I know the concept of Olympians being amateurs is outdated, but shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?"
...unless spam or spyware is illegal in Australia, or against terms set by the International Olympic Committee [..] then no, he shouldn't be barred from competition.
Seriously, since when has it been a precondition of The Olympics for an athlete not to be some horrid scumbag? For the most part you only see these people perform, a smile or tears for the camera, stand around on the medal stand while the music plays, perhaps on a cereal box and some lite interviewing on telly. Unless they erupt like Tom Cruise (on behalf of his Co$ beliefs), how are you likely to know any past or present are rotters?
Ok, thanks to the internet and nature of this weasel's business it will come up, and hopefully he'll get flayed in the press (Gold Medal Vermin), though you don't often hear much of these, except the most photogenic who go on to some level of stardom.
Total Cost $2,276 USD, what a bargain! Personally I just used an oldish laptop (few ghz, gig ram, 128mb vid) and a good $150 tuner card, mythtv (or gbpvr, or whatever) and wireless keyboard, mouse, remote. Smaller, quieter, and a bit cheaper. Total cost -- $200~
Well, pshaw, you could go that route, or you could go the route I did, which was to make my primary PC able to do all that rubbish to begin with so I don't have to go out and spend $$$ (or £££.)
Apple has no grounds under the DMCA to do anything about this and I can't imagine why they would want to. Linux has run on pretty much every mac as long as I can remember. I don't think MS is particularly interested in getting Linux running on Apple boxes and have no idea why they would be.
Looks to me like the subject is regarding getting Windows (in particular Vista) running on iMax, not Microsoft trying to get Linux to run on one (The Bob knows why they would...)
Should Microsoft attempt to get Vista going on Apple hardware without Job's blessing, well, he could claim they have reverse engineered Apple's proprietary hardware, ROMS, etc. Same as Microsoft uses to prevent people running Linux or Windows or whatever else on XBoxes.
I still dunno why, in the OP, it is important that Linux beat Windows to Intel iMac.
Ok, I'll bite. What about a USB keyboard prevents you from typing a second 'f'? Or did you just mean "this keyboard" and were being verbose?
It's a Key Tronic Lifetime Series USB keyboard. I don't know what the problem is, but if I type too fast it drops keys and if I hold down CTRL or SHIFT too long the effect of that key will drop (so I'll just get the letter I meant to go with it.) Could be a polling thing, but have no idea how to correct it. I use the same keyboard, but with PS/2 connection on a different PC and have no problems.
No... you'll see it soon enough, but then after they've gone and said it's all secure and stuff, and the first few vulnerabilities make the rounds and are hastily patched, Bill will announce Total Quality Serious Trust In Computing (or sommat) before some other Microsoft guy says they'll be totally secure in 10-15 years (just before he's handed a box of stuff which was in his former desk.) But I'm certain it's all going to plan.
Or were you refering to some nefarious hackers getting it to run on an Intel Mac? They're probably hours away from that already with one of the beta versions of Windows. Heck, I'll bet someone has already submitted it and it's been rejected because we're already had enough excitement for this week (what with Cheney shooting a Lawyer and such.)
I personally don't understand the appeal of more advanced Office programs. I have Office 2000, and it works just fine. All I really want to do is do my homework, occasionally use excel or Powerpoint. Getting the latest version will just clog up anyone's system... but I'm guessing with all the bundling with new computers it will sell quite well
My point was, to maintain fullest compatibility you will need to join the other lemmings. Sure, there's maybe a new feature in all of the improvements which benefits you, but if you work like I do, Office 95 or 97 was good enough, after that it's all bloat. But what do you do when you attend a conference/seminar and want a copy of a Powerpoint presentation or Notes the presenter put together? Yup, you just got sunk.
Tell me what feature they could possibly build into Office any more that would appeal to your average Joe.
The ability to see what you're working on for work.
Everywhere I have worked there have been those who take work home (I steadfastly refuse to) to finish it. Often this work is done on a laptop borrowed from work, but some are on the employees own or laptop.
I think it is Fear Of Not Having Every Feature which drives a lot of purchasing
But it could also work against you. If you start pushing documents out the door and your customers complain that they can't read then then you have to turn off the advanced features, at which time people start to ask "why am I paying for this?". Any time there's a lot of sharing going on then you need a lowest common denominator, or you need to take Acrobat's approach and provide read-only and read-write versions.
Take a step back from those thoughts. The reason Windows invaded the home was because people wanted compatibility with the systems they used at work. The reason every business bought into Windows and Office was because every other business was doing the same.
Now consider that pushing objects (documents, spreadsheets, etc.) is a two way street. Business A wants to do communicate ideas to Business B, but A has Office version X while B has version Y. So to communicate the agree on the lowest common denominator, or worse, A is the "big dog" and says this is our standard, come up to it or we're done talking (not often, but I do recall one instance with someone at Compaq and a small company I worked for.) Whether anyone really needs any new features, once a few "big dog" companies adopt it the rest follow suit and Bob's your uncle.
As a f'rinstance: The poverty line for a family in Silicon Valley is about $65,000/yr. An amount which is a comforable income in rural Michigan, where I came from.
SQL server is kind of pointless when all you want to do is list people's names, ages and addresses.
But it does have it's points, particularly if you have people with certain certifications which will expire on some given date and need to produce a report of those who will require re-certification within the next 3 months so their supervisors can plan for such.
Granted, you could keep these in a spreadsheet and simply sort the exp date column and eye-ball it, but then the person keeping the information has the busy-work of transfering this into letters/reports etc., where they should only need select the right report, enter a cut-off date and hit go and select a printer.
Actually, I'm not really poor (any more than most people in my income range) it's just that my money goes to higher priorities than filling my computer with applications which cost $$$ and I only use once a year.
Being a developer means never having to do without, tools anyway. But when someone assumes everyone in the world has the same office suite they do and you have to interact with them, you feel a certain squeeze.
I found that one party could as easily save as a PDF and email as an attachment, which saved the day.
For a small office, having someone with the expertise necessary to install and administer a database (even an easy one such as MySQL) can be formiddable.
What the world needs is a small, simple database. Because you already know how people will rather use Excel, a document or simply a pile of papers to keep records in rather than fiddle with Access or MySQL.
However, many many offices could use a small one-person DB. While an Intern during my undergrad I put half a dozen of these together for various people. A half-day's work and they would have a nice litle application. They had forms and validation and the ability to run reports. It sure beat the hell out of the Excel spreadsheet they were using before.
We used to call it PC-FILE, from Brown Bag software, back in the days of PC-DOS/MS-DOS.
No, it doesn't scale well. And apart from VBA and some SQL, none of the skills are transferrable. But for a quick and dirty app in a small office, Access works quite well.
Except that it usually ends up very dirty because people don't follow rules they themselves have established. Try to explain the difference between Currency, Integers and Text fields to most clerical staff and you get a blank or pleading look in return.
Folks, don't use Excel as a db, but access shouldn't be used either!
Ha!
I love that bit about Excel as a db. I don't think I've worked a place where people haven't done just that. Our HR vendor's product is so weak that one of the people in HR has a separate 'database' in Excel and other records are in a binder!
Often these are the results of people not using a $y$tem to it's fullest capacity, but more often than not it's because the $y$tem doesn't have the capacity or it's highly difficult to use (go to this screen, do this, go to that screen do another thing, go to the third screen, etc.)
A lot of offices don't need most of the tools (think: your typical 2-10 person small business), and not having to pay for them is very helpful.
Depends upon who's funding the Small Business, how profitable it is and Who it has to interact with. Small businesses, even home users may find themselves put upon to have the same tools or access to documents (etc.) sent to them.
I don't have Office at home and was, twice, sent email attachments to my home I had to read and return (one of the documents) which required Word. I pointed out to the sender in each case that I was a poor individual and didn't spend $600 on software I wouldn't use. How about sending in some other format, like TEXT!
Were I a business I probably couldn't get far with that sort of attitude. The Big Dog wags the tail and Microsoft knows it.
This is why Open Document formats are a good thing.
Everyone that is not working for a cash rich corporation probably.
I think it is Fear Of Not Having Every Feature which drives a lot of purchasing. Coming up with a tiered product line just ensures there will be more purchases of the top end product. They may as well name the Professional edition something degrading like 'Student' or 'Home'
Hi, Joe, Here's the presentation on Wizzo Chocolate Corp. I'll be out of the office until the meeting with Wizzo, have a look at it and make any changes you see fit.
To open attachedment click here [*click*]
This project was created in Office Enterprise, some features may not be present in your version of Office Professional Plus - You will not be able to make any modifications to this project.
So.. how many people are really likely to get the lightweight version, hmm?
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Seriously, since when has it been a precondition of The Olympics for an athlete not to be some horrid scumbag? For the most part you only see these people perform, a smile or tears for the camera, stand around on the medal stand while the music plays, perhaps on a cereal box and some lite interviewing on telly. Unless they erupt like Tom Cruise (on behalf of his Co$ beliefs), how are you likely to know any past or present are rotters?
Ok, thanks to the internet and nature of this weasel's business it will come up, and hopefully he'll get flayed in the press (Gold Medal Vermin), though you don't often hear much of these, except the most photogenic who go on to some level of stardom.
Not relinquishing control of direction and development to Redmond seems a solid enough reason.
Man. I'm always missing out on something.
Well, pshaw, you could go that route, or you could go the route I did, which was to make my primary PC able to do all that rubbish to begin with so I don't have to go out and spend $$$ (or £££.)
Looks to me like the subject is regarding getting Windows (in particular Vista) running on iMax, not Microsoft trying to get Linux to run on one (The Bob knows why they would...)
Should Microsoft attempt to get Vista going on Apple hardware without Job's blessing, well, he could claim they have reverse engineered Apple's proprietary hardware, ROMS, etc. Same as Microsoft uses to prevent people running Linux or Windows or whatever else on XBoxes.
I still dunno why, in the OP, it is important that Linux beat Windows to Intel iMac.
It's a Key Tronic Lifetime Series USB keyboard. I don't know what the problem is, but if I type too fast it drops keys and if I hold down CTRL or SHIFT too long the effect of that key will drop (so I'll just get the letter I meant to go with it.) Could be a polling thing, but have no idea how to correct it. I use the same keyboard, but with PS/2 connection on a different PC and have no problems.
I think it's already in full swing in the press.
off (dropped thanks to USB keboard)
Ok, Apple Orchard, if you prefer.
No... you'll see it soon enough, but then after they've gone and said it's all secure and stuff, and the first few vulnerabilities make the rounds and are hastily patched, Bill will announce Total Quality Serious Trust In Computing (or sommat) before some other Microsoft guy says they'll be totally secure in 10-15 years (just before he's handed a box of stuff which was in his former desk.) But I'm certain it's all going to plan.
Or were you refering to some nefarious hackers getting it to run on an Intel Mac? They're probably hours away from that already with one of the beta versions of Windows. Heck, I'll bet someone has already submitted it and it's been rejected because we're already had enough excitement for this week (what with Cheney shooting a Lawyer and such.)
Is Microsoft planning this? Does Jobs approve of it, or will he used the DMCA to keep Microsoft of his farm?
My point was, to maintain fullest compatibility you will need to join the other lemmings. Sure, there's maybe a new feature in all of the improvements which benefits you, but if you work like I do, Office 95 or 97 was good enough, after that it's all bloat. But what do you do when you attend a conference/seminar and want a copy of a Powerpoint presentation or Notes the presenter put together? Yup, you just got sunk.
The ability to see what you're working on for work.
Everywhere I have worked there have been those who take work home (I steadfastly refuse to) to finish it. Often this work is done on a laptop borrowed from work, but some are on the employees own or laptop.
Take a step back from those thoughts. The reason Windows invaded the home was because people wanted compatibility with the systems they used at work. The reason every business bought into Windows and Office was because every other business was doing the same.
Now consider that pushing objects (documents, spreadsheets, etc.) is a two way street. Business A wants to do communicate ideas to Business B, but A has Office version X while B has version Y. So to communicate the agree on the lowest common denominator, or worse, A is the "big dog" and says this is our standard, come up to it or we're done talking (not often, but I do recall one instance with someone at Compaq and a small company I worked for.) Whether anyone really needs any new features, once a few "big dog" companies adopt it the rest follow suit and Bob's your uncle.
As a f'rinstance: The poverty line for a family in Silicon Valley is about $65,000/yr. An amount which is a comforable income in rural Michigan, where I came from.
But it does have it's points, particularly if you have people with certain certifications which will expire on some given date and need to produce a report of those who will require re-certification within the next 3 months so their supervisors can plan for such.
Granted, you could keep these in a spreadsheet and simply sort the exp date column and eye-ball it, but then the person keeping the information has the busy-work of transfering this into letters/reports etc., where they should only need select the right report, enter a cut-off date and hit go and select a printer.
Actually, I'm not really poor (any more than most people in my income range) it's just that my money goes to higher priorities than filling my computer with applications which cost $$$ and I only use once a year.
Being a developer means never having to do without, tools anyway. But when someone assumes everyone in the world has the same office suite they do and you have to interact with them, you feel a certain squeeze.
I found that one party could as easily save as a PDF and email as an attachment, which saved the day.
What the world needs is a small, simple database. Because you already know how people will rather use Excel, a document or simply a pile of papers to keep records in rather than fiddle with Access or MySQL.
However, many many offices could use a small one-person DB. While an Intern during my undergrad I put half a dozen of these together for various people. A half-day's work and they would have a nice litle application. They had forms and validation and the ability to run reports. It sure beat the hell out of the Excel spreadsheet they were using before.
We used to call it PC-FILE, from Brown Bag software, back in the days of PC-DOS/MS-DOS.
No, it doesn't scale well. And apart from VBA and some SQL, none of the skills are transferrable. But for a quick and dirty app in a small office, Access works quite well.
Except that it usually ends up very dirty because people don't follow rules they themselves have established. Try to explain the difference between Currency, Integers and Text fields to most clerical staff and you get a blank or pleading look in return.
Ha!
I love that bit about Excel as a db. I don't think I've worked a place where people haven't done just that. Our HR vendor's product is so weak that one of the people in HR has a separate 'database' in Excel and other records are in a binder!
Often these are the results of people not using a $y$tem to it's fullest capacity, but more often than not it's because the $y$tem doesn't have the capacity or it's highly difficult to use (go to this screen, do this, go to that screen do another thing, go to the third screen, etc.)
Depends upon who's funding the Small Business, how profitable it is and Who it has to interact with. Small businesses, even home users may find themselves put upon to have the same tools or access to documents (etc.) sent to them.
I don't have Office at home and was, twice, sent email attachments to my home I had to read and return (one of the documents) which required Word. I pointed out to the sender in each case that I was a poor individual and didn't spend $600 on software I wouldn't use. How about sending in some other format, like TEXT!
Were I a business I probably couldn't get far with that sort of attitude. The Big Dog wags the tail and Microsoft knows it.
This is why Open Document formats are a good thing.
It was in Humor.
have you ever been hit by a Clue by Four?
I think it is Fear Of Not Having Every Feature which drives a lot of purchasing. Coming up with a tiered product line just ensures there will be more purchases of the top end product. They may as well name the Professional edition something degrading like 'Student' or 'Home'
28.8!!! U R 1337! I still have a Prometheus Promodem 1200. Know of any good multi-line BBS'es?
I think that was the origin of AOL
So.. how many people are really likely to get the lightweight version, hmm?
The internet once was the domain of us old-school geeks. Now everybody and anybody is on and driving it to ruin.
One only need look at all the trolling which has infested USENET newsgroups.
It's time to create a new net for geeks only.