versus one for which it forms, say, 81 percent I don't know about that, but i do know that the equivalent of a dog being blind is that of me having my nose blocked due to cold: In short no appreciable loss of abilities and is not even considered a handicap for the dog or for me (in that order).
Why does it matter if I have long hair? Why should people give a crap what I'm wearing? I will take this one:
Scientifically speaking, vision (inputs from our eyes) form 80% of our total sensory input (compared to 10% for a Dog). Hence visually appealing is a battle won 3/4 of the way. People generally don't place much emphasis on what you speak, if your appearence is Michael jackson or Janet Jackson with wardrobe malfunction. (unless you are proven to be so good like Einstein, but he too had to wear a Tux to make his peers take him seriously). Which is why some people still love jessica simpson on stage or even Jessica Alba (even though their acting skill would give hiccups to Spielberg).
Probably what we wear does not matter to a dog (which gets 50% of its input from smell, 40% from hearing and 10% visual), since it sees by smell. But then dogs do not run boardrooms (literally speaking that is).
An Update: Kevin Martin, the republican heading the FCC is quoted:
But at the end of the event, which, all told, lasted nearly six hours, Martin told reporters he still hadn't made up his mind about whether Comcast had done anything more than "reasonable" network management http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9878330-7.html?tag=nefd.pulse/ Does it prove my earlier point? Although the FCC declared in 2005 that customers have the right to use the content, lawful applications, and devices they wish on the networks they use, i don't think Martin would allow that.
Wow! This is a slow news day. Why can't we cover something that affects us 100 years from now? Or even that timeline is too short for us?
For instance how the president vetoes the Mortgage closure bill which allow judges to reduce interest rates and thus make homes affordable to pander to banks, or how cheney continues to play the role of phantom-phase-shifting VP who is neither the executive nor the senate, or iran oil bourse, or even how to get money from virgin BA settlement?
One thing i can say: Even 7.6 billion years later, Earth would still consider Cheney as the worst president ANY country ever had, including Zimbabwe. I have karma to burn.
1. FCC will formally issue a statement that comcast engages in traffic shaping. 2. Such traffic shaping and blocking of torrents have not financially harmed anyone so far. (this is why you geeks should file a complaint with FCC stating a specified amount of money. No need to prove it.). 3. Such behavior by comcast is not prohibited by law. (FCC forgets that there is no law that forces me to smile and call every cop an officer, although i have to do). 4. FCC declines to decide either way (much like the supreme court did for spying case). 5. Two weeks later one FCC commissioner resigns and joins comcast pressure group as VP. 6. Comcast, AT&T, verizon continue aggressive bittorrent blocking. Qwest refuses to do that and continues its old policy of allowing all. 6(a) All three announce unlimited plans with no blocking for @250 a month (capped at 10GB a month). 6(b) Qwest CEO is arrested and charged with monopoly behavior and sentenced to 20 years in prison plus a $25 million fine. 7. PROFIT!
Vista SP1 knowingly breaking popular software. Backward compatibility is a dumbell that hangs you down. Unless your OS was designed from start with an excellent foresighted architecture you are hobbed for life. That is why Win NT 3.5.1 was a good start. Its goal was not compatibility. It was security. Now, NT 4.0 was the begining of the step towards destroying that.
Microsoft had a good strategy: One OS for business and one for Home. Their merger strategy led to patches, compatibility issues etc., as a result of which Windows XP was a set of rubber bands and bandaids over a claypot that leaked wet clay all around.
Vista was meant to be a clean start where the OS regains its primary control as controller of hardware rather than sucking up to applications that were badly written in first place. For instance Vista can't run some Star Trek strategy games. They were meant for Win 95, and Vista kills it.
Its not a question of OS breaking the apps. Its the other way around. Wordstar can't run in Vista or even XP SP2 natively. So does that mean i have to bend my OS to run badly written programs?
But Vista is also broken from begining, because Microsoft tries to be all to all. Which is not true. At Home i download, run and terminate many programs and games (Carmen Sandiago, Star Wars, CoH, Battlefield, Half-life, MS Works) . At work iam limited to Notes, Visio, MS Office, SQL Client, VS.NEt etc. Microsoft should really gut the code base and rebuilt one business OS and a separate home OS with compatibility for all games/software.
How on Earth did this get awarded a patent? Because, USPTO employees get their salaries based on how many patents they approve and not on how many they reject.
Its like the medical insurance companies, where claim officers earn their salary as a percentage of the claims they reject.
Unless USPTO officers are awarded salary based on patents they reject this will be the condition.
Expect fireworks as Apple and Nintendo lobby the congress to overhaul patent law. They never thought that unbermenschen like us would sue them.
I'm still impressed how buggy the Centrino technology is
Turion64 X2 + nForce + Geforce laptop. This hardware combination is awesome Exactly ! I own a M2Ne-SLI motherboard with dual 8600 GT powered by an Athlon X2 dual-core running at 3.8 Ghz. I had an Athlon XP 1800+ before for about 4 years.
Never once have i had/have a BSOD in XP.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said of my wife's Dell XP Centrino Laptop which crashes suddenly when Bluetooth is switched on, or etc.
AMD's support is also awesome especially when it comes to high-powered systems, compared to Intel which treats all customers as Microsofties. AMD on the other hand is patient enough to listen, and then help me out.
Although AMD is not that advertised as Intel is, it continues to remain a solid product company. For instance the AMD Athlon X2 64-bit dual core chip i use, is quieter, less power hungry and more powerful than its intel-equivalent.
I have always thought of Intel chips as a short, well-built sprinter, whose ting pegs can carry him over a short distance quickly but in the longer haul (marathon), it can keep up only by downing copious amounts of glucose fluids and sweats a lot.
AMD is a picture of a tall (6.5 feet), lean, kenyan man, whose stamina, endurance make him take the 15 mile marathon easily without breaking a sweat.
AMD would be either bought over by IBM or even by Microsoft.
Cheney wants to make Telecoms immune from legal action for their breaking of laws. Fine, the congress can grant it, with a clause which states Cheney and Bush will stand impeached for illegal house-breaking (like Nixon).
Somebody should take responsibility for breaking the law. As Bush was so fond of saying, he's the command-in-chief.
So, if he wants telecoms need immunity, they will get it, provided Bush and Cheney stand down or get impeached, convicted and sentenced to jail for breaking the law.
After all, Bush swears high and low that the corporates broke the law based on HIS insistence. Fine, as a tool, corporates can get off the hook. The instigator gets the sentence.
Courts operate that way. That is why planners of crimes are sentenced more severly than the humans they use to carry out their criminal plans.
However Cheney wants none of this. His idea is: Yes corporates broke the law and they must be given immunity. BUT, i cannot be held responsible for forcing them to break the law, because neither part of the Executive nor Senate, which means am above law.
The House, and Obama (clinton is a stooge) should pass a resolution granting immunity to corporates if Bush or Cheney resign and agree to stand trial.
Am sure that will make both of them forget immunity.
the WILL of the AMERICAN PEOPLE He refers to Cheney, Karl Rove and Himself as people. Technically he is correct. But then he wears a 19% approval as a badge of success!
I'm thinking special glasses for the TSA agents to make them colorblind. And am thinking of "special" glasses for TSA that allows them to "see-through" clothes. Of course this will result in a few gawkings, cat calls, etc., but then that is a cheap price to pay.
And think of the job prospects: From being a boring dead-end job as a TSA agent, it will go overnight to an interesting, must-have job, that would have college kids and 50+ adults fighting over the few openings to be entrusted with a pair of see-thru glasses plus pay.
This is the DHS. Your IP has been logged and we are sending an unmarked black car to pick you up for your "valuable" inputs in strengthening airport security. We are sure you would find accomodations in Guantanamo bay comfortable and to your taste. Heil !
We did try, convict, and execute spies under military tribunals with no lip from the other side. I mean, seriously, what was different during ww2 ? Well, for one thing; we did not spy on our own citizens. Secondly, we did not allow corporates war profiteering and in fact made sure the money went into War Bonds, etc. Thirdly, No-Bid contracts were not allowed. Fourthly, There was no guantanamo, even for japanese descent. The court trials (open or closed) gave even spies the same rights as citizens. Fiftly, the president still answered to the congress and did not try to supersede it or treat it like the enemy. Sixthly, Once the war was over (Truman) the president ended the C-in-C powers and surrendered it back to the Peole. Seventhly, We did not go to war on false pretenses or ulterior motives. Eighthly, whistleblowers of corruption were not "dropped" or "ratted out" or silenced.
I think they're doing just fine - maybe they should invest in a little more infrastructure instead of bitching about having to keep up with demand. As a corporation, why would i want to waste money in upgrading when i can continue to earn money as billions from profit. Have you heard of the term "Cash Cow"? This is what it is. Right now comcast's business model says the existing infrastructure is in cash cow phase: meaning for another decade or so, it will be a cash cow and after that expenses will start mounting up. Cash Cow=Income exceeds Expenses on a steady state basis. Once expenses start mounting the product would be replaced with another one.
Too bad if the world around me changes faster than my cash cow dies.
As a corporation I will do anything to continue that cash cow model if it bring me $1.3 Billion in profits every year. Suppose i start spending money to upgrade and after 3 years the business model changes again, who is going to pay for all this? You? Stupid Consumer? NO. You would laugh at me, and if you are a shareholder, you would sue me.
So, best bet: Resist pressure from world environment for change that kills the cash cow. Keeping consumers happy is not my goal. My goal is to earn money. If that keeps consumers happy, am fine. If not, too bad.
Look - this is critical infrastructure we are talking about. Not for me (a corporate). I think it has a business expense. Anything that increases spending is bad. Anything that persists status quo and the cash cow is good.
You need to think like a corporate my friend. Not like Al Gore.
Toshiba can still ship HD-DVD recorders, media, etc Ahh... you got to think like a Corporation. You think like a libertarian. Making it free allows someone else to make money off it. It represents a lost revenue and hence a loss for the corporation. Suppose the CEO releases this in the open. Someone adapts it for DirectImager (a fake tool) which can use Acronis to image and clone back a hard drive. And earns a million dollars from it. Now multiply it by thousands of people located in Taiwan, Korea etc.
Do you honestly believe the CEO will be praised by shareholders for allowing others to earn money of a dead format?
Not to exaggerate, but the shareholders would sue the board for losses (mythical losses), and the board in turn will then offload the CEO with a golden parachute, which will result in another set of lawsuits. Ultimately, the lawyers will negotiate a "settlement" where shareholders can submit claims to the company for getting either a rebate of $150 on their next Toshiba products, or get $15 as cash check now.
Remember always: A corporation is a pathological liar, psychologically a child, utterly selfish, immensely powerful half-breed.
If they can't enjoy something, they will burn it rather than allowing someone else to enjoy.
You try to equate a corporate with the common man. Believe me, nothing is farther from comparison.
And the day the governor-general refuses to sign a law ...is the day US invades canada like it did Panama to "liberate" canada from tyranny of the Queen.
We still don't have a clue how to do strong AI, but we probably have the CPU power. That's like saying, gee we don't know how to build an A-Bomb, but we do have 1,000 tons of TNT.
We will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence What he means is that with the steadily reducing levels of Human Intelligence over the past 5 decades, as depicted in http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/ shows that by year 2029 the human intelligence will meet machine AI which will remain as constant as always and would continue to ask "Do you want to quit? Yes/No" every time i quit Word.
Maybe that's why Google is hoarding all the remaining three digit IQ scores so that there is no shortage of IQ.
In other news, lots of flying chairs were heard swishing around Redmond Campus at Microsoft when the CEO heard google was cornering the market on Human IQs.
We will not stand here and watch this floor Sounds like a child's tantrum. The Dems are in charge now. If they give into every tantrum of the children, then the parents would be removed.
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Exactly.
However Apple fanboys would rather fight it out (using Panzers if need be) with the OSS group rather than saying Apple needed to fined by EU.
I seriously hope Apple is given the same treatment as Microsoft is. Huge fines compounded by denial of access.
However i don't think that would come through because:
1. Apple would whine and cry.
2. Fanboys would rather gut EU HQ rather than allow it to happen.
Hey, which mouse of Logitech have you bought?
Iam using an LG mouse with default driver and it sucks.
You read too much into the capitaliation.
What i meant was exactly what i said.
There are no hidden meanings and sorry for the capitalization.
Scientifically speaking, vision (inputs from our eyes) form 80% of our total sensory input (compared to 10% for a Dog).
Hence visually appealing is a battle won 3/4 of the way.
People generally don't place much emphasis on what you speak, if your appearence is Michael jackson or Janet Jackson with wardrobe malfunction. (unless you are proven to be so good like Einstein, but he too had to wear a Tux to make his peers take him seriously).
Which is why some people still love jessica simpson on stage or even Jessica Alba (even though their acting skill would give hiccups to Spielberg).
Probably what we wear does not matter to a dog (which gets 50% of its input from smell, 40% from hearing and 10% visual), since it sees by smell.
But then dogs do not run boardrooms (literally speaking that is).
Satisfied with a scientific answer?
Kevin Martin, the republican heading the FCC is quoted: But at the end of the event, which, all told, lasted nearly six hours, Martin told reporters he still hadn't made up his mind about whether Comcast had done anything more than "reasonable" network management http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9878330-7.html?tag=nefd.pulse/
Does it prove my earlier point?
Although the FCC declared in 2005 that customers have the right to use the content, lawful applications, and devices they wish on the networks they use, i don't think Martin would allow that.
Wow! This is a slow news day.
Why can't we cover something that affects us 100 years from now? Or even that timeline is too short for us?
For instance how the president vetoes the Mortgage closure bill which allow judges to reduce interest rates and thus make homes affordable to pander to banks,
or how cheney continues to play the role of phantom-phase-shifting VP who is neither the executive nor the senate,
or iran oil bourse,
or even how to get money from virgin BA settlement?
One thing i can say: Even 7.6 billion years later, Earth would still consider Cheney as the worst president ANY country ever had, including Zimbabwe.
I have karma to burn.
1. FCC will formally issue a statement that comcast engages in traffic shaping.
2. Such traffic shaping and blocking of torrents have not financially harmed anyone so far. (this is why you geeks should file a complaint with FCC stating a specified amount of money. No need to prove it.).
3. Such behavior by comcast is not prohibited by law. (FCC forgets that there is no law that forces me to smile and call every cop an officer, although i have to do).
4. FCC declines to decide either way (much like the supreme court did for spying case).
5. Two weeks later one FCC commissioner resigns and joins comcast pressure group as VP.
6. Comcast, AT&T, verizon continue aggressive bittorrent blocking. Qwest refuses to do that and continues its old policy of allowing all.
6(a) All three announce unlimited plans with no blocking for @250 a month (capped at 10GB a month).
6(b) Qwest CEO is arrested and charged with monopoly behavior and sentenced to 20 years in prison plus a $25 million fine.
7. PROFIT!
Unless your OS was designed from start with an excellent foresighted architecture you are hobbed for life.
That is why Win NT 3.5.1 was a good start. Its goal was not compatibility. It was security.
Now, NT 4.0 was the begining of the step towards destroying that.
Microsoft had a good strategy: One OS for business and one for Home.
Their merger strategy led to patches, compatibility issues etc., as a result of which Windows XP was a set of rubber bands and bandaids over a claypot that leaked wet clay all around.
Vista was meant to be a clean start where the OS regains its primary control as controller of hardware rather than sucking up to applications that were badly written in first place.
For instance Vista can't run some Star Trek strategy games. They were meant for Win 95, and Vista kills it.
Its not a question of OS breaking the apps. Its the other way around. Wordstar can't run in Vista or even XP SP2 natively. So does that mean i have to bend my OS to run badly written programs?
But Vista is also broken from begining, because Microsoft tries to be all to all. Which is not true. At Home i download, run and terminate many programs and games (Carmen Sandiago, Star Wars, CoH, Battlefield, Half-life, MS Works) . At work iam limited to Notes, Visio, MS Office, SQL Client, VS.NEt etc.
Microsoft should really gut the code base and rebuilt one business OS and a separate home OS with compatibility for all games/software.
I was just joking, but seems another reply to my post says it is true-opposite.
Its like the medical insurance companies, where claim officers earn their salary as a percentage of the claims they reject.
Unless USPTO officers are awarded salary based on patents they reject this will be the condition.
Expect fireworks as Apple and Nintendo lobby the congress to overhaul patent law. They never thought that unbermenschen like us would sue them.
I own a M2Ne-SLI motherboard with dual 8600 GT powered by an Athlon X2 dual-core running at 3.8 Ghz.
I had an Athlon XP 1800+ before for about 4 years.
Never once have i had/have a BSOD in XP.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said of my wife's Dell XP Centrino Laptop which crashes suddenly when Bluetooth is switched on, or etc.
AMD's support is also awesome especially when it comes to high-powered systems, compared to Intel which treats all customers as Microsofties.
AMD on the other hand is patient enough to listen, and then help me out.
Although AMD is not that advertised as Intel is, it continues to remain a solid product company.
For instance the AMD Athlon X2 64-bit dual core chip i use, is quieter, less power hungry and more powerful than its intel-equivalent.
I have always thought of Intel chips as a short, well-built sprinter, whose ting pegs can carry him over a short distance quickly but in the longer haul (marathon), it can keep up only by downing copious amounts of glucose fluids and sweats a lot.
AMD is a picture of a tall (6.5 feet), lean, kenyan man, whose stamina, endurance make him take the 15 mile marathon easily without breaking a sweat.
AMD would be either bought over by IBM or even by Microsoft.
Cheney wants to make Telecoms immune from legal action for their breaking of laws. Fine, the congress can grant it, with a clause which states Cheney and Bush will stand impeached for illegal house-breaking (like Nixon).
Somebody should take responsibility for breaking the law. As Bush was so fond of saying, he's the command-in-chief.
So, if he wants telecoms need immunity, they will get it, provided Bush and Cheney stand down or get impeached, convicted and sentenced to jail for breaking the law.
After all, Bush swears high and low that the corporates broke the law based on HIS insistence.
Fine, as a tool, corporates can get off the hook. The instigator gets the sentence.
Courts operate that way. That is why planners of crimes are sentenced more severly than the humans they use to carry out their criminal plans.
However Cheney wants none of this. His idea is: Yes corporates broke the law and they must be given immunity. BUT, i cannot be held responsible for forcing them to break the law, because neither part of the Executive nor Senate, which means am above law.
The House, and Obama (clinton is a stooge) should pass a resolution granting immunity to corporates if Bush or Cheney resign and agree to stand trial.
Am sure that will make both of them forget immunity.
Technically he is correct.
But then he wears a 19% approval as a badge of success!
Of course this will result in a few gawkings, cat calls, etc., but then that is a cheap price to pay.
And think of the job prospects:
From being a boring dead-end job as a TSA agent, it will go overnight to an interesting, must-have job, that would have college kids and 50+ adults fighting over the few openings to be entrusted with a pair of see-thru glasses plus pay.
This is the DHS. Your IP has been logged and we are sending an unmarked black car to pick you up for your "valuable" inputs in strengthening airport security.
We are sure you would find accomodations in Guantanamo bay comfortable and to your taste.
Heil !
Secondly, we did not allow corporates war profiteering and in fact made sure the money went into War Bonds, etc.
Thirdly, No-Bid contracts were not allowed.
Fourthly, There was no guantanamo, even for japanese descent. The court trials (open or closed) gave even spies the same rights as citizens.
Fiftly, the president still answered to the congress and did not try to supersede it or treat it like the enemy.
Sixthly, Once the war was over (Truman) the president ended the C-in-C powers and surrendered it back to the Peole.
Seventhly, We did not go to war on false pretenses or ulterior motives.
Eighthly, whistleblowers of corruption were not "dropped" or "ratted out" or silenced.
Need more?
Have you heard of the term "Cash Cow"? This is what it is.
Right now comcast's business model says the existing infrastructure is in cash cow phase: meaning for another decade or so, it will be a cash cow and after that expenses will start mounting up.
Cash Cow=Income exceeds Expenses on a steady state basis.
Once expenses start mounting the product would be replaced with another one.
Too bad if the world around me changes faster than my cash cow dies.
As a corporation I will do anything to continue that cash cow model if it bring me $1.3 Billion in profits every year.
Suppose i start spending money to upgrade and after 3 years the business model changes again, who is going to pay for all this?
You? Stupid Consumer? NO. You would laugh at me, and if you are a shareholder, you would sue me.
So, best bet: Resist pressure from world environment for change that kills the cash cow. Keeping consumers happy is not my goal. My goal is to earn money. If that keeps consumers happy, am fine. If not, too bad. Look - this is critical infrastructure we are talking about. Not for me (a corporate). I think it has a business expense. Anything that increases spending is bad. Anything that persists status quo and the cash cow is good.
You need to think like a corporate my friend. Not like Al Gore.
Making it free allows someone else to make money off it. It represents a lost revenue and hence a loss for the corporation.
Suppose the CEO releases this in the open.
Someone adapts it for DirectImager (a fake tool) which can use Acronis to image and clone back a hard drive.
And earns a million dollars from it. Now multiply it by thousands of people located in Taiwan, Korea etc.
Do you honestly believe the CEO will be praised by shareholders for allowing others to earn money of a dead format?
Not to exaggerate, but the shareholders would sue the board for losses (mythical losses), and the board in turn will then offload the CEO with a golden parachute, which will result in another set of lawsuits.
Ultimately, the lawyers will negotiate a "settlement" where shareholders can submit claims to the company for getting either a rebate of $150 on their next Toshiba products, or get $15 as cash check now.
Remember always: A corporation is a pathological liar, psychologically a child, utterly selfish, immensely powerful half-breed.
If they can't enjoy something, they will burn it rather than allowing someone else to enjoy.
You try to equate a corporate with the common man. Believe me, nothing is farther from comparison.
What the hell does that mean?
Maybe that's why Google is hoarding all the remaining three digit IQ scores so that there is no shortage of IQ.
In other news, lots of flying chairs were heard swishing around Redmond Campus at Microsoft when the CEO heard google was cornering the market on Human IQs.
Abrams starts a new Serial: LOST IQ.
The Dems are in charge now.
If they give into every tantrum of the children, then the parents would be removed.
If so, Einstein would be the dumbest guy.
Intelligence has got nothing to do with emotional maturity.
Slashdotters are emotionally as mature as a 7th grader and with an average IQ of 128.