A. You can decrypt the data B. You can go back where you came from
C. The point is moot, because I wouldn't travel to the USA. I wouldn't travel there voluntarily, and I've refused business travel for conferences and tradeshows. It's just not worth the indignities.
Of course, by "indignities" I mean "possible immediate detention without access to counsel, secret transportation to places and countries unknown, imprisonment, torture, and death".
Mod parent up. Whichever format or delivery system is supported by the adult entertainment industry is the one that wins. See "VHS". Hell, see "Internet".
Didn't you elect John Howard in a few times in a row?:-P
Don't confuse the efficacy of the system with the stupidity of the voters. In fact, the first makes the second more obvious.
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Office 2007 is leaps and bounds over anything Microsoft put out before. The interface is also heavily improved, so I don't know where you're getting this (unless this is pre-2005 when Office 2007 wasn't public knowledge)
From his reference to Apple Pages, I assume that the author uses a Mac. The most recent version of Microsoft Office for OS X is Office 2004, which does not have the new Office interface. Office 2008 for OS X is still in beta.
The simple fact that a textbook on teaching from the National Academy of Sciences even mentions a god is evidence that the intellectual health of the country is basically screwed.
To clarify my point above, I'm talking about desktops. My office may be a sea of Minis, Macbooks, and Macbook Pros but all our servers are commodity x86 hardware running Linux or Sun hardware running SunOS or Solaris.
- Apple might be good for a grandma or for a graphic designer, but for a programmer it's an annoyance.
-- Exactly. Keep in mind since most people are not and will not ever be programmers I fully expect these kinds of numbers.
I work for a very geeky company. Development is our bread and butter, and we're doing it pretty well based on the past couple of annual reports and analyst forecasts.
EVERY SINGLE ALPHA GEEK in the company has moved to using a Mac in the past 18 months. Every single one of them had to fight hard against an official "Windows desktops" policy set by HR in order to get permission to use a Mac.
If you don't like Macs, fine. But don't say "programmers don't like Macs", because in my recent experience programmers prefer them over every possible alternative.
Of course it is. The stock has underperformed the market for the better part of a decade. From an investment point of view, Microsoft has tanked steadily since 2000.
Can you point out the point at which I'm supposed to feel sympathy?
No-one forced the "artists" (and in almost every case I use that term in its loosest possible sense) to sign those deals. They were either greedy, stupid, or knew what they were doing and decided to sign.
I just don't travel to the USA any more. It's not worth my time or my dignity. When conferences and business meetings get scheduled, I make sure someone else goes. Inevitably they get back complaining about some jackbooted stormtrooper screaming "PAPERS! PAPERS!" at them, and vow never to go through it again.
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people don't seem to remember that youth are still citizens
No they're not, because the defining characteristic of a citizen in a representative republic is the right to vote. And children don't have one.
A. You can decrypt the data
B. You can go back where you came from
C. The point is moot, because I wouldn't travel to the USA. I wouldn't travel there voluntarily, and I've refused business travel for conferences and tradeshows. It's just not worth the indignities.
Of course, by "indignities" I mean "possible immediate detention without access to counsel, secret transportation to places and countries unknown, imprisonment, torture, and death".
The Earth is only 6,000 years old. Mike Huckabee wouldn't lie to me.
While vacumn tubes are strictly in the realm of hobbyists and zealous audiophiles...
Almost all modern guitar amplifiers are valve-powered.
Employees at Enron did the same thing.
In other news, sky found to be blue.
At this rate, a better metaphor would have been "rising sea levels".
Mod parent up. Whichever format or delivery system is supported by the adult entertainment industry is the one that wins. See "VHS". Hell, see "Internet".
Didn't you elect John Howard in a few times in a row? :-P
Don't confuse the efficacy of the system with the stupidity of the voters. In fact, the first makes the second more obvious.
Office 2007 is leaps and bounds over anything Microsoft put out before. The interface is also heavily improved, so I don't know where you're getting this (unless this is pre-2005 when Office 2007 wasn't public knowledge)
From his reference to Apple Pages, I assume that the author uses a Mac. The most recent version of Microsoft Office for OS X is Office 2004, which does not have the new Office interface. Office 2008 for OS X is still in beta.
But seriously, wasn't it almost exactly 100 years ago that humanity learned an important lesson about mixing helium and airships?
Doesn't helium have the unfortunate property of being, oh I don't know... extremely flammable?
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the American public-school education.
...does this have to do with Microsoft? Nothing, as far as I can see.
The simple fact that a textbook on teaching from the National Academy of Sciences even mentions a god is evidence that the intellectual health of the country is basically screwed.
To clarify my point above, I'm talking about desktops. My office may be a sea of Minis, Macbooks, and Macbook Pros but all our servers are commodity x86 hardware running Linux or Sun hardware running SunOS or Solaris.
- Apple might be good for a grandma or for a graphic designer, but for a programmer it's an annoyance.
-- Exactly. Keep in mind since most people are not and will not ever be programmers I fully expect these kinds of numbers.
I work for a very geeky company. Development is our bread and butter, and we're doing it pretty well based on the past couple of annual reports and analyst forecasts.
EVERY SINGLE ALPHA GEEK in the company has moved to using a Mac in the past 18 months. Every single one of them had to fight hard against an official "Windows desktops" policy set by HR in order to get permission to use a Mac.
If you don't like Macs, fine. But don't say "programmers don't like Macs", because in my recent experience programmers prefer them over every possible alternative.
So now everyone's going to race to their blogs and post "Peter Gutmann was right and I was wrong"... right?
(crickets chirp)
- They were either greedy, stupid, or knew what they were doing and decided to sign.
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-- Or trusted their lawyers too much.
I think that falls into the second category I mentioned
So I think MS is probably a "stock for fools".
Of course it is. The stock has underperformed the market for the better part of a decade. From an investment point of view, Microsoft has tanked steadily since 2000.
Can you point out the point at which I'm supposed to feel sympathy?
No-one forced the "artists" (and in almost every case I use that term in its loosest possible sense) to sign those deals. They were either greedy, stupid, or knew what they were doing and decided to sign.
Windows Media Player doesn't even play UNPROTECTED AAC.
It did sort of explain why HS was mostly just a fog for me though...going without restful sleep for multiple years will do that ;-)
So any parent will tell you.
I just don't travel to the USA any more. It's not worth my time or my dignity. When conferences and business meetings get scheduled, I make sure someone else goes. Inevitably they get back complaining about some jackbooted stormtrooper screaming "PAPERS! PAPERS!" at them, and vow never to go through it again.
It's shitty articles with shitty summaries like this that remind me why subscribing to Slashdot would be a total waste of money.
I also expect Zonk to re-post this shitty article with a different shitty summary in three days.
PowerPoint 95, but not 97, is blocked. It's very likely that few documents exist in such old formats at this point.
Yeah, only every presentation created during the years 1995, 1996, and 1997. That can't be many, right? And I bet none of them are important anyway.
It's like... donations made a quantum leap! What a sea change!