I cant help drawing parallels to the Novell agreement where Microsoft in practice paid Novell hefty sums to keep going in Microsofts direction, focusing on MS technologies and products.
Would anyone except Nokia keep churning WP7 phones out when it still, one year after release has not gotten more than 0,3% of the market? I strongly suspect Samsung, HTC etc in reality gets paid for using WP7 and dont pay a dime to use Android. Ofcourse on paper they pay Microsoft for licenses, but then they get that money and ten times more back in the form of marketing contributions for WP7.
What comes out of an average human is insane babble really. There are countless of people around me i have a hard time understanding. The problem has never been the software, but human unpredictability and randomness. Most manufacturer of voice control software has understood that and just tossed the AI bit out the window. Its much easier to make humans use short commands than to make the AI understand hints, insinuations and tantrums etc. Ask yourself this, can you really say you understand your spouse wishes all the time? Half the time? Ever?
When two humans cannot tell what was really said two seconds ago, a machine will never ever succeed.
Its also a pipe dream just like video phones. Fun the first three times, then just fucking annoying. Talking to your phone just makes you look like a dork. Especially when you have to repeat yourself ten times before it understands you.
The protests should not be necessary at all. In a democracy its pretty awful to be forced to bail poorly run and overbooked banks out. We live in a rampant capitalist world where everything we hear is how the free market is the god of all humanity. We should take whatever shit the market blows our way. Be it unemployment, foreclosure, seizure, no medics and just about anything else life throws our way.
At the same time we have to take our money, our damn money, and bail the rich bankers and corporations out? This is inverse socialism where the people pays the rich.
Let the damn banks and corporations fail already. The effect on the economy would be short and hard but it would weed the real assholes out of the system. The message we send to the banks right now is to make an ever bigger mess in the near future. Sadly the political system is totally broken.
Im a very long time customer but this made me cancel my account at the spot. I wont tolerate being sheparded towards Facebook, in any way shape or form. I really dont care if they noticed, i just wont accept Facebook at any price.
There are an enormous amount of products that build upon BSD but sadly very few ever gives anything back to the original. The same would be true for Linux had it been licensed under a BSD license.
The X window system is a great example of where numerous corporations take what they want without giving much of anything back. Imagine where it would be now if Apple would give something back for all the code they get for free?
BSD is not dead and im not saying it is, i just think it would be a lot bigger if it had been under a license that demanded something in return for the free code, something less leech friendly.
Stallman is more in touch with reality than most people. Imagine where BSD could have been now without the constant rape and pillaging of it? The reason it flunked is purely because of the license and that nobody ever gives anything back to the BSD community.
Had Linux been based on the BSD license it would never have taken off like it did.
The same was said when Apple shunned flash. The problem is that there are far to many more or less unmaintained sites that uses flash, and many of those will never see a rewrite, ever.
"This is one of the most forward thinking thing MS has done in a great while."
Why yes! Just as forward thinking as when they did a carbon copy of flash with Silverlight, and then when it tanked try to take flash down with their own humongus fail?
While a tablet can be fun, im not so sure that it will be anything other than a complimentary gadget. The jury is still out on that one but so far most people that owns a tab also own a smartphone and a computer. The number of people who owns just a tab are as of today very small.
Personally i would be surprised if mobile phones + dock and normal PC peripherals wont take off. All that is needed is a standard dock and that market will explode. You get the portability of a mobile phone with the usability of a PC once you dock it.
Even if the biggest sites turns away from flash it will linger on for years to come. If Microsoft does this, the users of Windows 8 will suffer for it or install another browser with the capabilities they need. Personally i would never buy a device that doesnt handle flash. Not because i love flash but because i need it to be able to view much of the internet.
The only people this will hurt are the users of Windows 8.
The last thing aliens has to worry about is humanity going beyond our solar system. We are too busy killing each others over stupid religions and money to be any serious threat to anyone. Crazy apes with tools.
The biggest difference is that we seriously lack any aliens trying to skew things into their own agenda when it comes to astrophysics. The oil industry and much of the rest of the energy sector pours billions upon billions into spin and astroturfing. I do not think this is normal people except for a few vacuum heads that just rolls with the flow.
This has not been proven, just correlated. The speed of light has been proven but time dilation still waits for proper experiments to prove it. I try not to have faith in things, but thats probably why im not religious either.
Its only weird for people with a very bad grasp of reality. We KNOW the speed of light but you want us to ignore that fact and pretend we dont know it. At the same time we are supposed to take other things into account that are not yet proven, but mere indicators of a possibiltiy that time advances slower at light speed for the truth?
As Apple and Microsoft is using patents as a way of stopping or seriously hampering competition they are patent trolls. Apple just took a bunch of stuff invented elsewhere, slapped it all together and started the old Reality Distortion Field up on full power.
Apple is a patent troll. They suck donkeys ass for that and we all are beginning to hate them except the people in the Reality Distortion Field where Apple invents everything they copy and incorporate into their products.
Im waiting with amusement for the release of the Iphone 5 as all the stuff Apple copied from Android will suddenly be invented at Apple, and the best stuff in the world all of a sudden.
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The official DoD costs about 700$ per year, but, thats a small part of the overall military costs. I dare you to find an accurate figure but i already know you cant because the military costs is deeply hidden all over. You are not meant to know just how insane amounts of money is spent on your military. One thing is for sure, its a hell of a lot more than the deficit.
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"That's because we're spending money to provide those countries with their defense."
You confuse defense with occupation. Those countries would be very glad to get rid of US "defense". Even better, stop sending boatloads of money to Israel and the middle east conflict dies out in a heartbeat and a lasting peace can be built.
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The US spends more money on its military than all other countries combined. Why not save a bit there, on the biggest budget post of them all? Saving some small posts here and there without even looking at the expenditures that really digs holes in the wallet seems, insane.
Seems military spending is sacred even if countless research has show excessive waste and that US military could get by on half the money without any noticable effect on the defence capabilities.
To an outsider it looks as if the US is on the exact same path as the USSR was some years ago when it overspent all its money on the military complex. Once that happens the US will have the exact same situation that Soviet has had, with states wanting to jump off the sinking ship.
Kinect only has wow factor for someone completely unfamiliar with Sonys Eye-Toy. Kinect just builds ontop of very old stuff like that and is in itself nothing at all to write home about. Its actually pretty crappy compared to the original Kinect from the developers (all outside Micrososft) since most of the interesting stuff was axed to bring the price down.
One thing Bill Gates never ever had is "strong engineering background and technical vision". He is an excellent strategist without even the smallest hint of a conscience.
From the moment he bought QDos from Seattle Technologies and onwards its been a technological disaster with all decisions taken with the aim of crushing competition. The tech has always been behind anything else in priority. Internet Explorer is an excellent example where the desire to kill Netscape lead to its integration into Windows, a decision people thought would only lead to problems at the time, something that still plagues Windows from a security standpoint.
I suggest reading up on third party accounts on what really happened since the Dos trials with Digital and onwards.
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I cant help drawing parallels to the Novell agreement where Microsoft in practice paid Novell hefty sums to keep going in Microsofts direction, focusing on MS technologies and products.
Would anyone except Nokia keep churning WP7 phones out when it still, one year after release has not gotten more than 0,3% of the market? I strongly suspect Samsung, HTC etc in reality gets paid for using WP7 and dont pay a dime to use Android. Ofcourse on paper they pay Microsoft for licenses, but then they get that money and ten times more back in the form of marketing contributions for WP7.
Just as with Novell that is.
"By that warped definition, the vast majority of Americans are morons"
Uhm, yes. A whole population getting rimmed daily by its leaders must have a computational problem somewhere.
What comes out of an average human is insane babble really. There are countless of people around me i have a hard time understanding. The problem has never been the software, but human unpredictability and randomness. Most manufacturer of voice control software has understood that and just tossed the AI bit out the window. Its much easier to make humans use short commands than to make the AI understand hints, insinuations and tantrums etc. Ask yourself this, can you really say you understand your spouse wishes all the time? Half the time? Ever?
When two humans cannot tell what was really said two seconds ago, a machine will never ever succeed.
Its also a pipe dream just like video phones. Fun the first three times, then just fucking annoying. Talking to your phone just makes you look like a dork. Especially when you have to repeat yourself ten times before it understands you.
The protests should not be necessary at all. In a democracy its pretty awful to be forced to bail poorly run and overbooked banks out. We live in a rampant capitalist world where everything we hear is how the free market is the god of all humanity. We should take whatever shit the market blows our way. Be it unemployment, foreclosure, seizure, no medics and just about anything else life throws our way.
At the same time we have to take our money, our damn money, and bail the rich bankers and corporations out? This is inverse socialism where the people pays the rich.
Let the damn banks and corporations fail already. The effect on the economy would be short and hard but it would weed the real assholes out of the system. The message we send to the banks right now is to make an ever bigger mess in the near future. Sadly the political system is totally broken.
Im a very long time customer but this made me cancel my account at the spot. I wont tolerate being sheparded towards Facebook, in any way shape or form. I really dont care if they noticed, i just wont accept Facebook at any price.
There are an enormous amount of products that build upon BSD but sadly very few ever gives anything back to the original. The same would be true for Linux had it been licensed under a BSD license.
The X window system is a great example of where numerous corporations take what they want without giving much of anything back. Imagine where it would be now if Apple would give something back for all the code they get for free?
BSD is not dead and im not saying it is, i just think it would be a lot bigger if it had been under a license that demanded something in return for the free code, something less leech friendly.
Stallman is more in touch with reality than most people. Imagine where BSD could have been now without the constant rape and pillaging of it? The reason it flunked is purely because of the license and that nobody ever gives anything back to the BSD community.
Had Linux been based on the BSD license it would never have taken off like it did.
Only if they are totally devoid of any native code for ARM. I suspect that rules out most games and CPU intensive applications.
Well, this just made Windows 8 tablets totally worthless for the enterprise.
Actually, most of the non-pc devices do run flash. Android has a bigger marketshare than iOS even if you take into account Ipad and Ipod.
The same was said when Apple shunned flash. The problem is that there are far to many more or less unmaintained sites that uses flash, and many of those will never see a rewrite, ever.
"This is one of the most forward thinking thing MS has done in a great while."
Why yes! Just as forward thinking as when they did a carbon copy of flash with Silverlight, and then when it tanked try to take flash down with their own humongus fail?
While a tablet can be fun, im not so sure that it will be anything other than a complimentary gadget. The jury is still out on that one but so far most people that owns a tab also own a smartphone and a computer. The number of people who owns just a tab are as of today very small.
Personally i would be surprised if mobile phones + dock and normal PC peripherals wont take off. All that is needed is a standard dock and that market will explode. You get the portability of a mobile phone with the usability of a PC once you dock it.
Even if the biggest sites turns away from flash it will linger on for years to come. If Microsoft does this, the users of Windows 8 will suffer for it or install another browser with the capabilities they need. Personally i would never buy a device that doesnt handle flash. Not because i love flash but because i need it to be able to view much of the internet.
The only people this will hurt are the users of Windows 8.
The last thing aliens has to worry about is humanity going beyond our solar system. We are too busy killing each others over stupid religions and money to be any serious threat to anyone. Crazy apes with tools.
The biggest difference is that we seriously lack any aliens trying to skew things into their own agenda when it comes to astrophysics. The oil industry and much of the rest of the energy sector pours billions upon billions into spin and astroturfing. I do not think this is normal people except for a few vacuum heads that just rolls with the flow.
This has not been proven, just correlated. The speed of light has been proven but time dilation still waits for proper experiments to prove it. I try not to have faith in things, but thats probably why im not religious either.
Its only weird for people with a very bad grasp of reality. We KNOW the speed of light but you want us to ignore that fact and pretend we dont know it. At the same time we are supposed to take other things into account that are not yet proven, but mere indicators of a possibiltiy that time advances slower at light speed for the truth?
Im in love with your mind. *kissy* *kissy*
As Apple and Microsoft is using patents as a way of stopping or seriously hampering competition they are patent trolls. Apple just took a bunch of stuff invented elsewhere, slapped it all together and started the old Reality Distortion Field up on full power.
Apple is a patent troll. They suck donkeys ass for that and we all are beginning to hate them except the people in the Reality Distortion Field where Apple invents everything they copy and incorporate into their products.
Im waiting with amusement for the release of the Iphone 5 as all the stuff Apple copied from Android will suddenly be invented at Apple, and the best stuff in the world all of a sudden.
The official DoD costs about 700$ per year, but, thats a small part of the overall military costs. I dare you to find an accurate figure but i already know you cant because the military costs is deeply hidden all over. You are not meant to know just how insane amounts of money is spent on your military. One thing is for sure, its a hell of a lot more than the deficit.
"That's because we're spending money to provide those countries with their defense."
You confuse defense with occupation. Those countries would be very glad to get rid of US "defense". Even better, stop sending boatloads of money to Israel and the middle east conflict dies out in a heartbeat and a lasting peace can be built.
The US spends more money on its military than all other countries combined. Why not save a bit there, on the biggest budget post of them all? Saving some small posts here and there without even looking at the expenditures that really digs holes in the wallet seems, insane.
Seems military spending is sacred even if countless research has show excessive waste and that US military could get by on half the money without any noticable effect on the defence capabilities.
To an outsider it looks as if the US is on the exact same path as the USSR was some years ago when it overspent all its money on the military complex. Once that happens the US will have the exact same situation that Soviet has had, with states wanting to jump off the sinking ship.
Kinect only has wow factor for someone completely unfamiliar with Sonys Eye-Toy. Kinect just builds ontop of very old stuff like that and is in itself nothing at all to write home about. Its actually pretty crappy compared to the original Kinect from the developers (all outside Micrososft) since most of the interesting stuff was axed to bring the price down.
One thing Bill Gates never ever had is "strong engineering background and technical vision". He is an excellent strategist without even the smallest hint of a conscience.
From the moment he bought QDos from Seattle Technologies and onwards its been a technological disaster with all decisions taken with the aim of crushing competition. The tech has always been behind anything else in priority. Internet Explorer is an excellent example where the desire to kill Netscape lead to its integration into Windows, a decision people thought would only lead to problems at the time, something that still plagues Windows from a security standpoint.
I suggest reading up on third party accounts on what really happened since the Dos trials with Digital and onwards.
This had been much more fun if there had been more languages and compilers benchmarked. Really interesting read though.