The fact that you know so much about a "date rape" drug is, well, more than a little creepy. You even spelled it correctly. Er... know where I can get some?;-)
Or you can spend $15-20 a month and get a constantly refreshed and updated/upgraded system every time you turn it on.
Constantly refreshed whether I want it to be or not? Regardless of whether or not it breaks what I'm doing? I'm not really sure that is a selling point. I'm pretty sure anybody who has ever had the experience of having "upgrades" make things worse (e.g. practically every Microsoft customer) would agree.
"The Cloud" isn't just about hosting data. Its about hosting everything, your data, your applications, your medical records, who you communicate with, what you say, when you say it, where you say it, what you spend money on, what you do with it, what color underwear you are wearing, everything."
My porn? I'm not sure I want somebody else hosting my porn collection. I'd like to keep it close to me. What if the network goes down in the middle of the night?
But seriously, no, I wouldn't trust some random "cloud computing" provider with important data. Unimportant data? Use steganography and post it on YouTube for free! Hmm... think that would work for my porn collection too?
Why buy a $1500 computer when you can get 100x more power from a $100 thin client and $20 a month.
Because I don't trust Microsoft, Google, or whoever with my data? They could lose it, data mine it, or sell it to my competitors to maximize their profit. If you think paying someone a monthly fee is better than hosting your own data and apps, well then your data must not be worth much in the first place. Not to mention the fact that distributed apps running over the network will usually (although not always) be slower than running them locally.
By the way, isn't anybody who uses Flickr already using "cloud computing"?
Anybody that has ever been to a strip club could tell you that attractive women make men (and some women too) stupid! In fact, I believe their entire business model is predicated on that phenomenon! Serving them alcohol doesn't make 'em any smarter either.
I thought that is what I said: Sun's demise was due to lack of a viable business model. They couldn't make money from Java, UltraSparc, software or workstations, and kept changing course trying to find a source of revenue. The only thing they did well was compete with IBM in the server market, but apparently that wasn't enough. I suspect the server hardware is the only part that Oracle is actually interested in, and that they will sell off the rest. The only good part is that Java might finally become a truly open standard.
you mentioned ethernet and implied that it came 'after intel' put ethernet on pc's.
Actually, what I said was "most of the enhancements made to PCs over the years appeared years earlier on Sun workstations (e.g. CD-ROM drives, sound cards, and Ethernet)", acknowledging that most PC "innovations" were in fact copied from Sun workstations. And yes, the SparcStation had sound output (and allowed you to use it as a CD player) before the SoundBlaster was ever released. You are correct about most of the other issues, but I have personally moved a cross-compiler build process off an old SparcStation onto a new Linux box because it was literally an order of magnitude less time to do the build. In that case, however, I don't think it was the fault of the CPU, but rather of the crappy SCSI drive that came with the low-end SparcStation. For servers, yes, if money was no object and uptime, not price/performance was the only constraint, I'd go with Sun Servers for their bulletproof hardware design. But that "high pricetag" you mentioned does deter some customers.
"Silicon Valley legend"? Sun made it's fortune by taking BSD Unix and commercializing it, selling it pre-installed on boxes. Sure, most of the enhancements made to PCs over the years appeared years earlier on Sun workstations (e.g. CD-ROM drives, sound cards, and Ethernet), but ever since the rise of Linux as a viable alternative to Unix, Sun has been floundering about looking for a viable business model. Spark CPUs? Give me a break; no matter how good the initial design was, if you don't have the several billion dollars a year Intel is putting into R&D to improve the chips, you're fighting a losing battle. Java? Great idea, but you give it away for free, and never have figured out how to make money off of it. Now they can't compete in hardware with off-the-shelf X86 boxes, and they can't compete in software with Linux (being supported by their rival IBM). In short, they have no real business model and no real reason to continue existence. Oracle is doing them a favor by offering to buy them out. Oracle has been trying for years to sell a database appliance with Oracle preinstalled, but they keep running up against that "can't compete with off-the-shelf X86 boxes" barrier too. Sure, Sun invokes fond nostalgia for many, many Unix nerds, but face it -- it's dead, Jim.
Hate speech, especially published hate speech, serves no purpose other than to degrade, criminalize or deter a particular person, race, or gender. The same could be said about blond jokes... that doesn't stop them from being funny!
My understanding of US law is that you have a right to voice an opinion that members of any group are inferior, stupid, smelly or whatever. It is only when you advocate taking unlawful action against members of a group that it becomes a hate crime. Hence The KKK had a right to march in Skokie Illinois. For the most part I agree with this principle that you have a right to free speech, but not threatening speech. However, I believe that if you don the regalia of groups with a history of violence against members of another group (e.g. KKK or SS uniforms) then anything you do carries an implicit threat of violence, and thus becomes "hate speech". Saying blonds are dimwitted is protected speech. Saying we should all get together and shave their heads is hate speech, and should subject one to legal penalties. As far as language that degrades a particular person, race, or gender-- fuck you if you can't take a joke! "Criminalizing" others should rightfully be unlawful, but I'm pretty sure only the government can "criminalize" something -- not a private individual or blogger. "Detering" someone involves coercion, again there is an implicit threat involved, so again it should rightfully be unlawful. Referring to someone with a derogatory term should not be illegal, but certainly isn't going to win you much sympathy when you get your ass kicked for doing so.
Under this theory, companies that know, or should know, that they are enabling illegal activities have an obligation to remedy the situation. Entities that fail to do so, as Louis Vuitton alleged in this case, can be held legally responsible for contributing to the illegal activities.
90% of all US currency contains traces of cocaine. The US mint knows, or should know, that they are contributing to the illicit drug trade by making currency available, since virtually all illegal drugs are purchased with cash. Shouldn't we also hold the US Mint legally responsible for the drug trade? After all, don't we hold gun manufactures legally responsible for everyone who gets murdered? Don't we hold hotels legally responsible for any acts of prostitution that occur on their premises? Don't we hold television networks, magazines, and newspapers legally responsible for any fraudulent advertising they carry? Don't we hold ISPs responsible for distributing kitty porn? Under this theory, shouldn't people with lung cancer be able to sue any company that ever accepted cigarette ads? NBC knew, or should have known, that the advertising would kill people!
Or perhaps this "theory" is just a crock of shit...
I agree, the analogy sucks. Any hobbyist could by a PC clone to experiment with and develop software or hardware peripherals for, while only huge corporations with multimillion-dollar deep pockets can get into the private space flight game. (E.g. all of Invisible Software's original hardware and software was developed by one person. I would like to see anybody outside of Burt Rutan do that with a spaceship.)
Phillip Garrido is only being held on $1 million bail. Which one do you think can do more damage if released, Childs or Garrido? If you answered "Childs", I would insist your priorities are seriously fucked up.
If I were Mr. Valdez, I would ask for them to document the refusal in writing, then turn that little piece of evidence over to a lawyer for a lawsuit under ADA. If I was the bank, I'd hiring somebody capable of thinking outside the box... perhaps somebody capable of asking "Do you have toes?" In the bank's defense, how do they know it is really him, and not some other man with no hands just pretending to be him? Yeah, that's pretty weak.
Will taxi companies start registering "gesture marks" and "profane exclaimation marks", attempting to trademark their drivers reaction to other drivers cutting them off? "I'm sorry, but your referring to me as 'fuck you, you ignorant asshole', as well as your choice of finger position, is a violation of our trademarks. You will be hearing from our lawyers!"
I still the the acronym "MMO" sucks; shouldn't it be either "MMOG" or "MMORPG"? MMO would just stand for "Massively Multiplayer Online", which is somewhat lacking in the noun department.
This is good news for everyone that has always wanted to see Goofy get bitchslapped for dating outside his species... seriously, Clarabelle Cow?!? WTF?!? Will their children go "moof"?!?
Never having played Second Life (I'm still working on getting a first life!), I'm not quite clear on how any virtual avatar could be non-celibate... computer bits are computer bits, naughty bits are naughty bits, and the two cannot coexist in the same space.
My last friend got so fed up that she took the laptop (with the CD still in it) and smashed it in the driveway, drove over it a few times, then hit it with a hammer. Then she called all her friends and went to have ice cream. That game is pure evil...
The game itself is neutral. Playing the game isn't evil, just a waste of time. However, willful and wanton destruction of other people's properly certainly could be considered pure evil! (Wouldn't just hiding the CD be sufficient?) Elf Huntresses don't get pregnant, don't sleep with your best friend, don't throw out your porn or videogame collections, don't embarrass you in public, don't run up you credit cards, and don't smash up your car... how is that not better than a real girlfriend? (Sure, the Elfess doesn't put out, but then my wife, having just had an operation, isn't putting out right now either!)(Actually, my real life girl friends have never slept with my best friend. They have, however, gotten pissed off, run off and married strangers they had only known a few weeks. All the other complaints are real and have actually happened to me.)
Or perhaps it started out as a much bigger planet than it is now?
...the planet's lifetime should still be very short and it would be very unlikely for his team to find it where it did. Or perhaps these astronomer should consider buying lottery tickets. Unlikely != impossible.
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The fact that you know so much about a "date rape" drug is, well, more than a little creepy. You even spelled it correctly. Er... know where I can get some? ;-)
Or you can spend $15-20 a month and get a constantly refreshed and updated/upgraded system every time you turn it on.
Constantly refreshed whether I want it to be or not? Regardless of whether or not it breaks what I'm doing? I'm not really sure that is a selling point. I'm pretty sure anybody who has ever had the experience of having "upgrades" make things worse (e.g. practically every Microsoft customer) would agree.
"The Cloud" isn't just about hosting data. Its about hosting everything, your data, your applications, your medical records, who you communicate with, what you say, when you say it, where you say it, what you spend money on, what you do with it, what color underwear you are wearing, everything."
My porn? I'm not sure I want somebody else hosting my porn collection. I'd like to keep it close to me. What if the network goes down in the middle of the night?
But seriously, no, I wouldn't trust some random "cloud computing" provider with important data. Unimportant data? Use steganography and post it on YouTube for free! Hmm... think that would work for my porn collection too?
Why buy a $1500 computer when you can get 100x more power from a $100 thin client and $20 a month.
Because I don't trust Microsoft, Google, or whoever with my data? They could lose it, data mine it, or sell it to my competitors to maximize their profit. If you think paying someone a monthly fee is better than hosting your own data and apps, well then your data must not be worth much in the first place. Not to mention the fact that distributed apps running over the network will usually (although not always) be slower than running them locally.
By the way, isn't anybody who uses Flickr already using "cloud computing"?
Anybody that has ever been to a strip club could tell you that attractive women make men (and some women too) stupid! In fact, I believe their entire business model is predicated on that phenomenon! Serving them alcohol doesn't make 'em any smarter either.
I thought that is what I said: Sun's demise was due to lack of a viable business model. They couldn't make money from Java, UltraSparc, software or workstations, and kept changing course trying to find a source of revenue. The only thing they did well was compete with IBM in the server market, but apparently that wasn't enough. I suspect the server hardware is the only part that Oracle is actually interested in, and that they will sell off the rest. The only good part is that Java might finally become a truly open standard.
you mentioned ethernet and implied that it came 'after intel' put ethernet on pc's.
Actually, what I said was "most of the enhancements made to PCs over the years appeared years earlier on Sun workstations (e.g. CD-ROM drives, sound cards, and Ethernet)", acknowledging that most PC "innovations" were in fact copied from Sun workstations. And yes, the SparcStation had sound output (and allowed you to use it as a CD player) before the SoundBlaster was ever released. You are correct about most of the other issues, but I have personally moved a cross-compiler build process off an old SparcStation onto a new Linux box because it was literally an order of magnitude less time to do the build. In that case, however, I don't think it was the fault of the CPU, but rather of the crappy SCSI drive that came with the low-end SparcStation. For servers, yes, if money was no object and uptime, not price/performance was the only constraint, I'd go with Sun Servers for their bulletproof hardware design. But that "high pricetag" you mentioned does deter some customers.
"Silicon Valley legend"? Sun made it's fortune by taking BSD Unix and commercializing it, selling it pre-installed on boxes. Sure, most of the enhancements made to PCs over the years appeared years earlier on Sun workstations (e.g. CD-ROM drives, sound cards, and Ethernet), but ever since the rise of Linux as a viable alternative to Unix, Sun has been floundering about looking for a viable business model. Spark CPUs? Give me a break; no matter how good the initial design was, if you don't have the several billion dollars a year Intel is putting into R&D to improve the chips, you're fighting a losing battle. Java? Great idea, but you give it away for free, and never have figured out how to make money off of it. Now they can't compete in hardware with off-the-shelf X86 boxes, and they can't compete in software with Linux (being supported by their rival IBM). In short, they have no real business model and no real reason to continue existence. Oracle is doing them a favor by offering to buy them out. Oracle has been trying for years to sell a database appliance with Oracle preinstalled, but they keep running up against that "can't compete with off-the-shelf X86 boxes" barrier too. Sure, Sun invokes fond nostalgia for many, many Unix nerds, but face it -- it's dead, Jim.
That's mighty white of you...
Hate speech, especially published hate speech, serves no purpose other than to degrade, criminalize or deter a particular person, race, or gender. The same could be said about blond jokes... that doesn't stop them from being funny!
My understanding of US law is that you have a right to voice an opinion that members of any group are inferior, stupid, smelly or whatever. It is only when you advocate taking unlawful action against members of a group that it becomes a hate crime. Hence The KKK had a right to march in Skokie Illinois. For the most part I agree with this principle that you have a right to free speech, but not threatening speech. However, I believe that if you don the regalia of groups with a history of violence against members of another group (e.g. KKK or SS uniforms) then anything you do carries an implicit threat of violence, and thus becomes "hate speech". Saying blonds are dimwitted is protected speech. Saying we should all get together and shave their heads is hate speech, and should subject one to legal penalties. As far as language that degrades a particular person, race, or gender-- fuck you if you can't take a joke! "Criminalizing" others should rightfully be unlawful, but I'm pretty sure only the government can "criminalize" something -- not a private individual or blogger. "Detering" someone involves coercion, again there is an implicit threat involved, so again it should rightfully be unlawful. Referring to someone with a derogatory term should not be illegal, but certainly isn't going to win you much sympathy when you get your ass kicked for doing so.
Is there a different prayer for priests to to say before giving "educational guidance" to altar boys?
Under this theory, companies that know, or should know, that they are enabling illegal activities have an obligation to remedy the situation. Entities that fail to do so, as Louis Vuitton alleged in this case, can be held legally responsible for contributing to the illegal activities.
90% of all US currency contains traces of cocaine. The US mint knows, or should know, that they are contributing to the illicit drug trade by making currency available, since virtually all illegal drugs are purchased with cash. Shouldn't we also hold the US Mint legally responsible for the drug trade? After all, don't we hold gun manufactures legally responsible for everyone who gets murdered? Don't we hold hotels legally responsible for any acts of prostitution that occur on their premises? Don't we hold television networks, magazines, and newspapers legally responsible for any fraudulent advertising they carry? Don't we hold ISPs responsible for distributing kitty porn? Under this theory, shouldn't people with lung cancer be able to sue any company that ever accepted cigarette ads? NBC knew, or should have known, that the advertising would kill people!
Or perhaps this "theory" is just a crock of shit...
I agree, the analogy sucks. Any hobbyist could by a PC clone to experiment with and develop software or hardware peripherals for, while only huge corporations with multimillion-dollar deep pockets can get into the private space flight game. (E.g. all of Invisible Software's original hardware and software was developed by one person. I would like to see anybody outside of Burt Rutan do that with a spaceship.)
Phillip Garrido is only being held on $1 million bail. Which one do you think can do more damage if released, Childs or Garrido? If you answered "Childs", I would insist your priorities are seriously fucked up.
If I were Mr. Valdez, I would ask for them to document the refusal in writing, then turn that little piece of evidence over to a lawyer for a lawsuit under ADA. If I was the bank, I'd hiring somebody capable of thinking outside the box... perhaps somebody capable of asking "Do you have toes?" In the bank's defense, how do they know it is really him, and not some other man with no hands just pretending to be him? Yeah, that's pretty weak.
I just know there is a Disney lawyer sitting in a back room somewhere thinking, "Man, we just gotta get a trademark on the sound of farts!"
Will taxi companies start registering "gesture marks" and "profane exclaimation marks", attempting to trademark their drivers reaction to other drivers cutting them off? "I'm sorry, but your referring to me as 'fuck you, you ignorant asshole', as well as your choice of finger position, is a violation of our trademarks. You will be hearing from our lawyers!"
I still the the acronym "MMO" sucks; shouldn't it be either "MMOG" or "MMORPG"? MMO would just stand for "Massively Multiplayer Online", which is somewhat lacking in the noun department.
he should have put on some Dvorak and calmed down I don' t know about you, but being exposed to Dvorak usually makes me much more upset!
Oh wait, you mean Dvorák... uh... never mind!
can you install it in a toaster? Yes, but at only 40 watts, it will take forever to brown your bread!
This is good news for everyone that has always wanted to see Goofy get bitchslapped for dating outside his species... seriously, Clarabelle Cow?!? WTF?!? Will their children go "moof"?!?
No "incidents" caused by overuse of the "vibrate" feature?
Never having played Second Life (I'm still working on getting a first life!), I'm not quite clear on how any virtual avatar could be non-celibate... computer bits are computer bits, naughty bits are naughty bits, and the two cannot coexist in the same space.
My last friend got so fed up that she took the laptop (with the CD still in it) and smashed it in the driveway, drove over it a few times, then hit it with a hammer. Then she called all her friends and went to have ice cream. That game is pure evil...
The game itself is neutral. Playing the game isn't evil, just a waste of time. However, willful and wanton destruction of other people's properly certainly could be considered pure evil! (Wouldn't just hiding the CD be sufficient?) Elf Huntresses don't get pregnant, don't sleep with your best friend, don't throw out your porn or videogame collections, don't embarrass you in public, don't run up you credit cards, and don't smash up your car... how is that not better than a real girlfriend? (Sure, the Elfess doesn't put out, but then my wife, having just had an operation, isn't putting out right now either!)(Actually, my real life girl friends have never slept with my best friend. They have, however, gotten pissed off, run off and married strangers they had only known a few weeks. All the other complaints are real and have actually happened to me.)
Or perhaps it started out as a much bigger planet than it is now?
...the planet's lifetime should still be very short and it would be very unlikely for his team to find it where it did. Or perhaps these astronomer should consider buying lottery tickets. Unlikely != impossible.