They WERE NOT smacked down for trying to give the user a choice. They WERE smacked down because Netscape were trying to arrange a deal where they would be the ONLY browser shipped with Windows systems. Now do you understand why MS were against that deal?
The fact that Microsoft "smacked down" anyone for bundling Netscape, whether they uninstalled IE or not, proves the point I was trying to make. IE was not part of Windows until Microsoft tried to make it part of Windows, through behavior such as this.
Is there anything that Microsoft has been sued for "illegally integrating" that a Linux distribution or Mac would be caught dead without? Monopoly or no monopoly, a modern OS requires an internet browser and a video player.
A modern OS should not, however, require threats from Microsoft to raise prices to OEMs who bundle alternative browser or media player software with their PCs--which is exactly what Microsoft has been caught doing. And can you name another OS that ships with only one browser?
I, and I imaging most people, have developed a natural habit of pausing for a half second when the light turns green, this gives the average red light runner the chance to become obvious so you can avoid them, and anyone who was "in the intersection" the chance to get clear of it. So I sit at the light an extra half second, anyone behind me who gets pissed off that quickly doesn't deserve to have their opinion of my driving count.
I'll do the same thing, nowadays. It wasn't so much that accident that changed my habit, though, as it was a more recent one wherein I waited five seconds before entering the intersection and still got nailed. That one wasn't my fault, but it was a much higher-speed collission.
I bet you even do that leading off crap that people do with red lights they think will soon turn green. I love it when people like you speed off, only for me to catch back up to you at the next red light.
Well-said. I have to wonder, though, if they threw that 52-year-old construction worker's quote into the article to give the article some illusion of objectivity. As it is, the article is heavily slanted in favor of the new traffic signal.
As far as speeding tickets goes, it is a doucmented fact that traffic laws are not for safety but revenue generation.
Oh, bullshit. Are you really going to try to say that there's no public safety motivation behind limiting speed through residential areas, school zones, etc.? Would you not be at all concerned if someone decided they were going to blow through said neighborhood or school zone at about 50mph, possibly turning some kid into road paste in the process?
If you want to rail against the establishment, fine--but exercise a little bit of rational thought, too.
Speeding is a habit, and another related habit is that of running red lights quickly after a yellow (ie, its yellow when they see it, so it MUST be yellow when they go through it.) I've seen quite a few near misses because of people burning through a sudden red becuase they'd rather not have to slow down.
In my case, it wasn't a near miss. The lady ran the yellow, only it was red before she entered the intersection. I moved out the instant the light turned green and got nailed. The shitty thing is, I got the ticket - because she was in the intersection when the light turned red, she had the right of way, according to Alabama traffic law.
So, with so much less in it, is it actually worth getting longhorn? By the time longhorn is out, it could be just a couple of years until blackcomb, so why not wait?
I think a lot of people, not to mention businesses, will have exactly this reaction. Taking the networkability out of WinFS makes Longhorn sound useless at the enterprise level. . . 'course, since I haven't really looked much into what features it does offer for large business users, I could be way off about that.
Lately, I've been about one full version behind the curve where MS operating systems are concerned, simply because there isn't enough functionality for me to justify spending $200 or more for the upgrade. XP doesn't offer anything essential that Windows 2000 (what I run at home) doesn't. WinFS sounds interesting, but everything else about Longhorn I could do without.
While I have no idea what MS will actually do, I can offer some thought as to what I would do: dispose of the current registry model in favor of a relational database model or an object-oriented model. The current method of storing registry information is a kludge. Using OO or RDB would allow information about different parts of the registry to be correlated, so that I wouldn't have to go through twenty thousand keys under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, another few hundred under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and a couple dozen under HKEY_USERS, all to remove crap that some application left behind when I decided to uninstall it.
Theoretically, MS developers could write code that would keep this new registry design backwards-compatible with third-party applications (which, ideally, should treat the registry as a black box). Windows geeks would have an easier time viewing and editing registry information; and heck, even non-geeks might be able to grok some of the information contained therein.
Do you want to watch what you want? Or do you want Hollywood to have total control? This is especially good for children and watching otherwise great movie with a few objectionable scenes.
I do watch what I want. If I don't want to watch "an otherwise great movie with a few objectionable scenes," I don't. Or else, if I do want to watch it, I suck it up and watch it.
I've seen a lot of comments about how this is "anti-Darwinism" in action. That's a bullshit reason not to like it. Climate control is anti-Darwinistic, too, but how many people complain about having it?
Best Buy actually has pretty decent prices for CDs, which might have something to do with that. Although, as someone else said a few days ago, the plural of "anecdote" is not data.
Just because they want to make real money from their code doesn't mean they are evil.
Funny, I've yet to see a license that explicitly tells the licensor, "you are not allowed to generate revenue with this product under this license." Even the GPL allows people to sell software--and support, which is how a smart software company butters its bread to begin with--as long as they include the source code with the binary executable.
As an earlier poster said: if you put anything online, expect someone to pick it up. This applies to E-mail, FTP, web traffic, Telnet. . . and it certainly applies to posts on Slashdot.
If you want a reasonable assurance of privacy, use encryption. Otherwise, your best bet is not to say or do anything online that might incriminate you in some fashion.
The Nixon/Bush presidency both seeded, orchestrated and allowed the 'terrorist' attacks to happen so that they could justify their fascist over-reaction, (which you are now living in the middle of.)
But since when increasing company's profit is a morally bad thing - as your whole posting suggests? Since when main concern of a manager or owner should be increasing the number of jobs instead of profits? Aren't companies run for profit - as opposed to charities, religious organizations etc.?
Not necessarily. Private companies are run for whatever reason their owner wishes to run them. Charities and religious organizations are companies, too; the major distinction is the clauses of the IRS code under which they're incorporated.
Can you give us some more information about how to contact your company? Maybe a few hundred thousand E-mails in their president's inbox would discourage the company from attempting such a technically-stupid tactic.
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They WERE NOT smacked down for trying to give the user a choice. They WERE smacked down because Netscape were trying to arrange a deal where they would be the ONLY browser shipped with Windows systems. Now do you understand why MS were against that deal?
The fact that Microsoft "smacked down" anyone for bundling Netscape, whether they uninstalled IE or not, proves the point I was trying to make. IE was not part of Windows until Microsoft tried to make it part of Windows, through behavior such as this.
Is there anything that Microsoft has been sued for "illegally integrating" that a Linux distribution or Mac would be caught dead without? Monopoly or no monopoly, a modern OS requires an internet browser and a video player.
A modern OS should not, however, require threats from Microsoft to raise prices to OEMs who bundle alternative browser or media player software with their PCs--which is exactly what Microsoft has been caught doing. And can you name another OS that ships with only one browser?
I, and I imaging most people, have developed a natural habit of pausing for a half second when the light turns green, this gives the average red light runner the chance to become obvious so you can avoid them, and anyone who was "in the intersection" the chance to get clear of it. So I sit at the light an extra half second, anyone behind me who gets pissed off that quickly doesn't deserve to have their opinion of my driving count.
I'll do the same thing, nowadays. It wasn't so much that accident that changed my habit, though, as it was a more recent one wherein I waited five seconds before entering the intersection and still got nailed. That one wasn't my fault, but it was a much higher-speed collission.
I bet you even do that leading off crap that people do with red lights they think will soon turn green. I love it when people like you speed off, only for me to catch back up to you at the next red light.
Here, Mr. Troll, have a biscuit.
Well-said. I have to wonder, though, if they threw that 52-year-old construction worker's quote into the article to give the article some illusion of objectivity. As it is, the article is heavily slanted in favor of the new traffic signal.
As far as speeding tickets goes, it is a doucmented fact that traffic laws are not for safety but revenue generation.
Oh, bullshit. Are you really going to try to say that there's no public safety motivation behind limiting speed through residential areas, school zones, etc.? Would you not be at all concerned if someone decided they were going to blow through said neighborhood or school zone at about 50mph, possibly turning some kid into road paste in the process?
If you want to rail against the establishment, fine--but exercise a little bit of rational thought, too.
Speeding is a habit, and another related habit is that of running red lights quickly after a yellow (ie, its yellow when they see it, so it MUST be yellow when they go through it.) I've seen quite a few near misses because of people burning through a sudden red becuase they'd rather not have to slow down.
In my case, it wasn't a near miss. The lady ran the yellow, only it was red before she entered the intersection. I moved out the instant the light turned green and got nailed. The shitty thing is, I got the ticket - because she was in the intersection when the light turned red, she had the right of way, according to Alabama traffic law.
Just one more reason this state is retarded. . .
How many projects have you worked on that you could solve just by throwing more programmers at it? Is your answer greater than zero?
So, with so much less in it, is it actually worth getting longhorn? By the time longhorn is out, it could be just a couple of years until blackcomb, so why not wait?
I think a lot of people, not to mention businesses, will have exactly this reaction. Taking the networkability out of WinFS makes Longhorn sound useless at the enterprise level. . . 'course, since I haven't really looked much into what features it does offer for large business users, I could be way off about that.
Lately, I've been about one full version behind the curve where MS operating systems are concerned, simply because there isn't enough functionality for me to justify spending $200 or more for the upgrade. XP doesn't offer anything essential that Windows 2000 (what I run at home) doesn't. WinFS sounds interesting, but everything else about Longhorn I could do without.
3. Will Longhorn keep the Windows Registry?
While I have no idea what MS will actually do, I can offer some thought as to what I would do: dispose of the current registry model in favor of a relational database model or an object-oriented model. The current method of storing registry information is a kludge. Using OO or RDB would allow information about different parts of the registry to be correlated, so that I wouldn't have to go through twenty thousand keys under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, another few hundred under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and a couple dozen under HKEY_USERS, all to remove crap that some application left behind when I decided to uninstall it.
Theoretically, MS developers could write code that would keep this new registry design backwards-compatible with third-party applications (which, ideally, should treat the registry as a black box). Windows geeks would have an easier time viewing and editing registry information; and heck, even non-geeks might be able to grok some of the information contained therein.
STFU, morons.
Don't mince words - tell us how you really feel. :)
Do you want to watch what you want? Or do you want Hollywood to have total control? This is especially good for children and watching otherwise great movie with a few objectionable scenes.
I do watch what I want. If I don't want to watch "an otherwise great movie with a few objectionable scenes," I don't. Or else, if I do want to watch it, I suck it up and watch it.
I've seen a lot of comments about how this is "anti-Darwinism" in action. That's a bullshit reason not to like it. Climate control is anti-Darwinistic, too, but how many people complain about having it?
Best Buy actually has pretty decent prices for CDs, which might have something to do with that. Although, as someone else said a few days ago, the plural of "anecdote" is not data.
Just because they want to make real money from their code doesn't mean they are evil.
Funny, I've yet to see a license that explicitly tells the licensor, "you are not allowed to generate revenue with this product under this license." Even the GPL allows people to sell software--and support, which is how a smart software company butters its bread to begin with--as long as they include the source code with the binary executable.
As an earlier poster said: if you put anything online, expect someone to pick it up. This applies to E-mail, FTP, web traffic, Telnet. . . and it certainly applies to posts on Slashdot.
If you want a reasonable assurance of privacy, use encryption. Otherwise, your best bet is not to say or do anything online that might incriminate you in some fashion.
My vote would be for +0, Indundant. :)
Hosting the show's audio for free is as good as paying the show to stay with them.
Since NPR subsists on donations from corporations and private individuals, I don't really see a problem with this.
Damn, next time I'm going to close that stupid <a> tag. Like this:
Paranoid much?
The Nixon/Bush presidency both seeded, orchestrated and allowed the 'terrorist' attacks to happen so that they could justify their fascist over-reaction, (which you are now living in the middle of.)
"Redundant," eh? :) I guess you weren't the first after all.
But since when increasing company's profit is a morally bad thing - as your whole posting suggests? Since when main concern of a manager or owner should be increasing the number of jobs instead of profits? Aren't companies run for profit - as opposed to charities, religious organizations etc.?
Not necessarily. Private companies are run for whatever reason their owner wishes to run them. Charities and religious organizations are companies, too; the major distinction is the clauses of the IRS code under which they're incorporated.
are people really this dumb?
Yes.
Can you give us some more information about how to contact your company? Maybe a few hundred thousand E-mails in their president's inbox would discourage the company from attempting such a technically-stupid tactic.
The engineers don't assemble the shuttle in space, so that shouldn't be an issue.