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Microsoft Looking to Sell Slate Magazine
SeaDour writes "Wired News is reporting that Microsoft is in early discussions with five or six media companies over a potential sale of MSN's online magazine Slate. This comes mere weeks after Slate recommended Firefox over Internet Explorer."
MS is not unloading on Slate. They just trying to get into a partnership with another company to make more money.
and security through obscurity is so much better?
Sun's Java Desktop System shows promise
"If you're in the market for a change, or you want to see what all this fuss over Linux is all about, Lindows 4.0 is definitely worth a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised."
Open-source software a big tech player
Experts warn of Microsoft 'monoculture'
Open your eyes, eh?
See also the link in the other reply to this comment for a nice example.
Sun endorsement, not. The author calls Sun's straight forward description bragging, "With that type of bragging I couldn?t resist." Says, "the SuSE installation process is nearly perfect," as if you have to install on a computer bought at Walmart and as if Windoze installs are "perfect". Then this slam, "The laptop installation was another story. It seems the version of SuSE that was used is old ? and getting older all the time. ... Nothing worked. " And, of course, the best is yet to come, " The next versions of JDS could be extremely interesting." That's hardly a ringing endorsement. If the author had written as candidly about an XP install, he'd have been fired.
Lindows endorsement, no, more FUD. I don't even want to read an article that's titled "Getting Better". It goes on to complain about "room for improvement", that it was slow, blah blah blah. The author goes on to complain that it can't do VPN and a host of other things that's just plain bullshit as free software's networking capability blows Windoze away. This article rings more like another ringing endorsement of Winblows to me. Of course, the right distro to try Linux with is a live CD such as Knoppix or Mepis. Both of them are available as free downloads and neither touch your computer till you tell them too. To recommend Linsows over such things is incompetence or malice.
The "Open Source" on the server article is SCO style FUD at it's finest, "The communal aspects of open source can lead to thorny legal questions, particularly when a company claims its proprietary code has seeped into a project. Because developers typically don't offer warranties, end users could be held liable for infringements." Blah, blah, clueless bullshit that at no point recommends free software over M$ cruft, especially on the desktop.
Your final article, about how "biodiversity analogy has it's limits", is a defense of M$'s pathetic security record. It attempts to blame all the problems M$ is having on it's popularity instead of on poor design. While you might consider this to be unflattering to M$ because it admits to problems, it's highly deferential in the way it explains and denigrates the extent of those problems. An honest reporter would note that the same kinds of exploits have been happening across all versions of M$ since people were silly enough to connect that junk to the internet.
The titles of those articles are provocative, but the contents are M$ party line, FUD and nonsense. The truth of the matter is that free software installs easier, runs better, is easier to use and costs less than M$ crap. MSNBC is oblivious to these facts or you can't find the articles. Try again please.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
The stated reason for dropping the movie was that it would harm Disney's relations with the state of Florida. That could be a lot more serious than $30 million. For example, Disney is always fighting to preserve the autonomy of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, so that they continue to own their own government. Florida intermittently pushes back. If Florida pushes too hard, Disney loses some of its key advantages over Universal Studios and the International Drive cluster, such as the ability to issue themselves building permits.
So Disneyworld is very much at Jeb Bush's mercy. Eisner would be a foolish CEO if he ignored that.
Simple. One leads the corporate line through the stern chock, ensuring that it is well protected by chafing gear, and makes it fast to the stern deck padeye of the towing corporation. (That padeye rests on heavy foundations which are worked down among the assets of the corporation).
Needless to say, a pelican hook must be placed between the padeye and the corporate line, and an executive of the towing corporation must stand watch with a mallet, prepared to strike loose the pelican hook if the towed corporation gets out of hand.
Afterwards, if the corporate line is of wire rope, it should be overhauled and slushed down with grease.
God,
Fahrenheit 9/11 has made an estimated $116,880,000 as of July 25. Other than that minor correction, the point you made is excellent. Disney gave away the profit on the distribution of a movie that has made more than $100 million gross.