Wouldn't be more fair to require EVERY manufacturer or importer to set aside enough money to cover the projected disposal costs? Then our landfills would be free, and fewer people would dump their garbage in the woods...
It's an old story, but I'll repeat it: early on in the space program, NASA realized that ballpoint pens don't work very well in space. They put a team of engineers on the problem, and after over $1 million in development costs, came up with the "anti-gravity" pen that would work in any position, even upside down.
In the meantime, the Russians simply used pencils.
Mass production of electronics makes them cheaper. Last I heard, the major expense in a fuel cell generator was the platinum catalyst, and mass production isn't going to make platinum any cheaper. In fact, quite the opposite: the more fuel cell generators are made, the more expensive platinum will become.
Actually, the implied point was: the breakup of AT&T actually increased shareholder value. Those people holding AT&T stock were given shares in each of the baby bells, and their total value was soon greater than that of the AT&T stock.
How do you determine before you encript it exactly who holds the copyright? Isn't there a chance that somewhere on the P2P network, there is material that RIAA/MPAA members don't hold a copyright for, but rather is copyrighted by an individual? Is the fact that the file name resembles the name of one of the 100,000 songs they have copyrighted really sufficient probable cause to suspect that the file contains copyrighted material? (If you think so, just try coming up with a song name that hasn't been used before!)
What if every government or private entity that disaproved of Micro$oft tactics simply stopped buying their products??? That would punish them far more than anything the courts are going to acheive, and would do much to promote alternatives such as Free/Open Source Software.
So, if tomorrow morning, one could no longer buy their "office suite" of applications and their OS from the same single source, companies everywhere would immediately all switch to Linux and Star Office? Methinks not. Would Micro$oft then have to rely on providing value to the customer instead of tricks and linking to sell it's software? Certainly. Would Micro$oft lower it's prices, and thus it's revenues? More than likely. But then it might also stop using OS revenues to bankroll massive money losing ventures into things like console games (Xbox), PDA (WinCE), and ISPs (MSN), which might help it's bottom line quite a bit...
Just look at how quickly AT&T went out of business after it was broken up...
Do you have any evidence to support this opinion? Certainly Micro$oft applications would be more successful if they weren't forbidden from supporting other platforms in order to prop up the Windows monopoly. In my opinion, a breakup would be good for for innovation, shareholders, for employees, and for customers. The only thing it would be bad for is Bill's ego. What proof can you show me that the combined revenues of the separate companies wouldn't be greater than Micro$oft's current revenues?
How about a fuel cell electricity generator that runs off natural gas?
Last time I checked, these cost over $10,000, and the electricity the generate costs 10 times as much as available over the grid. So why would I want one?
Larry used to interview every potential new hire personally, until the company became too large for this to be practical. The point was that Larry and Bill do to a large extent determine the corporate culture of their respective companies.
Since EVERY article appears to get several "first posts", I would consider ANY of them very "redundant". And does it really matter WHY a post was modded down? Any modding down is effectively because the moderator thinks the poster is an idiot; which category of idiot is an afterthought.
People without degrees will willingly hire people without degrees.
I've found just the opposite to be true. Oracle, headed by Larry Ellison, who never graduated, is obsessive about only hiring master's degrees from schools like MIT and Stanford. I beleive that Microsoft, headed by Mr. Bill who also never graduated, prefers degreed people as well. Of course, some of the brightest developers I've ever met never graduated.
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Think of the bright side -- the teenage pregnancy rate should to way down!
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My god, they're already selling for $50,000... how much higher can they get?
He obviously hasn't thought this one through; he's claiming that in 2012, anybody will be able to steal your credit card and then walk out of stores with anything they want, and there will be no impetus on the store to actually verify that it is you? Doesn't sound like a viable business model to me! Winona would then just claim that somebody stole her RFID and still steal from Saks!
Possession of marijuana is illegal in the US. Possession of a firearm is not illegal in most of the US. Cops carry firearms, and frequently "assault rifles"; does that make them dangerous? In Switzerland they must be really crazy, then, because every able-bodied male is required to do military training and then required by law to take home and keep in working order a real military rifle, not one of those sissy "assault rifles"...
The building codes in most states in the US require a window large enough to be used as a fire escape in EVERY bedroom. This is difficult to do in a berm house. Also, berm houses in general have a problem with moisture condensation on the interior walls, so they're not for people who don't enjoy mold and mildew.
Arithmetic according to C: float x = 3.14159; int y = 1/2 * x; Value of y? zero.
Any C programmer with more than a week's experience would code that as int y = (int)(x / 2); which results in y == 1. 1/2 = 0 using integer arithmetic in every computer language; this has nothing to do with C and just makes you look like a moron.
Secondly, they gotta offer direct PPP access as an alternative. No way I'm using their bloated client, no matter how many features they stuff into it.
I've been told that you can minimize the AOL browser and bring up the browser of your choice one you're logged on, with the added advantage of not having all your pages be filtered by AOL's servers. However, I'm not willing to subscribe to AOL to test this...
There's nothing wrong with GUIs in general, nor with using GUIs to assist in system administration. There IS something wrong, however, with a GUI-only solution for system administration -- isn't doesn't lend itself easily to remote administration, as NT/Win2K/XP so aptly illustrate.
Gates is an idiot for thinking that technology can be suppressed indefinately by illegal means.Yes, but a patent can suppress technology legally for at least 17 years. Microsoft has a lot of patents that it can use to litigate you out of business. And if it doesn't hold applicable patents, it can always buy the company that can. Basically, I don't see any real innovation in software occuring until the current crop of software patents expire.
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Wouldn't be more fair to require EVERY manufacturer or importer to set aside enough money to cover the projected disposal costs? Then our landfills would be free, and fewer people would dump their garbage in the woods...
In the meantime, the Russians simply used pencils.
Mass production of electronics makes them cheaper. Last I heard, the major expense in a fuel cell generator was the platinum catalyst, and mass production isn't going to make platinum any cheaper. In fact, quite the opposite: the more fuel cell generators are made, the more expensive platinum will become.
Actually, the implied point was: the breakup of AT&T actually increased shareholder value. Those people holding AT&T stock were given shares in each of the baby bells, and their total value was soon greater than that of the AT&T stock.
How do you determine before you encript it exactly who holds the copyright? Isn't there a chance that somewhere on the P2P network, there is material that RIAA/MPAA members don't hold a copyright for, but rather is copyrighted by an individual? Is the fact that the file name resembles the name of one of the 100,000 songs they have copyrighted really sufficient probable cause to suspect that the file contains copyrighted material? (If you think so, just try coming up with a song name that hasn't been used before!)
What if every government or private entity that disaproved of Micro$oft tactics simply stopped buying their products??? That would punish them far more than anything the courts are going to acheive, and would do much to promote alternatives such as Free/Open Source Software.
So, if tomorrow morning, one could no longer buy their "office suite" of applications and their OS from the same single source, companies everywhere would immediately all switch to Linux and Star Office? Methinks not. Would Micro$oft then have to rely on providing value to the customer instead of tricks and linking to sell it's software? Certainly. Would Micro$oft lower it's prices, and thus it's revenues? More than likely. But then it might also stop using OS revenues to bankroll massive money losing ventures into things like console games (Xbox), PDA (WinCE), and ISPs (MSN), which might help it's bottom line quite a bit...
Just look at how quickly AT&T went out of business after it was broken up...
Do you have any evidence to support this opinion? Certainly Micro$oft applications would be more successful if they weren't forbidden from supporting other platforms in order to prop up the Windows monopoly. In my opinion, a breakup would be good for for innovation, shareholders, for employees, and for customers. The only thing it would be bad for is Bill's ego. What proof can you show me that the combined revenues of the separate companies wouldn't be greater than Micro$oft's current revenues?
So, how many homeless people have you invited to move in with you?
In fact, almost every bathroom built in the 40s had this (now lost) technology known as an opening window!!!
Last time I checked, these cost over $10,000, and the electricity the generate costs 10 times as much as available over the grid. So why would I want one?
Larry used to interview every potential new hire personally, until the company became too large for this to be practical. The point was that Larry and Bill do to a large extent determine the corporate culture of their respective companies.
Since EVERY article appears to get several "first posts", I would consider ANY of them very "redundant". And does it really matter WHY a post was modded down? Any modding down is effectively because the moderator thinks the poster is an idiot; which category of idiot is an afterthought.
And how does this fund help those of us that are too cheap to buy cable?
I've found just the opposite to be true. Oracle, headed by Larry Ellison, who never graduated, is obsessive about only hiring master's degrees from schools like MIT and Stanford. I beleive that Microsoft, headed by Mr. Bill who also never graduated, prefers degreed people as well. Of course, some of the brightest developers I've ever met never graduated.
Think of the bright side -- the teenage pregnancy rate should to way down!
My god, they're already selling for $50,000... how much higher can they get?
If the US was actually interested in fuel economy, they'd make those fuel economy standards apply to SUVs as well.
He obviously hasn't thought this one through; he's claiming that in 2012, anybody will be able to steal your credit card and then walk out of stores with anything they want, and there will be no impetus on the store to actually verify that it is you? Doesn't sound like a viable business model to me! Winona would then just claim that somebody stole her RFID and still steal from Saks!
Last time I checked, Hello Kitty was a white. Not that I know anything about Hello Kitty, mind you!
Possession of marijuana is illegal in the US. Possession of a firearm is not illegal in most of the US. Cops carry firearms, and frequently "assault rifles"; does that make them dangerous? In Switzerland they must be really crazy, then, because every able-bodied male is required to do military training and then required by law to take home and keep in working order a real military rifle, not one of those sissy "assault rifles"...
The building codes in most states in the US require a window large enough to be used as a fire escape in EVERY bedroom. This is difficult to do in a berm house. Also, berm houses in general have a problem with moisture condensation on the interior walls, so they're not for people who don't enjoy mold and mildew.
Any C programmer with more than a week's experience would code that as int y = (int)(x / 2); which results in y == 1. 1/2 = 0 using integer arithmetic in every computer language; this has nothing to do with C and just makes you look like a moron.
I've been told that you can minimize the AOL browser and bring up the browser of your choice one you're logged on, with the added advantage of not having all your pages be filtered by AOL's servers. However, I'm not willing to subscribe to AOL to test this...
Gates is an idiot for thinking that technology can be suppressed indefinately by illegal means.Yes, but a patent can suppress technology legally for at least 17 years. Microsoft has a lot of patents that it can use to litigate you out of business. And if it doesn't hold applicable patents, it can always buy the company that can. Basically, I don't see any real innovation in software occuring until the current crop of software patents expire.