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The Union is not and was not the problem in this case. In 1981 the Union was right and Reagan was very lucky that there wasn't a major air disaster because of his actions. As was the case for basically every action of that Administration, ideology triumphed over both reality and common sense.
Are we rewriting history again?
1) Federal Employees, which Air Traffic Controllers are, cannot legally strike. 2) There wasn't a disaster because Reagan shifted Military Controllers into the FAA positions. Supervisors and non-striking controllers took up the rest of the slack. 3) I would say a $30 billion a year tax generating revenue stream triumphed over the ATC Union desire of a 32-Hour work week for more money.
Just like the Soviets, the ATC Union thought Reagan was bluffing. He wasn't.
I thought there was another Apple II program called Parrot that also did this I have/had another text-to-speech program for the Apple II. I forget what it was called but it wasn't as good as S.A.M. IIRC I could feed S.A.M. malformed words from my AppleSoft programs
Don't make me pull out my 300+ 5-1/4 floppy archives just to find out the title of that program.
- The introverted genius, but under-achieving nerd. - Does not RTFM, but asks for expert help first in understanding the program. - Hours of relentless researching to find the flaws (hacks) in the target. - 3rd party vendor mistakes allow entry point for unwanted intruders. - Hacker not realizing they are not in the system they think they are.
Best quote ever by a end user: General Beringer: Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.
It's existed since Cromwell went in and brutally reconquered Ireland in 1649, so it's at least as legitimate as, say, the US occupation of the 37 (?) states which were acquired after the revolution.
As a minor history buff, I must say there were only thirteen colonies before and after the Revolution. Canada to the north was still British. France and Spain "claimed" the lands to the West/South West.
Cromwell is one of my favorite characters from history (Good and/or Bad).
There has been intermittent raiding across the Irish Sea since about 800AD (in both directions), so the direct answer to your question is "yes, since before England even existed". My ancestors raided England from Germany after 400AD (The Angles). Can you point me to some better online references than google provides for the Irish doing the same? American World history text books/Encyclopedias suck when it comes to minor details on European history. Thanks.
Is it just me, or have people completely gone nuts?
Nope. I agree, people are nuts:)
I just trashed one 300 line function a PHP programmer wrote to see if a keyword was present inside of an XML file (Bitching about XML abuse by PHBs is a topic for another day). Replaced the whole (three minute) XML parser he took two days to write with a two second call:
To be honest, I blame the Computer Science courses. Students need to get back to BASICs (Pun intended, Maybe on a Apple II emulator) before they start writing code in.Net/Python/Java/PHP whatever.
the American tendency to try to drown out the voice of the (few) legitimate grievances of al-qaeda pushes the day the middle east is at peace further and further away By what mechanism does America use to drown out these voices of dissent and where are they? And what pray tell is the legitimate AQ grievance this week, they change them monthly. And in case you haven't heard, the middle east has never been at peace for well over four thousand years.
Now - thanks to courageous politicians - we live in peace with the Northern irish and the former leaders of terrorist organisations co-operate to run Ulster jointly This is disingenuous at best. Your leaving out the whole Catholic/Protestant conflict. And how many years of violence did it take for your courageous politicians a hundred? Two hundred? Perhaps over three hundred years? Was not the English invasion of Ireland the cause of the conflict to begin with? Were the English attacked or under a threat of attack by the Irish before the illegal occupation?
- however the battle between the USA and its allies and Wahhabist / fundamentalist islamic terrorists and their allies is essentially a political battle by other means. I disagree, its a clash of culture. The Tribal mentality versus Western liberalism. Name one successful political solution that solved a conflict between the West and any middle eastern country?
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The Blender team, unfortunately, is driven exclusively by the concerns of users who are experts in the field, not beginners. My twelve year old learned to use it.
1991
Tequila is the first widespread polymorphic virus found in the wild. Polymorphic viruses make detection difficult for virus scanners by changing their appearance with each new infection.
Sweeney believes that a non rules-based monitoring process must be set up to defend all ingress and egress points covering SMTP, DNS, HTTP(s), IM etc."
Its called heuristics and its been in use for a while.
Is that Linux, BSD, Sun, AIX, and whatever are just as vulnerable when it comes to dumb programmers.
The million dollar question is what platform and which web server is it easier to reinstall to get the site back up. I think Linux and BSD have the advantage.
The 'Protocols' have ALWAYS been fairly open for MS Server products.
Especially since IBM and 3Com helped invent them. There are very many systems which can use the NetBIOS / NetBEUI interface or make use of the NetBIOS Frames Protocol, but perhaps one of the most important is the Server Message Block Protocol (SMB). The Server Message Block Protocol (SMB), is an application level protocol used by networking systems and operating systems such as Microsoft's Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 / 98 / ME, LAN Manager, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and IBM's OS/2 and LAN Server, NetWare 6 and the SAMBA implementation and as such deserves special attention. The latest versions of the protocol are now known as the Common Internet File System protocol
The Server Message Block protocol (SMB) was created in the 1980's by Dr. Barry Feigenbaum at IBM Corporation. It was later extended by IBM, 3Com, Intel, and Microsoft.
The part that SAMBA is licensing and NEEDS to license is when they are implementing features normally found in Windows Server that are not open.
Off top of my head I would guess these would be:
ACL & Security Group Policy Features Domain Features Roaming Profiles, etc. FS Search Network Queries ala Vista/Windows Desktop Search
Correct me if I'm wrong but I would say all of these "features" listed except the last has prior art within Banyan Vines, Netware, LANTastic, IBM LanServer, DEC Pathworks etc. Why hasn't MS come out and listed their patent concerns instead of spreading Linux FUD?
Either the F-22 has better stealth than we realize, or there's something newer, more stealthier and more secretive coming around.
The F-22 will be just as obsolete as the predator etc. UAV/drone technology progresses. Enders Game is already happening.
The F-117 was obsolete once the Tomahawk missile was perfected. Can't get more stealthier than a missile coming at you at MACH 3 4 meters above the ground.
Is a great kernel developer/programmer (He also does columns for Linux Journal). He is not a general purpose Linux programming author.
Getting this book out of the box, I had wrongly been expecting a cookbook style that I would get instant gratification from. Although structured around common programming tasks, it doesn't lend itself to just dipping in.
For getting your feet wet with Linux programming I recommend GNU/LINUX Application Programming by M. Tim Jones or Linux Application Development by Michael K. Johnson and Erik W. Troan.
The Linux Unleashed series is also good (1000+ pages with hundreds dedicated to perl, python, and Gtk programming).
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Is anyone going to use ISO specifications again if Microsoft purchases the OOXML vote?
What really gets my clusters in a bunch is that Microsoft could elect to work with Sun, IBM, Apple, Adobe, Whoever, to really come up with an Open Document specification if they wanted too. This specification isn't about Apple, Microsoft, Sun, and IBM. Its about government documentation funded by the public that needs to be available a thousand years from now. Way to be a good corporate citizen Microsoft!
People will still choose MS Office because they like it, not because it does or does not save documents in a government mandated open specification. Microsoft could simply add a new "Save As" filter following the Open Specification.
Steve Jobs claim to fame is that he is good at herding cats. Talented programmers/engineers don't work together well as a team. They all know everything better than the other. Add a substandard programmer to the team and they are overwhelmed by the other talent.
Steve nudged WoZ into doing things. Steve got the original overly talented Mac crew to work together as a team (He did fail with the Lisa project though didn't he).
Steve is a Zen Master/Artist who is good at herding cats....
Read the Michael Swaine (URL:http://www.fireinthevalley.com/> or Andy's (URL:http://www.folklore.org/index.py> website sometime. Good stuff.
For all those dissing Apple hardware, I have eight Macs/Apple]['s that just work(TM) today and are just as useful as they were in the 70/80/90's. That alone is a testament of Apple hardware quality. I have friends to still use their Apple Newton. I own an original IBM XT and AT that still work but I have no reason to fire them up. None of my original 386/486/586 clones lasted half as long. The Linux box I'm typing this post on probably won't last longer that 5 years.
I'm just curious if the Apple hardware they make today will withstand 20 years of time like the hardware they used to make.
You are telling me that WordPerfect: The Corporation was moving in every direction at once. You are also telling me that WordPerfect was obsessed with the cardboard box.
I'm not sure what your getting at. Microsoft also sold retail cardboard boxes for multiple platforms. (Flight Simulator for Atari, Apple etc). WordPerfect relied on authorized retailers for Sales and Support (Remember Businessland?). Word Perfect never had an OEM relationship like Microsoft because it sold a product for multiple hardware platforms.
[I can't find a reference to an OEM WordPerfect before WordPerfect's purchase by Corel. Can you?] OEMs were not allowed to bundle non-Microsoft software. All this is recorded history http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/MS/IBM-3.html He also provided evidence of linkage by Microsoft between operating system and application sales, claiming that IBM would get better prices if it didn't ship Netscape Navigator and Lotus SmartSuite. For Microsoft Office bundles he was charged "IBM's price" of $250 per copy, considerably higher than the Compaq or HP price. Microsoft might have some justification for claiming volume discounts here, if IBM was shipping fewer copies of Office.
"Microsoft repeatedly told us that as long as we were shipping competitive products, such as Smart Suite and OS2, we would not be treated the same as Compaq and others," he said.
How about evidence from the Iowa anti-trust trial:
146. Another way that Microsoft found to circumvent the federal court's 1995 injunction forbidding its use of "minimum commitment/per processor" licenses was what Microsoft calls its "Market Development Agreements" ("MDAs"). Microsoft contrived the MDA as a device to evade the Court's decree prohibiting Microsoft from requiring OEMs to adhere to "minimum commitments." As Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's current CEO) acknowledged: "We have always given better prices to customers who work with us to make the market. Those used to take the form of commits [i.e., minimum commitments] which we do not do anymore as a result of the [federal court's] decree but we still believe in rewarding people who help us create demand. Hence the iMDA." Under the MDAs, Microsoft granted large discriminatory price concessions to those OEMs that would agree to market and promote Microsoft's Windows to the exclusion of any rival operating system. These discounts were calibrated so as to force the OEM to sell most of its computers with a Microsoft operating system in order to obtain the lowest price.
147. Because the OEM market is so competitive and profit margins are so thin, every OEM had to get the lowest price it could from Microsoft in order to survive. In March 2002, a Gateway marketing executive (Anthony Fama) testified before Judge Kollar-Kotelly in State of New York et al. v. Microsoft, Case No. 98-1233 (CKK), about how Microsoft used its MDA program in order to force OEMs to market Microsoft's operating system exclusively: "Given the substantial nature of these discounts, participation in the MDA, as a practical matter, is not optional. In other words, not receiving:these discounts would put Gateway at a substantial competitive disadvantage, and Gateway has communicated that self-evident proposition to Microsoft." Microsoft also used its MDAs to lock OEMs in and competitors out by offering a discriminatory price to the OEM in a later year provided (a) the OEM reached Microsoft's imposed goal of Windows sales over competitive sales in the prior year and (b) renewed its exclusionary contract with Microsoft for the later year. This placed the OEM on a perpetual treadmill, eliminating competition indefinitely. Microsoft continued these exclusionary terms at least past April 2002.
148. One method for encouraging competition in the operating systems market would have been the sale by OEMs of "naked machines" (i.e., computers that are sold without
Microsoft effectively killed it with the Windows Monopoly.
They, just like Microsoft, were more interested in making money then they ever were in providing consumer choice,
Your argument is wrong on so many levels...
Word Perfect made its product available on the MacIntosh, Amiga, Apple ][gs, Atari ST, DOS, Windows, Solaris, and VAX systems. What platforms did Microsoft write Office for? What Windows fees did Microsoft charge computer makers for not bundling Microsoft Office/Works versus the ones who did?
Did Microsoft offer matching Marketing funds (paid by you for your non choice of an Operating System when purchasing a PC) to computer makers who bundled PFS Windows Works with their Windows based computers instead of computer makers who chose to bundle Office/Works? No, they didn't.
Is Microsoft evil? No. Are they greedy? Yes. Is there any room for competition within the Microsoft Windows sphere of influence? That remains to be seen. Am I running Linux? Yes. Am I biased? Yes. I haven't had to pay for upgrades or reinstall any Windows machines in my house since switching to Ubuntu. Zero downtime.
The problem is, matter of factly, that nothing competes with Office as it stands. Nothing. Not OpenOffice, not Apple's Keynote/Pages, or anything else. OK, this case isn't about OpenOffice or anything else currently available for you to buy. This case isn't about standard file formats. This case is about Microsoft using their Windows Monopoly to kill off competing products.
Back in the day. they didn't bundle computers with Word Perfect/dBase/Quatro Pro (Which was better than Excel at one point). Microsoft forced Windows Licensees (computer makers) to carry Microsoft Works, which was in fact, Microsoft Office starter edition. Computer makers could not sign deals with software vendors (bundling) such as Borland, Word Perfect Corp. or any other without having their Windows License fees raised.
If there was any innovations in Spread Sheet/Word Processing technology to make, we will never know. Microsoft killed off all the commercial competition using the Windows License Fee of Death (LFoD?). To see that Google Desktop Search is bundled with a new Dell XP/Vista computer shows you how much Microsoft has been neutered by the DOJ.
Since when, in the last few decades anyway, has the U.S. been a "trusted" nation? Any by whom? I sure as hell don't know, and I live here.
I guess it sucks to be you. Bob Geldof says were doing the right thing in Africa and they pretty much appreciate it. Columbia is happy with us (I get that from the Columbian national programmer sitting next to me at work). The eastern European countries like us to for some weird freedom/democracy issue (especially in Kosovo). Cuba, Russia, Serbia, China, Syria, Iran, N. Korea are still upset with us for some reason. From what I understand, the AK47 wielding Taliban/AQI prisoners we have in Guantanamo are pretty pissed at us too. I guess we need to invite them all to a peace/Beer fest in San Fransisco.
I live here too. I enjoy having people like you telling everyone its sucks living here. Hopefully your Anti-American comment will convince all the twenty million illegal South American trespassers and the three million plus legal Visa applicants to go back home.
I went from a dirt poor kid from a single-mother family to a upper-middle class suburbanite hippy slob in America. I'm raising two smart kids and have a lovely wife. I bought a nice home and annoy my neighbors with very loud Krokus/ACDC music and Beer/LAN parties on the weekends. I blow up shit on the 4th of July and New Years and own guns to shoot stuff (skeet/targets) with. I occasionally talk bad about GWB and still haven't been arrested by the secret police. I voted for a Democrat Senator and a Republican Congressman in the last election.
I've been to four of out of seven continents and at least fifty plus countries. I'm pretty confident that there is no better place to be and live than the USA. To mis-quote a scene in the movie Firebase Gloria I don't like a lot about America. But what I like, I like a lot
Cheer up, maybe things will get worse and you will feel better. Enjoy,
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The Union is not and was not the problem in this case. In 1981 the Union was right and Reagan was very lucky that there wasn't a major air disaster because of his actions. As was the case for basically every action of that Administration, ideology triumphed over both reality and common sense.
Are we rewriting history again?
1) Federal Employees, which Air Traffic Controllers are, cannot legally strike.
2) There wasn't a disaster because Reagan shifted Military Controllers into the FAA positions. Supervisors and non-striking controllers took up the rest of the slack.
3) I would say a $30 billion a year tax generating revenue stream triumphed over the ATC Union desire of a 32-Hour work week for more money.
Just like the Soviets, the ATC Union thought Reagan was bluffing. He wasn't.
Enjoy,
I've tried playing around with the Eeee PC, , and while I can see the appeal, the GUI experience is a bit sucky.
I haven't bought one yet because I need the new wider screen for my wife. When I do buy one I'm following the instructions here:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home
Not to dismiss Gnome or KDE, but try Xfce (No, I am not affiliated).
Enjoy,
Speech in games, cool.
Pranking your teacher, priceless.
No, Speech in 8-bit games = Ok.
Pranking Your teacher = cool.
Having your answering machine message dictated by S.A.M. for 6 years = Priceless.
Enjoy,
I thought there was another Apple II program called Parrot that also did this
I have/had another text-to-speech program for the Apple II. I forget what it was called but it wasn't as good as S.A.M.
IIRC I could feed S.A.M. malformed words from my AppleSoft programs
Don't make me pull out my 300+ 5-1/4 floppy archives just to find out the title of that program.
Enjoy,
how well this movie still remains relevant today.
- The introverted genius, but under-achieving nerd.
- Does not RTFM, but asks for expert help first in understanding the program.
- Hours of relentless researching to find the flaws (hacks) in the target.
- 3rd party vendor mistakes allow entry point for unwanted intruders.
- Hacker not realizing they are not in the system they think they are.
Best quote ever by a end user:
General Beringer: Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.
Enjoy,
I was incredibly depressed when the computer exhibited neither near-human emotions nor a synthesized English accent.
Thats because you didn't have S.A.M.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth
Enjoy,
It's existed since Cromwell went in and brutally reconquered Ireland in 1649, so it's at least as legitimate as, say, the US occupation of the 37 (?) states which were acquired after the revolution.
As a minor history buff, I must say there were only thirteen colonies before and after the Revolution. Canada to the north was still British. France and Spain "claimed" the lands to the West/South West.
Cromwell is one of my favorite characters from history (Good and/or Bad).
There has been intermittent raiding across the Irish Sea since about 800AD (in both directions), so the direct answer to your question is "yes, since before England even existed".
My ancestors raided England from Germany after 400AD (The Angles). Can you point me to some better online references than google provides for the Irish doing the same? American World history text books/Encyclopedias suck when it comes to minor details on European history. Thanks.
Enjoy,
Is it just me, or have people completely gone nuts?
:)
.$keyword ." " .$File ."\n"; /* success */
.Net/Python/Java/PHP whatever.
Nope. I agree, people are nuts
I just trashed one 300 line function a PHP programmer wrote to see if a keyword was present inside of an XML file (Bitching about XML abuse by PHBs is a topic for another day).
Replaced the whole (three minute) XML parser he took two days to write with a two second call:
$syscall = "grep -n "
exec($syscall, $output, $ret_val);
if($output[0] != ""){
To be honest, I blame the Computer Science courses. Students need to get back to BASICs (Pun intended, Maybe on a Apple II emulator) before they start writing code in
Enjoy,
the American tendency to try to drown out the voice of the (few) legitimate grievances of al-qaeda pushes the day the middle east is at peace further and further away
By what mechanism does America use to drown out these voices of dissent and where are they? And what pray tell is the legitimate AQ grievance this week, they change them monthly. And in case you haven't heard, the middle east has never been at peace for well over four thousand years.
Now - thanks to courageous politicians - we live in peace with the Northern irish and the former leaders of terrorist organisations co-operate to run Ulster jointly
This is disingenuous at best. Your leaving out the whole Catholic/Protestant conflict. And how many years of violence did it take for your courageous politicians a hundred? Two hundred? Perhaps over three hundred years?
Was not the English invasion of Ireland the cause of the conflict to begin with? Were the English attacked or under a threat of attack by the Irish before the illegal occupation?
- however the battle between the USA and its allies and Wahhabist / fundamentalist islamic terrorists and their allies is essentially a political battle by other means.
I disagree, its a clash of culture. The Tribal mentality versus Western liberalism. Name one successful political solution that solved a conflict between the West and any middle eastern country?
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The Blender team, unfortunately, is driven exclusively by the concerns of users who are experts in the field, not beginners.
My twelve year old learned to use it.
Its a good thing someone did some beginners tutorials.
http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/
Enjoy,
1991
Tequila is the first widespread polymorphic virus found in the wild. Polymorphic viruses make detection difficult for virus scanners by changing their appearance with each new infection.
Sweeney believes that a non rules-based monitoring process must be set up to defend all ingress and egress points covering SMTP, DNS, HTTP(s), IM etc."
Its called heuristics and its been in use for a while.
Enjoy,
Rem SPORE.BAT
@ECHO OFF
DATE (DATE-10)
SPORE.EXE
DATE (DATE+10)
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. When something is an underdog, people flock to it.
Well people are still flocking to it so its still an underdog. 5k per second to download xUbuntu 8.04 under FIOS is really ridiculous.
Enjoy,
Is that Linux, BSD, Sun, AIX, and whatever are just as vulnerable when it comes to dumb programmers.
The million dollar question is what platform and which web server is it easier to reinstall to get the site back up.
I think Linux and BSD have the advantage.
Enjoy,
The 'Protocols' have ALWAYS been fairly open for MS Server products.
Especially since IBM and 3Com helped invent them.
There are very many systems which can use the NetBIOS / NetBEUI interface or
make use of the NetBIOS Frames Protocol, but perhaps one of the most important
is the Server Message Block Protocol (SMB). The Server Message Block Protocol
(SMB), is an application level protocol used by networking systems and operating
systems such as Microsoft's Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 / 98 / ME, LAN
Manager, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and IBM's OS/2 and LAN Server, NetWare 6 and
the SAMBA implementation and as such deserves special attention.
The latest versions of the protocol are now known as the Common Internet File System protocol
The Server Message Block protocol (SMB) was created in the 1980's by
Dr. Barry Feigenbaum at IBM Corporation. It was later extended by
IBM, 3Com, Intel, and Microsoft.
The part that SAMBA is licensing and NEEDS to license is when they are implementing features normally found in Windows Server that are not open.
Off top of my head I would guess these would be:
ACL & Security
Group Policy Features
Domain Features
Roaming Profiles, etc.
FS Search Network Queries ala Vista/Windows Desktop Search
Correct me if I'm wrong but I would say all of these "features" listed except the last has prior art within Banyan Vines, Netware, LANTastic, IBM LanServer, DEC Pathworks etc. Why hasn't MS come out and listed their patent concerns instead of spreading Linux FUD?
Enjoy,
Either the F-22 has better stealth than we realize, or there's something newer, more stealthier and more secretive coming around.
The F-22 will be just as obsolete as the predator etc. UAV/drone technology progresses. Enders Game is already happening.
The F-117 was obsolete once the Tomahawk missile was perfected. Can't get more stealthier than a missile coming at you at MACH 3 4 meters above the ground.
Enjoy,
Is a great kernel developer/programmer (He also does columns for Linux Journal). He is not a general purpose Linux programming author.
Getting this book out of the box, I had wrongly been expecting a cookbook style that I would get instant gratification from. Although structured around common programming tasks, it doesn't lend itself to just dipping in.
For getting your feet wet with Linux programming I recommend GNU/LINUX Application Programming by M. Tim Jones or Linux Application Development by Michael K. Johnson and Erik W. Troan.
The Linux Unleashed series is also good (1000+ pages with hundreds dedicated to perl, python, and Gtk programming).
Enjoy,
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(EULA) YOUR_LIFE License is non-transferable to non Genuine Life supported platforms. Once you start YOUR_LIFE service with Microsoft or authorized 3rd parties, Microsoft owns YOUR_LIFE. Microsoft reserves the rights to upgrade YOUR_LIFE to version 1, 2, or 3 without notice.
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if any of these allegations are true: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-great-besmirching
Is anyone going to use ISO specifications again if Microsoft purchases the OOXML vote?
What really gets my clusters in a bunch is that Microsoft could elect to work with Sun, IBM, Apple, Adobe, Whoever, to really come up with an Open Document specification if they wanted too. This specification isn't about Apple, Microsoft, Sun, and IBM. Its about government documentation funded by the public that needs to be available a thousand years from now. Way to be a good corporate citizen Microsoft!
People will still choose MS Office because they like it, not because it does or does not save documents in a government mandated open specification. Microsoft could simply add a new "Save As" filter following the Open Specification.
Enjoy,
Steve Jobs claim to fame is that he is good at herding cats. Talented programmers/engineers don't work together well as a team. They all know everything better than the other. Add a substandard programmer to the team and they are overwhelmed by the other talent.
Steve nudged WoZ into doing things. Steve got the original overly talented Mac crew to work together as a team (He did fail with the Lisa project though didn't he).
Steve is a Zen Master/Artist who is good at herding cats....
Read the Michael Swaine (URL:http://www.fireinthevalley.com/> or Andy's (URL:http://www.folklore.org/index.py> website sometime. Good stuff.
For all those dissing Apple hardware, I have eight Macs/Apple]['s that just work(TM) today and are just as useful as they were in the 70/80/90's. That alone is a testament of Apple hardware quality. I have friends to still use their Apple Newton. I own an original IBM XT and AT that still work but I have no reason to fire them up. None of my original 386/486/586 clones lasted half as long. The Linux box I'm typing this post on probably won't last longer that 5 years.
I'm just curious if the Apple hardware they make today will withstand 20 years of time like the hardware they used to make.
Enjoy,
You are telling me that WordPerfect: The Corporation was moving in every direction at once. You are also telling me that WordPerfect was obsessed with the cardboard box.
I'm not sure what your getting at. Microsoft also sold retail cardboard boxes for multiple platforms. (Flight Simulator for Atari, Apple etc). WordPerfect relied on authorized retailers for Sales and Support (Remember Businessland?). Word Perfect never had an OEM relationship like Microsoft because it sold a product for multiple hardware platforms.
[I can't find a reference to an OEM WordPerfect before WordPerfect's purchase by Corel. Can you?]
OEMs were not allowed to bundle non-Microsoft software. All this is recorded history http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/MS/IBM-3.html
He also provided evidence of linkage by Microsoft between operating system and application sales, claiming that IBM would get better prices if it didn't ship Netscape Navigator and Lotus SmartSuite. For Microsoft Office bundles he was charged "IBM's price" of $250 per copy, considerably higher than the Compaq or HP price. Microsoft might have some justification for claiming volume discounts here, if IBM was shipping fewer copies of Office.
"Microsoft repeatedly told us that as long as we were shipping competitive products, such as Smart Suite and OS2, we would not be treated the same as Compaq and others," he said.
How about evidence from the Iowa anti-trust trial:
146. Another way that Microsoft found to circumvent the federal court's 1995 injunction forbidding its use of "minimum commitment/per processor" licenses was what Microsoft calls its "Market Development Agreements" ("MDAs"). Microsoft contrived the MDA as a device to evade the Court's decree prohibiting Microsoft from requiring OEMs to adhere to "minimum commitments." As Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's current CEO) acknowledged: "We have always given better prices to customers who work with us to make the market. Those used to take the form of commits [i.e., minimum commitments] which we do not do anymore as a result of the [federal court's] decree but we still believe in rewarding people who help us create demand. Hence the iMDA." Under the MDAs, Microsoft granted large discriminatory price concessions to those OEMs that would agree to market and promote Microsoft's Windows to the exclusion of any rival operating system. These discounts were calibrated so as to force the OEM to sell most of its computers with a Microsoft operating system in order to obtain the lowest price.
147. Because the OEM market is so competitive and profit margins are so thin, every OEM had to get the lowest price it could from Microsoft in order to survive. In March 2002, a Gateway marketing executive (Anthony Fama) testified before Judge Kollar-Kotelly in State of New York et al. v. Microsoft, Case No. 98-1233 (CKK), about how Microsoft used its MDA program in order to force OEMs to market Microsoft's operating system exclusively: "Given the substantial nature of these discounts, participation in the MDA, as a practical matter, is not optional. In other words, not receiving
148. One method for encouraging competition in the operating systems market would have been the sale by OEMs of "naked machines" (i.e., computers that are sold without
If their software was so superior, why did WordPerfect die?
Like I responded to an earlier poster,
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=490544&cid=22778924
Microsoft effectively killed it with the Windows Monopoly.
They, just like Microsoft, were more interested in making money then they ever were in providing consumer choice,
Your argument is wrong on so many levels...
Word Perfect made its product available on the MacIntosh, Amiga, Apple ][gs, Atari ST, DOS, Windows, Solaris, and VAX systems. What platforms did Microsoft write Office for? What Windows fees did Microsoft charge computer makers for not bundling Microsoft Office/Works versus the ones who did?
Did Microsoft offer matching Marketing funds (paid by you for your non choice of an Operating System when purchasing a PC) to computer makers who bundled PFS Windows Works with their Windows based computers instead of computer makers who chose to bundle Office/Works? No, they didn't.
Is Microsoft evil? No. Are they greedy? Yes. Is there any room for competition within the Microsoft Windows sphere of influence? That remains to be seen. Am I running Linux? Yes. Am I biased? Yes. I haven't had to pay for upgrades or reinstall any Windows machines in my house since switching to Ubuntu. Zero downtime.
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From Groklaw....
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Supreme Court rejects Microsoft appeal: Novell v. Microsoft can go forward - Update
Monday, March 17 2008 @ 12:57 PM EDT
Maybe its some weird Bush/Rove/Cheney conspiracy to deny Swedes access to American legal websites
What do you get when you do the following:
host www.groklaw.net
www.groklaw.net CNAME groklaw.ibiblio.org
groklaw.ibiblio.org A 152.46.7.105
Can you ping 152.46.7.105 ?
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The problem is, matter of factly, that nothing competes with Office as it stands. Nothing. Not OpenOffice, not Apple's Keynote/Pages, or anything else.
OK, this case isn't about OpenOffice or anything else currently available for you to buy. This case isn't about standard file formats. This case is about Microsoft using their Windows Monopoly to kill off competing products.
Back in the day. they didn't bundle computers with Word Perfect/dBase/Quatro Pro (Which was better than Excel at one point). Microsoft forced Windows Licensees (computer makers) to carry Microsoft Works, which was in fact, Microsoft Office starter edition. Computer makers could not sign deals with software vendors (bundling) such as Borland, Word Perfect Corp. or any other without having their Windows License fees raised.
If there was any innovations in Spread Sheet/Word Processing technology to make, we will never know. Microsoft killed off all the commercial competition using the Windows License Fee of Death (LFoD?). To see that Google Desktop Search is bundled with a new Dell XP/Vista computer shows you how much Microsoft has been neutered by the DOJ.
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Since when, in the last few decades anyway, has the U.S. been a "trusted" nation? Any by whom? I sure as hell don't know, and I live here.
I guess it sucks to be you. Bob Geldof says were doing the right thing in Africa and they pretty much appreciate it. Columbia is happy with us (I get that from the Columbian national programmer sitting next to me at work). The eastern European countries like us to for some weird freedom/democracy issue (especially in Kosovo). Cuba, Russia, Serbia, China, Syria, Iran, N. Korea are still upset with us for some reason. From what I understand, the AK47 wielding Taliban/AQI prisoners we have in Guantanamo are pretty pissed at us too. I guess we need to invite them all to a peace/Beer fest in San Fransisco.
I live here too. I enjoy having people like you telling everyone its sucks living here. Hopefully your Anti-American comment will convince all the twenty million illegal South American trespassers and the three million plus legal Visa applicants to go back home.
I went from a dirt poor kid from a single-mother family to a upper-middle class suburbanite hippy slob in America. I'm raising two smart kids and have a lovely wife. I bought a nice home and annoy my neighbors with very loud Krokus/ACDC music and Beer/LAN parties on the weekends. I blow up shit on the 4th of July and New Years and own guns to shoot stuff (skeet/targets) with. I occasionally talk bad about GWB and still haven't been arrested by the secret police. I voted for a Democrat Senator and a Republican Congressman in the last election.
I've been to four of out of seven continents and at least fifty plus countries. I'm pretty confident that there is no better place to be and live than the USA. To mis-quote a scene in the movie Firebase Gloria I don't like a lot about America. But what I like, I like a lot
Cheer up, maybe things will get worse and you will feel better.
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