Yeah right. Standards compliant HTML wouldn't render properly in IE. Netscape was driving the standards by creating things like Javascript and SSL, it was MS that decided to deviate for world domination.
It's funny how quickly people forget history. It wasn't just that they bundled a browser; it went something like this:
- Netscape creates what becomes the standard internet browser and publicly states that they believe it will make the desktop OS irrelevant. MS is afraid of this. Netscape was freely downloadable, but they nagged you to pay them $25 or so to license it. - MS creates IE, and charges for it, but no one buys it because it sucked. - MS, still wanting browser market share, starts giving away IE for free. People continue to use Netscape. - MS bundles IE with Windows and forbids OEMs from adding an alternative browser. Some people switch to IE because it saves them the download step. - MS creates Front Page, a WYSIWYG HTML editor which was bundled with Office, the already dominant office suite. - MS creates IIS and ASP, technologies which only worked on Windows. - With Java applets gaining popularity, MS makes applets created with Visual Studio only runnable on Windows. - MS starts adding features to Front Page which make the generated HTML non standards-compliant, only viewable by IE and only servable by IIS. - MS add features to Word to allow it to export to HTML which could only be viewed in IE. - MS adds ActiveX control integration, making IE the only browser which supports it. - MS muscles ISPs like Earthlink to place ActiveX controls on their main web pages so that they are only viewable by Windows machines running IE. - People start switching to IE because Netscape doesn't render Front Page pages properly, so they think IE is a better browser. - Netscape can't make any money and folds, opening the source to their browser, blaming MS's antitrust behavior for their demise. - Netscape source code is picked up by the community, but can't support things like ActiveX due to wanting cross-platform feature parity. - With Netscape dead and IE5/6 being used by nearly every web surfer on the planet, MS stops development on it, hindering web innovation.
As you can see, MS did a very good job of making sure that the web was only viewable by machines running IE on Windows and servable only by NT machines running IIS. That is what the antitrust suit was about, browser integration was just one key point in the whole mess.
That was just the browser side of things, they were also found guilty of using private, unpublished Windows APIs in Office so that it was impossible for a 3rd party software developer to compete at the same level as MS. This was why the original ruling was to split MS into an OS company and a software company.
What he's saying is accurate. States which typically vote Republican are the states which contribute the least in Federal taxes, but receive the most in Federal aid.
As for your disillusioned Obama comment... He wants to make people pay their fair share of taxes while Romney wants the middle class to "distribute" their wealth up the chain so it lands in some dudes bank account, not helping the economy at all. Spending money helps the economy, hoarding it doesn't.
I can't find the article right now, but I read that even though they are making profits on the 360 now, MS will never recoup the R&D and per-sale losses from the first few years of the 360. The 720 (or whatever they call it) will be released before they can ever catch up, starting them back at square one again. I believe the whole idea of the Xbox is to keep the MS brand a household name.
So you wouldn't mind if I decide to carry a skunk and spray you every time you walked past me?
Smoking is of course fine in your own home, but in public places your right to smoke (should) end at my nose, hair, lung and clothes.
I'd much rather be standing next to a smoker on a packed subway car than a woman who has just doused herself in perfume. I move to ban that annoying smell too! Oh, and diesel fuel too... That exhaust is nasty!
I got a call from a guy from The Alien Touch with the same scam, in fact it sounded exactly the guy in the video, so I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't the same dude. I was only able to keep him on the phone for about 4.5 minutes when I finally told him I run Linux. He asked me "Then why the f* are you wasting my time?!?!" To which I replied, "Because you're a f*ing scam artist scumbag!" Then he hung up.
The sad thing is that they have a Facebook page with 56 followers (victims, probably).
Agreed. Prison should only be used to keep violent people away from the rest of world. The only exception being if an offender repeatedly doesn't follow the rules of probation/house arrest/etc.
Absolutely! I'm going to go download the Linux kernel, make my own changes to it and distribute it without providing the source code! Screw Linus and his stupid copyright!
Most people don't realize how miniscule a GPS signal is by the time it reaches the ground. It is far below the noise floor and the receivers require a DSP chip to perform DSSM to pick out the actual signal. Having a high-power, possibly drifting signal that close will definitely cause problems.
Actually Europe had slower cell service because the EU mandated GSM.
Actually that is completely wrong, just look through the Akamai State of the Internet archives, or any other comparison online. When the fastest cellular bandwidth possible in the US was in the 256k range, many European cities had 1-2M. Things are changing now with LTE.
I don't see you can say that CDMA "won". GSM ruled the bandwidth wars over CDMA until the advent of HSPA+ and LTE. Yes, it was faster for a few years in the US, while European GSM networks were still outpacing us. The rest of the world uses GSM, and for the most part has higher mobile data rates than the US.
I do agree that GSM requires more towers for rural access, but that doesn't negate my argument about the consumer having to foot the bill to deploy numerous non-compatible technologies, it just means that standardizing on CDMA might have been cheaper in the long run.
... it's mathematically proven to *not* lose data.
I love git and use it on a daily basis, but you can't mathematically prove that it won't lose data. It is written by humans, and I have encountered bugs in it. You also still have to deal with manual merges, which are error prone. I've also had my local repo get in weird states that are very difficult to get out of. When this happens, I always copy out all my changes because I'm afraid of losing anything.
I used to use my PS3 for all my streaming from Netflix and PS3 Media Server, but all that ended when they started scanning for Cinavia. Now I use the WDTV Live and Plex Media Server. The WDTV interface isn't as nice or snappy as the PS3, but it certainly does the job.
And the deregulation of the telecom industry caused every cell provider to roll out their own infrastructure and not share technology standards (GSM, CDMA). This caused consumers to pay for redundant towers everywhere which is one of the reasons why most of Europe has faster and cheaper cell service than the US.
I don't know what they are updating, but they certainly are not pushing signature updates 7-8 times a day. Not enough new threats come out every day to warrant that kind of update cycle.
FWIW, I don't even see an official product page for the "2013" version, which makes me think you might be running a trojan and the 2012 version only updates every few days, which is typical.
This exploit gains the privileges of the running user on Windows Vista and 7. The entire point of all the "allow/deny" popup BS with UAC was because they wanted to restrict processes to the lowest privilege necessary. IE is supposed to be a high-risk, sandboxed application and yet this exploit magically gets around it and gains access to the full user's account, which probably has admin rights on the machine.
MS does not understand security. You don't start out by giving a user admin rights, you make them ask for it, a la 'sudo'. UAC starts out by keeping the user an administrator, and dropping the rights for new processes and trying to intercept when those processes need higher access so that the OS can display a verification prompt. Since Vista, this has been exploited over and over again.
The only way to be safe under windows is to always use a low-priv account, and type in the full username/password of an administrator whenever the UAC prompt comes up, and that is a terrible user experience.
I'm sure once the anti-malware vendors update their signatures in a few days they will detect it, but for now its fair game. The problem with anti-malware/anti-virus software as that they are purely reactive, they really don't help much against zero-day attacks.
C# was designed to be a Java replacement and shared nearly identical syntax as well as utilizing the intermediate language VM and garbage collection. Although MS have added numerous language features over the years, it is absolutely not "completely different than Java."
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Ahh, you are correct. I was going off of memory, and I thought MS had the same nag screen that Netscape had.
Yeah right. Standards compliant HTML wouldn't render properly in IE. Netscape was driving the standards by creating things like Javascript and SSL, it was MS that decided to deviate for world domination.
It's funny how quickly people forget history. It wasn't just that they bundled a browser; it went something like this:
- Netscape creates what becomes the standard internet browser and publicly states that they believe it will make the desktop OS irrelevant. MS is afraid of this. Netscape was freely downloadable, but they nagged you to pay them $25 or so to license it.
- MS creates IE, and charges for it, but no one buys it because it sucked.
- MS, still wanting browser market share, starts giving away IE for free. People continue to use Netscape.
- MS bundles IE with Windows and forbids OEMs from adding an alternative browser. Some people switch to IE because it saves them the download step.
- MS creates Front Page, a WYSIWYG HTML editor which was bundled with Office, the already dominant office suite.
- MS creates IIS and ASP, technologies which only worked on Windows.
- With Java applets gaining popularity, MS makes applets created with Visual Studio only runnable on Windows.
- MS starts adding features to Front Page which make the generated HTML non standards-compliant, only viewable by IE and only servable by IIS.
- MS add features to Word to allow it to export to HTML which could only be viewed in IE.
- MS adds ActiveX control integration, making IE the only browser which supports it.
- MS muscles ISPs like Earthlink to place ActiveX controls on their main web pages so that they are only viewable by Windows machines running IE.
- People start switching to IE because Netscape doesn't render Front Page pages properly, so they think IE is a better browser.
- Netscape can't make any money and folds, opening the source to their browser, blaming MS's antitrust behavior for their demise.
- Netscape source code is picked up by the community, but can't support things like ActiveX due to wanting cross-platform feature parity.
- With Netscape dead and IE5/6 being used by nearly every web surfer on the planet, MS stops development on it, hindering web innovation.
As you can see, MS did a very good job of making sure that the web was only viewable by machines running IE on Windows and servable only by NT machines running IIS. That is what the antitrust suit was about, browser integration was just one key point in the whole mess.
That was just the browser side of things, they were also found guilty of using private, unpublished Windows APIs in Office so that it was impossible for a 3rd party software developer to compete at the same level as MS. This was why the original ruling was to split MS into an OS company and a software company.
Read http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm for full details.
But you still need IDDQD!
Nice rebuttal.
Trust me... A lot!
http://taxfoundation.org/blog/why-do-some-states-feast-federal-spending-not-others
As for your disillusioned Obama comment... He wants to make people pay their fair share of taxes while Romney wants the middle class to "distribute" their wealth up the chain so it lands in some dudes bank account, not helping the economy at all. Spending money helps the economy, hoarding it doesn't.
I can't find the article right now, but I read that even though they are making profits on the 360 now, MS will never recoup the R&D and per-sale losses from the first few years of the 360. The 720 (or whatever they call it) will be released before they can ever catch up, starting them back at square one again. I believe the whole idea of the Xbox is to keep the MS brand a household name.
So you wouldn't mind if I decide to carry a skunk and spray you every time you walked past me?
Smoking is of course fine in your own home, but in public places your right to smoke (should) end at my nose, hair, lung and clothes.
I'd much rather be standing next to a smoker on a packed subway car than a woman who has just doused herself in perfume. I move to ban that annoying smell too! Oh, and diesel fuel too... That exhaust is nasty!
I got a call from a guy from The Alien Touch with the same scam, in fact it sounded exactly the guy in the video, so I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't the same dude. I was only able to keep him on the phone for about 4.5 minutes when I finally told him I run Linux. He asked me "Then why the f* are you wasting my time?!?!" To which I replied, "Because you're a f*ing scam artist scumbag!" Then he hung up. The sad thing is that they have a Facebook page with 56 followers (victims, probably).
Agreed. Prison should only be used to keep violent people away from the rest of world. The only exception being if an offender repeatedly doesn't follow the rules of probation/house arrest/etc.
Absolutely! I'm going to go download the Linux kernel, make my own changes to it and distribute it without providing the source code! Screw Linus and his stupid copyright!
Most people don't realize how miniscule a GPS signal is by the time it reaches the ground. It is far below the noise floor and the receivers require a DSP chip to perform DSSM to pick out the actual signal. Having a high-power, possibly drifting signal that close will definitely cause problems.
Actually Europe had slower cell service because the EU mandated GSM.
Actually that is completely wrong, just look through the Akamai State of the Internet archives, or any other comparison online. When the fastest cellular bandwidth possible in the US was in the 256k range, many European cities had 1-2M. Things are changing now with LTE.
I don't see you can say that CDMA "won". GSM ruled the bandwidth wars over CDMA until the advent of HSPA+ and LTE. Yes, it was faster for a few years in the US, while European GSM networks were still outpacing us. The rest of the world uses GSM, and for the most part has higher mobile data rates than the US.
I do agree that GSM requires more towers for rural access, but that doesn't negate my argument about the consumer having to foot the bill to deploy numerous non-compatible technologies, it just means that standardizing on CDMA might have been cheaper in the long run.
... it's mathematically proven to *not* lose data.
I love git and use it on a daily basis, but you can't mathematically prove that it won't lose data. It is written by humans, and I have encountered bugs in it. You also still have to deal with manual merges, which are error prone. I've also had my local repo get in weird states that are very difficult to get out of. When this happens, I always copy out all my changes because I'm afraid of losing anything.
I used to use my PS3 for all my streaming from Netflix and PS3 Media Server, but all that ended when they started scanning for Cinavia. Now I use the WDTV Live and Plex Media Server. The WDTV interface isn't as nice or snappy as the PS3, but it certainly does the job.
I hereby predict that 2013 will be the Year of the Android Desktop!!!
And the deregulation of the telecom industry caused every cell provider to roll out their own infrastructure and not share technology standards (GSM, CDMA). This caused consumers to pay for redundant towers everywhere which is one of the reasons why most of Europe has faster and cheaper cell service than the US.
As soon as they start complaining that they can't be competitive with that restriction in place, some lobby-paid jerk will remove it.
I don't know what they are updating, but they certainly are not pushing signature updates 7-8 times a day. Not enough new threats come out every day to warrant that kind of update cycle.
FWIW, I don't even see an official product page for the "2013" version, which makes me think you might be running a trojan and the 2012 version only updates every few days, which is typical.
This exploit gains the privileges of the running user on Windows Vista and 7. The entire point of all the "allow/deny" popup BS with UAC was because they wanted to restrict processes to the lowest privilege necessary. IE is supposed to be a high-risk, sandboxed application and yet this exploit magically gets around it and gains access to the full user's account, which probably has admin rights on the machine. MS does not understand security. You don't start out by giving a user admin rights, you make them ask for it, a la 'sudo'. UAC starts out by keeping the user an administrator, and dropping the rights for new processes and trying to intercept when those processes need higher access so that the OS can display a verification prompt. Since Vista, this has been exploited over and over again. The only way to be safe under windows is to always use a low-priv account, and type in the full username/password of an administrator whenever the UAC prompt comes up, and that is a terrible user experience.
I'm sure once the anti-malware vendors update their signatures in a few days they will detect it, but for now its fair game. The problem with anti-malware/anti-virus software as that they are purely reactive, they really don't help much against zero-day attacks.
C# was designed to be a Java replacement and shared nearly identical syntax as well as utilizing the intermediate language VM and garbage collection. Although MS have added numerous language features over the years, it is absolutely not "completely different than Java."