MS is already going to do that with Avalon. They have no intention giving up their monopoly by obeying standards. It's useless to worry about what MS might do. They will do anything and everything to stop competition. They have no morals or ethics.
As long as the widgets conform to an open standard and degrade gracefully you have nothing to worry about.
Remember this is not MS we are talking about here. We are talking about a development consortium that is dedicated to open source and open standards. They no intention of locking anybody out of anything.
I for one think it would be awsome if web pages looked and acted better in mozilla then IE. Maybe then the windows users would find the motivation to go install mozilla (presuming of course they know how to download and install stuff).
Have it learn where I am saving which files and offer up that directory as default. If I am saving all pictures into one directory and all movies into another it should know that.
I want virtual folders in my mail. These are "live" queries like "all mail today" or "all mail marked urgent". As I mark metadate on the email they will show up in the proper virtual folder.
Full text search of all email.
Choice of multiple home pages. It learns when I want my home pageX and homepage Y.
Roaming bookmarks!!!. While I am at it roaming everything including profiles and preferences. The ability to carry my email filters from location to location would be awsome.
A network install where the administrator can set global prefs and install global plugins. I also want the option to override the users preferences and lock them out of certain setting.
It should learn to adjust my font size (and other settings?) based on site. If a web site always puts tiny print then I want the fonts larger only for that site. Perhaps have it learn "ugly" sites and put my default styles instead.
Auto proxy. I want to feed a list of proxy servers and have it switch randomly (even from one site to another). Think of this as super privacy.
Ability to arbitrarily morph the the incoming text stream using regexp or javascript. This would allow me to roll my own weird crap.
Make XUL 50 times better. Make it so it's trivial to use XUL to make database front ends. Give me a great GUI builder for it.
":Brilliant, you just justified EVERY Israeli action against the Palestinians."
Israel does not need justification. Their God tells them that the land belongs to them and that's all the justification they need. The lives and hopes of the palestenians don't matter when the wishes of God need to be fulfilled.
"But hey, let's all Blame Israel for all problems, it's alot easier that way then to assume Arab states contributed in any way to the problem."
I don't blame israel for all the problems I blame them for some of the problems. The arabs are also to blame. There is really not that much of a difference between the two really. they are both listening to their god who tells them that their enemies should be killed and their land should be taken. These savages (israelis and the palestenians) have managed to turn the birthplace of jesus into a hate filled bloodbath and perpetual war, torture, cruelty and suffering.
As far as I am concerned we should go in there and kick out the lot of them. Get rid of the israelis and disperse them all over the earth, get rid of the palestenians and disperse them all over arabia. Let's just turn the entire country of israel and palestine into a world heritage park and preserve the land for eternity as the birth place of the three major religions. People can visit but they can't stay. that land is too historically precious to be left in the hand of savage evil people who think that they can justify their murderous ways by blaming somebody else and saying "they did it first".
"I am sure they use any weapon in their arsenal. I also read history and know of the many peace deals they have broken. Why? Because they don't want to get back to the original UN lines"
Neither does Israel. Both Israel and palestine see each other as abominations under god to be destroyed. Just as many prominent palestenians have called for getting rid of all jews many members of the israel knesset have called for genocide of palestenians. Imagine a US senator calling for extermination of indians or arabs or anybody for that matter. It would never happen in the US because we are a civilized country.
"Those are not the tactics of freedom fighters fighting for 'water rights.' Those are the tactics of terrorists.""
They are the act of desparate people driven to do desparate things due to brutal, cruel and inhuman treatment by israel. You have to put things into perspective here. It's not like Israel doesn't rape and torture palestenians. They have tortured tens of thousands of people in the last couple of decades. I recently read an article in the atlantic in which an israeli torturer described some of the things they did to palestenians and I got sick to my stomach just reading about them.
If the US was invaded by israel and kept under occupation I would do anything to gain back my freedom. Yes that would include suicide bombing, targetting civillians, or just about anything else imaginable.
"Except for the occasional bad guy, the difference is in targetting. The terrorists specifically aim for noncombatants, the Israelies do not."
Fist of all I am not convinced that the israelis don't target civillians. It is indisputable that they target media outlets (TV stations and newspapers) which are civillian and they target journalists which are also civilillian.
Secondly I submit that there is no appreciable difference between launching a bomb into a crowded city because you don't want to risk sending your soldiers there and setting off a suicide bomb on a bus. You know civillians will get killed but you don't care because it's better to kill palestenians civilians then to risk the death of israeli solders.
Also I am sure that if the palestenians had helicopters, missiles, fighter jets, and tank they would be using them instead of suicide bombers. Sometimes you have to make do with what you have in order to win back your freedom.
Finally. The act of keeping 3.5 million people under occupation (in essense keeping them as domesticated animals) is terrorism at the highest level. Of course the CIA is never going to define it that way but common sense and decency ought to. Apartheid is evil and terrorism. Israel is a terroris state simply because it occupies millions of people.
Linux is a cause. It's a movement. It's an ideology. It's the worlds largest meritocracy. It's a game played by millions of people online. It's a gift to humanity given by very smart and hard working people who want nothing in return.
They purposefully cultivate a siege mentality. That's why all MS employees have an us VS them mentality. It's a common technique used by cults and in this case MS.
"Abu Ghraib prisoners were abused, not tortured like they were when Saddam was in power. Their abusers should and will be punished. Their is a fine line between abuse and torture."
THe following items qualify as torture. Women were raped, Men were raped, men had broomsticks and lightsticks shoved up their asses. 11 people died at least 9 of those were declared to be murder by the military medical examiners. People's legs were ripped open by dogs. People were smeared with feces and held in crucifiction poses for long periods of time. People were crucified on metal beds and jail bar for several days with handcuffs.
All that is detailed in the report put out by the army itself. God only knows what they left out. There are still thousands of pictures which have not been released because we don't really have free press in this country but the politicians who have seen them have described them as sickening. Rumsfeld used the word "sadistic".
Please read the report that the army put out and then go check out some foreign news sources. You are clearny not getting the entire picture from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
It was a few years ago, it was in chicago. I don't remember the guys name (who would?) but he told me minimum 60 hours. I turned down the job. Got a higher paying job two weeks later at a big company working 40 hours and was happy. Boring work but it paid well and had sensible hours.
Their profitibility is bound to take a nosedive pretty soon. Taiwan has decided that windows+office is worth no more then $50.00 and MS gave in. Other countries are sure to wise up pretty soon too.
Lucky for them there are lots of big dumb corporations in the US. My company pays almost retail for thousands of office licenses. Mainly because my CIO is dumber then rocks and does not know how to negotiate.
Free drinks are great but they don't pay all that well and make you work 60 hour weeks at a minimum.
I was interviewing there and when I heard that they expected at least 60 hours per week I said No thanks. It's just not worth it for me to spend 60 to 80 hours per week at work no matter how great the cafeteria.
The problem is that nobody wants to help the hungry and everybody wants their potholes patched. If you did that people would be starving but your streets would be smooth.
Nothing in your post indicates that you have firm liberterian beliefs. You seem to care more about republicans then liberterians. In other words you are only a liberterian if it does not hurt the republican party.
Nothing wrong with that but at least you could admit it.
What sucks is when you buy an item and then the company pulls up and leaves and you can't get warranty service. Then you have to send the frikking thing to headquarters who then ships it to taiwan. Good luck getting the thing fixed.
"I supported such an action, merely that it doesn't overly annoy me, as it doesn't affect me."
Again, this statement alone pretty much proves you are not a liberterian.
If you are for a smaller govt, political free speech, federalist solutions whenever posibble, and delegation to smallest govt unit how can you possibly vote for bush? I am sure there will be a liberterian on the ballot in your state why not vote for him/her? Have you ever voted for a liberterian candidate? given a choice between voting for a liberterian candidate or a republican one which would you choose?
You have no basis for your beliefs about Kerry. The size of the govt shrank during the clinton years and the budget deficits were reduced in both carter and clinton presidencies. Recent history shows that democrats are more fiscally responsible then republicans are. If fiscal responsibility is important to you then you should vote for a democrat.
It sounds to me that you are not really a liberterian. You are simply a republican. You have no objection to amending the constitution of the united states (our most sacred document) to deny marriage rights to a class of people. I honestly don't see how you get to call yourself a liberterian.
As for the war you are completely off the charts. I won't go into it point by point but it sounds like you have drank the cool aid Bush is handing out.
In summary you are exactly the type of of person I was talking about. Somebody who calls themselves a liberterian but probably have always voted republican. Why you insist on calling yourself a liberterian is a mystery only you can answer.
The election hasn't even started yet. Right now they seem to think democrats are going to do well. Once the election starts for real they may detect a shift in the wind and start giving more money to republicans. Looks like they have only given about 50% of money they usually give so they have lots left to bribe the eventual winner.
The problem for them is that theis administration will probably run an october surprise of some sort. I figure they will either parade bin laden (I think they already have him captured) in front of the cameras or invade another country. In that case MS will only have about a month to dump a bunch of money on the republicans.
Bush has grown the size of the govt more then any other president in recent history. He runs up record debt. He invades sovereign countries which are of no threat to the US. He is the champion of the patriot act. He wants to amend the constitution to prevent gays from marrying. He fights states that want to legalize medicinal marijuana. He fights states that pass right to die statutes.
Like most people who call them sleves liberterians you are simply a republican you is ashamed to say so. Please don't besmirch the liberterian party by calling yourself one while voting for the least liberterian candidate.
I think it's important to point out that Apple was under no obligation to contribute back to the community. The fact that they did simply points out that they have an ethical corporate culture that values open source.
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MS is already going to do that with Avalon. They have no intention giving up their monopoly by obeying standards. It's useless to worry about what MS might do. They will do anything and everything to stop competition. They have no morals or ethics.
As long as the widgets conform to an open standard and degrade gracefully you have nothing to worry about.
Remember this is not MS we are talking about here. We are talking about a development consortium that is dedicated to open source and open standards. They no intention of locking anybody out of anything.
I for one think it would be awsome if web pages looked and acted better in mozilla then IE. Maybe then the windows users would find the motivation to go install mozilla (presuming of course they know how to download and install stuff).
Have it learn where I am saving which files and offer up that directory as default. If I am saving all pictures into one directory and all movies into another it should know that.
I want virtual folders in my mail. These are "live" queries like "all mail today" or "all mail marked urgent". As I mark metadate on the email they will show up in the proper virtual folder.
Full text search of all email.
Choice of multiple home pages. It learns when I want my home pageX and homepage Y.
Roaming bookmarks!!!. While I am at it roaming everything including profiles and preferences. The ability to carry my email filters from location to location would be awsome.
A network install where the administrator can set global prefs and install global plugins. I also want the option to override the users preferences and lock them out of certain setting.
It should learn to adjust my font size (and other settings?) based on site. If a web site always puts tiny print then I want the fonts larger only for that site. Perhaps have it learn "ugly" sites and put my default styles instead.
Auto proxy. I want to feed a list of proxy servers and have it switch randomly (even from one site to another). Think of this as super privacy.
Ability to arbitrarily morph the the incoming text stream using regexp or javascript. This would allow me to roll my own weird crap.
Make XUL 50 times better. Make it so it's trivial to use XUL to make database front ends. Give me a great GUI builder for it.
I have lots more ideas but that's enough for now.
":Brilliant, you just justified EVERY Israeli action against the Palestinians."
Israel does not need justification. Their God tells them that the land belongs to them and that's all the justification they need. The lives and hopes of the palestenians don't matter when the wishes of God need to be fulfilled.
"But hey, let's all Blame Israel for all problems, it's alot easier that way then to assume Arab states contributed in any way to the problem."
I don't blame israel for all the problems I blame them for some of the problems. The arabs are also to blame. There is really not that much of a difference between the two really. they are both listening to their god who tells them that their enemies should be killed and their land should be taken. These savages (israelis and the palestenians) have managed to turn the birthplace of jesus into a hate filled bloodbath and perpetual war, torture, cruelty and suffering.
As far as I am concerned we should go in there and kick out the lot of them. Get rid of the israelis and disperse them all over the earth, get rid of the palestenians and disperse them all over arabia. Let's just turn the entire country of israel and palestine into a world heritage park and preserve the land for eternity as the birth place of the three major religions. People can visit but they can't stay. that land is too historically precious to be left in the hand of savage evil people who think that they can justify their murderous ways by blaming somebody else and saying "they did it first".
"I am sure they use any weapon in their arsenal. I also read history and know of the many peace deals they have broken. Why? Because they don't want to get back to the original UN lines"
Neither does Israel. Both Israel and palestine see each other as abominations under god to be destroyed. Just as many prominent palestenians have called for getting rid of all jews many members of the israel knesset have called for genocide of palestenians. Imagine a US senator calling for extermination of indians or arabs or anybody for that matter. It would never happen in the US because we are a civilized country.
"Those are not the tactics of freedom fighters fighting for 'water rights.' Those are the tactics of terrorists.""
They are the act of desparate people driven to do desparate things due to brutal, cruel and inhuman treatment by israel. You have to put things into perspective here. It's not like Israel doesn't rape and torture palestenians. They have tortured tens of thousands of people in the last couple of decades. I recently read an article in the atlantic in which an israeli torturer described some of the things they did to palestenians and I got sick to my stomach just reading about them.
If the US was invaded by israel and kept under occupation I would do anything to gain back my freedom. Yes that would include suicide bombing, targetting civillians, or just about anything else imaginable.
"Except for the occasional bad guy, the difference is in targetting. The terrorists specifically aim for noncombatants, the Israelies do not."
Fist of all I am not convinced that the israelis don't target civillians. It is indisputable that they target media outlets (TV stations and newspapers) which are civillian and they target journalists which are also civilillian.
Secondly I submit that there is no appreciable difference between launching a bomb into a crowded city because you don't want to risk sending your soldiers there and setting off a suicide bomb on a bus. You know civillians will get killed but you don't care because it's better to kill palestenians civilians then to risk the death of israeli solders.
Also I am sure that if the palestenians had helicopters, missiles, fighter jets, and tank they would be using them instead of suicide bombers. Sometimes you have to make do with what you have in order to win back your freedom.
Finally. The act of keeping 3.5 million people under occupation (in essense keeping them as domesticated animals) is terrorism at the highest level. Of course the CIA is never going to define it that way but common sense and decency ought to. Apartheid is evil and terrorism. Israel is a terroris state simply because it occupies millions of people.
Define terrorism so that israel does not fit the definition.
Is there a difference between the mossad and the CIA? I mean there are mossad agents torturing iraqi prisoners in US occupied prisons.
Linux is a cause. It's a movement. It's an ideology. It's the worlds largest meritocracy. It's a game played by millions of people online. It's a gift to humanity given by very smart and hard working people who want nothing in return.
Microsoft is a corporation.
Do you see the difference?
They purposefully cultivate a siege mentality. That's why all MS employees have an us VS them mentality. It's a common technique used by cults and in this case MS.
"Abu Ghraib prisoners were abused, not tortured like they were when Saddam was in power. Their abusers should and will be punished. Their is a fine line between abuse and torture."
THe following items qualify as torture.
Women were raped, Men were raped, men had broomsticks and lightsticks shoved up their asses. 11 people died at least 9 of those were declared to be murder by the military medical examiners. People's legs were ripped open by dogs. People were smeared with feces and held in crucifiction poses for long periods of time. People were crucified on metal beds and jail bar for several days with handcuffs.
All that is detailed in the report put out by the army itself. God only knows what they left out. There are still thousands of pictures which have not been released because we don't really have free press in this country but the politicians who have seen them have described them as sickening. Rumsfeld used the word "sadistic".
Please read the report that the army put out and then go check out some foreign news sources. You are clearny not getting the entire picture from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
Or a taxi driver in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It was a few years ago, it was in chicago. I don't remember the guys name (who would?) but he told me minimum 60 hours. I turned down the job. Got a higher paying job two weeks later at a big company working 40 hours and was happy. Boring work but it paid well and had sensible hours.
Their profitibility is bound to take a nosedive pretty soon. Taiwan has decided that windows+office is worth no more then $50.00 and MS gave in. Other countries are sure to wise up pretty soon too.
Lucky for them there are lots of big dumb corporations in the US. My company pays almost retail for thousands of office licenses. Mainly because my CIO is dumber then rocks and does not know how to negotiate.
Free drinks are great but they don't pay all that well and make you work 60 hour weeks at a minimum.
I was interviewing there and when I heard that they expected at least 60 hours per week I said No thanks. It's just not worth it for me to spend 60 to 80 hours per week at work no matter how great the cafeteria.
It might be great for 18 year old kids though.
The problem is that nobody wants to help the hungry and everybody wants their potholes patched. If you did that people would be starving but your streets would be smooth.
Right. In other words you are a republican.
Oh BTW you left out the part where democrats are traitors, terrorists and hate america.
Nothing in your post indicates that you have firm liberterian beliefs. You seem to care more about republicans then liberterians. In other words you are only a liberterian if it does not hurt the republican party.
Nothing wrong with that but at least you could admit it.
What sucks is when you buy an item and then the company pulls up and leaves and you can't get warranty service. Then you have to send the frikking thing to headquarters who then ships it to taiwan. Good luck getting the thing fixed.
"I supported such an action, merely that it doesn't overly annoy me, as it doesn't affect me."
Again, this statement alone pretty much proves you are not a liberterian.
If you are for a smaller govt, political free speech, federalist solutions whenever posibble, and delegation to smallest govt unit how can you possibly vote for bush? I am sure there will be a liberterian on the ballot in your state why not vote for him/her? Have you ever voted for a liberterian candidate? given a choice between voting for a liberterian candidate or a republican one which would you choose?
You have no basis for your beliefs about Kerry. The size of the govt shrank during the clinton years and the budget deficits were reduced in both carter and clinton presidencies. Recent history shows that democrats are more fiscally responsible then republicans are. If fiscal responsibility is important to you then you should vote for a democrat.
It sounds to me that you are not really a liberterian. You are simply a republican. You have no objection to amending the constitution of the united states (our most sacred document) to deny marriage rights to a class of people. I honestly don't see how you get to call yourself a liberterian.
As for the war you are completely off the charts. I won't go into it point by point but it sounds like you have drank the cool aid Bush is handing out.
In summary you are exactly the type of of person I was talking about. Somebody who calls themselves a liberterian but probably have always voted republican. Why you insist on calling yourself a liberterian is a mystery only you can answer.
The election hasn't even started yet. Right now they seem to think democrats are going to do well. Once the election starts for real they may detect a shift in the wind and start giving more money to republicans. Looks like they have only given about 50% of money they usually give so they have lots left to bribe the eventual winner.
The problem for them is that theis administration will probably run an october surprise of some sort. I figure they will either parade bin laden (I think they already have him captured) in front of the cameras or invade another country. In that case MS will only have about a month to dump a bunch of money on the republicans.
Maybe they smell something.
A liberterian? Voting for bush? NEVER.
Bush has grown the size of the govt more then any other president in recent history.
He runs up record debt.
He invades sovereign countries which are of no threat to the US.
He is the champion of the patriot act.
He wants to amend the constitution to prevent gays from marrying.
He fights states that want to legalize medicinal marijuana.
He fights states that pass right to die statutes.
Like most people who call them sleves liberterians you are simply a republican you is ashamed to say so. Please don't besmirch the liberterian party by calling yourself one while voting for the least liberterian candidate.
I think it's important to point out that Apple was under no obligation to contribute back to the community. The fact that they did simply points out that they have an ethical corporate culture that values open source.
Other companies may not be so nice.