You miss my point. I don't mind that M$ includes IE in their operating system (so-called), I object to not being able to easily replace it without having to do a search-and-destroy throughout the registry and what amounts to major surgery of the OS to get it completely out of the picture. Even then, there are applications and such that REQUIRE IE to work.
I don't care that M$ only comes with one browser, more power to them. I just don't like them FORCING me to use that browser. It's a security hazard in my opinion, and I'd like the option to COMPLETELY remove it from the system if I so choose.
"Microsoft includes Mozilla and IE in its default Windows install. This is something we would NEVER expect any other company to do."
But this is exactly what every distro of Linux I've come across actually does. They supply, at a minimum, two different browsers out of the box, and you can actually UNINSTALL the browser completely without affecting the operating system.
Can you say the same about Microsoft?? I doubt it.
I don't have a heartache with M$ using IE in their system, I have the heartache in that they've made it SO DIFFICULT to get rid of the beastie w/o castrating the system.
It's a matter of scale. Bob's kitchen box probably doesn't process billions of e-mails to millions of e-mail addresses. So on a e-mail/cpu cycle ratio, he has MORE horsepower than hotmail. More than enough to implement multiple different spam filter systems in fact.
If Bob starts providing an e-mail 'service' like Hotmail, then he has to manage his existing resources more carefully, THAT is true.
It was through their shortsightedness (at the time) and luck that gave the OS market to Gates. IBM was originally interested in CP/M for their Disk Operating System to run their new computer, but the owner/developer of CP/M didn't take them seriously enough. Gates did, and got the OS market, eventually. As for the other parts, other companies reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS chips in a white-room way (perfectly legal, if not morally so), and knock-off computers that were IBM COMPATIBLE became available on the market. The point being, it wasn't a CHOICE they made, but lack of vision. (For an example of the opposite happening, Apple sued a number of companies that were making compatible LOOKING computers to their iPaq computers a while back, and were successful in preventing these computers from being sold because they had basically trademarked the look of the machine).
The only problem with that is usually, you can do the right thing ONCE, and then you're out looking for another job. Whistleblower laws aren't truly effective enough to keep a determined supervisor from finding 'something' to terminate you over. If you're going to do the honorable thing, make sure it's the right honorable thing. You usually only get the chance to make the sacrifice once.
Yep, if it's the one I'm thinking of, I can't remember the name of it, but the gist of it was this guy discovers this abandoned terraforming ship and goes around doing 'jobs' for different civilizations to earn money to have the ship completely repaired. One of the jobs was for a society that had so many people that they couldn't feed them all, He gave them a 'meat beast' (dunno if it was chicken) that would continually grow in their basements. Just go down and hack some off for dinner.
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And the second rule about Stargate is you do not talk about Stargate!!
You miss my point. I don't mind that M$ includes IE in their operating system (so-called), I object to not being able to easily replace it without having to do a search-and-destroy throughout the registry and what amounts to major surgery of the OS to get it completely out of the picture. Even then, there are applications and such that REQUIRE IE to work.
I don't care that M$ only comes with one browser, more power to them. I just don't like them FORCING me to use that browser. It's a security hazard in my opinion, and I'd like the option to COMPLETELY remove it from the system if I so choose.
"Microsoft includes Mozilla and IE in its default Windows install. This is something we would NEVER expect any other company to do."
But this is exactly what every distro of Linux I've come across actually does. They supply, at a minimum, two different browsers out of the box, and you can actually UNINSTALL the browser completely without affecting the operating system.
Can you say the same about Microsoft?? I doubt it. I don't have a heartache with M$ using IE in their system, I have the heartache in that they've made it SO DIFFICULT to get rid of the beastie w/o castrating the system.
Deeper and deeper still??
It's a matter of scale. Bob's kitchen box probably doesn't process billions of e-mails to millions of e-mail addresses. So on a e-mail/cpu cycle ratio, he has MORE horsepower than hotmail. More than enough to implement multiple different spam filter systems in fact.
If Bob starts providing an e-mail 'service' like Hotmail, then he has to manage his existing resources more carefully, THAT is true.
We've got enough youth, I wish someone would find the fountain of smart. THAT we need more of.
It was through their shortsightedness (at the time) and luck that gave the OS market to Gates. IBM was originally interested in CP/M for their Disk Operating System to run their new computer, but the owner/developer of CP/M didn't take them seriously enough. Gates did, and got the OS market, eventually. As for the other parts, other companies reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS chips in a white-room way (perfectly legal, if not morally so), and knock-off computers that were IBM COMPATIBLE became available on the market. The point being, it wasn't a CHOICE they made, but lack of vision. (For an example of the opposite happening, Apple sued a number of companies that were making compatible LOOKING computers to their iPaq computers a while back, and were successful in preventing these computers from being sold because they had basically trademarked the look of the machine).
The only problem with that is usually, you can do the right thing ONCE, and then you're out looking for another job. Whistleblower laws aren't truly effective enough to keep a determined supervisor from finding 'something' to terminate you over. If you're going to do the honorable thing, make sure it's the right honorable thing. You usually only get the chance to make the sacrifice once.
Yep, if it's the one I'm thinking of, I can't remember the name of it, but the gist of it was this guy discovers this abandoned terraforming ship and goes around doing 'jobs' for different civilizations to earn money to have the ship completely repaired. One of the jobs was for a society that had so many people that they couldn't feed them all, He gave them a 'meat beast' (dunno if it was chicken) that would continually grow in their basements. Just go down and hack some off for dinner.