I think the biggest losers in media streaming market from Silverlight are Real Player, an abomination I'm glad to see the back of, and Windows Media, Microsoft's previous offering. People are moving from those to either Flash Video or Silverlight, but mostly Flash.
Just having expertise in the area doesn't mean you have a conflict of interest, otherwise you would only have people who don't know what they are talking about writing articles on Wikipedia. That of course does happen quite a bit at the moment.
But there are certain groups of people who are better at having more children than others - poorer people, people in third world countries, people who emigrated from third world countries, people who don't frequent slashdot etc.
Those are the people who are "fitter" in evolutionary terms.
I expect IE will have support for flash video (via a plugin from adobe) and silverlight. If they are feeling really generous, they will add support for wmv.
If I was swinging from a tree, I'm not even sure I would use the tips of my fingers to grip the branch. Certainly chopping them off is likely to make my grip worse rather than better, but it is more the end of the fingers nearer the palm of the hand that would take the burden of the grip.
I completely agree with your views. I find that a lot of fundamentalists, whether aethiest, christian, muslim or whatever, completely miss the point of religion.
"I believe there is no God" is as much a statement of faith as "There is no God but Allah, Muhammad is his messenger". There is no scientific evidence to prove or disprove either statement.
My view is that the reason science and religion come up with different answers is because they ask different questions.
Science can tell you how to create a bomb that will kill lots of people. Religion can try to tell you whether or not creating such a bomb is a good idea.
Slashdot Mirror
We are at the beginning/middle/end of a gold bubble, just like we had a .com stock bubble in 1999/2000 and a real estate bubble from 2001-2007.
I think the biggest losers in media streaming market from Silverlight are Real Player, an abomination I'm glad to see the back of, and Windows Media, Microsoft's previous offering. People are moving from those to either Flash Video or Silverlight, but mostly Flash.
They've also failed in financial software (vs Intuit in the US and Sage in the rest of the world) and in games.
It can't be that many years ago.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/23/online_banks_retailers_shut_out/
Talking of banks, will it work at https://www.nwolb.com/ or https://www.rbsdigital.com/ ? They are the world's largest bank, and don't have a good reputation for supporting alternative browsers.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/groove/FX100487641033.aspx
They could put that on taiwan.bing.cn, or www.bing.tw
Windows has a lot less than 90% of the server market, yet it is still the platform virus writers target most.
The original punch the monkey ad was a Java applet. Flash wasn't so popular in those days.
They don't, but they could pay someone who does.
Just having expertise in the area doesn't mean you have a conflict of interest, otherwise you would only have people who don't know what they are talking about writing articles on Wikipedia. That of course does happen quite a bit at the moment.
If IBM had used a 32 bit processor, then Microsoft would have bought a different operating system company.
Your "oversized" enter keys are standard for non-US keyboards. I don't like the US style ones, because I am used to a larger enter key..
But there are certain groups of people who are better at having more children than others - poorer people, people in third world countries, people who emigrated from third world countries, people who don't frequent slashdot etc.
Those are the people who are "fitter" in evolutionary terms.
Is there any particular reason why we have five fingers on each hand, and not six?
You sometimes get people with six fingers and it doesn't seem to do them any harm, or any good, but nevertheless most people have five.
My guess is that it is just the way it worked out.
I expect IE will have support for flash video (via a plugin from adobe) and silverlight. If they are feeling really generous, they will add support for wmv.
I was still aware it existed, but that might be because I know someone who caught it.
If I was swinging from a tree, I'm not even sure I would use the tips of my fingers to grip the branch. Certainly chopping them off is likely to make my grip worse rather than better, but it is more the end of the fingers nearer the palm of the hand that would take the burden of the grip.
Maybe that particular mutation hasn't happened yet, or it happened along with some other mutation that was detrimental to survival.
I completely agree with your views. I find that a lot of fundamentalists, whether aethiest, christian, muslim or whatever, completely miss the point of religion.
An agnostic
"I believe there is no God" is as much a statement of faith as "There is no God but Allah, Muhammad is his messenger". There is no scientific evidence to prove or disprove either statement.
Aetheism is a religion.
Not really. Survival of the fittest means survival of those most able to have lots of children, and that's as valid now as it has ever been.
My view is that the reason science and religion come up with different answers is because they ask different questions.
Science can tell you how to create a bomb that will kill lots of people. Religion can try to tell you whether or not creating such a bomb is a good idea.
Or maybe it didn't evolve that way for any particular reason.
These sort of studies assume we have now evolved to perfection. But that suggests there will be no further evolution, which I don't think is the case.