I've always been confused how publicly traded companies can be considered "monopolies" in any situation except where your governments regulate them into becoming monopolies. If you don't like how a company acts, buy some stock and get your friends and family and cohorts to do the same, then go in and work to change it.
So people who don't have money to invest will have no say in how the economy is run, even if their life depends on how the economy is run? Great Idea, dude. 80% of the wealth in the country is concentrated in the hands of 20%. And recursively 64% (80% of 80%) of wealth in the hands of 4% (20% of 20%). So these rich people can get together, buy all providers of a service that is crucial for the population and tell rest of them pay an arm and leg for the service as consumers or pay an arm and a leg to buy shares? You are very confused.
The role of the government is to ensure competition. To enable the consumers not investors to vote with their dollars. Truth in labeling laws, truth in advertising laws, fair competition are all essential part of the free markets. Yes, The current top dogs of capitalism will bitch moan and bellyache. But unless we have the second tier dogs snapping at their heels, we all will be screwed dude.
They can dig tons of soil, call them ore, smelt them, refine them, separate the rare-earth material from all other contaminants, purify them and make LCD displays.
When an LCD display breaksdown, they won't be able to crush them into tiny bits, smelt them and recover the material? All it means is your 50" LCD monitor will have some significant residual value and you will sell the dead monitor for some money instead of throwing it in the dumpster.
It is very well known that human half bear hybrids have excellent flying skills. They make excellent co-pilots for spaceships smuggling contraband evading Imperial battle cruisers. I am glad the Brits are taking the lead and having a Flying Cadet Corps ready and being prepared for the day when we actually will have starships.
Were these ATMs manufactured by Diebold? May be they left the superpassword meant to be used to steal elections in the bank ATMs by mistake? Or may be by design?
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But face it buddy. 20 years from now, you won't be looking at the video of your kid that you shot when he/she was 3 weeks old. I have about 60 hours of video of my daughter. It is all digitized and sitting in the harddisk attached to the lap top in the living room connected to the TV. All it takes is about six mousclicks to watch any video in the big 50 inch set. Very rarely we do. But occasionally when friends come over we watch very old birthday party clips. Most interest generating ones are the panning shots where their children are captured.
Most business users confused interoperability with PC-compatibility. By the time the realized the folly of demanding compatibility with a closed proprietary standard instead of an open level playing field standard, MSFT was well entrenched and the vendor lock had been achieved.
Moore's law helped hide how inefficient MSFT coding had become. The marginally legal and outright illegal activities of the business/sales units would not have had this much of success if the vendor lock had not been achieved.
But deep at the core, the dominance of MSFT is because the ignorance of the user base rather than any brilliance of MSFT products.
Yeah, yeah yeah, they won. But still we won't accept it. And we have enough shills in the media and uninformed users, and bought and paid for CIOs we will continue the fight till we win by default.
As predicted yesterday, today's announcement indicates that the negotiations have come to a satisfactory conclusions. All the minor gods in the pantheon of Chinese Government have been propitiated and the company executives have been put in their place.
Local corruption is blatant but you negotiate with the corrupt party directly openly discussing the quids for the pro quos. Higher you go, complex it gets. Often you deal with intermediaries, and you are not sure if they really represent the official they claim to represent, what is given and what is expected gets lost in translation.
And of course, I don't have any evidence. That is par for the course in slashdot.
Announcements like this is a typical way to authenticate the official bribe taker. The bribee would have already contacted the other side, hinted that an announcement is coming to show that he in the loop. The comminique would include subtle pointers to show that this is not a low level typist who is trying to make a fast buck. Like a escape clause or way out suggested by the potential briber. Now that the bribee has been authenticated the negotiations can proceed. Usually if it has escalated to press release level, it means the stakes have been raised and they are playing hard ball.
And I don't have any evidence. That is par for the course in slashdot.
But don't wine and complain about them either. And certainly don't play the Microsoft lottery. That's ridiculous.
I know you meant whine, not wine and I am not a typo nazi either. But in this instance to wine is a perfectly decent response to the complaint. To wine means use wine to move your critical MS-win based exe files to Linux and stop the upgrade treadmill.
Don't read too much into the story. All it means is one more high party official is looking to get his share of payments to the top officials in China. Once a few million $ are safely handed over, the probe will be frozen, to be thawed only during the negotiations of the next payment.
For your insightful contribution to Slashdot, I dub thee Doctor of Philosophy in the field of computer science, for the thesis "Good Software Design Principles", and award you all the rights and privileges due thereunto. Rise, Doctor Kevin Conaway.
Google is a domain registrar. It has access to more data about the IP addresses and ownership blocks etc. It probably has already identified a large portion of the 10 million or so bots. No wonder gmail server beats Thunderbird client. But we are not comparing apples to apples here.
Ranjeev Dolas wrote only one program in his entire life, that was a tutorial program he learnt in a SAP course in Pune. Then he kept cutting and pasting the same code and modifying it for every project he worked on. That explains the assembly code. That is the only way he knows how to write if( aa() == 192){
}.
The scientists and astrophysicists themselves agree that the Sun is going to become a Red Giant and it will expand past the orbit of Jupiter. Instead of just setting up the instruments and wait for the Sun to come to us, these typical, arrogant, pie-in-the-sky, ivory tower, disconnected elites are coming up with yet another proposal to tax and spend out tax dollars. Enough!. Just wait. What is 5 billion years to a government program? I ask.
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So people who don't have money to invest will have no say in how the economy is run, even if their life depends on how the economy is run? Great Idea, dude. 80% of the wealth in the country is concentrated in the hands of 20%. And recursively 64% (80% of 80%) of wealth in the hands of 4% (20% of 20%). So these rich people can get together, buy all providers of a service that is crucial for the population and tell rest of them pay an arm and leg for the service as consumers or pay an arm and a leg to buy shares? You are very confused.
The role of the government is to ensure competition. To enable the consumers not investors to vote with their dollars. Truth in labeling laws, truth in advertising laws, fair competition are all essential part of the free markets. Yes, The current top dogs of capitalism will bitch moan and bellyache. But unless we have the second tier dogs snapping at their heels, we all will be screwed dude.
When an LCD display breaksdown, they won't be able to crush them into tiny bits, smelt them and recover the material? All it means is your 50" LCD monitor will have some significant residual value and you will sell the dead monitor for some money instead of throwing it in the dumpster.
It is very well known that human half bear hybrids have excellent flying skills. They make excellent co-pilots for spaceships smuggling contraband evading Imperial battle cruisers. I am glad the Brits are taking the lead and having a Flying Cadet Corps ready and being prepared for the day when we actually will have starships.
Cant program. Cant become a manager without experience. So do what people with no marketable skills do. Go for an MBA.
I am not a judge, but you know not many would really understand all that technical mumbo jumbo. They prefer their own kind of mumbo jumbo.
Were these ATMs manufactured by Diebold? May be they left the superpassword meant to be used to steal elections in the bank ATMs by mistake? Or may be by design?
Abdul Qadir Khan,
C/o Embassy of Pakistan
Washington DC, USA.
We accept all major credit cards. Operators are standing by. If you order in the next 10 minutes we will double your order.
It is the same guy who predicted the 1993 mid-west floods to be once-in-500-year event.
Can we outsource the viva voce examination to India too?
... I will have the certificate of deposit valued at 10,0000,0000$.
Now I have really pay back all the money I borrowed assuming the world is going to end? It sucks. Hope it sucks big enough to form its own black hole.
Didn't Al Gore go on an inventing binge and invented the internet, the brain wave binocular and the remote control on one very productive evening?
But face it buddy. 20 years from now, you won't be looking at the video of your kid that you shot when he/she was 3 weeks old. I have about 60 hours of video of my daughter. It is all digitized and sitting in the harddisk attached to the lap top in the living room connected to the TV. All it takes is about six mousclicks to watch any video in the big 50 inch set. Very rarely we do. But occasionally when friends come over we watch very old birthday party clips. Most interest generating ones are the panning shots where their children are captured.
Moore's law helped hide how inefficient MSFT coding had become. The marginally legal and outright illegal activities of the business/sales units would not have had this much of success if the vendor lock had not been achieved.
But deep at the core, the dominance of MSFT is because the ignorance of the user base rather than any brilliance of MSFT products.
Yeah, yeah yeah, they won. But still we won't accept it. And we have enough shills in the media and uninformed users, and bought and paid for CIOs we will continue the fight till we win by default.
Local corruption is blatant but you negotiate with the corrupt party directly openly discussing the quids for the pro quos. Higher you go, complex it gets. Often you deal with intermediaries, and you are not sure if they really represent the official they claim to represent, what is given and what is expected gets lost in translation.
And of course, I don't have any evidence. That is par for the course in slashdot. Announcements like this is a typical way to authenticate the official bribe taker. The bribee would have already contacted the other side, hinted that an announcement is coming to show that he in the loop. The comminique would include subtle pointers to show that this is not a low level typist who is trying to make a fast buck. Like a escape clause or way out suggested by the potential briber. Now that the bribee has been authenticated the negotiations can proceed. Usually if it has escalated to press release level, it means the stakes have been raised and they are playing hard ball.
And I don't have any evidence. That is par for the course in slashdot.
I know you meant whine, not wine and I am not a typo nazi either. But in this instance to wine is a perfectly decent response to the complaint. To wine means use wine to move your critical MS-win based exe files to Linux and stop the upgrade treadmill.
Don't read too much into the story. All it means is one more high party official is looking to get his share of payments to the top officials in China. Once a few million $ are safely handed over, the probe will be frozen, to be thawed only during the negotiations of the next payment.
For your insightful contribution to Slashdot, I dub thee Doctor of Philosophy in the field of computer science, for the thesis "Good Software Design Principles", and award you all the rights and privileges due thereunto. Rise, Doctor Kevin Conaway.
I mean what percentage of your PhD will be mine? Is it your PhD or our PhD. You want the degree, son? Earn it.
FCC: You can't handle the data
Google is a domain registrar. It has access to more data about the IP addresses and ownership blocks etc. It probably has already identified a large portion of the 10 million or so bots. No wonder gmail server beats Thunderbird client. But we are not comparing apples to apples here.
Ranjeev Dolas wrote only one program in his entire life, that was a tutorial program he learnt in a SAP course in Pune. Then he kept cutting and pasting the same code and modifying it for every project he worked on. That explains the assembly code. That is the only way he knows how to write if( aa() == 192){ }.
The scientists and astrophysicists themselves agree that the Sun is going to become a Red Giant and it will expand past the orbit of Jupiter. Instead of just setting up the instruments and wait for the Sun to come to us, these typical, arrogant, pie-in-the-sky, ivory tower, disconnected elites are coming up with yet another proposal to tax and spend out tax dollars. Enough!. Just wait. What is 5 billion years to a government program? I ask.