The iTunes Music Store's business model is to pressure manufacturers to drastically cut production costs, undercut prices offered by smaller businesses, and compensate employees as little as possible? That's news to me. I thought it was to provide content for the sale of iPods and Macs. Silly me.
Those deep pokets also make them a great partner for the copyright holders. Google definitely planned a profitable deal for the media moguls before purchasing YouTube. There will definitely be some mutually beneficial deals announced in the near future.
The command line is 100% optional. Try Mandriva and SuSE. They contain complete GUI install and package management. Only people who wish to tweak or play with details of package management need to use the command line.
Well that's somewhat hypocritical. What Lucas never seems to understand is that part of the charm of Episode IV was its relatively low budget production. Great movies don't need to be made with massive budgets. In fact all of the expensive computer graphics lowered the quality of Episides I-III. Concentrate on what makes a great movie: a great story. He seems to feel there are only 2 choices for movies he'd want to make, huge budget or no movie at all. Well if he only plans on spending a huge budget on any movie then he's already probably going to make something of lesser quality. He should go back to his roots and think about why people loved the first Star Wars movie he created.
If you have a large organization and you're interested in upgrading Office, it'll be cheaper to upgrade it while you upgrade the OS. There's a lot of administrative overhead to a software rollout, so by sharing the overhead with an OS rollout you're saving money.
It's common practice to upgrade to every other major Office release. Organizations still running 2000 are considering the upgrade to the latest.
Lots of sick people got sent right back on the boats they came over on, and even if you were young and healthy, you still had to have someone willing to vouch for you here in the States before you were allowed in.
Actually NYC has seen destruction by terrorists numerous times since the 1700's, from arson during the American Revolution to anarchists bombing Wall Street. See Wikipedia for some examples.
You named 2 products which make a profit and 3 which don't. Microsoft rearranged their departments in 2003 (or was it 2002?) to group together more products because they report profits per division. Before the rearrangement it was quite clear that only Windows and Office turn a profit.
Also think about the fact they could give away Visual Studio for free to promote the development of even more software for Windows, driving Windows sales. But they don't. They charge thousands of dollars for the complete version, so they want it to bring a profit. Instead it's revenue, but not profitable directly.
I've been an employee of two of Microsoft's very big customers. We spoke to Microsoft developers and managers. They didn't listen. They didn't care about the bugs we found in Microsoft Windows and the particularly nasty ones in SQL Server. In fact they also charged us for the phone calls. I'm speaking for many millions of dollars worth of customers when I say they are NOT loved.
And to assume I only speak for myself and have no knowledge of what many Microsoft customers think is very short sighted. If you think customers love Microsoft you're definitely not speaking to enough of those customers.
Vista as a release, product and beta program is vastly different and superior to any other Microsoft OS. I mean public builds, public scrutiny, nearly a quarter million beta testers and release and release of consistent updates.
That's identical to XP and 2000, just with more beta testers. There's really no change at all with Vista's testing and public scrutiny. As for a vastly different OS, they made vastly different OSs with 95 and NT, so this really isn't anything new either.
Microsoft was forced to release the Xbox in a different way than they are used to. It was a completely new and different market and they were the underdog. It had nothing to do with public feedback or demands from users. They pushed into a market the only way possible. And they're still losing ($).
Microsoft has not changed at all. They've had the same business model for over 25 years. They've had only two departments (currently only 2 products) ever turn a profit. They've been eating up competitor companies for two decades. They put out more PR people to interact on forums so their customers feel better but the results are the same. Bug rates haven't drastically dropped and after their major security initiative a few years ago nothing is more secure. Read the blogs of Microsoft employees to see how management still doesn't listen. Both internally and externally nothing has significantly changed.
A few reasons... the ring is kilometers long. Angling it at 30 degrees would force you to build it deep into the ground, high into the air, or both. But more importantly you'd only have one launch trajectory. By having one ring and a mobile launch tunnel you have 360 degrees to choose from (ideally). The ability to change launch direction is probably more important than the complications it adds to the launch physics.
What sort of person buys milk, eggs, pants, lawnchairs, TVs, drugs, and McDonalds all in the same store? I don't know either, but they all go to WalMart. The small stores in my neighborhood are my "superstore", so I don't get it either.
I have one of the "I hate Microsoft" web sites he linked to. I used to read Scoble's blog and comment on it occasionally before he become famous. As soon as his blog started to get any traction he stopped posting anything intelligent. He became a pure evangelist who claimed Microsoft should listen to the haters, then bashed anything critical of Microsoft. And in the end, not much if anything changed. Microsoft used him to try to improve their image. And having this fake power Scoble became full of himself. He's a tool. Microsoft still ignores critics.
You have read the news of librarians fighting with the FBI over records, haven't you? It's part of the Patriot Act. You're right that the FBI does have better things to do.
IT DOESN'T MATTER. They should not be watching even this mundane information without probable cause. What if the movie review you read was for "Fahrenheit 9/11" and some government agents decided to punish all conspiracy theorists. Nothing of what you do or search for is the government's business until you break a law (over-simplified, but still basically true). And even then they're limited by your rights.
History has taught us many lessons. And one of them is that information and power will be abused. Period. It's only a matter of time.
What search proves I committed a crime? Or even hints I committed a crime? They'll probably incorrectly use this data to determine which citizens need to be watched. But I doubt they'll be able to use it effectively in criminal trials.
And government officials will care about this difference? If I check Mein Kampf out of the library and return it the next day without reading it I'll still be on a list if a government official requests it.
If the stock market doesn't count as a game of chance for those who are not on the market floor deciding prices, then I don't know what does. Buying a stock over the internet and hoping its value goes up based on certain information is most certainly gambling. Only those on the actual stock market floor agreeing on buy and sell prices are not gambling.
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The iTunes Music Store's business model is to pressure manufacturers to drastically cut production costs, undercut prices offered by smaller businesses, and compensate employees as little as possible? That's news to me. I thought it was to provide content for the sale of iPods and Macs. Silly me.
Those deep pokets also make them a great partner for the copyright holders. Google definitely planned a profitable deal for the media moguls before purchasing YouTube. There will definitely be some mutually beneficial deals announced in the near future.
an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship on the other (Pakistan - one supported by US)
You mean the republic with a parliament and an elected prime minister? And you're complaining about other people trolling...
The command line is 100% optional. Try Mandriva and SuSE. They contain complete GUI install and package management. Only people who wish to tweak or play with details of package management need to use the command line.
Well that's somewhat hypocritical. What Lucas never seems to understand is that part of the charm of Episode IV was its relatively low budget production. Great movies don't need to be made with massive budgets. In fact all of the expensive computer graphics lowered the quality of Episides I-III. Concentrate on what makes a great movie: a great story. He seems to feel there are only 2 choices for movies he'd want to make, huge budget or no movie at all. Well if he only plans on spending a huge budget on any movie then he's already probably going to make something of lesser quality. He should go back to his roots and think about why people loved the first Star Wars movie he created.
Web 2.0? Pfft. I've been testing Web 3.0 beta and it's pretty sweet. They should just upgrade now. C'mon guys, get out of the stone age.
If you have a large organization and you're interested in upgrading Office, it'll be cheaper to upgrade it while you upgrade the OS. There's a lot of administrative overhead to a software rollout, so by sharing the overhead with an OS rollout you're saving money.
It's common practice to upgrade to every other major Office release. Organizations still running 2000 are considering the upgrade to the latest.
thousands of billions of atoms
Trillions, even?
Yahoo reports release of Google Gadgets while Microsoft Gadgets flounder
Lots of sick people got sent right back on the boats they came over on, and even if you were young and healthy, you still had to have someone willing to vouch for you here in the States before you were allowed in.
Never been to Ellis Island, have you?
Yeah, then two people could play a game of Battleship with only one laptop!
Actually NYC has seen destruction by terrorists numerous times since the 1700's, from arson during the American Revolution to anarchists bombing Wall Street. See Wikipedia for some examples.
You named 2 products which make a profit and 3 which don't. Microsoft rearranged their departments in 2003 (or was it 2002?) to group together more products because they report profits per division. Before the rearrangement it was quite clear that only Windows and Office turn a profit.
Also think about the fact they could give away Visual Studio for free to promote the development of even more software for Windows, driving Windows sales. But they don't. They charge thousands of dollars for the complete version, so they want it to bring a profit. Instead it's revenue, but not profitable directly.
I've been an employee of two of Microsoft's very big customers. We spoke to Microsoft developers and managers. They didn't listen. They didn't care about the bugs we found in Microsoft Windows and the particularly nasty ones in SQL Server. In fact they also charged us for the phone calls. I'm speaking for many millions of dollars worth of customers when I say they are NOT loved.
And to assume I only speak for myself and have no knowledge of what many Microsoft customers think is very short sighted. If you think customers love Microsoft you're definitely not speaking to enough of those customers.
bad guys are booby-trapping sites like My Space
Lots of kids use MySpace, so please leave boobies out of this. Please think of the children. Thanks.
Vista as a release, product and beta program is vastly different and superior to any other Microsoft OS. I mean public builds, public scrutiny, nearly a quarter million beta testers and release and release of consistent updates.
That's identical to XP and 2000, just with more beta testers. There's really no change at all with Vista's testing and public scrutiny. As for a vastly different OS, they made vastly different OSs with 95 and NT, so this really isn't anything new either.
Microsoft was forced to release the Xbox in a different way than they are used to. It was a completely new and different market and they were the underdog. It had nothing to do with public feedback or demands from users. They pushed into a market the only way possible. And they're still losing ($).
Microsoft has not changed at all. They've had the same business model for over 25 years. They've had only two departments (currently only 2 products) ever turn a profit. They've been eating up competitor companies for two decades. They put out more PR people to interact on forums so their customers feel better but the results are the same. Bug rates haven't drastically dropped and after their major security initiative a few years ago nothing is more secure. Read the blogs of Microsoft employees to see how management still doesn't listen. Both internally and externally nothing has significantly changed.
A few reasons... the ring is kilometers long. Angling it at 30 degrees would force you to build it deep into the ground, high into the air, or both. But more importantly you'd only have one launch trajectory. By having one ring and a mobile launch tunnel you have 360 degrees to choose from (ideally). The ability to change launch direction is probably more important than the complications it adds to the launch physics.
What sort of person buys milk, eggs, pants, lawnchairs, TVs, drugs, and McDonalds all in the same store? I don't know either, but they all go to WalMart. The small stores in my neighborhood are my "superstore", so I don't get it either.
Because a focus group focuses on one group. Vista beta testers are all over the place on user characteristics.
I have one of the "I hate Microsoft" web sites he linked to. I used to read Scoble's blog and comment on it occasionally before he become famous. As soon as his blog started to get any traction he stopped posting anything intelligent. He became a pure evangelist who claimed Microsoft should listen to the haters, then bashed anything critical of Microsoft. And in the end, not much if anything changed. Microsoft used him to try to improve their image. And having this fake power Scoble became full of himself. He's a tool. Microsoft still ignores critics.
You have read the news of librarians fighting with the FBI over records, haven't you? It's part of the Patriot Act. You're right that the FBI does have better things to do.
IT DOESN'T MATTER. They should not be watching even this mundane information without probable cause. What if the movie review you read was for "Fahrenheit 9/11" and some government agents decided to punish all conspiracy theorists. Nothing of what you do or search for is the government's business until you break a law (over-simplified, but still basically true). And even then they're limited by your rights.
History has taught us many lessons. And one of them is that information and power will be abused. Period. It's only a matter of time.
What search proves I committed a crime? Or even hints I committed a crime? They'll probably incorrectly use this data to determine which citizens need to be watched. But I doubt they'll be able to use it effectively in criminal trials.
And government officials will care about this difference? If I check Mein Kampf out of the library and return it the next day without reading it I'll still be on a list if a government official requests it.
WE know what the data means. THEY do not care.
If the stock market doesn't count as a game of chance for those who are not on the market floor deciding prices, then I don't know what does. Buying a stock over the internet and hoping its value goes up based on certain information is most certainly gambling. Only those on the actual stock market floor agreeing on buy and sell prices are not gambling.