Or perhaps the set designers for Star Trek consulted some UI people about what UIs would look like in the future? And perhaps the people at MS study some of those same ideas when they were in school?
Perhaps MS realizes this and figures they've got a good 9 more years to experiment before they need to make a solid desktop OS that'll be adopted by their enterprise customers? I mean, Windows 7 looks like it's going to have all of the staying power that XP did. Perhaps they're thinking they can do some radical experimenting and still maintain their user base with windows 7.
Seems a bit off-- first Mac come out in 1984, windows 1.0 was released in 1985. Anyways, they both shamelessly ripped of Xerox, and of course, the work of Doug Engelbart.
Seems fairly clear that that is what the reporter is saying:
"After decoding the 25 million years old rhesus macaque, an ancestor to both chimpanzees and humans, the researchers found that the macaque Y contained just 20 genes, just one more that the human Y has lost, and although the human Y chromosome has lengthened and grown significantly longer than the macaque chromosome, the genes were mostly the same. "
I think the article is an Amazonian plot. One designed to further degrade basic science education in the world. I mean, it gets some of the basic concepts wrong. I particularly enjoyed the part about the rhesus macaque being ancestral to both humans and chimps. It shows that the person writing the story doesn't have any clue at all about the subject.
You seem to have missed this part:
"This isn’t the venerated internship of the privileged college student, building valuable work and life skills with school credit and on-the-job training in place of pay – if such an internship even still exists. Historically, Foxconn’s low-wage internships involve essential factory labor by poor students, some of whose areas of study have nothing to do with electronics, and turn the “school credit” idea on its head. According to SACOM, vocational students, including those studying journalism, tourism and languages, have had practically no choice but to participate in such internships if they want to graduate from their schools. As temporary workers, they have little legal protection or recourse in the event of injury, over-work, or underpayment. And if they complain, they could jeopardize their diplomas."
A EULA, like any other contract, is only enforceable if it's provisions don't break the law. A company can put whatever they want into them, but that doesn't mean it has legal standing. Companies don't get to arbitrarily make laws. They could add a provision that you'll give them your first born son, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't stand if challenged in court.
Actually, I've been seeing Apple as the new MS. That is, blatantly using their big bucks and near monopolistic positioning to crush competition and force major players in various industries to do things their way at the expense of the consumer (eg, the whole e-books thing). I can't even look at the old 1984 commercial without thinking that Apple has become what they despised back then.
Option C: Light a fire under the California attorney general and drag their lying asses into court for monopolistic abuses.
As it was, not only did the bastards get off scot-free, they made an outrageous profit.
You forgot to mention Grey Davis and his fucked up deal with the energy providers to pay above market prices after they screwed us on those artificial shortages they created. Yeah, Wilson laid the groundwork, but it took a complete moppet like Davis to really fuck it up.
Oh, I get that it's just name calling at this point, I just think it's a particularly stupid one-- I mean, it's someone that's in the dominant position in a sex act meant to humiliate the one it's being done to. This is supposed to be an insult?
Tea party was a populist movement that was subverted by republican interests. It didn't start that way. The Tea Party Express, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the repubs was formed in order to control the news about the tea party, and then given credence by major news organizations. I have no doubt that the dems will pull the same thing. And there are plenty of big money donors on the left to make sure it happens-- see George Soros.
That's why everyone was pointing out up until now that the fear of this type of tit for tat patent war amounted to the old cold war MAD scenario and thus wouldn't happen. Apparently, Apple didn't get the memo.
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Or perhaps the set designers for Star Trek consulted some UI people about what UIs would look like in the future? And perhaps the people at MS study some of those same ideas when they were in school?
Perhaps MS realizes this and figures they've got a good 9 more years to experiment before they need to make a solid desktop OS that'll be adopted by their enterprise customers? I mean, Windows 7 looks like it's going to have all of the staying power that XP did. Perhaps they're thinking they can do some radical experimenting and still maintain their user base with windows 7.
Seems a bit off-- first Mac come out in 1984, windows 1.0 was released in 1985. Anyways, they both shamelessly ripped of Xerox, and of course, the work of Doug Engelbart.
Seems fairly clear that that is what the reporter is saying:
"After decoding the 25 million years old rhesus macaque, an ancestor to both chimpanzees and humans, the researchers found that the macaque Y contained just 20 genes, just one more that the human Y has lost, and although the human Y chromosome has lengthened and grown significantly longer than the macaque chromosome, the genes were mostly the same. "
I think the article is an Amazonian plot. One designed to further degrade basic science education in the world. I mean, it gets some of the basic concepts wrong. I particularly enjoyed the part about the rhesus macaque being ancestral to both humans and chimps. It shows that the person writing the story doesn't have any clue at all about the subject.
Anyways, the source material is here:
http://www.nature.com/news/the-human-y-chromosome-is-here-to-stay-1.10082
Sadly, the "they did it too!" defense was struck down by moms everywhere when their children reached the age of 3.
You seem to have missed this part: "This isn’t the venerated internship of the privileged college student, building valuable work and life skills with school credit and on-the-job training in place of pay – if such an internship even still exists. Historically, Foxconn’s low-wage internships involve essential factory labor by poor students, some of whose areas of study have nothing to do with electronics, and turn the “school credit” idea on its head. According to SACOM, vocational students, including those studying journalism, tourism and languages, have had practically no choice but to participate in such internships if they want to graduate from their schools. As temporary workers, they have little legal protection or recourse in the event of injury, over-work, or underpayment. And if they complain, they could jeopardize their diplomas."
You've obviously never been out to sea.
A EULA, like any other contract, is only enforceable if it's provisions don't break the law. A company can put whatever they want into them, but that doesn't mean it has legal standing. Companies don't get to arbitrarily make laws. They could add a provision that you'll give them your first born son, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't stand if challenged in court.
Well, Niven never did go into detail how the State came into existence.
Actually, I've been seeing Apple as the new MS. That is, blatantly using their big bucks and near monopolistic positioning to crush competition and force major players in various industries to do things their way at the expense of the consumer (eg, the whole e-books thing). I can't even look at the old 1984 commercial without thinking that Apple has become what they despised back then.
Well, how to you feel about a religion/philosophy that does none of that, but whose adherents just tend to act like assholes all the time?
Option C: Light a fire under the California attorney general and drag their lying asses into court for monopolistic abuses. As it was, not only did the bastards get off scot-free, they made an outrageous profit.
You forgot to mention Grey Davis and his fucked up deal with the energy providers to pay above market prices after they screwed us on those artificial shortages they created. Yeah, Wilson laid the groundwork, but it took a complete moppet like Davis to really fuck it up.
It's called a career in advertising, and I understand it can pay pretty well.
You haven't been to a keg party in a while, have you?
Oh, I get that it's just name calling at this point, I just think it's a particularly stupid one-- I mean, it's someone that's in the dominant position in a sex act meant to humiliate the one it's being done to. This is supposed to be an insult?
I've never quite gotten why "teabagger" is supposed to be an insult....I mean, you'd be the one doing the teabagging, right?
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, “the law is a ass—a idiot." Seems to fit. Apologies to Dickens.
I think you just probably just never noticed it until the repubs where pretty much already in the driver's seat.
Actually, it wasn't. You just never paid attention until it had already been subverted.
unfortunately, at this point they've been almost complete subverted by republican interests.
Tea party was a populist movement that was subverted by republican interests. It didn't start that way. The Tea Party Express, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the repubs was formed in order to control the news about the tea party, and then given credence by major news organizations. I have no doubt that the dems will pull the same thing. And there are plenty of big money donors on the left to make sure it happens-- see George Soros.
That's why everyone was pointing out up until now that the fear of this type of tit for tat patent war amounted to the old cold war MAD scenario and thus wouldn't happen. Apparently, Apple didn't get the memo.