Really, is that the best they can do? The best minds in the world, and all they can think of is pushing TV at us from yet another direction?
It reminds me of grandpa Simpson's remark that nothing is new... except this isn't a waffle iron with a phone attached; it's a TV with a phone attached.
We already have TV, for god's sake. We have hundreds of channels! Thousands of programs! High definition! Standard definition! Dolby surround sound! Digital! Analog! Cable! Broadcast! Are we so deprived, so lacking in ways of wrapping our quivering lips around that glowing nipple, that we need to get the exact same thing from the same wall socket as the phone, too?
And here's the worst part: it's 99% *garbage* contaminated with *ads*, anyway.
Except soon, you can get it on your phone, too.
The only good thing about this story the faint buzz of nostalgia that I get being reminded of Larry Ellison's ill-fated attempt at video-by-phone back in the late 90s. Those were the days.
It's a common myth that formal education somehow stifles the entrepreneurial urge. This line is usually supported by counting the number of high-profile billionaires were high-school dropouts.
However, it ignores the fact that there are actually *two* areas where people with a lack of formal education are common: one is the billionaire's club. The other is prison. I can tell you which place the uneducated are likelier to end up.
Also, it ignores the fact that most billionaires went to the best schools and universities that money can buy, anyway. The likes of Gates and Wozniak are always the anomaly, not the rule.
I think you're totally wrong.
Iran knows full well that Israel has at least 200 nukes, all within range of Iran. Also, a nuclear strike on Israel would result in nuclear retaliation from the US.
Iranians are not suicidal.
Fact is, there is no 'rogue state' missile threat. That's a paranoid delusion created by the neocons.
What they're attempting is incredibly hard to do, and almost trivially easy to evade. This was hashed over repeatedly in the 80s, during the original Star Wars program. I don't think that the laws of phyisics have changed since then.
It's a classic example of the current administratation's ignorance of science and engineering, and their blind wishful tinking. In fact, all it has done is result in an arms race - with Russia, of all things:
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041210132728.0uutp7j6.html
Nope, that ain't right - there's no environment division.
Remember the rule: "I.e., D. P." ("That is data processing.")
Identification
Environment
Data
Procedure
I have no doubt that Oracle run their own software, but I doubt very much that they run their production business systems on alpha or beta DBMS releases, as MS do.
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Really, is that the best they can do? The best minds in the world, and all they can think of is pushing TV at us from yet another direction?
It reminds me of grandpa Simpson's remark that nothing is new... except this isn't a waffle iron with a phone attached; it's a TV with a phone attached.
We already have TV, for god's sake. We have hundreds of channels! Thousands of programs! High definition! Standard definition! Dolby surround sound! Digital! Analog! Cable! Broadcast! Are we so deprived, so lacking in ways of wrapping our quivering lips around that glowing nipple, that we need to get the exact same thing from the same wall socket as the phone, too?
And here's the worst part: it's 99% *garbage* contaminated with *ads*, anyway.
Except soon, you can get it on your phone, too.
The only good thing about this story the faint buzz of nostalgia that I get being reminded of Larry Ellison's ill-fated attempt at video-by-phone back in the late 90s. Those were the days.
It's a common myth that formal education somehow stifles the entrepreneurial urge. This line is usually supported by counting the number of high-profile billionaires were high-school dropouts.
However, it ignores the fact that there are actually *two* areas where people with a lack of formal education are common: one is the billionaire's club. The other is prison. I can tell you which place the uneducated are likelier to end up.
Also, it ignores the fact that most billionaires went to the best schools and universities that money can buy, anyway. The likes of Gates and Wozniak are always the anomaly, not the rule.
I think you're totally wrong. Iran knows full well that Israel has at least 200 nukes, all within range of Iran. Also, a nuclear strike on Israel would result in nuclear retaliation from the US. Iranians are not suicidal. Fact is, there is no 'rogue state' missile threat. That's a paranoid delusion created by the neocons.
What they're attempting is incredibly hard to do, and almost trivially easy to evade. This was hashed over repeatedly in the 80s, during the original Star Wars program. I don't think that the laws of phyisics have changed since then. It's a classic example of the current administratation's ignorance of science and engineering, and their blind wishful tinking. In fact, all it has done is result in an arms race - with Russia, of all things: http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041210132728.0uutp7j6 .html
Nope, that ain't right - there's no environment division. Remember the rule: "I.e., D. P." ("That is data processing.") Identification Environment Data Procedure
I have no doubt that Oracle run their own software, but I doubt very much that they run their production business systems on alpha or beta DBMS releases, as MS do.