For all the vaunted energy of our accelerators, we're still not in the same league with cosmic rays. So they estimated some 50 "organic" black holes per (forgotten time interval) created in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays, and have a fair mathmatical confidence and better empirical evidence to support that.
I also have seen things about 11 or more dimensions, and all but our familiar 4 curled up too small to perceive. But then I wonder if perhaps that's just a tad egocentric of us. Maybe some dimensions are curled up on our quantum scale, but what if our familiar 4 are curled up on someone else's quantum scale?
I have to agree with you. Too much of America is about Greed these days. In small doses, greed can be good as a personal motivator. Our nation appears addicted to it, though.
OK, so maybe it's not YOUR job to educate me. I can admit that maybe I'm a little heated, and back off. Can you? How about recommending some titles? At the moment, I'd prefer to focus on basic Islam rather than 'recent' history. I want to find that suicide bombings are as 'normal' to Moslems as abortion clinic bombings are to Christians. I want to find that keeping women uneducated, barefoot, and pregnant isn't a core Moslem belief, either. (I've heard this, but it just doesn't square for me, yet.) I once checked out a copy of the Koran, but didn't get far enough before due dates and real life intruded. At the time, it wasn't as critical as today, either.
Contemplating the founding of Israel is a tough one, considering the number of times the land has changed hands. In less rational moments I'd like to see the whole area evacuated and a big fence around it. Kind of like "If you can't share it..." with kids.
In the final round of peace talks before the whole process broke down, I was astounded that Israel actually offered to share Jerusalem. Bin Laden is up in arms about American soldiers even being in the same country as Mecca and Medina. As overbearing as Israel has been, I can't imagine the restraint they've shown over the Dome of the Rock if a church or temple stood on the site of Mecca. By the way, somewhere in the many discussion threads (/. and elsewhere) of the past few days, someone stated that Israel is the ONLY nation in that area where Arabs/Moslems are allowed to vote. (I presume they mean national elections, but don't know/verify the reference.)
>Sorry you lost me for a moment there with that "By that token". If we are allowed to say their civilians arent
>innocent then how could they have targeted innocent people in the first place? Or does it only count as
>wrong for the first one to use this rationalization and after that it becomes a valid one for the second
>party to use?
Make no mistake, there's NOTHING right about this.
But the same logic that Palestinian terrorists have used in the past (Notice that I'm not declaring them guilty of this yet, just explaining the mindset with their past examples.) to declare ALL Americans enemy targets, All Palestinians can be, as well. That's not to say that I agree with that logic, just that it's consistent.
>You mean the terrorist objectives will be achieved?
No, I mean that violence is escalating in both the Middle East and Northern Ireland, to name only two of the many hot-spots. A bit over a year ago, a settlement between Israel and PLO was right on the brink of success, and they pulled back from there.
I'd like to see both sides sit down at the table and get serious, and ready to compromise and bargain.
The 'rules of engagement' for highjacking have just changed, probably forever.
No longer is it a matter of wait and hope you don't get killed before negotiations work out. The new assumption has to be that you're now on a piloted bomb, and that you're effectively dead. Now the question is how to save others' lives.
It may be that the Pittsburgh crash was due to a courageous pilot or copilot who realized this.
>Just so you know since you apparently have no clue about the Middle East
Guilty as charged. I have no clue about the Middle East.
But I think I am at least as well informed as most Americans, and I believe I have a more open mind than most.
So YOUR job is to try and educate me. The news media doesn't help a heck of a lot, and I try to listen to the BBC or NPR for a better balanced picture. (as opposed to the ratings war of network news)
I hear many times of the enlightenment of the Moslem religion, and how they kept the candles of civilization burning during the dark ages with mathmatics, and all that. I also hear that the Moslem religion teaches respect and equal rights for women.
But that's not what I hear or see on the news.
By the same token, I certainly hope you don't base your opinion of Christianity on abortion clinic bombings and the mess in Northern Ireland. I think that at the moment, it's far more enlightening to look at the hours-long lines in front of the blood donation clinics.
I wish PBS woud run (or rerun, now is timely) some sort of documentary on the history and development of the Moslem religion.
I mentioned it once before... More could be done for the Palestinian cause by making an "Unbearable Lightness of Being" type movie, and setting it in the West Bank. Remember that the juxtposition of Three Mile Island and the movie "The China Syndrome" pretty much killed nuclear power construction in the US. In the US, images and concepts have power, violence just makes us mad. You want us to change, try getting our sympathy. You want our sympathy, try helping us understand your plight. But attacking only helps us understand your hatred. (I'll accept that this isn't you personally, but just the general point...)
I got the date from the news. So if I'm wrong, it's because I didn't look it up to verify. If the 18th is the real date, did they at least sit down together on the 11th?
I did read it. One of those uses for picking your own userid on the front page, to keep track of threads you have participated in.
I seem to remember hearing the same. But he has either aligned himself with the Palestinian cause, or gotten some of them to align themselves with him.
He's allowed to not like US foreign policy. So are the Palestinians. But I have a personal working definition of terrorism, "Military action *directed* against innocents." From that perspective, Washington DC contains legitimate targets. New York City does not, except perhaps naval ships anchored there.
Expressing outrage at US foreign policy by killing thousands of ordinary citizens is kind of like expressing disapproval of the Rodney King verdict by looting stores. Wholly inappropriate.
Whenever we retaliate, I'm sure that innocent lives will be lost.
But...
The innocent lives will not be the primary targets, and I have some confidence that there will be every attempt to minimize the loss of innocent life. Today's attack was DIRECTED AT INNOCENTS, and that's a big difference. Or perhaps more properly, whoever planned today's attack considers that ANY American is part of the ENEMY. By that token, ANY of their citizens become part of our enemy, so there are no innocents there, either. Still, I'm sure our response will have some attempt at AIM, and not at common citizens. It gives me a little more respect for the Israeli over-zealous response to Palestinian attacks, where I had next to none, before. At least they have had *some* direction, not human bombs at restaraunts, and the like.
It's nothing but ugly.
The only good thing that can come from this is that world leaders will see how close to the brink we are, and pull back.
>but ideas like that chill me a lot more than a terrorist attack
How about this one?
What's the time from infection to symptoms for Anthrax? One can hope that this was ONLY planes and car bombs, as bad as those are. Imagine adding biologicals...
Notice that I did open the possibility that it wasn't the Palestinians. But I had a typo when I said the 'data' was indicative, rather it's the 'date' that's indicative, as the anniversary of the Camp David Peace Accord. There is speculation that the Pittsburgh airplane was headed there. There is also some feeling that the World Trade Center was an important target to Bin-Laden, as a symbol of American Money, and considering that there had already been one attempt.
You're right in it's early to rush to judgement.
But at the moment, the two most likely parties appear to be Palestinians or anti-globalization Slashdotters. I really don't believe the IRA would touch this one.
Besides, until enough facts come out to sway public opinion that it's NOT Palestinian, they'll most likely bear the brunt of blame.
The United States has been a wonderful experiment in an open society. On/. we bemoan what corporatism in league with the government are doing to the information sector, but it still remains uncommon to be able to travel over 3000 miles with as few controls as are possible here. But an open society requires a citizenry (and alien residents and visitors) that values it and behaves accordingly.
That last assumption may no longer be valid, and what that does to an open society, I have no idea.
On a slight side note, this does the Palestinians no good at all. If they really wanted sympathy and to affect US policy, they should have made a movie set on the West Bank, with everyday life as a backdrop. Instead they've merely upped the body count. (Presuming it's not Son of Timothy, and the data IS rather indicative.) While I agree that 'appeasement' doesn't work, I fear what may have been awakened in the US, and only hope our response, whenever it comes, is properly 'measured'.
>I just dont agree with you on that. No competitor, ever, regardless of market position, should ever ever ever be forced to actually assist
>the competition in hurting themselves.
As otherwise mentioned, an API is supposed to be an interface point, where different parties can interoperate. Microsoft is the master of the Oxymoronic API, where they want the appearance of interoperation, and enough to grow markets, yet reserve the ultimate rewards for themselves.
As for precedent on being "forced to open APIs", there are two most noteworthy:
1) The telephone system, including but not limited to those lovely RJ11 and RJ45 jacks we all use. IIUC, much more than just physical connectors was opened with that judgement.
2) The System/360 I/O Channel, to allow Plug Compatible Manufacturers to really make things to plug into those mainframe channels.
>It would be absurd to suggest that Standard Oil should have given away its oil to competitors because of its monopoly position. Its just as
No, but take a look at any pump, with its three buttons for 87, 89, and 93 Octane. That's part of the equivalent of an API for gasoline. It's the reason you can drive up to ANY gas pump, not just a Standard Oil subsidiary, and have reasonable confidence of driving away again without eating out your engine's innards.
>absurd to suggest that MS give away its property - intellectual as it may be - to their competitors. The API's belong to MS - they were
>developed, refined, tested (hahaha.. well obstentibly}, and maintained by MS. To force them to give that away is simply wrong in all sense of
>the word.
Once again, one must understand the political sense of what an API is. One must also understand that when one wishes to become the STANDARD of the industry, there are additional rules to play by.
I'm sure you meant "tried" instead of "tired" in that title, and far be it from me to simply nitpick spelling.
But perhaps "tired" is more appropriate than "tried" for this case in this administration. I no longer anticipate any good out of the antitrust suit, no matter how much I would like to see file formats, protocols, and contracts opened, and compulsary license terms for patented "standards". That is, unless it drags on for 4 more years, and then we'll see what the next administration does with it.
In David Brin's "Sundiver" they administered a test, where they studied a person's eyeball movements as they were shown a picture. The objects of focus, lingering time, and relative timing of noticing those objects in the first second or two were construed to have deep psychological meaning. The test results were used to determine who was a rightful member of society, and who bore 'watching'.
Obviously haptics is less sophisticated than eyeball tracking, but perhaps not really. Eyeball tracking is straightforward once you have the sensor. Inferring the same type of information from mouse movements seems in some ways more sophisticated to me.
So put on your Gibsonian hats for a moment, and imagine an Echelon/Carnivore-type backdoor *required* in haptic feedback systems. Then have data-mining of that information looking for criminal or terrorist tendancies. Unlikely? Yep. But compared to Strategic Missile Defense?
Now isn't THIS a conduct remedy that Microsoft would approve of?
Slightly more seriously, this is downright stupid, and wouldn't work. Security should be in layers, tighter the closer you get to the backbone. In particular, ISPs should let no traffic out that doesn't say it's from their network - stopping spoofed packets goes a long way.
I'm now typing at my second 'sinktop desk'. I built the first at my previous home, designed as a knockdown, and it's out in the garage. It's collapsed against a wall, and gets set up whenever we need extra space, like for a garage sale.
The current desk is between two vanities, as you mention. But one other thing... Two pieces of angle iron between the vanities to keep the sinktop from warping in the span. The monitor sits up on a platform on one side, and the keyboard can store under the platform when the extra space is needed.
One of these days I want a new monitor platform, and it will be designed to be just taller than the splashguard, so I can push the monitor further back to accomodate middle-aged eyeballs. (One of these days those eyeballs may be an excuse for a flat panel.)
Imagine the point where (or should that be 'when') MS's desire for world domination puts them head to head with the MPAA and RIAA.
We already know that the government's conduct remedy against the RIAA last year for price fixing on CDs was as effective as the last conduct remedy against MS, several years ago.
the "competition" simply roll over and die whenever Microsoft announces it's going to enter a market?
I know, I know, once upon a time Quicken won, and both Talisman and Bob flopped. But Microsoft has demonstrated that they learn from their mistakes. When was their last market disaster.
Perhaps an interesting strategy would be to give them the market on their first try, then learn from their product mistakes and come back.
the PC that can't boot anything but Windows? (How will they do this?)
Regardless of the fine print on this decision, I expect MS to spin it as a victory. Most notably, when the Appeals Court overturned the penalty while upholding the verdict, MS went out with the trumpets. Furthermore, their ACTIONS went along with what their WORDS were saying. It appears that they really believed that they had won the appeal.
So no matter what conduct remedies will be, what do you think their actions are going to be, now?
My remedies:
Open up file formats of monopoly-scale products.
Open up protocols of monopoly-scale products.
Open up contract details for monopoly-scale products.
Actually, don't think anything is going to work in the US. It's up to the rest of the world to make up for our ethical laziness.
I've heard before that galaxies don't rotate right, that the core and outer velocities are not "correct" with respect to each other. This has been mostly in connection with dark matter and missing mass. I wonder how supermassive black holes affect this apparent mismatch. (for better, or worse)
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Glad to know that AMD is responsible for the bugs in Via chipsets for the Athlon. Is Intel responsible for the bugs in Via chipsets for the Pentia. Or is AMD responsible for those bugs, too?
One goal of the protagonists was to have the architecture extensions be clean, and if there was a wart, it would be the legacy part. After this topic came up, I took a quick look at some X86-64 stuff, and it looks as if AMD may have done just that. The 8 new GPRs are really GPRs, and I suspect the whole batch of 16 64-bit GPRs really are GPRs. It may be a cleaner 64 bit machine than it was 32 bit. I hope so.
Actually, I had to learn 8080 pretty thoroughly in college, learned a fair amount of 8086, less 80286, and by the time 80386 came around, was pretty well esconced into HLLs. So I can't speak very authoritatively on that side of it.
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Going back to the other articles on this...
For all the vaunted energy of our accelerators, we're still not in the same league with cosmic rays. So they estimated some 50 "organic" black holes per (forgotten time interval) created in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays, and have a fair mathmatical confidence and better empirical evidence to support that.
I also have seen things about 11 or more dimensions, and all but our familiar 4 curled up too small to perceive. But then I wonder if perhaps that's just a tad egocentric of us. Maybe some dimensions are curled up on our quantum scale, but what if our familiar 4 are curled up on someone else's quantum scale?
I have to agree with you. Too much of America is about Greed these days. In small doses, greed can be good as a personal motivator. Our nation appears addicted to it, though.
OK, so maybe it's not YOUR job to educate me. I can admit that maybe I'm a little heated, and back off. Can you? How about recommending some titles? At the moment, I'd prefer to focus on basic Islam rather than 'recent' history. I want to find that suicide bombings are as 'normal' to Moslems as abortion clinic bombings are to Christians. I want to find that keeping women uneducated, barefoot, and pregnant isn't a core Moslem belief, either. (I've heard this, but it just doesn't square for me, yet.) I once checked out a copy of the Koran, but didn't get far enough before due dates and real life intruded. At the time, it wasn't as critical as today, either.
Contemplating the founding of Israel is a tough one, considering the number of times the land has changed hands. In less rational moments I'd like to see the whole area evacuated and a big fence around it. Kind of like "If you can't share it..." with kids.
In the final round of peace talks before the whole process broke down, I was astounded that Israel actually offered to share Jerusalem. Bin Laden is up in arms about American soldiers even being in the same country as Mecca and Medina. As overbearing as Israel has been, I can't imagine the restraint they've shown over the Dome of the Rock if a church or temple stood on the site of Mecca. By the way, somewhere in the many discussion threads (/. and elsewhere) of the past few days, someone stated that Israel is the ONLY nation in that area where Arabs/Moslems are allowed to vote. (I presume they mean national elections, but don't know/verify the reference.)
>Sorry you lost me for a moment there with that "By that token". If we are allowed to say their civilians arent
>innocent then how could they have targeted innocent people in the first place? Or does it only count as
>wrong for the first one to use this rationalization and after that it becomes a valid one for the second
>party to use?
Make no mistake, there's NOTHING right about this.
But the same logic that Palestinian terrorists have used in the past (Notice that I'm not declaring them guilty of this yet, just explaining the mindset with their past examples.) to declare ALL Americans enemy targets, All Palestinians can be, as well. That's not to say that I agree with that logic, just that it's consistent.
>You mean the terrorist objectives will be achieved?
No, I mean that violence is escalating in both the Middle East and Northern Ireland, to name only two of the many hot-spots. A bit over a year ago, a settlement between Israel and PLO was right on the brink of success, and they pulled back from there.
I'd like to see both sides sit down at the table and get serious, and ready to compromise and bargain.
The 'rules of engagement' for highjacking have just changed, probably forever.
No longer is it a matter of wait and hope you don't get killed before negotiations work out. The new assumption has to be that you're now on a piloted bomb, and that you're effectively dead. Now the question is how to save others' lives.
It may be that the Pittsburgh crash was due to a courageous pilot or copilot who realized this.
>Just so you know since you apparently have no clue about the Middle East
Guilty as charged. I have no clue about the Middle East.
But I think I am at least as well informed as most Americans, and I believe I have a more open mind than most.
So YOUR job is to try and educate me. The news media doesn't help a heck of a lot, and I try to listen to the BBC or NPR for a better balanced picture. (as opposed to the ratings war of network news)
I hear many times of the enlightenment of the Moslem religion, and how they kept the candles of civilization burning during the dark ages with mathmatics, and all that. I also hear that the Moslem religion teaches respect and equal rights for women.
But that's not what I hear or see on the news.
By the same token, I certainly hope you don't base your opinion of Christianity on abortion clinic bombings and the mess in Northern Ireland. I think that at the moment, it's far more enlightening to look at the hours-long lines in front of the blood donation clinics.
I wish PBS woud run (or rerun, now is timely) some sort of documentary on the history and development of the Moslem religion.
I mentioned it once before... More could be done for the Palestinian cause by making an "Unbearable Lightness of Being" type movie, and setting it in the West Bank. Remember that the juxtposition of Three Mile Island and the movie "The China Syndrome" pretty much killed nuclear power construction in the US. In the US, images and concepts have power, violence just makes us mad. You want us to change, try getting our sympathy. You want our sympathy, try helping us understand your plight. But attacking only helps us understand your hatred. (I'll accept that this isn't you personally, but just the general point...)
I got the date from the news. So if I'm wrong, it's because I didn't look it up to verify. If the 18th is the real date, did they at least sit down together on the 11th?
I did read it. One of those uses for picking your own userid on the front page, to keep track of threads you have participated in.
I seem to remember hearing the same. But he has either aligned himself with the Palestinian cause, or gotten some of them to align themselves with him.
He's allowed to not like US foreign policy. So are the Palestinians. But I have a personal working definition of terrorism, "Military action *directed* against innocents." From that perspective, Washington DC contains legitimate targets. New York City does not, except perhaps naval ships anchored there.
Expressing outrage at US foreign policy by killing thousands of ordinary citizens is kind of like expressing disapproval of the Rodney King verdict by looting stores. Wholly inappropriate.
Whenever we retaliate, I'm sure that innocent lives will be lost.
But...
The innocent lives will not be the primary targets, and I have some confidence that there will be every attempt to minimize the loss of innocent life. Today's attack was DIRECTED AT INNOCENTS, and that's a big difference. Or perhaps more properly, whoever planned today's attack considers that ANY American is part of the ENEMY. By that token, ANY of their citizens become part of our enemy, so there are no innocents there, either. Still, I'm sure our response will have some attempt at AIM, and not at common citizens. It gives me a little more respect for the Israeli over-zealous response to Palestinian attacks, where I had next to none, before. At least they have had *some* direction, not human bombs at restaraunts, and the like.
It's nothing but ugly.
The only good thing that can come from this is that world leaders will see how close to the brink we are, and pull back.
>but ideas like that chill me a lot more than a terrorist attack
How about this one?
What's the time from infection to symptoms for Anthrax? One can hope that this was ONLY planes and car bombs, as bad as those are. Imagine adding biologicals...
Notice that I did open the possibility that it wasn't the Palestinians. But I had a typo when I said the 'data' was indicative, rather it's the 'date' that's indicative, as the anniversary of the Camp David Peace Accord. There is speculation that the Pittsburgh airplane was headed there. There is also some feeling that the World Trade Center was an important target to Bin-Laden, as a symbol of American Money, and considering that there had already been one attempt.
You're right in it's early to rush to judgement.
But at the moment, the two most likely parties appear to be Palestinians or anti-globalization Slashdotters. I really don't believe the IRA would touch this one.
Besides, until enough facts come out to sway public opinion that it's NOT Palestinian, they'll most likely bear the brunt of blame.
>My God, what happened?
/. we bemoan what corporatism in league with the government are doing to the information sector, but it still remains uncommon to be able to travel over 3000 miles with as few controls as are possible here. But an open society requires a citizenry (and alien residents and visitors) that values it and behaves accordingly.
The ultimate "tragedy of the commons".
The United States has been a wonderful experiment in an open society. On
That last assumption may no longer be valid, and what that does to an open society, I have no idea.
On a slight side note, this does the Palestinians no good at all. If they really wanted sympathy and to affect US policy, they should have made a movie set on the West Bank, with everyday life as a backdrop. Instead they've merely upped the body count. (Presuming it's not Son of Timothy, and the data IS rather indicative.) While I agree that 'appeasement' doesn't work, I fear what may have been awakened in the US, and only hope our response, whenever it comes, is properly 'measured'.
>>forcing them to open their API's
>I just dont agree with you on that. No competitor, ever, regardless of market position, should ever ever ever be forced to actually assist
>the competition in hurting themselves.
As otherwise mentioned, an API is supposed to be an interface point, where different parties can interoperate. Microsoft is the master of the Oxymoronic API, where they want the appearance of interoperation, and enough to grow markets, yet reserve the ultimate rewards for themselves.
As for precedent on being "forced to open APIs", there are two most noteworthy:
1) The telephone system, including but not limited to those lovely RJ11 and RJ45 jacks we all use. IIUC, much more than just physical connectors was opened with that judgement.
2) The System/360 I/O Channel, to allow Plug Compatible Manufacturers to really make things to plug into those mainframe channels.
>It would be absurd to suggest that Standard Oil should have given away its oil to competitors because of its monopoly position. Its just as
No, but take a look at any pump, with its three buttons for 87, 89, and 93 Octane. That's part of the equivalent of an API for gasoline. It's the reason you can drive up to ANY gas pump, not just a Standard Oil subsidiary, and have reasonable confidence of driving away again without eating out your engine's innards.
>absurd to suggest that MS give away its property - intellectual as it may be - to their competitors. The API's belong to MS - they were
>developed, refined, tested (hahaha.. well obstentibly}, and maintained by MS. To force them to give that away is simply wrong in all sense of
>the word.
Once again, one must understand the political sense of what an API is. One must also understand that when one wishes to become the STANDARD of the industry, there are additional rules to play by.
I'm sure you meant "tried" instead of "tired" in that title, and far be it from me to simply nitpick spelling.
But perhaps "tired" is more appropriate than "tried" for this case in this administration. I no longer anticipate any good out of the antitrust suit, no matter how much I would like to see file formats, protocols, and contracts opened, and compulsary license terms for patented "standards". That is, unless it drags on for 4 more years, and then we'll see what the next administration does with it.
In David Brin's "Sundiver" they administered a test, where they studied a person's eyeball movements as they were shown a picture. The objects of focus, lingering time, and relative timing of noticing those objects in the first second or two were construed to have deep psychological meaning. The test results were used to determine who was a rightful member of society, and who bore 'watching'.
Obviously haptics is less sophisticated than eyeball tracking, but perhaps not really. Eyeball tracking is straightforward once you have the sensor. Inferring the same type of information from mouse movements seems in some ways more sophisticated to me.
So put on your Gibsonian hats for a moment, and imagine an Echelon/Carnivore-type backdoor *required* in haptic feedback systems. Then have data-mining of that information looking for criminal or terrorist tendancies. Unlikely? Yep. But compared to Strategic Missile Defense?
Now isn't THIS a conduct remedy that Microsoft would approve of?
Slightly more seriously, this is downright stupid, and wouldn't work. Security should be in layers, tighter the closer you get to the backbone. In particular, ISPs should let no traffic out that doesn't say it's from their network - stopping spoofed packets goes a long way.
I'm now typing at my second 'sinktop desk'. I built the first at my previous home, designed as a knockdown, and it's out in the garage. It's collapsed against a wall, and gets set up whenever we need extra space, like for a garage sale.
The current desk is between two vanities, as you mention. But one other thing... Two pieces of angle iron between the vanities to keep the sinktop from warping in the span. The monitor sits up on a platform on one side, and the keyboard can store under the platform when the extra space is needed.
One of these days I want a new monitor platform, and it will be designed to be just taller than the splashguard, so I can push the monitor further back to accomodate middle-aged eyeballs. (One of these days those eyeballs may be an excuse for a flat panel.)
Wouldn't that be fun to see!
Imagine the point where (or should that be 'when') MS's desire for world domination puts them head to head with the MPAA and RIAA.
We already know that the government's conduct remedy against the RIAA last year for price fixing on CDs was as effective as the last conduct remedy against MS, several years ago.
the "competition" simply roll over and die whenever Microsoft announces it's going to enter a market?
I know, I know, once upon a time Quicken won, and both Talisman and Bob flopped. But Microsoft has demonstrated that they learn from their mistakes. When was their last market disaster.
Perhaps an interesting strategy would be to give them the market on their first try, then learn from their product mistakes and come back.
the PC that can't boot anything but Windows? (How will they do this?)
Regardless of the fine print on this decision, I expect MS to spin it as a victory. Most notably, when the Appeals Court overturned the penalty while upholding the verdict, MS went out with the trumpets. Furthermore, their ACTIONS went along with what their WORDS were saying. It appears that they really believed that they had won the appeal.
So no matter what conduct remedies will be, what do you think their actions are going to be, now?
My remedies:
Open up file formats of monopoly-scale products.
Open up protocols of monopoly-scale products.
Open up contract details for monopoly-scale products.
Actually, don't think anything is going to work in the US. It's up to the rest of the world to make up for our ethical laziness.
when you get to the Wedge.
I've heard before that galaxies don't rotate right, that the core and outer velocities are not "correct" with respect to each other. This has been mostly in connection with dark matter and missing mass. I wonder how supermassive black holes affect this apparent mismatch. (for better, or worse)
Glad to know that AMD is responsible for the bugs in Via chipsets for the Athlon. Is Intel responsible for the bugs in Via chipsets for the Pentia. Or is AMD responsible for those bugs, too?
Ever read "Soul of a New Machine"?
One goal of the protagonists was to have the architecture extensions be clean, and if there was a wart, it would be the legacy part. After this topic came up, I took a quick look at some X86-64 stuff, and it looks as if AMD may have done just that. The 8 new GPRs are really GPRs, and I suspect the whole batch of 16 64-bit GPRs really are GPRs. It may be a cleaner 64 bit machine than it was 32 bit. I hope so.
Actually, I had to learn 8080 pretty thoroughly in college, learned a fair amount of 8086, less 80286, and by the time 80386 came around, was pretty well esconced into HLLs. So I can't speak very authoritatively on that side of it.