MS now sells an Office home edition for a very reasonable price ($150 I think for 3 licenses).
This is an adjustment of their older policy of selling Office Teacher and Student version through normal retail outlets with no checking.
I know when people ask me where to get Office now I tel them it is reasonably priced and if they feel it isn't worth it point them to OO.org.
As for Adobe stuff, even the student one (which I believe becomes real ones you complete school according to the license) is a lot of money for someone who is not a professional or paying thousands/year to become one, so I am more sympathetic.
Generally one needs a student ID to buy the student copy of the creative suite too.
Why is it that both posts attacking the statement "...Apple would be a dominant cell phone manufacturer?" replace the word "a" with "the"?
I wouldn't call Apple "the dominant" manufacturer, but it would be stupid to not put them in the list of dominant manufacturers IMO.
Apple is pretty much defining consumer smart phone, after recognizing the market (RIM was first in that market with the Curve I think). Other manufactures such as Nokia did not appear to see it as viable. Apple's marketing probably went as far as accelerating the growth of a market that was being largely ignored (with the exception of some feeble RIM effort) even though it was pretty much an inevitable market that we have been hearing about for over a decade (converged pocket sized device). In that market (which I would say is a niche, but a large and growing one) Apple dominates. This makes them a dominant manufacturer.
I will admit to almost falling for one the other day.
I marked the e-mail as phishing and it has since been deleted, but it came from "bank of america" and linked to a quite formal looking page asking for info.
it came simoultenious to my having trouble with Bank of America online system (they took over my mortgage account and it has been a pain getting into the online payment since).
I was looking at it, frustrated it was only a solution for credit card issues, and then realized the site was support.com not bank of america.
Maybe I am particularly stupid, but I don't think so.
I use rtorrent, I have to ssh in to manage the torrents as I am too lazy to setup a web interface.
to start a torrent though I just drop a.torrent into \\router\share\torrent\DL
I also use it for nzbget (though it is slow, I assume due to the CPU, only getting about 500 KB/s vs 2000KB/s if I do it from my desktop, and the unraring, and par checking is really slow.
I use ssh and use it for irc too. As it never really gets turned off, anything I want on all the time networky is in a screen session.
I have an Asus 500 something or other (USB, and N, or Draft-N at least), and it is great to be able to torrent on it, and to grab nzb's of TV shows from my phone, but it only accesses the HD at 2 MB/sec, which can lead to streaming issues sometimes (tested using DD from the command line), and certainly limiting its usefulness as a file server for backups.
Agreed, I don't really like the mighty mouse, but lack of click is not why.
I sometimes click the wrong side, rarely, but that is what I think they got best.
I find I accidentally squeeze mighty mouse more often than I would like (enough times a day that it frustrates me, but still probably less than twice an hour).
For me the scroll ball has had a fairly high failure rate too,
I pretty sure the high default rates have more to do with the fact that the people doing the assessment on ability to repay were not the people taking the risk.
The market had created a first line of defense against bad loans that had only an incentive to write loans, not to actually assess (or even to help the buyer commit fraud, because you know, everyone does it).
nobody cared, because if someone managed to pay their mortgage for 6 months, they could sell easy, cover the real-estate agent, and not owe on the loan.
Of course these buyers could very well have been in the same situation, and eventually it all came tumbling down.
As someone who purchased a house with no money down, but one that was a very reasonable purchase for me, I am happy about how things were. But they would have loaned to me if I didn't have 2 renters lined up for my extra bedrooms, and that would have been a disaster.
As someone with a rooted G1, the larger barrier is finding good rooting instructions, and doing such. Almost certainly not finding an apk file, and definitely not installing one.
I thought as much, but I really like kword2's implementation of a context sensitive box.
Of course it goes on the right edge (where I think MS had one for a while, that I liked, though the MS was more about tasks, rather than tools), which doesn't really matter when editing pages in portrait on a wide screen monitor.
Height is real important though, with 800, and 900 pixel tall laptops being popular still.
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MS now sells an Office home edition for a very reasonable price ($150 I think for 3 licenses).
This is an adjustment of their older policy of selling Office Teacher and Student version through normal retail outlets with no checking.
I know when people ask me where to get Office now I tel them it is reasonably priced and if they feel it isn't worth it point them to OO.org.
As for Adobe stuff, even the student one (which I believe becomes real ones you complete school according to the license) is a lot of money for someone who is not a professional or paying thousands/year to become one, so I am more sympathetic.
Generally one needs a student ID to buy the student copy of the creative suite too.
Why is it that both posts attacking the statement "...Apple would be a dominant cell phone manufacturer?" replace the word "a" with "the"?
I wouldn't call Apple "the dominant" manufacturer, but it would be stupid to not put them in the list of dominant manufacturers IMO.
Apple is pretty much defining consumer smart phone, after recognizing the market (RIM was first in that market with the Curve I think). Other manufactures such as Nokia did not appear to see it as viable. Apple's marketing probably went as far as accelerating the growth of a market that was being largely ignored (with the exception of some feeble RIM effort) even though it was pretty much an inevitable market that we have been hearing about for over a decade (converged pocket sized device). In that market (which I would say is a niche, but a large and growing one) Apple dominates. This makes them a dominant manufacturer.
I will admit to almost falling for one the other day.
I marked the e-mail as phishing and it has since been deleted, but it came from "bank of america" and linked to a quite formal looking page asking for info.
it came simoultenious to my having trouble with Bank of America online system (they took over my mortgage account and it has been a pain getting into the online payment since).
I was looking at it, frustrated it was only a solution for credit card issues, and then realized the site was support.com not bank of america.
Maybe I am particularly stupid, but I don't think so.
So do insurance companies have the privilege of creating money now?
Or is it that they don't set their rates to match the risk?
I would think that the merchants lose (through higher insurance costs) here.
We shot Iraqi people, We bombed Iraqi people, and we occupied their land.
We also at this point have likely reduced Kurdish autonomy for better cooperation with Turkey.
We didn't even hit Suddam with a bomb, so saying we bombed the asshole gassed the Kurds is absurd on the face of it.
Does SD have open patent licensing, does Memmory stick?
What I mean, is SD like MP3 where there is a set price and anyone can do it, while Sony reserves the right to block you entirely?
And what does DRM have to do with open vs proprietary?
These are actual questions too, I don't really know. I assume that the wider adoption of SD has to do with greater ease of implementing it.
should have added,
package list
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/Packages
it all runs from an external USB.
I use Oleg's firmware.
I use rtorrent, I have to ssh in to manage the torrents as I am too lazy to setup a web interface.
to start a torrent though I just drop a .torrent into \\router\share\torrent\DL
I also use it for nzbget (though it is slow, I assume due to the CPU, only getting about 500 KB/s vs 2000KB/s if I do it from my desktop, and the unraring, and par checking is really slow.
I use ssh and use it for irc too. As it never really gets turned off, anything I want on all the time networky is in a screen session.
I have an Asus 500 something or other (USB, and N, or Draft-N at least), and it is great to be able to torrent on it, and to grab nzb's of TV shows from my phone, but it only accesses the HD at 2 MB/sec, which can lead to streaming issues sometimes (tested using DD from the command line), and certainly limiting its usefulness as a file server for backups.
Perhaps with one of these mice you can do fine movements without even moving the mouse, using only your fingers.
Not sure, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.
I think the one that appealed to be most was the Arty, but I would want a third button for my middle finger to right click with.
and I am not convinced that pinch zoom is any better than ctrl+mouse wheel, but I only have limited experience with multi-touch on an Apple touchpad.
Agreed, I don't really like the mighty mouse, but lack of click is not why.
I sometimes click the wrong side, rarely, but that is what I think they got best.
I find I accidentally squeeze mighty mouse more often than I would like (enough times a day that it frustrates me, but still probably less than twice an hour).
For me the scroll ball has had a fairly high failure rate too,
I pretty sure the high default rates have more to do with the fact that the people doing the assessment on ability to repay were not the people taking the risk.
The market had created a first line of defense against bad loans that had only an incentive to write loans, not to actually assess (or even to help the buyer commit fraud, because you know, everyone does it).
nobody cared, because if someone managed to pay their mortgage for 6 months, they could sell easy, cover the real-estate agent, and not owe on the loan.
Of course these buyers could very well have been in the same situation, and eventually it all came tumbling down.
As someone who purchased a house with no money down, but one that was a very reasonable purchase for me, I am happy about how things were. But they would have loaned to me if I didn't have 2 renters lined up for my extra bedrooms, and that would have been a disaster.
I think it's called model rockets at a younger age.
Sewing and Bike Maintenance are big wins!
Both will save tons of money, and are really a lot more convenient than getting a broken bike to a shop, or buying more clothing.
Let's see.
Protectionism (sugar import tax) + Subsidies (US Corn) = capitalism?
Perhaps you meant America where "capitalism" rules
I wonder if they put numbers on the Wii's that would make this difficult.
that's hardly fair for a few reasons.
1) people have been killed for less than someone will be paid in royalties for a successful production.
2) if an author takes 5 years writing a book, then dies, shouldn't the heirs be able to make some money (think of the children!)
it makes much more sense to say you get x amount of time to exploit your work, after that give us something new, or hope your work was good enough.
x needs to be far lower than it is currently though.
Interesting.
When I did it there were all sorts of different guides on downgrading, boot keys and all sorts of stuff.
None appeared to be complete or up to date.
anyway, it certainly still puts rooting the G1 in beyond installing a .apk in difficulty (as it is a superset of installing a .apk.
Looks like about 10 million a year through 2011.
As someone with a rooted G1, the larger barrier is finding good rooting instructions, and doing such. Almost certainly not finding an apk file, and definitely not installing one.
How much does Mozilla make from google?
It would not shock that one (of many) motivation for chrome is to pay Mozilla less.
Did they not start with people that were known to not have it?
Considering it is an illness that lasts for quite a while, I wouldn't expect the sample to match the population at the end of the trial.
LOL, thanks.
because the menu is one click move mouse (to read the menu, not once dialog windows get involved).
The ribbon is 2 clicks, fairly distant, with the second one on a very small button, for each menu heading.
I really don't mind the ribbons, I also don't see menus and ribbons as mutually exclusive though.
Here is an idea, that loses no screen space, and works with both methods.
Have the Office button (top left) toggle a top menu where the ribbon selector menu it. Also have a "custom" ribbon.
You could make the custom ribbon work like a toolbar of old, and the user could toggle on the top menu, and it would essentially be Office XP.
Or someone could use the ribbons as toolbars, but turn on the menu when they wanted to search though the menu.
Or someone could use it like it is now.
Thanks for the fit width tip BTW.
I thought as much, but I really like kword2's implementation of a context sensitive box.
Of course it goes on the right edge (where I think MS had one for a while, that I liked, though the MS was more about tasks, rather than tools), which doesn't really matter when editing pages in portrait on a wide screen monitor.
Height is real important though, with 800, and 900 pixel tall laptops being popular still.