"a polite phone call from a fellow at Microsoft who works in the Windows Media group" != "a hostile phone call from a fellow at Microsoft who works in the Windows IP Lawyer Division"
Sounds to me like someone just let him know that the patent system had granted Microsoft a monopoly on the format. A lot of companies would have probably blasted out a wave of cease and desists followed by a big fat bill for unlicensed use of their IP and dragged the author into court when he couldn't pay the obviously overinflated license fee.
No, if they were the only viable search engine and they were screwing other businesses in favor of their own products by rigging the results, they would be guilty of anti-competetive business practices that may draw anti-trust lawsuits.
But it applied until they were convicted, but a conviction implies that it was never true. If it was never really true for Microsoft, why is it true for Google?
Why shouldn't a country that foreigners think won't be able to pay off it's huge debt slice open it's wrists and bleed the last of it's money for corrupt third world government to "help" their people by building themselves a new harem, palace or fund a terrorist attack on their enemies? We all know that when America dies it will go to heaven be given 70 virgins.
While simultaneously oppressing the hordes of citizens in the streets celebrating? Nice self-editing of your own memory. Arab governments trying to silence their over joyous citizens in order to prevent a pissed off America thirsting for Muslim blood from storming into the Middle East was typical of 9/11.
or maybe depending on open source "if you want it fixed, do it yourself" software created by people they perceive as hippies just isn't their bag, baby.
Most of this stuff is meant to allow developers to reach Windows XP users with their applications. If Microsoft manages to make Longhorn more reliable, easier to use AND give it looks on par with OS X with the new graphics system, it might be a worthwhile upgrade for users of newer systems with DX9 graphics cards. Whether or not people upgrade from previous versions of Windows, a new improved OS for brand new systems will be due in 2006.
That's not what they're saying. For one thing, WinFS won't even be in Longhorn but will apparently be avaiable for WinXP as well as Longhorn when they do finish it.
Why bloat up the OS when you can implement a new API as a layer over top of the mature underlying API? If they were trying to create a whole new look with brand spanking new features and capabilities instead of an evolutionary progression then maybe a completely new codebase would be in order. I doubt it though.
According to the Mozilla Foundation, Firefox is meant to be a browser. I guess the project is a complete failure if they have you thinking that Firefox is the next Java or something....
Gobbling up memory that it shouldn't need and refusing to release it for use by other programs is just as bad as a memory leak. After the claims of being "light weight" and "fast", it's kind of a letdown.
He said *easily*. He may find it much easier to use a visual tool and a real code editor to do the work. Don't be embarassed. You're not the only one that completely took his comment out of context and assumed he was saying he can't do it at all.
Maybe Mozilla.org should have avoided attaching their viral trademarks to every nook and cranny of the *open source software* with no ability to easily remove it. Are they still shipping third party copyrighted graphics too?
Mozilla.org appears to be schizophrenic. One minute they're praising one of their products as being the greatest thing since sliced bread then as soon as the next 0.1 product comes out, the tried and true stable product is nothing but a piece of shit and anyone still using it is worthless baggage to the Foundation.:P I can't wait to see the shit they talk about their baby Firefox after it grows up and they produce a new product.
There's no "right" to keep a job, but an employer may be bound by certain rules. They generally cannot discriminate against employees and if they are paying into unemployment, firing the employee may result in undue financial harm (they may not be able to draw unemployment unless laid off rather than fired). If they damage someone for a bullshit reason they could get smacked down for it.
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Without a 1.8 release, Suite users will have to go to Firefox to get Gecko improvements. Microsoft isn't the only king of forced "upgrades".
"a polite phone call from a fellow at Microsoft who works in the Windows Media group" != "a hostile phone call from a fellow at Microsoft who works in the Windows IP Lawyer Division"
Sounds to me like someone just let him know that the patent system had granted Microsoft a monopoly on the format. A lot of companies would have probably blasted out a wave of cease and desists followed by a big fat bill for unlicensed use of their IP and dragged the author into court when he couldn't pay the obviously overinflated license fee.
Down with Big Endian!
He's probably secretly using OS X, MSN Messenger for Mac and Outlook 2004 for Mac....
and it's Media Access Control btw.
She doesn't agree with the system the US and its soldiers are trying to bring to Iraq maybe?
Don't know about him, but all of mine run flawlessly.
Read comments before you reply. He was talking about if Microsoft did it in THEIR SEARCH ENGINE.
No, if they were the only viable search engine and they were screwing other businesses in favor of their own products by rigging the results, they would be guilty of anti-competetive business practices that may draw anti-trust lawsuits.
But it applied until they were convicted, but a conviction implies that it was never true. If it was never really true for Microsoft, why is it true for Google?
Why shouldn't a country that foreigners think won't be able to pay off it's huge debt slice open it's wrists and bleed the last of it's money for corrupt third world government to "help" their people by building themselves a new harem, palace or fund a terrorist attack on their enemies? We all know that when America dies it will go to heaven be given 70 virgins.
While simultaneously oppressing the hordes of citizens in the streets celebrating? Nice self-editing of your own memory. Arab governments trying to silence their over joyous citizens in order to prevent a pissed off America thirsting for Muslim blood from storming into the Middle East was typical of 9/11.
I wonder how many of the real attornies (as opposed to their secretaries) were using copies of WordPerfect they bought themselves :O
or maybe depending on open source "if you want it fixed, do it yourself" software created by people they perceive as hippies just isn't their bag, baby.
Most of this stuff is meant to allow developers to reach Windows XP users with their applications. If Microsoft manages to make Longhorn more reliable, easier to use AND give it looks on par with OS X with the new graphics system, it might be a worthwhile upgrade for users of newer systems with DX9 graphics cards. Whether or not people upgrade from previous versions of Windows, a new improved OS for brand new systems will be due in 2006.
You can install WinXP on FAT32.
That's not what they're saying. For one thing, WinFS won't even be in Longhorn but will apparently be avaiable for WinXP as well as Longhorn when they do finish it.
Why bloat up the OS when you can implement a new API as a layer over top of the mature underlying API? If they were trying to create a whole new look with brand spanking new features and capabilities instead of an evolutionary progression then maybe a completely new codebase would be in order. I doubt it though.
According to the Mozilla Foundation, Firefox is meant to be a browser. I guess the project is a complete failure if they have you thinking that Firefox is the next Java or something....
Gobbling up memory that it shouldn't need and refusing to release it for use by other programs is just as bad as a memory leak. After the claims of being "light weight" and "fast", it's kind of a letdown.
He said *easily*. He may find it much easier to use a visual tool and a real code editor to do the work. Don't be embarassed. You're not the only one that completely took his comment out of context and assumed he was saying he can't do it at all.
Maybe Mozilla.org should have avoided attaching their viral trademarks to every nook and cranny of the *open source software* with no ability to easily remove it. Are they still shipping third party copyrighted graphics too?
Mozilla.org appears to be schizophrenic. One minute they're praising one of their products as being the greatest thing since sliced bread then as soon as the next 0.1 product comes out, the tried and true stable product is nothing but a piece of shit and anyone still using it is worthless baggage to the Foundation. :P I can't wait to see the shit they talk about their baby Firefox after it grows up and they produce a new product.
There's no "right" to keep a job, but an employer may be bound by certain rules. They generally cannot discriminate against employees and if they are paying into unemployment, firing the employee may result in undue financial harm (they may not be able to draw unemployment unless laid off rather than fired). If they damage someone for a bullshit reason they could get smacked down for it.
or maybe it's the small marketshare...