They have been told to stop repeatedly by multiple national governments and even have managed to be officially labeled as a monopoly by a court of law.
There is nothing wrong or illegal about being a monopoly - its called "winning". The problem is abuse of monopoly, which appears to be rather popular with MS.
Tablets won't be able to be fully certified by MS if they don't have secure boot enabled with no way of disabling it.
IANAL, but this would appear to contravene European laws on restrictive trade practices. I can see another monopoly related court case on the horizon, and a possible way for Europe to pay of its bankers.
Your government has, and will continue to do many disgraceful things which invade your privacy and limit your freedoms, but In this instance,... they learned how to do it properly from various governments abroad.
There is a downside to letting your government representatives go abroad!
Yes - when I bought my last car, I fitted a new stereo. When I fitted the speakers, inside the doors were three old speakers, loads of wire, some beer cans, a screwdriver and a broken pair of pliers. I did a thorough search of the rest of the car and found a lot of spare wires and coins under the rear seat, but no cocaine
Programming is not a fundamental skill in the same sense that mathematics, English, etc. are.
No, but it stands a good chance of teaching pupils how to give and receive instructions. There is a major problem in the UK with school leavers who cannot follow simple instructions like "open the text book and turn to page 10" - they will open some other book, or turn to some other page, or do something else entirely. This makes them unemployable - hence the need to import a large number of Polish workers to do menial tasks.
If you used MySQL or MSSQL instead of PostgreSQL, you should get someone else to kick you, because you are probably too stupid to kick yourself well enough.
You must be very young and foolish. Many of us who had used Unix, VMS and even CPM were as pissed as f*&$ when DOS appeared and we had to use it. We wanted an OS that worked properly, and all we got was sh*te.
Any goodwill to MS was confined to people who knew nothing else from day 1. As for Windows 1.0 - you can't handle the truth <throws ninja sword at screen>
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You might want to Google "PT Barnum"
There is nothing wrong or illegal about being a monopoly - its called "winning". The problem is abuse of monopoly, which appears to be rather popular with MS.
IANAL, but this would appear to contravene European laws on restrictive trade practices. I can see another monopoly related court case on the horizon, and a possible way for Europe to pay of its bankers.
You seem to be unfamiliar with Ryanair's prices. That is £50,000.00 + credit card charge + VAT per sector.
Is the output Makerbot compatible? I want to use this to design a next generation super jumbo for my Makerbot!
Frank Zappa said it all: "Schools prevent learning"
The standard procedure is "follow the money" - who do you think profits from the half baked security measures? (apart from Al Quaida, that is)
Most pilots really care about their appearance!
There is a downside to letting your government representatives go abroad!
Yes - when I bought my last car, I fitted a new stereo. When I fitted the speakers, inside the doors were three old speakers, loads of wire, some beer cans, a screwdriver and a broken pair of pliers. I did a thorough search of the rest of the car and found a lot of spare wires and coins under the rear seat, but no cocaine
Fixed it for ya!
OTOH, if he had done that here in the UK, he probably would have been arrested for "having information likely to be of use to a terrorist"
I don't think precedent is on your side here
Be careful - you could be extradited to North Korea just for saying that!
I think I will install NetBSD, thanks.
There, thats fixed it for you.
There, thats fixed it for you.
No, but it stands a good chance of teaching pupils how to give and receive instructions. There is a major problem in the UK with school leavers who cannot follow simple instructions like "open the text book and turn to page 10" - they will open some other book, or turn to some other page, or do something else entirely. This makes them unemployable - hence the need to import a large number of Polish workers to do menial tasks.
If you used MySQL or MSSQL instead of PostgreSQL, you should get someone else to kick you, because you are probably too stupid to kick yourself well enough.
There, that's fixed it for you!
Dell is right in the same sense that Ken Olsen was right when he said "Unix is snake oil"
Any goodwill to MS was confined to people who knew nothing else from day 1. As for Windows 1.0 - you can't handle the truth <throws ninja sword at screen>
If there is a court and a lawyer, there is room for a minimum of two arguments, probably more.
The expression is "beyond the styx" - the styx being the river that separates the world of the living from the world of the dead.
Here on /. we expect Zombies to fess up
How are you going to get politicians to vote for that?