It's amazing how 90% of the people flaming Google about this haven't tried to actually visit google.cn for themselves to see this first hand. Even the big news outlets don't seem to have tried this.
The whole thing is actually funny, and I'm surprised that the Chinese government is fine with the manual-redirect. I think what Google did is very clever and is a big win for them.
"And this is important...in what significant way?"
In the way that it's the largest search engine getting to stay in the largest search market in the world. Maybe these things aren't important to you, but I think that the outcome of this would have a large impact on the tech industry as a whole.
You're right, but that's sorta the point I was trying to make. There have been quite a few mining accidents in the past few years, and although they haven't been as devastating to the environment as the oil spill, there have been many more fatalities.
Well, it seems to me that the drilling ban simply punishes the rigs that were following the rules and didn't have a catastrophe. Is the Gulf going to be any safer without those rigs drilling? Sure; but it's like banning Ford from making cars because of problems with Toyota accelerators. Sure, removing all cars from the road will make it safer, but what would be the point of roads? Just remove the Toyotas.
Oh, and why wasn't there a ban on coal mining after the explosions in West Virginia?
I remember that right after the 9/11 attacks, Oracle was offereing their software to the federal government for free. Anyone else remember this?
I know that this was just bait-and-switch on the part of Oracle, but it'd be awesome if they gave the software to the government for free and then discounted it FURTHER for other customers....I guess they were paying people to use Oracle;-)
"Tech consultant Jamie Wells says a client he works for still uses OS/2 to run its homegrown ERP and CRM systems, only instead of PCs they run it virtualized on Mac Minis."
Please tell me you're joking. If I were brought in to work on a system like this, I'd run away screaming.
Most hypervisors have pretty shoddy OS/2 support. The latest versions of VMWare dropped it, I don't know if it works on Parallels. It does work on VirtualPC, but that's Windows only now, so no luck on the Mac-Mini....unless you're doing the whole BootCamp shindig, which defeats the point of the Macs anyway. ESX/i doesn't support OS/2 either, and I'm pretty sure ESX isn't supported on Macs. Haven't looked into OS/2 on XenServer.
And ERP, really? You'd really trust an enterprise-level application with a setup like this? I'd really like to hear from the guys who have to support this. It may be working fine for them, but I have serious, serious doubts that this is the case.
Back in my day, I had to hack up my underpowered 486 in order to get Doom to run decently.....knowing the ins-and-outs of what drivers to exclude from my autoexec.bat and config.sys files in order to have enough memory to run it. I learned a good bit about memory and learned quite a bit;-)
Of course, most hardware today is powerful enough to run most games without hacking....
I finally finished the Sprawl Trilogy about a month ago and I'm almost through re-reading Neuromancer again as a refresher. After reading these great novels, I'm almost of the opinion that there is way too much information and too much detail to cram into a 2-hour movie. Gibson went through a lot of pains to explain the story background without going into a "flashback" style of writing. The novels are also way to character driven to try to explain their motiviations and personalities in a short time slot.
Although the movie sounds like a great idea, I have the gut feeling that it would be a huge let down like the other Gibson novels that have been made into films (ie Johnny Mneumonic and New Rose Hotel).
I'm in agreement with you here buddy. Like I said, the guy did his time, move on....but given the way things are today, I'm surprised that the city hired him given his record.
Sure, he was convicted of burglary when he was only 17, so I'm not sure if he was classified as a juvenile under Kansas law. He was then charged with misdemeanor weapons possession years later.
The guy did his time, so I'm not holding anything against him peronsally....I just find it surprising that a government agency would hire someone with that kind of record.
I fail to see how this is a bad example. Just because she's CEO of a company that produces products for females doesn't rule her out as a board of tech company. In that same degree, the majority of people on Avon's board are male. Does this mean that there is a disporportionate ratio of males to females in the cosmetic industry?
http://responsibility.avoncompany.com/page-59-board-of-directors
FYI, the link I posted is also the one referenced on Apple's corporate bio page:
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/bod.html
Article states that he stepped down as CEO in mid-2008. Actually he quit being CEO in January, 2000. He resiged as chairman in 2008.
Another fine piece of reporting incorrect facts from CNN.
One thing that irks me about people saying that NASA's dwindling budget is a shame when the military budget is so high...people seem to be ignoring how much NASA has benefited from the military in the past.
How many rockets used by NASA were originally designed as ICBMs (Redstone, Titan, etc)?
How many US astronauts received their initial training in the military?
How many shuttle launches were partially funded by the USAF/DoD?
You also need to take into consideration advanced avionics, satellite tracking, electronic communications....a great deal of this stuff originated in the military and was used by NASA, not vice-versa.
It's hard to speculate, but I'm sure that spaceflight and exploration would be much different if NASA didn't have it's budget supplemented with military technology.
"Consumers appear to like the cheap little laptops known as netbooks -- during a disappointing year for PC sales, they were the only type of netbook that saw an increase in sales rather than a decline."
Well, umm, yeah, I'd expect netbooks to be the only type of netbook that saw increase in sales, duh;-)
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Sure about that? In 2009, defense accounted for 23% of the federal budget.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2007.png
It's amazing how 90% of the people flaming Google about this haven't tried to actually visit google.cn for themselves to see this first hand. Even the big news outlets don't seem to have tried this.
The whole thing is actually funny, and I'm surprised that the Chinese government is fine with the manual-redirect. I think what Google did is very clever and is a big win for them.
"And this is important...in what significant way?"
In the way that it's the largest search engine getting to stay in the largest search market in the world. Maybe these things aren't important to you, but I think that the outcome of this would have a large impact on the tech industry as a whole.
As reported elsewhere, the problem also exist on earlier models as well.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Lpt2YkF3Q
Article has no mention of cellular carriers, which I expected since this news is breaking. I have to wonder if that $1,000 is a subsidized price....
You're right, but that's sorta the point I was trying to make. There have been quite a few mining accidents in the past few years, and although they haven't been as devastating to the environment as the oil spill, there have been many more fatalities.
Well, it seems to me that the drilling ban simply punishes the rigs that were following the rules and didn't have a catastrophe. Is the Gulf going to be any safer without those rigs drilling? Sure; but it's like banning Ford from making cars because of problems with Toyota accelerators. Sure, removing all cars from the road will make it safer, but what would be the point of roads? Just remove the Toyotas. Oh, and why wasn't there a ban on coal mining after the explosions in West Virginia?
I remember that right after the 9/11 attacks, Oracle was offereing their software to the federal government for free. Anyone else remember this? I know that this was just bait-and-switch on the part of Oracle, but it'd be awesome if they gave the software to the government for free and then discounted it FURTHER for other customers....I guess they were paying people to use Oracle ;-)
"Tech consultant Jamie Wells says a client he works for still uses OS/2 to run its homegrown ERP and CRM systems, only instead of PCs they run it virtualized on Mac Minis."
Please tell me you're joking. If I were brought in to work on a system like this, I'd run away screaming.
Most hypervisors have pretty shoddy OS/2 support. The latest versions of VMWare dropped it, I don't know if it works on Parallels. It does work on VirtualPC, but that's Windows only now, so no luck on the Mac-Mini....unless you're doing the whole BootCamp shindig, which defeats the point of the Macs anyway. ESX/i doesn't support OS/2 either, and I'm pretty sure ESX isn't supported on Macs. Haven't looked into OS/2 on XenServer.
And ERP, really? You'd really trust an enterprise-level application with a setup like this? I'd really like to hear from the guys who have to support this. It may be working fine for them, but I have serious, serious doubts that this is the case.
I said "most" games.....Crysis is a benchmarking tool, isn't it? :-)
Back in my day, I had to hack up my underpowered 486 in order to get Doom to run decently.....knowing the ins-and-outs of what drivers to exclude from my autoexec.bat and config.sys files in order to have enough memory to run it. I learned a good bit about memory and learned quite a bit ;-)
Of course, most hardware today is powerful enough to run most games without hacking....
I follow you, no worries.
You did see that Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat from New York, is in on this as well, right?
I finally finished the Sprawl Trilogy about a month ago and I'm almost through re-reading Neuromancer again as a refresher. After reading these great novels, I'm almost of the opinion that there is way too much information and too much detail to cram into a 2-hour movie. Gibson went through a lot of pains to explain the story background without going into a "flashback" style of writing. The novels are also way to character driven to try to explain their motiviations and personalities in a short time slot. Although the movie sounds like a great idea, I have the gut feeling that it would be a huge let down like the other Gibson novels that have been made into films (ie Johnny Mneumonic and New Rose Hotel).
I'm in agreement with you here buddy. Like I said, the guy did his time, move on....but given the way things are today, I'm surprised that the city hired him given his record.
Good lord, I had no idea I was going to get modded into oblivion for this comment....ROLLBACK!!!ROLLBACK!!!
What I don't quite understand is how Childs was hired by The City to begin with given his criminal past.
http://www.cio.com.au/article/255165/sorting_facts_terry_childs_case?pp=2&fp=&fpid=
Sure, he was convicted of burglary when he was only 17, so I'm not sure if he was classified as a juvenile under Kansas law. He was then charged with misdemeanor weapons possession years later.
The guy did his time, so I'm not holding anything against him peronsally....I just find it surprising that a government agency would hire someone with that kind of record.
"He who has the gold makes the rules.
So yeah, Apple will try, and Apple will succeed in steamrolling through them."
Not necessarily. See BlackBerry vs. NTP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry
Yeah, especially since it's already made the front page of Slashdot. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/24/1518213/Surveillance-Backdoor-Enabled-Chinese-Gmail-Attack
I fail to see how this is a bad example. Just because she's CEO of a company that produces products for females doesn't rule her out as a board of tech company. In that same degree, the majority of people on Avon's board are male. Does this mean that there is a disporportionate ratio of males to females in the cosmetic industry? http://responsibility.avoncompany.com/page-59-board-of-directors FYI, the link I posted is also the one referenced on Apple's corporate bio page: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/bod.html
Apple may not have women in their upper management, but they do have Andrea Jung on their board of directors.... http://www.avoncompany.com/investor/seniormanagement/jung.html
Article states that he stepped down as CEO in mid-2008. Actually he quit being CEO in January, 2000. He resiged as chairman in 2008. Another fine piece of reporting incorrect facts from CNN.
One thing that irks me about people saying that NASA's dwindling budget is a shame when the military budget is so high...people seem to be ignoring how much NASA has benefited from the military in the past. How many rockets used by NASA were originally designed as ICBMs (Redstone, Titan, etc)? How many US astronauts received their initial training in the military? How many shuttle launches were partially funded by the USAF/DoD? You also need to take into consideration advanced avionics, satellite tracking, electronic communications....a great deal of this stuff originated in the military and was used by NASA, not vice-versa. It's hard to speculate, but I'm sure that spaceflight and exploration would be much different if NASA didn't have it's budget supplemented with military technology.
"Consumers appear to like the cheap little laptops known as netbooks -- during a disappointing year for PC sales, they were the only type of netbook that saw an increase in sales rather than a decline."
Well, umm, yeah, I'd expect netbooks to be the only type of netbook that saw increase in sales, duh ;-)
"I doubt that too many MCDBAs have quite wrapped their heads around using SQL Server on a Core (read: non-UI) install of Windows Server just yet.)"
Installing SQL Server on Windows Core isn't supported, though I wish it were.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506.aspx
I haven't tried it, is this something that you've been able to successfully accomplish?