Yes, but without surveillance, how else would Joh Fredersen know about the explosion at the M-Machine and the workers gathering? Rely on Josephat?

Sorry, I should have wrapped that comment in facetious tags. Of course doing that would land oneself in jail faster than you can say the words "contempt of court".

Then again, we are talking about an average FaceBook user here, so maybe the judge should just be happy it isn't typed in all caps.

The Judge demanded she write a 5 page paper, but didn't make any mention of what size font was required.

I'd write that 5 pages...

in 72pt...

comic sans

Just sayin'...

I bought a used 3DO with a number of games really cheaply. The game I loved the most was Return Fire, mostly for the crazy multi-player matches I had with my friends and/or brothers. I tried the sequel for the PC some years later but it wasn't the same.

Twisted: The Game Show was fun for parties too, but eventually got old. I still have my lifetime supply of nothing that I won by spinning a zero.

CNN hadn't picked it up? I guess no one had tweeted about it yet.

Or, you could read the article, where he mentions his suggestion to the brass to buy Google in the late 90s, and Yahoo's complete disinterest in doing so because they considered the search business to be mostly irrelevant.

I've had just about enough of this "Sun". First, we've learned it's to blame for global warming, now it's setting fires throughout the world. Why, why does it hate our liberties? How many innocents must die of skin cancer before someone acts? How many children must we let it burn on metal playground equipment? When will it strike you with sunburn in your very own backyard?? The world must stand up to this terrorism! We must strike fast and we must strike hard! All good men must stand up and demand the world governments strike with the biggest atomic - no, hydrogen bomb and wipe this great evil from the sky above!!!

Urge your leaders to act now before it is to late! Think of the children!

Really, though, the same could be said of any company that size and age. Very large companies nearly always, over time, develop into unwieldy mega-bureaucracies, comprised of individual fiefdoms solely concerned about their own headcount and perceived influence. They become microcosms of nations. They have well-defined class structures, their own culture, sometimes even their own currency internally.

Replacing Ballmer isn't going to change any of that. A new CEO might excite the board and top investors a little, perhaps shuffle some HR/management policies around a little. But in the end, the same issues that are inherent in being a company of that size are still going to be there.

If aliens were to observe us and read nothing but YouTube comments, they'd probably assume humans are non-sentient.

Economy of Scale

The mass-produced Model S is expected to price in at BMW and Audi levels.

About a year ago I was invited and signed up with Getty through the initial program with Flickr. I had many discussions with friends who are professional photographers about whether or not I should sign up, and most echo what is being said here: the royalty rates are too low. This is a fair assessment; Getty pays between 20% to 30% commission for photos(depending on the license type), far below what most stock and micro-stock agencies will pay. For me however, the other advantages far outweighed the lower royalty rates. Having Getty handle everything is for me worth the fat cut they take. They are a large agency, and do attract a huge amount of customers, most being corporate-use type who are use to paying high amounts for photos. They will go after cases of infringement of photos licensed through them. Finally, I get bragging rights to be able to say I contract with Getty (this makes my pro photographer friends very mad. Now we have an understanding not to mention the "G" word). Basically, once I sat down, counted the cost and the other options, I decided it was worth signing up for. I've made enough money to keep me happy and be able to support my expensive photography habit.

Getty itself is in a interesting position here. For the longest time, stock photography was the domain of professional photographers. With the advent of digital photography, there's a new wave of pro-amateurs that have flourished in sites like Flickr. At the same time, traditional photographers worked themselves into a conformable niche shooting increasingly cliche photos. Creative professionals eventually started noticing they could find more creative photos on sites like Flickr and negotiate dirt-cheap rates directly with the photographer cutting out agencies like Getty out altogether. The deal between Getty and Flickr was smart play from Getty to keep themselves relevant in the changing market. There's still a need for a photo agency to do the middle-man work of contracts, licensing, releases, research, etc., at least for now.

So, in summary, this move is good for Getty, good for non-professional photographers, and not good for existing professional photographers.

btw, if anyone is interested, here's my small catalog on Getty and a shameless plug for my site on Flickr

Gartner also recently claimed that by 2012, 20% of enterprises (not just "companies" in general, but Enterprises) will hold NO IT assets anymore, as everything will be cloud-based. Wonder which Cloud Computing vendor payed good money for that "prediction".

Personally, I miss Slot 1. So easy to upgrade/replace processors. Just a little bit too bulky, though...

They used a farm of PS3s running Linux to crack the encryption. This is why Sony, acting in behalf of the US DOD, removed the "Other OS" installation option and randomly bricked consoles through last week's firmware update, (albeit too late to prevent the video from being released). Also, as documented in FCC filings, Apple's iPad has a secret built-in front camera used to spy on the American people to find the person who leaked the data. That's why the wifi connection is so poor, most of it is saturated sending live video to DHS. Finally. Microsoft is also involved somehow. I'm not sure how, but I'm sure the OOXML file format is somehow involved.