To all you Microsoft fanboys: you get what pay for. Microsoft has EARNED every single bit of suspicion, distrust, and scorn heaped upon it.
I am inclined to say to Hell with Microsoft, for their offensive behaivior they should be BANNED from contributing and access to Open Source. Since when have they gained the moral right to contribute? Certainly licenseing should bar them from Open Source using under any conditions.
Do you really use reference books any longer? I just use the web.
Bruce, I know *many* people who still prefer books. For me, I do much of my tech reading in bed and on the toilet. I still enjoy the *paper* in the morning (in bed and on the toilet). I buy a lot of books in e-book form, but I almost always end up printing the, out one-sided on 8.5 by 11, I keep 'em in big ring binders. Maybe I'm a dinosaur, psychologically, I *enjoy* books on paper, I feel they lend themselves to easier study, I can search and cross reference content MUCH faster than diddling around with some PDF or whatever on a laptop. Also, I like to have my references *open* beside me while I'm coding on my large but single monitor.
Opera's complaint specifically addressed the fact that MS's abuse has resulted in a huge portion of the Web no longer being standards compliant and that this was part of MS's intention as revealed by their internal memos.
What would happen if Microsoft pulled a "standard compliant" IE (or at least one that matched Firefox for complaintness) out of their ass? It would force an all new attack position for the anit-MS folks...
Nowhere on earth would anyone read that into the headline.
Did you read the summary as well?
Ilgaz writes in to let us know that we will have to install MS Silverlight 2 to watch the US President's inauguration online.
Yet as several people point out, is not so. Not only that, it is not at all what the actual article says. You did read the article, right?
Silverlight technology has been chosen to stream U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony live on the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site
...on the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site. It does not enlighten us on other venues.
Love or hate Microsoft, the headline and summary are misleading.
The story *DOES NOT* say that Silver light will be used exclusivly accross all channels. It says:
Microsoft's Silverlight technology has been chosen to stream U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony live on the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site
...on the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site...
Boy, talk about cherry picking a slanted conclusion...
The actual copy from the references story is...
Microsoft's Silverlight technology has been chosen to stream U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony live on the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site...
Nowhere does it say that all the networks will be using Silverlight exclusively.
But multinational companies, even US based, will be looking at the US as a secondary market because of the risks.
I know little to nothing about this area, but it seems to me this may already be the case (maybe for different reasons? I don't know). Witness the truckloads of bleeding edge and even in many cases several year old technology that just isn't available in the US, but which the rest of the developed world enjoys...
Any time I want to learn about something, it's the first place I go.
It's the second place I go, because the Wikipedia Search "feature" sucks unless you know exactly what you're looking for. If only Wikipedia would either fix their broken "search" or simply integrate Google search into it?
I searched Wikipedia for a reference to Roland Piquepaille, and came up with nothing. There for, I think this Roland Piquepaille never actually existed.
The fact is, since China has the unfair advantage of near-slave labor, the rest of the world as a whole needs to have stiff import tariffs to equalize this imbalance.
This really shouldn't be completely about the "world economy" and if it can be done cheaper in China, "why not"? It is completely fair to take into account other factors such as China's complete disregard for workers rights and environmental issues, not to mention truth in labeling with regards to all the poisons they put in food products.
Make 'em pay, it's the only way to get their attention.
Max is/was/will always be a guy who stole identities and money other people, in many cases making their lives living Hell. You can toot all you want about the evil FBI, but fact of the matter is that Max is a thief who took things that didn't belong to him.
Who cares where Clippy is from. I just want it to die.
I'll tell you what I want to die - Web sites that spread an article out one paragraph at a time over 15 pages where the spam-to-content ratio is 15 to 1.
I'm sorry, but I didn't read the article, since I didn't get past page one of fifteen.
Speaking as a straight male who loves looking at naked women, I have to say, I fully support Facebook in this matter. As much fun as it is to see pictures of women with their crotch-fruit sucking on their sagging tits - I'd much rather, uh, not. Ever.
Sure, it's natural, but so is taking a dump. Doesn't mean I want to see it.
There's something disturbing about someone who refers to babies as "crotch fruit" and likens breast feeding to "taking a dump". How such an opinion is "insightful", I don't know...
It's going to be hard to fight this sort of "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" type of thing. I mean, what are you? A pedophile? After all, only sex offenders that haven't yet been busted would object, right? So which is it? Little boys or little girls?
I doubt this will last though, Fairpoint isn't big enough to stand up against MSFT's legal department, and the Tier 1 contract probably requires them to be a neutral provider.
MSN and Yahoo *better* pay attention to this, because while it's only a possible 1.5 million right now, this opens the door to ISP blocking of all sorts of different on-line services that these Big Players are steaking their futures on.
R.I.M. is a Canadian company, and this is Motorola's way of keeping talent in the U.S. All good and patriotic Americans should support Motorola's actions in this matter!
As it was modded, clearly meant as "flamebait". But there is actually a good point here.
As much as people like to bitch about outsourcing here in the USA, why should we allow our talent to migrate to Canada? Doesn't allowing High Tech workers to work for foreign companies support Microsoft's contention that we need to increase H1Bs because the talent isn't here anymore?
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To all you Microsoft fanboys: you get what pay for. Microsoft has EARNED every single bit of suspicion, distrust, and scorn heaped upon it.
I am inclined to say to Hell with Microsoft, for their offensive behaivior they should be BANNED from contributing and access to Open Source. Since when have they gained the moral right to contribute? Certainly licenseing should bar them from Open Source using under any conditions.
Do you really use reference books any longer? I just use the web.
Bruce, I know *many* people who still prefer books. For me, I do much of my tech reading in bed and on the toilet. I still enjoy the *paper* in the morning (in bed and on the toilet). I buy a lot of books in e-book form, but I almost always end up printing the, out one-sided on 8.5 by 11, I keep 'em in big ring binders. Maybe I'm a dinosaur, psychologically, I *enjoy* books on paper, I feel they lend themselves to easier study, I can search and cross reference content MUCH faster than diddling around with some PDF or whatever on a laptop. Also, I like to have my references *open* beside me while I'm coding on my large but single monitor.
If MS stopped breaking this law in this case...
I don't think that has been completely established yet, the EU is not done...
Opera's complaint specifically addressed the fact that MS's abuse has resulted in a huge portion of the Web no longer being standards compliant and that this was part of MS's intention as revealed by their internal memos.
What would happen if Microsoft pulled a "standard compliant" IE (or at least one that matched Firefox for complaintness) out of their ass? It would force an all new attack position for the anit-MS folks...
Nope, not going to happen...
Nowhere on earth would anyone read that into the headline.
Did you read the summary as well?
Ilgaz writes in to let us know that we will have to install MS Silverlight 2 to watch the US President's inauguration online.
Yet as several people point out, is not so. Not only that, it is not at all what the actual article says. You did read the article, right?
Silverlight technology has been chosen to stream U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony live on the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site
...on the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site. It does not enlighten us on other venues.
Love or hate Microsoft, the headline and summary are misleading.
The story *DOES NOT* say that Silver light will be used exclusivly accross all channels. It says:
Microsoft's Silverlight technology has been chosen to stream U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony live on the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site
The actual copy from the references story is...
Microsoft's Silverlight technology has been chosen to stream U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony live on the Presidential Inaugural Committee's Web site...
Nowhere does it say that all the networks will be using Silverlight exclusively.
But multinational companies, even US based, will be looking at the US as a secondary market because of the risks.
I know little to nothing about this area, but it seems to me this may already be the case (maybe for different reasons? I don't know). Witness the truckloads of bleeding edge and even in many cases several year old technology that just isn't available in the US, but which the rest of the developed world enjoys...
Any time I want to learn about something, it's the first place I go.
It's the second place I go, because the Wikipedia Search "feature" sucks unless you know exactly what you're looking for. If only Wikipedia would either fix their broken "search" or simply integrate Google search into it?
As /. tends to do to small sites...
Yes, Google is just a little upstart, but they'll grow...
This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.
From Google App Engine web site:
Google App Engine makes it easy to design scalable applications that grow from one to millions of users without infrastructure headaches.
Maybe not...
I searched Wikipedia for a reference to Roland Piquepaille, and came up with nothing. There for, I think this Roland Piquepaille never actually existed.
The fact is, since China has the unfair advantage of near-slave labor, the rest of the world as a whole needs to have stiff import tariffs to equalize this imbalance.
This really shouldn't be completely about the "world economy" and if it can be done cheaper in China, "why not"? It is completely fair to take into account other factors such as China's complete disregard for workers rights and environmental issues, not to mention truth in labeling with regards to all the poisons they put in food products.
Make 'em pay, it's the only way to get their attention.
Max is/was/will always be a guy who stole identities and money other people, in many cases making their lives living Hell. You can toot all you want about the evil FBI, but fact of the matter is that Max is a thief who took things that didn't belong to him.
I'm really surprised that with all the users they had, they are so quick to say "everything is gone and we're giving up"
According to the message at the web site, they have sent the drives to some recovery firm to work on...
Who cares where Clippy is from. I just want it to die.
I'll tell you what I want to die - Web sites that spread an article out one paragraph at a time over 15 pages where the spam-to-content ratio is 15 to 1.
I'm sorry, but I didn't read the article, since I didn't get past page one of fifteen.
next you'll see a fat chick with saggy bewbs the size of a small country taking her shirt off in public just because she can
Welcome to Europe.
Speaking as a straight male who loves looking at naked women, I have to say, I fully support Facebook in this matter. As much fun as it is to see pictures of women with their crotch-fruit sucking on their sagging tits - I'd much rather, uh, not. Ever. Sure, it's natural, but so is taking a dump. Doesn't mean I want to see it.
There's something disturbing about someone who refers to babies as "crotch fruit" and likens breast feeding to "taking a dump". How such an opinion is "insightful", I don't know...
In a Puritan society such as the United States where the human body is generally seen as filthy, this is what we get. Besides, THINK OF THE CHILDREN.
Like you, I have *NEVER* had a problem reinstalling Windows on machines, either hardware upgrades or virus killing, no problems at all.
It's going to be hard to fight this sort of "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" type of thing. I mean, what are you? A pedophile? After all, only sex offenders that haven't yet been busted would object, right? So which is it? Little boys or little girls?
I work a graveyard shift. You can bet I'll bring this up to the boss. I don't work for free!
I would highly doubt the performance benefits of the microsoft office are worth the extra hundred dollars entry fee.
But the feature advantages do for me.
I doubt this will last though, Fairpoint isn't big enough to stand up against MSFT's legal department, and the Tier 1 contract probably requires them to be a neutral provider.
MSN and Yahoo *better* pay attention to this, because while it's only a possible 1.5 million right now, this opens the door to ISP blocking of all sorts of different on-line services that these Big Players are steaking their futures on.
R.I.M. is a Canadian company, and this is Motorola's way of keeping talent in the U.S. All good and patriotic Americans should support Motorola's actions in this matter!
As it was modded, clearly meant as "flamebait". But there is actually a good point here.
As much as people like to bitch about outsourcing here in the USA, why should we allow our talent to migrate to Canada? Doesn't allowing High Tech workers to work for foreign companies support Microsoft's contention that we need to increase H1Bs because the talent isn't here anymore?