"All the company can do is continue to throw money at music on one front while it battles Google in search on another, Linux servers in another, OpenOffice in another, Blu-Ray in another, and Nintendo in console gaming. Meanwhile, its flagship Windows Vista product is in flames while Apple eats into the profitable end of consumer desktops and Linux increasingly eats into its installed base in low cost desktop sales."
Oooh... shudder... RDM may be telling the truth but it's "anti-Microsoft" and therefore not credible?
Guess again...
Microsoft being "...nimble as a beached whale carcass" is generous.
I think we agree that plasticity is greater in the young, less in the elderly.
The central story in Norman Doidge's "The Brain That Changes Itself" is a remarkable example of how the effects of age, or even of the damage resulting from stroke, can be mitigated by encouraging neuroplasticity.
A psychiatrist whom I know, and who has been following Doidge's work closely, predicts that models of human neurological function, cognition and behaviour will be altered radically over the next twenty or thirty years as a result of ongoing research into neuroplasticity.
Your holding a post-doc in neurocognition is not at all impressive.
1.) You can't spell (hand "waving")
2.) There's a vast body of evidence growing that neuroplasticity is greatest in childhood, but continues throughout life, even in heavily damaged brains, as of stroke victims;
3.) As an anthropologist, I can tell you that our culture is the only one that warehouses and infantilizes the elderly on an industrial scale. What you think you're seeing is an artifact of a cultural phenomenon, not a neurological one.
"Shi Tao was sent to jail for 10 years for engaging in pro-democracy efforts deemed subversive after Yahoo turned over information about his online activities requested by Chinese authorities."
Guy gets 10 years for *having an opinion*?
What happened to "YRO"?
What's the Chinese government going to do if Yahoo! doesn't roll over and rat out Shi Tao?
Slashdot Mirror
You forgot donkey kong.
No your the faggit, and I gone git pitbulls with AIDS to rape you face!
PS: HA HA!
FF3.5 eats a lot of system resources, especially when it's been open for a while.
I think this accounts for these observations.
Like this? http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/03/18/transportation-tuesday-8923-miles-per-gallon/
19 inch box?
The IBM Roadrunner:
"occupies approximately 6,000 square feet..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner
Good luck with that...
Or be in when it goes "blue screen"...
Hit the "change" button and the weird ass icons (etc.) disappear.
Same as when the display was eating post titles a while ago...
So, no more \.ing \.?
Non \.ed video on BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7402016.stm/
Canada has a different history and set of laws regarding hate speech than the US.
Get over it.
I for one welcome our new star-swallowing overlords...
Like Iraq?
"in the next couple of years, they'll be able to release a killer new system with all the features consumers want and none they don't"
No they won't.
From the article:
"All the company can do is continue to throw money at music on one front while it battles Google in search on another, Linux servers in another, OpenOffice in another, Blu-Ray in another, and Nintendo in console gaming. Meanwhile, its flagship Windows Vista product is in flames while Apple eats into the profitable end of consumer desktops and Linux increasingly eats into its installed base in low cost desktop sales."
Oooh... shudder... RDM may be telling the truth but it's "anti-Microsoft" and therefore not credible?
Guess again...
Microsoft being "...nimble as a beached whale carcass" is generous.
The point you are missing is that Microsoft is a freaking octopus.
They do everything, and they do everything badly.
Numerous anti-trust suits, obscene backwards incompatibility issues, FUD... these are the freaks you'd like to have running a Flickr competitor?
Why?
Impudent rapscallion!
How dare you emply that I can't splell!
I think we agree that plasticity is greater in the young, less in the elderly.
The central story in Norman Doidge's "The Brain That Changes Itself" is a remarkable example of how the effects of age, or even of the damage resulting from stroke, can be mitigated by encouraging neuroplasticity.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070410/brain_doidge_070410/20070410?hub=Specials/
A psychiatrist whom I know, and who has been following Doidge's work closely, predicts that models of human neurological function, cognition and behaviour will be altered radically over the next twenty or thirty years as a result of ongoing research into neuroplasticity.
Your holding a post-doc in neurocognition is not at all impressive.
1.) You can't spell (hand "waving")
2.) There's a vast body of evidence growing that neuroplasticity is greatest in childhood, but continues throughout life, even in heavily damaged brains, as of stroke victims;
http://www.normandoidge.com/
3.) As an anthropologist, I can tell you that our culture is the only one that warehouses and infantilizes the elderly on an industrial scale. What you think you're seeing is an artifact of a cultural phenomenon, not a neurological one.
And what sickens a whole different set of them is that even among dedicated PC users, Vista is as popular as chickenpox and nobody wants IE7.
"Random guy at the computer shop today" said "Nobody wants Vista... of course I use Firefox."
SS Microsoft-Titanic has already hit the iceberg. Messing with Open Source is just their muddled attempt to mitigate.
Looks like it's not working...
From the article:
"Shi Tao was sent to jail for 10 years for engaging in pro-democracy efforts deemed subversive after Yahoo turned over information about his online activities requested by Chinese authorities."
Guy gets 10 years for *having an opinion*?
What happened to "YRO"?
What's the Chinese government going to do if Yahoo! doesn't roll over and rat out Shi Tao?
Put the website in jail?
What a bunch of belly-crawling cowards...
There's no excuse for this.
Your anti-commie rhetoric screws up rest of your argument.
Plus you got the facts wrong...
Proving I guess that all knee-jerk reactionaries can't think?
Can you see goatse on a mobile phone?
Of course you can!
The PC is dead!
It might.
But you're going to need four of these plus a 1 terabyte hard drive plus 100 gigs of memory to run VISTA service pack 2.
Get used to it...
It gets buried.
Relax, schmoopsie.
Just thing of Wikipedia as a wise MILF whose daughter Veropedia likes to make her living on her back.
Mom's still cool.
Escalope!
Jerusalem is part of Italia Irridenta!
And so is XP!
pwned!!!