The military in Iraq did just go in full bore and finish up quickly, the problem in Iraq is what do you do then and were you to somehow conquer China you'd have the exact same problem.
You could execute anyone who spoke out against you, kill off a certain percentage of any village who you suspected of harbouring terrorists as punishment and lock up anyone with links to terrorists in large camps and finish the end game much more quickly but I don't think that kind of behaviour would go down well with most Americans or any international observers.
I worked somewhere once which had one main comms link and then a backup comms link if the first one went down. They had bought each one from a different carrier to be on the safe side only they hadn't realised one carrier was simlpy leasing space on the other carriers link, the exact same link their main one ran over.
Why is any company expected to kill its most profitable product, so some other less profitable product can realize "its full potential"
and so far as Microsoft are concerned they'd be stupid to do so.
The thing is what do I care about the internal pressures on a company which cause it to handicap it's products, all I see is that it's producing products which do not live up to their promises or their potential and this is annoying for me as a customer who relies on those products and has to use them in my day to day work.
No one is asking Microsoft to give.net away, we're just wondering why a supposedly platform independant, er, platform isn't available for much in the way of non Microsoft platforms.
The reason you can't use.net on Linux has got nothing to do with.net. If the only consideration was.net then Microsoft would make more money by making it available for as many platforms as they could rather than restricting it to Windows.
The problem with doing that, for Microsoft, is that if people can run their.net applications on other platforms then they have no reason to by Windows operating systems anymore and Windows lose money and this is the problem with Microsoft, all their products are forced to bow down before the overwhelming goal of maintaining a Windows monopoly rather than being allowed to fulfil their true potential.
Why yes, of course because we all know that Microsofts strategy today was largely determined yesterday afternoon. A large multinational company like Microsoft with product lead times measured in years would never have discussed the actions they're taking today 5 or 6 years ago would they. You muppet.
Companies which pay Google to place advertisements are Googles customers.
Companies which do not pay Google for advertisements are not Googles customers.
Random people looking for websites are not Googles customers either.
In order for googles adverts to be productive people have to visit websites, if they visit a website which actually matches with the sort of website they were looking for then googles adverts are more powerful.
Anyone gaming googles system to drive people to their websites without taking account of whether this is the best website matching the surfers requirements is hurting googles customers by not maximising the effectiveness of the audience for their adverts.
after the site owner paid a marketing consultant to improve the sites
Sounds to me like they should have hired a more professional consultant, it seems to me thats who the company should immediately be blaming rather than Google.
I entirely agree, it's like the whole ID card affair. A lot of people seem to quite like the idea until they learn about how it will exactly ( not ) work.
Also I wonder how the survey was phrased
Would you
A) Like to get off your couch in the middle of Jeremy Kyle and spend 40minutes trudging to the polling station to cast your vote even though you have no idea who any of the candidates are or what they stand for.
B) Vote on the Internet using fun and easy to use interactive software which you will be given to you for free. Vote during Jeremey Kyle and without leaving your sofa !
Like many people I'm sure a lot of the people who choose A don't vote anyway at the moment and I for one would like to keep it that way, unless they are all die hard tories and can help get rid of the awful, hypocritical holier than everyone Labour morons.
I have voted in every election in the last 15 years in the UK and have never had to queue for more than 30 seconds at the polling booth. This is not an issue in the UK.
Well maybe, but I expect these people occasionally leave their farms, perhaps to take the kids to school, do some shopping, sell some sheep or whatever and it's really not so hard to organise yourself so you do those jobs on polling day and vote at the same time.
Another point is how many of those remote farms have access to the internet, maybe they have dial up but I bet a fair proportion of them don't have broadband yet.
You actually have healthcare in the US ? I didn't realise that, the impression I got is that when you get ill in the States you have to go off to the market rather than a clinic or hospital like you do elsewhere. I guess once you get to market you can swap your cow or goat, or whatever, for advice from the wise women who live there ?
That's the reason I stopped buying music several years ago- everything that has come out since 1990 has been pure crap, marketed heavily.
No it hasn't, there has been some very good music released in the last 17 years which has not been heavily marketed crap.
Of course since you don't buy any music all you will have heard is what you may have heard on the radio which obviously is for the most part heavily marketed crap.
Idiots often laugh at wisdom because they don't understand it.
Sometimes that may be the case but in the vast majority of cases people, idiots included, laugh at things because they're funny, or ridiculous which is what statements like your sweeping generalisation about music is.
The most marketing you should EVER have to do is give me a spec sheet
I don't imagine you would be very happy if every company in the world sent you a spec sheet for every product which they sell. I expect you'd moan about that quite a lot.
Instead companies often put shortened versions of their spec sheets in highly visible locations, these are called advertisements, and if you see something which you think may be useful then you can request the spec sheet directly from the company. This whole process is called marketing and is how you find about new products which you may find useful.
He was a man and now he's dead, so what ? Everyones going to die, hundreds of thousands of other people also died today - it's something which happens quite a lot.
Personally I couldn't have cared less about Mr Valenti when he was alive and I certainly don't care for him now he's not. If other people didn't like what he did or what he stood for when he was alive the fact he's now dead probably isn't going to do anything to change what he's already done and what peoples opinions of him are based on.
The worship of people who happen to have been famous and then die is quite annoying, for instance Princess Diana was an annoying, snivelling non entity when she was alive but you would probably have stood a good chance of getting a beating off some star struck nutcase if you had pointed that out on the day she died even though the only difference then was that she was a dead, annoying, snivelling, non entity.
The fact that humans have a pretty significant negative impact on nature is a fact. What's wrong with being reminded of that FACT once in awhile?
Humans have a significant impact on their environment but who's to say its a negative imapact. If we want to play the part of nature for a moment and begin to think in timescales of billions of years then human activity so far is utterly insignificant and since nature has no point of view it's impossible to say whether that insignificant activity was either a positive or a negative one.
The one key FACT about the nature of the Earth so far is that whole species are killed off in their thousands every few hundred million years or so, thousands of square miles of forest are submerged under the ocean and millions of hectares of grazing land is turned into inhospitable desert every couple of millenia.
We may well not be doing ourselves any favours by some of our activity around the world at the moment but simply moaning about evil man apes raping the Earth is helping no one ( and simply not true ) and simply diverts attention from the real actions we could be taking to improve our quality of life.
I agree, people are a resource we have an awful lot of here on Earth and I am sure that there would be no shortage of volunteers if someone were to actually build a vehicle capable of travelling to this planet I am sure that people would volunteer to crew it even with a high chance of their dying during the journey or whenever.
The trick would be finding suitably qualified and mentally capable candiates from amongst the volunteers.
Passenger trains certainly can, building a new track now you should be looking for at least 200Mph + but I'm not sure how fast the sort of massive goods trains you'd want on this sort of route could go.
I too have used Mandrake from around 1999 - 2000 because at the time it was the only distribution I could find which would recognise my graphics card and I could get a graphical desktop to work on.
In those past 7 years I've been really pleased with Mandrake/Mandriva because the config tools are generally fairly comprehensive so you can mess about altering things manually to learn how they work and then once you've really screwed everything up let drakconf fix it for you. It's certainly good for learners but also is powerful enough for anyone I think.
Some of their releases work much better than other ones, the last one 2007.0 Free is, in my opinion, one of the worst ones I've seen with a lot of annoyances where things just don't quite work. This has been the case with a number of their releases and it's really frustrating that they don't take the time to really get everything working solidly like it should. That being said some of their other releases have worked like that.
I recently bought a new PC and tried to install Mandriva on it but it basically just wouldn't have it so I installed Fedora 6 on it instead which feels a lot more solid than Mandriva 2007 did. I'm toying with the idea of installing that on my old PC too but maybe I'll wait and try the new Mandriva release first.
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The military in Iraq did just go in full bore and finish up quickly, the problem in Iraq is what do you do then and were you to somehow conquer China you'd have the exact same problem.
You could execute anyone who spoke out against you, kill off a certain percentage of any village who you suspected of harbouring terrorists as punishment and lock up anyone with links to terrorists in large camps and finish the end game much more quickly but I don't think that kind of behaviour would go down well with most Americans or any international observers.
I worked somewhere once which had one main comms link and then a backup comms link if the first one went down. They had bought each one from a different carrier to be on the safe side only they hadn't realised one carrier was simlpy leasing space on the other carriers link, the exact same link their main one ran over.
The thing is what do I care about the internal pressures on a company which cause it to handicap it's products, all I see is that it's producing products which do not live up to their promises or their potential and this is annoying for me as a customer who relies on those products and has to use them in my day to day work.
No one is asking Microsoft to give .net away, we're just wondering why a supposedly platform independant, er, platform isn't available for much in the way of non Microsoft platforms.
.net on Linux has got nothing to do with .net. If the only consideration was .net then Microsoft would make more money by making it available for as many platforms as they could rather than restricting it to Windows.
.net applications on other platforms then they have no reason to by Windows operating systems anymore and Windows lose money and this is the problem with Microsoft, all their products are forced to bow down before the overwhelming goal of maintaining a Windows monopoly rather than being allowed to fulfil their true potential.
The reason you can't use
The problem with doing that, for Microsoft, is that if people can run their
Why yes, of course because we all know that Microsofts strategy today was largely determined yesterday afternoon. A large multinational company like Microsoft with product lead times measured in years would never have discussed the actions they're taking today 5 or 6 years ago would they. You muppet.
I would imagine either bridges or tunnels could be employed for that purpose.
You misunderstand slightly.
Companies which pay Google to place advertisements are Googles customers.
Companies which do not pay Google for advertisements are not Googles customers.
Random people looking for websites are not Googles customers either.
In order for googles adverts to be productive people have to visit websites, if they visit a website which actually matches with the sort of website they were looking for then googles adverts are more powerful.
Anyone gaming googles system to drive people to their websites without taking account of whether this is the best website matching the surfers requirements is hurting googles customers by not maximising the effectiveness of the audience for their adverts.
Sounds to me like they should have hired a more professional consultant, it seems to me thats who the company should immediately be blaming rather than Google.
I entirely agree, it's like the whole ID card affair. A lot of people seem to quite like the idea until they learn about how it will exactly ( not ) work.
Also I wonder how the survey was phrased
Would you
A) Like to get off your couch in the middle of Jeremy Kyle and spend 40minutes trudging to the polling station to cast your vote even though you have no idea who any of the candidates are or what they stand for.
B) Vote on the Internet using fun and easy to use interactive software which you will be given to you for free. Vote during Jeremey Kyle and without leaving your sofa !
Like many people I'm sure a lot of the people who choose A don't vote anyway at the moment and I for one would like to keep it that way, unless they are all die hard tories and can help get rid of the awful, hypocritical holier than everyone Labour morons.
I have voted in every election in the last 15 years in the UK and have never had to queue for more than 30 seconds at the polling booth. This is not an issue in the UK.
Well maybe, but I expect these people occasionally leave their farms, perhaps to take the kids to school, do some shopping, sell some sheep or whatever and it's really not so hard to organise yourself so you do those jobs on polling day and vote at the same time.
Another point is how many of those remote farms have access to the internet, maybe they have dial up but I bet a fair proportion of them don't have broadband yet.
I think there's a whole load of incredibly expensive and functionally useless computer systems in the NHS, this latest one is in good company.
You actually have healthcare in the US ? I didn't realise that, the impression I got is that when you get ill in the States you have to go off to the market rather than a clinic or hospital like you do elsewhere. I guess once you get to market you can swap your cow or goat, or whatever, for advice from the wise women who live there ?
No it hasn't, there has been some very good music released in the last 17 years which has not been heavily marketed crap.
Of course since you don't buy any music all you will have heard is what you may have heard on the radio which obviously is for the most part heavily marketed crap.
Sometimes that may be the case but in the vast majority of cases people, idiots included, laugh at things because they're funny, or ridiculous which is what statements like your sweeping generalisation about music is.
I don't imagine you would be very happy if every company in the world sent you a spec sheet for every product which they sell. I expect you'd moan about that quite a lot.
Instead companies often put shortened versions of their spec sheets in highly visible locations, these are called advertisements, and if you see something which you think may be useful then you can request the spec sheet directly from the company. This whole process is called marketing and is how you find about new products which you may find useful.
He was a man and now he's dead, so what ? Everyones going to die, hundreds of thousands of other people also died today - it's something which happens quite a lot.
Personally I couldn't have cared less about Mr Valenti when he was alive and I certainly don't care for him now he's not. If other people didn't like what he did or what he stood for when he was alive the fact he's now dead probably isn't going to do anything to change what he's already done and what peoples opinions of him are based on.
The worship of people who happen to have been famous and then die is quite annoying, for instance Princess Diana was an annoying, snivelling non entity when she was alive but you would probably have stood a good chance of getting a beating off some star struck nutcase if you had pointed that out on the day she died even though the only difference then was that she was a dead, annoying, snivelling, non entity.
Humans have a significant impact on their environment but who's to say its a negative imapact. If we want to play the part of nature for a moment and begin to think in timescales of billions of years then human activity so far is utterly insignificant and since nature has no point of view it's impossible to say whether that insignificant activity was either a positive or a negative one.
The one key FACT about the nature of the Earth so far is that whole species are killed off in their thousands every few hundred million years or so, thousands of square miles of forest are submerged under the ocean and millions of hectares of grazing land is turned into inhospitable desert every couple of millenia.
We may well not be doing ourselves any favours by some of our activity around the world at the moment but simply moaning about evil man apes raping the Earth is helping no one ( and simply not true ) and simply diverts attention from the real actions we could be taking to improve our quality of life.
I agree, people are a resource we have an awful lot of here on Earth and I am sure that there would be no shortage of volunteers if someone were to actually build a vehicle capable of travelling to this planet I am sure that people would volunteer to crew it even with a high chance of their dying during the journey or whenever.
The trick would be finding suitably qualified and mentally capable candiates from amongst the volunteers.
In my youth I liked a band called Snuff ( and indeed still do ). Tracking them down on the web was proving tricky for a while.
The Gotthard Base Tunnel 57KM through the Alps is quite impressive as well and only a little shorter than this proposed Siberian one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
Passenger trains certainly can, building a new track now you should be looking for at least 200Mph + but I'm not sure how fast the sort of massive goods trains you'd want on this sort of route could go.
I too have used Mandrake from around 1999 - 2000 because at the time it was the only distribution I could find which would recognise my graphics card and I could get a graphical desktop to work on.
In those past 7 years I've been really pleased with Mandrake/Mandriva because the config tools are generally fairly comprehensive so you can mess about altering things manually to learn how they work and then once you've really screwed everything up let drakconf fix it for you. It's certainly good for learners but also is powerful enough for anyone I think.
Some of their releases work much better than other ones, the last one 2007.0 Free is, in my opinion, one of the worst ones I've seen with a lot of annoyances where things just don't quite work. This has been the case with a number of their releases and it's really frustrating that they don't take the time to really get everything working solidly like it should. That being said some of their other releases have worked like that.
I recently bought a new PC and tried to install Mandriva on it but it basically just wouldn't have it so I installed Fedora 6 on it instead which feels a lot more solid than Mandriva 2007 did. I'm toying with the idea of installing that on my old PC too but maybe I'll wait and try the new Mandriva release first.
Are you familiar with much British TV ?
I'm not sure how far you can get using Harry "loadsamoney" Enfield as an indicator of the understanding the entire British media have of Apple !
Maybe the same distance you'd get using Kevin & Perry Go Large ! as the definitive guide to the Ibiza club scene except that's probably more accurate.