It would be much smarter of Microsoft to participate; then they can obfuscate and delay the new standard. Their refusal to participate makes me suspect that perhaps they beleive they have some patents that might apply, and don't want to get accused of acting like Rambus when they spring the patents on the committee to try to shut down the new standard.
Where have you been? There was the BSD vs. AT&T Unix compatibility issues, the OSF compatibility issues, and in Linux the switch to glibc5 was a major backwards compatibility breaker. Of course, these problems pale in comparison to the incompatibility problems caused by some new releases of windows, but Unix and Linux in particular have never been shy about breaking backwards compatibility in order to improve functionality.
Sorry to disagree with you, but if you can get work done with Office, which tends to hang without saving your work when inserting graphics, then you should really be able to get a lot more done with FrontPage, which is much cleaner and easier to understand, more reliable, and has productivity features such as macros that Office doesn't. Unfortunately, their marketing sucks. Oh, and by the way, Word was obviously a clone of WordPerfect, just as Excel was obviously a clone of Lotus123 which was a clone of VisiCalc. Original programs, indeed!
All the Portland, Oregon news stations covered the recent protests hear, mostly to report the astonishing news that only one person was arrested (for climbing on the hood of a police car and spitting at cops). Of course, they don't call this the left coast for nothing...
I was told by a fiber-optic transceiver engineer that signals actually travel faster in copper coax than in fiber (in both it's less than c, the speed of light in a vacuum). So couldn't you get even better results by hardware-switching a coax signal? And how usefull is only being able to talk to 1 other node at a time? Sounds to me like these guys have reinvented the T-bar used to connect IMB System 370 channels together... (albeit with much better performance).
How do you feel about your role as the stressed-out passenger in the famous Twilight Zone "Alien on the aircraft wing" episode? I've always felt that role best suited you...
What happens when the edible HIV vaciccine gets mixed in with regular food crops, the same way that starlink corn has? Then everybody that eats it tests positive for HIV! This could be quite disconcerting to some people...
(The standard HIV test is for HIV antibodies, which would show positive if you've been vaccinated. The PCR test, which costs about $200, tests for the RNA of the HIV virus itself, so it wouldn't show a false positive.)
Punishing the company advertising is problematic. Let's say I want to put one of my competitor's out of business... what's to stop me from hiring someone to flood the internet with ads in their name?
There's a limit to how much vitamin C you can take (it causes diarhea in sufficient quantities.) The amount you can tolerate does go way up when you have a viral infection, though. I think Linus Paulings rule of thumb of 2000 milligrams every 4 hours still applies.
AIDs is already airborne. The problem is, you apparent need a LOT of HIV virus in your system to get infected, and you simply can't get that much through airborne sources. Most of us have already come into contact with very low numbers of dangerous virii and not been affected because our imune system managed to wipe them out before they propagated to higher numbers.
In fact, studies have shown that kids subjected to _more_ household dust as children are _less_ likely to get asthma later. Can you say "building up a tolerance"? I personally have been working on building up a tolerance for poison oak, although some people refer to what I'm doing simply as "yard work".
When you contract a viral infection and are prescribed antibiotcs then perhaps you should find a new doctor. Antibiotics do nothing to counter virii. (And yes, I did go to a doctor complaining of a flu once, and he did prescribe antibiotics. He may just as well have prescribed a placebo just to make me go away.)
Go to www.suzanz.com to check out a really good singer/songwriter who refuses to sell her soul to the record company. This site also has _lots_ of links to other musicians in the SF bay area, if her music doesn't float your boat. Oh, and buy her CD, please!
That's what I've been telling people... 100 years from now Gates won't be remembered as the founder of Microsoft... He'll be remembered as the founder of the Gates Foundation, and revered for what that foundation has accomplished (which hopefully will include stamping out AIDS). Basically he's following the Andrew Carnegie model... Hmm, will we someday see a Gates Unverisity?
VAX VMS used to create a new version of the document every time you saved it, so you couldn't overwrite an old version (the file file name for every file included a version number). Then they gave you an app to clean up the all-but-last version. Granted, I think this was mostly a ploy to sell more disk drives, but these days hard drives are dirt cheap. Why not revive this behavior?
Yeah, totally passive... isn't it great how windmills and water turbines don't require regular maintenance or lubrication (e.g. oil) 'cause they don't have any moving parts?
Only $13.4 million and it will power "perhaps 1000 homes". Wow, that's only $13,400 per home... couldn't they buy electricity from the grid for a lot longer than the expected working life of machinery on the ocean for a lot less money? Would you shell out $13,400 now for free electricity for the next 10 year? Or would you be better off putting the $13,400 into a CD and using the interest to pay your electic bill?
The best part is the quote at the end: "In a recent Gartner G2 survey, 88 percent of respondents said they believed it's legal to make copies of CDs for personal backup use while 77 percent felt they should be able to copy a CD for personal use in another device. " Looks like the RIAA has a lot of brainwash^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Heducation to do still...
Simply make pre-recorded CDs cost less than the blank ones! This isn't as silly as it sounds; pre-recorded CDs can be stamped out a lot cheaper then recordable ones can. How much do you think AOL spends per CD shipped out?
When asked why they go through the trouble of reclaiming the sea, the Dutch are said to answer: "We had two choices for expansion: invade Germany or reclaim land from the sea. We took one look at the Germans and decided taking on the sea was much easier" or words to that effect.
Because beaches are public property. Erecting a wall in the middle of the freeway might improve your property too (cut down on that damn traffic noise!) but that's also illegal.
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It would be much smarter of Microsoft to participate; then they can obfuscate and delay the new standard. Their refusal to participate makes me suspect that perhaps they beleive they have some patents that might apply, and don't want to get accused of acting like Rambus when they spring the patents on the committee to try to shut down the new standard.
Where have you been? There was the BSD vs. AT&T Unix compatibility issues, the OSF compatibility issues, and in Linux the switch to glibc5 was a major backwards compatibility breaker. Of course, these problems pale in comparison to the incompatibility problems caused by some new releases of windows, but Unix and Linux in particular have never been shy about breaking backwards compatibility in order to improve functionality.
Sorry to disagree with you, but if you can get work done with Office, which tends to hang without saving your work when inserting graphics, then you should really be able to get a lot more done with FrontPage, which is much cleaner and easier to understand, more reliable, and has productivity features such as macros that Office doesn't. Unfortunately, their marketing sucks. Oh, and by the way, Word was obviously a clone of WordPerfect, just as Excel was obviously a clone of Lotus123 which was a clone of VisiCalc. Original programs, indeed!
All the Portland, Oregon news stations covered the recent protests hear, mostly to report the astonishing news that only one person was arrested (for climbing on the hood of a police car and spitting at cops). Of course, they don't call this the left coast for nothing...
And, uh... where did you get that copy of Win2K to install on it? Remember, Big Bill and the BSA are watching you!
I was told by a fiber-optic transceiver engineer that signals actually travel faster in copper coax than in fiber (in both it's less than c, the speed of light in a vacuum). So couldn't you get even better results by hardware-switching a coax signal? And how usefull is only being able to talk to 1 other node at a time? Sounds to me like these guys have reinvented the T-bar used to connect IMB System 370 channels together... (albeit with much better performance).
How do you feel about your role as the stressed-out passenger in the famous Twilight Zone "Alien on the aircraft wing" episode? I've always felt that role best suited you...
(The standard HIV test is for HIV antibodies, which would show positive if you've been vaccinated. The PCR test, which costs about $200, tests for the RNA of the HIV virus itself, so it wouldn't show a false positive.)
Punishing the company advertising is problematic. Let's say I want to put one of my competitor's out of business... what's to stop me from hiring someone to flood the internet with ads in their name?
Wouldn't it be easier to simply filter all email from China and Korea? I know __I__ don't normally correspond with people in those countries...
Displays fine in Mozilla... maybe it's your browswer that doesn't adhere to standards.
There's a limit to how much vitamin C you can take (it causes diarhea in sufficient quantities.) The amount you can tolerate does go way up when you have a viral infection, though. I think Linus Paulings rule of thumb of 2000 milligrams every 4 hours still applies.
AIDs is already airborne. The problem is, you apparent need a LOT of HIV virus in your system to get infected, and you simply can't get that much through airborne sources. Most of us have already come into contact with very low numbers of dangerous virii and not been affected because our imune system managed to wipe them out before they propagated to higher numbers.
In fact, studies have shown that kids subjected to _more_ household dust as children are _less_ likely to get asthma later. Can you say "building up a tolerance"? I personally have been working on building up a tolerance for poison oak, although some people refer to what I'm doing simply as "yard work".
When you contract a viral infection and are prescribed antibiotcs then perhaps you should find a new doctor. Antibiotics do nothing to counter virii. (And yes, I did go to a doctor complaining of a flu once, and he did prescribe antibiotics. He may just as well have prescribed a placebo just to make me go away.)
Oops, my bad. That's www.susanz.com
Go to www.suzanz.com to check out a really good singer/songwriter who refuses to sell her soul to the record company. This site also has _lots_ of links to other musicians in the SF bay area, if her music doesn't float your boat. Oh, and buy her CD, please!
That's what I've been telling people... 100 years from now Gates won't be remembered as the founder of Microsoft... He'll be remembered as the founder of the Gates Foundation, and revered for what that foundation has accomplished (which hopefully will include stamping out AIDS). Basically he's following the Andrew Carnegie model... Hmm, will we someday see a Gates Unverisity?
VAX VMS used to create a new version of the document every time you saved it, so you couldn't overwrite an old version (the file file name for every file included a version number). Then they gave you an app to clean up the all-but-last version. Granted, I think this was mostly a ploy to sell more disk drives, but these days hard drives are dirt cheap. Why not revive this behavior?
Yeah, totally passive... isn't it great how windmills and water turbines don't require regular maintenance or lubrication (e.g. oil) 'cause they don't have any moving parts?
Only $13.4 million and it will power "perhaps 1000 homes". Wow, that's only $13,400 per home... couldn't they buy electricity from the grid for a lot longer than the expected working life of machinery on the ocean for a lot less money? Would you shell out $13,400 now for free electricity for the next 10 year? Or would you be better off putting the $13,400 into a CD and using the interest to pay your electic bill?
The best part is the quote at the end: "In a recent Gartner G2 survey, 88 percent of respondents said they believed it's legal to make copies of CDs for personal backup use while 77 percent felt they should be able to copy a CD for personal use in another device. " Looks like the RIAA has a lot of brainwash^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Heducation to do still...
Simply make pre-recorded CDs cost less than the blank ones! This isn't as silly as it sounds; pre-recorded CDs can be stamped out a lot cheaper then recordable ones can. How much do you think AOL spends per CD shipped out?
When asked why they go through the trouble of reclaiming the sea, the Dutch are said to answer: "We had two choices for expansion: invade Germany or reclaim land from the sea. We took one look at the Germans and decided taking on the sea was much easier" or words to that effect.
Because beaches are public property. Erecting a wall in the middle of the freeway might improve your property too (cut down on that damn traffic noise!) but that's also illegal.