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General derailment that seems never to have been railed!

Perpetually speaking SPAM never stops ...

I do not believe that this is currently under consideration.

Feel free to begin the thread a new in C&C - hopefully there will be less SPAMatraction ...

SPAM to the power of Pi?

Warm greetings and welcome back to the place of finding balance with SPAM - nice to see things stay the same the more they change ...

Scratch Test ... SPAM .... Sniff Test ... SPAM ... Taste Test ... um ... well ... OK it's just a DERAILMENT!

And with that lovely image, I think it has arrived at time-out time in the sandbox. Please exit to the left and right of the jungle gym as the sweepers arrive ...

Well before this takes spills out of the sandbox ... thanks TrueNeutral for sharing the video. As it seems there is an existing discussion, we'll just quietly move along as I sweep up some of the sand ...

Well then I am either too thick - highly likely - or the adapted version all sort of seem the same to me. I think I have some educatin' to do ... I really enjoyed the original sub-text'd Ring, but since seeing so many adaptions - and to be honest the lack of access where I am to originals, I have likely become somewhat lazy! Thanks Kor Qel Droma for taking the time to do some IMDb searches

Thanks Kor Qel Droma, I think the 'Grudge' was the US remake of the Ring - though I definitely stand ready to be corrected. Interesting though is that the theme and the motif seem similar. In general, it would be interesting for those who have more access to Japanese horror to share and reflect whether the genre does present a woman and a child in dire straights?

Was Dark Waters a remake? Not of the Ring ... was it?

Yes I would say those are fair challenges for MS to consider such a purchase. I would also add the EU's general comfort with confrongting MS in regard to market exploitation would be another challenge as well. But I do not think these are in and of themselves stoppers. It would be interesting to know how much they have invested into IE 7 - but I suspect Opera would have been a more cost effective way of addressing market share loss. Some have it as high as 10-12% to Firefox globally and as high as 20% in Europe. And that is no small amount of global penetration for a 'non-corporate' offering. What will be even more interesting is the affect of the Google Pack and its inclusion of many stable applications that challenge MS old paradigm http://pack.google.com/. Sources: http://openpr.com/news/3610.html http://news.google.ca/url?sa=t&ct=ca/0-0&f...7517.html&cid=0 Google Search: http://news.google.ca/news?sourceid=navcli...ox+market+share

Dark Waters. Not bad, but the choice of ending was less than an riveting.

Could you tell me more as to why you see this as a block Diamond?

The paradigm of paying to maintain and update the browser is and has been an integral part of MS' marketing in the past, especially in regard to the retail/personal home user. I do not feel that they can compete in that venue anymore as in many ways the open-source community has shown that structure to no longer be competitive. Just my opinion, but the IT area is no longer whether open-source will shift the paradigm, but how does a company compete with user groups that realise/have access to equally stable and efficient code with which capital is no longer attached to a 'product' per se.

I always thought this was the smarter route to follow in order not to continue to lose share to Firefox ...

I do? I am certain I just upfraded Friefox to 1.5.0.1 .. but then I could be wrong As for IE 7 - this is rehash of the old IE vs. Netscape wars. Problems for MS this time around is that Firefox is not coprorate driven, so innovation will either force it to keep up with the enthusiast quarter or realise it cannot keep up in this venue, imo Paradigm shifts abound for MS ... FYI: http://news.com.com/IE+7+bugs+abound/2100-...ml?tag=nefd.top

Closed at the thread starter's request.

Now now no need to cross post: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?ac...=0entry540967

I would like to thank Whisperblade for sharing this experience. And though it is of interest, it has generated some concern from other members. As such, though I am grateful for your sharing, I do not feel that this is completely appropriate for the fora here (or perhaps it is the secondary responses ... ? ).

Follow the ongoing discussion here: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=39763

Please feel free to contribute to the ongoing discussion. There is a lot of interest in this topic and keeping input centralised and presented in a clear and articulate manner will have more impact and influence than posting to the contrary Please do not post if you do not have anything constructive to add. There are new members arriving all of the time - so post with respect and in a constructive nature. If you do not, I will act as though the intent is to SPAM! I am well aware that there is no perfect solution for those who have been members for a long time and who find this ongoing discussion problematic - to say the least. I know that K3 threads are touchy items for you trollish denizens - to be specific - but do remember this may be a new topic for people who arrive in our community. So I would ... no I expect respectful treatment. If you do not want to talk about K3 - THEN DO NOT POST! Treat anyone - especially those new travellers from out Cyberway - without courtesy and hospitality makes the Big Green ornery ... See previous threads: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Lest such posting detract from the overly interesting discussion elsewhere, I think I'll just retire this one - thanks for the interesting meandering ...

I suspect the Big Green is going to close this thread ...