The biggest Q that bothers me is : why hasn't anyone come up with a serious alternative for google ? I mean : the concept of pagerank might be pattented & hidden, but investors should know by now that there's loads of cash to be made with searchengines. Hardware isn't so much of a deal anymore too, and neither is bandwith.
It's obviously a free market conspiracy to squelch competition.
Although economists can be thought provoking [good thing] their economic analysis is often trash [bad thing] - economists brush over facts, present dodgy one sided (and often politically biased) analysis and present conclusions as fact. So draw your own opinions but do not take anything from economists served on a plate.
I say this because most economists are statist keynesian trained seals.
1000 piecemeal overlapping solutions that may or may not work depending on configuration and what shell you are using is not the same thing as a 100% integrated solution.
The reason Longhorn is taking so long is that MS has to wait for 64-bit CPUs to get out there before they release it. It'll be on a bootable CD, and there will be one file: longhorn.exe that is 3.7 GB large. A single, integrated, OS. One command: longhorn.exe. But it has about a zillion options.
I'm not sure whether you meant this reply as a joke or not; the moderation suggests so, and perhaps my humor detector is even worse-off than it usually is. But it seems possible to me that your reply is serious, so (being both a physicist and an educator) I can't help myself . ..
I was serious and being funny at the same time. Two words: David Stove. Ha ha ha ha...
Scientific theories can only be proven false; they can never be proved true.
So no scientific theories are true--they can only be false.
Of course, drugs are the worst evil there is, except for Saddam Hussein, and Ritalin, and Prozac, and a million other drugs we take like candy, as well as alcohol. They're evil, I tell you!
Seriously, why can't we _try_ legalization for an experimental period, and see how it works? Right now we have nothing but a lot of hot air and moralizing and wishing and speculation, none of which is worth a hoot.
In my own opinion, I think there are too many interests which require drugs to be illegal, particularly the State, which really scores (hah!).
Senator John McCain sums it up: 'The odds of defeating spam by legislation alone is extremely low, but that does not mean we should stand idly by and do nothing about it.'
Meaning, 'What we do has no effect, but we need to look like we're doing something useful.' And of course there _shall_ be unintended consequences, which will require yet another government "fix".
Even those that appear to be short on tv (compared to the other athletes) are often over 6 feet tall.
I'm 5'19" and people say, "wow, you're tall" and I tell them, "I'm just an NBA shooting guard." (by that I mean the height, not the job).
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It's because tall people are better.
Can't believe no one's mentioned Randy Newman's _Short People_ song yet. Any self-respecting tall person knows that one by heart.
Short People
Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
To live
They got little hands
Little eyes
They walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, I don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
`Round here
Short People are just the same
As you and I
(A Fool Such As I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It's A Wonderful World)
Short People got nobody
Short People got nobody
Short People got nobody
To love
They got little baby legs
That stand so low
You got to pick 'em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That go beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They're gonna get you every time
Well, I don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
'Round here
One, that the nation is indivisible, by order of God. Sheesh, the nation was formed by way of a division.
Two, Christians earnestly wanting the "under God" part in there. Sheesh, Christians pledging their allegiance to a Caesar! But, but, but, it's God's Chosen Caesar [tm], so it's OK!
Note: I am a Christian. For Christians I recommend a reading of Ernest Tuveson's _Redeemer Nation_, which gets to the bottom of the heretical view of America as Messiah Nation, of which the Pledge is a small part.
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It's obviously a free market conspiracy to squelch competition.
I say this because most economists are statist keynesian trained seals.
The reason Longhorn is taking so long is that MS has to wait for 64-bit CPUs to get out there before they release it. It'll be on a bootable CD, and there will be one file: longhorn.exe that is 3.7 GB large. A single, integrated, OS. One command: longhorn.exe. But it has about a zillion options.
Yes, and I hear the Pope is considering converting to being a Lutheran.
Sure there is. How else is are you going to play Windows Media Player 9? Or install DirectX 9?
The technically correct way is Microsoft'S Hell. Same thing, anyway.
Especially for a school whose mascot is a turkey (fortunately not Turkey-Lurkey).
It's a Big Hum now until they find out it was a Big Sneeze.
Very funny.
I was serious and being funny at the same time. Two words: David Stove. Ha ha ha ha...
Scientific theories can only be proven false; they can never be proved true.
So no scientific theories are true--they can only be false.
Unless, of course, it happens to be _true_.
But you'll be hungrier so that when you get there, you'll eat twice as much. How revolting!
Then it follows that survival of the fittest is not true for humans?
Seriously, why can't we _try_ legalization for an experimental period, and see how it works? Right now we have nothing but a lot of hot air and moralizing and wishing and speculation, none of which is worth a hoot.
In my own opinion, I think there are too many interests which require drugs to be illegal, particularly the State, which really scores (hah!).
You obviously asked the wrong questions. This is /. The right question for /. is 'why does M$ suck?'
Meaning, 'What we do has no effect, but we need to look like we're doing something useful.' And of course there _shall_ be unintended consequences, which will require yet another government "fix".
Just tell us what company this is. Leave the rest to the /. crowd.
That's the price of the commercial product (the other link) that retains heat.
Trying to eradicate that is ludicrous, for all you meddling social engineers. Reality will always win in the end.
I'm 5'19" and people say, "wow, you're tall" and I tell them, "I'm just an NBA shooting guard." (by that I mean the height, not the job).
Can't believe no one's mentioned Randy Newman's _Short People_ song yet. Any self-respecting tall person knows that one by heart.
Please don't confuse us with the facts, please. We need myths! We want myths!
And here I was, thinking uptime was the ultimate measure of coolness.
Two, Christians earnestly wanting the "under God" part in there. Sheesh, Christians pledging their allegiance to a Caesar! But, but, but, it's God's Chosen Caesar [tm], so it's OK!
Note: I am a Christian. For Christians I recommend a reading of Ernest Tuveson's _Redeemer Nation_, which gets to the bottom of the heretical view of America as Messiah Nation, of which the Pledge is a small part.