Whether a stock pays dividends or not doesn't mean much in the big picture. The only thing that matters is return on investment. I don't care if that comes in the form of dividends or stock price or food stamp vouchers and in that race, MSFT is a loser.
It's the other way around : Android comes with the Google apps, gmail, calendar, Google search as default, etc.
I cannot believe you just actually wrote that. Google goes so far as to send C and D letters to small time modders to make sure that their proprietary apps are not included without paying up. You basically have it completely backwards. Furthermore you are double clueless as there are quite a few phones that come equipped with Bing as the default search and they are still "Android certified". You are spreading FUD.
Are you really that stupid? Google isn't bundling Android with their search results. As absurd as that sounds, that would be the only way to draw a parallel to ms in the 90's. I know this is Slashdot google hater hour but please have a little intellectual honesty mixed in with the trolling once in a while.
So they're bundling an "Android OS" with every search result now? Because that's the only way it would be similar to MS and the Winternetexplorerows fiasco Oh, they aren't? You're trolling? Thought so.
Not only is that how it works but Netscape 2 had this functionality described in its release notes before MS even applied for this junk patent. Ridiculous. I hope MS gets tarred and feathered good!
recognize that they are valid patents that are being infringed on.
Yeah, and those 99 percenters also realize that there are reams of prior art and these patents are pure junk. I'd "infringe" a patent too if it was pure crap that had no right being granted in the first place. These "innovations" are not the property of MS. They were ideas thought of long before MS decided to rape the system by getting them attached to a piece of paper.
That list is so freaking absurd that it just boggles the mind that Samsung, HTC, et al are actually paying hundreds of millions over it. My God, what have we become?
I find it profoundly unlikely that human beings have are even close to discovering any absolute immutable laws of the universe. How laughable would it be if ancient cave paintings intimated such with their current knowledge?
star. So I'd wager we'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between an alien built Ultra-Planet-Sized-Death-Orb and Naturally Occurring Planet #52. Anything smaller than star-sized would either be mistaken as a naturally occurring object or would go completely unnoticed.
I was actually thinking much bigger than that. A hypothetical hyper advanced galactic civilization can do better than a giant death star. Why not build a giant Dyson's sphere around the galactic core? Why not reengineer the entire quadrant of space for computation. A sufficiently advanced civilization could conceivably reengineer everything to the sub atomic level and reconstitute reality into things we couldn't even begin to imagine. Eventually just through time and various projects, something would be noticeable. If nothing else, they would from time to time make a mistake. For us a mistake is thermonuclear war. For them? Who knows but it would be big and very unnatural. Really this is all pure speculation but if you think big enough, there are compelling reasons to undertake massive engineering projects and unmistakable evidence of something should exist. The odds favor it. The universe is at least 14 billion years old and generations of stars have coalesced from the primordial gas, shined for billions of years and burned out. Literally trillions to quadrillions of suns have existed and we already know that planets are a dime a dozen. Of course no one knows how common life is. For all we know, this could be it. I highly doubt that as it is almost too absurd to contemplate but so far, not much exists to demonstrably lead us to believe otherwise.
To quickly address your 100,000 years advanced 10,000 light years away point, there are a hundred billion stars in the milky way and it is only 100000 miles wide so we are on the average 50,000 years away from whatever is contemporary on any planet in this galaxy. Depending on how likely advanced life is, we could be surrounded by species that make 100,000 years worth of advancements look like tribbles.
The bottom line is, who knows but I do at
East think that thinking small isn't going to give us any kind of reliable answer so I ask, where are they?
That's a false dichotomy. Either there are no aliens, or there are aliens parking starships everywhere.
I was just musing not expecting to really be taken seriously. Let me put a finer point on it though. Considering we are at least a third generation star system, if you believe advanced life isn't so ridiculously far-fetched that it rarely happens, it stands to reason that there have been many advanced civilizations that have come and gone long before us. For a species to have made it through the eons of evolution, individuals of that species would have to have a strong sense of self-preservation. One component of that is controlling space and resources. The universe is a vast resource and for a civilization with millions of years of history and technical achievement, it doesn't seem like a very large intellectual leap that they would be involved in engineering that could be noticed from a very long way away. Despite this, the universe in every direction appears perfectly natural. Yes, it is full of surprises but none of them appear to be anything that wouldn't occur without intelligent intervention. I would expect something...different.
It's things like this that lead me to believe we are more alone in the universe than we think we are. Given human propensity to destroy anything in a "pristine" state, I would have thought that sometime in the past 14 billion years an advanced alien civilization would have built an interstellar parking garage over these gas clouds. They haven't. Why not?
Very nice to hear! I had some issues at first with Fallout where it was just excruciating to converse with any of the npc's as the entire game just ground to a halt. Looking forward to playing Skyrim.
I'd rather not take any chances, thank you. it'll be a cold day before i ever develop anything for mono. Microsoft used to be buddy-buddy with Barnes & Noble. You see how that's working out. Lie with dogs, get up with fleas.
The point is so many people fall all over themselves to defend the repugnant crap the Koch brothers are doing with their fortune, meanwhile Bill Gates actually uses his money for good and people crawl out of the woodwork to make sure no one gives him any credit whatsoever.
Do you have any reason to believe the people allegedly doing all of this are the same people? Isn't it possible that whoever is praising the Koch brothers are not the same people decrying Bill Gates?
According to conservative ideology, Bill Gates was the poster boy for success
I don't understand, are you for or against conservatism? Do you have the official conservative guidebook that says unequivocally that Bill Gates is the "poster boy" for anything? Otherwise, you're using a whole lot of words just to prove that you don't really know what you are talking about.
Yes, because so many rich people, like the Koch brothers
I fail to see how what the Koch brothers do or don't do in any way relates to Bill Gates? Is there some sort of quantum entanglement that I'm not aware of between all of these people? Please enlighten me. Or are you just trying to excuse Bill Gates by saying someone else is worse? With that line of reasoning, everybody can play along and be guilt-free. Hey, that guy might have killed 12 people but at least he's not Pol Pot, herp derp. That's dangerous thinking.
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Who the hell has a flat stock price and reliable 20 percent dividends? Please tell me so I can hand them all my money. It sure ain't Microsoft.
Whether a stock pays dividends or not doesn't mean much in the big picture. The only thing that matters is return on investment. I don't care if that comes in the form of dividends or stock price or food stamp vouchers and in that race, MSFT is a loser.
It's the other way around : Android comes with the Google apps, gmail, calendar, Google search as default, etc.
I cannot believe you just actually wrote that. Google goes so far as to send C and D letters to small time modders to make sure that their proprietary apps are not included without paying up. You basically have it completely backwards. Furthermore you are double clueless as there are quite a few phones that come equipped with Bing as the default search and they are still "Android certified". You are spreading FUD.
Are you really that stupid? Google isn't bundling Android with their search results. As absurd as that sounds, that would be the only way to draw a parallel to ms in the 90's. I know this is Slashdot google hater hour but please have a little intellectual honesty mixed in with the trolling once in a while.
So they're bundling an "Android OS" with every search result now? Because that's the only way it would be similar to MS and the Winternetexplorerows fiasco Oh, they aren't? You're trolling? Thought so.
Shut up, stupid.
Not only is that how it works but Netscape 2 had this functionality described in its release notes before MS even applied for this junk patent. Ridiculous. I hope MS gets tarred and feathered good!
recognize that they are valid patents that are being infringed on.
Yeah, and those 99 percenters also realize that there are reams of prior art and these patents are pure junk. I'd "infringe" a patent too if it was pure crap that had no right being granted in the first place. These "innovations" are not the property of MS. They were ideas thought of long before MS decided to rape the system by getting them attached to a piece of paper.
That list is so freaking absurd that it just boggles the mind that Samsung, HTC, et al are actually paying hundreds of millions over it. My God, what have we become?
I like it. Followed the link and discovered autoap. Been passively looking for something like that for a while.
I find it profoundly unlikely that human beings have are even close to discovering any absolute immutable laws of the universe. How laughable would it be if ancient cave paintings intimated such with their current knowledge?
star. So I'd wager we'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between an alien built Ultra-Planet-Sized-Death-Orb and Naturally Occurring Planet #52. Anything smaller than star-sized would either be mistaken as a naturally occurring object or would go completely unnoticed.
I was actually thinking much bigger than that. A hypothetical hyper advanced galactic civilization can do better than a giant death star. Why not build a giant Dyson's sphere around the galactic core? Why not reengineer the entire quadrant of space for computation. A sufficiently advanced civilization could conceivably reengineer everything to the sub atomic level and reconstitute reality into things we couldn't even begin to imagine. Eventually just through time and various projects, something would be noticeable. If nothing else, they would from time to time make a mistake. For us a mistake is thermonuclear war. For them? Who knows but it would be big and very unnatural. Really this is all pure speculation but if you think big enough, there are compelling reasons to undertake massive engineering projects and unmistakable evidence of something should exist. The odds favor it. The universe is at least 14 billion years old and generations of stars have coalesced from the primordial gas, shined for billions of years and burned out. Literally trillions to quadrillions of suns have existed and we already know that planets are a dime a dozen. Of course no one knows how common life is. For all we know, this could be it. I highly doubt that as it is almost too absurd to contemplate but so far, not much exists to demonstrably lead us to believe otherwise.
To quickly address your 100,000 years advanced 10,000 light years away point, there are a hundred billion stars in the milky way and it is only 100000 miles wide so we are on the average 50,000 years away from whatever is contemporary on any planet in this galaxy. Depending on how likely advanced life is, we could be surrounded by species that make 100,000 years worth of advancements look like tribbles.
The bottom line is, who knows but I do at East think that thinking small isn't going to give us any kind of reliable answer so I ask, where are they?
That's a false dichotomy. Either there are no aliens, or there are aliens parking starships everywhere.
I was just musing not expecting to really be taken seriously. Let me put a finer point on it though. Considering we are at least a third generation star system, if you believe advanced life isn't so ridiculously far-fetched that it rarely happens, it stands to reason that there have been many advanced civilizations that have come and gone long before us. For a species to have made it through the eons of evolution, individuals of that species would have to have a strong sense of self-preservation. One component of that is controlling space and resources. The universe is a vast resource and for a civilization with millions of years of history and technical achievement, it doesn't seem like a very large intellectual leap that they would be involved in engineering that could be noticed from a very long way away. Despite this, the universe in every direction appears perfectly natural. Yes, it is full of surprises but none of them appear to be anything that wouldn't occur without intelligent intervention. I would expect something...different.
Sadly, I thought of this about 5 seconds after hitting the reply button, went to the article and saw they are indeed 12 billion light years out. Derp.
It's things like this that lead me to believe we are more alone in the universe than we think we are. Given human propensity to destroy anything in a "pristine" state, I would have thought that sometime in the past 14 billion years an advanced alien civilization would have built an interstellar parking garage over these gas clouds. They haven't. Why not?
Very nice to hear! I had some issues at first with Fallout where it was just excruciating to converse with any of the npc's as the entire game just ground to a halt. Looking forward to playing Skyrim.
Susan Greenfield has made me derp.
I like how you added that last part in there.
For once I agree with you. They need to lighten up on the javascript too. Geez.
Shut up, stupid.
I'd rather not take any chances, thank you. it'll be a cold day before i ever develop anything for mono. Microsoft used to be buddy-buddy with Barnes & Noble. You see how that's working out. Lie with dogs, get up with fleas.
Does Clementine have the mini-view yet?
The point is so many people fall all over themselves to defend the repugnant crap the Koch brothers are doing with their fortune, meanwhile Bill Gates actually uses his money for good and people crawl out of the woodwork to make sure no one gives him any credit whatsoever.
Do you have any reason to believe the people allegedly doing all of this are the same people? Isn't it possible that whoever is praising the Koch brothers are not the same people decrying Bill Gates?
According to conservative ideology, Bill Gates was the poster boy for success
I don't understand, are you for or against conservatism? Do you have the official conservative guidebook that says unequivocally that Bill Gates is the "poster boy" for anything? Otherwise, you're using a whole lot of words just to prove that you don't really know what you are talking about.
Yes, because so many rich people, like the Koch brothers
I fail to see how what the Koch brothers do or don't do in any way relates to Bill Gates? Is there some sort of quantum entanglement that I'm not aware of between all of these people? Please enlighten me. Or are you just trying to excuse Bill Gates by saying someone else is worse? With that line of reasoning, everybody can play along and be guilt-free. Hey, that guy might have killed 12 people but at least he's not Pol Pot, herp derp. That's dangerous thinking.
Could you post a citation that shows that to be legally binding? Otherwise, it isn't worth the electrons you used to post it with.