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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
A while ago Prof. Richard Parncutt placed a page on his website calling for the death penalty for global warming skeptics. In a fit of remorse, or because someone called him on the rug, Parncutt replaced that page with one that apologizes for the original article.
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
As if wild hurrincanes, rampant tsunamis and no North Pole are not bed enough threats to our lives. We now discover that global warming may also increase the risk of the Earth being hit by a cataclysmic asteroid.
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
For the last two decades, we have been hearing that ousourcing is good. That we want the "high tech, high paying" jobs. Nevermind that implies that people must constantly retrain as jobs go overseas: computer programmers become genertic engineers become wall street banker become... and that as people get older that retraining gets harder.
Well now we are seeing the cost of outsourcing, not just to individuals but also the economy as Samsung gains more and ground to Samsung in the mobile wars. So now we see the cost of outsourcing, to the American company that has led innovation in the last ten years.
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
Seems that Microsoft is doing a series of product placements. Recently
The cheesiest of there is on the Show Elementary. This placement ( as all the placements ) can be found on youtube, and shows Holmes attaching the Surface keyboard, puling out the kicjstand, starting a browser and searching on Bing.
So is this a successful product placement or is it so overthetop it fails?
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
So did anyone else catch the cheesy product placement of a Surface tablet in last weeks episode of Elementary, At the end Holmes even does a Bing search.
Success or fail?
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
Ebay has decided to censor Glenn Beck by pulling a piece of his art called "Obama Pee Pee". A take off of Andres Serrano's award winning work Piss Christ .
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
David Kappos tells patent opponents to "give it a rest" He further goes on to say that the present smartphone patent litigation is the way the patent system is supposed to work.
Mr Kappos, if this is the way that the patent system is supposed to work, then speaking for those who would eliminate patents altogether: the prosecution rests.
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
A guy is suing MS because he claims hje was shortchanged on his 32G Surface.
Turns out that 16G is OS and applications so you only get 16G of storage.
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
In choosing a tablet for Her Royal Collection Queen Elisabeth choose the Galaxy Note 10.1 over the iPad.
In a personal note let me add "Take that you iSheep," and "Nyah Nyah Nyah".
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
Texas it seems is the first state to achieve a "complete" secession petition .
It will be curious to see what response the White House will have.
I thought I would add a few thoughts.
1) Those that want to joke about this should keep in mind that in 1861 people were probably joking too. I do not think secession is inevitable, but at the same time I would not classify this completely unlikely. Even if the secession discussion blows over this shows a serious problem. A look at a Red/Blue map of the US is worrisome enough, but when the maps is done by county it becomes clear that there is a serious urban/rural divide that will spell trouble in the future. ( OK I said that bbadky, but you get hte picture. )
2) Most people joke about the Red states having to get their own military, but when you look at the composition of the military I bet most come from Red states. Even more so if you only count the people who joined because of "duty to country" or "to be in the military" and not "for the tuition".
3) All this talk of the "1%" being evil misses something. There are the "1%" who are things like, carpenters and farmers and generally decent folks. Then there are the slimy "1%" who glorify conspicuous consumption. The slimy "1%" live mostly in New York and Chicago. If you look at traders and such then it is really a high percentage.
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
Sorry to go off topic, and get away from the serious discussions of things like the US Presidential Election that Slashdot is known for.
I'm interested in learning how to program ARM processors, as well as learning some of the evolution of ARM instruction set, register structure, interrupt structure etc.
So can anyone give any suggestions about the best way to approach to take?
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
Back before 1995, we kept seeing Microsoft defending certain ways that DOS/Windows/MS made it hard for competitors. The typical excuse was that "it was an accident". It was an accident that 1-2-3 would not run on Dos 2. It was an accident that a warning dialog box
about a bad copy of DOS popped up, It was an accident that MS used Stac's compression in DOS. It was an accident that MS was slow to give Novell apis.
Now we have Apple giving the finger to the Queen of England for the second time in a week. No doubt they will claim this was an "acccident". This smells like the same disregard for the legal system as Microsoft. So has Apple become the new Microsoft?
PS: I am not underestimating MSs ability to wreak havoc anymore, however after more then fifteen years of legal battles in the US and in the EU, and changes in the technology world, it seems a lot of bite has gone out of their sting.
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
Seems that Mark Steyn is getting ready to reply to Michael Mann by pointing out that a claim in Mann's court filing that he has received a Nobel Prize is false.
Judith Curry goes on to warn Mann that he is biting off more then he can chew.
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
Climate change expert Michael Mann sues the National Review for libel.
Too bad Mann is enough of a public figure that the suit will probably be dismissed for that ereason. It would be interesting to see Mann in discovery.
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MouseTheLuckyDog writes:
Gucci is selling a bicycle for $14K.
I notice that on their page they fail to mention whether they use a Campy groupo or a Shimano groupo.
