Three American companies decide to operate in a foreign market. In order to comply with local laws they must change their business practises. Many Americans may not like the new business practises, but they are not breaking any US or international laws. Where is the problem?
Should these companies decide to go back to American-style business practises, they would be breaking Chinese law and the Chinese government would be within their rights to block their sites. Would everyone rather Google, MS and Yahoo just didn't operate in China at all? How would that benefit the Chinese people?
Microsoft have never released Windows Internet Explorer for the Mac. They released a completely seperate browser and just gave it the same name. At the time, IE for Mac was actually quite good and standards compliant.
Windows 2000 has already been out for 6 years, and Firefox 3.0 isn't expected to be released until next year (they haven't even released 2.0 yet!). 2.0 will likely continue to get security updates well into 2008 to allow corporations the time to upgrade. Therefore by the time Mozilla stop releasing security updates, Windows 98 will be 10 years old and it's replacement (2000) will be 8 years old - thats a long time in computing.
I don't know what's available in the US, but the UK's FilmFlex cable VOD service seems like exactly what you are after. New movies appear a couple of months later then they do in Blockbuster, but they've got about 700 movies to choose from and you don't have to go out to a branch. Price is similar to a rental from Blockbuster.
IE does. Netscape & Mozilla used to store them in a single HTML file, which was very useful becuase you could then put that file somewhere accessible and get access to your bookmarks from anywhere. Places is based on a less easily readable format, but it is more useful for the Mozilla developers.
This happens today, except B4Y3R aspirin would still be aspirin. One example I remember from a few years back (possibly even before the internet was widespread) was Sainsbury's Classic Cola. They were sued by Coca Cola because their packaging was too similar and confusing to customers, and Sainsbury's were forced to change the packaging.
Off peak energy isn't more efficiently generated, but because you can't just turn off a power station when it isn't needed, there is excess electricity generated at off peak times. That excess can either be wasted, or stored for use during peak times.
Mozilla's business model has changed over the years. It started off as a cheap way to develop Netscape 5 (geting volunteer help), and Netscape Navigator itself was a way to get people to use Netscape servers. Then AOL bought Netscape and it was AOL's chip to say "we don't need IE" so they could get a better deal from Microsoft. When they got that deal, they gave Mozilla.org $2 million and told them to manage on their own. They have also relied on donations of time and money from individuals, and employees from companies such as Red Hat who have an interest in having a competitive browser on the platform. More recently they have had money from Google and others, but mozilla would survive without that money, it just wouldn't be as good.
The "browser wars" are generally considered to be about 99-2002, or Netscape 2 - 4 and IE 3 - 6. After that, nothing much happened because Microsoft stopped development and Mozilla (Netscape) decided to do a complete rewrite. There were a few releases, like the original Mozilla Suite (aka Seamonkey), Netscape 6 & 7, Opera, Safari etc. but none of the managed to dent IE's market share. Basically very few people cared about browsers until firefox came along, which has also increased interest in other minority browsers.
Very unclear summary, from a very unclear article, but I think this is what happened:
1. An Overture user takes out an advert with Yahoo! 2. Yahoo! passes the ad to its partner Ditto 3. Ditto passes the ad to its partner NBCSearch (nothing to do with the TV channel) 4. NBCSearch passed it on to one of its partners.
At that point the trail appears to run cold, but the suggestion is that the ads make their way into spyware and auto-click software.
Yes, Springfield is in the USA, but you're assuming the family in the film is the Simpsons. The way I interpret it, it is just a regular British family who watch the Simpsons so much that they have become like them. After all, the Simpsons are meant to be a regular American family, so its kind of fitting.
Remember, these are the same fuckers that sued the Boy Scounts over a red cross on their "Emergency Preparedness" merit badge; the cross is now green, and has been since 1980.
So, no difference for the 10% of males who are red-green colour blind then...
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Damn, I guess Orion is out then.
Maybe they could call it the O'Neill instead?
Three American companies decide to operate in a foreign market. In order to comply with local laws they must change their business practises. Many Americans may not like the new business practises, but they are not breaking any US or international laws. Where is the problem?
Should these companies decide to go back to American-style business practises, they would be breaking Chinese law and the Chinese government would be within their rights to block their sites. Would everyone rather Google, MS and Yahoo just didn't operate in China at all? How would that benefit the Chinese people?
Did you miss the last WWDC? You can convert a Power PC Cocoa app into a universal binary in a couple of hours - that guy from Mathematica said so.
Microsoft have never released Windows Internet Explorer for the Mac. They released a completely seperate browser and just gave it the same name. At the time, IE for Mac was actually quite good and standards compliant.
Windows 2000 has already been out for 6 years, and Firefox 3.0 isn't expected to be released until next year (they haven't even released 2.0 yet!). 2.0 will likely continue to get security updates well into 2008 to allow corporations the time to upgrade. Therefore by the time Mozilla stop releasing security updates, Windows 98 will be 10 years old and it's replacement (2000) will be 8 years old - thats a long time in computing.
Is keeping prices artificially low actually illegal? Governments normally support anything that benefits the consumer.
I don't know what's available in the US, but the UK's FilmFlex cable VOD service seems like exactly what you are after. New movies appear a couple of months later then they do in Blockbuster, but they've got about 700 movies to choose from and you don't have to go out to a branch. Price is similar to a rental from Blockbuster.
http://www.filmflexmovies.com/
IE does. Netscape & Mozilla used to store them in a single HTML file, which was very useful becuase you could then put that file somewhere accessible and get access to your bookmarks from anywhere. Places is based on a less easily readable format, but it is more useful for the Mozilla developers.
This happens today, except B4Y3R aspirin would still be aspirin. One example I remember from a few years back (possibly even before the internet was widespread) was Sainsbury's Classic Cola. They were sued by Coca Cola because their packaging was too similar and confusing to customers, and Sainsbury's were forced to change the packaging.
Search categories and ads, like http://directory.google.com/ you mean?
Off peak energy isn't more efficiently generated, but because you can't just turn off a power station when it isn't needed, there is excess electricity generated at off peak times. That excess can either be wasted, or stored for use during peak times.
Because you're posting on slashdot...
That bandwidth is already available for music, yet CD albums still far outsell download albums.
The sentance in quotes that I posted was copy-pasted from the microsoft kb page. Microsoft must have since changed that page.
Microsoft has bundled the crack with the update.
From the article: "You can uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications by using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel. "
Of course it could come back, it just means those naughty pirates need to be more careful when installing automatic updates.
Surely you mean one ellipsis.........
Mozilla's business model has changed over the years. It started off as a cheap way to develop Netscape 5 (geting volunteer help), and Netscape Navigator itself was a way to get people to use Netscape servers. Then AOL bought Netscape and it was AOL's chip to say "we don't need IE" so they could get a better deal from Microsoft. When they got that deal, they gave Mozilla.org $2 million and told them to manage on their own. They have also relied on donations of time and money from individuals, and employees from companies such as Red Hat who have an interest in having a competitive browser on the platform. More recently they have had money from Google and others, but mozilla would survive without that money, it just wouldn't be as good.
Its a goa'uld symbiote. Watch out for glowing eyes and egyptian gods!
The "browser wars" are generally considered to be about 99-2002, or Netscape 2 - 4 and IE 3 - 6. After that, nothing much happened because Microsoft stopped development and Mozilla (Netscape) decided to do a complete rewrite. There were a few releases, like the original Mozilla Suite (aka Seamonkey), Netscape 6 & 7, Opera, Safari etc. but none of the managed to dent IE's market share. Basically very few people cared about browsers until firefox came along, which has also increased interest in other minority browsers.
Good idea, but as most hardward has relatively high production costs, reviewers will normally be required to return the items.
Very unclear summary, from a very unclear article, but I think this is what happened:
1. An Overture user takes out an advert with Yahoo!
2. Yahoo! passes the ad to its partner Ditto
3. Ditto passes the ad to its partner NBCSearch (nothing to do with the TV channel)
4. NBCSearch passed it on to one of its partners.
At that point the trail appears to run cold, but the suggestion is that the ads make their way into spyware and auto-click software.
How can it cost $14m to cancel a project? Are they collecting a satellite from orbit or something?
Yes, Springfield is in the USA, but you're assuming the family in the film is the Simpsons. The way I interpret it, it is just a regular British family who watch the Simpsons so much that they have become like them. After all, the Simpsons are meant to be a regular American family, so its kind of fitting.
So, no difference for the 10% of males who are red-green colour blind then...
But we *do* have to live with the US crap.
I'm a Celebrity (ie celebrity survivor), Pop Idol, Desperate Housewives, Smallville, The OC, Charmed, etc., etc.