I notice that in my version of Firefox the search box defaults to Google, and that the pulldown menu of pre-entered options doesn't even include MSN Search, but Google seems to have been oddly quiet on that front for the many years prior to IE7 that Firefox has made this feature available.
it would be new to me, that firefox was written by google
it is this simple:
google: objectively best engine -> it's in firefox default setup
yahoo: popular engine -> it's in firefox default setup
msn: bad engine, unpopular, restrictive terms of use -> not in
you see, Firefox has about 10% market share, IE has 85% so making an engine the default in firefox does not have such an impact on the search engine market like it will have in IE7...
also IE users are mostly unexperienced PC users that don't want to be confronted with manually CHANGING the default search engine... so making MSN default in IE7 will reach more people - which also will mostly not be willing to change the default settings manually (especially since msn already LOOKS a lot like google...)
all together I come to the conclusion that ms does this with a purpose... they want to abuse their market share in the browser market to suppress their competitors in the search engine market...
What happens when pirating a movie, an application, or a game is not enough for you? Well, you take the next step...
you say that like faking companies was inevitable for movie, app and game pirates... they'll all fake companies sooner or later
why don't you say "what happens when shooting enemies in first person shooters is not enough for you? Well, you take the next step and kill lots of pupils"? thats the inevitable next step for every FPS player (at least according to some retarded politicians on voter-hunt...)
hey, thats great news... this means windows will soon be dead...
I say the linux distros should found a consortium and create one common distro
- agree on a software-set (plus a free edition)
- important: graphic card driver installation must be easy for nVidia and ATI cards
- DVD playback
- mplayer, an mplayer GUI and mplayer-plugin for mozilla
- extremely-easy-to-use installer
- wine (if not winex) built-in
have it in the stores everywhere one week before vista and for half the price of vista (at most) and put up big signs saying "big microsoft is watching you" and the usual statements "more secure", "tons of free open source software", "much lower priced" etc etc
personally I think mandriva linux would be a good distro to start from...
this is somehow strange... it must be some kind of a cheap excuse BECAUSE:
professionals want the firewall to be lame
you need to be a pro to make it non-lame-anymore
the average user is screwed...
if it was vice-versa it would be like this:
average users are kinda secured
professionals are kinda secured
if they want the firewall to be lame they could adjust it to be lame
you see, this shows that something odd is going on... if they did it vice-versa everyone would be happy, but this way the average user is screwed... that must be their intention...
At the RWTH Aachen we get an email account on the email servers of the university - alright, the university has to pay money for the servers and maintainers... if a university doesn't want to pay that price, they just might store your personal email adress in their database to reach you, but THIS is ridiculous! forcing you to use a miserable service is just plain stupid... these universities must have gotten lots of money because noone would accept such a poor offer voluntarily
but seriously, MS, you don't need to get people at the age of 20-30 years... if you don't have them already at that age, you won't ever get them - especially not with a poor service that doesn't support POP/IMAP/forwarding...
the only thing you'll reach is pissing people off by forcing them into your narrow-minded "there is nothing in the world but MS" system
but of course as a GNU/Linux user, I'm the enemy - you won't listen to me, although you should, because I switched only few month ago, so I'm a person that still knows why he switched and doesn't hate you dogmatic... and this forcing students into using cheap crap (I say again: no pop/imap/forwarding, so these words are funded) is another reason for me to never use your products again, because it once again shows perfectly that you're evil...
if hollywood didn't publish it's movie trailers in the quicktime and real formats then these formats were dead... but why do they do that? because they are just n00bs that have no clue how to save them in different formats on their mac?
I don't think so...
but why do they force people to use these properitary software players? (I just say "you want fullscreen? that costs 30$" thank you, apple) first of all this does NOT prevent the trailers from being downloaded, but I guess thats what they think...
but what's the point in that? uh, people might have your trailers on their hard disks, they can watch them multiple times without stressing your servers and their bandwidth - they might show them to their friends and make them interested in your movies...
I can't even come up with a funny or ridiculous example of a reason for forbidding the trailer-download...
this must be a joke
I just can't beleive that someone is actually stupid enough to think that intellectual property violations have ANYTHING to do with terrorism... This level of stupidity is just impossible!... noone can be THAT dumb!
they forgot one important feature: the TV doesn't tie you to your seat during the commercials... it also doesn't catch you and bring you back to the dumbening if you left the room before the commercials started...
why don't TV stations just take hostages and force them to watch commercials?
I say I'd rather NEVER watch ANY tv broadcast again than obeying to this dictatorship - cause that's what this is!
if the eula is like the msn-messengers eula, then microsoft is allowed to look through your stuff, download it, copy it somewhere, broadcast it worldwide
even sell it and sue you because you've got a copy of it, without paying 100$ license fee to them...
I haven't found info on what they had to program - I'd like to suggest to the rwth-aachen to participate next time, but I'd like to see what kinds of problems are to be solved (at least to know to which faculty I should suggest that... besides I'd be interested in that myself...)
nowadays everyone likes "open" thigs - thats because open-souce software is so nice to its users... but I see more and more products being called "open" although they are only partially open or completely closed, but use open file standards...
I say RMS should patent the word "open" in IT context and only GPLed stuff may be called "open"...
alright, I've made a big collection of freeware once - I'll write down the most important:
Mozilla Firefox (webbrowser)
(also get the tabmix plus, adblocker and Search engine ordering plugins and some good search engines)
Mozilla Thunderbird (mail client)
Mozilla Nvu (web editor)
Open Office
Miranda (instant messenger)
Skype (VoIP)
Daemon Tools (virtual cd-drive)
WinAmp (media player - can play videos, but is mostly used for music playback)
BSplayer (video player)
XVid (video codecs)
Audiacity (audio editor)
blender (3d-modelling and rendering software)
VirtualDub (video editor)
gimp (image editor)
watcom (c++ compiler)
dexpot (great virtual desktop manager)
for security stuff:
AdAware (malware remover)
AVGfree (virus killer)
HijackThis (makes a list of your running applications - on http://www.hijackthis.de/ you can get a good analysis of the logfile)
ZoneAlarm, SoftPerfect or SecurePoint (Firewalls)
you see - there is good freeware for any purpose.
for dvd playback and cd/dvd burning I can only say xenorate and AVSDiscCreator, but I haven't tested them myself...
dear Jeff Ayars,
it's vice-versa - if real networks (and other firms like them) don't stop producing DRMs, YOU're going to die very fast and if Novell, Linspire, and Red Hat really start supporting this sh** they're dead, too.
DO YOU REALLY THINK people will just install your stupid DRM bu**sh**? how stupid do you think everyone is? how stupid do you have to be to beleive this!? do you really think they'll just let you controll their PCs? remember the sony rootkit...
How about this - Jeff Ayars, can you prove that you have never murdered anyone? no? then happy grillin on the electric chair!
THIS is why we refuse totallitary systems - YOU have NO FU**ING RIGHT to infiltrate our privacy, just because you want to see if we have anything illegal on our PCs - thats exactly what the gestapo did in the nazi regime!
lol - hey, maybe she's a brilliant super hacker who got word to start the internet connection AND made word download websites (it already can display html sites) =)
is negroponte one of those people who - when asked which distro they use - say they use linux 9.3 (because they mean suse 9.3)?
there is damn small linux, you know... its 50 mb big - if you have 128mb ram you can run it from a damn ram drive!
besides - whats the alternative? windows? then your 100$ laptop comes without the laptop and without any useful software like compilers and office software... which I would say are the point in the whole project, because its for educational purposes
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ROFLMAO ;-)
good one
as soon as it is completely removed
I notice that in my version of Firefox the search box defaults to Google, and that the pulldown menu of pre-entered options doesn't even include MSN Search, but Google seems to have been oddly quiet on that front for the many years prior to IE7 that Firefox has made this feature available.
it would be new to me, that firefox was written by google
it is this simple:
google: objectively best engine -> it's in firefox default setup
yahoo: popular engine -> it's in firefox default setup
msn: bad engine, unpopular, restrictive terms of use -> not in
you see, Firefox has about 10% market share, IE has 85% so making an engine the default in firefox does not have such an impact on the search engine market like it will have in IE7...
also IE users are mostly unexperienced PC users that don't want to be confronted with manually CHANGING the default search engine... so making MSN default in IE7 will reach more people - which also will mostly not be willing to change the default settings manually (especially since msn already LOOKS a lot like google...)
all together I come to the conclusion that ms does this with a purpose... they want to abuse their market share in the browser market to suppress their competitors in the search engine market...
What happens when pirating a movie, an application, or a game is not enough for you? Well, you take the next step ...
you say that like faking companies was inevitable for movie, app and game pirates... they'll all fake companies sooner or later
why don't you say "what happens when shooting enemies in first person shooters is not enough for you? Well, you take the next step and kill lots of pupils"? thats the inevitable next step for every FPS player (at least according to some retarded politicians on voter-hunt...)
isn't it cynical to make a movie about free open source software and publish the trailer in the quicktime format?
doesn't that remind you to george orwells "1984"? the televisors?
big steve jobs is watching you, eh?
it had to be saied...
hey, thats great news... this means windows will soon be dead...
I say the linux distros should found a consortium and create one common distro
- agree on a software-set (plus a free edition)
- important: graphic card driver installation must be easy for nVidia and ATI cards
- DVD playback
- mplayer, an mplayer GUI and mplayer-plugin for mozilla
- extremely-easy-to-use installer
- wine (if not winex) built-in
have it in the stores everywhere one week before vista and for half the price of vista (at most) and put up big signs saying "big microsoft is watching you" and the usual statements "more secure", "tons of free open source software", "much lower priced" etc etc
personally I think mandriva linux would be a good distro to start from...
this is somehow strange... it must be some kind of a cheap excuse BECAUSE:
professionals want the firewall to be lame
you need to be a pro to make it non-lame-anymore
the average user is screwed...
if it was vice-versa it would be like this:
average users are kinda secured
professionals are kinda secured
if they want the firewall to be lame they could adjust it to be lame
you see, this shows that something odd is going on... if they did it vice-versa everyone would be happy, but this way the average user is screwed... that must be their intention...
At the RWTH Aachen we get an email account on the email servers of the university - alright, the university has to pay money for the servers and maintainers... if a university doesn't want to pay that price, they just might store your personal email adress in their database to reach you, but THIS is ridiculous! forcing you to use a miserable service is just plain stupid... these universities must have gotten lots of money because noone would accept such a poor offer voluntarily
but seriously, MS, you don't need to get people at the age of 20-30 years... if you don't have them already at that age, you won't ever get them - especially not with a poor service that doesn't support POP/IMAP/forwarding...
the only thing you'll reach is pissing people off by forcing them into your narrow-minded "there is nothing in the world but MS" system
but of course as a GNU/Linux user, I'm the enemy - you won't listen to me, although you should, because I switched only few month ago, so I'm a person that still knows why he switched and doesn't hate you dogmatic... and this forcing students into using cheap crap (I say again: no pop/imap/forwarding, so these words are funded) is another reason for me to never use your products again, because it once again shows perfectly that you're evil...
if hollywood didn't publish it's movie trailers in the quicktime and real formats then these formats were dead... but why do they do that? because they are just n00bs that have no clue how to save them in different formats on their mac?
I don't think so...
but why do they force people to use these properitary software players? (I just say "you want fullscreen? that costs 30$" thank you, apple) first of all this does NOT prevent the trailers from being downloaded, but I guess thats what they think...
but what's the point in that? uh, people might have your trailers on their hard disks, they can watch them multiple times without stressing your servers and their bandwidth - they might show them to their friends and make them interested in your movies...
I can't even come up with a funny or ridiculous example of a reason for forbidding the trailer-download...
Quicktime is the same thing - just like wmv3...
this must be a joke
I just can't beleive that someone is actually stupid enough to think that intellectual property violations have ANYTHING to do with terrorism... This level of stupidity is just impossible!... noone can be THAT dumb!
oh yes, right... madonna is so poor - I actually pity her...
they forgot one important feature: the TV doesn't tie you to your seat during the commercials... it also doesn't catch you and bring you back to the dumbening if you left the room before the commercials started...
why don't TV stations just take hostages and force them to watch commercials?
I say I'd rather NEVER watch ANY tv broadcast again than obeying to this dictatorship - cause that's what this is!
if the eula is like the msn-messengers eula, then microsoft is allowed to look through your stuff, download it, copy it somewhere, broadcast it worldwide
even sell it and sue you because you've got a copy of it, without paying 100$ license fee to them...
NO THANKS!
write an email to bill gates complaining that something in windows doesn't work...
I haven't found info on what they had to program - I'd like to suggest to the rwth-aachen to participate next time, but I'd like to see what kinds of problems are to be solved (at least to know to which faculty I should suggest that... besides I'd be interested in that myself...)
nowadays everyone likes "open" thigs - thats because open-souce software is so nice to its users... but I see more and more products being called "open" although they are only partially open or completely closed, but use open file standards...
I say RMS should patent the word "open" in IT context and only GPLed stuff may be called "open"...
so they'll buy PCs with linux installed and then install pirated copies of Windows... that happened there before...
have you ever tried TotalCommander? I bet you haven't because then you wouldn't say this...
Notepad, Paint, Minesweeper ;)
alright, I've made a big collection of freeware once - I'll write down the most important:
Mozilla Firefox (webbrowser)
(also get the tabmix plus, adblocker and Search engine ordering plugins and some good search engines)
Mozilla Thunderbird (mail client)
Mozilla Nvu (web editor)
Open Office
Miranda (instant messenger)
Skype (VoIP)
Daemon Tools (virtual cd-drive)
WinAmp (media player - can play videos, but is mostly used for music playback)
BSplayer (video player)
XVid (video codecs)
Audiacity (audio editor)
blender (3d-modelling and rendering software)
VirtualDub (video editor)
gimp (image editor)
watcom (c++ compiler)
dexpot (great virtual desktop manager)
for security stuff:
AdAware (malware remover)
AVGfree (virus killer)
HijackThis (makes a list of your running applications - on http://www.hijackthis.de/ you can get a good analysis of the logfile) ZoneAlarm, SoftPerfect or SecurePoint (Firewalls)
you see - there is good freeware for any purpose.
for dvd playback and cd/dvd burning I can only say xenorate and AVSDiscCreator, but I haven't tested them myself...
dear Jeff Ayars,
it's vice-versa - if real networks (and other firms like them) don't stop producing DRMs, YOU're going to die very fast and if Novell, Linspire, and Red Hat really start supporting this sh** they're dead, too.
DO YOU REALLY THINK people will just install your stupid DRM bu**sh**? how stupid do you think everyone is? how stupid do you have to be to beleive this!? do you really think they'll just let you controll their PCs? remember the sony rootkit...
How about this - Jeff Ayars, can you prove that you have never murdered anyone? no? then happy grillin on the electric chair!
THIS is why we refuse totallitary systems - YOU have NO FU**ING RIGHT to infiltrate our privacy, just because you want to see if we have anything illegal on our PCs - thats exactly what the gestapo did in the nazi regime!
lol - hey, maybe she's a brilliant super hacker who got word to start the internet connection AND made word download websites (it already can display html sites) =)
is negroponte one of those people who - when asked which distro they use - say they use linux 9.3 (because they mean suse 9.3)?
there is damn small linux, you know... its 50 mb big - if you have 128mb ram you can run it from a damn ram drive!
besides - whats the alternative? windows? then your 100$ laptop comes without the laptop and without any useful software like compilers and office software... which I would say are the point in the whole project, because its for educational purposes
Hey, it leads you to your target... Your wife would have led you to the nearest shoeshop...