The shareholders would oust the executive board immediately and install people who could see past all that "human rights" baggage to do business with 1.2 billion potential customers
You can't know this for certain. In fact, in this case, I think you're just plain wrong. Google has been very good to its shareholders. Google's executives could defend any action to not do business in China, and I don't think anyone would really complain.
If Google decided not to do business in China, it wouldn't make much of a big deal I think. I doubt the stock would take a hit, and so A stockholder would have a very hard time proving that such a decision was bad.
Costco is a good example. The employee compensation is much better than at Sam's, and the executives know that they could pay their people less. I've heard stories that some stockholders are upset because Costco won't cut salaries, and yet nothing has changed.
Suing the executives is reserved for gross negligence, not debateable business practices. If you don't like the way the company is going, you sell the stock, not sue the company.
Did it occur to you that maybe they'll do more Good by being a western influence in China than by not being there at all?
Yes, it did occur to me to think about that. A millisecond later, though, I realized that it's not true. All Google has done is to further the Chinese government's belief that they can censor the Internet from their citizens. After all, look at all these American companies that are willing to help the Chinese government oppress its people!
Sorry Google, but I no longer believe the "Do No Evil" story.
I have yet to hear (from friends, in the press, whatever) from any parent who claimed that he was unable to stop his child from playing these kinds of games and therefore needed a law like this one. These politicians talk about how children are playing inappropriate games, so you would think that they could fine one parent who needs this law. Has there ever been a case of a politicians proposing a law for parents without having a parent vouch for it? Where are these parents supporting these laws???? I want to hear from them!
This is article doesn't really contain any new (or even hard-to-find) information. Most of it covers basic x86 memory architecture, which any driver developer (on any OS) already knows. The remaining few paragraphs are basically just excerpts from the memory architecture chaper of any decent Linux kernel book.
If you really want to learn about the Linux memory architecture, get Mel Gorman's book "Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager".
The problem with this idea is that when I buy a new game, I take into consideration how much money I'll make if/when I sell it. I rarely keep single-player games, because once I'm done playing the game, I lose interest in it. I don't have a problem paying $50 for a game like that if I know I can sell it for $20 two months later.
Go to any game retailer in town and look at the prices for games. I've seen tons of games that are over a year old still going for $40 or even $50, when the same games go for about $10 on eBay. Microsoft has a good idea with their "Platinum Hits" Xbox games - some old games that once were very popular sell for $20 new - but that concept needs to extend to all games.
The "IS" in CISC stands for "Instruction Set". The Intel processors do have a "complex" instruction set, therefore they are CISC. The fact that the core breaks down the more complex instructions into simpler ones before executing them is more a byproduct of pipelining than anything else.
I think iocat is right. I'm not much of a FPS player, but I'm addicted to Halo 2, even though I'm pretty bad at it. If I don't play for a few weeks, I start going through withdrawals. Sometimes when I play other Xbox games online with my friends, and there's something clunky about the UI or gameplay or whatever, I find myself saying, "Oh well, they can't all be like Halo."
Ditto. The GP poster is a serious troll and just doesn't understand why people like Macs. Sure, I can do on a PC what I do on a Mac, but I do these things much better on a Mac. I have fewer problems on a Mac and it's easier to use. All of these Mac-haters are the same: they only care about what they can do, not how they do it.
What does "community standards of the recipient" mean? The recipient is a minor, so obviously his standards don't apply. If I'm a nudist living in a staunchly conservative county, and I allow my child to see nudity because I think it's natural, then the "community standards" are odds with my standards. So should my child be allowed to see a naked woman or not? I say yes, but apparently you say no.
You don't understand what I'm talking about. Obviously, if the feature were in Mozilla, there wouldn't be a bug open for it. Bug 135636 is about transparently (i.e. without prompting the user) encrypting an email if the Thawte public keys for all recipients are available, and transparently not encrypting it when the keys are not available. Mozilla does not do this.
Auto-population of userid and password is not something that all browsers support, so these sites use cookies to provide this feature for all browsers. Not only that, but some websites include HTML that specifically tells the browser NOT to remember userid and password. Banks typically do this, although the HTML can be overridden with Javascript.
I said "not just for the fun of it". That means that every time he plays, he intends to generate revenue from his efforts.
In an obscure situation like this, it would be hard to prove (or even disprove) such intent. The best way to prove it would be to show steady income from sales of MMORPG items that is consistent with the hours played. For instance, if he plays for 200 hours but only makes about $50 from the sale of one item, the IRS auditor may not believe him.
Of course, this whole argument is academic. As long as he shows a healthy profit, it's extremely unlikely he will be audited, and even if he is, the auditor is not going to evaluate his business to such an excruciating detail.
Yes, if he reports the income on a Schedule C. However, in order to write off 100% of the monthly fee, he needs to be able to "prove" that he plays his MMORPG only to make money, not just for the fun of it.
This bug says that Mozilla (aka Seamonkey) should implement the "encrypt when possible" feature. That is, if the email client has the public key of all recipients, then the email should be automatically encrypted. If this feature were implemented in Seamonkey and Thunderbird, it would do wonders for increasing the usage of encryption. All you would need to do then is get a private/public key for everyone you know, and then all email will be automatically encrypted. Your mom wouldn't even know it was happening.
By your logic, then every story should be posted multiple times by different editors, because there will always be someone who didn't see it the first time.
I read that line as an attempt to avoid being flamed, as opposed to an actual opinion of the author.
Too bad it didn't work! Is it even possible to write a flame-proof sentence on Slashdot? Let's find out. Here's a very innocent statement that surely no one could flame me on:
This action obviously will not stem identity theft but the hope is that this will push banks into security improvements that will make identity theft much harder.
If you make "identity theft much harder", then obviously you will stem it. "Stem" does not mean stop, it means to "make headway against".
Not to stray off-topic or belittle your point, but the Xbox 360 does not have tons of bugs. Most of the so-called bug "reports" are just rehashing what someone else said. Also, almost all of the issues I've heard are really the result of user error (e.g. not reading the manual). I don't know of any one verifiable bug with the Xbox 360. That doesn't mean that there aren't any, just that the statement "has tons of bugs" is wrong.
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You can't know this for certain. In fact, in this case, I think you're just plain wrong. Google has been very good to its shareholders. Google's executives could defend any action to not do business in China, and I don't think anyone would really complain.
If Google decided not to do business in China, it wouldn't make much of a big deal I think. I doubt the stock would take a hit, and so A stockholder would have a very hard time proving that such a decision was bad.
Costco is a good example. The employee compensation is much better than at Sam's, and the executives know that they could pay their people less. I've heard stories that some stockholders are upset because Costco won't cut salaries, and yet nothing has changed.
Suing the executives is reserved for gross negligence, not debateable business practices. If you don't like the way the company is going, you sell the stock, not sue the company.
Yes, it did occur to me to think about that. A millisecond later, though, I realized that it's not true. All Google has done is to further the Chinese government's belief that they can censor the Internet from their citizens. After all, look at all these American companies that are willing to help the Chinese government oppress its people!
Sorry Google, but I no longer believe the "Do No Evil" story.
I have yet to hear (from friends, in the press, whatever) from any parent who claimed that he was unable to stop his child from playing these kinds of games and therefore needed a law like this one. These politicians talk about how children are playing inappropriate games, so you would think that they could fine one parent who needs this law. Has there ever been a case of a politicians proposing a law for parents without having a parent vouch for it? Where are these parents supporting these laws???? I want to hear from them!
If you really want to learn about the Linux memory architecture, get Mel Gorman's book "Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager".
I played lots of sports in high school gym class that were not available as varsity teams, such as dodge ball and archery.
What the hell does that mean????
The problem with this idea is that when I buy a new game, I take into consideration how much money I'll make if/when I sell it. I rarely keep single-player games, because once I'm done playing the game, I lose interest in it. I don't have a problem paying $50 for a game like that if I know I can sell it for $20 two months later.
Go to any game retailer in town and look at the prices for games. I've seen tons of games that are over a year old still going for $40 or even $50, when the same games go for about $10 on eBay. Microsoft has a good idea with their "Platinum Hits" Xbox games - some old games that once were very popular sell for $20 new - but that concept needs to extend to all games.
The "IS" in CISC stands for "Instruction Set". The Intel processors do have a "complex" instruction set, therefore they are CISC. The fact that the core breaks down the more complex instructions into simpler ones before executing them is more a byproduct of pipelining than anything else.
I think iocat is right. I'm not much of a FPS player, but I'm addicted to Halo 2, even though I'm pretty bad at it. If I don't play for a few weeks, I start going through withdrawals. Sometimes when I play other Xbox games online with my friends, and there's something clunky about the UI or gameplay or whatever, I find myself saying, "Oh well, they can't all be like Halo."
Ditto. The GP poster is a serious troll and just doesn't understand why people like Macs. Sure, I can do on a PC what I do on a Mac, but I do these things much better on a Mac. I have fewer problems on a Mac and it's easier to use. All of these Mac-haters are the same: they only care about what they can do, not how they do it.
What does "community standards of the recipient" mean? The recipient is a minor, so obviously his standards don't apply. If I'm a nudist living in a staunchly conservative county, and I allow my child to see nudity because I think it's natural, then the "community standards" are odds with my standards. So should my child be allowed to see a naked woman or not? I say yes, but apparently you say no.
You don't understand what I'm talking about. Obviously, if the feature were in Mozilla, there wouldn't be a bug open for it. Bug 135636 is about transparently (i.e. without prompting the user) encrypting an email if the Thawte public keys for all recipients are available, and transparently not encrypting it when the keys are not available. Mozilla does not do this.
Auto-population of userid and password is not something that all browsers support, so these sites use cookies to provide this feature for all browsers. Not only that, but some websites include HTML that specifically tells the browser NOT to remember userid and password. Banks typically do this, although the HTML can be overridden with Javascript.
In an obscure situation like this, it would be hard to prove (or even disprove) such intent. The best way to prove it would be to show steady income from sales of MMORPG items that is consistent with the hours played. For instance, if he plays for 200 hours but only makes about $50 from the sale of one item, the IRS auditor may not believe him.
Of course, this whole argument is academic. As long as he shows a healthy profit, it's extremely unlikely he will be audited, and even if he is, the auditor is not going to evaluate his business to such an excruciating detail.
The only way a website can do that is with cookies, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Yes, if he reports the income on a Schedule C. However, in order to write off 100% of the monthly fee, he needs to be able to "prove" that he plays his MMORPG only to make money, not just for the fun of it.
This bug says that Mozilla (aka Seamonkey) should implement the "encrypt when possible" feature. That is, if the email client has the public key of all recipients, then the email should be automatically encrypted. If this feature were implemented in Seamonkey and Thunderbird, it would do wonders for increasing the usage of encryption. All you would need to do then is get a private/public key for everyone you know, and then all email will be automatically encrypted. Your mom wouldn't even know it was happening.
By your logic, then every story should be posted multiple times by different editors, because there will always be someone who didn't see it the first time.
Too bad it didn't work! Is it even possible to write a flame-proof sentence on Slashdot? Let's find out. Here's a very innocent statement that surely no one could flame me on:
Two plus two equals four.
This action obviously will not stem identity theft but the hope is that this will push banks into security improvements that will make identity theft much harder.
If you make "identity theft much harder", then obviously you will stem it. "Stem" does not mean stop, it means to "make headway against".
It's the finance people who came up with the idea of outsourcing IT jobs in the first place, so I feel no pity for them. Karma's a bitch, right boys?
They're going to keep on apologizing until they get it right, dammit!!
Was a software update downloaded between those two dates? If the answer is no, then it looks like the testers just did something wrong on the 29th.
Not to stray off-topic or belittle your point, but the Xbox 360 does not have tons of bugs. Most of the so-called bug "reports" are just rehashing what someone else said. Also, almost all of the issues I've heard are really the result of user error (e.g. not reading the manual). I don't know of any one verifiable bug with the Xbox 360. That doesn't mean that there aren't any, just that the statement "has tons of bugs" is wrong.