Comment Oh goodie... (Score 3, Funny) 347
When we're done using barges to fight global warming, maybe we can use canoes to fight leprechauns!
Journal Journal: Huh-huh. Huh-huh.
This comment was fun to write.
The self-righteously PC dogmatism with which it was responded to and moderated were, of course, utterly predictable.
Journal Journal: More threadiness 2
Throwing things at the wall to see what sticks -- this thread goes on and on. It's kind of sad to see a guy hang on to his claims of `truthiness' (hat tip: Colbert) long after he has backed away from or openly admitted as false every claim with which he started the thread.
Journal Journal: Some Recent Threads 2
So here are a few recent threads of interest:
- A somewhat interesting thread sprang out of my last Journal Entry as well. I'll probably devote some more journal space to this one in the next day or two.
- In this thread, we get a
Journal Journal: By popular demand, Neocon looks back 51
NeMon'ess asks:
It's been two years. Last I remember you were quite a Bush defender. Any political stuff you'd care to talk about that didn't turn out quite like you expected?
Journal Journal: Another year older, and deeper in... ? (part 1) 2
Well, it's been a year since I've spent much time here, and I thought I'd poke my head in and see how y'all are doing. For the most part, it looks like the more things change, the more things remain the same, with a few honorable mentions in these categories:
``Another year older and no wiser'' category
These guys seem to be carrying on pretty much where we all left off:
Comment Re:Will be able to write a document without AdSens (Score 1) 751
> So MS got more interested in the search engine business.. Google doesn't like it and wants to fight back..
Don't be mistaken. Microsoft and Google are in all out war, and Google is winning easily. Microsoft is only interested in search because google has used it to create a competive advantage, and they're using it to break it Microsoft's other markets. (deliberately and with force, not out of spite)
MS Desktop Search (next version of OS)->google desktop search
MSN Search->google search
hotmail/exchange->gmail
MSN Maps->maps.google.com
Every product, people prefer the google version, and they're making money off these products even though consumers aren't paying for them. MS can't snub google out. MS has changed the way it does business at it's core to compete with google, and they aren't even slowing google down. Microsoft can't compete with google on any front, no matter how much money they throw at it. Google is expanding it focus to include Operating Systems (they've hired away a lot of Microsoft's top OS talent) and now office suite. If google proves to be as succesful in these new fronts as they have been in past ones, Microsoft will be forced to re-invent itself or perish.
Don't be mistaken. Microsoft and Google are in all out war, and Google is winning easily. Microsoft is only interested in search because google has used it to create a competive advantage, and they're using it to break it Microsoft's other markets. (deliberately and with force, not out of spite)
MS Desktop Search (next version of OS)->google desktop search
MSN Search->google search
hotmail/exchange->gmail
MSN Maps->maps.google.com
Every product, people prefer the google version, and they're making money off these products even though consumers aren't paying for them. MS can't snub google out. MS has changed the way it does business at it's core to compete with google, and they aren't even slowing google down. Microsoft can't compete with google on any front, no matter how much money they throw at it. Google is expanding it focus to include Operating Systems (they've hired away a lot of Microsoft's top OS talent) and now office suite. If google proves to be as succesful in these new fronts as they have been in past ones, Microsoft will be forced to re-invent itself or perish.
Journal Journal: Thought for the day 25
Thought for the day:
``In the perfect world, the schools would be held to the same standard of excellence that our military is, and the teachers unions would have to hold a bake sale when they want to buy a Senator.''
Discuss.
Journal Journal: Orson Scott Card 36
I'm gaining a lot of respect for Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game and other novels. Some time ago, I had pointed people here, in several posts, to this piece he wrote on Iraq and North Korea, and ellem and others have pointed out his recent piece, picked u
Journal Journal: Bush Endorses Dean for Democratic Nomination 1
This gem comes via NewsHax:
Bush Endorses Dean for Democratic Nomination
Journal Journal: More threads 3
Two more threads, both fun ones:
In this thread, we get a look at correct and incorrect use of the term `Orwellian' before diving into a look at the cold war and how it was won.
Journal Journal: A Religious JE? Sure, why not... 2
In 1999, Fr. Thomas Hopko (OCA) wrote:
Journal Journal: Quote of the Day 22
It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression (although I do not choose to put it into a newspaper, nor like a Priam in armor to offer myself as its champion), that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless
Journal Journal: Oh my, oh my... 22
Every thread should have a punchline as good as the one I've been linking to in the past two JE's does.
Journal Journal: Two Threads 20
Kind of a fun thread developing in this JE of GMontag's. Another sign of how desperate many on the left are to grasp at any wild claim -- no matter how long since discredited -- to back their wild conspiracy theories.
