why do you think I want the Yahoo/MSFT deal to go through? MSFT wastes $45 billion dollars and another ~$5 billion trying to straighten out the mess. Even MSFT can't stand being crippled like that. It will take them a decade to recover.
That's just it though. It is THESE UNITED STATES. Any power not specifically granted to the federal government is the power of the State. The Federal Government isn't supposed to control anything other than interstate commerce(that is why we have one type of dollar bill) and foriegn trade relations.
Sweden is one country. As designed by the Constitution the USA is 50 nations working together under one oversight government.
The other part is this. Do you really want the current USA government to have that kind of power? they are bad enough as it is.
>>With two sides such as these, there is really no question as to which side I'm on. Of course, should IBM become too greedy, nothing would stop me from loathing them as much as I loathe Microsoft nowadays.
That's just the point though. Your using IBM Lotus for all your documents and IBM starts screwing around with you. You dump them and switch your office suite to StarOffice by sun. Your files are still your files and you don't lose anything but training time in new software. You don't spend weeks converting all your documents.
You, Me, or anyone else can't fully support and duplicate the OOXML format. You can get close but you can't get as close as MSFT.
Because if you want a cellphone in the USA you have no other choice.
Because if you want any kind of feature in your phone you have to sign a contract.
Because in the USA the cell phone played out differently than elsewhere.
sure it sucks, but in the end two year contracts aren't all that bad. They can't randomly raise your rates either. Apple is playing ball with the cell phone companies or else the iPhone would never have gotten to market, just like all the really cool phones from japan take 3-4 years before they reach the USA.
why would you want this on an origami PC which is just totally useless. I wouldn't mind having that built into my full size laptop keyboard though. no more reaching for the mouse just move your hands around the keyboard. wouldn't be good for gaming but how many plan hard core games with a track pad anyways?
Something like that even a desktop could be useful too, you don't need the resolution focus so much but you could use the other side to implement other functions.
while you are quite correct the question becomes why should the CPU handle those instructions? It is like USB 2.0 versus firewire 400. Firewire while "slower" burst rate has a higher steady rate precisely because it offloads some instructions.
SCSI, firewire are examples of good tech working for you. The CPU should output instructions to devices smart enough to be able to work on their own. Leaving more cycles available to do things that actually matter.
>>I think he actually says: Vista is completely flawed. I mean, come on: "starting with new code." He just wraps it into some rhetorics.
This one really gets me. Vista was supposed to be a complete rewrite with all new code. when MSFT bought virtual PC I became happy as I saw it as a sign that backward compatibility would be handled by VPC sandboxing XP. MSFT kept bragging about how new Vista would be I had hope.
When Vista RC1 was released and immediately hit with a virus in an image library that had been directly ported from XP I knew Vista was doomed to be crap. The rewrite never actually happened they just ported the code and added yet another layer of crap on top.
Windows 7 will have a really awesome mini kernel, and then they will shove everything into the kernel so it runs as fast as possible.
read up a few posts. The guy was eating in Tokyo and they hooked up a 3g cell phone to a laptop and had a wireless video conference call at the dinner table.
In europe desipte having massive roaming charges everyone uses GSM phones. you can take your phone anywhere, swap out your normal SIM card and put in a local prepaid one and continue on.
Cell phones in the USA is a joke compared to both of those regions.
while as another poster pointed out I was wrong about the power plant, I am still confused how a projectile that can't modify it's flight path while in flight can be affected by GPS or laser illumination.
the DDG class navy destroyer uses a 72MegaWatt nuclear power plant in order to drive the ships electric motors to full speed. the Upgraded version of this would draw 16 Megawatts a gun. Slow the ship down to 1/4 speed and open fire You can have 2-3 of these aboard each vessel.
I would be more concerned about windage and elevation targeting of a object 220 miles away with a project traveling at Mach 8. The angle of the gun and flight projectile would need to be carefully calaculated.
funny I thought I heard that same thing 10 years ago only it was with the GHZ barrier.
processing speed has helped a lot and they are getting better but I think we need to be able to process more than one thing at a time first. parallel programming will help more than anything else.
nope. because we must select double delete them all.
voice recognition is no where near reliable. I laugh at my brother as he tries to use voice dial on his cell phone, it takes two or three times to get it to work. I once sneezed and it dialed my father. a good throat clearing sounds like mother. I should try farting at it some time to see who that would Dial.
Seriously try it sometime. delicately train the system for your voice, use it for a while, and then start throwing random noise at it. Or take a song which the music track is quiet enough to hear each word clearly and play that at the microphone. It should give you all the lyrics, yet they can't sort that out. The human ear can, but a computer can't yet. voice recognition is nearly useless until it can.
your quite correct but the end product doesn't have to be free. a $.99 cent each mp3 of every song there would make a few bucks back. Give $.90 cent to each artist and everyone could make a little money. It won't buy much but would pay for itself. even with random piracay.
People don't mind paying for Digital music, iTunes showed us that. Give them a choice and maybe a watermark to let them know and while things will still be shared between friends, those friend will also encourage each other to go pay for a copy.
I actually did a price comparison on the vaio's and the Vaio's give you slightly more bang for the buck but at the cost of less battery life. All in all you are talking about ~$100 price difference. Apple also surprisingly has the least expensive 64gb SSDrive on the market. Hundreds less than retail and competitors.
What I want to know is does Intel and apple have an exclusive contract on that motherboard? or can Intel start selling those boards to anyone? in 6 months will sony be selling these? Better yet will someone merge one of these and an LCD TV to make turely interactive TV.
um Ihave never replaced the battery in any phone I have ever owned. they are on 24hours a day. I charge them while they are on. by the time the battery goes weak in my phones 2-3 years have passed and I am thinking about a new one anyways. If you talk so much during he day that your phone can't keep a charge for one day you should try doing less talking.
actually if you have an existing at&T contract all you need is to sign a new two year contract, and add the data plan t it. So for me it would 49.99 plus all those fees that every cell phone users has to pay for.
MSFT is selling Vista for 2-4 times what XP went for. MSFT could sell 200% less copies of Vista and still come out ahead of XP money wise.
especially in order to get the same functionality as XP PRO, or Leopard (both of which sold for ~$130)you have to buy the $400 version.
So yea of course MSFT is seeing strong sales numbers. if I doubled the price of my product while having an illegal monopoly I woudl see strong sales figures as well..
really? I know lots of people who turn up the heat when they are cold and turn it down when they are warm. Problem is the office was still 70 degrees, but since they just walked in from outside and are cold they crank up the heat, then they get to hot and turn it back do usually yelling at everyone at who turned the heat up so high.
the average person is a moron. they may or may not be interested in learning soemthings, but unless they have to they don't want to learn anything.
As for your baseball guy, express a directory tree to him as a line of statics and I bet he figures it out fast. Yankees/1963/pitchers/random name file filled with stats. Sometimes you just have to lay it out the way they understand information. It doesn't always work though.
yea I noticed you ignored anyone who held up evidence that your wrong.
Name one thing that is physically impossible about Single stage to orbit vessels?
It may not be currently possible, with fuel weights, and technologies, but but regular suborbital flights will lead to regular commercial suborbital hops to go from London to Tokyo in just a few hours. REgular commercial suborbital flights will lead to orbital flights.
Jet engines weren't developed by the wright brothers. in fact neither of them lived long enough to see a practical jet engine. So one day we will figure out scram jets, aerospikes, and then we will find a way to get to space with only a small booster rocket for the last 200km. The easy part.
One small step at a time. Spaceship2 is just one small step.
nope your the douchebag. read the GP and the guy to whom I replied. He is saying that antenna's are capable of only receiving data as you can't upload data through antenna's.
I might have forgotten sarcasm tags. Idiots like you always seem to not understand those anyways so it is a moot point. Oh and I run my own sftp(yep it's secure as I don't trust unencrypted personal servers) site. i do know how the internet works.
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why do you think I want the Yahoo/MSFT deal to go through? MSFT wastes $45 billion dollars and another ~$5 billion trying to straighten out the mess. Even MSFT can't stand being crippled like that. It will take them a decade to recover.
GO MSFT!!!! Go Yahoo!!!!
shhhhh!!! Realspeak isn't allowed in slashdot.
That's just it though. It is THESE UNITED STATES. Any power not specifically granted to the federal government is the power of the State. The Federal Government isn't supposed to control anything other than interstate commerce(that is why we have one type of dollar bill) and foriegn trade relations.
Sweden is one country. As designed by the Constitution the USA is 50 nations working together under one oversight government.
The other part is this. Do you really want the current USA government to have that kind of power? they are bad enough as it is.
>>With two sides such as these, there is really no question as to which side I'm on. Of course, should IBM become too greedy, nothing would stop me from loathing them as much as I loathe Microsoft nowadays.
That's just the point though. Your using IBM Lotus for all your documents and IBM starts screwing around with you. You dump them and switch your office suite to StarOffice by sun. Your files are still your files and you don't lose anything but training time in new software. You don't spend weeks converting all your documents.
You, Me, or anyone else can't fully support and duplicate the OOXML format. You can get close but you can't get as close as MSFT.
Because if you want a cellphone in the USA you have no other choice.
Because if you want any kind of feature in your phone you have to sign a contract.
Because in the USA the cell phone played out differently than elsewhere.
sure it sucks, but in the end two year contracts aren't all that bad. They can't randomly raise your rates either. Apple is playing ball with the cell phone companies or else the iPhone would never have gotten to market, just like all the really cool phones from japan take 3-4 years before they reach the USA.
why would you want this on an origami PC which is just totally useless. I wouldn't mind having that built into my full size laptop keyboard though. no more reaching for the mouse just move your hands around the keyboard. wouldn't be good for gaming but how many plan hard core games with a track pad anyways?
Something like that even a desktop could be useful too, you don't need the resolution focus so much but you could use the other side to implement other functions.
It is at least something different.
Sarcasm doesn't always translate well either. though i do understand our point.
Nope your kids would build working real life mecha's and walk to work in them.
what is really funny is that Virtualization uses microkernels to load monolithic kernels, which run a lot faster for serving data.
while you are quite correct the question becomes why should the CPU handle those instructions? It is like USB 2.0 versus firewire 400. Firewire while "slower" burst rate has a higher steady rate precisely because it offloads some instructions.
SCSI, firewire are examples of good tech working for you. The CPU should output instructions to devices smart enough to be able to work on their own. Leaving more cycles available to do things that actually matter.
>>I think he actually says: Vista is completely flawed. I mean, come on: "starting with new code." He just wraps it into some rhetorics.
This one really gets me. Vista was supposed to be a complete rewrite with all new code. when MSFT bought virtual PC I became happy as I saw it as a sign that backward compatibility would be handled by VPC sandboxing XP. MSFT kept bragging about how new Vista would be I had hope.
When Vista RC1 was released and immediately hit with a virus in an image library that had been directly ported from XP I knew Vista was doomed to be crap. The rewrite never actually happened they just ported the code and added yet another layer of crap on top.
Windows 7 will have a really awesome mini kernel, and then they will shove everything into the kernel so it runs as fast as possible.
that only works if you have AT&T or t-mobile. if you have verizon or sprint neither one of them supports GSM cards.
If you have orange(UK) you can swap your sim card and use your phone with t-mobile in germany without roaming charges.
read up a few posts. The guy was eating in Tokyo and they hooked up a 3g cell phone to a laptop and had a wireless video conference call at the dinner table.
In europe desipte having massive roaming charges everyone uses GSM phones. you can take your phone anywhere, swap out your normal SIM card and put in a local prepaid one and continue on.
Cell phones in the USA is a joke compared to both of those regions.
while as another poster pointed out I was wrong about the power plant, I am still confused how a projectile that can't modify it's flight path while in flight can be affected by GPS or laser illumination.
Um I know this is slashdot but RTFA.
the DDG class navy destroyer uses a 72MegaWatt nuclear power plant in order to drive the ships electric motors to full speed. the Upgraded version of this would draw 16 Megawatts a gun. Slow the ship down to 1/4 speed and open fire You can have 2-3 of these aboard each vessel.
I would be more concerned about windage and elevation targeting of a object 220 miles away with a project traveling at Mach 8. The angle of the gun and flight projectile would need to be carefully calaculated.
funny I thought I heard that same thing 10 years ago only it was with the GHZ barrier.
processing speed has helped a lot and they are getting better but I think we need to be able to process more than one thing at a time first. parallel programming will help more than anything else.
nope. because we must select double delete them all.
voice recognition is no where near reliable. I laugh at my brother as he tries to use voice dial on his cell phone, it takes two or three times to get it to work. I once sneezed and it dialed my father. a good throat clearing sounds like mother. I should try farting at it some time to see who that would Dial.
Seriously try it sometime. delicately train the system for your voice, use it for a while, and then start throwing random noise at it. Or take a song which the music track is quiet enough to hear each word clearly and play that at the microphone. It should give you all the lyrics, yet they can't sort that out. The human ear can, but a computer can't yet. voice recognition is nearly useless until it can.
your quite correct but the end product doesn't have to be free. a $.99 cent each mp3 of every song there would make a few bucks back. Give $.90 cent to each artist and everyone could make a little money. It won't buy much but would pay for itself. even with random piracay.
People don't mind paying for Digital music, iTunes showed us that. Give them a choice and maybe a watermark to let them know and while things will still be shared between friends, those friend will also encourage each other to go pay for a copy.
not perfect but it's a start.
I actually did a price comparison on the vaio's and the Vaio's give you slightly more bang for the buck but at the cost of less battery life. All in all you are talking about ~$100 price difference. Apple also surprisingly has the least expensive 64gb SSDrive on the market. Hundreds less than retail and competitors.
What I want to know is does Intel and apple have an exclusive contract on that motherboard? or can Intel start selling those boards to anyone? in 6 months will sony be selling these? Better yet will someone merge one of these and an LCD TV to make turely interactive TV.
um Ihave never replaced the battery in any phone I have ever owned. they are on 24hours a day. I charge them while they are on. by the time the battery goes weak in my phones 2-3 years have passed and I am thinking about a new one anyways. If you talk so much during he day that your phone can't keep a charge for one day you should try doing less talking.
actually if you have an existing at&T contract all you need is to sign a new two year contract, and add the data plan t it. So for me it would 49.99 plus all those fees that every cell phone users has to pay for.
MSFT is selling Vista for 2-4 times what XP went for. MSFT could sell 200% less copies of Vista and still come out ahead of XP money wise.
especially in order to get the same functionality as XP PRO, or Leopard (both of which sold for ~$130)you have to buy the $400 version.
So yea of course MSFT is seeing strong sales numbers. if I doubled the price of my product while having an illegal monopoly I woudl see strong sales figures as well..
really? I know lots of people who turn up the heat when they are cold and turn it down when they are warm. Problem is the office was still 70 degrees, but since they just walked in from outside and are cold they crank up the heat, then they get to hot and turn it back do usually yelling at everyone at who turned the heat up so high.
the average person is a moron. they may or may not be interested in learning soemthings, but unless they have to they don't want to learn anything.
As for your baseball guy, express a directory tree to him as a line of statics and I bet he figures it out fast. Yankees/1963/pitchers/random name file filled with stats. Sometimes you just have to lay it out the way they understand information. It doesn't always work though.
yea I noticed you ignored anyone who held up evidence that your wrong.
Name one thing that is physically impossible about Single stage to orbit vessels?
It may not be currently possible, with fuel weights, and technologies, but but regular suborbital flights will lead to regular commercial suborbital hops to go from London to Tokyo in just a few hours. REgular commercial suborbital flights will lead to orbital flights.
Jet engines weren't developed by the wright brothers. in fact neither of them lived long enough to see a practical jet engine. So one day we will figure out scram jets, aerospikes, and then we will find a way to get to space with only a small booster rocket for the last 200km. The easy part.
One small step at a time. Spaceship2 is just one small step.
nope your the douchebag. read the GP and the guy to whom I replied. He is saying that antenna's are capable of only receiving data as you can't upload data through antenna's.
I might have forgotten sarcasm tags. Idiots like you always seem to not understand those anyways so it is a moot point. Oh and I run my own sftp(yep it's secure as I don't trust unencrypted personal servers) site. i do know how the internet works.