...because Microsoft isn't capable of even attempting something like Buzz.
In all seriousness, though, between Google's handling of the Buzz launch, Facebook's handling of privacy settings, etc., it's pretty clear that the users of these services are the product, not the services themselves.
faulty cache memory design on the E450 resulting in time between reboots measured in days
That's a bad memory I'd rather forget. What's worse is that you paid top dollar for that crappy hardware, and it was far slower than Intel-based Linux systems. You'd also get sold on some HA failover snakeoil which would work great in some stunt test but not necessarily when you actually had a real hardware failure. The only thing that Solaris got right early on, in my opinion, was the threading model, which scaled well in comparison to any other OS at that time. Otherwise, my only thoughts about Solaris and Sun hardware are "slow, expensive and prone to catastrophic failure."
FYI, Fox News was the mouthpiece of the last administration. The contract came up for bid after the 2008 elections, and MSNBC beat out the competition. Congrats again, Keith and Rachel!
...but I've known quite a few Chinese Americans, both from the mainland and from Taiwan, who despite having become citizens here seem to be more concerned about their former homeland than their new one. I remember when the American spy plane had the collision with the Chinese fighter jet in 2001, almost every Chinese person I knew, despite being US citizens, was adamant that the US should apologize. During the Tibet unrest, many Chinese Americans I know accused the US media of bias--begging the question why they care so much about how China is portrayed if they're now Americans. Maybe this is no different than past waves of immigrants, and maybe it's no different than some Jewish Americans (even born here) who show more support for Israel than they do for the US. It's also no different than Muslim immigrants to Europe who show more allegiance to their religion and the ummah than their adopted nations. Nevertheless, it would be interesting to see if anyone else had any thoughts or experiences in this matter. In short, in today's world, what are the real loyalties of an immigrant population? This story obviously shows one--money--but the question is whether there's anything beyond that.
This is almost certainly what it is. The year is stored in an SMS message as a two-digit BCD value, according to this spec. (Click on the link for the "timestamp" field.) Some phones must be treating it as a hex field. (Note that most other fields in the SMS message are in hex.)
Our nation was founded on capitalism, which is based on fair competition.
Nonsense. While the United States may have been founded on capitalism, there's nothing in capitalism that requires "fair competition." For example, John D. Rockefeller was certainly a capitalist, but he also stated on several occasions that competition was wasteful and that well-meaning, privately-owned monopolies could best deliver products and services to society. (Whether that's true or not is another matter.)
In a broader context, there's nothing in capitalism that is inherently opposed to cartels or monopolies--the former is simply the free association of individuals or corporations to determine the "rules" of an industry (particularly with regard to pricing) and the latter is the natural end-state of an industry in which one company has outmaneuvered all others. Both are certainly anti-competitive by definition, however, and most capitalist countries have laws to prevent or regulate such entities.
First off, your archaic use of capitalization is interesting.
Animal testing is certainly cruel to the animals involved. Whether that cruelty to animals is justified by the savings in cruelty to humans is a matter of debate.
The argument can also be made, though, that some human beings' lives are more valuable than others. Certainly every society practices this, no matter what beliefs they profess, as some members of every society (e.g., chieftans, priesthood, nobility, aristocrats, "party members") receive a disproportionate allocation of that society's resources. So, we could just go down that route. Already done that, of course.
A better argument against animal testing would be that a society that practices cruelty to animals is one step closer to practicing cruelty to its fellow humans. A society that respects animal life, on the other hand, is more likely to respect human life.
Finally, your oft-stated argument that "better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer" is specious. The ten guilty men will almost certainly victimize other innocents, which is why we incarcerate them in the first place. An argument of "better that a guilty man go free than an innocent man suffer" would carry more water.
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Just let me finish my burrito...
...because Microsoft isn't capable of even attempting something like Buzz.
In all seriousness, though, between Google's handling of the Buzz launch, Facebook's handling of privacy settings, etc., it's pretty clear that the users of these services are the product, not the services themselves.
faulty cache memory design on the E450 resulting in time between reboots measured in days
That's a bad memory I'd rather forget. What's worse is that you paid top dollar for that crappy hardware, and it was far slower than Intel-based Linux systems. You'd also get sold on some HA failover snakeoil which would work great in some stunt test but not necessarily when you actually had a real hardware failure. The only thing that Solaris got right early on, in my opinion, was the threading model, which scaled well in comparison to any other OS at that time. Otherwise, my only thoughts about Solaris and Sun hardware are "slow, expensive and prone to catastrophic failure."
...I have just as much respect for fat people as I do for drug addicts.
so what's the fucking point of saying he's CUBAN-american?
Maybe the author didn't want you to think that Gonzalez is a MEXICAN-american...
Politicians get special bottled water to enhance their genome however.
Most politicians I know could use some genetic enhancement...
Isn't FOSSSSO so much more appealing?
And who still thinks Google's fingers aren't everywhere? This will be just another datamining source.
I've been a beta-tester for the "Google toilet", and let me tell you, friend: You don't know the half of it!
Piss on the wall!
Um, you mean like, Fox News?
FYI, Fox News was the mouthpiece of the last administration. The contract came up for bid after the 2008 elections, and MSNBC beat out the competition. Congrats again, Keith and Rachel!
Now I generally only use it for translation and mapping. Anyone else think Ubiquity is screaming for speech recognition?
You mean I'll get a better response if I scream "GET ME THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!" than if I type it? Cool!
There...are...four...lights!
...think of the fucking children.
Oh wait, fucking children are the problem...
...but I've known quite a few Chinese Americans, both from the mainland and from Taiwan, who despite having become citizens here seem to be more concerned about their former homeland than their new one. I remember when the American spy plane had the collision with the Chinese fighter jet in 2001, almost every Chinese person I knew, despite being US citizens, was adamant that the US should apologize. During the Tibet unrest, many Chinese Americans I know accused the US media of bias--begging the question why they care so much about how China is portrayed if they're now Americans. Maybe this is no different than past waves of immigrants, and maybe it's no different than some Jewish Americans (even born here) who show more support for Israel than they do for the US. It's also no different than Muslim immigrants to Europe who show more allegiance to their religion and the ummah than their adopted nations. Nevertheless, it would be interesting to see if anyone else had any thoughts or experiences in this matter. In short, in today's world, what are the real loyalties of an immigrant population? This story obviously shows one--money--but the question is whether there's anything beyond that.
In my country there is problem,
And that problem is transport.
It take very very long,
Because Kazakhstan is big.
the concept of spray-on glass is mind-boggling
The concept of spray-on breasts is mind-boggling. The concept of spray-on glass is merely interesting.
I'd take that as a hint that it was time to start boning the secretary...
...you can't expect your privacy to get in the way of me making a fat wad of cash in a future IPO.
This is almost certainly what it is. The year is stored in an SMS message as a two-digit BCD value, according to this spec. (Click on the link for the "timestamp" field.) Some phones must be treating it as a hex field. (Note that most other fields in the SMS message are in hex.)
Because Dell sucked from day one. It was always a cheap, so-so computer...
"Everything will be done according to the laws of physics."
That's what they all say...
...or at least that seems to sum up the message of these sites. In other news, a related site is still open for business.
Our nation was founded on capitalism, which is based on fair competition.
Nonsense. While the United States may have been founded on capitalism, there's nothing in capitalism that requires "fair competition." For example, John D. Rockefeller was certainly a capitalist, but he also stated on several occasions that competition was wasteful and that well-meaning, privately-owned monopolies could best deliver products and services to society. (Whether that's true or not is another matter.)
In a broader context, there's nothing in capitalism that is inherently opposed to cartels or monopolies--the former is simply the free association of individuals or corporations to determine the "rules" of an industry (particularly with regard to pricing) and the latter is the natural end-state of an industry in which one company has outmaneuvered all others. Both are certainly anti-competitive by definition, however, and most capitalist countries have laws to prevent or regulate such entities.
From the looks of him, his contribution to the pizza budget may have also had something to do with it...
First off, your archaic use of capitalization is interesting.
Animal testing is certainly cruel to the animals involved. Whether that cruelty to animals is justified by the savings in cruelty to humans is a matter of debate.
The argument can also be made, though, that some human beings' lives are more valuable than others. Certainly every society practices this, no matter what beliefs they profess, as some members of every society (e.g., chieftans, priesthood, nobility, aristocrats, "party members") receive a disproportionate allocation of that society's resources. So, we could just go down that route. Already done that, of course.
A better argument against animal testing would be that a society that practices cruelty to animals is one step closer to practicing cruelty to its fellow humans. A society that respects animal life, on the other hand, is more likely to respect human life.
Finally, your oft-stated argument that "better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer" is specious. The ten guilty men will almost certainly victimize other innocents, which is why we incarcerate them in the first place. An argument of "better that a guilty man go free than an innocent man suffer" would carry more water.