On a somewhat related topic, I remember a story last year about a nursing home in Florida where there was an epidemic of STDs in the community. Apparently, many there thought they were immune to such things after a certain age. Couple that fact with lots of free time...well...
The corn lobby is so ridiculously powerful that Iowa is no longer self-sufficient in food production. Iowa, the breadbasket of the U.S., actually has to import food now that a majority of farm capacity has been dedicated to corn production.
Wow. I switched back just because my wife and my daughter pounded on my left and right forearms to uninstall Vista and Office 2007 and put back XP and Office 2003 so they can get some work done. That was reason enough.
"Hey sweetie. Check out this cool Windows Key-Tab thingie!" "I don't care! I hate it and I don't know how to do anything!"
I don't understand the extent to which Naughton has contributed to Java, but why write him out if he has made significant contributions to the development of Java? Mozart, Beethoven, et al. have all had their own improprieties, but at least no one seeks to write them out of their musical accomplishments. No one disputes that Roman Polanski is a fine filmmaker despite what he's being accused of.
On 1 or 2 occasions when I accidentally bought fullscreen editions, I took it back (it was opened already of course) and exchanged the defective disc with the widescreen disc.
- Street Fighter Hyper Turbo Super Deluxe vs. Capcom Marvel DC Comics Heroes edition-type fighting games? - racing games? - Final Fantasy / Dragon Warrior / Leisure Suit Larry, etc.? - shooting games (Lethal Enforcers, T2, whatever-that-game-in-Back-to-the-Future-was-calle d, etc) - niche non-Nintendo-licensed NES gems like "Bible Adventures"?
How about making sure kids who "graduate" from school can construct and semi-coherent complete English sentence? Effective communication can further facilitate the learning of many more subjects and topics.
If stats and logic were understood (even partially) by more than 10% of the general public, the world economy and political landscape would collapse in a week. The world evolves around the fact that a subset of people take advantage of the remainder of the world based on the fact that they do not understand stats and logic.
I know 2 people who worked in Office and Visual Studio, respectively. These two teams arguably hire the best people in all of Microsoft. There was one time when they didn't go home for almost 3 weeks. Although, they did get a month off paid leave after the project was finished.
The fact that western civilization got first to industrial revolution and later on became first modern and birth cradle for global civilization is nothing to do with suppressing or exploiting other civilizations, it's everything to do on using own strengths and continues building and evolution of everything in societies.
Your conclusion can be debunked in less than a minute with a short visit to any old museum in London. They're quite filled with spoils and plundered goods from foreign lands (Africa, China, India, etc.). And that's just the stuff that was left over and made it back to England intact!
and you would overhear many MS employees' lunch meetings around here. As early as 3-4 years ago, there was a lot of buzz about starting projects like what Google's doing now. The "Live" initiative will supposedly eventually convince people to submit micro-payments to use Office products. ($0.25 per Word doc creation, $0.50 per printing, etc.) The MS people who were talking about this acted like it was the best thing since sliced bread and that it will cure cancer. It'll probably be deployed around 2015.
I'm talking about the enterprise version of Office.
Just out of...academic curiosity, I evaluated the Enterprise version and it indeed requires no activation. The consumer version of Office, however, requires activation. This is different than Vista where all versions, corporate or consumer, requires activation.
Maybe because Vista requires activation and (last I heard) needed an extra server to handle activation every 180 days, and Office 2007 doesn't? This could matter to a significant number of IT groups in the corporate world.
My wife has worked as a teller some years ago, and unless the difference of the money count for a register is greater than $200 _per day_, they don't even blink an eye.
Just this last Christmas, her team and their spouses were put in a four-star hotel for their Christmas party. Everything included, it was a $20,000 party for a team of 20 people.
I don't know too much about this topic. But I know that when Verizon came into our neighborhood with their FIOS, Comcast told me that they doubled my cable speed from 6Mbps to 12Mbps. And the Speakeasy shows that it is indeed 12Mbps. And I live in an area with high broadband usage. So the bandwidth may be there, but it just takes a little competition to shake things up a bit.
When I was in school, we had a small team which developed, tested, and distributed educational groupware. According to our director who went to collect awards for the good work, the Blackboard people were dumbfounded when he told them that his team was basically a group of sub-$10/hr undergrads plus a few grad students from the biology and sociology depts. Other schools actually offered to buy our software over Blackboards, from what I've heard.
So how's that different than the current setup with insurance? Your premiums and copays subsidize others who can't pay just as well, except you replace governmental inefficiencies with corporate inefficiencies and graft.
While the Type-A do-gooder hardworkers were busy digging holes in the dirt with their bare hands, the lazy procrastinators decided to invent a hoe to do it twenty times faster (and probably starting the job two days after the hand diggers). All technology serves to implement laziness and procrastination, which in turn drives progress.
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On a somewhat related topic, I remember a story last year about a nursing home in Florida where there was an epidemic of STDs in the community. Apparently, many there thought they were immune to such things after a certain age. Couple that fact with lots of free time...well...
The corn lobby is so ridiculously powerful that Iowa is no longer self-sufficient in food production. Iowa, the breadbasket of the U.S., actually has to import food now that a majority of farm capacity has been dedicated to corn production.
You live in the corn belt and you don't know Archer Daniels Midland?
The 2007 Toyota Camry is outselling the 2001 Toyota Camry. Film at 11.
Wow. I switched back just because my wife and my daughter pounded on my left and right forearms to uninstall Vista and Office 2007 and put back XP and Office 2003 so they can get some work done. That was reason enough.
"Hey sweetie. Check out this cool Windows Key-Tab thingie!"
"I don't care! I hate it and I don't know how to do anything!"
I don't understand the extent to which Naughton has contributed to Java, but why write him out if he has made significant contributions to the development of Java? Mozart, Beethoven, et al. have all had their own improprieties, but at least no one seeks to write them out of their musical accomplishments. No one disputes that Roman Polanski is a fine filmmaker despite what he's being accused of.
On 1 or 2 occasions when I accidentally bought fullscreen editions, I took it back (it was opened already of course) and exchanged the defective disc with the widescreen disc.
Let me guess...the Blu-Ray disc is not the one with Woody Allen in it, right?
I'm sure "TVs" are code-named "Urban Pacification Devices (UPD)".
Ancient Romans had government-subsidized gladiator matches. Americans have Fox-subsidized American Idol. Same difference.
What about:
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- Street Fighter Hyper Turbo Super Deluxe vs. Capcom Marvel DC Comics Heroes edition-type fighting games?
- racing games?
- Final Fantasy / Dragon Warrior / Leisure Suit Larry, etc.?
- shooting games (Lethal Enforcers, T2, whatever-that-game-in-Back-to-the-Future-was-call
- niche non-Nintendo-licensed NES gems like "Bible Adventures"?
When Chinese president Hu Jintao came to the U.S. for a state visit last year, he visited Bill Gates before going on to visit GWB.
Mr Hu goes to Washington (after he's seen Bill Gates and the Boeing factory)
How is this any different?
I don't try to pawn my VCR for $10 at 2am to get my Britney Spears fix?
How about making sure kids who "graduate" from school can construct and semi-coherent complete English sentence? Effective communication can further facilitate the learning of many more subjects and topics.
If stats and logic were understood (even partially) by more than 10% of the general public, the world economy and political landscape would collapse in a week. The world evolves around the fact that a subset of people take advantage of the remainder of the world based on the fact that they do not understand stats and logic.
The key here is crunchtime.
I know 2 people who worked in Office and Visual Studio, respectively. These two teams arguably hire the best people in all of Microsoft. There was one time when they didn't go home for almost 3 weeks. Although, they did get a month off paid leave after the project was finished.
The fact that western civilization got first to industrial revolution and later on became first modern and birth cradle for global civilization is nothing to do with suppressing or exploiting other civilizations, it's everything to do on using own strengths and continues building and evolution of everything in societies.
Your conclusion can be debunked in less than a minute with a short visit to any old museum in London. They're quite filled with spoils and plundered goods from foreign lands (Africa, China, India, etc.). And that's just the stuff that was left over and made it back to England intact!
and you would overhear many MS employees' lunch meetings around here. As early as 3-4 years ago, there was a lot of buzz about starting projects like what Google's doing now. The "Live" initiative will supposedly eventually convince people to submit micro-payments to use Office products. ($0.25 per Word doc creation, $0.50 per printing, etc.) The MS people who were talking about this acted like it was the best thing since sliced bread and that it will cure cancer. It'll probably be deployed around 2015.
I'm talking about the enterprise version of Office.
Just out of...academic curiosity, I evaluated the Enterprise version and it indeed requires no activation. The consumer version of Office, however, requires activation. This is different than Vista where all versions, corporate or consumer, requires activation.
Maybe because Vista requires activation and (last I heard) needed an extra server to handle activation every 180 days, and Office 2007 doesn't? This could matter to a significant number of IT groups in the corporate world.
Believe me - banks are not hurting for money.
My wife has worked as a teller some years ago, and unless the difference of the money count for a register is greater than $200 _per day_, they don't even blink an eye.
Just this last Christmas, her team and their spouses were put in a four-star hotel for their Christmas party. Everything included, it was a $20,000 party for a team of 20 people.
I don't know too much about this topic. But I know that when Verizon came into our neighborhood with their FIOS, Comcast told me that they doubled my cable speed from 6Mbps to 12Mbps. And the Speakeasy shows that it is indeed 12Mbps. And I live in an area with high broadband usage. So the bandwidth may be there, but it just takes a little competition to shake things up a bit.
When I was in school, we had a small team which developed, tested, and distributed educational groupware. According to our director who went to collect awards for the good work, the Blackboard people were dumbfounded when he told them that his team was basically a group of sub-$10/hr undergrads plus a few grad students from the biology and sociology depts. Other schools actually offered to buy our software over Blackboards, from what I've heard.
Wow where do you live? Manufactured homes in the wheatfields here cost over $100,000 USD.
So how's that different than the current setup with insurance? Your premiums and copays subsidize others who can't pay just as well, except you replace governmental inefficiencies with corporate inefficiencies and graft.
While the Type-A do-gooder hardworkers were busy digging holes in the dirt with their bare hands, the lazy procrastinators decided to invent a hoe to do it twenty times faster (and probably starting the job two days after the hand diggers). All technology serves to implement laziness and procrastination, which in turn drives progress.