The greatest joke of the fundraiser video was the phrase "and soon even television". I can't stand the marketing gibberish. I don't think it is of any relevance to rebuilt a Star Trek bridge set. Paramount could do that. they have done it several times and they could do it again. I would prefer to build a real star ship as an educational facility, try out a new design.
Come on, no one uses Sharepoint. BI software ist not based on Excel but based upon a real database feeded by an ERP solution. Everything else is toy stuff. In Europe it is corporate policy in many enterprises to get rid off Microsoft dependencies. Companies are not that passionate about Google dependencies.
Look, in an enterprise environment you don't need Win8. There is absolutely no reason to upgrade and seriously, we are now operating system agnostics again. Macs do just fine. Linux Desktops will be also fine unless they are called Linux Desktops.
Our operating system is now the browser.
Of course, as it is common in "UFO science" you'll find a lot of scam. But I have no doubts that the Americans took those designs and finally gave up on them.
It is an overblown scifi-movie with a little truth to it. Discordian Wilson once said there are so many UNFO, unidentified nonflying objects. UFO does not mean from outer space. The nazis build flying sourcer style objects, they also invented the stream flight engine and rockets. After WWII the Americans and the USSR further developed the designs.
Probably taken from German Reich designs. Don't forget that thousands of US bomber pilots saw foo fighters in WWII. The archives of the German Airforce are still lost.
I guess the same applies to companies like IBM, AT&T and Microsoft in the European Union, companies which undermine our domestic security (see the IBM Lotus Notes backdoor scandal in Sweden) and seek to influence our law makers. In particular AT&T with their lobbying for censorship rules and Microsoft which does not disclose the source code of its applications to the IT security agencies and undermines open source and open standards policies --- as if they were part of the European constituency. Oh, and don't mention the OOXML case.
A ruling is that the authority orders them to do X as a result of investigation of the case brought forward by competitors. Like a judgement in a court. You could then appeal the ruling.
A settlement is that they pledge to do Y by private law contract and the authority kindly suspends the pending case. They also assign a third party to watch compliance.
Technically the antitrust case of the competitors was quite strong because bundling is illegal for a monopolist but the authority was unwilling to pursue the case after its "statement of objections". Note that some competitors as Opera brought it forward because they were pissed of the OOXML incident and because they wanted Microsoft to better comply with W3C standards. Also certain other minor charges were dropped along the settlement. The settlement proposal was presented by Steve Ballmer in a personal pizza dinner with Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes.
It is interesting how they orchestrate it. Esp. the first movie. Classic Prussian marches for the party members.
Second title: "At the great "Congress of victory" in the old Reich city [Nuremberg] the fighters for a new Germany march in an uncomparable March of Triumph passed the Fuhrer" - sound: Helenen march
Königgrätzer March, Hohenfriedberger
"Macht der Liebe" for the inauguration of the flags with the blood flag
Hitler: The national socialist party has become the state. "What you inherited from you ancestors, obtain it to posess it" (Goethe quote). But the most valuable possision is the own people. For this people und for the cause this people we want fight and struggle, and never... despair....
National hymn.
Title: "The Young Germany cheers the Leader." We want to be one people. We are going to see no classes and interest groups...
The problem of the case is that for radical muslims not the content (which is mostly a factual account of the Quran gospel) is objectionable but the depiction of Muhammed. Imagery of Muhammed is an offense in many muslim communities.
Uhm, his video was distributed on the internet and no other medium....you don't think the curbing of free speech is a nerd issue?
So regardless what the content of the video is, the mere depiction of Muhammed is objectionable. Not all muslim believers are radicals, and most muslims do not endorse the insane violence of the 911 attackers. 911 by the way refers to the epic defeat of the Osman empire (11 September 1697). Furthermore, the incidents may have been provoked by the video but do not provide any excuse for the violence. It is plain nonsense to claim that the video caused the violence. The arrest of the film maker invokes the impression that violent outrage pays off.
They didn't force Microsoft either. Microsoft signed a contract to do so in order to settle a strong competition case brought forward by competitiors and the Commission let Microsoft get away with it. It is Microsoft's own fault when they don't comply with the ballot screen contract. There is no "ruling", no "order them to". The Commission is not after their money, it is Microsoft which violated their own contractual obligations and faces the damages foreseen in the contract.
You don't get it. Microsoft proposed the browser ballot screen themselves and signed a contract where they obliged themselves to provide it or receive punitive damages. That contract was a settlement to a real competition case where competitors complained on grounds of law and had a strong legal case, namely illegal bundling. The Commission was very kind to accept the settlement and didn't expect Microsoft to violate it.
You don't get it. Windows is a monopoly and bundling is illegal. So competitors had a perfect case when they complained. Microsoft reached a contractual settlement where they self-obliged to a browser ballot screen. They were not ordered to do it, they offered the deal and signed up to it. And they broke that contract. You can't imagine a company to be that stupid.
It was not a ruling. It was a settlement, a contract where Microsoft pledged to comply with certain obligations or get punitive damages. In return an antitrust case was scrapped.
Never before such a settlement has been broken. So the EU Commission Competition Commissioner Almunia was quite surprised. And Microsoft quickly admitted they broke the contract and offered an additional deal. So the only relevant question is not how to set the fines. I assume
a) Microsoft will need to put some meat on the table, e.g. open source IE, prolong the application time of the settlement
b) Damages will be set, up to 10% of their annual turnover. Probably they will keep it below.
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The greatest joke of the fundraiser video was the phrase "and soon even television". I can't stand the marketing gibberish. I don't think it is of any relevance to rebuilt a Star Trek bridge set. Paramount could do that. they have done it several times and they could do it again. I would prefer to build a real star ship as an educational facility, try out a new design.
Come on, no one uses Sharepoint. BI software ist not based on Excel but based upon a real database feeded by an ERP solution. Everything else is toy stuff. In Europe it is corporate policy in many enterprises to get rid off Microsoft dependencies. Companies are not that passionate about Google dependencies.
It is really a sad state of affairs, so few attacks originating from Africa and the United States. Guess it must be IP-racism.
Look, in an enterprise environment you don't need Win8. There is absolutely no reason to upgrade and seriously, we are now operating system agnostics again. Macs do just fine. Linux Desktops will be also fine unless they are called Linux Desktops. Our operating system is now the browser.
Muslim maniacs are just after the violence and outrage.
In 1941 the V2 rockets reached Mach5. In any case, supersonic flight was even possible with the French Concorde passenger aircraft.
Thanks god Einstein did question Islamic writings.
How do the Americans now travel to space? Do they still have some Apollo rockets?
Of course, as it is common in "UFO science" you'll find a lot of scam. But I have no doubts that the Americans took those designs and finally gave up on them.
I wish Europe would rather develop its owns operating system (Linux, hint hint). than its own GPS. Simply because GPS seems fine to me.
The US will focus on a trade war with Asia. An interesting attrition war from which Europe and Africa would benefit a lot.
It is an overblown scifi-movie with a little truth to it. Discordian Wilson once said there are so many UNFO, unidentified nonflying objects. UFO does not mean from outer space. The nazis build flying sourcer style objects, they also invented the stream flight engine and rockets. After WWII the Americans and the USSR further developed the designs.
Baywatch? OMG. David Hasselhoff hunts the German submarines.
The complete archive of German airforce military research are "lost".
Probably taken from German Reich designs. Don't forget that thousands of US bomber pilots saw foo fighters in WWII. The archives of the German Airforce are still lost.
I guess the same applies to companies like IBM, AT&T and Microsoft in the European Union, companies which undermine our domestic security (see the IBM Lotus Notes backdoor scandal in Sweden) and seek to influence our law makers. In particular AT&T with their lobbying for censorship rules and Microsoft which does not disclose the source code of its applications to the IT security agencies and undermines open source and open standards policies --- as if they were part of the European constituency. Oh, and don't mention the OOXML case.
A ruling is that the authority orders them to do X as a result of investigation of the case brought forward by competitors. Like a judgement in a court. You could then appeal the ruling. A settlement is that they pledge to do Y by private law contract and the authority kindly suspends the pending case. They also assign a third party to watch compliance. Technically the antitrust case of the competitors was quite strong because bundling is illegal for a monopolist but the authority was unwilling to pursue the case after its "statement of objections". Note that some competitors as Opera brought it forward because they were pissed of the OOXML incident and because they wanted Microsoft to better comply with W3C standards. Also certain other minor charges were dropped along the settlement. The settlement proposal was presented by Steve Ballmer in a personal pizza dinner with Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes.
It is interesting how they orchestrate it. Esp. the first movie. Classic Prussian marches for the party members. Second title: "At the great "Congress of victory" in the old Reich city [Nuremberg] the fighters for a new Germany march in an uncomparable March of Triumph passed the Fuhrer" - sound: Helenen march Königgrätzer March, Hohenfriedberger "Macht der Liebe" for the inauguration of the flags with the blood flag Hitler: The national socialist party has become the state. "What you inherited from you ancestors, obtain it to posess it" (Goethe quote). But the most valuable possision is the own people. For this people und for the cause this people we want fight and struggle, and never... despair. ...
National hymn.
Title: "The Young Germany cheers the Leader." We want to be one people. We are going to see no classes and interest groups...
Tradition, Slackware is the real thing. Nostalgic. It is the oldest distribution out there. It is ported to S/390. It follows the unix principles.
Ubuntu 12.04
So regardless what the content of the video is, the mere depiction of Muhammed is objectionable. Not all muslim believers are radicals, and most muslims do not endorse the insane violence of the 911 attackers. 911 by the way refers to the epic defeat of the Osman empire (11 September 1697). Furthermore, the incidents may have been provoked by the video but do not provide any excuse for the violence. It is plain nonsense to claim that the video caused the violence. The arrest of the film maker invokes the impression that violent outrage pays off.
They didn't force Microsoft either. Microsoft signed a contract to do so in order to settle a strong competition case brought forward by competitiors and the Commission let Microsoft get away with it. It is Microsoft's own fault when they don't comply with the ballot screen contract. There is no "ruling", no "order them to". The Commission is not after their money, it is Microsoft which violated their own contractual obligations and faces the damages foreseen in the contract.
You don't get it. Microsoft proposed the browser ballot screen themselves and signed a contract where they obliged themselves to provide it or receive punitive damages. That contract was a settlement to a real competition case where competitors complained on grounds of law and had a strong legal case, namely illegal bundling. The Commission was very kind to accept the settlement and didn't expect Microsoft to violate it.
You don't get it. Windows is a monopoly and bundling is illegal. So competitors had a perfect case when they complained. Microsoft reached a contractual settlement where they self-obliged to a browser ballot screen. They were not ordered to do it, they offered the deal and signed up to it. And they broke that contract. You can't imagine a company to be that stupid.
It was not a ruling. It was a settlement, a contract where Microsoft pledged to comply with certain obligations or get punitive damages. In return an antitrust case was scrapped. Never before such a settlement has been broken. So the EU Commission Competition Commissioner Almunia was quite surprised. And Microsoft quickly admitted they broke the contract and offered an additional deal. So the only relevant question is not how to set the fines. I assume a) Microsoft will need to put some meat on the table, e.g. open source IE, prolong the application time of the settlement b) Damages will be set, up to 10% of their annual turnover. Probably they will keep it below.