One line summary of Rhodes' book: Soviets good, Americans bad. This guy clearly has an ax to grind, and with such an ax in hand, he can chop up the truth however he sees fit in assembling his book. Maybe he and Gavin Menzies should compare notes.
No, not kinda like that. The comparison being made was having a single, commercial organization have sole control, versus a (presumably) non-commercial organization composed of or otherwise beholden to a group of commercial organizations. Google does deserve some "first mover" credit, but so does most any company that establishes a monopoly early on. The issue being raised is the potential for them to abuse their sole provider status for these works and the desire to ameliorate that by spreading the responsibility and control around--no one is saying that it would have been better if Google hadn't done this at all.
Yeah, but with my Patek Philippe, I get the privilege of paying $1500 or so every time I have it serviced. You can't get that kind of quality in a Timex.
What exactly makes Bing an inferior search engine? I generally use Google, but I've found, for example, in tracking down some old friends from high school and college that I was able to find them on Bing whereas I was not on Google or Yahoo. Also, I like Bing's video search better because the video "thumbnails" start to play when you mouse over them, which makes it easier to find what you're looking for. I know this article gives you a chance to take your daily shit on Microsoft, but maybe when you're done with your two minutes hate you might want to consider that Google hasn't done much to improve their core product lately so a little competition might not be a bad thing.
If you don't see the danger of a government that can confiscate your property without your consent (e.g., through taxes, the RICO statute, etc.), then you're the one who is beyond help. People have come to accept far greater abuse from their government than what Amazon did, so it's just a matter of time before this relatively trivial inconvenience is similarly accepted.
I don't know, genius, but maybe the fact that UN headquarters and a ton of foreign consulates are in NYC has something to do with it. How about hacking to get the itineraries and NYPD protection details for foreign heads of state and other dignitaries? What about getting the plans for coordinating with federal and state agencies in the event of a terrorist attack or other emergency? So maybe it's the international arena reaching into NYC, but either way the NYPD doesn't have to do anything outside of NYC to have international implications.
The fact is, though, that these models were stress-tested. Management just didn't want to hear that their money-making machine might come crashing down. Senior fixed income risk/trading experts like Michael Gelband at Lehman Brothers and Jeff Kronthal at Merrill Lynch were forced aside in 2007 because they made too much noise about the risks being taken. Guys like Roger Nagioff (a former equity--not fixed income--trader) at Lehman Brothers and Osman Semerci (a fixed income salesperson--not a trader) at Merrill Lynch were put in their place. A year later after the disaster started, Nagioff and Semerci were thrown out, and both Gelband and Kronthal were re-hired by their respective firms in an attempt to clean up the mess, but it was too late. The net result is that billions in easy money make it easy to ignore the models or easy to demand that only the "right" numbers be put into them.
Funny. Would have been a "no", as I'm straight (not that there's anything wrong with that). Seriously, though, I deleted it after only reading a few lines because I thought it was porn spam or something. It was only when my officemate said "wtf" that I realized everyone had gotten it and someone internally had sent it.
The funniest "goodbye" email I saw occurred about 10 years ago. A guy down the hall from me was responding to a personal ad--probably in a "casual encounters" section. He gave, shall we say, a very elaborate physical description of himself. He also went into details about his various fetishes and sexual proclivities, as well as some choice moments from his sexual history. He also described exactly what he hoped to do with the person he was writing to, complete with various sexual acts and positions.
Unfortunately, when he clicked send, the mailer garbled the "to" line in such a way that it went to the company-wide email list. (The company-wide email alias was "world"--the email address he was sending to had "world" in it, and I assume he had accidentally put a space the middle of the email address, causing it to be mis-parsed.)
When the email hit everyone's inbox, there was a moment of silence on the whole floor, followed by phrases like "holy shit" and laughter. The last anyone saw of him was him ducking and half-running down the hallway with his backpack. He apparently thought he'd never be able to live it down, called HR later in the day to resign, and never showed up at the office again.
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One line summary of Rhodes' book: Soviets good, Americans bad. This guy clearly has an ax to grind, and with such an ax in hand, he can chop up the truth however he sees fit in assembling his book. Maybe he and Gavin Menzies should compare notes.
It's troll because he's saying bad things about teh Google! We only bash Micro$$$$$oft here.
4.0 version is in the dev channel.
So next time I hear someone talk about intelligent design, I'm going to ask them to show me God's patents.
Mod parent up, please.
While I think Bill Maher is a misogynist dickhead...we euthanize animals on compassionate grounds, and yet we humans, we're expected to suffer.
While I wouldn't mind watching Bill Maher suffer, I do support his euthanization on compassionate grounds.
If Britney is the bank, Paris is the Treasury Dept.
I can eat one of those and make biofuel from it at the same time.
App Store Optimization. If you pronounce the acronym right, it sounds like "asshole".
So.. kinda like if Google did nothing?
No, not kinda like that. The comparison being made was having a single, commercial organization have sole control, versus a (presumably) non-commercial organization composed of or otherwise beholden to a group of commercial organizations. Google does deserve some "first mover" credit, but so does most any company that establishes a monopoly early on. The issue being raised is the potential for them to abuse their sole provider status for these works and the desire to ameliorate that by spreading the responsibility and control around--no one is saying that it would have been better if Google hadn't done this at all.
Will be researchers formerly at Microsoft "running with an embedded chair" after tomorrow I'm sure...
Yeah, but with my Patek Philippe, I get the privilege of paying $1500 or so every time I have it serviced. You can't get that kind of quality in a Timex.
What exactly makes Bing an inferior search engine? I generally use Google, but I've found, for example, in tracking down some old friends from high school and college that I was able to find them on Bing whereas I was not on Google or Yahoo. Also, I like Bing's video search better because the video "thumbnails" start to play when you mouse over them, which makes it easier to find what you're looking for. I know this article gives you a chance to take your daily shit on Microsoft, but maybe when you're done with your two minutes hate you might want to consider that Google hasn't done much to improve their core product lately so a little competition might not be a bad thing.
Should the FSF open an office in East Texas and launch lawsuits for violating the GPL from there?
If you don't see the danger of a government that can confiscate your property without your consent (e.g., through taxes, the RICO statute, etc.), then you're the one who is beyond help. People have come to accept far greater abuse from their government than what Amazon did, so it's just a matter of time before this relatively trivial inconvenience is similarly accepted.
The publisher who put the books on Amazon for download apparently had no legal right to make the books thus available. The publisher that did have the right to make them available asked Amazon to pull them. I don't think there's any Orwellian conspiracy here, but leave it to the Slashdot crowd to find one and work itself into a froth...
I, for one, welcome our child-bearing lesbian overlords...
Timely rebuttal: http://www.xkcd.com/603
Will Duke Nukem Forever wait to take advantage of DirectX 11?
I don't know, genius, but maybe the fact that UN headquarters and a ton of foreign consulates are in NYC has something to do with it. How about hacking to get the itineraries and NYPD protection details for foreign heads of state and other dignitaries? What about getting the plans for coordinating with federal and state agencies in the event of a terrorist attack or other emergency? So maybe it's the international arena reaching into NYC, but either way the NYPD doesn't have to do anything outside of NYC to have international implications.
As a zombie, I'll tell you right now that I try to stay away from genetically modified people, and I think they should be banned from the food chain.
After all, folks there seem to be trying to catch up with Africa.
The fact is, though, that these models were stress-tested. Management just didn't want to hear that their money-making machine might come crashing down. Senior fixed income risk/trading experts like Michael Gelband at Lehman Brothers and Jeff Kronthal at Merrill Lynch were forced aside in 2007 because they made too much noise about the risks being taken. Guys like Roger Nagioff (a former equity--not fixed income--trader) at Lehman Brothers and Osman Semerci (a fixed income salesperson--not a trader) at Merrill Lynch were put in their place. A year later after the disaster started, Nagioff and Semerci were thrown out, and both Gelband and Kronthal were re-hired by their respective firms in an attempt to clean up the mess, but it was too late. The net result is that billions in easy money make it easy to ignore the models or easy to demand that only the "right" numbers be put into them.
Funny. Would have been a "no", as I'm straight (not that there's anything wrong with that). Seriously, though, I deleted it after only reading a few lines because I thought it was porn spam or something. It was only when my officemate said "wtf" that I realized everyone had gotten it and someone internally had sent it.
The funniest "goodbye" email I saw occurred about 10 years ago. A guy down the hall from me was responding to a personal ad--probably in a "casual encounters" section. He gave, shall we say, a very elaborate physical description of himself. He also went into details about his various fetishes and sexual proclivities, as well as some choice moments from his sexual history. He also described exactly what he hoped to do with the person he was writing to, complete with various sexual acts and positions.
Unfortunately, when he clicked send, the mailer garbled the "to" line in such a way that it went to the company-wide email list. (The company-wide email alias was "world"--the email address he was sending to had "world" in it, and I assume he had accidentally put a space the middle of the email address, causing it to be mis-parsed.)
When the email hit everyone's inbox, there was a moment of silence on the whole floor, followed by phrases like "holy shit" and laughter. The last anyone saw of him was him ducking and half-running down the hallway with his backpack. He apparently thought he'd never be able to live it down, called HR later in the day to resign, and never showed up at the office again.