from redmond if they file each year as SwashbucklingCowboy says they do insisting linux is a viable competitor and a threat to the business model, yet ballmer repeatedly denies this fact?? does he base business decisions on this delusion, or is that cheerleader outfit cutting circulation to his brain?
I believe microsoft has not learned from the browser wars what competition is and why from a business perspective it, or the potential, should never be ignored. Linux and competitors aren't something that can be squashed by new art from the graphics department and a longer startup noise. failure to take competition seriously has serious repercussions.
a parallel to draw is automotive manufacturers in the states. while luxury sedans from lexus and acura included more and more interesting and useful gadgets, better fuel efficiency and higher safety ratings, detroit was content cranking out escalade after escalade making increases only in size. 2009 was the first year the model actually saw a size decrease. for a $70k luxury suv it still doesnt include crash avoidance, lane departure detection, or laser cruise control as its competitors from lexus do.
seatbeltless cars, guardless chainsaws, helmetless bicycles and police free cities will all help this 21st century civilization embrace the anarchy that makes it more productive!
extend: redefinition or change of the present standard in an apparent move to increase its worth.
please stay tuned for extinguish, where you will find we have replaced joes GPLv3 with a warm cup of microsoft open source...lets see if he gets punished for noticing!
other developments will include a spinning Richard Stallman turbine capable of powering an entire city block.
thing, this microsoft windows push. it now comes on virtually all computers regardless of whether you want it, with paths offered only to upgrade the windows to a more premium version (not remove the bloody thing.) Special deals on windows are offered at retailers like newegg if you're building a computer, in fact the os is even pushed as a purchasing option before you finish adding products to your cart. its bundled with some motherboards you buy as well. windows now comes standard on virtually any EEEPc you try to purchase too. that never used to happen.
how much longer until you DONT get to choose windows but have to blindly accept it in everyday life? I support amazon and other retailers who honor my EULA right to refuse an operating system i never wanted, yet in most cases is bundled inextricably with the hardware i do want..you know...the computer im buying from a computer company in most cases.
these stores arent so bad! now when your XBox red-rings, you can form lasting relationships as you return defective unit after defective unit to the same trusty store employees.
wants to say "screw it, who cares, i rarely handwrite anything anymore" but it feels like one of those nostalic things i might pick up again if i get bored...if only to flaunt it to a 19 year old.
more frequently between marketing and legal, im certain random DMCA lawsuits against high profile social services like wikipedia that stand for the common good would never see the light of day.
its like the legal arm of apple is some sort of Gestapo, a silent and deadly KGB willing to erase anyone who crosses party lines or speak future truths before the mighty apple legion makes them known.
alright, maybe im getting a touch fanatical. but the first rule of the computing system for fun and easy of use cant be modelled after fight club.
energy crisis or not, reducing the amount of energy we use in the data center is a good thing all around. if not for global warming, then for business expense, and if not for that, then the potential to make life as a noc power and cooling specialist alot easier (we hope.)
a day late and a dollar short GM is coming up with this bullshit? the specs on this are the ones from the first movie (no longer marketed/marketable) and its basically (as parents have said) just the camaro with stickers. I already know a guy who added decepticon logos to his mustang, which was damned cool at the time, but for a production car company to not keep up with hollywood is somewhat unheard of.
in ghost in the shell, nissan used it as a chance to showcase their newest SUV with the plate number "san ku ni san." youd better believe people could walk out of a theatre and buy one that day.
BMW rolled an entire series of short films staring cars that yes, you could buy and drive just like in the movies. James Bond had been doing this for years with the jag brand. hell, even national lampoons vegas vacation cashed in on EXISTING brands that could be sold to the public (hummer, corvette, etc...)
point to make: ball dropped GM. you offered a car to the public that DID NOT EXIST in production until TWO SOLID years from the movies release date. no one wants the old car from the old movie as is even hinted in TFA.
to be fair though, good job on bringing the safety of the vehicle up to a competitive level. and good job increasing the stock vehicles fuel efficiency. although realistically anyone buying this car wants muscle, not a sticker-clad gas sipper i think.
Ten critical case conduits were evaluated for both Units. Provide the number of conduits
evaluated for each Unit.
Provide the total number of silicone rubber cables in the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN),
Unit 2, population.
Provide the process/justification used to qualify the Unit 2 cables for a 40-year life.
in fact in the wiki article the reactor cooling tower is VISIBLE.
now, lets look at the subsection c.1.7.
under construction inspection information for the ICIR dated 4/30
In addition, the inspectors performed a walkdown of cables in the annulus area and held
discussions with TVA on PERs (162649 and 163461) related to unprotected and
potential damaged cables. Specific documents reviewed are listed in Attachment 1.
so yeah, in summation this thing WAS allowed to stand nearly fully operational, rats and rain, and will probably require a substantial investigation before it ever sees its first reactor rods inserted. if they hustle i predict everything can be reinspected in around a year, but since this has the odor of a recession stimulus project id imagine bringing reactor #2 online will take about 3 years or more (this isnt dads old woodfire stove after all.) by which time it will begin to generate electricity and repay its own costs. 10 years out or so, we might see it start to contribute to what little is left of the recession, using its power generation technology dated at this point by three decades..
the president is giving out free money for clean energy, and someone at the TVA with a yacht said, "i gotta get me some of that!"
but really guys, 19 years of rats and rain? just how efficient and on time do you expect this thing to be, let alone safe, once you bring it up? Almost two decades have passed, in which time things like the pebble bed reactor have come about as more efficient and powerful means of generating nuclear energy. its like trying to finish your kids new crib after theyve turned 12.
why we had to innovate past the grid computing...its paradigm of short-sighted operational mindsets was impacting our productivity!!! and challenge owners couldnt fully own our new vision without an expanded cloud worldview of the datagrams which had for so long embodied our vision of a face-forward actionable adoption processes at this juncture?
its time to sharpen our pencils and be above-board about this situation..
seeing these impacts to our mission goals in the new cloud is a new challenge requiring breadth and depth in mastery. who will be the next subject matter expert to synergize such an emerging change? who can, for lack of our current brain dump, drill down to the core competencies of cloud-based service oriented architectures to achieve actionable efficiency across the piece?
once again steering the fail-boat that engineering is driving, until she wraps around a phone pole, hits a standard, and kills a company or two.
"draft" N is exactly why i make sure marketing does not get to see developer mailing lists and content at my slave site. why in the holy hell SHOULD the production standard be compatible, or even remotely similar to, its draft??
shithead who decided microsoft windows simply MUST run on the OLPC in 60 days?? and now his professional evaluation of the open source operating environment he wanted to replace is that it sould have been sitting atop vanilla linux??
whats left? a big bold redmond boilerblate on the case that says "fuck you red-hat" with clippy waving the bird?!
an industry so vehement in their defence of artists rights in cyberspace, they have completely forgotten about the very technology they approved to protect it.
to parallel: this is akin to your local law enforcement asking if the war on drugs is dead, or your local supermarket asking if organic produce is dead.
Standard Operating Procedure for Waste Disposal Repair:ISS
1. designated technician must respond no sooner than 5 hours after initial failure is detected.
2. display of 2.27-5.323 inches of exposed gluteus maximus is required at all times during any/all repair exercises
3. no work is to be performed for a duration of longer than 12 minutes, without 30 minute recovery period. consumption of 1 slim-jim or approx. 11 corn nuts during recovery period is recommended
4. repair costs will be billed to all parties involved and uninvolved in damage and repair. total repair will be factored against the strength of the yen, yuan, and national deficit accordingly to arrive at a final cost of no less than 3/4th the 2011 NASA budget proposal.
But i signed up for applications like this when i agreed open source was a terrific achievement for the community. war is a terrible application for something so geared toward the greater good, but freedom as in speech means some are bound to say things others dont like.
I can only hope open source can lead us away from wars entirely some day.
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Thank you for playing SCO.
please insert credits to continue........
from redmond if they file each year as SwashbucklingCowboy says they do insisting linux is a viable competitor and a threat to the business model, yet ballmer repeatedly denies this fact?? does he base business decisions on this delusion, or is that cheerleader outfit cutting circulation to his brain?
I believe microsoft has not learned from the browser wars what competition is and why from a business perspective it, or the potential, should never be ignored. Linux and competitors aren't something that can be squashed by new art from the graphics department and a longer startup noise. failure to take competition seriously has serious repercussions.
a parallel to draw is automotive manufacturers in the states. while luxury sedans from lexus and acura included more and more interesting and useful gadgets, better fuel efficiency and higher safety ratings, detroit was content cranking out escalade after escalade making increases only in size. 2009 was the first year the model actually saw a size decrease. for a $70k luxury suv it still doesnt include crash avoidance, lane departure detection, or laser cruise control as its competitors from lexus do.
seatbeltless cars, guardless chainsaws, helmetless bicycles and police free cities will all help this 21st century civilization embrace the anarchy that makes it more productive!
all the code that determines innocent or guilty is, shall we say...
proprietary?
extend: redefinition or change of the present standard in an apparent move to increase its worth.
please stay tuned for extinguish, where you will find we have replaced joes GPLv3 with a warm cup of microsoft open source...lets see if he gets punished for noticing!
other developments will include a spinning Richard Stallman turbine capable of powering an entire city block.
confirm the data errors in my Phison SSD, but the things been booting since somewhere around mid 2008.
thing, this microsoft windows push. it now comes on virtually all computers regardless of whether you want it, with paths offered only to upgrade the windows to a more premium version (not remove the bloody thing.) Special deals on windows are offered at retailers like newegg if you're building a computer, in fact the os is even pushed as a purchasing option before you finish adding products to your cart. its bundled with some motherboards you buy as well. windows now comes standard on virtually any EEEPc you try to purchase too. that never used to happen.
how much longer until you DONT get to choose windows but have to blindly accept it in everyday life? I support amazon and other retailers who honor my EULA right to refuse an operating system i never wanted, yet in most cases is bundled inextricably with the hardware i do want..you know...the computer im buying from a computer company in most cases.
your local lowes, and see which label printer they use. lowes store terminals are all linux.
these stores arent so bad! now when your XBox red-rings, you can form lasting relationships as you return defective unit after defective unit to the same trusty store employees.
i wanna know if charmin REALLY is the softest, and if castrol really protects against viscosity and thermal breakdown better than the leading brand!
er wait...is it the crapper wrapper that said stuff about viscosity and breakdowns?? i cant remember.
wants to say "screw it, who cares, i rarely handwrite anything anymore" but it feels like one of those nostalic things i might pick up again if i get bored...if only to flaunt it to a 19 year old.
more frequently between marketing and legal, im certain random DMCA lawsuits against high profile social services like wikipedia that stand for the common good would never see the light of day.
its like the legal arm of apple is some sort of Gestapo, a silent and deadly KGB willing to erase anyone who crosses party lines or speak future truths before the mighty apple legion makes them known.
alright, maybe im getting a touch fanatical. but the first rule of the computing system for fun and easy of use cant be modelled after fight club.
energy crisis or not, reducing the amount of energy we use in the data center is a good thing all around. if not for global warming, then for business expense, and if not for that, then the potential to make life as a noc power and cooling specialist alot easier (we hope.)
sudo 'make me a sammitch' will do something around my house!
a day late and a dollar short GM is coming up with this bullshit? the specs on this are the ones from the first movie (no longer marketed/marketable) and its basically (as parents have said) just the camaro with stickers.
I already know a guy who added decepticon logos to his mustang, which was damned cool at the time, but for a production car company to not keep up with hollywood is somewhat unheard of.
in ghost in the shell, nissan used it as a chance to showcase their newest SUV with the plate number "san ku ni san." youd better believe people could walk out of a theatre and buy one that day.
BMW rolled an entire series of short films staring cars that yes, you could buy and drive just like in the movies. James Bond had been doing this for years with the jag brand. hell, even national lampoons vegas vacation cashed in on EXISTING brands that could be sold to the public (hummer, corvette, etc...)
point to make: ball dropped GM. you offered a car to the public that DID NOT EXIST in production until TWO SOLID years from the movies release date. no one wants the old car from the old movie as is even hinted in TFA.
to be fair though, good job on bringing the safety of the vehicle up to a competitive level. and good job increasing the stock vehicles fuel efficiency. although realistically anyone buying this car wants muscle, not a sticker-clad gas sipper i think.
ouch...call me the bus driver Tweenk, because im about to take your stupid ass to school.
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/plant-specific-items/watts-bar/meeting-summary.html pay attention to the NRC meeting summary for march...particularly:
Ten critical case conduits were evaluated for
both Units. Provide the number of conduits
evaluated for each Unit.
Provide the total number of silicone
rubber cables in the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant
(WBN),
Unit 2, population.
Provide the process/justification used
to qualify the Unit 2 cables for a 40-year life.
now lets follow along and read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Bar_Nuclear_Generating_Station
unit 2 is 80% complete.
in fact in the wiki article the reactor cooling tower is VISIBLE.
now, lets look at the subsection c.1.7.
under construction inspection information for the ICIR dated 4/30
In addition, the inspectors performed a walkdown of cables in the annulus area and held discussions with TVA on PERs (162649 and 163461) related to unprotected and potential damaged cables. Specific documents reviewed are listed in Attachment 1.
so yeah, in summation this thing WAS allowed to stand nearly fully operational, rats and rain, and will probably require a substantial investigation before it ever sees its first reactor rods inserted. if they hustle i predict everything can be reinspected in around a year, but since this has the odor of a recession stimulus project id imagine bringing reactor #2 online will take about 3 years or more (this isnt dads old woodfire stove after all.) by which time it will begin to generate electricity and repay its own costs. 10 years out or so, we might see it start to contribute to what little is left of the recession, using its power generation technology dated at this point by three decades..
the president is giving out free money for clean energy, and someone at the TVA with a yacht said, "i gotta get me some of that!"
but really guys, 19 years of rats and rain? just how efficient and on time do you expect this thing to be, let alone safe, once you bring it up? Almost two decades have passed, in which time things like the pebble bed reactor have come about as more efficient and powerful means of generating nuclear energy. its like trying to finish your kids new crib after theyve turned 12.
why we had to innovate past the grid computing...its paradigm of short-sighted operational mindsets was impacting our productivity!!! and challenge owners couldnt fully own our new vision without an expanded cloud worldview of the datagrams which had for so long embodied our vision of a face-forward actionable adoption processes at this juncture?
its time to sharpen our pencils and be above-board about this situation..
seeing these impacts to our mission goals in the new cloud is a new challenge requiring breadth and depth in mastery. who will be the next subject matter expert to synergize such an emerging change? who can, for lack of our current brain dump, drill down to the core competencies of cloud-based service oriented architectures to achieve actionable efficiency across the piece?
I mean, am i right or am i right?!
once again steering the fail-boat that engineering is driving, until she wraps around a phone pole, hits a standard, and kills a company or two.
"draft" N is exactly why i make sure marketing does not get to see developer mailing lists and content at my slave site. why in the holy hell SHOULD the production standard be compatible, or even remotely similar to, its draft??
shithead who decided microsoft windows simply MUST run on the OLPC in 60 days?? and now his professional evaluation of the open source operating environment he wanted to replace is that it sould have been sitting atop vanilla linux??
whats left? a big bold redmond boilerblate on the case that says "fuck you red-hat" with clippy waving the bird?!
as you depart the plane here at Dublin international, remember to please set your watches back 6 centuries.
of muscling into the industry only to release a flop product, and blame it on linux...while your virtualization of the same type works just fine
an industry so vehement in their defence of artists rights in cyberspace, they have completely forgotten about the very technology they approved to protect it.
to parallel: this is akin to your local law enforcement asking if the war on drugs is dead, or your local supermarket asking if organic produce is dead.
Standard Operating Procedure for Waste Disposal Repair:ISS
1. designated technician must respond no sooner than 5 hours after initial failure is detected.
2. display of 2.27-5.323 inches of exposed gluteus maximus is required at all times during any/all repair exercises
3. no work is to be performed for a duration of longer than 12 minutes, without 30 minute recovery period. consumption of 1 slim-jim or approx. 11 corn nuts during recovery period is recommended
4. repair costs will be billed to all parties involved and uninvolved in damage and repair. total repair will be factored against the strength of the yen, yuan, and national deficit accordingly to arrive at a final cost of no less than 3/4th the 2011 NASA budget proposal.
But i signed up for applications like this when i agreed open source was a terrific achievement for the community. war is a terrible application for something so geared toward the greater good, but freedom as in speech means some are bound to say things others dont like.
I can only hope open source can lead us away from wars entirely some day.