It should be noted again that the average IQ of Europeans is 105, the average IQ of the Africans is 70-85. The SAT scores in the US show 20% low scores for blacks at ALL levels of family income, this argues against socioeconomic cause, Further evidence of genetic causes can be found in the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study. J.P. Rushton has written about possible evolutionary factors that have led some races such as Europeans to develop a higher IQ level. These races have been seperated by 40,000 years of independant evolution and there is no reason that evolution and natural selection would not operate on human races as they do other animal species and subspecies.
we should be concerned about the too low white birth rate. i am for boosting the white birth rate and stopping immigration. For many reasons. This includes maintaining the traditional ethnic characteristics of the US and the fact that whites do have on average a higher IQ levels, reflected by higher SAT scores, than brown races. Research has shown this is genetic primarily. J.P Rushton has done research into this area.
We want to keep out the Low IQ people and increase the production of high IQ white European Americans. We want to preserve the traditional ethnic and cultural makeup of the US. I have no desire to see the US turned into Mexico north, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or India.
How could anyone look at Mexico, Haiti, Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc and say, Wow, lets make the US more like these places, lets import more people from there. The research has clearly shown that these countries nature reflects the genetics of the population, genetics and ethnicity is an inseperable part of a countries level of accomplishment and its overal character. Books such as IQ and the Wealth of Nations has looked closely into this subject includign the strong correlation of average population IQ to GDP and as well the geneticall determined IQ levels of different races.
You are talking about an artificial condition. This is not comparable to the natural processes of life, birth and pregnancy is a necessary adn natural part of life and the continuance of human life. So, bad comparison.
I am opposed to abortion and I do agree we need universal health care at the same time. I think the rich need to pay more taxes, not for endless welfare dependance but for educating people and getting them into productive jobs.Welfare should be for those brief periods when looking for work or due to high unemployment due to macroeconomic factors outside of individual control,. I do think that a family should be able to optimally be supported by one breadwinner.
People with High IQ need to have more children. This includes all of the European population which is above the average global IQ. One of the problems that we have is that high IQ populations, especially higher IQ European populations has to few children (below replacement level), while low IQ populations such as Africa and Latin America have too many (far over the replacement level). The result is a global average IQ that is in decline.
Some of the information on this has been outlined in books such as the Bell Curve.
Part of the issue is that in Europe, they are actually BELOW replacement level. It is TOO LOW. This has no effect on reducing overpopulation in the tropical areas of the too high birth rates of the tropical races. This has led to Europeans, being genetically a higher IQ group (the average IQ of a European being 105 compared to 85 for Africans, not that IQ tests raw intellectual capabilities and is mostly influenced by genetics with environment only playing a minor role), being a shrinking percentage of global population.
I would agree that birth rates should be brought down in the tropics and Africa, for instance. But they are in fact too low in Europe where they need to be increased.
Nearly all population growth is happening in impoverished third world countries. In fact, the birth rates in the US and Europe are actually too low. The overpopulation spiel may be applicable to third world countries with high birth rates. It is certainly not applicable in the US and Europe where there are not enough babies being born for replacement.
However, in the US, the birth rates are far too low as, they are in Europe. In Europe its not even at replacement level. People in the US and Europe actually need to have more babies just to bring up the birth rate so we can have a balanced population structure.
You make a good point, users absolutely should be able to use the consoles as they are now, without all of this KMS, DRI junk that is dependant on specific video card. As has been said, one of the great uses of the consoles has been able to get a command prompt without a video card driver loaded and if the video card drivers are not working properly. The console is meant to provide a text based interface, and all you need for that is to call some VGA BIOS calls, no need for all of these complex video drivers. If you want graphics, fonts and all of that, load X. This kmscon is not going to save you much RAM considering that X itself uses only a few megabytes and you can use a lightweight window manager that uses a few MB. What we see going on here is a terrible idea. This project should NOT be be placed into the standard linux kernel. It makes it harder to get to a BIOS video fallback if the video card drivers are not working, and needlessly duplicates functionality already provided by X.
There is no need for this project and its really amazing people are wasting time on this.
Are you kidding me? Are you saying that someone has to use a serial terminal to do something that they have been able to do on Linux for decades, that is get a simple virtual terminal?
All it does is duplicate features of X. If someone wants these features, why not just use X? The fact is there is no or insignificant savings in memory by basically duplicating what X does, this kmscon is not going to save you much memory over using X, considering that you can use X and a lightweight window manager while using a very small amount of ram and that X itself does not take up much ram.
This project is a waste of time and it is incredibly dumb. Direct rendered text? Give me a break. All they are doing is replicating functionality already found in X, its useless duplication. The terminals are supposed to provide an interface that can be used before or without loading video card specific drivers. The only way to display without loading video card drivers is to do it through the BIOS, the VGA BIOS textmode is the initial environment and the fallback environment when a video card driver does not load properly and as well for those who just want a text based interface and do not need a full GUI. If you do want more than a text based environment, and want a lightweight GUI, you might as well load X and a lightweight window manager like fvwm, which will not use that much RAM anyway. X is not heavyweight, thats a stupid old myth that refuses to die, but some of the desktop environments are.
It is pointless to duplicate functionality already found in X, especially when X itself only uses a few megabytes, nothing in todays hardware, and another system basically would provide no or insignificant savings in ram,
Akin was not all with it, it seems, his remarks seemed confused. The fact of the matter is in many cases anti-abortion laws are written to allow for abortion in the case that is a rape, as well where the pregnancy will not be successful due to medical abnormaliities.
I am particularly opposed to abortion since it is indeed the killing of human life, there is no magic moment when the baby materializes from thin air and becomes a conscious being the instant they move through the birth canal. This is just basic biology that its a human being in the womb. As well the idea that it is defenceless gives even more reason to give him legal protection, the fact is a baby already born is just as fragile and defenceless, needing constant care including feeding or they will die, and the slightest mishandling can cause severe injury, babies are very delicate. being dependant does not mean that a person is not a human being with rights, in fact it means they need even more protection since they are less capable to defend themselves.
Then we have the social aspects of abortion. The fact is birth rates in the USA and Europe are far TOO LOW And that this is due to abortion partially. In fact, we have far too few babies and people need to have more babies in the US, not less.
We need to encourage Americans and Europeans to have more children, not provide ways for them to not have them, to boost the too low birth rates.
I do not see the need for a flash player going away any time soon due to the immense amount of content in Flash. Flash is so widespread it is hard to get rid of. It seems Adobe is attacking Google here, perhaps because Google is switching to HTML5.
I agree it would be best for Flash to disappear, Adobe is a corrupt, evil company that uses various unsavory practices. But how to get contnent developers to stop using it? As long as people keep making stuff in flash unfortunately it will remain popular. Part of the issue is making a good replacement for flash. HTML5 helps a.lot with this but as well what really makes flash popular is that developers love Adobe Flash development tools. The sad thing is flash's development tools are very popular with developers and I do not see them giving up flash until something better comes along. I have yet to see anything come along that actually can exceed the features and ease of use of Adobes tools.
Many here presume Flash will go away. This is sort of like saying Linux will become popular, people here do not understand why people use software, they use software because it works well. Adobe has great tools that work well and just expecting people to stop using them when there are no alternatives or the alternatives are inferior is absurd.
Wrong. Not everyone likes your ugly aqua UIs which gobble up 100s of megabytes. Actually CDEs user interface has a clearnnes which many like, in fact many like me prefer it because it does not look like modern UIs and prefer its appearance. You seem to think that if you don't like something that no one else could like it either, what an arrogant and idiotic way of thinking that everyone has the same preferences as you.
The fact it is not GTK and not modern desktops loaded down with hundreds of megabytes of graphics is its appeal. I think people want to use it becasue it is not modern and that it does things the old way, like, not using 100s of megabytes. Not everyone wants to spend tons of memory on some poorly written Gnome UI so they can have some ugly looking graphics.
You are wrong. Many people would like to use CDE because onlike modern stuff it does not use a lot of memory. Everything old is new again. CDE works fine and there is no reason someone could not use it.
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You could use CDE today, Why not? It uses a fraction of the memory and is still completely functional. The age of something has no impact on its usefulness. If someone likes to use CDE, it doesnt matter how old it is. Many people like CDEs modern solid coloured graphics over the nuasiating aqua themes and memory hogging 3d nonsense. It is often the case that newer software is worse. Back when CDE was written, programmers were much more careful since they had to be to make something that was memory efficient. Nowadays everyone is sloppy and lazy today leading to buggy memory wasting software.
actually i like the clean look of CDE and the fact it uses a fraction of the memory of all of your modern desktops with the memory hogging graphics and disgusting, nauseating, and ugly aqua themes.
RIM should have gone with its own modified version of Android, called it Android -compatable, adding whatever features it believes are so necessary. There are far too many wireless platforms out there for developers to support. This means that weaker platforms like blackberry will die unless they start to support apps from android. RIMs decision will likely harm the blackberry.
Sounds good to me. The patents it would seem are the really important part. The source code is GPL, I already have downloaded a complete copy of Qt source code, I advise others to do so, for safekeeping.
The development of this technology for commercial power generation uses must not be stopped, rather if it has benefits, encouraged. Just becasue there are issues that it can be used to make a bomb, should not stop countries such as the US developing it for its nuclear power plants. I would agree that the facilities to process it should be licenced and monitored and we should keep it out of the hands of rogue states such as Iran.
A mistake from the beginning on the internet was to assume users had to click on ads for them to have value. Few other mediums place such a requirement on themselves, including print, billbaords, radio ads, etc. The whole point is to plant awareness of a brand in the mind of trhe consumer, so that they may decide to try the product. It is the same online, if we focus on the ads making a visual impression and creating a memory, they can be seen as effective in creating awareness, and in fact, millions can see an online ad, which makes it something that is as visible as a print ad. Many consumers will see an ad and make a note on it but as they are busy doing something else may not click on the link. its unreasonable to expect users to click on a link and also not necessary.
Online ads are just an online billboard, its stupid to try to obsess over link hits, something that isnt even a possibility anyway with other ad mediums . It seems like the online ad business decided to count link hits, becuse "we could", but it was actually a bad idea, few other ads mediums measure their success on whether a user will make a split second decision but rather on whether they buy the product in coming weeks, even months.
The Windows PC has been problematic not due to the UI, which is fine, but due to the poor security design which is not really designed around considering how the average computer user operates. To basically operate a PC safely one has to be extra vigilent and basically take a course on how to spot all of the subtle visual cues about what is a virus trying to install and not The first time a user boots Windows, they tend to sort of end up in an administrator account, and then installing viruses from email is just a mouse click away. It is just asking for disaster. Even putting people into a non adminstrator account wont help a whole lot as there are ways programs which have penetrated a regular account can bamboozle users into giving up the administrator password. Furthermore many people are just not intellectually capable enough to manage all of these procedures. What Microsoft should do is set up an app store they police, virus scan etc, for Desktop Windows, and ship desktop windows by default set up to only allow applications to be installed from this app store. There would be a way to disable this high security level deep within the Control Panel, however, the point is to make the high security opt out rather than opt in.
Right now we seem to be stuck between two extremes, smartphones which are totally locked down where experts who know what they are doing cannot get any kind of root access, and a completely security free windows desktop where viruses from email can be run with just a click. A happy medium would be to enable the high security by default on the PC and then allow an expert user to disable it in the control panel or registry if needed.
The huge lapses Microsoft has created by failing to create a sound default security environment in Windows and the virus epidemic is the primary reason Windows has such a bad reputation.
The PC is by far a better work environment otherwise. I mean, would i rather work on a spread sheet or play a game on a 25" screen with a full size keyboard or a 4" screen with chiclet keyboard? Its like trading in my van for a tricycle.
I was never very optimisic aboutr symbian nor more phone OSs, including Microsofts. The reason is that there are just far too many phone OSs and each one decided it has to develop completely its own APIs. It is a lot like the early state of the personal computer market with tons of incompatable platforms. It is too much for developers to target all of these, eventually developers will probably target the phone OS that is the strongest, probably Google Android.
Even Android has much to desired. Particulary because while it runs Linux, it is not really Linux or Unix because it does not easily provide POSIX and X Window Systems APIs which are heavily standardized. We have been down this road before with incompatable APIs, and the need to standardize.
We have wonderful standards such as POSIX and X Window System, if phones would support them, it would actually promote the continued existance of many phone OS platforms by allowing the same application ecosystem to be shared.
How much do you want to bet they were ragheads. They ought to send those muslims and burqa wearing women and their ideas of global islamic conquest back to their own countries where they belong.
Why don't you visit msn.com and find out what it is? It is pretty self evident. It is a site that Microsoft runs, for news etc, it will remain controlled by MS, after microsoft has sold off its stake in MSNBC, which Microsoft helped found. MSN is also an ISP with dial up access but this is shrinking, due to the fact we have unfortunately monopolies by cable companies and telephone companies on broadband services that other companies are not able to enter that market.
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It should be noted again that the average IQ of Europeans is 105, the average IQ of the Africans is 70-85. The SAT scores in the US show 20% low scores for blacks at ALL levels of family income, this argues against socioeconomic cause, Further evidence of genetic causes can be found in the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study. J.P. Rushton has written about possible evolutionary factors that have led some races such as Europeans to develop a higher IQ level. These races have been seperated by 40,000 years of independant evolution and there is no reason that evolution and natural selection would not operate on human races as they do other animal species and subspecies.
we should be concerned about the too low white birth rate. i am for boosting the white birth rate and stopping immigration. For many reasons. This includes maintaining the traditional ethnic characteristics of the US and the fact that whites do have on average a higher IQ levels, reflected by higher SAT scores, than brown races. Research has shown this is genetic primarily. J.P Rushton has done research into this area.
We want to keep out the Low IQ people and increase the production of high IQ white European Americans. We want to preserve the traditional ethnic and cultural makeup of the US. I have no desire to see the US turned into Mexico north, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or India.
How could anyone look at Mexico, Haiti, Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc and say, Wow, lets make the US more like these places, lets import more people from there. The research has clearly shown that these countries nature reflects the genetics of the population, genetics and ethnicity is an inseperable part of a countries level of accomplishment and its overal character. Books such as IQ and the Wealth of Nations has looked closely into this subject includign the strong correlation of average population IQ to GDP and as well the geneticall determined IQ levels of different races.
You are talking about an artificial condition. This is not comparable to the natural processes of life, birth and pregnancy is a necessary adn natural part of life and the continuance of human life. So, bad comparison.
I am opposed to abortion and I do agree we need universal health care at the same time. I think the rich need to pay more taxes, not for endless welfare dependance but for educating people and getting them into productive jobs.Welfare should be for those brief periods when looking for work or due to high unemployment due to macroeconomic factors outside of individual control,. I do think that a family should be able to optimally be supported by one breadwinner.
People with High IQ need to have more children. This includes all of the European population which is above the average global IQ. One of the problems that we have is that high IQ populations, especially higher IQ European populations has to few children (below replacement level), while low IQ populations such as Africa and Latin America have too many (far over the replacement level). The result is a global average IQ that is in decline.
Some of the information on this has been outlined in books such as the Bell Curve.
Part of the issue is that in Europe, they are actually BELOW replacement level. It is TOO LOW. This has no effect on reducing overpopulation in the tropical areas of the too high birth rates of the tropical races. This has led to Europeans, being genetically a higher IQ group (the average IQ of a European being 105 compared to 85 for Africans, not that IQ tests raw intellectual capabilities and is mostly influenced by genetics with environment only playing a minor role), being a shrinking percentage of global population.
I would agree that birth rates should be brought down in the tropics and Africa, for instance. But they are in fact too low in Europe where they need to be increased.
Nearly all population growth is happening in impoverished third world countries. In fact, the birth rates in the US and Europe are actually too low. The overpopulation spiel may be applicable to third world countries with high birth rates. It is certainly not applicable in the US and Europe where there are not enough babies being born for replacement.
However, in the US, the birth rates are far too low as, they are in Europe. In Europe its not even at replacement level. People in the US and Europe actually need to have more babies just to bring up the birth rate so we can have a balanced population structure.
You make a good point, users absolutely should be able to use the consoles as they are now, without all of this KMS, DRI junk that is dependant on specific video card. As has been said, one of the great uses of the consoles has been able to get a command prompt without a video card driver loaded and if the video card drivers are not working properly. The console is meant to provide a text based interface, and all you need for that is to call some VGA BIOS calls, no need for all of these complex video drivers. If you want graphics, fonts and all of that, load X. This kmscon is not going to save you much RAM considering that X itself uses only a few megabytes and you can use a lightweight window manager that uses a few MB. What we see going on here is a terrible idea. This project should NOT be be placed into the standard linux kernel. It makes it harder to get to a BIOS video fallback if the video card drivers are not working, and needlessly duplicates functionality already provided by X.
There is no need for this project and its really amazing people are wasting time on this.
Are you kidding me? Are you saying that someone has to use a serial terminal to do something that they have been able to do on Linux for decades, that is get a simple virtual terminal?
All it does is duplicate features of X. If someone wants these features, why not just use X? The fact is there is no or insignificant savings in memory by basically duplicating what X does, this kmscon is not going to save you much memory over using X, considering that you can use X and a lightweight window manager while using a very small amount of ram and that X itself does not take up much ram.
This project is a waste of time and it is incredibly dumb. Direct rendered text? Give me a break. All they are doing is replicating functionality already found in X, its useless duplication. The terminals are supposed to provide an interface that can be used before or without loading video card specific drivers. The only way to display without loading video card drivers is to do it through the BIOS, the VGA BIOS textmode is the initial environment and the fallback environment when a video card driver does not load properly and as well for those who just want a text based interface and do not need a full GUI. If you do want more than a text based environment, and want a lightweight GUI, you might as well load X and a lightweight window manager like fvwm, which will not use that much RAM anyway. X is not heavyweight, thats a stupid old myth that refuses to die, but some of the desktop environments are.
It is pointless to duplicate functionality already found in X, especially when X itself only uses a few megabytes, nothing in todays hardware, and another system basically would provide no or insignificant savings in ram,
Akin was not all with it, it seems, his remarks seemed confused. The fact of the matter is in many cases anti-abortion laws are written to allow for abortion in the case that is a rape, as well where the pregnancy will not be successful due to medical abnormaliities.
I am particularly opposed to abortion since it is indeed the killing of human life, there is no magic moment when the baby materializes from thin air and becomes a conscious being the instant they move through the birth canal. This is just basic biology that its a human being in the womb. As well the idea that it is defenceless gives even more reason to give him legal protection, the fact is a baby already born is just as fragile and defenceless, needing constant care including feeding or they will die, and the slightest mishandling can cause severe injury, babies are very delicate. being dependant does not mean that a person is not a human being with rights, in fact it means they need even more protection since they are less capable to defend themselves.
Then we have the social aspects of abortion. The fact is birth rates in the USA and Europe are far TOO LOW And that this is due to abortion partially. In fact, we have far too few babies and people need to have more babies in the US, not less.
We need to encourage Americans and Europeans to have more children, not provide ways for them to not have them, to boost the too low birth rates.
I do not see the need for a flash player going away any time soon due to the immense amount of content in Flash. Flash is so widespread it is hard to get rid of. It seems Adobe is attacking Google here, perhaps because Google is switching to HTML5.
I agree it would be best for Flash to disappear, Adobe is a corrupt, evil company that uses various unsavory practices. But how to get contnent developers to stop using it? As long as people keep making stuff in flash unfortunately it will remain popular. Part of the issue is making a good replacement for flash. HTML5 helps a.lot with this but as well what really makes flash popular is that developers love Adobe Flash development tools. The sad thing is flash's development tools are very popular with developers and I do not see them giving up flash until something better comes along. I have yet to see anything come along that actually can exceed the features and ease of use of Adobes tools.
Many here presume Flash will go away. This is sort of like saying Linux will become popular, people here do not understand why people use software, they use software because it works well. Adobe has great tools that work well and just expecting people to stop using them when there are no alternatives or the alternatives are inferior is absurd.
Wrong. Not everyone likes your ugly aqua UIs which gobble up 100s of megabytes. Actually CDEs user interface has a clearnnes which many like, in fact many like me prefer it because it does not look like modern UIs and prefer its appearance. You seem to think that if you don't like something that no one else could like it either, what an arrogant and idiotic way of thinking that everyone has the same preferences as you.
The fact it is not GTK and not modern desktops loaded down with hundreds of megabytes of graphics is its appeal. I think people want to use it becasue it is not modern and that it does things the old way, like, not using 100s of megabytes. Not everyone wants to spend tons of memory on some poorly written Gnome UI so they can have some ugly looking graphics.
You are wrong. Many people would like to use CDE because onlike modern stuff it does not use a lot of memory. Everything old is new again. CDE works fine and there is no reason someone could not use it.
You could use CDE today, Why not? It uses a fraction of the memory and is still completely functional. The age of something has no impact on its usefulness. If someone likes to use CDE, it doesnt matter how old it is. Many people like CDEs modern solid coloured graphics over the nuasiating aqua themes and memory hogging 3d nonsense. It is often the case that newer software is worse. Back when CDE was written, programmers were much more careful since they had to be to make something that was memory efficient. Nowadays everyone is sloppy and lazy today leading to buggy memory wasting software.
actually i like the clean look of CDE and the fact it uses a fraction of the memory of all of your modern desktops with the memory hogging graphics and disgusting, nauseating, and ugly aqua themes.
RIM should have gone with its own modified version of Android, called it Android -compatable, adding whatever features it believes are so necessary. There are far too many wireless platforms out there for developers to support. This means that weaker platforms like blackberry will die unless they start to support apps from android. RIMs decision will likely harm the blackberry.
Sounds good to me. The patents it would seem are the really important part. The source code is GPL, I already have downloaded a complete copy of Qt source code, I advise others to do so, for safekeeping.
After Unity, i dont think we want Canonical to touch it. Unity is the worst. UI. Ever.
Maybe Novell or SuSE.
The development of this technology for commercial power generation uses must not be stopped, rather if it has benefits, encouraged. Just becasue there are issues that it can be used to make a bomb, should not stop countries such as the US developing it for its nuclear power plants. I would agree that the facilities to process it should be licenced and monitored and we should keep it out of the hands of rogue states such as Iran.
A mistake from the beginning on the internet was to assume users had to click on ads for them to have value. Few other mediums place such a requirement on themselves, including print, billbaords, radio ads, etc. The whole point is to plant awareness of a brand in the mind of trhe consumer, so that they may decide to try the product. It is the same online, if we focus on the ads making a visual impression and creating a memory, they can be seen as effective in creating awareness, and in fact, millions can see an online ad, which makes it something that is as visible as a print ad. Many consumers will see an ad and make a note on it but as they are busy doing something else may not click on the link. its unreasonable to expect users to click on a link and also not necessary.
Online ads are just an online billboard, its stupid to try to obsess over link hits, something that isnt even a possibility anyway with other ad mediums .
It seems like the online ad business decided to count link hits, becuse "we could", but it was actually a bad idea, few other ads mediums measure their success on whether a user will make a split second decision but rather on whether they buy the product in coming weeks, even months.
The Windows PC has been problematic not due to the UI, which is fine, but due to the poor security design which is not really designed around considering how the average computer user operates. To basically operate a PC safely one has to be extra vigilent and basically take a course on how to spot all of the subtle visual cues about what is a virus trying to install and not The first time a user boots Windows, they tend to sort of end up in an administrator account, and then installing viruses from email is just a mouse click away. It is just asking for disaster. Even putting people into a non adminstrator account wont help a whole lot as there are ways programs which have penetrated a regular account can bamboozle users into giving up the administrator password. Furthermore many people are just not intellectually capable enough to manage all of these procedures. What Microsoft should do is set up an app store they police, virus scan etc, for Desktop Windows, and ship desktop windows by default set up to only allow applications to be installed from this app store. There would be a way to disable this high security level deep within the Control Panel, however, the point is to make the high security opt out rather than opt in.
Right now we seem to be stuck between two extremes, smartphones which are totally locked down where experts who know what they are doing cannot get any kind of root access, and a completely security free windows desktop where viruses from email can be run with just a click. A happy medium would be to enable the high security by default on the PC and then allow an expert user to disable it in the control panel or registry if needed.
The huge lapses Microsoft has created by failing to create a sound default security environment in Windows and the virus epidemic is the primary reason Windows has such a bad reputation.
The PC is by far a better work environment otherwise. I mean, would i rather work on a spread sheet or play a game on a 25" screen with a full size keyboard or a 4" screen with chiclet keyboard? Its like trading in my van for a tricycle.
I was never very optimisic aboutr symbian nor more phone OSs, including Microsofts. The reason is that there are just far too many phone OSs and each one decided it has to develop completely its own APIs. It is a lot like the early state of the personal computer market with tons of incompatable platforms. It is too much for developers to target all of these, eventually developers will probably target the phone OS that is the strongest, probably Google Android.
Even Android has much to desired. Particulary because while it runs Linux, it is not really Linux or Unix because it does not easily provide POSIX and X Window Systems APIs which are heavily standardized. We have been down this road before with incompatable APIs, and the need to standardize.
We have wonderful standards such as POSIX and X Window System, if phones would support them, it would actually promote the continued existance of many phone OS platforms by allowing the same application ecosystem to be shared.
How much do you want to bet they were ragheads. They ought to send those muslims and burqa wearing women and their ideas of global islamic conquest back to their own countries where they belong.
Why don't you visit msn.com and find out what it is? It is pretty self evident. It is a site that Microsoft runs, for news etc, it will remain controlled by MS, after microsoft has sold off its stake in MSNBC, which Microsoft helped found. MSN is also an ISP with dial up access but this is shrinking, due to the fact we have unfortunately monopolies by cable companies and telephone companies on broadband services that other companies are not able to enter that market.