It has everything to do with legality in the case of Anti-Trust.
The monopoly has to prove that they are engaging in a practice for reasons other than undermining potential competition. Generally, this can include selling things at a loss, locking out distribution channels (like the **AA is being accused of here) or any other practice that normally wouldn't make sense unless you had a monopoly-type advantage and were trying to keep competition at a minimal level.
Now, in certain edge cases, this may turn out to be problematic. But then again, the solution to similar problems in Windows often mean editing the registry (getting nVidia drivers to do more than 60Hz refresh on some systems for example).
Is this a joke? I have NEVER had to hack the registry to get an nVidia driver to work at a decent refresh rate.
I have tried to change resolutions in Linux and get dumped back to the CLI though and this was a plain vanilla X 4 / KDE setup. I had to go to XF86Config to get it back up which wasn't bad for me but it was worse than anything that I'd ever had to do on Windows.
I'm cool with Windows and Linux but come on... let's not overstate the case.
And killing all of that stuff is really just part of the engineering process too. When I was a recording engineer, I would have never let anything come out of my studio with scratch tracks and background noise. Especially on a records that was guranteed to cross a lot of ears.
I can't believe that you have the audacity to compare the Opera Mail / News app to Mozilla's. That's really like comparing Word to Wordpad. Not that Opera's client is bad, but it has a fraction of the functionality of Mozilla's.
Let's also not forget the html editor, IRC client, and myriad of developer tools that come with Mozilla. 11 MB sounds like a bargain to me.
LMAO @ "5 or however many years ago" but you're pretty much on point. AMD's marketshare has skyrocketed from what it was when the Athlon was first introduced. Their current parts are very competitive with the differences in performance between the platforms being essentially academic to the people that would ultimately use them. The problem now is one of perception, a problem that can be overcome if Hammer has a smashing (couldn't resist... sorry) debut, performance and stability wise.
Well, when I used to work for RadioShack (IBM and early Compaq era) the profit margins on computers were in the single digits. Managers would break their necks to get those damn thing out of the store before they were discontinued and sold for a loss. All of the other stuff had a decent margin, especially the stuff with the Optimus Brand (which I don't think that they carry anymore) which was nothing but RCA, Uniden, Pioneer, and other name brand stuff manufactured with the Optimus brand name on it.
The profit? Wire, cable, connectors, and all that other little stuff that has been shrunked down to a metal cabinet. I guess the low volume finally got to them.
Well I know that in my case, I have no choice. I work for a state gorvernment institution and we can only buy computers from certain vendors, they are all T-1 and none of them give me that choice... I'm sure that many state governments operate the same way.
Though integrating IE (or any browser for that matter) into a web app doesn't quite sound right. Talk about recursive code. I think (hope) that the author is talking about an application that has html-based components of the interface (like the aforementioned Quicken). Or am I missing something here?
All that IE does for Quicken is allow Quicken to use it as an HTML renderer. This is much different than Mozilla which can create a standalone application. The Quicken developers had to use C++ of VB or whatever and embed the MSHTML control into it. Mozilla does not require anything in addition to the package itself to create a new application. So even though this isn't necessarily new, it's definitely a lot more than IE can do on it's own. Plus you can embed Mozilla into apps like Quicken as well. Topstyle does a great job of integrating IE and Mozilla side by side using this technology.
There was nothing knee jerk in that post. I read your whole response and addressed the Chris Rock part. I could talk about many other times that non-blacks have acted less than exemplary. My point isn't that black people are a benevolent group of victims, nor that people want to hold hands and hug all the time (I'm still trying to figure out where that came from). The point is that people constantly try to oversimplify race relations (and also justify the use of the word nigger) by quoting a skit by Chris Rock. It's easy to argue that this oversimplification based on something that you saw on television has more to do with mass generalizations than exposure.
I've lived in predominately black and predominately white neighborhoods. Downtown Atlanta just happens to have a mix of millionaires (and at least one billionaire named Ted Turner has moved around the corner), middle class, and homeless people with the usual business people thrown in during the daylight hours. It also happens to be in the middle of one of the most diverse college campuses in the U.S. (Ga. State University). In an environment like this, EVERYBODY shows their asses. I'm not old or squeamish, I love it downtown. I'm just telling you what I see and it ain't just black people acting a fool.
I am so fuckin sick of people using that "Niggers vs. Black people" Chris Rock skit to excuse mass generalizations of black people. Every group of people has an element that is undesireable, in pretty much every case that element is the minority of the population.
I live in downtown Atlanta and I see a huge share of ignorant ass black and white people, mainly young ones. Both populations have a formidable number of obnoxious members. This is evident after any major event here. A black targetted concert will be accompanied by lots of trash in the streets, loud music, and kids shouting all types of expletives. The white concerts generally have more trash, at least as many expletives, and a tendency to sporadically shout out "wooooooo!!" and "owwwwwwww!" at ridiculously loud volumes for no apparent reason.
Anyhow, the bigger point here is that the Harlem Renaissance was a wonderful period of artistic development in the United States and the original poster was probably frustrated at people making comments about crime and drugs in that neighborhood. It is sad that such small minded thnking is still around... but whatever.
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Let's just totally forget the fundamentalist Christians who have terrorized abortion clinics, Gay / Lesbian clubs, and the 96 Summer Olympics...
Actually they fixed the broken ass IE5 box model. This was a MAJOR fix. Give them a little credit for fixing the most agonizing part of their PITA implementation of CSS.
Also funny how OE hijacked Messenger a few years back. OE used to just dump all of your mail into one folder. How braindead is that? Or maybe they were both jacking Eudora. I never used Eudora that much but understand that it was the big kid on the block back in the day (when I was just fine with Netscape 3 mail).
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It has everything to do with legality in the case of Anti-Trust.
The monopoly has to prove that they are engaging in a practice for reasons other than undermining potential competition. Generally, this can include selling things at a loss, locking out distribution channels (like the **AA is being accused of here) or any other practice that normally wouldn't make sense unless you had a monopoly-type advantage and were trying to keep competition at a minimal level.
Now, in certain edge cases, this may turn out to be problematic. But then again, the solution to similar problems in Windows often mean editing the registry (getting nVidia drivers to do more than 60Hz refresh on some systems for example).
Is this a joke? I have NEVER had to hack the registry to get an nVidia driver to work at a decent refresh rate.
I have tried to change resolutions in Linux and get dumped back to the CLI though and this was a plain vanilla X 4 / KDE setup. I had to go to XF86Config to get it back up which wasn't bad for me but it was worse than anything that I'd ever had to do on Windows.
I'm cool with Windows and Linux but come on... let's not overstate the case.
And killing all of that stuff is really just part of the engineering process too. When I was a recording engineer, I would have never let anything come out of my studio with scratch tracks and background noise. Especially on a records that was guranteed to cross a lot of ears.
I know of no law saying that insight has to be totally objective or even true.
Well with Type Ahead Find you don't have to click on links either.
I can't believe that you have the audacity to compare the Opera Mail / News app to Mozilla's. That's really like comparing Word to Wordpad. Not that Opera's client is bad, but it has a fraction of the functionality of Mozilla's.
Let's also not forget the html editor, IRC client, and myriad of developer tools that come with Mozilla. 11 MB sounds like a bargain to me.
LMAO @ "5 or however many years ago" but you're pretty much on point. AMD's marketshare has skyrocketed from what it was when the Athlon was first introduced. Their current parts are very competitive with the differences in performance between the platforms being essentially academic to the people that would ultimately use them. The problem now is one of perception, a problem that can be overcome if Hammer has a smashing (couldn't resist... sorry) debut, performance and stability wise.
Let's also not forget the fact that the C64 was closer to 1982 than 1992.
Well, when I used to work for RadioShack (IBM and early Compaq era) the profit margins on computers were in the single digits. Managers would break their necks to get those damn thing out of the store before they were discontinued and sold for a loss. All of the other stuff had a decent margin, especially the stuff with the Optimus Brand (which I don't think that they carry anymore) which was nothing but RCA, Uniden, Pioneer, and other name brand stuff manufactured with the Optimus brand name on it.
The profit? Wire, cable, connectors, and all that other little stuff that has been shrunked down to a metal cabinet. I guess the low volume finally got to them.
The public's ability to say "no" to ineffective, gimmicky devices like "The Club" was enhanced though.
Well I know that in my case, I have no choice. I work for a state gorvernment institution and we can only buy computers from certain vendors, they are all T-1 and none of them give me that choice... I'm sure that many state governments operate the same way.
No it wouldn't. Another webserver would cost less than a copy of Zeus.
And guess what?
IE doesn't use native widgets.
Maybe he's counting the Dot Org.
Though integrating IE (or any browser for that matter) into a web app doesn't quite sound right. Talk about recursive code. I think (hope) that the author is talking about an application that has html-based components of the interface (like the aforementioned Quicken). Or am I missing something here?
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All that IE does for Quicken is allow Quicken to use it as an HTML renderer. This is much different than Mozilla which can create a standalone application. The Quicken developers had to use C++ of VB or whatever and embed the MSHTML control into it. Mozilla does not require anything in addition to the package itself to create a new application. So even though this isn't necessarily new, it's definitely a lot more than IE can do on it's own. Plus you can embed Mozilla into apps like Quicken as well. Topstyle does a great job of integrating IE and Mozilla side by side using this technology.
Winamp wasn't free before AOL took over. It was $10. Which I thought was fair for the quality software that it was.
Well I took the Pepsi challenge back in the 80's as a kid and always chose Coke.
Back OT though, the quality of OGG at 64k is really unbelievable. Maybe Nullsoft will consider making this a part of their NSV format.
There was nothing knee jerk in that post. I read your whole response and addressed the Chris Rock part. I could talk about many other times that non-blacks have acted less than exemplary. My point isn't that black people are a benevolent group of victims, nor that people want to hold hands and hug all the time (I'm still trying to figure out where that came from). The point is that people constantly try to oversimplify race relations (and also justify the use of the word nigger) by quoting a skit by Chris Rock. It's easy to argue that this oversimplification based on something that you saw on television has more to do with mass generalizations than exposure.
I've lived in predominately black and predominately white neighborhoods. Downtown Atlanta just happens to have a mix of millionaires (and at least one billionaire named Ted Turner has moved around the corner), middle class, and homeless people with the usual business people thrown in during the daylight hours. It also happens to be in the middle of one of the most diverse college campuses in the U.S. (Ga. State University). In an environment like this, EVERYBODY shows their asses. I'm not old or squeamish, I love it downtown. I'm just telling you what I see and it ain't just black people acting a fool.
Peace.
I am so fuckin sick of people using that "Niggers vs. Black people" Chris Rock skit to excuse mass generalizations of black people. Every group of people has an element that is undesireable, in pretty much every case that element is the minority of the population.
I live in downtown Atlanta and I see a huge share of ignorant ass black and white people, mainly young ones. Both populations have a formidable number of obnoxious members. This is evident after any major event here. A black targetted concert will be accompanied by lots of trash in the streets, loud music, and kids shouting all types of expletives. The white concerts generally have more trash, at least as many expletives, and a tendency to sporadically shout out "wooooooo!!" and "owwwwwwww!" at ridiculously loud volumes for no apparent reason.
Anyhow, the bigger point here is that the Harlem Renaissance was a wonderful period of artistic development in the United States and the original poster was probably frustrated at people making comments about crime and drugs in that neighborhood. It is sad that such small minded thnking is still around... but whatever.
Let's just totally forget the fundamentalist Christians who have terrorized abortion clinics, Gay / Lesbian clubs, and the 96 Summer Olympics...
Most definitely.
Actually they fixed the broken ass IE5 box model. This was a MAJOR fix. Give them a little credit for fixing the most agonizing part of their PITA implementation of CSS.
Also funny how OE hijacked Messenger a few years back. OE used to just dump all of your mail into one folder. How braindead is that? Or maybe they were both jacking Eudora. I never used Eudora that much but understand that it was the big kid on the block back in the day (when I was just fine with Netscape 3 mail).