never said that. I said that Microsoft will win the OS war if all applications are completely web-based. There is no compelling reason to explore alternatives to Windows if all you need is a dumb terminal (fed by WinCE) to access the internet.
If all you need is a web appliance, there will be lots of cheaper alternatives to MS. Saving $50 will be a compelling reason for many if you're buying a web terminal in WalMart for your kitchen.
Long story short, if you want better computers, research better computers. If you want better materials, research better materials. You shouldn't say "Invest in ways to get into space so we can make better materials"...
All quite reasonable, but China doesn't use those reasons. They're not doing it for velcro and teflon, as TFA says it's "a matter of national pride... a way to increase the reputation of its high-tech exports." Also, unstated, it gives them an excuse to research ICBM rockets without getting nagged about WMDs.
I'm seeing more and more people use it as their de facto source for information.
My first resort is simply Google for a likely phrase. If that turns up too much SEO-generated garbage, I add "wiki" to the search terms and that finds relevant Wikipedia pages on the first hits. Reviewing these and their links usually finds the information I need.
What's scary is the number of parasitic sites that clone Wikipedia pages and add their ads and crappy links to them.
if OS/2 had taken off, it would not be at all surprising if IBM were looked at in the same way as MS on Slashdot.
In TFA the author agrees that Apple can be as arrogant and controlling as MS. But they can't be complete assholes because they only have 5% of the market. If OS/2 AND MSWindows each had a decent slice of the market (10-40%, say) then there would be real competition, cutthroat betweem suppliers, but they couldn't just tell users to bend over the way MS can now. For instance most hardware would probably have open spec drivers, true cross-platform applications and standards would be supported by necessity.
For example I have clients that are lawyers and doctors that are very happy with their windows software.
Doctors and lawyers can afford quality technical support (is that what you mean by "clients", or are you a call girl?); they're insulated from the problems and threats because sdomeone fixes it for them and protects them from viruses etc. Though I suspect the same doctors and lawyers might be even happier with OSX and have a lower TCO.
Taking facts out of context works both ways, anyone with a bias does it. Who is to say that one person using a fact is right,
When Chrichton says a scientist supports a particualr position, and the scientist in question says he doesn't, I think it's clear who is "right". The scientific questions are more open to interpretation, but I'd trust peer-review rather than paid lobbyists and novelists in that area. An SF writer selects facts and weaves them into his fantasy to create an illusion of verisimilitude. That's what Chrichton is good at.
Paper maps proclaimed to be a threat to national security as they can be used to guide terrorists to important government buildings.
You were joking, but in many countries this is true. On a cycling holiday in Malaysia and Thailand I naturally wanted topographic maps to know where the hills were. I saw tour guides had such maps but they're not offically for sale. At a library in Penang I was treated with suspicion when I asked to see their non-existent map collection. Of course it's quite stupid to pretend that terrorists (of which there were and are active groups in these countries) would be fazed by such restrictions. You can source excellent topographic maps of just about anywhere overseas, and of course the local military maps are available for the right price. The only people inconvenienced are legitimate travellers. Simialrly in more paranoid places tourists who take snaps of bridges or just about any public building can lose their cameras and get in trouble. Again quite a futile exercise of power, any "spy" can easily take pictures undetected. In Bruce Schneier's phrase, "security theatre" and scapegoating.
an entertaining book that deals with this and other facts concerning "Global Warming" give
Michael Chrichton's State of Fear a go.
"Facts"? It's about as factual about climate change as Team America is about terrorism, only not so entertaining.
See, for instance, Michael Crichton's State of Confusion.
Things similar to what you have just posted are backed up with footnotes
Checking Crichton's footnotes: "Crichton supplies references. But UMass-Amherst climatologist Douglas Hardy, a coauthor of the 2004 paper on Kilimanjaro cited, says Crichton is distorting his work. Crichton is doing ''what I perceive the denialists always to do,'' says Hardy. ''And that is to take things out of context, or take elements of reality and twist them a little bit, or combine them with other elements of reality to support their desired outcome.''"
I use a grammar checker as a final-final catch for stupid mistakes like 'the the' and other extraneous words which a spell check won't find.
Interesting. Most spellchecks I use (eg, text editors) DO flag duplicate words; however I see Word's doesn't, presuambly because it's part of it's Grammar check as you said.
Also my pet hate when Word underlines all my headers and says "fragment: consider revising"...what the heck you dumb program! It's a freaking header! must all my headers be complete sentences?
I don't see that.. maybe you should use a "Heading" style for headings.
Word does have styles, though it makes it almost impossible to use consistently by all the user-friendly second guessing it does. But using heading styles has other benefits; it lets you see the document in outline form, for instance.
there's something really special about them willing to go that extra mile for their fans (and enjoying it as well) that puts them above others, such as the actor who played Kirk.
I'm not at all denying Doohan was a great human being; but as an actor he was typecast forever after Trek. Shatner is probably the only one who had a significant post-Trek career, and if that meant not spending so much time signing souvenirs for fanboys to sell on eBay, you shouldn't hold it against him.
Take OS/2 vs. Windows, or WP vs. Word, and compare feature sets. Nearly identical. Given that, how do you choose? By what your friends have, or what you use at work?
OF COURSE the feature sets are fucking identical. In both cases the non-MS software CAME FIRST and MS copied them, used the transition to Windows to give their inhouse software an unbeatable inside track, then bundled their software at a lower price.
it's used on roughly 95% of the world's desktops. Nothing significantly better exists, or the vast majority of people would have jumped ship long ago....Microsoft's big crime seems to have been giving companies a bigger discount if they sell more of their products.
Consumers don't choose software after careful consideration of quality. They take what's bundled, which is ALWAYS Windows. The "discounts" you refer to were contingent on NOT selling competing software. If OEMs even offered OS/2 or BeOS, they found themselves unable to compete for sales of Windows machines. That's what MS spent years in court till the Republican DOJ gave them a pass. There were any number of OS's better in every respect than MSDOS or Windows; except for the marketing and distribution deals. That's where Bill's genius is. Is Coca Cola realy so much better than any other soft drink? Is Marlboro really superior to any other cigarette? Is Brittney Spears really a musical prodigy? Is George Lucas the world's greatest movie director?
Not read TFA, but dear lord we've been though this so many times - the technology is an enabler. People can do good things with it, or bad things. voila, that's it.
Exactly. So why not sell the "enablers" to a pariah regime that is using them to enable its police state? After all, if you don't, someone else probably will. Amd instead of sanctioning North Korea, why not cash in and sell them some surplus nukes? They can do good things with them, or bad; it's not your problem.
Simply put, that makes no sense. Why decide such an insecure, unstalbe OS is better than the stable, more secure OS that started it all?
They didn't say Unix was "better" than Windows -- but that working for MS was better than working in Unix. Which is likely true for them and many others. Lots of people spend their days working on useless crap, because that's what you get paid to do. The product isn't really that important, it's your quality of life, at the office and what you can buy with the paycheque.
But I am absolutely against recent "liberal" attempts to stifle Free Speech by restricting campaign contributions. I think it is paramount to a repeal of the First Amendment to say that you cannot use your money in the way that you see fit.
It's absurd to clain that free speech is infringed by limiting advertising. Everyone will be heard if contributions are limited; just not the richest 24/7 as they would be with unlimited funding. Why isn't it also "stifling" of the free speech of poor people that they don't have any way at all to broadcast their views?
Let's bring back Free Speech to the citizenry.
The citizenry would be further than ever from having free speech, being drowned out by the billionaires.
TFSubmitter wrote: While internet spending was only $14 million last year it is growing at a rate of 30 fold over four years poising it to overtake conventional media spending." However, TFArticle said $14 million was spent on Internet campaign advertising in 2004 -- a 3,000 percent increase over four years earlier.
So, TFA talks about the increase to date, the submitter blithely imagines this rate will continue for the NEXT four years. Starting from a low base,(presumably about $460000 in 2000), he assumes it will continue at the same enormous rate, "poising it to overtake conventional media spending". The same kind of bullshit that led to the Internet bubble.
So if the nuclear reactor core was in a vacuum, would the Cerenkov radiation go faster then C or does it just move through water faster then light?
Cerenkov radiation moves faster than light does in in water (about 2/3 c, IIRC), not in vacuum. There wouldn't be any Cerenkov radiation at all in vacuo, since it's caused by particles hitting water. But more importantly, the "swimming pool reactor" would melt down in vacuum.
the more is does look like someone is trying to play a perspective trick.
Also, TFA says he disposed of the body, keeping only the tail, which has been sent for testing. However, if he had contacts and planned it it wouldn't be hard to buy a puma or other big cat tail (the penis and other parts are used by Chinese medicine, but the tail doesn't have nay magical virtues, AFAIK) and have it sent to him from overseas, or even a local zoo perhaps. So even if the tail is confirmed as being a big cat species, I'm afraid I wouldn't be convinced -- and I'm from Gippsland and have heard these stories all my life. We do however have the Giant Gippsland Earthworm, possibly the largest in the world, to be proud of.
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If all you need is a web appliance, there will be lots of cheaper alternatives to MS. Saving $50 will be a compelling reason for many if you're buying a web terminal in WalMart for your kitchen.
All quite reasonable, but China doesn't use those reasons. They're not doing it for velcro and teflon, as TFA says it's "a matter of national pride ... a way to increase the reputation of its high-tech exports." Also, unstated, it gives them an excuse to research ICBM rockets without getting nagged about WMDs.
My first resort is simply Google for a likely phrase. If that turns up too much SEO-generated garbage, I add "wiki" to the search terms and that finds relevant Wikipedia pages on the first hits. Reviewing these and their links usually finds the information I need.
What's scary is the number of parasitic sites that clone Wikipedia pages and add their ads and crappy links to them.
Not to mention being flamed for misspelling "absurd".
In TFA the author agrees that Apple can be as arrogant and controlling as MS. But they can't be complete assholes because they only have 5% of the market. If OS/2 AND MSWindows each had a decent slice of the market (10-40%, say) then there would be real competition, cutthroat betweem suppliers, but they couldn't just tell users to bend over the way MS can now. For instance most hardware would probably have open spec drivers, true cross-platform applications and standards would be supported by necessity.
Doctors and lawyers can afford quality technical support (is that what you mean by "clients", or are you a call girl?); they're insulated from the problems and threats because sdomeone fixes it for them and protects them from viruses etc. Though I suspect the same doctors and lawyers might be even happier with OSX and have a lower TCO.
When Chrichton says a scientist supports a particualr position, and the scientist in question says he doesn't, I think it's clear who is "right". The scientific questions are more open to interpretation, but I'd trust peer-review rather than paid lobbyists and novelists in that area. An SF writer selects facts and weaves them into his fantasy to create an illusion of verisimilitude. That's what Chrichton is good at.
You were joking, but in many countries this is true. On a cycling holiday in Malaysia and Thailand I naturally wanted topographic maps to know where the hills were. I saw tour guides had such maps but they're not offically for sale. At a library in Penang I was treated with suspicion when I asked to see their non-existent map collection. Of course it's quite stupid to pretend that terrorists (of which there were and are active groups in these countries) would be fazed by such restrictions. You can source excellent topographic maps of just about anywhere overseas, and of course the local military maps are available for the right price. The only people inconvenienced are legitimate travellers. Simialrly in more paranoid places tourists who take snaps of bridges or just about any public building can lose their cameras and get in trouble. Again quite a futile exercise of power, any "spy" can easily take pictures undetected. In Bruce Schneier's phrase, "security theatre" and scapegoating.
"Facts"? It's about as factual about climate change as Team America is about terrorism, only not so entertaining. See, for instance, Michael Crichton's State of Confusion.
Things similar to what you have just posted are backed up with footnotes
Checking Crichton's footnotes: "Crichton supplies references. But UMass-Amherst climatologist Douglas Hardy, a coauthor of the 2004 paper on Kilimanjaro cited, says Crichton is distorting his work. Crichton is doing ''what I perceive the denialists always to do,'' says Hardy. ''And that is to take things out of context, or take elements of reality and twist them a little bit, or combine them with other elements of reality to support their desired outcome.''"
Interesting. Most spellchecks I use (eg, text editors) DO flag duplicate words; however I see Word's doesn't, presuambly because it's part of it's Grammar check as you said.
I don't see that.. maybe you should use a "Heading" style for headings. Word does have styles, though it makes it almost impossible to use consistently by all the user-friendly second guessing it does. But using heading styles has other benefits; it lets you see the document in outline form, for instance.
I'm not at all denying Doohan was a great human being; but as an actor he was typecast forever after Trek. Shatner is probably the only one who had a significant post-Trek career, and if that meant not spending so much time signing souvenirs for fanboys to sell on eBay, you shouldn't hold it against him.
OF COURSE the feature sets are fucking identical. In both cases the non-MS software CAME FIRST and MS copied them, used the transition to Windows to give their inhouse software an unbeatable inside track, then bundled their software at a lower price.
Consumers don't choose software after careful consideration of quality. They take what's bundled, which is ALWAYS Windows. The "discounts" you refer to were contingent on NOT selling competing software. If OEMs even offered OS/2 or BeOS, they found themselves unable to compete for sales of Windows machines. That's what MS spent years in court till the Republican DOJ gave them a pass. There were any number of OS's better in every respect than MSDOS or Windows; except for the marketing and distribution deals. That's where Bill's genius is. Is Coca Cola realy so much better than any other soft drink? Is Marlboro really superior to any other cigarette? Is Brittney Spears really a musical prodigy? Is George Lucas the world's greatest movie director?
Exactly. So why not sell the "enablers" to a pariah regime that is using them to enable its police state? After all, if you don't, someone else probably will. Amd instead of sanctioning North Korea, why not cash in and sell them some surplus nukes? They can do good things with them, or bad; it's not your problem.
There weren't permanent icecaps in the Cretaceous. There hasn't been anywhere continuously frozen since then.
They didn't say Unix was "better" than Windows -- but that working for MS was better than working in Unix. Which is likely true for them and many others. Lots of people spend their days working on useless crap, because that's what you get paid to do. The product isn't really that important, it's your quality of life, at the office and what you can buy with the paycheque.
FFS spelling...
It's absurd to clain that free speech is infringed by limiting advertising. Everyone will be heard if contributions are limited; just not the richest 24/7 as they would be with unlimited funding. Why isn't it also "stifling" of the free speech of poor people that they don't have any way at all to broadcast their views?
Let's bring back Free Speech to the citizenry.
The citizenry would be further than ever from having free speech, being drowned out by the billionaires.
So, TFA talks about the increase to date, the submitter blithely imagines this rate will continue for the NEXT four years. Starting from a low base,(presumably about $460000 in 2000), he assumes it will continue at the same enormous rate, "poising it to overtake conventional media spending". The same kind of bullshit that led to the Internet bubble.
Cerenkov radiation moves faster than light does in in water (about 2/3 c, IIRC), not in vacuum. There wouldn't be any Cerenkov radiation at all in vacuo, since it's caused by particles hitting water. But more importantly, the "swimming pool reactor" would melt down in vacuum.
As one complains when Bush does nothing, or when he does something stupid.
Also, TFA says he disposed of the body, keeping only the tail, which has been sent for testing. However, if he had contacts and planned it it wouldn't be hard to buy a puma or other big cat tail (the penis and other parts are used by Chinese medicine, but the tail doesn't have nay magical virtues, AFAIK) and have it sent to him from overseas, or even a local zoo perhaps. So even if the tail is confirmed as being a big cat species, I'm afraid I wouldn't be convinced -- and I'm from Gippsland and have heard these stories all my life. We do however have the Giant Gippsland Earthworm, possibly the largest in the world, to be proud of.
If you want to mod this down, as the parent, feel free. I'll just post it again. But while I'm at it, spot the typo: "From the anouncement". So a slashvertisement, and an obvious spelling mistake. Just wait for the dupe and we'll have the archetypical Slashdot article.
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