When I was a kid we heard a story going around about piping Great Lakes water to Arizona, a couple thousand miles of pipe necessary, and laughed it off as garbage. Reading Cadillac Desert I found it wasn't fantasy, but actively being pursued.
Nowadays our goal seems to sling BS around the world at the speed of light.
The BBC frequently runs AP stories just like Fox. I think world wide they have more and better reporters, but those people are not often published.
Alas, with all the cuts to the BBC it is suffering a bit, but still far, far better than Fox.
Fox is the mouthpiece of Rupert Murdoch, same as The Sun (and former Sun on Sunday - News of the World) they're all rotten to the core and great friends with conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic.
Historically, in absolute numbers, there are more people that like Windows than like MacOS. People loved Windows 3.1. People loved XP. People loved 2000. People love 7. There are a higher percentage of OSX users that love OSX than Windows users who love Windows, but that is because everyone who doesn't care, uses Windows, and corporations use Windows.
People may have liked Win 3.1, but getting stuff to work in it was a nightmare.
This worked to Apple's advantage with the Mac.
Gates knew this and worked on copying Mac OS to create Windows 95. Small wonder Jobs was bitter over others copying his company's work and profiting from it.
... That he saw Java as a major threat to Microsoft says something about how myopic he could be.
Remember, Microsoft's initial business idea was to sell BASIC interpreters to Atari. That is, programming language design was Bill's thing, so it is not him being myopic, it is more of him seeing somebody else riding his horse.
The irony of this is ROM BASIC was something he bought or licensed from someone else and tweaked. I remember working in a Cassette BASIC on something or other at one time. Seems to me he left a pretty ugly string garbage collecting bug in most versions of it.
MS-DOS even began as 86-DOS, someone else's work. Gates was effectively the middle man in the deal to create PC-DOS for IBM.
What products did Microsoft invent on their own, that didn't come before them?
Windows 95 -- to create a graphical environment and rich user experience on top of a massively vulnerable operating system, years after mainframe operating system architects hammered out network security, that took some real ingenuity.
Have a look at Robert Mugabe some time. When I'm that age I hope to be goofing off on a porch somewhere, chasing kids off my lawn, not trying to hold onto political power.
The Russian Mob makes the Mafia look like a load of summer campers. They don't even have to make the offer, just give him that cold, blue-eyed stare and he will volunteer because the alternative is finding himself accidentally in a diplomatic packet heading from Moscow to New York.
They did lots of early stories on the NSA I thought were tinfoil hat stuff until recently.
They probably have a lot more practices at this at the NKVD and 'ad a larf when watching how easily a conscientious objector contractor exposed everything - where fear of running afoul of Putin keeps everyone in line in the Russia Spying on Russians biz. If you doubt it, look up what became of Alexander Litvinenko.
I skim RT daily. But you know what? An *awful* lot of their content is blatant and clumsy propaganda.
It's truly the "National Enquirer" of the news sites I visit on a daily basis. The only reason I don't go anywhere else for a Russian perspective on the news is I haven't found any other english-translated Russian sites. Given a choice, I'd never go to that trash-rag again.
I get the feeling RT is trying to fill whatever gaps are left between wind-up commentators and news-fo-tainment in the West. The word Tommyrot comes to mind.
In 10 or 15 years, Edward Snowden will be remembered as a defector in the New Cold War during Putin's reign. Once enough Russians become unhappy with the puppet show, they will push Putin and Medvedev out.
Snowden's probably learning Russian so he can be a regular guest on Vlad's News Network, taking potshots at what locked-down, surveilled, liberty-starved nation the United States of America is (if he knows what's good for him.)
Does "the West" have a patent on this methodology?
Car crashes, house fires, shoot outs. Nothing, absolutely nothing on what the local school board or city planning meeting has lately decided. And use that phrase 'looked like a war zone' frequently.
Nothing was mentioned about Bill Gates being as key to the structure and operation of Microsoft as Steve Jobs seemed to be in Apple. Just because they are both prominent founders of similar companies does not mean, in any way, that the occupy the same role or function in each company, both having completely different cultures and structures.
Bill never saw the internet coming. If he hadn't dropped out of college he might have got into telnet, gopher or archie servers and seen some potential. That he saw Java as a major threat to Microsoft says something about how myopic he could be. Ellison must have enjoyed quite a few laughs will watching Bill and Steve Ballmer thrash around at Microsoft. Is it any wonder Oracle haven't come out with a video game console, such as an O-Box?
Sculley, who bet the farm on the Newton, which bombed? Sculley, who fractured the Mac lineup into a large number of similar and confusing models? Sculley, who had Apple branch out into every random consumer electronic category he could think of, including digital cameras, videogame consoles, CD players, speakers, television STBs, and even television/computer hybrids, every single one of which flopped?
Things didn't necessarily get much better after he was fired, but his lack of vision and direction are part of the reason that Apple was 90 days from bankruptcy when Jobs took over and got the investment from Microsoft.
Say what you will about Jobs, he was very good at simplifying the product lineup and focusing on a vision. Still, I think that Apple ousting Steve jobs was the best thing that ever happened to both Jobs and Apple. For Jobs, particularly, the experience of the NeXT disaster was extremely educational.
Steve knew something everyone else never quite got - there are people who will spend a lot of money on an image product. His first Macs were nothing special, performance-wise, but set a new style benchmark. PC clones were ugly, beige, cumbersome and suddenly there was this Bang & Olufsen sort of style which looked great on a desktop. Every product since was about materials and style.
Clearly you don't work with databases. They are the 900 pound gorilla of that market.
And Apples massively successful database server is...?
Pointing out that Oracle is a database company is like saying the sea fill of water. Comparing them to Apple would be akin to saying the sea is full of air.
So why hasn't Microsoft collapsed? (and for people saying it has....yeh uhm ok).
Microsoft aren't ever going to be the company that rolled out Windows XP and was threatened with anti-trust around the world ever again. Someone else, perhaps Google will end up in that boat, but Microsoft have their own future to sort out now that they are a follower, again.
. . . it would essentially follow major highways, such as I-75 in California.
Let the record show that TFA correctly states "I-5". Somebody in Michigan needs to watch his typos.
Hey, it's Elon Musk, if he doesn't know I-75 runs from Sault Ste Marie, Michigan (say ja to da up, eh!) all the way to Hialeah, Florida, do you trust his 800 miles per hour pod racer?
The app could be a legitimate one or a malicious one, but it will include some code that, once the app is installed, will reach out to an ad network. Many apps include such code for legitimate ad revenue purposes, but these apps are connecting to a malicious ad network.
Inotherwords "but it has malware in it for the ad portion that goes to a malicious ad network" - or the app IS malicious and not legitimate. An app isn't magically legitimate if only some portions of it are malware.
"Sometimes is difficult differentiate between Stupidware and Malware - Stupidware being sloppily written, which allows attacks and Malware which was purposefully written to allow attacks. Both date back at least a decade. That it's happening on a mobile device is simply a logical iteration of a predictable progression, Captain."
"That... still... does not fix the... communicator, Spock."
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Get the Tholians to do it, wouldn't take them long.
When I was a kid we heard a story going around about piping Great Lakes water to Arizona, a couple thousand miles of pipe necessary, and laughed it off as garbage. Reading Cadillac Desert I found it wasn't fantasy, but actively being pursued.
Nowadays our goal seems to sling BS around the world at the speed of light.
The BBC frequently runs AP stories just like Fox. I think world wide they have more and better reporters, but those people are not often published.
Alas, with all the cuts to the BBC it is suffering a bit, but still far, far better than Fox.
Fox is the mouthpiece of Rupert Murdoch, same as The Sun (and former Sun on Sunday - News of the World) they're all rotten to the core and great friends with conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic.
Historically, in absolute numbers, there are more people that like Windows than like MacOS. People loved Windows 3.1. People loved XP. People loved 2000. People love 7. There are a higher percentage of OSX users that love OSX than Windows users who love Windows, but that is because everyone who doesn't care, uses Windows, and corporations use Windows.
People may have liked Win 3.1, but getting stuff to work in it was a nightmare.
This worked to Apple's advantage with the Mac.
Gates knew this and worked on copying Mac OS to create Windows 95. Small wonder Jobs was bitter over others copying his company's work and profiting from it.
... That he saw Java as a major threat to Microsoft says something about how myopic he could be.
Remember, Microsoft's initial business idea was to sell BASIC interpreters to Atari. That is, programming language design was Bill's thing, so it is not him being myopic, it is more of him seeing somebody else riding his horse.
The irony of this is ROM BASIC was something he bought or licensed from someone else and tweaked. I remember working in a Cassette BASIC on something or other at one time. Seems to me he left a pretty ugly string garbage collecting bug in most versions of it.
MS-DOS even began as 86-DOS, someone else's work. Gates was effectively the middle man in the deal to create PC-DOS for IBM.
What products did Microsoft invent on their own, that didn't come before them?
Windows 95 -- to create a graphical environment and rich user experience on top of a massively vulnerable operating system, years after mainframe operating system architects hammered out network security, that took some real ingenuity.
Big hair, pasty make-up, loud ties and announcer voices which grab your attention and slap you around a bit, no matter how banal the news item.
Perhaps growing up with the BBC and the CBC has biased me but that sounds like American journalism to me.
That's why I spend most of my news-listening time listening to the BBC, because I like to stay informed, not entertained.
Putin die of old age?
Have a look at Robert Mugabe some time. When I'm that age I hope to be goofing off on a porch somewhere, chasing kids off my lawn, not trying to hold onto political power.
We have an offer you won't refuse.
The Russian Mob makes the Mafia look like a load of summer campers. They don't even have to make the offer, just give him that cold, blue-eyed stare and he will volunteer because the alternative is finding himself accidentally in a diplomatic packet heading from Moscow to New York.
They did lots of early stories on the NSA I thought were tinfoil hat stuff until recently.
They probably have a lot more practices at this at the NKVD and 'ad a larf when watching how easily a conscientious objector contractor exposed everything - where fear of running afoul of Putin keeps everyone in line in the Russia Spying on Russians biz. If you doubt it, look up what became of Alexander Litvinenko.
I skim RT daily. But you know what? An *awful* lot of their content is blatant and clumsy propaganda.
It's truly the "National Enquirer" of the news sites I visit on a daily basis. The only reason I don't go anywhere else for a Russian perspective on the news is I haven't found any other english-translated Russian sites. Given a choice, I'd never go to that trash-rag again.
I get the feeling RT is trying to fill whatever gaps are left between wind-up commentators and news-fo-tainment in the West. The word Tommyrot comes to mind.
In 10 or 15 years, Edward Snowden will be remembered as a defector in the New Cold War during Putin's reign. Once enough Russians become unhappy with the puppet show, they will push Putin and Medvedev out.
Snowden's probably learning Russian so he can be a regular guest on Vlad's News Network, taking potshots at what locked-down, surveilled, liberty-starved nation the United States of America is (if he knows what's good for him.)
Does "the West" have a patent on this methodology?
Car crashes, house fires, shoot outs. Nothing, absolutely nothing on what the local school board or city planning meeting has lately decided. And use that phrase 'looked like a war zone' frequently.
Big hair, pasty make-up, loud ties and announcer voices which grab your attention and slap you around a bit, no matter how banal the news item.
In Soviet Russia the news watches YOU!
Nothing was mentioned about Bill Gates being as key to the structure and operation of Microsoft as Steve Jobs seemed to be in Apple. Just because they are both prominent founders of similar companies does not mean, in any way, that the occupy the same role or function in each company, both having completely different cultures and structures.
Bill never saw the internet coming. If he hadn't dropped out of college he might have got into telnet, gopher or archie servers and seen some potential. That he saw Java as a major threat to Microsoft says something about how myopic he could be. Ellison must have enjoyed quite a few laughs will watching Bill and Steve Ballmer thrash around at Microsoft. Is it any wonder Oracle haven't come out with a video game console, such as an O-Box?
Steve Jobs's love for boats did not, as far as I know, kill anyone.
He didn't get a chance to take it into the SF Bay, it was finished after he was.
Sculley, who bet the farm on the Newton, which bombed? Sculley, who fractured the Mac lineup into a large number of similar and confusing models? Sculley, who had Apple branch out into every random consumer electronic category he could think of, including digital cameras, videogame consoles, CD players, speakers, television STBs, and even television/computer hybrids, every single one of which flopped?
Things didn't necessarily get much better after he was fired, but his lack of vision and direction are part of the reason that Apple was 90 days from bankruptcy when Jobs took over and got the investment from Microsoft.
Say what you will about Jobs, he was very good at simplifying the product lineup and focusing on a vision. Still, I think that Apple ousting Steve jobs was the best thing that ever happened to both Jobs and Apple. For Jobs, particularly, the experience of the NeXT disaster was extremely educational.
Steve knew something everyone else never quite got - there are people who will spend a lot of money on an image product. His first Macs were nothing special, performance-wise, but set a new style benchmark. PC clones were ugly, beige, cumbersome and suddenly there was this Bang & Olufsen sort of style which looked great on a desktop. Every product since was about materials and style.
Clearly you don't work with databases. They are the 900 pound gorilla of that market.
And Apples massively successful database server is ...?
Pointing out that Oracle is a database company is like saying the sea fill of water. Comparing them to Apple would be akin to saying the sea is full of air.
Wait, how is Apple a competitor to Oracle?
Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison both liked boats, big stinkin' boats.
So why hasn't Microsoft collapsed? (and for people saying it has....yeh uhm ok).
Microsoft aren't ever going to be the company that rolled out Windows XP and was threatened with anti-trust around the world ever again. Someone else, perhaps Google will end up in that boat, but Microsoft have their own future to sort out now that they are a follower, again.
No doubt it has improved, but it's still a PITA to work with. I have to work with it now and really miss Apache.
apache 4 life!
No kidding. I hate IIS right now. It's so much more time consuming to sort out configuration issues with than Apache.
. . . it would essentially follow major highways, such as I-75 in California.
Let the record show that TFA correctly states "I-5". Somebody in Michigan needs to watch his typos.
Hey, it's Elon Musk, if he doesn't know I-75 runs from Sault Ste Marie, Michigan (say ja to da up, eh!) all the way to Hialeah, Florida, do you trust his 800 miles per hour pod racer?
The app could be a legitimate one or a malicious one, but it will include some code that, once the app is installed, will reach out to an ad network. Many apps include such code for legitimate ad revenue purposes, but these apps are connecting to a malicious ad network.
Inotherwords "but it has malware in it for the ad portion that goes to a malicious ad network" - or the app IS malicious and not legitimate. An app isn't magically legitimate if only some portions of it are malware.
"Sometimes is difficult differentiate between Stupidware and Malware - Stupidware being sloppily written, which allows attacks and Malware which was purposefully written to allow attacks. Both date back at least a decade. That it's happening on a mobile device is simply a logical iteration of a predictable progression, Captain."
"That ... still ... does not fix the ... communicator, Spock."
This isn't "The Atlantic" reporting; it's an article by Bruce Schneier. This guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Schneier
Feel free to dismiss his concerns if you like, but don't dismiss them just because you don't like the mag they happen to be printed in.
The magazine giving print space to one of his articles is symptomatic of the turn of the publication. It had its good days, but they're long over.