well, so long as the people are willing to let their information go, or if Google is willing to purchase the rights. Also, it helps to find alternative articles that are free.
it appears to be almost a rehash of Micro$oft vs. apple debate over the circular wheel interface, and with creative's ties to microsoft, could this be a subtle push by micro$oft to kill the iPod?
We need more information available to us. As a student, I know how this works. I always get a great preview on a search engine, exactly what I need for my term paper, then as soon as I click on it, I need to pay $14! Outrageous! What happened to freedom of information? Google stands for freedom of information, and I stand by that.
Wouldn't that give *NIX a real chance to meet Microsoft in the middle? Given enough transition to a WinBSD (something that goes against the very laws of nature!), WinBSD apps could be made to work on any kind of *NIX with little effort!
No more "Windows for compatibility, or Linux because it doesn't suck"!
Is it possible, just possible, that anti-piracy efforts will fail? At least in one place in the big, bad internet, someone will still have stuff cracked and available. Every new scheme will either be to costly to be worth it, or be cracked within a matter of months.
You know, this only happens because Microsoft is the industry standard. Imagine a world where there are competitive OS and software markets, with no Internet Explorer phenomenon. You wouldn't get this, because developers would actually try to create secure programs. Instead, Microsoft takes programs that are more or less comparable, and incorporates them into it's products, thus killing any competition for that program! (Read: Excel and Lotus 1-2-3)
Kudos to google, for they are starting to broaden out to give them a foothold against Microsoft. We finally have a viable commonly-used representation of Linux!
This seems to be yet another example of heightened tensions between the US and China. Not only has China been beating the US economically, but they have also been gathering military strength. I would predict that before long, relationships will become hostile. Not necessarily military hostilities, but probably economic.
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well, so long as the people are willing to let their information go, or if Google is willing to purchase the rights. Also, it helps to find alternative articles that are free.
it appears to be almost a rehash of Micro$oft vs. apple debate over the circular wheel interface, and with creative's ties to microsoft, could this be a subtle push by micro$oft to kill the iPod?
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We need more information available to us. As a student, I know how this works. I always get a great preview on a search engine, exactly what I need for my term paper, then as soon as I click on it, I need to pay $14! Outrageous! What happened to freedom of information? Google stands for freedom of information, and I stand by that.
Wouldn't that give *NIX a real chance to meet Microsoft in the middle? Given enough transition to a WinBSD (something that goes against the very laws of nature!), WinBSD apps could be made to work on any kind of *NIX with little effort!
No more "Windows for compatibility, or Linux because it doesn't suck"!
Is it possible, just possible, that anti-piracy efforts will fail? At least in one place in the big, bad internet, someone will still have stuff cracked and available. Every new scheme will either be to costly to be worth it, or be cracked within a matter of months.
You know, this only happens because Microsoft is the industry standard. Imagine a world where there are competitive OS and software markets, with no Internet Explorer phenomenon. You wouldn't get this, because developers would actually try to create secure programs. Instead, Microsoft takes programs that are more or less comparable, and incorporates them into it's products, thus killing any competition for that program! (Read: Excel and Lotus 1-2-3)
Kudos to google, for they are starting to broaden out to give them a foothold against Microsoft. We finally have a viable commonly-used representation of Linux!
This sounds like a cheap trick by Microsft...
Isn't this nearly the same as Chinese Websites Used As Launchpads For Cracking , but actually saying that it WAS China? couldn't it just be American hackers using Chinese proxies?
This seems to be yet another example of heightened tensions between the US and China. Not only has China been beating the US economically, but they have also been gathering military strength. I would predict that before long, relationships will become hostile. Not necessarily military hostilities, but probably economic.