Let's see, if you run Windows, you need the first core to actually do stuff, and you need the second core for the anti-virus, firewall, anti-spam and anti-spyware utilities, and also the auto-update, anti-virus etc. updates, Picasa picture scan, Outlook/gmail notifier, openoffice tray and numerous IM clients.
Of course, by the time it comes out, you'll need 3 cores to run Shorthorn with full graphics.
And if you have Linux, well, maybe that second core can help Gnome run?
The more the digital world integrates, the more competitors Microsoft gains. Their position is weakening every year. It's not just that they don't compete like they used to, other companies don't view them favorably. Sony makes Windows PCs- with the Xbox, M$ alienates them. The cell phones companies don't want to turn into Dell. Oracle doesn't want to turn into Netscape. MSN, Yahoo and Google coexist in a media space- like CBS, NBC, and ABC used to, and networks know it. That's why MSNBC hasn't gone very far. Cable companies want no part of M$. Yes, they needed to diversify and they still don't spend enough cash. But they're creating more enemies than they are slaying, and that can't continue for long.
Microsoft won for more important reasons than Wordperfect compatibility: 1. They had experience in GUI editing from the Mac platform. This is the key feature at the time Office established itself. We all forget how hard it was to learn WP and DOS. And what a pain it was even when you were proficient. 2. They bundled their office apps together, which was a pure value play by an upstart- like Hyundai now. 3. Taken as a group, their Office apps were better than their competition's. 4. Less technical issues- they really were less buggy than the competition's stuff, I remember WP6 very well, I was using it up to '99 (have pity on me, please!). OOO is a miracle of reliability compared to this early proprietary stuff.
Yeah, MS made it easy to switch, but that wasn't the key for business users - there wasn't an entire economy based on WP, as popular as it was. M$ started a cultural shift- between WP4DOS and Word for Windows, (between Windows 3.1 and 95), management started typing/writing their own stuff. It became cool, not just menial grunt work.
BTW, it's 2005 and you can still turn the Word window blue with white text, just like WP4DOS. And there's still an option for 'Navigation keys for Wordperfect users'. Which is just crazy - Wordperfect long ago changed THEIR menu to mimic Word's. But it's always easier to add than subtract features, eh? Or do you suppose the Word developers consider those features like big-game trophies?
Is still my favorite computer game. So what, it's only like 90 megs big and the game is like 10 years old? No one's topped it.
Dvorak is talking computer games, here, not console games, so don't bring up those other guys. Innovation has moved to consoles and cell phones. PCs are just vanilla RTSs, a couple RPGs and a couple shooters. And a smattering of board games/ strategy games that are moving online.
When Lucas realized he can earn income by endlessly remixing his previous works. Really, once Harrison Ford is digitized, it's over. He's remaking EVERYTHING.
I don't even blame him. Are the Beatles any different? Did Jordan win in Washington? Royalties change people.
OK, so I overstated the unreliability of these polls a bit based on their reputation this year. But we all know that most polls have a self-selection problem, and I also understand that we don't need to discuss that this time.
Because I still want to see the numbers when you control for being African-American. They are the most overwhelmingly pro-Democrat group (except perhaps gays, but I don't think exit polls go into that detail) and they are also poorer than average, so that's what I want to see. I think you're probably still right, (especially among the very rich vs. the rest of us) but race is a factor that skews this relationship.
Thank you for quoting the least reliable exit polls in the HISTORY of the presidential election. To review, the polls indicated that Kerry won. And to review your quoted figures- I'm certain those numbers will even out when you control for race.
However, you did a lot better than 99% of the knee-jerk liberal posts on this website by pointing out that the legislation was started under Clinton, and that the FCC is the authority on the matter. Bush could overrule them, but this is pretty much a technical spectrum debate. You all whine when Bush intercedes in the 'scientific' stem cell debate, so why whine when the experts do get to decide?
A good question is when spectrum use will get real coverage and debate in Congress. At one time, the Internet was restricted to technical experts, and now Internet-related legislation is common. Someday, we'll obsess over spectrum use in a real way- or obsess over the FCC the way we do Greenspan.
Eventually, everything gets canceled or goes the distance. We have over 40 seasons of Star Treks in the banks. It's a niche product. It's not like crime and law dramas, that seem to multiply like lemmings and occassionally go like energizer bunnies (think CSI, Law and Order).
Sci-Fi can make it work because they have low expectations, and less overhead than the cable stations. But UPN, they've got affiliates.
Star Trek's problem is simple: it's not the only game in town, anymore. And it doesn't have a tradition of disciplined storytelling.
Might as well whine about the X-files, because that show really has no mass-market replacement. But times and tastes change.
Or maybe they just hired all those burned-out EA employees.
ex-EA'er: "Can I get 3 whole months to do 10 years of wish lists?" MySQL management: "Take your time- have 4!" "WOW....! You're the best boss a guy could hope for!~sniff~"
Short story format, like X-Files, etc. I don't mind less involvement, you know? Can't they do an off-base story every other episode, like X-files? I thought that was brilliant for episodal structure. Sometimes Voyager would really be different, but every time the writers were stuck (I know this is hard, but) they would do a ripoff of the TOS or TNG, etc. (that had been ripped off by DS9 already).
They don't necessarily need better writing, but some commitment to an overall theme or story arc- without following it doggedly and joylessly like DS9 in it's last days. Escapism needs a theme, not consistency.
Thing is, they just need to make up their mind. Soap Operas need linear stories to get you addicted, X-files/ Twilight Zone/ etc. went the other way to really thrill the audience every now and again. Sci-Fi'ers will watch both types of show. But Star Trek vacillates too much. It's basically been flirting with full soap opera, and it should just commit.
Or let's have Paramount roll out a 'Final Fantasy' weekly series and REALLY commit to a sci-fi soap opera format.
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Let's see, if you run Windows, you need the first core to actually do stuff, and you need the second core for the anti-virus, firewall, anti-spam and anti-spyware utilities, and also the auto-update, anti-virus etc. updates, Picasa picture scan, Outlook/gmail notifier, openoffice tray and numerous IM clients.
Of course, by the time it comes out, you'll need 3 cores to run Shorthorn with full graphics.
And if you have Linux, well, maybe that second core can help Gnome run?
The more the digital world integrates, the more competitors Microsoft gains. Their position is weakening every year. It's not just that they don't compete like they used to, other companies don't view them favorably. Sony makes Windows PCs- with the Xbox, M$ alienates them. The cell phones companies don't want to turn into Dell. Oracle doesn't want to turn into Netscape. MSN, Yahoo and Google coexist in a media space- like CBS, NBC, and ABC used to, and networks know it. That's why MSNBC hasn't gone very far. Cable companies want no part of M$. Yes, they needed to diversify and they still don't spend enough cash. But they're creating more enemies than they are slaying, and that can't continue for long.
Microsoft won for more important reasons than Wordperfect compatibility:
1. They had experience in GUI editing from the Mac platform. This is the key feature at the time Office established itself. We all forget how hard it was to learn WP and DOS. And what a pain it was even when you were proficient.
2. They bundled their office apps together, which was a pure value play by an upstart- like Hyundai now.
3. Taken as a group, their Office apps were better than their competition's.
4. Less technical issues- they really were less buggy than the competition's stuff, I remember WP6 very well, I was using it up to '99 (have pity on me, please!). OOO is a miracle of reliability compared to this early proprietary stuff.
Yeah, MS made it easy to switch, but that wasn't the key for business users - there wasn't an entire economy based on WP, as popular as it was. M$ started a cultural shift- between WP4DOS and Word for Windows, (between Windows 3.1 and 95), management started typing/writing their own stuff. It became cool, not just menial grunt work.
BTW, it's 2005 and you can still turn the Word window blue with white text, just like WP4DOS. And there's still an option for 'Navigation keys for Wordperfect users'. Which is just crazy - Wordperfect long ago changed THEIR menu to mimic Word's. But it's always easier to add than subtract features, eh? Or do you suppose the Word developers consider those features like big-game trophies?
It's the 70's calling. They want their apocalyptic, 'global disaster' drivel back.
Wait, we're not going to get the fake guide?!!!?
It's "/.++ ", but you can't log in right now, it's being virusscanned and then rebooted. They tout 5 9's availability: .99999% available!
Familiarity != tolerance
;)
The American South was more racist. Hitler was part Jewish. New Yorkers hate the cold.
Don't generalize:
"They are all religious, and do not know what theories or evolution are"
This is horribly smug for a post that got modded up.
Is still my favorite computer game. So what, it's only like 90 megs big and the game is like 10 years old? No one's topped it.
Dvorak is talking computer games, here, not console games, so don't bring up those other guys. Innovation has moved to consoles and cell phones. PCs are just vanilla RTSs, a couple RPGs and a couple shooters. And a smattering of board games/ strategy games that are moving online.
Just blame the sysadmins. ~shakes head~
Everything's been tried in videogames. Microsoft had a 'tilt' pad for the PC- I still can't believe they didn't try it for the Xbox.
A touchpad controller, I can kind of believe. I can't remember anyone doing a 'mouse gestures' style interface besides Nin on the DS.
When Lucas realized he can earn income by endlessly remixing his previous works. Really, once Harrison Ford is digitized, it's over. He's remaking EVERYTHING.
I don't even blame him. Are the Beatles any different? Did Jordan win in Washington? Royalties change people.
OK, so I overstated the unreliability of these polls a bit based on their reputation this year. But we all know that most polls have a self-selection problem, and I also understand that we don't need to discuss that this time.
Because I still want to see the numbers when you control for being African-American. They are the most overwhelmingly pro-Democrat group (except perhaps gays, but I don't think exit polls go into that detail) and they are also poorer than average, so that's what I want to see. I think you're probably still right, (especially among the very rich vs. the rest of us) but race is a factor that skews this relationship.
Two words: American Football!
Thank you for quoting the least reliable exit polls in the HISTORY of the presidential election. To review, the polls indicated that Kerry won. And to review your quoted figures- I'm certain those numbers will even out when you control for race.
However, you did a lot better than 99% of the knee-jerk liberal posts on this website by pointing out that the legislation was started under Clinton, and that the FCC is the authority on the matter. Bush could overrule them, but this is pretty much a technical spectrum debate. You all whine when Bush intercedes in the 'scientific' stem cell debate, so why whine when the experts do get to decide?
A good question is when spectrum use will get real coverage and debate in Congress. At one time, the Internet was restricted to technical experts, and now Internet-related legislation is common. Someday, we'll obsess over spectrum use in a real way- or obsess over the FCC the way we do Greenspan.
I remember when I got the end of an endurance race in GT2 at 2AM and I finally went to the bathroom and peed. What a rush!
The Xbox IS a miniscule Japanese apartment!
Eventually, everything gets canceled or goes the distance. We have over 40 seasons of Star Treks in the banks. It's a niche product. It's not like crime and law dramas, that seem to multiply like lemmings and occassionally go like energizer bunnies (think CSI, Law and Order).
Sci-Fi can make it work because they have low expectations, and less overhead than the cable stations. But UPN, they've got affiliates.
Star Trek's problem is simple: it's not the only game in town, anymore. And it doesn't have a tradition of disciplined storytelling.
Might as well whine about the X-files, because that show really has no mass-market replacement. But times and tastes change.
OK. The movie is released as a LEGO game? So there's a good chance that the story was acted and directed competently somewhere...by LEGOS?
Maybe we can get these guys to wait in line at the wrong videogame store?
This should have been a punchline for a Pinkie and the Brain episode...
Brain: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?"
Pinky: "I think so, Brain, but where can we find an animatronic shark at this hour?"
Or maybe they just hired all those burned-out EA employees.
ex-EA'er: "Can I get 3 whole months to do 10 years of wish lists?"
MySQL management: "Take your time- have 4!"
"WOW....! You're the best boss a guy could hope for!~sniff~"
" It is unfortunate that they are not able to afford college, MIT or not."
You mean the high school kids or the Wired authors?
I think the kids won because they trashed PowerPoint. Think the NASA guys read /.?
It was his drinking. Finally got his medical degree at StarFleet: Bermuda.
Which is also a new series being pitched by 'Wild Bill' Shatner! lol.
Short story format, like X-Files, etc. I don't mind less involvement, you know? Can't they do an off-base story every other episode, like X-files? I thought that was brilliant for episodal structure. Sometimes Voyager would really be different, but every time the writers were stuck (I know this is hard, but) they would do a ripoff of the TOS or TNG, etc. (that had been ripped off by DS9 already).
They don't necessarily need better writing, but some commitment to an overall theme or story arc- without following it doggedly and joylessly like DS9 in it's last days. Escapism needs a theme, not consistency.
Thing is, they just need to make up their mind. Soap Operas need linear stories to get you addicted, X-files/ Twilight Zone/ etc. went the other way to really thrill the audience every now and again. Sci-Fi'ers will watch both types of show. But Star Trek vacillates too much. It's basically been flirting with full soap opera, and it should just commit.
Or let's have Paramount roll out a 'Final Fantasy' weekly series and REALLY commit to a sci-fi soap opera format.