Of course their reasons for doing it are not benevolent, they want software designed for Windows so that users want to use Windows.
No, it is stronger than that. Microsoft want users to be locked into Windows, not just use it. If you don't see that, you fall for their hook. You think you are just using Microsoft products, when all the while they are using you.
Microsoft are not into competing. They are into controlling the market. They want users who cannot change to alternative technology without great cost to the user.
Microsoft only support other technologies when it helps them to retain users or gain users - i.e. when they are not market-dominant. Once they have users caught up in the Microsoft web, they make exit as difficult as possible.
Microsoft have abused their monopolies before now to do exactly this sort of thing. There is nothing about Microsoft to suggest that.NET is any different.
Maybe, but if you only smoke the other 14, you should be OK.
Unless the 15th one isn't labeled, then it's harder./me ducks
Now there's a business idea: packets of cigarettes with every fifteenth cigarette labelled for your cancer-free pleasure. I am sure the tobacco industry will love it.
Next up, we will just sell packets of cigarettes with all the fifteenth ones removed.
And the good news is: I won't even patent this business method! I am giving it away.
At least in Australia, a "tribunal" is not a judicial body (a court of law), but a "quasi-judicial" body presided over by a lawyer or some similar person without tenure.
However, it is not uncommon for tribunal decisions to be subject to appeal to a "real" court.
I don't know the details of the NZ copyright tribunal, but it sounds better than "three complaints and you're out". At least, with a tribunal, it will be "three upheld complaints and you're out".
Sometimes we are not entitled to an opinion - to be taken seriously. If I walked into a heart surgery theatre (suitably sterile) and gave my opinion about the appropriate treatment, the surgeons there would be entitled to say "Throw the idiot out".
The problem is, most of us humans know we don't understand heart surgery. Many of us humans don't realise how ignorant we are about other subjects too.
I know of a case where two young police officers were left staking out a house. When the senior officer returned, his young colleagues had caught someone coming out of the house and wrestled them to the ground and arrested them for resisting the police.
It turned out they had nabbed the wrong person coming out of the house - it wasn't a "person of interest" to the police, but effectively an innocent bystander. So the accused's (really the victim's) only crime was reacting "wrongly" to a sudden, mistaken arrest by a couple of inexperienced police officers who should have checked before leaping out at their prey.
The innocent person still got convicted of resisting arrest, though.
Likewise, the eldery are susceptible to several diseases that lead to a loss of muscle strength and coordination. By blocking myostatin, we may all be able to live with the strength of our youth even as we age into our 80s."
To my wife after the movie: If I were a vampire, I'd kick Edward's ass for making us all look like effeminate pansies. And why do sparkly vampires get to watch teenage girls sleep, but I get in trouble for looking too closely at professional cheerleaders on TV?
Clearly, the solution is to switch over to watching amateur cheerleaders on TV.
Thepost-WWII period was a golden economic age for a large percentage of the population in the West. Unfortunately, with deregulation from the 1980s onwards exploitation has increased again.
Yeah, like I too, man, think that, like the whole western world came to its peak, man, at Woodstock, back in '69.
People communicate - that is one of the three ways we know things (the other two are reason and our direct experience).
We know lots of things by communication... because we trust the people who communicated it. How many people take the time to verify for themselves everything they read in science books? I have never been to Moscow, but I know it exists - and I have never seen a proof from pure reason that a Moscow must exist, so that rules out both experience and reason. I know Moscow exists by communication from people who have been there - and I trust them.
The human race is built on shared experience - which means trust.
Fortunately, the educated still refer to it as petitio principii, thus distinguishing themselves from those who use the mutable and imprecise vernacular.
I have all these great ideas for an essay, but when I go to write it, the ideas all disappear.
I wish I could just think the essay when I am in my creative mood and thinking faster than I can write, and then the essay would just appear out of the printer.
You seem to forget the fact that there are over 80 million gun-owners in the US
They are not all in one place
They do not have: machine guns; tanks; artillery; aircraft; cruisers and aircraft carriers; missiles; weapons of mass destruction... the BIG stuff.
They do not have a leader (aka organisation)
The armed forces have all the above.
The 80 million gun owners might just be suspicious enough of each other to start their own civil war, without the military stepping in.
Have a look what happened when a superior force of armed peasants rose up against the King of England (Wat Tyler - look up Wikipedia) - they were outsmarted - not outgunned.
The people are stupid, at least they are stupider than the people at the top. And if the armed people did win, things could well be worse.
The fact that mathematics, even very abstract mathematics, accurately models the natural world is a deep mystery.
Of course, you have to pick your maths to find one that models the world.
When I add boxes of apples, they don't happen to conform to modulo 2 arithmetic. Why? 3D space doesn't conform to Euclidean geometry, even though for hundreds of years people thought it did. Why?
There are different arithmetics and geometries. Maybe I could design a world which uses a different arithmetic, or a different geometry to our world. Why does our world make the mathematical choices that it does?
What mathematics the real world uses can only be known empirically.
I spliced in a trojan to my DNA. If I'm cloned in anything but my specific method, I'll instead turn out as a 70ft tall dinosaur human hybrid with fire breath, laser beam eyes, and the ability to fly. I dare them to clone me.
How is that different to what you are now?
PS: On the Internet no one knows you are a 70ft tall dinosaur human hybrid...
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I am a pure skeptic: I am skeptical about skepticism itself.
(hint: big glowing day-star is shining plenty of energy on us).
You'd think that they would have come up with a better name for that by now.
It's a bitch having to write today's name as "Big Glowing Day-Star Day" all the time.
Of course their reasons for doing it are not benevolent, they want software designed for Windows so that users want to use Windows.
No, it is stronger than that. Microsoft want users to be locked into Windows, not just use it. If you don't see that, you fall for their hook. You think you are just using Microsoft products, when all the while they are using you.
Microsoft are not into competing. They are into controlling the market. They want users who cannot change to alternative technology without great cost to the user.
Microsoft only support other technologies when it helps them to retain users or gain users - i.e. when they are not market-dominant. Once they have users caught up in the Microsoft web, they make exit as difficult as possible.
Microsoft have abused their monopolies before now to do exactly this sort of thing. There is nothing about Microsoft to suggest that .NET is any different.
the 1 in 15 smokes stat is a real motivator!
Maybe, but if you only smoke the other 14, you should be OK.
Unless the 15th one isn't labeled, then it's harder. /me ducks
Now there's a business idea: packets of cigarettes with every fifteenth cigarette labelled for your cancer-free pleasure. I am sure the tobacco industry will love it.
Next up, we will just sell packets of cigarettes with all the fifteenth ones removed.
And the good news is: I won't even patent this business method! I am giving it away.
At least in Australia, a "tribunal" is not a judicial body (a court of law), but a "quasi-judicial" body presided over by a lawyer or some similar person without tenure.
However, it is not uncommon for tribunal decisions to be subject to appeal to a "real" court.
I don't know the details of the NZ copyright tribunal, but it sounds better than "three complaints and you're out". At least, with a tribunal, it will be "three upheld complaints and you're out".
It's alright. The Yellowstone Caldera will blow up long before then and kill us all. So we won't be around to face the heat death of the Sun.
It is good to know these things.
All people are equal.
All opinions are not equal.
Sometimes we are not entitled to an opinion - to be taken seriously. If I walked into a heart surgery theatre (suitably sterile) and gave my opinion about the appropriate treatment, the surgeons there would be entitled to say "Throw the idiot out".
The problem is, most of us humans know we don't understand heart surgery. Many of us humans don't realise how ignorant we are about other subjects too.
on the other hand, this may be another victory in the war on tourism.[my emphasis]
Oh is THAT what President Bush was saying?
Now it all makes sense. I am sure you can win the war on tourism.
I know of a case where two young police officers were left staking out a house. When the senior officer returned, his young colleagues had caught someone coming out of the house and wrestled them to the ground and arrested them for resisting the police.
It turned out they had nabbed the wrong person coming out of the house - it wasn't a "person of interest" to the police, but effectively an innocent bystander. So the accused's (really the victim's) only crime was reacting "wrongly" to a sudden, mistaken arrest by a couple of inexperienced police officers who should have checked before leaping out at their prey.
The innocent person still got convicted of resisting arrest, though.
Likewise, the eldery are susceptible to several diseases that lead to a loss of muscle strength and coordination. By blocking myostatin, we may all be able to live with the strength of our youth even as we age into our 80s."
Get off my lawn or I'll THROW you off!
Couldn't this be tweaked and used as a method of hibernation to stave off boredom...
...at work?
To my wife after the movie: If I were a vampire, I'd kick Edward's ass for making us all look like effeminate pansies. And why do sparkly vampires get to watch teenage girls sleep, but I get in trouble for looking too closely at professional cheerleaders on TV?
Clearly, the solution is to switch over to watching amateur cheerleaders on TV.
Problem is, it is always the government who gets to decide whether any particular provision is needed to protect the people from government.
That is why bullet-proof vests are outlawed. The government got to decide whether the people needed them.
Since you're not telling us what you're actually planning to do with the OS, might as well advice some random OS based on no reason whatsoever.
I was favouring OS/360 myself. He sounded like he wanted a challenge.
And Multics would have been my second choice.
CP/M is a great idea, but too simple. Something BIG and totally irrelevant is called for here.
Thepost-WWII period was a golden economic age for a large percentage of the population in the West. Unfortunately, with deregulation from the 1980s onwards exploitation has increased again.
Yeah, like I too, man, think that, like the whole western world came to its peak, man, at Woodstock, back in '69.
Like far out. Been a huge bummer ride since then.
All faith is blind.
Your girlfriend ditched you, huh?
Faith is trusting people. Or not.
People communicate - that is one of the three ways we know things (the other two are reason and our direct experience).
We know lots of things by communication ... because we trust the people who communicated it. How many people take the time to verify for themselves everything they read in science books? I have never been to Moscow, but I know it exists - and I have never seen a proof from pure reason that a Moscow must exist, so that rules out both experience and reason. I know Moscow exists by communication from people who have been there - and I trust them.
The human race is built on shared experience - which means trust.
"Carbon offsets" is a joke, wake up people! Any emission is an emission.
I hold all my farts in sir!
1. Then you are inflating like a balloon.
2. I do not wish to be around when your balloon-like self bursts.
The meaning of the phrase has changed.
The phrase used to refer to "a logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise."[1]
Now it means, "I'm trying to sound like I'm well educated, but I'm not."
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Fortunately, the educated still refer to it as petitio principii, thus distinguishing themselves from those who use the mutable and imprecise vernacular.
Besides, when the price is that low, people tend to start thinking of these netbooks as "disposable" and worry less about problems.
Besides, when the price is that low, OEMs tend to start thinking of these netbooks as "disposable" and worry less about problems.
It's about time they're getting to the point of doing something that might be useful.
The phrase you are looking for is: "Hurry up."
I have all these great ideas for an essay, but when I go to write it, the ideas all disappear.
I wish I could just think the essay when I am in my creative mood and thinking faster than I can write, and then the essay would just appear out of the printer.
That would be seriously cool.
It is actually a cunning plot: to make the people SO sick of copyright that we abolish it.
So far, the plot is on course. We are sick of it.
You seem to forget the fact that there are over 80 million gun-owners in the US
They are not all in one place
They do not have: machine guns; tanks; artillery; aircraft; cruisers and aircraft carriers; missiles; weapons of mass destruction ... the BIG stuff.
They do not have a leader (aka organisation)
The armed forces have all the above.
The 80 million gun owners might just be suspicious enough of each other to start their own civil war, without the military stepping in.
Have a look what happened when a superior force of armed peasants rose up against the King of England (Wat Tyler - look up Wikipedia) - they were outsmarted - not outgunned.
The people are stupid, at least they are stupider than the people at the top. And if the armed people did win, things could well be worse.
The fact that mathematics, even very abstract mathematics, accurately models the natural world is a deep mystery.
Of course, you have to pick your maths to find one that models the world.
When I add boxes of apples, they don't happen to conform to modulo 2 arithmetic. Why? 3D space doesn't conform to Euclidean geometry, even though for hundreds of years people thought it did. Why?
There are different arithmetics and geometries. Maybe I could design a world which uses a different arithmetic, or a different geometry to our world. Why does our world make the mathematical choices that it does?
What mathematics the real world uses can only be known empirically.
I spliced in a trojan to my DNA. If I'm cloned in anything but my specific method, I'll instead turn out as a 70ft tall dinosaur human hybrid with fire breath, laser beam eyes, and the ability to fly. I dare them to clone me.
How is that different to what you are now?
PS: On the Internet no one knows you are a 70ft tall dinosaur human hybrid...