I just finished the cassowary version and now I'm working on the dingo version. Yes we use those terms in meetings, with bosses, and it gets a good chuckle. It's far more entertaining than version numbers.
+1
Code names provide more human friendly reference to a project or product with different versions or iterations.
Version numbers computationally convenient, but a bugger for humans to associate with other things. So in general conversation about Android I tend to use its code name (Froyo, Cupcake, Ice Cream Sandwich) because its easier for humans to associate the code name to it's feature set or current installed version then it is to associate "2.2".
CItations regarding oil economics are usually invalid, because the oil companies live in an alternate universe where supply and demand are mirages. It's not capitalism, it's poker.
There are more than three players in the HD market; this is my point--> an artificial shortage to drive prices up in a razor-thin-margin industry is common practice; it happens with memory chips frequently, tho less so than before (lots of litigation has helped). In this case, market manipulation may not be in the offing, as subsequent investigations reveal more details. It's a sad situation there. Ugly, in fact.
As I said before,
I dont see any connection between hard drives and oil economics, I dont disagree with your definition of it, but oil economics does not apply to the tech market.
Prices in tech go up and down all the time according to supply and demand. If the supply of hard drives decreases then prices go up, but when the supply increases again, prices go down.
But go ahead. Say I don't have a clue, just because I am not rushing to join the "there ought to be a law!" crowd.
This is the reason you dont have a clue.
You didn't read my post and just substituted it with whatever you needed to in order to paint me as an alarmist.
What I said was, there is good reason we ban phone use and not radio use.
Also, not all phones require 2 hands. Not all of them even require looking. Some people, on some phones, are able to type completely blind while keeping their eyes on the road.
This is also why you dont have a clue.
A lot of people think they can drive and text, in reality they can't. Please see Dunning-Kruger for an explanation.
It is impossible for a person to use a phone and concentrate on the road because a person only has one set of eyes and one brain. In order to do both activities at once these functions need to be time shared and doing that whilst driving is an incredibly dangerous thing to do.
But go ahead, twist whatever I have said because it doesn't fit in with your view, It wont change the fact that using a phone whilst driving is incredibly dangerous.
Further more, I've passed defensive driving which is required to hold an MVDIL (Motor Vehicle Driver Instructors License), meaning I teach others how to drive safely, so I know a bit more about this then the average A to B commuter.
, there was a lot of pornography tourism (not really sex tourism, they only came for the "dirty" magazines and films, getting hookers or hook up with someone for casual sex
Pretty certain these two items fall under the category of "sex tourism".
But I doubt it. Blocking porn on the internet is like trying to hold back the tide with a rusty sieve. China, UAE and all others have failed miserably because it's always reactive blocking (find a porn site, block it) and whilst it's reactive rather then pro-active you'll always be behind.
This wont be a boon for the sex tourism industry in other nations, with the state of the UK economy Thai girls asking 1000 Baht short time and Filipinas asking 1500 Peso long time may be a bit beyond the average brit's budget.
It's just a visible example of a company not in the oil biz that raised its price based on commodity price increase claims that were mostly bogus.
I understand this,
but I cant see how it applies to the tech market. Even with only about 3 players in the HDD market it's still competitive enough that they cannot support to maintain artificially inflated prices.
I can believe this. I visited Abu Dhabi (UAE) in 2008. Worst drivers ever. Aggressive.
I've visited about 60 different countries and all 7 continents, so I have a few examples to compare it with.
Dubai is worse, not only do you get the kind of drivers that the GP mentioned, you also get bad drivers from all over the world who dont have to sit decent driving tests. You've got people following the road rules from a dozen different nations and then you've got those that just make them up as they go along.
Also if you see a white Merc SUV with the number plate "1", get the fuck out of the way, that's the Sheik Moh.
As a 35yr vetran of the road, my advice is that if your mobile rings while your driving either pull over or (heaven forbid) ignore it.
Agreed.
Calls go to voicemail, I can check that when I've parked.
I fully support fines for using your phone (yep, that is a traffic violation in Oz, in my state it's 3 demerit points and $250). Same with speeding fines, seeing as I dont speed or use my phone in the car I'm happy that these people are paying the state govt so I dont have to pay state govt taxes.
In fact the only thing you're not missing is a strawman.
In order to change the song on my CD/MP3 player it takes one hand off the wheel for all of 3 seconds and because I know where the buttons are it takes 0 eyes off the road. If I write a text on my mobile I take 2 hands off the wheel, 2 eyes off the road and 1 mind off the job. This is why I dont text, hell, I wont even bugger around with my radio when I'm on the freeway.
Also, I've lost count the number of times I've almost been side-swiped by some dingbat in a beat up old Excel talking on the phone. It's a good thing I was not on the phone and distracted like these utter tossers as that would have resulted 4 accidents in the last 3 months for me. The only reason wankers on phones dont have more accidents is because of other drivers who have a clue performing emergency manoeuvres to avoid them.
What's more, Apple's never tried to submarine their patents into some global telecommunications standard
No, they submarined in design patents over basic shapes.
Remember that Apple sued first, they did not sue for license fees, they sued to stop a competitor from releasing a superior product that would take sales from their product. Samsung does not sue to stop competitors to stop them, Samsung prefer to negotiate license fees. Samsung is suing in retaliation to Apple's unethical efforts.
Stop pretending that Apple is innocent and Samsung is guilty here, it's the other way around.
that's perfectly OK because they're sticking it to Apple!
Oh noes,
Someone stop people doing to Apple what Apple does to other people. Turnabout is fair play. Would Samsung be suing Apple if Apple didn't sue Samsung first? (the answer is NO).
Apple bought this on themselves, now they are crying foul. Well you made your bed, good luck getting any sleep in it.
Exactly. It's clear that this summary was written either by a Samsung shill
It's clear the parent post was written by a fanboy with a very tenuous connection to reality.
If you dont like facts, it's easier just to attack ad hominem.
I can't wait to hear who decided to put the largest HD assembly operation in a flood plain where Asian Monsoons routinely flood out large areas every year.
It is not like this is unexpected.
Restart the plant and...it happens next year or the year thereafter.
Actually its not a flood plain. The river system the Chao Phraya river is connected to runs from Laos and Myanmar to the gulf south of Bangkok and this is the worst rain Thailand has seen in decades, over 300 Thais have been killed in the floods which started in July (it's not October).
It's like blaming the city planners that New Orleans was not hurricane proof.
If it takes this long to bring production back up to schedule after a couple weeks delay, I'd say we're looking at a marketplace price manipulation with a convenient excuse of flooding in Thailand.
The commodity markets use weather as an excuse to try to boink up prices all of the time. Hey Starbucks-- coffee is down 23%-- are you going to drop your recent price hike? Oh, I thought not.
Here's the thing though, tech components go up and down all the time. About 12 months ago, the purchase price of DVD writers shot up by A$20 to A$50 (a 66% increase), now it's easy to find one for A$30. As supply contracts, prices go up and people stop buying HDD's. When supply beings to grow again, manufacturers will be forced to lower prices to get rid of stock.
BTW, using Starbucks as an example of good economics or even semi-drinkable coffee is pants on head retarded. Places like Starbucks and McD's have their price points set nationally. Try going to a local cafe where they serve real coffee.
In Australia - the only time this is relevant is in the senate and only if you take the option of voting above the line(which admittedly most people do).
And your member.
The House of Reps uses full preferential voting, AKA Instant run-off voting. If no single candidate has enough votes (50.1%) then they start counting second preference. This has certainly been the case in WA for the last 10 years (before that I wasn't old enough to vote).
The Above the line and below the line thing are two different voting systems. Below the line is based on your preference, Above the line is based on the candidates preferences. But of course you already knew this.:)
The gist of them seem to be that Microsoft is copying Apple so they have the same look but unlike the Apple store the MS stores aren't a good value because they don't carry as much stock and can't compete on price with other shops carrying Windows based computers.
So they're pretty much like Apple stores where they dont carry much stock and cant compete on price with other Windows based computers.
On a side note, I support the "F*ck off we're full" crowd and propose, if we are so full we should support mandatory castration, starting with the F*ck off we're full crowd.
I've started my bit with a sticker that reads:-
"F*ck off, we're full
(of racist immigrants from 200 years ago)"
but I'm not sure the target audience can understand three-syllable words...
I was thinking along the lines of
"When I say 'F*ck off, we're full' I really mean 'F*ck off, I'm racist'"
And attaching them to the bumpers of people who have F*ck off, we're full stickers.
I think Nazi Germany is a good example of a country which managed to keep the status quo for a long, long time..
Germany in the 1920's was a nation in turmoil. Unable to pay it's war debts, hyper-inflation was rampant, unemployment was high, "5 marks for a loaf of bread" and so forth. The people were afraid, they were desperate, The Nazi's took advantage of that, they gave the people hope by giving them someone to blame... the Bolsheviks.
Violence against communists and even suspected communists escalated, the German police unable to stop or contain it, even to the point of abiding violent acts against communists and suspected communist. Nazi power was secured in the minds of the people by giving them an enemy to fear, so much so not even a stint in jail could diminish their popularity. In the 1930's they became a force in the reichstag, taking every opportunity to pervert democracy until a new position was created that superseded the Chancellor. After this, it was a simple matter intimidate voters then after the election declare all other political parties illegal. Above all else, Hitler made sure the German people never lost sight of who is to blame for their woes, when they ran out of Communist, they blamed the trade unionists, after they ran out of trade unionists, they started on the Jews. Fortunately they never ran out of Jews.
The Nazi's provided the German people with hate, fear and nationalism in a time where Germany needed hope and jobs. If there is a lesson to all of this, even in dire times, dont vote in a tyrant, no matter what they offer, no matter how tempting their deal as they will always do more harm then good.
The problem with the Tea Party is it was coopted by people like Bachman, Palin and DeMint largely with the help of the main stream media and Republican establishment who wanted to gut the Tea Party's populist economic message and defend the status quo. They did a really great job at it too.
Wasn't the Tea Party just somewhere for disaffected Republicans in the first place anyway?
I've always called it the "I cant beleive it's not the Republican" party.
It seems like a good ploy to prevent a disaffected voter base from going to the opposition.
1. Voters become disaffected due to policy of ruling by fiat.
2. Disaffected voters have too much cognitive dissonance to outright join the opposition.
3. Create smaller party with wide eyed ideals.
4. Wait for disaffected voters to sign up.
5. Use preferential voting system to make smaller party's vote count towards major party.
6. Profit (continue ruling by fiat).
Seen this happen in Australia. Conservatives unhappy with the Liberal party (big L, they're conservatives) vote National, but the National party is a member of the Coalition with the Liberal party. In other words, the Liberals own the Nationals. So Disaffected Voter A votes National to stick it to the Liberals. Liberals get his vote via preferential voting, Disaffected Voter ignorant of preferential voting believes his plan has worked but remains disaffected.
Will they actually use a redact feature in their document editor, or do black font on black background (or just draw a black rectangle object over the text)?
Nope, a public servant used black paint on his monitor.
TOPPLE YOUR CRAPPY GOVERNMENT.
Before it comes to Canada. Historically they push through all the fascist draconian policies there in Aus first as a test run before deployment in the rest of the commonwealth.
Uh, no they dont. Remember that Canada has the "piracy tax" whilst Oz doesn't.
Secondly, you'll find the source of both our law problems at the moment is external to the commonwealth, you know who they are and do you think they'll stop with us.
While our government needs a serious clip 'round the ears to bring them back into reality (and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy given an sulphuric acid enema), the opposition party are the right-wing Liberals - the kind that pander to the xenophobic "F--- Off, We're Full!" brigade. (Seriously 2000 asylum seekers a year and we panic? Don't tell Pakistan or Egypt!)
If we went to a military war because our Liberal Prime Minister of the time was hanging on every word of George Bush, do you think copyright escalation wars are going to make them bat an eyelid?
We're screwed either way, but at least with a somewhat minority government, anything's possible.
And the constipated angry right wingers constantly fail to understand why the Greens are so popular. As well as being the only party that wants to know about you if you're under 30 and have no kids, they are also the only party that cares about freedom.
On a side note, I support the "F*ck off we're full" crowd and propose, if we are so full we should support mandatory castration, starting with the F*ck off we're full crowd.
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wow you're boring.
I just finished the cassowary version and now I'm working on the dingo version. Yes we use those terms in meetings, with bosses, and it gets a good chuckle. It's far more entertaining than version numbers.
+1
Code names provide more human friendly reference to a project or product with different versions or iterations.
Version numbers computationally convenient, but a bugger for humans to associate with other things. So in general conversation about Android I tend to use its code name (Froyo, Cupcake, Ice Cream Sandwich) because its easier for humans to associate the code name to it's feature set or current installed version then it is to associate "2.2".
Anyone who made comments about VCRs being hard to program was a moron.
Silence
That myth made me a small fortune as a kid programming the clocks on other peoples VCR's.
CItations regarding oil economics are usually invalid, because the oil companies live in an alternate universe where supply and demand are mirages. It's not capitalism, it's poker.
There are more than three players in the HD market; this is my point--> an artificial shortage to drive prices up in a razor-thin-margin industry is common practice; it happens with memory chips frequently, tho less so than before (lots of litigation has helped). In this case, market manipulation may not be in the offing, as subsequent investigations reveal more details. It's a sad situation there. Ugly, in fact.
As I said before,
I dont see any connection between hard drives and oil economics, I dont disagree with your definition of it, but oil economics does not apply to the tech market.
Prices in tech go up and down all the time according to supply and demand. If the supply of hard drives decreases then prices go up, but when the supply increases again, prices go down.
This is the reason you dont have a clue. You didn't read my post and just substituted it with whatever you needed to in order to paint me as an alarmist. What I said was, there is good reason we ban phone use and not radio use.
This is also why you dont have a clue.
A lot of people think they can drive and text, in reality they can't. Please see Dunning-Kruger for an explanation.
It is impossible for a person to use a phone and concentrate on the road because a person only has one set of eyes and one brain. In order to do both activities at once these functions need to be time shared and doing that whilst driving is an incredibly dangerous thing to do.
But go ahead, twist whatever I have said because it doesn't fit in with your view, It wont change the fact that using a phone whilst driving is incredibly dangerous.
Further more, I've passed defensive driving which is required to hold an MVDIL (Motor Vehicle Driver Instructors License), meaning I teach others how to drive safely, so I know a bit more about this then the average A to B commuter.
Perhaps even cars.
"Siri, set a course for the Walmart on 13th Ave."
*Course laid in and set.*
"Engage!"
"Now approaching Baghdad, please alight with hands behind head and line up against the wall"
"This is your final destination"
Pretty certain these two items fall under the category of "sex tourism".
But I doubt it. Blocking porn on the internet is like trying to hold back the tide with a rusty sieve. China, UAE and all others have failed miserably because it's always reactive blocking (find a porn site, block it) and whilst it's reactive rather then pro-active you'll always be behind.
This wont be a boon for the sex tourism industry in other nations, with the state of the UK economy Thai girls asking 1000 Baht short time and Filipinas asking 1500 Peso long time may be a bit beyond the average brit's budget.
I understand this,
but I cant see how it applies to the tech market. Even with only about 3 players in the HDD market it's still competitive enough that they cannot support to maintain artificially inflated prices.
I can believe this. I visited Abu Dhabi (UAE) in 2008. Worst drivers ever. Aggressive.
I've visited about 60 different countries and all 7 continents, so I have a few examples to compare it with.
Dubai is worse, not only do you get the kind of drivers that the GP mentioned, you also get bad drivers from all over the world who dont have to sit decent driving tests. You've got people following the road rules from a dozen different nations and then you've got those that just make them up as they go along.
Also if you see a white Merc SUV with the number plate "1", get the fuck out of the way, that's the Sheik Moh.
As a 35yr vetran of the road, my advice is that if your mobile rings while your driving either pull over or (heaven forbid) ignore it.
Agreed.
Calls go to voicemail, I can check that when I've parked.
I fully support fines for using your phone (yep, that is a traffic violation in Oz, in my state it's 3 demerit points and $250). Same with speeding fines, seeing as I dont speed or use my phone in the car I'm happy that these people are paying the state govt so I dont have to pay state govt taxes.
A clue.
In fact the only thing you're not missing is a strawman.
In order to change the song on my CD/MP3 player it takes one hand off the wheel for all of 3 seconds and because I know where the buttons are it takes 0 eyes off the road. If I write a text on my mobile I take 2 hands off the wheel, 2 eyes off the road and 1 mind off the job. This is why I dont text, hell, I wont even bugger around with my radio when I'm on the freeway.
Also, I've lost count the number of times I've almost been side-swiped by some dingbat in a beat up old Excel talking on the phone. It's a good thing I was not on the phone and distracted like these utter tossers as that would have resulted 4 accidents in the last 3 months for me. The only reason wankers on phones dont have more accidents is because of other drivers who have a clue performing emergency manoeuvres to avoid them.
No, they submarined in design patents over basic shapes.
Remember that Apple sued first, they did not sue for license fees, they sued to stop a competitor from releasing a superior product that would take sales from their product. Samsung does not sue to stop competitors to stop them, Samsung prefer to negotiate license fees. Samsung is suing in retaliation to Apple's unethical efforts.
Stop pretending that Apple is innocent and Samsung is guilty here, it's the other way around.
Oh noes,
Someone stop people doing to Apple what Apple does to other people. Turnabout is fair play. Would Samsung be suing Apple if Apple didn't sue Samsung first? (the answer is NO).
Apple bought this on themselves, now they are crying foul. Well you made your bed, good luck getting any sleep in it.
It's clear the parent post was written by a fanboy with a very tenuous connection to reality.
If you dont like facts, it's easier just to attack ad hominem.
Giant planning failure!
I can't wait to hear who decided to put the largest HD assembly operation in a flood plain where Asian Monsoons routinely flood out large areas every year.
It is not like this is unexpected.
Restart the plant and...it happens next year or the year thereafter.
Actually its not a flood plain. The river system the Chao Phraya river is connected to runs from Laos and Myanmar to the gulf south of Bangkok and this is the worst rain Thailand has seen in decades, over 300 Thais have been killed in the floods which started in July (it's not October).
It's like blaming the city planners that New Orleans was not hurricane proof.
Put simply, this does not happen once a year.
If it takes this long to bring production back up to schedule after a couple weeks delay, I'd say we're looking at a marketplace price manipulation with a convenient excuse of flooding in Thailand.
The commodity markets use weather as an excuse to try to boink up prices all of the time. Hey Starbucks-- coffee is down 23%-- are you going to drop your recent price hike? Oh, I thought not.
Here's the thing though, tech components go up and down all the time. About 12 months ago, the purchase price of DVD writers shot up by A$20 to A$50 (a 66% increase), now it's easy to find one for A$30. As supply contracts, prices go up and people stop buying HDD's. When supply beings to grow again, manufacturers will be forced to lower prices to get rid of stock.
BTW, using Starbucks as an example of good economics or even semi-drinkable coffee is pants on head retarded. Places like Starbucks and McD's have their price points set nationally. Try going to a local cafe where they serve real coffee.
And your member.
:)
The House of Reps uses full preferential voting, AKA Instant run-off voting. If no single candidate has enough votes (50.1%) then they start counting second preference. This has certainly been the case in WA for the last 10 years (before that I wasn't old enough to vote).
Oblig Wiki link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Australia#Counting_votes_in_elections_for_the_House_of_Representatives
The Above the line and below the line thing are two different voting systems. Below the line is based on your preference, Above the line is based on the candidates preferences. But of course you already knew this.
So they're pretty much like Apple stores where they dont carry much stock and cant compete on price with other Windows based computers.
On a side note, I support the "F*ck off we're full" crowd and propose, if we are so full we should support mandatory castration, starting with the F*ck off we're full crowd.
I've started my bit with a sticker that reads:-
"F*ck off, we're full
(of racist immigrants from 200 years ago)"
but I'm not sure the target audience can understand three-syllable words...
I was thinking along the lines of
"When I say
'F*ck off, we're full'
I really mean
'F*ck off, I'm racist'"
And attaching them to the bumpers of people who have F*ck off, we're full stickers.
I think Nazi Germany is a good example of a country which managed to keep the status quo for a long, long time..
Germany in the 1920's was a nation in turmoil. Unable to pay it's war debts, hyper-inflation was rampant, unemployment was high, "5 marks for a loaf of bread" and so forth. The people were afraid, they were desperate, The Nazi's took advantage of that, they gave the people hope by giving them someone to blame... the Bolsheviks.
Violence against communists and even suspected communists escalated, the German police unable to stop or contain it, even to the point of abiding violent acts against communists and suspected communist. Nazi power was secured in the minds of the people by giving them an enemy to fear, so much so not even a stint in jail could diminish their popularity. In the 1930's they became a force in the reichstag, taking every opportunity to pervert democracy until a new position was created that superseded the Chancellor. After this, it was a simple matter intimidate voters then after the election declare all other political parties illegal. Above all else, Hitler made sure the German people never lost sight of who is to blame for their woes, when they ran out of Communist, they blamed the trade unionists, after they ran out of trade unionists, they started on the Jews. Fortunately they never ran out of Jews.
The Nazi's provided the German people with hate, fear and nationalism in a time where Germany needed hope and jobs. If there is a lesson to all of this, even in dire times, dont vote in a tyrant, no matter what they offer, no matter how tempting their deal as they will always do more harm then good.
The problem with the Tea Party is it was coopted by people like Bachman, Palin and DeMint largely with the help of the main stream media and Republican establishment who wanted to gut the Tea Party's populist economic message and defend the status quo. They did a really great job at it too.
Wasn't the Tea Party just somewhere for disaffected Republicans in the first place anyway?
I've always called it the "I cant beleive it's not the Republican" party.
It seems like a good ploy to prevent a disaffected voter base from going to the opposition.
1. Voters become disaffected due to policy of ruling by fiat.
2. Disaffected voters have too much cognitive dissonance to outright join the opposition.
3. Create smaller party with wide eyed ideals.
4. Wait for disaffected voters to sign up.
5. Use preferential voting system to make smaller party's vote count towards major party.
6. Profit (continue ruling by fiat).
Seen this happen in Australia. Conservatives unhappy with the Liberal party (big L, they're conservatives) vote National, but the National party is a member of the Coalition with the Liberal party. In other words, the Liberals own the Nationals. So Disaffected Voter A votes National to stick it to the Liberals. Liberals get his vote via preferential voting, Disaffected Voter ignorant of preferential voting believes his plan has worked but remains disaffected.
Will they actually use a redact feature in their document editor, or do black font on black background (or just draw a black rectangle object over the text)?
Nope, a public servant used black paint on his monitor.
TOPPLE YOUR CRAPPY GOVERNMENT. Before it comes to Canada. Historically they push through all the fascist draconian policies there in Aus first as a test run before deployment in the rest of the commonwealth.
Uh, no they dont. Remember that Canada has the "piracy tax" whilst Oz doesn't.
Secondly, you'll find the source of both our law problems at the moment is external to the commonwealth, you know who they are and do you think they'll stop with us.
Oh FSM no...
While our government needs a serious clip 'round the ears to bring them back into reality (and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy given an sulphuric acid enema), the opposition party are the right-wing Liberals - the kind that pander to the xenophobic "F--- Off, We're Full!" brigade. (Seriously 2000 asylum seekers a year and we panic? Don't tell Pakistan or Egypt!)
If we went to a military war because our Liberal Prime Minister of the time was hanging on every word of George Bush, do you think copyright escalation wars are going to make them bat an eyelid?
We're screwed either way, but at least with a somewhat minority government, anything's possible.
And the constipated angry right wingers constantly fail to understand why the Greens are so popular. As well as being the only party that wants to know about you if you're under 30 and have no kids, they are also the only party that cares about freedom.
On a side note, I support the "F*ck off we're full" crowd and propose, if we are so full we should support mandatory castration, starting with the F*ck off we're full crowd.
A true Slashdotter is not permitted to admire Apple due to an incompatabilitiy between the GPL and Apple's "walled garden."
Sorry. Turn in your Mac for a Debian box.
Good idea, wrong thread.
Here is where we're supposed to bash the US Air Force.
Mate, no human is willing to staff their boards.
Little known fact, BHP is run by a Wombat.
Was... rumors have it that now a drop bear is at the helm.
Hoop snakes are running Rio, when will the madness end?
I wonder if he was told he won the Slobobvian Lottery before he was hit.
So there is an entire country for Slobs and the have a lottery?
/. now?
Why is this only being posted on