You forgot to mention the Demention of Java to use propritary windows API calls aswell.. as Netscape used SUN's Java implimentation which was incompatible with IE.. Thats why IE was forced to Drop all mention of Java in their browser..
I think you completely missed out on everything that actually happened with the antitrust Microsoft lost(But really won when you look at the "Penalty")... It sum it up.. You are partly right... By version 4.0 They were comparable products.. As to which is better.. Thats moot in my view.. Its like arguing If Ford/Chev/Dodge is better.. Its a moot point.What it really comes down to is preference...
Microsoft won for a few factors... #1 is convince (Their product was "Free" and Netscape wasn't). Microsoft used their predatory licensing to Prevent computer manufacturers from pre installing Netscape at all.. (Threats of Yanking their licensing to pre install windows was used therefore putting them at a huge disadvantage compared to PC manufacturers that can pre install windows).. Still on this topic of convince.. when you have a product sitting on your desktop that is "Free" to you and there is a competing product that may or may not be "Better" your at least going to give your freebie a try...
People can argue and argue but it boils down to IE had a unequal footing to Netscape for it to achieve market saturation it did in the time frame it did.. if IE had to stand on the same ground Netscape did the story would be alot different...
Microsoft also was making patches to the windows OS that caused Netscape to become unstable and crash alot... This is a point thats been highly debated and I am not sure of the actual outcome of this point... I can seem to find the document that listed all of MS's actions that the DOJ found MS guilty of... so I am not sure if that was one that made it through...
But your sadly misinformed if you think IE won out over Netscape solely on the fact it was a better browser... There are a vast number of elements that contributed IE's domination in the browser wars...
I am not trying to start a flame war but your comment completely skirted Issues without any mention of factors that lead to IE's domination in the browser wars (Setting Side personal opinions of what browser is better).
Experience in the console market doesn't seem to lead to less hackable consoles... I don't see a console on the market that hasn't been hacked to shreds... So looking at Sony/Sega/Nintendo with their wealth of experience on the console market (Heck between all 2 they owned the Console markets almost as long as Microsoft has had a strangle hold on the desktop market) yet their consoles have been hacked to shreds...
Sony on the other hand seems to foster this behavior and sega seems to have dropped from the market.. Leaving Nintendo with the "Least Hackable" Console out there...
Basically for the most part when you have a Company "Fostering" the console hacking arena making a console less hackable might not be the best Marketing strategy... Its all a numbers game... When they produce figures on the number of consoles sold the more the better as it gives game developers their potential market for their game when they sign a Exclusive deal with the console maker and in general bolster support for the console itself by the customer base.
The coolest FUD in that artice is "than whats possible with Fiber" They completely forgot to use the proper wording "than whats currently possible"... we have only begun to tap the bandwidth available over fiber networks... We are starting to fool around with changing the state of photons for cripe sake... the bandwidth potential is nearly unlimited..
You see the cool thing about it tramping over stuff is the exact same things it tramps over tramp back... You can't have egress without ingress.. They should have fairly strict regulations and egress standards to follow... If they don't the FCC will have egg all over their face and BPL will undoubtly fail..
A database of that size should not be solely hosted on 1 machine for backup purposes... They should also have had their lawyers there "Just in Case"... But they should have been able to work with them to provide them any information they require listed in the Warrent..
The one serving the warrent should stand to reason.. If the provider was going out of their way to provide the information in the fastest possible fashion that has to be acceptable... But I guess something like this needs to happen from time to time to keep everyone "Incheck" with the gravity and importance of their work.. Right off the bat they should have been furnished with all complete backups and incrementals... That should minimally fullfill their needs... then work could bein to satisfy their needs in a more suitable manner to eliminate information they do not need and slim down everything in a orderly neat fashion... But if they have a poor archival backup system they could be done in for which is their own fault.
There ws mention of prematgurely failing DVD's quiet a while back on here... But that should have been brought to the table because it is a obvious manufacturing problem that the "Studio" claimed wasn't related to the manufacturing process... That is a perfect example of why we need REAL fair use protection.... That or us consumers need to pour tonnes of money into lobbying the government to protect our rights...
Honestly There needs to be Tech schools out there that have 90%+ Failure rates of students that Just don't have the aptitude to work with computers.. But the only problem then would be to get students into the school and fill up the classes so they can make money.... Thats the problem... Mostly tech schools fail to Properly teach students proper skills... instead they drown them in technical procedure and text books and think they will learn something... When ever i see a tech school grad I allways ask them for a difficult problem and their solution to it.. 99.99999+ of them are Stumped when I ask them how their solution relates to the theory of the actual problem. 90%+ Tech school grads don't have any idea at all on proper troubleshooting techniques the vast Majority use what I call the "Pin The Tail on the Donkey" approach to troubleshooting.. and I can't half blame them... as the come out of a tech school armed with enough knowledge and confidence to be blind and dangerous in their abilities to admin anything but their home PC. That or they only use half of the Cause and Effect aproach.. The see The Cause and its effects but think nothing of the effects of their solution once its implemented Causing problems again that are usually worse..
Its usually a horrible situation with tech grads that do not have a firm background in computers... You usually have to break them and completely retrain them and show them how to utilize their knowledge they obtained in school...
But there are many many different shades of bad techs out there.. and as of late more of them are becoming fluent in linux and can get by alot of questions in that area and still be dangerous... But the "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" approach is allways a sure sign of a tech you shouldn't hire unless you have time and resources to retrain them if their personality isn't resistant to it.
For the most part most companies can easily fill a position with skilled labour without a level of high visibility and will get fewer and mostly qualified Resumes to fill the position.. Its only when you have a elite criteria or a really high end job that you will want to have high visibility and get a tonne of resumes(From usually highly unqualified people hope to get lucky)..
I think the part that some providers is they don't want to see anyone profiting but them... So by selling your number you get profit they don't see.. they just need time to figure out a fee they can charge you for this type of dealings so they get their slice of the pie too and they will be happier... they wont be fully happy untill they can obtain all the moneys from the transfer of a number then they will love it... But as i mentioned before.. They arn't looking athe the big picture... if number squatting started to happen then they would all see pure profit from contracts with no actual use of the service which puts them in complete heaven... Collecting money for nothing more or less.
Well I am sure top brass at Wireless Carries are debating hard over this right now.. as I am sure they would love to see Number Squatters in droves eating up all these numbers buying Contracts for service that have little or no intent to use other than obtaining a high price for the number associated with it... I am sure they will come up with a new number service transfer fee for you giving your number to someone else so they can cash in on the newest craze too!
If they want to know who you were freelancing for you can allways bring up that you signed a Non-Disclouseure Agreement and are only allowed to comment in very brief terms about the work you have done for them and understand any possible skeptism about the work that is why you placed very little importance on your freelance work on your resume.. (Due to the fact they can't check up on your success with your freelance venture or make any real comment about it.. Its Easy for them to dismiss it and concentrate on information they can verify)
I would like to see a new element added to reduce ranking based on the number of pop-ups contained in pages indexed or linked to on sites:) That would really kill alot of the garbage sites that skew their rankings and in the same breath reduce the need to pop-up blockers:)
Generating Blogs from templates would be gainy compression rather than lossy:) Lossy you loose information... gainy would be I guess gain more content than you origonally had:) Infact you might even come up with some interesting blogs that haven't even been written yet:)
Taxes should be based on Performance of Communications capable networks... I use the word Performance in a broader term here... Performance meaning how well your share your current infrastructure.. How many services are offered over that service.. Customer satisfaction of services on that network.. So that the fewer services offered will bump your taxes up.. The less competition you have on your infrastructure the higher the taxes are.. And I am not talking about end user tax aswell.. Hit em hard on Profits... Force them to open their infrastructure to competition and new services that are reliable and useable to the end user.. This will ultimately end up bringing fiber nearer to your house.. Currently Fiber to the house is not needed.. Copper can easily do the trick and once you have reduced your copper down to less than 100-200 Feet reliability of it will go through the roof. Having fiber just running down your "Alley" and not to your house can easily cut 2/3's of the cost of the infrastructure roll out.. Which is a huge chunk of change and increases financial viability..
We are just starting to push the envelope of what copper can do for us for short runs... Look at DSL.. It demonstrates what copper can do over fairly long distances.. Cut your distance down to 100-200 feet and I am sure they can hit near Gigabit speeds with current infrastructure thats inplace.. There only needs to be motive to produce a product to meet the demand... But honestly... 100Mbit could easily serve Communication needs for the next 15-20 Years... (Ok.. Let this be my Understatement of my Life:) like "640K is all the memory anyone will ever need" or "We only see a market for 5-10 computers in the whole world")... By that time the current last few feet should need to be replaced (if not done so all ready) with fiber that virtually has no limit...
But who knows how business could dement this type of Structure to promote business.. Maybe another good approach would be to institute Draconian type laws that would get both cable and telco's to build a single infrastructure owned and operated by the state or county to support their service so that they maybe opened up on a realistic competitive basis and lower the barrier of entry to these markets significantly enough that we can start to see "Service" Once again in these areas... Right now Customer Service in these areas is lacking due to the monopoly on infrastructure even though the Tout "Customer Service is our #1 focus" yet they don't seem to care when you receive poor service.. you only get their attention when you have no-service then its about the least ammount of money they can spend to get you service instead of fixing everything they should be.
In the long run... The citizens should own the infrastructure that delivers the services they consume so the market of available services stays competitive and abundant maintaining quality. on that note Property tax would best suit that type of model...
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Hmm.. Getting 'buried' in a near vacuum... What a concept... Did military intelligence come up with this? or some other Oxymoronish organization? I should sign up for this then in my will leave all my money to attorneys to sue the pants off them for actually just tossing my body into space to drift and leave all the proceeds to the Open Source Community.
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No mostlikely will be some sort of penis enlargement or some Mail-order University Degree or Atleast some mechanism to "Prevent" These type of transmissions from interfereing with your day:)
Its been done a long time ago but still has soo much to be desired to do it effectivly... Basically you still need a human operator for the equipment your pulling to keep it effecient.. and since your allready in there.. might as well drive to keep effeciency up as high as you can get...
This sounds like a job for a few trillion nano-bots... Now they really need to get the ball rolling on consructing a nano sized robot that can have enough limited intelligence to stack particles:)
You see the Blue M&M's are easy.. Its just other M&M's holding their breath untill they turn blue.. As for the ones missing their colours? I am sure they are still the colours they allways were.. But just very very pale from holding their breath doing in the in thing to be blue all the time:)
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You forgot to mention the Demention of Java to use propritary windows API calls aswell.. as Netscape used SUN's Java implimentation which was incompatible with IE.. Thats why IE was forced to Drop all mention of Java in their browser..
I think you completely missed out on everything that actually happened with the antitrust Microsoft lost(But really won when you look at the "Penalty")... It sum it up.. You are partly right... By version 4.0 They were comparable products.. As to which is better.. Thats moot in my view.. Its like arguing If Ford/Chev/Dodge is better.. Its a moot point.What it really comes down to is preference...
Microsoft won for a few factors... #1 is convince (Their product was "Free" and Netscape wasn't). Microsoft used their predatory licensing to Prevent computer manufacturers from pre installing Netscape at all.. (Threats of Yanking their licensing to pre install windows was used therefore putting them at a huge disadvantage compared to PC manufacturers that can pre install windows).. Still on this topic of convince.. when you have a product sitting on your desktop that is "Free" to you and there is a competing product that may or may not be "Better" your at least going to give your freebie a try...
People can argue and argue but it boils down to IE had a unequal footing to Netscape for it to achieve market saturation it did in the time frame it did.. if IE had to stand on the same ground Netscape did the story would be alot different...
Microsoft also was making patches to the windows OS that caused Netscape to become unstable and crash alot... This is a point thats been highly debated and I am not sure of the actual outcome of this point... I can seem to find the document that listed all of MS's actions that the DOJ found MS guilty of... so I am not sure if that was one that made it through...
But your sadly misinformed if you think IE won out over Netscape solely on the fact it was a better browser... There are a vast number of elements that contributed IE's domination in the browser wars...
I am not trying to start a flame war but your comment completely skirted Issues without any mention of factors that lead to IE's domination in the browser wars (Setting Side personal opinions of what browser is better).
"gained some experience... less hackability.."
Experience in the console market doesn't seem to lead to less hackable consoles... I don't see a console on the market that hasn't been hacked to shreds... So looking at Sony/Sega/Nintendo with their wealth of experience on the console market (Heck between all 2 they owned the Console markets almost as long as Microsoft has had a strangle hold on the desktop market) yet their consoles have been hacked to shreds...
Sony on the other hand seems to foster this behavior and sega seems to have dropped from the market.. Leaving Nintendo with the "Least Hackable" Console out there...
Basically for the most part when you have a Company "Fostering" the console hacking arena making a console less hackable might not be the best Marketing strategy... Its all a numbers game... When they produce figures on the number of consoles sold the more the better as it gives game developers their potential market for their game when they sign a Exclusive deal with the console maker and in general bolster support for the console itself by the customer base.
Why compare a 64 bit CPU to a 32 bit one....
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Why not compare a Chevy Sprint to a Top Fuel Dragster while your at it... Those would be just as interesting
Umm that doesn't help..... Trunks are easier and less obvious to get into than the rest of the car...
The coolest FUD in that artice is "than whats possible with Fiber" They completely forgot to use the proper wording "than whats currently possible"... we have only begun to tap the bandwidth available over fiber networks... We are starting to fool around with changing the state of photons for cripe sake... the bandwidth potential is nearly unlimited..
You see the cool thing about it tramping over stuff is the exact same things it tramps over tramp back... You can't have egress without ingress.. They should have fairly strict regulations and egress standards to follow... If they don't the FCC will have egg all over their face and BPL will undoubtly fail..
A database of that size should not be solely hosted on 1 machine for backup purposes... They should also have had their lawyers there "Just in Case"... But they should have been able to work with them to provide them any information they require listed in the Warrent..
The one serving the warrent should stand to reason.. If the provider was going out of their way to provide the information in the fastest possible fashion that has to be acceptable... But I guess something like this needs to happen from time to time to keep everyone "Incheck" with the gravity and importance of their work.. Right off the bat they should have been furnished with all complete backups and incrementals... That should minimally fullfill their needs... then work could bein to satisfy their needs in a more suitable manner to eliminate information they do not need and slim down everything in a orderly neat fashion... But if they have a poor archival backup system they could be done in for which is their own fault.
Thats horrible... Alot worse than I would have though... Might as well just have 1 question on the test... Name: :)
And be done with it
There ws mention of prematgurely failing DVD's quiet a while back on here... But that should have been brought to the table because it is a obvious manufacturing problem that the "Studio" claimed wasn't related to the manufacturing process... That is a perfect example of why we need REAL fair use protection.... That or us consumers need to pour tonnes of money into lobbying the government to protect our rights...
Honestly There needs to be Tech schools out there that have 90%+ Failure rates of students that Just don't have the aptitude to work with computers.. But the only problem then would be to get students into the school and fill up the classes so they can make money.... Thats the problem... Mostly tech schools fail to Properly teach students proper skills... instead they drown them in technical procedure and text books and think they will learn something... When ever i see a tech school grad I allways ask them for a difficult problem and their solution to it.. 99.99999+ of them are Stumped when I ask them how their solution relates to the theory of the actual problem. 90%+ Tech school grads don't have any idea at all on proper troubleshooting techniques the vast Majority use what I call the "Pin The Tail on the Donkey" approach to troubleshooting.. and I can't half blame them ... as the come out of a tech school armed with enough knowledge and confidence to be blind and dangerous in their abilities to admin anything but their home PC. That or they only use half of the Cause and Effect aproach.. The see The Cause and its effects but think nothing of the effects of their solution once its implemented Causing problems again that are usually worse..
Its usually a horrible situation with tech grads that do not have a firm background in computers... You usually have to break them and completely retrain them and show them how to utilize their knowledge they obtained in school...
But there are many many different shades of bad techs out there.. and as of late more of them are becoming fluent in linux and can get by alot of questions in that area and still be dangerous... But the "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" approach is allways a sure sign of a tech you shouldn't hire unless you have time and resources to retrain them if their personality isn't resistant to it.
For the most part most companies can easily fill a position with skilled labour without a level of high visibility and will get fewer and mostly qualified Resumes to fill the position.. Its only when you have a elite criteria or a really high end job that you will want to have high visibility and get a tonne of resumes(From usually highly unqualified people hope to get lucky)..
I think the part that some providers is they don't want to see anyone profiting but them... So by selling your number you get profit they don't see.. they just need time to figure out a fee they can charge you for this type of dealings so they get their slice of the pie too and they will be happier... they wont be fully happy untill they can obtain all the moneys from the transfer of a number then they will love it... But as i mentioned before.. They arn't looking athe the big picture... if number squatting started to happen then they would all see pure profit from contracts with no actual use of the service which puts them in complete heaven... Collecting money for nothing more or less.
Well I am sure top brass at Wireless Carries are debating hard over this right now.. as I am sure they would love to see Number Squatters in droves eating up all these numbers buying Contracts for service that have little or no intent to use other than obtaining a high price for the number associated with it... I am sure they will come up with a new number service transfer fee for you giving your number to someone else so they can cash in on the newest craze too!
If they want to know who you were freelancing for you can allways bring up that you signed a Non-Disclouseure Agreement and are only allowed to comment in very brief terms about the work you have done for them and understand any possible skeptism about the work that is why you placed very little importance on your freelance work on your resume.. (Due to the fact they can't check up on your success with your freelance venture or make any real comment about it.. Its Easy for them to dismiss it and concentrate on information they can verify)
I would like to see a new element added to reduce ranking based on the number of pop-ups contained in pages indexed or linked to on sites :) That would really kill alot of the garbage sites that skew their rankings and in the same breath reduce the need to pop-up blockers :)
Generating Blogs from templates would be gainy compression rather than lossy :) Lossy you loose information... gainy would be I guess gain more content than you origonally had :) Infact you might even come up with some interesting blogs that haven't even been written yet :)
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Taxes should be based on Performance of Communications capable networks... I use the word Performance in a broader term here... Performance meaning how well your share your current infrastructure.. How many services are offered over that service.. Customer satisfaction of services on that network.. So that the fewer services offered will bump your taxes up.. The less competition you have on your infrastructure the higher the taxes are.. And I am not talking about end user tax aswell.. Hit em hard on Profits... Force them to open their infrastructure to competition and new services that are reliable and useable to the end user.. This will ultimately end up bringing fiber nearer to your house.. Currently Fiber to the house is not needed.. Copper can easily do the trick and once you have reduced your copper down to less than 100-200 Feet reliability of it will go through the roof. Having fiber just running down your "Alley" and not to your house can easily cut 2/3's of the cost of the infrastructure roll out.. Which is a huge chunk of change and increases financial viability..
:) like "640K is all the memory anyone will ever need" or "We only see a market for 5-10 computers in the whole world")... By that time the current last few feet should need to be replaced (if not done so all ready) with fiber that virtually has no limit...
We are just starting to push the envelope of what copper can do for us for short runs... Look at DSL.. It demonstrates what copper can do over fairly long distances.. Cut your distance down to 100-200 feet and I am sure they can hit near Gigabit speeds with current infrastructure thats inplace.. There only needs to be motive to produce a product to meet the demand... But honestly... 100Mbit could easily serve Communication needs for the next 15-20 Years... (Ok.. Let this be my Understatement of my Life
But who knows how business could dement this type of Structure to promote business.. Maybe another good approach would be to institute Draconian type laws that would get both cable and telco's to build a single infrastructure owned and operated by the state or county to support their service so that they maybe opened up on a realistic competitive basis and lower the barrier of entry to these markets significantly enough that we can start to see "Service" Once again in these areas... Right now Customer Service in these areas is lacking due to the monopoly on infrastructure even though the Tout "Customer Service is our #1 focus" yet they don't seem to care when you receive poor service.. you only get their attention when you have no-service then its about the least ammount of money they can spend to get you service instead of fixing everything they should be.
In the long run... The citizens should own the infrastructure that delivers the services they consume so the market of available services stays competitive and abundant maintaining quality. on that note Property tax would best suit that type of model...
"ISS .. This is Ground Control... We need to to make a few burns to avoid Bob again... He is on a heading that could take out your life support."
Hmm.. Getting 'buried' in a near vacuum... What a concept... Did military intelligence come up with this? or some other Oxymoronish organization? I should sign up for this then in my will leave all my money to attorneys to sue the pants off them for actually just tossing my body into space to drift and leave all the proceeds to the Open Source Community.
No mostlikely will be some sort of penis enlargement or some Mail-order University Degree or Atleast some mechanism to "Prevent" These type of transmissions from interfereing with your day :)
Its been done a long time ago but still has soo much to be desired to do it effectivly... Basically you still need a human operator for the equipment your pulling to keep it effecient.. and since your allready in there.. might as well drive to keep effeciency up as high as you can get...
But it costs more to coat the peanuts and peanuts are worth more than chocolate by weight.
:)
Atleast last I looked
This sounds like a job for a few trillion nano-bots... Now they really need to get the ball rolling on consructing a nano sized robot that can have enough limited intelligence to stack particles :)
You see the Blue M&M's are easy.. Its just other M&M's holding their breath untill they turn blue.. As for the ones missing their colours? I am sure they are still the colours they allways were.. But just very very pale from holding their breath doing in the in thing to be blue all the time :)