>> As an entertaining aside, you can bet that when Arab oil is no longer a significant factor in the world energy picture, Israel will be left to twist in the wind
I don't believe that. There are A LOT of very rich Jews in the US, especially places with a loud voice like Hollywood. Say it with me... "Special Interest Group"
Here's a crazy idea.... How about letting the pedestrian take responsibility for stepping into a busy road without looking first?...actually you'd think it would be a self-rectifying problem through natural selection.
>> They see public schools not as neutral towards religion, but as antagonistic towards religion.
Yeah because they are radicals. They dont like the idea of any mention of evolution in schools for example. Basically they dont want teachers to even admit that competing theories to the earth being created in 6 literal days even exist. How is brainwashing kids with propaganda and denying them knowledge of the truth a good thing?
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I've nothing against doing science, I just wondered what, if anything, this stuff can be used to make that we couldn't already do before. See I'm still waiting for my matter transporter, affordable flying cars and free electricity that they were promising us back in the 50's.
yeah except for tweo things: 1) I'd never buy a car without actually driving it. The last thing I want is a world where there aren't any showrooms so you have to buy your car off the internet, based only on what (no doubt bought-and-paid-for) reviewers say.
2) I always buy used cars anyway. Buying a new car is just like throwing half your money away. I leave that hit for someone else to take.
I'm pleased someone has finally diagnosed (and presumably will fix) this. As presented, the cause actually sounds quite simple so I'm surprised how long its taken to get to it (several years) given how widespread Linux is and how many corporates are paying people to make Linux better.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen cops in cop cars miss stuff happening right in front of them because the cop has been fully focused on the laptop screen mounted in his car.
Basically anything that increases the chances of me not getting caught speeding is fine by me.
>> they're selling a product without a real place in the market.
Because Microsoft still hold onto the arrogant belief that people will flock to whatever new product or even market they make just because it has a Microsoft sticker.
You'd think their unbroken record of phone and media player failures would have sent even the most clueless CEO a message by now.
your points in order: So what if it didnt use an intel processor? It wasn't ever meant to be binary compatible with PC. In fact the motorola processor was generally considered to be a better more efficient per clock cycle processor than the 8086 equivalents around at the same time.
All versions of the Amiga except the cheapest (500) DID have slots. They were called Zorro slots. There was even a CPU expansion slot too. Never seen one of those on a PC.
There was nothing stopping any manufacturer from making new audio or video hardware that could go in them, and there were some. the Video Toaster was one of the most well known. The reason they weren't widely popular was because the Amiga already had the best video and audio at the time and it came as stock.
There was plenty of business-grade software for the Amiga that was better than the available versions of ms word or anything else on PC at the time. PageStream, Art Dept Pro, AmiExpress, Arena Accounts, Caligari, dbase 2, DynaCad, Lightwave, Procalc/page/write, word perfect, wordworth etc etc
I do agree about market share at least in the business sector, (everyone I knew had an Amiga in their bedroom). I also agree about an Intel/PC version: possibly if Commodore would have released a PC version of AmigaDos they might have actually had a good chance of blowing Microsoft away at the time they were still vulnerable, which would have changed the world.
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I can tell you the UK are bad but don't go half as far as the US does in blatantly abusing their citizens rights.
US is the land of the free? my ass.
windows sucks....
...and... who does Israel then share it with?
Seems like a lot of effort to replace what is a one-time few minute wait for a download if you have broadband.
>> As an entertaining aside, you can bet that when Arab oil is no longer a significant factor in the world energy picture, Israel will be left to twist in the wind
I don't believe that. There are A LOT of very rich Jews in the US, especially places with a loud voice like Hollywood. Say it with me... "Special Interest Group"
Here's a crazy idea.... How about letting the pedestrian take responsibility for stepping into a busy road without looking first? ...actually you'd think it would be a self-rectifying problem through natural selection.
Its quite ugly not to mention far too bulky.
I'm not sure what benefit having this could provide anyway.
Can anyone provide a credible use-case?
>> They see public schools not as neutral towards religion, but as antagonistic towards religion.
Yeah because they are radicals. They dont like the idea of any mention of evolution in schools for example. Basically they dont want teachers to even admit that competing theories to the earth being created in 6 literal days even exist. How is brainwashing kids with propaganda and denying them knowledge of the truth a good thing?
'Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was,'
Wow if they consider the ability to use sudo, mount and cp is an indicator of brilliance, then most of us here could easily become top NSA guys.
>> vice-president for Skype, Mark Gillett, says that "the capture devices are not yet there"
Wow that was a bit of a slip. There is and its even a Microsoft product. Seems to me this is exactly the sort of thing Kinnect is useful for.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I've nothing against doing science, I just wondered what, if anything, this stuff can be used to make that we couldn't already do before.
See I'm still waiting for my matter transporter, affordable flying cars and free electricity that they were promising us back in the 50's.
yeah except for tweo things:
1) I'd never buy a car without actually driving it. The last thing I want is a world where there aren't any showrooms so you have to buy your car off the internet, based only on what (no doubt bought-and-paid-for) reviewers say.
2) I always buy used cars anyway. Buying a new car is just like throwing half your money away. I leave that hit for someone else to take.
what is it actually good for?
>> put an icon for every application you ever want to run on the desktop
Been doing that for years. It actually makes for a nice interface.
I wish they'd have let him stay at the helm long enough to make sure Microsoft went bust.
Why the hell are they using ipad minis instead of much cheaper, less locked-in and generally more user-friendly android pads?
I'm pleased someone has finally diagnosed (and presumably will fix) this.
As presented, the cause actually sounds quite simple so I'm surprised how long its taken to get to it (several years) given how widespread Linux is and how many corporates are paying people to make Linux better.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen cops in cop cars miss stuff happening right in front of them because the cop has been fully focused on the laptop screen mounted in his car.
Basically anything that increases the chances of me not getting caught speeding is fine by me.
He did quote the source. It was Napoleon.
>> Not many people really want to jump ship for a half-assed bastard child of desktop and tablet computing.
I wish Ubuntu understood this.
>> they're selling a product without a real place in the market.
Because Microsoft still hold onto the arrogant belief that people will flock to whatever new product or even market they make just because it has a Microsoft sticker.
You'd think their unbroken record of phone and media player failures would have sent even the most clueless CEO a message by now.
..Why Microsoft Needs 3 Surface Tablets: ...to cash in on user interest in Windows 8.1, which will be released later this fall.
Yeah you're right. 3 Tablets should about do it. There probably won't be as many as 4 people with "user interest" in Windows 8.1.
...why did they start out with a disease that can only affect 50% of the population?
your points in order:
So what if it didnt use an intel processor? It wasn't ever meant to be binary compatible with PC. In fact the motorola processor was generally considered to be a better more efficient per clock cycle processor than the 8086 equivalents around at the same time.
All versions of the Amiga except the cheapest (500) DID have slots. They were called Zorro slots. There was even a CPU expansion slot too. Never seen one of those on a PC.
There was nothing stopping any manufacturer from making new audio or video hardware that could go in them, and there were some. the Video Toaster was one of the most well known. The reason they weren't widely popular was because the Amiga already had the best video and audio at the time and it came as stock.
There was plenty of business-grade software for the Amiga that was better than the available versions of ms word or anything else on PC at the time.
PageStream, Art Dept Pro, AmiExpress, Arena Accounts, Caligari, dbase 2, DynaCad, Lightwave, Procalc/page/write, word perfect, wordworth etc etc
I do agree about market share at least in the business sector, (everyone I knew had an Amiga in their bedroom). I also agree about an Intel/PC version: possibly if Commodore would have released a PC version of AmigaDos they might have actually had a good chance of blowing Microsoft away at the time they were still vulnerable, which would have changed the world.
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