One possibility to consider is that this is all a red herring. Microsoft might be doing this to give corporate CIOs a methodology for booting Linux out of business IT.
Corporate CIOs want more than anything to use Microsoft everywhere, for everything, forever. The popularity of Linux has been driven from below, and CIOs have been unable to stop it because they had no ammunition to kill it convincingly; that is, they had no PowerPoint slide they could show the rest of the executive staff explaining effectively why Microsoft was better.
This new strategy would involve admitting the benefits of Linux, but could reference this new research as proof of Microsoft superiority and thus give CIOs the ammunition they need to keep Linux out. Microsoft doesn't actually have to ever change anything or improve at all.
While we're talking about obsoletion, why not include the very Corporate IT Managers and Analysts this article quotes? While sacking/offshoring thousand of jobs, their own overpaid positions have been safeguarded, but for how long, considering the savings for axing them are many times that of regular workers?
It would be "Capitalism" if the practice of offshoring weren't artificially prevented from affecting the executive ranks. If it weren't so prevented, every American C-level executive could be replaced overnight by a foreigner from places like India, Russia, or China, people with an excellent business education, flawless written and spoken English, and superb knowledge of American culture necessary to function as a corporate executive.
I think this "counterattack" may have already begun. About a couple of weeks ago, I noticed a huge increase in the amount of spam posted to Usenet newsgroups, as well as non-Usenet news servers.
...and the sad, dark era of American global tyranny draws ever closer.
Young minds faster? Maybe, but also often wrong.
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Coming to an answer faster doesnâ(TM)t mean they get the right answer. Younger minds try to reach the right answer often by scatter-shot; sequentially trying solutions until they find one that works. An older worker will take more time to consider the problem and arrive at a good solution in less time than the younger worker.
Listening to countries like South Korea and the US whine about North Korea's nuclear and hacker programs is like listening to the mafia whine about the local three-card-monte grifter.
Think about how much time they would have to spend trying to reverse-engineer IE's quirks.
They'd have no time at all left over to actually develop the rest of Mozilla.
However, there's nothing stopping a group of outside developers from developing a Mozilla "add-on" that does this. Mozilla's open source, remember.
Actually, that's what I always hoped Composer would implement. WYSIWYG editing of CSS2 fundamentally involves layout of boxes in different display modes such as block, inline, and the table and list modes.
Unfortunately, Composer (and all other WYSIWYG page editors) adopt a word-processor motif for editing web pages that poorly corresponds to the actual markup and style information being constructed.
Those "javascript programmers" that thinks Mozilla's JavaScript implementation is buggier than IE's fail to understand is that Microsoft doesn't use JavaScript, they use JScript.
Bush could use such a program to develop even more and more terrible nuclear weapons. A cadre of tens of thousands of weapons inspectors must be dispatched to the US at once with full authority to access all facilities and materials to find illicit programs to develop such weapons.
Noncompliance should result in an invasion of the US and removal of the Bush regime from power.
(Hey, live by the sword,...)
What ridiculous nonsense. If the US is going to be such a dick about Russia and the ISS, the the UN should expel the US for nonpayment as well, and tell them to take their phony war bullshit with them a cram it, along with their ridiculous flag, straight up their pansy asses.
Wow! So this is how Republicans are born!
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That's the type of response typical to people who support fanatical, fundamentalist tyrannies. Deep in your heart you know he's evil, but you don't care as long as he makes you wealthy and militarily dominates others. You'd kill the world to satisfy your own ego.
I take it you support Bush. Your reply is exactly reminiscient of how Nazi symphathizers used to respond to people who criticized Hitler. The similarity doesn't surprise me.
This thread is right. I, unfortunately, am an American, and the last thing I want to see (knowing the sadism and evil of most Americans) is what the article's author suggests: spatial areas or other planetary bodies being ruled by America. It won't benefit ordinary Americans, whether good or bad; it will benefit corporate CEOs, period.
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One possibility to consider is that this is all a red herring. Microsoft might be doing this to give corporate CIOs a methodology for booting Linux out of business IT. Corporate CIOs want more than anything to use Microsoft everywhere, for everything, forever. The popularity of Linux has been driven from below, and CIOs have been unable to stop it because they had no ammunition to kill it convincingly; that is, they had no PowerPoint slide they could show the rest of the executive staff explaining effectively why Microsoft was better. This new strategy would involve admitting the benefits of Linux, but could reference this new research as proof of Microsoft superiority and thus give CIOs the ammunition they need to keep Linux out. Microsoft doesn't actually have to ever change anything or improve at all.
I, for one, welcome our new genetically-engineered plant overlords!
While we're talking about obsoletion, why not include the very Corporate IT Managers and Analysts this article quotes? While sacking/offshoring thousand of jobs, their own overpaid positions have been safeguarded, but for how long, considering the savings for axing them are many times that of regular workers?
It would be "Capitalism" if the practice of offshoring weren't artificially prevented from affecting the executive ranks. If it weren't so prevented, every American C-level executive could be replaced overnight by a foreigner from places like India, Russia, or China, people with an excellent business education, flawless written and spoken English, and superb knowledge of American culture necessary to function as a corporate executive.
I think this "counterattack" may have already begun. About a couple of weeks ago, I noticed a huge increase in the amount of spam posted to Usenet newsgroups, as well as non-Usenet news servers.
...and the sad, dark era of American global tyranny draws ever closer.
Coming to an answer faster doesnâ(TM)t mean they get the right answer. Younger minds try to reach the right answer often by scatter-shot; sequentially trying solutions until they find one that works. An older worker will take more time to consider the problem and arrive at a good solution in less time than the younger worker.
Listening to countries like South Korea and the US whine about North Korea's nuclear and hacker programs is like listening to the mafia whine about the local three-card-monte grifter.
How in the Universe does Dennis Tito rate as a *dignitary*?
Think about how much time they would have to spend trying to reverse-engineer IE's quirks. They'd have no time at all left over to actually develop the rest of Mozilla. However, there's nothing stopping a group of outside developers from developing a Mozilla "add-on" that does this. Mozilla's open source, remember.
Actually, that's what I always hoped Composer would implement. WYSIWYG editing of CSS2 fundamentally involves layout of boxes in different display modes such as block, inline, and the table and list modes. Unfortunately, Composer (and all other WYSIWYG page editors) adopt a word-processor motif for editing web pages that poorly corresponds to the actual markup and style information being constructed.
Those "javascript programmers" that thinks Mozilla's JavaScript implementation is buggier than IE's fail to understand is that Microsoft doesn't use JavaScript, they use JScript.
Wow, I'm sure everyone is grateful for your useful, poignant response. Troll.
Cutting down on oil imports won't eliminate the real evil, American oil and energy corporations and the evil cowards who run them.
Does that mean his *own* regime is next? Sign me up! The Bush regime and the Pentagon are the worst, most evil cowards on Earth.
Bush could use such a program to develop even more and more terrible nuclear weapons. A cadre of tens of thousands of weapons inspectors must be dispatched to the US at once with full authority to access all facilities and materials to find illicit programs to develop such weapons. Noncompliance should result in an invasion of the US and removal of the Bush regime from power. (Hey, live by the sword,...)
Could this mark the emergence of samizdat software?
What ridiculous nonsense. If the US is going to be such a dick about Russia and the ISS, the the UN should expel the US for nonpayment as well, and tell them to take their phony war bullshit with them a cram it, along with their ridiculous flag, straight up their pansy asses.
Talk about whining! What a whiny little bitch!
Look for the evil Bushist horde to nationalize this technology ASAP for use in the war on humankind.
Andreesen was irrelevant when he was at Netscape and he's still irrelevant today. Why the media pays him any attention is a mystery.
That's the type of response typical to people who support fanatical, fundamentalist tyrannies. Deep in your heart you know he's evil, but you don't care as long as he makes you wealthy and militarily dominates others. You'd kill the world to satisfy your own ego.
I take it you support Bush. Your reply is exactly reminiscient of how Nazi symphathizers used to respond to people who criticized Hitler. The similarity doesn't surprise me.
The article writer's support and endorsement of the most evil man on the planet, Bush, is an indication of his own evil.
This thread is right. I, unfortunately, am an American, and the last thing I want to see (knowing the sadism and evil of most Americans) is what the article's author suggests: spatial areas or other planetary bodies being ruled by America. It won't benefit ordinary Americans, whether good or bad; it will benefit corporate CEOs, period.