Of course the growth rate will slow at some point. It does for every product.
Hopefully articles like this won't take away from the momentum Firefox has been building. A drop in the growth rate merely signifies the need for more community activism.
Gates has been predicting the death of his competition for a decade. Funny thing is, he's been right more than a few times.
Regarding the marketing issue, I agree that Apple's handling of the iPod has been brilliant. But don't neglect how well Microsoft deployed the Xbox. I can remember laughing at the announcement of a console from Microsoft. Now I own one...
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That was true fifty years ago. Now everyone is a potential drug user or anti-globalization activist or copyright violator or terrorist or something the state doesn't like;
No. Fifty years ago everyone was a potential communist. Recall that the U.S. was embroiled in the Red Scare under the leadership of good ol' McCarthy.
And to surveillance, I say bring it on. The benefits of catching the child pornographers, terrorists, and anti-globalization activists (yes, I said it) far outweigh any discomfort incurred by you or me.
Why's that? Just because it doesn't have wheels to drive around, or is it the lack of an american flag on its side? Or what exactly is it that puts the rovers into a league of their own?
Lifted from technocrat.net:
The conclusive discovery by a pair of wheeled robots that Mars once had vast pools of water and possibly could have harbored life was chosen by the editors of the journal Science as the most important scientific achievement of 2004.
That is what put the rovers in a league of their own. Although Mars Express is an impressive device, it is unable to perform microscopic examination of soil and rocks.
And in response to your American flag cheapshot: second place went to a discovery in Indonesia, while third place went to a discovery in South Korea.
Having great power also means having great responsibility.
Yes, but to whom?
At the end of the day, the American government is responsible to its citizens. America is the subject of countless attacks because segments of the world have come to believe that we are responsible to them.
It is a tragedy that the fine example of US freedom is being sullied by actions such as Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and the Patriot Act. The US used to be a beacon of hope and freedom - an example that less free citizens world wide hoped to change the governments to resemble. It is increasingly acting like an imperialist bully to be feared and loathed.
We have been fighting wars like the one we are currently engaged in since the Spanish-American War. When they benefit you, we are a beacon of hope and freedom. When they do not, we are imperialist bullies.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world wonders why we are tired of hearing their opinions on every little detail of our national policies.
Um, last I heard the actual.torrent files did not contain any illegal content. Unless telling someone where they can buy drugs is illegal, all they were were links that identified a tracker which does not carry the content, only tracks who does.
It's called the "spirit of the law".
Do you honestly believe that because BitTorrent is such a clever little way to disseminate media that a website employing it to allow millions of people access to copyrighted material should be legal?
And again, the content isn't what's illegal, it is the copying of the content from others without the legal right (namely the copyright) to do so. Just because you have a TV episode on your computer doesn't mean you acquired it illegally. Perhaps you have a pcHDTV card.
Suprnova was nothing more than an easy way to "copy the content from others without the legal right." What the hell are you talking about pcHDTV cards for?
What's next, NBC complaining about HBO?
Too bad for Saul Levine that he didn't have Clear Channel on his side. I wonder if that would have given his claim any more weight.
The source:
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."
- Abba Eban
A more interesting Churchill quote:
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Winston Churchill
When discussing proportional USE of tax dollars, it would matter only if the top 5% of Americans used 50% of all tax dollars.
Your statement sounds compelling but is utterly irrelevant.
Yes, because I have faith in humanity. I think that if countries maintain close ties (economic, social, and political) then there is little or no reason to be hostile to one another. If countries respect people in other countries, and don't exploit them, don't take advantage of them, then really where is the animosity going to come from?
Why would you have any faith in the likelihood of a situation that has never occurred before?
Americans and Europeans are ignorant of their own history if they think they have treated the rest of the world respectfully and justly.
We are well aware of our treatment of the rest of the world. Our history is the reason why we want to build such an elaborate defense system.
All people want to live in peace. Hostility does not appear out of thin air. Respect others, and they will respect you. Nobody wants violence. Do you think these are crazy ideas?
Such ideas are pleasant to espouse but are contrary to the patterns of history. The story of civilizations and nations is one of war and strife. You assert that nobody wants violence, that hostility does not appear out of thin air. If you truly believe that, then please explain the following events (the first began roughly 5,000 years ago): Upper Egypt conquers Lower Egypt; Sargon conquers Sumer; Cyrus of Persia conquers Babylon; the Peloponnesian wars; Alexander the Great; the Roman Empire; the Holy Roman Empire; the Hundred Years' War; the Spanish Inquisition; the Conquistadors; the U.S. Civil War; World Wars I & II.
Ideally, your "ideas" will come out on top. But until then I'd rather have a missile defense system.
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A custom Futaba processor expertly directs all functions dedicated to flight control. Input for general operating tasks -- such as set-up and programming -- is processed by Windows CE.
Besides, Windows CE is not as bad as you make it out to be.
Scaled Composites showed up with a nice, small, sexy craft that looks very much this-decade. It uses a pair of jet engines and a single main rocket, and the whole thing could probably fit inside the Orbiter bay several times over, but still carries the same # of people, roughly. NASA is embarassed out of their minds.
SpaceShipOne is designed to take three people into space so they can look out the windows and be amazed for a few minutes. The shuttle is bigger because it needs to hold a lot more stuff (scientifically speaking). I don't see how you can compare the two.
If NASA is a soccer mom then SpaceShipOne is a flashy blond with fake tits and nothing happening on the inside.
What happened to the days when there was SOME barrier to entry, that at least made you put a LITTLE thought and energy into feeling important enough that people should read your every thought?
This is either brilliant sarcasm or incredible irony.
I don't personally believe that Stallman is trying to pervert the law. I'm merely pointing out that certain people think that. Stallman contends that current copyright law is misguided and should be changed. Gates, however, seems to think that copyright law is working just fine in protecting his assets. He probably views Stallman's ratifications as chipping away at a good system. Therefore, Gates would contend that Stallman is a "bad guy" who is trying to "pervert the law in order to accomplish something in direct opposition to its spirit."
"We didn't write for Windows" because" we were rooting for anybody but Microsoft to win." WordPerfect co-founder W.E. "Pete" Pederson, March 2002 deposition
Microsoft should put this guy on the stand.
Novell acquired WordPerfect in 1994 - well after the release of Windows 3.1 in 1992. If everybody at WordPerfect thought like W.E. Pederson, then small wonder Word blew them out of the water.
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Of course the growth rate will slow at some point. It does for every product. Hopefully articles like this won't take away from the momentum Firefox has been building. A drop in the growth rate merely signifies the need for more community activism.
Uh...?
Gates has been predicting the death of his competition for a decade. Funny thing is, he's been right more than a few times.
Regarding the marketing issue, I agree that Apple's handling of the iPod has been brilliant. But don't neglect how well Microsoft deployed the Xbox. I can remember laughing at the announcement of a console from Microsoft. Now I own one...
It has less floating skulls and more asians.
No. Fifty years ago everyone was a potential communist. Recall that the U.S. was embroiled in the Red Scare under the leadership of good ol' McCarthy.
And to surveillance, I say bring it on. The benefits of catching the child pornographers, terrorists, and anti-globalization activists (yes, I said it) far outweigh any discomfort incurred by you or me.
And in response to your American flag cheapshot: second place went to a discovery in Indonesia, while third place went to a discovery in South Korea.
At the end of the day, the American government is responsible to its citizens. America is the subject of countless attacks because segments of the world have come to believe that we are responsible to them. We have been fighting wars like the one we are currently engaged in since the Spanish-American War. When they benefit you, we are a beacon of hope and freedom. When they do not, we are imperialist bullies.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world wonders why we are tired of hearing their opinions on every little detail of our national policies.
Your division of science and religion reminds me of an interesting quote:
"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein
I am not particularly religious due to what I know (or think I know) about science and history. Still, the above quote always makes me think twice.
Do you honestly believe that because BitTorrent is such a clever little way to disseminate media that a website employing it to allow millions of people access to copyrighted material should be legal?
Suprnova was nothing more than an easy way to "copy the content from others without the legal right." What the hell are you talking about pcHDTV cards for?
What's next, NBC complaining about HBO? Too bad for Saul Levine that he didn't have Clear Channel on his side. I wonder if that would have given his claim any more weight.
The source:
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."
- Abba Eban
A more interesting Churchill quote:
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Winston Churchill
When discussing proportional USE of tax dollars, it would matter only if the top 5% of Americans used 50% of all tax dollars. Your statement sounds compelling but is utterly irrelevant.
Ideally, your "ideas" will come out on top. But until then I'd rather have a missile defense system.
Offtopic, but can you believe that JELLO is made from bones?!
If NASA is a soccer mom then SpaceShipOne is a flashy blond with fake tits and nothing happening on the inside.
This is either brilliant sarcasm or incredible irony.
I don't personally believe that Stallman is trying to pervert the law. I'm merely pointing out that certain people think that. Stallman contends that current copyright law is misguided and should be changed. Gates, however, seems to think that copyright law is working just fine in protecting his assets. He probably views Stallman's ratifications as chipping away at a good system. Therefore, Gates would contend that Stallman is a "bad guy" who is trying to "pervert the law in order to accomplish something in direct opposition to its spirit."
For the record: it's actually a pig fucking a *man*.
Of course you are!
This is why Stallman thinks Gates is a bad guy.
It's also why Gates thinks Stallman is a bad guy.
Uh oh!
There goes "mother" earth.
So: Sony, Microsoft, Apple, and Google all perform the EXACT SAME action.
Sony and Microsoft are being very, very naughty.
But Apple and golden Google are doing good?
I'm sorry, but I don't buy it.
Microsoft should put this guy on the stand.
Novell acquired WordPerfect in 1994 - well after the release of Windows 3.1 in 1992. If everybody at WordPerfect thought like W.E. Pederson, then small wonder Word blew them out of the water.
Ah yes, the beauty of compromise.
Conservative America will *love* the idea of giving unwanted babies to gay couples! Anything goes as long as we don't use the "M-word."
If only our idiot politicians could formulate such elegant solutions...