I'm not sure how useful this would be today, but clearly the 68000 was far superior to an 8088 (or even an 8086). My guess is that Intel's segmented address approach sucked-up about 20% of developer productivity on the PC. All those crazy memory models would have never existed had IBM chosen the 68000. Not to mention Extended Memory and Expanded Memory.
The GP was talking about downloads from one site, not all sites. I don't get what your point is anyway. People don't download Flash as if they are endorsing its quality, they just want to view the content. Likewise the majority of those who in the future download a new browser that supports HTML5 won't be doing it because they think that HTML5 is god's gift either.
Flash is a de facto proprietary standard and HTML5 is a partially completed standard that will probably be approved some day. At present it looks like Flash has a slight edge in the standard category.
And if Google dropped nuclear weapons on China, I'm sure they could get in trouble. See, I can make up "what if" scenarios too. You're getting ahead of the facts of this case.
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Given the evidence that many long-employed software developers fail to pass your test, you can't figure out why companies have been paying them all these years rather than wondering how you can improve your interview process to lower the number of false negatives.
that these "cutting-edge skills" that employers always complain are so hard to find in job candidates are always left undefined? That's because if they name them they'll receive thousands of resumes from unemployed software developers who already have those skills.
I think you're making up antitrust law as you go along. If it were an antitrust issue whenever a company makes allegations against another company, half the companies would be guilty of it.
"Antitrust is a way for competitors to use the government to interfere with your business." "We were being evil and wrong and got into trouble for it."
Well, in MS's case the first statement is a fact, the second an opinion.
Any comparison between MS's "monopoly" and that of Standard Oil's or AT&T's is remote at best. No specially crafted "market" definition was required for the latter companies to be considered a monopoly like MS's monopoly on "desktop operating systems".
"Antitrust is not about your competitors complaining about you. Antitrust is when you are so economically powerful that you can destroy the free market and create a situation in which you economically destroy anybody who competes with you."
And yet MS's antitrust problems stemmed exactly from competitors complaining about them.
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I'm not sure how useful this would be today, but clearly the 68000 was far superior to an 8088 (or even an 8086). My guess is that Intel's segmented address approach sucked-up about 20% of developer productivity on the PC. All those crazy memory models would have never existed had IBM chosen the 68000. Not to mention Extended Memory and Expanded Memory.
Did a lot of people really say that Linux would never compete against "real" operating systems in 1991-1992? But what's the connection anyway?
First person: "You can't travel faster than the speed of light"
Second person: "They said the exact same thing about traveling to the moon".
I think the name was inspired by Extreme Sports. Which is kind of funny because the guys who created XP weren't exactly young or athletic.
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The GP was talking about downloads from one site, not all sites. I don't get what your point is anyway. People don't download Flash as if they are endorsing its quality, they just want to view the content. Likewise the majority of those who in the future download a new browser that supports HTML5 won't be doing it because they think that HTML5 is god's gift either.
Flash is a de facto proprietary standard and HTML5 is a partially completed standard that will probably be approved some day. At present it looks like Flash has a slight edge in the standard category.
"They set the standards and implementation for it; not any standards body or the web at large."
Flash may suck, but there's little evidence that standards bodies do any better. Perhaps HTML 5 can wait until the DOM is cleaned up.
Perhaps because they didn't include the Internet as part of their graphics pipeline.
And if Google dropped nuclear weapons on China, I'm sure they could get in trouble. See, I can make up "what if" scenarios too. You're getting ahead of the facts of this case.
Given the evidence that many long-employed software developers fail to pass your test, you can't figure out why companies have been paying them all these years rather than wondering how you can improve your interview process to lower the number of false negatives.
that these "cutting-edge skills" that employers always complain are so hard to find in job candidates are always left undefined? That's because if they name them they'll receive thousands of resumes from unemployed software developers who already have those skills.
So Bill Joy designs software like a Mechanical Engineer. That explains a lot.
I think you're making up antitrust law as you go along. If it were an antitrust issue whenever a company makes allegations against another company, half the companies would be guilty of it.
You mean you can't use a server OS to run desktop applications and you can't use a desktop OS as a server?
You mean Apple didn't make any laptops?
Unlike Joe, CEOs could put policies in place to diminish Crony practices.
Being "well-connected" is the reason that CEOs are grossly overpaid to the determent of their companies and their shareholders.
Cronyism also includes creating a job specifically for a buddy.
This action raised the average executive IQ at both companies!
"Antitrust is a way for competitors to use the government to interfere with your business." "We were being evil and wrong and got into trouble for it."
Well, in MS's case the first statement is a fact, the second an opinion.
Any comparison between MS's "monopoly" and that of Standard Oil's or AT&T's is remote at best. No specially crafted "market" definition was required for the latter companies to be considered a monopoly like MS's monopoly on "desktop operating systems".
"Once again Microsoft chooses to litigate instead of innovate."
A lesson they learned from Sun, IBM, Oracle, AOL and the other competitors who lobbied for the antitrust action against them.
"Antitrust is not about your competitors complaining about you. Antitrust is when you are so economically powerful that you can destroy the free market and create a situation in which you economically destroy anybody who competes with you."
And yet MS's antitrust problems stemmed exactly from competitors complaining about them.
that this had something to do with an IPO?
If you say so. There is a fine line, however, between, "do your own research" and "I don't have any citations".