So if I make a spyware-based browser with malicious components, will Microsoft be obliged to offer my browser to the users? Just because I compete with IE?
you'd have to be pretty low on my list of acquaintances for me to not help you out, and I make sure I hang out with people that would do the same for me. This is really sad, while yes, its good that they can stay in contact, this is a case of communication without value.
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
DEAR SLASHDOT USER:
I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.
I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU.
I AM WORKING WITH MR. PHIL GRAM, LOBBYIST FOR UBS, WHO WILL BE MY REPLACEMENT AS MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY IN JANUARY. AS A SENATOR, YOU MAY KNOW HIM AS THE LEADER OF THE AMERICAN BANKING DEREGULATION MOVEMENT IN THE 1990S. THIS TRANSACTIN IS 100% SAFE.
THIS IS A MATTER OF GREAT URGENCY.
Before the Dalai Lama visited a soup kitchen here a month ago, Mr. Pitts researched the Buddhist leader on Wikipedia and copied the text onto his iPod, to read in bed under the bridge.
Aw, that's really cool.
But now I have the mental image of the corresponding silhouette ad....and it's kinda weird..
Now that Google has its own platform in Chrome why does it need Mozilla?
Good point. However..
1) Market share. Chrome doesn't have that many takers yet in the greater scheme of things. A lot of people use Firefox. Most of those go to Firefox-ised Google as their default homepage. Not to be sniffed at.
2) Goodwill by association. Firefox is good and open source and people like it. Never hurts.
Suppose Chrome get to 70% of the browser market, Firefox 20% and the rest 10%. 20% (ish) of people going to Google as their homepage (by default) is still something you want. Yes.
That and the fact that Apple is a hardware company, which everyone seems to forget. OS X is built specifically to sell Apple computers.
Apple do an outstanding job with their UIs. The iPod really is the best example. What people really engaged with initially was the quality of the UI. Did anyone else have a Creative player? I had a few. All the HDD ones were simply horrendous, terrible UIs. It was the quality of Apple's UIs, and later their marketing, that truly saw the iPod take off.
It's similar to rise of Nokia, if you cast your mind back to the days of monochrome phones. Their original "brick" phone" had the best UI.. ergo it rose to the top.
Not all things served over the internet are done through a web browser. Haven't you heard of those heady days before the web, of usenets and IRCs? It'd be trivial to make a simple one-shot installer programme for allowing the user to choose and donwload a browser.
The EU would rather have a "ballot screen" for users to choose which browsers to download and install as well as which one to set as default
That's not really bundling now, is it? How do they server this list to the user? Must be a webpage, Shirley?
Also.. who chooses which browsers are included in the list? M$? What's to stop M$ putting theirs at the top of the list? I like the idea but it needs more thinking through. I read TFA (yes, I'm new here, etc.) and it was very light on detail.
I somehow sense this isn't the end of the matter..
It's amazing what you find tucked in at the bottom of these "press releases"..
Ubisoft's headline financial information included profits that were down for the 2008 fiscal year by 37 per cent, on sales that were up by 14 per cent. The company's stock opened down just over 5 per cent this morning at EUR 13.93.
So, witter on about an Apple super console and bury the real news in a tough financial climate? You decide.
None of the illegal immigrants I've ever met have arrived by airplane.
This leaves two options: either these guys are really stupid, or the real goal is different from the stated goal.
Hey, the two arent mutually exclusive, this is the government we're talking about!
In response to Waste Management's complaint, SAP has said in part that the company failed to "timely and accurately define its business requirements" and did not supply "sufficient, knowledgeable, decision-empowered users and managers"
Not "decision-empowered".. good way of saying brainless lusers. I like it!
So much for Information Week being reasoned and sensible.
"Equally troubling is the fact that the hacks appear to have originated outside the United States. Turkey is known to harbor significant elements of the al-Qaida network. It was not clear if "m0sted" has links to the terrorist group."
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Maybe put some books on them?
;-)
I checked, Dickens' A Christmas Carol is on there
I'm sure they'd appreciate a donation if you do. They do a great job.
So if I make a spyware-based browser with malicious components, will Microsoft be obliged to offer my browser to the users? Just because I compete with IE?
As if anyone could tell the difference..
you'd have to be pretty low on my list of acquaintances for me to not help you out, and I make sure I hang out with people that would do the same for me. This is really sad, while yes, its good that they can stay in contact, this is a case of communication without value.
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP DEAR SLASHDOT USER: I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE. I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU. I AM WORKING WITH MR. PHIL GRAM, LOBBYIST FOR UBS, WHO WILL BE MY REPLACEMENT AS MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY IN JANUARY. AS A SENATOR, YOU MAY KNOW HIM AS THE LEADER OF THE AMERICAN BANKING DEREGULATION MOVEMENT IN THE 1990S. THIS TRANSACTIN IS 100% SAFE. THIS IS A MATTER OF GREAT URGENCY.
Before the Dalai Lama visited a soup kitchen here a month ago, Mr. Pitts researched the Buddhist leader on Wikipedia and copied the text onto his iPod, to read in bed under the bridge.
..and it's kinda weird..
Aw, that's really cool.
But now I have the mental image of the corresponding silhouette ad..
Except Pitts has been homeless for two years and manages this digital lifestyle from his residence under a highway bridge.
That's some sick battery life right there!
Now that Google has its own platform in Chrome why does it need Mozilla?
Good point. However..
1) Market share. Chrome doesn't have that many takers yet in the greater scheme of things. A lot of people use Firefox. Most of those go to Firefox-ised Google as their default homepage. Not to be sniffed at.
2) Goodwill by association. Firefox is good and open source and people like it. Never hurts.
Suppose Chrome get to 70% of the browser market, Firefox 20% and the rest 10%. 20% (ish) of people going to Google as their homepage (by default) is still something you want. Yes.
That and the fact that Apple is a hardware company, which everyone seems to forget. OS X is built specifically to sell Apple computers.
Apple do an outstanding job with their UIs. The iPod really is the best example. What people really engaged with initially was the quality of the UI. Did anyone else have a Creative player? I had a few. All the HDD ones were simply horrendous, terrible UIs. It was the quality of Apple's UIs, and later their marketing, that truly saw the iPod take off.
It's similar to rise of Nokia, if you cast your mind back to the days of monochrome phones. Their original "brick" phone" had the best UI.. ergo it rose to the top.
Not all things served over the internet are done through a web browser. Haven't you heard of those heady days before the web, of usenets and IRCs? It'd be trivial to make a simple one-shot installer programme for allowing the user to choose and donwload a browser.
Hahah, M$ should use IRCX !
> this video
0:38: "It's got Linux at the heart of it's operating system"
I don't know whether to be confused or happy, help!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS
Don't *copy* that *floppy*!
...seriously.. don't... it's got AOL on it...
I use ed, you insensitive clod!
Hang on a minute, browser bundling?
The EU would rather have a "ballot screen" for users to choose which browsers to download and install as well as which one to set as default
That's not really bundling now, is it? How do they server this list to the user? Must be a webpage, Shirley?
Also.. who chooses which browsers are included in the list? M$? What's to stop M$ putting theirs at the top of the list? I like the idea but it needs more thinking through. I read TFA (yes, I'm new here, etc.) and it was very light on detail.
I somehow sense this isn't the end of the matter..
And now it's time for Google to embrace the future..
..and release a Windows 2000 compatible version!
..I kid. The real question is when will this come out of alpha? :-P
It's amazing what you find tucked in at the bottom of these "press releases"..
Ubisoft's headline financial information included profits that were down for the 2008 fiscal year by 37 per cent, on sales that were up by 14 per cent. The company's stock opened down just over 5 per cent this morning at EUR 13.93.
So, witter on about an Apple super console and bury the real news in a tough financial climate? You decide.
The title got it wrong: this is not a French experiment, but an international one which happens to take place in France. There's a difference...
Merde! We give you suppositories and this is how you repay us!
None of the illegal immigrants I've ever met have arrived by airplane.
This leaves two options: either these guys are really stupid, or the real goal is different from the stated goal.
Hey, the two arent mutually exclusive, this is the government we're talking about!
Hahahaha
In response to Waste Management's complaint, SAP has said in part that the company failed to "timely and accurately define its business requirements" and did not supply "sufficient, knowledgeable, decision-empowered users and managers"
Not "decision-empowered".. good way of saying brainless lusers. I like it!
So much for Information Week being reasoned and sensible.
"Equally troubling is the fact that the hacks appear to have originated outside the United States. Turkey is known to harbor significant elements of the al-Qaida network. It was not clear if "m0sted" has links to the terrorist group."
Hooray for sensationalism!
> I haven't looked at the code, but is there something that you can leverage from Inkscape?
Not looking at the code: +1.
Answer indicative of having RTFA: -10.
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Net gain/loss: -9
> one celebrity, one mass murderer, one nobel prize candidate, one illiterate, one billionaire, one terrorist
And we have a surprise for you... he's taken the time off posting on Slashdot... he's here tonight!
> There's this rock I use as a paperweight next to my computer. I figure it's anywhere between 100 million and 2 billion years old.
Me too.. makes it hard to RTFM doesn't it..
This is all just minutiae, people!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minutiae
> Obama supporters have voted with their hearts and aren't realizing how idealistic they are being
I was about to make a comment to the effect that maybe policies are also relevant to some of the voting demographic.
And then I remembered who's currently in the Oval Office. So I'll shut up now.
solve a number of important conundrums such as why there is so little antimatter in our part of the universe
Eek, no, leave it where the hell it is!
Ok, maybe one George Bush sized piece...