1) I don't read Groklaw. I just linked to it for the court dates, etc. 2) Bill Gates was the CEO then, not Ballmer. You're trying to argue against history, here. The Gates and Ballmer eras are completely different. 3) Vista was released during Microsoft's probation and Ballmer's leadership. 4) And yeah, I remember it all because I lived through it. Seriously. It's all in the court records. Get some perspective and quit trying to re-frame the argument.
Did Ford do it by illegal coercion and exclusivity contracts? Because that's what Microsoft has been convicted of. How about partnering with competing car companies, stealing their secret technology, and then using on Ford cars? MS has been found guilty of that (in the computer field) too.
Since Jonney Shih publicly apologized to Microsoft on stage for daring to show an Android netbook at Computex 2009, I think we can agree that he did that under pressure from MS. What kind of pressure? No one knows. To make a major CEO crawl and scrape, though....
So you forget Microsoft's deal with the U.S. government to use it and with OEMs to bundle Word, which is really what made almost every large business move to MS Office. Oh, and that was the time when MS switched APIs on WP last minute on the roll-out of Win95, a confusion which the MS Office team didn't suffer from. A combination of savvy business and unethical behavior. That was and is Microsoft's business model. That's why they're still in court over the whole mess.
Do not take this as an attack on you or your lifestyle, but I am still confused that there are people who have earplugs in so much of their lives that they need to carry around 50-100 days of 24-hour music. For me, 1-2 hours of music would be fine for a day. Maybe 15 hours for a week's vacation. But 10,000 hours or similar? I can't even imagine ever listening to that much music -- maybe not even in my lifetime, since I listed to songs that I like repeatedly.
I mean, an iPod requires a computer and iTunes to sync to, right?
Where I work, they just use static addresses by policy. it's both annoying and completely impotent. We are a BYOD organization, which means that most employees have to manually set up laptops every time they come home at work. Once a month, someone sets it up wrong, and someone else's computer won't network properly. But I can just use the IP of another machine that I know is out of the office and assign that one: it's like musical chairs for IP addresses.
God, how I have begged them to move to static DHCP.
I was recently insured in the U.S. under a very nice system. I was injured and my symptoms worsened, so I was sent for an MRI, which confirmed the terrible news they suspected (severe L5/S1 nerve impingement).
Unfortunately, I was actually injured at work, so I was required to restart the whole process two days later with the workplace injury insurance. The doctors wanted to claim that I had a muscle strain and "wait and see," despite my symptoms being the same, until I went to get a hard copy of the MRI from the previous visit. Still, even with the proof, they wanted to wait twelve weeks for improvement for me to have surgery that the original hospital was ready to put me through to immediately. The result? That nerve is permanently damaged, and I don't have full use of or feeling in that leg.
That was just the difference between top-tier and lower-tier insurance. I can't imagine the lack of treatment I would have gotten had I been uninsured.
Why not use XMPP? See my two-year old sig below.Unfortunately, OWS, a working social network, was run over by Diaspora, which was vaporware at the time. XMPP+ extensions would give you federated social for free.
Picasaweb has migrated to Google+ Photos, and Picnik is closed as a standalone and is instead called "Creative Suite" or something in the photo service. Just like the rest of Google's local applications, I doubt Picasa has a real future. Picnik (also on the chopping block in TFA) really needs to move from Flash to HTML5, and they need to work on the load time.
I know nothing about him, but in his defense, I've been reading about this issue for days. There's no reason to do in-depth analysis on the article. Skim and see if it has anything new to say. No? Fine. Post.
This is actually the first thing I thought of when this story surfaced. "MS is known to be paying manufacturers to make WinPhones. They don't want to pay someone to have Linux installed on that later." I'm not sure if that's true, though. MS may also be requiring WinPhones on the line-up as part of the NDAed Android patent agreement they seem to be getting with everyone, too. There's no way to know.
There's a difference between requiring "Secure on by default" (which almost no one will ever change) and requiring "custom mode to be disabled." I know that you're a pragmatist. Surely you can see the difference.
When Google search holds 95-98% of the search market or mobile and uses contracts under NDA to prohibit businesses from using other parties' products, come back and present that argument again.
Google doesn't have that kind of pull. Period. Yeah, I use Google, but I'm no fan of them or any sports teams.
I suspect that the problem is that Katy Perry's Facebook PageRank is significantly below that of her Wikipedia page, Twitter page, or website, since almost nobody links to a Facebook page when talking about a celebrity (outside of posting on Facebook). The Google+ page would show up when you have a Google+ account and are searching, because you might want to follow that person.
Twitter single-handedly shut down Google's Realtime Search in 2009, and Facebook refused to give Google access to Facebook data unless Google essentially handed over the control of any type of social search to Facebook. Google wanted to index both of them. They didn't have any big desire to show up in results. Remember that.
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1) I don't read Groklaw. I just linked to it for the court dates, etc. 2) Bill Gates was the CEO then, not Ballmer. You're trying to argue against history, here. The Gates and Ballmer eras are completely different. 3) Vista was released during Microsoft's probation and Ballmer's leadership. 4) And yeah, I remember it all because I lived through it. Seriously. It's all in the court records. Get some perspective and quit trying to re-frame the argument.
Did Ford do it by illegal coercion and exclusivity contracts? Because that's what Microsoft has been convicted of. How about partnering with competing car companies, stealing their secret technology, and then using on Ford cars? MS has been found guilty of that (in the computer field) too.
Since Jonney Shih publicly apologized to Microsoft on stage for daring to show an Android netbook at Computex 2009, I think we can agree that he did that under pressure from MS. What kind of pressure? No one knows. To make a major CEO crawl and scrape, though ....
So you forget Microsoft's deal with the U.S. government to use it and with OEMs to bundle Word, which is really what made almost every large business move to MS Office. Oh, and that was the time when MS switched APIs on WP last minute on the roll-out of Win95, a confusion which the MS Office team didn't suffer from. A combination of savvy business and unethical behavior. That was and is Microsoft's business model. That's why they're still in court over the whole mess.
Because Slashdot is a joke now. It used to be a place where IT people hung out.
And it's finished, folks. The FOSS blog of CmdrTaco has now devolved into Mac vs. Windows arguments. Where are the other options in that equation?
Double-tap headshot to the Zune-bie.
Do not take this as an attack on you or your lifestyle, but I am still confused that there are people who have earplugs in so much of their lives that they need to carry around 50-100 days of 24-hour music. For me, 1-2 hours of music would be fine for a day. Maybe 15 hours for a week's vacation. But 10,000 hours or similar? I can't even imagine ever listening to that much music -- maybe not even in my lifetime, since I listed to songs that I like repeatedly.
I mean, an iPod requires a computer and iTunes to sync to, right?
And, yeah, I'm old. Walkman generation.
Given the history of such purchases over the last ten years, I'd say anyone who buys "lifetime" or "unlimited" anything is just wasting money.
Google offloads this kind of thing onto their partner ecosystem. Here's an example: Office 365/BPOS to Google Apps Migration.
It's penguins all the way down.
Where I work, they just use static addresses by policy. it's both annoying and completely impotent. We are a BYOD organization, which means that most employees have to manually set up laptops every time they come home at work. Once a month, someone sets it up wrong, and someone else's computer won't network properly. But I can just use the IP of another machine that I know is out of the office and assign that one: it's like musical chairs for IP addresses.
God, how I have begged them to move to static DHCP.
I was recently insured in the U.S. under a very nice system. I was injured and my symptoms worsened, so I was sent for an MRI, which confirmed the terrible news they suspected (severe L5/S1 nerve impingement).
Unfortunately, I was actually injured at work, so I was required to restart the whole process two days later with the workplace injury insurance. The doctors wanted to claim that I had a muscle strain and "wait and see," despite my symptoms being the same, until I went to get a hard copy of the MRI from the previous visit. Still, even with the proof, they wanted to wait twelve weeks for improvement for me to have surgery that the original hospital was ready to put me through to immediately. The result? That nerve is permanently damaged, and I don't have full use of or feeling in that leg.
That was just the difference between top-tier and lower-tier insurance. I can't imagine the lack of treatment I would have gotten had I been uninsured.
And for those two years, you are just praying that you don't get sick.
Why not use XMPP? See my two-year old sig below.Unfortunately, OWS, a working social network, was run over by Diaspora, which was vaporware at the time. XMPP+ extensions would give you federated social for free.
Picasaweb has migrated to Google+ Photos, and Picnik is closed as a standalone and is instead called "Creative Suite" or something in the photo service. Just like the rest of Google's local applications, I doubt Picasa has a real future. Picnik (also on the chopping block in TFA) really needs to move from Flash to HTML5, and they need to work on the load time.
I know nothing about him, but in his defense, I've been reading about this issue for days. There's no reason to do in-depth analysis on the article. Skim and see if it has anything new to say. No? Fine. Post.
MS is going the wrong direction on this one. It's no different than the continuing fight against DRM.
ARM ultrabook-style computers and desktops are included.
This is actually the first thing I thought of when this story surfaced. "MS is known to be paying manufacturers to make WinPhones. They don't want to pay someone to have Linux installed on that later." I'm not sure if that's true, though. MS may also be requiring WinPhones on the line-up as part of the NDAed Android patent agreement they seem to be getting with everyone, too. There's no way to know.
There's a difference between requiring "Secure on by default" (which almost no one will ever change) and requiring "custom mode to be disabled." I know that you're a pragmatist. Surely you can see the difference.
When Google search holds 95-98% of the search market or mobile and uses contracts under NDA to prohibit businesses from using other parties' products, come back and present that argument again.
Google doesn't have that kind of pull. Period. Yeah, I use Google, but I'm no fan of them or any sports teams.
I suspect that the problem is that Katy Perry's Facebook PageRank is significantly below that of her Wikipedia page, Twitter page, or website, since almost nobody links to a Facebook page when talking about a celebrity (outside of posting on Facebook). The Google+ page would show up when you have a Google+ account and are searching, because you might want to follow that person.
Twitter single-handedly shut down Google's Realtime Search in 2009, and Facebook refused to give Google access to Facebook data unless Google essentially handed over the control of any type of social search to Facebook. Google wanted to index both of them. They didn't have any big desire to show up in results. Remember that.
The point of TFA is that ... no ... it's not the same codebase anymore. Not by a long shot.
I was making a proposal, not accusing you of anything. I said that protectionism WRT labor practices is something I support.