Very few (if any) people use all of the unique features Excel has, but a damn lot of them use at least one of them... and often, the price of doing without that one feature is much greater than the cost of buying a copy of Office.
However, there is a significant risk of being stranded by Microsoft (remember the Visual Basic debacle), in which case the cost to the user can be huge. Whereas a popular open source program like Gnumeric will be supported forever. On balance, the risk versus benefit calculations favor open source.
Open replacements for Office are replacements in much the same sense that walking everywhere is a perfect replacement for cars. (Ditto the GIMP vs. Photoshop, etc.) It can get you all the same places! It's just as good!
Misleading analogy. Here the true comparison: Replacing Microsoft Excel, for example, with an open source product such as Gnumeric is like replacing a Ford Taurus with a Honda Accord: the Accord/Gnumeric gets you there just as fast, just as comfortably, and with greater reliability. The big differences are that Gnumeric is free, and the open source world will support it forever.
This sounds to me like an Industry that needs to expand past providing 'light bulbs' ever X months/years because they burn out, and find another way to provide a useful service.
Problem is, if the LED industry never sells replacement bulbs/tubes/whatever, it will die from lack of revenue. And all the accumulated knowledge and expertise will die. How can we keep the industry going while we enjoy the LED's durability and energy efficiency?
The USB card reader is your bottleneck; those things are notoriously slow. If you want speed, connect some Compact Flash cards to your ATA or SATA controller with a cheap adapter. Another advantage of using your ATA/SATA controller is that you can enable DMA.
I'm not saying this oversight was a good idea, just that one shouldn't attribute to malice that which would probably be better attributed to ignorance,...
As everyone knows, "ignorance of the law is no excuse".
... and if we set a precident for prosecuting ignorance, the courts will be backed up for eons.
So we will have more courts for however long it will take to punish the criminals.
You don't care" what the bill says, someone on your side said it would stop torture.
I did not say that, nor did I imply it. Don't go Republican on me; you are not nearly rich enough to use the Big Lie effectively.
The effect of Bush's veto is to continue to allow the CIA to use waterboarding. No matter what else is in the bill, this is one effect. Do you deny this? Therefore, McCain's support of the veto means that he is allowing waterboarding to happen -- no matter what he says to the contrary.
By the way, the reaction all over the world to McCain's latest hypocrisy has been immense, and nearly unanimous: people are utterly disgusted.
The bottom line is that the bill did more then outlaw torture or water boarding and despite your claims to the contrary that are largely developed by ignoring the rest of the facts, he did appose it on the basis of it outlawing water boarding or torture.
I don't care what McCain's excuses are. He doesn't get to pick and choose which parts of the anti-torture bill he likes or dislikes. If he opposes the bill, he opposes all of it. The bottom line is that he supports waterboarding now, because that is the effect of his decision -- no matter what he says.
The fact that he is so loudly defending his position is absolute proof that he is taking a lot heat for his hyprocrisy -- and rightly so.
Facts are facts; you are not allowed to rewrite history. McCain has frequently claimed to be against torture, and he has loudly said that waterboarding is torture. And yet he supports the veto of the anti-waterboarding legislation passed by Congress. McCain's action contradicts his words; he's a hypocrite. I don't care how he (or you) rationalises it; he's a hypocrite.
He has gotten strong negative reaction to his support of Bush's veto; that is why he is now so loudly proclaiming to be against any kind of torture. But his actions prove him a liar.
As I wrote, I don't care what McCain says, no matter how frequently he says it. His actions convey an entirely different message, and that is what counts with me. His hypocrisy is obvious to everyone now (except a few), and now he is doing damage control.
However, McCain did support Bush's latest veto. In other words, no matter how frequently McCain says that he is anti-torture, what he actually does indicates that he is in favor of waterboarding. He has been catching a lot of flak for his hypocritical support of Bush's veto; this latest anti-torture publicity offensive is simply damage control.
That is, you can never get a signal from one side of a.5cm chip and back faster than 30 GHz without breaking the speed of light.
True.
So, it's not physically possible that for me to ever get a 30GHz Core 10 Quadro. It ain't gonna happen.
False. There is no rule that says a single processor has to be 0.5 cm in diameter. A processor 0.1 cm in diameter could clock at 150 GHz. Asynchronous logic boosts the effective clock rate even further.
Of course, these numbers are theoretical. In practice, whether they will be reached or exceeded will depend on many factors.
That's the problem with computer simulations that are unsupported by real observations: you never know if there's a problem with your input data, a bug in your simulation program, or a serious weakness in the theory you are simulating, or some combination of all of these. So it's hard to believe your outputs until you can check them against a real measurement.
Microsoft can't use "per-processor" licenses any more. The anti-trust case against the company fizzled out, mostly because Bush got elected and stopped pursuing it, even though the case was essentially won. But a useful outcome was the banning of per-processor licenses, as required by the consent decree. So Microsoft can't freeze Linux out this way.
How about explaining away the other WHO stats? Notably, that a Cuban child is less likely to die by age of five than is a child in the supposedly far wealthier U. S. of A. ?
Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary Claims against you for...
Is Microsoft's definition of "Microsoft Necessary Claims" broad enough and clear enough to allow a third party to implement the actual.docx format without legal harassment by Microsoft or Microsoft's sock puppets? With Microsoft, as with the devil, you have to check for weasel language in everything they say.
An even scarier possibility is that Bush used the telecoms to spy on his political opponents. i.e. Watergate, part II. This may be why he is fighting so hard to keep the spy logs secret from Congress: his presidency is on the line.
Bush said that people would Die, the Tarrraaarrusts would win if the bill isn't signed. However, he'd veto the bill without Telecom immunity
Bush is counting on the major media channels to cover his back on this, as they have for the last 7 years. If the media never call out his lies, there is nothing to stop him from lying, and lying, and lying some more. And that is what he does -- and has been doing since he was governor of Texas.
The naval blockade of China to force it to allow british companies to trade opium?
It wasn't a blockade, actually. The Opium War of 1842 was a direct invasion and capture of Beijing, the capital of China.
Oddly enough, Britain did it to fix an enormous trade deficit with China. Does that sound familiar? Britain took enormous amounts of tea, silk, and porcelain from China, but China needed very little in return (this was before the Industrial Revolution took over in Britain). So mountains of British silver coins went east, and almost nothing came back. So enormous a trade imbalance could not persist indefinitely, of course, causing the British to search desperately for something that China wanted to buy. Eventually, they found it: drugs such as opium and heroin. Naturally, the Chinese government found that offensive and tried to stamp out the narcotics trade. (Again, does that sound familiar?) When it looked as if the Chinese War on Drugs would actually succeed, the British invaded.
The Chinese deserved part of the blame; the silver coins did nothing for them except inflate their currency. But the Manchus, who were ruling China at the time, were economically pretty unsophisticated.
The overwhelming share of the blame, of course, belongs to the British: they were acting like drug pushers defending their turf. The Opium War is probably the most shameful episode of British history, something they undoubtedly wish they could forget. This may be why the British tend to be so venomously anti-China: they hope by shouting loudly enough that they could drown out their own consciences. It's not working.
No, I presume that it will be bad, and that I will be forced into it if it proves to be bad. That's the catch, right there. I don't care how bad it is, as long as I can get out if it's bad.
So where is your option to pay half and get better service? Answer: you don't have that option today. Your choices -- six of one HMO or half a dozen of another -- is actually pretty limited compared to the options available to others in the West. You have been brainwashed to believe that you are free, when actually you are not. Wake up!
If it's good, fine then, I'll use it, but if it's bad, I'd be pretty pissed about being forced to pay for sub-par service.
Yes, but you presume from the outset that the service will be bad, or more expensive, or both, contrary to the experience of just about every other country in the West. Believe me, the U.S. does not have a monopoly on corruption and incompetence. Other countries undoubtedly suffer from both of these forms of corrosion, yet they manage to cover everybody while offerring better service than the U.S. -- at half the cost of the crazy U.S. system.
You automatically dismiss universal health care when the overwhelming preponderance of the evidence -- generations of it, in many countries -- is against you. Who objects to better service at half the cost? Only an unreasonable hater, such as yourself.
There are perfectly good reasons to hate universal health care...
Universal health care is cheaper and gets better results: is that why you hate it? There is a term for people who are happy to spend more for poorer service: it is the opposite of "genius".
OK, I'll bite. What corruption has the OLPC project committed? I suspect you are referring to the corruption in Nigeria, which was committed by Microsoft in order to destroy OLPC. Was that what you meant? If not, please clarify, and do so with specificity, or retract your smear.
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However, there is a significant risk of being stranded by Microsoft (remember the Visual Basic debacle), in which case the cost to the user can be huge. Whereas a popular open source program like Gnumeric will be supported forever. On balance, the risk versus benefit calculations favor open source.
Misleading analogy. Here the true comparison: Replacing Microsoft Excel, for example, with an open source product such as Gnumeric is like replacing a Ford Taurus with a Honda Accord: the Accord/Gnumeric gets you there just as fast, just as comfortably, and with greater reliability. The big differences are that Gnumeric is free, and the open source world will support it forever.
Problem is, if the LED industry never sells replacement bulbs/tubes/whatever, it will die from lack of revenue. And all the accumulated knowledge and expertise will die. How can we keep the industry going while we enjoy the LED's durability and energy efficiency?
The USB card reader is your bottleneck; those things are notoriously slow. If you want speed, connect some Compact Flash cards to your ATA or SATA controller with a cheap adapter. Another advantage of using your ATA/SATA controller is that you can enable DMA.
I am confident that any unbiased observer will find you guilty.
As everyone knows, "ignorance of the law is no excuse".
So we will have more courts for however long it will take to punish the criminals.
don't have to be rich to go republican on you
You don't have to be rich to start a Big Lie; you just have to be extremely dishonest. However, you need to be wealthy in order to make the lie stick.
I did not say that, nor did I imply it. Don't go Republican on me; you are not nearly rich enough to use the Big Lie effectively.
The effect of Bush's veto is to continue to allow the CIA to use waterboarding. No matter what else is in the bill, this is one effect. Do you deny this? Therefore, McCain's support of the veto means that he is allowing waterboarding to happen -- no matter what he says to the contrary.
By the way, the reaction all over the world to McCain's latest hypocrisy has been immense, and nearly unanimous: people are utterly disgusted.
I don't care what McCain's excuses are. He doesn't get to pick and choose which parts of the anti-torture bill he likes or dislikes. If he opposes the bill, he opposes all of it. The bottom line is that he supports waterboarding now, because that is the effect of his decision -- no matter what he says.
The fact that he is so loudly defending his position is absolute proof that he is taking a lot heat for his hyprocrisy -- and rightly so.
He has gotten strong negative reaction to his support of Bush's veto; that is why he is now so loudly proclaiming to be against any kind of torture. But his actions prove him a liar.
As I wrote, I don't care what McCain says, no matter how frequently he says it. His actions convey an entirely different message, and that is what counts with me. His hypocrisy is obvious to everyone now (except a few), and now he is doing damage control.
However, McCain did support Bush's latest veto. In other words, no matter how frequently McCain says that he is anti-torture, what he actually does indicates that he is in favor of waterboarding. He has been catching a lot of flak for his hypocritical support of Bush's veto; this latest anti-torture publicity offensive is simply damage control.
True.
So, it's not physically possible that for me to ever get a 30GHz Core 10 Quadro. It ain't gonna happen.
False. There is no rule that says a single processor has to be 0.5 cm in diameter. A processor 0.1 cm in diameter could clock at 150 GHz. Asynchronous logic boosts the effective clock rate even further.
Of course, these numbers are theoretical. In practice, whether they will be reached or exceeded will depend on many factors.
That's the problem with computer simulations that are unsupported by real observations: you never know if there's a problem with your input data, a bug in your simulation program, or a serious weakness in the theory you are simulating, or some combination of all of these. So it's hard to believe your outputs until you can check them against a real measurement.
Microsoft can't use "per-processor" licenses any more. The anti-trust case against the company fizzled out, mostly because Bush got elected and stopped pursuing it, even though the case was essentially won. But a useful outcome was the banning of per-processor licenses, as required by the consent decree. So Microsoft can't freeze Linux out this way.
How about explaining away the other WHO stats? Notably, that a Cuban child is less likely to die by age of five than is a child in the supposedly far wealthier U. S. of A. ?
Is Microsoft's definition of "Microsoft Necessary Claims" broad enough and clear enough to allow a third party to implement the actual .docx format without legal harassment by Microsoft or Microsoft's sock puppets? With Microsoft, as with the devil, you have to check for weasel language in everything they say.
Until you actually offer an argument, as opposed to ad hominem, I will assume that you have lost.
An even scarier possibility is that Bush used the telecoms to spy on his political opponents. i.e. Watergate, part II. This may be why he is fighting so hard to keep the spy logs secret from Congress: his presidency is on the line.
Bush is counting on the major media channels to cover his back on this, as they have for the last 7 years. If the media never call out his lies, there is nothing to stop him from lying, and lying, and lying some more. And that is what he does -- and has been doing since he was governor of Texas.
It wasn't a blockade, actually. The Opium War of 1842 was a direct invasion and capture of Beijing, the capital of China.
Oddly enough, Britain did it to fix an enormous trade deficit with China. Does that sound familiar? Britain took enormous amounts of tea, silk, and porcelain from China, but China needed very little in return (this was before the Industrial Revolution took over in Britain). So mountains of British silver coins went east, and almost nothing came back. So enormous a trade imbalance could not persist indefinitely, of course, causing the British to search desperately for something that China wanted to buy. Eventually, they found it: drugs such as opium and heroin. Naturally, the Chinese government found that offensive and tried to stamp out the narcotics trade. (Again, does that sound familiar?) When it looked as if the Chinese War on Drugs would actually succeed, the British invaded.
The Chinese deserved part of the blame; the silver coins did nothing for them except inflate their currency. But the Manchus, who were ruling China at the time, were economically pretty unsophisticated.
The overwhelming share of the blame, of course, belongs to the British: they were acting like drug pushers defending their turf. The Opium War is probably the most shameful episode of British history, something they undoubtedly wish they could forget. This may be why the British tend to be so venomously anti-China: they hope by shouting loudly enough that they could drown out their own consciences. It's not working.
So where is your option to pay half and get better service? Answer: you don't have that option today. Your choices -- six of one HMO or half a dozen of another -- is actually pretty limited compared to the options available to others in the West. You have been brainwashed to believe that you are free, when actually you are not. Wake up!
Yes, but you presume from the outset that the service will be bad, or more expensive, or both, contrary to the experience of just about every other country in the West. Believe me, the U.S. does not have a monopoly on corruption and incompetence. Other countries undoubtedly suffer from both of these forms of corrosion, yet they manage to cover everybody while offerring better service than the U.S. -- at half the cost of the crazy U.S. system.
You automatically dismiss universal health care when the overwhelming preponderance of the evidence -- generations of it, in many countries -- is against you. Who objects to better service at half the cost? Only an unreasonable hater, such as yourself.
Universal health care is cheaper and gets better results: is that why you hate it? There is a term for people who are happy to spend more for poorer service: it is the opposite of "genius".
OK, I'll bite. What corruption has the OLPC project committed? I suspect you are referring to the corruption in Nigeria, which was committed by Microsoft in order to destroy OLPC. Was that what you meant? If not, please clarify, and do so with specificity, or retract your smear.