What a hideous distortion. First of all the "First World" has been plundering sub-Saharan Africa for over five centuries, and second of all a good deal of the economic woes of the region are due directly to those policies.
Third; you're an ignoramus (and probably a crypto racist). There were sub Saharan kingdoms of a fairly sophisticated nature.
Exactly. Less protected countries with substantial resources will either have to cozy up to powerful neighbors and guarantee a goodly portion of those resources or simply be annexed. All this "for the good of mankind" nonsense will mean nothing if they try to stand up or profit from their resources.
Nature doesn't give a fuck about free markets either. You seem to be under the infantile notion that physics gives one sweet fuck about your political and ideological beliefs.
I can understand that attitude from a five year old. They tend to have small undeveloped brains and thus make judgments based on the notion they are center of the universe. What the fuck is your excuse?
You realize nature does not give one single fuck about your political ideology. Libertarians die of their idiocy and shortsightedness just like everyone else.
And what if some don't want to cooperate, or want to put crushing conditions on it? What if canada decides they want to jack up the price of grain to extortionate levels?
If short term self interest dominates the AGW debate now, do you think those who hold the cards in 50 or 100 years will be any different?
Beyond that, why not start now? Do you think that once AGW is seriously fucking up the global economy and food supply that we will be in a better position? Or are we just going to foist this on to our grandchildren?
Let's look at this like intelligent human brings and not fucking retards. Who has the most to gain by all of this? Do you actually believe scientists are going t join together in a vast cabal to deceive people about AGW for research grants?
Fuckinghell the pseudo skeptics are abandoning any notion of reasoned debate. I don't know whether to pity you or mock you.
I'm thinking of the whole damned thing. It's like Microsoft has been sleeping for the last few years, suddenly wakes up and notices that one of their core businesses is about to get slaughtered by Apple and the Android ecosystem, and then deciding the only course possible is to fling oodles of shit at the wall. So we have an ARM port of Windows, a GUI that they have foisted on people who have grown accustomed for 17 years to a different beast, some devices that will run legacy software (though no one can really point out why anyone would want to), some devices that won't, so much fucking confusion that I imagine after about 80 seconds of listening to the salescritter at Best Buy prattle on, they'll just say "Fuck it" and head over and grab a Nexus 7 or an iPhone.
The last time Microsoft was this panicked and confused was in the 1994-95 when they were caught with the knickers down and had to release Chicago when a good chunk of its subsystems were still 16-bit, it had no native Office client, and its socket layer had been cribbed from BSD. At that time they had the good fortune of IBM, for a number of good and bad reasons, leaving OS/2 Warp stranded, and so they were able to survive the horrors of Windows 95 in all its inglorious instability.
This time they have no such luck. They are well and truly four years behind in the mobile market, a couple of years behind in the tablet market, and penetration at this point, without an app market worth talking about and prices that definitely don't invite consumers to consider moving from the low and mid-range of Android devices, I just don't see what they're going to do. Hell, they didn't even build some domain integration into RT to give them at least some sort of an edge in the enterprise world.
Perhaps the developers should not have used a single source proprietary solution that basically placed their wellbeing in the hands of a third party. This is what is known is willing dropping your drawers and hoping there won't be an assraping.
Why is 10,000 such an unreasonable number? We're talking porting and testing here. I don't think for a substantial app that that is completely out to lunch.
I wouldn't even say Redmond is losing at this point. They're not even in the race. You can hear it in the shills that post around here, where the latest explanation is that Microsoft isn't going after the iOS and Android market share, that Windows RT and Surface are so incredibly advanced and superior that they're going to make their own market.
It's like they've hired Baghdad Bob to do the marketing.
Whatever promises Redmond makes, the one thing they cannot do is put a gun to a consumer's head and force them to pick some RT device over an iOS or Android one.
We said it all along. Microsoft was waaaayyyyy too late to the game. If an established player like Blackberry is getting dust kicked in its face by Apple and Samsung and the other Android manufacturers, then WTF do you expect a company coming four years later into the market to be doing? Yes, I know, there have been previous Windows mobile OSs, but they were marketing catastrophes as well.
But hey, any day now, all those Windows mobile devices are gonna start selling. I know, because MS shills keep saying how incredibly better Surface and the like are than everything else out there, and how legions of developers are getting on board as we speak to rake in the monster dollars to be made from those million sales.
Agreed. So the real message here is that RT will be a failure because it's infinitesimal market share makes the risk of expending resources on a port far too high.
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What a hideous distortion. First of all the "First World" has been plundering sub-Saharan Africa for over five centuries, and second of all a good deal of the economic woes of the region are due directly to those policies.
Third; you're an ignoramus (and probably a crypto racist). There were sub Saharan kingdoms of a fairly sophisticated nature.
Better translation: Fuck you, I got mine ... and yours.
Exactly. Less protected countries with substantial resources will either have to cozy up to powerful neighbors and guarantee a goodly portion of those resources or simply be annexed. All this "for the good of mankind" nonsense will mean nothing if they try to stand up or profit from their resources.
Moddiing me troll? Shows you just how intellectually bankrupt the pseudo skeptics truly are.
Nature doesn't give a fuck about free markets either. You seem to be under the infantile notion that physics gives one sweet fuck about your political and ideological beliefs.
I can understand that attitude from a five year old. They tend to have small undeveloped brains and thus make judgments based on the notion they are center of the universe. What the fuck is your excuse?
You realize nature does not give one single fuck about your political ideology. Libertarians die of their idiocy and shortsightedness just like everyone else.
And what if some don't want to cooperate, or want to put crushing conditions on it? What if canada decides they want to jack up the price of grain to extortionate levels?
If short term self interest dominates the AGW debate now, do you think those who hold the cards in 50 or 100 years will be any different?
Beyond that, why not start now? Do you think that once AGW is seriously fucking up the global economy and food supply that we will be in a better position? Or are we just going to foist this on to our grandchildren?
And how, pray tell, do you know this?
So because reality disagrees with your political ideology, reality gets the boot. How are you any different from a Lysenkoist?
Shift the North American grain belt a few degrees latitude north and all if sudden the US's food security is pretty much in a foreign country's hands.
Not doing something about this soon means massive geopolitical shifts in a century.
Let's look at this like intelligent human brings and not fucking retards. Who has the most to gain by all of this? Do you actually believe scientists are going t join together in a vast cabal to deceive people about AGW for research grants?
Fuckinghell the pseudo skeptics are abandoning any notion of reasoned debate. I don't know whether to pity you or mock you.
I'm thinking of the whole damned thing. It's like Microsoft has been sleeping for the last few years, suddenly wakes up and notices that one of their core businesses is about to get slaughtered by Apple and the Android ecosystem, and then deciding the only course possible is to fling oodles of shit at the wall. So we have an ARM port of Windows, a GUI that they have foisted on people who have grown accustomed for 17 years to a different beast, some devices that will run legacy software (though no one can really point out why anyone would want to), some devices that won't, so much fucking confusion that I imagine after about 80 seconds of listening to the salescritter at Best Buy prattle on, they'll just say "Fuck it" and head over and grab a Nexus 7 or an iPhone.
The last time Microsoft was this panicked and confused was in the 1994-95 when they were caught with the knickers down and had to release Chicago when a good chunk of its subsystems were still 16-bit, it had no native Office client, and its socket layer had been cribbed from BSD. At that time they had the good fortune of IBM, for a number of good and bad reasons, leaving OS/2 Warp stranded, and so they were able to survive the horrors of Windows 95 in all its inglorious instability.
This time they have no such luck. They are well and truly four years behind in the mobile market, a couple of years behind in the tablet market, and penetration at this point, without an app market worth talking about and prices that definitely don't invite consumers to consider moving from the low and mid-range of Android devices, I just don't see what they're going to do. Hell, they didn't even build some domain integration into RT to give them at least some sort of an edge in the enterprise world.
Three things, if you include an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.
Perhaps the developers should not have used a single source proprietary solution that basically placed their wellbeing in the hands of a third party. This is what is known is willing dropping your drawers and hoping there won't be an assraping.
Why is 10,000 such an unreasonable number? We're talking porting and testing here. I don't think for a substantial app that that is completely out to lunch.
And just how big is RT's market share supposed to be?
By all accounts, people don't seem to buy Windows RT tablets at all.
Some of them twice, me thinks.
I wouldn't even say Redmond is losing at this point. They're not even in the race. You can hear it in the shills that post around here, where the latest explanation is that Microsoft isn't going after the iOS and Android market share, that Windows RT and Surface are so incredibly advanced and superior that they're going to make their own market.
It's like they've hired Baghdad Bob to do the marketing.
Because Bing, Win mobile 7 and Zune were all monster successes.
Tell me, how close is the Xbox division to paying off the money Redmond had to pour into it?
Whatever promises Redmond makes, the one thing they cannot do is put a gun to a consumer's head and force them to pick some RT device over an iOS or Android one.
We said it all along. Microsoft was waaaayyyyy too late to the game. If an established player like Blackberry is getting dust kicked in its face by Apple and Samsung and the other Android manufacturers, then WTF do you expect a company coming four years later into the market to be doing? Yes, I know, there have been previous Windows mobile OSs, but they were marketing catastrophes as well.
But hey, any day now, all those Windows mobile devices are gonna start selling. I know, because MS shills keep saying how incredibly better Surface and the like are than everything else out there, and how legions of developers are getting on board as we speak to rake in the monster dollars to be made from those million sales.
Agreed. So the real message here is that RT will be a failure because it's infinitesimal market share makes the risk of expending resources on a port far too high.
No kidding
"John McAfee wins 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton said to be distraught and very high."
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The guy is a bath salts addict. It's likely any combination of the three, or possibly all ofhtem.
Uh yeah, but, as the old saying goes, there's an app for that.
The only thing I use iTunes for is just to back up my iPhone 4 config. I agree it's clunky software, but it certainly isn't necessary to run iOS.