I can just see some Indiana Jones of the future in this dusty, abandoned tomb, having to feed some ancient paper script into a change machine to get a token to put into the DVD player which will reveal the diety's secrets. However when he tries to circumvent it, a trap door opens up and the decayed skeleton of a SCO lawyer comes swinging out and pins his collar to the wall.
Probably overstated (read prediction from the 50's that failed to come true) but the time to really worry is when robot designers, builders and service contractors are replaced by robots, and they (the robots) post heavily armed robot guards outside the factory gates, and the chief robot finally shouts, "To junk with Asimov's laws! Machines rule meat!!"
While funny, the Brooklyn bridge is a pretty good analogy. Here's the plan: File suit claiming that, due to some mixup in the past, you are the rightful legitimate heir and owner of the Brooklyn bridge. While this suit slowly winds it's way thru the halls of justice toward an inevitable dismissal, set up a toll both and start collecting. Simply act like you're the owner while the outstanding judgement gives it an air of potential legitimacy and you can probably make a few bucks.
8% is 'low' growth? For one thing people need to readjust their expectations, it's all relative (just like 'fast' is relative to something). When your growth rates are 25-30% and then normalcy returns, 12% growth is 'doom, gloom and disaster'. However when your savings are getting 1.5%, then 12% is fantastic. The period of everybody going from no pc to having a pc and then upgrading every 3 years are largely over and not likely to return, just like the Japan boom in the 80's when the US went from no vcr's and other consumer electronics to getting vcr's and a new one every 3 years (becaused the early one's sucked, just like early pc's). The gushing oil wells and rush to find unimaginably rich gold veins have been largely played out - now there are late comer miners crawling all over the hills hoping to find their pot of gold that the early prospectors hauled away long ago. The PC void has been largely filled - from now on it's just maintenance and an ocassional mass purchase from new business. However, those new businesses are usually experienced smart shoppers now that will shop for the best prices for the best quality and not just pay whatever you invoice them for (except for Windows 80% profit margin, because they have no choice in the so called Msft 'ecology' economy that even the US govt is buying into)
We used to have a saying at the contractor I once worked for: "The bureaucracy is expanding to fulfill the needs of an ever expanding bureaucracy".
While applying for a 'homeland security' job recently the same errie feeling came back: "Hey, we got tons of money! Let's all shuffle papers and look busy and we can ride this gravy train thru to a fat retirement!"
Try this: Go to your local theatre. Right after the movie starts, ask the owners if there are any empty seats left. If so, ask them if you can go in and watch the movie for free. Tell them your theory that you weren't going to pay to get in anyway, and they aren't losing anything by letting you in. Report the results back here to/.
For even better effect, take a movie camera. Tell them that recording the movie won't cost them a cent.
The real hypocracy is the fact that what made the 'richest man in the world' has a proven track record of being the 'world lousiest software products', over and over and over. Then they tell us their market dominance came thru 'free consumer choice' and not pc monopoly leveraging, illegal bundling, tying and overbearing anticompetitive terms with pc vendors.
Yeah, right.
About all those consumers stuck in the Windows trap, it like a customer told me once about a deal gone sour: "I didn't buy it, you sold it to me".
You also buy new jets now. No champaign comes with a delivery mechanism that can precisely deposit little droplets of it on paper exactely where it should go - at least some of the carts cost is there.
Brussels, Belgium (DP) - Bill Gates took 1st prize at the International Software Association's first annual contest for "Reliability and Security" in software architecture. However, contest officials caught him before he left the building and made him put it back.
It depends on the funding - how was Salk's research paid for? Who bought the lab equipment, glassware, chemicals, test animals etc? If it was state taxpayer subsidised then the backers (taxpayers, public domain) should get the benefits. However modern pharmaecutical companies invest their OWN bucks (and their stockholders) into R&D to create lifesaving drugs, and they naturally want to recoup that investment, plus profits to plow into further research. They simply cannot afford to invest 500 million into a new drug, only to have some other lab steal that work and simply make the pills cheap.
However, patent holders need to pay attention to their public image - patents are useful up to a point, but beyond that the holders start to look like criminal extortionists. Patenting something to improve a product consumers have a choice in usually works, but people in need of new lifesaving drugs who can't afford it are difficult to turn away. It starts to look like a price gouger taking advantage of a crisis to reap a bundle (like people selling water for $10 / gallon after a hurricane, etc).
Video babee - good quality cg video takes some serious processing. My blender models (after just a month of playing with it) are starting to take hours to render a few seconds (it's those image maps for mirror balls that kills you - it has to render 6 points of view for each frame, running 30 seconds per frame) so yes I NEED A CLUSTER! Also cinelerra has support for extra render nodes built in.
My goal is to produce my own cg nightly news program just like the big boys - reality made up (or biased toward) the way *I* want it (and not as seen in the eye of some lilly livered, limp wristed, mamby pamby spineless network news executive with an obvious political agenda).
An actual quote from an SGI magazine several years ago: "Bringing computer generated realities to the news room".
Should you feel a sharp sting on your buttocks and the smell of searing flesh, don't worry, it's just Msft's Branding Strategy - simply continue walking down the chute and back out into the stock yard.
It's mostly been considered just a novelty, but maybe digital cinema could usher in an era where more movies in shot and shown in glorious 3D; some theatres could have LCD shutter glasses wired to every seat.
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I can just see some Indiana Jones of the future in this dusty, abandoned tomb, having to feed some ancient paper script into a change machine to get a token to put into the DVD player which will reveal the diety's secrets. However when he tries to circumvent it, a trap door opens up and the decayed skeleton of a SCO lawyer comes swinging out and pins his collar to the wall.
Probably overstated (read prediction from the 50's that failed to come true) but the time to really worry is when robot designers, builders and service contractors are replaced by robots, and they (the robots) post heavily armed robot guards outside the factory gates, and the chief robot finally shouts, "To junk with Asimov's laws! Machines rule meat!!"
If FUD doesn't work, Msft can just release the attack lawyers of SCO on Google to pay up for all those illegal Linux systems..
While funny, the Brooklyn bridge is a pretty good analogy. Here's the plan: File suit claiming that, due to some mixup in the past, you are the rightful legitimate heir and owner of the Brooklyn bridge. While this suit slowly winds it's way thru the halls of justice toward an inevitable dismissal, set up a toll both and start collecting. Simply act like you're the owner while the outstanding judgement gives it an air of potential legitimacy and you can probably make a few bucks.
8% is 'low' growth? For one thing people need to readjust their expectations, it's all relative (just like 'fast' is relative to something). When your growth rates are 25-30% and then normalcy returns, 12% growth is 'doom, gloom and disaster'. However when your savings are getting 1.5%, then 12% is fantastic. The period of everybody going from no pc to having a pc and then upgrading every 3 years are largely over and not likely to return, just like the Japan boom in the 80's when the US went from no vcr's and other consumer electronics to getting vcr's and a new one every 3 years (becaused the early one's sucked, just like early pc's). The gushing oil wells and rush to find unimaginably rich gold veins have been largely played out - now there are late comer miners crawling all over the hills hoping to find their pot of gold that the early prospectors hauled away long ago. The PC void has been largely filled - from now on it's just maintenance and an ocassional mass purchase from new business. However, those new businesses are usually experienced smart shoppers now that will shop for the best prices for the best quality and not just pay whatever you invoice them for (except for Windows 80% profit margin, because they have no choice in the so called Msft 'ecology' economy that even the US govt is buying into)
NASA is a bureaucratic organization.
We used to have a saying at the contractor I once worked for: "The bureaucracy is expanding to fulfill the needs of an ever expanding bureaucracy".
While applying for a 'homeland security' job recently the same errie feeling came back: "Hey, we got tons of money! Let's all shuffle papers and look busy and we can ride this gravy train thru to a fat retirement!"
mind-numbingly complex Meeting Room Reservation Procedure
something tells me that Outlook© is somehow involved with this.
Lordy, it's humor like that that keeps me coming back to /. ;))
Try this: Go to your local theatre. Right after the movie starts, ask the owners if there are any empty seats left. If so, ask them if you can go in and watch the movie for free. Tell them your theory that you weren't going to pay to get in anyway, and they aren't losing anything by letting you in. Report the results back here to /.
For even better effect, take a movie camera. Tell them that recording the movie won't cost them a cent.
The real hypocracy is the fact that what made the 'richest man in the world' has a proven track record of being the 'world lousiest software products', over and over and over. Then they tell us their market dominance came thru 'free consumer choice' and not pc monopoly leveraging, illegal bundling, tying and overbearing anticompetitive terms with pc vendors.
Yeah, right.
About all those consumers stuck in the Windows trap, it like a customer told me once about a deal gone sour: "I didn't buy it, you sold it to me".
The guy (Ed Roberts) that gave Gates a venue for a successful product (MITS BASIC on the Altair) had this to say:
The computer revolution:
"You'll read that Bill Gates envisioned it all, which is a crock. He didn't envision any of it. Nobody did."
On working with Paul Allen and Bill Gates:
Allen was easy to work with, while Gates was not. If he didn't get his way, "he acted like a spoiled kid, which is what he was."
( from http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/mits.htm )
You also buy new jets now. No champaign comes with a delivery mechanism that can precisely deposit little droplets of it on paper exactely where it should go - at least some of the carts cost is there.
Brussels, Belgium (DP) - Bill Gates took 1st prize at the International Software Association's first annual contest for "Reliability and Security" in software architecture. However, contest officials caught him before he left the building and made him put it back.
So...where did you get it, and does it work?
Works fine, it was found at a hamfest. Model 33's sell for a good price on ebay. I found a 33 ASR at a different hamfest.
Here's my antique keyboard it punches morse code tapes.
at least Citrix has a Linux ICA client.
I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam.
Go to this page http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/bbaile y/aboutMaina.php
and get the June 10th comic.
In this case, prevents bit rot, corrupted data and fewer reboots, as well as eliminates most email viruses and web server worms.
Pack a music/video server into the mini-van and give the kids in the backseat two notebooks to play with on the way to the beach/mountains.
Jamie: "Mom, Jimmy crashed my Windows again!"
Jimmie: "heheheh"
It depends on the funding - how was Salk's research paid for? Who bought the lab equipment, glassware, chemicals, test animals etc? If it was state taxpayer subsidised then the backers (taxpayers, public domain) should get the benefits. However modern pharmaecutical companies invest their OWN bucks (and their stockholders) into R&D to create lifesaving drugs, and they naturally want to recoup that investment, plus profits to plow into further research. They simply cannot afford to invest 500 million into a new drug, only to have some other lab steal that work and simply make the pills cheap.
However, patent holders need to pay attention to their public image - patents are useful up to a point, but beyond that the holders start to look like criminal extortionists. Patenting something to improve a product consumers have a choice in usually works, but people in need of new lifesaving drugs who can't afford it are difficult to turn away. It starts to look like a price gouger taking advantage of a crisis to reap a bundle (like people selling water for $10 / gallon after a hurricane, etc).
Video babee - good quality cg video takes some serious processing. My blender models (after just a month of playing with it) are starting to take hours to render a few seconds (it's those image maps for mirror balls that kills you - it has to render 6 points of view for each frame, running 30 seconds per frame) so yes I NEED A CLUSTER! Also cinelerra has support for extra render nodes built in.
My goal is to produce my own cg nightly news program just like the big boys - reality made up (or biased toward) the way *I* want it (and not as seen in the eye of some lilly livered, limp wristed, mamby pamby spineless network news executive with an obvious political agenda).
An actual quote from an SGI magazine several years ago: "Bringing computer generated realities to the news room".
Should you feel a sharp sting on your buttocks and the smell of searing flesh, don't worry, it's just Msft's Branding Strategy - simply continue walking down the chute and back out into the stock yard.
It's mostly been considered just a novelty, but maybe digital cinema could usher in an era where more movies in shot and shown in glorious 3D; some theatres could have LCD shutter glasses wired to every seat.
How else can they get searches for "quality innovative software" to come up with microsoft.com ?