CEOs who lead a cult of personality ultimately end up leading the cult to suicide. Sun had an opportunity to catch and pass IBM. They almost did it, then the idiot who was in charge thought HE got them there (instead of all the good engineers) and started believing his own press. He made about 15 stupid "big moves" in a row pulling the "visionary" card. Mistake after mistake went down with nary a word from his inner circle. For years top people at Sun knew the faults and the BS he was spewing. Unfortunately the egomaniac punished those who disagreed with him and Sun just kept sinking and sinking.
Now he's leaving a ship he punched the holes in, still believing his shit doesn't stink and he's not at fault.
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In other words, "We are too afraid to take huge chances that might fail like the original, so we are going to make a "safe" Prisoner (oxymoron) with bland scripts (written by committee and network execs) and film the entire thing in an awesome "futuristic" village set (It will look like Ghery's crap). We expect this to draw a wider audience (morons) to see our new "Prisoner" (in name only) and therefor be successful (make more money but have no heart)."
The Prisoner is one of the few shows/productions I have ever watched that I feel strongly should NEVER be remade because it's wierd chemistry could only be created once. Some of the chances they took were just awful, but it all comes together because it was like nothing made before or since. You can't recreate it, and you xcan't "make it better". Why BBC is even trying to do this I have no idea, Prisoner fans will absolutely not watch it, and regular folk won't get it. Where is the audience, and what is the point? Just show the original again, it's always fresh.
WHy aren't people noticing that this is still a "potential" pandemic. The only recorded spread so far from human to human resulted in a much weaker strain. I am not suggesting tking this lightly, but I think it's being pushed to the public WAY too much. This should remain a WHO and CDC issue. They should quietly prepare with just a little public information. The amount of media time being spent on a so-far harmless bird-only influenza strain is simply amazing.
Flying "car" projects don't have enough mass to make a big impact on a building. Even the twin towers were designed to take a full hit from a 707, but 30 years later, a 767 holds a lot more fuel, people, and mass.
Also, if these vehicles are ever viable, they will be automated. If not, then the licencing process will remain similar to the FAA regs for current pilots. That is too involved to attract a lot of the ninnys that would fly one of these into a building.
Basically, neither of your points are really valid enough to warrant not developing the technology. They are longshots what-if's. By your logic, we should outlaw driving because a few terrorists could drive their cars into the front af a shop. It's certainly a possibility, but not a very likely or productive one.
Frankly, the most efficient terror applied to this nation was the DC sniper. He pretty much hijacked an entire region with one rifle and two guys. He was more efficient than the anthrax attacks or 9/11.
This guy has never made a functioning prototype. He has scammed hundreds of venture capitalists over the years promising the inevitable "breakthrough" in just a "few more years." His current iteration (the M400) has been awaiting a non-tethered test flight for 5 years now. First it was the insurance, then it was the engine, now it's waiting for a man-made lake to test this thing over. The reality is that this thing can't get higher than ground effect. He is no closer to a flying car today than he was in 1972. I am so sick of this guy getting press for his failure. There are real flying car vehicles out there, Moller isn't one of them. He's a long-term grifter, nothing more.
Don't fear fellow geeks. I remember the early www, and the sky isn't falling. In the beginning, DARPA created the web, and it was good. I entered this little burb and enjoyed talking to other smart people about interesting and stimulating topics. I respected and patronized the few hip corporations that used the web to make sure their brick-and-mortar customers could get information that helped them.
I never asked for the ability to order 1,800,000 items from Amazon, or to register my email addy to get the users manual for my kitchen appliance. I don't need to see 5000 videos of kids falling-crashing-killing themselves while imitating Johnny Knoxville. I don't need to pay for porn. I never asked for Yahoo or AOL to put every inbred idiot teen and their trailer-park mother on the web with a blog about the latest sales at Wal-Mart and how hot Justin Timberlake and Brad Pitt are. I don't need corporations to tell me how to get perscription medication, a good mortgage, a fake college degree, sex, or make a business deal in Nigeria.
As a matter of fact, I really liked the internet when all I could get were facts from people who wanted to share them. I liked reading good papers from university students and labs. I liked having 3-4 forums that worked like my old BBLs and a few USENETS. I liked going to a corporate site and being able to get contact information that included a real-voice 800 number and NOTHING ELSE!
So Double-click's claim that the sky is falling and threat that this could be the end of the internet as we know it really doesn't scare me. The internet as we know it sucks. Bring back Camelot, let Chicken Little crow.
Ah the wonders of a sliding ethics scale. Be against something one day, and for it the next. Claim Jobs system is the perfect tool, and then lambast the guy for not giving you music YOUR way Hillary? Isn't that exactly what Napster users were telling you? Did you listen then? Why the fuck should anyone listen to your complaints now? It's your mess, you friggin live with it like the rest of us. Had you listened then, you would have accepted Napster's solution for a monthly subscription system. Apple would never have made the best product with a proprietary file system, and I would still be able to find long unpublished and unowned performances that were the bread and butter of real Napster fans. Where is all the non-catalog music now? You think perhaps I miss that as much as you miss not being able to download published tunes in any format?
I hope someone shoves your blue leather bound iPod up your hypocritical ass you bitch.
You mean the unstable deathtrap that can hop a whole 5" off the ground before slewing in a random direction? He's been blaming the software for 8 years now. The truth is that he doesn't have a sufficient power to weight ratio to get the thing out of ground effect. He never will because he basically built a ford pinto with 4 nacells attached to it and insists an IC engine will eventually get to the efficency he needs. It won't.
It would have little to no measurable effect on the moon. It is literally about 1/100000 the mass of the moon. It would make for an EXCELLENT fireworks show.
Moller is the greatest long-con artist of all time. Don't even put him in the same category as this WORKING AirScooter, which is doing what Moller has been promising (and not delivering) for 40 years.
Over the years, Moller has taken in something like $40 million dollars in investment money and never produced a working prototype. He's the biggest scam since the travelling snake oil salesman.
I appreciate the desire to keep things simple and therefor...one-buttonish...but it really is time. There's way too much 2 button fuctionality out there to hold mac users hostage to a principle no one else keeps.
We developed an entire space program in a decade, but it's going to take 10 years for us to fund and create a friggin CAPSULE? The booster is already developed and needs little to be man-rated. The cost should be minimal.
I used to be a big fan of NASA, but over the years, I have come to believe they are actually impeding, not accelerating the cause of manned spaceflight. Rutan has built a sub-orbital vessle for about 22 million total. He is working on an orbital, reusable version that will probably cost him 100-150 million to develop, and he'll have it done by 2010. How on EARTH can NASA actually look the oublic in the face and say that working with the best contractors available, it will cost them 7 billion dollars to make the same, and they won't have it done till 2014? How many kids considering careers as astronauts will give up and do something else because their window will be closed with this long lapse in maned spaceflight?
Letters to my congresspersons and all that, but as usual, I doubt greatly if anything will be done. Boeing will recieve a new piece of pork to chew on, NASA will be able to continue it's "exploration" oof LEO (all they do) while I still pay for it all with my taxes. I wish Rutan would have a public offering. At least Scaled Composites ALWAYS get's results!
He's probably already blowing up and distorting the images and planning out how he's going to label these rocks as tools, electronics, and a small-block chevy engine ESA and NASA are hiding from us. Rest assures he'll be telling us how these pics show evidence of life within two weeks....friggin snakeoil salesman.
The PKK is bad, the Kurdish people are not. Unfortunately, as bad as the PKK is, it seems to be the only organization powerful enough to protect Turkish Kurds from non-Kurdish Turks bent on genocide. The idea of a Kurdish state that requires Iraq and Turkey to sacrifice small portions of their territory is no threat. The idea of killing Kurdish cultural heritage is.
All these games require too much time playing to earn items to make PvP fun anymore. PvP was fun on the original UO because everyone was close to equal, but once PK'ers went from duelling or attacking a lone traveller to ganking him over and over when he was trying to retrieve his corpse, the whole concept of PvP was ruined. I started on PvP's and hated the whole carebear safety on non PvP. I don't feel like that anymore. PvP has too many young dickwaggers, and there is no honor in PvP as there used to be.
I'll play carebear. Find a guild of fun people. Play every night till I get bored. Move to the next mmog and feel good about it. The griefers that have taken over pvp can go to hell.
Every Turk I talk to who is non-Kurdish says the same thing (i.e. PKK is bad. They kill innocents. They are terrorists.). Unfortunately when you talk to a Turkish Kurd you hear a different story. The Turkish created the PKK when they tried to legislate Kurdish culture out of the Kurds. There was no PKK before average Kurds were herded into one region of the country, had their language outlawed, and had their history banned from schoolbooks. It was an oh-so-soft genocide. Don't kill the Kurdish person, just kill the Kurd in the person.
The type of racism and opression Turkey inflicted on their own Kurdish people for 30 years got them the PKK and a Kurdish independence movement. The only reason Turkey fears an independent Kurdish state now is because Turkey would become it's first enemy. Sorry, I know the PKK has done crappy things over the years, and I do not support any group targeting innocent civilians (my definition of terror) but if Northern Iraq and a small part of Turkey were given to Kurds as a homeland 50 years ago (when it was promised) there would be no PKK. Kurds in general are not violent people. Northern Iraq has been autonomously run for almost a decade and is a model of what Kurdish independence will bring.
You can go one further if you think really big. You build a sphere with the living space on top, and a boom 3X in length the diameter of the sphere hanging from the bottom with waste treatment and storage in it. Put a small counterweight and docking facility at the bottom of the boom. You now can live in the domed area on top of the sphere, gorwing your own food and getting prodigous anounts of sunlight. You get solar energy from the skin, and you can store waste at the bottom of the boom till it's processed for dumping. You can even use the bottom of the boom as a skyhook for an aircraft. The ship never touches the ground.
The only hiccup in this plan is lifting gas. Helium is way too expensive for the average Joe to fill a 2mill cuft-5mill cuft sphere with helium and then top off for losses. So you have to use hydrogen, positive pressure, and fireproof materials (assume there will be leaks) with electrolysis to make it a renewing and permanent, self-contained residence.
Perhaps SCO should focus more on litigating a real legal case of substance, instead of opening up their own propoganda machine to try and explain how their case has substance.
I mean really, you spend almost two years telling the industry, investors, and the court you have irrefutable evidence your IP has been stolen, and then when asked to produce this evidence you refusem to comply in any way? In addition, you THEN backtrack and change your charges. You do all this and then you tell people you are going to spend money developing a website to tell the TRUTH? C'mon Daryl. I know you don't have a clue how to run a company or develop a product, but don't tell people you are CREDIBLE!
You seem to forget that M$ holds a sword of Damocles over Apple's head. The only reason Apple was allowed to stay in business was so M$ could claim they weren't a complete monopoly. Apple got M$ office development as a bone. If Apple stsrts jumping into M$'s turf, all bets would be off.
Plus, let's not forget Apple tried another tact down this road in the 90's by opening up to a clone market Mac. It was poorly made, and degraded profit margins on the Apple gear. Apple almost went belly up. They do not have the bones to make a run at M$ in x86.
Now, what they COULD do is make a beefed up server version of OSx (sinve it's UNIX based) and possibly get into more office environments. THAT's where Apple could make significant moves. Small businesses want their few employees to be productive, not sit there and wait for the IT guy to fix their comps from viruses, spyware, and the like. Apple could offer 5, 10, and 50 user turnkey systems that would network easier, have higher availability, and get their home users to consider switching their small offices. They could even compete against M$ by touting lower TCO and more productivity, but for some reason they have never really made an attempt to grab this market.
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CEOs who lead a cult of personality ultimately end up leading the cult to suicide. Sun had an opportunity to catch and pass IBM. They almost did it, then the idiot who was in charge thought HE got them there (instead of all the good engineers) and started believing his own press. He made about 15 stupid "big moves" in a row pulling the "visionary" card. Mistake after mistake went down with nary a word from his inner circle. For years top people at Sun knew the faults and the BS he was spewing. Unfortunately the egomaniac punished those who disagreed with him and Sun just kept sinking and sinking.
Now he's leaving a ship he punched the holes in, still believing his shit doesn't stink and he's not at fault.
Gotta bound, bound, bound and rebound.
In other words, "We are too afraid to take huge chances that might fail like the original, so we are going to make a "safe" Prisoner (oxymoron) with bland scripts (written by committee and network execs) and film the entire thing in an awesome "futuristic" village set (It will look like Ghery's crap). We expect this to draw a wider audience (morons) to see our new "Prisoner" (in name only) and therefor be successful (make more money but have no heart)."
The Prisoner is one of the few shows/productions I have ever watched that I feel strongly should NEVER be remade because it's wierd chemistry could only be created once. Some of the chances they took were just awful, but it all comes together because it was like nothing made before or since. You can't recreate it, and you xcan't "make it better". Why BBC is even trying to do this I have no idea, Prisoner fans will absolutely not watch it, and regular folk won't get it. Where is the audience, and what is the point? Just show the original again, it's always fresh.
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WHy aren't people noticing that this is still a "potential" pandemic. The only recorded spread so far from human to human resulted in a much weaker strain. I am not suggesting tking this lightly, but I think it's being pushed to the public WAY too much. This should remain a WHO and CDC issue. They should quietly prepare with just a little public information. The amount of media time being spent on a so-far harmless bird-only influenza strain is simply amazing.
Flying "car" projects don't have enough mass to make a big impact on a building. Even the twin towers were designed to take a full hit from a 707, but 30 years later, a 767 holds a lot more fuel, people, and mass.
Also, if these vehicles are ever viable, they will be automated. If not, then the licencing process will remain similar to the FAA regs for current pilots. That is too involved to attract a lot of the ninnys that would fly one of these into a building.
Basically, neither of your points are really valid enough to warrant not developing the technology. They are longshots what-if's. By your logic, we should outlaw driving because a few terrorists could drive their cars into the front af a shop. It's certainly a possibility, but not a very likely or productive one.
Frankly, the most efficient terror applied to this nation was the DC sniper. He pretty much hijacked an entire region with one rifle and two guys. He was more efficient than the anthrax attacks or 9/11.
This guy has never made a functioning prototype. He has scammed hundreds of venture capitalists over the years promising the inevitable "breakthrough" in just a "few more years." His current iteration (the M400) has been awaiting a non-tethered test flight for 5 years now. First it was the insurance, then it was the engine, now it's waiting for a man-made lake to test this thing over. The reality is that this thing can't get higher than ground effect. He is no closer to a flying car today than he was in 1972. I am so sick of this guy getting press for his failure. There are real flying car vehicles out there, Moller isn't one of them. He's a long-term grifter, nothing more.
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Don't fear fellow geeks. I remember the early www, and the sky isn't falling. In the beginning, DARPA created the web, and it was good. I entered this little burb and enjoyed talking to other smart people about interesting and stimulating topics. I respected and patronized the few hip corporations that used the web to make sure their brick-and-mortar customers could get information that helped them.
I never asked for the ability to order 1,800,000 items from Amazon, or to register my email addy to get the users manual for my kitchen appliance. I don't need to see 5000 videos of kids falling-crashing-killing themselves while imitating Johnny Knoxville. I don't need to pay for porn. I never asked for Yahoo or AOL to put every inbred idiot teen and their trailer-park mother on the web with a blog about the latest sales at Wal-Mart and how hot Justin Timberlake and Brad Pitt are. I don't need corporations to tell me how to get perscription medication, a good mortgage, a fake college degree, sex, or make a business deal in Nigeria.
As a matter of fact, I really liked the internet when all I could get were facts from people who wanted to share them. I liked reading good papers from university students and labs. I liked having 3-4 forums that worked like my old BBLs and a few USENETS. I liked going to a corporate site and being able to get contact information that included a real-voice 800 number and NOTHING ELSE!
So Double-click's claim that the sky is falling and threat that this could be the end of the internet as we know it really doesn't scare me. The internet as we know it sucks. Bring back Camelot, let Chicken Little crow.
Ah the wonders of a sliding ethics scale. Be against something one day, and for it the next. Claim Jobs system is the perfect tool, and then lambast the guy for not giving you music YOUR way Hillary? Isn't that exactly what Napster users were telling you? Did you listen then? Why the fuck should anyone listen to your complaints now? It's your mess, you friggin live with it like the rest of us. Had you listened then, you would have accepted Napster's solution for a monthly subscription system. Apple would never have made the best product with a proprietary file system, and I would still be able to find long unpublished and unowned performances that were the bread and butter of real Napster fans. Where is all the non-catalog music now? You think perhaps I miss that as much as you miss not being able to download published tunes in any format?
I hope someone shoves your blue leather bound iPod up your hypocritical ass you bitch.
You mean the unstable deathtrap that can hop a whole 5" off the ground before slewing in a random direction? He's been blaming the software for 8 years now. The truth is that he doesn't have a sufficient power to weight ratio to get the thing out of ground effect. He never will because he basically built a ford pinto with 4 nacells attached to it and insists an IC engine will eventually get to the efficency he needs. It won't.
It would have little to no measurable effect on the moon. It is literally about 1/100000 the mass of the moon. It would make for an EXCELLENT fireworks show.
Moller is the greatest long-con artist of all time. Don't even put him in the same category as this WORKING AirScooter, which is doing what Moller has been promising (and not delivering) for 40 years.
Over the years, Moller has taken in something like $40 million dollars in investment money and never produced a working prototype. He's the biggest scam since the travelling snake oil salesman.
What marketing genius thought the best spokesperson for Linux would be an idiot?
I appreciate the desire to keep things simple and therefor...one-buttonish...but it really is time. There's way too much 2 button fuctionality out there to hold mac users hostage to a principle no one else keeps.
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We developed an entire space program in a decade, but it's going to take 10 years for us to fund and create a friggin CAPSULE? The booster is already developed and needs little to be man-rated. The cost should be minimal.
I used to be a big fan of NASA, but over the years, I have come to believe they are actually impeding, not accelerating the cause of manned spaceflight. Rutan has built a sub-orbital vessle for about 22 million total. He is working on an orbital, reusable version that will probably cost him 100-150 million to develop, and he'll have it done by 2010. How on EARTH can NASA actually look the oublic in the face and say that working with the best contractors available, it will cost them 7 billion dollars to make the same, and they won't have it done till 2014? How many kids considering careers as astronauts will give up and do something else because their window will be closed with this long lapse in maned spaceflight?
Letters to my congresspersons and all that, but as usual, I doubt greatly if anything will be done. Boeing will recieve a new piece of pork to chew on, NASA will be able to continue it's "exploration" oof LEO (all they do) while I still pay for it all with my taxes. I wish Rutan would have a public offering. At least Scaled Composites ALWAYS get's results!
He's probably already blowing up and distorting the images and planning out how he's going to label these rocks as tools, electronics, and a small-block chevy engine ESA and NASA are hiding from us. Rest assures he'll be telling us how these pics show evidence of life within two weeks....friggin snakeoil salesman.
Earth declares war on another celestial body, invasion fleet launches to intercept!
It's ALL about the marketing.
The PKK is bad, the Kurdish people are not. Unfortunately, as bad as the PKK is, it seems to be the only organization powerful enough to protect Turkish Kurds from non-Kurdish Turks bent on genocide. The idea of a Kurdish state that requires Iraq and Turkey to sacrifice small portions of their territory is no threat. The idea of killing Kurdish cultural heritage is.
All these games require too much time playing to earn items to make PvP fun anymore. PvP was fun on the original UO because everyone was close to equal, but once PK'ers went from duelling or attacking a lone traveller to ganking him over and over when he was trying to retrieve his corpse, the whole concept of PvP was ruined. I started on PvP's and hated the whole carebear safety on non PvP. I don't feel like that anymore. PvP has too many young dickwaggers, and there is no honor in PvP as there used to be.
I'll play carebear. Find a guild of fun people. Play every night till I get bored. Move to the next mmog and feel good about it. The griefers that have taken over pvp can go to hell.
Every Turk I talk to who is non-Kurdish says the same thing (i.e. PKK is bad. They kill innocents. They are terrorists.). Unfortunately when you talk to a Turkish Kurd you hear a different story. The Turkish created the PKK when they tried to legislate Kurdish culture out of the Kurds. There was no PKK before average Kurds were herded into one region of the country, had their language outlawed, and had their history banned from schoolbooks. It was an oh-so-soft genocide. Don't kill the Kurdish person, just kill the Kurd in the person.
The type of racism and opression Turkey inflicted on their own Kurdish people for 30 years got them the PKK and a Kurdish independence movement. The only reason Turkey fears an independent Kurdish state now is because Turkey would become it's first enemy. Sorry, I know the PKK has done crappy things over the years, and I do not support any group targeting innocent civilians (my definition of terror) but if Northern Iraq and a small part of Turkey were given to Kurds as a homeland 50 years ago (when it was promised) there would be no PKK. Kurds in general are not violent people. Northern Iraq has been autonomously run for almost a decade and is a model of what Kurdish independence will bring.
Sometimes someone mentions an idea and a million people kick themselves for not seeing it's logic and beauty earlier. Great idea!
You can go one further if you think really big. You build a sphere with the living space on top, and a boom 3X in length the diameter of the sphere hanging from the bottom with waste treatment and storage in it. Put a small counterweight and docking facility at the bottom of the boom. You now can live in the domed area on top of the sphere, gorwing your own food and getting prodigous anounts of sunlight. You get solar energy from the skin, and you can store waste at the bottom of the boom till it's processed for dumping. You can even use the bottom of the boom as a skyhook for an aircraft. The ship never touches the ground.
The only hiccup in this plan is lifting gas. Helium is way too expensive for the average Joe to fill a 2mill cuft-5mill cuft sphere with helium and then top off for losses. So you have to use hydrogen, positive pressure, and fireproof materials (assume there will be leaks) with electrolysis to make it a renewing and permanent, self-contained residence.
Perhaps SCO should focus more on litigating a real legal case of substance, instead of opening up their own propoganda machine to try and explain how their case has substance.
I mean really, you spend almost two years telling the industry, investors, and the court you have irrefutable evidence your IP has been stolen, and then when asked to produce this evidence you refusem to comply in any way? In addition, you THEN backtrack and change your charges. You do all this and then you tell people you are going to spend money developing a website to tell the TRUTH? C'mon Daryl. I know you don't have a clue how to run a company or develop a product, but don't tell people you are CREDIBLE!
You seem to forget that M$ holds a sword of Damocles over Apple's head. The only reason Apple was allowed to stay in business was so M$ could claim they weren't a complete monopoly. Apple got M$ office development as a bone. If Apple stsrts jumping into M$'s turf, all bets would be off.
Plus, let's not forget Apple tried another tact down this road in the 90's by opening up to a clone market Mac. It was poorly made, and degraded profit margins on the Apple gear. Apple almost went belly up. They do not have the bones to make a run at M$ in x86.
Now, what they COULD do is make a beefed up server version of OSx (sinve it's UNIX based) and possibly get into more office environments. THAT's where Apple could make significant moves. Small businesses want their few employees to be productive, not sit there and wait for the IT guy to fix their comps from viruses, spyware, and the like. Apple could offer 5, 10, and 50 user turnkey systems that would network easier, have higher availability, and get their home users to consider switching their small offices. They could even compete against M$ by touting lower TCO and more productivity, but for some reason they have never really made an attempt to grab this market.