Although I hate to date myself I have been employed for 28 years in IT. There isn't an OS in existence that I have not worked on in my career. Judging by your "backstabbing" comments you must be around 12 years old give or take a few years. Evangelizing an OS to the exclusion of all others has no place in the professional IT environment. And I wasn't shilling for MS I was remarking that your average users do not care about their OS they care about running applications. And Linux does have a heavy presence in the data center and in other back end web server roles but so does MS. The MS versus Linux battle boils down to selecting the OS that best fits the situation you are working on.
The shares are issued and held by the company and paid out in it's entirety if you change jobs or just want the money. There is no trading of the shares. Shares increase in value based on the performance of the company and can go up or down but they are less volatile than the investment packages people carry in their 401K.
Users don't care about operating systems they care about running applications. "This bullshit is an unprecedented global backstab in the history of Earth" Evidently you know absolute nothing about the history of Earth. And your comments also make you look mentally incapable of understanding the pros and cons of the various operating systems.
The bulk of Google's revenue is generated from providing a conduit for spreading advertisements in front of as many people as possible. Google also includes SOE improvement services when making their sales pitch to prospective advertising customers. My whole point is that blocking all ads will force companies like Google to find another revenue model. And that new model will most likely include charging money to use their search engines and other online services such as Gmail. They could also start charging a licensing fee just to use their Chrome browser.
The reason companies advertise is to generate name recognition and ultimately sales. And if advertisements did not increase sales or derivative income companies, both large and small, would not be spending billions of dollars a year placing ads. Google is an advertising firm not a technology firm. Their technology efforts are centered around increasing the number of users to feed advertisements to. Most of their attempts to generate revenue from other services or products do not even come close to the amount of money they generate by serving as a conduit for advertisements. There are already ways to block the majority of ads and unwanted content if that is your preference. However if Googles revenue starts declining don't be surprised when they start charging money for all of their current services which are currently offered for free to regular users. Every major browser and search engine also rely on advertising income to support their efforts.
You have to admit it had to be very embarrassing to the people working on the project. You build an orbital telescope platform and right off the bat they needed to install contact lenses.
This incident is trivial when compared to the Hubble space telescope fiasco. After it was placed in orbit they discovered the main optical lens had been installed backwards. This then required a Shuttle mission to correct the problem.
One more try. Foreign Intelligence agencies are created for the specific purpose of spying on any foreign country where US interests come in to play. And while the US is busy spying on other countries these same countries are spying on the US. And you cannot argue that the foreign surveillance policies were unconstitutional since the US Constitution only applies on US sovereign territory. And Oliver North went to prison for his actions at the time.
Hate to break it to you but giving US classified information to a US journalist is just as illegal as giving it to a foreign journalist. And he gave ALL the information to 3rd parties giving him no control over the data. His theft and dissemination of classified US information related to foreign intelligence agencies is the text book definition of treason. It matters not one little bit what the actual content was or whether or not some think it shouldn't have been classified in the first place. The US government will never stop trying to get their hands on him. He stopped being a threat the minute he handed over the data to his pet journalists now he is wanted for breaking US law. He could have gotten a pass on the domestic related information but no one gets a pass when violating the Espionage Act. He didn't damage a couple of spooks reputations he damaged legitimate US foreign security policies. Just shining the spotlight on US foreign intelligence programs is damage in itself. The US cancelled all cooperation with Russia in almost every area of their relationship over this incident. The only time relative damage comes into play is during sentencing. How could he not expect to be charged with a national security level crime? Did he think obtaining rock start status would make the government stop trying to charge him with some serious crimes? Why did he go public before he was safely living in some South American Latin paradise? He went public on his own schedule.
If Snowden had limited his data dump to include only domestic related operations and programs he would be back in the US right now a free man. The release of data exclusively related to foreign intelligence programs and methods crossed the line. The US Constitution and Bill of Rights do not apply outside of the US. He is both whistleblower and by any definition he has committed treasonous acts which need to be adjudicated in a US Court of Law. Who knows maybe the "glove won't fit so they can't convict"? He better hope Putin doesn't pressure Obama for sanctions relief or want public support for the Russian military deployments in Syria because Obama may make handing Snowden over as part of any deal.
Well the only solution to your complaints is to kill the Internet. And who is violating your 1st amendment rights? And your taking out "key" people scenario sort of makes you sound just a tad paranoid. On the other hand there are some "key" people whose timely exit to the afterlife would actually make things better.
"build decentralized, privacy-respecting replacements" Nothing stopping you or anyone else from doing this now. And for the vast majority of people Facebook, Twitter, and Google has always been "free software" which is what made them popular in the first place. In today's world it is up to each person to guard their own privacy. Plenty of free tools for e-mail and messaging encryption and anonymous web browsing. Stop using any social media services. If you are really paranoid only use public Internet cafes when going online. Stop using the Internet altogether. Take it to any extreme you want but calling for building software that somehow guards your privacy without any effort on your part is silly.
"The leadership of China did not intend to kill them." Mao certainly did intend to kill everyone and anyone who questioned his leadership in any way. He didn't give two shits about the famine killing millions and he is on record stating he was willing to sacrifice half the Chinese population if that was what it took for his policies to succeed.
People harping about the WMD angle have turned a blind eye to the fact the Saddam broke every single point of the ceasefire agreement from the 1991 war. The US and Britain had to enforce a no fly zone over the Kurdish areas for 10 years to prevent Saddam from gassing them again after the 1991 war. Saddam used money from the UN Food for Oil program to rebuild opulent palaces for himself and psychopathic children. All the hunger and poverty stricken citizens got nothing and all the blame was put on the US. Several prominent UN member countries were caught red handed taking bribes in the form of cheap oil to reroute money directly to Saddam while bypassing all the accountability procedures put into place to control the flow of money into the country.Saddam himself made statements to the effect that he did have WMD to scare off any neighbors thinking to attack him and hoping to hold off any re-invasion from the US. It was a bluff I am pretty sure he regretted. He believed the world full of pussies who would not do anything to him no matter what threats or provocations he expressed. So we had a brutal psychopath who besides brutally killing his own citizens invaded two neighboring countries laughing at the world with impunity. The 2003 war was the end result of the failure of UN resolve and as usual the UN came up severely wanting. The US should have demanded an unconditional surrender in 1991 and finished the job right then. All the bullshit about some of the Arab coalition members sensibilities being ruffled by marching into Bagdad and finishing the job should have been ignored. Had the job been finished in 1991 today's ME might not be the festering war scarred hellhole that it is today.
Good luck getting the US to pay. If someone really insisted the US could just stop giving any money or military protection to any country or international organization on the planet and use that money to pay the carbon tax.
Everyone spies on everyone else it's just that some countries are better at it than others. When information on the NSA foreign activities was published a lot of people got all peevish and loudly shouted their indignation that a countries FOREIGN intelligence service actually had the nerve to conduct foreign intelligence operations. Making arguments that the US Constitution and Bill of Rights should apply to foreign citizens living on foreign soil. I'm sorry but the only law when conducting foreign surveillance and intelligence gathering actions is to not get caught. That's why half the staff of ever foreign embassy on the planet are intelligence operatives who can claim diplomatic immunity when caught red handed. And the people screaming the loudest totally ignored the fact that there are some powerful state intelligence agencies around the world who spend a large amount of time and even larger amounts of money spying on the US government, US corporations, and any thing else they find interesting in the US.
Trying to unravel events that happened over 5000 years ago always includes lots of competing interpretations based on a limited amount of hard evidence. I never claimed what they found pointed proved anything. It's just another data point to add to the others.
The background check is accomplished during the election campaign. People who oppose a candidate will delve into that persons background in depth looking for the slightest abnormality or perceived wrongdoing to gain electoral advantage. There is nothing the FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, or any of the other state security services can discover that cannot be discovered by the general public. The closer a person gets to being elected the harder his opponents will look for any thing to derail that persons chances of being elected.
There is a fairly recent documentary called Stonehenge Empire where they detail the newest archeological finds showing Stonehenge was a relatively small part of a much larger complex of stone structures, fences, and burial sites. The burial sites include evidence of people traveling from the European continent to be buried at that site which helps support that the idea that the site was religious or spiritual in nature.
I am sure Woz has already been compensated quite well for his contributions. He provided the engineering and Jobs made sure more than 10 people knew it existed. I think the collaboration worked out just fine for both of them.
From the users perspective they do not run an OS they run applications. The users could care less about all the trivial minutia and never ending arguments promoting one OS over another.
At a bare minimum we would have had both Pong and Asteroids. The rapid evolution of PC hardware and software in the late 80's and early 90's was staggering. Developing an OS to handle the rapid advancements in CPU architectures, memory handling, storage capacities, miscellaneous hardware accessories, and networking capabilities By the time you finished developing an application the underlying platform was damn near obsolete. Apple seemed to address these issues by using proprietary hardware which they could totally control while MS went with the commodity hardware model which limited their control over the 3rd party hardware. The vast majority of BSOD errors were caused by conflicts with 3rd party hardware drivers. The hardware vendors were faced with trying to implement API's that were constantly changing. Even the application models transitioned from client apps, client server apps, and the web and cloud apps being built today.
"We need to stop warring " Since the dawn of time there has always been at least one war raging somewhere on the planet. Every border on the planet has been drawn in blood. Power and influence has been built on top of mounds of corpses. There are currently numerous wars raging all over the world providing the blood needed to redraw existing borders while also increasing the body count. Pleas for love and understanding are just empty words no matter how loud you shout them. Instead of solving the problems in the world today we only want to find someone to blame and thinking assigning blame translates into actions to correct the problem.
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Although I hate to date myself I have been employed for 28 years in IT. There isn't an OS in existence that I have not worked on in my career. Judging by your "backstabbing" comments you must be around 12 years old give or take a few years. Evangelizing an OS to the exclusion of all others has no place in the professional IT environment. And I wasn't shilling for MS I was remarking that your average users do not care about their OS they care about running applications. And Linux does have a heavy presence in the data center and in other back end web server roles but so does MS. The MS versus Linux battle boils down to selecting the OS that best fits the situation you are working on.
The shares are issued and held by the company and paid out in it's entirety if you change jobs or just want the money. There is no trading of the shares. Shares increase in value based on the performance of the company and can go up or down but they are less volatile than the investment packages people carry in their 401K.
Users don't care about operating systems they care about running applications. "This bullshit is an unprecedented global backstab in the history of Earth" Evidently you know absolute nothing about the history of Earth. And your comments also make you look mentally incapable of understanding the pros and cons of the various operating systems.
Private companies can offer ESOP plans giving the workers a stake in the companies success.
The bulk of Google's revenue is generated from providing a conduit for spreading advertisements in front of as many people as possible. Google also includes SOE improvement services when making their sales pitch to prospective advertising customers. My whole point is that blocking all ads will force companies like Google to find another revenue model. And that new model will most likely include charging money to use their search engines and other online services such as Gmail. They could also start charging a licensing fee just to use their Chrome browser.
The reason companies advertise is to generate name recognition and ultimately sales. And if advertisements did not increase sales or derivative income companies, both large and small, would not be spending billions of dollars a year placing ads. Google is an advertising firm not a technology firm. Their technology efforts are centered around increasing the number of users to feed advertisements to. Most of their attempts to generate revenue from other services or products do not even come close to the amount of money they generate by serving as a conduit for advertisements. There are already ways to block the majority of ads and unwanted content if that is your preference. However if Googles revenue starts declining don't be surprised when they start charging money for all of their current services which are currently offered for free to regular users. Every major browser and search engine also rely on advertising income to support their efforts.
You have to admit it had to be very embarrassing to the people working on the project. You build an orbital telescope platform and right off the bat they needed to install contact lenses.
This incident is trivial when compared to the Hubble space telescope fiasco. After it was placed in orbit they discovered the main optical lens had been installed backwards. This then required a Shuttle mission to correct the problem.
One more try. Foreign Intelligence agencies are created for the specific purpose of spying on any foreign country where US interests come in to play. And while the US is busy spying on other countries these same countries are spying on the US. And you cannot argue that the foreign surveillance policies were unconstitutional since the US Constitution only applies on US sovereign territory. And Oliver North went to prison for his actions at the time.
Hate to break it to you but giving US classified information to a US journalist is just as illegal as giving it to a foreign journalist. And he gave ALL the information to 3rd parties giving him no control over the data. His theft and dissemination of classified US information related to foreign intelligence agencies is the text book definition of treason. It matters not one little bit what the actual content was or whether or not some think it shouldn't have been classified in the first place. The US government will never stop trying to get their hands on him. He stopped being a threat the minute he handed over the data to his pet journalists now he is wanted for breaking US law. He could have gotten a pass on the domestic related information but no one gets a pass when violating the Espionage Act. He didn't damage a couple of spooks reputations he damaged legitimate US foreign security policies. Just shining the spotlight on US foreign intelligence programs is damage in itself. The US cancelled all cooperation with Russia in almost every area of their relationship over this incident. The only time relative damage comes into play is during sentencing. How could he not expect to be charged with a national security level crime? Did he think obtaining rock start status would make the government stop trying to charge him with some serious crimes? Why did he go public before he was safely living in some South American Latin paradise? He went public on his own schedule.
If Snowden had limited his data dump to include only domestic related operations and programs he would be back in the US right now a free man. The release of data exclusively related to foreign intelligence programs and methods crossed the line. The US Constitution and Bill of Rights do not apply outside of the US. He is both whistleblower and by any definition he has committed treasonous acts which need to be adjudicated in a US Court of Law. Who knows maybe the "glove won't fit so they can't convict"? He better hope Putin doesn't pressure Obama for sanctions relief or want public support for the Russian military deployments in Syria because Obama may make handing Snowden over as part of any deal.
Well the only solution to your complaints is to kill the Internet. And who is violating your 1st amendment rights? And your taking out "key" people scenario sort of makes you sound just a tad paranoid. On the other hand there are some "key" people whose timely exit to the afterlife would actually make things better.
"build decentralized, privacy-respecting replacements" Nothing stopping you or anyone else from doing this now. And for the vast majority of people Facebook, Twitter, and Google has always been "free software" which is what made them popular in the first place. In today's world it is up to each person to guard their own privacy. Plenty of free tools for e-mail and messaging encryption and anonymous web browsing. Stop using any social media services. If you are really paranoid only use public Internet cafes when going online. Stop using the Internet altogether. Take it to any extreme you want but calling for building software that somehow guards your privacy without any effort on your part is silly.
"The leadership of China did not intend to kill them." Mao certainly did intend to kill everyone and anyone who questioned his leadership in any way. He didn't give two shits about the famine killing millions and he is on record stating he was willing to sacrifice half the Chinese population if that was what it took for his policies to succeed.
People harping about the WMD angle have turned a blind eye to the fact the Saddam broke every single point of the ceasefire agreement from the 1991 war. The US and Britain had to enforce a no fly zone over the Kurdish areas for 10 years to prevent Saddam from gassing them again after the 1991 war. Saddam used money from the UN Food for Oil program to rebuild opulent palaces for himself and psychopathic children. All the hunger and poverty stricken citizens got nothing and all the blame was put on the US. Several prominent UN member countries were caught red handed taking bribes in the form of cheap oil to reroute money directly to Saddam while bypassing all the accountability procedures put into place to control the flow of money into the country.Saddam himself made statements to the effect that he did have WMD to scare off any neighbors thinking to attack him and hoping to hold off any re-invasion from the US. It was a bluff I am pretty sure he regretted. He believed the world full of pussies who would not do anything to him no matter what threats or provocations he expressed. So we had a brutal psychopath who besides brutally killing his own citizens invaded two neighboring countries laughing at the world with impunity. The 2003 war was the end result of the failure of UN resolve and as usual the UN came up severely wanting. The US should have demanded an unconditional surrender in 1991 and finished the job right then. All the bullshit about some of the Arab coalition members sensibilities being ruffled by marching into Bagdad and finishing the job should have been ignored. Had the job been finished in 1991 today's ME might not be the festering war scarred hellhole that it is today.
Good luck getting the US to pay. If someone really insisted the US could just stop giving any money or military protection to any country or international organization on the planet and use that money to pay the carbon tax.
Everyone spies on everyone else it's just that some countries are better at it than others. When information on the NSA foreign activities was published a lot of people got all peevish and loudly shouted their indignation that a countries FOREIGN intelligence service actually had the nerve to conduct foreign intelligence operations. Making arguments that the US Constitution and Bill of Rights should apply to foreign citizens living on foreign soil. I'm sorry but the only law when conducting foreign surveillance and intelligence gathering actions is to not get caught. That's why half the staff of ever foreign embassy on the planet are intelligence operatives who can claim diplomatic immunity when caught red handed. And the people screaming the loudest totally ignored the fact that there are some powerful state intelligence agencies around the world who spend a large amount of time and even larger amounts of money spying on the US government, US corporations, and any thing else they find interesting in the US.
Trying to unravel events that happened over 5000 years ago always includes lots of competing interpretations based on a limited amount of hard evidence. I never claimed what they found pointed proved anything. It's just another data point to add to the others.
The sci-fi Sten series has a cool take on creating clones and the indoctrination process used on the clone to shape it's behavior.
The background check is accomplished during the election campaign. People who oppose a candidate will delve into that persons background in depth looking for the slightest abnormality or perceived wrongdoing to gain electoral advantage. There is nothing the FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, or any of the other state security services can discover that cannot be discovered by the general public. The closer a person gets to being elected the harder his opponents will look for any thing to derail that persons chances of being elected.
There is a fairly recent documentary called Stonehenge Empire where they detail the newest archeological finds showing Stonehenge was a relatively small part of a much larger complex of stone structures, fences, and burial sites. The burial sites include evidence of people traveling from the European continent to be buried at that site which helps support that the idea that the site was religious or spiritual in nature.
I am sure Woz has already been compensated quite well for his contributions. He provided the engineering and Jobs made sure more than 10 people knew it existed. I think the collaboration worked out just fine for both of them.
From the users perspective they do not run an OS they run applications. The users could care less about all the trivial minutia and never ending arguments promoting one OS over another.
At a bare minimum we would have had both Pong and Asteroids. The rapid evolution of PC hardware and software in the late 80's and early 90's was staggering. Developing an OS to handle the rapid advancements in CPU architectures, memory handling, storage capacities, miscellaneous hardware accessories, and networking capabilities By the time you finished developing an application the underlying platform was damn near obsolete. Apple seemed to address these issues by using proprietary hardware which they could totally control while MS went with the commodity hardware model which limited their control over the 3rd party hardware. The vast majority of BSOD errors were caused by conflicts with 3rd party hardware drivers. The hardware vendors were faced with trying to implement API's that were constantly changing. Even the application models transitioned from client apps, client server apps, and the web and cloud apps being built today.
"We need to stop warring " Since the dawn of time there has always been at least one war raging somewhere on the planet. Every border on the planet has been drawn in blood. Power and influence has been built on top of mounds of corpses. There are currently numerous wars raging all over the world providing the blood needed to redraw existing borders while also increasing the body count. Pleas for love and understanding are just empty words no matter how loud you shout them. Instead of solving the problems in the world today we only want to find someone to blame and thinking assigning blame translates into actions to correct the problem.