The neo-con view explicitly describes itself - bizarrely - as "post History", and evidently its proponents and executives (Bush, Cheney, etc) believed this, or claimed to. It was one of the hallmarks of their generally insane and bloodthirsty credo.
But this also ties into the general "exceptionalism" that Americans still cling to about their own place in History - "can't happen here," even though it already is.
But isn't it time they stopped pretending they're about creating good technology, and admitted it's really all about the money?
Gates already left with the loot. The company has served its purpose and seems primed to implode, since its model of building and "selling" software was obsoleted at least a decade or two ago and they have proven unable to adapt. They haven't even been able to succeed in their markets without habitual dishonesty, lies, duplicity, and every other kind of skullduggery.
Extreme problems may call for extreme solutions. The problem here is that it's not even *possible* to shut them down; they're more powerful than your government. The other lobby of comparable power is, of course, the military-industrial complex... That annual $650 billion isn't being retargeted any time soon.
I'm pretty sure $2m when I was 25 would have meant easy retirement, but I'm not that expensive to run.
Also, retirement means different things to different people. I wouldn't have stopped working, but I would have been more selective and the pressure would have been off to make rent, mortgage, etc. By continuing to work I would also have had plenty of liquidity to enjoy some of the things I like - good food, travel...
Can you imagine how bad [GATES] would feel now if he didn't sell out for billions back then when he was more popular than Elvis? [MICROSOFT] is nothing now, but he still has...ALL...THOSE...BILLIONS...OF...DOLLARS.
Everything went according to Gates' plan; Microsoft has now served its purpose. The pilot used the escape capsule, the ship is on a trajectory to crash and burn.
The killer (and necessary) feature here would be VirtualBox snapshots: When your Windows install gets taken over by malware, just revert to a clean snapshot.
Several Vista users I know hate it so much they asked me to install VirtualBox running XP - after they saw it running on my wife's Mac. (She only uses it because some sites use browser plugins not available for OS X - another effect of the monopoly).
Who's to say only the "American people" got fucked over? It's usually the rest of us.
When some greedy corporation in the US gets the urge to over-reach common sense in the name of profit, people die. Hello Halliburton,Blackwater - sorry, "Xe" - Merck, Chevron,Shell,Union Carbide,Monsanto - This is going on all around you, every day. It's just the kind of business y'all have been trained to tolerate, encourage and sponsor. And let's be frank, the absurd US military budget is largely what it is so that they can keep doing it with impunity. Nice little system.
If a corporation is legally a person, then let them be shut down and incarcerated like the murderers and thieves they are.
Corruption is a big problem because some companies (mostly Microsoft) bribe the people deciding which software will be installed.
Happens worldwide, including the US.
Police raids searching for illegal software only accept a receipt or a license with a hologram. These are mostly directed at companies and, recently, individuals who install or troubleshoot software for a living.
And this is exactly what Microsoft wants to happen everywhere, especially the US.
They had bought Transmeta (or, more recently, Sun) - Both have world class low-power technology. At least Oracle will make good data centre use of that. (I hope.)
Er, no, chessd on sourceforge is entirely C. And even a brief perusal would show that it is based on the original [F]ICS C code. Did you even look at the source?
That codebase is pretty much dead; the project leader(s) have been working on a completely different solution that has been mentioned on the mailing list, is apparently in use in Brazilian schools (where chess is very popular) but unfortunately has not been published.
Like most of their other decisions (every gram carried on board got unbelievable scrutiny), the decision to use Hasselblad was likely "use the best equipment for the job".
Hasselblad already had a significant market in scientific photography. And the units themselves are ideal from NASA's point of view: Very compact; unsurpassed engineering quality; extremely high quality optics and image. (These photographs may well be the most expensively obtained scientific data in history, so you don't take chances.)
Another critical consideration would also have been user interface - Can a suited astronaut easily operate the camera. Practically no current digital SLR would meet even that criterion.
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Microsoft completely replaced their consumer OS, moving from the Win95-based platform to the infinitely more secure NT-based platform
Thank goodness. I'd hate to think they were shipping anything insecure to their well deserved 97% of the market...
(And are you including OpenBSD in your "non-Linux UNIXes" list, by any chance?)
The neo-con view explicitly describes itself - bizarrely - as "post History", and evidently its proponents and executives (Bush, Cheney, etc) believed this, or claimed to. It was one of the hallmarks of their generally insane and bloodthirsty credo.
But this also ties into the general "exceptionalism" that Americans still cling to about their own place in History - "can't happen here," even though it already is.
There is some evidence that the EU is not, in fact, Communist. You should leave the basement once in a while.
It's about time some laws and penalties were enforced against corporate criminals! Go EU!
The FA says a 10cm cube, i.e. 1000 cubic centimetres, would weigh 130 tonnes.
But isn't it time they stopped pretending they're about creating good technology, and admitted it's really all about the money?
Gates already left with the loot. The company has served its purpose and seems primed to implode, since its model of building and "selling" software was obsoleted at least a decade or two ago and they have proven unable to adapt. They haven't even been able to succeed in their markets without habitual dishonesty, lies, duplicity, and every other kind of skullduggery.
The GP's idea is brilliant.
That quaint, outmoded thing?
Let only those who have known what it is like to be unprotected by instruments like the Geneva Convention exercise the privilege of joking about it.
They have raised commercial corruption of the government to an art form. Have you not been paying attention for the past 10 years?
Extreme problems may call for extreme solutions. The problem here is that it's not even *possible* to shut them down; they're more powerful than your government. The other lobby of comparable power is, of course, the military-industrial complex... That annual $650 billion isn't being retargeted any time soon.
He asked on irc as well...
On the definition of "what you want."
I'm pretty sure $2m when I was 25 would have meant easy retirement, but I'm not that expensive to run.
Also, retirement means different things to different people. I wouldn't have stopped working, but I would have been more selective and the pressure would have been off to make rent, mortgage, etc. By continuing to work I would also have had plenty of liquidity to enjoy some of the things I like - good food, travel...
Can you imagine how bad [GATES] would feel now if he didn't sell out for billions back then when he was more popular than Elvis? [MICROSOFT] is nothing now, but he still has...ALL...THOSE...BILLIONS...OF...DOLLARS.
Everything went according to Gates' plan; Microsoft has now served its purpose. The pilot used the escape capsule, the ship is on a trajectory to crash and burn.
Intel and AMD aren't doing 64+ execution threads on a chip yet.
(Most people's knowledge of SPARC - and MySQL, coincidentally - seems not to have been updated since 1998...)
Make Microsoft criminally responsible for defects in Windows.
you can't be treated because access to your online health records are down
Well THAT problem has existed for some time.
I'm waiting for the day when specifying Microsoft is an automatic termination. It's coming.
Until we can eliminate Windows entirely.
The killer (and necessary) feature here would be VirtualBox snapshots: When your Windows install gets taken over by malware, just revert to a clean snapshot.
Several Vista users I know hate it so much they asked me to install VirtualBox running XP - after they saw it running on my wife's Mac. (She only uses it because some sites use browser plugins not available for OS X - another effect of the monopoly).
Who's to say only the "American people" got fucked over? It's usually the rest of us.
When some greedy corporation in the US gets the urge to over-reach common sense in the name of profit, people die. Hello Halliburton, Blackwater - sorry, "Xe" - Merck, Chevron, Shell, Union Carbide, Monsanto - This is going on all around you, every day. It's just the kind of business y'all have been trained to tolerate, encourage and sponsor. And let's be frank, the absurd US military budget is largely what it is so that they can keep doing it with impunity. Nice little system.
If a corporation is legally a person, then let them be shut down and incarcerated like the murderers and thieves they are.
Corruption is a big problem because some companies (mostly Microsoft) bribe the people deciding which software will be installed.
Happens worldwide, including the US.
Police raids searching for illegal software only accept a receipt or a license with a hologram. These are mostly directed at companies and, recently, individuals who install or troubleshoot software for a living.
And this is exactly what Microsoft wants to happen everywhere, especially the US.
(If you don't like it, do something about it.)
They had bought Transmeta (or, more recently, Sun) - Both have world class low-power technology. At least Oracle will make good data centre use of that. (I hope.)
At least, it was WIN around version 1.x...
(While I can't see the point in defending Windows, I do agree wholeheartedly with your signature :-)
Er, no, chessd on sourceforge is entirely C. And even a brief perusal would show that it is based on the original [F]ICS C code. Did you even look at the source?
That codebase is pretty much dead; the project leader(s) have been working on a completely different solution that has been mentioned on the mailing list, is apparently in use in Brazilian schools (where chess is very popular) but unfortunately has not been published.
That's why there is the whole "reduce", "conserve", or "use less" part of the equation, that Americans traditionally don't want to deal with.
That's a pretty nutty theory.
Like most of their other decisions (every gram carried on board got unbelievable scrutiny), the decision to use Hasselblad was likely "use the best equipment for the job".
Hasselblad already had a significant market in scientific photography. And the units themselves are ideal from NASA's point of view: Very compact; unsurpassed engineering quality; extremely high quality optics and image. (These photographs may well be the most expensively obtained scientific data in history, so you don't take chances.)
Another critical consideration would also have been user interface - Can a suited astronaut easily operate the camera. Practically no current digital SLR would meet even that criterion.