by trying things other than ridiculous expensive space experiments. Now I hope they just please recruit some of the scientists away from super-collider projects. So I can sleep at night without dreams of black holes forming up through my garbage disposal.
they did have their own site for a couple years... went under just like handfuls of other startup sites. I am still having a hard time understanding why someone like them can be considered a "Troll" when they had their own company, based on their own patents, which then got steamrolled by a larger, proven infringing company, incurred millions in legal fees fighting this since the beginning of time. Yet they are considered a profiteering troll. Wait until you're the little guy getting stomped on by the high paid lawyers and lobbyists and see who cries foul then...
As soon as friends and family think I know about 'puters I've been fighting them off and burning bridges with them since.
Been downhill since 1985 for me since....
???!!! Microsoft's monopoly status wasn't over "Windows".. It was over "Operating Systems".... A very big difference. Apple could only be considered a monopoly if the MacOS became a natural monopoly over "operating systems" not Apple computers....
You missed my point. In "dollar" costs the cell does recover it's financial costs to purchase (and it's more than 2 years). I was referring to the actual energy expended in the manufacturing. It doesn't EVER produce the energy per cell that took to make it (with current technology). That's why the Dept. of Energy has a number of research initiatives into solar cell technology. Plus most all solar cells are manufactured with a highly pollutant silver paste...
A lot of these same folks preach solar power use. But it not only takes more energy to produce a cell than it will ever return, but the chemicals in the manufacuring are extremely hazardous....
You people still don't believe they successfully sent 1000's of tons of toggle switches to the moon do you?? I worked in an DoD research agency for 6 years and saw first hand how bumbling inefficient and error prone govt. technology projects are.. I don't believe for a second they made it there...
Dude is probably going to spend more time in jail than most rapists. That doesn't seem right. He should be fired but I seriously doubt the 'value' of the lost items to LucasFilms....
From what I understand from reading a lot on the subject of the Wright brothers they were very patent/business savvy like our buddy Bill Gates (and Edison) As opposed to simple visionary engineering types who made a giant discovery.
Their wing design breakthrough was actually attributed to a Frenchman (even though they were the first to fly it successfully), and much of their design elements were taken (some suspiciously) from the myriad of other air flight pioneers who were all rushing for the same goal.
There was a law suit and big story a long time ago about a North Carolinian who claimed the Wright's were working with him but secretly stole his ideas and rushed to Kitty Hawk to make the historic test flight and were savvy enough with Patent office issues to get the first claim. If presented today, it probably wouldn't have held up based on these intellectual property theft issues.
So, the moral? Just like the other big successful "inventors" and entrepeneurs, most were just better and the legal issues, not invention.
You obviously never had the blood sucked out of you by a lawyer. Software company lawyers, much less Microsoft, don't care if you're Mother Theresa. They'll stick it to you just to smile and watch you squirm in agony.
You do have a valid point to an extent. What forced me to write my initial post was after reading most of the thread and seeing 40-50% of the articles with the same old anti-Mac childish rhetoric (e.g. "Macs are only for interior decorators", etc) What kind of b.s. comments or those? I've been a Win person as long as anybody, and after a couple years of frustration with enterprise desktop issues in Linux, I've been quite pleased at the direction Apple has moved. I would have assumed that a large contingency of this site would have agreed that a major vendor has moved to *nix. But I guess I'm wrong. I think the fact that Apple has agressively promoted interface style guides has been a plus for the platform and also highlights a long-term issue with Windows programs. (And yes I do realize that Apple doesn't always practice what they preach (iApps), but they are MUCH better about interface consistancy policing with developers than Microsoft is...
A simple reference to an Apple developer interface guideline article and it brings out such immature condescension from people who aren't interested in the article to begin with!!! Sure you can find some nit-picking in the article but the venomous anti-Mac rants are completely unwarranted for the actual topic at hand. Some of us are platform agnostic and try to learn best practices wherever we can. Are you Windows-only developers really so childish and spitefully smug as to waste your own time trolling uneccessarily? Slashdot is getting very old.... Time to find a site with grown-ups.
You mean like a bookie letting a gambler slide for a while and then breaking his knees?... or a dealer giving away free coke to build up demand? The same old business story is as old as time.
You may think folks will overlook a name for technology reasons but go out and read a good contemporary marketing paper.. Most people are lethargic, lemmings who don't waste any more synaptic connections in their brains if they don't have to. There have been countless studies of soft drinks (for example) where without the label they couldn't pick out there own supposed 'favorite' drink.... Basic marketing is the root of all subconscious. If your average user thinks Ogg is some IT-goober's format, it will never take off.
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by trying things other than ridiculous expensive space experiments. Now I hope they just please recruit some of the scientists away from super-collider projects. So I can sleep at night without dreams of black holes forming up through my garbage disposal.
they did have their own site for a couple years... went under just like handfuls of other startup sites. I am still having a hard time understanding why someone like them can be considered a "Troll" when they had their own company, based on their own patents, which then got steamrolled by a larger, proven infringing company, incurred millions in legal fees fighting this since the beginning of time. Yet they are considered a profiteering troll. Wait until you're the little guy getting stomped on by the high paid lawyers and lobbyists and see who cries foul then...
Fantasyland.
As soon as friends and family think I know about 'puters I've been fighting them off and burning bridges with them since. Been downhill since 1985 for me since....
???!!! Microsoft's monopoly status wasn't over "Windows".. It was over "Operating Systems".... A very big difference. Apple could only be considered a monopoly if the MacOS became a natural monopoly over "operating systems" not Apple computers....
Republican??!! Most Republican's I know are avowed Federalists promoting limited Federal government.
We (old NeXT users) didn't really have a choice. Omniweb was pretty much it. And Mosaic under X11 on NeXTStep (not pretty)....
You missed my point. In "dollar" costs the cell does recover it's financial costs to purchase (and it's more than 2 years). I was referring to the actual energy expended in the manufacturing. It doesn't EVER produce the energy per cell that took to make it (with current technology). That's why the Dept. of Energy has a number of research initiatives into solar cell technology. Plus most all solar cells are manufactured with a highly pollutant silver paste...
A lot of these same folks preach solar power use. But it not only takes more energy to produce a cell than it will ever return, but the chemicals in the manufacuring are extremely hazardous....
You people still don't believe they successfully sent 1000's of tons of toggle switches to the moon do you?? I worked in an DoD research agency for 6 years and saw first hand how bumbling inefficient and error prone govt. technology projects are.. I don't believe for a second they made it there...
Dude is probably going to spend more time in jail than most rapists. That doesn't seem right. He should be fired but I seriously doubt the 'value' of the lost items to LucasFilms....
From what I understand from reading a lot on the subject of the Wright brothers they were very patent/business savvy like our buddy Bill Gates (and Edison) As opposed to simple visionary engineering types who made a giant discovery. Their wing design breakthrough was actually attributed to a Frenchman (even though they were the first to fly it successfully), and much of their design elements were taken (some suspiciously) from the myriad of other air flight pioneers who were all rushing for the same goal. There was a law suit and big story a long time ago about a North Carolinian who claimed the Wright's were working with him but secretly stole his ideas and rushed to Kitty Hawk to make the historic test flight and were savvy enough with Patent office issues to get the first claim. If presented today, it probably wouldn't have held up based on these intellectual property theft issues. So, the moral? Just like the other big successful "inventors" and entrepeneurs, most were just better and the legal issues, not invention.
Almost all companies use contracted manufacturing since the mid 90's you idiot. Wired did an article on this a while back.
You obviously never had the blood sucked out of you by a lawyer. Software company lawyers, much less Microsoft, don't care if you're Mother Theresa. They'll stick it to you just to smile and watch you squirm in agony.
You do have a valid point to an extent. What forced me to write my initial post was after reading most of the thread and seeing 40-50% of the articles with the same old anti-Mac childish rhetoric (e.g. "Macs are only for interior decorators", etc) What kind of b.s. comments or those? I've been a Win person as long as anybody, and after a couple years of frustration with enterprise desktop issues in Linux, I've been quite pleased at the direction Apple has moved. I would have assumed that a large contingency of this site would have agreed that a major vendor has moved to *nix. But I guess I'm wrong. I think the fact that Apple has agressively promoted interface style guides has been a plus for the platform and also highlights a long-term issue with Windows programs. (And yes I do realize that Apple doesn't always practice what they preach (iApps), but they are MUCH better about interface consistancy policing with developers than Microsoft is...
It looks fine to me on 4 different browsers and Win, Mac, Linux machines I just tested it on...
A simple reference to an Apple developer interface guideline article and it brings out such immature condescension from people who aren't interested in the article to begin with!!! Sure you can find some nit-picking in the article but the venomous anti-Mac rants are completely unwarranted for the actual topic at hand. Some of us are platform agnostic and try to learn best practices wherever we can.
Are you Windows-only developers really so childish and spitefully smug as to waste your own time trolling uneccessarily? Slashdot is getting very old.... Time to find a site with grown-ups.
You mean like a bookie letting a gambler slide for a while and then breaking his knees? ... or a dealer giving away free coke to build up demand? The same old business story is as old as time.
You may think folks will overlook a name for technology reasons but go out and read a good contemporary marketing paper.. Most people are lethargic, lemmings who don't waste any more synaptic connections in their brains if they don't have to. There have been countless studies of soft drinks (for example) where without the label they couldn't pick out there own supposed 'favorite' drink.... Basic marketing is the root of all subconscious. If your average user thinks Ogg is some IT-goober's format, it will never take off.
Betamax is NOT used in the broadcast industry. Betacam is.