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by jussij 13y ago
> yet there is zero evidence in their profits that any of these deals are netting a dollar of revenue I'm sorry but I just don't believe you when you say there is zero evidence of them making money . They will be making big mo
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by jussij 13y ago
There's plenty of evidence Microsoft is making money on Android sales as companies selling Android keep announcing patent licensing deals with Microsoft. Here is just one such an agreement: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tec
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by jussij 13y ago
> there is no reason you can't buy 30 year bonds and sell them later. Except, there are no guarantees the price you get on the sale of those bonds will be the same as the price you initially payed. The possibilities are you might ge
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by jussij 13y ago
> because this purported big Android windfall still fails to appear on any Microsoft quarterly report It shows up under the reporting of the Windows Phone Division: “Windows Phone revenue, reflecting patent licensing revenue and sales o
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by jussij 13y ago
Yes, exactly. Millions of tonnes of build, gravity and some weaken beams will do exactly that. I'm glad you're starting to get a handle on this thing called Physics.
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by jussij 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. When it comes to conspiracy theories, the logical thought process seems go missing. I particularly like the one about how the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missile. Once again assuming this is true, any minimal am
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by jussij 13y ago
Yep, as you point out the figures are all over the place. The last error is a real clanger: > Revenue grew 10 per cent to $19.90 billion, also below the $20.72 million expected. Based on those figures revenue was in fact up by about 20,0
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by jussij 13y ago
> in order to prosecute a bullshit "war". Two wars in fact. > It's enough to know that the government and the media lied their asses off Life doesn't offer up points for being thoughtful and wise after the event. T
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by jussij 13y ago
Are you serious? A video showing how the structural integrity of a building is severely compromised and it doesn't explain why the building collapsed? Seems like a fairly myopic view to me. I look at that video and to me it highlights
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by jussij 13y ago
You’re correct. To replicate the event you're describing, we need to have a multi-million tonne building, close to our steel building and we need to make that first building collapse. Naturally flying a plane into the first building wo
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by jussij 13y ago
> Fires have never before or since destroyed a steel skyscraper. Unless you replicate all the aspects of the event that statement is meaningless. What other steel building has been hit by a 300 tonne aircraft, fully loaded with jet fuel
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by jussij 13y ago
> What's to explain about a controlled demolition? The physics of a controlled demolition is fairly simple. Take out or weaken one a few pillars and the weight of the building will do the rest. Why would it not possible for a fire a
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by jussij 13y ago
> The paper didn't "try to discredit the MMR vaccine" Smells like an attempt to discredit MMR to me: According to a major investigative feature by Brian Deer, in 1996 Dr Wakefield was retained by the solicitor Richard Bar
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by jussij 13y ago
> Okay, vaccines can harm people. It's a fact, get over it It's also a known fact Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 research paper, that tried to discredit the MMR vaccine by linking it to other complications is fraudulent and wrong. Tha
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by jussij 13y ago
> Do you know what I'd love to see? Somebody building gorgeous Linux laptops and desktops. As in Apple-gorgeous. With all the drivers working fine and dandy. With awesome specs, with half-yearly updates or even rolling updates. You&
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by jussij 13y ago
From all accounts their Office 365 and Azure platforms are doing well. The say more than 50% of the Fortune 500 are now using Azure: http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-azure-now-used-by-over-50... These are fairly radi
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by jussij 13y ago
That is one thing Microsoft has always done do well. The multiple products they offer have always provided high levels of seamless integration.
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by jussij 13y ago
So rather than fix the obvious problems in the language they resort to a standard library work around? I'm an experienced programmer and in my time I've only ever worked two big Java projects. Those two projects left me feeling li
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by jussij 13y ago
Thinking back on those lectures, they were a bit on the dry side and as there was a lot of restlessness during the lectures. Also the paper planes had started to appear in earlier lectures and the prof did pretty much ignore them. I think i
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by jussij 13y ago
> "said he was troubled by the idea that the court is creating a significant body of law without hearing from anyone outside the government, forgoing the adversarial system that is a staple of the American justice system." What
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by jussij 13y ago
This reminds me of one of my first year university maths classes. With two weeks to go, the class was getting a bit restless and a few people where mucking up throwing paper air planes. Unfortunately one stray plane smashed into the blackbo
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by jussij 13y ago
This is one (of many) reasons I have a dislike for Java: String myString = null; if (myString.equals("foobar")) { /* ... */ } // This causes a NullPointerException in Java Here is some equivale
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by jussij 13y ago
Microsoft C/C++ compilers also pick this up as a warning if the warnings settings are set to max.
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by jussij 13y ago
If you have gcc installed, you can build the Go compiler from source and that build process is really trivial. So you have the source code for the compiler and source code for the standard library and the source code for any package you mig
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by jussij 13y ago
So what do you do about the bitwise and and or operations. How should they be expressed? Python expresses the bitwise and and or using the & and | characters, the exact same characters as Go. And that also explains why Go choose
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by jussij 13y ago
Here in Australia we have a minimum wage twice that of the USA and our unemplyment is 5.6 percent.
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by jussij 13y ago
If minimum wage law was such a determining factor why is it countries with a higher minimum wages than the USA have lower (including youth) unemployment rates. I'll give you my take on this. What creates employment is consumption a
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by jussij 13y ago
Here is my one minute as an armchair air crash investigator . In recent times I've read some very strange incidents reports with regard to airline pilots. One plane crashed on landing while coming in to final approach at twice the rec
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by jussij 13y ago
For those young'ns out there who might have missed the reference to R.A.G here's something to look at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wauzrPn0cfg Note: This dates back to way earlier than the 2009 date show on You
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by jussij 13y ago
Unfortunately, as someone living outside of the USA, watching on, it seems fairly obvious who is running America :( Look no further than recent times and you see the USA government working hard, spending money, trying so hard to convict and

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