Anyway, let's just wait until Microsoft releases some numbers before we go speculating too much, eh?
Or not. Microsoft never releases sales figures. They just say "greatest" or "best ever" or other fuzzy statements. Check the article on the Reg a couple of weeks ago about Gates' keynote speech and associated press releases that played fast and lose with the XP sales figures. Microsoft won't admit the thing isn't selling until they quietly stop making the things.
That's already been done, or is being done. Some Sean Connery movie is using clips from his old movies as source material to create new flashback scenes.
My guess is real, but with a hidden agenda. A quick search turns up the Pacific research Institute, a Libertarian think tank. So, they'd be against any form of government 'interference' and very pro-Microsoft in this instance.
Personally, I like Berke Breathed's take on libertarians, "I'd be a libertarian if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging winers."
The details of this story are staggering. Microsoft take days to look into the problem, threatens the discoverers in order to cover it up, blames the discoverers when it does hit the fan, and finally say that it will take weeks to produce a patch!
No wonder they want everything suppressed. They're hiding their own incompetance!
It's a problem with Internet Explorer version 5.5 or later.
Not necessarily. The Microsoft Security Bulletion states, "Previous versions are no longer supported, and may or may not be affected by these vulnerabilities."
So you're screwed if you upgrade, and you're screwed if you don't.
In a classic display of Microsoft pugnacity, the company hammered opposing government lawyers on nearly every conceivable point, no matter how small. Eventually exhaustion became a factor, lawyers on the government side acknowledge.
So let's make sure the state attorneys general keep their lawyers adequately supplied with No-Doze!
No, no, no; you've got to learn to read between the lines in these things. "Opportunities" means "un-tapped revenue streams". What Ballmer means is that they'll soon be selling 'Security Manager' to secure your IIS Server, and 'Virus Manager' to keep viruses off your IIS Server, and 'Licence Manager' to make sure your MS software is all properly licenced.
Now that makes sense. I post to a few other message boards running other code, and some of them let you edit your posts, and it does make for cleaner posts. None of them have a moderation system, however. Locking the post after child posts or moderation would make a lot of sense.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you. I had to register (on their website, not by email, I got that part wrong) and get the activation key emailed to me. I still have the archived email in case I want to re-install the thing, which I probably won't.
If the open editon of Kylix is *really* open they should just let you download it, not hassle you for your email address and other information. That just sucks.
Noticed that, huh? It gets worse; after you fill in all that stuff, download and install it, you have to email Borland for an 'activation key' before you can run it.
And, I went through the feature set and only one of the new features is available in the open verison.
I went through that crap once, but I won't bother going through it again. Borland are certainly going against the spirit of free software, if not the letter of the law.
'Cos Netflix has all the good anime on 'Long Wait'. That's why I order the boxed set of Bebop. CN has gotten better; now it's just an 'Adult Swim' bug, the rating bug is gone.
Citing your phrase "disentangle the browser from the OS"--I'll just note that I think it's interesting that other systems, notably KDE are doing the exact same thing--integrating the browser and OS. Konqueror is more than just a internet browser, it's a file browser, and so on. Should KDE be forced to disentanle their browser from KDE? heh, or should Mozilla be forced to disentangle the OS from the browser?;)
Oh, come on. You've either missed the point completely, or you're playing semantics. KDE is not an operating system; never labeled as such; never claimed to be. There is absolutely no issue at all with a multi-featured shell whem you have alternative shells. Don't like KDE? Use Gnome. Use bash, emacs, MC, and lynx. In the MS world, the shell is tied to the OS and the browser is tied to the shell. Or maybe 'bound'is a more accurate term.
I worked on a box that ran Windows for Pens. It was Win 3.11, IIRC, with some extra APIs grafted on. The machine itself was nothing special, a GRiD laptop with a pen attached. GRiD had been sold by that time, but I can't remember who bought it. The laptop was probably a 286, so you'd have to work to shoehorn Linux onto it.
I worked in a place that moved from Windows 3.11 to Windows NT (but they still thought 32-bit programs were 'a passing fad'). They locked down the registry so tight you couldn't connect to a network printer. I had local admin rights for myself and my development team, but they decided that that was 'insecure'and were going to change it, but I left before they implemented that stupid policy.
I use Yahoo mail as my filter account, and to get remote access to my POP3 account, so I wouldn't call it lame (the spam hell known as Hotmail is lame:), but I've sent Yahoo mail with Mozilla.9.4 and.9.5 without any problems. This is on W2K SP2, at work. I suspect your problem is somewhere else in your system, but I don't think it's with Mozilla or Yahoo.
Did you try a full un-install and re-install with the latest stable build?
I think that's a back-handed compliment. The animatronics at Disney had a reputation for fooling early visitors, some of them are quiet life-like. Check out the QuickTime videos on the Necoro site. The motions aren't perfect, but they're pretty cool. These things have come a long way from my 20-year-old Petster.
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Or not. Microsoft never releases sales figures. They just say "greatest" or "best ever" or other fuzzy statements. Check the article on the Reg a couple of weeks ago about Gates' keynote speech and associated press releases that played fast and lose with the XP sales figures. Microsoft won't admit the thing isn't selling until they quietly stop making the things.
Here's Yuki Terai's offical site. Not quite photo-realistic, but pretty good CG. Guys with a thing for little Japanese girls should love it.
No, fast internet access is like crack, once you're hooked, the withdrawl pains are brutal.
Interesting, but the 'Vault' page hasn't been updated in almost a year. I guess Microsoft doesn't think that buffer over-runs are a serious problem.
lets take old actors and digitize their youth.
That's already been done, or is being done. Some Sean Connery movie is using clips from his old movies as source material to create new flashback scenes.
My guess is real, but with a hidden agenda. A quick search turns up the Pacific research Institute, a Libertarian think tank. So, they'd be against any form of government 'interference' and very pro-Microsoft in this instance.
Personally, I like Berke Breathed's take on libertarians, "I'd be a libertarian if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging winers."
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The details of this story are staggering. Microsoft take days to look into the problem, threatens the discoverers in order to cover it up, blames the discoverers when it does hit the fan, and finally say that it will take weeks to produce a patch!
No wonder they want everything suppressed. They're hiding their own incompetance!
It's a problem with Internet Explorer version 5.5 or later.
Not necessarily. The Microsoft Security Bulletion states, "Previous versions are no longer supported, and may or may not be affected by these vulnerabilities."
So you're screwed if you upgrade, and you're screwed if you don't.
(Safly posted from Mozilla 0.9.5.)
From the MSNBC article:
In a classic display of Microsoft pugnacity, the company hammered opposing government lawyers on nearly every conceivable point, no matter how small. Eventually exhaustion became a factor, lawyers on the government side acknowledge.
So let's make sure the state attorneys general keep their lawyers adequately supplied with No-Doze!
+1 Funny.
I could hear the voice of the Tick as I read it.
But if George wears a blue suit, we might not be able to tell the difference.
But the Tick doesn't make up his own words. I guess that's it.
i.e. an american.
No, no, no; you've got to learn to read between the lines in these things. "Opportunities" means "un-tapped revenue streams". What Ballmer means is that they'll soon be selling 'Security Manager' to secure your IIS Server, and 'Virus Manager' to keep viruses off your IIS Server, and 'Licence Manager' to make sure your MS software is all properly licenced.
Now that makes sense. I post to a few other message boards running other code, and some of them let you edit your posts, and it does make for cleaner posts. None of them have a moderation system, however. Locking the post after child posts or moderation would make a lot of sense.
Regarding Office suites, there are several competitors on Windows, including Corel and Lotus.
Maybe on your planet, but here they're as much a competitor to Microsoft Office as Linux is as a desktop OS.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you. I had to register (on their website, not by email, I got that part wrong) and get the activation key emailed to me. I still have the archived email in case I want to re-install the thing, which I probably won't.
If the open editon of Kylix is *really* open they should just let you download it, not hassle you for your email address and other information. That just sucks.
Noticed that, huh? It gets worse; after you fill in all that stuff, download and install it, you have to email Borland for an 'activation key' before you can run it.
And, I went through the feature set and only one of the new features is available in the open verison.
I went through that crap once, but I won't bother going through it again. Borland are certainly going against the spirit of free software, if not the letter of the law.
'Cos Netflix has all the good anime on 'Long Wait'. That's why I order the boxed set of Bebop. CN has gotten better; now it's just an 'Adult Swim' bug, the rating bug is gone.
Citing your phrase "disentangle the browser from the OS"--I'll just note that I think it's interesting that other systems, notably KDE are doing the exact same thing--integrating the browser and OS. Konqueror is more than just a internet browser, it's a file browser, and so on. Should KDE be forced to disentanle their browser from KDE? heh, or should Mozilla be forced to disentangle the OS from the browser? ;)
Oh, come on. You've either missed the point completely, or you're playing semantics. KDE is not an operating system; never labeled as such; never claimed to be. There is absolutely no issue at all with a multi-featured shell whem you have alternative shells. Don't like KDE? Use Gnome. Use bash, emacs, MC, and lynx. In the MS world, the shell is tied to the OS and the browser is tied to the shell. Or maybe 'bound'is a more accurate term.
I worked on a box that ran Windows for Pens. It was Win 3.11, IIRC, with some extra APIs grafted on. The machine itself was nothing special, a GRiD laptop with a pen attached. GRiD had been sold by that time, but I can't remember who bought it. The laptop was probably a 286, so you'd have to work to shoehorn Linux onto it.
I worked in a place that moved from Windows 3.11 to Windows NT (but they still thought 32-bit programs were 'a passing fad'). They locked down the registry so tight you couldn't connect to a network printer. I had local admin rights for myself and my development team, but they decided that that was 'insecure'and were going to change it, but I left before they implemented that stupid policy.
"The Cobol of the 90s"
Crap! Ripped of again! I've been calling it that for five years.
I use Yahoo mail as my filter account, and to get remote access to my POP3 account, so I wouldn't call it lame (the spam hell known as Hotmail is lame:), but I've sent Yahoo mail with Mozilla .9.4 and .9.5 without any problems. This is on W2K SP2, at work. I suspect your problem is somewhere else in your system, but I don't think it's with Mozilla or Yahoo.
Did you try a full un-install and re-install with the latest stable build?
I think that's a back-handed compliment. The animatronics at Disney had a reputation for fooling early visitors, some of them are quiet life-like. Check out the QuickTime videos on the Necoro site. The motions aren't perfect, but they're pretty cool. These things have come a long way from my 20-year-old Petster.
No, but I remember the NeoGeo aracade box. Look what it did for NeoGeo (great hardware for the time, but...)