I beleive it is common knowledge that Ms. Rosen is a lesbian. However, let's despise her for being a shameless spokesperson for anybody willing to pay her to do so; her sexual preferences should be irrelevant.
Can't they use the second boom to knock the first boom into place? Is it just me, or does having so many segments violate the "Keep It Simple, Stupid!" rule in the first place? Every joint between segments is a point of failure, it seem like 3 would be sufficient...
There is a theory the Microsoft software was created by Intelligent Design, but so far scientists have not been able to find any evidence to support this theory.
SCO has a copyright on Eunuchs! Although we're fairly sure Darl isn't one... in fact, some of us are wondering how the guy even manages to walk will cajones that big!
Only if they are over 300 meters large. With Google, they only have to be more than 2.5 meters. If you find a woman whose breasts show up on satellite photos, I'd sure like to meet her...
I'm pretty sure the corporation system is not designed to let you create or purchase a shell corporation, commit illegal acts and rack up debts, and then just toss the shell corporation into bankruptcy and say "whoops all forgiven". Half right. The corporation system IS designed to let you rack up debts, then just toss the shell corporation into bankruptcy. However, the minute someone can prove you committed illegal acts, they can hold you personally responsible, not the corporation.
When the Hunt Brothers tried and failed to corner the silver market, they tried to tell the banks "No, the corporation owes you the billions borrowed, not us, and it is bankrupt!" Didn't work, banks sued Hunt Brothers personally and drove them into bankrupty ($2.5 billion in liability against $1.5 billion in assets). So apparently the corporate veil only worked if you can prove you used due diligence to protect investor's assets.
When the IBM case is finalize, I fully suspect there will be a shareholder lawsuit against the SCO directors, and an attempt to hold them personally liable for losses. Not being a lawyer, I can't predict how this would turn out.
Well, no. The bullet is travelling at a faster velocity when it leaves the barrel than when it impact the target. The bullet is accellerating over the whole period of time it is traveling down the barrel, therefore energy is spread out of a much longer time period. But from F=ma, any energy transferred to the target must come from an even greater force applied to the gun in the opposite direction while it is being accelerated, no? Maybe there is something I'm not understanding about the fluid dynamics of the gas that is doing the acceleration -- some of the force could be transferred to the air and not the shooter.
Next thing you know, movies stars will be trading witty barbs like "when you take the closed integral of your personality from negative to postive infinity, you get zero!"
Next thing you know, they will be pointing out that cars going off a cliff don't magically burst into flames in mid air, and that any bullet with enough momentum to pick up the bad guy and carry him 20 feet backwards though the air would have to do the same to the person holding the gun, and that when Superman leaps up from the ground to catch Lois as she is falling from a skyscraper the impact velocity would be much greater than if she just hit the pavement, and that you can't hear explosions in space... well what fun will it be to watch movies then?
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Yeah, I'd use that, but when I try to install it, Mozilla tells me it's an unsigned app and I shouldn't trust it...
I ran around to a box entrance and grabbed a seat within, literally, spitting distance of the stage.You mean, you had the chance to actually spit on Bill Gates, and didn't?;-)
Sorry, but that dog won't hunt. Hotmail was based entirely on Unix when they bought it, and it took them years to get it switched over to running on Windows.
since when has microsoft innovated, ever ?
Bob? Clippy? It is not that Microsoft never comes up with any new ideas... it is just that every successful idea they have ever had has originated outside of Microsoft. See the Microsoft Hall of Innovation
You're forgetting one thing: trust. You are not going to buy something advertised via spam even if it something you've been looking all over for, because you know that only an unscrupulous rip-off artist would be using spam in the first place. You would be quick to buy something recommended by somebody you know, because you can be fairly sure that their opinion wasn't bought and paid for by the company they are recommending, whereas almost any other recommendation is biased by the fact that compensation has been given by the company to the person doing the recommendation.
This is why Microsoft can never compete with Google: we've been watching Microsoft for years, and most of us simply do not trust them with our personal data. Sure, Google could screw up and ruin it's reputation too, but they would have to try really, really hard to get people to trust them less than Microsoft, wouldn't they?
In the end, somebody in China who really wants to get to that information can find a way to do it. Yes, but can they do it without attracting the attention of the thought police? Sure, you can encrypt and tunnel any data... but those same firewalls that are blocking access can also examine traffic and FIND encrypted or tunneled data. I'd expect to see some cute new ideas on steganography coming out of China, but the problem is for any secure comunication to take place there must be secure way to communicate the keys. This makes broadcast of information impossible -- broadcast the keys, and you've most likely given them to the censors too! So you CAN block information "pull", which is what the Internet is best at! What you cannot block is information push through pre-agreed channels to specific recipients.
So, not only do they have much more bandwidth, they are also not wasting most of their bandwidth on porn! Which of course brings up the question... what do they need all that bandwidth for?
How can you trust any country that has a population of 1.2 billion and still claims that their favorite indoor sport is ping-pong?
"Uh, hello Area 51? This is the BSA, and we've received a complaint, so we'd like to come in and audit your software licenses... yes, in person. What? Sorry, I can't hear you, that black helicopter outside the window is making so much noise and...(Line disconnected)"
Generally, it is a good idea to avoid picking fights with the people that control all the money, guns, courts, and jails, and are the also the only ones that are enforcing your "Intellectual Property Rights" in the first place. So when the judge tells you "Let's see, your asking me to rule in your favor on something that will cost the goverment billions... that would be the SAME government that is paying my salary?!?" you can pretty much predict what the outcome will be...
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Methinks it is not B-movies and horror flicks that you don't want your mother to catch you watching...
I beleive it is common knowledge that Ms. Rosen is a lesbian. However, let's despise her for being a shameless spokesperson for anybody willing to pay her to do so; her sexual preferences should be irrelevant.
This is something that happened 2.2 billion years ago, and they are just now getting around to reporting it?!?
Can't they use the second boom to knock the first boom into place? Is it just me, or does having so many segments violate the "Keep It Simple, Stupid!" rule in the first place? Every joint between segments is a point of failure, it seem like 3 would be sufficient...
There is a theory the Microsoft software was created by Intelligent Design, but so far scientists have not been able to find any evidence to support this theory.
SCO has a copyright on Eunuchs! Although we're fairly sure Darl isn't one... in fact, some of us are wondering how the guy even manages to walk will cajones that big!
Only if they are over 300 meters large. With Google, they only have to be more than 2.5 meters. If you find a woman whose breasts show up on satellite photos, I'd sure like to meet her...
Perhaps the support costs as the schools using free software were lower because their staff was a lot smarter to begin with? ;-)
When the Hunt Brothers tried and failed to corner the silver market, they tried to tell the banks "No, the corporation owes you the billions borrowed, not us, and it is bankrupt!" Didn't work, banks sued Hunt Brothers personally and drove them into bankrupty ($2.5 billion in liability against $1.5 billion in assets). So apparently the corporate veil only worked if you can prove you used due diligence to protect investor's assets.
When the IBM case is finalize, I fully suspect there will be a shareholder lawsuit against the SCO directors, and an attempt to hold them personally liable for losses. Not being a lawyer, I can't predict how this would turn out.
...soon to be followed by "IBM Gives SCO the Finger!"
Well, no. The bullet is travelling at a faster velocity when it leaves the barrel than when it impact the target. The bullet is accellerating over the whole period of time it is traveling down the barrel, therefore energy is spread out of a much longer time period. But from F=ma, any energy transferred to the target must come from an even greater force applied to the gun in the opposite direction while it is being accelerated, no? Maybe there is something I'm not understanding about the fluid dynamics of the gas that is doing the acceleration -- some of the force could be transferred to the air and not the shooter.
Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind...
Next thing you know, movies stars will be trading witty barbs like "when you take the closed integral of your personality from negative to postive infinity, you get zero!"
It works about the same as a discrete cosine transform works, doesn't it? Not that I could implement one without referring to a textbook...
Next thing you know, they will be pointing out that cars going off a cliff don't magically burst into flames in mid air, and that any bullet with enough momentum to pick up the bad guy and carry him 20 feet backwards though the air would have to do the same to the person holding the gun, and that when Superman leaps up from the ground to catch Lois as she is falling from a skyscraper the impact velocity would be much greater than if she just hit the pavement, and that you can't hear explosions in space... well what fun will it be to watch movies then?
Yeah, I'd use that, but when I try to install it, Mozilla tells me it's an unsigned app and I shouldn't trust it...
I ran around to a box entrance and grabbed a seat within, literally, spitting distance of the stage.You mean, you had the chance to actually spit on Bill Gates, and didn't? ;-)
Sorry, but that dog won't hunt. Hotmail was based entirely on Unix when they bought it, and it took them years to get it switched over to running on Windows.
since when has microsoft innovated, ever ? Bob? Clippy? It is not that Microsoft never comes up with any new ideas... it is just that every successful idea they have ever had has originated outside of Microsoft. See the Microsoft Hall of Innovation
This is why Microsoft can never compete with Google: we've been watching Microsoft for years, and most of us simply do not trust them with our personal data. Sure, Google could screw up and ruin it's reputation too, but they would have to try really, really hard to get people to trust them less than Microsoft, wouldn't they?
We'd all like to say "Bonjour" to Windows...
In the end, somebody in China who really wants to get to that information can find a way to do it. Yes, but can they do it without attracting the attention of the thought police? Sure, you can encrypt and tunnel any data... but those same firewalls that are blocking access can also examine traffic and FIND encrypted or tunneled data. I'd expect to see some cute new ideas on steganography coming out of China, but the problem is for any secure comunication to take place there must be secure way to communicate the keys. This makes broadcast of information impossible -- broadcast the keys, and you've most likely given them to the censors too! So you CAN block information "pull", which is what the Internet is best at! What you cannot block is information push through pre-agreed channels to specific recipients.
How can you trust any country that has a population of 1.2 billion and still claims that their favorite indoor sport is ping-pong?
The real reason we invaded Iraq: The Iraqi government was using thousands of unlicensed copies of Microsoft Office!
Generally, it is a good idea to avoid picking fights with the people that control all the money, guns, courts, and jails, and are the also the only ones that are enforcing your "Intellectual Property Rights" in the first place. So when the judge tells you "Let's see, your asking me to rule in your favor on something that will cost the goverment billions... that would be the SAME government that is paying my salary?!?" you can pretty much predict what the outcome will be...