By that argument, at each stage of history, we would have benefitted from 'responsible capital use'. In your world, we would not have been allowed to develop the automobile until all of mankind had the finest horses and carriages available.
in my world, wealthy people clamoring for automobiles creates a market that leads to Henry Ford's model-t, which led to cars for everyone. In your world, they'd all still be knee deep in manure.
Personal energy consumption is a benefit of wealth. Lowering the cost of energy generation should increase the ability for larger proportions of mankind to increase their own personal energy consumption and move one step closer to a rightfully just existence.
I look to Google, Facebook, and other massively scaled companies that build highly distributed systems running on low availability commodity systems. These guys are not throwing Solid State Memory at biggus relational databases. Sorry, but this is a bandaid for a dinosaur.
Today countries all over the world cling to ethnic and religious differences as primary societal foundations. As long as that is true we will have never ending war. This asteroid is a gift of a single unifying foundation for all of humankind to unite around. Working together to deflect this asteroid will diminish those cherished divisions along ethnic and religious lines. Once we are done, the young generations will see no reason to go back to hating each other.
In Russia today there is no discernible, due process based rule of law. The government makes sure that everyone is a criminal for some reason or another. The result is that the government can molest you at anytime on nearly any pretext. Putin is insecure about sharing any power that would diminish his dictatorship. MSFT is a Patsy in this matter.
This is only happening because the US war on Iraq was whipped up unjustly for motives that are still not clear. In a free and open society you should expect this kind of fallout when so many lives are destroyed and so much debt incurred for no apparent reason.
This is happening because all of the best IT talent these days are doing startups or working at cool companies like Google and Facebook. This means that Northrup Grumann is staffing their teams with people that can't get those cooler IT jobs. That's the real cause of this disaster for Virginia.
If a lot of people feel like Dave then the iPad will not sell. Nobody is a victim in this matter. I think it will sell well. My wife and I spent of August at an expensive resort. We brought 2 ipads with us. We saw a lot of other ipads around the pool.
MSFT has designed yet another piece of software you'd have to be a complete idiot to use.
I tend to agree but, like you, I'm the kind of person that reads Slashdot and downloads lots of different browsers for my own reasons. I know that 99% of web users are not like me (or you) and I'm fairly certain they don't care about this issue. If that's the case then I don't see a big problem here. Folks will voluntarily use IE8 amidst a sea of browser choice.
HP paid $1.2 Billion. That's about $1 Billion more than it was really worth. I think Apple, RIM, and Google deliberately hobbled HP by bidding up the price but not high enough that HP would not still take that dinosaur into their house.
Palm webOS is not a "dinosaur". It's brand new and arguably the best modern smartphone OS out there. It just needs time and money to develop - time and money that Palm did not have, but which HP does have. Palm and HP need each other (as HP has been going nowhere in the mobile business), so it was a good match and money well spent.
You can't really say that because webOS had it's chance to sell well to consumers and nobody bought it. Phones must be culturally hip to sell well. WebOS does not need more time, it needs the documented ability to get you laid if you pull it out in a bar.
HP paid $1.2 Billion. That's about $1 Billion more than it was really worth. I think Apple, RIM, and Google deliberately hobbled HP by bidding up the price but not high enough that HP would not still take that dinosaur into their house.
Isn't this why http://www.peacefire.org/ exists? They are devoted to helping folks get around stupid internet filters, including those of nations, companies, schools, and parents.
If you are correct then an IPad/IPhone with an open app store should sell like crazy. It sounds like you are the next Steve Jobs. What's holding you back?
I drive a car to work each day. I create demand for gasoline, which creates demand for off shore drilling. My next car will be electric. I'm waiting for the Chevy Volt to come out. Then I won't have oil soaked birds or the blood of young soldiers in Iraq on my conscience.
Sure thing buddy, it was about a culture clash. One culture favored the enslavement of humans based on racial differences and one did not. But really, you must be right, it was a clash of moral equals. Uh huh.
The civil war was about slavery. Viewed from the perspective of 2010, it was good (abolitionist) vs. evil (slavery). Why, then, do outspoken Christians seem to always be stretching to push the confederacy as a just cause? Jesus preached 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. Doesn't that golden rule clearly lay down an opposition to slavery?
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I'm not sure how being bound to Windows allows for the 'technically superior to Java in almost every way' comment.
By that argument, at each stage of history, we would have benefitted from 'responsible capital use'. In your world, we would not have been allowed to develop the automobile until all of mankind had the finest horses and carriages available.
in my world, wealthy people clamoring for automobiles creates a market that leads to Henry Ford's model-t, which led to cars for everyone. In your world, they'd all still be knee deep in manure.
Personal energy consumption is a benefit of wealth. Lowering the cost of energy generation should increase the ability for larger proportions of mankind to increase their own personal energy consumption and move one step closer to a rightfully just existence.
Why should Oracle pay these guys? They did not create revenue for Sun or Oracle.
I look to Google, Facebook, and other massively scaled companies that build highly distributed systems running on low availability commodity systems. These guys are not throwing Solid State Memory at biggus relational databases. Sorry, but this is a bandaid for a dinosaur.
I know companies that don't bother figuring out the 'hidden' cost of keeping their workstations or servers up to date.
Why do companies still have servers? This issue largely goes away if you build you company in the public clouds.
Today countries all over the world cling to ethnic and religious differences as primary societal foundations. As long as that is true we will have never ending war. This asteroid is a gift of a single unifying foundation for all of humankind to unite around. Working together to deflect this asteroid will diminish those cherished divisions along ethnic and religious lines. Once we are done, the young generations will see no reason to go back to hating each other.
In Russia today there is no discernible, due process based rule of law. The government makes sure that everyone is a criminal for some reason or another. The result is that the government can molest you at anytime on nearly any pretext. Putin is insecure about sharing any power that would diminish his dictatorship. MSFT is a Patsy in this matter.
This is only happening because the US war on Iraq was whipped up unjustly for motives that are still not clear. In a free and open society you should expect this kind of fallout when so many lives are destroyed and so much debt incurred for no apparent reason.
Did any of you ever enjoy Strat Con? It did not use much horse power and should work fine if ported to javascript/html5.
This is happening because all of the best IT talent these days are doing startups or working at cool companies like Google and Facebook. This means that Northrup Grumann is staffing their teams with people that can't get those cooler IT jobs. That's the real cause of this disaster for Virginia.
If a lot of people feel like Dave then the iPad will not sell. Nobody is a victim in this matter. I think it will sell well. My wife and I spent of August at an expensive resort. We brought 2 ipads with us. We saw a lot of other ipads around the pool.
MSFT has designed yet another piece of software you'd have to be a complete idiot to use.
I tend to agree but, like you, I'm the kind of person that reads Slashdot and downloads lots of different browsers for my own reasons. I know that 99% of web users are not like me (or you) and I'm fairly certain they don't care about this issue. If that's the case then I don't see a big problem here. Folks will voluntarily use IE8 amidst a sea of browser choice.
Everyone, please go read Lord Of The Flies. I'll wait whilst you do that.
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Now do you understand the original post? Thanks.
HP paid $1.2 Billion. That's about $1 Billion more than it was really worth. I think Apple, RIM, and Google deliberately hobbled HP by bidding up the price but not high enough that HP would not still take that dinosaur into their house.
Palm webOS is not a "dinosaur". It's brand new and arguably the best modern smartphone OS out there. It just needs time and money to develop - time and money that Palm did not have, but which HP does have. Palm and HP need each other (as HP has been going nowhere in the mobile business), so it was a good match and money well spent.
You can't really say that because webOS had it's chance to sell well to consumers and nobody bought it. Phones must be culturally hip to sell well. WebOS does not need more time, it needs the documented ability to get you laid if you pull it out in a bar.
HP paid $1.2 Billion. That's about $1 Billion more than it was really worth. I think Apple, RIM, and Google deliberately hobbled HP by bidding up the price but not high enough that HP would not still take that dinosaur into their house.
How does this contest benefit Google shareholders? You know them, right? They're the folks that actually own the company?
Isn't this why http://www.peacefire.org/ exists? They are devoted to helping folks get around stupid internet filters, including those of nations, companies, schools, and parents.
It is a big problem? It is a step backwards?
If you are correct then an IPad/IPhone with an open app store should sell like crazy. It sounds like you are the next Steve Jobs. What's holding you back?
Then how can we know that Mars is 3.5 billion years old?
I drive a car to work each day. I create demand for gasoline, which creates demand for off shore drilling. My next car will be electric. I'm waiting for the Chevy Volt to come out. Then I won't have oil soaked birds or the blood of young soldiers in Iraq on my conscience.
Sure thing buddy, it was about a culture clash. One culture favored the enslavement of humans based on racial differences and one did not. But really, you must be right, it was a clash of moral equals. Uh huh.
Oh yea. And the most important states right in question was slavery.
The civil war was about slavery. Viewed from the perspective of 2010, it was good (abolitionist) vs. evil (slavery). Why, then, do outspoken Christians seem to always be stretching to push the confederacy as a just cause? Jesus preached 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. Doesn't that golden rule clearly lay down an opposition to slavery?
You did not answer my question. I'll restate it:
What would your reaction be to physical evidence of adding traits that were not possible to express before?