"Oracle needs to ask Google", Uncle Larry would rather eat his shorts. He feels he got screwed out of Beeeeellions and Beeeeeellions of dollars. Uncle Larry and Darl McBride now share a condo on Uncle Larry's Hawaiian island...swapping stories of Beeellions lost, suits that never paid back what they thought they'd get, spanking each other on ass when they land a big fish. It's all they have to live for.
Try this game, presume lightning has struck and now you are a manager. You try to do the right thing, manage your people properly. Some smart aleck that you manage comes up to you one day and proceeds to tell you that you are stupid because you did A and he thought you should do B. You had good reasons for doing A, but no, now you are stupid. Others you manage do not tell you that you are stupid. Do you (1) take to heart this odd man's opinion, or (2) tell him to STFU knowing trying to explain your reasons will fall on deaf ears because he already considers you stupid?
Managers can indeed be stupid, but no one will change their actions because they are told they are stupid. They simply circle the wagons and repeat to themselves all the reasons why they do what they do thereby reinforcing their current behavior. You want to change something, explain a better way.
I don't think you understand how explosions actually do their damage. An explosion in which the force is directed can be very powerful. A nuke in space is not a directed explosion, the energy flies out in all directions, most of them failing to be aimed at the asteroid. Also, notice that after the WWII nukes, there were buildings left standing. Admittedly, the ones we have now are bigger, but they don't atomize stuff very well. An a rock that big isn't going to be atomized very easily. Just to make it more complicated, we do not know the rock's composition. That greatly effects what a nuke will do to it.
Given what we do not know, it would be a real pisser if we hit it and caused it to impact the Earth.
The Kuwaiti Royal Family already has control of the money supply. They figure that gives them the power to tell everyone what to believe and say.
The U.S. screwed up after the Kuwait war, they should have offered it to the Palestinians. It would have removed a royal pain in the tookus. "Say, Pals, have we got a deal for you. How'd you like yer own country so you could have yer own civil war, it's got oil, a port or two, verrrrrry friendly neighbors. Warm sunny climate....location, location, location!!!"
Let's review the Arab Spring just for giggles. Tunisia: moderate government but the Islamists are grinding their teeth and threatening people. Egypt: elected an Islamist who appears to be governing by decree...admittedly attempting to lead a failed state. Libya: warring clans, no central government. Syria: civil war. Saudi Arabia: Arab What? Yemen: weak central government, Islamists wandering the hills in search of victims...errr...followers. Kuwaiti: still ruled by the fat boys in robes. The rest of the Gulf States: see Saudi Arabia. Algeria: still fighting the Islamists, central government has heard of democracy but is having none of it. Morocco: still has monarchy which is fighting tooth and nail to remain relevant, Islamists don't yet have a significant foothold. The other African countries have Islamists cutting off heads, arms, legs, etc....gotta wonder what they have against those limbs.
Some spring. Allah-forbid summer should come, the Islamists won't rest until every Arab is under their boot.
Because making something small and light means MS's profit will be small and light. So they go towards cramming everything under the hood in the hopes that people will continue to feel like they are getting their money's worth. Apple gets away with their profit margins because they pay attention to detail (forgetting Apple maps for now) and people actually will pay for software married well with hardware. Linux and MS have taught people that software has no value, hence Linux has been tough to monetize and MS has their current problems.
Bingo! I have to tell people I've killed for less if they touch my monitor. Grease is a royal pain to get off. And I do not want a monitor in my face either.
If Apple is smart, they'll keep Samsung as well as buy some of their chips from TSMC. Having dual suppliers is always preferable. I'd be surprised if they ditched Samsung completely.
I don't think MS has their sights set on Apple so much as they have their sights set on a business philosophy: turn every user into an annuity. This philosophy came about from the utilities and gets branded onto the ass of every MBA with pointy hair. Once it was understood how to turn devices into "service" machines, the (Bill) Gates of Hell was unleashed.
As it stands now, no one knows whether Google's model or Apple's model is the better one for generating profits. Both seem to be hedging their bets. But both make moves that can only be interpreted as annuity enhancement. MS sees this and realizes that their annuity generator of the past is being worked around. So the only thing they know is to copy the workarounds.
Want to cut your expenses? Start first with cutting off the blood sucking annuity tentacles in your life.
The tribal regions of Pakistan have sucked pretty much their whole history...mostly because of Islam. The Taliban in Afghanistan were no better, read up on the history a bit. After the Russians left, which the U.S. helped them with, they decided the people they couldn't stand the most were other Afghanis. They then used Al Qaeda as shock troops to clear out a village so their Pashtun tribesmen could have a bit more room to spread out. They got to feeling so good about themselves that even taking a poke at the U.S. seemed like a good idea.
Read Genesis, there is no Satan in Genesis. There is only a serpent in the Garden.
While we're at it, there are two creation myths in Genesis and they contradict each other. You'd think if the book was divinely inspired it would at least be consistent. And don't even think about handing me that crap about how they don't contradict each other, Christian mind-numbing at its worst.
Just for giggles, when did Jesus say he'd return? Why within one generation of the time he died. Maybe he got delayed.
My own belief is that when Jesus does return, it will be with trumpets blaring, the clouds parting, and Jesus descending quite exquisitely. He goes about holding babies, saying kind things, shaking hands, "How are ya? Jesus Christ here". Then, Jesus looks at his watch and says that times is pressing, things to do, etc. The trumpets blare, Jesus ascends quite exquisitely, the clouds fold in. Ythbbia, ythbbia...That's all Folks!
" The position of (extremist) religion is that one's relationship with God is more important than anything else."
You can say that all you like, and the religious nutjobs love to say it too, but it isn't true in an effective sense. If it were the most important to them, then they would back off and let individuals handle that relationship between two entities to the two entities. That's not what happens though. The religious nutjobs go stomping on anything they themselves do not like.
And as far as Muslim nutjobs are concerned, they are living a lie and they know it. Allah is supposed to be so "other" that no one has ever communicated with him directly. Mohammed was visited by Gabriel. It turns out there's a little known escape clause in Allah-land, he can communicate as long as he uses an angel. Since Gabriel has been quite absent in the last few hundred years, no Muslim can claim to know the mind of Allah. So why don't they just STFU and, if Allah is so powerful, let him defend his own ass? Why, because then they would miss out on all that pleasant enjoyment to be had by stomping on other people for whatever imagined sins they think they see. They expect Allah will reward them for this kind of behavior. I would think it quite a dangerous game for them. Suppose Allah disapproves, how would they know? Gabriel is off on a South Sea Island enjoying the local half naked babes and Allah is busy with his knitting.
Yeah, name one country upset enough at China to hurt it economically over their support of N. Korea? And any change in N. Korea means the regime there must go bye-bye...and that would open the flood gates where most of the N. Koreans decide they'd like to live in China.
China is stuck. They have to support that little sawed off runt and his generals and their army.
No one will help the N. Korean people because no one cares enough to risk a hot war to lance that boil. It's easier watching them starve and die for the next generation instead of spending a lot of money and lives now to fix it...and probably a lot of S. Korean lives if not their whole economy. And there's no telling what China would do if the West did anything. Japan had their dicks cut off after WWII and they won't be growing new ones any time soon, and their Asian neighbors like it that way. The U.S. won't do anything after having shot their wad in Afghanistan and Iraq. Maybe those nice Iranians will help.
Nope, China is the one supporting N. Korea, they don't want half of N. Korea fleeing to N. China. South Korea knows a bunch of born fuck ups when they see them, they want no part of N. Korea. The U.S. is merely a trip wire to prevent the batshit crazies up North from coming down South...after destroying it first with artillery and guided missiles. They then send their 1 million man starving army South so they get some proper meals before they shit in that nest as well.
How happy will you feel if you plug one of the neighbor's teenagers? Teenagers do stupid things, they get in trouble. We have law enforcement for this sort of behavior. However, feel free to plug your neighbor's teenager for being young and dumb and "snooping around" your property. And don't forget to explain to his/her parents why you put him/her 6 feet under, they'll understand.
Errrr...small point I'm sure, but standing 100 feet away behind a bush and plugging someone is somewhat easier than chasing the person down with a sword. It is important to have a sense of proportion in life.
Nope. There's an economic reason, i.e., otherwise you must built out a network by yourself, and the fellow over there must as well, and that next guy. SCADA systems are connected to the internet because it is cost effective to do so. Terrorism could change the economics, but it would have to be very effective terrorism.
Now you could argue that SCADA should be constructed in such a way that the control part is kept separate from the data distribution part. And you would be correct, yet economics bites you in the ass again. It is cheaper to combine them.
This might be a place for government regulation. Essentially, it is used to shift the market in a way that is contrary to economics. That might work, but there is still the underlying driver, economics, that will always work against that.
You have no understanding of "the laws". Currently, there are no laws to lock up a crazy nut, they have rights. Ask the ACLU, they'll tell you. My sister, manic depressive at the least, did a runner once from her apartment after moving all her furniture into the street. We searched, we contacts all the police agencies, the hospitals. It was as though she fell off the Earth. After 2 weeks, we happened to call one of the hospitals and a nurse told us that even though she couldn't tell us my sister was there, she was there. Turns out she showed up at a police station and they took her to that hospital. We talked to those cops before we found her, nope, they'd not seen nothing, never, not here.
After several tumultuous years, Adult Protective Services told Ma that if my sister forced them to come out one more time (she was now living at home with Ma), they would remove Ma from the house. Not my sister, my Ma. Why? Well, mental illness patients have rights, you know.
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"Oracle needs to ask Google", Uncle Larry would rather eat his shorts. He feels he got screwed out of Beeeeellions and Beeeeeellions of dollars. Uncle Larry and Darl McBride now share a condo on Uncle Larry's Hawaiian island...swapping stories of Beeellions lost, suits that never paid back what they thought they'd get, spanking each other on ass when they land a big fish. It's all they have to live for.
Try this game, presume lightning has struck and now you are a manager. You try to do the right thing, manage your people properly. Some smart aleck that you manage comes up to you one day and proceeds to tell you that you are stupid because you did A and he thought you should do B. You had good reasons for doing A, but no, now you are stupid. Others you manage do not tell you that you are stupid. Do you (1) take to heart this odd man's opinion, or (2) tell him to STFU knowing trying to explain your reasons will fall on deaf ears because he already considers you stupid?
Managers can indeed be stupid, but no one will change their actions because they are told they are stupid. They simply circle the wagons and repeat to themselves all the reasons why they do what they do thereby reinforcing their current behavior. You want to change something, explain a better way.
I don't think you understand how explosions actually do their damage. An explosion in which the force is directed can be very powerful. A nuke in space is not a directed explosion, the energy flies out in all directions, most of them failing to be aimed at the asteroid. Also, notice that after the WWII nukes, there were buildings left standing. Admittedly, the ones we have now are bigger, but they don't atomize stuff very well. An a rock that big isn't going to be atomized very easily. Just to make it more complicated, we do not know the rock's composition. That greatly effects what a nuke will do to it.
Given what we do not know, it would be a real pisser if we hit it and caused it to impact the Earth.
The Kuwaiti Royal Family already has control of the money supply. They figure that gives them the power to tell everyone what to believe and say.
The U.S. screwed up after the Kuwait war, they should have offered it to the Palestinians. It would have removed a royal pain in the tookus. "Say, Pals, have we got a deal for you. How'd you like yer own country so you could have yer own civil war, it's got oil, a port or two, verrrrrry friendly neighbors. Warm sunny climate....location, location, location!!!"
Let's review the Arab Spring just for giggles. Tunisia: moderate government but the Islamists are grinding their teeth and threatening people. Egypt: elected an Islamist who appears to be governing by decree...admittedly attempting to lead a failed state. Libya: warring clans, no central government. Syria: civil war. Saudi Arabia: Arab What? Yemen: weak central government, Islamists wandering the hills in search of victims...errr...followers. Kuwaiti: still ruled by the fat boys in robes. The rest of the Gulf States: see Saudi Arabia. Algeria: still fighting the Islamists, central government has heard of democracy but is having none of it. Morocco: still has monarchy which is fighting tooth and nail to remain relevant, Islamists don't yet have a significant foothold. The other African countries have Islamists cutting off heads, arms, legs, etc....gotta wonder what they have against those limbs.
Some spring. Allah-forbid summer should come, the Islamists won't rest until every Arab is under their boot.
Because making something small and light means MS's profit will be small and light. So they go towards cramming everything under the hood in the hopes that people will continue to feel like they are getting their money's worth. Apple gets away with their profit margins because they pay attention to detail (forgetting Apple maps for now) and people actually will pay for software married well with hardware. Linux and MS have taught people that software has no value, hence Linux has been tough to monetize and MS has their current problems.
You act like destroying MS is a bad thing. WTF?
Bingo! I have to tell people I've killed for less if they touch my monitor. Grease is a royal pain to get off. And I do not want a monitor in my face either.
I still wouldn't use a Windows gui on top of Linux. To me, that is MS's biggest failure, they cannot do guis for crap.
Errr...or maybe Apple just wants a second supplier and you haven't been in on the memos?
If Apple is smart, they'll keep Samsung as well as buy some of their chips from TSMC. Having dual suppliers is always preferable. I'd be surprised if they ditched Samsung completely.
I don't think MS has their sights set on Apple so much as they have their sights set on a business philosophy: turn every user into an annuity. This philosophy came about from the utilities and gets branded onto the ass of every MBA with pointy hair. Once it was understood how to turn devices into "service" machines, the (Bill) Gates of Hell was unleashed.
As it stands now, no one knows whether Google's model or Apple's model is the better one for generating profits. Both seem to be hedging their bets. But both make moves that can only be interpreted as annuity enhancement. MS sees this and realizes that their annuity generator of the past is being worked around. So the only thing they know is to copy the workarounds.
Want to cut your expenses? Start first with cutting off the blood sucking annuity tentacles in your life.
I'm sorry. Maybe you are ready for therapy now?
The tribal regions of Pakistan have sucked pretty much their whole history...mostly because of Islam. The Taliban in Afghanistan were no better, read up on the history a bit. After the Russians left, which the U.S. helped them with, they decided the people they couldn't stand the most were other Afghanis. They then used Al Qaeda as shock troops to clear out a village so their Pashtun tribesmen could have a bit more room to spread out. They got to feeling so good about themselves that even taking a poke at the U.S. seemed like a good idea.
I hate to break this news, but it turns out Jesus was actually Swedish, hence the blue eyes.
Read Genesis, there is no Satan in Genesis. There is only a serpent in the Garden.
While we're at it, there are two creation myths in Genesis and they contradict each other. You'd think if the book was divinely inspired it would at least be consistent. And don't even think about handing me that crap about how they don't contradict each other, Christian mind-numbing at its worst.
Just for giggles, when did Jesus say he'd return? Why within one generation of the time he died. Maybe he got delayed.
My own belief is that when Jesus does return, it will be with trumpets blaring, the clouds parting, and Jesus descending quite exquisitely. He goes about holding babies, saying kind things, shaking hands, "How are ya? Jesus Christ here". Then, Jesus looks at his watch and says that times is pressing, things to do, etc. The trumpets blare, Jesus ascends quite exquisitely, the clouds fold in. Ythbbia, ythbbia...That's all Folks!
" The position of (extremist) religion is that one's relationship with God is more important than anything else."
You can say that all you like, and the religious nutjobs love to say it too, but it isn't true in an effective sense. If it were the most important to them, then they would back off and let individuals handle that relationship between two entities to the two entities. That's not what happens though. The religious nutjobs go stomping on anything they themselves do not like.
And as far as Muslim nutjobs are concerned, they are living a lie and they know it. Allah is supposed to be so "other" that no one has ever communicated with him directly. Mohammed was visited by Gabriel. It turns out there's a little known escape clause in Allah-land, he can communicate as long as he uses an angel. Since Gabriel has been quite absent in the last few hundred years, no Muslim can claim to know the mind of Allah. So why don't they just STFU and, if Allah is so powerful, let him defend his own ass? Why, because then they would miss out on all that pleasant enjoyment to be had by stomping on other people for whatever imagined sins they think they see. They expect Allah will reward them for this kind of behavior. I would think it quite a dangerous game for them. Suppose Allah disapproves, how would they know? Gabriel is off on a South Sea Island enjoying the local half naked babes and Allah is busy with his knitting.
Can you boot whatever you want on Windows RT thingy? No. RMS and FSF are right, you are wrong.
Hmm...maybe you could read about the concept of "freedom"?
Yeah, name one country upset enough at China to hurt it economically over their support of N. Korea? And any change in N. Korea means the regime there must go bye-bye...and that would open the flood gates where most of the N. Koreans decide they'd like to live in China.
China is stuck. They have to support that little sawed off runt and his generals and their army.
No one will help the N. Korean people because no one cares enough to risk a hot war to lance that boil. It's easier watching them starve and die for the next generation instead of spending a lot of money and lives now to fix it...and probably a lot of S. Korean lives if not their whole economy. And there's no telling what China would do if the West did anything. Japan had their dicks cut off after WWII and they won't be growing new ones any time soon, and their Asian neighbors like it that way. The U.S. won't do anything after having shot their wad in Afghanistan and Iraq. Maybe those nice Iranians will help.
Nope, China is the one supporting N. Korea, they don't want half of N. Korea fleeing to N. China. South Korea knows a bunch of born fuck ups when they see them, they want no part of N. Korea. The U.S. is merely a trip wire to prevent the batshit crazies up North from coming down South...after destroying it first with artillery and guided missiles. They then send their 1 million man starving army South so they get some proper meals before they shit in that nest as well.
How happy will you feel if you plug one of the neighbor's teenagers? Teenagers do stupid things, they get in trouble. We have law enforcement for this sort of behavior. However, feel free to plug your neighbor's teenager for being young and dumb and "snooping around" your property. And don't forget to explain to his/her parents why you put him/her 6 feet under, they'll understand.
Errrr...small point I'm sure, but standing 100 feet away behind a bush and plugging someone is somewhat easier than chasing the person down with a sword. It is important to have a sense of proportion in life.
Nope. There's an economic reason, i.e., otherwise you must built out a network by yourself, and the fellow over there must as well, and that next guy. SCADA systems are connected to the internet because it is cost effective to do so. Terrorism could change the economics, but it would have to be very effective terrorism.
Now you could argue that SCADA should be constructed in such a way that the control part is kept separate from the data distribution part. And you would be correct, yet economics bites you in the ass again. It is cheaper to combine them.
This might be a place for government regulation. Essentially, it is used to shift the market in a way that is contrary to economics. That might work, but there is still the underlying driver, economics, that will always work against that.
You have no understanding of "the laws". Currently, there are no laws to lock up a crazy nut, they have rights. Ask the ACLU, they'll tell you. My sister, manic depressive at the least, did a runner once from her apartment after moving all her furniture into the street. We searched, we contacts all the police agencies, the hospitals. It was as though she fell off the Earth. After 2 weeks, we happened to call one of the hospitals and a nurse told us that even though she couldn't tell us my sister was there, she was there. Turns out she showed up at a police station and they took her to that hospital. We talked to those cops before we found her, nope, they'd not seen nothing, never, not here.
After several tumultuous years, Adult Protective Services told Ma that if my sister forced them to come out one more time (she was now living at home with Ma), they would remove Ma from the house. Not my sister, my Ma. Why? Well, mental illness patients have rights, you know.