Of course, the emBallmer is only passingly familiar with that little industry news issue, they wouldn't actually be financially involved with such behavior as casting aspersions on a competing product not based on any technical competence.
Why should anyone in the world buy if it's on the Internet
That exact same sentiment was expressed here recently in response to the Windows iTunes launch: (paraphrasing) "I'm not going to buy something when I can get it for free!"
Frankly, the honor system doesn't work, and the cheaters spoil it for all the honest 'fair use' folks, but that's the way it's always been. In the home theatre you buy a ticket, you see the movie. It's that simple. The system of 'here's the movie, suggested donation is $4' just won't work. Just ask any 'shareware' author who gets, if lucky, one payment for every 10 downloads.
A lot of these polls, just like movie Oscars etc inevitably show how people simply vote like the media advertising tells them to - a few pop stars and influential news anchors propagate their opinions and it quickly becomes common sense opinion amongst the populist crowd seeking to be with the 'in' group. While I'm often ashamed of my fellow human's lack of critical thinking, I have to remember that the average IQ is by definition 100 and most are intellectual followers of leaders.
Lets take bets on when the referance to GOD on USD money is challenged in the supreme count, bet THAT one looses;)) (i.e., it's easy to change a school pledge, very costly and unwieldly to redesign money - does the new USD $20 just starting to circulate still say "IN GOD WE TRUST*" over the White House?
It's DISPLAYING them that gets difficult. To shoot, take something like a Nikon CoolPix 775 (what I use) , and put in a frame of some kind so you can slide it back and forth a few inches without changing any other dimension. Point at a static scene, snap, move over 2 inches, and snap. There you have a full stereographic representation of the scene just like your eyes would see it.
But how to view? I was playing around with my iArt shutter glasses, researching stereo pictures, found the.jps format, and then this program (free demo for 30 pictures or so) - jpsviewer can take those two.jpg photos you just took, combine them into a format you can view with the shutter glasses using sync doubling, page flipping, etc. I was amazed at how easy it was. Turns out that some other pictures on the web were taken with the 'single camera' method because you can see some, like castles in Germany, have a car on a distant road in one eye, but not in the other eye;))
If you count analog 'hardware' there's my granddad's 1940 RCA radio console standing in the corner - cleaned and re-cap'd, it plays every other night. Has shortwave too! And an input for 'new' formats like 'FM' and 'TV'.
There's also a Pocket PC C64 emulator. If it's anything like the Atari Pocket PC 800 emulator it won't be too shabby. I'm just starting to use the PocketAtari for Kennedy Approach ATC game, chess and dungeon explorer. Of course arcade games like Defender don't play too well on the little swivel joystick.
You should definitely upgrade to an Atari 800 or an 800XL;) At this moment I'm trying to get an 800 emulator running on an ipaq 1945. In 1985 I strongly recall the clerk at Sears giving me funny looks for paying $50 for a cassette tape of Zaxxon - but it was much better than chucking quarters into the arcade machine;)
how do you pay workers if there are no profits? Do you expect people to work for nothing?? Nobody should prop up a failing industry making products nobody buys just because that's all the employees know how to do. Market demand and careers change, especially in the tech sector. We don't want something like the old Soviet Union workers sham where "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us".
Just look at the chart - the tech laden NASDAQ sucked in 00, 01 and 02, but so far 03 is doing much better. Investors are coming back from their 3 year vacation, hopefully wiser from their bubble years, and employment wont be far behind.
This is getting to be an age old argument pitting the ethics of academics, scholars, programmers, developers and scientists against the needs of businessfolk, stockholders, accountants and salespeople - these are two different conflicting views of what is 'right' and 'good' and as long as the former need to find jobs to pay the bills the later will usually win out. Cf Microsoft, et al.
Innovation to an academic means advancing the state of the art - Innovation to a businessguy means a new gimmick or trick for making lots of dough.
I was just watching a tribut to Gary Kildall, who stated that it was not 'right' for an os company to own the applications, and envisioned a competitive environment of many companies - of course others didn't see it that way and won complete control.
Oh, Msft should just go with, caricature and exaggerate their existing tendancies to comic extremes: adopt a slight nazi accent, have an ad set in a scientific 'laboratory' (with spinning tape drive cabinets in the background), Ballmer shuts down a Linux box and inserts a Win 2003 CD while white frocked lab assistants strap Linus onto an operating table, Gates strokes the cat and says, "No Mr Torvalds, I expect you to DIE!".
as long as the power 'service' deal is like the software deal - that is, no hard guarenteed QoS with monetary consequences - then yes, you are going to have to live with a certain level of failure, that is, when push comes to shove, a business HAS to put staying solvent over customer service, just like Msft cannot afford to fix every bug before rushing a release out to market, the comsumer inconvenience of a problem doesn't figure into their calculations, esp. for a regulated or unregulated monopoly.
The shipwreck of humanity is largely built on false pretenses, a govt. can rack up huge debts and delay payments while realizing those lab in the sky dreams, whereas a business just lets things go to ruin but does balance the books and richly pays the principle owners.
The extreme form of capitalism is the absentee owner, whether of land or whatnot, has legal rights to a capital property, like a slum, collects as big a check possible from it, and hires the cheapest labor possible to manage it untill fully depreciated. You've all heard stories about slum dwellers who cannot get the owners to do basic repairs like fix the leaky roof - the cost of doing so would detract from the owners yacht fees and gambling expenses.
MS focus is on making computers easy for the everyman to use, and thus sell beaucoup license - unfortunately that includes the criminal / terrorists / spammers / worm author / etc.
he'd have chucked his invention in the trash and announced voice over wire, if not impossible, something not desirable. "I had this vision - once the 'telephone', as I call it, had been installed in households everywhere, becoming an essential instrument, suddenly every quack medicine peddlar would begin abusing it. Mark Twain was right, I should not have invented it".
when you see comments like "appoint a panel of experts" you just know there will be lots of bits printed, lots of blustery speeches, strongly worded condemnations, etc. and when it's all over, absolutely nothing will change.
This just goes to show how much more wetware 'computing' there is to language than a mere mathematical parsing of characters - you almost have to have an intuitive 'feel' and cognitive background, a common experiential consciousness to communicate. A computer cannot easily be programmed to 'understand' a written sentence because it has not lived, all it can do is match strings and spit out canned responses programmed by someone who has. I mean, you know - this shows how much of 'communication' is in the mind of the receiver, like being able to enjoy a song you know on a radio that's full of static and a very poor signal, because you can fill in the missing information.
TFT has been proven a successful strategy too. I use it all the time and it's a very effective natural enforcement of the golden rule (original version, do unto others* etc), good training for the naive. The 'just take it' strategy only encourages the offensive behavior.
[ * that is to say, I DO 'do unto others', but if THEY 'cheat', then I cheat right back untill they 'get it', that cooperation is more profitable overall ]
Also see the Vth amendment to the US constitution (void where prohibited): "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".
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where are the A-Class players for Microsoft?
Marketing and Legal.
Of course, the emBallmer is only passingly familiar with that little industry news issue, they wouldn't actually be financially involved with such behavior as casting aspersions on a competing product not based on any technical competence.
If they use a dollar symbol somwhere
Msft (I must be a stock broker!) uses $ signs all the time, interestingly, often for things that are HIDDEN.
Why should anyone in the world buy if it's on the Internet
That exact same sentiment was expressed here recently in response to the Windows iTunes launch: (paraphrasing) "I'm not going to buy something when I can get it for free!"
Frankly, the honor system doesn't work, and the cheaters spoil it for all the honest 'fair use' folks, but that's the way it's always been. In the home theatre you buy a ticket, you see the movie. It's that simple. The system of 'here's the movie, suggested donation is $4' just won't work. Just ask any 'shareware' author who gets, if lucky, one payment for every 10 downloads.
A lot of these polls, just like movie Oscars etc inevitably show how people simply vote like the media advertising tells them to - a few pop stars and influential news anchors propagate their opinions and it quickly becomes common sense opinion amongst the populist crowd seeking to be with the 'in' group. While I'm often ashamed of my fellow human's lack of critical thinking, I have to remember that the average IQ is by definition 100 and most are intellectual followers of leaders.
I was SOOO proud of having NEVER seen the goatse.cx picture too.
I always liked that version ;)
;)) (i.e., it's easy to change a school pledge, very costly and unwieldly to redesign money - does the new USD $20 just starting to circulate still say "IN GOD WE TRUST*" over the White House?
Lets take bets on when the referance to GOD on USD money is challenged in the supreme count, bet THAT one looses
* all others pay cash
It's DISPLAYING them that gets difficult. To shoot, take something like a Nikon CoolPix 775 (what I use) , and put in a frame of some kind so you can slide it back and forth a few inches without changing any other dimension. Point at a static scene, snap, move over 2 inches, and snap. There you have a full stereographic representation of the scene just like your eyes would see it.
.jps format, and then this program (free demo for 30 pictures or so) - jpsviewer can take those two .jpg photos you just took, combine them into a format you can view with the shutter glasses using sync doubling, page flipping, etc. I was amazed at how easy it was. Turns out that some other pictures on the web were taken with the 'single camera' method because you can see some, like castles in Germany, have a car on a distant road in one eye, but not in the other eye ;))
But how to view? I was playing around with my iArt shutter glasses, researching stereo pictures, found the
Yeah, Atari Super Pong.
If you count analog 'hardware' there's my granddad's 1940 RCA radio console standing in the corner - cleaned and re-cap'd, it plays every other night. Has shortwave too! And an input for 'new' formats like 'FM' and 'TV'.
There's also a Pocket PC C64 emulator. If it's anything like the Atari Pocket PC 800 emulator it won't be too shabby. I'm just starting to use the PocketAtari for Kennedy Approach ATC game, chess and dungeon explorer. Of course arcade games like Defender don't play too well on the little swivel joystick.
--Atari die hard
My first computer was an Atari 400.
;) At this moment I'm trying to get an 800 emulator running on an ipaq 1945. In 1985 I strongly recall the clerk at Sears giving me funny looks for paying $50 for a cassette tape of Zaxxon - but it was much better than chucking quarters into the arcade machine ;)
You should definitely upgrade to an Atari 800 or an 800XL
Profits should be second to workers.
how do you pay workers if there are no profits? Do you expect people to work for nothing?? Nobody should prop up a failing industry making products nobody buys just because that's all the employees know how to do. Market demand and careers change, especially in the tech sector. We don't want something like the old Soviet Union workers sham where "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us".
only took about 15 seconds to find something contrary to that old stereotype
Just look at the chart - the tech laden NASDAQ sucked in 00, 01 and 02, but so far 03 is doing much better. Investors are coming back from their 3 year vacation, hopefully wiser from their bubble years, and employment wont be far behind.
This is getting to be an age old argument pitting the ethics of academics, scholars, programmers, developers and scientists against the needs of businessfolk, stockholders, accountants and salespeople - these are two different conflicting views of what is 'right' and 'good' and as long as the former need to find jobs to pay the bills the later will usually win out. Cf Microsoft, et al.
Innovation to an academic means advancing the state of the art - Innovation to a businessguy means a new gimmick or trick for making lots of dough.
I was just watching a tribut to Gary Kildall, who stated that it was not 'right' for an os company to own the applications, and envisioned a competitive environment of many companies - of course others didn't see it that way and won complete control.
Oh, Msft should just go with, caricature and exaggerate their existing tendancies to comic extremes: adopt a slight nazi accent, have an ad set in a scientific 'laboratory' (with spinning tape drive cabinets in the background), Ballmer shuts down a Linux box and inserts a Win 2003 CD while white frocked lab assistants strap Linus onto an operating table, Gates strokes the cat and says, "No Mr Torvalds, I expect you to DIE!".
as long as the power 'service' deal is like the software deal - that is, no hard guarenteed QoS with monetary consequences - then yes, you are going to have to live with a certain level of failure, that is, when push comes to shove, a business HAS to put staying solvent over customer service, just like Msft cannot afford to fix every bug before rushing a release out to market, the comsumer inconvenience of a problem doesn't figure into their calculations, esp. for a regulated or unregulated monopoly.
The shipwreck of humanity is largely built on false pretenses, a govt. can rack up huge debts and delay payments while realizing those lab in the sky dreams, whereas a business just lets things go to ruin but does balance the books and richly pays the principle owners.
The extreme form of capitalism is the absentee owner, whether of land or whatnot, has legal rights to a capital property, like a slum, collects as big a check possible from it, and hires the cheapest labor possible to manage it untill fully depreciated. You've all heard stories about slum dwellers who cannot get the owners to do basic repairs like fix the leaky roof - the cost of doing so would detract from the owners yacht fees and gambling expenses.
MS focus is on making computers easy for the everyman to use, and thus sell beaucoup license - unfortunately that includes the criminal / terrorists / spammers / worm author / etc.
he'd have chucked his invention in the trash and announced voice over wire, if not impossible, something not desirable. "I had this vision - once the 'telephone', as I call it, had been installed in households everywhere, becoming an essential instrument, suddenly every quack medicine peddlar would begin abusing it. Mark Twain was right, I should not have invented it".
when you see comments like "appoint a panel of experts" you just know there will be lots of bits printed, lots of blustery speeches, strongly worded condemnations, etc. and when it's all over, absolutely nothing will change.
At lease here's Doug Engelbart's patent on the mouse - don't know if a 1964 prototype still exists or not.
get real time reports on condition in the affected area. Net control is actually in Austin TX.
This just goes to show how much more wetware 'computing' there is to language than a mere mathematical parsing of characters - you almost have to have an intuitive 'feel' and cognitive background, a common experiential consciousness to communicate. A computer cannot easily be programmed to 'understand' a written sentence because it has not lived, all it can do is match strings and spit out canned responses programmed by someone who has. I mean, you know - this shows how much of 'communication' is in the mind of the receiver, like being able to enjoy a song you know on a radio that's full of static and a very poor signal, because you can fill in the missing information.
I'm quite happy with a tit for tat retaliation.
TFT has been proven a successful strategy too. I use it all the time and it's a very effective natural enforcement of the golden rule (original version, do unto others* etc), good training for the naive. The 'just take it' strategy only encourages the offensive behavior.
[ * that is to say, I DO 'do unto others', but if THEY 'cheat', then I cheat right back untill they 'get it', that cooperation is more profitable overall ]
Miranda: "You have the right to remail silent"
Also see the Vth amendment to the US constitution (void where prohibited): "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".