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HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect
nexex points to this Financial Times article, which says that HP has dropped Microsoft Word from the software lineup in the personal computers it sells to customers. From the article: "The move follows a decision last week by Dell Computer, the number two PC maker, to replace Microsoft software. Both companies said they would offer WordPerfect productivity software from Corel of Canada instead of Microsoft's Works, a scaled-down version of its top-selling Office software." Nexex writes:"I think it should be noted, MS Works does include the full version of Word."
Works word processor does have a spell checker, and a grammar checker and thesaurus too.
Yes !
totally off topic but ...
wtc2002 kinda reminded me of Oath of Fealty.
I don't care why you're posting AC
"YES, I'm a Christian. Got a problem with that?"
Perhaps if many Christians did not take the attitude that disagreement==persecution, they would be happier and seem less...fanatical. Your approach , makes it seem as though you think that the world is out to get you because of your religious beliefs, when, in fact, it is more likely to dislike you for your abrasive personality. Just my two cents...
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
True, many Christians seem to have a persecution complex. This comes from stories from the New Testament (which comes from a time when Christians really were prosecuted) and stories from nations in which Christians still are proseduted (ie. Sudan). Seriously, if you read some of the Roman documentation of the time out there, you will see that prosecution of Christians was very real back in the day.
However, I don't think Europe and the Americas are places where Christians have much to fear (with a few exceptions, I know... don't try being the wrong kind of Christian in Ireland.).
I can sympathize with that guy taking a defensive attitude on Slashdot, though. I doubt that many people here are favourably-disposed to Christianity. I doubt, for example, that I'd have any chance of getting modded up if I posed a quotation from the Bible that I felt relevant to a discussion here on Slashdot.
Anyhow, I can see both sides, here. I just wish that everyone, regardless of their religion, could bring the motivation for their beliefs on some of the ethical issues that come up here into the discussion, without fear of being ridiculed. I'm a Christian, but I'd be very interested if a Buddhist or Muslim brought the teachings of the Dhammapada or Qu'ran, for example, into a discussion here.
#define sig "Every social system runs on the people's belief in it."
and I stopped using Linux since a video editing application (broadcast 2000) just decided to kill itself while I was in the middle of something.
I made an email-inquiry to our local (Austrian) Dell outlet about whether it would be possible to purchase a laptop without Windows preinstalled or with Linux or no OS preinstalled. The short reply was that it is impossible. Same answer from IBM, Gericom, and many others I tried. Pay for something which you first remove after unpacking or die.
In fact, far more people have far more to fear from Christians, than vice-versa.
Any Christian that you have to be afraid of isn't a good Christian. A Christian is supposed to realize that God loves everyone, him/herself included. Knowing this, Christians are to reflect that love, loving their neighbours as themselves, and even loving their enemies (See Matthew 5, the Sermon on the Mount).
constant persecution of groups (like homosexuals) that Christians are constantly getting away with... and now with the Christians trying to get evolution pushed out and Christian Creationism taught in High Schools in Georga
I'd ask you to say "Christian Fundamentalists" here. My Church allows homosexuals to be ministers - I'd hardly call that persecution. And most non-Fundamentalist Churches accept evolution (even the Pope has accepted it). It is very unfair to lump the rest of us in with the Fundamentalists when talking about such issues as homosexuality and creationism/evolution, as it scares people away from us on the basis of someone else's actions.
If you've had bad experiences with Christians in the past, I'm very sorry to hear that. For what it's worth, even if you don't believe in God, God loves you, and doesn't want these guys to victimize you.
#define sig "Every social system runs on the people's belief in it."