People realized that requiring prototypes made it impossible for small companies or individual inventors to get patents, particularly where the prototype alone might cost a million dollars to make.
And of course, it also make's it very expensive for large companies to come up with a slew of extremely embryonic ideas and patent them.
Of course, it does help the small inventor by quickly showing him that any creative effort on his part is a complete waste of time, and he would be better off getting a job making the coffee in Microsoft.
You forget that this settlement was agreed with the EU by Microsoft.
The original position of the EU was probably that Microsoft was abusing their monopoly position and they should be denied the right to ship a browser with Windows at all - which would put Windows at a serious disadvantage.
Remember that a similar case in the US had the DOJ at one point looking for the break up of Microsoft.
This browser "solution", while farcical to you is in fact the best compromise that they could come up with, and given the alternatives I don't think your point of view would be supported even by Microsoft.
First, why does market share make any difference at all? I'm not going to use IE ever and no amount of statistics is going to change that.
However, when companies and governments provide products and services they will always target the most popular browsers and they will most definitely include the version number, and that will go on the side of the box.
These figures now mean that I, with my firefox 3.5, will be given the best and earliest consideration when services are provided, followed by those using IE8 - so for instance when I go to buy some thing off a website, my experience will work, while those using IE6 (bless!) will have to suffer (Mwahahahahahaha!!!)
The total figures are just for fanboys who want to claim Microsoft is better than Linux or vice versa or whatever. Good luck to them, I'd rather have stuff that works.
You seem to be suggesting that someone with no self-esteem is worse off than someone who is the deceased victim of some deranged Thomas Harris-styled lunatic serial killer?
That's really going to help raise their opinion of themselves.
Well, fair's fair... I doubt he tastes good either, why should we care about him? He just wants to get out his shotgun and start hunting these poor creatures.
Equal treatment for Jellyfish NOW!!! We need naked models to raise awareness of this issue!
Yeah, besides the drinking tea and screwing up Patton's plans and calling chips crisps and drinking tea and heating up beer and using metric system but not really using it at all and making tiny but really cool cars for stealing gold from the Italians and Jeremy Clarkson and drinking tea...
Just imagine the amount of bashers if the news would had read;
Windows Vista is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Windows. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the web for answers and log fresh bug reports in Windows forums.
This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts? It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally.
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People realized that requiring prototypes made it impossible for small companies or individual inventors to get patents, particularly where the prototype alone might cost a million dollars to make.
And of course, it also make's it very expensive for large companies to come up with a slew of extremely embryonic ideas and patent them.
Of course, it does help the small inventor by quickly showing him that any creative effort on his part is a complete waste of time, and he would be better off getting a job making the coffee in Microsoft.
Damn right.
Netcraft couldn't confirm a restaurant booking.
You forget that this settlement was agreed with the EU by Microsoft.
The original position of the EU was probably that Microsoft was abusing their monopoly position and they should be denied the right to ship a browser with Windows at all - which would put Windows at a serious disadvantage.
Remember that a similar case in the US had the DOJ at one point looking for the break up of Microsoft.
This browser "solution", while farcical to you is in fact the best compromise that they could come up with, and given the alternatives I don't think your point of view would be supported even by Microsoft.
Or "First Post"
Damn you!!
Trademark the name McAuroch - you'll make a fortune.
Microsoft don't have any tools that can effectively read that format.
First, why does market share make any difference at all? I'm not going to use IE ever and no amount of statistics is going to change that.
However, when companies and governments provide products and services they will always target the most popular browsers and they will most definitely include the version number, and that will go on the side of the box.
These figures now mean that I, with my firefox 3.5, will be given the best and earliest consideration when services are provided, followed by those using IE8 - so for instance when I go to buy some thing off a website, my experience will work, while those using IE6 (bless!) will have to suffer (Mwahahahahahaha!!!)
The total figures are just for fanboys who want to claim Microsoft is better than Linux or vice versa or whatever. Good luck to them, I'd rather have stuff that works.
I quit 4 years, 3 months, 9 days, 7 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds ago.
And I don't miss them at all.
I must be misunderstanding you...
You seem to be suggesting that someone with no self-esteem is worse off than someone who is the deceased victim of some deranged Thomas Harris-styled lunatic serial killer?
That's really going to help raise their opinion of themselves.
This was extremely useful in the 1980s when certain television channels were available from Sweden and Holland but only in a scrambled form.
Can't I have both?
That's disgusting.
I know this is petty - but what the heck.
CajunArson, what hope is there for me reading 20 odd points of a complicated patent application, when you can't even read 9 characters of a user name?
...because I couldn't bothered reading all that shit.
Agree with your executives what your mission is: security, stability, reliability, user friendliness, whatever...
Then the reports you need are those that demonstrate how well you are fulfilling you mission. Anything else is just extraneous BS.
I know that they've been around for so long that the mistake is easily made - but you are aware that the Simpsons is only a cartoon?
Well, fair's fair... I doubt he tastes good either, why should we care about him? He just wants to get out his shotgun and start hunting these poor creatures.
Equal treatment for Jellyfish NOW!!! We need naked models to raise awareness of this issue!
Channel 4 is a British broadcasting corporation, is it not?
It's not the British Broadcasting Corporation granted - but the definite article was not included in the tag.
Two African swallows with a piece of string between them... maybe.
Yeah, besides the drinking tea and screwing up Patton's plans and calling chips crisps and drinking tea and heating up beer and using metric system but not really using it at all and making tiny but really cool cars for stealing gold from the Italians and Jeremy Clarkson and drinking tea...
...what have the Brits ever done for us!?
Just imagine the amount of bashers if the news would had read;
Windows Vista is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Windows. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the web for answers and log fresh bug reports in Windows forums.
This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts? It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally.
One word: Klingon.
....although obviously not ... in Kansas.
"Aaarrggghh!" is the imperfect past participle of "Arr!".
It's all in "Spinkley's Continuing Pirate Grammarr!", if you cared to read it - or be ye just a land lubber, Arrgg?
Aaarrggghh!!!