Windows is on its way disappearing into the ether.
Now you might think this is true
And I might wish it were true
But it's just not true. Microsoft is the 900lb gorilla and unseating it isn't something we're likely to see in the next ten years. In the meantime we should all work to promote the virtues of linux but there's no point in pretending microsoft is on its death bed (i'm a happy shareholder by the way)
fuck it if IE breaks because they don't do things correctly
so you must live in the idealistic world where ignoring 92% of the market is acceptable. if i have to choose between putting food on the table and following standards i'll gladly cater to microsoft any day of the week.
The last thing on earth Microsoft wants to do is destroy Linux and Apple. When the government drags them into court for antitrust litigation they can smirk and pretend that the 5% market share of Apple and 1% desktop market share of Linux contitute true market diversity.
as much as we all malign microsoft i think we can mostly all conclude that bill gates is a pretty smart and negotiation savvy guy. also, he's got a much less demanding job...
so why not ask him to work in washington?
You joke about the cache of weapons, but honestly, it's not a bad idea in any city...
I live in downtown Atlanta (a pretty hairy place in terms of crime) and I have never felt a need to own a gun (much less a "cache of weapons")
I've never been robbed, never been mugged, never been threatened physical harm. Further, none of my friends have. Watching the local news would have you think every person down here has been shot three or four times. Fact is most cities are still really safe, most guns aren't.
PS. the best way to elevate a simple grab-n-go mugging to a murder is to carry a gun with you
When I started using Linux several years ago, it seemed that most users were running KDE, but lately with the huge success of Gnome and Gnome-origented distributions, I was expecting to see a higher adoption rate of Gnome (yes, even among Suse users).
I think I wanted to make the exact opposite of this post. For awhile Gnome was the face of linux because QT wasn't free (as in speech) and GTK was. Now that's changed and KDE (thankfully) is winning this battle.
the most fascinating thing to me about black holes is how they uniformly increase the order in a system. stephen hawking claims that the arrow of time is only directed by an increase in entropy. that is time goes in the direction of increasing disorder. however in a black hole entropy decreases (things become more ordered). does this mean that time within the event horizon of a black hole reverses? If so would a person falling in forever be a state of limbo, crossing the horizon back and forth?
3rd? Hah. 14th largest GDP. seventh by population and murder rate. 59th in terms of per capita income. They do, however, lead the world in one important place.
Microsoft is totally out of their element here. This is a situation where backwards compatibility and support for legacy software is worth a hill of beans (okay bad analogy - a hill of beans is worth a lot in some of these places). $3 a for a student, on the other hand, is worth about 206 Kenyan Shilling. How is Microsoft expecting to pull this off? These countries need an operating system that allows web browsing, text editing, and has some educational software. Linux and Windows both can do this. Linux also saves you $3 a head every time you'd have to upgrade Windows. Nevermind the fact that XP is a six year old operating system, prone to viruses, and frankly too complicated for people who have never touched a computer before.
One of the best things about web apps is also, in a way, their biggest failing. The ability to upgrade the application for everyone in one fell swoop is really advantageous from a deployment standpoint. On the other hand what if I like the old version better? I've yet to see a web app that lets me use older versions...
I don't know about the real world but my school has a similar practice. I study Electrical Engineering and our writing classes focus on saying what needs to be said with clarity and avoiding flowery language wherever possible. These assignments are not long (5 pages maybe). Using a phrase like "the electro-isolating coupler provides a very powerful and thoroughly useful method to break the electrical dependence between circuits." would not fly. While this probably makes true plagiarism impossible to spot (due to the fact that we're all instructed to write in a similar manner) it also reduces what plagiarism is to, in most cases, copying data results.
A bigger barrier to entry might be that this conducting plastic cannot function as a semiconductor. Lots of materials conduct electricity, lots insulate, few can do both.
Yes but Vista wasn't available under non-enterprise license until February or so. While the majority of future licenses will be from large businesses early adopters are going to be home users.
Citing irrelevant statistics isn't going to put Microsoft in the poor house or make them go away. Frankly I'm more worried with the direction mainstream linux is going in than what Microsoft is doing. I can hardly jump over all the useless clutter and pointless eye candy in a modern mainstream distribution (OpenSuse 10.2 has 2 different package managers). On the contrary I find Vista to be streamlined and speedy. Turn off Aero Glass if you don't like it, I prefer it to "wobbly windows" or whatever else beryl is offering these days (and don't get me started on the muck of making my laptop hibernate on linux).
I've never understood the logic behind this. It's like charging $500 for a coat hanger and giving the proceeds to Toyota. There are plenty of ways to use blank media (or a coat hanger) legitimately and those who wish to do so shouldn't be punished. Canadians think they're ahead of the game here but the fact is the RIAA would have a government enforced private tax. If I don't buy (or steal) their product they should not get my money, period.
I, for one, really hope quantum computing works out. If we can harness the powers of quantum physics into a microchip maybe someday I'll be able to run aero glass.
Another reasonable and well thought out claim from the RIAA. Someone inform Intel that a single transistor should still cost about a dollar, they're losing money by the fistful.
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Windows is on its way disappearing into the ether.
Now you might think this is true
And I might wish it were true
But it's just not true. Microsoft is the 900lb gorilla and unseating it isn't something we're likely to see in the next ten years. In the meantime we should all work to promote the virtues of linux but there's no point in pretending microsoft is on its death bed (i'm a happy shareholder by the way)
fuck it if IE breaks because they don't do things correctly
so you must live in the idealistic world where ignoring 92% of the market is acceptable. if i have to choose between putting food on the table and following standards i'll gladly cater to microsoft any day of the week.
Steve Jobs was even kind enough to include safa...er.....a development platform.
The last thing on earth Microsoft wants to do is destroy Linux and Apple. When the government drags them into court for antitrust litigation they can smirk and pretend that the 5% market share of Apple and 1% desktop market share of Linux contitute true market diversity.
as much as we all malign microsoft i think we can mostly all conclude that bill gates is a pretty smart and negotiation savvy guy. also, he's got a much less demanding job... so why not ask him to work in washington?
You joke about the cache of weapons, but honestly, it's not a bad idea in any city...
I live in downtown Atlanta (a pretty hairy place in terms of crime) and I have never felt a need to own a gun (much less a "cache of weapons")
I've never been robbed, never been mugged, never been threatened physical harm. Further, none of my friends have. Watching the local news would have you think every person down here has been shot three or four times. Fact is most cities are still really safe, most guns aren't.
PS. the best way to elevate a simple grab-n-go mugging to a murder is to carry a gun with you
When I started using Linux several years ago, it seemed that most users were running KDE, but lately with the huge success of Gnome and Gnome-origented distributions, I was expecting to see a higher adoption rate of Gnome (yes, even among Suse users).
I think I wanted to make the exact opposite of this post. For awhile Gnome was the face of linux because QT wasn't free (as in speech) and GTK was. Now that's changed and KDE (thankfully) is winning this battle.
you mean i can have all the functionality of office 2003 in office 2007? finally i can justify the upgrade.
the most fascinating thing to me about black holes is how they uniformly increase the order in a system. stephen hawking claims that the arrow of time is only directed by an increase in entropy. that is time goes in the direction of increasing disorder. however in a black hole entropy decreases (things become more ordered). does this mean that time within the event horizon of a black hole reverses? If so would a person falling in forever be a state of limbo, crossing the horizon back and forth?
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3rd? Hah. 14th largest GDP. seventh by population and murder rate. 59th in terms of per capita income. They do, however, lead the world in one important place.
Microsoft is totally out of their element here. This is a situation where backwards compatibility and support for legacy software is worth a hill of beans (okay bad analogy - a hill of beans is worth a lot in some of these places). $3 a for a student, on the other hand, is worth about 206 Kenyan Shilling. How is Microsoft expecting to pull this off? These countries need an operating system that allows web browsing, text editing, and has some educational software. Linux and Windows both can do this. Linux also saves you $3 a head every time you'd have to upgrade Windows. Nevermind the fact that XP is a six year old operating system, prone to viruses, and frankly too complicated for people who have never touched a computer before.
One of the best things about web apps is also, in a way, their biggest failing. The ability to upgrade the application for everyone in one fell swoop is really advantageous from a deployment standpoint. On the other hand what if I like the old version better? I've yet to see a web app that lets me use older versions...
if (link.from == V1@GR@UNL1M3T3D) { ie.open() = false; }
I don't know about the real world but my school has a similar practice. I study Electrical Engineering and our writing classes focus on saying what needs to be said with clarity and avoiding flowery language wherever possible. These assignments are not long (5 pages maybe). Using a phrase like "the electro-isolating coupler provides a very powerful and thoroughly useful method to break the electrical dependence between circuits." would not fly. While this probably makes true plagiarism impossible to spot (due to the fact that we're all instructed to write in a similar manner) it also reduces what plagiarism is to, in most cases, copying data results.
For 30c a song can I have the DRM stripped?
We know the age of the universe to two significant figures.
Eh, I know the number of animals on earth to about 1 significant figure. (~1 googol)
A bigger barrier to entry might be that this conducting plastic cannot function as a semiconductor. Lots of materials conduct electricity, lots insulate, few can do both.
Some people do need looking over though...
Yes but Vista wasn't available under non-enterprise license until February or so. While the majority of future licenses will be from large businesses early adopters are going to be home users.
Citing irrelevant statistics isn't going to put Microsoft in the poor house or make them go away. Frankly I'm more worried with the direction mainstream linux is going in than what Microsoft is doing. I can hardly jump over all the useless clutter and pointless eye candy in a modern mainstream distribution (OpenSuse 10.2 has 2 different package managers). On the contrary I find Vista to be streamlined and speedy. Turn off Aero Glass if you don't like it, I prefer it to "wobbly windows" or whatever else beryl is offering these days (and don't get me started on the muck of making my laptop hibernate on linux).
The fact that this was modded funny really frightens me...
I've never understood the logic behind this. It's like charging $500 for a coat hanger and giving the proceeds to Toyota. There are plenty of ways to use blank media (or a coat hanger) legitimately and those who wish to do so shouldn't be punished. Canadians think they're ahead of the game here but the fact is the RIAA would have a government enforced private tax. If I don't buy (or steal) their product they should not get my money, period.
my dog is the ultimate in power conservation. she gets energy from consuming her own heated waste.
I, for one, really hope quantum computing works out. If we can harness the powers of quantum physics into a microchip maybe someday I'll be able to run aero glass.
Another reasonable and well thought out claim from the RIAA. Someone inform Intel that a single transistor should still cost about a dollar, they're losing money by the fistful.
okay, i did it. now wh