Microsoft gets a temporary boost from a once-famous company. After whats left has been drained, Microsoft can just cast off the shell and move on to the next host. Nokia is tying its fortune to Microsoft, Microsoft certainly is returning the favor.
That signal to noise ratio is precisely why its better to have a common and/or famous name then it is to have a rare name. You google Henry Smith and you probably wont get a whole lot on Henry Smith of Baton Rouge LA, even if you went looking for it because there is just so much noise out there.
The real problem of course comes when you have a name thats common enough for a few other people to have it, but not all that common. In my case someone with my first and last name, only about 2 years older than I, and from relatively the same area as I am from has been arrested twice and been in the papers for it. While nobody will probably conflate me with said person, its not something Im exactly thrilled about.....
And of course if you google my full name you get mostly porn(which is why I should use it more often:P), but thats neither here nor there.
The difference is Apple re-invented itself with new product lines and markets, Nokia is doing the exact opposite, it's killing pretty much everything it makes and just repackaging stuff made by another company. What Nokia is doing is much more akin to what SGI did in it's last days before bankruptcy(adopted a Wintel platform) than what Apple did. And guess what, it didn't work out for SGI, it won't work out for Nokia either.
Where they fucked up is not hacking a few bank accounts to. This is money laundering 101, you never, *EVER* use your own banking account to embezzle money*
*unless you bought enough politicians off first that your embezzlement becomes legal, in which case there is no problem
What the US has now is not capitalism, its corporatism. Capitalism implies that the owners if capital, ie the shareholders, actually own the company and have a say in how its run. Thats how things work in real capitalist countries like Japan, Germany, France, Sweden, Canada etc. Thats how things used to work in the US too until Bush Jr. came to power and in a few short years totally dismantled any semblance of shareholder rights. I am so glad that in 2007 when the SEC announced that basically the CEOs no longer had to answer to the shareholders at all, that I sold all my US stocks and bought stocks abroad in more capitalist countries such as France. Since then CEO pay has been outpacing the S&P 500 by about a 2:1 pace. The CEO and boards of companies that have existed for over a 100 years have basically been told they can destroy the company for their own personal gain with 0 repercussions. Trust me, the employees are not the only ones getting fucked over by the corporatist culture and the neo-cons who enable them. Republicanism is the biggest economic drag on the US bar none.
RTFA! They do have generators! The lightning strike was apparently so powerful that is affected the backup generators synchronization equipment.
"Normally, upon dropping the utility power provided by the transformer, electrical load would be seamlessly picked up by backup generators,â Amazon said in an update on its status dashboard. âoeThe transient electric deviation caused by the explosion was large enough that it propagated to a portion of the phase control system that synchronizes the backup generator plant, disabling some of them.â
It all comes down to scale ultimately. It's rare in the computer science field to see code that runs x% slower than a more optimized version, at both very small and very large scales. Coders that don't know how the hardware and lower level software interfaces work tend not to write very scalable code because they have no ideas how the computers actually work, and even less of an idea of how a lot of them work.
As an example, consider a database with very poorly designed primary and secondary keys. This choice will either:
a) not matter in the least because the tables are so small and queries so infrequent that the other latencies(e.g network, hard disk etc) will dwarf the poor key choice or
b) Will quickly make the entire database unusable as the time it takes for the database software to search through every record for things matching the given query takes forever and just kills the disk.
I've seen plenty of (b), largely caused by total ignorance of how databases, and the hard disks they live on, work. The indices are there not only for data modeling purposes, but also to minimize the amount of uber expensive disk I/O necessary to perform most queries. And while you may be in situation (a) today, if your product is worth a damn it may very well get bigger and bigger until you end up in (b), and by the time you are in (b) it may end up being very, very expensive to re-write the application to fix the performance issues(if they can be fixed without a total re-write)
Anyone who codes should have at least a fundamental grasp of computer architecture, and realize what computer hardware is good, and bad at. That isn't "premature optimization" as you seem to think it is, it is a fundamental part of software design. "Premature optimization" in this context means things like changing your code to avoid an extra integer comparison or two, that kind of thing. It is not,"lets just pretend the computer is a magic device and ignore performance concerns because it's easier".
You've never worked for the DoD then. Massive amounts of waste, unwilling to fire anyone, and automatic raises for the most dubious of "masters degrees", often paid for by the government but not actually resulting in any more efficiencies. Not to mention a love affair with Windows that borders on psychotic.
Dude, Missouri is the fattest state in the country, please, please, PLEASE refrain from alluding to naked Missourians, that image is going to be burned into my brain for a while.
And all you have to do is surrender all your data and privacy to the Chinese government, who will in no way use it to spy on you and make dissident "disappear". You can trust Uncle Hu.
One of the things that is really killing Nintendo is the insanely strong yen(near record highs vs. both the dollar and euro). Unlike Microsoft, and to a lesser extent Sony, Nintendo's costs are almost entirely in yen, their revenue almost entirely in euros and dollars. Obviously Nintendo is incredibly nonplussed about the yen, and will join a growing chorus of companies asking prime minister Kan to intervene. All those yen hoarders better take note, the intervention is going to happen sooner rather than later.
If what you say is true, and I have heard nothing to back that up, then it sounds like the Democrats screwed themselves. So Bush didn't steal the election. Democrats gave it to him.
In more ways than one. The outrage over Clinton's handling of the Elian Gonzalez debacle enraged the quite sizable Cuban American community in Florida. And while Gore did some half-assed back pedaling on the issue, there were probably more than 500 people who were so mad over how Clinton, and by extension Gore, handled the whole thing that they either changed their vote, voted for a 3rd party, or abstained. Had Clinton just let the whole thing slide then the election may have turned out very differently.
I guess you could consider the whole thing a study in chaos theory. Had Gonzalez's family waited another year to try to flee Cuba history may have turned out differently.
Two words invalidate your entire argument, Saddam Hussein. The same people who decried him in the previous decades were the ones praising him in the 80s. I wish Saddam had worn the golden spurs he got from Rumsfeld the day he was executed to show the world what hypocrites the neocons are.
The term is not(esp. In the aviation field) exactly the same as hitting the ground. Basically certain maneuvers require a minimum amount of altitude to perform. If you are too low then you will be unable to perform said maneuvers.
Doing the assays while not expensive, is not cheap either. This returns me to my original point, testing people for diseases they are not at risk for is wasteful, not to mention the issues with false positives as another poster has mentioned.
It wouldn't work well in a nation with socialized medicine either, namely because it would be a massive waste of resources. There is a reason doctors in both countries with and without public health insurance never recommend their patients get tests for diseases they aren't at any significant risk for: it's incredibly wasteful and diverts medical experts and equipment from doing much more useful work.
For example, take breast cancer. While it's possible that men can get breast cancer, it's exceedingly rare. Let's assume that, if we can do it at scale, a mammogram for males costs 20 pounds. In the UK there are about 45,000 cases of breast cancer a year, about 1% of which are males, lets round up to 500 cases a year. There are about 25 million adult males in the United Kingdom, if we gave them a single mammogram per year at our above(overly optimistic), that would give us 500 million pounds per year to detect 500 cases(many of which may have been detected anyway). So we have a million pounds per case of breast cancer in males. Does that sound even remotely efficient? Treating breast cancer doesn't come anywhere near a million pounds, and that money can be spent much more constructively.
There are a large number of medical statisticians out there whose sole purpose is to determine which groups are at risk for which diseases. Doing wide scale testing of diseases for which very few people are at risk(and those groups can usually be identified) is just plain wasteful.
Their policies are straight from the old south. The for profit prisons, which mean prisons are now the new plantations where corporations can have the cheapest possible labor force. These corporations also write our laws. Check out ALEC exposed to see the whole plan.
Which may explain why they are so eager to criminalize homosexual behavior. Gays are, on average, much better educated than the general population and as a result tend to make more money than the average American. This is exactly the kind of skill set that is missing in the general prison population. The tea partiers probably figure that if they can outlaw homosexuality(imagine that, a group that simultaneously decries any sort of government intervention whilst arguing for laws that allow the government to control what 2 consenting adults are allowed to do) they can arrest a large number of gays and significantly expand the portfolio of products their prisons are capable of producing.
Let's be perfectly clear on this, the purpose of these body scanners was NEVER to increase security, it was a gigantic kickback to former homeland security chief Michael Chertoff who received very well documented "consulting" positions with the company that makes those scanners. They are no more secure than competing, less invasive scanners, but the manufacturers of those scanners obviously didn't bribe the right officials.
This, exactly this. The Republican "debt cutting" is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, more than political retribution for opposing them. Republicans philosophy on freedom seems to resemble Stallman's quite a bit, "You are free if and only if you do everything that I tell you to do and never, EVER oppose me, your benevolent ruler".
Well, as is obvious from our ever expanding waistlines, Americans are getting less and less exercise?and probably sunlight too). I wonder if this is, at least in part, contributing to our increased depression. Several studies have shown pretty clearly that exercise is a great, if not the best, treatment for mild to moderate depression. So instead if sucking down big pharma and big agra's endless supply of shit, maybe we should try getting off our ass and going out for a run or bike ride.
So maybe, in retrospect, accepting a private offer for the monkey on lab tech porn wasn't such a great way to fund the lab after all. Damn budget cuts.
But how large is it in surface area? Sometimes I want a computer that fits in my bag, and as far as I can tell, that means a 10" screen.
You do realize that you can in fact buy a new bag, right?
From the 1990s on, it was a rarity to see SDTV output on PCs. Even with the new HDTVs with VGA and HDMI inputs that can display PC video, the public is convinced that TVs are for the living room and PCs are for the desk and never the twain shall meet.
What are you talking about? There is a whole class of PCs SPECIFICALLY designed to connect to your television, they are called home theatre PCs. So really you proved my point in attempting to disprove it. Netbooks will probably always exist to fill a niche, the thing is that niche, like PCs that connect to TVs, is shrinking.
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Microsoft gets a temporary boost from a once-famous company. After whats left has been drained, Microsoft can just cast off the shell and move on to the next host. Nokia is tying its fortune to Microsoft, Microsoft certainly is returning the favor.
That signal to noise ratio is precisely why its better to have a common and/or famous name then it is to have a rare name. You google Henry Smith and you probably wont get a whole lot on Henry Smith of Baton Rouge LA, even if you went looking for it because there is just so much noise out there.
:P), but thats neither here nor there.
The real problem of course comes when you have a name thats common enough for a few other people to have it, but not all that common. In my case someone with my first and last name, only about 2 years older than I, and from relatively the same area as I am from has been arrested twice and been in the papers for it. While nobody will probably conflate me with said person, its not something Im exactly thrilled about.....
And of course if you google my full name you get mostly porn(which is why I should use it more often
The difference is Apple re-invented itself with new product lines and markets, Nokia is doing the exact opposite, it's killing pretty much everything it makes and just repackaging stuff made by another company. What Nokia is doing is much more akin to what SGI did in it's last days before bankruptcy(adopted a Wintel platform) than what Apple did. And guess what, it didn't work out for SGI, it won't work out for Nokia either.
Where they fucked up is not hacking a few bank accounts to. This is money laundering 101, you never, *EVER* use your own banking account to embezzle money*
*unless you bought enough politicians off first that your embezzlement becomes legal, in which case there is no problem
What the US has now is not capitalism, its corporatism. Capitalism implies that the owners if capital, ie the shareholders, actually own the company and have a say in how its run. Thats how things work in real capitalist countries like Japan, Germany, France, Sweden, Canada etc. Thats how things used to work in the US too until Bush Jr. came to power and in a few short years totally dismantled any semblance of shareholder rights. I am so glad that in 2007 when the SEC announced that basically the CEOs no longer had to answer to the shareholders at all, that I sold all my US stocks and bought stocks abroad in more capitalist countries such as France. Since then CEO pay has been outpacing the S&P 500 by about a 2:1 pace. The CEO and boards of companies that have existed for over a 100 years have basically been told they can destroy the company for their own personal gain with 0 repercussions. Trust me, the employees are not the only ones getting fucked over by the corporatist culture and the neo-cons who enable them. Republicanism is the biggest economic drag on the US bar none.
RTFA! They do have generators! The lightning strike was apparently so powerful that is affected the backup generators synchronization equipment.
"Normally, upon dropping the utility power provided by the transformer, electrical load would be seamlessly picked up by backup generators,â Amazon said in an update on its status dashboard. âoeThe transient electric deviation caused by the explosion was large enough that it propagated to a portion of the phase control system that synchronizes the backup generator plant, disabling some of them.â
It all comes down to scale ultimately. It's rare in the computer science field to see code that runs x% slower than a more optimized version, at both very small and very large scales. Coders that don't know how the hardware and lower level software interfaces work tend not to write very scalable code because they have no ideas how the computers actually work, and even less of an idea of how a lot of them work.
As an example, consider a database with very poorly designed primary and secondary keys. This choice will either:
a) not matter in the least because the tables are so small and queries so infrequent that the other latencies(e.g network, hard disk etc) will dwarf the poor key choice or
b) Will quickly make the entire database unusable as the time it takes for the database software to search through every record for things matching the given query takes forever and just kills the disk.
I've seen plenty of (b), largely caused by total ignorance of how databases, and the hard disks they live on, work. The indices are there not only for data modeling purposes, but also to minimize the amount of uber expensive disk I/O necessary to perform most queries. And while you may be in situation (a) today, if your product is worth a damn it may very well get bigger and bigger until you end up in (b), and by the time you are in (b) it may end up being very, very expensive to re-write the application to fix the performance issues(if they can be fixed without a total re-write)
Anyone who codes should have at least a fundamental grasp of computer architecture, and realize what computer hardware is good, and bad at. That isn't "premature optimization" as you seem to think it is, it is a fundamental part of software design. "Premature optimization" in this context means things like changing your code to avoid an extra integer comparison or two, that kind of thing. It is not,"lets just pretend the computer is a magic device and ignore performance concerns because it's easier".
You've never worked for the DoD then. Massive amounts of waste, unwilling to fire anyone, and automatic raises for the most dubious of "masters degrees", often paid for by the government but not actually resulting in any more efficiencies. Not to mention a love affair with Windows that borders on psychotic.
Dude, Missouri is the fattest state in the country, please, please, PLEASE refrain from alluding to naked Missourians, that image is going to be burned into my brain for a while.
And all you have to do is surrender all your data and privacy to the Chinese government, who will in no way use it to spy on you and make dissident "disappear". You can trust Uncle Hu.
One of the things that is really killing Nintendo is the insanely strong yen(near record highs vs. both the dollar and euro). Unlike Microsoft, and to a lesser extent Sony, Nintendo's costs are almost entirely in yen, their revenue almost entirely in euros and dollars. Obviously Nintendo is incredibly nonplussed about the yen, and will join a growing chorus of companies asking prime minister Kan to intervene. All those yen hoarders better take note, the intervention is going to happen sooner rather than later.
If what you say is true, and I have heard nothing to back that up, then it sounds like the Democrats screwed themselves. So Bush didn't steal the election. Democrats gave it to him.
In more ways than one. The outrage over Clinton's handling of the Elian Gonzalez debacle enraged the quite sizable Cuban American community in Florida. And while Gore did some half-assed back pedaling on the issue, there were probably more than 500 people who were so mad over how Clinton, and by extension Gore, handled the whole thing that they either changed their vote, voted for a 3rd party, or abstained. Had Clinton just let the whole thing slide then the election may have turned out very differently.
I guess you could consider the whole thing a study in chaos theory. Had Gonzalez's family waited another year to try to flee Cuba history may have turned out differently.
Pro tip: Republican version of history is not actual history. Learn some real history before calling other people ignorant.
Two words invalidate your entire argument, Saddam Hussein. The same people who decried him in the previous decades were the ones praising him in the 80s. I wish Saddam had worn the golden spurs he got from Rumsfeld the day he was executed to show the world what hypocrites the neocons are.
The term is not(esp. In the aviation field) exactly the same as hitting the ground. Basically certain maneuvers require a minimum amount of altitude to perform. If you are too low then you will be unable to perform said maneuvers.
Doing the assays while not expensive, is not cheap either. This returns me to my original point, testing people for diseases they are not at risk for is wasteful, not to mention the issues with false positives as another poster has mentioned.
It wouldn't work well in a nation with socialized medicine either, namely because it would be a massive waste of resources. There is a reason doctors in both countries with and without public health insurance never recommend their patients get tests for diseases they aren't at any significant risk for: it's incredibly wasteful and diverts medical experts and equipment from doing much more useful work.
For example, take breast cancer. While it's possible that men can get breast cancer, it's exceedingly rare. Let's assume that, if we can do it at scale, a mammogram for males costs 20 pounds. In the UK there are about 45,000 cases of breast cancer a year, about 1% of which are males, lets round up to 500 cases a year. There are about 25 million adult males in the United Kingdom, if we gave them a single mammogram per year at our above(overly optimistic), that would give us 500 million pounds per year to detect 500 cases(many of which may have been detected anyway). So we have a million pounds per case of breast cancer in males. Does that sound even remotely efficient? Treating breast cancer doesn't come anywhere near a million pounds, and that money can be spent much more constructively.
There are a large number of medical statisticians out there whose sole purpose is to determine which groups are at risk for which diseases. Doing wide scale testing of diseases for which very few people are at risk(and those groups can usually be identified) is just plain wasteful.
Their policies are straight from the old south. The for profit prisons, which mean prisons are now the new plantations where corporations can have the cheapest possible labor force. These corporations also write our laws. Check out ALEC exposed to see the whole plan.
Which may explain why they are so eager to criminalize homosexual behavior. Gays are, on average, much better educated than the general population and as a result tend to make more money than the average American. This is exactly the kind of skill set that is missing in the general prison population. The tea partiers probably figure that if they can outlaw homosexuality(imagine that, a group that simultaneously decries any sort of government intervention whilst arguing for laws that allow the government to control what 2 consenting adults are allowed to do) they can arrest a large number of gays and significantly expand the portfolio of products their prisons are capable of producing.
Let's be perfectly clear on this, the purpose of these body scanners was NEVER to increase security, it was a gigantic kickback to former homeland security chief Michael Chertoff who received very well documented "consulting" positions with the company that makes those scanners. They are no more secure than competing, less invasive scanners, but the manufacturers of those scanners obviously didn't bribe the right officials.
This, exactly this. The Republican "debt cutting" is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, more than political retribution for opposing them. Republicans philosophy on freedom seems to resemble Stallman's quite a bit, "You are free if and only if you do everything that I tell you to do and never, EVER oppose me, your benevolent ruler".
Mr. Stallman, please try to control yourself!
Well, as is obvious from our ever expanding waistlines, Americans are getting less and less exercise?and probably sunlight too). I wonder if this is, at least in part, contributing to our increased depression. Several studies have shown pretty clearly that exercise is a great, if not the best, treatment for mild to moderate depression. So instead if sucking down big pharma and big agra's endless supply of shit, maybe we should try getting off our ass and going out for a run or bike ride.
So maybe, in retrospect, accepting a private offer for the monkey on lab tech porn wasn't such a great way to fund the lab after all. Damn budget cuts.
But how large is it in surface area? Sometimes I want a computer that fits in my bag, and as far as I can tell, that means a 10" screen.
You do realize that you can in fact buy a new bag, right?
From the 1990s on, it was a rarity to see SDTV output on PCs. Even with the new HDTVs with VGA and HDMI inputs that can display PC video, the public is convinced that TVs are for the living room and PCs are for the desk and never the twain shall meet.
What are you talking about? There is a whole class of PCs SPECIFICALLY designed to connect to your television, they are called home theatre PCs. So really you proved my point in attempting to disprove it. Netbooks will probably always exist to fill a niche, the thing is that niche, like PCs that connect to TVs, is shrinking.
Obviously spoken by someone who hasn't tried the sausage flavored doritos.