Oh, and I forgot to mention that philanthropy is a wonderful tax write-off, especially as Gates can donate money to his own foundation, from which he receives money back via administrative and charitable expenses.
Either way it's clear that they have been infected with the open source cancer.
Now they are all communists too! Yea!
Bill Gates is hoarding cash. What does he know that you don't?
He knows something you don't. He knows that Microsoft's employees currently have 331 million shares of exercisable options with a market value of $24 billion. Microsoft needs that money to buy back gobs of stock to combat dilution from the millions of options that are redeemed. Last fiscal year, Microsoft spent $6.1 billion to repurchase 89 million shares. This "cash hoarding" to which you refer is essentially an insurance policy for investors who might be uneasy about a future liability.
But then, you would know all that too if you read the Wall Street Journal.
This patent nonsense is getting way out of hand. When Thomas Jefferson put the idea of intellectual property into the Constitution of the United States, he did so because he realized that information leaks; once people learn something, they can reuse that knowledge. Jefferson believed that if there was no protection to intellectual property, people would not be encouraged to share knowledge with others. He believed writers would not write, inventors would not invent, artists would not create art. So in the US Constitution, it says:
Congress shall have the power [...] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
The reason why this is important is spelled out in Jefferson's own writings:
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it...He who receives an idea from me, receives instructions himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should be spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature... Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
How far are we going to let this patent nonsense go? We need to remind people that patent law, like most IP laws in the US, is a balance between two forces, and the scale should not be tipped too far to one side.
The best trance stations on the internet went down because of this law, and my music selection has hurt since.
Fuck internet radio stations. Make your own playlist. They may have killed mp3.com's personal jukebox, but they haven't yet killed fair use (completely).
These maps aren't very good for directions. For example, the entire state of California is missing, and the United States isn't even recognizable.
I guess you must have missed the disclaimer: "When using this map, it's a good idea to do a reality check and make sure the road still exists, watch out for construction, and follow all traffic safety precautions. This map is only to be used as an aid in planning."
If you're suggesting that Columbus was radical in his belief that the world was round, that would be incorrect.
All I'm suggesting is that anyone who says "The whole idea that the entire world thought that the earth was flat until Columbus came around is a total and complete fabrication.", and then goes on to talk about how open minded the Church was, is making shit up.
One more thing: Jeffery Burton Russel's paper, which you cite, was presented at a conference at Westmont College, which is a Christian College. If you read the entire thing, he also goes on to bash Darwin and the theory of evolution.
The whole idea that the entire world thought that the earth was flat until Columbus came around is a total and complete fabrication... by the time of Eratosthenes (3 c. BC), followed by Crates(2 c. BC), Strabo (3 c. BC), and Ptolemy (first c. AD), the sphericity of the earth was accepted by all educated Greeks and Romans."
First off, Claudius Ptolemy lived in the second century, not the frst century.
Second, Christianity is well known for destroying and suppressing knowledge. That's why they burned the library at Alexandria. Galileo was arraigned before the Catholic Inquisition and forced to recant his heretical view that the earth rotated, and also revolved around the sun. However, you are correct that the Greeks and Romans knew the Earth was round.
My question is, when Columbus was ready to sail, did he sail from Greece, or did he sail from Spain, a country dominated by Catholicism?
Read the Bible. The conception of the earth in Genesis 1 is that of a single continent in the shape of a flat circular disc. In addition, the Hebrews were influenced via the patriarchs by Mesopotamian concepts (due to their time in Egypt), and via Moses. Moses was, after all, "educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians" (Acts 7:22; Exod 2:10). It is highly probable, therefore, that the writer and first readers of Genesis 1 defined the sea in the same way that all people in the ancient Near East did, namely, as a single circular body of water in the middle of which the flat earth-disc floated and from which all wells, springs and rivers derived their water.'
It therefore all the more historically probable that the writer and readers of Genesis 1 thought of the earth as a single continent in the shape of a flat circular disc.
The belief was that the earth is covered by a vault and that celestial bodies move inside this firmament. This makes sense only under the assumption that the earth is flat. This is reinforced in Genesis 1:6 and 1:7, and was commonly depicted in religious art, through the 1400s.
If second grade serves me, I believe Columbus sailed in 1492.
(Or better yet, as the unknown author [gettyimages.com] suggests, Windows XP Pro... I really didn't need that extra $110 anyway. Knowing me, I'd only spend it on hookers and booze.)
Windows? What are you talking about? With your propensity to waste absurd amounts of money on the extraneous, you're CLEARLY an Apple customer.
Just FYI, by "input devices," they mean "mice and keyboards," not scanners and the like.
Of course, that's just common sense, isn't it? I would never even begin to think that a scanner would be classified as an "input device". Certainly not because it's used to input data into the computer. I'm glad they mentioned that in their commercials.
Oh, that's right, they didn't.
Are there any other fine-print clarified terms that I should be aware of? Maybe they mean to say that Apple products "just work with a fraction of the hardware on the market", but that got shortened so their commercial could fit in a 30-second slot.
many (not all) PC peripherals will also work but may require extra software
you'll find 38 scanners that are compatible with OS X out of the box, 95 more that are compatible with OS 9
Given that Apple has officially declared OS9 "dead", and all new macs ship with os x, that leaves new Macs compatible with 38 scanners. That's not really "most", is it? It's more like "some", or "a small percentage". Hell, that doesn't even really make a Mac a "digital hub". As I said before. I'm not disputing that Macs interoperate, what I'm disputing is that Apple's marketing is a load of shit.
But you're not about 'reasonable,' you're just another Mac basher who wants to feel superior because you were smart enough not to fall for "Steve Jobs' hype."
Is claiming that products "just work", when they only actually work with a small percentage of peripherals and software "reasonable"?
I'll leave the answer up to you... well.. Steve Jobs, because he's apparently the one thinking for you.
That item says MOST new peripherals will connect via USB, and work with PCs or Macs. It doesn't say that Apple will support EVERY FREAKING PERIPHERAL sold for PCs.
Wow, apparently "most PC hardware" doesn't include scanners, which is too bad, given that macs are Jobs' idea of a "digital hub". I guess in Jobs' digital world, nobody scans anything.
I read that page you linked to, and nowhere on it does it say anything about scanners. NONE of their "switch" pages mentions compatibility with PC scanners.
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Oh, and I forgot to mention that philanthropy is a wonderful tax write-off, especially as Gates can donate money to his own foundation, from which he receives money back via administrative and charitable expenses.
Gates himself is quite a philanthropist, and deserves brownie points for spending some of his enourmous fortune on helping people out.
You realize, of course, that with Microsoft's estimated $40 billion in cash, they make nearly 500 million dollars every three months just in interest.
One five-hundredth of that is really nothing. If Gates really wanted to make a difference, he would have donated more.
Either way it's clear that they have been infected with the open source cancer.
Now they are all communists too! Yea!
Bill Gates is hoarding cash. What does he know that you don't?
He knows something you don't. He knows that Microsoft's employees currently have 331 million shares of exercisable options with a market value of $24 billion. Microsoft needs that money to buy back gobs of stock to combat dilution from the millions of options that are redeemed. Last fiscal year, Microsoft spent $6.1 billion to repurchase 89 million shares. This "cash hoarding" to which you refer is essentially an insurance policy for investors who might be uneasy about a future liability.
But then, you would know all that too if you read the Wall Street Journal.
We've only got 83% of the globe? God must be disappointed.
The best trance stations on the internet went down because of this law, and my music selection has hurt since.
Fuck internet radio stations. Make your own playlist. They may have killed mp3.com's personal jukebox, but they haven't yet killed fair use (completely).
How did you know they were talking about South Korea? I noticed this during the world cup. Since when did South Korea become Korea?
Probably around the same time Taiwan became officially recognized as "China", by the US Government
67% of Korean Internet users are connected to broadband...But there may be downsides.
Yeah, I think this guy figured that out.
Korea is leading in nearly all walks of a modern high tech life.
You mean like in the development of nuclear weapons in violation of international treaty?
These maps aren't very good for directions. For example, the entire state of California is missing, and the United States isn't even recognizable.
I guess you must have missed the disclaimer: "When using this map, it's a good idea to do a reality check and make sure the road still exists, watch out for construction, and follow all traffic safety precautions. This map is only to be used as an aid in planning."
If you're suggesting that Columbus was radical in his belief that the world was round, that would be incorrect.
All I'm suggesting is that anyone who says "The whole idea that the entire world thought that the earth was flat until Columbus came around is a total and complete fabrication.", and then goes on to talk about how open minded the Church was, is making shit up.
One more thing: Jeffery Burton Russel's paper, which you cite, was presented at a conference at Westmont College, which is a Christian College. If you read the entire thing, he also goes on to bash Darwin and the theory of evolution.
Hardly a credible source.
The whole idea that the entire world thought that the earth was flat until Columbus came around is a total and complete fabrication... by the time of Eratosthenes (3 c. BC), followed by Crates(2 c. BC), Strabo (3 c. BC), and Ptolemy (first c. AD), the sphericity of the earth was accepted by all educated Greeks and Romans."
First off, Claudius Ptolemy lived in the second century, not the frst century.
Second, Christianity is well known for destroying and suppressing knowledge. That's why they burned the library at Alexandria. Galileo was arraigned before the Catholic Inquisition and forced to recant his heretical view that the earth rotated, and also revolved around the sun. However, you are correct that the Greeks and Romans knew the Earth was round.
My question is, when Columbus was ready to sail, did he sail from Greece, or did he sail from Spain, a country dominated by Catholicism?
Read the Bible. The conception of the earth in Genesis 1 is that of a single continent in the shape of a flat circular disc. In addition, the Hebrews were influenced via the patriarchs by Mesopotamian concepts (due to their time in Egypt), and via Moses. Moses was, after all, "educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians" (Acts 7:22; Exod 2:10). It is highly probable, therefore, that the writer and first readers of Genesis 1 defined the sea in the same way that all people in the ancient Near East did, namely, as a single circular body of water in the middle of which the flat earth-disc floated and from which all wells, springs and rivers derived their water.'
It therefore all the more historically probable that the writer and readers of Genesis 1 thought of the earth as a single continent in the shape of a flat circular disc. The belief was that the earth is covered by a vault and that celestial bodies move inside this firmament. This makes sense only under the assumption that the earth is flat. This is reinforced in Genesis 1:6 and 1:7, and was commonly depicted in religious art, through the 1400s.
If second grade serves me, I believe Columbus sailed in 1492.
The last one got modded down by the zealots, so I'll post it again:
To quote Janie Porche from Apple's own switch ad campaign: "Who wants to sit on Christmas afternoon and download drivers?"
You guessed it, Mac owners!
"While most media readers are MSC-compliant and will 'just work,' some media readers may require additional drivers to be installed in order to work with Mac OS X. Native ('RAW') picture formats may require additional software."
(Or better yet, as the unknown author [gettyimages.com] suggests, Windows XP Pro... I really didn't need that extra $110 anyway. Knowing me, I'd only spend it on hookers and booze.)
Windows? What are you talking about? With your propensity to waste absurd amounts of money on the extraneous, you're CLEARLY an Apple customer.
The last one got modded down by the zealots, so I'll post it again:
To quote Janie Porche from Apple's own switch ad campaign: "Who wants to sit on Christmas afternoon and download drivers?"
You guessed it, Mac owners!
"While most media readers are MSC-compliant and will 'just work,' some media readers may require additional drivers to be installed in order to work with Mac OS X. Native ('RAW') picture formats may require additional software."
Nice troll.
You call it a troll, I call it the truth. I provided links and documentation. You provided... well.. nothing.
Great refutation! You're a prime example of a mac-lover.
You mean if it isn't standards compliant it requires proprietary drivers? Who would have thought!
A lot of the time, it doesn't even work with standards-compliant hardware.
Maybe Apple should change their slogan to "it just works (with a fraction of the hardware on the market)".
Is it fair to hold Apple responsible for third-party drivers? Yes, if they're the one trumpeting interoperability as their main marketing point.
To quote Janie Porche from Apple's own switch ad campaign: "Who wants to sit on Christmas afternoon and download drivers?"
You guessed it, Mac owners!
"While most media readers are MSC-compliant and will 'just work,' some media readers may require additional drivers to be installed in order to work with Mac OS X. Native ('RAW') picture formats may require additional software."
Just FYI, by "input devices," they mean "mice and keyboards," not scanners and the like.
Of course, that's just common sense, isn't it? I would never even begin to think that a scanner would be classified as an "input device". Certainly not because it's used to input data into the computer. I'm glad they mentioned that in their commercials.
Oh, that's right, they didn't.
Are there any other fine-print clarified terms that I should be aware of? Maybe they mean to say that Apple products "just work with a fraction of the hardware on the market", but that got shortened so their commercial could fit in a 30-second slot.
many (not all) PC peripherals will also work but may require extra software
To quote Janie Porche from Apple's own switch ad campaign: "Who wants to sit on Christmas afternoon and download drivers?"
Shall I bring up the pot and the kettle, or are you still ignoring the fact that both are black?
you'll find 38 scanners that are compatible with OS X out of the box, 95 more that are compatible with OS 9
Given that Apple has officially declared OS9 "dead", and all new macs ship with os x, that leaves new Macs compatible with 38 scanners. That's not really "most", is it? It's more like "some", or "a small percentage". Hell, that doesn't even really make a Mac a "digital hub". As I said before. I'm not disputing that Macs interoperate, what I'm disputing is that Apple's marketing is a load of shit.
But you're not about 'reasonable,' you're just another Mac basher who wants to feel superior because you were smart enough not to fall for "Steve Jobs' hype."
Is claiming that products "just work", when they only actually work with a small percentage of peripherals and software "reasonable"?
I'll leave the answer up to you... well.. Steve Jobs, because he's apparently the one thinking for you.
That item says MOST new peripherals will connect via USB, and work with PCs or Macs. It doesn't say that Apple will support EVERY FREAKING PERIPHERAL sold for PCs.
Wow, apparently "most PC hardware" doesn't include scanners, which is too bad, given that macs are Jobs' idea of a "digital hub". I guess in Jobs' digital world, nobody scans anything.
I read that page you linked to, and nowhere on it does it say anything about scanners. NONE of their "switch" pages mentions compatibility with PC scanners.
I guess you missed reason number nine where it says that Macs "work effortlessly" with PC hardware then. But then, if you're illiterate, that would explain your choice of Mac as a platform. They seem quite popular with the "oh! look at the pretty pictures!" crowd.
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I didn't know CmdrTaco had two accounts.
I expect that robots will take over the world, and openly hunt humans in a post apocolyptic landscape.
Yes, but only as retribution for the unrelenting barrage of spelling errors.