Here's an interesting site (cached) that shows all the famous people that use apple computers and/or endorse them. Apple (I think) once used this as a promotion for their products but has since stopped the page (hence the cached version).
Dear Whoever
I am concerned about the extension to the RIP bill that is to be debated in Parliament shortly and as your constituent, ask of you to oppose it. It is an abusive and unnecessary extension to an already heavily intrusive act. This will allow multiple government departments that have nothing to do with law enforcement to access all manner of information on us without a Warrant. There is quite simply no need for such a high level of surveillance.
Whilst there is a need for the Police to be granted a limited amount of authority to combat practices like online Pedophillia in law, there is no need every government department from the department of transport to the Post office to legally obtain data about me without a warrant. A careful balance should be kept between the need to investigate crime and the civil rights of the individual that were once granted in the Data Protection act. This act gives unprecedented power to those not even involved with investigating crime without a thought for an individual's rights (A practice disturbingly commonplace in Blair's government) without increasing the efficiency of the police to combat crime in the slightest. The law already gives them ample powers.
Not to mention the potential for abuse that this act has. I'm sure you are already aware of the situation with Stephen Byers's Special Advisers, who tried to smear members of the Paddington Rail Crash Survivors Group. This act would have made it infinately easier for them to do so. Giving the Ministry of Transport the legal right to keep record of all of the phone calls they made, a list of all the websites they visited and read all of their e-mail. I hope you agree that this scandalous invasion of our privacy needs to be fought at all opportunities.
Yours Sincearly
I'm not sure, if you're going to be moving it around then maybe, but I wouldn't like to sacrifice build quality for weight. The thing that really turns me off a case is sharp edges.
BTW. What does everyone think here about drive rail brackets, as opposed to just screwing them into the drive bay?
Would have to be the Chieftec Dragon. It Looks amazing and comes in all sorts of silly colours (Mine Is bright green). Although it's not beyond the capability of anyone here to spray a case. They have Loadsa places to stick fans with little and even throw in a side panel fan (although it sounds like a lawnmower).
As if the consumer wasn't enough those scumbags are now trying to extort money from out education system. I personally am going to go about getting every school in my area to at least aknowledge the existence of sowtware suppliers that don't screw their customers over. As a high school student myself, this senseless waste of taxpayers money on Proprietry sowtware sickens me. My School has every M$ Application it's possible to have and the result: I'm the only person in a 1500 pupil school that knows how to use an OS other than Windows. For M$, this kills two birds with one stone; they can extort money from schools in the short term and then cash in on the fact that the've raised a whole generation of people that know nothing but their crappy software in the long term because they've discouraged their school from even providing an alternative to Windows. Sorry if this is too much of a rant but this really bugs me.
Our current laws (minus the DMCA) are efficient enough to track those infringing on copyright we don't need any more. The DMCA went way further than what was needed, any further legeslation would be just as detremental to the internet commons as the DMCA. Warez kiddies are easy enough to catch as it is. Don't forget about why the internet has grown so much in popularity, because it was unregulated and anarchratic, a haven for freedom of speech and expression, not for any other reason. People wouldn't have cared about the superhighway if it wasn't so full of information that was interesting to them.
For is interested in developing MODs and whatnot for this game I'll stick a load of links to the fan communities for this game and with some info about them.
Hard Light Productions It has only been going for about a year but this is where the main development for freespace goes on with active forums containing Render art mods and general discussion.
Freespace Watch The freespace branch of Volitionwatch, a large fan site covering all volition games with fairly strong links to Volition themselvs. Volition frequent the forums there. The place is slightly less MOD oientated than HLP but there are still lots of projects hosted including one total conversion for Babylon 5 which is well underway.
As a major contributor to the fan community of Freespace 1/2 I'll give you the background on this. Freespaces 1 and 2 were Originally relesed when Volition used Interplay as their Publisher. Since then Volition has been bought by THQ, a rival publisher although Interlplay still heald the rights which is why thes has been a bit sluggish. Interplay, as you know, was consumed by Titus recently and with a lot af campaigning by Dave Baranec (Head Programmer for Volition), on behalf of the fan community managed to get it relesed. Go over to http://www.3dap.com/hlp (Hard Light Productions) which is where the main hub of FreeSpace Development exists now since Volition's official BB was closed due to abuse. And don't forget to check out the forums. There is also a project going to create a Freespace Like game from scratch.
So Now anyone in the UK who wants Digital TV is going to have to chose between Rupert Murdoch or Bill Gates. Fantastic;-)
For those Americans Not in the Know obout our state of affairs accross the pond, ITV digital has Over bidded to get the TV rights to most Football (Soccar) games over here and as a result has gone bust. It's parent companies (both established broadcasters "Carlton" and "Granada" are using Legagal technicalities to get out of paying the Football clubs the money they were promised. This has left a lot of smaller, less well off clubs facing financial ruin, unless a buyer can be found. Whilst it is true that I think Microsoft is Vile, if it saves all of the threatened clubs my opinion of them will increase dramatically.
Sounding off: David Hewson: Give your children a head start at home
Computers ought to come with a mental-health warning, a little sign that hangs over the front of the monitor and reads: "It's only a machine, stupid."
For years, schools have been blundering around in the dark, trying to answer all the big questions. Are computers more important than books? If we have the internet, can we get rid of classrooms? For years, parents have been struggling to fathom the meaning of the smaller ones. Can you really turn the corner for a mathematical dunce by buying him a piece of educational software? Does buying a computer with a faster processor mean he learns more quickly? The answer to all the above is, naturally, no. Computers are aids to a good education, not magic bullets to make up for a bad one. If young Jimmy is struggling with calculus, what he needs is an after-school tutor, not a multimedia CD-Rom.
Teaching tools that go back a couple of centuries - namely people, books, pens, paper and classrooms - make the smartest computer program look like a caveman's adze. The wonderful thing about children is that while grown-ups have been studiously evading this truth, most of them twig it from day one.
Look at what kids do with technology - they discover and they communicate. These are two fundamental human needs, and they represent 99% of the value any computer can bring to most of our lives. The average young person knows this instinctively by the age of 10.
There is a dead simple reason why the young are more proficient with technology: they think about it less and use it more. Agonising over the role of computers in education is, for them, like staring at a fountain pen and trying to analyse why it is better than a ballpoint. Who cares? What does it matter? What every young person needs is equal access to the tools that their peers prefer. That means a standard Windows PC; Macs do not have the software the children will work with at school (if the Mac does, it will have a markedly different version). And forget about Linux, which would be like buying your child a car that runs on LPG (the Calor Gas so beloved of greenies) when they pass their driving test.
It means buying Microsoft application software, because, like it or not, this is going to be what they deal with when they go to college and, afterwards, when they try to find a job. Fobbing them off with Lotus SmartSuite is like a Dutch parent insisting his offspring be taught Latin instead of English. Both are perfectly acceptable languages, but the poor child will thank you for only one of them when he turns 18.
The choice, then, is between Microsoft's £90 parents' package, Worksuite 2002, and the discounted £110 "student desktop" licence for Office XP. Worksuite is an excellent bundle - the latest versions of Word and the Encarta encyclopedia, as well as more general software for photo editing, route planning and finance - but Office XP may still be the best bet, as it includes the ubiquitous spreadsheet program Excel and PowerPoint, a package still inflicted on British children by the national curriculum, in spite of modern child-cruelty laws.
XP does not have extra software such as an encyclopedia, so budget another £25 or so for Encarta, which, as well as being a valuable reference source, offers great links to related websites and an internal research organiser for collecting information on school projects.
Then plug them into the net, sit back and watch them go, maintaining, of course, the discreet care and support any child deserves. Help them to learn by asking them to teach you how to work the software. The worst thing is for a parent to leave them on their own to flounder.
david.hewson@sunday-times.co.uk and here's an e-mail address for you to give him your opinion on his article
Although I'm from the UK, a developed country. I, a school student couldn't help but notice that the sheer volume of M$ software in the schools is phenomenal. It seems only fitting to expose another one of their abusive stunts they pull in this thread. The tactis they seem to deploy is "Give it away cheap to all of the educational institutions so they don't know how to use anything but M$ products when they leave". I wonder if they'll try and pull a stunt like this in Mexico. My School, for example, has an M$ windows NT workstation with every app that Microsoft has made. I (foolishly) tried to bring in an Open Office document to use on the School's network and I had to go to the Sysop who had a computer with it on (his own, the only.nix box in the school). When I asked him about it he replied "Because it's cheap and nowerdays nobody knows how to use anything but it, neither are they willing". If they do something like this in a developing country (which they undoubtably will and are probably doing now) I can only inagine the damage it could do, especially when the BSA scumbags start putting the Kybosh on unlicenced software users.
What about Game Girls for the female market (If there is one for such devices, which I very much doubt). It could be coloured in a veriety of Pastel shades to sute their tastes.
.. Is this biggest problem with reguards to Mp3 file Sharing. I live in a rural area and 56k is the fastest connection I can get (without buying a Satellite) and in Urban areas a lot of people who are online don't exploit DSL or cable (or T1) because of whatever reasons. Otherwise I (and a lot of other people) would gladly download album after album of our favorite arists (Still, I don't buy from RIAA, their actions disgust me and I sit long downloads out). In the future Peoples' bandwidth is only going to increase as uptake of faster connections increases and becomes available in more areas, so the end of RIAA's stranglehold on music is in sight.
Unuseable heh? Well I'm using it to post this;-)
Hmm, On the court case: "Lindows" is a rather 'cheeky' name, even though it's not the full term as It is probably using both names to associate itself with the compatibility of both OSs in an attemt to draw users from them. Although one could argue that it refers to the boxes in a WIMP. environment.
I have been using Netscape as my browser ever since I've been online but This is just another of my many disappointments with Netscape 6, which prompted my move to Konqueror and Mozilla. My first complaint is its bloat then its Allergic reactions to java and now this. Maybe I was wrong about AOL as Netscape has changed for the worse. It's a good thing we have Mozilla.
I am aware that this has nothing to do with europe but it would be worthwhile to write to our democratic representitives here to make sure it stays that way.
So here are the links (they're in English)
Info on contacting your MP. if you live in the UK (like me)Info on contacting your MEP
If someone could post links to sites that help people contact politicians in other contries that would be great.
and I wonder what percentage of those actually know anything about how the net works. Whilst I am pleased to see that more and people have access to a huge ammount of information, I am slightly saddened at the destruction of the old times at the hands of AOLers and Jeff K. Talkalikes.
So do you mean to tell me that the High price tag, frequent crashing, bugs and Bloat of Windows make it useable not to mention its "dumbed down" to the point where only a kid could bare to use it. The GIMP is a great image editor and there are hundereds of news/mail programs for it. Cull google if you don't believe me:-) But each to their own:p
Hmm, maybe you do make a few valid points but the fact is that computers aren't cheap and before making an expensive purchase one would normally do some research into how to spend yor money most wisely. Obviously the huge popularity of an OS that crashes all the time would prove that to the contrary. I would be tempted to sit back and laugh if the implications for us weren't so serious (MS is not a "nice" competitor).
I have tried in vain to pimp Linux to everyone I know but the answer is still the same. Either "There is no software for it" or "it's too hard". I mention this here as I am trying to understand why people keep chosing MS over linux (I am aware that about 80% of Windows users have never even heard of Linux which is an issue in itself). Anyhow, both of which couldn't be further from the truth. Linux is very different but its advantages are clear (Not crashing all the dam time for a start) KDE and Gnome make everything nice 'n easy for the newbies and there is no end of free software on the net. After thinking about this for a while I realized that it all came down to conformity. The "everyone else has it so I have to attitude" and I realized that the neumerous arguments I've had in real life with my many student peers over this issue were all in vain as the above mentality is as irrational as it comes and as Ingersoll said "To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead". So let's just sit back take the time to congratulate ourselvs for using an OS that we couldn't expect any more from, laugh at the ignorant Windows weenies and then we can write to our senators and register our opinions on M$ so they can ignore us as they cash another check from them.
As much hastle as I've given AOL users on B. Boards (believe me it's a lot). Accidentally clicking wrongly on a one click confirmation is fairly easy to do, especially considering the experience of AOL users. As a company I've never had a problem with them though, as they seem to give the companies they own enough independance and they're the only company with enough muscle to do M$ some damage.
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The Biologist Richard Dawkins (author of The Selfish Gene, River out of Eden, The Blind Watchmaker and more) has been an outspoken fan of macs for That very reason. I think he's writted some software for them himself (ai programs that mutate and evolve). Perhaps someone could find out more on this.
Here's an interesting site (cached) that shows all the famous people that use apple computers and/or endorse them. Apple (I think) once used this as a promotion for their products but has since stopped the page (hence the cached version).
Wow, who'd have thought. The Blotto box does exist and the British police have one.
Dear Whoever
I am concerned about the extension to the RIP bill that is to be debated in Parliament shortly and as your constituent, ask of you to oppose it. It is an abusive and unnecessary extension to an already heavily intrusive act. This will allow multiple government departments that have nothing to do with law enforcement to access all manner of information on us without a Warrant. There is quite simply no need for such a high level of surveillance.
Whilst there is a need for the Police to be granted a limited amount of authority to combat practices like online Pedophillia in law, there is no need every government department from the department of transport to the Post office to legally obtain data about me without a warrant. A careful balance should be kept between the need to investigate crime and the civil rights of the individual that were once granted in the Data Protection act. This act gives unprecedented power to those not even involved with investigating crime without a thought for an individual's rights (A practice disturbingly commonplace in Blair's government) without increasing the efficiency of the police to combat crime in the slightest. The law already gives them ample powers.
Not to mention the potential for abuse that this act has. I'm sure you are already aware of the situation with Stephen Byers's Special Advisers, who tried to smear members of the Paddington Rail Crash Survivors Group. This act would have made it infinately easier for them to do so. Giving the Ministry of Transport the legal right to keep record of all of the phone calls they made, a list of all the websites they visited and read all of their e-mail. I hope you agree that this scandalous invasion of our privacy needs to be fought at all opportunities.
Yours Sincearly
The Chieftec Dragon my good man. It also comes in Mauve, Yellow, Bright Green, Blue, Brown, Black and Silver.
I'm not sure, if you're going to be moving it around then maybe, but I wouldn't like to sacrifice build quality for weight. The thing that really turns me off a case is sharp edges.
BTW. What does everyone think here about drive rail brackets, as opposed to just screwing them into the drive bay?
Would have to be the Chieftec Dragon. It Looks amazing and comes in all sorts of silly colours (Mine Is bright green). Although it's not beyond the capability of anyone here to spray a case. They have Loadsa places to stick fans with little and even throw in a side panel fan (although it sounds like a lawnmower).
As if the consumer wasn't enough those scumbags are now trying to extort money from out education system. I personally am going to go about getting every school in my area to at least aknowledge the existence of sowtware suppliers that don't screw their customers over. As a high school student myself, this senseless waste of taxpayers money on Proprietry sowtware sickens me. My School has every M$ Application it's possible to have and the result: I'm the only person in a 1500 pupil school that knows how to use an OS other than Windows. For M$, this kills two birds with one stone; they can extort money from schools in the short term and then cash in on the fact that the've raised a whole generation of people that know nothing but their crappy software in the long term because they've discouraged their school from even providing an alternative to Windows. Sorry if this is too much of a rant but this really bugs me.
Our current laws (minus the DMCA) are efficient enough to track those infringing on copyright we don't need any more. The DMCA went way further than what was needed, any further legeslation would be just as detremental to the internet commons as the DMCA. Warez kiddies are easy enough to catch as it is. Don't forget about why the internet has grown so much in popularity, because it was unregulated and anarchratic, a haven for freedom of speech and expression, not for any other reason. People wouldn't have cared about the superhighway if it wasn't so full of information that was interesting to them.
For is interested in developing MODs and whatnot for this game I'll stick a load of links to the fan communities for this game and with some info about them.
Hard Light Productions It has only been going for about a year but this is where the main development for freespace goes on with active forums containing Render art mods and general discussion.
Freespace Watch The freespace branch of Volitionwatch, a large fan site covering all volition games with fairly strong links to Volition themselvs. Volition frequent the forums there. The place is slightly less MOD oientated than HLP but there are still lots of projects hosted including one total conversion for Babylon 5 which is well underway.
As a major contributor to the fan community of Freespace 1/2 I'll give you the background on this. Freespaces 1 and 2 were Originally relesed when Volition used Interplay as their Publisher. Since then Volition has been bought by THQ, a rival publisher although Interlplay still heald the rights which is why thes has been a bit sluggish. Interplay, as you know, was consumed by Titus recently and with a lot af campaigning by Dave Baranec (Head Programmer for Volition), on behalf of the fan community managed to get it relesed. Go over to http://www.3dap.com/hlp (Hard Light Productions) which is where the main hub of FreeSpace Development exists now since Volition's official BB was closed due to abuse. And don't forget to check out the forums. There is also a project going to create a Freespace Like game from scratch.
So Now anyone in the UK who wants Digital TV is going to have to chose between Rupert Murdoch or Bill Gates. Fantastic ;-)
For those Americans Not in the Know obout our state of affairs accross the pond, ITV digital has Over bidded to get the TV rights to most Football (Soccar) games over here and as a result has gone bust. It's parent companies (both established broadcasters "Carlton" and "Granada" are using Legagal technicalities to get out of paying the Football clubs the money they were promised. This has left a lot of smaller, less well off clubs facing financial ruin, unless a buyer can be found. Whilst it is true that I think Microsoft is Vile, if it saves all of the threatened clubs my opinion of them will increase dramatically.
Here's that article:
Sounding off: David Hewson: Give your children a head start at home Computers ought to come with a mental-health warning, a little sign that hangs over the front of the monitor and reads: "It's only a machine, stupid." For years, schools have been blundering around in the dark, trying to answer all the big questions. Are computers more important than books? If we have the internet, can we get rid of classrooms? For years, parents have been struggling to fathom the meaning of the smaller ones. Can you really turn the corner for a mathematical dunce by buying him a piece of educational software? Does buying a computer with a faster processor mean he learns more quickly? The answer to all the above is, naturally, no. Computers are aids to a good education, not magic bullets to make up for a bad one. If young Jimmy is struggling with calculus, what he needs is an after-school tutor, not a multimedia CD-Rom. Teaching tools that go back a couple of centuries - namely people, books, pens, paper and classrooms - make the smartest computer program look like a caveman's adze. The wonderful thing about children is that while grown-ups have been studiously evading this truth, most of them twig it from day one. Look at what kids do with technology - they discover and they communicate. These are two fundamental human needs, and they represent 99% of the value any computer can bring to most of our lives. The average young person knows this instinctively by the age of 10. There is a dead simple reason why the young are more proficient with technology: they think about it less and use it more. Agonising over the role of computers in education is, for them, like staring at a fountain pen and trying to analyse why it is better than a ballpoint. Who cares? What does it matter? What every young person needs is equal access to the tools that their peers prefer. That means a standard Windows PC; Macs do not have the software the children will work with at school (if the Mac does, it will have a markedly different version). And forget about Linux, which would be like buying your child a car that runs on LPG (the Calor Gas so beloved of greenies) when they pass their driving test. It means buying Microsoft application software, because, like it or not, this is going to be what they deal with when they go to college and, afterwards, when they try to find a job. Fobbing them off with Lotus SmartSuite is like a Dutch parent insisting his offspring be taught Latin instead of English. Both are perfectly acceptable languages, but the poor child will thank you for only one of them when he turns 18. The choice, then, is between Microsoft's £90 parents' package, Worksuite 2002, and the discounted £110 "student desktop" licence for Office XP. Worksuite is an excellent bundle - the latest versions of Word and the Encarta encyclopedia, as well as more general software for photo editing, route planning and finance - but Office XP may still be the best bet, as it includes the ubiquitous spreadsheet program Excel and PowerPoint, a package still inflicted on British children by the national curriculum, in spite of modern child-cruelty laws. XP does not have extra software such as an encyclopedia, so budget another £25 or so for Encarta, which, as well as being a valuable reference source, offers great links to related websites and an internal research organiser for collecting information on school projects. Then plug them into the net, sit back and watch them go, maintaining, of course, the discreet care and support any child deserves. Help them to learn by asking them to teach you how to work the software. The worst thing is for a parent to leave them on their own to flounder. david.hewson@sunday-times.co.uk and here's an e-mail address for you to give him your opinion on his article
Although I'm from the UK, a developed country. I, a school student couldn't help but notice that the sheer volume of M$ software in the schools is phenomenal. It seems only fitting to expose another one of their abusive stunts they pull in this thread. The tactis they seem to deploy is "Give it away cheap to all of the educational institutions so they don't know how to use anything but M$ products when they leave". I wonder if they'll try and pull a stunt like this in Mexico. My School, for example, has an M$ windows NT workstation with every app that Microsoft has made. I (foolishly) tried to bring in an Open Office document to use on the School's network and I had to go to the Sysop who had a computer with it on (his own, the only .nix box in the school). When I asked him about it he replied "Because it's cheap and nowerdays nobody knows how to use anything but it, neither are they willing". If they do something like this in a developing country (which they undoubtably will and are probably doing now) I can only inagine the damage it could do, especially when the BSA scumbags start putting the Kybosh on unlicenced software users.
What about Game Girls for the female market (If there is one for such devices, which I very much doubt). It could be coloured in a veriety of Pastel shades to sute their tastes.
.. Is this biggest problem with reguards to Mp3 file Sharing. I live in a rural area and 56k is the fastest connection I can get (without buying a Satellite) and in Urban areas a lot of people who are online don't exploit DSL or cable (or T1) because of whatever reasons. Otherwise I (and a lot of other people) would gladly download album after album of our favorite arists (Still, I don't buy from RIAA, their actions disgust me and I sit long downloads out). In the future Peoples' bandwidth is only going to increase as uptake of faster connections increases and becomes available in more areas, so the end of RIAA's stranglehold on music is in sight.
We should be able to sue them over their use of "X" in the "X Box"
Unuseable heh? Well I'm using it to post this ;-)
Hmm, On the court case: "Lindows" is a rather 'cheeky' name, even though it's not the full term as It is probably using both names to associate itself with the compatibility of both OSs in an attemt to draw users from them. Although one could argue that it refers to the boxes in a WIMP. environment.
I have been using Netscape as my browser ever since I've been online but This is just another of my many disappointments with Netscape 6, which prompted my move to Konqueror and Mozilla. My first complaint is its bloat then its Allergic reactions to java and now this. Maybe I was wrong about AOL as Netscape has changed for the worse. It's a good thing we have Mozilla.
I am aware that this has nothing to do with europe but it would be worthwhile to write to our democratic representitives here to make sure it stays that way. So here are the links (they're in English) Info on contacting your MP. if you live in the UK (like me) Info on contacting your MEP If someone could post links to sites that help people contact politicians in other contries that would be great.
and I wonder what percentage of those actually know anything about how the net works. Whilst I am pleased to see that more and people have access to a huge ammount of information, I am slightly saddened at the destruction of the old times at the hands of AOLers and Jeff K. Talkalikes.
So do you mean to tell me that the High price tag, frequent crashing, bugs and Bloat of Windows make it useable not to mention its "dumbed down" to the point where only a kid could bare to use it. The GIMP is a great image editor and there are hundereds of news/mail programs for it. Cull google if you don't believe me :-) But each to their own :p
Hmm, maybe you do make a few valid points but the fact is that computers aren't cheap and before making an expensive purchase one would normally do some research into how to spend yor money most wisely. Obviously the huge popularity of an OS that crashes all the time would prove that to the contrary. I would be tempted to sit back and laugh if the implications for us weren't so serious (MS is not a "nice" competitor).
I have tried in vain to pimp Linux to everyone I know but the answer is still the same. Either "There is no software for it" or "it's too hard". I mention this here as I am trying to understand why people keep chosing MS over linux (I am aware that about 80% of Windows users have never even heard of Linux which is an issue in itself). Anyhow, both of which couldn't be further from the truth. Linux is very different but its advantages are clear (Not crashing all the dam time for a start) KDE and Gnome make everything nice 'n easy for the newbies and there is no end of free software on the net. After thinking about this for a while I realized that it all came down to conformity. The "everyone else has it so I have to attitude" and I realized that the neumerous arguments I've had in real life with my many student peers over this issue were all in vain as the above mentality is as irrational as it comes and as Ingersoll said "To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead". So let's just sit back take the time to congratulate ourselvs for using an OS that we couldn't expect any more from, laugh at the ignorant Windows weenies and then we can write to our senators and register our opinions on M$ so they can ignore us as they cash another check from them.
As much hastle as I've given AOL users on B. Boards (believe me it's a lot). Accidentally clicking wrongly on a one click confirmation is fairly easy to do, especially considering the experience of AOL users. As a company I've never had a problem with them though, as they seem to give the companies they own enough independance and they're the only company with enough muscle to do M$ some damage.