While two negatives make a positive, two positives do not make a negative. Sure they do; it's called overflow. For example, x7FFF + x0002 = x8001. In 16-bit 2's complement, that translates to 32767 + 2 = -32767.
TFA says that the systems run Microsoft Office, not StarOffice. I'm sure they meant StarOffice. Unless there's a Linux port of MS Office that no one told me about.
I think the point of this is that if you're going to be using a credit card either way, then you might as well support FOSS in the process. It's certainly not meant as a substitute for direct donations, and anyone who doesn't use a credit card shouldn't start using one for this reason alone.
She may not be guilty, but neither is AOL. The idea that an ISP is responsible for what its clients do is even sillier than the idea that a computer's owner is responsible for what other users do.
Would the typical user have to deal with this security problem with IE - (NO)? The fact that you cannot install a firefox update as a limited user is not a security problem. In fact, it's just the opposite. I'd be quite worried if my OS let a non-root user modify application binaries.
Whereas the private property is in the foundations of the democracy. I think you may be confusing democracy with capitalism. Democracy is when people choose who runs their government. Capitalism is when wealth and property are privately owned by individuals.
Geez. At least you let Canada off relatively easy. Russians get kicked in the face, Americans get punched in the balls... You seem to have misunderstood the parent. The Canadians are the ones getting kicked in the balls. Nothing was done to the Americans.
I offer that you may not understand exactly what "quality product" means. It seems that you're the one who doesn't understand what "quality product" means. Your example is a great description of a "successful product", but that is very different from a "quality product". Nobody buys Windows because they have compared all of the alternatives and determined that this was the best OS. People buy Windows because it is preinstalled on 99% of computers, and most users don't know that alternatives even exist. Unfortunately, there is no correlation between quality and success. If there were, Apple an Be would be the largest OS producers, and talking about Microsoft would cause people to look at you funny, except for a few geeks who'd say "Microsoft... you mean that company that went bankrupt in '94 because all their software sucked?".
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This was in Wednesdays newspaper!
It was also in Tuesday's /.
I think the point of this is that if you're going to be using a credit card either way, then you might as well support FOSS in the process. It's certainly not meant as a substitute for direct donations, and anyone who doesn't use a credit card shouldn't start using one for this reason alone.
She may not be guilty, but neither is AOL. The idea that an ISP is responsible for what its clients do is even sillier than the idea that a computer's owner is responsible for what other users do.
That's what I was just pondering.
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