Yeah but all it takes is for one former employee to spill the beans. Or maybe a current employee who doesn't like his job.
Also, the consumer has to have some way to get the media. Its not all that easy to deny the hacker what he's after but still allow the consumer to get what he paid for.
Actually the number would go up. Ok lets assume 10% of the Xboxes sold have had the defect reported. So a store sells 200 Xboxes and 20 have been reported as being defective. But, of the 200 sold, only 100 have been opened. The other 100 have been unopened and will remain so until christmas day. So on christmas day we can expect another 20 units sold from that store to be reported defective. So its 20/200 now which gives 10%, but on christmas day it'll be 40/200 which gives 20%, double the original number.
You do have a point about him pulling numbers out of his ass though. Pissed off customers make a lot of noise than satisfied customers, which has a tendency to magnifiy things a bit.
I boycott quite a few different companies, If I really think about. But most of the time I don't think about it. When I'm at the mall (as seldom as that is, I prefer to support the downtown areas), when I see Walmart I just keep walking and don't give it a second thought. When I'm buying sneakers I automatically ignore the ones with the nike swish on it. I don't think I'm denying myself something, since its not even an option for me to buy it. Boycotted products and items I simply don't want get the same amount of thought from me.
I guess it depends on how much of a consumer you are. To me, as long as I have three solid meals, a warm house and a comfortable bed, I'm good. Everything beyond that is a luxury and a frivolous use of money. So its no problem saving my money for neccessities instead of buying luxuries from a bad company.
Yeah, and not only the look is tha same but in ubuntu Preferences is under Edit like all other Gnome Apps, and it uses the (stupid) Gnome file selector. Tempest in a Teacup.
Will these news archives be searchable by Google's video search, or will it be searchable only by MSN Search? I'm guessing this is a significant victory for MS in the search engine war.
Couldn't they make the clipart download separate? In fact couldn't they separate out all the components (Writer, Spreadsheet, etc)? I just want a word processor that can handle.doc files. If you want more you can download more.
Yes, they'd have to compete. This would mean putting more money into MS Office Development and/or lowering the price. Which means less money they can put into their attempts to kill google.
I'm curious - what do you think was going on with Iraq for the last 15+ years? And what do you think Syria and Iran has been doing during that same time?
Well the US support the Shah of Iran who was a corrupt dictator. The people of Iran revolted. So the US started supporting Saddam Hussein, another corrupt dictator, fight a brutal war against Iran. The US sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein and told him where to drop them. Since he wasn't really going anywhere in his bloody war against Iran Saddam made peace with Iran. So the US stopped supporting Saddam. Then Saddam invaded Kuwait, which the US used to get a foothold in Saudi Arabia. The US wisely didn't invade Iraq in the first Gulf War because the pentagon knew the casualties would be too high.
Later, with absolutely no mandate from the UN or NATO, very few allies (with the exception of the UK), and no occupation plan, the US invaded Iraq.
US plays dirty and it comes back to bite them in the ass. This seems to keep happening over and over again. You'd think you guys would learn a lesson...
Microsoft is new to the search engine world, but they are well entrenched in the corporate world.
Google's main weakness is they want to have EVERYTHING automated. They've gotten very far with this philosophy but can they automate themselves into the old boy's club of the corporate world?
Take for example the copyright problems they are having with book publishers. They thought that the publishers would want their books searchable and provided a nice automated form for them to opt out in the unlikely event that someone didn't want their book indexed. It is quite logical. Problem is the corporate world is not logical.
The microsoft approach would be to take the CEO's of all the publishing companies out to an expensive retreat, show a bunch of pretty powerpoint shows on how they can improve their profits, how their data is safe and secure with Microsoft Trusted(tm) Computing, etc, etc, bullshit, bullshit. The execs all get on board with microsoft and are certain that google wants to steal all their profits. And the few that don't completely buy into MS's scheme? Well MS will give them a sweet deal on Windows and Office as an incentive (read: bribe). End result: Google print sucks and MSN book search is a success.
Google has been successful so far, but so far the search engine war has been all about algorithms. But now were are entering the realm where corporate deals have to be made. Yeah google is superior for finding out what an error message means but what about for searching books, retailer catalogs, phone numbers, restaurant menus, etc, etc?
Microsoft's programmers are easy to beat. It's their sales department you have to worry about.
Ok Studio A does it your way, having everyone view the movie at a theatre. Studio B sends out DVDs to everyone allowing them to view the movies whenever they have time. Some people are busy and have meetings or whatever scheduled at the same time as Studio A's theatre outting, so they can't see the movie.
The memory leaks is due to a bug in the flash plugin. If you're using flash on both firefox and opera, that would explain why you're getting leaks on both.
Ummm... you might also want to consider that all the US's military might would be wiped out in a GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR. Also China's military is modernising and they have much more manpower than the US. American military technology is great against third world nations, but against another superpower?
Also, did I mention that China has NUCLEAR WEAPONS? I can't stress this enough people. Having a war against a nation that has a few thousand Nukes isn't a good idea, no matter how big your military is. and the US military has been weakened by the whole Iraq mess.
Also look at Samuel L Jackson. Great actor, very charismatic. When he died in Ep. 3, I just didn't care. His character was boring. Boring is not a word I thought I would ever use to describe S. Jackson, but in Star Wars thats the only word that fits. How can someone who is great in every other film (even bit parts like in Jurassic Park) can be so bad in not one, not two, but three Star Wars films?
Nobody was expecting shakepeare, but we were expecting something fun and exciting. These movies were so bad that they made baddest motherfucker in all movies seem boring.
What about hybrid cars? you can plug them in and charge them up. You can upgrade the batteries so that for commuting you'd never need any gasoline. But its there as a backup in case you need to go for a distance.
You can buy solar panels and put them on the roof of your house. Call your congressman or MP and tell them that you'd like to see cleaner energy sources.
The technology is here already. Just look around (and maybe pay a little extra, sucks to be an early adopter, huh?) you can put together a solution. Nobody is going to do it for you.
Well less ironic, maybe, but definitely poorly thought out. There's the old saying: "when all you have is a hammer, all of your problems start looking like nails." When you're a statistician, then all problems look like they can be solved by statistics.
I can see some value to such a system, but all value is lost if you make it public. If an enemy can read that you're predicting an attack next week, he'll probably just postpone his attack until the week after next.
Also it seems to me that statistics will only work if you have a large number of people "in the know" participating in it. But what happens if only a very few people are "in the know"? What if a single agent was told by the second cousin of some terrorist that he overhead something in some cave in pakistan. One guy out of a few thousand won't get heard.
Then there's the converse. What if an Iranian double agent is feeding you with misinformation about conditions in a country leading many to believe that if you invade, you will be welcomed as liberators? Take the "what if" off the previous sentence, because that really happened.
What is needed right now isn't some fancy statisics. What we need is good old fashioned human intelligence. And for that, you need some intelligent humans. Not a beowulf cluster of dumb humans. A few people who know the truth from a lie. You need to talk to people, ask questions. Learn the power structures. Know your enemy.
Yeah the statistics may help you in determining that you you have enemies. But we already know that. What we want to know is where our enemies are and what they're up to. Stats aren't going to tell you what cave people are in and what they are talking about in that cave.
I have mod points, and I was going to mod your post as funny, but I'm sure you don't get the irony of what you're saying.
On one hand you say that groups are so wise that they would be able to predict security threats, but at the saem time you're complaining about groups of people being so stupid because they don't understand.
So would the Stupid Media(tm) and shrill lefty bloggers be able to predict a terrorist attack? Or would they be excluded from participating in this system? How do you decide which groups are wise and which groups are Stupid(tm)?
I remember watching a documentary on Microsofts rise a number of years ago (long before google). One thing that stuck out was one of the (maybe it was Paul Allen?) said that at first Microsoft had to settle for "riding the bear" that was IBM. But eventually they were able to render IBM irrelevent to their business. And then Microsoft was the bear that everyone else had to ride. It didn't matter whether you had an IBM, a Compaq or a Dell, as long as it ran Windows.
The thing I found interesting was that he said that he expected some other company to come along and do to Microsoft what they did to IBM. Ever since I've been watching for this to happen. I'm sure there are many execs at MS watching for it to.
Netscape had the potential, but we all know how that ended up. It seemed like MS was safe. But then google comes along and takes up where Netscape left off.
Now when I'm looking for information on something I go to google. When I check my email, its gmail, not Outlook. I need directions? want to find a nice restaurant? Price on RAM? IM? Google. Google. Google.
So now we have the potential that in a few years it may not matter if what OS or browser I have, as long as it can run google web apps. Right now I'm using Firefox on Linux to write this post. I can also access all of google's services with absolutely no MS Software. Google is rendering MS irrevelent.
Well the main disadvantage of not using your package management system is that, well, you will have to manage the package yourself. And like you pointed out, if there is a lot of dependencies it might be difficult.
The other disadvantage to not using the package management system is that you might get a version of firefox (or openoffice) that uses static linking a little more. This means it'll take more memory and may take a little more time to start up. Of course if you're compiling from source then you can disregard this paragraph, as you'll be guaranteed that it won't be statically linked.
There is also the possibility that there will be a library missing, but that's not very likely, and if it happens you'll know right away so you just switch to an older working version.
Your distro may also make tweaks to FF to make it play nicer with other apps.
I guess the only way to know for sure is to try it and see for yourself if there is any difference. Worst case you can always go back.
Yeah, really. People thought the same things about Southern Africa until they discovered Great Zimbabwe. What about Easter Island? A civilisation existed there that created some pretty impressive statues and then disappeared.
Sounds to me like the GP has a very dismissive attitude about Australia's aborginal people. They may have built great cities at one time, and we would never know until we dig it up.
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Also, the consumer has to have some way to get the media. Its not all that easy to deny the hacker what he's after but still allow the consumer to get what he paid for.
You do have a point about him pulling numbers out of his ass though. Pissed off customers make a lot of noise than satisfied customers, which has a tendency to magnifiy things a bit.
What are we going to do tonight, Brain?
I guess it depends on how much of a consumer you are. To me, as long as I have three solid meals, a warm house and a comfortable bed, I'm good. Everything beyond that is a luxury and a frivolous use of money. So its no problem saving my money for neccessities instead of buying luxuries from a bad company.
Yeah, and not only the look is tha same but in ubuntu Preferences is under Edit like all other Gnome Apps, and it uses the (stupid) Gnome file selector. Tempest in a Teacup.
Will these news archives be searchable by Google's video search, or will it be searchable only by MSN Search? I'm guessing this is a significant victory for MS in the search engine war.
Couldn't they make the clipart download separate? In fact couldn't they separate out all the components (Writer, Spreadsheet, etc)? I just want a word processor that can handle .doc files. If you want more you can download more.
Yes, they'd have to compete. This would mean putting more money into MS Office Development and/or lowering the price. Which means less money they can put into their attempts to kill google.
Well the US support the Shah of Iran who was a corrupt dictator. The people of Iran revolted. So the US started supporting Saddam Hussein, another corrupt dictator, fight a brutal war against Iran. The US sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein and told him where to drop them. Since he wasn't really going anywhere in his bloody war against Iran Saddam made peace with Iran. So the US stopped supporting Saddam. Then Saddam invaded Kuwait, which the US used to get a foothold in Saudi Arabia. The US wisely didn't invade Iraq in the first Gulf War because the pentagon knew the casualties would be too high.
Later, with absolutely no mandate from the UN or NATO, very few allies (with the exception of the UK), and no occupation plan, the US invaded Iraq.
US plays dirty and it comes back to bite them in the ass. This seems to keep happening over and over again. You'd think you guys would learn a lesson...
Google's main weakness is they want to have EVERYTHING automated. They've gotten very far with this philosophy but can they automate themselves into the old boy's club of the corporate world?
Take for example the copyright problems they are having with book publishers. They thought that the publishers would want their books searchable and provided a nice automated form for them to opt out in the unlikely event that someone didn't want their book indexed. It is quite logical. Problem is the corporate world is not logical.
The microsoft approach would be to take the CEO's of all the publishing companies out to an expensive retreat, show a bunch of pretty powerpoint shows on how they can improve their profits, how their data is safe and secure with Microsoft Trusted(tm) Computing, etc, etc, bullshit, bullshit. The execs all get on board with microsoft and are certain that google wants to steal all their profits. And the few that don't completely buy into MS's scheme? Well MS will give them a sweet deal on Windows and Office as an incentive (read: bribe). End result: Google print sucks and MSN book search is a success.
Google has been successful so far, but so far the search engine war has been all about algorithms. But now were are entering the realm where corporate deals have to be made. Yeah google is superior for finding out what an error message means but what about for searching books, retailer catalogs, phone numbers, restaurant menus, etc, etc?
Microsoft's programmers are easy to beat. It's their sales department you have to worry about.
And the Oscar goes too?
The memory leaks is due to a bug in the flash plugin. If you're using flash on both firefox and opera, that would explain why you're getting leaks on both.
And a lot of the other stars have arabic names... hmmm no wonder Bush is putting so much into space initiatives.
Also, did I mention that China has NUCLEAR WEAPONS? I can't stress this enough people. Having a war against a nation that has a few thousand Nukes isn't a good idea, no matter how big your military is. and the US military has been weakened by the whole Iraq mess.
Well if China is 40 years beind then they will have a man on the moon in about five years, right?
Nobody was expecting shakepeare, but we were expecting something fun and exciting. These movies were so bad that they made baddest motherfucker in all movies seem boring.
Same could be said about your football (soccer) and cricket. At least there's baserunners in baseball.
A lot of sports are boring if you aren't invested in any of the teams. Except for cricket... that's boring even if your team is playing.
You can buy solar panels and put them on the roof of your house. Call your congressman or MP and tell them that you'd like to see cleaner energy sources.
The technology is here already. Just look around (and maybe pay a little extra, sucks to be an early adopter, huh?) you can put together a solution. Nobody is going to do it for you.
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I can see some value to such a system, but all value is lost if you make it public. If an enemy can read that you're predicting an attack next week, he'll probably just postpone his attack until the week after next.
Also it seems to me that statistics will only work if you have a large number of people "in the know" participating in it. But what happens if only a very few people are "in the know"? What if a single agent was told by the second cousin of some terrorist that he overhead something in some cave in pakistan. One guy out of a few thousand won't get heard.
Then there's the converse. What if an Iranian double agent is feeding you with misinformation about conditions in a country leading many to believe that if you invade, you will be welcomed as liberators? Take the "what if" off the previous sentence, because that really happened.
What is needed right now isn't some fancy statisics. What we need is good old fashioned human intelligence. And for that, you need some intelligent humans. Not a beowulf cluster of dumb humans. A few people who know the truth from a lie. You need to talk to people, ask questions. Learn the power structures. Know your enemy.
Yeah the statistics may help you in determining that you you have enemies. But we already know that. What we want to know is where our enemies are and what they're up to. Stats aren't going to tell you what cave people are in and what they are talking about in that cave.
On one hand you say that groups are so wise that they would be able to predict security threats, but at the saem time you're complaining about groups of people being so stupid because they don't understand.
So would the Stupid Media(tm) and shrill lefty bloggers be able to predict a terrorist attack? Or would they be excluded from participating in this system? How do you decide which groups are wise and which groups are Stupid(tm)?
The thing I found interesting was that he said that he expected some other company to come along and do to Microsoft what they did to IBM. Ever since I've been watching for this to happen. I'm sure there are many execs at MS watching for it to.
Netscape had the potential, but we all know how that ended up. It seemed like MS was safe. But then google comes along and takes up where Netscape left off.
Now when I'm looking for information on something I go to google. When I check my email, its gmail, not Outlook. I need directions? want to find a nice restaurant? Price on RAM? IM? Google. Google. Google.
So now we have the potential that in a few years it may not matter if what OS or browser I have, as long as it can run google web apps. Right now I'm using Firefox on Linux to write this post. I can also access all of google's services with absolutely no MS Software. Google is rendering MS irrevelent.
See why MS wants to destroy Google?
The other disadvantage to not using the package management system is that you might get a version of firefox (or openoffice) that uses static linking a little more. This means it'll take more memory and may take a little more time to start up. Of course if you're compiling from source then you can disregard this paragraph, as you'll be guaranteed that it won't be statically linked.
There is also the possibility that there will be a library missing, but that's not very likely, and if it happens you'll know right away so you just switch to an older working version.
Your distro may also make tweaks to FF to make it play nicer with other apps.
I guess the only way to know for sure is to try it and see for yourself if there is any difference. Worst case you can always go back.
Yeah, we don't know everything about climate. Are you suggesting that we wait a few thousand years before we act?
Sounds to me like the GP has a very dismissive attitude about Australia's aborginal people. They may have built great cities at one time, and we would never know until we dig it up.