So my next car will be more efficient, produce drinkable water ( never have to refill the windhield wiper reservoir again ), and have a built-in fridge?
They are prohibited from engaging in OFFENSIVE warfare. Their constitution allows for fighting in defensively. ( Currently, they are debating whether or not pre-emtive stikes are self-defense. Some Japanese claim that the N Korean missle building is a defacto act of war, and that to destroy the missle bases or production facilities is a defensive act. )
Nothing really wrong with putting it into the sun, it's just very expensive. Oddly enough, it's cheaper to stick it into Alpha Centauri ( or just about any star but the sun ).
My guess is that most of the/.ers with kids are asleep by now; it will be interesting to see how the character of posts changes in 5 or 6 hours. There seems to be way too much misplaced indignation at this hour.
I recall rumors to the effect that a lot of 3rd party hardware manufacturers saw the open bus design as a great opportunity to build more compatible hardware. 'Tis a pity that they never did. It coulda been a contender. Couldn't match a Mac of course, but coulda been a contender.
A mere decade or so is short-term for a business that size. Sure, if you or I do something for that long and don't make a profit, then we should quit.
But businesses that big exist on a different time scale than you and I. They can be judged successful if they have a trend that indicates that they will make money in another decade or two.
Revenue is up, traffic is up, but earnings are down. That is accountantcy jargon that translates as: "We are doing more but doing it less efficiently". And the stockholders noticed. They began selling.
When Amazon management noticed that, they looked for some new way to use their cash and traffic to make return on their investment. Why movies? Probably because the movie business requires - among other things - up-front investments and lots of advertising. It makes sense.
"Why are they not selling proprietary software on Linux? They could have killed OpenOffice and ODF years ago if there had been a nice, decently-priced MSOffice for Linux."
If they had sold MSOffice at the Windows-version price, few would have bought. If they had sold it substantially lower, that would have motivated Windows users to look at Linux.
The design work is already done ( which saves years and bucks ), the testing is done ( which saves years, bucks, and probably lives ). Is Orion going to be that much better to be worth all the extra costs?
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"Microsoft cares about Microsoft (and whoever pays them the most money).."
...as do most companies. Indeed, any company that does not is begging for a shareholder's lawsuit for malfeasence. Hey, I hate MS too, but this is normal.
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Me too. And there was this strange seasick sensation while it happened...must have been gravity waves.
So my next car will be more efficient, produce drinkable water ( never have to refill the windhield wiper reservoir again ), and have a built-in fridge?
Even if it's not your favoite distro, the drivers will be similar, so installation will still be easier.
Now Indians will have to deal with Indian tech support.
So how did the eccentric orbit become so nearly circular? That takes a lot of energy ( and a little coincidence )
They are prohibited from engaging in OFFENSIVE warfare. Their constitution allows for fighting in defensively. ( Currently, they are debating whether or not pre-emtive stikes are self-defense. Some Japanese claim that the N Korean missle building is a defacto act of war, and that to destroy the missle bases or production facilities is a defensive act. )
I've loved a few of the Temple at night....strangely enough they seem to get excommunicated soon afterwards.
"...get it to the sun, even considering the sun's gravity could do a lot of the work."
The sun's gravity is counteracted by the orbital velocity of the earth, from which said rocket is launched. It can't be counted on for a single erg.
Nothing really wrong with putting it into the sun, it's just very expensive. Oddly enough, it's cheaper to stick it into Alpha Centauri ( or just about any star but the sun ).
Who modded parent offtopic???
I really, really hope so. I'd hate to have my last sight, as the gas takes effect, be the surgeon wheeling in a PC with Windows.
My guess is that most of the /.ers with kids are asleep by now; it will be interesting to see how the character of posts changes in 5 or 6 hours. There seems to be way too much misplaced indignation at this hour.
Ok, ok! We're sorry. We wouldn't have said all those mean things if we had known. We had no idea that you wrote one of the questions.
I recall rumors to the effect that a lot of 3rd party hardware manufacturers saw the open bus design as a great opportunity to build more compatible hardware. 'Tis a pity that they never did. It coulda been a contender. Couldn't match a Mac of course, but coulda been a contender.
A mere decade or so is short-term for a business that size. Sure, if you or I do something for that long and don't make a profit, then we should quit.
But businesses that big exist on a different time scale than you and I. They can be judged successful if they have a trend that indicates that they will make money in another decade or two.
Revenue is up, traffic is up, but earnings are down. That is accountantcy jargon that translates as: "We are doing more but doing it less efficiently". And the stockholders noticed. They began selling.
When Amazon management noticed that, they looked for some new way to use their cash and traffic to make return on their investment. Why movies? Probably because the movie business requires - among other things - up-front investments and lots of advertising. It makes sense.
"Why are they not selling proprietary software on Linux? They could have killed OpenOffice and ODF years ago if there had been a nice, decently-priced MSOffice for Linux."
If they had sold MSOffice at the Windows-version price, few would have bought. If they had sold it substantially lower, that would have motivated Windows users to look at Linux.
I tried this bubble wrap fusion.
There is an audible release of energy here too. It's now scientifically proven.
No problem. We'll just reboot them.
The design work is already done ( which saves years and bucks ), the testing is done ( which saves years, bucks, and probably lives ). Is Orion going to be that much better to be worth all the extra costs?
I'm going back to silk flowers...
"Microsoft cares about Microsoft (and whoever pays them the most money).."
...as do most companies. Indeed, any company that does not is begging for a shareholder's lawsuit for malfeasence. Hey, I hate MS too, but this is normal.
Those uf us who have sampled the intellectual delights of high tech can no longer be fascina...oooh...SHINY..
"Mike and I were friends... one of the reasons they brought me in was because they wanted me to get rid of him."
I wonder how many friends he has after this interview.
It was a communications satellite, right? Anything that limits the possibility of my tech support calls getting routed to India is just fine by me.
Economics classes should be required to post on /.