Political TV ads always have to say who paid for them. I don't see how a video posted to youtube would be any different. If phone-callers and door-knockers don't already have the same requirements, they should.
Selling stock when it is sudden worth ten times as much (who wouldn't?) isn't evidence of pump and dump.
Granted, sudden selling is only dumping if the reason the stock went up was because of "pumping" - personal actions by the seller to deceive buyers, hence raising the price without fundamentally increasing the value of the company. Which is exactly what happened here, don't you agree? Are you saying the burden is on us to prove SCO doesn't have a rock-solid legal case against IBM hidden away somewhere, after years of baseless legal maneuvering? That's bizarre.
Of course it is reasonable. Of course it is cause and effect. The question is whether we want to keep causing these effects. I for one would rather not leave the world to mold and cockroaches, even if they are superior in the darwinist sense of adapting to environmental devastation. Let's think deeply about this for a moment... 1) pollution is bad for complex, "highly-evolved" organisms; 2) people are such organisms; 3) you and I are people; 4) do you get it yet?
That's pretty cool. Here's their demo. After clicking through this, I have to say: for all the mockery of "Web 2.0" around here, there is a HUGE change from 10 years ago (writing static pages in html) to this demo (writing what appear to be fairly normal applications in Java, where supposedly the developer avoids the grab-bag of "web technologies" altogether). I realize the exact choice of when to use a new major version number is somewhat arbitrary, but things really have changed. Too bad it's almost impossible to write a fully functional web browser from scratch anymore, but could it be that real, general-purpose hosted office apps are finally becoming a reality?
You act like Circuit City is just stupid to get sued. But if they see it as a business opportunity and think they have a case, the cost of settling the issue in court could be well justified. If Diamond Multimedia hadn't successfully defended a similar lawsuit from the musuic industry, we wouldn't have anything like the iPod today.
The idea of planets orbiting each other doesn't seem so surprising. Even to say that the earth orbits the sun, and not vice-versa, is slightly ill-defined. The earth and sun exert equal but opposite forces on each other, so they both accelerate, but the sun is much heavier so it accelerates the earth much more. The sun's orbit of the earth is so small, it's just a wobble. But what is the precise ratio of mass where we say one body "orbits" the other?
The difficulty with Windows is NOT in anything that BSD could provide... a scheduler, a network stack, a filesystem. In fact there's nothing really wrong with Micrsoft's NT kernel anyways. Microsoft's value (and at the same time, their bane) is in supporting all the PC hardware and software from thousands of companies over the last 15 years, and in providing a reasonable GUI to manage it all. What Microsoft calls an "OS" is not analogous to an entire Linux distro (with 1000s of user apps), but neither is it analogous to the classical definition of an OS as "whatever runs in priveliged mode, plus a little more." The real issues, I think, are in providing an integrated user experience between all the little apps and administration utilities that are part of Windows - from firewalling, to remote administration, to a flashy GUI, Internet Explorer, and on and on...
I have spent a few hours tinkering with SpamAssassin and did not get good results. Of course it's so configuration-dependent, that might not mean much. Can you point to some specific, step-by-step instructions for making SpamAssasin actually work well? (One that does not involve hand-classifying hundreds of emails or special hooks into the mail client?)
But "single CPU" doesn't quite mean the same thing anymore when talking about dual core chips. All those systems that were dualies would now be singles. And of course it doesn't matter for clusters, nor for blades (which have their own memory on each blade). So are we just talking about quad-core servers here? Or future 4 and more core x86 chips that don't exist yet?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
what part of "Congress shall make no law...." did YOU miss?
That is interesting. By your interpretation, it is perfectly legal for (say) a southern state in the bible belt to adopt (say) Southern Baptist as the official state religion, or abolish freedom of the press.
Would you really want to take design suggestions from MS?
For that matter, why does Microsoft think it has any standing in this issue? It's the OEM's (Dell) that sell things to consumers, THEY are the ones that should be placing requirements (or making susggestions) to Microsoft, not the other way around. The fact is, Microsoft has almost 0 contact with end users - people buy MS products because they more or less have to, then they turn to the OEM's (not Microsoft) for support of MS products. So where in this process does Microsoft think they're gaining customer insight the OEMs don't have?
The last thing I would ever want is a "standardized" PC case. I happen to prefer unobtrosive appearance from my PC, not swoopy curves or transluscense.
I don't know what scares me more, the fact that you're actually worried about jet pack riders raining from the sky onto your head, or the fact that you were modded to +5.
I used to have a co-worker who had served in Gulf War I a few years earlier. One day for no apparent reason he pulled out snapshots of charred bodies and body parts, which he had taken on the "highway of death", some days after the end of the conflict. I wonder if some soldiers feel a need to help the rest of us understand what it's really like out there, or if it's cathartic for them.
I don't choose to look at the photos, but in a way I think it's good to de-sanitize war, because it isn't.
As a baby boomer let me inform you that McDonald's started serving fried burgers because that's where the demand already was.
I doubt there was ever a golden age where everybody ate healthy food all the time. But I think it's cheaper and more convenient now, so we just eat more often. (I can't believe Wendy's can sell a junior cheeseburger deluxe for $1, the industry is a marvel of efficiency). Perhaps the bigger factor is that people historically used their bodies a lot harder. That kept them thin, but they also wore out and had crippling injuries by the onset of middle age.
There is such a push for "Made in America" and supporting American made stuff
There is? I didn't get the memo. As far as I can tell, everybody's comfortable with the fact that we don't make anything anymore. We make plenty of money buying and selling our homes back and forth to each other at ever-increasing prices, who needs assembly lines?
I agree, I don't see how this counts as an "object." I'll go with your definition in terms of other forces, though as with any definition (outside mathematics), there are sure to be corner cases and exceptions.
It's the "just" I disagree with. "Just" supporting every piece of PC hardware made in the last 10 years is not something any Windows competitor will easily replicate! In fact, if you strip off all the phony layers Microsoft rolls into their "operating system" (like a web browser), controlling and sharing access to hardware is really what "Operating Systems" are all about.
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Political TV ads always have to say who paid for them. I don't see how a video posted to youtube would be any different. If phone-callers and door-knockers don't already have the same requirements, they should.
I have a friend who downloads a lot and therefore subscribes to a usenet service. It costs him more than a netflix account! Something to think about.
Of course it is reasonable. Of course it is cause and effect. The question is whether we want to keep causing these effects. I for one would rather not leave the world to mold and cockroaches, even if they are superior in the darwinist sense of adapting to environmental devastation. Let's think deeply about this for a moment... 1) pollution is bad for complex, "highly-evolved" organisms; 2) people are such organisms; 3) you and I are people; 4) do you get it yet?
That's pretty cool. Here's their demo. After clicking through this, I have to say: for all the mockery of "Web 2.0" around here, there is a HUGE change from 10 years ago (writing static pages in html) to this demo (writing what appear to be fairly normal applications in Java, where supposedly the developer avoids the grab-bag of "web technologies" altogether). I realize the exact choice of when to use a new major version number is somewhat arbitrary, but things really have changed. Too bad it's almost impossible to write a fully functional web browser from scratch anymore, but could it be that real, general-purpose hosted office apps are finally becoming a reality?
You act like Circuit City is just stupid to get sued. But if they see it as a business opportunity and think they have a case, the cost of settling the issue in court could be well justified. If Diamond Multimedia hadn't successfully defended a similar lawsuit from the musuic industry, we wouldn't have anything like the iPod today.
The idea of planets orbiting each other doesn't seem so surprising. Even to say that the earth orbits the sun, and not vice-versa, is slightly ill-defined. The earth and sun exert equal but opposite forces on each other, so they both accelerate, but the sun is much heavier so it accelerates the earth much more. The sun's orbit of the earth is so small, it's just a wobble. But what is the precise ratio of mass where we say one body "orbits" the other?
The difficulty with Windows is NOT in anything that BSD could provide... a scheduler, a network stack, a filesystem. In fact there's nothing really wrong with Micrsoft's NT kernel anyways. Microsoft's value (and at the same time, their bane) is in supporting all the PC hardware and software from thousands of companies over the last 15 years, and in providing a reasonable GUI to manage it all. What Microsoft calls an "OS" is not analogous to an entire Linux distro (with 1000s of user apps), but neither is it analogous to the classical definition of an OS as "whatever runs in priveliged mode, plus a little more." The real issues, I think, are in providing an integrated user experience between all the little apps and administration utilities that are part of Windows - from firewalling, to remote administration, to a flashy GUI, Internet Explorer, and on and on...
I have spent a few hours tinkering with SpamAssassin and did not get good results. Of course it's so configuration-dependent, that might not mean much. Can you point to some specific, step-by-step instructions for making SpamAssasin actually work well? (One that does not involve hand-classifying hundreds of emails or special hooks into the mail client?)
But "single CPU" doesn't quite mean the same thing anymore when talking about dual core chips. All those systems that were dualies would now be singles. And of course it doesn't matter for clusters, nor for blades (which have their own memory on each blade). So are we just talking about quad-core servers here? Or future 4 and more core x86 chips that don't exist yet?
No, they're better. Being able to count is a good thing.
Is that really what you believe?
The last thing I would ever want is a "standardized" PC case. I happen to prefer unobtrosive appearance from my PC, not swoopy curves or transluscense.
I don't know what scares me more, the fact that you're actually worried about jet pack riders raining from the sky onto your head, or the fact that you were modded to +5.
I don't choose to look at the photos, but in a way I think it's good to de-sanitize war, because it isn't.
I agree, I don't see how this counts as an "object." I'll go with your definition in terms of other forces, though as with any definition (outside mathematics), there are sure to be corner cases and exceptions.
I don't find this far-fetched in the slightest.
It's the "just" I disagree with. "Just" supporting every piece of PC hardware made in the last 10 years is not something any Windows competitor will easily replicate! In fact, if you strip off all the phony layers Microsoft rolls into their "operating system" (like a web browser), controlling and sharing access to hardware is really what "Operating Systems" are all about.