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Posted in Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEO
That's because...
...this article actually makes sense.
"because Elsevier holds the copyright"
Which effectively terminates the market, replacing it by monopoly enforced by the guns of the state. The legislation for THAT being maintained and extended through stuffed envelopes handed to lawmakers.
Copyright - not being used to remunerate the crying creative people or sadfrog writers in the El Reg Copyright Defense Corner.
But it's usual practice. Even the IEEE and ACM rape and pillage, and they really should know better: http://www.crypto.com/blog/copywrongs/
They seem perfectly well adapted to real life
Not to the bromide retardo make-believe bullcrap for Delta-Minus Semi-Morons one gets force-fed in highschool.
> when another student heard of the offer and snitched to the school principal.
A candidate for concrete foot appears!
Yes
That's where the "copyright protected" parting shot comes in.
I am really amazed that these planetary systems are stable, I suppose interstellar space will be full of roundish crap ejected from solar systems Auf Nimmerwiedersehn!
Perfect for a hidden interstellar pirate base! Yarrhhh!
Newt verbal flatulence is a fearful thing!
"Northwest Ordinance for Space"
When I was a little kid, I had grandiose plans for SPACE STATIONS! In SPAAACE! I had already chosen the exact color scheme in which I would have them painted. The rest was details. That was long ago.
Posted in Google Maps to dish out disaster alerts
This moralfagging is tiresome
"suppress its natural instincts and do something for the common good"
It makes some people rich and brings search results. Also amazing maps, streetview and peppers you with ads. Not good enough? Not happy? Don't use it.
Jesus Christ what's wrong with people?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
I think it is extremely unlikely that successful hybrids will be created accidentally. This is not a large physically grounded system with high parallelism. Here, we have a few thousands computers in which "hybridized code" implies higher success at crashing & burning, not at hiding, surviving and infecting.
As to why anyone would develop such a thing knowingly ... beats me. Why not just pack everything into a known correct package?
"the time of the Jerusalem virus"
Jesus as Patient Zero of a new replicator meme complex?
The dismay
Why JavaScript? WHY? What is interesting about that language in 2012??
For some historical reason it shows up in webpages. It has also been standardized as ECMAScript. It uses { and }.
So. Fracking. What.
>>If it was as low as 5% then I don't think they industry could say they were losing billions.
Ridiculous. If it was as low as 0.01% then "the industry" would say they were losing billions. This has been ongoing since the invention of "home taping".
LOL!
Why U mad though?
Posted in How to tell if your biz will do a Kodak
This is not how it works.
"it's just a case of vision"
Say what? It is impossible to know whether your latest attempt at "innovation" will go anywhere. If you could just decide to "innovate" and win thereby, it would be easy.
Let's take this optical storage thing. Definitely innovate, but it didn't go anywhere. This is not necessarily due to bad positioning as the article implies. It may be just due to bad luck, bad timing, bad technological approaches, bad marketing or even government red tape & taxes. Tomorrow a tentacle of HP may come out with something similar and win big.
I like the clarity of hindsight but one should not be fooled into thinking that it allows one to take the next step, however small.
So is the War on Galactic Terror called off?
The 19 trillion actual debt paid?
The 200 trillion uncovered welfare costs suddenly covered?
No?
Forget this shit.
Will there be...
....finally a realistic depiction of an "accident in an airlock"? Last one was in that Kubrick film with the IBM computer that went nuts, IIRC.
Problem? I think not.
> The issue is that they agreed to not hire employees who wanted to leave where they were, and applied for a job at the other company all on their own.
Considering that the world's employers does not consist only of these companies, I fail to see how any of that is a problem.
The only things that happens is that really good people will be hired out or leave the pool formed by the "gentlemen's club" companies [preferably going abroad where one can give the finger to any agreement not to use the part of your brain used in one's former job, too].
Or one can open one's own company.
Additionally, note that new entrants to that pool will be more expensive once the fact of the club is known.
> Rigging the market (whichever type of market we are talking about) is not "civilised behaviour"
> Probably supports labor unions
"LOL I TROLL U"
Erm?
I fear you don't get what the problem is here.
Fuzzy Fourier Transform?
El Reg, do NOT be afraid of using Big Words like "time domain" and "frequency domain".
We can take it it!
No this program?
for (;;) {
$accountBalance += $irs->extortMoneyAtGunpoint($taxRate) unless $deathDidDie;
$accountBalance += $treasury->sellGovtBondsToHoiPolloi();
if (log(-$accountBalance) > 12) {
$fed->printRandomAmountOfMoney();
$accountBalance += $treasury->sellGovtBondsToFedVia($goldmanSachs);
damageControlVia(@spinmeisters)
}
do {
$accountBalance -= $congress->welfareWarfareSpending($exelSheet,$blackExcelSheet);
} while !moneyLustSatiated();
elect(); elect();
$taxRate *= 1.1;
$situation->update($taxRate,$accountBalance)
throw FinancialException if $situation->isZimbabwe()
}
"Stealing content is theft, plain and simple"
Holy cancerigenic tautology Batman!!!
Posted in George Lucas: 'No more Star Wars'
Are you hired by some PR agency?
"Lucas is a power house of talent that can take single credit for resurrecting the US film industry in the late 70's."
What the hell does that even mean?
"Before you criticize the man, walk a mile in his shoes and see how successful you would be"
Am I doing movies? No.
"He has earned the right to walk away from the brilliant world he created"
HE MADE MOVIES!
Posted in George Lucas: 'No more Star Wars'
RedLetterMedia citation
A guy called William Shakesman once said:
'Brevity is the Soul of Wit.'
It means stop wasting my time. You keep it nice and simple.
[Shows Lucas inspecting a large set of Star Wars figurines of Goonghas etc.]
I said STOP IT!
Posted in Data centers to cut LAN cord?
Why? Economics.
As the paper says:
"In prior work, we argued ... for a more modest addition of links to relieve hotspots and boost application performance. The links, called flyways, add extra capacity to the base network
to alleviate hotspots. When the traffic matrix is sparse (i.e. only a few ToR switches are hot), a small number of flyways can significantly improve performance, without the cost of building a fully non-oversubscribed network. ... We believe that 60 GHz flyways are an attractive choice because wireless devices simplify DC upgrades, as no wiring changes are needed. Furthermore, 60 GHz technology is likely to become inexpensive as it is commoditized by
consumer applications, while optical switches are not. ... indoor 60 GHz technologies such as 802.11ad target a short range of 10 meters, and 60 GHz links use highly directional antennas.*
Sounds interesting. But why not go for the comm laser?
"the team is looking for the ring of matter that forms around the perimeter of the structure"
I would say calling an 4-D "finger from the future" that is literally the edge of spacetime a "structure" is playing fast and loose with language.
Anyways. Greg Egan used the ominous-sounding name "Goudal-e-Markaz" for this ... place ... in his novel "Incandescence". This is evidently Persian, if anyone knows what it means, please translate.
No but I wish the moderatrix were back.
This is the road to hell
User thinking they will get "what they want" by pushing into the cloud is like left-leaners thinking they will get more "equality" by pushing for bigger government.
Excuse me while I fix up this script.
It's a good for a representative to despise and misinform the public.
Hopefully this goes so totally under that a few of the Capitol Roaches will metaphorically dance from high branches, otherwise our EUROTARDS will fall over themselves trying to emulate this and play Chihuaha to Big Obama and the rest of the one-party system.
After all, they are already about to nuke the eureconomy [what remains of it anyway] by barring Iranian oil. What for? To have their bellies fondled in a game of pure US-internal one-upmanship.
Could it be the SSD was running in a RAID 1 and both sides went away at the same time?
Relevant: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html
Well no.
You are NOT following a geodesic through spacetime when you are carried along by the ocean bed.
Wasn't there a rumor that it actually went down in the Andes, and some worry about the local indian family that found the RTG Pu pallets and is now using these to keep warm at night?
Why yes!
Present consists in pieces of coal accelerated to several hundred meters per second for good measure.
Posted in Flash stalks Seagate's hybrid drives
Like driving without safety belts
I guess an OS-supported infrastructure to detect that an SSD is a burnout and to automatically "eject it safely" and reconfigure to the harddisk instead of taking the whole machine down with it would be useful.
I would generate some interesting "BONG!" alerts.
Ok, it's bad but...
The alternative is scantily clad presentation bunnies of asian descent just barely not showing pubes.
Do we want that?
Someone hasn't paid enough campaign contributions yet.
It's election year, ya know?
John Brunner hadn't seen anything
"It all comes down to money".
SNORT!
To hear this when 700 billion USD per annum are blown on the *official* flecktarned reichcircus alone [tendency: going UP] is unbelievable.
The hallowed military of the democratic welfare/warfare state is now just about feeding revenues to be seized from the populace *in the future* to arbitrary companies *now* depending on how much their lobbyists have been working the Central Palace Corridors. That some people in foreign lands get turned into metal-peppered steak, cripples or anatomical displays in torture cellars is totally ancillary and actually meaningless. This can be easily seen in that no political result or success whatsoever has been obtained in the last 20 years. Indeed, things are just getting started on the downhill slope with no politician (no politician not considered "extreme" or "on the fringe" or "unelectable") pulling the handbrake.
Guess the few shavings for the good people of Microsoft are just natural.
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2012/01/varieties-of-pissing.html
"In the parlance of the day, or what would be that parlance if we spoke more plainly, we can say with accuracy and precision: The ruling class of the United States pisses on the entire world, just as it pisses on every human being who is not favored by privilege and power. This is the ultimate foundation of our lives today. This is the truth that will almost never be spoken."
Nah
That happens about every 5 years. It happen in '92 too with compression below the theoretical minimum, but I can't find the "ZOMG GREAT" and "LOL SCEPTICAL" articles from Byte back...
Not sure what is being said here...
"Monopolies" illegal? Since when? That's what "Intellectual Property" is all about.
The ones where "Antitrust" is involved are mainly about The Need For Taxes or a Friendly Ear for the Competitor, really. Or about bureaucrats trying palliative measures for problems that "Intellectual Property" legislation has created in the first place. Great job.
Now, we got that out of the way...
"But it's clear that in an increasingly digitised world, the delivery mechanism is the big key to creating value and maximising financial returns."
Thank you for the marketing shop boilerplate. But wasn't this always so? A mall creates value because it functions as a convenient delivery mechanism with all-in-one shopping, something that the corner shop cannot deliver. Amazon creates value - whether it delivers digital media or paper media - but offering nearly anything in a controllable manner, something that the corner bookstore cannot deliver. (Anyone who tried to order a book back in the 80s based on ISBN knows how abysmally unreliable bookstores were in delivering the goods.) This is why they die out or why to need to cater to the "non-connected" people or the book-browsing crowd (but then again, when you browse, the person behind the counter will look at you askance. Do I need this? Hell no.)
Hey, more books are being sold, "content creators" have the chance to reach more people and sell more stuff, it's great.
There is only one problem with above: lock-in DRMed formats and arbitary control by the distributor even after the purchase was made. Why is this even possible? Look under "Intellectual Property Legislation". Then be less slothful and go to somewhat shady sites where scans and PDFs can be had free of charge. In the latter case, only I win or maybe the "unauthorized reseller", but hey, the marketplace is not a controlled environment.
Well, it *is* Lubos. If he isn't doing defending String Theory by Vociferous Attack or commenting on politics, you should be able to trust him.
> lot of 'science' suffers from the same human failing of dogmatic belief that religion has
This B.S. is repeatedly professed as truth by "soft" science academics, "truthers" and people how think that math has been invented by The Man to put down the peasants. But it's just not true. You may have to *wait* thirty years for attitudes to be reoriented until the egos occupying the ivory tower have died, but compare this to the 4000+ years that humanity has been plagued by abrahamic religions.
> dismissed as crank theory
> e.g plants having sexuality
WAHT!
> relativity vs Newtonian mechanics
history shows that it wasn't dismissed as "cranky" AT ALL, indeed it gave a fresh look at the problems that others tried to crack with unwieldy and bizarre ideas given EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE. Hard-core Newtonians weren't happy. They were wrong.
> quantum vs classical physics
history shows that it wasn't dismissed as "cranky" AT ALL, indeed it gave a fresh look at the problems that others tried to crack with unwieldy and bizarre ideas given EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE. Hard-core Classicists (like Einstein) weren't happy. They were wrong.
"Damn I lost my singularity, it fell through the floor."
> I don't think a device that gives out free energy would take off much up in Mullumbimby
OTOH, a device that produces Copper from Nickel would probably blow up much of Mullumbimby.
Could not find anything under "Faith". Did you mean "Fail"?
You just need to have about 2 years of engineering on your résumé to learn that designing and building an artifact doing stuff in the real world is fraught with risk because nature WILL confront you with configuration spaces larger than you imagined and exhibit the FRANKLY DISTURBING tendency to change the state of your artifact from a controlled region to one of the VASTLY LARGER regions next to it, with those regions labelled "here be failure", "don't go here" and "your wife just left you", and this RANDOMLY and EXPONENTIALLY MORE FREQUENTLY the more complex your artifact is.
WHAT!
"The ability to use DC as well as AC power supplies ... the DC power supply can take 48 volt or 60 volt power, while the AC unit can scale from 100 volts to 240 volts.
Ok. Why don't "commodity" servers have that kind of extra option? Do only telecom-historical racks have DC? Doesn't DC reduce hardware bolt-ons? Or does it INCREASE hardware bolt-ons?
"if you want redundancy. The DC supplies cost a couple grand extra."
Why so expensive?
"In this case a maximum of two 1,200 watters"
Can one actually put more than a couple of those machines in the same rack without blowing the room's breakers? I can't imagine. The cooling effort must be tremendous, too.
What, no monitoring of /b/?
Sun Tzu you say? This shall be updated for the American Age:
"If you don't not know your enemies nor your friends nor yourself, if you don't know whether you are spending too much or too little, if you don't know left from right or right from wrong, if your only hope for survival is to invent military problems, if you have no brake to your ambitions, no sanity in your economic reasoning and you are ridden by arrogance and hubris like a sick horse, then you will be forever known as the gigantic faggot."
Posted in Best-selling games of 2011 revealed
c--tfield 3?
I can't fit anything in there. "cattlefield 3" does not match.
"I think zero punctuation had last year pretty well summed up for mainstream top and bottom 5 games"
This doesn't even reach RACTER level. What is being said here?
Posted in Australia should head-hunt Michael Gove
Or they could just call the IEEE or the ACM.
But thhere should be no problem with *people from* Microsoft and Google helping to shape the curriculum, as long as they are not the people from the penetrative tentacle arm injecting requirements on products. There's good and bad in companies.
Ohhh.. nooo....
"Boogeyman-du-jour comes just behind economic fears about income disparity and fiscal imbalances, and concern about rising greenhouse gas emissions."
No mention about the actual economic meltdown and the evils of paper money, fractional bank reserves an the destabilizing effect of central banks? Ah, but that would be challenging to the current order of the clowns. Better look into uh ... cyberterrorists and global warming. Enlightening.
Le résumé de la situation -> http://mises.org/daily/5837/Some-Additional-Reflections-on-the-Economic-Crisis-and-the-Theory-of-the-Cycle
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