The planets are named after Greek and Roman gods, but their moons have naming conventions that don't always follow that rule. Uranus's moons, for example, are normally named for characters from Shakespeare's plays.
You're confusing "can't" with "won't". Microsoft is quite capable of removing IE from Windows and letting the user choose which browser to use, but that would mean an end to ActiveX, the poor CSS support, and other proprietary extensions because they would actually have to follow public standards. There is no technical reason that Microsoft can't provide users with the ability to remove IE and point the OS at another browser for any of its HTML rendering needs.
And unfortunately, Microsoft has taken every possible step to thwart careful users with things like ActiveX, providing no way to turn off HTML rendering in Outlook Express, a security model that requires users to run numerous programs as administrator, hastily welding insecure software to the OS, and preventing users from removing any MS Windows component that they don't want.
Microsoft can truly remove IE, it just doesn't want to because that would mean an end to proprietary extensions. There is no reason for the file search interface to be so dependent on IE other than anticompetitive practices.
How is having human-readable files an excuse? That's a point in favor of OO.o because it's easier to get something useful out of a file in that format with another tool. OO.o also tends to do a better job reading MS Office files (older versions in particular) than MS Office. I've even been able OO.o to recover corrupted MS Word files that MS Office couldn't read.
There is a blind, hypocritical fool her, but it's you, not him. Firefox is just as good as Safari (which is partially based on Konqueror), Evolution is a perfectly fine program, OpenOffice.org is actually better than MS Office, and Gimp is adequate for the needs of most normal people.
I have no idea, and I don't appreciate paying money for the ability to call the entire universe when I'll only ever need to talk to a tiny portion of it.
It has potential to be worse than that. For the right price Microsoft will probably have their anti-spyware program "miss" a company's spyware and adware.
No, Microsoft is doomed. All of the features and products you claim are waiting in the wings will arrive after it's too late because Microsoft never releases them on time and still hasn't figured out what the word 'security' means. Microsoft can't, and won't, compete on a level playing field, either. It's methods have been evil (actual evil, not your dismissive evil with single quotes) practically from the start and they aren't going to change anytime soon.
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I can just imagine the plans that People for the Eating of Tasty Animals would have for cats and cows.
Simply because it's Sony doesn't mean they will do well with the PSP. The only reason the Playstation even exists is because of a failed partnership with Nintendo to make a CD-ROM peripheral for the SNES.
Would you mind explaining it to us American Slashdotters? I understand the football and the whole bit with the rubber glove, but what purpose do the ducks serve?
You have some serious misconceptions about Open Source Software. The major open source licenses don't deny people rights to code they wrote. You can distribute your code under any number of licenses simultaneously because you wrote it.
You also misunderstand the "anti-property rights corner"'s position. Their point is that creative works aren't property, but have been given certain property-like qualities for a limited time.
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The planets are named after Greek and Roman gods, but their moons have naming conventions that don't always follow that rule. Uranus's moons, for example, are normally named for characters from Shakespeare's plays.
No, he's saying he lost his marbles.
The irony is that California also does everything it can to ensure that cars owned by its citizens are fuel efficient.
You'd be depressed too if you had a brain the size of the planet and... oh never mind, you probably don't care anyway.
You're confusing "can't" with "won't". Microsoft is quite capable of removing IE from Windows and letting the user choose which browser to use, but that would mean an end to ActiveX, the poor CSS support, and other proprietary extensions because they would actually have to follow public standards. There is no technical reason that Microsoft can't provide users with the ability to remove IE and point the OS at another browser for any of its HTML rendering needs.
And unfortunately, Microsoft has taken every possible step to thwart careful users with things like ActiveX, providing no way to turn off HTML rendering in Outlook Express, a security model that requires users to run numerous programs as administrator, hastily welding insecure software to the OS, and preventing users from removing any MS Windows component that they don't want.
Microsoft can truly remove IE, it just doesn't want to because that would mean an end to proprietary extensions. There is no reason for the file search interface to be so dependent on IE other than anticompetitive practices.
How is having human-readable files an excuse? That's a point in favor of OO.o because it's easier to get something useful out of a file in that format with another tool. OO.o also tends to do a better job reading MS Office files (older versions in particular) than MS Office. I've even been able OO.o to recover corrupted MS Word files that MS Office couldn't read.
There is a blind, hypocritical fool her, but it's you, not him. Firefox is just as good as Safari (which is partially based on Konqueror), Evolution is a perfectly fine program, OpenOffice.org is actually better than MS Office, and Gimp is adequate for the needs of most normal people.
Unsliced bread?
"The Muppet Show" definitely had adults in mind at some levels. It's second pilot was titled "The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence".
I think it's the imperfections, and the fact that they physically exist, that make them more realistic than CGI.
... And Microsoft calls it production software.
But rock breaks scissors... Kif, we have a conundrum.
I have no idea, and I don't appreciate paying money for the ability to call the entire universe when I'll only ever need to talk to a tiny portion of it.
It has potential to be worse than that. For the right price Microsoft will probably have their anti-spyware program "miss" a company's spyware and adware.
No, Microsoft is doomed. All of the features and products you claim are waiting in the wings will arrive after it's too late because Microsoft never releases them on time and still hasn't figured out what the word 'security' means. Microsoft can't, and won't, compete on a level playing field, either. It's methods have been evil (actual evil, not your dismissive evil with single quotes) practically from the start and they aren't going to change anytime soon.
I can just imagine the plans that People for the Eating of Tasty Animals would have for cats and cows.
Simply because it's Sony doesn't mean they will do well with the PSP. The only reason the Playstation even exists is because of a failed partnership with Nintendo to make a CD-ROM peripheral for the SNES.
To parady: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is hunted down and killed."
Would you mind explaining it to us American Slashdotters? I understand the football and the whole bit with the rubber glove, but what purpose do the ducks serve?
Too plausible. A third party candidate will win whenever the Detroit Lions win the Superbowl.
You also misunderstand the "anti-property rights corner"'s position. Their point is that creative works aren't property, but have been given certain property-like qualities for a limited time.
Sure, you're laughing now, but I'd like you to say that to President Diebold Sucks.
We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us.