No, the President cannot simply change the rules about what is patentable. That would take an Act of Congress. Now if only Congress could produce some worthy Acts instead of sharpening their daggers for the next partisan attacks.
Nonsense, Tito did this all by himself after WWII when he put down all the other partisans (the Croats were Nazi sympathizers, the Islamic parts were...well...Islamic). He ruled with an iron fist with Serbia always first among the rest. When the old fart died, the rest saw their chance to break their chains...it wasn't pretty, but they did it. And Serbia will never forgive them for it. And as long as Serbia feels this way, the World should never forgive Serbia.
I think you are correct he wants to be the leader (Supreme Leader in his eyes) of a modern Ottoman Caliphate. I don't think the other mid-east countries will be so accommodating. Sooner or later I expect he'll have another row with Israel figuring that will raise his standing among Arabs...but they still won't trust him further than they can spit a two-headed rat.
The Head of Jordan, King Abdullah, said pretty much this statement when referring to how Erdogan thought of democracy. That was the first instance I'd heard it. I don't know if Erdogan said it first. I cannot imagine someone as slimy as Erdogan would say something like that although I think that is precisely how he thinks.
Precisely. The head of Jordan, King Abdullah, gave a wide ranging interview not long ago. He said Morsi of Egypt had no depth (no shit, Dr. Obvious). But he also said Erdogan thinks of Democracy as a bus ride. When he reaches his destination, he'll get off. My guess is that Erdogan will continue to use Democracy to push Turkey into a religious nutjob state, and when the final rebellion takes place, he'll be no better than Assad claiming outside terrorists are undermining Turkey, hence the special Gestapo tactics he'll employ will have been made necessary. History will have produced yet one more religious zealot who thinks everything he does is an extension of the hand of G-d....or Allah...whatever...it doesn't matter which one he invokes...I just hope it isn't the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I don't want to believe His Noodliness would condone that sort of behavior.
The reason agile isn't used is because it doesn't work with security very well. You must establish high level security properties and track them down to low level enforcement mechanisms. Agile says to build essentially a dirty snowball and when you are done, you will have no clue as to what security is actually provided except some ad hoc mechanisms thrown into an ad hoc design.
Yep, iTune's was never good. It's original problem was that it looked like a file system but wasn't, hence the way we used it clashed with way we used the Mac GUI. Now, it is just too weird for words.
Their stock price reflected their new markets. When those markets matured, so did the stock price. The pundits somehow expected Apple to break open a new market every 3 years which is a ridiculously high bar to jump over...every three years. And it didn't help that Google and Samsung decided that the measure of success was to ape Apple.
Defense isn't what put the country into debt, it was mainly a combination of years of social programs, Congress having no balls to ask Americans to pay for what they passed, and the sainted American people falling, eyes wide and cluelessly open, into the housing crisis.
If any plans being leaked were the fault of a defense contractor, they should get slammed financially by the Pentagon since they would have cost the American taxpayers billions.
Yes, but if you read the article, it isn't the Pentagon that's the problem. The problem is the defense contractors, those paradigms of free enterprise the conservative republicans are always honking on about. It seems they've been caught with their pants down.
Now, one might argue they just managed to cost the American taxpayers billions. Do we see the conservative republicans complaining about it. Nope.
Just to be fair, the liberal democrats wouldn't recognize a defense industry secret if it danced naked in front of them and they wouldn't be caught dead caring...unless that secret was from a defense contractor in their district. Somehow national defense is at stake when that happens to a company in their district but can be ignored when it is in some other congress critter's district.
Funny, when I google "Il Illah moon god" I get a wikipedia page which says that notion is being mainly promoted by a Christian evangelical, Robert Morey...he has a book "The moon-god Allah in the archeology of the Middle East".
So I think we can safely can your moon god theory as a Christian wet dream.
Just for the record, Islam is evil, but not because it has the wrong god or whatever. It is evil because of what it does to women, minorities, free thinkers, gays, etc.
I think what you are after is the opportunity cost. Chasing an acquisition means integrating that acquisition into your current environment which generally means a culture clash. The people from the acquisition are the leadership and the rank and file. The leadership, if they have any sense at all, will be looking for the exits as soon as the deal closes because the chances they will be replaced are high if only because the powerbases in the new company will want them gone. The rank and file will probably be anxious and they too will be looking for the exits since they didn't grow into the acquirers way of doing things and figure they too will be on the chopping block as soon as the acquiring company can see fit to do without them. The steady attrition will mean the institutional memory will go bye-bye. After that is only left the technology. But if the technology was so good, they wouldn't have wanted to be acquired in the first place, which points to another problem: the deal is probably a lemon because a vibrant, growing company should not be wanting to see itself sold...unless the insiders know something isn't working correctly.
Also, if it isn't a good fit, you will waste years figuring that out when you should have spent those years on a better investment....such as in-house research to serve your core markets, etc.
Yes, let's take this attitude toward getting beaned by an asteroid. "Wot?" you say. "But..but...given enough lead time, there is something we can do about it...y'know...rockets, colored paint, solar sails, nuclear weapons." Oh, you wish to rely on human ingenuity. Yep, I agree. Let's rely on human ingenuity to reduce our contribution to the problem and reverse the problem should those naughty volcanoes start spewing CO2, political theories (another cause of global warming), etc.
Yes, but that 60% figure is not comparable. That represented a lot uncertainty over whether continents could move because it was very hard to catch them in the act. It took a lot of painstaking work. Well, we now have a lot of painstaking work on climate science, and the conclusions so far are that humans cause a lot of CO2 to get dumped into the atmosphere and that causes the temperature to warm.
Don't believe the temperature is warming? Let's ask the fish. It turns out that over the last 10-20 years, a lot of fish have determined the tropics were too hot and are moving to cooler water. So much so that it is changing the fishing industry, they are taking it seriously.
Still don't believe it is a problem? Let's ask the tropical coral, the ones still alive because the oceans are becoming more acidic due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere.
I wonder who put all that CO2 in the atmosphere. Maybe you could get back to us on that?
Easy. The earth's temperature is controlled by more than carbon. The sun's output, the amount volcanic ash and gases, positions of the continents. So how do we know that the global warming is caused by carbon dioxide. Easy. It is caused by CO2 and all the other things. How do we know this? We have physicists and chemists who we pay to study it. They are generally quite effective at producing verifiable results. When all the other things are equal, and you raise CO2, then it being a heat trapping gas, the laws of thermodynamics say we get an increase in temperature.
Ah, but who says the other things are being constant? No one. They change too, but they can also change in a direction we'd rather they didn't. So all in all, we're left with controlling the things we can control and hoping for the Flying Spaghetti Monster to control the rest.
You on the other hand are feeling lucky....huh....punk?
Just to be fair, that wasn't only the bankers. That was the real estate agents, the builders, Wall Street, government agencies, credit rating agencies, house appraisers, and last but not least, the sainted American People who mortgaged second houses, flipped houses, signed on the dotted line for adjustable rate mortgages because they were too stupid to relax, read, and live within their means.
" Suppose you built tens of billions of dollars worth of hospitals, which is a lot of hospitals by any measure, as well as the infrastructure to set up medical schools. Suddenly you've not only created a promising new career avenue, you've also made the nation healthier and, as a consequence, more productive, and as a consequence, raised their incomes."
Not really. If you have no demand for all those extra hospitals, then you have essentially wasted capital. And if people went to med school to work in those hospitals, they are SOL because there will be no jobs waiting for them.
China is suffering from this same sort of mentality. They built all kinds of infrastructure that only managed to give them a housing boom and now it is busting. A similar thing happened in the U.S. when demand was artificially created, couldn't be maintained, crashed, and almost took out the entire U.S. economy in the process.
I'm not against public investment, it is necessary. However, it cannot be done without an eye on a return on that investment. Otherwise, it is just warping the economy and creates bigger problems than it was intended to solve.
But at the time, Intel didn't have a mobile processor that sipped energy like ARM's. So what was he going to offer? License ARM...again? Maybe the data told him his processors were dead fish for mobile and that he'd be better off waiting until Intel could catch up.
The problems the fellow mentioned are not caused by marketers. They are caused by a management culture that came out of the pointed little head of Bill Gates. He more or less built a disfunctional company because he didn't know how to manage. Ballmer is similar in that respect; when he took over the reins and didn't realize the problems this fellow mentioned and failed to fix them if he did, then it is as much his fault as Gates.
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No, the President cannot simply change the rules about what is patentable. That would take an Act of Congress. Now if only Congress could produce some worthy Acts instead of sharpening their daggers for the next partisan attacks.
Nonsense, Tito did this all by himself after WWII when he put down all the other partisans (the Croats were Nazi sympathizers, the Islamic parts were...well...Islamic). He ruled with an iron fist with Serbia always first among the rest. When the old fart died, the rest saw their chance to break their chains...it wasn't pretty, but they did it. And Serbia will never forgive them for it. And as long as Serbia feels this way, the World should never forgive Serbia.
I think you are correct he wants to be the leader (Supreme Leader in his eyes) of a modern Ottoman Caliphate. I don't think the other mid-east countries will be so accommodating. Sooner or later I expect he'll have another row with Israel figuring that will raise his standing among Arabs...but they still won't trust him further than they can spit a two-headed rat.
The Head of Jordan, King Abdullah, said pretty much this statement when referring to how Erdogan thought of democracy. That was the first instance I'd heard it. I don't know if Erdogan said it first. I cannot imagine someone as slimy as Erdogan would say something like that although I think that is precisely how he thinks.
Precisely. The head of Jordan, King Abdullah, gave a wide ranging interview not long ago. He said Morsi of Egypt had no depth (no shit, Dr. Obvious). But he also said Erdogan thinks of Democracy as a bus ride. When he reaches his destination, he'll get off. My guess is that Erdogan will continue to use Democracy to push Turkey into a religious nutjob state, and when the final rebellion takes place, he'll be no better than Assad claiming outside terrorists are undermining Turkey, hence the special Gestapo tactics he'll employ will have been made necessary. History will have produced yet one more religious zealot who thinks everything he does is an extension of the hand of G-d....or Allah...whatever...it doesn't matter which one he invokes...I just hope it isn't the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I don't want to believe His Noodliness would condone that sort of behavior.
The reason agile isn't used is because it doesn't work with security very well. You must establish high level security properties and track them down to low level enforcement mechanisms. Agile says to build essentially a dirty snowball and when you are done, you will have no clue as to what security is actually provided except some ad hoc mechanisms thrown into an ad hoc design.
Yep, iTune's was never good. It's original problem was that it looked like a file system but wasn't, hence the way we used it clashed with way we used the Mac GUI. Now, it is just too weird for words.
Their stock price reflected their new markets. When those markets matured, so did the stock price. The pundits somehow expected Apple to break open a new market every 3 years which is a ridiculously high bar to jump over...every three years. And it didn't help that Google and Samsung decided that the measure of success was to ape Apple.
Defense isn't what put the country into debt, it was mainly a combination of years of social programs, Congress having no balls to ask Americans to pay for what they passed, and the sainted American people falling, eyes wide and cluelessly open, into the housing crisis.
If any plans being leaked were the fault of a defense contractor, they should get slammed financially by the Pentagon since they would have cost the American taxpayers billions.
Yes, but if you read the article, it isn't the Pentagon that's the problem. The problem is the defense contractors, those paradigms of free enterprise the conservative republicans are always honking on about. It seems they've been caught with their pants down.
Now, one might argue they just managed to cost the American taxpayers billions. Do we see the conservative republicans complaining about it. Nope.
Just to be fair, the liberal democrats wouldn't recognize a defense industry secret if it danced naked in front of them and they wouldn't be caught dead caring...unless that secret was from a defense contractor in their district. Somehow national defense is at stake when that happens to a company in their district but can be ignored when it is in some other congress critter's district.
Funny, when I google "Il Illah moon god" I get a wikipedia page which says that notion is being mainly promoted by a Christian evangelical, Robert Morey...he has a book "The moon-god Allah in the archeology of the Middle East".
So I think we can safely can your moon god theory as a Christian wet dream.
Just for the record, Islam is evil, but not because it has the wrong god or whatever. It is evil because of what it does to women, minorities, free thinkers, gays, etc.
I think what you are after is the opportunity cost. Chasing an acquisition means integrating that acquisition into your current environment which generally means a culture clash. The people from the acquisition are the leadership and the rank and file. The leadership, if they have any sense at all, will be looking for the exits as soon as the deal closes because the chances they will be replaced are high if only because the powerbases in the new company will want them gone. The rank and file will probably be anxious and they too will be looking for the exits since they didn't grow into the acquirers way of doing things and figure they too will be on the chopping block as soon as the acquiring company can see fit to do without them. The steady attrition will mean the institutional memory will go bye-bye. After that is only left the technology. But if the technology was so good, they wouldn't have wanted to be acquired in the first place, which points to another problem: the deal is probably a lemon because a vibrant, growing company should not be wanting to see itself sold...unless the insiders know something isn't working correctly.
Also, if it isn't a good fit, you will waste years figuring that out when you should have spent those years on a better investment....such as in-house research to serve your core markets, etc.
Yes, let's take this attitude toward getting beaned by an asteroid. "Wot?" you say. "But..but...given enough lead time, there is something we can do about it...y'know...rockets, colored paint, solar sails, nuclear weapons." Oh, you wish to rely on human ingenuity. Yep, I agree. Let's rely on human ingenuity to reduce our contribution to the problem and reverse the problem should those naughty volcanoes start spewing CO2, political theories (another cause of global warming), etc.
Yes, but that 60% figure is not comparable. That represented a lot uncertainty over whether continents could move because it was very hard to catch them in the act. It took a lot of painstaking work. Well, we now have a lot of painstaking work on climate science, and the conclusions so far are that humans cause a lot of CO2 to get dumped into the atmosphere and that causes the temperature to warm.
Don't believe the temperature is warming? Let's ask the fish. It turns out that over the last 10-20 years, a lot of fish have determined the tropics were too hot and are moving to cooler water. So much so that it is changing the fishing industry, they are taking it seriously.
Still don't believe it is a problem? Let's ask the tropical coral, the ones still alive because the oceans are becoming more acidic due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere.
I wonder who put all that CO2 in the atmosphere. Maybe you could get back to us on that?
Oh slashdot, no one can hear you scream...or at least they really do not know who you are.
Easy. The earth's temperature is controlled by more than carbon. The sun's output, the amount volcanic ash and gases, positions of the continents. So how do we know that the global warming is caused by carbon dioxide. Easy. It is caused by CO2 and all the other things. How do we know this? We have physicists and chemists who we pay to study it. They are generally quite effective at producing verifiable results. When all the other things are equal, and you raise CO2, then it being a heat trapping gas, the laws of thermodynamics say we get an increase in temperature.
Ah, but who says the other things are being constant? No one. They change too, but they can also change in a direction we'd rather they didn't. So all in all, we're left with controlling the things we can control and hoping for the Flying Spaghetti Monster to control the rest.
You on the other hand are feeling lucky....huh....punk?
Just to be fair, that wasn't only the bankers. That was the real estate agents, the builders, Wall Street, government agencies, credit rating agencies, house appraisers, and last but not least, the sainted American People who mortgaged second houses, flipped houses, signed on the dotted line for adjustable rate mortgages because they were too stupid to relax, read, and live within their means.
" Suppose you built tens of billions of dollars worth of hospitals, which is a lot of hospitals by any measure, as well as the infrastructure to set up medical schools. Suddenly you've not only created a promising new career avenue, you've also made the nation healthier and, as a consequence, more productive, and as a consequence, raised their incomes."
Not really. If you have no demand for all those extra hospitals, then you have essentially wasted capital. And if people went to med school to work in those hospitals, they are SOL because there will be no jobs waiting for them.
China is suffering from this same sort of mentality. They built all kinds of infrastructure that only managed to give them a housing boom and now it is busting. A similar thing happened in the U.S. when demand was artificially created, couldn't be maintained, crashed, and almost took out the entire U.S. economy in the process.
I'm not against public investment, it is necessary. However, it cannot be done without an eye on a return on that investment. Otherwise, it is just warping the economy and creates bigger problems than it was intended to solve.
But at the time, Intel didn't have a mobile processor that sipped energy like ARM's. So what was he going to offer? License ARM...again? Maybe the data told him his processors were dead fish for mobile and that he'd be better off waiting until Intel could catch up.
There's no "gem of free-market-capitalism" here. It is simply what happens with politician meets money.
The problems the fellow mentioned are not caused by marketers. They are caused by a management culture that came out of the pointed little head of Bill Gates. He more or less built a disfunctional company because he didn't know how to manage. Ballmer is similar in that respect; when he took over the reins and didn't realize the problems this fellow mentioned and failed to fix them if he did, then it is as much his fault as Gates.
Nice channeling of Douglas Adams.
"Apple would just as soon see OS X die in favor of iOS", and your basis for claiming this is what, exactly?
Hmmm.....
Dunkirk: Apple, you have no idea what you are doing and are heading for perdition.
Cook: What do you suggest?
Dunkirk: License your OS, I'll bet you blow MS out of the water and rule the world.
Cook: I know what you think, now please tell me why you think it?
Dunkirk: Well, I just know.
Cook: How much more money will we make, in precise dollar filgures?
Dunkirk: It just will 'cause you'll sell more software.
Cook: We're a hardware company.
Dunkirk: But you could be software company and clean MS's clock.
Cook: Could someone please remove this Dunkirk fellow from my office?