While that may be true, Valve is still going after the wrong party.
If I buy the game, I should be able to play it. If the retailer is selling illegitimate versions of the game valve should go after them, not the consumer.
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It is the exact opposite for me. Good to know my custom domain will have IMAP soon.
While I can't comment specifically on San Diego's situation I know that up here in British Columbia, there have been fires that firefighters had no chance of stopping, yet millions were spent to 'make an effort' so the politicians could at least say they tried to protect homes.
A better strategy (in these specific fires) should have been to let the fires burn and either not waste the taxpayers money, or to give the money that would have been spent on fighting the fire to those whose homes burned down.
thus raising the cost of travel for everybody with no actual benefit.
You simple minded fool! Since Bush recently acknowledged the existence of climate change and the remote possibility that it may be our fault, he has implemented a far-reaching bureaucratic nightmare, that violates passengers privacy in the sole hope of increasing prices and discouraging travellers. This is even a multi-national effort as these new regulations also apply to flights that travel (but not take-off or land) in US airspace.
These new regulations should drastically reduce the US's carbon footprint and all you can do is complain. Typical. Wont someone please think of the children!
I think the labels (or at least some of them) have realized that they have to compete with the free music available on P2P. The first step in competing with free is to increase the value for customers, and DRM does the opposite. DRM reduces the value of purchased music, it limits how the music can be consumed (ie play for sure wont play on your iPod) and eliminates fair-use.
The challenge facing the labels (or Bands that decide to go it alone ala Radiohead et al.) will be how to continue making a living in a world where music can be downloaded for free on P2P networks.
What Happens If Office Updates Are Not Current and the Compatibility Pack Is Not Installed?
If neither the Office Update nor the Compatibility Pack is installed when users of Office XP or Office 2003 attempt to open a 2007 Microsoft Office system file, they will be notified that the file cannot be opened and they will be presented with the standard Microsoft Windows interface for handling unknown file types. By selecting the "Use a Web service to find the appropriate program" option, users will be directed to the Compatibility Pack download site that instructs them to first update Office with all the latest service packs and updates, and then install the Compatibility Pack. If the installation of Office XP and Office 2003 is current with security fixes and updates, Word, Excel or PowerPoint will direct the user to the download page for the Compatibility Pack. Office 2000 users will be directed to the Compatibility Pack download site as well.
when an old version of office opens a docx file it asks if you want to download and install the compatibility pack. click OK and its installed. It's very painless, and only requires a few clicks of next/OK buttons.
If the user doesn't have the privileges to install the file, then there is usually an IT department/guy who can and probably should install this for them.
Say what you will about the technical merits of docx, but MS had done a good job or ensuring the new file format works well with older versions of MS office.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone capable of getting themselves made President should by no means be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
a 50cm resolution from a satellite isn't even anything new (although it is very expensive to buy the images and they only cover a relatively small area), A few year ago when doing mu undergrad I took a remote sensing course and we played with images taken from commercial satellites with approximately the same resolution (it was a while ago and I don't recall the exact resolution). The High resolution images are available to anyone with a large enough wallet.
Not sure what is so new about this technology, though it could just be substantially cheaper than the old tech.
any new interface is going to have a learning curve. The real question is after learning how to use the new UI is it better or worse than office 2003 and OO.org
I bought my dell 24 inch monitor on sale and a few weeks later it was further reduced... I want my money back!!!
As far as I am concerned this move will probably generate lots of goodwill towards apple and create many more rabid apple fanboys. They probably figured that was worth more to them than whatever it cost them to offer the $100 in credit.
Out west (in Vancouver) I get my Internet from shaw. I frequently get very closed to the 10Mbps i pay for, and at least they are honest about not providing 'unlimited' access. I get 100gigs and that is enough.
The only issue I have had is that apparently they throttle bittorrent, but i get great speeds by using utorrent's protocol encryption.
Up hear in Canada our GSM provider (Rogers, who used to be an AT&T partner) lock down many MP3 phones, by installing their own media player over the default player that comes with the phone. The Rogers player can only use purchased songs for ring tones, and the media buttons (Fast-forward rewind, play/pause...) don't work with the rogers player.
Thankfully phones can be (legally) unlocked/unbranded up here so with a bit of work you can gedt a properly functioning cellphone.
I have been using vista for a while now and have only had a few issues with nvidia drivers (which i worked around) and BF2142 crashes at the end of a titan round. other than that Vista works quite well for me
not to mention the conversion of high-carbon storing ecosystems (forests) into low-carbon storage ecosystems (range land). All the carbon stored in the forest biomass will eventually be released back into the atmosphere, and the new low-carbon storage ecosystem will only be able to absorb as small amount of the eventually-to-be-released carbon from the forest.
That is why full cost accounting is so important. Switching to the newest and most efficient is only worthwhile if the efficiency is enough to offset the cost of building the new product and deposing the old product. Unfortunately getting you hands on this type of data is incredibly difficult.
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While that may be true, Valve is still going after the wrong party.
If I buy the game, I should be able to play it. If the retailer is selling illegitimate versions of the game valve should go after them, not the consumer.
It is the exact opposite for me. Good to know my custom domain will have IMAP soon.
While I can't comment specifically on San Diego's situation I know that up here in British Columbia, there have been fires that firefighters had no chance of stopping, yet millions were spent to 'make an effort' so the politicians could at least say they tried to protect homes.
A better strategy (in these specific fires) should have been to let the fires burn and either not waste the taxpayers money, or to give the money that would have been spent on fighting the fire to those whose homes burned down.
it's been done
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thevoyagers/518750492/
You simple minded fool! Since Bush recently acknowledged the existence of climate change and the remote possibility that it may be our fault, he has implemented a far-reaching bureaucratic nightmare, that violates passengers privacy in the sole hope of increasing prices and discouraging travellers. This is even a multi-national effort as these new regulations also apply to flights that travel (but not take-off or land) in US airspace.
These new regulations should drastically reduce the US's carbon footprint and all you can do is complain. Typical. Wont someone please think of the children!
I think the labels (or at least some of them) have realized that they have to compete with the free music available on P2P. The first step in competing with free is to increase the value for customers, and DRM does the opposite. DRM reduces the value of purchased music, it limits how the music can be consumed (ie play for sure wont play on your iPod) and eliminates fair-use.
The challenge facing the labels (or Bands that decide to go it alone ala Radiohead et al.) will be how to continue making a living in a world where music can be downloaded for free on P2P networks.
only if by duck you mean the national Canadian bird
Even an out of the box (ie non-patched) version of office will tell the user how to open the docx file.
from MS's own website. Well a google HTML cache of a Doc file on the MS website.
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:gAUhPMTsDS8J:www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2007office/docs/2007OfficeFileFormatFS.doc+office+2003+behaviour+docx&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us&client=firefox-a
What Happens If Office Updates Are Not Current and the Compatibility Pack Is Not Installed?
If neither the Office Update nor the Compatibility Pack is installed when users of Office XP or Office 2003 attempt to open a 2007 Microsoft Office system file, they will be notified that the file cannot be opened and they will be presented with the standard Microsoft Windows interface for handling unknown file types. By selecting the "Use a Web service to find the appropriate program" option, users will be directed to the Compatibility Pack download site that instructs them to first update Office with all the latest service packs and updates, and then install the Compatibility Pack. If the installation of Office XP and Office 2003 is current with security fixes and updates, Word, Excel or PowerPoint will direct the user to the download page for the Compatibility Pack. Office 2000 users will be directed to the Compatibility Pack download site as well.
when an old version of office opens a docx file it asks if you want to download and install the compatibility pack. click OK and its installed. It's very painless, and only requires a few clicks of next/OK buttons.
If the user doesn't have the privileges to install the file, then there is usually an IT department/guy who can and probably should install this for them.
Say what you will about the technical merits of docx, but MS had done a good job or ensuring the new file format works well with older versions of MS office.
I thought there was an update for the past few versions of Office that allowed docx files to be read.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone capable of getting themselves made President should by no means be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
a 50cm resolution from a satellite isn't even anything new (although it is very expensive to buy the images and they only cover a relatively small area), A few year ago when doing mu undergrad I took a remote sensing course and we played with images taken from commercial satellites with approximately the same resolution (it was a while ago and I don't recall the exact resolution). The High resolution images are available to anyone with a large enough wallet.
Not sure what is so new about this technology, though it could just be substantially cheaper than the old tech.
what the hell are you supposed to do with cake if you can't eat it?
I would be more concerned about how the code got in there and if they taken steps to ensure that it doesn't happen again
because I don't understand legalese and don't have the patience to read and understand a long contract every time i want to install software
not to mention that this system could probably be secured using readily available public key cryptography
any new interface is going to have a learning curve. The real question is after learning how to use the new UI is it better or worse than office 2003 and OO.org
I bought my dell 24 inch monitor on sale and a few weeks later it was further reduced... I want my money back!!!
As far as I am concerned this move will probably generate lots of goodwill towards apple and create many more rabid apple fanboys. They probably figured that was worth more to them than whatever it cost them to offer the $100 in credit.
in Canada there is no need to hide your 14 year old wife (or if you live in Bountiful BC, wives)... they are perfectly legal
some religions don't expect their "bible" to be taken literally.
Out west (in Vancouver) I get my Internet from shaw. I frequently get very closed to the 10Mbps i pay for, and at least they are honest about not providing 'unlimited' access. I get 100gigs and that is enough. The only issue I have had is that apparently they throttle bittorrent, but i get great speeds by using utorrent's protocol encryption.
Up hear in Canada our GSM provider (Rogers, who used to be an AT&T partner) lock down many MP3 phones, by installing their own media player over the default player that comes with the phone. The Rogers player can only use purchased songs for ring tones, and the media buttons (Fast-forward rewind, play/pause...) don't work with the rogers player.
Thankfully phones can be (legally) unlocked/unbranded up here so with a bit of work you can gedt a properly functioning cellphone.
I have been using vista for a while now and have only had a few issues with nvidia drivers (which i worked around) and BF2142 crashes at the end of a titan round. other than that Vista works quite well for me
not to mention the conversion of high-carbon storing ecosystems (forests) into low-carbon storage ecosystems (range land). All the carbon stored in the forest biomass will eventually be released back into the atmosphere, and the new low-carbon storage ecosystem will only be able to absorb as small amount of the eventually-to-be-released carbon from the forest.
That is why full cost accounting is so important. Switching to the newest and most efficient is only worthwhile if the efficiency is enough to offset the cost of building the new product and deposing the old product. Unfortunately getting you hands on this type of data is incredibly difficult.