MS is famous for their excellent R&D department, which does great things that are never followed up on by the rest of the company. I saw a pretty amazing MS presentation 10 years ago showcasing what they were doing with touchscreens -- stuff that became commonplace in products using Apple and Google software.
Please don't confuse your ignorance of MS research with Bill Gates's charity work.
I agree. This story is such an excellent example of why environmentalism can be so dangerous and *must* be subjected to intense criticism, not adopted automatically "because that's what we should all do, right?".
Such is the case with just about every group and their beliefs.
Apple claims to own rectangular tablet computers with rounded corners and cameras on the front that can be used in portrait mode.
Interesting, considering that the first iPad didn't have a front-facing camera, and those of us who thought that was a ridiculous oversight were called Apple-hating trolls and told that a camera would be a useless addition.
They're expensive to develop, then a patient pays for just one dose (or sometimes two), and is cured for decades or life. There's no way a corporation can make a profit that way.
Actually, you'd make a very nice profit, but for a limited time and much less than if you keep people sick while treating their symptoms.
The problem isn't that a profit can't be made; it's the difference between hundreds of millions vs. near-infinity.
I had a Toshiba Portege in 2006 -- it was awesome for the time. With the screen turned around, its form factor was little different from a modern tablet (scroll down for the pic). All Apple did was remove the keyboard, strip away the ports and other useful stuff, and add a touchscreen.
Why would warming mean "more deserts between the tropics"? Why not "more tropics and less snow"? Is that your hypothesis? Have you tested it?
And we all know that "global warming" refers to warming that happens globally. Your feigned annoyance that the terminology is misleading is pretty lame. (Do you also cry when programming about how a "global variable" has nothing to do with changing the globe? I thought not.)
Seriously. I NEED Firefox because it has some extensions that Chrome doesn't have, but at this point FF has driven me away for 80% of my browser time.
Thanks to constantly breaking extensions, I've stopped automatic updates, and now plan on checking back with FF every 5th release or so to see if I should bother updating.
A retarded screed if ever there was one. Facebook is a great way for me to keep in touch with my family 2000 miles away. 100 years ago, I'd have written letters and used the phone. Same fucking thing.
YOUR use of various media may have come at the expense of your life (and your wife) -- but to extrapolate your personality defects onto everyone else and then pretend to feel superior about it? Piss off.
How 'bout spending time with your family instead of posting to/.?
But he's producing those forces with less muscle, using an purely elastic mechanism that can't change force as quickly as the active muscles.
The difference is that real muscles tire while elastics do not (at least, not over the course of a single race). This to me negates the whole "He has no advantage" argument.
Tabs should be on the side, so that if I have more than 7 of them I can still see what each one is. And as a researcher, it's not unusual to have 20+ open. (Thank gawd for Tree Style Tabs!)
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Half the country pays no taxes
Well, if payroll taxes aren't really taxes, then we should just tax every dollar earned instead of just the first $100K. Social Security would no longer be an issue.
What's that? Payroll taxes really ARE taxes? Then I guess your "Half the country pays no taxes" is just bullshit.
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What I'm asking is why, if people like Cheney said that "Reagan proved deficits don't matter" [washingtonpost.com] then why are we seeing negative effects?
What Cheney meant was Republicans are free to raise the deficit to ridiculous heights and pay no political price for it. Reagan is practically considered a god by "conservatives" and he happily created the largest deficit in the history of the world to that point.
IOW, Cheney meant that deficits had no political pricetag, which was pretty the basis for every decision he made as president.
No, for the most part it's invest in companies, keeping business going, keeping people employed.
Right - that's why the recent record profits made by corporations (along with the lowest tax rates of my lifetime) has resulted in record low unemployment numbers and a strong and stable economy.
My gf would have been among the 35% iPhone people. Until she actual got to the store, saw that the EVO had more to offer (at the time: turn-by-turn nav, bigger screen, HD video out) at a lower-cost data plan price point, and bought that instead. She had no idea what Android was -- only that it was a much better fit for her, even though she's only ever used Apple computers.
IOW, it's a meaningless survey. In any large population, what people DO is always very, very different from what the SAY they'll do.
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MS is famous for their excellent R&D department, which does great things that are never followed up on by the rest of the company. I saw a pretty amazing MS presentation 10 years ago showcasing what they were doing with touchscreens -- stuff that became commonplace in products using Apple and Google software.
Please don't confuse your ignorance of MS research with Bill Gates's charity work.
Good question. I loved him in The Devil's Rain and The Twilight Zone when I was a kid - I'd love to see his reaction to either role.
I agree. This story is such an excellent example of why environmentalism can be so dangerous and *must* be subjected to intense criticism, not adopted automatically "because that's what we should all do, right?".
Such is the case with just about every group and their beliefs.
Yes. Darwin's system. When a company gets hacked and customer's information is taken, they lose business ...
More laws are not always the best answer.
Obvious problem: There's no impetus (without laws) for any company to ever tell you that they've lost your data. So your model fails completely.
Apple claims to own rectangular tablet computers with rounded corners and cameras on the front that can be used in portrait mode.
Interesting, considering that the first iPad didn't have a front-facing camera, and those of us who thought that was a ridiculous oversight were called Apple-hating trolls and told that a camera would be a useless addition.
How many other corporations the size of Google are investing that much money in electric power generation?
The average company the size of Google is an energy or energy-related company, so I'd say, "Most of them."
They're expensive to develop, then a patient pays for just one dose (or sometimes two), and is cured for decades or life. There's no way a corporation can make a profit that way.
Actually, you'd make a very nice profit, but for a limited time and much less than if you keep people sick while treating their symptoms.
The problem isn't that a profit can't be made; it's the difference between hundreds of millions vs. near-infinity.
I had a Toshiba Portege in 2006 -- it was awesome for the time. With the screen turned around, its form factor was little different from a modern tablet (scroll down for the pic). All Apple did was remove the keyboard, strip away the ports and other useful stuff, and add a touchscreen.
btw - HP also made similar devices that were even more iPad-like in 2002. This page has pics.
Maybe they were just holding it wrong.
Why would warming mean "more deserts between the tropics"? Why not "more tropics and less snow"? Is that your hypothesis? Have you tested it?
And we all know that "global warming" refers to warming that happens globally. Your feigned annoyance that the terminology is misleading is pretty lame. (Do you also cry when programming about how a "global variable" has nothing to do with changing the globe? I thought not.)
Will WebAPI break my most important apps every time there's an update?
(Seriously, fuck you, Mozilla.)
And apparently everyone who felt it feels the need to come to /. and say, "Hey, I felt it!"
Can we just rip this fucking single-window crap right back out and put the GIMP back the way GIMP users use it
Of course you can -- it's open source. You can change it however you want.
I always try to use Filehippo. They're the only download site where I've never seen an ad deceptively disguised as a "Download" button.
Right - that's why none of these companies have sold phones with unlocked bootloaders (except of course Motorola, HTC, Samsung...).
Seriously. I NEED Firefox because it has some extensions that Chrome doesn't have, but at this point FF has driven me away for 80% of my browser time.
Thanks to constantly breaking extensions, I've stopped automatic updates, and now plan on checking back with FF every 5th release or so to see if I should bother updating.
This was the same thing people (who didn't actually know anything) said about the Nexus launch. It was a non-issue then, too.
A retarded screed if ever there was one. Facebook is a great way for me to keep in touch with my family 2000 miles away. 100 years ago, I'd have written letters and used the phone. Same fucking thing.
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YOUR use of various media may have come at the expense of your life (and your wife) -- but to extrapolate your personality defects onto everyone else and then pretend to feel superior about it? Piss off.
How 'bout spending time with your family instead of posting to
But he's producing those forces with less muscle, using an purely elastic mechanism that can't change force as quickly as the active muscles.
The difference is that real muscles tire while elastics do not (at least, not over the course of a single race). This to me negates the whole "He has no advantage" argument.
Tabs should be on the side, so that if I have more than 7 of them I can still see what each one is. And as a researcher, it's not unusual to have 20+ open. (Thank gawd for Tree Style Tabs!)
Half the country pays no taxes
Well, if payroll taxes aren't really taxes, then we should just tax every dollar earned instead of just the first $100K. Social Security would no longer be an issue.
What's that? Payroll taxes really ARE taxes? Then I guess your "Half the country pays no taxes" is just bullshit.
What I'm asking is why, if people like Cheney said that "Reagan proved deficits don't matter" [washingtonpost.com] then why are we seeing negative effects?
What Cheney meant was Republicans are free to raise the deficit to ridiculous heights and pay no political price for it. Reagan is practically considered a god by "conservatives" and he happily created the largest deficit in the history of the world to that point.
IOW, Cheney meant that deficits had no political pricetag, which was pretty the basis for every decision he made as president.
No, for the most part it's invest in companies, keeping business going, keeping people employed.
Right - that's why the recent record profits made by corporations (along with the lowest tax rates of my lifetime) has resulted in record low unemployment numbers and a strong and stable economy.
Oh, wait...
My gf would have been among the 35% iPhone people. Until she actual got to the store, saw that the EVO had more to offer (at the time: turn-by-turn nav, bigger screen, HD video out) at a lower-cost data plan price point, and bought that instead. She had no idea what Android was -- only that it was a much better fit for her, even though she's only ever used Apple computers.
IOW, it's a meaningless survey. In any large population, what people DO is always very, very different from what the SAY they'll do.
The beneficiaries of tax-and-spend policy are those who receive the spending, not those who pay the taxes.
Right. Unfortunately, those people also generally vote Republican: http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html