I hate phone calls. Hate voice mails almost as much.
When I'm working, the verbal part of my brain goes to sleep, and it's a pain in the ass to have to wake it up. Totally breaks my chain of thought.
Give me an email any day.
Um, isn't a share a percentage? So "getting out of a double digit share" would either mean dropping to a single digit (less than 10%) or taking the whole market ( 100%.)
Surely MS didn't expect the latter...
The availability of competing providers varies by market. There are parts of the US with NO broadband available at all, and others where there is only one carrier.
Also, the whole issue here seems to be that the "terms" he accepted withheld relevant information - and that IS grounds for legal appeal.
...that Kaspersky's PLANS for an exploit-proof OS leave experts skeptical.
Or maybe, his "ambitions" or even "promises".
At the moment, there's no actual OS to be skeptical of.
After all, they've just boasted of their DDoS attacks against US firms - I say let's help them with their "firewall" (only we'll make sure their government is cut off as well.)
1) "Collapse" of fish stocks? Then stop fishing until the stocks recover.
It's got to be strictly enforced - see the lesson of the Passenger Pigeon.
Somehow the birds didn't get the memo that they were in high demand - and they failed to increase production...
You do realize that the stuff falling out of the sky is not coming from outer space? That it's just part of our on-world supply?
That indeed, rain IS a distribution mechanism?
A long as they have the proper containment it's not really different from other contagious disease research. Just like breeding velociraptors is not worse than breeding tigers.
Yes, as long as.
So - once the process for making the buggers is published, how can we make sure nobody will make em WITHOUT observing proper containment procedures?
Here's a thought:
Suppose some day we're faced with an army of 10-foot tall Charles Manson clones with chainsaws for arms! What would we do? Don't know? Well then, I guess we'd better head for the lab and create a few so we can TRY to figure out a way to stop them - and then of course, we'll print a magazine article with detailed instructions on how to do it. It's science! What could possibly go wrong?!?
Folks, H5N1 isn't just a scientific curiosity; it is a killer with its own agenda, and it doesn't give two farts what its inventors have in mind. History has shown us that influenza requires no human encouragement to ravage us.
Am I sick of the government censoring things? Yes - but I'm also just plain sick. I am, literally, ill right now with a virus. I know I'm going to get well, but right now I can easily imagine: "What if I wasn't? Suppose I knew that my illness it would only get steadily worse until I died in horrible misery - and that by my very presence, I would endanger the lives of everyone close to me?" Personally, I can imagine nothing more terrifying. I'd rather live next door to a nuclear power plant than live anywhere in the same planetary atmosphere as just one instance of highly-contagious H5N1.
Influenza doesn't care if it evolved naturally or if it's shepherded into existence by a Nobel laureate, or cooked up a captive scientist working for terrorists, or brewed by a scientifically-gifted but delusional fanatic who believes God wants him to cleanse the world with a plague. It's a WMD that requires neither missile nor bomb to disperse; a "suicide bomber" need only infect himself, then get onto a bus or plane and sneeze on everyone.
...and the one thing the Chinese government values above all else is its own power.
More than economic prosperity, more than public health, more than national prestige - the Chinese government treasures its own continuous reign.
Hear hear. This is precisely the issue.
The business model on which the recording industry (not to mention the film and TV industries) is based is already obsolete. Their model relies upon being able to maintain almost perfect control over distribution of their product.
That control used to be based on everyday consumers LACKING the means to distribute copies themselves. When virtually nobody had the means to press vinyl LPs, and cassette tapes sounded mostly crappy - their business model worked well. In retrospect, mere radio (wireless, packaging-free, nearly cost-free delivery of their product) ought to have alerted them nearly a century ago to just how tenuous this business model was...
Now that their fundamental assumption has become invalid, they seek to legislate an artificial 'propping up' of their existing, massive-profit model. It's akin to requiring automobile owners to buy at least one buggy whip per car, per year, lest the whip-makers suffer a loss of profit...
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I hate phone calls. Hate voice mails almost as much. When I'm working, the verbal part of my brain goes to sleep, and it's a pain in the ass to have to wake it up. Totally breaks my chain of thought. Give me an email any day.
...and live to tell the tale.
....and I want it painted black.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna check out the PS4. Didn't they already say they wouldn't require constant connectivity ?
Um, isn't a share a percentage? So "getting out of a double digit share" would either mean dropping to a single digit (less than 10%) or taking the whole market ( 100%.) Surely MS didn't expect the latter...
Is there a process by which a state can be EXPELLED from the union?
It'd be nice to think this would boost use of OpenOffice and/or Libre Office, but probably not.
A world (not planet) destroying trap. It's bait (cheap energy) is far, far too sweet to be resisted. Our doom is named: Coal.
I couldn't quite tell from reading ...
The availability of competing providers varies by market. There are parts of the US with NO broadband available at all, and others where there is only one carrier. Also, the whole issue here seems to be that the "terms" he accepted withheld relevant information - and that IS grounds for legal appeal.
...that Kaspersky's PLANS for an exploit-proof OS leave experts skeptical. Or maybe, his "ambitions" or even "promises". At the moment, there's no actual OS to be skeptical of.
He's free to serve in Congress, but it's pretty clear that he doesn't belong on a science committee.
After all, they've just boasted of their DDoS attacks against US firms - I say let's help them with their "firewall" (only we'll make sure their government is cut off as well.)
1) "Collapse" of fish stocks? Then stop fishing until the stocks recover.
It's got to be strictly enforced - see the lesson of the Passenger Pigeon. Somehow the birds didn't get the memo that they were in high demand - and they failed to increase production...
You do realize that the stuff falling out of the sky is not coming from outer space? That it's just part of our on-world supply? That indeed, rain IS a distribution mechanism?
Finite Planet = finite capacity Or do you believe we can violate thermodynamics and fill the universe with kudzu?
A long as they have the proper containment it's not really different from other contagious disease research. Just like breeding velociraptors is not worse than breeding tigers.
Yes, as long as. So - once the process for making the buggers is published, how can we make sure nobody will make em WITHOUT observing proper containment procedures?
Here's a thought: Suppose some day we're faced with an army of 10-foot tall Charles Manson clones with chainsaws for arms! What would we do? Don't know? Well then, I guess we'd better head for the lab and create a few so we can TRY to figure out a way to stop them - and then of course, we'll print a magazine article with detailed instructions on how to do it. It's science! What could possibly go wrong?!? Folks, H5N1 isn't just a scientific curiosity; it is a killer with its own agenda, and it doesn't give two farts what its inventors have in mind. History has shown us that influenza requires no human encouragement to ravage us. Am I sick of the government censoring things? Yes - but I'm also just plain sick. I am, literally, ill right now with a virus. I know I'm going to get well, but right now I can easily imagine: "What if I wasn't? Suppose I knew that my illness it would only get steadily worse until I died in horrible misery - and that by my very presence, I would endanger the lives of everyone close to me?" Personally, I can imagine nothing more terrifying. I'd rather live next door to a nuclear power plant than live anywhere in the same planetary atmosphere as just one instance of highly-contagious H5N1. Influenza doesn't care if it evolved naturally or if it's shepherded into existence by a Nobel laureate, or cooked up a captive scientist working for terrorists, or brewed by a scientifically-gifted but delusional fanatic who believes God wants him to cleanse the world with a plague. It's a WMD that requires neither missile nor bomb to disperse; a "suicide bomber" need only infect himself, then get onto a bus or plane and sneeze on everyone.
...and the one thing the Chinese government values above all else is its own power. More than economic prosperity, more than public health, more than national prestige - the Chinese government treasures its own continuous reign.
Hear hear. This is precisely the issue. The business model on which the recording industry (not to mention the film and TV industries) is based is already obsolete. Their model relies upon being able to maintain almost perfect control over distribution of their product. That control used to be based on everyday consumers LACKING the means to distribute copies themselves. When virtually nobody had the means to press vinyl LPs, and cassette tapes sounded mostly crappy - their business model worked well. In retrospect, mere radio (wireless, packaging-free, nearly cost-free delivery of their product) ought to have alerted them nearly a century ago to just how tenuous this business model was... Now that their fundamental assumption has become invalid, they seek to legislate an artificial 'propping up' of their existing, massive-profit model. It's akin to requiring automobile owners to buy at least one buggy whip per car, per year, lest the whip-makers suffer a loss of profit...