mini's been saying the same thing - that WP7 is the product that will hopefully tie Microsoft together (but comments are weighing heavily towards the "or else" scenario)
And mainly: it's a very poor matter of timing for a break-up. We're about to have a mobile phone come out that actually binds the companies divisions far closer than ever before: Office, Windows Live, Xbox Live, Bing, and Dev Div: this damn thing is the antidote for break-up talk. WP7 wouldn't be impossible to create with a break-up, but it'd be exceptionally difficult. WP7 is pulling together huge resources that none of our direct competitors have.
For one, it continues the schizophrenic dissonance of trying to separate content from presentation on the one hand while merging content and presentation on the other. It needs to be simplified, not get yet another layer of lard.
Of course, failbook is an even bigger mess
Buy 5,000 facebook fans for $30, 150,000 fans for $160 (ten for a penny). And that's about what the average facebook account really is worth, if you believe that the market sets the price.
say, Slashdot or New York Times doing something to better my reading experience.
You must be new here:-p
Seriously, we already have latency problems caused by multiple sites doing their crap on every page load (look at the source for any page that includes tracking and ad javascript includes). We don't need web sites sifting through 5 meg of local storage (which they'll grow to 100 meg, just like the original cookie limits specification quickly succumbed to hyperinflation) because they'll want to store it in xml.
No, what I am saying is the exact opposite - that cruise control is an approved device, and that google's stuff isn't. Please read my posts elsewhere in the thread where I point out this difference and don't put words in my mouth,,.
The Warren Buffett "exception" is because he got bailed out. He was the major stockholder in both AIG and Moodys - two companies closely tied to the financial meltdown - AIG for their to-the-moon cross-hedges, and Moodys for their f***ed up ratings service.
That makes Warren Buffett the biggest welfare recipient in the history of the world.
And they were only monitoring, not actually driving. The software was doing the steering and braking inputs. Being "ready to take control" means that you are NOT currently in control.
Others have tried to make a nonsense comparison to cruise control - the difference being that cruise control has already passed federal-mandated safety standards - this has not.
This is no more legal than sitting a child in your lap and having them steer the car - or even slaving the steering wheel to a second one so that they can steer - "Oh, I can take control any time" does not cut it.
As long as the person in the drivers seat is NOT in control of the vehicle (only "to take control if something goes awry), and the only other person present is there to babysit the software, then the car is being operated illegally.
The comparison to cruise control is apt - cars that are equipped with cruise control meet federally-mandated safety standards - google's devices do not.
Google is practicing the "It's better to seek forgiveness than it is to ask permission" model.
Ubuntu is not "the most popular distro". Both RedHat variants (Fedora, Core) and Suse variants (OpenSuse) are more popular, and yet have far fewer complains. Most people who download Ubuntu abandon it.
If there had been a fatal accident, who is liable? The operator. And yet, he or she would argue that they were not in fact driving the car at the time - the whole point of the experiment was that they were NOT driving the car. We still require humans to be actively in the loop, not passive monitors.
So who would be liable? The person behind the driver's seat, for not exercising proper care and control, and google, for operating a vehicle in a manner contrary to law - because the whole point of the experiments was that the "real driver" was software, not the person sitting behind the wheel.
It's one reason why we have laws against eating or texting while driving - we require that a person devote a certain level of attention to driving - otherwise, they are operating outside of the parameters of their permit to drive, the same as a crew who puts their airliner on autopilot and goes into the back to have a nap, or gets caught up with their laptop and flies 150 miles past their destination.
If you have care and control, you are required, among other things, to wear your seat belt in California. I doubt the person with "care and control" remotely was wearing his or her seat belt.
It's illegal to operate a motor vehicle on public highways without a drivers' permit. In other words, these experiments were illegal. You would also be convicted of drunk driving even if the vehicle were autonomous because you still have "care and control". So don't drink and drive.
. A good system will provide for diffs and revision control. Which you can do outside the program, but it's probably better to have it integrated.
So he should have just typed his stuff into a wiki.
Seriously, any old text editor would do fine. The problem isn't the editor, it's sitting down and writing 1,000 words every day. It's not that hard to produce 1,000 - 2000 words in a couple of hours, if you're enthusiastic about what you're writing about, and you really won't care what you use.
The alleged shooter, student Terry Norman, was hired by the FBI to take photos of the protesters
Reporter: We want to interview Terry Norman. Where is he?
FBI Liazon: He's deceased.
Reporter: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. When did he die?
FBI Liazon: Tomorrow.
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mini's been saying the same thing - that WP7 is the product that will hopefully tie Microsoft together (but comments are weighing heavily towards the "or else" scenario)
KIN3 FTW !!!
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Of course, failbook is an even bigger mess Buy 5,000 facebook fans for $30, 150,000 fans for $160 (ten for a penny). And that's about what the average facebook account really is worth, if you believe that the market sets the price.
Flash, flex, SDKs, etc, they're all open-sourced courtesy of Adobe.
You must be new here :-p
Seriously, we already have latency problems caused by multiple sites doing their crap on every page load (look at the source for any page that includes tracking and ad javascript includes). We don't need web sites sifting through 5 meg of local storage (which they'll grow to 100 meg, just like the original cookie limits specification quickly succumbed to hyperinflation) because they'll want to store it in xml.
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And yes, the standard is terrible. Go read it.
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BTW - I already did, way before, which is how I verified both the Cali statute on seatbelts and a few other points.
YHBT. YFI. DLTDHYAOTWO!
The true stats are worse ... as I'll explain below:
I'm not. "Social marketers" buy twitter accounts in bulk - ten cents apiece.
Many of the "responses" are from one "bought" account to another to try to generate "buzz" - the true level is probably in the single digits.
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Thank you :-)
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That makes Warren Buffett the biggest welfare recipient in the history of the world.
Others have tried to make a nonsense comparison to cruise control - the difference being that cruise control has already passed federal-mandated safety standards - this has not.
This is no more legal than sitting a child in your lap and having them steer the car - or even slaving the steering wheel to a second one so that they can steer - "Oh, I can take control any time" does not cut it.
-- Barbie
The comparison to cruise control is apt - cars that are equipped with cruise control meet federally-mandated safety standards - google's devices do not.
Google is practicing the "It's better to seek forgiveness than it is to ask permission" model.
Ubuntu is not "the most popular distro". Both RedHat variants (Fedora, Core) and Suse variants (OpenSuse) are more popular, and yet have far fewer complains. Most people who download Ubuntu abandon it.
Well, after copying their interface from Apple, why would you not expect them to copy their marketing strategy from Microsoft?
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This is slashdot - what did you expect from Mr. Anonymous Coward?
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People try Ubuntu because of the hype, then tar all linux distros with the same brush.
So who would be liable? The person behind the driver's seat, for not exercising proper care and control, and google, for operating a vehicle in a manner contrary to law - because the whole point of the experiments was that the "real driver" was software, not the person sitting behind the wheel.
It's one reason why we have laws against eating or texting while driving - we require that a person devote a certain level of attention to driving - otherwise, they are operating outside of the parameters of their permit to drive, the same as a crew who puts their airliner on autopilot and goes into the back to have a nap, or gets caught up with their laptop and flies 150 miles past their destination.
In base 10, it's around the year 14 billion. in this universe, so even in base 2010, it's not the year 10.
Totally illegal.
It's illegal to operate a motor vehicle on public highways without a drivers' permit. In other words, these experiments were illegal. You would also be convicted of drunk driving even if the vehicle were autonomous because you still have "care and control". So don't drink and drive.
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So he should have just typed his stuff into a wiki.
Seriously, any old text editor would do fine. The problem isn't the editor, it's sitting down and writing 1,000 words every day. It's not that hard to produce 1,000 - 2000 words in a couple of hours, if you're enthusiastic about what you're writing about, and you really won't care what you use.
Reporter: We want to interview Terry Norman. Where is he?
FBI Liazon: He's deceased.
Reporter: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. When did he die?
FBI Liazon: Tomorrow.