>I wonder if Bill Gates actually dares to read sources like Slashdot , Newsforge, and so forth. If he knew what people "really" thought
Um... slashdot, newsforge don't represent what the people "really" think. Its just a small subset of people and the people who posts comments are an even smaller subset of that.
>There hasn't been a majorly anticipated MMORPG launch in the history of internet gaming that didn't have bottlenecks.
City of Heroes.
And WoW might have the biggest bottleneck ever. You can't buy the game (English North American version) anymore because Blizzard is trying to fix their capcity issues. Its been this way for about a month.
>Why? Because people with nukes don't do stupid things (excluding the U.S. of course).
How can you say when USSR and USA had nukes pointed at each other able to destroy each other multiple times over within 20 minutes was not stupid?
The best that you can say is that countries with nukes haven't done any thing stupid, YET.
>In the case of North Korea they are protecting themselves from attack since any country that would attack them knows what to expect.
Yes, and thats what causes an arm race. You hit me, I'll hit you harder. How is this a good thing?
>However, as soon as India had their nuclear tests and Pakistan followed close behind, both countries have had several meaningful discussions on how to reduce tensions and learn to live peacefully with one another.
The last major war was in 1971. Its only recently that nukes got involved.
>I know it's an unpopular opinion but a country like North Korea or Iran having nukes is a good thing. It forces all sides to not be stupid.
Having nukes does not suddenly embude the political leaders with intellence bonus, this is not the game Civilization. Now their mistakes are that much larger. How is this not stupid?
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This gets modded +5 Insightful? There wasn't a better post to mod up?
It reads like an overactive child who just getting too excited about his toys.
"Maybe Linux will get rockets and laser and missles and guns with super-bullets blessed by the Pope. And then they could go up to M$ campus and then destroy Steve Ballmer and all his evil minions. And then Bill Gates will regret all the evil things that he did. Well, hopefully."
You are not replying to any previous post and the main article is about Apple and its design decisions and almost every single post here is about Apple. Fine if you say that its not about Apple, but you don't think that its not some would conclude?
>and your post should have been moderated as a troll.
Its a troll because its wrong, you disagree with my opinion or you think that I'm just "inflamitory for the purpose of baiting a reaction"?
It was not intended to be the last option; I had found it interesting that you raised a good point and I wanted your honest opinion and went out of my way to bring up many, I think, valid points and even looked up a good link for "food for thought". Show me that I'm wrong, then thank you, now I know better. Disagree with me and thats fine too, its just an opinion. Call me a troll when I had no intention to be so; gee, thanks.
>there is a signficant number of people who still have some difficulty using the mouse
I agree with you on this point and was pointing out that in the context of the original slashdot article, there are things that Apple could do to make things easier for those who find it hard. Others have brought up the point that it might be a "Steve Jobs/ego" thing, which might explain alot of things. For a company that takes care in making their UI, there is alot more things they can do, in fact keeping with the one-mouse button is the least they could do. Thats my point.
If you interpret this post as a troll, then please don't waste your and my time and reply.
I think that you are giving Apple too much credit. There are just too many complex things with Macs, if you already find that right clicking is hard.
Whats with the F1 to F12 keys? Whats the Esc (escape) key do?
How easy is it to double-click?
Why two special modifier keys?
Why the huge amount of inconsistancies in Apple's software UI (see as a good outline with references; http://www.scifihifi.com/index.cgi/mac/UILand.html )
>When you talk about Michael inciting interest in a story, what you really mean is baiting people with completely inaccurate articles (and there have been a ton lately) to get more page views for OSTG's ad clients.
Unfortunately, more and more I think that this is what slashdot is about.
Trolling, in all its forms, gets attention. It doesn't matter if its not the truth, one-sided or a dupe. Just get the eyeballs.
And the most interesting part is that there are people here who comment on others mindlessly following the crowd, in terms of software usability, in terms of music, in terms of politics. Yet they might not be aware that they are being baited for someone else's profit.
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burns210 is saying that all he is doing is asking for the money, as your quotes point out ("seeks", "proposed". He/NASA hasn't gotten it yet or done anything written in stone. As far as we know, its something that he plans to sacrifice and then blame it on Congress.
(He has alot in this budget. To me, it seems like he wants to sell the economic future so he can end up looking better in 4 years.)
... was the quote voices with accents and everything.
Eg: Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded. Chairman Sheng-ji Yang "Looking God in the Eye
AND
A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions--if only we lived in one. Academician Prokhor Zakharov "Now We Are Alone"
Ok, I can see your viewpoint and agree with you. But what I'm saying is that not all mega-corps implode and disappear. The "WorldCom"s of the world are rare. There are more Standard Oil and Walmarts that survive the years.
>where all mega-companies eventually end up in (ala AT&T).
AT&T today is not the same as the mega-corp one in the past. If you want to see where the mega-corpo one is now, take 90% of the telecom companies out there and add them together.
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>They have a some serious censorship problems. Especially when it comes to radio broadcasting.
Exactly what radio censorship issues are you talking about?
>The fact that Microsoft cowtows to tactics like this by lowering their prices gives legitimacy to OpenOffice.org.
The purchasers could have done this with any office suite. Its just that OO/OpenSource is the latest IT buzz word.
Purchasers were doing this before OO was around. And they do it in many different industries.
Writing up motions are nothing. Wake me up when they actually do something with OO.
and reside in the USA?
My next step would be to get a good lawyer to find out if what you are doing will open yourself up to potential legal action.
>I wonder if Bill Gates actually dares to read sources like Slashdot , Newsforge, and so forth. If he knew what people "really" thought
Um... slashdot, newsforge don't represent what the people "really" think. Its just a small subset of people and the people who posts comments are an even smaller subset of that.
Interesting. It was about a month ago I check, maybe it back on the shelves.
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>There hasn't been a majorly anticipated MMORPG launch in the history of internet gaming that didn't have bottlenecks.
City of Heroes.
And WoW might have the biggest bottleneck ever. You can't buy the game (English North American version) anymore because Blizzard is trying to fix their capcity issues. Its been this way for about a month.
>Why? Because people with nukes don't do stupid things (excluding the U.S. of course).
How can you say when USSR and USA had nukes pointed at each other able to destroy each other multiple times over within 20 minutes was not stupid?
The best that you can say is that countries with nukes haven't done any thing stupid, YET.
>In the case of North Korea they are protecting themselves from attack since any country that would attack them knows what to expect.
Yes, and thats what causes an arm race. You hit me, I'll hit you harder. How is this a good thing?
>However, as soon as India had their nuclear tests and Pakistan followed close behind, both countries have had several meaningful discussions on how to reduce tensions and learn to live peacefully with one another.
The last major war was in 1971. Its only recently that nukes got involved.
>I know it's an unpopular opinion but a country like North Korea or Iran having nukes is a good thing. It forces all sides to not be stupid.
Having nukes does not suddenly embude the political leaders with intellence bonus, this is not the game Civilization. Now their mistakes are that much larger. How is this not stupid?
Good answer.
I wonder why the person is asking how their IT group can save money, when chances are, the decision has already been made. He just doesn't realize it.
Work on providing good value to the company. Thats what saves money in the long run and will make you a better professional (as you suggested).
Making cuts is really just a short-term way of saving money. The excess will comeback or its a dead-end company.
Reminds me of flamewars when it was "NT vs. OS/2"
Now those were good.
This gets modded +5 Insightful? There wasn't a better post to mod up?
It reads like an overactive child who just getting too excited about his toys.
"Maybe Linux will get rockets and laser and missles and guns with super-bullets blessed by the Pope. And then they could go up to M$ campus and then destroy Steve Ballmer and all his evil minions. And then Bill Gates will regret all the evil things that he did. Well, hopefully."
>I mean, how pathetic is this sort of blatant, shameless me-tooism? ....
>Just my two cents from an Apple fanboy.
*cough*cough*
>My comment had nothing to do with Apple
You are not replying to any previous post and the main article is about Apple and its design decisions and almost every single post here is about Apple. Fine if you say that its not about Apple, but you don't think that its not some would conclude?
>and your post should have been moderated as a troll.
Its a troll because its wrong, you disagree with my opinion or you think that I'm just "inflamitory for the purpose of baiting a reaction"?
It was not intended to be the last option; I had found it interesting that you raised a good point and I wanted your honest opinion and went out of my way to bring up many, I think, valid points and even looked up a good link for "food for thought". Show me that I'm wrong, then thank you, now I know better. Disagree with me and thats fine too, its just an opinion. Call me a troll when I had no intention to be so; gee, thanks.
>there is a signficant number of people who still have some difficulty using the mouse
I agree with you on this point and was pointing out that in the context of the original slashdot article, there are things that Apple could do to make things easier for those who find it hard. Others have brought up the point that it might be a "Steve Jobs/ego" thing, which might explain alot of things. For a company that takes care in making their UI, there is alot more things they can do, in fact keeping with the one-mouse button is the least they could do. Thats my point.
If you interpret this post as a troll, then please don't waste your and my time and reply.
I think that you are giving Apple too much credit. There are just too many complex things with Macs, if you already find that right clicking is hard.
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Whats with the F1 to F12 keys? Whats the Esc (escape) key do?
How easy is it to double-click?
Why two special modifier keys?
Why the huge amount of inconsistancies in Apple's software UI (see as a good outline with references; http://www.scifihifi.com/index.cgi/mac/UILand.htm
>When you talk about Michael inciting interest in a story, what you really mean is baiting people with completely inaccurate articles (and there have been a ton lately) to get more page views for OSTG's ad clients.
Unfortunately, more and more I think that this is what slashdot is about.
Trolling, in all its forms, gets attention. It doesn't matter if its not the truth, one-sided or a dupe. Just get the eyeballs.
And the most interesting part is that there are people here who comment on others mindlessly following the crowd, in terms of software usability, in terms of music, in terms of politics. Yet they might not be aware that they are being baited for someone else's profit.
>He went on about how they withhold money back in some financial quarts in order to show off record results in another.
It was very common to do this before. Not sure how much it is now.
Depending how they did it, it could be legal, but technically its illegal (then and now).
>If you want to interoperate in the business world today you do it via Microsoft products.
There are many good replacements for MS business products today. (not home products) Not all of them are free/OpenSourced but they are non-MS.
Its really at a point today that if you are locked in to MS, its because you made the decision, not because of illegal activity by MS.
>The modifiers are [ALSO] on the lower right quadrant.
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Here is a picture of an Apple keyboard;
http://bookstore.umbc.edu/images_softw
The entire right side is the number-pad. The modifiers are not on the edge, like the left side, but are about 1/3 from the edge.
Right on the edge is alot better than 1/3 of a keyboard length. How is that better usability for left-handed people?
>Would you prefer that they be in the lower right quadrant?
If you were left-handed, HELL YES.
And from the same page;
Statistics Are Often Misleading
You cannot - as a web developer - rely only on statistics. Statistics can often be misleading.
Global averages may not always be relevant to your web site. Different sites attract different audiences. Some web sites attract professional developers using professional hardware, other sites attract hobbyists using older low spec computers.
Also be aware that many stats may have an incomplete or faulty browser detection. It is quite common by many web stats report programs, not to detect new browsers like Opera and Netscape 6 or 7 from the web log.
(The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we are also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the quality of these figures)
burns210 is saying that all he is doing is asking for the money, as your quotes point out ("seeks", "proposed". He/NASA hasn't gotten it yet or done anything written in stone. As far as we know, its something that he plans to sacrifice and then blame it on Congress.
(He has alot in this budget. To me, it seems like he wants to sell the economic future so he can end up looking better in 4 years.)
>Just pre-election talk.
Dude, I don't take recreational drugs but, damn, I want some of what you are smoking.
You are not going to buy from a company because they laid off 60 people?
So exactly what company in America do you buy from that has never laid off people?
Eg:
Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.
Chairman Sheng-ji Yang
"Looking God in the Eye
AND
A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions--if only we lived in one.
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"Now We Are Alone"
Thats was the #1 disappointment I had with Civ3.
Ok, I can see your viewpoint and agree with you. But what I'm saying is that not all mega-corps implode and disappear. The "WorldCom"s of the world are rare. There are more Standard Oil and Walmarts that survive the years.
>where all mega-companies eventually end up in (ala AT&T).
AT&T today is not the same as the mega-corp one in the past. If you want to see where the mega-corpo one is now, take 90% of the telecom companies out there and add them together.