But I've found the number of places where something I WANT to see is not in Flash,
Try using and encouraging use of real formats then. Many sites do offer at least MPEG as an option, but it may be slightly hidden.
Flash is pushed very hard by Adobe and a few known-nothing posers. That push adds up. If you want to see a return of regular video formats, then you'll have to be part of the push to keep them.
That means when you have a choice between sending around a Quicktime/MPEG/Vorbis link or a Flash link, don't send the link to the Flash encrusted video, send the link to the Quicktime/MPEG/Vorbis version. Same for Dirac or VP8.
That also means when you have a choice between sending around a link to a site, and you have a choice of sites, send the link to the site using Quicktime/MPEG/Vorbis/Dirac/VP8.
Another point to keep in mind is that Quicktime and MPEG run on all systems. Flash does not. If you want to keep your options open, then avoid Flash. Don't even start on the security problems inherent in Flash, it's comparable to products from M$. Using MPEG or Quicktime at least gives you a fighting chance of keeping the machine clean.
Slashdot just became a place for delusional conspiracy theorists.
Nah. That's just Microsoft's outsourced marketeering making its presence known here. They have to throw as many nails in the road in from of Oracl as possible, because Sun's OpenSolaris, Sparc servers, Java, and OpenOffice.org are just the ammo needed to put Microsoft down for good. Sun was in bad shape before Schwartz turned it around, but the timing was unlucky with the economic depression still continuing. Oracle is in a strong position despite the depression.
We may soon need similar lessons here in the UK when we want to access those filtered sites suspected of potentially hosting copyrighted material. Damn, that sounds sad.
Hate to break it to you but most web sites you could ever even think of accessing will be hosting copyrighted material. That's right not just potentially hosting copyrighted material but actually hanging up copyrighted material for anyone to download.
To avoid getting copyrighted material, you'd have to find a country that did not sign the Berne Convention treaty, but even then the material might be under copyright. Alternately, even the countries in the Berne Convention treaty might have material online that has been made Public Domain either because the copyright expire or the rights holder (not the creator) put it into the public domain. Even then you'll have to download (and read) pages of copyrighted information to get at the PD stuff.
Alternately you can just download as much copyrighted material as you want. Try starting from these sites:
Try and get air time. You can't. That's control of the delivery channels. When Prince broke with the labels, he disappeared, no air time. The labels need a monopoly on the delivery channels to prevent real music. The way the media shutdown Dixie Chix over politics is a lesson in both the level of control and of the political nature of today's media.
A new paragraph or sentence would make clear that the RIAA / MPAA whine about reviews is a separate item.
Unfortunately I do not agree with the whole 'legalise non-commercial sharing' aspect, so the Pirate Party remains one I cannot support.
Then go take a lesson in economics from the Grateful Dead, which were among the top-grossing bands in North America for many years -- inspite of the RIAA and ClearChannel strangle hold on the radio market. It's all about business model. If your business model is to shovel shit, then of course artificial scarcity is needed, along with a monopoly on delivery channels and prevention of SMS'ing or tweeting bad reviews.
China holds about 23% of the US Treasury securities. Whether that means that China owns the US or if the US owns China that remains to be seen. In the corporate world, 8% is usually considered controlling shares. China has that three times over. So it is up to how much they are willing to lose.
Another player is Gates or the whole Bill Gates Movement. China, Israel and others are probably playing him like a jig doll against the US. For them, the longer run the Gates Party has, the more it tears down the industrial and academic capacity in the US. The former is short term strength, the latter longer term and its loss hurts more. The US doesn't manufacture much now, not for about a whole generation. The same is happening to research and advanced education, especially in regards to ICT. You get once famous, high tech universities that can't even scrape up the skill in house among its student body to manage even a simple web site, groupware service or authentication system. Instead, brushing the loss under the rug by outsourcing while the faculty spend their time in useless meetings and clicking Windows Widgets.
In other news, the dollar has dropped in value on the exchange market and foreign providers have been forced to double their prices to make up the difference.
A lot of monied families got where they are through scams, usually made possible through more family money or connections. One that we are still seeing the political aftershocks of is the Teapot Dome Scandal. It started out as bribery in the 1920's and leaves us today in the Middle East.
Well, it caused a larger zone of serious radiation spread than the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did. Some of the tests in the pacific, Australia, and continental US contaminated very large areas but like the nuclear bombings it is mostly light isotopes that decayed very quickly. The nuclear bombings of Japan, or some other incident, might have been a more serious nuclear disaster (at least for the Japanese) but I would give Chernobyl the credit as largest.
Nagasaki+Hiroshima get a lot of press because they were intentional and we learned much of what we known of the harmful effects of radiation from it. That was not understood at the time, that's something we have in hindsight. For example, there was a lot of direct viewing of tests for many years.
Another big disaster is the collective effect of all the cores the Brits and others have dumped in the ocean just upstream from Norway. The gulf stream takes the radioisotopes, like Technium, up to Norway for it to enter the food chain and concentrate in birds which then squirt it out over the land by the metric tonne during nesting season. That latter disaster is still ongoing and growing as the cores fall apart.
It looks like the article is downplaying the extent of the Chernobyl disaster. Don't forget that it was radiation detectors at nuclear plants in Sweden, four or five countries away, that sounded the alarm. Levels there were high enough to trigger a response to a possible leak. The puzzle started when it was found that it was the workers coming into the plant on a shift change that were hot, but the ones leaving were not.
Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland and Norway were some of the countries in the fallout zone.
People traveling or otherwise active out of doors on those days were heavily exposed to the fallout. The isotopes and amount are known and enough time has passed that there should be indications of the effect on the population. All livestock and the fodder upon which they graze got it too, so that the meat from at least some of those regions was banned in other regions for years.
Right now the core is still smoldering hot and needs constant maintenance to prevent picking up where it left off. The core is so hot that RPV's die in a matter of minutes and the pictures they send are grainy. It's rather disturbing to see frozen waterfalls of slag and rock that where molten and flowing at the peak.
So yeah, Chernobyl is not just the largest nuclear disaster, it's still an active disaster.
Then what do you call it when people buy apps that serve no money-making purpose for the end user for their phones and other devices?
Usually it is called
stupid. (Re-)read my previous comment. You will find in absolute numbers many such stupid practices. However, in terms of percentage of the GDP in any given country, it is insignificant enough to be inappropriate to bring up.
Most software is written by companies and agencies as a means to an end. Some write FOSS. Some build upon FOSS and even return improvements back to the FOSS community. These companies use software to make their money. The list goes on and together they make up the GDP. Talk of use of software will tread on Microsofter's toes, because it will lead to talk of benchmarking and suitability. It will also lead to talk about who software patents are a threat to, the end-user.
Talk of 'buying' software or renting software by 'buying' licenses is 1980's talk. Stop yapping about business models that 'sell' licenses and let that meme die.
Those examples support the point I made that software is a means to the end and that 'selling' it is largely irrelevant to the GDP.
Apple sells hardware with software as an enabler, some nasty blobs on top of FOSS. The music and games industries sell data, not software. So let that meme about 'selling' software die. It's done. Stick a fork in it.
No one 'buys' software or 'licenses', that's 1980's talk. Software is a tool that you download to get your real money-making work done.
Lots of companies make money by selling us a "license" to use the products they provide, rather than letting us buy the product itself. It's becoming more common, so apparently, someone out there has found a "better way for a company to make money than by having people pay them for a product".
Ok, you guessed wrong.
Sure, Google, Volkswagen, Boeing, 7-Eleven, Ace Hardware, Sherwin-Williams, and countless others write or customize software. Some even return improvements back to the FOSS community. However, these companies use software to make their money. The list goes on and together they make up the GDP.
Lots of companies, perhaps in absolute numbers 'sell' software. But compared to the companies that make their money in other ways, those that sell a license are functionally zero percent of any county's GDP. So stop yapping about business models that 'sell' licenses and let that meme die.
Then you should stop being a coder. Anyway, if you are running Windows you can't be a contributor. Windows and coding
So my question is: Is firewall and anti-virus really not that effective and if so how do bots get around firewall and anti-virus?
Go read what a firewall does. The real name is packet filter
You set up a firewall. You allow MSIE out. MSIE goes out and brings back Windows malware.
You set up a firewall. You allow MS Outlook. Outlook gets a mail with malware and installs it.
As far as AVS goes, it's reactive and can never catch up. The very principles on which the AVS is designed means it will always be 2 or more steps behind. Go read about the propagation of Windows malware, especially the rate of spread. Then go look at how 'fast' the AVS companies roll out a new update. Then go look how many weeks or months it takes M$ to patch -- usually they don't patch, but instead tie the patch to an upgrade, bundling in new bugs or licensing or other changes.
Yeah, it was so they could stab IBM in the back by saying they were going to help with OS/2, but then
secretly using resources for W95 instead. That left IBM with a few weeks to launch of OS/2 but with none of the applications Microsoft had promised to deliver. It also left IBM with a bunch of code that was mixed thoroughly with code copyrighted by Microsoft, which had no intention of doing other than further damage to OS/2.
Clever, unethical, and dishonest as hell. MS DOS was meant to be replaced by OS/2. Bill Gates said in 1998, "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs." He even went as far as signing an agreement to provide applications for OS/2. When he reneged, OS/2 was obviously without apps, and who would know better than Microsofters about that?
Being friends with Microsofters is worse than pointless because they smile in your
face and then stab you in the back. There is no way any Microsoft apologist can be a beneficial business partner or employee.
Nope, it's not even a 1% drop. It's a 0% drop in marketshare, on Windows machines. MSIE still is getting on 100% of Windows machines sold in Europe (or elsewhere) despite the 'browser ballot' Yep,that's 100%. Even though the antitrust complaint found that Microsoft was hurting Europe by using it monopoly on desktop OEMs and illegal tying to establish and maintain a monopoly on web browsers the remedy does not include addressing the original complaint.
The browser 'ballot' does not make any kind of remedy, not even a little, involving removal of MSIE from the desktop monopoly. MSIE is still bundled on Windows, even if you install Chromium, Firefox or one of the other extras. So, if you are a big enough asshole to still run Windows, your choices go like this
The illegal tying is still happening, and each and every instance of MS Windows makes the problem worse. Firefox ran a campaign a few years ago, "take back the web". To do that, MSIE has to go. To get rid of MSIE, Windows has to go. Germany, France and others have advocated dropping the problem. If every country made a push to get Windows off their networks, both public and private, billions would be save each quarter by avoiding the malware that is part and parcel of the Windows experience.
...so when given a choice, people sometimes choose different browsers? This is news? This sounds like the argument
Actually, the case was "United States v. Microsoft", which means that it was the government of the United States of America coming down on his Billness for actively and maliciously going out of his way to screw up the market.
Again, the browser ballot does not make any kind of remedy, not even a little, against the original complaint in the EU. MSIE is still bundled on Windows and even if you install Chromium or Firefox, MSIE is still there making botnets. Many regions have good environmental regulations and are able to prevent pollution. Windows can be treated the same way.
So far, MSIE still is getting on 100% despite the 'browser ballot' Yep. Even though the antitrust complaint found that Microsoft was hurting Europe by using it monopoly on desktop OEMs and illegal tying to establish and maintain a monopoly on web browsers.
The illegal tying is still happening, and each and every instance of MS Windows makes the problem worse. Firefox ran a campaign a few years ago, "take back the web". To do that, MSIE has to go. To get rid of MSIE, Windows has to go. Germany, France and others have advocated dropping the problem. If every country made a push to get Windows off their networks, both public and private, billions would be save each quarter by avoiding the malware that is part and parcel of the Windows experience.
You run it by getting set up with Lazarus. There is also Free Pascal for you. Both have good Delphi capabilities. GPC has merits, too. So you do have options if you were working on an electronic health records system.
Someone has to "save your nation", in both senses. Why not you? Follow the Good $RANDOMCOLORGROUP Road with your hands, not just your pie hole.
C'mon. The jackass is hired to be Microsoft's number on apologist. His office can now be abused to cover the situation up. If he admitted to the cyberwar that has been going for two years at least, then he'd open the door to an investigation of the situation the US finds itself in and how it got there. He and the other Microsoft party members would find themselves in very hot water, fast.
It's only a war if it's possible to fight back. The US is permeated with Windows, which is a system designed to be taken over back door or outright bad design security hole. There's no reason why any Microsofter, from your average asshole MCSE on up to the party chairman Bill Gates should be walking free. It's one thing for them to be racketeering and destroying the US' ability to compete in research or industry. It's an entirely additional problem once it affects national defense and standing. From Bill's party, we've already had a sampler of navy ships dead in the water, power blackouts, disaster recovery clusterfucks, air traffic outages, and many hundreds of billions of malware damage.
Making money isn't "criminal" and I, for one, hope it never will be.
--
I've just had an epiphany.
Close. Think theological or ethical rather than legal. See Caritas in Veritate on 5.) causing poverty and 6.) becoming obscenely wealthy. There are also a lot of chemicals in creating hardware components that can mutate DNA and / or act as gender hormone mimics...
His whole adult life, after failing out of college, has been in pursuit of the modern sin accumulating excessive wealth at the expense of the common good of society. The current Pope made that clear in last year's Caritas in veritate. Even the media pandering with the pseudo-philantropy does nothing to mitigate the harm. That may fool the media hacks owned by him and his political friends but at the end of the day the pseudo-philantropy is simply using the fascade of charity to further personal investments and provide political leverage to increase power and block opponents.
Looking at the bullshitter's past history you can see that he's one of the key people who fucked over Novell from the inside. It would be hard to find a more inappropriate choice that Jaffe. He is a software patent booster, Microsoft apologist, and long time opponent of Free Software.
Nothing good has ever come from relations with Microsoft, neither for their partners, nor their consumers. Having Microsoft's Jaffe in the W3C at the same time as having Micrtosoft's Assay in Ubuntu will make the quality of computing suffer along with the price, flexibility and freedom.
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But I've found the number of places where something I WANT to see is not in Flash,
Try using and encouraging use of real formats then. Many sites do offer at least MPEG as an option, but it may be slightly hidden.
Flash is pushed very hard by Adobe and a few known-nothing posers. That push adds up. If you want to see a return of regular video formats, then you'll have to be part of the push to keep them.
That means when you have a choice between sending around a Quicktime/MPEG/Vorbis link or a Flash link, don't send the link to the Flash encrusted video, send the link to the Quicktime/MPEG/Vorbis version. Same for Dirac or VP8.
That also means when you have a choice between sending around a link to a site, and you have a choice of sites, send the link to the site using Quicktime/MPEG/Vorbis/Dirac/VP8.
Another point to keep in mind is that Quicktime and MPEG run on all systems. Flash does not. If you want to keep your options open, then avoid Flash. Don't even start on the security problems inherent in Flash, it's comparable to products from M$. Using MPEG or Quicktime at least gives you a fighting chance of keeping the machine clean.
Agreed. Atom is not appropriate for mobile devices like WePad. This really calls for ARM.
Slashdot just became a place for delusional conspiracy theorists.
Nah. That's just Microsoft's outsourced marketeering making its presence known here. They have to throw as many nails in the road in from of Oracl as possible, because Sun's OpenSolaris, Sparc servers, Java, and OpenOffice.org are just the ammo needed to put Microsoft down for good. Sun was in bad shape before Schwartz turned it around, but the timing was unlucky with the economic depression still continuing. Oracle is in a strong position despite the depression.
We may soon need similar lessons here in the UK when we want to access those filtered sites suspected of potentially hosting copyrighted material. Damn, that sounds sad.
Hate to break it to you but most web sites you could ever even think of accessing will be hosting copyrighted material. That's right not just potentially hosting copyrighted material but actually hanging up copyrighted material for anyone to download.
To avoid getting copyrighted material, you'd have to find a country that did not sign the Berne Convention treaty, but even then the material might be under copyright. Alternately, even the countries in the Berne Convention treaty might have material online that has been made Public Domain either because the copyright expire or the rights holder (not the creator) put it into the public domain. Even then you'll have to download (and read) pages of copyrighted information to get at the PD stuff.
Alternately you can just download as much copyrighted material as you want. Try starting from these sites:
And remember, there's more where that came from.
Try and get air time. You can't. That's control of the delivery channels. When Prince broke with the labels, he disappeared, no air time. The labels need a monopoly on the delivery channels to prevent real music. The way the media shutdown Dixie Chix over politics is a lesson in both the level of control and of the political nature of today's media.
A new paragraph or sentence would make clear that the RIAA / MPAA whine about reviews is a separate item.
Unfortunately I do not agree with the whole 'legalise non-commercial sharing' aspect, so the Pirate Party remains one I cannot support.
Then go take a lesson in economics from the Grateful Dead, which were among the top-grossing bands in North America for many years -- inspite of the RIAA and ClearChannel strangle hold on the radio market. It's all about business model. If your business model is to shovel shit, then of course artificial scarcity is needed, along with a monopoly on delivery channels and prevention of SMS'ing or tweeting bad reviews.
China holds about 23% of the US Treasury securities. Whether that means that China owns the US or if the US owns China that remains to be seen. In the corporate world, 8% is usually considered controlling shares. China has that three times over. So it is up to how much they are willing to lose.
Another player is Gates or the whole Bill Gates Movement. China, Israel and others are probably playing him like a jig doll against the US. For them, the longer run the Gates Party has, the more it tears down the industrial and academic capacity in the US. The former is short term strength, the latter longer term and its loss hurts more. The US doesn't manufacture much now, not for about a whole generation. The same is happening to research and advanced education, especially in regards to ICT. You get once famous, high tech universities that can't even scrape up the skill in house among its student body to manage even a simple web site, groupware service or authentication system. Instead, brushing the loss under the rug by outsourcing while the faculty spend their time in useless meetings and clicking Windows Widgets.
In other news, the dollar has dropped in value on the exchange market and foreign providers have been forced to double their prices to make up the difference.
A lot of monied families got where they are through scams, usually made possible through more family money or connections. One that we are still seeing the political aftershocks of is the Teapot Dome Scandal. It started out as bribery in the 1920's and leaves us today in the Middle East.
Well, it caused a larger zone of serious radiation spread than the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did. Some of the tests in the pacific, Australia, and continental US contaminated very large areas but like the nuclear bombings it is mostly light isotopes that decayed very quickly. The nuclear bombings of Japan, or some other incident, might have been a more serious nuclear disaster (at least for the Japanese) but I would give Chernobyl the credit as largest.
Nagasaki+Hiroshima get a lot of press because they were intentional and we learned much of what we known of the harmful effects of radiation from it. That was not understood at the time, that's something we have in hindsight. For example, there was a lot of direct viewing of tests for many years.
Another big disaster is the collective effect of all the cores the Brits and others have dumped in the ocean just upstream from Norway. The gulf stream takes the radioisotopes, like Technium, up to Norway for it to enter the food chain and concentrate in birds which then squirt it out over the land by the metric tonne during nesting season. That latter disaster is still ongoing and growing as the cores fall apart.
It looks like the article is downplaying the extent of the Chernobyl disaster. Don't forget that it was radiation detectors at nuclear plants in Sweden, four or five countries away, that sounded the alarm. Levels there were high enough to trigger a response to a possible leak. The puzzle started when it was found that it was the workers coming into the plant on a shift change that were hot, but the ones leaving were not.
Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland and Norway were some of the countries in the fallout zone. People traveling or otherwise active out of doors on those days were heavily exposed to the fallout. The isotopes and amount are known and enough time has passed that there should be indications of the effect on the population. All livestock and the fodder upon which they graze got it too, so that the meat from at least some of those regions was banned in other regions for years.
Right now the core is still smoldering hot and needs constant maintenance to prevent picking up where it left off. The core is so hot that RPV's die in a matter of minutes and the pictures they send are grainy. It's rather disturbing to see frozen waterfalls of slag and rock that where molten and flowing at the peak.
So yeah, Chernobyl is not just the largest nuclear disaster, it's still an active disaster.
Then what do you call it when people buy apps that serve no money-making purpose for the end user for their phones and other devices?
Usually it is called stupid. (Re-)read my previous comment. You will find in absolute numbers many such stupid practices. However, in terms of percentage of the GDP in any given country, it is insignificant enough to be inappropriate to bring up.
Most software is written by companies and agencies as a means to an end. Some write FOSS. Some build upon FOSS and even return improvements back to the FOSS community. These companies use software to make their money. The list goes on and together they make up the GDP. Talk of use of software will tread on Microsofter's toes, because it will lead to talk of benchmarking and suitability. It will also lead to talk about who software patents are a threat to, the end-user.
Talk of 'buying' software or renting software by 'buying' licenses is 1980's talk. Stop yapping about business models that 'sell' licenses and let that meme die.
Those examples support the point I made that software is a means to the end and that 'selling' it is largely irrelevant to the GDP.
Apple sells hardware with software as an enabler, some nasty blobs on top of FOSS. The music and games industries sell data, not software. So let that meme about 'selling' software die. It's done. Stick a fork in it.
No one 'buys' software or 'licenses', that's 1980's talk. Software is a tool that you download to get your real money-making work done.
Lots of companies make money by selling us a "license" to use the products they provide, rather than letting us buy the product itself. It's becoming more common, so apparently, someone out there has found a "better way for a company to make money than by having people pay them for a product".
Ok, you guessed wrong.
Sure, Google, Volkswagen, Boeing, 7-Eleven, Ace Hardware, Sherwin-Williams, and countless others write or customize software. Some even return improvements back to the FOSS community. However, these companies use software to make their money. The list goes on and together they make up the GDP.
Lots of companies, perhaps in absolute numbers 'sell' software. But compared to the companies that make their money in other ways, those that sell a license are functionally zero percent of any county's GDP. So stop yapping about business models that 'sell' licenses and let that meme die.
Then you should stop being a coder. Anyway, if you are running Windows you can't be a contributor. Windows and coding
So my question is: Is firewall and anti-virus really not that effective and if so how do bots get around firewall and anti-virus?
Go read what a firewall does. The real name is packet filter
As far as AVS goes, it's reactive and can never catch up. The very principles on which the AVS is designed means it will always be 2 or more steps behind. Go read about the propagation of Windows malware, especially the rate of spread. Then go look at how 'fast' the AVS companies roll out a new update. Then go look how many weeks or months it takes M$ to patch -- usually they don't patch, but instead tie the patch to an upgrade, bundling in new bugs or licensing or other changes.
There was a reason Microsoft withdrawed from OS/2
Yeah, it was so they could stab IBM in the back by saying they were going to help with OS/2, but then secretly using resources for W95 instead. That left IBM with a few weeks to launch of OS/2 but with none of the applications Microsoft had promised to deliver. It also left IBM with a bunch of code that was mixed thoroughly with code copyrighted by Microsoft, which had no intention of doing other than further damage to OS/2.
Clever, unethical, and dishonest as hell. MS DOS was meant to be replaced by OS/2. Bill Gates said in 1998, "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs." He even went as far as signing an agreement to provide applications for OS/2. When he reneged, OS/2 was obviously without apps, and who would know better than Microsofters about that?
Being friends with Microsofters is worse than pointless because they smile in your face and then stab you in the back. There is no way any Microsoft apologist can be a beneficial business partner or employee.
1% drop? That's all?
Nope, it's not even a 1% drop. It's a 0% drop in marketshare, on Windows machines. MSIE still is getting on 100% of Windows machines sold in Europe (or elsewhere) despite the 'browser ballot' Yep ,that's 100%. Even though the antitrust complaint found that Microsoft was hurting Europe by using it monopoly on desktop OEMs and illegal tying to establish and maintain a monopoly on web browsers the remedy does not include addressing the original complaint.
The browser 'ballot' does not make any kind of remedy, not even a little, involving removal of MSIE from the desktop monopoly. MSIE is still bundled on Windows, even if you install Chromium, Firefox or one of the other extras. So, if you are a big enough asshole to still run Windows, your choices go like this
The illegal tying is still happening, and each and every instance of MS Windows makes the problem worse. Firefox ran a campaign a few years ago, "take back the web". To do that, MSIE has to go. To get rid of MSIE, Windows has to go. Germany, France and others have advocated dropping the problem. If every country made a push to get Windows off their networks, both public and private, billions would be save each quarter by avoiding the malware that is part and parcel of the Windows experience.
...so when given a choice, people sometimes choose different browsers? This is news? This sounds like the argument
Actually, the case was "United States v. Microsoft", which means that it was the government of the United States of America coming down on his Billness for actively and maliciously going out of his way to screw up the market.
Again, the browser ballot does not make any kind of remedy, not even a little, against the original complaint in the EU. MSIE is still bundled on Windows and even if you install Chromium or Firefox, MSIE is still there making botnets. Many regions have good environmental regulations and are able to prevent pollution. Windows can be treated the same way.
So far, MSIE still is getting on 100% despite the 'browser ballot' Yep. Even though the antitrust complaint found that Microsoft was hurting Europe by using it monopoly on desktop OEMs and illegal tying to establish and maintain a monopoly on web browsers.
The illegal tying is still happening, and each and every instance of MS Windows makes the problem worse. Firefox ran a campaign a few years ago, "take back the web". To do that, MSIE has to go. To get rid of MSIE, Windows has to go. Germany, France and others have advocated dropping the problem. If every country made a push to get Windows off their networks, both public and private, billions would be save each quarter by avoiding the malware that is part and parcel of the Windows experience.
You run it by getting set up with Lazarus. There is also Free Pascal for you. Both have good Delphi capabilities. GPC has merits, too. So you do have options if you were working on an electronic health records system.
Someone has to "save your nation", in both senses. Why not you? Follow the Good $RANDOMCOLORGROUP Road with your hands, not just your pie hole.
ubuntu
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So that's a long way of saying that Theora will steam roll all other formats if the porn industry takes it up, right?
C'mon. The jackass is hired to be Microsoft's number on apologist. His office can now be abused to cover the situation up. If he admitted to the cyberwar that has been going for two years at least, then he'd open the door to an investigation of the situation the US finds itself in and how it got there. He and the other Microsoft party members would find themselves in very hot water, fast.
Besides, with all the Microsoft products permeating even military bases, it's not a war it's nasty beating.
It's only a war if it's possible to fight back. The US is permeated with Windows, which is a system designed to be taken over back door or outright bad design security hole. There's no reason why any Microsofter, from your average asshole MCSE on up to the party chairman Bill Gates should be walking free. It's one thing for them to be racketeering and destroying the US' ability to compete in research or industry. It's an entirely additional problem once it affects national defense and standing. From Bill's party, we've already had a sampler of navy ships dead in the water, power blackouts, disaster recovery clusterfucks, air traffic outages, and many hundreds of billions of malware damage.
Making money isn't "criminal" and I, for one, hope it never will be.
--
I've just had an epiphany.
Close. Think theological or ethical rather than legal. See Caritas in Veritate on 5.) causing poverty and 6.) becoming obscenely wealthy. There are also a lot of chemicals in creating hardware components that can mutate DNA and / or act as gender hormone mimics...
His whole adult life, after failing out of college, has been in pursuit of the modern sin accumulating excessive wealth at the expense of the common good of society. The current Pope made that clear in last year's Caritas in veritate . Even the media pandering with the pseudo-philantropy does nothing to mitigate the harm. That may fool the media hacks owned by him and his political friends but at the end of the day the pseudo-philantropy is simply using the fascade of charity to further personal investments and provide political leverage to increase power and block opponents.
Looking at the bullshitter's past history you can see that he's one of the key people who fucked over Novell from the inside. It would be hard to find a more inappropriate choice that Jaffe. He is a software patent booster, Microsoft apologist, and long time opponent of Free Software.
Nothing good has ever come from relations with Microsoft, neither for their partners, nor their consumers. Having Microsoft's Jaffe in the W3C at the same time as having Micrtosoft's Assay in Ubuntu will make the quality of computing suffer along with the price, flexibility and freedom.