So then.... why doesn't Microsoft do what all the "OS X on x86" folks want Apple to do? Let MS devote all of their energies to Office and the like and commoditize Windows by open sourcing it and turning it over to the geeks. That way Windows could be run on many more platforms (remember when "cross platform" meant it would run on Alpha, PPC and x86? Now for MS "cross platform" means it'll run under ME/2000/NT) Open sourcing Windows would also get a lot more eyes on fixing security flaws, stability problems and other issues that haven't popped up yet. These arguements are moot because the phrase "snowball's chance in hell" comes to mind when the subject of open sourcing Windows is broached. The same is true of expecting Apple to make OS X available on platforms other than PPC/whatever Apple comes up with in the future. It just ain't gonna happen folks.
Considering that most of Apple's income comes from the sale of hardware, your suggestion makes as much sense as telling Bill Gates to concentrate on selling applications and stop mucking about with that silly Windows stuff.
....... Macs come bundled with Earthlink software, but as they are reknowned spam kings (Spaminator ads notwithstanding) I really couldn't recommend them.
OK... I'll take the hit for the Slate/Salon confusion, but who said anything about PPP? She was complaining about not being able to send/receive e-mail from her boyfriend. In addition, if you're using an online service that doesn't use standard PPP to connect, I'd suggest getting another one. To use your statement put forth in the subject line... AOL != The internet (MSN != the internet either)
Interestingly enough, she states that most of the problems she encountered were Microsoft applications throwing up on her. MS apps misbehaving on a competitor's OS? Quel Suprise!
[switch to black & white... interior Rick's Cafe Americain]
I'm shocked, SHOCKED that this is happening to her. (Your DR-DOS error message, sir) Oh, thank you, thank you very much.
[fade to present day]
banished to the lonely "Mac user" printer port at Kinko's
I dunno where she lives, but all the Kinko's I've visited recently (DC Metro area) have Air Ports up and running. Point and shoot printing!
losing all ability to communicate with my Euro-traveling boyfriend
Last time I looked, neither SMTP nor POP gave a rat's ass what OS was running.... this smells and looks like an eNORmous red herring. (but Salon, published by MSNBC, would NEVER do that, right?)
From all her whining, my suggestion to her would be to sell her iBook, and use the proceeds to purchase a good typewriter as her needs seem to be the ability to type up sermons and little else
Further, since MS pays its employees less than the industry average and compensate with employee stock options, MS has to keep its stock value rising at a high rate. Slow expansion or a mostly constant stock value won't do well. The Motley Fool had something on this.
and.... after the Enron/Anderson debacle, there is talk of changing accounting rules vis a vis options. Companies would have to book options as expenses (strike price vs actual cost IIRC) I think Microsoft's (and a lot of OTHER companies for that matter) 'profits' would evaporate rather quickly under this scenario. Potentially VERY ugly.
With the annoying inverse square law for radars, you're be pretty much reduced to optics
... and the major problem with "eyballing it" (well.... CCD'ing it anyway) is that a lot of Kuiper belt objects have an albedo of ~0.03-0.05. That's about the same as printer toner. Hmmm.... let's look for the black rock 10km across that's 2x10^9 km away. Asteroids are a little brighter, but it still takes a LOT of patience, comparing multiple shots of the same piece of sky to look for the movers and THEN try to calculate a trajectory
Reminds me of the oddly prophetic lyrics of Randy Newman's "Political Science"
No one likes us, don't know why We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try All around, even our good friends put us down Let's drop the big one and see what happens
We give them money, but are they grateful? No, they're spiteful and they're hateful They don't respect us, so let's surprise them We'll drop the big one and pulverize them
Asia's crowded, Europe's too old Africa's far too hot and Canada's too cold South America stole our name Let's drop the big one, there'll be no one left to blame us
We'll save Australia... Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo We'll build an All-American amusement park there They got surfin' too.
Boom goes London, Boom Paree. More room for you and more room for me And every city, the whole world 'round Will just be another American town Oh how peaceful it'll be, we'll set everybody free You wear a Japanese kimono, babe it'll be Italian shoes for me They all hate us anyhow, so let's drop the big one now Let's drop the big one now
Of course with the "Shadow Government" and spaces in an atomic bunker for all the "important folks" I guess us plebes have nothing to worry about.... Our government will survive..... as for the REST of the planet, well.....
even billions if the practice really takes off in the overpopulated 3rd world
Why is it that the 3rd world is always thought of as "overpopulated"?
FYI the population density of San Mateo County or Manhattan is greater than that of Bangladesh. How come we never hear of the overpopulation of those places? Is the problem really too many brown people?
The "overpopulation problem" is simply a way for "liberals" to indulge in guiltless racism.
If we don't lose our civil liberties today, we'll lose them tomorrow. Yeah, it sucks, but there's nothing you can really do.
of course there is..... A nifty little piece of paper produced 225 years ago provides the answer:
--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
They can call it "Extreme Ultraviolet" all they want, but if my memory of freshman physics doesn't fail me, isn't EM radiation at 13 nm called X-rays? What is the photomask made of that it is opaque to X-rays? (or is it just really thick?)
Inquiring minds want to know!
MAB
Re:still the windows metaphor
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Am I to understand that you allow a three and five year old to surf the net unsupervised?
Here's a concept for you.... it's called PARENTING.
Why not do a little? Surf WITH your kids. (I do about 8 hours a week with mine)
Don't get the legislature to stomp on the 1st amendment just because you won't spend time with the kiddles.
Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...
It doesn't say "unless someone says 'cunt' in a rap song or 'nigger' on a college campus or to prevent the access of www.blowme.com by five-year olds.
Take risks! Accept Responsibility! Help put a lawyer out of work!
What would your Macintosh do if I dropped by Matrox G400 into it?
The same thing your x86 box would do if I dropped a gForce3 card into it....
or tried using ISA (or NuBus [gag])
Incompatabilities abound on both sides of the OS/Hardware Wars. If you're THAT worried about it, you could always write your own drivers. (grin)
MAB
A better analogy would be that when you buy a car, you don't presume to have a right to get the drawings and plans that were used to make it?
They're not free, but you can pick up any of a number of excellent reference manuals here
Please inform the posters here where guides of equal quality to Microsoft's code base exist.
This wasn't meant as flamebait...
If you surreptitiously nudge a rock and calmly twiddle your fingers while it augers into your target, who's your target gonna blame?
It'd be like nuking, but without the launch warning. If you don't get greedy and drop a BIG rock, there would be little (if any) warning. How many Earth-orbit crossing objects are tracked? How big are they? An incoming meteor the size of a dumpster makes a hell of a bang, but I doubt that anyone would see it coming before its too late.
In the "One World/Black Helicopters" conspiracy mode....
What would happen if you dropped a rock on Jeruselam and then got the TV hair-do evangelists to chat up the "wrath of God" angle? What would the various sects argue about then?
Makes you wonder who exactly was supporting and pushing clippy
Gee, I always thought that the fsking paperclip was included because MS was too damn cheap to print (and ship) paper manuals...
Ya gotta wonder who thought that one up User:My app's broken. Tech Support:Just click on "Help" and do what the wizard says. User:But I CAN'T click on help... The app's broken! Tech Support:Sorry sir, you'll have to reformat and reinstall. That'll be $95.00
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So then.... why doesn't Microsoft do what all the "OS X on x86" folks want Apple to do?
Let MS devote all of their energies to Office and the like and commoditize Windows by open sourcing it and turning it over to the geeks. That way Windows could be run on many more platforms (remember when "cross platform" meant it would run on Alpha, PPC and x86? Now for MS "cross platform" means it'll run under ME/2000/NT) Open sourcing Windows would also get a lot more eyes on fixing security flaws, stability problems and other issues that haven't popped up yet. These arguements are moot because the phrase "snowball's chance in hell" comes to mind when the subject of open sourcing Windows is broached. The same is true of expecting Apple to make OS X available on platforms other than PPC/whatever Apple comes up with in the future. It just ain't gonna happen folks.
Considering that most of Apple's income comes from the sale of hardware, your suggestion makes as much sense as telling Bill Gates to concentrate on selling applications and stop mucking about with that silly Windows stuff.
Merci, mon ami ;)
Le Français n'est pas ma première langue, mais j'essaye.
....... Macs come bundled with Earthlink software, but as they are reknowned spam kings (Spaminator ads notwithstanding) I really couldn't recommend them.
OK... I'll take the hit for the Slate/Salon confusion, but who said anything about PPP? She was complaining about not being able to send/receive e-mail from her boyfriend. In addition, if you're using an online service that doesn't use standard PPP to connect, I'd suggest getting another one. To use your statement put forth in the subject line... AOL != The internet (MSN != the internet either)
Interestingly enough, she states that most of the problems she encountered were Microsoft applications throwing up on her. MS apps misbehaving on a competitor's OS? Quel Suprise!
[switch to black & white... interior Rick's Cafe Americain]
I'm shocked, SHOCKED that this is happening to her. (Your DR-DOS error message, sir) Oh, thank you, thank you very much.
[fade to present day]
banished to the lonely "Mac user" printer port at Kinko's
I dunno where she lives, but all the Kinko's I've visited recently (DC Metro area) have Air Ports up and running. Point and shoot printing!
losing all ability to communicate with my Euro-traveling boyfriend
Last time I looked, neither SMTP nor POP gave a rat's ass what OS was running.... this smells and looks like an eNORmous red herring. (but Salon, published by MSNBC, would NEVER do that, right?)
From all her whining, my suggestion to her would be to sell her iBook, and use the proceeds to purchase a good typewriter as her needs seem to be the ability to type up sermons and little else
I always thought that the ultimate definition of "Big Iron" was:
"Any machine that requires liquid cooling and comes bundled with two on-site engineers"
MAB
Further, since MS pays its employees less than the industry average and compensate with employee stock options, MS has to keep its stock value rising at a high rate. Slow expansion or a mostly constant stock value won't do well. The Motley Fool had something on this.
and.... after the Enron/Anderson debacle, there is talk of changing accounting rules vis a vis options. Companies would have to book options as expenses (strike price vs actual cost IIRC)
I think Microsoft's (and a lot of OTHER companies for that matter) 'profits' would evaporate rather quickly under this scenario. Potentially VERY ugly.
MAB
With the annoying inverse square law for radars, you're be pretty much reduced to optics
... and the major problem with "eyballing it" (well.... CCD'ing it anyway) is that a lot of Kuiper belt objects have an albedo of ~0.03-0.05. That's about the same as printer toner. Hmmm.... let's look for the black rock 10km across that's 2x10^9 km away.
Asteroids are a little brighter, but it still takes a LOT of patience, comparing multiple shots of the same piece of sky to look for the movers and THEN try to calculate a trajectory
MAB
Reminds me of the oddly prophetic lyrics of Randy Newman's "Political Science"
No one likes us, don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
All around, even our good friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens
We give them money, but are they grateful?
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us, so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them
Asia's crowded, Europe's too old
Africa's far too hot and Canada's too cold
South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one, there'll be no one left to blame us
We'll save Australia... Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All-American amusement park there
They got surfin' too.
Boom goes London, Boom Paree.
More room for you and more room for me
And every city, the whole world 'round
Will just be another American town
Oh how peaceful it'll be, we'll set everybody free
You wear a Japanese kimono, babe it'll be Italian shoes for me
They all hate us anyhow, so let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now
Of course with the "Shadow Government" and spaces in an atomic bunker for all the "important folks" I guess us plebes have nothing to worry about.... Our government will survive..... as for the REST of the planet, well.....
MAB
even billions if the practice really takes off in the overpopulated 3rd world
Why is it that the 3rd world is always thought of as "overpopulated"?
FYI the population density of San Mateo County or Manhattan is greater than that of Bangladesh.
How come we never hear of the overpopulation of those places? Is the problem really too many brown people?
The "overpopulation problem" is simply a way for "liberals" to indulge in guiltless racism.
P.S. I couldn't find his address. If someone could post it, that would be great
Details are here
For those too lazy to click above...(grin)
WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICE
2187 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
202-225-3861
DISTRICT OFFICES
188 East Main Street
Abingdon, Virginia 24210
540-628-1145
112 North Washington Avenue
Pulaski, Virginia 24301
540-980-4310
1 Cloverleaf Square, Suite C-1
Big Stone Gap, Virginia 24219
540-523-5450
his e-mail address is Ninthnet@mail.house.gov
That's right. The only state where radar detectors are illegal
They're illegal in Connecticut and DC too.... and since the DC suburb cops use lasers to gauge speed, a radar detector's pretty pointless these days
If we don't lose our civil liberties today, we'll lose them tomorrow. Yeah, it sucks, but there's nothing you can really do.
of course there is..... A nifty little piece of paper produced 225 years ago provides the answer:
--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
any questions?
They can call it "Extreme Ultraviolet" all they want, but if my memory of freshman physics doesn't fail me, isn't EM radiation at 13 nm called X-rays? What is the photomask made of that it is opaque to X-rays? (or is it just really thick?)
Inquiring minds want to know!
MAB
Windows is already a wombat:
Waste
Of
Money,
Brains
Aand
Time
MAB
One could say the samer thing about the Billy and Steve Show....
innovation You keep using that word.. I do not think it means what you think it means
Semprini!
OUT!
Am I to understand that you allow a three and five year old to surf the net unsupervised?
Here's a concept for you.... it's called PARENTING. Why not do a little?
Surf WITH your kids. (I do about 8 hours a week with mine)
Don't get the legislature to stomp on the 1st amendment just because you won't spend time with the kiddles.
Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...
It doesn't say "unless someone says 'cunt' in a rap song or 'nigger' on a college campus or to prevent the access of www.blowme.com by five-year olds.
Take risks! Accept Responsibility! Help put a lawyer out of work!
MAB
What would your Macintosh do if I dropped by Matrox G400 into it?
The same thing your x86 box would do if I dropped a gForce3 card into it.... or tried using ISA (or NuBus [gag])
Incompatabilities abound on both sides of the OS/Hardware Wars.
If you're THAT worried about it, you could always write your own drivers. (grin)
MAB
A better analogy would be that when you buy a car, you don't presume to have a right to get the drawings and plans that were used to make it?
They're not free, but you can pick up any of a number of excellent reference manuals here
Please inform the posters here where guides of equal quality to Microsoft's code base exist.
Thanx
MAB
..... so maybe those rumours of Steve wandering about the halls of Apple muttering "All your themes are belong to us" are true?
This wasn't meant as flamebait...
If you surreptitiously nudge a rock and calmly twiddle your fingers while it augers into your target, who's your target gonna blame?
It'd be like nuking, but without the launch warning. If you don't get greedy and drop a BIG rock, there would be little (if any) warning. How many Earth-orbit crossing objects are tracked? How big are they? An incoming meteor the size of a dumpster makes a hell of a bang, but I doubt that anyone would see it coming before its too late.
MAB
In the "One World/Black Helicopters" conspiracy mode....
What would happen if you dropped a rock on Jeruselam and then got the TV hair-do evangelists to chat up the "wrath of God" angle? What would the various sects argue about then?
Makes you wonder who exactly was supporting and pushing clippy
Gee, I always thought that the fsking paperclip was included because MS was too damn cheap to print (and ship) paper manuals...
Ya gotta wonder who thought that one up
User:My app's broken.
Tech Support:Just click on "Help" and do what the wizard says.
User:But I CAN'T click on help... The app's broken!
Tech Support:Sorry sir, you'll have to reformat and reinstall. That'll be $95.00
MAB