I do think Diversity is a good thing... but maybe not in web browser engines. The whole point of the web is for it work anywhere and MS has never quite grokked that.
I think you're misinterpreting a lot of the feeling against the GOP. It's not so much "GOP is derp, Democrats are magic unicorns", but "GOP are total sellouts while the Democrats occasionally do something for the good of the country".
Of course it is about money. The fact is that EITHER party sits up and begs when their donors (corporate or otherwise) crack the whip. Someone got on the phone with the right people and made sure any movement to sanify copyright law was quashed.
This is was a case of the truth accidentally making it to the surface.
We're 11 years away from September 11, 2001 and I think we're right at the beginning of this shit.
Be prepared for more dopey law enforcement officials to throw people in jail because they encounter something they don't understand. And, of course, these same law enforcement officials will continue on the ages-old tradition of pressing forward with a dumbass charge because they are afraid of the embarassment of admitting that they don't know something and, therefore, did something incredibily stupid.
I know this is headed for a -1, but when given the choice slashdot authors have always chosen the summaries that come from their buddies over everyone else. This is a tradition going right back Rob Malda himself. A summary of one of their buddies has to be pretty bad for them not to chose it over someone they don't know. It's a bit of the assholery that Slashdot was founded on.
Yes, I know. When I met Rom Malda personally he was an asshole to my face. He is smart but he is an asshole. That's the way it is.
No.. this is bullshit no matter who does it, and I like google tech.
If this isn't a patent on wi-fi itself then putting wi-fi on a computer-based device is obvious even to a lay person, and it's a bullshit patent. I hope they get their ass handed to them.
The problem with Microsoft is that they are doing this to further their own internal corporate goals and not to make it a better product for users.
They are totally about what helps THEM. Most companies could never survive this way, but they manage as they have made themselves the default in many minds. I
Yeah, MS has had many failures. And most of these failures have been about making it all about THEM instead of their customers.
What is most sad is because of the captured nature of congress the real discussions (of course happening in the back rooms) is about how this helps or hurts oil companies. Our system has real problems doing stuff for the greater good of all when the internal debate is basically controlled by a group of oil robber barons.
Again.. these people are *not* free marketers. They are opportunists. They are fine with the free market as long as it benifts them. When they are on the losing end they're absolutely fine with the government intervening in every possible way.
Oh crap.. this decision is cutting edge and it was brilliant. This ought to be a new template. The standard in the corporate world these days is to NEVER admit they are wrong and act as arrogant as possible. This is one of the few ways this can that can actually make it on the public record that the corporations actually broke the law and that consumers ought to know about it.
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And your argument RETURNS to Carly Fiorina.
The bullshit he spews is enough to run all the MS data centers AND the Google data centers as well.
Sounds good to me.
I do think Diversity is a good thing... but maybe not in web browser engines. The whole point of the web is for it work anywhere and MS has never quite grokked that.
I think you're misinterpreting a lot of the feeling against the GOP. It's not so much "GOP is derp, Democrats are magic unicorns", but "GOP are total sellouts while the Democrats occasionally do something for the good of the country".
bollocks. They're all monolithic when it comes to accepting money from the donors, from lobbists, and their other pals.
Bullshit moderation on this.
Of course it is about money. The fact is that EITHER party sits up and begs when their donors (corporate or otherwise) crack the whip. Someone got on the phone with the right people and made sure any movement to sanify copyright law was quashed.
This is was a case of the truth accidentally making it to the surface.
Why don't they use webkit themselves? Then they can spend their time, money, and energy on putting their crappy microsoft experience on top of it?
Sorry... using logic again.
We're 11 years away from September 11, 2001 and I think we're right at the beginning of this shit.
Be prepared for more dopey law enforcement officials to throw people in jail because they encounter something they don't understand. And, of course, these same law enforcement officials will continue on the ages-old tradition of pressing forward with a dumbass charge because they are afraid of the embarassment of admitting that they don't know something and, therefore, did something incredibily stupid.
I know this is headed for a -1, but when given the choice slashdot authors have always chosen the summaries that come from their buddies over everyone else. This is a tradition going right back Rob Malda himself. A summary of one of their buddies has to be pretty bad for them not to chose it over someone they don't know. It's a bit of the assholery that Slashdot was founded on.
Yes, I know. When I met Rom Malda personally he was an asshole to my face. He is smart but he is an asshole. That's the way it is.
Seriously... they can't be any worse.
No.. this is bullshit no matter who does it, and I like google tech.
If this isn't a patent on wi-fi itself then putting wi-fi on a computer-based device is obvious even to a lay person, and it's a bullshit patent. I hope they get their ass handed to them.
However, the idiot in H.R. doesn't know what Java or an iPhone even is.
But.. that's off the subject.
Why? It's just more poor people who don't get to participate in the economic success of a society.
The problem with Microsoft is that they are doing this to further their own internal corporate goals and not to make it a better product for users.
They are totally about what helps THEM. Most companies could never survive this way, but they manage as they have made themselves the default in many minds. I
Yeah, MS has had many failures. And most of these failures have been about making it all about THEM instead of their customers.
Sony is slowly dying of the same disease.
How much Slashdot have you read? There are plenty of people here that think both Apple and M.S. are full of shit.
Apple is busy making their entire line a walled garden and M.S. is flaying around dodging chairs with no direction.
Microsoft is all about kissing the ass of big corporations.
Metro is about as opposite of that as you can get.
What is most sad is because of the captured nature of congress the real discussions (of course happening in the back rooms) is about how this helps or hurts oil companies. Our system has real problems doing stuff for the greater good of all when the internal debate is basically controlled by a group of oil robber barons.
Troll moderation is SO unfair...
Nothing forces a corporation to uphold the rights of ANYONE without some outside influence. If they can game the system they'll do it.
With the asshole rating of most of our CEOs right now (look at the post-election idiocy), future progress will be made one funeral at a time.
So does it apply to ATVs? Does it apply to Golf Carts? Does it apply to motorized scooters you can get a K-Mart?
Seriously... I don't know the answer. There is a definition somewhere but I doubt that is it.
"To Help My Corporate Buddies."
When there is only one explaination is possible it has to be true.
Again.. these people are *not* free marketers. They are opportunists. They are fine with the free market as long as it benifts them. When they are on the losing end they're absolutely fine with the government intervening in every possible way.
wow. Now THAT'S naive.
Oh crap.. this decision is cutting edge and it was brilliant. This ought to be a new template. The standard in the corporate world these days is to NEVER admit they are wrong and act as arrogant as possible. This is one of the few ways this can that can actually make it on the public record that the corporations actually broke the law and that consumers ought to know about it.
I don't think clique is the word. It looks more like tribalism these days.