They must be the first organization that promotes a political agenda annoying people of all ideologies and political persuassions.
They regularly criticize countries like China, North Korea, Cuba, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia and any other that has some disgraceful record in respecting the most basic rights of individulas.
Please expose here you fabolous insight in how annoying everybody in the political spectrum furthers any agenda. Oh yes, and by the way Mr Brilliant, tell us which agenda is that.
Cloned humans would have the same rights as anybody else, they are people, not monsters or animals, the only difference would be the way they are conceived.
Of course they would have the right to vote. Tell me which law forbids cloned people to do so.
Their organs can't be harvested, or to put it more exactly, the legislation that applies to everybody today would apply to them as well. To be born a clone does not deprive you of your individuality (yes, as contradictory as this sounds)and human rights from a legal point of view.
Do we kill people deformed or, as you say, "retarded" today? No. Where is your logic to think anybody in his right mind would even try?
There are many questions, but I am afraid you are making the wrong ones.
In my definition fetuses in early development are not humans.
I like Carl Sagan's definition, paraphrasing (most probably inexactly) form his book "Dragons of Eden" a human becomes one once the brain has developped all the anatomic parts of a fully grown individual, before that there is no posibility of human conciousness and thus the embryo should not have the same rights accorded to the rest of us.
Do they charge high prices (hint: they are ripping obscene profits during a recessive economic oeriod)?
What is the name of chargin nought to put a competitor out of business? Do you need examples or are you going to pretend you know nothing about this one?
How do you call to add features that lock out competition deviating from your previous file formats and avoiding to cooperate to maintain standards?
Do you consider that somebody that creates something like Outlook Express and IE knows how to program? Do you think they know about network security?
How many bugs do you need to see to consider that something does not work? How do you know how many bugs are in a MS product?
Do you consider secretive a company that would prefer that nothing is published about their bugs?
What you don't realize is that a lot of people have problems matching Bill Gates the leader of the monopolist and Bill Gates the filantropist. Both types can't surely live in the same guy.
Let me give you an example: in Colombia the drug barons are truly loved by the people of their local communities. Why? Because they provide much needed work and even investment and improvements to their local communities.
Is BG that bad? No, certainly not. But when you see how his MS-child behaves in the corporate world, how he and the people around him do not seem to care aboutleading a convicted company for abusing their monopoly and how technology after technology they just keep screwing their clients and competitors with unfair, even illegal tactics, it just do not match with his image of a generous filantropist.
The people that thankfully will benefit from his money surely will idolize him, but that does not mean that the means to provide for that help are from a pure source. If you can't see the dilemma you may need to become a Colombian farmer to understand my point.
All this has nothing to do with zealotry but with matching what the left hand does with the actions of the right hand.
If you quoted me those costs for guranteeing compliance with standards, I will hire somebody else. If you are making a living as a web designer count yourslef lucky, you don't deserve your salary.
If you would put those patently untrue stats I will fire you for lying to me.
Finally smart boy, what is your excuse going to be when AOL switches to a gecko based browser, when corporate clients now evaluating Linux move to it in the desktop and can't access your site with Mozilla or when your employer gets the bad press they deserve if browsers favored by visualy impared people crash in your site?
There is absolutely no technical merit in doing a Web based solution that caters to IE only.
There are plenty of businesses out there than handle far more sensitive information (banks) that happily support any browser because they adhere to standards.
AOL will release a browser based on gecko, many big corporate names are evaluating Linux in the desktop (i.e. Mozilla, Galeon, Navigator or Konqueror as browser). Companies like this one that decide to bet the future in one basket may find that their MS eggs brake sooner than they think.
Tomorrow I will have a shark fin soup eaten with my ivory cuttlery. Following that the main course will be fish and chips (I will insist on it being cod from the North Sea).
And I would love to have a panda fur coat for the approaching winter. Or artic fox fur. Or cute baby seal fur, all so soft.
And I can't describe how much I enjoy many other things. Principles? Morals? What is that? I think I got rid of them some time ago. Quite pleasurable to be honest, to pretend nothing out there matters makes life so much enjoyable.
In how many activities can you concentrate at once? One only. No, don't say more because you would be lying. You either type a letter, browse the net or play a game, but not all at the same time. Logical conclussion: you don't need windows (in the generic sense, I mean windows not MS Windows, although one does not exclude the other;-) ). What we need is to administer processes or tasks. But, but, but! While I play a game I keep an eye on my other app you say. Fair enough, then we should have an alarm mechanism that lets you know how your different processes are changing, it must be unobtrusive, perhaps in a little ticker band in the top or bottom of your current work area or by means of pop-up messages, audible alarms or whatever, but you don't need multiple windows all scatered around your screeen.
Also the desktop is dead as a paradigm. I believe its creation was an slightly patronizing solution from the computer comunity: what? do you think grandma is going to understand what a task or a process is? You must be crazy! Well, I believe we could name all kind of computer science terms with some less intimidating names and that would have us half way through improving any GUI for that matter, appart from that the concept of processes and data associated to those processes is not difficult to grasp because we do tasks in everyday life and we need a set of data to accomplish those tasks.
Any new GUI paradigm should remember that the people that use computers today are all human, not all office workers (the desktop worked fine 20 or 30 years ago because by large the computer was found in an office environment only, now that computers are widespread in many varied places the one-size-fits-all desktop paradigm feels forced and constraining).
he is not moving for the sake of it. Your comprehension skillz are not sharp. HE wants to save money, ged it? Money.
What should he settle for rebooting so often? I do not reboot my machine for weeks at the time. It is a valid point to try something better and from the stability point of view Linux beats W98 hands down.
Agreed about Wine. He should move to Linux and use the many places that tun properly with Linux.
Can you enlighten us and tell us, for our enterteinment, what cutting edge skillz will thes children lack in relation to children using Windows? And is it not remotely posible that in school they are going to actually be thougt those skillz?
... but you seem to imply there are some clicks more equal than others.
Now, entertain us: what are the unfathomable skillz required to use a Windows application that are so badly neglected if you (touch wood, grasp) use only ungatesian. unamerican computers?
The IT industry is faltering, unemployment is at its higest in a generation, most IT companies are haapy to turn small loses and yeah, riiiight, in that backdrop, 85% of profit is not abusive.
People do not want the product. People are forced to use it. Do not believe me? Try to give back your Windows license and get a refund for a branded machine. It is close to impossible. MS coopted all major hardware manufacturers who could not put forward new OS options to consumers without fearing retribution form MS.
Think! Clients fearing retribution from their provider. It is amazing that people like you see that as normal...
Moderators: the parent does not deserve kudos: although a judge accepted a settlement, the prosecution, that is the goverment, where far too eager to settle. They were not interested at all about real remediation.
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They must be the first organization that promotes a political agenda annoying people of all ideologies and political persuassions.
They regularly criticize countries like China, North Korea, Cuba, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia and any other that has some disgraceful record in respecting the most basic rights of individulas.
Please expose here you fabolous insight in how annoying everybody in the political spectrum furthers any agenda. Oh yes, and by the way Mr Brilliant, tell us which agenda is that.
With 20 or 30 people that I wish to present with a little something I have not got the time to DIY my gifts.
Get real.
Phoenix in Spanish is Fenix.
Problem solved.
Cloned humans would have the same rights as anybody else, they are people, not monsters or animals, the only difference would be the way they are conceived.
Of course they would have the right to vote. Tell me which law forbids cloned people to do so.
Their organs can't be harvested, or to put it more exactly, the legislation that applies to everybody today would apply to them as well. To be born a clone does not deprive you of your individuality (yes, as contradictory as this sounds)and human rights from a legal point of view.
Do we kill people deformed or, as you say, "retarded" today? No. Where is your logic to think anybody in his right mind would even try?
There are many questions, but I am afraid you are making the wrong ones.
In my definition fetuses in early development are not humans.
I like Carl Sagan's definition, paraphrasing (most probably inexactly) form his book "Dragons of Eden" a human becomes one once the brain has developped all the anatomic parts of a fully grown individual, before that there is no posibility of human conciousness and thus the embryo should not have the same rights accorded to the rest of us.
Do they charge high prices (hint: they are ripping obscene profits during a recessive economic oeriod)?
What is the name of chargin nought to put a competitor out of business? Do you need examples or are you going to pretend you know nothing about this one?
How do you call to add features that lock out competition deviating from your previous file formats and avoiding to cooperate to maintain standards?
Do you consider that somebody that creates something like Outlook Express and IE knows how to program? Do you think they know about network security?
How many bugs do you need to see to consider that something does not work? How do you know how many bugs are in a MS product?
Do you consider secretive a company that would prefer that nothing is published about their bugs?
Finally: are you a MS paid troll?
What you don't realize is that a lot of people have problems matching Bill Gates the leader of the monopolist and Bill Gates the filantropist. Both types can't surely live in the same guy.
Let me give you an example: in Colombia the drug barons are truly loved by the people of their local communities. Why? Because they provide much needed work and even investment and improvements to their local communities.
Is BG that bad? No, certainly not. But when you see how his MS-child behaves in the corporate world, how he and the people around him do not seem to care aboutleading a convicted company for abusing their monopoly and how technology after technology they just keep screwing their clients and competitors with unfair, even illegal tactics, it just do not match with his image of a generous filantropist.
The people that thankfully will benefit from his money surely will idolize him, but that does not mean that the means to provide for that help are from a pure source. If you can't see the dilemma you may need to become a Colombian farmer to understand my point.
All this has nothing to do with zealotry but with matching what the left hand does with the actions of the right hand.
If you quoted me those costs for guranteeing compliance with standards, I will hire somebody else. If you are making a living as a web designer count yourslef lucky, you don't deserve your salary.
If you would put those patently untrue stats I will fire you for lying to me.
Finally smart boy, what is your excuse going to be when AOL switches to a gecko based browser, when corporate clients now evaluating Linux move to it in the desktop and can't access your site with Mozilla or when your employer gets the bad press they deserve if browsers favored by visualy impared people crash in your site?
There is absolutely no technical merit in doing a Web based solution that caters to IE only.
There are plenty of businesses out there than handle far more sensitive information (banks) that happily support any browser because they adhere to standards.
AOL will release a browser based on gecko, many big corporate names are evaluating Linux in the desktop (i.e. Mozilla, Galeon, Navigator or Konqueror as browser). Companies like this one that decide to bet the future in one basket may find that their MS eggs brake sooner than they think.
Tomorrow I will have a shark fin soup eaten with my ivory cuttlery. Following that the main course will be fish and chips (I will insist on it being cod from the North Sea).
And I would love to have a panda fur coat for the approaching winter. Or artic fox fur. Or cute baby seal fur, all so soft.
And I can't describe how much I enjoy many other things. Principles? Morals? What is that? I think I got rid of them some time ago. Quite pleasurable to be honest, to pretend nothing out there matters makes life so much enjoyable.
In how many activities can you concentrate at once? One only. No, don't say more because you would be lying. You either type a letter, browse the net or play a game, but not all at the same time. Logical conclussion: you don't need windows (in the generic sense, I mean windows not MS Windows, although one does not exclude the other ;-) ). What we need is to administer processes or tasks. But, but, but! While I play a game I keep an eye on my other app you say. Fair enough, then we should have an alarm mechanism that lets you know how your different processes are changing, it must be unobtrusive, perhaps in a little ticker band in the top or bottom of your current work area or by means of pop-up messages, audible alarms or whatever, but you don't need multiple windows all scatered around your screeen.
Also the desktop is dead as a paradigm. I believe its creation was an slightly patronizing solution from the computer comunity: what? do you think grandma is going to understand what a task or a process is? You must be crazy! Well, I believe we could name all kind of computer science terms with some less intimidating names and that would have us half way through improving any GUI for that matter, appart from that the concept of processes and data associated to those processes is not difficult to grasp because we do tasks in everyday life and we need a set of data to accomplish those tasks.
Any new GUI paradigm should remember that the people that use computers today are all human, not all office workers (the desktop worked fine 20 or 30 years ago because by large the computer was found in an office environment only, now that computers are widespread in many varied places the one-size-fits-all desktop paradigm feels forced and constraining).
... and look for the 0845xxxxxx ISP providers, most do not require you to sign up, you pay only the phone call.
It is called principles and common sense.
Give us something better and we will drop the whole OSS stuff in the blink of an eye.
But most probably you can't.
Oh yes, also all thos big comapnies turning to OSS solutions are "religious" zealots. The idiots.
Things do not work as they should exactly fo this kind of mindset amongst many other reasons.
he is not moving for the sake of it. Your comprehension skillz are not sharp. HE wants to save money, ged it? Money.
What should he settle for rebooting so often? I do not reboot my machine for weeks at the time. It is a valid point to try something better and from the stability point of view Linux beats W98 hands down.
Agreed about Wine. He should move to Linux and use the many places that tun properly with Linux.
Can you enlighten us and tell us, for our enterteinment, what cutting edge skillz will thes children lack in relation to children using Windows? And is it not remotely posible that in school they are going to actually be thougt those skillz?
Let me count: VM-Ware (not cheap), Win98, XP.
And he is saving money here how?
.... is that you are joking, and you know it.
Or ignorant.
We keep one W98 machine immaculate: no nonse, firewalled, antivirus, patches and still the TCP stack dies after left unattended.
reboot, reboot, reboot.
You want to talk stability? lets start with W2K, but to defend W98 is just laughable, look: ha,ha,ha.
... but you seem to imply there are some clicks more equal than others.
Now, entertain us: what are the unfathomable skillz required to use a Windows application that are so badly neglected if you (touch wood, grasp) use only ungatesian. unamerican computers?
As they say, the uneducated masses want to know.
He wants to save the obscene amount of money one has to invest in the "Windows eXPerience" [tm].
To say stay with Windows and say nothing are one and the same thing, unless you are lonely and want to get some attention.
Palm has more marketshare than WindosCE.
MS did not kill Ninetendo.
I am sure they will hang in your deserted office building once the assimilation is completed.
The IT industry is faltering, unemployment is at its higest in a generation, most IT companies are haapy to turn small loses and yeah, riiiight, in that backdrop, 85% of profit is not abusive.
....
By the way, I have a bridge to sell you
People do not want the product. People are forced to use it. Do not believe me? Try to give back your Windows license and get a refund for a branded machine. It is close to impossible. MS coopted all major hardware manufacturers who could not put forward new OS options to consumers without fearing retribution form MS.
Think! Clients fearing retribution from their provider. It is amazing that people like you see that as normal...
Moderators: the parent does not deserve kudos: although a judge accepted a settlement, the prosecution, that is the goverment, where far too eager to settle. They were not interested at all about real remediation.