From TFA
Intel has been accused of trying to abuse its dominant market position by selling its products below cost price and making cash payments to customers. Maybe TFA is wrong but they seem to have been accused of selling below cost.
Please, please, just once, go and see the Grand Canyon. I don't care how much you're not much of a tourist, you don't need to be to be totally overawed by one of the greatest sights on earth. And while you're there go and throw some money at the tables in Vegas.
To dismiss the US as not much different from the UK is really missing the bigger picture.
Surprisngly no. I'm a Brit and my first wife was an American. When her parents wanted to visit my mother in law wasn't keen on the transatlantic flight and, as I'd made the trip in the QE2 back in 1959, I suggested looking at going by boat. To my surprise there was nothing that suited. Air travel has completely killed the transatlantic pasenger trade. Ok, so I know that someone will reply to this with a link to 'EasyBoat' or whatever with regular sailings bu when my father in law looked back in 1989 he couldn't find anything.
There's no place in this world that I want to go to that I can't drive to within a week or so. Try driving from Europe to the USA or vice versa - Ok it was done in 'The Long Way Round' but it wasn't easy.
If you are European and don't want to visit the States occasionally, or if you're American and don't want to visit Europe, then I would suggest that you need to expand your world view.
The University of Edinburgh has a long history of being at the cutting edge in computing. I worked there in 1972 at the School of Artificial Intelegence under Donald Michie and Robin Popplestone (well, I washed up the coffee cups!)
Of course, if you ask a Scot, then most of the major technological advances of the 19th century were made north of the border and that proud heritage is alive and well today. Sassenachs may differ.
The metropolis of London has no numbered streets, no grid system and numerous name conflicts - the number of 'High Streets' is - if I remember correctly - in excess of 50 and we Brits manage fine. And how can you live in a town which hasn't, at some point in its history, featured a 'Gropecunt Lane'.
Leave this article where wives/girlfriends/parents can see it so that they can give them to you. Attempts to use these gift suggestions the other way round may be hazardous to the holiday spirit.
The teenager cannot be named for legal reasons, but uses the online identity "Akill". He was later released without charge, but police said they expected to interview him again. and then
The teenager was the "head of an international spybot ring that has infiltrated computers around the world with their malicious software", Kleintjes told New Zealand national radio. and then
Kleintjes said the teenager had written software that evaded normal computer spyware systems, then sold his skills to hackers.
"He is very bright and very skilled in what he's doing," Kleintjes said. "He hires his services out to others." It looks to me like some script kiddie is being puffed up as 'Head of an internationa spybot ring'. I'm not saying he's innocent but there's a lot of spin in this.
I don't wan't anyone not authorised by me on my network. I see no reason why I 'ought to be required to provide this service to all listeners'. Sorry, my network, my rules.
Believe it or not the skin flint organisation I work for got 486's to run NT workstation - but only for those users running a terminal emulator to work on our Unix systems. No e-mail, no office apps, no IE, just the emulator. To be fair they save thousends on upgrade costs as this was applied to ~800 machines.
and it's already cheaper than coal. until you include the cost of decomissioning the nuclear power station at end of life and then, suddenly, it's very expensive.
Indeed. Also from TFA
Spyware computer searches are illegal in Germany, where people are sensitive about police surveillance due to the history of the Nazis' Gestapo secret police and the former East German Stasi. I would hope that they are illegal in any civilised country.
I mean, part of the fun of driving a sports car/muscle car...is that engine roar, and the throaty growl of a well tuned exhaust note. Electric cars aren't going to replace sports cars any time soon. On the other hand, remember the old saying about Rolls Royce where the loudest thing was the ticking of the electric clock? What I love about my Merc is the silence and, cash permitting, I'd be first in the queue.
Not in the multinational I work for (and it's a name you would know). The Win2k to WinXp was a major, company wide, project costing millions of Euros. See my earlier reply as to how most, if not all, PC upgrades were driven by the need for a new OS because the old one went out of support.
You say that like new computers are never bought due to old ones being end of lifed. In a part of our network which is suitably tied down we're using 10 year old PCs with Win95. They do everything the users require of them. Ok, so they don't have much in the way of apps, but these users don't get much.
On the other hand PCs that are on the main network must have a supported version of Windows so that they can be suitably patched. I remember well the Win2k to WinXP rollout, done almost entirely because of support issues, where we all got new PCs whether we needed them of not, because the OS needed them. And then, when WinXP went SP2 my laptop suddenly stopped working and I had to have a new one (along with hundreds of other people within the multinational I work for).
I can't say for sure, I'm on the Unix team, but, from where I sit, it looks like most of the times I've got a new PC the driving factor has been the need for a new OS.
It may well be wishful thinking amoungst the Linux faithful but there is a growing impatience with the endless Microsoft upgrade cycle. IT professionals are incresingly saying 'Why upgrade? We gain nothing and lose lots.' I have no major issues with XP, it does everything I want it to, but I will have to upgrade because of all the reasons you state.
So, put yourself in the shoes of a CIO faced with replacing hundreds, or even thousends of PCs because they need to be upgraded to run Vista, and the difficulty of going to the board once again with a request for huge amounts of cash for very little gain, and then maybe Linux starts to look a little better.
Whether you want to or not, in an increasingly interconnected world, you have to deal with regimes that do things you disagree with. I, for example, have to deal with a regime that tollerates the death penalty for juveniles, and, please, that's not meant to be flame bait, I'm just pointing out that there are different views.
Ok, so there are two basic ways in which you can deal with these regimes, talk to them or bomb them back to the dark ages. The PRC may not be a paragon of virtue but they're a great deal better than they were. Why? Because they value the trade they get. And if you want the situation to improve to talk to them, and you keep talking to them.
Slashdot Mirror
- Dominant player in market cuts costs to below cost of manufacure
- Secondary player has to cut costs to match
- Secondary player has shallower pockets than dominant player and goes out of business
- Dominant player is now only player and can raise costs as high as they want to make back all they lost in action #1
There are reasons for market regulators, and not just because we European liberals like big government.What you're saying is like saying I've seen the Da Vinci's Maddonna and Child, why do I need to see the Mona Lisa
They have many magnificent rock formations in Europe, but none of them are the Grand Canyon.
Please, please, just once, go and see the Grand Canyon. I don't care how much you're not much of a tourist, you don't need to be to be totally overawed by one of the greatest sights on earth. And while you're there go and throw some money at the tables in Vegas.
To dismiss the US as not much different from the UK is really missing the bigger picture.
Surprisngly no. I'm a Brit and my first wife was an American. When her parents wanted to visit my mother in law wasn't keen on the transatlantic flight and, as I'd made the trip in the QE2 back in 1959, I suggested looking at going by boat. To my surprise there was nothing that suited. Air travel has completely killed the transatlantic pasenger trade. Ok, so I know that someone will reply to this with a link to 'EasyBoat' or whatever with regular sailings bu when my father in law looked back in 1989 he couldn't find anything.
If you are European and don't want to visit the States occasionally, or if you're American and don't want to visit Europe, then I would suggest that you need to expand your world view.
The University of Edinburgh has a long history of being at the cutting edge in computing. I worked there in 1972 at the School of Artificial Intelegence under Donald Michie and Robin Popplestone (well, I washed up the coffee cups!)
Of course, if you ask a Scot, then most of the major technological advances of the 19th century were made north of the border and that proud heritage is alive and well today. Sassenachs may differ.
Boring, boring, boring.....
The metropolis of London has no numbered streets, no grid system and numerous name conflicts - the number of 'High Streets' is - if I remember correctly - in excess of 50 and we Brits manage fine. And how can you live in a town which hasn't, at some point in its history, featured a 'Gropecunt Lane'.
Leave this article where wives/girlfriends/parents can see it so that they can give them to you. Attempts to use these gift suggestions the other way round may be hazardous to the holiday spirit.
I can't mod 'cause I've posted but this is the funniest post I've seen in quite a while! Thanks for the laugh.
I don't wan't anyone not authorised by me on my network. I see no reason why I 'ought to be required to provide this service to all listeners'. Sorry, my network, my rules.
Believe it or not the skin flint organisation I work for got 486's to run NT workstation - but only for those users running a terminal emulator to work on our Unix systems. No e-mail, no office apps, no IE, just the emulator. To be fair they save thousends on upgrade costs as this was applied to ~800 machines.
I wish - my 98 E class would hardly make the down payment!
Quite frankly, up until this point, everything about stem cells was about ethics. That is what makes this story so humongous.
Not in the multinational I work for (and it's a name you would know). The Win2k to WinXp was a major, company wide, project costing millions of Euros. See my earlier reply as to how most, if not all, PC upgrades were driven by the need for a new OS because the old one went out of support.
On the other hand PCs that are on the main network must have a supported version of Windows so that they can be suitably patched. I remember well the Win2k to WinXP rollout, done almost entirely because of support issues, where we all got new PCs whether we needed them of not, because the OS needed them. And then, when WinXP went SP2 my laptop suddenly stopped working and I had to have a new one (along with hundreds of other people within the multinational I work for).
I can't say for sure, I'm on the Unix team, but, from where I sit, it looks like most of the times I've got a new PC the driving factor has been the need for a new OS.
I think you're missing the point.
It may well be wishful thinking amoungst the Linux faithful but there is a growing impatience with the endless Microsoft upgrade cycle. IT professionals are incresingly saying 'Why upgrade? We gain nothing and lose lots.' I have no major issues with XP, it does everything I want it to, but I will have to upgrade because of all the reasons you state.
So, put yourself in the shoes of a CIO faced with replacing hundreds, or even thousends of PCs because they need to be upgraded to run Vista, and the difficulty of going to the board once again with a request for huge amounts of cash for very little gain, and then maybe Linux starts to look a little better.
Whether you want to or not, in an increasingly interconnected world, you have to deal with regimes that do things you disagree with. I, for example, have to deal with a regime that tollerates the death penalty for juveniles, and, please, that's not meant to be flame bait, I'm just pointing out that there are different views.
Ok, so there are two basic ways in which you can deal with these regimes, talk to them or bomb them back to the dark ages. The PRC may not be a paragon of virtue but they're a great deal better than they were. Why? Because they value the trade they get. And if you want the situation to improve to talk to them, and you keep talking to them.