Who the F*uck cares how wins the division! Give me the World Series Winner!!
The F*ucking AL East is a joke. Stong my ass. The division will come down to either Boston or N.Y. Oooo surprise. With the Yankees most likely winning. 110 games, they will not win.
The odds are against the Yankees of winning the World Series because they don't have pitching!
Every F*ucking year some Ass-hole picks the yankees to win and they keep failing - 7 years since the last win people.
When they finally rebuild their pitching staff and have a manager who can coach and not baby sit - then they yankees will start winning again.
"Basically, what it seems to be is a consumer thought that "Windows Vista Capable" meant that the computer would be able to do all the pretty things that Microsoft portrayed in ads."
And why wouldn't the consumer think that? What the hell does "Vista Capable" mean? If Microsoft meant that the computer was Vista Basic Capable, then Microsoft should have said that. Saying Vista Capable is meaningless and deceptive. Vista Capable, which version would that be? That's called concealing and yes that is cheating someone.
It's called Trade Agreements. I doesn't matter what the U.S. wants. U.S. laws can be overridden if they violate Trade Agreements. Remember the Steel Tariffs fiasco back in 2002 - 2003. The Bush administration levied tariffs on imported steel to help the U.S. Steel industry. Problem was this violated trade agreements the U.S. had with various countries. The WTO would have fined the U.S. had the U.S. not dropped the tariffs.
The WTO is a very scary organization, when you consider it can lawfully violate the will of the people.
"Until recently, she's been happy with it, and with Ubuntu Edgy. But a couple of weeks ago she began having keyboard problems. The keyboard is misbehaving when she begins to type quickly: keys are sticking and the space bar does not always respond when pressed."
KEYS STICKING. SPACE BAR DOES NOT RESPOND WHEN PRESSED. That's HARDWARE failure not SOFTWARE.
I sure as hell hope you are not a tech because if you can't read the article and understand the basics of her problem, you are a useless. Learn how to troubleshoot moron.
Do some research first. The moon is out of the way of mars. it would take more fuel to travel to the moon then from the moon to mars as opposed to to making a straight shot to mars. There have been plenty of articles debunking this.
How about spending the money learning about earth and settling the Climate change debate rather than wasting trillions of dollars over a pipe dream.
Hey moron. Training is part of the Job. Do you honestly believe companies use the same technology for 10-20-30 years? Technology nly a COBOL programmer could learn C++ or Java. But alot of businesses decided against training them and tossed them aside.
Damn, I love you! Someone who finally brought up Acid Rain.
I guess if you don't live in the Great Lakes region you don't know about Acid Rain or toxic waste dumping. Yeah lets catch some fish from Lake Erie and have them for dinner!
It becomes ever more increasing that people are just too fucking stupid to live. They have no clue or understanding of science or the scientific method. They see nothing wrong in researchers accepting money from businesses that have a vested interest in the outcome of their research. Tobacco companies anyone....
And even when they are presented with the facts they would rather stick their heads in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong.
Are you people this f#cking dense. I guess JD Rockefeller and Standard Oil and JP Morgan and the Railroads were in the right all along and Teddy Rosevelt was smoking dope!!
Go search Robber Barons, monopolies and anti-competitive business practices.
Christ you morons are f#cking sick. Not a clue about history. Not a clue about competition. I guess selling tainted food isn't bad as long as it makes a company more profitable. I mean really what did Enron really do wrong??
"Sony has refused to license Blu-ray to the adult industry. So basically they are chopping their own leg off...maybe both legs. Blu-ray will be the loser out of the gate before the race even starts."
Hey moron, SONY said they would not DISTRIBUTE porn on Blu-ray. They did not say anything about licensing it. Other companies can distribute porn on blu-ray.
SONY does not own blu-ray. They are but one company in a GROUP of companies that back blu-ray.
"The only way these companies would be willing to spend all the money to build the infrastructer"
Uh, yeah paid for by Tax Payer dollars! How about the billions of dollars that were given to the Telecoms so they could build out their fiber optic networks, i.e. run fiber to the house. This, they never did! But they did pocket the money. Now they claim the need more money to do the very thing we gave them money for in the first place!
FYI net-neutrality does not prevent innovation.
FYI the cost of doing business is still the cost of doing business - meaning it costs money to run a business. You don't like it - then get the hell out and let someone else who understands business do it!
"1) In most states, the presumption is that work-related inventions by a salaried worker belong to the employer, whether or not an explicit agreement has been signed. (Don't know the specifics about Wisconsin, or about how a trooper would be classified.)"
Assuming this is true - please site reference - you pretty much invalidate it because you don't know this about Wisconsin.
It is standard practice in the IT industry to sign an agreement that any work you create as part of your employment is the property of the employer. Because he did not sign such an agreement the state has a very weak case. He is no different from a 3rd party that was hired to write code but keeps the code. Microsoft anyone. IBM thought that Microsoft was writing code exclusively for IBM and that IBM had complete control. This turned out not to be true. Without a signed agreement the state has nothing.
"2) Accepting a work computer and other considerations has *got* to seriously jeopardize his claim. For heaven's sake, do *not* accept anything like that for work which you want to own, unless you get explicit acknowledgment that your employer sees it the same way."
Again, this is no different from a 3rd party working onsite to develop code. This is also standard practice. Unless there is an agreement that states exclusivity and/or ownership of the code, the state has nothing!
Now the one state that does have a beef is Iowa. From the article:
"In 2003, the state sent Meredith to Iowa to get trained on the Iowa Department of Transportation's Traffic and Criminal Software, or TraCS. Iowa gave Wisconsin the software for free on the condition that Wisconsin not develop the application for commercial purposes, said Kernats"
So it could very well be Iowa could sue the cop and the state of Wisconsin for developing this application.
First off the PS3 is a computer, period. Get over it.
Second, from the article:
"Geekbench also isn't able to exploit the eight vector processors on the Cell processor. Any program designed and optimized for the Cell processor should be a lot faster than one designed for a generic processor (like, say, Geekbench). So while the Geekbench results might seem disappointing, keep in mind that Geekbench can't exercise the PlayStation 3 to its full potential."
There are running a stock version of Linux which does not take advantage of the Cell processors capability. Christ it's like running a Intel Processor with HT disabled! What did you expect.
The Cell processor is one hell of a processor, read the technical specs. It's best use may not be in the PS3. But since SONY is not in the OS market, they are left up to 3rd parties to develop an OS to work on the Cell.
My complaint is the lack of memory. I would like the ability to up the memory to 1 GB. Show me a PS3 with 1GB and you'd have a very interesting computing device.
Sample size is BIG deal. Without a significantly large enough sample size you cannot generalize your results to your target population. If we are talking about a population of one million people and you have a sample size of one thousand, that's 0.1%.
You would have useless information. You would need at least 10% to have meaningful results.
The p-value is not how likely you are to be wrong. It is a measure of how likely your results are do to chance. The lower the number the less likely, the higher the number more likely.
Your statement on Variance and Change make no sense. If by Variance in sample you mean heterogenous sample that still would not overcome size limitations. Again, how big of change does not overcome size limitations.
C#/.NET is only support on Windows period. Microsoft has not support C#/.NET on any other platform. Mono is not a Microsoft sanction product. Microsoft has NEVER embraced Mono. Microsoft, if they decide, can pull the plug on Mono anytime. In fact Microsoft's agreement with Novell may be one step in the direction.
"Small portions of a hologram contain the information needed to produce an approximation of the original image. The difference between traditional and holographic storage is that a scratch on a CD renders the information under the scratch unreadable, while a scratch on a hologram degrades the entire image."
BullShit!
Provide me with the source on this one. A scratch is a scratch, depending on how it impedes the reading of the information, neither system will fair better. Your under the misunderstanding that a scratch in on location on an HVD will make the entire disc unreadable. That's incorrect.
Let's keep throwing good money after bad. Hello Space Station - how many billions of dollars did we spend on that?? And now we are going to shut it down. Brilliant Einstein. You can do alot better space exploration by NOT going to the moon.
Jesus are you people this dense.
Look you want to get people excited about science? You want to foster a new generation of scientists? Here you go:
Project #1: Develop a car that does not run on fossil fuels!
Project #2: Make America engery independent!
Instead of pouring billions of dollars are stupid space programs to go to the moon and mars, let's pour billions of dollars into problems that we can solve right now, instead of waiting another 30 years to say, "We need to be engery independent."
Energy independence is a big enough subject that draw upon diverse areas of studies. The point is this is the 21st centuries space race. Stop ignoring the problems that are staring you right in the face for pie in the sky pipe dreams - there are no green alien space women who are going to have sex with you!
"Novell will release the code to integrate the Open XML format into its product as open source and submit it for inclusion in the OpenOffice.org project."
Thus it's not a plugin, it's integrated code. Major problem.
"Because people said "I want a file selector, not a file selector + submarine control dialog?" The fact that you can do something on a dialog that's not really none of the dialog's business is usually a symptom of excessive featuritis.
(Agreed, I think it'd be nice if the dialog had a button that says "open in Nautilus" for the rare cases where file management is needed.)"
And the reason why Gnome will never be taken seriously.
Are you honestly telling me that in today's world of operating systems, (Mac and Windows), that you are going to force people into a two step process for something that other operating systems do in one step! You obviously fail to understand the user. If Linux cannot do the simple things that Windows and Mac do, then most users will not bother to switch. User in the Windows and Mac world want simplicity. They don't care how complex it is on the backend.
The short comings of Windows and Mac operating systems are not enough to force MOST people to switch to Linux because the simplicity is not there.
Power users and people who are willing to tinker, because you have to tinker: DVD playback is disabled by default and you have to go through hoops to enable it, whereas DVD playback just works in Windows and Mac. Most users just want it to work.
Just to add and what a cursory review can turn up:
Junkscience.com
The most visible public activity of TASSC [The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) was an tobacco-industry-funded lobby group which promoted the idea that environmental science was "junk science", which should be replaced by "sound science" more favorable to corporate interests] was its support for the Junk Science website run by Steven Milloy, who describes himself as the "Junkman". Milloy denounces research on environmental issues such as climate change, pollution and public health as junk science if it produced results suggesting a need for public intervention or regulation. He promoted the idea of sound science, interpreted in practice to mean science favorable to corporate interests.
Adverse publicity about Milloy's links to Phillip Morris were followed by his departure from the Cato Institute, where he had been an adjunct fellow, at the end of 2005, and the removal of links to junkscience.org from the Cato website. However, Milloy remains influential as the science columnist for Fox News.
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Who the F*uck cares how wins the division! Give me the World Series Winner!!
The F*ucking AL East is a joke. Stong my ass. The division will come down to either Boston or N.Y. Oooo surprise. With the Yankees most likely winning. 110 games, they will not win.
The odds are against the Yankees of winning the World Series because they don't have pitching!
Every F*ucking year some Ass-hole picks the yankees to win and they keep failing - 7 years since the last win people.
When they finally rebuild their pitching staff and have a manager who can coach and not baby sit - then they yankees will start winning again.
"Basically, what it seems to be is a consumer thought that "Windows Vista Capable" meant that the computer would be able to do all the pretty things that Microsoft portrayed in ads."
And why wouldn't the consumer think that? What the hell does "Vista Capable" mean? If Microsoft meant that the computer was Vista Basic Capable, then Microsoft should have said that. Saying Vista Capable is meaningless and deceptive. Vista Capable, which version would that be? That's called concealing and yes that is cheating someone.
Nice job moron.
You don't know much about the WTO do you?
It's called Trade Agreements. I doesn't matter what the U.S. wants. U.S. laws can be overridden if they violate Trade Agreements. Remember the Steel Tariffs fiasco back in 2002 - 2003. The Bush administration levied tariffs on imported steel to help the U.S. Steel industry. Problem was this violated trade agreements the U.S. had with various countries. The WTO would have fined the U.S. had the U.S. not dropped the tariffs.
The WTO is a very scary organization, when you consider it can lawfully violate the will of the people.
From the Article:
"Until recently, she's been happy with it, and with Ubuntu Edgy. But a couple of weeks ago she began having keyboard problems. The keyboard is misbehaving when she begins to type quickly: keys are sticking and the space bar does not always respond when pressed."
KEYS STICKING. SPACE BAR DOES NOT RESPOND WHEN PRESSED. That's HARDWARE failure not SOFTWARE.
I sure as hell hope you are not a tech because if you can't read the article and understand the basics of her problem, you are a useless. Learn how to troubleshoot moron.
YES!!!
It's been done before and with great success. To bad it took 23 years for the rest of the industry to catch up!!
ROFL
Your kidding right? We have to colonize space now because we are going to run out of natural resources sometime in the future.
Wow, I am astounded by your sheer lack of intelligence.
In what world do you conceive of anyone on this planet with the capability to colonize any planet in this solar system?
Good job genius.
Do some research first. The moon is out of the way of mars. it would take more fuel to travel to the moon then from the moon to mars as opposed to to making a straight shot to mars. There have been plenty of articles debunking this.
How about spending the money learning about earth and settling the Climate change debate rather than wasting trillions of dollars over a pipe dream.
Hey moron. Training is part of the Job. Do you honestly believe companies use the same technology for 10-20-30 years? Technology nly a COBOL programmer could learn C++ or Java. But alot of businesses decided against training them and tossed them aside.
Damn, I love you! Someone who finally brought up Acid Rain.
I guess if you don't live in the Great Lakes region you don't know about Acid Rain or toxic waste dumping. Yeah lets catch some fish from Lake Erie and have them for dinner!
It becomes ever more increasing that people are just too fucking stupid to live. They have no clue or understanding of science or the scientific method. They see nothing wrong in researchers accepting money from businesses that have a vested interest in the outcome of their research. Tobacco companies anyone....
And even when they are presented with the facts they would rather stick their heads in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong.
Fucking bunch of morons.
Are you people this f#cking dense. I guess JD Rockefeller and Standard Oil and JP Morgan and the Railroads were in the right all along and Teddy Rosevelt was smoking dope!!
Go search Robber Barons, monopolies and anti-competitive business practices.
Christ you morons are f#cking sick. Not a clue about history. Not a clue about competition. I guess selling tainted food isn't bad as long as it makes a company more profitable. I mean really what did Enron really do wrong??
"Sony has refused to license Blu-ray to the adult industry. So basically they are chopping their own leg off...maybe both legs. Blu-ray will be the loser out of the gate before the race even starts."
Hey moron, SONY said they would not DISTRIBUTE porn on Blu-ray. They did not say anything about licensing it. Other companies can distribute porn on blu-ray.
SONY does not own blu-ray. They are but one company in a GROUP of companies that back blu-ray.
Get your facts straight.
"The only way these companies would be willing to spend all the money to build the infrastructer"
Uh, yeah paid for by Tax Payer dollars! How about the billions of dollars that were given to the Telecoms so they could build out their fiber optic networks, i.e. run fiber to the house. This, they never did! But they did pocket the money. Now they claim the need more money to do the very thing we gave them money for in the first place!
FYI net-neutrality does not prevent innovation.
FYI the cost of doing business is still the cost of doing business - meaning it costs money to run a business. You don't like it - then get the hell out and let someone else who understands business do it!
"1) In most states, the presumption is that work-related inventions by a salaried worker belong to the employer, whether or not an explicit agreement has been signed. (Don't know the specifics about Wisconsin, or about how a trooper would be classified.)"
Assuming this is true - please site reference - you pretty much invalidate it because you don't know this about Wisconsin.
It is standard practice in the IT industry to sign an agreement that any work you create as part of your employment is the property of the employer. Because he did not sign such an agreement the state has a very weak case. He is no different from a 3rd party that was hired to write code but keeps the code. Microsoft anyone. IBM thought that Microsoft was writing code exclusively for IBM and that IBM had complete control. This turned out not to be true. Without a signed agreement the state has nothing.
"2) Accepting a work computer and other considerations has *got* to seriously jeopardize his claim. For heaven's sake, do *not* accept anything like that for work which you want to own, unless you get explicit acknowledgment that your employer sees it the same way."
Again, this is no different from a 3rd party working onsite to develop code. This is also standard practice. Unless there is an agreement that states exclusivity and/or ownership of the code, the state has nothing!
Now the one state that does have a beef is Iowa. From the article:
"In 2003, the state sent Meredith to Iowa to get trained on the Iowa Department of Transportation's Traffic and Criminal Software, or TraCS. Iowa gave Wisconsin the software for free on the condition that Wisconsin not develop the application for commercial purposes, said Kernats"
So it could very well be Iowa could sue the cop and the state of Wisconsin for developing this application.
Do people read article anymore??
First off the PS3 is a computer, period. Get over it.
Second, from the article:
"Geekbench also isn't able to exploit the eight vector processors on the Cell processor. Any program designed and optimized for the Cell processor should be a lot faster than one designed for a generic processor (like, say, Geekbench). So while the Geekbench results might seem disappointing, keep in mind that Geekbench can't exercise the PlayStation 3 to its full potential."
http://www.geekpatrol.ca/2006/11/playstation-3-pe
There are running a stock version of Linux which does not take advantage of the Cell processors capability. Christ it's like running a Intel Processor with HT disabled! What did you expect.
The Cell processor is one hell of a processor, read the technical specs. It's best use may not be in the PS3. But since SONY is not in the OS market, they are left up to 3rd parties to develop an OS to work on the Cell.
My complaint is the lack of memory. I would like the ability to up the memory to 1 GB. Show me a PS3 with 1GB and you'd have a very interesting computing device.
Sample size is BIG deal. Without a significantly large enough sample size you cannot generalize your results to your target population. If we are talking about a population of one million people and you have a sample size of one thousand, that's 0.1%.
You would have useless information. You would need at least 10% to have meaningful results.
The p-value is not how likely you are to be wrong. It is a measure of how likely your results are do to chance. The lower the number the less likely, the higher the number more likely.
Your statement on Variance and Change make no sense. If by Variance in sample you mean heterogenous sample that still would not overcome size limitations. Again, how big of change does not overcome size limitations.
You're new here aren't you.
C#/.NET is only support on Windows period. Microsoft has not support C#/.NET on any other platform. Mono is not a Microsoft sanction product. Microsoft has NEVER embraced Mono. Microsoft, if they decide, can pull the plug on Mono anytime. In fact Microsoft's agreement with Novell may be one step in the direction.
"Small portions of a hologram contain the information needed to produce an approximation of the original image. The difference between traditional and holographic storage is that a scratch on a CD renders the information under the scratch unreadable, while a scratch on a hologram degrades the entire image."
BullShit!
Provide me with the source on this one. A scratch is a scratch, depending on how it impedes the reading of the information, neither system will fair better. Your under the misunderstanding that a scratch in on location on an HVD will make the entire disc unreadable. That's incorrect.
Mod you up as Moron.
Let's keep throwing good money after bad. Hello Space Station - how many billions of dollars did we spend on that?? And now we are going to shut it down. Brilliant Einstein. You can do alot better space exploration by NOT going to the moon.
Jesus are you people this dense.
Look you want to get people excited about science? You want to foster a new generation of scientists? Here you go:
Project #1: Develop a car that does not run on fossil fuels!
Project #2: Make America engery independent!
Instead of pouring billions of dollars are stupid space programs to go to the moon and mars, let's pour billions of dollars into problems that we can solve right now, instead of waiting another 30 years to say, "We need to be engery independent."
Energy independence is a big enough subject that draw upon diverse areas of studies. The point is this is the 21st centuries space race. Stop ignoring the problems that are staring you right in the face for pie in the sky pipe dreams - there are no green alien space women who are going to have sex with you!
"What the market wants and what the school provides are totally different," a commerce student, Sohail Kutchi, said.
Ironically, American businesses, i.e., tech companies, complain about the samething with U.S. Universities.
Hey ass wipe - it's a FORK.
From the press release:
"Novell will release the code to integrate the Open XML format into its product as open source and submit it for inclusion in the OpenOffice.org project."
Thus it's not a plugin, it's integrated code. Major problem.
"Because people said "I want a file selector, not a file selector + submarine control dialog?" The fact that you can do something on a dialog that's not really none of the dialog's business is usually a symptom of excessive featuritis.
(Agreed, I think it'd be nice if the dialog had a button that says "open in Nautilus" for the rare cases where file management is needed.)"
And the reason why Gnome will never be taken seriously.
Are you honestly telling me that in today's world of operating systems, (Mac and Windows), that you are going to force people into a two step process for something that other operating systems do in one step! You obviously fail to understand the user. If Linux cannot do the simple things that Windows and Mac do, then most users will not bother to switch. User in the Windows and Mac world want simplicity. They don't care how complex it is on the backend.
The short comings of Windows and Mac operating systems are not enough to force MOST people to switch to Linux because the simplicity is not there.
Power users and people who are willing to tinker, because you have to tinker: DVD playback is disabled by default and you have to go through hoops to enable it, whereas DVD playback just works in Windows and Mac. Most users just want it to work.
"Sony screwed the pooch with the PS-3 and MS took advantage of it. "
That's why there are people paying thousands of dollars on eBay to buy a PS3 that retails for $600!
Just to add and what a cursory review can turn up:
Junkscience.com
The most visible public activity of TASSC [The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) was an tobacco-industry-funded lobby group which promoted the idea that environmental science was "junk science", which should be replaced by "sound science" more favorable to corporate interests] was its support for the Junk Science website run by Steven Milloy, who describes himself as the "Junkman". Milloy denounces research on environmental issues such as climate change, pollution and public health as junk science if it produced results suggesting a need for public intervention or regulation. He promoted the idea of sound science, interpreted in practice to mean science favorable to corporate interests.
Adverse publicity about Milloy's links to Phillip Morris were followed by his departure from the Cato Institute, where he had been an adjunct fellow, at the end of 2005, and the removal of links to junkscience.org from the Cato website. However, Milloy remains influential as the science columnist for Fox News.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advancement_of_Sound
Wow, you really need help if you are using junkscience.com as your reference material.