Every country has their own laws, this applies US too. A Chinese company comes to US to do their business, it has to obey US Laws. If it doesn't do so, the result will be the same as Google in China.
China is well within their rights to tell a foreign company to GTFO. Until China grows enough backbone to put its foot down, Google can do whatever it wants.
The innovation here is that, with HTML5, you can write a web site which can accept files dropped from outside the browser, and process them in various different ways not hardcoded into the browser.
Why? If they're ripping up their old infastructure to upgrade, it makes no sense to move to IE7 when moving to IE8/9 would be just as easy. Then again, moving to a proper browser shouldn't be much more difficult, either...
Open source companies make money from support. What software companies make billions in just their support contracts? Maybe Microsoft? And who can compete on a level playing field with Microsoft for supporting MS's products? A too-expensive OSS company can and will get dropped like a brick.
We have forgotten that business exists to serve people, people do not exist for the sake of money.
What tripe. Businesses exist to serve their owners. If the owner wants money, that's what the business exists to make. If the owner wants to improve the world without much out-of-pocket expenses (or to make his own pockets deeper so that he can do it out-of-pocket), that's what the business exists to do.
The only way "serving the people" comes into it is if:
a) that's what the owner(s) want
OR
b) the company needs to in order to pursue its other goals (i.e. they can't make money if everyone is alienated enough to boycott them)
As has been said a thousand times that upgrading is free, so the only issue is the "training costs" of upgrading. So how does upgrading from those versions affect your end users?
If you ran Linux systems that old, you would be using a 2.4.18 kernel (remember LinuxThreads?).
What do non-admins have to learn to do differently when the kernel version changes?
You would be using OSS, because ALSA was still incomplete and PulseAudio hadn't come around yet.
Why would they care that they've been moved to ALSA, so long as the sound sliders work?
...gcc-2.95...python 1.5.x...
Your end users neither know nor care what version of Python they're running, so you can upgrade them to whatever version your programmers are using.
...XFree86...
The users generally aren't responsible for their own hardware upgrades. And again, what habits does moving to Xorg force them to change?
...Mozilla...
Your only example that the users might notice changing. The icon's different. The toolbar buttons are shaped a little differently. A network-wide shell script and a theme can fix that if it's that important.
Users just don't care about the under-the-hood stuff changing as long as it doesn't affect the interface. Ubuntu's new buttons-on-the-left Ambiance theme, KDE4, that sort of thing.
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You need an SSN to get a bank account these days.
I thought that the commonly accepted date fpr The Revelation of St John was around AD90 (I assume thats what everyone is talking about.)
Yes, the conversation is about Book of the Revelation of John, but it's The Gospel According to John that is dated at around 90 AD.
Every country has their own laws, this applies US too. A Chinese company comes to US to do their business, it has to obey US Laws. If it doesn't do so, the result will be the same as Google in China.
China is well within their rights to tell a foreign company to GTFO. Until China grows enough backbone to put its foot down, Google can do whatever it wants.
Third-party media players have Firefox/Mozilla plugins (VLC comes to mind). Can they make their plugins intercept and play ?
The innovation here is that, with HTML5, you can write a web site which can accept files dropped from outside the browser, and process them in various different ways not hardcoded into the browser.
But only if your browser supports HMTL5, right?
Why? If they're ripping up their old infastructure to upgrade, it makes no sense to move to IE7 when moving to IE8/9 would be just as easy. Then again, moving to a proper browser shouldn't be much more difficult, either...
The only way that would happen is if the results are heavily in the majority party's favor.
Would that be a bad thing?
The quiz strikes me as incredibly biased.
A fetish for used cigarettes? That's a new one.
"Binary heap" start out highest line on the left in figures 1-4.
...nothing on your HD is touched.
What hard drive? ;-)
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic/rhetorical
Porn Sites More Infected Than Thought
I'm pretty sure "thoughts" aren't subject to the same kinds of infections...
Sarcasm isn't always humorous. In this case, the mods read it as "scornful" and agreed with the sentiment.
Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?
Open source companies make money from support. What software companies make billions in just their support contracts? Maybe Microsoft? And who can compete on a level playing field with Microsoft for supporting MS's products? A too-expensive OSS company can and will get dropped like a brick.
We have forgotten that business exists to serve people, people do not exist for the sake of money.
What tripe. Businesses exist to serve their owners. If the owner wants money, that's what the business exists to make. If the owner wants to improve the world without much out-of-pocket expenses (or to make his own pockets deeper so that he can do it out-of-pocket), that's what the business exists to do.
The only way "serving the people" comes into it is if:
a) that's what the owner(s) want
OR
b) the company needs to in order to pursue its other goals (i.e. they can't make money if everyone is alienated enough to boycott them)
Why stop using an API if it's still available and it still works?
Is it deprecated yet? If so, isn't using it a form of planned obsolescence?
I prefer to download video files and play them from VLC. Browser cache, youtube-dl, wget, etc. Haven't been able to get Hulu, though.
Actually, considering that they have Wubi, they probably do have some Windows machines.
I should have said FSF...
If you ran Linux systems that old, you would be using a 2.4.18 kernel (remember LinuxThreads?).
What do non-admins have to learn to do differently when the kernel version changes?
You would be using OSS, because ALSA was still incomplete and PulseAudio hadn't come around yet.
Why would they care that they've been moved to ALSA, so long as the sound sliders work?
...gcc-2.95...python 1.5.x...
Your end users neither know nor care what version of Python they're running, so you can upgrade them to whatever version your programmers are using.
...XFree86...
The users generally aren't responsible for their own hardware upgrades. And again, what habits does moving to Xorg force them to change?
...Mozilla...
Your only example that the users might notice changing. The icon's different. The toolbar buttons are shaped a little differently. A network-wide shell script and a theme can fix that if it's that important.
Users just don't care about the under-the-hood stuff changing as long as it doesn't affect the interface. Ubuntu's new buttons-on-the-left Ambiance theme, KDE4, that sort of thing.
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They did! Just ask their Great Leader.
We need a +1 Sarcastic mod.
They called it National Socialism for a reason!
Probably for similar reasons why North Korea calls itself the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".