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  1. Re:Chrome is the future by fishexe · · Score: 1 · on Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode

    Chrome is the future because what could go wrong with giving one company complete domination of the Internet?...but the thought of them having the browser market share that IE currently has scares me...

    What could go wrong with giving one company complete domination of our computers? Apparently, the thought of a company having 95% desktop OS share and 90% browser share and a stated vision of taking over the world is less scary than a company having majority search engine share and majority browser share but who's motto is "do no evil"...

    I am confused, how does me being afraid of the idea of Google having the share of the browser market that IE currently has indicate that I don't have very major problems with MS being as dominant as it was at its peak (or even now)? You know MS gaining dominance in the PC market was such a great thing that we should welcome Google becoming similarly dominant.

    Well you said "the browser market share that IE currently has" as though the status quo were perfectly unscary. I, for one, would MUCH rather have Google enjoy MS's market share...it may be scary but it's far less scary than the market we already have, at this moment.

  2. Re:Chrome is the future by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 1 · on Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode

    Chrome is the future because what could go wrong with giving one company complete domination of the Internet?...but the thought of them having the browser market share that IE currently has scares me...

    What could go wrong with giving one company complete domination of our computers? Apparently, the thought of a company having 95% desktop OS share and 90% browser share and a stated vision of taking over the world is less scary than a company having majority search engine share and majority browser share but who's motto is "do no evil"...

    I am confused, how does me being afraid of the idea of Google having the share of the browser market that IE currently has indicate that I don't have very major problems with MS being as dominant as it was at its peak (or even now)?
    You know MS gaining dominance in the PC market was such a great thing that we should welcome Google becoming similarly dominant.

  3. Re:Chrome is the future by fishexe · · Score: 1 · on Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode

    Chrome is the future because what could go wrong with giving one company complete domination of the Internet?...but the thought of them having the browser market share that IE currently has scares me...

    What could go wrong with giving one company complete domination of our computers?
    Apparently, the thought of a company having 95% desktop OS share and 90% browser share and a stated vision of taking over the world is less scary than a company having majority search engine share and majority browser share but who's motto is "do no evil"...

  4. Re:This is news? by dch24 · · Score: 1 · on Google a "Wake-Up Call" For Microsoft
    Interesting that you should single out the Mac. That would seem to be the "reading between the lines" that Ozzie is not saying, and for a reason!

    You *ALSO* have to be a company that people *LIKE*. (note the Mac and PC ad campaign among other things)

    The problem with what you're saying is that Microsoft has tried (see: XBox, Zune) to get people to like their product. And the first thing they learned was drop the Microsoft brand from the product. (Especially obvious with the Zune.)

    As inevitable as the "New Kid In Town" phenomenon is the phenomenon of "bondage, even by silken ties, will inevitably chafe". It's pretty obvious that a lot of people have a bondage fettish, but once Billy has been on top for a decade, we're starting to see a sea change, and everybody seems to be clamoring at once, "my turn on top."

    So is that Apple's / Google's secret marketing strategy by going with Intel CPUs, iPods with light DRM or none at all? And Google's "Do No Evil," China Censorship aside, seems to be clearly focused at winning customers by letting customers "be on top," a complete reversal of Microsoft's "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer."

    (I feel a reference to German psychology is relevant, since the entire post is most Freudian in nature. Apologies to Godwin.)
  5. Re:Finding stock data by Prof.Phreak · · Score: 1 · on Algorithmic Investors on Wallstreet

    ...where to find the data set to work with?

    Look for August 21st, 2006 post on my blog @theparticle.com. There's a TON of data out there... just gotta look for it.

  6. Re:Quake3 in perl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Developing Games with Perl and SDL

    I remember reading quite a long time ago on planetquake.com about John Carmack doing an internal port of Quake3 to perl so he could lern the language.

    Don't know about Quake3 graphics engine, but you can certainly rewrite most of the tools in Perl.

    I wrote my own BSP compiler (although a pretty simple one) in Perl to make this applet: FlightBox.

    The input is the text .map file.

  7. Re:It's not the first small app that will talk to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM

    Try this one: Prof.Phreak.

    And the conversation log: conversation log.

    I've seen folks talk to this thing for a few minutes on IRC before it becomes obvious it's a bot.

  8. Re:It's not the first small app that will talk to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM

    Try this one: Prof.Phreak.

    And the conversation log: conversation log.

    I've seen folks talk to this thing for a few minutes on IRC before it becomes obvious it's a bot.

  9. Similar to my paper... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Hackers As Factory Workers?

    Which is here: genprog.pdf

  10. Re:Eliza by Prof.Phreak · · Score: 1 · on Ask the Robotic Psychiatrist
    And... Here's a shemless plug for my Prof.Phreak:

    http://www.theparticle.com/profphreak/profphreak.h tml

    Enjoy.

  11. Re:You can also repair a mouse this way. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Step-by-Step Computer Destruction
    or this way:

    http://www.theparticle.com/hardware/hpmouse/index. html

  12. How about this destruction? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Step-by-Step Computer Destruction
    A step by step guide - with pictures:

    http://www.theparticle.com/hardware/index.html

  13. Re:Bah, Alice's nothing. Try Prof.Phreak! by Prof.Phreak · · Score: 1 · on N.Y. Times Magazine Chats With ALICE Bot Creator

    Forgot the url, sorry: Prof.Phreak Bot.