And of course, software can never be equivalent to a used car since the bits don't age. This is one case where the car analogy is even more fundamentally flawed than usual.
Including IE in Windows and making it the default browser isn't a barrier to using another browser. If it were nobody would be using other browsers today.
It would be much simpler if companies who need IE6 for intranet apps but want to get a more advanced browser for general web use just downloaded Chrome or Firefox.
This is Slashdot. Any sentence that begins with those words is false. With the possible exception of completing the sentence with "our coworkers suck".
"It wasn't "Desktop Publishing", it was just Word Processing where the printed output actually resembled what was on the screen."
For many people that was the definition of desktop publishing. In any case, there were applications that ran on Windows 3.1 that were considered desktop publishing software in the strict use of the phrase that you prefer.
I'm sure the file produced wasn't compatible with high-end equipment, but since the rendering was done in the computer rather than in the printer, Windows was a much more trouble-free method than using a laser printer.
I never had a problem printing a page on the deskjet but encountered many pages that wouldn't print on the laser printer because they were too complex.
The problem is that some people want their brand of Christianity to become the "Church of the United States". You can't protect religion from the government without keeping religion out of it.
"There is a huge difference in the state of Texas spending their own money to educate their children with a curriculum they choose and the United States government taxing every tax paying American to educate all children with a one sided, politically correct/motivated curriculum."
Yes. The difference is that the former has happened and the latter has not.
Just because/. posters "are making knee-jerk hostile comments without having any idea what changes were actually made to the curriculum" doesn't always mean they're wrong. Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in awhile.
because it had truetype fonts. The combination of Windows 3.1 and HP's deskjet printers made it possible to perform desktop publishing for hundreds of dollars less than using other alternatives.
In the context of saying "The single most useful thing I can recommend for engineering & science students is SQL." you can assume he is suggesting that databases are more appropriate in general for engineering and science than are spreadsheets. That was what I was commenting on.
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And of course, software can never be equivalent to a used car since the bits don't age. This is one case where the car analogy is even more fundamentally flawed than usual.
"Apart from the fact that people should run morally decent Free software and spread that gospel"
Yes, I'm against free porn software too.
Unplugging the PC would work just as well if he uses Windows applications.
Including IE in Windows and making it the default browser isn't a barrier to using another browser. If it were nobody would be using other browsers today.
It would be much simpler if companies who need IE6 for intranet apps but want to get a more advanced browser for general web use just downloaded Chrome or Firefox.
MS is just following the money like they've always done.
They've learned their lesson and are now paying "protection" money in the form of political contributions.
Redefining well-known words and acronyms is something the OSI and FSF can agree upon.
Right. In contrast to the known humility of GNU, FSF and RMS.
"However, I think we can all agree now that.."
This is Slashdot. Any sentence that begins with those words is false. With the possible exception of completing the sentence with "our coworkers suck".
OK, BUST.
Apple zealots are getting nervous about Android so this story seeks to reassure them that the rapid improvement of Android is a bad thing.
Perhaps if they had stayed out of the SCO and IBM case, they wouldn't have had to take this step.
Nice try. You didn't even mention the CD cup-holder.
"It wasn't "Desktop Publishing", it was just Word Processing where the printed output actually resembled what was on the screen."
For many people that was the definition of desktop publishing. In any case, there were applications that ran on Windows 3.1 that were considered desktop publishing software in the strict use of the phrase that you prefer.
Light can travel at the speed of light, things with matter can't.
If by "successful" you mean widely adopted, I would say the Mac was first. If you mean "practical", I'd claim it was the Xerox Alto.
I'm sure the file produced wasn't compatible with high-end equipment, but since the rendering was done in the computer rather than in the printer, Windows was a much more trouble-free method than using a laser printer.
I never had a problem printing a page on the deskjet but encountered many pages that wouldn't print on the laser printer because they were too complex.
Don't worry. Some Conservative Texans will continue to complain. Logic or facts have nothing to do with it.
The problem is that some people want their brand of Christianity to become the "Church of the United States". You can't protect religion from the government without keeping religion out of it.
"There is a huge difference in the state of Texas spending their own money to educate their children with a curriculum they choose and the United States government taxing every tax paying American to educate all children with a one sided, politically correct/motivated curriculum."
Yes. The difference is that the former has happened and the latter has not.
Just because /. posters "are making knee-jerk hostile comments without having any idea what changes were actually made to the curriculum" doesn't always mean they're wrong. Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in awhile.
because it had truetype fonts. The combination of Windows 3.1 and HP's deskjet printers made it possible to perform desktop publishing for hundreds of dollars less than using other alternatives.
Did you even read the sentence you quoted? I didn't say anything about "how a clock worked".
In the context of saying "The single most useful thing I can recommend for engineering & science students is SQL." you can assume he is suggesting that databases are more appropriate in general for engineering and science than are spreadsheets. That was what I was commenting on.