No, you're wrong. Opera previously made their money selling their browser or including ads in it. Now Google pays them for every Google search done using Opera's search functionalities. This gives Opera enough cash to give their browser away, and will probably make them more in the end as their browser is more widely accepted now that it is free.
Mozilla does the exact same thing. Google has paid the Mozilla Foundation millions of dollars for Google searches done with Mozilla browsers.
Please explain how Microsoft has the money for a hostile takover of Google? If Microsoft devoted their entire cash on hand, they still wouldn't own a controlling interest in Google.
No, it wouldn't work because Sony/BMG cannot enter a contract which obligates a third party to do anything (third party being the directors), among the reasons you are thinking of:)
OK, so what exactly would you call it if not cooperation? If someone holds a gun to your head and tells you to give them your wallet, and you do, are you not cooperating? How is this any different?
Microsoft and Mozilla are working together on some things, therefore they are cooperating.
I normally check in my Task Manager how much ram and cpu cycles all of the widgets are taking whenever I install a new one, and to be quite honest, the numbers seem lower now. Of course, I didn't write them down beforehand to compare, but I can guarantee you they haven't gone up like you think.
Unless of course you are talking about Yahoo's main website, http://www.yahoo.com/ in which case I would say Yahoo! is not primarily a search engine company like Google, but an Internet Portal, so they are supposed to shove crap, such as email and messenger products, down your throat. For a long time they didn't even have their own search engine, but had a deal with Google to provide search results, and they focused entirely on their other products.
There were changes that make things easier for third party widget makers, something an end-user wouldn't see. At least that's what I've heard from other/.ers.
Actually yes it was. After upgrading, I noticed they had re-added a widget (can't remember which one) that comes with the default install, so I double clicked it, and there is an option for Yahoo! Calendar.
Possibly because the majority of people don't spend every waking second posting on random websites? They do stuff like...ummm...write documents, listen to music, watch videos, download pr0n, send emails, run a tax program once a year, use p2p. None of these require a web browser. For most of the people I talk to, a web browser is something they use occasionally, maybe once a day. For most of the people I talk to now that I think about it, a computer is something they use occasionally, maybe once or twice a day.
As a Canadian, this rule doesn't fit. We have more land mass than the US, 10% of the population, cheaper/faster internet, and it is more reliable. For instance, where I live, the slowest Cable/DSL I can get is 3 MB/s, and it has gone down maybe 4 or 5 times in 2 years. The company sent out a technician, as we were the only ones in my area experiencing the problems, and it was faulty wiring in the house causing the problem. Since that was fixed, it hasn't gone down once. For $80 a month, we get phone with unlimited long distance (in the US and Canada), cable tv with a lot of extra channels and internet.
Too bad...I was actually kind of interested in this, but since I live in Canada I can't use it. Is there any way to spoof it so they think I live in the US?
Ever shopped at Wal*Mart, where people go up to the tills with 3 carts worth of products, a lot little things too, like cans? Trust me, 100 items is possible. I'm a student, so I work at Wal*Mart part time. The other day, there was a $2500 order, mainly food, for a hudderite's colony.
Whoops, my apologies. I thought you were talking about the cashier, not the moron perpetrating (sic? too lazy to check) this scam. I agree with you fully then.
Have you ever spent a day as a cashier? Trust me, when your boss says "You have to scan so many items per minute", you don't give a flying fuck what price something comes up as (most don't even take the time to look at the screen). All you care about is getting however many items over the till per minute. And when you have some cashiers doing over 100 items a minute(yes, it is possible), they don't scan *check screen*, scan *check screen*, they scan scan scan scan without looking.
Then, take into account that these cashiers do the same thing, over and over again, endlessly. Can you honestly say that after a career where you have scanned millions of items, you still check the price on each and every one?
But of course, it is just so easy to criticize without putting yourselves in someone else's shoes, isn't it?
God would you people RTFA!!! It is a problem with IE, not with Google Desktop. Google Desktop does not integrate with IE, it uses the default browser on your system. When I double click on Google Desktop, Firefox opens for me.
Also, Google Desktop was given as an EXAMPLE, the flaw can be used elsewhere.
Of course, sitting around and pretending you know what you are talking about is easier, isn't it?
And had you bothered reading the article, instead of relying on Slashdot's headline and making an ass of yourself, you would know the bug resides in IE, and accessing Google Desktop was just an example given.
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I can imagine Dvorak avoiding Slashdot as best he can. We must depress him:-P It's so funny how you can embarrass him by just quoting him. I read his drivel and crap just for the humour element.
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Better compare that to RHEL 4 instead of 3 while you're at it :-P
No, you're wrong. Opera previously made their money selling their browser or including ads in it. Now Google pays them for every Google search done using Opera's search functionalities. This gives Opera enough cash to give their browser away, and will probably make them more in the end as their browser is more widely accepted now that it is free. Mozilla does the exact same thing. Google has paid the Mozilla Foundation millions of dollars for Google searches done with Mozilla browsers.
Microsoft has 40.06B in cash right now. (Source : http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient-ff& ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=stocks%3A MSFT )
& ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=stocks%3A GOOG )
Google is currently worth 127.69B (Source : http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient-ff
Please explain how Microsoft has the money for a hostile takover of Google? If Microsoft devoted their entire cash on hand, they still wouldn't own a controlling interest in Google.
Google also doesn't issue controlling shares.
No, it wouldn't work because Sony/BMG cannot enter a contract which obligates a third party to do anything (third party being the directors), among the reasons you are thinking of :)
And I also don't know of any successful terrorist action that occurred BEFORE 2001 either. Your point is?
OK, so what exactly would you call it if not cooperation? If someone holds a gun to your head and tells you to give them your wallet, and you do, are you not cooperating? How is this any different? Microsoft and Mozilla are working together on some things, therefore they are cooperating.
'Competition between standards we believe is a very good thing.'
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I normally check in my Task Manager how much ram and cpu cycles all of the widgets are taking whenever I install a new one, and to be quite honest, the numbers seem lower now. Of course, I didn't write them down beforehand to compare, but I can guarantee you they haven't gone up like you think.
To add onto my previous comment, MSN is the exact same. Compare MSN's home page http://www.msn.com/, with their search page http://search.msn.com/.
Now could someone please tell me how in the hell you make a proper link on Slashdot? Are you able to do the normal HTML way? (blahblah)
Yahoo lost me back when they got cocky and started shoveling crap down my throat on their search page.
http://search.yahoo.com/ This search page do you mean? What exactly are they trying to shove down your throat there? http://www.google.com/ Compare. The only added thing is some news.
Unless of course you are talking about Yahoo's main website, http://www.yahoo.com/ in which case I would say Yahoo! is not primarily a search engine company like Google, but an Internet Portal, so they are supposed to shove crap, such as email and messenger products, down your throat. For a long time they didn't even have their own search engine, but had a deal with Google to provide search results, and they focused entirely on their other products.
There were changes that make things easier for third party widget makers, something an end-user wouldn't see. At least that's what I've heard from other /.ers.
Actually yes it was. After upgrading, I noticed they had re-added a widget (can't remember which one) that comes with the default install, so I double clicked it, and there is an option for Yahoo! Calendar.
Possibly because the majority of people don't spend every waking second posting on random websites? They do stuff like...ummm...write documents, listen to music, watch videos, download pr0n, send emails, run a tax program once a year, use p2p. None of these require a web browser. For most of the people I talk to, a web browser is something they use occasionally, maybe once a day. For most of the people I talk to now that I think about it, a computer is something they use occasionally, maybe once or twice a day.
As a Canadian, this rule doesn't fit. We have more land mass than the US, 10% of the population, cheaper/faster internet, and it is more reliable. For instance, where I live, the slowest Cable/DSL I can get is 3 MB/s, and it has gone down maybe 4 or 5 times in 2 years. The company sent out a technician, as we were the only ones in my area experiencing the problems, and it was faulty wiring in the house causing the problem. Since that was fixed, it hasn't gone down once. For $80 a month, we get phone with unlimited long distance (in the US and Canada), cable tv with a lot of extra channels and internet.
Too bad...I was actually kind of interested in this, but since I live in Canada I can't use it. Is there any way to spoof it so they think I live in the US?
Ever shopped at Wal*Mart, where people go up to the tills with 3 carts worth of products, a lot little things too, like cans? Trust me, 100 items is possible. I'm a student, so I work at Wal*Mart part time. The other day, there was a $2500 order, mainly food, for a hudderite's colony.
Well I agree with you to a point, everyone around here seems to forget that copyright infringement != Theft. The courts agree with me on this one.
Whoops, my apologies. I thought you were talking about the cashier, not the moron perpetrating (sic? too lazy to check) this scam. I agree with you fully then.
Have you ever spent a day as a cashier? Trust me, when your boss says "You have to scan so many items per minute", you don't give a flying fuck what price something comes up as (most don't even take the time to look at the screen). All you care about is getting however many items over the till per minute. And when you have some cashiers doing over 100 items a minute(yes, it is possible), they don't scan *check screen*, scan *check screen*, they scan scan scan scan without looking.
Then, take into account that these cashiers do the same thing, over and over again, endlessly. Can you honestly say that after a career where you have scanned millions of items, you still check the price on each and every one?
But of course, it is just so easy to criticize without putting yourselves in someone else's shoes, isn't it?
But does it come with a root-kit?
God would you people RTFA!!! It is a problem with IE, not with Google Desktop. Google Desktop does not integrate with IE, it uses the default browser on your system. When I double click on Google Desktop, Firefox opens for me.
Also, Google Desktop was given as an EXAMPLE, the flaw can be used elsewhere.
Of course, sitting around and pretending you know what you are talking about is easier, isn't it?
And had you bothered reading the article, instead of relying on Slashdot's headline and making an ass of yourself, you would know the bug resides in IE, and accessing Google Desktop was just an example given.
Netcraft counts webservers, not servers internal to a company.
Openoffice.org 2.0 was released a month ago. http://www.openoffice.org/press/2.0/press_release. html
I can imagine Dvorak avoiding Slashdot as best he can. We must depress him :-P It's so funny how you can embarrass him by just quoting him. I read his drivel and crap just for the humour element.