One really big flaw in your post, there is more then enough oil in other parts of the world to take care of the world's plastic needs. Canada alone could handle the worlds plastic needs for many years. The gulf, Russia, hell even the oil fields near Japan can be used to make plastics.
What eats up the oil most is cars and trucks. Not plastic/rubber.
You had gave some interesting information, but were a little misleading to anyone who isn't familiar with the numbers. The middle east won't become the worlds premium plastics supplier, but even if it did, there would be no wear near the amount of oil needed from the middle east as there is today.
the world stops it's need for oil? We are starting to see many alternatives, natural gas, nuclear, current solar tech, new solar (e.g. nano-solar), fuel-cell, etc. Even harnessing the oceans waves are becoming practical. France already gets about 80% of its energy from Nuke power.
At present the Middle East doesn't do anything but sell oil (http://www.tompeters.com/entries.php?note=006683. php, 270 international patents in 20 years). There are approx. 270 million Arabs in the middle east and the majority living off of oil profit. If things like Britain's initiative spill over into all the world's nations, the Middle East could very quickly loose its primary source of income within the next 20 years. Cars are quickly moving to electric engines wich will feed fuel-cell, and I can't imagine new jet tech is far off. The new scientist has pieces on projects to conserve up to 80% fuel costs.
Since the middle east (for the most part) doesn't make anything, do you think they will turn into a society similar to the warring African nations or step up to the plate and joining the world in creating/innovating?
They are too big to be an mp3 player (ask any athlete), and generally don't come with enough storage for allot of mp3s.
On the flip side, the lack of built in keyboard makes it tough to be an effective organizer for the masses, and lets face it, the web browsers suck for surfing the web.
They have failed because they aren't good enough yet. The PDA phones are getting there, mobile 5 is pretty good, rim does a good job too. But PDA and mp3 players really shouldn't be compared, they are worlds apart.
I probably should have been more specific. I don't believe i'm legally responsible, I believe I created the hole. Legal reasonability comes down to an entire new topic all together.
I think the entire notion of being able to prosecute companies based on faulty code is absurd, but I also don't believe in patents with software. I believe its a copyright issue not a patent issue. Prosecuting someone over faulting code to me is like bringing an author to court because they misspelled a word, or were spreading FUD in their book. The title said it was the best book in the world, and I thought it was second. That said, I've already written about this in other posts.
I'm a developer and errors/holes in my code are my fault. Some, could in theory be the fault of the framework I use, but typically, its mine.
People really over complicate this topic. Nobody is perfect, and people make mistakes. It really doesn't matter what excuse I use (deadlines, bad company decisions, whatever) if its code I wrote, its my fault. Even if I identified the hole and my boss told me to skip it, I still published flawed code. If I was perfect, it would be bullet proof from the get go, and if my team was perfect the same would apply. My boss would never have to tell me to ignore the error/hole, because my UML model was flawless, and my execution of it was flawless.
I think this topic comes up because of one of two things; developers passing the buck, or blogger/writers trying to get some press. The fault is obvious, the solution however is far more difficult, and since humans will create the solutions, chances are it will be flawed too, and the cycle repeats...
Adobe is just looking to take a notch out of MS, not to help Linux. They have publically said they are not afraid of any competitor but MS. Hurting your enemies biggest asset is always a plus for you.
I'm surprises Novell is still around. I haven't had a client choosing to use them in a long long time. I've had some that have legacy novell, but even that was a few years a go.
Any Admins out their choosing to use Novell? If so, what's the selling point for you?
The more big companies get involved in forcing standards, the less the single developer at home has to say about what happens with the OS.
One of the strengths that Linux has is that anyone can write good code and alter the direction. If Money driven corporations start calling shots, then politics come into play, and they start promoting/forcing standards that are advantageous to how they believe the market should be, or standards that work best with their business model.
You falsely equate "free" to "easy". I said nothing about price, although, Visual Studio is not out of range of any serious developer, all I said was it was easy to use then any other platform's tools. More specifically, developing for windows is EASIER then developing for OSX/UNIX, and even you're beloved Linux. So your entire post about cost is irrelevant to the topic right out of the gate, but I'll still respond if you like.
Having developed software for both OSX and Windows, I can personally testify Windows is much easier. In most companies I have consulted with (some the fortune 100) they choose not to support the MAC because the financial return just isn't there. Guess what, they are right. It's a puny Market compared to Windows, and the development costs, QC, and support for another platform is expensive. To expensive when you deal with a puny market unless you are going to get the entire market, and lets face it a product like a typing teacher just doesn't get that kind of saturation.
Oh, and by the way, the XCode tools suite blows. Don't get me wrong, It's a huge leap forward for Apple, but still it isn't great, and certainly can't hold a candle to Visual Studio 2005, or 2003 for that matter. Your implication that it is better proves you are spreading FUD or just intellectually dishonest.
As far as examples and documentation? Are you serious? There are more VB and C# examples on the web then Apple code x 100,000,000, maybe more even. Apple has to open the kernel, it isn't their code. That said, few (almost no) windows applications require kernel code to work properly, and any halfway decent Visual Studio app written will compile to work very well with the windows kernel. Hence my premise, EASY to use tools.
If you use visual studio (I'm guessing you haven't) you will also see the class explorer... try it out, I think you will not only be disappointed that you are wrong, but also surprised. MS gives you the API's for pretty much everything. Visual Studio 2005 actually writes code for you if you like (e.g. connecting to an oracle or sql database).
And any OS maker that encourages the modification of the kernel by mass developers is just plain irresponsible. Even direct access without using the platform's built in (tested) api's is irresponsible. Kernel code is not needed for 99.9% of developers. And the companies that really needed that kind of access can still get it, its just MS doesn't hand it over to any yahoo/hacker that wants it. If you ask me, smart decision.
Too sensitive? nobody complained about your post so I don't understand your last statement about americans being "too sensitive", geesh Amed, bad example anyways.
We have lots of satire on bush, queers, "brown" people, and even a little on the torture. One of our comentators calls gitmo, "Club Gitmo", its quite funny. That said, you mentioned a cartoon, so one cartoon that comes is Family Guy. Personally, i think the show is a riot, and the ratings it pulls in the US suggests I'm not the only one.
even though this has nothing to do with the DNS debate with ICANN and the EU, the media will make it look like the US screwed up things and the internet is down becasue the UN isn't controlling things.
come on, you are being too sensitive. You honestly don't think it would be funny to have, like the other post said, a "Kenny" type character. Maybe one that just randomly popped into a scene in each episode and said something like "praise alah" in a funny voice, and then blew up? Come on, that would be funny.
it is a release, beta 2 is in december. I subscribe to MSDN and it got posted monday. There is suppose to be another pre-beta 2 release in november as well.
Vista is the first time MS is paying attention to graphics (just look at all the "pretty" stuff from transparent windows to screen shots on the taskbar). They are making software improvements across spectrum; Windows Media Player 11, IE 7 has really cool things that even firefox doesn't (e.g. being able to see all tabs at once), the network improvements are awesome (e.g. you can change the order that things are bound to the NIC; IPv6 before IPv4), and tons of other things. They are including spyware/virus tools with Vista so many of the current problems would be caught early. That is if they even can get on th OS, since users aren't running as admins by default.
Most importantly the development tools MS is providing are awesome! Visual Studio 2005 is really easy to use, and very powerful. Anyone who has seen sparkle knows that it's pretty sweet. Before you start screaming flash, you are right, they were first to market, but sparkle is better for developers, much better. Not to mention the 3d rendering tools alone blows flash out of the water.
But, here is why apple should be scared. MS is taking away every reason you should use OSX, with the exception "I hate MS", which Linux can cover. Like it or not, apple has only been able to stay a float because the graphic community has been unflinching behind them, but that is starting to change. XP couldn't support them, Vista can. While the OSX "users" are still backing OSX (for now; the tablet pc is really appealing to creative's because of the pressure sensitivity), traditional Apple developers are starting to stray. Quark is starting to hedge bets on Vista and MS's XML model, take a look at some news articles on their site www.quark.com. Third party software developers have always been Microsoft's strength. Vista has made it really easy for developers, while OSX still isn't.
MS needs one desktop OS competitor to be able to hold off monopoly accusations and say "people have other options", and that is why they haven't gone after Apple's market. Because of Linux Microsoft doesn't need Apple's OS around anymore (remember the 150million they gave apple to stay in business in the late 90's). Because Linux exists MS will now start focusing on apple's market. MS can't kill Linux because it is a hobby OS. For the most part people maintain it for free, on their own time, they are passionate about it, and it's their baby. They won't let it die. OSX on the other hand doesn't have that kind of story. Apple knows this and that is why they are transitioning to Intel, just in case.
I predict OSX won't survive this round with MS and Apple becomes a premium hardware supplier. Say bubye to OSX, I don't see it making it past this decade.
I know I personally have downloaded it a few times, and only use it on 1 machine. Then I've downloaded the betas, and alphas, and well you get it. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Not to take away from the moment, but the implication that 100mil people using it is a bit far fetched.
Ya, you forgot to mention in your "funny" list that we are also the country that brought you the internet. More specifically to your post title; what country offers more freedoms then the US? The socialist nations of the EU certainly don't. Socialism by definition rules itself out. Who? Some tribe in Africa? China? Brazil?
The internet that you are trying to "steal" control over wouldn't exist today without the US, but it would exist today without your nation. It's was our money, businesses, and our citizens that made it what it is today. Others helped, but the overwhelming load was carried by Americans. Starting with our scientists, our pentagon, our MONEY, all the way down to our businesses (e.g. Cisco) and then working its way down to all our citizens building countless sites in the 80's and 90's.
Talk about gratitude; we pay for it (NO TAXES FROM THE US EITHER), we invent it, we build it, we share it with the world, it works great, and we keep it FREE, and jerks like you try and steal it to hand it over to the organization that made Lybia head of human rights.
that some of our politicians have OUR best interest in mind. Its worth noting that as usual, its a republican, while I'm sure Ted Kennedy will be pushing for UN take over... typical and not surprising.
The only real questions that remain to be answered is will Bush back down, and does the EU have the testicular fortitude to follow through with their threat (good luck with France).
You would think with all their resources intel could start to make a chip to compete with AMD.
Its really surprising to think AMD blind-sided intel this badly (multi-core/x64), but I guess they really did. Good for them, and great for us. Once again supply and demand in the free market prevails.
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One really big flaw in your post, there is more then enough oil in other parts of the world to take care of the world's plastic needs. Canada alone could handle the worlds plastic needs for many years. The gulf, Russia, hell even the oil fields near Japan can be used to make plastics.
What eats up the oil most is cars and trucks. Not plastic/rubber.
You had gave some interesting information, but were a little misleading to anyone who isn't familiar with the numbers. The middle east won't become the worlds premium plastics supplier, but even if it did, there would be no wear near the amount of oil needed from the middle east as there is today.
So where does that leave us? At my original post.
the world stops it's need for oil? We are starting to see many alternatives, natural gas, nuclear, current solar tech, new solar (e.g. nano-solar), fuel-cell, etc. Even harnessing the oceans waves are becoming practical. France already gets about 80% of its energy from Nuke power.
. php, 270 international patents in 20 years). There are approx. 270 million Arabs in the middle east and the majority living off of oil profit. If things like Britain's initiative spill over into all the world's nations, the Middle East could very quickly loose its primary source of income within the next 20 years. Cars are quickly moving to electric engines wich will feed fuel-cell, and I can't imagine new jet tech is far off. The new scientist has pieces on projects to conserve up to 80% fuel costs.
At present the Middle East doesn't do anything but sell oil (http://www.tompeters.com/entries.php?note=006683
Since the middle east (for the most part) doesn't make anything, do you think they will turn into a society similar to the warring African nations or step up to the plate and joining the world in creating/innovating?
They are too big to be an mp3 player (ask any athlete), and generally don't come with enough storage for allot of mp3s.
On the flip side, the lack of built in keyboard makes it tough to be an effective organizer for the masses, and lets face it, the web browsers suck for surfing the web.
They have failed because they aren't good enough yet. The PDA phones are getting there, mobile 5 is pretty good, rim does a good job too. But PDA and mp3 players really shouldn't be compared, they are worlds apart.
I probably should have been more specific. I don't believe i'm legally responsible, I believe I created the hole. Legal reasonability comes down to an entire new topic all together.
I think the entire notion of being able to prosecute companies based on faulty code is absurd, but I also don't believe in patents with software. I believe its a copyright issue not a patent issue. Prosecuting someone over faulting code to me is like bringing an author to court because they misspelled a word, or were spreading FUD in their book. The title said it was the best book in the world, and I thought it was second. That said, I've already written about this in other posts.
I'm a developer and errors/holes in my code are my fault. Some, could in theory be the fault of the framework I use, but typically, its mine.
People really over complicate this topic. Nobody is perfect, and people make mistakes. It really doesn't matter what excuse I use (deadlines, bad company decisions, whatever) if its code I wrote, its my fault. Even if I identified the hole and my boss told me to skip it, I still published flawed code. If I was perfect, it would be bullet proof from the get go, and if my team was perfect the same would apply. My boss would never have to tell me to ignore the error/hole, because my UML model was flawless, and my execution of it was flawless.
I think this topic comes up because of one of two things; developers passing the buck, or blogger/writers trying to get some press. The fault is obvious, the solution however is far more difficult, and since humans will create the solutions, chances are it will be flawed too, and the cycle repeats...
Adobe is just looking to take a notch out of MS, not to help Linux. They have publically said they are not afraid of any competitor but MS. Hurting your enemies biggest asset is always a plus for you.
Well Put!
I'm surprises Novell is still around. I haven't had a client choosing to use them in a long long time. I've had some that have legacy novell, but even that was a few years a go.
Any Admins out their choosing to use Novell? If so, what's the selling point for you?
The more big companies get involved in forcing standards, the less the single developer at home has to say about what happens with the OS.
One of the strengths that Linux has is that anyone can write good code and alter the direction. If Money driven corporations start calling shots, then politics come into play, and they start promoting/forcing standards that are advantageous to how they believe the market should be, or standards that work best with their business model.
This is really a wolf in sheep's clothing.
You falsely equate "free" to "easy". I said nothing about price, although, Visual Studio is not out of range of any serious developer, all I said was it was easy to use then any other platform's tools. More specifically, developing for windows is EASIER then developing for OSX/UNIX, and even you're beloved Linux. So your entire post about cost is irrelevant to the topic right out of the gate, but I'll still respond if you like.
Having developed software for both OSX and Windows, I can personally testify Windows is much easier. In most companies I have consulted with (some the fortune 100) they choose not to support the MAC because the financial return just isn't there. Guess what, they are right. It's a puny Market compared to Windows, and the development costs, QC, and support for another platform is expensive. To expensive when you deal with a puny market unless you are going to get the entire market, and lets face it a product like a typing teacher just doesn't get that kind of saturation.
Oh, and by the way, the XCode tools suite blows. Don't get me wrong, It's a huge leap forward for Apple, but still it isn't great, and certainly can't hold a candle to Visual Studio 2005, or 2003 for that matter. Your implication that it is better proves you are spreading FUD or just intellectually dishonest.
As far as examples and documentation? Are you serious? There are more VB and C# examples on the web then Apple code x 100,000,000, maybe more even. Apple has to open the kernel, it isn't their code. That said, few (almost no) windows applications require kernel code to work properly, and any halfway decent Visual Studio app written will compile to work very well with the windows kernel. Hence my premise, EASY to use tools.
If you use visual studio (I'm guessing you haven't) you will also see the class explorer... try it out, I think you will not only be disappointed that you are wrong, but also surprised. MS gives you the API's for pretty much everything. Visual Studio 2005 actually writes code for you if you like (e.g. connecting to an oracle or sql database).
And any OS maker that encourages the modification of the kernel by mass developers is just plain irresponsible. Even direct access without using the platform's built in (tested) api's is irresponsible. Kernel code is not needed for 99.9% of developers. And the companies that really needed that kind of access can still get it, its just MS doesn't hand it over to any yahoo/hacker that wants it. If you ask me, smart decision.
Too sensitive? nobody complained about your post so I don't understand your last statement about americans being "too sensitive", geesh Amed, bad example anyways.
We have lots of satire on bush, queers, "brown" people, and even a little on the torture. One of our comentators calls gitmo, "Club Gitmo", its quite funny. That said, you mentioned a cartoon, so one cartoon that comes is Family Guy. Personally, i think the show is a riot, and the ratings it pulls in the US suggests I'm not the only one.
Nice try though.
even though this has nothing to do with the DNS debate with ICANN and the EU, the media will make it look like the US screwed up things and the internet is down becasue the UN isn't controlling things.
come on, you are being too sensitive. You honestly don't think it would be funny to have, like the other post said, a "Kenny" type character. Maybe one that just randomly popped into a scene in each episode and said something like "praise alah" in a funny voice, and then blew up? Come on, that would be funny.
People are too sensitive these days.
so you are saying homer will fit in then?
is going to ge the character with dynamite strapped to his chest?
This probably explains why you were about to flame me when you saw the title. Its just habbit, anything pro-ms, FLAME!
it is a release, beta 2 is in december. I subscribe to MSDN and it got posted monday. There is suppose to be another pre-beta 2 release in november as well.
Vista is the first time MS is paying attention to graphics (just look at all the "pretty" stuff from transparent windows to screen shots on the taskbar). They are making software improvements across spectrum; Windows Media Player 11, IE 7 has really cool things that even firefox doesn't (e.g. being able to see all tabs at once), the network improvements are awesome (e.g. you can change the order that things are bound to the NIC; IPv6 before IPv4), and tons of other things. They are including spyware/virus tools with Vista so many of the current problems would be caught early. That is if they even can get on th OS, since users aren't running as admins by default.
Most importantly the development tools MS is providing are awesome! Visual Studio 2005 is really easy to use, and very powerful. Anyone who has seen sparkle knows that it's pretty sweet. Before you start screaming flash, you are right, they were first to market, but sparkle is better for developers, much better. Not to mention the 3d rendering tools alone blows flash out of the water.
But, here is why apple should be scared. MS is taking away every reason you should use OSX, with the exception "I hate MS", which Linux can cover. Like it or not, apple has only been able to stay a float because the graphic community has been unflinching behind them, but that is starting to change. XP couldn't support them, Vista can. While the OSX "users" are still backing OSX (for now; the tablet pc is really appealing to creative's because of the pressure sensitivity), traditional Apple developers are starting to stray. Quark is starting to hedge bets on Vista and MS's XML model, take a look at some news articles on their site www.quark.com. Third party software developers have always been Microsoft's strength. Vista has made it really easy for developers, while OSX still isn't.
MS needs one desktop OS competitor to be able to hold off monopoly accusations and say "people have other options", and that is why they haven't gone after Apple's market. Because of Linux Microsoft doesn't need Apple's OS around anymore (remember the 150million they gave apple to stay in business in the late 90's). Because Linux exists MS will now start focusing on apple's market. MS can't kill Linux because it is a hobby OS. For the most part people maintain it for free, on their own time, they are passionate about it, and it's their baby. They won't let it die. OSX on the other hand doesn't have that kind of story. Apple knows this and that is why they are transitioning to Intel, just in case.
I predict OSX won't survive this round with MS and Apple becomes a premium hardware supplier. Say bubye to OSX, I don't see it making it past this decade.
I know I personally have downloaded it a few times, and only use it on 1 machine. Then I've downloaded the betas, and alphas, and well you get it. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Not to take away from the moment, but the implication that 100mil people using it is a bit far fetched.
CISCO equipment routes the majority of the internet, and that is an American company. Go look it up and stop spreading your wishful thinking.
Ya, you forgot to mention in your "funny" list that we are also the country that brought you the internet. More specifically to your post title; what country offers more freedoms then the US? The socialist nations of the EU certainly don't. Socialism by definition rules itself out. Who? Some tribe in Africa? China? Brazil?
The internet that you are trying to "steal" control over wouldn't exist today without the US, but it would exist today without your nation. It's was our money, businesses, and our citizens that made it what it is today. Others helped, but the overwhelming load was carried by Americans. Starting with our scientists, our pentagon, our MONEY, all the way down to our businesses (e.g. Cisco) and then working its way down to all our citizens building countless sites in the 80's and 90's.
Talk about gratitude; we pay for it (NO TAXES FROM THE US EITHER), we invent it, we build it, we share it with the world, it works great, and we keep it FREE, and jerks like you try and steal it to hand it over to the organization that made Lybia head of human rights.
Go to hell asshole.
that some of our politicians have OUR best interest in mind. Its worth noting that as usual, its a republican, while I'm sure Ted Kennedy will be pushing for UN take over... typical and not surprising.
The only real questions that remain to be answered is will Bush back down, and does the EU have the testicular fortitude to follow through with their threat (good luck with France).
You would think with all their resources intel could start to make a chip to compete with AMD.
Its really surprising to think AMD blind-sided intel this badly (multi-core/x64), but I guess they really did. Good for them, and great for us. Once again supply and demand in the free market prevails.
Just imagine when this is a higher resolution and you can hang the sheet on your wall as a tv. so many possibilities.
Stuff like this is really a shot across the bow of apple.