As others have pointed out, they'll probably have more than one vehicle. I would also add that there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that there's be enough demand for 52 launches a year in the long term, though they could possibly sustain it for maybe a few months to a year after launch. After that, the novelty value will have worn off, and a trip in this thing will be looking like pretty damn poor value for money.
I was searching for a suitable dubya quote to make a witty reply - in particular I was searching for a quote containing a reference to both the words "freedom" and "truth". Imaginge my surprise to find most pages of dubya quotes I found, such as this one, contain numerous references to "freedom" but few or in this case no references to "truth". Not one. Does this tell us something about the man?
1. The first principle goes to the installation of any software.
"We will ensure that Microsoft will design Windows in ways that make it easy for people to add non-Microsoft features," Smith said.
No. 2 is easy access: Computer manufacturers are free to add icons, shortcuts and the like to the Windows Start menu and other places used to access software programs so that customers can easily find them, Microsoft said.
No. 3 is defaults. Microsoft will design Windows so as to let computer manufacturers and users set non-Microsoft programs to operate by default in certain categories, such as Web browsing and media playback, Microsoft said; computer manufacturers can set these defaults as they please when building new PCs.
No. 4 is exclusive promotion of non-Microsoft programs, Smith said.
"This is an important new issue in regard to things like media and Internet search, as we are broadening to adopt this for Internet search as well," he said, indicating that Microsoft's fierce competition with Google aside, the company is dedicated to this principle.
Guru Jakob Nielsen offers advice on designing applications for usability. Click here to watch the video.
No. 5 is business terms: Microsoft will not retaliate against any computer manufacturer that supports non-Microsoft software, Smith said.
To provide transparency on this point, Microsoft will post a standard volume-based price list to a Web site that is accessible to computer manufacturers, as it has under the U.S. antitrust ruling, he said.
Principle No. 6 deals with APIs. Microsoft provides the developer community with a broad range of innovative operating system services, via documented APIs (application programming interfaces), for use in developing state-of-the-art applications.
And the U.S. antitrust ruling requires that Microsoft disclose all of the interfaces internal to Windows called by "middleware" within the operating system, Smith said.
Principle No. 7 involves Internet services, where Microsoft is contributing to innovation in the area of Internet services with services that the company calls Windows Live, Smith said.
"Microsoft will design Windows Live as a product that is separate from Windows. Customers will be free to choose Windows with or without Windows Live," the company said.
No. 8 is Open Internet access, where Microsoft will design and license Windows so that it does not block access to any lawful Web site or impose any fee for reaching any non-Microsoft Web site or using any non-Microsoft Web service, Smith said.
Principle No. 9 is "no exclusivity," Smith said.
The U.S. antitrust ruling provides that Microsoft may not enter into contracts that require any third party to promote Windows or any "middleware" in Windows on an exclusive basis and Microsoft has pledged to continue this, Smith said.
Next Page: Microsoft's pledges.
Principles 10 through 12 deal with interoperability for users and say that Microsoft will make its communications protocols available for commercial release, the company will generally license patents on its operating system inventions, and the company is committed to supporting industry standards.
I just went through a bunch of hits from Google news as well as the TFA - hundreds of stories all saying Microsoft has published these 12 tenets, not one actually listing them. WTF?
Unless you consider the actaul act of surveillence an abuse, there have been no "abuses".
Most epople consider improperly authorized surveillance an abuse, I think you'll find.
No one has been blackmailed or otherwise had any information misused.
I think you meant to say "No one has been blackmailed or otherwise had any information misused as far as I know." Big difference, and they might well not be in a position to be shouting about it.
Just thinking of possible alternate sources of prehistoric yellow glass, I know volcanic glass is usually black (obsidian), but surely there are some situations in which molten lava melts sand of various compositions that happen to be in its path, and therefore could conceivably result in other colors of glass? And I know there are no volcanoes in Egypt, but it could have been brought from elsewhere, the Egyptians were known to do a bit of trading now and again. Since they don't actually seem to have any actual evidence for the meteorite theory, it seems just as plausible.
they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user experience, and many other specialized capabilities
The only "rich user experience" I want from my search engine is to experience a set of results rich in accuracy, without any other bullshit. Unfortunately I suspect this guys idea of "rich user experience" is mostly the kind of crap I want to avoid.
While I agree with what you're generally saying, I have to say that yahoo is my second choice after google, its results actually often seem to be much more up to date than google these days. If it wasn't for the interface, it might actually be in the running as my 1st choice search engine.
which by the way Opera on the PocketPC is worth the money it beats the crap out of all mobile browsers
Well, I tried it for a while a couple of months back, and I ain't switching from NetFront on my iPAQ. And when I do it will probably be to Minimo (the Mozilla browser for small devices). Opera for PDA/phones is quite fast and stable, but lacks a lot of features.
I couldn't disagree more. One of the things that kept me with the original Mozilla suite for so long, rather than switching to Firefox was the ability to trigger a search from the address bar. Now that Firefox can do the same (and not waste screen real estate with an unneccesary extra box), I've switched. What do you possibly gain by having a separate search box? I just don't get it.
I'm totally with you on that. Although I can understand why newbs^H^H^H^H^Hsome people might want a separate search box, the convenience of being able to search from the URL bar is a boon for many.
Actually I type this I'm not sure if we're talking about quicksearches, or just the default "I feel lucky" google search when a non-URL is entered, but I'm a fan of both.
You know, when you bring something back from the dead, it's never quite the same again, and you usually wish you hadn't. Let the company die while people still have fond memories of the brand, I say.
Without being convicted of a crime, but having been convicted of a civil offense. Contrary to what the quoted passage appears to say, suspicion will not be enough to earn someone an ASBO.
So the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, except for a lucky few. If you think Wal*Mart or Nike are exploitive, they are nothing compared to gambling estalishments.
Both rich and poor gamble, and I haven't seen any particular evidence to show that gambling plays a significant role in the poor getting poorer. And actually there's nothing particularly wrong in the relatively poor "investing" in, say, the lottery, so long as the stake is small enough. Buying a dollar lottery ticket once a week gives you a (very long) shot at getting very rich. Investing that same weekly dollar in a "sensible" investment may earn you a few thousand dollars over your complete working life (barring stock market crashes etc). Contrary to the arrogant assertions of many that a lottery is "a tax on the stupid", most players are well aware of the odds, and are willing to sacrifice that few thousand dollars they could earn from "sensible" investments, for the outside chance of becoming fabulously rich. It's a perfectly rational risk-versus-reward choice.
Searching google for "bible gambling", the first hit gives us this:
Question: "What does the Bible say about gambling? Is gambling a sin?"
Answer: Gambling can be defined as "risking money in an attempt to multiply the money on something that is against the odds." The Bible does not specifically condemn gambling, betting, or the lottery. The Bible does warn us, however, to stay away from the love of money (1 Timothy 6:10; Hebrews 13:5). Scripture also encourages us to stay away from attempts to "get rich quick" (Proverbs 13:11; 23:5; Ecclesiastes 5:10). Gambling most definitely is focused on the love of money and undeniably tempts people with the promise of quick and easy riches.
The difference is somewhat semantic. Many people take emulation to mean "machine emulation" like Bochs for example, where you are emulating the entire hardware of the machine, and performance therefore sucks. What's commonly termed as virtualization emulates some items of hardware, but code is running natively on the CPU.
In reality, the terms emulation are somewhat interchangeable - you can say "full virtualization", which means the entire machine hardware is virtualized (what is commonly called emulation), and you could say "partial emulation" when referring to what is commonly referred to as virtualization. Indeed, you might even call the likes of WINE "API emulation", though that might be stretching it somewhat.
That's a strange one, because the ISP in question is well known to be p2p-unfriendly, in terms of blocking ports and throttling traffic. I'd have thought they'd be first in line to roll over for the BPI, can't help but wonder if their response is mainly for the good publicity it will generate.
There may be a lot of junk in orbit, but there's also a lot of space up there, the chances of being hit by anything significant probably aren't that high.
Plus, ain't you ever thrown anything at a balloon? It'll just bounce off, man;D
I assume the majority of that growth must be on Windows, but I'm wondering if Firefox usage is growing at the same rate on different OSs, since they have different alternatives. Mac and *nix users have some pretty decent non-Firefox browsers that arent available to Windows users. Just curious, anyone got relevant stats?
Paying the fine doesn't release them from having to comply with the ruling. They now have to pay the fine and comply with the ruling, otherwise further fines or sanctions are possible.
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As others have pointed out, they'll probably have more than one vehicle. I would also add that there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that there's be enough demand for 52 launches a year in the long term, though they could possibly sustain it for maybe a few months to a year after launch. After that, the novelty value will have worn off, and a trip in this thing will be looking like pretty damn poor value for money.
I quake at the very thought!
To risk a little bit of theoretical "personal privacy of innocent Americans" seems like an extremely reasonable price to pay.
Posted by an Anonymous Coward. Now that's irony, Alanis.
I was searching for a suitable dubya quote to make a witty reply - in particular I was searching for a quote containing a reference to both the words "freedom" and "truth". Imaginge my surprise to find most pages of dubya quotes I found, such as this one, contain numerous references to "freedom" but few or in this case no references to "truth". Not one. Does this tell us something about the man?
1. The first principle goes to the installation of any software.
"We will ensure that Microsoft will design Windows in ways that make it easy for people to add non-Microsoft features," Smith said.
No. 2 is easy access: Computer manufacturers are free to add icons, shortcuts and the like to the Windows Start menu and other places used to access software programs so that customers can easily find them, Microsoft said.
No. 3 is defaults. Microsoft will design Windows so as to let computer manufacturers and users set non-Microsoft programs to operate by default in certain categories, such as Web browsing and media playback, Microsoft said; computer manufacturers can set these defaults as they please when building new PCs.
No. 4 is exclusive promotion of non-Microsoft programs, Smith said.
"This is an important new issue in regard to things like media and Internet search, as we are broadening to adopt this for Internet search as well," he said, indicating that Microsoft's fierce competition with Google aside, the company is dedicated to this principle.
Guru Jakob Nielsen offers advice on designing applications for usability. Click here to watch the video.
No. 5 is business terms: Microsoft will not retaliate against any computer manufacturer that supports non-Microsoft software, Smith said.
To provide transparency on this point, Microsoft will post a standard volume-based price list to a Web site that is accessible to computer manufacturers, as it has under the U.S. antitrust ruling, he said.
Principle No. 6 deals with APIs. Microsoft provides the developer community with a broad range of innovative operating system services, via documented APIs (application programming interfaces), for use in developing state-of-the-art applications.
And the U.S. antitrust ruling requires that Microsoft disclose all of the interfaces internal to Windows called by "middleware" within the operating system, Smith said.
Principle No. 7 involves Internet services, where Microsoft is contributing to innovation in the area of Internet services with services that the company calls Windows Live, Smith said.
"Microsoft will design Windows Live as a product that is separate from Windows. Customers will be free to choose Windows with or without Windows Live," the company said.
No. 8 is Open Internet access, where Microsoft will design and license Windows so that it does not block access to any lawful Web site or impose any fee for reaching any non-Microsoft Web site or using any non-Microsoft Web service, Smith said.
Principle No. 9 is "no exclusivity," Smith said.
The U.S. antitrust ruling provides that Microsoft may not enter into contracts that require any third party to promote Windows or any "middleware" in Windows on an exclusive basis and Microsoft has pledged to continue this, Smith said.
Next Page: Microsoft's pledges.
Principles 10 through 12 deal with interoperability for users and say that Microsoft will make its communications protocols available for commercial release, the company will generally license patents on its operating system inventions, and the company is committed to supporting industry standards.
I just went through a bunch of hits from Google news as well as the TFA - hundreds of stories all saying Microsoft has published these 12 tenets, not one actually listing them. WTF?
Most epople consider improperly authorized surveillance an abuse, I think you'll find.
I think you meant to say "No one has been blackmailed or otherwise had any information misused as far as I know." Big difference, and they might well not be in a position to be shouting about it.
Ok, now I've finished reading backwards to the bit about the chunks of glass scattered in the desert, please shoot me.
Just thinking of possible alternate sources of prehistoric yellow glass, I know volcanic glass is usually black (obsidian), but surely there are some situations in which molten lava melts sand of various compositions that happen to be in its path, and therefore could conceivably result in other colors of glass? And I know there are no volcanoes in Egypt, but it could have been brought from elsewhere, the Egyptians were known to do a bit of trading now and again. Since they don't actually seem to have any actual evidence for the meteorite theory, it seems just as plausible.
they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user experience, and many other specialized capabilities
The only "rich user experience" I want from my search engine is to experience a set of results rich in accuracy, without any other bullshit. Unfortunately I suspect this guys idea of "rich user experience" is mostly the kind of crap I want to avoid.
While I agree with what you're generally saying, I have to say that yahoo is my second choice after google, its results actually often seem to be much more up to date than google these days. If it wasn't for the interface, it might actually be in the running as my 1st choice search engine.
Well, I tried it for a while a couple of months back, and I ain't switching from NetFront on my iPAQ. And when I do it will probably be to Minimo (the Mozilla browser for small devices). Opera for PDA/phones is quite fast and stable, but lacks a lot of features.
I'm totally with you on that. Although I can understand why newbs^H^H^H^H^Hsome people might want a separate search box, the convenience of being able to search from the URL bar is a boon for many.
Actually I type this I'm not sure if we're talking about quicksearches, or just the default "I feel lucky" google search when a non-URL is entered, but I'm a fan of both.
You know, when you bring something back from the dead, it's never quite the same again, and you usually wish you hadn't. Let the company die while people still have fond memories of the brand, I say.
Without being convicted of a crime, but having been convicted of a civil offense. Contrary to what the quoted passage appears to say, suspicion will not be enough to earn someone an ASBO.
Both rich and poor gamble, and I haven't seen any particular evidence to show that gambling plays a significant role in the poor getting poorer. And actually there's nothing particularly wrong in the relatively poor "investing" in, say, the lottery, so long as the stake is small enough. Buying a dollar lottery ticket once a week gives you a (very long) shot at getting very rich. Investing that same weekly dollar in a "sensible" investment may earn you a few thousand dollars over your complete working life (barring stock market crashes etc). Contrary to the arrogant assertions of many that a lottery is "a tax on the stupid", most players are well aware of the odds, and are willing to sacrifice that few thousand dollars they could earn from "sensible" investments, for the outside chance of becoming fabulously rich. It's a perfectly rational risk-versus-reward choice.
Searching google for "bible gambling", the first hit gives us this:
Question: "What does the Bible say about gambling? Is gambling a sin?"
Answer: Gambling can be defined as "risking money in an attempt to multiply the money on something that is against the odds." The Bible does not specifically condemn gambling, betting, or the lottery. The Bible does warn us, however, to stay away from the love of money (1 Timothy 6:10; Hebrews 13:5). Scripture also encourages us to stay away from attempts to "get rich quick" (Proverbs 13:11; 23:5; Ecclesiastes 5:10). Gambling most definitely is focused on the love of money and undeniably tempts people with the promise of quick and easy riches.
Aha, I was wondering what the proper word for a dupe-de-dupe was!
Reverse the name to get the true meaning:
Ohloh -> ho | Ho
Ex MS employees "helping" FOSS with a project called "ho | HO" (backwards)? Do I need to polish my tinfoil hat, or is that suspicious?
Jeez, not had enough caffeine, that should read something more like:
"...but code executed in the guest OS is run natively on the host machine's CPU, and thus runs pretty much as fast as on a native machine."
Then it might actually make some kind of sense.
The difference is somewhat semantic. Many people take emulation to mean "machine emulation" like Bochs for example, where you are emulating the entire hardware of the machine, and performance therefore sucks. What's commonly termed as virtualization emulates some items of hardware, but code is running natively on the CPU.
In reality, the terms emulation are somewhat interchangeable - you can say "full virtualization", which means the entire machine hardware is virtualized (what is commonly called emulation), and you could say "partial emulation" when referring to what is commonly referred to as virtualization. Indeed, you might even call the likes of WINE "API emulation", though that might be stretching it somewhat.
That's a strange one, because the ISP in question is well known to be p2p-unfriendly, in terms of blocking ports and throttling traffic. I'd have thought they'd be first in line to roll over for the BPI, can't help but wonder if their response is mainly for the good publicity it will generate.
There may be a lot of junk in orbit, but there's also a lot of space up there, the chances of being hit by anything significant probably aren't that high.
;D
Plus, ain't you ever thrown anything at a balloon? It'll just bounce off, man
I assume the majority of that growth must be on Windows, but I'm wondering if Firefox usage is growing at the same rate on different OSs, since they have different alternatives. Mac and *nix users have some pretty decent non-Firefox browsers that arent available to Windows users. Just curious, anyone got relevant stats?
Paying the fine doesn't release them from having to comply with the ruling. They now have to pay the fine and comply with the ruling, otherwise further fines or sanctions are possible.