Yep. And then all that money.... will be redirected to Bill Gate's pockets.
Who in turn gave the vast bulk of his money to end disease, educate children, feed the world, etc.
But much of that money was obtained by cheating and crooked business practices (eg exploiting monopoly, "cutting off air supplies", corrupting Standards committees etc). He should first give back the proportion to those he cheated, let them decide if they want it to go to charity (of their choice, not Gates') and Gates can then do what he likes with the rest. Even then, I would start to admire him only if he gave so much away that he was left no richer than the average educated US guy.
He is not a saint. The fact is, it would be a physical impossiblity to spend it all on himself and enjoy it. Eg if he spent it all on new cars, he would not have time to get out of one and into the next fast enough even if he did nothing else for the rest of his life (do the maths). So if I had that money I would also give it to charities (but not Gates' charities) for lack of what else to do with the stuff, and I don't even consider myself a giving person.
a counter that showed the number of days since the last industrial accident. The specification called for this counter to have just three digits, which frankly didn't inspire much confidence.
I don't think you know what counts as an "industrial accident". You seem to think it means a Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. I have worked in such industries and a cook in the canteen cutting her hand with a potato peeler counts as an industial accident. I'm not exagerating. That did happen where I work and the fuss about that cut hand went on for days - we were called in to "refresher" safety lectures, circulars were sent round, we were sick of hearing about it. The cook herself was no doubt highly embarrassed by it all.
The truth is that the management were in a pissing contest with other industrial sites for safety awards, and they had lost Brownie points. I think if I cut my hand I would sneak out to the car park and secretly bandage myself with my car first aid kit rather than go to a site first-aider.
To go 999 days on such a site with no "industrial accidents" would be, frankly, incredible.
FTFA:- "Microsoft's losses on the tablet device at $US1.7 billion so far. But, still, Microsoft is serene: "It's been exciting to see the response to the Surface Pro 3 from individuals and businesses alike"
Yes, I have heard that people can get excited about losing big money. I once read a confession by a big gambler who said that he had experienced an orgasm on losing a big stake at a roulette wheel.
Keep at it Microsoft - right down to your last penny!
Sounds like the job divisions in Planet of the Apes. When I saw that film, I saw the Gorilla/Chimp/Orang-Utang grouping as a thinly disguised analogy to the White/Black/Asian human groupings. Not necessarily in that order though - decide for yourself. I saw an interview with one of the actors in which he said that, during filming, at meal breaks and off-set generally the actors of the different "species" gravitated into their own groups. And they say "Looks don't matter"!
Dunno, but try looking at some Chinese websites. I can't read Chinese, but the English lanuage ones are anti-foreigner and especially anti-black. I am not talking about official web sites, but individual blogs, and they are clearly mainstream, not fringe ones. I happened to follow a link into that area once. In the UK you would end up in jail for the stuff they say.
Because the suggestion that race is something that exists at the biological level is a falsehood.
So it is just one hell of a co-incidence then that white parents generally have white children and black parents generally have black children ? I'm learning all the time.
Serious question, why are the Australians taking the lead in this? There were only 6 Australians on board out of 239 people, and waters near (but not all that near) Australia are only one area of many that the plane might have ended up. Most pasengers were Chinese or Malaysians. I'm suprised no-one has come up with a conspiracy theory on this point - there have been some more fantastic ones.
the only reason flying boats fell out of use is the range of land based aircraft increased sufficiently that the ability to land and refuel on the water was no longer a strength, and the ability to have a streamlined fuselage is an efficiency and speed advantage over seaplanes.
That's two reasons. How about also the fact that more dry land runways were built as time went on.
You also need to consider the imperial background of the Great Powers. The British Empire (and the French and US Empires too) included large numbers of small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, each with a post office, a local government official, a bit of trade, sea around them, a jetty, and no airstrip. The flying boats were ideal for carrying the post and lighter trade items which got there faster than by the monthly (if you were lucky) cargo steam ship.
Once these places got their independence, typically in the 1950's, they were no longer an Imperial responsibility but neither could they support a commercial air service of any sort at the time. End of flying boats.
They're offering me discounts on stuff I probably don't need
My daughter (aged 10 at the time) filled in a paper-based marketing survey on the promise that you would get rewarded with 1000 GBP (but I'll use $$) in vouchers. Seemed too good to be true, but they were true to their word! A thick wad of vouchers came. The vouchers were something like :
.. $100 off a new Rolls Royce .. $100 off a new house .. $50 off recarpeting my whole house .. $50 off having a swimming pool installed ...$50 off a world cruise .. $5 off some hotel in Singapore .. $5 off at some restaurant in the North of Scotland .. $1 off beauty treatment at some place in Northern Ireland .. $1 off a life subscription to a church magazine .. One penny off budgerigar food .. and so on
I had the last laugh though. Everything my daughter put down was a joke, like saying (in my name) I kept weasels (some people do). I got free copies of a quarterly Weasel magazine for the next two years
I own what was once a state-owned apartment in a decent sized Chinese city... The place has two bedrooms with a combined tv/dining room. Both bedrooms are reasonably sized.. with space for a desk and chair. I don't see why they cant put a computer on the desks?
Sounds like a rabbit hutch to me. Maybe fine if a computer is the only thing you need room for, but some people have other parts to their lives.
Correlation != Causation, always. When a company does an advertising campaign they very often persuade shopkeepers to stock more of their stuff "Because there is going to be a big demand for it when the public see our advertising". Therefore, someone buying at random, like I buy soap for example, is more likely to pick up the item in question just by chance.
OK, you could say the advertising does have an effect as its existence is a lever to get shopkeepers to stock more of the stuff, and I don't doubt that some buyers are influenced, but IMHO the effect is not as great as the admen like to assume.
Your entire post is wrong based simply on the fact that soap operas are a thing
That's in the USA. Adverts are confined to their own time slot in the UK, and when that comes around it is generally clearly recognisable. It is the point at which I flip through some other channels and watch the BBC news for a few minutes, or even cat videos (anything is better than ads, and there is a channel that's mostly pets doing funny things).
Funny, but in the UK soap operas are still called soap operas, but most people don't realise how the term originated.
If you opened a CLI in W95 and typed "ver" it would reply "DOS 7".
no it would not...... It says "Windows 95. [Version 4.00.950]" I just booted [it] to double-check.
I believe that early versions of W95 did respond with "DOS 7", and I wrote that on the basis of a review I read in a PC mag when it first came out. Perhaps they were reviewing a beta. Must admit I never used W95, but I do have W98 in a VM, just tried it, and it does indeed respond with something like you say:-)
To be fair, Windows has had an issue that many other OS's haven't really had. It had to maintain compatibility with a ridiculous array of third party apps
I don't believe that MS gave a shit about the compatability of legacy 3rd party apps with new versions of Windows. It was the 3rd parties' problem, as likewise compatible drivers were the hardware makers' problem. With the MS monopoly, the 3rd parties had to keep up or die.
Right, just like Linux was based on the LILO architecture.
Windows 95/98/ME were basically DOS architecture plastered with layers of cruft to get over the memory limitations and to get them to run some stuff in a half-arsed 32-bit way, and a GUI. If you opened a CLI in W95 and typed "ver" it would reply "DOS 7". They were Windows for DOS, and a train wreck.
They were swept away by NT/XP, which were a new and separate pedigree, long after Windows for DOS should have had its life support switched off.
At the time Bill Gates made that absurd comment he was right.
Much as I dislike Gates, I have to point out that it is generally accepted that he never said that particular gaffe.
[it was enough] For the applications people were making at the time.
It was still stupid, even if it was enough for apps at that time, because it was an architectural limit. The architecture put stuff like display memory and BIOS extensions in fixed areas above the 640k instead of leaving it open ended. The tacky XT/AT addressing scheme was 20-bit and could actually reach 1024k, but only the lower 640k was working RAM, with that fixed stuff above it.
Would not have been so bad if the PC makers and Microsoft had not been so slow to abandon this primitive architecture.
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Tolerating people you don't personally approve of is just the cost of living in a free society that manages to tolerate YOU.
But I don't think they do.
Yep. And then all that money .... will be redirected to Bill Gate's pockets.
Who in turn gave the vast bulk of his money to end disease, educate children, feed the world, etc.
But much of that money was obtained by cheating and crooked business practices (eg exploiting monopoly, "cutting off air supplies", corrupting Standards committees etc). He should first give back the proportion to those he cheated, let them decide if they want it to go to charity (of their choice, not Gates') and Gates can then do what he likes with the rest. Even then, I would start to admire him only if he gave so much away that he was left no richer than the average educated US guy.
He is not a saint. The fact is, it would be a physical impossiblity to spend it all on himself and enjoy it. Eg if he spent it all on new cars, he would not have time to get out of one and into the next fast enough even if he did nothing else for the rest of his life (do the maths). So if I had that money I would also give it to charities (but not Gates' charities) for lack of what else to do with the stuff, and I don't even consider myself a giving person.
While they are at it, why don't they change "Microsoft" and "Windows" too. They have got terrible reputations.
a counter that showed the number of days since the last industrial accident. The specification called for this counter to have just three digits, which frankly didn't inspire much confidence.
I don't think you know what counts as an "industrial accident". You seem to think it means a Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. I have worked in such industries and a cook in the canteen cutting her hand with a potato peeler counts as an industial accident. I'm not exagerating. That did happen where I work and the fuss about that cut hand went on for days - we were called in to "refresher" safety lectures, circulars were sent round, we were sick of hearing about it. The cook herself was no doubt highly embarrassed by it all.
The truth is that the management were in a pissing contest with other industrial sites for safety awards, and they had lost Brownie points. I think if I cut my hand I would sneak out to the car park and secretly bandage myself with my car first aid kit rather than go to a site first-aider.
To go 999 days on such a site with no "industrial accidents" would be, frankly, incredible.
FTFA :- "Microsoft's losses on the tablet device at $US1.7 billion so far. But, still, Microsoft is serene: "It's been exciting to see the response to the Surface Pro 3 from individuals and businesses alike"
Yes, I have heard that people can get excited about losing big money. I once read a confession by a big gambler who said that he had experienced an orgasm on losing a big stake at a roulette wheel.
Keep at it Microsoft - right down to your last penny!
So something exists at the biological level. Call it what you like.
we can't even come up with racial definitions that are stable across cultures
In practice we have. Take a look at some escorts ads.
Sounds like the job divisions in Planet of the Apes. When I saw that film, I saw the Gorilla/Chimp/Orang-Utang grouping as a thinly disguised analogy to the White/Black/Asian human groupings. Not necessarily in that order though - decide for yourself. I saw an interview with one of the actors in which he said that, during filming, at meal breaks and off-set generally the actors of the different "species" gravitated into their own groups. And they say "Looks don't matter"!
Who said racism is dead?
Dunno, but try looking at some Chinese websites. I can't read Chinese, but the English lanuage ones are anti-foreigner and especially anti-black. I am not talking about official web sites, but individual blogs, and they are clearly mainstream, not fringe ones. I happened to follow a link into that area once. In the UK you would end up in jail for the stuff they say.
Because the suggestion that race is something that exists at the biological level is a falsehood.
So it is just one hell of a co-incidence then that white parents generally have white children and black parents generally have black children ? I'm learning all the time.
Wireless power transmission makes it extremely hard to monitor usage and thus extract payment.
TV companies have found a solution.
Serious question, why are the Australians taking the lead in this? There were only 6 Australians on board out of 239 people, and waters near (but not all that near) Australia are only one area of many that the plane might have ended up. Most pasengers were Chinese or Malaysians. I'm suprised no-one has come up with a conspiracy theory on this point - there have been some more fantastic ones.
the only reason flying boats fell out of use is the range of land based aircraft increased sufficiently that the ability to land and refuel on the water was no longer a strength, and the ability to have a streamlined fuselage is an efficiency and speed advantage over seaplanes.
That's two reasons. How about also the fact that more dry land runways were built as time went on.
You also need to consider the imperial background of the Great Powers. The British Empire (and the French and US Empires too) included large numbers of small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, each with a post office, a local government official, a bit of trade, sea around them, a jetty, and no airstrip. The flying boats were ideal for carrying the post and lighter trade items which got there faster than by the monthly (if you were lucky) cargo steam ship.
Once these places got their independence, typically in the 1950's, they were no longer an Imperial responsibility but neither could they support a commercial air service of any sort at the time. End of flying boats.
The Hercules, aka Spruce Goose, is not amphibious: it's a seaplane, period.
What is the difference? I'm interested.
They're offering me discounts on stuff I probably don't need
My daughter (aged 10 at the time) filled in a paper-based marketing survey on the promise that you would get rewarded with 1000 GBP (but I'll use $$) in vouchers. Seemed too good to be true, but they were true to their word! A thick wad of vouchers came. The vouchers were something like :
.. $100 off a new Rolls Royce
.. $100 off a new house
.. $50 off recarpeting my whole house
.. $50 off having a swimming pool installed
...$50 off a world cruise
.. $5 off some hotel in Singapore
.. $5 off at some restaurant in the North of Scotland
.. $1 off beauty treatment at some place in Northern Ireland
.. $1 off a life subscription to a church magazine
.. One penny off budgerigar food
.. and so on
I had the last laugh though. Everything my daughter put down was a joke, like saying (in my name) I kept weasels (some people do). I got free copies of a quarterly Weasel magazine for the next two years
I own what was once a state-owned apartment in a decent sized Chinese city ... The place has two bedrooms with a combined tv/dining room. Both bedrooms are reasonably sized .. with space for a desk and chair. I don't see why they cant put a computer on the desks?
Sounds like a rabbit hutch to me. Maybe fine if a computer is the only thing you need room for, but some people have other parts to their lives.
Correlation != Causation, always. When a company does an advertising campaign they very often persuade shopkeepers to stock more of their stuff "Because there is going to be a big demand for it when the public see our advertising". Therefore, someone buying at random, like I buy soap for example, is more likely to pick up the item in question just by chance.
OK, you could say the advertising does have an effect as its existence is a lever to get shopkeepers to stock more of the stuff, and I don't doubt that some buyers are influenced, but IMHO the effect is not as great as the admen like to assume.
Your entire post is wrong based simply on the fact that soap operas are a thing
That's in the USA. Adverts are confined to their own time slot in the UK, and when that comes around it is generally clearly recognisable. It is the point at which I flip through some other channels and watch the BBC news for a few minutes, or even cat videos (anything is better than ads, and there is a channel that's mostly pets doing funny things).
Funny, but in the UK soap operas are still called soap operas, but most people don't realise how the term originated.
FTFA :- "Everyone gets that advertising is what powers the internet, and that our favorite sites wouldn't exist without it"
Wrong. My favourite web sites are my own ones, and they have no advertising.
Anyone can criticize after a mistake was made. It requires true subject matter competence to predict and warn.
What if the GP had not heard of this case until now? Regard it as predicting and warning for future cases.
If you opened a CLI in W95 and typed "ver" it would reply "DOS 7".
no it would not. ..... It says "Windows 95. [Version 4.00.950]" I just booted [it] to double-check.
I believe that early versions of W95 did respond with "DOS 7", and I wrote that on the basis of a review I read in a PC mag when it first came out. Perhaps they were reviewing a beta. Must admit I never used W95, but I do have W98 in a VM, just tried it, and it does indeed respond with something like you say :-)
To be fair, Windows has had an issue that many other OS's haven't really had. It had to maintain compatibility with a ridiculous array of third party apps
I don't believe that MS gave a shit about the compatability of legacy 3rd party apps with new versions of Windows. It was the 3rd parties' problem, as likewise compatible drivers were the hardware makers' problem. With the MS monopoly, the 3rd parties had to keep up or die.
Windows 95, was based on the DOS architecture.
Right, just like Linux was based on the LILO architecture.
Windows 95/98/ME were basically DOS architecture plastered with layers of cruft to get over the memory limitations and to get them to run some stuff in a half-arsed 32-bit way, and a GUI. If you opened a CLI in W95 and typed "ver" it would reply "DOS 7". They were Windows for DOS, and a train wreck.
They were swept away by NT/XP, which were a new and separate pedigree, long after Windows for DOS should have had its life support switched off.
I wish
At the time Bill Gates made that absurd comment he was right.
Much as I dislike Gates, I have to point out that it is generally accepted that he never said that particular gaffe.
[it was enough] For the applications people were making at the time.
It was still stupid, even if it was enough for apps at that time, because it was an architectural limit. The architecture put stuff like display memory and BIOS extensions in fixed areas above the 640k instead of leaving it open ended. The tacky XT/AT addressing scheme was 20-bit and could actually reach 1024k, but only the lower 640k was working RAM, with that fixed stuff above it.
Would not have been so bad if the PC makers and Microsoft had not been so slow to abandon this primitive architecture.