When has that ever stopped political finger pointing.
Logic and politics have nothing to do with each other, its all about finding the crazy excuse to support your guy. Who may or may not have anything really to do about any of the problems.
During the Clinton Years The Right was saying how Clinton was befitting from all the long term improvements that Bush Sr and Reagan did years back. And now after a much prolonged recession the Left is still saying it was all Bush Jr. Fault, even after a period of Democratic Majority. Or the left takes the prosperity during the 90's largely due to a tech boom based on the fact that a lot of computers would fail to function in the year 2000 as tribute to Clintons Leadership and the correctness of the Leftist values. Or the Right giving GWB credits for a period of time where home ownership was at its highest.
What it really comes down to there isn't any real logic behind which party is better then the other. But have good and bad values to them. And going all out in any direction will be really bad. And really the president has little effect on our everyday life.
They already have inkless fingerprint scanners. Heck there is a fingerprint scanner on most thinkpads for years that doesn't require ink.
This may be used to get fingerprints from a crime investigation though. However the way it works one shake of your arm you might rub it out. It is cool but it also right now requires a lot of extra physical contact with what it is trying to get a picture of.
However current history shows this isn't true... Browsers right now are the best way to display data, WebKit, Mozilla or IE for HTML 4 strict does an excellent job of following the specs. HTML 5 is new and not all the features are implemented yet, and right now there is some shield bashing on who has implemented the most useful set of the HTML 5 standard first. So for the developers who are blindly jumping to full HTML 5 are coming across compatibility issues, because not all browsers are close to be fully HTML 5 Compliment.
There is no Magic here. The browser runs on top of the OS and interprets the command send via files and follows the same methods to display the data. It is actually quite easy concepts, it didn't happen before because computing power wouldn't allow useful speed in doing such work without the need to go out and run some custom machine level code. Once Browsers finish their full support in HTML 5 then things will render the same again?
This isn't a browser war type of activity and not an OS War Especially as things work the same in Chrome for Windows, Linux or Mac... The old browser war was each side making their own special commands in complete disregard on what the standard said in hopes that developers will use it over the others and force people to use their browser. Eg. the Netscape Layer Tag, ActiveX or Java Aplets. Right now it is more of a bragging right of saying Hey we got this in first or our implementation is faster then yours. But it doesn't mean the next version your version won't be faster of have that feature... It isn't a war but healthy competition.
In a War the Consumer Looses and Competition the Consumer wins.
That is one big thing... Plus also the iPhone is something you can go to work with and not be looked at funny as bringing games to work, and you have a bunch of other non-game apps, and it is a Phone too. The DS game system or even the PSP is still just a game system. The iPhone is a Software Platform, that happens to run games well enough not to be embarrassing. But added the cost of the game is huge too. If you can get 40 games at the cost of 1 combined that you can get these games when ever you feel board and want a new one it is very handy.
I though it would be more of a joint suit with Apple and IBM XOS 2 With one name you infringe on two trademarks... Well done.
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But that is what gets people to read it. They are all ready and have have protest signs made up, after reading the summer then they click on the link right before the big protest so they can have a source to give to the media so they don't seem like raving nuts.
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I went threw Chiropractor a few times and they worked... But not for cancer. I did it for fixing a stiff neck, and some nerve issues. Chiropractic treatments are not all homeopathic mumbo jumbo. But they are for things that happen to people that are not spine and nerve related. The same thing with Acupuncture, it treats some things but not as much as they claim.
But for Cancer you can be paralyzed from the neck down and still get cancer or not have cancer. And a lot of the times kids actually are able to fight of cancer by themselves.
I don't see the PC going away. Heck it is 2011 and there are still mainframes and new ones being made too, but at a reduced rate. I see many of the same arguments against PC from the old Mainframe guys. People need more Power from Mainframes PC just won't cover it for power uses, The Cost of software is so expensive that PC users will get ripped off, as they cannot scale their applications.... Now there are a lot of similar arguments against these mobile devices. People want affordable easy to use and convenient technology. The PC fit the bill 25 years ago. Then 15 years ago the Laptop (notice now we group laptops and PC's in the same category) when laptops became cheap enough to compete with PC prices, and offered comparable performance. Now we have Smartphones and tablets coming out with good performance and apps that are usable and useful. They are cheaper then a PC and offer key features they want. And it will eat away at the desktop market share and get rid of a lot of basic users. Who use their computer to browse the web, check emails, and play simple leisurely games. The devices are small enough to carry around, and stylish enough not to look like a complete dork.
The PC market did screw up giving the Power to the Users or more to the point they assumed that all users need the power. While I would still prefer vender approved methods of getting more access if you really needed to. However it has kept a lot of these devices far safer then your PC's are.
The PC will still have the power users and probably used for middle heavy computing such as CAD or Data Modeling but it wouldn't be for every day stuff. Much like how the mainframe today is still used for heavy computing where it needs to crunch a lot of numbers for high volumes very fast. But not many companies have mainframes anymore but servers more closely designed like a desktop.
Actually this is the first time I actually heard of the product... Or if I did hear about it it didn't appeal to me. But why would colleges, schools and groups jump at this technology and invest all these resources when its usage is rather shady. Wait for wider acceptance first then you can change your programs. I am not saying it needs to be top dog but it should at least have a good buzz around it.
is the same day the desktop market isn't important.
Linux is an excellent Server OS a really good Workstation OS, it blends itself well to work well on mobile device. But the desktop is the doughnut hole Linux never really filled. Mostly because that market has some really strong players in that market. Microsoft Windows and Apple.
Windows dominated because it has the bulk of the consumer apps, and hardware manufactures make sure they have drivers for that platform. Apple is next because it has always specialized in that area and has a real smooth seamless Environment (Please no anecdotal stories about how you were able to do X so much faster or better on your Linux box while the Mac guy struggled to do it, even though OS X was suppose to be the best at it) that is easy to use and efficient for desktop usage, they also have a tight control on the hardware so there is less hardware drivers they need to code.
Linux has always have a moving uphill battle for Desktop mindset, Good drivers have and still are always a problem. Companies who do provide closed source drivers are treated like scum and in order for say Ubuntu to install them you have to agree that you are truly a bad person link to get access to the driver. And many of the open source drivers may not have the best specs so they have issues. Much of their UI choices are not done by UI experts but software developers who think they know what a good UI is.
Linux will probably win the Desktop share at some point and it will probably be a really good system... However by that time the markets will be in a way that Microsoft and Apple don't care about the Desktop anymore, and are probably moving more towards mobile solutions away from the old Desktop Model. Leaving room for Linux to come in and take it... However at that time the Average Joe will not really need a Desktop or Laptop anymore and it will be more for Software Developers and High Computing uses like CAD and Modeling. The Desktop will fall to where the Mainframe is today. Still alive and strong but no longer a driving force in a usage and reserved for things it is really good at.
A cyber war is a war that No one will win as well... A normal war while can have some that there isn't a declared winner or looser. But there are also wars where there is a Winner and a Looser. A cyber war will go on and on. Sure US will get hit the hardest and fastest, then they will just rebuild from the backups and make better security and retaliate and back and forth... There are no real people dying directly, so the war will just keep going and going. Until all sided are dried up. Or until one side had enough and takes the war out of the cyber and starts killing people.
I am sure a lot of us will prefer to bike and walk to work...
But the problem is Work is in the City and Home is in Rural/Suburban areas. We move to these Rural/Suburban areas because of less crime and in general people just not caring about anyone else property. I use to live in the City I couldn't even keep flowers planted in front of my house, or garbage can lids on my garbage cans, any attempts to make my area of my community a nicer place to live came with people who tried to make sure it went further down to a ghetto. When I moved in it was a nice area, Then it just got worse and worse over the years. Then I moved to the country, Sure I need to drive 20 miles to work but life is much safer and nicer.
I am well aware I am part of the problem of increasing global warming, and by escaping the city I am adding to suburban sprawl, and also the city looses an other person who tried to make their community a little bit nicer. But I have the means for a better life and I chose it.
The choice wasn't pro or against environmental concerns, I am actually looking to get a more fuel efficient cart and my current car is also really good too. Even when I lived in the City I need to Drive to work and back not because the Car was much faster but the car acts as a Tank, as the City wasn't very safe to ride you bike. And 80% of the police force (as stated from a police officer from that city) is corrupt and lazy.
Most cities are not New York City, or LA they are much smaller and don't have the resources that is needed for a good life.
So what if they do? It is not like kids are using the system to run enterprise level apps. And XP isn't really that easy to crash. Over the past decade I have seen more Linux, OS X, Solaris crases then XP.
Besides if they have some old games they want to run on it all the better
There is so much Microsoft Bashing going on that projects like Samba tend to get pushed off as "One of those" Project that only support the Evil Microsoft by Conforming to their standards, vs. trying to make Microsoft Better support ours.
But I have found in Real Life, these tools greatly help increase the usage of Open Source systems. As well deminishes the need to use Microsoft Standards. As you setup you Samba Share and a NFS share (or whatever you want to use) that goes to the same files, you allow your organization to move away from those windows desktops.
I bet the outcome would be different if Samsung were an European company. Europe Hates America... Unless you need to compare it with Asia, Africa, South America. I think Europe may favor Antarctica.
That would require having the original that didn't suck. With all the fans who see so much in star trek... All in all they are just a show that keeps us entertained an hour a week. Then like a lot of entertainment which we valued too much in our youth spin offs just don't seem right as you can watch the new shows without your past emotional baggage.
Most likely because they want to wipe off the smug smile that the Mac users have. And 10% is a good number to target... Assuming that most viruses for windows are targeted to hit particular patches of Windows. So they may be targeting around the same percentage perhaps more or less.
So far OS X has had few targets that have gone wild, However they are the first that hacker conferences love to show they can break into.
With that money and if I was a big Rabid fan. I would have made Life Size models, Inside and out of the Star Trek Ships. Not just some futuristic buildings.
Now I can see your grade getting deducted for trying to figure what the author was thinking, because that missed the point, however what your interpretation of the meaning may be more appropriate. Now if I were the TA I may have deducted points for stating the Author was thinking X however I wouldn't failed you on that alone. If it was an A Paper I may have made it a B or a B+ or an A-... But, I get your point English Paper graders often are unfair on their grading. As they grade on different school of thought, and weigh your reasoning base on different criteria. As well they often will put their own beliefs into grading while a different professor who is equally qualified may agree with your assessment. There are some professors who believe in Micro-Meanings so every paragraph has a deep meaning ("Tess got off the tractor and her hands were tingling like they were numb" = The Numbing effect of the Industrial Revolution), and others where the whole story has one meaning (Love can bring you to a path of pain and frustration). As a Computer Science Major I have found English Professors either loved me (some actually asked me to change my Major to English, as I understand abstract concepts very well, you just need to clean up some technical issues.) or hated me (Stated that there is no possible way I can graduate from college, at the time computers had Poor Spelling and grammar checking combined with a learning disability that makes spelling and grammar one of my worst weaknesses) .
When I took my GRE which used a computerized Essay grading system I found it placed me in 95th percentile (Which I know is much too high) for my writing skills but perhaps now it has gotten better and fairer. Where people who put thought in their papers will get better grades and the others who remember the professor lectures and regurgitated what they felt was their view would get a lower grade.
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When has that ever stopped political finger pointing.
Logic and politics have nothing to do with each other, its all about finding the crazy excuse to support your guy. Who may or may not have anything really to do about any of the problems.
During the Clinton Years The Right was saying how Clinton was befitting from all the long term improvements that Bush Sr and Reagan did years back. And now after a much prolonged recession the Left is still saying it was all Bush Jr. Fault, even after a period of Democratic Majority. Or the left takes the prosperity during the 90's largely due to a tech boom based on the fact that a lot of computers would fail to function in the year 2000 as tribute to Clintons Leadership and the correctness of the Leftist values. Or the Right giving GWB credits for a period of time where home ownership was at its highest.
What it really comes down to there isn't any real logic behind which party is better then the other. But have good and bad values to them. And going all out in any direction will be really bad. And really the president has little effect on our everyday life.
They already have inkless fingerprint scanners. Heck there is a fingerprint scanner on most thinkpads for years that doesn't require ink.
This may be used to get fingerprints from a crime investigation though. However the way it works one shake of your arm you might rub it out. It is cool but it also right now requires a lot of extra physical contact with what it is trying to get a picture of.
However current history shows this isn't true... Browsers right now are the best way to display data, WebKit, Mozilla or IE for HTML 4 strict does an excellent job of following the specs.
HTML 5 is new and not all the features are implemented yet, and right now there is some shield bashing on who has implemented the most useful set of the HTML 5 standard first. So for the developers who are blindly jumping to full HTML 5 are coming across compatibility issues, because not all browsers are close to be fully HTML 5 Compliment.
There is no Magic here. The browser runs on top of the OS and interprets the command send via files and follows the same methods to display the data. It is actually quite easy concepts, it didn't happen before because computing power wouldn't allow useful speed in doing such work without the need to go out and run some custom machine level code. Once Browsers finish their full support in HTML 5 then things will render the same again?
This isn't a browser war type of activity and not an OS War Especially as things work the same in Chrome for Windows, Linux or Mac... The old browser war was each side making their own special commands in complete disregard on what the standard said in hopes that developers will use it over the others and force people to use their browser. Eg. the Netscape Layer Tag, ActiveX or Java Aplets. Right now it is more of a bragging right of saying Hey we got this in first or our implementation is faster then yours. But it doesn't mean the next version your version won't be faster of have that feature... It isn't a war but healthy competition.
In a War the Consumer Looses and Competition the Consumer wins.
That is one big thing... Plus also the iPhone is something you can go to work with and not be looked at funny as bringing games to work, and you have a bunch of other non-game apps, and it is a Phone too. The DS game system or even the PSP is still just a game system. The iPhone is a Software Platform, that happens to run games well enough not to be embarrassing.
But added the cost of the game is huge too. If you can get 40 games at the cost of 1 combined that you can get these games when ever you feel board and want a new one it is very handy.
I though it would be more of a joint suit with Apple and IBM XOS 2 With one name you infringe on two trademarks... Well done.
But that is what gets people to read it. They are all ready and have have protest signs made up, after reading the summer then they click on the link right before the big protest so they can have a source to give to the media so they don't seem like raving nuts.
I went threw Chiropractor a few times and they worked... But not for cancer. I did it for fixing a stiff neck, and some nerve issues.
Chiropractic treatments are not all homeopathic mumbo jumbo. But they are for things that happen to people that are not spine and nerve related. The same thing with Acupuncture, it treats some things but not as much as they claim.
But for Cancer you can be paralyzed from the neck down and still get cancer or not have cancer. And a lot of the times kids actually are able to fight of cancer by themselves.
I don't see the PC going away. Heck it is 2011 and there are still mainframes and new ones being made too, but at a reduced rate. I see many of the same arguments against PC from the old Mainframe guys. People need more Power from Mainframes PC just won't cover it for power uses, The Cost of software is so expensive that PC users will get ripped off, as they cannot scale their applications....
Now there are a lot of similar arguments against these mobile devices. People want affordable easy to use and convenient technology. The PC fit the bill 25 years ago. Then 15 years ago the Laptop (notice now we group laptops and PC's in the same category) when laptops became cheap enough to compete with PC prices, and offered comparable performance. Now we have Smartphones and tablets coming out with good performance and apps that are usable and useful. They are cheaper then a PC and offer key features they want. And it will eat away at the desktop market share and get rid of a lot of basic users. Who use their computer to browse the web, check emails, and play simple leisurely games. The devices are small enough to carry around, and stylish enough not to look like a complete dork.
The PC market did screw up giving the Power to the Users or more to the point they assumed that all users need the power. While I would still prefer vender approved methods of getting more access if you really needed to. However it has kept a lot of these devices far safer then your PC's are.
The PC will still have the power users and probably used for middle heavy computing such as CAD or Data Modeling but it wouldn't be for every day stuff. Much like how the mainframe today is still used for heavy computing where it needs to crunch a lot of numbers for high volumes very fast.
But not many companies have mainframes anymore but servers more closely designed like a desktop.
When it starts singing Daisy you know it is time for a new car.
Actually this is the first time I actually heard of the product... Or if I did hear about it it didn't appeal to me. But why would colleges, schools and groups jump at this technology and invest all these resources when its usage is rather shady. Wait for wider acceptance first then you can change your programs. I am not saying it needs to be top dog but it should at least have a good buzz around it.
is the same day the desktop market isn't important.
Linux is an excellent Server OS a really good Workstation OS, it blends itself well to work well on mobile device. But the desktop is the doughnut hole Linux never really filled. Mostly because that market has some really strong players in that market. Microsoft Windows and Apple.
Windows dominated because it has the bulk of the consumer apps, and hardware manufactures make sure they have drivers for that platform. Apple is next because it has always specialized in that area and has a real smooth seamless Environment (Please no anecdotal stories about how you were able to do X so much faster or better on your Linux box while the Mac guy struggled to do it, even though OS X was suppose to be the best at it) that is easy to use and efficient for desktop usage, they also have a tight control on the hardware so there is less hardware drivers they need to code.
Linux has always have a moving uphill battle for Desktop mindset, Good drivers have and still are always a problem. Companies who do provide closed source drivers are treated like scum and in order for say Ubuntu to install them you have to agree that you are truly a bad person link to get access to the driver. And many of the open source drivers may not have the best specs so they have issues. Much of their UI choices are not done by UI experts but software developers who think they know what a good UI is.
Linux will probably win the Desktop share at some point and it will probably be a really good system... However by that time the markets will be in a way that Microsoft and Apple don't care about the Desktop anymore, and are probably moving more towards mobile solutions away from the old Desktop Model. Leaving room for Linux to come in and take it... However at that time the Average Joe will not really need a Desktop or Laptop anymore and it will be more for Software Developers and High Computing uses like CAD and Modeling. The Desktop will fall to where the Mainframe is today. Still alive and strong but no longer a driving force in a usage and reserved for things it is really good at.
A cyber war is a war that No one will win as well...
A normal war while can have some that there isn't a declared winner or looser. But there are also wars where there is a Winner and a Looser. A cyber war will go on and on. Sure US will get hit the hardest and fastest, then they will just rebuild from the backups and make better security and retaliate and back and forth...
There are no real people dying directly, so the war will just keep going and going. Until all sided are dried up. Or until one side had enough and takes the war out of the cyber and starts killing people.
I vaguely remember a star trek episode like this?
I think SIM City tried to be politically neutral So they built in advantages for the two key political ideologies.
Success is key if the government stays out.
Success is key if the government has control.
But being that SIM City is a kids game, It kinda punished a balanced approach to the problem.
I am sure a lot of us will prefer to bike and walk to work...
But the problem is Work is in the City and Home is in Rural/Suburban areas.
We move to these Rural/Suburban areas because of less crime and in general people just not caring about anyone else property. I use to live in the City I couldn't even keep flowers planted in front of my house, or garbage can lids on my garbage cans, any attempts to make my area of my community a nicer place to live came with people who tried to make sure it went further down to a ghetto. When I moved in it was a nice area, Then it just got worse and worse over the years. Then I moved to the country, Sure I need to drive 20 miles to work but life is much safer and nicer.
I am well aware I am part of the problem of increasing global warming, and by escaping the city I am adding to suburban sprawl, and also the city looses an other person who tried to make their community a little bit nicer. But I have the means for a better life and I chose it.
The choice wasn't pro or against environmental concerns, I am actually looking to get a more fuel efficient cart and my current car is also really good too. Even when I lived in the City I need to Drive to work and back not because the Car was much faster but the car acts as a Tank, as the City wasn't very safe to ride you bike. And 80% of the police force (as stated from a police officer from that city) is corrupt and lazy.
Most cities are not New York City, or LA they are much smaller and don't have the resources that is needed for a good life.
So what if they do? It is not like kids are using the system to run enterprise level apps. And XP isn't really that easy to crash. Over the past decade I have seen more Linux, OS X, Solaris crases then XP.
Besides if they have some old games they want to run on it all the better
Either Way, the process of the world ending will probably kill me before the world actually ends.
There is so much Microsoft Bashing going on that projects like Samba tend to get pushed off as "One of those" Project that only support the Evil Microsoft by Conforming to their standards, vs. trying to make Microsoft Better support ours.
But I have found in Real Life, these tools greatly help increase the usage of Open Source systems. As well deminishes the need to use Microsoft Standards. As you setup you Samba Share and a NFS share (or whatever you want to use) that goes to the same files, you allow your organization to move away from those windows desktops.
I bet the outcome would be different if Samsung were an European company.
Europe Hates America... Unless you need to compare it with Asia, Africa, South America. I think Europe may favor Antarctica.
Nothing unless it is the end of October or 2012. Then still my bets are nothing will happen then either.
Heck I am willing to bet all my earthly possessions that the world will not end in my lifetime.
That would require having the original that didn't suck. With all the fans who see so much in star trek... All in all they are just a show that keeps us entertained an hour a week. Then like a lot of entertainment which we valued too much in our youth spin offs just don't seem right as you can watch the new shows without your past emotional baggage.
Most likely because they want to wipe off the smug smile that the Mac users have. And 10% is a good number to target... Assuming that most viruses for windows are targeted to hit particular patches of Windows. So they may be targeting around the same percentage perhaps more or less.
So far OS X has had few targets that have gone wild, However they are the first that hacker conferences love to show they can break into.
With that money and if I was a big Rabid fan. I would have made Life Size models, Inside and out of the Star Trek Ships. Not just some futuristic buildings.
But if you called them Sad Meals no one would buy them.
Not at all... A complement on Slashdot is like Gold.
Now I can see your grade getting deducted for trying to figure what the author was thinking, because that missed the point, however what your interpretation of the meaning may be more appropriate. Now if I were the TA I may have deducted points for stating the Author was thinking X however I wouldn't failed you on that alone. If it was an A Paper I may have made it a B or a B+ or an A-... But, I get your point English Paper graders often are unfair on their grading. As they grade on different school of thought, and weigh your reasoning base on different criteria. As well they often will put their own beliefs into grading while a different professor who is equally qualified may agree with your assessment.
There are some professors who believe in Micro-Meanings so every paragraph has a deep meaning ("Tess got off the tractor and her hands were tingling like they were numb" = The Numbing effect of the Industrial Revolution), and others where the whole story has one meaning (Love can bring you to a path of pain and frustration).
As a Computer Science Major I have found English Professors either loved me (some actually asked me to change my Major to English, as I understand abstract concepts very well, you just need to clean up some technical issues.) or hated me (Stated that there is no possible way I can graduate from college, at the time computers had Poor Spelling and grammar checking combined with a learning disability that makes spelling and grammar one of my worst weaknesses) .
When I took my GRE which used a computerized Essay grading system I found it placed me in 95th percentile (Which I know is much too high) for my writing skills but perhaps now it has gotten better and fairer. Where people who put thought in their papers will get better grades and the others who remember the professor lectures and regurgitated what they felt was their view would get a lower grade.