That might work in a software case, but software can be patched pretty easily.
Not really. Software patches are a pain. How many different software programs do you have on your computer? Imagine if they all released multiple patches per year. How can you manage to assure that you have a stable system?
Now think of the mess of using Microsoft for an external-facing server. You won't sleep or have weekends to yourself.
by the way, you should use paragraphs in your postings.;)
... put out garbage into the marketplace, and then wait for the customers to do the quality assurance work that Microsoft should have done.
The trouble is that the politicians standardizing on this spec will look only at its length and declare it to be good. Maybe Microsoft made the specification long with that intent in mind.
The point-to-point connection of DSL becomes shared as soon as your local copper pair is squeezed onto a multiplexed line, within a few thousand feet of your home.
True, however, it is always easier (and less expensive) to add additional capacity in a central office than it is for a cable company to add more lines within a bottlenecked neighborhood.
Instead of trying to think of a new fixed number of columns, why not try to understand why a fixed number of columns are needed in the first place. Why should everyone need to have the same fixed number of columns?
why didn't the editors of this commercial catch this lack of continuity between shots?
Maybe the editors did catch that lack of continuity, and they decided to leave it in. Maybe they put it there intentionally.
Why would they do that? Simple, to generate a lot of discussion and marketing buzz, and maybe even to get additional exposure for the iPhone on Slashdot.
Going to the moon is a very small proposition in scale that even the nearest star.
Yeah... and???
In 200 hundred years the technology will be very different. Our knowledge of the universe will be very different. Maybe the universe is folded, and the nearest star is not really that far away.
I'll say it again, for a science fiction writer, he certainly lacks vision.
For a science fiction writer, he certainly seems to have limited his vision. In 1870, people would say we could not get to the moon because horses would not survive in the vacuum of space. Yet a short hundred years later, man was walking on the moon.
He needs to envision new technologies and sciences to free us from this solar system. Who knows what will be invented and discovered in the next two or three hundred years? He certainly does not.
His comment is way off base, another so-called "anaylst" who hasn't a clue.
Safari is not on Windows to grab marketshare in the Windows browser marketspace.
Safari is on Windows so that apps written for Safari on the iPhone can also be run on Windows. Apple is beginning to do what Microsoft greatly feared Netscape was trying to do, i.e., make the underlying OS disappear and make the browser the application platform.
Isn't that what all these Web 2.0 AJAX apps are all about?
Programs can not be defamatory. Their output may be.
I disagree. Programs are merely an extension of the human(s) who designed them, the program does what the human(s) told them to do. Therefore what a program does is the full responsibility of the human who designed it.
I always laugh when a programmer tells me, "there's a bug in my program." My first questions is always, "well, who put that bug there?" Programmers talk of bugs as if they just magically appear, and are not the result of the programmer's error(s).
The comment that programs cannot be defamatory smacks as specious at best. Of course, programs can be defamatory. Programs are written by humans, programs are computerized extensions of humans.
It's a shame that Microsoft can no longer compete in the marketplace, but has to turn to backroom lobbying in order to stifle the wants of the consumers and sell its products.
Opera just randomly crashes and then has a default behavior of restarting the site that causes it to randomly crash.
More than likely, Opera restarts with the site before the one that caused the crash.
Unfortunately for Opera, most sites are written according to IE's buggy standards. While Opera does try to accomodate the poor HTML written by web programmers who think the Internet is viewed only through IE-colored glasses, sometimes it is difficult to accomodate to flagrant stupidily that is IE's rendering engine.
would-be laws were all killed off within the last month while being debated in legislative committees, following fierce opposition from Microsoft Corp. lobbyists
... how far out of touch McCain is with respect to technology and those in the technology industry.
On the other hand, if McCain is looking for someone to help build monopolies illegally and then illegally leverage those monopolies, then Ballmer's the dude.
Finger length may be an indication of sexual orientation, a controversial study has shown.
Scientists from California found that lesbian women have a greater difference in length between their ring finger and index finger than straight women do.
The same pattern was also found for homosexual men - but only when the researchers looked at those males that had several older brothers.
[AT&T] Executives on the conference call made sure to point out that delays in the IPTV service had been caused by software issues [Microsoft] and did not reflect any problems with the network architecture [AT&T]. AT&T looks to be distancing themselves from Microsoft's IPTV disaster.
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... they don't have to.
Not really. Software patches are a pain. How many different software programs do you have on your computer? Imagine if they all released multiple patches per year. How can you manage to assure that you have a stable system?
Now think of the mess of using Microsoft for an external-facing server. You won't sleep or have weekends to yourself.
by the way, you should use paragraphs in your postings. ;)
The questions remains - just how good are the purchased goods?
The trouble is that the politicians standardizing on this spec will look only at its length and declare it to be good. Maybe Microsoft made the specification long with that intent in mind.
True, however, it is always easier (and less expensive) to add additional capacity in a central office than it is for a cable company to add more lines within a bottlenecked neighborhood.
Instead of trying to think of a new fixed number of columns, why not try to understand why a fixed number of columns are needed in the first place. Why should everyone need to have the same fixed number of columns?
Why? Please elaborate. Discuss your research on this matter, cite references.
Thanks.
That is the only way that they can make Windows look halfway secure. You have to go with what makes you look good.
What I offered, however, was that it might have been done intentionally in this particular instance as a marketing ploy.
Maybe the editors did catch that lack of continuity, and they decided to leave it in. Maybe they put it there intentionally.
Why would they do that? Simple, to generate a lot of discussion and marketing buzz, and maybe even to get additional exposure for the iPhone on Slashdot.
Yeah... and???
In 200 hundred years the technology will be very different. Our knowledge of the universe will be very different. Maybe the universe is folded, and the nearest star is not really that far away.
I'll say it again, for a science fiction writer, he certainly lacks vision.
He needs to envision new technologies and sciences to free us from this solar system. Who knows what will be invented and discovered in the next two or three hundred years? He certainly does not.
Safari is not on Windows to grab marketshare in the Windows browser marketspace.
Safari is on Windows so that apps written for Safari on the iPhone can also be run on Windows. Apple is beginning to do what Microsoft greatly feared Netscape was trying to do, i.e., make the underlying OS disappear and make the browser the application platform.
Isn't that what all these Web 2.0 AJAX apps are all about?
Isn't that similar to the illegal per-processor licensing scheme that Microsoft was doing over a decade ago?
I disagree. Programs are merely an extension of the human(s) who designed them, the program does what the human(s) told them to do. Therefore what a program does is the full responsibility of the human who designed it.
I always laugh when a programmer tells me, "there's a bug in my program." My first questions is always, "well, who put that bug there?" Programmers talk of bugs as if they just magically appear, and are not the result of the programmer's error(s).
The comment that programs cannot be defamatory smacks as specious at best. Of course, programs can be defamatory. Programs are written by humans, programs are computerized extensions of humans.
But mediocre is just not good enough anymore.
It's a shame that Microsoft can no longer compete in the marketplace, but has to turn to backroom lobbying in order to stifle the wants of the consumers and sell its products.
More than likely, Opera restarts with the site before the one that caused the crash.
Unfortunately for Opera, most sites are written according to IE's buggy standards. While Opera does try to accomodate the poor HTML written by web programmers who think the Internet is viewed only through IE-colored glasses, sometimes it is difficult to accomodate to flagrant stupidily that is IE's rendering engine.
would-be laws were all killed off within the last month while being debated in legislative committees, following fierce opposition from Microsoft Corp. lobbyists
On the other hand, if McCain is looking for someone to help build monopolies illegally and then illegally leverage those monopolies, then Ballmer's the dude.
Finger length may be an indication of sexual orientation, a controversial study has shown.
Scientists from California found that lesbian women have a greater difference in length between their ring finger and index finger than straight women do. The same pattern was also found for homosexual men - but only when the researchers looked at those males that had several older brothers.
I stand corrected. ;) Perhaps the Internet has honed the problem to a new level of popularity.
This is what the Internet has reduced us to: it does not matter if it is correct, so long as it is delivered quickly.
From TFA:
[AT&T] Executives on the conference call made sure to point out that delays in the IPTV service had been caused by software issues [Microsoft] and did not reflect any problems with the network architecture [AT&T]. AT&T looks to be distancing themselves from Microsoft's IPTV disaster.AT&T is using Microsoft's trouble-laden IPTV software.