Except this is exactly the point of Microsoft's.net initiative. To make the internet (or what most people think is the internet - www) not be HTTP based anymore, but to rely on proprietary extensions/applets/applications built around the.net framework.
In their eyes 90% of the web will require IE in order for the "web services" to work. And they will leverage things like MS Office to get the ball rolling. No longer will new features be added directly to office, but will be available on the web - provided the user has Windows and is using IE...
Mod this as flamebait if you want, but that certainly seems to me to be the direction they are heading. Heck, MS execs are even talking about how http's days are coming to an end...
You know it, I know it, and they know it. They are just another "dot-bomb", but without the for-profit aspect: No leadership, constant change of direction, people in positions waaaaay out of their league, no clearly defined objectives, etc.
I use Linux every day. I love Linux. I appreciate more than I can say all the hard work the developers have put in.
That being said, there is *no way* it is anywhere near ready for the desktop. I had problems with Grub the other day on my Red Hat box and it took me about 45 minutes to track down the solution and correct it via a rescue disk.
My mom could never in a million years do that, nor would she want too. The top three reasons Linux won't be on a computer desktop soon, as I see them are:
1. Still too difficult to use, though light years ahead of where it was.
2. Not enough applications that "Joe User" can go buy in a store, all nice and shrinkwrapped.
3. No Microsoft Apps. I don't care about that, and you probably don't either, but a whole world of people have their documents, presentations and spreadsheets in MS format and need office, at a minimum.
Is the mailroom clerk, who stayed on just so he could file this lawsuit. When Microsoft settles out of court for 3.7 million he will become the highest compensated employee in the history of Be.
I signed up for a trial of digital cable TV where I live, and after purchasing a video on demand, I went to record the last part as I was getting tired and wanted to sleep and watch the rest the next day. Lo and behold the picture faded in and out, same as if you try and record a DVD.
I know there are signal boosters/correctors that can overcome this...the question is, why should normal, law abiding citizens have to resort to this?
This will *never8 stop the true pirates...the ones that make thousands of CD's and have people selling them on street corners in big cities. It only hurts "casual copying", which is a small % of the overall problem. Same as Microsoft's activation policy...since when did the average consumer become the enemy?
Hey music industry: crack down on the counterfeit rings, that is where you are losing billions of dollars.
But there is this thing called The United States Constitution, which protects against, among other things, illegal search and seizure. Law enforcement must get a warrant before they can tap your phone, why is "communication via internet" any different?
Also, criticizing the government doesn't mean someone doesn't want to live here. Maybe YOU should move to China where you would never have to hear someone disagree with the government.
Movie making is an art form that very few people can do well. What about the impact of deleting out violent scenes has on the overall impact of the movie? Doesn't this device impact on screenwriter/director's rights?
Could we also rip out pages of a book to eliminate the offensive materials without the author's permission?
PROBLEM:
Damnit, our products are so damn insecure we have to patch the patch before we even release the patch to the service pack to the bugfix.
This is directly impacting our ability to innovate by finding new anticompetitive practices to drive customers out of business. On top of that, we have lost complete track of which politicians to buy off.
SOLUTION
Slow down the security sieve that is Windows. "Thirty days after the first advisory, a more detailed noticed can be released under the rules."
http://www.firstgov.gov/state_gov/state.html
is a listing of all state government home pages. Write them now and urge them not to go along with the USDOJ settlement.
Out of all the parts of the interview to single out, why did Slashdot select the part about Microsoft? Please try and stop being so biased towards Microsoft, even when they really have nothing to do with the story at hand.
If anything will be the downfall of OSS, it is the multitude of licenses. It will cost companies too much in attorney's fees to be worth their trouble. How many licenses do we need?
I believe they are talking about accessing your HOTMAIL mail account via POP3. As far as I know, as long as this service has been available, you have had to use a MS mail client, as they actually send you ads in a pane at the bottom of Outlook/OE.
I believe there is also a workaround to block the ads, but I can't remember where I saw it.
As someone who was jailed this year without the right to obtain a lawyer, without adequate time to prepare a defense, held WITHOUT bail as "dangerous" based on the hearsay testimony of a single person, and had the judge LITERALLY lead the witness and get her to say what he needed to incarcerate me, I can't tell you how right you are. I am thirty-three, have never even committed a crime or been so much as charged with jaywalking in all my years, yet I was incarcerated by the State of Massachusetts.
I can no longer even look at the American flag without tremendous sadness in my heart. Perhaps that makes me a "terrorist" now....
To do what?
To remove the Taliban government, a direct supporter of terrorists and their killing of innocents, as well as probably the world's most oppressive government. Millions of people and children starving, women unable to work to feed their families, people executed publicly for minor crimes, women not allowed to attend school, people who speak out against the regime are shot or hanged.
The Taliban are nothing but a bunch of religious students who took control of Afhanistan through violence and rule with an iron fist. Put simply, they are thugs. But hey, they only allow things like terrorist training camps to be run in their country so that they can destroy the "evil West", so I guess we should shower them with kindness. Heck, we barely did anything after our embassies were bombed and since then the U.S.S. Cole had a gaping hole blown into it killing our sailors and four planes with innocent civilians on them were hijacked and flown into our buildings, killing thousands more. See how well inaction works?
As far as ties to Bin Laden, Mr. Bin Laden has already *been indicted* in a U.S. court of law for the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa. Now it is time for justice to be done, either in a court of law or on the battlefield.
As for rethinking my statement, if you don't understand the effect that morale plays in combat, I suggest you enlist in the German armed forces, head out into battle, and then get back to me. Or, at least study military tactics and history some more.
Will there be U.S. casualties? Yep. Will there be further terrorist attacks? Yep. Will the terrorist attacks slow down eventually? Yep, but only after a long campaign, on many fronts, where eventually governments around the world will realize that the "punishment" for harboring and supporting terrorists is just not worth it. Period. Or do you want to wait until they decide to poison the water supply in Munich. Would it be OK then to go after them?
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Only?? Cripes. Talk about hypocrisy.
What's next? Passport authentication?
Except this is exactly the point of Microsoft's .net initiative. To make the internet (or what most people think is the internet - www) not be HTTP based anymore, but to rely on proprietary extensions/applets/applications built around the .net framework.
In their eyes 90% of the web will require IE in order for the "web services" to work. And they will leverage things like MS Office to get the ball rolling. No longer will new features be added directly to office, but will be available on the web - provided the user has Windows and is using IE...
Mod this as flamebait if you want, but that certainly seems to me to be the direction they are heading. Heck, MS execs are even talking about how http's days are coming to an end...
Um, how is providing the precise solution to the original post trolling?
Can we mod it back to informative where it belongs, please.
TY.
You know it, I know it, and they know it. They are just another "dot-bomb", but without the for-profit aspect: No leadership, constant change of direction, people in positions waaaaay out of their league, no clearly defined objectives, etc.
I use Linux every day. I love Linux. I appreciate more than I can say all the hard work the developers have put in.
That being said, there is *no way* it is anywhere near ready for the desktop. I had problems with Grub the other day on my Red Hat box and it took me about 45 minutes to track down the solution and correct it via a rescue disk.
My mom could never in a million years do that, nor would she want too. The top three reasons Linux won't be on a computer desktop soon, as I see them are:
1. Still too difficult to use, though light years ahead of where it was.
2. Not enough applications that "Joe User" can go buy in a store, all nice and shrinkwrapped.
3. No Microsoft Apps. I don't care about that, and you probably don't either, but a whole world of people have their documents, presentations and spreadsheets in MS format and need office, at a minimum.
Is the mailroom clerk, who stayed on just so he could file this lawsuit. When Microsoft settles out of court for 3.7 million he will become the highest compensated employee in the history of Be.
Microsoft's flaghsip OS has been "open-windows" for years. Head on over to http://www.microsoft.com/security and see for yourself.
I signed up for a trial of digital cable TV where I live, and after purchasing a video on demand, I went to record the last part as I was getting tired and wanted to sleep and watch the rest the next day. Lo and behold the picture faded in and out, same as if you try and record a DVD.
I know there are signal boosters/correctors that can overcome this...the question is, why should normal, law abiding citizens have to resort to this?
This will *never8 stop the true pirates...the ones that make thousands of CD's and have people selling them on street corners in big cities. It only hurts "casual copying", which is a small % of the overall problem. Same as Microsoft's activation policy...since when did the average consumer become the enemy?
Hey music industry: crack down on the counterfeit rings, that is where you are losing billions of dollars.
But there is this thing called The United States Constitution, which protects against, among other things, illegal search and seizure. Law enforcement must get a warrant before they can tap your phone, why is "communication via internet" any different?
Also, criticizing the government doesn't mean someone doesn't want to live here. Maybe YOU should move to China where you would never have to hear someone disagree with the government.
A woman.
Preferrably a cute one.
Maybe the moderators should actually click the link before declaring this "informative".
Troll? Maybe.
funny? Maybe.
Informative? heck no.
Movie making is an art form that very few people can do well. What about the impact of deleting out violent scenes has on the overall impact of the movie? Doesn't this device impact on screenwriter/director's rights?
Could we also rip out pages of a book to eliminate the offensive materials without the author's permission?
To the term clusterf**k.
At least in Redmond...
PROBLEM:
Damnit, our products are so damn insecure we have to patch the patch before we even release the patch to the service pack to the bugfix.
This is directly impacting our ability to innovate by finding new anticompetitive practices to drive customers out of business. On top of that, we have lost complete track of which politicians to buy off.
SOLUTION
Slow down the security sieve that is Windows. "Thirty days after the first advisory, a more detailed noticed can be released under the rules."
So, shouldn't we all be lobbying for perjury charges against all the MS executives who testified in Federal Court?
http://www.firstgov.gov/state_gov/state.html is a listing of all state government home pages. Write them now and urge them not to go along with the USDOJ settlement.
The constant MS bashing is getting old.
If anything will be the downfall of OSS, it is the multitude of licenses. It will cost companies too much in attorney's fees to be worth their trouble. How many licenses do we need?
I believe they are talking about accessing your HOTMAIL mail account via POP3. As far as I know, as long as this service has been available, you have had to use a MS mail client, as they actually send you ads in a pane at the bottom of Outlook/OE.
I believe there is also a workaround to block the ads, but I can't remember where I saw it.
As someone who was jailed this year without the right to obtain a lawyer, without adequate time to prepare a defense, held WITHOUT bail as "dangerous" based on the hearsay testimony of a single person, and had the judge LITERALLY lead the witness and get her to say what he needed to incarcerate me, I can't tell you how right you are. I am thirty-three, have never even committed a crime or been so much as charged with jaywalking in all my years, yet I was incarcerated by the State of Massachusetts.
I can no longer even look at the American flag without tremendous sadness in my heart. Perhaps that makes me a "terrorist" now....
Perhaps if Mr. Gates poses in public with Mr. Bigglesworth, he wont have to pay two and half BEEELYON dollars.
Heck, its a better defense than the fiasco the MS lawyers put up.
I thought the issue was that you could read NTFS 4 (NT) partitions, but not NTFS 5 (Win 2K) partitions.
Am I wrong?
They employ 500, and are cutting about 25% of that; they aren't laying off 500.
To do what?
To remove the Taliban government, a direct supporter of terrorists and their killing of innocents, as well as probably the world's most oppressive government. Millions of people and children starving, women unable to work to feed their families, people executed publicly for minor crimes, women not allowed to attend school, people who speak out against the regime are shot or hanged.
The Taliban are nothing but a bunch of religious students who took control of Afhanistan through violence and rule with an iron fist. Put simply, they are thugs. But hey, they only allow things like terrorist training camps to be run in their country so that they can destroy the "evil West", so I guess we should shower them with kindness. Heck, we barely did anything after our embassies were bombed and since then the U.S.S. Cole had a gaping hole blown into it killing our sailors and four planes with innocent civilians on them were hijacked and flown into our buildings, killing thousands more. See how well inaction works?
As far as ties to Bin Laden, Mr. Bin Laden has already *been indicted* in a U.S. court of law for the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa. Now it is time for justice to be done, either in a court of law or on the battlefield.
As for rethinking my statement, if you don't understand the effect that morale plays in combat, I suggest you enlist in the German armed forces, head out into battle, and then get back to me. Or, at least study military tactics and history some more.
Will there be U.S. casualties? Yep. Will there be further terrorist attacks? Yep. Will the terrorist attacks slow down eventually? Yep, but only after a long campaign, on many fronts, where eventually governments around the world will realize that the "punishment" for harboring and supporting terrorists is just not worth it. Period. Or do you want to wait until they decide to poison the water supply in Munich. Would it be OK then to go after them?
Kind regards from the U.S.A.