Just wait for Outlook 2011 then it will look as alien as Evolution and both will look as different...
The ribbon was my *reason* for stopping the upgrade treadmill on Office and changing to OpenOffice... I hated it wil a passion, a bad idea badly implemented - I could use menus, I could usually find things, with the ribbon I cannot...
And us Brits only own about 40%.... so we are not even collectively a majority shareholder...
The Rig that blew and caused the mess was owned operated and staffed by Transocean (a US company) on BP's Behalf, on the day of the explosion of the 126 crew on board only 7 were employees of BP......not that I am defending BP (or BP-Amoco as it was) it has a bit of a reputation for not considering safety to be it's first priority
So they are acting like any other global company, or any Large American corporation.......What exactly did you expect?
By the way have you heard of Transocean (Who owned the Rig, Ran the Rig and employed most of the people on the rig)...and do not seem to be vilified or even mentioned in the press ?
The 21st Century is less than 10 years old , but Century sounds worse than Decade aesthetically
I suspect that Oil wells burning in Kuwait, or the small matter of the Chernobyl disaster might have been worse environmental disasters, but they are so last century, and did not affect the USA so they don't count....
People who buy the Hardback version of a book are mostly the kind of rabid readers who will buy it at the first opportunity in the quickest format to get
People who are willing to wait buy it in paperback...
Since the ebook is available (at least on Amazon) earlier than paperback and is simpler to get... guess what...
In other words earlier adopters adopt early....everyone else carries on as normal
A Badly configured outdated server with a clueless operator, is a badly configured out of date server with a clueless operator no matter what operating system...
Red Hat has automatic updates, which he obviously had turned off, which would have fixed some of this (the same as Windows updates)
And SELinux (standard on RedHat) should have stopped most malware....but he probably disabled it...
...they also predicted he was leaving a year ago......and that David Tennant was leaving after his first and second years (they got lucky after his third year).....
Eggs existed before chickens, Eggs with shells existed before chickens, the only debate remaining was did a Chicken's Egg exist before a chicken...
That's a semantic question
Is a chicken's egg an egg laid by a chicken - if so then the chicken came first or
Is a chicken's egg an egg that a chicken hatches from - if so then the egg came first
The first Copyright law was the Statute of Anne in 1709....which gave a temporary monopoly to *printers* of a particular work... not to the author.... this sounds familiar ?
They can make DVD's for $0.01 each because that's how much they cost......and they charge the same for a Movie that was made in 1950 where in the USA the stars, director, producer all get nothing, but the publisher still gets their cut of the pure profit, since the cost of making the movie was paid off years ago
The reason they can charge more than it's worth, is because people thanks to the US movie industry thinks that's how much they are worth...
Copyright is a relatively new idea and only patchily implemented
In Soviet Russia and China, it made no sense to have copyright (property is theft, even intellectual property) you could not violate copyright since everyone had a right to copy...
Prior to the introduction of copyright people came up with ideas and made money on them....
In the fashion industry people still have new ideas, with no copyright, and seem to be doing very well out of it...
The recent storm about Climate change science was caused in part by a lab not publishing information due to copyright restrictions on it....the free flow of information would have either prevented or revealed it much sooner...
Copyright was set up as a temporary artificial monopoly to encourage people to implement ideas and benefit the public, not to restrict access for many years before copyright some people would either no reveal their idea until they could implement it (and it would be lost), or they would lose control of it (and be discouraged from innovating), most copyright is by large corporations where the person who came up with the idea is not given the copyright and so is not directly rewarded for their idea, and it is used to restrict access and keep the price artificially high and stop innovation based on the idea....
...Microsoft is dying... it's a slow painful and lingering death
They had 98% of the browser market now they don't
They had nearly 100% of the PC operating system market and were making inroads into the server market, now are losing ground
Their innovations on Vista and Win7 are mostly copies of things that Apple or Some Linux builds had already done, or if not did very soon after
The only novel things they seems to have added are either for the Corporate market (and the home and small business users do not want/need/use) and are very expensive versions of things done better elsewhere...
The real issue is that AI research has mainly discovered that Intelligence is not well defined, and everything we thought was difficult (e.g. Playing chess) is relatively easy, and everything we thought was easy (e.g. Understanding Human Language) is horrifically difficult
A human child can walk, see interact and understand it's environment, hold a conversation... none of these can be done even more than adequately by machines.. (Walking is ahead of the rest so far) but a cheap chess computer can beat most people, including most Grand Masters the majority of the time
Actually there is no place called Bangkok... It's called Krung Thep (or the full ceremonial name), this was a newly built city, after it was moved from Thonburi on the other bank... there was a small town in the vicinity called Bangkok before all this, now absorbed into the city
It's a bit like everyone outside New York referring to it as Fort Nassau !
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Just wait for Outlook 2011 then it will look as alien as Evolution and both will look as different ...
The ribbon was my *reason* for stopping the upgrade treadmill on Office and changing to OpenOffice ... I hated it wil a passion, a bad idea badly implemented - I could use menus, I could usually find things, with the ribbon I cannot ...
And us Brits only own about 40% .... so we are not even collectively a majority shareholder ...
The Rig that blew and caused the mess was owned operated and staffed by Transocean (a US company) on BP's Behalf, on the day of the explosion of the 126 crew on board only 7 were employees of BP.... ..not that I am defending BP (or BP-Amoco as it was) it has a bit of a reputation for not considering safety to be it's first priority
So they are acting like any other global company, or any Large American corporation .... ...What exactly did you expect?
By the way have you heard of Transocean (Who owned the Rig, Ran the Rig and employed most of the people on the rig) ...and do not seem to be vilified or even mentioned in the press ?
The 21st Century is less than 10 years old , but Century sounds worse than Decade aesthetically
I suspect that Oil wells burning in Kuwait, or the small matter of the Chernobyl disaster might have been worse environmental disasters, but they are so last century, and did not affect the USA so they don't count ....
Sounds like a proper Capitalist system response to me .... ...Explains why you have slow trains and slow broadband, as well as an outdated power system
People who buy the Hardback version of a book are mostly the kind of rabid readers who will buy it at the first opportunity in the quickest format to get
People who are willing to wait buy it in paperback ...
Since the ebook is available (at least on Amazon) earlier than paperback and is simpler to get ... guess what ...
In other words earlier adopters adopt early....everyone else carries on as normal
Easy
Keep adding the turbines (People will anyway)
when the Grid keeps blowing, blame the Gird company
Keep blaming them till they fix it .....or a court decides who should pay
A Badly configured outdated server with a clueless operator, is a badly configured out of date server with a clueless operator no matter what operating system ...
Red Hat has automatic updates, which he obviously had turned off, which would have fixed some of this (the same as Windows updates) ....but he probably disabled it ...
And SELinux (standard on RedHat) should have stopped most malware
They are Duck Eggs .....
...they also predicted he was leaving a year ago ... ...and that David Tennant was leaving after his first and second years (they got lucky after his third year) .....
Murdoch has friends in high places and campaigns to privatise or hobble the BBC .... ...nothing is free ...a rival is something to crush
That's (mostly) northern Ireland ... different country ... ... Those Damn No nothing New York Canadians ....
You have 4 options in the UK
Copper - almost always owned by BT, whoever you buy the service from
Local loop unbundled ISP - Has their own equipment at the exchange and delivers over the same copper ...(rare)
Cable - almost always Virgin Media (they bought all the amalgamated Cable operators ...)
Satellite - NB Sky (The only satellite broadcaster based in the UK) offer broadband ... over Copper using BT's infrastructure
Eggs existed before chickens, Eggs with shells existed before chickens, the only debate remaining was did a Chicken's Egg exist before a chicken ...
That's a semantic question
Is a chicken's egg an egg laid by a chicken - if so then the chicken came first
or
Is a chicken's egg an egg that a chicken hatches from - if so then the egg came first
Case closed ...
The first Copyright law was the Statute of Anne in 1709 ....which gave a temporary monopoly to *printers* of a particular work ... not to the author .... this sounds familiar ?
How to get 3 economics opinions, simple ask 2 Economists ... One will always hedge their bets ...
They can make DVD's for $0.01 each because that's how much they cost ... ...and they charge the same for a Movie that was made in 1950 where in the USA the stars, director, producer all get nothing, but the publisher still gets their cut of the pure profit, since the cost of making the movie was paid off years ago
The reason they can charge more than it's worth, is because people thanks to the US movie industry thinks that's how much they are worth ...
Copyright is a relatively new idea and only patchily implemented
In Soviet Russia and China, it made no sense to have copyright (property is theft, even intellectual property) you could not violate copyright since everyone had a right to copy ...
Prior to the introduction of copyright people came up with ideas and made money on them ....
In the fashion industry people still have new ideas, with no copyright, and seem to be doing very well out of it ...
The recent storm about Climate change science was caused in part by a lab not publishing information due to copyright restrictions on it ....the free flow of information would have either prevented or revealed it much sooner ...
Copyright was set up as a temporary artificial monopoly to encourage people to implement ideas and benefit the public, not to restrict access for many years before copyright some people would either no reveal their idea until they could implement it (and it would be lost), or they would lose control of it (and be discouraged from innovating), most copyright is by large corporations where the person who came up with the idea is not given the copyright and so is not directly rewarded for their idea, and it is used to restrict access and keep the price artificially high and stop innovation based on the idea ....
Mobile - Non smartphone is still dominated by non-microsoft OS's
Smartphone is dominated by Apple and Android
If everyone is a criminal ... then no-one is a criminal ...because the law is unenforceable
This is likely to make nearly everyone a criminal .... and when people realise that it will be blocked or overturned
*You* "can" 'emphasise' a $comment$ any ^way^ you like ......
But speaking in "airquotes" can be annoying ....
From TFA ...Flash groupies joke about HTML5 being a time machine to take you back to 2000...
Because it replaces Flash completely .... and they are worried
...Microsoft is dying ... it's a slow painful and lingering death
They had 98% of the browser market now they don't
They had nearly 100% of the PC operating system market and were making inroads into the server market, now are losing ground
Their innovations on Vista and Win7 are mostly copies of things that Apple or Some Linux builds had already done, or if not did very soon after
The only novel things they seems to have added are either for the Corporate market (and the home and small business users do not want/need/use) and are very expensive versions of things done better elsewhere ...
The real issue is that AI research has mainly discovered that Intelligence is not well defined, and everything we thought was difficult (e.g. Playing chess) is relatively easy, and everything we thought was easy (e.g. Understanding Human Language) is horrifically difficult
A human child can walk, see interact and understand it's environment, hold a conversation ... none of these can be done even more than adequately by machines .. (Walking is ahead of the rest so far) but a cheap chess computer can beat most people, including most Grand Masters the majority of the time
Actually there is no place called Bangkok ... It's called Krung Thep (or the full ceremonial name), this was a newly built city, after it was moved from Thonburi on the other bank ... there was a small town in the vicinity called Bangkok before all this, now absorbed into the city
It's a bit like everyone outside New York referring to it as Fort Nassau !