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What the hell is that statement based on?
Sun has been tanking it for years. Hardware sales are down; people don't give a flying fig about sun's servers. IBM's servers provide a better ROI with its' virtualization technology.
IBM provides more software services.
IBM provides Java and Java products.
This won't hurt IBM at all.
It does help Oracle get one step closer to a database hardware solution.
It amazes me the sure stupidity of Windows users that actually think security holes are CREATED by people simply using the computer.
The security holes were always there, they didn't magically appear.
So, for you argument to hold water, the Mac OS would have to have the SAME NUMBER OF SECURITY HOLES as Windows. The difference would be less people using Mac OS would be the reason for the lower reported security issues.
Unfortunately for you, when actually looking at the security holes in the Mac versus Windows, the Mac has less!
So, security through obscurity is bogus. The Mac is more secure because it has less security holes than Windows.
Agreed. They need to dump all the "human brain" stuff and focus on what they are really doing; developing complex parallel computing devices. That's all they are doing. The difference is that this group chose a physical/hardware approach versus other groups that went with software.
They will never be able to create a human brain from silicon. Now if they want to step over into the biology lab....
Were you even around when the first claims where made? You do realize the reason it was dismissed was because
NOONE COULD REPLICATE THE RESULTS!
It wasn't because the press conferences. That did not help their case but the simple fact that no other scientist could reproduce their results, closed the door on their claims of cold fusion.
It's simple science.
The article did not point out the problems with the original claims. The article simply said that , "...claims of fusion reactions in a tabletop experiment were dismissed by nuclear physicists..." The article did not point out that noone could reproduce the results. That's important.
This new claim is interesting but sounds like it is given to fanciful intrepretation. You need to definitively show fusion of deuterium and tritium atoms. Without that it's sheer speculation because other processes can produce high-energy neutrons; it's not unique to a fusion process.
And where pray tell do you dump all the nuclear waste? Your back yard???
As usual people who do not have a clue love to tell others what to do. You need to read up on Solar energy and the advances they have made with little funding they receive. It's a credit to that field that they have been able to make such advances. If they ever got real funding you could see solar power an entire city!
But as always people want to stick their head in the sand and say it's too hard.
FYI environmentalists are not the problem.
Nice red herring.
The problem is with the government and the lack of incentives to promote solar industry. Mean while oil companies get tax break after tax break to do business in an incredibly lucrative industry.
We did it to the Russians with oil pipe line controls, we sold to them in the 1980s. So it's not far fetched to believe a country would sell another country, friend or foe, technology that the seller country could exploit.
You mean by being held hostage by storing your files in a proprietary format which forces you to by the vender specific product and thereby continue to by the vender specific product in order to read YOUR FILES!
Nice one genius.
If people are blaming poor financial models for the economic collapse then they have learned nothing.
We knew what the problem was, we didn't want to do anything about it. Credit default swaps caused the collapse, among other factors. Credit default swaps were the biggest risk and they were unregulated. Coupled with shoddy bond ratings and you had toxic securities floating waiting to go off!
If they had been regulated, the toxic securities would not have blown-up. Because you see, a credit default swap is nothing more than insurance on a bond. However, the entity providing the insurance on the bond was not required to have enough asset to cover the value of the bond they were insuring! So company A could with $500 million in assets could cover a bond worth $10 Billion.
Alan Greenspan was aware of this problem but decided to do nothing.
If you had bothered to do any research, you would know that in order to UPGRADE from XP, they were required to upgrade to Vista first, then upgrade to Windows 7.
Ummm....you do know it was Bush, Bernanke, Paulson and now Greenspan that created big government and pushed government to own controlling interests in private enterprises.
It was EVERY economist that begged the government to come up with a Trillion dollar spending bill to help jump start the enconomy, least the recession head into a depression.
It was the republicans that destroyed our economy and capitalism in one move.
I love how you cherry picked the article and mislead everyone into believing the analysis and predictions of NSIDC are flawed. Did you even read the article???
From the article:
"Sensor drift, although infrequent, does occasionally occur and it is one of the things that we account for during quality control measures prior to archiving the data. See below for more details.
...near-real-time products do not undergo the same level of quality control as the final archived products, which are used in scientific research published in peer-reviewed journals.
We caution users of the near-real-time products that any conclusions from such data must be preliminary. "
Exactly!
More to the point. It's not Darwin the Creationists object to, it's Evolution. The notion that humans evolved and were not created as is.
This guy needs to do some research and understand his subject matter.
Oh Budda....yes it was clear you needed a warrant. The 1978 FISA law was clear that you needed to obtain a warrant. President Bush did not and thus was in violation of the law. The Protect America Act of 2007 sought to do an end round the warrant requirement and the renewal in 2008, kept the program going.
The President broke the law period. Protect America Act does not change that.
You're forgetting Katherine Harris former Florida Secretary of State who worked for the Bush election campaign back in 2000 and who also prevented the recount and certified the election results in favor of Bush.
There's no advantage to going to digital over analog. When your signal degrades you lose the picture with digital, with analog you still get a snowy picture.
Also, there are lots of people who still use over the air because cable, fios and satellite are not available in their area.
FYI If your tv station is broadcasting in digital you can still get the digital signal even if they don't switch on Feb 17th. In fact all stations are broadcasting in digital. It's stupid to think that some stations are holding back broadcasting in digital until Feb 17th because of the amount of hardware changes a station would need to make in order to send a digital signal. They needed to make the changes months ago.
The only thing this screws with is the bandwidth auction. The spectrum that the analog signal occupied which has been sold and given for emergency responders.
The mindset of some people is truly amazing. Quote, "I find no use for it so why would anyone else?" Really brilliant. It's right up there with "640K is all they will need."
The market for this type of app is the corporate market. This is an area of great growth. More and more corporations are moving to mobile computing devices, i.e. hand helds like the iPhone. If you can't connect, talk to, run Windows apps then you may was well toss your iPhone in the dust bin because you have basically conceded the market to Blackberrys.
Take your head out of your ass and realize there is more to the universe than your pathetic little world.
Reconstruct a known pattern?? Big Friggin' Deal. It's not hard when you know what you are looking for.
Wake me up when they can tap into someone's brain and pull out a random image!
Microsoft was found guilty NOT because they were a monopoly but because they used their monopoly size to force competitors out of the market and force OEMS into exclusive contracts.
So from your sour grapes, I take it you had your research article rejected from a peer reviewed Journal....
Let me enlighten you as to how the process works. You submit your research article to a peer reviewed journal. The journal may or may not review your work - depends on the number of submissions. If they review your work, a group of peers in your area review the research you conducted and typically will have follow-up questions. Assuming you did not make mistakes in your research and the follow up questions were properly addressed, your research article will be published.
It's that simple. The problem is, it's very competitive. Lots of articles are submitted for publication. But that's also why there are hundreds of journals. There's no mystery.
I should know, at university as an undergraduate and then graduate, I participated in several research projects. I had my own research published as part of a group research article.
You are either Steve Balmer or a gigantic idiot.
The problem with electronic voting machines has been the ability to certify them as accurate voting counting devices. In order to certify them you need to look at the source code to see how the machine functions. Diebold and other manufacturers prevented investigators from looking at the source code because they claimed it would violate their trade secrets. Thus these machines could not be properly certified.
So the issue is with the ability of a State to verify and certify these machines as proper vote counting machines. It doesn't matter if it's open source or not.
Open Source was NEVER part of the argument for or against electronic voting machines. The issue has always centered around the ability to determine if these machines were reliable.
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What the hell is that statement based on?
Sun has been tanking it for years. Hardware sales are down; people don't give a flying fig about sun's servers. IBM's servers provide a better ROI with its' virtualization technology.
IBM provides more software services.
IBM provides Java and Java products.
This won't hurt IBM at all.
It does help Oracle get one step closer to a database hardware solution.
It amazes me the sure stupidity of Windows users that actually think security holes are CREATED by people simply using the computer.
The security holes were always there, they didn't magically appear.
So, for you argument to hold water, the Mac OS would have to have the SAME NUMBER OF SECURITY HOLES as Windows. The difference would be less people using Mac OS would be the reason for the lower reported security issues.
Unfortunately for you, when actually looking at the security holes in the Mac versus Windows, the Mac has less!
So, security through obscurity is bogus. The Mac is more secure because it has less security holes than Windows.
Moron.
Ummm...hi...it's called Mathematics. That's your proof!
Where the hell do you think they come up with the limit in the first place?? A little something we call a mathematical formula: E = MC^2.
Yes, we are in the position to make that call at this time. Just because your tiny little mind can't comprehend that, doesn't make otherwise.
Jackass!
Agreed. They need to dump all the "human brain" stuff and focus on what they are really doing; developing complex parallel computing devices. That's all they are doing. The difference is that this group chose a physical/hardware approach versus other groups that went with software. They will never be able to create a human brain from silicon. Now if they want to step over into the biology lab....
Were you even around when the first claims where made? You do realize the reason it was dismissed was because
NOONE COULD REPLICATE THE RESULTS!
It wasn't because the press conferences. That did not help their case but the simple fact that no other scientist could reproduce their results, closed the door on their claims of cold fusion.
It's simple science.
The article did not point out the problems with the original claims. The article simply said that , "...claims of fusion reactions in a tabletop experiment were dismissed by nuclear physicists..." The article did not point out that noone could reproduce the results. That's important.
This new claim is interesting but sounds like it is given to fanciful intrepretation. You need to definitively show fusion of deuterium and tritium atoms. Without that it's sheer speculation because other processes can produce high-energy neutrons; it's not unique to a fusion process.
And where pray tell do you dump all the nuclear waste? Your back yard???
As usual people who do not have a clue love to tell others what to do. You need to read up on Solar energy and the advances they have made with little funding they receive. It's a credit to that field that they have been able to make such advances. If they ever got real funding you could see solar power an entire city!
But as always people want to stick their head in the sand and say it's too hard.
FYI environmentalists are not the problem.
Nice red herring.
The problem is with the government and the lack of incentives to promote solar industry. Mean while oil companies get tax break after tax break to do business in an incredibly lucrative industry.
Jackass
We did it to the Russians with oil pipe line controls, we sold to them in the 1980s. So it's not far fetched to believe a country would sell another country, friend or foe, technology that the seller country could exploit.
You mean by being held hostage by storing your files in a proprietary format which forces you to by the vender specific product and thereby continue to by the vender specific product in order to read YOUR FILES! Nice one genius.
If people are blaming poor financial models for the economic collapse then they have learned nothing.
We knew what the problem was, we didn't want to do anything about it. Credit default swaps caused the collapse, among other factors. Credit default swaps were the biggest risk and they were unregulated. Coupled with shoddy bond ratings and you had toxic securities floating waiting to go off!
If they had been regulated, the toxic securities would not have blown-up. Because you see, a credit default swap is nothing more than insurance on a bond. However, the entity providing the insurance on the bond was not required to have enough asset to cover the value of the bond they were insuring! So company A could with $500 million in assets could cover a bond worth $10 Billion.
Alan Greenspan was aware of this problem but decided to do nothing.
If you had bothered to do any research, you would know that in order to UPGRADE from XP, they were required to upgrade to Vista first, then upgrade to Windows 7.
THIS IS REQUIRED BY MICROSOFT!
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/02/05/windows_xp_7_vista_upgrade/
Dumbass!
Ummm....you do know it was Bush, Bernanke, Paulson and now Greenspan that created big government and pushed government to own controlling interests in private enterprises.
It was EVERY economist that begged the government to come up with a Trillion dollar spending bill to help jump start the enconomy, least the recession head into a depression.
It was the republicans that destroyed our economy and capitalism in one move.
You were aware of this weren't you?
"Modding me down because you don't like my opinion doesn't make your opinion anymore right just as it doesn't make mine any more wrong, okay?"
People can mod you down for reasons other opinion. They can mod you down because of facts. Something you don't have a grasp of.
Jackass.
dtjohnson,
...near-real-time products do not undergo the same level of quality control as the final archived products, which are used in scientific research published in peer-reviewed journals.
I love how you cherry picked the article and mislead everyone into believing the analysis and predictions of NSIDC are flawed. Did you even read the article???
From the article:
"Sensor drift, although infrequent, does occasionally occur and it is one of the things that we account for during quality control measures prior to archiving the data. See below for more details.
We caution users of the near-real-time products that any conclusions from such data must be preliminary. "
Do you understand now?
Jackass.
Exactly! More to the point. It's not Darwin the Creationists object to, it's Evolution. The notion that humans evolved and were not created as is. This guy needs to do some research and understand his subject matter.
Better than an attorney general who can't tell you that water boarding is torture, even though it has been defined as such since World War II!
Oh Budda....yes it was clear you needed a warrant. The 1978 FISA law was clear that you needed to obtain a warrant. President Bush did not and thus was in violation of the law. The Protect America Act of 2007 sought to do an end round the warrant requirement and the renewal in 2008, kept the program going.
The President broke the law period. Protect America Act does not change that.
You're forgetting Katherine Harris former Florida Secretary of State who worked for the Bush election campaign back in 2000 and who also prevented the recount and certified the election results in favor of Bush.
It don't matter how you define it - that law is in clear violation of the 1st Amendment.
"useful technical move forward."
Hey doofus, what "use" are you talking about?
There's no advantage to going to digital over analog. When your signal degrades you lose the picture with digital, with analog you still get a snowy picture.
Also, there are lots of people who still use over the air because cable, fios and satellite are not available in their area.
FYI If your tv station is broadcasting in digital you can still get the digital signal even if they don't switch on Feb 17th. In fact all stations are broadcasting in digital. It's stupid to think that some stations are holding back broadcasting in digital until Feb 17th because of the amount of hardware changes a station would need to make in order to send a digital signal. They needed to make the changes months ago.
The only thing this screws with is the bandwidth auction. The spectrum that the analog signal occupied which has been sold and given for emergency responders.
dumb ass.
The mindset of some people is truly amazing. Quote, "I find no use for it so why would anyone else?" Really brilliant. It's right up there with "640K is all they will need."
The market for this type of app is the corporate market. This is an area of great growth. More and more corporations are moving to mobile computing devices, i.e. hand helds like the iPhone. If you can't connect, talk to, run Windows apps then you may was well toss your iPhone in the dust bin because you have basically conceded the market to Blackberrys.
Take your head out of your ass and realize there is more to the universe than your pathetic little world.
"Not surprisingly, the global climate is also in a cooling trend."
Nice try jackass. But the Global temperature has been rising, i.e. getting hotter, not cooler.
We have a WARMING TREND.
Talk about stupidity...
Reconstruct a known pattern?? Big Friggin' Deal. It's not hard when you know what you are looking for. Wake me up when they can tap into someone's brain and pull out a random image!
So speaks an idiot who know nothing of the law.
Microsoft was found guilty NOT because they were a monopoly but because they used their monopoly size to force competitors out of the market and force OEMS into exclusive contracts.
Get a clue.
So from your sour grapes, I take it you had your research article rejected from a peer reviewed Journal....
Let me enlighten you as to how the process works. You submit your research article to a peer reviewed journal. The journal may or may not review your work - depends on the number of submissions. If they review your work, a group of peers in your area review the research you conducted and typically will have follow-up questions. Assuming you did not make mistakes in your research and the follow up questions were properly addressed, your research article will be published.
It's that simple. The problem is, it's very competitive. Lots of articles are submitted for publication. But that's also why there are hundreds of journals. There's no mystery.
I should know, at university as an undergraduate and then graduate, I participated in several research projects. I had my own research published as part of a group research article.
You are either Steve Balmer or a gigantic idiot. The problem with electronic voting machines has been the ability to certify them as accurate voting counting devices. In order to certify them you need to look at the source code to see how the machine functions. Diebold and other manufacturers prevented investigators from looking at the source code because they claimed it would violate their trade secrets. Thus these machines could not be properly certified.
So the issue is with the ability of a State to verify and certify these machines as proper vote counting machines. It doesn't matter if it's open source or not.
Open Source was NEVER part of the argument for or against electronic voting machines. The issue has always centered around the ability to determine if these machines were reliable.