Without its R&D deparment and its incubation projects that take years of loss to get right MS would have no place to go right now when its windows and office profit centers are starting to level off and possibly even decline. Balmer once said that you have to have 3 types of projects happening in a company to sustain long term growth, the projects you are making money off right now, the projects you will make money on in 5 years and the projects that you will try to eventually make money on.
Windows mobile and advertising seem to be the projects that have moved from a make money sometime to a make money now status at MS. I know they may not seem innovative but there are features of each that are a big step ahead of all the competition.
The problem is that the laws of thermodynamics say that if you had to put energy into the system there will be a net loss of energy over the life of the process. Means in this case that you are guaranteed not to get back more energy than you used to split the water into oxygen and hydrogen and in all likelyhood you would get significantly less back in a harnessable form. That said the beauty of hydrogen as fuel is that you can take hard to capture energy and store it as easier to use hydrogen. For instance hydro electric power is plentiful (yes it has environmental issues but I'm just being hypothetical) but can't be used to power a car. If it instead powered a electrolysis plant and the hydrogen was used to power the car that is workable.
Also for those who LOVE hydrogen as a fuel, remember, water vapor is a greenhouse gas.
Yup, you can avoid the irrational/emotional people by sniping. What would be nice is a utility (probably exists) that takes your max bid and enters it in the last seconds if the price isn't over that bid. Maybe someone can make that into a web service and make some money off ebay. Maybe I should patent it and sue the snipers for using my business method without a licence *wink*
I was going to mention places like gametap but you beat me too it:) I think its a fun service and the game selection is getting better all the time. They introduce a few new games every couple weeks I think.
Right now I think thier library is about 400 titles on console platforms from sega and atari as well as arcade, PC DOS and Windows platform games. If I remember correctly either on a phone call to the company or buried in thier FAQ somewhere they claim to have licences to 1200 titles which they are slowly but surely rolling into thier service. They do a lot of work packaging the game so that it can be downloaded and played as well as work to give interesting factoids about each game as well as a reasonable description of the game and how to play it.
The normal monthly price is like $14.95 (if I remember right) but it looks like there are multiple ways to get the service for $9.95. No I don't know where to get codes, I got the cheap price for being a former subscriber.
If this dude heads outdoors once in a while he probably exposes himself to more known harmful radiation from the sun than he would ever get from some low power wireless routers. Also I wonder how many devices have RF emmisions in this band that aren't coherant but would still cause similar damage that this dude hasn't thought about. When I say that I'm meaning devices that aren't designed as RF transmitters but release RF emmisions anyway (lots of devices do).
This just goes to show the troubles with the TPM as implemented. I read an article recently on a whole host of reasons why the TPM is useless for security of this sort and why the current publicity around the TPM actually makes the situation worse by making people feel more secure and thus act more stupidly.
In thier initial security bulliten they did mention the work around of unregistering the dll that drives windows picture and fax viewer which evidentially was the main way this vulnerability was being exploited at the time while they tested the patch.
I just read the establishment clause again to be sure that I had it right but as well as not allowing the government to establish a religion (which there could be some disagreement on the definition of religious establishment then versus the definition now that I will leave alone) it also does not allow the government to prohibit the free expression of said religion. To me this would seem to say that while the school cannot as a policy "teach" the religious opinion they could not as a policy prevent the mention of religion and the discussion there of. In this way whether or not ID is considered a religious idea (I think it is a religious idea for multiple reasons even though I tend to believe it though I won't try to say that I know it to be true) it doesn't seem like the discussion could legally be prohibited in the classroom. The only thing prohibited seems to be taking a firm stance on "the truth" (which is orthoganal from the fact or theory debate that goes on).
The idea of the establishment clause was the prohibition of persecution on religious grounds not the equal persecution of all religions. So I say have a lively discussion on ID vs Creationism vs Evolution vs Whatever else and explain why each holds up under the light of science and also why scientific backing need to be necessary to hold a belief in a higher power and also why it need not preclude that belief (even where observation currently seems to preclude it because every hypothesis is considered true only so long as observation supports it). Let people be free but also let them know all the thoughts one way or another. Just don't be devisive in your statements or load the debate in only one direction.
How is it they have the right to seize property then if they can't prosecute? Seems like the two would go hand in hand? Do they need a warrant of some kind to do this?
The cost you pay to the cable or satellite company pays for the infrastructure to get the signal from them to you. It doesn't cover much if any of the cost to create the content. Without ads even cabel or satellite tv would either go away or be far more costly.
You do realize that they don't need a cookie to track you and it happens to be a very unreliable way to do so right? The act of connection to the http server removes most of the privacy you had before you connected to said server. If you don't like the fact a server uses trackable ads then don't read the site but don't steal the content by not paying for what you view by viewing an ad. I don't really see a problem with blocking the cookie from the ad server but don't block the image.
BTW, if you continue to view the site but not see the ads the owner knows it and will find ever more devious ways to get you to see the ads (like say proxy them through the web server you just downloaded your content from so that if you block the server your block the content too). If you refuse to view ad funded pages they will find ways you find acceptable to fund the site.
While OSS does stand for open source software, source need not be source not be source code nor does open source necessarily need to be tied to software. Open Source is about having the method of creation of an item open for everyone to use, and furthermore to change as they may so long as they keep it open. It can apply to music, writing, board games and cola recipies just as an example.
I do believe that a class in open source should be about legal implications, philosophy, business issues, collaborative process and issues of that sort and have very little to do with writing code.
More to the point you had to buy a 4 cpu licence for that single virtual server even though most virtual servers only virtualize a single processor and so you were paying the 4 cpu price for a 1cpu equivalent server.
To address the comment about dual core processors I am pretty darn sure I read in the past that Microsoft had adopted a policy of treating a single dual core processor as 1 cpu and not 2.
I am fairly certain that I can load up the html rendering object in my code running with very low usre permission. I haven't tried it but I don't think there is anything terribly special.
That said, a big flaw in windows (and one that Microsoft seems to acknowledge now) that makes the situation much worse is that everyone runs as an admin. If there were a flaw in the html object but you were only running it as a low privledged user you could hardly screw much up. As things go now you are running as the root user and can screw everything up. That needs to be fixed and is supposed to be much different in Windows Vista when it comes out.
The big reason that being integral to the OS is bad is that firstly everyone knows it will be on the box which means its a good target for attack, secondly the core dll's are exposed in many applications so securing the surface of IE isn't enough to close all possible vulnerabilities (the security has to be at every single layer that any application is allowed to call into). Mozilla could get away with only securing the top levels and benefits from the fact that it is only on like what 30% of windows boxes?
What you will find is that over the next year there will be a number of sub $100 mainstream graphics solutions that will nicely run vista. In fact you will also see a number of integrated graphics solutions that will also nicely run vista.
That said, from everything I've heard vista will run on much less hardware but won't have the eye candy activated.
I don't know the financial definition of dilution but if you imagine a moment that the revenue of google won't drastically increase at the point of the stock issue there will be a period of time where the amount of earnings per share will sink.
You forget that one of the founding philosophies of Apple is that you sould sell hardware and the OS should come with it free. They don't think that they should make money on the software, they think the software should be there to make thier hardware more attractive. Same goes for iTunes if I remember correctly. They break even on iTunes in order to make thier iPods more attractive.
The question I have is can the sentra do 0 to 60 in 10 seconds? Not that this is important but my previous car was 240hp and I wanted something that would accelerate at 60 when I wanted it to. Surprisingly the prius can do that if requested which is not something that can be said of many high mileage cars.
That said, for most people the path you have taken is the better one and I thought hard about just getting a corolla instead. In the end the coolness factor of the hybrid won out for me.
The thing I dislike about saying "I got 250mpg for the first 20 miles" is that the cost of the electricity is completely discounted. The car is no longer a closed system and you aren't comparing apples to apples. My pathfinder can probably get 250mpg if its towed most of the way.
That said I also own a prius and for the size of the interior (which is bigger than I expected before I purchased it), getting 45mpg (which is what I'm averaging for my driving) in a car that has decent performance is nothing to squawk at.
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You mean now the federal govt is going to PAY for grade inflation? Nutz I say, nutz.
Without its R&D deparment and its incubation projects that take years of loss to get right MS would have no place to go right now when its windows and office profit centers are starting to level off and possibly even decline. Balmer once said that you have to have 3 types of projects happening in a company to sustain long term growth, the projects you are making money off right now, the projects you will make money on in 5 years and the projects that you will try to eventually make money on.
Windows mobile and advertising seem to be the projects that have moved from a make money sometime to a make money now status at MS. I know they may not seem innovative but there are features of each that are a big step ahead of all the competition.
The problem is that the laws of thermodynamics say that if you had to put energy into the system there will be a net loss of energy over the life of the process. Means in this case that you are guaranteed not to get back more energy than you used to split the water into oxygen and hydrogen and in all likelyhood you would get significantly less back in a harnessable form. That said the beauty of hydrogen as fuel is that you can take hard to capture energy and store it as easier to use hydrogen. For instance hydro electric power is plentiful (yes it has environmental issues but I'm just being hypothetical) but can't be used to power a car. If it instead powered a electrolysis plant and the hydrogen was used to power the car that is workable.
Also for those who LOVE hydrogen as a fuel, remember, water vapor is a greenhouse gas.
Yup, you can avoid the irrational/emotional people by sniping. What would be nice is a utility (probably exists) that takes your max bid and enters it in the last seconds if the price isn't over that bid. Maybe someone can make that into a web service and make some money off ebay. Maybe I should patent it and sue the snipers for using my business method without a licence *wink*
I was going to mention places like gametap but you beat me too it :) I think its a fun service and the game selection is getting better all the time. They introduce a few new games every couple weeks I think.
Right now I think thier library is about 400 titles on console platforms from sega and atari as well as arcade, PC DOS and Windows platform games. If I remember correctly either on a phone call to the company or buried in thier FAQ somewhere they claim to have licences to 1200 titles which they are slowly but surely rolling into thier service. They do a lot of work packaging the game so that it can be downloaded and played as well as work to give interesting factoids about each game as well as a reasonable description of the game and how to play it.
The normal monthly price is like $14.95 (if I remember right) but it looks like there are multiple ways to get the service for $9.95. No I don't know where to get codes, I got the cheap price for being a former subscriber.
If this dude heads outdoors once in a while he probably exposes himself to more known harmful radiation from the sun than he would ever get from some low power wireless routers. Also I wonder how many devices have RF emmisions in this band that aren't coherant but would still cause similar damage that this dude hasn't thought about. When I say that I'm meaning devices that aren't designed as RF transmitters but release RF emmisions anyway (lots of devices do).
This just goes to show the troubles with the TPM as implemented. I read an article recently on a whole host of reasons why the TPM is useless for security of this sort and why the current publicity around the TPM actually makes the situation worse by making people feel more secure and thus act more stupidly.
In thier initial security bulliten they did mention the work around of unregistering the dll that drives windows picture and fax viewer which evidentially was the main way this vulnerability was being exploited at the time while they tested the patch.
I just read the establishment clause again to be sure that I had it right but as well as not allowing the government to establish a religion (which there could be some disagreement on the definition of religious establishment then versus the definition now that I will leave alone) it also does not allow the government to prohibit the free expression of said religion. To me this would seem to say that while the school cannot as a policy "teach" the religious opinion they could not as a policy prevent the mention of religion and the discussion there of. In this way whether or not ID is considered a religious idea (I think it is a religious idea for multiple reasons even though I tend to believe it though I won't try to say that I know it to be true) it doesn't seem like the discussion could legally be prohibited in the classroom. The only thing prohibited seems to be taking a firm stance on "the truth" (which is orthoganal from the fact or theory debate that goes on).
The idea of the establishment clause was the prohibition of persecution on religious grounds not the equal persecution of all religions. So I say have a lively discussion on ID vs Creationism vs Evolution vs Whatever else and explain why each holds up under the light of science and also why scientific backing need to be necessary to hold a belief in a higher power and also why it need not preclude that belief (even where observation currently seems to preclude it because every hypothesis is considered true only so long as observation supports it). Let people be free but also let them know all the thoughts one way or another. Just don't be devisive in your statements or load the debate in only one direction.
It seems like many of the offerings are free or ad funded.
How is it they have the right to seize property then if they can't prosecute? Seems like the two would go hand in hand? Do they need a warrant of some kind to do this?
Will he prosecuted though? The FBI may have the authority to prosecute in a federal court if it is a federal crime.
The cost you pay to the cable or satellite company pays for the infrastructure to get the signal from them to you. It doesn't cover much if any of the cost to create the content. Without ads even cabel or satellite tv would either go away or be far more costly.
You do realize that they don't need a cookie to track you and it happens to be a very unreliable way to do so right? The act of connection to the http server removes most of the privacy you had before you connected to said server. If you don't like the fact a server uses trackable ads then don't read the site but don't steal the content by not paying for what you view by viewing an ad. I don't really see a problem with blocking the cookie from the ad server but don't block the image.
BTW, if you continue to view the site but not see the ads the owner knows it and will find ever more devious ways to get you to see the ads (like say proxy them through the web server you just downloaded your content from so that if you block the server your block the content too). If you refuse to view ad funded pages they will find ways you find acceptable to fund the site.
While OSS does stand for open source software, source need not be source not be source code nor does open source necessarily need to be tied to software. Open Source is about having the method of creation of an item open for everyone to use, and furthermore to change as they may so long as they keep it open. It can apply to music, writing, board games and cola recipies just as an example.
I do believe that a class in open source should be about legal implications, philosophy, business issues, collaborative process and issues of that sort and have very little to do with writing code.
More to the point you had to buy a 4 cpu licence for that single virtual server even though most virtual servers only virtualize a single processor and so you were paying the 4 cpu price for a 1cpu equivalent server.
To address the comment about dual core processors I am pretty darn sure I read in the past that Microsoft had adopted a policy of treating a single dual core processor as 1 cpu and not 2.
Thats a nice theory except for the fact that those cards were designed with native pci-e not pci-x.
I am fairly certain that I can load up the html rendering object in my code running with very low usre permission. I haven't tried it but I don't think there is anything terribly special.
That said, a big flaw in windows (and one that Microsoft seems to acknowledge now) that makes the situation much worse is that everyone runs as an admin. If there were a flaw in the html object but you were only running it as a low privledged user you could hardly screw much up. As things go now you are running as the root user and can screw everything up. That needs to be fixed and is supposed to be much different in Windows Vista when it comes out.
The big reason that being integral to the OS is bad is that firstly everyone knows it will be on the box which means its a good target for attack, secondly the core dll's are exposed in many applications so securing the surface of IE isn't enough to close all possible vulnerabilities (the security has to be at every single layer that any application is allowed to call into). Mozilla could get away with only securing the top levels and benefits from the fact that it is only on like what 30% of windows boxes?
That said, from everything I've heard vista will run on much less hardware but won't have the eye candy activated.
No, its better than that, its an ipod mini that is smaller and is based on solid state memory instead of a mechanical hard drive.
I don't know the financial definition of dilution but if you imagine a moment that the revenue of google won't drastically increase at the point of the stock issue there will be a period of time where the amount of earnings per share will sink.
You forget that one of the founding philosophies of Apple is that you sould sell hardware and the OS should come with it free. They don't think that they should make money on the software, they think the software should be there to make thier hardware more attractive. Same goes for iTunes if I remember correctly. They break even on iTunes in order to make thier iPods more attractive.
That said, for most people the path you have taken is the better one and I thought hard about just getting a corolla instead. In the end the coolness factor of the hybrid won out for me.
That said I also own a prius and for the size of the interior (which is bigger than I expected before I purchased it), getting 45mpg (which is what I'm averaging for my driving) in a car that has decent performance is nothing to squawk at.