Why not just take some classes (possibly online courses) to show some background experience? Maybe even get a degree? Not sure how cost effective it may be, but whatever helps can't hurt if you're willing to pay for it.
Let's all keep in mind that, as we review this list, this entire effort is made to protect the kids from being used for child pornography. Or something.
Graphene has some pretty interesting electronic properties. Its bandgap (the essential component of all semiconductors) can be manipulated by changing the length of the sheet; as the sheet becomes infinitely long, the bandgap approaches zero. As a result, it could hold potential in photovoltaics for light capture or LEDs for light emission where capture/emission is tunable based on the size of the particle (which is pretty easy to manipulate).
From the paper they mention that active electrons have near-zero effective mass. Since electron mobility is inversely proportional to effective mass, resistivity approaches zero (in essence, we approach superconductivity). As far as twisted graphene ribbons go, the paper only mentions that there's some weird ground state orbital morphologies (triplet states and open singlet ground states) which I'm not familiar with but also have to do with interorbital transition which always has applications in light emission/absorption technologies. I believe that lasers heavily depend on triplet states to create inversion layers, but don't quote me on that.
As far as it goes anyway, even if you don't know what the properties will be, you might as well study it - you never know what's going to come out.
Because unless you have something to gain (other than a warm feeling that you've done something nice and have helped the world), nobody wants the liability associated with writing an illegal but benevolent worm and releasing it.
Oh I'm not sure that there's nothing to gain from it. Does nobody remember the Morris Worm? If that's all I have to do to get a professorship position at MIT, hey, there's something to gain there!
Microsoft has made a business out of selling licenses to run software that can be copied at no marginal cost, this everybody knows. Essentially, they manufacture software, but their product isnt computer code, its legal code. Contracts.
They make deals with companies, the most common type being three year non-exclusive non-transferable usage rights contracts for the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office software package. A severe amount of licenses for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision Financials, and I shall refer to it as Navision) are sold as well.
The companies and institutions that buy these generally dont buy these directly through Microsoft. Instead, they sell contracts in bulk to Microsoft Certified Partners (MCPs), which are local companies that lobby the software, generally at a loss to themselves, as they know that Microsofts lock-in is powerful enough that they can only get service contracts from the company if they offer a substantial discount on the Microsoft products.
Now, the licensing term is three years, but the licensing fee is made in the form of annual payments. Here is where the fun begins.
Now, say an economy collapses. Say some fifteen hundred companies in your local economy go bankrupt. Now, say that Microsoft comes to collect its annual fee from the MCPs. The MCPs say, of course, âoewait, the company that we sold this license to has gone bankrupt, we shouldnt have to pay.â
âoeAha!â says the suit from Redmond. âoeYou made a contract with us, and another with them. Their inability to uphold their end of the contract does not invalidate your commitment to us.â
This is what Ive heard from pals in the industry. Pals whore being screwed over right now. In short, the MCPs have to pay the licensing fees for the bankrupted companies.
The sheer shock of having to do so is starting to hit the Icelandic economy, hard. Already battered by the collapse of almost all privately held financial institutions and the subsequent bust of nearly fifteen hundred companies, Icelands MCPs are next.
The devil here is in the details. Microsoft was just collecting what was due, forcing an issue that, for most places would be perfectly reasonable to do. Well, no. But it could be argued. Hey, this is about revenue.
But the backlash effect has been astounding. Several of Icelands largest MCPs are now fighting for survival in a sea already at significant turmoil due to the economic depression. Shit had already hit the fan, but now theyre being skull-fucked by Microsoft to boot.
And what would you do? Well. My sources tell me a lot is afoot. Several MCPs are bailing out, switching over to Free Software and restructuring their business model. Keep the revenue inside Iceland, sell better technical services for less money and yet double their revenue. âoeWhy didnt we do this earlier?â
Why indeed. With Microsofts stranglehold on the economy, a long series of lock-ins has made life difficult for the dozens of people involved in trying to push free software in Iceland. With the government alone spending in the vicinity of 1 billion Icelandic kronas annually on Microsofts wares â" a number not even taken together separately in the accounting books, as it is all written up as âoemiscellaneous running costsâ â" itd be a really smart move to switch, if only they could.
The easiest switch would be to go to OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office. This switch is easy because not only is OpenOffice.org superior software in every respect, its also feature-compatible with Microsoft Office, supports reading and writing of Microsofts file formats â" even the ones that Microsoft Office itself no longer supports â" and is free to boot, both free as in freedom and free as in price. The only important difference is that OpenOffice.org doesnt support all of Microsoft Offices weird macros, and it doesnt come with a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Access, the only database software
Microsoft has made a business out of selling licenses to run software that can be copied at no marginal cost, this everybody knows. Essentially, they manufacture software, but their product isnâ(TM)t computer code, itâ(TM)s legal code. Contracts.
They make deals with companies, the most common type being three year non-exclusive non-transferable usage rights contracts for the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office software package. A severe amount of licenses for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision Financials, and I shall refer to it as Navision) are sold as well.
The companies and institutions that buy these generally donâ(TM)t buy these directly through Microsoft. Instead, they sell contracts in bulk to Microsoft Certified Partners (MCPâ(TM)s), which are local companies that lobby the software, generally at a loss to themselves, as they know that Microsoftâ(TM)s lock-in is powerful enough that they can only get service contracts from the company if they offer a substantial discount on the Microsoft products.
Now, the licensing term is three years, but the licensing fee is made in the form of annual payments. Here is where the fun begins.
Now, say an economy collapses. Say some fifteen hundred companies in your local economy go bankrupt. Now, say that Microsoft comes to collect its annual fee from the MCPâ(TM)s. The MCPâ(TM)s say, of course, âoewait, the company that we sold this license to has gone bankrupt, we shouldnâ(TM)t have to pay.â
âoeAha!â says the suit from Redmond. âoeYou made a contract with us, and another with them. Their inability to uphold their end of the contract does not invalidate your commitment to us.â
This is what Iâ(TM)ve heard from pals in the industry. Pals whoâ(TM)re being screwed over right now. In short, the MCPâ(TM)s have to pay the licensing fees for the bankrupted companies.
The sheer shock of having to do so is starting to hit the Icelandic economy, hard. Already battered by the collapse of almost all privately held financial institutions and the subsequent bust of nearly fifteen hundred companies, Icelandâ(TM)s MCPâ(TM)s are next.
The devil here is in the details. Microsoft was just collecting what was due, forcing an issue that, for most places would be perfectly reasonable to do. Well, no. But it could be argued. Hey, this is about revenue.
But the backlash effect has been astounding. Several of Icelandâ(TM)s largest MCPâ(TM)s are now fighting for survival in a sea already at significant turmoil due to the economic depression. Shit had already hit the fan, but now theyâ(TM)re being skull-fucked by Microsoft to boot.
And what would you do? Well. My sources tell me a lot is afoot. Several MCPâ(TM)s are bailing out, switching over to Free Software and restructuring their business model. Keep the revenue inside Iceland, sell better technical services for less money and yet double their revenue. âoeWhy didnâ(TM)t we do this earlier?â
Why indeed. With Microsoftâ(TM)s stranglehold on the economy, a long series of lock-ins has made life difficult for the dozens of people involved in trying to push free software in Iceland. With the government alone spending in the vicinity of 1 billion Icelandic kronas annually on Microsoftâ(TM)s wares â" a number not even taken together separately in the accounting books, as it is all written up as âoemiscellaneous running costsâ â" itâ(TM)d be a really smart move to switch, if only they could.
The easiest switch would be to go to OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office. This switch is easy because not only is OpenOffice.org superior software in every respect, itâ(TM)s also feature-compatible with Microsoft Office, supports reading and writing of Microsoftâ(TM)s file formats â" even the ones that Microsoft Office itself no longer supports â" and is free to boot, both
Much as I would like to see some form of universal health care soon, this phenomenon will just be exacerbated by suddenly adding 30 or 40 million new formerly uninsured patients into the system. Doctors already do not have the time to give each patient the time and care they need. Unless they train or import a whole lot of new medical talent quickly, it's just going to jam up the system even more, and there will be an even greater tendency for doctors to make diagnoses and treatment decisions "on the fly" as they breeze through on their way to their next patient.
So we don't have enough doctors. What can we do about it?
How about this for starters: lower the cost of medical school tuition. How attractive do you think it would be to go to med school? When you consider all the debt that you incur before you get a job (assuming that you do get a job), well, we probably lose a lot of potential doctors for that reason.
And you know what: there's just not enough money to pay for the system as it is now. Those other 30 or 40 million uninsured patients have just as much of a right to care as you do. There's no way to rationalize that they don't deserve the right to care just because it will drain society of more resources.
The only solution is for the government to pay for it. Healthcare needs to be paid for regardless of whether it's profitable or not. When the costs come down, it will become more feasible. Take away the ridiculous brand name/marketing costs for drugs, put some resources into paying for new doctors and we'll start to see change. It's not getting any better as it is now.
You can be sure that if they could make an ethanol-based fuel cell, they would. There's a good reason their engineers choose the materials that they use. It's easy to say that there are better ones. Getting them to work, not so much.
Agree with parent. Take OLEDs for example. They still have a lot of issues to overcome, but they're slowly finding their way into the industry, namely on PMPs, some cell phones, other examples.
I hate to break it to you harshly, but other people don't have the same values as you. I definitely share your viewpoint - a child should be loved regardless of how s/he is made genetically - but obviously I'm aware that most others have far different wishes and opinions.
I guess I've just become far too cynical. It doesn't take long to figure out why.
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Remember when antibiotics were developed and they were hailed as the great solution for bacterial infections? Now look what has happened - yes, we've solved some problems (many, even), but we've made others much worse.
So let's take a minute to think of the can of worms that we're opening. 1.) How are we supposed to determine whether something is a disease and whether it should be screened for? 2.) What if there's some genetic/evolutionary advantage to many of the "diseases" we hope to prevent? Obviously, no one wants to stand up and say that there's an advantage to -insert horrible disease here- but it's impossible to predict the future and what may be advantageous. 3.) We're also bound to get idiots that want their kids screened for stupid things like being short or stupid. There's probably a potential danger in this as well, not to mention that it's stupid.
Anyways, as far as treating diseases go, we should be mindful that if we don't want to mess with the gene pool (as many believe that we shouldn't), we should consider non-genetic alternatives to treating problems. Furthermore, we should be excited with the advent of new technology, but we should be very careful in how we employ it (in particular, how much). These aren't necessarily my opinions, but it's important to at least play Devil's Advocate.
Let's take it one step further. Apple sells you software. Red Hat, Novell, Canonical, etc. sell you support. Software comes free - you can hire your own IT to manage it if you want to....
Let's not forget that Linux can be installed on any architecture. Apple may have a larger market share (depending on where you get your data from of course, lol), but they still have a limited compatibility range making them less viable.
Of course not. Apple has a different model (Linux is GPL and Apple is closed source). Apple is still proprietary and paid-for while Linux can be shared freely. Just because they have similar origins from a software standpoint doesn't mean anything when you consider their market viability. They're completely different beasts in that respect.
It is somewhat unfair, but MS has a lot to gain by making Win7 run on older hardware. First of all, it's quite worthwhile if they're gutting features/making the system more efficient for underpowered hardware. Second, there's a potential goldmine in getting companies to upgrade from their old IT solutions. It's horrible how some places are still running NT/2000/XP (software over 10 years old). If they can show that it's really an easy and smooth transition to Win7, hungry companies will be eager to upgrade their systems without having to replace hardware. You'd think they'd give this a little more priority then, wouldn't you?
In any case, there's a good chance that it's not cause of their own issues. Hardware companies often suck at writing drivers, it's not MS's fault to make up for that. Especially while they're still in beta.
Eventually you come to a point where an upgrade is inevitable. Hardware breaks and has to be replaced, and it's not always easy to get software that has drivers for antiquated OS's. There's no telling when it'll happen, but for sure it will.
We had some Windows 98 machines that we didn't upgrade for a while; then some critical pieces (like the wireless device) started to break, and without drivers for 98, they had to be upgraded. Of course, they were so old that they were just junk with XP. Long story short, sometimes you buy the OS for the drivers, not the software.
Besides, when you put everything in a sandbox, it's not that unsafe to test an upgrade to see if it still works. Might as well give it a try, you never know what good could come out of it.
Of course. The brain is quite plastic at such an early stage of development. This is why people that lose vision have great hearing and smelling, etc. My question is whether these effects can occur when the brain isn't the problematic organ.
In any case, the problem is making sure that we can identify these problems while there's still time to nurture someone to overcome it. The brain is far more plastic in early stages of life than it is in older ones.
That's the ticket. We need a new OS, not a new internet. We can work around the real problem as long as we want to. Or we can attack the problem head-on. Thing is, no one* has the guts to take them head-on.
Even more troubling is that it's the same people that are currently in control of it right now. ISP executives themselves wouldn't mind seeing the voices of the people silenced so they can dominate the market and crush competition. Money begets money. Sometimes I don't even know right now who/what it is that prevents them from having their way with the net.
There's risk in pursuit and enjoyment of liberty. What people don't realize is that every action has consequences. The more actions that you are at liberty to take, the more consequences you subject yourself to.
America was founded on the principle of pursuit of liberty. I guess nobody realized that even liberty is a two-way street. The same goes for democracy. It's great when you vote for the right guy in office. Of course at other times, you end up with failures like Bush.
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Why not just take some classes (possibly online courses) to show some background experience? Maybe even get a degree? Not sure how cost effective it may be, but whatever helps can't hurt if you're willing to pay for it.
Let's all keep in mind that, as we review this list, this entire effort is made to protect the kids from being used for child pornography. Or something.
Graphene has some pretty interesting electronic properties. Its bandgap (the essential component of all semiconductors) can be manipulated by changing the length of the sheet; as the sheet becomes infinitely long, the bandgap approaches zero. As a result, it could hold potential in photovoltaics for light capture or LEDs for light emission where capture/emission is tunable based on the size of the particle (which is pretty easy to manipulate).
Another article popped up on Slashdot recently suggesting graphene could be used for super high-capacity memory storage: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F18%2F2332251.
From the paper they mention that active electrons have near-zero effective mass. Since electron mobility is inversely proportional to effective mass, resistivity approaches zero (in essence, we approach superconductivity). As far as twisted graphene ribbons go, the paper only mentions that there's some weird ground state orbital morphologies (triplet states and open singlet ground states) which I'm not familiar with but also have to do with interorbital transition which always has applications in light emission/absorption technologies. I believe that lasers heavily depend on triplet states to create inversion layers, but don't quote me on that.
As far as it goes anyway, even if you don't know what the properties will be, you might as well study it - you never know what's going to come out.
Because unless you have something to gain (other than a warm feeling that you've done something nice and have helped the world), nobody wants the liability associated with writing an illegal but benevolent worm and releasing it.
Oh I'm not sure that there's nothing to gain from it. Does nobody remember the Morris Worm? If that's all I have to do to get a professorship position at MIT, hey, there's something to gain there!
Microsoft has made a business out of selling licenses to run software that can be copied at no marginal cost, this everybody knows. Essentially, they manufacture software, but their product isnt computer code, its legal code. Contracts.
They make deals with companies, the most common type being three year non-exclusive non-transferable usage rights contracts for the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office software package. A severe amount of licenses for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision Financials, and I shall refer to it as Navision) are sold as well.
The companies and institutions that buy these generally dont buy these directly through Microsoft. Instead, they sell contracts in bulk to Microsoft Certified Partners (MCPs), which are local companies that lobby the software, generally at a loss to themselves, as they know that Microsofts lock-in is powerful enough that they can only get service contracts from the company if they offer a substantial discount on the Microsoft products.
Now, the licensing term is three years, but the licensing fee is made in the form of annual payments. Here is where the fun begins.
Now, say an economy collapses. Say some fifteen hundred companies in your local economy go bankrupt. Now, say that Microsoft comes to collect its annual fee from the MCPs. The MCPs say, of course, âoewait, the company that we sold this license to has gone bankrupt, we shouldnt have to pay.â
âoeAha!â says the suit from Redmond. âoeYou made a contract with us, and another with them. Their inability to uphold their end of the contract does not invalidate your commitment to us.â
This is what Ive heard from pals in the industry. Pals whore being screwed over right now. In short, the MCPs have to pay the licensing fees for the bankrupted companies.
The sheer shock of having to do so is starting to hit the Icelandic economy, hard. Already battered by the collapse of almost all privately held financial institutions and the subsequent bust of nearly fifteen hundred companies, Icelands MCPs are next.
The devil here is in the details. Microsoft was just collecting what was due, forcing an issue that, for most places would be perfectly reasonable to do. Well, no. But it could be argued. Hey, this is about revenue.
But the backlash effect has been astounding. Several of Icelands largest MCPs are now fighting for survival in a sea already at significant turmoil due to the economic depression. Shit had already hit the fan, but now theyre being skull-fucked by Microsoft to boot.
And what would you do? Well. My sources tell me a lot is afoot. Several MCPs are bailing out, switching over to Free Software and restructuring their business model. Keep the revenue inside Iceland, sell better technical services for less money and yet double their revenue. âoeWhy didnt we do this earlier?â
Why indeed. With Microsofts stranglehold on the economy, a long series of lock-ins has made life difficult for the dozens of people involved in trying to push free software in Iceland. With the government alone spending in the vicinity of 1 billion Icelandic kronas annually on Microsofts wares â" a number not even taken together separately in the accounting books, as it is all written up as âoemiscellaneous running costsâ â" itd be a really smart move to switch, if only they could.
The easiest switch would be to go to OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office. This switch is easy because not only is OpenOffice.org superior software in every respect, its also feature-compatible with Microsoft Office, supports reading and writing of Microsofts file formats â" even the ones that Microsoft Office itself no longer supports â" and is free to boot, both free as in freedom and free as in price. The only important difference is that OpenOffice.org doesnt support all of Microsoft Offices weird macros, and it doesnt come with a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Access, the only database software
Microsoft has made a business out of selling licenses to run software that can be copied at no marginal cost, this everybody knows. Essentially, they manufacture software, but their product isnâ(TM)t computer code, itâ(TM)s legal code. Contracts.
They make deals with companies, the most common type being three year non-exclusive non-transferable usage rights contracts for the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office software package. A severe amount of licenses for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision Financials, and I shall refer to it as Navision) are sold as well.
The companies and institutions that buy these generally donâ(TM)t buy these directly through Microsoft. Instead, they sell contracts in bulk to Microsoft Certified Partners (MCPâ(TM)s), which are local companies that lobby the software, generally at a loss to themselves, as they know that Microsoftâ(TM)s lock-in is powerful enough that they can only get service contracts from the company if they offer a substantial discount on the Microsoft products.
Now, the licensing term is three years, but the licensing fee is made in the form of annual payments. Here is where the fun begins.
Now, say an economy collapses. Say some fifteen hundred companies in your local economy go bankrupt. Now, say that Microsoft comes to collect its annual fee from the MCPâ(TM)s. The MCPâ(TM)s say, of course, âoewait, the company that we sold this license to has gone bankrupt, we shouldnâ(TM)t have to pay.â
âoeAha!â says the suit from Redmond. âoeYou made a contract with us, and another with them. Their inability to uphold their end of the contract does not invalidate your commitment to us.â
This is what Iâ(TM)ve heard from pals in the industry. Pals whoâ(TM)re being screwed over right now. In short, the MCPâ(TM)s have to pay the licensing fees for the bankrupted companies.
The sheer shock of having to do so is starting to hit the Icelandic economy, hard. Already battered by the collapse of almost all privately held financial institutions and the subsequent bust of nearly fifteen hundred companies, Icelandâ(TM)s MCPâ(TM)s are next.
The devil here is in the details. Microsoft was just collecting what was due, forcing an issue that, for most places would be perfectly reasonable to do. Well, no. But it could be argued. Hey, this is about revenue.
But the backlash effect has been astounding. Several of Icelandâ(TM)s largest MCPâ(TM)s are now fighting for survival in a sea already at significant turmoil due to the economic depression. Shit had already hit the fan, but now theyâ(TM)re being skull-fucked by Microsoft to boot.
And what would you do? Well. My sources tell me a lot is afoot. Several MCPâ(TM)s are bailing out, switching over to Free Software and restructuring their business model. Keep the revenue inside Iceland, sell better technical services for less money and yet double their revenue. âoeWhy didnâ(TM)t we do this earlier?â
Why indeed. With Microsoftâ(TM)s stranglehold on the economy, a long series of lock-ins has made life difficult for the dozens of people involved in trying to push free software in Iceland. With the government alone spending in the vicinity of 1 billion Icelandic kronas annually on Microsoftâ(TM)s wares â" a number not even taken together separately in the accounting books, as it is all written up as âoemiscellaneous running costsâ â" itâ(TM)d be a really smart move to switch, if only they could.
The easiest switch would be to go to OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office. This switch is easy because not only is OpenOffice.org superior software in every respect, itâ(TM)s also feature-compatible with Microsoft Office, supports reading and writing of Microsoftâ(TM)s file formats â" even the ones that Microsoft Office itself no longer supports â" and is free to boot, both
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Much as I would like to see some form of universal health care soon, this phenomenon will just be exacerbated by suddenly adding 30 or 40 million new formerly uninsured patients into the system. Doctors already do not have the time to give each patient the time and care they need. Unless they train or import a whole lot of new medical talent quickly, it's just going to jam up the system even more, and there will be an even greater tendency for doctors to make diagnoses and treatment decisions "on the fly" as they breeze through on their way to their next patient.
So we don't have enough doctors. What can we do about it?
How about this for starters: lower the cost of medical school tuition. How attractive do you think it would be to go to med school? When you consider all the debt that you incur before you get a job (assuming that you do get a job), well, we probably lose a lot of potential doctors for that reason.
And you know what: there's just not enough money to pay for the system as it is now. Those other 30 or 40 million uninsured patients have just as much of a right to care as you do. There's no way to rationalize that they don't deserve the right to care just because it will drain society of more resources.
The only solution is for the government to pay for it. Healthcare needs to be paid for regardless of whether it's profitable or not. When the costs come down, it will become more feasible. Take away the ridiculous brand name/marketing costs for drugs, put some resources into paying for new doctors and we'll start to see change. It's not getting any better as it is now.
"She was very worried before the trial. They questioned my competence and that made her very sad. She hadnâ(TM)t slept for two days," Roger said.
Just goes to show that courage, morality and determination are rewarded. And with that, my faith is restored....
Great.
You can be sure that if they could make an ethanol-based fuel cell, they would. There's a good reason their engineers choose the materials that they use. It's easy to say that there are better ones. Getting them to work, not so much.
Agree with parent. Take OLEDs for example. They still have a lot of issues to overcome, but they're slowly finding their way into the industry, namely on PMPs, some cell phones, other examples.
I hate to break it to you harshly, but other people don't have the same values as you. I definitely share your viewpoint - a child should be loved regardless of how s/he is made genetically - but obviously I'm aware that most others have far different wishes and opinions.
I guess I've just become far too cynical. It doesn't take long to figure out why.
Remember when antibiotics were developed and they were hailed as the great solution for bacterial infections? Now look what has happened - yes, we've solved some problems (many, even), but we've made others much worse.
So let's take a minute to think of the can of worms that we're opening. 1.) How are we supposed to determine whether something is a disease and whether it should be screened for? 2.) What if there's some genetic/evolutionary advantage to many of the "diseases" we hope to prevent? Obviously, no one wants to stand up and say that there's an advantage to -insert horrible disease here- but it's impossible to predict the future and what may be advantageous. 3.) We're also bound to get idiots that want their kids screened for stupid things like being short or stupid. There's probably a potential danger in this as well, not to mention that it's stupid.
Anyways, as far as treating diseases go, we should be mindful that if we don't want to mess with the gene pool (as many believe that we shouldn't), we should consider non-genetic alternatives to treating problems. Furthermore, we should be excited with the advent of new technology, but we should be very careful in how we employ it (in particular, how much). These aren't necessarily my opinions, but it's important to at least play Devil's Advocate.
Let's take it one step further. Apple sells you software. Red Hat, Novell, Canonical, etc. sell you support. Software comes free - you can hire your own IT to manage it if you want to....
Let's not forget that Linux can be installed on any architecture. Apple may have a larger market share (depending on where you get your data from of course, lol), but they still have a limited compatibility range making them less viable.
Of course not. Apple has a different model (Linux is GPL and Apple is closed source). Apple is still proprietary and paid-for while Linux can be shared freely. Just because they have similar origins from a software standpoint doesn't mean anything when you consider their market viability. They're completely different beasts in that respect.
It is somewhat unfair, but MS has a lot to gain by making Win7 run on older hardware. First of all, it's quite worthwhile if they're gutting features/making the system more efficient for underpowered hardware. Second, there's a potential goldmine in getting companies to upgrade from their old IT solutions. It's horrible how some places are still running NT/2000/XP (software over 10 years old). If they can show that it's really an easy and smooth transition to Win7, hungry companies will be eager to upgrade their systems without having to replace hardware. You'd think they'd give this a little more priority then, wouldn't you?
In any case, there's a good chance that it's not cause of their own issues. Hardware companies often suck at writing drivers, it's not MS's fault to make up for that. Especially while they're still in beta.
Eventually you come to a point where an upgrade is inevitable. Hardware breaks and has to be replaced, and it's not always easy to get software that has drivers for antiquated OS's. There's no telling when it'll happen, but for sure it will.
We had some Windows 98 machines that we didn't upgrade for a while; then some critical pieces (like the wireless device) started to break, and without drivers for 98, they had to be upgraded. Of course, they were so old that they were just junk with XP. Long story short, sometimes you buy the OS for the drivers, not the software.
Besides, when you put everything in a sandbox, it's not that unsafe to test an upgrade to see if it still works. Might as well give it a try, you never know what good could come out of it.
Of course. The brain is quite plastic at such an early stage of development. This is why people that lose vision have great hearing and smelling, etc. My question is whether these effects can occur when the brain isn't the problematic organ.
In any case, the problem is making sure that we can identify these problems while there's still time to nurture someone to overcome it. The brain is far more plastic in early stages of life than it is in older ones.
That's the ticket. We need a new OS, not a new internet. We can work around the real problem as long as we want to. Or we can attack the problem head-on. Thing is, no one* has the guts to take them head-on.
*No, shut up, slashdot doesn't count.
Yeah, that blue e does have a few kinks sometimes.
Even more troubling is that it's the same people that are currently in control of it right now. ISP executives themselves wouldn't mind seeing the voices of the people silenced so they can dominate the market and crush competition. Money begets money. Sometimes I don't even know right now who/what it is that prevents them from having their way with the net.
I guess that puts people like you at risk, eh?
America was founded on the principle of pursuit of liberty. I guess nobody realized that even liberty is a two-way street. The same goes for democracy. It's great when you vote for the right guy in office. Of course at other times, you end up with failures like Bush.
Maybe. Sometimes though, I think a more appropriate response for the French military would be to just give up.