Think of it in these terms. Electricity is being used to transmit 1 and 0s inside a circuit. We can only do so much to make the conductivity less resistant, so we need to shorten the distance between gates. The less distance an electrical signal has to travel, you can increase the number of operations that are performed in the same amount of time.
2011... You upgrade your computer with a quantum chip and use unbreakable encryption.
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2012... They are *$(*#ed and you WIN! All Internet is now encrypted and unbreakable and everyone has multi-terabyte hard drives and multi-hundred Megabit or gigabit speeds to home.
Nothing is unbreakable. If a human created it, it has weakness. This may sound fatalistic, but it's the sad reality. It's an arms race for sure, and winning may involve keeping something secret for a determined finite amount of time, but in the end if there's a trace left, it can be solved.
Truly. The real thesis of 1984 is not the constant supervision of the people, but the twisting of thought by language. The concept of Newspeak is quite interesting because it erodes people's perceptions of something that is intrinsically bad, but twists it to seem, if not completely opposite, but neutral to the communication at hand.
The constant vigilance of Big Brother was only to ensure that those who even hinted at seeing past Newspeak and the overall deception were properly dealt with.
I don't even want to buy the disc itself. $30 for a move is outrageous! I prefer not to buy the DVDs until they get to *at least* the sub $15 dollar range. I even find great joy in picking up a DVD for $7.50--the cost of a single movie ticket at the theater!
When I was young my parents stopped shopping at a store that used those free 'discount' cards. My father's reasoning was that if they really wanted to give him a discount, they wouldn't require him to have a card to do it.
When I was in college the local grocery store stopped using the blasted things because roommates would barrow each others cards, skewing the data they were trying to collect. Serves them right.
No, I don't believe in those things either. It's nobody's business what am/am not buying, regardless if the government is out to get me or not.
Well, think of it this way. This business model sorts out the good stuff from the usual crap. If you have the momentum to do a self-marketed album, then you're more likely to have been more than just a one-hit-wonder.
Obviously you've never actually been to San Antonio. Yes, the summers are hot, but that's just the summer. The rest of the year enjoys perfect temperatures. If you go west of San Antonio you will notice several wind powered electricity farms up on the bluffs that I-10 courses through. The areas far west of San Antonio benefit from an abundance of continuous wind. Fortunately, it isn't so within San Antonio and the immediate area. It is quite an interesting sight, so yes, we do have electricity.
personally know 3 businesses that are out of business because of adwords shenanigans which Google to this day denies. Sounds like they had a bad business model. The day you become 100% on anyone to supply your business means that any shifts in that supplier mean shifts in business. This is especially true in the search arena where small changes in the algorithm can produce dramatic results.
No-one has a right to be seen. No-one has a right to a successful business model, only the opportunity to have one.
I rent my videos from Redbox.com. I don't rent enough movies to really justify spending on a Netflix subscription and the idea of depending $4.50 on a DVD rental is absolutely preposterous. For $1 + tax I get to watch a DVD--a just price for someone who watches movies as infrequently as I do.
agree on using and implementing the same HTML and CSS standards. What? Never in a million years? OK, there's your answer for fixing/replacing JavaScript.
Nature (if I may anthropomorphize her) has taught us time and time again that she will adapt. Given that this will work, what happens when the virus adapts to 'vibrate' at the same resonance as our cells?
Actually, it would be the Spanish Conquest that would signal the the destruction of the Maya way of life. Nevertheless, having learned K'ekchi', base 20 is still in regular use today, albeit with Spanish encroaching upon the lexicon with every succeeding generation.
The magazines must have DRM! Anyone caught reading a magazine purchased by another must be criminally prosecuted. Don't worry, we have sensors in place to track down multiple readers within 1000 miles of said offense--that includes reading the headlines on the cover!
A NET gain for the customer for purchasing the product (in other words, no matter how objectively "crappy" the product is, the customer will be more satisfied buying the product than not buying it. Sorry to nitpick, but if Apple only netted a single cent after all costs, it still would not sell the product. Typically businesses will analyze the Return On Investment (ROI) within a given period. So, net gain has to be greater than say, investing the money elsewhere or diverting funds to a more lucrative project. Considering that they may get upwards of 40-50% ROI because of the heavy markup and deal with AT&T, this is *definitely* the better deal.
My point is that MS has to keep doing _something_ Without trolling, I could think of a few things:
1. How 'bout delivering a more robust file system, ala Relational FS (or something) so that the OS knows where all files are at all times? Desktop search is a joke. The search is for me, not for the OS.
2. How 'bout making a quantum leap as far as the architecture of the OS itself. Create a VM to support legacy software, but completely do a top/down sweep of the past 27 years. There are still relics from the MS-DOS days still in Vista. Let them die, already!
It seems that MS set out to do much of these things back when Longhorn was conceived, but many were jettisoned so that they could deliver Windows XP Presentation Foundation Edition.
How cool would it be to go on a simulated 2 week vacation to the Bahamas, but only really spend 1 hour running the simulation? That sounds like an awesome plot for a sci-fi movie on Mars. If the Governator wasn't busy with other things I'd make him the star of the show!
that the next biggest market is that from the developing nation. Because the hardware hasn't here to for been available at a cost effective price, no platform has existed for them to put their software. Because someone is solving the hardware problem, they now have a platform from which to run Windows...98. I would laugh to see Vista run on one of those machines.
Sounds like MS needs Rosetta-like interface for emulating legacy win32 system calls. Or hell, businesses can run their legacy code on a friggin' VM...There's no reason to not to stop the past 20 years of insanity. They've got blinkin' lava flow on their hands! They already of a software platform (.NET anyone?) that abstracts the newer code from the OS, c'mon!
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Think of it in these terms. Electricity is being used to transmit 1 and 0s inside a circuit. We can only do so much to make the conductivity less resistant, so we need to shorten the distance between gates. The less distance an electrical signal has to travel, you can increase the number of operations that are performed in the same amount of time.
An even though Microsoft is dead, I'm Still Alive!
Nothing is unbreakable. If a human created it, it has weakness. This may sound fatalistic, but it's the sad reality. It's an arms race for sure, and winning may involve keeping something secret for a determined finite amount of time, but in the end if there's a trace left, it can be solved.
Truly. The real thesis of 1984 is not the constant supervision of the people, but the twisting of thought by language. The concept of Newspeak is quite interesting because it erodes people's perceptions of something that is intrinsically bad, but twists it to seem, if not completely opposite, but neutral to the communication at hand.
The constant vigilance of Big Brother was only to ensure that those who even hinted at seeing past Newspeak and the overall deception were properly dealt with.
I don't even want to buy the disc itself. $30 for a move is outrageous! I prefer not to buy the DVDs until they get to *at least* the sub $15 dollar range. I even find great joy in picking up a DVD for $7.50--the cost of a single movie ticket at the theater!
When I was young my parents stopped shopping at a store that used those free 'discount' cards. My father's reasoning was that if they really wanted to give him a discount, they wouldn't require him to have a card to do it.
When I was in college the local grocery store stopped using the blasted things because roommates would barrow each others cards, skewing the data they were trying to collect. Serves them right.
No, I don't believe in those things either. It's nobody's business what am/am not buying, regardless if the government is out to get me or not.
the law of common decency?
Well, think of it this way. This business model sorts out the good stuff from the usual crap. If you have the momentum to do a self-marketed album, then you're more likely to have been more than just a one-hit-wonder.
Obviously you've never actually been to San Antonio. Yes, the summers are hot, but that's just the summer. The rest of the year enjoys perfect temperatures. If you go west of San Antonio you will notice several wind powered electricity farms up on the bluffs that I-10 courses through. The areas far west of San Antonio benefit from an abundance of continuous wind. Fortunately, it isn't so within San Antonio and the immediate area. It is quite an interesting sight, so yes, we do have electricity.
True, true. Even though I don't watch many movies, for a buck I'm willing to give some a chance that I normally wouldn't.
No-one has a right to be seen. No-one has a right to a successful business model, only the opportunity to have one.
I rent my videos from Redbox.com. I don't rent enough movies to really justify spending on a Netflix subscription and the idea of depending $4.50 on a DVD rental is absolutely preposterous. For $1 + tax I get to watch a DVD--a just price for someone who watches movies as infrequently as I do.
...and no, it doesn't run Linux...but it could.
agree on using and implementing the same HTML and CSS standards. What? Never in a million years? OK, there's your answer for fixing/replacing JavaScript.
Nature (if I may anthropomorphize her) has taught us time and time again that she will adapt. Given that this will work, what happens when the virus adapts to 'vibrate' at the same resonance as our cells?
Actually, it would be the Spanish Conquest that would signal the the destruction of the Maya way of life. Nevertheless, having learned K'ekchi', base 20 is still in regular use today, albeit with Spanish encroaching upon the lexicon with every succeeding generation.
Especially since MS cares more for its application than the OOXML format too. I smell a buy-off.
The magazines must have DRM! Anyone caught reading a magazine purchased by another must be criminally prosecuted. Don't worry, we have sensors in place to track down multiple readers within 1000 miles of said offense--that includes reading the headlines on the cover!
1. How 'bout delivering a more robust file system, ala Relational FS (or something) so that the OS knows where all files are at all times? Desktop search is a joke. The search is for me, not for the OS.
2. How 'bout making a quantum leap as far as the architecture of the OS itself. Create a VM to support legacy software, but completely do a top/down sweep of the past 27 years. There are still relics from the MS-DOS days still in Vista. Let them die, already!
It seems that MS set out to do much of these things back when Longhorn was conceived, but many were jettisoned so that they could deliver Windows XP Presentation Foundation Edition.
that the next biggest market is that from the developing nation. Because the hardware hasn't here to for been available at a cost effective price, no platform has existed for them to put their software. Because someone is solving the hardware problem, they now have a platform from which to run Windows...98. I would laugh to see Vista run on one of those machines.
Sounds like MS needs Rosetta-like interface for emulating legacy win32 system calls. Or hell, businesses can run their legacy code on a friggin' VM...There's no reason to not to stop the past 20 years of insanity. They've got blinkin' lava flow on their hands! They already of a software platform (.NET anyone?) that abstracts the newer code from the OS, c'mon!
Not really. This blog post got me out of Vista quite handily.