"Being pre-installed leads to inertia on the part of a customer, especially one who is not familiar with PCs. The PC vendor puts the work in to install Windows and ensure it works well on their hardware."
Ok so let's sum up what's bad:
The OS comes preinstalled on the computer by the hardware vendor
The OS itself bundles features such as a browser, media player and other essential applications which, due to lack of experience from the customers are strong "default" and remain in use just because they are available
The applications for the OS in question can't run on another OS, so we have a vendor lock-in, meaning if there are no ports of the apps to another OS, the customers are out of luck
Hey, you're right. Now I know why we have to sue Apple!
Everybody knows Windows is a monopoly and that is bad. Why is it a monopoly?
Is there a law in place to forbid competition? No.
Is there competition, yes. Plenty of it.
Are you allowed to remove Windows and install another OS or dual-boot Windows and another OS? Yes.
So what is this phantom threat called "monopoly" then? Noone knows. But we know it's evil. And it has to go away, so I offer you a peace of mind today. Save the following as a.reg file and run it:
Now I could be wrong, but last time I checked every OS comes with a Media Player. Yeah, but unlike Windows, every other OS is not a monopoly!
Yea, I mean, Microsoft, come on, make Windows not monopoly and be done with it. I can't understand that Microsoft, insists that their OS be monopoly. What's the point!
Or how about this: who the hell decided it's a monopoly. An monopoly is when there are no competitors on the market either because there's law in place to forbid competition or because the monopolists owns all of a resource in an area and is therefore having a monopoly over it.
What exactly makes Microsoft monopolist? Nothing. Are there no other OS for computers and PC in particular. Are you not allowed to use them. Are people not allowed to produce and release OS for PC?
None of that. Just Windows has a very large market share, that has developer naturally in time. Therefore they have to scrap half of their features, including basics like a browser and a media player, while the other OS vendors don't have to.
Microsoft may be doing a lot of bullshit, but over here I call the bullshit squarely on the EU.
So why should we Americans give a damm what Microsoft's legal troubles are in the EU
You torched his ass dude, you torched his ass! Over here's America, we don't give a damn what that EU city is about and where the Europe island is. Who cares!
- No ripping to a PC; excuse: piracy. - No shooting of copyrighted objects with a camera; excuse: piracy. - No open formats such as mp3; excuse: piracy. - No skipping ads and copyright ads on DVD's or TV; excuse: piracy. - Fetch your seearch history and habits from search engines; excuse: piracy/child porn/terrorism. - Back door on cryptographic solutions for the government; excuse: piracy/child porn/terrorism. - Storing your e-mail and traffic for later review by the authorities; excuse: piracy/child porn/terrorism.
We're looking for further excuses to install RFID chips under your skin, and electric zappers to control your actions, stay tuned.
"Now, twisting the panties in other direction, they want to reverse all that by representing multiple processors as one virtual processor. Would that be covered by a multi or single processor license agreement?"
Or maybe the software industry can start acting logically and license per a machine.
That's of course until the "reverse virtualisation" from Intel happens, that makes your entire server cluster run as a single PC:)
"AMD is claimed to believe it may be able to double the single-chip performance with a two-core chip or provide quadruple the performance with a quad-core processor."
Even the article writers aren't pretty sure that's possible to do, apparently it's possible to "claim" it though, what isn't:)?
Modern processors, including the Core Duo rely on a complex "infrastructure" that allowed them to execute instructions out of order, if certain requirements are met, or execute several "simple" instructions at once. This is completely transparent to the code that is being executed.
Apparently for this to be possible the commands should not produce results co-dependent of each other, meaning you can't execute out-of-order or at-once instruction that modify the same register for ex.
This is an area where multiple cores could join forces and compute results for one single programming thread as the article suggests.
But you can hardly get twice the performance from two cores out of that.
"I think you mean IE5, which was the big major improvement that got IE into the same category as netscape."
I mean what I meant, what I know is I'm designing web content for quite some time, and at the time IE4/NS4 was the norm, I'd give hand and leg that NS4 disappears and IE4 takes over the world.. I hated NS4 from the depth of my soul
Funny isn't it? Now I think the same for IE6, but IE7 is kinda catching on, so things are getting muddy pretty quickly. In 2-3 years I might not even know which browser to hate properly.
the author believes that Microsoft will unleash an abundance of next-generation applications that will take everyone by surprise
Finally someone with a positive eye towards Microsoft. They can surprise us now, come on. I can almost see it...
Gates: And now, ladies and gentleman, the event you're anticipating all evening, presenting the new, BETTER and SMOOTHER... [the presentation projector shows an image]... Minesweeper.
[storm of applauds in the public]
Gates: THIS Minesweeper game... is totally redesigned, TOTALLY reimagined to make use of our incredible new framework, WinFX.
[applauds]
Gates: Oh, and ONE MORE THING...
[the public goes crazy]
Gates: We've also redesigned... Hearts... HEARTS, ladies and gentleman, now coming with resizable cards, never before seen.
"this is obvious, I totally learned this in my networking classes!"
Except noone said that. Few years ago I had totally no experience with the server side of things - I'm a client side guy, y'know: Flash, HTML, JS, Java... And we had a CPU heavy component on the server and bandwidth heavy component on the server.
We were short on time and I had no time to research how we avoid our servers bursting in flames or anything, so we had to come up with solutions on the spot.
The first thing I did is dedicate a "distributor" server (me, the Flash guy) that send the clients to the least loaded server in a redundant array.
I didn't learn it in any networking classes, it was friggin' obvious, so pardon me for my previous post where I see the same basic technology suddenly patented.
"Riiiight...just like IE7 will mean no need to install firefox!"
No, just the way IE4 meant you don't need to install Netscape4 (we all know what happened with Netscape after that).
Also IE7 *will* be a reason for a lot of business organisation that went to firefox to "relax" and go back to IE, because of the new limited rights mode that blocks exploits from happening even after vulnerabilities are discovered.
Also Firefox' team doesn't seem to get it that memory footprint and CPU use matters. I'm growing increasingly frustrated with those issues not addressed (I'm a regular Firefox user, IE6 sits idle doing nothing but testing my sites for IE6 compatibility), and I might move to Opera 9 when it's out.
I went and read some of their docs and went through their technology presentation. What their incredible solutions is: redundant server setup with a separate distributor server that "tells" the client software which of the servers is least loaded, and buffering of video (or what they call it is faster-than-realtime "bursting" and "caching"). That's it.
They have their right to offer their products on the market, but there's totally nothing worthy of patenting and licensing there, so no wonder both Microsoft and Apple turned them down.
This is the sad story of a company with an actual product that turned into a patent troll, simply since being a patent troll pays better.
Disclaimer: Important, if you're a leading action star in a hollywood sci-fi movie do not, we repeat, do NOT use a car with a self control devices installed as this may result in elaborated, lengthy and dangerous action scenes.
Reference: Minority Report, I Robot, Total Recall.
"If you have the time and the money, here is a new hobby for you...."
Here's a better one: start tracking the victim software developers 24/7 and when they spot you, shout out loud: "You're a phony!"
Disclaimer: You should seriously consider against this or the other hobby duggested by parent if you have traces of a life happening (or a possibility for such to happen in the nearby future).
Is this shocking to anyone. Yes some of us know that a handful of Chinese companies make the computers of all 99% of all desktop and laptop manifacturers, but many don't.
So they look for brand identity, external appearance. Country of manifacturing on the brand is a part of the brand.
Over here (Bulgaria) there's plenty of companies running shared hosting business. Their tech support are all Bulgarian boys and girls, but they all have US name pseudonyms. One of those companies I've internal info on (shall remain nameless) insisted on being patriotic and splattering everything with the Bulgarian flag and not using pseudonyms.
After an incredibly weak few months, were even purchase by Bulgarians were weak, they joined the "let's pretend the world is US" bandwagon and sales quickly jumped up.
It's not that I don't want to see ".tel" happen, but what is taking them so long to approve and implement new top-level domains anyway.
It's because they were so late to introduce a large variety that ".com" become synonymous with "web" and everybody wanted his site to be a ".com"
Should've they introduced domains like.tv,.biz and.tel (and.xxx) from the very beginning and at least a dozen more for each specific area of interest/business, we'd not have the ridiculous situation with domain scarcity we have today (even if, as I wrote earlier, it's still possible, although frustrating, to find a good.com domain nowadays).
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Ok so let's sum up what's bad:
Hey, you're right. Now I know why we have to sue Apple!
So what is this phantom threat called "monopoly" then? Noone knows. But we know it's evil. And it has to go away, so I offer you a peace of mind today. Save the following as a
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Cur
"monopoly"=0
-------
There we go. Your Windows is no longer a monopoly. Now can we stop with the silliness?
Now I could be wrong, but last time I checked every OS comes with a Media Player.
Yeah, but unlike Windows, every other OS is not a monopoly!
Yea, I mean, Microsoft, come on, make Windows not monopoly and be done with it. I can't understand that Microsoft, insists that their OS be monopoly. What's the point!
Or how about this: who the hell decided it's a monopoly. An monopoly is when there are no competitors on the market either because there's law in place to forbid competition or because the monopolists owns all of a resource in an area and is therefore having a monopoly over it.
What exactly makes Microsoft monopolist? Nothing. Are there no other OS for computers and PC in particular. Are you not allowed to use them. Are people not allowed to produce and release OS for PC?
None of that. Just Windows has a very large market share, that has developer naturally in time. Therefore they have to scrap half of their features, including basics like a browser and a media player, while the other OS vendors don't have to.
Microsoft may be doing a lot of bullshit, but over here I call the bullshit squarely on the EU.
So why should we Americans give a damm what Microsoft's legal troubles are in the EU
You torched his ass dude, you torched his ass! Over here's America, we don't give a damn what that EU city is about and where the Europe island is. Who cares!
Take that terrorists!
"Add to that the fact that the State Dept has rated the odds of such an event occuring within the next 10 years to be 100%"
And they are working hard to achieve it.
Yea, you've ever talked dirty to your computer and felt as if the feelings are not mutual?
I hope better voice recognition and TTS will resolve that.
- No ripping to a PC; excuse: piracy.
- No shooting of copyrighted objects with a camera; excuse: piracy.
- No open formats such as mp3; excuse: piracy.
- No skipping ads and copyright ads on DVD's or TV; excuse: piracy.
- Fetch your seearch history and habits from search engines; excuse: piracy/child porn/terrorism.
- Back door on cryptographic solutions for the government; excuse: piracy/child porn/terrorism.
- Storing your e-mail and traffic for later review by the authorities; excuse: piracy/child porn/terrorism.
We're looking for further excuses to install RFID chips under your skin, and electric zappers to control your actions, stay tuned.
'Philips' patent acknowledges that this may be 'greatly resented by viewers' who could initially think their equipment has gone wrong
Dude, we gotta definitely license that!
- Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony
Blinking, jumping, flashing, popping up and overlaying ads on the web that force you into viewing them ..
somehow is less effective than:
simple, text-only, non-intrusive or obstrusive, small and nicely blending-in ads such as those offered by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
When will people learn?
"Now, twisting the panties in other direction, they want to reverse all that by representing multiple processors as one virtual processor. Would that be covered by a multi or single processor license agreement?"
:)
Or maybe the software industry can start acting logically and license per a machine.
That's of course until the "reverse virtualisation" from Intel happens, that makes your entire server cluster run as a single PC
"AMD is claimed to believe it may be able to double the single-chip performance with a two-core chip or provide quadruple the performance with a quad-core processor."
:)?
Even the article writers aren't pretty sure that's possible to do, apparently it's possible to "claim" it though, what isn't
Modern processors, including the Core Duo rely on a complex "infrastructure" that allowed them to execute instructions out of order, if certain requirements are met, or execute several "simple" instructions at once. This is completely transparent to the code that is being executed.
Apparently for this to be possible the commands should not produce results co-dependent of each other, meaning you can't execute out-of-order or at-once instruction that modify the same register for ex.
This is an area where multiple cores could join forces and compute results for one single programming thread as the article suggests.
But you can hardly get twice the performance from two cores out of that.
Today, we fix Linux to support a cross-platform virus, tommorow: support for Windows viruses.
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"I think you mean IE5, which was the big major improvement that got IE into the same category as netscape."
I mean what I meant, what I know is I'm designing web content for quite some time, and at the time IE4/NS4 was the norm, I'd give hand and leg that NS4 disappears and IE4 takes over the world.. I hated NS4 from the depth of my soul
Funny isn't it? Now I think the same for IE6, but IE7 is kinda catching on, so things are getting muddy pretty quickly. In 2-3 years I might not even know which browser to hate properly.
the author believes that Microsoft will unleash an abundance of next-generation applications that will take everyone by surprise
... Minesweeper.
... Hearts... HEARTS, ladies and gentleman, now coming with resizable cards, never before seen.
Finally someone with a positive eye towards Microsoft. They can surprise us now, come on. I can almost see it...
Gates: And now, ladies and gentleman, the event you're anticipating all evening, presenting the new, BETTER and SMOOTHER... [the presentation projector shows an image]
[storm of applauds in the public]
Gates: THIS Minesweeper game... is totally redesigned, TOTALLY reimagined to make use of our incredible new framework, WinFX.
[applauds]
Gates: Oh, and ONE MORE THING...
[the public goes crazy]
Gates: We've also redesigned
"The facts on T-Rex show the animal very unlikely to have been a predator"
Couldn't agree more. So, let's go fetch this guy some grass to chew on, right?
"this is obvious, I totally learned this in my networking classes!"
Except noone said that. Few years ago I had totally no experience with the server side of things - I'm a client side guy, y'know: Flash, HTML, JS, Java... And we had a CPU heavy component on the server and bandwidth heavy component on the server.
We were short on time and I had no time to research how we avoid our servers bursting in flames or anything, so we had to come up with solutions on the spot.
The first thing I did is dedicate a "distributor" server (me, the Flash guy) that send the clients to the least loaded server in a redundant array.
I didn't learn it in any networking classes, it was friggin' obvious, so pardon me for my previous post where I see the same basic technology suddenly patented.
"Riiiight...just like IE7 will mean no need to install firefox!"
No, just the way IE4 meant you don't need to install Netscape4 (we all know what happened with Netscape after that).
Also IE7 *will* be a reason for a lot of business organisation that went to firefox to "relax" and go back to IE, because of the new limited rights mode that blocks exploits from happening even after vulnerabilities are discovered.
Also Firefox' team doesn't seem to get it that memory footprint and CPU use matters. I'm growing increasingly frustrated with those issues not addressed (I'm a regular Firefox user, IE6 sits idle doing nothing but testing my sites for IE6 compatibility), and I might move to Opera 9 when it's out.
I went and read some of their docs and went through their technology presentation. What their incredible solutions is: redundant server setup with a separate distributor server that "tells" the client software which of the servers is least loaded, and buffering of video (or what they call it is faster-than-realtime "bursting" and "caching"). That's it.
They have their right to offer their products on the market, but there's totally nothing worthy of patenting and licensing there, so no wonder both Microsoft and Apple turned them down.
This is the sad story of a company with an actual product that turned into a patent troll, simply since being a patent troll pays better.
"Does Open Source Encourage Rootkits?"
MS: Oh let me asnwer, me me me me!
Disclaimer: Important, if you're a leading action star in a hollywood sci-fi movie do not, we repeat, do NOT use a car with a self control devices installed as this may result in elaborated, lengthy and dangerous action scenes.
Reference: Minority Report, I Robot, Total Recall.
"If you have the time and the money, here is a new hobby for you...."
Here's a better one: start tracking the victim software developers 24/7 and when they spot you, shout out loud: "You're a phony!"
Disclaimer: You should seriously consider against this or the other hobby duggested by parent if you have traces of a life happening (or a possibility for such to happen in the nearby future).
Thing is we don't want "New and improved!" wars, we just don't want wars.
I won't even go into how ridiculous the project in question is.
Is this shocking to anyone. Yes some of us know that a handful of Chinese companies make the computers of all 99% of all desktop and laptop manifacturers, but many don't.
So they look for brand identity, external appearance. Country of manifacturing on the brand is a part of the brand.
Over here (Bulgaria) there's plenty of companies running shared hosting business. Their tech support are all Bulgarian boys and girls, but they all have US name pseudonyms. One of those companies I've internal info on (shall remain nameless) insisted on being patriotic and splattering everything with the Bulgarian flag and not using pseudonyms.
After an incredibly weak few months, were even purchase by Bulgarians were weak, they joined the "let's pretend the world is US" bandwagon and sales quickly jumped up.
It's not that I don't want to see ".tel" happen, but what is taking them so long to approve and implement new top-level domains anyway.
.tv, .biz and .tel (and .xxx) from the very beginning and at least a dozen more for each specific area of interest/business, we'd not have the ridiculous situation with domain scarcity we have today (even if, as I wrote earlier, it's still possible, although frustrating, to find a good .com domain nowadays).
It's because they were so late to introduce a large variety that ".com" become synonymous with "web" and everybody wanted his site to be a ".com"
Should've they introduced domains like