Krishnas are a cult and therefore can be discounted from any discussion. I don't know of any real Hindu that believes that you can convert to Hinduism or seek to convert others.
Um, why are you talking about education? I never mentioned education, only intelligence. There aren't any studies that correlate intelligence with religious belief.
Virtually EVERY major scientist, past or present, and intellectual claims to be religious to some degree. Carl Sagan is an aberration. Suprising, but true. 88% of the world population belongs to some religion. Now you can claim that the remaining 12% has a higher concentration of intelligent people, but that is extremely doubtful.
BTW, a few dubious studies of handfuls of American (500 people!) as test subjects does not prove any corellation. Any intelligent person knows that.
They do? I have never had a Hindu or Muslim or Jew attempt to convert me. Neither has anyone else. Hindu's in particular believe that you are born Hindu. You cannot "become" Hindu. It is Christians which are converting Hindu's - not the other way around. Sorry.
Most celebrated scientists and great thinkers (Einstein, DiVinci, Archimedes, etc) believed in God. In Einstein's case, his parent were non-religious - yet he was very religious himself. There is no corollation between intelligence and religous belief.
How about you guys just keep to your beliefs and stop trying to change ours? We don't need or want your "message" - so keep it to yourself like most other religions do. If we are interested in Christianity we will ask you about it.
Even if it is $400Million in revenue per year, that is not profit. GOOG spent a billion in CASH, who knows how many years it will take to recoup that.
It sounds dumb to me, but hopefully GOOG's executive staff has run the numbers. MSFT isn't "bad", and GOOG isn't "good" - they both only care about the money.
In other MSFT/GOOG news: Microsoft is going to provide all the search technology for Google in China. It seems that Google is buddying up to all of the Slashdotters favorite companies!
Er, how is Microsoft wrong to keep IE? It has about 85% of the browser market. I must have missed in business school how a browser with 2% market share should replace one with 85% is somehow "better".
Pundits have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to Microsoft. Microsoft knows what they are doing: their OS runs about 95% of the desktops worldwide, and they are making sigificant inroads in the cellphone, handheld, home entertainment and server markets. Their net profit runs over $1 BILLION dollars a MONTH! Yet somehow, they are doing it all wrong and need advice from a guy who probably doesn't make $200k a year.
Its called 'ego'. It occurs frequently when you are only surrounded by people who only tell you how great you are and worship at your feet. Typically what happens is that the person starts believing that, and becomes more and more obnoxious and less useful. You see this happening frequently in the tech world: look at people like Ellison, Ballmer, Jobs. They all think they are the saviour of tech and know the "one true way" to do things. Eventually they become comical shadows of the people they once were.
Yeah, reality is hard to accept isn't it? Just think, if you added both microsoft.com's and msn.com's numbers together you would get 187 million users, which dwarfs Google at 80 million.
Its true, many people don't use Google! Its always funny when reality penetrates Slashdots reality distortion field.
Yes, but if Slashdot was more accurate it would be less dramatic. The idea is to increase pageviews by posting hyped and controversial "stories" in order to increase revenue. This was probably a policy instituted by upper management to help the flagging LNUX (Slashdots parent company) stock price.
Haven't you noticed that as the stock price goes down, the hysteria on the front page goes up? Anything to make a buck!
Are you stupid? The number of hours has nothing to do with the time it takes to get a degree. Masters typically take 2 years to get. Geez, what University system did YOU go to?
Um, MSN messenger has over 220 million users! Surely the Slashdot reality distortion shield isn't so strong that you don't realize that MSN is more popular than Skype.
If anything, your experience should turn off potential developers from using the GPL or releasing software into the PD. As you have said "I every so often get support contracts which don't make me rich but do pay for a computer upgrade or rent here or there."
Well for most people that isn't a good situation. Most people want to make enough money off of their labors to put food on the table and support their family. Software isn't a commodity. Why you want to devalue it is beyond me.
Microsoft is moving away from software sales? Since when? I know in your OSS dreamworld software would be "Free" and free, but that isn't the real world.
In the real world, Microsoft's software sales have increased year to year every year. They sold $39 BILLION in software last year alone, with an increase of $2.5 BILLION over the year before.
Reality check time!
Yes, its a comment on the failure of slashdot and the karma and moderation system. All it takes to get good karma is to post something quickly - as long as the content doesn't challenge the average readers worldview.
No matter how you slice it, piracy is enormous business. Never mind the millions that KaZaa made, of the millions that are made on.ru music sites -- there are dozens of downstream businesses which benefit directly from piracy.
For example: Just because Apple makes money on iTunes (ie: legitimate music sales) they make far, far more on sales of the iPod -- which are prediated on the availability of free pirated music. iTunes keeps Apple's music initiatives legitimate, but to say that Apple hasn't benefited from piracy would be wrong.
And let's talk about storage media: How much will Seagate, iOmega, yada yada yada, benefit from storing pirated digital movies? Tons!
Piracy is huge business.
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The reason you use the same tool is that you are familiar with the toolset. The toolset has nothing to do with the resources required on the device. Obviously you haven't used a Windows Mobile application. They are very small and formatted to use the screen properly. Windows Mobile hasn't failed. It has succeeded.
Um yes, the full content is available online - every page, every word. That is the definition of "full content". You may not see it all from a single web request, but be assured that you can search and display pages of the entire work using multiple requests. What right does Google, Inc have to do this without asking permission of the author or copyright holder?
And plenty of people read books on their computer screen. Have you not heard of e-books?
Yes, none of these works in question are in public domain, and none fall under fair use. And yes, they are making the full content of the book available online. You might not be able to access the entire work from a single web request, but the full content is searchable and displayable.Any other questions? To repeat: it is not fair use for a multi-billion dollar corporation like Google, Inc to make a digital copyrighted work freely available on the web, even if it is just for searching and indexing purposes. If this was public domain material then no one would have a problem with it.
One million square feet! is certainly a lots of real estate space (no pun intended) that in the South Bay Area has to be worth a not insignificant chunk of change. Granted, Moffett field sits on an amazing amount of land and although I have not been back to the base for years, I imagine it is still some pretty choice real estate that just so happens to be right up the road from Google.
It also might be of interest to note that Moffett is right next door to a former NIMA (NRO) facility and given Google's interest in mapping the surface of the Earth and other remote sensing activities, might be pretty convenient.
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Krishnas are a cult and therefore can be discounted from any discussion. I don't know of any real Hindu that believes that you can convert to Hinduism or seek to convert others.
Um, why are you talking about education? I never mentioned education, only intelligence. There aren't any studies that correlate intelligence with religious belief.
Virtually EVERY major scientist, past or present, and intellectual claims to be religious to some degree. Carl Sagan is an aberration. Suprising, but true. 88% of the world population belongs to some religion. Now you can claim that the remaining 12% has a higher concentration of intelligent people, but that is extremely doubtful.
BTW, a few dubious studies of handfuls of American (500 people!) as test subjects does not prove any corellation. Any intelligent person knows that.
I am an athiest myself, but I am not an elitest.
They do? I have never had a Hindu or Muslim or Jew attempt to convert me. Neither has anyone else. Hindu's in particular believe that you are born Hindu. You cannot "become" Hindu. It is Christians which are converting Hindu's - not the other way around. Sorry.
Most celebrated scientists and great thinkers (Einstein, DiVinci, Archimedes, etc) believed in God. In Einstein's case, his parent were non-religious - yet he was very religious himself. There is no corollation between intelligence and religous belief.
How about you guys just keep to your beliefs and stop trying to change ours? We don't need or want your "message" - so keep it to yourself like most other religions do. If we are interested in Christianity we will ask you about it.
It was reported on CNBC this morning during the "Morning Call". It was the result of some court settlement.
Even if it is $400Million in revenue per year, that is not profit. GOOG spent a billion in CASH, who knows how many years it will take to recoup that.
It sounds dumb to me, but hopefully GOOG's executive staff has run the numbers. MSFT isn't "bad", and GOOG isn't "good" - they both only care about the money.
In other MSFT/GOOG news: Microsoft is going to provide all the search technology for Google in China. It seems that Google is buddying up to all of the Slashdotters favorite companies!
Er, how is Microsoft wrong to keep IE? It has about 85% of the browser market. I must have missed in business school how a browser with 2% market share should replace one with 85% is somehow "better".
Pundits have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to Microsoft. Microsoft knows what they are doing: their OS runs about 95% of the desktops worldwide, and they are making sigificant inroads in the cellphone, handheld, home entertainment and server markets. Their net profit runs over $1 BILLION dollars a MONTH! Yet somehow, they are doing it all wrong and need advice from a guy who probably doesn't make $200k a year.
Its called 'ego'. It occurs frequently when you are only surrounded by people who only tell you how great you are and worship at your feet. Typically what happens is that the person starts believing that, and becomes more and more obnoxious and less useful. You see this happening frequently in the tech world: look at people like Ellison, Ballmer, Jobs. They all think they are the saviour of tech and know the "one true way" to do things. Eventually they become comical shadows of the people they once were.
Yeah, reality is hard to accept isn't it? Just think, if you added both microsoft.com's and msn.com's numbers together you would get 187 million users, which dwarfs Google at 80 million.
Its true, many people don't use Google! Its always funny when reality penetrates Slashdots reality distortion field.
Yes, but if Slashdot was more accurate it would be less dramatic. The idea is to increase pageviews by posting hyped and controversial "stories" in order to increase revenue. This was probably a policy instituted by upper management to help the flagging LNUX (Slashdots parent company) stock price.
Haven't you noticed that as the stock price goes down, the hysteria on the front page goes up? Anything to make a buck!
Are you stupid? The number of hours has nothing to do with the time it takes to get a degree. Masters typically take 2 years to get. Geez, what University system did YOU go to?
Agile test driven development produces zero bugs?
Um, MSN messenger has over 220 million users! Surely the Slashdot reality distortion shield isn't so strong that you don't realize that MSN is more popular than Skype.
If anything, your experience should turn off potential developers from using the GPL or releasing software into the PD. As you have said "I every so often get support contracts which don't make me rich but do pay for a computer upgrade or rent here or there."
Well for most people that isn't a good situation. Most people want to make enough money off of their labors to put food on the table and support their family. Software isn't a commodity. Why you want to devalue it is beyond me.
Microsoft is moving away from software sales? Since when? I know in your OSS dreamworld software would be "Free" and free, but that isn't the real world. In the real world, Microsoft's software sales have increased year to year every year. They sold $39 BILLION in software last year alone, with an increase of $2.5 BILLION over the year before. Reality check time!
Thank you Captain Obvious! *thunk*
Yes, its a comment on the failure of slashdot and the karma and moderation system. All it takes to get good karma is to post something quickly - as long as the content doesn't challenge the average readers worldview.
No matter how you slice it, piracy is enormous business. Never mind the millions that KaZaa made, of the millions that are made on .ru music sites -- there are dozens of downstream businesses which benefit directly from piracy.
For example: Just because Apple makes money on iTunes (ie: legitimate music sales) they make far, far more on sales of the iPod -- which are prediated on the availability of free pirated music. iTunes keeps Apple's music initiatives legitimate, but to say that Apple hasn't benefited from piracy would be wrong.
And let's talk about storage media: How much will Seagate, iOmega, yada yada yada, benefit from storing pirated digital movies? Tons!
Piracy is huge business.
The reason you use the same tool is that you are familiar with the toolset. The toolset has nothing to do with the resources required on the device. Obviously you haven't used a Windows Mobile application. They are very small and formatted to use the screen properly. Windows Mobile hasn't failed. It has succeeded.
Um yes, the full content is available online - every page, every word. That is the definition of "full content". You may not see it all from a single web request, but be assured that you can search and display pages of the entire work using multiple requests. What right does Google, Inc have to do this without asking permission of the author or copyright holder?
And plenty of people read books on their computer screen. Have you not heard of e-books?
Yes, none of these works in question are in public domain, and none fall under fair use. And yes, they are making the full content of the book available online. You might not be able to access the entire work from a single web request, but the full content is searchable and displayable.Any other questions? To repeat: it is not fair use for a multi-billion dollar corporation like Google, Inc to make a digital copyrighted work freely available on the web, even if it is just for searching and indexing purposes. If this was public domain material then no one would have a problem with it.
One million square feet! is certainly a lots of real estate space (no pun intended) that in the South Bay Area has to be worth a not insignificant chunk of change. Granted, Moffett field sits on an amazing amount of land and although I have not been back to the base for years, I imagine it is still some pretty choice real estate that just so happens to be right up the road from Google.
It also might be of interest to note that Moffett is right next door to a former NIMA (NRO) facility and given Google's interest in mapping the surface of the Earth and other remote sensing activities, might be pretty convenient.