Under the same logic your screwed to minimum wage regardless of skill without the magical piece of paper. If everyone has them then everyone needs them for a job.
So if some kid is screwed out of college its walmart time and welfare.
If ms had true competition still and used standards you would not have to be in this mess. IE is intentionally broken with no chance of updating their rendering code because MS wants everyone to use windows and not use web apps.
Firefox and others will start forcing ms to use standards as webmasters like yourself will all have fits.
Rendering html and interpreting javascript should be simple like compiling c code on different compilers or reading ascii or unicode.
Dont like IE? Then use Saffari? Dont like and your using unix then use Konsqueror.
Anything is better than a convicted monopolist running the show with one browser. Even if Google starts another monopoly we still have 4 free browsers which means more competition. The more browsers the better as it forces webmasters to use more standards and cross test their sites on multiple browsers.
To me it seems some of the more free software zealots are terrified about anything that is being funded and not done by hobbiests on their own spare time. Sorry but captitalism is the most efficient system today and Firefox needs funding. Who is going to debug, run the servers, run the projects, develop code, and run extensive QA for free? Google doesn't want the browser market. It only wants the information.
BTW I have never seen it after reading about it here on slashdot and how everyone laughed when data had to do a scene similiar to Spoke in Star Trek II.
May the rest in peace after Bermans bad career milked it to death. In my mind they are done as is with everyone else who watched Star Trek in the old days.
9th circuit is the most liberal in the country. A very conservative one like the 4th circuit might have a different opinion. THe problem is that most companies would try to file the lawsuit under the 4th circuit with a subsidiary in that circuit so they can win. Even if you did nothing wrong it costs money to prove you didn't do anything.
Its still vastly unfair and a serious loophole in our system.
I am no lawyer but I just finished a business law class in college.
Basically a judge can throw out such terms if he or she finds such terms negative and unfair for your employment. There are limits too in most states but I do not remember the time lines exactly for which you can't work for a competitor or share any ideas.
THis form of contract law a NCA is very subjective compared to most contracts so the judge himself can decide. This appears really one sided towards the employer only so likely most of the terms nullified. But still that is money on your part if your ever taken to court.
Your article is a great reason why we should fear DRM.
WHen I read things like this from cell phone developers I only think its what exactly what Microsoft would love to do with desktop pc's and lock them into generic appliances where everything is rented out.
Say what you want on swing in general java desktop applications but javaME really is sweet.
Google maps load in seconds on my cell phone with its tiny 200 mhz processor. I imagine with the more powerful Iphone that javaME would run quite well.
Java really is not that bad for server and micro apps.
I thought kdesktop was not that well polished nor integrated like the gnome ubuntu desktop. I wondered if kubuntu was different but its the same. Cannonical seems to not care about kde and QA like they do with Gnome. As a result I always pick gnome with the ubuntu desktop.
Maybe this might change when the community has enough of.NET, Microsoft, and Miguel and Cannonical switches to kde as a result.
I worked doing help desk for a few companies and Dells were always the oddball. The products we made required newer directx features and Dell never updates their drivers. Infact an nvidia based dell laptop can not use a nvidia driver because dell loves to modify it to save $.05 on each notebook because they are cheap.
Dell also doesn't want to invest money on older hardware drivers and prefer you to buy a new dell.
Its likely they modded the usb hardware where its no longer in spec iso compliant. All the other notebook makers do not modify hardware that way and a generic nvidia or ati driver will always work.
I just finally got audio back on my crappy intel chipset with the latest minor release from a patch a few weeks ago. I still get occasional graphics glitches.
I wish the guys at blizzard stopped making so many patches when something works fine. It drives me nuts.
The ads here in the states were terrible in 2004. Kerry looked like the most incompentant unpatriotic figure since Hitler and Carter while bush retained his cool.
Really most Americans didn't vote while Rove energized the religious value voters so it wasn't a vote to support Bush but rather a vote agaisnt this scary Kerry guy who keeps changing his mind is bad.
I believe (could be wrong) that the majority of Americans voted for Kerry and he won the popular vote while bush when the electorate.
They are attacking and already killing Israeli citizens for religious reasons and dragged Lebanon into a war it did not want.
At least Hitler was not directly honest what he intended with exterminating the jews. The shiite leaders publically call for the complete destruction of Israel at any cost. Not the president but rather the religious council who actually runs the country.
Iran is surely not innocent or sane for that matter.
I used to use Ubuntu and put on Rieserfs by default.
The nature of opensource is amazing and its our own click. I am not an opensource zealot by any means but I did not feel comfortable using his software after he was arrested. I reinstalled Ubuntu with ext3 a week later.
Same is true with SuSE after the agreement with ms. I do not have the same ethical issues with proprietary companies like MS and use their products. Mainly its because I have to use them but interesting indeed how the community runs things rather than the software companies in opensource.
I left some ground beef from walmart in the fridge for a week.
It turned of course but it was still red and did not turn brown?? They dyed it red and anyone you have to ask yourself why? Was it brown to begin with?
Problem is Microsoft's answer is silverlight which will only run on Windows with IE. It still uses javascript but I do not trust a convicted monopolist to redefine web standards.
If we are going to redo javascript then it should be opensource by a comittee or group. Unfortunately MS owns so much of the browser marketshare that they can just ignore any standard that is not there own and it will go no where as a result.
They want people to use windows and not the web for applications. Google apps and java scare ms to death. People might actually... gasp.. not have to use windows.
IE stopped innovating the second netscape became irrelevant with the exceptions of security fixes and anti phishing schemes with IE 7. Now that the web is no longer a threat the focus is back on the proprietary windows desktop but this obnoxious firefox thing happened. (In microsoft's eyes)
Also javascript is viewing as a page source so even if ms came out with a proprietary api it would not take long before it could be reverse engineered. The push to.Net is a way to fix this by having everything done on the server end.
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Under the same logic your screwed to minimum wage regardless of skill without the magical piece of paper. If everyone has them then everyone needs them for a job.
So if some kid is screwed out of college its walmart time and welfare.
But then your against affordable college because you didn't support the bill. You dont want to be anti afford ability do you?
Then ypour opponent will use that as ammo to run against you.
If ms had true competition still and used standards you would not have to be in this mess. IE is intentionally broken with no chance of updating their rendering code because MS wants everyone to use windows and not use web apps.
Firefox and others will start forcing ms to use standards as webmasters like yourself will all have fits.
Rendering html and interpreting javascript should be simple like compiling c code on different compilers or reading ascii or unicode.
If you dont like then use IE.
Dont like IE? Then use Saffari? Dont like and your using unix then use Konsqueror.
Anything is better than a convicted monopolist running the show with one browser. Even if Google starts another monopoly we still have 4 free browsers which means more competition. The more browsers the better as it forces webmasters to use more standards and cross test their sites on multiple browsers.
To me it seems some of the more free software zealots are terrified about anything that is being funded and not done by hobbiests on their own spare time. Sorry but captitalism is the most efficient system today and Firefox needs funding. Who is going to debug, run the servers, run the projects, develop code, and run extensive QA for free? Google doesn't want the browser market. It only wants the information.
My law book and professor actually.
Liked the latest even number didn't suck?
BTW I have never seen it after reading about it here on slashdot and how everyone laughed when data had to do a scene similiar to Spoke in Star Trek II.
May the rest in peace after Bermans bad career milked it to death. In my mind they are done as is with everyone else who watched Star Trek in the old days.
9th circuit is the most liberal in the country. A very conservative one like the 4th circuit might have a different opinion. THe problem is that most companies would try to file the lawsuit under the 4th circuit with a subsidiary in that circuit so they can win. Even if you did nothing wrong it costs money to prove you didn't do anything.
Its still vastly unfair and a serious loophole in our system.
I am no lawyer but I just finished a business law class in college.
Basically a judge can throw out such terms if he or she finds such terms negative and unfair for your employment. There are limits too in most states but I do not remember the time lines exactly for which you can't work for a competitor or share any ideas.
THis form of contract law a NCA is very subjective compared to most contracts so the judge himself can decide. This appears really one sided towards the employer only so likely most of the terms nullified. But still that is money on your part if your ever taken to court.
Your article is a great reason why we should fear DRM.
WHen I read things like this from cell phone developers I only think its what exactly what Microsoft would love to do with desktop pc's and lock them into generic appliances where everything is rented out.
Say what you want on swing in general java desktop applications but javaME really is sweet.
Google maps load in seconds on my cell phone with its tiny 200 mhz processor. I imagine with the more powerful Iphone that javaME would run quite well.
Java really is not that bad for server and micro apps.
Agreed.
.NET, Microsoft, and Miguel and Cannonical switches to kde as a result.
I thought kdesktop was not that well polished nor integrated like the gnome ubuntu desktop. I wondered if kubuntu was different but its the same. Cannonical seems to not care about kde and QA like they do with Gnome. As a result I always pick gnome with the ubuntu desktop.
Maybe this might change when the community has enough of
Well one could help with kde 4.0.
Dell sucks.
I worked doing help desk for a few companies and Dells were always the oddball. The products we made required newer directx features and Dell never updates their drivers. Infact an nvidia based dell laptop can not use a nvidia driver because dell loves to modify it to save $.05 on each notebook because they are cheap.
Dell also doesn't want to invest money on older hardware drivers and prefer you to buy a new dell.
Its likely they modded the usb hardware where its no longer in spec iso compliant. All the other notebook makers do not modify hardware that way and a generic nvidia or ati driver will always work.
Strange
The codec situation and the lack of cleartype fonts suck.
With Ubuntu you can use getAutomatix to install them. Is there anything similiar with Fedora?
I just finally got audio back on my crappy intel chipset with the latest minor release from a patch a few weeks ago. I still get occasional graphics glitches.
I wish the guys at blizzard stopped making so many patches when something works fine. It drives me nuts.
The ads here in the states were terrible in 2004. Kerry looked like the most incompentant unpatriotic figure since Hitler and Carter while bush retained his cool.
Really most Americans didn't vote while Rove energized the religious value voters so it wasn't a vote to support Bush but rather a vote agaisnt this scary Kerry guy who keeps changing his mind is bad.
I believe (could be wrong) that the majority of Americans voted for Kerry and he won the popular vote while bush when the electorate.
Iran also funded the hezbollah and Israeli war.
They are attacking and already killing Israeli citizens for religious reasons and dragged Lebanon into a war it did not want.
At least Hitler was not directly honest what he intended with exterminating the jews. The shiite leaders publically call for the complete destruction of Israel at any cost. Not the president but rather the religious council who actually runs the country.
Iran is surely not innocent or sane for that matter.
Very old troll posting.
Similiar to the FreeBSD IS DIEING netcraft comfirms it... troll posts that are cut and pasted.
Ignore him and moderators do your job.
.. means they got scared.
Typically ms keeps their mouth shut and even complements its comeptitors such as firefox.
I think the move by google surprised them and nothing scares ms more than a standard api they can not control like java or even html.
Thats not accurate as w3schools is a site for those who want to learn html and probably half use both browsers for compatibility.
Grandma uses what comes with her computer and other sites its more like 90/10.
Very true.
I used to use Ubuntu and put on Rieserfs by default.
The nature of opensource is amazing and its our own click. I am not an opensource zealot by any means but I did not feel comfortable using his software after he was arrested. I reinstalled Ubuntu with ext3 a week later.
Same is true with SuSE after the agreement with ms. I do not have the same ethical issues with proprietary companies like MS and use their products. Mainly its because I have to use them but interesting indeed how the community runs things rather than the software companies in opensource.
It is illegal if your redhat contract prohibits it.
Seems SuSE is stealing alot of users because of Novels great support. It shows as its a dumb contract and the support is mediocre at best.
I left some ground beef from walmart in the fridge for a week.
It turned of course but it was still red and did not turn brown?? They dyed it red and anyone you have to ask yourself why? Was it brown to begin with?
That is just disgusting.
Problem is Microsoft's answer is silverlight which will only run on Windows with IE. It still uses javascript but I do not trust a convicted monopolist to redefine web standards.
If we are going to redo javascript then it should be opensource by a comittee or group. Unfortunately MS owns so much of the browser marketshare that they can just ignore any standard that is not there own and it will go no where as a result.
Unfortunately they still own %90 of the browser market with everyone else fighting for the other %10.
So yes ms can stagnate the whole industry to suite its own needs. Thats what monopolies do.
They want people to use windows and not the web for applications. Google apps and java scare ms to death. People might actually ... gasp .. not have to use windows.
.Net is a way to fix this by having everything done on the server end.
IE stopped innovating the second netscape became irrelevant with the exceptions of security fixes and anti phishing schemes with IE 7. Now that the web is no longer a threat the focus is back on the proprietary windows desktop but this obnoxious firefox thing happened. (In microsoft's eyes)
Also javascript is viewing as a page source so even if ms came out with a proprietary api it would not take long before it could be reverse engineered. The push to