And probably anal retentive dweebs really care about that distinction. People using hear "you can connect to a wifi network all over the city" and think "Super Wifi, that totally makes sense".
This seems about as meaningful a thing to get upset about as the fact that "hacker" now means "malicious hacker/cracker" to most people. Quick, call in the pedantic nerds!
It contains a brief admission that they're actually using it in conjunction with... you guessed it..wifi. So the solution they're rolling out first literally uses wifi. It acts as basically an extender to provide...wifi. I shall dub it "Super Wifi".
Granted they probably won't always use this topology, but my bet is it will be very popular. So literally it provides extended range wifi. What the fuck is this guy in the article on about, exactly, then?
Lol, Active Directoy is hard core industrial strength and runs many of the largest companies in the world day in and day out with insane reliability. You just don't know what you're doing, that's all. It's OK; computers are hard.
So what. If companies don't get paid for their research they stop researching, and this shit is _insanely_ expensive to develop. And good fucking luck when they move to genetic therapy treatments that can't be easily copied. Or they develop treatments using nanoparticles or some shit that can't cheapy be copied. Then they give a big "OK, fuck you" and don't sell at all to these countries because they copy their shit.
The US and other countries pay the highest costs on these drugs to subsidize the third world, plus charities like this make up the difference.
You are an idiot, I'm so tired of morons putting forth this argument. Charitable donations in almost no cases benefit you financially, and certainly not in Gates' case. Let's say for the sake of argument he made $800m this year (I have absolutely no idea, this is just an example). He just donated $750m. So he only pays taxes on $50m, let's say for the sake of argument he pays $20m in taxes. Without it, he pays let's say $350m. Let's say his net worth is $50b.
With charity giving: His net worth is now $50b+$30m.
Without charity: His net worth is now $50b+$450m
Now please explain, dimwit, how he is benefiting financially from this?
No civilized world would enforce "equality" in accomplishment. It would enforce equal treatment under the law, and that's it. We _do_ have problems in that space, but not as bad as the whiners would have us believe.
Wait, you didn't actually buy all that drivel they told you when you were 5 and they told you "Oooh, your imaginaaaation can solve anything!", did you? I don't know how else to say this - you sound silly.
You obviously don't remember the Ugandan genocide Microsoft perpetrated back in ought'6, do you? Where they murdered 50000 Ugandans to milk their blood to use as ink in Microsoft Windows OEM cases?
That is the most angry, neckbeardy dweeb drivel I've ready today. Are you serious, or are you just playing a caricature of "Out of touch Angry dweeb who thinks Operating systems are OMGSuperImportant" things and his pathetic little hobby has made him embarrassingly even to other neckbeard dweebs?
Have you seen Nintendo's financials? They are in trouble, which is why they need to develop a new console asap. How long did the Wii last compared to the Xbox or PS3, can you remind me?
Wow, you still don't get it. It crashed and burned. Have you seen Nintendo's financials? They are _hemorrhaging_ money. Sony and Microsoft are still selling well, Nintendo is dead in the water unless they come out with a new one quickly.
They better come out with this quick. It's amazing how quickly they crashed and burned with the Wii. This is what I call an "I told you so" post.
It seems like only a year ago (and it probably was) when any time you said the Wii was in trouble someone would come and tell you how wrong you are and that the Wii is "totally pwning Xbox and PS3". I think anyone could see the trouble was heading to within 1 year of the Wii coming out, but nooooooo. "Oh, you don't know how much the Wii is dominating Xbox/PS3!".
Well, no - it wasn't. It was selling at a small profit for Nintendo but nobody was buying very many games. It was old technology, it looks like crap. It was a gimmick that flashed brightly for a while because of the innovative controller, then it died almost as quickly.
Nintendo needs the U _now_ and they need it to be ~25% more powerful than current generation gaming consoles. I wish them well, I think 3 major platforms is perfect and want them to stick around but I was a bit annoyed by the blinders people had regarding the Wii.
Want to bet? What if I write a C code generator that simply spits out its own code at the top of the generated C file (commented)? What about a code generate that emits predefined functions that I wrote?
Oh no, it has an "opoly" on it, that must mean it's bad, right? I heard some companies have a (play dramatic music)...pentacontagoly! Can you believe that shit, only 50 choices I mean what an affront to we, the people!
So the big idea is to use...ebooks to distribute..books? Oh, wait "textbooks". I forgot those are _totally_ not books.
I hope Apple patented this idea, because it sure is earth shattering. I mean who would have thought one could not only distribute books but _textbooks_ electronically. Genius, I tell you! How did Apple develop the brilliant insight to invent this?!
No, seriously. WTF? This is some big idea? I assumed the reason textbooks are still largely physical is because of the scam publishers and schools use to change one or two words and call it a new "edition" every year? What new technology is Apple providing that didn't exist 5 years ago?
Be prepared for various ridiculous slippery slope arguments. And those are the _smart_ ones. The others just blather about Jebus.
"But, Durr, next thingem yous know thems quars is havin' sex withs the dogs! Or dead peeoplez! I mean, is you does wunt people having sex with the's dogs ya sado-mite!?!"
I love your cloistered neckbeard delusions. Microsoft has the money to hire the best talent and they have done so. But you just go on thinking whatever you want to think.
No they aren't. Microsoft has some of the best programmers in the world. There are very few "horrid code practices" that don't fit in some situations. I think the problem is, for example, that early programming courses drilled "don't use goto" into people's heads because it's a good shorthand rule and easier to explain than the real cases where goto might be used. Now everybody has this idea that goto should never be used, which is nonsense. It's in the language for a reason.
It's kind of like food. People rant about happy meals, or Paula Dean advocating fatty foods. Happy meals aren't unhealthy and neither are bacon-butter brownies. They are unhealthy when eaten too often. Eating a happy meal once a month isn't bad for you.
It actually is, and I don't know why you're sputtering - you can just go back and edit the text to remove the "but, but..." sputter, you know.
Basically it being copyrighted has generated wealth. People have decided that they are willing to do work for 2 minutes or 10 minutes or even an hour to earn the money to pay to see that video. It has generated real work, and people wanting to work to buy something is what spins the wheels of the economy.
Not that's I'd grant copyrights like that anyway, just that it's not a black and white situation where you can argue it's entirely useless and evil to allow someone to "own" a piece of American history like that.
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This time it's Obama, though. He's different. He makes people feel good about themselves for voting for him, so he can't possibly be a warmongerer.
"Lusers". How...contemporary. I like how you're not at all embarrassed by your throwback behavior though. You're a real tiger!
Uhh, touche. Totally dude.
And probably anal retentive dweebs really care about that distinction. People using hear "you can connect to a wifi network all over the city" and think "Super Wifi, that totally makes sense".
This seems about as meaningful a thing to get upset about as the fact that "hacker" now means "malicious hacker/cracker" to most people. Quick, call in the pedantic nerds!
It contains a brief admission that they're actually using it in conjunction with... you guessed it..wifi. So the solution they're rolling out first literally uses wifi. It acts as basically an extender to provide...wifi. I shall dub it "Super Wifi".
Granted they probably won't always use this topology, but my bet is it will be very popular. So literally it provides extended range wifi. What the fuck is this guy in the article on about, exactly, then?
Lol, Active Directoy is hard core industrial strength and runs many of the largest companies in the world day in and day out with insane reliability. You just don't know what you're doing, that's all. It's OK; computers are hard.
So what. If companies don't get paid for their research they stop researching, and this shit is _insanely_ expensive to develop. And good fucking luck when they move to genetic therapy treatments that can't be easily copied. Or they develop treatments using nanoparticles or some shit that can't cheapy be copied. Then they give a big "OK, fuck you" and don't sell at all to these countries because they copy their shit.
The US and other countries pay the highest costs on these drugs to subsidize the third world, plus charities like this make up the difference.
You are an idiot, I'm so tired of morons putting forth this argument. Charitable donations in almost no cases benefit you financially, and certainly not in Gates' case. Let's say for the sake of argument he made $800m this year (I have absolutely no idea, this is just an example). He just donated $750m. So he only pays taxes on $50m, let's say for the sake of argument he pays $20m in taxes. Without it, he pays let's say $350m. Let's say his net worth is $50b.
With charity giving: His net worth is now $50b+$30m.
Without charity: His net worth is now $50b+$450m
Now please explain, dimwit, how he is benefiting financially from this?
No civilized world would enforce "equality" in accomplishment. It would enforce equal treatment under the law, and that's it. We _do_ have problems in that space, but not as bad as the whiners would have us believe.
Wait, you didn't actually buy all that drivel they told you when you were 5 and they told you "Oooh, your imaginaaaation can solve anything!", did you? I don't know how else to say this - you sound silly.
You obviously don't remember the Ugandan genocide Microsoft perpetrated back in ought'6, do you? Where they murdered 50000 Ugandans to milk their blood to use as ink in Microsoft Windows OEM cases?
That is the most angry, neckbeardy dweeb drivel I've ready today. Are you serious, or are you just playing a caricature of "Out of touch Angry dweeb who thinks Operating systems are OMGSuperImportant" things and his pathetic little hobby has made him embarrassingly even to other neckbeard dweebs?
No, it means Nintendos financials are crashing and burning because, among other things, the Wii isn't make them shit for money.
Have you seen Nintendo's financials? They are in trouble, which is why they need to develop a new console asap. How long did the Wii last compared to the Xbox or PS3, can you remind me?
Wow, you still don't get it. It crashed and burned. Have you seen Nintendo's financials? They are _hemorrhaging_ money. Sony and Microsoft are still selling well, Nintendo is dead in the water unless they come out with a new one quickly.
They better come out with this quick. It's amazing how quickly they crashed and burned with the Wii. This is what I call an "I told you so" post.
It seems like only a year ago (and it probably was) when any time you said the Wii was in trouble someone would come and tell you how wrong you are and that the Wii is "totally pwning Xbox and PS3". I think anyone could see the trouble was heading to within 1 year of the Wii coming out, but nooooooo. "Oh, you don't know how much the Wii is dominating Xbox/PS3!".
Well, no - it wasn't. It was selling at a small profit for Nintendo but nobody was buying very many games. It was old technology, it looks like crap. It was a gimmick that flashed brightly for a while because of the innovative controller, then it died almost as quickly.
Nintendo needs the U _now_ and they need it to be ~25% more powerful than current generation gaming consoles. I wish them well, I think 3 major platforms is perfect and want them to stick around but I was a bit annoyed by the blinders people had regarding the Wii.
Want to bet? What if I write a C code generator that simply spits out its own code at the top of the generated C file (commented)? What about a code generate that emits predefined functions that I wrote?
Oh no, it has an "opoly" on it, that must mean it's bad, right? I heard some companies have a (play dramatic music)...pentacontagoly! Can you believe that shit, only 50 choices I mean what an affront to we, the people!
No choice? How dramatic. I wonder how many markets AT&T is exclusive in. Even then, people lived fine before data plans and 3g data.
So the big idea is to use...ebooks to distribute..books? Oh, wait "textbooks". I forgot those are _totally_ not books.
I hope Apple patented this idea, because it sure is earth shattering. I mean who would have thought one could not only distribute books but _textbooks_ electronically. Genius, I tell you! How did Apple develop the brilliant insight to invent this?!
No, seriously. WTF? This is some big idea? I assumed the reason textbooks are still largely physical is because of the scam publishers and schools use to change one or two words and call it a new "edition" every year? What new technology is Apple providing that didn't exist 5 years ago?
Be prepared for various ridiculous slippery slope arguments. And those are the _smart_ ones. The others just blather about Jebus.
"But, Durr, next thingem yous know thems quars is havin' sex withs the dogs! Or dead peeoplez! I mean, is you does wunt people having sex with the's dogs ya sado-mite!?!"
I love your cloistered neckbeard delusions. Microsoft has the money to hire the best talent and they have done so. But you just go on thinking whatever you want to think.
No they aren't. Microsoft has some of the best programmers in the world. There are very few "horrid code practices" that don't fit in some situations. I think the problem is, for example, that early programming courses drilled "don't use goto" into people's heads because it's a good shorthand rule and easier to explain than the real cases where goto might be used. Now everybody has this idea that goto should never be used, which is nonsense. It's in the language for a reason.
It's kind of like food. People rant about happy meals, or Paula Dean advocating fatty foods. Happy meals aren't unhealthy and neither are bacon-butter brownies. They are unhealthy when eaten too often. Eating a happy meal once a month isn't bad for you.
Considering they're second..or third..or maybe fourth fiddle in the Ebook game.
It actually is, and I don't know why you're sputtering - you can just go back and edit the text to remove the "but, but..." sputter, you know.
Basically it being copyrighted has generated wealth. People have decided that they are willing to do work for 2 minutes or 10 minutes or even an hour to earn the money to pay to see that video. It has generated real work, and people wanting to work to buy something is what spins the wheels of the economy.
Not that's I'd grant copyrights like that anyway, just that it's not a black and white situation where you can argue it's entirely useless and evil to allow someone to "own" a piece of American history like that.