Because (for one example), in Outlook, someone can email you an appointment which can then get added to your calendar, and will signal a reminder when that appointment time rolls around. Maybe you don't need this, but if the idea is to sway Outlook users to use Evolution instead, a simple 'does one job well' email client isn't going to get users to switch. They'll say "how come I can't do x in Evolution, I could always do it in Outlook' and then they'll moan that non-MS apps are inferior.
In fact, I just did a Find for strategical in these comments, to see if anyone else remarked on it. Was it a strategic decision to draw attention? Or strategical? Perhaps strategicalicous! No, that's unstrategicalable!
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More interesting than Mono, IMHO. But as I'm about to give it a whirl (I find C# more appealing than Java, yet I don't do - or want to do - Windows-only programming), I wonder -- what organization would use a free / open source.Net-lookalike? Seems that if someone is sold on the.Net path, they'll buy the "real thing", that is, Microsoft. Comments?
I don't care how you people want to play with semantics and whether politicians make money or not, but: a government is not considered a commercial entity. The US Senate is not a business. A.gov site is not a commercial venture. Your blathering about politics, corruption and dirty money does nothing to change the legal definition of what is a profit, and what is a non-profit, organization.
BTW, a Senator has a responsibility to his/her state that elected him/her. It makes perfect sense for Hatch's site to attempt to increase tourism, and therefore, cash flow, to Utah. That's called serving the best interests of the people who elected him.
In other news, NPR (National Public Radio) sells music CDs on their website. NPR is a non-profit organization. Whoa, what a contradiction, huh? That just can't be!
No, key word is non-profit, RTFL (read the fucking license). As, "Please feel free to use this code on your own website free of charge." and "The Free use of this menu is only available to Non-Profit, Educational & Personal web sites." A government web site is non-profit, not a commercial business.
gif is pronouncable? You still can't get people to agree on whether the 'g' is hard or soft. No matter what the authoritative answer to that question is, people persist in pronouncing it differently. You say gif, I say gif, let's call the whole thing off.
Never stepped into a department store in the last few decades? Fossil's niche was/is retro designs (1950's mostly, I believe), so yes, the name was a reflection on that they _weren't_ with the times (and therefore, with the times, as in "hip to be square").
<sarcasm> BTW, I hear there's some watch these days with the crazy name of Swatch. Wonder what the heck that means? </sarcasm>
Other than the text itself in a text file, what "too much crap everywhere" does vim give you? If it's merely the syntax highlighting bothering you,:syntax off takes care of that.
This is way off-topic, but in my search on google news to find a no-registration copy of the NYT story, I went to sci/tech news, and right below the headline "Did Microsoft "borrow" the iLoo concept?" is the next headline "MSN Messenger to Offer Steaming Video, Voice". That's not my typo, it really says "steaming" on the link, but then the story it links to says "streaming"
So while on your iLoo, feel free to serve up a steaming pile of video and voice;)
Agreed. Let's see -- people who aren't ubercool hackers discussing web browsers... "I use Explorer.. I use Navigator...hey doood, I use that bitchin' Firebird!" (yes, really should be Camaro). I expect the user to have a black muscle shirt and wear a mullet. Definitely won't get along with the Opera crowd;)
But a point you and many people miss is this: to the war protesters, the actual Iraqi casualties of Saddam are viewed as less important than the potential Iraqi casualties of US action. How come a dead Iraqi only creates a stir if a US bomb did the deed? Where were the human shields for Iraqis tortured and murdered by the Iraqi "security" forces?
A computer is a much more complex and multi-purpose tool than a hammer, and gets functionality added as time goes by. If carpenters did more and different things with their hammers each new year, you can bet hammers would be changing, and the carpenters who didn't need those features might feel overwhelmed and complain "why'd they have to change my hammer?"
This is a constant dilemma for a developer, because no matter how much you dumb it down, along comes a dumber user. I manage a password-required web site, and I get users who call because they can't log in, and it usually boils down to they can't type their password correctly. The most hostile exclaim "Why is this system so hard?" or "Why is this happening?" and I restrain myself from replying "because you didn't type your credentials in correctly." NO, that's "blame the user" which they don't want to hear, yet I feel vindicated when I ask them to enter a new password twice and then they say "it says 'you didn't enter the same password twice'" - after hearing from them "of course I'm typing the same password that used to work!" Ok, enough venting and back to work...
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You know this K-naming thing has really gotten to the KDE folks when you read about the new game Atlantik: "Inspired by the famous boardwalk in Atlantik City, New Jersey...".
The entertainment studios have long had very creative ways to screw over artists, and its not as simple a matter as "dumb artist, should have known better." You think big-time directors don't have lawyers when going over contracts? And yet the studio will say their blockbuster made no profit, so sorry, bud, your royalties tanked.
And to "Don't you think a truly free market will provide sufficient deterrent to price fixing? I do"... ok, so you believe in the tooth fairy. Good luck.
you assume the only theft/non-theft is between the recording industry and the consumer. 'The usual thievery' could refer to RIAA practices to musicians. Even in regards to consumers, you could then defend price-fixing and collusion in any industry by saying "no one is forcing you to buy that [airline ticket|gasoline|etc]".
Read the FAQ at turbotaxsupport.com. Your point 3 is wrong. This isn't simply a registration code that you can pass along to a friend with the CD. It communicates with Inuit to get a key based on the reg code.
"Note: If you need to reinstall an activated copy of TurboTax on another computer because of a hard disk failure, or if you are reinstalling an activated copy of TurboTax on a newly purchased computer or hard disk, please contact a live agent to obtain a second activation code." This is if you want full features (printing, e-filing, etc).
The confusion would be in the user's mind. People familiar with Phoenix Tech's product are not likely to say "Now start up FirstView Connect", they conceivably could say "start up the Phoenix browser". It's a browser, it's made by Phoenix. The Mozilla project has a browser with the name of Phoenix. Could they re-name it to "Microsoft" and say "no one calls IE the Microsoft browser, so what's wrong with Mozilla naming their browser Microsoft?"
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-- My point is, Linux security is questionable.
No, your point was Linux security is worse than MS security. And your frequent posts here on the topic show you are clueless.
Ok, done feeding troll.
Because (for one example), in Outlook, someone can email you an appointment which can then get added to your calendar, and will signal a reminder when that appointment time rolls around. Maybe you don't need this, but if the idea is to sway Outlook users to use Evolution instead, a simple 'does one job well' email client isn't going to get users to switch. They'll say "how come I can't do x in Evolution, I could always do it in Outlook' and then they'll moan that non-MS apps are inferior.
In fact, I just did a Find for strategical in these comments, to see if anyone else remarked on it. Was it a strategic decision to draw attention? Or strategical? Perhaps strategicalicous! No, that's unstrategicalable!
dotGNU .Net-lookalike? Seems that if someone is sold on the .Net path, they'll buy the "real thing", that is, Microsoft. Comments?
More interesting than Mono, IMHO. But as I'm about to give it a whirl (I find C# more appealing than Java, yet I don't do - or want to do - Windows-only programming), I wonder -- what organization would use a free / open source
Webware has as one of its components Python Server Pages.
example:
<% for i in range(5):
res.write("<b>This is number" + str(i) + "</b><br>") %>
Ok, I'll plead ignorance -- could you (or anyone else) explain this assertion?
What, Panama wasn't good enough for you?
BTW, a Senator has a responsibility to his/her state that elected him/her. It makes perfect sense for Hatch's site to attempt to increase tourism, and therefore, cash flow, to Utah. That's called serving the best interests of the people who elected him.
In other news, NPR (National Public Radio) sells music CDs on their website. NPR is a non-profit organization. Whoa, what a contradiction, huh? That just can't be!
No, key word is non-profit, RTFL (read the fucking license). As, "Please feel free to use this code on your own website free of charge." and "The Free use of this menu is only available to Non-Profit, Educational & Personal web sites." A government web site is non-profit, not a commercial business.
gif is pronouncable? You still can't get people to agree on whether the 'g' is hard or soft. No matter what the authoritative answer to that question is, people persist in pronouncing it differently. You say gif, I say gif, let's call the whole thing off.
Well, there are always palm sports ;) Fits well (pun intended?) with the geek image.
Never stepped into a department store in the last few decades? Fossil's niche was/is retro designs (1950's mostly, I believe), so yes, the name was a reflection on that they _weren't_ with the times (and therefore, with the times, as in "hip to be square").
<sarcasm>
BTW, I hear there's some watch these days with the crazy name of Swatch. Wonder what the heck that means?
</sarcasm>
Other than the text itself in a text file, what "too much crap everywhere" does vim give you? If it's merely the syntax highlighting bothering you, :syntax off takes care of that.
In homage, I will henceforth change my sig to "Ssshh! Smell that?"
So while on your iLoo, feel free to serve up a steaming pile of video and voice ;)
Agreed. Let's see -- people who aren't ubercool hackers discussing web browsers... "I use Explorer.. I use Navigator...hey doood, I use that bitchin' Firebird!" (yes, really should be Camaro). I expect the user to have a black muscle shirt and wear a mullet. Definitely won't get along with the Opera crowd ;)
Don't be so overly criti.. oh, wait.
But a point you and many people miss is this: to the war protesters, the actual Iraqi casualties of Saddam are viewed as less important than the potential Iraqi casualties of US action. How come a dead Iraqi only creates a stir if a US bomb did the deed? Where were the human shields for Iraqis tortured and murdered by the Iraqi "security" forces?
A computer is a much more complex and multi-purpose tool than a hammer, and gets functionality added as time goes by. If carpenters did more and different things with their hammers each new year, you can bet hammers would be changing, and the carpenters who didn't need those features might feel overwhelmed and complain "why'd they have to change my hammer?"
This is a constant dilemma for a developer, because no matter how much you dumb it down, along comes a dumber user. I manage a password-required web site, and I get users who call because they can't log in, and it usually boils down to they can't type their password correctly. The most hostile exclaim "Why is this system so hard?" or "Why is this happening?" and I restrain myself from replying "because you didn't type your credentials in correctly." NO, that's "blame the user" which they don't want to hear, yet I feel vindicated when I ask them to enter a new password twice and then they say "it says 'you didn't enter the same password twice'" - after hearing from them "of course I'm typing the same password that used to work!" Ok, enough venting and back to work...
You know this K-naming thing has really gotten to the KDE folks when you read about the new game Atlantik: "Inspired by the famous boardwalk in Atlantik City, New Jersey...".
The entertainment studios have long had very creative ways to screw over artists, and its not as simple a matter as "dumb artist, should have known better." You think big-time directors don't have lawyers when going over contracts? And yet the studio will say their blockbuster made no profit, so sorry, bud, your royalties tanked.
And to "Don't you think a truly free market will provide sufficient deterrent to price fixing? I do"... ok, so you believe in the tooth fairy. Good luck.
you assume the only theft/non-theft is between the recording industry and the consumer. 'The usual thievery' could refer to RIAA practices to musicians. Even in regards to consumers, you could then defend price-fixing and collusion in any industry by saying "no one is forcing you to buy that [airline ticket|gasoline|etc]".
Read the FAQ at turbotaxsupport.com. Your point 3 is wrong. This isn't simply a registration code that you can pass along to a friend with the CD. It communicates with Inuit to get a key based on the reg code.
"Note: If you need to reinstall an activated copy of TurboTax on another computer because of a hard disk failure, or if you are reinstalling an activated copy of TurboTax on a newly purchased computer or hard disk, please contact a live agent to obtain a second activation code." This is if you want full features (printing, e-filing, etc).
The confusion would be in the user's mind. People familiar with Phoenix Tech's product are not likely to say "Now start up FirstView Connect", they conceivably could say "start up the Phoenix browser". It's a browser, it's made by Phoenix. The Mozilla project has a browser with the name of Phoenix. Could they re-name it to "Microsoft" and say "no one calls IE the Microsoft browser, so what's wrong with Mozilla naming their browser Microsoft?"