MS is no worse than any other company in the abuse department. MS just has more to abuse (i.e. a "monopoly in the Windows computer market as of 2 years ago).
Sometimes people set up "nanny cams" to see if the nanny is doing her job, to see if the maid is stealing, etc, not just to see if she is beating the kid. The employee's honesty is what is effectively being monitored sometimes.
Most people cannot afford more than 1 or maybe 2 cameras, not to mention all of the video equipment necessary to tape every square inch of the house, and they don't want to tell the person in question about the 1 or 2 cameras, and then have them just perform their questionable behavior somewhere they think the camera is not watching.
Also, I am sure that there are some babysitters who would refuse to work in a house if they knew there were hidden cameras. And some of those people have nothing to hide, just don't like the idea. of course, from the point of view of the employer, what the babysitter doesn't know won't hurt them.
I think that the reason that Macintoshes are dismissed out of hand is because your average computer user would not know where to find the "Start" Button on the Macintosh.(no, not the power button).
In other words, 99% of the people who know how to use a computer know how to use a pc. One of the reasons for this is because anyone can buy a >1gHz PC with Windows installed for around $400.
And this doesn't mention the added headaches that would be introduced when Mac people and PC people need to share resources. Yes, admittedly, I am a PC person. I once had a mac friend burn a CD for me of.mp3 music.
I don't know if he had to use some converter utility or not to make it where my PC could even read the disk, but the result was that many of the resulting files didn't even have file extensions, and the ones that were there used an bizarre naming scheme with all caps, names only 8 characters or less, etc. I had to spend hours renaming the songs and then re-burn the disk, just so I could tell what the songs were. It doesn't matter which OS was at "fault" what matters is that if I own a company in the normal business world, then I would want my employees to use the business-standard pc, so sidestep this sort of headache. If my business were in the art or music world, then perhaps it would make sense for them to use the mac standard.
Well there used to be buisness for people who wanted to offer webbrowsers, or media players, or any number of items. Now there is not.
At one point, there was a business (market) for people who wanted to sell filters for cigarettes. But not anymore, since most people who buy cigarettes buy the ones which already have filters on them.
Stop whining!" Well, we *have* antitrust laws! And we have them for a reason. And if they apply to ANYONE, they apply to MS.
We do have anti-trust laws, you are right. However, the reason for them is to protect the CONSUMER, not to protect competitors. It is very arguable that Microsoft has done nothing besides help the consumer, even if it has not done any favors for its competitors.
Dell is doing OK financially, especially considering the economic situation of the past year.
Gateway has not been doing very well recently. In fact, within the last 6 months, I have seen speculations on them possibly filing bankrupcy (I haven't seen any follow up recently, so they may be doing better, they may not be, I honestly don't know). When the slump hit, Gateway was not in as strong of a position in the PC market as Dell was, which likely had a lot to do with their recent struggles (I am not a financial genius, I don't know)
So is it surprisung that Gateway has little or nothing to lose from complaining openly in court about what they percieve to be unfair practices, but Dell values their relationship with Microsoft more than any possible advantage which may come by whining & crying about the deal in court?
The US government can make it less accurate (which they apparently did) or even completely turn it off any time they want to, with no fear of effective reprisal. All they have to do is say it was necessary for national security, and no one can do anything about it besides crying.
Even though everyone knows that all reporters everywhere are completely unbiased (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), I think that it is important to consider that we are very likely only hearing one side of the story here.
Apparently, you didn't see the article a while back on Writing secure Code from MSPress
Those who have looked at the book seem to come to the conclusion that the knowledge necessary for writing secure code must apparently exist at Redmond, but something besides the total lack of knowledge is what is driving security problems there.
Keep in mind that MSFT was a nerd's nerd, as a company, until this lawsuit, in the political sense. They had no connections in WA, contributed virtually no money to any political party (compared to now), until they were forced to do so.
MSFT was naive politically until forced to become otherwise by the political maneuvering of its business competitors.
I'm pretty sure that the key itself is as long as a global unique identifier. The odds of You accidentally generating a key that someone else also generated is as slim as OJ and the "real" murdurer having the same DNA. (I mean, if we pretended that he didn't really do it).
Microsoft Reader has this feature. Bookmarks that you can flip to from anywhere in the book, as well as, the ability to highlight sections, add your own notes, etc.
Just drop your handheld into one (remove the stylus first), and it is waterproof. Granted, I wouldn't scuba dive with my handheld in a Ziploc, but it's safe enough for the tub.
How do you know that the source code servers are even in Washington State? MSFT could have all of the source code stored in Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Japan, or even Texas:)
We do have such thing as a global network these days, you know.
Actually, MSFT has allowed portions of source code to be accessed by some companies. It is a matter of record.
Look at the lawsuit filed by the British company Bristol (and subsequently either settled or decided in MSFT's favor, I forget which). From what I read in the news, it seems that MSFT was providing source code to Bristol, but then stopped doing so at some point, for some reason or another, at which point Bristol decided to sue Microsoft to force them to continue to provide the source code.
I am sure that Bristol is not the only company that MSFT was/is providing source code access to.
This is better than an ultraslim laptop for people who want all of their information available to them when they want to use a Desktop, and when they want to use a Laptop, and when they want to use a PDA, but don't want to have to synchronize or own a totally seperate devices.
I worked security in a former life in class A office buildings in Dallas, TX.
These buildings did have smoke detectors, only at the tops of the elevator shafts, and at the top of the 8 story atriums. If a fire broke out in the building, the smoke would go up & end up at the smoke detectors (setting off the alarm), or else the fire itself would have to melt the trigger in a sprinkler head, in order to set off the alarm. Or someone would just see the fire, & pull a manual alarm handle. But you would have to smoke an awful lot of cigars to set off the smoke detector 8 stories up! in an area of several thousand cubic feet (atrium).
If you don't think that Navy Seals have been in Afghanastan since September 12th, and that some of them died before we even declared war, then you shouldn't even speak of war, cause you are out of the loop.
Holy Cow! I didn't even know that we actually declared war! Boy, I am out of the loop!
...as far as I know, there isn't any device... that runs even a beta Ogg Vorbis codec
Are we at all surprised that hardware makers are not taking the time to code in support for a beta sound codec? I mean, with the development time of hardware in general, the pre SP1 codec-supporting hardware would just be hitting the shelves right now, no?
Once the first non-beta release is out, then it would make more sense to expect business-centric hardware makers to consider including support for it, right?
It's interesting to note that, between 1995 and 1998, when versions of Windows were released, there were many, many minor and major releases of Linux.
Actually, between 1995 and 1998, Microsoft released Win95SRb, as well as IE4.0 which included a pretty substantial upgrade to the OS and shell itself. These are only 2 sub-versions that I am aware of, there may be patches also that might/might not count as minor version upgrdes, depending on how you look at it.
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MS is no worse than any other company in the abuse department. MS just has more to abuse (i.e. a "monopoly in the Windows computer market as of 2 years ago).
1)No sense in actually posting samples of those config file lines as an example, eh?
2)You don't have to be a citizen of the US in order to pay taxes here. But most people who pay taxes in the US do live here, citizen or not.
3)(In reference to the last word in #1)No, I am not from Canada, nor have I ever lived there (though I did live in Alaska twice).
Sometimes people set up "nanny cams" to see if the nanny is doing her job, to see if the maid is stealing, etc, not just to see if she is beating the kid. The employee's honesty is what is effectively being monitored sometimes.
Most people cannot afford more than 1 or maybe 2 cameras, not to mention all of the video equipment necessary to tape every square inch of the house, and they don't want to tell the person in question about the 1 or 2 cameras, and then have them just perform their questionable behavior somewhere they think the camera is not watching.
Also, I am sure that there are some babysitters who would refuse to work in a house if they knew there were hidden cameras. And some of those people have nothing to hide, just don't like the idea. of course, from the point of view of the employer, what the babysitter doesn't know won't hurt them.
I think that the reason that Macintoshes are dismissed out of hand is because your average computer user would not know where to find the "Start" Button on the Macintosh.(no, not the power button).
In other words, 99% of the people who know how to use a computer know how to use a pc. One of the reasons for this is because anyone can buy a >1gHz PC with Windows installed for around $400.
And this doesn't mention the added headaches that would be introduced when Mac people and PC people need to share resources. Yes, admittedly, I am a PC person. I once had a mac friend burn a CD for me of
I don't know if he had to use some converter utility or not to make it where my PC could even read the disk, but the result was that many of the resulting files didn't even have file extensions, and the ones that were there used an bizarre naming scheme with all caps, names only 8 characters or less, etc. I had to spend hours renaming the songs and then re-burn the disk, just so I could tell what the songs were. It doesn't matter which OS was at "fault" what matters is that if I own a company in the normal business world, then I would want my employees to use the business-standard pc, so sidestep this sort of headache. If my business were in the art or music world, then perhaps it would make sense for them to use the mac standard.
Well there used to be buisness for people who wanted to offer webbrowsers, or media players, or any number of items. Now there is not.
At one point, there was a business (market) for people who wanted to sell filters for cigarettes. But not anymore, since most people who buy cigarettes buy the ones which already have filters on them.
Stop whining!" Well, we *have* antitrust laws! And we have them for a reason. And if they apply to ANYONE, they apply to MS.
We do have anti-trust laws, you are right. However, the reason for them is to protect the CONSUMER, not to protect competitors. It is very arguable that Microsoft has done nothing besides help the consumer, even if it has not done any favors for its competitors.
Dell is doing OK financially, especially considering the economic situation of the past year.
Gateway has not been doing very well recently. In fact, within the last 6 months, I have seen speculations on them possibly filing bankrupcy (I haven't seen any follow up recently, so they may be doing better, they may not be, I honestly don't know). When the slump hit, Gateway was not in as strong of a position in the PC market as Dell was, which likely had a lot to do with their recent struggles (I am not a financial genius, I don't know)
So is it surprisung that Gateway has little or nothing to lose from complaining openly in court about what they percieve to be unfair practices, but Dell values their relationship with Microsoft more than any possible advantage which may come by whining & crying about the deal in court?
Imagine a Beow...
The US government can make it less accurate (which they apparently did) or even completely turn it off any time they want to, with no fear of effective reprisal. All they have to do is say it was necessary for national security, and no one can do anything about it besides crying.
Even though everyone knows that all reporters everywhere are completely unbiased (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), I think that it is important to consider that we are very likely only hearing one side of the story here.
Apparently, you didn't see the article a while back on Writing secure Code from MSPress
Those who have looked at the book seem to come to the conclusion that the knowledge necessary for writing secure code must apparently exist at Redmond, but something besides the total lack of knowledge is what is driving security problems there.
Keep in mind that MSFT was a nerd's nerd, as a company, until this lawsuit, in the political sense. They had no connections in WA, contributed virtually no money to any political party (compared to now), until they were forced to do so.
MSFT was naive politically until forced to become otherwise by the political maneuvering of its business competitors.
Sure, why not? Most of the calls are a phone company, wanting you to change long distance.
So, according to your logic, the MSFT anti-trust case just became a referendum, and you don't even have to be a registered voter to vote.
The actual facts resulted in a criminal conviction of Microsoft.
Criminal conviction?
I must have been sleeping when the criminal trial took place, because I don't remember that one.
I'm pretty sure that the key itself is as long as a global unique identifier. The odds of You accidentally generating a key that someone else also generated is as slim as OJ and the "real" murdurer having the same DNA. (I mean, if we pretended that he didn't really do it).
Microsoft Reader has this feature. Bookmarks that you can flip to from anywhere in the book, as well as, the ability to highlight sections, add your own notes, etc.
Ever heard of a freezer Ziploc?
Just drop your handheld into one (remove the stylus first), and it is waterproof. Granted, I wouldn't scuba dive with my handheld in a Ziploc, but it's safe enough for the tub.
How do you know that the source code servers are even in Washington State? MSFT could have all of the source code stored in Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Japan, or even Texas :)
We do have such thing as a global network these days, you know.
Actually, MSFT has allowed portions of source code to be accessed by some companies. It is a matter of record.
Look at the lawsuit filed by the British company Bristol (and subsequently either settled or decided in MSFT's favor, I forget which). From what I read in the news, it seems that MSFT was providing source code to Bristol, but then stopped doing so at some point, for some reason or another, at which point Bristol decided to sue Microsoft to force them to continue to provide the source code.
I am sure that Bristol is not the only company that MSFT was/is providing source code access to.
This is better than an ultraslim laptop for people who want all of their information available to them when they want to use a Desktop, and when they want to use a Laptop, and when they want to use a PDA, but don't want to have to synchronize or own a totally seperate devices.
I worked security in a former life in class A office buildings in Dallas, TX.
These buildings did have smoke detectors, only at the tops of the elevator shafts, and at the top of the 8 story atriums. If a fire broke out in the building, the smoke would go up & end up at the smoke detectors (setting off the alarm), or else the fire itself would have to melt the trigger in a sprinkler head, in order to set off the alarm. Or someone would just see the fire, & pull a manual alarm handle. But you would have to smoke an awful lot of cigars to set off the smoke detector 8 stories up! in an area of several thousand cubic feet (atrium).
If you don't think that Navy Seals have been in Afghanastan since September 12th, and that some of them died before we even declared war, then you shouldn't even speak of war, cause you are out of the loop.
Holy Cow! I didn't even know that we actually declared war! Boy, I am out of the loop!
Are we at all surprised that hardware makers are not taking the time to code in support for a beta sound codec? I mean, with the development time of hardware in general, the pre SP1 codec-supporting hardware would just be hitting the shelves right now, no?
Once the first non-beta release is out, then it would make more sense to expect business-centric hardware makers to consider including support for it, right?
It's interesting to note that, between 1995 and 1998, when versions of Windows were released, there were many, many minor and major releases of Linux.
Actually, between 1995 and 1998, Microsoft released Win95SRb, as well as IE4.0 which included a pretty substantial upgrade to the OS and shell itself. These are only 2 sub-versions that I am aware of, there may be patches also that might/might not count as minor version upgrdes, depending on how you look at it.