Comment Slashdot doing community service. (Score 2) 60
You can figure out a way if they really manage to get ISPs to block the gambling sites.
You can figure out a way if they really manage to get ISPs to block the gambling sites.
You can't get MBA's pay if you avoid meetings like a techie. You can have the freedom to work on what is interesting to you only when you are an academic working for wages far below prevailing industry wages.
If you have some skill/talent where programming/coding acts as force multiplier, you are set. You can be techie all your life. If your only skill is generic programming, be prepared to ward of the young and unwashed masses gunning for your job, try to move out of the way to management.
You can't lose a case there if you tried. And it is not reviewable or appealable to any court in the USA including the Supreme Court.
You think it is a parody from The Onion? It is what TPP does. Only foreign investors can sue the federal government seeking compensation for any change in the law or its implementation by any body (federal, state or local). They can demand compensation for not just actual losses, but for loss of hypothetical future profits their business plan assumed.
Instead these dim wits are appealing to US patent and trade mark office as a domestic investor. Such pointy haired bosses bring shame to all MBAs.
When it comes to standards, agreement to follow the standard is as important, sometimes more important than what the standard is. Width of twin beds, or diameters of hose pipes etc, half in inch? or 12 mm? INBD. In more complex products, be it engine lubricant temperature vs viscosity profile or HDTV protocol, we need some impartial body which has no dog in the race to set the standard. SAE for lubricants, ACM for ASCII codes, or IEEE for communication protocols. Further the standards should be free, as in beer, unburdened by IP/patent liability.
What Microsoft did in OO-XML was to encapsulate its old binary data files inside XML tags. Some of the old Word file formats do not have any explicitly defined structure or behavior. If you feed that binary data to old Word executable, what it does is what the standard is. No one else can implement that data without having the actual old Word binary executables. Even if Microsoft agrees to release all the old binary executables for all to use, it still would not run in Linux. Microsoft has lost its original source code, and it could not be recompiled in linux, it looks like. Even Microsoft is not able to get a fully compliant MsOffice for Linux.
It is completely to wrong to claim OO-XML is a "standard" in any definition of "standard" we engineers have come to understand. But Microsoft muddied the well, employed very articulate lawyers to confuse the issue. It was all pointy haired bosses and lawyer talk.
Those days it was difficult to believe that Microsoft could be tamed. But eventually it was
I felt they were just as good as google in the old days. I don't know why google ultimately dominated altavista. They talk about their magical algorithms but every time they're explained in detail it turns out they're neither mysterious nor especially different from what anyone else was doing.
No they were not as good as google in the old days.
It is not mysterious once the algorithm has been explained.
It was significantly different from what others were doing.
If you searched for "battle of midway" in all other engines, they would count how many times the phrase "battle of midway" appears in a web page and rank it based on that number. Google would search all the links in all the web pages that have the phrase "battle of midway" and find the most referred to site for that phrase. That is how it ranked a site. This was radically different. It earned Ph Ds for the founders. That was why Google's "I am feeling lucky" hit was better than first 100 results returned by Altavista.
Eventually it was cut down to size. It did not go bankrupt or anything, it still produces enormous cash flow, but somehow it could not mess up the market as it was able to earlier. At this point, even I don't care about Microsoft.
In the technology world, the title King-Of-The-Hill is quite fleeting. There are serious competitors to Google, especially in the overseas market.
Wu writes, "Search engines are widely understood as key mediators of the web's speech environment, given that they have a powerful impact on who gets heard, what speech is neglected, and what information generally is reached.
Then users will slowly realize that the Google's search results are not trustworthy and they will move away from Google as the search engine. The market will correct itself.
Greatest asset Google has is the trust it has earned over the years. If it misuses it it will lose the trust and the company will lose. I am not saying Google will not engage in such behavior. All I am saying is, there are natural constraints and market feedback against abuse. So we do not need any serious government action to correct it. All that government sanction and fines and browser selection dialog did not cut Microsoft down to size. A competitor did. Google has good competition from Facebook, Twitter and other social media muscling into the internet ad business and search business. That will keep Google in check more than any remedy proposed by a professor, or a lobbyist, or a judge or a legislator.
Based on Elon's cryptic comment on Twitter I think you might perhaps be on to something.
"There was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counterintuitive cause."
Sounds to me like "the vent on the second stage oxygen tank was venting too fast and / or not smoothly enough".
I watched SpaceX's own feed. The cameras kept on the vehicle for the duration of the failure and kept tracking some larger pieces of first stage debris for several seconds after it exploded. Beyond that point there would not be any large pieces of vehicle left to look at, except perhaps for the Dragon spacecraft which looked relatively intact.
I for one doubt that they did manage to get a camera on the Dragon before it crashed into the ocean.
Yeah, it could be the grind fins.
It could also be condensation caused by under-pressure caused by the humps (the solar panel covers) on the Dragon.
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!