Read the links posted up a level. Monsanto went after the guy because he intentionally planted the seeds. 95% of his fields had those plants. It ws no accident.
Besides, what you're talking about is impossible, since most genetically engineered plants are sterile so that this *won't* happen. You *must* buy new seeds every year.
There are thousands of other breeds of corn out there. Farmers can choose to grow whatever they want. Hell, they can even use corn found in the wild. The difference is that their crops won't grow as large, as fast, and won't be as disease and pest resistant as the genetically engineered ones.
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Why can't the open source desktop people come up with something innovative and useful instead of trying to build a cradle for all of the MS converts?
Because they're trying to sell to MS converts. Believe it or not, but most people have better things to do than to learn how to use a new GUI.
Cross platform is irrelevant when you have 95% of the market. That's like saying that a business isn't viable unless it gets 100% of potential customers. That's ridiculous. Ever notice that there isn't just one gas station in a city? How about restaurants?
Hell, I own my own retail store, and I get about 60% of all potential customers in my area, and that's more than enough. Why would I bother watering down my product line to pull in everybody else? It'd ruin my business. One size doesn't fit all in ANY product.
Non-commercial developers? What does that have to do with anything? I write apps all the time for myself using IE. What's your point? There aren't any restrictions if you write a shrink-wrapped app that grabs a few IE objects. You don't have to license IE. You just specify that IE is required to be able to use your product. And with a nearly 100% saturation on the Windows platforms, which have a 95% desktop saturation, that's not a problem.
Well, you'd be right, except that IE-based apps have been around for several years now. I'm using Quickbooks Pro 2002 right now which is heavily based on IE. I don't think that Open Source had anything to do with it. If anything, people are so used to using IE in third party apps, that somebody decided to try to do it with Mozilla.
a framework of reusable components that will transcend the browser application itself.
IE's already there. IE has been there for several years. Hell, I use IE components daily.
IE's already in place, and it works very, very well, and the components are well documented. I'm seeing *many* shrinkwrap programs coming out now that DO use IE as a framework. Quickbooks Pro 2002, for example, is built on IE.
Tapes are old, old, unreliable, shitty technology. Just buy two drives. Another hard drive is a faster, more reliable backup. You can still back up your critical stuff on CD's. I've never known anyone to have more than a full CD full of truly critical stuff (at home). Hell, soon with DVD's, that's what, 17 GB??
Actually, I'm thinking about PayPal. Either way, it's a moot point now. It already came and went. EBay/PayPal won. It was ruled that they're not technically a "bank", and so they don't need to be regulated.
Essentially, when you put money into EBay/PayPal, you're taking a gamble that you're gonna get it back. No FDIC insurance there. Hell, not even any regulations that say that they have to keep xx% of cash on hand. If there were a run on PayPal/EBay (ie: a lot of people withdrawing cash), I seriously doubt they'd be able to handle it. In fact, that's a good idea...
Somebody needs to organize a day when as many as people withdraw cash from PayPal. When they bottom out, that'll get the Fed's attention.
It's the damn driver. I've been (trying) to buy HP products (scanners, printers, CD burners, etc.) for ages. I used NT 3.51, NT 4.0, and now W2K. Not only are HP's drivers shit, but they very often skip the NT/W2K driver altogether with the excuse that "this printer is designed for home use", the assumption being that every home user is a moron running Win 95,98, or ME. I gave up on HP for this reason long ago. A W95 driver all that different from, say, a NT 3.51 or NT 4.0 driver, but they still couldn't take the time to make 'em. I say fuck 'em. I can't take the time to even consider HP any more.
I needed a multi-function for my store a few months ago, and I got a Brother. Cheaper, better, and it's got ALL of the drivers I need. HP has *always* sucked.
Look, even you said it... if users don't see the icons, then they assume they're not there. That IS an improvement, wanker. What are you suggesting? That MS should be shipping their OS with no IE, no media player, etc.?? If you're very anal, you CAN uninstall all of that stuff. So, yes, this is an improvement. Go away, now.
And you're going on what he said. He's got everything to gain from this... High paid consulting, book deals, media attention. He's already pulled one media stunt in the past few months... (I'm gonna violate the DMCA publically), but then, he got all of the press there, and he didn't do anything. This guy's a tech version of Jesse Jackson: A media whore. I wouldn't trust him any more than I could throw him.
Well, listed in my list of programs to uninstall are Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer (W2K), and in addition to these two, I know that you can also remove Windows Messenger in XP. So, you already can uninstall all of this stuff. The competitors are just bitching that people can "see" the IE icons, etc before they see their own. Waah.
I think I'll link to a similar article at CNN [cnn.com]. It's a bit less biased.
How is it less biased? It says the same damn thing.
And, for anybody who is using XP, they say that the software (like IE, Media Player, etc) is hidden. But if I double-click on an HTML file, does it come up in IE anyways? Or does it say "File type not recognized"?
Ok, you obviously didn't read the articles, either. The agreement was for NEW computers to be able to come with different default programs. The Service Patch isn't going to remove IE completely, and install Netscape for you!
And as far as "hiding" goes, you don't need a damn service pack to do it. It's called the "delete" button. Any shortcut anywhere (including the IE icons) can be deleted.
Jesus, the gov't has no business having anything to do with technology.
He did it on purpose. Come on. Look at it. Of course he did. He made a martyr out of himself so that he could get even *more* notariety and possibly a better paying job. I don't believe for a second that if he was actually doing something productive, that HP would have let him go, if he knows what he purports to know. My guess is that he did something stupid to get canned (on purpose), so that he'd be in the press. Everyone here, at least, gobbled it up. "Oh, poor Bruce!", "Bruce took one for the team", yadda, yadda, yadda. I bet that he's got a better severance package than most people here would ever get.
How does this help me in my car? Should I spend thousands to get some crazy broadband, wireless connection for my car? No fucking way. Hell, I don't even have broadband at home. Streaming isn't an option for me, and it's not an option for millions of other people. I'm willing to fire up something like Kazaalite and let some music download for a few hours, because I know that when I'm done, I can listen to whatever I want, whenever I want, whereever I want, however I want. Streaming is cute, but only at, say, work. Otherwise, it's useless to most people.
The words are backwards.. but the letters are not.. so if you use a mirror, the words become forwards and the letters backwards. So might as well just not use a mirror. --
Azrael - The Angel of Death posted with: Mozilla 1.0
That's why the letters aren't backwards... Yet another DHTML style that Mozilla doesn't support. Gee, what a GREAT browser!
Which brings up an interesting point. Windows comes with solitaire pre-installed, and OS X has a chess game. Does that mean Mac users prefer more intellectually challenging games?:)
Good point. Only thing is, have you ever played Spider Solitaire? I'm not sure which is tougher. That's a staple that comes with all of the home OS's now (Win 98,Me,XP Home)
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Read the links posted up a level. Monsanto went after the guy because he intentionally planted the seeds. 95% of his fields had those plants. It ws no accident.
Besides, what you're talking about is impossible, since most genetically engineered plants are sterile so that this *won't* happen. You *must* buy new seeds every year.
Get it now?
There are thousands of other breeds of corn out there. Farmers can choose to grow whatever they want. Hell, they can even use corn found in the wild. The difference is that their crops won't grow as large, as fast, and won't be as disease and pest resistant as the genetically engineered ones.
Why can't the open source desktop people come up with something innovative and useful instead of trying to build a cradle for all of the MS converts?
Because they're trying to sell to MS converts. Believe it or not, but most people have better things to do than to learn how to use a new GUI.
Cross platform is irrelevant when you have 95% of the market. That's like saying that a business isn't viable unless it gets 100% of potential customers. That's ridiculous. Ever notice that there isn't just one gas station in a city? How about restaurants?
Hell, I own my own retail store, and I get about 60% of all potential customers in my area, and that's more than enough. Why would I bother watering down my product line to pull in everybody else? It'd ruin my business. One size doesn't fit all in ANY product.
Non-commercial developers? What does that have to do with anything? I write apps all the time for myself using IE. What's your point? There aren't any restrictions if you write a shrink-wrapped app that grabs a few IE objects. You don't have to license IE. You just specify that IE is required to be able to use your product. And with a nearly 100% saturation on the Windows platforms, which have a 95% desktop saturation, that's not a problem.
Well, you'd be right, except that IE-based apps have been around for several years now. I'm using Quickbooks Pro 2002 right now which is heavily based on IE. I don't think that Open Source had anything to do with it. If anything, people are so used to using IE in third party apps, that somebody decided to try to do it with Mozilla.
a framework of reusable components that will transcend the browser application itself.
IE's already there. IE has been there for several years. Hell, I use IE components daily.
IE's already in place, and it works very, very well, and the components are well documented. I'm seeing *many* shrinkwrap programs coming out now that DO use IE as a framework. Quickbooks Pro 2002, for example, is built on IE.
I thought that burners burned double layer, double sided. Guess not...
A DVD burner would let you backup your shit with only 3 DVD's.
Again, any virus that you may have will move over to the backup as well.
Like I said, a second hard drive is a good quickie backup in case of a hardware failure of the first one.
For incremental (daily, weekly backups) CDs and DVDs are more reliable, and they last infinitely longer than tapes.
I keep a running backup on another hard drive, then occasionally burn a CD and put that elsewhere. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
Tapes are old, old, unreliable, shitty technology. Just buy two drives. Another hard drive is a faster, more reliable backup.
You can still back up your critical stuff on CD's. I've never known anyone to have more than a full CD full of truly critical stuff (at home). Hell, soon with DVD's, that's what, 17 GB??
Actually, I'm thinking about PayPal. Either way, it's a moot point now. It already came and went. EBay/PayPal won. It was ruled that they're not technically a "bank", and so they don't need to be regulated.
Essentially, when you put money into EBay/PayPal, you're taking a gamble that you're gonna get it back. No FDIC insurance there. Hell, not even any regulations that say that they have to keep xx% of cash on hand. If there were a run on PayPal/EBay (ie: a lot of people withdrawing cash), I seriously doubt they'd be able to handle it. In fact, that's a good idea...
Somebody needs to organize a day when as many as people withdraw cash from PayPal. When they bottom out, that'll get the Fed's attention.
It's the damn driver. I've been (trying) to buy HP products (scanners, printers, CD burners, etc.) for ages. I used NT 3.51, NT 4.0, and now W2K. Not only are HP's drivers shit, but they very often skip the NT/W2K driver altogether with the excuse that "this printer is designed for home use", the assumption being that every home user is a moron running Win 95,98, or ME. I gave up on HP for this reason long ago. A W95 driver all that different from, say, a NT 3.51 or NT 4.0 driver, but they still couldn't take the time to make 'em. I say fuck 'em. I can't take the time to even consider HP any more.
I needed a multi-function for my store a few months ago, and I got a Brother. Cheaper, better, and it's got ALL of the drivers I need. HP has *always* sucked.
Look, even you said it... if users don't see the icons, then they assume they're not there. That IS an improvement, wanker. What are you suggesting? That MS should be shipping their OS with no IE, no media player, etc.?? If you're very anal, you CAN uninstall all of that stuff.
So, yes, this is an improvement. Go away, now.
And you're going on what he said. He's got everything to gain from this... High paid consulting, book deals, media attention. He's already pulled one media stunt in the past few months... (I'm gonna violate the DMCA publically), but then, he got all of the press there, and he didn't do anything.
This guy's a tech version of Jesse Jackson: A media whore. I wouldn't trust him any more than I could throw him.
Well, listed in my list of programs to uninstall are Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer (W2K), and in addition to these two, I know that you can also remove Windows Messenger in XP.
So, you already can uninstall all of this stuff. The competitors are just bitching that people can "see" the IE icons, etc before they see their own. Waah.
I think I'll link to a similar article at CNN [cnn.com]. It's a bit less biased.
How is it less biased? It says the same damn thing.
And, for anybody who is using XP, they say that the software (like IE, Media Player, etc) is hidden. But if I double-click on an HTML file, does it come up in IE anyways? Or does it say "File type not recognized"?
Ok, you obviously didn't read the articles, either. The agreement was for NEW computers to be able to come with different default programs. The Service Patch isn't going to remove IE completely, and install Netscape for you!
And as far as "hiding" goes, you don't need a damn service pack to do it. It's called the "delete" button. Any shortcut anywhere (including the IE icons) can be deleted.
Jesus, the gov't has no business having anything to do with technology.
He did it on purpose. Come on. Look at it. Of course he did. He made a martyr out of himself so that he could get even *more* notariety and possibly a better paying job. I don't believe for a second that if he was actually doing something productive, that HP would have let him go, if he knows what he purports to know. My guess is that he did something stupid to get canned (on purpose), so that he'd be in the press. Everyone here, at least, gobbled it up. "Oh, poor Bruce!", "Bruce took one for the team", yadda, yadda, yadda. I bet that he's got a better severance package than most people here would ever get.
How does this help me in my car? Should I spend thousands to get some crazy broadband, wireless connection for my car? No fucking way. Hell, I don't even have broadband at home. Streaming isn't an option for me, and it's not an option for millions of other people. I'm willing to fire up something like Kazaalite and let some music download for a few hours, because I know that when I'm done, I can listen to whatever I want, whenever I want, whereever I want, however I want. Streaming is cute, but only at, say, work. Otherwise, it's useless to most people.
Several more good reasons to use something like Launch (my personal favorite). Nothing to install. Just straight DHTML.
Launch.com
'nuff said.
Biff... now, did you put on two coats of wax like we talked about? Biff?
The words are backwards.. but the letters are not.. so if you use a mirror, the words become forwards and the letters backwards. So might as well just not use a mirror.
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Azrael - The Angel of Death
posted with: Mozilla 1.0
That's why the letters aren't backwards... Yet another DHTML style that Mozilla doesn't support. Gee, what a GREAT browser!
Did you click on the link in the article? Looks like a perfect fucking mirror to me. Hang on, I'll get a mirror. Yup. Perfect.
...and look at the site, jackass. The letters are backwards. It looks perfect in a mirror. Jesus Christ. Talk about lazy.
Which brings up an interesting point. Windows comes with solitaire pre-installed, and OS X has a chess game. Does that mean Mac users prefer more intellectually challenging games? :)
Good point. Only thing is, have you ever played Spider Solitaire? I'm not sure which is tougher. That's a staple that comes with all of the home OS's now (Win 98,Me,XP Home)