Maybe the solution to the economic crisis is a 95% tax on every single nickel every lawyer on the planet makes, with public executions if they so much as try to hide a peso.
I don't think Apple expects to permanently ban them from the market. It just wants to keep competitors wrapped up in court cases until Apple can scoop them with its newest offerings. I'm sure it knows full well most of its suits are sheer garbage that ultimately will fail. But ultimately could mean what? 6 to 24 months? Oh my, look at that, the iPad 3 and the iPhone 5 come out in those kinds of Windows, meanwhile the competition has a product to bring to a market but can't because of what amounts of a strategically placed nuisance suit.
Of course, if Apple suddenly finds its own products being delayed in the same manner, or worse, but actual hard technology patents, then yes, they could seriously fuck themselves over. But that's fine. If everyone eventually ends this evil little war in a compromise, the consumer will win. I just hope all sides lose massive amounts of money in the process. Unfortunately, the lawyers will get rich(er).
Well, more directly of Berlusconi's corporate profits. Why the Italians haven't drowned this guy in the Tiber is quite beyond me. A crook, a disgusting old letch, and on top of it a complete ass, who for all his vaunted business skills, is still overseeing the drive to keep Italy one of the "I"s in "PIIGS".
They sure don't build them like they used to. My organization inherited an old HP LaserJet 4P from the mid-90s that has outlasted every single printer bought since. It's an extraordinary machine that just keeps ticking.
That's the problem. No one can figure out what's going on. This is literally a company that has gone beyond what one could even call dysfunctional. The real question at the end of the day would be "What competent guy (or gal) would want to become CEO of this company with this board of directors?"
And even by the standards of those boards, the HP board of directors is looking fantastically out to lunch. Just about every analyst I've read today says that HP very likely has the worst board of directors of any publicly traded company in the United States, maybe even the industrialized world. It's not even that they are apparently incompetent and negligent, it seems that you might even legitimately question their collective sanity.
Except these guys aren't doing that at all. They've come up with a bizarre but statistically meaningfully repeatable set of results. They have done everything they know how to do to explain it away, and now are asking other researchers to see if they can come up with a mundane explanation that doesn't basically rewrite a century's worth of physics. In a way, they are doing the exact opposite of what you're claiming.
Not only did they have the shape of the world sorted out, some came amazing close to calculating its actual seize, considering the techniques available to them.
If I hear the "scientists used to think the Earth was flat" canard one more time, I'm going to start flinging shoes. People have known the world was round since at least Classical times, certainly much longer than there have been people who we would classify as scientists. Maybe some dumb hick jumping out of the way of his feudal lord and as he went to spend his day eating mud thought the world was flat, but learned folks knew better.
Well, the proof, if you will, is that the faster anything travels, the more massive it becomes, and thus the more energy is required to accelerate it faster. Basically, any object that accelerates to c would become infinitely massive, or to put it another way, it would require an infinite amount of energy. In short, you cannot accelerate things to the speed of light. Photons basically come into existence at the speed of light.
Since neutrinos do have a mass, it means that CERN couldn't have accelerated them to the speed of light, let alone faster. So either we have a mundane measurement error, or some new never-before seen physical effect has been observed. But considering how intimately linked c is to so many physical constants and laws, I'd say whatever has happened cannot have violated this most essential precept, though beyond the "our ruler is screwy", the possible alternatives make one's head swim.
I have no idea what it would mean if it turns out not to be a ruler error. It certainly does mean that were talking about something pretty goddamned weird, that flies in the face of nearly a century of physics.
If I was an HP shareholder, right about now my first thoughts wouldn't be "should we fire the CEO"... it would be more along the lines of "this fucking board has got to go..."
For chrissakes, we're talking about one of THE great Silicon Valley companies here, a company whose printer line alone still commands the industry. It's like the entire leadership has gone completely insane.
Well, my one big experience with a failed project lead me to these conclusions;
1. Lack of Management of Expectations - Both the vendor and the client can get into a rather unhealthy situation of ever-rising expectations. "That deadline seems too distant..." "Oh if you can do that, then you can do this..." "We've got to throw more resources at this, because if we can get it going faster we can sell it to other customers" and the like. Me and my partner really fell for the last one. We saw dollar signs dancing in our heads and it shifted our focus away from the immediate project into fanciful realms.
2. Requirement/Feature Creep - Our largest error was in not getting a very clear set of specs on paper as part of our contract with the customer. Within a couple of weeks of development beginning, we were getting faxes (this was the mid-1990s) saying things like "Oh yeah, and by the way, we need to be able to this or that as well." Once you let one or two small requests like this through, you're totally hoses, because you've taught the customer that they can throw anything at you, regardless of the original agreement, and it will end up on the pile.
3. Requiring the Entire Product Be Ready All At Once - This sort of leads from #2, because, well, if you're allowing new features or requirements to be inserted during the initial development cycle, then 3 is pretty much impossible. But even where you stick to the original specs, the more logical approach is a modular one. Prioritize the most important elements, and get them up and running so, if other requirements prove more difficult or complex, at least you can start rolling it out. When our project began running into problems, I wanted to do just that, to get the invoicing and customer management system out, and then worry about the higher-level functions, simply so we could show the customer we had something, but my partner felt it was imperative that we stick to a single release date, and when you factor in #2, that date just getting pushed back and back and back.
I learned the lesson the hard way. Months of work sitting there, some of it all but finished, and the client dropped us. Still an episode of shame for me, in part because as much as I'd like to blame the customer for what happened, at the end of the day, we were as much at fault as they were.
And cygwin is massively crippled compared to *nix. Wherever possible, I try to get native user land ports, and if I need more advanced things, well, there happen to be a number of open source *nix-like operating systems out there. It's one thing to want to run sed on your Windows box, quite another to basically try to port over the entire *nix environment.
Have you ever actually tried to use Cygwin as a *nix-compatibility layer in a production environment. The word "kludge" doesn't seem to begin describe it.
Flash is truly become one big pile of steaming crap! I used to be against Apple, but frankly I think it should be made unlawful and Adobe fined a trillion dollars for every security incident involving that piece of garbage.
Fucking hell, all of this so we can watch some fucking videos on the Internet and be annoyed by idiotic ads. Somebody, please, wipe Adobe out. They have become, through their sheer stupidity and incompetence, a force for online evil.
True by the invoker's own definition, and not by the wider one. It's a fallacy, as all but a pretty small number of Protestants still claim Catholicism and Orthodoxy are not Christian churches, and more to the point the members of those churches certainly self-identify as Christians and on a pure numbers game they have as good a claim as any to considering themselves Christians.
And considering that the older traditions do not advocate Sola Scriptura or insist that only the Bible can be a source of revelation, it strikes me that the Protestants are the ones down on this point.
Long and short, it's the No True Scotsman fallacy.
If your faith is so brittle that some non-believer mocking it causes you to go into a frenzy, then I posit that you are little better than the people you're angry at.
It was a pathetic infantile set of responses to a pathetic infantile set of inflammatory acts. Both sides are equally pathetic and stupid. But when push comes to shove, I'll have to throw in my lot with the pathetic infants drawing nasty pictures over those demanding such actions be banned, because, well, the latter are well and truly enemies of liberty.
I'm married to a practicing Catholic, and she doesn't look upon the veneration of Mary or the Saints as treating that veneration as the same as if it was a god. In fact, the whole notion of veneration makes it rather clear that veneration is not the same as worship.
Of course, I think the whole lot, Protestants and Catholics and Orthodox alike, are full of crap, but that's an entirely separate discussion.
I think we do disservice to Pakistan by pretending it's a country. This is a place with at least two parallel governments, one civilian, one covert, and it's impossible to say who actually runs the place. This is a place that has tribal groups who fell more loyalty to the contents of the nearest outhouse than they do to other tribal groups or to the nation state as a whole.
Actually the "graven images" prohibition was formulated by the Israelite tribes as they shifted into monotheism. And theoretically the Christians inherited it, but between icons, crosses and pictures of the Virgin Mary being venerated, a good portion of Christianity doesn't take that very seriously, unless of course the image in question is of Thor or Vishnu or some nasty non-Christian deity.
Oh absolutely. It's going to be oh so much fun updating sixty computers with that fucking thing, and then doing it again and again and again and again.
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Maybe the solution to the economic crisis is a 95% tax on every single nickel every lawyer on the planet makes, with public executions if they so much as try to hide a peso.
I don't think Apple expects to permanently ban them from the market. It just wants to keep competitors wrapped up in court cases until Apple can scoop them with its newest offerings. I'm sure it knows full well most of its suits are sheer garbage that ultimately will fail. But ultimately could mean what? 6 to 24 months? Oh my, look at that, the iPad 3 and the iPhone 5 come out in those kinds of Windows, meanwhile the competition has a product to bring to a market but can't because of what amounts of a strategically placed nuisance suit.
Of course, if Apple suddenly finds its own products being delayed in the same manner, or worse, but actual hard technology patents, then yes, they could seriously fuck themselves over. But that's fine. If everyone eventually ends this evil little war in a compromise, the consumer will win. I just hope all sides lose massive amounts of money in the process. Unfortunately, the lawyers will get rich(er).
Well, more directly of Berlusconi's corporate profits. Why the Italians haven't drowned this guy in the Tiber is quite beyond me. A crook, a disgusting old letch, and on top of it a complete ass, who for all his vaunted business skills, is still overseeing the drive to keep Italy one of the "I"s in "PIIGS".
They sure don't build them like they used to. My organization inherited an old HP LaserJet 4P from the mid-90s that has outlasted every single printer bought since. It's an extraordinary machine that just keeps ticking.
That's the problem. No one can figure out what's going on. This is literally a company that has gone beyond what one could even call dysfunctional. The real question at the end of the day would be "What competent guy (or gal) would want to become CEO of this company with this board of directors?"
And even by the standards of those boards, the HP board of directors is looking fantastically out to lunch. Just about every analyst I've read today says that HP very likely has the worst board of directors of any publicly traded company in the United States, maybe even the industrialized world. It's not even that they are apparently incompetent and negligent, it seems that you might even legitimately question their collective sanity.
Except these guys aren't doing that at all. They've come up with a bizarre but statistically meaningfully repeatable set of results. They have done everything they know how to do to explain it away, and now are asking other researchers to see if they can come up with a mundane explanation that doesn't basically rewrite a century's worth of physics. In a way, they are doing the exact opposite of what you're claiming.
Not only did they have the shape of the world sorted out, some came amazing close to calculating its actual seize, considering the techniques available to them.
If I hear the "scientists used to think the Earth was flat" canard one more time, I'm going to start flinging shoes. People have known the world was round since at least Classical times, certainly much longer than there have been people who we would classify as scientists. Maybe some dumb hick jumping out of the way of his feudal lord and as he went to spend his day eating mud thought the world was flat, but learned folks knew better.
Which is why they're asking other researchers to find the error. I'm sure they're hoping like hell it is a measurement error of some kind.
Well, the proof, if you will, is that the faster anything travels, the more massive it becomes, and thus the more energy is required to accelerate it faster. Basically, any object that accelerates to c would become infinitely massive, or to put it another way, it would require an infinite amount of energy. In short, you cannot accelerate things to the speed of light. Photons basically come into existence at the speed of light.
Since neutrinos do have a mass, it means that CERN couldn't have accelerated them to the speed of light, let alone faster. So either we have a mundane measurement error, or some new never-before seen physical effect has been observed. But considering how intimately linked c is to so many physical constants and laws, I'd say whatever has happened cannot have violated this most essential precept, though beyond the "our ruler is screwy", the possible alternatives make one's head swim.
I have no idea what it would mean if it turns out not to be a ruler error. It certainly does mean that were talking about something pretty goddamned weird, that flies in the face of nearly a century of physics.
If I was an HP shareholder, right about now my first thoughts wouldn't be "should we fire the CEO"... it would be more along the lines of "this fucking board has got to go..."
For chrissakes, we're talking about one of THE great Silicon Valley companies here, a company whose printer line alone still commands the industry. It's like the entire leadership has gone completely insane.
Well, my one big experience with a failed project lead me to these conclusions;
1. Lack of Management of Expectations - Both the vendor and the client can get into a rather unhealthy situation of ever-rising expectations. "That deadline seems too distant..." "Oh if you can do that, then you can do this..." "We've got to throw more resources at this, because if we can get it going faster we can sell it to other customers" and the like. Me and my partner really fell for the last one. We saw dollar signs dancing in our heads and it shifted our focus away from the immediate project into fanciful realms.
2. Requirement/Feature Creep - Our largest error was in not getting a very clear set of specs on paper as part of our contract with the customer. Within a couple of weeks of development beginning, we were getting faxes (this was the mid-1990s) saying things like "Oh yeah, and by the way, we need to be able to this or that as well." Once you let one or two small requests like this through, you're totally hoses, because you've taught the customer that they can throw anything at you, regardless of the original agreement, and it will end up on the pile.
3. Requiring the Entire Product Be Ready All At Once - This sort of leads from #2, because, well, if you're allowing new features or requirements to be inserted during the initial development cycle, then 3 is pretty much impossible. But even where you stick to the original specs, the more logical approach is a modular one. Prioritize the most important elements, and get them up and running so, if other requirements prove more difficult or complex, at least you can start rolling it out. When our project began running into problems, I wanted to do just that, to get the invoicing and customer management system out, and then worry about the higher-level functions, simply so we could show the customer we had something, but my partner felt it was imperative that we stick to a single release date, and when you factor in #2, that date just getting pushed back and back and back.
I learned the lesson the hard way. Months of work sitting there, some of it all but finished, and the client dropped us. Still an episode of shame for me, in part because as much as I'd like to blame the customer for what happened, at the end of the day, we were as much at fault as they were.
And cygwin is massively crippled compared to *nix. Wherever possible, I try to get native user land ports, and if I need more advanced things, well, there happen to be a number of open source *nix-like operating systems out there. It's one thing to want to run sed on your Windows box, quite another to basically try to port over the entire *nix environment.
Have you ever actually tried to use Cygwin as a *nix-compatibility layer in a production environment. The word "kludge" doesn't seem to begin describe it.
Flash is truly become one big pile of steaming crap! I used to be against Apple, but frankly I think it should be made unlawful and Adobe fined a trillion dollars for every security incident involving that piece of garbage.
Fucking hell, all of this so we can watch some fucking videos on the Internet and be annoyed by idiotic ads. Somebody, please, wipe Adobe out. They have become, through their sheer stupidity and incompetence, a force for online evil.
True by the invoker's own definition, and not by the wider one. It's a fallacy, as all but a pretty small number of Protestants still claim Catholicism and Orthodoxy are not Christian churches, and more to the point the members of those churches certainly self-identify as Christians and on a pure numbers game they have as good a claim as any to considering themselves Christians.
And considering that the older traditions do not advocate Sola Scriptura or insist that only the Bible can be a source of revelation, it strikes me that the Protestants are the ones down on this point.
Long and short, it's the No True Scotsman fallacy.
If your faith is so brittle that some non-believer mocking it causes you to go into a frenzy, then I posit that you are little better than the people you're angry at.
It was a pathetic infantile set of responses to a pathetic infantile set of inflammatory acts. Both sides are equally pathetic and stupid. But when push comes to shove, I'll have to throw in my lot with the pathetic infants drawing nasty pictures over those demanding such actions be banned, because, well, the latter are well and truly enemies of liberty.
The part where he goes "No True Christian...." I think his claim is one of the poster boys for the No True Scotsman Fallacy.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/No_True_Scotsman
I'm married to a practicing Catholic, and she doesn't look upon the veneration of Mary or the Saints as treating that veneration as the same as if it was a god. In fact, the whole notion of veneration makes it rather clear that veneration is not the same as worship.
Of course, I think the whole lot, Protestants and Catholics and Orthodox alike, are full of crap, but that's an entirely separate discussion.
I think we do disservice to Pakistan by pretending it's a country. This is a place with at least two parallel governments, one civilian, one covert, and it's impossible to say who actually runs the place. This is a place that has tribal groups who fell more loyalty to the contents of the nearest outhouse than they do to other tribal groups or to the nation state as a whole.
You do realize the name of the logical fallacy you're invoking, right?
Actually the "graven images" prohibition was formulated by the Israelite tribes as they shifted into monotheism. And theoretically the Christians inherited it, but between icons, crosses and pictures of the Virgin Mary being venerated, a good portion of Christianity doesn't take that very seriously, unless of course the image in question is of Thor or Vishnu or some nasty non-Christian deity.
Oh absolutely. It's going to be oh so much fun updating sixty computers with that fucking thing, and then doing it again and again and again and again.