Couldn't these linux companies sue Microsoft for libel? They could bring them to court and either force them to stop spreading these lies or at least deal with the issue and resolve it.
Peak oil does not mean that oil production plateaus or even declines. It means that oil production is now growing slower than the growth of oil consumption. That's fine and dandy that oil production will plateau in 24 years, but production will grow non-linearly to the plateau point. Meanwhile the consumption curve will continue to grow faster than the production curve. Well, I suppose as the cost of oil increases, the consumption rate of change will decrease over time as well. Either way, the point is that we cannot continue like this.
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According to the AAPS website there are 9 physicians' offices in the country which practice free market medicine. It's great that you have one where ever you are, but it's totally unrealistic to expect any reasonable number of other people to find the same thing in their local area.
1) Cops who are corrupt
2) Cops who are not corrupt, but ignore the corruption of others
3) Cops too stupid to know what's going on around them
I know plenty of cops that fit into varying categories above. Personally, I don't give a shit if some guy dealing drugs to kids (note to kids) or some guy abusing his wife gets an extra knock to the skull. At the same time, cops are typically dicks to people for no reason. They spend 90% of their time raising taxes (writing tickets) or playing cleanup after some dumbass.
That's exactly right. None of the tools in OSX are revolutionary. Mac did an excellent job of integrating currently existing technology/applications and prettying it up so that it's very useful for the consumer. That's not flamebait, that's a fact. I should have known that any post I made that claimed Apple was not the God of all things would get flamebait. I just call them like I see them. Apple has a great place in the market in terms of integrating and making products useful. But they buy those products (or get them for free like BSD code), integrate them, pretty them up, and sell.
Microsoft and Apple are both marketing companies which hock average products mostly produced by outside labor. They slap on some shiny, do a little integration, and make $Billions. Microsoft is not a software company, its a software integrator and marketing firm. There's a difference. The advertising business model is a great fit for Microsoft. They will have some growing pains as the try to get into marketing in new markets (doesn't that sound weird to say), but I think they will do well. 99% of general use software is going to be a commodity in the very near future. What will make it worth money is shiny, integration, and marketing.
Once a few municipalities start mandating the use of this material, it will enjoy the economy of scale and competition between vendors. The price will come down. I'd be surprised if within 10 years it's not closer to 5% more than regular concrete.
Small company: After working part time for only six months I was put solely in charge of enhancements to our main product for one of the largest buildings in the world (you would recognize it by name).
Large company: This is a large non-IT industry corp that I'm sure you've heard of. I have to figure out how to make major configuration changes on a system. The last person who successfully did anything with this system left the company three years ago. The source code we have compiles on average 2k smaller than the executables in production. Some of the parts were built by a company that went out of business years ago and we have no source code for those parts. The code has zero source control.
I haven't been in the business for that long (only ~4 years) but the small company seemed to have their act together more than my current company.
Federal income tax, state income tax, toll roads, 'sin' taxes on alcohol, taxes on businesses built in to the cost of things I buy. Most people wind up paying at least 35-40%+ in taxes.
Am I the only one who gets absolutely infuriated when it the g-mail on my google home page lags a second before coming up?
One thing I see a lot of developers do which really kills me is to actually load initial content with AJAX. This is the reason the Google home page is slow. Apparently other developers disagree with me, but I've always generated the initial load data server side on the original request and then used AJAX for updates only. AJAX shouldn't be generating your entire page layout from a call in the body onLoad.
You're missing the point. Your customers who left from GoDaddy are the vast minority. GoDaddy will make millions and laugh at you and your customer all the way to the bank. I applaud your business and I personally have left GoDaddy for my needs to a supplier with better customer service. However, most people want Wal-Mart prices and are willing to accept Wal-Mart quality.
You don't even have the RIGHT to a telephone conversation unmonitored by a government agent without a warrant. Start there, and then come back to me with your piddly little 'I want to see source code' complaints. Asking to see the source from a software company is like asking for the recipe for Coke from Coca Cola. One day you'll just have to get over the fact that most companies will not embrace the open source movement. Whining doesn't help.
You're talking about security through obscurity. Not publishing an API doesn't magically make it not exist. Instead, it leaves the power in those bored or motivated enough to figure out what those low level kernel APIs are. Selling the keys to those APIs on the black market will be very very profitable. Microsoft is effectively weeding out other people on team good (anti-virus software producers). Team evil, however, will still be just as strong.
Oh please, get over yourself. Someone made a typo on a firewall rule or an e-mail and you go on some huge rant about how MS sucks and consumers everywhere should stop buying their products. It's not a religion, it's a tool. MS has some of the best tools available on the market for some tasks. Other companies like Apple, IBM, Sun, etc. have better tools for some tasks. When you try to convince people to alter the MS intertia by ranting over this insignificant thing then you give the 'other' camp a bad name. And it doesn't matter whether you're an Apple fanboy, linux fanboy, or just anti-MS. There's two main categories in most of the business world: MS and other. You give other a bad name.
I find it very unlikely that someone will create a virus that will massively disable Windows machines around the globe. It won't happen for the same reason viruses typically are not destructive anymore. Once a virus has taken the system out of commission it ceases to spread to other machines. Virii need to keep their hosts alive in order to propogate. They WILL crack it to authenticate illegitimate versions of Windows, because that's like being able to print your own money.
Maybe not with 2k7, but you can bet on the fact that they have plans for this sort of thing. In the current situation there are TONS of pirated office products lying around. With the subscription/web model you can't really steal it as easily. Worst case scenario you can share accounts among people, but all you have to do is kill one session if that user re-logs in. Having an ad-based version will bring in a fair bit of revenue from people who would have normally 'borrowed' a copy from work anyways. I bet they could drop the price by 1/3, give away a free ad based version and still increase revenue. Plus, EVERY business is looking to increase their RMR (recurring monthly income for the non-economists). Look for something from them before the end of the decade.
By the way, if european cars get better mileage, why not buy a european car??
Believe it or not, the most fuel efficient European vehicles are not legal to drive in the United States. Car manufacturers won't/don't sell them here, nor do they pay for the emmisions testing on those vehicles so that average joe could not get that car imported. Why? Because they can sell studid fat americans stupid fat cars that have a higher markup. And/or presumably there's a tie in with the oil industry.
Cisco stock was something like $150 in the late nineties to early 2ks during the dot boom. Guess what? All of those Cisco contracts are for 7 years. All of that old hardware is about to be replaced with more modern equipment. Cisco, and other hardware companies in that space, are about to see another boon. Buy some stock, CSCO is already at $22 up from a dismal $14 a few months ago. When this transition takes place our government will give all the telcos more truckloads of money and then some higher quality bandwidth will trickle down to us.
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Couldn't these linux companies sue Microsoft for libel? They could bring them to court and either force them to stop spreading these lies or at least deal with the issue and resolve it.
US health service is second only to our education!
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Peak oil does not mean that oil production plateaus or even declines. It means that oil production is now growing slower than the growth of oil consumption. That's fine and dandy that oil production will plateau in 24 years, but production will grow non-linearly to the plateau point. Meanwhile the consumption curve will continue to grow faster than the production curve. Well, I suppose as the cost of oil increases, the consumption rate of change will decrease over time as well. Either way, the point is that we cannot continue like this.
According to the AAPS website there are 9 physicians' offices in the country which practice free market medicine. It's great that you have one where ever you are, but it's totally unrealistic to expect any reasonable number of other people to find the same thing in their local area.
I don't believe there has been enough real-world experimentation to justify your statement.
1) Cops who are corrupt
2) Cops who are not corrupt, but ignore the corruption of others
3) Cops too stupid to know what's going on around them
I know plenty of cops that fit into varying categories above. Personally, I don't give a shit if some guy dealing drugs to kids (note to kids) or some guy abusing his wife gets an extra knock to the skull. At the same time, cops are typically dicks to people for no reason. They spend 90% of their time raising taxes (writing tickets) or playing cleanup after some dumbass.
Actually, Quicken runs under Crossover Linux according to this slashdot article.
That's exactly right. None of the tools in OSX are revolutionary. Mac did an excellent job of integrating currently existing technology/applications and prettying it up so that it's very useful for the consumer. That's not flamebait, that's a fact. I should have known that any post I made that claimed Apple was not the God of all things would get flamebait. I just call them like I see them. Apple has a great place in the market in terms of integrating and making products useful. But they buy those products (or get them for free like BSD code), integrate them, pretty them up, and sell.
Microsoft and Apple are both marketing companies which hock average products mostly produced by outside labor. They slap on some shiny, do a little integration, and make $Billions. Microsoft is not a software company, its a software integrator and marketing firm. There's a difference. The advertising business model is a great fit for Microsoft. They will have some growing pains as the try to get into marketing in new markets (doesn't that sound weird to say), but I think they will do well. 99% of general use software is going to be a commodity in the very near future. What will make it worth money is shiny, integration, and marketing.
Once a few municipalities start mandating the use of this material, it will enjoy the economy of scale and competition between vendors. The price will come down. I'd be surprised if within 10 years it's not closer to 5% more than regular concrete.
Small company: After working part time for only six months I was put solely in charge of enhancements to our main product for one of the largest buildings in the world (you would recognize it by name).
Large company: This is a large non-IT industry corp that I'm sure you've heard of. I have to figure out how to make major configuration changes on a system. The last person who successfully did anything with this system left the company three years ago. The source code we have compiles on average 2k smaller than the executables in production. Some of the parts were built by a company that went out of business years ago and we have no source code for those parts. The code has zero source control.
I haven't been in the business for that long (only ~4 years) but the small company seemed to have their act together more than my current company.
Federal income tax, state income tax, toll roads, 'sin' taxes on alcohol, taxes on businesses built in to the cost of things I buy. Most people wind up paying at least 35-40%+ in taxes.
Am I the only one who gets absolutely infuriated when it the g-mail on my google home page lags a second before coming up?
One thing I see a lot of developers do which really kills me is to actually load initial content with AJAX. This is the reason the Google home page is slow. Apparently other developers disagree with me, but I've always generated the initial load data server side on the original request and then used AJAX for updates only. AJAX shouldn't be generating your entire page layout from a call in the body onLoad.
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You're missing the point. Your customers who left from GoDaddy are the vast minority. GoDaddy will make millions and laugh at you and your customer all the way to the bank. I applaud your business and I personally have left GoDaddy for my needs to a supplier with better customer service. However, most people want Wal-Mart prices and are willing to accept Wal-Mart quality.
put up a couple of ads and laugh your way to the bank. Forget tubes, welcome to the advertising world.
You don't even have the RIGHT to a telephone conversation unmonitored by a government agent without a warrant. Start there, and then come back to me with your piddly little 'I want to see source code' complaints. Asking to see the source from a software company is like asking for the recipe for Coke from Coca Cola. One day you'll just have to get over the fact that most companies will not embrace the open source movement. Whining doesn't help.
You're talking about security through obscurity. Not publishing an API doesn't magically make it not exist. Instead, it leaves the power in those bored or motivated enough to figure out what those low level kernel APIs are. Selling the keys to those APIs on the black market will be very very profitable. Microsoft is effectively weeding out other people on team good (anti-virus software producers). Team evil, however, will still be just as strong.
Oh please, get over yourself. Someone made a typo on a firewall rule or an e-mail and you go on some huge rant about how MS sucks and consumers everywhere should stop buying their products. It's not a religion, it's a tool. MS has some of the best tools available on the market for some tasks. Other companies like Apple, IBM, Sun, etc. have better tools for some tasks. When you try to convince people to alter the MS intertia by ranting over this insignificant thing then you give the 'other' camp a bad name. And it doesn't matter whether you're an Apple fanboy, linux fanboy, or just anti-MS. There's two main categories in most of the business world: MS and other. You give other a bad name.
Calling HP a top PC maker is like calling Wal-Mart the top retailer. Technically it's true, but that doesn't really tell the whole story.
I find it very unlikely that someone will create a virus that will massively disable Windows machines around the globe. It won't happen for the same reason viruses typically are not destructive anymore. Once a virus has taken the system out of commission it ceases to spread to other machines. Virii need to keep their hosts alive in order to propogate. They WILL crack it to authenticate illegitimate versions of Windows, because that's like being able to print your own money.
Maybe not with 2k7, but you can bet on the fact that they have plans for this sort of thing. In the current situation there are TONS of pirated office products lying around. With the subscription/web model you can't really steal it as easily. Worst case scenario you can share accounts among people, but all you have to do is kill one session if that user re-logs in. Having an ad-based version will bring in a fair bit of revenue from people who would have normally 'borrowed' a copy from work anyways. I bet they could drop the price by 1/3, give away a free ad based version and still increase revenue. Plus, EVERY business is looking to increase their RMR (recurring monthly income for the non-economists). Look for something from them before the end of the decade.
I challenge you to replicate the Windows API at negligible cost. If you make it, our friends at WINE would like to talk to you.
By the way, if european cars get better mileage, why not buy a european car??
Believe it or not, the most fuel efficient European vehicles are not legal to drive in the United States. Car manufacturers won't/don't sell them here, nor do they pay for the emmisions testing on those vehicles so that average joe could not get that car imported. Why? Because they can sell studid fat americans stupid fat cars that have a higher markup. And/or presumably there's a tie in with the oil industry.
Cisco stock was something like $150 in the late nineties to early 2ks during the dot boom. Guess what? All of those Cisco contracts are for 7 years. All of that old hardware is about to be replaced with more modern equipment. Cisco, and other hardware companies in that space, are about to see another boon. Buy some stock, CSCO is already at $22 up from a dismal $14 a few months ago. When this transition takes place our government will give all the telcos more truckloads of money and then some higher quality bandwidth will trickle down to us. You read it here first folks!