Pretty impressive when you consider that it's closed source so the distributors have to code, package, test, debug and maintain all those versions themselves without, unless I'm mistaken, a lot of community effort (minus bug reporting and things of the like).
So now we see the far-reaching disaster that occurs when we enforce these stupid software patents - all the logistical nightmares, the impractical enforceability, the unwitting collateral damage, et cetera. Our greatest hope is that everything can blow up in everyone's face as big as possible with no real advantage to anyone in the end (that's right: dump as much spam in the fan as you can) and then we'll see how pointless it is to enforce software patents.
It's true. When you consider how much they make from selling free trials, it's more than worth it for what they would have to pay just to get rid of Word. Besides, that's what you get for getting involved in such a deal.
Corporations, like people, have this habit of complaining when their cheap schemes break down. What they don't realize is that if they never got into them, they would have never had to deal with it. Decision-making shouldn't come without this little thing called Risk Analysis.
Ah yes, MS can't compete with Google, so they fight them with litigation. Just like the RIAA can't convince people to buy CDs anymore because there are better alternatives so we have to make all these ridiculous DMCA policies to fight it.
Yup, viral death of a corporation is one that can't compete in business, only legal terms.
Then why do the courts not force cable companies to share their lines with competitors? (Maybe that decision was exclusive to internet?)
We dumped Comcast years ago because they would raise their rates arbitrarily and with no limit. And yet the courts have this delusion that their is competition - then why are they allowed to do this? Sure....
Or it could be that they have other mutated/different genes that somehow circumvent these issues. The more genes you'd need to pass on, the harder it would be to pass it on and become the norm.
I suppose if they have kids, they would provide some answers if they consented to DNA testing and study.
BAD solution! Some sites will break if you do this and you won't be able to watch videos.
There are many better solutions. Using an init or crond script is one to remove the directory regularly. Another is to mount ~/.macromedia to/tmp or a ramdisk which is what I do. Those cookies never even get to smell my hard drive and it's not like I'm doing anything better with the RAM.
Oh come on. The computer-savvy/. community may be perfectly fine with a menu-based interface, but I've heard from tons of people that love the ribbon UI. I'm on the side of slashdotters but i'm still welcome to seeing a new interface for OOo. The one that they have now is still somewhat pathetic and filled with buttons that at first glance make little sense. The great thing about ribbon is that although it still uses the same meaningless icons, at least it gives them some context to understand.
Not only that, as OOo is still playing catchup to office with a smaller market share, they have no choice but to tag along. As more users are using Office 2007 as their first office suite, they're going to find the transition back to menus even more foreign if they switch. They're not doing themselves favors by not catering to those that are familiar with the way that things are done in MSOffice.
I don't think this prototype looks that bad, but it needs a whole lot of cleanup. As long as they keep/make optional the menus and the ribbon, I'm not complaining. And they better not put in that weird globe-y thing that's at the top-left of Office (what the hell is that??). And if this isn't the case, well I'm going to get real good at LaTeX soon.
It's about the value - if we really do see 15" netbooks with Core 2s and 5 hour battery life at under $400, it'll knock my socks off. But it does lose the portability. I like being able to carry my 9" aspire one in my backpack.
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Amazon is just the retailer, but as long as the OEM is still cashing in from the license sale, it's no real progress. It doesn't make a difference if the retailer is giving you the refund, the money is still going to the OEM and as a result, Microsoft. And as long as this happens, they'll still enter corrupt bargaining deals and shut out Linux from mainstream offerings. We need OEMs to give the refund, not the retailer.
So maybe eventually, Amazon will ask the OEMs for a refund for the license. What will the OEMs say? Probably no. Then what will happen? Amazon will probably start refusing the refund as well too. Back at square one, going back to buy my computers from system76, itwasfunwhileitlasted, etc.
In any case, if I were Microsoft, I'd change the wording of the EULA to something like "By purchasing this computer, you consent to pay for all software preinstalled, whatever" to bar these refunds. I don't think it's unenforceable.
And yet, most phones (I know that mine does) have a setting where you can disable from connecting to roaming networks. I turned mine off ages ago. Real pity; we're entitled to free digital roaming, but Sprint doesn't handle it properly and charges us anyways, and well, in case you haven't heard, dealing with their customer service is less desirable than banging your head into a metal-spiked wall.
It goes far beyond IP too. I have heard tell of agreements where authorities must make x number of arrests for drug possession (namely marijuana) in certain European countries in order to maintain favorable trade relations. Can't recall how recent this is, but the is doing it for Christ's sake! So then who's going to stop the private groups too?
Yes, but personally, Python is the ideal choice because it gives you all with the greatest simplicity and simplicity is a must for a first-time programmer. My first language was Java two and a half years ago and it was awful. There are just too many rules so that even accomplishing a simple "Hello World" is a tedious task (and I couldn't even do it now without looking up the syntax). Plus there are all sorts of syntax and other things in there like public class whatever { } that just aren't necessary and will confuse someone that's starting out.
All these rules get in the way of learning actual programming technique and skills. So as long as you have a flexible language like Python with simple syntax that still allows you to achieve everything that you would with a more complicated language like C or Java, that's what you should learn first while learning the ropes (loops, recursion, functions, all that silly stuff). Then you can move on to the more subtle concepts of programming - classes, inheritance, and how to organize it all. No serious programmer can use Python alone, right? But it's a great place to grow your roots.
In response to most of above responses, the drift that I'm getting is that singular games don't sell anymore. Video gaming is a social activity. Video game marketers need to develop a niche or a community around their game that many people will enjoy. This is why I still play Melee - because it's a community game. The same goes for old classics like CS and WoW. Pardon my ignorance but I'm not well-versed in the on-goings of modern game releases.
Silver compounds (like what you have in your film) are not very stable because it doesn't like to oxidize. Pure silver (as is used in their nanoparticles) are the opposite - very stable in elemental form. The only element that's more inert than silver is gold AFAIK.
It should make sense: elements that easily form compounds are unstable in elemental form; elements that don't easily form stable compounds are stable in elemental form.
I realize that the issues are probably mostly economic (lack of capital both to produce and buy games), but here's my spiel: I just don't see the point. First of all, the games shouldn't be that expensive to produce. At >$50 a pop, if I find that I don't like it, it's just a waste of money. Maybe if prices came down, I'd experiment more. But now, I'm more than happy to buy games that are a few years old to save $20 when I know that I'm only going to play it for a month or so.
Second of all, what good games have come out recently? I realize that it's a hugely subjective topic (I recall a topic on Slashdot a few weeks ago on graphics and video games), but honestly, all I want in a game is good gameplay and a nice multiplayer environment. And all my friends play nothing but Melee, I don't see why I'd bother playing anything else. That's how it usually ends up anyways; no matter how many games I have, Ijust end up playing one over and over again while the others gather dust. So why bother buying?
And to add to the cost, so many consoles (especially the Wii) require buying extra peripherals, which will also end up going to the wayside. It's just not worth it anymore.
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Pretty impressive when you consider that it's closed source so the distributors have to code, package, test, debug and maintain all those versions themselves without, unless I'm mistaken, a lot of community effort (minus bug reporting and things of the like).
So now we see the far-reaching disaster that occurs when we enforce these stupid software patents - all the logistical nightmares, the impractical enforceability, the unwitting collateral damage, et cetera. Our greatest hope is that everything can blow up in everyone's face as big as possible with no real advantage to anyone in the end (that's right: dump as much spam in the fan as you can) and then we'll see how pointless it is to enforce software patents.
It's true. When you consider how much they make from selling free trials, it's more than worth it for what they would have to pay just to get rid of Word. Besides, that's what you get for getting involved in such a deal.
Corporations, like people, have this habit of complaining when their cheap schemes break down. What they don't realize is that if they never got into them, they would have never had to deal with it. Decision-making shouldn't come without this little thing called Risk Analysis.
No biggie, it's ok to lie on the news.
http://www.civilianism.com/gate/2009/06/fox-news-gets-court-ok-to-lie/
Ah yes, MS can't compete with Google, so they fight them with litigation. Just like the RIAA can't convince people to buy CDs anymore because there are better alternatives so we have to make all these ridiculous DMCA policies to fight it.
Yup, viral death of a corporation is one that can't compete in business, only legal terms.
Then why do the courts not force cable companies to share their lines with competitors? (Maybe that decision was exclusive to internet?)
We dumped Comcast years ago because they would raise their rates arbitrarily and with no limit. And yet the courts have this delusion that their is competition - then why are they allowed to do this? Sure....
So you're saying that you want a lobotomy?
Or it could be that they have other mutated/different genes that somehow circumvent these issues. The more genes you'd need to pass on, the harder it would be to pass it on and become the norm.
I suppose if they have kids, they would provide some answers if they consented to DNA testing and study.
In other words, this mutation is the driving force of the Linux/FOSS community.... Hail and praise!
BAD solution! Some sites will break if you do this and you won't be able to watch videos.
There are many better solutions. Using an init or crond script is one to remove the directory regularly. Another is to mount ~/.macromedia to /tmp or a ramdisk which is what I do. Those cookies never even get to smell my hard drive and it's not like I'm doing anything better with the RAM.
Oh come on. The computer-savvy /. community may be perfectly fine with a menu-based interface, but I've heard from tons of people that love the ribbon UI. I'm on the side of slashdotters but i'm still welcome to seeing a new interface for OOo. The one that they have now is still somewhat pathetic and filled with buttons that at first glance make little sense. The great thing about ribbon is that although it still uses the same meaningless icons, at least it gives them some context to understand.
Not only that, as OOo is still playing catchup to office with a smaller market share, they have no choice but to tag along. As more users are using Office 2007 as their first office suite, they're going to find the transition back to menus even more foreign if they switch. They're not doing themselves favors by not catering to those that are familiar with the way that things are done in MSOffice.
I don't think this prototype looks that bad, but it needs a whole lot of cleanup. As long as they keep/make optional the menus and the ribbon, I'm not complaining. And they better not put in that weird globe-y thing that's at the top-left of Office (what the hell is that??). And if this isn't the case, well I'm going to get real good at LaTeX soon.
It's about the value - if we really do see 15" netbooks with Core 2s and 5 hour battery life at under $400, it'll knock my socks off. But it does lose the portability. I like being able to carry my 9" aspire one in my backpack.
http://www.linux-netbook.com/
If you ask me, it depends on how much you paid for it.
Ah, so does this mean that the energy company pays the fee when you contribute back? You know, to maintain the panels and such.
Amazon is just the retailer, but as long as the OEM is still cashing in from the license sale, it's no real progress. It doesn't make a difference if the retailer is giving you the refund, the money is still going to the OEM and as a result, Microsoft. And as long as this happens, they'll still enter corrupt bargaining deals and shut out Linux from mainstream offerings. We need OEMs to give the refund, not the retailer.
So maybe eventually, Amazon will ask the OEMs for a refund for the license. What will the OEMs say? Probably no. Then what will happen? Amazon will probably start refusing the refund as well too. Back at square one, going back to buy my computers from system76, itwasfunwhileitlasted, etc.
In any case, if I were Microsoft, I'd change the wording of the EULA to something like "By purchasing this computer, you consent to pay for all software preinstalled, whatever" to bar these refunds. I don't think it's unenforceable.
And yet, most phones (I know that mine does) have a setting where you can disable from connecting to roaming networks. I turned mine off ages ago. Real pity; we're entitled to free digital roaming, but Sprint doesn't handle it properly and charges us anyways, and well, in case you haven't heard, dealing with their customer service is less desirable than banging your head into a metal-spiked wall.
It goes far beyond IP too. I have heard tell of agreements where authorities must make x number of arrests for drug possession (namely marijuana) in certain European countries in order to maintain favorable trade relations. Can't recall how recent this is, but the is doing it for Christ's sake! So then who's going to stop the private groups too?
Replying to remove moderation. Hit Flamebait by accident
/Proceeds to search 'Microsoft' in Google and clicking on random ads.
On that note, can I really trust Bing to give me faithful results for Linux queries? Who knows.....
Yes, but personally, Python is the ideal choice because it gives you all with the greatest simplicity and simplicity is a must for a first-time programmer. My first language was Java two and a half years ago and it was awful. There are just too many rules so that even accomplishing a simple "Hello World" is a tedious task (and I couldn't even do it now without looking up the syntax). Plus there are all sorts of syntax and other things in there like public class whatever { } that just aren't necessary and will confuse someone that's starting out.
All these rules get in the way of learning actual programming technique and skills. So as long as you have a flexible language like Python with simple syntax that still allows you to achieve everything that you would with a more complicated language like C or Java, that's what you should learn first while learning the ropes (loops, recursion, functions, all that silly stuff). Then you can move on to the more subtle concepts of programming - classes, inheritance, and how to organize it all. No serious programmer can use Python alone, right? But it's a great place to grow your roots.
Oh well... there's always DDR!
In response to most of above responses, the drift that I'm getting is that singular games don't sell anymore. Video gaming is a social activity. Video game marketers need to develop a niche or a community around their game that many people will enjoy. This is why I still play Melee - because it's a community game. The same goes for old classics like CS and WoW. Pardon my ignorance but I'm not well-versed in the on-goings of modern game releases.
Silver compounds (like what you have in your film) are not very stable because it doesn't like to oxidize. Pure silver (as is used in their nanoparticles) are the opposite - very stable in elemental form. The only element that's more inert than silver is gold AFAIK.
It should make sense: elements that easily form compounds are unstable in elemental form; elements that don't easily form stable compounds are stable in elemental form.
I realize that the issues are probably mostly economic (lack of capital both to produce and buy games), but here's my spiel: I just don't see the point. First of all, the games shouldn't be that expensive to produce. At >$50 a pop, if I find that I don't like it, it's just a waste of money. Maybe if prices came down, I'd experiment more. But now, I'm more than happy to buy games that are a few years old to save $20 when I know that I'm only going to play it for a month or so.
Second of all, what good games have come out recently? I realize that it's a hugely subjective topic (I recall a topic on Slashdot a few weeks ago on graphics and video games), but honestly, all I want in a game is good gameplay and a nice multiplayer environment. And all my friends play nothing but Melee, I don't see why I'd bother playing anything else. That's how it usually ends up anyways; no matter how many games I have, Ijust end up playing one over and over again while the others gather dust. So why bother buying?
And to add to the cost, so many consoles (especially the Wii) require buying extra peripherals, which will also end up going to the wayside. It's just not worth it anymore.