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XP Service Pack Does the Impossible
Peyna writes "This article over at C|net discusses the upcoming Microsoft Windows XP service pack, which will contain the normal bug fixes, but more importantly, will make XP more modular, allowing you to override their default products. I assume this means Internet Explorer and possibly some other apps as well."
Yes.
You see, you might think that setting Netscape to launch when you click on a hyperlink or double-click an HTML file means you've set the default. What I call setting the default is having the OS itself decide that when an app has programmatically requested an HTML-rendering component, it gets that component from Netscape and not from IE.
No user intervention can achieve that right now. Not even by a Slashdotter.
Cheers,
Ian
Great. Now AOL is going to go around to the PC manufacturers, and cut weird deals with them so that Netscape Communicator and Realplayer are the defaults for everything.
Problem is, Communicator sucks, and Realplayer sucks.
Internet Explorer and Media Player are GOOD. They're better than the competition. This does nothing to help the consumer. But whatever. Microsoft must be punished for giving away software that is better than what the competition has.
This whole situation is retarded.
. The problem with the last election was not a failure in the overall (macro) system, but a detail problem (micro) having to do with counting irregularities in one (or more) of the states. While post-election information indicates that at least one state's counting problems may have resulted in that state voting the wrong way, most of us will never truly know-- given the extremely close nature of the race in that state and the highly inaccurate methods used to tally the votes.
This is a frighteningly uninformed statement.
In the first place, we do *truly* know at this point. Bush lost in Florida, Gore won. This has been proven and certified. It isn't drilled into your head over and over on all the networks, but it has been reported.
The second and far more critical point is that this isn't even the real issue with the election.
The most sickening part of the election scam happened months before the election. Jeb Bush, brother of GW and governor of Florida stripped 10s of thousands of Florida voters of their most basic right as a citizen of a democracy (ignoring the whole "form of government" issue and just using the common parlance). The only reason he had for doing this is that they were largely black and *all* registered democrats. He did this in violation of Florida law and the US Constitution.
Information is available at www.gregpalast.com
among many other places.
Take this together with the fact that since in office Bush has raped the freedom of information act.
The few rights left to we the people under this act he has specifically ordered all government offices to fight to the best of their abilities.
Now I agree that we do not live under a "tyranny" per se, but neither do we live under the government described in the constitution.
When you have a member of a organized crime family who rigged an election and used the supreme court to gain a position where he could cement his power before the truth could come out as president, then it certainly isn't a democracy/republic or anything similar.
When the criminal thug proceeds to use his illegally attained office to strip our rights away in part to protect his father from criminal prosecution for his illegal actions while president, *allow* the single worst terrorist attack in the country's history so he could further strip our rights (patriot act etc.), and bomb the shit out of a stone age country because they wouldn't allow his oil company buddies to build a pipeline through their country, then it is much closer to a tyranny then you have the courage to allow yourself to see.