StarOffice includes templates, fonts and clipart that OOo doesn't.
....sooo....you just take the template fonts and clipart from your StarOffice 6.0 beta (which was free for all takers) and put them into your OpenOffice 1.0 setup.:)
Seriously, someone ought to put together an Open Sourced set of templates, fonts, clipart, etc. And no I did NOT just volunteer! Stop looking at me like that!:P
Much of your ideas would depend on the technology being installed in *every* car, not just new cars.
That's a problem because most people don't actually buy new cars every couple of years, despite what the automotive industry that has so graciously employed me would like you to think. Most people buy used cars, and a lot of those come from private sales, not necessarily dealers. And most people who buy new cars drive them for far more than 2 years. That doesn't make economic sense, I know, but that is reality.
People who live in areas that employ a lot of autoworkers (Michigan, Ohio, etc.) tend to think that most people buy new cars every 2 years and most of those are American cars. That's simply not true. Go out to California. You'll see primarily foreign cars out on the road, and a large percentage of those are 2 years old or older.
For traditional broadcasters, the record labels consider airplay to be promotion, and therefore waive royalty fees.
I worked for a radio station. No, the record labels do not waive royalty fees for traditional broadcasters. Traditional broadcasters are required to pay royalties to ASCAP/BMI which in turn gives some of that to the record companies and some to the songwriters They keep a log of what songs have been played and then pay a small (in cents) royalty everytime a song is played.
What CARP seeks to do is have a fee over and above that because users can capture the streams to a file and (theoretically) have a flawless reproduction of the original.
was it still around in the time of Quicken 2.0? I vaguely want to say they threw in the towel on their own software and only worked through other programs, but it's been 10 years . ..
prior to quicken 2.0 I used a program of my own devising, written in Turbo Pascal, that I called CHKBOOK. It was getting too difficult and time consuming to maintain CHKBOOK when Quicken 2.0 came out, so I saw Quicken 2.0 as an easy way out. I never actually realized that personal finance software would gain in such popularity, because I figured most people would just do it with a spreadsheet, hence I never sought to have CHKBOOK published. I was not yet enlightened about things like the GPL, and I wasn't going to publish it as shareware because I had no way to support it.
I actually tried Quicken 1.0 and it didn't do all the categorizing stuff yet so it wasn't any good for what I wanted it for.
Newbies! I started with the original version of checkfree. What a disaster--it sent payments to the wrong place more than once (I got a call from the wall street journal asking why I'd sent them a $500 check. Fortunately, it came in time to pay the office rent manually!).
Just who are you calling a newbie? Why do you think I never used Checkfree?:-P
Why use GnuCash at all? Why not just manually write down your finances in in your checkbook and do the math in your head? This is exactly the type of thing that Quicken is good for, eliminating worthless "grunt work" like manually entering numbers.
Having been a Quicken user since version 2.0 (no that's not a typo, that's really version 2.0), I can tell you that Quicken didn't always do all this direct linking stuff.
So to answer your question, 'Why use GnuCash at all?' Because it does do all the reporting functions so that you can make a sensible budget, because it does make reconciliation a LOT easier, and because it helps you fill out your taxes easier. (Which is another point in favor of Quicken, it has links to TurboTax:).
So you could say GnuCash is where Quicken used to be and is playing catchup. The latest versions of Quicken are nice, but not entirely a necessity. Personally, I'd rather do a little extra typing using an application that I have the source code to and can modify and recompile to my whims than a closed-source program like Quicken, even with all of its extras. (Which is precisely why I stopped using Quicken the minute GnuCash got to a usuable state).
That's of course my choice... you made your choice already. But you asked why, so I told you.:)
Not all religions try to offer an explanation of the world. That isn't the purpose of religion. The purpose of religion is to connect spiritually with divinity and everything that is around you.
There's little need to explain how the world came to be why it exists.
Race and sex are facts of life; religion is a choice, specifically a choice to believe in an explanation of the world around us that hasn't held water for several hundred years.
I guess that depends on your choice of religion now doesn't it? No, all religions are NOT like Judaeo/Christianity.
What about thoe bogus "firemen" that call up asking for donations?
That's a very good point. I used to work a company that did that. (Hey! Stop looking at me like that! It was legitimate IT work!:)
Non-profit organizations like the International Association of Firefighters, the Police Officer's Assocation of really do exist. They often do not do their own telemarketing, and instead hire outside companies to do it.
The company I worked for published free newspapers and magazines for the organization in exchange for the organization allowing them to solicit 'advertising' and other 'donations' from companies. The non-profits get like 1% or something ridiculous like that.
I would imagine since the agreement between the telemarketer and the non-profit is legally binding and the non-profit did hire the telemarketer, then it would not be banned, at least no under the New York law mentioned in the article.
Hey! Let's all encourage 2600 to appeal to the Supreme Court, send 'em money even, and then let's ALL go to the Supreme Court on the day the Supreme Court will decide to hear the case or not, all of us wearing DeCSS T-Shirts, waving American flags and displaying signs talking about free speech!
Nah...the National Guard would probably shoot us.:)
Actually, even without that, contract law requires a 'meeting of the minds.' There must be a mutual understanding about the contract. Without that, any contract, signed or not, is null and void. IANAL.
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Dear Mr. Coward:
Your commentary was brilliant! However, there is a bigger movement towards an even more advanced language. It's called Basic. They call it this because it is even easier and simpler than C!
Basic gets rid of even the structs! And, it implements the concept of LINE NUMBERS, so you'll never lose track of what line of code you're on!
There are no anachronisms like FUNCTIONS in Basic. With the new LINE NUMBERS feature, you just transfer control of the code to any given line using the advanced GOTO command!
You don't even need to compile Basic! Many Basic implementations are entirely interpreted! There's no need for silly things like Java's JIT compiler!
Rumour has it that the next version of Microsoft Office will even use Basic as its primary language! Every major application will be written in Basic and run on top of the the Microsoft Office Operating System!
Right. What these vendors are doing is commoditizing Linux. The idea is that if you put all of the GNU tools, including glibc, gcc, GNU make, etc., along with some of the stuff typically shipped with a Linux distro, such as gtk, glib, Qt, etc. on a commercial OS, you can then compile most Linux apps (theoretically) without rewriting any code.
Of course, OTOH, a lot of Linux apps are already written, with the help of the magic of GNU autoconf, so that they can compile on a commercial UNIXes using vendor-supplied ANSI C compilers.
Now, some companies might make money by making products that allow you to skip over ads but AOL Time Warner owns several channels and thus does not want to shoot itself in the foot.
Well, we'll see how their PVR does in the marketplace. If consumers really want commercial skip, they'll just buy the PVRs that offer that feature. Which means AOL/TW will lose in the marketplace with their PVR.
That's how the free market works. It's really that simple. They're betting that consumers don't really care. Well, we'll see one way or the other.
Software should never crash, no matter what input you put into it. That's taught in every first year programming class I've ever seen, and it goes double for software that controls peripherals.
Gods! Someone please tell that to the programmers on this planet! Especially the ones working at Microsoft!:)
Blizzard: Ooooh, ohooh, naughty people are creating a server that's compatible with battle.net and allows pirate copies. Ooooh, points my finger at them I do!
Sony: Oi, Blizzard! What's all that ILLEGAL music doing in your company, eh?|
Oh, I've got better! Here is some actual video of Blizzard employees being used by Sony in the court case.
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StarOffice includes templates, fonts and clipart that OOo doesn't.
:)
:P
....sooo....you just take the template fonts and clipart from your StarOffice 6.0 beta (which was free for all takers) and put them into your OpenOffice 1.0 setup.
Seriously, someone ought to put together an Open Sourced set of templates, fonts, clipart, etc. And no I did NOT just volunteer! Stop looking at me like that!
Yeah, except Detroit won't do it first. They're too busy playing catchup with the Japanese. :)
Much of your ideas would depend on the technology being installed in *every* car, not just new cars.
That's a problem because most people don't actually buy new cars every couple of years, despite what the automotive industry that has so graciously employed me would like you to think. Most people buy used cars, and a lot of those come from private sales, not necessarily dealers. And most people who buy new cars drive them for far more than 2 years. That doesn't make economic sense, I know, but that is reality.
People who live in areas that employ a lot of autoworkers (Michigan, Ohio, etc.) tend to think that most people buy new cars every 2 years and most of those are American cars. That's simply not true. Go out to California. You'll see primarily foreign cars out on the road, and a large percentage of those are 2 years old or older.
Am I dunk, or haven't I been using tabbed browsing in Mozilla now since version .5? ..
:-P
Drunk or not, you need the spellchecker in Mozilla 7.
Maybe the title of the article should have been:
Linux violates the GPL!
or better yet,
GNU/Linux violates the GPL!
would have been even better.
:-P
(It's funny. Laugh.)
For traditional broadcasters, the record labels consider airplay to be promotion, and therefore waive royalty fees.
I worked for a radio station. No, the record labels do not waive royalty fees for traditional broadcasters. Traditional broadcasters are required to pay royalties to ASCAP/BMI which in turn gives some of that to the record companies and some to the songwriters They keep a log of what songs have been played and then pay a small (in cents) royalty everytime a song is played.
What CARP seeks to do is have a fee over and above that because users can capture the streams to a file and (theoretically) have a flawless reproduction of the original.
was it still around in the time of Quicken 2.0? I vaguely want to say they threw in the towel on their own software and only worked through other programs, but it's been 10 years . . .
prior to quicken 2.0 I used a program of my own devising, written in Turbo Pascal, that I called CHKBOOK. It was getting too difficult and time consuming to maintain CHKBOOK when Quicken 2.0 came out, so I saw Quicken 2.0 as an easy way out. I never actually realized that personal finance software would gain in such popularity, because I figured most people would just do it with a spreadsheet, hence I never sought to have CHKBOOK published. I was not yet enlightened about things like the GPL, and I wasn't going to publish it as shareware because I had no way to support it.
I actually tried Quicken 1.0 and it didn't do all the categorizing stuff yet so it wasn't any good for what I wanted it for.
Newbies!
I started with the original version of checkfree. What a disaster--it sent payments to the wrong place more than once (I got a call from the wall street journal asking why I'd sent them a $500 check. Fortunately, it came in time to pay the office rent manually!).
Just who are you calling a newbie? Why do you think I never used Checkfree?
Replying to myself yes...
:)
2.0 for DOS, that is.
I'm typing this really really slow to avoid the stupid 2 minute rule, btw.
Why use GnuCash at all? Why not just manually write down your finances in in your checkbook and do the math in your head? This is exactly the type of thing that Quicken is good for, eliminating worthless "grunt work" like manually entering numbers.
:).
:)
Having been a Quicken user since version 2.0 (no that's not a typo, that's really version 2.0), I can tell you that Quicken didn't always do all this direct linking stuff.
So to answer your question, 'Why use GnuCash at all?' Because it does do all the reporting functions so that you can make a sensible budget, because it does make reconciliation a LOT easier, and because it helps you fill out your taxes easier. (Which is another point in favor of Quicken, it has links to TurboTax
So you could say GnuCash is where Quicken used to be and is playing catchup. The latest versions of Quicken are nice, but not entirely a necessity. Personally, I'd rather do a little extra typing using an application that I have the source code to and can modify and recompile to my whims than a closed-source program like Quicken, even with all of its extras. (Which is precisely why I stopped using Quicken the minute GnuCash got to a usuable state).
That's of course my choice... you made your choice already. But you asked why, so I told you.
Not all religions try to offer an explanation of the world. That isn't the purpose of religion.
The purpose of religion is to connect spiritually with divinity and everything that is around you.
There's little need to explain how the world came to be why it exists.
Race and sex are facts of life; religion is a choice, specifically a choice to believe in an explanation of the world around us that hasn't held water for several hundred years.
I guess that depends on your choice of religion now doesn't it? No, all religions are NOT like Judaeo/Christianity.
What about thoe bogus "firemen" that call up asking for donations?
:)
That's a very good point. I used to work a company that did that. (Hey! Stop looking at me like that! It was legitimate IT work!
Non-profit organizations like the International Association of Firefighters, the Police Officer's Assocation of really do exist. They often do not do their own telemarketing, and instead hire outside companies to do it.
The company I worked for published free newspapers and magazines for the organization in exchange for the organization allowing them to solicit 'advertising' and other 'donations' from companies. The non-profits get like 1% or something ridiculous like that.
I would imagine since the agreement between the telemarketer and the non-profit is legally binding and the non-profit did hire the telemarketer, then it would not be banned, at least no under the New York law mentioned in the article.
Hey! Let's all encourage 2600 to appeal to the Supreme Court, send 'em money even, and then let's ALL go to the Supreme Court on the day the Supreme Court will decide to hear the case or not, all of us wearing DeCSS T-Shirts, waving American flags and displaying signs talking about free speech!
:)
Nah...the National Guard would probably shoot us.
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Actually, even without that, contract law requires a 'meeting of the minds.' There must be a mutual understanding about the contract. Without that, any contract, signed or not, is null and void. IANAL.
Dear Mr. Coward:
Your commentary was brilliant! However, there is a bigger movement towards an even more advanced language. It's called Basic. They call it this because it is even easier and simpler than C!
Basic gets rid of even the structs! And, it implements the concept of LINE NUMBERS, so you'll never lose track of what line of code you're on!
There are no anachronisms like FUNCTIONS in Basic. With the new LINE NUMBERS feature, you just transfer control of the code to any given line using the advanced GOTO command!
You don't even need to compile Basic! Many Basic implementations are entirely interpreted! There's no need for silly things like Java's JIT compiler!
Rumour has it that the next version of Microsoft Office will even use Basic as its primary language! Every major application will be written in Basic and run on top of the the Microsoft Office Operating System!
This is really advanced stuff!
Right. What these vendors are doing is commoditizing Linux. The idea is that if you put all of the GNU tools, including glibc, gcc, GNU make, etc., along with some of the stuff typically shipped with a Linux distro, such as gtk, glib, Qt, etc. on a commercial OS, you can then compile most Linux apps (theoretically) without rewriting any code.
Of course, OTOH, a lot of Linux apps are already written, with the help of the magic of GNU autoconf, so that they can compile on a commercial UNIXes using vendor-supplied ANSI C compilers.
Clear as mud. ;)
So which Atari is this and who owns them?
Now, some companies might make money by making products that allow you to skip over ads but AOL Time Warner owns several channels and thus does not want to shoot itself in the foot.
Well, we'll see how their PVR does in the marketplace. If consumers really want commercial skip, they'll just buy the PVRs that offer that feature. Which means AOL/TW will lose in the marketplace with their PVR.
That's how the free market works. It's really that simple. They're betting that consumers don't really care. Well, we'll see one way or the other.
Software should never crash, no matter what input you put into it. That's taught in every first year programming class I've ever seen, and it goes double for software that controls peripherals.
:)
Gods! Someone please tell that to the programmers on this planet! Especially the ones working at Microsoft!
In related news, it will cold and wet in Redmond today.:)
I dunno...it copied into my .sig from someone else. :)
Exactly why I use Open Source software. OSS authors are far to worried about their reputations to allow crap like this to happen in their software.
Blizzard: Ooooh, ohooh, naughty people are creating a server that's compatible with battle.net and allows pirate copies. Ooooh, points my finger at them I do!
Sony: Oi, Blizzard! What's all that ILLEGAL music doing in your company, eh?|
Oh, I've got better! Here is some actual video of Blizzard employees being used by Sony in the court case.
:)