it'd be the AS version that could do with some lowering.
It seems like it's in the "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" range, as it's very difficult to impossible to find a price for it on their website.
It starts at $1499.
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Give us our cheap foreign-made manufactured goods, but don't you dare let them hammer out code as well!
We're not bitching any more than steel workers or any other group of workers. There are extensive laws protecting things like steel. The problem with IT is that we're too stupid to form a union and have some real lobbying power like our blue collar counterparts have been doing for years. I don't know if you've noticed, but union jobs have good pay, good benefits, and quite often a pension. And let's not forget about the handy laws helping their jobs stay in this country.
The big problem is people *assuming* everyone has MS-Word, and using it's proprietary format to exchange information by default.
It's a problem for Microsoft's competitors and for FOSS zealots, but not for the rest of us. I don't communicate with a single person that doesn't have MS Word (or at least WordPad). Let's not forget that if you are running Linux, you have made a choice to use something that has different features and limitations than the software that 90+% of the world uses. It is not the obligation of the vast majority to facilitate the minority - it is the other way around.
For general distribution, or to unknown recipients, you should send in something that is standard (and to be standard, it needs to be a documented format, 'DOC' fails that requirement) plain ascii text works, or if for some reason you need to control the appearance, postscript or PDF.
Plain text does not allow formatting, and PDF does not allow editing.
1. The entire concept of a 'Word Processor' is stupid - http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html
That entire article was written on the basis of the fact that most people incorrectly use word processors! You can do exactly what the author is describing in Microsoft Word, and it is a hell of a lot easier than Tex. As you are typing your document, you simply mark things with Heading 1, etc (create new styles as you need them). When you're done "composing", then edit the styles such that your document is rendered as you want it to be.
As for the argument that the recipient of your document will need to have the same program you composed it in, I fail to see how Tex is better. If I sent my Dad a Tex document, he'd be pissed off that he had to read all of that \section{} crap along with the text, because we both know he isn't going to have anything that will render Tex.
That happens if you spend your tax money on warfare around the globe (like the U.S.) instead of social security. In most other countries you have at least enough money for food and a place to live even if you are unemployed.
In most other countries, you get the bejeezus taxed out of you. Perhaps that's why they have enough for socialism.
RIM Blackberry is strong, but IMHO that's only due to 2 things:
- a keyboard
- an easy to use system
- unmetered email
Yes, I don't get why PDAs keep coming out without a keyboard. It makes them worthless.
The Blackberry does email better than anything out there. It's exactly how you would want it to work. I don't get why no one else does this. My company has about 30 Blackberries for various employees. We run the BB server, it hooks into Exchange, and it's like having a live client to the Exchange server. There is no syncing of email or any of that crap. Even the read/unread status of emails is kept correctly over the cell network. Until someone else does this, I don't care what their product does.
Why not rig the machines? We go about screwing with the election in every other possible way as well. Forgive me, but I believe that our elections are one of the most embarassing things about this country. Aside from hanging chads, it's all a farce.
In Ohio, the Republicans are trying to put white lawyers into predominately black areas to "make sure" their voter registrations are valid.
In many states, the Democrats were trying hard to get Ralph Nader off the ballots despite his signature collection.
All over, Republicans and Democrats are frantically trying to register indigents and get them to vote for their guy.
Republicans and Democrats are paying millions to air ads that come as close as possible to lying about the opposition without actually lying.
In some state, the Democrats went to court to say that a Catholic bishop was tampering with the election because he said "you're not a Catholic if you vote for Kerry". Dude may be a crackpot, but that's about it.
Lawyers on both sides are poised to rush into court to contest the aspects of the vote that they feel best help themselves.
Why can't we just have an open, honest election? If we are the shining example to the world, where's the shine? We complain every four years about low voter turnout, but system is disenfranchising people. Nobody makes me want to vote for them. They all make me want them to be removed from power, but I've nobody left to replace them with.
There seems to be more important issues like Iraq, health care, the economy, and terrorism to judge candidates for president
It doesn't really matter - name one candidate that doesn't suck. Sure, you hate Bush, but don't let that blind you from the fact that Kerry sucks. Bush might be the only major party candidate that Kerry could beat. Maybe I just get more cynical over time, but these two make Al Gore and Walter Mondale look good!
In the world of Internet news, you don't need sources. You just need a handful of people eager to get in on the scoop, and whatever you say can proliferate quickly.
I wouldn't vote for that guy no matter what...he's definitely missing some morality genes someplace.
His opponent is already in Congress, so you know he lacks morals as well. Do you vote for a candidate you don't like, or a candidate you don't like? Sounds an awful lot like the Presidential race.
How can you even ask that question? Badnarik and Cobb are two candidates with real platforms and real goals, and they deserve to be heard in the same way that President Bush and Senator Kerry are being heard.
All Cobb and Badnarik did was to further convince the average American that they are nuts. They need to start convincing the average American that they are legitimate candidates with legitimate platforms. The problem is that both the candidates and people like you don't realize that this was not helpful. You're all too extreme for the average American, and you keep proving it over and over again. You'll never get credibility or votes if you keep it up.
Yes, they should have been in the debates, but that is not relevant to whether or not they should have pulled this stunt. These guys need to learn how to play with the pros. So far, the pros are smoking them. Third parties can get into the debates - Ross Perot did it.
Have you thought about trying good old fashioned parenting? Perhaps "being there" is the best way to monitor your child...
How the heck is this Insightful? This is the best way to end your marriage. You need to get out once a week with your spouse, and you'll need someone to watch your kid when you go out.
If you have relatives in the area, they make the best babysitters. You know them, plus they probably want to see the kid as much as they can without imposing on you.
Seriously, many Christians just eat up that shitty rhetoric like smoked Italian sausage sandwiches with mesquite flavoured BBQ sauce. I mean, how could they resist, if it's that tasty to them. Although, you'd think that after four years of eating it up, they'd realize it was actually just sausage flavoured hot dogs(with extra rat hair swept up from the factory floor) with Kraft BBQ sauce(yuck!).
I suppose we should go for the Heinz BBQ sauce instead, huh?
I still don't see how it is bad? Are people hiding in shadows and other people aren't seeing those shadows? Wouldn't that make the ones hiding campers? I hate campers.
If you force me to turn shadows on, I can't play the game - it's too slow. I guess I won't play online, because somehow it's been decided that turning shadows off is cheating.
On top of that, check out this blurb from the Thunderbird page:
Upgraders: DO NOT install Mozilla Thunderbird into a directory containing program files from a previous version. Overwriting files from a previous release WILL cause problems. To re-use the directory of a previous install, the directory must be deleted and recreated, emptied, moved, or renamed. You should not file bugs in Bugzilla if you choose to ignore this step.
The program directory does not contain profile information; any existing accounts, account settings, options, e-mail, and news messages will remain intact. This release does not require changes to your profile to function properly.
It's clear it's always going to be a two horse race.
Please take a look at history. This is not the case. The Republicans and Democrats are not the originals, they are just the ones we currently have. They certainly have done a lot to pass new legislation to protect their own positions.
I'm not interested in the motivation, I completely understand the motivation. I'd like to know what you think needs to be done to create credibility within the public mind for a third party. It seems that the presidency is a big thing to shoot for, and you could better spend your money winning seats in state legislatures, and move up towards the presidency. Why not start with attainable positions, and build?
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it'd be the AS version that could do with some lowering. It seems like it's in the "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" range, as it's very difficult to impossible to find a price for it on their website.
It starts at $1499.
Give us our cheap foreign-made manufactured goods, but don't you dare let them hammer out code as well!
We're not bitching any more than steel workers or any other group of workers. There are extensive laws protecting things like steel. The problem with IT is that we're too stupid to form a union and have some real lobbying power like our blue collar counterparts have been doing for years. I don't know if you've noticed, but union jobs have good pay, good benefits, and quite often a pension. And let's not forget about the handy laws helping their jobs stay in this country.
The big problem is people *assuming* everyone has MS-Word, and using it's proprietary format to exchange information by default.
It's a problem for Microsoft's competitors and for FOSS zealots, but not for the rest of us. I don't communicate with a single person that doesn't have MS Word (or at least WordPad). Let's not forget that if you are running Linux, you have made a choice to use something that has different features and limitations than the software that 90+% of the world uses. It is not the obligation of the vast majority to facilitate the minority - it is the other way around.
For general distribution, or to unknown recipients, you should send in something that is standard (and to be standard, it needs to be a documented format, 'DOC' fails that requirement) plain ascii text works, or if for some reason you need to control the appearance, postscript or PDF.
Plain text does not allow formatting, and PDF does not allow editing.
1. The entire concept of a 'Word Processor' is stupid - http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html
That entire article was written on the basis of the fact that most people incorrectly use word processors! You can do exactly what the author is describing in Microsoft Word, and it is a hell of a lot easier than Tex. As you are typing your document, you simply mark things with Heading 1, etc (create new styles as you need them). When you're done "composing", then edit the styles such that your document is rendered as you want it to be.
As for the argument that the recipient of your document will need to have the same program you composed it in, I fail to see how Tex is better. If I sent my Dad a Tex document, he'd be pissed off that he had to read all of that \section{} crap along with the text, because we both know he isn't going to have anything that will render Tex.
we could all be carrying around insulin pumps and buying it at the local pharmacy in the Insulin isle
Are you suggesting that we'll be living in Waterworld?
The correct term is "iCurious."
I thought that was the word for a straight guy that looks at gay porn.
bwalling writes: "danielrm26 says Open Source Solaris won't kill Linux."
Why should I care any more about "this guy" than I do about danielrm26? Anything gets onto Slashdot these days.
That happens if you spend your tax money on warfare around the globe (like the U.S.) instead of social security. In most other countries you have at least enough money for food and a place to live even if you are unemployed.
In most other countries, you get the bejeezus taxed out of you. Perhaps that's why they have enough for socialism.
RIM Blackberry is strong, but IMHO that's only due to 2 things:
- a keyboard
- an easy to use system
- unmetered email
Yes, I don't get why PDAs keep coming out without a keyboard. It makes them worthless.
The Blackberry does email better than anything out there. It's exactly how you would want it to work. I don't get why no one else does this. My company has about 30 Blackberries for various employees. We run the BB server, it hooks into Exchange, and it's like having a live client to the Exchange server. There is no syncing of email or any of that crap. Even the read/unread status of emails is kept correctly over the cell network. Until someone else does this, I don't care what their product does.
Why not rig the machines? We go about screwing with the election in every other possible way as well. Forgive me, but I believe that our elections are one of the most embarassing things about this country. Aside from hanging chads, it's all a farce.
In Ohio, the Republicans are trying to put white lawyers into predominately black areas to "make sure" their voter registrations are valid.
In many states, the Democrats were trying hard to get Ralph Nader off the ballots despite his signature collection.
All over, Republicans and Democrats are frantically trying to register indigents and get them to vote for their guy.
Republicans and Democrats are paying millions to air ads that come as close as possible to lying about the opposition without actually lying.
In some state, the Democrats went to court to say that a Catholic bishop was tampering with the election because he said "you're not a Catholic if you vote for Kerry". Dude may be a crackpot, but that's about it.
Lawyers on both sides are poised to rush into court to contest the aspects of the vote that they feel best help themselves.
Why can't we just have an open, honest election? If we are the shining example to the world, where's the shine? We complain every four years about low voter turnout, but system is disenfranchising people. Nobody makes me want to vote for them. They all make me want them to be removed from power, but I've nobody left to replace them with.
There seems to be more important issues like Iraq, health care, the economy, and terrorism to judge candidates for president
It doesn't really matter - name one candidate that doesn't suck. Sure, you hate Bush, but don't let that blind you from the fact that Kerry sucks. Bush might be the only major party candidate that Kerry could beat. Maybe I just get more cynical over time, but these two make Al Gore and Walter Mondale look good!
In the world of Internet news, you don't need sources. You just need a handful of people eager to get in on the scoop, and whatever you say can proliferate quickly.
Microsoft is different - they hold a Trademark on the name.
I wouldn't vote for that guy no matter what...he's definitely missing some morality genes someplace.
His opponent is already in Congress, so you know he lacks morals as well. Do you vote for a candidate you don't like, or a candidate you don't like? Sounds an awful lot like the Presidential race.
How can you even ask that question? Badnarik and Cobb are two candidates with real platforms and real goals, and they deserve to be heard in the same way that President Bush and Senator Kerry are being heard.
All Cobb and Badnarik did was to further convince the average American that they are nuts. They need to start convincing the average American that they are legitimate candidates with legitimate platforms. The problem is that both the candidates and people like you don't realize that this was not helpful. You're all too extreme for the average American, and you keep proving it over and over again. You'll never get credibility or votes if you keep it up.
Yes, they should have been in the debates, but that is not relevant to whether or not they should have pulled this stunt. These guys need to learn how to play with the pros. So far, the pros are smoking them. Third parties can get into the debates - Ross Perot did it.
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Dude, I've been to Clermont (in-laws live there). Where are you doing any programming work?
Looks like you only have three replies so far, so if you have any left: wallinbl at tampabay dot rr dot com
Have you thought about trying good old fashioned parenting? Perhaps "being there" is the best way to monitor your child...
How the heck is this Insightful? This is the best way to end your marriage. You need to get out once a week with your spouse, and you'll need someone to watch your kid when you go out.
If you have relatives in the area, they make the best babysitters. You know them, plus they probably want to see the kid as much as they can without imposing on you.
Then, maybe management would notice the 15% annual increase in housing costs...
Quit moving. Your mortgage isn't going to go up if you don't move into a more expensive house.
I don't think it's a performance metric. Think about a /24 subnet for a minute, and you'll see where that number came from.
Seriously, many Christians just eat up that shitty rhetoric like smoked Italian sausage sandwiches with mesquite flavoured BBQ sauce. I mean, how could they resist, if it's that tasty to them. Although, you'd think that after four years of eating it up, they'd realize it was actually just sausage flavoured hot dogs(with extra rat hair swept up from the factory floor) with Kraft BBQ sauce(yuck!).
I suppose we should go for the Heinz BBQ sauce instead, huh?
I still don't see how it is bad? Are people hiding in shadows and other people aren't seeing those shadows? Wouldn't that make the ones hiding campers? I hate campers.
If you force me to turn shadows on, I can't play the game - it's too slow. I guess I won't play online, because somehow it's been decided that turning shadows off is cheating.
That's pretty lousy.
It's clear it's always going to be a two horse race.
Please take a look at history. This is not the case. The Republicans and Democrats are not the originals, they are just the ones we currently have. They certainly have done a lot to pass new legislation to protect their own positions.
I'm not interested in the motivation, I completely understand the motivation. I'd like to know what you think needs to be done to create credibility within the public mind for a third party. It seems that the presidency is a big thing to shoot for, and you could better spend your money winning seats in state legislatures, and move up towards the presidency. Why not start with attainable positions, and build?
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That's the funniest thing I've heard all day!