It wouldn't be stupid, it would hurt Dell far more than Microsoft. Even if Dell offered bucket loads of Non-Windows computers for a few bucks less, the vast majority would still want Windows, and Dell would still have to supply them, except now their profit margin would be lessened...
"surely one of the points of using a Mac is that it's an alternative to using MS products"
If you're using a product/line of products simply because it's not made by a particular company, then you may be missing out on the best tools for the job. MS, like lots of other companies, makes bad products, good products, and products that are good for some people, but bad for others. Lots of people don't like MS operating systems, but like their applications. Why wouldn't they buy Office?
To be honest, I've only converted XML to PDF for nothing more than a simple school project. But I'd think that if the original file is stored in XML (content and style, which is what I assume OO does [I don't know, I don't use it]) then you can keep using the same stylesheets for all of your documents written in that format. Of course, that's a lot of work, and its probably been done for you. You'd be better off looking at the existing stylesheet and making sure meta data doesn't sneak through.
Of course, I'm just blowing smoke. Like I said, I've only done this for a simple project, I just threw it out there to look cool.
You're probably using a commercial app to convert the documents, so I don't know if any meta data is passed along; but if you really care, you can transform XML documents to PDF via an XSLT stylesheet, so you'd know exactly what gets transformed.
How is Google Desktop more secure than this? Here you have to actively use metadata to make it "easier to search" where as with Google Desktop you have to actively deny access to data...
Personally, I prefer the google method, as I don't distribute many files, and I'm lazy; but that doesn't make it any more secure.
I imagine that games aren't being released for Linux because most manufacturers use DirectX, not OpenGL.
I dont know ANYTHING about OpenGL, and extremely little about DirectX, but from my understanding, DirectX offers a total package (graphics, sound, input, etc) whereas OpenGL is just for graphics. I wonder if this makes things easier (and thus cheaper) for video game makers.
I think people advertise for the opposite reason that you state. It's pretty hard to get your site listed in the top 10 results. Advertising at least gives you SOMETHING in the coveted top 10.
Something like this happened to me once
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...Albiet on a much, much smaller scale. A bot (seemingly) made a huge amount of click-throughs within an hour (whether this was malicious or not, I have no clue), about 100x more click-throughs than normal. When I pointed this out to Google's customer support, I was shot back an email which in effect said, "We have safe-guards in place, those clicks are real." I was pretty bummed that the "do no evil" company would fire off an email like that, without at least investigating. Luckily, when I requested that they take a closer look, and that they compare what happened within that hour with my normal traffic, they agreed to investigate. In the end, I was never charged.
Google DID the right thing for me; but I really was at the mercy of Google. I really can't see why a paying customer shouldn't be seeing exactly what he's being charged for.
You know, porn existed well before the internet did. If you block it out from the net, kids will just go back to those avenues. Maybe its hard for you to admit as a parent, but looking at porn is a staple of growing up for most teen boys.
Its not evil, its natural. I remember finding a mag when I was about 13... It was like I stumbled upon the holy grail.
The problem is, politicians use the "...but what about the children" bit to win elections, and we idiots keep falling for it. We all turned up fine, so will they
People don't want stripped out versions, especially for something like a media player and IMing app. If people want to use other products, they're more than free to do so.
Also, most people get their computers pre-built, which almost always already include alternate products (like AOL [yikes!]). Those that build systems and install Windows on their own presumably would already know about the other products and know how to install them.
I suppose that leaves systems put together by small shops, though I'd assume the number of those would be quite small.
If Korea really wanted to rid the country of a software "Monopoly" (I don't hold the view that MS is a mononopoly, not when there are free alternatives), they'd force companies like Dell to sell computers with Linux built pre-installed.
Visiting a porn site with IE, in admin mode is just begging for trouble. Are people so horned up that taking 1 minute to switch to a less-priveledged account is out of question?
While it's probably true that if MS would put more programmers into patching vulnerabilities they'd be brought to market quicker, I don' think that the author realizes that
Microsoft needs programmers to make NEW products (or at least "Microsoftize" products it aquires from companies bought).
Microsoft is scrambling to get the Vista and the next Office out the door. I'd think that the bulk of the programmers are needed there.
I'd assume that the patch developers are pretty good at coding with security in mind. Its probably best that these people work on Vista, and have more things built right the first time.
It's far better to make sure a patch doesn't break anything BEFORE it is released. I imagine the bulk of the time (in most cases) spent between a patch discovery (or probably more accurately, a discovery that's been made public by an outside source)and patch release is research on what might break.
Kids copy from each other in grade school. Grown up businesses don't "copy," if they see a competitor's product that shows promise, they take it, make it better (whether or not it really is better is decided "voted" on by the public with their dollars, with some help from marketing, of course;) ), and sell it. Its what people do, its how we progress.
There was a time when cars weren't started from the inside. There had to have been one company that started that trend, in which all of the others followed. Would we be better off today if only Ford (or whoever it was) cars were started from the inside, and owners of other brands had to crank start their car from the outside? Of course not. No other brand would exist. "Copying" leads to competition, which leads to better products.
Google's start page is a blatent "copy" of Microsoft's http://www.start.com./
Is this bad? No. MS wasn't doing anything with it. Maybe now they will.
I disagree, I think its more like a dog trainer advertising that he can train your dog to only bark at black people.
Stairs are built so that people can move between floors, not to keep wheelchair-bound people out. I think there's a big difference.
Just my 2c...
This line makes me so increadibly mad. Wow, they offered to exchange something that could do damage to my finances and business for something that won't... something that they were hiding and SHOULDN'T have been on an AUDIO cd in the first place. Gee, thanks.
For all the flak that Microsoft gets in regards to security... at least they're bugs, by bad design or not. This is something Sony deliberately put into their products. I want heads to roll.
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It wouldn't be stupid, it would hurt Dell far more than Microsoft. Even if Dell offered bucket loads of Non-Windows computers for a few bucks less, the vast majority would still want Windows, and Dell would still have to supply them, except now their profit margin would be lessened...
When did Microsoft lose its dominent industry position? I didn't get the memo.
Sure, they aren't as dominant as they were a few years ago, but they are still very dominant
"surely one of the points of using a Mac is that it's an alternative to using MS products"
If you're using a product/line of products simply because it's not made by a particular company, then you may be missing out on the best tools for the job. MS, like lots of other companies, makes bad products, good products, and products that are good for some people, but bad for others. Lots of people don't like MS operating systems, but like their applications. Why wouldn't they buy Office?
Of course, I'm just blowing smoke. Like I said, I've only done this for a simple project, I just threw it out there to look cool.
Why? I think MS buying Opera would be a good thing. You'd be replacing 80+% of a "bad" browser code base with a "good" one.
You're probably using a commercial app to convert the documents, so I don't know if any meta data is passed along; but if you really care, you can transform XML documents to PDF via an XSLT stylesheet, so you'd know exactly what gets transformed.
How is Google Desktop more secure than this? Here you have to actively use metadata to make it "easier to search" where as with Google Desktop you have to actively deny access to data... Personally, I prefer the google method, as I don't distribute many files, and I'm lazy; but that doesn't make it any more secure.
Is it a standard? From the blurb it seems like it is now effictively a standard because all of the major browsers are using it.
I imagine that games aren't being released for Linux because most manufacturers use DirectX, not OpenGL. I dont know ANYTHING about OpenGL, and extremely little about DirectX, but from my understanding, DirectX offers a total package (graphics, sound, input, etc) whereas OpenGL is just for graphics. I wonder if this makes things easier (and thus cheaper) for video game makers.
Everyone knows that terrorists LOVE Internet Cafes...
I think people advertise for the opposite reason that you state. It's pretty hard to get your site listed in the top 10 results. Advertising at least gives you SOMETHING in the coveted top 10.
...Albiet on a much, much smaller scale. A bot (seemingly) made a huge amount of click-throughs within an hour (whether this was malicious or not, I have no clue), about 100x more click-throughs than normal. When I pointed this out to Google's customer support, I was shot back an email which in effect said, "We have safe-guards in place, those clicks are real." I was pretty bummed that the "do no evil" company would fire off an email like that, without at least investigating. Luckily, when I requested that they take a closer look, and that they compare what happened within that hour with my normal traffic, they agreed to investigate. In the end, I was never charged.
Google DID the right thing for me; but I really was at the mercy of Google. I really can't see why a paying customer shouldn't be seeing exactly what he's being charged for.
if you pooped a no whiper.
You know, porn existed well before the internet did. If you block it out from the net, kids will just go back to those avenues. Maybe its hard for you to admit as a parent, but looking at porn is a staple of growing up for most teen boys.
Its not evil, its natural. I remember finding a mag when I was about 13... It was like I stumbled upon the holy grail.
The problem is, politicians use the "...but what about the children" bit to win elections, and we idiots keep falling for it. We all turned up fine, so will they
People don't want stripped out versions, especially for something like a media player and IMing app. If people want to use other products, they're more than free to do so.
Also, most people get their computers pre-built, which almost always already include alternate products (like AOL [yikes!]). Those that build systems and install Windows on their own presumably would already know about the other products and know how to install them.
I suppose that leaves systems put together by small shops, though I'd assume the number of those would be quite small.
If Korea really wanted to rid the country of a software "Monopoly" (I don't hold the view that MS is a mononopoly, not when there are free alternatives), they'd force companies like Dell to sell computers with Linux built pre-installed.
-Just my 2c
Why is calling Sony's software a rootkit considered an exaggeration?
Visiting a porn site with IE, in admin mode is just begging for trouble. Are people so horned up that taking 1 minute to switch to a less-priveledged account is out of question?
While it's probably true that if MS would put more programmers into patching vulnerabilities they'd be brought to market quicker, I don' think that the author realizes that
Kids copy from each other in grade school. Grown up businesses don't "copy," if they see a competitor's product that shows promise, they take it, make it better (whether or not it really is better is decided "voted" on by the public with their dollars, with some help from marketing, of course ;) ), and sell it. Its what people do, its how we progress.
There was a time when cars weren't started from the inside. There had to have been one company that started that trend, in which all of the others followed. Would we be better off today if only Ford (or whoever it was) cars were started from the inside, and owners of other brands had to crank start their car from the outside? Of course not. No other brand would exist. "Copying" leads to competition, which leads to better products.
Google's start page is a blatent "copy" of Microsoft's http://www.start.com./
Is this bad? No. MS wasn't doing anything with it. Maybe now they will.
I disagree, I think its more like a dog trainer advertising that he can train your dog to only bark at black people. Stairs are built so that people can move between floors, not to keep wheelchair-bound people out. I think there's a big difference. Just my 2c...
I don't see how a product like this could ever be sold legally. Talk about discriminatory!
Except this isn't flawed software. Its illegal software. Big difference, unless by "Flawed" you meant "Lack of lawfulness." Just my 2c.
This line makes me so increadibly mad. Wow, they offered to exchange something that could do damage to my finances and business for something that won't... something that they were hiding and SHOULDN'T have been on an AUDIO cd in the first place. Gee, thanks.
For all the flak that Microsoft gets in regards to security... at least they're bugs, by bad design or not. This is something Sony deliberately put into their products. I want heads to roll.