"Rupert Murdoch is pointing a gun to Google's head, and Microsoft is helping him pull back the trigger."
Oh old Rupert, is it really Google's head, or did you write G O O G L E on your toes? (Yeah that's right, Rupert Murdoch has 6 toes on each foot, you heard it here first!)
Murdoch seems to think that people use Google to search Murdoch's sites.
By Murdoch's logic, clearly if he withdraws his sites from Google, people will stop using Google to search his sites. But hardly anyone using Google has the intention of "searching his sites". People just want information--most people don't care which site has the information as long as it's good information. If Murdoch pulls out of Google that just means fewer people will visit Murdoch's sites. Nobody is going to give a toss about the fact that Fox won't show up on Google.
This entire strategy suggests that Murdoch misunderstands his own readers.
BINGO. We search by topic, not source. Once we do that, we find out who we trust (and who we don't) and add them to our bookmarks.
My only option out here in the stix (except for Hughes.net:P ) is Verizon AirCard Broadband. $80/months for 5GB. I would love to have Charter's "limits."
God doesn't send or condemn anyone to hell. You, as a father, can teach your son to live right and you can love him unconditionally, but he can still choose to ignore you, get drunk, and slam a car into a tree. Did you pour Jack Daniels down his throat and push his car into that tree? Of course not! If he does that and survives, you will still love him, but he will have to live with the consequences of his own reckless behavior. See the pattern here?
As far as not believing in hell, what we believe has no effect on whether it is there or not. Believe the sky is yellow with green spots if you want; the color won't change.
He made us with free will - to know Him or not.
This title had me going for a few seconds. Shouldn't it read, "A Windows desktop for Linux users?" Don't get my hopes up for installing KDE or Gnome on my Win2k box!
Nahh... Reloaded is right. It shows that MS recognizes that users have to do this with their systems every few months. Maybe "Reinstalled" would be better, though.
True. My father, grandfather, and great-grandfather (a personal friend of George Eastman and one of the last people to see him alive) were all career R&D engineers with Kodak (back in the wonderful no-layoff days). They could never talk about what they were doing, but we got a lot of free experimental film over the years. They have what it takes in that department to make this work if they so choose, and have always been committed to r&d. If the engineers have a say in things, Kodak will survive.
That was my first reaction, too. Scared the crap out of me for a minute until I went to the article.
I guess the scariest thing was that I thought somebody *could* be claiming patent ownership over Cascading Style Sheets. Hey, others have tried it with hyperlinks, etc. I wouldn't have been surprised.
Do you hire people, or buy them? Slavery ended in 1865.
Employment is a two-way street. Employer and employee get and give something of value. Its called MUTUAL RESPECT - a concept you apparently don't comprehend.
Please reveal your company name so the good people here can avoid you like the measles.
In 2001 I got one of these clauses changed to one that simply said: 1.) that what I do on my own time and with my own resources belongs to me as long as it does not compete with any product or service offered by the employer. 2.) I won't advertise my personal business services to company customers and won't use any company resources to promote my other business. They thought that was very reasonable and accepted it with no argument. It was just a standard contract (who comes up with this crap?) and nobody had thought about it before.
Try that. Any company that cannot accept such reasonable terms as this should be avoided.
If they reject it, you will have learned something about the company; they would be HELL to work for and you probably won't last long there. They will expect 100% loyalty and obedience from you, and (from what I have seen) will show you no such loyalty in return because they consider you no better than raw chuck.
In 2001 I got one of these clauses changed to one that simply said: 1.) that what I do on my own time and with my own resources belongs to me as long as it does not compete with any product or service offered by the employer. 2.) I won't advertise my personal business services to company customers. They thought that was very reasonable and accepted it with no argument.
When I first made my objection known to the employer, they said, "Well, that's not really what it means," I responded, "But that is what is SAYS." The "spirit" of the clause means nothing in court. It means what it says. Contracts do that. It must be dealt with up front.
I would like to get my hands on one of these if it does not include all the applications i dont need - windows messenger , internet explorer, Outlook express.
This version of Windows has been around for a long time. It is called NT4.
Way back in the day of the original Prodigy videotext service, the bottom quarter of each page was an ad. It was well known that Prodigy users (including me) trained themselves unconsciously to blank that part of the screen from their minds.
The rest just sums up what we have always known. People generally don't read Web pages; they scan.
How do you define "religious kook?" Someone who believes in God? He is very "moderate" within the overall spectrum of Christianity. You said more about yourself with that comment than you said about GWB.
Sinful arrogance? Look at the election map. People from all over voted for him, except the big, liberal cities. Maybe you'd better check yourself for sinful ignorance. True - many Republicans (including RINOs like McCain) have strayed FAR away, but compare them to Democrats, please. Most of them have become outright socialists who can't tell the truth about anything.
Republicans have never tried to be like Libertarians. Where did you get the idea that Libertarianism is the standard against which all political ideologies must be judged?
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Is this really the only way Microsoft can make their products look good, by overtly attempting to damage competitors' products?
It has worked for them since 1981. Why change now?
"Rupert Murdoch is pointing a gun to Google's head, and Microsoft is helping him pull back the trigger."
Oh old Rupert, is it really Google's head, or did you write G O O G L E on your toes? (Yeah that's right, Rupert Murdoch has 6 toes on each foot, you heard it here first!)
I think he wrote it on his hind parts.
Microsoft these days is a poor imitator.
These days? How about the last 28+/- years?
Murdoch seems to think that people use Google to search Murdoch's sites. By Murdoch's logic, clearly if he withdraws his sites from Google, people will stop using Google to search his sites. But hardly anyone using Google has the intention of "searching his sites". People just want information--most people don't care which site has the information as long as it's good information. If Murdoch pulls out of Google that just means fewer people will visit Murdoch's sites. Nobody is going to give a toss about the fact that Fox won't show up on Google. This entire strategy suggests that Murdoch misunderstands his own readers.
BINGO. We search by topic, not source. Once we do that, we find out who we trust (and who we don't) and add them to our bookmarks.
My only option out here in the stix (except for Hughes.net :P ) is Verizon AirCard Broadband. $80/months for 5GB. I would love to have Charter's "limits."
God doesn't send or condemn anyone to hell. You, as a father, can teach your son to live right and you can love him unconditionally, but he can still choose to ignore you, get drunk, and slam a car into a tree. Did you pour Jack Daniels down his throat and push his car into that tree? Of course not! If he does that and survives, you will still love him, but he will have to live with the consequences of his own reckless behavior. See the pattern here? As far as not believing in hell, what we believe has no effect on whether it is there or not. Believe the sky is yellow with green spots if you want; the color won't change. He made us with free will - to know Him or not.
WinXP on my Dell laptop does the same thing.
In the US "qualified" often also means "young enough." Really what it means is "young and cheap."
You: "Ok Vishnu...
"No, my name is John (or is it Mike)! How may I help you?"
The moon doesn't even have a real estate commission. How am I supposed to get licensed to sell property up there?
Alfred E. Newman: What me worry?
More like, "Nodody will ever need more than 640k patches."
This title had me going for a few seconds. Shouldn't it read, "A Windows desktop for Linux users?" Don't get my hopes up for installing KDE or Gnome on my Win2k box!
Nahh... Reloaded is right. It shows that MS recognizes that users have to do this with their systems every few months. Maybe "Reinstalled" would be better, though.
True. My father, grandfather, and great-grandfather (a personal friend of George Eastman and one of the last people to see him alive) were all career R&D engineers with Kodak (back in the wonderful no-layoff days). They could never talk about what they were doing, but we got a lot of free experimental film over the years. They have what it takes in that department to make this work if they so choose, and have always been committed to r&d. If the engineers have a say in things, Kodak will survive.
You can find mandrake in the Bible. That predates any cartoons, I think.
That was my first reaction, too. Scared the crap out of me for a minute until I went to the article. I guess the scariest thing was that I thought somebody *could* be claiming patent ownership over Cascading Style Sheets. Hey, others have tried it with hyperlinks, etc. I wouldn't have been surprised.
Do you hire people, or buy them? Slavery ended in 1865. Employment is a two-way street. Employer and employee get and give something of value. Its called MUTUAL RESPECT - a concept you apparently don't comprehend. Please reveal your company name so the good people here can avoid you like the measles.
In 2001 I got one of these clauses changed to one that simply said: 1.) that what I do on my own time and with my own resources belongs to me as long as it does not compete with any product or service offered by the employer. 2.) I won't advertise my personal business services to company customers and won't use any company resources to promote my other business. They thought that was very reasonable and accepted it with no argument. It was just a standard contract (who comes up with this crap?) and nobody had thought about it before. Try that. Any company that cannot accept such reasonable terms as this should be avoided. If they reject it, you will have learned something about the company; they would be HELL to work for and you probably won't last long there. They will expect 100% loyalty and obedience from you, and (from what I have seen) will show you no such loyalty in return because they consider you no better than raw chuck.
In 2001 I got one of these clauses changed to one that simply said: 1.) that what I do on my own time and with my own resources belongs to me as long as it does not compete with any product or service offered by the employer. 2.) I won't advertise my personal business services to company customers. They thought that was very reasonable and accepted it with no argument.
When I first made my objection known to the employer, they said, "Well, that's not really what it means," I responded, "But that is what is SAYS." The "spirit" of the clause means nothing in court. It means what it says. Contracts do that. It must be dealt with up front.
I would like to get my hands on one of these if it does not include all the applications i dont need - windows messenger , internet explorer, Outlook express.
This version of Windows has been around for a long time. It is called NT4.
...a compiler and runtime system that provides an easy, C-like programming environment...
Well, which is it - easy or C-like?
Way back in the day of the original Prodigy videotext service, the bottom quarter of each page was an ad. It was well known that Prodigy users (including me) trained themselves unconsciously to blank that part of the screen from their minds. The rest just sums up what we have always known. People generally don't read Web pages; they scan.
Never buy a Microsoft OS until it reaches SP2.
It served me well with NT and 2000.
How do you define "religious kook?" Someone who believes in God? He is very "moderate" within the overall spectrum of Christianity. You said more about yourself with that comment than you said about GWB.
Sinful arrogance? Look at the election map. People from all over voted for him, except the big, liberal cities. Maybe you'd better check yourself for sinful ignorance. True - many Republicans (including RINOs like McCain) have strayed FAR away, but compare them to Democrats, please. Most of them have become outright socialists who can't tell the truth about anything.
Republicans have never tried to be like Libertarians. Where did you get the idea that Libertarianism is the standard against which all political ideologies must be judged?