Good news. Now that television has gone (or is going) digital, we'll have no more white noise. Instead we'll just have blank blue screens.
For example right now, for some unknown reason, I can't get channel 10. My television is taunting me with a BSOD and "no signal" overlay. That's just so much better than the fuzzy analog image I used to get. (cough) Not.
Screensavers seem to exist, but they're pretty basic. I can see a selling opportunity for advertising here.
And Microsoft was using its dominance of the operating system market to keep other browsers from gaining a foothold. If you recall, Microsoft was telling companies that if they wanted to be able to buy Windows, they couldn't install Netscape on their computers. Microsoft wasn't just making IE, they were using their OS monopoly to prevent Netscape from gaining share on IE.
I do remember, and it's why I don't think that Microsoft should be prevented from bundling IE with Windows. Even the Firefox folks don't want to be bundled with Windows. They like having that cachet of having people use IE once - to download Firefox. They have other excuses too.:)
Instead, let's just fine Microsoft up the yin-yang, and spend down the deficit! We all win!
Have you *tried* using IE to download FireFox? After 20 or so "add this site to exceptions" I gave up and downloaded it with command line ftp. Much simpler.
Why should IE be able to get funded AND distributed by suckling at a monopoly's tit while Firefox and Safari (and now Chrome) are struggling to compete? Why does government regulation of monopolies exist, if not to keep Microsoft from turning the entire global Internet into a MS-only proprietary network?
Argh. 2am last night, the apartment I live in had fire alarm go off. I sort of blearily eyed got dressed and shambled down 7 flights of stairs. 8 people had actually gone down. Nine story apartment, probably 20 per lvl. You do the math:) It was a slow leak in the sprinklers in the carpark. Argh, will I bother again?
Ethiopea and Yemen, actually. Turkish coffee is a process style. I prefer the espresso machine style, of which the best machines come from Italy. As far as caffeine concentration goes, the most caffeine comes from robusta beans, IOW, the junk beans used to make instant. I p*ss on that.
Or do we have a downloader that starts the first time an internet connection is there; in which case you're shipping an OS without a browser at all, which, in this day and age is ridiculous.
No, the OEM picks the browser. Your PC will definitely come with a browser. It just won't be Microsoft choosing which one.
I imagine Microsoft will influence the OEMs. Subtly, in a way the courts won't be able to touch.
This subject's been done to death re the integration of browser dlls in the operating system to make Windows explorer etc work, and the IE executable being a minimal application that uses these dlls, an argument that would appeal to OEMs would be the smaller footprint the IE executable would need...
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Kill the digital tv bios?
Good news. Now that television has gone (or is going) digital, we'll have no more white noise. Instead we'll just have blank blue screens.
For example right now, for some unknown reason, I can't get channel 10. My television is taunting me with a BSOD and "no signal" overlay. That's just so much better than the fuzzy analog image I used to get. (cough) Not.
Screensavers seem to exist, but they're pretty basic. I can see a selling opportunity for advertising here.
And Microsoft was using its dominance of the operating system market to keep other browsers from gaining a foothold. If you recall, Microsoft was telling companies that if they wanted to be able to buy Windows, they couldn't install Netscape on their computers. Microsoft wasn't just making IE, they were using their OS monopoly to prevent Netscape from gaining share on IE.
I do remember, and it's why I don't think that Microsoft should be prevented from bundling IE with Windows. Even the Firefox folks don't want to be bundled with Windows. They like having that cachet of having people use IE once - to download Firefox. They have other excuses too. :)
Instead, let's just fine Microsoft up the yin-yang, and spend down the deficit! We all win!
Have you *tried* using IE to download FireFox? After 20 or so "add this site to exceptions" I gave up and downloaded it with command line ftp. Much simpler.
If it's a German world view that would be Weltanschauung.
You do realize that such behaviour by several companies jointly is also illegal - it's called a cartel and it's a criminal felony.
Only for car companies. Telephone companies doing it are referred to as teltels.
Why should IE be able to get funded AND distributed by suckling at a monopoly's tit while Firefox and Safari (and now Chrome) are struggling to compete? Why does government regulation of monopolies exist, if not to keep Microsoft from turning the entire global Internet into a MS-only proprietary network?
A recursive Pierson's sockpuppetry of the penis. ngaaa!
http://www.puppetryofthepenis.com/
Apart from the self-playing solitaire?
I believe there was another one, containing Microsoft source code.
Posting viruses is fair grounds for deleting. :)
Heh. Just what I needed, last thing on a Friday, thanks :) Sorry I used all my mod points.
What poor English? Don't apologise for it, it's great!
Citation required
You didn't expect him to keep his promises, did you? More fool you. Your only consolation is that the other guy wouldn't have either.
Finally? There might be more breakages between now and then.
Argh. 2am last night, the apartment I live in had fire alarm go off. I sort of blearily eyed got dressed and shambled down 7 flights of stairs. 8 people had actually gone down. Nine story apartment, probably 20 per lvl. You do the math :) It was a slow leak in the sprinklers in the carpark. Argh, will I bother again?
Ethiopea and Yemen, actually. Turkish coffee is a process style. I prefer the espresso machine style, of which the best machines come from Italy. As far as caffeine concentration goes, the most caffeine comes from robusta beans, IOW, the junk beans used to make instant. I p*ss on that.
No Coffee for the programmers? Bzzt! Not going to happen!
Why make voting idiot proof? Make it more complicated, and get a better result.
What, you've never herd of that? Looser.
Cut their telecom access for repeat offences. Permanently.
BladeRunner Forever.
Shoot them, or deface them? Reminds me of that execrable game "Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure"
Original? I hope so! The idea that there might be more than one Britney is nauseating.
One AC calling another AC names. Yeah, I know, don't feed the trolls, but the latter one got modded insightful.
No, the OEM picks the browser. Your PC will definitely come with a browser. It just won't be Microsoft choosing which one.
I imagine Microsoft will influence the OEMs. Subtly, in a way the courts won't be able to touch.
This subject's been done to death re the integration of browser dlls in the operating system to make Windows explorer etc work, and the IE executable being a minimal application that uses these dlls, an argument that would appeal to OEMs would be the smaller footprint the IE executable would need...