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Forum Software 101 - Why It is Vitally Important to Choose the Best Software to Run your Forum
When you go through all of the work and trouble to set up your own forum, you don't want anything to get in the way of its success... especially your forum software. Because of this, it is incredibly important for you to have a good forum software...
Heavy Online Usage During Crisis
The Internet played a considerable role in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, DC. The best and the worst of online usage emerged as email and instant messaging became prime sources of communication. News-based...
Internet Security Basics 101
The explosive growth of the Internet has meant that thousands of people are today experiencing the joys of being online for the first time. With growth there always comes pain. Be it your growing pains as a child or the growth and development of...
Some Good Organizations To Join
There are many organizations all over the internet which are useful to webmasters and other people on the internet. This is a list of some of the ones which I find useful. Americans For Computer Privacy - This is the organization to take a look at...
Where To Look For Dirt-Cheap DVD Software. Part VII
DVD Ghost is a very useful utility to make your DVD play/copy/backup software restriction-free, and it also supports copy/backup DVD to hard disk.
It is light on your system resources and resides in system tray. It removes all kinds...
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We'll Just Rule the World Now, OK?
One has to wonder if the corporate directive at Microsoft
is as blatant as it seems from the outside. What is it that
makes them behave as if monopolistic bullying is an inherent
right for the biggest, baddest damned behemoth ever to roam
the face of the information economy? That they can rule the
Earth just because they think they'd like to give it a go?
It is almost inconceivable that they already rule planet PC,
from the operating system, to the web browser, to the email
client, to the word processing program, to the calendaring
program, to the media player, to the spreadsheet, to the
financial software, to the presentation application, to the
web server software, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum.
Microsoft kinda oughtta be satisfied with that, eh? NOOOOO!
Let's have them control software RE-licensing, enterprise
mail servers, certification of network administrators, and
GEE fellas! How's about we develop a system called .Net in
which we store and control, via our proprietary system, all
the information on the planet? Cool idea huh?
While we're at it, why don't we tie all our products together,
being certain that nobody uses any competing software -- with
Smart Tags? These little geniuses will not only allow us to
control software worldwide, but all the advertising on every
web page in the world by allowing us to plant hyperlinks on
those pages that connect to advertisers who'll pay Microsoft
to hijack website traffic? Jeeeezz! This is sooooo cool!
Judge Penfield Jackson couldn't remain unbiased when he saw
these tactics and publicly stated his disdain for blatant
monopolistic practices that only a team of Microsoft lawyers
could possibly approve of. So it is almost as though the
court of appeals has now said, "No matter how heinous a crime,
don't ever let 'em see you flinch! It makes you look as if
you actually have some morals and standards. Judges are not
allowed public opinions!"
Next time Judge Jackson sees a
horrific criminal act and is
tempted to pronounce the evildoer a bad boy, he'll likely
temper his statements, something on the order of, "Uh-uh-uh!
Don't do that!" Then shut his mouth tight as he sentences
the crook to life in prison for ... "doing something that is
not allowed in our society." Don't say anything bad to them.
The problem is that Microsoft is made to appear the victim
of unfair judgement when the judge can't contain his disdain
for the absurdly monopolistic practices that have Microsoft
ruling not only Planet PC, but Planet Earth.
I am occasionally tempted to trade in my Macintosh for a PC
because I'm so frustrated that I MUST have Windows to run
applications I need to have. I've occasionally considered
purchasing the Microsoft Macintosh version of software so
that I can view PowerPoint presentations or upgrade from my
old Word version 6.0 for Mac because it garbles the text
from new Word Documents. But ultimately, I just can't do it.
I won't. I can't even stand the fact that new Mac specific
software emulates the look and feel of Microsoft products.
It was the other way round in the beginning, before Bill
copied Mac OS and put it on a PC and called it Windows.
It angers me that Internet Explorer comes with the Mac OS.
It drives me nuts that WebTrends and Web Position Gold only
come in Windows versions.
Linus Torvald is a personal hero to me. Open source is the
only answer to the ridiculous Microsoftopoly. My iMac and
I will stick it out and beg Steve Jobs to slay the Giant.
Or even an unbiased zipper-lipped judge could do it, as long
as he doesn't talk about his opinion, just enforces it.
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