...AMD's most valuable asset may be its deep bench of engineers or its patents
Engineers profoundly hate to be sold along, as if they were pieces of equipment, with the company they work for. Moreover and ipso facto, it is nigh impossible to sell what engineers have in their heads: resourcefulness, the capacity to come up with ever-new ideas.
Patents ? Mebbe. Valuable for patent trolls, yes. Valuable for Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, Oracle ? Doubt it.
I remember that in the "Hyperion" space opera, there is a "Poulsen" anti-age treatment. It has only one drawback: repeated applications of it make the beneficiary's face glow ever bluer. I wonder about these ones...
This may be a bit too much in the vein of US-centric Slashdotting. Others will disagree, and I may be modded down into oblivion. Yet I keep and will keep saying that Americanocentrism is one of the major negative characteristics of Slashdot, besides all the positive stuff there ( still ) is.
Corporations and individuals kneeling for the police - before any policeman ever yelled "Kneel !! ". We will see this ever more often. Welcome to our Brave New World.
"Expectable,a. Also erron expectible. [ Latin exspectabilis f. exspectare: see EXPECT, v., and -ABLE. ]. To be expected. " ( Followed by usage quotes from 1646 through to 1886.)
Interview me. Not because I am an arrogant, breast-thumping prat. But because now, at age 45, I look back upon about half my career - a career in which Slashdot was highly instrumental, since 1999, in making choices. A career that was deeply marked by the advent of Java, in which I started programming in 1996 ( !! ). A career that was, also, marked by countless attempts, some successful, to introduce open source software and open source design in various european government agencies, major and minor corporations... A career, also, that could not have been more marked by the availability of internet-for-all.
I may be the exponent or the perfect "Joe the Plumber" for thousands of mid-career/.ers. Not more, not less.
That was not my point. I clicked my way through the Chilling Effects site; by far the majority of takedown notices are directly related to copyright. So the place ( the internet ) we had for ourselves, as a true nearly-free place, is gone -- and ruled by lawyers and legalese. THAT is my point.
Sooner or later we are all going to be kept hostage by what corporate lawyers etc. dictate us to do or not to do. Where are the days of the 90s internet ??
Kind of makes you wonder at the level of maturity the average Anonymous member has.
Profile: pickly-faced youth, average age about 15.4 years, dwells in mum's basement, no sexual experience to speak of, no political sensibility, pot-smoking and rootbeer-swilling, more computing power at his fingertips than is good for him... or for you and me, that is.
From my dearest possession, the Oxford English Dictionary:
"Scheme: 5.b. A plan of action devised in order to attain some end; a purpose together with a system of measures contrived for its accomplishment; a project, enterprise. Often with unfavourable notion, a self-seeking or an underhand project, a plot, or a visionary or foolish project"
The ECB systematically referst to virtual currencies ( and to Bitcoin ) as "schemes". The contempt of these bankers in their Frankurt ivory tower is almost tangibly present in this report....
Could this be the first step toward regulation of the digital currency?
This might be a further, albeit small, step toward further success of digital currencies in general and Bitcoin in particular. If and when a central bank reacts in such a way, such a reaction may betray it feels threatened. Which proves at least implicitly that virtual currencies in general and, particularly, Bitcoin fulfill their purpose. QFD.
... on this guy's list makes sense to me, for having encountered the situation in practical life, more than once. Traffic-attracting set-up or not, the article does make some sense. I would recommend it to younger guys preparing to do their first software project as a team leader, project manager or software architect.
As I served in the French Foreign Legion in the 1980s, I was a telco operator. We frequently used Morse on long-distance comms ( SSB, AM ) simply because it was the one thing to still make it through atmospheric noise when voice was impossible to comprehend. Frequently did this in e.g. Centrafrican Republic, Chad etc. over distances > 800 km.
We were also trained to transmit messages as couriers, walking / running / riding a motorbike.
So there is nothing so exotic about pigeons being used in WW II.
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Cetero censeo civitates Palestinenses delendas esse. Usque ad ultimam.
AFAIK, the line between "legit" and "illegal" is blurry in at least two of the countries the author mentions.
You'll see, Bitcoin is gonna be mainstream before ya know it. And a big finger up into the air to all the naysayers and cynics here.
Now where the hell did this happen ? LAX or JFK ? Another great move by the hipster gangsters to conceal their identity.
...AMD's most valuable asset may be its deep bench of engineers or its patents
Engineers profoundly hate to be sold along, as if they were pieces of equipment, with the company they work for. Moreover and ipso facto, it is nigh impossible to sell what engineers have in their heads: resourcefulness, the capacity to come up with ever-new ideas.
Patents ? Mebbe. Valuable for patent trolls, yes. Valuable for Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, Oracle ? Doubt it.
http://www.dtnrg.org/wiki TFTY
I remember that in the "Hyperion" space opera, there is a "Poulsen" anti-age treatment. It has only one drawback: repeated applications of it make the beneficiary's face glow ever bluer. I wonder about these ones...
This may be a bit too much in the vein of US-centric Slashdotting. Others will disagree, and I may be modded down into oblivion. Yet I keep and will keep saying that Americanocentrism is one of the major negative characteristics of Slashdot, besides all the positive stuff there ( still ) is.
Corporations and individuals kneeling for the police - before any policeman ever yelled "Kneel !! ". We will see this ever more often. Welcome to our Brave New World.
"Expectable, a. Also erron expectible. [ Latin exspectabilis f. exspectare: see EXPECT, v., and -ABLE. ]. To be expected. " ( Followed by usage quotes from 1646 through to 1886.)
I may be the exponent or the perfect "Joe the Plumber" for thousands of mid-career /.ers. Not more, not less.
You're responsible toward your shareholders. If you don't have any, at least the board & upper management should be in the know.
That was not my point. I clicked my way through the Chilling Effects site; by far the majority of takedown notices are directly related to copyright. So the place ( the internet ) we had for ourselves, as a true nearly-free place, is gone -- and ruled by lawyers and legalese. THAT is my point.
Sooner or later we are all going to be kept hostage by what corporate lawyers etc. dictate us to do or not to do. Where are the days of the 90s internet ??
Ah, damn... my lack of US culture gave me away.
Kind of makes you wonder at the level of maturity the average Anonymous member has.
Profile: pickly-faced youth, average age about 15.4 years, dwells in mum's basement, no sexual experience to speak of, no political sensibility, pot-smoking and rootbeer-swilling, more computing power at his fingertips than is good for him... or for you and me, that is.
There, FTFY.
and, for some reason, the site of Saturday Night Live
So TFA thinks that Anonymous actually does things for solid and ponderable reasons, subject to logic ? Interesting...
Will it contribute to its survival ? Or is this one in a long series of convulsions accompanying AMD's bleeding to death ?
Flying experience ???? Bullshit from marketing people, just like "drinking experience" with Coca-Cola. Bullshit.
"Scheme: 5.b. A plan of action devised in order to attain some end; a purpose together with a system of measures contrived for its accomplishment; a project, enterprise. Often with unfavourable notion, a self-seeking or an underhand project, a plot, or a visionary or foolish project"
The ECB systematically referst to virtual currencies ( and to Bitcoin ) as "schemes". The contempt of these bankers in their Frankurt ivory tower is almost tangibly present in this report....
Could this be the first step toward regulation of the digital currency?
This might be a further, albeit small, step toward further success of digital currencies in general and Bitcoin in particular. If and when a central bank reacts in such a way, such a reaction may betray it feels threatened. Which proves at least implicitly that virtual currencies in general and, particularly, Bitcoin fulfill their purpose. QFD.
... on this guy's list makes sense to me, for having encountered the situation in practical life, more than once. Traffic-attracting set-up or not, the article does make some sense. I would recommend it to younger guys preparing to do their first software project as a team leader, project manager or software architect.
As soon as my daughter is born, I'm gonna name her Curiosity. Thereafter, our boy will be named Mars, so she can roll all over.... Oh, wait.
As I served in the French Foreign Legion in the 1980s, I was a telco operator. We frequently used Morse on long-distance comms ( SSB, AM ) simply because it was the one thing to still make it through atmospheric noise when voice was impossible to comprehend. Frequently did this in e.g. Centrafrican Republic, Chad etc. over distances > 800 km.
We were also trained to transmit messages as couriers, walking / running / riding a motorbike.
So there is nothing so exotic about pigeons being used in WW II.
Where are the bloody mod points when you need them ?!?