Wrong. You can get a older style white MacBook for $1000. Check any number of sites and you'll find that price. Also, when Apple rolls out a new line of products, you can usually pick up last year's model at various web retailers for even less.
I'm already speaking with my wallet concerning iTunes DRM. I'll buy from the iTunes store if the song I want is an iTunes plus(DRM free) song, otherwise I buy music from Amazon. Amazon has a nice tool that integrates the music right into iTunes so you get the best of both worlds, DRM free and easy to use interface. 90% of my purchases over the last year have been from Amazon.
At the same time I'm educating my 6th grader about why he should buy DRM free music. It seems to be getting through. You've got to start somewhere.
I used to use Ubuntu until I discovered that once they do a release they issue only security fixes for 18 months. They might issue a bug fix if it is a huge problematic bug but that's it for bug fixes. Fedora, on the other hand, has constant updates during it's lifetime. Granted, it is only a 9 month life but it is constantly being fixed throughout its life.
I agree. If you price out the Epson Stylus R800 in the article you will see that they sell for around $350. Assuming I pay 36 cents per print at my local shop, I can find cheaper but start at that price, for $350 I can get 972 prints. Even if printing on the R800 is cheaper per print it will be thousands of prints before I begin to break even and many thousands before I start to get ahead. By then the Stylus is way out of date and the latest printer is another $350. I'll stick with my local shop.
"Update: (16 Jan 2004) This may look like a repeat, but it's not. Before, FreeDOS on Dell wasn't available to US customers - it was Canadian customers only."
To me that is the first question that needs to be answered. I still shoot all film and here are my reasons why.
1. To purchase a digital SLR(I have an EOS Elan II now so I want something similar if I switch to digital) I would probably buy a 10D which runs about $1500.
2. I would need memory cards to hold all the pictures I might take. Since I would shoot in the highest quality setting( I paid $1500 why would I shoot at a lower quality. I'd buy a lower quality camera if I wanted to to that) which would mean I'd buy 1 gig of memory, let's say that is $200.
I've spent $1700 to get into a digital setup. I currently shoot around 3 rolls a month. I shoot consumer grade film because the quality is really very good. I develop at a higher end place because I believe it is better. I spend around $14/roll to buy and develop. So I spend round $50 a month on my hobby. I can continue to shoot film for 3 years for what it would take to get me into a similar digital setup now. So for me to reap any savings costs I'm looking years into the future before I'm any where near break even. I also look at true development costs. I can shoot a roll of film and drop it off. With digital I can't really see the quality of my shot in the 1 1/2" inch screen on the camera so I'll have to either upload the pictures to my computer and judge which ones I want to print or spend the time at some kiosk deciding which ones to print. That also adds time costs to shooting digital. I have many friends who shoot digital and love it and I see the quality in their prints. For me there is just too much time and money involved right now for me to make the switch. I'm also not convinced the cd's I save my photos on will either work or be accessible in 25 years. I'm am convinced my 35mm negatives stored in a firebox will be around and printable in 25 years.
You need those capabilities, stay with MS Office. Many, many others out there use MS Office to create very basic documents that could just as easily been created in OO. I would bet very few users of MS documents create them using Visual Basic. MS Office isn't for every user just as OO and SO aren't for every user.
Okay so you want to purchase a product. MS offers gives some freebie support. Unlimited installation support isn't really that big of a deal. Now lets do some math for the home user. You can buy StarOffice and get one free support incident. After that it is $25 per incident for phone support or $20 for emailed suport. I can spend $400 to buy a copy of MS Office and I get three free support calls(let's assume you install once and call for help) or I can buy StarOffice for $75, get one free call for installation, and pay for a two calls. Here's the totals MS(purchase + 3 support calls(1 for installation)) $400, StarOffice(purchase + 3 support calls(1 for installation)) $125. That's MS: $400 Sun: $125. After that point MS is $10 more per call. Yes, I think the MS deal is unreasonable for a home user.
As a personal user, even if you purchase MS Office you don't get support. You can go to a web page and look up info or call them at $??? per call for support. If you want a company behind your office productivity suite spend the bucks and get it from Sun. Most coporations would be inclined to do it this way.
If you are a personal user and the kind to go to the MS website to get your support then searching openoffice.org or google to get help isn't much of a stretch. The only stretching will be from the money left in your wallet.
The cross-platform criteria would also include writing to w3 standards. Instead of testing your website on every possible browser simply write to the standards.
Look at Great Bridge's website and you will find that 24x7 support is available, for a price. Great Bridge also employs at least one of the developers of the PostgreSQL database. I don't know about any of the MySQL options but you can have it with PostgreSQL.
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Wrong. You can get a older style white MacBook for $1000. Check any number of sites and you'll find that price. Also, when Apple rolls out a new line of products, you can usually pick up last year's model at various web retailers for even less.
I'm already speaking with my wallet concerning iTunes DRM. I'll buy from the iTunes store if the song I want is an iTunes plus(DRM free) song, otherwise I buy music from Amazon. Amazon has a nice tool that integrates the music right into iTunes so you get the best of both worlds, DRM free and easy to use interface. 90% of my purchases over the last year have been from Amazon. At the same time I'm educating my 6th grader about why he should buy DRM free music. It seems to be getting through. You've got to start somewhere.
I used to use Ubuntu until I discovered that once they do a release they issue only security fixes for 18 months. They might issue a bug fix if it is a huge problematic bug but that's it for bug fixes. Fedora, on the other hand, has constant updates during it's lifetime. Granted, it is only a 9 month life but it is constantly being fixed throughout its life.
I agree. If you price out the Epson Stylus R800 in the article you will see that they sell for around $350. Assuming I pay 36 cents per print at my local shop, I can find cheaper but start at that price, for $350 I can get 972 prints. Even if printing on the R800 is cheaper per print it will be thousands of prints before I begin to break even and many thousands before I start to get ahead. By then the Stylus is way out of date and the latest printer is another $350. I'll stick with my local shop.
The also missed tsearch2 http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearc h/V2/
If yyyy-mm-dd is correct why can't you simply drop the yyyy and have mm-dd? Hence, 9-11.
Not according to the FreeDos site.
"Update: (16 Jan 2004) This may look like a repeat, but it's not. Before, FreeDOS on Dell wasn't available to US customers - it was Canadian customers only."
To me that is the first question that needs to be answered. I still shoot all film and here are my reasons why. 1. To purchase a digital SLR(I have an EOS Elan II now so I want something similar if I switch to digital) I would probably buy a 10D which runs about $1500. 2. I would need memory cards to hold all the pictures I might take. Since I would shoot in the highest quality setting( I paid $1500 why would I shoot at a lower quality. I'd buy a lower quality camera if I wanted to to that) which would mean I'd buy 1 gig of memory, let's say that is $200. I've spent $1700 to get into a digital setup. I currently shoot around 3 rolls a month. I shoot consumer grade film because the quality is really very good. I develop at a higher end place because I believe it is better. I spend around $14/roll to buy and develop. So I spend round $50 a month on my hobby. I can continue to shoot film for 3 years for what it would take to get me into a similar digital setup now. So for me to reap any savings costs I'm looking years into the future before I'm any where near break even. I also look at true development costs. I can shoot a roll of film and drop it off. With digital I can't really see the quality of my shot in the 1 1/2" inch screen on the camera so I'll have to either upload the pictures to my computer and judge which ones I want to print or spend the time at some kiosk deciding which ones to print. That also adds time costs to shooting digital. I have many friends who shoot digital and love it and I see the quality in their prints. For me there is just too much time and money involved right now for me to make the switch. I'm also not convinced the cd's I save my photos on will either work or be accessible in 25 years. I'm am convinced my 35mm negatives stored in a firebox will be around and printable in 25 years.
"You'd think that predicting human behavior would be easy." You must not have any children living with you.
You need those capabilities, stay with MS Office. Many, many others out there use MS Office to create very basic documents that could just as easily been created in OO. I would bet very few users of MS documents create them using Visual Basic. MS Office isn't for every user just as OO and SO aren't for every user.
Okay so you want to purchase a product. MS offers gives some freebie support. Unlimited installation support isn't really that big of a deal.
Now lets do some math for the home user. You can buy StarOffice and get one free support incident. After that it is $25 per incident for phone support or $20 for emailed suport. I can spend $400 to buy a copy of MS Office and I get three free support calls(let's assume you install once and call for help) or I can buy StarOffice for $75, get one free call for installation, and pay for a two calls. Here's the totals MS(purchase + 3 support calls(1 for installation)) $400, StarOffice(purchase + 3 support calls(1 for installation)) $125. That's MS: $400 Sun: $125. After that point MS is $10 more per call. Yes, I think the MS deal is unreasonable for a home user.
As a personal user, even if you purchase MS Office you don't get support. You can go to a web page and look up info or call them at $??? per call for support. If you want a company behind your office productivity suite spend the bucks and get it from Sun. Most coporations would be inclined to do it this way.
If you are a personal user and the kind to go to the MS website to get your support then searching openoffice.org or google to get help isn't much of a stretch. The only stretching will be from the money left in your wallet.
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The cross-platform criteria would also include writing to w3 standards. Instead of testing your website on every possible browser simply write to the standards.
Look at Great Bridge's website and you will find that 24x7 support is available, for a price. Great Bridge also employs at least one of the developers of the PostgreSQL database. I don't know about any of the MySQL options but you can have it with PostgreSQL.