All of Sun's competitors -- Hewlett-Packard (HPQ ), IBM (IBM ), and Digital Equipment Corp. -- were busy developing new servers to run the next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software. Wall Street pundits begged McNealy to show some common sense and do the same. But he refused, instead cranking up his investment in Sun's own software, called Solaris. What happened next made McNealy look brilliant. Rivals couldn't match the speed, reliability, and security of Sun's servers.
Is this really true? From my knowledge, all of these competetitors also offerred and promoted their unix workstations (HPUX/Digital Unix/Tru64/AIX) as well, and DEC never even really released anything AlphaNT that _really_ worked well, did they? This is a pretty weird statement to me.
Well, as I recall, wasn't there a version of Netscape called Composer, or something, that had editing in it? This was a little later, but the trend has come and gone, and it wasn't successful. Maybe because Composer wasn't that good.
But really, I think the issue is that different people author their html differently. Some people code up the html directly in a text editor. Some people like to use frames, some people like tables instead. People have different goals, and once you start trying to incorporate everything that someone could possibly want to put into a web page (flash, shockwave anyone?) into an authoring tool, you get something gigantic, something much bigger than a browser should be. That's what the commercial design tools are for.
Although, if I recall, some of the web _hosting_ sites (geocities or such) have web authoring tools on their web site, for authoring your page hosted there - if you like. Simple stuff, but I bet it gets used, and serves the purpose for a lot of people.
Would you really think it a good idea to bundle a crummy editor with the web browser that no one uses? That's nearly pointless (and reminds me of something I can't quite put my finger on.)
Not too long ago, I read Penguin Island, a French satire circa 1908. It satires much of French history, through a made-up society of Penguins. What's amazing about it is it goes into great detail about how corrupt the government is, and how big business owns it. In other words, it's not a new concept at all - and still, no one has figured out how to address it.
1gb of space initially for a couple thousand invitees is still less than 250 mb for millions of users. MS and yahoo's teams will no doubt be prodded to recoup their capital expenditures for all users,
not true at all. you don't think hotmail etc. actually _bought_ this storage already, do you? they're just going to buy it on an as-needs basis. most users are not going to use _nearly_ that must storage, and so there is not a need for 100M*#users storage. just like the way banks have your money 'deposited', but if everyone needed the money at once, the bank would be screwed (since it's actually been loaned out to other people).
the day i win the lottery is the day i'll begin to worry about the riaa
ahh, but the odds of you both winning the lottery and being sued are the original odds _squared_... if you win the lottery, i'd say you're pretty much in the clear:)
haven't there been products out for ages that do this? the hauppauge wintv-hd for one? even the wintv-d? and there was another competitor whose name also began with H, i think, but i may be wrong.
i haven't seen it mentioned anywhere - i know the officer responded to a report:
The witness said that he saw "a man with a black cowboy hat" who "slugged the female". Dove was there to investigate the report.
From the facts about Hiibel's case, it sounds like he did not slug his daughter. Does this mean that the actual case of violence continued on un disturbed, as the cops harassed these people?
except that 'trusting' a cop can be a lot more dangerous - you don't have to let any of the other people you mentioned handcuff you under fear of 'resisting arrest'. and once you let them do that, if you find out they are a 'bad' cop, it may be too late.
Scientists have not directly correlated exposure to PBDEs with specific diseases or developmental impairment, although researchers are studying possible links between brominated flame retardants and autism.
remember all that talk linking high-functioning autism to geekiness? assuming this is true, it would be an entirely different explanation for the correlation!
The lowest highway rating (automatic transmission and 4wd) is 26, the highest is 30 (manual transmission, 2wd). The lowest street mileage is still 21mpg.
(i'm sorry, it just really bothers me how misinformed people seem to be when it comes to mileage and SUVs)
you still haven't addressed the fact that two of the same gene can do completely different things, just like two different genes can do completely different things.
I don't know enough about genetics to fully disprove your assertion here, but I _do_ know that genetics are more about how the genes interact with each other than the individual pieces of information - the lack of one genome can cause another to act completely differently.
Given that, I don't think you can simplistically say that one _or_ the other has more information - just different. Two identical genomes, in different places, can perform very different functions.
This isn't the same as cloning - like those star trek episodes or whatever, where they run out of genetic material. The daughter mouse has two different X chromosomes - and if you were to take all women in history who ever lived, you could create them just with the genes from their women ancestors. It's a strange concept but it's true.
So at least from this purely genetic angle, it seems sound. From a process standpoint? who knows.
Actually, a number of those are in George Carlin's "Braindroppings" book, some pretty close to verbatim. (not 100% sure that Steven Wright hasn't said them as well, mind you)
On his web page, here, Carlin has a bit about internet forwards/sites which misattribute quotations and such. Apparently it's quite rampant.
so, really, even though i got modded to 0 in another post for being flamebait:), it seems someone agrees a little with my point (however weird and stretchy it might be)...
i remember joking back in the day when we looked through some users' home directories and found their.bash-history files.. and most of them had like 5 commands and then "tcsh"..
one could also say similar things about people who use windows media player, then switch to winamp or realplayer when they figure out how to change the defaults
winamp because it's faster, real because there's a LOT of media out there that's real-only.
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around what year was this all supposed to have happened...?
Is this really true? From my knowledge, all of these competetitors also offerred and promoted their unix workstations (HPUX/Digital Unix/Tru64/AIX) as well, and DEC never even really released anything AlphaNT that _really_ worked well, did they? This is a pretty weird statement to me.
But really, I think the issue is that different people author their html differently. Some people code up the html directly in a text editor. Some people like to use frames, some people like tables instead. People have different goals, and once you start trying to incorporate everything that someone could possibly want to put into a web page (flash, shockwave anyone?) into an authoring tool, you get something gigantic, something much bigger than a browser should be. That's what the commercial design tools are for.
Although, if I recall, some of the web _hosting_ sites (geocities or such) have web authoring tools on their web site, for authoring your page hosted there - if you like. Simple stuff, but I bet it gets used, and serves the purpose for a lot of people.
Would you really think it a good idea to bundle a crummy editor with the web browser that no one uses? That's nearly pointless (and reminds me of something I can't quite put my finger on.)
Not too long ago, I read Penguin Island, a French satire circa 1908. It satires much of French history, through a made-up society of Penguins. What's amazing about it is it goes into great detail about how corrupt the government is, and how big business owns it. In other words, it's not a new concept at all - and still, no one has figured out how to address it.
not true at all. you don't think hotmail etc. actually _bought_ this storage already, do you? they're just going to buy it on an as-needs basis. most users are not going to use _nearly_ that must storage, and so there is not a need for 100M*#users storage. just like the way banks have your money 'deposited', but if everyone needed the money at once, the bank would be screwed (since it's actually been loaned out to other people).
ahh, but the odds of you both winning the lottery and being sued are the original odds _squared_... if you win the lottery, i'd say you're pretty much in the clear :)
haven't there been products out for ages that do this? the hauppauge wintv-hd for one? even the wintv-d? and there was another competitor whose name also began with H, i think, but i may be wrong.
The witness said that he saw "a man with a black cowboy hat" who "slugged the female". Dove was there to investigate the report.
From the facts about Hiibel's case, it sounds like he did not slug his daughter. Does this mean that the actual case of violence continued on un disturbed, as the cops harassed these people?
except that 'trusting' a cop can be a lot more dangerous - you don't have to let any of the other people you mentioned handcuff you under fear of 'resisting arrest'. and once you let them do that, if you find out they are a 'bad' cop, it may be too late.
If (for example) 80% of PCs run Windows and 80% of spam comes from PCs that run Windows, that's hardly saying anything about Windows, is it.
Scientists have not directly correlated exposure to PBDEs with specific diseases or developmental impairment, although researchers are studying possible links between brominated flame retardants and autism.
remember all that talk linking high-functioning autism to geekiness? assuming this is true, it would be an entirely different explanation for the correlation!
So _that's_ why it's called /bin !! (and /usr/bin etc..)
I always thought that WNT (Win NT) was just (DEC's) VMS with each letter incremented... ;)
for example, the Toyota RAV4 (SUV):
spec page - click MPG tab
The lowest highway rating (automatic transmission and 4wd) is 26, the highest is 30 (manual transmission, 2wd). The lowest street mileage is still 21mpg.
(i'm sorry, it just really bothers me how misinformed people seem to be when it comes to mileage and SUVs)
you still haven't addressed the fact that two of the same gene can do completely different things, just like two different genes can do completely different things.
Given that, I don't think you can simplistically say that one _or_ the other has more information - just different. Two identical genomes, in different places, can perform very different functions.
So at least from this purely genetic angle, it seems sound. From a process standpoint? who knows.
you're trying to say that females have less genetic information than males?
Never mind the whole hullabaloo about the Orkut TOS...
On his web page, here, Carlin has a bit about internet forwards/sites which misattribute quotations and such. Apparently it's quite rampant.
talk about being mad about your genitals not doubling in size as advertised.....
but as I've said before, if MS really was locking people in, why is real audio more popular than windows media, in terms of web content?
i remember joking back in the day when we looked through some users' home directories and found their .bash-history files.. and most of them had like 5 commands and then "tcsh"..
one could also say similar things about people who use windows media player, then switch to winamp or realplayer when they figure out how to change the defaults
winamp because it's faster, real because there's a LOT of media out there that's real-only.
(just being silly here)