Microsoft is far from a monopoly in the console business.
They don't make money from the console business either. They make money from their monopoly businesses and leverage that cash in the console market. It's classic robber-baron tactics.
Did you know that BNC conntector on the back of your monitor is a Bayonet Naval Connector?
No, and I suspect Amphenol would be very surprised to hear it as well;
Developed in the late 1940's as a miniature version of the Type C connector, BNC stands for Bayonet Neill Concelman and is named after Amphenol engineer Carl Concelman.
Give people a real simple user directory structure so they don't accidentally go overwriting system folders and a simple upgrade mechanism.
I think the point of Google playing to its strengths is that most people won't even see a filesystem. Their files will be indexed like GMail messages and if they want more, they can search. They'll see the same links as they do in the Google search engine, except the links will be to their own documents, images etc. Clicking the link will open the file in the correct application.
Upgrades and adding software are already handled transparently by most major OSs - apt-get, Windows Update etc.
physics don't need aggregate data from other disciplines. There is very little data in humanities and business science that would help explain fundamental aspects of the universe.
Right. And information from history, cosmology, astronomy, chemistry and medicine are useless as well. Sure.
Since google already use linux for their operations, and presumably tweak to their purposes, my bet is that they would do the same on their hypothetical OS.
If they do, it won't be visible on the surface. They're unlikely to take Microsoft head-on in the general purpose computing market.
Instead, I'd expect an appliance-like computer that does the basics (office stuff, music, videos etc) so simply and well it'll seem groundbreaking - like the first Palm Pilots - with the Google search heavily featured as the shell. Internet applications will be seamless with google's portal presence.
It would be nice if Linux was there at the core, and us geeks still had access to it, but it's not likely to be a priority.
At the start of the 20th century there was an explosion of new observations about things large and small.
And now with databases and networking we can aggregate data across disciplines like never before. Fertile ground for a new Einstein, I would have thought.
But perhaps the most interesting part about Mr. Einstein is that he was heavily anti-institutional.
Lemme see, he was an anti-institutional rogue when he was a young student, and became a thoughtful, humble man when he matured. Whoever heard of that happening before?
Rotary motion, almost entirely missing from biology
Tumbleweeds roll their seeds many kilometres to new locations, speargrass seeds have a spiral tail that reacts to moisture to screw the seed head into into the ground, the spherical shape of many seeds is designed to roll them away from the parent plant.
There are plenty of rotary motions if you look for them. Problem is, it's not efficient in most circumstances.
I could fuck up things as often as Micro$oft and still pull in metric tons of money.
That's the problem with them, and why so many of us are critical of them. They fuck things up, and we have to keep paying for it with our time, expertise and cash. It's called an abuse of monopoly power.
It also amazes me how so many self-important bloggers can talk about "replacing the MSM" with a straight face.
Google says 192 talk about it.
Results 1 - 10 of about 192 for "replacing the MSM". (0.52 seconds)
It's difficult to estimate how many of those were self-important, or what proportion had a straight face, but with only 192 in your sample group, it wouldn't take you too long to ask them.
And in yet more news, Sony has also built a House of the Future to showcase their products. It promises to be an exciting glimpse into their new developments, but sadly no-one can see what's in it, because we can't find the $sys$door.
I suspect they'd prefer to achieve something more than the other Great Leap Forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward. I don't think it'll be all that impervious to Slashdot jokes either.
Intel's not having a good time right now, and sloganeering instead of engineering won't fix that.
Check it out, there's some unintentionally amusing stuff in there.
It's a fascinating era, wildly optomistic in some ways (paint your home with reflective white paint to ward off radiation...) and terrifying in others (stay in your city after the atomic explosion and fight the invaders). There's a great collection of public interest films here;
From TFA: Consumers don't want multiple standards. DVD was successful because there was only one standard.
One standard? What about +R, -R, DVDRAM etc? Manufacturers love competing standards. They get to sell to early adopters, then sell another unit with identical functions to the poor sods who jumped on to the wrong standard.
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Apparently the joke is somehow flamebait.
Probably just a demon moderator.
3. Sapository?
Is that like a rootkit for GM trees?
Microsoft is far from a monopoly in the console business.
They don't make money from the console business either. They make money from their monopoly businesses and leverage that cash in the console market. It's classic robber-baron tactics.
Word is currently the most powerfull word processor of it's kind
If Word is so good, why won't Microsoft compete on features instead of formats?
No, and I suspect Amphenol would be very surprised to hear it as well; You can read the rest here: http://www.amphenolrf.com/products/bnc.asp
it might do all sorts of other strange things.
I do all sorts of strange things, and nobody calls me dangerous. Oh, wait...
The Pilbara region of WA has an annual FeNaCling Festival festival to celebrate the main products or the area. Not a bad bash.
Give people a real simple user directory structure so they don't accidentally go overwriting system folders and a simple upgrade mechanism.
I think the point of Google playing to its strengths is that most people won't even see a filesystem. Their files will be indexed like GMail messages and if they want more, they can search. They'll see the same links as they do in the Google search engine, except the links will be to their own documents, images etc. Clicking the link will open the file in the correct application.
Upgrades and adding software are already handled transparently by most major OSs - apt-get, Windows Update etc.
physics don't need aggregate data from other disciplines. There is very little data in humanities and business science that would help explain fundamental aspects of the universe.
Right. And information from history, cosmology, astronomy, chemistry and medicine are useless as well. Sure.
Since google already use linux for their operations, and presumably tweak to their purposes, my bet is that they would do the same on their hypothetical OS.
If they do, it won't be visible on the surface. They're unlikely to take Microsoft head-on in the general purpose computing market.
Instead, I'd expect an appliance-like computer that does the basics (office stuff, music, videos etc) so simply and well it'll seem groundbreaking - like the first Palm Pilots - with the Google search heavily featured as the shell. Internet applications will be seamless with google's portal presence.
It would be nice if Linux was there at the core, and us geeks still had access to it, but it's not likely to be a priority.
At the start of the 20th century there was an explosion of new observations about things large and small.
And now with databases and networking we can aggregate data across disciplines like never before. Fertile ground for a new Einstein, I would have thought.
But perhaps the most interesting part about Mr. Einstein is that he was heavily anti-institutional.
Lemme see, he was an anti-institutional rogue when he was a young student, and became a thoughtful, humble man when he matured. Whoever heard of that happening before?
Rotary motion, almost entirely missing from biology
Tumbleweeds roll their seeds many kilometres to new locations, speargrass seeds have a spiral tail that reacts to moisture to screw the seed head into into the ground, the spherical shape of many seeds is designed to roll them away from the parent plant.
There are plenty of rotary motions if you look for them. Problem is, it's not efficient in most circumstances.
So my two ton exoskeleton will let me fly?
Mine does. http://stationair.cessna.com/spec_gen.chtml
I could fuck up things as often as Micro$oft and still pull in metric tons of money.
That's the problem with them, and why so many of us are critical of them. They fuck things up, and we have to keep paying for it with our time, expertise and cash. It's called an abuse of monopoly power.
"King Kong," which is reigning at the North American box office this holiday season...
CNN should label these articles as advertisements. There's little science in the story, and certainly nothing new.
you could/should fill in the whole head with a bright yellow smiley face
My whole head is a bright yellow smiley face, you insensitive clod!
Giving away content went out in 99 I think.
So how much were you expecting to be paid for this insightful snippet?
Google says 192 talk about it. It's difficult to estimate how many of those were self-important, or what proportion had a straight face, but with only 192 in your sample group, it wouldn't take you too long to ask them.
And in yet more news, Sony has also built a House of the Future to showcase their products. It promises to be an exciting glimpse into their new developments, but sadly no-one can see what's in it, because we can't find the $sys$door.
Sounds like some Chinese government plan.
I suspect they'd prefer to achieve something more than the other Great Leap Forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward. I don't think it'll be all that impervious to Slashdot jokes either.
Intel's not having a good time right now, and sloganeering instead of engineering won't fix that.
It's a fascinating era, wildly optomistic in some ways (paint your home with reflective white paint to ward off radiation...) and terrifying in others (stay in your city after the atomic explosion and fight the invaders). There's a great collection of public interest films here; It includes the original "Duck and Cover" movie, as well as the "Operation Cue" experiment. A fantastic resource.
From TFA: Consumers don't want multiple standards. DVD was successful because there was only one standard.
One standard? What about +R, -R, DVDRAM etc? Manufacturers love competing standards. They get to sell to early adopters, then sell another unit with identical functions to the poor sods who jumped on to the wrong standard.
You can easily analyse statistics for significance with chi square or any other tabular analysis. Significance is not always obvious.