I've seen that anus and I can assure you that there is definitely something wrong with it. Maybe not morally... but there is something extremely wrong happening there.
The problem is that you didnt understand anything he said, so when you thought that saying what you did was relevant, you were being a complete fucking idiot.
You are living proof that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
So does.NET, except it's not a switch away. Do you think they use the same.NET VM in Windows Server as they do in Windows Home whatever?
I dont know what he thinks, but you are quite clear about what you think and its wrong. The CLR is the same between Server and Home versions of windows. There simply is not differing branches of the CLR because that would defeat its purpose.
Sure, because there is always another app.... oh wait... not always
Is Netflix going to develop another app? No.. they are going to continue to develop the same app, and port it to more platforms. Most applications that people buy (or download free) are exactly like this one. If you want to keep grinding out small profits for low-demand applications thats your business. I guarantee that 1% of some applications profits are many magnitudes more than that meager profits that you are getting with your "grind it out" strategy.
..and are you really this self-involved? Oh, thats right,, I found out earlier that you are. You are the Google shill that runs around calling everyone else Microsoft shills whenever they say anything that doesnt support Google.
Its still Microsoft's Patents vs Motorola's Android Devices. Google's purchasing of Motorola Mobility doesnt "counter" shit because Google doesnt have any relevant patents of its own.
If Google were to purchase ANOTHER portfolio of mobile patents that could be combined with Motorola's.. then that might have a chance at helping to counter the lawsuits.. as it stands tho, absolutely nothing has changed.
..and just to be clear, the pending lawsuits are against actual devices which run Android, they are not against Android itself.
It could very well be that a bare-naked Android install doesnt violate anyones patents. A fine example of this would be that a bare-naked Android install can't sync with Exchange. To be quite specific.. even Google paid Microsoft for Exchange ActiveSync licensing in order to support the feature in its own phones.
What the acquisition of Motorola Mobility does do is put Google in a much better position to cross-license with Microsoft (and others) later on.. but those licenses will never be applied to the generic "Android" but instead only to specific manufacturers that adopt Android. Android itself will continue to lack support for syncing with exchange, or any of the other "nice" features bolted on top of Android by the phone manufacturers.
Also of note is that this "decline" in manufacturing in the United States is a fiction. Our manufacturing sector is the biggest its ever been by most metrics. The one important metric where this isnt true is of course the employment figures.
Things that require lots of manual labor. We outsource that shit.
Things that are environmental nightmares. We outsource that shit too.
This means that there is plenty of untapped labor here for growth, both in manufacturing as well as other industries. That is hardly something that can objectively be considered something to be put in the negatives column of a report on the state-of-the-economy.
the idea of collective bargaining is that you are not smart enough to bargain for yourself, so you are treated as a grunt
The idea of collective bargaining is that as a collective you have more leverage than you would otherwise have. This is coming from a conservative, so don't for a second think that I'm some liberal drone coming to the defense of unions.
I believe in liberty, and that means I believe that people have a right to form collectives. Yet I am against some aspects of public sector unions, because I believe that both parties in a negotiation should first have a moral authority to negotiate over the things that they are negotiating over.. that its ok to negotiate over how short term tax revenues are allocated, but not long term tax revenues where its obviously an egregious violation of moral authority (for instance, buying union votes today by promising that future tax payers will pay union members a pension is obviously an egregious violation of moral authority)
I think that the negative feelings about private sector unions are caused specifically by government intrusions into the process. This isnt to say that the government shouldn't be involved and shouldn't be providing protections, but its that the government is overly involved and provides excessive protections. It is so bad that it is nearly impossible for a union shop to go non-union even when a majority of the workers want to dissolve the collective.
Microsoft already has a failed developer-friendly Application Store. It simply isnt enough to be developer friendly..
The middle man can chant "developers developers developers!" but the developers are chanting "customers customers customers!" and the customers are chanting "applications applications applications!"
This circle-jerk be bootstrapped... but not simply by being developer friendly. The easiest way is to guarantee lots of customers into the system right from the get-go... the developers will show up in droves when you can do this, which is what both Apple and then Google were successfully able to achieve. Microsoft is ineffective at this strategy because they do not know how to generate real consumer anticipation. Nobody lined up to buy a WinMo 7 phone on opening day, and developers also didnt expect people to do so.
I use Google's cache link because it always highlights my search terms. If others are like me, but do nothing more than browse the web with their computer, then they don't need to ever use ^F so its moot weather or not they know of it.
that every tablet needs to be compatible with Windows applications, and so on.
To be fair, until the iPhones success the iPad could not have succeeded.
The game changer began with the consolidation of disparate devices such as cell phones, mp3 players, and camera's... the entire class of devices known as "Feature Phones"
The binding feature that decided which feature-phones would win and which ones would lose is the Application Store. Thus, the "Smart Phone" is born. Of all the Application Stores, only two eventually proved to be successful.... Apples "App Store" and the Googles "Marketplace"
These new tablets such as the iPad and Galaxy are all just jumbo-sized Smart Phones, without the phone. It was the healthy application ecosystem promoted by the successful Application Stores that made them possible.
So to be fair, prior to the "Smart Phones", the only ecosystem even remotely healthy enough for tablets was in fact Windows... but it wasn't healthy enough due to the difference in form factor. The idea that "every tablet needs to be compatible with Windows" was in fact correct until these other ecosystems became even more healthy than the not-healthy-enough Windows one, though.
You can no longer make a successful "advanced" mobile product in the board room, which is why companies like Microsoft are failing so badly. WinMo 7 has all the technical bullet points of both iPhone and Android devices, but it doesnt have the ecosystem behind it. Microsoft's best move at this point is probably to go after the budget market.. which is actually Nokia's strong point.. so maybe they arent as dumb as people think. Lets see what happens in the next generation.
FACT: You called me a shill before looking at my posting history.
FACT: You claim that later on, after calling me a shill, that you finally looked at my posting history and claim that you were right all along.
In other words... you are a text-book paranoid schitzo. You think that anyone that says anything contrary to what you believe must be part of an organized effort to discredit those beliefs.. even though you admittedly pick beliefs first and then collect data later.
I work for the largest employer in... Connecticut. Completely unaffiliated with whatever conspiracy you are imaging in that desperate and irrational mind of yours.
I meanits not like your rockoon account isn't used for the express purpose of shilling for Ms. *wink*
Paranoia is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself.
..and it wont actually have a runtime of n^3 steps if the 6-degree theorem is correct.. O(n^3) is the worst case, while it would actually perform like O(n^2) when given high levels of interconnectivity
And the fact that those things DO exist for Firefox is FF's biggest selling point.
Who do you think they are selling to?
If you didn't know, their funding deal with Google is up this year and needs to be renegotiated. Google is Mozilla's Alpha-Customer. Google is worth more than all of their other customers, combined. They have a payroll of over $50 million and only Google covers it.
Indeed. My provider is Metrocast Cable (out of New Jersey, but I am up here in Connecticut where they picked up a small cable company) and they have been upping the download rates fairly steadily (every 1-2 years we get another 1-2 Mbit.)
Often we will get the rate bump 3 to 6 months prior to them making it an official offering.
China needs to face some serious issues that are not easily solved before they will rise to "most powerful nation" status.
China is in economic danger because of the threat of social unrest. While they have kept things tight so far, unrest has only been minor. They can't allow hundreds of millions to rise up in protest, and yet the only way to prevent that from happening is to keep giving them more and more of the things they want.
The people demand a better quality of life so the government cannot "simply" keep wages artificially low forever. Keeping pace with the western world, thus maintaining a large wage advantage while still incrementally improving the quality of life is no longer viable, for the western world is sliding backwards now. They must choose between the incremental improvements necessary to prevent unrest and the wage advantage necessary to remain competitive.
My fear is that they will try to maintain the wage advantage and thus eventually have to beat down hundreds of millions.. sparking the largest body count in the history of the world.. making Mao, Stalin, and Hitler look like saints...
Motorola is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) player in the mobile market. Expect the other big players that dont already have cross-licensing deals with Motorola to be begging for such a deal.
Android has a strong future, but its no longer "free beer!".. at least in the phone space.
The whole "episode" thing was a Valve experiment and they learned something useful. They dont make nearly as much off these episodes as they do on full-on time-delayed sequels.
The key is the time delay... the fan bases anticipation can be met with a fully blown upgraded (better graphics, physics, etc..) experience creating the warm fuzzies and good vibes that takes the market by storm through good reviews echoed by everyone.
My conclusion was not incorrect as you claimed, and in fact I gave a citation to prove otherwise, and after reading that proof you decided my conclusion was incorrect on "general theoretical grounds" even though the paper proves it "in actual practice."
The mistake is clearly yours in thinking that the metrics involved havent been well researched. You go on about the theoretical.. I'm sure that will impress some other guy that doesnt actually do shit.
10^123478234897298 indeed.... right out of your ass.
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I've seen that anus and I can assure you that there is definitely something wrong with it. Maybe not morally... but there is something extremely wrong happening there.
What you are saying is correct.
The problem is that you didnt understand anything he said, so when you thought that saying what you did was relevant, you were being a complete fucking idiot.
You are living proof that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
So does .NET, except it's not a switch away. Do you think they use the same .NET VM in Windows Server as they do in Windows Home whatever?
I dont know what he thinks, but you are quite clear about what you think and its wrong. The CLR is the same between Server and Home versions of windows. There simply is not differing branches of the CLR because that would defeat its purpose.
Sure, because there is always another app.... oh wait... not always
..and are you really this self-involved? Oh, thats right,, I found out earlier that you are. You are the Google shill that runs around calling everyone else Microsoft shills whenever they say anything that doesnt support Google.
Is Netflix going to develop another app? No.. they are going to continue to develop the same app, and port it to more platforms. Most applications that people buy (or download free) are exactly like this one. If you want to keep grinding out small profits for low-demand applications thats your business. I guarantee that 1% of some applications profits are many magnitudes more than that meager profits that you are getting with your "grind it out" strategy.
Its still Microsoft's Patents vs Motorola's Android Devices. Google's purchasing of Motorola Mobility doesnt "counter" shit because Google doesnt have any relevant patents of its own.
..and just to be clear, the pending lawsuits are against actual devices which run Android, they are not against Android itself.
If Google were to purchase ANOTHER portfolio of mobile patents that could be combined with Motorola's.. then that might have a chance at helping to counter the lawsuits.. as it stands tho, absolutely nothing has changed.
It could very well be that a bare-naked Android install doesnt violate anyones patents. A fine example of this would be that a bare-naked Android install can't sync with Exchange. To be quite specific.. even Google paid Microsoft for Exchange ActiveSync licensing in order to support the feature in its own phones.
What the acquisition of Motorola Mobility does do is put Google in a much better position to cross-license with Microsoft (and others) later on.. but those licenses will never be applied to the generic "Android" but instead only to specific manufacturers that adopt Android. Android itself will continue to lack support for syncing with exchange, or any of the other "nice" features bolted on top of Android by the phone manufacturers.
You act as if its an Either/Or situation.
The developers that were targeting WebOS were certainly already also targeted Android and iOS.
Also of note is that this "decline" in manufacturing in the United States is a fiction. Our manufacturing sector is the biggest its ever been by most metrics. The one important metric where this isnt true is of course the employment figures.
Things that require lots of manual labor. We outsource that shit.
Things that are environmental nightmares. We outsource that shit too.
This means that there is plenty of untapped labor here for growth, both in manufacturing as well as other industries. That is hardly something that can objectively be considered something to be put in the negatives column of a report on the state-of-the-economy.
Our problem is credit, not manufacturing.
the idea of collective bargaining is that you are not smart enough to bargain for yourself, so you are treated as a grunt
The idea of collective bargaining is that as a collective you have more leverage than you would otherwise have. This is coming from a conservative, so don't for a second think that I'm some liberal drone coming to the defense of unions.
I believe in liberty, and that means I believe that people have a right to form collectives. Yet I am against some aspects of public sector unions, because I believe that both parties in a negotiation should first have a moral authority to negotiate over the things that they are negotiating over.. that its ok to negotiate over how short term tax revenues are allocated, but not long term tax revenues where its obviously an egregious violation of moral authority (for instance, buying union votes today by promising that future tax payers will pay union members a pension is obviously an egregious violation of moral authority)
I think that the negative feelings about private sector unions are caused specifically by government intrusions into the process. This isnt to say that the government shouldn't be involved and shouldn't be providing protections, but its that the government is overly involved and provides excessive protections. It is so bad that it is nearly impossible for a union shop to go non-union even when a majority of the workers want to dissolve the collective.
But why should Amazon get a free pass when it comes to sales tax?
Please refer to Article I Section 9 of the United States Constitution.
Are you American? If so, you should be ashamed of yourself for not fucking knowing this shit. Seriously. What happened to teaching civics in school?
You can't be serious?
Microsoft already has a failed developer-friendly Application Store. It simply isnt enough to be developer friendly..
The middle man can chant "developers developers developers!" but the developers are chanting "customers customers customers!" and the customers are chanting "applications applications applications!"
This circle-jerk be bootstrapped... but not simply by being developer friendly. The easiest way is to guarantee lots of customers into the system right from the get-go... the developers will show up in droves when you can do this, which is what both Apple and then Google were successfully able to achieve. Microsoft is ineffective at this strategy because they do not know how to generate real consumer anticipation. Nobody lined up to buy a WinMo 7 phone on opening day, and developers also didnt expect people to do so.
FACT: Mr Paranoid here who I am replying to called many people (I stopped counting at 6) shills this week. Its right there in his comment history.
Those are most certainly more well known than ^F.
I use Google's cache link because it always highlights my search terms. If others are like me, but do nothing more than browse the web with their computer, then they don't need to ever use ^F so its moot weather or not they know of it.
that every tablet needs to be compatible with Windows applications, and so on.
To be fair, until the iPhones success the iPad could not have succeeded.
The game changer began with the consolidation of disparate devices such as cell phones, mp3 players, and camera's... the entire class of devices known as "Feature Phones"
The binding feature that decided which feature-phones would win and which ones would lose is the Application Store. Thus, the "Smart Phone" is born. Of all the Application Stores, only two eventually proved to be successful.... Apples "App Store" and the Googles "Marketplace"
These new tablets such as the iPad and Galaxy are all just jumbo-sized Smart Phones, without the phone. It was the healthy application ecosystem promoted by the successful Application Stores that made them possible.
So to be fair, prior to the "Smart Phones", the only ecosystem even remotely healthy enough for tablets was in fact Windows... but it wasn't healthy enough due to the difference in form factor. The idea that "every tablet needs to be compatible with Windows" was in fact correct until these other ecosystems became even more healthy than the not-healthy-enough Windows one, though.
You can no longer make a successful "advanced" mobile product in the board room, which is why companies like Microsoft are failing so badly. WinMo 7 has all the technical bullet points of both iPhone and Android devices, but it doesnt have the ecosystem behind it. Microsoft's best move at this point is probably to go after the budget market.. which is actually Nokia's strong point.. so maybe they arent as dumb as people think. Lets see what happens in the next generation.
FACT: You called me a shill before looking at my posting history.
FACT: You claim that later on, after calling me a shill, that you finally looked at my posting history and claim that you were right all along.
In other words... you are a text-book paranoid schitzo. You think that anyone that says anything contrary to what you believe must be part of an organized effort to discredit those beliefs.. even though you admittedly pick beliefs first and then collect data later.
I work for the largest employer in... Connecticut. Completely unaffiliated with whatever conspiracy you are imaging in that desperate and irrational mind of yours.
I meanits not like your rockoon account isn't used for the express purpose of shilling for Ms. *wink*
Paranoia is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself.
Did you even read what he wrote?
If anything what he wrote suggests that Microsoft, and not Nokia, is getting special treatment.
Nokia's mapping software ported to WP7.
Bing on Nokia phones.
Nokia pays Microsoft royalties for WP7.
Microsoft gets a license to use Nokia's IP.
Nokia isn't getting special treatment. Microsoft is.
..and it wont actually have a runtime of n^3 steps if the 6-degree theorem is correct.. O(n^3) is the worst case, while it would actually perform like O(n^2) when given high levels of interconnectivity
And the fact that those things DO exist for Firefox is FF's biggest selling point.
Who do you think they are selling to?
If you didn't know, their funding deal with Google is up this year and needs to be renegotiated. Google is Mozilla's Alpha-Customer. Google is worth more than all of their other customers, combined. They have a payroll of over $50 million and only Google covers it.
I can't even imagine what is going through the minds over at the Mozilla foundation.
"Our deal with Google, the deal that supplies the money for all our paychecks, is up this year and needs to be renewed."
Indeed. My provider is Metrocast Cable (out of New Jersey, but I am up here in Connecticut where they picked up a small cable company) and they have been upping the download rates fairly steadily (every 1-2 years we get another 1-2 Mbit.)
Often we will get the rate bump 3 to 6 months prior to them making it an official offering.
Also, they dont cap or throttle anything.
China needs to face some serious issues that are not easily solved before they will rise to "most powerful nation" status.
China is in economic danger because of the threat of social unrest. While they have kept things tight so far, unrest has only been minor. They can't allow hundreds of millions to rise up in protest, and yet the only way to prevent that from happening is to keep giving them more and more of the things they want.
The people demand a better quality of life so the government cannot "simply" keep wages artificially low forever. Keeping pace with the western world, thus maintaining a large wage advantage while still incrementally improving the quality of life is no longer viable, for the western world is sliding backwards now. They must choose between the incremental improvements necessary to prevent unrest and the wage advantage necessary to remain competitive.
My fear is that they will try to maintain the wage advantage and thus eventually have to beat down hundreds of millions.. sparking the largest body count in the history of the world.. making Mao, Stalin, and Hitler look like saints...
Motorola is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) player in the mobile market. Expect the other big players that dont already have cross-licensing deals with Motorola to be begging for such a deal.
.. at least in the phone space.
Android has a strong future, but its no longer "free beer!"
The whole "episode" thing was a Valve experiment and they learned something useful. They dont make nearly as much off these episodes as they do on full-on time-delayed sequels.
The key is the time delay... the fan bases anticipation can be met with a fully blown upgraded (better graphics, physics, etc..) experience creating the warm fuzzies and good vibes that takes the market by storm through good reviews echoed by everyone.
My conclusion was not incorrect as you claimed, and in fact I gave a citation to prove otherwise, and after reading that proof you decided my conclusion was incorrect on "general theoretical grounds" even though the paper proves it "in actual practice."
The mistake is clearly yours in thinking that the metrics involved havent been well researched. You go on about the theoretical.. I'm sure that will impress some other guy that doesnt actually do shit.
10^123478234897298 indeed.... right out of your ass.
Amazingly, you think that lighting can be handled without respect to scene geometry.
You do realize that the deferred lighting passes must deal with the actual scene geometry, and not just the frame buffer, right?