Again, this is still about, and always has been, and always will be Microsoft's existing monopoly elsewhere (their OS and desktop offerings) leveraging another niche (in this case, search engines).
I'm sick of hearing people repeat this like parrots.
Google has monopoly on the search engine market right? You may argue but they have the huge share, Yahoo's second the MSN/Live is lurking in the 3rd place. By the same definitions we use for Microsoft, Google has a monopoly on search right now.
Did anyone make a fuss that they "abused" their monopoly to advertise Firefox few days ago? And having specialized campaigns for promoting Firefox for which Google itself pays big bucks for every installation (yes with the Google toolbar in it, of course).
I can almost hear MS haters whine "but nag nag Firefox isn't owned by Google, and Live.com is owned by Microsoft". Google doesn't need to technically *own* Mozilla, they just need to work as a single entity like they do now.
Did you never notice the lead Firefox developers actually work at Google? Did you notice even the Mozilla/Firefox sites are hosted at Google?
Oh by the way regarding "no choice, omg evil Microsoft selected live.com as a default!" how about mentioning Safari has Google search *HARDCODED*, so Mac users pretty much have no choice, this time for real.
However from practise, any tips how to react in these situations:
ME: "Please don't use enter for spacing between paragraphs, it's wrong" CO: "You pedantic freak! It's exactly the same on the screen, and when I print it it won't even be there, who cares?"
CO: "Shit Word is retarded, the tab ends on different places each line, what the HELL is that?" ME: "Use indenting, it's more predictable" CO: "Indenting? Why do you never explain what I wanna know, I don't care what indenting is, I wanna fix the damn tabs"
CO: "Oh great, perfect, I wanna make all headlines gray, this means whole hour hunting them down and reformatting it. THANK YOU WORD, BUT NO THANK YOU." ME: "Man.. this is why I told you to use Headings 1, 2, 3... It's easy to format at once from the styles palette, and you also get automatic Outline view and Table of Contents..." CO: "Oh shut up, geek..."
That's the difference between closed source and open source I guess...
Critical vulnerability in X11, missing parens are to blame, report: "missing parens in code leaves X11 vulnerable, the problem is fixed."
--vs--
Critical vulnerability in Windows, missing parens are to blame (but that's under NDA), report: "the incompetent programmers of the Redmont monopolist did it again, your Windows is totally open to hackers due to a bad, bad vulnerability. While we're on this, let's discuss also how OSX and Linux are infinitely cooler than Windows will ever be, and how Windows users are clueless idiots."
That's what they are doing in all of their campaigns. It can be a steam-roller smashing PC laptops, or jokes with snails comparing it to the speed of Intel's chips (in retrospect, that's ironic isn't it), or declaring iTunes the best Windows app in the world (i.e. the rest are apparently worse).
Isn't it odd, however, that for so many, many, MANY campaigns during the years, the people somehow don't get see the amazing features of Apple and keep using PC-s anyway.
I bet we're all just like those lemmings that jump off the cliff.
When will the world learn, violence begets violence and spam begets spam. Lets find a real solution to the problem rahter then a vigalante justice.
Naaah, let's just spam the bastards 'till they're blue. If I got a blackmail message like that, I'd change my e-mail (I know it'as not easy but it isn't THAT hard too) and setup a friggin server cluster to spam the spammers.
It's the war against spam people, if you're not with us... you're funding spam activities, there we go.
How do they know? How about how do they know every downloaded mp3 is a lost sale, or the amount of downloaded mp3-s anyway. It's all approximations and guessing, made to sound good for RIAA.
They most likely do NOT know. They are guessing, and noone can refute their claims. That's like approaching someone and saying "dude you smoke marijuana 2 years ago, you're so sued"... and then the work on proving he's clean is a work of the defendant.
Totally up-side-down? Sure. Totally cool for RIAA? Sure.
"The quality is approximately what you would expect from flash video."
That's actually very misleading. Flash 8 includes a new codec which is considered among the best for online video streaming (and video in general): On2's VP6. It's a fully featured decoder also with deringing, deblocking and so on filters that enhance the quality of the decoded image.
If the quality is crappy it was a deliberate choice of ABC to keep the bitrate low for whatever reasons, or using bad encoders (which I doubt, but how can I know).
If there's one thing, Flash doesn't have a native full screen mode, which for a streaming TV show is kinda a bummer...
Re:looking at the screenshots i wonder
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Blazing Angels Review
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· Score: 2, Informative
The review even mentions it, that it's a nice effect, like flying through a historical photo.
Historical photos from that time were not color. So basically it just looks odd. Color photos don't tint yellow, they use different chemicals that decay in a different manner.
Maybe something was wrong with the sun in those years and noone noticed.
IE is, by definition a Default & Preset. IE is forced upon you, Firefox and Opera is chosen.
I have to choose to run it, and I chose to install Firefox and run that instead. There nothing forced here, it's just a battle for the non-technical user who doesn't know any better than the default.
But this double-standard and hypocrity from Google is pissing me off.
It's not just Firefox. It's also Opera, Netscape and even AOL Explorer. You can argue AOL Explorer is forced on AOL users in one way or another. Google didn't make a peep, in fact they paid quite the money to obtain 5% stake in AOL and force this decision upon AOL.
Now Microsoft *DOES* come with other engines preloaded, maybe your beta was old or something went wrong, but when I installed it, it features other engines, and even more, adding more engines to Firefox and Opera is a pain in the ass.
IE7's support of OpenSearch is a lot easier to use and they keep a current page with search engine providers, including Google.
I'm afraid we're looking for a phantom problem here. The issue quite apparently is just that Google doesn't get the default this time and it's bitchin' like any sane corporation will.
However what is Microsoft expected to do? They added a feature that was demanded (every other browser has it) and they had to apparently pick some sort of default, even if they ask the user "what do you want", user friendliness alone says you gotta have a default in case the user doesn't know what to select.
What does Google think? That they should dump the feature, or maybe they should chose Google over their own search engine? Don't be ridiculous.
What is evil is taking what you typed in your address bar in your web browser and redirecting it to Microsoft's website because Microsoft decided you wanted to search with them. That is evil.
Oh that's exactly what Google does with AOL Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Netscape. Thanks for supporting my view.
They better sell those "can't change channels during commercial breaks" TV-s with lots of coffee then.
Also, to make sure this works, not only should ads be aired while we drink coffee, they need to make sure we can only buy it during those times, and if they offer money back guarantee, only use it and return it during those times.
-- fast rewind 10 years --
"You hate commercials don't you. They are a pain to watch, we all feel that way. But that's over with! Presenting the new TV-chair 3000, ultra comfortable and accomodating to your body's shape, it injects you intravenous with caffeine, drugs and alchohol and all other essential ingredients to make those ads a pleasure to watch. Order now, and if you did, we know you'll order again..."
Dead Or Alive Trailer Real Lo Dead Or Alive Trailer Real Med Dead Or Alive Trailer Real Hi Dead Or Alive Trailer Win Lo Dead Or Alive Trailer Win Med Dead Or Alive Trailer Win Hi Dead Or Alive Trailer Qt Lo Dead Or Alive Trailer Qt Med Dead Or Alive Trailer QT Hi
I bet picking "Dead or Alive Trailer Real Lo" is the correct answer
I always thought they presented it correctly as a cinematic device, sort of like a scene starting in a foreign language with subtitles, to establish the characters are foreign, then switching to English so the audiance knows what is going on.
Yea, the audience reading or thinking more than 5 mins per 2 hr feature = lost audience.
All fun and joy but have you noticed how many sites are dumping QuickTime/WMP/RealMedia for video and starting to use Flash? Including those clips we see here.
YouTube is exclusively Flash based, so is Google Videos, and the videos on CNET too.
Kinda makes you think Microsoft has a point when claiming Flash is a competitor to WMP, even if the EU refuses that as an argument.
What a load of rubbish - viruses infect via operating system and application vulnerabilities, the chipset those are running on has very little relevance.
It helps of 99% of the hackers out there run on a compatible chipset though.
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Again, this is still about, and always has been, and always will be Microsoft's existing monopoly elsewhere (their OS and desktop offerings) leveraging another niche (in this case, search engines).
I'm sick of hearing people repeat this like parrots.
Google has monopoly on the search engine market right? You may argue but they have the huge share, Yahoo's second the MSN/Live is lurking in the 3rd place. By the same definitions we use for Microsoft, Google has a monopoly on search right now.
Did anyone make a fuss that they "abused" their monopoly to advertise Firefox few days ago? And having specialized campaigns for promoting Firefox for which Google itself pays big bucks for every installation (yes with the Google toolbar in it, of course).
I can almost hear MS haters whine "but nag nag Firefox isn't owned by Google, and Live.com is owned by Microsoft". Google doesn't need to technically *own* Mozilla, they just need to work as a single entity like they do now.
Did you never notice the lead Firefox developers actually work at Google? Did you notice even the Mozilla/Firefox sites are hosted at Google?
Oh by the way regarding "no choice, omg evil Microsoft selected live.com as a default!" how about mentioning Safari has Google search *HARDCODED*, so Mac users pretty much have no choice, this time for real.
Bungie Studios became Halo
..? Did Autodesk become 3DSMax?
Hehe, uuuh, what
That's some new form of language construct I'm not familiar with.
The Google fanboys will definitely disagree, but the monopoly over the search engine market is having a bad effect on Google lately.
They have become more arrogant, bought their own lobbyists and, started growing by just buying a lot of smaller companies.
I think a little healthy competition will do good to Google, just like it will do good to Microsoft (remember: IE7 exist largely because of Firefox).
However from practise, any tips how to react in these situations:
ME: "Please don't use enter for spacing between paragraphs, it's wrong"
CO: "You pedantic freak! It's exactly the same on the screen, and when I print it it won't even be there, who cares?"
CO: "Shit Word is retarded, the tab ends on different places each line, what the HELL is that?"
ME: "Use indenting, it's more predictable"
CO: "Indenting? Why do you never explain what I wanna know, I don't care what indenting is, I wanna fix the damn tabs"
CO: "Oh great, perfect, I wanna make all headlines gray, this means whole hour hunting them down and reformatting it. THANK YOU WORD, BUT NO THANK YOU."
ME: "Man.. this is why I told you to use Headings 1, 2, 3... It's easy to format at once from the styles palette, and you also get automatic Outline view and Table of Contents..."
CO: "Oh shut up, geek..."
That's the difference between closed source and open source I guess...
Critical vulnerability in X11, missing parens are to blame, report: "missing parens in code leaves X11 vulnerable, the problem is fixed."
--vs--
Critical vulnerability in Windows, missing parens are to blame (but that's under NDA), report: "the incompetent programmers of the Redmont monopolist did it again, your Windows is totally open to hackers due to a bad, bad vulnerability. While we're on this, let's discuss also how OSX and Linux are infinitely cooler than Windows will ever be, and how Windows users are clueless idiots."
Hey, I was able to watch it no problem on my mac. Apparently not even apple can write software that doesn't crash on windows.
Apparently. Good that Microsoft can, as I never had WMP crash on me what I just want to watch a web video.
I urge you people! Mandatory registration on each site! Three names, e-mail, address, age, sex, and social security id!
Way to convince me, Apple
That's what they are doing in all of their campaigns. It can be a steam-roller smashing PC laptops, or jokes with snails comparing it to the speed of Intel's chips (in retrospect, that's ironic isn't it), or declaring iTunes the best Windows app in the world (i.e. the rest are apparently worse).
Isn't it odd, however, that for so many, many, MANY campaigns during the years, the people somehow don't get see the amazing features of Apple and keep using PC-s anyway.
I bet we're all just like those lemmings that jump off the cliff.
When will the world learn, violence begets violence and spam begets spam. Lets find a real solution to the problem rahter then a vigalante justice.
Naaah, let's just spam the bastards 'till they're blue. If I got a blackmail message like that, I'd change my e-mail (I know it'as not easy but it isn't THAT hard too) and setup a friggin server cluster to spam the spammers.
It's the war against spam people, if you're not with us... you're funding spam activities, there we go.
They're either trying to win over the geek population or maybe hope their LEGO models will help the progress of human kind.
I vote for the former, in which case I suspect the next in line will be the sex slave LEGO-bots.
All these years wondering where those robot armies to enslave the human race will come from, and now we know they started as a bunch of LEGO models.
Apparently you've never heard of these guys called the nazis. They had full motion video in color. Not the best of color, but color none the less.
Great, it can even go on game posters "See the world through the camera of the nazis".
How do they know? How about how do they know every downloaded mp3 is a lost sale, or the amount of downloaded mp3-s anyway. It's all approximations and guessing, made to sound good for RIAA.
They most likely do NOT know. They are guessing, and noone can refute their claims. That's like approaching someone and saying "dude you smoke marijuana 2 years ago, you're so sued"... and then the work on proving he's clean is a work of the defendant.
Totally up-side-down? Sure. Totally cool for RIAA? Sure.
"The quality is approximately what you would expect from flash video."
That's actually very misleading. Flash 8 includes a new codec which is considered among the best for online video streaming (and video in general): On2's VP6. It's a fully featured decoder also with deringing, deblocking and so on filters that enhance the quality of the decoded image.
If the quality is crappy it was a deliberate choice of ABC to keep the bitrate low for whatever reasons, or using bad encoders (which I doubt, but how can I know).
If there's one thing, Flash doesn't have a native full screen mode, which for a streaming TV show is kinda a bummer...
The review even mentions it, that it's a nice effect, like flying through a historical photo.
Historical photos from that time were not color. So basically it just looks odd. Color photos don't tint yellow, they use different chemicals that decay in a different manner.
Maybe something was wrong with the sun in those years and noone noticed.
Someone better tell them that the fact old movie reels tint yellowish doesn't mean the real world was all tinted like that.
IE is, by definition a Default & Preset. IE is forced upon you, Firefox and Opera is chosen.
I have to choose to run it, and I chose to install Firefox and run that instead. There nothing forced here, it's just a battle for the non-technical user who doesn't know any better than the default.
But this double-standard and hypocrity from Google is pissing me off.
It's not just Firefox. It's also Opera, Netscape and even AOL Explorer. You can argue AOL Explorer is forced on AOL users in one way or another. Google didn't make a peep, in fact they paid quite the money to obtain 5% stake in AOL and force this decision upon AOL.
Now Microsoft *DOES* come with other engines preloaded, maybe your beta was old or something went wrong, but when I installed it, it features other engines, and even more, adding more engines to Firefox and Opera is a pain in the ass.
IE7's support of OpenSearch is a lot easier to use and they keep a current page with search engine providers, including Google.
I'm afraid we're looking for a phantom problem here. The issue quite apparently is just that Google doesn't get the default this time and it's bitchin' like any sane corporation will.
However what is Microsoft expected to do? They added a feature that was demanded (every other browser has it) and they had to apparently pick some sort of default, even if they ask the user "what do you want", user friendliness alone says you gotta have a default in case the user doesn't know what to select.
What does Google think? That they should dump the feature, or maybe they should chose Google over their own search engine? Don't be ridiculous.
What is evil is taking what you typed in your address bar in your web browser and redirecting it to Microsoft's website because Microsoft decided you wanted to search with them. That is evil.
Oh that's exactly what Google does with AOL Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Netscape. Thanks for supporting my view.
They better sell those "can't change channels during commercial breaks" TV-s with lots of coffee then.
Also, to make sure this works, not only should ads be aired while we drink coffee, they need to make sure we can only buy it during those times, and if they offer money back guarantee, only use it and return it
during those times.
-- fast rewind 10 years --
"You hate commercials don't you. They are a pain to watch, we all feel that way. But that's over with! Presenting the new TV-chair 3000, ultra comfortable and accomodating to your body's shape, it injects you intravenous with caffeine, drugs and alchohol and all other essential ingredients to make those ads a pleasure to watch. Order now, and if you did, we know you'll order again..."
Dead Or Alive Trailer Real Lo
Dead Or Alive Trailer Real Med
Dead Or Alive Trailer Real Hi
Dead Or Alive Trailer Win Lo
Dead Or Alive Trailer Win Med
Dead Or Alive Trailer Win Hi
Dead Or Alive Trailer Qt Lo
Dead Or Alive Trailer Qt Med
Dead Or Alive Trailer QT Hi
I bet picking "Dead or Alive Trailer Real Lo" is the correct answer
I always thought they presented it correctly as a cinematic device, sort of like a scene starting in a foreign language with subtitles, to establish the characters are foreign, then switching to English so the audiance knows what is going on.
Yea, the audience reading or thinking more than 5 mins per 2 hr feature = lost audience.
All fun and joy but have you noticed how many sites are dumping QuickTime/WMP/RealMedia for video and starting to use Flash? Including those clips we see here.
YouTube is exclusively Flash based, so is Google Videos, and the videos on CNET too.
Kinda makes you think Microsoft has a point when claiming Flash is a competitor to WMP, even if the EU refuses that as an argument.
What a load of rubbish - viruses infect via operating system and application vulnerabilities, the chipset those are running on has very little relevance.
It helps of 99% of the hackers out there run on a compatible chipset though.
The Year of the Linux Desktop
or
The Year of The OS X Viruses
For me and millions of other Windows users who're on the edge of their patience, it's:
The Year Vista Didn't Come Out *Again*