nobody but brainwashed moron fanbois even care about apple, let alone buy their products. yeah there are a lot of them, but its the same reason why hello kitty is so popular; plain old idiocy.
no. if any other company orchestrated the same oem deals that microsoft has forged, they would be dragged over the coals by the competition watchdogs. if microsoft couldn't benefit from those deals any more and was forced to compete in the same way as anyone else (such as linux vendors) it would go broke.
why do they get away with it? because it took twenty years for the legal system to catch up, and in those twenty years microsoft made enough money to fend off anyone but the most powerful governments in the world (US and EU), and penalties imposed are far outweighed by the benefits or their corrupt business practices
yeah, according to spacex (not exactly a credible source), and the chinese "officials" were commenting on prices published on spacex's website, not their actual launch costs (yet to be determined, probably even by spacex)
when they start launching for revenue, or when they start trying to drum up investment from sources other than rich dick swingers trying to impress their rich dick swinging friends, those prices will skyrocket because otherwise they will go bankrupt (think kistler)
their first payload launch will be as a government contractor, and boeing etc has already been there, done that for years, so they haven't done anything special yet (even their dragon is only refurbishable - using ablative heat shielding, which is not "reusable" as they claim, and the launch vehicle is also expendable, same as any other launch service provider)
if spacex has any launch failures (likely), they'll probably disappear altogether
rocket science is not so new and awesome any more you know
...just (still) ridiculously expensive, and getting moreso with ever increasing legalities and lack of trust in government and companies (increased political instability and lack of shareholder confidence).
the risk of significant R&D investment by any company far outweighs the benefits. its much cheaper to ripoff little innovators who can't defend their IP rights.
if courthouses were only allowed to be in space, we would have a huge space transportation industry funded by big corporate clients of greedy lawyers
don't worry, once the financial risk is low enough (after someone else has already put in the high risk hard yards - most likely funded by taxpayers), the cheap knockoffs will begin to appear, ready to kill off the cheapskate idiots who decide to fly with them, probably doing the world a favor.
I'd love to see SpaceX, Virgin or any other player just go ahead and send a surprise cheap dumb booster up to the ISS for so little outlay that they can say "Oh hai, say, do you guys you want these supplies or not?
i guess if you pay for it you probably can, but at the moment nasa calls the shots because it pays the money. that's why spacex is more a government contractor than a commercial enterprise. difference being that a commercial enterprise would be servicing multiple clients. as long as nasa is its only customer, it is the boss, not spacex. if spacex goes space cowboy, nasa may well just say "Oh hai, say, do you guys want to do as we tell you, or do you want us to pay space-y/ruskies instead; we're not averse to wasting our investment in you cos we've been wasting millions for years, so get in line or gtfo".
USSTRATCOM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillance_Network) may know such things, but what reason would they have to release such information if NK did launch nuclear weapons? same as other countries. any data covering such an event (if successful) would have been slapped with "TOP SECRET" stamps the moment it was created. same as for any event detected by defense in any country; just about anything that has national security implications is obscured from public scrutiny.
that leaves corporate media to sensationalize, scaremonger, etc after events because they are really no wiser than you or me. and besides, the truth is in many cases less profitable than sensationalist bullshit.
mass media and average joe don't have the ability to detect artificial satellites, so as far as we know nothing got to space, but it doesn't mean that those with the capability don't know
replacing the logout link with a power off image, which makes perfect sense because i'm a desensitized idiot consumer who can't read "logout" but associates the symbol on my tv for turning it off with logging out of slashdot
australia is apparently getting fiber to the premises (not exactly the same as ftth) which would go a long way to achieving the solid foundation you mention (in australia at least). the problem is that politicians love talking about it and commissioning reports and investigations (there's even the NBN organization set up to implement the whole thing) but when they get kicked out of office after an election the jokers that take their place have their own agendas and big projects that have had millions of dollars spent on them already can be derailed.
i'm currently working on an engineering compliance app i php and i've found that its very easy to increase the page size with the simplest things (like js event handlers on items in every data row). not so bad for as as its only a lan app so performance isn't really a problem.
i think its just the nature of html.
as a static langauge (requiring js etc for interactivity without page or iframe reloads) everything must be fully described from the get-go. if you have hidden sections that appear with js, you still have to include them in a div with display:none or whatever.
if entire pages were scripted it might result in less content being downloaded, and with the speed of computers now the time required to generate the page using the downloaded script onto the browser window would be negligible. the problem with that is the amount of work required to produce the script that is essentially given away to anyone who requests the page makes for a poor return on investment. this development cost far outweighs the performance hit for a static page load. at least server side scripts are retained as an ip investment (which is what drives the whole sas business model).
if you're a company that requires lightning fast page loads, its probably more efficient and effective to simply host on a higher network bandwidth server (datacenter) and blame poor performance on the client end. that's no doubt what slashdot does.
i'm not christian, but i'm not aware of anything in the book of genesis that specifically and explicitly precludes the existence of the dinosaurs. to me it would appear it merely skimps over it for lack of interest, similarly to how the scientific religion skimps over the short period of time when most of the known universe was apparently created (wrapping it up neatly and conveniently in a so called "big bang").
Slashdot Mirror
enough with the pedophilia already
some other kid threw an apple at me when i was a kid... apple hurts. apple is evil
nobody but brainwashed moron fanbois even care about apple, let alone buy their products. yeah there are a lot of them, but its the same reason why hello kitty is so popular; plain old idiocy.
Have they produced a viable OS?
no. if any other company orchestrated the same oem deals that microsoft has forged, they would be dragged over the coals by the competition watchdogs. if microsoft couldn't benefit from those deals any more and was forced to compete in the same way as anyone else (such as linux vendors) it would go broke.
why do they get away with it? because it took twenty years for the legal system to catch up, and in those twenty years microsoft made enough money to fend off anyone but the most powerful governments in the world (US and EU), and penalties imposed are far outweighed by the benefits or their corrupt business practices
its a pity space should become the final profitable frontier
still, a lot can happen in at least 50 years before space becomes commercialized to the point where you or I could afford a holiday there
i wouldn't be surprised if the global economic and political environment is completely different and companies as we know them won't exist
yeah, according to spacex (not exactly a credible source), and the chinese "officials" were commenting on prices published on spacex's website, not their actual launch costs (yet to be determined, probably even by spacex)
when they start launching for revenue, or when they start trying to drum up investment from sources other than rich dick swingers trying to impress their rich dick swinging friends, those prices will skyrocket because otherwise they will go bankrupt (think kistler)
their first payload launch will be as a government contractor, and boeing etc has already been there, done that for years, so they haven't done anything special yet (even their dragon is only refurbishable - using ablative heat shielding, which is not "reusable" as they claim, and the launch vehicle is also expendable, same as any other launch service provider)
if spacex has any launch failures (likely), they'll probably disappear altogether
rocket science is not so new and awesome any more you know
the risk of significant R&D investment by any company far outweighs the benefits. its much cheaper to ripoff little innovators who can't defend their IP rights.
if courthouses were only allowed to be in space, we would have a huge space transportation industry funded by big corporate clients of greedy lawyers
"People only care that"... it's profitable.
there, ftfy
don't worry, once the financial risk is low enough (after someone else has already put in the high risk hard yards - most likely funded by taxpayers), the cheap knockoffs will begin to appear, ready to kill off the cheapskate idiots who decide to fly with them, probably doing the world a favor.
it aint rocket science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TM-17
I'd love to see SpaceX, Virgin or any other player just go ahead and send a surprise cheap dumb booster up to the ISS for so little outlay that they can say "Oh hai, say, do you guys you want these supplies or not?
i guess if you pay for it you probably can, but at the moment nasa calls the shots because it pays the money. that's why spacex is more a government contractor than a commercial enterprise. difference being that a commercial enterprise would be servicing multiple clients. as long as nasa is its only customer, it is the boss, not spacex. if spacex goes space cowboy, nasa may well just say "Oh hai, say, do you guys want to do as we tell you, or do you want us to pay space-y/ruskies instead; we're not averse to wasting our investment in you cos we've been wasting millions for years, so get in line or gtfo".
USSTRATCOM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillance_Network) may know such things, but what reason would they have to release such information if NK did launch nuclear weapons? same as other countries. any data covering such an event (if successful) would have been slapped with "TOP SECRET" stamps the moment it was created. same as for any event detected by defense in any country; just about anything that has national security implications is obscured from public scrutiny.
that leaves corporate media to sensationalize, scaremonger, etc after events because they are really no wiser than you or me. and besides, the truth is in many cases less profitable than sensationalist bullshit.
mass media and average joe don't have the ability to detect artificial satellites, so as far as we know nothing got to space, but it doesn't mean that those with the capability don't know
its apparently limited to the roll out of the ".bugs" tld
i wonder if microsoft would want to reserve their trademark under that tld...
http://www.microsoft.suck/
just not flash though... flash is french for "i like to lick a cow's ass after it's just given birth to a huge steamy pile of runny green shit"
reads a lot like religious preaching to me. thanks for the link.
replacing the logout link with a power off image, which makes perfect sense because i'm a desensitized idiot consumer who can't read "logout" but associates the symbol on my tv for turning it off with logging out of slashdot
australia is apparently getting fiber to the premises (not exactly the same as ftth) which would go a long way to achieving the solid foundation you mention (in australia at least). the problem is that politicians love talking about it and commissioning reports and investigations (there's even the NBN organization set up to implement the whole thing) but when they get kicked out of office after an election the jokers that take their place have their own agendas and big projects that have had millions of dollars spent on them already can be derailed.
i'm currently working on an engineering compliance app i php and i've found that its very easy to increase the page size with the simplest things (like js event handlers on items in every data row). not so bad for as as its only a lan app so performance isn't really a problem.
i think its just the nature of html.
as a static langauge (requiring js etc for interactivity without page or iframe reloads) everything must be fully described from the get-go. if you have hidden sections that appear with js, you still have to include them in a div with display:none or whatever.
if entire pages were scripted it might result in less content being downloaded, and with the speed of computers now the time required to generate the page using the downloaded script onto the browser window would be negligible. the problem with that is the amount of work required to produce the script that is essentially given away to anyone who requests the page makes for a poor return on investment. this development cost far outweighs the performance hit for a static page load. at least server side scripts are retained as an ip investment (which is what drives the whole sas business model).
if you're a company that requires lightning fast page loads, its probably more efficient and effective to simply host on a higher network bandwidth server (datacenter) and blame poor performance on the client end. that's no doubt what slashdot does.
programmers can keep trying to make their software idiot-proof, but society will forever continue making better idiots
of course everyone loves eye candy, even at the expense of usability and stability
you've obviously never been to isla nublar, because if you had you would know that dinosaurs exist today!
agreed. i swear there were velociraptors in the garden of eden. the apple told me so, right after i ate the pretty orange mushroom
i'm not christian, but i'm not aware of anything in the book of genesis that specifically and explicitly precludes the existence of the dinosaurs. to me it would appear it merely skimps over it for lack of interest, similarly to how the scientific religion skimps over the short period of time when most of the known universe was apparently created (wrapping it up neatly and conveniently in a so called "big bang").
fundamentalism has gone out of fashion... the new craze is #extremism