The last time I "NEEDED" a Microsoft format was...never. The suicide that you describe is self imposed. Step back a second and ask yourself if it would make a difference?
Even Microsoft knows this, that's why they also are changing formats. With the next release of Word the "WORD" format will be broken for most people. If you invested in.doc and complain that such and such application does not render it right then you invested in the wrong technology and you are about to find out fairly quick. If you are like most companies and invested in a word processor called Word and save in.doc, then it does not matter much.
For over 10 years I've been using various word processors and have yet to find this suicide issue. Stop limiting yourself there is more to computers than Microsoft.
There's more than one way to skin a cat. She could have many reasons to use this particular method one example being that she is on dial up, maybe she is not as brilliant as you. Whatever the case who cares? The point being IS that her actions are legal and she did not infringe on WHOEVER THIS IDIOT WISHES TO BE KNOW AS.
I felt TFA from ABC was more a promotion of Prince than the actual story of the mom. It was harder to get to the video than the Prince adds which were on the pages I saw.
You read too much in this. Canadian law does not care about European copyrights. The risk is that the judge might side with the European position which would require continued litigation. As a student he does not have the resources to pay his way through this fight.
Why should the OS contain so much code just to run old legacy apps?
Because there are not enough standards in computing....Most business need a simple accounting package that will handle GL, AP and AR. They invest in let's say Accpac for DOS and they customize their reports for it. They have no need for Accpac for Windows. As the years advance and we find ourselves in 2007, the systems which run this software are no longer available. There is no productivity gain in any of the new software because it gives them nothing more.
Accounting has not changed. The needs of most small business is in collecting the cash, paying the bills and filling taxes. The productivity gains from manual ledgers to automated AP, AR and GL are significant and justifies the cost. The productivity gains from the above example which is Accpac for DOS and any other software are practically none existent.
The investment that will be required for this business to come up to "speed" will become legacy within a couple of years. The cost does not generate any new revenue for the business and no longer gives them a productivity advantage. They get that from there POS or ERP or PMS systems. That is why the OS must run legacy software, there are users out there who need it. Or in other words they don't care about the OS, they need there apps to run and will buy any OS which will allow them to continue operations.
??? naive? The parking meters ARE intended as a revenue stream for the city. The excuse is the solution to a problem which won't go away until they stop the development in the city center. This is our economy folks. Charge as much as possible. The idea that it costs so much more to bring services in a central core of a city than a rural suburb just boggles my mind. What I find surprising is the excuses that we can invent in order to be able to sleep at night.
Planting a tree does not remove the toxic sh1t that a hummer spews...Public transit can NOT transport ALL the people to their 9 to 5 jobs that a city center accommodates.
They do it for restaurants and they do it for Hotels. It costs nothing to remove the meters.
But that is not the point. People need to park in order to buy. Most urban centers would be dead if cars would be baned. Just ask a young family to do their grocery shopping by bus. Sorry folks but the answer is building green cars not in banning parking spaces. In this I would have to agree with the city. There is nothing green about banning parking....
I'm not here to argue economics but the simple fact that you are comparing a full version to the crippled version makes your argument nul.
There are so many flaws in your statements and in your math... what gives? Inflation averaged 2% per year at most. Compound it. 9 years. Where do you get the 20? Then compare full version with full version or home version with...none. Compare retail with retail...
You are a Microsoft apologist.
If you take all factors in consideration Windows should have reduced in price just by the fact of total market penetration.....or a more STUPID example;
Original cheapest IBM PC with monitor aprox $6,000 DOS 1.1 $49.00. Current cheap PC $500 Windows retail $300. It's just a point. Notice how the cost of the PC dropped?
Fraud in general is to mislead for personal gain. If this is deliberate then yes there is fraud. "Mail fraud" as defined in US law no, but fraud none the less. The problem here is to prove deliberate. False Advertising is the PC way of saying fraud.
What a stupid comment....So you know how to use a toaster, does it stop you from using a toaster oven? Or an oven? Or a microwave oven? Do you know you can make toast without a toaster? You can make toast without any appliance....
By the time these kids grow up, Windows and Word and power point will look nothing like the do today. Most people are confused when Microsoft make changes with versions. Teach people to perform tasks not how to use menus and then they will never be lost.
nice, but what makes you think that the books are any different. Is something written on paper better reviewed, researched or accurate. Most schools libraries are underfunded and out of date.
There is no such thing as a hidden cost in a well run company. If you are spending your time on/. arguing the benefits of such and such and you are on company time you are not in a well run company.
Bean counters are not stupid. They can understand that an employee paid at $10/hr will, may, save the company more than the $200 monitor amortized over 3 years. The problem is that it seldom if ever materializes in real life. Convince them that you will use this time to improve productivity and you will get your monitor. If you get the monitor and at the end they see no improvement then the next guy will have a harder time getting his monitor.
A serious employee at a well run company would only have to fill out a requisition. Good bean counters know their job just like good programmers know their code.
They were intended to replace the secretaries typewriter not the printers printing press. The layout may vary depending on the printer you are using and many other minor factors.
It's because you're not seeing the forest from the trees. MS Office is like a desk in the office, while it's needed, who supplies it is irrelevant. In this case it's 100% savings and not.007% of $2 million. I haven't seen a business who needs $500 office software. I have seen a lot who believed they did.
WHAT? They don't even follow HTML standards and yet you believe they follow standards that will sit on top of HTML. Actions speak louder than words. IE 7 is not standards compliant. I strongly believe that Microsoft has no intention of following any standard.
When IE starts supporting standards then I'll believe Microsofts claim of standards based Internet.
It's not. The only time Microsoft talks of open standards is when Microsoft does not have a majority market share. If Microsoft was serious of open standards then they would publish the standards to their protocols.
they can't play the games that they just bought from their local CompUSA
Most people don't buy a PC to play games on. It's cheaper to buy a Wii, Xbox, or PS2/3 then configuring a game system. Like the Mac most games are acquired online rather than a store.
Or until they try plugging in an arbitrary device and find that it doesn't work.
I guess you don't have a Linux system. Most hardware problems are due to the manufacturer. Chances are that if there is poor support for Mac and Linux then they have poor support for Windows. One example that comes to mind is a scanner. While the drivers were available for 95/98/XP the software to scan was not available for XP. On Linux all that was needed was to plug it in, select SANE to be installed. It is many a time where older Windows versions are supported and the newer ones not. The reverse is also the case. Where most new hardware no longer has Win 95/98/2000 support. In the later case if you install Linux on it you have extended the life of that system by at least 3 years. One of my oldest systems, PII 500, is very useful still, with 3 teenagers in the house there is no worry about freeing up the system so others can read their email, write a paper, chat, browse the web and almost everything else. I couldn't even run XP on it if I wanted to. Not to mention my PI 233 which runs X and users can connect remotely through X to my P4 3G and have the have the same experience as if they were using the P4. Yes sir, a 13 year old system still running productively today.
I don't understand why people still limit themselves to Windows. I'm not saying don't use Windows. If it's a Windows only product/software the limitation is not Linux.
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my PII 233 is running fine with the latest FreeBSD Stable. I expect it to perform just fine with 7.0.
http://www.videolan.org/
Stoped for me a long long time ago. But the point is you need to trust where you download from!
Amen! where are the mod points when you need them....
The last time I "NEEDED" a Microsoft format was...never. The suicide that you describe is self imposed. Step back a second and ask yourself if it would make a difference?
.doc and complain that such and such application does not render it right then you invested in the wrong technology and you are about to find out fairly quick. If you are like most companies and invested in a word processor called Word and save in .doc, then it does not matter much.
Even Microsoft knows this, that's why they also are changing formats. With the next release of Word the "WORD" format will be broken for most people. If you invested in
For over 10 years I've been using various word processors and have yet to find this suicide issue. Stop limiting yourself there is more to computers than Microsoft.
There's more than one way to skin a cat. She could have many reasons to use this particular method one example being that she is on dial up, maybe she is not as brilliant as you. Whatever the case who cares? The point being IS that her actions are legal and she did not infringe on WHOEVER THIS IDIOT WISHES TO BE KNOW AS.
I felt TFA from ABC was more a promotion of Prince than the actual story of the mom. It was harder to get to the video than the Prince adds which were on the pages I saw.
You read too much in this. Canadian law does not care about European copyrights. The risk is that the judge might side with the European position which would require continued litigation. As a student he does not have the resources to pay his way through this fight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank
It's just the way it is...
If banks just hold money then why are they allowed to lend it out, in some cases up to 9 times?
It's not that his argument was incorrect, it was just over simplified.
Why should the OS contain so much code just to run old legacy apps?
Because there are not enough standards in computing....Most business need a simple accounting package that will handle GL, AP and AR. They invest in let's say Accpac for DOS and they customize their reports for it. They have no need for Accpac for Windows. As the years advance and we find ourselves in 2007, the systems which run this software are no longer available. There is no productivity gain in any of the new software because it gives them nothing more.
Accounting has not changed. The needs of most small business is in collecting the cash, paying the bills and filling taxes. The productivity gains from manual ledgers to automated AP, AR and GL are significant and justifies the cost. The productivity gains from the above example which is Accpac for DOS and any other software are practically none existent.
The investment that will be required for this business to come up to "speed" will become legacy within a couple of years. The cost does not generate any new revenue for the business and no longer gives them a productivity advantage. They get that from there POS or ERP or PMS systems. That is why the OS must run legacy software, there are users out there who need it. Or in other words they don't care about the OS, they need there apps to run and will buy any OS which will allow them to continue operations.
??? naive? The parking meters ARE intended as a revenue stream for the city. The excuse is the solution to a problem which won't go away until they stop the development in the city center. This is our economy folks. Charge as much as possible. The idea that it costs so much more to bring services in a central core of a city than a rural suburb just boggles my mind. What I find surprising is the excuses that we can invent in order to be able to sleep at night.
Planting a tree does not remove the toxic sh1t that a hummer spews...Public transit can NOT transport ALL the people to their 9 to 5 jobs that a city center accommodates.
They do it for restaurants and they do it for Hotels. It costs nothing to remove the meters.
But that is not the point. People need to park in order to buy. Most urban centers would be dead if cars would be baned. Just ask a young family to do their grocery shopping by bus. Sorry folks but the answer is building green cars not in banning parking spaces. In this I would have to agree with the city. There is nothing green about banning parking....
are you talking about? 1980????
...none. Compare retail with retail...
I'm not here to argue economics but the simple fact that you are comparing a full version to the crippled version makes your argument nul.
There are so many flaws in your statements and in your math... what gives? Inflation averaged 2% per year at most. Compound it. 9 years. Where do you get the 20? Then compare full version with full version or home version with
You are a Microsoft apologist.
If you take all factors in consideration Windows should have reduced in price just by the fact of total market penetration.....or a more STUPID example;
Original cheapest IBM PC with monitor aprox $6,000 DOS 1.1 $49.00. Current cheap PC $500 Windows retail $300. It's just a point. Notice how the cost of the PC dropped?
Fraud in general is to mislead for personal gain. If this is deliberate then yes there is fraud. "Mail fraud" as defined in US law no, but fraud none the less. The problem here is to prove deliberate. False Advertising is the PC way of saying fraud.
But then again that's only my opinion.
What a stupid comment....So you know how to use a toaster, does it stop you from using a toaster oven? Or an oven? Or a microwave oven? Do you know you can make toast without a toaster? You can make toast without any appliance....
By the time these kids grow up, Windows and Word and power point will look nothing like the do today. Most people are confused when Microsoft make changes with versions. Teach people to perform tasks not how to use menus and then they will never be lost.
Did he touch a nerve?
if that's all you need then yes it can.
nice, but what makes you think that the books are any different. Is something written on paper better reviewed, researched or accurate. Most schools libraries are underfunded and out of date.
Nice list but most "home" users don't keep up with the latest software.
There is no such thing as a hidden cost in a well run company. If you are spending your time on /. arguing the benefits of such and such and you are on company time you are not in a well run company.
Bean counters are not stupid. They can understand that an employee paid at $10/hr will, may, save the company more than the $200 monitor amortized over 3 years. The problem is that it seldom if ever materializes in real life. Convince them that you will use this time to improve productivity and you will get your monitor. If you get the monitor and at the end they see no improvement then the next guy will have a harder time getting his monitor.
A serious employee at a well run company would only have to fill out a requisition. Good bean counters know their job just like good programmers know their code.
They were intended to replace the secretaries typewriter not the printers printing press. The layout may vary depending on the printer you are using and many other minor factors.
It's because you're not seeing the forest from the trees. MS Office is like a desk in the office, while it's needed, who supplies it is irrelevant. In this case it's 100% savings and not .007% of $2 million. I haven't seen a business who needs $500 office software. I have seen a lot who believed they did.
WHAT? They don't even follow HTML standards and yet you believe they follow standards that will sit on top of HTML. Actions speak louder than words. IE 7 is not standards compliant. I strongly believe that Microsoft has no intention of following any standard.
When IE starts supporting standards then I'll believe Microsofts claim of standards based Internet.
It's not. The only time Microsoft talks of open standards is when Microsoft does not have a majority market share. If Microsoft was serious of open standards then they would publish the standards to their protocols.
they can't play the games that they just bought from their local CompUSA
Most people don't buy a PC to play games on. It's cheaper to buy a Wii, Xbox, or PS2/3 then configuring a game system. Like the Mac most games are acquired online rather than a store.
Or until they try plugging in an arbitrary device and find that it doesn't work.
I guess you don't have a Linux system. Most hardware problems are due to the manufacturer. Chances are that if there is poor support for Mac and Linux then they have poor support for Windows. One example that comes to mind is a scanner. While the drivers were available for 95/98/XP the software to scan was not available for XP. On Linux all that was needed was to plug it in, select SANE to be installed. It is many a time where older Windows versions are supported and the newer ones not. The reverse is also the case. Where most new hardware no longer has Win 95/98/2000 support. In the later case if you install Linux on it you have extended the life of that system by at least 3 years. One of my oldest systems, PII 500, is very useful still, with 3 teenagers in the house there is no worry about freeing up the system so others can read their email, write a paper, chat, browse the web and almost everything else. I couldn't even run XP on it if I wanted to. Not to mention my PI 233 which runs X and users can connect remotely through X to my P4 3G and have the have the same experience as if they were using the P4. Yes sir, a 13 year old system still running productively today.
I don't understand why people still limit themselves to Windows. I'm not saying don't use Windows. If it's a Windows only product/software the limitation is not Linux.