Only one? OK. An Apollo spacesuit. Far more important, impressive, and practical than a polluting hunk of metal that NO ONE cares about, or it wouldn't be falling apart and harming the environment. Yeah, let's spend millions to repair the environment and then millions more to restore this, us, metal tower.
Save a historic building? Sure. I can see the economic and cultural benefit to a community. Save a launch tower? I see huge ongoing expenses and very little benefit except to a few museum goers who would just as easily be served by a photo. There are more important, more valuable pieces of space history to preserve. Aren't there?
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Ohhhhhhh, I misunderstood. Apparently Microsoft Windows is the dominant operating system only in the United States. I guess the rest of the world uses Linux and Macintosh. OK, you win the argument.
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Uhhhhh, yes geography does matter. Both companies are bound by United States law. The United States constitutes both companys' largest share of users in comparison to any other country or the EU. If one chose to exert its gateway access via its operating system, the other could sink or swim entirely based on what happens with its users in the United States.
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We're talking about Google vs. Microsoft. Both American companies.
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Oh yes, I forgot how much Betamax sucked and VHS rocked. Is that what all the experts said? Maybe that one was before your time.
How about the Atari Lynx? It kicked the non-color non-stereo non-high-resolution non-left-hander-friendly non-non-non-non-non-non-non total piece of garbage Nintendo Gameboy up and down the street. Huh. Remember that one?
Capitalism is not about the better product. It is about who is most effective at selling the product. My original point stands. When you control the operating system, you have a HUGE advantage because you control the gateway to your competitor's product. You have the power for your product to succeed and sink your competitor, perhaps more power than any previous company in history.
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> I doubt Microsoft will come up with anything more efficient that Google.
What does efficiency or quality of service got to do with anything? This is America. It's not about the better product. It's about who wins.
Google has no leverage over an operating system that is a gateway to its service. There are a million and one tricks that could be employed to cripple Google usage. So what if Google wins a court battle six months or a year (or longer) down the road? In the meantime, Google would sink. And you'd be assuming a lot about Google winning in court, given what we've seen the "Justice" department doing under the current administration.
This problem would be resolved if online services charged a nominal fee for e-mail accounts. Say $1 a year, with a huge charge if the account is blatantly abused.
Spammers who don't traffic in stolen credit cards will be shut out.
As a countermeasure, credit card companies should monitor the $1 e-mail charges and do a courtesy call to customers. They do this already when unusual charges appear on a bill. So, most of these $1 e-mail account spammers will be shut down the first day when the credit card companies notify Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. about bogus e-mail accounts. From the credit card company's perspective, these courtesy calls will be well worth their time because they will be detecting stolen cards before massive charges are racked up.
Any tech job in the government or educational sector is going to require a computer science degree. And people with computer science degrees are likely to have taken a boatload of math courses.
If you don't like the feds, work for your state. The two big pluses of govt work are: 1) difficult to fire you or downsize you in a budget crisis and 2) good benefits, at least on the state level.
The composition of my head contains no traces of feces, nor am I financially wealthy. Do a little bit of research before posting, you silly little man. Your argument fails on all points.
The Patent Office is hiring patent examiners in the Computer Science Field. We've seen the hard, comprehensive work of patent examiners profiled on Slashdot many times. Don't pass up this opportunity to join the U.S. Government Team. You too could be the subject of a future/. post!
Did Billy give the Queen a donation or something? Is this the English equivalent of Lincoln's bedroom? Why would the Queen make herself even more irrelevant by handing out knightships to every Tom, Bill and Harry?
Breasts divided the audience. My wife and her friends are trekkies. They stopped watching after the pilot because of the overt sexuality. It's plain insulting. If we wanted sex in Star Trek, we'd rent soft porn videos. Porn offers more variety and better lighting.
Don't worry. Any self-respecting gamer who has played with voice chat on Xbox knows pay-for-play is doomed.
The idea seems cool, until you strap on your headset and start listening to your teammates' squeaky prepubescent voices. No thanks. I'll stick to lan parties.
Some of us decided shopping Amazon in a speedy fashion wasn't worth the price of broadband and have chosen dial-up despite a multitude of other, pricier options.
Use Ebay and garage sales. Never buy new Lego bricks. It's no loss really. We all want miscellaneous Lego parts, not those dumb kits Lego sells now for exorbitant prices.
If you're like me, you saved your Legos from your childhood. It was a good call because I couldn't afford to buy this booty new unless I won the lottery.
I will never buy a Lego kit where I build the object depicted on the box. That goes against the very idea of Legos -- creativity. If Lego goes bankrupt it will be because it ignored its customers. Now that I have kids, I'm buying tons of Legos *from Ebay.* Sorry if Lego goes bankrupt, but they've lost their vision and are ignoring their customers.
Just imagining a carrier pigeon carrying an electronic-countermeasures pod, burning out speed-cameras and mucking up TV reception for everyone she flies over...
It is the cost of living in a democracy that treats all its citizens as the enemy.
You may tap my phone. You may monitor my VOIP. You may intercept my e-mails. You may pillage my mail box and scrounge through my trash can. I accept all of these violations of my civil rights so that you can employ one more FBI agent and help stave off George's hemorrhaging unemployment figures. It's a form of entertainment for me, to say silly things in these mediums, just to amuse the man sitting in the van down the street, sipping cold coffee and eating stale donuts.
But I'll be damned if you're touching my carrier pigeons. I will feed them steroids and fit them with armor, if necessary, to keep you from interfering with my God-given right to private communications.
What if you scan one-centimeter blocks and re-assemble? Really, this is just stupid technology. People making funny money for real use will not be hindered. People doing art projects *will* be hindered. I guess we should get in the habit of not tossing our outdated software because who knows what hidden limitation will be in the latest version.
Somehow I can't help but think this is a government mandated "feature" spurred by the 9/11 Bush bills I've seen posted around towns.
"Put up or shut up." Yep, unless you do something personally, you have no right to complain. So we should eliminate reviewers altogether unless they produce productas themselves. All reviews should be written by the manufacturers. That will solve our problems.
He asks why the reviewers critical of Dell don't just start their own computer biz? Ya, why don't movie reviewers shoot their own movies? Why don't the people in my office all become computer technicians? Sorry, I think I'll skip this article. The author is obviously too wise for me. I wouldn't understand.
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Only one? OK. An Apollo spacesuit. Far more important, impressive, and practical than a polluting hunk of metal that NO ONE cares about, or it wouldn't be falling apart and harming the environment. Yeah, let's spend millions to repair the environment and then millions more to restore this, us, metal tower.
Save a historic building? Sure. I can see the economic and cultural benefit to a community. Save a launch tower? I see huge ongoing expenses and very little benefit except to a few museum goers who would just as easily be served by a photo. There are more important, more valuable pieces of space history to preserve. Aren't there?
Ohhhhhhh, I misunderstood. Apparently Microsoft Windows is the dominant operating system only in the United States. I guess the rest of the world uses Linux and Macintosh. OK, you win the argument.
Uhhhhh, yes geography does matter. Both companies are bound by United States law. The United States constitutes both companys' largest share of users in comparison to any other country or the EU. If one chose to exert its gateway access via its operating system, the other could sink or swim entirely based on what happens with its users in the United States.
We're talking about Google vs. Microsoft. Both American companies.
How about the Atari Lynx? It kicked the non-color non-stereo non-high-resolution non-left-hander-friendly non-non-non-non-non-non-non total piece of garbage Nintendo Gameboy up and down the street. Huh. Remember that one?
Capitalism is not about the better product. It is about who is most effective at selling the product. My original point stands. When you control the operating system, you have a HUGE advantage because you control the gateway to your competitor's product. You have the power for your product to succeed and sink your competitor, perhaps more power than any previous company in history.
What does efficiency or quality of service got to do with anything? This is America. It's not about the better product. It's about who wins.
Google has no leverage over an operating system that is a gateway to its service. There are a million and one tricks that could be employed to cripple Google usage. So what if Google wins a court battle six months or a year (or longer) down the road? In the meantime, Google would sink. And you'd be assuming a lot about Google winning in court, given what we've seen the "Justice" department doing under the current administration.
Google turns more and more evil every day. Go ahead, mod me down. Contrary thoughts are forbidden.
Spammers who don't traffic in stolen credit cards will be shut out.
As a countermeasure, credit card companies should monitor the $1 e-mail charges and do a courtesy call to customers. They do this already when unusual charges appear on a bill. So, most of these $1 e-mail account spammers will be shut down the first day when the credit card companies notify Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. about bogus e-mail accounts. From the credit card company's perspective, these courtesy calls will be well worth their time because they will be detecting stolen cards before massive charges are racked up.
If you don't like the feds, work for your state. The two big pluses of govt work are: 1) difficult to fire you or downsize you in a budget crisis and 2) good benefits, at least on the state level.
The composition of my head contains no traces of feces, nor am I financially wealthy. Do a little bit of research before posting, you silly little man. Your argument fails on all points.
The Patent Office is hiring patent examiners in the Computer Science Field. We've seen the hard, comprehensive work of patent examiners profiled on Slashdot many times. Don't pass up this opportunity to join the U.S. Government Team. You too could be the subject of a future /. post!
Did Billy give the Queen a donation or something? Is this the English equivalent of Lincoln's bedroom? Why would the Queen make herself even more irrelevant by handing out knightships to every Tom, Bill and Harry?
Breasts divided the audience. My wife and her friends are trekkies. They stopped watching after the pilot because of the overt sexuality. It's plain insulting. If we wanted sex in Star Trek, we'd rent soft porn videos. Porn offers more variety and better lighting.
Maybe if they didn't insist on big breasts and lather-down scenes people would take the show seriously.
Don't worry. Any self-respecting gamer who has played with voice chat on Xbox knows pay-for-play is doomed.
The idea seems cool, until you strap on your headset and start listening to your teammates' squeaky prepubescent voices. No thanks. I'll stick to lan parties.
> Dialup is still the only option in many places.
Some of us decided shopping Amazon in a speedy fashion wasn't worth the price of broadband and have chosen dial-up despite a multitude of other, pricier options.
Use Ebay and garage sales. Never buy new Lego bricks. It's no loss really. We all want miscellaneous Lego parts, not those dumb kits Lego sells now for exorbitant prices.
If you're like me, you saved your Legos from your childhood. It was a good call because I couldn't afford to buy this booty new unless I won the lottery.
I will never buy a Lego kit where I build the object depicted on the box. That goes against the very idea of Legos -- creativity. If Lego goes bankrupt it will be because it ignored its customers. Now that I have kids, I'm buying tons of Legos *from Ebay.* Sorry if Lego goes bankrupt, but they've lost their vision and are ignoring their customers.
Just imagining a carrier pigeon carrying an electronic-countermeasures pod, burning out speed-cameras and mucking up TV reception for everyone she flies over...
It is the cost of living in a democracy that treats all its citizens as the enemy.
You may tap my phone. You may monitor my VOIP. You may intercept my e-mails. You may pillage my mail box and scrounge through my trash can. I accept all of these violations of my civil rights so that you can employ one more FBI agent and help stave off George's hemorrhaging unemployment figures. It's a form of entertainment for me, to say silly things in these mediums, just to amuse the man sitting in the van down the street, sipping cold coffee and eating stale donuts.
But I'll be damned if you're touching my carrier pigeons. I will feed them steroids and fit them with armor, if necessary, to keep you from interfering with my God-given right to private communications.
I can't view that web site. A window pops up telling me I'm not authorized to view web pages containing images of American currency.
What if you scan one-centimeter blocks and re-assemble? Really, this is just stupid technology. People making funny money for real use will not be hindered. People doing art projects *will* be hindered. I guess we should get in the habit of not tossing our outdated software because who knows what hidden limitation will be in the latest version.
Somehow I can't help but think this is a government mandated "feature" spurred by the 9/11 Bush bills I've seen posted around towns.
"Put up or shut up." Yep, unless you do something personally, you have no right to complain. So we should eliminate reviewers altogether unless they produce productas themselves. All reviews should be written by the manufacturers. That will solve our problems.
He asks why the reviewers critical of Dell don't just start their own computer biz? Ya, why don't movie reviewers shoot their own movies? Why don't the people in my office all become computer technicians? Sorry, I think I'll skip this article. The author is obviously too wise for me. I wouldn't understand.