I like them staying in the basement. When the basement shuts down, they all come into the living room and touch all our stuff. With sticky hands. When is that basement gonna be fixed?
If user=someone_important
then amount=correct
else amount=possibly_incorrect
Boss: "You'd better find a way to make us more money, or you won't get a bonus!"
Programmer: "Got it...you see, what I did was..."
Boss: "That's nice. My printer isn't working, could you look at it for me?"
Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but it looks to me like she's trying to cover her face. The "small black device" I can't see for the life of me, all I see is the shadow of her hand. When she looks over and says something, it's very possible that the director (or whoever) was trying to get her to remove her hand (after all, why show people in a movie if they won't show their faces?)
Dear You: Hereby you are forthwith given notice that you shall, under no certain terms, cease making fun of the author of the legal documents (previously and hereafter referred to as "a dumbass"). Vis-a-vis, there is heretofore a certain permeability in your post which suggests a violation of terms found in the website (heretofore known as 'The Game') that will constitute a non-binding and inalienable admission of fault on the part of the violator (i.e. YOU). By reading this, you claim responsibility for your slanderous comments, and agree to pay a sum of $1,000,000. Failure to pay the agreed upon amount will result in my informing my mommy.
tl;dr I can't afford a real lawyer so I'm gonna play pretend.
Also, what they haven't realized is that filing a lawsuit against me constitutes a fee of $1,000, and by contacting me in any way, they acknowledge that I am in no way responsible for any wrongdoing, and agree to pay any court costs and/or fancy dinners that may result.. This can, of course, easily be found in the ToS found on my computer's desktop.
may actually save the textbook industry from digital piracy,' proponents claim.
This is the part that confuses me...think of how easy it is to photocopy a book...a time consumnig annoyance, but possible. Now, think of how easy it is to copy digital media...how will this reduce piracy?
the realization that squabbles about Facebook's changing privacy settings and various privacy breaches simply miss the point.
I'm much more concerned about that then someone on my network stealing my password. If they're on my network, they could steal my password? This is not new, nor is it news. The number of people on the internet out to get your personal information is much, much higher than the number of people on your network out to do the same.
This is just a high-tech version of this:
'When it comes to user privacy, other people are the elephant in the room,' said SudoGhost, random douchebag author of the post in question, dubbed 'Other People in the Room'. By being in the room and watching the screen/keyboard, anyone can 'sniff out' not only the unencrypted HTTP sessions, but virtually any keystroke, allowing your mom to access social networks, online services and other website requiring a login, and simply hijack them and find out where you really were Saturday night."
Hell, I think it's ironic that China, the "lock it down" country thinks the iPad is too locked down. If I lived in China I think I'd just [The rest of this post had been moderated by the People's Republic of China.]
No open source program has the ability to completely integrate and replace the abilities of another program to the approval of 100% of the user base.
For what I used Access for, Base is fine. Not too good for converting existing Access files, mind you, but it works quite well for what I use it for, and I'd imagine that a bit of the population has the same situation.
You used it, and it didn't do the things it needed? Great, don't use it. That doesn't mean others can't use it to their satisfaction.
I'd say a good 90% of people who use Office use it for Word documents and basic Excel spreadsheets. For them, OpenOffice would be a viable alternative. Others use Office for very specialized features that cannot or are not yet replicated by a free alternative. OpenOffice would not be a viable alternative for them.
But I see no point in grandma buying Office just to print off cookie recipies.
Thank you pointman, for stating the obvious. "The secretary interacts with the computer in a different way than a hacker." Wow. Only thing is, what does that have to do with these increasingly idiotic analogies? The initial point was Hacker:Cracker::Catholic:Protestant. Outsiders typically don't know and don't care the difference between the two. Anyone who spends five seconds looking at the two can tell the difference between a hacker and a secretary.
Yeah.... Anonymous Coward has become the moaning geek. Everybody yells and complains about people who complain about MS and other non-open companies. There are people who think little about sentence structure... why to attack them? Did they set you up the bomb? Don't like the post, don't comment on it. Stop moaning please.
While that may or may not be true, I don't need to post as an Anonymous Coward to tell you that Office alone is overpriced for what it does, especially when there is a viable alternative for free, let alone this 'subscription' crap.
And the only people who see the difference between Catholics and Protestants are the respective groups. To everyone else they're all Christians. Tell them they're the same thing.
Come on now, Archimedes had his entire life to work on this and get it right, and MythBusters tried it in one afternoon. They obviously have a solid grip on it, and their findings should be taken as fact. I mean, would a man with that kind of facial hair lie to you?
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I'm removing any 4chan friends immediately.
You underestimate people's need for videos of kittens doing cute things.
I like them staying in the basement. When the basement shuts down, they all come into the living room and touch all our stuff. With sticky hands. When is that basement gonna be fixed?
If user=someone_important
then amount=correct
else amount=possibly_incorrect
Boss: "You'd better find a way to make us more money, or you won't get a bonus!"
Programmer: "Got it...you see, what I did was..."
Boss: "That's nice. My printer isn't working, could you look at it for me?"
Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but it looks to me like she's trying to cover her face. The "small black device" I can't see for the life of me, all I see is the shadow of her hand. When she looks over and says something, it's very possible that the director (or whoever) was trying to get her to remove her hand (after all, why show people in a movie if they won't show their faces?)
But yeah...a cell phone is much more likely.
Dear You: Hereby you are forthwith given notice that you shall, under no certain terms, cease making fun of the author of the legal documents (previously and hereafter referred to as "a dumbass"). Vis-a-vis, there is heretofore a certain permeability in your post which suggests a violation of terms found in the website (heretofore known as 'The Game') that will constitute a non-binding and inalienable admission of fault on the part of the violator (i.e. YOU). By reading this, you claim responsibility for your slanderous comments, and agree to pay a sum of $1,000,000. Failure to pay the agreed upon amount will result in my informing my mommy.
tl;dr I can't afford a real lawyer so I'm gonna play pretend.
Also, what they haven't realized is that filing a lawsuit against me constitutes a fee of $1,000, and by contacting me in any way, they acknowledge that I am in no way responsible for any wrongdoing, and agree to pay any court costs and/or fancy dinners that may result.. This can, of course, easily be found in the ToS found on my computer's desktop.
DRM just means it will take five minutes to bypass it.
may actually save the textbook industry from digital piracy,' proponents claim.
This is the part that confuses me...think of how easy it is to photocopy a book...a time consumnig annoyance, but possible. Now, think of how easy it is to copy digital media...how will this reduce piracy?
the realization that squabbles about Facebook's changing privacy settings and various privacy breaches simply miss the point.
I'm much more concerned about that then someone on my network stealing my password. If they're on my network, they could steal my password? This is not new, nor is it news. The number of people on the internet out to get your personal information is much, much higher than the number of people on your network out to do the same.
This is just a high-tech version of this:
'When it comes to user privacy, other people are the elephant in the room,' said SudoGhost, random douchebag author of the post in question, dubbed 'Other People in the Room'. By being in the room and watching the screen/keyboard, anyone can 'sniff out' not only the unencrypted HTTP sessions, but virtually any keystroke, allowing your mom to access social networks, online services and other website requiring a login, and simply hijack them and find out where you really were Saturday night."
This just in: Executing code that others have written allows that code to perform in the manner in which it was written!
Hell, I think it's ironic that China, the "lock it down" country thinks the iPad is too locked down. If I lived in China I think I'd just [The rest of this post had been moderated by the People's Republic of China.]
...and...who's contesting that little tidbit of information?
He thinks segregating identity from data isn't enough; the data must then be aggregated after identity is stripped out.
I'm no lawyer or anything, but last time I checked, that was the opposite of unmasking anonymous posters.
Personally no, but this thread may be of assistance to you:
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5745
Sorry I can't help more, but OpenNote isn't something I've used, let alone alternatives.
No open source program has the ability to completely integrate and replace the abilities of another program to the approval of 100% of the user base.
For what I used Access for, Base is fine. Not too good for converting existing Access files, mind you, but it works quite well for what I use it for, and I'd imagine that a bit of the population has the same situation.
You used it, and it didn't do the things it needed? Great, don't use it. That doesn't mean others can't use it to their satisfaction.
I'd say a good 90% of people who use Office use it for Word documents and basic Excel spreadsheets. For them, OpenOffice would be a viable alternative. Others use Office for very specialized features that cannot or are not yet replicated by a free alternative. OpenOffice would not be a viable alternative for them.
But I see no point in grandma buying Office just to print off cookie recipies.
Every 'cloud' server has a SLA. That's like asking if a program has a EULA. Most do. I don't know enough about the 25GB mailbox to comment on that.
Yeah, it's called Open Office. Base does the same thing.
Thank you pointman, for stating the obvious. "The secretary interacts with the computer in a different way than a hacker." Wow. Only thing is, what does that have to do with these increasingly idiotic analogies? The initial point was Hacker:Cracker::Catholic:Protestant. Outsiders typically don't know and don't care the difference between the two. Anyone who spends five seconds looking at the two can tell the difference between a hacker and a secretary.
You're missing the point. I would call I layman a priest either.
Yeah.... Anonymous Coward has become the moaning geek. Everybody yells and complains about people who complain about MS and other non-open companies. There are people who think little about sentence structure... why to attack them? Did they set you up the bomb? Don't like the post, don't comment on it. Stop moaning please.
While that may or may not be true, I don't need to post as an Anonymous Coward to tell you that Office alone is overpriced for what it does, especially when there is a viable alternative for free, let alone this 'subscription' crap.
Hackers and Crackers interact with the same computer in different ways.
Catholics and Protestants interact with the same God in different ways.
How is this different?
And the only people who see the difference between Catholics and Protestants are the respective groups. To everyone else they're all Christians. Tell them they're the same thing.
Come on now, Archimedes had his entire life to work on this and get it right, and MythBusters tried it in one afternoon. They obviously have a solid grip on it, and their findings should be taken as fact. I mean, would a man with that kind of facial hair lie to you?