And given how sui/hom-cidal I have felt after some dumb-ass meetings with the dumb-ass clients , I don't think I would have survived having a blade in my hands.
It doesn't matter if it's an absolute failure the first time, the second time or even the third time.
Remember windows didn't even catch on until 3.11
By that time, they had learned, bought or stolen enough tech expertise to score a win.
Then they leveraged their position to strong-arm sellers (not buyers) into carrying it.
But this time, I am not sure that they can win because of their prior 'success.'
The battle for the desktop was won but it has turned out to be a stright jacket for M$.
They're on the desktop of too many offices to ever break out of the perception that they belong there.
And its taken them way too long to even come up with something better than IE. They have made the internet a morass and a minefield for web surfing. And that is not helping them.
In strong-arming tech and forcing Apple from having any competive position, they forced Apple's image out of the office and into the retail space. (And guess where the money is?)
M$ = Eerie-Bucyrus; winners in their 'space' of huge earth-movers, but unable to make the transition to any other space, like back-hoes.
eventually, it won't be worth the paper its written on.
If this approach to paying off govt. debt is used, the cash crash would be worse than hyper-inflation in Germany during the thirties. (There's so much more money in circulation.)
Think of applying all of the force of the shuttle's engines to moving, instead of all that action/reaction cloud of steam and pollution.
Before OBL's little performance piece of Arab street theatre, I used to work in the WTC and I lived across the steet in Battery Park City.
I loved that my comute was 1,000 feet in two directions: back & forth and up & down.
Now, I could live around 4,000 miles away and still take the elevator for about as long as I, uh oh. Walking that far back & forth would be a bitchin' commute in the mornings.
I buy individual songs (rarely whole CDs worth of them.)
The RIAA sucks, their clients suck and the fucking pap smear that they expect us to buy sucks.
I SUPPORT indie artists AT THE EXPENSE of the "soit-disant" mainstream because I believe in mining the their very source BEFORE they get their hands on them and "Wall*Mart"ing the creativity out of them.
Serously though, with the coming rise in ocean levels you want to be at least above 30 to 40 feet(10 to 15 meters) above current ocean levels, preferably at a higher lattitude, like say Canada, if you want to have something to leave to the kids.:-)
And if you want to make them wealthy, buy a lot of land that will still BE land.
New Orleans is in a very BAD long term position, amortising over 30 years, you're likely to find your real-estate holdings underwater. (If you want to see how bad it can get, just look at the Champlain sea and the fact that the mid western praries are prime flat growing land because they were UNDERWATER.)
in existence to STAMP OUT all progress while the pursue the profits from the past.
There is nothing more threatening to the established order of anything than the creation of something new.
That's all there is to it.
If there is an industry or even a corporate structure that favors change, from AT&T to Erie/Bucirus, I'd like to hear about it.
Please note that AT&T is but a shadow of its former self and Erie/Bucirus is in museums.
We live with that kind of schizophrenia all the time.
The **AAs just want us to consume.
We just want to create. (podasting is merely the latest technology, the next rung on the empowerment ladder. http://www.msbpodcast.com/ )
We will ALWAYS be dealing with the opposition between the old, existing and the new, just created.
The worst thing is that the **AAs would not be bothered by winning, except that the profits would shrink as people REMEMBERED. We'd have to be pithed to keep the **AAs happy.
I am a podcaster ( MSBPodcast.com ) and one of my big concerns is that the RIAA will make all my music disappear or tie me up in legalities.
Could ASCAP/BMI (and other worse regimes, like the European models,) force me to pay a licence fee for my very small audience (only 0.0833% of the population has MS.)
It displays the actual content of the link as a pop-up.
I then copy the link into a browser window but not the URL portion. I usually have NW-tools.com up on my browser and use that to check the origin of the message.
I do that with all the phony 'meds' spam I get too.
People have to be really STOOP-ID to click on a link on an email.
I don't even do that with mail purporting to be from people I know.
There's nothing like the feeling of NOT getting a credit card bill once a month, except not having a car payment to make, or a mortgage payment to make either. (I 'lucked out' despite having MS.)
I have ONE credit card left and that gets used judiciously. Its also a pay by phone type deal with security identification.
I have no credit rating because I don't WANT any (and I can afford NOT to have any.:-)
You wouldn't believe the number of CapitalOne offers that I've put through the shredder over the years.
When I was young, broke but promissing, I could have used the credit. But I didn't have any.
Now that I'm an old fart, I'm stumbling over piles of credit card and 'mortgage renewal' offers.
Well they can all go fuck themselves.
I'm going to send some spam myself. TWIT
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Actually, I've just realized that I don't know (apart from in the theoretical sense,) how its done or even how to get in touch with the kind of creature who does it.
Strikes me as a very closed off world. (Probably because of all the death threats.:-)
Actually, the spamming (as opposed to the spammers) are highly vulnerable.
It would be easy to shut them down and/or fine them ($1.00 per email message) and have the various postal services collaborate to sue them into oblivion for mail fraud.
I don't imagine you'd find much political opposition to a source of free revenue. Somebody spams, the postal service in the country of origin collects the fines.
That would take care of the problem. Attempt to steal from me, you're an idiot. Steal from some tin-pot dictator in the process, you're mulch.
What kind of a moron buy stock from spam?
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First, you have to be set up to even buy stock (not every Tom Dick or Harry is tied to a stock exchange or is equipped to be a day trader) then you have to be stupid enough to fall for the pump & dump scheme.
The rate of return must be damn near nil.
I say give up the fight against spammers and go after the clients instead.
Follow the money.
If somebody's supposed to benefit from this, let them pay $0.32USD per email that's sent.
Otherwise, I'm going to spam myself to promote my podcast.
now that super computing has been turned into clustering and there are lots of people doing it (like it hit >$x billion,) it has apppeared on microsoft's radar.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, the terrain's already covered by Linux and those systems are a moving target with cost-benefit lines that Microsoft CAN'T possibly over take. (The software is $-free and open source and the users WANT collaboration.)
Its a technological death trap for Microsoft. (I can just hear the SNAP.:-)
That is just the way business is done. Its just an extension of demand-side economics. Everybody's looking for a cheaper way so the cost of production doesn't cause inflation.
You CAN outlaw off-shoring. We all know how effective that is. The borders aren't so much barriers as they are suggestions. A much better solution is the imposition of a tarriff wiping out the difference between doing work off-shore and doing it merely out-sourced.
The gummint would LOVE this as it requires administration but no stake holders and NO DELIVERABLES. The source of funds to pay for it the external to the country. As long as people want to get in because life out side sucks rocks, they can charge the moon and the stars.
We've started doing this all ready. "Take all the "lousy Mexicans"(1) and send them back."
Them go and pay $68.00 a pound for lettuce and you can't find an asparagus tip or a mushroom for love nor money. What do you want to do? Sit inside in an air conditioned room or stand and bend all fuckin' day in the hot sun (and Man it can get HOT.)
1) I say Mexicans but it refers to anyone who did not get to choose who'se cunt s/he slid outta. (Hmm. I didn't get to fill out a form neither.)
Spreadsheets are the triumph of the presentation of data over common sense.
Quite apart from the fact that some of the calculations are just plain wrong (and lack precision and are subject to systemic errors, such as rounding) the 'matrix' is often abused into serving as a data table.
Dan Bricklin may have latched onto a good thing for Apple but the unleashed idiots who used VisiCalc (and have continued through to Excel where the spreadsheet metaphor finally died,) have never had more than a clue as to what it really was.
ANYONE who trusts it to be any more than a "what-if" exercise is an IDIOT.
ANYONE who trusts it even as a "what-if" exercise without backing up the calculations with some sound math is an IDIOT.
ANYONE who uses it to store tabular data is an IDIOT.
Basically, its a fucking nuisance.
I once had to verify some calculation routine that we were using because 'the user said it was wrong.'
I spent two friggin' weeks going over code, trying it over and over again until I could prove that the code was accurate to fifteen digits on either side of the decimal place with ALL the friggin' math equations.
I finally asked my boss where the error was supposed to be. How did the user know that the calculations were wrong?
I was told to wait and he'd go and ask... The end result was that the IDIOT was actually using Excell to calculate yields on some very large and very long term bonds that they were trading.
The IDIOT was actually expecting my software to give him the same results as Excell.
Never mind that Excell is a fuckin' toy with rounding errors on nine digits (I said these were LARGE bonds) and the calculations used Newton's method of approximating integrals.
I felt like killing them all for wasting my time like that.
If they'd have told me what I was REALLY trying to prove (that Excel is a piece of shit) I could have done that in a minute just sitting down with the user and letting try things (that I knew weren't going to work) to try to prove to me that Excell was an accurate calculator.
Thank God he wasn't trying to use it to store his data. (I'd have ripped him a new ass-hole with a rusty can opener.)
Podcasting of content, wether text, audio or video, to a podcatcher with sufficient storage capacity gets around all these problems with alacrity.
They are trying to make the internet a synchronous 'live' feed mostly by exploiting the over capacity, purchased for pennies on the dollar, from the bankruptcy of GlobalCrossing and others who laid untold miles of fibre underground and it remains mostly 'dark'.
The advent of TCP/IP freed us from having to rely on a disruptable, synchronous streaming content delivery system. "'Ma' Bell" couldn't see it and neither can the "Baby Bells" see it now.
Buying into the argument that content needs constant, 'instant' delivery, just like broadcasting is, is at the heart of the problem.
Podcasting/catching can use asynchronous delivery.
As far as I'm concerned, its a win for the podcasters and, since capacity of the catching platforms is growing exponentially, its a win for the podcatchers.
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can you imagine the actual number of votes cast?
What cost?
Its a piece of glass that has the image back projected.
If you have a projector, you're already good.
The interesting part of this is the multiple detection points.
There are a few of ways to do this most of which involve stress deformation of a laser beam through the glass.
Wake me up when he stops having to touch a flat surface.
And given how sui/hom-cidal I have felt after some dumb-ass meetings with the dumb-ass clients , I don't think I would have survived having a blade in my hands.
I decided that a goatee should HURT, damn it.
because they have deep, DEEP pockets.
It doesn't matter if it's an absolute failure the first time, the second time or even the third time.
Remember windows didn't even catch on until 3.11
By that time, they had learned, bought or stolen enough tech expertise to score a win.
Then they leveraged their position to strong-arm sellers (not buyers) into carrying it.
But this time, I am not sure that they can win because of their prior 'success.'
The battle for the desktop was won but it has turned out to be a stright jacket for M$.
They're on the desktop of too many offices to ever break out of the perception that they belong there.
And its taken them way too long to even come up with something better than IE. They have made the internet a morass and a minefield for web surfing. And that is not helping them.
In strong-arming tech and forcing Apple from having any competive position, they forced Apple's image out of the office and into the retail space. (And guess where the money is?)
M$ = Eerie-Bucyrus; winners in their 'space' of huge earth-movers, but unable to make the transition to any other space, like back-hoes.
If the people are still young enough and/or worldly enough and/or smart enough then they CAN learn.
But there are people who will put Vasoline on their toast.
And even more who could be talked into trying it.
I don't hold out much hope...
eventually, it won't be worth the paper its written on.
If this approach to paying off govt. debt is used, the cash crash would be worse than hyper-inflation in Germany during the thirties. (There's so much more money in circulation.)
Think of applying all of the force of the shuttle's engines to moving, instead of all that action/reaction cloud of steam and pollution.
Before OBL's little performance piece of Arab street theatre, I used to work in the WTC and I lived across the steet in Battery Park City.
I loved that my comute was 1,000 feet in two directions: back & forth and up & down.
Now, I could live around 4,000 miles away and still take the elevator for about as long as I, uh oh. Walking that far back & forth would be a bitchin' commute in the mornings.
And they are doing it LEGALLY.
I buy individual songs (rarely whole CDs worth of them.)
The RIAA sucks, their clients suck and the fucking pap smear that they expect us to buy sucks.
I SUPPORT indie artists AT THE EXPENSE of the "soit-disant" mainstream because I believe in mining the their very source BEFORE they get their hands on them and "Wall*Mart"ing the creativity out of them.
Serously though, with the coming rise in ocean levels you want to be at least above 30 to 40 feet(10 to 15 meters) above current ocean levels, preferably at a higher lattitude, like say Canada, if you want to have something to leave to the kids. :-)
And if you want to make them wealthy, buy a lot of land that will still BE land.
New Orleans is in a very BAD long term position, amortising over 30 years, you're likely to find your real-estate holdings underwater. (If you want to see how bad it can get, just look at the Champlain sea and the fact that the mid western praries are prime flat growing land because they were UNDERWATER.)
As a lawsuit it didn't make much sene to sue the baby so the lawyers went after the parents.
The parents turned to be a couple of utterly broke illiterate deaf mutes.
As such, it was determined that they could not have violated any verbal agreements.
The lawyers got no money but shouldn't have any trouble enforcing their gag orger.
The parents had no comment.
The baby said "mama" and the lawyers had him taken out and shot.
They can do whatever they want to (they already do and the law be dammned) in the 32 bit space.
I'd nail 'em to the 32 bit platform and have an unfetered and uncluttered space for the 64 bit platforms.
In time Microsoft would die and we'd just get over it.
They speak actually speak Dutch (Flemish), French (Wallon), and German.
Google will simply drop any links to the site.
The question is what will the news paper do now that they've "won" and become invisible on the internet?
The victory is a Phyric one at best.
Nobody will ever be referred to their site when they are searching for the information on Google.
Its stupid and self-destructive.
The paper will eventually fold from lack of readership while their neighbors across the street, who can still be found on the web, will go on...
Who cares?
in existence to STAMP OUT all progress while the pursue the profits from the past.
There is nothing more threatening to the established order of anything than the creation of something new.
That's all there is to it.
If there is an industry or even a corporate structure that favors change, from AT&T to Erie/Bucirus, I'd like to hear about it.
Please note that AT&T is but a shadow of its former self and Erie/Bucirus is in museums.
We live with that kind of schizophrenia all the time.
The **AAs just want us to consume.
We just want to create. (podasting is merely the latest technology, the next rung on the empowerment ladder. http://www.msbpodcast.com/ )
We will ALWAYS be dealing with the opposition between the old, existing and the new, just created.
The worst thing is that the **AAs would not be bothered by winning, except that the profits would shrink as people REMEMBERED. We'd have to be pithed to keep the **AAs happy.
Even if you have the artists' permission in writing or by email.
iTunes is an end-consumer content delivery platform. Its not meant for people who want to do anything beyond just playing the piece.
I podcast so the contents is useless to me.
I am a podcaster ( MSBPodcast.com ) and one of my big concerns is that the RIAA will make all my music disappear or tie me up in legalities.
Could ASCAP/BMI (and other worse regimes, like the European models,) force me to pay a licence fee for my very small audience (only 0.0833% of the population has MS.)
It displays the actual content of the link as a pop-up.
I then copy the link into a browser window but not the URL portion. I usually have NW-tools.com up on my browser and use that to check the origin of the message.
I do that with all the phony 'meds' spam I get too.
People have to be really STOOP-ID to click on a link on an email.
I don't even do that with mail purporting to be from people I know.
an 'upgrade'?
What the heck is wrong with you?
There's nothing like the feeling of NOT getting a credit card bill once a month, except not having a car payment to make, or a mortgage payment to make either. (I 'lucked out' despite having MS.)
:-)
I have ONE credit card left and that gets used judiciously. Its also a pay by phone type deal with security identification.
I have no credit rating because I don't WANT any (and I can afford NOT to have any.
You wouldn't believe the number of CapitalOne offers that I've put through the shredder over the years.
When I was young, broke but promissing, I could have used the credit. But I didn't have any.
Now that I'm an old fart, I'm stumbling over piles of credit card and 'mortgage renewal' offers.
Well they can all go fuck themselves.
Actually, I've just realized that I don't know (apart from in the theoretical sense,) how its done or even how to get in touch with the kind of creature who does it.
:-)
Strikes me as a very closed off world. (Probably because of all the death threats.
Actually, the spamming (as opposed to the spammers) are highly vulnerable.
It would be easy to shut them down and/or fine them ($1.00 per email message) and have the various postal services collaborate to sue them into oblivion for mail fraud.
I don't imagine you'd find much political opposition to a source of free revenue. Somebody spams, the postal service in the country of origin collects the fines.
That would take care of the problem. Attempt to steal from me, you're an idiot. Steal from some tin-pot dictator in the process, you're mulch.
First, you have to be set up to even buy stock (not every Tom Dick or Harry is tied to a stock exchange or is equipped to be a day trader) then you have to be stupid enough to fall for the pump & dump scheme.
The rate of return must be damn near nil.
I say give up the fight against spammers and go after the clients instead.
Follow the money.
If somebody's supposed to benefit from this, let them pay $0.32USD per email that's sent.
Otherwise, I'm going to spam myself to promote my podcast.
now that super computing has been turned into clustering and there are lots of people doing it (like it hit >$x billion,) it has apppeared on microsoft's radar.
:-)
Unfortunately for Microsoft, the terrain's already covered by Linux and those systems are a moving target with cost-benefit lines that Microsoft CAN'T possibly over take. (The software is $-free and open source and the users WANT collaboration.)
Its a technological death trap for Microsoft. (I can just hear the SNAP.
You can't outlaw out-sourcing.
That is just the way business is done. Its just an extension of demand-side economics. Everybody's looking for a cheaper way so the cost of production doesn't cause inflation.
You CAN outlaw off-shoring. We all know how effective that is. The borders aren't so much barriers as they are suggestions. A much better solution is the imposition of a tarriff wiping out the difference between doing work off-shore and doing it merely out-sourced.
The gummint would LOVE this as it requires administration but no stake holders and NO DELIVERABLES. The source of funds to pay for it the external to the country. As long as people want to get in because life out side sucks rocks, they can charge the moon and the stars.
We've started doing this all ready. "Take all the "lousy Mexicans"(1) and send them back."
Them go and pay $68.00 a pound for lettuce and you can't find an asparagus tip or a mushroom for love nor money. What do you want to do? Sit inside in an air conditioned room or stand and bend all fuckin' day in the hot sun (and Man it can get HOT.)
1) I say Mexicans but it refers to anyone who did not get to choose who'se cunt s/he slid outta. (Hmm. I didn't get to fill out a form neither.)
Spreadsheets are the triumph of the presentation of data over common sense.
Quite apart from the fact that some of the calculations are just plain wrong (and lack precision and are subject to systemic errors, such as rounding) the 'matrix' is often abused into serving as a data table.
Dan Bricklin may have latched onto a good thing for Apple but the unleashed idiots who used VisiCalc (and have continued through to Excel where the spreadsheet metaphor finally died,) have never had more than a clue as to what it really was.
ANYONE who trusts it to be any more than a "what-if" exercise is an IDIOT.
ANYONE who trusts it even as a "what-if" exercise without backing up the calculations with some sound math is an IDIOT.
ANYONE who uses it to store tabular data is an IDIOT.
Basically, its a fucking nuisance.
I once had to verify some calculation routine that we were using because 'the user said it was wrong.'
I spent two friggin' weeks going over code, trying it over and over again until I could prove that the code was accurate to fifteen digits on either side of the decimal place with ALL the friggin' math equations.
I finally asked my boss where the error was supposed to be. How did the user know that the calculations were wrong?
I was told to wait and he'd go and ask... The end result was that the IDIOT was actually using Excell to calculate yields on some very large and very long term bonds that they were trading.
The IDIOT was actually expecting my software to give him the same results as Excell.
Never mind that Excell is a fuckin' toy with rounding errors on nine digits (I said these were LARGE bonds) and the calculations used Newton's method of approximating integrals.
I felt like killing them all for wasting my time like that.
If they'd have told me what I was REALLY trying to prove (that Excel is a piece of shit) I could have done that in a minute just sitting down with the user and letting try things (that I knew weren't going to work) to try to prove to me that Excell was an accurate calculator.
Thank God he wasn't trying to use it to store his data. (I'd have ripped him a new ass-hole with a rusty can opener.)
Podcasting of content, wether text, audio or video, to a podcatcher with sufficient storage capacity gets around all these problems with alacrity.
They are trying to make the internet a synchronous 'live' feed mostly by exploiting the over capacity, purchased for pennies on the dollar, from the bankruptcy of GlobalCrossing and others who laid untold miles of fibre underground and it remains mostly 'dark'.
The advent of TCP/IP freed us from having to rely on a disruptable, synchronous streaming content delivery system. "'Ma' Bell" couldn't see it and neither can the "Baby Bells" see it now.
Buying into the argument that content needs constant, 'instant' delivery, just like broadcasting is, is at the heart of the problem.
Podcasting/catching can use asynchronous delivery.
As far as I'm concerned, its a win for the podcasters and, since capacity of the catching platforms is growing exponentially, its a win for the podcatchers.
MSBPodcast.com