Sorry I like working in an environment that actually makes me money.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, just you go on believing that point and click boy, that's why business uses UNIX machines for mission critical applications, you know like banks and mining companies and linux based systems for a significant portion of e-commerce the internet.
I guess that's what the $ means in M$.
Well you guess wrong, it's because they use vendor lock in to keep their customer base and make it a nightmare to interoperate with any other platform your business may choose to implement.
why do you think the term 'Microsoft Tax' comes from.
Sure thing kid. Hey I was president once. True story...
Amazingly witty retort, sorry it took me so long to respond but I've been beating back a torrent of people who just love M$ products such as yourself, oh wait it was just you. Only you love M$, I'm sure M$ loves you too.
My existing technology career is now over 20 years and while I'm well built, good looking and look younger than my years, I'm hardly a kid, but thanks for the complement M$hill boy (I made that one up just for you - clever isn't it - I will be using it in the future to address shill'$ of your ilk M$ M$ M$ M$ see how mature it is M$ M$ M$, winblow$, windoze, Me$$yDo$, Me$$yDog$, M$-Orifice, M$-PowerPointless - I could go on and on)
Whilst mildly amused by your response, I understand, and it immediately strikes me as you displaying your deep seated sense of powerlessness about your place in the world. I'd suggest you get yourself a copy of Ubuntu as a first step to dispelling such feelings. Oh and welcome to slashdot Mr Bush Snr.
Good for you, I'll probably be overwhelmed by responses from people who love M$ real soon now.
But alas we have another kid who thinks they know how the business world works, and they spew out some nonsense about M$!!! (Don't forget the cliche $ for the S)
I'll remember that next time I'm addressing a Chamber of Commerce or a Business technology forum and I've used every M$ O.S product since DOS on 8088 and implemented multi-user accounting systems on character terminals in the eighties, I'll say M$ if I want to especially if it bothers you, shill boy - now get of my lawn;-).
There is nothing wrong with Vista...Vista is fine, people just love to jump on the Anti-MS bandwaggon.
This is not the first time a IT behemoth has dominated the market place and I doubt it will be the last. Every company has a marketing bell curve - what makes Microsoft any different, the question is "Will Microsoft be able to adapt it's business model in an open source marketplace". There is no question anymore about Open Source being viable in the market place, certainly with Wall St being users of Open Source products it's speaks volumes about the financial sense of OSS.
Microsoft has never played with any of the other kids in the sand pit, they will do what is best for them and the market will do what is best for themselves. I can't remember the last time I spoke to anyone who actually loves Microsoft, they use it because they have too and even if I feel pampered using VS the reality is the market place is waking up to the fact that they don't *have too* anymore.
Doing I.T means doing business, business ain't dumb, Vista didn't cut it - end of discussion. This is the first time business has NOT implemented a Microsoft product in the enterprise and shifted from a pro-M$ stance to a wait and see stance. This is because business has the perception that they *need* Microsoft, once that perception is gone what is left? No company is bigger than the whole market and especially a market that is looking for a reason to become hostile towards a company that has been holding them for ransom for years. After all you know what the say
You can fool some of the people all of the time or all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
I love the adrenalin rush of people engrosed in thier text messaging stepping out onto the road in front of me whilst I'm driving with out even looking. So when we add a driver to this equation it becomes an unexpected feature of mobile phones to cull swaths of the population destined to become footnotes in the darwin awards.
And I bet the last thing that would go through thier minds is "eval - no, dubl - no, dual - no, duck - no, fuck - yes" SPLAT
Shiv, I just knew that predictive text could be a force for good in the world.
Despite the fact that Microsoft brought this upon itself it looks like a largley political move under the guise of "anti-trust" compliance, the only problem I have is that the DOJ should be non-political and seperated from government influence. I don't really know who can dictate terms to Microsoft anymore but a decision like this seems to say more about the state of government being largely dictatorial than concerned about avoiding an entrenched monopoly.
All in all it appears to me that the government sees this as one monopoly that it should be controlling, influencing and owning. Design and deployment decisions that affect the products installation into government departments are a small and "not-unreasonable" next step and now that Bill Gates has stepped aside, who is charismatic enough at Microsoft to reason against such a scenario.
Which of those two things required any smarts at all.
You know what, you're right, he's a dumb ass. But now that begs the question should you get more time in gaol for being a dumb ass than you would get for murder?
However, the scientist has released correspondence showing that he was approached with the offer of a knighthood over a decade ago but refused it on principle.
How the hell was he going to wear the suit of armor and pick up the sword you insensitive clods!!!
Chances are no-one would have even known that he had done it if he had only changed his own grades. Even if he did get busted I doubt the authorities would have cared much either - more likely admiration for being so smart. The problem was he had a point to prove, his point being that he is smarter than the system and that's dumb. The system doesn't care if you are smarter than it is - only if you broadcast you are smarter than the system to other people, which is what he did.
And thats why he is facing 37 years more gaol (jail) than he may have otherwise. Smart is if he changes his own grades and said nothing, Smart Ass is if he changes other peoples grades, therefore he is facing 37 years gaol for being a smart ass.
My ISP very cleverly tells me I can download 12gb per month, which is true. What they don't tell me is anything I upload when I'm peering is also counted to the 12Gb total.
It's not surprising McCain supports this idea, the Energy act of 2005 abolished a guardian of the American Economy called the P.U.C.H.A, the Public Utilities Company Holding Act. It was put in place to prevent a repeat of the 1929 stock market crash and nullified by none other than George. W. Bush. Pre approved reactor designs get you tax discounts even if a suitable company does nothing but say they will build one. Get ready to sell existing nuclear utilities and ratepayers get ready to part with more and more cash.
Because the companies ideally placed to take advantage of these changes and really get a strangle hold on the American economy are Oil Companies. The only way for them to really pillage the American Taxpayer is to be able to speculate on building reactors that are of the "approved design" into the future. The only approved designs are all 'once through' fuel cycle so any discussion about breeder reactors ends here and the discussion about the lack of net energy returns from the nuclear fuel cycle begin.
You have to be pragmatic about this, P.U.C.H.A was put in place to stop America going back into a economic depression. Greed is greed, supporting this will enable the legislative framework to gut the American economy and taxpayer of remaining assets for the next 20 to 30 years.
Please America, you are a technological nation, you can solve your energy needs without nuclear power.
Admittedly, the fact that GA essentially owns the show with Predator and Reaper does lead to some problems and the pilots are not entirely happy with all of the solutions from GA, but at least GA came to the game with a working system before making substantial claims about performance and capabilities.
No-one seems entirely happy with the substantial claims made about ViSTAr's performance and capabilities.
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he just wasn't using it.
Or to paraphrase Emperor Palpatine, I will make it legal
Riiiighto Mr Purchasing clerk.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, just you go on believing that point and click boy, that's why business uses UNIX machines for mission critical applications, you know like banks and mining companies and linux based systems for a significant portion of e-commerce the internet.
Well you guess wrong, it's because they use vendor lock in to keep their customer base and make it a nightmare to interoperate with any other platform your business may choose to implement.
why do you think the term 'Microsoft Tax' comes from.
Amazingly witty retort, sorry it took me so long to respond but I've been beating back a torrent of people who just love M$ products such as yourself, oh wait it was just you. Only you love M$, I'm sure M$ loves you too.
My existing technology career is now over 20 years and while I'm well built, good looking and look younger than my years, I'm hardly a kid, but thanks for the complement M$hill boy (I made that one up just for you - clever isn't it - I will be using it in the future to address shill'$ of your ilk M$ M$ M$ M$ see how mature it is M$ M$ M$, winblow$, windoze, Me$$yDo$, Me$$yDog$, M$-Orifice, M$-PowerPointless - I could go on and on)
Whilst mildly amused by your response, I understand, and it immediately strikes me as you displaying your deep seated sense of powerlessness about your place in the world. I'd suggest you get yourself a copy of Ubuntu as a first step to dispelling such feelings. Oh and welcome to slashdot Mr Bush Snr.
Kind regards
MrKaos
P.S M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ M$
Good for you, I'll probably be overwhelmed by responses from people who love M$ real soon now.
I'll remember that next time I'm addressing a Chamber of Commerce or a Business technology forum and I've used every M$ O.S product since DOS on 8088 and implemented multi-user accounting systems on character terminals in the eighties, I'll say M$ if I want to especially if it bothers you, shill boy - now get of my lawn ;-).
Riiiight
Ok, Naughty Bob
Microsoft has never played with any of the other kids in the sand pit, they will do what is best for them and the market will do what is best for themselves. I can't remember the last time I spoke to anyone who actually loves Microsoft, they use it because they have too and even if I feel pampered using VS the reality is the market place is waking up to the fact that they don't *have too* anymore.
Doing I.T means doing business, business ain't dumb, Vista didn't cut it - end of discussion. This is the first time business has NOT implemented a Microsoft product in the enterprise and shifted from a pro-M$ stance to a wait and see stance. This is because business has the perception that they *need* Microsoft, once that perception is gone what is left? No company is bigger than the whole market and especially a market that is looking for a reason to become hostile towards a company that has been holding them for ransom for years. After all you know what the say
You can fool some of the people all of the time or all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
we can only hope, eh?
And I bet the last thing that would go through thier minds is "eval - no, dubl - no, dual - no, duck - no, fuck - yes" SPLAT
Shiv, I just knew that predictive text could be a force for good in the world.
W.
and were suddenly silenced
All in all it appears to me that the government sees this as one monopoly that it should be controlling, influencing and owning. Design and deployment decisions that affect the products installation into government departments are a small and "not-unreasonable" next step and now that Bill Gates has stepped aside, who is charismatic enough at Microsoft to reason against such a scenario.
A very slippery slop indeed.
RIP George, now you really are a fucking legend
Cool.
really should have turned the extractor fans on in the bathroom.
so with root and kill that makes unix the bad boy of operating systems. Gnu certainly is not eunuchs.
cue the rieser jokes now...
Maybe this had something to do with it.
And thats why he is facing 37 years more gaol (jail) than he may have otherwise. Smart is if he changes his own grades and said nothing, Smart Ass is if he changes other peoples grades, therefore he is facing 37 years gaol for being a smart ass.
The moral of the story: No one likes a smart ass.
Because the companies ideally placed to take advantage of these changes and really get a strangle hold on the American economy are Oil Companies. The only way for them to really pillage the American Taxpayer is to be able to speculate on building reactors that are of the "approved design" into the future. The only approved designs are all 'once through' fuel cycle so any discussion about breeder reactors ends here and the discussion about the lack of net energy returns from the nuclear fuel cycle begin.
You have to be pragmatic about this, P.U.C.H.A was put in place to stop America going back into a economic depression. Greed is greed, supporting this will enable the legislative framework to gut the American economy and taxpayer of remaining assets for the next 20 to 30 years.
Please America, you are a technological nation, you can solve your energy needs without nuclear power.
considering the subject of today's slashdot poll .