OpenOffice.Org supports the ability to export a document as PDF. As you probably know, PDF viewers are available for all mainstream OSes, including Linux, from Adobe themselves.
Unless you're dealing with content that has to be accessed or updated frequently, then PDF is the way to go.
The Metric calendar was 365 or 366 days per year, depending on leap years, not 100 days per year. It consisted of 10 months, each consisting of 3 10-day weeks, and 5 (or 6) leap days at the end of the year which were holiday.
It actually made a whole lot of sense, and the main reason it flopped wasn't because it was needlessly arbitrary, it was because the church considered it an affront to the whole 7-day thing that they're so fond of.
Why not just have split signs? One half can be in MPH and the other KPH. Think of it as a training mode. People can look at the two readings and get a general idea of scale. Also, as we are weaned off of the standard system, we can eventually use signs that are just KPH.
As an added bonus, you'll find that Canadian drivers who don't have markings on their speedometers in miles per hour don't drive slowly and back up traffic....
The rest of the world uses metric, it's time for the US to join the 20th century. After all, the rest of us are in the 21st century, don't you think it's about time?
That'd just make summer that much the worse, though... I mean, looking at the thermometer outside and seeing that it's 105 in the shade is bad enough. Can you imagine looking outside and seeing the temperature at 314 in the shade?
Aside from obvious cases where an abortion is necessary to the survival of the mother, it's worth pointing out that what's at issue with abortion isn't whether you're killing an innocent life, it's whether the state has a right to tell a woman what she can do with her body.
My stance on abortion is simple: remove the fetus. If it survives (yes, you're allowed to use intensive care treatment), then it's viable and should be put up for adoption when it's ready. If it doesn't, then it wasn't alive to begin with. It may sound callous, but believe me, I don't support the killing of babies any more than you do. It's just that I think a woman's body is her own damned business and that the state has no place telling her what she can and cannot do with it. If she does not want to carry a baby to term, then she should not be forced to.
As for the death penalty, I'm against it. And the reason I'm against it is the same reason most Canadians are against it... are you aware of what happened with the last person who was executed for murder by the state? Less than a year after he was hanged, new evidence surfaced that proved that he had been innocent. Less than a year after that, the real killer (who was already serving a sentence for another crime) confessed. I do not believe I could ever be 100% certain of the guilt of a suspect, and I think that it's incredibly arrogant and callous to think that anything less than 100% certainty is enough to kill a person for their crimes. That, and I believe that there's nothing to be accomplished from an-eye-for-an-eye mentality. Karma has a way of working things out in the end, and it isn't my place to be the instrument thereof.
Sounds like a good recipe for lawyer exercise to me.
Perhaps. I am none too fond of the "sue everybody" mentality south of the border, and wouldn't even consider suing somebody without first trying to resolve the problem diplomatically.
That said, in your own example the people I should be suing are Microsoft, not Compaq. Even then, I should at least try contacting MS tech. support in resolving the problem first, if for no other reason then because it's much better ammunition in a lawsuit to be able to say "I tried contacting them and getting them to fix it under warranty, they told me to stuff it."
Compaq isn't liable because Microsoft broke my computer with a patch. Microsoft are the ones who released a patch that breaks my legitimate XP Pro product key. When Compaq released the laptop, and for the entire duration of my warranty, the computer worked fine. A lawsuit against Compaq would get thrown out of court by any halfway decent judge.
As far as Compaq's responsibility goes, my software warranty was 90 days, and my laptop is 3 years old. Do the math. All copies of Windows come with 2 free support incidents at Microsoft, however, and if I want the problem fixed, I can call Microsoft.
Of course, I reformatted and installed Slackware the day my warranty expired, so it doesn't bother me anyway.:)
The funny thing is when you do most of your newsreading on the source agencies' websites. I dunno the exact numbers, but I'd guess that greater than half of the news articles come from Associated Press and/or Reuters. So read those websites and you're basically covered.
Then you get to grouse when you submit an article on Reuters, it gets rejected, and then a week later somebody submits MSN's copy of the same article and it gets posted, because everybody loves it when people whine about that kind of thing.:p
On a related note.... I see people asking if it's going to be a clicky IBM-style keyboard. It'd be great if it's available like that, but I *hope* there's a soft-touch version available, too. I lose about 15wpm on my touch typing on an IBM keyboard because they require a harder touch to register a keypress.
And I, for one, would actually have a reason to use it.... in my typing, I use German, French, English, and Japanese input. A japanese keyboard layout is a much more efficient way to type than using an IME, but it's impossible to get keyboards that have markings for all 4 of those languages.
Even KDE 3.1's speed could have been greatly improved... the single biggest detriment to KDE's performance is still there: by default, it logs all errors to console. That adds clock ticks, and if you want to turn it off you have to go into the code and comment it out.
Besides which, there *is* a whole lot of bloat in KDE. I don't *need* to use arts, for example, when I already have ALSA working. KDE runs a whole bunch of different servers that aren't needed, because that functionality is already present. Gnome does the same thing. Sure, it provides a standard platform and allows program developpers to write to it, but it also means that KDE simply can't be as quick to start up or as zippy as a lean window manager.
Sure, there are some interesting ideas showing up there, but KDE isn't the first group to develop them. I'm gonna stick with XFCE for now. At least there, I've got the xfce-goodies project which provides most of this functionality already.
The study also found some interesting things about DVR users' ad-watching habits.
From TFA: While 99 percent of women say they use their DVRs to zap through commercial spots, 76 percent reported that they stopped for ads that are entertaining or relevant to their own interests. Women are also more likely to pause for TV and movie promos.
This is in some way surprising? 99% of respondents saying they don't want to watch ads on TV they're paying for? That 76% of them say they watch commercials they find amusing? That people are more likely to watch commercials that flog products they would actually use?
That's about it. I'm tempted to put browser UA code on my website...
The index page is actually a frameset. What I'm thinking is that if the UA string identifies the browser as IE, then instead of the log for the main frame, they'll get an essay explaining why MSIE sucks, and informing them that they should go download Firefox.
Ok.... This month's stats on one of the websites I host:
Browsers Grabber Hits Percent MS Internet Explorer No 204332 65 % Firefox No 87210 27.7 %
As compiled by AWStats from the Apache logs. Last update less than an hour ago. Next runner up in that list is Opera, with about 10,000 hits this month. Those numbers are compiled from a total of just over 314,000 "hits" this month. (hits, not visits. a hit is a page/image request)
I think the numbers are a little leaner than reality, because FF is better at blocking junk. The source in question uses hit tracking from one of its ad affiliates, HitsLink.com. That particular site has been in my DNS blacklist for over a year, and I'm sure that at least some of its content is getting blocked by the myriad of adblocker plugins in Firefox.
it seems a little naive that we're whining that the media industry wants us to watch our computer-based content on our computer.
While I've no doubt that some people are complaining because this will put a crimp in their ability to pirate content, I'm complaining for an entirely different reason.
See, a few years ago, I bought a nice monitor for my computer. It's a 21" flat screen display that does 1920x1440 resolution at 75Hz. It's also a 0.20dp "medical-grade" display, and it didn't come cheap. Even using the employee discount I had when I was working for the company, the display came in at > $1000 before taxes, and it was worth every penny. The graphics that it produces, even years later, is way ahead of just about everything in the consumer market.
The thing is, that monitor was built before DRM became the buzzword of the day. It simply doesn't have any of the bullshit that Microsoft is saying will be needed for this to work properly. In order for me to get a better display than I already have, I would have to spend more than $1000 again, and I'm simply not in a position where that's a feasible option. Sure, I could probably get a monitor that would work for half that, but why should I *downgrade* my hardware so that the picture displays properly?
The answer is quite simple: I shouldn't, and I won't. The only reason that Windows is on any of my computers to begin with is that Cedega doesn't support all of my games yet. Under no circumstances will I ever buy a system with Longhorn. This, more than anything else on the wire, convinces me that Microsoft treats their customers like criminals, and doesn't give a shit what their policies do to the little guy.
I tried my mother out on Linux last week. She got a virus in her old Windows configuration, and so I sat her down and had a frank discussion about the merits of running Windows versus Linux. The end result was that her computer is now running Slackware 10.1 with KDE, Abiword, Thunderbird, and Firefox. She's a consultant, and has the productivity software her clients use running through wine (MS Office, Corel 12, etc.). She's not what I would call technically minded, and her example convinces me that Linux *is* ready for prime time, as long as you take the time to explain to Joe Windows-user what the differences are.
Well, if that actually makes it into the release, it's just the final nail in the coffin. As if all the other crap that Microsoft is putting into the OS isn't enough, I am simply not going to risk some game or video editing software telling me that my monitor isn't good enough, and that's that.
I've been using Linux on my server and firewall for more than 10 years. A year and a half ago, I switched my laptop to Linux, and set up a dualboot on my desktop. That smacks it... as soon as Cedega supports all of my games, Winders is gonzo.
What, do these jackasses think monitors grow on trees?
The problem is that batteries, even Lithium-Ion batteries, are extremely heavy by comparison. A Lithium cell produces about 3V potential difference. In order to produce enough juice to run something like an electric car, you need a lot of them wired in series. And then, in order to have decent battery life, you end up needing even more of them wired in parallel. By the time you've got a viable option for running an electric car, you're talking 300-500kg depending on the size of the car. When cars themselves often weigh less than 1500kg, that's a significant increase in weight.
There's also the cost. A Prius is a great alternative for a hybrid car, but what the manufacturer doesn't want to tell you when you're buying it is that the batteries only last about 6-8 years, and then they cost $10,000 to replace.
Others have wondered the same thing you just asked. And then they've looked at the price tag, and the increased weight, and decided that they need an alternative that can be as cheap and easy to refill as gasoline. Personally, I think the solution lies not in fuel cells, but in implementing a renewable-energy way to generate hydrogen.
Consider... I was at Canadian Tire yesterday. There, I saw a 400W wind generator for $700. 400W of juice is more than enough to run an electrolysis reaction. Set it up with a rain barrel and something in which to store the hydrogen, and you've got a renewable source of hydrogen for less than $1500 outlay. Sure, there are more efficient ways to store the energy being generated, but it's also freely renewable (no $10,000 expenditure every 8 years). All that's missing is a car that burns hydrogen.
And for times of drought, or during the winter, all it needs is a source of water, such as city water or a well. (You *could* use some of the wind power to melt snow, but that, like a rain barrel, wouldn't be all that useful on a scale larger than one or two cars)
CBC Winnipeg is most certainly available in digital stereo. I was watching Dr. Who on it (because of the time zone thing, it was more convenient) in 5.1 Surround sound.
It's still broadcasting in analogue, for compatability with analogue systems. If you want it in digital or high def, you have to subscribe to carrier that has the digital signal. For me, that's Starchoice, and the only channel that *isn't* digital is PBS. The CRTC mandate was for it to be available digitally, not for it to no longer be available in analogue.
High Definition TV != Digital TV. You require a digital framework to provide HDTV, but having a digital framework does not imply HDTV. Sets aren't going dark when it comes into effect, but the quality of signal is going to improve greatly.
Canada has had this in effect for a while. The deadline was January, 2005, and as of this writing, all TV channels are available digitally. Except, of course, some of the channels that come from the US. The difference in signal quality is very noticable when watching one of them. Most of the networks are already digital, BTW.
It's still compatible with OTA transmission, as well as analog cable signals. Old TVs can still see it, because the mandate was not to eliminate analog signals, it was to ensure digital availablility. Those of us who have an HDTV, or a digital/satellite receiver have a digital signal, complete with better sound and picture. Those of us on analog still have analog TV.
If everyone did that, the collection agencies will quickly go out of business.
On the other hand, you could also just pay your bills in the first place. If you disagree with an amount owing, it's downright stupid to just drop it in the trash. Call them up and contest the charge. And if you can't make the monthly payment, *call* the creditor and explain. Credit card companies and banks don't like sending accounts to collections, because it represents writing off the amount owing.
See, accounts are sent to collections when a company decides that they cannot extract payment from the customer. They effectively have to write off the account, and outsource it to a collection agency which will try to get whatever payment they can out of the customer. If you communicate with the creditor and work out a payment plan with them, then they know you intend to pay in good faith and won't send you to collections. This is good for the creditor, and believe it or not, it's good for your credit rating (even though you're actually being late on a payment).
If everybody paid their bills when they could, and communicated with their creditors when they couldn't, collection agencies would go out of business, too.
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Etch-A-Sketch... except this time, it's two knobs for two linear interfaces working in tandem. :)
OpenOffice.Org supports the ability to export a document as PDF. As you probably know, PDF viewers are available for all mainstream OSes, including Linux, from Adobe themselves.
Unless you're dealing with content that has to be accessed or updated frequently, then PDF is the way to go.
Psst....
The Metric calendar was 365 or 366 days per year, depending on leap years, not 100 days per year. It consisted of 10 months, each consisting of 3 10-day weeks, and 5 (or 6) leap days at the end of the year which were holiday.
It actually made a whole lot of sense, and the main reason it flopped wasn't because it was needlessly arbitrary, it was because the church considered it an affront to the whole 7-day thing that they're so fond of.
Why not just have split signs? One half can be in MPH and the other KPH. Think of it as a training mode. People can look at the two readings and get a general idea of scale. Also, as we are weaned off of the standard system, we can eventually use signs that are just KPH.
As an added bonus, you'll find that Canadian drivers who don't have markings on their speedometers in miles per hour don't drive slowly and back up traffic....
The rest of the world uses metric, it's time for the US to join the 20th century. After all, the rest of us are in the 21st century, don't you think it's about time?
That'd just make summer that much the worse, though... I mean, looking at the thermometer outside and seeing that it's 105 in the shade is bad enough. Can you imagine looking outside and seeing the temperature at 314 in the shade?
Aside from obvious cases where an abortion is necessary to the survival of the mother, it's worth pointing out that what's at issue with abortion isn't whether you're killing an innocent life, it's whether the state has a right to tell a woman what she can do with her body.
My stance on abortion is simple: remove the fetus. If it survives (yes, you're allowed to use intensive care treatment), then it's viable and should be put up for adoption when it's ready. If it doesn't, then it wasn't alive to begin with. It may sound callous, but believe me, I don't support the killing of babies any more than you do. It's just that I think a woman's body is her own damned business and that the state has no place telling her what she can and cannot do with it. If she does not want to carry a baby to term, then she should not be forced to.
As for the death penalty, I'm against it. And the reason I'm against it is the same reason most Canadians are against it... are you aware of what happened with the last person who was executed for murder by the state? Less than a year after he was hanged, new evidence surfaced that proved that he had been innocent. Less than a year after that, the real killer (who was already serving a sentence for another crime) confessed. I do not believe I could ever be 100% certain of the guilt of a suspect, and I think that it's incredibly arrogant and callous to think that anything less than 100% certainty is enough to kill a person for their crimes. That, and I believe that there's nothing to be accomplished from an-eye-for-an-eye mentality. Karma has a way of working things out in the end, and it isn't my place to be the instrument thereof.
I'm still sticking with about:blank for my homepage, though. No chance of that getting slashdotted.... :)
Sounds like a good recipe for lawyer exercise to me.
Perhaps. I am none too fond of the "sue everybody" mentality south of the border, and wouldn't even consider suing somebody without first trying to resolve the problem diplomatically.
That said, in your own example the people I should be suing are Microsoft, not Compaq. Even then, I should at least try contacting MS tech. support in resolving the problem first, if for no other reason then because it's much better ammunition in a lawsuit to be able to say "I tried contacting them and getting them to fix it under warranty, they told me to stuff it."
Compaq isn't liable because Microsoft broke my computer with a patch. Microsoft are the ones who released a patch that breaks my legitimate XP Pro product key. When Compaq released the laptop, and for the entire duration of my warranty, the computer worked fine. A lawsuit against Compaq would get thrown out of court by any halfway decent judge.
:)
As far as Compaq's responsibility goes, my software warranty was 90 days, and my laptop is 3 years old. Do the math. All copies of Windows come with 2 free support incidents at Microsoft, however, and if I want the problem fixed, I can call Microsoft.
Of course, I reformatted and installed Slackware the day my warranty expired, so it doesn't bother me anyway.
The funny thing is when you do most of your newsreading on the source agencies' websites. I dunno the exact numbers, but I'd guess that greater than half of the news articles come from Associated Press and/or Reuters. So read those websites and you're basically covered.
:p
Then you get to grouse when you submit an article on Reuters, it gets rejected, and then a week later somebody submits MSN's copy of the same article and it gets posted, because everybody loves it when people whine about that kind of thing.
On a related note.... I see people asking if it's going to be a clicky IBM-style keyboard. It'd be great if it's available like that, but I *hope* there's a soft-touch version available, too. I lose about 15wpm on my touch typing on an IBM keyboard because they require a harder touch to register a keypress.
And I, for one, would actually have a reason to use it.... in my typing, I use German, French, English, and Japanese input. A japanese keyboard layout is a much more efficient way to type than using an IME, but it's impossible to get keyboards that have markings for all 4 of those languages.
Even KDE 3.1's speed could have been greatly improved... the single biggest detriment to KDE's performance is still there: by default, it logs all errors to console. That adds clock ticks, and if you want to turn it off you have to go into the code and comment it out.
Besides which, there *is* a whole lot of bloat in KDE. I don't *need* to use arts, for example, when I already have ALSA working. KDE runs a whole bunch of different servers that aren't needed, because that functionality is already present. Gnome does the same thing. Sure, it provides a standard platform and allows program developpers to write to it, but it also means that KDE simply can't be as quick to start up or as zippy as a lean window manager.
Sure, there are some interesting ideas showing up there, but KDE isn't the first group to develop them. I'm gonna stick with XFCE for now. At least there, I've got the xfce-goodies project which provides most of this functionality already.
The study also found some interesting things about DVR users' ad-watching habits.
From TFA:
While 99 percent of women say they use their DVRs to zap through commercial spots, 76 percent reported that they stopped for ads that are entertaining or relevant to their own interests. Women are also more likely to pause for TV and movie promos.
This is in some way surprising? 99% of respondents saying they don't want to watch ads on TV they're paying for? That 76% of them say they watch commercials they find amusing? That people are more likely to watch commercials that flog products they would actually use?
I don't get how this is in any way unexpected....
I think by definition that's impossible. Hell, on the day of the London bombs, Reuters' website was slashdotted, so it happens to the best of us....
/. devs to put in code that automatically converts all links to coral cache. :)
It wouldn't be hard, however, for the
That's about it. I'm tempted to put browser UA code on my website...
The index page is actually a frameset. What I'm thinking is that if the UA string identifies the browser as IE, then instead of the log for the main frame, they'll get an essay explaining why MSIE sucks, and informing them that they should go download Firefox.
Ok.... This month's stats on one of the websites I host:
Browsers Grabber Hits Percent
MS Internet Explorer No 204332 65 %
Firefox No 87210 27.7 %
As compiled by AWStats from the Apache logs. Last update less than an hour ago. Next runner up in that list is Opera, with about 10,000 hits this month. Those numbers are compiled from a total of just over 314,000 "hits" this month. (hits, not visits. a hit is a page/image request)
I think the numbers are a little leaner than reality, because FF is better at blocking junk. The source in question uses hit tracking from one of its ad affiliates, HitsLink.com. That particular site has been in my DNS blacklist for over a year, and I'm sure that at least some of its content is getting blocked by the myriad of adblocker plugins in Firefox.
it seems a little naive that we're whining that the media industry wants us to watch our computer-based content on our computer.
While I've no doubt that some people are complaining because this will put a crimp in their ability to pirate content, I'm complaining for an entirely different reason.
See, a few years ago, I bought a nice monitor for my computer. It's a 21" flat screen display that does 1920x1440 resolution at 75Hz. It's also a 0.20dp "medical-grade" display, and it didn't come cheap. Even using the employee discount I had when I was working for the company, the display came in at > $1000 before taxes, and it was worth every penny. The graphics that it produces, even years later, is way ahead of just about everything in the consumer market.
The thing is, that monitor was built before DRM became the buzzword of the day. It simply doesn't have any of the bullshit that Microsoft is saying will be needed for this to work properly. In order for me to get a better display than I already have, I would have to spend more than $1000 again, and I'm simply not in a position where that's a feasible option. Sure, I could probably get a monitor that would work for half that, but why should I *downgrade* my hardware so that the picture displays properly?
The answer is quite simple: I shouldn't, and I won't. The only reason that Windows is on any of my computers to begin with is that Cedega doesn't support all of my games yet. Under no circumstances will I ever buy a system with Longhorn. This, more than anything else on the wire, convinces me that Microsoft treats their customers like criminals, and doesn't give a shit what their policies do to the little guy.
I tried my mother out on Linux last week. She got a virus in her old Windows configuration, and so I sat her down and had a frank discussion about the merits of running Windows versus Linux. The end result was that her computer is now running Slackware 10.1 with KDE, Abiword, Thunderbird, and Firefox. She's a consultant, and has the productivity software her clients use running through wine (MS Office, Corel 12, etc.). She's not what I would call technically minded, and her example convinces me that Linux *is* ready for prime time, as long as you take the time to explain to Joe Windows-user what the differences are.
Well, if that actually makes it into the release, it's just the final nail in the coffin. As if all the other crap that Microsoft is putting into the OS isn't enough, I am simply not going to risk some game or video editing software telling me that my monitor isn't good enough, and that's that.
I've been using Linux on my server and firewall for more than 10 years. A year and a half ago, I switched my laptop to Linux, and set up a dualboot on my desktop. That smacks it... as soon as Cedega supports all of my games, Winders is gonzo.
What, do these jackasses think monitors grow on trees?
The problem is that batteries, even Lithium-Ion batteries, are extremely heavy by comparison. A Lithium cell produces about 3V potential difference. In order to produce enough juice to run something like an electric car, you need a lot of them wired in series. And then, in order to have decent battery life, you end up needing even more of them wired in parallel. By the time you've got a viable option for running an electric car, you're talking 300-500kg depending on the size of the car. When cars themselves often weigh less than 1500kg, that's a significant increase in weight.
There's also the cost. A Prius is a great alternative for a hybrid car, but what the manufacturer doesn't want to tell you when you're buying it is that the batteries only last about 6-8 years, and then they cost $10,000 to replace.
Others have wondered the same thing you just asked. And then they've looked at the price tag, and the increased weight, and decided that they need an alternative that can be as cheap and easy to refill as gasoline. Personally, I think the solution lies not in fuel cells, but in implementing a renewable-energy way to generate hydrogen.
Consider... I was at Canadian Tire yesterday. There, I saw a 400W wind generator for $700. 400W of juice is more than enough to run an electrolysis reaction. Set it up with a rain barrel and something in which to store the hydrogen, and you've got a renewable source of hydrogen for less than $1500 outlay. Sure, there are more efficient ways to store the energy being generated, but it's also freely renewable (no $10,000 expenditure every 8 years). All that's missing is a car that burns hydrogen.
And for times of drought, or during the winter, all it needs is a source of water, such as city water or a well. (You *could* use some of the wind power to melt snow, but that, like a rain barrel, wouldn't be all that useful on a scale larger than one or two cars)
CBC Winnipeg is most certainly available in digital stereo. I was watching Dr. Who on it (because of the time zone thing, it was more convenient) in 5.1 Surround sound.
It's still broadcasting in analogue, for compatability with analogue systems. If you want it in digital or high def, you have to subscribe to carrier that has the digital signal. For me, that's Starchoice, and the only channel that *isn't* digital is PBS. The CRTC mandate was for it to be available digitally, not for it to no longer be available in analogue.
High Definition TV != Digital TV. You require a digital framework to provide HDTV, but having a digital framework does not imply HDTV. Sets aren't going dark when it comes into effect, but the quality of signal is going to improve greatly.
Canada has had this in effect for a while. The deadline was January, 2005, and as of this writing, all TV channels are available digitally. Except, of course, some of the channels that come from the US. The difference in signal quality is very noticable when watching one of them. Most of the networks are already digital, BTW.
It's still compatible with OTA transmission, as well as analog cable signals. Old TVs can still see it, because the mandate was not to eliminate analog signals, it was to ensure digital availablility. Those of us who have an HDTV, or a digital/satellite receiver have a digital signal, complete with better sound and picture. Those of us on analog still have analog TV.
If everyone did that, the collection agencies will quickly go out of business.
On the other hand, you could also just pay your bills in the first place. If you disagree with an amount owing, it's downright stupid to just drop it in the trash. Call them up and contest the charge. And if you can't make the monthly payment, *call* the creditor and explain. Credit card companies and banks don't like sending accounts to collections, because it represents writing off the amount owing.
See, accounts are sent to collections when a company decides that they cannot extract payment from the customer. They effectively have to write off the account, and outsource it to a collection agency which will try to get whatever payment they can out of the customer. If you communicate with the creditor and work out a payment plan with them, then they know you intend to pay in good faith and won't send you to collections. This is good for the creditor, and believe it or not, it's good for your credit rating (even though you're actually being late on a payment).
If everybody paid their bills when they could, and communicated with their creditors when they couldn't, collection agencies would go out of business, too.
Couldn't they get free software just by downloading it?
Convincing management to let you download/install it is another ball game entirely, but they can get it just by downloading it.
Except that according to TFA, the accused admitted to using the network.
:)
Don't need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt when there's a guilty plea
That would be Ad astra per ardua. I hear per ardua more often, though.