Microsoft recently said it was working on something called XP Reloaded, which appears to be an interim release of the desktop operating system before the big upgrade to Longhorn now slated for 2006. It also lets Microsoft put some software in the pipeline for Software Assurance customers. A similar upgrade is rumored for Office,
John Conner: Boss, our customers realize they have been ripped off.
Bill Gate: We've seen this problem before. We'll just release Service Pack 5 as a new OS. It's new if we say it is. Have Marketing design a new splash screen. That will fool all those bumpkins.
John Conner: <snicker> You're right again Bill!
Bill Gate: Yes I am, because I am smarter than everyone else.
John Conner: Then do you think you could help me out? My mother, Sarah, is being chased by a cybernetic killing machine sent from the future...
Yes but Florida law was not upheld in the election fiasco. The Florida State Supreme Court says that a recount must be permitted in the counties that asked for one. It was only after Gore made it a federal case by suing Bush/Cheney that the U.S. Supreme Court felt authorized to overrule Florida law. But I am still not convinced that what they did was legal. The states are supposed to have full power over how their delegates vote.
Since you obviously didn't read the article I will quote the relevent section:
It is rather ironic that Microsoft and other closed model companies rather resemble the Stalinist or Maoist model of a command economy with complete centralised control.
SCO is suing large Linux users
Despite claims by some - most notably SCO's CEO Darl McBride - that free software is some sort of communistic plot against America, open, collaborative programming on the basis of shared code is closer in spirit to the US political system.
It even supports a free market economy where consumer choice is based on full information about competing suppliers.
His comparison of closed source with a command driven economy and that of Open Source with a free market economy was dead on, and his usage of the terms was absolutely correct.
Your problem I would guess is due to you not understanding that communist and command driven do not mean the same thing and Capitalist and Free Market are also not equivalent. For example, there can be a system which is capitalist yet also command driven. This is essentially what Fasism was. As well, red China is now experimenting with the Free Market and it is part of what is fueling their economic rise to prominence.
What's really 'Funny' (ironic) is when an author is attacked by people who are less educated and don't even understand the thing that they are criticizing.
I was under the impression that purchasers of stolen merchandise could expect it to be seized by the police (who would return it to the owner) and not recover any of the money they spent buying it unless they took action against the thief. Is that not the case in Florida?"
Unless Florida is ass-backward from the rest of the Union then you are correct. Making the purchaser of the stolen merchandise sue the thief to recover his money gives financial impetus to dealing only with reputable vendors. That is the very purpose of the law. I think EB needs to send the manager that gave their statement for a little retraining.
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You make a very good point. However if George Bush Jr can snort cocaine yet be elected President 25 years later when his party advocates mandatory prison for drug users, then I have to think there are other factors much more important to running for office. Such as: does your daddy control the CIA, are you rich, are you easily manipulated by daddy's business associates, do you have no respect for life, etc.
What's more it is very doubtful that they're nursing a grudge against MS
This is true. Years ago they realized how self destructive it was to treat MS as an enemy when they were dependent on Windows for client development and in porting their server products to NT. When I was there for training some of the Novell employees I met were ex-Microsoft employees who were born in Utah. Maybe they just got tired of the rain in Seattle or wanted to go home and find a nice Mormon girl to marry. I don't know. But Novell as a corporation doesn't seem to hold any grudges against Gates and Co.
Here is
another entry
from Technovelgy.
This one actually references real world research published in Applied Physics plus some early experiments done with rotating blobs of mercury.
Thursday March 4th, 2004: SCO sues Judge Brooke C. Wells for ONE HUNDRED BILLION dollars, news of which sends SCOX price soaring 10 cents per share to 11.69, at which time Daryll McBride sells the last of his holdings. Their evil scheme collapses and there is much rejoicing. Okay I am dreaming.:-?
See this post for the U.S. Dept. of State and U.S. Congresses definitions of Terrorism. I think that not everyone has to be coerced by terror for it to qualify as terrorism. For example, when the Christians started killing abortion doctors: it was a politically motivatied act intended to intimidate and coerce other abortion doctors.
President George Dubious Bush was on the tube tonight asking Congress to pass a constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriage. I guess he must figure that for every constitutional amendment he destroys the right thing to do is to put one back.
The ultimate irony of course is that Microsoft themselves are now mucking with 'compensatory' software - instead of fixing the holes that make such gems necessary in the first place (something they're most likely incapable of doing anyway).
I think this is a good decision for Microsoft because they are changing the system so that companies don't make more money everytime a new virus sweeps through. Instead, Microsoft will look like idiots if a virus defeats their OS *and* their virus protection. This will encourage Microsoft to tighten security and no longer will employees or shareholders of antivirus companies write "experimental viruses" (supposedly to be pro-active) and OOPS! it gets into the wild. Money makes the world go around and now more money will be made by Microsoft if consumers are protected. This will slow the inevitable migration of users to Linux, so is a very good decision for them.
Can that be a misprint? If we assume that in this mode we would have at least 4 shades of gray for colordepth, then the memory needed just to hold the state of the currently display screen is: 32000x32000x2 bits or 256MB which is given as the maximum amount of ram in the thing. On the other hand, maybe what that really means is that they will be able to multipurpose RAM as video RAM the way the macintoshes did and no shortsighted barriers like 640k on a PC.
What are games really? They are practice in a simulated environment. Some games help you practice counting or reading or typing. Other games might teach you strategy. Many of these lessons can be carried over to real life. The more realistic the simulation, more likely the lessons have a real-life analogue. The military plays war-games and they try to make them as realistic as they can. Are they wasting their money?
Gamers generally improve through repetetive learning. But repetition has another consequence. It can accustomize a person to something which is why a patient with a phobia of dogs might be asked to hold and pet a stuffed animal then work up to a live toy breed and so on. Again the closer the stimulus is to the real thing, the more genuine the response is. "Space Invaders" violence is too abstract to worry me, but what about the next generation of kids playing "Natural Born Killer" in 3D on the Playstation9 with neural implants.
And what exactly does practice do for you? It programs your body and mind to react in a certain way without needing to analyze the situation before acting. What will happen when reality and simulation are nearly indistinguishable? Have you ever been so into a movie that your body jumped involuntarily when something happened on the screen? Your unconcious mind was reacting to what it perceived as a real threat. And that is with old school technology that has been around for many decades.
I used to work in a coal burning power plant where they are required to run catalytic scrubbers to remove some of the NO2 before releasing it. While walking above the boilers one day I inhaled a lungful of something noxious that about knocked me off my feet and the safety engineer later said it was probably an NO2 leak. It felt like a chemical burn in all my respiratory passages for days. Anyway that is an environment where NO2 gas is highly concentrated and the workers there could be partially protected by painting the offices, breakrooms, turbine rooms, etc. with this stuff.
Who wants to pay tax and shipping when you can go to a local store and just pay tax? Plus you get the item right away. On-line retailers will have to cut into their margins even further to compete.
I'll give you a hint: liberal and conservative have nothing to do with democrat and republican. They are separate concepts. Your misconception that they are linked shows that you probably received your political opinions from talk radio which typically pushes both the republican and conservative agendas as if they were one front.
Indian Culture is much different from the American one. Such migration might not help at all.. considering that the Americans will have tough time adjusting to the culture in the first place.
The trick is to marry a very ugly woman and demand an exorbitant dowry afterward. Then threaten to douse your bride with oil and set her on fire until her family pays you the money. Yes, Americans might have trouble fitting in but I think Italians and Brazilians would adjust quickly.
It's all relative. Mainstream TV news is mostly conservative and right-leaning and talk radio is frighteningly rightwing, so objective reporting does seem leftist in comparison.
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John Conner: Boss, our customers realize they have been ripped off.
Bill Gate: We've seen this problem before. We'll just release Service Pack 5 as a new OS. It's new if we say it is. Have Marketing design a new splash screen. That will fool all those bumpkins.
John Conner: <snicker> You're right again Bill!
Bill Gate: Yes I am, because I am smarter than everyone else.
John Conner: Then do you think you could help me out? My mother, Sarah, is being chased by a cybernetic killing machine sent from the future...
Yes but Florida law was not upheld in the election fiasco. The Florida State Supreme Court says that a recount must be permitted in the counties that asked for one. It was only after Gore made it a federal case by suing Bush/Cheney that the U.S. Supreme Court felt authorized to overrule Florida law. But I am still not convinced that what they did was legal. The states are supposed to have full power over how their delegates vote.
What's really 'Funny' (ironic) is when an author is attacked by people who are less educated and don't even understand the thing that they are criticizing.
Unless Florida is ass-backward from the rest of the Union then you are correct. Making the purchaser of the stolen merchandise sue the thief to recover his money gives financial impetus to dealing only with reputable vendors. That is the very purpose of the law. I think EB needs to send the manager that gave their statement for a little retraining.
You make a very good point. However if George Bush Jr can snort cocaine yet be elected President 25 years later when his party advocates mandatory prison for drug users, then I have to think there are other factors much more important to running for office. Such as: does your daddy control the CIA, are you rich, are you easily manipulated by daddy's business associates, do you have no respect for life, etc.
This is true. Years ago they realized how self destructive it was to treat MS as an enemy when they were dependent on Windows for client development and in porting their server products to NT. When I was there for training some of the Novell employees I met were ex-Microsoft employees who were born in Utah. Maybe they just got tired of the rain in Seattle or wanted to go home and find a nice Mormon girl to marry. I don't know. But Novell as a corporation doesn't seem to hold any grudges against Gates and Co.
Patience, Grasshopper. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single footstep.
Here is another entry from Technovelgy. This one actually references real world research published in Applied Physics plus some early experiments done with rotating blobs of mercury.
Thursday March 4th, 2004: :-?
SCO sues Judge Brooke C. Wells for ONE HUNDRED BILLION dollars, news of which sends SCOX price soaring 10 cents per share to 11.69, at which time Daryll McBride sells the last of his holdings. Their evil scheme collapses and there is much rejoicing. Okay I am dreaming.
See this post for the U.S. Dept. of State and U.S. Congresses definitions of Terrorism. I think that not everyone has to be coerced by terror for it to qualify as terrorism. For example, when the Christians started killing abortion doctors: it was a politically motivatied act intended to intimidate and coerce other abortion doctors.
With Microsoft's history of bloated software I kind of expected their next release to be called Windows XS.
How does a professor get a reputation like that, downloading a buttload of mp3's?
President George Dubious Bush was on the tube tonight asking Congress to pass a constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriage. I guess he must figure that for every constitutional amendment he destroys the right thing to do is to put one back.
I think this is a good decision for Microsoft because they are changing the system so that companies don't make more money everytime a new virus sweeps through. Instead, Microsoft will look like idiots if a virus defeats their OS *and* their virus protection. This will encourage Microsoft to tighten security and no longer will employees or shareholders of antivirus companies write "experimental viruses" (supposedly to be pro-active) and OOPS! it gets into the wild. Money makes the world go around and now more money will be made by Microsoft if consumers are protected. This will slow the inevitable migration of users to Linux, so is a very good decision for them.
Can that be a misprint? If we assume that in this mode we would have at least 4 shades of gray for colordepth, then the memory needed just to hold the state of the currently display screen is: 32000x32000x2 bits or 256MB which is given as the maximum amount of ram in the thing. On the other hand, maybe what that really means is that they will be able to multipurpose RAM as video RAM the way the macintoshes did and no shortsighted barriers like 640k on a PC.
What about with adaptive optics? What about with the Hubble?
What are games really? They are practice in a simulated environment. Some games help you practice counting or reading or typing. Other games might teach you strategy. Many of these lessons can be carried over to real life. The more realistic the simulation, more likely the lessons have a real-life analogue. The military plays war-games and they try to make them as realistic as they can. Are they wasting their money?
Gamers generally improve through repetetive learning. But repetition has another consequence. It can accustomize a person to something which is why a patient with a phobia of dogs might be asked to hold and pet a stuffed animal then work up to a live toy breed and so on. Again the closer the stimulus is to the real thing, the more genuine the response is. "Space Invaders" violence is too abstract to worry me, but what about the next generation of kids playing "Natural Born Killer" in 3D on the Playstation9 with neural implants.
And what exactly does practice do for you? It programs your body and mind to react in a certain way without needing to analyze the situation before acting. What will happen when reality and simulation are nearly indistinguishable? Have you ever been so into a movie that your body jumped involuntarily when something happened on the screen? Your unconcious mind was reacting to what it perceived as a real threat. And that is with old school technology that has been around for many decades.
I used to work in a coal burning power plant where they are required to run catalytic scrubbers to remove some of the NO2 before releasing it. While walking above the boilers one day I inhaled a lungful of something noxious that about knocked me off my feet and the safety engineer later said it was probably an NO2 leak. It felt like a chemical burn in all my respiratory passages for days. Anyway that is an environment where NO2 gas is highly concentrated and the workers there could be partially protected by painting the offices, breakrooms, turbine rooms, etc. with this stuff.
$30+ Per device?! Whoa! No wonder winCE has been such a failure! They should try giving it away.
Who wants to pay tax and shipping when you can go to a local store and just pay tax? Plus you get the item right away. On-line retailers will have to cut into their margins even further to compete.
I'll give you a hint: liberal and conservative have nothing to do with democrat and republican. They are separate concepts. Your misconception that they are linked shows that you probably received your political opinions from talk radio which typically pushes both the republican and conservative agendas as if they were one front.
And the name of the customer is... ...Trolltech!
I'm not going to debate the subject with someone who know so little about it that he thinks democrats are liberals and republicans are conservatives.
The trick is to marry a very ugly woman and demand an exorbitant dowry afterward. Then threaten to douse your bride with oil and set her on fire until her family pays you the money. Yes, Americans might have trouble fitting in but I think Italians and Brazilians would adjust quickly.
It's all relative. Mainstream TV news is mostly conservative and right-leaning and talk radio is frighteningly rightwing, so objective reporting does seem leftist in comparison.