Stop Trolling with your "facts" about Mozilla!
Just because a non-Microsoft program has a security flaw doesn't mean anyone should know about it. Now everyone, let's just pretend it doesn't exist and yell "M$ sux0rs!"
Did you just make that up? My lightbulbs are 65W. Some are 100W. I haven't seen a PS 200W. Mine is 350W. Add in monitor, speakers, etc, and so on... and a 65W bulb still eats more juice?
I suppose that's why it wasn't commonplace back in Ancient Rome and Greece. Nor is it present anywhere else in the Animal kingdom... oh... wait....
Human evolution is dead. There is no more survival of the fittest.
"In the US is is [sic] not legally possible to have a consentual sexual relationship with a subordinate"
I see someone really knows they're law well. Are you sure you're from the US? Are you sure you have held a job?
A quick search for the term "study" under Microsoft on/. reveals that the only discrediting is by/. users posting things like "This is complete M$ BS!"
#2, their encoding schemes SUCK. Compared to the visual quality of Divx encoding, WMF, or even earlier-series Quicktime
Yeah, but where's the DRM in those formats? That's a pretty important feature for content providers, despite what the "all content should be free" people want...
Yes, especially historically. Let's consider what GUI was around in Win3.1 days.... and the competition to Windows 95 -- OS/2 Warp, which was incredibly developer unfriendly. Still to this day, developers can whip out business info systems for Windows faster than on Linux, Mac, etc.
because you blatantly ignore the fact that different rules apply for companies in a monopoly position
Good point. Microsoft completely took away the opportunity for you to choose another OS. Linux will only run on Non-Microsoft hardware... which is impossible to find.
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It was a courtesy for the/.ers who will never read the MS argument, which is really damn good. What more could I say on that?
I followed the whole damn rediculous case. Get them on their licencing practices, not on this baseless Media Player argument
A better analogy would be that there was a dominant shoe maker that refused to make the shoelace holes in a way that would allow other shoelace makers to create a product that worked with their shoes.
Good point. I forgot that Quick Time won't run on windows. I also forgot that when the Real Player programmers finally got it to work on Windows, Windows fought back and installed spyware, blaming it on Real Player. The whole "DirectX" thing is a sham -- only Microsoft gets to use it.
QuickTime is used by no one else commercially except for Apple themselves.
In addition... QuickTime pops up every Goddamn time with "upgrade to Pro?" To be fair to Real, they have removed the spyware... it is still nearly impossible to find the free version to DL though... but yeah, it's all Microsoft's Fault! Damn them for making a better (or atleast more consumer friendly) product!
For those who won't RTF 7 page MS response, here's my "flaimbait" quote from Microsoft's response.
All other contemporary operating systems, such as Apple's OS X, similarly tout their integrated media capabilities. The Decision expressly rejects (Para. 822) the principle that tying analysis for finished products should focus not on whether there exists a separate demand for a component but on whether there is any demand for the finished product with that component missing. For example, the fact that there is a market for shoelaces does not mean there is a market for shoes that have their laces missing. Common sense dictates that it would be misguided for regulators to require shoes to be sold in such a manner, even if this would create greater opportunities for companies that sell shoelaces. 1 The Decision goes on to dismiss the fact that all other operating systems also come with media playback software, ostensibly because some (but not all) of these finished products incorporate media players developed by other suppliers. (Para. 822.)
Oooh that lying, dirty micro$oft! They totally lied about integrating IE as part of the operating system just to kill Netscape! Look at it now, I have Windows XP, and don't see IE as part of the OS at all!!!
Casual piracy is a huge part of the way Microsoft got to its monopoly position.
That's a pretty stupid statement. Even for Slashdot. Look, just because you and your friends pirated software doesn't mean everyone else did. I guess developing products demanded by the market accessable to the casual user had nothing to do with it.
In order to gain in their goal of World Domination, Microsoft would rather give their products away for Free then lose a customer.
World Domination? Hmm.. never read that in their mission statement. How many copies of WindowsXP did they give you for free? Only freebies I've gotten were at product launches. And that's called Marketing to get you to convince your boss/client to buy the products.
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Companies will not allow this kind of behaviour.
It's a fact... installing linux will magically make all Network Admins and CIOs competent and know how to do their job well. Even non-IT people will instantly become smarter and more productive with Linux.
I know man, it's so F*** stupid. The rich already have money, so they don't deserve to have rights, let alone be allowed to protect their intellectual property.
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Riiiighht ... all that money he gives to charity .... it's only more than any other person has ever given ... but yes, not a nice guy.
Stop Trolling with your "facts" about Mozilla! Just because a non-Microsoft program has a security flaw doesn't mean anyone should know about it. Now everyone, let's just pretend it doesn't exist and yell "M$ sux0rs!"
"The light uses far more power than your PC"
... and a 65W bulb still eats more juice?
Did you just make that up? My lightbulbs are 65W. Some are 100W. I haven't seen a PS 200W. Mine is 350W. Add in monitor, speakers, etc, and so on
You're forgetting though ... for Slashdot users a five minute (Windows) boot time is instant. They're computers also crash at least twelve times daily.
:-/
But everyone else seems to get no crashes and 2 minute boot time. I don't get it.
Fix My Karma! I give to charity, but happen to like MS!
I suppose that's why it wasn't commonplace back in Ancient Rome and Greece. Nor is it present anywhere else in the Animal kingdom ... oh ... wait ....
Human evolution is dead. There is no more survival of the fittest.
"In the US is is [sic] not legally possible to have a consentual sexual relationship with a subordinate" I see someone really knows they're law well. Are you sure you're from the US? Are you sure you have held a job?
Aparantly he's leaving "only" $10M for the kids. A lot of money, but surely not enough to live the life of the Hiltons.
Only 1,235 copies of Whitney Houston's 1991 recording of "The Star-Spangled Banner"?!? They should have donated atleast two, maybe three thousand ...
Bill Gates never said that. Just another urban legend.
A quick search for the term "study" under Microsoft on /. reveals that the only discrediting is by /. users posting things like "This is complete M$ BS!"
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#2, their encoding schemes SUCK. Compared to the visual quality of Divx encoding, WMF, or even earlier-series Quicktime
Yeah, but where's the DRM in those formats? That's a pretty important feature for content providers, despite what the "all content should be free" people want ...
Yes, especially historically. Let's consider what GUI was around in Win3.1 days .... and the competition to Windows 95 -- OS/2 Warp, which was incredibly developer unfriendly. Still to this day, developers can whip out business info systems for Windows faster than on Linux, Mac, etc.
computer applications are a whole 'nother leage than stuff you can buy at Kmart,
I don't know about you ... but the Kmart next to me sells computer applications in their Software section. And it's not even a Super-K.
because you blatantly ignore the fact that different rules apply for companies in a monopoly position
Good point. Microsoft completely took away the opportunity for you to choose another OS. Linux will only run on Non-Microsoft hardware ... which is impossible to find.
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It was a courtesy for the /.ers who will never read the MS argument, which is really damn good. What more could I say on that?
So ... once you make a product that is so good, that it gains 90% market share ... you have to stop making it better to let the other guys catch up?!?!
I followed the whole damn rediculous case. Get them on their licencing practices, not on this baseless Media Player argument
A better analogy would be that there was a dominant shoe maker that refused to make the shoelace holes in a way that would allow other shoelace makers to create a product that worked with their shoes.
Good point. I forgot that Quick Time won't run on windows. I also forgot that when the Real Player programmers finally got it to work on Windows, Windows fought back and installed spyware, blaming it on Real Player. The whole "DirectX" thing is a sham -- only Microsoft gets to use it.... and about the only thing that makes Linux "sexy" is the photoshoped "Linux Girls." It's an operating system for cryin out loud ...
QuickTime is used by no one else commercially except for Apple themselves.
In addition ... QuickTime pops up every Goddamn time with "upgrade to Pro?" To be fair to Real, they have removed the spyware ... it is still nearly impossible to find the free version to DL though ... but yeah, it's all Microsoft's Fault! Damn them for making a better (or atleast more consumer friendly) product!
For those who won't RTF 7 page MS response, here's my "flaimbait" quote from Microsoft's response.
All other contemporary operating systems, such as Apple's OS X, similarly tout their integrated media capabilities. The Decision expressly rejects (Para. 822) the principle that tying analysis for finished products should focus not on whether there exists a separate demand for a component but on whether there is any demand for the finished product with that component missing. For example, the fact that there is a market for shoelaces does not mean there is a market for shoes that have their laces missing. Common sense dictates that it would be misguided for regulators to require shoes to be sold in such a manner, even if this would create greater opportunities for companies that sell shoelaces. 1 The Decision goes on to dismiss the fact that all other operating systems also come with media playback software, ostensibly because some (but not all) of these finished products incorporate media players developed by other suppliers. (Para. 822.)
Go ahead, mod me down for common sense ...
Oooh that lying, dirty micro$oft! They totally lied about integrating IE as part of the operating system just to kill Netscape! Look at it now, I have Windows XP, and don't see IE as part of the OS at all!!!
Casual piracy is a huge part of the way Microsoft got to its monopoly position.
That's a pretty stupid statement. Even for Slashdot. Look, just because you and your friends pirated software doesn't mean everyone else did. I guess developing products demanded by the market accessable to the casual user had nothing to do with it.
In order to gain in their goal of World Domination, Microsoft would rather give their products away for Free then lose a customer. .. never read that in their mission statement. How many copies of WindowsXP did they give you for free? Only freebies I've gotten were at product launches. And that's called Marketing to get you to convince your boss/client to buy the products.
World Domination? Hmm
Companies will not allow this kind of behaviour. ... installing linux will magically make all Network Admins and CIOs competent and know how to do their job well. Even non-IT people will instantly become smarter and more productive with Linux.
It's a fact
I think you have just come up with the best marketing idea ever. Gosh, who wouldn't buy atleast three copies of a product with a name like that?!?!
"Phffft, you're running Windows 2005. Lamer! I'm on BillGatesHasNoPenis 2.4, which is so much more superior."
I know man, it's so F*** stupid. The rich already have money, so they don't deserve to have rights, let alone be allowed to protect their intellectual property.
DOS is just a file, memory, and process manager with a pretty with a Command Line.