Simple strategy for MS: 1) kill all browsers on the most popular computing platform. Result, IE sole available browser (oh, wait, they already did this). 2) make IE automatically point google.* URL requests to msn-search.
QED.
Darn, I just spelled out the obvious. Now the evil doesn't even have the excuse of stupidity:-( I hope the above never happens.
Yes!! I heard many years ago about efforts to replace the completely broken journal/subscription of today with a peer-review/web-of-trust. Problem is, there's a market of sci. journals for a reason! Scientific excellence became a screwed notion immediately after the WWII years, when the Iron Courtain broke in two (reasonably equal halves) the older web of trust. Scientific excellence has now to be quantitatively defined, by number of articles published, especially. This is very wrong, of course.
Thus, we first need to change our perception of scientific excellence and _then_ put in place a peer-review mechanism. And the new perceptions needs a peer-review mechanism in order to be reformed properly. Hen or egg?:-/
Well open your eyes wide and read the topic of the posting once more. You will finally understand that it was *intended* to refer to multiple browsers. Just a nice feature to keep you informed with what happens. Get it?
Yup, but the guy that runs that is a person you should address your word to with a lot of respect, you know? It's the guy that made StarOffice for Linux possible, it's one of the main developers of KDE, it's a person you'd be proud if he addressed your word to you. Well... Poking fun is nicer than thinking a bit.
And they really did. They complied to lamers and changed to the QPL. QPL is an excellent license. Still, lamers continue to lame. However, knowing that lamers are an immortal specie, the KDE people ripped off some bits from their work time and, instead of putting out for everyone their good code, they had to think at lawyer business and supplied to the lamers the KDE Free Qt Foundation. But of course, lamers are immortal, so anything Qt or KDE will do, will never be good for everybody.
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Simple strategy for MS:
:-( I hope the above never happens.
1) kill all browsers on the most popular computing platform. Result, IE sole available browser (oh, wait, they already did this).
2) make IE automatically point google.* URL requests to msn-search.
QED.
Darn, I just spelled out the obvious. Now the evil doesn't even have the excuse of stupidity
Oh my, it is so freakingly painful to look at the web page of a dead person that, even while you didn't know it, took part at your life...
Yes!! I heard many years ago about efforts to replace the completely broken journal/subscription of today with a peer-review/web-of-trust. Problem is, there's a market of sci. journals for a reason! Scientific excellence became a screwed notion immediately after the WWII years, when the Iron Courtain broke in two (reasonably equal halves) the older web of trust. Scientific excellence has now to be quantitatively defined, by number of articles published, especially. This is very wrong, of course.
:-/
Thus, we first need to change our perception of scientific excellence and _then_ put in place a peer-review mechanism. And the new perceptions needs a peer-review mechanism in order to be reformed properly. Hen or egg?
Well open your eyes wide and read the topic of the posting once more. You will finally understand that it was *intended* to refer to multiple browsers. Just a nice feature to keep you informed with what happens. Get it?
Yup, but the guy that runs that is a person you should address your word to with a lot of respect, you know? It's the guy that made StarOffice for Linux possible, it's one of the main developers of KDE, it's a person you'd be proud if he addressed your word to you. Well... Poking fun is nicer than thinking a bit.
And they really did. They complied to lamers and changed to the QPL. QPL is an excellent license. Still, lamers continue to lame. However, knowing that lamers are an immortal specie, the KDE people ripped off some bits from their work time and, instead of putting out for everyone their good code, they had to think at lawyer business and supplied to the lamers the KDE Free Qt Foundation. But of course, lamers are immortal, so anything Qt or KDE will do, will never be good for everybody.