There is no monopoly for end-users, but there is if you're trying to enter Microsoft's market because Microsoft has a monopoly on OEMs. Microsoft penalizes Dell, HP, etc if they ship a competitors product instead of or as well as Microsoft's product.
OEMs have more freedom now thanks to the previous lawsuit. For a while they simply couldn't ship something like Linux with their systems or MS would pull Windows or not send them the new version of Windows (happened to IBM).
If MS does things like that, then they deserve to get sued. They should not lose a lawsuit simply because they have such a high market share.
You're talking about GDI acceleration, not 3D acceleration.
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Forget themed translucency. Xorg has uses composite managers to achieve real hardware acceleration. KDE has this built in where all you do is check a box, then alter any options you want to change. With other WMs you can use xcompmgr for acceleration and transset for translucency.
Composite managers are Xorg extensions that change the underlying way Xorg draws to the screen, not cheap hacks.
Your post is a dupe. All you need to do is read the previous posts before responding and we could avoid this. Maybe some sort of filter on the comment software could scan posts where y% is the same as a previous post and alert the poster to the problem.
I guess one of the problems is that you can be infected before you have a chance to download a firewall. Unless you're on the newest version of Windows you're pretty screwed unless you can configure packet filtering on the NIC.
"Copying music for your own personal use is explicitly legal"
I've heard repeatedly that this is not the case, as in there is no law that makes copying for personal use legal. It's only the Betamax ruling that makes it legal.
It's one thing for a single male like you to say that, but try working 80 hours a week and remaining a good husband and father. It won't happen.
The main point that the GP didn't quite make isn't that a person can't work an 80 hour week, but that consistently doing so results in burnout and a less productivity. Very few people can work 60 - 80 hours a week for five years. It's not just that the extra 20 - 40 hours per week will be less productive, but that the first 40 will be as well.
It's one thing to call someone lazy because they don't like work, but quite another to call them lazy because they don't want to spend every waking hour at work. For most people, work is not their lives.
BSOD is now a generic term for a Windows crash. By default, of course, Windows just reboots and you often don't see the blue screen, or often is just hangs at the desktop.
Windows crashes less than it used to, but still reasonably often. I don't know a single 2000 or XP user, including me, that can honestly say they've never had Windows crash. My own experience is that it crashes more often that Solaris, BSD or Linux.
Micheline, Good Year, Pirelli, etc all make a bunch of standard tire sizes and the auto manufacturers all make a bunch of standard wheel sizes. They fit together because they agreed on the standard and the customer wins by being able to choose nearly any tire for their car.
With Microsoft, they build the car and the tire and if you want their tire on your non-MS car or another tire on your MS car, you can't do it. The customer loses.
Nobody says they *need* to be standards-compliant, just that they should be.
Microsoft should care about their customers, but instead they hurt their customers when they try to force everyone to use only their prodcuts. In this case they will hurt every one of their customers who uses a non-MS web browser.
Most of that was new jobs being created in Japan by Japanese companies. Consumers being able to choose products from different countries isn't a problem.
It would be just as bad for an Indian company to offshore jobs to the US. The point is that people want domestic companies to have some loyalty to their country, not sell out local the local workforce for a few dollars.
If Apple was counting heavily on Wine they'd have forked the project just like they did with KHTML. I suppose maybe they already did. We'll find out as soon as OS X86 is released.
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There is no monopoly for end-users, but there is if you're trying to enter Microsoft's market because Microsoft has a monopoly on OEMs. Microsoft penalizes Dell, HP, etc if they ship a competitors product instead of or as well as Microsoft's product.
OEMs have more freedom now thanks to the previous lawsuit. For a while they simply couldn't ship something like Linux with their systems or MS would pull Windows or not send them the new version of Windows (happened to IBM).
If MS does things like that, then they deserve to get sued. They should not lose a lawsuit simply because they have such a high market share.
If I give you a nickel will you buy yourself a sense of humor?
You're talking about GDI acceleration, not 3D acceleration.
Forget themed translucency. Xorg has uses composite managers to achieve real hardware acceleration. KDE has this built in where all you do is check a box, then alter any options you want to change. With other WMs you can use xcompmgr for acceleration and transset for translucency.
Composite managers are Xorg extensions that change the underlying way Xorg draws to the screen, not cheap hacks.
Now some crazy hacker comes in and takes control of my computer every few hours.
HAHA FORGET THAT IM A FAGGOT!!!!11
Please, can someone help me? What do I need to install?
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Your post is a dupe. All you need to do is read the previous posts before responding and we could avoid this. Maybe some sort of filter on the comment software could scan posts where y% is the same as a previous post and alert the poster to the problem.
Oxfordshire is on the East side of London, right?
I guess one of the problems is that you can be infected before you have a chance to download a firewall. Unless you're on the newest version of Windows you're pretty screwed unless you can configure packet filtering on the NIC.
My Windows blue screens in nine minutes, so I'm safe.
Fair enough, but that is most definitely not explicitly legal. More like "legal because nobody said it's not".
"Copying music for your own personal use is explicitly legal"
I've heard repeatedly that this is not the case, as in there is no law that makes copying for personal use legal. It's only the Betamax ruling that makes it legal.
It's one thing for a single male like you to say that, but try working 80 hours a week and remaining a good husband and father. It won't happen.
The main point that the GP didn't quite make isn't that a person can't work an 80 hour week, but that consistently doing so results in burnout and a less productivity. Very few people can work 60 - 80 hours a week for five years. It's not just that the extra 20 - 40 hours per week will be less productive, but that the first 40 will be as well.
It's one thing to call someone lazy because they don't like work, but quite another to call them lazy because they don't want to spend every waking hour at work. For most people, work is not their lives.
BSOD is now a generic term for a Windows crash. By default, of course, Windows just reboots and you often don't see the blue screen, or often is just hangs at the desktop.
Windows crashes less than it used to, but still reasonably often. I don't know a single 2000 or XP user, including me, that can honestly say they've never had Windows crash. My own experience is that it crashes more often that Solaris, BSD or Linux.
Yeah, and Einstein would have been a billionaire if it weren't for everone being able to pirate his work.
If some company employs people to artificially increase costs for their competitor, why aren't they the ones being sued?
I like a tire analogy better.
Micheline, Good Year, Pirelli, etc all make a bunch of standard tire sizes and the auto manufacturers all make a bunch of standard wheel sizes. They fit together because they agreed on the standard and the customer wins by being able to choose nearly any tire for their car.
With Microsoft, they build the car and the tire and if you want their tire on your non-MS car or another tire on your MS car, you can't do it. The customer loses.
"Who says they need to work to standards?"
Nobody says they *need* to be standards-compliant, just that they should be.
Microsoft should care about their customers, but instead they hurt their customers when they try to force everyone to use only their prodcuts. In this case they will hurt every one of their customers who uses a non-MS web browser.
Tabs are a known leak and it's fixed in 1.1. Get the Alpha now, it's wonderful.
Phobos is nearly 60,000 Kms in diameter. It's not like they're landing on a pea. They have hit Mars with much greater accuracy than that.
Most of that was new jobs being created in Japan by Japanese companies. Consumers being able to choose products from different countries isn't a problem.
*whew*
Now I can start liking SCO again. I'm off to the SCO Store to buy some of whatever it is they try to sell.
It would be just as bad for an Indian company to offshore jobs to the US. The point is that people want domestic companies to have some loyalty to their country, not sell out local the local workforce for a few dollars.
You forget that the people who get laid off are the consumers and stockholders who can no longer afford the lower prices.
Cheap products don't matter, what matters is that consumers can afford those products. Unemployed people can't.
My browser crashes nearly once a day due to that extension. It's buggy, but it's still worth having it installed.
If Apple was counting heavily on Wine they'd have forked the project just like they did with KHTML. I suppose maybe they already did. We'll find out as soon as OS X86 is released.