Political concessions? Errr...what are these, pray tell? What political concessions can the world possibly offer N. Korea? Keep out of their internal politics, maybe? It isn't like we dabble in them right now, if we even acknowledge their existence. A bigger say in world affairs? It isn't like they are integral to the world's economy, so why would anyone do that.
The basic problem is that N. Korea is run by a bunch of men who would like everyone else to believe they have big dicks. They cannot point to their wonderful economic prowess because they have none. They cannot point to frankly anything so they do what dictatorial regimes have always done, they threaten their neighbors to generate an external opposition they can use to gain points in a pointless internal political game only they are playing.
Uh, every company that advertises sells smugness. "it's obvious that they don't give one tenth of one shit about you", so now companies are not only supposed to give us superior products, but they must care about us as well, can't you just feel the love?
"Apple is about peer pressure." Uh, how? Most of the world uses MS.
"It did however allow them to take a percentage of the user base which was attracted to Open Unixes/Unixlikes and draw them over to their camp." Oh, yeah, they were coming down from the Unix hills in droves just to use Macs. Apple just knew there were billions and billions of unix proles just waiting for the chance to jump ship.
The basic problem here is that you have taken your deepest insecurities and made Apple the source.
"3) Linux/Mac zealots that hate MS and want to sandbag Vista. They too usually haven't tried it, and are often more or less making shit up. They are just spreading FUD because they want MS to fail."
Yes, that is probably because MS would like to see the rest of computing fail. I don't think we're making shit up either, we allow MS to do that (just exactly what are those patents Linux infringes on?) Eat or be eaten is MS's motto, you are just complaining because we've decided they are right.
Yeah, that's it. We MADE China manufacture all that stuff to sell to the U.S. And before that, we absolutely threatened Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines into producing all the stuff the U.S. no longer could produce cheaply enough. Come to think of it, we threatened to invade India if they didn't help the U.S. offshore those American jobs.
And look what the U.S. did for Kuwait, the U.S. invaded the damn country just so it could give it back to the Kuwaitis; maybe the Kuwaitis were threatening to go into textiles instead of pumping oil, it being such a lucrative market.
And what's with the Free Trade Act, imagine opening up American markets just so those evil, money grubbing S. and L. American countries could sell their stuff here. Why, even Mexico is threatening tariffs if the U.S. Congress doesn't take back the restriction they recently put on Mexican trucks. I'll be the U.S. threatened Mexico to threaten the U.S. with tariffs just to keep trade free and open.
Those naughty Americans, the nerve of such people thinking other people in the world might want a better standard of living. Maybe socialism would work, its been so successful in the past.
"IBM exists as a giant IT behemoth today, precisely because Windows sucks, and they know it. "
I don't think so, IBM makes mainframes and has a very large services effort, neither of which compete with MS. If there were no MS, IBM would still continue to exist.
IBM might decide that MS cannot be left alone because MS is always on a continual jihad to bork everyone else, including IBM. So mere self-preservation would make IBM think of ways to compete against MS...not so much to beat MS but to keep them busy enough MS won't have what it takes to bork IBM.
How do you explain the Congress then? They cannot all have friends in high places. Watch CSpan when they broadcast hearings sometime. It's amazing how clueless these morons can be, especially the House members. For some odd reason, Senators have two brain cells to rub together instead of a single loner.
Typical Committee Hearing:
Title: Investigation into Why Tarp Funds are being Misused.
Purpose: Figure out if Tarp Funds are being misused.
Dennis Kucinich: Blah, blah, blah, Ohio, blah, blah, I am NOT an idiot, blah.....
Each Member: Given 5 minutes to whine about how they don't understand anything.
Suspect Witness: Given 10 minutes to state why he isn't lying after being told he is going to lie.
Questioning: Isn't it true you beat your dog this morning after beating your wife and her mother?
Suspect Witness: We didn't use Tarp Funds in beating those individuals.
Dennis: Thank you for appearing here and assuming the position, we welcome you back to beat you up again at our convenience, 'cause, y'know, we have nothing better to do.
How about the Department of Miscommunication. The basic problem, it seems to me, is that miscommunication is spread out over the entire government structure. Now if we were to centralize it into a D. of MC., then all the other departments could rely on that sole department to implement their miscommunication and they would be left to do their jobs in peace.
It wouldn't do to have the other departments communicate with the new D. of MC. (the obvious paradox, eh). Instead, there would be D. of MC. staffers in all the departments. Any communication out of the depts. would run through these individuals and be subsequently lost, stolen, misinterpreted, injected with blatant falsehoods, eaten by mutant weasels, etc. There is no need to handle communication into the depts. since no one dept. could effectively communicate it to begin with.
And we could have this Phil Reitinger guy run the whole shebang. He'd feel right at home since when has MS ever effectively communicated with anyone without lying, misquoting, and being generally misleading.
This might have something to do with Japan relying on the Americans to keep those naughty Chinese from walking all over them. They have that luxury because the Americans pay for it.
This was the same USAF that stated they were standardizing all their computing on Microsoft software. Security? Microsoft? No, it just cannot be done, not here, not anywhere, ever, no how...
What you are ignoring is that MS researchers publish in journals and conference proceedings accessible to any library and frequently they are on-line for anyone. How is this then mysteriously lost?
What you are objecting to is MS development (not research) never seeing the light of day. I doubt that, I'll bet most of their development goes into small things that go into their OS and other associated malware. It probably won't fix the stinking blob that is Windows, or what their marketing dept. has delivered.
I don't believe you understand research. I think that you think of the fruits of research as being big paradigm changing widgets. Most research, regardless of where its done, is not.
1s44c does have a point that MS seems to buy researchers to keep them away from other companies. However, I think that is mitigated somewhat by them publishing in journals and conference proceedings. MS must believe they get some secret sauce by owning them, but if that were the case, they wouldn't be encouraged to publish.
"Now that the US Economy has tanked thanks to Bush and now Obama" You are forgetting the number one reason the American economy has tanked: Americans. It was Americans who over indulged in debt, who insist on not insisting on better schools, who refuse to invest in infrastructure, who reward companies for thinking about only the next quarters' results. Bush and Obama are not blameless, but they didn't cause the major problems, we did.
Yeah, yer right! No one should have funded all that crap on quantum mechanics back in the early part of the 20th century. No one could see far enough ahead to point to any useful trinkets for you to be blinded by. And they should certainly not have funded any gravitational studies, who the hell would use them to put comm. satellites in orbit or build out a GPS system? And what about those morons in the 50's (the names Crick and Watson ring a bell) who were dorking around with DNA stuff? What a waste of time that was!
And who the hell funded those idiots through the centuries who did work on number theory? That stuff cannot be used for anything except modern cryptography which is surely unneeded in this modern age of networks.
And Decartes, imagine wasting one's time inventing algebraic geometry. That only let to Newton pissing off good money on the Calculus. Hell, we should make Euclid give back all his funding since all he did was enable Decartes. And I think we shouldn't hold the Babelonians innocent for the precursors they allowed Euclid to steal. What were they thinking?
So our research mantra should be henceforth: merely rearrange the current deck chairs a bit to bring forth whizzy things we goggle over. No more stinking theory for us!
hehehe, I'm a drummer, but the joke I like the most is: how do you tell if the stage is even? The drummer drools out of both sides of his mouth.
The problem with most music when it comes to drummers is that it is inherently boring. There simply isn't much to do unless you lay down a fairly complicated beat in a strange time. Most musicians (these days) choke if they are presented with anything but 4/4's time. So the drummer, to not fall over with brain hemorrhages, starts to amuse him(her)self with fills and other things which, naturally, annoys the hell out of the rest of the band who for some reason seem to actually enjoy the monotony.
Iran is in S. Asia, not the Middle East. And if they didn't want to get labeled as a bunch of religious loonies, they could repeal their stoning laws, stop fomenting anti-semitic hatred, start respecting the rights of women, etc.
"What goes around, come around" is true for the Western Nations as well as the Eastern. Iran will rue the day they decided they needed to attempt a take over of the direction of Islam. The Sunnis will never forgive them for it.
Well, word is that if the U.S. Navy gets their railguns working, they'll be able to fire Mach 6 projectiles 200 miles and they'll need something hefty like a battleship in which to mount the Electro-Wham-A-Thon and its associated nuclear power plant. Dunno if the plans include heavy armor, maybe they think with that range and Total Battlefield Awareness, they'll be able to shoot the eyes out of mosquito at 100 miles.
MPW had an interface called Commando. You could highlight a MPW text command and bring up Commando on it. It would present a dialog box formated for just that commmand; you could check boxes, radio buttons, pulldown menus, etc. and as you did, it would compose the resultant text command in a window. You could run the command from the dialog or you could copy and paste the command into (what amounted to) a terminal window and run it there. That meant you could save commonly used commands in the text of that (terminal) window and select them again and rerun them.
It was an excellent way to handle text commands and much better than is the unix vomit of a cli.
If the theory predicts the particle exists, the form of that prediction is that it will be found within a certain energy range. If it isn't in that range, its existence would contradict other parts of the theory that have been verified (to within a small epsilon). Now that we have an energy range, we can look at a particular particle accelerator and which particles it can accelerate and calculate if it could reach the entire energy range. To that must be factored in the sensitivity of the sensors to pick up the signature of the Higgs. We won't detect the Higgs directly but rather the particles into which it decays. There is a probability associated with this too.
Wrapped all up, we get a probability prediction of a particular accelerator installation finding the Higgs particle. There is no need to investigate alternative strategies.
And that is precisely the problem with Linux. Once in a blue moon a user not experienced with a CLI must use that godforesaken spew of Unix vomit. They won't remember what they've learned last time because it was too long ago. How come you Unix jocks cannot gui the damn CLI so those of us who have something better to do than recall arcane Unix commands can simply guide ourselves to the missing piece of trivia the unix or linux gods decided was too far beneath them to properly abstract and make evidently available?
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Political concessions? Errr...what are these, pray tell? What political concessions can the world possibly offer N. Korea? Keep out of their internal politics, maybe? It isn't like we dabble in them right now, if we even acknowledge their existence. A bigger say in world affairs? It isn't like they are integral to the world's economy, so why would anyone do that.
The basic problem is that N. Korea is run by a bunch of men who would like everyone else to believe they have big dicks. They cannot point to their wonderful economic prowess because they have none. They cannot point to frankly anything so they do what dictatorial regimes have always done, they threaten their neighbors to generate an external opposition they can use to gain points in a pointless internal political game only they are playing.
Uh, every company that advertises sells smugness. "it's obvious that they don't give one tenth of one shit about you", so now companies are not only supposed to give us superior products, but they must care about us as well, can't you just feel the love?
"Apple is about peer pressure." Uh, how? Most of the world uses MS.
"It did however allow them to take a percentage of the user base which was attracted to Open Unixes/Unixlikes and draw them over to their camp." Oh, yeah, they were coming down from the Unix hills in droves just to use Macs. Apple just knew there were billions and billions of unix proles just waiting for the chance to jump ship.
The basic problem here is that you have taken your deepest insecurities and made Apple the source.
"3) Linux/Mac zealots that hate MS and want to sandbag Vista. They too usually haven't tried it, and are often more or less making shit up. They are just spreading FUD because they want MS to fail."
Yes, that is probably because MS would like to see the rest of computing fail. I don't think we're making shit up either, we allow MS to do that (just exactly what are those patents Linux infringes on?) Eat or be eaten is MS's motto, you are just complaining because we've decided they are right.
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Does Haskell have a development system yet? Last time I checked, there wasn't even a debugger.
Yeah, that's it. We MADE China manufacture all that stuff to sell to the U.S. And before that, we absolutely threatened Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines into producing all the stuff the U.S. no longer could produce cheaply enough. Come to think of it, we threatened to invade India if they didn't help the U.S. offshore those American jobs.
And look what the U.S. did for Kuwait, the U.S. invaded the damn country just so it could give it back to the Kuwaitis; maybe the Kuwaitis were threatening to go into textiles instead of pumping oil, it being such a lucrative market.
And what's with the Free Trade Act, imagine opening up American markets just so those evil, money grubbing S. and L. American countries could sell their stuff here. Why, even Mexico is threatening tariffs if the U.S. Congress doesn't take back the restriction they recently put on Mexican trucks. I'll be the U.S. threatened Mexico to threaten the U.S. with tariffs just to keep trade free and open.
Those naughty Americans, the nerve of such people thinking other people in the world might want a better standard of living. Maybe socialism would work, its been so successful in the past.
Gerry
"IBM exists as a giant IT behemoth today, precisely because Windows sucks, and they know it. "
I don't think so, IBM makes mainframes and has a very large services effort, neither of which compete with MS. If there were no MS, IBM would still continue to exist.
IBM might decide that MS cannot be left alone because MS is always on a continual jihad to bork everyone else, including IBM. So mere self-preservation would make IBM think of ways to compete against MS...not so much to beat MS but to keep them busy enough MS won't have what it takes to bork IBM.
If he was treated for the spider bite, it might also be the treatment itself might be responsible for the improvement.
How do you explain the Congress then? They cannot all have friends in high places. Watch CSpan when they broadcast hearings sometime. It's amazing how clueless these morons can be, especially the House members. For some odd reason, Senators have two brain cells to rub together instead of a single loner.
Typical Committee Hearing:
Title: Investigation into Why Tarp Funds are being Misused.
Purpose: Figure out if Tarp Funds are being misused.
Dennis Kucinich: Blah, blah, blah, Ohio, blah, blah, I am NOT an idiot, blah.....
Each Member: Given 5 minutes to whine about how they don't understand anything.
Suspect Witness: Given 10 minutes to state why he isn't lying after being told he is going to lie.
Questioning: Isn't it true you beat your dog this morning after beating your wife and her mother?
Suspect Witness: We didn't use Tarp Funds in beating those individuals.
Dennis: Thank you for appearing here and assuming the position, we welcome you back to beat you up again at our convenience, 'cause, y'know, we have nothing better to do.
How about the Department of Miscommunication. The basic problem, it seems to me, is that miscommunication is spread out over the entire government structure. Now if we were to centralize it into a D. of MC., then all the other departments could rely on that sole department to implement their miscommunication and they would be left to do their jobs in peace.
It wouldn't do to have the other departments communicate with the new D. of MC. (the obvious paradox, eh). Instead, there would be D. of MC. staffers in all the departments. Any communication out of the depts. would run through these individuals and be subsequently lost, stolen, misinterpreted, injected with blatant falsehoods, eaten by mutant weasels, etc. There is no need to handle communication into the depts. since no one dept. could effectively communicate it to begin with.
And we could have this Phil Reitinger guy run the whole shebang. He'd feel right at home since when has MS ever effectively communicated with anyone without lying, misquoting, and being generally misleading.
This might have something to do with Japan relying on the Americans to keep those naughty Chinese from walking all over them. They have that luxury because the Americans pay for it.
Gerry
This was the same USAF that stated they were standardizing all their computing on Microsoft software. Security? Microsoft? No, it just cannot be done, not here, not anywhere, ever, no how...
Gerry
Great arguing style, you've got there.
What you are ignoring is that MS researchers publish in journals and conference proceedings accessible to any library and frequently they are on-line for anyone. How is this then mysteriously lost?
What you are objecting to is MS development (not research) never seeing the light of day. I doubt that, I'll bet most of their development goes into small things that go into their OS and other associated malware. It probably won't fix the stinking blob that is Windows, or what their marketing dept. has delivered.
I don't believe you understand research. I think that you think of the fruits of research as being big paradigm changing widgets. Most research, regardless of where its done, is not.
1s44c does have a point that MS seems to buy researchers to keep them away from other companies. However, I think that is mitigated somewhat by them publishing in journals and conference proceedings. MS must believe they get some secret sauce by owning them, but if that were the case, they wouldn't be encouraged to publish.
Gerry
"Now that the US Economy has tanked thanks to Bush and now Obama" You are forgetting the number one reason the American economy has tanked: Americans. It was Americans who over indulged in debt, who insist on not insisting on better schools, who refuse to invest in infrastructure, who reward companies for thinking about only the next quarters' results. Bush and Obama are not blameless, but they didn't cause the major problems, we did.
Gerry
Yeah, yer right! No one should have funded all that crap on quantum mechanics back in the early part of the 20th century. No one could see far enough ahead to point to any useful trinkets for you to be blinded by. And they should certainly not have funded any gravitational studies, who the hell would use them to put comm. satellites in orbit or build out a GPS system? And what about those morons in the 50's (the names Crick and Watson ring a bell) who were dorking around with DNA stuff? What a waste of time that was!
And who the hell funded those idiots through the centuries who did work on number theory? That stuff cannot be used for anything except modern cryptography which is surely unneeded in this modern age of networks.
And Decartes, imagine wasting one's time inventing algebraic geometry. That only let to Newton pissing off good money on the Calculus. Hell, we should make Euclid give back all his funding since all he did was enable Decartes. And I think we shouldn't hold the Babelonians innocent for the precursors they allowed Euclid to steal. What were they thinking?
So our research mantra should be henceforth: merely rearrange the current deck chairs a bit to bring forth whizzy things we goggle over. No more stinking theory for us!
Gerry
hehehe, I'm a drummer, but the joke I like the most is: how do you tell if the stage is even? The drummer drools out of both sides of his mouth.
The problem with most music when it comes to drummers is that it is inherently boring. There simply isn't much to do unless you lay down a fairly complicated beat in a strange time. Most musicians (these days) choke if they are presented with anything but 4/4's time. So the drummer, to not fall over with brain hemorrhages, starts to amuse him(her)self with fills and other things which, naturally, annoys the hell out of the rest of the band who for some reason seem to actually enjoy the monotony.
Gerry
Iran is in S. Asia, not the Middle East. And if they didn't want to get labeled as a bunch of religious loonies, they could repeal their stoning laws, stop fomenting anti-semitic hatred, start respecting the rights of women, etc.
"What goes around, come around" is true for the Western Nations as well as the Eastern. Iran will rue the day they decided they needed to attempt a take over of the direction of Islam. The Sunnis will never forgive them for it.
Gerry
Well, word is that if the U.S. Navy gets their railguns working, they'll be able to fire Mach 6 projectiles 200 miles and they'll need something hefty like a battleship in which to mount the Electro-Wham-A-Thon and its associated nuclear power plant. Dunno if the plans include heavy armor, maybe they think with that range and Total Battlefield Awareness, they'll be able to shoot the eyes out of mosquito at 100 miles.
Gerry
'Protestant Wind'? Errr...so their other secret weapon was beans for dinner? Those bastards!
Gerry
MPW had an interface called Commando. You could highlight a MPW text command and bring up Commando on it. It would present a dialog box formated for just that commmand; you could check boxes, radio buttons, pulldown menus, etc. and as you did, it would compose the resultant text command in a window. You could run the command from the dialog or you could copy and paste the command into (what amounted to) a terminal window and run it there. That meant you could save commonly used commands in the text of that (terminal) window and select them again and rerun them.
It was an excellent way to handle text commands and much better than is the unix vomit of a cli.
Gerry
Eh, maybe it can remove the damage the goatse guy has done to some of us.
Gerry
Have you seen the shipping rates to get particles created at one installation to the other? And France has all those transportation unions.
Gerry
If the theory predicts the particle exists, the form of that prediction is that it will be found within a certain energy range. If it isn't in that range, its existence would contradict other parts of the theory that have been verified (to within a small epsilon). Now that we have an energy range, we can look at a particular particle accelerator and which particles it can accelerate and calculate if it could reach the entire energy range. To that must be factored in the sensitivity of the sensors to pick up the signature of the Higgs. We won't detect the Higgs directly but rather the particles into which it decays. There is a probability associated with this too.
Wrapped all up, we get a probability prediction of a particular accelerator installation finding the Higgs particle. There is no need to investigate alternative strategies.
Gerry
Well, being a student of human nature, I can assure you there was interspecies mating going on.
And that is precisely the problem with Linux. Once in a blue moon a user not experienced with a CLI must use that godforesaken spew of Unix vomit. They won't remember what they've learned last time because it was too long ago. How come you Unix jocks cannot gui the damn CLI so those of us who have something better to do than recall arcane Unix commands can simply guide ourselves to the missing piece of trivia the unix or linux gods decided was too far beneath them to properly abstract and make evidently available?