It's a pretty seismic shift in Microsoft's direction. The unholy trinity of Windows-Office-Backoffice has been the guiding paradigm of Microsoft's strategy for two decades. Now it's pulling Windows out of the loop and allowing Office-Back Office to stand semi-independent (yes, I know, Exchange and Sharepoint still run on the Windows operating system). It looks like the split between operating system and software is happening a decade later than it might have if the DOJ had stuck to its guns.
The media industry has a cunning plan, you see. Rather than give the customer what they want, they'll sue anyone who tries to bypass the complex system their incompetence and greed has generated.
Always remember, no matter who wins or loses, lawyers win.
"We're so sorry we allowed your credit card to be used to facilitate theft. Fortunately the arbitrator has come up with an equitable payment; a Jelly of the Month Club membership. It's the gift that keeps on giving."
Part of it was his love of Germanic languages. Part of it was that the Germanic pagan folk and religious traditions were best preserved into Christian times by Norse chroniclers, whereas the West and East Germanic traditions were largely lost. To get at the English mythology he so wanted to see, the only real route was through the Scandinavians.
That being said, Beowulf is an Old English poem, even though it describes events in Denmark. I don't anyone knows if Beowulf has a history before the 7th century, so whether it was someone writing down an old tale known from the time before the Anglo-Saxon invasions of England, or a unique work all its own is unknown.
The Germanic peoples lived in an interesting complex of related cultures and languages in the early centuries AD, and while Germanic had already split into its major divisions; West Germanic (ancestor of English, Dutch and German), East German (Gothic, long extinct) and Northern (the Scandinavian languages), there was a considerable amount of commonality between these groups. Particularly in and around modern Denmark, the West and Northern Germanic peoples lived in close quarters, so it wouldn't be surprising if North Germanic tales made it into the Anglo-Saxon tradition.
I cannot imagine any circumstances under which Congress would hamper the President's or the Pentagon's ability to fight a war if a fellow NATO ally were invaded. You're talking rubbish.
I wasn't aware MAD doctrine had actually been abandoned and the US was now willing to sell its own territory out of fear of a nation whose military capabilities are inferior to its own.
The whole point of nukes is to never use them, and that means having them where an enemy might attack to prevent even a conventional war.
Germany is a member of NATO. While everyone may sit around dithering about what to do about a former Russian satellite being carved up, to invade Germany would enact NATO's mutual assistance clauses (ie. an attack on one member is an attack on all members). No matter what Russian demagogues may say, Russia does not have the military capacity to invade Germany, which still hosts US nukes.
The actual beginning of the end for the League of Nations as a meaningful quantity was when it stood by and let Italy seize Abyssinia without question. Once it became clear to Hitler that there were no real repercussions to forced annexations, he felt quite free to begin plotting his own.
I think Penrose has humiliated himself enough in the last twenty or thirty years with his bizarre quantum mind nonsense that I doubt anyone pays particular attention to him any more.
The singularity isn't a real thing, it's because General Relativity breaks down as you get close to the Planck constants, and thus starts producing nonsensical answers.
Because Metro sure knocked the socks off of everything...
It points to a new direction; you know one where UI designers cut the tops off their skulls, take an ice cream scooper and remove about two thirds of the brains, put the top of the skull back on.
No, we have a hard time answering these questions because they point to events that are incredibly difficult to probe. Even if and when we demonstrate that inflation happened (it is the most favored theory at the moment, but by no means a near-absolute certainty yet), that gives virtually no information on the condition of the universe prior to inflation. There are some theories that may give some answers, but currently they are pretty much untestable and thus remain little more than educated conjecture.
I'm afraid there's no semantics game you can play to get past the problem that going to earlier epochs than inflation are hidden from us, and that the veil, if it can be lifted at all, will be a long time in the coming.
I urge anyone interested in these questions to go to Professor Matt Strassler's blog: http://profmattstrassler.com/ . In particular he goes to some length to describe what BICEP2's data might mean.
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It's a pretty seismic shift in Microsoft's direction. The unholy trinity of Windows-Office-Backoffice has been the guiding paradigm of Microsoft's strategy for two decades. Now it's pulling Windows out of the loop and allowing Office-Back Office to stand semi-independent (yes, I know, Exchange and Sharepoint still run on the Windows operating system). It looks like the split between operating system and software is happening a decade later than it might have if the DOJ had stuck to its guns.
The media industry has a cunning plan, you see. Rather than give the customer what they want, they'll sue anyone who tries to bypass the complex system their incompetence and greed has generated.
Always remember, no matter who wins or loses, lawyers win.
"We're so sorry we allowed your credit card to be used to facilitate theft. Fortunately the arbitrator has come up with an equitable payment; a Jelly of the Month Club membership. It's the gift that keeps on giving."
What is this Ubuntu package format you speak of? dpkg, apt and the like are all Debian. Ubuntu is just a Debian variant run by a megalomaniac.
The Aquateen Hunger Force episode "eDork" comes to mind...
Mark Zuckerberg made you his bitch five years ago. He's just trying a new brand of lube now.
I'd love to see a Lisp virus.
You haven't heard Beowulf until you've heard it in the original Klingon!
Part of it was his love of Germanic languages. Part of it was that the Germanic pagan folk and religious traditions were best preserved into Christian times by Norse chroniclers, whereas the West and East Germanic traditions were largely lost. To get at the English mythology he so wanted to see, the only real route was through the Scandinavians.
That being said, Beowulf is an Old English poem, even though it describes events in Denmark. I don't anyone knows if Beowulf has a history before the 7th century, so whether it was someone writing down an old tale known from the time before the Anglo-Saxon invasions of England, or a unique work all its own is unknown.
The Germanic peoples lived in an interesting complex of related cultures and languages in the early centuries AD, and while Germanic had already split into its major divisions; West Germanic (ancestor of English, Dutch and German), East German (Gothic, long extinct) and Northern (the Scandinavian languages), there was a considerable amount of commonality between these groups. Particularly in and around modern Denmark, the West and Northern Germanic peoples lived in close quarters, so it wouldn't be surprising if North Germanic tales made it into the Anglo-Saxon tradition.
A road largely paid for one way or the other by taxpayers.
I cannot imagine any circumstances under which Congress would hamper the President's or the Pentagon's ability to fight a war if a fellow NATO ally were invaded. You're talking rubbish.
I wasn't aware MAD doctrine had actually been abandoned and the US was now willing to sell its own territory out of fear of a nation whose military capabilities are inferior to its own.
The whole point of nukes is to never use them, and that means having them where an enemy might attack to prevent even a conventional war.
You mean there's no oil left in Iraq?
By stolen, you mean liberated from genocidal fascists...
And Kosovo was not annexed either, but became a sovereign state.
Germany is a member of NATO. While everyone may sit around dithering about what to do about a former Russian satellite being carved up, to invade Germany would enact NATO's mutual assistance clauses (ie. an attack on one member is an attack on all members). No matter what Russian demagogues may say, Russia does not have the military capacity to invade Germany, which still hosts US nukes.
Putin is bold, but not insane.
The actual beginning of the end for the League of Nations as a meaningful quantity was when it stood by and let Italy seize Abyssinia without question. Once it became clear to Hitler that there were no real repercussions to forced annexations, he felt quite free to begin plotting his own.
There is, of course, the fact that whatever the legal status of the Iraq invasion, Iraq was not annexed.
I think Penrose has humiliated himself enough in the last twenty or thirty years with his bizarre quantum mind nonsense that I doubt anyone pays particular attention to him any more.
The singularity isn't a real thing, it's because General Relativity breaks down as you get close to the Planck constants, and thus starts producing nonsensical answers.
Because Metro sure knocked the socks off of everything...
It points to a new direction; you know one where UI designers cut the tops off their skulls, take an ice cream scooper and remove about two thirds of the brains, put the top of the skull back on.
Except, of course, inflation doesn't violate Special Relativity.
No, we have a hard time answering these questions because they point to events that are incredibly difficult to probe. Even if and when we demonstrate that inflation happened (it is the most favored theory at the moment, but by no means a near-absolute certainty yet), that gives virtually no information on the condition of the universe prior to inflation. There are some theories that may give some answers, but currently they are pretty much untestable and thus remain little more than educated conjecture.
I'm afraid there's no semantics game you can play to get past the problem that going to earlier epochs than inflation are hidden from us, and that the veil, if it can be lifted at all, will be a long time in the coming.
I urge anyone interested in these questions to go to Professor Matt Strassler's blog: http://profmattstrassler.com/ . In particular he goes to some length to describe what BICEP2's data might mean.
At the moment, that question is not answerable, and in fact may never be answerable.
The media hyped this up. The BICEP2 team did nothing wrong.