Have you ever created something? Anything? You sound like a modern, "Economic Bill of Rights", kind of consumer. Just because you boldface something doesn't make it any more true or profound than anything else spewed into countless soapbox blogs.
Maine is only second in its implementation Socialism to Vermont, so of course the kids will get laptops. Tell that to the Ethiopians invading your inner cities because getting government money is so easy. Why not just join Canada, so you can all starve together? -1, Troll, but +1, True (lived in Maine, paid taxes in Maine, moved out of Maine)
"In the period 1992-1994, Word wiped the floor with WordPerfect in reviews, winning just about all of them. "
Excuse my tinfoil hat, but wasn't that about the time that Windows finally stopped sucking utterly, and became a tool that everyone, including PHBs, could use? Isn't this the era of PC Magazine, and John Dvorak, and everyone's grandmother getting a PC? Word was never technically superior, it merely appealed to a broader (and simpler) audience. There is a difference. Word won because it got reviews from trade rags. Word won due to a cultural shift - where document presentation became more important than its content, where a document's formatting is more important than its timely production. Word is the Guardent of word processors. In answer to the folks who claim WP was a lousy product, I have two words: Reveal Codes. I only jumped to Word97 from PC Word 5, then only because it was a 32bit app. By then, WP was dead and buried. I made the jump to Word2000 at work, then to OOo, which I use under the radar to publish all of my documents, typically via PDF.
Dude, just buy the shareware that you're using, so you'll get the full versions, it will stop bitching at you, and you'll be supporting software shops other than The Microsoft. Or set your clock back, don't keep reinstalling Windows.
I don't use linux, and I don't really know how this licensing stuff works, and I haven't bothered to read up on the binary module topic, but I can speculate wildly on possible scenarios, and use the term 'API', so I must be +1, Insightful!
I have an MS cert which I will never, ever, EVER use, yet its listed proudly on my resume next to my Solaris and other tech certs. Why? Because HR drones OCR your resume and do text-searches on it. If you don't have the magic words, you never even make it to the real decision makers.
For all the documents you absolutely must exchange with people, PDF fits the bill 99 times out of 100. How often do you email an EDITABLE document to someone, have them edit it, then send it back? OOo's "Export to PDF" fits this nicely. I have a 'stealth' OOo install here at work, most other people fear the fact that somehow I scored Adobe Acrobat. PDF simply rules.
How does this have anything to do with capitalism? The US has a nearly flat population curve, as does that Socialist State known as Europe. The places where people still breed like rats are the ones FURTHEST from capitalism.
"Free" copies of WindowsXP? "Free" copies of MS-Word? a $4 coupon off your next purchase of $600 software? MS is just extending their monopoly, probably dangling a carrot in front of the schools, after all, who can fault them if its 'for the kids' ?
Well, I guess with all the "I can't build GAIM from scratch because of lib.foo.so!" rants from Eugenia, then maybe they've become 31337 h4X0r5, but when was the last time that OSNews had anything decent or insightful? I'm surprised that there's been no bitching about 'theming' this new language.
Please reread parent of my orignal post. The parent post made the suggestion that if something becomes 'a standard' (leaving undefined how this process transpires) then it should automatically become public domain. I objected to this. Their system has become a standard, this is a de facto standard. This means that a large number of people voluntarily choose to use it. This contrasts strongly with the seizure of something in the name of the public good, which would make it a standard de jure. Thus, my reference to communism - the law of the land states that everything is the property of the State.
That's called communism. We don't do that here, yet. There is no such entity as 'society', other than a collection of individuals. What you're proposing is that a certain group of individuals has the right to appropriate the efforts of another, typically smaller, group of individuals. This is also known as slavery.
"Help, I can't keep up with the patches, because I told my boss that we could cut the budget by switching to Windows, and its turning out to be the opposite!"
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Yes, you do.
Spellcheck
Grammarcheck
And you must be a troll. Welcome to foe lists, now you have even less chance of getting anything seen on here, way to go.
Funny, until you mentioned the US. Had to get that little troll in there, eh?
Have you ever created something? Anything? You sound like a modern, "Economic Bill of Rights", kind of consumer.
Just because you boldface something doesn't make it any more true or profound than anything else spewed into countless soapbox blogs.
Maine is only second in its implementation Socialism to Vermont, so of course the kids will get laptops. Tell that to the Ethiopians invading your inner cities because getting government money is so easy. Why not just join Canada, so you can all starve together?
-1, Troll, but +1, True (lived in Maine, paid taxes in Maine, moved out of Maine)
"In the period 1992-1994, Word wiped the floor with WordPerfect in reviews, winning just about all of them. "
Excuse my tinfoil hat, but wasn't that about the time that Windows finally stopped sucking utterly, and became a tool that everyone, including PHBs, could use? Isn't this the era of PC Magazine, and John Dvorak, and everyone's grandmother getting a PC?
Word was never technically superior, it merely appealed to a broader (and simpler) audience. There is a difference. Word won because it got reviews from trade rags. Word won due to a cultural shift - where document presentation became more important than its content, where a document's formatting is more important than its timely production. Word is the Guardent of word processors.
In answer to the folks who claim WP was a lousy product, I have two words: Reveal Codes.
I only jumped to Word97 from PC Word 5, then only because it was a 32bit app. By then, WP was dead and buried. I made the jump to Word2000 at work, then to OOo, which I use under the radar to publish all of my documents, typically via PDF.
Dude, just buy the shareware that you're using, so you'll get the full versions, it will stop bitching at you, and you'll be supporting software shops other than The Microsoft. Or set your clock back, don't keep reinstalling Windows.
I don't use linux, and I don't really know how this licensing stuff works, and I haven't bothered to read up on the binary module topic, but I can speculate wildly on possible scenarios, and use the term 'API', so I must be +1, Insightful!
I have an MS cert which I will never, ever, EVER use, yet its listed proudly on my resume next to my Solaris and other tech certs. Why? Because HR drones OCR your resume and do text-searches on it. If you don't have the magic words, you never even make it to the real decision makers.
For all the documents you absolutely must exchange with people, PDF fits the bill 99 times out of 100. How often do you email an EDITABLE document to someone, have them edit it, then send it back? OOo's "Export to PDF" fits this nicely. I have a 'stealth' OOo install here at work, most other people fear the fact that somehow I scored Adobe Acrobat. PDF simply rules.
How does this have anything to do with capitalism? The US has a nearly flat population curve, as does that Socialist State known as Europe. The places where people still breed like rats are the ones FURTHEST from capitalism.
3D maps?
3D wireframes?
3D solid objects?
3D interior spaces?
JPEG != MP3, and wishing will not make disparate needs and functionality the same.
and nobody cared? Seriously, why would anyone outside of Slashdot give a rats ass that some LUG President resigned over...well, anything?
Cool, I could use some more cards for my (camera|PDA|Zaurus)
These new fangled computers have a spell-check option, you know.
"Free" copies of WindowsXP? "Free" copies of MS-Word? a $4 coupon off your next purchase of $600 software? MS is just extending their monopoly, probably dangling a carrot in front of the schools, after all, who can fault them if its 'for the kids' ?
Well, I guess with all the "I can't build GAIM from scratch because of lib.foo.so!" rants from Eugenia, then maybe they've become 31337 h4X0r5, but when was the last time that OSNews had anything decent or insightful? I'm surprised that there's been no bitching about 'theming' this new language.
I'm no zoologist/biologist/ environmental impact assessor or environmental engineer
So shut up, and let people who know what they're talking about get some work done. Argument from ignorance is a classic fallacy.
And thus, I win.
Please reread parent of my orignal post. The parent post made the suggestion that if something becomes 'a standard' (leaving undefined how this process transpires) then it should automatically become public domain. I objected to this.
Their system has become a standard, this is a de facto standard. This means that a large number of people voluntarily choose to use it. This contrasts strongly with the seizure of something in the name of the public good, which would make it a standard de jure. Thus, my reference to communism - the law of the land states that everything is the property of the State.
That's called communism. We don't do that here, yet. There is no such entity as 'society', other than a collection of individuals. What you're proposing is that a certain group of individuals has the right to appropriate the efforts of another, typically smaller, group of individuals. This is also known as slavery.
you pointlessly anti-American troll. Why do people take such pleasure in selling out their own country?
"Help, I can't keep up with the patches, because I told my boss that we could cut the budget by switching to Windows, and its turning out to be the opposite!"
This was the 2nd reader post from the original story of PlayFair being pulled. Why is this news?