because only Longhorn and XP SP2 will be using IE 7.0, and the bulk of Windows users won't be using it.
If Microsoft was smart, they'd release IE 7.0 for Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0 and help fix the security issues the older versions of IE has with those platforms.
Yet in doing so, Microsoft is hoping to force upgrades to Longhorn or XP SP2, in order to use IE 7.0, and it may backfire on them. Not to mention more spyware and adware and trojan infections from older versions of IE not patched.
So Microsoft's only option for legacy users is to upgrade to a new OS, possibly buying newer hardware.
Yet Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, etc offer users the chance to use their old OS and switch to a new web browser.
Linux, *BSD, Darwin, etc offers users the chance to keep their hardware and solve security issues as well, but at the cost of running legacy Windows applications.
Apple does have that spiffy $499 Mac Mini, which users of older computer can upgrade to if they have a USB mouse and keyboard. That is yet another option.
It is not that I am worth half as much as the other person. It is that the other person just started, did not have 4 years of pay raises, and did not have the expererience, knowledge, or quality, or even management or leadership skills that I had which made me affordable for even twice or three times the price.
Sort of like a master chef being replaced by a burger flipper, because the burger flipper will work for half the salary. Which one would you trust to cook your stake the way you want it along with the rest of your meal?
So far, I have been told they went through a few people trying to get the quality and performance that I was able to offer. Some coworkers asked me to re-apply and join in and help them as they need help badly and I was always there to debug their programs. I guess my replacements have not been too helpful to the other developers, or released quality work?
Ah well, you get what you pay for. Now I can watch the fireworks happen from a safe distance. They had a 90% turn-a-round in 4 years in their IT department. They treat people badly, and always want to rush things.
When I had my salary, I was the highest paid programmer/analyst there, and they wanted to put a salary cap on the position. Only they could not as long as I still held the position. So I told them to promote me to Senior or Lead Programmer/Analyst, they promised they would, only they passed people over me who where not as qualified for the job as I was. I ended up fixing their mistakes a lot. Apparently the company promotes by incompetence?
Anyone remember that movie? They tried to give Apes human-like abilities by introducing human DNA into them. The Apes, therefore, were ape-human hybirds.
Now that the patent is denied, nobody will have any reason to make an Ape-Human hybrid that will ultimately take over planets and such in the future.
is that Microsoft will drop unprofitable products and services and try to take on new things like financial services and other things that are highly profitable and Microsoft's resources can better be used for.
Imagine Microsoft offering its own credit card, and loans, becoming yet another bank or lender or savings and loan. Perhaps get into the insurance business? Imagine a Microsoft supported IRA or some other thing?
Imagine Microsoft phasing off support for older versions of Internet Explorer and Windows. Imagine a lot of Microsoft games being phased out, possibly the unprofitable XBox kicking the bucket, or being sold to a different OEM. Maybe MSN will be sold off to AOL? MSNBC sold off to NBC.
After Longhorn ships, perhaps only Windows XP will be supported in legacy Windows platforms? All others will be phased out and updates no longer offered.
I imagine Microsoft will try to make some sort of licensing deal with governments to try and attack Open Source Software like SAMBA into paying Microsoft royalties for using MS technology or interfacing with MS Technology, as a final stab at OSS's back.
Imagine Microsoft can no longer sell or support Windows, so they develop a GUI on top of Unix/X that runs the Windows API as a commercial application. Then instead of spending a lot of money to support new hardware, they put the support on those Unix platforms and only provide the API to run Windows programs under Unix. Perhaps Microsoft combines Virtual PC with Windows in order to do this at first, and then makes the API layer to replace it?
Why don't the RIAA or MPAA just set up their own torrent site, and then capture information of people downloading from their site, and issue subpenas to them, and then say the RIAA or MPAA is trying to shut them down, ask for donations, and then put the threat on their torrent site that the only way not to get caught is to stop?
That way they can collect $40,000 from the BT community, and then turn around and sue everyone who donated or downloaded from the site.
Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coaltrain couldn't have set a better trap!;)
When last asked to profile account information on IP addresses used in song swapping, SBC refused to give them to the RIAA, citing user's rights to privacy. I doubt the MPAA will get any farther. SBC is merging with AT&T, so they are getting bigger and can drag out a legal battle with the MPAA until it is unprofitable for the MPAA to do so and the MPAA knows this.
Plus the MPAA said to stop pirating movies, and they will leave you alone. So chances are they are trying to scare people into not downloading or sharing movies anymore.
If the MPAA was smart, they would offer an online movie service for people to download a movie for a few dollars a movie and give them limited DRM to made 5 copies of the movie from a movie file. Sort of like iTunes does with music.
Imagine they have the software to download a virtual DVD file which can be played, or burned to a DVD-R for use with the buyer of said movie to play in a DVD player. They would need software with DRM capabilities, and also the ability to play DVD movie files, and burn DVD-R disks as well.
Statistics shows that the growth of Linux will reach a 30% marketshare by 2007, far exceeding that of the Macintosh. Since Microsoft develops software for the Macintosh, would it then be possible to develop software for Linux, clearing having the largest marketshare?
If the marketshare of Linux doubles every year, and many Linux users dual-boot both Windows and Linux, wouldn't it make sense to support Linux instead of bashing it? It would, after all, allow Microsoft to sell two copies of MS-Office, etc for both platforms.
downsize the IT managers who cannot say "No", as they are the ones that force IT departments to overwork themselves.
"Here are the projects I want you to work on."
"But these projects are commercially available for less money than our development costs to make them."
"I don't care, I made promises to other departments that we will do them."
"But it will take a staff of 200 to do these projects in 3 months. We only have 30. We will need more time."
"We don't have the budget for that, so everyone will be forced to work 80 hours a week with no overtime pay."
"In some cases we already have some of these software projects. Like Microsoft Outlook for scheduling and contact management, and Microsoft Project for Project Management."
"I want custom versions of those programs, because I promised them to the other departments."
"Well at least can we have a raise to compensate for all the overtime we will put into these projects?"
"No, in fact, I have to cut everyone's salary in order to help budget more money for marketing and executive pay raises."
Then the IT department has a 90% turnover rate for four years of this, and each IT employee that is fired or leaves ends up costing 150% of the annual salary for that position to replace, which adds more to the IT budget.
Then after being over-stressed, over-worked, and suriving 4 and a half years of this, I get really sick and end up being fired and replaced with someone willing to work for half of my salary.
I put a 1.44M floppy into the SE, but it only sees it as an 800K floppy. There is System 6 installed, but the bare minimum on the hard drive. No MS-DOS floppy translator/reader, no Stuffit, etc.
I have a SE/30 with the 1.44M floppy, but same situation, bare minimum Mac System 6.
I downloaded the System 7 disk images, but I have no way to create them from an XP Pro PC. Also I did find a Mac formatter, so it made Mac Formatted disks. When I downloaded Stuffit for MacOS, and copied it to a Mac formatted floppy, the Mac complained that the resource fork was missing. So the Stuffit self extracting archive cannot run. I have no idea how to add a resource fork to make it work. Most stuff I download for the MacOS is in that SIT format.
Both Macs have a BNC Ethernet card, but no driver is installed for them, so I cannot hook them up to my network.
I got them on eBay a long time ago. Some day I hope to get them to work.
can the ISP your IP is from, give the MPAA your personal information without a major lawsuit to do so?
Some ISPs pride themselves in keeping your personal information private, others just sell you out as soon as a subpeona is issued.
See, computers have a thing called a log file that keeps track of each IP it connects to. BT trackers keep track of the IP addresses that access them, BT web sites keep track of user registrations and IP addresses.
Usually they go after the big-time offenders, those sharing 10 to 15 movie files at once. The small-time offenders aren't worth bringing to court with who only share a few files at a time.
Besides, I heard a story about the RIAA accusing someone's grandmother using a Mac of being on the Kazaa network and sharing a ton of songs. The Mac cannot run Kazaa, and they obviously traced the wrong IP, or the right IP at the wrong time? Either that or she deleted her Virtual PC session that ran Kazaa and used the "Macintosh Defense" to get out of being sued.;)
so where are the applications that can take advantage of it?
Like the CAT-PC and Macintosh when they first came out, hardly any applications for them. At least Apple got Microsoft and a few others to write apps for the Macintosh, the CAT-PC ended up as a weird word processor.
they were in the past, yet the bridge of the Enterprise used in Enterprise looked better than the one used on TOS. Even the Kligons had better acting than the crew of the Enterprise.
Star Trek needs to get back to its roots, cheesy special effects, wooden acting, and hackneyed plots, like TOS had. Instead we have great special effects, bad acting, and plots with so many holes in them that they resemble Swiss Cheese. At least TNG and DS9 had better acting and plots. Voyager, was basically recycled "Lost in Space" stories using a Starfleet crew. Seven of Nine was the Robot, ah well, you figure out the rest.;)
Well then Microsoft releases IE features for Windows XP and not Windows 2000, and upgrades XP more than 2000, to try and force an upgrade to XP. Eventually software won't work in 2000 anymore, and people will be forced to upgrade or use older software that has exploits that are no longer fixed. This is how Microsoft killed off 95 and NT 4.0, and will eventually kill off 98, ME, and 2000. ME sort of killed itself off.;)
JVC was not the only company that made VHS players, and they got the MPAA to release movies on the VHS format more than the Betamax format. JVC licensed the VHS standard to others, something that got the VHS standard used over Betamax.
Well Microsoft used to break competitors programs with new releases of Windows, and they got away with that. Microsoft even scans to detect if the Windows key is a valid one now on their web site. If someone steals your key via Spyware, and publishes it on the Internet, your key just became invalid.
Sony did not learn their lesson from the Betamax, now did they? They repeated the mistake with the 8MM video tape machines. Also the Laser Discs, I think.
Rather than have a closed standard, use an opened one that other companies share, but make your product better quality and features.
Wasn't that what killed the Indrema Linux based video game console? They couldn't get any money from potential licenses and investors to finish the thing, and went bankrupt.
in theory we develop software, offer a "lite" version for free, maybe make it under an open source license. Make a "pro" version and charge money for registration, the "pro" version has more features than the "lite" version.
If the customer wants a customized version, we can offer services to customize the software for them, at so much per hour. If they want to customize it themselves, they can purchase a license to do so and release it from our license and develop their own version of it for their own personal use, in that case they are responsible for the maintenance and upgrades, and we can share code with them.
I am thinking of a BSD License to do this. The "lite" version being the core program, and the "pro" version having more bells and whistles, etc.
The "pro" version can be the COTS product, and the "lite" version can be the OSS product, and the customized version the custom software product.
Slashdot Mirror
because only Longhorn and XP SP2 will be using IE 7.0, and the bulk of Windows users won't be using it.
If Microsoft was smart, they'd release IE 7.0 for Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0 and help fix the security issues the older versions of IE has with those platforms.
Yet in doing so, Microsoft is hoping to force upgrades to Longhorn or XP SP2, in order to use IE 7.0, and it may backfire on them. Not to mention more spyware and adware and trojan infections from older versions of IE not patched.
So Microsoft's only option for legacy users is to upgrade to a new OS, possibly buying newer hardware.
Yet Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, etc offer users the chance to use their old OS and switch to a new web browser.
Linux, *BSD, Darwin, etc offers users the chance to keep their hardware and solve security issues as well, but at the cost of running legacy Windows applications.
Apple does have that spiffy $499 Mac Mini, which users of older computer can upgrade to if they have a USB mouse and keyboard. That is yet another option.
It is not that I am worth half as much as the other person. It is that the other person just started, did not have 4 years of pay raises, and did not have the expererience, knowledge, or quality, or even management or leadership skills that I had which made me affordable for even twice or three times the price.
Sort of like a master chef being replaced by a burger flipper, because the burger flipper will work for half the salary. Which one would you trust to cook your stake the way you want it along with the rest of your meal?
So far, I have been told they went through a few people trying to get the quality and performance that I was able to offer. Some coworkers asked me to re-apply and join in and help them as they need help badly and I was always there to debug their programs. I guess my replacements have not been too helpful to the other developers, or released quality work?
Ah well, you get what you pay for. Now I can watch the fireworks happen from a safe distance. They had a 90% turn-a-round in 4 years in their IT department. They treat people badly, and always want to rush things.
When I had my salary, I was the highest paid programmer/analyst there, and they wanted to put a salary cap on the position. Only they could not as long as I still held the position. So I told them to promote me to Senior or Lead Programmer/Analyst, they promised they would, only they passed people over me who where not as qualified for the job as I was. I ended up fixing their mistakes a lot. Apparently the company promotes by incompetence?
a law firm.
Anyone remember that movie? They tried to give Apes human-like abilities by introducing human DNA into them. The Apes, therefore, were ape-human hybirds.
Now that the patent is denied, nobody will have any reason to make an Ape-Human hybrid that will ultimately take over planets and such in the future.
is that Microsoft will drop unprofitable products and services and try to take on new things like financial services and other things that are highly profitable and Microsoft's resources can better be used for.
Imagine Microsoft offering its own credit card, and loans, becoming yet another bank or lender or savings and loan. Perhaps get into the insurance business? Imagine a Microsoft supported IRA or some other thing?
Imagine Microsoft phasing off support for older versions of Internet Explorer and Windows. Imagine a lot of Microsoft games being phased out, possibly the unprofitable XBox kicking the bucket, or being sold to a different OEM. Maybe MSN will be sold off to AOL? MSNBC sold off to NBC.
After Longhorn ships, perhaps only Windows XP will be supported in legacy Windows platforms? All others will be phased out and updates no longer offered.
I imagine Microsoft will try to make some sort of licensing deal with governments to try and attack Open Source Software like SAMBA into paying Microsoft royalties for using MS technology or interfacing with MS Technology, as a final stab at OSS's back.
Imagine Microsoft can no longer sell or support Windows, so they develop a GUI on top of Unix/X that runs the Windows API as a commercial application. Then instead of spending a lot of money to support new hardware, they put the support on those Unix platforms and only provide the API to run Windows programs under Unix. Perhaps Microsoft combines Virtual PC with Windows in order to do this at first, and then makes the API layer to replace it?
Take your pick. These may be the next targets of the MPAA or RIAA.
Why don't the RIAA or MPAA just set up their own torrent site, and then capture information of people downloading from their site, and issue subpenas to them, and then say the RIAA or MPAA is trying to shut them down, ask for donations, and then put the threat on their torrent site that the only way not to get caught is to stop?
;)
That way they can collect $40,000 from the BT community, and then turn around and sue everyone who donated or downloaded from the site.
Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coaltrain couldn't have set a better trap!
When last asked to profile account information on IP addresses used in song swapping, SBC refused to give them to the RIAA, citing user's rights to privacy. I doubt the MPAA will get any farther. SBC is merging with AT&T, so they are getting bigger and can drag out a legal battle with the MPAA until it is unprofitable for the MPAA to do so and the MPAA knows this.
Plus the MPAA said to stop pirating movies, and they will leave you alone. So chances are they are trying to scare people into not downloading or sharing movies anymore.
If the MPAA was smart, they would offer an online movie service for people to download a movie for a few dollars a movie and give them limited DRM to made 5 copies of the movie from a movie file. Sort of like iTunes does with music.
Imagine they have the software to download a virtual DVD file which can be played, or burned to a DVD-R for use with the buyer of said movie to play in a DVD player. They would need software with DRM capabilities, and also the ability to play DVD movie files, and burn DVD-R disks as well.
Statistics shows that the growth of Linux will reach a 30% marketshare by 2007, far exceeding that of the Macintosh. Since Microsoft develops software for the Macintosh, would it then be possible to develop software for Linux, clearing having the largest marketshare?
If the marketshare of Linux doubles every year, and many Linux users dual-boot both Windows and Linux, wouldn't it make sense to support Linux instead of bashing it? It would, after all, allow Microsoft to sell two copies of MS-Office, etc for both platforms.
You mean like this group? :)
downsize the IT managers who cannot say "No", as they are the ones that force IT departments to overwork themselves.
"Here are the projects I want you to work on."
"But these projects are commercially available for less money than our development costs to make them."
"I don't care, I made promises to other departments that we will do them."
"But it will take a staff of 200 to do these projects in 3 months. We only have 30. We will need more time."
"We don't have the budget for that, so everyone will be forced to work 80 hours a week with no overtime pay."
"In some cases we already have some of these software projects. Like Microsoft Outlook for scheduling and contact management, and Microsoft Project for Project Management."
"I want custom versions of those programs, because I promised them to the other departments."
"Well at least can we have a raise to compensate for all the overtime we will put into these projects?"
"No, in fact, I have to cut everyone's salary in order to help budget more money for marketing and executive pay raises."
Then the IT department has a 90% turnover rate for four years of this, and each IT employee that is fired or leaves ends up costing 150% of the annual salary for that position to replace, which adds more to the IT budget.
Then after being over-stressed, over-worked, and suriving 4 and a half years of this, I get really sick and end up being fired and replaced with someone willing to work for half of my salary.
I have two, a SE and a SE/30.
I put a 1.44M floppy into the SE, but it only sees it as an 800K floppy. There is System 6 installed, but the bare minimum on the hard drive. No MS-DOS floppy translator/reader, no Stuffit, etc.
I have a SE/30 with the 1.44M floppy, but same situation, bare minimum Mac System 6.
I downloaded the System 7 disk images, but I have no way to create them from an XP Pro PC. Also I did find a Mac formatter, so it made Mac Formatted disks. When I downloaded Stuffit for MacOS, and copied it to a Mac formatted floppy, the Mac complained that the resource fork was missing. So the Stuffit self extracting archive cannot run. I have no idea how to add a resource fork to make it work. Most stuff I download for the MacOS is in that SIT format.
Both Macs have a BNC Ethernet card, but no driver is installed for them, so I cannot hook them up to my network.
I got them on eBay a long time ago. Some day I hope to get them to work.
wake me up when there is actual news on the gaming consoles, and not rumors on some fanboy site.
can the ISP your IP is from, give the MPAA your personal information without a major lawsuit to do so?
;)
Some ISPs pride themselves in keeping your personal information private, others just sell you out as soon as a subpeona is issued.
See, computers have a thing called a log file that keeps track of each IP it connects to. BT trackers keep track of the IP addresses that access them, BT web sites keep track of user registrations and IP addresses.
Usually they go after the big-time offenders, those sharing 10 to 15 movie files at once. The small-time offenders aren't worth bringing to court with who only share a few files at a time.
Besides, I heard a story about the RIAA accusing someone's grandmother using a Mac of being on the Kazaa network and sharing a ton of songs. The Mac cannot run Kazaa, and they obviously traced the wrong IP, or the right IP at the wrong time? Either that or she deleted her Virtual PC session that ran Kazaa and used the "Macintosh Defense" to get out of being sued.
so where are the applications that can take advantage of it?
Like the CAT-PC and Macintosh when they first came out, hardly any applications for them. At least Apple got Microsoft and a few others to write apps for the Macintosh, the CAT-PC ended up as a weird word processor.
they were in the past, yet the bridge of the Enterprise used in Enterprise looked better than the one used on TOS. Even the Kligons had better acting than the crew of the Enterprise.
;)
Star Trek needs to get back to its roots, cheesy special effects, wooden acting, and hackneyed plots, like TOS had. Instead we have great special effects, bad acting, and plots with so many holes in them that they resemble Swiss Cheese. At least TNG and DS9 had better acting and plots. Voyager, was basically recycled "Lost in Space" stories using a Starfleet crew. Seven of Nine was the Robot, ah well, you figure out the rest.
Well then Microsoft releases IE features for Windows XP and not Windows 2000, and upgrades XP more than 2000, to try and force an upgrade to XP. Eventually software won't work in 2000 anymore, and people will be forced to upgrade or use older software that has exploits that are no longer fixed. This is how Microsoft killed off 95 and NT 4.0, and will eventually kill off 98, ME, and 2000. ME sort of killed itself off. ;)
Manyard thanks! ;)
5 minutes to download via BT verses a mirror that has been Slashdotted.
JVC was not the only company that made VHS players, and they got the MPAA to release movies on the VHS format more than the Betamax format. JVC licensed the VHS standard to others, something that got the VHS standard used over Betamax.
It is really simple:
#1 Phase out support for older MS-Office versions.
#2 Require that new MS-Office only run on the latest version of Windows.
#3 Suggest that consumers upgrade to the latest hardware to run the latest Windows and MS-Office.
#4 Collect the revenues.
#5 In two years or so, repeat the process, but add more features to MS-Office so it requires the latest Hardware and Windows to run.
#6 Sit back and collect the profit.
Well Microsoft used to break competitors programs with new releases of Windows, and they got away with that. Microsoft even scans to detect if the Windows key is a valid one now on their web site. If someone steals your key via Spyware, and publishes it on the Internet, your key just became invalid.
Sony did not learn their lesson from the Betamax, now did they? They repeated the mistake with the 8MM video tape machines. Also the Laser Discs, I think.
Rather than have a closed standard, use an opened one that other companies share, but make your product better quality and features.
Wasn't that what killed the Indrema Linux based video game console? They couldn't get any money from potential licenses and investors to finish the thing, and went bankrupt.
in theory we develop software, offer a "lite" version for free, maybe make it under an open source license. Make a "pro" version and charge money for registration, the "pro" version has more features than the "lite" version.
If the customer wants a customized version, we can offer services to customize the software for them, at so much per hour. If they want to customize it themselves, they can purchase a license to do so and release it from our license and develop their own version of it for their own personal use, in that case they are responsible for the maintenance and upgrades, and we can share code with them.
I am thinking of a BSD License to do this. The "lite" version being the core program, and the "pro" version having more bells and whistles, etc.
The "pro" version can be the COTS product, and the "lite" version can be the OSS product, and the customized version the custom software product.