Go look up "HyperCard" and CORBA. Specifically the timelines. Microsoft haven't innovated anything, ever. All they ever do is look to see what other people are doing, make a barely functional, pale imitation and eventually kludge it into something which is only just usable with huge amounts of pain.
You've got to be kidding. They really don't have any idea what technical innovation is. Microsoft is really a marketing company who do software as a sideline. They've certainly had some innovative marketing strategies but nothing on the technical side.
The supplement people advertise it as good for digestion rather than as a substance which helps fight cancer though.
It's interesting how much scientific evidence there is now for the medical effects of what are basically just food supplements. I started looking into this stuff when my finger joints began aching after 10 years worth of typing for 8 hours a day. (Sorted BTW)
e.g. The following all have scientific studies backing up the claims.
Glucosamine and chondroitin helps fight arthiritis, there's animal research showing that they may also help with sports injuries to joints.
Omega 3 oils significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks. They also help significantly with brain function; memory, concentration. They also help with joint suppleness and skin health. (Cod liver oil, fish oil, flax seed oil)
St Johns Wort contains a mood enhancing compound which has a significant effect on minor depression. As effective as stuff like Prozac, with fewer side effects.
Lycopene, from red fruit like tomatoes helps prevent prostate cancer.
There's a load more. This isn't to say that all health foods/supplement claims are valid and if you have a problem you should see your doctor, but the saying "you are what you eat" certainly appears to be true.
Compared to network file systems. Slow, clunky, inconvenient. In a university, any reason AFS won't do the trick? It can even run encrypted if you don't trust the network you're running over.
No, you are incorrect. It is one of the reasons but not the only reason by any means. It is different and writing software to run on different systems is difficult.
This is the same reason viruses don't infect everyone, each person is different, the viruses code isn't as effective on different people and the spread is slowed or halted. Exactly the same effect is possible within computer systems.
Do you know why sex exists? It exists to mix our genes up so that we are not all clones of one another, this is so that bacteria, viruses etc can't wipe out the entire race in one fell swoop. Finding a mate and having sex became less hassle than trying to fight off all the diseases out there trying to kill us. And we all know what a hassle finding a mate and trying to get laid is.
Monocultures are *perfect* for the spread of disease. Windows on the desktop is a great monoculture.
Our foreign policies have killed hundreds of millions through starvation, arms sales, wars. If, as an athiest there is even one religious concept I have come to believe in, it's karma. You don't fuck up people's lives without something coming back to haunt you.
Do I agree with terrorist tactics? No but I do recognise the desire for revenge. Against innocent civilians? The innocent civilians are the ones paying the subsidies and the military. For every right there are responsibilities, for every action there are consequences.
Actually it means that the site where they found spear heads they didn't look like they were thrown. We don't have all that much information about neanderthals. They're basically extrapolating all of neanderthal society from a small village somewhere.
I suspect we out competed them by breeding faster, requiring less energy to function.
The more reinforcement from lots of people that software patents are a bad thing, the better. And apart from their salaries and pensions etc, I'm sure they feel generally unloved.
I take a cod liver oil capsule once a day. Not particularly for vitamin D, though they do contain that. Mainly for the Omega 3 oils which cod liver oil contains, good for the heart, brain and joints. I would have to eat a lot more seeds/nuts or fish to get the required amount.
And not just any fish, cold water fish. No? There's something wrong with your diet/lifestyle. How about someone with dark skin living in a northern clime. Vitamin D deficiency right there.
Sometimes the people who've spread out over the world have moved to areas where they simply can't get the stuff their body needs in sufficient quantities through local produce.
It's only the last couple of decades scientists have even begun to understand how food affects our wellbeing and only the last decade that the information has really started to filter through to the general populace.
Congestion is caused by the rate at which you can get vehicles *off* a road. Typically caused by low performance urban roads, junctions, traffic lights and parking spaces.
A particular exit from a road will be able to cope with a maximum capacity which is usually far lower than the road itself is capable of handling. This causes traffic to back up onto the road and cause congestion. e.g. A typical lane of motorway is capable of around 2000 vehicles per hour, an automated car park with barriers can typically only handle 500 vehicles per hour.
The result of insufficient numbers of exits or low performance exits to a road are what cause congestion. So while it seems pretty obvious that lower speed causes congestion, it's also wrong.
Plug set top box into old TV, Tada, digital television. At some point the UK government is going to have to give away these boxes to get the last few people to switch over. Some people need a better aerial, the frequency they are using is a bit weak in some areas.
Works though. It has to be said though, when you switch from analog to digital in the UK you go from 5 channels of barely passable TV to 5 channels of passable TV plus another 5 of not quite horrible TV plus 20 channels of complete shite.
Oooh a long time yet. Americans have an underdeveloped irony center and so take themselves particularly seriously. Don't worry, we'll send you some more comedians to sort you out.
"People switched to Google and Gmail pretty fast."
Change a configuration setting in your web browser vs ripping out your OS, then installing, configuring a new one, converting your documents and files etc.
The pace a market changes depends on the level of investment.
"I don't understand why Balmer is all about trying to conquer every market, by shipping substandard products just so they have some kind of market share out there SOMEWHERE."
Didn't you know, MS are considered to be the McDonalds of the software world, fill it full of fat, sugar and sell it *cheap*.
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Oh, please. What're you, twelve years old?
Go look up "HyperCard" and CORBA. Specifically the timelines. Microsoft haven't innovated anything, ever. All they ever do is look to see what other people are doing, make a barely functional, pale imitation and eventually kludge it into something which is only just usable with huge amounts of pain.
" PDFs are not widely editable and cannot be used as templates. "
Um. Wrong. You're several years out of date.
"not been accomplished yet by other applications."
Again, wrong.
You've got to be kidding. They really don't have any idea what technical innovation is. Microsoft is really a marketing company who do software as a sideline. They've certainly had some innovative marketing strategies but nothing on the technical side.
The supplement people advertise it as good for digestion rather than as a substance which helps fight cancer though.
It's interesting how much scientific evidence there is now for the medical effects of what are basically just food supplements. I started looking into this stuff when my finger joints began aching after 10 years worth of typing for 8 hours a day. (Sorted BTW)
e.g. The following all have scientific studies backing up the claims.
Glucosamine and chondroitin helps fight arthiritis, there's animal research showing that they may also help with sports injuries to joints.
Omega 3 oils significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks. They also help significantly with brain function; memory, concentration. They also help with joint suppleness and skin health. (Cod liver oil, fish oil, flax seed oil)
St Johns Wort contains a mood enhancing compound which has a significant effect on minor depression. As effective as stuff like Prozac, with fewer side effects.
Lycopene, from red fruit like tomatoes helps prevent prostate cancer.
There's a load more. This isn't to say that all health foods/supplement claims are valid and if you have a problem you should see your doctor, but the saying "you are what you eat" certainly appears to be true.
Compared to network file systems. Slow, clunky, inconvenient. In a university, any reason AFS won't do the trick? It can even run encrypted if you don't trust the network you're running over.
No, you are incorrect. It is one of the reasons but not the only reason by any means. It is different and writing software to run on different systems is difficult.
This is the same reason viruses don't infect everyone, each person is different, the viruses code isn't as effective on different people and the spread is slowed or halted. Exactly the same effect is possible within computer systems.
A "Power user" on windows? That's a laugh.
Linux: No spyware. No adware. No viruses.
Do you know why sex exists? It exists to mix our genes up so that we are not all clones of one another, this is so that bacteria, viruses etc can't wipe out the entire race in one fell swoop. Finding a mate and having sex became less hassle than trying to fight off all the diseases out there trying to kill us. And we all know what a hassle finding a mate and trying to get laid is.
Monocultures are *perfect* for the spread of disease. Windows on the desktop is a great monoculture.
Our foreign policies have killed hundreds of millions through starvation, arms sales, wars. If, as an athiest there is even one religious concept I have come to believe in, it's karma. You don't fuck up people's lives without something coming back to haunt you.
Do I agree with terrorist tactics? No but I do recognise the desire for revenge. Against innocent civilians? The innocent civilians are the ones paying the subsidies and the military. For every right there are responsibilities, for every action there are consequences.
Actually it means that the site where they found spear heads they didn't look like they were thrown. We don't have all that much information about neanderthals. They're basically extrapolating all of neanderthal society from a small village somewhere.
I suspect we out competed them by breeding faster, requiring less energy to function.
The more reinforcement from lots of people that software patents are a bad thing, the better. And apart from their salaries and pensions etc, I'm sure they feel generally unloved.
Shouldn't we then propose a europe wide patent law which is sane and acceptable then?
Or is this too dangerous given the way amendments can completely change the meaning.
I take a cod liver oil capsule once a day. Not particularly for vitamin D, though they do contain that. Mainly for the Omega 3 oils which cod liver oil contains, good for the heart, brain and joints. I would have to eat a lot more seeds/nuts or fish to get the required amount.
And not just any fish, cold water fish. No? There's something wrong with your diet/lifestyle. How about someone with dark skin living in a northern clime. Vitamin D deficiency right there.
Sometimes the people who've spread out over the world have moved to areas where they simply can't get the stuff their body needs in sufficient quantities through local produce.
It's only the last couple of decades scientists have even begun to understand how food affects our wellbeing and only the last decade that the information has really started to filter through to the general populace.
Congestion is caused by the rate at which you can get vehicles *off* a road. Typically caused by low performance urban roads, junctions, traffic lights and parking spaces.
A particular exit from a road will be able to cope with a maximum capacity which is usually far lower than the road itself is capable of handling. This causes traffic to back up onto the road and cause congestion. e.g. A typical lane of motorway is capable of around 2000 vehicles per hour, an automated car park with barriers can typically only handle 500 vehicles per hour.
The result of insufficient numbers of exits or low performance exits to a road are what cause congestion. So while it seems pretty obvious that lower speed causes congestion, it's also wrong.
e.g.
Freeview in the UK : http://www.freeview.co.uk/
Plug set top box into old TV, Tada, digital television. At some point the UK government is going to have to give away these boxes to get the last few people to switch over. Some people need a better aerial, the frequency they are using is a bit weak in some areas.
Works though. It has to be said though, when you switch from analog to digital in the UK you go from 5 channels of barely passable TV to 5 channels of passable TV plus another 5 of not quite horrible TV plus 20 channels of complete shite.
Oooh a long time yet. Americans have an underdeveloped irony center and so take themselves particularly seriously. Don't worry, we'll send you some more comedians to sort you out.
"People switched to Google and Gmail pretty fast."
Change a configuration setting in your web browser vs ripping out your OS, then installing, configuring a new one, converting your documents and files etc.
The pace a market changes depends on the level of investment.
"Write an app that catalogs every CD as soon as I insert it and then stores the results in a database and make it part of the OS package. "
http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000037
HTH
90% market share and 40 billion has *big* inertia. It's happening, but not rapidly, at least not till the tipping point.
"I don't understand why Balmer is all about trying to conquer every market, by shipping substandard products just so they have some kind of market share out there SOMEWHERE."
Didn't you know, MS are considered to be the McDonalds of the software world, fill it full of fat, sugar and sell it *cheap*.
Or, maybe it's "follow the market". But the market isn't going in a single direction now, it's buggering off all over the place.
It seems to me that the best things in life start with philosophies and then stick to them.
e.g.e rtech_Talon,00.html.cz
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldi
They might think a little about their attitude to life.
Absolutely. Shite is shite is shite, in all walks of life.
We then get to the huge problem. How do you measure quality? In fact, what is quality? I think slashdot karma is a good attempt at it.