Wow. What an astounding argument! You're completely correct. I see the error of my ways.
Uhmm No you do not have a right to work. You have a right to compete, a right to try, but you do not have a right for me to hire you.
Secondly I never mentioned privledges. My children have rights of inheritance that other children will not have. As for your opinion... well I've been called worse by better. I never said that a person need have contributed. No I will not mind my own business when our government is actively undermining the employment of my friends.
Foreign workers have up until their arrival in no way contributed to America, it's economy or culture. There is nothing wrong with tribalism (to use your words). We as a culture and a people form a unique entity that is certainly correct in seeking to prosper.
As my children have rights by being my children that exceed the rights of other children, so Americans also have rights that exceed those of Non-Americans when in this country.
Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. While I'm not normally a customer or purchaser of Microsoft software, I have noticed that your Zune product (ridiculous marketing aside) is actually a nice product in it's third generation.
The interface is solid, the features good and the music store is DRM free. All of that makes the product actually pretty compelling. I want one.
Here's the thing, I am not a Windows user, yeah I know you think I should be but I'm not and won't be for the foreseeable future. So as a guy that uses a non MS platform I know that there are always things I have to give up for my freedom. Right now I'm giving up a Zune. It won't work on my platform. Now I'm not saying that I want Microsoft to support my platform, but I am saying that, you know, if it would give me whatever functionality I need to create a playlist or two, and sync my (incidentally paid for) music collection I'd buy one. Arguably I'd buy more than one. But I can't.
I might be stubborn or you might be, I'm not sure which one it is. I don't even think it matters. You can't make a better iPod than iPod. What you need to do is make a very compelling product. You almost did. I had to buy a Zen over your product because your product just doesn't support basic music syncing outside of using your own software. Sorry to tell you this but I'm not going to change my computing world just to listen to Boston on a Zune. You have to be the one to change if you want to count me as a paying customer. So what do you say? How about it? Just use industry standard interfaces to the hardware. I can't promise you'll be successful but I can promise you that you'd sell at least another Zune or two on top of what you're selling today. Think about it.
Respectfully I think there is an error in your logic. The population of potential computer users is not the same thing as population in general. For instance if the population grows 10% in a given year you effectively add 0% new computer users as that 10% growth is still suckling on moms teet and pooping on themselves. This assumes of course that the growth isn't due to immigration. I would add that even if it did, those adults that immigrated and are given to computer use probably already have one with them when they arrive.
The market for computers trends directly with uses that a computer can have. As an example, I do not need a desktop computer for a media server if my needs are better served by a Tivo. I do not necessarily need a laptop if my needs are served by a smart phone.
It bears more than a striking resemblance to KDE 4.x complete with glaring GUI inconsistencies.
I have it running on a Latitude D820 and it is a bit of sluggard compared to XP. Video rendering on the GUI effects is poor with windows stuttering and not smoothly animating which when Vista had few windows open they actually rendered animations fairly well.
Open the control panel and there is a small task pane (where one should be any way) and a single, small icon with no text. When one hovers over this icon the tool tip states that it is a link to "Control Panel Home". Which also happens to be the window open when you see that link. Clicking mysteriously does nothing.
Open the Printers and Devices applet and there is no task pane OR ribbon bar. Complete with very large and out of place icons.
Open other control panel applets. Some have task panes and no ribbons, some have ribbons and no task panes some have both and yet more have neither.
The task bar? Wow. A hover and click instead of just a click to bring an app into focus. Brilliant. Here I've been doing it without hovering.
The UI overall gives me the same impression I'd have when every time I went to the cupboard to get a bowl out for my Fruity Pebbles I'd find the bowls in a different cabinet. It's rather frustrating.
I really want to like 7. My experience on the Latitude and in Virtualbox hasn't been stellar. Here's hoping that MS can get it right.
Consensus is not science. In fact consensus argued that...
1. The world is flat.
2. Eugenics.
3. That Africans were inferior.
4. That Newton was right about gravity.
5. That Einstein was wrong (see number 4)
It is dangerous to take consensus as an indicator of the accuracy of a claim. More often than not it was the contra-thinking individuals that were proven right over time.
Apple is also fond of pointing out that Macs are not PCs. It is illegal for Ford to insist that it's engines can only be installed in a Ford manufactured automobile.... I'm just sayin.
If Apple felt that there was no merit to Pystars claims then why obscure things? Does having a gentle legal dept. sound like Apple? It's far more likely that Apple is going to solve this problem with a check-book than with a lawsuit.
The U.S. constitution by definition only applies to the U.S. and it's citizens. China for instance has no intention of letting anyone have the right to peaceably assemble for any cause other than the one supported by the government.
The newborn doesn't ask any questions because the newborn is still growing and lacks any facility for verbalizing complex questions.
Our genes are our programming but those genes do not encode questions that we can ask. All questions that we ask are spontaneous even if they are based on input. Input does not negate spontaneity IMHO. Now that I think about it, you must have input before you can have a question because you have to have something to question in the first place.
I guess I should have elaborated a bit. Spontaneous questioning ala HAL (Will I dream?) is more the point. If a computer spontaneously asks that question, then run for the bunker.
So... you're saying that you won't be able to sleep because you are not sure whether or not you should wash your hands with a cold Coke Classic before bed?
It sounds like you're going to be the research topic for next years awards.
In this charged election cycle it is imperative that our current resistance to voting be overcome by taking the time to cool things off.
Mr. OhmBama is conducting himself fluidly and we must expand our internal capacitors to make sure that our output never fluctuates.
You already know that when the heat is on the resistance will increase! Be ready! We have a lot of ground to cover and we must always be careful not to take short cuts to that ground to avoid catastrophe.
Slashdot Mirror
Google got in on the action too.... here's the screen grab.
Google 1234567890
I'm married.... so BSG it is!
Wow. What an astounding argument! You're completely correct. I see the error of my ways.
Uhmm No you do not have a right to work. You have a right to compete, a right to try, but you do not have a right for me to hire you.
Secondly I never mentioned privledges. My children have rights of inheritance that other children will not have. As for your opinion... well I've been called worse by better. I never said that a person need have contributed. No I will not mind my own business when our government is actively undermining the employment of my friends.
Foreign workers have up until their arrival in no way contributed to America, it's economy or culture. There is nothing wrong with tribalism (to use your words). We as a culture and a people form a unique entity that is certainly correct in seeking to prosper.
As my children have rights by being my children that exceed the rights of other children, so Americans also have rights that exceed those of Non-Americans when in this country.
Yes because we all know how well bureaucracy makes IT decisions in the UK.
Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. While I'm not normally a customer or purchaser of Microsoft software, I have noticed that your Zune product (ridiculous marketing aside) is actually a nice product in it's third generation.
The interface is solid, the features good and the music store is DRM free. All of that makes the product actually pretty compelling. I want one.
Here's the thing, I am not a Windows user, yeah I know you think I should be but I'm not and won't be for the foreseeable future. So as a guy that uses a non MS platform I know that there are always things I have to give up for my freedom. Right now I'm giving up a Zune. It won't work on my platform. Now I'm not saying that I want Microsoft to support my platform, but I am saying that, you know, if it would give me whatever functionality I need to create a playlist or two, and sync my (incidentally paid for) music collection I'd buy one. Arguably I'd buy more than one. But I can't.
I might be stubborn or you might be, I'm not sure which one it is. I don't even think it matters. You can't make a better iPod than iPod. What you need to do is make a very compelling product. You almost did. I had to buy a Zen over your product because your product just doesn't support basic music syncing outside of using your own software. Sorry to tell you this but I'm not going to change my computing world just to listen to Boston on a Zune. You have to be the one to change if you want to count me as a paying customer. So what do you say? How about it? Just use industry standard interfaces to the hardware. I can't promise you'll be successful but I can promise you that you'd sell at least another Zune or two on top of what you're selling today. Think about it.
Respectfully I think there is an error in your logic. The population of potential computer users is not the same thing as population in general. For instance if the population grows 10% in a given year you effectively add 0% new computer users as that 10% growth is still suckling on moms teet and pooping on themselves. This assumes of course that the growth isn't due to immigration. I would add that even if it did, those adults that immigrated and are given to computer use probably already have one with them when they arrive.
The market for computers trends directly with uses that a computer can have. As an example, I do not need a desktop computer for a media server if my needs are better served by a Tivo. I do not necessarily need a laptop if my needs are served by a smart phone.
It bears more than a striking resemblance to KDE 4.x complete with glaring GUI inconsistencies.
I have it running on a Latitude D820 and it is a bit of sluggard compared to XP. Video rendering on the GUI effects is poor with windows stuttering and not smoothly animating which when Vista had few windows open they actually rendered animations fairly well.
Open the control panel and there is a small task pane (where one should be any way) and a single, small icon with no text. When one hovers over this icon the tool tip states that it is a link to "Control Panel Home". Which also happens to be the window open when you see that link. Clicking mysteriously does nothing.
Open the Printers and Devices applet and there is no task pane OR ribbon bar. Complete with very large and out of place icons.
Open other control panel applets. Some have task panes and no ribbons, some have ribbons and no task panes some have both and yet more have neither.
The task bar? Wow. A hover and click instead of just a click to bring an app into focus. Brilliant. Here I've been doing it without hovering.
The UI overall gives me the same impression I'd have when every time I went to the cupboard to get a bowl out for my Fruity Pebbles I'd find the bowls in a different cabinet. It's rather frustrating.
I really want to like 7. My experience on the Latitude and in Virtualbox hasn't been stellar. Here's hoping that MS can get it right.
jerks power you!
Consensus is not science. In fact consensus argued that...
1. The world is flat.
2. Eugenics.
3. That Africans were inferior.
4. That Newton was right about gravity.
5. That Einstein was wrong (see number 4)
It is dangerous to take consensus as an indicator of the accuracy of a claim. More often than not it was the contra-thinking individuals that were proven right over time.
You sir are a genius.
Vegetables are what food eats.
Announcing the One Mammoth Per Child Project
them selling the Naval version of this now, with the lasers mounted on sharks!
I voted for DRE-700
Apple is also fond of pointing out that Macs are not PCs. It is illegal for Ford to insist that it's engines can only be installed in a Ford manufactured automobile.... I'm just sayin.
If Apple felt that there was no merit to Pystars claims then why obscure things? Does having a gentle legal dept. sound like Apple? It's far more likely that Apple is going to solve this problem with a check-book than with a lawsuit.
The U.S. constitution by definition only applies to the U.S. and it's citizens. China for instance has no intention of letting anyone have the right to peaceably assemble for any cause other than the one supported by the government.
Yeah. British citizens have great gov controls on the mortgage market don't they.
Oh and the Spanish are genius at financial matters aren't they?
We understand true liberalism just fine thank you. This is why most Americans avoid it.
The newborn doesn't ask any questions because the newborn is still growing and lacks any facility for verbalizing complex questions.
Our genes are our programming but those genes do not encode questions that we can ask. All questions that we ask are spontaneous even if they are based on input. Input does not negate spontaneity IMHO. Now that I think about it, you must have input before you can have a question because you have to have something to question in the first place.
I guess I should have elaborated a bit. Spontaneous questioning ala HAL (Will I dream?) is more the point. If a computer spontaneously asks that question, then run for the bunker.
Merely being aware enough to question whether or not you are really thinking is sufficient to establish that you are.
Only an entity with self-awareness and the ability to think can ask that question.
So... you're saying that you won't be able to sleep because you are not sure whether or not you should wash your hands with a cold Coke Classic before bed?
It sounds like you're going to be the research topic for next years awards.
In this charged election cycle it is imperative that our current resistance to voting be overcome by taking the time to cool things off.
Mr. OhmBama is conducting himself fluidly and we must expand our internal capacitors to make sure that our output never fluctuates.
You already know that when the heat is on the resistance will increase! Be ready! We have a lot of ground to cover and we must always be careful not to take short cuts to that ground to avoid catastrophe.
a gnu/trap?