IBM was the original maker of PCs - the DOS licensing was given to MS (Bill Gates' mother was a friend of John Akers, then-CEO of IBM). As primary maker of PCs, people bought what was on it - ease of use, etc. That's it.
I suspect they believe that when they are "raptured" back to wherever it is they are "raptured" to, the chip won't follow them - boy, are they ever going to be surpised to find themselves still 'chipped'....
By locking applications to their OS (first DOS - and they have settled out of court a number of times, so this is a moot point now - then to Windows), and keeping their source code hidden from other software application vendors until the newest version was on the market - they always had the jump on the competition. Plus, there have been insertions of code from time to time on the MS side which created difficulties expressly for competing applications.
Lastly, predatory marketing practises which paid distributors extra for distributing MS products, etc.
I'll repeat it again - what they did right was their lock on DOS licensing - what some have erroneously claimed they did not have, but which indeed they did have. Trust me, if you examined their revenue accounting records - DOS licensing is what made that company. There can simply be no debate on that matter as the financial records speak for themselves.
Thanks for stating what should be obvious to everybody by now. McSoftware has/had the largest cash cow in history with their DOS licensing (which allowed them to accumulate billions which they could then play with) - it would be akin to all the auto manufacturers using the exact same engine and paying that single engine-maker royalties for it. Quality has never been job one with those folks.
Yes - I am self-employed, but like many others I really don't have any choice in the matter - that's reality #1.
Reality #2 is that the hiring of recent grads being better than previously is not a tremendous jump as the last few years have been abysmal. Reality #3 is that unemployment is reported in a continually fictional manner. Unemployment is actually quite high - which correlates to the tremendous jump in the poverty rate. Also, it will only go higher given the "policies" among Corporate America and the politicians they own. American and global monetary policy is now decided in China because of such behavior on their part. As far as unions go - union membership is so low today that they are becoming quite neglible. Nothing you posted makes sense when the numbers are examined, i.e., the final, revised numbers - not those fantasy numbers they make up prior to revision.(And please, NPR is not a valid source of anything but corporate bilge.
Excuse me, but that's a fallacious supposition. As these anti-American and bizarre rules become increasingly accepted, it will be difficult to find an organization that doesn't have said rules.
Also, one is assuming - in an increasingly shrinking job market (BLS finally admitted some months ago that the majority of those 2 million jobs Bush claims to have "created" are part-time jobs (i.e., one-day temp or contracting jobs, etc.) - you take any job you can get. That's reality, dude!
But the Panthers really screwed up by letting Mohammed get away - about the only interesting thing to watch during football season (other than the Raven's cheerleaders and the Eagles' cheerleaders) was the consistent running of Goins and miraculous catches by Mohammed - Delahomme just wasn't that great a QB. Now where were we??????
I hope the poster you responded to reads your most excellent and lucid post. Any operation she's ever been connected with; any fake cover or dummy company she's ever worked out of, and anyone even remotely connected with her is now in possible danger.
These neocons who are pathetically trying to play this treasonous behavior down should be living in another country - one they CAN be really patriotic to....
Exactly so: it was illegal to jump George W. Bush ahead of everyone else on that long waiting line for the Texan Air National Guard (a.k.a. draft avoidance), it was illegal for George W. Bush to avoid his flight physical, it was illegal for George Bush to be AWOL for such a lengthy period of time (2 years plus???), and it was illegal for him to not declare his traffic record at various times he did so.
But in those cases, illegalities seem not to matter.
True, you can read many biographies where you don't receive the accurate picture because Edison has been (and rightly so) become the heroic American icon of invention. (Exception: the ADD lobby group which falsely claims Edison was dyslexic as a youth.)
Were you to read history texts or the current news of Europe and America at that time you would receive a much different picture. Also, did the biography mention the battle between Edison and Tesla as to whether the power source would be AC or DC and elaborate on Edison's eloctrocuting stray dogs in an attempt to prove the "dangers" of alternating current?
Unfortunately, one must read voluminous amounts today to get at the truth and avoid all the revisionist history. I don't have any cites ready at hand, but I suggest perusing histories of engineers and you may come across it (or any news extant covering that period).
Well, seriously now, if the justice system actually worked effectively in America, both Bush (most definitely) and Cheney would be in jail right now. Please try to think things through - when people break federal laws, the consequences are quite serious. Bush, Cheney and Rove have broken numerous federal laws time and again. Unfortunately, we live in an almost completely corrupt society today.
As that old and venerable Washington Post columnist, Drew Pearson, once said: "Government functions on controlled greed." The greed here has long been out of control. 'Nuff said. And puhlease - Bill Gates on education - when you destroy families with unemployment and buying laws placing a cap on what independent contractors are allowed to make in Bill's State (formerly Washington) - then you add to the poor state of education.
An interesting historic footnote to the light bulb - in reality Edison had a tough time selling the light bulb to Americans. It wasn't until after the European exhibition and it's popularity over there, that he was finally able to convince corporations in this country to underwrite it.
Thomas Friedman???? Are you nuts or just out to lunch??? Thomas Friedman thinks the best thing possible for this country is to offshore all our jobs - invade all the Muslim countries - and to personally keep eating as much as possible to support those colossal four chins of his. Friedman would applaud Chicken Little while chopping off his head.....
Thank you thank you thank you...for your highly intelligent comment which should stop all further discussion.
A prez who refuses to secure the borders of the US - while making it difficult for Americans to smuggle nukes to Pakistan (this being a joke of course, the prez makes it absurdly easy for any Pakistani terrorist to smuggle nukes into this country) - just hassles American travelers leaving from anywhere. No - you can't expect all the corps and federal and local government to offshore the jobs while the administration is anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-democracy and expect to have a thriving environment in any of the aforementioned. (And this combat veteran doesn't support the troops in Iraq, just as he didn't support the troops involved in My Lai.)
Please try not to confuse "smoke and mirrors" with reality. "Smoke and mirrors" is manufactured by the media or individual groups.
Perot's brother-in-law, Ramsey Clark, happened to be visiting with the Ayatollah during that "rescue" - yet another in a many string of "coincidences" where Perot was both helped and saved by his well-connected brother-in-law (e.g., his lucrative government contracts which established him while Ramsey was Attorney General, his getting out of the service early - although he owed four years from his Naval Academy stint, etc., etc.) Many of those people who belong to the POW/MIA organization have disassociated themselves from Perot due to his using those trips to drum up business with Vietnam. The list goes on.
Without knowing anything about this Texan's background - I'm willing to bet he's yet another Texan draft-dodger, or too young for the draft but never served in the military, or was a slacker and non-hacker (in military vernacular) who never completed his military obligation.
Why is this important? We've had way too many frauds from Texas over the preceding years (George Bush, H. Ross Perot, etc., etc.) who fit this description. And they know nothing of patriotism - they are simply parrots for others helping know-nothing Americans to continue keeping their heads up their as...
If Cheney disclosed the specifics of his detailed and structured retirement pay Americans would realize that everytime an American soldier dies in Iraq, Cheney makes more money (Halliburton handles funereal contracts which are on a fee-per-cost basis with Cheney's pay going into that trust fund is based upon the government contracts he brought into that corporation, etc.). Also, I would still like to see how Bush missed over 2 years of reserve meetings and mysteriously managed to be awarded with an honorable discharge. Not to mention that he was AWOL on his flight physical - and the military simply doesn't tolerate that stuff - especially back then. I would also like to see if anyone in Karl Rove's family ever served in the US Armed Forces - it appears his grandfather was a Nazi supporter (say, wasn't that true of Prescott Bush as well????).
You make a most excellent point. And to follow up: the Freedom of Information Act applies to the federal government - not to their contractors - and the federal government has outsourced so many of its jobs over the past 7 years that there's very little that the FOIA applies to any more.
Yup! You're right about those terrorists, but then again America's had plenty of experience with terrorists (especially the home-grown types: Please check out:
http://www.boingboing.net/"World's Worst Excerpt -- The Maddest Mad Scientist: The CIA's Dr. Sidney Gottlieb" - Yup, we've had experience with far too many terrorists, and so many seem to be connected with the CIA, FBI and the Pentagon. Any more questions????
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IBM was the original maker of PCs - the DOS licensing was given to MS (Bill Gates' mother was a friend of John Akers, then-CEO of IBM). As primary maker of PCs, people bought what was on it - ease of use, etc. That's it.
AGREED!
I suspect they believe that when they are "raptured" back to wherever it is they are "raptured" to, the chip won't follow them - boy, are they ever going to be surpised to find themselves still 'chipped'....
I suspect you're still missing the point - the DOS licensing - that's where both the POWER and the BILLIONS came from.....
It was a joke, dude - although, very shortly....it could be for real.....
Lastly, predatory marketing practises which paid distributors extra for distributing MS products, etc.
Ya know, I'm all for every member, past and present, of the Bush Administration have one of those chips shoved up their a$$.
QFC and allied food stores are now offering discounts to customers who have been "chipped."
I'll repeat it again - what they did right was their lock on DOS licensing - what some have erroneously claimed they did not have, but which indeed they did have. Trust me, if you examined their revenue accounting records - DOS licensing is what made that company. There can simply be no debate on that matter as the financial records speak for themselves.
Thanks for stating what should be obvious to everybody by now. McSoftware has/had the largest cash cow in history with their DOS licensing (which allowed them to accumulate billions which they could then play with) - it would be akin to all the auto manufacturers using the exact same engine and paying that single engine-maker royalties for it. Quality has never been job one with those folks.
Reality #2 is that the hiring of recent grads being better than previously is not a tremendous jump as the last few years have been abysmal. Reality #3 is that unemployment is reported in a continually fictional manner. Unemployment is actually quite high - which correlates to the tremendous jump in the poverty rate. Also, it will only go higher given the "policies" among Corporate America and the politicians they own. American and global monetary policy is now decided in China because of such behavior on their part. As far as unions go - union membership is so low today that they are becoming quite neglible. Nothing you posted makes sense when the numbers are examined, i.e., the final, revised numbers - not those fantasy numbers they make up prior to revision.(And please, NPR is not a valid source of anything but corporate bilge.
Also, one is assuming - in an increasingly shrinking job market (BLS finally admitted some months ago that the majority of those 2 million jobs Bush claims to have "created" are part-time jobs (i.e., one-day temp or contracting jobs, etc.) - you take any job you can get. That's reality, dude!
But the Panthers really screwed up by letting Mohammed get away - about the only interesting thing to watch during football season (other than the Raven's cheerleaders and the Eagles' cheerleaders) was the consistent running of Goins and miraculous catches by Mohammed - Delahomme just wasn't that great a QB. Now where were we??????
These neocons who are pathetically trying to play this treasonous behavior down should be living in another country - one they CAN be really patriotic to....
But in those cases, illegalities seem not to matter.
Were you to read history texts or the current news of Europe and America at that time you would receive a much different picture. Also, did the biography mention the battle between Edison and Tesla as to whether the power source would be AC or DC and elaborate on Edison's eloctrocuting stray dogs in an attempt to prove the "dangers" of alternating current?
Unfortunately, one must read voluminous amounts today to get at the truth and avoid all the revisionist history. I don't have any cites ready at hand, but I suggest perusing histories of engineers and you may come across it (or any news extant covering that period).
As that old and venerable Washington Post columnist, Drew Pearson, once said: "Government functions on controlled greed." The greed here has long been out of control. 'Nuff said. And puhlease - Bill Gates on education - when you destroy families with unemployment and buying laws placing a cap on what independent contractors are allowed to make in Bill's State (formerly Washington) - then you add to the poor state of education.
An interesting historic footnote to the light bulb - in reality Edison had a tough time selling the light bulb to Americans. It wasn't until after the European exhibition and it's popularity over there, that he was finally able to convince corporations in this country to underwrite it.
Thomas Friedman???? Are you nuts or just out to lunch??? Thomas Friedman thinks the best thing possible for this country is to offshore all our jobs - invade all the Muslim countries - and to personally keep eating as much as possible to support those colossal four chins of his. Friedman would applaud Chicken Little while chopping off his head.....
A prez who refuses to secure the borders of the US - while making it difficult for Americans to smuggle nukes to Pakistan (this being a joke of course, the prez makes it absurdly easy for any Pakistani terrorist to smuggle nukes into this country) - just hassles American travelers leaving from anywhere. No - you can't expect all the corps and federal and local government to offshore the jobs while the administration is anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-democracy and expect to have a thriving environment in any of the aforementioned. (And this combat veteran doesn't support the troops in Iraq, just as he didn't support the troops involved in My Lai.)
Perot's brother-in-law, Ramsey Clark, happened to be visiting with the Ayatollah during that "rescue" - yet another in a many string of "coincidences" where Perot was both helped and saved by his well-connected brother-in-law (e.g., his lucrative government contracts which established him while Ramsey was Attorney General, his getting out of the service early - although he owed four years from his Naval Academy stint, etc., etc.) Many of those people who belong to the POW/MIA organization have disassociated themselves from Perot due to his using those trips to drum up business with Vietnam. The list goes on.
Why is this important? We've had way too many frauds from Texas over the preceding years (George Bush, H. Ross Perot, etc., etc.) who fit this description. And they know nothing of patriotism - they are simply parrots for others helping know-nothing Americans to continue keeping their heads up their as...
If Cheney disclosed the specifics of his detailed and structured retirement pay Americans would realize that everytime an American soldier dies in Iraq, Cheney makes more money (Halliburton handles funereal contracts which are on a fee-per-cost basis with Cheney's pay going into that trust fund is based upon the government contracts he brought into that corporation, etc.). Also, I would still like to see how Bush missed over 2 years of reserve meetings and mysteriously managed to be awarded with an honorable discharge. Not to mention that he was AWOL on his flight physical - and the military simply doesn't tolerate that stuff - especially back then. I would also like to see if anyone in Karl Rove's family ever served in the US Armed Forces - it appears his grandfather was a Nazi supporter (say, wasn't that true of Prescott Bush as well????).
You make a most excellent point. And to follow up: the Freedom of Information Act applies to the federal government - not to their contractors - and the federal government has outsourced so many of its jobs over the past 7 years that there's very little that the FOIA applies to any more.
http://www.boingboing.net/"World's Worst Excerpt -- The Maddest Mad Scientist: The CIA's Dr. Sidney Gottlieb" - Yup, we've had experience with far too many terrorists, and so many seem to be connected with the CIA, FBI and the Pentagon. Any more questions????