Or as the Germans would say - "but it already is a sports drink".
Undoing bad moderation.
Sorry, I tried for +1 funny, you got Overrated. I blame/.'s crappy new design (which is less crappy then the old design, but still crappy).
but they have an aversion to saying "no" and end up being vague and confusing.
This is not just true for India, but for most Asian cultures.
I've dealt with Indonesian outsourcing firms and they are always going to say "yes", whether that means "yes I can" or "yes I cant" is an exercise left up to the listener.
For the most part, this attitude comes from the cultural taboo of starting conflict, so Asians will do incredibly complex dances around anything that is potentially going to cause trouble. There are a few notable exceptions (Singaporean/Malay and some filipinos) but for the most part they'll try to avoid conflict (Thais and Chinese are the worst offenders).
If the intolerable hyping and biasing of the Casey Anthony trial in complete disregard of the defendant's right to due process isn't enough...
If you're singling out Fox News for that, you're nuts. Every single news outlet was doing exactly the same thing. It was disgusting.
Just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right.
I'm glad here in Oz I've got the ABC (public broadcaster) and SBS (hybrid public/private broadcaster) who have to maintain standards of impartiality as well as the BBC from the UK.
I'd hate to think what life would be like if the likes of Murdoch and Packer had a news monopoly.
Am I the only one who still has his WRT54G v2 in full service?
Nope, I still have mine (GL variant) in service doing it's original intended job. I've replaced the ADSL modem with a newer Billion model but ended up putting the WRT54G back into service because it was that much more reliable.
The baker still has 13 loaves, and can still sell them. Repeatedly. His anger is now misplaced because he believes his marketplace has diminished by one. In actual fact, the bakers market has now increased as more people know how fresh and tasty the bakers bread is.
TFTFY,
Its the same logic that is behind free samples, by sampling the product you may find you gain customers who would not have bought your product otherwise. This has been proven by multiple piracy studies, piracy increases, not decreases sales.
People, by and large will do the right thing when it comes to buying products. By the same token people will eventually realise that, if your product is not worth what you are asking for it, they will look for a cheaper alternative. So back to the bakers scenario;
Baker charges $25 per loaf. Customers drop off as they think $25 is unreasonable.
In response the baker forces the council to shut down all other bakeries, make home baking illegal and ban bread importing.
People still want bread but find the bakers prices unreasonable. So people resort to "copying" the bakers bread in response to the bakers high prices and artificial monopoly.
The baker then cries millions of dollars in losses due to 1000's of potential customers not eating his stale and reused bread.
In response all plates are installed with FRM (Food Rights Management) which prevents plates from holding pirated bread.
These measures prove unpopular and plates are quickly cracked. The baker forces the council to make this procedure illegal, despite this Greek weddings continue to gain popularity.
The Baker ensures all new plates are sold with HDCP (Human Digestive Content Protection) which can only accept the bakers bread.
Despite all these measures, bread piracy rates increase yet the baker does not seem to be going out of business.
I completely agree that the cost of movies is getting stupid. I watched Transformers 3 last night (it's pretty crap, but the sequence in the city is amazing) and two tickets cost me 18GBP.
9 Pounds a ticket,
Sheer luxury,
That's only A$13.50, in Australia we pay A$18 or 12.13 pounds for a 2D ticket and cinema's are going out of business left right and centre not because of lack of customers but simply because they cant make money at A$18 a ticket with the royalties Hollywood charges. Customers are losing them money sometimes as ticket barely cover royalties let alone operating costs.
No wonder piracy is so high here in Oz, we cant afford to waste A$50 too often (2 tickets + A$2.20 booking fee with 1 drink and popcorn to share).
Smart move because VIA is known for such outstanding quality.
But HTC is known for it's outstanding quality.
So HTC brings their QA and manufacturing processes to the technology they've just purchased from VIA...
That's how acquisitions are meant to work, the seller benefits from a cash injection, the buyer benefits from being able to make a new product and the customer benefits from better products.
Now that the US and Eurozone economies are in shambles, they are going after everyone, the bigger the better. In more prosperous times, this would have been swept under the rug for the price of a nice dinner and a movie ($225,000 according to the MPIAA).
It seems no matter how much you pay corrupt officials, they'll still turn on you at the drop of a hat.
Could you Americans please hang a few of them from streetlights so that the ones in well to do Australia remain scared.
The Maginot Line metaphor is especially invalid as the event the Maginot Line was constructed for did eventuate.
The scenario's the TSA is targeting are not likely to eventuate. Even regular hijackings (hostage taking) are now doomed to failure simply because the passengers will now fight back. Hamas et al. who used to use hostages like this to extort concessions/prisoners out of western nations are now proper fucked as the easiest source of innocent people will no longer be passive.
An internal explosive will not be detonated by the implantee. that would defeat the purpose of trying to hide it. The simple solution is to set up a receiver to detonate the device and an automated transmitter with a limited range, so the receiver detects the heartbeat from the transmitter, when it can no longer receive the heartbeat, boom.
But to take off my geek hat and think sensibly about this, what does someone have to benefit from blowing up an airliner miles away from nowhere and aren't there more cost effective way to cause suffering that can be linked more easily to your terrorist organisation?
Also, not like there is an abundance of doctors who will even be willing, let alone capable of performing this kind of operation. Even the broken ones who have lost their medical licenses (read: ships medic) have a sense of ethics. Plus the body will likely reject the foreign object, the possibility the patient may not even make it to the gate makes such a project a good waste of resources.
Wow, that is so exciting... A whole 3 million! Golly.
In Asia and Europe only. North America has not yet seen the release. It's now the most sought after phone in Oz even though it hasn't been released on any carrier yet.
It's sold faster then the Iphone 4 seeing as the the Iphone 4 started taking orders 2 months before release.
The article talks about innovation in components and manufacturing processes, not commodity devices. When Foxconn builds factory A and Apple has negotiated an exclusive contract for a component which is so expensive to manufacture that the competition cannot or will not produce it equally or cost-effectively, then that makes Apple the single buyer of that component.
That's the exact same thing AMD do with their chips. AMD fronts up the cash to someone like global fab for some exclusive time at certain fab's when the chip is still in the design phase.
I can beleive that AMD are capable of innovation, but this isn't it. This has been done for a long time.
The Royal Navy used to go out and buy large trees that would make ideal masts years and sometimes even decades before a shipwright was contracted to build a frigate.
What you and TFA describe is far from innovative, it's just that most companies find JIT manufacturing to be more cost effective and less risky.
Do not try to excuse this. The people doing this are pitiless psychopaths.
They are sociopaths, not psychopaths. There's a bit of a difference, a psychopath would be hacking up the parents and serving their sautee'd remains to their neighbours instead of just interviewing them.
But you're right, there is no excuse for such sociopathic behaviour. They should be hung from the highest yard arm for this but watch the sonambulent public forget the whole thing the next time Lindsey Lohan does a line or drops her panties.
IF the best buy guys don't sell up sells and ripoff cables they get there hours cut and geek squad is filled with sales men and not techs. Staples is just as bad.
In Australia, Kogan started an Aussie on-line retailer. generic "DSE" 2 metre (embrace the metric system) from one of our cheaper electronics retailers "Dick Smith Electronics" are A$25 (US$27). This is why Aussie retailers dont push "extended warranties" too hard all the fat is in the overpriced cables (that and most Aussies are smart enough to realise that warranty isn't even good enough to wipe your arse with).
Since The AUD reached over US$0.80 I've been buying my cables from the US as it's almost half the price including shipping.
I thnk you'll find the reason Telstra & Optus are doing this is purely financial. You might recall that in the very same week - the very same day in fact - that it came to light Telstra and Optus had agreed to voluntarily implement Conroy's filter they also got a sweet 11billion deal from the 100% governement owned National Broadbank Network to purchase their copper lines.
You'd have to be pretty naive to think one had nothing to do with the other.
Actually your wrong.
That deal actually negotiated months ago and it was only finalised this week, the deal was negotiated by NBNco, not ACMA and finally Optus was not involved (nether was Iprimus, the third ISP to implement this voluntary filter).
So in light of the fact that Optus and Iprimus got paid nothing, your conspiracy theory cant hold water.
Please get your news from reputable sources in the future.
It's always the same, "we don't need tablet apps as phone apps look good" which isn't true.
This is wrong.
Saying "we dont need to waste time optimising for tablet as it would provide no real benefit over our current application". For most applications this is true as the JS/HTML engines will happily scale things for you. There are times where a tablet version does provide benefits but for the most part its redundant.
This reminds me of Canon and Nikon camera fans. For years Nikon fans would say "we don't need full frame sensors" because Canon had them and Nikon didn't. As soon as Nikon had them they were proclaiming it was the best thing since sliced bread.
This reminds me of Apple fans, for years they said that copy and paste on a mobile device is unnecessary and derided it's uselessness on other platforms. Then Apple released IOS with copy and past included and they all of a sudden forgot what they said about it's lack of necessity on Android.
Cognitive dissonance is rife in the Apple camp, I'm not saying it doesn't exist in the Android camp but if you criticise Android you'll at least get a reasoned response and if you're right, a few people agreeing with you. On an Apple forum, to criticise an iDevice, even constructively is best compared to criticising the pope in 16th century Spain (didn't expect that did you).
There is not a shortage of Honeycomb applications.
There most certainly is, especially compared to the mind-boggling numbers available for the iPad.
Do you know the meaning of shortage, here it is,
Shortage,
a deficiency or lack in the amount needed,
There is no deficiency, or lack in the amount needed just because one platform has more applications does not make a shortfall on the other. Linux has more applications then windows, does that mean there is a shortage of applications on Windows?
If anything, there are more types of applications available on Android, Apple will not permit a competing video player that will play DIvX (got one on Android), nor a competing email client that is more compatible with MS Exchange (got one of those too).
On the Honeycomb side I would that Honeycomb is dead and until it's features are merged with the Android fork there won't be a lot of apps taking advantage of it's features.
I agree, this needs to happen and Google are working on it in Ice Cream (2.4 or 4.0 depending on what Google decide to number it).
I also really can't think of an application that I use on Android that doesn't work well in landscape mode on the tablet
The extra horizontal real estate makes it much nicer to use in landscape then the Ipad.
So in light of a lawsuit, the USPTO finds out that a granted patent should not have been granted. Or many.
Everyone is focusing on the impact this may have on the case, but no question asked about the USPTO? (besides Slashdotters?)
Who though?
The judge has to maintain his impartiality in the case so he cant ask.
Oracle/MS/Apple/IBM and so forth are too busy protecting their own patent war chests and beating the patent war drums. They've got to much of a vested interest to ask.
Organisations like the EFF have been shouting this from the rooftops only to be told "shut up, I just want my Iphone" by the average person.
So who? Whenever someone raises a voice, they get shouted down because patent reform is hard.
Slashdot Mirror
The ABC impartial? As in, not biased towards or away from the views of one particular (political) party?
Yes,
I take it you read a lot of Murdoch press, because that's the only way you could possibly get that impression.
Put down the wind up rag (the Australian) and try looking at the real world.
Or as the Germans would say - "but it already is a sports drink" .
Undoing bad moderation. Sorry, I tried for +1 funny, you got Overrated. I blame /.'s crappy new design (which is less crappy then the old design, but still crappy).
This is not just true for India, but for most Asian cultures.
I've dealt with Indonesian outsourcing firms and they are always going to say "yes", whether that means "yes I can" or "yes I cant" is an exercise left up to the listener.
For the most part, this attitude comes from the cultural taboo of starting conflict, so Asians will do incredibly complex dances around anything that is potentially going to cause trouble. There are a few notable exceptions (Singaporean/Malay and some filipinos) but for the most part they'll try to avoid conflict (Thais and Chinese are the worst offenders).
Tell me about it. I hate calling tech support and getting people in Alabama.
Wait, there are call centers in Alabama? I thought you needed phones for those.
VoIP+IPoB (IP over Banjo)
Tell me about it. I hate calling tech support and getting people in Alabama.
It would make remembering names easier, they're all staffed by the same family.
...at the teachings on Australian culture.
That's a bit rough, yuppies we may not be but fair suck of the sav mate.
If you're singling out Fox News for that, you're nuts. Every single news outlet was doing exactly the same thing. It was disgusting.
Just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right.
I'm glad here in Oz I've got the ABC (public broadcaster) and SBS (hybrid public/private broadcaster) who have to maintain standards of impartiality as well as the BBC from the UK.
I'd hate to think what life would be like if the likes of Murdoch and Packer had a news monopoly.
Am I the only one who still has his WRT54G v2 in full service?
Nope, I still have mine (GL variant) in service doing it's original intended job. I've replaced the ADSL modem with a newer Billion model but ended up putting the WRT54G back into service because it was that much more reliable.
Mine's only 4 years old though.
TFTFY,
Its the same logic that is behind free samples, by sampling the product you may find you gain customers who would not have bought your product otherwise. This has been proven by multiple piracy studies, piracy increases, not decreases sales.
People, by and large will do the right thing when it comes to buying products. By the same token people will eventually realise that, if your product is not worth what you are asking for it, they will look for a cheaper alternative. So back to the bakers scenario;
Baker charges $25 per loaf. Customers drop off as they think $25 is unreasonable.
In response the baker forces the council to shut down all other bakeries, make home baking illegal and ban bread importing.
People still want bread but find the bakers prices unreasonable. So people resort to "copying" the bakers bread in response to the bakers high prices and artificial monopoly.
The baker then cries millions of dollars in losses due to 1000's of potential customers not eating his stale and reused bread.
In response all plates are installed with FRM (Food Rights Management) which prevents plates from holding pirated bread.
These measures prove unpopular and plates are quickly cracked. The baker forces the council to make this procedure illegal, despite this Greek weddings continue to gain popularity.
The Baker ensures all new plates are sold with HDCP (Human Digestive Content Protection) which can only accept the bakers bread.
Despite all these measures, bread piracy rates increase yet the baker does not seem to be going out of business.
9 Pounds a ticket,
Sheer luxury,
That's only A$13.50, in Australia we pay A$18 or 12.13 pounds for a 2D ticket and cinema's are going out of business left right and centre not because of lack of customers but simply because they cant make money at A$18 a ticket with the royalties Hollywood charges. Customers are losing them money sometimes as ticket barely cover royalties let alone operating costs.
No wonder piracy is so high here in Oz, we cant afford to waste A$50 too often (2 tickets + A$2.20 booking fee with 1 drink and popcorn to share).
Smart move because VIA is known for such outstanding quality.
But HTC is known for it's outstanding quality.
So HTC brings their QA and manufacturing processes to the technology they've just purchased from VIA...
That's how acquisitions are meant to work, the seller benefits from a cash injection, the buyer benefits from being able to make a new product and the customer benefits from better products.
Linux Mint is definitely a better choice than Ubuntu, and not just for newbies. The UI and layout of everything is a lot nicer and more logical.
I haven't upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 because it was too much of a PITA to get set up correctly and they've made a lot more changes since then.
When I get my new lappy, I might just install Linux Mint instead seeing as it's booted into Linux 95% of the time. What's the battery life like?
IFPI Boss and CEO Accused of Tax Evasion in Germany http://www.zeropaid.com/news/94106/ifpi-boss-and-ceo-accused-of-tax-evasion-in-germany/ After the SGAE, Germany investigates IFPI and its dome accused of tax fraud http://en.wikinoticia.com/Technology/general-technology/90182-after-the-sgae-germany-investigates-ifpi-and-its-dome-accused-of-tax-fraud
Now that the US and Eurozone economies are in shambles, they are going after everyone, the bigger the better. In more prosperous times, this would have been swept under the rug for the price of a nice dinner and a movie ($225,000 according to the MPIAA).
It seems no matter how much you pay corrupt officials, they'll still turn on you at the drop of a hat.
Could you Americans please hang a few of them from streetlights so that the ones in well to do Australia remain scared.
The Maginot Line metaphor is especially invalid as the event the Maginot Line was constructed for did eventuate.
The scenario's the TSA is targeting are not likely to eventuate. Even regular hijackings (hostage taking) are now doomed to failure simply because the passengers will now fight back. Hamas et al. who used to use hostages like this to extort concessions/prisoners out of western nations are now proper fucked as the easiest source of innocent people will no longer be passive.
remote detonation/timer
An internal explosive will not be detonated by the implantee. that would defeat the purpose of trying to hide it. The simple solution is to set up a receiver to detonate the device and an automated transmitter with a limited range, so the receiver detects the heartbeat from the transmitter, when it can no longer receive the heartbeat, boom.
But to take off my geek hat and think sensibly about this, what does someone have to benefit from blowing up an airliner miles away from nowhere and aren't there more cost effective way to cause suffering that can be linked more easily to your terrorist organisation?
Also, not like there is an abundance of doctors who will even be willing, let alone capable of performing this kind of operation. Even the broken ones who have lost their medical licenses (read: ships medic) have a sense of ethics. Plus the body will likely reject the foreign object, the possibility the patient may not even make it to the gate makes such a project a good waste of resources.
Wow, that is so exciting... A whole 3 million! Golly.
In Asia and Europe only. North America has not yet seen the release. It's now the most sought after phone in Oz even though it hasn't been released on any carrier yet.
It's sold faster then the Iphone 4 seeing as the the Iphone 4 started taking orders 2 months before release.
The article talks about innovation in components and manufacturing processes, not commodity devices. When Foxconn builds factory A and Apple has negotiated an exclusive contract for a component which is so expensive to manufacture that the competition cannot or will not produce it equally or cost-effectively, then that makes Apple the single buyer of that component.
That's the exact same thing AMD do with their chips. AMD fronts up the cash to someone like global fab for some exclusive time at certain fab's when the chip is still in the design phase.
I can beleive that AMD are capable of innovation, but this isn't it. This has been done for a long time.
The Royal Navy used to go out and buy large trees that would make ideal masts years and sometimes even decades before a shipwright was contracted to build a frigate.
What you and TFA describe is far from innovative, it's just that most companies find JIT manufacturing to be more cost effective and less risky.
They are sociopaths, not psychopaths. There's a bit of a difference, a psychopath would be hacking up the parents and serving their sautee'd remains to their neighbours instead of just interviewing them.
But you're right, there is no excuse for such sociopathic behaviour. They should be hung from the highest yard arm for this but watch the sonambulent public forget the whole thing the next time Lindsey Lohan does a line or drops her panties.
Most of the time the real exchange rate is $1 = £1 to actually buy stuff. Yes, we basically pay twice as much for everything as you do. Yes it sucks.
it's worse for us Aussies,
The AUD is worth $1.07 USD today yet the official exchange rate is 0.50 USD.
IF the best buy guys don't sell up sells and ripoff cables they get there hours cut and geek squad is filled with sales men and not techs. Staples is just as bad.
In Australia, Kogan started an Aussie on-line retailer. generic "DSE" 2 metre (embrace the metric system) from one of our cheaper electronics retailers "Dick Smith Electronics" are A$25 (US$27). This is why Aussie retailers dont push "extended warranties" too hard all the fat is in the overpriced cables (that and most Aussies are smart enough to realise that warranty isn't even good enough to wipe your arse with).
Since The AUD reached over US$0.80 I've been buying my cables from the US as it's almost half the price including shipping.
I thnk you'll find the reason Telstra & Optus are doing this is purely financial. You might recall that in the very same week - the very same day in fact - that it came to light Telstra and Optus had agreed to voluntarily implement Conroy's filter they also got a sweet 11billion deal from the 100% governement owned National Broadbank Network to purchase their copper lines. You'd have to be pretty naive to think one had nothing to do with the other.
Actually your wrong.
That deal actually negotiated months ago and it was only finalised this week, the deal was negotiated by NBNco, not ACMA and finally Optus was not involved (nether was Iprimus, the third ISP to implement this voluntary filter).
So in light of the fact that Optus and Iprimus got paid nothing, your conspiracy theory cant hold water.
Please get your news from reputable sources in the future.
This is wrong.
Saying "we dont need to waste time optimising for tablet as it would provide no real benefit over our current application". For most applications this is true as the JS/HTML engines will happily scale things for you. There are times where a tablet version does provide benefits but for the most part its redundant.
This reminds me of Apple fans, for years they said that copy and paste on a mobile device is unnecessary and derided it's uselessness on other platforms. Then Apple released IOS with copy and past included and they all of a sudden forgot what they said about it's lack of necessity on Android.
Cognitive dissonance is rife in the Apple camp, I'm not saying it doesn't exist in the Android camp but if you criticise Android you'll at least get a reasoned response and if you're right, a few people agreeing with you. On an Apple forum, to criticise an iDevice, even constructively is best compared to criticising the pope in 16th century Spain (didn't expect that did you).
There most certainly is, especially compared to the mind-boggling numbers available for the iPad.
Do you know the meaning of shortage, here it is,
Shortage,
a deficiency or lack in the amount needed,
There is no deficiency, or lack in the amount needed just because one platform has more applications does not make a shortfall on the other. Linux has more applications then windows, does that mean there is a shortage of applications on Windows?
If anything, there are more types of applications available on Android, Apple will not permit a competing video player that will play DIvX (got one on Android), nor a competing email client that is more compatible with MS Exchange (got one of those too).
To use the old cliché, if we banned all the iFart apps on the Apple App Store, there would be that many left.
I agree, this needs to happen and Google are working on it in Ice Cream (2.4 or 4.0 depending on what Google decide to number it).
The extra horizontal real estate makes it much nicer to use in landscape then the Ipad.
So in light of a lawsuit, the USPTO finds out that a granted patent should not have been granted. Or many. Everyone is focusing on the impact this may have on the case, but no question asked about the USPTO? (besides Slashdotters?)
Who though?
The judge has to maintain his impartiality in the case so he cant ask.
Oracle/MS/Apple/IBM and so forth are too busy protecting their own patent war chests and beating the patent war drums. They've got to much of a vested interest to ask.
Organisations like the EFF have been shouting this from the rooftops only to be told "shut up, I just want my Iphone" by the average person.
So who? Whenever someone raises a voice, they get shouted down because patent reform is hard.