Rather than expecting Microsoft to blow money on an unattractive niche, how about WINE? WINE seems to be dead set on emulating Windows circa 1996...maybe you could consider it a fork of Win95.
Languages are not "prone to bugs". A bug is a failure of the programmer to correctly express their intention in code. Some languages are harder to express yourself in, which appears as being prone to bugs, but that's a social/human issue, not a CS issue.
I can't agree with that Reagan assertion. He has the same fiscal policy as Bush, i.e., cut taxes, borrow, spend like crazy, run up a massive debt. That's not fiscal conservatism, that's plain irresponsibility.
The big difference is that Reagan spent on programs that "trickled down" to the middle class by hiring a lot of technical people. Bush's policies don't do this. Getting money to the middle class is guaranteed to make a country prosper, which is why Reagan's approach seemed to work. For a little while.
Or maybe gold will remain high while the dollar plummets like a rock. Why doesn't the rest of the world yet realize that the US produces little to no value? When that realization hits, so does the massive dollar inflation. Right now, China and others are doing what they can to prevent a catastrophic dollar collapse, but it will come. My four signs of the apocalypse are: 1) China floats the yuan, 2) gold skyrockets, 3) petrodollars become petro-euros, 4) US defaults on foreign debt. 2 is happening now (assuming it isn't caused by certain folks trying to corner the market, like last time). 1 is slowly happening. 3 is being bandied about quietly. 4 will be a consequence of the hyperinflation that is coming (and profligate spending by the "conservatives"). Maybe I'm just paranoid...actually, I'm hoping the US hits a severe depression, maybe we'll have a long overdue revolution.
"...we'll fight them at the routers, we'll fight them on the backbone, we'll fight them at the ISP, we'll fight them at the firewall; we shall never surrender."
Once you have the small, simple components, you usually have to put them together to do what you want. Thus arises complexity. Modular code design (such as structured programming and object-oriented programming) attempts to keep with the concept of having smallish subroutines that are easy to understand and debug. I think anyone who's ever programmed more than
void main() { printf("Hello world!\n"); }
knows that in reality you end up with myriad small components floating in a sea of complexity.
Gonzales is the same clown who thinks torture and wiretaps are all perfectly legal. He must have skipped the class on the Constitution at law school. He probably cheated on his Ethics final, too.
I'm sorry, market justifications for naked greed don't wash. Remember the hostile takeovers in the '80s? Perfectly viable companies were bought, ransacked, people laid off, and materiel sold for scrap to make a few people rich, simply because the stock market capitalization of the companies was lower than their actual value. You could argue that this ultimately resulted in a correction to market capitalization values, but by any objective standard it was bad, bad, bad for the economy, the country, and the human race as a whole. CEOs making obscene amounts of money happens because of a nouveau aristocracy disconnected from the greater society gets to make decisions that benefit themselves exclusively, not because they provide any kind of value to said society. It's time to take back the ill-gotten wealth, in my opinion, and by force.
From what I gather, there are only 3 practically usable channels (1, 6, 11), it has an inefficient collision avoidance method, its bridging capability causes exponential bandwidth decay with the number of hops, and it uses open frequencies that are also used by wireless phones, etc., thus being susceptible to interference.
Just give us fiber to the home already. We've already paid for it in the form of tax breaks to the telcos.
More to the point, do they need Google when people can just type "http://ch.harvard.edu" or some such?
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One of the relatively new theses about human evolution states that man becoming upright was directly related to increased cooling of the brain, which permitted it to enlarge. Placing it in the chest would tend to remove that cooling capability. IIRC, the brain consumes over 10% of blood oxygen with only 2% of the body mass, meaning like a CPU, it's gonna run hot. Also, since big brains are such a turn-on to the ladies, our noggin has to be readily presentable for mating rituals. Uh, I may have made up that last part.
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It could just be that Mac users are damn dirty hippies.
What a gross approximation. It's closer to 365.24.
Unpublished encryption algorithms aren't.
Rather than expecting Microsoft to blow money on an unattractive niche, how about WINE? WINE seems to be dead set on emulating Windows circa 1996...maybe you could consider it a fork of Win95.
Yes! Finally a good use for trademarking/copyrighting/patenting. Now maybe people can call it "client-side DOM scripting" AKA "browser abuse".
If the shit is giving off heat, maybe we could, you know, HARNESS IT TO MAKE POWER??? Stupid nuclear scientists...
Languages are not "prone to bugs". A bug is a failure of the programmer to correctly express their intention in code. Some languages are harder to express yourself in, which appears as being prone to bugs, but that's a social/human issue, not a CS issue.
The only thing they need to "get" as a corporation is big fat wads of money, and boy do they ever.
I can't agree with that Reagan assertion. He has the same fiscal policy as Bush, i.e., cut taxes, borrow, spend like crazy, run up a massive debt. That's not fiscal conservatism, that's plain irresponsibility.
The big difference is that Reagan spent on programs that "trickled down" to the middle class by hiring a lot of technical people. Bush's policies don't do this. Getting money to the middle class is guaranteed to make a country prosper, which is why Reagan's approach seemed to work. For a little while.
Just jackrabbit your starts to the west, and let the engine brake you going east. Do your part to stop global slowing!
Or maybe gold will remain high while the dollar plummets like a rock. Why doesn't the rest of the world yet realize that the US produces little to no value? When that realization hits, so does the massive dollar inflation. Right now, China and others are doing what they can to prevent a catastrophic dollar collapse, but it will come. My four signs of the apocalypse are: 1) China floats the yuan, 2) gold skyrockets, 3) petrodollars become petro-euros, 4) US defaults on foreign debt. 2 is happening now (assuming it isn't caused by certain folks trying to corner the market, like last time). 1 is slowly happening. 3 is being bandied about quietly. 4 will be a consequence of the hyperinflation that is coming (and profligate spending by the "conservatives"). Maybe I'm just paranoid...actually, I'm hoping the US hits a severe depression, maybe we'll have a long overdue revolution.
Fewel, my halting problem solver shows your program to be defective! And no, you can't have my source code.
"...we'll fight them at the routers, we'll fight them on the backbone, we'll fight them at the ISP, we'll fight them at the firewall; we shall never surrender."
Gonzales is the same clown who thinks torture and wiretaps are all perfectly legal. He must have skipped the class on the Constitution at law school. He probably cheated on his Ethics final, too.
Missing step:
2) Rub vigorously against perineal region.
Because "the man" makes the rules. Duh.
I'm sorry, market justifications for naked greed don't wash. Remember the hostile takeovers in the '80s? Perfectly viable companies were bought, ransacked, people laid off, and materiel sold for scrap to make a few people rich, simply because the stock market capitalization of the companies was lower than their actual value. You could argue that this ultimately resulted in a correction to market capitalization values, but by any objective standard it was bad, bad, bad for the economy, the country, and the human race as a whole. CEOs making obscene amounts of money happens because of a nouveau aristocracy disconnected from the greater society gets to make decisions that benefit themselves exclusively, not because they provide any kind of value to said society. It's time to take back the ill-gotten wealth, in my opinion, and by force.
From what I gather, there are only 3 practically usable channels (1, 6, 11), it has an inefficient collision avoidance method, its bridging capability causes exponential bandwidth decay with the number of hops, and it uses open frequencies that are also used by wireless phones, etc., thus being susceptible to interference.
Just give us fiber to the home already. We've already paid for it in the form of tax breaks to the telcos.
More to the point, do they need Google when people can just type "http://ch.harvard.edu" or some such?
One of the relatively new theses about human evolution states that man becoming upright was directly related to increased cooling of the brain, which permitted it to enlarge. Placing it in the chest would tend to remove that cooling capability. IIRC, the brain consumes over 10% of blood oxygen with only 2% of the body mass, meaning like a CPU, it's gonna run hot. Also, since big brains are such a turn-on to the ladies, our noggin has to be readily presentable for mating rituals. Uh, I may have made up that last part.
I disagree. Bush is extremely concerned about privacy rights--for the Executive Branch.
Nothing like a good lambasting to make it look like you care without actually doing anything.
Broken? It shouldn't even exist. It's like claiming the spawn of Cthulhu is born deformed.
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