Then what? I get a page asking me to install a Google Earth plugin for my browser which is not a Linux binary. Help! The kids are waiting...
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No it's not. Having dominance in one market is a monopoly.
Using dominance in one market to establish dominance in another market is an illegal monopolistic activity, in some countries anyway.
Using a strategy that gave you a monopoly in one market, in another market is perfectly acceptable though which I think is what Google is really doing here.
You must be kidding right? There's tremendous code sharing and abstraction done in the kernel. Hardware specifics are placed in their own files but the rest is shared. Most hardware drivers work on all architectures and share common code. Here's one example, of many, where code was consolidated. i386 and x86_64 merge Code sharing works because of well thought out abstractions.
It was 1995, Windows 95 kept crashing and I wanted something more powerful than DOS/Windows 3.1. I tried OS/2 but I really wanted to learn Unix. One my friends who was more advanced than I tech wise and who had introduced me to the modem and the AT command set, had a cousin who was nice enough to mail me 12 floppies and a huge dot matrix printed manual of the Slackware distribution. I spent days learning and installing Slackware on my 120MB Quantum. Then came the big hook, switching VT. After that, I knew that I was never going back and that my destiny was on the path of Linux.
There's a company in m my area that gives their employees 50% of the money saved during the first year. One of the employees came up with an idea that saved them $100,000.00 in long distance bills. At the end of the year, he got a bonus of $50,000.00
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4-rwk44qGI
Then what? I get a page asking me to install a Google Earth plugin for my browser which is not a Linux binary. Help! The kids are waiting...
No it's not. Having dominance in one market is a monopoly. Using dominance in one market to establish dominance in another market is an illegal monopolistic activity, in some countries anyway. Using a strategy that gave you a monopoly in one market, in another market is perfectly acceptable though which I think is what Google is really doing here.
If I had a choice, I would use Javascript.
Absolutely and it would set a terrible precedent. It's one way of making a free web a non-free web. Mod parent up.
Mod parent up! Where are my mod points when I need them.
You must be kidding right? There's tremendous code sharing and abstraction done in the kernel. Hardware specifics are placed in their own files but the rest is shared. Most hardware drivers work on all architectures and share common code. Here's one example, of many, where code was consolidated. i386 and x86_64 merge Code sharing works because of well thought out abstractions.
Maybe this will help you understand. http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Microsoft. They sat on their ass after illegally crushing Netscape while setting the web back 5 years.
... because apps that work fine on every other filesystem should not need to be re-written specifically for Ext4
Not quite. I believe XFS and JFS behave the same way as Ext4. Here's a good article and thread on the subject. http://lwn.net/Articles/322823/
What's wrong with believing in an all-powerful wizard if it gets you through life happier? Just being the devil's advocate btw.
And you get a +5 Informative for that comment. Oh the irony.
It was 1995, Windows 95 kept crashing and I wanted something more powerful than DOS/Windows 3.1. I tried OS/2 but I really wanted to learn Unix. One my friends who was more advanced than I tech wise and who had introduced me to the modem and the AT command set, had a cousin who was nice enough to mail me 12 floppies and a huge dot matrix printed manual of the Slackware distribution. I spent days learning and installing Slackware on my 120MB Quantum. Then came the big hook, switching VT. After that, I knew that I was never going back and that my destiny was on the path of Linux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer
How many years until Microsoft turns a profit on IE?
Actually, it's sacré bleu screen of death in France.
This "guy" is Theodore Ts'o and he's one of the most brilliant and respected Linux kernel hackers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Ts'o http://thunk.org/tytso/
Why do you think that is?
Bob Young is from Canada so I'm leaning towards Red Tuque. (Tuque instead of Toque to give it a more bilingual feel.) T
There's a company in m my area that gives their employees 50% of the money saved during the first year. One of the employees came up with an idea that saved them $100,000.00 in long distance bills. At the end of the year, he got a bonus of $50,000.00
Rate parent up. It deserves a 5.
Well, now you're insulting. Has Steve Ballmer ever thrown a chair at you for a typo while you worked at Microsoft?
LOL, if I hadn't commented, I would mod you funny.
Microsoft is implying that all the people who had trouble using their camera with Windows is less intelligent than a 4 1/2 year old child.
When Microsoft gave IE away, Netscape what threatened. You don't have to be making a ton of money to be a threat.
I mean, apple and oranges !
You mean blues and oranges.