I believe IE was based on a browser named Spyglass, from whom MS licensed and subsequently attempted to cheat (what else is new). From wikipedia:
In 1995, Microsoft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass as the basis of Internet Explorer 1.0 which it released as part of Windows 95.
The arrangement for the licence was that Spyglass would receive a quarterly fee plus a percentage of Microsoft's revenues for the software.
Microsoft subsequently bundled Internet Explorer with Windows, and thus (making no direct revenues on IE) paid only the minimum quarterly fee. In 1997, Spyglass threatened Microsoft with a contractual audit, in response to which Microsoft settled for US $8 million.
In a speech that she gave in around 1998 (if memory serves me right) she stated that the most important thing for any working person was to first make yourself financially independent.
Why in the world would any financially independent person want to be a cubicle monkey?
It isn't illegal to build a nuclear power plant in the US, as some would have us believe. What changed is that the government stopped indemnifying power companies -- meaning they would have to show financial responsibility or buy liability insurance in case their "safe" power plants did a no-no.
In other words, the free market decided that nuclear power was too risky because no insurance company is willing to back a new power plant and no energy company is willing to back their own "safe" power plant against liabilities arising from a nuclear accident.
Definitely failures of the marketplace when the sellers generate a reality distortion field of Branding and the buyers are hypnotized by it. My girlfriend loves Starbucks coffee and pays a huge premium for their pedestrian flavo drinks. Look inside an Apple computer and you see a collection of off-the-shelf chips and drives.
People who are loyal to the Dell brand insist that they are solid machines -- even though they are really no different than any other collection of Taiwan/China parts.
Hey, I got an idea! Maybe they should work out a system where Debian has three presidents, one elected per year for a three year term on a quasi-lazy Susan, stack-based basis.
The newest president would be called Testing and everybody would go to him for real everyday issues. The second president (second year in office) would be called Unstable and he would work with the greybeards out in the field helping tham to keep their ancient computers running. Then, in the last year in office, the president would be called Stable and he (or she) appears on panels at universitys and trade shows and awards dinners.
Unauthorized computer access was made a felony in the late 90s. Unauthorized computer access was also labeled 'terrorism' by the so-called Patriot Act. But these unauthorized accesses are defacto protected by the current federal govt. because they are commercial(tm) and are not prosecuted like a lone pimply cracker defacing a commercial(tm) website would be.
It is said that the creators of the Sobe and workalike viruses also created this commercial(tm) and openly available bulk-email package which anyone can use to send their commercial(tm) spam through infected, cracked computers. Send-safe.com sells their spamware via unregulated, greedy Visa and MasterCard networks, and is hosted openly in uunet/MCI/Worldcom netspace.
A large bank of PCs running send-safe for a non-commercial(tm) (terrorist) purpose could bring the internet to its knees.
There's no guarantee that the operation of the FBI's other network isn't also farmed out to a similar incompetent cheap-labor dweeb with appropriate Republican political connections.
Hmm... While doing graduate work at Duke University, I was taught that FORTH was designed at the International House of Pancakes as a language to train robotic cooks to prepare meals.
And isn't that the reality of military discipline? Soldiers are meat, fodder, expendable. I suppose having machines will lower the bar for ethics and morality when it comes to how much we care about the human beings which we are told are our enemies.
Indeed. Add to that that nobody gets to own COTS, they only get to lease it. Big homemade software are the foundation of successful businesses such as FedEx and Wally*World.
If you don't care about anything non-Microsoft, it makes sense to just use the tools in front of you. Despite your anti-Microsoft frothing, those tools usually work and get the job done, and their use is intended for use on Microsoft's platform.
MS Should change the name of their to The Microsoft Open Honeypot Project. Wouldn't it be fun to start blocking IE from your website?
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IE was based on Mosaic.
I believe IE was based on a browser named Spyglass, from whom MS licensed and subsequently attempted to cheat (what else is new). From wikipedia:
Is it true that if I name any file with a .com or .exe extension, that your operating system will think it is executable? Is that really true?
...and it looks as though the Board of Directors are untouched -- free to continue to totally screw up HP.
In fact, I can't think of another one off the top of my head, and certainly no other woman heads a company as powerful and important as HP.
Maybe next time they'll hire someone who actually knows something about computers.In a speech that she gave in around 1998 (if memory serves me right) she stated that the most important thing for any working person was to first make yourself financially independent.
Why in the world would any financially independent person want to be a cubicle monkey?That's the difference between public enterprise and private enterprise.
Beware of perpetual motion machines.
It isn't illegal to build a nuclear power plant in the US, as some would have us believe. What changed is that the government stopped indemnifying power companies -- meaning they would have to show financial responsibility or buy liability insurance in case their "safe" power plants did a no-no.
In other words, the free market decided that nuclear power was too risky because no insurance company is willing to back a new power plant and no energy company is willing to back their own "safe" power plant against liabilities arising from a nuclear accident.
Definitely failures of the marketplace when the sellers generate a reality distortion field of Branding and the buyers are hypnotized by it. My girlfriend loves Starbucks coffee and pays a huge premium for their pedestrian flavo drinks. Look inside an Apple computer and you see a collection of off-the-shelf chips and drives.
People who are loyal to the Dell brand insist that they are solid machines -- even though they are really no different than any other collection of Taiwan/China parts.
Hey, I got an idea! Maybe they should work out a system where Debian has three presidents, one elected per year for a three year term on a quasi-lazy Susan, stack-based basis.
The newest president would be called Testing and everybody would go to him for real everyday issues. The second president (second year in office) would be called Unstable and he would work with the greybeards out in the field helping tham to keep their ancient computers running. Then, in the last year in office, the president would be called Stable and he (or she) appears on panels at universitys and trade shows and awards dinners.
The color scheme was user-assignable, and the Nextstep picture was NOT any default color scheme.
If only the GCC developers would commit Objective-C++ to the main tree and let is have a WebKit-based browser...
Ironic state of things, considering that the very first web browser was written for OpenStep in Objective C.I said that because outsourcing is one of the gods of conservatives.
Unauthorized computer access was made a felony in the late 90s. Unauthorized computer access was also labeled 'terrorism' by the so-called Patriot Act. But these unauthorized accesses are defacto protected by the current federal govt. because they are commercial(tm) and are not prosecuted like a lone pimply cracker defacing a commercial(tm) website would be.
It is said that the creators of the Sobe and workalike viruses also created this commercial(tm) and openly available bulk-email package which anyone can use to send their commercial(tm) spam through infected, cracked computers. Send-safe.com sells their spamware via unregulated, greedy Visa and MasterCard networks, and is hosted openly in uunet/MCI/Worldcom netspace.
A large bank of PCs running send-safe for a non-commercial(tm) (terrorist) purpose could bring the internet to its knees.
There's no guarantee that the operation of the FBI's other network isn't also farmed out to a similar incompetent cheap-labor dweeb with appropriate Republican political connections.
Not only do they not require authentication, many also allow you to set up your own mail server and let you send unlimited emails that way.
Hmm... While doing graduate work at Duke University, I was taught that FORTH was designed at the International House of Pancakes as a language to train robotic cooks to prepare meals.
Apple should dump that pathetic little Mach-0 and use a Linux kernel instead.
They substituted bitmaps for outline fonts at smaller sizes.
Or did they patent a process where they do it all with mayonaisse, mustard and pickles?
I think that IPV6 and static addresses for everybody will go a long way toward stopping spam.
And isn't that the reality of military discipline? Soldiers are meat, fodder, expendable. I suppose having machines will lower the bar for ethics and morality when it comes to how much we care about the human beings which we are told are our enemies.
Indeed. Add to that that nobody gets to own COTS, they only get to lease it. Big homemade software are the foundation of successful businesses such as FedEx and Wally*World.
If you don't care about anything non-Microsoft, it makes sense to just use the tools in front of you. Despite your anti-Microsoft frothing, those tools usually work and get the job done, and their use is intended for use on Microsoft's platform.
MS Should change the name of their to The Microsoft Open Honeypot Project. Wouldn't it be fun to start blocking IE from your website?That would save the editors from the trouble of having to actually read the website.