I can't see how this is possible physically. I mean it is possible but that'd mean that the government would have to out google Google in terms of brains and equipment not to mention the time it would take to peruse through daily traffic patterns.
I should add that Excel was written when Microsoft was 'hungry' and I believe that even Mr. Gates has a few lines he contributed. The rest of the Office suite was acquired or absorbed.
I remember Powerpoint before MS acquired it (brings back some younger day memories).
Maybe our society won't and that could be an ecological good thing. Maybe this is the dawn of a 'Dark Age' or something similar to 'The Plague' and we'll have a new renaissance and only build things that use a potato base for petroleum based products.
I'm on the climatic and solar cycle bandwagon. Not driving cars today will not put snow on the Artic Circle tomorrow and nobody is going to stop driving cars, especially the Chinese and Indians.
Greenland used to be green 1400 years ago, I guess it was either cow or ocean flatulence or we had an enormous population of UFO drivers spewing CO2 that left a while ago. Or climactic cycle.
...very smart move on Microsoft's part. Software for organizing information can be very useful.
They're supposed to be a software company, not a marketing company however it proves that Microsoft can't write 1 line of code that provides any value. They can't write it so buy it. Their in house programmers are so tainted with bad blood that the talented ones can't write anymore.
For a quick show of hands, how many paople see Microsoft as a software company? Anyone? Bueller? How many people see Microsoft as a marketing company??
Good for Microsoft on the recent purchase of Giant and ProClarity. They need as mush positive assets as they can buy.
But that's only 95% (really 85%) of the Microsoft market, not the legitimate movie downloading buying market.
If their target audience is Windows users then fine.
Mac users are a loyal 15% of the computer industry. They keep buying the brand. If the movie download companies want to alienate all movie buffs and focus on Windows only movie buffs then they're probably missing out on a 10% guaranteed income instead of a 90% "I'll try it once or twice"
Apple has been living off of a 15% chunk of the computer consumer market.
If they want 100% of their target audience, they should develop or re-brand (I.E. Rel Player or Java based) a client instead of just being a front for Microsoft because that's exactly what these companies are. They're not real independant companies, just a division of a larger.
If you and I are artists in the graphic sense and we have easels next to each other, you paint a circle with a dot in it, and I do the same after you did it but I sell it as my own, how is that not stealing? That is exactly what Microsoft did.
Anybody can paint a circle with a dot in it and it's painfully obvious that it would exist anyway but you painted it first and claimed ownership of it. If I make millions on my(your) famous painting, are you just going to let me live in my mansion while you're on the sidewalk peddling your wares?
Microsoft didn't pay for it in the first place so Eolas has every right to complain.
Microsoft stole it and got caught. Instead of paying for the right to use it, MS has opted to screw the customer again. MS' fight on this is pretty much saying that this technology would exist anyway without Eolas and we're [MS] the ones getting picked on.
I call BS, MS wants a free ride and would call shenanigans if anyone would use their patent on anything without paying. Double click on the mouse, maybe they'll let it slide but anything that Linux can use, you'd better believe there will be lawsuits.
If it's AJAX based, why is it different in IE vs other browsers? Isn't ActiveX about controls for objects which is what the features have in IE that is missing in other browsers?
I read that Eolas won't go after the other browsers and would allow them to continue status quo.
I was under the impression that it was Microsoft that stole the idea and pitced it to the standards board as their own for everyone to use which is why Eolas came after them.
Long hair on males doesn't bother me but when it hasn't been washed in the past day and starts to get that 'hippie' skank is when I start to make prejudicial calls. You want to be taken seriously, have a clean appearance.
-copy and paste old code, -Change some icons, -repackage as a new OS, - Windows 98 -profit??
-copy and paste old code, -say it's better, -repackage as a new OS, - Windows 98SE -profit??
-copy and paste old code, -say it's even better than before and needed for Y2K -Change the default color and some new icons, -repackage as a new OS, - Windows ME -profit??
And there the NT kernel;
-Write Windwos NT 3.51 -sell it -profit??
-copy and paste old code, -Change the default color and some new icons, -repackage as a new OS, - Windows NT4.0 -profit??
-copy and paste old code, -copy some features from Novell, -Change the default color and some new icons, -repackage as a new OS, - Windows NT5.0 aka Windows 2000 -profit??
-copy and paste old code, -Change the default 'theme' and some new icons, -repackage as a new OS, - Windows NT5.1 aka Windows XP -profit??
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The daily storage kept will be obviously massive. Any ideas as to how many xB daily it is?
I can't see how this is possible physically. I mean it is possible but that'd mean that the government would have to out google Google in terms of brains and equipment not to mention the time it would take to peruse through daily traffic patterns.
More money is being spent but how much of that is profit?
Nintendo will make money on the 1458 units and on the titles for each of those units.
MS will only make money on the titles for 1415 units.
Does he use Dance-Dance-Revolution to sort email or to just remove spam?
I should add that Excel was written when Microsoft was 'hungry' and I believe that even Mr. Gates has a few lines he contributed.
The rest of the Office suite was acquired or absorbed.
I remember Powerpoint before MS acquired it (brings back some younger day memories).
Maybe our society won't and that could be an ecological good thing. Maybe this is the dawn of a 'Dark Age' or something similar to 'The Plague' and we'll have a new renaissance and only build things that use a potato base for petroleum based products.
I'm on the climatic and solar cycle bandwagon. Not driving cars today will not put snow on the Artic Circle tomorrow and nobody is going to stop driving cars, especially the Chinese and Indians.
Greenland used to be green 1400 years ago, I guess it was either cow or ocean flatulence or we had an enormous population of UFO drivers spewing CO2 that left a while ago. Or climactic cycle.
We'll survive it. It's our nature.
I'll give you Excel but keep in mind that Excel was one of Microsoft's first applications written well before the corruption.
MSSQL was acquired throuth a partnership with Sybase and Ashton-Tate and the codebase was written by Sybase and Ashton-Tate, not Microsoft.
...very smart move on Microsoft's part. Software for organizing information can be very useful.
They're supposed to be a software company, not a marketing company however it proves that Microsoft can't write 1 line of code that provides any value.
They can't write it so buy it.
Their in house programmers are so tainted with bad blood that the talented ones can't write anymore.
For a quick show of hands, how many paople see Microsoft as a software company? Anyone? Bueller?
How many people see Microsoft as a marketing company??
Good for Microsoft on the recent purchase of Giant and ProClarity. They need as mush positive assets as they can buy.
But that's only 95% (really 85%) of the Microsoft market, not the legitimate movie downloading buying market.
If their target audience is Windows users then fine.
Mac users are a loyal 15% of the computer industry. They keep buying the brand.
If the movie download companies want to alienate all movie buffs and focus on Windows only movie buffs then they're probably missing out on a 10% guaranteed income instead of a 90% "I'll try it once or twice"
Apple has been living off of a 15% chunk of the computer consumer market.
If they want 100% of their target audience, they should develop or re-brand (I.E. Rel Player or Java based) a client instead of just being a front for Microsoft because that's exactly what these companies are. They're not real independant companies, just a division of a larger.
The CD is a digital format. It always hss been.
If you and I are artists in the graphic sense and we have easels next to each other, you paint a circle with a dot in it, and I do the same after you did it but I sell it as my own, how is that not stealing?
That is exactly what Microsoft did.
Anybody can paint a circle with a dot in it and it's painfully obvious that it would exist anyway but you painted it first and claimed ownership of it. If I make millions on my(your) famous painting, are you just going to let me live in my mansion while you're on the sidewalk peddling your wares?
Microsoft didn't pay for it in the first place so Eolas has every right to complain.
Microsoft stole it and got caught. Instead of paying for the right to use it, MS has opted to screw the customer again.
MS' fight on this is pretty much saying that this technology would exist anyway without Eolas and we're [MS] the ones getting picked on.
I call BS, MS wants a free ride and would call shenanigans if anyone would use their patent on anything without paying.
Double click on the mouse, maybe they'll let it slide but anything that Linux can use, you'd better believe there will be lawsuits.
If it's AJAX based, why is it different in IE vs other browsers?
Isn't ActiveX about controls for objects which is what the features have in IE that is missing in other browsers?
profit!?!?!
I deployed some NT4.0 Workstation laptops (obviously a long time ago) and the default installation from Compaq had Corel's Office suite.
Hotmail on the desktop has been available since Outlook Express 5 (for those who use it)
Why the hell is this news?
I read that Eolas won't go after the other browsers and would allow them to continue status quo.
I was under the impression that it was Microsoft that stole the idea and pitced it to the standards board as their own for everyone to use which is why Eolas came after them.
HA, mod up.
Serves them right the damn dirty thieves.
Long hair on males doesn't bother me but when it hasn't been washed in the past day and starts to get that 'hippie' skank is when I start to make prejudicial calls.
You want to be taken seriously, have a clean appearance.
That's why the voice mail menu takes forever to navigate through if you haven't memorized the pattern.
...Windows XP Professional SP2 and it takes about 15 seconds to hibernate or resume
My Mac running Panther takes about a second to resume from hibernation.
OK then.
-Write Win95.
-Sell it
-profit??
-copy and paste old code,
-Change some icons,
-repackage as a new OS, - Windows 98
-profit??
-copy and paste old code,
-say it's better,
-repackage as a new OS, - Windows 98SE
-profit??
-copy and paste old code,
-say it's even better than before and needed for Y2K
-Change the default color and some new icons,
-repackage as a new OS, - Windows ME
-profit??
And there the NT kernel;
-Write Windwos NT 3.51
-sell it
-profit??
-copy and paste old code,
-Change the default color and some new icons,
-repackage as a new OS, - Windows NT4.0
-profit??
-copy and paste old code,
-copy some features from Novell,
-Change the default color and some new icons,
-repackage as a new OS, - Windows NT5.0 aka Windows 2000
-profit??
-copy and paste old code,
-Change the default 'theme' and some new icons,
-repackage as a new OS, - Windows NT5.1 aka Windows XP
-profit??
Not that they do it, but that they've been able to.
Umm, copy and past old code??
-Change the default color and some new icons,
-repackage as a new OS,
-profit??
The parent had this sig
#include "frickin_lasers.h"