No, we need to have security! How the heck can a system be secure if everyone can see how it works and therefore how to crack it?! This stuff is simply too important to be left in the hands of the average citizen.
Spreadsheets are very useful, but documents and presentation programs seem bloated and useless compared to how they could be. A PDF works just fine as a finished document, and virtually all PDF readers have an option to view it as a presentation - slide transitions don't have any useful function, and they tend to detract from a slideshow's informational value. File formats like.odt,.doc and.ppt get corrupted very easily, making them extremely difficult to recover (ascii text, as well as such text in a markup language, is virtually immune to corruption). There are simply so many efficient, stable, compatible open standards-based ways to make documents and presentations that programs like Microsoft Office and OO.o seem to be unnecessary.
It's very easy to tell the difference between two things side by side - the brain is wired that way. Determining what the difference is is much harder.
The copyright lobby has been pushing to stop the taking away of exceptions (ie. they want the exceptions in there). It is a needlessly complicated sentence.
What does open access to laws have to do with operating systems or open source? Sounds like an attempt to ride the Linux hype wave, and it seems to be succeeding so far.
Linux users tend to know how to pirate, so the cost argument doesn't really work. In fact, most people who have linux installed it over (or at least beside) an existing MS system.
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Just don't link it with nodes in Soviet Russia, or the beowulf cluster will imagine you.
How many neurons do I need to clump together with chemicals and synapses before it becomes self aware?
No, we need to have security! How the heck can a system be secure if everyone can see how it works and therefore how to crack it?! This stuff is simply too important to be left in the hands of the average citizen.
here you go
Sorry, title should be "hate Office software"
Spreadsheets are very useful, but documents and presentation programs seem bloated and useless compared to how they could be. A PDF works just fine as a finished document, and virtually all PDF readers have an option to view it as a presentation - slide transitions don't have any useful function, and they tend to detract from a slideshow's informational value. File formats like .odt, .doc and .ppt get corrupted very easily, making them extremely difficult to recover (ascii text, as well as such text in a markup language, is virtually immune to corruption). There are simply so many efficient, stable, compatible open standards-based ways to make documents and presentations that programs like Microsoft Office and OO.o seem to be unnecessary.
Which is why you use something like LaTeX - all LaTeX editors are compatible with each other, or you can edit it directly.
Or a data parabola. Statistics just ain't fun without parabolas.
It's very easy to tell the difference between two things side by side - the brain is wired that way. Determining what the difference is is much harder.
As opposed to the lowercase iEvil ones?
Given the amount of time some people spend on here, it would be more accurate to say that they don't use their real names in meatspace.
Can't fire him - he's inflammable.
I think you're nuclear on the terminology here.
Fire nuclear missile to Beijing Y/N? Y
Password: ******
Processing request...
TrueFire DRM Error: Missile may not be fired on China or its military allies.
The FINAL treaty document. That's the part I'm worried about - the people don't have a chance to negotiate.
Take water and eat 10lbs of it. You could get hospitalized or worse.
Indeed, while we weren't looking they built a bridge over the water. It's called trolling now.
The url says "19K". Which one do we believe?
You can modernize it with s/sheep/car/g.
The copyright lobby has been pushing to stop the taking away of exceptions (ie. they want the exceptions in there). It is a needlessly complicated sentence.
What does open access to laws have to do with operating systems or open source? Sounds like an attempt to ride the Linux hype wave, and it seems to be succeeding so far.
Linux users tend to know how to pirate, so the cost argument doesn't really work. In fact, most people who have linux installed it over (or at least beside) an existing MS system.
Hiking trials? What kind of dystopian justice system is that?
Because Microsoft controls the underlying environment and can make Firefox do whatever they want.
-$121700 seems fair. Your counteroffer?