A very unsafe assumption. Setelments usually are made so no guilt or innoconce is proven. It never goes in front of a judhe so how can one company admit guilt (which is a legal admission).
From a purely technical perspective this is a fair point, however there is quite a bit of evidence from various sources (coupled with my own first hand experience) that Microsoft purposely tampered with style sheets served to browsers with the Opera UA.
I wasn't passing a guilty verdict (I'm not qualified;), merely balancing my own experience and what others have pointed out to be able to say "They're the ones wot dunnit!"
What's $12M to a company with billions and billions of cash?
Not much, but it means quite a bit to Opera I would wager. If you were to view this settlement as an admission of guilt (a safe assumption in this case?) this means more than the $12M to both parties.
"Are you as sick of getting the "I never got your email." line as I was? This will eliminate that excuse completely. It really lets you know whom you're dealing with."
Scott Polevy -Investment Funds Manager
I know who he's dealing with too - those idiots who enable HTML and inline images on their mail clients... I guess he's trying to weed out savvy people for some reason....
Try doing that on your University/Work system, and see how far it gets you.
I'd love to have the chance to try... Working for a Windows house.
I love the fact they replaced their terminals with Win2K boxes and terminal emulation software...
...but I reckon there's nothing stopping me installing JOE in ~/bin and editing ~/.bashrc to add that to the path.
Bullshit - if you are a REAL Dublin resident, you'd either be:
1) In a pub
2) Busking outside Bewley's Oriental Tea Rooms
3) Trying to find a parking space around St. Stephens green
4) Stuck in road traffic somewhere along the banks of the Liffey
Or bricking in the lights on your way to by heroin from a drug-dealing asylum seeker </Evening Herald> ;-)
Fair point, but until I get a degree to go with my few years of "professional" I'm stuck with what I have. Plus, at the moment COBOL is the only language I can code well, much to my chagrin.
I have 2 bosses. Both clueless. Both want me to work on different projects in different languages (not nice languages - COBOL and other card-walloper tools). Both give me projects to do at the same time. When I heard my job is moving an inaccessible distance away I thought to myself "Finally and excuse to GTF out of here" but I still sit there red eyed and set to kill, punching 80 colums into a terminal.
Care to explain how Java's license that forbids distribution the fault of the distributor?
Do people only use the software that is supplied with their distro? The fact that a piece of software is not included with my distro means absolutely nothing to me. I have to get many packages after installing my distro (flash & java plugins, nvidia driver...) I take this for granted and don't find it any great hassle. Anyone with enough interest in developing Java will attain the SDK.
"Marketing - The process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods, services, and ideas to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organisation objectives."
Shows how wrong assumptions can be.
That definition sounds a lot like "marketing speak" - as if marketeers defined themselves to paint a positive image. Now, that's not their style, is it? The fact is most marketing will create the desire or perceived need for the product and once this has been achieved the company moves in to fulfil requirements. I'm finding it hard to think of examples that contradict this - all that springs to mind is toy commercials, coca-cola shorts, Microsoft ads, all of which (from my perspective) try to convince me something is missing from my life - that I will never acieve my objectives and be fulfilled if I don't buy these products. My own definition of marketing, which is a part of my overall bullshit filter, is "To create a false desire and then feed it with the end result of benefitting the supplier rather than the consumer"
As Bill Hicks put it: "By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising, Kill Yourself. Just planting seeds, that's all I'm doing. No joke here. Really, Seriously, Kill Yourself. There is no rationalization for what you do. You are Satan's little helpers. Kill Yourself, Kill Yourself, Kill Yourself Now. I know some of you are thinking there's going to be a joke coming up...There's no fucking joke. Suck a tailpipe, hang yourself, borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy - do something to rid the world of your evil fucking presence. Okay, back to the show..."
They do however, use their monopolistic position to try to force hardware upgrades down the user's throats (your battery doesn't work anymore, too bad, cough up the dough)(you want better performance, buy our new $3000 g5)...
I am reminded of Goodfellas...
"That's the way it is with a wiseguy partner. He gets his money no matter what. You got no business? Fuck you, pay me. You had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning and World War Three started in the lounge? Fuck you, pay me."
Juk is nice, but lacks an equaliser (or I just haven't found the Arts plugin box...) I use the similarly styled amaroK - I can see it being included in KDE in the near future.
No sane company is going to sell a 150 GB drive as an 80 GB because they pay as much to manufacture platters and heads no matter how they're used.
I did once hear a story about a HD manufacturer/OEM supplier here in Ireland who had a large batch of 80GB disks, but there was little demand as most Dell/Packard Bell/Whatever boxes shipped with 20-40GB drives. There was little hope of shipping the stock and they needed them gone so the whole lot were reconfigured as 40GB drives - they flew out the door.
I also recall a 20MB disk I had on an 8086... I ran an app called 'prep' (very low level) which shipped with DOS 3.2 for Zenith and it yielded and extra 10MB - I don't remember any major issues, but it was a good while ago...
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I wasn't passing a guilty verdict (I'm not qualified
I know who he's dealing with too - those idiots who enable HTML and inline images on their mail clients... I guess he's trying to weed out savvy people for some reason....
If you're on Linux (or another Unixalike which can run The Vsound Virtual Audio Loopback Cable and realplayer) I have a little bash script which can make the job easier.
Most basic functionality just requires the rtsp/http URL:
$ realcap rtsp://foo.bor/baz.rm
Please don't slag off the code - I'm new to this and I was drinking at the time
New version supporting ogg quality and tagging coming soon.
* knock knock
Linus: Who is it?
Darl & Co: Goons
Linus: Who?
Darl & Co: Hired goons
Linus: Hired Goons?
Disclaimer: The intent of this post is not to compare Mr Torvalds and Mr Simpson, but to highlight the nature of Mr McBride's business.
I'd love to have the chance to try... Working for a Windows house. I love the fact they replaced their terminals with Win2K boxes and terminal emulation software...
Indeed - since I do not yet(!) know vi the first command I enter on every Mandrake install (I choose mdk for friends' systems) is
# urpmi joe
JOE is a great editor, but I have to learn vi...
*cough
Or bricking in the lights on your way to by heroin from a drug-dealing asylum seeker </Evening Herald>
;-)
Heheh - Yes. Yes it is.
Combine it with my IRC fingers and you got a nightmare on your hands, mister!
Fair point, but until I get a degree to go with my few years of "professional" I'm stuck with what I have.
Plus, at the moment COBOL is the only language I can code well, much to my chagrin.
I have 2 bosses.
Both clueless. Both want me to work on different projects in different languages (not nice languages - COBOL and other card-walloper tools). Both give me projects to do at the same time.
When I heard my job is moving an inaccessible distance away I thought to myself "Finally and excuse to GTF out of here" but I still sit there red eyed and set to kill, punching 80 colums into a terminal.
Yours,
Fulfilled, Dublin.
You could try realcap. This is a realmedia capture script I wrote (well, adapted) to cap dramatisations of Terry Pratchett books from BBC7.
More info here
Do people only use the software that is supplied with their distro? The fact that a piece of software is not included with my distro means absolutely nothing to me.
I have to get many packages after installing my distro (flash & java plugins, nvidia driver...) I take this for granted and don't find it any great hassle.
Anyone with enough interest in developing Java will attain the SDK.
I wonder if it's possible to implement a DHTML hack for proper PNG support :)
Fine, I will then. You just see if I don't.
Heheh, that showed 'im.
That definition sounds a lot like "marketing speak" - as if marketeers defined themselves to paint a positive image. Now, that's not their style, is it?
The fact is most marketing will create the desire or perceived need for the product and once this has been achieved the company moves in to fulfil requirements.
I'm finding it hard to think of examples that contradict this - all that springs to mind is toy commercials, coca-cola shorts, Microsoft ads, all of which (from my perspective) try to convince me something is missing from my life - that I will never acieve my objectives and be fulfilled if I don't buy these products.
My own definition of marketing, which is a part of my overall bullshit filter, is "To create a false desire and then feed it with the end result of benefitting the supplier rather than the consumer"
As Bill Hicks put it:
"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising, Kill Yourself. Just planting seeds, that's all I'm doing. No joke here. Really, Seriously, Kill Yourself. There is no rationalization for what you do. You are Satan's little helpers. Kill Yourself, Kill Yourself, Kill Yourself Now. I know some of you are thinking there's going to be a joke coming up...There's no fucking joke. Suck a tailpipe, hang yourself, borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy - do something to rid the world of your evil fucking presence. Okay, back to the show..."
I don't think any more needs to be said on this
I'm going to overclock my Timex Sinclair!!!
Or you could get a Sprinter
I am reminded of Goodfellas...
"That's the way it is with a wiseguy partner. He gets his money no matter what. You got no business? Fuck you, pay me. You had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning and World War Three started in the lounge? Fuck you, pay me."
Juk is nice, but lacks an equaliser (or I just haven't found the Arts plugin box...)
I use the similarly styled amaroK - I can see it being included in KDE in the near future.
I did once hear a story about a HD manufacturer/OEM supplier here in Ireland who had a large batch of 80GB disks, but there was little demand as most Dell/Packard Bell/Whatever boxes shipped with 20-40GB drives.
There was little hope of shipping the stock and they needed them gone so the whole lot were reconfigured as 40GB drives - they flew out the door.
I also recall a 20MB disk I had on an 8086... I ran an app called 'prep' (very low level) which shipped with DOS 3.2 for Zenith and it yielded and extra 10MB - I don't remember any major issues, but it was a good while ago...
Spurious is a perfectly cromulent word
My tendency would probably be to ignore it
Try this piece from Ireland's national broadcaster - borders on the farcical at points.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~fuzzbucket/mi.ogg
Original realmedia stream available from http://www.rte.ie/ but the site seems down at the moment.
This piece was broadcast during last Monday's (2nd Feb) edition of Morning Ireland in case you decide to go searching for it.
They didn't tie themselves to a platform by choosing the DirectX API.