Two thirds of the planet's surface is salt water, which is not economically feasible to extract fresh water from. As always, the problem is not that we couldn't do that, it just costs too much compared to digging for fossilized fuel.
Surely you are not saying that you can *pay* someone to be your friend (and still call it a friendship). If your friends judge you by car you drive, you might want to reconsider a few things in your life.
If I understand it correctly, this isn't even about sex, it's about a part of body (a breast in this case). I believe that children should know how human body looks like. Don't you have biology classes in the US? Do you use textbooks with pictures?
I don't think that's the problem here, they aren't stupid. Let's assume the manager has 500 man hours to spend on anything he chooses. He has to decide between significantly improving the graphics of the game, appealing to hundreds of millions, or to make a port to an alternative OS, appealing maybe millions, if that. What will generate better sales? In other words, it's not about ignoring Linux/Mac markets, more about careful prioritizing.
Mozilla Firefox is shortened to just Firefox, Microsoft Windows to Windows and so on - it's just a product called "SQL Server" from a company called "Microsoft".
Also it's known as SQL Server to everyone who ever worked with it.
You would speak otherwise if you were ever making a localized application with anything more than Western European character sets. That means Eastern European characters, Cyrilic, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindu, Japanese, Chinese, Thai and countless others.
Plus if we know (and care) that the information will be wanted in the future, why not try making it as easily retrievable as possible? How much information was lost since the first written works due to badly enduring materials or linguistic problems? We know how much hassle it costs us to get 4000 years old information, still we are not making it any easier for people who will live in 4000 years from now.
most of the earth's atmosphere is about 5 km (the rest are light elements scattered in the exosphere)
Please, where is this figure coming from? Exosphere starts at 500-1000 km from earth surface, depending on the latitude. The bulk of atmosphere mass is inside 50 km from Earth surface, 5 km is not even anywhere near 50% of atmosphere mass.
I really can't believe that a corporation like Microsoft cannot afford to allocate more resources in development of very probably the most used application in the world. I really can't.
Anyway, I know they must prioritize with what they've got. I don't say they do particulary bad job, but I like to read some straight responses. "We simply don't have the resources required" would do nicely, he didn't have to put up this apologetic crap.
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Two thirds of the planet's surface is salt water, which is not economically feasible to extract fresh water from. As always, the problem is not that we couldn't do that, it just costs too much compared to digging for fossilized fuel.
I think right now they use mostly Python, but I wouldn't be surprised if some Java GWT based projects were underway.
Problem with most people is they don't know they have chocolate cake in the fridge and gladly go for the onions on the table.
Still better than taking your pet a hostage :p
Surely you are not saying that you can *pay* someone to be your friend (and still call it a friendship). If your friends judge you by car you drive, you might want to reconsider a few things in your life.
One would say this "article" is just a not-so-subtle advertisment for Redhat's JBoss/Seam.
If I understand it correctly, this isn't even about sex, it's about a part of body (a breast in this case). I believe that children should know how human body looks like. Don't you have biology classes in the US? Do you use textbooks with pictures?
No, it's just some people are less stupid than others.
I don't think that's the problem here, they aren't stupid. Let's assume the manager has 500 man hours to spend on anything he chooses. He has to decide between significantly improving the graphics of the game, appealing to hundreds of millions, or to make a port to an alternative OS, appealing maybe millions, if that. What will generate better sales? In other words, it's not about ignoring Linux/Mac markets, more about careful prioritizing.
Mozilla Firefox is shortened to just Firefox, Microsoft Windows to Windows and so on - it's just a product called "SQL Server" from a company called "Microsoft".
Also it's known as SQL Server to everyone who ever worked with it.
Sounds very nice. It has however "socialist idea" written all over it. And you aren't a filthy freedom-hating commie, are you?
Damn those developing countries, stealing all the decent jobs from the hard working Americans.
I hereby declare war on the word "war"!
Or maybe it's just my sarcasm meter broken.
You would speak otherwise if you were ever making a localized application with anything more than Western European character sets. That means Eastern European characters, Cyrilic, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindu, Japanese, Chinese, Thai and countless others.
Plus if we know (and care) that the information will be wanted in the future, why not try making it as easily retrievable as possible? How much information was lost since the first written works due to badly enduring materials or linguistic problems? We know how much hassle it costs us to get 4000 years old information, still we are not making it any easier for people who will live in 4000 years from now.
You mean the 1999 AN10 that is virtually impossible to collide with earth?
No currently known object has the Torino scale rating greater than 0. See http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
Yeah, I wonder what were his parents smoking, giving him a name like this...
Greenest... from all those greenback maybe.
Yes. And you post this because?
Ironically, I found that in most cases using google with site:... works better than built in searches seen on many web sites, including Wikipedia.
Fear of being recorded and punished is sometimes prevention itself.
I don't think I need to know what or who is Semen Washer...
I really can't believe that a corporation like Microsoft cannot afford to allocate more resources in development of very probably the most used application in the world. I really can't.
Anyway, I know they must prioritize with what they've got. I don't say they do particulary bad job, but I like to read some straight responses. "We simply don't have the resources required" would do nicely, he didn't have to put up this apologetic crap.