That's the problem with government research - same problem with the air forces' 1968 moon landing.
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
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.
As were Google earth, gmail, google docs, wave etc
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 -…
A gun runs out of ammunition - with this you can stand on a freeway overpass and silently blind everybody that drives under it.
I wonder what MS is offering in 'consultancy fees' to some government officials for that not to become a mandated standard?
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…
But it would be funnier on youtube !
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,…
That's the problem with government research - same problem with the air forces' 1968 moon landing.
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
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.
As were Google earth, gmail, google docs, wave etc
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 -…
A gun runs out of ammunition - with this you can stand on a freeway overpass and silently blind everybody that drives under it.
I wonder what MS is offering in 'consultancy fees' to some government officials for that not to become a mandated standard?
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…
But it would be funnier on youtube !
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,…