You're absolutely right. Clearly the best option is to make all of the huntable wildlife in the area wear laser tag vests and have everyone use photon rifles.
I am thankful they used Windows in my schools when I was younger. Up until middle school, to me a computer was a Mac. My parents and entire family were 100% mac. I think sometime in the mid 90s I got a Performa 66/133 or some such thing with a DOS emulator card in it. A keystroke would boot into DOS. I loved it. I felt like I was using a REAL computer, not to mention programming became a ton easier(woot, QBASIC).
When I got to my ~8th year of school, I finally got to use a Windows computer on a daily basis. I found all sorts of fun things I could do with it(I can SEE the system files? That's AMAZING!) and ended up getting in trouble all throughout high school for doing things I shouldn't have with them. I got a Titanium PowerBook G4 in HS and ended up selling it to get a PC with about double the specs.
Had I not had that experience I probably would not have gotten into computers as deeply as I did, and I doubt I would have ever pursued programming in education and career. Macs are fine, if you don't care how they work or what's going on. If you want to get into the internals of a computer, you need to use something else.
I never had a single showstopper problem on 95. On 98 it was almost a daily occurrence. Perhaps it was just that the software suites I was running were developed for 95 and didn't do too well on 98, but that was enough of a reason for me to enjoy 95 immensely when compared to 98.
There is also the counterpoint, which is when someone buys a PC with Windows Y on it and they revert to Windows X immediately. I did it with every Vista machine I ever bought. I did it with every early 7 machine I bought. If your OS is a terrible failure, people WILL avoid it. You WILL hate the users and programmers alike if your job is to do tech support for those editions. You WILL get terrible reviews, and drive away percentages of customers.
The real point is that this will have little effect on MS bottom line, as a ~2% drop in a multibillion dollar empire is not that much in the grand scheme of things.
If you think Android or iOS is going to replace Windows, you're delusional.
The software base alone for Windows OS is a primary reason to continue using an old version, even if the next MS release is a flop.
Regarding money, the ~$35 Billion valuing of MS should say quite clearly that they can do whatever the hell they want. It may not be profitable, and may lead to internal conflicts and management restructuring, but they can certainly weather a LOT of failure before they are 'done'.
I love that Japan decided to move over 1/3 of their energy production away from the safest, most cost-efficient form of heat-power generation, and revert to something colossally terrible for the environment, with really no plan to do so in place. Clearly the best possible outcome, with the best results for everyone involved./s
Neither NASA nor any other Earth space agency has the right to determine who can/can't travel to Mars. On my space airline, corporate passengers will be prohibited.
"We can't keep up, and it looks like they do not like us in the least. They MUST be terrorists. Surely no patriot would hate their own country so much!"
Absolutely ridiculous. You know who else had a special police force that jailed their citizens for disagreeing with them? That's right. The Nazi party.
I normally wouldn't reply to an AC, but this pissed me off.
This is exactly the type of thing Apple would brainwash you into believing: that people aren't sick of their shit.
Welcome to reality. Step outside the distortion field for one second and you'll see how truly asinine and annoying it is when Apple, Google, MS, or any of those tech giants squash advancement for another, purely out of greed. Lately, Apple has been by far the worst. They reach out and patent technologies that other companies are well into developing, which they probably would have already had patents for - except they are normal, rational people who don't think someone is going to patent such a broad-sweeping commonplace item.
Nobody in their right mind would go after a 'slide to unlock' patent, the words 'AppStore', or patenting RFID(basically) all over again. There has been a slide-lock device somewhere on my house since I was born 30 years ago. I have no doubt there is a patent somewhere for the hardware version, and it has been around for at least a hundred years. How's that for prior art? RFID has been around since at least the late 1980s.
I'm surprised it is allowed to continue as it is completely anticompetitive to patent such vague concepts without any actual R&D and with (literally) tons of prior art.
I have one of the original Kindles, the early ones with only 3G and a keyboard, no color, no smooth corners, nothing. It's pretty much like reading a book. Once I developed the habit of hitting 'Next' instead of reaching for the page corner, I can easily find myself as immersed (or more so) as I do when I read a regular print book.
There is a certain suspense - a "what happens next?" feeling - with finishing a page. I find the Kindle (the original one, not the colored tablet PC thing) makes that transition smoother and faster than fumbling with a page turn or accidentally grabbing too many pages and winding up too far ahead. The battery life on the original is also phenomenal. I go entire months without recharging mine sometimes. Having the option to put an MP3 on or check something on Google isn't bad, but I don't need to play Angry Birds on my book.
If you know what you're looking for, it's a very measurable metric. Tests are a perfect measurement. Observation of daily performance and problem-solving abilities. There are hundreds of ways to tell if someone is 'smart'. Pick one and run with it.
There should, then, be a standardized national test in place of 'votes'.
You take the test, which is designed by a collaboration between the most tenured academics at the most prestigious institutions, and then it is compared with the rest of people in your state, and then in the country. The #1 test score in the state would be governor, the next few scorers would become national congress reps, with the subsequent ___ scorers being the rest of the state government.
The #1 test score in the country would become president with the next ___ people filling in the succession of power and cabinet positions. Clearly, there would be areas of strengths and weaknesses on most tests, so you can use 'categories' of the test to determine which positions the person should be eligible for. For example, someone who scores highly on a civics section could become a SCOTUS justice, while the extremely high scores for sciences and math could be appointed as NASA/JPL/Technology Oversight or something in that realm.
It should be obvious that for this system to work, you would need to make all religion illegal, regardless of what type, as Religion has proven itself the opposite of intelligence and progress. This is the only form of government I can see being truly fair and representative of what is best for the people, instead of a popularity contest based on the lies about perceived morals the candidates feed you or who buys the winning candidate.
Right now, our system awards those who are corrupt or latch onto some popular tenet of fantasy provided by the church. Isn't it time to start rewarding intelligence and potential instead of ignorance and greed?
What did the customer pay for that these people were stealing? Do terrestrial/cable ISPs still charge per-hour or per-GB for bandwidth?
Last I checked every provider in my area was offering (truly) unlimited high-speed access for a flat rate, and they couldn't tell worth a damn if someone else was using my connection. They certainly didn't charge me more (for example) when my friends would stop by and use my WiFi.
This is no more stealing than using Coffee Shop WiFi, the only difference is how the connection was made.
I would agree with you on that if corporate CEOs and pretty much everyone who makes over a million dollars a year hadn't set the precedent that defrauding thousands of people at a time comes only with a slap on the wrist and a meager fine despite a huge profit margin.
Shit, that's the definition of how corporate America works. Why aren't they jailing the CEOs of the cable companies instead for charging >5000 times the amount they pay for bandwidth for the average user? Why aren't they jailing the AT&T and Verizon execs for bait-and-switch with the 'Unlimited' plans which are actually limited to single-digit bandwidth amounts?
It's all ass-backward, and this guy just had the balls to do something about it. Do your time, but do it proudly.
You need to understand how the broadcast television system works in Japan. There are ~8-10 total networks with terrestrial broadcast stations throughout the entire country, several run by the NHK (government-run television system). In Tokyo, you can get about 7 of them. Most other stations are only available via cable or satellite, and the number of local channels even via cable in Japan is extremely low compared to the US.
That said, in Japan space on the ground is often at more of a premium than materials to build with. If they can create one large broadcast tower to service all of Tokyo, they will - in the overall scheme - probably save billions and billions of yen. This was the idea behind the Tokyo Tower (the big red Eiffel tower looking thing) but that was created so long ago that it is now outdated and needs an upgrade to reach everyone.
I find the architecture to be pretty cool in this Sky Tree, though it really sticks out. I think the guys over at Tokyo Yakei (Tokyo Night Windows) got the best shots of it so far(even though it's earlier on in the construction): Tokyo Sky Tree at Night
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Maybe you could link to something useful, like the actual market page ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui ) instead of some garbage like the Google+ page, which has no useful links or information at all.
You're absolutely right. Clearly the best option is to make all of the huntable wildlife in the area wear laser tag vests and have everyone use photon rifles.
Windows WHAT? I'm still happily using XP.
I would wager for every 'billion' they made on Vista, they spent $1.2b. That OS was a flop, through and through.
I am thankful they used Windows in my schools when I was younger. Up until middle school, to me a computer was a Mac. My parents and entire family were 100% mac. I think sometime in the mid 90s I got a Performa 66/133 or some such thing with a DOS emulator card in it. A keystroke would boot into DOS. I loved it. I felt like I was using a REAL computer, not to mention programming became a ton easier(woot, QBASIC).
When I got to my ~8th year of school, I finally got to use a Windows computer on a daily basis. I found all sorts of fun things I could do with it(I can SEE the system files? That's AMAZING!) and ended up getting in trouble all throughout high school for doing things I shouldn't have with them. I got a Titanium PowerBook G4 in HS and ended up selling it to get a PC with about double the specs.
Had I not had that experience I probably would not have gotten into computers as deeply as I did, and I doubt I would have ever pursued programming in education and career. Macs are fine, if you don't care how they work or what's going on. If you want to get into the internals of a computer, you need to use something else.
I never had a single showstopper problem on 95. On 98 it was almost a daily occurrence. Perhaps it was just that the software suites I was running were developed for 95 and didn't do too well on 98, but that was enough of a reason for me to enjoy 95 immensely when compared to 98.
There is also the counterpoint, which is when someone buys a PC with Windows Y on it and they revert to Windows X immediately. I did it with every Vista machine I ever bought. I did it with every early 7 machine I bought. If your OS is a terrible failure, people WILL avoid it. You WILL hate the users and programmers alike if your job is to do tech support for those editions. You WILL get terrible reviews, and drive away percentages of customers.
The real point is that this will have little effect on MS bottom line, as a ~2% drop in a multibillion dollar empire is not that much in the grand scheme of things.
If you think Android or iOS is going to replace Windows, you're delusional.
The software base alone for Windows OS is a primary reason to continue using an old version, even if the next MS release is a flop.
Regarding money, the ~$35 Billion valuing of MS should say quite clearly that they can do whatever the hell they want. It may not be profitable, and may lead to internal conflicts and management restructuring, but they can certainly weather a LOT of failure before they are 'done'.
I love that Japan decided to move over 1/3 of their energy production away from the safest, most cost-efficient form of heat-power generation, and revert to something colossally terrible for the environment, with really no plan to do so in place. Clearly the best possible outcome, with the best results for everyone involved. /s
Neither NASA nor any other Earth space agency has the right to determine who can/can't travel to Mars. On my space airline, corporate passengers will be prohibited.
I think it's easier just to say "Fuck the police".
"We can't keep up, and it looks like they do not like us in the least. They MUST be terrorists. Surely no patriot would hate their own country so much!"
Absolutely ridiculous. You know who else had a special police force that jailed their citizens for disagreeing with them? That's right. The Nazi party.
Sorry, unless you're within Apple's reality distortion field, Flash is the web standard for video players.
Would you rather they used Microsoft Silverlight?
Slashdot has its own video player?
I normally wouldn't reply to an AC, but this pissed me off.
This is exactly the type of thing Apple would brainwash you into believing: that people aren't sick of their shit.
Welcome to reality. Step outside the distortion field for one second and you'll see how truly asinine and annoying it is when Apple, Google, MS, or any of those tech giants squash advancement for another, purely out of greed. Lately, Apple has been by far the worst. They reach out and patent technologies that other companies are well into developing, which they probably would have already had patents for - except they are normal, rational people who don't think someone is going to patent such a broad-sweeping commonplace item.
Nobody in their right mind would go after a 'slide to unlock' patent, the words 'AppStore', or patenting RFID(basically) all over again. There has been a slide-lock device somewhere on my house since I was born 30 years ago. I have no doubt there is a patent somewhere for the hardware version, and it has been around for at least a hundred years. How's that for prior art? RFID has been around since at least the late 1980s.
I'm surprised it is allowed to continue as it is completely anticompetitive to patent such vague concepts without any actual R&D and with (literally) tons of prior art.
Can't beat them on even ground? Not capable of understanding the technology your are supposedly protecting better than a bunch of teenagers?
Do what the feds do. Resort to lying, informants, and other associated faggotry to get your way without having to do your fucking job.
Only a complete newfag asshole would turn on his friends for no reason but to save his own ass. Don't even attempt to compare that to whistleblowers.
PS: I wouldn't mind PDF support or a half-decent conversion tool. MobiPocket Creator is garbage.
I have one of the original Kindles, the early ones with only 3G and a keyboard, no color, no smooth corners, nothing. It's pretty much like reading a book. Once I developed the habit of hitting 'Next' instead of reaching for the page corner, I can easily find myself as immersed (or more so) as I do when I read a regular print book.
There is a certain suspense - a "what happens next?" feeling - with finishing a page. I find the Kindle (the original one, not the colored tablet PC thing) makes that transition smoother and faster than fumbling with a page turn or accidentally grabbing too many pages and winding up too far ahead. The battery life on the original is also phenomenal. I go entire months without recharging mine sometimes. Having the option to put an MP3 on or check something on Google isn't bad, but I don't need to play Angry Birds on my book.
If you know what you're looking for, it's a very measurable metric. Tests are a perfect measurement. Observation of daily performance and problem-solving abilities. There are hundreds of ways to tell if someone is 'smart'. Pick one and run with it.
There should, then, be a standardized national test in place of 'votes'.
You take the test, which is designed by a collaboration between the most tenured academics at the most prestigious institutions, and then it is compared with the rest of people in your state, and then in the country. The #1 test score in the state would be governor, the next few scorers would become national congress reps, with the subsequent ___ scorers being the rest of the state government.
The #1 test score in the country would become president with the next ___ people filling in the succession of power and cabinet positions. Clearly, there would be areas of strengths and weaknesses on most tests, so you can use 'categories' of the test to determine which positions the person should be eligible for. For example, someone who scores highly on a civics section could become a SCOTUS justice, while the extremely high scores for sciences and math could be appointed as NASA/JPL/Technology Oversight or something in that realm.
It should be obvious that for this system to work, you would need to make all religion illegal, regardless of what type, as Religion has proven itself the opposite of intelligence and progress. This is the only form of government I can see being truly fair and representative of what is best for the people, instead of a popularity contest based on the lies about perceived morals the candidates feed you or who buys the winning candidate.
Right now, our system awards those who are corrupt or latch onto some popular tenet of fantasy provided by the church. Isn't it time to start rewarding intelligence and potential instead of ignorance and greed?
The only part they're hiding is that he worked for M$ from the start. Now he just gets a title and salary.
What did the customer pay for that these people were stealing? Do terrestrial/cable ISPs still charge per-hour or per-GB for bandwidth?
Last I checked every provider in my area was offering (truly) unlimited high-speed access for a flat rate, and they couldn't tell worth a damn if someone else was using my connection. They certainly didn't charge me more (for example) when my friends would stop by and use my WiFi.
This is no more stealing than using Coffee Shop WiFi, the only difference is how the connection was made.
I would agree with you on that if corporate CEOs and pretty much everyone who makes over a million dollars a year hadn't set the precedent that defrauding thousands of people at a time comes only with a slap on the wrist and a meager fine despite a huge profit margin.
Shit, that's the definition of how corporate America works. Why aren't they jailing the CEOs of the cable companies instead for charging >5000 times the amount they pay for bandwidth for the average user? Why aren't they jailing the AT&T and Verizon execs for bait-and-switch with the 'Unlimited' plans which are actually limited to single-digit bandwidth amounts?
It's all ass-backward, and this guy just had the balls to do something about it. Do your time, but do it proudly.
Ah, I see.
So they're not just evil, they're pedantic assholes, too.
You need to understand how the broadcast television system works in Japan. There are ~8-10 total networks with terrestrial broadcast stations throughout the entire country, several run by the NHK (government-run television system). In Tokyo, you can get about 7 of them. Most other stations are only available via cable or satellite, and the number of local channels even via cable in Japan is extremely low compared to the US.
That said, in Japan space on the ground is often at more of a premium than materials to build with. If they can create one large broadcast tower to service all of Tokyo, they will - in the overall scheme - probably save billions and billions of yen. This was the idea behind the Tokyo Tower (the big red Eiffel tower looking thing) but that was created so long ago that it is now outdated and needs an upgrade to reach everyone.
I find the architecture to be pretty cool in this Sky Tree, though it really sticks out. I think the guys over at Tokyo Yakei (Tokyo Night Windows) got the best shots of it so far(even though it's earlier on in the construction): Tokyo Sky Tree at Night