That attitude is exactly Microsoft has been convicted of illegal monopolistic practices in a number of countries. Since Microsoft does hold a huge monopoly in the desktop OS arena it is very difficult to function without using their products. What would be considered legal competetive practices in a non-monopoly becomes illegal in a monopoly.
Microsoft refuses to support Hebrew in Office, Outlook and IE for the Mac, even though the local Mac reps offered to put up a quarter million dollars and hire the programmers to do it. (The Register article)
So if I want to use Office or IE in Hebrew I have to have a Windows machine. I don't, which makes it difficult for me to exchange documents with those who do. Since Microsoft also does not follow standards of web design in IE or FrontPage, there are many Hebrew websites I cannot access on my Mac. While all the other browsers available for the Mac (Firefox, Opera, etc...) handle the Hebrew just fine, the non-standard Javascript and other non-standard IE-only HTML markup make many sites unusable in those browsers. Of course, this is also the fault of Web developers who develop to such a non-standard and specific platform.
Microsoft says it's too much trouble and expense to go to for such a small market to make the software Hebrew-enabled. But if all those other browsers have no problem with it, I have a problem with that excuse. It looks to me like what they are really doing is saying "If you want to do Hebrew (or Arabic, or any number of other languages supported by the Windows version) on Microsoft products, you have to buy the Microsoft OS as well."
Unless this Language Development Pac is also available for for ALL Microsoft software, I don't see that it's such a wonderful thing. In fact, if it's for Windows software only, it will serve to further lock entire nations and language groups into only the one OS option.
http://www.smash.com/seg/timelab/stories/121mcco y. html
Although there are other theories on the origin of the expression, they all indicate the same thing: it's the best, it's the original, it's the real thing.
But that is exactly what MS is doing with photo management...the default sites for developing your digital photos that are displayed on MS photo software have paid both for the placement on the software and a per-photo developed charge also.
When I taught an elderly librarian to use e-mail several years ago, he was so unsteady with the mouse that I taught him to use the keyboard instead. He's still very happy with his system, and keeps a small notebook with the keystrokes in the drawer next to his computer. I also found that it is better to only teach what is needed as it is needed.
The McDonald's in Saudi Arabia is taking $1 from each sale to support the Palestinian terrorists. I wouldn't exactly call that "peaceful"... consider how you would feel about it if a McDonald's in Nebraska were setting aside a portion of its income to fund a Timothy McVeigh Support Fund, or if the McDonald's in France were funding the IRA.
quote: "The
vendor will be responsible for installing a Company image
that includes the Windows Operating Systems at no
additional charge. Documentation providing proof of the
Company's site license will be provided upon award of the
contract." --
this is not someone intending to use a non-Windows operating system.
Nevertheless, youngsters often lack the experience to handle the situations that arise...re the 16-year old lured to his abduction-murder in Israel recently. But this really has nothing to do with the Internet. Jimmy Rice was stalked from the Little League field. Parental responsibility, as has often been mentioned, is the answer. I kept the computer in the living room, and when my young son insisted on logging on to a friend's rather silly ASCII graphics porn BBS, I knew where the OFF button was...
http://freshmeat.net/projects/blacknovatraders/
This looks like an interesting variation that I intend to try one day. I used to run TradeWars, LORD, and The Pit on my BBS lo these many years ago...had one of the first online CDs too, with a lot of technical shareware disks to browse.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this is what was intended all along. I've been asking myself all along why Mr. Torvolds, who could undoubtedly have begun a career just about anywhere he pleased, would go with Transmeta if all they were going to be was a small-time competition for portable devices.
I dimly recall a sci-fi story about an anti-gravity field that collapsed almost instantly...useless until somebody got the bright idea of generating the field sequentially with a ring of generators so that the field never had time to collapse, thus creating in effect an invisible space ship. Sci-fi speculation seems to have an odd way of predicting technology; if it can be imagined it will be accomplished.
Matria
There was a problem with the floating-point segment not working correctly in a large percentage of the production, so they just cut the connection on the ones that tested bad and called it an SX...
Perhaps, if all you want is to play games. But I learned a lot from the sample sort algorithms, and even fixed a couple of bugs in the icon generator, and used an expanded version of the tutorial cardfile in my first business. Years later, some of my students (on the Imagination Network) actually made money with what I taught them in QuickBasic. I'm a serious fan of Whatever Works.
When I was a child in the early '50s, educated people that I knew were seriously worried that all of this experimenting with the fundamental particles of matter would cause the entire universe to explode or disintegrate in a gigantic chain reaction. And I couldn't have an Altair computer kit because it would just be a waste of time and money, since computers would never be of any use. Hmmm. I wouldn't discount this kind of work too quickly.
Until they "downsize" and lay you off, and you've got a signed agreement that you won't work for the competition, or even on your own, for (usually) at least a year.
This can be illegal also...a couple of years ago some guy was using his laptop to comparison shop local chain stores. One place threw him out, and did it again when he came back with a pad of paper and pencil. He lost the court case when they had him arrested.
Maybe Arachne? Personally, I never did like having to run a windowing shell/server/client whatever. Native graphics programming in C or Java and even LISP is great. As in Abuse and DOOM.
My father wouldn't hear of it (he tended to enforce his opinions by bloodying my nose). After arguing with my reluctant husband for years, I finally dove in. The shop where I bought parts for my first self-built computer told me to go home and knit booties for my grandchildren.(I am not kidding...these are his words!) It took me 4 days, by myself, to get it to work, an AMD 386 DX40. Still works great. A few years later a tech at the University of Miami told me that all the "lady techs" that he knew were dykes (again, his words exactly). Maybe this sort of thing could be a bit discouraging? I have my own shop now, by the way!
"keeping consumers on the cutting edge of the Internet" Must industry leaders pander to general ignorance? What does processor speed have to do with the Internet? I suppose they have to give some reason why ordinary people would feel any need to buy these things.
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All three of my boys learned to touch-type playing the original Hero's Quest. I was quite annoyed when the next generation of games was mouse-driven.
That attitude is exactly Microsoft has been convicted of illegal monopolistic practices in a number of countries. Since Microsoft does hold a huge monopoly in the desktop OS arena it is very difficult to function without using their products. What would be considered legal competetive practices in a non-monopoly becomes illegal in a monopoly.
Microsoft refuses to support Hebrew in Office, Outlook and IE for the Mac, even though the local Mac reps offered to put up a quarter million dollars and hire the programmers to do it. (The Register article)
So if I want to use Office or IE in Hebrew I have to have a Windows machine. I don't, which makes it difficult for me to exchange documents with those who do. Since Microsoft also does not follow standards of web design in IE or FrontPage, there are many Hebrew websites I cannot access on my Mac. While all the other browsers available for the Mac (Firefox, Opera, etc...) handle the Hebrew just fine, the non-standard Javascript and other non-standard IE-only HTML markup make many sites unusable in those browsers. Of course, this is also the fault of Web developers who develop to such a non-standard and specific platform.
Microsoft says it's too much trouble and expense to go to for such a small market to make the software Hebrew-enabled. But if all those other browsers have no problem with it, I have a problem with that excuse. It looks to me like what they are really doing is saying "If you want to do Hebrew (or Arabic, or any number of other languages supported by the Windows version) on Microsoft products, you have to buy the Microsoft OS as well."
Unless this Language Development Pac is also available for for ALL Microsoft software, I don't see that it's such a wonderful thing. In fact, if it's for Windows software only, it will serve to further lock entire nations and language groups into only the one OS option.
If it's the real McCoy!
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http://www.smash.com/seg/timelab/stories/121mcc
Although there are other theories on the origin of the expression, they all indicate the same thing: it's the best, it's the original, it's the real thing.
But that is exactly what MS is doing with photo management...the default sites for developing your digital photos that are displayed on MS photo software have paid both for the placement on the software and a per-photo developed charge also.
Most people don't get that choice...it's very rare to buy a computer without the latest flavor of Windows OS and a selection of MS software installed.
When I taught an elderly librarian to use e-mail several years ago, he was so unsteady with the mouse that I taught him to use the keyboard instead. He's still very happy with his system, and keeps a small notebook with the keystrokes in the drawer next to his computer. I also found that it is better to only teach what is needed as it is needed.
The McDonald's in Saudi Arabia is taking $1 from each sale to support the Palestinian terrorists. I wouldn't exactly call that "peaceful"... consider how you would feel about it if a McDonald's in Nebraska were setting aside a portion of its income to fund a Timothy McVeigh Support Fund, or if the McDonald's in France were funding the IRA.
Like I said, right.
Right.
quote: "The vendor will be responsible for installing a Company image that includes the Windows Operating Systems at no additional charge. Documentation providing proof of the Company's site license will be provided upon award of the contract." -- this is not someone intending to use a non-Windows operating system.
Nevertheless, youngsters often lack the experience to handle the situations that arise...re the 16-year old lured to his abduction-murder in Israel recently. But this really has nothing to do with the Internet. Jimmy Rice was stalked from the Little League field. Parental responsibility, as has often been mentioned, is the answer. I kept the computer in the living room, and when my young son insisted on logging on to a friend's rather silly ASCII graphics porn BBS, I knew where the OFF button was...
http://freshmeat.net/projects/blacknovatraders/
This looks like an interesting variation that I intend to try one day. I used to run TradeWars, LORD, and The Pit on my BBS lo these many years ago...had one of the first online CDs too, with a lot of technical shareware disks to browse.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this is what was intended all along. I've been asking myself all along why Mr. Torvolds, who could undoubtedly have begun a career just about anywhere he pleased, would go with Transmeta if all they were going to be was a small-time competition for portable devices.
I dimly recall a sci-fi story about an anti-gravity field that collapsed almost instantly...useless until somebody got the bright idea of generating the field sequentially with a ring of generators so that the field never had time to collapse, thus creating in effect an invisible space ship. Sci-fi speculation seems to have an odd way of predicting technology; if it can be imagined it will be accomplished. Matria
There was a problem with the floating-point segment not working correctly in a large percentage of the production, so they just cut the connection on the ones that tested bad and called it an SX...
Perhaps, if all you want is to play games. But I learned a lot from the sample sort algorithms, and even fixed a couple of bugs in the icon generator, and used an expanded version of the tutorial cardfile in my first business. Years later, some of my students (on the Imagination Network) actually made money with what I taught them in QuickBasic. I'm a serious fan of Whatever Works.
When I was a child in the early '50s, educated people that I knew were seriously worried that all of this experimenting with the fundamental particles of matter would cause the entire universe to explode or disintegrate in a gigantic chain reaction. And I couldn't have an Altair computer kit because it would just be a waste of time and money, since computers would never be of any use. Hmmm. I wouldn't discount this kind of work too quickly.
Until they "downsize" and lay you off, and you've got a signed agreement that you won't work for the competition, or even on your own, for (usually) at least a year.
This can be illegal also...a couple of years ago some guy was using his laptop to comparison shop local chain stores. One place threw him out, and did it again when he came back with a pad of paper and pencil. He lost the court case when they had him arrested.
Maybe Arachne? Personally, I never did like having to run a windowing shell/server/client whatever. Native graphics programming in C or Java and even LISP is great. As in Abuse and DOOM.
My father wouldn't hear of it (he tended to enforce his opinions by bloodying my nose). After arguing with my reluctant husband for years, I finally dove in. The shop where I bought parts for my first self-built computer told me to go home and knit booties for my grandchildren.(I am not kidding...these are his words!) It took me 4 days, by myself, to get it to work, an AMD 386 DX40. Still works great. A few years later a tech at the University of Miami told me that all the "lady techs" that he knew were dykes (again, his words exactly). Maybe this sort of thing could be a bit discouraging? I have my own shop now, by the way!
"keeping consumers on the cutting edge of the Internet" Must industry leaders pander to general ignorance? What does processor speed have to do with the Internet? I suppose they have to give some reason why ordinary people would feel any need to buy these things.
Maybe because it works...