The issue is how to fairly collect taxes to pay for maintenance of roads and highways. How do we make those who use public roads and highways the most pay the most for their maintenance? Using GPS data to determine this is a poor solution.
An good solution is to build the increased cost of road maintenance into a tax for new tires sold for on road use in the United States.
People aren't spending money unless they have to (check the government's December retail sales report if you don't believe me). When people are forced to buy a new computer do you think they'll buy a $700 Dell or a $1400 Apple when both have the exact same hardware specifications? Sure the Apple looks prettier and the OS is superior to Windows, but for $700 more? In difficult financial times the value isn't there for most people. As a result I see Apple's recent market share gains retreating rapidly as the recession lingers.
I think the most important thing any *people* manager can do is set the tone for the entire team. I highly recommend reading "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't" (amazon link - http://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workp lace-Surviving/dp/0446526568). The world doesn't need anymore assholes in management. Good luck!
Clearly being "open" improves the user experience for those users inclined, and capable of, modifying the system. If the user doesn't like how an application works they are welcome to modify the application to their liking, thereby improving their experience.
There's a subtle difference between "close to nothing" and "nothing", e.g.: 12094 shares of Transmeta stock purchased 06/11/2007 - $3991.02 Market value of 12094 shares of Transmeta stock on 07/06/2007 - $11368.36 Watching your 2007 IRA contribution almost triple in less than a month - awesome (*aster*ard lawyers might be reading/.)
I just got back from Frys and couldn't find any CPU's that natively execute x86 instructions. Can you tell me where I can purchase a CPU (manufactured this millennium) that natively executes x86 instructions? I don't want to get one that *emulates* x86 and end up with performance that *sucks*.
"Do you think that's air you're breathing now?" -Morpheus
You do intend to say that Intel reminds you of SCO, right? Because in the late 1990's Intel had a problem, their CPUs doubled as toaster ovens. Back then it wasn't a huge problem in desktops, but laptops based on Intel CPUs were roasting a lot of wieners. The solution, read Transmeta's patents to find out how to make chips run cool and save energy. Now after investing time and money to develop something new and non-obvious Transmeta has the nerve to sue Intel! Intel should be able to take (steal) what they want from lousy patent trolls (valid patent holders), make a ridiculous profit, and maintain their monopoly. There's just no justice anymore. Not for Intel, Paris Hilton, or Scooter Libby!
I guess I should have spelled it out for the people with nothing better to do (like you): just where do you think this "google UID" is stored (local machine?). Get a life...
Last I checked google doesn't require users to log in to perform a search. Given this there's no way or google to track your searches, except recording your IP address, if you're not logged in. This combined with the something like the tor network would give reasonable security. Of course that still leaves your local machine to tell on you, I recommend bcwipe.
I think using a *specific* language for automatic parallelization is the wrong way. Some GNU folks are working on language independent autoparallelization for GCC 4.3. Their implementation is an extension to the OpenMP implementation in GCC. Read OpenMP and automatic parallelization in GCC, D. Novillo, GCC Developers' Summit, Ottawa, Canada, June 2006 http://people.redhat.com/dnovillo/Papers/ for details.
Does *anyone* remember Avant!? The company started with stolen IP??? My recollection is the data wasn't stolen by loyal employees who had been crapped on one too many times. These guys were nothing but greedy thieves. Hence the *need* for information security products like those provided by(shameless plug) http://www.provilla-inc.com./
It sounds like a good idea on the surface, but not if you know *anything* about the stock market. I'm not a guru, but know enough to explain why Intel cannot afford Transmeta. When an entity acquires a certain percentage, somewhere arround 10%, of a public company they must file with the SEC. This usually causes the share price of the takeover target to increase significantly. Also, Transmeta has what's called a poison pill which in the event of a hostile take over attempt causes them to issues more shares. The net effect of the number of outstanding shares increasing at the same time the price of each share increases is that acquiring 51% of the shares becomes orders of magnitude more expensive than the current market cap of Transmeta. Given these conditions Intel cannot afford to buy Transmeta, unless of course Transmeta's board of directors agrees to sell the company to Intel.
Your comment would make sense if it weren't for the Origami. A lot of people thought transmeta was working on that, but they weren't.
How many projects can 30 hardware engineers be working on at a software company.
Given this information let me rewrite your lunch with the boss example: You went to lunch with your boss and DIDN'T GET ANYTHING TO EAT. Since your boss is a woman and you're a man, you must obviously be having sex.
You figured out my social experiment / hack! (I'm not kidding) How do you get Slashdot to post a story? I figured slashdot would run any story about Google. Excellent.
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The issue is how to fairly collect taxes to pay for maintenance of roads and highways. How do we make those who use public roads and highways the most pay the most for their maintenance? Using GPS data to determine this is a poor solution. An good solution is to build the increased cost of road maintenance into a tax for new tires sold for on road use in the United States.
People aren't spending money unless they have to (check the government's December retail sales report if you don't believe me). When people are forced to buy a new computer do you think they'll buy a $700 Dell or a $1400 Apple when both have the exact same hardware specifications? Sure the Apple looks prettier and the OS is superior to Windows, but for $700 more? In difficult financial times the value isn't there for most people. As a result I see Apple's recent market share gains retreating rapidly as the recession lingers.
I think the most important thing any *people* manager can do is set the tone for the entire team. I highly recommend reading "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't" (amazon link - http://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workp lace-Surviving/dp/0446526568). The world doesn't need anymore assholes in management. Good luck!
At least I thought it was funny, but I'm just a guy who used up all his moderator points yesterday.
How does this comment get a troll rating? It's not great, but it's hardly troll (unless you're blindly pro-apple).
Clearly being "open" improves the user experience for those users inclined, and capable of, modifying the system. If the user doesn't like how an application works they are welcome to modify the application to their liking, thereby improving their experience.
There's a subtle difference between "close to nothing" and "nothing", e.g.: /.)
12094 shares of Transmeta stock purchased 06/11/2007 - $3991.02
Market value of 12094 shares of Transmeta stock on 07/06/2007 - $11368.36
Watching your 2007 IRA contribution almost triple in less than a month - awesome (*aster*ard lawyers might be reading
I just got back from Frys and couldn't find any CPU's that natively execute x86 instructions. Can you tell me where I can purchase a CPU (manufactured this millennium) that natively executes x86 instructions? I don't want to get one that *emulates* x86 and end up with performance that *sucks*. "Do you think that's air you're breathing now?" -Morpheus
Thanks. Unfortunately the Intel fanboys have the moderator points.
I was actually trying to be funny...
You do intend to say that Intel reminds you of SCO, right? Because in the late 1990's Intel had a problem, their CPUs doubled as toaster ovens. Back then it wasn't a huge problem in desktops, but laptops based on Intel CPUs were roasting a lot of wieners. The solution, read Transmeta's patents to find out how to make chips run cool and save energy. Now after investing time and money to develop something new and non-obvious Transmeta has the nerve to sue Intel! Intel should be able to take (steal) what they want from lousy patent trolls (valid patent holders), make a ridiculous profit, and maintain their monopoly. There's just no justice anymore. Not for Intel, Paris Hilton, or Scooter Libby!
I guess I should have spelled it out for the people with nothing better to do (like you): just where do you think this "google UID" is stored (local machine?). Get a life...
Last I checked google doesn't require users to log in to perform a search. Given this there's no way or google to track your searches, except recording your IP address, if you're not logged in. This combined with the something like the tor network would give reasonable security. Of course that still leaves your local machine to tell on you, I recommend bcwipe.
LUKOIL and Exxon?
I think using a *specific* language for automatic parallelization is the wrong way. Some GNU folks are working on language independent autoparallelization for GCC 4.3. Their implementation is an extension to the OpenMP implementation in GCC. Read OpenMP and automatic parallelization in GCC, D. Novillo, GCC Developers' Summit, Ottawa, Canada, June 2006 http://people.redhat.com/dnovillo/Papers/ for details.
Does *anyone* remember Avant!? The company started with stolen IP??? My recollection is the data wasn't stolen by loyal employees who had been crapped on one too many times. These guys were nothing but greedy thieves. Hence the *need* for information security products like those provided by(shameless plug) http://www.provilla-inc.com./
It sounds like a good idea on the surface, but not if you know *anything* about the stock market. I'm not a guru, but know enough to explain why Intel cannot afford Transmeta. When an entity acquires a certain percentage, somewhere arround 10%, of a public company they must file with the SEC. This usually causes the share price of the takeover target to increase significantly. Also, Transmeta has what's called a poison pill which in the event of a hostile take over attempt causes them to issues more shares. The net effect of the number of outstanding shares increasing at the same time the price of each share increases is that acquiring 51% of the shares becomes orders of magnitude more expensive than the current market cap of Transmeta. Given these conditions Intel cannot afford to buy Transmeta, unless of course Transmeta's board of directors agrees to sell the company to Intel.
Your comment would make sense if it weren't for the Origami. A lot of people thought transmeta was working on that, but they weren't.
How many projects can 30 hardware engineers be working on at a software company.
Given this information let me rewrite your lunch with the boss example: You went to lunch with your boss and DIDN'T GET ANYTHING TO EAT. Since your boss is a woman and you're a man, you must obviously be having sex.
You figured out my social experiment / hack! (I'm not kidding) How do you get Slashdot to post a story? I figured slashdot would run any story about Google. Excellent.