Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb. He invented the first practical one that lasted a long time and didn't stink up your house. Was this "just" an incremental improvement?
Thomas Edison didn't invent pictures or motion pictures. Those things existed in a mechanical flipbook sort of way. Was his work just incremental?
People had fire. Was his cigar lighter just incremental?
By this odd standard, I suppose only the phonograph was a real invention.
20 years ago, my dad was in a test city for AT&T digital cable (?), and instantly his Comcast bill dropped from $70 to $35 and Comcast rolled out digital itself.
Competition works. Beware politicians wanting to grant exclusivity using the "this here town ain't big enough for two" argument.
> "In 1998, President Bill Clinton read a novel about > biological warfare that deeply disturbed him. In fact, > the story reportedly kept him up all night."
"Clinton also called for remote-disable devices for vehicles after reading a story about a car, and for fire axes to be on 10-foot chain tethers after reading a story about a guy."
I suppose every application has to have hours of video help?
Or maybe it's something actually useful like pre-installed porn.
As long as they can easily uninstall it and reclaim the space, that's fine. If tbey're playing asinine games where you can't, then yes, force them to stop advertising such large storage space.
Completely cancel the entire defense department saves $700 billion. You are still borrowing $600 billion. Tax 100% of the income of "the rich" nets another $500 billion.
You're still borrowing $100 billion a year.
Do you mathematically illiterate clods realize you can't get this under control without some cuts in social spending and also increasing taxes on the middle class?
If that much security is your concern, shut down properly to save power and eat the time waste of startup, or don't shut down and just leave it running.
US copyright holders should immediately sue the federal government as this is an unauthorized taking without fair compensation. The government is saying "here, Antigua. Do this instead to receive payment in our dispute.""
At some point Apple will keep Microsoft's heartbeat going, just like Microsoft did for Apple, pre return of Jobs, to fend off busybodies in government who wanted to be heroes in anti-monopoly attacks.
Oh wait. Chrome and Android exist. n/m. Sucks to be Microsoft.
Data is a virtual thing. In its realm, it has transformed more than the other two put together.
We yabber with people all over the planet, instantly and almost 0 cost. The things to do online are increasing geometrically.
It's a completely separate parallel world of millions of new products, all based on the "general-purpose computational device" yielding billions of new machines, i.e. programs.
Mr. MOD FLAMEBAIT should look into memes someday. The "outrageous" post has more explanatory and predictive power than whatever the hell meme he believes does.
If I recall correctly, a scientist reporting an accurate measurement to the single mile that happened to be exactly 1000 would write it with the decimal point, "1000.".
Indeed. The choice in places like this isn't slaving away for 22 hours a day in a Dickensian nightmare vs. kicking balls around in a field with butterflies and songbirds.
It's working in a factory vs. living in grinding poverty that makes Appalachian nightmares look like Bill Gates' guest house. The West lifted themselves out of this, now China is.
Imagine someone from the Galactic Federation pulling into orbit in 1850 and hauling out vicious criticism of England. No friend of humanity, that's for sure. If what you care about is actual measurements of well-being, which exploded thanks to factories at that time...vs. grinding poverty, not vs. imaginations of butterflied fields.
DO NOT FORGET to include the part where it is used as a meme vector for increased control over the economy. This is completely independent of its validity, though the downside of same is not.
Citizen Microsoft: There's only one person in the world to decide what I'm going to do, and that's me. And if you think - if any of you think -
EMILY: You decided what you were going to do, MS, some time ago. (she looks at Susan) You can't always have it your own way, regardless of anything else that may have happened. (she sighs) Come on, MS.
Citizen Microsoft: Go on! Get out! I can fight this thing all alone!
PC Partners: You're making a bigger fool of yourself than I thought you would, Mr. Microsoft. You're licked. Why don't you -
Citizen Microsoft: (turning on him) Get out! I've got nothing to talk to you about. If you want to see me, have Best Buy write me a letter.
PC Partners: I see! (he starts toward the door)
SUSAN: (starting to cry) MS, you're just excited. You don't realize -
Citizen Microsoft: I know exactly what I'm doing. (he is screaming) Get out!
EMILY: (quietly) MS, if you don't listen to reason, it may be too late -
Citizen Microsoft: Too late for what? Too late for you and this - (he can't find the adjective) this public thief to take the love of the people of this planet away from me? Well, you won't do it, I tell you. You won't do it!
SUSAN: MS, there are other things to think of. (a sly look comes into her eyes) Your stockholders - you don't want them to read in the papers -
EMILY: It is too late now, William.
Citizen Microsoft: (rushes to the door and opens it) Get out, both of you!
SUSAN: (rushes to him) MS, please don't -
Citizen Microsoft: What are you waiting here for? Why don't you go?
EMILY: Goodnight, MS.
She walks out. PC Partners stops as he gets directly in front of Citizen Microsoft.
PC Partners: You're the greatest fool I've ever known, Microsoft. If it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you're going to need more than one lesson. And you're going to get more than one lesson.
(he walks past Microsoft)
Citizen Microsoft: Don't you worry about me. I'm William Foster Microsoft!
(screams louder) I'm going to send you to Chapter 11, PC Partners. Chapter 11!
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Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb. He invented the first practical one that lasted a long time and didn't stink up your house. Was this "just" an incremental improvement?
Thomas Edison didn't invent pictures or motion pictures. Those things existed in a mechanical flipbook sort of way. Was his work just incremental?
People had fire. Was his cigar lighter just incremental?
By this odd standard, I suppose only the phonograph was a real invention.
20 years ago, my dad was in a test city for AT&T digital cable (?), and instantly his Comcast bill dropped from $70 to $35 and Comcast rolled out digital itself.
Competition works. Beware politicians wanting to grant exclusivity using the "this here town ain't big enough for two" argument.
Hint hint, taxis in major cities.
"Don't Braze me, bro!"
This would be fraud on their part. Thought experiments are one thing, official and deliberate criminal activity is another.
> "In 1998, President Bill Clinton read a novel about
> biological warfare that deeply disturbed him. In fact,
> the story reportedly kept him up all night."
"Clinton also called for remote-disable devices for vehicles after reading a story about a car, and for fire axes to be on 10-foot chain tethers after reading a story about a guy."
I suppose every application has to have hours of video help?
Or maybe it's something actually useful like pre-installed porn.
As long as they can easily uninstall it and reclaim the space, that's fine. If tbey're playing asinine games where you can't, then yes, force them to stop advertising such large storage space.
Completely cancel the entire defense department saves $700 billion. You are still borrowing $600 billion. Tax 100% of the income of "the rich" nets another $500 billion.
You're still borrowing $100 billion a year.
Do you mathematically illiterate clods realize you can't get this under control without some cuts in social spending and also increasing taxes on the middle class?
If that much security is your concern, shut down properly to save power and eat the time waste of startup, or don't shut down and just leave it running.
You just described the sick culture of the OP, without realizing it.
Which was also part of the OP's point. Which you also did not realize.
That's what I'm saying! All the information is there on the wiki -- you just have to sqwinky your eyes right.
Well what kind of organization did you expect from people who came up with 17 different kinds of keyboard shift keys?
US copyright holders should immediately sue the federal government as this is an unauthorized taking without fair compensation. The government is saying "here, Antigua. Do this instead to receive payment in our dispute.""
At some point Apple will keep Microsoft's heartbeat going, just like Microsoft did for Apple, pre return of Jobs, to fend off busybodies in government who wanted to be heroes in anti-monopoly attacks.
Oh wait. Chrome and Android exist. n/m. Sucks to be Microsoft.
Data is a virtual thing. In its realm, it has transformed more than the other two put together.
We yabber with people all over the planet, instantly and almost 0 cost. The things to do online are increasing geometrically.
It's a completely separate parallel world of millions of new products, all based on the "general-purpose computational device" yielding billions of new machines, i.e. programs.
Mr. MOD FLAMEBAIT should look into memes someday. The "outrageous" post has more explanatory and predictive power than whatever the hell meme he believes does.
"Unfortunately, in spite of being a national hero, the monkey was executed for masturbating on camera."
You would need 2,333 $30,000,000,000,000 asteroids to afford an $850,000,000,000,000,000 Death Star.
Christ. Think once in awhile people! >:-(
Also, keep km vs. miles in mind the next time some idiot tells you a star destroyer "is 1.6km long".
If I recall correctly, a scientist reporting an accurate measurement to the single mile that happened to be exactly 1000 would write it with the decimal point, "1000.".
Talking Moose on Mac, which took advantage of Apple's voice engine.
Text and voice won't get anywhere near that.
Indeed. The choice in places like this isn't slaving away for 22 hours a day in a Dickensian nightmare vs. kicking balls around in a field with butterflies and songbirds.
It's working in a factory vs. living in grinding poverty that makes Appalachian nightmares look like Bill Gates' guest house. The West lifted themselves out of this, now China is.
Imagine someone from the Galactic Federation pulling into orbit in 1850 and hauling out vicious criticism of England. No friend of humanity, that's for sure. If what you care about is actual measurements of well-being, which exploded thanks to factories at that time...vs. grinding poverty, not vs. imaginations of butterflied fields.
For god's sake, it's just one more piece of analysis. If true, it will be followed up on, if not, it will be followed up on with corrections.
DO NOT FORGET to include the part where it is used as a meme vector for increased control over the economy. This is completely independent of its validity, though the downside of same is not.