Microsoft could embrace ODF. They could integrate it with Microsoft Office, eliminate.DOC, and produce the best ODF tools in the market and maintain their dominance, even in Government.
Microsoft simply cannot produce the best tools in the market. They lack the necessary design skill and development practices (at least within the Office business).
Open Office, while great for the breadth of its tools, is a complicated beast and can be overwhelming for general office staff.
wasn't there some strap-on wing and w/e developed for us special forces?
You're thinking of an actual rocketpack prototype that was invented by Howard Hughes in 1938 and stolen by the Nazis for the purpose of creating a flying army, though it was accidentally destroyed soon after they acquired it. The FBI managed to keep the whole thing secret until about 1991, when news of the incident became public.
For those who are unclear on what perpendicular recording is, Hitachi made a video explaining how it works. It's a bit dry and technical, but I figure the Slashdot crowd is savvy enough to grok it.
I had to P2P some songs because some idiot put protection on my CD, so I could not listen to it in my car (my car and "protected" cd's don't work well).
If you can't play it in a normal CD player, then it's not a CD. Look at the disc -- you'll notice the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo is absent.
Firefox with Adblock plus does NOTHING because it has to load in some Javascript first
That's where NoScript comes in. AdBlock and NoScript are the two reasons I can't go back to Safari or Camino, even though they're better Mac apps overall.
The main reason I don't buy MP3s from iTunes or whatever is that I play them in more than just my iPod, sometimes xmms, winamp or my Squeezebox, none of which support DRM.
The main reason you don't buy MP3s from iTunes is that iTunes doesn't sell MP3s.
"The well known problem in explaining the origin of life is that the complexity of living creatures is so high that the time necessary to form the simplest organic living structure is too large compared to the age of the Earth."
This is indeed a problem (provided the age of the Earth is less than 10,000 years). But the complexity of living creatures is an issue in the origin of species, not the origin of life. Why should the complexity of living creatures generally be an obstacle to forming the very simplest organic structure? Someone needs to read The Selfish Gene.
The same people who buy CrossOver from CodeWeavers which allows people to run MS Office on both Linux and Mac OSX
Which means Microsoft can already sell Office licenses to Linux users for zero additional development cost.
If Windows died in the marketplace and it came down to supporting Linux, I'd place a higher bet on Microsoft buying CodeWeavers than actually porting Office for real.
If Microsoft had created a version of Office that could run on Unix, BSD, and Linux they would have opened up a whole new market.
But who would buy it? The same reasons not to buy and run Windows (whatever they are) also apply to Office. And those who are willing to pay $$$ for an Office package and insist that it run on Unix can use OS X. I just don't see the business case for Office on X11.
Furthermore, supporting X11 (via whichever toolkit) would be an enormous engineering effort. Who's going to develop it? Windows programmers? The Mac Business Unit? Will they form a new LinBU of average programmers and POSIX rookies to spend the next three years hacking together Office 2011 for X11 to compete with OpenOffice on its home turf?
I've seen the code. Let's just say it won't blend...
Actually, I expect that Microsoft has already made contingency plans for moving its core products onto either a Linux or a BSD kernel, much like Apple did.
If you're counting Microsoft Office as a core product, then no, they haven't.
in 200 years, chinaslashdot.org will carry a story about when china should release the nanobots to punish bangladeshi genome pirates stealing chinese biotech copyrights...
Mile
(from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matt. 5:41), a Roman measure of
1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the Roman mile has 1618 yards,
being 142 yards shorter than the English mile.
If you consider a step as an advance of both feet instead of just one, then it's quite possible to walk a mile in 1000 steps.
Last year I had Comcast installed on two occasions. The first was a self-install, and I called tech support to complete the registration and get the configuration details. This was on a Mac.
The second time I had installers come by, and aside from not leaving slack in the cable (which I'd requested) and picking an email username without consulting me (when I was in the next room), I had no issues actually connecting the service to my Linux gateway.
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No you don't.
(Having that much code in one file, I mean.)
For those who are unclear on what perpendicular recording is, Hitachi made a video explaining how it works. It's a bit dry and technical, but I figure the Slashdot crowd is savvy enough to grok it.
'Nazi' should be capitalized. Just so you know.
This is indeed a problem (provided the age of the Earth is less than 10,000 years). But the complexity of living creatures is an issue in the origin of species, not the origin of life. Why should the complexity of living creatures generally be an obstacle to forming the very simplest organic structure? Someone needs to read The Selfish Gene.
Yeah! Blast it into bits of dust!
Oh, wait...
Which means Microsoft can already sell Office licenses to Linux users for zero additional development cost.
If Windows died in the marketplace and it came down to supporting Linux, I'd place a higher bet on Microsoft buying CodeWeavers than actually porting Office for real.
But who would buy it? The same reasons not to buy and run Windows (whatever they are) also apply to Office. And those who are willing to pay $$$ for an Office package and insist that it run on Unix can use OS X. I just don't see the business case for Office on X11.
Furthermore, supporting X11 (via whichever toolkit) would be an enormous engineering effort. Who's going to develop it? Windows programmers? The Mac Business Unit? Will they form a new LinBU of average programmers and POSIX rookies to spend the next three years hacking together Office 2011 for X11 to compete with OpenOffice on its home turf?
I've seen the code. Let's just say it won't blend...
From http://dict.die.net/mile/:
If you consider a step as an advance of both feet instead of just one, then it's quite possible to walk a mile in 1000 steps.
Last year I had Comcast installed on two occasions. The first was a self-install, and I called tech support to complete the registration and get the configuration details. This was on a Mac.
The second time I had installers come by, and aside from not leaving slack in the cable (which I'd requested) and picking an email username without consulting me (when I was in the next room), I had no issues actually connecting the service to my Linux gateway.