To distill this all down to one pithy saying, it seems that the key to corporate survival is to always work to put yourself out of business before someone else does the job for you.
(A trickster type of lesson.)
T. Coyote
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Sorry, I actually meant to say "The Matrix". Guess I was hallucinating at the time;-)
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I want one of these. If it can also record my hallucinations, I could make a movie that would blow people away and save tons of money on CGI costs. It would make the "Blair Witch Project" look like an amateurish piece of fluff...
"The total cost of the test was about $100 million..."
It makes me want to cry when I read about a government spending such an astronomical amount of money on what is only a one-time tryout of a military toy of dubious need. And if the government does go ahead and build an entire defense system based on this technology, how many orders of magnitude will be the total cost?
All this in a country where hundreds of thousands of homeless people are living in the street and more than 20% of children are growing up in poverty. What benefit is this spending to them? The extremely low probability that some unknown enemy nation may launch a suicidal (and it would be since they clearly realize that the US would of course likely retaliate in kind) nuclear attack means little when you may not even survive the coming winter due to lack of food and shelter.
The cost / benefit ratio of this project is all out of whack. The people of the US do not need this technology to be protected from foreign missles.
The real benefit of such a system is not purely defensive, but stategic, since it would allow the US to launch a first strike nuclear attack against another nuclear country and not have to worry about retaliation from the target country. As a nation, is this the kind of benefit that Americans find it worthwile to spend their tax dollars on? And ultimately, what value is this kind of international power when the country may ultimately succumb to its own internal deterioration?
One of the pleasures of having the metric system here in Canada is having speed limit signs on the highway that say "Maximum: 110". Now that sounds a lot better than 55 doesn't it?
...resizing the browser window. Or when when loading the page into the Communicator editor (as I do to trim the garbage before printing.)
I fail to understand why I should have to go back online and completely re-download the page and everything on it to do these things when I obviously already have the page on my computer.
Does anyone know how to remove buttons from the toolbar?
I don't know about removing individual buttons, but I just leave the button bar collapsed since there is too much garbage on there that I don't need. I use the right click menu to get 'stop' and 'back' commands. The 'esc' key does an even better job at stopping a page load.
Douglas Boling's MS article is pure propaganda, of course, but you'd think that as a professional writer he could come up with better assertions than things like equating "free" with "no value".
Really. Following that logic, than we must also conclude that oxygen has no value, sunshine has no value, rain has no value... On the contrary, all these things are _essential_ to all of us even being here to do any coding at all.
When it comes down to it, software is a tool. The price of the tool is irrelevant if it gets the job done. The real value is in what you can accomplish with it.
"In a free market, identifiable manufacturers own the product. They are responsible for product perfomance, and they can be held liable for inexcusable flaws."
Flaws such as the one thats lets macros viruses easily trash computers and shut down email systems?
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To distill this all down to one pithy saying, it seems that the key to corporate survival is to always work to put yourself out of business before someone else does the job for you.
(A trickster type of lesson.)
T. Coyote
Sorry, I actually meant to say "The Matrix". Guess I was hallucinating at the time ;-)
I want one of these. If it can also record my hallucinations, I could make a movie that would blow people away and save tons of money on CGI costs. It would make the "Blair Witch Project" look like an amateurish piece of fluff...
It makes me want to cry when I read about a government spending such an astronomical amount of money on what is only a one-time tryout of a military toy of dubious need. And if the government does go ahead and build an entire defense system based on this technology, how many orders of magnitude will be the total cost?
All this in a country where hundreds of thousands of homeless people are living in the street and more than 20% of children are growing up in poverty. What benefit is this spending to them? The extremely low probability that some unknown enemy nation may launch a suicidal (and it would be since they clearly realize that the US would of course likely retaliate in kind) nuclear attack means little when you may not even survive the coming winter due to lack of food and shelter.
The cost / benefit ratio of this project is all out of whack. The people of the US do not need this technology to be protected from foreign missles.
The real benefit of such a system is not purely defensive, but stategic, since it would allow the US to launch a first strike nuclear attack against another nuclear country and not have to worry about retaliation from the target country. As a nation, is this the kind of benefit that Americans find it worthwile to spend their tax dollars on? And ultimately, what value is this kind of international power when the country may ultimately succumb to its own internal deterioration?
...resizing the browser window. Or when when loading the page into the Communicator editor (as I do to trim the garbage before printing.)
I fail to understand why I should have to go back online and completely re-download the page and everything on it to do these things when I obviously already have the page on my computer.
Hmmph!
Does anyone know how to remove buttons from the toolbar?
I don't know about removing individual buttons, but I just leave the button bar collapsed since there is too much garbage on there that I don't need. I use the right click menu to get 'stop' and 'back' commands. The 'esc' key does an even better job at stopping a page load.
Now if Doubleclick would just launch a massive lawsuit campaign to stop everyone using banner ads, the Web might become a lot easier to read...
Douglas Boling's MS article is pure propaganda, of course, but you'd think that as a professional writer he could come up with better assertions than things like equating "free" with "no value".
Really. Following that logic, than we must also conclude that oxygen has no value, sunshine has no value, rain has no value... On the contrary, all these things are _essential_ to all of us even being here to do any coding at all.
When it comes down to it, software is a tool. The price of the tool is irrelevant if it gets the job done. The real value is in what you can accomplish with it.
"In a free market, identifiable manufacturers own the product. They are responsible for product perfomance, and they can be held liable for inexcusable flaws."
Flaws such as the one thats lets macros viruses easily trash computers and shut down email systems?