It's been FIVE YEARS since OS X was released, and it still has less than a 10% market share among personal computers. What hacker would develop spyware for such a tiny userbase?
Firefox, Linux, OS/2, Amiga, and CP/M are all spyware-free! Aren't you happy?
Microsoft also bundles Notepad with Windows. Are you saying that they should remove it because people are discouraged from downloading a competing editor?
Should I be forced to download my own image manipulation program because MS Paint is anti-competitive?
Should I have to go get a third-party calculator because Calculator discourages competition?
1. Provide download for Mac OS X 2. Require user to run installer to run program, as happens on occasion with Mac OS X software 3. Prompt user for their password in installer, as often happens with installers 4. Pollute user's Mac with spyware that phones home constantly over port 80 5. Profit!
I keep a small notebook next to me during the rare times when I watch live televisual programming. When I see a commercial advertisement, I open the notebook and remark on whether I thought the advertisement was of substantial quality. If it contributed positively to my televisual experience, I note the company's name and the qualities which I liked about the advertisement. If it detracted from my experience, I note the objectionable qualities instead.
Afterwards, I place my findings in an OpenOffice.org document on my Debian GNU/Linux-based Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" AMD Athlon computer workstation. I then utilize a StarBasic macro to dynamically transpose the content into an XHTML document whose DOM I manipulate with CSS and JavaScript using advanced AJAX techniques I learned; this document is then propagated through the blogosphere so that it attains sufficient impact and increases the televisual capacity of my fellow netizens.
If you have a working MythTV box, couldn't you just record the episode when it airs instead of paying $1 the next day to rent it? Then you can strip out the program to get to the commercials you want to see.
With the Comcast deal, you buy an episode for $0.99 and you can watch it as much as you want until the next episode airs, at which point it becomes inaccessible. This is the same VOD model they use for most of their programs: build in an expiration date, much like a video rental.
--- Original Message --- Quote: Name me one browser that can search all files, songs, web history, IM conversations, emails, etc on your desktop by typing in a single search word.
How the hell was that rampant fanboyism? I merely said that this is not a feature commonly found in Web Browsers (well, I eluded to that fact, which someone who is not completely retarded should have been able to figure out on their own). I never said Google Desktop was any better than MSN Search, Yahoo Desktop, Beagle, etc. I personally think they all suck, and don't use any of them.
And your example was terrible. Google Desktop also runs through a web browser (the sidebar can be shut right off, it is not needed), but neither MSN Search toolbar nor Google Desktop are browsers themselves. So, again, I'm asking which web browser contains this functionality (built-in, incase you missed that part).
Contract work is not subject to minimum wage laws because it is not paid on an hourly basis. If you as a contractor feel that the pay is not substantial, you have the right not to sign.
And in Windows Vista, you'll be able to search from any Explorer window. You can even save searches to special "search folders" to have access to them at any time. It is simply the most advanced feature of its kind available.
Ah, my mistake. Never mind about what you get for free.
I think you overestimate the expected market size of Xbox 360 Live. You can easily claim that Joe Sixpack doesn't have the broadband connection or the PC to play Worlds of Warcraft, but WoW is still chugging along and will make a ton of money. There are plenty of potential customers who can hook their broadband connection up to a game console. Wireless networking? Take a wardrive some time -- any populated area is swarming with $20 access points that couldn't all have been set up by "geeks."
When the Xbox 360 comes out, every 360 owner will have a "Silver" subscription to Live. Premium features like extra content will cost, but basic features like playing with your buddies on-line will come standard.
This article is pure speculation based on a domain name (googledvr.com) that Google doesn't even own! The article says that Google "might buy the domain" from its owner should Google want to start a DVR service. TiVo is becoming marginalized and plans to make its money from advertising technology-sharing agreements with cable companies and patent licensing.
180solutions is not a perpetrator and you can't implicate them in this scheme. If someone spray-painted "HAHA I RULE, SINCERELY, JOE SMITH 212-555-5555" on your house would you immediately call the cops asking that they arrest Joe Smith? Let's not forget what Joe Jobs are.
Now 180solutions could invoke the terms of their affiliate agreement and freeze payments to the scumbags that install this software on the sly. Of course that's no consolation to the consumer that gets stuck with that adware/spyware on his machine.
Forcibly installing 180solutions' software is no different legally than forcibly installing Firefox the next time someone visits your website with an unpatched version of IE. Both are immoral and should be illegal, but the software authors can't be faulted for producing software that may be installed without the user's consent by way of an IE vulnerability.
If you have Virtual PC installed (I have VPC6), then.exe files are associated with Virtual PC by default. You have to be VERY patient while Mac OS X boots VPC, VPC boots Windows, and Windows starts your rootkit, but it is possible to infect your virtual machines with just a few mouse clicks.
Fortunately, Mac OS X 10.4 broke the networking config in my virtual Windows instance, so the machine will be pretty safe from outside intrusion even after the rootkit is installed.:)
Bravo, bravo. Not even 100 comments on this article, and there's already ad hominem attacks on the author. Maybe you should start a blog called "Daniel Lyons Watch" and mock-reply to every one of his articles, USENET-style.
I don't know whose blogroll you have been reading, but I totally revised my codebase to be Web 2.0 compliant. Using the nightly I got from JSAN and the slick libs I grokked from bo.da.ci.o.us, I managed to monetize my refrigeratosphere and leverage my energies to totally upsell the mindstream. It even works with IE, but IE is such a POTASH that even MZS won't RFB it.
This morning I wholemilkified the cornflakesphere which I then consumified while reading the newspaperfile that was automagically papercasted onto my front lawn-site. Radical!
OpenOffice.org is based on StarOffice, which was available for Windows natively. The problem is similar to Mozilla: the application is not "native" to any one platform because it uses its own UI widgets, forms, and back-end data structure. It is no more a native Linux application than it is a "port."
Consider that OpenOffice.org is descended from StarOffice, a commercial application that literally tried to mimic every feature in Microsoft Office and did so quite poorly. Until the open source community, bound by no "roadmap" or "release schedule," can clean up OpenOffice.org's code, OpenOffice.org will be amazingly slow.
On Linux, it's the most feature-complete office suite around. On Windows or Mac, it's still too early to consider OpenOffice.org superior to the competition.
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It's been FIVE YEARS since OS X was released, and it still has less than a 10% market share among personal computers. What hacker would develop spyware for such a tiny userbase?
Firefox, Linux, OS/2, Amiga, and CP/M are all spyware-free! Aren't you happy?
Microsoft also bundles Notepad with Windows. Are you saying that they should remove it because people are discouraged from downloading a competing editor?
Should I be forced to download my own image manipulation program because MS Paint is anti-competitive?
Should I have to go get a third-party calculator because Calculator discourages competition?
etc., etc., etc.
1. Provide download for Mac OS X
2. Require user to run installer to run program, as happens on occasion with Mac OS X software
3. Prompt user for their password in installer, as often happens with installers
4. Pollute user's Mac with spyware that phones home constantly over port 80
5. Profit!
I keep a small notebook next to me during the rare times when I watch live televisual programming. When I see a commercial advertisement, I open the notebook and remark on whether I thought the advertisement was of substantial quality. If it contributed positively to my televisual experience, I note the company's name and the qualities which I liked about the advertisement. If it detracted from my experience, I note the objectionable qualities instead.
Afterwards, I place my findings in an OpenOffice.org document on my Debian GNU/Linux-based Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" AMD Athlon computer workstation. I then utilize a StarBasic macro to dynamically transpose the content into an XHTML document whose DOM I manipulate with CSS and JavaScript using advanced AJAX techniques I learned; this document is then propagated through the blogosphere so that it attains sufficient impact and increases the televisual capacity of my fellow netizens.
But that's just me.
Thank you for reminding me why I don't read Your Rights Online.
If you have a working MythTV box, couldn't you just record the episode when it airs instead of paying $1 the next day to rent it? Then you can strip out the program to get to the commercials you want to see.
With the Comcast deal, you buy an episode for $0.99 and you can watch it as much as you want until the next episode airs, at which point it becomes inaccessible. This is the same VOD model they use for most of their programs: build in an expiration date, much like a video rental.
Instead of "Google's announcement," you should have said "that blog post I read speculating about Google." They're not the same.
It is a knee-jerk reaction to Google DVR in the same way that My Yahoo! is a knee-jerk reaction to the personalized Google home page.
In other words, no.
oh sorry I misunderstood.
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Name me one browser that can search all files, songs, web history, IM conversations, emails, etc on your desktop by typing in a single search word.
How the hell was that rampant fanboyism? I merely said that this is not a feature commonly found in Web Browsers (well, I eluded to that fact, which someone who is not completely retarded should have been able to figure out on their own). I never said Google Desktop was any better than MSN Search, Yahoo Desktop, Beagle, etc. I personally think they all suck, and don't use any of them.
And your example was terrible. Google Desktop also runs through a web browser (the sidebar can be shut right off, it is not needed), but neither MSN Search toolbar nor Google Desktop are browsers themselves. So, again, I'm asking which web browser contains this functionality (built-in, incase you missed that part).
No, I just like answering rampant Google fanboyism with rampant Microsoft fanboyism to show just how silly rampant fanboyism really is. :)
Contract work is not subject to minimum wage laws because it is not paid on an hourly basis. If you as a contractor feel that the pay is not substantial, you have the right not to sign.
Why, Internet Explorer with the MSN Search Toolbar, of course!
And in Windows Vista, you'll be able to search from any Explorer window. You can even save searches to special "search folders" to have access to them at any time. It is simply the most advanced feature of its kind available.
To learn more about Windows Vista, simply google for Windows Vista on the all-new MSN Search.
Ah, my mistake. Never mind about what you get for free.
I think you overestimate the expected market size of Xbox 360 Live. You can easily claim that Joe Sixpack doesn't have the broadband connection or the PC to play Worlds of Warcraft, but WoW is still chugging along and will make a ton of money. There are plenty of potential customers who can hook their broadband connection up to a game console. Wireless networking? Take a wardrive some time -- any populated area is swarming with $20 access points that couldn't all have been set up by "geeks."
When the Xbox 360 comes out, every 360 owner will have a "Silver" subscription to Live. Premium features like extra content will cost, but basic features like playing with your buddies on-line will come standard.
This article is pure speculation based on a domain name (googledvr.com) that Google doesn't even own! The article says that Google "might buy the domain" from its owner should Google want to start a DVR service. TiVo is becoming marginalized and plans to make its money from advertising technology-sharing agreements with cable companies and patent licensing.
The article even mentions "GBrowser," which as we all know is Google's Master Plan to unseat the most popular web browser in the world, bar none.
Google also owns googleporn.com. Can we have an article about how they're about to put every porn site out of business?
180solutions is not a perpetrator and you can't implicate them in this scheme. If someone spray-painted "HAHA I RULE, SINCERELY, JOE SMITH 212-555-5555" on your house would you immediately call the cops asking that they arrest Joe Smith? Let's not forget what Joe Jobs are.
Now 180solutions could invoke the terms of their affiliate agreement and freeze payments to the scumbags that install this software on the sly. Of course that's no consolation to the consumer that gets stuck with that adware/spyware on his machine.
Forcibly installing 180solutions' software is no different legally than forcibly installing Firefox the next time someone visits your website with an unpatched version of IE. Both are immoral and should be illegal, but the software authors can't be faulted for producing software that may be installed without the user's consent by way of an IE vulnerability.
If you have Virtual PC installed (I have VPC6), then .exe files are associated with Virtual PC by default. You have to be VERY patient while Mac OS X boots VPC, VPC boots Windows, and Windows starts your rootkit, but it is possible to infect your virtual machines with just a few mouse clicks.
:)
Fortunately, Mac OS X 10.4 broke the networking config in my virtual Windows instance, so the machine will be pretty safe from outside intrusion even after the rootkit is installed.
So are blogs.
Bravo, bravo. Not even 100 comments on this article, and there's already ad hominem attacks on the author. Maybe you should start a blog called "Daniel Lyons Watch" and mock-reply to every one of his articles, USENET-style.
I don't know whose blogroll you have been reading, but I totally revised my codebase to be Web 2.0 compliant. Using the nightly I got from JSAN and the slick libs I grokked from bo.da.ci.o.us, I managed to monetize my refrigeratosphere and leverage my energies to totally upsell the mindstream. It even works with IE, but IE is such a POTASH that even MZS won't RFB it.
This morning I wholemilkified the cornflakesphere which I then consumified while reading the newspaperfile that was automagically papercasted onto my front lawn-site. Radical!
E-mail is so Web 1.0. What you need to do now is moblog some cameraphone photos to your Flickr account and then tag-cloud them on your delicious.
OpenOffice.org is based on StarOffice, which was available for Windows natively. The problem is similar to Mozilla: the application is not "native" to any one platform because it uses its own UI widgets, forms, and back-end data structure. It is no more a native Linux application than it is a "port."
Consider that OpenOffice.org is descended from StarOffice, a commercial application that literally tried to mimic every feature in Microsoft Office and did so quite poorly. Until the open source community, bound by no "roadmap" or "release schedule," can clean up OpenOffice.org's code, OpenOffice.org will be amazingly slow.
On Linux, it's the most feature-complete office suite around. On Windows or Mac, it's still too early to consider OpenOffice.org superior to the competition.