Then it will continue to hold its present title the de facto standard! And it likes this title to a real standard because, it can continue to vendor lock all its users, it does not have to publish the internals.
In the article cubic zirconium is mentioned in passing, as an example of an oxide. It is a very iffy speculation. Because the oxides conduct electricity better, because I have invented this new way of making these tiny crystals of oxides, it might be able to reduce the heat losses in many devices, may be even in fuel cells...
Folks, it does not get any iffier than this. Dont hold your breath waiting for copper fuel cells
operating at 50C.
He wasted his own time posting in yahoo board? What an idiot!
Why does he not hire a hefty goon to throw chairs at the underlings?
The CEO of the company I really really love, a visionary in fact does that.
No wonder that company stock is zooming up to the stratosphere!
In a recent development the lawyers of Sony were bewildered. None of the documents they had on their computers relating to the contract and negotiations with MediaMax could be found in their computers. The lawyes were muttering, "cant believe it. I know I saved those emails and pdfs right in the hard disk. Where the hell could they be hiding?".
You are not suggesting keyboards are obsolete because the mouse is essential for power point slide creation, right? He is not saying the mouse is obsolete. Just that it is not the best user interface under all circumstances. Goes on to list when
it is appropriate to use the keyboard.
To find out how, Seeley's team applied paint dots and tiny plastic tags to identify all 4,000 bees in each of several small swarms that they ferried to Appledore Island, home of the Shoals Marine Laboratory. There, in a series of experiments, they released each swarm
A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil and it creates a cyclone over Bangladesh two weeks later. A weather satellite falls from the orbit and a director gets fired two weeks later...
Why the whole of USA is forcing down our collective throats one-size-fits-all 110 V, 60 Hz electricity supply? America is about choice and freedom. We want more choices in standards. You could choose 17 inch square wheel standard for your car that uses 125 octane gasoline
standard and a 7.3 V battery standard. The world would be much better place if every vendor
and manufacturer could specify his own standards. In fact we could have multiple standard
specifying bodies too. You choose GE-IEEE standard or Ford-ANSI standard or Boeing-FAA
standard. Wow! What a brave new world awaits us!!! Cant wait for 24 hours (why that standard,
why cant we have a 13 hour day and 7.3 hour night standard) to see the tomorrow!!!!!
Those 27 disclosed vulnerabilities cover some or all of the 237 patents that Microsoft has. Dont you dare fix any of them with a third party tool. You will be violating the patent rights of MSFT!
Most of these IQ tests have very heavy cultural biases. I still remember a question I flunked in one of my early IQ tests. "A bin has 25 pairs of white gloves and 25 pairs of black gloves. If you pick gloves randomly how many you should pick before you can be sure of getting a matched pair? If the bin had socks instead of gloves, would the answer be different?".
When I took the test I was a barefoot rural South Indian. The only pieces of clothing I was aware of were shorts, shirts, sarees and saree's male version the dhothi. Had never seen a glove nor did I know that there is no left and right version for the socks. The real problem is that some clueless educator bought some IQ tests designed for US or Britain and administered it to us. Or may be some lazy Indian teacher copied a western test and changed the names from Victor and Barbara to Vijay and Bhanu.
Still my point is these test dont measure anything more than knowledge and training and may be level of motivation of the parents. Let us take a all American boy from the exurbs of Chicago and give him a Kalahari IQ test.
You suddenly come face to face with a hyena. You should:
A: Throw rocks at it
B: Turn around and run
C: Curl up and play dead
D: Find a stick or a bark and hold it over your head to make you appear taller than the hyena. And wait for a Kalahari who was on a missing to throw away a coke bottle over the end of earth to appear and save you.
Red Hat and a few other major players have openly contested MSFT's claim that Linux violates its patents. So the value of "Look Ma! These guys agreed and paid me money" argument is very low.
Further to sustain, "they paid us money" argument, they have to show that these companies paid more to MSFT than the recieved in concurrent deals. Already they can show that it is MSFT that paid Novell and not the otehr way around. They will move for discovery to see what kind of deals it offered to others who signed on. That is a can of worms MSFT would not like to open.
Further, many open source advocates have openly challenged MSFT to identify the alleged violations and they claim if there were really violations they could work around it easily. By not identifying these patents, Linux advocates could argue that MSFT has abandoned whatever rights it had. In copyrights/trademarks, if a company knows there is a violation of its trademark/copyright and still takes no action, it loses the trademark. This is one argument Linux could make.
In my opninion, IANAL, the strong, open and vocal dispute over the claims MSFT made over Linux has completely voided any residual "why would they have paid us money if they had not violated my patents?" arguments.
We know that MSFT actually paid Novell to get them. Something like Novell pays X$ to "license" the patent infringing technology from MSFT and MSFT paid Y$ to Novell to distribute some "coupons". Y > > X. May be some other such deals with Linspire and Sandisk/Samsung or whoever else who signed with MSFT.
Let us not forget. MSFT does have a large war chest, and we cant be sure if it backs up a huge truck load of money on to the driveway of these players, these guys wont have a change of hearts and sing a different tune. So let us not celebrate it too much.
That is why they are moving the monitoring from computer into the cartridge itself. Once the "intelligent" cartridge determines that it is time to make you pay another tribute/ransom to the mother ship, it will simply lock you out. No more tricks like using Ubuntu to evade what, the printer makers believe, is their rightful claim to your wallet.
When I read the slashdot discussion when the complaint first appeared I was initially supportive of google. But after reading rest of the discussions I became quite ambivalent about the merits of Google's complaint. But now MSFT is doing an about face. Sounds fishy. It must have done something more than simply providing a desktop search. Otherwise MSFT would not change its stance this quickly.
Also I am reminded of the fights between AOL and MSFT about allowing the PC makers to install additional icons in the desktop touting services that competed with MSN etc back in the Win95/98 time frame. AOL won, but it became irrelevant eventually. Will the scenario repeat? Has google jumped the shark?
This is what happens when these ungodly Hollywood types with hyperactive imagination give ideas to our enemies. Why did they show that one way you could sabotage the spacecraft of an alien race would be by uploading a virus and crippling the computer systems? Now see what happened once the Klingons got the picture, so to speak. They are using the techniques developed by us against us.
The Bayer pattern has one red, one blue and two green sub-pixels per pixel. They could lose one green and replace it with transparent. Or they could come up with a different packing to accomodate a transparent sub-pixel.
One of the problems with DLP projection TVs with a "color wheel" was that since every color lets only 1/3 of the light through, the picture was dim. So they added a fourth element "clear" that lets out all the light to get every projected pixel a blast of light they need and the remaining portions of the color wheel adds only additional brightness for each color.
This technology seems to be kind of similar. The transparent sub pixel detects over all lumninosity and the remaining pixels "adjust" for color. Very close to what we have in our retina too. Almost all our cylindrical cells respond only to luminosity and the cones respond, to varying degrees, three colors. A poster was complaining about losing "color resolution". I think millions of years of evolution has shown us the balance. You need about 90% of the pixels responding to luminosity and just 10% to color. The same ratio in our retina.
Does not that act prohibit companies from destroying documents and requires that all documents to be saved for, what 3 years? So we need to back up our RAM every second and keep the backup for 3 years? Wow, rush now to buy shares in disk drive vendors. Their business is going to booooom!
This is the law firm of Cluel Ess and Dum Bass. This is a formal legal notice for you to immediately write down what you are thinking and turn it over to us.
I agree with your assessment of Intuit. I am just a Quicken user, not Quickbooks. I was almost evangelistic ooohing and aaahing about Quicken way back in 1996. Then every release they annoyed me more and more and now I am very very antogonistic. Except for being the lesser evil than Microsoft Money, Intuit is every bit a Microsoft wannabe.
They constantly tout their online storage of my personal data. Irritating ads and constantly phoning home about stuff. Crippling later releases by removing QIF file import. Forcing upgrades because they switched their back end provider for on line bill pay.
Intuit does not seem to have a clue about their users. They are the people who constantly punch in their financial data to know their financial state. Not so rich as to have accountants to take care of it. Not so poor they would rather not know what bad financial shape they are in. Such people are not the ones who would borrow in the sub prime market and pay interest only on their mortgage or think of going negative amortization. Allowing sub prime lenders and credit card issuers to use the Quicken brand name cheapens it and it might not be worth the measely fees it generates.
I wrote to their CEO. To their credit some assistant called back, instead of throwing the letter in garbage. But still they dont seem to have a clue about how much they have fallen in the eyes of most of their users.
Slashdot Mirror
Then it will continue to hold its present title the de facto standard! And it likes this title to a real standard because, it can continue to vendor lock all its users, it does not have to publish the internals.
Yeah, sure. But once in a while you get this nice warm glow when the GPS unit tells you that you have hiked 123.45 miles in the last six minutes.
Folks, it does not get any iffier than this. Dont hold your breath waiting for copper fuel cells operating at 50C.
Small correction. The ooxml documentation takes a 747 all by itself. The freebies are ina seperate 747.
Sincerely,
Gill Bates.
Posting anonymously under a pseudonym, bah. Gill Bates.
You must be living in some sort of weird neighbourhood. It is considered normal around here, in the Anwar province of Iraq
In a recent development the lawyers of Sony were bewildered. None of the documents they had on their computers relating to the contract and negotiations with MediaMax could be found in their computers. The lawyes were muttering, "cant believe it. I know I saved those emails and pdfs right in the hard disk. Where the hell could they be hiding?".
It is hoped that the speed of the jet ski will help it jump the shark really well.
You are not suggesting keyboards are obsolete because the mouse is essential for power point slide creation, right? He is not saying the mouse is obsolete. Just that it is not the best user interface under all circumstances. Goes on to list when it is appropriate to use the keyboard.
So that is what killed all the bees!
A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil and it creates a cyclone over Bangladesh two weeks later. A weather satellite falls from the orbit and a director gets fired two weeks later...
Why the whole of USA is forcing down our collective throats one-size-fits-all 110 V, 60 Hz electricity supply? America is about choice and freedom. We want more choices in standards. You could choose 17 inch square wheel standard for your car that uses 125 octane gasoline standard and a 7.3 V battery standard. The world would be much better place if every vendor and manufacturer could specify his own standards. In fact we could have multiple standard specifying bodies too. You choose GE-IEEE standard or Ford-ANSI standard or Boeing-FAA standard. Wow! What a brave new world awaits us!!! Cant wait for 24 hours (why that standard, why cant we have a 13 hour day and 7.3 hour night standard) to see the tomorrow!!!!!
In Soviet America, allofmp3 shuts *IAA down.
Those 27 disclosed vulnerabilities cover some or all of the 237 patents that Microsoft has. Dont you dare fix any of them with a third party tool. You will be violating the patent rights of MSFT!
When I took the test I was a barefoot rural South Indian. The only pieces of clothing I was aware of were shorts, shirts, sarees and saree's male version the dhothi. Had never seen a glove nor did I know that there is no left and right version for the socks. The real problem is that some clueless educator bought some IQ tests designed for US or Britain and administered it to us. Or may be some lazy Indian teacher copied a western test and changed the names from Victor and Barbara to Vijay and Bhanu.
Still my point is these test dont measure anything more than knowledge and training and may be level of motivation of the parents. Let us take a all American boy from the exurbs of Chicago and give him a Kalahari IQ test.
You suddenly come face to face with a hyena. You should:
A: Throw rocks at it
B: Turn around and run
C: Curl up and play dead
D: Find a stick or a bark and hold it over your head to make you appear taller than the hyena. And wait for a Kalahari who was on a missing to throw away a coke bottle over the end of earth to appear and save you.
Further to sustain, "they paid us money" argument, they have to show that these companies paid more to MSFT than the recieved in concurrent deals. Already they can show that it is MSFT that paid Novell and not the otehr way around. They will move for discovery to see what kind of deals it offered to others who signed on. That is a can of worms MSFT would not like to open.
Further, many open source advocates have openly challenged MSFT to identify the alleged violations and they claim if there were really violations they could work around it easily. By not identifying these patents, Linux advocates could argue that MSFT has abandoned whatever rights it had. In copyrights/trademarks, if a company knows there is a violation of its trademark/copyright and still takes no action, it loses the trademark. This is one argument Linux could make.
In my opninion, IANAL, the strong, open and vocal dispute over the claims MSFT made over Linux has completely voided any residual "why would they have paid us money if they had not violated my patents?" arguments.
Let us not forget. MSFT does have a large war chest, and we cant be sure if it backs up a huge truck load of money on to the driveway of these players, these guys wont have a change of hearts and sing a different tune. So let us not celebrate it too much.
That is why they are moving the monitoring from computer into the cartridge itself. Once the "intelligent" cartridge determines that it is time to make you pay another tribute/ransom to the mother ship, it will simply lock you out. No more tricks like using Ubuntu to evade what, the printer makers believe, is their rightful claim to your wallet.
Also I am reminded of the fights between AOL and MSFT about allowing the PC makers to install additional icons in the desktop touting services that competed with MSN etc back in the Win95/98 time frame. AOL won, but it became irrelevant eventually. Will the scenario repeat? Has google jumped the shark?
This is what happens when these ungodly Hollywood types with hyperactive imagination give ideas to our enemies. Why did they show that one way you could sabotage the spacecraft of an alien race would be by uploading a virus and crippling the computer systems? Now see what happened once the Klingons got the picture, so to speak. They are using the techniques developed by us against us.
One of the problems with DLP projection TVs with a "color wheel" was that since every color lets only 1/3 of the light through, the picture was dim. So they added a fourth element "clear" that lets out all the light to get every projected pixel a blast of light they need and the remaining portions of the color wheel adds only additional brightness for each color.
This technology seems to be kind of similar. The transparent sub pixel detects over all lumninosity and the remaining pixels "adjust" for color. Very close to what we have in our retina too. Almost all our cylindrical cells respond only to luminosity and the cones respond, to varying degrees, three colors. A poster was complaining about losing "color resolution". I think millions of years of evolution has shown us the balance. You need about 90% of the pixels responding to luminosity and just 10% to color. The same ratio in our retina.
Does not that act prohibit companies from destroying documents and requires that all documents to be saved for, what 3 years? So we need to back up our RAM every second and keep the backup for 3 years? Wow, rush now to buy shares in disk drive vendors. Their business is going to booooom!
This is the law firm of Cluel Ess and Dum Bass. This is a formal legal notice for you to immediately write down what you are thinking and turn it over to us.
They constantly tout their online storage of my personal data. Irritating ads and constantly phoning home about stuff. Crippling later releases by removing QIF file import. Forcing upgrades because they switched their back end provider for on line bill pay.
Intuit does not seem to have a clue about their users. They are the people who constantly punch in their financial data to know their financial state. Not so rich as to have accountants to take care of it. Not so poor they would rather not know what bad financial shape they are in. Such people are not the ones who would borrow in the sub prime market and pay interest only on their mortgage or think of going negative amortization. Allowing sub prime lenders and credit card issuers to use the Quicken brand name cheapens it and it might not be worth the measely fees it generates.
I wrote to their CEO. To their credit some assistant called back, instead of throwing the letter in garbage. But still they dont seem to have a clue about how much they have fallen in the eyes of most of their users.