I don't see how these are banned books, I own several of them, and I read over a dozen on the list for various classes in High School and College. If you write an edgey book like To Kill a Mocking Bird, Catch-22, or 1984, you are going to get challegend on your message, they might even choose at a community level not to stock your book at the library, that doesn't mean that your book has been banned.
Heck most libraries don't carry everything anyway, I can't go get Hustler and Playboy at my Library. At my local library I can't find copies of the Jane's Reference books, or many other books.
There are good books on that list, but you don't need to hype them by saying that they have been banned or censored by "the man." You should take the books as what they are.
I actually liked DS9 the best. IMO it's DS9 then TOS and TNG for a tie in second, followed by Voyager and Enterprise.
Now who was the better Captain? IMO It's Picard->Sisco->Kirk->Janeway->Archer
Now I will make some notes, Janeway and Sisco were better administrators then Captains, Sisco is better because I believe be had a better supporting cast to work with him. Kirk is an excellent battle Captain, but he not very good at much else except loving women. Kirk was very head strong, and being subdued by the humanity of McCoy, and the logic of Spock. Picard is the best all round Captain, with Archer, well he might have been good, but crappy staff on the show, and he didn't have enough time or room to develop his character.
Well I can't speak for any computer company, but I am guessing that Dell with offer the various home editions plus the Ultimate Edition for it's home PC line, and the Various business Editions for it's business PC line, so at most you are going to see 3-4 options IMO.
There are more options for CPUs and RAM on the average Dell computer, if you can't pick the right Windows OS (Dell has a nice little help balloon that direct you to the second most expensive option on every option box), how are you going to pick the computer model you need, then the options for hard drive, optical drive, and RAM? In fact I believe Apple has just as many options, just no drop down for the OS.
That being said, ever been in a Apple store? Try getting help there, I haven't been ignored like that since I was in high school, and the genius bar is filled with idiots that couldn't even work for AOL Tech support. I was there to return my iPod that had a hard drive failure for the second time (I didn't have good luck with the 3G iPods), because I actually listened to the problem and actually got a ladies Powerbook fixed because I was able to hear the signals that the issue was a recurring problem, these signs just flew over the head of the idiot that worked behind the genius bar.
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It can also be frustrating to those working on a tight schedule.
One of my clients is a developer company, based in Mexico City, but with offices in most of the vacation hot spots in the US (because they own high rises in all those cities). There were having issues with their ERM, because it was a fixit session it was scheduled between other trips, and I only had two days on site. Well that wouldn't have been an issue, if they didn't stop working everyday for 3 hours to have lunch and watch the World Cup.
I don't know what it is, but the way we work versus the way that work is done in Europe and Latin America, is hugely different. I like to relate, to the Super Market that was across the street from where I was staying in Amsterdam, they were open M-F 10am-5pm, for an American that is unfathomable, Europeans are used to it, and adept to it, and I did too (by adept I mean I mostly ate at restraunts that were open later in the evening) when I was there for 3 months on a project. But it's quite strange for someone who's last job involved making a 1am Taco Bell run during my 11pm - 11am shift.
Then you were playing for the wrong reasons. I played because of the players that I was playing with. When my guild fell apart I quit WoW for a couple of months until I transfered servers where an IRL friend was playing at, here I found a number of people that I really enjoy playing with. Sure I'm clearing MC again, not downing C'thun in AQ or trying Naxx, but the players that I play with make the game enjoyable.
Never dealt with Winzip, but when it comes from Microsoft catching a company out of compliance (at least via a BSA audit), unless they have evidence that you are purposely out of compliance they will ask you to purchase the needed software of licenses within a set period of time. Microsoft at least based on the expirences of my customers with BSA audits (two of my customers have been audited), is more worried about the fraud shops, not companies that accidently lost their COAs or installed an extra copy or two around the office.
I love how the NSA has become this mythical evil organization.
That search might get the FBI at your door, but most likely not, unless you visited, or more likely repeatedly visited one of the sites, and the FBI takes them down. But the NSA, not likely they have no legal power, and anything they find is likely not to be admissible in court, the FBI and local police have to find evidence through more traditional means, most likely using the NSA's information as proof for a warrant, but they can't arrest you on that alone.
Commenting on something you haven't used, how very slashdot of you.
I have the Office 2007 Beta, yes the Ribbons are different from the old version, but after a couple of days of working with them, they became natural, one benefit is that they are very flexible so you can have a very similar GUI between all the applications, something Office hasn't always had. Sure it's not a single reason to upgrade (heck I use Crystal 8.5 for some of my work, it has a horrendous GUI), but it's a nice upgrade to be had, and I am sure somewhere there is a menu where you can turn it back to the old style.
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Meh I only read the first few posts, I don't have time to read two months of mindless babble from each poster for every reply I make to slashdot.
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His blog show the comments of an average Microsoft partner, many many business are Microsoft partners, does that mean all their employees work for Microsoft?
My company is partnered with about a half dozen companies, so far Microsoft has been the most supportive, and has made me the most money out of all the partnerships my business has established. And the grand partner poster is right, good or bad having Microsoft on your mailers opens doors in many cases.
The problems with the DC-10 are minor considering some of the issues other aircraft in the past, only two accidents can be pointed directly two engineering defects of the aircraft, the first is the Turkish Air 981 and United 232. Other then those two accidents the DC-10 has had a safety record that is about average for most airliners to date.
And even those accidents the safety defects were quite minor, nothing major that one could claim that it was poorly engineered. Outward opening doors have been used on all aircraft, Douglas was the first one to make one as a baggage door for a production airliner, improper servicing lead to issues with the locks and finally two accidents, the final resulting in a bulkhead failing that sliced the control cables.
United 232 was a result of a failure of imagination, no one imagined that there would be a failure that massive that would severe all there hydraulic lines, even though they weren't placed next to each other (just near each other as they would have be as they have to run to similar areas of the aircraft). The engineer that designed it probably reasoned, that any failure that would result in all three being severed would be large enough that the aircraft would be lost.
Kind of scary IMO, I never could find the texts of the OEB online, it seems Airbus doesn't publish them, but a turbine engine which already have to deal with spin up time not responding normally at low altitude where it's crucial is very bad IMO.
Sort of, TCAS alerts you to a possible collision and works out a solution to prevent an accident, if both aircraft follow the instructions from the TCAS.
In the case of the DHL crash, the TCAS instructed the DHL flight to descent and the Russian aircraft to climb, but the Skyguide controller instructed the Russian aircraft to descent, thus putting them back onto a collision course. If both pilots had been following the TCAS instructions there would have been no accident.
Anyways, but the computer isn't always right we all remember the Airbus crashing into the trees at the Paris Airshow a few years back because the computer countermanded the pilots orders. And there were discussions a few years back about 767 that nearly crashed but the pilot did a 6g pullout from a stall that the Airbus computer in it's default flight mode would have prohibited (note these are pilots ground flying, I wouldn't take it as fact).
Personally I like Boeings method of automation, it's there, but the moment the autopilot is off, the computer can not interject on their passenger aircraft.
Numbers is one factor, the administrator is another factor.
The average home PC is administrated by someone that has no clue about security, while the average Apache admins, knows how to lock down a system, and doesn't use the system for everyday stuff, like viewing e-mails, and running programs randomly downloaded off the internet.
If we gave Linux machines to the same idiots that run Windows XP machines, you would have botnets, there might not be as many, but they would still be there because many virii are run via social engineering, not via operating system tricks. The dumb user is not something Linux can fix.
Except we are talking about Joe Average user, Joe Average user is very likely to just enter their password whenever it's asked as long as it looks half way realistic, how do you think so many get tricked by the phishing sites?
I would say that at this point the amount of Joe Average users of Apples is quite low, but heaven forbid Apple gets a 50% cut in market share they are going to have many of the e-mail virus problems that Windows has, because people are stupid.
And just exactly what is an "interspection"? That's not even a word. Who is making up things here?
A simple spelling error. I forgot to spell check the entry.
Yes I do think I know more then you, because TFRs is in my world, something me and a few pilot buddies have started a database (which current stretches back to 09/14/2001) and campaign to help fight. I go out of my way to collect information on military and US Customs service interceptions (which TFR violation interceptor responsibility is being moved to), we even attempt to contact the pilots when the name is released.
When something seems so very unlike established procedure, yes I got to question it, particularly when the facts don't live up to IT facts that I encounter in the real world, I have worked as a Network Administrator on both sides network pipe (both hosting and at the ISP level), we would have a hard time. We have responded to the Patriot Act requests, and none would have gotten them the data you described unless it was in their e-mail. It would also be unprofessional and be very unlike the FBI agents that I have had the pleasure of working with (who seemed to understand more then my boss how very busy I could get).
So when you account doesn't match up on both levels, I am going to call BS.
You tell that to the secret service. They will laugh you out of the ballpark.
Actually they won't, they can't. All you have to say is those magic words "I want to speak with my attorney." If they refuse that, you can refuse to answer their questions, they also can't detain you beyond a short amount of time, without charing you, or having just cause. Those are legal realities that can only be changed by being declared and enemy combatant. Also violating a TFR is not considered just cause, as it is not a criminal action, and can not be construed as one.
He lost his pilots license (at least temporarily) thank you very much.
Very unlikely, since you said he notified ATC, I am going to assume he was under ATC either under flight following or on an IFR flight plan, either way a half way descent aviation law attorney can easily shift the blame on the Air Traffic Controller. Also speaking of IFR flight plans, many TFRs allow a pilot to transit them under the permission of ATC.
Well thats all the time I feel like spending on this subject on Slashdot, this time I even remembered to spell check.
Just because you claim that it's true doesn't make it so. Most TFR violations are reported in the news, or at the very least by the pilot rags, I don't remember any that match your discription (interspection 2 hours later), nor does any of the actions match the established procedure. If you buddy was a passenger, there would be no reason for him to be detained beyond the questioning, because he did nothing wrong; if he was the pilot, the same would be true, but regulatory action would ensue if he was at fault.
Also even the FBI doesn't work that fast to get that type of data, even if the data is obtained under that Patriot Act from the ISP (if they keep such indepth records,) it would takes hours for them to get even a rough guess what websites you visited.
True, but a search of the physical premises (unless permission granted by his wife at home) would require a traditional warrant, and the computer would not be analyzed at his home, it would be boxed up and sent to a forensics lab. Both of which would take more then a couple of hours to do, and obtain any results.
I claim BS, I have read the story of a number of pilots that flew through TFRs, everything is correct up until the time factored in, then it starts to smell. Most pilots violating a TFR are either immediately intercepted or if they don't have aircraft available in the air tracked via ATC and arrested by cops at the local airport, none of the cases I have read about in pilot rags are done more then 10 minutes after the pilot transits TFR airspace.
Second most ISPs don't keep logs on your current web traffic, it's simply too much data to keep, most ISPs don't keep router logs more then a week (if they keep them at all, which themselves are useless and can takes hours to match them with DHCP logs and then with websites), DHCP logs are kept for a greater amount of time. Second the FBI doesn't care if you visit the normal anti-GWB websites, they might care if you visited it at the same time as going to Jihad Jim's bomb making HOWTO.
Also none of the pilots have been arrested because violating a TFR is not a crime, it's a regulatory action between the pilot and the FAA. The passengers would not have been effected one bit, since they did nothing wrong.
It would be illegal only if the people that did business with knew that they sponsored terrorism, and that it was a front for said organization. Front companies like this don't just advertise "Hello we are a Front Company to Bin Laden." They would operate like the IRA, fund raising for a peaceful organization, and then funneling the money toward the terror side.
So it's very likely that they people did nothing wrong, and a quick investigation and interview would confirm that.
It could also be that those 3,501 did business with or donated money to an organization that is a front for a terror group. Bin Laden and his associates did well to learn from the Irish Terrorists, using the same structure to get money. But now it's different since western countries are now cooperating to take these front groups down, and stop the flow of money.
If any of the 3,501 that were linked committed a terror act, and weren't investigated, heads would roll, just like after 9/11. This isn't about skin color, or religion, the FBI and NSA knows that they can't do it that way, even if it makes sense to some, there are organizations (ACLU and others) that would hound them to death for any hint of racial profiling.
Personally Oneboxes didn't sell well before, and I don't think that this will help the sell that much more. So IMO this will have little or no effect. Report Designers will continue to make their complex reports, and business intelligence folks will continue to analyze business and sale trends as they did before.
There is such a thing called pre-purchase research and asking around the areas that you need it.
Personally I have used Verizon and Sprint (about 6 years ago), Verizon has worked anywhere I needed it, and with Sprint, short of in the middle of no where on US Highway Whoknows I had digital coverage, and roaming coverage in the middle no where. That was 6 years ago I assume that Sprint has covered some of the more popular middle of no where highways.
GSM is nice and all, but CDMA covers the US quite well, and the prices are competitive with Europe (I have a Vodaphone, and had an Orange phone).
Windows Media Player is a value added application, adding or removing it doesn't increase or decrease the price of the Windows product, because you are paying for Windows itself. WMP is paid for by users purchasing Windows Server 2003 to stream the content, and users paying for the encoders to encode the content in a streaming format.
It's the same business model that Real Networks, and Apple use.
Also the OEMs and users have spoken, they don't want Windows XP N, user expect their computer to work out of the box to play some of the more mainstream media formats, and OEMs don't want to take the time to slipstream another media player in the box. The only people that really want this are seething at the teeth Microsoft haters (a very small percentage of computer users), and Microsoft's competitors (the biggest one, Real Networks, had their shot and lost).
This EU business is take two of the monopoly lawsuits, companies like Netscape and Real Networks put out crappy products, and lose to Microsoft, and then try to get an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft. The users didn't jump ship because Microsoft put the product with their OS, they left because your product was utter crap (in the case of Netscape crashing every few minutes, and Real, their server product was even worse).
A troll but I will bite, when I type a post for slashdot, I type quickly and rely on a built in spell checker, when I write a Wikipedia article, I do it in Word, checking for both grammar, and spelling. I can also edit the articles to fix any mistakes that I make, unlike Slashdot.
Lose and loose is an easy mistake to make because it's one letter and both are valid words. Just like a and an, and a ton of other words. Spelling Nazis spend more time attacking other based on their spelling and grammar, rather then going after the content of their message.
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Heck most libraries don't carry everything anyway, I can't go get Hustler and Playboy at my Library. At my local library I can't find copies of the Jane's Reference books, or many other books.
There are good books on that list, but you don't need to hype them by saying that they have been banned or censored by "the man." You should take the books as what they are.
Now who was the better Captain? IMO It's Picard->Sisco->Kirk->Janeway->Archer
Now I will make some notes, Janeway and Sisco were better administrators then Captains, Sisco is better because I believe be had a better supporting cast to work with him. Kirk is an excellent battle Captain, but he not very good at much else except loving women. Kirk was very head strong, and being subdued by the humanity of McCoy, and the logic of Spock. Picard is the best all round Captain, with Archer, well he might have been good, but crappy staff on the show, and he didn't have enough time or room to develop his character.
There are more options for CPUs and RAM on the average Dell computer, if you can't pick the right Windows OS (Dell has a nice little help balloon that direct you to the second most expensive option on every option box), how are you going to pick the computer model you need, then the options for hard drive, optical drive, and RAM? In fact I believe Apple has just as many options, just no drop down for the OS.
That being said, ever been in a Apple store? Try getting help there, I haven't been ignored like that since I was in high school, and the genius bar is filled with idiots that couldn't even work for AOL Tech support. I was there to return my iPod that had a hard drive failure for the second time (I didn't have good luck with the 3G iPods), because I actually listened to the problem and actually got a ladies Powerbook fixed because I was able to hear the signals that the issue was a recurring problem, these signs just flew over the head of the idiot that worked behind the genius bar.
One of my clients is a developer company, based in Mexico City, but with offices in most of the vacation hot spots in the US (because they own high rises in all those cities). There were having issues with their ERM, because it was a fixit session it was scheduled between other trips, and I only had two days on site. Well that wouldn't have been an issue, if they didn't stop working everyday for 3 hours to have lunch and watch the World Cup.
I don't know what it is, but the way we work versus the way that work is done in Europe and Latin America, is hugely different. I like to relate, to the Super Market that was across the street from where I was staying in Amsterdam, they were open M-F 10am-5pm, for an American that is unfathomable, Europeans are used to it, and adept to it, and I did too (by adept I mean I mostly ate at restraunts that were open later in the evening) when I was there for 3 months on a project. But it's quite strange for someone who's last job involved making a 1am Taco Bell run during my 11pm - 11am shift.
Then you were playing for the wrong reasons. I played because of the players that I was playing with. When my guild fell apart I quit WoW for a couple of months until I transfered servers where an IRL friend was playing at, here I found a number of people that I really enjoy playing with. Sure I'm clearing MC again, not downing C'thun in AQ or trying Naxx, but the players that I play with make the game enjoyable.
Never dealt with Winzip, but when it comes from Microsoft catching a company out of compliance (at least via a BSA audit), unless they have evidence that you are purposely out of compliance they will ask you to purchase the needed software of licenses within a set period of time. Microsoft at least based on the expirences of my customers with BSA audits (two of my customers have been audited), is more worried about the fraud shops, not companies that accidently lost their COAs or installed an extra copy or two around the office.
That search might get the FBI at your door, but most likely not, unless you visited, or more likely repeatedly visited one of the sites, and the FBI takes them down. But the NSA, not likely they have no legal power, and anything they find is likely not to be admissible in court, the FBI and local police have to find evidence through more traditional means, most likely using the NSA's information as proof for a warrant, but they can't arrest you on that alone.
I have the Office 2007 Beta, yes the Ribbons are different from the old version, but after a couple of days of working with them, they became natural, one benefit is that they are very flexible so you can have a very similar GUI between all the applications, something Office hasn't always had. Sure it's not a single reason to upgrade (heck I use Crystal 8.5 for some of my work, it has a horrendous GUI), but it's a nice upgrade to be had, and I am sure somewhere there is a menu where you can turn it back to the old style.
Meh I only read the first few posts, I don't have time to read two months of mindless babble from each poster for every reply I make to slashdot.
My company is partnered with about a half dozen companies, so far Microsoft has been the most supportive, and has made me the most money out of all the partnerships my business has established. And the grand partner poster is right, good or bad having Microsoft on your mailers opens doors in many cases.
And even those accidents the safety defects were quite minor, nothing major that one could claim that it was poorly engineered. Outward opening doors have been used on all aircraft, Douglas was the first one to make one as a baggage door for a production airliner, improper servicing lead to issues with the locks and finally two accidents, the final resulting in a bulkhead failing that sliced the control cables.
United 232 was a result of a failure of imagination, no one imagined that there would be a failure that massive that would severe all there hydraulic lines, even though they weren't placed next to each other (just near each other as they would have be as they have to run to similar areas of the aircraft). The engineer that designed it probably reasoned, that any failure that would result in all three being severed would be large enough that the aircraft would be lost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296
Kind of scary IMO, I never could find the texts of the OEB online, it seems Airbus doesn't publish them, but a turbine engine which already have to deal with spin up time not responding normally at low altitude where it's crucial is very bad IMO.
In the case of the DHL crash, the TCAS instructed the DHL flight to descent and the Russian aircraft to climb, but the Skyguide controller instructed the Russian aircraft to descent, thus putting them back onto a collision course. If both pilots had been following the TCAS instructions there would have been no accident.
Anyways, but the computer isn't always right we all remember the Airbus crashing into the trees at the Paris Airshow a few years back because the computer countermanded the pilots orders. And there were discussions a few years back about 767 that nearly crashed but the pilot did a 6g pullout from a stall that the Airbus computer in it's default flight mode would have prohibited (note these are pilots ground flying, I wouldn't take it as fact).
Personally I like Boeings method of automation, it's there, but the moment the autopilot is off, the computer can not interject on their passenger aircraft.
The average home PC is administrated by someone that has no clue about security, while the average Apache admins, knows how to lock down a system, and doesn't use the system for everyday stuff, like viewing e-mails, and running programs randomly downloaded off the internet.
If we gave Linux machines to the same idiots that run Windows XP machines, you would have botnets, there might not be as many, but they would still be there because many virii are run via social engineering, not via operating system tricks. The dumb user is not something Linux can fix.
I would say that at this point the amount of Joe Average users of Apples is quite low, but heaven forbid Apple gets a 50% cut in market share they are going to have many of the e-mail virus problems that Windows has, because people are stupid.
A simple spelling error. I forgot to spell check the entry.
Yes I do think I know more then you, because TFRs is in my world, something me and a few pilot buddies have started a database (which current stretches back to 09/14/2001) and campaign to help fight. I go out of my way to collect information on military and US Customs service interceptions (which TFR violation interceptor responsibility is being moved to), we even attempt to contact the pilots when the name is released.
When something seems so very unlike established procedure, yes I got to question it, particularly when the facts don't live up to IT facts that I encounter in the real world, I have worked as a Network Administrator on both sides network pipe (both hosting and at the ISP level), we would have a hard time. We have responded to the Patriot Act requests, and none would have gotten them the data you described unless it was in their e-mail. It would also be unprofessional and be very unlike the FBI agents that I have had the pleasure of working with (who seemed to understand more then my boss how very busy I could get).
So when you account doesn't match up on both levels, I am going to call BS.
You tell that to the secret service. They will laugh you out of the ballpark.
Actually they won't, they can't. All you have to say is those magic words "I want to speak with my attorney." If they refuse that, you can refuse to answer their questions, they also can't detain you beyond a short amount of time, without charing you, or having just cause. Those are legal realities that can only be changed by being declared and enemy combatant. Also violating a TFR is not considered just cause, as it is not a criminal action, and can not be construed as one.
He lost his pilots license (at least temporarily) thank you very much.
Very unlikely, since you said he notified ATC, I am going to assume he was under ATC either under flight following or on an IFR flight plan, either way a half way descent aviation law attorney can easily shift the blame on the Air Traffic Controller. Also speaking of IFR flight plans, many TFRs allow a pilot to transit them under the permission of ATC.
Well thats all the time I feel like spending on this subject on Slashdot, this time I even remembered to spell check.
Also even the FBI doesn't work that fast to get that type of data, even if the data is obtained under that Patriot Act from the ISP (if they keep such indepth records,) it would takes hours for them to get even a rough guess what websites you visited.
True, but a search of the physical premises (unless permission granted by his wife at home) would require a traditional warrant, and the computer would not be analyzed at his home, it would be boxed up and sent to a forensics lab. Both of which would take more then a couple of hours to do, and obtain any results.
Second most ISPs don't keep logs on your current web traffic, it's simply too much data to keep, most ISPs don't keep router logs more then a week (if they keep them at all, which themselves are useless and can takes hours to match them with DHCP logs and then with websites), DHCP logs are kept for a greater amount of time. Second the FBI doesn't care if you visit the normal anti-GWB websites, they might care if you visited it at the same time as going to Jihad Jim's bomb making HOWTO.
Also none of the pilots have been arrested because violating a TFR is not a crime, it's a regulatory action between the pilot and the FAA. The passengers would not have been effected one bit, since they did nothing wrong.
So it's very likely that they people did nothing wrong, and a quick investigation and interview would confirm that.
If any of the 3,501 that were linked committed a terror act, and weren't investigated, heads would roll, just like after 9/11. This isn't about skin color, or religion, the FBI and NSA knows that they can't do it that way, even if it makes sense to some, there are organizations (ACLU and others) that would hound them to death for any hint of racial profiling.
Personally Oneboxes didn't sell well before, and I don't think that this will help the sell that much more. So IMO this will have little or no effect. Report Designers will continue to make their complex reports, and business intelligence folks will continue to analyze business and sale trends as they did before.
Personally I have used Verizon and Sprint (about 6 years ago), Verizon has worked anywhere I needed it, and with Sprint, short of in the middle of no where on US Highway Whoknows I had digital coverage, and roaming coverage in the middle no where. That was 6 years ago I assume that Sprint has covered some of the more popular middle of no where highways.
GSM is nice and all, but CDMA covers the US quite well, and the prices are competitive with Europe (I have a Vodaphone, and had an Orange phone).
It's the same business model that Real Networks, and Apple use.
Also the OEMs and users have spoken, they don't want Windows XP N, user expect their computer to work out of the box to play some of the more mainstream media formats, and OEMs don't want to take the time to slipstream another media player in the box. The only people that really want this are seething at the teeth Microsoft haters (a very small percentage of computer users), and Microsoft's competitors (the biggest one, Real Networks, had their shot and lost).
This EU business is take two of the monopoly lawsuits, companies like Netscape and Real Networks put out crappy products, and lose to Microsoft, and then try to get an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft. The users didn't jump ship because Microsoft put the product with their OS, they left because your product was utter crap (in the case of Netscape crashing every few minutes, and Real, their server product was even worse).
Lose and loose is an easy mistake to make because it's one letter and both are valid words. Just like a and an, and a ton of other words. Spelling Nazis spend more time attacking other based on their spelling and grammar, rather then going after the content of their message.