I totally agree with this. The EU needs money, because they can't raise taxes again on the population of Europe that already has tax rates as high as 75% of their income. So where do they turn, yes that is right they turn to the US to solve the financial problems of Europe once again. But this time they aren't directly asking for money from the US government they are just taking money from US businesses. Yes I know the US debt is borrowed from foreign contries, but a good 90% of that comes from Japan which isn't part of the EU.
International law is a crock, Microsoft should just give the EU the finger, revoke all licenses currently in EU sponsered countries, and let the back lash happen to the EU government from all the small businesses that rely on Windows and don't care about or want to switch to Linux.
Linux is a good OS, but it is not the answer to everything, people use Windows because it doesn't take a nerd to setup and get it ready to use. I know many OS's are very usable such as Suse and Fedora, however it still takes a nerd to get the computer setup, the installs still talk about features and functions that are way over the head of the average user. Windows did the installation correctly, only prompt the user for input when it is needed, such as date and time, and license id.
I really think the EU is just in it for the money, what do they think all the Linux nerds are going to praise them? NO! They will just critise them for giving in to Microsoft, even though the EU got 80% of what they were asking for. It's just classical European Liberalism.
The terraserver does have a local search. No route directions because that wasn't really the goal of the project. I am not arguing that Google Maps isn't the best, but by saying they are the first the poster of the article is doing an injustice to all the research and development that came before Google. I understand that you guys don't want to admit that Microsoft did this over 5 years ago before the great Google, but it is the truth and the fact. Google just took the idea and technology and expanded on it.
I guess I can use the same argument that you guys are always making against Microsoft. Google didn't innovate, they just bought a company and did a good job at intigrating the product lines. This is going to be a great example in the future when ever anybody comes up and says Microsoft doesn't innovate.:)
This isn't a first in the industry, Microsoft did this over 5 years ago, with their Terraserver project. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ It might have not had the same goals as Google Maps, but it definitly is the same concept.
Prefetching is available on IE, because I use to do it with Javascript to load images ahead of time. I was wondering if there is a solution that is easy to impliment and works across all browsers.
This looks like it will be a really useful resource. Are there any other examples of the best way to do this? For other browsers. Also does anybody know of useful sites that list all these little known features that are available but never talked about?
Well there is nothing stopping you about lying about the information on the Whois information. If they think this is going to solve any problems with criminals they are just fooling them self.
haha... thats awsome Porn for Food Program, it's a pun on Oil for Food Program... Just thought I would point the obvious out to the people who's heads it went over.
By the way hyfe you need to take a chill pill. Your hate is really showing in these posts, and then you have the nerve to lecture the people in this forum.
First of all watch your mouth. Your spreading of hate is not welcome. Maybe you are seeing all these posts because this is how people actually feel about the UN. The majority in/. in my experience is usually right on the money. The UN has had many scandels, and many of the officials and diplomats in the UN are former or current warlords that have disgraceful histories in dealling with human rights. What makes you think that the UN is going to do a better job at managin the internet than say the internet.
Also the Internet is probably one of the best examples of open standards flurishing and making money over close standards such as AppleTalk and some of the others that never really took off. What makes you think the government stepping in is going to make something that is flurishing work any better?
By the way this article is very loaded and much of it hinges on the fact that ICANN can't manage the internet. But it is specifically the ICANN's hands off approach that has brought us to the point that we are at now. Also if this actually gets passed, which the US who has vested interests in the ICANN would never vote on this, who the hell is going to enforce this?
What is the UN going to send powder blue army men into Verisign and take there servers away? This is all pointless dribble comming from some shumuck that just wants to create a legancy for him self.
This is all we need for the internet. The guy who ran the great firewall of china, running the internet. Government shouldn't be involved with the first and best example of how open standards flurish growth away from the involvment of government. Plus the UN involved just spells corruption at the highest level, like the oil for food program, I wonder what the internet equivilent of that is?
I think, as sad as it might be, that StarTrek has really come to an end. It has had a good 50 some odd years of episodes. Let it die with at least some dignity.
And (2) and (3) are so easy to do. I mean there is nothing like explaining how to do this to a laymen. Come on dude you can't actually beleive (2) and (3) are a solution for the masses. You have to remember Windows deals with every 9/10 people that have computers. They don't have the experience of many of the Linux users.
Well they could remove IE from Windows, but then there would be no help section, there would be no rendering for many of the e-mail clients, there would be no rendering for many of the other components that rely on the HTML rendering.
You are also missing the point of how will people download FireFox without a pre existing browser. Is FireFox going to send a CD to every person on earth, I don't think so? So stop all this complaining and realize what you are asking for has consequences on the OSS community as well.
Well how do you play video from Word if there is no player that plays media? People complain too much, I guess Microsoft is just damned if they do and damned if they don't. EU wanted Media Player stripped out of Windows and they got there wish. Now people are bi*ching that Windows doesn't play videos with out the Media Player, what the hell? I guess this gives new meaning to having your cake and eating it too.
This really doesn't surprise me that it is comming from France. But I really don't understand this move. You are pretty much limiting your content to people that know about your site. With google the world had a chance to view the news from this site. This really smells of bad marketing/PR. But then again it is their content and they can do with it what they want.
There is nothing saying squatting is not allowed. Even though I don't agree with it, it is not like the company that owns it is violating any legal law.
Get you head out of the sand, if you think the only reason companies are using Windows is because of a web app you are sadly mistaken. They use Windows because that is what the majority of their employees know. They use Windows because Microsoft gives large companies great support. They use Windows because it is constant no matter where you go. They use Windows because there is a large software base. This may be true for small companies and they may choose to switch when the decide to re-write their local apps, but I don't know any company that would pay to rewrite internal apps and then pay to switch all desktops, when the current app works with the current desktop. Like I said I would love to live in la la land with you but I have to make money in the real world.
However la la land seems like a nice place to visit.:)
You think companies only use Windows because their internal sites only support IE. God I would love to live in your world, it must be all sunshine and lolly pops.
No they aren't they are releasing the code for each release. They just aren't releasing the beta releases. They have got the okay from the OSS councel or what ever the governing body of GPL is.
I am not trying to tank there stock. I am trying to get them to release the code so that a good development process can go forward like what is happening at sveasoft.com with WRT54G
I have seen violations at places like Iomega for there NAS drives. It was one of the issues that I brought up durring beta testing. And they said it wasn't an issue that they were using Linux with out releasing the source because their firmware developer for the embeded Linux told them it wasn't a problem and they weren't going to release the source. This little product only costed about 200.00 for network storage, and it has the potential to hit the market like the Linksys WRT54G did with custom firmware.
If anybody is interested in pursing Iomega about this let me know because I will sign a petition.
I think they are winning because it would take enourmous effort to migrate large applications to.NET.
Has microsoft moved all of it's sites to ASP.NET?
What does that sound like to you? ASP == VBScript and all Microsoft's old sites were in ASP. So the statement leads me to beleive that he didn't know the difference.
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I totally agree with this. The EU needs money, because they can't raise taxes again on the population of Europe that already has tax rates as high as 75% of their income. So where do they turn, yes that is right they turn to the US to solve the financial problems of Europe once again. But this time they aren't directly asking for money from the US government they are just taking money from US businesses. Yes I know the US debt is borrowed from foreign contries, but a good 90% of that comes from Japan which isn't part of the EU.
International law is a crock, Microsoft should just give the EU the finger, revoke all licenses currently in EU sponsered countries, and let the back lash happen to the EU government from all the small businesses that rely on Windows and don't care about or want to switch to Linux.
Linux is a good OS, but it is not the answer to everything, people use Windows because it doesn't take a nerd to setup and get it ready to use. I know many OS's are very usable such as Suse and Fedora, however it still takes a nerd to get the computer setup, the installs still talk about features and functions that are way over the head of the average user. Windows did the installation correctly, only prompt the user for input when it is needed, such as date and time, and license id.
I really think the EU is just in it for the money, what do they think all the Linux nerds are going to praise them? NO! They will just critise them for giving in to Microsoft, even though the EU got 80% of what they were asking for. It's just classical European Liberalism.
The terraserver does have a local search. No route directions because that wasn't really the goal of the project. I am not arguing that Google Maps isn't the best, but by saying they are the first the poster of the article is doing an injustice to all the research and development that came before Google. I understand that you guys don't want to admit that Microsoft did this over 5 years ago before the great Google, but it is the truth and the fact. Google just took the idea and technology and expanded on it.
:)
I guess I can use the same argument that you guys are always making against Microsoft. Google didn't innovate, they just bought a company and did a good job at intigrating the product lines. This is going to be a great example in the future when ever anybody comes up and says Microsoft doesn't innovate.
This isn't a first in the industry, Microsoft did this over 5 years ago, with their Terraserver project. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ It might have not had the same goals as Google Maps, but it definitly is the same concept.
Prefetching is available on IE, because I use to do it with Javascript to load images ahead of time. I was wondering if there is a solution that is easy to impliment and works across all browsers.
This looks like it will be a really useful resource. Are there any other examples of the best way to do this? For other browsers. Also does anybody know of useful sites that list all these little known features that are available but never talked about?
Well there is nothing stopping you about lying about the information on the Whois information. If they think this is going to solve any problems with criminals they are just fooling them self.
haha... thats awsome Porn for Food Program, it's a pun on Oil for Food Program... Just thought I would point the obvious out to the people who's heads it went over.
By the way hyfe you need to take a chill pill. Your hate is really showing in these posts, and then you have the nerve to lecture the people in this forum.
First of all watch your mouth. Your spreading of hate is not welcome. Maybe you are seeing all these posts because this is how people actually feel about the UN. The majority in /. in my experience is usually right on the money. The UN has had many scandels, and many of the officials and diplomats in the UN are former or current warlords that have disgraceful histories in dealling with human rights. What makes you think that the UN is going to do a better job at managin the internet than say the internet.
Also the Internet is probably one of the best examples of open standards flurishing and making money over close standards such as AppleTalk and some of the others that never really took off. What makes you think the government stepping in is going to make something that is flurishing work any better?
By the way this article is very loaded and much of it hinges on the fact that ICANN can't manage the internet. But it is specifically the ICANN's hands off approach that has brought us to the point that we are at now. Also if this actually gets passed, which the US who has vested interests in the ICANN would never vote on this, who the hell is going to enforce this?
What is the UN going to send powder blue army men into Verisign and take there servers away? This is all pointless dribble comming from some shumuck that just wants to create a legancy for him self.
Seriously, you get the **** off of OUR internet!
This is all we need for the internet. The guy who ran the great firewall of china, running the internet. Government shouldn't be involved with the first and best example of how open standards flurish growth away from the involvment of government. Plus the UN involved just spells corruption at the highest level, like the oil for food program, I wonder what the internet equivilent of that is?
I think, as sad as it might be, that StarTrek has really come to an end. It has had a good 50 some odd years of episodes. Let it die with at least some dignity.
Looks like the AU government's website needs to be audited. They obviously don't have the bandwidth to handle a /. :)
And (2) and (3) are so easy to do. I mean there is nothing like explaining how to do this to a laymen. Come on dude you can't actually beleive (2) and (3) are a solution for the masses. You have to remember Windows deals with every 9/10 people that have computers. They don't have the experience of many of the Linux users.
Well they could remove IE from Windows, but then there would be no help section, there would be no rendering for many of the e-mail clients, there would be no rendering for many of the other components that rely on the HTML rendering.
You are also missing the point of how will people download FireFox without a pre existing browser. Is FireFox going to send a CD to every person on earth, I don't think so? So stop all this complaining and realize what you are asking for has consequences on the OSS community as well.
Well how do you play video from Word if there is no player that plays media? People complain too much, I guess Microsoft is just damned if they do and damned if they don't. EU wanted Media Player stripped out of Windows and they got there wish. Now people are bi*ching that Windows doesn't play videos with out the Media Player, what the hell? I guess this gives new meaning to having your cake and eating it too.
This really doesn't surprise me that it is comming from France. But I really don't understand this move. You are pretty much limiting your content to people that know about your site. With google the world had a chance to view the news from this site. This really smells of bad marketing/PR. But then again it is their content and they can do with it what they want.
There is nothing saying squatting is not allowed. Even though I don't agree with it, it is not like the company that owns it is violating any legal law.
Get you head out of the sand, if you think the only reason companies are using Windows is because of a web app you are sadly mistaken. They use Windows because that is what the majority of their employees know. They use Windows because Microsoft gives large companies great support. They use Windows because it is constant no matter where you go. They use Windows because there is a large software base. This may be true for small companies and they may choose to switch when the decide to re-write their local apps, but I don't know any company that would pay to rewrite internal apps and then pay to switch all desktops, when the current app works with the current desktop. Like I said I would love to live in la la land with you but I have to make money in the real world.
:)
However la la land seems like a nice place to visit.
You think companies only use Windows because their internal sites only support IE. God I would love to live in your world, it must be all sunshine and lolly pops.
No they aren't they are releasing the code for each release. They just aren't releasing the beta releases. They have got the okay from the OSS councel or what ever the governing body of GPL is.
Yeah I sort of figured. I saw the thread talking about QBasic.
I am not trying to tank there stock. I am trying to get them to release the code so that a good development process can go forward like what is happening at sveasoft.com with WRT54G
I have seen violations at places like Iomega for there NAS drives. It was one of the issues that I brought up durring beta testing. And they said it wasn't an issue that they were using Linux with out releasing the source because their firmware developer for the embeded Linux told them it wasn't a problem and they weren't going to release the source. This little product only costed about 200.00 for network storage, and it has the potential to hit the market like the Linksys WRT54G did with custom firmware.
If anybody is interested in pursing Iomega about this let me know because I will sign a petition.
I think they are winning because it would take enourmous effort to migrate large applications to .NET.
Has microsoft moved all of it's sites to ASP.NET?
What does that sound like to you? ASP == VBScript and all Microsoft's old sites were in ASP. So the statement leads me to beleive that he didn't know the difference.