Oh yeah. You can become the leading software company in the world with just plain luck. I'm starting a manure company this very moment. Wish me luck so I might become the richest person in the world.
That's just rubbish
They had several brillant ideas. Just because it's obvious now, doesnt mean it was not a brillant idea to begin with.
get your head out of the frickin box and try to realise how they became what they are... best product? in the begging yes, today hardly. but the strategy... brilliant.
What threat? If microsoft was ever scared by linux, it happened some 10 years ago. Really, wake up people... Microsoft runs a company, structered and organized. They may be screw-ups when it comes to innovation, but they got their shit wrapped up pretty damn well. Linux is only the underdog we all learned to love.
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I was joking, but I didn't know that site anyway, so thanks for the tip. Here in Brazil we have a label that publishes all its artists on the internet for free before selling the CD's, to get a feeling about the revenue they might have when going to meatspace. Oh, and by the way, their artists rock. www.tramavirtual.com.br
I'm so glad to hear that not every american is a narcisist self-centered moron.
come on people, even fundamentalists only hate america because they don't produce anthing that can be bought by the ever-so-consumist typical american (and americans had the nasty habit of bombing fundamentalist cottages).
anyway, China needs american buyers, Russia needs american buyers, Europe, Brazil, India, Japan, Australia, Cingapure, S. Korea, all dependent of the mc crap junkies. There is a brazilian saying "you shouldn't spit on the dish you eat". My bet is that stands correct in this case, all the way.
Yeah. Slashdotters forget basic economy like the rest of North Americans. Hurray closed markets... oh wait, I guess not.
If someone needs to explain to you why this is such a dumbass idea, try the cotton or the corn lobby. They will explain how that kind of thinking made americans choose the least efficient bio-fuel. Go sugarcane, go (that was a no-brainer by the way.. sugarcane = sugar = energy for your children AND you car)!
I swear I read it like that as well... But then I saw the Ubuntu in the end of the phrase and tought: naaaah. No OS other then Leopard could be harassing to so many people, and leopards are not that dangerous if you let them be.
go to newgrounds.com and stand corrected. Of course, some ads and a franchise of console games that are not free, but funded by the development and hosting of free games.
I can see a point where the United States becomes a lawsuit-based economy
I think you are already there. And it's not only Patent-related. The "industry" of lawsuits must be one of the pillars of american economy nowadays.. when people start filling suits because they burned their mouth with coffee or are too damn stupid to keep dangerous cleasing products from their three years old son you just know something went real bad. (really, how stupid you must be to be outsmarted by an infant)
I defend the right to bare arms and resolve conflicts like this in duels. Easy, clean and permanent. Lawsuit my ass, duels are the new problem solver. If it worked for guys like eastwood, bronson or ledger (solving matters the painfull way), should work now.
And we could replace judge mathis and the gang for a real life "silverado" every day.
It's not about being peripheral or not, it's about using the best system available. That moves it towards excellency. The only reason you think that ATMs will evolve to voice commands is because you know the problems with the system currently available and you are suggesting a better solution.
That would be really hard if all the atms were shut down simply because people don't want to learn how to use them
like my dutch friend under, I live in a country where people will use the tellers only to pay bills that expired their last day for payment. Everything else is done in the ATMs.
By the way, I live in a 3rd world country. Talk about learning curve for those who can't even buy a computer but use ATM's to pay for their telephone bills.
funny or not, the voting machines here print out automatically all the data inserted, so you can validate the results. The main difference is that the results come in hours, not days or weeks.
like every other sub-developed country, we have international delegates that watch over the elections looking for scams and irregularities. Funny, but we will always have a bigger problem dealing with bullying and bought votes than with the voting machine
may I recall you all about the 2000 fiasco that was bush x gore, relying on the good and old pen and paper.
Americans can't be blamed. They can't even use the metric system, let alone an ATM. I think we should level everything from the bottom as you sugested. Ban those ATM's, Tivos, smart appliances, advanced calculus, e-commerce and cell phones until everyone learns how to use themm
of course, if banks halved the number of tellers, many people would have to LEARN how to use an ATM. That's a nice tought... learning.
what we are saying in all of this is that election frauds were made easier, not created by eletronic voting.
that's a huge difference when considering keep on improving the systems or just abandoning them. Hell, i still use my bank internet account and rely on the web for most of my transactions and purchases. Those were once accounted as doomed by hacking, but experience has proven that a controlled environment can be created even in a flooded swamp.
We've been using voting machines in Brazil for quite some time now, always with satisfatory results
that makes me wonder: how hard is it to hack a piece of paper and a pen? if you have the means and a set objective, you can "hack" anything. And you don't even need a computer to do so.
Wait, what? You can actually use other OS's? So Internet Explorer is to Windows as the default ac is to my car?
If I don't like that ac, I could buy another car.. or sue the auto maker for not giving me other option except their ac.
Posts like this make me giddy. I usually forget how much people hate the best player. Netscape was a joke; a far better browser, no questions there. Still, trying to sell a whopper on every mc donnalds in the country is just pushing it too damn hard if you asking me.
People keep playing the monopoly card without even knowing what it is. Go read a book or two about the balance of entrance and exit barriers for newly developed markets and throw in some Porter just for good sense.
Ruling in favor of the underdogs is vastly common. It gives people that sense of "democracy applied", "rightful justice" or any other bs we are buying this day. I don't even use ie (firefox is sooo much better) and I install it on every damn pc I have to do work on. People don't seem to complain, mainly because they their PC to look at e-mail, browse a little and eventually buy something. So they don't care if ie is slower, unprotected and violates its own nephew.
Again, I have to shout: "WINDOWS IS A PRODUCT, NOT A RIGHT". It is a product, you bought it. YOU CHOSE IT. There are other to choose (not many, I know), but you chose windows. Live up to it.
That was a wonderfull reply. Filled with passion and belief, and I reckon that's just what we all need.
The petroleum part is still messed up - since we extract bad petroleum and have to buy good petroleum. It's one of those things nobody can explain, but until now, we haven't had so much luck with our oil searching. The mega discoveries last year are being used as political propaganda; we are not sure they are viable YET. Not at this prices, it isn't, too damn deep.
Other than that, it amazes me how much you know about our country. I lived overseas and I know what is like to be a curious outsider, taking notes about every single detail. It's fantastic, isn't it? I hope i'll be able to do it again, maybe this time i'll go to the usa.
You got real stuff and propaganda stuff all mixed up, dude.
Brazil is only independent in the production of heavy oil; we still import more than half the oil used for gasoline, diesel and querosene.
Health care sucks. You can get AIDS medicine, but if you are in an emergency and depend on the SUS (sistema unico de saude, unified health system) you're pretty much toast. that's why health plans sell like water around here.
Our financial system broke down several times in the last 70 years; the american and european broke twice.
No new hydroelectric plants are coming around until 2015. All the recent growth is based on gas and coal burning, and some crude oil.
The middle class in brazil is different than the middle class in other states. Here, middle class don't have two cars, nice house with front lawn and a trip to disney every year; we strugle between paying the rent and paying school and highschool for our children, because the educational system is a hell of a mess.
We are not so good, but we are not so bad either. I speak that as a brazilian. I really love brazil, but i'm as skeptical as the next guy when it comes to analysing this or any other governaments before.
Diesel is the least efficient. Altough it has higher cal. output, it does ignite soly by the pressure in the chamber, making it EXTREMELY hard to keep tuned. Notice all the black fumes coming from larger trucks and suvs running on diesel? that's called incomplete burning. Poorly tuned engines do that. To keep everything going, you have to use more oil. The oil comes into the chamber when its not well tuned then... oil burning. it's quite a mess.
I live in santa catarina, (that's a brazilian state) and we all use ethanol. In Parana, rio grande do sul, rio de janeiro and minas gerais, the ethanol is the better choice. And by the way, all fuel in brazil is tampered, not only ethanol.
Oh, and Sao Paulo (my home state) responds for half the cars in brazil, so... there you go. Ethanol is the way to go, at least for now. Ford tought of cars running on electricity a hundred years ago, but we are so cheap.
diesel is forbidden because of the subsidies. the governament, back in the 50', chose trucks over rails. But to make the logistic costs at a reasonable mark, they had to subside everything; well, not for the personal auto industry, since that would make one hell of a bill in the end of a tax year.
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That's just rubbish
They had several brillant ideas. Just because it's obvious now, doesnt mean it was not a brillant idea to begin with.
get your head out of the frickin box and try to realise how they became what they are... best product? in the begging yes, today hardly. but the strategy... brilliant.
What threat? If microsoft was ever scared by linux, it happened some 10 years ago. Really, wake up people... Microsoft runs a company, structered and organized. They may be screw-ups when it comes to innovation, but they got their shit wrapped up pretty damn well. Linux is only the underdog we all learned to love.
#1 tip: buy new clothes
#2 tip: buy a new pair of glasses
#3 tip: don't be a geek.
should be titled "trips that you'll come back with the same number of condoms you left."
I was joking, but I didn't know that site anyway, so thanks for the tip. Here in Brazil we have a label that publishes all its artists on the internet for free before selling the CD's, to get a feeling about the revenue they might have when going to meatspace. Oh, and by the way, their artists rock. www.tramavirtual.com.br
Since I never downloaded any music from the internet *cough* I should be rewarded as well.
come on people, even fundamentalists only hate america because they don't produce anthing that can be bought by the ever-so-consumist typical american (and americans had the nasty habit of bombing fundamentalist cottages).
anyway, China needs american buyers, Russia needs american buyers, Europe, Brazil, India, Japan, Australia, Cingapure, S. Korea, all dependent of the mc crap junkies. There is a brazilian saying "you shouldn't spit on the dish you eat". My bet is that stands correct in this case, all the way.
If someone needs to explain to you why this is such a dumbass idea, try the cotton or the corn lobby. They will explain how that kind of thinking made americans choose the least efficient bio-fuel. Go sugarcane, go (that was a no-brainer by the way.. sugarcane = sugar = energy for your children AND you car)!
I swear I read it like that as well... But then I saw the Ubuntu in the end of the phrase and tought: naaaah. No OS other then Leopard could be harassing to so many people, and leopards are not that dangerous if you let them be.
go to newgrounds.com and stand corrected. Of course, some ads and a franchise of console games that are not free, but funded by the development and hosting of free games.
oh oh, pen drive smoke! don't breath this!
I hate when sarcasm goes unnoticed, but it happens. Sorry. I'll write [sarcasm intended] next time, I swear
I'm brazilian.. excuse me for my poor english skills. If slashdot goes portuguese someday, I'll crush all with my suberb portuguese knowledge. >D
I can see a point where the United States becomes a lawsuit-based economy
I think you are already there. And it's not only Patent-related. The "industry" of lawsuits must be one of the pillars of american economy nowadays.. when people start filling suits because they burned their mouth with coffee or are too damn stupid to keep dangerous cleasing products from their three years old son you just know something went real bad. (really, how stupid you must be to be outsmarted by an infant)
I defend the right to bare arms and resolve conflicts like this in duels. Easy, clean and permanent. Lawsuit my ass, duels are the new problem solver. If it worked for guys like eastwood, bronson or ledger (solving matters the painfull way), should work now.
And we could replace judge mathis and the gang for a real life "silverado" every day.
That would be really hard if all the atms were shut down simply because people don't want to learn how to use them
like my dutch friend under, I live in a country where people will use the tellers only to pay bills that expired their last day for payment. Everything else is done in the ATMs.
By the way, I live in a 3rd world country. Talk about learning curve for those who can't even buy a computer but use ATM's to pay for their telephone bills.
like every other sub-developed country, we have international delegates that watch over the elections looking for scams and irregularities. Funny, but we will always have a bigger problem dealing with bullying and bought votes than with the voting machine
may I recall you all about the 2000 fiasco that was bush x gore, relying on the good and old pen and paper.
How much do you think that costed?
of course, if banks halved the number of tellers, many people would have to LEARN how to use an ATM. That's a nice tought... learning.
what we are saying in all of this is that election frauds were made easier, not created by eletronic voting. that's a huge difference when considering keep on improving the systems or just abandoning them. Hell, i still use my bank internet account and rely on the web for most of my transactions and purchases. Those were once accounted as doomed by hacking, but experience has proven that a controlled environment can be created even in a flooded swamp.
that makes me wonder: how hard is it to hack a piece of paper and a pen? if you have the means and a set objective, you can "hack" anything. And you don't even need a computer to do so.
If I don't like that ac, I could buy another car.. or sue the auto maker for not giving me other option except their ac.
Posts like this make me giddy. I usually forget how much people hate the best player. Netscape was a joke; a far better browser, no questions there. Still, trying to sell a whopper on every mc donnalds in the country is just pushing it too damn hard if you asking me.
People keep playing the monopoly card without even knowing what it is. Go read a book or two about the balance of entrance and exit barriers for newly developed markets and throw in some Porter just for good sense.
Ruling in favor of the underdogs is vastly common. It gives people that sense of "democracy applied", "rightful justice" or any other bs we are buying this day. I don't even use ie (firefox is sooo much better) and I install it on every damn pc I have to do work on. People don't seem to complain, mainly because they their PC to look at e-mail, browse a little and eventually buy something. So they don't care if ie is slower, unprotected and violates its own nephew.
Again, I have to shout: "WINDOWS IS A PRODUCT, NOT A RIGHT". It is a product, you bought it. YOU CHOSE IT. There are other to choose (not many, I know), but you chose windows. Live up to it.
The petroleum part is still messed up - since we extract bad petroleum and have to buy good petroleum. It's one of those things nobody can explain, but until now, we haven't had so much luck with our oil searching. The mega discoveries last year are being used as political propaganda; we are not sure they are viable YET. Not at this prices, it isn't, too damn deep.
Other than that, it amazes me how much you know about our country. I lived overseas and I know what is like to be a curious outsider, taking notes about every single detail. It's fantastic, isn't it? I hope i'll be able to do it again, maybe this time i'll go to the usa.
cheers mate.
Health care sucks. You can get AIDS medicine, but if you are in an emergency and depend on the SUS (sistema unico de saude, unified health system) you're pretty much toast. that's why health plans sell like water around here.
Our financial system broke down several times in the last 70 years; the american and european broke twice.
No new hydroelectric plants are coming around until 2015. All the recent growth is based on gas and coal burning, and some crude oil.
The middle class in brazil is different than the middle class in other states. Here, middle class don't have two cars, nice house with front lawn and a trip to disney every year; we strugle between paying the rent and paying school and highschool for our children, because the educational system is a hell of a mess.
We are not so good, but we are not so bad either. I speak that as a brazilian. I really love brazil, but i'm as skeptical as the next guy when it comes to analysing this or any other governaments before.
I live in santa catarina, (that's a brazilian state) and we all use ethanol. In Parana, rio grande do sul, rio de janeiro and minas gerais, the ethanol is the better choice. And by the way, all fuel in brazil is tampered, not only ethanol.
Oh, and Sao Paulo (my home state) responds for half the cars in brazil, so... there you go. Ethanol is the way to go, at least for now. Ford tought of cars running on electricity a hundred years ago, but we are so cheap.
diesel is forbidden because of the subsidies. the governament, back in the 50', chose trucks over rails. But to make the logistic costs at a reasonable mark, they had to subside everything; well, not for the personal auto industry, since that would make one hell of a bill in the end of a tax year.
since you are a brazilian like me, I would advise you: a não ser que mores no nordeste ou no norte, provavelmente alcool vale mais a pena pra voce. Fora que é melhor alcool com agua do que gasolina com solvente e alcool ;)
I hate those fuckers. That screech they do before attacking scares the living shit out of me.
Unless you want to know if Stephen Fry is baking a cake or having a tea with his friends