I see using Yahoo are computer illiterate users with old email accounts there who refuse to switch to Gmail (the kind of people who type URLs into the Yahoo's search field to visit a website).
I can testify. One of my oldest friends, who, btw, was dragged kicking and screaming into the information age, only now uses his gmail account occasionally. I remember his comments when I help him set up his gmail account some 7 or so years ago; "I like yahoo mail better." He never did explicately say WHAT was better about yahoo mail.
MOST of what you just wrote, I could have assumed to be written about the US.
Not true. I have my own issues with the country but making up lies is kinda useless as well. When some one is lying in the streets, he gets help. Energy production is a top priority here, without it businesses would not put up with it. You do not get thrown in jail for helping some one. The police get in trouble here all the time for corruption and over reach. So, essentially, none of his points were accurate with regard to the US.
A useful tricorder would cost billions of dollars to make, not just $10 million.
Agreed. Think of the number of tests it would need to do non-invasively; I believe one of the functions of the tricorder on the show seemed pretty much the same as an MRI scan. MRI scans only work becuase you surround the patient with a powerful magnetic field, and that's NOT coming with a hand-held device.
One point for the advent of the tricorder is in some ways I would argue the tricorder is actually out of date. If I also recall from the show, Star Fleet had an array of these devices for specialized funtions. One was the medical application, which we've discussed, and I distinctly recall Spock having one that seemed to be more for science apps. We already have cell phones at 1/4 the size of the show's tricorder that can do many science-like measurements, GPS, weather information, distance measurments (Luke's binoculars from Star Wars, I have such an app on my phone), all kinds of IP detection, etc..
how exactly did they put it together? You think all the work from 6 disparate labs just fits together like a puzzle?
You appear to be suffering from an acute case of delusion. "Diasparate"? No, not at all, you don't know the history of the internet very well, do you? The companies and research facilities in question (in my statement, at least) did most of this work before Microsoft was a company, and certainly worked together, at least some of them in direct concert. And- the internet research done at MIT (in cooperation with Massachusetts firm Bolt-Beranek-Newman, together they put in place the first ip linked pair of computers) would have been done while Bill Gates was still in grade school.
...Microsoft managed to become the biggest software company in the world?
Yes, only becuase Gates and Ballmer managed to swindle Rod Brock of Seattle Computer Products out of the code for 86-DOS, which allowed them to snag a sweetheart deal from IBM to be the sole creator of the OS that ran IBM computers, which became IBM-DOS. At the time IBM was interested in selling hardware, they thought the money was in the iron that ran the software. How much hardware does IBM sell today? Innovation had very little to do with Microsoft's success.
Yes. After Bell Labs, MIT, the US Navy, CERN, Stanford University, and Xerox PARC did all the hard work, and probably didn't patent 90% of thier research, yeah, Microsoft products appear out of thin air.
Sad when you own government by you own people does not trust you and has to keep a eye on everything you do with every new
technology that comes out.
Incorrect. Aside from you (sic) atrocious language skills you've obviously never heard that the price of freedom is constant vigilance. Its just part of the price of admission. I also hope that this will serve as a reminder to everyone that its not longer "our" government anymore, its "a" government, one staffed by members of a ruling elite which stretches around the globe and into the other governments.
Wow... read the wikipedia article on that place. Total backwater, no one knows about this "country". They still use old soviet socialist emblems on all their buildings and stationary. That's wierd in itself, but it just part of how out of the way this place is.
I think (hope) this was a defensive move.Google, besides shuttering products they've introduced less than a year ago like whack-a-moles, they also innovate. They tend to be pretty good about getting their ducks in a row in any big market move. Look for a "fantastic" new product from Google in the next few months. I'm guessing.
The only state where gun ownership such as you're obviously refferring to that is effective is Arizona. In every other state it appears to be a criminal offense to simply talk about gun ownership, the consequences being that only criminals have guns, and Texas is a consequence of those views. Only in Arizona are people allowed to carry without QUITE AS MANY restrictions as in all the other states.
I installed windows 7 becuase I was on NT and using 64 bit hardware. I hate not being able to use my hardware to its capacity. DON'T ask me if I can see a difference between XPSP3 and 7 (this is before I knew a 64 bit version of XP was available, and before I read about how buggy it was). It MAKES NO SENSE, I AGREE, but its MY HARDWARE. I want to run what I want on it, and if I want to run 64 bit software on my 64 bit machine, I should be able to.
I tend to agree with the sediments, but I have a few games (The Only reason I run any M$ os) that demand Windows 7. So I run that. But yeah, that's the only reason I upgraded.
The Chinese government may not be a leader in human rights, but nor are they close to Hussein.
No, they just occupy other 1000 year old countries like Tibet and claim they're just waiting to be "freed" by the PRK. Oh, and there was that thing in Tianamen Square.
ONE of PHP's problems is it is by very nature web processed. That means the entire script is processed in one after it is requested, and the next one, and the next one... the very thought that a PHP script can spawn threads, be object-oriented, or be used as a system-level service is laughable to me, but its there in the code, one can create objects that supposedly do these things. But still, adding these features to a language thats only alive when the web server passes through and acts on it seems a little like adding a laser beam to the forehead of a frickin' piranha; not going to work very well. For enterprise level stuff you really need access to these features. And there's really no substitute for the JMS in PHP. Can one really build a scalable, distributed app with PHP?
Offshore domain names & hosting? Are you kidding me? Like there's anything stopping them from doing it now, if it made sense. SOPA isn't going to have any effect on domain names and hosting. As for access to domains and such, for whatever you want to think about the US, there's a very long legacy of freedom of speach here, and that includes access to materials deemed offensive. If such a law were to happen here it would have happened in the form of books a long time ago, before the internet, and book bans by local municipalities are always struck down when challenged in higher courts. No, you're way off. A law like Belurus isn't going to happen here any time soon. Now, getting arrested and held without a reason, that's happening now. So you can laugh your ass off to that one. But not some "law" that limits access to web sites.
On the other end of the spectrum, needing to call technical support simply to get the ips of the name servers I needed to use elicited a salvo of "Can you ping the servers?" and "Can you give me the output of tracert?" Finally, after 15 minutes of explaining that I was using linux ("That platform isn't supported"), I could configure my machine myself, and all I needed was this one bit of information, the "tech" on the other end of the line actually seemed annoyed with having to give up the one piece of info I actually needed.
Nevertheless, Israel is a factor that can't be ignored. Israel has kicked ass militarily in 85% of the region's engagements, and is a huge economic factor for the entire region. Ignoring them would be a mistake, and for Israel to ignore problems in the region is not possible.
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I see using Yahoo are computer illiterate users with old email accounts there who refuse to switch to Gmail (the kind of people who type URLs into the Yahoo's search field to visit a website).
I can testify. One of my oldest friends, who, btw, was dragged kicking and screaming into the information age, only now uses his gmail account occasionally. I remember his comments when I help him set up his gmail account some 7 or so years ago; "I like yahoo mail better." He never did explicately say WHAT was better about yahoo mail.
Soylent green.
MOST of what you just wrote, I could have assumed to be written about the US.
Not true. I have my own issues with the country but making up lies is kinda useless as well. When some one is lying in the streets, he gets help. Energy production is a top priority here, without it businesses would not put up with it. You do not get thrown in jail for helping some one. The police get in trouble here all the time for corruption and over reach. So, essentially, none of his points were accurate with regard to the US.
A useful tricorder would cost billions of dollars to make, not just $10 million.
Agreed. Think of the number of tests it would need to do non-invasively; I believe one of the functions of the tricorder on the show seemed pretty much the same as an MRI scan. MRI scans only work becuase you surround the patient with a powerful magnetic field, and that's NOT coming with a hand-held device.
One point for the advent of the tricorder is in some ways I would argue the tricorder is actually out of date. If I also recall from the show, Star Fleet had an array of these devices for specialized funtions. One was the medical application, which we've discussed, and I distinctly recall Spock having one that seemed to be more for science apps. We already have cell phones at 1/4 the size of the show's tricorder that can do many science-like measurements, GPS, weather information, distance measurments (Luke's binoculars from Star Wars, I have such an app on my phone), all kinds of IP detection, etc..
Ding ding ding! Correct sir.
how exactly did they put it together? You think all the work from 6 disparate labs just fits together like a puzzle?
You appear to be suffering from an acute case of delusion. "Diasparate"? No, not at all, you don't know the history of the internet very well, do you? The companies and research facilities in question (in my statement, at least) did most of this work before Microsoft was a company, and certainly worked together, at least some of them in direct concert. And- the internet research done at MIT (in cooperation with Massachusetts firm Bolt-Beranek-Newman, together they put in place the first ip linked pair of computers) would have been done while Bill Gates was still in grade school.
...Microsoft managed to become the biggest software company in the world?
Yes, only becuase Gates and Ballmer managed to swindle Rod Brock of Seattle Computer Products out of the code for 86-DOS, which allowed them to snag a sweetheart deal from IBM to be the sole creator of the OS that ran IBM computers, which became IBM-DOS. At the time IBM was interested in selling hardware, they thought the money was in the iron that ran the software. How much hardware does IBM sell today? Innovation had very little to do with Microsoft's success.
Yes. After Bell Labs, MIT, the US Navy, CERN, Stanford University, and Xerox PARC did all the hard work, and probably didn't patent 90% of thier research, yeah, Microsoft products appear out of thin air.
Sad when you own government by you own people does not trust you and has to keep a eye on everything you do with every new technology that comes out.
Incorrect. Aside from you (sic) atrocious language skills you've obviously never heard that the price of freedom is constant vigilance. Its just part of the price of admission. I also hope that this will serve as a reminder to everyone that its not longer "our" government anymore, its "a" government, one staffed by members of a ruling elite which stretches around the globe and into the other governments.
Your PI calculator had a backdoor, huh?
Wow... read the wikipedia article on that place. Total backwater, no one knows about this "country". They still use old soviet socialist emblems on all their buildings and stationary. That's wierd in itself, but it just part of how out of the way this place is.
I think (hope) this was a defensive move.Google, besides shuttering products they've introduced less than a year ago like whack-a-moles, they also innovate. They tend to be pretty good about getting their ducks in a row in any big market move. Look for a "fantastic" new product from Google in the next few months. I'm guessing.
ha ha ha :\
Like in Texas.
The only state where gun ownership such as you're obviously refferring to that is effective is Arizona. In every other state it appears to be a criminal offense to simply talk about gun ownership, the consequences being that only criminals have guns, and Texas is a consequence of those views. Only in Arizona are people allowed to carry without QUITE AS MANY restrictions as in all the other states.
I installed windows 7 becuase I was on NT and using 64 bit hardware. I hate not being able to use my hardware to its capacity. DON'T ask me if I can see a difference between XPSP3 and 7 (this is before I knew a 64 bit version of XP was available, and before I read about how buggy it was). It MAKES NO SENSE, I AGREE, but its MY HARDWARE. I want to run what I want on it, and if I want to run 64 bit software on my 64 bit machine, I should be able to.
I tend to agree with the sediments, but I have a few games (The Only reason I run any M$ os) that demand Windows 7. So I run that. But yeah, that's the only reason I upgraded.
The Chinese government may not be a leader in human rights, but nor are they close to Hussein.
No, they just occupy other 1000 year old countries like Tibet and claim they're just waiting to be "freed" by the PRK. Oh, and there was that thing in Tianamen Square.
I don't. I don't expect to program anything in PHP, ever. Hopefully.
...visual studio is the best ide ever developed.
It is, and this isn't coming from a Microsoft fan.
ONE of PHP's problems is it is by very nature web processed. That means the entire script is processed in one after it is requested, and the next one, and the next one... the very thought that a PHP script can spawn threads, be object-oriented, or be used as a system-level service is laughable to me, but its there in the code, one can create objects that supposedly do these things. But still, adding these features to a language thats only alive when the web server passes through and acts on it seems a little like adding a laser beam to the forehead of a frickin' piranha; not going to work very well. For enterprise level stuff you really need access to these features. And there's really no substitute for the JMS in PHP. Can one really build a scalable, distributed app with PHP?
Offshore domain names & hosting? Are you kidding me? Like there's anything stopping them from doing it now, if it made sense. SOPA isn't going to have any effect on domain names and hosting. As for access to domains and such, for whatever you want to think about the US, there's a very long legacy of freedom of speach here, and that includes access to materials deemed offensive. If such a law were to happen here it would have happened in the form of books a long time ago, before the internet, and book bans by local municipalities are always struck down when challenged in higher courts. No, you're way off. A law like Belurus isn't going to happen here any time soon. Now, getting arrested and held without a reason, that's happening now. So you can laugh your ass off to that one. But not some "law" that limits access to web sites.
...I had to show them how to use ping.
On the other end of the spectrum, needing to call technical support simply to get the ips of the name servers I needed to use elicited a salvo of "Can you ping the servers?" and "Can you give me the output of tracert?" Finally, after 15 minutes of explaining that I was using linux ("That platform isn't supported"), I could configure my machine myself, and all I needed was this one bit of information, the "tech" on the other end of the line actually seemed annoyed with having to give up the one piece of info I actually needed.
I'd say like most industrialized nations, being without oil would put a damper on their ability to make products for the capitalistic west.
I would say that without the ability to create those products for the capitalistic west the capitalistic east would be up shit creek.
Nevertheless, Israel is a factor that can't be ignored. Israel has kicked ass militarily in 85% of the region's engagements, and is a huge economic factor for the entire region. Ignoring them would be a mistake, and for Israel to ignore problems in the region is not possible.
Not sure, beyond war, why Russia would care if the strait is closed?
The Crimea is a very important port for Russia.
And China is an ally of Iran.
And Iran is China's largest trading partner? If shit went down China would forget all else and side with Iran? Give us all a reality break.
I'm not going to dignify such a stupid remark with a reply.