Microsoft does care about its real customers: Shareholders and Music Industry.
I must take exception to your assertion that Microsoft cares about its shareholders. If that were the case, they'd have kicked Ballmer to the curb years ago.
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Care?
I think you're reading a bit too much into this.
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Make a flask out of it.
Are you OK with a flask that leaks? I would consider that a major drawback.
Thanks to those motherfuckers, the sugar growers, and the congresscritters, we pay about three times what the rest of the world pays for sugar. That's why we get that corn syrup crap in soft drinks, and so much of the rest of our food.
It's not a business, it's the government. And yes, I can think of several examples of slipshod work in the private sector, too. The good thing about the private sector though is that we can decline to support those who do shoddy work.
Nah, little guys can get stupid patents, too. It's a function of how little time the examiners have, and the sheer volume of applications they have to process.
Everyone who wants to see Microsoft's hold on our industry diminish should strongly encourage Ballmer and the rest of his numbskulls to pursue this plan with all possible speed.
After the J Edgar Hoover bit, the FBI is in no position to blackmail anyone.
You're kidding, right? How can threatening to push Hoover out of the closet stop the FBI from blackmailing you? Hoover's dead, and outed. There's no threat to make there.
the term "politically correct" was, as far as I can tell, always meant as a slur,
Nope. I first heard it from someone who decided that it was her prerogative to veto my choice of a pizza vendor. She announced that the vendor in question was not "politically correct", due to their CEO's public statements on the abortion issue, and expected me to comply. She seemed rather surprised when I went right ahead and ordered what I was hungry for.
Actually, the term goes back to the early reds, shortly after they'd overthrown the revolution in Russia, about when they were starting to spread the lie that they had toppled the Czar, and were busily persecuting all the other political movements in Russia.
Honor killings are a myth perpetuated by Western Media to dehumanize Muslims and justify further attacks on Muslims.
Oh, please. They do happen, and you only need a minute with google to turn up the names of Hatun Surucu, Misha'al Al-Saud, and many, many others. Sure, people flip out and kill each other all over the world, but in most countries the perps end up facing serious legal consequences.
Show me a case where cops in the USA forced children back into a burning school because they weren't dressed modestly enough, and then maybe you'd have a point.
The Religious Policeman is a fascinating blog. Until the Saudis punish mutaween for murdering girls as they did in Mecca in 2002, I can't consider theirs a civilized country.
If they plan to allow a machine decide whether to taser somebody, expect this idea to vanish in a blinding plasma cloud of litigation. If they're talking about a human being operating this device by remote control, then whoever's at the switch is on the hook legally for any claim of excessive force, especially since the operator wouldn't be in any danger (the usual excuse of an overzealous police officer.)
Come on, at that rate there we're talking millions of deaths. I think it's far more likely that the imbalance is due to all the male laborers who stream into the country throwing the numbers way off.
Basically, the Saudi royals have made a deal with the devil, as it were. They give money to their local religious whackos with the tacit agreement that the whackos won't stir up the population to overthrow them. Now, having piles of money, whackos spend it on propaganda to inflame the dregs of muslim coountries around the world. It's very sad to see what they've done to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
Gutman's article shows me that MS has become confused as to who their customers are. The movie studios don't pay a significant amount of money to MS, and the end-users do. MS had better get clear on this PDQ.
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...that someday soon, we can run Linux on a big-ass table?
-jcr
Right, I couldn't remember Ballmer's clever, hip terminology for a moment there...
-jcr
Microsoft does care about its real customers: Shareholders and Music Industry.
I must take exception to your assertion that Microsoft cares about its shareholders. If that were the case, they'd have kicked Ballmer to the curb years ago.
-jcr
Care?
I think you're reading a bit too much into this.
-jcr
Make a flask out of it.
Are you OK with a flask that leaks? I would consider that a major drawback.
-jcr
They get plenty of corn subsidies, too. The sugar tariff benefits them, because it makes corn syrup the cheaper alternative.
-jcr
Thanks to those motherfuckers, the sugar growers, and the congresscritters, we pay about three times what the rest of the world pays for sugar. That's why we get that corn syrup crap in soft drinks, and so much of the rest of our food.
-jcr
It's not a business, it's the government. And yes, I can think of several examples of slipshod work in the private sector, too. The good thing about the private sector though is that we can decline to support those who do shoddy work.
-jcr
Nah, little guys can get stupid patents, too. It's a function of how little time the examiners have, and the sheer volume of applications they have to process.
-jcr
Everyone who wants to see Microsoft's hold on our industry diminish should strongly encourage Ballmer and the rest of his numbskulls to pursue this plan with all possible speed.
-jcr
It's probably just PCI-express over fiber. Why would they invent something they could just buy off the shelf?
-jcr
After the J Edgar Hoover bit, the FBI is in no position to blackmail anyone.
You're kidding, right? How can threatening to push Hoover out of the closet stop the FBI from blackmailing you? Hoover's dead, and outed. There's no threat to make there.
-jcr
the term "politically correct" was, as far as I can tell, always meant as a slur,
Nope. I first heard it from someone who decided that it was her prerogative to veto my choice of a pizza vendor. She announced that the vendor in question was not "politically correct", due to their CEO's public statements on the abortion issue, and expected me to comply. She seemed rather surprised when I went right ahead and ordered what I was hungry for.
Actually, the term goes back to the early reds, shortly after they'd overthrown the revolution in Russia, about when they were starting to spread the lie that they had toppled the Czar, and were busily persecuting all the other political movements in Russia.
-jcr
Honor killings are a myth perpetuated by Western Media to dehumanize Muslims and justify further attacks on Muslims.
Oh, please. They do happen, and you only need a minute with google to turn up the names of Hatun Surucu, Misha'al Al-Saud, and many, many others. Sure, people flip out and kill each other all over the world, but in most countries the perps end up facing serious legal consequences.
Show me a case where cops in the USA forced children back into a burning school because they weren't dressed modestly enough, and then maybe you'd have a point.
-jcr
The identity of the operator will be classified under Homeland Security regulations.
Courts trump regulations, which is why we know the name of Lon Horiuchi, for example.
-jcr
I'm not kidding. Khomeini really did write quite a bit about goat-fucking, and he really did approve it.
-jcr
The Religious Policeman is a fascinating blog. Until the Saudis punish mutaween for murdering girls as they did in Mecca in 2002, I can't consider theirs a civilized country.
-jcr
If they plan to allow a machine decide whether to taser somebody, expect this idea to vanish in a blinding plasma cloud of litigation. If they're talking about a human being operating this device by remote control, then whoever's at the switch is on the hook legally for any claim of excessive force, especially since the operator wouldn't be in any danger (the usual excuse of an overzealous police officer.)
-jcr
Come on, at that rate there we're talking millions of deaths. I think it's far more likely that the imbalance is due to all the male laborers who stream into the country throwing the numbers way off.
-jcr
Goats are cheaper, and they've been OK'd by Khomeini himself!
-jcr
Well, there's a bit more to it than that.
Basically, the Saudi royals have made a deal with the devil, as it were. They give money to their local religious whackos with the tacit agreement that the whackos won't stir up the population to overthrow them. Now, having piles of money, whackos spend it on propaganda to inflame the dregs of muslim coountries around the world. It's very sad to see what they've done to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
-jcr
Holy cow! Over twice as many males as females in the UAE? Where the hell are all their women going?
-jcr
Gutman's article shows me that MS has become confused as to who their customers are. The movie studios don't pay a significant amount of money to MS, and the end-users do. MS had better get clear on this PDQ.
-jcr
Now Windows is quite stable and the argument is one that shows a high degree of ignorance.
And the botnets out there are merely figments of our imagination?
Get serious.
-jcr
Is Linux improving? Hell yes, but of course so is every other current OS.
I beg to differ. You're right about OS X and Solaris, but can we honestly say that Windows is improving?
-jcr