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by nobody314159 15y ago
Nonsense - if it wasn't for focus groups we wouldn't have been able to launch our new car with improved whip holder!
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by nobody314159 15y ago
That's the reason for this separate recon version. It's finds the machine that is connected to the internet at the plant, along with what websites etc the user accesses. This allows them to target that machine/user with the payload which wi
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by nobody314159 15y ago
But people have been expecting an iPhone 5 all summer so they may have put off buying an iPhone 4 even before the official 4s launch.
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by nobody314159 15y ago
If your estimates are always 20% under what you achieve every quarter then you are either deliberately underestimating or your CFO is an idiot. If you are deliberately underestimating to be conservative - so if there is an earthquake in Jap
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by nobody314159 15y ago
No - it's saying Apple routinely lies about it's expected earnings so that every quarter there is a headline saying "Apple earnings beat expectations" So the street takes Apple's figures and add 20% because they know Apple always understate
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by nobody314159 15y ago
No - one of the requirements for certifying Toughbooks for Police/Military/Paramedic etc applications is that you can't get around the BIOS passwd. Take a look in a police cruiser, it will be a Toughbook mounted on the front seat.
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by nobody314159 15y ago
They wouldn't care If it sells they make money - laugh at that suckers! If it doesn't sell then nobody read it. As some heavy metal band said about their albums being burned in the bible belt - "Those sales still count for the charts"!
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by nobody314159 15y ago
Hello - we are a big company with an infinite amount of lawyers We are claiming, without having to show any evidence, that you are violating one of our patents but we aren't to going to tell you which one. If you pay us money we will leave
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by nobody314159 15y ago
So if the patents are overturned what kind of damages do you get against MSFT for forcing you to license them?
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by nobody314159 15y ago
If MSFT are backing them they $=infinity money to buy content. MSFT is a little scared that Apple and Google will own all online content. If MSFT can persuade Hollywood that Google is an evil monopolist and they are better helping a young M
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by nobody314159 15y ago
Semantics especially matter in patents. There is a famous historical case where a patent specified a horizontal beam - since you can never have a perfect horizontal beam in a real machine everyone was free to break it. It's why every second
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by nobody314159 15y ago
The important part being I could still have a patent on the steering even if the first 2 claims are denied. It's very common in patents to only really have invented the last claim - all the previous claims are thrown out but the last one st
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by nobody314159 15y ago
That's why many companies have flat expenses rates for executives. The day rate is $XXX in Europe, $YYY in USA and $ZZZ in Japan, there are tables of relative cost available. If you want to stay in a cheaper hotel/with friends/use your air
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by nobody314159 15y ago
Because next time there is an internal scandal and they need a victim to show they are tough on corruption or they need to make some redundancies they can go through the files and find someone who made a mistake over claiming for a cup of c
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by nobody314159 15y ago
I work in a government funded university. I had to travel to London as an adviser to a day of government meetings. Fair enough the government ultimately pay me. I did however make the mistake of buying a coffee and a burger at the station
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by nobody314159 15y ago
Yes it is - you just currently export the entropy in the form of Aluminium reduced from Aluminium oxide, in the future you will export it in the form of bits.
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by nobody314159 15y ago
I think there is a certain amount of strategy behind this policy. By giving away top class lectures for free you destroy the market for 99% of the universities that aren't MIT/Stanford/CM etc. You still have more people that want come to yo
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by nobody314159 15y ago
It's EASIER for Amazon produce a JK Rowling. You sign up 10-100-1000 childrens writers, it costs you almost nothing. Then if one of them starts to get any traction through reviews, blogs, slashdotting etc you can very quickly and easily pro
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by nobody314159 15y ago
It runs on 100% renewable energy. Is built to run on 100% renewable energy. Grammatically totally different cases of 'run'
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by nobody314159 15y ago
>Let the market decide That's the clever part of MIT/Stanford etc putting all their lectures online. Whats the point of paying to go to UC when you can learn the same stuff at home? And then the UC diploma becomes worthless because eve
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by nobody314159 15y ago
If the lectures are online and the lecturers are re-deployed to do supervisions and one-one tuition that's great. If as we all suspect, the whole dept is reduced to an admin person to collect the names and fees and a sys-admin to install th
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by nobody314159 15y ago
The lectures are already online for the poor kid. What this is proposing is that you turn up at UC, pay your $50K tuition, are given a list of youtube URLs to the MIT lectures and collect your diploma.
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by nobody314159 15y ago
Backblaze don't build 'one' of thes e- their whole philosophy is to build very cheap storage and duplicate. If you are going to use high-end 'pro' drives then wouldn't you just buy a high-end enterprise grade SAN anyway?
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by nobody314159 15y ago
The problem is that a large number of the failures that would take out 2 of 15 drives in a raid array will also take out all 15! Think bad power supply, mains spike, cooling failure, fire, flood ..... If you need raid, you also need a separ
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by nobody314159 15y ago
It depends what you were browsing when it picked up your interests and who is watching when it shows the ads! A UK ISP got into trouble when it was (illegally) tracking all your web browsing and replacing each site's ads with it's own ads b
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by nobody314159 15y ago
Exactly - they are essentially selling a "I'm a cheapskate" version and a "I can afford to pay more" version.
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by nobody314159 15y ago
I'm always suspicious of great new infrastructure that is free. Exactly how are you going to make money? Presumably by waiting until i rely on this and have invested time and effort into moving all my data into the system - and then you wil