Hm...... But good design doesn't make an invention. call me an inventor of the computer since MY computer looks cool and I assembled it and made it pretty.
The problem with your statement is the WORD "if". With true monopolies you don't have "if". While when making business with your customers that send you documents in MS DOC format, you are truly FORCED to own MS Office. With Google, if you don't like it change to some other advertisement services provider. You have TV, magazines, newspapers and other online ad agencies. You don't lose customers if you switch from google, you won't get more customers from google's user base. But giving you access to it's own user base is no public obligation made by google.
Pfff..... Apple is worse than Microsoft. Since Apple locks you IN their hardware also! Imagine that.... Means Dell, HP and lots more would be out of business. If you're a Mac fanboy, please think of the children of those people that would be out of job...
> "Armed Hand-gun license/permit and ability to supply own weapon a Huge Plus! : translation: "we're cheap! You're desperate AND stupid! Let's talk!"
That's not the way I would translate that. Now if they had a policy of forbidding handguns to employees with a concealed weapon permit I would find that stupid.
If the job entails being the victim of attacks with lethal force (and being repeated tasered and beaten is exactly that) then personally I think it's very rational to prefer an employee that has the training and resources to defend him/herself. If they hadn't wrote "...and ability to supply own weapon..." but rather "... and has experience or weapon training...", I would believe your statement.
...ZFS(soon)...
Are you sure about that? They just backed out Java 1.6 out of leopard, and Stevie J called Java developers "javatards".
I would not bet anything on Apple.
The amount of political migrants is really at 0%, meaning there are basically none. All those people that migrate are 100% economic migrants or at least environmental migrants. Ever been to Moscow? It's a crappy place to be now. I personally hate the place.
There always WAS that way... This was available since ALWAYS, unfortunately. Since the collapse of soviet union corruption has spread to even judges. You couldn't even get a killer to be put into jail, having 4 eyewitnesses testifying against the killer. Because the judge was bribed. That is to what extent corruption has spread during the Yeltsin's years of "freedom".
Books about a particular technology(product) in my opinion are not worth the paper. When I buy a book I think of it as an obligation to have it for a long time. I could not throw away a book, its just not an option to me. As for technologies, I believe that magazines are the place that these things have to be published. Magazines are the ones that contain CURRENT knowledge, regardless if it will be outdated tomorrow. Books are for timeless knowledge, or at least for knowledge that would span tens of years. jQuery will probably fade away in 5-10 years, because something new will come up.
But I add an exception for manuals that come with a particular product. Those are books about a particular product.
well, some of the features you mentionned werent there at launch (for example the firewall). Though thats more "under the hood" features, and for a lot of users (especially for those LOOKING to trash Windows, or for averahe home users, obviously), it doesn't count. Vista has a completly crazy amount of those (a lot more than XP has over 2k), but when comparing OSs in a list like that, usually (not saying I agree), only the major, obvious changes count.
Make of that what you will. Totally agree!
The first thing I was told, when I askem my microsoftie friend what was better in Vista then in XP?
He said: "Look how easy it is to setup a network..."
I was WTF? I do it once, twice a year... By magic of DHCP built-in-to my router!
WinVista lacks a LOT of drivers (for fairly common hardware, too). If you have hardware that WinVista doesn't support, you're unhappy (see years of previous complaints about Linux). Technically true, but mostly irrelevant. Vista will load 95% of XP drivers without a hitch - the easiest way is if the driver is shipped as an executable installer, since then even if you forget to set Compatibility Mode before running the installer, Vista will ask you if you want to re-run it in compatibility mode should the install fail. If it just comes as a.inf and.sys file, edit the INF to add Vista to the supported list, and right-click -> Install. The only caveats here are that network drivers won't work on account of the re-written network stack and new NDIS, and XP video drivers will work fine but you lose all the advantages of WDDM.
WinVista also has lots of eye-candy which eats up processor time. So it looks pretty, but runs slower. The eye-candy can be turned off, but then it looks a lot like WinXP. If your GPU is decently powerful (i.e. isn't an integrated solution that leeches off the CPU) you'll almost certainly not see this, as the "eye candy" you refer to (much of it, like the thumbnail views of your running programs, is actually very useful) is offloaded to the GPU. The overhead numbers I've heard for using this model are about 5%, and if you look at the CPU time taken by the DWM (Desktop Window Manager) I've never seen it go higher than 5% and it's usually at 0%
WinVista has a different security model than WinXP and it takes people some effort to learn and in the meantime, they're unhappy with it (again, see years of previous complaints about Linux). The people who see more than 2 or 3 UAC prompts per day, top (I'm using an exaggeratedly large number to catch the "yeah, but my program X always needs admin privileges and I run in 3 times a day" responses; most normal users see maybe this many a month) are either incessant tinkerers or admins who need full control. If you're the former, you probably know how to modify access control lists (even easier in Windows than chmod/chown) so things that you need to access and can access safely will run with your permissions. If you're the latter, either deal with a couple (literally, 2) extra seconds on most administrative tasks or run your account as an unrestricted admin (much like logging into a *nix box as root; it's occasionally handy but not something to do regularly). For the average user who shouldn't be using full admin privs all the time anyway (or your slightly-clued-in user who knows this and experienced the pain of doing things in XP as a non-admin), UAC is arguably Vista's best feature.
Not all of your apps will run with WinVista, unless you use "compatibility mode" or do some extra steps. Since Vista automatically offers to re-run most programs in Compatibility Mode if they didn't work without it, and since MS provides step-by-step instructions and a helpful wizard for resolving compatibility issues, and since it literally takes 5 clicks of the mouse to set compatibility mode to XP SP2, and since the vast majority of apps will run fine on Vista without any Compatibility Mode at all, this really doesn't seem like a major issue to me. So you are basically saying, it's like the trouble that you have to go though when using Linux with incompatible stuff? Certainly seems so....
I'll be putting it into overdrive:
The credit goes to UK, well you know the rest why... Or maybe to the French?
Or maybe the Romans? Hey! They were the ones that brought civilization to Britain.
But there were the Greeks, with philosophy, mathematics and physics...
Hey, hey, hey.... But Egyptians built the pyramids, and in fact started the civilization evolution. Hope this will bring you back to reality...
Hopefully the hospital is liable if you kill someone due to you being overworked. That is where you get kicked in your nuts if you are the one that is being killed or incapacitated.
Actually they don't have to give it up. But to keep it they HAVE to put more effort into it. Because in their monopoly situation they just have to sit still and enjoy. I believe that MS is not too bad on the tech side, but the business side is plain EVIL and OMG "think of the children"! They could produce an office suite that is ODF and could be really competitive, but that would COST them now. And the cost would be somewhat financial, but mostly in confidence of profits. But they are NOW overconfident.
And if Microsoft paid bribes to the Cubans to get their vote, doesn't that mean Microsoft is in violation of the export embargo (which makes it illegal for Americans or American companies to give money to Cuba) Yeah... Right... and they are the only ones that are dealing with Cuba!?!?!?!?
It's the people and small enterprises that are banned to deal with them, big enterprises are free to do whatever they want. Since they are actually in control of US.(In Russia the government controls the commerce... work out who controls who in US)
History note: IBM had business in USSR during the war in Afghanistan. Witch I am pretty sure was not allowed by US government.
If you count not just web servers, but e.g. intranet Exchange servers and AD controllers, 70% sounds plausible. Problem is that comparing server to server is like comparing oranges to apples. Its the amount of juice they provide that counts.
Yeah 70% of servers might be, but most of them support the 93% desktop infrastructure ONLY.
While Unix'es are usually there for processing, service delivery and other higher value non-infrastructure services.
But the did look at the latest US budget balance sheet...
If US is to run in a weapons race, then hey more likely that that policy WILL be forcefully changed by elections....
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Hm......
But good design doesn't make an invention.
call me an inventor of the computer since MY computer looks cool and I assembled it and made it pretty.
Since when combining existing tech(even products) makes an invention?
Did I invent my computer when I assembled it from parts I got?
> and if you are on adwords
The problem with your statement is the WORD "if". With true monopolies you don't have "if".
While when making business with your customers that send you documents in MS DOC format, you are truly FORCED to own MS Office.
With Google, if you don't like it change to some other advertisement services provider. You have TV, magazines, newspapers and other online ad agencies. You don't lose customers if you switch from google, you won't get more customers from google's user base. But giving you access to it's own user base is no public obligation made by google.
> They are a monopoly because their OS completely dominates the market, and because they practice illegal tactics to ensure it does.
What makes it illegal, is that they leverage their dominance in OS market, to dominate in other fields(Office, browser, etc.).
Pfff..... Apple is worse than Microsoft. Since Apple locks you IN their hardware also!
Imagine that.... Means Dell, HP and lots more would be out of business.
If you're a Mac fanboy, please think of the children of those people that would be out of job...
That's not the way I would translate that. Now if they had a policy of forbidding handguns to employees with a concealed weapon permit I would find that stupid.
If the job entails being the victim of attacks with lethal force (and being repeated tasered and beaten is exactly that) then personally I think it's very rational to prefer an employee that has the training and resources to defend him/herself. If they hadn't wrote "...and ability to supply own weapon..." but rather "... and has experience or weapon training
You forgot to mention the 5th option.
5. Adopt PDF/A.
Hm......
Can a nonliving object be criminal?
And HOW exactly did they abuse this inanimate object?
...ZFS(soon)...Are you sure about that? They just backed out Java 1.6 out of leopard, and Stevie J called Java developers "javatards".
I would not bet anything on Apple.
Actually Russia in not totalitarian... There is a difference, you know...
Hey, hey, hey.....
The amount of political migrants is really at 0%, meaning there are basically none. All those people that migrate are 100% economic migrants or at least environmental migrants. Ever been to Moscow? It's a crappy place to be now. I personally hate the place.
There always WAS that way...
This was available since ALWAYS, unfortunately.
Since the collapse of soviet union corruption has spread to even judges. You couldn't even get a killer to be put into jail, having 4 eyewitnesses testifying against the killer. Because the judge was bribed. That is to what extent corruption has spread during the Yeltsin's years of "freedom".
Books about a particular technology(product) in my opinion are not worth the paper. When I buy a book I think of it as an obligation to have it for a long time. I could not throw away a book, its just not an option to me. As for technologies, I believe that magazines are the place that these things have to be published. Magazines are the ones that contain CURRENT knowledge, regardless if it will be outdated tomorrow. Books are for timeless knowledge, or at least for knowledge that would span tens of years. jQuery will probably fade away in 5-10 years, because something new will come up.
But I add an exception for manuals that come with a particular product. Those are books about a particular product.
This is my personal opinion.
Hey NICE IDEA! I'll do both anti-RNC and anti-DNC. Since I don't really care about both of them.
The only thing worse than a democrat or a republican it when these pricks work together - Lewis Black.
Make of that what you will. Totally agree!
The first thing I was told, when I askem my microsoftie friend what was better in Vista then in XP?
He said: "Look how easy it is to setup a network..."
I was WTF? I do it once, twice a year... By magic of DHCP built-in-to my router!
So I can easily say: SUCKER!
My question is WHO would have a WiFi hotspot in their garage?
I'll be putting it into overdrive:
The credit goes to UK, well you know the rest why... Or maybe to the French?
Or maybe the Romans? Hey! They were the ones that brought civilization to Britain.
But there were the Greeks, with philosophy, mathematics and physics...
Hey, hey, hey.... But Egyptians built the pyramids, and in fact started the civilization evolution.
Hope this will bring you back to reality...
Hopefully the hospital is liable if you kill someone due to you being overworked. That is where you get kicked in your nuts if you are the one that is being killed or incapacitated.
Try www.azulsystems.com
Actually they don't have to give it up. But to keep it they HAVE to put more effort into it. Because in their monopoly situation they just have to sit still and enjoy.
I believe that MS is not too bad on the tech side, but the business side is plain EVIL and OMG "think of the children"!
They could produce an office suite that is ODF and could be really competitive, but that would COST them now. And the cost would be somewhat financial, but mostly in confidence of profits. But they are NOW overconfident.
Yeah... Right... and they are the only ones that are dealing with Cuba!?!?!?!?
It's the people and small enterprises that are banned to deal with them, big enterprises are free to do whatever they want. Since they are actually in control of US.(In Russia the government controls the commerce... work out who controls who in US)
History note: IBM had business in USSR during the war in Afghanistan. Witch I am pretty sure was not allowed by US government.
Yeah 70% of servers might be, but most of them support the 93% desktop infrastructure ONLY.
While Unix'es are usually there for processing, service delivery and other higher value non-infrastructure services.
But the did look at the latest US budget balance sheet...
If US is to run in a weapons race, then hey more likely that that policy WILL be forcefully changed by elections....