No-one said that retard. There's nothing wrong with being in a monopoly position.. There *is* something wrong with using that monopoly to force your way into other markets, or otherwise violate anti-trust laws. There is simply no debate over whether or not there is "something wrong" with how Microsoft does business, it has been declared in all the courts of the land.
In the first 8 years of the 21st century I have witnessed an almost feverish acceleration of astronomer attention on the discovery of "exoplanets" - planets around stars other than our own Sun. Already some solar systems very similar to our own have been discovered and some tentative measurements of the atmospheric content of these planets is underway. I believe it is only a matter of months or years before an oxygen-rich "earth-like" planet is discovered. Prognosticator of prognosticators that I am, I'll even go so far as to suggest a date: before the end of 2012.
But who cares when it happens, if it does happen, what then? What next? Will there be any debate that the concentration of oxygen implies that life is present on this newly discovered world? Will it take the imaging of an exoplanet to "prove" that life exists elsewhere in the universe? Will it take more?
And finally, will anyone care? Not the geeks. Not the astronomers or the scientists or the science fiction writers, but the average person on the street. At the time of writing, each exoplanet discovery is treated to an orgy of poorly understood journalism. It seems the idea of "planets around other stars" is something the mainstream audience can understand just enough and goes well to fill that slot in the news between the sports and the weather. Will this fad wear off by the time the startling discovery of exoplanet life is made? Or worse yet, will such an amazing discovery get exactly the same amount of coverage as the average exoplanet discovery gets now?
Ultimately the whole thing could be a terrible disappointment. Imagine, for a moment, that not only do astronomers discover life on an exoplanet but they actually discover intelligent life on an exoplanet. Pretty little pictures of roads and factories, ships at sea, planes and rockets in flight. Some serious questions would need to be directed towards the SETI program.. as it seems highly unlikely that a modern society could exist without emanating some signals that SETI should have picked up. Maybe a thorough search of the archives will reveal that many possible signals from that part of the sky were ignored accidentally.
In any case, now that we know they're there, how do we go about contacting them? Should we? Who gets to decide? Is that a pointless question as there's just no way to stop someone from sending a signal if they want to? And then there's the long long wait for the signal to get there and maybe no-one is listening or maybe the signal is too corrupted or just not decipherable by an alien mind. Decades may pass with no message returned. The general public will lose interest. Can you imagine?
Dude, police appropriate goods that are "believed" to have been purchased with drug money all the time. It's up to the owner to prove that they were not. If that's not a violation of due process (innocent until proven guilty?) then what is?
Yes, exactly. What he actually said was "there is sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction".. meaning that the jury could return a guilty verdict. The judge is required to make an educated guess on that. If he thinks the jury couldn't possibly return a guilty verdict he can call an end to the trial. It's a time saving measure.
That's like finding a squatter in a house on the street where the owners have gone on holiday Huh? That's not squatting. If the premises are occupied then it is trespass. I know this must be hard to understand in the US where there are no sensible squatting laws, but in civilized world squatting is where you are living somewhere that is vacant without the authorization of the owner. Squatting serves an important purpose: to force property owners to develop the property. Otherwise all the buying up property for the purpose of speculating on an increase in the market would result in widespread homelessness.
The judge said numerous times that the evidence was pretty thin.. unfortunately it was still enough to convict, so the judge couldn't just throw out the case. I feel pretty certain that the judge would have given the evidence more study than these jurors did.
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Memory is cheap but downloading 10MB still takes too long when all you want to install is a tiny app.
Blah, if people won't install your app for any of these reasons then they are important.
It looks quasi-native.
Great as it is, I can't use it.
On Linux the libraries are now so damn big that non-KDE users wont install them.
On Windows the best development tools are moving away from C++.
On Mac it's just plain ugly.
I'm sure the embedded developers are loving it though.
No-one said that retard. There's nothing wrong with being in a monopoly position.. There *is* something wrong with using that monopoly to force your way into other markets, or otherwise violate anti-trust laws. There is simply no debate over whether or not there is "something wrong" with how Microsoft does business, it has been declared in all the courts of the land.
Uhh, rent it?
The point is, Google has the leading position because they earned it.
Well that's the great thing about internet search.. anyone can make an engine. If you think you can do better than Google, get on it.
Gates had something that Ballmer didn't though: charm. Seems hard to believe that anyone could be less charming than Bill Gates, but there ya go.
And, the slowest moving company award goes to.......
Umm.. that sounds great.. wtf are you on about? I guess some people just prefer a moving target.
Just cause you cant understand him doesn't mean he's incoherent.
The rest of us have no problem.
It's all about funding dude.
In the first 8 years of the 21st century I have witnessed an almost feverish acceleration of astronomer attention on the discovery of "exoplanets" - planets around stars other than our own Sun. Already some solar systems very similar to our own have been discovered and some tentative measurements of the atmospheric content of these planets is underway. I believe it is only a matter of months or years before an oxygen-rich "earth-like" planet is discovered. Prognosticator of prognosticators that I am, I'll even go so far as to suggest a date: before the end of 2012.
But who cares when it happens, if it does happen, what then? What next? Will there be any debate that the concentration of oxygen implies that life is present on this newly discovered world? Will it take the imaging of an exoplanet to "prove" that life exists elsewhere in the universe? Will it take more?
And finally, will anyone care? Not the geeks. Not the astronomers or the scientists or the science fiction writers, but the average person on the street. At the time of writing, each exoplanet discovery is treated to an orgy of poorly understood journalism. It seems the idea of "planets around other stars" is something the mainstream audience can understand just enough and goes well to fill that slot in the news between the sports and the weather. Will this fad wear off by the time the startling discovery of exoplanet life is made? Or worse yet, will such an amazing discovery get exactly the same amount of coverage as the average exoplanet discovery gets now?
Ultimately the whole thing could be a terrible disappointment. Imagine, for a moment, that not only do astronomers discover life on an exoplanet but they actually discover intelligent life on an exoplanet. Pretty little pictures of roads and factories, ships at sea, planes and rockets in flight. Some serious questions would need to be directed towards the SETI program.. as it seems highly unlikely that a modern society could exist without emanating some signals that SETI should have picked up. Maybe a thorough search of the archives will reveal that many possible signals from that part of the sky were ignored accidentally.
In any case, now that we know they're there, how do we go about contacting them? Should we? Who gets to decide? Is that a pointless question as there's just no way to stop someone from sending a signal if they want to? And then there's the long long wait for the signal to get there and maybe no-one is listening or maybe the signal is too corrupted or just not decipherable by an alien mind. Decades may pass with no message returned. The general public will lose interest. Can you imagine?
Dude, police appropriate goods that are "believed" to have been purchased with drug money all the time. It's up to the owner to prove that they were not. If that's not a violation of due process (innocent until proven guilty?) then what is?
The PRO-IP act would change that.
Just like in the war on drugs and the war on terror, right?
It just works until it just doesn't and then you're just fucked.
Bend over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
You'd think the article would link to it.
They wouldn't opt-in for more ads, they'd opt-in for ads that are more relevant.
Yes, exactly. What he actually said was "there is sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction".. meaning that the jury could return a guilty verdict. The judge is required to make an educated guess on that. If he thinks the jury couldn't possibly return a guilty verdict he can call an end to the trial. It's a time saving measure.
The judge said numerous times that the evidence was pretty thin.. unfortunately it was still enough to convict, so the judge couldn't just throw out the case. I feel pretty certain that the judge would have given the evidence more study than these jurors did.
There's no "crime" involved, it's a civil matter.
Yes, because clearly this whole nuclear weapons research thing is a smoke screen for studying the weather.
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