If anything, history has shown that the marketing of technology to be at lease as important as innovation. There is at least one company I know that has been around for over 25 years that has consistantly riped off others innovations and focused on marketing, only to become a monopolistic power. At the same time, other compaines that focused soly on technology for technologies sake and not enough on buisness aspects have floundered despite their technical superiority.
I'm also not sure why you grouped open source with true innovation. Take a look at successful open source projects/ companies. How many of them are defining their market and how many are just trying to create open source versions of market leading closed source products?
The software systems that most of the large insurance companies use are crap. I won't mention the companies by name, so its possible that its not one that you worked for. But my friend had to navigate through five different programs to find the correct benifits for a customer and that ws the best place that he worked at. Its really shocking how some corperations will put up with truly crappy software. The productivity gains that could be made would far out way the cost.
Smoking Cannabis, like anything that is smoked, will leave ash in your lungs. That is not good for them. I am not a user of illegal drugs, but of all of them Cannabis is probley the least harmful.
As long as there is a heat diference in your favor it will work. Do not try it if the ambiant temperature is greater than your body temp. That would move the heat into you, instead of out. Per Newton's law of cooling, the effect is dependant upon the temperature difference between your skin and the air. The farther they are appart the faster you will cool off. As the outside temp approaches 96 degrees( roughly the external temp of the skin on your forehead) it will become less and less effecient.
Just pointing out the obvious. He hates posts modded as funny, writes a post stating the fact, gets post rated funny, wonders what why he can't see his own post. Now that Is funny.
If you have a patent on some feature, say browser plugins, that prevents a ip warehouse from patenting it slightly before you release it. That is the nature of Defensive patents. You are thinking of offensive patents.
Getting a letter from your isp telling you have no privacy, or being accused of downloading "Walking Tall"? Geesh, if you are going to pirate movies, choose good ones. No one, but a fool breaks into a jewlery store and steals the cubic zirconium.
Thats so messedup. Its like gates complaining that linux isn't secure. This reminds me of ye olde Word perfect users right around the time Word started to get popular. Yes, its not as good but for most people its good enough. So what if they have to use a goofy UI instead of another goofy UI. It has been gaining momentum, especially on platforms that aren't supported by Adobe.
There are some Active X web components that will run on the mac, but you have to use IE. Even on windows, that is the only way to run Acitve X web stuff. Mozilla is immune on all platforms.
And in the first place its obviously not active x! so it could work on safari and mozilla.
Its hard to hate a company named claria. Partially, because its so easy to mistake it for the name of a pharmecutical. If you didn't remind me that they were gator, I wouldn't have remebered. I guess I remebered gator so easily because I had to remove all their spyware every couple of weeks from my parents computer when I was living at home. I suppose that I would grow to hate Claria just as much If I still lived with them. Now I just reinstall windows every month or so. Hey, maybe Claria is why this guy is installing windows every month!
I'm just kidding, I never use default kernels for very long. So for all I know Fedora's is the karen Carpenter of kernels. Its just so much fun to customize.
Ye olde mp3.com was cluttered up with all of these stupid free songs from big commercial artists. While that was sort of good, it skewed all of the rankings and pushed all of the undiscovered talent down. Thats what used to be good about mp3.com back in the day. I think it would be a much better idea to seprerate the big well known groups from the indipendents. Hopefully, because MP3.com is nolonger owned by a record label it will just be a venue for discovering new independant artists. And that would make me happy.
Thats my memmpry as well. I used Turbo Pascal as late as 2000 to convert a program over. I think all of the dos based ide's were wordstar in their behavior. However, version 5.5 and below were really aweful. Version 7 was by far the best as it had windows and you could have more than one file open.
I wasn't aware that a free product was ever provided at an educational discount. That just seems wrong. However a day after netscape released netscape for free again, the campus bookstore was still selling it for an educational discount of $50. It was funny then, but it was even funnier 3 years later when it was still being offered at that price.
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If anything, history has shown that the marketing of technology to be at lease as important as innovation. There is at least one company I know that has been around for over 25 years that has consistantly riped off others innovations and focused on marketing, only to become a monopolistic power. At the same time, other compaines that focused soly on technology for technologies sake and not enough on buisness aspects have floundered despite their technical superiority.
I'm also not sure why you grouped open source with true innovation. Take a look at successful open source projects/ companies. How many of them are defining their market and how many are just trying to create open source versions of market leading closed source products?
The software systems that most of the large insurance companies use are crap. I won't mention the companies by name, so its possible that its not one that you worked for. But my friend had to navigate through five different programs to find the correct benifits for a customer and that ws the best place that he worked at. Its really shocking how some corperations will put up with truly crappy software. The productivity gains that could be made would far out way the cost.
Smoking Cannabis, like anything that is smoked, will leave ash in your lungs. That is not good for them. I am not a user of illegal drugs, but of all of them Cannabis is probley the least harmful.
As long as there is a heat diference in your favor it will work. Do not try it if the ambiant temperature is greater than your body temp. That would move the heat into you, instead of out. Per Newton's law of cooling, the effect is dependant upon the temperature difference between your skin and the air. The farther they are appart the faster you will cool off. As the outside temp approaches 96 degrees( roughly the external temp of the skin on your forehead) it will become less and less effecient.
Just pointing out the obvious. He hates posts modded as funny, writes a post stating the fact, gets post rated funny, wonders what why he can't see his own post. Now that Is funny.
Scientists confirmed today that water is indeed wet, Abraham Lincoin is dead, and the earth is round.
You see they are going to add Duke Nuken Forever to Emacs first. Then they are going to add Emacs to DOOM3.
If you have a patent on some feature, say browser plugins, that prevents a ip warehouse from patenting it slightly before you release it. That is the nature of Defensive patents. You are thinking of offensive patents.
Has it been hacked? has any version been hacked since wma 5? if so, let me know.
If you were a government that was supported entirely by taxes, wouldn't you want to audit the hell out of your richest citizen?
Getting a letter from your isp telling you have no privacy, or being accused of downloading "Walking Tall"? Geesh, if you are going to pirate movies, choose good ones. No one, but a fool breaks into a jewlery store and steals the cubic zirconium.
Thats so messedup. Its like gates complaining that linux isn't secure. This reminds me of ye olde Word perfect users right around the time Word started to get popular. Yes, its not as good but for most people its good enough. So what if they have to use a goofy UI instead of another goofy UI. It has been gaining momentum, especially on platforms that aren't supported by Adobe.
Okay, I want your job.
out of the following:
Cool running, Fast, Silent
A way to win friends and amuse the opposite sex during watercooler talks is to offer the following example:
I don't think any of the opposite sex will be amused. In fact, I seriously doubt it.
But, I would aquire APPLE. Its been dying since the 70's man.
There are some Active X web components that will run on the mac, but you have to use IE. Even on windows, that is the only way to run Acitve X web stuff. Mozilla is immune on all platforms.
And in the first place its obviously not active x! so it could work on safari and mozilla.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
According to the ipo offering lindows/linspire is running out of cash. Probley didn't have enough to pay anyone, so someone just lifted it.
Its hard to hate a company named claria. Partially, because its so easy to mistake it for the name of a pharmecutical. If you didn't remind me that they were gator, I wouldn't have remebered. I guess I remebered gator so easily because I had to remove all their spyware every couple of weeks from my parents computer when I was living at home. I suppose that I would grow to hate Claria just as much If I still lived with them. Now I just reinstall windows every month or so. Hey, maybe Claria is why this guy is installing windows every month!
No, Don't you see Cold Fusion IS Weapons of Mass Distruction!
Bah- dum dum
but the default Fedora kernel sure is bloated!
I'm just kidding, I never use default kernels for very long. So for all I know Fedora's is the karen Carpenter of kernels. Its just so much fun to customize.
It does. What browser didn't work with for you?
Ye olde mp3.com was cluttered up with all of these stupid free songs from big commercial artists. While that was sort of good, it skewed all of the rankings and pushed all of the undiscovered talent down. Thats what used to be good about mp3.com back in the day. I think it would be a much better idea to seprerate the big well known groups from the indipendents. Hopefully, because MP3.com is nolonger owned by a record label it will just be a venue for discovering new independant artists. And that would make me happy.
Thats my memmpry as well. I used Turbo Pascal as late as 2000 to convert a program over. I think all of the dos based ide's were wordstar in their behavior. However, version 5.5 and below were really aweful. Version 7 was by far the best as it had windows and you could have more than one file open.
I wasn't aware that a free product was ever provided at an educational discount. That just seems wrong. However a day after netscape released netscape for free again, the campus bookstore was still selling it for an educational discount of $50. It was funny then, but it was even funnier 3 years later when it was still being offered at that price.