So what? Microsoft doesn't sell disks, it sells software. Compare this to vendors that sell entertainment content such as films and Microsoft's influence on the space is not significant.
But can't Microsoft dictate terms through choosing to support the reading of data from certain hardware formats only in its software?
Again no. Not if their customers want another format supported. TFA even points out that Microsoft can't control its OEMs behaviour:
Dell Inc., for its part, has no intention of switching its support from Blu-ray, Brian Zucker, a Dell technology strategist who sits on the Blu-Ray DVD committee, told EE Times. "The only reasons we would make a change would be if we saw significant customer demand not to back the format we have been working on," he added.
If Dell wants support for X, its status as the seller of 20% of Microsoft's operating sytems software units gives it enough clout to require Microsoft to provide support.
I don't have any answer to this conundrum, I don't know the best way to do this, but I do know that no newspaper I've read online gets things right. I want
One solution would be for every news site on the internet to be re-written to please the author.
But why would they go to the expense? Particularly since they already have the author's eyeballs:
I get a lot of news from web sites: whether newspapers, magazines or TV channels, the main purveyors of information are the leading media brands. I read the New York Times, the Washington Post, Le Monde, along with other media web sites, and subscribe to RSS feeds for dozens of others.
"planting trees has a variety of environmental benefits unrelated to global warming, such as restoring threatened animal habitats and preventing the erosion of topsoil."
-- Carbonfund spokesman Craig Coulter
I don't have an account, but just felt that I had to reply to this.
Oh?
"It makes the information plainly available to lots of people."
Isn't that the point of... the internet? Making information plainly available to lots of people?
Ah. You're younger than me. Let me explain.
Heaps of old people go to bookstores to find out about new stuff. They aren't the same zillions of people that find out about new stuff online. That's because they evolved prior to the broad availability of the internet.
Some people out there may feel that Firefox Secrets doesn't offer any tips that can't be found on the web. It's a fair assessment that some of the ideas presented in the book should be pretty routine for expert Firefox users.
This is a hardcopy book to be sold in bookstores to normal people.
It makes the information plainly available to lots of people.
In your colleagues case it sounds like he may have been able to prevent it, but that is not always so with metadata that that vendor includes in your documents.
Allchin said those enhancements--along with a reduction in the number of times customers have to reboot their machines and other features--will mean that companies that move to Longhorn will be able to cut their operating costs. Of course, he added, "that's up to us to prove."
Got that? To cut your operating costs, pay Microsoft some more money for some Longhorns.
- There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever.
Will the same be true for all the hundreds of thousands of sites in Google's ad display network?
Google achieved much through its innovation in text advertising. It proved that relevance is way more effective than blinking and moving graphics.
But now my local Google rep tells me Google accepts graphical banner content including Macromedia Flash format.
They're making some sort of guarantees about their own Google web site in TFA, but what about all their affiliate relays? Will Google allow customers to flood those with annoying graphical ads?
Windows AV software is inherently problematic because it has to use undocumented, unarchitected means to gain access to the OS to do it job.
This current vulnerability is only the most obvious type of risk with using AV software. More troublesome, and the reason we don't use AV software, is when the AV software itself breaks, the OS can also be affected. And when the AV software is broken and won't uninstall, the only alternative left is to reformat Windows and start again.
but nothing the GP wrote was in the passive voice. The GP provided a clear subject, object and predicate in each sentence.
This:
She gave the impression that she needs to be replaced
You say:
If he had been using the passive voice, he would have written: "It was said she had no technical knowledge, but is a lawyer. The impression was given that she needs to be replaced by someone more capable." Your criticism would then be valid.
But no. The phrase "She gave the impression" is passive voice, disguised with a sneaky reversal. You see, an impression is not something that is given, it is something that is received. The author was expressing an opinion, not reporting a fact.
I'm not sure what that means. Could you elaborate?
She said she had no technical knowledge, but is a lawyer. She gave the impression that she needs to be replaced by someone more capable.
You are hiding behind a linguistic construct called the passive voice to express an opinion. But what is the basis for your opinion? You simply do not say.
The group did not offer an explanation for the numerical difference between this forecast, which would involve shipments of at least 7 million notebooks, with the forecast that initial shipments could number 5 million units.
They have to count everything by hand and estimate large numbers until they build the first laptop for their own office use.
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black women have surged online in the last three years
All kinds of women have been "surging" on the internet for a lot more than three years.
Well, certain types of women.
So what? Microsoft doesn't sell disks, it sells software. Compare this to vendors that sell entertainment content such as films and Microsoft's influence on the space is not significant.
But can't Microsoft dictate terms through choosing to support the reading of data from certain hardware formats only in its software?
Again no. Not if their customers want another format supported. TFA even points out that Microsoft can't control its OEMs behaviour:
Dell Inc., for its part, has no intention of switching its support from Blu-ray, Brian Zucker, a Dell technology strategist who sits on the Blu-Ray DVD committee, told EE Times. "The only reasons we would make a change would be if we saw significant customer demand not to back the format we have been working on," he added.
If Dell wants support for X, its status as the seller of 20% of Microsoft's operating sytems software units gives it enough clout to require Microsoft to provide support.
Or Dell could add its own support.
I don't have any answer to this conundrum, I don't know the best way to do this, but I do know that no newspaper I've read online gets things right. I want
One solution would be for every news site on the internet to be re-written to please the author.
But why would they go to the expense? Particularly since they already have the author's eyeballs:
I get a lot of news from web sites: whether newspapers, magazines or TV channels, the main purveyors of information are the leading media brands. I read the New York Times, the Washington Post, Le Monde, along with other media web sites, and subscribe to RSS feeds for dozens of others.
We are also rooting for it here in Denver.
"planting trees has a variety of environmental benefits unrelated to global warming, such as restoring threatened animal habitats and preventing the erosion of topsoil."
-- Carbonfund spokesman Craig Coulter
Tetris. Man I love that game!
Yeah. And now that FireFox 1.5 has SVG graphics built in, Tetris is just a . click away.
at this time of year...
I don't have an account, but just felt that I had to reply to this.
Oh?
"It makes the information plainly available to lots of people." Isn't that the point of ... the internet? Making information plainly available to lots of people?
Ah. You're younger than me. Let me explain.
Heaps of old people go to bookstores to find out about new stuff. They aren't the same zillions of people that find out about new stuff online. That's because they evolved prior to the broad availability of the internet.
This book is useful for them.
Some people out there may feel that Firefox Secrets doesn't offer any tips that can't be found on the web. It's a fair assessment that some of the ideas presented in the book should be pretty routine for expert Firefox users.
This is a hardcopy book to be sold in bookstores to normal people.
It makes the information plainly available to lots of people.
It's all under control. Just train your users to manage their own metadata.
In your colleagues case it sounds like he may have been able to prevent it, but that is not always so with metadata that that vendor includes in your documents.
Allchin said those enhancements--along with a reduction in the number of times customers have to reboot their machines and other features--will mean that companies that move to Longhorn will be able to cut their operating costs. Of course, he added, "that's up to us to prove."
Got that? To cut your operating costs, pay Microsoft some more money for some Longhorns.
- There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever.
Will the same be true for all the hundreds of thousands of sites in Google's ad display network?
Google achieved much through its innovation in text advertising. It proved that relevance is way more effective than blinking and moving graphics.
But now my local Google rep tells me Google accepts graphical banner content including Macromedia Flash format.
They're making some sort of guarantees about their own Google web site in TFA, but what about all their affiliate relays? Will Google allow customers to flood those with annoying graphical ads?
And the part about "Formatting Windows" only make it sound like you're incompetent.
Give me a break, please. I just swapped over from CP/M.
Windows AV software is inherently problematic because it has to use undocumented, unarchitected means to gain access to the OS to do it job.
This current vulnerability is only the most obvious type of risk with using AV software. More troublesome, and the reason we don't use AV software, is when the AV software itself breaks, the OS can also be affected. And when the AV software is broken and won't uninstall, the only alternative left is to reformat Windows and start again.
No thanks, AV software!
Unlikely. Opera isn't compatible with Microsoft's business strategy since it implements web standards.
I'm going to quote an old post [slashdot.org] [slashdot.org]
With an attitude like that you're qualified to moderate slashdot.
Jacques Surveyor summarizes Doug Bagley's benchmark opus to shed light on this important comparison:
"What emerges from examining the Bagley Benchmarks is that programming languages are breaking out into 3 speed tiers for raw computing power:"
1. Compiled native code languages C, C++, GNAT Ada95, OCaml are the fastest. No surprise there.
2. Byte code engines such as Java, Mono C# and Python average 7-12 times slower than the first tier...
3. Interpreters such as Ruby, JavaScript, PHP and Rexx average 100-200 times slower....
Time is owned by Time Warner.
Time Warner also owns AOL.
Google is negotiating with Time Warner to buy part of AOL.
Time Warner wants Microsoft to push Google's offer higher.
His charity may be good
but that doesn't make his software good
or innovative.
Only he can do that.
And time and again he has not managed to do that
until somebody else does it first
and then he tries to do something similar.
83% happy and 9% disgusted
To achieve fulfilment, a woman should strive for balance.
Thanks, you are right about the language. It is active voice and what I was trying to highlight was "shifting the subject".
Let's not even talk about how someone can "give the impression she needs to be replaced".
Not sure if you're trolling or serious,
I was not trolling, no.
but nothing the GP wrote was in the passive voice. The GP provided a clear subject, object and predicate in each sentence.
This:
She gave the impression that she needs to be replaced
You say:
If he had been using the passive voice, he would have written: "It was said she had no technical knowledge, but is a lawyer. The impression was given that she needs to be replaced by someone more capable." Your criticism would then be valid.
But no. The phrase "She gave the impression" is passive voice, disguised with a sneaky reversal. You see, an impression is not something that is given, it is something that is received. The author was expressing an opinion, not reporting a fact.
Like you, I wonder why.
She was amazingly socially unsophisticated.
I'm not sure what that means. Could you elaborate?
She said she had no technical knowledge, but is a lawyer. She gave the impression that she needs to be replaced by someone more capable.
You are hiding behind a linguistic construct called the passive voice to express an opinion. But what is the basis for your opinion? You simply do not say.
The group did not offer an explanation for the numerical difference between this forecast, which would involve shipments of at least 7 million notebooks, with the forecast that initial shipments could number 5 million units.
They have to count everything by hand and estimate large numbers until they build the first laptop for their own office use.