Hitler made extraordinarily effective use of mass media - newspapers, radio, film, even television in its infancy. You can scarcely speak of an organized democratic opposition to the rise of Hitler anywhere in a Europe - while in the states the Lindberghs were looking to Germany as "The Wave of the Future."
The per capita consumption of alcohol before Prohibition was 2.6 gallons in 1910. A gallon of that would be whiskey and the rest beer - potent stuff, too. Those numbers were cut by half in 1934. Apparent per capita ethanol consumption for the United States, 1850 The change which came with Prohibition have endured. We have never returned to pre-WWI levels of consumption. We tend to favor lighter beers and wines over 200 proof Kentucky Bourbon.
The Sauros said they've lived in their home since Ciara's father moved out. They claim the Internet account in the lawsuit was opened by him at his new address.
A father walks out on his wife and critically ill daughter leaving both deeply in debt - and now his wife and daughter are claiming that the downloads were made to his account at his new address.
How could they possibly know that?
There are too many missing pieces to this puzzle, too many that don't quite fit.
It would be nice to believe that the sick and diabled are as innocent as new-born lambs. But it isn't always so.
There are a number of characteristics of good managers (risk taking, the ability to give negative feedback, and the drive to leverage other peoples work) that sociopaths are pretty good at.
The main characteristic of a sociopath is a disregard for the rights of others.
Visible symptoms include physical aggression and the inability to hold down a steady job. The sociopath also finds it hard to sustain relationships and shows a lack of regret in his or her actions.
AResearch has shown that the sociopath is usually a person with an abundance of charm and wit. He or she may appear friendly and considerate, but these attributes are usually superficial {and manipulative.]
The sociopath sometimes sees the world on his or her own terms, as a place of high drama and risky thrills. What is a sociopath/
I think you need to tread carefully here. The sociopath lives in a world of fits and starts. Relationships lead nowhere, Work leads nowhere. He hypes up the drama, he lives for thrill of the moment. The risks he takes have no purpose..
This isn't management - it's guy shoving his team off a cliff simply for the hell of it.
To make a living in pulp fiction you needed to be both versatile and productive. Think a penny a word.
A quarter cent a word for anything that might be difficult or impossible to sell over the counter. Payment on publication, at least in theory.*
Still, you had a realistic chance of placing your stories somewhere.
If you were sufficiently talented and adroit, you might chance submitting a story with strong sexual themes to a magazine like The New Yorker.
But not every writer is destined to reach such heights.
* - If you were being paid on acceptance, you were writing for the Saturday Evening Post, your stories were in production by MGM, and ground was being broken for your new house in Conneticut.
That being said, congratulations on sticking with Linux in a Windows world. Purely from a job perspective, there might be more jobs on the Windows platform, but they are also more boring
The new kid on the block might be offered a job at Pixar fresh out of school.
He might also win the Tri-State Lottery.
There is something to be said for pursuing the more modest rewards of a regular paycheck and the chance to gain some practical experience in your chosen profession.
Boredom is subjective.
Windows is a significant presence in almost every market segment. If you can find nothing of interest going on there, that says more about you than it does about the OS.
But let's be truthful about the origins of the Personal Computer. Apple and Microsoft were sideshows at the time.
Microsoft was never a side show.
The PC without high level programming languages is the side show.
Microsoft was selling BASIC to clients like GE and Citibank in 1976. Applesoft BASIC, and BASIC for the Commodore PET and TRS-80 ship in 1977. MBASIC defines the eight-bit micro.
April 4, 1979, Microsoft 8080 BASIC is the first microprocessor product to win the ICP Million Dollar Award. Traditionally dominated by software for mainframe computers, this recognition is indicative of the growth and acceptance of the PC industry.Microsoft Timeline From 1975-1990
He must be an American or live in America. I see he had to sell off his assets to pay for health care.
Forrest Ackerman needed 24-hour home care and as late as 2003 was still engaged in a long, debilitating, and expensive lawsuit against a former business partner. Welcome to his planet [Jan 06,2003]
I guess he and Gates are similar people. Actually, I don't think I've heard of Gates screwing employees out of stock.
From 1986 to 1996, Microsoft's stock soared more than a hundredfold as the company's Windows operating system and Office applications dominated the PC industry.
That explosive climb made millionaires of employees who had accepted options as a substantial part of their compensation for 60-hour workweeks fueled by a diet of Twinkies, Coca-Cola and marshmallow Peeps. The sudden riches led many to refer to themselves as "lottery winners.
"While the exact number is not known, it is reasonable to assume that there were approximately 10,000 Microsoft millionaires created by the year 2000," said Richard S. Conway Jr., a Seattle economist whom Microsoft hired to study its impact on Washington State. "The wealth that has come to this area is staggering."
My business rule of thumb is that application code bases generally have zero or negative cash value unless they come with the people who wrote them.
How many experienced programmers are out there if you want to develop a massively multiplayer online game? The odds can't be much worse than 1 in 4 that you will be looking at people from EA.
There are lots of PC companies that probably see Windows as a bit of a stumbling block to future sales.
Of the fifteen "5 Star" laptops you can walk in and buy at any WalMart store, all run XP or Vista. Customer Favorites Of the 86 laptops sold through Walmart.com, seven are netbooks running Linux, and "not available in stores."
The notion that Windows is a stumbling block to sales is lunatic.
Because IBM made the mistake of not getting an exclusive license to DOS.
There were strong sales of MS-DOS PCs before the IBM BIOS was cloned. Microsoft had been smart to retain its independence from IBM and smarter still about setting the price for DOS.
Hmmm... I wonder who would have the most to gain by undermining Apple. Could it possibly be a major corporation with an infamous track record of attacking its competition by proxy?
The Mac is still perceived as the "high priced spread." The upmarket for the high tech gadget freak. Apple pays midtown Manhattan prices for placement in the Galleria mall. Microsoft gets 4,000 WalMart stores in the states for free - and WalMart is where you need to be right now.
This is the time to invest in and bring to market an encryption product to the masses in Australia.
But do the Aussies want encryption more than they want filtering? The upstream block against hard-core porn is an easy sell to most parents. That makes your cheap VPN tunnel a product for the geek and not a product for "the masses."
Given that the number of comets could be into the trillions, having found a handful does not constitute definitive evidence
If there are potentially "trillions" of comets out there, how much confidence can you have in a sampling of 150? perhaps this "alien" comet isn't so alien after all.
They could beg upstream to add the feature. Or they could hire developers to add the feature. Or they could outsource that to you. That's support.
This assumes that your customer can afford a custom-tailored solution and that you can deliver it before it appears in the next iteration of the program or in a much cheaper third-party plug-in, add-on, or whatever.
Meanwhile just release whatever you want to the public under whatever license you want. If they complain, do what everyone else does and sarcastically feign ignorance and say "well, we never agreed to that".
You are entry level in your chosen profession. You have your first big research grant. You have contacts in Big U. Don't blow it off! The real payoff comes down the road.
Let's take a closer look at the Net Applications stats:
The iPhone platform is less than one year old, and at 0.4% has a presence half the size of Linux. Operating System Market Share
MS Vista has 20% of the market, up 8% since January. Linux 0.8%, up 0.2%. Pathetic.
In rounded numbers, Windows - all versions - still has a 90% share.
It takes a Geek to read statistical significance in a 1% drop in a webstat.
The most useful way to read these numbers is simply as a reminder of the growing number of web-enabled mobile devices and home appliances -- a reminder as well that both Apple and Microsoft are both significant and successful players in these emerging markets.
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Hitler made extraordinarily effective use of mass media - newspapers, radio, film, even television in its infancy. You can scarcely speak of an organized democratic opposition to the rise of Hitler anywhere in a Europe - while in the states the Lindberghs were looking to Germany as "The Wave of the Future."
Ethanol consumption 1850-2005
The per capita consumption of alcohol before Prohibition was 2.6 gallons in 1910. A gallon of that would be whiskey and the rest beer - potent stuff, too. Those numbers were cut by half in 1934. Apparent per capita ethanol consumption for the United States, 1850 The change which came with Prohibition have endured. We have never returned to pre-WWI levels of consumption. We tend to favor lighter beers and wines over 200 proof Kentucky Bourbon.
A father walks out on his wife and critically ill daughter leaving both deeply in debt - and now his wife and daughter are claiming that the downloads were made to his account at his new address.
How could they possibly know that?
There are too many missing pieces to this puzzle, too many that don't quite fit.
It would be nice to believe that the sick and diabled are as innocent as new-born lambs. But it isn't always so.
The main characteristic of a sociopath is a disregard for the rights of others.
Visible symptoms include physical aggression and the inability to hold down a steady job. The sociopath also finds it hard to sustain relationships and shows a lack of regret in his or her actions.
AResearch has shown that the sociopath is usually a person with an abundance of charm and wit. He or she may appear friendly and considerate, but these attributes are usually superficial {and manipulative.]
The sociopath sometimes sees the world on his or her own terms, as a place of high drama and risky thrills. What is a sociopath/
I think you need to tread carefully here. The sociopath lives in a world of fits and starts. Relationships lead nowhere, Work leads nowhere. He hypes up the drama, he lives for thrill of the moment. The risks he takes have no purpose..
This isn't management - it's guy shoving his team off a cliff simply for the hell of it.
Think a penny a word.
A quarter cent a word for anything that might be difficult or impossible to sell over the counter.
Payment on publication, at least in theory.*
Still, you had a realistic chance of placing your stories somewhere.
If you were sufficiently talented and adroit, you might chance submitting a story with strong sexual themes to a magazine like The New Yorker.
But not every writer is destined to reach such heights.
* - If you were being paid on acceptance, you were writing for the Saturday Evening Post, your stories were in production by MGM, and ground was being broken for your new house in Conneticut.
The new kid on the block might be offered a job at Pixar fresh out of school.
He might also win the Tri-State Lottery.
There is something to be said for pursuing the more modest rewards of a regular paycheck and the chance to gain some practical experience in your chosen profession.
Boredom is subjective.
Windows is a significant presence in almost every market segment. If you can find nothing of interest going on there, that says more about you than it does about the OS.
Microsoft was never a side show.
The PC without high level programming languages is the side show.
Microsoft was selling BASIC to clients like GE and Citibank in 1976. Applesoft BASIC, and BASIC for the Commodore PET and TRS-80 ship in 1977. MBASIC defines the eight-bit micro.
April 4, 1979, Microsoft 8080 BASIC is the first microprocessor product to win the ICP Million Dollar Award. Traditionally dominated by software for mainframe computers, this recognition is indicative of the growth and acceptance of the PC industry. Microsoft Timeline From 1975-1990
Welcome to Slashdot. Faux Fox News For Nerds.
Framing an argument this way all but guarantees the desired - Pavlovian - response.
It's rather a pity, I suppose, that judges really don't like to see this sort of thing brought into a courtroom.
it would make your job so much easier.
Forrest Ackerman needed 24-hour home care and as late as 2003 was still engaged in a long, debilitating, and expensive lawsuit against a former business partner. Welcome to his planet [Jan 06,2003]
This is a conversation Allen should have started. It's a conversation that should begin the moment you start considering a partnership.
You could see the disappearance of the stand-alone PC game.
Meaning the DRM will be woven deep into the hardware of your video game console, your set-top box, your 150" HDTV -
[take a screwdriver to any one of them and your wife will thinking divorce]
- or the game will simply be unplayable without downloaded content or a live internet connection.
FIOS suggests a world in which even the most demanding game elements reside almost wholly on the server.
The only reward for nursing that BT download will be in burning a 5 1/4" plastic coaster for your next can of beer.
From 1986 to 1996, Microsoft's stock soared more than a hundredfold as the company's Windows operating system and Office applications dominated the PC industry.
That explosive climb made millionaires of employees who had accepted options as a substantial part of their compensation for 60-hour workweeks fueled by a diet of Twinkies, Coca-Cola and marshmallow Peeps. The sudden riches led many to refer to themselves as "lottery winners.
"While the exact number is not known, it is reasonable to assume that there were approximately 10,000 Microsoft millionaires created by the year 2000," said Richard S. Conway Jr., a Seattle economist whom Microsoft hired to study its impact on Washington State. "The wealth that has come to this area is staggering."
The Microsoft Millionaires Come Of Age [May 29, 2005]
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Not everyone draws the winning hand, of course - some simply come into the game too late.
The Few, the Tech-Savvy Few: Option Millionaires [Feb 11, 2007]
For comparison's sake, Microsoft currently employs about 90,000 world-wide.
In 1990, around 6,000.
How many experienced programmers are out there if you want to develop a massively multiplayer online game? The odds can't be much worse than 1 in 4 that you will be looking at people from EA.
The HDTV "set" just keeps getting bigger and better and cheaper. Maxing out at 480p isn't going to cut it the next time around.
There is also competition from the Blu-Ray BD player, the PS3 and the XBox 360 integrated with Netflix and other services.
The do-everything HD media box is edging very close to the price point of a next generation Nintendo.
Of the fifteen "5 Star" laptops you can walk in and buy at any WalMart store, all run XP or Vista. Customer Favorites
Of the 86 laptops sold through Walmart.com, seven are netbooks running Linux, and "not available in stores."
The notion that Windows is a stumbling block to sales is lunatic.
There were strong sales of MS-DOS PCs before the IBM BIOS was cloned. Microsoft had been smart to retain its independence from IBM and smarter still about setting the price for DOS.
The Mac is still perceived as the "high priced spread."
The upmarket for the high tech gadget freak. Apple pays midtown Manhattan prices for placement in the Galleria mall. Microsoft gets 4,000 WalMart stores in the states for free - and WalMart is where you need to be right now.
So use a laptop with an IM client. Magnify the text to make it more readable. Might even be useful to exchange photos or videos.
But do the Aussies want encryption more than they want filtering? The upstream block against hard-core porn is an easy sell to most parents. That makes your cheap VPN tunnel a product for the geek and not a product for "the masses."
If there are potentially "trillions" of comets out there, how much confidence can you have in a sampling of 150? perhaps this "alien" comet isn't so alien after all.
This assumes that your customer can afford a custom-tailored solution and that you can deliver it before it appears in the next iteration of the program or in a much cheaper third-party plug-in, add-on, or whatever.
You are entry level in your chosen profession. You have your first big research grant. You have contacts in Big U. Don't blow it off! The real payoff comes down the road.
The iPhone platform is less than one year old, and at 0.4% has a presence half the size of Linux. Operating System Market Share
MS Vista has 20% of the market, up 8% since January. Linux 0.8%, up 0.2%. Pathetic.
In rounded numbers, Windows - all versions - still has a 90% share.
It takes a Geek to read statistical significance in a 1% drop in a webstat.
The most useful way to read these numbers is simply as a reminder of the growing number of web-enabled mobile devices and home appliances -- a reminder as well that both Apple and Microsoft are both significant and successful players in these emerging markets.
Learn to live with it.
The iPhone as a platform has been around for less than a year and at a 0.4% market share has fully half the presence of Linux on the web.
Windows holds a 90% share, the Mac 9% and Linux 0.8%.Operating System Market Share
The numbers for Linux aren't likely to look significantly better any time soon. Top Operating Systems Version Trend [Dec 1, 2008]