...to Isreal, I think Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan should cut off all land, sea and air crossings, build walls, install tunnel detectors and disable all Israeli power and water plants.
Occasionally storming with ground troops couldn't hurt. You need to find those radicals who oppose the seige.
When Isreal stops opposing the seige, then the seige will be lifted. But we have to be sure they don't stop temporarily, so the seige should probably end if Isreal stops opposing for a couple decades or so.
The Patriot missiles were known to occassionally follow their target to *its* target.
Aside from just missing, another issue is that even if you hit the target, you need to make sure that your missile detonates when it makes contact with any part of the target.
Finally, detection isn't perfect, trajectories are approximations at the time of launch. The missile needs to adjust using information collected in-flight.
Also Apple tried to use Intel but found their processors too hot and power hungry and thus switched to ARM. MS could have done that . . . but they did not.
WinCE has been running on ARM, MIPS, and SuperH for over a decade.
The Intel CPUs didn't prevent manufacturers from creating devices with reasonable battery life. Macbooks have had consistently reasonable battery life for the past 5 years or so.
windows wasn't designed for ARM with a large capacitive touch screen. That is Microsoft fault...nobody else.
Microsoft has developed on many architectures and has been in the tablet game a long time. Windows for Pen Computing was back in 1991. Windows NT ran on multiple architectures, then there were ultra-low power Windows CE devices. I had one of the things back in 2000. Ran off AA batteries and had a pen. Wireless tech wasn't good enough yet and flash memory was very expensive. It was basically a clunky PDA you needed to tether and convert data for, rather than a portable computer, and forget multimedia. The manufacturer was stupid enough to have it run from disposable batteries, it couldn't use rechargables, and woudln't run from a wall socket. So much bad hardware.
Windows hardware manufacturers just didn't see the tablet market as hot. They'd been dabbling in it for two decades, producing crappy machines, Intel or not, even when MS created lots of software for lots of different architectures.
Finally Microsoft is producing something which doesn't suck.
The technology was in danger of being replaced with SSDs. You would be CRAZY to create a new HDD plant at this point.
If I were a manufacturer, I would put the insurance money into expanding SSD production. The flood is a golden opportunity to retool.
The only thing that sucks for consumers is that production dropped a couple years before it should have. It pushes prices of HDDs up, but pushes SDDs down.
""The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" and it was written by Atheists."
That's going a bit far. It was a collaborative effort. The participants chose the values they wanted to uphold based on their own morals. Those may have been theist or atheist. Given it was the 1940s I'd wager the former, even though I'm the later.
Sell working from home as part of a disaster preparedness plan. Ensure employees *can* work from home in case the head office loses power or floods. Ensure there's a secondary datacenter for core services too of course.
The biggest PITA to run outside of an administrative account was the software. It wasn't until XP that software *started* to work as a 'user'.
Microsoft made big leaps in security in the past decade. Security advisory/patch cycles to entrypoint randomization, driver signing, code signing, policy refinement, non-executable stacks, WSA, antivirus etc.
I don't buy that this cost them their leadership. Crappy decisions did. I'll add that ironically, because they didn't create marketplaces like itunes, their music player almost *relied* on piracy "cybercrime" for their marketshare.
The XBox was a loss-leader to sell games. It had to be cheap. The new tablet isn't cheap.
I think Microsoft has a weird advantage here. They're "competing" with their customers. If they create a flagship device to set the bar high, it keeps the market from becoming a race to the bottom.
All sales profit Microsoft, so it doesn't matter if *their* hardware doesn't get deep marketshare, as long as the combined market is large. Currently, the race to the bottom hasn't done well for PCs, creating shovelware minefields and overall bad user experiences.
That said, I'm sure Ballmer will find a way to screw up. He always does.
No, I didn't mean "Public Domain". I meant free. You could look to the various Creative Commons innovations along with Public Domain. These innovations are a necessity when derivatives of Public Domain are privately owned.
"we have to figure out some way to motivate the content creators"
We are content creators and distributors too. We don't compete with free, we contribute to free. We fund ourselves with our dayjobs.
We can't help that the tools we create and the communities we create don't support your business model. You can't compete wtih what we give away for free, so stop trying to legislate away our freedoms.
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You don't have to teach agnosticism or secular humanism. It occurs naturally.
He's facing life in prison. No amount of bail could ensure that he'll show up for trial.
I agree completely, some of these patents are stupid.
On the upside, it shouldn't be tooo hard to circumvent if the claims are narrow.
If I read the patent correctly, it seems they're varying the power in the laser to create a weak point at the break-off part of the support structure.
"Earth shattering perhaps (The 6000 year old earth)."
You don't need to shatter the 6000 year old earth. It has no basis in science, and no amount of evidence against it will change a believer's mind.
Best to just ignore them.
*woosh*
...to Isreal, I think Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan should cut off all land, sea and air crossings, build walls, install tunnel detectors and disable all Israeli power and water plants.
Occasionally storming with ground troops couldn't hurt. You need to find those radicals who oppose the seige.
When Isreal stops opposing the seige, then the seige will be lifted. But we have to be sure they don't stop temporarily, so the seige should probably end if Isreal stops opposing for a couple decades or so.
The Patriot missiles were known to occassionally follow their target to *its* target.
Aside from just missing, another issue is that even if you hit the target, you need to make sure that your missile detonates when it makes contact with any part of the target.
Finally, detection isn't perfect, trajectories are approximations at the time of launch. The missile needs to adjust using information collected in-flight.
WinCE has been running on ARM, MIPS, and SuperH for over a decade.
The Intel CPUs didn't prevent manufacturers from creating devices with reasonable battery life. Macbooks have had consistently reasonable battery life for the past 5 years or so.
Microsoft has developed on many architectures and has been in the tablet game a long time. Windows for Pen Computing was back in 1991. Windows NT ran on multiple architectures, then there were ultra-low power Windows CE devices. I had one of the things back in 2000. Ran off AA batteries and had a pen. Wireless tech wasn't good enough yet and flash memory was very expensive. It was basically a clunky PDA you needed to tether and convert data for, rather than a portable computer, and forget multimedia. The manufacturer was stupid enough to have it run from disposable batteries, it couldn't use rechargables, and woudln't run from a wall socket. So much bad hardware.
Windows hardware manufacturers just didn't see the tablet market as hot. They'd been dabbling in it for two decades, producing crappy machines, Intel or not, even when MS created lots of software for lots of different architectures.
Finally Microsoft is producing something which doesn't suck.
Correction: hardware manufacturers' vision of a tablet was a big, heavy, clunky devices with 3 hours of battery life.
Now Microsoft is creating their own tablet, and HW manufacturers are complaining that MS is competing with them.
MS's fundamental strategies were wrong... but they're the same strategies which nearly killed Apple in the early 90s. Things change.
I think it's simpler.
The technology was in danger of being replaced with SSDs. You would be CRAZY to create a new HDD plant at this point.
If I were a manufacturer, I would put the insurance money into expanding SSD production. The flood is a golden opportunity to retool.
The only thing that sucks for consumers is that production dropped a couple years before it should have. It pushes prices of HDDs up, but pushes SDDs down.
Google's locked you into their services, your data is being mined and your eyes are being sold to advertisers. That was their plan.
I'm disappointed that I searched for this answer before posting it myself.
Reference: "The Commission on Human Rights was made up of 18 members from various political, cultural and religious backgrounds" http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/history.shtml
""The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" and it was written by Atheists."
That's going a bit far. It was a collaborative effort. The participants chose the values they wanted to uphold based on their own morals. Those may have been theist or atheist. Given it was the 1940s I'd wager the former, even though I'm the later.
Sell working from home as part of a disaster preparedness plan. Ensure employees *can* work from home in case the head office loses power or floods. Ensure there's a secondary datacenter for core services too of course.
NT4 moved the graphics into the kernel. It was controversial back then. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750820.aspx
The biggest PITA to run outside of an administrative account was the software. It wasn't until XP that software *started* to work as a 'user'.
Microsoft made big leaps in security in the past decade. Security advisory/patch cycles to entrypoint randomization, driver signing, code signing, policy refinement, non-executable stacks, WSA, antivirus etc.
I don't buy that this cost them their leadership. Crappy decisions did. I'll add that ironically, because they didn't create marketplaces like itunes, their music player almost *relied* on piracy "cybercrime" for their marketshare.
It's completely orthogonal.
But... touchscreens make an awesome secondary input device.
Navigating a map, arranging windows, drawing, positioning and resizing objects, touchscreens have advantages.
Positioning a text input cursor, highlighting text, scrolling through a document, a regular pointing device is faster and doesn't obscure the screen.
I think Apple is wrong here, but time will tell.
(And by "touchscreen", I mean in a desktop or laptop comptuer context, not a tablet or phone)
I think the original was for the classic Macs... but I could be wrong. The only thing I found was the ad targetting HP in the 90's.
Back in the late 80's, there was some competition where people had to set up a new PC vs a new Mac. Apple and Microsoft sent representatives.
Apple sent a 7 year old.
It became a benchmark of usability and was used in advertisements e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmjvgOAhC_4
(Does anyone have info on the contest? it was pre-Internet boom... I can't find a reference for it.)
The XBox was a loss-leader to sell games. It had to be cheap. The new tablet isn't cheap.
I think Microsoft has a weird advantage here. They're "competing" with their customers. If they create a flagship device to set the bar high, it keeps the market from becoming a race to the bottom.
All sales profit Microsoft, so it doesn't matter if *their* hardware doesn't get deep marketshare, as long as the combined market is large. Currently, the race to the bottom hasn't done well for PCs, creating shovelware minefields and overall bad user experiences.
That said, I'm sure Ballmer will find a way to screw up. He always does.
No, I didn't mean "Public Domain". I meant free. You could look to the various Creative Commons innovations along with Public Domain. These innovations are a necessity when derivatives of Public Domain are privately owned.
"we have to figure out some way to motivate the content creators"
Really? Is there a shortage of new content?
We are content creators and distributors too. We don't compete with free, we contribute to free. We fund ourselves with our dayjobs.
We can't help that the tools we create and the communities we create don't support your business model. You can't compete wtih what we give away for free, so stop trying to legislate away our freedoms.