Two problems here:
1. you can't create energy
2. reacting oxygen with some carbon substance is called combustion and while it does indeed burn, it doesn't make a battery
I stand by my comment. If you pick a laptop for the hardware, you often have no choice in the accessories. It's the same thing with many products. Just because I buy a GM vehicle doesn't mean I chose it for the brand of stereo.
There's a difference between being innovative and knowing innovation when you see it. After all, they bought DOS and Word. Gates does deserve credit for the business savvy and courage to invest in the right products at the right time.
It's unfortunate that Gates doesn't give more credit to his employees and customer base. A lot of guys like Raymond Chen worked many sleepless nights to make Windows backwards compatible with the most popular programs. For a long time Microsoft worked very hard to keep their developers and users loyal to their platforms. There came a time when people wanted MS Windows and Office in part because it's what everyone used. You would be a more valuable employee to most companies if you used Word - not MacWrite or WordPerfect. Do people use Facebook because it's awesome or because their friends use it? The same goes for email, chat clients, picture formats, etc. When I invested in Windows I wasn't interested in the OS - I was interested in the community, products and services around the OS. I never liked Windows; it was just a necessary evil for me to use the hardware and software that I did like.
Slowly, Microsoft has been alienating much of that community. How many developers have had to face competition from MS in the form of standalone products or features integrated right into Windows? All the while those competitors have to subsidize their MS competition by paying for Windows, Visual Studio, etc. One thing Microsoft does well is use successful products to subsidize those that are no good or face stiff competition. Think of Zune, XBox, etc. Those competing firms have felt the blows over the years. A lot of people still support Microsoft because they have their careers invested in MS technologies, but many people have also had their careers ruined by the same - or rather, their career using Windows, as people will adapt and find alternatives.
Monopolies and bootstrapping aside, this looks like a case of killing the golden goose to get the golden egg. Many of the "one-product wonders" that Gates slams in the interview were the companies that pushed Microsoft to the top. Gates says these companies could "never get their engineering sorted out," but MS definitely had an advantage being in control of the API's.
Microsoft owes a lot to the people who have put up with having a "broken computer" time and again, the developers who released their cutting edge software for Windows, the US judiciary's leniency in anti-trust cases, and the hardware industry that doubled performance every 18 months encouraging people to buy yet another copy of Windows. It's a shame that Gates can't show a little more gratitude to the people who have given him so much.
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They've got how many billions of dollars laying around and that's the best they can do?
No no, guys this is our government. You know, the one that thought DES was secure. The government that keeps "losing" veteran records. The same that thought you could delete IE just by dragging a desktop shortcut to the trash bin and then actually bought the argument that the web browser is an integral part of the operating system. Maybe they need systems a little more appropriate for their level - how about a bunch of XO's?
Yeah, we need that money to hunt down terrorists in Iraq! The courts are a waste of money too. All these renegade judges are polluting our culture and letting the terrorists get away. We can't waste time or money looking for Bin Laden or impeaching Bush. We have to go after Iran. They're about to have nuclear weapons -- just like Iraq! The Iranians will be so grateful once we liberate them. They'll have free and fair elections. They'll be safe in the streets. They'll finally be free to buy American products. That's what freedom's all about!
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Which is why I'm returning to my books. I read a fair amount--the classics...
I wonder if the poster knows you can read classic literature on the Internet. Maybe he should Google it...
BTW, is this supposed to be about Google or the Internet? Google's in the title but the excerpts just complain that the Internet is a better medium for much of our information. I wonder if he would have complained this much had he been around when the printing press was invented.
It's becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio...
I don't see how using the Internet for any of these things is making us stupid.
Didn't Microsoft have a big role in making ajax a mess in the first place? 'Ok everyone, iframes!! no, wait ActiveXObject requests!! no, wait Msxml2 ActiveXObject requests!! no, wait arax with our own proprietary plugin that nobody supports!!'
Actually, ajax works pretty well nowadays. Why don't they work on something that really needs help, like css. Or maybe they think their dynamic expressions were the silver bullet...
InnoDB is used in production at numerous large database sites requiring high performance. The famous Internet news site Slashdot.org runs on InnoDB...
It's true that MySQL isn't getting used for a lot of the large mission critical applications. Slashdot's great, but I think it would be a stronger performance endorsement if they could say that the banking systems, or healthcare systems, or even Walmart's datacenter were using MySQL. Unfortunately, I think a lot of the large corporations overlook MySQL, just as they overlook Linux, for political reasons. They need to have solid support agreements (ie. a strong company they can sue) in case something goes wrong. For this reason, MySQL doesn't even get included in their performance metrics. Maybe that will change with Sun standing behind it. (so long as Sun doesn't rewrite it in Java : )
Saying MySQL/InnoDB or MySQL/ISAM gets complicated since you can access tables from different engines within a single query. Maybe there's no silver bullet engine for all scenarios. Ultimately, flexibility is the key feature. That way you can gather real performance data and choose the best database/engine for your specific application and data set.
I dunno if i like that. Maybe Linux works best as an esoteric geeky platform. Having all these microsoft defectors around is making it stuffy in here. Why don't you go open a windows?
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In real life, faxes of documents occur after a verbal agreement is reached.
That's not always true. In real estate contract offers are often delivered solely by fax, and the response is also delivered by fax when an offer is accepted. Sometimes the offers and counter offers go back and forth so many times that part of the document becomes too illegible to hold up in court.
Anyone can go to Kinkos and send a fax pretending it's from me. Someone might not be able to get me hired as in your example, but they might do enough damage to get me fired.
Faxing was an important technology that served a specific function in its time. It allowed us to transmit documents on analog lines before digital networks were widely accessible. Now that we have the internet and suitable cryptographic techniques, there's no point holding onto faxing. You can push the merits of telegraphs all you want, but I'd rather use a cell phone. Why waste money on a phone line for a fax machine when you can get an internet connection for about the same amount?
One irony of faxing is that digital lines are taking over in the public phone network as well. However, people are still trying to use the analog fax protocol over digital lines. IP telephony is optimized for voice transmissions. If a packet is lost, many applications will fill extend the voice from adjacent packets to cover up the dead space from the lost packet. This kind of manipulation makes voice sound good, but it distorts fax signals in a way that the protocol wasn't designed to check. The fax protocol checks for a certain threshold of error before it requests a resend. The designers new that if they mandated a perfect transmission the resends would slow down the fax too much. They designed the checksums to catch the most common errors that occur with analog lines. With IP telephony manipulation, the fax protocol can't detect much of the manipulation and so you can get a completely munged document that didn't generate a single fax error.
I think faxing filled an important niche in its time, but the world has moved on so it's time to let go of it. Newer copy machines even let you email your scanned documents which is far more convenient than faxing ever was. I'd rather see companies put their energy into standardizing an email encryption system rather than trying to keep faxing alive.
I don't care if you do switch to Linux. I'm still not fixing your computer.
Microsoft and its users deserve each other. MS wants them to just buy it and the users want it to just work. That relationship will go on for a while. What did collapse is the market for the old MS business model. You can't win US market share just by shipping software on new computers anymore. They might be able to do it again with emerging markets around the world, but is Vista the OS for those affordable systems?
Apple has already been a hated company. Remember the iMac? Actually I know a lot of people who still hate Apple because their products are expensive, because of restrictions with iPods / iTunes, etc. There's no trend here. Consumers like companies that provide a good product at a fair price and they despise monopolies that abuse their position. The fickle consumer opinion sways accordingly.
I suspect evolution would make better inroads if schools would do a better job of presenting the data and research behind the theory rather than just teaching the conclusions. Darwin's original ideas are interesting, but it's the harmony of data from so many unrelated fields that make the conclusions particularly credible. Besides, if schools really want to teach science, kids need to learn to be critical of these ideas instead of just blindly accepting what's in the textbooks.
You can't blockade your driveway if the power company has an easement on your land.
Property rights may be separated. Just because you own some land doesn't mean you have the mineral rights, water rights, air rights, etc and the same goes for airwaves. Even when you do own certain rights, the government can still control what you do through zoning. Cities say you can't make disruptive audible noise and the FCC says you can't make disruptive noise at cell phone frequencies.
Whatever you think about the guy (and his energy hogging mansion), it's admirable that he's put so much time into a non-partisan cause at a point in his life when most politicians would probably resign to a cushy retirement.
Fat Cat Corporations Say Internet's Too Competitive
Religious Right Says Internet's Too Dirty
China Says Internet's Too Liberal
Prakash Singh Says Internet's Too Expensive
Al Gore Says Air's Too Free
Take a number and sit down.
Slashdot Mirror
it's probably cleaner than the water in the Hudson...
creates more energy
Two problems here:
1. you can't create energy
2. reacting oxygen with some carbon substance is called combustion and while it does indeed burn, it doesn't make a battery
true. i have the patent on stroking - keys or otherwise, so they only get the scrolling part
Apparently I hit a nerve.
I stand by my comment. If you pick a laptop for the hardware, you often have no choice in the accessories. It's the same thing with many products. Just because I buy a GM vehicle doesn't mean I chose it for the brand of stereo.
There's a difference between being innovative and knowing innovation when you see it. After all, they bought DOS and Word. Gates does deserve credit for the business savvy and courage to invest in the right products at the right time.
It's unfortunate that Gates doesn't give more credit to his employees and customer base. A lot of guys like Raymond Chen worked many sleepless nights to make Windows backwards compatible with the most popular programs. For a long time Microsoft worked very hard to keep their developers and users loyal to their platforms. There came a time when people wanted MS Windows and Office in part because it's what everyone used. You would be a more valuable employee to most companies if you used Word - not MacWrite or WordPerfect. Do people use Facebook because it's awesome or because their friends use it? The same goes for email, chat clients, picture formats, etc. When I invested in Windows I wasn't interested in the OS - I was interested in the community, products and services around the OS. I never liked Windows; it was just a necessary evil for me to use the hardware and software that I did like.
Slowly, Microsoft has been alienating much of that community. How many developers have had to face competition from MS in the form of standalone products or features integrated right into Windows? All the while those competitors have to subsidize their MS competition by paying for Windows, Visual Studio, etc. One thing Microsoft does well is use successful products to subsidize those that are no good or face stiff competition. Think of Zune, XBox, etc. Those competing firms have felt the blows over the years. A lot of people still support Microsoft because they have their careers invested in MS technologies, but many people have also had their careers ruined by the same - or rather, their career using Windows, as people will adapt and find alternatives.
Monopolies and bootstrapping aside, this looks like a case of killing the golden goose to get the golden egg. Many of the "one-product wonders" that Gates slams in the interview were the companies that pushed Microsoft to the top. Gates says these companies could "never get their engineering sorted out," but MS definitely had an advantage being in control of the API's.
Microsoft owes a lot to the people who have put up with having a "broken computer" time and again, the developers who released their cutting edge software for Windows, the US judiciary's leniency in anti-trust cases, and the hardware industry that doubled performance every 18 months encouraging people to buy yet another copy of Windows. It's a shame that Gates can't show a little more gratitude to the people who have given him so much.
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They've got how many billions of dollars laying around and that's the best they can do?
I'm finding I don't have many options for choosing a laptop that doesn't come with Windows... I guess I'll have to hold out for the Linux abacus port.
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cake or death?
We the people need a kill switch for the Pentagon. Something that will stop them if they get within 40 miles of an oil producing country.
Isn't that like Hannibal Lecter forcing people to be vegan?
No no, guys this is our government. You know, the one that thought DES was secure. The government that keeps "losing" veteran records. The same that thought you could delete IE just by dragging a desktop shortcut to the trash bin and then actually bought the argument that the web browser is an integral part of the operating system. Maybe they need systems a little more appropriate for their level - how about a bunch of XO's?
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Yeah, we need that money to hunt down terrorists in Iraq! The courts are a waste of money too. All these renegade judges are polluting our culture and letting the terrorists get away. We can't waste time or money looking for Bin Laden or impeaching Bush. We have to go after Iran. They're about to have nuclear weapons -- just like Iraq! The Iranians will be so grateful once we liberate them. They'll have free and fair elections. They'll be safe in the streets. They'll finally be free to buy American products. That's what freedom's all about!
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I wonder if the poster knows you can read classic literature on the Internet. Maybe he should Google it...
BTW, is this supposed to be about Google or the Internet? Google's in the title but the excerpts just complain that the Internet is a better medium for much of our information. I wonder if he would have complained this much had he been around when the printing press was invented.
It's becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio...I don't see how using the Internet for any of these things is making us stupid.
...and TVOh, now I see.
Didn't Microsoft have a big role in making ajax a mess in the first place? 'Ok everyone, iframes!! no, wait ActiveXObject requests!! no, wait Msxml2 ActiveXObject requests!! no, wait arax with our own proprietary plugin that nobody supports!!'
Actually, ajax works pretty well nowadays. Why don't they work on something that really needs help, like css. Or maybe they think their dynamic expressions were the silver bullet...
I have to agree. A lot of those features have been present for some time now.
Just some fun trivia I saw on MySQL.com:
InnoDB is used in production at numerous large database sites requiring high performance. The famous Internet news site Slashdot.org runs on InnoDB...It's true that MySQL isn't getting used for a lot of the large mission critical applications. Slashdot's great, but I think it would be a stronger performance endorsement if they could say that the banking systems, or healthcare systems, or even Walmart's datacenter were using MySQL. Unfortunately, I think a lot of the large corporations overlook MySQL, just as they overlook Linux, for political reasons. They need to have solid support agreements (ie. a strong company they can sue) in case something goes wrong. For this reason, MySQL doesn't even get included in their performance metrics. Maybe that will change with Sun standing behind it. (so long as Sun doesn't rewrite it in Java : )
Saying MySQL/InnoDB or MySQL/ISAM gets complicated since you can access tables from different engines within a single query. Maybe there's no silver bullet engine for all scenarios. Ultimately, flexibility is the key feature. That way you can gather real performance data and choose the best database/engine for your specific application and data set.
I dunno if i like that. Maybe Linux works best as an esoteric geeky platform. Having all these microsoft defectors around is making it stuffy in here. Why don't you go open a windows?
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Cartmanland is sooo awesome and you can't come!!!
That's not always true. In real estate contract offers are often delivered solely by fax, and the response is also delivered by fax when an offer is accepted. Sometimes the offers and counter offers go back and forth so many times that part of the document becomes too illegible to hold up in court.
Anyone can go to Kinkos and send a fax pretending it's from me. Someone might not be able to get me hired as in your example, but they might do enough damage to get me fired.
Faxing was an important technology that served a specific function in its time. It allowed us to transmit documents on analog lines before digital networks were widely accessible. Now that we have the internet and suitable cryptographic techniques, there's no point holding onto faxing. You can push the merits of telegraphs all you want, but I'd rather use a cell phone. Why waste money on a phone line for a fax machine when you can get an internet connection for about the same amount?
One irony of faxing is that digital lines are taking over in the public phone network as well. However, people are still trying to use the analog fax protocol over digital lines. IP telephony is optimized for voice transmissions. If a packet is lost, many applications will fill extend the voice from adjacent packets to cover up the dead space from the lost packet. This kind of manipulation makes voice sound good, but it distorts fax signals in a way that the protocol wasn't designed to check. The fax protocol checks for a certain threshold of error before it requests a resend. The designers new that if they mandated a perfect transmission the resends would slow down the fax too much. They designed the checksums to catch the most common errors that occur with analog lines. With IP telephony manipulation, the fax protocol can't detect much of the manipulation and so you can get a completely munged document that didn't generate a single fax error.
I think faxing filled an important niche in its time, but the world has moved on so it's time to let go of it. Newer copy machines even let you email your scanned documents which is far more convenient than faxing ever was. I'd rather see companies put their energy into standardizing an email encryption system rather than trying to keep faxing alive.
I don't care if you do switch to Linux. I'm still not fixing your computer.
Microsoft and its users deserve each other. MS wants them to just buy it and the users want it to just work. That relationship will go on for a while. What did collapse is the market for the old MS business model. You can't win US market share just by shipping software on new computers anymore. They might be able to do it again with emerging markets around the world, but is Vista the OS for those affordable systems?
now if they could only control pollution...
Apple has already been a hated company. Remember the iMac? Actually I know a lot of people who still hate Apple because their products are expensive, because of restrictions with iPods / iTunes, etc. There's no trend here. Consumers like companies that provide a good product at a fair price and they despise monopolies that abuse their position. The fickle consumer opinion sways accordingly.
I suspect evolution would make better inroads if schools would do a better job of presenting the data and research behind the theory rather than just teaching the conclusions. Darwin's original ideas are interesting, but it's the harmony of data from so many unrelated fields that make the conclusions particularly credible. Besides, if schools really want to teach science, kids need to learn to be critical of these ideas instead of just blindly accepting what's in the textbooks.
You can't blockade your driveway if the power company has an easement on your land.
Property rights may be separated. Just because you own some land doesn't mean you have the mineral rights, water rights, air rights, etc and the same goes for airwaves. Even when you do own certain rights, the government can still control what you do through zoning. Cities say you can't make disruptive audible noise and the FCC says you can't make disruptive noise at cell phone frequencies.
Whatever you think about the guy (and his energy hogging mansion), it's admirable that he's put so much time into a non-partisan cause at a point in his life when most politicians would probably resign to a cushy retirement.
oops, i read that as book appendix. "Why, it's the place to put all the content of your book without the fluff..."
I had always heard that the appendix helps with the digestion of raw meat which is just superfluous now that we have fire.
Fat Cat Corporations Say Internet's Too Competitive Religious Right Says Internet's Too Dirty China Says Internet's Too Liberal Prakash Singh Says Internet's Too Expensive Al Gore Says Air's Too Free Take a number and sit down.
No. World Wide Web is the name of a particular internet - aka the Internet (capital I). ...and yes, we know there's more to the Internet than port 80.