I don't know and have never heard of it. Just because they are looking for other solutions doesn't mean that there's somthing wrong with that method. There's still the 10% that it doesn't work on.
Exactly. The GP is uninformed FUD. In SP1, Microsoft allowed (or were legaly forced to allow) the user to remove the IE icon from the start menu. IE is required to have a properly functioning system.
But they could if a clause in the contract specifically does not allow for the installation of alternative browsers.
Weren't they specifically forbidden from doing that. I believe that was in the same ruling that declared that they must make it easier to remove the IE icon from the start menu.
I'm interested to see if there is a limit to what the brain can remember. I have heard things that suggest that. While I don't know if this will be answered, it'll be interesting to see the results of this study.
That's not the issue. I don't want people installing software on my machine and changing my system preferences without my consent. I doubt that you would either.
I guess that depends on whether you consider having someone who installs software on your machine and replaces your defaults without your knowledge a good thing. I sure don't.
Both of whom poll other news sources for their stories. It's not as though yahoo or google go out and do their own reporting - you're getting an aggregate from a variety of different sources, each with their own POV - a POV dictated by the audience that the source is reporting to.
Very true but that doesn't mean that they don't have a point. I find it deeply disturbing that so many people are getting their news off Internet blogs. It is amazing the misinformation and blatently false information that is on the net and spread even here on slashdot.
If you are going to get your news off the net, at least do it from a reputible source like news.yahoo.com or news.google.com. You much less likely to get a completly one-sided view here than from a site or even network that gets all their news theirselves. Getting news from blogs or a bbs is like getting it from a militia on a public access channel.
If their was an alternative similar to Yahoo News for getting local news, I'd leave the newspapers and network news all together.
Thank you. Elections in *any* country have never been perfect. It's not going to happen.
Just because the observed votes don't match up to party aligment doesn't mean a thing. Some republicans voted democrat and some deomcrats voted republican. It happens every election. It's generally decided by which party has the most detractors. It would make sense that, since bush won Florida, he had the votes of registered democrats as well as republicans.
That is a completely unrelated issue. Should we redirect all our military funds to making Manhattan the most secure area in the world?
It's called being proactive. In 10 years, if China has weapons in orbit and decides to go Napoleonic on the rest of the world, the same people complaining here will be complaining how irresponsable the Bush administration was to sit back while the Chinese filled orbit with weapons. In order for the US to maintain military superiority, they must retain the upper hand in future areas of warfare.
Wasn't the Soviet shuttle nuclear equipped? I seem to remember reading somthing about that and seeing pictures. They were convinced that the American shuttle was nuclearly equipped so they built their own.
I don't think anyone is forgetting that both NASA and the Soviets put people in orbit 50 years ago.
How much of this information is public though? This is not a NASA project; this is intended for private groups. I'm sure most of the theory is available but there is a lot of stuff that comes from experience and testing. I think that five years is pushing it.
There was a LP candidate running for Congress here that I saw in the debates. He wasn't too impressive while the republican incumbent Ann Northrup was. I seem to remember winning my a decent margin. The LP candidate didn't have much suppoer.
The problem with the third party candidates for me at leasst is that their ideas are too extreme for me. I consider myself a moderate who leans slightly to the right on some issues. The problem is that I agree more with both the Democrates and Republicans than I do with the third parties.
Third parties seem to take a more ideological stance than a practical one. That's just my opinion though. In order for a 3rd party to get my support, they are going to need to tone down their idealism and propose solutions that make sense instead of taking the "turn the country inside out" approach. I am all for change but I don't think sudden drastic change is the way to go.
It's nice to see an objective response on/. for a change.
I agree almost completly with your whole post. I admitably did not read the article but I think we need a little more information than what is in the summary. I think it boarders on flamebait.
It is closed because they wrote the code and they have the right to release it as they please. They have to respsct your decision to open your source code and you have to respect theirs to keep theirs closed. It is a product that they sell. If they open the source, they lose much of the capibility to sell it. It's really not that hard to understand.
The difference between a game and news, which is always brought up by opponents to this kind of comparison, is that the news is passive. Something bad happened to someone else, no matter how gory or evil it may be. A game, though, requires that the player carry out the action themselves.
That is the key point here. People always try to make unfair comparisons to make whatever point they feel like.
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I don't know and have never heard of it. Just because they are looking for other solutions doesn't mean that there's somthing wrong with that method. There's still the 10% that it doesn't work on.
Thanks for providing the link to slashdot. I would have never found it.
Most of it already works in Firefox. Google has said that Firefox will be fully supported in the future.
Exactly. The GP is uninformed FUD. In SP1, Microsoft allowed (or were legaly forced to allow) the user to remove the IE icon from the start menu. IE is required to have a properly functioning system.
But they could if a clause in the contract specifically does not allow for the installation of alternative browsers.
Weren't they specifically forbidden from doing that. I believe that was in the same ruling that declared that they must make it easier to remove the IE icon from the start menu.
Seriously. It's not worth the effort to try to read that.
I'm interested to see if there is a limit to what the brain can remember. I have heard things that suggest that. While I don't know if this will be answered, it'll be interesting to see the results of this study.
AOL Europe (for the foreigners)
Was that supposed to be funny?
Giving them a choice is fine. Installing it without their permission is not.
That's not the issue. I don't want people installing software on my machine and changing my system preferences without my consent. I doubt that you would either.
Didn't read far enough down..
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That reminds me. Anyone know what happened with the NYT full-page ad? Wasn't it supposed to be in today?
Lucky?
I guess that depends on whether you consider having someone who installs software on your machine and replaces your defaults without your knowledge a good thing. I sure don't.
Both of whom poll other news sources for their stories. It's not as though yahoo or google go out and do their own reporting - you're getting an aggregate from a variety of different sources, each with their own POV - a POV dictated by the audience that the source is reporting to.
Which is exactly my point.
Very true but that doesn't mean that they don't have a point. I find it deeply disturbing that so many people are getting their news off Internet blogs. It is amazing the misinformation and blatently false information that is on the net and spread even here on slashdot.
If you are going to get your news off the net, at least do it from a reputible source like news.yahoo.com or news.google.com. You much less likely to get a completly one-sided view here than from a site or even network that gets all their news theirselves. Getting news from blogs or a bbs is like getting it from a militia on a public access channel.
If their was an alternative similar to Yahoo News for getting local news, I'd leave the newspapers and network news all together.
Thank you. Elections in *any* country have never been perfect. It's not going to happen.
Just because the observed votes don't match up to party aligment doesn't mean a thing. Some republicans voted democrat and some deomcrats voted republican. It happens every election. It's generally decided by which party has the most detractors. It would make sense that, since bush won Florida, he had the votes of registered democrats as well as republicans.
That is a completely unrelated issue. Should we redirect all our military funds to making Manhattan the most secure area in the world?
It's called being proactive. In 10 years, if China has weapons in orbit and decides to go Napoleonic on the rest of the world, the same people complaining here will be complaining how irresponsable the Bush administration was to sit back while the Chinese filled orbit with weapons. In order for the US to maintain military superiority, they must retain the upper hand in future areas of warfare.
Well, isn't a meteor an asteroid until it hits the atmosphere?
I believe a meteorite is a meteor until it hits the atmosphere.
So don't be silly and stop spreading FUD
While I agree with your premise, I fail to see how the parent is FUD.
Wasn't the Soviet shuttle nuclear equipped? I seem to remember reading somthing about that and seeing pictures. They were convinced that the American shuttle was nuclearly equipped so they built their own.
I don't think anyone is forgetting that both NASA and the Soviets put people in orbit 50 years ago.
How much of this information is public though? This is not a NASA project; this is intended for private groups. I'm sure most of the theory is available but there is a lot of stuff that comes from experience and testing. I think that five years is pushing it.
There was a LP candidate running for Congress here that I saw in the debates. He wasn't too impressive while the republican incumbent Ann Northrup was. I seem to remember winning my a decent margin. The LP candidate didn't have much suppoer.
The problem with the third party candidates for me at leasst is that their ideas are too extreme for me. I consider myself a moderate who leans slightly to the right on some issues. The problem is that I agree more with both the Democrates and Republicans than I do with the third parties.
Third parties seem to take a more ideological stance than a practical one. That's just my opinion though. In order for a 3rd party to get my support, they are going to need to tone down their idealism and propose solutions that make sense instead of taking the "turn the country inside out" approach. I am all for change but I don't think sudden drastic change is the way to go.
It's nice to see an objective response on /. for a change.
I agree almost completly with your whole post. I admitably did not read the article but I think we need a little more information than what is in the summary. I think it boarders on flamebait.
First, why should source code be closed?
It is closed because they wrote the code and they have the right to release it as they please. They have to respsct your decision to open your source code and you have to respect theirs to keep theirs closed. It is a product that they sell. If they open the source, they lose much of the capibility to sell it. It's really not that hard to understand.
The difference between a game and news, which is always brought up by opponents to this kind of comparison, is that the news is passive. Something bad happened to someone else, no matter how gory or evil it may be. A game, though, requires that the player carry out the action themselves.
That is the key point here. People always try to make unfair comparisons to make whatever point they feel like.