The usefulness, of course, which will be destroyed the first time there is a legal challenge. A legal challenge not from the casinos, but from the parents of a out of state teen who "borrowed" their credit card, and are attempting to overturn the debt.
Or, you know, the Japanese could just spec in new reactor that's built to withstand a stronger quake / tsunami. Kind of like New Orleans, which was only protected up to level 3, and it needed a level 5 to survive Katrina.
But yes, the cover-up at Fukushima is reprehensible, and on the same level of the Western media declaring the end of the world during the same time. It's make it difficult to defend a highly useful technology in discussions like these when I'm forced to factor in human nature.
If MS's problem is with the users here, then MS's problem is with the developers & IT support people for its platform. That's a hell of a problem.
A smaller company might, given the rather vocal & enthusiastic bashing of its not-even-released-yet product, take a step back, and seriously ponder that.
Perhaps for the same reason known Soviet spies were not arrested; they're easier to watch.
The thinking goes that at any given time in a country, there are a fair number of spies from foreign powers. The naive approach is to arrest them, and deport / imprison them. The pragmatic approach is to watch them, see who they meet / what they are doing, because if they are officially caught, a foreign power will just replace them with new spies, who may not be discovered this time. Lots of exhaustive manpower, as it may take multiple agents to track a single spy, let alone discover one, and a local power's resources are finite.
Sadly, the constant blaring of the klaxons is likely to create a devastating scenario where a real threat goes unnoticed. Classic case of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf."
Well, they've been crying wolf for quite some time now. Can't wait to see what slips through the net due to their negligence / power schemes; smart money would say it will be something new.
So far as I can tell, we're having a 'Pharaoh tells the tide not to come in' situation here -> MS believes that because they are the most popular desktop / laptop OS, they can actually decide what the end-user will like; as opposed to the reality, which is that the end-user likes what MS has put out (on average), which is why they are the most popular desktop / laptop OS.
You see this kind of thing everywhere, like when an actor's / actresses's ego goes to their head (good roles help them become famous, they start believing because they're famous any role they play will be good, they stop looking for good roles, their fame / fortune drops).
Windows 8, however, will have a glorious debut. When OEMs start shipping that with new computers, instead of Windows 7, MS is bound to meet their predictions of Windows 8 being 'their biggest launch / fastest growing OS ever!" Allowing for inflation, it will also probably be their "highest grossing OS ever" as well. Accounting tricks / Hollywood math, which most of us are aware of. However, I imagine a different story will be told in several months time, with the MS marketing team going into overdrive to push the product into various corporate places. The front lines (IT) have already decided that every PC they spec for the next few years is going to get Windows XP or 7; anything that comes in with 8 will probably be wiped.
Bullsh*t. Windows upgrades happen for a number of reasons, but the #1 reason they don't is if IT doesn't consider it a "upgrade." Which is what Windows 8 is falling short of here -> we've had developer / consumer previews, and aside from the MS marketing team (hi guys), we're giving it a thumbs down.
But then there's enough marketing types trying to push this product that I doubt MS is even aware of the problem (300,000 enthusiastic IT people looking forward to Windows 8, who are mostly shills / actually marketing trying to drum up support for the new product, plays havoc with polls).
And yes, I would know -> I've been playing admin since NT 4.0, have been around for the big Windows 2000 roll-outs, and have watched MS do some pretty dumb things.
Scaring people whose understanding of science does not extend beyond high-school biology? I'd say they've succeeded in trolling a fair portion of the human race.
Fairly certain "Genetically-Modified" foods colloquially refers to foods in which genetic material has been inserted, removed, or mutated via gene-splicing & friends. Selectively bred food is not considered a "Genetically-Modified" food, except perhaps as a retcon.
When you breed a pair of dogs together for certain traits, the offspring are not considered "Genetically-Modified." When you splice in a gene into a canine embryo, which causes the pup to fluoresce green under a UV light, that is "Genetically-Modified."
Nonsense. CBS got what it wanted -> more viewers feeling faux outrage who will recommend that their friends and family watch the CBS report to 'get the facts about what they've been saying for years.' Temporarily, their viewership goes up, CBS makes a little more money off of their sponsors / advertisers / whatever, they apologize later about 'their mistake,' wash, rinse, repeat.
In a way, he's right. Consider what happened with Fukushima -> even though the reactor was ~50 years old, and was designed to survive what was considered a fairly unlikely, but powerful earthquake, this did not prevent a bunch of dime-store politicians from attempting to extract as much political capital as they could from the situation. Broad declarations were made less than a month after the incident, with unaffected countries making grand statements of embracing green technologies & shutting off their nuclear reactors. The same politicians, mind you, having gotten all they were going to get from that incident, who have turned around, and are now ordering those nuclear reactors back online, or, if they have found themselves backed into a corner by their own words, are preparing to build a large number of coal power plants.
So yes, it may affect GMs, with a number of ill-informed members of the human race switching from vitamin-enhanced products to 'organic' versions. When their kids come down with some really interesting nutritional deficiencies, their homeopathic doctors will probably recommend removing the kids' spleens or something.
Attempting to debate that quote (Steve Metalitz) requires bringing the opposition up to a level of understanding of both computers and networks which may not be readily achievable. It just requires four or five years of heavy technology training which I don't see them submitting to anytime soon.
However, I will attempt an analogy, that they may or may not be able to grasp: "If I start a small fire, at my campsite in the forest, why doesn't that fire consume the whole earth?"
"the people who were calling us did not understand the bill any better than we did" -> Which brings up a major point. They clearly did not understand the bill they were attempting to pass. That's typically not a good sign.
Indeed. Consider it a scorched earth policy, as most of the internet-savvy people prefer not to have to play the game of 'Whack-A-Mole' with Congress's ability to reintroduce similar bills, almost on top of each other. It's a broad "No, not now, hopefully never."
Exactly. Saying it works in Somalia, and needs to be brought immediately to the US, because 'it works there,' is a far cry from an endorsement.
But more importantly, is the understanding of 'If site blocking broke the internet, then the internet would already be broken,' which again, shows the utter cluelessness of this bill's proponents. These are the people, I remind you, who f*cked with compact discs and the error correction technology, because they woefully believed it would somehow prevent end-users from copying them; and in doing so, made it so one little scratch renders the disc unreadable. They managed to defeat the intrinsic error-correction scheme that is a part of the compact disc's spec, and screw over many of their customers to boot.
Their understanding of technology is super-bad. They are like my younger brother, whose lack of understanding of networking does not prevent him from plugging a network cable from the LAN into the WAN port of any item with a DHCP server, thus kicking everyone off the network. The only thing they are accomplishing with their mad schemes is f*cking up the internet, turning what was once a thriving ecosystem into a wasteland.
Indeed./. has a quote at the bottom of the page, which I find fitting to this discussion: "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it." -- Desiderius Erasmus
Careful. Even though the First Amendment protects your freedom of speech, there are crazy people in darkly lit buildings who are going to wonder whether or not you or I are 'seditious' agents, here to undermine democracy. Sad, sad people, who think that people should be afraid to speak what's on their minds.
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The usefulness, of course, which will be destroyed the first time there is a legal challenge. A legal challenge not from the casinos, but from the parents of a out of state teen who "borrowed" their credit card, and are attempting to overturn the debt.
Or, you know, the Japanese could just spec in new reactor that's built to withstand a stronger quake / tsunami. Kind of like New Orleans, which was only protected up to level 3, and it needed a level 5 to survive Katrina.
But yes, the cover-up at Fukushima is reprehensible, and on the same level of the Western media declaring the end of the world during the same time. It's make it difficult to defend a highly useful technology in discussions like these when I'm forced to factor in human nature.
If MS's problem is with the users here, then MS's problem is with the developers & IT support people for its platform. That's a hell of a problem.
A smaller company might, given the rather vocal & enthusiastic bashing of its not-even-released-yet product, take a step back, and seriously ponder that.
Perhaps for the same reason known Soviet spies were not arrested; they're easier to watch.
The thinking goes that at any given time in a country, there are a fair number of spies from foreign powers. The naive approach is to arrest them, and deport / imprison them. The pragmatic approach is to watch them, see who they meet / what they are doing, because if they are officially caught, a foreign power will just replace them with new spies, who may not be discovered this time. Lots of exhaustive manpower, as it may take multiple agents to track a single spy, let alone discover one, and a local power's resources are finite.
Sadly, the constant blaring of the klaxons is likely to create a devastating scenario where a real threat goes unnoticed. Classic case of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf."
Well, they've been crying wolf for quite some time now. Can't wait to see what slips through the net due to their negligence / power schemes; smart money would say it will be something new.
So far as I can tell, we're having a 'Pharaoh tells the tide not to come in' situation here -> MS believes that because they are the most popular desktop / laptop OS, they can actually decide what the end-user will like; as opposed to the reality, which is that the end-user likes what MS has put out (on average), which is why they are the most popular desktop / laptop OS.
You see this kind of thing everywhere, like when an actor's / actresses's ego goes to their head (good roles help them become famous, they start believing because they're famous any role they play will be good, they stop looking for good roles, their fame / fortune drops).
Windows 8, however, will have a glorious debut. When OEMs start shipping that with new computers, instead of Windows 7, MS is bound to meet their predictions of Windows 8 being 'their biggest launch / fastest growing OS ever!" Allowing for inflation, it will also probably be their "highest grossing OS ever" as well. Accounting tricks / Hollywood math, which most of us are aware of. However, I imagine a different story will be told in several months time, with the MS marketing team going into overdrive to push the product into various corporate places. The front lines (IT) have already decided that every PC they spec for the next few years is going to get Windows XP or 7; anything that comes in with 8 will probably be wiped.
r/Microsoft, from what I can tell. Similar discussion on my front page, albeit with completely opposite responses to what you see on /.
Bullsh*t. Windows upgrades happen for a number of reasons, but the #1 reason they don't is if IT doesn't consider it a "upgrade." Which is what Windows 8 is falling short of here -> we've had developer / consumer previews, and aside from the MS marketing team (hi guys), we're giving it a thumbs down.
But then there's enough marketing types trying to push this product that I doubt MS is even aware of the problem (300,000 enthusiastic IT people looking forward to Windows 8, who are mostly shills / actually marketing trying to drum up support for the new product, plays havoc with polls).
And yes, I would know -> I've been playing admin since NT 4.0, have been around for the big Windows 2000 roll-outs, and have watched MS do some pretty dumb things.
And yes, the plight of African-Americans was once minimized as you are now doing.
Yes, and Windows is immune to Mac security bugs.
It's like a Someone Else's Problem (SEP) field run in reverse; instead of people subconsciously avoiding the problem, they're all drawn to it.
Scaring people whose understanding of science does not extend beyond high-school biology? I'd say they've succeeded in trolling a fair portion of the human race.
Fairly certain "Genetically-Modified" foods colloquially refers to foods in which genetic material has been inserted, removed, or mutated via gene-splicing & friends. Selectively bred food is not considered a "Genetically-Modified" food, except perhaps as a retcon.
When you breed a pair of dogs together for certain traits, the offspring are not considered "Genetically-Modified."
When you splice in a gene into a canine embryo, which causes the pup to fluoresce green under a UV light, that is "Genetically-Modified."
Stop trying to confuse people.
Nonsense. CBS got what it wanted -> more viewers feeling faux outrage who will recommend that their friends and family watch the CBS report to 'get the facts about what they've been saying for years.' Temporarily, their viewership goes up, CBS makes a little more money off of their sponsors / advertisers / whatever, they apologize later about 'their mistake,' wash, rinse, repeat.
In a way, he's right. Consider what happened with Fukushima -> even though the reactor was ~50 years old, and was designed to survive what was considered a fairly unlikely, but powerful earthquake, this did not prevent a bunch of dime-store politicians from attempting to extract as much political capital as they could from the situation. Broad declarations were made less than a month after the incident, with unaffected countries making grand statements of embracing green technologies & shutting off their nuclear reactors. The same politicians, mind you, having gotten all they were going to get from that incident, who have turned around, and are now ordering those nuclear reactors back online, or, if they have found themselves backed into a corner by their own words, are preparing to build a large number of coal power plants.
So yes, it may affect GMs, with a number of ill-informed members of the human race switching from vitamin-enhanced products to 'organic' versions. When their kids come down with some really interesting nutritional deficiencies, their homeopathic doctors will probably recommend removing the kids' spleens or something.
Attempting to debate that quote (Steve Metalitz) requires bringing the opposition up to a level of understanding of both computers and networks which may not be readily achievable. It just requires four or five years of heavy technology training which I don't see them submitting to anytime soon.
However, I will attempt an analogy, that they may or may not be able to grasp: "If I start a small fire, at my campsite in the forest, why doesn't that fire consume the whole earth?"
And there's their answer.
"the people who were calling us did not understand the bill any better than we did" -> Which brings up a major point. They clearly did not understand the bill they were attempting to pass. That's typically not a good sign.
Seconded.
Indeed. Consider it a scorched earth policy, as most of the internet-savvy people prefer not to have to play the game of 'Whack-A-Mole' with Congress's ability to reintroduce similar bills, almost on top of each other. It's a broad "No, not now, hopefully never."
Taking down the site with only an accusation, not a conviction.
Exactly. Saying it works in Somalia, and needs to be brought immediately to the US, because 'it works there,' is a far cry from an endorsement.
But more importantly, is the understanding of 'If site blocking broke the internet, then the internet would already be broken,' which again, shows the utter cluelessness of this bill's proponents. These are the people, I remind you, who f*cked with compact discs and the error correction technology, because they woefully believed it would somehow prevent end-users from copying them; and in doing so, made it so one little scratch renders the disc unreadable. They managed to defeat the intrinsic error-correction scheme that is a part of the compact disc's spec, and screw over many of their customers to boot.
Their understanding of technology is super-bad. They are like my younger brother, whose lack of understanding of networking does not prevent him from plugging a network cable from the LAN into the WAN port of any item with a DHCP server, thus kicking everyone off the network. The only thing they are accomplishing with their mad schemes is f*cking up the internet, turning what was once a thriving ecosystem into a wasteland.
I'm curious how many Stream processors Intel can fit into a dedicated chip.
Fascinating idea. I thought the main issue was that some of their OpenGl code was licensed to them, and that license was non-transferable.
Indeed. /. has a quote at the bottom of the page, which I find fitting to this discussion: "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it." -- Desiderius Erasmus
Careful. Even though the First Amendment protects your freedom of speech, there are crazy people in darkly lit buildings who are going to wonder whether or not you or I are 'seditious' agents, here to undermine democracy. Sad, sad people, who think that people should be afraid to speak what's on their minds.