yet she still feels obligated to screw over the country
Or at least Apple. I suspect the response she's looking for is:
"The fantasy 'back-door for only the good guys' is unavailable, but we do have a very progressive portfolio of campaign fundraiser packages you can purchase."
Sadly, Petrov died in May. And that item on Petrov's resume isn't unique.
There was also the 1995 Norwegian rocket incident. The first and only known incident where any nuclear weapons state had its nuclear briefcase activated and prepared for launching an attack.
In 1960, the computer at the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs warned, with 99.9-per-cent certainty, that the Soviets had just launched a full-scale missile attack against North America. The warheads would land within minutes. When it was learned that Khrushchev was in New York City, at the United Nations, and when no missiles landed, officials concluded that the warning was a false alarm. They later discovered that the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System at Thule Airbase, in Greenland, had interpreted the moon rising over Norway as a missile attack from Siberia.
In 1979, NORAD’s computer again warned of an all-out Soviet attack. Bombers were manned, missiles were placed on alert, and air-traffic controllers notified commercial aircraft that they might soon be ordered to land. An investigation revealed that a technician had mistakenly put a war-games tape, intended as part of a training exercise, into the computer. A year later, it happened a third time: Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national-security adviser, was called at home at two-thirty in the morning and informed that two hundred and twenty missiles were on their way toward the United States. That false alarm was the fault of a defective computer chip that cost forty-six cents.
Yeah, I remember how Adobe mandated that when OEMs put its operating system on computers
Above you make the point that search engines aren't the same as operating systems, and yet here you try to equate apps and platforms with operating systems. Try comparing Microsoft with Apple when it comes to vendor lock-in.
And speaking of disingenuous analogies, Microsoft didn't mandate that OEMs put its OS on their computers. They merely offered significant discounts for doing so.
The same goes for other software (anti-virus etc.) that got included on PCs. (It's rarer today; instead you get the time-limited trial versions.)
I don't know IBM offered similar incentives for OS/2, but I'd be very surprised if they didn't. Apple policy regarding other OEMs was hardly an improvement.
It's also totally irrelevant, because, as I've already noted, "other companies do it too!" is not a defense, it's a distraction.
Again, I said, "They were competitive bastards to the extent that their competitors were competitive bastards." That's not a defense of those practices. I just think it's a tad fanboyish that only one company gets singled out for it.
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Speaking of distractions. Fine, but my point stands. OS/2 wasn't some wonder product crushed by anything other than competitive products and bad decisions.
(It reminds me a lot of Blackberry. IBM spent $2 Billion to replace OS/2 on Intel with WorkPlace OS on Power PC just as Windows really took off in the office environment. Much like Blackberry - once they got BBOS working really well as a modern touchscreen phone OS - switched to a new OS on a new hardware platform.)
And which was the one that integrated the web browser into the shell to push its main competitor out of the market, and which one wasn't?
BOTH came with IE. Because...
a) Why wouldn't they?
b) Nothing stopped you from installing Netscape Navigator or any other browser of choice. By then we were well into the internet age. It only took a moment to fetch a different browser.
c) Integrating it with the OS simply made sense. It became the standard document reader, replacing WinHelp. They could standardize the UI, making Windows Explorer look much like Internet Explorer, complete with forward and back buttons. You could customize folders and your desktop with HTML.
Not all of that worked well in practice, but it made sense. Whether your help files opened with WinHelp or IE4 made no difference regarding what browser you used to browse the web.
"Other companies are just as bad!" is not a defense, it's a distraction tactic.
As I said, "They were competitive bastards to the extent that their competitors were competitive bastards." That's not a defense of those practices. I just think it's a tad fanboyish that only one company gets singled out for it.
The only point I'm trying to make here still stands: The OP's claim that "At the time, one could not own a computer without Microsoft." is simply wrong. Microsoft didn't have a monopoly. There were perfectly viable alternatives, and many people used them. Popularity is not monopoly.
Seriously, you don't think that IBM, Apple, Lotus, Oracle and the rest exerted pressure on THEIR partners to favor their products over others?
One of the manufacturers in my industry outright told their distributors, "If you want to keep selling our engines, you may not sell competing lines." It led to some of those distributors splitting into two companies so that they could keep selling multiple lines.
And this was legal. Even the so-called "Microsoft Tax" never went that far.
Office applications which were either made by Microsoft, purchased by Microsoft,
At that point WordPerfect Office had pretty much the same features as Microsoft Office, and was backed by a large company.
If you wanted to avoid Windows? WordPerfect and Lotus 123 were both available on the Mac and OS/2 and a variety of Unix environments and were perfectly viable alternatives. AppleWorks/ClarisWorks was also available on the Mac. There were others.
93% is pretty fucking close.
No, it isn't. Not when there at plenty of viable alternatives back by other large companies. It's just popularity. Does Google have a monopoly on search engines given the existence of Bing, DuckDuckGo and the rest?
And it's not as if Microsoft arrived at its popularity simply by competing fairly and delivering a superior product.
They were competitive bastards to the extent that their competitors were competitive bastards. They tried to make their products industry standards to the extent that others did the same. (Flash, PDF, Lotus Notes, etc.)
Look, I paid for OS/2 and REALLY tried to like it. But it simply WASN'T "a better DOS than DOS and a better Windows han Windows" as IBM claimed. Nor simply a better OS on it's own merits. When IBM tried to copyright the term "crashproof" for OS/2, I could only laugh and comment that they should also copyright "Nothing could possibly go wrong."
Likewise I owned a couple Macs back then. Nice (but not great) OS, crippled by locked-in godawful hardware. I've loaded and used a couple machines with Linux and WordPerfect Office.
Windows 98 wasn't great, but then neither were the alternatives. Windows 2000 WAS great. And rock-solid stable.
The fact remains that there were valid alternatives to Windows, a couple of them (Mac, OS/2) backed by very large companies and with no shortage of office applications.
At the time, one could not own a computer without Microsoft.
Both Mac and OS/2 fanboys were constantly claiming "Our OS is far better than Windows and very popular!" While also claiming that Windows had a monopoly.
Linux replaced OS/2, but the claim remained the same.
The BSD crowd would also disagree with your claim.
They were no worse than IBM, Apple, Netscape, Adobe or other tech giants at the time. Or Google, Facebook and others today. Any time someone mentions "embrace, extend, and extinguish", the obvious response is "how is that different from what the other big companies were doing?"
In recent weeks, for instance, both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have rolled out social media policies disallowing their respective journalists from publishing anything partisan.
That rules out pretty much everything. Politics. Foreign policy. Domestic policy. Civil rights. Mass shootings. Immigration. Healthcare. And of course their own industry.
They'd have to stick to the weather or thier favorite restaurant. No, wait, those topics are partisan now too.
Seriously, how would they predict what'll be partisan by the next election cycle? Study Ted Nugent's lyrics?
That brings back memories. I did a book report on the Anarchist's Cookbook in high school back in the early '80s. The gist of my report was that I was unimpressed with the book and found it to be more anarchist fantasy than reference.
I duly noted that my missing fingertips had nothing to do with the book. That was from making my own black powder explosives a few years earlier, using information from the encyclopaedias and other books in the school library.
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Or at least Apple. I suspect the response she's looking for is:
"The fantasy 'back-door for only the good guys' is unavailable, but we do have a very progressive portfolio of campaign fundraiser packages you can purchase."
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Call it the Jeb! bug. Those who paid for him didn't get past the second primary.
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Yup!
Sadly, Petrov died in May. And that item on Petrov's resume isn't unique.
There was also the 1995 Norwegian rocket incident. The first and only known incident where any nuclear weapons state had its nuclear briefcase activated and prepared for launching an attack.
And over on the American side...
The New Yorker: Nukes of Hazard
Other sources:
Wikipedia: List of nuclear close calls
Union of Concerend Scientists: Close Calls with Nuclear Weapons (PDF)
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It used to be that if someone at your cloud service even hinted at withdrawing support, they would be fired.
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Above you make the point that search engines aren't the same as operating systems, and yet here you try to equate apps and platforms with operating systems. Try comparing Microsoft with Apple when it comes to vendor lock-in.
And speaking of disingenuous analogies, Microsoft didn't mandate that OEMs put its OS on their computers. They merely offered significant discounts for doing so.
The same goes for other software (anti-virus etc.) that got included on PCs. (It's rarer today; instead you get the time-limited trial versions.)
I don't know IBM offered similar incentives for OS/2, but I'd be very surprised if they didn't. Apple policy regarding other OEMs was hardly an improvement.
Again, I said, "They were competitive bastards to the extent that their competitors were competitive bastards." That's not a defense of those practices. I just think it's a tad fanboyish that only one company gets singled out for it.
Speaking of distractions. Fine, but my point stands. OS/2 wasn't some wonder product crushed by anything other than competitive products and bad decisions.
(It reminds me a lot of Blackberry. IBM spent $2 Billion to replace OS/2 on Intel with WorkPlace OS on Power PC just as Windows really took off in the office environment. Much like Blackberry - once they got BBOS working really well as a modern touchscreen phone OS - switched to a new OS on a new hardware platform.)
BOTH came with IE. Because...
a) Why wouldn't they?
b) Nothing stopped you from installing Netscape Navigator or any other browser of choice. By then we were well into the internet age. It only took a moment to fetch a different browser.
c) Integrating it with the OS simply made sense. It became the standard document reader, replacing WinHelp. They could standardize the UI, making Windows Explorer look much like Internet Explorer, complete with forward and back buttons. You could customize folders and your desktop with HTML.
Not all of that worked well in practice, but it made sense. Whether your help files opened with WinHelp or IE4 made no difference regarding what browser you used to browse the web.
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As I said, "They were competitive bastards to the extent that their competitors were competitive bastards." That's not a defense of those practices. I just think it's a tad fanboyish that only one company gets singled out for it.
The only point I'm trying to make here still stands: The OP's claim that "At the time, one could not own a computer without Microsoft." is simply wrong. Microsoft didn't have a monopoly. There were perfectly viable alternatives, and many people used them. Popularity is not monopoly.
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One of the manufacturers in my industry outright told their distributors, "If you want to keep selling our engines, you may not sell competing lines." It led to some of those distributors splitting into two companies so that they could keep selling multiple lines.
And this was legal. Even the so-called "Microsoft Tax" never went that far.
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At that point WordPerfect Office had pretty much the same features as Microsoft Office, and was backed by a large company.
If you wanted to avoid Windows? WordPerfect and Lotus 123 were both available on the Mac and OS/2 and a variety of Unix environments and were perfectly viable alternatives. AppleWorks/ClarisWorks was also available on the Mac. There were others.
No, it isn't. Not when there at plenty of viable alternatives back by other large companies. It's just popularity. Does Google have a monopoly on search engines given the existence of Bing, DuckDuckGo and the rest?
They were competitive bastards to the extent that their competitors were competitive bastards. They tried to make their products industry standards to the extent that others did the same. (Flash, PDF, Lotus Notes, etc.)
Look, I paid for OS/2 and REALLY tried to like it. But it simply WASN'T "a better DOS than DOS and a better Windows han Windows" as IBM claimed. Nor simply a better OS on it's own merits. When IBM tried to copyright the term "crashproof" for OS/2, I could only laugh and comment that they should also copyright "Nothing could possibly go wrong."
Likewise I owned a couple Macs back then. Nice (but not great) OS, crippled by locked-in godawful hardware. I've loaded and used a couple machines with Linux and WordPerfect Office.
Windows 98 wasn't great, but then neither were the alternatives. Windows 2000 WAS great. And rock-solid stable.
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Popularity is not the same as monopoly.
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Both Mac and OS/2 fanboys were constantly claiming "Our OS is far better than Windows and very popular!" While also claiming that Windows had a monopoly.
Linux replaced OS/2, but the claim remained the same.
The BSD crowd would also disagree with your claim.
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Uh huh. And I'm sure that "Diana Filip" will claim "I'm a different person now."
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Seriously, don't do math on a plane.
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That rules out pretty much everything. Politics. Foreign policy. Domestic policy. Civil rights. Mass shootings. Immigration. Healthcare. And of course their own industry.
They'd have to stick to the weather or thier favorite restaurant. No, wait, those topics are partisan now too.
Seriously, how would they predict what'll be partisan by the next election cycle? Study Ted Nugent's lyrics?
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That brings back memories. I did a book report on the Anarchist's Cookbook in high school back in the early '80s. The gist of my report was that I was unimpressed with the book and found it to be more anarchist fantasy than reference.
I duly noted that my missing fingertips had nothing to do with the book. That was from making my own black powder explosives a few years earlier, using information from the encyclopaedias and other books in the school library.
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AC deserves some credit for not crossing that line.
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