Yes well, if you play with the end of that line a bit more you will see it allows you to type in "anything" in that space, probably they look at the log files to see what partners are refering to them, and then compile some analysis.
Im sure theres some method to reliably getting into there articles without reg
Now, in theory I would find this to be correct, although I cant make myself believe that military uses for the software are not in fact semi rebuilt Microsoft products, from what I have seen of the military, there is no way they would use something like this without knowing what's underneath at different levels, and with a case as widely publicized as this one (china getting windows source code) mixed in with the militaries "we have to hold even the ones we love at arms length" mindset, id have to bet there are at least a few people with fine toothed combs right now.
Karl P
No offense to China (I have been, nice country, in the places I was anyways) But does this not seem kinda ironic, Windows, sharing source *whatever strings attached* with China? But on a serious note, whats the chance theyll ever do anything with it? is China gonna make a serious "Windows For China - Big Brother Returns part 4" or is this purely a PR?
Karl P
The first second I read this, I thought why? But about two seconds latter "damn smart that man" is what was running through my head. It has very little to do with sending someone to mars, it has everything to do with pride. Its something we have sadly ran short of in this country, Pride in being Americans, pride in living, pride in doing something, anything. We are Americans, we are by definition different from the rest of the world, and we must have pride in being that, its that pride that drives us to do sometimes stupid things, and its that same pride, which drives us to do things other men never imagined possible, look back in history, when did the world most want to be America? When we had the most pride in who we were. That drove us to be a world super power, that drove us to be, and stay, a free nation, we gave a damn about ourselves, and we were proud of it. I see allot of people Bit**#$ about the use of tax money, and allot of people ask me if I think taxes should be lowered, and all I can say, is depends, it depends on what its used for, if its going to be dumped into social security, or for people-without-jobs funds, then baaa, cut taxes, but if I were to see billions being dumped into NASA with a presidential mandate to do something, then by all means, bravo, you know why? Because we would be doing something that is either damn hard, or nearly impossible to do, at one point in time, people looked at NASA and they had pride, and respect for it, not only because of what it did - put people on the moon, ect - but also because of what it represented, the brightest people in the country that we had a pride in and for doing something the rest of the world thought impossible, or were trying to do before us, one. and again, what is the big deal about single human lives, your damn right if you say that there will people that *gasp* die, on the road to getting to mars, look at every major war in history, why did hundreds of thousands of men line up to die? Why did there wife's let them go, why did there mothers shed tears, and yet at the same time, hang stars in there windows in pride... after all they were effectively wishing there son/husband/friend away to a early grave, its because they had faith in what they were doing, and they had pride in why they were doing it, to the point they realized there life would be spent for a greater good BOTH for US and THEM. For this reason, I would understand if America was bombed, or if we *let* Iraq, or some other country launch a nuke attack on another country, and then us go and get in one heck of a bloody battle, and assuming that my place was best served there, id be on the front lines. I am not a person who has this morbid desire to go and whack off a guy with an m16, but I do have a belief in our country, and it pisses me off to no end, to see people in our country let it go down the drains, to consider themselves all important, What this country needs is _pride_ and _purpose_ when people have pride and a purpose, they are the two most powerful combinations under faith in God. (If you don't believe in God, then it's still true) The desire to be the best, the desire to be the fastest, the desire to have the most freedom, coupled with a pride in our country, and a care in what happens *to the world* is what this is about, sure there are political reasons, but either way its a damn smart thing, if they take this seriously, and do it, the public *WILL* watch, and they *WILL* care, they will slowly start to look at NASA, and as a whole our entire country with a respect, and then a pride, and if we loose lives getting there, if we spend a ton of money getting there, so what, its life, live on. Sure there are a thousand private reasons why this is good for one individual person, there always will be, and you can choose to think I'm some ranting lunatic (yes, I do take a shower every morning and have a regular job:-p ) but I think there is more to this, and far greater good, than simply putting a man on mars.
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Yes well, if you play with the end of that line a bit more you will see it allows you to type in "anything" in that space, probably they look at the log files to see what partners are refering to them, and then compile some analysis.
Im sure theres some method to reliably getting into there articles without reg
Karl P
Now, in theory I would find this to be correct, although I cant make myself believe that military uses for the software are not in fact semi rebuilt Microsoft products, from what I have seen of the military, there is no way they would use something like this without knowing what's underneath at different levels, and with a case as widely publicized as this one (china getting windows source code) mixed in with the militaries "we have to hold even the ones we love at arms length" mindset, id have to bet there are at least a few people with fine toothed combs right now. Karl P
No offense to China (I have been, nice country, in the places I was anyways) But does this not seem kinda ironic, Windows, sharing source *whatever strings attached* with China? But on a serious note, whats the chance theyll ever do anything with it? is China gonna make a serious "Windows For China - Big Brother Returns part 4" or is this purely a PR? Karl P
This is like... Disturbingly Evil.... Karl P
The first second I read this, I thought why? But about two seconds latter "damn smart that man" is what was running through my head. It has very little to do with sending someone to mars, it has everything to do with pride. Its something we have sadly ran short of in this country, Pride in being Americans, pride in living, pride in doing something, anything. We are Americans, we are by definition different from the rest of the world, and we must have pride in being that, its that pride that drives us to do sometimes stupid things, and its that same pride, which drives us to do things other men never imagined possible, look back in history, when did the world most want to be America? When we had the most pride in who we were. That drove us to be a world super power, that drove us to be, and stay, a free nation, we gave a damn about ourselves, and we were proud of it. I see allot of people Bit**#$ about the use of tax money, and allot of people ask me if I think taxes should be lowered, and all I can say, is depends, it depends on what its used for, if its going to be dumped into social security, or for people-without-jobs funds, then baaa, cut taxes, but if I were to see billions being dumped into NASA with a presidential mandate to do something, then by all means, bravo, you know why? Because we would be doing something that is either damn hard, or nearly impossible to do, at one point in time, people looked at NASA and they had pride, and respect for it, not only because of what it did - put people on the moon, ect - but also because of what it represented, the brightest people in the country that we had a pride in and for doing something the rest of the world thought impossible, or were trying to do before us, one. and again, what is the big deal about single human lives, your damn right if you say that there will people that *gasp* die, on the road to getting to mars, look at every major war in history, why did hundreds of thousands of men line up to die? Why did there wife's let them go, why did there mothers shed tears, and yet at the same time, hang stars in there windows in pride... after all they were effectively wishing there son/husband/friend away to a early grave, its because they had faith in what they were doing, and they had pride in why they were doing it, to the point they realized there life would be spent for a greater good BOTH for US and THEM. For this reason, I would understand if America was bombed, or if we *let* Iraq, or some other country launch a nuke attack on another country, and then us go and get in one heck of a bloody battle, and assuming that my place was best served there, id be on the front lines. I am not a person who has this morbid desire to go and whack off a guy with an m16, but I do have a belief in our country, and it pisses me off to no end, to see people in our country let it go down the drains, to consider themselves all important, What this country needs is _pride_ and _purpose_ when people have pride and a purpose, they are the two most powerful combinations under faith in God. (If you don't believe in God, then it's still true) The desire to be the best, the desire to be the fastest, the desire to have the most freedom, coupled with a pride in our country, and a care in what happens *to the world* is what this is about, sure there are political reasons, but either way its a damn smart thing, if they take this seriously, and do it, the public *WILL* watch, and they *WILL* care, they will slowly start to look at NASA, and as a whole our entire country with a respect, and then a pride, and if we loose lives getting there, if we spend a ton of money getting there, so what, its life, live on. Sure there are a thousand private reasons why this is good for one individual person, there always will be, and you can choose to think I'm some ranting lunatic (yes, I do take a shower every morning and have a regular job :-p ) but I think there is more to this, and far greater good, than simply putting a man on mars.