Well, actually, ODF has simply been brought to the point that it should have been when it was first released. Yes, RDF support is a nice improvement, but ODF 1.0 was severly lacking in many areas. This is what ODF should have been.
You already have the $79 version? Or do you mean you already have a kindle?
The $79 version has no keyboard, unlike the older kindles. So you have to use an onscreen keybard and navigate it with the d-pad. So browsing for things be a lot harder.
You have an odd concept of "median" if it can "only go up from there". Or did you mean "base salary"?
In any event, it doesn't matter if you make $2 Trillion dollars if you have 1.99999999 Trillion dollars in expenses to payback your education costs, insurance costs, overhead, etc...
That's why many doctors are still eating Ramen even when they're 10 years out of school.
That was lame speculation. In fact, new information has come out about the new Metro subsytem, and yes.. It includes C#, XAML (that's WPF and Silverlight apps), C++, VB, etc..
Umm.. All POSX implementations are ancient, because the POSIX standard has not changed miuch in 10 years. SUA supports Posix.1-2001, there were 2 releases since then... 2004 and 2008, neither of which added much of anything.
The real problem is that posix alone is not particularly useful, you need to supplment it with additional api's.
Can you be any more vague? The USPTO has approved patents for the items. Linux implements them. Ergo, Linux infringes the patent. That is fact, and requires no case law.
Yes, the trust fund is huge. And yes, they will hve to raise taxes to pay it back. The point is that you can't look at social security on a per year basis and say "Oh, this year they're taking in less money than they're paying out, social security is bankrupt!". That ignores the money that SS is owed.
Not true. Social Security is currently still in the black. You're trying to conflate projected debt with actual debt. The social Security Trust is, as of this moment, still an asset.
You are assuming Microsoft is seeking monetary damages. They would likely just want injunctive relief. Stop selling the product.
Fact is, Microsoft is confused over it's patent strategy. On the one hand, they've spent a lot of money patenting things, buying patents, trading for patents, etc.. and they want to make some money off it. On the other, they hate patents and are constantly getting sued themselves because it's pretty much impossible to write much of any software without violating someones patents.
So I think we'll see Microsoft flip-flopping a lot on how they are going to use patents, although that won't stop them from making threats.
Threat of doing something you are legally allowed to do (and MS can legally sue anyone, whether or not they actually have valid patents) is not illegal.
Stop trying to pretend that the threat of illegal actions is the same as the threat of legal ones.
They have specified patents, in particular in certain lawsuits.
The fact is, Linux *does* violate lots of peoples patents. Tons of them. Not just Microsoft's. The question is, a) will those people sue you for using them. and b) are those patents valid.
If both are true, then you're in for a world of hurt. But it cannot be argued that Linux doesn't violate patents. It does so with extreme prejudice. two examples are the FAT and NTFS drivers. It is a fact that these systems implement patented claims. What's not clear is whether or not that actually means anything.
So do yourself a favor, stop pretending Linux is patent infringement free. It's not. And instead, deal with the real issues of whether or not infringing those patents is really an issue.
No, it's not an account, however your lifetime payment into the system is recorded and used to calculate your payments.
If you live longer than 75, you will get more money out of social security than you put into it. So while technically true, you do in fact get your money back (and more) so long as the government keeps running it.
The fact is, the government was borrowing from the social security fund for decades, and never paid that money back. If you were to take that money into account, then social security would have no crisis.
Even so, that crisis is short lived. As the boomers die off, the fund will re-stabilize.
Ummm.. Weath is not a race. It's impossible to be a racist against the wealthy (although it's true the vast majority of the wealthy are of a single race)
Your description doesn't make sense. The formatting popup only happens when text is highlighted in in-cell edit mode. If you click in another cell (or just arrow to one), it goes away because that text is no longer highlighted (Esc also works).
I can see that there might be a small edge case that this would be annoying, but the solution isn't as complex as you make out.
You can do everything with the keyboard, just the way you used to (well, slightly differently, but same results).
hit alt key, that "activates" the tab bar, just like it used to activate the menu bar.
Use left and right arrow keys to move within the tab bar to select different tabs, just like you used to select different top level menus.
Use down arrow to move into the toolbar and then left and right to move around in between the buttons.. just like you used to with menus.
Yes, a small few keyboard shortcuts changed. This was largely to make sure there were full alt-key shortcuts for everything (some things used to be ctrl-key shortcuts, and even those mostly still work as well). Most keyboard shortcuts are still the same.
Heaven forbid you should have to think before you take an action. However, if you're determined to do things blindly, you don't have to read the text, just click on whatever is the next level up.
I've never seen a folder so long that you can't see at least the next level up in the address bar.
The distinction of using the correct word is what's important to me. I also criticize people for using the word "steal" when they mean "infringe" in regards to copyright infringement.
So you're trying to say that if you sign a contract that says you will mow my lawn for a year, and you stop doing it after 6 weeks, i take you to court and you lose.. you're guilty? Guilty of what? Don't say breach of contact, because you are found to be in breach of the contract. You are note "guilty" of it.
Conviction (in the legal sense) has only one legal meaning. And that's criminal.
All civil court does is say "There's enough evidence to legally say you are found to have done or not done this thing", you can then be liable for damages for having been found to have done or not done that thing.
There's a reason "guilt" is not issued for civil court, and that's because the standards for civil court are a great deal more relaxed. You can be found to be liable for something you cannot be criminally found guilty of, so to confer the same term as a criminal conviction is comparing apples to nuclear warheads.
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Well, actually, ODF has simply been brought to the point that it should have been when it was first released. Yes, RDF support is a nice improvement, but ODF 1.0 was severly lacking in many areas. This is what ODF should have been.
You already have the $79 version? Or do you mean you already have a kindle?
The $79 version has no keyboard, unlike the older kindles. So you have to use an onscreen keybard and navigate it with the d-pad. So browsing for things be a lot harder.
If you're on the console, then ctrl-alt-del + enter is a quick lock.
If you're rdp in, then it's the same but substitue end for del
Log off is ctrl-alt-del+down arrow+enter
Shut down is ctrl-alt-del + tab + tab + tab + enter
No mouse needed. If you don't like the GUI for setting permission, use the command line. net use and cacls are your friends.
You have an odd concept of "median" if it can "only go up from there". Or did you mean "base salary"?
In any event, it doesn't matter if you make $2 Trillion dollars if you have 1.99999999 Trillion dollars in expenses to payback your education costs, insurance costs, overhead, etc...
That's why many doctors are still eating Ramen even when they're 10 years out of school.
That was lame speculation. In fact, new information has come out about the new Metro subsytem, and yes.. It includes C#, XAML (that's WPF and Silverlight apps), C++, VB, etc..
http://dougseven.com/2011/09/15/a-bad-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-long-discussions/
Umm.. All POSX implementations are ancient, because the POSIX standard has not changed miuch in 10 years. SUA supports Posix.1-2001, there were 2 releases since then... 2004 and 2008, neither of which added much of anything.
The real problem is that posix alone is not particularly useful, you need to supplment it with additional api's.
Can you be any more vague? The USPTO has approved patents for the items. Linux implements them. Ergo, Linux infringes the patent. That is fact, and requires no case law.
Extortion is a legal term. By definition, if it's legal, it's not extortion.
Wow. I just don't understand how people can't grasp simple logical thought.
Sorry, I misinterpreted what you were saying.
Yes, the trust fund is huge. And yes, they will hve to raise taxes to pay it back. The point is that you can't look at social security on a per year basis and say "Oh, this year they're taking in less money than they're paying out, social security is bankrupt!". That ignores the money that SS is owed.
Not true. Social Security is currently still in the black. You're trying to conflate projected debt with actual debt. The social Security Trust is, as of this moment, still an asset.
That depends entirely on the patent. Some patents simply have no other way to do something.
Are you an idiot? I gave you two examples.
He wasn't asking you why patents are bad. He was asking you to back up your claim that MS is patent troll.
Patent trolls are companies that exist only to file patent lawsuits. They don't invent anything themselves and have filed none of their own patents.
Clearly, by no stretch of the imagination or any definition of "patent troll" is MS one.
You are assuming Microsoft is seeking monetary damages. They would likely just want injunctive relief. Stop selling the product.
Fact is, Microsoft is confused over it's patent strategy. On the one hand, they've spent a lot of money patenting things, buying patents, trading for patents, etc.. and they want to make some money off it. On the other, they hate patents and are constantly getting sued themselves because it's pretty much impossible to write much of any software without violating someones patents.
So I think we'll see Microsoft flip-flopping a lot on how they are going to use patents, although that won't stop them from making threats.
Threat of doing something illegal is extortion.
Threat of doing something you are legally allowed to do (and MS can legally sue anyone, whether or not they actually have valid patents) is not illegal.
Stop trying to pretend that the threat of illegal actions is the same as the threat of legal ones.
They have specified patents, in particular in certain lawsuits.
The fact is, Linux *does* violate lots of peoples patents. Tons of them. Not just Microsoft's. The question is, a) will those people sue you for using them. and b) are those patents valid.
If both are true, then you're in for a world of hurt. But it cannot be argued that Linux doesn't violate patents. It does so with extreme prejudice. two examples are the FAT and NTFS drivers. It is a fact that these systems implement patented claims. What's not clear is whether or not that actually means anything.
So do yourself a favor, stop pretending Linux is patent infringement free. It's not. And instead, deal with the real issues of whether or not infringing those patents is really an issue.
No, it's not an account, however your lifetime payment into the system is recorded and used to calculate your payments.
If you live longer than 75, you will get more money out of social security than you put into it. So while technically true, you do in fact get your money back (and more) so long as the government keeps running it.
The fact is, the government was borrowing from the social security fund for decades, and never paid that money back. If you were to take that money into account, then social security would have no crisis.
Even so, that crisis is short lived. As the boomers die off, the fund will re-stabilize.
Ummm.. Weath is not a race. It's impossible to be a racist against the wealthy (although it's true the vast majority of the wealthy are of a single race)
Does it actually support Gigabit on the WAN port? Most consumer gigabit routers i've seen have 10/100 on WAN, and gigabit on LAN.
Well, in any case.. you can turn it off. Go to File->Options and on the General tab, uncheck use the mini-toolbar.
Your description doesn't make sense. The formatting popup only happens when text is highlighted in in-cell edit mode. If you click in another cell (or just arrow to one), it goes away because that text is no longer highlighted (Esc also works).
I can see that there might be a small edge case that this would be annoying, but the solution isn't as complex as you make out.
You can do everything with the keyboard, just the way you used to (well, slightly differently, but same results).
hit alt key, that "activates" the tab bar, just like it used to activate the menu bar.
Use left and right arrow keys to move within the tab bar to select different tabs, just like you used to select different top level menus.
Use down arrow to move into the toolbar and then left and right to move around in between the buttons.. just like you used to with menus.
Yes, a small few keyboard shortcuts changed. This was largely to make sure there were full alt-key shortcuts for everything (some things used to be ctrl-key shortcuts, and even those mostly still work as well). Most keyboard shortcuts are still the same.
Heaven forbid you should have to think before you take an action. However, if you're determined to do things blindly, you don't have to read the text, just click on whatever is the next level up.
I've never seen a folder so long that you can't see at least the next level up in the address bar.
The distinction of using the correct word is what's important to me. I also criticize people for using the word "steal" when they mean "infringe" in regards to copyright infringement.
But thank you, I am satisified.
One can only be found liable in civil court.
So you're trying to say that if you sign a contract that says you will mow my lawn for a year, and you stop doing it after 6 weeks, i take you to court and you lose.. you're guilty? Guilty of what? Don't say breach of contact, because you are found to be in breach of the contract. You are note "guilty" of it.
Conviction (in the legal sense) has only one legal meaning. And that's criminal.
All civil court does is say "There's enough evidence to legally say you are found to have done or not done this thing", you can then be liable for damages for having been found to have done or not done that thing.
There's a reason "guilt" is not issued for civil court, and that's because the standards for civil court are a great deal more relaxed. You can be found to be liable for something you cannot be criminally found guilty of, so to confer the same term as a criminal conviction is comparing apples to nuclear warheads.