ikuygtyuiouy

4 ms·

1.
by ikuygtyuiouy 16y ago
That's the problem with government research - same problem with the air forces' 1968 moon landing.
2.
by ikuygtyuiouy 16y ago
At one watt the safe exposure limit is 10micro-secs. That's 0.000010s - I think I can hold it on a car for that long
3.
by ikuygtyuiouy 16y ago
MSFT research is much more like research of great American companies of the past, Bell, AT+T etc - I'm sure this is what they were aiming for.
4.
by ikuygtyuiouy 16y ago
As were Google earth, gmail, google docs, wave etc
5.
by ikuygtyuiouy 16y ago
Those answer explain HOW they can afford to put them online - not why they should. The answer is Brand Recognition. MIT isn't competing with the places people would have gone to if they couldn't read this stuff online - it's competing with
6.
by ikuygtyuiouy 16y ago
A gun runs out of ammunition - with this you can stand on a freeway overpass and silently blind everybody that drives under it.
7.
by ikuygtyuiouy 16y ago
I wonder what MS is offering in 'consultancy fees' to some government officials for that not to become a mandated standard?
8.
by ikuygtyuiouy 16y ago
If I were the chinese I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to say - "you're right we will introduce the death penalty for software piracy, ban the sale of imported software at below US list price - and we will put 100,000 programmers
9.
by ikuygtyuiouy 16y ago
But it would be funnier on youtube !
10.
by ikuygtyuiouy 16y ago
I thought this had always been a MSFT business plan? Given that very few people in china are going to spend a years salary on a full copy of MS Office the alternatives are: 1, They develop their own local software 2, They adopt and localize