You, perhaps, need to research stuff before shooting your mouth off. In some cases it's justified, but you have just libeled Microsoft for no apparent reason. Find something new to complain about, like Office Open XML (ugh!) or something.
The fact that Googles desktop search has been on the market longer than Microsofts and Microsoft just released their "new" OS all means that Microsoft was not playing by the laws governing anti-trust and not following rules set in their settlement for losing the anti-trust case( 2nd(?)). Incorrect. Windows has had this search built into it since NT 4. Only now has it been made to not suck. E.g, look up Indexing Service in NT 4. Yup, it's there. THAT's what Google is complaining about, a service older than their entire COMPANY, which is easily disabled by the user or software on behalf of the user. This case is utter crap, and I applaud the DoJ official who fired off communication urging states to drop it (even if he did it for the wrong reasons, which is likely).
Don't bother, it's Twitter. He'll say anything (even utter crap) and fabricate and twist some "evidence" if it means bashing Microsoft.
He tries to claim he's advocating freedom and OSS and whatnot, while he does everything that the sane FL/OSS organisations tell you not to do - zealotism only harms the cause. Seriously.
I don't usually say this (except to Twitter) but... you're an idiot. If I choose to make a product, it's my business how I make it. Abusing monopolies is bad, no question. The way around that is obviously to ensure that Vista's desktop search doesn't integrate with MSN web search at all - after all, searching your files SHOULD be a built-in feature of your OS.
You can go shove it if you think they should do whatever the hell you want them to. After all, you want them to give Windows away free, so obviously the government should legislate to force that. Remind me not to open a US office.
I also often see "Apple hasn't been convicted as a monopolist" as a reason Apple should be able to blatantly flaunt OSX features over Windows features because "Apple hasn't been convicted" and your bullshit justice department will allow Apple to get away with including them but not Microsoft.
Frankly, I grow weary of Windows sucking more daily because your bloody DoJ keeps forcing Microsoft to cripple it. When will they just fuck off and admit that this preferential treatment is utter crap? Go harass Apple for a change. Although, demons know that Slashdot (with it's resident Jobs brown-nosers) would be up in arms about the "corrupt government" being bought by Microsoft if they clamped on Apple for a change.
In general, I dislike Microsoft, but I seriously hate Apple. As a company, they're the most immoral lot ever (see: using iPhone name without permission knowing that public outcry at evil Cisco would force Cisco to give it to them cheap).
And those guys at Google aren't much better... you know, I'd almost say Google is a monopoly trying to leverage their monopoly (web search) to get into an existing market (desktop search)... of course you lot would never agree to that.
I expect this gets modded "-1,000,000 Not Groupthink"
Southern Cross is quadrupling capacity on their cables later this year - Q3 apparently they upgrade their 10 stations from 256Mbps to 1.2Tbps for each link. Should be good, except that it'll prove that neither NZ nor Australia have the requisite backhaul capacity attached to their DSLAMs to use it.
Wow, and here in backwater Noo Zeeeland I get 6.5Mbps connection. Up to. When pigs fly. During correct planetary alignment. About 5Mbps is marginally typical. $70 down the drain for it though.
Either are correct really, there are subtle differences in pronounciation between US and UK as well that often justify different spelling. Our country tends to use UK English. I only consider it a misspelling if you use the UK spelling in the US or vice versa.
On topic, my understanding is that the rural areas will be either bush type areas, or hilly areas. Neither of these works well with wireless tech of today
It kind of makes you wonder how many of them actually writes software for a living. I'm also amazed that I haven't seen Twitter on this discussion yet... Sssh! I think one more mention will summon him from the Aether!
Funny I know lots pf people (myself included) with 360s. Of the 15 or so one is on their 2nd console that cost them nothing under the warranty. It's hardware some will have issues. You act like every 360 owner is having issues.
Yay anecdotal evidence!
I know 8 people with 360s, and all of them have had theirs replaced at least once. Oddly, the majority of them still love the thing, and a few rewarded Microsoft through the purchase of an Elite to replace their out-of-warranty box when it broke.
And check on those financials. The defects have had a huge impact of the division's bottom line. The 360 would be a profit center for Microsoft right now without all the replacements. You just don't hear about it in the national news precicely because they *are* really good at covering it up, just like they're really good getting the national media to report on product lanuches that don't deserve coverage.
To add to that "anecdotal evidence" I also know multiple people (myself included) who own a perfectly working, never replaced, XB360 (bought at launch, so first generation)
Does it occur to you that there may have simply been bad manufacturing runs? I mean, everyone else does it (especially bloody Nvidia).
Well, there's also the possibility that only the supplier to the US market sucked balls. We generally have no problems anywhere with 360s.
Actually, to be perfectly honest, I was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Often you hear people saying to "boycott MP3!" because it's not open, and offering M4A or AAC as an "open" alternative, or saying that AAC is somehow more open than MP3 because it isn't patented.
Personally, I'll use whatever format is best for what I want to hear, patent-encumbered or not. Considering the immensely low royalties on most formats (WMA is 5c per device, AAC is a flat rate per year from what I recall) they usually don't drive the cost of players/encoders up much.
Of course folks like Twitter would claim I'm crazy because I would "sacrifice my freedom" or call me a corporate shill or some crap.
No, I don't sound like Steve Ballmer. I sound like ME. Yes, I would say the same sort of thing if I ever met you, because I do generally disagree with nearly everything you say. You don't like Microsoft. We get it, it's not a bloody religion you should preach. I don't like Stallman, I don't preach the evils of the FSF (even though their ultimate goals are noble, I just don't agree with the way Stallman goes about it. My opinion, your miles may vary).
Strangely, I only have one account on Slashdot - I try to get by on my own merits thanks. Unlike some others I could name.
It occurs to me that I'll probably get marked Flamebait for that. Still, although I don't like Microsoft's business practices I do believe that if you want to bash them, bash them based on facts not bullshit.
And twitter really is a whiney zealot. You know it too.
Let's get this straight. M$ is coercive monopoly. People do not want Vista because it's expensive and restrictive. People are not buying it. The only thing they want less than Vista is a new Office design, complete with a format no one can open that forces them to buy the OS they don't want.
I think half the problem with Vista sales, is how many copies they give away for free. Seriously, I have FOUR Vista licenses, all legitimate, none paid for.
I think it's worth pointing out to you as well that Office 2007 works perfectly fine on XP so you're talking shit that it forces them to buy an OS they don't want, and to add insult to injury you can open Office 2007 documents in Office 2003! Further proof, that you're a fucking moron (you know, with how often you get moderated Troll, I wonder how you can post more than once a day).
The real question is how long hardware vendors can hold their breath before deserting M$ entirely. They have waited six years for Vista and it's a dud. Retailer have been squeezed into buying 20,000,000 coppies of Vista that no one is buying, which adds insult to the poor hardware sales injury. The complex and anti-competitive standards M$ has pushed on hardware makers has made hardware purchases a real crapshot, solved only by purchasing systems as a unit or meticulous research. How long are they going to back that kind of inefficiency when the result is a stab in the back like Plays for Sure?
Retailers haven't been "squeezed into" anything. Around here, we still have XP on shelves, and not so much Vista. If people want it, they get more copies in. Sounds like normal market workings to me. I can't decipher the rest of your rant (except PlaysForSure - which is about as crap as FairPlay in the long run).
Their "crown jewels" are third rate and increasingly irrelevant. Digital restrictions are an obvious dissaster which must be removed if they want any media market share. After six years of development, mostly wasted on digital restrictions, we get Vista. I've never, ever, heard anyone say they like a new Office format that causes them to go spend a bunch of money. M$ can't fix these problems on their own and no one is going to ride to their aid unless the result is really free.
If they're third rate, why do people use them? Not because they're forced to - after all, OO.o does a fairly good job of opening Office documents - but because they CHOOSE to. Start getting OO.o on shelves in stores, and chances are, people will buy it. Face it, when people want to buy an Office Productivity application, they go down to the local store and look at what's there. They don't search the internet for "free office". That right there is something that OSS could learn from Microsoft. Marketing.
M$ has a choice to make: go free or die. I have not had any of their stuff in my house for six years and I could care less. Either way they are a diminishing threat to hardware and file formats.
No need to respond to that, that's just utter bullshit. They don't need to "go free" any more than Apple needs to "go free" or Sony needs to "go free". Seriously. Morons like you HARM the Open Source movement more than help it - typically you whiney, zealous imbeciles are what the entire community is typecast as. Getting rid of that reputation would be a good start to actually getting somewhere in the market.
Also, you mention that you haven't had an MS product in your house in six years, and apparently care a great deal about it (because you could care less, as opposed to couldn't care less). In that case, shut the fuck up because you don't use the products, and therefore you don't know anything about them,
You sir, are a complete moron. I have Windows machines with uptime counts in the YEARS. Applications work perfectly on them. they've never been hit by a virus, malware, spyware, or anything of the sort. Why? I'm not a complete moron, and know the limits of what my OS will protect me from. An OS is only as good as it's operator. Unfortunately Windows was marketed at idiots, but not designed for the same market. OS X is idiot-proof. Linux is... apart from Linspire, Ubuntu and the other user-oriented ones, pretty much USER-proof in general.
I think he refers to Safari's dodgy implementation of XMLHttpRequest. Initially when it came out, I recall having to mod applications to inform Safari users to go get some other browser because Safari just plain didn't work properly (though it worked fine in both IE and Firefox, which both implemented fairly consistent methods across the XML DOM - well, after Firefox finally implemented selectNodes and selectSingleNode anyway) - I don't know if it's any better now, but I'd hope it has improved.
I really do hate to say it, but I actually agree with the GP that a Web Browser is essential to an OS - after all, without a web browser, how are you meant to... well, download a web browser? Gopher? Archie? Does anyone actually provide those services nowadays?
I suppose you could use the argument (and rightly so) that Microsoft could implement an apt or yum style repository of software, allowing you to install whatever browser you blasted well like out of the box - but can you imagine how quickly vendors like InstallShield/Macrovision and WISE would be throwing tantrums at the DoJ demanding another anti-trust case?
There are approximately 150 circulated English-print technology websites; our team specifically targeted the 35 largest publications. We determined the size of these publications via Alexa's online index and publication-supplied web statistics. DailyTech was included among this list. Yes, there it is! They tempted themselves with payola. No word on whether or not they accepted though. They actually gave a hint when you combine the article with the comments. The article states that no publication with a seperate editorial and sales department would accept bribes, and in the comments mentioned that DailyTech has a seperate editorial from sales team. So, apparently their sales team refused.
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Actually, it's entirely true. See http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,3918 9475,00.htm
You, perhaps, need to research stuff before shooting your mouth off. In some cases it's justified, but you have just libeled Microsoft for no apparent reason. Find something new to complain about, like Office Open XML (ugh!) or something.
Don't bother, it's Twitter. He'll say anything (even utter crap) and fabricate and twist some "evidence" if it means bashing Microsoft.
He tries to claim he's advocating freedom and OSS and whatnot, while he does everything that the sane FL/OSS organisations tell you not to do - zealotism only harms the cause. Seriously.
I don't usually say this (except to Twitter) but... you're an idiot. If I choose to make a product, it's my business how I make it. Abusing monopolies is bad, no question. The way around that is obviously to ensure that Vista's desktop search doesn't integrate with MSN web search at all - after all, searching your files SHOULD be a built-in feature of your OS.
You can go shove it if you think they should do whatever the hell you want them to. After all, you want them to give Windows away free, so obviously the government should legislate to force that. Remind me not to open a US office.
I also often see "Apple hasn't been convicted as a monopolist" as a reason Apple should be able to blatantly flaunt OSX features over Windows features because "Apple hasn't been convicted" and your bullshit justice department will allow Apple to get away with including them but not Microsoft.
Frankly, I grow weary of Windows sucking more daily because your bloody DoJ keeps forcing Microsoft to cripple it. When will they just fuck off and admit that this preferential treatment is utter crap? Go harass Apple for a change. Although, demons know that Slashdot (with it's resident Jobs brown-nosers) would be up in arms about the "corrupt government" being bought by Microsoft if they clamped on Apple for a change.
In general, I dislike Microsoft, but I seriously hate Apple. As a company, they're the most immoral lot ever (see: using iPhone name without permission knowing that public outcry at evil Cisco would force Cisco to give it to them cheap).
And those guys at Google aren't much better... you know, I'd almost say Google is a monopoly trying to leverage their monopoly (web search) to get into an existing market (desktop search)... of course you lot would never agree to that.
I expect this gets modded "-1,000,000 Not Groupthink"
Southern Cross is quadrupling capacity on their cables later this year - Q3 apparently they upgrade their 10 stations from 256Mbps to 1.2Tbps for each link. Should be good, except that it'll prove that neither NZ nor Australia have the requisite backhaul capacity attached to their DSLAMs to use it.
Wow, and here in backwater Noo Zeeeland I get 6.5Mbps connection. Up to. When pigs fly. During correct planetary alignment. About 5Mbps is marginally typical. $70 down the drain for it though.
Either are correct really, there are subtle differences in pronounciation between US and UK as well that often justify different spelling. Our country tends to use UK English. I only consider it a misspelling if you use the UK spelling in the US or vice versa.
On topic, my understanding is that the rural areas will be either bush type areas, or hilly areas. Neither of these works well with wireless tech of today
So was I.
Yay anecdotal evidence!
I know 8 people with 360s, and all of them have had theirs replaced at least once. Oddly, the majority of them still love the thing, and a few rewarded Microsoft through the purchase of an Elite to replace their out-of-warranty box when it broke.
And check on those financials. The defects have had a huge impact of the division's bottom line. The 360 would be a profit center for Microsoft right now without all the replacements. You just don't hear about it in the national news precicely because they *are* really good at covering it up, just like they're really good getting the national media to report on product lanuches that don't deserve coverage.
To add to that "anecdotal evidence" I also know multiple people (myself included) who own a perfectly working, never replaced, XB360 (bought at launch, so first generation)
Does it occur to you that there may have simply been bad manufacturing runs? I mean, everyone else does it (especially bloody Nvidia).
Well, there's also the possibility that only the supplier to the US market sucked balls. We generally have no problems anywhere with 360s.
Indeed. And WoW's cinematic trailer leaves most people saying "screw the game, give me another hour and a half of cinematic!"
It was already sold out. If you don't believe Sony was doing the exact same thing previously, you're a complete idiot.
Just because it's Microsoft, it doesn't make it inherently "selling out" or "evil".
Actually, to be perfectly honest, I was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Often you hear people saying to "boycott MP3!" because it's not open, and offering M4A or AAC as an "open" alternative, or saying that AAC is somehow more open than MP3 because it isn't patented.
Personally, I'll use whatever format is best for what I want to hear, patent-encumbered or not. Considering the immensely low royalties on most formats (WMA is 5c per device, AAC is a flat rate per year from what I recall) they usually don't drive the cost of players/encoders up much.
Of course folks like Twitter would claim I'm crazy because I would "sacrifice my freedom" or call me a corporate shill or some crap.
Dude, he's commenting that 500Mb is 500 Megabits which you need to divide by 8 to get the amount in Megabytes. It should be displayed as 500MB
Just a violation of the agreement. No laws cover it.
However, Visa and Mastercard are A-OK with "Discount for every method of payment but credit card, discount already applied to price"
Sure. To us. The government's proved time and time again it values Australians more than us locals.
http://www.vialicensing.com/Licensing/MPEG4_objec
Redefining "Open" are we? Yes, Apple is a licensor of the patented AAC algorithms.
No, I don't sound like Steve Ballmer. I sound like ME. Yes, I would say the same sort of thing if I ever met you, because I do generally disagree with nearly everything you say. You don't like Microsoft. We get it, it's not a bloody religion you should preach. I don't like Stallman, I don't preach the evils of the FSF (even though their ultimate goals are noble, I just don't agree with the way Stallman goes about it. My opinion, your miles may vary).
Strangely, I only have one account on Slashdot - I try to get by on my own merits thanks. Unlike some others I could name.
It occurs to me that I'll probably get marked Flamebait for that. Still, although I don't like Microsoft's business practices I do believe that if you want to bash them, bash them based on facts not bullshit.
And twitter really is a whiney zealot. You know it too.
Let's get this straight. M$ is coercive monopoly. People do not want Vista because it's expensive and restrictive. People are not buying it. The only thing they want less than Vista is a new Office design, complete with a format no one can open that forces them to buy the OS they don't want.
I think half the problem with Vista sales, is how many copies they give away for free. Seriously, I have FOUR Vista licenses, all legitimate, none paid for.I think it's worth pointing out to you as well that Office 2007 works perfectly fine on XP so you're talking shit that it forces them to buy an OS they don't want, and to add insult to injury you can open Office 2007 documents in Office 2003! Further proof, that you're a fucking moron (you know, with how often you get moderated Troll, I wonder how you can post more than once a day).
The real question is how long hardware vendors can hold their breath before deserting M$ entirely. They have waited six years for Vista and it's a dud. Retailer have been squeezed into buying 20,000,000 coppies of Vista that no one is buying, which adds insult to the poor hardware sales injury. The complex and anti-competitive standards M$ has pushed on hardware makers has made hardware purchases a real crapshot, solved only by purchasing systems as a unit or meticulous research. How long are they going to back that kind of inefficiency when the result is a stab in the back like Plays for Sure?
Retailers haven't been "squeezed into" anything. Around here, we still have XP on shelves, and not so much Vista. If people want it, they get more copies in. Sounds like normal market workings to me. I can't decipher the rest of your rant (except PlaysForSure - which is about as crap as FairPlay in the long run).Their "crown jewels" are third rate and increasingly irrelevant. Digital restrictions are an obvious dissaster which must be removed if they want any media market share. After six years of development, mostly wasted on digital restrictions, we get Vista. I've never, ever, heard anyone say they like a new Office format that causes them to go spend a bunch of money. M$ can't fix these problems on their own and no one is going to ride to their aid unless the result is really free.
If they're third rate, why do people use them? Not because they're forced to - after all, OO.o does a fairly good job of opening Office documents - but because they CHOOSE to. Start getting OO.o on shelves in stores, and chances are, people will buy it. Face it, when people want to buy an Office Productivity application, they go down to the local store and look at what's there. They don't search the internet for "free office". That right there is something that OSS could learn from Microsoft. Marketing.M$ has a choice to make: go free or die. I have not had any of their stuff in my house for six years and I could care less. Either way they are a diminishing threat to hardware and file formats.
No need to respond to that, that's just utter bullshit. They don't need to "go free" any more than Apple needs to "go free" or Sony needs to "go free". Seriously. Morons like you HARM the Open Source movement more than help it - typically you whiney, zealous imbeciles are what the entire community is typecast as. Getting rid of that reputation would be a good start to actually getting somewhere in the market.Also, you mention that you haven't had an MS product in your house in six years, and apparently care a great deal about it (because you could care less, as opposed to couldn't care less). In that case, shut the fuck up because you don't use the products, and therefore you don't know anything about them,
You sir, are a complete moron. I have Windows machines with uptime counts in the YEARS. Applications work perfectly on them. they've never been hit by a virus, malware, spyware, or anything of the sort. Why? I'm not a complete moron, and know the limits of what my OS will protect me from. An OS is only as good as it's operator. Unfortunately Windows was marketed at idiots, but not designed for the same market. OS X is idiot-proof. Linux is... apart from Linspire, Ubuntu and the other user-oriented ones, pretty much USER-proof in general.
I think he refers to Safari's dodgy implementation of XMLHttpRequest. Initially when it came out, I recall having to mod applications to inform Safari users to go get some other browser because Safari just plain didn't work properly (though it worked fine in both IE and Firefox, which both implemented fairly consistent methods across the XML DOM - well, after Firefox finally implemented selectNodes and selectSingleNode anyway) - I don't know if it's any better now, but I'd hope it has improved.
I really do hate to say it, but I actually agree with the GP that a Web Browser is essential to an OS - after all, without a web browser, how are you meant to... well, download a web browser? Gopher? Archie? Does anyone actually provide those services nowadays?
I suppose you could use the argument (and rightly so) that Microsoft could implement an apt or yum style repository of software, allowing you to install whatever browser you blasted well like out of the box - but can you imagine how quickly vendors like InstallShield/Macrovision and WISE would be throwing tantrums at the DoJ demanding another anti-trust case?