side of entertainment. 3d Video games can already provide the experience with a 3d monitor with little rewriting and so could the OS. Then there will be CAD like programs.
I don't know why the industry is trying to push it from the TV side of things, 1st adopters are usually computer geeks. Push stuff out there and see if people want it.
I like 3D movies, but until they have holograms down, I don't want to be watching TV with glasses or even see 3D all that much to begin with.
I see netbooks in a different light. They're what I would give kids 13 or under. In a sense, the OLPC may have spawned them and since the OLPC was geared to kids, it's an appropriate market. What's so good about netbooks in this fashion is that they're low power (for constraining electric bills), the low cost means you could get around 3 for under a grand, and generally are more rugged than a notebook. It's better than a desktop, because if they're not supposed to surf/play at night, you can just take it away from them.
Not to say they're a toy, it's more their physical characteristics being suited to the rough-and-tumble ways of kids. And if it breaks, unlike say, a Mac Book Pro, it's not the end of the world.
If history was so different that there was no America, there would not even have been the same 16-19th century, let alone 20th. Just due to the fact that England and Spain both got rich through the Americas.
But let's assume WW1 occurs anyway. No America in WW1, no one to keep England afloat trading with her, let alone leap into lift England/France into Victory. And America probably sided with England purely out of shared language/direct_heritage as much anything else. No punitive Versaille treaty because the belligerant nations would have to treat each other as equals. No Versaille treaty, no Hitler. That easy.
Is he going to invent anything else? Or after 40 do you just give up on life?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#Authority_on_Linux "About 2% of the Linux kernel as of 2006 was written by Torvalds himself.[13] Since Linux has had thousands of contributors, such a percentage represents a significant personal contribution to the overall amount of code. Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.[18]"
Do you know how much output that is?! Also, consider for a minute, that Linux isn't like the lightbulb, invent once and the work is done. How far would linux have gone if work quit in 1991, 1995, 2000? It's a work-in-progress.
The world is littered with half-assed and half-finished projects, particularly software. It's far better that Linus brings and continues one project to excellence than do a dozen mediocre projects that quite never get there.
Maybe you should go out and invent something. If it had 1/100 of the impact Linux has, you'll the world for the better significantly.
If they want to use base10 the first thing they should do is respecify a byte to be 10bits.
How about leaving the word byte alone and using another, distinct group of letter to do the job? Respecifying only confuses the issue, even those who know, because you're still be working with two different definitions in the same field for a long time.
and more about retelling the story of the native americans as well.
That struck me right away, but more like the "myth of the noble savage" which originated in the 17th centure as a rise of primitivism, but got held up during the romance period in literature, and now again as a counter-reaction to the silly or hateful portrayal of American Indians of 1930s-1960s in Westerns and what not.
But it is just as one-sided, often the noble savage is too saintified, the American Indians were singing kum-bay-ah holding hands with one another throughout the continent when Europeans arrived. There was warfare and strife, peacefu and warlike tribes all over the place, knocking into each other and sometimes knocking each other out of place like billiard balls - which is why some tribes were so ready to make alliances with the europeans - the europeans were basically the biggest and most powerful tribe on the block. Did that power get abused? Yes, it always does. But some good things came of it as well.
Second is the upholding of nature myth, where it's always beautiful and technology always ugly. But nature has an ugliness and disease part as well, encounter a rabid animal like a fox or find a carcass rotting in the woods with flies swamping all over it and its stench emanating out - is that beautiful? Maybe not, but it's natural, and of course not depicted in the film. Oddly enough, in these nature films, it's nature itself (Eywa here?) that is personified when the central conflict is that humans hold themselves above nature. Of course, nature isn't one thing - it's just a collection of the base materials the planet is made of and all the organisms and their processes on top of that, from the bigggest mammals to the smallest bacteria and viruses, and all the plants. Man is just another organism with his own processes, but that is looked upon as distinct.
The third thing with the film was "going native." Happens all the time, even today. Lots of times people encounter something they see as exotic, fall in love with it, and adopt it completely. Happened thousands of years ago, there were accounts of a Roman General going Persian and happens today all the time. Anime fans learning Japanese and then visiting or living in Japan. Probably happens with Chinese and all other foreign cultures. All the same thing. Especially after WW2, American culture got exported en masse to Europe via films or through contact with GIs - and lots of immigrants came here based on that and a better life and adopted this culture - is it so different? We might not view America as especially exotic but many of us are native to it or Western culture in general.
Whenever mobile phones are mentioned on Slashdot, something akin to the following comment will inevitably appear:
'All I want is a phone that makes calls.'
I've never quite got my head around a tech site like Slashdot, where the demographic is almost certainly interested in new technology having such a negative response to technological advances in what our phones can do. You rarely [never?] hear this with other technology on this site:
Before the iPhone, I used to echo this luddite-sounding sentiment as well. It wasn't because I was scared of new features, but because the new features often compromised the primary function of the phone itself. Giving them keyboards often made the number keys beyond tiny making it hard to dial in a number, the browsers and internet capability were micky mouse and often sucked battery life, it had a camera but besides poor pictures, it was hard to share them (often more work than it was worth), etcetera.
And there are still people that just want a phone. Perhaps their workplace doesn't allow phones with cameras. Maybe they want to be reachable but without all the temptation and distractions. There are legitimate reasons to want less in a device besides battery life but it's probably borne out of frustration that so few manufacturers are willing to provide something very basic that works well rather than actual bitching about the specific device itself.
There may be a downside to all this though, from what I understand of digestion and our immune system, it seems to me that when you lose X amount of microbes then you will end up with more of a different microbe that may breed much faster due to lack of competition.
There was recently a story about how people with a high-fat, high-sugar diet have different microbes in their stomach that allow them to absorb a higher % of calories from those fat/sugar than a more moderate diet. And that it could change as fast as 16 hours - so if you decide to go for yogurt and vegetables one entire day, and then eat a high fat carbohydrate laden meal the next, your body wouldn't absorb nearly as many calaries as it would have if you ate the previous day. Which may hold the key for some weight loss.
I caught on fast in 1978, but very few of my contemporaries did. Later I wrongly presumed my niece, who was a sharp book-reading kid of the mouse generation, would become the 'IT support staff' of her home & I could stop handling that. Didn't work out that way. Despite daily use, she's a decidedly non-technical average user. I've remained the 'tech' guy for family and friends, more than half of which grew up with the mouse now.
How to stop being Tech Support:
a) Screw up their computers even worse than they were before you had to fix them. Afterall, if they get to install every stupid thing without consequences, so should you. Have the Russian National Anthem play on start up and a collection of sound effects (preferably labelled "wild and zany") accompany every little mouse click, starting an app, switching an app and so on. If there are no children in the house, think about a "Best of Goatse" screen saver. When asked how it got on there, give their typical answer "Idk, *I* didn't DO anything or download everything. I swear! Ooh, look at that, scamz-r-us.com is offering free mouse pointers!"
b) Upload their Uncle Jim's and wife "personal homemade" picture and video collection to the pornographic versions of flickr and youtube, with it helpfully bookmarked. Make their channel their homepage so they can track all the helpful comments and view counts.
c) Suggest a Mac. Let a mac "genius" take care of it and give them sticker shock (reality) at the same time.
d) If a Mac is too expensive (it must be, they don't give you $20 worth of compensation for hours of work...) install LinuxFromScratch (Gentoo is far too user friendly). Make sure not to get all the way into installing an X-server and any of those pesky window managers. They should be comfortable with the commandline, afterall, it's what people were using 30 years ago and it will bring back a strong sense of nostalgia as they struggle reading the man page for mail. Who knew email could be so fun!
Where is "around here"? France? Germany? Elsewhere?
Companies in my part of the States make it a point of pride to drive you to make work your life, for managers who work 50 hrs a week make their staff feel guilty if they work 80 hrs near crunchtime, the 40 hr workweek is an illusion even in the beginning of a project. And vacation? Heh. 10 days maybe?
American workers aren't that much more productive than Europe and I see why. Just the typical failed 'more pain more gain' mentality.
Tablets are a solution searching for a problem. The XO-2 was supposed to be a 2 screen (top and bottom) touch-screen computer with no keyboard proper. This is basically a 1 screen version of that.
Now, perhaps the idea is to be a complete paper replacement, but IMO, a lack of physical keyboard just hinders a computer it for any serious use. You just can't input that well without a keyboard and the original design could always be update with a touchscreen without changing much else. They should have kept concentrating on getting the original one down as cheap as possible. Possibly with an ARM chip since they are getting so cheap, on something like a beagle board and making it so cheap that countries wouldn't even have to think about acquiring one. Way less than a $100 even.
Perhaps instead of trying to measure productivity directly, it could be done in other ways. For instance, there needs to be a project done - get two small teams together to tackle it: the first that gets a functional prototype done has their Tech. Dir. given the job, as well as being able to assemble his team from both. Notice which people always gets to be chosen on a team in both phases, promote those people, and let go of the people never chosen.
Sure, that may be a bit of a popularity contest in the second phase (not so much the first) but then again it's about teamwork and coding already has too many "uber-genius" prima donnas that are a nightmare to work with.
If managing were as easy as reading a guage that said "PRODUCTIVITY", you might as well get rid of the expensive managers and have a monkey read it.
Especially for organizations that love their metrics.
With a trucker, it's easy: they drove X miles, had Y accidents, Z fines/tickets, and Q complaints from customers he dropped stuff off. They'll want to maximize X, and minimize everything else.
Because a programmer's code doesn't live by itself but is meshed in between those of other programmers most likely along with a bunch of other factors - it's hard for a point haired boss to measure his productivity just by bug count and whether the project gets done. In that case, it might be best just to have his technically minded supervisors judge members of their team.
My iPhone is a good device for output (I can read nearly all the webpages I want) but is awful to input, taking up much more time to, say, making a post on/. than it would with a desktop or laptop. I don't think a miniature keyboard will fix this issue. Making the phone bigger is not an option, nor is carry around a fullsize keyboard (even those roll up flexible ones).
So this will be good for that. Though I suspect a front-side facing camera that can track your eyemovements down to the key on screen keyboard it's staring at and counting an extended blink as a type might be closer to reality.
In fact, the researchers mention that the energy harvesting head band works so well that it can get uncomfortably cold.
Wouldn't it be extremely marketable? Especially for the military with troops in hot places and with bulky body armor and probably all types of personal electronic equipment to keep charged?
Were I in his shoes, I would have instead taken the angle of attack related to the title line of the site which is "Alan Grayson is Nuts" and proven that I am not legally insane.
That's kind of like responding to the domain mycongressmanhasnuts.com by proving you're not a squirrel.
Uhh... no, decade goes from x0-x9. Or do you think the year 2000 was in the 90s?
The controversy stems from the fact that there was no year 0. The julian/gregorian calendar retroactively goes back to year 1 AD, and before that is 1 BC.
Human lifes on the other hand start at year 0.
So people who say the decade was from Jan 1 2001- Dec 31 2010 are technically correct although you can just say a decade is a 10 year period and arbitrarily start it whenever.
But since/. is full of programmers that have experience with arrays, especially in C type languages - none of this should be news or that hard to grasp.
If I act/dress like Steven Conroy goose-stepping through the streets, THAT is parody. If I create a passport with his name on it, then that is fraud.
They should have registered the site in their own name, then it would be parody and they would probably win in court (don't know aussie laws on parody but presuming they are as similar to EU/US laws as you can expect from a continent of criminals).
Wow, so you're comparing a website to a passport? That's really.... wow. Have you also given thought about multiple people having the name Steven Conroy?
I guess whoever is running georgewashington.com really isn't our first president from the grave. Thanks for the heads up.
I think this is somewhat justified. Sure, where do you draw the line but this site was registered under a false name -- that of someone in Parliament. There's always the mature way and the immature way to handle things, and in this case with the people who created the same, they took the immature route. There's a time and a place for things, this sort of thing is more suited to personal jokes between friends and groups on Facebook.
Your argument reminds me of the Alien & Sedition Acts which would have made it a crime to criticize or mock the upper members of Government. Well, that is free speech.
Furthermore, the "mature/immature" argument is often just a deflection from the real argument, inserting in it's place an ad hom attack on the attackers in its place. No substance. Time/place is a further deflection.
I wonder, if you had your way, would this site be banned because it's a "false name" and not really paypal, or it's not following some gentlemen's agreement about protocol?
Or how about the now-defunct but infamous whitehouse.com?
Monopoly or not, palm os is engaging in anti-competitive behavior by tying it's OS to it's hardware.
Monopoly or not, mercedes Benz is engaging in anti-competitive behavior by tying it's software to it's hardware.
Monopoly or not, cisco is engaging in anti-competitive behavior by tying it's firmware to it's hardware.
See how silly your argument becomes when you take out the most important aspect of anti-trust law? If it's a monopoly or not.
Businesses by their nature act anticompetitive. Put simpler, competitors act anti-competitive. Big shock.
Apple is not Microsoft. Software is not it's business, software/hardware integrated in one package is. Some people like Porsche engines but don't like their cars. Let's say porsche sells replacement engines cheap (low margin) because Porsche owners race their cars and burn them through fast. Taking advantage of this fact, a company opens up that offers to sell you Porsche engines in a cheap car like a Hyundai. Porsche should be happy but it's not because they no longer have significant competetive advantage (their engines) to lure customers but actually lose some who are lured by Porsche power in a cheaper car. Plus the engines in nonporsches also generate more service calls, support that costs $ on small margin product.
Now, to combat this, porsche, in the next gen models, installs a very proprietary and nonstandard coupling to the transmission they don't license out to anyone else.
Now, most would say, including I, that you can do with the engines you buy as you please, but can you really force them to use a standard coupling as a non-monopoly?
The Patriot Act is intended to focus on groups of people organizing to carry out a planned action. It doesn't do anything for single crazy acting on their own.
And yet the FBI had plenty of tips about the hijackers before the actual attack.
What allowed Nidal Hasan to kill people was rampant political correctness.
Perhaps it was simply the same bloated bureacracy that fail before 9/11, which got warning signs but the signals got lost in the chain of command because they're too busy spying on the emails of millions of others.
When is an act terrorism and when is it just simple murder?
Is the shooting at Virginia Tech terrorism? Or is it only terrorism if the perpetrator is Muslim?
Terrorism is a tactic designed to invoke a specific psychological reaction.
Slashdot Mirror
There are other search engines. Google, otoh, loses a huge market.
Show me that exception in the constitution. Courts have upheld the right to travel, don't see what a border has to do with this.
side of entertainment. 3d Video games can already provide the experience with a 3d monitor with little rewriting and so could the OS. Then there will be CAD like programs.
I don't know why the industry is trying to push it from the TV side of things, 1st adopters are usually computer geeks. Push stuff out there and see if people want it.
I like 3D movies, but until they have holograms down, I don't want to be watching TV with glasses or even see 3D all that much to begin with.
And bounds of the Constitution?
Is this the hope and change you wanted? Imagine the reaction if Bush did this?
I see netbooks in a different light. They're what I would give kids 13 or under. In a sense, the OLPC may have spawned them and since the OLPC was geared to kids, it's an appropriate market. What's so good about netbooks in this fashion is that they're low power (for constraining electric bills), the low cost means you could get around 3 for under a grand, and generally are more rugged than a notebook. It's better than a desktop, because if they're not supposed to surf/play at night, you can just take it away from them.
Not to say they're a toy, it's more their physical characteristics being suited to the rough-and-tumble ways of kids. And if it breaks, unlike say, a Mac Book Pro, it's not the end of the world.
If history was so different that there was no America, there would not even have been the same 16-19th century, let alone 20th. Just due to the fact that England and Spain both got rich through the Americas.
But let's assume WW1 occurs anyway. No America in WW1, no one to keep England afloat trading with her, let alone leap into lift England/France into Victory. And America probably sided with England purely out of shared language/direct_heritage as much anything else. No punitive Versaille treaty because the belligerant nations would have to treat each other as equals. No Versaille treaty, no Hitler. That easy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#Authority_on_Linux
"About 2% of the Linux kernel as of 2006 was written by Torvalds himself.[13] Since Linux has had thousands of contributors, such a percentage represents a significant personal contribution to the overall amount of code. Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.[18]"
Do you know how much output that is?! Also, consider for a minute, that Linux isn't like the lightbulb, invent once and the work is done. How far would linux have gone if work quit in 1991, 1995, 2000? It's a work-in-progress.
The world is littered with half-assed and half-finished projects, particularly software. It's far better that Linus brings and continues one project to excellence than do a dozen mediocre projects that quite never get there.
Maybe you should go out and invent something. If it had 1/100 of the impact Linux has, you'll the world for the better significantly.
How about leaving the word byte alone and using another, distinct group of letter to do the job? Respecifying only confuses the issue, even those who know, because you're still be working with two different definitions in the same field for a long time.
That struck me right away, but more like the "myth of the noble savage" which originated in the 17th centure as a rise of primitivism, but got held up during the romance period in literature, and now again as a counter-reaction to the silly or hateful portrayal of American Indians of 1930s-1960s in Westerns and what not.
But it is just as one-sided, often the noble savage is too saintified, the American Indians were singing kum-bay-ah holding hands with one another throughout the continent when Europeans arrived. There was warfare and strife, peacefu and warlike tribes all over the place, knocking into each other and sometimes knocking each other out of place like billiard balls - which is why some tribes were so ready to make alliances with the europeans - the europeans were basically the biggest and most powerful tribe on the block. Did that power get abused? Yes, it always does. But some good things came of it as well.
Second is the upholding of nature myth, where it's always beautiful and technology always ugly. But nature has an ugliness and disease part as well, encounter a rabid animal like a fox or find a carcass rotting in the woods with flies swamping all over it and its stench emanating out - is that beautiful? Maybe not, but it's natural, and of course not depicted in the film. Oddly enough, in these nature films, it's nature itself (Eywa here?) that is personified when the central conflict is that humans hold themselves above nature. Of course, nature isn't one thing - it's just a collection of the base materials the planet is made of and all the organisms and their processes on top of that, from the bigggest mammals to the smallest bacteria and viruses, and all the plants. Man is just another organism with his own processes, but that is looked upon as distinct.
The third thing with the film was "going native." Happens all the time, even today. Lots of times people encounter something they see as exotic, fall in love with it, and adopt it completely. Happened thousands of years ago, there were accounts of a Roman General going Persian and happens today all the time. Anime fans learning Japanese and then visiting or living in Japan. Probably happens with Chinese and all other foreign cultures. All the same thing. Especially after WW2, American culture got exported en masse to Europe via films or through contact with GIs - and lots of immigrants came here based on that and a better life and adopted this culture - is it so different? We might not view America as especially exotic but many of us are native to it or Western culture in general.
Before the iPhone, I used to echo this luddite-sounding sentiment as well. It wasn't because I was scared of new features, but because the new features often compromised the primary function of the phone itself. Giving them keyboards often made the number keys beyond tiny making it hard to dial in a number, the browsers and internet capability were micky mouse and often sucked battery life, it had a camera but besides poor pictures, it was hard to share them (often more work than it was worth), etcetera.
And there are still people that just want a phone. Perhaps their workplace doesn't allow phones with cameras. Maybe they want to be reachable but without all the temptation and distractions. There are legitimate reasons to want less in a device besides battery life but it's probably borne out of frustration that so few manufacturers are willing to provide something very basic that works well rather than actual bitching about the specific device itself.
There was recently a story about how people with a high-fat, high-sugar diet have different microbes in their stomach that allow them to absorb a higher % of calories from those fat/sugar than a more moderate diet. And that it could change as fast as 16 hours - so if you decide to go for yogurt and vegetables one entire day, and then eat a high fat carbohydrate laden meal the next, your body wouldn't absorb nearly as many calaries as it would have if you ate the previous day. Which may hold the key for some weight loss.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1938023,00.html
How to stop being Tech Support:
a) Screw up their computers even worse than they were before you had to fix them. Afterall, if they get to install every stupid thing without consequences, so should you. Have the Russian National Anthem play on start up and a collection of sound effects (preferably labelled "wild and zany") accompany every little mouse click, starting an app, switching an app and so on. If there are no children in the house, think about a "Best of Goatse" screen saver. When asked how it got on there, give their typical answer "Idk, *I* didn't DO anything or download everything. I swear! Ooh, look at that, scamz-r-us.com is offering free mouse pointers!"
b) Upload their Uncle Jim's and wife "personal homemade" picture and video collection to the pornographic versions of flickr and youtube, with it helpfully bookmarked. Make their channel their homepage so they can track all the helpful comments and view counts.
c) Suggest a Mac. Let a mac "genius" take care of it and give them sticker shock (reality) at the same time.
d) If a Mac is too expensive (it must be, they don't give you $20 worth of compensation for hours of work...) install LinuxFromScratch (Gentoo is far too user friendly). Make sure not to get all the way into installing an X-server and any of those pesky window managers. They should be comfortable with the commandline, afterall, it's what people were using 30 years ago and it will bring back a strong sense of nostalgia as they struggle reading the man page for mail. Who knew email could be so fun!
Where is "around here"? France? Germany? Elsewhere?
Companies in my part of the States make it a point of pride to drive you to make work your life, for managers who work 50 hrs a week make their staff feel guilty if they work 80 hrs near crunchtime, the 40 hr workweek is an illusion even in the beginning of a project. And vacation? Heh. 10 days maybe?
American workers aren't that much more productive than Europe and I see why. Just the typical failed 'more pain more gain' mentality.
Tablets are a solution searching for a problem. The XO-2 was supposed to be a 2 screen (top and bottom) touch-screen computer with no keyboard proper. This is basically a 1 screen version of that.
Now, perhaps the idea is to be a complete paper replacement, but IMO, a lack of physical keyboard just hinders a computer it for any serious use. You just can't input that well without a keyboard and the original design could always be update with a touchscreen without changing much else. They should have kept concentrating on getting the original one down as cheap as possible. Possibly with an ARM chip since they are getting so cheap, on something like a beagle board and making it so cheap that countries wouldn't even have to think about acquiring one. Way less than a $100 even.
Perhaps instead of trying to measure productivity directly, it could be done in other ways. For instance, there needs to be a project done - get two small teams together to tackle it: the first that gets a functional prototype done has their Tech. Dir. given the job, as well as being able to assemble his team from both. Notice which people always gets to be chosen on a team in both phases, promote those people, and let go of the people never chosen.
Sure, that may be a bit of a popularity contest in the second phase (not so much the first) but then again it's about teamwork and coding already has too many "uber-genius" prima donnas that are a nightmare to work with.
If managing were as easy as reading a guage that said "PRODUCTIVITY", you might as well get rid of the expensive managers and have a monkey read it.
Especially for organizations that love their metrics.
With a trucker, it's easy: they drove X miles, had Y accidents, Z fines/tickets, and Q complaints from customers he dropped stuff off. They'll want to maximize X, and minimize everything else.
Because a programmer's code doesn't live by itself but is meshed in between those of other programmers most likely along with a bunch of other factors - it's hard for a point haired boss to measure his productivity just by bug count and whether the project gets done. In that case, it might be best just to have his technically minded supervisors judge members of their team.
My iPhone is a good device for output (I can read nearly all the webpages I want) but is awful to input, taking up much more time to, say, making a post on /. than it would with a desktop or laptop. I don't think a miniature keyboard will fix this issue. Making the phone bigger is not an option, nor is carry around a fullsize keyboard (even those roll up flexible ones).
So this will be good for that. Though I suspect a front-side facing camera that can track your eyemovements down to the key on screen keyboard it's staring at and counting an extended blink as a type might be closer to reality.
If this is true:
Wouldn't it be extremely marketable? Especially for the military with troops in hot places and with bulky body armor and probably all types of personal electronic equipment to keep charged?
That's kind of like responding to the domain mycongressmanhasnuts.com by proving you're not a squirrel.
This alone speaks to the brokeness of the system.
Wow, so you're comparing a website to a passport? That's really.... wow. Have you also given thought about multiple people having the name Steven Conroy?
I guess whoever is running georgewashington.com really isn't our first president from the grave. Thanks for the heads up.
Your argument reminds me of the Alien & Sedition Acts which would have made it a crime to criticize or mock the upper members of Government. Well, that is free speech.
Furthermore, the "mature/immature" argument is often just a deflection from the real argument, inserting in it's place an ad hom attack on the attackers in its place. No substance. Time/place is a further deflection.
I wonder, if you had your way, would this site be banned because it's a "false name" and not really paypal, or it's not following some gentlemen's agreement about protocol?
Or how about the now-defunct but infamous whitehouse.com?
Monopoly or not, palm os is engaging in anti-competitive behavior by tying it's OS to it's hardware.
Monopoly or not, mercedes Benz is engaging in anti-competitive behavior by tying it's software to it's hardware.
Monopoly or not, cisco is engaging in anti-competitive behavior by tying it's firmware to it's hardware.
See how silly your argument becomes when you take out the most important aspect of anti-trust law? If it's a monopoly or not.
Businesses by their nature act anticompetitive. Put simpler, competitors act anti-competitive. Big shock.
Apple is not Microsoft. Software is not it's business, software/hardware integrated in one package is. Some people like Porsche engines but don't like their cars. Let's say porsche sells replacement engines cheap (low margin) because Porsche owners race their cars and burn them through fast. Taking advantage of this fact, a company opens up that offers to sell you Porsche engines in a cheap car like a Hyundai. Porsche should be happy but it's not because they no longer have significant competetive advantage (their engines) to lure customers but actually lose some who are lured by Porsche power in a cheaper car. Plus the engines in nonporsches also generate more service calls, support that costs $ on small margin product.
Now, to combat this, porsche, in the next gen models, installs a very proprietary and nonstandard coupling to the transmission they don't license out to anyone else.
Now, most would say, including I, that you can do with the engines you buy as you please, but can you really force them to use a standard coupling as a non-monopoly?
And yet the FBI had plenty of tips about the hijackers before the actual attack.
Perhaps it was simply the same bloated bureacracy that fail before 9/11, which got warning signs but the signals got lost in the chain of command because they're too busy spying on the emails of millions of others.
Terrorism is a tactic designed to invoke a specific psychological reaction.
The way past US leadership uses it is a catch-all phrase to grab power:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW8Bj1upbJQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW8Bj1upbJQ