No matter what features a browsers may have, it doesn't mean a damn thing unless it actually works for a given web-site.
There are a lot of main-stream sites that only work correctly with msie. I don't know why so many people make their sites like that, but they do. Comedycentral, a lot of yahoo, a lot banks, and so on just don't work with anything non-msie.
Why? Because the article tries to imply that Macs are cheaper than PCs. I have a ton of respect for Macs, but they are not cheaper than PCs.
$3000 Windows deskop? I guess it's possible, but $300 windows desktops are far more common. About a year ago I bought a complete brand-new windows system for my brother-in-law for $200 after rebates. It's not the greatest system, but it's perfictly acceptable for ordinary home use.
Now tell me where I can buy a brand-new complete Mac system for under $300?
Where I work, if somebody is incorrectly identified as a spammer, that person can contact us, and we work to resolve the issue. It happens all of the time.
On the other hand, Spamhaus is not the only organization capable of filtering spam. If Spamhaus went away, spam would still be filtered.
I doubt the judge has jurisdiction, and I think the judge knows it.
Msft and scox sure got there money's worth out the scam. 5 years of FUD for msft for less than $100 million is a great bargin. It costs about $40 to make a single commercial.
As for Darl, he's pocketed about $2 million in the last four year, which isn't bad for a small-time scam artist like Darl.
Overall, I'd say the scam was a great success for the scammers. Maybe not all they hoped for, but a success none-the-less.
And please forget this non-sense about the scammers being held accountable. That sort of thing is extremely rare in the US justice system. This is actually one msft's lesser scams.
Judges are lawyers, politicians are lawyers. The entire power structure of the USA is a big Lawyeracracy.
In the USA, the worst you can do by filing lawsuits is to break even. So scam artists file often. Once somebody files a lawsuit against you: you have already lost, no matter how the case turns out.
Big money files bogus suits to shut up those who dare speak against them; or to inconvience competitors. Sexual harassment lawsuits have become largly a cash-grab scam. It goes on and on.
Talk about having those who file scam suits having to pay, and the association of trial lawyers goes balistic. Why do you suspose that is?
Why do you suspose the USA is by far the most litigous nation on earth? Why does the USA have about 10X as many lawyers per capita as other nations?
Let's face it, by 2015, everybody in the USA will make their living by suing everybody else. Law is one job you can not export. Nobody outside the USA (or inside the USA?) understands the USA legal system, and besides, lawyers won't allow their jobs to be exported - and lawyers make up the entire power structure in the USA: politicians and judges are essentially lawyers.
Nobody will ever beat the USA when it comes to insane litigation.
Why struggle in IT for $18/hour, when a lawyer with his feet on his desk makes $180/hour?
I can not get linux pass the "swirl test" on a 1.6ghz box with 512mb RAM, and a 128mb video ram. I know, that's not exactly high end, but windows passed with much lower system resources.
By "swirl test" I mean: open a browser to full screen, open another window on top of the browser, quickly swirl the window opened on top of the browser. If I get tracing etc, it fails the test.
NT4.0 easily passes the swirl test. Even on a 120mhz box with a 4mb video card.
"You beter leave msft alone, you mean 'ol EU, you. If you stop msft's abusive business practises, then you will all lose your jobs, and be out begging in the streets. So there."
1) There are more desktop apps than just office. A lot more. It only takes one must-have windows-only app to kill the deal for any alternative OS.
2) Aside from running apps that most desktop users want, windows also works with the hardware that most users want: multi-function printer/scanner/copier things, win-modems, ipods, etc.
3) Lots of popular web site will not work correctly on anything except msie.
4) DRM & multi-media.
As much as I dislike msft, I prefer to be realistic and admit that linux has no chance of being popular on the desktop for the forseeable future.
But, I'm not sure the article makes sense for servers. In fact, with servers it could be argured that *NIX systems had the headstart.
Actually, the "first mover advantage" arguement has another flaw: msft is usually (always?) not the first mover. Apple had a popular PC before the IBM PC. Apple had a great GUI system a decade before msft had anything to compare. Netscape had the first widely used browser. Novell had the first widely used LAN software for PCs. Msft office products were the first, or the best, or the most popular, for a long time.
Still msft's monopoly on the desktop makes it virtually impossible for Linux to ever catch-up:
- Since windows has 95% of the desktop market: HW/SW makers will make for Windows first. If the make stuff for Mac or Linux, at all, it will be a distant afterthought.
- Msft, with tens of billions of dollars in the bank, has enormous influence with hw/sw makers and politicians. Msft freely, and massively abuses the legal, political, and business systems; both in the USA and internationally.
- IMO: the most important thing for an OS to do - by far - is to run your applications, and work with your hardware. If an OS doesn't do that, it doesn't matter how fast it boots up, or how virus resistant it is, or anything like that. First and foremost: the OS must run what you need to run. Few people run an OS just to run the OS.
- Popular F/OSS apps are always ported to windows. Which means that in terms of apps, windows users are insured the best of the both worlds.
The federal case was against Frederick Banks in Pittsberg, Pennsylvania. Banks was sentanced to 5 years.
After the case was over, Banks harassed me, and other witnesses, constantly. He filed numerous frivilous lawsuits against the witnesses, and the arresting officers.
Guess who paid for all those lawsuits, and appeals? Yep, the USA taxpayer. Banks is broke and in prison, the USA feels obligated to pay to have prisoners harass witnesses.
I did not have to go to court, but I had to spend many hours filing out forms, and mailing, and faxing. The only reason I did not have to go back to court was that the USA attorney general's office petitioned the court to represent me - they did not have to do that.
I hate to think what will happen when Banks gets out.
The judicial bias in this case is glaring. Especially on the part of magistrate judge Wells.
1) Otis was not given adequate notice, at least 20 days is required. The courts chose to ignore that technicallity.
2) Wells had previously ordered no new discovery. In allowing this new discovery, she also stated that it can not be used for discovery - which makes absolutely no sense.
3) This is a very obvious end-run around the order of the court. BS&F has said "F**K YOU!" to the court, in no uncertain terms.
Wells could ignore the deposition, or sanction BS&F. But she won't. As I said, there is enormous judicial bias in this case.
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No matter what features a browsers may have, it doesn't mean a damn thing unless it actually works for a given web-site.
There are a lot of main-stream sites that only work correctly with msie. I don't know why so many people make their sites like that, but they do. Comedycentral, a lot of yahoo, a lot banks, and so on just don't work with anything non-msie.
Why? Because the article tries to imply that Macs are cheaper than PCs. I have a ton of respect for Macs, but they are not cheaper than PCs.
$3000 Windows deskop? I guess it's possible, but $300 windows desktops are far more common. About a year ago I bought a complete brand-new windows system for my brother-in-law for $200 after rebates. It's not the greatest system, but it's perfictly acceptable for ordinary home use.
Now tell me where I can buy a brand-new complete Mac system for under $300?
On the lower priced web-hosters, PostgreSQL has been almost non-existant. That is just begining to change.
Um, does the Zune play porn?
I think there is an upturn in IT right now, but nothing like the late 90s.
The first bubble crashed hard as all hell after 2000, now we are just picking up the pieces.
just a few days ago.
Remember? Data centers are going to be replaced by drill-bits, or something.
I think all sides are idiotic.
Where I work, if somebody is incorrectly identified as a spammer, that person can contact us, and we work to resolve the issue. It happens all of the time.
On the other hand, Spamhaus is not the only organization capable of filtering spam. If Spamhaus went away, spam would still be filtered.
I doubt the judge has jurisdiction, and I think the judge knows it.
Msft and scox sure got there money's worth out the scam. 5 years of FUD for msft for less than $100 million is a great bargin. It costs about $40 to make a single commercial.
As for Darl, he's pocketed about $2 million in the last four year, which isn't bad for a small-time scam artist like Darl.
Overall, I'd say the scam was a great success for the scammers. Maybe not all they hoped for, but a success none-the-less.
And please forget this non-sense about the scammers being held accountable. That sort of thing is extremely rare in the US justice system. This is actually one msft's lesser scams.
This is - by far - my main reason for not using firefox.
Just a short time ago, I had to boot of Linux, and into Windows, because a web-site I needed to use didn' work with firefox, or opera.
How many times has msft pulled this stunt? Remember AdTI?
Some conservative think-tank starts screaming about msft being denied it's rights; and - whodathunkit - it's msft funding the entire thing!
Wasn't the letters-from-dead-people campaign another example of one these msft scams?
It's crazy, it seems the more ground msie loses, the more web-sites refuse to work with anything except msie.
Judges are lawyers, politicians are lawyers. The entire power structure of the USA is a big Lawyeracracy.
In the USA, the worst you can do by filing lawsuits is to break even. So scam artists file often. Once somebody files a lawsuit against you: you have already lost, no matter how the case turns out.
Big money files bogus suits to shut up those who dare speak against them; or to inconvience competitors. Sexual harassment lawsuits have become largly a cash-grab scam. It goes on and on.
Talk about having those who file scam suits having to pay, and the association of trial lawyers goes balistic. Why do you suspose that is?
Why do you suspose the USA is by far the most litigous nation on earth? Why does the USA have about 10X as many lawyers per capita as other nations?
democracy simply does not work.
- Kent Brokman
Let's face it, by 2015, everybody in the USA will make their living by suing everybody else. Law is one job you can not export. Nobody outside the USA (or inside the USA?) understands the USA legal system, and besides, lawyers won't allow their jobs to be exported - and lawyers make up the entire power structure in the USA: politicians and judges are essentially lawyers.
Nobody will ever beat the USA when it comes to insane litigation.
Why struggle in IT for $18/hour, when a lawyer with his feet on his desk makes $180/hour?
At the time I set up my yahoo email account, getting a google email account was like getting accepted into some exclusive snotty club.
Google may have changed, but now it's not worth changing accounts. Yahoo is adequate, there is not *that* big a difference.
I can not get linux pass the "swirl test" on a 1.6ghz box with 512mb RAM, and a 128mb video ram. I know, that's not exactly high end, but windows passed with much lower system resources.
By "swirl test" I mean: open a browser to full screen, open another window on top of the browser, quickly swirl the window opened on top of the browser. If I get tracing etc, it fails the test.
NT4.0 easily passes the swirl test. Even on a 120mhz box with a 4mb video card.
"You beter leave msft alone, you mean 'ol EU, you. If you stop msft's abusive business practises, then you will all lose your jobs, and be out begging in the streets. So there."
>>Getting 300 million people to agree is impossible. Hell, even getting a million people to agree on something is quite difficult
How many Indians boycotted English cotton?
I think the whole ipod fad is insane, I'll stick with mp3s.
1) There are more desktop apps than just office. A lot more. It only takes one must-have windows-only app to kill the deal for any alternative OS.
2) Aside from running apps that most desktop users want, windows also works with the hardware that most users want: multi-function printer/scanner/copier things, win-modems, ipods, etc.
3) Lots of popular web site will not work correctly on anything except msie.
4) DRM & multi-media.
As much as I dislike msft, I prefer to be realistic and admit that linux has no chance of being popular on the desktop for the forseeable future.
This guy wasn't just downloading music to listen to himself. He was actively defrauding thousands of people.
Shop-lifting is a similar crime, so add it up: 1st offense, 2nd offense, 3rd offense, keep going to about 10,000 counts.
Well known net-kook jeff merkey got wales to drop any negitives about merkey eaisly enough. A combination of bribes and threats, as I understand it.
But, I'm not sure the article makes sense for servers. In fact, with servers it could be argured that *NIX systems had the headstart.
Actually, the "first mover advantage" arguement has another flaw: msft is usually (always?) not the first mover. Apple had a popular PC before the IBM PC. Apple had a great GUI system a decade before msft had anything to compare. Netscape had the first widely used browser. Novell had the first widely used LAN software for PCs. Msft office products were the first, or the best, or the most popular, for a long time.
Still msft's monopoly on the desktop makes it virtually impossible for Linux to ever catch-up:
- Since windows has 95% of the desktop market: HW/SW makers will make for Windows first. If the make stuff for Mac or Linux, at all, it will be a distant afterthought.
- Msft, with tens of billions of dollars in the bank, has enormous influence with hw/sw makers and politicians. Msft freely, and massively abuses the legal, political, and business systems; both in the USA and internationally.
- IMO: the most important thing for an OS to do - by far - is to run your applications, and work with your hardware. If an OS doesn't do that, it doesn't matter how fast it boots up, or how virus resistant it is, or anything like that. First and foremost: the OS must run what you need to run. Few people run an OS just to run the OS.
- Popular F/OSS apps are always ported to windows. Which means that in terms of apps, windows users are insured the best of the both worlds.
The federal case was against Frederick Banks in Pittsberg, Pennsylvania. Banks was sentanced to 5 years.
After the case was over, Banks harassed me, and other witnesses, constantly. He filed numerous frivilous lawsuits against the witnesses, and the arresting officers.
Guess who paid for all those lawsuits, and appeals? Yep, the USA taxpayer. Banks is broke and in prison, the USA feels obligated to pay to have prisoners harass witnesses.
I did not have to go to court, but I had to spend many hours filing out forms, and mailing, and faxing. The only reason I did not have to go back to court was that the USA attorney general's office petitioned the court to represent me - they did not have to do that.
I hate to think what will happen when Banks gets out.
The judicial bias in this case is glaring. Especially on the part of magistrate judge Wells.
1) Otis was not given adequate notice, at least 20 days is required. The courts chose to ignore that technicallity.
2) Wells had previously ordered no new discovery. In allowing this new discovery, she also stated that it can not be used for discovery - which makes absolutely no sense.
3) This is a very obvious end-run around the order of the court. BS&F has said "F**K YOU!" to the court, in no uncertain terms.
Wells could ignore the deposition, or sanction BS&F. But she won't. As I said, there is enormous judicial bias in this case.
This is probably more of a solution for people who are already using drupal.
The drupal CMS, has a Light CRM module which may provide an adequate helpdesk.
I suppose you could build an assett management system with drupal's flixinode module.