Comment Re:wow, think of the impact this will have (Score 1) 185
So many good ideas run afowl of orders of magnitude.
Well, at least you've got lots of chickens.
So many good ideas run afowl of orders of magnitude.
Well, at least you've got lots of chickens.
AC was replying to the implication that crowdsourcing is analogous to slavery, or that this involves child labor, without any evidence or data to substantiate the claim. AC's point was that these guys are getting paid for a job they signed up for - Blair1q seemed to imply this was not the case.
...because I dont even think the new macs come with bonjour.
Say wha...? If anything, Apple's increasing its use of bonjour. It's baked into iOS and certainly still being pushed in the latest OS X.
More like a super preservative.
Interestingly, there's quite a lot in the UN Declaration of Human Rights but food only comes under Article 25, talking about maintaining an adequate standard of living. None the less, it's still in there.
You would have to assume the kind of workers being hired for this work have literacy and numeracy skills that mark them out as being above the physical-labor-sweatshop conditions that you're referring to there. The most likely employees for this work are middle-class mothers with some education background - at least high school - and with some free time while raising the kids. Who are you to begrudge someone to earn a little money for their time?
You've made two claims there that you have no evidence for.
1. That they're not doing this voluntarily.
2. That they don't agree to the salary.
Can't wait to see the orange-stained pools afterwards. Something tells me they'll look positively radioactive.
A sufficiently "virtualised" data centre could potentially be distributed around the country/world, negating any local effects, naturally for any clients willing to pay a disaster premium.
*again*? I think he's been rolling steadily faster since the mid-nineties.
Sarcasm aside, I would never consider running a VPN sever or a proxy of any kind unless I had a log retention policy of 30 seconds, and/or all personally identifying information was scrubbed from all logfiles prior to their being written to disk.
Why log at all?
There's a bash.org quote that I can't find right now (at work) where the guy was doing transfers in cents to a friend with a word or two attached, and apparently managed to carry out a conversation. I'm suddenly put in mind of that - if you can only encrypt a certain class of "communication", then why not encode & communicate over that?
It sounds like its time to fire the CEO. They paid billions just a few months ago for WebOS from Palm and now have nothing to show for it.
Well... not quite "a few months ago". They paid $1.2bn in April-June 2010; the purchase was complete on July 1; CEO Mark Hurd resigned August 6 2010. August 18 2011, new CEO Leo Apotheker (formerly of SAP) announced they were getting out of the business.
Either way that was a very expensive bad investment if you blow billions just to dump it a very short time later. If patents were that bad the CEO should have made sure their employees did a risk analysis and investigate this. I mean this is why you pay the employees right? Idiots
Maybe the patents are worth more than the price paid for Palm in 2010 - after all, we've since seen a lot more litigation on the basis of these patents, and two multi-billion dollar deals that look to be driven by patents. The asset has appreciated, so it could have ended up being a very smart buy. Guess we'll see in the next few weeks as it plays out.
HP Quality Center, which they bought from (or with?) Mercury Software.
If you've ever had the... pleasure... of working with that pile of steaming proverbial, you'll find a way to short HP shares soon enough.
In the "mobile PC" segment, if you could iPads as PCs, Apple emerges as a clear winner. The CNet article states total PC sales as 19 million for the quarter - the link there says Apple sold a smidge over 10 million iPads in the same period, so Apple could certainly hold its own in an overall "PC" sales ranking.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
