Microsoft Woos Google

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Really?

You haven't been paying attention to the news in the last 2 to 3 years, Ted.

Look at the big picture, and Ted is right.

MS only continues to grow and gain marketshare, which is something a zealot like yourself surely ignores. After all, all you care about is if the neighbor down the street installs Linux. Then you chalk it up to your grand theory of the "Linux domino effect".

I think it's amazing how selective you look at certain aspects of society and generalize it so liberally. It's why I find you more amusing than serious.

[Ted Striker]

Thanks bro.


You know what's funny is that I probably have more experience using Linux in a production environment than anyone here, unless they happen to work for Google or IBM or something...

[Q Classic]

all linux has to do to "win" is to convince people that it's a viable OS.

seems to be doing that fairly well, even if it will never dominate the desktop market.

the reason why apple lost is because it tried to dominate the market--redmond smashed that. linux, at least when the fundies aren't shoving it down everyone's throats, only needs to have acceptance.

at least, imho.

sco's using fud, though, and from what i've dealt with in administrations, finding that they know nothing about technology...

[mrmitchell]

Look at the big picture, and Ted is right.

So you admit that Microsoft is essentially the steamroller of the computer industry?

(Steamrollers keep the road smooth, but they kill every goddamn thing that gets in their way)

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Spiffor

This was one of the main reasons why I switched browsers. A move I'd advise to anybody

umm Spiff you can disable that somewhere in the "Internet options" where it says "Search in Adressbar" and you select: "Do not search".

But I also favor Mozilla's Firebird much more over IE. The only sad thing is that he is less integrated in the OS and takes longer to start (thats why I still use IE most of the time). But Firebird renders pages much better than IE!!! Especially with nested tables and such (which I still use for compatibility reasons and because I am very conservative about new www technologies). I recently got my hands on CSS more and more though. Layering is cool!!

Something along the line:

#Region { position:absolute; left:200px; top:142px; }


  

Any compatibility problems with that?
Is it possible to do image replacement (rollover,..) with CSS aswell? I still use javascript for that but somehow I dont like to use javascript because you cannot rely that people have it activated.

ata

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
mac. sherlock.
windows. f3; or, xppowertoys, add a shortcut to the address bar to make it work like opera's.

huh?

[Q Classic]

ways to integrate google or any other search engine into the OS.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by Asher
MS only continues to grow and gain marketshare ...

**shrug** If this were any other industry, it probably wouldn't be tolerated. Heh. I can see the future now:

Super Virus Brings Down Microsoft Systems

Everything from computers to toasters affected

FUNLAND, USA (FutureNews) — In the latest attack on Microsoft Corp., a super virus known as "Domino" has infected hundreds of thousands of systems world-wide that use MS software.

Experts believe it is multiplying at an exponential rate, and everything from microwaves, toasters, fridges, cell phones, desktop computers and military super computers are vulnerable. Microsoft says it has a patch to address the problem, and that "Domino" shouldn't threaten daily life or commerce for long.

The latest attack comes a month after the previous attack, a worm known as "Klez's Granddaddy" that is still affecting peripheral MS-dependent systems, but has otherwise largely been cleaned up.

Gatekeeper

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
ways to integrate google or any other search engine into the OS.

You don't get it. It isn't POSSIBLE. You can add a way to CONNECT to a search engine, but the amount of bandwith and processing power to run a search engine is not available even to most businesses. Google has something like 10,000 linux boxes in a big building running full-time.

[Q Classic]

ah, i see what you mean. didn't realize you meant the databases and what not.

i think it is possible, though. you put in the search engine code into the os somewhere, but have it link to an off-site database. so if you have a sufficiently powerful computer connected to the inet, and have it run as a client to a massive db that uses hash, then it's possible, albeit currently unwieldy, to integrate a search engine to an os.

you can already do small-scale searches in the os. sql servers are themselves mini-search engines, so...

[Grrr]

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[Urban Ranger]

Grr,

I can't decide whether to or to ::vomit::

[Q Classic]

is it just me, or does anybody else sometimes see what seems like "f*ck g. w." in the first five letters of that now famous leaked volume license key?

[Urban Ranger]

It does looks like it.

The question is, is "gw" William Gates backwards?

[Frozzy]

Or maybe it's f*ck G. W. (bush)