It's "MS". You see, the 'S' is used as an abbreviation for "Soft", which is, in turn, a contraction of "Software". The '$' symbol is typically used to refer to currency, although is often used in other areas, especially programming languages.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. You're comparing millions of years of evolution and neccesity to a web services company and/or a software company.
And Microsoft acheived its monopoly through legal means.
Microsoft let me develop software for Windows for free. They even offer online help. Come to think of it, I'm sure they would have no ibjection to me giving them software for free as well.
Of course Google let you submit a site for free. Their whole business model depends on it.
People of Slashdot! We unite, righteously, against the forces of Microsoft.
Why do we do this? Because Microsoft is evil. Microsoft is a monopoly. We need to escape our dependence on Microsoft.
Yet we all use Google. Google with it's 85% market share. Google with its total control of the web search market. Google with its effective ownership of the web advertising business. Google the monopoly.
Why the hypocrisy? Why do we support one monopoly while rejecting another? Should we not avoid google, even if not to punish them, because we need to be indepenedent of our suppliers. Don't give Google control over the internet. Use the alternatives!
10 years ago I bought a sound card. Just an SB16 clone, but the audio quality is a lot better than a lot of newer cheaper cards.
The problem is, at the price sound chips cost these days, the manufacturers can get away with using a lot of low quality components. What do people care if the audio's a little crackly, or gets some interference from other components? It's cheap. They just want sound.
When they cost 10 times as much, people did care about this sort of thing. It was an expensive piece of hardware. It should work very well. They couldn't get away with poor quality components. Audio quality isn't improving any more. All the development is put into making it cheaper.
Voice is faster then either Text Messaging or Morse Code,
Depends on the information. People get a bit upset if I phone them up, say two words and then hang up.
it's already included with your phone plan,
So are text messages
and it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
Just sound like an idiot.
Besides, I lie texting. It doesn't require the other person to interrupt whatever they're doing to talk to me, is a lot faster to read, and can be used while chatting to friends.
Counterfeit is an unusual term. To me it suggests illegal copies being passed off as genuine. So they would be in a box that looks like it's from MS, with a professional looking label, but actually contains a pirate copy.
Hardly seems relevent, but thanks for letting me know. Can you expand on that?
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Microsoft is so totally innovative. After inventing the computer, they wrote BASIC. Before that there were no progamming languages. Then they brought out MS-DOS which allowed people to run programs without typing them in first. After that, they invented the Windows GUI. Then a few years later they came up with 3D graphics, then created the internet (Al Gore was working fro MS at the time).
See. Lots of original ideas there.
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Didn't they mean Google's software running on google's server?
The ceramic tiles are more failure prone than a heat shield if something hits them. Heat shields can withstand this sort of thing, especially being hit by a fairly light piece of foam.
To be honest, I think they try to get too much of the shuttle back down again. A disposable mission module would remove the need for a lot of infrastructure that exists purely to get an empty cargo hold back down.
Okay, I can appreciate the need to protect your intellectual property, but what sort of a control freak will go through megabytes of files to work out if some guy may have used a few lines of your code?
I thought the RIAA was overly protective of their rights, but it seems the open source commuity feels exactly the same way.
In what way? If someone had been caught trading music files before, and then was found to have a suspicious number of new music files on his hard disk, then yes, I guess it would lead people to be suspicious. But I can't really see that happening.
Possibly a bit of that, but I'm guessing it's also probably cheaper. They can go to modelling agencies, but they're mostly going to have established models who want a huge heap of cash. Alternatively they can get someone who doesn't already have a careers, and isn;t going to ask for top model rates.
I'm glad you don't work for NASA with your "reboots are good for you" mentality.
Why? Many safety critical systems are explicitely designed to come back up quickly after a reboot. This means if the software does crash, it doesn't matter.
Well, yes, but it was also a lot quicker. You have to realise that cinema is a totally different medium. In a episodic serial, which was the original radio format, you can get away with a lot of scene setting for the whole first episode. You can't spend 20 minutes getting through what is essentially a prologue on the screen. It takes another few minutes to get as far as being picked up by the Heart of Gold, and then the main story actually starts.
This doesn't exclude them excising most of Marvin's lines, or the best parts of the guide, but I'm quite happy to forgive them for the beginning. besides, I was very pleased they kept in my favourite joke, that only works when spoken, not in print, where the barman says, "Last orders, please".
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It's "MS". You see, the 'S' is used as an abbreviation for "Soft", which is, in turn, a contraction of "Software". The '$' symbol is typically used to refer to currency, although is often used in other areas, especially programming languages.
Hope this helps.
Uhhmmm... Your point would be?
Giving a single company a monopoly is a bad idea. It prevents competition just through being a monopoly. Legality has nothing to do with it.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. You're comparing millions of years of evolution and neccesity to a web services company and/or a software company.
And Microsoft acheived its monopoly through legal means.
Microsoft let me develop software for Windows for free. They even offer online help. Come to think of it, I'm sure they would have no ibjection to me giving them software for free as well.
Of course Google let you submit a site for free. Their whole business model depends on it.
People of Slashdot! We unite, righteously, against the forces of Microsoft.
Why do we do this? Because Microsoft is evil. Microsoft is a monopoly. We need to escape our dependence on Microsoft.
Yet we all use Google. Google with it's 85% market share. Google with its total control of the web search market. Google with its effective ownership of the web advertising business. Google the monopoly.
Why the hypocrisy? Why do we support one monopoly while rejecting another? Should we not avoid google, even if not to punish them, because we need to be indepenedent of our suppliers. Don't give Google control over the internet. Use the alternatives!
Apparently this is a myth. Still, as an analogy, it works quite nicely.
10 years ago I bought a sound card. Just an SB16 clone, but the audio quality is a lot better than a lot of newer cheaper cards.
The problem is, at the price sound chips cost these days, the manufacturers can get away with using a lot of low quality components. What do people care if the audio's a little crackly, or gets some interference from other components? It's cheap. They just want sound.
When they cost 10 times as much, people did care about this sort of thing. It was an expensive piece of hardware. It should work very well. They couldn't get away with poor quality components. Audio quality isn't improving any more. All the development is put into making it cheaper.
Looking at specs though, it looks like onboard video is still not a standard feature.
Voice is faster then either Text Messaging or Morse Code,
Depends on the information. People get a bit upset if I phone them up, say two words and then hang up.
it's already included with your phone plan,
So are text messages
and it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
Just sound like an idiot.
Besides, I lie texting. It doesn't require the other person to interrupt whatever they're doing to talk to me, is a lot faster to read, and can be used while chatting to friends.
Counterfeit is an unusual term. To me it suggests illegal copies being passed off as genuine. So they would be in a box that looks like it's from MS, with a professional looking label, but actually contains a pirate copy.
Hardly seems relevent, but thanks for letting me know. Can you expand on that?
Microsoft is so totally innovative. After inventing the computer, they wrote BASIC. Before that there were no progamming languages. Then they brought out MS-DOS which allowed people to run programs without typing them in first. After that, they invented the Windows GUI. Then a few years later they came up with 3D graphics, then created the internet (Al Gore was working fro MS at the time).
See. Lots of original ideas there.
Didn't they mean Google's software running on google's server?
I think that someone who can't use capital letters has no right to criticise.
The ceramic tiles are more failure prone than a heat shield if something hits them. Heat shields can withstand this sort of thing, especially being hit by a fairly light piece of foam.
To be honest, I think they try to get too much of the shuttle back down again. A disposable mission module would remove the need for a lot of infrastructure that exists purely to get an empty cargo hold back down.
Yes. I was wondering if they refused to pay timothy off.
Well now you know. I totally pwn those guys when it comes to illiteracy!
Good point. I must relax and read article before posting flamebait. Especially a damp squib like this one.
Talk about paranoid.
Okay, I can appreciate the need to protect your intellectual property, but what sort of a control freak will go through megabytes of files to work out if some guy may have used a few lines of your code?
I thought the RIAA was overly protective of their rights, but it seems the open source commuity feels exactly the same way.
In what way? If someone had been caught trading music files before, and then was found to have a suspicious number of new music files on his hard disk, then yes, I guess it would lead people to be suspicious. But I can't really see that happening.
Possibly a bit of that, but I'm guessing it's also probably cheaper. They can go to modelling agencies, but they're mostly going to have established models who want a huge heap of cash. Alternatively they can get someone who doesn't already have a careers, and isn;t going to ask for top model rates.
Smallville isn't about Clark Kent, silly. It's always been about Lex and Lionel Luthor.
I'm glad you don't work for NASA with your "reboots are good for you" mentality.
Why? Many safety critical systems are explicitely designed to come back up quickly after a reboot. This means if the software does crash, it doesn't matter.
Well, yes, but it was also a lot quicker. You have to realise that cinema is a totally different medium. In a episodic serial, which was the original radio format, you can get away with a lot of scene setting for the whole first episode. You can't spend 20 minutes getting through what is essentially a prologue on the screen. It takes another few minutes to get as far as being picked up by the Heart of Gold, and then the main story actually starts.
This doesn't exclude them excising most of Marvin's lines, or the best parts of the guide, but I'm quite happy to forgive them for the beginning. besides, I was very pleased they kept in my favourite joke, that only works when spoken, not in print, where the barman says, "Last orders, please".
Maybe there were two versions of the movie. A good one and a rubbish one. It would explain a lot.