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Actually assuming Zorin is alive and flooded Thailand last year.
How much money did he make shorting all the HD manufacturers and their insurance companies, plus how much did he make on taking positions in those not impacted?
The estimates of economic losses from the floods currently stand at $259Bn. Even Zorin would be happy at 1% of that.
Surely the fact that the compound exists in nature is the ultimate form of prior art?
Or is it the manufacturing/purification process the "unique and novel" bit.
Why do I get the feeling that Big Pharma patents are at least as broken as Tech ones?
(Just so we are clear where I stand - In Your Face Ventnor)
Isnt Big Data just replacing the wisdom of the Crowd with the wisdom of the Cloud?
Bad analogy but half the Big Data advocates seem to be those who were spouting Web2.0-arhea a few years back. There seems to be a major assumption with big data that just because its now possible to collect and store this data we can and should be doing so. There is little or no attempt to sort it for relevance and REAL meaning.
For every google where every user transaction tracked is another advertising dollar earned it makes sense.
For most big enterprises if they didnt identify their key kpi's and metrics years ago - they dont deserve to be in business.
Human beings are utterly shit at detecting meaningful patterns from large datasets - often they see things that arent there as the brain searches for order amongst chaos. All the data visualisation in the world doesnt change that.
Even after all these years Big Data still has the smell of the Emperors new clothes about it......
Still - if someone wants to pay me to deal with it - bring it on! :)
Errr - hate to point out the flaw in your argument. If we went 100% (or even close it it) nuclear there would be a huge need to store that excess power because it would have to be set up to meet peak power demands - which afaik are much much higher than the average.
Ergo Nuclear would benefit almost as much as Renewables from this technology.
Tell me how many millions of Tablets we are talking about. As long as Apple is creaming off the lions share of the profits in a growing market (and there is $600Bn worth of reasons that say we should assume so) - do you think they care?
Especially since their Market share can fall - and their actual salescan keep increasing for a good while yet..
The CIO/CTO is an endangered species but nothing to do with BYOD. Its more to do with the CFO realising that up to 25% (or more) of a companies expenses are IT, and the corresponding desire to control those expenses (and the budget) that goes with it. Cue a decade of embarrising data leakage and high profile technical failures until they realise why they need an IT SME at Cxx level.
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Actually the solution is not to attempt to remove the human and compassionate aspects of the law in a knee jerk reaction to daily fail pedo hysteria.
Cases like this are exactly why judges should be permitted to use their judgement. A very poorly written law.
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I don't know if you are a cretin or deliberately bring obtuse. There is so much wrong with your post it beggars belief.
Firstly sky don't own any satellites they rent transponder space on them.
Sky don't own either the dishes or the installers.
So taking those away and the moronic hash tags it leaves your post pretty redundant.
hmmmm
just as good = inferior display - what planet are you on?
Think what you meant to say was for your particular use case you were only willing to part with £500 (btw was that real retail - a quick google suggests the online price of the current version is closer to £650).
So in short your comment should read" I have no need for the features the air has over my tosh - therefore I question the value of the Air for my own little world but I fully understand that others need to have a better screen or different OS validates their desire to pay more".
Agree with me or just having a thinly veiled dig at Apple for no real reason?
Surely without a way to protect your investment in Amazon ebooks its missing a trick? A fairly major one if you have a significant investment in Kindle coded eBooks?
No Im not talking about offline conversion via Calibre. Im talking about something seamless that happens on the device that consumers not geeks can use. Just like when I swap between the same kindle ebook on my iPhone and iPad.
Other than that they look like great piece of kit - especially if they are rootable to jellybean.
And why are you so fundamentally insecure that you felt the need to spout it to the world?
Im a Apple Fan - and love their tech - as a combination of form and function I find it hard to beat for my particular uses.
Whilst I read the Reg Apple stories with amusement and occasional disbelief Im not so attached to *any* piece of tech that I would find the need to broadcast a defense of it to the entire interwebs.
dont know if this is true or not as I got it second hand but its a great story anyways.
Apparently before the first atom bomb test Oppenheimer and the gang had a betting pool going on the effects. It was evenly split between those that believed the test would ignite the atmosphere and extinguish all life as we know it and those that thought it wouldnt.
Probably not true but conjours up a great mental image of boffins sweating bullets...
The scenario's are not the same.
This was an independent judiciary deciding that in the interests of a fair extradition hearing this evidence needs to be disclosed.
May is not the judiciary - she is part of the legislative arm of the government - multiple members of the judiciary have ruled there is no basis for McKinnon's or Assanges extraditions not going ahead and now its in the hands of May to basically decide on a whim.
Are you aware faggot is also a tasty tasty meat/offal based dish in the uk made approriately enough by a company called Brains (other faggot producers exist)?
Thought not - and equally irrelevant to the matter at hand.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.shitefood.co.uk/2012/01/mr-brains-pork-faggots/&sa=U&ei=1p0jUNi0MsTQsgbtoICoCw&ved=0CBoQFjAB&usg=AFQjCNHqnDBS3mdOnwwC0qzFsetB7MZ90Q
Not sure I like those scientists temporising over the limits of these new/improved sources of sequestration.
If they don't understand what they are how can they begin to know wether they are limited and to what timescale that limit works on. If that timescale is small yup we're in doodoo for this particular feedback mechanism only. If that timescale is geologically long then we are in clover. Repeat for the limits of each known or unknown sequestration mechanism.
1) We are, as a species, dead. The environment is so loopy that we can't grow enough food and die off. On the scale of "Bad things" that's up around eleventy-billion. It's really is not good.
Oh really? How exactly? Or are you making a wild overstatement? If only 10% of the worlds population lives near enough to sea level to be killed by a 10 METER rise (disclaimer wikipedia) then the other 90% are all right. Lets be pessimistic and suggest extreme weather pattersn and their impacts will kill another 40%.
Will it be a global disaster - on the individual level absolutely - will it be the end of our species - NO!
You do realise the the human race has be brought to the brink faster before than any climate change can possibly act - and survived - See black death, flu pandemics etc. Yet Im willing to be we are spending a fraction of the money on pandemic research that we are spending on climate change and its various costs.
Lets just keep some perspective eh?
Was it not obvious to G4S that the requirements of maintaining continual security for 2 months of Games are completely different from getting a few staff for a gig or a festival over 1-3 days?
With their stupid model they would need between 12k-15k of people on their books and still could not be guaranteed 100% cover.
I presume they were aiming to profit by paying day rates rather than 2 month contracts.
Some good points.
What is it about cable tv operators that leads them to take on huge levels of debt? It's not as if they are a real utility.
Is there any cable co in the Europe actually expanding their use base by cabling up new areas or are they all owned by VC's whose only skill is convincing banks to help them start leveraged buyouts?
So Apple dont make good enterprise apps. Dont think we can argue with that.
Newsflash Matt this does not equal iPad is no good for enterprise. There are plenty good enterprise apps for the iPad from Third Parties that let the ipad do well in its niche which is BYOD, Note taking, and very basic office functionality.
iPad as a desktop/laptop replacement - errr Matt nobody sane said it was (not even Apple). Whether the surface is it will take 2-3 years to find out.
In short more inconsistent Matt Asay rambling.
Seriously do you even try to write a coherent article any more?
The point wasnt that it was one Company (Visa) its was *ALL* of them.
At the very least thats Cartel behaviour.
Off all the shenanigans around Wikileaks and Asshat (most of which I have mixed feelings about) - this is the one incontrovertible wrong that was done. It was Censorship by economic means with no due process.
I had one or two of them. From Tandy I recall.
Basically you had components with terminals ending in springs, and shitloads of wires you used to connect them up by pushing between the spring coils.
They were great fun until you dislodged a wire and couldnt remember where it came from.