If he's not concerned about the safety/privacy problems of IE, then he hasn't given it much thought.
Exactly. Most non-techies don't give it much thought and therefore don't care. Welcome to the real world.
You and I both know that they should give it some thought, because it does matter. Good luck with trying to convince the general public. I gave up long ago.
I never understood this. Is the BSA a legally recognised law enforcement agency in the US? I can understand OSHA having the right to check out your business premises, but what law says you have to let the BSA in? If so, who bought that law? I sure hope my government doesn't pass the same law in order to get free trade with the US.
This is like the behaviour of drug dealers. Drug dealers and the IT industry both refer to their customers as users and both give stuff away for free until you become dependent on their product, then they charge rapaciously.
Are you thinking of the e-govt guidelines? AFAIK they are guidelines for government websites. Private websites can be accessable to whoever they like and block who they like. I could create a site that only works in browsers supporting XUL if I wanted to.
The big problem is people *assuming* everyone has MS-Word, and using its proprietary format to exchange information by default.
Yes! That's one of my pet hates. (My other pet hate is apostrophes in possessive pronouns:-P ) I've managed to get job interviews after sending resumés as PDFs.
Hmm. As long as oowriter and abiword can interchange files, and oocalc and gnumeric can interchange files, then freedom from (MS) vendor lock-in is a real possibility.
Do abiword and gnumeric read/write.sxw and.sxc files? The formats are open so there's no reason why not.
I think all three, OOo, abiword and gnumeric are important, but it would be better still if they all share an open document format.
No MAME games are included with the knoppixmame downlowd from sourceforge, but you can add games to the ISO. Now, to keep it legal, you just gotta find some royalty-free games. Not all copying is infringment.
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Try Quenyan then. Chicks dig LotR.
There is a scene in one of the films where you see his wee willy winkle.
Please excuse me while I go and gauge out my eyes. *shudder*
OTOH, studying Klingon or Quenyan as part of a linguistics degree could be a useful mental exercise.
If so, you can create a web interface and use your PDA as a very fancy remote.
If he's not concerned about the safety/privacy problems of IE, then he hasn't given it much thought.
Exactly. Most non-techies don't give it much thought and therefore don't care. Welcome to the real world.
You and I both know that they should give it some thought, because it does matter. Good luck with trying to convince the general public. I gave up long ago.
I never understood this. Is the BSA a legally recognised law enforcement agency in the US? I can understand OSHA having the right to check out your business premises, but what law says you have to let the BSA in?
If so, who bought that law? I sure hope my government doesn't pass the same law in order to get free trade with the US.
Let a typesetter worry about the formatting while you concentrate on the content: LyX.
Yes, but if you have no money, ie m=0, then no matter how confident you are, e will still be zero:
e = mc^2
e = 0 x c^2
e = 0
these things are basically just malicious viruses.
malicious trojans, to be precise.
That is one insightful analogy. I'll use it next time I send a request through to our "IS Helldesk".
Mind you, I work in a call centre where it doesn't really apply in the same way.
This is like the behaviour of drug dealers.
Drug dealers and the IT industry both refer to their customers as users and both give stuff away for free until you become dependent on their product, then they charge rapaciously.
Yes, but the origin of "California" is much more interesting:
Cal - hot + fornia from fornication hence California = Land of Hot Sex.
Did this girl live up that?
...flemish, which is a dialect of dutch.
So is english.
Are you thinking of the e-govt guidelines?
AFAIK they are guidelines for government websites. Private websites can be accessable to whoever they like and block who they like. I could create a site that only works in browsers supporting XUL if I wanted to.
(cliché) Lightning never hits the same place twice.
(Science) Electricity always follows the path of least resistance.
Do abiword and gnumeric read/write .sxw and .sxc files?
Yes.
Good. It looks like all the non-MS wordprocessors and spreadsheets play nicely with each other.
The big problem is people *assuming* everyone has MS-Word, and using its proprietary format to exchange information by default.
:-P )
Yes! That's one of my pet hates.
(My other pet hate is apostrophes in possessive pronouns
I've managed to get job interviews after sending resumés as PDFs.
One word.
LyX.
Hmm. As long as oowriter and abiword can interchange files, and oocalc and gnumeric can interchange files, then freedom from (MS) vendor lock-in is a real possibility.
.sxw and .sxc files? The formats are open so there's no reason why not.
Do abiword and gnumeric read/write
I think all three, OOo, abiword and gnumeric are important, but it would be better still if they all share an open document format.
Just some random thoughts.
A good way for the company to hike-up their bandwidth bill, and make things slower for users.
Not if they have a proxy server between the internal LAN and the outside.
Why not just have all participants ssh into one box and run the unix talk command or connect to an irc server on localhost?
... where the men are real men, the women are real men, and the little girls are FBI agents.
I'd be impressed if my girlfriend managed to figure out a unix machine enough to browse directories
My wife is an absolute non-techie and she's figured it out. How dumb is your gf?
No MAME games are included with the knoppixmame downlowd from sourceforge, but you can add games to the ISO. Now, to keep it legal, you just gotta find some royalty-free games. Not all copying is infringment.
And hopefully no nukes are controlled by Microsoft products either (Someone had to say it).