I'm with you on this. I have not seen that movie since I was about 4 or 5, so my memory my have done some sanitizing, but what I remember most was that they all talked like poor southerners.
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Many of the stereo types form because there are lots of people that do in fact act like that. Yes Song Of The South is dated, but there were, and probably still are many people that speak with that accent. No every black person doesn't and didn't speak that way, but SOME did. And yes, there have been poor black in America. Really.
We still get the same behaviour in current cartoons. Watch the current crop of cartoons. It's things like, virtually every young black girl depicted in cartoons is into hip hop, and want to be/is an American Idol style singer. Heck, has anyone seen 'The Proud Family'? The name alone should throw people into fits.
Of course it's perfectly acceptable to show white people as stereo types. Whether it's the hillbilly, or the up tight whity that is automatically afraid of those crazy black people, they are still offensive stereo types that are accapted in our socity.
People should just let it go, and accept that it is our history, but that by making too big of a deal about racism today, you can easily become what you hate. The people you should be most offended at are the people that ARE offensive stereo types. People are so different that the only way a person can truly fit a stereo type is if they go out of their way to do it. So, when you see someone that fully fits a stereo type, you can be sure they are doing it on purpose, and there by reenforcing the image.
Since referring to people by the stereo type name can get you in a lot of trouble these days, I have taken to just refering to them as 'Walking Talking Stereo Types'. This insult works just as well for the black ghetto hip hop crack head as it does for the white rural punk skin head. No matter the group, the lame thing is that they are intentionally taking on the role of a negative stereo type.
I call bull. If your guys math were correct, The 160 lb kid that ate health at home would cease to exist before the school year was over, and the kid that doesn't eat healthy at home or at school would be well over a ton by the time they graduated. I have yet to meet one single person that literally weighs a ton.
The "experts" (which are almost exlusively funded by the packaged food industry) on nutrition are about as reliable as the "experts" that do funded research for Microsoft. Sugar (which includes complex carbohydrates) are easy and cheap to package, and thus produce very good profits. Fats on the other hand are much harder to package, and have a tendency to go rancid if they sit in a wherehouse too long. This really cuts into profits.
There is a reason that the Atkins diet has an almost 100% success rate. The few people that I have met that did not have success would describe a diet that wasn't Atkins when questioned about their eating habits.
Who doesn't know a protitute??? The fact is that when you have sex in exchange for financial gain, whether that is cash or barter, you are a prostitute. The vast majority of women (at least here in the US) have been, or actively are prostitutes. It is not even uncommon to hear women bragging about it. They just make sure that they get goods instead of cash.
In America, it is an insult to offer a woman money in exchage for sex. We work off a barter system!
Then you are headed in the right direction. Unfortunatly the vast majority of businesses are sabatoging you. By only interviewing people who lie on their resumes, the majority of businesses are training the workforce to lie. There is no way for an applicant to know that you are one of the few employers that want honest employees.
On the bright side, while you will have to deal with more headachs because of your piers, you will be more likely to get the people that don't want to work the system.
They are interviewing with you, and claiming expert status because, as a rule, no company will hire any developer that does not claim expert status. They generally don't really care if you are an expert or not, but you will not get the interview if you don't claim it.
You say that your clients know what they want, and are willing to pay for it.... Maybe your clients THINK they know what they want, and are willing to pay for it.
Perhaps what they really want is two guys that are not as good for $50k. Or maybe one guy that is pretty good, but not an expert for $70k, and someone who isn't very good at all for $30k.
For the last 5 years I have been working for a client that has figured this out. I am part of a two person development team. I am very good at coding, and the woman that I work with is not (and never will be). Our team is fantastic.
I work on the difficult stuff, and build the framework of our applications, and she handles the grunt work. I am three times more productive because I don't have to worry about getting in and making changes to button labels and display views. She will also take in the bug reports, and more often than not will track down exactly where the error occurse. She might not know how to fix it, but by presenting me with exactly where the error occurse, I can fix it quickly.
The net result is that the client gets the equivelent of my skill at the price of hers, since someone has to do the work she is doing, and if the client insisted on "experts", they would need someone that makes 3 times as much to do her job with no increase in productivity.
Actually all you would need is a cheap lcd (cheap black and white like your watch) display and an up and down button.
The cheapest way (while still being simple) to set the address is to set it via a browser over the network. Just like you set up your router.
Upon power up (in case of blackout), the unit should ring the phone every X minutes to notify the user that the 911 address is not set.
While we would need to buy new equipment to implement this, the equipment isn't THAT expensive, and the addition of the lcd, buttons and PIC chip shouldn't ad more than a few dollars to the cost of the unit.
The cost may be even less when compared to Tivo than many realize. If I am not mistaken Tivo and ReplayTV both charge their fee per unit. If this is $5 a month, can work with multiple machines in a household, instead of $60 a month for 4 tuners, it would be $5.
You simply cannot convice me that the cost of producing a movie AND a soundtrack comes even close to the cost of producing just a sound track. You also will not convice me that the only way that the people involved with producing sound tracks can only make a profit through the seperate sale of those soundtracks. It's just not that big of a genre.
That's right. Look again. The soundtrack to the movie costs 150% of the cost of buying the whole movie.
The $19 to $90 CAD(Canadian Dollars?) is for a product that was shipped 5 to 10 miles by a person that has likely been shipped at a loss give the time , gas, and wear and tear on the vehicle. Then you are faced with the cost of either shipping everything you get, and having Indians test and clean the equipment, or paying 1st world wages for these services. Given that a large percentage of the "crappy P1"s sitting out there are no longer functional, you would be paying a lot in shipping on them.
Lets not forget to add the cost of those monitors, as well as the shipping for those also.
Of course, you haven't addressed the question of the shipping costs at all. The local mom and pop shops that sell the used computers are buying them as they run across them. You can always get thing cheaper if you have no immediate demand.
Once you add in all the other costs, and then look at the conversion rate, you are going to be well over the $200 mark that new computer sells for. I think that buying a brand new computer with a warrenty for less than the price of a used machine with no warranty is a much better deal.
I would have to assume number 1, due to the fact that the worst flaming happens to companies that do NOT release their source code, and have either used, or been precieved as having used GPL source in their product. If his boss's goal was to avoid the flaming, and he did exactly the opposite of what could avoid it, his boss has some serious mental deficencies.
Given that whatever software they use in school will not be what is in use (other than in name perhaps), the specific app is not relevent. That being a given, children should be tought that when you are offered two equivelent products, the good economic choice is to choose the least expensive one.
Perhaps this isn't tought in schools now because so many of them hire coaches to teach economics (if they even have an economics class), instead of hiring economists to coach football.
All schools make a choice on which is more important for their students, good financial sense, or corporate sponsership. (NFL/MS/PEPSI) It is unfortunate that so many have taken the corporate sponsorship route.
Yeah, they send you a $.10 disk that has the exact same software on it that you already have. If you have the illegal copy, and the ability to use it, their total cost is going to be the cost of the new CD and mailing. Basiclly even IF you really are just trying to scam them, it is a little like them saying, send us $200, an we will send you $200.10 back. That is a pretty good price if they can get a few million from the mom and pops that are selling black or grey market Windows. All without sueing there end users like the RIAA.
You all laugh, but just this weekend, I was at a poker game where one player was bragging about the great work he was doing with a Habitat for Humanity type organization. I don't recall the exact name, but it was a similar organization. He explained how they went out, fixed up and painted about a hundred low income houses over the last week. He was very proud of himself.
What he didn't consider was that this is the lowest priced single family home in Santa Rosa, CA. (the city he did the work in.) The fact is that there is no 'low income' houses in Santa Rosa, CA. If you own a home, you are by default wealthy.
Now, homeowners could have over extended there credit. Contrary to popular belief, a mortgage is a line of credit. But, I hardly think that giving free labor to someone who has chosen to spend more than they earn as being a good thing. (as opposed to those that just don't earn enough to get by)
Now, when I pointed out that Santa Rosa has no low income housing, he told me that they did the work repairing rental units that low income people lived in. Now, I know you see where this is going...
This guy was patting himself on the back, and getting praised by those around him for being such a great guy, since he did work for a Habitats for Humanities style organization. In fact what he and his pals did was raise the land values of some slum lord ass that didn't have enough respect for other humans to make the property, that he was collecting a good income on, livable. Now, you can be sure that when this slum lord sees that his property values just went up, and the shit holes he was renting to low income families, are now actually pretty nice, he will raise the rent, screwing the poor.
So, to sum up, sometimes the 'good' organizations that are created to help the poor, in fact screw the poor and and dump money into the pockets of the rich.
***Remember, I said that it was NOT Habitats for Humanity. It was a local organization that was described a being similar. I don't know the specific work that Habitats for Humanity does, and if they somehow avoid this problem.
Does that mean you will do just like God, and inflict horrible pain and suffering on her and all her decendents, as well as drastically reduce her lifespan if she does the one thing you told her not to do? You know open a man page?
Ok, Ok, I'm just teasing, I wouldn't really suggest that you are evil.
I call Bullshit. You can keep Netflix movies indefinitly, and the only thing you pay is your monthly subcription fee. Also, Netflix tells you right in their faq that you can return two disks in a single envelope. So, again... Bullshit.
Developers dropping support for older software is exactly why MS needs to have backward compatibility. If that custom application is absolutly necessary for your steel mill to continue to function, when faced with a new incompatible OS,you simply will not upgrade. Right now that is a big problem for MS. Remember there is more software in use out there that MS did not write, than there is that MS did write. While being able to release Windows 2010 in January, and.NET studio 2010 in November will allow MS to start selling Windows when its ready, and not loose sales to every.NET developer out there, it is the third party applications that are really important. I see non-OSS software all the time that is crucial to business functions, but the developer that created it has long since discontinued support, and sometimes cannot even be found.
Win3.1/95/98/NT3.5/NT4.0 are all tested well enough in the real world to run applications. The OS patches that come out are generally network related security patches. A firewall defaulted to everything off in the emulation combined with the fact that IE will be almost immediatly ported to the new native OS means that OS related security patches to the emulated OSes would be almost non-existant. If the non-OS applications have security holes, MS will do what they do now. Tell you tough luck.
MS could also, only support 1 or 2 versions back to both give them a time limit on support for OS versions, and still give the users the ability to upgrade just the OS. It sure would be a lot easier to get a $50k budget for OS upgrades this year, and a $70k budget to upgrade other apps each year for the next 3 years to upgrade other apps than it is to get a $260k budget to to upgrade everything this year. Again, requiring everything to be upgraded at once means that the business just might not upgrade at all.
You are going to run Windows. MS bought VirtualPC for two reasons.
1) So that they can have a thin client server that works. Run images of full OSes on virtual machins, and a low end machine with just enough juice to run Remote Desktop can now be use quite well.
2) To resolve any problem they will ever have with backward compatibility.
<prediction>Your custom application doesn't work with the new WinServer 2010? No problem, an NT4.0 image with all the drivers that VPC emulates compiled in (to tie the image to the host OS) is sitting on WinServer 2010 with VirtualServer. Just mark your application as a NT4.0 application, and it will run just fine.</prediction>
With VPC, MS no longer needs to release new versions of every application they ever made just to upgrade the OS. On my system VPC gets 80%-90% processing speed compared to the native CPU. They could do some work on memory and HD speeds, but that will come. This means that as long as Visual Studio runs at decent speeds inside of VPC, MS doesn't have to upgrade it at the same time as the OS.
With VPC MS doesn't even have to stay on the same hardware platform. If a new (or old) CPU takes a huge leap of speed due to some breakthrough, and it becomes significantly faster than the x86/AMD64 platform, MS can move all windows software to the new platform by porting Windows, and VPC. This would immediatly make them a player in the new market.
Buying VPC was the smartest thing I have seen MS do in years.
Face it, all the Star Trek series sucked. Bad acting, Bad special effects, and they kept wanting to run episodes from previous series with the new actors.
I'll give TOS a break, as they were doing something new with a comparatively small budget, but TNG that everyone seems to rave about was crap. The first season was crammed full of -The Enterprise had to deal with a similar issue with Captain Kirk-. I lost count of how many times they made referece IN THE DIALOG to the original series. The special effects were atrocious! All of the, hey this is an alian planet, so we should make the sky pink by anging a big screen and shining colored lights on it.
TNG sucked, but we were all so excited to get a new Star Trek that we ignored that it sucked, and watched it anyway. Heck, don't you remember Season 1 where they tried to convince us that in the future men will be wearing mini skirts as official military dress?
Enterprise was by far the stronges Star Trek to be released to date, and the special effects were dramatically better than any previous Star Trek. The biggest problem for Enterprise is that there is so much decent to good Sci-Fi now, that it is being judged in a completely different class than any of the previous series.
A) When the indians settled North America, they did not create "Historical Records" to let us know how and when they did it. When humans first migrated to Europe, they did not write "Historical Records". What we know about these events we have pieced together. So, no, migrations in historical times are NOT well documented with historical records.
B) Isn't the point of the research to find out the what/when/where of human migration, WITHOUT taking the word of some questionable old stories?
"While the most useful samples will come from indiginous populations, members of the general public will be able to mail in their own DNA on special cheek swabs."
So, they want people who immigrated a long time ago, and are not really interested in newer immigration? Because ancestrial migration doesn't count unless your the first to get there? This makes absolutly no sense what so ever.
Yeah, but that doesn't take into account the brick wall that is "IP" law, which is just now starting to prevent most of the previous works from being built upon.
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Many of the stereo types form because there are lots of people that do in fact act like that. Yes Song Of The South is dated, but there were, and probably still are many people that speak with that accent. No every black person doesn't and didn't speak that way, but SOME did. And yes, there have been poor black in America. Really.
We still get the same behaviour in current cartoons. Watch the current crop of cartoons. It's things like, virtually every young black girl depicted in cartoons is into hip hop, and want to be/is an American Idol style singer. Heck, has anyone seen 'The Proud Family'? The name alone should throw people into fits.
Of course it's perfectly acceptable to show white people as stereo types. Whether it's the hillbilly, or the up tight whity that is automatically afraid of those crazy black people, they are still offensive stereo types that are accapted in our socity.
People should just let it go, and accept that it is our history, but that by making too big of a deal about racism today, you can easily become what you hate. The people you should be most offended at are the people that ARE offensive stereo types. People are so different that the only way a person can truly fit a stereo type is if they go out of their way to do it. So, when you see someone that fully fits a stereo type, you can be sure they are doing it on purpose, and there by reenforcing the image.
Since referring to people by the stereo type name can get you in a lot of trouble these days, I have taken to just refering to them as 'Walking Talking Stereo Types'. This insult works just as well for the black ghetto hip hop crack head as it does for the white rural punk skin head. No matter the group, the lame thing is that they are intentionally taking on the role of a negative stereo type.
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I call bull. If your guys math were correct, The 160 lb kid that ate health at home would cease to exist before the school year was over, and the kid that doesn't eat healthy at home or at school would be well over a ton by the time they graduated. I have yet to meet one single person that literally weighs a ton.
The "experts" (which are almost exlusively funded by the packaged food industry) on nutrition are about as reliable as the "experts" that do funded research for Microsoft. Sugar (which includes complex carbohydrates) are easy and cheap to package, and thus produce very good profits. Fats on the other hand are much harder to package, and have a tendency to go rancid if they sit in a wherehouse too long. This really cuts into profits.
There is a reason that the Atkins diet has an almost 100% success rate. The few people that I have met that did not have success would describe a diet that wasn't Atkins when questioned about their eating habits.
Who doesn't know a protitute??? The fact is that when you have sex in exchange for financial gain, whether that is cash or barter, you are a prostitute. The vast majority of women (at least here in the US) have been, or actively are prostitutes. It is not even uncommon to hear women bragging about it. They just make sure that they get goods instead of cash.
In America, it is an insult to offer a woman money in exchage for sex. We work off a barter system!
Then you are headed in the right direction. Unfortunatly the vast majority of businesses are sabatoging you. By only interviewing people who lie on their resumes, the majority of businesses are training the workforce to lie. There is no way for an applicant to know that you are one of the few employers that want honest employees.
On the bright side, while you will have to deal with more headachs because of your piers, you will be more likely to get the people that don't want to work the system.
"I won't even dignify this with a response. Be honest or quit wasting my time." Uhh...That was a response....
They are interviewing with you, and claiming expert status because, as a rule, no company will hire any developer that does not claim expert status. They generally don't really care if you are an expert or not, but you will not get the interview if you don't claim it.
You say that your clients know what they want, and are willing to pay for it.... Maybe your clients THINK they know what they want, and are willing to pay for it.
Perhaps what they really want is two guys that are not as good for $50k. Or maybe one guy that is pretty good, but not an expert for $70k, and someone who isn't very good at all for $30k.
For the last 5 years I have been working for a client that has figured this out. I am part of a two person development team. I am very good at coding, and the woman that I work with is not (and never will be). Our team is fantastic.
I work on the difficult stuff, and build the framework of our applications, and she handles the grunt work. I am three times more productive because I don't have to worry about getting in and making changes to button labels and display views. She will also take in the bug reports, and more often than not will track down exactly where the error occurse. She might not know how to fix it, but by presenting me with exactly where the error occurse, I can fix it quickly.
The net result is that the client gets the equivelent of my skill at the price of hers, since someone has to do the work she is doing, and if the client insisted on "experts", they would need someone that makes 3 times as much to do her job with no increase in productivity.
You used the word "Steal" in place of "Copyright Infringement". You clearly do not understand the issue.
Actually all you would need is a cheap lcd (cheap black and white like your watch) display and an up and down button.
The cheapest way (while still being simple) to set the address is to set it via a browser over the network. Just like you set up your router.
Upon power up (in case of blackout), the unit should ring the phone every X minutes to notify the user that the 911 address is not set. While we would need to buy new equipment to implement this, the equipment isn't THAT expensive, and the addition of the lcd, buttons and PIC chip shouldn't ad more than a few dollars to the cost of the unit.
The cost may be even less when compared to Tivo than many realize. If I am not mistaken Tivo and ReplayTV both charge their fee per unit. If this is $5 a month, can work with multiple machines in a household, instead of $60 a month for 4 tuners, it would be $5.
You mean like the alphabet?
Sound tracks blows this theory out of the water.
Maximum Overdrive DVD $9.98
Who Made Who $14.99
You simply cannot convice me that the cost of producing a movie AND a soundtrack comes even close to the cost of producing just a sound track. You also will not convice me that the only way that the people involved with producing sound tracks can only make a profit through the seperate sale of those soundtracks. It's just not that big of a genre.
That's right. Look again. The soundtrack to the movie costs 150% of the cost of buying the whole movie.
Your economic analysis is way off base.
The $19 to $90 CAD(Canadian Dollars?) is for a product that was shipped 5 to 10 miles by a person that has likely been shipped at a loss give the time , gas, and wear and tear on the vehicle. Then you are faced with the cost of either shipping everything you get, and having Indians test and clean the equipment, or paying 1st world wages for these services. Given that a large percentage of the "crappy P1"s sitting out there are no longer functional, you would be paying a lot in shipping on them.
Lets not forget to add the cost of those monitors, as well as the shipping for those also.
Of course, you haven't addressed the question of the shipping costs at all. The local mom and pop shops that sell the used computers are buying them as they run across them. You can always get thing cheaper if you have no immediate demand.
Once you add in all the other costs, and then look at the conversion rate, you are going to be well over the $200 mark that new computer sells for. I think that buying a brand new computer with a warrenty for less than the price of a used machine with no warranty is a much better deal.
And what is the shopping cost of these systems (including monitors) to india?
I would have to assume number 1, due to the fact that the worst flaming happens to companies that do NOT release their source code, and have either used, or been precieved as having used GPL source in their product. If his boss's goal was to avoid the flaming, and he did exactly the opposite of what could avoid it, his boss has some serious mental deficencies.
Given that whatever software they use in school will not be what is in use (other than in name perhaps), the specific app is not relevent. That being a given, children should be tought that when you are offered two equivelent products, the good economic choice is to choose the least expensive one.
Perhaps this isn't tought in schools now because so many of them hire coaches to teach economics (if they even have an economics class), instead of hiring economists to coach football.
All schools make a choice on which is more important for their students, good financial sense, or corporate sponsership. (NFL/MS/PEPSI) It is unfortunate that so many have taken the corporate sponsorship route.
Yeah, they send you a $.10 disk that has the exact same software on it that you already have. If you have the illegal copy, and the ability to use it, their total cost is going to be the cost of the new CD and mailing. Basiclly even IF you really are just trying to scam them, it is a little like them saying, send us $200, an we will send you $200.10 back. That is a pretty good price if they can get a few million from the mom and pops that are selling black or grey market Windows. All without sueing there end users like the RIAA.
You all laugh, but just this weekend, I was at a poker game where one player was bragging about the great work he was doing with a Habitat for Humanity type organization. I don't recall the exact name, but it was a similar organization. He explained how they went out, fixed up and painted about a hundred low income houses over the last week. He was very proud of himself.
What he didn't consider was that this is the lowest priced single family home in Santa Rosa, CA. (the city he did the work in.) The fact is that there is no 'low income' houses in Santa Rosa, CA. If you own a home, you are by default wealthy.
Now, homeowners could have over extended there credit. Contrary to popular belief, a mortgage is a line of credit. But, I hardly think that giving free labor to someone who has chosen to spend more than they earn as being a good thing. (as opposed to those that just don't earn enough to get by)
Now, when I pointed out that Santa Rosa has no low income housing, he told me that they did the work repairing rental units that low income people lived in. Now, I know you see where this is going...
This guy was patting himself on the back, and getting praised by those around him for being such a great guy, since he did work for a Habitats for Humanities style organization. In fact what he and his pals did was raise the land values of some slum lord ass that didn't have enough respect for other humans to make the property, that he was collecting a good income on, livable. Now, you can be sure that when this slum lord sees that his property values just went up, and the shit holes he was renting to low income families, are now actually pretty nice, he will raise the rent, screwing the poor.
So, to sum up, sometimes the 'good' organizations that are created to help the poor, in fact screw the poor and and dump money into the pockets of the rich.
***Remember, I said that it was NOT Habitats for Humanity. It was a local organization that was described a being similar. I don't know the specific work that Habitats for Humanity does, and if they somehow avoid this problem.
Does that mean you will do just like God, and inflict horrible pain and suffering on her and all her decendents, as well as drastically reduce her lifespan if she does the one thing you told her not to do? You know open a man page?
Ok, Ok, I'm just teasing, I wouldn't really suggest that you are evil.
I call Bullshit. You can keep Netflix movies indefinitly, and the only thing you pay is your monthly subcription fee. Also, Netflix tells you right in their faq that you can return two disks in a single envelope. So, again... Bullshit.
Developers dropping support for older software is exactly why MS needs to have backward compatibility. If that custom application is absolutly necessary for your steel mill to continue to function, when faced with a new incompatible OS,you simply will not upgrade. Right now that is a big problem for MS. Remember there is more software in use out there that MS did not write, than there is that MS did write. While being able to release Windows 2010 in January, and .NET studio 2010 in November will allow MS to start selling Windows when its ready, and not loose sales to every .NET developer out there, it is the third party applications that are really important. I see non-OSS software all the time that is crucial to business functions, but the developer that created it has long since discontinued support, and sometimes cannot even be found.
Win3.1/95/98/NT3.5/NT4.0 are all tested well enough in the real world to run applications. The OS patches that come out are generally network related security patches. A firewall defaulted to everything off in the emulation combined with the fact that IE will be almost immediatly ported to the new native OS means that OS related security patches to the emulated OSes would be almost non-existant. If the non-OS applications have security holes, MS will do what they do now. Tell you tough luck.
MS could also, only support 1 or 2 versions back to both give them a time limit on support for OS versions, and still give the users the ability to upgrade just the OS. It sure would be a lot easier to get a $50k budget for OS upgrades this year, and a $70k budget to upgrade other apps each year for the next 3 years to upgrade other apps than it is to get a $260k budget to to upgrade everything this year. Again, requiring everything to be upgraded at once means that the business just might not upgrade at all.
1) So that they can have a thin client server that works. Run images of full OSes on virtual machins, and a low end machine with just enough juice to run Remote Desktop can now be use quite well.
2) To resolve any problem they will ever have with backward compatibility.
With VPC, MS no longer needs to release new versions of every application they ever made just to upgrade the OS. On my system VPC gets 80%-90% processing speed compared to the native CPU. They could do some work on memory and HD speeds, but that will come. This means that as long as Visual Studio runs at decent speeds inside of VPC, MS doesn't have to upgrade it at the same time as the OS.
With VPC MS doesn't even have to stay on the same hardware platform. If a new (or old) CPU takes a huge leap of speed due to some breakthrough, and it becomes significantly faster than the x86/AMD64 platform, MS can move all windows software to the new platform by porting Windows, and VPC. This would immediatly make them a player in the new market.
Buying VPC was the smartest thing I have seen MS do in years.
Face it, all the Star Trek series sucked. Bad acting, Bad special effects, and they kept wanting to run episodes from previous series with the new actors.
I'll give TOS a break, as they were doing something new with a comparatively small budget, but TNG that everyone seems to rave about was crap. The first season was crammed full of -The Enterprise had to deal with a similar issue with Captain Kirk-. I lost count of how many times they made referece IN THE DIALOG to the original series. The special effects were atrocious! All of the, hey this is an alian planet, so we should make the sky pink by anging a big screen and shining colored lights on it.
TNG sucked, but we were all so excited to get a new Star Trek that we ignored that it sucked, and watched it anyway. Heck, don't you remember Season 1 where they tried to convince us that in the future men will be wearing mini skirts as official military dress?
Enterprise was by far the stronges Star Trek to be released to date, and the special effects were dramatically better than any previous Star Trek. The biggest problem for Enterprise is that there is so much decent to good Sci-Fi now, that it is being judged in a completely different class than any of the previous series.
A) When the indians settled North America, they did not create "Historical Records" to let us know how and when they did it. When humans first migrated to Europe, they did not write "Historical Records". What we know about these events we have pieced together. So, no, migrations in historical times are NOT well documented with historical records.
B) Isn't the point of the research to find out the what/when/where of human migration, WITHOUT taking the word of some questionable old stories?
"While the most useful samples will come from indiginous populations, members of the general public will be able to mail in their own DNA on special cheek swabs."
So, they want people who immigrated a long time ago, and are not really interested in newer immigration? Because ancestrial migration doesn't count unless your the first to get there? This makes absolutly no sense what so ever.
Yeah, but that doesn't take into account the brick wall that is "IP" law, which is just now starting to prevent most of the previous works from being built upon.