I'd argue that that example does more to illustrate the importance of standards, generally, rather than open standards. But if it's getting the point through, why not?
7. Get a small refrigerator and shop for only one or two days worth of meals. A smaller fridge is going to save on your electrical bill. Shopping on a smaller scale is a little less convenient than bulk shopping but can be done by a single person on the way home from work/school more easily than bulk shopping. It also means you tend to have fresher food and don't buy things you forget about that then go bad wasting the money.
Actually, I think bulk shopping is one of the best ways to cut down costs. One can easily save 30% of the cost of food this way, compared to buying everything in small quantities.
You did bother to read the whole submission, didn't you?
Speculation on reasons for the difference in click rates range from Firefox's integrated pop-up blocking to seeing the average Firefox user as more tech-savvy the average Internet Explorer user.
It's like working out so that you can get strong enough to pick yourself up by the bootstraps. The stronger you get, the more you weigh and you make the impossible less possible.
I think you need to take another thought about what the real reason is why you can't pick yourself up...;-)
Sun has open sourced a lot of products. JFS is good but I don't know of many people using it and can't think of any distributions that use it as their default filesystem. What else has IBM open sourced?
But the government is supposed to represent us, the people. It's not some isolated entity outside of the community. It's a selected part of it and should do what the rest of the community wants them to do. No duality there.
Actually, I'd think the third type (corporate user) is the largest segment, by far. They usually have lots of sensitive data to protect. And 'FBI backdoors' are a big concern, even to PHB's. That's why there are so many proprietary "standards" in use.
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Now that DHS knows that, I bet tweeting words like "partying" and "getting drunk" is going to trigger a red flag as a synonyms to destroy.
But honestly, there just aren't that many bugs left in VB6 that aren't already known.
I know what you mean, but how would you know? Couldn't this be said for all software?
At times like these, I don't really care about politics or philosophy.
So, when do you care? Only when it's convenient?
I'd argue that that example does more to illustrate the importance of standards, generally, rather than open standards. But if it's getting the point through, why not?
Actually, I think bulk shopping is one of the best ways to cut down costs. One can easily save 30% of the cost of food this way, compared to buying everything in small quantities.
And what's the answer to the question "Protools [1] doesn't have a feature I need. What do I do?"?
Look, you don't necessarily have to code anything, but you have the option to do it.
[1] Or Cubase, Cakewalk etc.
not generally != never
It's like working out so that you can get strong enough to pick yourself up by the bootstraps. The stronger you get, the more you weigh and you make the impossible less possible.
;-)
I think you need to take another thought about what the real reason is why you can't pick yourself up...
Maybe there's something here? http://www-136.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/
I don't care if its free.
I don't care if its open-source.
But some of us do. Really. It's a feature that Photoshop probably will never have.
Now, if someone had quit the military because they use Linux, that would have been a more interesting story.
There's nothing worse than being stuck in Moscow and having to use a Cyrillic keyboard, even if you touch-type it's distracting.
Well, unless you're russian, I suppose.
Maybe that's why the headline says Preview?
But the government is supposed to represent us, the people. It's not some isolated entity outside of the community. It's a selected part of it and should do what the rest of the community wants them to do. No duality there.
Why not get rid of those batteries and make it into a body powered device?
Actually, I'd think the third type (corporate user) is the largest segment, by far. They usually have lots of sensitive data to protect. And 'FBI backdoors' are a big concern, even to PHB's. That's why there are so many proprietary "standards" in use.