Keynote may or may not trump PowerPoint and Impress, but does it matter much? As a college student, I have needed spreadsheets and word processing; not slideshows.
Well, I see only three options for the near-term future of office suites:
Stay with MS Office 2000/2003/2007 indefinitely.
Use this new pay-as-you-go service
Use OpenOffice, KOffice, Abiword, StarOffice, etc.
MS's current office suites will eventually be too old (file formats stop getting used, stop getting patches, etc). The pay-as-you-go service is prohibitively expensive. But OpenOffice and the rest can only get better, if only because they all use the same file format and therefore users have no reason to stay with a poor product when one of the others surpasses it.
After your animal instincts pick the attractive car, you find some way to argue that the car is your rational choice
I don't find any cars that I could conceivably purchase (it's a small list) visually appealing.
Actually I haven't bought a vehicle yet. As a college student, public transportation is still the most feasible option for me (but it is becoming less so).
I was 6'5" last time I checked (I suspect I might still be growing), so I decided that motorcycles are my best solution.
Cheap, great gas mileage, infinite head room, great insurance rates, simpler to fix...
I can rent those few times I actually need cargo capacity and still have a lower TCO than owning a car.
1: Build cars that are appealing to the eye. I mean, cars that are as beautiful to look at as they are beautiful to sit into.
Superficial. Give me something that will get me where I want to go (OK, I'll understand if it won't get me to the Moon). I care more about aerodynamics for fuel efficiency than visual appeal.
2: Build cars that do not break just after their warranty mileage.
Well, can't argue with that one.
3: Build cars that are easy to repair...cars that even the Joe Six Pack will "understand."
The Tesla Roadster consists of:
A battery
4 electric motors
A steering assembly
Brakes
CPU
Accessories (radio, power windows, power steering, AC)
Overall, not all that complicated compared to a traditional vehicle, and the parts potentially can be very easy to switch out, assuming they are engineered to allow for that.
4: Build cars that have excellent resale value. Not cars that lose 50% of their value in 1 year.
I don't think that has anything to do with the auto manufacturers, except for whatever part #2 plays in second-hand purchasing decisions.
Such a system would need to be publicly funded, because one obviously can't meter the usage in a way that is both difficult to spoof and non-invasive to privacy.
A train system can be self-funding with ticket revenue.
If we do go in the direction of electric cars, something resembling a parking meter attached to a power outlet would be more realistic.
Here's an interesting thought: electric cars that can attach to trains? The trains do all the long-distance hauling, and the batteries get you to and from the stations?
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Keynote may or may not trump PowerPoint and Impress, but does it matter much?
As a college student, I have needed spreadsheets and word processing; not slideshows.
That's why he's known as the honorable judge, not that other judge.
What's that mean in English?
MS's current office suites will eventually be too old (file formats stop getting used, stop getting patches, etc). The pay-as-you-go service is prohibitively expensive. But OpenOffice and the rest can only get better, if only because they all use the same file format and therefore users have no reason to stay with a poor product when one of the others surpasses it.
Of course they do. Didn't you see yesterday's XKCD?
I keep OpenOffice Portable on my flash drive.
I didn't see a charge for using IE in the summary.
I'll pretend I only use my computer for 10 hours a day. In less than two weeks this model would cost more than XP.
I thought one of the criteria for slander (or in this case, libel) is that the utterance not be true.
Maybe they don't acknowledge beta products.
I don't recognize it, but I presume it is a quote from classic or geek literature.
You missed one: AOS X's core, BSD runs on tons of hardware.
Unfortunately, all things come to an end.
Even Microsoft?
After your animal instincts pick the attractive car, you find some way to argue that the car is your rational choice
I don't find any cars that I could conceivably purchase (it's a small list) visually appealing.
Actually I haven't bought a vehicle yet. As a college student, public transportation is still the most feasible option for me (but it is becoming less so).
The trend was towards Communism before the war started, IIRC.
I was 6'5" last time I checked (I suspect I might still be growing), so I decided that motorcycles are my best solution.
Cheap, great gas mileage, infinite head room, great insurance rates, simpler to fix...
I can rent those few times I actually need cargo capacity and still have a lower TCO than owning a car.
If the vehicles are fuel-efficient enough, maybe we could get around using just the oil we pump in-country?
But with Amtrak, you don't pay (directly) for gas.
...pound per pound, nothing's more efficient than moving large quantities of mass than rail.
Bikes. Weighs about 25 pounds, can move 300 pounds of "love handles".~
1: Build cars that are appealing to the eye. I mean, cars that are as beautiful to look at as they are beautiful to sit into.
Superficial. Give me something that will get me where I want to go (OK, I'll understand if it won't get me to the Moon). I care more about aerodynamics for fuel efficiency than visual appeal.
2: Build cars that do not break just after their warranty mileage.
Well, can't argue with that one.
3: Build cars that are easy to repair...cars that even the Joe Six Pack will "understand."
The Tesla Roadster consists of:
Overall, not all that complicated compared to a traditional vehicle, and the parts potentially can be very easy to switch out, assuming they are engineered to allow for that.
4: Build cars that have excellent resale value. Not cars that lose 50% of their value in 1 year.
I don't think that has anything to do with the auto manufacturers, except for whatever part #2 plays in second-hand purchasing decisions.
Such a system would need to be publicly funded, because one obviously can't meter the usage in a way that is both difficult to spoof and non-invasive to privacy.
A train system can be self-funding with ticket revenue.
If we do go in the direction of electric cars, something resembling a parking meter attached to a power outlet would be more realistic.
Here's an interesting thought: electric cars that can attach to trains?
The trains do all the long-distance hauling, and the batteries get you to and from the stations?
Those potholes are supposed to get fixed anyways.
People would be better off renting a truck for a day if they don't haul stuff around at least once a week or so.
40% of the oxygen in the surrounding air
(100*20%)*40%=8
So 20% oxygen goes in, 12% oxygen comes out.
You assume sugar and fertilizer are readily available in Gaza. Is that accurate?