It was to break the spirit of the Japanese, to remove any semblance of saving face
In other words, dick-waving.
to destroy possibilities of repeated attempts to further their empire.
That's speculation based on nothing but racist hatred toward Japanese people -- nothing of the kind happened with Germany even though Germany was a much more dangerous enemy, had much more dangerous ideology, and was much more successful empire-builder. What was the whole point to begin with -- killing innocent civilians of "savage race" to make themselves feel better.
Microsoft currently doesn't make money on anything but Windows and Office -- everything else is either runs at loss, or has so much money sunk in it while it was being developed or ran at loss, it will take significant amount of time to turn profit.
Microsoft behavior is all about strategy now -- they want to keep their two platforms dominants and dabble into things that they think, they can have profitable in the future. But "dabble" is a key word -- Bing, Azure, their "Microsoft Nook" shit with Barnes and Noble, Windows Phone, and before that Zune, are examples of that -- all unprofitable.
Are you saying that Allied occupation of Japanese cities is close to not having any such occupation?
Japanese did not oppose the idea of occupation if their surrender was accepted. And this is exactly what happened, except it was supposedly all-important that it had to be American who has to propose it.
You may not like it, but the Japanese themselves set the precedent for "mass-murder" and going "full savage".
And it's still wrong to follow such examples if you call yourself civilized, however my point is, those acts were performed by Americans over ABSOLUTELY NOTHING other than dick-waving.
the owner of the X86 machine is allowed to install his own keys or bypass completely at his/her discretion.
The problem is, there is no way to prove to the machine that you are its owner. Until there will be a mandated big red physical switch that unlocks the key installation procedure while the box is running (everything else is hopelessly obfuscated), the device is effectively tivo-ized or worse.
Oh, that's hairyfeet, our resident Microsoft marketing representative...
That's not correct. Terms the Allies insisted upon that were unacceptable to Japan included the elimination "for all time [of] the authority and influence of those who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest,
If that was really a condition, Japan would be left without a government (not to mention Emperor).
the occupation of "points in Japanese territory to be designated by the Allies", Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor islands as we determine, the Japanese military forces shall be completely disarmed, stern justice shall be meted out to all war criminals, including those who have visited cruelties upon our prisoners, and the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The Japanese government rejected those demands as late as 27 July 1945.
As implemented, it was close enough, and none of it would be a problem if negotiations actually happened. For Americans the only unacceptable condition was the idea of negotiations themselves, and it was supposedly worth of destroying two cities and killing countless civilians (on top of more civilians killed in a war itself -- what is disgusting but at least served some understandable purpose).
You don't think that technology, engineering and bio-engineering companies might be interested being able to hire the smartest people they can find anywhere in the world?
Why would they want such a thing? All their competitors are in US, so as long as those competitors don't have smart people, it's ok to hire stupid ones.
No, they did not. By then, Japanese were already trying to find a way to surrender. Americans wanted to be the ones who dictated the condition for surrender, even though the conditions they imposed were exactly the same as ones Japanesed proposed to begin with. In other words, the whole thing was entirely to humiliate Japanese (and to threaten the rest of the world).
The phrase "Think outside the box" is so common these days. For the mental patients, thinking "inside the box" turns out to be an almost impossible task
And here is the problem -- one can only be allowed to think outside the box after he achieved complete mastery of thinking inside all the boxes involved. Otherwise he would produce ridiculous nonsense that may only by a rare accident happen to be in any way useful.
Some guy famous for being a pretentious asshole and insisting on gassing people in the Middle East decades before Saddam Hussein.
Can we, please, stop hiding behind famous people's backs? Microsoft "proves" that their OS design is not crap because Dave Cutler wrote something for it, "democracy" fans cite some early US slave-owners and that British asshole. Thatcher was just as British and just as Prime Minister, and she was nuts.
Slashdot Mirror
I guess, they have discovered that it's a bad idea and abandoned it.
Voice commands SUCK ASS as an input for a game.
It was to break the spirit of the Japanese, to remove any semblance of saving face
In other words, dick-waving.
to destroy possibilities of repeated attempts to further their empire.
That's speculation based on nothing but racist hatred toward Japanese people -- nothing of the kind happened with Germany even though Germany was a much more dangerous enemy, had much more dangerous ideology, and was much more successful empire-builder. What was the whole point to begin with -- killing innocent civilians of "savage race" to make themselves feel better.
I don't run Windows (the only OS with kernel worse than hypervisor, so adding one does not hurt it) in enterprise setting.
THIS IS WHAT MICROSOFT EMPLOYEES REALLY BELIEVE.
Sane and intelligent people look like wackjobs to them.
Keep your pants on, they are running it under their shitty virtualization with Windows-bound management and infrastructure.
Microsoft currently doesn't make money on anything but Windows and Office -- everything else is either runs at loss, or has so much money sunk in it while it was being developed or ran at loss, it will take significant amount of time to turn profit.
Microsoft behavior is all about strategy now -- they want to keep their two platforms dominants and dabble into things that they think, they can have profitable in the future. But "dabble" is a key word -- Bing, Azure, their "Microsoft Nook" shit with Barnes and Noble, Windows Phone, and before that Zune, are examples of that -- all unprofitable.
And then crowdsourcing filtering the results of such search.
And then crowdsourcing filtering the results of filtering the results of such search.
It's crowdsourcing all the way down.
Good luck reproducing millennia of science and engineering in your own mind without learning it from others.
Are you saying that Allied occupation of Japanese cities is close to not having any such occupation?
Japanese did not oppose the idea of occupation if their surrender was accepted. And this is exactly what happened, except it was supposedly all-important that it had to be American who has to propose it.
You may not like it, but the Japanese themselves set the precedent for "mass-murder" and going "full savage".
And it's still wrong to follow such examples if you call yourself civilized, however my point is, those acts were performed by Americans over ABSOLUTELY NOTHING other than dick-waving.
by the antitrust agreement they're in
It's expired.
the owner of the X86 machine is allowed to install his own keys or bypass completely at his/her discretion.
The problem is, there is no way to prove to the machine that you are its owner. Until there will be a mandated big red physical switch that unlocks the key installation procedure while the box is running (everything else is hopelessly obfuscated), the device is effectively tivo-ized or worse.
Oh, that's hairyfeet, our resident Microsoft marketing representative...
UEFI and BIOS are two separate things
No.
That's not correct. Terms the Allies insisted upon that were unacceptable to Japan included the elimination "for all time [of] the authority and influence of those who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest,
If that was really a condition, Japan would be left without a government (not to mention Emperor).
the occupation of "points in Japanese territory to be designated by the Allies", Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor islands as we determine, the Japanese military forces shall be completely disarmed, stern justice shall be meted out to all war criminals, including those who have visited cruelties upon our prisoners, and the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The Japanese government rejected those demands as late as 27 July 1945.
As implemented, it was close enough, and none of it would be a problem if negotiations actually happened. For Americans the only unacceptable condition was the idea of negotiations themselves, and it was supposedly worth of destroying two cities and killing countless civilians (on top of more civilians killed in a war itself -- what is disgusting but at least served some understandable purpose).
Lies and quiet scheming have replaced honest discussion with US citizens.
How can you replace something that never existed?
They were created for and their job is to provide a higher education for the American public.
And considering how retarded the majority of American public is now, in a decade those universities would teach alphabet if not for foreigners.
You don't think that technology, engineering and bio-engineering companies might be interested being able to hire the smartest people they can find anywhere in the world?
Why would they want such a thing? All their competitors are in US, so as long as those competitors don't have smart people, it's ok to hire stupid ones.
Those bombs ended the war over there
No, they did not. By then, Japanese were already trying to find a way to surrender. Americans wanted to be the ones who dictated the condition for surrender, even though the conditions they imposed were exactly the same as ones Japanesed proposed to begin with. In other words, the whole thing was entirely to humiliate Japanese (and to threaten the rest of the world).
What was the rationale behind targetting it?
Bloodthirst and ethnic hatred.
Nobody should put _any_ limit on his or her own thinking
Right. Limits such as having KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT HE IS THINKING ABOUT.
Walt Disney, when he was still alive, purposely set a division of "Imagineering", to encourage people to imagine, to think, to explore the impossible
And what did that accomplish outside of a very narrow area of producing animation for kids?
"In the time of war, the value of sin(x) may reach 2." -- attributed to military department.
The phrase "Think outside the box" is so common these days. For the mental patients, thinking "inside the box" turns out to be an almost impossible task
And here is the problem -- one can only be allowed to think outside the box after he achieved complete mastery of thinking inside all the boxes involved. Otherwise he would produce ridiculous nonsense that may only by a rare accident happen to be in any way useful.
W. Churchill
Some guy famous for being a pretentious asshole and insisting on gassing people in the Middle East decades before Saddam Hussein.
Can we, please, stop hiding behind famous people's backs? Microsoft "proves" that their OS design is not crap because Dave Cutler wrote something for it, "democracy" fans cite some early US slave-owners and that British asshole. Thatcher was just as British and just as Prime Minister, and she was nuts.
That's Cristian Weston Chandler's favorite place to eat, you insensitive clod!
Who, do you think, invented instruction sets and memory models?
Speaking of which, even Intel had to fundamentally re-do its memory model -- in fact, three times in the history of x86 series.