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False dichotomy. If people want OS X but don't want to run it on Apple's hardware, then it's better for Apple to stay in the software business and pull out of the hardware business.

And what of the false dichotomy of giving up hardware for software? That would be an even faster road to bankruptcy, look at BeOS. Microsoft has been pretty successful at killing compeating OSes with the exception of OS X and Linux. I seriously doubt MS would hesitate if Apple were to start selling licenses to OS X to OEMs. Apple would be compeating right on MS's turf. Right now though Apple makes it easy to install and use MS Windows, Apple even sells Windows as well as VMWare. Microsoft even threatened Apple with discontinuing MS Office for Macs, and as much as geeks, hackers, and slashdotters may not like to admit it most people only think of MS Office when it comes to office suites. I know there are alternatives, I use NeoOffice the native Mac port of Open Office. Apple has released it's own office suite, I would be surprised if wasn't because of the threat. IBM still sells Lotus. But how many people know of these?

Falcon

In English: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/ap_on_re_eu/eu_latvia_meteorite

none other than the most notorious crook since john gotti.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_re_us/us_bill_gates_education_influence/print

what the heck, they can't be any worse off?

kudos to linux et al, finally addressing the wireless issue, which helps us with disposing of any remaining payper liesense bugwear stations in our .org.

I disagree with some of what you said above, and I agree with some of it. I'm not going to bother highlighting either as that would require that I re-read it and quote it, which might cause my ass to bleed from the self-importance and grandiosity of your post. Allows me to summarize for others who might wish to debate:

1: History is open to interpretation.
2: Entertainment is historically inaccurate.
3: History is about concepts, not facts.

Not a whole lot there for all the bullshit you just spewed onto the Internet. FYI, this thread explains in greater detail why you suck. Personally, my debating skills go right out the window when I have to deal with some fucktard with access to a thesaurus who thinks that style is more important than substance.

It is more likly to be an Enemy List

ya-HOOO-WOOO-OOO

http://yodelstudio.yahoo.com/us/

Vote! Vote my little worms!
Divert your will and energies into our little show of "change"!

While another Goldman exec is put in charge of "Enforcement - ensuring that there is none...

You see, under the post-Kennedy era system of American government, executive and legislative sideshows are intended not to demonstrate and direct power - but to distract from the real power of the land.

Bang! One magic bullet. You buy that story, and they already had you in the Matrix.

Therefore that person would see gay-marriage as hurting other people. Since that person loves other people, and doesn't want to see them hurt, they do everything they can to prevent the person from entering into a gay-marriage.

Just like that justice of the peace in Louisiana. Only looking out for other people, what amazing selflessness.

Of course you would say that that person shouldn't force their beliefs on other people.

Uh yeah. Unless this person is happy to accept everyone else in the world forcing their beliefs upon himself, in a loving way of course, then he's a hypocrite.

So why not look at their financial situation? At a very high level, things do not appear to be 'dire', with $20 billion of operating income, and $14.5 billion of net income:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT&annual

If the 2008->2009 trend of less revenues and less income continues, they would be in trouble, but having $14 billion of income isn't a real terrible place to be (especially if you compare it to revenues, most companies would wet themselves to net $0.25 on each $1.00 of revenues).

You want to claim the origins of liberalism for the American Libertarians

I want to make no such claim, I am stating what liberalism used to mean before others distorted the meaning. Back when the Founding Fathers used it there was no qualification to liberal or liberalism. To them liberalism meant liberty and small government. You are making the claim as to w2aht it means not me. Only now you're using "Lockean Liberalism". I dare you to find any qualifications to "liberal" such as "Classical" or "Lockean" used by Jefferson, Madison, or any of the other Founding Fathers. Heck, even Onelook defines liberalism as "an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market and the gold standard". Looking at the first three links to online definitions, American Heritage Dictionary, Encarta® World English Dictionary, and Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary also define it that way.

Falcon

Apparently China's firewall is a lot better than their drywall.

Or you just stick your head out the cube and say "Hey Bob, which file has the numbers I need again?"

Yea, that works if you're cubical neighbors, but not if you work in another building, city, or state never mind the same floor.

You can't share your ideas for photos over IM

Here's an article from 2004: "Exploring the potentials of combining photo annotating tasks with instant messaging fun". Sharing Photos With Yahoo! Messenger, now you can't exactly show each other how things can be done easily but you can annotate or make remarks. I knew a graphic artist who collaborated online, though not with YM.

Falcon

you are wrong anonoass.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071003114409AAOBi8n/

The spreadsheet and preliminary narrative are now uploaded to the "oil from algae" group.

Well how about my own personal experience? My cableco/teleco duopoly hasn't moved a damned foot in ANY direction in a good 20 years. My mom had her house built 29 YEARS ago and was exactly two blocks from where the cable ended. Want to guess how far she is from the cable now? Can you say two blocks boys and girls? i think you can.

And that "free market" bullshit doesn't work when it comes to the cableco/teleco duopoly. case in point the above area where my mom lives. No less than 3 times have little independents tried to set up to service the area, and every. single. time. they were crushed by the duopoly. One of which was done by a good friend and former classmate who paid for a T1 to be run out there and was selling access. Basically what happens is this- someone provides access, local teleco starts to lose their $60 a month 33k dialup customers ( you read that right, $60 for 33k dialup) and then simply raise the rates on backbone access so damned high there is no way the customer can afford it and the independent goes under. My buddy talked to a lawyer and was told anywhere from 2-10 million would be required to sue, along with a decade or so to deal with all the bullshit tactics the teleco lawyers would pull. So naturally he just walked away.

As for more citations how many do you want? Because this isn't exactly some big secret here, we gave them 200 billion+ in tax breaks and other "bonuses" in return for nationwide broadband and all we got was the finger. So if you are a capitalist you should be ALL FOR seizing the last mile, after all we paid a huge amount for a service that we didn't get. We should give the teleco/cableco duopoly 90 days to pay back the money with interest, or we seize the whole damned thing. After all if a company rips off its customers you sue and seize the assets to pay the debt, yes? And I'd say robbing the public to the tune of 200 billion plus interest is more than enough to warrant seizing of their assets.

OK, 2005 statistics, and clearly incomplete (hardly any African countries represented) but: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mor_lac_of_foo-mortality-lack-of-food Shows a total of 298 starvation deaths for 2005. Boy, I'm really upset about that. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070327044448AAMio1U Suggests there are 1-2K deaths from plague each year. Now, in the US, there are approximately 10,000 deaths each year attributed to falls. Don't see you getting all worked up over ladders and stairs, there, bunky.

I've often wondered who actually uses Yahoo.

For starters AT&T

But ATT is down so often, can you really say people really USE the service "powered" by Yahoo?

On the upside in terms of platform, it is compatible with OpenSocial...
http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/guide/yap-opensocial.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial
I admit, that's not much of an incentive to make a Yahoo specific app, but it's certainly good for developers.

Their search page looks more like a search engine. I still don't use it, but clutter isn't the problem.

I've often wondered who actually uses Yahoo.

For starters AT&T

AT&T consumer grade internet customers get an email address "Powered by Yahoo" and are directed to the My Yahoo portal page when they install the starter kit that comes with the service. How many of those consumers do you think even know they can change it? Let alone actually want to mess with it.

Yahoo is used as a gigantic portal, "Internet utility" and some kind of communication platform. They were never a good search engine, their hopes went away as early as DEC got Altavista.com up. Inktomi gave them some band aid but they finally figured it is a good corporate search engine, not something to race with Google.

While Internet was small, their directory was good, that is all. In fact, this is what Yahoo was, originally: http://dir.yahoo.com/ . People tend to forget that for some period of time, they completely gave up "search" and used Google backend. They are switching to Bing now which interestingly surprises people.

Google is the clear "lets do a portal like them" wannabe(!) guy here, their iGoogle isn't at My.Yahoo of 1999 level yet. They also deal with a huge problem as even Joe Sixpacks started to say "enough with your leech of my data" to them. That was never a problem with Yahoo.

You should travel to Asia, especially Japan and Hong Kong to see their real power.

p.s. no the ICO isn't trademarking the word Commissioner, it's a font or PDF/HTML formatting thing or whatever.

Now, you expect me, one of two developers at a small company, to approach a client like Avnet or the Air Force, and try to dictate IT policy to them?

No, I expect you to see the opportunity, show them the lower costs and better security, make some nice presentations, and use that to enhance your stature in their eyes so that the next time they get p0wned, some PHB has a knee-jerk reaction and says "Call this guy - he warned us about this!"

It's called playing politics, and you have to play the game to get ahead. Read a couple of Dilbert books to put you in the right frame of mind (if it doesn't just depress the hell out of you that people are so stupid).

Like they don't have an IT staff who already knows everything I might tell them?

Yeah, right ... most of the "IT staff" are monkeys, same as anywhere else, and the ones who aren't, aren't going to waste their time with such low-level considerations as web browsers - they're working with data, not some boss who can't get rid of the p0rn pop-ups.

And those who are in between support monkey and the real IT staff are mostly just there to keep doing what they're doing. They couldn't effect change if their life depended on it.

Also, "technology company" doesn't mean they necessarily know shit about how to migrate from IE. For example, Avnet (stock symbol AVT sells electronic components and non-pc servers. That's why they go outside for software development - they don't have the expertise in-house for pc-related problems.

So why not recognize an opportunity when you see one? You don't have to replace IE - just offer to help them supplant it with safer, peer-reviewed technology that has a faster update cycle and will SAVE THEM MONEY!!!

Those last 3 words are magic in this economy.

Nickle and diming implies less value than cost,

Does it? I always thought it meant to extract a significant amount of money out of your customers, a teeny bit at a time, here and there, masking the true cost. Under this definition, choosing to drip feed content apparently unnecessarily would qualify as nickle and diming.

Yahoo answers seems to agree but then it *is* Yahoo Answers :-S
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061126203028AAuDJAf
Google will probably find better references.

however a 3-7 hour in-depth quest line with a few items scattered throughout is well worth $7. It's certainly not flipping horse armor.

I'm sure it's worth it - Bioware know their stuff. It's just that releasing it at the same time as the retail version of the game suggests a slightly cynical "You've bought the disk, now pay for the rest" approach to DLC - whereas if it had taken them a few more months of development it would look like "Hey guys, we value our customers so after release we made some more stuff - you can buy it if you want".

I don't think Bioware's necessarily ripping people off in terms of value-for-money here. Their stuff is good, I'll probably buy this game and the DLC. I just don't like it as evidence of a trend from "DLC = expansion packs after release" towards "DLC = a load of stuff we had for the game anyway, chopped up and sold for a higher total price than we could get on a single disk in stores".

They have a right to do that if they want but I'd rather they didn't - and if they persist or get worse I'll probably take my money elsewhere. Up to them if they think I'm the common case or not...

Balls. I thought that I'd got it all correct. The 4th Yahoo feed should be 1200k/s, not 100k/s. Sorry about that.

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For those of you who need to watch it in absolute realtime, I've found that all the yahoo feeds (windows media) whilst being the best video quality are generally about 1-2 minutes behind realtime. Realmedia is normally about 5-10 seconds behind realtime.

NasaTV Feeds at different resolutions:
100k/s, 320/240
200k/s, 320/240
500k/s, 480x360 (I think)
100k/s, 640/480
All Windows Media format

Real media format
Quicktime
For those of you who need to watch it in absolute realtime, I've found that all the yahoo feeds (windows media) whilst being the best video quality are generally about 1-2 minutes behind realtime. Realmedia is normally about 5-10 seconds behind realtime.

NasaTV Feeds at different resolutions:
100k/s, 320/240
200k/s, 320/240
500k/s, 480x360 (I think)
100k/s, 640/480
All Windows Media format

Real media format
Quicktime
For those of you who need to watch it in absolute realtime, I've found that all the yahoo feeds (windows media) whilst being the best video quality are generally about 1-2 minutes behind realtime. Realmedia is normally about 5-10 seconds behind realtime.

NasaTV Feeds at different resolutions:
100k/s, 320/240
200k/s, 320/240
500k/s, 480x360 (I think)
100k/s, 640/480
All Windows Media format

Real media format
Quicktime
For those of you who need to watch it in absolute realtime, I've found that all the yahoo feeds (windows media) whilst being the best video quality are generally about 1-2 minutes behind realtime. Realmedia is normally about 5-10 seconds behind realtime.

whoosh? what? seriously... you must have no concept of finance. struggling to stay alive? according to this, dell posted 2.5 billion in earnings the past 3 years. and according to this, their earnings doubled last quarter compared to the quarter before. thats HARDLY struggling to stay alive. according to this, as of the last quarter, apple had 5.6 billion in cash but and they owe 5.7 billion. thats a net negative cash on hand. as for dell, they have 11.7 billion in cash assets. i don't know where you pulled your claims from but according to the company's SEC filings, you seem to have everything backwards.

whoosh? what? seriously... you must have no concept of finance. struggling to stay alive? according to this, dell posted 2.5 billion in earnings the past 3 years. and according to this, their earnings doubled last quarter compared to the quarter before. thats HARDLY struggling to stay alive. according to this, as of the last quarter, apple had 5.6 billion in cash but and they owe 5.7 billion. thats a net negative cash on hand. as for dell, they have 11.7 billion in cash assets. i don't know where you pulled your claims from but according to the company's SEC filings, you seem to have everything backwards.

whoosh? what? seriously... you must have no concept of finance. struggling to stay alive? according to this, dell posted 2.5 billion in earnings the past 3 years. and according to this, their earnings doubled last quarter compared to the quarter before. thats HARDLY struggling to stay alive. according to this, as of the last quarter, apple had 5.6 billion in cash but and they owe 5.7 billion. thats a net negative cash on hand. as for dell, they have 11.7 billion in cash assets. i don't know where you pulled your claims from but according to the company's SEC filings, you seem to have everything backwards.

Yes precisely. Here we are with massive companies like Exxon that have market caps in the at over 300 billion dollars (1/3 larger than MS, nearly twice apple) with an annual profit of $40 billion that not only have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo and to demonstrate that "There is no anthropogenic climate change(TM)" but have been outed as willing to fund that conclusion. The entire budget spent on climage change research in the U.S. is ~$2 billion a year but is spent on research where there is no foregone conclusion. Yet, despite this HUGE disparity in the amount of money that could potentially fund a given conclusion, some significant portion of people STILL believe that data after data and analysis after analysis are the result of some liberal conspiracy to punish the capitalists and put us back into the middle ages and that there's a massive media cover-up of the real data. Its no wonder people denigrate these people as "deniers".

If it took them only 20 mins to contact the last ISP why would they only threaten legal action? This is the same **AA that sues dead people http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=riaa+sues+dead/

I was about to add that I own no Sony stock (and never would because they are evil by my definition.) Then I looked up who does hold sony stock, and realized I do (my main retirement mutual fund choice is the single largest holder of sony stock)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=SNE

So maybe 7% of your punishment would be directed at those who contributed to the neglect, and 93% would be directed at (mostly) innocent by-standers.

You don't seem to understand the flawed business model that communications providers have been running with since the beginning. They never had enough capacity for their customers. They could, but they need to pay their CEO's $20M bonuses instead of grow their infrastructure.

Wow, only $20M to put in a $1.7Bn infrastructure upgrade, with $2.3Bn extra costs to implement it with strong integration to the current infrastructure and while prematurely terminating part of the current infrastructure before value's been realized on it? You must be the best business process accountant ever!

Wow nothing. You have to try really fucking hard to make it appear that these companies are spending properly. It's blatantly clear to anyone using these communications network that something is fundamentally wrong, and to make the comment you did leads me to believe you're simply a corporatist with a hidden agenda.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=CMCSA

I don't know how much you really know about finances, but I fucking dare you to tell me that these numbers show they can't afford to grow their infrastructure to meet the demand for it.

Yes - the solution is to be lucky enough to find a lawyer that's willing allow their bill to get up to $400,000 but settle for $240,000

Or instead of a lawyer, hire this guy.

Wrong word, the one he referenced is pronounced more like fike.

See here for followers of the Phych filosophy

This sounds to me like "another hole in the wall".

what wall?
  I don't trust people looking over my shoulders at the ATM, why I would want to post banking info to the same website that is giving professional and collegiate athletes (Texas Tech football ) an open mic to diss their teammates (Owens , Ochocinco ) and coaches to try to get on Sportscenter is beyond me. Way too much opportunity for things to go wrong in 120 characters in the wrong hands. Finances should not be something to take a chance on.

Yeah, because there are no companies that employ people to produce free software.

On a tangentially related note, why are all the proprietards on Slashdot stuck in 1996? Where are all the fresh new trolls? I mean, Slashdot damn near invented the modern internet troll, we have a tradition to maintain here. Y'all are slipping.

Yeah, because there are no companies that employ people to produce free software.

On a tangentially related note, why are all the proprietards on Slashdot stuck in 1996? Where are all the fresh new trolls? I mean, Slashdot damn near invented the modern internet troll, we have a tradition to maintain here. Y'all are slipping.

Yeah, because there are no companies that employ people to produce free software.

On a tangentially related note, why are all the proprietards on Slashdot stuck in 1996? Where are all the fresh new trolls? I mean, Slashdot damn near invented the modern internet troll, we have a tradition to maintain here. Y'all are slipping.

Yeah, because there are no companies that employ people to produce free software.

On a tangentially related note, why are all the proprietards on Slashdot stuck in 1996? Where are all the fresh new trolls? I mean, Slashdot damn near invented the modern internet troll, we have a tradition to maintain here. Y'all are slipping.

Yeah, because there are no companies that employ people to produce free software.

On a tangentially related note, why are all the proprietards on Slashdot stuck in 1996? Where are all the fresh new trolls? I mean, Slashdot damn near invented the modern internet troll, we have a tradition to maintain here. Y'all are slipping.

Yeah, because there are no companies that employ people to produce free software.

On a tangentially related note, why are all the proprietards on Slashdot stuck in 1996? Where are all the fresh new trolls? I mean, Slashdot damn near invented the modern internet troll, we have a tradition to maintain here. Y'all are slipping.

I wasn't aware of the AAA's study. More, I have problems with the AAA - they have given bad advice in the past. But, this study validates what the AAA says on the subject, with a lot more credibility:

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.416f74e8613992381601031046108a0c/?javax.portlet.tpst=4427b997caacf504a8bdba101891ef9a_ws_MX&javax.portlet.prp_4427b997caacf504a8bdba101891ef9a_viewID=detail_view&itemID=d01bab6383f62010VgnVCM1000002c567798RCRD

Wow! It looks like I searched out one of the longest addresses on the web, huh? Try these http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32035670/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_commercial_drivers_cell_phones

People who claim that they drive safely while using a phone probably think they also drive safely with .2% blood alcohol content.