Jeff is more wrong than he is right. Tech companies are going to spring up in areas where techies are, that means mostly (good) university towns. Also, if the startups do get lucky, I think the newly minted founders would rather live in a nice(?) area than some backwater where the only hangout is some spit-and-saw-dust joint.
That was the biggest load of incomprehensible bolox I've seen today. There will always be spin doctors and idiots who listen to them, why waste time and effort complaining about them. There is more to Web 2.0 than AJAX and XML, read http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2 005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1 and stop complaining about how you liked XML before it became fashionable.
Let me explain my point just a bit more clearly for you. Animals do adapt but that takes time. If their environment changes faster than they can adapt and a large part of population is lost, then that may result in their survival becoming unsustainable. This could be due to inbreeding which will result in a weaker species. Please read up more on extinction if you are going to be arguing points like this in future. BTW, I do not remember saying anything about bears growing flippers.
Being a geologist you can probably see how the "ice sheet" level have been changing over the past 20 years. I doubt that they have remained constant, though feel free to prove me wrong if you know otherwise. Also, while climate is cyclical, these cycles last tens of thousands of years, not tens.
This all just sounds like a little bit too much hassle to me. I really don't think many people will be prepared to jump through all these ridiculous hoops just to watch a movie. All these DRM vendors are going on about it like they are gonna control the earth's water supply, when in fact it won't be anything more important than, say, Scary Movie 3. Somehow I expect none of is gonna work like the DRM merchants expect it to and the Hollywood studios are probably gonna shoot themselves in the foot with these hillariously overblown measures.
My point was not even about F 9/11, I used it as a reference because it mentions some details about the Carlyle Group. A curiously powerful and profitable company.
Now back to your post, I couldn't give a toss about American Politics one way or another. You can insult each other all you want and then make funny little films about it.
...will have heard about a Private Equity company known as Carlyle Group. This is one of biggest and most profitable Private Equity firms in the world. The shareholders include the Bush family, the bin Laden family and former British PM John Major may still be their Chairman.
It's a bit like Milo Minderbinder's outfit in Catch 22, where everyone benefits, because everyone is a part of the syndicate.
Well anyway they own QinitiQ. And please don't assume that I am suggesting anything other than the fact that the war on terror, has been quite profitable for some parties involved.
...asking the Osama Bin Laden about the virtues of Catholicism.
Okay, maybe not quite, but I don't think MS are a company who do innovation. Rightly or wrongly their approach has been consistently based on developing other peoples innovations into mass-market products. Such as QDOS, VisiCalc, Navigator, GUI OS (from Apple or Xerox, take your pick). So I sincerely doubt the value of Ballmer's comments on this topic.
"Startup" by Kaplan himself contains some detailed insights into tactics used by MS to maintain a tight grip on their monopoly. I know it's hardly neutral, but it remains pretty objective and is a good story. Get the book if you want to know what this whole shebang is about.
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I posted this story yesterday and it got rejected. Must have been my bad spelling.
Jeff is more wrong than he is right. Tech companies are going to spring up in areas where techies are, that means mostly (good) university towns. Also, if the startups do get lucky, I think the newly minted founders would rather live in a nice(?) area than some backwater where the only hangout is some spit-and-saw-dust joint.
I thought it was:
XXX = overstated threat
???
ZZZ = profit
That was the biggest load of incomprehensible bolox I've seen today. There will always be spin doctors and idiots who listen to them, why waste time and effort complaining about them. There is more to Web 2.0 than AJAX and XML, read http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2 005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1 and stop complaining about how you liked XML before it became fashionable.
It was just a joke. Though the French were alone if wikipedia serves me correctly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Marne_( 1918)
Don't know, they've never done it.
Let me explain my point just a bit more clearly for you. Animals do adapt but that takes time. If their environment changes faster than they can adapt and a large part of population is lost, then that may result in their survival becoming unsustainable. This could be due to inbreeding which will result in a weaker species. Please read up more on extinction if you are going to be arguing points like this in future. BTW, I do not remember saying anything about bears growing flippers.
Being a geologist you can probably see how the "ice sheet" level have been changing over the past 20 years. I doubt that they have remained constant, though feel free to prove me wrong if you know otherwise. Also, while climate is cyclical, these cycles last tens of thousands of years, not tens.
You may find that this is how biodiversity ends. I doubt that there many animals capable of evolving over the space of 100 years.
This all just sounds like a little bit too much hassle to me. I really don't think many people will be prepared to jump through all these ridiculous hoops just to watch a movie. All these DRM vendors are going on about it like they are gonna control the earth's water supply, when in fact it won't be anything more important than, say, Scary Movie 3. Somehow I expect none of is gonna work like the DRM merchants expect it to and the Hollywood studios are probably gonna shoot themselves in the foot with these hillariously overblown measures.
The underpants gnomes stole it ;)
...to come up with a new DRM.
Well said!
Aint it a bitch when you pay $100 for a website and get a dog's breakfast instead.
Stop using IE and switch to Firefox.
Thanks, now we know.
My point was not even about F 9/11, I used it as a reference because it mentions some details about the Carlyle Group. A curiously powerful and profitable company.
Now back to your post, I couldn't give a toss about American Politics one way or another. You can insult each other all you want and then make funny little films about it.
Nah, you are probably thinking of Canada.
You mean like they do with guns in America?
...will have heard about a Private Equity company known as Carlyle Group. This is one of biggest and most profitable Private Equity firms in the world. The shareholders include the Bush family, the bin Laden family and former British PM John Major may still be their Chairman. It's a bit like Milo Minderbinder's outfit in Catch 22, where everyone benefits, because everyone is a part of the syndicate. Well anyway they own QinitiQ. And please don't assume that I am suggesting anything other than the fact that the war on terror, has been quite profitable for some parties involved.
...asking the Osama Bin Laden about the virtues of Catholicism. Okay, maybe not quite, but I don't think MS are a company who do innovation. Rightly or wrongly their approach has been consistently based on developing other peoples innovations into mass-market products. Such as QDOS, VisiCalc, Navigator, GUI OS (from Apple or Xerox, take your pick). So I sincerely doubt the value of Ballmer's comments on this topic.
That's how problems start not how they end. An eye for an eye will make the world blind.
It will work great till they find out where you live, then they will bomb you. Then you will ahve to bomb them again. See how it's not going to work?
"Startup" by Kaplan himself contains some detailed insights into tactics used by MS to maintain a tight grip on their monopoly. I know it's hardly neutral, but it remains pretty objective and is a good story. Get the book if you want to know what this whole shebang is about.
Seems like it was only yesterday that he was a second-rate chat show host and now he is merging with Symantec. Veritas