It's simple really. Google finds a bright lad/lass with a cool idea and then gives him/her resources and time. Every so often something really neat emerges.
Microsoft subjects a cool idea to testing by management torture, pounds it into some preexisting project, removes the parts that compete with existing MS products and then works out how to make money from it. The result is Microsoft Bob.
If you do have a bomb, a long queue of annoyed, tired travellers in a crowded airport looks a lot like a lovely soft target. Why try to get on the plane?
it's difficult to market a very cheap computer when there is a $30 to $80 Microsoft tax per machine.
It's in the nature of things that electronics approaches zero cost over time (I've got a $5 calculator that has more features than the $100 one I bought five years ago.) MS can't follow hardware down in price without affecting profits.
Certainly more come from outside US/UK than inside so this is a pointless idea UNLESS US companies want to ensure that they become the primary contractors for ID cards.
perhaps McVoy could explain why people seem happy to use limited functionallity applications they can get for free rather than the bloated commercial applications that cost a lot, are difficult to use and require you to buy into an operating system that is buggy as hell!
I would say that it is the commercial software market that doesn't address the true needs of the users.
Remember how the US (and everybody elses) car industry was devastated by Japan?
That will be nothing compared to what China will do. With a vast internal market they can export to the rest of the world at rock bottom prices.
If they can't educate their better students in US colleges the Chinese will just bite the bullet and set up their own _English_ language colleges and buy in top quality staff with the promise of research grants. Then they will attract all the Asian students currently wanting to go to western universities because the chinese ones will be as good, with the best staff and CHEAPER to attend.
It's all very well the OS running in 64bit mode, but are the apps running in 64bit mode as well or is the shiny new OS running the old 32bit applications?
99% of all cases consist of one printer, one printer cable and one computer. This case should be trivially dealt with first within any config s/w.
The next step is sharing a single already working printer with other computers.
Finally you deal with the complex situation where you have multiple printers on multiple servers that must be shared to multiple clients with restrictions.
I almost forgot, don't expect the users to understand your jargon or even know what kind of printer they have:-)
A real VM should be able tun run anything claiming to be an OS designed for the hardware. Supporting Linux should be a no-brainer.
Perhaps this is just another half-arsed Microsoft product that works only because the various special case hacks support each other to the point that the software doesn't immediately fall apart.
I don't read the adverts in free newspapers, neither do I watch adverts on TV. Guess why. They are not telling me ANYTHING I need to know. I haven't seen a new product advertised for years, just variations on old stuff.
I seem to recall that DA saw Marvin as a "golden man" with a depression the size of a planet.
Plus he is always described as a "paranoid android" NOT a robot. We can forgive the TV version as the voice was perfect. But the movie should have done better than a moving light fitting.
Writers and artists survived for a long time before copyright laws existed and will continue to survive for a long time after copyright laws are abandoned as unenforceable because of modern technology.
The problem with biometrics is that when they do fail they just keep on failing. You can't get new fingerprints (well yes you can but is painful and expensive) and you can't get new eyes.
Remember, finger and iris matching is not exact even in the best conditions. Your prints may be unique, but to the limits of the s/w you will probably be one in 100,000 or a million.
Inconsistency isn't a problem when the application source is available. It's just those companies who think they can gain market advantage by keeping their source closed who have a problem with different flavours of Unix.
The close source companies will eventually price themselves out of the business as the open source companies gain from a huge developer base.
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We're going to look really stupid if the comet fires back!
Microsoft subjects a cool idea to testing by management torture, pounds it into some preexisting project, removes the parts that compete with existing MS products and then works out how to make money from it. The result is Microsoft Bob.
If you do have a bomb, a long queue of annoyed, tired travellers in a crowded airport looks a lot like a lovely soft target. Why try to get on the plane?
To give Jeb Bush his go?
Guess what, you'll have an elected monarchy.
it's difficult to market a very cheap computer when there is a $30 to $80 Microsoft tax per machine.
It's in the nature of things that electronics approaches zero cost over time (I've got a $5 calculator that has more features than the $100 one I bought five years ago.) MS can't follow hardware down in price without affecting profits.
Certainly more come from outside US/UK than inside so this is a pointless idea UNLESS US companies want to ensure that they become the primary contractors for ID cards.
perhaps McVoy could explain why people seem happy to use limited functionallity applications they can get for free rather than the bloated commercial applications that cost a lot, are difficult to use and require you to buy into an operating system that is buggy as hell!
I would say that it is the commercial software market that doesn't address the true needs of the users.
Remember how the US (and everybody elses) car industry was devastated by Japan?
That will be nothing compared to what China will do. With a vast internal market they can export to the rest of the world at rock bottom prices.
If they can't educate their better students in US colleges the Chinese will just bite the bullet and set up their own _English_ language colleges and buy in top quality staff with the promise of research grants. Then they will attract all the Asian students currently wanting to go to western universities because the chinese ones will be as good, with the best staff and CHEAPER to attend.
...evil acid spitting terrorists will just BUY "Bombs for Dummies" from the local book store, for cash.
During a nuclear war the EMP will zap all the RFID chips...
exactly who burnt down the "White" House in 1812 :-)
Be very careful when you wake a sleeping bear.
It's all very well the OS running in 64bit mode, but are the apps running in 64bit mode as well or is the shiny new OS running the old 32bit applications?
.. it can't possibly be copyright "theft" when you share someones MP3 file.
99% of all cases consist of one printer, one printer cable and one computer. This case should be trivially dealt with first within any config s/w.
:-)
The next step is sharing a single already working printer with other computers.
Finally you deal with the complex situation where you have multiple printers on multiple servers that must be shared to multiple clients with restrictions.
I almost forgot, don't expect the users to understand your jargon or even know what kind of printer they have
A real VM should be able tun run anything claiming to be an OS designed for the hardware. Supporting Linux should be a no-brainer.
Perhaps this is just another half-arsed Microsoft product that works only because the various special case hacks support each other to the point that the software doesn't immediately fall apart.
how soon they forget
I don't read the adverts in free newspapers, neither do I watch adverts on TV. Guess why. They are not telling me ANYTHING I need to know. I haven't seen a new product advertised for years, just variations on old stuff.
I seem to recall that DA saw Marvin as a "golden man" with a depression the size of a planet.
Plus he is always described as a "paranoid android" NOT a robot. We can forgive the TV version as the voice was perfect. But the movie should have done better than a moving light fitting.
Writers and artists survived for a long time before copyright laws existed and will continue to survive for a long time after copyright laws are abandoned as unenforceable because of modern technology.
The problem with biometrics is that when they do fail they just keep on failing. You can't get new fingerprints (well yes you can but is painful and expensive) and you can't get new eyes.
Remember, finger and iris matching is not exact even in the best conditions. Your prints may be unique, but to the limits of the s/w you will probably be one in 100,000 or a million.
Inconsistency isn't a problem when the application source is available. It's just those companies who think they can gain market advantage by keeping their source closed who have a problem with different flavours of Unix.
The close source companies will eventually price themselves out of the business as the open source companies gain from a huge developer base.
Guess what, if you can view it you can copy it. It only has to happen once and the data is back in the digital domain.
The radar should get a massive return from the metallic parts of Beagle2 (assuming it hit Mars.)
I fail to understand what is non-obvious about base-30 arithmetic and representing such numbers using an ASCII subset.
uuencode and a number of other schemes make use of ASCII subsets to encode data.
OK, there's a limited set of possible encodings so it should be trivial to determine exactly which offensive words they are protecting the world from.
Let's have that list NOW!