The straightforward answer is that a company feels they need a quick cash infusion to take them to the next level. But that must mean they already have a plan for spending that money. Facing competition from Google, knowing that they may have already jumped the shark, knowing that money will become tight real soon, the only reason to put it off till next year is because the owners are planning to cash out, and cash out big.
If Microsoft was honest with us and themselves they would have admitted that Windows 7 was a necessary update or service pack to Vista. But doing so would mean they couldn't sell it as such. So we have the versioning fiasco that is Windows 6.1, not so much the XP to Windows 2000 as XPSP2 to XP, the Service Pack that delivered everything that they marketed Vista to deliver. You know, keeping your word and all. But they're getting away with it, thanks to a great marketing team.
Anybody would tell you, those patents are not for sale, or would be prohibitively expensive to acquire. Their best chance would be to knock the patent down rather than acquire it, but that's no easy matter either. Second best would be to go one-on-one with other patents in their portfolio that Microsoft would be infringing, and getting a cross-licensing deal. As that has not happened, I guess it's because Google has no hold over them.
Any government can get their state CA included, but any user can have the CA revoked on their own computer. The problem with the intercept is that you can remove the CA, only to have it magically reappear upon visiting a site signed by their certificate.
Consider this: A caning followed by a short stay in jail may be among the more reasonable forms of punishment that actually has the ability to prevent people from committing future offenses. It leaves scars that are visible in your underwear or speedos, does not physically impede you from living your life, does not dump you inside crime academy to learn the ropes and find contacts within the underworld. Or maybe you have some better suggestion of what to do with minor offenders?
My guess is that it will be a renderfarm, datacenter and graphic design office. Singapore is targeting to be the new go to place for CG drones and game development.
1. VHD mounting is already supported in Windows 7 (look under disk management) 2. ISO is old hat as a data format. We should be looking forward to formats supporting compression, like CSO
Boycotts work in this day and age? That's news to me. Sony took little to no damage from boycotts over their sneaky DRM inserted into music CDs. They did take a lot of damage when people were unable to use their PS3 due to hacking. The general result is left as an exercise to the reader.
That's pretty sad that you need to ask for an unlocked phone in the land of the free, whereas unlocked phones are sold freely in more restrictive societies (*cough* Singapore *cough*)
I think that SSL validation should be farmed out to the respective governments according to their country TLDs, and that SSL should be removed altogether from TLDs that are not postfixed by a country TLD. From that point the country can contract out to various organizations to take care of the validation process. This is because an organization can only be validated or invalidated through their respective country's government, usually through the same means that the country uses to tax and regulate them. This means more control in the governments hands, but it also places more control in the users hands, as they can choose not to trust an entire government by removing their signing certificate from the computer's trusted certificate chain. And it would mean organizations cannot bypass due process and register a domain or certificate from another country in order to take advantage of lax laws. An added bonus, the government can fine a CA for improper handling of certificates, as it would fall directly under their jurisdiction, failing to do so meaning that the country tld would be shitlisted by OS vendors and administrators all over the place. Reputation is key. As the situation stands now, the entire system can be compromised by any CA that does not do proper checking when issuing out certs, or any key that is compromised.
Chances are you have needed their support many times in the last 10 years - do you think that updates and service packs are not support? XP came out without a firewall and with IE6.
You're doing it wrong: 1. All speed traps are video recorded to make sure that there are no children being kidnapped for child pornography 2. Every interaction with a police officer to be recorded in case the said officer was going to abuse a child 3. Anytime a law enforcement officer tells a lie to scare someone they can be sued, in case they lie to a minor.
See what I did there? The only way to support your cause it to tie it to the "think of the children" clause.
1. Take the servers 2. There is nothing on the servers - take the Storage 3. The storage is remotely replicated - pull the remote storage 4. You can't pull the remote storage, you don't have jurisdiction overseas
When Apple came knocking on doors peddling their ITMS music store, they learned something the hard way - every country needed to be dealt with individually, with every distributor from each country having their own agreement to sign. Result - ITMS is still not available here (Singapore). By having the user upload their own music, it could be a sign of frustration at dealing with the music distribution channels and attempting to bypass them altogether.
During the E3 demo, didn't they use kinect to put Justin Bieber on? I thought the Windows media support was ready out of the box, wonder what happened to it.
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The straightforward answer is that a company feels they need a quick cash infusion to take them to the next level. But that must mean they already have a plan for spending that money. Facing competition from Google, knowing that they may have already jumped the shark, knowing that money will become tight real soon, the only reason to put it off till next year is because the owners are planning to cash out, and cash out big.
If Microsoft was honest with us and themselves they would have admitted that Windows 7 was a necessary update or service pack to Vista. But doing so would mean they couldn't sell it as such. So we have the versioning fiasco that is Windows 6.1, not so much the XP to Windows 2000 as XPSP2 to XP, the Service Pack that delivered everything that they marketed Vista to deliver. You know, keeping your word and all. But they're getting away with it, thanks to a great marketing team.
Anybody would tell you, those patents are not for sale, or would be prohibitively expensive to acquire. Their best chance would be to knock the patent down rather than acquire it, but that's no easy matter either. Second best would be to go one-on-one with other patents in their portfolio that Microsoft would be infringing, and getting a cross-licensing deal. As that has not happened, I guess it's because Google has no hold over them.
Any government can get their state CA included, but any user can have the CA revoked on their own computer. The problem with the intercept is that you can remove the CA, only to have it magically reappear upon visiting a site signed by their certificate.
Consider this:
A caning followed by a short stay in jail may be among the more reasonable forms of punishment that actually has the ability to prevent people from committing future offenses. It leaves scars that are visible in your underwear or speedos, does not physically impede you from living your life, does not dump you inside crime academy to learn the ropes and find contacts within the underworld. Or maybe you have some better suggestion of what to do with minor offenders?
My guess is that it will be a renderfarm, datacenter and graphic design office. Singapore is targeting to be the new go to place for CG drones and game development.
Sell at a loss, make up in APP MARKET
1. VHD mounting is already supported in Windows 7 (look under disk management)
2. ISO is old hat as a data format. We should be looking forward to formats supporting compression, like CSO
Big buttons. Tablet-ready. The ribbon might not be for conventional PCs?
Is that guy wearing a turtleneck? It's obvious, the patents belong to Steve Jobs, de-facto leader of the tomorrow people.
Completely unrelated, but how safe is an etch-a-sketch if it's full of aluminum powder inside? http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/magna-doodle1.htm/printable appears much safer for kids to use.
Boycotts work in this day and age? That's news to me. Sony took little to no damage from boycotts over their sneaky DRM inserted into music CDs. They did take a lot of damage when people were unable to use their PS3 due to hacking. The general result is left as an exercise to the reader.
That's pretty sad that you need to ask for an unlocked phone in the land of the free, whereas unlocked phones are sold freely in more restrictive societies (*cough* Singapore *cough*)
All the same, just because they are becoming irrelevant doesn't mean that they don't deserve punishment for 35 years of abuse.
I think that SSL validation should be farmed out to the respective governments according to their country TLDs, and that SSL should be removed altogether from TLDs that are not postfixed by a country TLD. From that point the country can contract out to various organizations to take care of the validation process.
This is because an organization can only be validated or invalidated through their respective country's government, usually through the same means that the country uses to tax and regulate them. This means more control in the governments hands, but it also places more control in the users hands, as they can choose not to trust an entire government by removing their signing certificate from the computer's trusted certificate chain. And it would mean organizations cannot bypass due process and register a domain or certificate from another country in order to take advantage of lax laws. An added bonus, the government can fine a CA for improper handling of certificates, as it would fall directly under their jurisdiction, failing to do so meaning that the country tld would be shitlisted by OS vendors and administrators all over the place. Reputation is key.
As the situation stands now, the entire system can be compromised by any CA that does not do proper checking when issuing out certs, or any key that is compromised.
Office for Mac is 13. It's Windows that you're going to see versioning problems, since Windows 6.1 was marketed as Windows 7
That's, by the way, the plot to that James Bond movie, Tomorrow never Dies
Chances are you have needed their support many times in the last 10 years - do you think that updates and service packs are not support? XP came out without a firewall and with IE6.
FYI, the final rollup update for Windows 2000 broke a lot of things that used to work fine. So I wouldn't be pulling out my happy face just yet.
You're doing it wrong:
1. All speed traps are video recorded to make sure that there are no children being kidnapped for child pornography
2. Every interaction with a police officer to be recorded in case the said officer was going to abuse a child
3. Anytime a law enforcement officer tells a lie to scare someone they can be sued, in case they lie to a minor.
See what I did there? The only way to support your cause it to tie it to the "think of the children" clause.
On the other hand, OSX is atrociously tied to the mouse.
Well then someone should patent it *On a mobile phone*
1. Take the servers
2. There is nothing on the servers - take the Storage
3. The storage is remotely replicated - pull the remote storage
4. You can't pull the remote storage, you don't have jurisdiction overseas
When Apple came knocking on doors peddling their ITMS music store, they learned something the hard way - every country needed to be dealt with individually, with every distributor from each country having their own agreement to sign. Result - ITMS is still not available here (Singapore). By having the user upload their own music, it could be a sign of frustration at dealing with the music distribution channels and attempting to bypass them altogether.
During the E3 demo, didn't they use kinect to put Justin Bieber on? I thought the Windows media support was ready out of the box, wonder what happened to it.