For big companies, their most important products must have a reasonable market share. Drop in market share is dangerous. Currently Apple's market share is dropping at a rate that can only be described as free-fall. A few more quarters of this development, and the iPhone market share will be equivalent to the Mac market share, and that will hurt Apple. A lot.
Do you think that people should be forced to live in dormitories?
Nobody should be able to force anyone to do anything. Problem is, there is not going to be a "someone" forcing down the road, it's going to be a "something". The reality is that it is, for a lot of people, going to be "you can live in a nice house of your own and starve or you can live in a shoe box and eat". Reality can be a bitch.
Well, the belief system where someone believes something that was concocted by a bad sci-fi writer while drunk at a bar in Manhattan Beach, CA, with a number of witnesses still alive today, is the least rational. The others have the advantage of either being too low on specifics to handle scientifically (they are not even wrong) or too old for any witnesses to the actual events leading up to the religions creation to still be alive.
Oh, and as someone else said, you got Buddhism wrong. Buddhism is 100% rational.
I'm not sure it's any crazier than any other religious belief system.
It is. Whackier than any other I think. Funny is, the people who were friends with L. Ron Hubbard when he, drinking profusely, created Scientology at a bar in Manhattan Beach, CA, still remember the "event" pretty well.
I wouldn't accuse the scientists of Norway's research council of fabricating data or anything, but they can't help but have a strong bias.
Problem with your logic is that it runs counter to observable facts. Norway has a very, very strong AGW leaning. Politicians, people in general etc. We have an ex-prime minister who said that AGW skeptics are evil (a word right out of religious debate). So, looking at what is the actual mindset of Norwegian scientists, you are dead wrong.
Funny enough, even if Norway was concerned with the market for its petroleum products in the future, they'd still probably be advocating the reduced use of oil as a fuel. Even if we stop burning oil tomorrow, the market for petroleum based products is going to rise significantly in the years to come. Norway wins out, whether we go all electrical and sustainable or not. In fact, more so if we do.
Yes, and Jesus simply rose from the dead. I mean, could you get more religious?
The saddest part of the AGW lunatic lobby (which is not the same as the serious scientists researching Climate Change) is that they have made "skeptic" a bad word. The only people who view skepticism as bad are religious nuts.
I feel sorry for you that you react so violently to someone pointing out that your religion is based on nonsense. Now go play with the rest of the jihadists.
Hunting whales now would be like eating the seeds you have to sow for the next year
That's like saying we have to stop eating cows since the White Rhino is threatened by extinction. There is no such thing as "whales" that are either threatened or not threatened. There are large numbers of whale species, some which are still far too low in numbers, and other who have re-bounded nicely and of which hunting should take place. If sustainability is what we are looking for. We created an un-balance, by not managing the re-bound, we'll do even more damage. The Minke, for example, competes for resources with species of whale that are actually threatened by extinction. We created the imbalance, now we have to manage the re-bound. That means culling the ones that re-bound the fastest.
Oh, and don't worry about the future. People are never going to be big whale eaters again. Due to the toxicity, eating only moderate amounts of whale meat once every blue moon is a health risk.
Because the whales being hunted for "research" are not only endangered
They are not endangered. In fact, the scientific consensus, also in the IWC, is that culling the population is the rational thing to do. Sadly, the political wing of the IWC is not going to allow whaling until we can walk from Norway to New York on the backs of whales.
Lisp, Fortran, Algol, Pascal, Ada, Eiffel, Smalltalk and a whole bunch of under-utilized languages.
Listing all of those, and not starting with Simula, is absurd. Simula is the most under-appreciated language of all compared to its influence. Everybody is doing today what those guys were doing when most people were punching holes in cards.
Here is one thing, though it doesn't apply to the "vast majority of the public". Microsoft Windows runs big-boy software better, more stable and with less problems than OSX. Even Apple agrees with this, their entire iCloud infrastructure relies on Azure and Windows.
Please note that I was a small time developer in one area, so in other areas they might have been much better
They were not. I think remember the management software side of Nortel had a couple of thousand people in it at one point in time. They produced less than tiny startups with skills did, and were utterly incapable of taking advice. At least until about 2005-6 or so. At that time they were open to advice, but it was too late.
Oh, and I should mention, about a year or two later, all activities related to the Xros acquisition was halted. Nortel wanted to play cool with the likes of CISCO, but had none of the (management and sales) talent.
Come on, those things were not part of the Nortel demise. Nortel's demise started long before Huawei was a serious player outside of the poorest third world countries. Huawei has also gone after CISCO's market far more than Nortel's market. Nortel collapsed due to incompetence. For example:
A small company called Xros (X as in the Greek letter Chi) was started by some guys who wanted to create a laser printer using mems technologies. The VC said "no, forget about laser printer, her is a ton of cash, go and create me an all optical switch". OK the dudes said, we'll do that, and they started working. They got some prototype stuff running. They made some in-roads into creating a sixteen channel switch etc. In 2000, they did not have much of a product, but quite a bit of prototype stuff. They were acquired by Nortel for a whopping $3.25B. A company with a handful of employees and no products.
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I'd have to disagree with you, and here is why.
For big companies, their most important products must have a reasonable market share. Drop in market share is dangerous. Currently Apple's market share is dropping at a rate that can only be described as free-fall. A few more quarters of this development, and the iPhone market share will be equivalent to the Mac market share, and that will hurt Apple. A lot.
The market is saturated now.
Wow. You are utterly clueless, are you not?
Yes. Next stupid question please.
all energy goes into heat
Really? So, if I hoist a big-ass rock on to the top of a mountain, none of the energy went into changing the static energy of said rock?
Do you think that people should be forced to live in dormitories?
Nobody should be able to force anyone to do anything. Problem is, there is not going to be a "someone" forcing down the road, it's going to be a "something". The reality is that it is, for a lot of people, going to be "you can live in a nice house of your own and starve or you can live in a shoe box and eat". Reality can be a bitch.
Git is easier to use than almost anything out there, and completely useless for very, very large projects (the kind that makes Linux look tiny).
If they want to say it has "storage space" of amount X, that's how much should be available to the user.
So we are making up new rules now, just because Microsoft got into the device space? Seriously?
Unfortunately use of a recovery partition is central to MS' backup and recovery strategy for Windows 8
Was there anything about the word "moved" you failed to comprehend?
Was there anything about the word "moved" you did not understand?
Well, the belief system where someone believes something that was concocted by a bad sci-fi writer while drunk at a bar in Manhattan Beach, CA, with a number of witnesses still alive today, is the least rational. The others have the advantage of either being too low on specifics to handle scientifically (they are not even wrong) or too old for any witnesses to the actual events leading up to the religions creation to still be alive.
Oh, and as someone else said, you got Buddhism wrong. Buddhism is 100% rational.
I'm not sure it's any crazier than any other religious belief system.
It is. Whackier than any other I think. Funny is, the people who were friends with L. Ron Hubbard when he, drinking profusely, created Scientology at a bar in Manhattan Beach, CA, still remember the "event" pretty well.
Indeed there is.
This is not to cast aspersions on the Norwegian researchers who wrote this study - I have no idea whether they receive funding from petro interests
They do not. Question answered.
I wouldn't accuse the scientists of Norway's research council of fabricating data or anything, but they can't help but have a strong bias.
Problem with your logic is that it runs counter to observable facts. Norway has a very, very strong AGW leaning. Politicians, people in general etc. We have an ex-prime minister who said that AGW skeptics are evil (a word right out of religious debate). So, looking at what is the actual mindset of Norwegian scientists, you are dead wrong.
Funny enough, even if Norway was concerned with the market for its petroleum products in the future, they'd still probably be advocating the reduced use of oil as a fuel. Even if we stop burning oil tomorrow, the market for petroleum based products is going to rise significantly in the years to come. Norway wins out, whether we go all electrical and sustainable or not. In fact, more so if we do.
It has not been published yet
Published and peer reviewed.
Climate change simply happens
Yes, and Jesus simply rose from the dead. I mean, could you get more religious?
The saddest part of the AGW lunatic lobby (which is not the same as the serious scientists researching Climate Change) is that they have made "skeptic" a bad word. The only people who view skepticism as bad are religious nuts.
I feel sorry for you that you react so violently to someone pointing out that your religion is based on nonsense. Now go play with the rest of the jihadists.
Hunting whales now would be like eating the seeds you have to sow for the next year
That's like saying we have to stop eating cows since the White Rhino is threatened by extinction. There is no such thing as "whales" that are either threatened or not threatened. There are large numbers of whale species, some which are still far too low in numbers, and other who have re-bounded nicely and of which hunting should take place. If sustainability is what we are looking for. We created an un-balance, by not managing the re-bound, we'll do even more damage. The Minke, for example, competes for resources with species of whale that are actually threatened by extinction. We created the imbalance, now we have to manage the re-bound. That means culling the ones that re-bound the fastest.
Oh, and don't worry about the future. People are never going to be big whale eaters again. Due to the toxicity, eating only moderate amounts of whale meat once every blue moon is a health risk.
Because the whales being hunted for "research" are not only endangered
They are not endangered. In fact, the scientific consensus, also in the IWC, is that culling the population is the rational thing to do. Sadly, the political wing of the IWC is not going to allow whaling until we can walk from Norway to New York on the backs of whales.
Lisp, Fortran, Algol, Pascal, Ada, Eiffel, Smalltalk and a whole bunch of under-utilized languages.
Listing all of those, and not starting with Simula, is absurd. Simula is the most under-appreciated language of all compared to its influence. Everybody is doing today what those guys were doing when most people were punching holes in cards.
I have both and you are very, tragically wrong
No, just tragically ignorant.
W7 is still MS-DOS-8 underneath all the crud
Probably the dumbest thing ever written by an AC on /.
Here is one thing, though it doesn't apply to the "vast majority of the public". Microsoft Windows runs big-boy software better, more stable and with less problems than OSX. Even Apple agrees with this, their entire iCloud infrastructure relies on Azure and Windows.
Please note that I was a small time developer in one area, so in other areas they might have been much better
They were not. I think remember the management software side of Nortel had a couple of thousand people in it at one point in time. They produced less than tiny startups with skills did, and were utterly incapable of taking advice. At least until about 2005-6 or so. At that time they were open to advice, but it was too late.
Oh, and I should mention, about a year or two later, all activities related to the Xros acquisition was halted. Nortel wanted to play cool with the likes of CISCO, but had none of the (management and sales) talent.
Come on, those things were not part of the Nortel demise. Nortel's demise started long before Huawei was a serious player outside of the poorest third world countries. Huawei has also gone after CISCO's market far more than Nortel's market. Nortel collapsed due to incompetence. For example:
A small company called Xros (X as in the Greek letter Chi) was started by some guys who wanted to create a laser printer using mems technologies. The VC said "no, forget about laser printer, her is a ton of cash, go and create me an all optical switch". OK the dudes said, we'll do that, and they started working. They got some prototype stuff running. They made some in-roads into creating a sixteen channel switch etc. In 2000, they did not have much of a product, but quite a bit of prototype stuff. They were acquired by Nortel for a whopping $3.25B. A company with a handful of employees and no products.
That's how you kill a company.