Now Microsoft is on its EEE strategy. Embrace the Web, Extend it with its own custom html commands and http protocol changes, then being able to kill it, because what everyone is using is so far from the normal web, there isn't any point to it anymore.
Note this is what Google is doing now, too. While they don't seem to be actively malicious about it, it would be nice to have some browser diversity to prevent them from making poor design decisions.
They shouldn't have been surprised, that's what Microsoft does, betray you. Corporations don't deserve loyalty or trust: sometimes they do the right thing, but often they don't.
Crossover is cool and I highly recommend it but it's missing a lot of functionality. It's not that a compatibility layer is impossible, just that maintaining a kernel isn't that hard in comparison to maintaining the stuff on top of it.
So.....I sit here and think of all the Microsoft APIs, and all the drivers and all the kernel elements in Windows, and I think of how much effort it would take. Then I think of the effort it would take to get rid of the kernel underneath, and create a compatibility on top of the Linux kernel. And comparing the effort required, to me (as a professional developer who knows about kernels), it seems like the effort required to port everything to Linux would be bigger.
Maintaining the Windows kernel is not a very big task compared to all the other things built on top of it.
No one was claiming that at the time of XP: they were saying Linux would replace Windows, that is, users would switch. This would be Microsoft abandoning their kernel.
A compatibility layer on top of a Linux kernel? The only reason I have trouble seeing it happening is because the compatibility layer would take more effort than just keeping the Windows kernel around.
This time I will directly address the idea in your post: you don't understand logical fallacies. It wasn't ad hominem, it was abuse. Learn the difference.
A scientist would say, "OK, what are the variables? Let's quantify them."
I started getting curious actually, and found this study. It looks like the primary factors are the loss of forest in the winter habitat areas (Mexico, although the butterflies spend the winter in other places, too) and loss of milkweed in the northern areas (as farmers have used more effective herbicides).
Both of those can in isolation, yes, but not if the 1.5 degrees causes more wind, less rain, more rain, earlier summers, or any of a thousand other variables to change. Things are interlinked, and that's the real point.
In other words, there is no evidence AGW is affected monarch butterflies, but you wish it would affect them, so you say "a thousand variables."
A scientist would say, "OK, what are the variables? Let's quantify them."
If you plant things too close to buildings (or in certain places that sometimes only the fire department can explain), the fire department can tell order to cut it out to prevent the spread of fire.
Going into space would be extremely cool, but I have to say if you don't get the experience of floating around in weightlessness, it will be somewhat disappointing.
I don't think this is exactly right, because there are other ways to "increase the cost of doing the double spend." If you are exchanging $1million worth of bitcoin for a valuable painting, for example, you can do the bitcoin transaction, then wait for the transaction to be added to the block-chain, then wait longer so it is several levels deep in the block-chain. As the transaction gets deeper and deeper into the chain, it becomes harder and harder to forge.
In practice, for a high-value transaction, 6 levels is deep enough to be sure (and that takes an hour on average).
Slashdot Mirror
Or alternately, they might figure out a way to do it that takes less effort than I expect. You never know, it could happen.
Now Microsoft is on its EEE strategy. Embrace the Web, Extend it with its own custom html commands and http protocol changes, then being able to kill it, because what everyone is using is so far from the normal web, there isn't any point to it anymore.
Note this is what Google is doing now, too. While they don't seem to be actively malicious about it, it would be nice to have some browser diversity to prevent them from making poor design decisions.
Indeed, it is possible that Microsoft will make a choice that results in more work for them. That seems to be their habit.
They shouldn't have been surprised, that's what Microsoft does, betray you. Corporations don't deserve loyalty or trust: sometimes they do the right thing, but often they don't.
Crossover is cool and I highly recommend it but it's missing a lot of functionality. It's not that a compatibility layer is impossible, just that maintaining a kernel isn't that hard in comparison to maintaining the stuff on top of it.
So.....I sit here and think of all the Microsoft APIs, and all the drivers and all the kernel elements in Windows, and I think of how much effort it would take. Then I think of the effort it would take to get rid of the kernel underneath, and create a compatibility on top of the Linux kernel. And comparing the effort required, to me (as a professional developer who knows about kernels), it seems like the effort required to port everything to Linux would be bigger.
Maintaining the Windows kernel is not a very big task compared to all the other things built on top of it.
No one was claiming that at the time of XP: they were saying Linux would replace Windows, that is, users would switch. This would be Microsoft abandoning their kernel.
A compatibility layer on top of a Linux kernel? The only reason I have trouble seeing it happening is because the compatibility layer would take more effort than just keeping the Windows kernel around.
The Vodka Is Good But The Meat Is Rotten. Old translation error, not garbled.
FWIW Google translate still made that mistake well into the 2000s when they hard-coded the translation to be correct.
This time I will directly address the idea in your post: you don't understand logical fallacies. It wasn't ad hominem, it was abuse. Learn the difference.
Well you're not an adult.
Nice paper.
Can't "wait" for the inevitable day when Internet of Things devices get mass hacked.
That day is here. Mostly they are used in botnets, fwiw.
Polite society doesn't exclude people because they've made mistakes in the past. That is almost the definition of polite.
This is why bitcoin will always have a use.
A scientist would say, "OK, what are the variables? Let's quantify them."
I started getting curious actually, and found this study. It looks like the primary factors are the loss of forest in the winter habitat areas (Mexico, although the butterflies spend the winter in other places, too) and loss of milkweed in the northern areas (as farmers have used more effective herbicides).
Both of those can in isolation, yes, but not if the 1.5 degrees causes more wind, less rain, more rain, earlier summers, or any of a thousand other variables to change. Things are interlinked, and that's the real point.
In other words, there is no evidence AGW is affected monarch butterflies, but you wish it would affect them, so you say "a thousand variables."
A scientist would say, "OK, what are the variables? Let's quantify them."
If you plant things too close to buildings (or in certain places that sometimes only the fire department can explain), the fire department can tell order to cut it out to prevent the spread of fire.
The distinction is "going to space" vs. "going to orbit"
That's not the distinction. You don't need to go into orbit to experience weightlessness.
Going into space would be extremely cool, but I have to say if you don't get the experience of floating around in weightlessness, it will be somewhat disappointing.
How many jobs were lost already because of this bullshit tradewar. The damage is done, and it's going to take a long while for us to recover.
That's a good question, how many jobs were lost? I'd like to see an analysis of that.
I think that developers of nonfree software are doing QA on their code,
That's optimistic.
Some perspective is needed here. Bush, like all American presidents, was given detailed intelligence estimates by the CIA.
Bush wanted to invade Iraq before he became president. The people he hired tried to get Clinton to invade Iraq.
It wasn't about WMD until Bush tried to sell it to the United Nations.
Good thing they used a safe language like Javascript so exploits can't happen.
I don't think this is exactly right, because there are other ways to "increase the cost of doing the double spend." If you are exchanging $1million worth of bitcoin for a valuable painting, for example, you can do the bitcoin transaction, then wait for the transaction to be added to the block-chain, then wait longer so it is several levels deep in the block-chain. As the transaction gets deeper and deeper into the chain, it becomes harder and harder to forge.
In practice, for a high-value transaction, 6 levels is deep enough to be sure (and that takes an hour on average).
If Romney had run and won in 2008 it's not inconceivable that he'd push and implement something very similar to the ACA.
You might as well point out that McCain actually ran on a plan that was very similar to the one finally implemented.