I doubt they will go back in. Nokia stuffed up massively
You missed a WAS in there - Nokia was stuffed up massively as a deliberate action. There can hardly be anything more blatant than an MS guy leaving to do his first CEO gig in a major multinational with the world's largest market share in mobile phones, then transferring that multinational to MS products, running down the market share and company value, then going back to MS as they bought the diminished company. It was a blatant corporate raid even if it was done with the blessing of the board. People with no track record as a CEO do not get to run major multinationals unless there is some sort of game afoot and pressure on the board (or specifically extra weight in their wallets). I feel sorry for the Trolltech guys that would have been better off in the long run if they hadn't joined up with Nokia. They would still be working on Qt if they were not removed as part of Elop's sabotage of Nokia to bring down the share price.
No I most definitely did not. You've probably got me mixed up with someone else you are trolling. Come on now A.D.D. boy - answer the question. Why the lecture? Why do others have to be at a higher standard than you are demonstrating yourself?
Hey guys - check out the other posts from this troll. That "How else do you explain your need to respond" seems to be a common theme. If it wasn't for his quote I'd write him off as a bored teen instead of a possible bitter middle aged man.
WTF? Conspiracy theory? The Eliza "AI" program of the 1990s showed more apparent intelligent life than you are demonstrating here. At least it tried to appear to be relevant by quoting strings back at people instead of being totally random.
So - answer the question - why did you jump onto my post and give me a lecture without even reading my post? I'm not going to let such attempted petty bullying stand, it's peices of shit like you that give us all a bad name.
Another post devoid of any connection to the one above it. Why bother? You still haven't told me why you chose to jump on to give me a lecture despite not actually reading more than the start of the post that was the target of your lecture. Are you the holder of both the narcc account and SuperKendall pretending to be an unrelated person? Are you the ten year old child of the actual owner of the narcc account? Is this some stupid Eliza script being run as a game? Either way, why do you feel that you are in a position where you are fit to lecture me when your own behaviour shows a distinct lack of maturity? Why should I roll over when some immature little shit attempts to bring me to task yet the little shit is in some way above criticism?
Out of curiosity, why do you call it an "ADD comment"?
Attention deficit disorder - as in rushing in to post something without reading beyond the first sentence, as hilariously revealed above when you showed you'd entirely missed the "benefit of the doubt" in the second sentence.
I think you really need imaginary foes to fight against to make yourself feel important
That fits your ridiculous behaviour of jumping on my comment without even reading beyond the first few words to deliver some sort of lecture. I suggest you let it go instead of indulging in such petty bullying in the hope that I have a low enough self esteem for such a comment to gain traction.
So let's have a bit of truth from you now - why did you jump in too swiftly to even read my comment when I was being critical of a luddite rolling out an old and tired argument from the luddite's playbook?
why do you continue to engage me?
I found your "epic fail" above somewhat amusing and wish to know more about the clown who wrote it.
I just didn't visit this site for a few days and then found your ridiculous ADD comment with condescending advice and I felt it was ridiculous enough to reply to. It may not satisfy your ego but that's the very simple reality.
If it goes down you have another $15k box or a cheaper on that can get by, just like you would with the $25k box when you don't want to wait a day for the IBM guy to turn up, three hours to teach the IBM guy about the IBM system and another day for parts to be flown in.
There are plenty of good reasons but it's not as cut and dried as the post above. The biggest reason is capability - if the cheap box does not handle the job adequately or the architecture/platform is what you need to run your stuff then the expensive option can be more viable in the long run.
Since you had a very major reading comprehension clanger when you decided to jump on this thread unasked to put me in my place I really cannot see how you can continue to pretend that your advice is of any value, so what's the deal here? Personal ego boosting? Fair enough, I will concede that you are vastly superior at mass debating, however I do not wish to witness you mass debating all over my posts when it's not remotely relevant to what I have written.
Feeling better now - or is it not about ego but instead did you just win some more points in some sort of troll bingo game? I don't see why I have to put up with condescending bullshit just because I'm not going to roll over when the luddite propaganda machine comes to a tech site recycling twenty year old shit from Ian Plimer from when he used it on creationists.
Uranium doesn't come as uranium, it comes as an oxide that's so hard to reduce that flouride is used. It's not that coal and gas is more plentiful it's that it's easier to start using the stuff. However in some places Uranium is mined as a side product to Copper and Gold mining since it's in the same ore.
It must be close to the end of design life for a lot of reactor components anyway. A combination of high stress and neutron bombardment is a lot like a combination of high temperature and high stress in the way the effected metal behaves so some parts don't last forever, and replacement can be expensive. I'm not predicting disaster just pointing out a well known problem - when microcracking is detected it can be a few years before it's going to grow into something serious but it's time to set things in motion to replace bits.
I'm guessing your "Jump to Conclusions" mat doesn't have a "Benefit of the doubt" square?
Pity you never made it past the end of my first sentence (starting with "I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt but") before you decided to post. What exactly inspired such behaviour?
No it's about shouting political slogans on a tech site. The "benefit of the doubt" is given once or twice and not more than twenty times to people like the repeat offender above otherwise they just see you as a gullible fool to be exploited.
You are attempting to compare very different things which either indicates a lack of understanding or a pretended one in some sort of attempt to decieve the gullible for political purposes. I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt but your frequent earlier posts on this topic over the last few months indicate you are using pretended good old homespun stupidity as a vector to puch political propaganda - plus it's directly out of the fucking playbook. If you are not being paid to push the view but are merely a cheerleader willing to trash their reputation to yell for the team I suppose not all of the stupidity is pretended.
Your analogy of comparing science to religion doesn't fit as you would realise if you thought about it instead of just regurgitating Ian Plimer's stupid recycled anti-creationist rant that he warmed up to re-use against climate scientists.
DLL hell to start with (now finally going away), but the MS platforms have changed so much that given enough time something outside of your application is going to break it as the next fad emerges and the old one is dropped. Packaging as much in as possible and pretending you are developing for a fairly dumb console with hardly anything available instead of relying on what's currently on top of the quicksand is a partial workaround. Developing for an environment that MS does not have control over which sits on top of the OS is a better workaround.
However having more than one cpu core or a processor such as the pentium two or newer gets around that. Pity the lowest end Microsoft operating system didn't. They expected you to buy the server version of the software if you wanted to use 4GB or more. So to sum up, 32 bit systems can and do adress more than 4GB, it's just MS Windows XP or similar that can't. I've still got an old Win2k dual socket system here to run legacy software and it can use the full 6GB of memory it has even though the CPUs are older than PAE.
It's a bit hard to link to stuff derived from dozens of newspaper articles from 2001-2003 but there's bound to be a book on that "armchair warrior" about how he fucked things up TWICE. What I'm referring to is his drastic cutbacks and closures that started in 2001 and continued after September, then his hiring of "Blackwater" and similar when professional soldiers were still far too professional for him. Closing anything that had to do with reconstruction, communication, running towns/cities as a military authority etc is the main example I'm referring to here. The US used to have a lot of expertise in those areas and training courses to pass it on. Some Australian troops I know benefited from those US courses pre-Rumsfeld and one I know put it to good use in Afganistan to keep the locals off everyone's backs and only having to worry about the guys coming down from nearby mountains.
There was press in 2012 about them being completed that year, and some again last year, but it was most likely hitting milestones being misreported as being nearly ready for operation. That's why I began writing "any day soon" each time I refer to them.
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You missed a WAS in there - Nokia was stuffed up massively as a deliberate action.
There can hardly be anything more blatant than an MS guy leaving to do his first CEO gig in a major multinational with the world's largest market share in mobile phones, then transferring that multinational to MS products, running down the market share and company value, then going back to MS as they bought the diminished company. It was a blatant corporate raid even if it was done with the blessing of the board. People with no track record as a CEO do not get to run major multinationals unless there is some sort of game afoot and pressure on the board (or specifically extra weight in their wallets).
I feel sorry for the Trolltech guys that would have been better off in the long run if they hadn't joined up with Nokia. They would still be working on Qt if they were not removed as part of Elop's sabotage of Nokia to bring down the share price.
No I most definitely did not. You've probably got me mixed up with someone else you are trolling.
Come on now A.D.D. boy - answer the question. Why the lecture? Why do others have to be at a higher standard than you are demonstrating yourself?
Hey guys - check out the other posts from this troll. That "How else do you explain your need to respond" seems to be a common theme.
If it wasn't for his quote I'd write him off as a bored teen instead of a possible bitter middle aged man.
WTF? Conspiracy theory?
The Eliza "AI" program of the 1990s showed more apparent intelligent life than you are demonstrating here. At least it tried to appear to be relevant by quoting strings back at people instead of being totally random.
So - answer the question - why did you jump onto my post and give me a lecture without even reading my post? I'm not going to let such attempted petty bullying stand, it's peices of shit like you that give us all a bad name.
Another post devoid of any connection to the one above it. Why bother?
You still haven't told me why you chose to jump on to give me a lecture despite not actually reading more than the start of the post that was the target of your lecture. Are you the holder of both the narcc account and SuperKendall pretending to be an unrelated person? Are you the ten year old child of the actual owner of the narcc account? Is this some stupid Eliza script being run as a game? Either way, why do you feel that you are in a position where you are fit to lecture me when your own behaviour shows a distinct lack of maturity? Why should I roll over when some immature little shit attempts to bring me to task yet the little shit is in some way above criticism?
Good point. I forgot that so much was built before the kingdom was so large.
Attention deficit disorder - as in rushing in to post something without reading beyond the first sentence, as hilariously revealed above when you showed you'd entirely missed the "benefit of the doubt" in the second sentence.
That fits your ridiculous behaviour of jumping on my comment without even reading beyond the first few words to deliver some sort of lecture. I suggest you let it go instead of indulging in such petty bullying in the hope that I have a low enough self esteem for such a comment to gain traction.
So let's have a bit of truth from you now - why did you jump in too swiftly to even read my comment when I was being critical of a luddite rolling out an old and tired argument from the luddite's playbook?
I found your "epic fail" above somewhat amusing and wish to know more about the clown who wrote it.
I just didn't visit this site for a few days and then found your ridiculous ADD comment with condescending advice and I felt it was ridiculous enough to reply to. It may not satisfy your ego but that's the very simple reality.
How about a sphere due to wrapping it all up in string :)
For all those "that just might work" people it would be a bit of a bastard of a job wrapping under the blocks even with enough rope.
Egypt had a pretty big empire with a lot of trees at the south end and a big river to float them down.
If it goes down you have another $15k box or a cheaper on that can get by, just like you would with the $25k box when you don't want to wait a day for the IBM guy to turn up, three hours to teach the IBM guy about the IBM system and another day for parts to be flown in.
There are plenty of good reasons but it's not as cut and dried as the post above. The biggest reason is capability - if the cheap box does not handle the job adequately or the architecture/platform is what you need to run your stuff then the expensive option can be more viable in the long run.
Since you had a very major reading comprehension clanger when you decided to jump on this thread unasked to put me in my place I really cannot see how you can continue to pretend that your advice is of any value, so what's the deal here? Personal ego boosting? Fair enough, I will concede that you are vastly superior at mass debating, however I do not wish to witness you mass debating all over my posts when it's not remotely relevant to what I have written.
Feeling better now - or is it not about ego but instead did you just win some more points in some sort of troll bingo game?
I don't see why I have to put up with condescending bullshit just because I'm not going to roll over when the luddite propaganda machine comes to a tech site recycling twenty year old shit from Ian Plimer from when he used it on creationists.
Uranium doesn't come as uranium, it comes as an oxide that's so hard to reduce that flouride is used. It's not that coal and gas is more plentiful it's that it's easier to start using the stuff.
However in some places Uranium is mined as a side product to Copper and Gold mining since it's in the same ore.
It must be close to the end of design life for a lot of reactor components anyway. A combination of high stress and neutron bombardment is a lot like a combination of high temperature and high stress in the way the effected metal behaves so some parts don't last forever, and replacement can be expensive. I'm not predicting disaster just pointing out a well known problem - when microcracking is detected it can be a few years before it's going to grow into something serious but it's time to set things in motion to replace bits.
The second sentence started with "I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt".
Pity you never made it past the end of my first sentence (starting with "I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt but") before you decided to post. What exactly inspired such behaviour?
No it's about shouting political slogans on a tech site.
The "benefit of the doubt" is given once or twice and not more than twenty times to people like the repeat offender above otherwise they just see you as a gullible fool to be exploited.
You are attempting to compare very different things which either indicates a lack of understanding or a pretended one in some sort of attempt to decieve the gullible for political purposes.
I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt but your frequent earlier posts on this topic over the last few months indicate you are using pretended good old homespun stupidity as a vector to puch political propaganda - plus it's directly out of the fucking playbook.
If you are not being paid to push the view but are merely a cheerleader willing to trash their reputation to yell for the team I suppose not all of the stupidity is pretended.
Your analogy of comparing science to religion doesn't fit as you would realise if you thought about it instead of just regurgitating Ian Plimer's stupid recycled anti-creationist rant that he warmed up to re-use against climate scientists.
DLL hell to start with (now finally going away), but the MS platforms have changed so much that given enough time something outside of your application is going to break it as the next fad emerges and the old one is dropped. Packaging as much in as possible and pretending you are developing for a fairly dumb console with hardly anything available instead of relying on what's currently on top of the quicksand is a partial workaround. Developing for an environment that MS does not have control over which sits on top of the OS is a better workaround.
Not being twelve feet deep in horseshit implies that there has been a game change in energy production and transport.
However having more than one cpu core or a processor such as the pentium two or newer gets around that. Pity the lowest end Microsoft operating system didn't. They expected you to buy the server version of the software if you wanted to use 4GB or more.
So to sum up, 32 bit systems can and do adress more than 4GB, it's just MS Windows XP or similar that can't. I've still got an old Win2k dual socket system here to run legacy software and it can use the full 6GB of memory it has even though the CPUs are older than PAE.
It's a bit hard to link to stuff derived from dozens of newspaper articles from 2001-2003 but there's bound to be a book on that "armchair warrior" about how he fucked things up TWICE. What I'm referring to is his drastic cutbacks and closures that started in 2001 and continued after September, then his hiring of "Blackwater" and similar when professional soldiers were still far too professional for him.
Closing anything that had to do with reconstruction, communication, running towns/cities as a military authority etc is the main example I'm referring to here. The US used to have a lot of expertise in those areas and training courses to pass it on. Some Australian troops I know benefited from those US courses pre-Rumsfeld and one I know put it to good use in Afganistan to keep the locals off everyone's backs and only having to worry about the guys coming down from nearby mountains.
There was press in 2012 about them being completed that year, and some again last year, but it was most likely hitting milestones being misreported as being nearly ready for operation. That's why I began writing "any day soon" each time I refer to them.