That is not a valid comparison. Internet Explorer (with its addition of Active-X controls) was an obvious security nightmare by design. On the other hand, Microsoft Security Essentials has been well received as a good, lightweight AV solution. Unlike IE, its inclusion in Windows would definitely increased security of the OS.
Of course it's a valid comparison. What happened to IE when it reached 90%+ marketshare? It stagnated like crazy. You don't think that will happen to an A/V package that's automatically bundled in and will get predominant marketshare just by virtue of riding some coattails?
Easy, just sue the cable company for fraud if they do choke it off. Afterall, they advertise themselves as an internet provider, not comcastnet or aolnet, etc provider.
Also, don't they lose common carrier status if they do discriminate, thus are unprotected from copyright suits?
Plus mass, untargeted exposure isn't everything. Marketshare at the cost of margins has been tried and failed in the past often enough. People protest when you raise prices because they are used to the old deal and most services/products are commodities anyway, to be had elsewhere.
There was nitpicking about general features of the first iPhone (and still, not being available unlocked in the USA still is one of them) but mostly everyone recognized it would be a success. Only the people bitching about lack of physical keyboard were pretty shrill.
OTOH, if you went by the/. on the iPad before it was released, you would have thought it would have sunk like a boat anchor or G4 Cube:)
This is great news, because now people will be able to cast doubt on images when there is cause to instead of being told "it's not possible it's a fake, it's signed". You know that if someone cracked it publicly someone else (probably many someone else's) have cracked it in private, and have kept around the ability to forge photographs in case of emergency... that ability is now reduced.
And yet corporations the world over are clamoring or have made this type of hacking, even on your own bought stuff, illegal.
either. When I go to Europe, I see them continuously replacing the ties with new ones, I guess the rails themselves along with it. Concrete ties are not uncommon.
Last year, in my area, the traffic signal for a train came down and I had to wait 10 minutes for this slow movng freight train. When it finally was within sight, the rail jumped up 24 inches, along with these half-rotten ties (they must have been ancient), completely out of the ground! It was nuts. Then as the train was going over it, any time there was a space in the wheels, it kept flopping up and down, until the train left and there was quite a bit of distance from it.
It looked so freaking dangerous, I was concerned enough to call with the local train authorities, and they were like "Yeah, that's normal. Why you think we make the freight trains move so slow in the first place" and basically hung up on me without wanting to even know exactly where.
Especially when the engineers/scientists/etc over in India realize that they can break away and form their own company that will undercut their former boss by not having to support his American middle/upper_management lard ass.
There are the consequences of building up your own future competition.
I hate the animated gif format because it's so often abused to make shitty, grainy silent versions of clips that could just be put on youtube or elsewhere - and probably take 5x of the bandwidth a proper format would have taken. Idk why people do that other than they lack basic video editing skills.
Actually, you can use the term "Classical Liberal" and it would be understand by most folks that know what the 17th Amendment did and why it wasn't good although it increase "democracy".
WTF is this "learning a new OS all over again" stuff? You talk as if most of the staff have to fire up the CLI and get shocked when their beloved dos commands don't work.
Many people spend much of their time either in a browser or some productivity suite. Since Firefox has made huge inroads the past decade, it's not so much a worry. Most mainstream browser have negligible GUI differences. That leave the productivity suite -- which, since I don't really muck with, I can't gauge and someone will have to answer.
What worries me is the 5% cases where it's either hardware like a network scanner that worked with proprietary software or some unique app.
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Of course it's a valid comparison. What happened to IE when it reached 90%+ marketshare? It stagnated like crazy. You don't think that will happen to an A/V package that's automatically bundled in and will get predominant marketshare just by virtue of riding some coattails?
Blimps need helium, which we are running out of as well. You can use hydrogen, but the results are a bit too hot to handle.
Yeah, because marrying Internet Explorer to Windows was a real winner in the security arena.
There are many reasons why stopping MS from bundling their solutions to all things the last decade was actually good for consumers.
Easy, just sue the cable company for fraud if they do choke it off. Afterall, they advertise themselves as an internet provider, not comcastnet or aolnet, etc provider.
Also, don't they lose common carrier status if they do discriminate, thus are unprotected from copyright suits?
Unless it's open source, no real way to verify that.
Plus mass, untargeted exposure isn't everything. Marketshare at the cost of margins has been tried and failed in the past often enough. People protest when you raise prices because they are used to the old deal and most services/products are commodities anyway, to be had elsewhere.
Whoosh!
I blew that thing so much trying to get it to work (often failing), I feel like a cheap whore now just thinking about it.
That was the only game system that failed on me.
I was getting cell service from them before the change in contract. Again, they are getting something for nothing.
I would say the iPad.
There was nitpicking about general features of the first iPhone (and still, not being available unlocked in the USA still is one of them) but mostly everyone recognized it would be a success. Only the people bitching about lack of physical keyboard were pretty shrill.
OTOH, if you went by the /. on the iPad before it was released, you would have thought it would have sunk like a boat anchor or G4 Cube:)
Basic contract law does not allow one-sided agreements/terms/arrangements. I.e. one party cannot get something for nothing in return.
And yet corporations the world over are clamoring or have made this type of hacking, even on your own bought stuff, illegal.
How, pray tell, would one go upgrading any phone or notebook, if not by buying a new one?
(Notebook has limited ram slots and upgrades seem to be limited to whether to fork over the cash for an SSD or not.)
either. When I go to Europe, I see them continuously replacing the ties with new ones, I guess the rails themselves along with it. Concrete ties are not uncommon.
Last year, in my area, the traffic signal for a train came down and I had to wait 10 minutes for this slow movng freight train. When it finally was within sight, the rail jumped up 24 inches, along with these half-rotten ties (they must have been ancient), completely out of the ground! It was nuts. Then as the train was going over it, any time there was a space in the wheels, it kept flopping up and down, until the train left and there was quite a bit of distance from it.
It looked so freaking dangerous, I was concerned enough to call with the local train authorities, and they were like "Yeah, that's normal. Why you think we make the freight trains move so slow in the first place" and basically hung up on me without wanting to even know exactly where.
I'd rather see both fucking companies impoverish themselves fighting this shit out in court.
One of my old history professors did his thesis on how African American Teenagers Danced to Jazz (?) in the 1930s in Philadelphia.
it's on the orders of Xenu.
Especially when the engineers/scientists/etc over in India realize that they can break away and form their own company that will undercut their former boss by not having to support his American middle/upper_management lard ass.
There are the consequences of building up your own future competition.
I hate the animated gif format because it's so often abused to make shitty, grainy silent versions of clips that could just be put on youtube or elsewhere - and probably take 5x of the bandwidth a proper format would have taken. Idk why people do that other than they lack basic video editing skills.
Next computer and phone will not be a mac then. /previous Apple customer.
OS X has a walled garden?
Actually, you can use the term "Classical Liberal" and it would be understand by most folks that know what the 17th Amendment did and why it wasn't good although it increase "democracy".
No need to apologize, we don't live in the age of the horrid babelfish anymore:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.henning-tillmann.de%2F2011%2F02%2Fbundesregierung-bestatigt-teure-it-umstellung%2F
WTF is this "learning a new OS all over again" stuff? You talk as if most of the staff have to fire up the CLI and get shocked when their beloved dos commands don't work.
Many people spend much of their time either in a browser or some productivity suite. Since Firefox has made huge inroads the past decade, it's not so much a worry. Most mainstream browser have negligible GUI differences. That leave the productivity suite -- which, since I don't really muck with, I can't gauge and someone will have to answer.
What worries me is the 5% cases where it's either hardware like a network scanner that worked with proprietary software or some unique app.
The Foreign Ministry left Linux back to windows just a little while back:
http://cuduwudu.com/2011/02/germany-bids-farewell-to-linux/
I think the Munich government is still on it but may be wrong.