They can also use all those new Vista features that the press insist on not talking about. That way, the users will get all the experience of the modern browser on the only modern operational system.
It is hard to sell a development model. Even if you could convince people that FOSS is a better model, and that FOSS will be so inherently superior on a few years that it does pay to migrate now, people still wouldn't migrate. One can get people to do all sorts of stupid things by severely discounting the future, and Microsoft knows that.
And about FOSS being a superior development model... Well, I think most people that say that underestimate the difference. We don't need to convince people that it is better because very soon nobody will be able to ignore it and still keep some kind of business.
"I like getting buzzed when someone like Adobe Acrobat Reader decides that they own my system and just sets about installing crap."
Well, I like not having a software that decides that it owns my system (unless, of course, it really owns, like apt). At my (ancient) windows machine, I use FoxIt because of this.
But I know how you fell. I like looking at my modem lights and see they not blinking when nobody (or no program explicitly started by me or my crontab) is using it.
"Sodium atoms are heavier than hydrogen atoms, so the neutrons will not lose their energy as quickly. As a consequence the neutron spectrum is a lot harder, and capable of destroying much of the long-lived waste."
That I don't understand. Wouldn't it be better to have low energy neutrons, so they have a biger wave and hit more atoms?
"pure sodium is almost completely non-corrosive to steel"
And that sentence is an understating. I've seen equivalent stuff at other comments (are people afraid of it apearing too good?) but didn't fell like replying... Sodium is completely non-corrosive to stell. If one puts some corroded steel and liquid sodium in contact, he'd get non-corroded stell out of it. But, of course, the sodium would oxidize (and increase in volume, mass, heat capacity, melting point...) what is bad.
"In New Orleans, we eliminated centuries of Yellow Fever by draining the swamps, not by targeting a species with untested genetic engineering weapons. But even that action has had consequences to the rest of the ecosystem..."
Really? I'd never expect that draining swamps would impact the environment. Quite a minor change, nothing comparable to extinguishing one mosquito species, out of the hundreds that occupy the same area.
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Ditto for the Linux kernel with a sane set of drivers :)
That was zero-sum.
'attempting to come up with new ideas' != 'comming up with new ideas'
Fetchyahoo will fetch your emails from Yahoo to a local mailbox like fetchmail does to a mailserver.
I don't have a link, but it is available at Debian.
Maybe! Microsoft! Live! could! have! some! SYNERGY!!! with! Yahoo!
If Yahoo becomes more like Hotmail, it won't be good enough for a spam address (unless the goal is to receive lots of it).
If MS takes Yahoo!, I'm planning to move my spam address to Gmail.
That made me realise that the GP didn't mention Hotmail.
They can also use all those new Vista features that the press insist on not talking about. That way, the users will get all the experience of the modern browser on the only modern operational system.
Are we? I didn't know that.
A few years ago there were news of some people that got into legal problem for sharing music, but I've never saw the results.
It is hard to sell a development model. Even if you could convince people that FOSS is a better model, and that FOSS will be so inherently superior on a few years that it does pay to migrate now, people still wouldn't migrate. One can get people to do all sorts of stupid things by severely discounting the future, and Microsoft knows that.
And about FOSS being a superior development model... Well, I think most people that say that underestimate the difference. We don't need to convince people that it is better because very soon nobody will be able to ignore it and still keep some kind of business.
Well, I like not having a software that decides that it owns my system (unless, of course, it really owns, like apt). At my (ancient) windows machine, I use FoxIt because of this.
But I know how you fell. I like looking at my modem lights and see they not blinking when nobody (or no program explicitly started by me or my crontab) is using it.
Ahh... The true way of a Microsoft shill! And who takes the glory when everything does work and everybody does save a small fortune?
All risks have more than one side. If they didn't, they'd be certainty.
Eventualy, Linux will be installed on 128% of all computers... Then, we win :)
Is Asus ok, or does it need to be Dell or HP? TFA and TF summary are talking about Eee.
Because the hight usage of IE at the United States push the average down.
Now, my question is, why is US adoptions so low?
I don't know if you are serious about that, but the GP's accents aren't wuite right.
I don't think it is too much a problem. Sodium is a clear winner used inside sealed metal boxes, and much less dangerous than water vapour.
I was just telling why the proposed solution wouldn't work.
That is the easy part! Now, tell me what kernel it will be developed for, and the reason they'll have abandoned the previous one.
You can't keep helium inside anything for long, not even a nuclear reactor. And all the other gases you cited would react with sodium.
You can fix that easily with just a bit of water :)
That I don't understand. Wouldn't it be better to have low energy neutrons, so they have a biger wave and hit more atoms?
And that sentence is an understating. I've seen equivalent stuff at other comments (are people afraid of it apearing too good?) but didn't fell like replying... Sodium is completely non-corrosive to stell. If one puts some corroded steel and liquid sodium in contact, he'd get non-corroded stell out of it. But, of course, the sodium would oxidize (and increase in volume, mass, heat capacity, melting point...) what is bad.
I bet any modern desktop is able to fill a several Mbps link this way.
Really? I'd never expect that draining swamps would impact the environment. Quite a minor change, nothing comparable to extinguishing one mosquito species, out of the hundreds that occupy the same area.
If it wasn't a puppet, the US would pay its dues, fearing some sanction.
s/pursuit of terrorism/corruption