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It exists. It's Roxio's New Napster and Real's Rhapsody service. Both offer pay-per-month schemes that allow you to have unlimited playback access (on DRMed computers, of course) to all of the music they're allowed to give you. Any major artist that's not there is excluded because the artist or their label is holding out... $9.95 a month for either service.

Real uses a streaming model, but Napster actually allows you to authorize three PCs, and cashe tracks on disk. Therefore, you can download music to a laptop and play on the go...

This is too much like a sales pitch, so I might as well finish it with this link to napster.com :)

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EIOffice 2004 Vs MS Office 2003 - Page 1
Posted by Team Flexbeta on 26 May 2004 (28566 views) Rating: 4.94 EIOffice 2004 looks so much like MS Office 2003 that you wouldn't have a hard time getting used to the graphic interface once you get started with it. Coded in Java, EIOffice features a word processor, a spreadsheet application and a presentation graphics application. All three applications look and behave similar to MS Office's applications; Word, Excel and PowerPoint. EIOffice is able to edit and save MS Office file formats as well as a few other formats we will discover soon.

Word Processor

From the screenshot it is clear how EIOffice's word processing suit looks extremely similar to MS Word. The order and shape of the icons are not the only similarities, so is the labeling. For example, the tabs, File, Edit, View, Insert, and Format are all labeled just like in MS Word and in the same exact order. The word processor offers many features such as spell checking, password protecting document, tracking changes and a thesaurus. There is a nice feature which lets you transform the document you are currently working on into a presentation. Though the transformation isn't 100% the way I wanted it to be, a few editing here and there molded the document into a nifty presentation.

EIOffice 2004 Word Processor and MS Word

Another feature which EIOffice 2004 carries is its ability to suggest the entire word you are typing before you finish typing it. For example, when typing the word "feature", by the time the letters "fea" are typed, EIOffice suggest that the word you are trying to type is indeed "feature" and highlights the word for you. A simple enter on the keyboard accepts the word.

The spell checker in EIOffice 2004 works very well though the suggestions are not as relevant as that of MS Office 2003. Using the misspelled word - woship, EIOffice 2004's suggestions were Yoshi, wish, wash, midship and welsh. The same misspelled word in MS Word brought up the correct suggestion: worship or worships. I don't have any idea why EIOffice 2004 suggested Yoshi as a possible correction to the misspelled word. Unfortunately, EIOffice does not offer grammar checking like MS Office does.


Mispelled word in EIOffice 2004

There is a nice application bar floating on the upper part of the current document which enables fast switching from one office application to another. With a simple click of the mouse I was able to toggle between the word processor, the spreadsheet application, and the presentation graphics creator. This is made possible because EIOffice is one application which bundles the three previously mentioned applications.


Switching Application Bar

EIOffice 2004 is able to open and save MS Word file format, .doc. This and the fact that EIOffice looks extremely similar to MS Office shows that huge efforts were placed to attract MS Office users into switching. Other file formats that EIOffice can save and open are PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel, rich text format, html and txt format.

EIOffice also features a nice scientific editor which includes many scientific figures, shapes and symbols. The figures include diodes, transistors, and capacitors. There are also chemistry symbols such as chemical reaction formulas and atomic structures. Apart from the typical math functions and figures, EIOffice also includes curve functions such as the exponent function and the sinusoid curve.

Science Editor in EIOffice 2004

Presentation Graphics

He boldly engaged his new favorite pr0n search tool typing in biker mormon to no avail he screamed out loud, "AHHHHHH". Suddenly hearing in reply, " Keep it down in there your mother is trying to sleep off last night's booze" "Sorry mom, I will", he meekly answered and than continued with "You Bitch," under his breath in clever retort. Deciding he was going to have to try something else to get off he tried something desperate. He would have to use his imagination and find pictures of women that were not nekid at all. LIGHTNING SOUND, w/ PIPE ORGAN Using the built up imagery of thousands of man hours spent looking at pr0n over a lonely lifetime George was going to land of make believe, to dance the fairy dance, and kiss the moon sun and sky. Oh yeah, its alive! Got to keep going!

He fist went to Match.com finding few biker chicks or mormons or answers to the long mails he had sent to every woman in a 250 mile radius, so he went onward to Yahoo Personals and finnaly found the resource he was looking for. 10,000's of women all smiling for him, oh yes it was him. The door behind pounded 3 times in quick succession "Stop banging the computer desk aginst the wall when you are wacking off George, your mom has a fucking hangover"

My question is, where is the legendary Bawls that ThinkGeek made so popular? It has a certain class being in a blue bottle with a simple label like that, that the canned beverages with all their pizzazz lack.

Guiness in reality is a good beer, as any dark usually is. Lighter beers tend to upset my stomach in the morning.

If every movie I went to gave me the movie on DVD or gave me a key to download it at my leisure when I left the theater I would feel satisifed but they don't and I can get a 5-10 dollar playstation game off ebay and be content with my purchase for years. 10 bucks is not chump change to me.

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Hehe, so yeah like huh. Need to fill up space, why not a link? link

Games help tremendously. We just need to make them more realistic. I have pimping it a bit today but I like the orbital flight simulator aptly named orbiter and have personaly used it to demonstrate aerobraking for a space science class. When you can get most software at 80% off or so online as a student or faculty there is no real execuse not to use the software that professionals in the field actively use now to begin famaliarization with them.

Ebay seems like the way to go nowadays for most large ticket items, so long as you buy from reputable dealer. If you want to check out if laptops are compatible with linux, go to Linux on Laptops. On most popular laptops they have detailed lists of what distros are compatible with what portion of the hardware. Some of them like mandrake are better than windows with drivers out of the box.

I prefer Ink4Art.com. Plus now you can save 25% with coupon code hot29.

Except those prices (on Microsoft's site) are similar to the MSRP for a car -- some people pay it, but most people know where to look to find it more cheaply.

Here is one place that I use for all software purchases for my clients. I've bought probably $3000 worth of ttuff from them over the years, so I know they're not just a fly-by-night vendor.

Now, you mention that this is for a family, so they will probably be running XP Home.

5 licenses of XP Home from the store linked above is $409. I got this total by ordering one full version of XP Home (not an upgrade) for $161, and then adding four additional COA's for $62 each (paper licenses and stickers only; you don't really need 5 CDs if they are all going to be installed at the same place.)

I'll also bend a little and say that the upgrade price for Longhorn will be this same price, even though upgrade prices are usually a bit cheaper. So doubling $409, we get $818.

So the cost for Windows XP Home for 5 family users for 4 years is $818, compared to your $796 for various versions of Mac OS X. That's not far apart.

If you want to run the numbers on XP Pro instead, it's $141 for the first copy and then $119 each for 4 more copies without the CD. That's $617 total. Double that and it's $1234... a bit more, but to be fair, you said this was for a family, so there is probably no need for XP Pro.

In the end, it comes out about the same. Considering that most people only upgrade Windows when they get new computers, it's not any more expensive to buy Windows than it is to buy MacOS.

You paid $300 for Windows 2000? Maybe because you are a moron?

Check again.

Why not celebrat this news by buying an iPod?

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You can get all of these at :www.lik-sang.com

You can get the GBA hardware carts/writers from: Lik Sang

Most college students don't need to play games why would they need ms windows?

"Games" don't need Windows. You can hook up a linker from lik-sang, copy all your Game Boy cartridges into your computer, and then run them on VisualBoyAdvance. You can also get the ROMs for many Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and Super NES games at pe2000 and edgeemu; pick up emulators at Zophar's Domain.

While Nintendo currently have the hand-held crown it stopped accepting developers for the GBA a long time ago claiming that 400 was enough. From the handful of decent titles I'd guess it isn't.

Just because you can't sign up for Wario World (Nintendo's official developer support program) doesn't mean you can't develop GBA games and get published with one of the Tier-B publishers. If you want to get into GBA development, get yourself VisualBoyAdvance and GCC targeted for ARM7TDMI and start hacking. Then you can try your games on hardware with an MBV2 cable or Flash Advance Linker from Lik-Sang

Like the GBA it would almost certainly use an ARM chip as that's the only supported processor for Windows 'CE' 2002.

ARM or MIPS or PowerPC or x86 makes little difference compared to the graphics chip. Nintendo's GBA supports up to 128 sprites on top of four layers of scrolling, two layers of scrolling and one layer of rotation, two layers of rotation, or a bitmap. IIRC, Windows CE devices have only a bitmap and no hardware sprites, not even one for a mouse pointer because most of them are pen-based.

The Game Boy Advance and Color (especially) are inexpensive and very well documented. The GBA has an ARM processor

I can speak from experience. GBA is a joy to program for; it's much like programming an MS-DOS PC in C, as once you get your libraries done, everything else is pretty smooth. Start here for tools and documentation, and go here for hardware, specifically the MBV2 cable (load 256 KB programs directly into GBA's RAM) and the Flash Linker (load up to 128 Mbit (16 MB) programs into a flash cartridge). However, try to buy them sooner rather than later, as Nintendo will try to sue the makers out of existence, claiming that the devices are suitable "only for piracy" and ignoring the homebrew development scene.