I think you're on the right track. The issue is more likely to be that IE will integrate a search function much like Apple's Safari, but instead of linking to Google, it will link to their own site.
Then they just have to count on the laziness of the 90% of users to make them the default over Google.
Your follow on argument would be that they will still use google, since google has the results they want.
Again, Microsoft only has to emulate Google until they have the majority search engine. At that point, they can modify their search engine to return whatever they want.
It's just another version of "embrace, extend, extinguish".
Hmmm, I think we are closer to delivering on Artificial Stupidity than Artificial Intelligence. Of course, many would counter that to build Artificial Intelligence, don't you need an example of Real Intelligence?
Ummm, except that drastically decrease the number of scheduled meetings, and a like decrease is coffee and donut consumption. Pastry and specialty coffee shops would be in ruins.
Unless they are management, in which case their policies and business plans can make it out. After all, they have no substance or basis in reality to begin with!
I expect consumer use of VOIP will reach flashover for consumers this year, IF the government does not meddle. I think it WILL meddle due to the ranting and raving of local Bell companies. We are already seeing the statements of the FCC in regards to whether they will regulate VOIP.
The problem is that you have legacy applications. You may quickly answer that they need to be re-written. In many cases, the source code may not be available for it to be ported, the effort would be monstrous, or you don't have the skills to do that.
Granted, if you use a toolkit that is drawing agnostic for the most part (QT for one), then the effort is either trivial or not an issue to begin with.
You may wonder just how many straight, old X11/Motif apps are there out there. Well, there must be plenty for Apple to make an official version of X11 for OS X
Wish as you might, "X11 ain't goin away soon"
Than again, the real issue may NOT be X11, but XFree86, which may be the actual underlying issue that needs to be addressed. Old technology CAN evolve. Look at Microsoft for a clear example. Not pretty, but it's there.
Well, I would imagine for such a scheme to work, you have to have a number of precomputed puzzles known, otherwise, you have to compute the answer to your own riddle everytime. That is not efficient, either.
So, if such a scheme existed, I would imagine I only have to compute the answer to riddles I don't know, and once I know them, store the answer. So, every time I want to send a SPAM message, I look to see if the riddle is already known and send the answer with the mail. If not, then compute the answer, add the riddle to my store of known riddles and go on, since I will at some point be given the same riddle.
I seem to have a picture in my mind of two Martians fighting over the probe, one eventually winning, and immediately coveting his reward with repetitious mutterings of
Not unlike most commercial software. There tends to be a stigma that version 0 software is not ready for use (bug filled, missing key PROMISED functions, etc). Thus, many people wait until a.1 or such release before they will use it.
Not that this matters, but limiting myself to a constant rate transfer of 9600 baud could be construed to violate this agreement according to the wording, if Comcast desired.
I'm sure they don't filter out the broadcast and probing packets coming down my connection unsolicited of me, either
I would also add that those military men and women in Irag from the U.S. are volunteers, NOT draftee's.
That even more so reenforces the statement above.
I suppose a better response is why did they only attack with nukes on the Galactica that one time? I would have expected the Cylon equivelant battleships to have lobbed nukes, too.
It sure seems the ordinance was not nuclear they were being hit with at the end.
(no major laws of physics were broken except maybe FTL travel)
I saw SEVERAL physics laws disobeyed or stretched beyond the limits of my plausibility.
1. The viper engines don't need to run continously. Space is a vacuum( very near it, anyway) so:
Newtons first law:
I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
There is no way for Starbuck to lock with Apollo's viper, boost to the required speed and only slightly collide with the bulkhead when they hit the hanger.
The hull plating of the Galactica is MIGHTY impressive to withstand a point blank nuke. They don't state the tonnage, but I have to assume it's at least a megaton since they kept referring to 50 megaton bombs used on the cities.
They used standard earth measurements in cases that would make no sense if they were not from earth to begin with. At least the series used "centons" for "minutes", etc.
I've nitpicked enough on the science, and don't have enough time to nitpick the plot
Meanwhile, we can already see what happens when Apple has a broadly popular product that cuts across platforms. The Apple iPod is the number one MP3 player, and now that its companion computer utility, iTunes, is available for both the Mac and the PC, it has become a hack target. In fact, Jon Lech Johansen, the same Norwegian who cracked the DVD security code, recently circumvented the iTunes music protection scheme.
An event like that occurring makes sense to me, since iTunes' popularity makes it a target worth hacking -- and whatever mystical Mac mojo there may be, it didn't go far in protecting a popular Apple product.
Steve Jobs stated when the iTunes music store was announced that the DRM would be hacked. The point was to provide a DRM solution that was not restrictive to honest users. That was delivered.
Hmm, nows the time to plug an upcoming book from James P. Hogan. It WAS going to be called Truth Under Tyranny
Major headings from the Table of Contents:
ONE
HUMANISTIC RELIGION
The Rush To Embrace Darwinism
SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND LOGIC
DARWINISM AND THE NEW ORDER
A CULTURAL MONOPOLY
ROCKS OF AGES -- THE FOSSIL RECORD
ANYTHING, EVERYTHING, AND ITS OPPOSITE: NATURAL SELECTION
THE ORIGIN OF ORIGINALITY? GENETICS AND MUTATION
LIFE AS INFORMATION PROCESSING
INTELLIGENCE AT WORK? THE CRUX OF IT ALL
TWO
OF BANGS AND BRAIDS
Cosmology's Mathematical Abstractions
MATHEMATICAL WORLDS -- AND THIS OTHER ONE
COSMOLOGIES AS MIRRORS
MATTERS OF GRAVITY: RELATIVITY'S UNIVERSES
AFTER THE BOMB: THE BIRTH OF THE BANG
THE PLASMA UNIVERSE
OTHER WAYS OF MAKING LIGHT ELEMENTS . ..
AND OF PRODUCING EXPANSION
REDSHIFT WITHOUT EXPANSION AT ALL
THE ULTIMATE HERESY: QUESTIONING THE HUBBLE LAW
THE GOD OF THE MODERN CREATION MYTH
THREE
DRIFTING IN THE ETHER
Did Relativity Take A Wrong Turn?
SOME BASICS
EXTENDING CLASSICAL RELATIVITY
THE NEW RELATIVITY
DISSIDENT VIEWPOINTS
THE FAMOUS FASTER-THAN-LIGHT QUESTION
FOUR
CATASTROPHE OF ETHICS
The Case For Taking Velikovsky Seriously
EARLY WORK: THE MAKINGS OF AN ICONOCLAST
WORLDS IN COLLISION
SCIENCE IN CONVULSION: THE REACTIONS
TESTIMONY FROM THE ROCKS: EARTH IN UPHEAVAL
ORTHODOXY IN CONFUSION
SLAYING THE MONSTER. THE AAAS VELIKOVSKY SYMPOSIUM, 1974
AFTER THE INQUISITION: THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE
FIVE
ENVIRONMENTALIST FANTASIES
Politics And Ideology Masquerading As Science
GARBAGE IN, GOSPEL OUT: Computer Games and Global Warming
HOLES IN THE OZONE LOGIC. But Timely For Some
SAVING THE MOSQUITOES: The War On DDT
"VITAMIN R": RADIATION GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH
RIP-OUT RIP-OFF: THE ASBESTOS RACKET
SIX
CLOSING RANKS
AIDS Heresy In The Viricentric Universe
AN INDUSTRY OUT OF WORK
SCIENCE BY PRESS CONFERENCE
AN EPIDEMIC OF AIDS TESTING
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I think you're on the right track. The issue is more likely to be that IE will integrate a search function much like Apple's Safari, but instead of linking to Google, it will link to their own site.
Then they just have to count on the laziness of the 90% of users to make them the default over Google.
Your follow on argument would be that they will still use google, since google has the results they want.
Again, Microsoft only has to emulate Google until they have the majority search engine. At that point, they can modify their search engine to return whatever they want.
It's just another version of "embrace, extend, extinguish".
http://www3.sympatico.ca/sarrazip/nasa.html
Ummm, so you mean Apple WON'T license their DRM to other players? I somehow doubt that.
Ummm, except that drastically decrease the number of scheduled meetings, and a like decrease is coffee and donut consumption. Pastry and specialty coffee shops would be in ruins.
The next logical step is to start outsourcing MANAGEMENT.
This does not mean IBM wants to make their own linux
Even so, there are pleny of obstacles; so I recommend IBM take an active role in the development of the following:
XFree86
WINE
Sponsor a DESKTOP (either KDE or GNOME){I suspect GNOME is the frontrunner, though I favor KDE myself at this point}
Actively sponsor a native JAVA IDE for Linux{their VisualAge products to be specific}
Actively port your major desktop initiatives to Linux (mostly Notes {ugh})
Actively work on making ALL of the above a consistent and usable experience for users>/p>
My two cents
Unless they are management, in which case their policies and business plans can make it out. After all, they have no substance or basis in reality to begin with!
I expect consumer use of VOIP will reach flashover for consumers this year, IF the government does not meddle. I think it WILL meddle due to the ranting and raving of local Bell companies. We are already seeing the statements of the FCC in regards to whether they will regulate VOIP.
The problem is that you have legacy applications. You may quickly answer that they need to be re-written. In many cases, the source code may not be available for it to be ported, the effort would be monstrous, or you don't have the skills to do that.
Granted, if you use a toolkit that is drawing agnostic for the most part (QT for one), then the effort is either trivial or not an issue to begin with.
You may wonder just how many straight, old X11/Motif apps are there out there. Well, there must be plenty for Apple to make an official version of X11 for OS X
Wish as you might, "X11 ain't goin away soon"
Than again, the real issue may NOT be X11, but XFree86, which may be the actual underlying issue that needs to be addressed. Old technology CAN evolve. Look at Microsoft for a clear example. Not pretty, but it's there.
Though I already know the answer, what was wrong with "OpenFirmware/OpenBoot"?
It was already platform agnostic, extensible, and well known in the industry
Then again, anything created by Sun CAN'T be good (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
Goverment Intervention
Likely, not blatant, but likely none the less
Well, I would imagine for such a scheme to work, you have to have a number of precomputed puzzles known, otherwise, you have to compute the answer to your own riddle everytime. That is not efficient, either.
So, if such a scheme existed, I would imagine I only have to compute the answer to riddles I don't know, and once I know them, store the answer. So, every time I want to send a SPAM message, I look to see if the riddle is already known and send the answer with the mail. If not, then compute the answer, add the riddle to my store of known riddles and go on, since I will at some point be given the same riddle.
"My Precious!"
Just my experience
I was not implying it was. I am just stating it is often brought up, and the data here was worth listing.
You should also mention the amount of CO2 emitted from Mt. St. Helens, etc. in the last two decades.
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vw_hyperexchan ge/Gases.html
"There lies, DAMN LIES, and then there's statistics!"
All that really demonstrates is the Personal Computer market has become a commodity market.
Yes, it is IBM's VisualAge compiler
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/vacpp/fea tures/vacpp-mac.html
Not that this matters, but limiting myself to a constant rate transfer of 9600 baud could be construed to violate this agreement according to the wording, if Comcast desired.
I'm sure they don't filter out the broadcast and probing packets coming down my connection unsolicited of me, either
I would also add that those military men and women in Irag from the U.S. are volunteers, NOT draftee's. That even more so reenforces the statement above.
I suppose a better response is why did they only attack with nukes on the Galactica that one time? I would have expected the Cylon equivelant battleships to have lobbed nukes, too.
It sure seems the ordinance was not nuclear they were being hit with at the end.
(no major laws of physics were broken except maybe FTL travel)
I saw SEVERAL physics laws disobeyed or stretched beyond the limits of my plausibility.
1. The viper engines don't need to run continously. Space is a vacuum( very near it, anyway) so:
Newtons first law: I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
There is no way for Starbuck to lock with Apollo's viper, boost to the required speed and only slightly collide with the bulkhead when they hit the hanger.
The hull plating of the Galactica is MIGHTY impressive to withstand a point blank nuke. They don't state the tonnage, but I have to assume it's at least a megaton since they kept referring to 50 megaton bombs used on the cities.
They used standard earth measurements in cases that would make no sense if they were not from earth to begin with. At least the series used "centons" for "minutes", etc.
I've nitpicked enough on the science, and don't have enough time to nitpick the plot
Meanwhile, we can already see what happens when Apple has a broadly popular product that cuts across platforms. The Apple iPod is the number one MP3 player, and now that its companion computer utility, iTunes, is available for both the Mac and the PC, it has become a hack target. In fact, Jon Lech Johansen, the same Norwegian who cracked the DVD security code, recently circumvented the iTunes music protection scheme.
An event like that occurring makes sense to me, since iTunes' popularity makes it a target worth hacking -- and whatever mystical Mac mojo there may be, it didn't go far in protecting a popular Apple product.Steve Jobs stated when the iTunes music store was announced that the DRM would be hacked. The point was to provide a DRM solution that was not restrictive to honest users. That was delivered.
Hmm, nows the time to plug an upcoming book from James P. Hogan. It WAS going to be called Truth Under Tyranny
Major headings from the Table of Contents: .
ONE
HUMANISTIC RELIGION
The Rush To Embrace Darwinism
SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND LOGIC
DARWINISM AND THE NEW ORDER
A CULTURAL MONOPOLY
ROCKS OF AGES -- THE FOSSIL RECORD
ANYTHING, EVERYTHING, AND ITS OPPOSITE: NATURAL
SELECTION
THE ORIGIN OF ORIGINALITY? GENETICS AND MUTATION
LIFE AS INFORMATION PROCESSING
INTELLIGENCE AT WORK? THE CRUX OF IT ALL
TWO
OF BANGS AND BRAIDS
Cosmology's Mathematical Abstractions
MATHEMATICAL WORLDS -- AND THIS OTHER ONE
COSMOLOGIES AS MIRRORS
MATTERS OF GRAVITY: RELATIVITY'S UNIVERSES
AFTER THE BOMB: THE BIRTH OF THE BANG
THE PLASMA UNIVERSE
OTHER WAYS OF MAKING LIGHT ELEMENTS . .
AND OF PRODUCING EXPANSION
REDSHIFT WITHOUT EXPANSION AT ALL
THE ULTIMATE HERESY: QUESTIONING THE HUBBLE LAW
THE GOD OF THE MODERN CREATION MYTH
THREE
DRIFTING IN THE ETHER
Did Relativity Take A Wrong Turn?
SOME BASICS
EXTENDING CLASSICAL RELATIVITY
THE NEW RELATIVITY
DISSIDENT VIEWPOINTS
THE FAMOUS FASTER-THAN-LIGHT QUESTION
FOUR
CATASTROPHE OF ETHICS
The Case For Taking Velikovsky Seriously
EARLY WORK: THE MAKINGS OF AN ICONOCLAST
WORLDS IN COLLISION
SCIENCE IN CONVULSION: THE REACTIONS
TESTIMONY FROM THE ROCKS: EARTH IN UPHEAVAL
ORTHODOXY IN CONFUSION
SLAYING THE MONSTER. THE AAAS VELIKOVSKY
SYMPOSIUM, 1974 AFTER THE INQUISITION: THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE
FIVE
ENVIRONMENTALIST FANTASIES
Politics And Ideology Masquerading As Science
GARBAGE IN, GOSPEL OUT: Computer Games and
Global Warming
HOLES IN THE OZONE LOGIC. But Timely For Some
SAVING THE MOSQUITOES: The War On DDT
"VITAMIN R": RADIATION GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH
RIP-OUT RIP-OFF: THE ASBESTOS RACKET
SIX
CLOSING RANKS
AIDS Heresy In The Viricentric Universe
AN INDUSTRY OUT OF WORK
SCIENCE BY PRESS CONFERENCE
AN EPIDEMIC OF AIDS TESTING
"SIDE EFFECTS" JUST LIKE AIDS: THE MIRACLE DRUGS
A VIRUS FIXATION