My first laptop was a Dell. It was cheap and great. Then the CPU went, then the fan, then the warranty ran out. Then the keyboard went. One day, Dell called me to ask what I tought about their products and services. It was a very short phone call.
Wait until the new Michael Moore movie arrives to the States... you might be shocked to learn who was really helping the Bin Ladens after 9/11. I doubt any of them are among the 120,000. Have a nice day.
Microsoft will choke Google the way it has always done it with competitors:
they'll break an API so that the Google toolbar doesn't work anymore,
they'll keep changing the specs of Office documents so that the indexer produces crap,
they'll rebundle their Windows search service as a 'new' app, tie it to some online service they offer (password-protect it with Passport, access it via MSN, etc.),
they'll fund zillions of bogus studies that declare their engine 5 times faster than Google's,
they'll offer an add-on for SQL Server that lets you search the documents via SQL. Eventhough this feature will be buggy as hell, it'll help MS sell the whole thing to CIOs (hey, we could even integrate this with Outlook server as well! isn't that swell?)
finally they'll start a patent war with Google on anything that's remotely connected to Windows (see recent Longhorn article on/.). I'm a little bit less optimistic.
One could almost argue that it's the equivalent of creating bogus web pages filled with keywords designed to skew rankings of a search engine. More generally: creating noise in a communication channel. Whoa! I'm glad we have patents for these innovations.
something that works better to make user applications than C like Java? and before people bashing Swing, etc. let me point out that IBM has developed SWT, a totally viable alternative to Swing that can be used to develop killer GUIs in Java, cf. Eclipse.
MS didn't need to litigate to slow the development of Samba, all they had to do was spread FUD, send cease and desist letters, etc.
...big business won't let them break things... WRONG - we patch our server farm every other week because we have no choice: get viruses, i.e. our app BREAKS or get a forced upgrade. That's SOP at Microsoft.
...will Gnome apps using Mono will suddenly... the whole point of Mono is the binary compatibility at the bytecode level. Would you keep using a Microsoft JVM if it could only run MS-compiled applets and Java apps? I think not.
I work for a fair-sized government agency - right now site licensing for the current MS OS plus server, Sharepoint and Exchange CALs plus the current version of Offfice Professional costs us considerably less than $5 per user per month.
Can you post more details? Number of servers (Outlook, SQL Server, IIS), clients, etc.
I'm guessing there's an HTML redirect (pragma http-equiv) in the page that sends you to a second page that validates that you stayed on the first one and 'read' the add. I'm *guessing*. (this would easily be defeated by a script, unless they do some crazy shit with client-side Javascript, cookies, etc.)
Or the article is complete crap. Which could be too.
Upstate NY - most stations are now owned by ClearChannel except for NPR and a couple tiny independant stations. I give money to the small independent jazz station that can barely survive (WGMC). My point is that web radio offers a *vast* array of choices compared to what's available on the dial in most locales. You decide if I'm trolling.
Yeah, and he'll be highly credible when making his sales pitch next time, selling just about the opposite. The new prospect will simply have to ask: "Office?.Net? just like you recommended the city of Munich, I see.". I think Microsoft simply recruited him so that he keeps quiet. It's money well spent on their part, nothing else. But we already knew they know how to leverage their free capital position, nothing new here...
Absolutely right. Not to mention something Apple seems to have always overlooked: for a lot of people, HC was the only way they could *program* their Mac, hack it. It was for me. Even though I was learning Pascal and C in school, HyperCard was free, THINK Pascal/C were expensive. HC was simple to use, the Inside Mac API was horrendous. I knew people that traded free/shareware HC stacks: it was easy to learn from other people's code. People that *got it*, LOVED IT. It was great. It's not until years later when I discovered Python that I had the same kind of joy hacking again... Still, what made HC so unique (and impossible to explain to non-HC people) is the way it blended graphics/scripting/persistence/OO so uniquely. I'll miss HC for the rest of my life.:)
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My first laptop was a Dell. It was cheap and great.
Then the CPU went, then the fan, then the warranty ran out. Then the keyboard went.
One day, Dell called me to ask what I tought about their products and services. It was a very short phone call.
archive.org has lots of *free* content in OGG format.
Wait until the new Michael Moore movie arrives to the States... you might be shocked to learn who was really helping the Bin Ladens after 9/11. I doubt any of them are among the 120,000.
Have a nice day.
they'll break an API so that the Google toolbar doesn't work anymore,
they'll keep changing the specs of Office documents so that the indexer produces crap,
they'll rebundle their Windows search service as a 'new' app, tie it to some online service they offer (password-protect it with Passport, access it via MSN, etc.),
they'll fund zillions of bogus studies that declare their engine 5 times faster than Google's,
they'll offer an add-on for SQL Server that lets you search the documents via SQL. Eventhough this feature will be buggy as hell, it'll help MS sell the whole thing to CIOs (hey, we could even integrate this with Outlook server as well! isn't that swell?)
finally they'll start a patent war with Google on anything that's remotely connected to Windows (see recent Longhorn article on /.).
I'm a little bit less optimistic.
yeah, once they cluster your box with theirs (i.e. copy your files), the searches will be fast.
One could almost argue that it's the equivalent of creating bogus web pages filled with keywords designed to skew rankings of a search engine. More generally: creating noise in a communication channel. Whoa! I'm glad we have patents for these innovations.
you forgot: mandatory registration systems to be allowed to read articles.
something that works better to make user applications than C
like Java?
and before people bashing Swing, etc. let me point out that IBM has developed SWT, a totally viable alternative to Swing that can be used to develop killer GUIs in Java, cf. Eclipse.
MS didn't need to litigate to slow the development of Samba, all they had to do was spread FUD, send cease and desist letters, etc.
I work for a fair-sized government agency - right now site licensing for the current MS OS plus server, Sharepoint and Exchange CALs plus the current version of Offfice Professional costs us considerably less than $5 per user per month.
Can you post more details? Number of servers (Outlook, SQL Server, IIS), clients, etc.
I'm guessing there's an HTML redirect (pragma http-equiv) in the page that sends you to a second page that validates that you stayed on the first one and 'read' the add. I'm *guessing*. (this would easily be defeated by a script, unless they do some crazy shit with client-side Javascript, cookies, etc.)
Or the article is complete crap. Which could be too.
the article mentions that you have to stay on the page for ~60 seconds.
the fact that Gates bought the stock alone will make the price go up which in turn will cover Billy's commission. Not a bad deal.
I've been considering a mini-itx box hooked up to the TV to replace my laptop... it would be very cool indeed.
Upstate NY - most stations are now owned by ClearChannel except for NPR and a couple tiny independant stations. I give money to the small independent jazz station that can barely survive (WGMC). My point is that web radio offers a *vast* array of choices compared to what's available on the dial in most locales.
You decide if I'm trolling.
I have a similar setup at home. It's a godsend.
I can buy a radio, listen, enjoy.
only what's available locally, i.e. your 5 ClearChannel stations.
Yeah, and he'll be highly credible when making his sales pitch next time, selling just about the opposite. The new prospect will simply have to ask: "Office? .Net? just like you recommended the city of Munich, I see.". I think Microsoft simply recruited him so that he keeps quiet. It's money well spent on their part, nothing else. But we already knew they know how to leverage their free capital position, nothing new here...
Pat Buchanan of course.
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have you ever coded one?
no shit! does Windows ever stay the same? have you *ever* used a Windows install that hadn't been patched to death?
Absolutely right. Not to mention something Apple seems to have always overlooked: for a lot of people, HC was the only way they could *program* their Mac, hack it. :)
It was for me. Even though I was learning Pascal and C in school, HyperCard was free, THINK Pascal/C were expensive. HC was simple to use, the Inside Mac API was horrendous. I knew people that traded free/shareware HC stacks: it was easy to learn from other people's code. People that *got it*, LOVED IT. It was great.
It's not until years later when I discovered Python that I had the same kind of joy hacking again... Still, what made HC so unique (and impossible to explain to non-HC people) is the way it blended graphics/scripting/persistence/OO so uniquely. I'll miss HC for the rest of my life.
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Yes.
- marry an american woman
- take the US citizenship
- never go back to France
(or same thing with a Canadian if you like snow).
Why the US? The guy lives in Boston, it might work out for him... he'll just have to watch out for the DMCA and the Patriot Act. Blah.
Mon conseil:
- marrie toi a une americaine
- prends la citoyennete US
- ne retourne jamais en France
(ou la meme chose avec une Canadienne si tu aimes la neige).