True - but if Office is installed on a Macintosh - then MS still has the right to come in and audit every machine, meaning that the school district will *still* have to devote staff and resources to ensuring compliance.
So although OSX Mac systems offer an alternative to MS Windows systems - the moment someone installs Office on them - they are back with the problem of facing regular audits from MS.
It is a lot less likely that MS would have a case to do an audit if all of the machines were Linux - which don't run MS programs - as opposed to Macintoshes that often do.
A point to consider is that when there weren't so many selections to news and information outlets, news and information outlets had to be more middle of the road. Now, with so many to choose from, it is more likely that you will get your news from a site (or station) that is skewed to your perceptions of the world.
Instead of being confronted with opinions contrary to those with which you percieve the world, you can be safely confronted with the spin about the world that you already agree with.
Can 'the world be brought together' if everybody is reinforcing their own preconceptions about everyone else? Most likely not.
It was interesting that they suggested that news sites might be shut down due to copyright problems. Another possible problem for independent news sites would be defamation suits launched in countries other than the US. Slashdot has talked about this here and here.
Although these cases may end up showing that the jurisdiction of defamation comes down to where the site was published, the cost of defending nuisance suits could grow to the point where editors of such sites find other things to publish. Having to send a legal representative to some other country (or employing local counsel) every time you need some spurious legal argument thrown out of court is going to add up financially.
For those that visit Moscow, in Gorky Park, by the river is the shell of a Buran Shuttle. Entry is only a few US dollars - and it includes a rather dodgy multimedia presentation on space flight. The intersting thing for me when visiting was that, even when you get to Gorky Park, the thing isn't really advertised. I ended up taking the ferris wheel so I could look over the park layout to find this shuttle that I'd read about in my Lonely Planet guide. Russia apparently built 5 Burans, only one of which did an unmanned orbital flight. I'm not sure if the one in Gorky Park is that one. Makes you wonder where the others are and if anything will be done with them besides stripping them down and turning them into a rotting tourist attraction in Moscow.
It will be interesting to see where this Space Tourist venture goes. If it can pay for itself (and one would assume it could as it is hard to believe that anybody could afford to run it at a loss) it might turn out that the Russian space industry will get a good head start in the space tourism industry.
I'm also annoyed by the term "Un-Australian" though I think it comes out of the mouth of both sides of politics - The Prime Minister of Australia (John Howard) used the term fairly often in the last federal election. It has been used generally in Australian debate since the rise of Hansonism after the 1996 Federal Election.
There is a wider issue of whether or not these transcripts should be forwarded to cabinet. I have no problem with military stuff being forwarded to the military - but transcripts shouldn't be forwarded to cabinet - only to (at most) the Minister for Defence and the PM.
Rupert Murdoch gave up his.au citizenship some years ago to comply with US media ownership rules when he took over FOX. Your points still stand though. It would be interesting to see if the EU would be willing to take on someone who is now, for all intents and purposes, an "American Media Magnate" for monopolistic practices - esp given the money that Murdoch funnels into politics around the world.
There was a review the other day on/. for "the Claw" - well I've found that the Strategic Commander works very well for these games as well. Especially the ability to hot program macros. Very good for straffing and moving forward at the same time.
It will take a little time to get used to - but it puts a lot of buttons in much easier reach than on a standard keyboard.
We put a Win2K box in a student lab. 2 days later some bright student, obviously bored, scribbles all over it in pen. A week later someone rips half it off. May the lawyer twit who came up with this idea be mauled by a rabbit ferret.
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True - but if Office is installed on a Macintosh - then MS still has the right to come in and audit every machine, meaning that the school district will *still* have to devote staff and resources to ensuring compliance.
So although OSX Mac systems offer an alternative to MS Windows systems - the moment someone installs Office on them - they are back with the problem of facing regular audits from MS.
It is a lot less likely that MS would have a case to do an audit if all of the machines were Linux - which don't run MS programs - as opposed to Macintoshes that often do.
A point to consider is that when there weren't so many selections to news and information outlets, news and information outlets had to be more middle of the road. Now, with so many to choose from, it is more likely that you will get your news from a site (or station) that is skewed to your perceptions of the world.
Instead of being confronted with opinions contrary to those with which you percieve the world, you can be safely confronted with the spin about the world that you already agree with.
Can 'the world be brought together' if everybody is reinforcing their own preconceptions about everyone else? Most likely not.
It was interesting that they suggested that news sites might be shut down due to copyright problems. Another possible problem for independent news sites would be defamation suits launched in countries other than the US. Slashdot has talked about this here and here.
Although these cases may end up showing that the jurisdiction of defamation comes down to where the site was published, the cost of defending nuisance suits could grow to the point where editors of such sites find other things to publish. Having to send a legal representative to some other country (or employing local counsel) every time you need some spurious legal argument thrown out of court is going to add up financially.
For those that visit Moscow, in Gorky Park, by the river is the shell of a Buran Shuttle. Entry is only a few US dollars - and it includes a rather dodgy multimedia presentation on space flight. The intersting thing for me when visiting was that, even when you get to Gorky Park, the thing isn't really advertised. I ended up taking the ferris wheel so I could look over the park layout to find this shuttle that I'd read about in my Lonely Planet guide. Russia apparently built 5 Burans, only one of which did an unmanned orbital flight. I'm not sure if the one in Gorky Park is that one. Makes you wonder where the others are and if anything will be done with them besides stripping them down and turning them into a rotting tourist attraction in Moscow.
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Here is a picture I found on the web:
http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/Buran/gpk94ag_bu
It will be interesting to see where this Space Tourist venture goes. If it can pay for itself (and one would assume it could as it is hard to believe that anybody could afford to run it at a loss) it might turn out that the Russian space industry will get a good head start in the space tourism industry.
I'm also annoyed by the term "Un-Australian" though I think it comes out of the mouth of both sides of politics - The Prime Minister of Australia (John Howard) used the term fairly often in the last federal election. It has been used generally in Australian debate since the rise of Hansonism after the 1996 Federal Election.
There is a wider issue of whether or not these transcripts should be forwarded to cabinet. I have no problem with military stuff being forwarded to the military - but transcripts shouldn't be forwarded to cabinet - only to (at most) the Minister for Defence and the PM.
Posted by Paleolithic on Tuesday February 12,
>Do some research and you will see that Australia is run by the right -- Conservatives not liberals.
Just to be more confusing - the Conservatives are called the Liberals. http://liberal.org.au
Rupert Murdoch gave up his .au citizenship some years ago to comply with US media ownership rules when he took over FOX. Your points still stand though. It would be interesting to see if the EU would be willing to take on someone who is now, for all intents and purposes, an "American Media Magnate" for monopolistic practices - esp given the money that Murdoch funnels into politics around the world.
There was a review the other day on /. for "the Claw" - well I've found that the Strategic Commander works very well for these games as well. Especially the ability to hot program macros. Very good for straffing and moving forward at the same time.
It will take a little time to get used to - but it puts a lot of buttons in much easier reach than on a standard keyboard.
We put a Win2K box in a student lab. 2 days later some bright student, obviously bored, scribbles all over it in pen. A week later someone rips half it off. May the lawyer twit who came up with this idea be mauled by a rabbit ferret.