I'm still not convinced that we know why Microsoft wants Yahoo. Is there nothing else that Microsoft can do with $40 billion? Is there no Microsoft service or product that needs more investment?
If Microsoft thought that something within Yahoo was worth over $30 billion it implies that Microsoft would be unable to develop and market the same kind of service for less.
Imagine a start-up that couldn't develop a me-too service despite having $30 billion in the bank...
I've been involved with "parallel programming" for 20 years. There is no mystery involved. The C family of languages are particularly ill suited for parallel programming which may be why we are seeing reports recently claiming that it is "too difficult". Pointers in particular make life difficult for both the programmer and the compiler.
There are a few techniques to be mastered and using a language designed with parallelism in mind helps hugely with the picky details.
There are some countries who are attempting to produce cheap clones of anti-AIDs drugs so that their poorer populations can receive some treatment. They are being threatened by the WTO.
Which side is the more moral?
Seriously, who in this day and age doesn't check the return codes of library routines when writing software that will be deployed on millions of computers?
Look you guys, we built an operating system with your crappy DRM ideas built in and guess what? It didn't work too well. The entire point of a computer is to copy data accurately and as soon as you mess with that, you get a crappy result. It's not so much "garbage in, garbage out" as "quality in, garbage out".
So, Vista didn't work too well and it's your fault. The RIAA and MPAA can take DRM and shove it where the sun don't shine. Microsoft is now a born again anti-DRM company and there is nothing you can do because we've got more money than you.
Now I must go because there's a conference call with some BSD kernel hackers I want to take.
I stopped using Windows when Windows 98 was released and I couldn't make it do things my way. I switched to Linux, then Solaris and now both of my laptops run OpenSolaris.
I see no reason whatsoever to return to the small, shuttered prison cell that is Windows.
So, how much does it cost per year to detect radio-active cats? Wouldn't it be cheaper to put up a sign saying "Radio-active materials are monitored" and spin a lie a couple of times a year using a story such as "We detected a radio-active cat, aren't we clever?"
Unless you are already tracking a suspect, data trawling is ineffective. The bigger the database, the less effective it is as more and more false positives occur and have to be investigated. This wastes huge amounts of time and resources and starves real investigations that could well turn up real suspects.
If they are watching, why is it that I never see any "targeted" adverts? TV can be excused for just throwing everything into the aether and hoping that something sticks, but on the web why do I see all kinds of ads in which I have no interest in at all?
If the Air was half the price, they would sell shed loads. It's the kind of device that Apple might expect to sell two or three to a household. But at the current price, there may not be much demand.
my concept of "solid air". This is a new idea that will allow us to build houses and other building from room temperature solidified air. These houses will be eco-friendly and cheap.
I expect the technology required to create "solid air" will be invented by someone, somewhere, by 2016, or perhaps later.
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The real problems here are Sony etc who fund the *AA and set the agenda.
*AA gets all the headlines and the hate, but the companies hiding behind them seem to get a free pass for some reason.
How about always listing the *AA backers in any *AA story?
Hey, Joe! You know those AI cameras? Yes? The ones that track noise and violent actions? Yes? They just recorded 24hours of pigeons copulating...
I almost bought one, but with Windows 7 just around the corner...
I'm still not convinced that we know why Microsoft wants Yahoo. Is there nothing else that Microsoft can do with $40 billion? Is there no Microsoft service or product that needs more investment?
When was it decided that watching TV should become a technological maze?
Imagine a start-up that couldn't develop a me-too service despite having $30 billion in the bank...
There are a few techniques to be mastered and using a language designed with parallelism in mind helps hugely with the picky details.
There are some countries who are attempting to produce cheap clones of anti-AIDs drugs so that their poorer populations can receive some treatment. They are being threatened by the WTO. Which side is the more moral?
Wake me when something new happens.
Seriously, who in this day and age doesn't check the return codes of library routines when writing software that will be deployed on millions of computers?
OTOT, I take mine everywhere and at work plug in a 15" LCD screen and full size keyboard and it is perfectly usable for web browsing, email etc.
Well, a guy can hope, can't he?
I stopped using Windows when Windows 98 was released and I couldn't make it do things my way. I switched to Linux, then Solaris and now both of my laptops run OpenSolaris.
I see no reason whatsoever to return to the small, shuttered prison cell that is Windows.
Citizens with valid and accurate papers are perfectly capable of entering a federal building with evil intent.
So you have to wonder exactly what the government thinks it is protecting itself from by using REAL ID?
So, how much does it cost per year to detect radio-active cats? Wouldn't it be cheaper to put up a sign saying "Radio-active materials are monitored" and spin a lie a couple of times a year using a story such as "We detected a radio-active cat, aren't we clever?"
Unless you are already tracking a suspect, data trawling is ineffective. The bigger the database, the less effective it is as more and more false positives occur and have to be investigated. This wastes huge amounts of time and resources and starves real investigations that could well turn up real suspects.
If they are watching, why is it that I never see any "targeted" adverts? TV can be excused for just throwing everything into the aether and hoping that something sticks, but on the web why do I see all kinds of ads in which I have no interest in at all?
Why on earth should he think that "experts" are any better at self regulation than any other random group of people?
If the Air was half the price, they would sell shed loads. It's the kind of device that Apple might expect to sell two or three to a household. But at the current price, there may not be much demand.
Just wait until everybody has ID cards. Having your card cancelled by mistake is going to really ruin your day, month and quite probably, year.
my concept of "solid air". This is a new idea that will allow us to build houses and other building from room temperature solidified air. These houses will be eco-friendly and cheap.
I expect the technology required to create "solid air" will be invented by someone, somewhere, by 2016, or perhaps later.
The mystery customers will be the RIAA and MPIAA. There were these bugs in the DRM code you see...
I'm glad the guy doesn't have a clue. It would be so lonely in that big empty head...
Is the claim that the picture _really_ depicts the exact image of Mohamed? Or is it the association of any picture with Mohamed?
Few criminals leave their eyes at the scene of a crime. So, why are iris scans needed if you already have fingerprints?
There is this little thing called "ethics".
:-)
Then there is the other little thing called "reputation".
Who would be happy to sign contracts with a company that had a public reputation for being unethical?
So most Microsoft partners must be unhappy