People with a real affinity for inventing and building things with code seem to work out pretty well. An innate curiosity about how other people do things, and why, is something to look for too. On the teamwork part, it works best if you can find someone who is able to listen to other people's perspectives. Time and again we get people in the door who look great on paper but cannot work effectively with other people. If you keep someone like that staffed, it eventually sinks the boat. Oh -- immediately pass on anyone who uses the word 'bro' in a sentence.
I wish it would, but I don't see how this will turn into anything exciting for the economy until offshoring gets more cost prohibitive. Thanks for trying Google.
The headline isn't entirely accurate. Adobe is only supporting flash on Android devices in which it is currently installed. In August, if you don't have flash installed, you ain't gettin' it. They've also come up with a list of "certified" Android hardware whatever in the hell that's actually supposed to accomplish.
Now then, notice that Adobe continues to support and develop Flash for the Windows platform. This is the largest marketshare of desktops out there. If Adobe "saw the light" , and conceeded to some Apple fanboi fantasy land, they would most certainly be dropping all Flash support across the board and declare it "not a profitable direction for the company" or some other such reason.
The fact that Adobe has Nixed the Linux version of Flash for FireFox, and now raising issue with Android, leads me to wonder why they are focused on crippling the two most open and alternative systems out there.
When stars go supernova, they sometimes release large Gamma Ray Bursts which are far more devastating to an atmosphere than X-rays. GRBs can cover great distances too. Currently a star named WR 104 which is 8000 light years from earth seems to be pointing straight at us. If it goes GRB when it explodes, we may be in for trouble. There's enough energy there (even at that insance distance) to cause wide spread extinction on the planet.
Interestingly enough, it may have already happened but the light from it, and/or the GRB, hasn't gotten here yet.
Quite frankly, I've had enough problems on the past few versions of Ubuntu 11-12 that I cringe every time there is a GRUB2 update. I've had software RAID systems refuse to boot (with GPT partitions), and systems with slash on LVM refuse to boot after GRUB2 updates.
The necessity for GRUB2, from what I understand, grew out of the "want" for a VGA video mode at boot so we could have an image on the boot menu (and other fancy things). The trouble I've gone through trying to keep it working though just isn't worth the eye candy IMO.
I really find very little Gates says or does that I actually argue with.
All of you must be a bit new here, or a bit on the whipper-snapper end of the age scale.
Gates destroyed a lot of companies through anti-competitive business practices which had very real potential to offer choice and alternative in the market. No, most people don't care about that because "look at the Gates Foundation!!". Netscape had a great product before Microsoft ruined that company and The whole SCO, Novell and Microsoft Linux thing a Gates effort to ruin Free software.
When you watch some really great companies, and products, get decimated by corporate strong-arming over 20+ years you tend to become a bit bitter towards anything Microsoft or Gates. Even the philanthropy. I wouldn't be surprised to find he's making shady money on it.
KDE tries to be too much like Windows and actually does it. There are soooo many services, extensions, config files, dot directories (aka crap strewn all over the place) that it's simply become a bloated buggy mess. Gnome/Unity did some really strange and confusing things but in the end ended up being railroaded into the Mark Shuttleworth Agenda and is pretty much a tablet UI on a PC desktop now.
This is the evolution of FOSS. Things which start to suck tend to get replaced by things which suck less. The open source desktop isn't losing, it's just KDE has jumped the shark and Gnome (Unity) has gone insane. Two of the earliest game changers of the FOSS Desktop. Luckily, people with more time than I have saddled themselves with the task of changing what sucks (Thanks guys/gals) about these two Desktops and we've got some alternatives. You can't do that with Windows or Apple. You get only one and if it sucks, too bad. Buy the next version and hope.
PS: have a look at LXDE or Cinnamon for something similar, yet different.
What about neutron radiation poisoning (as occurs from nuclear fission IIRC)? I thought as the escaping neutrons traveled through tissue and organs the cellular damage was pretty much irreversible and not just limited to bone marrow.
Don't get me wrong, this is great news and all just not sure if it's time to shout hurray and go running through Red Forest
It's a nice employment loophole for corporations to get cheap labor instead of having to relocate or off-shore. It's that simple. Only problem is it raises the US unemployment rate.
Patents only have value with corporate entities. The value lies in the "legal leveraging" over the competition. Period.
For the average person a patent is mostly worthless. If someone with more money can survive you in a legal battle, they'll drag you through the courts till you give up, or are broke.
These Christians really need to take a class in evolution.
Actually, "these Christians" are Fundamentalists. Being religious does not automatically make you dangerous until you cross the line and require people to believe what you believe.
If you grew up on a US farm as a kid, you got plenty of chances to handle equipment with a high potential for death or dismemberment. A 3yr old out by the wood pile with a bow saw is not that hard to imagine. Playing in the woods was pretty common too (if you had time to goof off). Not so sure there's all that much of it around anymore though. The MegaCorp Farms pretty much put the kibosh on all that 20-some years ago.
I'm not. Historically speaking, any time you set out to do business with Microsoft you are going to get screwed. That's what Microsoft does. That's what they've always done. If you're surprised, you either haven't been around long, or your simply an idiot.
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People with a real affinity for inventing and building things with code seem to work out pretty well. An innate curiosity about how other people do things, and why, is something to look for too. On the teamwork part, it works best if you can find someone who is able to listen to other people's perspectives. Time and again we get people in the door who look great on paper but cannot work effectively with other people. If you keep someone like that staffed, it eventually sinks the boat. Oh -- immediately pass on anyone who uses the word 'bro' in a sentence.
I think a blinking LED on the top would be quite handy.
You don't give the voters access to the whole machine, you only give them access to the touchscreen monitor,
It's not the vote which matters. It's who counts them.
I wish it would, but I don't see how this will turn into anything exciting for the economy until offshoring gets more cost prohibitive. Thanks for trying Google.
The headline isn't entirely accurate. Adobe is only supporting flash on Android devices in which it is currently installed. In August, if you don't have flash installed, you ain't gettin' it. They've also come up with a list of "certified" Android hardware whatever in the hell that's actually supposed to accomplish.
Now then, notice that Adobe continues to support and develop Flash for the Windows platform. This is the largest marketshare of desktops out there. If Adobe "saw the light" , and conceeded to some Apple fanboi fantasy land, they would most certainly be dropping all Flash support across the board and declare it "not a profitable direction for the company" or some other such reason.
The fact that Adobe has Nixed the Linux version of Flash for FireFox, and now raising issue with Android, leads me to wonder why they are focused on crippling the two most open and alternative systems out there.
When stars go supernova, they sometimes release large Gamma Ray Bursts which are far more devastating to an atmosphere than X-rays. GRBs can cover great distances too. Currently a star named WR 104 which is 8000 light years from earth seems to be pointing straight at us. If it goes GRB when it explodes, we may be in for trouble. There's enough energy there (even at that insance distance) to cause wide spread extinction on the planet.
Interestingly enough, it may have already happened but the light from it, and/or the GRB, hasn't gotten here yet.
http://www.space.com/5081-real-death-star-strike-earth.html
Quite frankly, I've had enough problems on the past few versions of Ubuntu 11-12 that I cringe every time there is a GRUB2 update. I've had software RAID systems refuse to boot (with GPT partitions), and systems with slash on LVM refuse to boot after GRUB2 updates.
The necessity for GRUB2, from what I understand, grew out of the "want" for a VGA video mode at boot so we could have an image on the boot menu (and other fancy things). The trouble I've gone through trying to keep it working though just isn't worth the eye candy IMO.
Who the hell is their focus group?
419 out of 420 Microsoft employees no longer use the Start button
You mean like BP's game is over?
Good point, but keep in mind It would be over if people were to go elsewhere for gas.
They spent 2 years trying to bait 26 idiots, instead of chasing real criminals.
Hey, but at least they got UGNazi.
Maybe Apple is finding it difficult to hold it's place in the tablet market and the only way it can stay competitive is to litigate.
I really find very little Gates says or does that I actually argue with.
All of you must be a bit new here, or a bit on the whipper-snapper end of the age scale.
Gates destroyed a lot of companies through anti-competitive business practices which had very real potential to offer choice and alternative in the market. No, most people don't care about that because "look at the Gates Foundation!!". Netscape had a great product before Microsoft ruined that company and The whole SCO, Novell and Microsoft Linux thing a Gates effort to ruin Free software.
When you watch some really great companies, and products, get decimated by corporate strong-arming over 20+ years you tend to become a bit bitter towards anything Microsoft or Gates. Even the philanthropy. I wouldn't be surprised to find he's making shady money on it.
KDE tries to be too much like Windows and actually does it. There are soooo many services, extensions, config files, dot directories (aka crap strewn all over the place) that it's simply become a bloated buggy mess. Gnome/Unity did some really strange and confusing things but in the end ended up being railroaded into the Mark Shuttleworth Agenda and is pretty much a tablet UI on a PC desktop now.
This is the evolution of FOSS. Things which start to suck tend to get replaced by things which suck less. The open source desktop isn't losing, it's just KDE has jumped the shark and Gnome (Unity) has gone insane. Two of the earliest game changers of the FOSS Desktop. Luckily, people with more time than I have saddled themselves with the task of changing what sucks (Thanks guys/gals) about these two Desktops and we've got some alternatives. You can't do that with Windows or Apple. You get only one and if it sucks, too bad. Buy the next version and hope.
PS: have a look at LXDE or Cinnamon for something similar, yet different.
What about neutron radiation poisoning (as occurs from nuclear fission IIRC)? I thought as the escaping neutrons traveled through tissue and organs the cellular damage was pretty much irreversible and not just limited to bone marrow.
Don't get me wrong, this is great news and all just not sure if it's time to shout hurray and go running through Red Forest
It's a nice employment loophole for corporations to get cheap labor instead of having to relocate or off-shore. It's that simple. Only problem is it raises the US unemployment rate.
Patents only have value with corporate entities. The value lies in the "legal leveraging" over the competition. Period.
For the average person a patent is mostly worthless. If someone with more money can survive you in a legal battle, they'll drag you through the courts till you give up, or are broke.
Hopefully this is changing.
I know how bullying our government and corporations can be.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
- Mitt
These Christians really need to take a class in evolution.
Actually, "these Christians" are Fundamentalists. Being religious does not automatically make you dangerous until you cross the line and require people to believe what you believe.
My CPU normally runs around 140 degrees so at 30x more cooling I should be well into the -4000F range!
Hey Apple, don't forget all of those smug elitist clips too. Might want to get a bigger mop.
This hasnt been proven beyond reasonable doubt.
It's been quite proven,
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/confirmed-us-israel-created-stuxnet-lost-control-of-it/
If you grew up on a US farm as a kid, you got plenty of chances to handle equipment with a high potential for death or dismemberment. A 3yr old out by the wood pile with a bow saw is not that hard to imagine. Playing in the woods was pretty common too (if you had time to goof off). Not so sure there's all that much of it around anymore though. The MegaCorp Farms pretty much put the kibosh on all that 20-some years ago.
This will be popular until some corporate CEO's wife finds out where said CEO was during "lunch".
This is insanity.
I'm not. Historically speaking, any time you set out to do business with Microsoft you are going to get screwed. That's what Microsoft does. That's what they've always done. If you're surprised, you either haven't been around long, or your simply an idiot.