I don't think Bill Gates did anything miraculous. He sold MS-DOS to IBM, and then rode their success as the IBM PC became the default standard for computers. The PC "won" the computing battle therefore the microsoft OS won.
Basically he got lucky, and if he had picked somebody else, like Commodore or Atari or TI to sell his OS, then he'd be in the same place they are (bankrupt). Ever heard of Berkeley Softworks? No because even though they developed a nice GUI-based OS in 1985, they chose the wrong team (commodore) and disappeared off the planet.
Had they chosen IBM PC instead, maybe we'd all be using Berkeley Windows instead of MS windows. And Bill Gates would be in the same camp as Nolan Bushnell or Jack Tramel.
Warning: GOATSE.CX - It's because of Assholes like you tuxtorule that I can no longer trust URL shorteners. Bravo teeny bopper. You're a really mature mother fucker (or do you prefer father fucking? Damn you homo erotic shittter).
Wait! I think I hear your mommy calling to give your tongue a good soap washing. And maybe she'll execute you too. (death to all assholes - Let's pujt tuxtorujle first into the guillotine)
>>>Taking a picture of something that is open for a news story is perfectly allowed.
Not inside a private building. If the owner wants to close it off to outside photographers, they have every right to do so. (And no it's not like a mall or restaurant, which are legally defined as "public facilities".)
Stopped reading. Not interested in grade school insults - and I'm not a conservative (R) or liberal (D). Thank god. If I could I would abolish those two parties from the Congress, and have a partyless system where all US representatives are independents.
Most of the conservative judges oppose expansion of government. Such as when they overturned the Washington DC banning of guns. ANYWAY: I can only judge "liberal" by what I see, and what I see in France, Australia, England, and the US is liberal politicians (Sarkozy, Conroy, Obama, Schumer) working to censor the internet, tell us how to live, and how much energy we are allowed to consume (laws that limit home consumption to 2,000 kWh).
Now maybe I'm being unfair. I'll grant that. But they CALL themselves liberal, and so I figure that's what "liberal" really means - authoritarian, anti-liberty policies.
I can only judge "liberal" by what I see, and what I see in France, Australia, England, and the US is liberal politicians (Sarkozy, Conroy, Obama, Schumer) working to censor the internet, tell us how to live, and how much energy we are allowed to consume (laws that limit home consumption to Now maybe I'm being unfair. I'll grant that. But they CALL themselves liberal, and based upon what I see them doing (killing the internet/limiting freedom), I don't want to associate with that label.
>>>I understand though. You hate society, you hate the idea of people working together, you hate the general idea behind the formation of the United States.
Wow. I'm surprised you didn't call me a "slut" like that Democrat Radio DJ did yesterday. Oh well. (shrug).
Jefferson and Madison - do you consider them "haters" too? You probably will after you read this: âoeResolved, That the several States composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government. But that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes â" delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
"That to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral part, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.â
Damn those Founding Fathers and their "hating society, hating people working together, and hating the general idea behind the formation of the United States." Those guys were nutjobs! (end sarcasm). No what I hate is having my penis felt up by strangers, or being irradiated by those scanners. You mentioned "other laws". Well: Isn't there a law forbidding sexual groping? Isn't that assault? Many State Prosecutors say that it is, and are arresting TSA officers for the act.
>>>I imagine some would interpret this as meaning, "I want to believe this is true, so it must be true."
No need to believe when you have the written LAW in front of you: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Clear as day. Congress was never granted power to forbid cross-state travel by plane, train, car, wagon, bike, foot, et cetera. Therefore they cannot.
("Oh no. That darn constitution. Can't we just burn it?" - your typical Washington bureaucrat)
Congress shall "make regular" the commerce AMONG the States. It says nothing about blocking commerce or forbidding citizens from crossing state lines (and the courts have ruled that multiple times over the last three centuries).
The Constitution also says nothing about providing health or welfare. The author of the constitution, James Madison, has already stated that is an absurd interpretation. "If that were true, the power of the central authority would be unlimited, and the enumeration of the powers pointless. There is a whole host of proofs to demonstrate that is not what I or the Craftmen intended.
"There is nothing more natural than to start with a general phrase, and then list a Specific list of particulars. Congress is thereby limited to only those powers enumerated and nothing more (amend. 10)."
Dear Lover of 1984-Style Government (aka, a liberal):
I'm aware of the jurisprudence, but I just don't care. You presume the Court is the final arbiter, but there is nothing in the constitution about it. Their job is to review CASES, not to overturn laws duly passed by the Congress and signed by the Executive. According to Thomas Jefferson the final arbiter is the Will of the People, as represented by their State Legislators, from which all just power derives, and as assigned by Constitutional Convention. Furthermore THE WRITTEN LAW matters the most, not the mere *opinons* of nine old (and unelected) oligarchs on the Supreme Court have opined. The Law says Congress shall not exercise powers never granted to it.
"The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary: an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow,) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.
"To this I am opposed; because, when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." - Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821, Thom. Jefferson.
Congress has been granted zero authority to forbid [internal domestic] travel by airplane or train, or car, or wagon. Read Amendments 9 and 10.
This is what happens when you kill the federalist system and replace it with a central oligarchy that exercises power without limits. You lose freedom as the voice of the People is no longer heard in the thousand-mile distant capitol city, and the central leadership cares more about gaining power than service to their bosses (us).
>>>Most people believe the pat downs make them safer.
Most people are stupid if they think Naked X-ray Scanners and/or penal-breast groping is a good idea. It's also unconstitutional if the plane does not cross international lines, since the US Congress has been granted zero authority to forbid travel by airplane (or train, or car, or wagon). Read Amendments 9 and 10.
I would feel sorry for the record industries decreasing profits (from 2 to 1.9 trillion since 2000 --- oh so sad!), if they didn't SCREW THE ARTISTS AND REFUSE TO PAY BILLIONS IN BACK WAGES (link below). It's like trying to feel sorry for Al Capone because someone stole his bootleg liquor..... or Sony because judges won't let them jail customers who buy used games instead of new. My sympathy is non-existent for these bastards.
I too miss the reset. On my C=128 it was a small button surrounded by a pinky-sized hole. Very convenient for frequent crashes.
QUOTE:
Jochen Heyland, a developer at Members Only Software, which provides enterprise software for non-profit organizations..... misses the Commodore 64's memory model. "It could overlay hardware, firmware and regular memory as needed, and had no reserved memory sections. This let me write macros that were globally available...... Now, I'm using Windows. There's nothing like this old feature there."
>>>Explain how is local storage would be more secure than remote storage?
HUGE difference. It requires a warrant to enter my house and obtain the files. A warrant requires probable cause (we suspect he's a murderer, because we smell dead bodies), and review by an impartial judge to approve the warrant.
Remote storage is subject to random snooping by a bored FBI agent browsing through Google's or Apple's or Microsoft's servers. (Thanks to the Patriot Act.)
>>>Those things you mention are not Google's product and you are not Google's customer. YOU are in effect Google's product. They're selling you to advertisers and "paying" you with those things.
Same is true with free TV and radio. Your statement is 100% true, but I don't worry about it. (shrug)
I'm really starting to like this company. Free web browser, free word processor (and spreadsheet?), free language translation, free nudie pics, free scanned books, free email, free Usenet reader, and now this cool Dataset research tool.
Still not sure I want to store my documents on the internet though. (1) Not secure. (2) Government can review the documents without having to ask a judge for a warrant.) But overall I guess Google is a decent company. Why pay for stuff you can get for free and legal?
Isn't this the second time Skype went down? Wonder if it's the same cause: blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/cio_update.html (CIO update: Post-mortem on the Skype outage)
Like Sony, I thought they would have fixed this problem by now, but guess not.
>>>less remarkable recent times; who cares about MD, miniDV, DVD, DVcam, HDV or Bluray)
Every product you list came from 70s or 80s Sony, thus proving the point that Sony was more innovative in the past than the present.
The only recent product is Bluray, which isn't really "innovative". It's just a DVD with more tightly-packed tracks. It's late 80s/early 90s tech that Sony updated and gave a new name.
>>>>>follows the local streets/neighborhoods. >> >>No, they follow neighborhoods
I just said that.:-\ BTW if you look at the last three presidential elections, you'll see the Democrats win the city neighborhoods 99% of the time. (And vice-versa, Republicans win the surrounding suburbs/rural areas.) So your city council of 19 R's and 1 D is unlikely. It's more likely to be 100% democrat, since cities are heavily D-dominated and the republicans don't stand a chance.
You don't lie much do you? All you have to say is, "Yes I signed numerous forms, as you can see by my signature. However I did NOT sign this non-disclosure form, which is why my signature is not present. I suspect that 'scribble' was done by the nurse or maybe the doctor. i.e. a Forgery."
"But you don't know if it was a forgery."
"True. All I can say is that I did NOT sign this paper. That is NOT my signature."
MOST states use simple squares for districts, but it gets complicated when you move away from the simplicity of Iowa farmland, to a heavily-populated area like a city or suburb. The district loses its "squareness" and follows the local streets/neighborhoods.
A contract is not valid if it does not have a valid AND LEGIBLE signature. So that non-disclosure paper would be voided by the judge and you, the patient, would not be guilty of breach-of-contract since no contract exists.
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I don't think Bill Gates did anything miraculous. He sold MS-DOS to IBM, and then rode their success as the IBM PC became the default standard for computers. The PC "won" the computing battle therefore the microsoft OS won.
Basically he got lucky, and if he had picked somebody else, like Commodore or Atari or TI to sell his OS, then he'd be in the same place they are (bankrupt). Ever heard of Berkeley Softworks? No because even though they developed a nice GUI-based OS in 1985, they chose the wrong team (commodore) and disappeared off the planet.
Had they chosen IBM PC instead, maybe we'd all be using Berkeley Windows instead of MS windows. And Bill Gates would be in the same camp as Nolan Bushnell or Jack Tramel.
I could care less about the image.
But I'm at work and the last thing I need is for a coworker to see a naked ass.
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- It's because of Assholes like you tuxtorule that I can no longer trust URL shorteners. Bravo teeny bopper. You're a really mature mother fucker (or do you prefer father fucking? Damn you homo erotic shittter).
Wait! I think I hear your mommy calling to give your tongue a good soap washing. And maybe she'll execute you too. (death to all assholes - Let's pujt tuxtorujle first into the guillotine)
>>>Taking a picture of something that is open for a news story is perfectly allowed.
Not inside a private building. If the owner wants to close it off to outside photographers, they have every right to do so. (And no it's not like a mall or restaurant, which are legally defined as "public facilities".)
>>>insane neo-con wackjobs
Stopped reading. Not interested in grade school insults - and I'm not a conservative (R) or liberal (D). Thank god. If I could I would abolish those two parties from the Congress, and have a partyless system where all US representatives are independents.
Most of the conservative judges oppose expansion of government. Such as when they overturned the Washington DC banning of guns.
ANYWAY:
I can only judge "liberal" by what I see, and what I see in France, Australia, England, and the US is liberal politicians (Sarkozy, Conroy, Obama, Schumer) working to censor the internet, tell us how to live, and how much energy we are allowed to consume (laws that limit home consumption to 2,000 kWh).
Now maybe I'm being unfair. I'll grant that. But they CALL themselves liberal, and so I figure that's what "liberal" really means - authoritarian, anti-liberty policies.
I can only judge "liberal" by what I see, and what I see in France, Australia, England, and the US is liberal politicians (Sarkozy, Conroy, Obama, Schumer) working to censor the internet, tell us how to live, and how much energy we are allowed to consume (laws that limit home consumption to Now maybe I'm being unfair. I'll grant that. But they CALL themselves liberal, and based upon what I see them doing (killing the internet/limiting freedom), I don't want to associate with that label.
>>>I understand though. You hate society, you hate the idea of people working together, you hate the general idea behind the formation of the United States.
Wow. I'm surprised you didn't call me a "slut" like that Democrat Radio DJ did yesterday. Oh well. (shrug).
Jefferson and Madison - do you consider them "haters" too? You probably will after you read this: âoeResolved, That the several States composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government. But that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes â" delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
"That to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral part, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.â
Damn those Founding Fathers and their "hating society, hating people working together, and hating the general idea behind the formation of the United States." Those guys were nutjobs! (end sarcasm). No what I hate is having my penis felt up by strangers, or being irradiated by those scanners. You mentioned "other laws". Well: Isn't there a law forbidding sexual groping? Isn't that assault? Many State Prosecutors say that it is, and are arresting TSA officers for the act.
Cheers to them.
Good point.
"Conservative" George Bush was one of the most authoritarian presidents we've ever had (second only to FDR). Conservatives can be dicks too.
Which is why I am a Jeffersonian - as close to "no" government as possible, in order to limit the amount of abuse leaders can aim at citizens.
>>>I imagine some would interpret this as meaning, "I want to believe this is true, so it must be true."
No need to believe when you have the written LAW in front of you: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Clear as day. Congress was never granted power to forbid cross-state travel by plane, train, car, wagon, bike, foot, et cetera. Therefore they cannot.
("Oh no. That darn constitution. Can't we just burn it?" - your typical Washington bureaucrat)
Congress shall "make regular" the commerce AMONG the States. It says nothing about blocking commerce or forbidding citizens from crossing state lines (and the courts have ruled that multiple times over the last three centuries).
The Constitution also says nothing about providing health or welfare. The author of the constitution, James Madison, has already stated that is an absurd interpretation. "If that were true, the power of the central authority would be unlimited, and the enumeration of the powers pointless. There is a whole host of proofs to demonstrate that is not what I or the Craftmen intended.
"There is nothing more natural than to start with a general phrase, and then list a Specific list of particulars. Congress is thereby limited to only those powers enumerated and nothing more (amend. 10)."
Dear Lover of 1984-Style Government (aka, a liberal):
I'm aware of the jurisprudence, but I just don't care. You presume the Court is the final arbiter, but there is nothing in the constitution about it. Their job is to review CASES, not to overturn laws duly passed by the Congress and signed by the Executive. According to Thomas Jefferson the final arbiter is the Will of the People, as represented by their State Legislators, from which all just power derives, and as assigned by Constitutional Convention. Furthermore THE WRITTEN LAW matters the most, not the mere *opinons* of nine old (and unelected) oligarchs on the Supreme Court have opined. The Law says Congress shall not exercise powers never granted to it.
"The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary: an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow,) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.
"To this I am opposed; because, when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." - Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821, Thom. Jefferson.
FIX:
Congress has been granted zero authority to forbid [internal domestic] travel by airplane or train, or car, or wagon. Read Amendments 9 and 10.
This is what happens when you kill the federalist system and replace it with a central oligarchy that exercises power without limits. You lose freedom as the voice of the People is no longer heard in the thousand-mile distant capitol city, and the central leadership cares more about gaining power than service to their bosses (us).
>>>Most people believe the pat downs make them safer.
Most people are stupid if they think Naked X-ray Scanners and/or penal-breast groping is a good idea. It's also unconstitutional if the plane does not cross international lines, since the US Congress has been granted zero authority to forbid travel by airplane (or train, or car, or wagon). Read Amendments 9 and 10.
Dear Nomadic:
I would feel sorry for the record industries decreasing profits (from 2 to 1.9 trillion since 2000 --- oh so sad!), if they didn't SCREW THE ARTISTS AND REFUSE TO PAY BILLIONS IN BACK WAGES (link below). It's like trying to feel sorry for Al Capone because someone stole his bootleg liquor..... or Sony because judges won't let them jail customers who buy used games instead of new. My sympathy is non-existent for these bastards.
http://www.futureofmusicbook.com/2011/03/music-managers-and-artists-could-collect-over-2-billion-in-unpaid-royalties/
I too miss the reset. On my C=128 it was a small button surrounded by a pinky-sized hole. Very convenient for frequent crashes.
QUOTE:
Jochen Heyland, a developer at Members Only Software, which provides enterprise software for non-profit organizations..... misses the Commodore 64's memory model. "It could overlay hardware, firmware and regular memory as needed, and had no reserved memory sections. This let me write macros that were globally available...... Now, I'm using Windows. There's nothing like this old feature there."
>>>Explain how is local storage would be more secure than remote storage?
HUGE difference. It requires a warrant to enter my house and obtain the files. A warrant requires probable cause (we suspect he's a murderer, because we smell dead bodies), and review by an impartial judge to approve the warrant.
Remote storage is subject to random snooping by a bored FBI agent browsing through Google's or Apple's or Microsoft's servers. (Thanks to the Patriot Act.)
>>>Those things you mention are not Google's product and you are not Google's customer. YOU are in effect Google's product. They're selling you to advertisers and "paying" you with those things.
Same is true with free TV and radio.
Your statement is 100% true, but
I don't worry about it. (shrug)
I'm really starting to like this company. Free web browser, free word processor (and spreadsheet?), free language translation, free nudie pics, free scanned books, free email, free Usenet reader, and now this cool Dataset research tool.
Still not sure I want to store my documents on the internet though. (1) Not secure. (2) Government can review the documents without having to ask a judge for a warrant.) But overall I guess Google is a decent company. Why pay for stuff you can get for free and legal?
Isn't this the second time Skype went down? Wonder if it's the same cause: blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/cio_update.html (CIO update: Post-mortem on the Skype outage)
Like Sony, I thought they would have fixed this problem by now, but guess not.
>>>less remarkable recent times; who cares about MD, miniDV, DVD, DVcam, HDV or Bluray)
Every product you list came from 70s or 80s Sony, thus proving the point that Sony was more innovative in the past than the present.
The only recent product is Bluray, which isn't really "innovative". It's just a DVD with more tightly-packed tracks. It's late 80s/early 90s tech that Sony updated and gave a new name.
>>>>>follows the local streets/neighborhoods.
>>
>>No, they follow neighborhoods
I just said that. :-\
BTW if you look at the last three presidential elections, you'll see the Democrats win the city neighborhoods 99% of the time. (And vice-versa, Republicans win the surrounding suburbs/rural areas.) So your city council of 19 R's and 1 D is unlikely. It's more likely to be 100% democrat, since cities are heavily D-dominated and the republicans don't stand a chance.
You don't lie much do you? All you have to say is, "Yes I signed numerous forms, as you can see by my signature. However I did NOT sign this non-disclosure form, which is why my signature is not present. I suspect that 'scribble' was done by the nurse or maybe the doctor. i.e. a Forgery."
"But you don't know if it was a forgery."
"True. All I can say is that I did NOT sign this paper. That is NOT my signature."
MOST states use simple squares for districts, but it gets complicated when you move away from the simplicity of Iowa farmland, to a heavily-populated area like a city or suburb. The district loses its "squareness" and follows the local streets/neighborhoods.
A contract is not valid if it does not have a valid AND LEGIBLE signature. So that non-disclosure paper would be voided by the judge and you, the patient, would not be guilty of breach-of-contract since no contract exists.
Obvious.