Your correct in saying that the Japanese invasion in the 30s didn't help much, neither did the war with them at the start of the century. However, "a few hundred years at least" is incorrect. The main goal of european exploration was always getting to China (think Marco Polo, Columbus etc.) since it has historically been the largest economy in the world. They held this position well into the 19th century. In the mid 19th century, the British fought them in the Opium wars to ensure that their silver would flow to India, which in turn meant that India could buy textiles from the UK. It wasn't until the flow of silver from South America's mines to China by way of the USA was stopped that the Chinese economy flopped (late 19th) and a period of stagflation/deflation occurred, which was further compounded by the Great Depression). So, in conclusion, Mao forgot that basic adage "its the economy stupid" but wasn't the cause of China's fall from the dizzying heights of the previous 25 centuries. A good essay on the subject is http://www.rrojasdatabank.org/agfrank/reorient_19c .doc. Don't be put off by the fact that he's a lefty, I learned this in a capitalist running dog Economics School.
Another consideration to take into account is that the destination star also exerts a gravitional pull on the space craft, so you may not be able to stop at all (most likely to occur if your navigation system uses both S.I. and Imperial measurements)
In other words, american scientists are hopelessly behind in genetic research, and will soon require 'wizards' to aid them in becoming the 'high priests' of science once again.
oh well, maybe a few VCs and a PR firm will make a few bob out of this
Because with Microsoft, you get a 3 year road map. A single entity is in control of where the technology is headed and where it'll be in a few years.
How long will it be until the PR Hacks in Redmond start selling the idea of an Improved and Extended roadmap to offer customers the ability to Future Proof their new PCs?.
As an aside, one way of future proofing your PC is by installing Windows, since they never seem to release anything worthy of upgrading to.
Ive just bought a lifetime supply of snake oil from an email advert i got, now they come out with FLYING Snake Oil! Sheesh and i thought M$ forced updates were bad.....
What youre saying is that, if linux costs nothing, and can drive HP/IBM/Sun out of business, then M$ can collect a larger share of the total total enterprise software budget.
I have to disagree here, and say that its not the software that people value, but the service that goes with it. Even if the software is freely available, business customers will still require a support service, training facilities etc. Linux may well drive out the proprietary *nixes completely, and some of the enterprise software that goes with it, hence we see IBM offering entire 'solutions' based on OSS. I dont see Linux being IBM/HP/Sun's enterprise software business downfall, theyll just adapt to the new environment.
lol, ive got a similar theory in that any 3 randomly chosen british people, placed in a randomly selected pub (location unimportant) will discuss "The War" within 30 minutes. since conceived, there has been much quantitative data to support this theory.
The company is expecting further debate on the issue, it said, even going to the extent of forecasting typical counter-arguments to the TCP/IP changes. One example cited was "worms/viruses can just install a kernel-mode driver that would still allow denial-of-service attacks to be carried out."
It also pointed out that "writing and installing kernel-mode code is vastly more complicated" than using an existing raw socket feature, and that if malware did make it into the kernel of a Windows machine, the user would have more serious concerns than just SYN attacks launched from their machines.
i guess the MS position on this is that installing a kernel-mode virus will require a reboot to load properly, and since longhorn will be ultra-super-stable (TM) this will not be an issue, since their new virus scanning/spam hunting "solutions" will catch such wild code before a pc is rebooted. in other words, move along folks, nothing to see here...
true, there have been a number of these type of things popping up lately. bands releasing free ring tones (wow) or a few tracks as free mp3s (omfg) seem to be used as hype, but i think its a bit too easy to be overly critical of such events.
as for the remixing point you make, a look at the charts shows that just about any song lends itself to a cheesy dance remix:P
a step in the right direction, although until its possible to make a 'remix' that fully complies with current and/or future drm methods (ie you can remix the track but only with the soundbites we provide, not those of other tracks), i doubt this should be seen as a sign of things to come.
About 50 posts and nobody has suggested the possibility that M$ could have paid off Bitkeeper in a move to "hurt" linux, has everyone left their conspiracy hats at home today?
i agree though, reporters need a few classes on statistical methods and sampling methods, far too often they seem to be impressed enough by someone who can calculate a standard deviation so that theyll believe anything he/she says.
True, but the model of new hits at top $$ and the rest at bargain basement prices will never happen. For one, the record companies love the margins they get on rereleases. We see this in the following model:
1. award dead artist lots of grammies 2.... 3. profit!
furthermore, $0.05 tracks will crowd out demand for the latest/greatest (cough) "artists", without whom the advertising revenue stream would dry up. (This is speculation, but i believe that it would be demonstrable that, at $0.50/lp vs. $9.99, that vanilla ice album is looking pretty darned good)
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Your correct in saying that the Japanese invasion in the 30s didn't help much, neither did the war with them at the start of the century. However, "a few hundred years at least" is incorrect. The main goal of european exploration was always getting to China (think Marco Polo, Columbus etc.) since it has historically been the largest economy in the world. They held this position well into the 19th century. In the mid 19th century, the British fought them in the Opium wars to ensure that their silver would flow to India, which in turn meant that India could buy textiles from the UK. It wasn't until the flow of silver from South America's mines to China by way of the USA was stopped that the Chinese economy flopped (late 19th) and a period of stagflation/deflation occurred, which was further compounded by the Great Depression). So, in conclusion, Mao forgot that basic adage "its the economy stupid" but wasn't the cause of China's fall from the dizzying heights of the previous 25 centuries. A good essay on the subject is http://www.rrojasdatabank.org/agfrank/reorient_19c .doc. Don't be put off by the fact that he's a lefty, I learned this in a capitalist running dog Economics School.
Seeing as Bushy is from the Lone Star state, I bet it's a rasberry jammer.
That its not prone to crashing!
In all fairness, the blurb is wrong, the prog is called Columba, sans i.
Another consideration to take into account is that the destination star also exerts a gravitional pull on the space craft, so you may not be able to stop at all (most likely to occur if your navigation system uses both S.I. and Imperial measurements)
In other words, american scientists are hopelessly behind in genetic research, and will soon require 'wizards' to aid them in becoming the 'high priests' of science once again.
oh well, maybe a few VCs and a PR firm will make a few bob out of this
close, but not quite (as usual). theyre working on a new shell for longhorn called monad.
see Monad Shell (MSH) and Coming Soon to Windows: The Microsoft Shell (MSH)Agreed, so here's a 'me too' post.
In addition, to quote:
How long will it be until the PR Hacks in Redmond start selling the idea of an Improved and Extended roadmap to offer customers the ability to Future Proof their new PCs?.
As an aside, one way of future proofing your PC is by installing Windows, since they never seem to release anything worthy of upgrading to.
I bet this was posted by a norwegian troll like these:
http://www.nordskip.com/vestfold/images/trolls.jpIve just bought a lifetime supply of snake oil from an email advert i got, now they come out with FLYING Snake Oil! Sheesh and i thought M$ forced updates were bad.....
Way to go Yossarian!
What youre saying is that, if linux costs nothing, and can drive HP/IBM/Sun out of business, then M$ can collect a larger share of the total total enterprise software budget.
I have to disagree here, and say that its not the software that people value, but the service that goes with it. Even if the software is freely available, business customers will still require a support service, training facilities etc. Linux may well drive out the proprietary *nixes completely, and some of the enterprise software that goes with it, hence we see IBM offering entire 'solutions' based on OSS. I dont see Linux being IBM/HP/Sun's enterprise software business downfall, theyll just adapt to the new environment.
lol, ive got a similar theory in that any 3 randomly chosen british people, placed in a randomly selected pub (location unimportant) will discuss "The War" within 30 minutes. since conceived, there has been much quantitative data to support this theory.
this had better not be a rent-a-quote!
The company is expecting further debate on the issue, it said, even going to the extent of forecasting typical counter-arguments to the TCP/IP changes. One example cited was "worms/viruses can just install a kernel-mode driver that would still allow denial-of-service attacks to be carried out."
It also pointed out that "writing and installing kernel-mode code is vastly more complicated" than using an existing raw socket feature, and that if malware did make it into the kernel of a Windows machine, the user would have more serious concerns than just SYN attacks launched from their machines.
i guess the MS position on this is that installing a kernel-mode virus will require a reboot to load properly, and since longhorn will be ultra-super-stable (TM) this will not be an issue, since their new virus scanning/spam hunting "solutions" will catch such wild code before a pc is rebooted. in other words, move along folks, nothing to see here...
So much for the french never winning any significant victories. Vive la France!
true, there have been a number of these type of things popping up lately. bands releasing free ring tones (wow) or a few tracks as free mp3s (omfg) seem to be used as hype, but i think its a bit too easy to be overly critical of such events. as for the remixing point you make, a look at the charts shows that just about any song lends itself to a cheesy dance remix :P
a step in the right direction, although until its possible to make a 'remix' that fully complies with current and/or future drm methods (ie you can remix the track but only with the soundbites we provide, not those of other tracks), i doubt this should be seen as a sign of things to come.
phew, good thing we dont need to GET permission to GIVE permission
About 50 posts and nobody has suggested the possibility that M$ could have paid off Bitkeeper in a move to "hurt" linux, has everyone left their conspiracy hats at home today?
The killer app will be surfing for pr0n at work safely, since you wont be using your work internet connection. hooray for progress! ABCC
the "survey" is here: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/surveys/040213_Lin ux.htm
looks more like market research than a TCO study to me. questions are ostensibly answered by w2k readers : http://www.w2knews.com/index.cfm?id=463
i agree though, reporters need a few classes on statistical methods and sampling methods, far too often they seem to be impressed enough by someone who can calculate a standard deviation so that theyll believe anything he/she says.
A good use for this sort of thing is letting normal users onto a pc without making a mess of it, think:
"Xen and the art of computer maintanance"
True, but the model of new hits at top $$ and the rest at bargain basement prices will never happen. For one, the record companies love the margins they get on rereleases. We see this in the following model:
...
1. award dead artist lots of grammies
2.
3. profit!
furthermore, $0.05 tracks will crowd out demand for the latest/greatest (cough) "artists", without whom the advertising revenue stream would dry up.
(This is speculation, but i believe that it would be demonstrable that, at $0.50/lp vs. $9.99, that vanilla ice album is looking pretty darned good)