You liked the eminent domain ruling? So anyone who doesn't have the bucks to appear to be a threat to drag things out in court can expect their property to be condemned and turned over to a developer just so they can put up a strip mall?
You could have just invested $20'000 in your house to "modernize" it - new kitchen, remodel the bathrooms, etc. - not an unusual sum of money - and it means squat when it comes to giving up the property. Take the offer(s) or expect to find your house marked condemned with a bow affixed to it.
That is not what eminent domain was intended for. The Founding Fathers likely started spinning in their graves and probably won't stop for a long, long time.
As for the predicted fireworks, it couldn't have come at a bitter^w better time. (maybe the first word was better)
The big question is: when Rehnquist resigns, does it mean between the two Justices retiring, will there be three confirmation hearings or two? Remember: to move a sitting Justice to Chief Justice requires a confirmation hearing. It's easiest to nominate an outsider to the Chief Justice and have a single confirmation.
The best part of this is when the Democrats (no, I'm not a Republican, I thrive on political conflict, particularly when it comes to nominating and confirming Justices) have said Bush must|ought|should give them a list in advance of any public announcements so they can pre-screen them.
Snicker.
I can see them receiving a list of twenty-five names, responding, "No. None of these are acceptable. Where's the list of real candidates?"
How will they Bork all of the nominees this time?
Boy, am I glad I'm working from home these days. This is going to be better than the OJ "trial".
It's the quality of his swimming lessons.
(Isn't he due to recertify?)
And speaking of retiring, isn't about his turn? (With his Senate pension, he can have all of the cannolis he can eat and not be interrupted to show up for a vote.)
And we live in a plutocracy. Although those whose income is in the top 5% pay 50% of the income tax (collectively), the remainder still pay a higher percentage of their income to make up the remainder.
There are two other things to remember:
The Golden Rule: He|She who has the gold makes the rules.
Life is like a sh%t sandwich. The more bread you have, the less sh%t you have to eat.
And ever means at any time. Past, present, future. I suppose there was no need for him to attend plays in the future since the best had already been viewed.
There's something which you're overlooking in Ballmer's talk over the previous weeks; actually, months: He refers to Google as a one-trick pony: a search engine. He never [involuntarily] makes reference to any of Google's [other] efforts or how Microsoft matches against any of them.
Strategically, that may not be such a bad idea as the only references you hear *most* - outside of the technical arena and many inside the tech world who don't pay attention to what's going on - is Google's search engine. I know the techies can snipe and say it makes him look foolish or ignorant, but for the most part, they aren't the ones signing the checks to pay the bills.
When I showed my mom the Maps.Google site, she almost freaked because she was accustomed to the sharp, jagged lines in things such as MapQuest. The zoom is mind-bending. I love to "crawl" cross the map by picking a point, double-clicking to put it to the center, repeat. It makes it fun to travel along a road|highway|railroad track to see what's along the way which we wouldn't ordinarily see on the ground. She was also stunned to be able to search for pictures. Not that big a deal to lot of people, but it was to her.
One of the other nice things I enjoy is watching the progression of projects from Google Labs to services & public availability. Yes, Microsoft has Microsoft Research (thanks to Nathan Myrvold [1]), but it seems most of their work appears in future products by extracting pieces.
[1] Original Microsoft CTO, founder of Microsoft Research. Ph.D. Recently added JD, specializing in patent law. Now searching for patents to purchse for strategic marketing positioning.
"You can't outdevelop Microsoft, but you can outinvent them."
-Nathan Myrvold. MIT's Technology Review (cover), May 2004.
If we could only educate the morons who can't get its and it's correct.
Rule of thumb: "explode" your contractions. It's is a contraction, not a designation of ownership. The same goes for you're, they're, etc. If it doesn't make sense exploded, it won't make sense as a contraction.
I have yet to figure out why computer people think they are so smart but cannot master simple grammar and punctuation.
And that's when they append updates to the original story.
Timothy must be like the people who have been on the 'net for five years and think they've seen everything. And during the first pass of an inbox, respond to every message, thinking nothing of the fact they find responses from others later in their inbox (instead of reading everything and going back to respond).
Anyone know if any/. editors have been fired?
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I thought the quote looked familiar!
Alas, no matter how smart programmers think themselves today, it's incredible to see how many people can't compute longhand with a great deal of speed and accuracy. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are considerably worse, but without their hardware, most are pretty weak all of the way around.
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Unfortunately, the only language that is even close to pure OO is Smalltalk
And the last time you looked at Actor or Eiffel was?
You aren't missing anything. Someone got a little giddy over thinking of something interesting and jumped the gun.
I know several deaf people who don't care about mods to a GUI, including Windows.
When it comes to the blind, however, it doesn't mean it can't be a GUI, but there still has to be the correct UI. There are already a number of products which some of the blind people I know (one owns his own recruiting and consulting firm) and have said they don't need a change for most of what they do.
So no, I don't know why the original focus was on an OS. About the only OS which really worried about the UI is BEOS as it was designed for multimedia.
Maybe we should file a "request for clarification" from the author as to why they meant OS instead of UI?
They fit much like the water situation in the areas supplied by the Indianapolis Water Company. The water source has plenty of water but the demand outstrips the ability of the collection, treatment, and pumping system because people are watering their lawns because of the heat. (we had no 90F days last year)
They started by asking people with odd-numbered addresses to only water their lawns on odd-numbered days and vice-versa. It didn't work. Now, they've asked people to stop watering until the weekend. The tanks have run dry trying to keep up once or twice and the pressure has dropped to a small fraction of normalcy, making fire fighting a bit more difficult.
I'm guessing people have developed two mindsets:
1) If everyone else stops like they're supposed to, then it won't hurt if I water my lawn.
2) Someone sees someone else watering their lawn and figures if someone else can do it, they can as well.
I grew up in the countryside and live in an unannexed area of a town outside of the Indy city limits, so we have a well and septic tank. The last thing I wanted was a meter on my shower and toilet. We don't water our lawn but have no concerns about the water issue, particularly the water pressure. All of the annexed properties surrounding our neighborhood of thirteen houses use Indy's water service so they're in the same boat.
What he's saying is, "The way software will compete in Norway is how it runs or interacts with the user, not how it stores information."
All it does is prevent being locked into a vendor because migration to other software is nearly impossible until|unless someone hacks the file format and creates a conversion program.
Here's a story from my background:
When I worked exclusively in mainframes and mid-ranges, the desire was to move from Data General's CEO (office automation): word-processing documents, spreadsheets, and calendars to IBM's PROFS system. DG wouldn't sell, let alone give the internal file formats. IBM's file layouts were open books. Management solicited quotes from local software whores and the best bid they got was a $50'000 retainer, 6-8 people with a minimum of 6-8 months. They came to me and asked if I could do it but without a firm schedule - to see what I could do to steam things open. The quality of the local DG customer service dropped dramatically as not only were they losing a big customer, but someone was hacking their secrets. But DG Sales stepped up the pressure to retail their pressence.
It was my first PL/I series of programs - I'd already worked extensively in at least a dozen other languages. (in order, the first few were LISP, FORTRAN, assembler, COBOL, BASIC). Once you've got a nice assortment, languages are languages - you aren't locked into a particular mindset but can also steal concepts from one and use them in another.
Anyway, I finished all three programs in less than three months without working overtime and without offloading my regular work. It was turned over to the migration team and it converted several hundred thousand word processing documents and spreadsheets, and hundreds of calendars flawlessly. No runtime errors and no reports of problems from any users during the years of use after the migration.
The gist of this is that if the file formats are open, you probably don't have to roll your own as there would probably be businesses which write & sell them. But application vendors don't want their customers to have the ability to move to anyone else at will. It goes against the grain of how they do business.
It will be interesting to see the status of this situation in two years - someone set a reminder and let's reexamine what's happening and what happens to this guy. The issue will die or he'll be swept by the wayside as this type of thinking is not popular in the business world!
There are attorneys who are willing to fight the good fight when they know they have the right case and don't demand everyone's first-born sons. They may not be plentiful, but they do exist.
Create a portable which plays everything except MP3 would clearly not violate the patent. Unfortunately, the "everything except MP3" market isn't very big and I don't think you're going to suddenly see a shift in everyone's tastes unless something dramatic changes.
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And don't forget when Microsoft sold space on the desktop to those who wanted their products preplaced there.
...on one topic: permitting piggy-backing legislation on unrelated legislation. There were Congress Critters who actually added material to 9/11 bills because they knew it would be passed. If contenders for their offices don't point this stuff out, they deserve to lose and take a job working on a honey wagon: fringe benefit - all you can eat.
The fact the Broadcast Flag has been inserted to another bill is an example of where someone needs to make a phone call to Guido and have him wait on a door step, ring the doorbell, and kneecap someone.
Some are more adept at doing it than others. One good example is a former KKK member. That should provide enough information to forego the necessity of naming them. Some of the network reporters are good at presenting some of the larger garbage ammendments but they never say who actually added the material to the bill.
The original DivX was supposed to eliminate the need to return discs. When you'd open the package, the disc would only last 48-72 hours, then the surface would dissolve enough to prevent viewing beyond that time.
Frankly, for everyday usability I'll take Gnome or KDE on just about any Linux distro over Windows.
That's good...for you.
Guess what? you don't count
Until|unless all of the people who are the determining factor in businesses - administrative assistants, the hourly worker who tracks warehouse items, etc. are willing to use use those UIs, Linux isn't going to cut it. Slapping something onto their desktop and telling them to live with it will not cut it. Anyone who believes otherwise needs to slide out from behind their keyboard to take a break from writing and spend some time with the people who actually sit behind a keyboard all day and make use of the applications from the time they enter work until they leave (aside from lunch). I'm not talking about the 10-person companies.
It's why I made my prediction in near the top (but it got cut off so only those who clicked to view the remainder of the message - the footnotes answering the quiz I posted - got to see it): I see a very distinct possibility IBM could open up | donate the code used to create|maintain the OS/2 UI. IBM already provides heavy support to the Linux|OS cause. Taking this action would provide a 3rd UI choice - those who prefer KDE or Gnome would be welcome to do so although I foresee the actual end users would be using the OS/2 UI. It shouldn't do anything to the existing OS/2 market. Those are die-hard OS/2 fans and any of them who wanted to move to something else would have already done so. Besides, if you're going to lose market share, you want it to be because you're eating your own young [and not someone else].
There wouldn't be any legal issues because it already exists in the marketplace. It's easy enough to use - it was the foundation for Windows before Microsoft failed to renew the contract and go their own way with Windows.
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...the rest of the world things we're a bunch of egotistical maniacs.
(Although I will say ICANN hasn't always behaved consistently.)
You liked the eminent domain ruling? So anyone who doesn't have the bucks to appear to be a threat to drag things out in court can expect their property to be condemned and turned over to a developer just so they can put up a strip mall?
You could have just invested $20'000 in your house to "modernize" it - new kitchen, remodel the bathrooms, etc. - not an unusual sum of money - and it means squat when it comes to giving up the property. Take the offer(s) or expect to find your house marked condemned with a bow affixed to it.
That is not what eminent domain was intended for. The Founding Fathers likely started spinning in their graves and probably won't stop for a long, long time.
As for the predicted fireworks, it couldn't have come at a bitter^w better time. (maybe the first word was better)
The big question is: when Rehnquist resigns, does it mean between the two Justices retiring, will there be three confirmation hearings or two? Remember: to move a sitting Justice to Chief Justice requires a confirmation hearing. It's easiest to nominate an outsider to the Chief Justice and have a single confirmation.
The best part of this is when the Democrats (no, I'm not a Republican, I thrive on political conflict, particularly when it comes to nominating and confirming Justices) have said Bush must|ought|should give them a list in advance of any public announcements so they can pre-screen them.
Snicker.
I can see them receiving a list of twenty-five names, responding, "No. None of these are acceptable. Where's the list of real candidates?"
How will they Bork all of the nominees this time?
Boy, am I glad I'm working from home these days. This is going to be better than the OJ "trial".
It's not his driving which is suspect.
It's the quality of his swimming lessons.
(Isn't he due to recertify?)
And speaking of retiring, isn't about his turn? (With his Senate pension, he can have all of the cannolis he can eat and not be interrupted to show up for a vote.)
And we live in a plutocracy . Although those whose income is in the top 5% pay 50% of the income tax (collectively), the remainder still pay a higher percentage of their income to make up the remainder.
There are two other things to remember:
The Golden Rule: He|She who has the gold makes the rules.
Life is like a sh%t sandwich. The more bread you have, the less sh%t you have to eat.
And ever means at any time. Past, present, future. I suppose there was no need for him to attend plays in the future since the best had already been viewed.
of who your English teacher was
whom
who is nominative case. of who simply does not work in the English language.
There's something which you're overlooking in Ballmer's talk over the previous weeks; actually, months: He refers to Google as a one-trick pony: a search engine. He never [involuntarily] makes reference to any of Google's [other] efforts or how Microsoft matches against any of them.
Strategically, that may not be such a bad idea as the only references you hear *most* - outside of the technical arena and many inside the tech world who don't pay attention to what's going on - is Google's search engine. I know the techies can snipe and say it makes him look foolish or ignorant, but for the most part, they aren't the ones signing the checks to pay the bills. When I showed my mom the Maps.Google site, she almost freaked because she was accustomed to the sharp, jagged lines in things such as MapQuest. The zoom is mind-bending. I love to "crawl" cross the map by picking a point, double-clicking to put it to the center, repeat. It makes it fun to travel along a road|highway|railroad track to see what's along the way which we wouldn't ordinarily see on the ground. She was also stunned to be able to search for pictures. Not that big a deal to lot of people, but it was to her.
One of the other nice things I enjoy is watching the progression of projects from Google Labs to services & public availability. Yes, Microsoft has Microsoft Research (thanks to Nathan Myrvold [1]), but it seems most of their work appears in future products by extracting pieces.
[1] Original Microsoft CTO, founder of Microsoft Research. Ph.D. Recently added JD, specializing in patent law. Now searching for patents to purchse for strategic marketing positioning.
"You can't outdevelop Microsoft, but you can outinvent them."
-Nathan Myrvold. MIT's Technology Review (cover), May 2004.
Of course it's the latter.
If we could only educate the morons who can't get its and it's correct.
Rule of thumb: "explode" your contractions. It's is a contraction, not a designation of ownership. The same goes for you're, they're, etc. If it doesn't make sense exploded, it won't make sense as a contraction.
I have yet to figure out why computer people think they are so smart but cannot master simple grammar and punctuation.
{perk} Dupe?
Look at the editor for this story - Timothy - the dupe from last night. Both stories on the front page
On top of that, the story has then instead of than.
'spose he's on day 6 of a 15-day meth binge?
Nah. Let'er rip. If it gets out of hand, Spider-man can rescue everyone.
And that's when they append updates to the original story.
Timothy must be like the people who have been on the 'net for five years and think they've seen everything. And during the first pass of an inbox, respond to every message, thinking nothing of the fact they find responses from others later in their inbox (instead of reading everything and going back to respond).
Anyone know if any
I thought the quote looked familiar!
Alas, no matter how smart programmers think themselves today, it's incredible to see how many people can't compute longhand with a great deal of speed and accuracy. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are considerably worse, but without their hardware, most are pretty weak all of the way around.
Unfortunately, the only language that is even close to pure OO is Smalltalk
And the last time you looked at Actor or Eiffel was?
Having a single pipe feeding an entire country is pretty damn stupid.
;)
How long ago do you think it was that there were some small, single pipes going into some major areas of the world, let alone no pipes?
It's one way to find out who hasn't been on very long (relatively speaking).
You aren't missing anything. Someone got a little giddy over thinking of something interesting and jumped the gun.
I know several deaf people who don't care about mods to a GUI, including Windows.
When it comes to the blind, however, it doesn't mean it can't be a GUI, but there still has to be the correct UI. There are already a number of products which some of the blind people I know (one owns his own recruiting and consulting firm) and have said they don't need a change for most of what they do.
So no, I don't know why the original focus was on an OS. About the only OS which really worried about the UI is BEOS as it was designed for multimedia.
Maybe we should file a "request for clarification" from the author as to why they meant OS instead of UI?
That's a good pair of examples.
They fit much like the water situation in the areas supplied by the Indianapolis Water Company. The water source has plenty of water but the demand outstrips the ability of the collection, treatment, and pumping system because people are watering their lawns because of the heat. (we had no 90F days last year)
They started by asking people with odd-numbered addresses to only water their lawns on odd-numbered days and vice-versa. It didn't work. Now, they've asked people to stop watering until the weekend. The tanks have run dry trying to keep up once or twice and the pressure has dropped to a small fraction of normalcy, making fire fighting a bit more difficult.
I'm guessing people have developed two mindsets:
1) If everyone else stops like they're supposed to, then it won't hurt if I water my lawn.
2) Someone sees someone else watering their lawn and figures if someone else can do it, they can as well.
I grew up in the countryside and live in an unannexed area of a town outside of the Indy city limits, so we have a well and septic tank. The last thing I wanted was a meter on my shower and toilet. We don't water our lawn but have no concerns about the water issue, particularly the water pressure. All of the annexed properties surrounding our neighborhood of thirteen houses use Indy's water service so they're in the same boat.
How so?
What he's saying is, "The way software will compete in Norway is how it runs or interacts with the user, not how it stores information."
All it does is prevent being locked into a vendor because migration to other software is nearly impossible until|unless someone hacks the file format and creates a conversion program.
Here's a story from my background:
When I worked exclusively in mainframes and mid-ranges, the desire was to move from Data General's CEO (office automation): word-processing documents, spreadsheets, and calendars to IBM's PROFS system. DG wouldn't sell, let alone give the internal file formats. IBM's file layouts were open books. Management solicited quotes from local software whores and the best bid they got was a $50'000 retainer, 6-8 people with a minimum of 6-8 months. They came to me and asked if I could do it but without a firm schedule - to see what I could do to steam things open. The quality of the local DG customer service dropped dramatically as not only were they losing a big customer, but someone was hacking their secrets. But DG Sales stepped up the pressure to retail their pressence.
It was my first PL/I series of programs - I'd already worked extensively in at least a dozen other languages. (in order, the first few were LISP, FORTRAN, assembler, COBOL, BASIC). Once you've got a nice assortment, languages are languages - you aren't locked into a particular mindset but can also steal concepts from one and use them in another.
Anyway, I finished all three programs in less than three months without working overtime and without offloading my regular work. It was turned over to the migration team and it converted several hundred thousand word processing documents and spreadsheets, and hundreds of calendars flawlessly. No runtime errors and no reports of problems from any users during the years of use after the migration.
The gist of this is that if the file formats are open, you probably don't have to roll your own as there would probably be businesses which write & sell them. But application vendors don't want their customers to have the ability to move to anyone else at will. It goes against the grain of how they do business.
It will be interesting to see the status of this situation in two years - someone set a reminder and let's reexamine what's happening and what happens to this guy. The issue will die or he'll be swept by the wayside as this type of thinking is not popular in the business world!
Later, we find out someone paid Guido to show up on his doorstep with a baseball bat and kneecap him
There are attorneys who are willing to fight the good fight when they know they have the right case and don't demand everyone's first-born sons. They may not be plentiful, but they do exist.
Create a portable which plays everything except MP3 would clearly not violate the patent. Unfortunately, the "everything except MP3" market isn't very big and I don't think you're going to suddenly see a shift in everyone's tastes unless something dramatic changes.
And don't forget when Microsoft sold space on the desktop to those who wanted their products preplaced there.
...on one topic: permitting piggy-backing legislation on unrelated legislation. There were Congress Critters who actually added material to 9/11 bills because they knew it would be passed. If contenders for their offices don't point this stuff out, they deserve to lose and take a job working on a honey wagon: fringe benefit - all you can eat.
The fact the Broadcast Flag has been inserted to another bill is an example of where someone needs to make a phone call to Guido and have him wait on a door step, ring the doorbell, and kneecap someone.
Some are more adept at doing it than others. One good example is a former KKK member. That should provide enough information to forego the necessity of naming them. Some of the network reporters are good at presenting some of the larger garbage ammendments but they never say who actually added the material to the bill.
The original DivX was supposed to eliminate the need to return discs. When you'd open the package, the disc would only last 48-72 hours, then the surface would dissolve enough to prevent viewing beyond that time.
Frankly, for everyday usability I'll take Gnome or KDE on just about any Linux distro over Windows.
That's good...for you.
Guess what? you don't count
Until|unless all of the people who are the determining factor in businesses - administrative assistants, the hourly worker who tracks warehouse items, etc. are willing to use use those UIs, Linux isn't going to cut it. Slapping something onto their desktop and telling them to live with it will not cut it. Anyone who believes otherwise needs to slide out from behind their keyboard to take a break from writing and spend some time with the people who actually sit behind a keyboard all day and make use of the applications from the time they enter work until they leave (aside from lunch). I'm not talking about the 10-person companies.
It's why I made my prediction in near the top (but it got cut off so only those who clicked to view the remainder of the message - the footnotes answering the quiz I posted - got to see it): I see a very distinct possibility IBM could open up | donate the code used to create|maintain the OS/2 UI. IBM already provides heavy support to the Linux|OS cause. Taking this action would provide a 3rd UI choice - those who prefer KDE or Gnome would be welcome to do so although I foresee the actual end users would be using the OS/2 UI. It shouldn't do anything to the existing OS/2 market. Those are die-hard OS/2 fans and any of them who wanted to move to something else would have already done so. Besides, if you're going to lose market share, you want it to be because you're eating your own young [and not someone else].
There wouldn't be any legal issues because it already exists in the marketplace. It's easy enough to use - it was the foundation for Windows before Microsoft failed to renew the contract and go their own way with Windows.
No, fittest means strongest. Adaptable means what it says - flexibility, pliability.
Think of a strong football player getting his butt kicked by someone else using leverage and quickness.
You can see both fittest and flexible in gymnasts.