSH and SFTP, does it seem as if Microsoft is trying to build a wall between itself and Linux? To what end I'm not sure, but this is starting to seem deliberate.
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However, knowing IBM, this is what they planned--with the current economic downturn, they probably want to decrease their payroll anyway and in so doing bolster their stock price. Still, it's critical (IMHO) that employees who quit know they can file for benefits so they don't get double-shafted by IBM.
So Toyota should do away with its R&D division because anything they innovate will simply be copied by Honda, GM, and VW?
The suit might have merit if the iPod would not play MP3 files or some other standard format. WMA is not a standard--hell, the "W" stands for "Windows" for crying out loud. Can Microsoft be sued for not supporting "Apple File Protocol" or some other Apple-specific protocol?
It's the pages that are written for IE7 (or IE6 or ANY SPECIFIC BROWSER) that are broken and non-interoperable, not the browser. Why do you and so many others continue to think that websites should be made browser-specific and those who create them be allowed to hold browser authors hostage? Reading the responses to this story I feel as if I've fallen into some bizarro world where Microsoft's promotion of Microsoft-only websites has suddenly become embraced as a good thing. And when I point out how illogical this is, my posts get marked as Flamebait. I wonder how many of these posts advocating MS-specific web development can be traced back to the Redmond area; it's the only explanation I can fathom. Honestly--that's not flamebait, it's simply trying to figure out how all of you who oppose a single company ruling the entire internet have evaporated and been replaced by those who think it's a good thing. What is going on here???
You two are both kidding, right? Re-read the post. IE requires the user to turn on a special "standards mode" to correctly render STANDARD WEBSITES. That is a blatant admittance by Redmond that IE, by default, does not adhere to standards!! And, no, this is not "spin". It's rather straightforward logic. Only a Microsoft shill could possibly think that IE needing a special mode to comply to standards would be a good thing.
Rod Serling covered this in "The Lonely": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_(The_Twilight_Zone)
Making fun of someone for not knowing how to exit vi is pretty extreme. It's quite possible for an emacs user to not know the obscure vi commands. I'd be the opposite--I use vi exclusively and would be hard pressed to use emacs. The standard control-C doesn't work to get out of vi, so maybe you need to get off your high horse and get some perspective on what a truly clueless user is.
The next time anyone defends anything Microsoft at all and calls me a "fanboi" for using Apple products instead.......
Next, there are some very valid reasons for there to be open WiFi access points. All coffee joints and hip restaurants in any given town have them, and they should. It is "a good thing"(tm). Unfounded fear of pron should not take away one of the best sociological innovations of our era, and you should not be advocating that it does.
Because we want to be sure more than one person has a press.
The current situation of constant rate increases far in excess of inflation and retarded technological innovation is definitive proof that sometimes government regulation is sorely needed. I strongly suspect that if you were a coal miner you'd be rather happy that the gov't has rules preventing you from working 15 hour days, 7 days a week, with no air filters. The next time you're in a car accident, you probably won't consider that it's government regulations that mandated crumple zones, seat belts, air bags, and other innovations that saved your life. Open your eyes and you might see that government regulations are not always bad.
I'm not sure who I'm madder at: Intel & Microsoft for their transparent claims of "trying to help", the potential recipients of the XO who are being fooled into not ordering it, or folks like you who are not seeing any problem with this whole cock-up.
50 million lines of code and they couldn't find anything that needed optimization?? Or were their priorities elsewhere? These days, optimization always seems to be relegated to "low man on the totem pole."
Is this really surprising? Who here DID think parents game with their kids??
Several items about this study are quite notable if you read the whole thing: 1) No reporting of the speeds achieved by the subjects using numeric keypad phones. True, you can assume they were the slowest, but just how slow? Why blatantly omit that data? 2) (As others have reported) Why allow users to go back and correct errors? When you test WPM typing speed on a typewriter/computer you do not allow error correction. Why was that deviated from here? 3) Users of full-keyboard devices (blackberries?) have been using them for years. iPhone users had been using their device for "1 month". Hmmmm? All this and the way the article is written really does seem like the authors set out to discredit the iPhone. That's not necessarily bad; researchers set out all the time to write papers to confirm or deny hypotheses. But these guys didn't do a good enough job covering their bias with supporting or completeness of evidence. On the contrary, it smells of an attempt to get their firm's name in the news because they used the magig word "iPhone".
Will Netflix incorporate the near-winners' ideas into their current system? If so, won't future teams be aiming at a moving (improving) target? If not, won't current Netflix customers know that their recommendations could be better if Netflix just incorporated a now publicly-disclosed algorithm into their servers?
Why is 2010 such a "hard" deadline? Was it not created solely by politicians who wanted to divert resources to go to Mars? As such, can it not be moved just as easily as it was created? It is, after all, three years away. If we can't move deadlines that far out, isn't there a chance we're overplanning, and leaving ourselves completely vulnerable to unexpected circumstances, exactly like this solar panel issue?
Today's handheld devices ARE the supercomputers of decades past. Things are always getting faster and smaller. If you took a WinCE device or iPhone back 15 years, you'd blow peoples' socks off.
Without SSH and SFTP, does it seem as if Microsoft is trying to build a wall between itself and Linux? To what end I'm not sure, but this is starting to seem deliberate.