That when you try to fix one problem, you almost always invent a new one?
Prime example, using cats to get rid of mice....but than theres to many cats right? well lets roll in the dogs.. what? now too many dogs? ok lets bring in........
Actually, capitalism partly rests on "division of labour". Dell can build PCs and do it cheaply - and handle the issues of compatibility testing, etc that backyard/amateur operators (that's you) cannot do. You can specialise in your work that Dell cannot do. That is the most efficient arrangement.
You trying to be Dell is just setting yourself up to fail at their job and at your own.
Do you also propose to build your own cars? Construct your own offices? Mill your own paper?
"Your Honor, Defendant's misrepresentation caused me to lose an election for the US Senate. This has cost me a Senate seat; as damages I would like Defendant to sign over to me one of its paid-for senators."
The Amazon store brings some walled garden stuff, but my fear is that cell phone makers and providers will end up locking phones only to Amazon's store. Of course, they can be rooted so one could use the Google App Store.
In any case, this isn't a boon for developers, mainly because they now have at least two places they must keep their apps updated in.
Um, you have heard of Android tablets, haven't you?
How many of these can access the Google App Store and download apps? I don't know for sure myself, but I cannot do it on my Android tablet. So I'm pleased to find other stores where I can get apps. Heck, I am pleased I can get the Amazon Kindle app without going to the (for me) non-functioning Google App Store.
Except that I've heard of people deliberately adding people to acknowledgements to try to make sure they don't get those people as referees (and it hasn't worked)!
Well it obviously did work once. Someone got Remus Shepherd off their referees list.
The difference between engineering majors and business majors:
The part of the flowchart that says "then a miracle occurs" is a joke to engineering majors. For business majors, it's a required step that makes perfect sense.
Business major:
1. Plan attack
2. ????
3. Success!
Engineer:
1. Plan attack
2. Implement attack
3. target destroyed.
4. ????
5. Get the girl
They both rely on miracles, just in different phases.
That guy is my local member.... er, maybe that is not the best word to use on this topic.
Someone at the state parliament did an [i]unauthorised[/i] investigation into what the politicians were doing on the parliamentary network, etc. Personally, I am more concerned about this kind of spying than about what the member of parliament was looking at. Great way to manipulate the political process. Could someone snoop and then blackmail parliamentarians? At the very least, a disgruntled employee could leak information about embarrassing private activities... but only those pertaining to one side of the political spectrum. Wouldn't be the first time (Australians will remember the name Grech).
I had a friend and he relied on anecdotal evidence and he got really sick. So I wouldn't rely on it if I were you.
See? That is how you deal with anecdotal evidence: you tell an anecdote that "disproves" anecdotes. And what if the anti-anecdotal anecdote is made up? All the better. How many anecdotes do you think are true in the first place?
Actually, Android is already shipping on netbooks. Granted they're referred to as smartbooks when they run a smartphone OS, but the device is basically a netbook that runs Android.
You can buy it with "Andriod" or the appropriately named WinCE.
I have a 7" tablet with the same CPU and version of Android as this device and it is usable - the netbook is tempting in some ways... a keyboard is useful when doing any input, but an annoyance when (say) reading an eBook.
Maybe I'm just a Luddite, but half the appeal of learning from a book (especially for a subject like math) was the ability to quickly flip between half a dozen pages to get to the right charts, reference sheets, and examples, and being able to scribble my illegible notes in the margins. I guess you could do it with an iPad with bookmarks and annotations, but I can't imagine it being anywhere near as natural or as easy as you can with a regular old textbook.
Back in my day, we wrote in cuneiform on clay blocks. None of your flipping over pages to view graphs or reference sheets.
The only solution is to take money out of elections entirely by mandating public financing for all elections and forbidding any private money at all to be used in campaigning.
Or... get rid of elections and election funding altogether. Select a representative body from a straified sample of willing candidates - straified accorif=ding to the population. You end up with a representative body, somewhat like a jury.
You could also have an upper house with an IQ threshold: the people choose the laws, subject to a senate of the brightest people. At no point will corporate support (aka bribes) be needed.
The issue is "Maybe he is really acting FOR Microsoft by suing its competitors".
After all, as you recognise, he is in cohoots with the past and present CEOs of MS - and is one of its two founders.
So the issue is: Does Microsoft get a crony to sue its competitors when MS cannot compete? There is a name for that activity: anti-competitive. Not a good look for a company found to be an anti-competitive, abusive monopolist in the past.
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Well I guess you could easily make the telegraph poles out of something you find in the wilderness.
That when you try to fix one problem, you almost always invent a new one?
Prime example, using cats to get rid of mice....but than theres to many cats right? well lets roll in the dogs.. what? now too many dogs? ok lets bring in........
Some things are just better left alone
Us catz wants u to get rid of barkin fings, OK?
Sum fings is NOT ok, OK?
PS: neva too many catz. Neva.
Actually, capitalism partly rests on "division of labour". Dell can build PCs and do it cheaply - and handle the issues of compatibility testing, etc that backyard/amateur operators (that's you) cannot do. You can specialise in your work that Dell cannot do. That is the most efficient arrangement.
You trying to be Dell is just setting yourself up to fail at their job and at your own.
Do you also propose to build your own cars? Construct your own offices? Mill your own paper?
No, that should be pretty simple.
"Your Honor, Defendant's misrepresentation caused me to lose an election for the US Senate. This has cost me a Senate seat; as damages I would like Defendant to sign over to me one of its paid-for senators."
That's what I call "an Aye for an Aye".
I just spin mine around like a propeller.
If you do it fast enough it can even catch all the movies running at 24 frames a second while it is briefly horizontal.
Unanimous ... I bet the US senate would be closer to unanimous in the other direction.
Smaller countries know when they are being taken to the cleaners.
Chess.
Just what Android needs, more fragmentation.
The Amazon store brings some walled garden stuff, but my fear is that cell phone makers and providers will end up locking phones only to Amazon's store. Of course, they can be rooted so one could use the Google App Store.
In any case, this isn't a boon for developers, mainly because they now have at least two places they must keep their apps updated in.
Um, you have heard of Android tablets, haven't you?
How many of these can access the Google App Store and download apps? I don't know for sure myself, but I cannot do it on my Android tablet. So I'm pleased to find other stores where I can get apps. Heck, I am pleased I can get the Amazon Kindle app without going to the (for me) non-functioning Google App Store.
And the transparent pilots cabin ... oh, look, both pilots are asleep!
Except that I've heard of people deliberately adding people to acknowledgements to try to make sure they don't get those people as referees (and it hasn't worked)!
Well it obviously did work once. Someone got Remus Shepherd off their referees list.
The difference between engineering majors and business majors:
The part of the flowchart that says "then a miracle occurs" is a joke to engineering majors. For business majors, it's a required step that makes perfect sense.
Business major:
1. Plan attack
2. ????
3. Success!
Engineer:
1. Plan attack
2. Implement attack
3. target destroyed.
4. ????
5. Get the girl
They both rely on miracles, just in different phases.
That guy is my local member .... er, maybe that is not the best word to use on this topic.
Someone at the state parliament did an [i]unauthorised[/i] investigation into what the politicians were doing on the parliamentary network, etc. Personally, I am more concerned about this kind of spying than about what the member of parliament was looking at. Great way to manipulate the political process. Could someone snoop and then blackmail parliamentarians? At the very least, a disgruntled employee could leak information about embarrassing private activities ... but only those pertaining to one side of the political spectrum. Wouldn't be the first time (Australians will remember the name Grech).
I had a friend and he relied on anecdotal evidence and he got really sick. So I wouldn't rely on it if I were you.
See? That is how you deal with anecdotal evidence: you tell an anecdote that "disproves" anecdotes. And what if the anti-anecdotal anecdote is made up? All the better. How many anecdotes do you think are true in the first place?
Actually, Android is already shipping on netbooks. Granted they're referred to as smartbooks when they run a smartphone OS, but the device is basically a netbook that runs Android.
Like this little thing being sold by an Australian company: http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/products/configure.asp?c1=3&c2=12&id=3169
You can buy it with "Andriod" or the appropriately named WinCE.
I have a 7" tablet with the same CPU and version of Android as this device and it is usable - the netbook is tempting in some ways ... a keyboard is useful when doing any input, but an annoyance when (say) reading an eBook.
With Chrome, you can focus all your attention on ads without being distracted with other software.
Sort of like television - only more portable.
Maybe I'm just a Luddite, but half the appeal of learning from a book (especially for a subject like math) was the ability to quickly flip between half a dozen pages to get to the right charts, reference sheets, and examples, and being able to scribble my illegible notes in the margins. I guess you could do it with an iPad with bookmarks and annotations, but I can't imagine it being anywhere near as natural or as easy as you can with a regular old textbook.
Back in my day, we wrote in cuneiform on clay blocks. None of your flipping over pages to view graphs or reference sheets.
Damn kids these days and their newfangled books!
This is a story about Hollywood, right?
I like the idea of Australia being a major wine power.
Suppose the US, China or Russia tried to attack us, being superior military powers.
We simply get their military drunk, and we win.
He who rules the vine, rules the world! Bwahahaha!
Wow. I actually got first post.
Can I have my own autograph?
Just tie a rope to them from your spaceship and tow them back to earth.
The only solution is to take money out of elections entirely by mandating public financing for all elections and forbidding any private money at all to be used in campaigning.
Or ... get rid of elections and election funding altogether. Select a representative body from a straified sample of willing candidates - straified accorif=ding to the population. You end up with a representative body, somewhat like a jury.
You could also have an upper house with an IQ threshold: the people choose the laws, subject to a senate of the brightest people. At no point will corporate support (aka bribes) be needed.
Yes. To be democratic, a corporation would have to be managed by a board elected by the employees - one employee, one vote.
There are corporations like this, but most corporations are pure plutocracies, like the parent said.
In political terms, corporations are still stuck in the 1700s and early 1800s: they are ruled by the propertied classes alone.
The issue is not "Why doesn't he sue Microsoft?"
The issue is "Maybe he is really acting FOR Microsoft by suing its competitors".
After all, as you recognise, he is in cohoots with the past and present CEOs of MS - and is one of its two founders.
So the issue is: Does Microsoft get a crony to sue its competitors when MS cannot compete? There is a name for that activity: anti-competitive. Not a good look for a company found to be an anti-competitive, abusive monopolist in the past.
I'll just use my other car.
Trains don't get diverted to totally different cities because of fog and snow.