You really WERE living under a rock for the past ten years. MSFT has a habit of saying "sure, you can pre-install our stuff, but a condition of this is that you may not pre-install anything other operating systems." WTF do you think happened to BeOS?
What part of anti-competitive behavior are you not understanding?
It doesn't matter a whit how great the competitors software is, if Microsoft disallows OEMs to preinstall the competitors OS/Software/Etc on the system before it's sold to the end user. [Which they've done, and continue to do.]
Kind of like if a bunch of amateur athletes took Michael Jordan to court and asked to have his knees broken.
Well yeah, if MJ was beating the hell out of anyone who dared to play with those amateurs, to prevent the [amateurs] from ever playing.
support government intervention against Microsoft intended to make other competetors viable?
every now and then, someone brings this up, but they seem to forget: microsoft is a convicted monopolist. just as i want the government to keep convicted killers off the street, i want them to keep convicted monopolists from continuing the same anti-competitive activities.
*shrug* I assumed you were trolling; anybody who says they have clients for whom they set up mail servers should probably know something about becoming the authoritive NS for the clients IP(s).
Yeah, that's right. Chirac and Putin, and other high level officials have been BRIBED with MILLIONS A YEAR over the last decade to keep Saddam in power.
I wouldn't go so far as to say they were bribed,... but, this is a prime example of one humans ability to dehumanize a group of humans. E.g. wow, I can make lots of money if I let some random strangers starve to death... Hmmmmm. Strangers.. I don't know them, they must not have real feelings. Wow, think of the things I can do with that money! They're probably not even real people, they'd starve anyway.. [Maybe not on such a concious level, but.. you get the point.]
The good people, they'd balk at such an idea. But then, very few are dumb enough to offer a truly good person the ability to make some cash, albeit at the cost of the lives of strangers.
Hey! What a corollary [sp..]! DUBYA! His family stands to make millions from free* oil....
(* it's free when you use an army to go in to steal it. not free for the US tax payers, but free for Dubya.)
"Things" will never be running smoothly down here. There will always always always be poor, hungry, and starving. You can imagine a uptopia in which no one is left wanting, but I can tell you: such a place could not be populated by humans.
The root of the problem is that most people just don't give a fuck, and even when they do: there are plenty of dishonest "donation operated" corporations to take thier money in the name of the poor.
NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) - Manhattan, 5:55 p.m. on Feb. 20, and in five minutes Apple will begin selling the highly anticipated miniaturized version of its hugely popular iPod.
Outside its SoHo store there is an anxious queue of trend-setters and gadget-philes that stretches for more than a big city block. Hundreds of people have been waiting as long as three hours in the cold to get their hands on a Mini. In SoHo, with its art galleries and designer boutiques, this Friday night the retail outpost for the PC maker is the place to be.
For Apple CEO Steve Jobs, these are triumphant times. The iPod is more than the most successful digital music player ever: It's a cultural phenomenon -- on a par with Sony's Walkman -- radically altering the way we buy and store music.
This apparent success has lured many investors to jump on the Apple bandwagon. Its shares have risen 51 percent in the past year to a recent $23. If you love the company's products -- and what's not to love about their ease of use and elegant design? -- you might be tempted to buy Apple's shares.
But behind the hype and buzz surrounding the iPod and Jobs, there are problems stewing at Apple.
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Mein Gott!
You really WERE living under a rock for the past ten years. MSFT has a habit of saying "sure, you can pre-install our stuff, but a condition of this is that you may not pre-install anything other operating systems." WTF do you think happened to BeOS?
You need a serious dose of reality, friend.
What part of anti-competitive behavior are you not understanding?
It doesn't matter a whit how great the competitors software is, if Microsoft disallows OEMs to preinstall the competitors OS/Software/Etc on the system before it's sold to the end user. [Which they've done, and continue to do.]
Kind of like if a bunch of amateur athletes took Michael Jordan to court and asked to have his knees broken.
Well yeah, if MJ was beating the hell out of anyone who dared to play with those amateurs, to prevent the [amateurs] from ever playing.
Go go Microsoft apologist!
It isn't the government's place to tell a company what they can or cannot sell.
it is when the company has killed off competition via illegal means.
support government intervention against Microsoft intended to make other competetors viable?
every now and then, someone brings this up, but they seem to forget: microsoft is a convicted monopolist.
just as i want the government to keep convicted killers off the street, i want them to keep convicted monopolists from continuing the same anti-competitive activities.
*shrug* I assumed you were trolling; anybody who says they have clients for whom they set up mail servers should probably know something about becoming the authoritive NS for the clients IP(s).
Is that Dubya should invade new england for producing faulty parts? ;)
Uhm, what part of DNS aren't you understanding?
If mail comes from XXY.NET, IP 1.1.1.1, you do a reverse lookup on 1.1.1.1, and find XXY.NET; irregardless of the connection.
If your servers aren't configured correctly, you might just get back the DNS name from your *GASP* DSL ISP.
E.g. quit bitching about the method when it's your own damn fault it don't work.
Yeah, that's right. Chirac and Putin, and other high level officials have been BRIBED with MILLIONS A YEAR over the last decade to keep Saddam in power.
... but, this is a prime example of one humans ability to dehumanize a group of humans. E.g. wow, I can make lots of money if I let some random strangers starve to death... Hmmmmm. Strangers.. I don't know them, they must not have real feelings. Wow, think of the things I can do with that money! They're probably not even real people, they'd starve anyway.. [Maybe not on such a concious level, but.. you get the point.]
I wouldn't go so far as to say they were bribed,
The good people, they'd balk at such an idea. But then, very few are dumb enough to offer a truly good person the ability to make some cash, albeit at the cost of the lives of strangers.
Hey! What a corollary [sp..]! DUBYA! His family stands to make millions from free* oil....
(* it's free when you use an army to go in to steal it. not free for the US tax payers, but free for Dubya.)
"Things" will never be running smoothly down here. There will always always always be poor, hungry, and starving. You can imagine a uptopia in which no one is left wanting, but I can tell you: such a place could not be populated by humans.
The root of the problem is that most people just don't give a fuck, and even when they do: there are plenty of dishonest "donation operated" corporations to take thier money in the name of the poor.
Nice troll bait.
Yes, hampers me in the short run - but when companies realize that they can't have it both ways, I think they'll come around again.
When a company has 50% or more of its "high pay" employees outside of the US, kick them the fuck out - they're not a US company anymore.
At the least, put a HIGH tariff on thier products - the same way we currently do with imported steel.
If the company isn't willing to give back to the country that allows it's existence, the country should cease to allow it's existence.
Unfortunately, this'll never happen with our current gov't.
bet that's why MS is so slow to fix buffer overflows.. in order to change a variable from an int to a long is an arduous process.
select region, then:
M-%, oldname, newname [emacs]
C-H, oldname newname [vc++]
yummy troll bait.
I don't like your tone of voice, I think I'll sensor you.
[note: this is NOT called irony.]
shit damn fuck bitch cock cunt george bush slut bitch whore cunt damn fuck shit
:)
now, of those words, which one is REALLY vulgar? [not to mention, a bit daft]
now tivo? i wonder how many times tivo will die in 28 years..
the fat digital bits from the satellite go right onto the hard drive and aren't converted to analog until they squirt into your TV.
now THAT's some realistic pr0n.
Doesn't Microsoft already own the DOJ?
I surely hope this is true, and that it succeeds - the resulting bemoth would help microsoft collapse in on itself.
NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) - Manhattan, 5:55 p.m. on Feb. 20, and in five minutes Apple will begin selling the highly anticipated miniaturized version of its hugely popular iPod.
Outside its SoHo store there is an anxious queue of trend-setters and gadget-philes that stretches for more than a big city block. Hundreds of people have been waiting as long as three hours in the cold to get their hands on a Mini. In SoHo, with its art galleries and designer boutiques, this Friday night the retail outpost for the PC maker is the place to be.
For Apple CEO Steve Jobs, these are triumphant times. The iPod is more than the most successful digital music player ever: It's a cultural phenomenon -- on a par with Sony's Walkman -- radically altering the way we buy and store music.
This apparent success has lured many investors to jump on the Apple bandwagon. Its shares have risen 51 percent in the past year to a recent $23. If you love the company's products -- and what's not to love about their ease of use and elegant design? -- you might be tempted to buy Apple's shares.
But behind the hype and buzz surrounding the iPod and Jobs, there are problems stewing at Apple.
oh no, apple is dying!
(again)
Can anybody point me to the proper network [e.g. kazaa, gnutella, etc] and maybe one or two of the filenames?
;)
I'd like to get it, and examine it. Wouldn't it be hilarious if their own trojan DDOS'd thier own site?
[I'd look on thier site, but it's already smoking.]
language packs?
creating them now? i've already got one, it's called "Windows XP Multilingual User Interface" kit.
... it will soon become government "against the people."
With the DMCA and other draconian measures put into law solely by corporations, I think it is already the government against the people.
What crackpot modded the above as FUNNY?
Has Darl been sharing with the mods?
Then the violent among us will have to permanently silence SCO.