Shockwave required before you can see anything on their worthless page. Same with the "Ghost in the Shell 2" page.
How hard is it to design a page that is usable by EVERYONE? Not hard at all and yet here we have examples of two groups that couldn't pull it off. Are web designers like these born stupid or do they learn it in school?
The patent holders are an interesting pair. A bit of googling produced the following:
Charlton Lui appears to have been a Microsoft manager turned Canadian Baseball CEO(!) "Mr. Lui co-founded the Tablet PC providing the vision and driving product development while working closely with Bill Gates and top industry leaders." Here is the reference.
There is a Jeffrey R. Blum who includes the following in his resume:
"Microsoft Mobile Electronics Group, Redmond, WA: Lead Program Manager (8/1994-3/2000)" Here is his resume.
If I got the right people (no guarantees there), it looks like they're both *managers* who worked on mobile computing appliances. Managers who take out patents???
Seeing is that the only time I use X Windows is when I'm in Linux, it is a problem in your golden boy OS, Linux.
Well, first off it's not "X Windows". To call it "X Windows" would be a violation of Microsoft's trademark of the common word "Windows". The goons at Microsoft don't appreciate people using the common word they trademarked - just ask the folks who sold Lindows.
Secondly, your failure to understand the nature of X11 is not his fault.
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Why not a simple menu option, F12 for uber-super installer mode?
I was with you up until the F12 part. A text-mode power-user installation tool is very important. Just make sure it doesn't assume you are sitting at a PC keyboard. I went through hell last week because the only way to load modules in Yast2 is by pressing a function key (F2?) and I was using an old serial terminal.:(
Your hindsight rates a 20/20. Remember, however, that FAT is older than many of the people reading this discussion. What you present as a black and white choice now, wasn't that way a few years ago.
People have been apparently blinded by Open Source Software, if they thought they could use a proprietary technology freely.
No, OSS people have been blinded by Megalosoft's 20+ year failure to enforce rights regarding FAT. It's an old tactic - introduce a feature, wait until it becomes a defacto standard, and *then* demand a pound of flesh.
What's interesting about your comment is that when a M$ compromise comes to light, the focus is on how big a bozo BillyG is for letting his insecure crap out into the world.
Falling prey to the/. troll Rasputin writes:
Let's see, how often do M$ compromises happen? (Seems like every other week - if not more often) Now, how often does this happen with Debian? See the difference?
...there are far too many useless, egotistical homepages. That was maybe acceptable in the infancy of the internet...
My nit-pick here is that there were no web pages in the infancy of the Internet. At that time, the cool people had ftp sites or they moderated newsgroups. Perhaps you meant the infancy of the World Wide Web?
A friend who works at a local university said that Microsoft was willing to give them discounts - but only in exchange for a list of the people in their department who used Linux. His deparment refused. Golly, I wonder what they planned on doing with that list?
It sounds that way, doesn't it? However, it reminds me of the Amiga virus that was designed to seek and destroy other viruses. Trouble was that it would "sanitize" any non-standard boot sector it found - rendering expensive copy-protected software inert.:(
The joke you missed there was regarding the political nature of Reagan's memory lapses. You know, like how he claimed that there was never blacklisting in Holywood, racism in America prior to the Civil Rights movement, or his infamous Iran-Contra testimony. The man was always quick to "forget" things that contradicted his beliefs.
Their web page appears to be coded for display on Windows boxes. It looks pretty normal when viewed using Mozilla in Windows. However, when viewed in Moz under Linux the menu bars are placed in weird places, the popdown menus behave strangely, and I can't type *anything* in the search box. My best guess is that this the stupid thing is coded for Windows fonts.
How do you rocket scientists even know that $$ is for an OS or any existing Microsoft product. Maybe they're developing specific software for the Army.
Because that's how Microsoft does business. They use a sale of one piece of software to leverage the sale of another. Further, everything they sell leverages OS purchases. You can't just go out and buy a word processor from them, you have to buy Windows as well. It's much like the joke about rabbits (how you never have just two) - you can never buy just one Microsoft product.
If they are developing new software for the Army, then you can bet cash that it will only run on a Microsoft OS.
Jeesh - what exactly does antitrust even mean in today's business climate?
A better question is "what exactly does antitrust mean while Bush is in office" and the answer is didly-squat. The same answer works for human rights, international law, and American civil rights.
Read that part again. Note the part where it says "some US law enforcement officers". Note how this does not equate with "the US government". Fudging the facts is called spin.
One can infer that that statement was included in the official report for a reason. The US obviously wants to send Canada a message.
Spin, by the way, has nothing to do with "fudging facts". Spin is an attempt at changing the perception of the facts. "We quickly took superior placement one mile behind the front" would be in spun version of "the enemy pushed us back a mile".
I doubt that the USA's past or current support for Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia is a major reason for the anger.
Actually, I heard an interview with one of the people convicted of the first World Trade Center bombings and he said that American support of the Saudi regime was a major motivating factor. According to him, the goals of the bombing were to get the US to stop supporting the "corrupt regime" and to get foreign troops off of Saudi soil.
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Shockwave required before you can see anything on their worthless page. Same with the "Ghost in the Shell 2" page.
How hard is it to design a page that is usable by EVERYONE? Not hard at all and yet here we have examples of two groups that couldn't pull it off. Are web designers like these born stupid or do they learn it in school?
The patent holders are an interesting pair. A bit of googling produced the following:
Charlton Lui appears to have been a Microsoft manager turned Canadian Baseball CEO(!) "Mr. Lui co-founded the Tablet PC providing the vision and driving product development while working closely with Bill Gates and top industry leaders." Here is the reference.
There is a Jeffrey R. Blum who includes the following in his resume: "Microsoft Mobile Electronics Group, Redmond, WA: Lead Program Manager (8/1994-3/2000)" Here is his resume.
If I got the right people (no guarantees there), it looks like they're both *managers* who worked on mobile computing appliances. Managers who take out patents???
Seeing is that the only time I use X Windows is when I'm in Linux, it is a problem in your golden boy OS, Linux.
Well, first off it's not "X Windows". To call it "X Windows" would be a violation of Microsoft's trademark of the common word "Windows". The goons at Microsoft don't appreciate people using the common word they trademarked - just ask the folks who sold Lindows.
Secondly, your failure to understand the nature of X11 is not his fault.
Yes, like this: Linux Access Point
IMHO, PersonalTelco rocks.
Why not a simple menu option, F12 for uber-super installer mode?
I was with you up until the F12 part. A text-mode power-user installation tool is very important. Just make sure it doesn't assume you are sitting at a PC keyboard. I went through hell last week because the only way to load modules in Yast2 is by pressing a function key (F2?) and I was using an old serial terminal. :(
For the humor impaired: http://www.stlukeseye.com/Conditions/Conjunctiviti s.asp
Thank you. GIF/Unisys is *exactly* what I was thinking of.
No, OSS people have been blinded by Megalosoft's 20+ year failure to enforce rights regarding FAT. It's an old tactic - introduce a feature, wait until it becomes a defacto standard, and *then* demand a pound of flesh.
Me like LNP! :)
Falling prey to the /. troll Rasputin writes:
Let's see, how often do M$ compromises happen? (Seems like every other week - if not more often) Now, how often does this happen with Debian? See the difference?
My nit-pick here is that there were no web pages in the infancy of the Internet. At that time, the cool people had ftp sites or they moderated newsgroups. Perhaps you meant the infancy of the World Wide Web?
Perhaps you should move to Eugene? Rep. Peter DeFazio's been all over this from day one.
It sounds that way, doesn't it? However, it reminds me of the Amiga virus that was designed to seek and destroy other viruses. Trouble was that it would "sanitize" any non-standard boot sector it found - rendering expensive copy-protected software inert. :(
These people are drinking the Redmond kool-aid.
Because that's how Microsoft does business. They use a sale of one piece of software to leverage the sale of another. Further, everything they sell leverages OS purchases. You can't just go out and buy a word processor from them, you have to buy Windows as well. It's much like the joke about rabbits (how you never have just two) - you can never buy just one Microsoft product.
If they are developing new software for the Army, then you can bet cash that it will only run on a Microsoft OS.
Which would explain the legendary instability of Microsoft applications. You may be on to something there! :)
2) Contract law is enforced by the government.
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A better question is "what exactly does antitrust mean while Bush is in office" and the answer is didly-squat. The same answer works for human rights, international law, and American civil rights.
Pax Americanus?
One can infer that that statement was included in the official report for a reason. The US obviously wants to send Canada a message.
Spin, by the way, has nothing to do with "fudging facts". Spin is an attempt at changing the perception of the facts. "We quickly took superior placement one mile behind the front" would be in spun version of "the enemy pushed us back a mile".
Actually, I heard an interview with one of the people convicted of the first World Trade Center bombings and he said that American support of the Saudi regime was a major motivating factor. According to him, the goals of the bombing were to get the US to stop supporting the "corrupt regime" and to get foreign troops off of Saudi soil.