yes, but have you tried contacting the companies and attempted to drill down to your contacts? If they are legit, you should have little trouble reaching them this way. However, if the companies claim no knowledge of your contacts, well...I own some primo choice Florida swamp land the government is going to drain for the coming housing boom and I'm very interested in your financial input.
"most people - even most business owners - are honest." I agree, I get tired of the constant posting by post-modern weenies claiming (1) the entire U.S. government is corrupt, (2) capitalism is corrupt, (3) democracy is corrupt, (n) pick whatever is wrong and attribute it to "the American way". That sentiment only serves to indicate the writer cannot see farther than their own little dystopic view of the world.
Yeah, good luck with that. The only view of computers they see is the screen, keyboard, mouse, and if they are really sophisticated Power Users, a USB stick. They are now considered experts by those Upper Management (UM) that fear to even gaze upon a computer and have their secretaries print out their emails for markup and reply. The UM will gladly turn to these experts since they are all Business School Product and speak the language of widgets, product, cash-flow, and will fondly recall bits of Buzzword Bingo Lingo thereby bonding together, circling the wagons, pointing their spears outward to repel attacks by those technical people that actually know enough to make the tech work. So Joe-Big-Software-Company-Product-Specialist walks in the door. The Big Cheese (BC) must see him/her because this is a Mission-Critical Performance of the Forward-Looking Synergistic Kind. BC gets sold a box of shiny buttons, after convening meeting with the Power Users who all agree the BC has his finger on the pulse of the company and not inserted into his oval office. A Deal is commenced which will Galvanize the Future, Coalesce the Ineffable into that which may be Effed, and ceremoniously inflicted on the people who actually make the tech work. After the giggles subside, and the tech people find out PUs, UMs, and BC are serious, darkness falls upon their faces for they know whom the bell will toll when it fails to Bring Forth a Fountain of Fundamental Change and costs a serious arm and leg.
Errr...not that I have no fondness for PUs, UMs, and BCs...I have some...somewhere...it was just here a minute ago...
Gold standard my ass. Ever listen closely to BBC news, they get information wrong, its highly biased with editorial comment, it is so shallow a five year could have written the copy. The best thing the BBC could do is stick to entertainment and leave the news to the professionals....errr...assuming there are still any left.
It isn't merely the quality of teachers or the way the school boards are run. A problem just as large is the American people, parents and kids in particular. The parents are raising a tide of kids that have the attention span of gnat. They have video games, TV, cell phones, iPods, etc. The one thing they all have in common is fast change during their operation. Kid gets frustrated or doesn't like something, Bing, change the game, change the channel, call someone else, change the song, etc.
With that kind of zippy environment, Johnny doesn't have what it takes to spend a day solving a math problem. Sally cannot read a difficult passage. Mommy and Daddy dip in and "help" because Johnny and Sally refuse to go any further if a solution doesn't magically pop into thier noggin in under 3.2 minutes. Parents refuse to simply demand the kid stick it out until they get an answer and take the consequences for it being wrong. They would learn if they were allowed to make mistakes, but that might impact their self-esteem and Mommy and Daddy believe all that crap the Education establishment has been feeding about how high self-esteem makes their kids smart.
That's true, many of their "stories" are simply mouthpieces for whatever company needs a fluff-piece that week. It isn't financial journalism they are into. They were like this even before Murdoch got his anal probes into them. There's no chance they'll change because their ad revenue is dependent on the fluff pieces. Bing and WSJ, a marriage made in Heaven...or was it Hell.
"In short, this would ruin a lot of what makes the internet a worldwide competition for awesomeness, and turn it into a bunch of fragmented corporate ghettos. And everyone would lose."
You mean everyone but Ballmer and Murdoch. I don't believe they think it is a bad thing to have a bunch of fragmented corporate ghettos. At least in Microsoft's case, it allows them to tramp all over industry standards and appeal directly to Business School Product running those corporations.
It isn't to the public Google would have to explain themselves, it is to the anti-trust division of the Justice Dept. Google might be big, but the DOJ is bigger.
Taking random words out of a dictionary and stringing them together do not really contribute anything to this discussion. Might I suggest you attempt to think first, and then attempt to translate that into paragraphs and English sentences, I find it helps me a lot.
"Maybe that's because NATO, and the United States in particular, like to stomp all over countries with valuable resources and without nukes?"
Care to elaborate on which countries that is? Iraq, I imagine you saying. Yep, that's it, the U.S. decided to invade a country to so they could give oil contracts to whomever they felt like. Kuwait...they asked for the U.S. to come in and the U.S. gave it right back to them after they were done using it. Afghanistan? I wasn't aware they had anything we desired...except maybe goats, the U.S. is suffering a goat shortage (Australia and New Zealand...watch out, the U.S. is coming to Get Ya). Granada....errr...it's kind of like this rather puny island, the U.S. needed the sand. Panama? Well, the U.S. did build their damn canal, but then we gave Panama back to the Panamanians so that really shouldn't count...maybe for hats, although those come from Columbia. Vietnam....a major producer of what, exactly. Korea? Kind of gave that back to the Koreans.
I give up, who has the U.S. invaded for their valuable resources?
"if the warheads can be refurbished then replacement is unnecessary" Like someone above mentioned, it isn't the warheads that fail to make it go boom, it is the surrounding infrastructure. That must be replaced or your boom as no credibility with those nice N. Koreans and the extremely good-natured Iranians.
MS deciding to change your default search settings in downloads is underhanded and immoral. It also show precisely what they think of their "customers". What part of immoral is it you are immune from?
Hmmm....how come NORAD wants us to believe in Santa Claus, I sense a Conspiracy. John F. Kennedy Junior is calling from beyond the grave to investigate how a bonehead like him could actually crash his plane all by himself. Someone contact Seymour Hersch, there's got to be nefarious CIA involvement...probably including the nuclear lobby and the oil companies...
The Spaghetti Monster might take offense at those suggestions...especially the spaghettios, now that's really hitting below the belt. Just eating those things can cause massive eruptions below the belt.
The point is that Obama gets to tickle the American media with thoughts of "There, I showed the flag." Still, it is better that he said it than Richard Nixon kissing Mao's ass.
Where does the BBC get its funding? I was under the impression the Brits were taxed to support it. From this side of the pond, that makes it government run.
We can attribute the lack of progress on breeder reactors to Jimmy Carter when he killed the Clinch River breeder reactor project. The anti-nuke crowd proclaimed this a great victory....errr...or something.
Yes, and expecting people to learn monads in order to do programming shows just about how far out there a lot of computer science is to building real systems. OO can be picked up shortly, go ahead and start explaining category theory to budding programmers so you can smugly point at OO and say "see, it's just monads". Oh, but you can do it all functionally. Fine, jump through all the painful epicycles one has to in order to code functionally. That's not going to build large systems where the large scale structure isn't functional and describing it monadically is a fool's errand.
No it, it doesn't. Cuban was only musing with some Microsoft lust, he wasn't serious...unless he has a thing for Uncle Fester look-a-likes. Okay, so maybe he was serious, lusting after Uncle Fester would come under Intent to Engage in Deviant Behavior.
"There's a growing anti-Google movement, in large part being spear-headed by Newscorp." There is a growing anti-Google movement? Murdoch pissing in the wind because he's not making enough money on his empire doesn't count. Where's the evidence?
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yes, but have you tried contacting the companies and attempted to drill down to your contacts? If they are legit, you should have little trouble reaching them this way. However, if the companies claim no knowledge of your contacts, well...I own some primo choice Florida swamp land the government is going to drain for the coming housing boom and I'm very interested in your financial input.
"most people - even most business owners - are honest." I agree, I get tired of the constant posting by post-modern weenies claiming (1) the entire U.S. government is corrupt, (2) capitalism is corrupt, (3) democracy is corrupt, (n) pick whatever is wrong and attribute it to "the American way". That sentiment only serves to indicate the writer cannot see farther than their own little dystopic view of the world.
Yeah, good luck with that. The only view of computers they see is the screen, keyboard, mouse, and if they are really sophisticated Power Users, a USB stick. They are now considered experts by those Upper Management (UM) that fear to even gaze upon a computer and have their secretaries print out their emails for markup and reply. The UM will gladly turn to these experts since they are all Business School Product and speak the language of widgets, product, cash-flow, and will fondly recall bits of Buzzword Bingo Lingo thereby bonding together, circling the wagons, pointing their spears outward to repel attacks by those technical people that actually know enough to make the tech work. So Joe-Big-Software-Company-Product-Specialist walks in the door. The Big Cheese (BC) must see him/her because this is a Mission-Critical Performance of the Forward-Looking Synergistic Kind. BC gets sold a box of shiny buttons, after convening meeting with the Power Users who all agree the BC has his finger on the pulse of the company and not inserted into his oval office. A Deal is commenced which will Galvanize the Future, Coalesce the Ineffable into that which may be Effed, and ceremoniously inflicted on the people who actually make the tech work. After the giggles subside, and the tech people find out PUs, UMs, and BC are serious, darkness falls upon their faces for they know whom the bell will toll when it fails to Bring Forth a Fountain of Fundamental Change and costs a serious arm and leg.
Errr...not that I have no fondness for PUs, UMs, and BCs...I have some...somewhere...it was just here a minute ago...
Gold standard my ass. Ever listen closely to BBC news, they get information wrong, its highly biased with editorial comment, it is so shallow a five year could have written the copy. The best thing the BBC could do is stick to entertainment and leave the news to the professionals....errr...assuming there are still any left.
It isn't merely the quality of teachers or the way the school boards are run. A problem just as large is the American people, parents and kids in particular. The parents are raising a tide of kids that have the attention span of gnat. They have video games, TV, cell phones, iPods, etc. The one thing they all have in common is fast change during their operation. Kid gets frustrated or doesn't like something, Bing, change the game, change the channel, call someone else, change the song, etc.
With that kind of zippy environment, Johnny doesn't have what it takes to spend a day solving a math problem. Sally cannot read a difficult passage. Mommy and Daddy dip in and "help" because Johnny and Sally refuse to go any further if a solution doesn't magically pop into thier noggin in under 3.2 minutes. Parents refuse to simply demand the kid stick it out until they get an answer and take the consequences for it being wrong. They would learn if they were allowed to make mistakes, but that might impact their self-esteem and Mommy and Daddy believe all that crap the Education establishment has been feeding about how high self-esteem makes their kids smart.
That's true, many of their "stories" are simply mouthpieces for whatever company needs a fluff-piece that week. It isn't financial journalism they are into. They were like this even before Murdoch got his anal probes into them. There's no chance they'll change because their ad revenue is dependent on the fluff pieces. Bing and WSJ, a marriage made in Heaven...or was it Hell.
"In short, this would ruin a lot of what makes the internet a worldwide competition for awesomeness, and turn it into a bunch of fragmented corporate ghettos. And everyone would lose."
You mean everyone but Ballmer and Murdoch. I don't believe they think it is a bad thing to have a bunch of fragmented corporate ghettos. At least in Microsoft's case, it allows them to tramp all over industry standards and appeal directly to Business School Product running those corporations.
It isn't to the public Google would have to explain themselves, it is to the anti-trust division of the Justice Dept. Google might be big, but the DOJ is bigger.
Shouldn't that old fart be thinking about retiring and enjoying his millions before Satan comes to claim his own?
Taking random words out of a dictionary and stringing them together do not really contribute anything to this discussion. Might I suggest you attempt to think first, and then attempt to translate that into paragraphs and English sentences, I find it helps me a lot.
"Maybe that's because NATO, and the United States in particular, like to stomp all over countries with valuable resources and without nukes?"
Care to elaborate on which countries that is? Iraq, I imagine you saying. Yep, that's it, the U.S. decided to invade a country to so they could give oil contracts to whomever they felt like. Kuwait...they asked for the U.S. to come in and the U.S. gave it right back to them after they were done using it. Afghanistan? I wasn't aware they had anything we desired...except maybe goats, the U.S. is suffering a goat shortage (Australia and New Zealand...watch out, the U.S. is coming to Get Ya). Granada....errr...it's kind of like this rather puny island, the U.S. needed the sand. Panama? Well, the U.S. did build their damn canal, but then we gave Panama back to the Panamanians so that really shouldn't count...maybe for hats, although those come from Columbia. Vietnam....a major producer of what, exactly. Korea? Kind of gave that back to the Koreans.
I give up, who has the U.S. invaded for their valuable resources?
"if the warheads can be refurbished then replacement is unnecessary" Like someone above mentioned, it isn't the warheads that fail to make it go boom, it is the surrounding infrastructure. That must be replaced or your boom as no credibility with those nice N. Koreans and the extremely good-natured Iranians.
"If the "sparkline" is so obvious and useful an idea and so easily implemented in your spreadsheet program why isn't it there now?"
Uh...you know, MS has a lock on spreadsheets and they only just thought of it.
You mean if we're lucky, we won't get any Mac support.
MS deciding to change your default search settings in downloads is underhanded and immoral. It also show precisely what they think of their "customers". What part of immoral is it you are immune from?
Nah, it is the usual MS bumbling propaganda ploy, recall how opaque the MSOOXML vote came about?
Hmmm....how come NORAD wants us to believe in Santa Claus, I sense a Conspiracy. John F. Kennedy Junior is calling from beyond the grave to investigate how a bonehead like him could actually crash his plane all by himself. Someone contact Seymour Hersch, there's got to be nefarious CIA involvement...probably including the nuclear lobby and the oil companies...
The Spaghetti Monster might take offense at those suggestions...especially the spaghettios, now that's really hitting below the belt. Just eating those things can cause massive eruptions below the belt.
The point is that Obama gets to tickle the American media with thoughts of "There, I showed the flag." Still, it is better that he said it than Richard Nixon kissing Mao's ass.
C'mon, everyone knows urine flows *down* one's leg...even Obama-giddy White House reporters know this.
Where does the BBC get its funding? I was under the impression the Brits were taxed to support it. From this side of the pond, that makes it government run.
We can attribute the lack of progress on breeder reactors to Jimmy Carter when he killed the Clinch River breeder reactor project. The anti-nuke crowd proclaimed this a great victory....errr...or something.
Yes, and expecting people to learn monads in order to do programming shows just about how far out there a lot of computer science is to building real systems. OO can be picked up shortly, go ahead and start explaining category theory to budding programmers so you can smugly point at OO and say "see, it's just monads". Oh, but you can do it all functionally. Fine, jump through all the painful epicycles one has to in order to code functionally. That's not going to build large systems where the large scale structure isn't functional and describing it monadically is a fool's errand.
No it, it doesn't. Cuban was only musing with some Microsoft lust, he wasn't serious...unless he has a thing for Uncle Fester look-a-likes. Okay, so maybe he was serious, lusting after Uncle Fester would come under Intent to Engage in Deviant Behavior.
"There's a growing anti-Google movement, in large part being spear-headed by Newscorp." There is a growing anti-Google movement? Murdoch pissing in the wind because he's not making enough money on his empire doesn't count. Where's the evidence?