Internet Explorer is a loss leader. Microsoft is a software company and they have invested heavily into positioning this application. Maintaining that position does not directly create revenue, however it does act as a pretty good indicator of the market's attitude towards Microsoft as a company. As IE has been losing ground, Microsoft has also been losing more ground in other areas. It may be difficult to prove that the market share of people using IE is directly related to the number of people who decide to change to new software for their Office Suite, or even Operating System. But if these people see that there is something else which is "the new hotness" on the rise and IE is the old has been, who is to say that these people will not also find themselves more enlightened towards other choices in software.
This visit may be to shore up their image, or it could actually be a change in internal philosophy, we may not actually know what is happening in the situation for a long time.
If you read this article here, http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3969&date=20 060602 , you will see that the Department of State, which is indeed part of the US Government has been at least accused of participating in this debacle.
And the problem we're having right now is shortsighted people like you, who see patents as a "secondary problem", and those fighting monopolies and promoting democracy as "hackers". Sheesh! what's next? calling the founding fathers "terrorists"?
This may be an example of the formation of words by an organ other than the mouth that was referred to in the article.
That whole Boston Tea Party was no small demonstration of civil disobediance, it was a widespread destructive act. The tactics of guerilla warfare along the frontier and not to mention the manifesto signed by a bunch of audacious hooligans, certainly George the Third must have felt he was dealing with terrorists.
I don't like the inverted pyramid style in a newspaper. When I read a newspaper, I am normally on the subway going somewhere and because I'm underground I can not read/. on my way to work or where ever so I'd like the analogy carrier to at least be interesting. I also like to eat my meals one bite at a time rather than the largest bits first. Call me crazy!
Maybe now the articles will be written in a manner which actually resemble a story rather than having a fistful of facts crammed down your throat in burst of staccato like phrases. It would be quite an innovation for the newspapers to tell stories that make you want to read them rather than wrap your fish. Might even include some room for style to enter into the picture.
The answer to that question is not a philosophical answer. Apple sells an experience, or a lifestyle as opposed to just hardware or software. All of Mr. Jobs' announcements are setup to insure that exactly. The iPod, the iMac, the iGenericAppleProduct is designed to have a look and feel to it that allows the customer, the user to have an experience that he/she can not get anywhere else. No Dell running any OS will look or feel like OS X on a an Apple.
or better yet, get Quicksilver http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/, and do more than just search/find. In fact, add Desktop Manager http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/ and use virtual desktops to keep your clutter clean. But what do these have to do with the thread?
I find they both simplify and enhance the OS. Quicksilver is so much faster at finding files, applications, contact, music than any of the other built in methods within OS X no matter which cat you use (Panther or Tiger). Additionally, Quicksilver can start up your applications much faster than going into the Applications folder in finder (yes, I am aware that there is a dock at the bottom of my screen but I try to minimize the number of icons in there to conserve screen space.)
Speaking of Screen Space, Desktop Manager is a program for Mac that gives you virtual desktops similiar to the manner of Linux. Keystrokes or a page allows you to switch desktops, and you can move applications from one to the other, and if you like the eyecandy there are some nice effects for switching as well, I turn them off most of the time, cause I just like to change desktops not have a Broadway show everytime I want to change from doing Graphic Design to Web Browsing.
When theory meets real world, there is always a place where one or the other begins to give. Sometimes this results in a miserable set of conditions for everyone involved, other times there are surprising results that leave benefits scattered about like an over-abundant harvest. It is commendable that Chris recognizes that money is not _everything_ in fact this is the most exciting prospect of all. Someone who is in a position to help the open source community, and to continue to carry the positive benefits of working in the OSS community( what's the good/cool/neat way to describe that?) into the 'professional' world. I believe that there need to be more people who are making a living in as a developer or programmer or even just in the computer industry who are open minded about open source and can see the benefits.
There are naturally benefits from working within an environment where it is more 'closed' as well. Sometimes there needs to be more understanding of that on the OSS side as well. I'm not there, nor do I know for certain but it sounds to me- maybe I'm just pipe dreaming - that employment at Google is the proverbial best of both worlds. If there is a place that follows the Third Way then I look forward to finding it for it seems so dark and desolate to live in one side of extremism or the other.
This will certainly invite more people to join the law profession and thus propegate teh brain drain on science in this country- all because some MFA weenies have to have their company's marketing scheme secretly embedded deep in the mean user's hard drive. Usually when something gets deeply embedded, you can feel it go in - but in this case the fluffers, er, lawyers have prepared us culturally through years and years of daily announcements of new lawsuits that we have become hardened to the eradication of our rights as consumers.
Huh! 'Rights as Consumers' now that's a particularly interesting turn of phrase, isn't it? Certainly implies quite a bit of arrogant chest thumping - I have the right, because I consume. Corporations, Lawyers, Governments, Institutions, thinking of these sometimes is enough to make me want to rip my hair out by the roots and claw my eyes out.
So I can not see that more intervention into my life by these can help me live my life any fuller. Although a disability check every month to offset the insanity caused by trying to stay sane in this modern atmosphere would certainly help out.
...you should look at the User Info page for the Lawyers who are suing Craig. Next case they file against the list will be the discrimination that goes on in the personals, I mean what's up with that? Women seeking Women, Men Seeking Men, Men who used to be Women seeking Men, Women who used to be seeking men seeking women, Old Korean people seeking Email and then that really scary criteria for discrimination - Strictly Platonic, who really wants to just sit on rock discussing the republic when there's all this discrimination going on in the cave.
Just you wait, these Lawyers are going to take your rights away so you can't hurt yourself and you'll thank them for it.
Perhaps i am terribly confused, and it would not be the first time in my life that has happened; we're not going to talk about my senior prom; but is not the enemy the process which produces these products. Perhaps, I have it all wrong, but are there people who are using FF who are having this problem using up all the memory, who do not work for Mozilla, who are also capable of applying the principles of scientific inquiry and discovering what's up?
What I am trying to say is this. Mozilla is part of the community that allows anyone to make corrects to their code. I am sure that they are doing what they can to fix the problem, but is it possible that someone else may find it as well and submit it to them? If that is indeed the case here, then the enemy which we like to portray as Microsoft, is actually the process of software creation that is completely closed.I'm just asking because I don't always have the story straight and would like to know.
Regardless, how much does market share factor into this? With Linux, if a patch breaks a program, most people can just shrug it off and rewrite the program to work with the patch. So mass testing isn't as big of an issue. With Windows, if a patch breaks a program, a user doesn't have a lot they can do except to sit there and weep until Company X releases their own patch or next version.
Is that really market share that would cause MS users to sit around waiting for third party patches? It seems to me that such a situation results in having to depend upon a third party who's code is closed as well to get fixed. Now, if i have security update on my machine and recompile the kernel and it breaks my KMail - personally, I would not be able to fix it - I'd like to be able to - but at least I could open the hood and poke around and look like I know what I'm doing on the side of the road. That is until help arrives and I pull my head out from beneath the hood only to have it to pointed out to me that the rear tires are flat!
That said, I do think that there is something important in what you said.
I'll be getting that soon enough, once I move my purchased songs from itunes to, ah forget about it. I'll just go to Korea and have a Yellow Hot Dog with the Old folks.
So if I'm in an elevator, falling at the speed of light, and I turn on the light switch in the elevator, will I be able to see the electrons as they get stuck in the wires between the switch and the light, because they can not move at any speed but c? Or should the electrons actually get to flow through the conductor; which happens to be falling at c; and reach the light bulb; also falling at rate c; heat up the filament until it glows, will there be photons emmitted from that lightbulb and will they move at the rate c? yes, I understand that relative to the plane's floor I am not walking 202 mph, yet relative to the earth below me, I am => the photons emitted from the lightbulb in my elevator wil travel at twice the speed of light relative to the shaft.
Well, I think the problem is not the education of the Air Force people, or hm... probably it is... Anyway, its the press.
There's the rub - this would not have caught anyone's interest nor would it have sold any newspapers or magazines if it didn't have some sensationalist Gene Roddenberry slant to it. Had the article's headline been innane and boring, ie leavin gout the terms WARP DRIVE, then it would just be a report about a physics experiment where the idea that new technology could come from the results some how. Much more boring than saying the Air Force is trying to build a Warp Drive. Hyperbole is not a speed that any vessel can achieve, yet the press is riddled with it.
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Internet Explorer is a loss leader. Microsoft is a software company and they have invested heavily into positioning this application. Maintaining that position does not directly create revenue, however it does act as a pretty good indicator of the market's attitude towards Microsoft as a company. As IE has been losing ground, Microsoft has also been losing more ground in other areas. It may be difficult to prove that the market share of people using IE is directly related to the number of people who decide to change to new software for their Office Suite, or even Operating System. But if these people see that there is something else which is "the new hotness" on the rise and IE is the old has been, who is to say that these people will not also find themselves more enlightened towards other choices in software. This visit may be to shore up their image, or it could actually be a change in internal philosophy, we may not actually know what is happening in the situation for a long time.
Oi! this article reminded me that I need to export the photos from my camera!
If you read this article here, http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3969&date=20 060602 , you will see that the Department of State, which is indeed part of the US Government has been at least accused of participating in this debacle.
....Jeff from the BBC show Coupling had something to do with this.
Oh well, I'll just go back to my shell.
And the problem we're having right now is shortsighted people like you, who see patents as a "secondary problem", and those fighting monopolies and promoting democracy as "hackers". Sheesh! what's next? calling the founding fathers "terrorists"?
This may be an example of the formation of words by an organ other than the mouth that was referred to in the article.
That whole Boston Tea Party was no small demonstration of civil disobediance, it was a widespread destructive act. The tactics of guerilla warfare along the frontier and not to mention the manifesto signed by a bunch of audacious hooligans, certainly George the Third must have felt he was dealing with terrorists.
Google just bought your script before Microsoft could do more than praise it; I would suggest you duck before the chair hits the fan.
I don't like the inverted pyramid style in a newspaper. When I read a newspaper, I am normally on the subway going somewhere and because I'm underground I can not read /. on my way to work or where ever so I'd like the analogy carrier to at least be interesting. I also like to eat my meals one bite at a time rather than the largest bits first. Call me crazy!
Maybe now the articles will be written in a manner which actually resemble a story rather than having a fistful of facts crammed down your throat in burst of staccato like phrases. It would be quite an innovation for the newspapers to tell stories that make you want to read them rather than wrap your fish. Might even include some room for style to enter into the picture.
The answer to that question is not a philosophical answer. Apple sells an experience, or a lifestyle as opposed to just hardware or software. All of Mr. Jobs' announcements are setup to insure that exactly. The iPod, the iMac, the iGenericAppleProduct is designed to have a look and feel to it that allows the customer, the user to have an experience that he/she can not get anywhere else. No Dell running any OS will look or feel like OS X on a an Apple.
or better yet, get Quicksilver http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/, and do more than just search/find. In fact, add Desktop Manager http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/ and use virtual desktops to keep your clutter clean. But what do these have to do with the thread? I find they both simplify and enhance the OS. Quicksilver is so much faster at finding files, applications, contact, music than any of the other built in methods within OS X no matter which cat you use (Panther or Tiger). Additionally, Quicksilver can start up your applications much faster than going into the Applications folder in finder (yes, I am aware that there is a dock at the bottom of my screen but I try to minimize the number of icons in there to conserve screen space.) Speaking of Screen Space, Desktop Manager is a program for Mac that gives you virtual desktops similiar to the manner of Linux. Keystrokes or a page allows you to switch desktops, and you can move applications from one to the other, and if you like the eyecandy there are some nice effects for switching as well, I turn them off most of the time, cause I just like to change desktops not have a Broadway show everytime I want to change from doing Graphic Design to Web Browsing.
When theory meets real world, there is always a place where one or the other begins to give. Sometimes this results in a miserable set of conditions for everyone involved, other times there are surprising results that leave benefits scattered about like an over-abundant harvest. It is commendable that Chris recognizes that money is not _everything_ in fact this is the most exciting prospect of all. Someone who is in a position to help the open source community, and to continue to carry the positive benefits of working in the OSS community( what's the good/cool/neat way to describe that?) into the 'professional' world. I believe that there need to be more people who are making a living in as a developer or programmer or even just in the computer industry who are open minded about open source and can see the benefits.
There are naturally benefits from working within an environment where it is more 'closed' as well. Sometimes there needs to be more understanding of that on the OSS side as well. I'm not there, nor do I know for certain but it sounds to me- maybe I'm just pipe dreaming - that employment at Google is the proverbial best of both worlds. If there is a place that follows the Third Way then I look forward to finding it for it seems so dark and desolate to live in one side of extremism or the other.
This will certainly invite more people to join the law profession and thus propegate teh brain drain on science in this country- all because some MFA weenies have to have their company's marketing scheme secretly embedded deep in the mean user's hard drive. Usually when something gets deeply embedded, you can feel it go in - but in this case the fluffers, er, lawyers have prepared us culturally through years and years of daily announcements of new lawsuits that we have become hardened to the eradication of our rights as consumers.
Huh! 'Rights as Consumers' now that's a particularly interesting turn of phrase, isn't it? Certainly implies quite a bit of arrogant chest thumping - I have the right, because I consume. Corporations, Lawyers, Governments, Institutions, thinking of these sometimes is enough to make me want to rip my hair out by the roots and claw my eyes out.
So I can not see that more intervention into my life by these can help me live my life any fuller. Although a disability check every month to offset the insanity caused by trying to stay sane in this modern atmosphere would certainly help out.
or perhaps they were describing an Officer of the Law suffering from Tourette's.
In Ancient Soviet Egypt, disturbed tombs find you.
...you should look at the User Info page for the Lawyers who are suing Craig. Next case they file against the list will be the discrimination that goes on in the personals, I mean what's up with that? Women seeking Women, Men Seeking Men, Men who used to be Women seeking Men, Women who used to be seeking men seeking women, Old Korean people seeking Email and then that really scary criteria for discrimination - Strictly Platonic, who really wants to just sit on rock discussing the republic when there's all this discrimination going on in the cave.
Just you wait, these Lawyers are going to take your rights away so you can't hurt yourself and you'll thank them for it.
the real question is... ...when the Verizon bully start taking Google's Lunch money, will Google still upload your Verizon bill when you use GDS?
Perhaps i am terribly confused, and it would not be the first time in my life that has happened; we're not going to talk about my senior prom; but is not the enemy the process which produces these products. Perhaps, I have it all wrong, but are there people who are using FF who are having this problem using up all the memory, who do not work for Mozilla, who are also capable of applying the principles of scientific inquiry and discovering what's up?
What I am trying to say is this. Mozilla is part of the community that allows anyone to make corrects to their code. I am sure that they are doing what they can to fix the problem, but is it possible that someone else may find it as well and submit it to them? If that is indeed the case here, then the enemy which we like to portray as Microsoft, is actually the process of software creation that is completely closed.I'm just asking because I don't always have the story straight and would like to know.
Is that really market share that would cause MS users to sit around waiting for third party patches? It seems to me that such a situation results in having to depend upon a third party who's code is closed as well to get fixed. Now, if i have security update on my machine and recompile the kernel and it breaks my KMail - personally, I would not be able to fix it - I'd like to be able to - but at least I could open the hood and poke around and look like I know what I'm doing on the side of the road. That is until help arrives and I pull my head out from beneath the hood only to have it to pointed out to me that the rear tires are flat!
That said, I do think that there is something important in what you said.
Oh that's mad funny!
so in the example with the strings and the cracks on the sidewalk, those strings had to go farther to get the same crack.
I'll be getting that soon enough, once I move my purchased songs from itunes to, ah forget about it. I'll just go to Korea and have a Yellow Hot Dog with the Old folks.
So if I'm in an elevator, falling at the speed of light, and I turn on the light switch in the elevator, will I be able to see the electrons as they get stuck in the wires between the switch and the light, because they can not move at any speed but c? Or should the electrons actually get to flow through the conductor; which happens to be falling at c; and reach the light bulb; also falling at rate c; heat up the filament until it glows, will there be photons emmitted from that lightbulb and will they move at the rate c? yes, I understand that relative to the plane's floor I am not walking 202 mph, yet relative to the earth below me, I am => the photons emitted from the lightbulb in my elevator wil travel at twice the speed of light relative to the shaft.
Well, I think the problem is not the education of the Air Force people, or hm ... probably it is ...
Anyway, its the press.
There's the rub - this would not have caught anyone's interest nor would it have sold any newspapers or magazines if it didn't have some sensationalist Gene Roddenberry slant to it. Had the article's headline been innane and boring, ie leavin gout the terms WARP DRIVE, then it would just be a report about a physics experiment where the idea that new technology could come from the results some how. Much more boring than saying the Air Force is trying to build a Warp Drive. Hyperbole is not a speed that any vessel can achieve, yet the press is riddled with it.
Anonymous Coward has seems to have lost a planet. How embarrassing, how embarrassing.
She wasn't that cold.