To the fact that most kids these days are clued up to the vastness/emptyness of space, the barreness of Mars and the Moon and the difficulties of actually getting anywhere, nevermind finding and colonizing other planets. A trip to Mars or the Moon then seems like an utterly insignificant step towards the space exploration and technology they see in the movies etc. They know it has to be done but the cool stuff comes much much later and most likely not in their lifetime.
Well given that Microsoft clearly said they could be sent back or given away when they gave them out initally of course they can. Also Microsoft have not asked for the latops back. They asked that they be given away or returned to them when reviewed, very big difference.
Ask them why they retain the services of a company found to have conducted unlawful electronic searches of an individuals computer, to provide their evidence of infringement.
You point is taken, and I agree is usually the case. However you are overlooking the stunning arrogance and self deluded incompetence of the Bush administration. These are people who believe the world is the way they say it is and not the way reality dictates. When they said Iraq had WMD that was enough for it to be true and explains why no supporting evidence was needed or produced and in all likelyhood does not currrently exist in reality of forgery.
Firstly there wont be a lot of documentation, why would you document crap you just make up about WMD and Al Quaida links although perhaps the source of the hilarious and utterly incompetent Nigerian yellow cake forgeries might emerge.
Secondly, and most importantly, no one will care. In 2002 the documents which showed the US had basically been knowingly supplying Sadam with materials to develop chemical weapons (yes Mr Rumsfeld you) emerged and no one batted an eyelid.
Vapour? Have you seen the size of the fucking thing? Anyway its been built, tested and approved for flight. Yes there are difficulties but they will possibly make it a white elephant, but certainly not vapourware.
Fortunately, the house leadership sees private cameras as a loss of 'dignity and decorum' and will be denying C-SPANS request."
There is nothing fortunate about this at all. The house leadership merely want to retain contol over what is recorded so the voters dont get to see their representatives asleep/absent/making complete tits of themselves, and it makes it easier to hide any dissention.
KING ARNULF Now, I know what some of you must be thinking... the day has
come.... we're all going down, etc. etc. But let's get away
from the fantasy and look at the FACTS.
FACT ONE - The threat of total destruction has kept the peace
for one thousand years.
FACT TWO - The chances of it failing now are therefore one in
three hundred and sixty-five thousand.
FACT THREE...
By this time the water is up to people's knees, and several have
crowded onto the lower steps to avoid getting wet.
KING ARNULF FACT THREE - Our safety regulations are the most rigorous in
the world. We are all nice to each other, we never rub each
other up the wrong way or contradict each other, do we?
CROWD No.
Rumble. The buildings sink and masonry falls.
CITIZEN We... er... do seem to be going down quite fast, Your Majesty
- not trying to contradict you, course.
KING ARNULF No, of course you're not, citizen. But let's stick to the
facts. There has NEVER been a safer, more certain way of
keeping the peace. So whatever's happening, you can rest
assured, Hy-Brasil is NOT sinking. Repeat, NOT sinking.
We cut to an unfortunate Hy-Brasilian who looks out of a window to see
if it's raining, but is immersed before he can find out.
The citizens in the Forum, however, are reassured by the King's words
- even though they are now up to their waists in water. One of them
steps forward.
ANOTHER CITIZEN May I just make a point in support of what King Arnulf's just
said?
KING ARNULF We'd be delighted - wouldn't we?
CITIZENS Yes, we'd certainly like to hear what one of us has got to
say...
Erik, Sven, Sven's dad and Harald struggle out of the Great Hall,
carrying their belongings and the Horn Resounding, while the citizen is
still speaking most articulately in support of the King. They are
ALMOST in a panic.
ERIK What are you all doing?
CITIZEN AT THE BACK (cheerfully) It's all right. It's not happening.
ERIK (urgently) The place is sinking!
CITIZEN AT THE BACK Yes... I thought it was too, but the King's just pointed
out that it can't be.
CITIZEN (still speaking in support of the King)...and, of course, we mustn't
forget King Arnulf's EXCELLENT eye for flower-arranging.
There is a smattering of applause. A few people pull their robes up out
of the wet. Erik leaps onto a wall and shouts to the crowd.
ERIK Save yourselves! Hy-Brasil... is sinking.
There are a lot of knowing smiles amongst the citizens.
CITIZEN FROM MIDDLE Look, you don't know our safety regulations.
KING ARNULF It can't happen.
ERIK But it IS! Look!
KING ARNULF (ignoring Erik) The important thing is not to panic.
CITIZENS Quite... yes... we understand....
KING ARNULF I've already appointed the Chancellor as Chairman of a com-
mittee to find out exactly what IS going on, and meantime I
suggest we have a sing-song!
CITIZENS Good idea!
ANOTHER Can we do the one that goes "TUM-TI-TUM-TI-TUM-TI-TUM"?
Absolutely but they are not installing Firefox just so they can have Google as their home page. Google are paying Mozilla for this to be the case, which ironically was an MS monopoly abuse when they released IE7 with MSN as the default but configurable search around here (even more interestingly MS has since changed it to Google).
What took them so long? Well lets see. Until a few years ago Google search sucked from a great height, returning vast abouts of garbage mainly consisting of outdated and broken links. Then they appear to have copped on to the 'lets make our money off advertising' concept (borrowed, not innovated) and there was a notable upturn in quality to the point where there were head and shoulders above everyone else.
Then on to other services. Now for example I have had a gmail account for years, however many of my friends (non technical, and particularly the legally minded) rejected invites after reading the privacy conditions. I though that was fair enough but then the Google Web Accelerator came out with the 'we might stick stuff you did not request in your cache clause' so I can sympathise with a large amount of people now view Google as a marketing driven engine with some gray boundaries.
Now I wont claim to pay attention to everything Google does (I think some is good, some sucks) but apart from the Slashdot fawning I do know there are quite a few people who question Googles approach to delivering their requirements. Fortunate for us, Googles quality over recent times has forced MS and Yahoo to improve, particularly in the search arena so I guess the user wins.
Since last time I looked (a few weeks ago) Yahoo had a reasonable advantage. Then I thought Christmas shopping, I know how I start looking for gifts, ideas and the stores to purchase from. It will be interesting to see if Google maintain this after the holiday period. What I did find a tad curious with the numbers are the youtube figures, massive increase, but I will stick by my initial opinion that this is a Titanic for the moment.
Personally I want it legalised to find them and beat the fucking shit out of them just like I can if I catch them interfering with my property. Prolonged hospital treatment will discourage most of them from repeat offending.
So you are saying your inability to cite an instance of Microsoft suing, or even threatening to sue is clear evidence that this is exactly what Microsoft are actually doing. Thats just fucking brilliant. Rumsfeldian logic at its best.
Slashdot Mirror
But the formula was stored in a researchers gmail account.....
To the fact that most kids these days are clued up to the vastness/emptyness of space, the barreness of Mars and the Moon and the difficulties of actually getting anywhere, nevermind finding and colonizing other planets. A trip to Mars or the Moon then seems like an utterly insignificant step towards the space exploration and technology they see in the movies etc. They know it has to be done but the cool stuff comes much much later and most likely not in their lifetime.
To the first person who cracks this database and enters cases for Gates as a baby eating canibal and Ballmer as a serial chair chucker.
Because we all know that corporations love to throw out their existing infrastructure and redeploy with newly released software.
Well given that Microsoft clearly said they could be sent back or given away when they gave them out initally of course they can. Also Microsoft have not asked for the latops back. They asked that they be given away or returned to them when reviewed, very big difference.
Ask them why they retain the services of a company found to have conducted unlawful electronic searches of an individuals computer, to provide their evidence of infringement.
You point is taken, and I agree is usually the case. However you are overlooking the stunning arrogance and self deluded incompetence of the Bush administration. These are people who believe the world is the way they say it is and not the way reality dictates. When they said Iraq had WMD that was enough for it to be true and explains why no supporting evidence was needed or produced and in all likelyhood does not currrently exist in reality of forgery.
Firstly there wont be a lot of documentation, why would you document crap you just make up about WMD and Al Quaida links although perhaps the source of the hilarious and utterly incompetent Nigerian yellow cake forgeries might emerge.
Secondly, and most importantly, no one will care. In 2002 the documents which showed the US had basically been knowingly supplying Sadam with materials to develop chemical weapons (yes Mr Rumsfeld you) emerged and no one batted an eyelid.
Especially if it crashes into the Wired News offices. It could be a new type of vapour, ironic vapour.
Vapour? Have you seen the size of the fucking thing? Anyway its been built, tested and approved for flight. Yes there are difficulties but they will possibly make it a white elephant, but certainly not vapourware.
C-SPAN wanted more control over where the camera was pointing, not just where they are currently told to point it.
KING ARNULF Now, I know what some of you must be thinking... the day has come.... we're all going down, etc. etc. But let's get away from the fantasy and look at the FACTS.
...and, of course, we mustn't
forget King Arnulf's EXCELLENT eye for flower-arranging.
FACT ONE - The threat of total destruction has kept the peace for one thousand years.
FACT TWO - The chances of it failing now are therefore one in three hundred and sixty-five thousand.
FACT THREE...
By this time the water is up to people's knees, and several have crowded onto the lower steps to avoid getting wet.
KING ARNULF FACT THREE - Our safety regulations are the most rigorous in the world. We are all nice to each other, we never rub each other up the wrong way or contradict each other, do we?
CROWD No.
Rumble. The buildings sink and masonry falls.
CITIZEN We... er... do seem to be going down quite fast, Your Majesty - not trying to contradict you, course.
KING ARNULF No, of course you're not, citizen. But let's stick to the facts. There has NEVER been a safer, more certain way of keeping the peace. So whatever's happening, you can rest assured, Hy-Brasil is NOT sinking. Repeat, NOT sinking.
We cut to an unfortunate Hy-Brasilian who looks out of a window to see if it's raining, but is immersed before he can find out. The citizens in the Forum, however, are reassured by the King's words - even though they are now up to their waists in water. One of them steps forward.
ANOTHER CITIZEN May I just make a point in support of what King Arnulf's just said?
KING ARNULF We'd be delighted - wouldn't we?
CITIZENS Yes, we'd certainly like to hear what one of us has got to say...
Erik, Sven, Sven's dad and Harald struggle out of the Great Hall, carrying their belongings and the Horn Resounding, while the citizen is still speaking most articulately in support of the King. They are ALMOST in a panic.
ERIK What are you all doing?
CITIZEN AT THE BACK (cheerfully) It's all right. It's not happening.
ERIK (urgently) The place is sinking!
CITIZEN AT THE BACK Yes... I thought it was too, but the King's just pointed out that it can't be.
CITIZEN (still speaking in support of the King)
There is a smattering of applause. A few people pull their robes up out of the wet. Erik leaps onto a wall and shouts to the crowd.
ERIK Save yourselves! Hy-Brasil... is sinking.
There are a lot of knowing smiles amongst the citizens.
CITIZEN FROM MIDDLE Look, you don't know our safety regulations.
KING ARNULF It can't happen.
ERIK But it IS! Look!
KING ARNULF (ignoring Erik) The important thing is not to panic.
CITIZENS Quite... yes... we understand....
KING ARNULF I've already appointed the Chancellor as Chairman of a com- mittee to find out exactly what IS going on, and meantime I suggest we have a sing-song!
CITIZENS Good idea!
ANOTHER Can we do the one that goes "TUM-TI-TUM-TI-TUM-TI-TUM"?
Or Santa, I cant decide
Maybe they just are smarter and have better communication skills.
200+ million active accounts is a great big chunk of hits right there.
What took them so long? Well lets see. Until a few years ago Google search sucked from a great height, returning vast abouts of garbage mainly consisting of outdated and broken links. Then they appear to have copped on to the 'lets make our money off advertising' concept (borrowed, not innovated) and there was a notable upturn in quality to the point where there were head and shoulders above everyone else.
Then on to other services. Now for example I have had a gmail account for years, however many of my friends (non technical, and particularly the legally minded) rejected invites after reading the privacy conditions. I though that was fair enough but then the Google Web Accelerator came out with the 'we might stick stuff you did not request in your cache clause' so I can sympathise with a large amount of people now view Google as a marketing driven engine with some gray boundaries.
Now I wont claim to pay attention to everything Google does (I think some is good, some sucks) but apart from the Slashdot fawning I do know there are quite a few people who question Googles approach to delivering their requirements. Fortunate for us, Googles quality over recent times has forced MS and Yahoo to improve, particularly in the search arena so I guess the user wins.
And the Firefox default to Google is not a false hit?
Since last time I looked (a few weeks ago) Yahoo had a reasonable advantage. Then I thought Christmas shopping, I know how I start looking for gifts, ideas and the stores to purchase from. It will be interesting to see if Google maintain this after the holiday period. What I did find a tad curious with the numbers are the youtube figures, massive increase, but I will stick by my initial opinion that this is a Titanic for the moment.
They are probably saying nothing of the sort since they are the top ranked site and their hits are up by 3.3%.
Personally I want it legalised to find them and beat the fucking shit out of them just like I can if I catch them interfering with my property. Prolonged hospital treatment will discourage most of them from repeat offending.
LOL, funny and probably the most insightful response to my question. Nice one.
So you are saying your inability to cite an instance of Microsoft suing, or even threatening to sue is clear evidence that this is exactly what Microsoft are actually doing. Thats just fucking brilliant. Rumsfeldian logic at its best.
They didn't. They hired a couple of developers who have been working on building this system for several years now.