Anyone who strives to be truely themselves and contribute good to a world that never stops trying to get them to be someone else is a hero or at least a true human.
Was Ballmer wearing his underwear on his head when he said this? Man, if I wanted to drive away Asian goverments from using MS software during an era of Bush Jr. 'preemptive war' practices, I'd make threats like he is making.
If I was a non-US governmental entity, I'd love to give the access methods for all my data to Microsoft. After all, don't they make the most secure software in the world? And, its not as though they have some kind of official tie to the US government or anything like that...
Twenty years later, they've just started to catch with 3 years ago. Refinements don't seem to matter, or else there wouldn't be a constant stream of system compromises comming out of redmond. As long as they have a monopoly, they can push whatever they want, whenever they want.
MS could release a similar statment for windows or outlook or whatever:
"In the process of making our new [windows|outlook|misc product] available, we experienced technical difficulties that rendered it [full of holes which make it easy for script kiddies to compromise the entire computer system] for some consumers for periods of time. This is something we are working to fix and apologize for any inconvenience [even though its the user's fault in every instance]. We expected to find some problems [but we only told customers who paid us to tell them] in the beta, and we anticipate there will be additional times when we limit service availability for maintenance purposes [and we'll tell you about those if you pay us to]. Finding and fixing those problems will help us build a higher quality product [and trustworthy computing is our number one priority]."
This seems like something that the Professor on Gilligan's Island would think up to play a movie with an iPod that washes up on shore one day. Then, they would somehow make a raft with it to get rescued or something, or use it to signal for help (may a ship full of iPods washes up on shore...)
"PCs are not selling to the lower end of the population in China" The average yearly wage in China is about $5000, and in India its about $2900. So, Balmer knows how to read basic english, or at least repeat something.
So, increasing the number of computers will lower the amount of software piracy. So, Balmer knows how to read basic english.
Whatever you do, don't lower the actual cost of software, no that'll never affect a person's choice to get for free what is normally expensive, especially in countries with those kinds of annual incomes.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The world is overflowing with persistant people. Where ever and when ever people have survived famine, they do so by virtue of persistance and hard work.
Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Genius and talent are more rare than people working hard. Only someone who has not been to a third world country can believe this
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. There are more hard working people than educated people.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Omnipresent.
A statement from a mind blinded by its own existance.
Perhaps more accurate is that hard work + intelligence = accomplishment
Maybe it does. Perhaps gates realized every industry in its infancy can be quickly dominated by criminal acts, and that by the time the government and society catch on to what was done, there isn't any way to retroactively enforce laws.
Actually, I have to agree. However, its worth noting that if there were competition in the software marketplace, they'd probably at the very least try to use the security features available in nt/2k, and maybe even offer some builtin security. The brakes analogy isn't accurate, but the seatbelt one i think is.
Also, since when do they get in trouble for leveraging their monopoly?:-)
Your worst complaints are less than nothing. At my job, we have to work inside a shoebox with a dozen other people, in a hole in the ground, in the freezing rain, hanging upside down with our heads submerged in racoon shit, wiping semen off the walls with one hand and typing with the other. Each day we are shot, have our legs chewed of by wild badgers, are mauled by sharks, set completely on fire, are not allowed to breath or eat or drink, and have to pay our boss twice our wages just to keep our job. We also live together in the shoebox. WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE A JOB AT ALL!
Except they are the ones who pay for it. They get to deduct a business loss from their taxes, because those losses reduce their earnings.
Not Neccessarily. Recently, in SD and perhaps other states, banks have started to push local legislation to allow them to create credit-issuing subsidaries which, upon declaring bankruptcy, can dissolve with no liability to the bank they belong to. They can also lose money without the loss showing up on the parent bank's balance sheet.
This is happening on a strictly local level, and the regulations allowing the creation of this special subsidary are passed by committee - they are not voted on, or debted in any way. Its quite simple: the banks representatives show up at committee hearings, and submit their request. Even more interesting, the committees are not financial ones (soil conservation, for example), yet the regulations get passed just the same. The locals sitting on the committe don't see any reason not to grant the request. If one committee tells them to get lost, they move onto the next committee, until the regulation they want gets passed. The banks doing this have names like wellsfargo, bankamerica, and so forth.
The question is: why would a bank want to insulate itself from financial loss or bankruptcy in this way? Any answers? Are they getting hit hard by credit card theft? Is this kind of subsidary normal, or am I just paranoid?
I'd like to create a subsidary of myself that can declare bankruptcy without it affecting me.
So, if someone at an airport deploys a beta version of software that fails, this make me a 'moron'? Congradulations for lowering the discussion to personal insults.
The federal gets involved in much more than you'd like it to because of the inter-state dispute subheading. A number of resources are shared by stated by their nature, and another entity needs to get states to share. Things like water, air, radio waves, commerce, communication. The question is where to stop. If you decide let the states slug it out over everything, then there isn't really much of a country left over. So , for those who like the 'united we stand' banner to fly, there needs to be a strong federal government.
Whether or not they should help schools and libraries is another issue alltogether. This seems to slearly fall outside of the FCC's scope.
People are completely to blame. Whoever at microsoft decided it was okay to ship faulty software and tell everyone its good, and the fools who believed them.
You didn't get what the article said at all did you? It was the people who failed here, not the software. Bad planning and performance of the people. You seem to look for any crack you can find and stuff a 'Caused by Microsoft' flag in it. There are things that MS can be blamed for, but when you poke EVERYTHING at them, your arguements lose their validity. People implementing, setting up and managing the systems are the problem more often than not.
Actually, there are two sides of this failure. One, a software vender consistantly producing bad software. Second, people not setting standards relative to their own needs. Instead, standards relative to the perceived marketplace were chosen as criteria, rather that standards relative to what they actually needed. Uptime isn't very important in the marketplace, obviously. Uptime should have been to an airport. Or a nuclear powerplant, or a missle fire control systems, Systems the *need* to be rebooted constantly when there is not real problem have some other kind of problem. Systems that come *out of th box* that way have an even more serious problem.
So, just limiting the issue to the people involved is a narrow way to look at the problem.
They bought a Yugo (windows) to do the job of a truck (UNIX). The Yugo needed more maintainence than the truck, and they had an accident. They fired the 'state of the industry' execs who decided to replace trucks with a Yugos. This is actually good news, in a way. Now all they need to do is get the trucks back.
Hmm... I wonder if the execs running nuclear power plants have finished installing windows to run them....
Better yet, we can put windows in charge of the ICBM fire control systems. We'll be *so* state of the industry.
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Anyone who strives
to be truely themselves
and contribute good
to a world
that never stops trying
to get them to be someone else
is a hero
or at least
a true human.
I think open-source geeks more than qualify.
Thus, zombies would make ideal political candidates.
Wait...
that depends on what you mean by "is"...
Was Ballmer wearing his underwear on his head when he said this? Man, if I wanted to drive away Asian goverments from using MS software during an era of Bush Jr. 'preemptive war' practices, I'd make threats like he is making.
If I was a non-US governmental entity, I'd love to give the access methods for all my data to Microsoft. After all, don't they make the most secure software in the world? And, its not as though they have some kind of official tie to the US government or anything like that...
"No one will ever need more than 640K of RAM."
"Windows is stable and secure"
"Paper is dead"
Lets hear all the other insights of genious dripping from his bottom lip....
Twenty years later, they've just started to catch with 3 years ago. Refinements don't seem to matter, or else there wouldn't be a constant stream of system compromises comming out of redmond. As long as they have a monopoly, they can push whatever they want, whenever they want.
MS could release a similar statment for windows or outlook or whatever:
"In the process of making our new [windows|outlook|misc product] available, we experienced technical difficulties that rendered it [full of holes which make it easy for script kiddies to compromise the entire computer system] for some consumers for periods of time. This is something we are working to fix and apologize for any inconvenience [even though its the user's fault in every instance]. We expected to find some problems [but we only told customers who paid us to tell them] in the beta, and we anticipate there will be additional times when we limit service availability for maintenance purposes [and we'll tell you about those if you pay us to]. Finding and fixing those problems will help us build a higher quality product [and trustworthy computing is our number one priority]."
This seems like something that the Professor on Gilligan's Island would think up to play a movie with an iPod that washes up on shore one day. Then, they would somehow make a raft with it to get rescued or something, or use it to signal for help (may a ship full of iPods washes up on shore...)
Clearly falls under 'psycho hacks'
Because it compares Canada and China. Canada's not even a real country, anyway.
Blame Canada!
Governing a large nation is like cooking a small fish
"PCs are not selling to the lower end of the population in China"
The average yearly wage in China is about $5000, and in India its about $2900. So, Balmer knows how to read basic english, or at least repeat something.
So, increasing the number of computers will lower the amount of software piracy. So, Balmer knows how to read basic english.
Whatever you do, don't lower the actual cost of software, no that'll never affect a person's choice to get for free what is normally expensive, especially in countries with those kinds of annual incomes.
Or, they'll blame cars for being too expensive.
Software Piracy Due to Expensive Hardware, Says Ballmer
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
The world is overflowing with persistant people. Where ever and when ever people have survived famine, they do so by virtue of persistance and hard work.
Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Genius and talent are more rare than people working hard. Only someone who has not been to a third world country can believe this
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
There are more hard working people than educated people.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Omnipresent.
A statement from a mind blinded by its own existance.
Perhaps more accurate is that hard work + intelligence = accomplishment
shrewd doesn't come into the picture
Maybe it does. Perhaps gates realized every industry in its infancy can be quickly dominated by criminal acts, and that by the time the government and society catch on to what was done, there isn't any way to retroactively enforce laws.
Sadly, history is written by the winners.
Actually, I have to agree. However, its worth noting that if there were competition in the software marketplace, they'd probably at the very least try to use the security features available in nt/2k, and maybe even offer some builtin security. The brakes analogy isn't accurate, but the seatbelt one i think is.
:-)
Also, since when do they get in trouble for leveraging their monopoly?
Q: Might you add anti-virus/spyware protection in Windows?
Gates: It's not a thing you build in. You have to offer a service.
Imagine if automakers charged to offer seatbelts and brakes as a service.
Yes, no?
Your worst complaints are less than nothing. At my job, we have to work inside a shoebox with a dozen other people, in a hole in the ground, in the freezing rain, hanging upside down with our heads submerged in racoon shit, wiping semen off the walls with one hand and typing with the other. Each day we are shot, have our legs chewed of by wild badgers, are mauled by sharks, set completely on fire, are not allowed to breath or eat or drink, and have to pay our boss twice our wages just to keep our job. We also live together in the shoebox.
WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE A JOB AT ALL!
Except they are the ones who pay for it. They get to deduct a business loss from their taxes, because those losses reduce their earnings.
Not Neccessarily. Recently, in SD and perhaps other states, banks have started to push local legislation to allow them to create credit-issuing subsidaries which, upon declaring bankruptcy, can dissolve with no liability to the bank they belong to. They can also lose money without the loss showing up on the parent bank's balance sheet.
This is happening on a strictly local level, and the regulations allowing the creation of this special subsidary are passed by committee - they are not voted on, or debted in any way. Its quite simple: the banks representatives show up at committee hearings, and submit their request. Even more interesting, the committees are not financial ones (soil conservation, for example), yet the regulations get passed just the same. The locals sitting on the committe don't see any reason not to grant the request. If one committee tells them to get lost, they move onto the next committee, until the regulation they want gets passed. The banks doing this have names like wellsfargo, bankamerica, and so forth.
The question is: why would a bank want to insulate itself from financial loss or bankruptcy in this way? Any answers? Are they getting hit hard by credit card theft? Is this kind of subsidary normal, or am I just paranoid?
I'd like to create a subsidary of myself that can declare bankruptcy without it affecting me.
So, if someone at an airport deploys a beta version of software that fails, this make me a 'moron'?
Congradulations for lowering the discussion to personal insults.
The federal gets involved in much more than you'd like it to because of the inter-state dispute subheading. A number of resources are shared by stated by their nature, and another entity needs to get states to share. Things like water, air, radio waves, commerce, communication.
The question is where to stop. If you decide let the states slug it out over everything, then there isn't really much of a country left over. So , for those who like the 'united we stand' banner to fly, there needs to be a strong federal government.
Whether or not they should help schools and libraries is another issue alltogether. This seems to slearly fall outside of the FCC's scope.
People are completely to blame. Whoever at microsoft decided it was okay to ship faulty software and tell everyone its good, and the fools who believed them.
You didn't get what the article said at all did you? It was the people who failed here, not the software. Bad planning and performance of the people. You seem to look for any crack you can find and stuff a 'Caused by Microsoft' flag in it. There are things that MS can be blamed for, but when you poke EVERYTHING at them, your arguements lose their validity. People implementing, setting up and managing the systems are the problem more often than not.
Actually, there are two sides of this failure. One, a software vender consistantly producing bad software. Second, people not setting standards relative to their own needs. Instead, standards relative to the perceived marketplace were chosen as criteria, rather that standards relative to what they actually needed. Uptime isn't very important in the marketplace, obviously. Uptime should have been to an airport. Or a nuclear powerplant, or a missle fire control systems,
Systems the *need* to be rebooted constantly when there is not real problem have some other kind of problem. Systems that come *out of th box* that way have an even more serious problem.
So, just limiting the issue to the people involved is a narrow way to look at the problem.
They bought a Yugo (windows) to do the job of a truck (UNIX). The Yugo needed more maintainence than the truck, and they had an accident. They fired the 'state of the industry' execs who decided to replace trucks with a Yugos. This is actually good news, in a way. Now all they need to do is get the trucks back.
Hmm... I wonder if the execs running nuclear power plants have finished installing windows to run them....
Better yet, we can put windows in charge of the ICBM fire control systems. We'll be *so* state of the industry.