Hey, idiot... nice way to label yourself an intelligent, open-minded debater right off the start.
Lots of things can help catch criminals. Warrantless searches, warantless wiretaps, torture, indefinite pre-trial jail, no trial or kangaroo courts... Being opposed to all that does not mean being pro-crime. The issue is misuse of those rights by law enforcement agencies or anyone who has access to such powers. The police cannot be trusted to respect the spirit of the law, nor even the letter if they can get away with it. There's plenty of cases of violence, planted evidence, unfair trials... It may be worth wondering if we've not reached a point where all those "crime-fighting" measures are not more harmful to honnest citizens than actual crime is.
It should ! Alas, we've missed that wonderful word, and use "lavement" (laver = to clean) instead. It's a very rare procedure in France though, I keep hearing about it in the US, I don't know if it's more common or just some part of the "nasty" side of pop-culture...
There's a bunch of stuff they never managed to crack. In the entreprise, "embrace and extend" works, though I wouldn't really call that "cracking" anything, it's more like buying into something. In the consumer market, they failed at pretty much everything, except Xbox, and that's only because they where willing to sink so much money into it that they scared competitors away.
Generally speaking, their blind spot is their legacy: they're afraid to innovate lest they either break backwards compatibility, or open themselves to competitors. That defensiveness is a huge diversion from actual innovation. They WANTED WinMobile to look and feel like Windows, and Tablets to feel so close to Desktops... Never mind usability was horrendous, god forbid users would learn another interface/paradigm... And for a while, it worked, because consumers are sheep, Palm could not market water to the thirsty, and Linux devs think users are a nuisance. It says a lot that Apple manages to make so much money from so little sales, and that Google, a spyware company, could and had to step in with Android for things to get moving.
MS is so backward-looking they couldn't innovate, and, worse, they're so aggressive and powerful they managed to drive the competition away. The rewards are going to be plentiful for the few remaining mobile players... and be ready for a big laugh as WinMob 7 gets released. MS has, has had for a while, great stuff in their labs... They're just fearful or releasing innovating stuff that doesn't immediately work for they users, fit with their legacy stuff, and/or only makes sense with standards that competitiors could graft onto. Apple obsoleted PPC, MacOS pre-X, broke backwards compatibility, came up with the very different interface for their media consumption devices, bullied their devs to ensure control and consistency... MS never had the balls to do any of this, though I'm sure a bunch of Softies knew that was needed.
1- Android versions are coming faster than any other mobile OS, and OEMs are not great at making new version available for older phones. I'm not sure devices age out faster than new versions are coming out right now.
2- Android covers a huge variety of hardware platforms. CPU, screen size, multitouch, keyboard... not much can be taken for granted. The OS can only hide some of those disparities. Of course Android is not the only one with that problem, but they're having the more acute version of it. I kinda like that they're not getting MS'ed into slowing innovation for the sake of the installed base, but this may become an issue, still.
We need to work out words for different degrees of Open, from Public Domain to Apple Playpen, with BSD, GPL, and "regular OS" stages (and certainly others).
PalmOS is certainly neither Public Domain nor Open Source, I'm not sure if it goes for Regular OS (you may develop any Apps, but not really hack the OS), or Apple Playpen (You may do only what we like)
Windows tablets require Atom, and have a pitiful battery life, due to both Atom and WIndows being battery hogs. Indeed, Windows tablets have been available forever, and nobody much bought them.
Right now the choice is AppleOS or WinCE. Upcoming are Android, MeeGoo, and Palm.
I'm not sure Palm can be successful, sandwiched between Apple and the open-sourcers. It will be very interesting to see if HP goes Open, and if, starting from a good technical base, they manage to build devices, an OS, and an ecosystem as enticing for non-techies as Apple's.
Totalitarianism seeks control. Communism seeks to spread wealth equitably.
We only have bad examples of communism, because people in power became corrupt and/or crazy along the way. Actually, we also only have pretty bad examples of capitalism. I actually wonder which regime has killed, hurt, imprisoned more people (internally and externally), as a % of their population ?
This is not about Steve Jobs. It's about consumers always going for the cheapest and shiniest things, no matter where or how they're made. I'm one of those consumers. So are you.
I remember loving Word for DOS. It was quite feature rich and reliable, and above all the way it did styles and was NOT based on control codes a la WordPerfect but on kinda-object-properties was much easier to handle.
OLE and DDE, which popped up in some early version of Windows where quite handy. Framework did it earlier and better, but it was within one single app, not as an OS service/API.
the methodology is so flawed I don't know where to start - youngsters are likely much more sensitive to looks than more mature people. I know I changed that way. - cutting the inputs down to case summary+photo emphasizes looks... What a surprise ! May be not the same happens, or not to the same degree, when the accused actually moves, talks... and the photo is NOT the only "feeling" of him/her the jurors get ? - maybe over the course of a trial, feelings take a back seat to facts ? I get a feeling the study was done with 1h per trial, no time to take a step back.
I always find the US hang ups about sex kinda funny. What's worse about being "sexually dangerous" than just being "dangerous" ? I'm fairly sure I'd rather take a dick up the ass than a knife up the lung ?
I usually have OOo open, and opening another app for simpler documents seems kinda silly. Plus I like the creature comforts (files history, automatic bullet lists...)
It's true though. Once your docs are in MS format, your ass does belong to them. And let's not talk about macros. Other formats having the problem is true, but kinda irrelevant. PDF at least is well documented, and , IIRC, open.
I can't read my WordStar CP/M docs that easily anymore. Do you think MS will be eternal-ier than WordStar ? Do you trust MS to eternally produce good software at reasonably prices ? Or others to risk lawsuits and such for trying to import it ? And older versions of Word do have at least formatting issues with later versions. MS are doing their darnedest to leverage the document pool into more software sales, do you expect that to change ?
XML per se is not really good for simple docs, there's too many way to do things. MS's OOXML neither, it's too vague and immaterial.
it's mainly bullshit. my guess is, he's talking about the ability of the liquid to retain heat, which is nice and all, but you've got to get that heat in, and then out. basically, you're adding one motor (thing still needs a fan somewhere, plus the water pump), lots of tubing, liquid... i wouldn't use that in my home PC, let alone in a server room.
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Hey, idiot... nice way to label yourself an intelligent, open-minded debater right off the start.
Lots of things can help catch criminals. Warrantless searches, warantless wiretaps, torture, indefinite pre-trial jail, no trial or kangaroo courts... Being opposed to all that does not mean being pro-crime. The issue is misuse of those rights by law enforcement agencies or anyone who has access to such powers. The police cannot be trusted to respect the spirit of the law, nor even the letter if they can get away with it. There's plenty of cases of violence, planted evidence, unfair trials... It may be worth wondering if we've not reached a point where all those "crime-fighting" measures are not more harmful to honnest citizens than actual crime is.
It should ! Alas, we've missed that wonderful word, and use "lavement" (laver = to clean) instead. It's a very rare procedure in France though, I keep hearing about it in the US, I don't know if it's more common or just some part of the "nasty" side of pop-culture...
I've yet to see anything in WinMob7 that's not a direct ripoff off iPhone OS.. and an older version of iPhone OS at that ?
There's a bunch of stuff they never managed to crack. In the entreprise, "embrace and extend" works, though I wouldn't really call that "cracking" anything, it's more like buying into something. In the consumer market, they failed at pretty much everything, except Xbox, and that's only because they where willing to sink so much money into it that they scared competitors away.
Generally speaking, their blind spot is their legacy: they're afraid to innovate lest they either break backwards compatibility, or open themselves to competitors. That defensiveness is a huge diversion from actual innovation. They WANTED WinMobile to look and feel like Windows, and Tablets to feel so close to Desktops... Never mind usability was horrendous, god forbid users would learn another interface/paradigm... And for a while, it worked, because consumers are sheep, Palm could not market water to the thirsty, and Linux devs think users are a nuisance. It says a lot that Apple manages to make so much money from so little sales, and that Google, a spyware company, could and had to step in with Android for things to get moving.
MS is so backward-looking they couldn't innovate, and, worse, they're so aggressive and powerful they managed to drive the competition away. The rewards are going to be plentiful for the few remaining mobile players... and be ready for a big laugh as WinMob 7 gets released. MS has, has had for a while, great stuff in their labs... They're just fearful or releasing innovating stuff that doesn't immediately work for they users, fit with their legacy stuff, and/or only makes sense with standards that competitiors could graft onto. Apple obsoleted PPC, MacOS pre-X, broke backwards compatibility, came up with the very different interface for their media consumption devices, bullied their devs to ensure control and consistency... MS never had the balls to do any of this, though I'm sure a bunch of Softies knew that was needed.
Yes and no.
1- Android versions are coming faster than any other mobile OS, and OEMs are not great at making new version available for older phones. I'm not sure devices age out faster than new versions are coming out right now.
2- Android covers a huge variety of hardware platforms. CPU, screen size, multitouch, keyboard... not much can be taken for granted. The OS can only hide some of those disparities. Of course Android is not the only one with that problem, but they're having the more acute version of it. I kinda like that they're not getting MS'ed into slowing innovation for the sake of the installed base, but this may become an issue, still.
I'd rather the church put a bit more effort in making life better for the living
papal infallibility ?
We need to work out words for different degrees of Open, from Public Domain to Apple Playpen, with BSD, GPL, and "regular OS" stages (and certainly others).
PalmOS is certainly neither Public Domain nor Open Source, I'm not sure if it goes for Regular OS (you may develop any Apps, but not really hack the OS), or Apple Playpen (You may do only what we like)
It even runs 2 real OSes then, Mac OS *AND* EMACS ?
define real os... If you want a PC in tablet, you can get it right now... obviously you didn't, ask yourself why ?
Windows tablets require Atom, and have a pitiful battery life, due to both Atom and WIndows being battery hogs. Indeed, Windows tablets have been available forever, and nobody much bought them.
Right now the choice is AppleOS or WinCE. Upcoming are Android, MeeGoo, and Palm.
I'm not sure Palm can be successful, sandwiched between Apple and the open-sourcers. It will be very interesting to see if HP goes Open, and if, starting from a good technical base, they manage to build devices, an OS, and an ecosystem as enticing for non-techies as Apple's.
Totalitarianism seeks control.
Communism seeks to spread wealth equitably.
We only have bad examples of communism, because people in power became corrupt and/or crazy along the way. Actually, we also only have pretty bad examples of capitalism. I actually wonder which regime has killed, hurt, imprisoned more people (internally and externally), as a % of their population ?
This is not about Steve Jobs. It's about consumers always going for the cheapest and shiniest things, no matter where or how they're made. I'm one of those consumers. So are you.
never had an asshole sunburn ?
I remember loving Word for DOS. It was quite feature rich and reliable, and above all the way it did styles and was NOT based on control codes a la WordPerfect but on kinda-object-properties was much easier to handle.
OLE and DDE, which popped up in some early version of Windows where quite handy. Framework did it earlier and better, but it was within one single app, not as an OS service/API.
the methodology is so flawed I don't know where to start ... What a surprise ! May be not the same happens, or not to the same degree, when the accused actually moves, talks... and the photo is NOT the only "feeling" of him/her the jurors get ?
- youngsters are likely much more sensitive to looks than more mature people. I know I changed that way.
- cutting the inputs down to case summary+photo emphasizes looks
- maybe over the course of a trial, feelings take a back seat to facts ? I get a feeling the study was done with 1h per trial, no time to take a step back.
and just sponsor a couple of OSes and a browser pretty much dedicated to ratting on you.
I always find the US hang ups about sex kinda funny. What's worse about being "sexually dangerous" than just being "dangerous" ? I'm fairly sure I'd rather take a dick up the ass than a knife up the lung ?
Please do teach me the math to calculate that 10 (trial) + forever (no trial) - 10 (trial) != forever(no trial).
If someone can get condemned to 10y by a trial, and kept locked up indefinitely, that's indefinite lock-up without trial.
spyware !
we should prosecute the friend. and declare the War on Candy
I usually have OOo open, and opening another app for simpler documents seems kinda silly. Plus I like the creature comforts (files history, automatic bullet lists...)
It's true though. Once your docs are in MS format, your ass does belong to them. And let's not talk about macros. Other formats having the problem is true, but kinda irrelevant. PDF at least is well documented, and , IIRC, open.
I can't read my WordStar CP/M docs that easily anymore. Do you think MS will be eternal-ier than WordStar ? Do you trust MS to eternally produce good software at reasonably prices ? Or others to risk lawsuits and such for trying to import it ? And older versions of Word do have at least formatting issues with later versions. MS are doing their darnedest to leverage the document pool into more software sales, do you expect that to change ?
XML per se is not really good for simple docs, there's too many way to do things. MS's OOXML neither, it's too vague and immaterial.
Us PC plebes just connect a second screen to our PC :-p
it's mainly bullshit. my guess is, he's talking about the ability of the liquid to retain heat, which is nice and all, but you've got to get that heat in, and then out. basically, you're adding one motor (thing still needs a fan somewhere, plus the water pump), lots of tubing, liquid... i wouldn't use that in my home PC, let alone in a server room.