$130 million to IBM is like me paying for my friend's lunch. It really is not a lot of money to IBM. If the amount was $10-20 billion, that would be more tempting. Also doesn't IBM sell AMD based servers? Yes they do here: http://www.ibm.com/systems/hardware/browse/amdpro/index.html
Last I checked, microsoft office was not part of windows. One is supposed to pay in order to get it. A trial may be installed on your new computer but it is not a full version, and many people get a computer with a windows OS without office.
Split microsoft like Bell was split? Good idea. Have an OS division (or company), office should be it's own division. A software developer division, does msSQL deserve it's own division? I am not sure if that should be part of the developer application one. Just like Bell was broken up into the baby bells. Which in turn all joined up years later to form what we now call Verizon. Maybe a few baby bells are not part of Verizon yet, but a lot are. Even if microsoft was split up into 5-6+ separate companies. They would all still feed from the same source and profits would go to the same place. Unless microsoft was forced to separate the balance sheets for each division and all divisions had to live (or die) on their own, splitting up microsoft does not do any good. So we get a new company name and new boxes for software. The same people are still calling all the shots.
The rest of your rant about taxes has nothing to do with the anti trust case. You might want to look at who worked for microsoft before and during the anti trust case. Then go after those people. Employees who were hired after that case were not involved and they should not be punished for other people's screw ups. They may have to fix the screw ups, but those newer people should not be punished for it.
A lot of people do not like microsoft, but not all of the people who work there should be punished for it.
I have seen quite a few newer homes where a GFI was installed in the bedroom. This was not just in homes build near the water either. I am not sure why this is the case. My sister's house the whole house is on GFIs. It was a pre-fab. Maybe that is code for that type of home?
Wouldn't perfect DNA be DNA that would always pass it's trait on over other DNA? Or DNA that is dominate over all other DNA?
Genes have that to an extent. Brown eye color gene will override blue eye color gene. Darker skin tones override lighter ones. There are many others. Aren't genes what make up DNA? So if an individual is made up of all dominate trait genes, could it be said that the person has 'perfect DNA' then? After all their traits would dominate in their offspring. The same cannot be said of their grandchildren however I know.
I was going to point out the same thing. Obama got a lot of electoral votes. He did not have a landslide in the popular vote. Even in some states if you look at that state on a county by county basis (Ohio, Maryland, and Florida for example) those states went for Obama, but he had a minority of counties go his way. But the counties that Obama got were where the cities were. Win the cities == win that state seems to be the way to get those electoral votes.
And most people with an SSN also have a driver's license attached to that SSN - thus providing easy photo verification of ownership of said SSN.
No. My SSN is not now or has even been on my driver's license. And I have had a driver's license for over 20 years in 5 states. I needed my SSN to get the driver's license the first time. That was it.
Besides if you have ever gotten you ID stolen you know how easy is was for someone else to get your SSN. And how much of a bitch it is to get it cleared up.
A hell of a lot of kids had kids not for lack of information or birth control but for other stupid reasons. Including but not limited to:
Passed out drunk, awoke to boyfriend pulling her pants up. He wanted to be her first. Taking part in an orgy cause it is fun and what could happen. "I'll pull out. I promise" boyfriends "The first time you cannot get pregnant"
I know 6 girls who had kids when they were teens. None are fundy types. All got pregnant on their first time. Three were not even awake (they were passed out drunk) when it happened. One doesn't know to this day who the father is (she was the orgy one).
Other factors come into play. Fitting in or any other way you call peer pressure. Even though a 15 year old is not a peer of a 24+ year old. (again the orgy girl). Not every girl goes on the pill if she is not having sex. Plus many see the pill as a free pass to have condom free sex. I am not saying not to have sex. Everyone should know what their choices are. Kids should be educated on what those choices are. And store owners should not stop a 15 year old from buying condoms. It happens in a lot of places. Try being the one to break it to your neighbor's that their kid asked you to get them condoms. That is a conservation that is not easy one to have. I usually hand the condoms to the parents and let them know their kids was asking for them. They might want to have a talk with them.
Who says we use dirt? You know that lettuce you see in the supermarket? It was most likely grown on water no dirt needed. If I remember that science channel show correctly, they are looking into other crops as well. Lettuce was easy and it worked for commercial purposes.
Since OSX is on Intel, OSX is on PC architecture. OSX runs fine on the netbook I have. I am not going to break any speed records, but the same can be said of any of the operating systems that I have tried on this machine. Is it unstable? The only issue I have is maybe 1 out of 200 boots I need to hold the power button down to force a restart. I do not use sleep too much so I am not losing anything. Yes the netbook goes to sleep (close the lid) just fine. When I am done, I shut down. Having to reboot once in a while on start is not big deal.
I have the image saved and have applied it to 4 other netbooks. And before anyone freaks out I did but a copy of OSX and so did the owners of the other netbooks that OSX is running on. I did not charge, no profit was made. There is a legit copy of OSX on hand in case the Apple license police show up. What is harm to Apple? All I have done is prove that OSX can run on other hardware, it works well. And buying the netbook plus buying OSX is cheaper then Apple's lowest priced laptop. That might be Apple's issue. For $400-$500 one can get a functional OSX small laptop (netbook).
How could putting someone to death (that is assuming that the person is put to death within a year) cost less then keeping them in jail for the rest of their lives?
One year jail time+method of execution has to cost less the care and feeding of said person for the rest of their lives.
If you have the death penalty, use it. If the criminals know, that if they do something that society can and will kill them for it, we might have less crime. The biggest issue is the criminals know that they have years (if not decades) on death row before their day come up. In the mean time they can take law classes to figure out ways to keep their date of execution from arriving. I am sorry but if you are on death row (or have life in prison) you should not be allowed to take classes at all. You did a crime, you lost your rights, you should just sit there with nothing and think about your crime.
I'd say he should be the one to power computers. Make him be the one on the bicycle powering the prison computers. He he stops or goes too slow, let the other prisoners deal with him. I wonder how long he could keep on peddling.
Which begs the question, are the labor laws (or maybe we should say unions) that screwed up in the US that is it cheaper to ship the parts to another country, assemble a bug ass product, and ship it back?
Maybe that is something the Federal government should be looking into? Wait most of the federal government people are paid by the unions and others to look the other way. Where is my pitchfork at....
Fun or many people screaming "My eyes! My eyes! I have been blinded!"
Personally if this make that scanner wall from total recall a reality I would be for it. But only if they can prove that we are not harming out DNA in the process.
About 5-6 times a year I see someone broke down on the side of the road with a wheel missing from their car. The wheel actually broke off the car. I would call that a mechanical failure. Sometimes the car is new and sometimes it is old. If it was only older cars one could chalk it up to wear and tear or old age. But a 4 month old car? These were not all driven by kids who were racing. The 4 month old car was driven by a retired couple.
Sorry to burst your bubble but if the catch is eatable or sell able, it is sold. If it is the targeted catch or by catch makes no difference. Hell many oyster boats catch flounder (fluke or summer flounder) a lot. Many even keep a barrel of oysters on the boat while they catch tons of flounder. Yes I do mean actual tons of flounder. The barrel is there so if someone stops them they can say they are catching oysters, here are the oyster permits. Even though they are fishing for oysters where no oyster has been caught in over 50 years. The flounder is a by-catch. The flounder is selling for 2-3 times the price of the oysters. They return to shore to sell the flounder and go out with the same barrel of oysters to catch more flounder. In reality, the commercial boats are targeting flounder and trying to cover their ass with the barrel of oysters. I know this because we have often stopped by the commercial boats on the way out and picked up four to five 5 gallon buckets of oysters (for free) to use as bait. You did not want to eat these oysters, there had gone bad. Good for bait, but you would not want to eat them.
They should have used a touch screen in the netbook. There are touch screen netbooks out there (dell latitude 2100 for one. There are touch screen replacement screens for other models if you wanted to hard hack a touch screen in). Acer should have just made a model with the touch screen as the display for the android netbook.
But if microsoft was the one submitting the patent all of slashdot (the EU and a lot of other people and companies) would be rushing to court to sue microsoft and block this patent.
The submitter of the patent should not matter. This is a bad patent and should be turned down. Also there has been prior art for a long time now. One could argue that displaying the logo of your company/distribution, setting the homepage to be your company's/distribution's website, and having other features of your company/distribution pop up are advertising your company/distribution. So Jobs is trying to patent something that has been going on for at least 10 years if not longer.
The curb broke the tore off the car, fine. Get the car to 80+ MPH and turn the wheel all the way to the left (or right) and see what happens.
Do not do that unless you are on a close course and help is on hand. Any car can flip if given enough speed. Some with weaker parts will break, and maybe not flip. I would still say that most cars/truck can flip. And usually a hill is involved with rolling of most cars and SUVs. The movement plus downward angle enables the rolling of the car.
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$130 million to IBM is like me paying for my friend's lunch. It really is not a lot of money to IBM. If the amount was $10-20 billion, that would be more tempting. Also doesn't IBM sell AMD based servers? Yes they do here:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/hardware/browse/amdpro/index.html
Last I checked, microsoft office was not part of windows. One is supposed to pay in order to get it. A trial may be installed on your new computer but it is not a full version, and many people get a computer with a windows OS without office.
Split microsoft like Bell was split? Good idea. Have an OS division (or company), office should be it's own division. A software developer division, does msSQL deserve it's own division? I am not sure if that should be part of the developer application one. Just like Bell was broken up into the baby bells. Which in turn all joined up years later to form what we now call Verizon. Maybe a few baby bells are not part of Verizon yet, but a lot are. Even if microsoft was split up into 5-6+ separate companies. They would all still feed from the same source and profits would go to the same place. Unless microsoft was forced to separate the balance sheets for each division and all divisions had to live (or die) on their own, splitting up microsoft does not do any good. So we get a new company name and new boxes for software. The same people are still calling all the shots.
The rest of your rant about taxes has nothing to do with the anti trust case. You might want to look at who worked for microsoft before and during the anti trust case. Then go after those people. Employees who were hired after that case were not involved and they should not be punished for other people's screw ups. They may have to fix the screw ups, but those newer people should not be punished for it.
A lot of people do not like microsoft, but not all of the people who work there should be punished for it.
I have seen quite a few newer homes where a GFI was installed in the bedroom. This was not just in homes build near the water either. I am not sure why this is the case. My sister's house the whole house is on GFIs. It was a pre-fab. Maybe that is code for that type of home?
Brittish: hate it. It's enormous, makes it impractical to fork one outlet into many.
Maybe that is the point? To not overload the circuit?
Wouldn't perfect DNA be DNA that would always pass it's trait on over other DNA? Or DNA that is dominate over all other DNA?
Genes have that to an extent. Brown eye color gene will override blue eye color gene. Darker skin tones override lighter ones. There are many others. Aren't genes what make up DNA? So if an individual is made up of all dominate trait genes, could it be said that the person has 'perfect DNA' then? After all their traits would dominate in their offspring. The same cannot be said of their grandchildren however I know.
I was going to point out the same thing. Obama got a lot of electoral votes. He did not have a landslide in the popular vote. Even in some states if you look at that state on a county by county basis (Ohio, Maryland, and Florida for example) those states went for Obama, but he had a minority of counties go his way. But the counties that Obama got were where the cities were. Win the cities == win that state seems to be the way to get those electoral votes.
Unless the attractive woman has daddy issues.
You explained the porn industry. Bravo!
And most people with an SSN also have a driver's license attached to that SSN - thus providing easy photo verification of ownership of said SSN.
No. My SSN is not now or has even been on my driver's license. And I have had a driver's license for over 20 years in 5 states. I needed my SSN to get the driver's license the first time. That was it.
Besides if you have ever gotten you ID stolen you know how easy is was for someone else to get your SSN. And how much of a bitch it is to get it cleared up.
A hell of a lot of kids had kids not for lack of information or birth control but for other stupid reasons. Including but not limited to:
Passed out drunk, awoke to boyfriend pulling her pants up. He wanted to be her first.
Taking part in an orgy cause it is fun and what could happen.
"I'll pull out. I promise" boyfriends
"The first time you cannot get pregnant"
I know 6 girls who had kids when they were teens. None are fundy types. All got pregnant on their first time. Three were not even awake (they were passed out drunk) when it happened. One doesn't know to this day who the father is (she was the orgy one).
Other factors come into play. Fitting in or any other way you call peer pressure. Even though a 15 year old is not a peer of a 24+ year old. (again the orgy girl). Not every girl goes on the pill if she is not having sex. Plus many see the pill as a free pass to have condom free sex. I am not saying not to have sex. Everyone should know what their choices are. Kids should be educated on what those choices are. And store owners should not stop a 15 year old from buying condoms. It happens in a lot of places. Try being the one to break it to your neighbor's that their kid asked you to get them condoms. That is a conservation that is not easy one to have. I usually hand the condoms to the parents and let them know their kids was asking for them. They might want to have a talk with them.
Who says we use dirt? You know that lettuce you see in the supermarket? It was most likely grown on water no dirt needed. If I remember that science channel show correctly, they are looking into other crops as well. Lettuce was easy and it worked for commercial purposes.
+1 funny. Most of Slashdot readers are too young to remember Airplane!
Since OSX is on Intel, OSX is on PC architecture. OSX runs fine on the netbook I have. I am not going to break any speed records, but the same can be said of any of the operating systems that I have tried on this machine. Is it unstable? The only issue I have is maybe 1 out of 200 boots I need to hold the power button down to force a restart. I do not use sleep too much so I am not losing anything. Yes the netbook goes to sleep (close the lid) just fine. When I am done, I shut down. Having to reboot once in a while on start is not big deal.
I have the image saved and have applied it to 4 other netbooks. And before anyone freaks out I did but a copy of OSX and so did the owners of the other netbooks that OSX is running on. I did not charge, no profit was made. There is a legit copy of OSX on hand in case the Apple license police show up. What is harm to Apple? All I have done is prove that OSX can run on other hardware, it works well. And buying the netbook plus buying OSX is cheaper then Apple's lowest priced laptop. That might be Apple's issue. For $400-$500 one can get a functional OSX small laptop (netbook).
How could putting someone to death (that is assuming that the person is put to death within a year) cost less then keeping them in jail for the rest of their lives?
One year jail time+method of execution has to cost less the care and feeding of said person for the rest of their lives.
If you have the death penalty, use it. If the criminals know, that if they do something that society can and will kill them for it, we might have less crime. The biggest issue is the criminals know that they have years (if not decades) on death row before their day come up. In the mean time they can take law classes to figure out ways to keep their date of execution from arriving. I am sorry but if you are on death row (or have life in prison) you should not be allowed to take classes at all. You did a crime, you lost your rights, you should just sit there with nothing and think about your crime.
I'd say he should be the one to power computers. Make him be the one on the bicycle powering the prison computers. He he stops or goes too slow, let the other prisoners deal with him. I wonder how long he could keep on peddling.
Which begs the question, are the labor laws (or maybe we should say unions) that screwed up in the US that is it cheaper to ship the parts to another country, assemble a bug ass product, and ship it back?
Maybe that is something the Federal government should be looking into? Wait most of the federal government people are paid by the unions and others to look the other way. Where is my pitchfork at....
Fun or many people screaming "My eyes! My eyes! I have been blinded!"
Personally if this make that scanner wall from total recall a reality I would be for it. But only if they can prove that we are not harming out DNA in the process.
About 5-6 times a year I see someone broke down on the side of the road with a wheel missing from their car. The wheel actually broke off the car. I would call that a mechanical failure. Sometimes the car is new and sometimes it is old. If it was only older cars one could chalk it up to wear and tear or old age. But a 4 month old car? These were not all driven by kids who were racing. The 4 month old car was driven by a retired couple.
Sorry to burst your bubble but if the catch is eatable or sell able, it is sold. If it is the targeted catch or by catch makes no difference. Hell many oyster boats catch flounder (fluke or summer flounder) a lot. Many even keep a barrel of oysters on the boat while they catch tons of flounder. Yes I do mean actual tons of flounder. The barrel is there so if someone stops them they can say they are catching oysters, here are the oyster permits. Even though they are fishing for oysters where no oyster has been caught in over 50 years. The flounder is a by-catch. The flounder is selling for 2-3 times the price of the oysters. They return to shore to sell the flounder and go out with the same barrel of oysters to catch more flounder. In reality, the commercial boats are targeting flounder and trying to cover their ass with the barrel of oysters. I know this because we have often stopped by the commercial boats on the way out and picked up four to five 5 gallon buckets of oysters (for free) to use as bait. You did not want to eat these oysters, there had gone bad. Good for bait, but you would not want to eat them.
They should have used a touch screen in the netbook. There are touch screen netbooks out there (dell latitude 2100 for one. There are touch screen replacement screens for other models if you wanted to hard hack a touch screen in). Acer should have just made a model with the touch screen as the display for the android netbook.
Will this patent stop TV shows from having ads? It is being displayed through the 'OS'.
Apple makes toasters, coffee machines, microwaves, ovens, radios, etc. I should get looking for the iCoffee, iTv*, iMicrowave, iOven, iRadio, etc.
*iTv looks to be a service in the UK.
But if microsoft was the one submitting the patent all of slashdot (the EU and a lot of other people and companies) would be rushing to court to sue microsoft and block this patent.
The submitter of the patent should not matter. This is a bad patent and should be turned down. Also there has been prior art for a long time now. One could argue that displaying the logo of your company/distribution, setting the homepage to be your company's/distribution's website, and having other features of your company/distribution pop up are advertising your company/distribution. So Jobs is trying to patent something that has been going on for at least 10 years if not longer.
The movie is called Total Recall. Johnny cab was not a hologram. Android, more like the top half of an android. He did not have legs.
The curb broke the tore off the car, fine. Get the car to 80+ MPH and turn the wheel all the way to the left (or right) and see what happens.
Do not do that unless you are on a close course and help is on hand. Any car can flip if given enough speed. Some with weaker parts will break, and maybe not flip. I would still say that most cars/truck can flip. And usually a hill is involved with rolling of most cars and SUVs. The movement plus downward angle enables the rolling of the car.
China is just checking to see where all it it's money is going.