Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 11:57 PM EDT |
2001-03-23
LG demonstrates wireless Linux Web pad at CeBIT [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 01:41 AM EDT |
"Monsanto, E.I. Dupont, Pepsico INC., Basf Plant Science,
Bayer Cropscience,
Dow Agroscience LLC, Nestle USA, INC.,
Coca-Cola, Conagra Foods, Syngenta
Corporation, Kellog
Company, General Mills
", link
This whole GMO issue
is analogous to the Open
Source/Closed Source/proprietary software issue. In
the
future will people look back at this period as a golden
age !(anarchistic
free-for-all) where people could grow
crops from unlicensed seeds without being
sanctioned to the
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 04:30 AM EDT |
This might be too political for Groklaw, but it is always a pleasure to read
clear and well researched writing.
The great criticism of
Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn't stand
for anything. He's a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard
opportunist who'll say anything to get elected.
The critics couldn't be more
wrong.
Mitt Romney is no tissue-paper man. He's closer to being a
revolutionary, a backward-world version of Che or Trotsky, with tweezed nostrils
instead of a beard, a half-Windsor instead of a leather jerkin. His legendary
flip-flops aren't the lies of a bumbling opportunist – they're the confident
prevarications of a man untroubled by misleading the nonbeliever in pursuit of a
single, all-consuming goal.
Romney has a vision, and he's trying for
something big: We've just been too slow to sort out what it is, just as we've
been slow to grasp the roots of the radical economic changes that have swept the
country in the last generation.
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 11:45 AM EDT |
http://www.gomonews.com/whatever-you-do-dont-lose-a-wp7-handset-2/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 01:04 PM EDT |
1997
The other day a programmer-friend sent an e-mail to me
and three other women. It read:
"Hey, I have a favor to ask of you Silicon
Valley women types. My 14-year-old sister Lila is taking this networking/C++
(computer programming) class at her high school. Pretty heady stuff for a
freshman. . . . She sent me this desperate e-mail today (see below) and I'm
trying to encourage her to stick with it. It bugs me that my little sister is
starting to buy into the whole 'girls are dumber than boys' BS.
"I already
sent her a big motivational e-mail, but it would be more genuine if it came from
people who are proving that women can do this stuff. She just started and it is
way too early to let the boys have their little class without her. A short note
of encouragement would make a world of difference right now. And I'd be
eternally grateful."
Rebecca L. Eisenberg[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Torinir on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 05:27 PM EDT |
<a href=http://i.imgur.com/xhKhx.png>Image Link</a>
Unrelated to topic. Just something someone noticed on their Facebook page.
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Gaming like it's going out of style.
West/Zampella vs Activision should be covered on Groklaw. :o[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 01 2012 @ 07:45 PM EDT |
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo notes the decline of Microsoft at his
site:
. . . August 2012 was the first month in TPM’s almost 12
year history when the percentage of visits coming from computers running on a
Windows Operating System fell below 50%.
Relatedly, the percentages of users
using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has fallen to just 16.8%.
. . .
This time in the last presidential cycle (August 2008), the Operating System
percentage was 72% and the browser number was 39%.
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- Human advantage - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 01:08 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 01:54 AM EDT |
There has been no actual confirmed reports of which chip
Apple is using in
iPhone 5. Some rumors say it's a
redesigned
Exynos, built by Samsung in
Austin, capped with Apple's A6
logo. Others are saying it's a Qualcomm S4
re-capped as
Apple's A6 chip, to enable LTE and that would make the most
sense. Because Samsung is suing Apple in So. Korea over
using
LTE in that
country. Other's say Apple has finally got TSMC
to bring up capacity on their
own A6 Design.
But that's also unlikely, because TSMC has had so many
problems with chip Yields on Intel's touted higher Yielding
Gate Last HKMG
Process. But those high yields are on Intel's
own chips at 32nm full
node.
Anyway it's beginning to look like Intel sold us all a bill
of
goods on the Gate Last producing higher chip yields. At
least on ARM chips,
that is. Because of their problems,
despite spending Billions on CAPEX
Upgrades, all the
problems
have been sending their traditional ARM customer
base
scurrying off to SAMSUNG.
It seems SAMSUNG has Proven that on ARM
chip production,
they
are still the Reigning King of both Quality and Higher
Yields. But of course that may be because of their direct
partnership ARM in
the first place. TSMC is just a chip
Fabrication Plant and do not produce any
of their own chips.
Yet it's SAMSUNG that has proven their loyalty time after
time in the chip business. Now Apple is only contracted
(rumors only) to
fabricate A4, A5 and A5x production. If
Apple did make A6 for production by
TSMC, they will most
likely experience the same problems others have been
plagued
with at TSMC.
Now comes the "Wrench thrown into Works" even if
they get
consistent high yields will TSMC have the capacity to supply
their
needs on iPhone 5? But the bigger question right now,
is what's gone wrong at
SHARP.... to make Hon Hai withdraw
their highly touted $800 Million
Investment in SHARP. So far
both Apple and Hon Hai have invested over a Billion
Dollars
in Sharp with their new Screen technology. But.... so far
Sharp has
yet to have any screens rolling off the production
lines and iPhone 5 is just 2
weeks from launch.
"Something has gone amiss" in the Magical World of
Apple's
iPhone 5. There are talks of delays, but how long when Hon
Hai pulled
that investment and they recorded losses of over
Billion Dollars in one
quarter, that can't be good. Since
now
Standards and Poor's have given their
stock a "JUNK" rating.
This could spell a disaster of major proportions on the
horizon for Apple!
SHARP STOCKS NOW JUNK
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 04:41 AM EDT |
Look at:
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-09-02/
A fitting comment.
Sorry has never learned how to make a link
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 04:16 PM EDT |
From New Zealand, with a strong anti-GM/GE food lobby, where we almost
banned
software patents, comes this
leap into a dystopian future.
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