Microsoft reacted with a comment pointing out that 'any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google's hands.'
Remember when Microsoft stole most of their base OS code and forced companies to sell their computers with windows or else face horrible law suits and eventually go under? Remember when microsoft owned 90% of the PC os market and explorer dominated in the WWW market? Remember when Microsoft was being fined by European courts for anti-trust issues... So so long ago. Microsoft should just sit down and stfu.
"Since people rarely sing at precise frequencies".. As any f-transform will tell you a human voice is going at about an infinite number of different sized, distinct sin waves. Maybe I just have a huge pet peave when I hear things like this because the only thing that actually produce a single frequency is an object. Human voices never do... in fact 2 people singing with the same note have different sin patterns... anyway
How can a religion have credibility when the entire faith is surrounded around a bad sci-fi writer from the late 1800's? Doesn't the very idea that souls came from aliens that were dumped into a volcano and sent to the neo-people of about 10,000 bc which created all of humanity. Whats not to love?
I think if the weather doesn't do exactly what china wants over the Olympic games they should impose a huge crack down on the weather, and state in many press conferences condemning the weather for "Going against what is best for the motherland." Also they should totally blame the Dalli Lama for instigating the weather to be "unresponsive to the needs of the greater community at large."
Is there any chance that you in fact were given 2 billion dollars, and if you were to be given 2 billion dollars in 1980, how many pencils/stamps and single sided sheets of xerox'ed questioners you could in fact buy? Given the close to 300 million people in this country it would mean that the US is going to spend about 8$ per person to find out that they exist.
I want to file a patent to cover all really stupid and pathetic legislation, it's a broad far reaching concept that I feel is over used, obviously I invented stupid and pathetic legislation otherwise how would I right now be patenting it? I suppose though, it's been around far longer then i've been alive, so I won't ask for backward royalties, i'm a forward thinker.
I am thinking this will spawn a whole new movie/tv show genera, even more stunning then robots in disguise and AIs in a Pontiacs/vipers/misc cars. I will call it iVice and it will be good, really...
For some reason people always seem to forget that apple is really a hardware company that happens to have an OS. They don't care about OS X until it will hinder or stop selling their hardware, and their hardware is really good. Microsoft on the other hand is a software company and thus they get to deal with all of the third party vendors of hardware, the do-it-yourself people who can build a computer from the ground up to be whatever they want, and unlike Linux, must do this with a very limited number of people or expect companies to build the drivers themselves. This is a severe hindrance and always has been, even from the early days. Mac after Job's came back became a really good company focused of the nitch market of digital animation and CG. It hasn't hit the home PC market and thus doesn't really have a lot of exposure. I dare you to find any other company that can actually turn a profit with this type of business model in the computer industry, I think they are rather unique.
Microsoft took the other approach of trying to get mediocre software into the hands of as many people as humanly possible by lieing cheating steeling and brokering deals with all of the major computer distributors to ONLY sell their product "built in" weather you like it or not. This 'microsoft tax' is quite hard to get away from, even if you have no intention of ever using it. The more people that use it, the more disdain it got because honestly it isn't very good case in point windows 95 which crashed and I had to preform a full reinstall of the os every time I installed an application. Google and apple have built their software and hardware on rather solid ground. They don't crash nearly as often, their business practices don't seem to be evil and they have risen not because they brokered their way into the market through very shady practices, but because people WANTED them to be big.
Comcast doesn't put an upload/download limit in their terms of service, you are paying for a service. What happens if you want to download 5 linux distros to try them out? They already cap bandwidth so that you don't ever get the 4mbps that you are "promised" I get 750KB/s download and 125KB/s upload, called them up and asked why and basically got the runaround with an answer eventually saying on because we can. The the FCC can't get them then the better business bureau may be able to for breaking a contract and/or not putting the basics of a contract (ie the fact that your packets may be dropped for network maintenance). I mean, if I had comcast, and read that, I would have told them to shove their contract up their ass and go to someone who wouldn't do that. They are targeting specific users, who use more of the service then others, which is EXACTLY the point of paying a monthly bill. It's exactly like paying 20$ a month for unlimited phone service, some people talk 6000 minutes, others talk 10, they both pay the same. Comcast doesn't have a leg to stand on.
There are many different versions of this whole "broken" concept. I would say XP is still broken in many many ways, but it's broken less then vista. IE * Is broken beyond repair and firefox is actually doing quite well. I consider a working dial-up connection to be very broken and unusable, as well as AOL. There is a difference between hey look it works and only has to (yugo anyone? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yugo&btnG=Google+Search) and I want to make the most out of every second with a product that is good and works quite well (such as a z4). There is very much a cost benefit that needs to be done when upgrading granted, but at least with linux, every upgrade has come with a new feature that I didn't think I needed but turned out to be really helpful.
This is not a factory PC drive, prices will have to come down a ton until the normal average person will ever buy one of these. On the multi-TB SAN however when you start getting into about 40-60HDD's with a 500k rack 16 fibre chans... all of the needed advances is because to get bits on disk is still way slower then bits being fed to them. Put solid state into a 12 fibre chan SAN at a back plain of 32 GB/s and you will see a performance boost from the slowest object in your SAN, which is in fact the most important place to see an improvement.
That of course will only be used by people who will need that speed, IBM, UPS, and other mega tech houses will be the first to purchase them and I'm sure main frame DB techies are salivating at this possibility.
I think you can even take that one further and say that there are not even decent drivers for linux for any nvidia card. ATI open sourced their drivers a while back nvidia has yet to do so. The drivers that do exist are great given the lack of specs. There is also the problem of market share where windows seems to dominate, why bother with anything else?
Did I just read that he is afraid of personal information sharing? Does he not know what you have to do to buy a song online from sony, or that a P2P means that you don't have a clue who you download from, you just download and thats alright? I hate it when people make laws about things they just don't understand.
Nono, thanks to evolution in about 6500 years we will all be immune to gamma radiation. Or at the very least those of us luckly enough to survive the nuclear winter.
No it's not the blu-pill thats a bit different, blu-ray is a technology that allows you to view porn in ever clearer pictures, thus increasing the blu-pill purchasing. It's all a giant conspiracy.
I couldn't agree more. Who defines what is alright for kids to view? Should pictures of the Vietnam war with body parts everywhere and monks being burned alive be blocked? Should pictures of child birth or surgery be blocked? How about world war 2, the content in the fire bombings of Dresden, the aftermath of heroishima... how about R rated movie trailers... they shouldn't be viewed by children, any sight with any information about drug use... the list goes on and on and on, and it won't ever stop if we let it start.
Naw I want to develop a file system that will effectively deal with with massive files >4GB and all hook up to a distributed file system spanning over 9000 computers...
given just how easy it appears for a country to do this that believes in censorship at it's core, Is there something in the mix to prevent something like china or Soudi Arabia or now Pakistan from being able to basically ship all sights to whatever they want? Also given that youtube was being blocked specifically by Pakistan from 1h, they lost 1h worth of ad revenues... whats the chance that youtube will sue Pakistan?
I want her backstory to involve paring up with her alter ego and equally sexy male figure Postgres to destroy the evil Mi, and end this silly battle once and for all.
How about you shoot crowds full of microwaves (which does happen and is considered a less then lethal form of crowd control) causing burns on 90% of their skin, then put thoughts in their heads that say they like it. Perfect for any up and coming dictator/G8 meeting facilitator/WTO president!
Just reminds me way too much of tool time. I could totally see classes now...
So you want to create a linked list. Alright.. open up VS, select new, create, vc++ program,... Okay has everyone done that? Great, now include the 3 utilities from windows, excellent, now write this, and compile. OH! You are not i debug mode I hope, no you can't print to the screen easily, what do you mean what are those 0x numbers mean when you step through your code... No I won't tell you what refactoring means... ignore all of the tool bar, assume that if you click on any of it except bookmarks your code won't work anymore...
Or even for the more advanced classes...
So finding information on networking, try man. No doesn't work? hmm... what about MSDN resources, too many and too hard to navagate? Spent more time looking up a function call then using it...
VS in a learning environment it like getting a jackhammer to put in a nail... sure you COULD do it, but honestly, why would you ever want to?
I would have to agree with most of what you said, except that determining a "good patent" and a "bad patent" is half of this mess. As a fun example, Microsoft patented the linked list and binary tree. At the same time it also patented all of the base ideas behind visual studios and the xp kernel. The later are of course valid (sort of) the patents against LLs and BT's are so stupid that the patent office shouldn't have even glanced at them, but how were they to know without litigation? I am actually surprised that Microsoft hasn't gone after people for LLs but that lawsuit would just make them look so stupid it's not funny.
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Microsoft reacted with a comment pointing out that 'any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google's hands.' Remember when Microsoft stole most of their base OS code and forced companies to sell their computers with windows or else face horrible law suits and eventually go under? Remember when microsoft owned 90% of the PC os market and explorer dominated in the WWW market? Remember when Microsoft was being fined by European courts for anti-trust issues... So so long ago. Microsoft should just sit down and stfu.
"Since people rarely sing at precise frequencies".. As any f-transform will tell you a human voice is going at about an infinite number of different sized, distinct sin waves. Maybe I just have a huge pet peave when I hear things like this because the only thing that actually produce a single frequency is an object. Human voices never do... in fact 2 people singing with the same note have different sin patterns... anyway
With age comes wisdom. :-D A story that is 2000 years old is WAY more believable then a story 100 years old.
Oh I got my dates wrong, I apologize, I was thinking early 1900's not 1800's
How can a religion have credibility when the entire faith is surrounded around a bad sci-fi writer from the late 1800's? Doesn't the very idea that souls came from aliens that were dumped into a volcano and sent to the neo-people of about 10,000 bc which created all of humanity. Whats not to love?
I think if the weather doesn't do exactly what china wants over the Olympic games they should impose a huge crack down on the weather, and state in many press conferences condemning the weather for "Going against what is best for the motherland." Also they should totally blame the Dalli Lama for instigating the weather to be "unresponsive to the needs of the greater community at large."
Is there any chance that you in fact were given 2 billion dollars, and if you were to be given 2 billion dollars in 1980, how many pencils/stamps and single sided sheets of xerox'ed questioners you could in fact buy? Given the close to 300 million people in this country it would mean that the US is going to spend about 8$ per person to find out that they exist.
I want to file a patent to cover all really stupid and pathetic legislation, it's a broad far reaching concept that I feel is over used, obviously I invented stupid and pathetic legislation otherwise how would I right now be patenting it? I suppose though, it's been around far longer then i've been alive, so I won't ask for backward royalties, i'm a forward thinker.
I am thinking this will spawn a whole new movie/tv show genera, even more stunning then robots in disguise and AIs in a Pontiacs/vipers/misc cars. I will call it iVice and it will be good, really...
For some reason people always seem to forget that apple is really a hardware company that happens to have an OS. They don't care about OS X until it will hinder or stop selling their hardware, and their hardware is really good. Microsoft on the other hand is a software company and thus they get to deal with all of the third party vendors of hardware, the do-it-yourself people who can build a computer from the ground up to be whatever they want, and unlike Linux, must do this with a very limited number of people or expect companies to build the drivers themselves. This is a severe hindrance and always has been, even from the early days. Mac after Job's came back became a really good company focused of the nitch market of digital animation and CG. It hasn't hit the home PC market and thus doesn't really have a lot of exposure. I dare you to find any other company that can actually turn a profit with this type of business model in the computer industry, I think they are rather unique. Microsoft took the other approach of trying to get mediocre software into the hands of as many people as humanly possible by lieing cheating steeling and brokering deals with all of the major computer distributors to ONLY sell their product "built in" weather you like it or not. This 'microsoft tax' is quite hard to get away from, even if you have no intention of ever using it. The more people that use it, the more disdain it got because honestly it isn't very good case in point windows 95 which crashed and I had to preform a full reinstall of the os every time I installed an application. Google and apple have built their software and hardware on rather solid ground. They don't crash nearly as often, their business practices don't seem to be evil and they have risen not because they brokered their way into the market through very shady practices, but because people WANTED them to be big.
Comcast doesn't put an upload/download limit in their terms of service, you are paying for a service. What happens if you want to download 5 linux distros to try them out? They already cap bandwidth so that you don't ever get the 4mbps that you are "promised" I get 750KB/s download and 125KB/s upload, called them up and asked why and basically got the runaround with an answer eventually saying on because we can. The the FCC can't get them then the better business bureau may be able to for breaking a contract and/or not putting the basics of a contract (ie the fact that your packets may be dropped for network maintenance). I mean, if I had comcast, and read that, I would have told them to shove their contract up their ass and go to someone who wouldn't do that. They are targeting specific users, who use more of the service then others, which is EXACTLY the point of paying a monthly bill. It's exactly like paying 20$ a month for unlimited phone service, some people talk 6000 minutes, others talk 10, they both pay the same. Comcast doesn't have a leg to stand on.
There are many different versions of this whole "broken" concept. I would say XP is still broken in many many ways, but it's broken less then vista. IE * Is broken beyond repair and firefox is actually doing quite well. I consider a working dial-up connection to be very broken and unusable, as well as AOL. There is a difference between hey look it works and only has to (yugo anyone? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yugo&btnG=Google+Search) and I want to make the most out of every second with a product that is good and works quite well (such as a z4). There is very much a cost benefit that needs to be done when upgrading granted, but at least with linux, every upgrade has come with a new feature that I didn't think I needed but turned out to be really helpful.
This is not a factory PC drive, prices will have to come down a ton until the normal average person will ever buy one of these. On the multi-TB SAN however when you start getting into about 40-60HDD's with a 500k rack 16 fibre chans... all of the needed advances is because to get bits on disk is still way slower then bits being fed to them. Put solid state into a 12 fibre chan SAN at a back plain of 32 GB/s and you will see a performance boost from the slowest object in your SAN, which is in fact the most important place to see an improvement. That of course will only be used by people who will need that speed, IBM, UPS, and other mega tech houses will be the first to purchase them and I'm sure main frame DB techies are salivating at this possibility.
I think you can even take that one further and say that there are not even decent drivers for linux for any nvidia card. ATI open sourced their drivers a while back nvidia has yet to do so. The drivers that do exist are great given the lack of specs. There is also the problem of market share where windows seems to dominate, why bother with anything else?
Did I just read that he is afraid of personal information sharing? Does he not know what you have to do to buy a song online from sony, or that a P2P means that you don't have a clue who you download from, you just download and thats alright? I hate it when people make laws about things they just don't understand.
Nono, thanks to evolution in about 6500 years we will all be immune to gamma radiation. Or at the very least those of us luckly enough to survive the nuclear winter.
No it's not the blu-pill thats a bit different, blu-ray is a technology that allows you to view porn in ever clearer pictures, thus increasing the blu-pill purchasing. It's all a giant conspiracy.
I couldn't agree more. Who defines what is alright for kids to view? Should pictures of the Vietnam war with body parts everywhere and monks being burned alive be blocked? Should pictures of child birth or surgery be blocked? How about world war 2, the content in the fire bombings of Dresden, the aftermath of heroishima... how about R rated movie trailers... they shouldn't be viewed by children, any sight with any information about drug use... the list goes on and on and on, and it won't ever stop if we let it start.
Naw I want to develop a file system that will effectively deal with with massive files >4GB and all hook up to a distributed file system spanning over 9000 computers...
Screw hospitals, does this mean that if geeks go out for 15 mins of sunlight they don't smell anymore?
given just how easy it appears for a country to do this that believes in censorship at it's core, Is there something in the mix to prevent something like china or Soudi Arabia or now Pakistan from being able to basically ship all sights to whatever they want? Also given that youtube was being blocked specifically by Pakistan from 1h, they lost 1h worth of ad revenues... whats the chance that youtube will sue Pakistan?
I want her backstory to involve paring up with her alter ego and equally sexy male figure Postgres to destroy the evil Mi, and end this silly battle once and for all.
How about you shoot crowds full of microwaves (which does happen and is considered a less then lethal form of crowd control) causing burns on 90% of their skin, then put thoughts in their heads that say they like it. Perfect for any up and coming dictator/G8 meeting facilitator/WTO president!
Just reminds me way too much of tool time. I could totally see classes now... So you want to create a linked list. Alright.. open up VS, select new, create, vc++ program, ... Okay has everyone done that? Great, now include the 3 utilities from windows, excellent, now write this, and compile. OH! You are not i debug mode I hope, no you can't print to the screen easily, what do you mean what are those 0x numbers mean when you step through your code... No I won't tell you what refactoring means... ignore all of the tool bar, assume that if you click on any of it except bookmarks your code won't work anymore...
Or even for the more advanced classes...
So finding information on networking, try man. No doesn't work? hmm... what about MSDN resources, too many and too hard to navagate? Spent more time looking up a function call then using it...
VS in a learning environment it like getting a jackhammer to put in a nail... sure you COULD do it, but honestly, why would you ever want to?
I would have to agree with most of what you said, except that determining a "good patent" and a "bad patent" is half of this mess. As a fun example, Microsoft patented the linked list and binary tree. At the same time it also patented all of the base ideas behind visual studios and the xp kernel. The later are of course valid (sort of) the patents against LLs and BT's are so stupid that the patent office shouldn't have even glanced at them, but how were they to know without litigation? I am actually surprised that Microsoft hasn't gone after people for LLs but that lawsuit would just make them look so stupid it's not funny.