You'd think the bad press alone would be cause to fix it.
My guess is: their cost-cutting strategry is to be as apathetic as the majority of their user base. In their goal to cost-effectively maintain market dominance, they stopped caring so much about feature improvement a while ago. Pop-up blocking seems to be the bare minimum they can do. They are probably also trying to improve their illusion of security, so this could be a two birds with one stone kinda deal. (But sort of like how Bush dropping bombs on innocent Iraqi civilians improves the illusion of homeland security for some voter. That is to say, in both cases it actually doesn't do diddly squat in terms of security.)
-Or-, maybe MS has internal problems, such as hideously mangled source or key developers fleeing.
in the big picture of things, they are all losing money from me anyway because even if I click on an ad, I still don't spend cash there.
I do occasionally make donations to a few websites i care about, though. (Got tons of spare cash after I quit tobacco products.) But they don't reallly count because the sites that I donate to are operating at a loss in the first place.
A better question is: Why should Penn State not do something that benefits 95+% of their student body just because they can't offer it to another 5%?
Mandatory payment makes sense for public services such as roads and lighthouses, because charging for it would be somewhere between difficult and impossible. It does not make sense to force students to pay for Napster. I hate Napster, I wish they would go out of business and die. If I was a Penn State student right now, I'd be pissed.
... and the intellectual property that the dead or dieing company used dies with it, because the new company can't get it from their cold hands, or because the new company decides that switching to the new technology is too costly.
Unfortunately companies with the best business model aren't always offering the best product. Take, for example, Zip Disk (SyQuest made better products feature- and price-wise). Also WinZip, other legacy software/hardware.
In July 1999, practice of Falun Dafa by Communist Party members was outlawed... Something about subversive activities. I was in Beijing at the time they arrested Falun Dafa members peacefuly demonstrating at Tienanmen Square. I don't know what to think about them because I don't know enough about why the CP is against them. Obviously, western media will have a sympathetic point of view rather than a neutral one. Which makes it harder to see exactly what is going on. But despite that, I have a feeling that unfortunately China is in the wrong here.
American gun control attempts have not targeted Jews, Gypsies, gays, Communists, and political opponents, nor were any designed fod disarming and persecuting them. Actually, there's a lot of things that's different between the Nazis and the US. This Gun Control = Nazi reminds me of the old WWII propaganda: When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Hitler! (Join a Car-Sharing Club Today!) Also: America doesn't have the equivalent of storm troopers. (Oh, fine. You can disagree with me if you really want.)
Gun control makes a government Nazi? Thanks for the heads up. I'll get busy writing letters to Hamid Karzai and Paul Bremer to give back ammunition to warlords and terrorists.
You'd also have to uninstall Parents(TM) from US households. The parents are creating the demand for content filtering for their children. Ultimately, the parents that are censoring, not large coorporations. In this anti-drugs, anti-terrorism, anti-pornography, paranoid-from-columbine nation, the set of contents that some parents want filtered is clear.
Um, I recommend McAfee for an alternate anti-virus program, if you want. Don't have any firwall recommendations, though.
even if you prevented the great lakes from evaporating, the only difference that would make would be: no more lake effect snow. Since most of the moisture in the US midwest comes from the Mexican gulf to begin with, any lack of moisture given off lakes would be insignificant.
> I would think that if water cant get out kinetically then air and nitrogen cant get in. so you can kiss all fish and algea goodbye.
There are substances that can allow gas in but keep water out. That's basically what gills are, and since organic molecules are being used, I don't think it's too unfeasible to think that it can do this.
I don't see how P2P technology would help in this case. It neither requires heavy traffic (BitTorrent), nor discreet file transfers of dubious legality (WinMX). Here's my cross-platform, easy-to-maintain-and-use solution for using my contacts:
1. an online account for storage.
2. a plain text editor.
3. the clipboard is my friend.
Other than those three things, I need no floppy disk, no LDAP, no Outlook, no Mozilla, no proprietary format, no software incompatibilities, nothing like that.
I never understood why people are so willingly locking themselved down with proprietary formats instead...
P.S. Friendster.com is good for getting in touch with old friends.
I have the default "open" action for image files set to ACDSee (a responsive image viewer), but I can still view images in my Mozilla browser. The problem with Mozilla's install program is that it modifies the default "open" action of image files so that when you try to open it from e.g. explorer, the browser loads up instead of whatever else you had associated with that filetype. Essentially, the install program stole file associations, and that's a problem. This has nothing to do with how Mozilla views websites.
WTO won't recommend removing tax barriers where price dumping is going on (contrary to popular belief). So what's to stop a third world nation from stopping the dumping of US subsidized food?
Google should dump Google.fr and continue doing what they're doing. That'll leave the French courts with no one to sue nationally and will be another nail in the coffin for French xenophobia.
I agree. Google dropping Google.fr will put another nail in the coffin for French xenophobia - A nail in Google's coffin for their fear of the French, that is. Google needs profit. Hence the logical conclusion (one without xenophobia) would be to continue operating in France after paying the fines they will have to pay anyway (if it was upheld on appeal etc...). The French judge is not picking on Google in particular or foreigners in general. The judge is merely following through on copyright law. And if there is copyright incompatibility between the French and the US laws, you cannot conclude that the French are xenophobic.
Things like DriverLoader and WINE are and will be misused by companies to claim Linux compatability or make quick and low quality Linux solutions.
As with everything in the universe that can conceivably be sold, advertisers will exaggerate it. E.g."This computer has a 56kbps modem (in theoretical maximum speed measured in bits instead of bytes), a 10GB harddrive (in metric units with fudge factor), a 17-inch monitor (creatively measured in the longest way possible), and the hardware is linux compatible (with emulation)!" Linux Compatible would be a new marketing spin, but astute consumers will look for a "native linux drivers included" or a "Designed for Linux" logo. So in short there still will be economic insentive for companies to develop better products to maximise their profits. Hurray for Capitalism(TM)!
I'm sorry, those three are not very strong arguments.
No. 1: "actresses make money..."
arms smugglers make money....
No. 2 isn't even an argument. You are just speculating that there might be statistics in favor of your argument. You don't even know if such statistics exist.
No. 3: "Admit it, you like it"
Are you allowed to kill innocent babies if you like it?
Jim Gray in an interview (previously mentioned on/.) also compared Moore's law and harddrive capacity increase. The bandwidth becomes a greater bottleneck, not storage capacity. That's why he ships his harddrives.
Frank Zappa isn't saying there isn't any difference between Nixon, Ford, Carter, et. al, what he is saying is that their presidency is not the ideal democracy. For example, they are not direct democracy (IIRC, that's what it's called) where any citizen can propose a law, and everyone can vote on all laws. Ideal democracy is not US. It is not practical, either.
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The UN is an organization where North Korea, Syria, Iran, Cuba and Libya have the same vote as Australia, Spain, Canada, New Zealand and Belgium.
For one thing, North Korea doesn't have a vote in the UN security council. What vote are you smoking about?
If the UN can't tell the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy, well then I sure as hell don't want it controlling the Internet!
1. The UN can spot a dictator when it sees one (duh). The UN operates in a way that its members has agreed is most benefitial.
2. Many international treaties don't require an exclusive-to-democratic-nations club.
3. The UN can serve as a middleground for maintaining peace between otherwise hostile nations.
You'd think the bad press alone would be cause to fix it.
My guess is: their cost-cutting strategry is to be as apathetic as the majority of their user base. In their goal to cost-effectively maintain market dominance, they stopped caring so much about feature improvement a while ago. Pop-up blocking seems to be the bare minimum they can do. They are probably also trying to improve their illusion of security, so this could be a two birds with one stone kinda deal. (But sort of like how Bush dropping bombs on innocent Iraqi civilians improves the illusion of homeland security for some voter. That is to say, in both cases it actually doesn't do diddly squat in terms of security.)
-Or-, maybe MS has internal problems, such as hideously mangled source or key developers fleeing.
in the big picture of things, they are all losing money from me anyway because even if I click on an ad, I still don't spend cash there.
I do occasionally make donations to a few websites i care about, though. (Got tons of spare cash after I quit tobacco products.) But they don't reallly count because the sites that I donate to are operating at a loss in the first place.
This should be welcome news to loyal IE fans who continue to torture themselves with their use of it.
A better question is: Why should Penn State not do something that benefits 95+% of their student body just because they can't offer it to another 5%?
Mandatory payment makes sense for public services such as roads and lighthouses, because charging for it would be somewhere between difficult and impossible. It does not make sense to force students to pay for Napster. I hate Napster, I wish they would go out of business and die. If I was a Penn State student right now, I'd be pissed.
... and the intellectual property that the dead or dieing company used dies with it, because the new company can't get it from their cold hands, or because the new company decides that switching to the new technology is too costly.
Unfortunately companies with the best business model aren't always offering the best product. Take, for example, Zip Disk (SyQuest made better products feature- and price-wise). Also WinZip, other legacy software/hardware.
In July 1999, practice of Falun Dafa by Communist Party members was outlawed... Something about subversive activities. I was in Beijing at the time they arrested Falun Dafa members peacefuly demonstrating at Tienanmen Square. I don't know what to think about them because I don't know enough about why the CP is against them. Obviously, western media will have a sympathetic point of view rather than a neutral one. Which makes it harder to see exactly what is going on. But despite that, I have a feeling that unfortunately China is in the wrong here.
Did they take the site offline to protest the jailing and torture in china of people who speak out or worship?
Are you talking about recent news? You can worship in China lawfully.
Microkernels being slow are the reason Macs are so much slower than PC's!
My PC runs a microkernel OS (Windows 2000), but I didn't notice any slow-downs when I switched from Windows 98.
American gun control attempts have not targeted Jews, Gypsies, gays, Communists, and political opponents, nor were any designed fod disarming and persecuting them. Actually, there's a lot of things that's different between the Nazis and the US. This Gun Control = Nazi reminds me of the old WWII propaganda: When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Hitler! (Join a Car-Sharing Club Today!) Also: America doesn't have the equivalent of storm troopers. (Oh, fine. You can disagree with me if you really want.)
Gun control makes a government Nazi? Thanks for the heads up. I'll get busy writing letters to Hamid Karzai and Paul Bremer to give back ammunition to warlords and terrorists.
I will never buy another Symantec product again
You'd also have to uninstall Parents(TM) from US households. The parents are creating the demand for content filtering for their children. Ultimately, the parents that are censoring, not large coorporations. In this anti-drugs, anti-terrorism, anti-pornography, paranoid-from-columbine nation, the set of contents that some parents want filtered is clear.
Um, I recommend McAfee for an alternate anti-virus program, if you want. Don't have any firwall recommendations, though.
even if you prevented the great lakes from evaporating, the only difference that would make would be: no more lake effect snow. Since most of the moisture in the US midwest comes from the Mexican gulf to begin with, any lack of moisture given off lakes would be insignificant.
> I would think that if water cant get out kinetically then air and nitrogen cant get in. so you can kiss all fish and algea goodbye.
There are substances that can allow gas in but keep water out. That's basically what gills are, and since organic molecules are being used, I don't think it's too unfeasible to think that it can do this.
I don't see how P2P technology would help in this case. It neither requires heavy traffic (BitTorrent), nor discreet file transfers of dubious legality (WinMX). Here's my cross-platform, easy-to-maintain-and-use solution for using my contacts:
1. an online account for storage.
2. a plain text editor.
3. the clipboard is my friend.
Other than those three things, I need no floppy disk, no LDAP, no Outlook, no Mozilla, no proprietary format, no software incompatibilities, nothing like that.
I never understood why people are so willingly locking themselved down with proprietary formats instead...
P.S. Friendster.com is good for getting in touch with old friends.
I have the default "open" action for image files set to ACDSee (a responsive image viewer), but I can still view images in my Mozilla browser. The problem with Mozilla's install program is that it modifies the default "open" action of image files so that when you try to open it from e.g. explorer, the browser loads up instead of whatever else you had associated with that filetype. Essentially, the install program stole file associations, and that's a problem. This has nothing to do with how Mozilla views websites.
OSS advocates should also advocate to businesses that are just starting up and households that are just purchasing their first PC.
It would make more sense to start fresh with free software rather than to switch after paying for proprietary software.
WTO won't recommend removing tax barriers where price dumping is going on (contrary to popular belief). So what's to stop a third world nation from stopping the dumping of US subsidized food?
Google should dump Google.fr and continue doing what they're doing. That'll leave the French courts with no one to sue nationally and will be another nail in the coffin for French xenophobia.
I agree. Google dropping Google.fr will put another nail in the coffin for French xenophobia - A nail in Google's coffin for their fear of the French, that is. Google needs profit. Hence the logical conclusion (one without xenophobia) would be to continue operating in France after paying the fines they will have to pay anyway (if it was upheld on appeal etc...). The French judge is not picking on Google in particular or foreigners in general. The judge is merely following through on copyright law. And if there is copyright incompatibility between the French and the US laws, you cannot conclude that the French are xenophobic.
mmm... bait...
Things like DriverLoader and WINE are and will be misused by companies to claim Linux compatability or make quick and low quality Linux solutions.
As with everything in the universe that can conceivably be sold, advertisers will exaggerate it. E.g."This computer has a 56kbps modem (in theoretical maximum speed measured in bits instead of bytes), a 10GB harddrive (in metric units with fudge factor), a 17-inch monitor (creatively measured in the longest way possible), and the hardware is linux compatible (with emulation)!" Linux Compatible would be a new marketing spin, but astute consumers will look for a "native linux drivers included" or a "Designed for Linux" logo. So in short there still will be economic insentive for companies to develop better products to maximise their profits. Hurray for Capitalism(TM)!
I'm sorry, those three are not very strong arguments.
No. 1: "actresses make money..."
arms smugglers make money....
No. 2 isn't even an argument. You are just speculating that there might be statistics in favor of your argument. You don't even know if such statistics exist.
No. 3: "Admit it, you like it"
Are you allowed to kill innocent babies if you like it?
Jim Gray in an interview (previously mentioned on /.) also compared Moore's law and harddrive capacity increase. The bandwidth becomes a greater bottleneck, not storage capacity. That's why he ships his harddrives.
The interview is quite long and interesting.
Frank Zappa isn't saying there isn't any difference between Nixon, Ford, Carter, et. al, what he is saying is that their presidency is not the ideal democracy. For example, they are not direct democracy (IIRC, that's what it's called) where any citizen can propose a law, and everyone can vote on all laws. Ideal democracy is not US. It is not practical, either.
Joining the military is also great for easily acquiring driver's licenses for all sorts of vehicles!