2) Prevents Microsoft from generating products that sell to users of UNIX families (Microsoft Office X for Mac OS X is the only UNIX family product I am aware of), and, as a result, generating additional revenues.
There have been several versions of IE for Solaris.
Yes. We're a clear No. 2 in the market. We are coming on strong. It is probably going to take us another turn of the crank, from a product cycle perspective, before we make money. But most of the things we do as a company successfully today we worked at for years before they made money. Remember, we brought Windows 1 out in 1983 and we didn't have any real volume until 1991. It took us eight years to get volume. I don't know when we got profit, but it took us eight years to get volume.
Take Windows server. We started on it in 1988, but it was probably 1998 before we had real volume, and I don't know when we would have said we had profitability on that product. But most of the good businesses require long-term patience, commitment, tenacity...and you can't be impatient. I feel very good that we have great teams to take MSN and Xbox in exactly those same directions.
They're willing to take ten YEARS to let something come to fruition; they have no problem 'waiting for fullness.'
This is a HUGE advantage that a lot of OSS people simply don't have; whoever's coding NiftyApp gets bored around version 0.64 and drops it, and meanwhile, some other guys is making GniftyApp 0.4 because he doesn't feel like working with the first guy.
On the other side of the pond, Microsoft will let something fail, and fail, and fail, tweak, twist, fix, and then they have something worth having.
In other words, people have known about bloodlines and selective breeding for thousands of years, but only understood the genetic underpinnings for the last few decades.
After you figure out how to square root a negative number, you'll be well on your way.
Actually, the trick, as with any mathematical process, is to know exactly what your variables are.
Husband: Dear, are you upset?
Wife: (obviously upset, snaps back) No, everything's fine.
Husband: Ok, good. Seeing as how we're both adults, and we both know that communication is the foundation of all things good in a marriage, I am comfortable in the fact that if you had a problem, that in any way involved me, or if I could help in any way, you'd tell me. But you say there is no problem, so there must BE no problem. Thanks, dear. *wanders away, whistling*
Took me a while to get that into my wife's head; too many women grow up with the 'you need to read my mind' mentality. But once she realized that I meant it, and that 'Yes, I'm upset, too upset to talk about it right now, really, but I'll tell you when I'm ready' was a perfectly valid answer, we were all much happier.
Aye, very few people went to see the movie of SST with the right frame of reference, and therefore hated it. It was a wonderful satire of propeganda, as well as a wonderful satire of the entire concept of 'pro military rah rah rah' media.
The book was wonderful, but mainly for it's understated narrative style, and for how well it portrays the subtle brainwashing of poor Johnny.
He goes on to say that Agent Smith saying he can "taste your stink," is an example of Agent Smith being unable to differentiate sensations and that, being unsentient, automatically works from the premise that sensations are all fungible, like raw information.
Other than, of course, the fact that, in humans at least, if not all animals, taste and smell are linked; hence the old 'pinch your nose shut to eat something yucky' trick and what not.
The usual trick in 'cyberpunk' is that because the computer is directly interfacing with your brain, 'lethal feedback' can be pumped into your brain, frying it.
Some, such as Shadowrun, have provisions for putting 'fuses' or 'filters,' or even running with a non-direct-neural-interface, but that slows you down.
Remember, they have that giant spike plugged directly into the backs of their heads; if your filesystem has trouble with an incorrect shutdown proceedure, think about your poor brain.....
All that means is that the system was app level, not OS level.
Go use a real trusted computing system for a while; Trusted Solaris is a good place to start. Security is built into the hardware, and no, you can't copy from a high-level window and paste into a low level one. And so on.
For example, on a log file, Root should have the ability to read, but not write, append, take ownership, and so on. The daemon user, however, *should* have the ability to append, but not to write/modify, or read.
Here's an example from later in the game, in the embassy. There's a large room that you can only get through in a Dragon's Lair like orgy of dying, restarting, doing something to prevent what you know will happen, and so on.
Anywho, at one point, you hand-over-hand your way over a pipe, there's a door with an optical scanner you need to get through. BUT, you NEED to use the colonel to open the door. You can't wait until he gets through the door and follow him through; mission failure. You can't wait for him to open the door and then cap him; mission failure.
Games like Fallout, Deus Ex and so on have shown us that having a relatively realistic world, with goals, not puzzles, is the way to go. "You need to get into room X and find a file" is much better than "You need to climb through this window, go down this hall, kidnap this guy, drag him over here, put his face on this scanner, then walk through this door right here."
Wing Commander 2, with it's ability to take advantage of expanded (or extended, I don't recall which variant) memory for things like prettier explosions, more debris, digital speech, and so on, did, in fact, sell a *lot* of 386s.
The other day, I dug up my old copy of Strike Commander, and in the afterword, the programmer mentions how happy he is to be doing shading techniques that are only available on military simulators, and how the 486 will usher in a new era of 3d graphical goodness.
The iPronto isn't a remote control. The iPronto is a network terminal that happens to have consumer IR stuff built into it, allowing it to have remote control capability.
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No, and neither does Linux. Both, however, have the ability to run shells.
There have been several versions of IE for Solaris.
The guy who wrote a lot of NT also wrote a lot of VMS. But NT was not designed to be a VMS-alike.
They're willing to take ten YEARS to let something come to fruition; they have no problem 'waiting for fullness.'
This is a HUGE advantage that a lot of OSS people simply don't have; whoever's coding NiftyApp gets bored around version 0.64 and drops it, and meanwhile, some other guys is making GniftyApp 0.4 because he doesn't feel like working with the first guy.
On the other side of the pond, Microsoft will let something fail, and fail, and fail, tweak, twist, fix, and then they have something worth having.
Nazis practiced Eugenics, not Genetics.
In other words, people have known about bloodlines and selective breeding for thousands of years, but only understood the genetic underpinnings for the last few decades.
After you figure out how to square root a negative number, you'll be well on your way.
Actually, the trick, as with any mathematical process, is to know exactly what your variables are.
Husband: Dear, are you upset?
Wife: (obviously upset, snaps back) No, everything's fine.
Husband: Ok, good. Seeing as how we're both adults, and we both know that communication is the foundation of all things good in a marriage, I am comfortable in the fact that if you had a problem, that in any way involved me, or if I could help in any way, you'd tell me. But you say there is no problem, so there must BE no problem. Thanks, dear. *wanders away, whistling*
Took me a while to get that into my wife's head; too many women grow up with the 'you need to read my mind' mentality. But once she realized that I meant it, and that 'Yes, I'm upset, too upset to talk about it right now, really, but I'll tell you when I'm ready' was a perfectly valid answer, we were all much happier.
Aye, very few people went to see the movie of SST with the right frame of reference, and therefore hated it. It was a wonderful satire of propeganda, as well as a wonderful satire of the entire concept of 'pro military rah rah rah' media.
The book was wonderful, but mainly for it's understated narrative style, and for how well it portrays the subtle brainwashing of poor Johnny.
Sounds like it might just be a rehash of the novel T2: Infiltrator.
What, because I used 'oo' instead of 'u?' The list is HOOOOOOOOGE!
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Thanks for the reference; it's been added to my 'hooge unwieldy list of books to get.'
Would there happen to be a book about this? Sounds like it would be an interesting read.
I've read The Science of Superheroes (good book, btw) and now somebody should do The Ethics of Superheroes.
Hey, Randy was in Spider-man, so maybe he'll do a cameo in Hulk, too.
Other than, of course, the fact that, in humans at least, if not all animals, taste and smell are linked; hence the old 'pinch your nose shut to eat something yucky' trick and what not.
The usual trick in 'cyberpunk' is that because the computer is directly interfacing with your brain, 'lethal feedback' can be pumped into your brain, frying it.
Some, such as Shadowrun, have provisions for putting 'fuses' or 'filters,' or even running with a non-direct-neural-interface, but that slows you down.
Remember, they have that giant spike plugged directly into the backs of their heads; if your filesystem has trouble with an incorrect shutdown proceedure, think about your poor brain.....
This is similar to the OLE/COM/ActiveX naming fiasco.
All that means is that the system was app level, not OS level.
Go use a real trusted computing system for a while; Trusted Solaris is a good place to start. Security is built into the hardware, and no, you can't copy from a high-level window and paste into a low level one. And so on.
For example, on a log file, Root should have the ability to read, but not write, append, take ownership, and so on. The daemon user, however, *should* have the ability to append, but not to write/modify, or read.
Aye, and this is a bad thing.
Here's an example from later in the game, in the embassy. There's a large room that you can only get through in a Dragon's Lair like orgy of dying, restarting, doing something to prevent what you know will happen, and so on.
Anywho, at one point, you hand-over-hand your way over a pipe, there's a door with an optical scanner you need to get through. BUT, you NEED to use the colonel to open the door. You can't wait until he gets through the door and follow him through; mission failure. You can't wait for him to open the door and then cap him; mission failure.
Games like Fallout, Deus Ex and so on have shown us that having a relatively realistic world, with goals, not puzzles, is the way to go. "You need to get into room X and find a file" is much better than "You need to climb through this window, go down this hall, kidnap this guy, drag him over here, put his face on this scanner, then walk through this door right here."
Wing Commander 2, with it's ability to take advantage of expanded (or extended, I don't recall which variant) memory for things like prettier explosions, more debris, digital speech, and so on, did, in fact, sell a *lot* of 386s.
The other day, I dug up my old copy of Strike Commander, and in the afterword, the programmer mentions how happy he is to be doing shading techniques that are only available on military simulators, and how the 486 will usher in a new era of 3d graphical goodness.
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Games that are based on concepts that shouldn't be 'photorealistic;' JSR, for example, or Robotech: Battlecry.
That, and the fact that although the Xbox is chock-full of commodity hardware, it's *not* a PC.
For example, the unified memory between the CPU and the GPU helps.
Exactly what I did.
The iPronto isn't a remote control. The iPronto is a network terminal that happens to have consumer IR stuff built into it, allowing it to have remote control capability.
Or, in other words, are the users paying for their bandwitdh? Yes? Then who the hell cares how they're using it?