"it appears that for light-duty service on the newest hardware, Windows XP with Office XP is an acceptable choice -- if an 11 percent performance hit, or 53 minutes added to an 8-hour day, is acceptable."
Remember, kiddies, this is what's called "a feature". Now drink your Kool-Aid and do The Manic Balmer Mazurka!
I'd always thought that a small comet nucleus met the case. Being mostly ice, it would have a lot of chemicals (methane, ammonia) that are volatile in the earth's atmosphere. The jets of escaping gas would act like rocket exhaust and cause the odd motions that were reported by eye-witnesses. And the explosion from the volatiles would be impressive. Plus, since there was no impact crater, and no piece of the object was found, the ice would make sense. It does tend to melt, you know.
When I was at NASA, I worked at Goddard Space Flight Center's HEASARC group, and all our software was free via an ftp site. (That's been a while, so I can't say where every URL is anymore.) Now, I don't know how useful it is to us unwashed taxpayers, but surely SOMEbody could use free software to do coordinate transformations between cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
And when managers become reasonable and don't change things constantly without extending the deadline, this might be a real issue. As it stands now, most of us are just trying to get our jobs done before we're fired by people who make Dilbert's boss seem like a paragon of rational enlightenment.
Well, we had it toof. We didn't have any of this metric rubbish. We used the stone-furlong-fortnight measurement system. Everyone had to lug around a big stone and a flatulent racehorse for two weeks just to measure something. A platinum-iridium cylinder? Luxury!
I bet the guys in Monty Python are in trouble now. (Of course, they'll have to exhume Graham Chapman, assuming he wasn't cremated, but a little thing like taste or common sense wouldn't stop a lawyer.)
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Hey, $6.25 an hour in Russia is probably big money and they're probably happy to get it. As far as I know, no one is holding a gun to these programmers' heads. (Then again, Russia does have a history of that sort of things.)
One of the ugliest things in the world is when a country is starting to get rich. (Not mine, I got it from P.J. O'Rourke's new book.)
I work with marketing people in California; they are so far away from the reality here in Flyover, America, that they might as well be on the third planet out on Barbard's Star.
"It appears that Microsoft has misconstrued our opinion,..."
Uh, yeah. I know that because of PR you have to spin things in such a way, but if you really believe that M$ didn't understand what the government's opinion was, you'd believe that Ballmer has a future as an exotic dancer.
I think they have, with certain caveats. For one thing, nothing is foolproof. Fools are just too damned clever for that. Also, some people have a knack for breaking things. My father, for example, is a retired engineer who has this absolute talent to improve anything to the point of disaster. I also have a brother who could break an anvil using duct tape and a toothpick.
So given the caveats that anything that works can conceivably be broken, I think Apple has almost done it. There are still one or two missing features, and there are still a couple things (like speed), that will be improved in 10.1. Like anything worth having (democracy, love, wealth, a harem), it's a work in progress, and will never be COMPLETELY perfect... partly because needs change, so the definition of perfection isn't static. Still, it's one heck of a start, and there's been quite a bit of improvement between 10.0.0 and 10.0.4. Let's call it "cautious optimism" for now.
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and this is different from passport how?
MicroSoft doesn't have the military, ATF, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. (I'm not saying they wouldn't do it if they could, you understand.) Or, as George Carlin put it, "Well, we don't have them, the army has them. That's right! The army has all the flamethrowers! I'd say we're ****ed if we have to go up against the army."
I think the Feds should fund the development of an operating system and office suite. The software would be released to the public, including source code.
You know, that kind of thinking has worked SO well in Russia, Cuba, and Detroit. (And FYI, I've been to all three.)
Why, and I ask this seriously, do you think that the government would be any better than the private sector at making an OS? Before you answer, think: are your kids better off at a private school or a public school? Would you rather hand over your 401(k) and pension to social security, or have your social security handed over to the people who look after your 401(k) and pension? Is your home bathroom cleaner than a public toilet? [Last question void for male college students living in group housing.]
GovOS isn't about restricting freedom. It's about increasing it, by providing a tax-funded public domain desktop computing infrastructure.
Really? Government cannot create its own wealth, it must take it from those who can. Government cannot create freedom. It can protect freedom, or it can take it. And if you've ever been auditted by the IRS or have the Department of the Interior declare your subdivision a wetlands, you know which one government bureaucracies most likely choose. In this case, it would take our money (and hence our earned property and freedom) for its own purpose, which would, incidentally, attack a company inwhich many taxpayers have invested. Thus, you are robbing people doubly, by holding a loaded IRS to their heads to make them fund something that decreases their wealth more. This is something most government bureaucrats can only dream of. Salud!
Remember, nothing is free; everything comes at a price, whether it's money, time, sweat, or demoralization from living with complete b*tch. However, you point that out yourself with:
So let's throw a bomber's worth of money at one of them and produce something that anyone can install and use -- and rob Microsoft of a ton of money in the process.
... in which you equate government programs with robbery. Milton Friedman, using Adam Smith's notebooks, couldn't have put it better.
I agree, an OS and office suite that is usable is important; too important to be put in the hands of the government.
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I'd say that depends on the human with whom you are interacting. YMMV.
(Semi-obscure time zone reference there.)
Yeah, they looked at the OS X beta.
"Flame on, it's a crazy feeling. Flame on, you got me reeling." - Buddy Holly, if he read /.
Remember, kiddies, this is what's called "a feature". Now drink your Kool-Aid and do The Manic Balmer Mazurka!
Thus explaining much about the state of American journalism and American business management.
I'd always thought that a small comet nucleus met the case. Being mostly ice, it would have a lot of chemicals (methane, ammonia) that are volatile in the earth's atmosphere. The jets of escaping gas would act like rocket exhaust and cause the odd motions that were reported by eye-witnesses. And the explosion from the volatiles would be impressive. Plus, since there was no impact crater, and no piece of the object was found, the ice would make sense. It does tend to melt, you know.
When I was at NASA, I worked at Goddard Space Flight Center's HEASARC group, and all our software was free via an ftp site. (That's been a while, so I can't say where every URL is anymore.) Now, I don't know how useful it is to us unwashed taxpayers, but surely SOMEbody could use free software to do coordinate transformations between cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
Well, greater insanity. It's not a long drive to begin with.
Well, if we keep them in DC, they'll probably get shot anyway.
Well, we had it toof. We didn't have any of this metric rubbish. We used the stone-furlong-fortnight measurement system. Everyone had to lug around a big stone and a flatulent racehorse for two weeks just to measure something. A platinum-iridium cylinder? Luxury!
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And this news just in from Spain, Francisco Franco is still dead. - Chevy Chase
One of the ugliest things in the world is when a country is starting to get rich. (Not mine, I got it from P.J. O'Rourke's new book.)
I work with marketing people in California; they are so far away from the reality here in Flyover, America, that they might as well be on the third planet out on Barbard's Star.
Ms. Poundstone, another outburst like that and I'll find you in contempt of court.
Uh, yeah. I know that because of PR you have to spin things in such a way, but if you really believe that M$ didn't understand what the government's opinion was, you'd believe that Ballmer has a future as an exotic dancer.
"I got a rock."
Dang! When did MicroSoft hire a Daley?
If you aren't brave enough to use your real name, don't bother posting drivel like this.
So given the caveats that anything that works can conceivably be broken, I think Apple has almost done it. There are still one or two missing features, and there are still a couple things (like speed), that will be improved in 10.1. Like anything worth having (democracy, love, wealth, a harem), it's a work in progress, and will never be COMPLETELY perfect ... partly because needs change, so the definition of perfection isn't static. Still, it's one heck of a start, and there's been quite a bit of improvement between 10.0.0 and 10.0.4. Let's call it "cautious optimism" for now.
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and this is different from passport how?MicroSoft doesn't have the military, ATF, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. (I'm not saying they wouldn't do it if they could, you understand.) Or, as George Carlin put it, "Well, we don't have them, the army has them. That's right! The army has all the flamethrowers! I'd say we're ****ed if we have to go up against the army."
I think the Feds should fund the development of an operating system and office suite. The software would be released to the public, including source code.
You know, that kind of thinking has worked SO well in Russia, Cuba, and Detroit. (And FYI, I've been to all three.)
Why, and I ask this seriously, do you think that the government would be any better than the private sector at making an OS? Before you answer, think: are your kids better off at a private school or a public school? Would you rather hand over your 401(k) and pension to social security, or have your social security handed over to the people who look after your 401(k) and pension? Is your home bathroom cleaner than a public toilet? [Last question void for male college students living in group housing.]
GovOS isn't about restricting freedom. It's about increasing it, by providing a tax-funded public domain desktop computing infrastructure.
Really? Government cannot create its own wealth, it must take it from those who can. Government cannot create freedom. It can protect freedom, or it can take it. And if you've ever been auditted by the IRS or have the Department of the Interior declare your subdivision a wetlands, you know which one government bureaucracies most likely choose. In this case, it would take our money (and hence our earned property and freedom) for its own purpose, which would, incidentally, attack a company inwhich many taxpayers have invested. Thus, you are robbing people doubly, by holding a loaded IRS to their heads to make them fund something that decreases their wealth more. This is something most government bureaucrats can only dream of. Salud!
Remember, nothing is free; everything comes at a price, whether it's money, time, sweat, or demoralization from living with complete b*tch. However, you point that out yourself with:
So let's throw a bomber's worth of money at one of them and produce something that anyone can install and use -- and rob Microsoft of a ton of money in the process.
I agree, an OS and office suite that is usable is important; too important to be put in the hands of the government.
Not in the grammar software ...