Re:Geeks marching? Not bloodly likely.
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Which is why I said 'day to day'. Since I'm paying for the information and I may well want to use for any number of things and I may want to see the background information that produced the published report. Rather than pay a government clerk to convert the spreadsheet to a PDF file for me only to leave it to me to reverse engineer the results in order to figure out the formulas used, they should just demand that the makers of Excel (for instance) provide the information needed to make the file easily imported into other formats.
Geeks marching? Not bloodly likely.
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I can see driving to the rally and stand around if the sun's not to bright.
Before risking the the possibility of getting to much sun there are a few things to consider:
1. A rally in San Francisco is normally considered silly by the rest of the country.
2. There are quite a few specialized tasks performed by the government that use very specialized proprietary software that cannot be reasonably replaced by oss.
3. The issue that has a larger appeal is Open Information. Why should I have to buy a piece of proprietary software to view government information? If, for instance, the government in its infinate wisdom decides to use Microsoft Word for its daily document needs then it should require that the documents are readily translatable in to an open source format.
... are all generous. I've make what contibution of time and money to charities and causes I approve of. I make my little contribution to the opensource community. What make me a Libertarian is that I do these things of my own free will rather than compell others to do them for me.
Fast-heavy transport is a good thing of course but you still need a good plan and landing in Tiananmen Square might not be a good plan. The socialists would just shell the shit out of it. They've already proven they don't care how many Chinese they kill in the process.
Major League Baseball tied the all-star game, are in the midst of a labor dispute between millionairse and billionaires and yesturday they closed a site that was promoting their business for free.
Not so new techniques for science
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They've been using this method to get funding for global warming research for years. Before that is was global cooling.
Cruft Force 5 - If one double-clicks a document icon, Word takes 4 minutes 30 seconds to start up. But it still works fine if started as a program. Somebody opines that this is due to misconfigured DDE. Or the Mars-Jupiter cusp.
In my experience this is the time to Format C:
If the PC is allowed to go on it will cost more to keep it running than it will to re-build it.
About the time that started programming I picked up the first 2 years of Byte at a library sale for $10. No investment I've made since has taught me as much about computers.
Creating top-down high-tech solutions for the poor is a good way to keep middle-class civil servants busy. The poor in India will adapt cast-off computer technology to their needs the same way they adapt old cast-off bicycles to carry heavy loads. They are not naturally stupid and are quite capable of determining what is the appropriate technology at the appropriate cost for a given situation.
In fact it's probably the only business move most of these artists have available to them. The major labels are not going to foot the payola bill to get them on broadcast radio so the best chance they have of selling any music anywhere but off the card table at their shows is on the Internet.
I buy music I hear learn about on Net radio. Even if 99% of the listeners don't, it's still an increase in sales.
I've see nothing except the 'mobile wire tap' that's different from what has always been available to law enforcement provided there is a court warrant. If someone is to be wiretapped at all, a mobile wire tap and a tap on Internet communications only makes sense.
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We have the winner.
Which is why I said 'day to day'. Since I'm paying for the information and I may well want to use for any number of things and I may want to see the background information that produced the published report. Rather than pay a government clerk to convert the spreadsheet to a PDF file for me only to leave it to me to reverse engineer the results in order to figure out the formulas used, they should just demand that the makers of Excel (for instance) provide the information needed to make the file easily imported into other formats.
I can see driving to the rally and stand around if the sun's not to bright.
Before risking the the possibility of getting to much sun there are a few things to consider:
1. A rally in San Francisco is normally considered silly by the rest of the country.
2. There are quite a few specialized tasks performed by the government that use very specialized proprietary software that cannot be reasonably replaced by oss.
3. The issue that has a larger appeal is Open Information. Why should I have to buy a piece of proprietary software to view government information? If, for instance, the government in its infinate wisdom decides to use Microsoft Word for its daily document needs then it should require that the documents are readily translatable in to an open source format.
Maybe, just maybe, Gore is a sucky candidate.
... are all generous. I've make what contibution of time and money to charities and causes I approve of. I make my little contribution to the opensource community. What make me a Libertarian is that I do these things of my own free will rather than compell others to do them for me.
Up the revolution brother!
Fast-heavy transport is a good thing of course but you still need a good plan and landing in Tiananmen Square might not be a good plan. The socialists would just shell the shit out of it. They've already proven they don't care how many Chinese they kill in the process.
+1 Correctimundo
I've been going to that site for a couple of years.
Major League Baseball tied the all-star game, are in the midst of a labor dispute between millionairse and billionaires and yesturday they closed a site that was promoting their business for free.
They've been using this method to get funding for global warming research for years. Before that is was global cooling.
Cruft Force 5 - If one double-clicks a document icon, Word takes 4 minutes 30 seconds to start up. But it still works fine if started as a program. Somebody opines that this is due to misconfigured DDE. Or the Mars-Jupiter cusp.
In my experience this is the time to Format C:
If the PC is allowed to go on it will cost more to keep it running than it will to re-build it.
... ACs are the most annoying part of the Internet ;)
About the time that started programming I picked up the first 2 years of Byte at a library sale for $10. No investment I've made since has taught me as much about computers.
snip ... that you can keep those pipe dreams about your imaginary 'right to make lots of money off of stuff' to yourself.
A society does not need to choose capitalism. They can choose poverty.
I suspect the BSA is run by rampant free market ideologues
I suspect that you are the ideologue. If you read the article you would have to suspect that the BSA is run for and by greedy pragmatists.
We have always been at war with Microsoft
It would be banned there
More high tech solutions for the poor here.
Creating top-down high-tech solutions for the poor is a good way to keep middle-class civil servants busy. The poor in India will adapt cast-off computer technology to their needs the same way they adapt old cast-off bicycles to carry heavy loads. They are not naturally stupid and are quite capable of determining what is the appropriate technology at the appropriate cost for a given situation.
In fact it's probably the only business move most of these artists have available to them. The major labels are not going to foot the payola bill to get them on broadcast radio so the best chance they have of selling any music anywhere but off the card table at their shows is on the Internet.
I buy music I hear learn about on Net radio. Even if 99% of the listeners don't, it's still an increase in sales.
Is this funny because we're laughing at the lack of perspective in this child's post?
I've see nothing except the 'mobile wire tap' that's different from what has always been available to law enforcement provided there is a court warrant. If someone is to be wiretapped at all, a mobile wire tap and a tap on Internet communications only makes sense.
Due process appears to be intact.
Hell, we've lost enough rights already thanks to the Patriot Act.
What rights have you lost under the patriot act?
Priviledge. Rights are not things or activities.
What is this thing called Buffy?