Nope, they sell a hardware-software combination. No one buys Macs just for the hardware, just listen to the people on this board who think software is built by little elves and in their bunny world, they buy hardware.
I've used W7 and that interface maybe many things but shiny it isn't. I have to administer that abomination and am sick and tired of having to go through a click-fest to get anything done. And I blame the engineers for that interface, they never did get interfaces at MS, just like Sun never got small machines.
MS never had it in its DNA to do what Apple did. Hell, neither did Apple until they managed to hit a homer with the iPod and iTunes. It was the recognition that one needed to combine at least two markets in order to define a new market which made Apple re-evaluate how to be successful. Up until then, they had followed the usual strategy of trying to be really good a single market in isolation from any others they may have been involved with. Once Apple figured out how to mix markets, they looked around elsewhere to see where that could work.
You do realize that defense is about 16-18% of the budget. The rest is all those other things governments do. Cutting defense to $0 will still leave the U.S. with a $600-700 Billion budget gap. And the Me Generation is about to send the rest of the budget into outer space now that they are getting old enough to retire and somehow believe the rest of the country owes them some Golden Years after having to put up with their whining and kvetching for the last 50.
And even if they did reduce the defense budget by 2% (they are talking of reducing it by roughly 12%), what makes you think they will spend it on the space program? The space program isn't going to get any of those critters re-elected whereas promising a chicken in every toilet, or whatever they're promising these days, will.
Spoken like someone who has no respect for software. Software costs money, integrating it with hardware seamlessly costs money. If you don't wish to pay for that, please, buy anything else you like.
Yes, please tell us how we live in a dystopian society, all is woe, and woe is me, and you, and everyone who looks like you. The little bunny world you imagine never existed, so suck it up and stop acting like a teenager whose father doesn't understand that the use of the car is central to your well-being connectedness with your life's path....blah, blah, woe, alas, blah,...
I think the basic problem is that the climate is part of The Commons and it gets "used" for free. To see how that will turn out, look at the oceans. They are being fished out because they are part of The Commons. When fishing trawlers can spread nets miles around and very, very deep, they sweep up everything. Fish stocks in certain areas are already plummeting and dangerously close to being unable to recover.
Screwing up the climate isn't something we can easily recover from. You cannot just say, okay, then, we won't do that anymore because the change will persist for several generations....presuming the change isn't so bad there are no several generations.
It's like Clint Eastwood said, "Do ya feel lucky, punk?" Maybe man-made changes won't tip the climate into a new pattern we'd find highly objectionable. Maybe they will...well... do ya feel lucky?
The Federal Government has the power to determine where your power comes from? How so? Most of the power plants in the U.S. are privately owned as well as the transmission lines. If anything, they come under the local government's control with respect to rates, but they cannot tell the power companies where to get their power.
You haven't used any of the modern architectures then. We routinely have to shut off optimizations in kernel level and reatltime work simply because they cause incorrect code to be produced relative to the architecture we're targeting. You could argue that it is a problem with the architectures, and you'd be correct. But we don't make those.
Go get the actual results from the The Nation's Report Card web site, get the.pdf version, the on-line crap is enough to make anyone stop learning. Most of the scores appear to be about 27 points within each other...except for the District of Columbia, it appears to be a full 40 points below everyone else. I'm unsure what the point system actually means.
(A quick scan, might have missed something from the fine print show) the top score is 164, N. Dakota. The bottom of the 50 states is 137, Mississippi. The District of Columbia is 112. The Department of Defense Activity (oversea and domestic schools) is 161.
That the District of Columbia is so obscenely low is really disgusting. Our nation's capital can do no better than that? They used to have a no-nonsense school administrator in Michele Rhee. However, the voters decided the old administration had to go for reasons I cannot fathom and with it went Ms. Rhee. When she got there, she was appalled and kicked booty. She was always clear that the D.C. schools were so abysmal that it would take a long time and lot of booty kicking to fix. Naturally, the Unions took issue with her assessment seeing as how they were being held partly responsible.
Yes, let's look at History a bit shall we. Current Christian theology doesn't countenance any sort of the atrocities to which you are referring. They reformed. Islam has never been reformed. Don't believe me? Any Muslim converting to anything else is under a death sentence. Many Islamic leaders aren't multi-culti pious men singing Kumbaya, they are enforcers in a gang of like-minded thugs. This is why we hear very little from Muslims in general about Muslim atrocities, many are too scared to speak. Listen to Ayann Hirsi Ali sometime about the atrocities committed on Muslim women by other Muslims.
Those Franciscan pricks as you call them were actually doing the aliens' work for them. Watch shows with Giorgio Tsoukalos, he knows everything about those sneaky aliens and how they've stacked to deck to make us all disappear on 12/21/12. The Hair Ball knows all!
Wow, go back to the Cold War and relive it for old times sake? The U.S. stopped caring about Russia when the Berlin Wall came down, the year 1989. Now the only concern with Russia is how far Putin will go to become Fuehrer for Life. If he starts sporting a cheesey small mustache. then we'll have to take him seriously.
Hence my point about Republicans, although I stated the negation of what I meant, I think most readers got the point. It should have read:
"What Republican could NOT be against a government directed industrial policy, what Democrat could NOT be against screwing the oil companies out of a few bucks?"
The point being, just to be pedantic, it is contradictory to claim to be for free enterprise yet for subsidies and tax breaks for private industry. A true Buckley conservative would never countenance those sorts of (what amounts to) a government industrial policy of picking winners and losers.
I should also mention that a free enterprise believer isn't a Tea Party-like conservative who believes in no government regulation, the latter being necessary to create a level playing field. That sort of thinking led to the housing crisis for which none of the guilty parties was made to pony up, and it leads to ill-gotten monopolies.
Democrats are also two-faced about a federal industrial policy. They have no problems with "green" industries or PC (pol. correct) industries getting a bit O' the common weal. However, that opens the door to just about every company since they can all spin their business as green or PC. The economy is too complex for those sorts of things to actually work, notice the problems the Obama administration had in picking winners in solar cells.
Where the rubber meets the road is in regulatory power. What gets regulated and why is not a question with an answer, it is instead an ongoing process because industry continues to evolve. There wasn't a housing bubble until Wall Street figured out how to securitize mortgages and create a market for them. When that happened, given how fundamental housing is...well....was to the U.S. economy, it fundamentally changed the housing market. Either the Administration or Congress (at the time) should have demanded new rules and regs to make sure Wall Street didn't create the black hole that swallowed the U.S. economy. Forcing mortgages to be traceable and forcing Wall Street companies to have skin in the game is a pillar of Finance 101, i.e., don't create hot potatoes that turn a market into gambling casino.
I don't think it is true that both parties do not value the small guy, rather the small guy doesn't have a lobby and if he did, what would it lobby for? The crazy-quilt of American politics looks that way because Americans look that way.
I have a suggestion. Since the U.S. should value education for its citizens to compete in the world, and since the Republicans believe in free enterprise, and since the Democrats dislike the oil companies for whatever reasons, let's take the $6 Billion the federal government gives in tax breaks/subsidies to the oil companies and use it to cover the student loan rates. What Republican could be against a government directed industrial policy, what Democrat could be against screwing the oil companies out of a few bucks? Everyone wins.
Nah, cats: Wiskers "More Super-Pop, Marshmallow, I feel like a brain-wave coming on." Marshmallow: "Muhahahahahah...just wait until we get opposable thumbs, then we can drive el dorko's car can get our own treats."
Cats pack, or pride. There was TV doc on cats and they had one story where a dog was terrorizing cats in a neighborhood. One day, they set up a trap. The dog went after a cat as bait and the rest jumped him.
Cats certainly have higher mental functions, I had two Siamese sisters. Both would sulk when I pushed them away. In the last year of Tinkerbell's life, she started snuggling up real close to my chest at night in bed. This went on including her last night before I had to take her in for that last vet visit, kidney disease. That last night, Ariel was inconsolable, and she demanded to be right on the other side of Tinkerbell. Every night since Tinkerbell's last, Ariel snuggled up just like Tinkerbell had...including her last night before I had to take her in for her last vet visit, kidney disease. They made it 16 and 17 yrs old respectively and broke my heart.
I theorize they both felt bad from the kidney problems, although both were snuggling up before their blood test showed they'd be in any distress. It was almost like they either knew the end was near and it made them feel better. In a sense, the reason doesn't matter. What mattered was that it was important to them.
Maybe Apple simply doesn't trust the rest of the would-be app stores. What are they going to do, allow MS to set up an app store for Macs given MS's reputation for security? And just how do they police new app stores to make sure they are doing all the checks Apple is doing? Greed probably has little to do with it, rather fear of the iStuff turning into the cesspool that is MS probably has a lot more to do with it.
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The Pentagon isn't considering this, intentionally or otherwise. It is merely the wet dream of some wannebe defense contractor.
Offer the asteroid Texas and call it Springtime in America.
Nope, they sell a hardware-software combination. No one buys Macs just for the hardware, just listen to the people on this board who think software is built by little elves and in their bunny world, they buy hardware.
I've used W7 and that interface maybe many things but shiny it isn't. I have to administer that abomination and am sick and tired of having to go through a click-fest to get anything done. And I blame the engineers for that interface, they never did get interfaces at MS, just like Sun never got small machines.
MS never had it in its DNA to do what Apple did. Hell, neither did Apple until they managed to hit a homer with the iPod and iTunes. It was the recognition that one needed to combine at least two markets in order to define a new market which made Apple re-evaluate how to be successful. Up until then, they had followed the usual strategy of trying to be really good a single market in isolation from any others they may have been involved with. Once Apple figured out how to mix markets, they looked around elsewhere to see where that could work.
You do realize that defense is about 16-18% of the budget. The rest is all those other things governments do. Cutting defense to $0 will still leave the U.S. with a $600-700 Billion budget gap. And the Me Generation is about to send the rest of the budget into outer space now that they are getting old enough to retire and somehow believe the rest of the country owes them some Golden Years after having to put up with their whining and kvetching for the last 50.
And even if they did reduce the defense budget by 2% (they are talking of reducing it by roughly 12%), what makes you think they will spend it on the space program? The space program isn't going to get any of those critters re-elected whereas promising a chicken in every toilet, or whatever they're promising these days, will.
No, a large rich arrogant country with a lot of infrastructure built around its standards that would cost a fortune to change.
Spoken like someone who has no respect for software. Software costs money, integrating it with hardware seamlessly costs money. If you don't wish to pay for that, please, buy anything else you like.
Yes, please tell us how we live in a dystopian society, all is woe, and woe is me, and you, and everyone who looks like you. The little bunny world you imagine never existed, so suck it up and stop acting like a teenager whose father doesn't understand that the use of the car is central to your well-being connectedness with your life's path....blah, blah, woe, alas, blah,...
I think the basic problem is that the climate is part of The Commons and it gets "used" for free. To see how that will turn out, look at the oceans. They are being fished out because they are part of The Commons. When fishing trawlers can spread nets miles around and very, very deep, they sweep up everything. Fish stocks in certain areas are already plummeting and dangerously close to being unable to recover.
Screwing up the climate isn't something we can easily recover from. You cannot just say, okay, then, we won't do that anymore because the change will persist for several generations....presuming the change isn't so bad there are no several generations.
It's like Clint Eastwood said, "Do ya feel lucky, punk?" Maybe man-made changes won't tip the climate into a new pattern we'd find highly objectionable. Maybe they will...well... do ya feel lucky?
The Federal Government has the power to determine where your power comes from? How so? Most of the power plants in the U.S. are privately owned as well as the transmission lines. If anything, they come under the local government's control with respect to rates, but they cannot tell the power companies where to get their power.
You haven't used any of the modern architectures then. We routinely have to shut off optimizations in kernel level and reatltime work simply because they cause incorrect code to be produced relative to the architecture we're targeting. You could argue that it is a problem with the architectures, and you'd be correct. But we don't make those.
Go get the actual results from the The Nation's Report Card web site, get the .pdf version, the on-line crap is enough to make anyone stop learning. Most of the scores appear to be about 27 points within each other...except for the District of Columbia, it appears to be a full 40 points below everyone else. I'm unsure what the point system actually means.
(A quick scan, might have missed something from the fine print show) the top score is 164, N. Dakota. The bottom of the 50 states is 137, Mississippi. The District of Columbia is 112. The Department of Defense Activity (oversea and domestic schools) is 161.
That the District of Columbia is so obscenely low is really disgusting. Our nation's capital can do no better than that? They used to have a no-nonsense school administrator in Michele Rhee. However, the voters decided the old administration had to go for reasons I cannot fathom and with it went Ms. Rhee. When she got there, she was appalled and kicked booty. She was always clear that the D.C. schools were so abysmal that it would take a long time and lot of booty kicking to fix. Naturally, the Unions took issue with her assessment seeing as how they were being held partly responsible.
Yes, let's look at History a bit shall we. Current Christian theology doesn't countenance any sort of the atrocities to which you are referring. They reformed. Islam has never been reformed. Don't believe me? Any Muslim converting to anything else is under a death sentence. Many Islamic leaders aren't multi-culti pious men singing Kumbaya, they are enforcers in a gang of like-minded thugs. This is why we hear very little from Muslims in general about Muslim atrocities, many are too scared to speak. Listen to Ayann Hirsi Ali sometime about the atrocities committed on Muslim women by other Muslims.
Those Franciscan pricks as you call them were actually doing the aliens' work for them. Watch shows with Giorgio Tsoukalos, he knows everything about those sneaky aliens and how they've stacked to deck to make us all disappear on 12/21/12. The Hair Ball knows all!
Wow, go back to the Cold War and relive it for old times sake? The U.S. stopped caring about Russia when the Berlin Wall came down, the year 1989. Now the only concern with Russia is how far Putin will go to become Fuehrer for Life. If he starts sporting a cheesey small mustache. then we'll have to take him seriously.
Hence my point about Republicans, although I stated the negation of what I meant, I think most readers got the point. It should have read:
"What Republican could NOT be against a government directed industrial policy, what Democrat could NOT be against screwing the oil companies out of a few bucks?"
The point being, just to be pedantic, it is contradictory to claim to be for free enterprise yet for subsidies and tax breaks for private industry. A true Buckley conservative would never countenance those sorts of (what amounts to) a government industrial policy of picking winners and losers.
I should also mention that a free enterprise believer isn't a Tea Party-like conservative who believes in no government regulation, the latter being necessary to create a level playing field. That sort of thinking led to the housing crisis for which none of the guilty parties was made to pony up, and it leads to ill-gotten monopolies.
Democrats are also two-faced about a federal industrial policy. They have no problems with "green" industries or PC (pol. correct) industries getting a bit O' the common weal. However, that opens the door to just about every company since they can all spin their business as green or PC. The economy is too complex for those sorts of things to actually work, notice the problems the Obama administration had in picking winners in solar cells.
Where the rubber meets the road is in regulatory power. What gets regulated and why is not a question with an answer, it is instead an ongoing process because industry continues to evolve. There wasn't a housing bubble until Wall Street figured out how to securitize mortgages and create a market for them. When that happened, given how fundamental housing is...well....was to the U.S. economy, it fundamentally changed the housing market. Either the Administration or Congress (at the time) should have demanded new rules and regs to make sure Wall Street didn't create the black hole that swallowed the U.S. economy. Forcing mortgages to be traceable and forcing Wall Street companies to have skin in the game is a pillar of Finance 101, i.e., don't create hot potatoes that turn a market into gambling casino.
I don't think it is true that both parties do not value the small guy, rather the small guy doesn't have a lobby and if he did, what would it lobby for? The crazy-quilt of American politics looks that way because Americans look that way.
I have a suggestion. Since the U.S. should value education for its citizens to compete in the world, and since the Republicans believe in free enterprise, and since the Democrats dislike the oil companies for whatever reasons, let's take the $6 Billion the federal government gives in tax breaks/subsidies to the oil companies and use it to cover the student loan rates. What Republican could be against a government directed industrial policy, what Democrat could be against screwing the oil companies out of a few bucks? Everyone wins.
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1. filing out your Windows registration
2. sending us money to unlock exciting new features of Windows
3. allowing all your warnings and alerts to use the voice chip
Nah, cats: Wiskers "More Super-Pop, Marshmallow, I feel like a brain-wave coming on." Marshmallow: "Muhahahahahah...just wait until we get opposable thumbs, then we can drive el dorko's car can get our own treats."
No, e.g., Rap.
Ah, you mean like what happened during the Summer of Love.
Cats pack, or pride. There was TV doc on cats and they had one story where a dog was terrorizing cats in a neighborhood. One day, they set up a trap. The dog went after a cat as bait and the rest jumped him.
Cats certainly have higher mental functions, I had two Siamese sisters. Both would sulk when I pushed them away. In the last year of Tinkerbell's life, she started snuggling up real close to my chest at night in bed. This went on including her last night before I had to take her in for that last vet visit, kidney disease. That last night, Ariel was inconsolable, and she demanded to be right on the other side of Tinkerbell. Every night since Tinkerbell's last, Ariel snuggled up just like Tinkerbell had...including her last night before I had to take her in for her last vet visit, kidney disease. They made it 16 and 17 yrs old respectively and broke my heart.
I theorize they both felt bad from the kidney problems, although both were snuggling up before their blood test showed they'd be in any distress. It was almost like they either knew the end was near and it made them feel better. In a sense, the reason doesn't matter. What mattered was that it was important to them.
Maybe Apple simply doesn't trust the rest of the would-be app stores. What are they going to do, allow MS to set up an app store for Macs given MS's reputation for security? And just how do they police new app stores to make sure they are doing all the checks Apple is doing? Greed probably has little to do with it, rather fear of the iStuff turning into the cesspool that is MS probably has a lot more to do with it.