Your terracentric bias is patently obvious. Apolo 11 was the first time man stepped outside this planet. If our species survives a 100,000 years, that step would still be talked about like you terracentric bigots talk about Columbus circa 1492. Fall of Saigon, V-E , V-J days... come on minor people bickering about small pieces of land on a small planet orbiting a medium sized middle aged star. Nothing great.
But for us, with stars in our eyes, Appolo 11 was THE biggest physical achievement of Homo sapiens, till date. Intellectually I would rate Newton/Darwin/Einstein as the zenith, so far.
Remember everything that was meticulously preserved from those days were on non-erasable, non-rewritable medium. Magnetic tapes that could be erased and reused were pretty new, and practices for backing important data for posterity, for ever etc were not well thought out. I am sure NASA has meticulously archived and stored the blueprints of Saturn V rockets and wiring diagrams of command modules and such things printed on paper.
On a related note people restoring and cleaning and analyzing old masters and paintings by students of old masters find they were recycling the canvases. Many layers of paintings, some by great old masters, are washed over and painted again.
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Strange, when an object is too close to you in space, it appears bigger than same size object at a distance. But when it is very close to you in time, we don't think it is any big deal. Only later we realize how big whatever that thing was.
Expect heavy pressure on all products derived from mega fauna due to the new found wealth and affordability of china. Rhino horns, elephant ivory, bengal tiger skin, claws and other body parts...
The salary and benefits of a typical forest ranger in India is about 250$ a month, while his nephew in the city with barely passable English makes some 700$ a month in IT, phone bank, help desk jobs and more if technically qualified. Any wonder the warden turns a blind eye to poaching and accepts bribes?
Mod me troll if you want. But clearly this action proves that Apple is not interested in open standards, in interoperability or level playing fields. It wants to promote the same walled-garden eco system that is actively promoted by Microsoft. But sadly, it is not as successful as Microsoft in grabbing market share or money from people.
OK, OK I will stand corrected. It is not a Microsoft wannabe, it is afailed Microsoft wannabe.
Even if they pulled it off, breaking into an OS market dominated by a single player with a huge entrenched base of applications is hard, and even Google may find it more trouble than it's worth. Google may seem huge and unstoppable, but even they have their limits.
The idea is not really get a huge market share on corporate sector. It is just to play havoc with Microsoft's standard strategy of forcing upgrades, changing file formats to continue the vendor lock etc. Once Firefox got just 10% market share the web sites started coding for the standards and stopped special hacks for IE and IE's market share came tumbling down.
Once ChromeOS establishes a net presence and demands interoperability with ExchangeServer, ExchangeServer will have to become standard compliant. iPhone could do that, but Apple is more likely to make a deal with Microsoft and get a special closed API support from MSFT leaving others to lurch.
Once google docs, and other office replacements reach a market share of about 10%, and they interact with some 10% of the established MsOffice users and demand compatibility and interoperability, maintaining vendor lock by the traditional methods of API changes, file format changes, mysterious bugs that affect others but not Microsoft etc would not fly.
When Microsoft products follow open standards and are interoperable, the profit margins will shrink. That is the only way for Google to survive. As long as Microsoft has cash cows, it will be able undercut competition drive them out of business and resume business as usual. That is the threat Google is fighting off.
All you need is some honeysuckle wines or stonecrop bushes! These plants plants make copious quantities of nector and they attract butterflies and honeybees. Everyone knows the butterfly effect, the beating of wings of butterfly in Brazil will affect the weather in Tokyo two weeks later. So with enough of these bushes spread around the globe, we can affect the weather all over the world. Simple Easy as a peach.
Mixing cold water at depths with warm surface water quickly is impossible with pumps and stuff. Just drop a nuclear depth charge and explode it about a mile below the surface! Instantly all that water will mix together and the storm will dissipate. 16000 warheads from Russia and 8000 warheads from U.S.A, we can prevent hurricanes for the next, what 3, years?
No. To release an application on an existing platform, you can take the complete the project and then announce it path. But to release an OS and hardware that runs that OS, you need to coordinate with OEM vendors to make and test the OS. Further you need driver support from peripheral manufacturers too. So a new viable OS could not be completed and released. OK. Apple can do it with its obsessive attention to secrecy and a relatively small skunk works team. Not google with its size. So it has to pre announce, show some commitment to lure in the OEMs.
The timing of the release is to pre-empt or slowdown the migration of people going from XP to Win7. Vista was a huge misstep by Microsoft. People balked and are holding back upgrades. But at some point people will start buying Win7 machines. Now there is another reason for people to hang on to XP while waiting for Chrome. Win7 reportedly is not a resource hog and is capable of displacing XP from netbooks. So this announcement is meant to forestall large scale market penetration of Win7 into netbook market.
First they took away all the food and gave us peanuts. Then they went all the way and said, "Bring your own food". Now bring your own technician. What next? Bring your own pilot?
Had it been Vista, this guy would have been busted long back by, "You are trying to steal the valuable source code from your employer. Cancel or allow?" dialog.
Firefox should simply support Ogg theora and stop any effort to get the video tag off html5 distribution. If Microsoft and Apple do not want to support this, it is their right to ignore it. Let us just make sure Ogg Theora is really safe and it has no sunset or submarine patent lurking beneath it.
Why complicate the process? It is a tax, call it one and make it one in a straightforward sense. Tax coal at some rate, imported petroleum at some other rate and exempt wind and solar energies. Simple. right?
The netcraft link shows Bing.com using linux. Really? Quite surprising. Microsoft wants to take on google, and it could not/would not do it with windows boxes?
Instead of linking to a blog that talks about another blog that refers to and links to the original story, why not just link to the original source to save us from 5 click throughs and give the original authors credit as well?
Because slashdot is a website that is powered by these clicks. Each time you click on a hyperlink your mouse generates 1 joule of energy that gets faxed to the slashdot server farm using the technology patented by Dilbert.
Not true at all. Your understanding of the taxing authority is faulty. Government is under no obligation to even provide some vaguely plausible reasoning to tax you. Government needs tax revenue to exist. It has the authority to tax anything to get the revenue. As a citizen you have the right to elect representatives who will try to make the tax fair. And it is your obligation to pay the tax according to whatever is the current tax code whether you agree with the system or not. If you think the system is not fair, elect people who would make it fair. Don't go about spouting non sense like "government can charge sales tax because it provides some vague service" etc.
It just means that you are not a coder. Real coders don't waste time thinking about the project, coming up with specs and test cases. They start coding right away. They could not wait to get started. In fact they will type # include stdio.h int main(int argc, char **argv){} even before coming to the first project meeting.
Here:
http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
This site is more techie oriented and it is not reflective of the general population, admittedly.
But this shows the trend in web developers and the tech community. This is a leading indicator of the browser market share.
But on the other hand, so many new devices connect to the internet, smartphones, gaming consoles, media players etc. They do not run IE and web developers do not want to add hacks specifically to support IE. Further the general population no longer blames the web site if IE does not render it correctly. So Microsoft can no longer work around the bugs in IIS in IE and laugh at the frustration of rest of the world. Once upon a time, if IE renders it correctly and others don't, no matter how much you protest and point out the errors in the website's code, no body would listen. No longer.
So if you are a Microsoft employee, and you work in IE team, jump ship when you still can.
Looks like this campaign is not even aimed at the market. Microsoft announced a lay off. It appears they are not culling the employees by performance and competence. They seem to be lopping off whole programs and letting everyone go in those programs and all the lucky ones who happen to be in the rest will continue employment en masse.
This leads to low employee morale as the IE team people go, "my job depends not on my performannce but the kind of contacts my manager has with the higher ups and how well my team's output is doing in the marketplace. IE is steadily losing marketshare. Europe is going to unbundle IE and there will be a push to get IE less Windows in USA too. What is going to happen to my job? Should I bail out?".
So the IE Team VP gets the higher ups to show some signs that his reportees will not be left high and dry. Just a product of internal turf war, empire building and palace intrigue within that large bureaucracy. Nothing much to see here. Move along.
It cant be!
Isn't Montana one of the reddest of the red states populated by rugged individuals who cherish their liberty more than their lives? Where did that post come from? The Onion?
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... this could turn out to be the one that will allow us to tell the OPEC to go drink their own oil.
But for us, with stars in our eyes, Appolo 11 was THE biggest physical achievement of Homo sapiens, till date. Intellectually I would rate Newton/Darwin/Einstein as the zenith, so far.
On a related note people restoring and cleaning and analyzing old masters and paintings by students of old masters find they were recycling the canvases. Many layers of paintings, some by great old masters, are washed over and painted again.
philosophical rant
Strange, when an object is too close to you in space, it appears bigger than same size object at a distance. But when it is very close to you in time, we don't think it is any big deal. Only later we realize how big whatever that thing was.
The salary and benefits of a typical forest ranger in India is about 250$ a month, while his nephew in the city with barely passable English makes some 700$ a month in IT, phone bank, help desk jobs and more if technically qualified. Any wonder the warden turns a blind eye to poaching and accepts bribes?
... food? I mean, don't you need to eat for you to create a need to use the other product?
OK, OK I will stand corrected. It is not a Microsoft wannabe, it is afailed Microsoft wannabe.
That technology using some particular wavelength of IT to see through? Do they have any plans to incorporate them into sun glasses?
The idea is not really get a huge market share on corporate sector. It is just to play havoc with Microsoft's standard strategy of forcing upgrades, changing file formats to continue the vendor lock etc. Once Firefox got just 10% market share the web sites started coding for the standards and stopped special hacks for IE and IE's market share came tumbling down.
Once ChromeOS establishes a net presence and demands interoperability with ExchangeServer, ExchangeServer will have to become standard compliant. iPhone could do that, but Apple is more likely to make a deal with Microsoft and get a special closed API support from MSFT leaving others to lurch.
Once google docs, and other office replacements reach a market share of about 10%, and they interact with some 10% of the established MsOffice users and demand compatibility and interoperability, maintaining vendor lock by the traditional methods of API changes, file format changes, mysterious bugs that affect others but not Microsoft etc would not fly.
When Microsoft products follow open standards and are interoperable, the profit margins will shrink. That is the only way for Google to survive. As long as Microsoft has cash cows, it will be able undercut competition drive them out of business and resume business as usual. That is the threat Google is fighting off.
All you need is some honeysuckle wines or stonecrop bushes! These plants plants make copious quantities of nector and they attract butterflies and honeybees. Everyone knows the butterfly effect, the beating of wings of butterfly in Brazil will affect the weather in Tokyo two weeks later. So with enough of these bushes spread around the globe, we can affect the weather all over the world. Simple Easy as a peach.
oosh!
Mixing cold water at depths with warm surface water quickly is impossible with pumps and stuff. Just drop a nuclear depth charge and explode it about a mile below the surface! Instantly all that water will mix together and the storm will dissipate. 16000 warheads from Russia and 8000 warheads from U.S.A, we can prevent hurricanes for the next, what 3, years?
The timing of the release is to pre-empt or slowdown the migration of people going from XP to Win7. Vista was a huge misstep by Microsoft. People balked and are holding back upgrades. But at some point people will start buying Win7 machines. Now there is another reason for people to hang on to XP while waiting for Chrome. Win7 reportedly is not a resource hog and is capable of displacing XP from netbooks. So this announcement is meant to forestall large scale market penetration of Win7 into netbook market.
First they took away all the food and gave us peanuts. Then they went all the way and said, "Bring your own food". Now bring your own technician. What next? Bring your own pilot?
.... none other than Marc Andreesen! Drum roll.
Had it been Vista, this guy would have been busted long back by, "You are trying to steal the valuable source code from your employer. Cancel or allow?" dialog.
Firefox should simply support Ogg theora and stop any effort to get the video tag off html5 distribution. If Microsoft and Apple do not want to support this, it is their right to ignore it. Let us just make sure Ogg Theora is really safe and it has no sunset or submarine patent lurking beneath it.
Why complicate the process? It is a tax, call it one and make it one in a straightforward sense. Tax coal at some rate, imported petroleum at some other rate and exempt wind and solar energies. Simple. right?
The netcraft link shows Bing.com using linux. Really? Quite surprising. Microsoft wants to take on google, and it could not/would not do it with windows boxes?
Because slashdot is a website that is powered by these clicks. Each time you click on a hyperlink your mouse generates 1 joule of energy that gets faxed to the slashdot server farm using the technology patented by Dilbert.
Not true at all. Your understanding of the taxing authority is faulty. Government is under no obligation to even provide some vaguely plausible reasoning to tax you. Government needs tax revenue to exist. It has the authority to tax anything to get the revenue. As a citizen you have the right to elect representatives who will try to make the tax fair. And it is your obligation to pay the tax according to whatever is the current tax code whether you agree with the system or not. If you think the system is not fair, elect people who would make it fair. Don't go about spouting non sense like "government can charge sales tax because it provides some vague service" etc.
It just means that you are not a coder. Real coders don't waste time thinking about the project, coming up with specs and test cases. They start coding right away. They could not wait to get started. In fact they will type # include stdio.h int main(int argc, char **argv){} even before coming to the first project meeting.
But on the other hand, so many new devices connect to the internet, smartphones, gaming consoles, media players etc. They do not run IE and web developers do not want to add hacks specifically to support IE. Further the general population no longer blames the web site if IE does not render it correctly. So Microsoft can no longer work around the bugs in IIS in IE and laugh at the frustration of rest of the world. Once upon a time, if IE renders it correctly and others don't, no matter how much you protest and point out the errors in the website's code, no body would listen. No longer.
So if you are a Microsoft employee, and you work in IE team, jump ship when you still can.
Looks like this campaign is not even aimed at the market. Microsoft announced a lay off. It appears they are not culling the employees by performance and competence. They seem to be lopping off whole programs and letting everyone go in those programs and all the lucky ones who happen to be in the rest will continue employment en masse. This leads to low employee morale as the IE team people go, "my job depends not on my performannce but the kind of contacts my manager has with the higher ups and how well my team's output is doing in the marketplace. IE is steadily losing marketshare. Europe is going to unbundle IE and there will be a push to get IE less Windows in USA too. What is going to happen to my job? Should I bail out?". So the IE Team VP gets the higher ups to show some signs that his reportees will not be left high and dry. Just a product of internal turf war, empire building and palace intrigue within that large bureaucracy. Nothing much to see here. Move along.
It cant be! Isn't Montana one of the reddest of the red states populated by rugged individuals who cherish their liberty more than their lives? Where did that post come from? The Onion?
One of the biggest plus point of MacOS is that, it is safe and it does not have vulnerabilities.
Giggle.
yeah, it does look funny. Anyway what I meant to say was the biggest "sales pitch" but messed up. oops.