is as important as understanding the particular interleave method of the Macintosh floppy mechanism. What does Joe Six-Pack care as long as he's got a desktop rocket?
And this happens, and your commanding officer confiscates your TiVo along with your RIAA-banned computer full of MP3's? Will the gay programming violate "Don't Ask - Don't Tell" and get you thrown out before Hilary Rosen could do it?
With recent stories that sales are down, here's a reason other than piracy to blame... you simply can't play them in your player, so why buy them at all?
Have a Statistician Compare Excel and Lotus 1-2-3
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and you'll get good reasons why Excel is better. Excel's Solver module alone (even with its problems) kicks the butt of anything Lotus or OpenOffice Calc will do for you in the area of analysis.
Since Section 508 (Gov regs for making Fed Gov sites accessible) is from ADA, can anyone speculate on what the impact for US Federal Government web sites will be?
I guess agencies _could_ makes these rules for themselves anyway (i.e. voluntary Section 508 adherence), but I suppose this result doesn't encourage agencies to make its sites more accessible in times of budget shortfall if it isn't the law.
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We can finally use a true-to-life controller for all those Jedi games now.
"The Court's current contract Courtroom reporter, Alderson Reporting Company, provides transcripts of oral arguments for posting on this Website within 10-15 days after the transcripts are complete."
Hard to comment when the transcripts are at least 2 weeks out. Vapor transcripts!
How can you come to this conclusion? If you have ten low-to-mid-experienced people in an office who have used Windows for the last 10 years (figure $100 every two years for OS upgrades per user), it costs $5000 in OS upgrades and everyone already knows how to use the software.
Replace everything with free Linux and you get to send all ten to training courses for Linux desktop and office suite training (10 x 2day training @ $500 at least) = $10,000, and that is before paying for the time it takes to convert incoming documents from MS Office and making sure they look right in MS Office when they are outgoing.
Bottom line: free _doesn't_ mean cheaper from an IT management perspective. If you are starting an office from scratch and basing its operation on Linux, it is probably going to be cheaper. But converting an org from Wintel to Lintel is very expensive.
It would be nice to know if this bill also protects medium transfer for personal use (i.e. CD to MP3, VHS to DVD, etc).
And I like this... "The bills also would amend a 1998 law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that makes it a crime to circumvent technological protections built in to copyrighted works. Instead, consumers would be allowed to bypass the technology if the intent is to make a copy for personal use."
Sing to the tune of the common march tune, and visualize Steve Balmer in a leprechaun outfit dancing and singing:
We will outsmart Open Source! we will, we will We will beat Gnome with the Force! we will, we will Linus and Red Hat will agree Paying for Windows sure beats "free" We will outsmart Open Source! We Will! We Will!
1) Here we are in the top chamber of the pyramid. Here's all the graffiti of people here before (some in professional typeface, only thing not on the wall were Golden Arches), but here are some red marks of historical significance.
2) (After we see it's just another wall). "This is a very important discovery, and I am very pleased with what we found".
I think they could hear the TVs in America click off from Egypt!!
I think Red Har has recognized that look and feel unification is a prerequisite to corporate entry. I understand the usual./ user's opinion that desktop uniqueness is cool, but when you're a corporate help desk manager with a limited budget you don't need 2500 desktops looking different. It makes training more difficult too. The similarity of desktops is how MS can easily have people upgrade from Win98 to NT to 2000 to XP... the desktops are the same and retraining cost is minimal. Good for Red Hat!
I guess it depends how you read it. I read the GPL language to mean if they are distinct functions that don't "intertwine" with GPL'd code then they are separate... kind of like it someone added an "email me" menu choice to CDEX. It would be called from the program, but internally have its own code block. It would not, however, be a separate executable program... I don't think that's what the GPL necessarily intends.
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Who will recycle ours? The Computer Show people?
is as important as understanding the particular interleave method of the Macintosh floppy mechanism. What does Joe Six-Pack care as long as he's got a desktop rocket?
And this happens, and your commanding officer confiscates your TiVo along with your RIAA-banned computer full of MP3's? Will the gay programming violate "Don't Ask - Don't Tell" and get you thrown out before Hilary Rosen could do it?
And find another door!
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With recent stories that sales are down, here's a reason other than piracy to blame... you simply can't play them in your player, so why buy them at all?
and you'll get good reasons why Excel is better. Excel's Solver module alone (even with its problems) kicks the butt of anything Lotus or OpenOffice Calc will do for you in the area of analysis.
Overall: a massive win for Microsoft, who can restrict the release of its APIs to major commercial companies only.
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Woo hoo! They can't give it to major commercial companies but they CAN give it to the open source community!!
I read that sentence correctly, right
Correcting myself, Section 508 is not part of the ADA... it is from the Rehabilitation Act.
Since Section 508 (Gov regs for making Fed Gov sites accessible) is from ADA, can anyone speculate on what the impact for US Federal Government web sites will be?
I guess agencies _could_ makes these rules for themselves anyway (i.e. voluntary Section 508 adherence), but I suppose this result doesn't encourage agencies to make its sites more accessible in times of budget shortfall if it isn't the law.
We can finally use a true-to-life controller for all those Jedi games now.
"The Court's current contract Courtroom reporter, Alderson Reporting Company, provides transcripts of oral arguments for posting on this Website within 10-15 days after the transcripts are complete."
Hard to comment when the transcripts are at least 2 weeks out. Vapor transcripts!
How can you come to this conclusion? If you have ten low-to-mid-experienced people in an office who have used Windows for the last 10 years (figure $100 every two years for OS upgrades per user), it costs $5000 in OS upgrades and everyone already knows how to use the software.
Replace everything with free Linux and you get to send all ten to training courses for Linux desktop and office suite training (10 x 2day training @ $500 at least) = $10,000, and that is before paying for the time it takes to convert incoming documents from MS Office and making sure they look right in MS Office when they are outgoing.
Bottom line: free _doesn't_ mean cheaper from an IT management perspective. If you are starting an office from scratch and basing its operation on Linux, it is probably going to be cheaper. But converting an org from Wintel to Lintel is very expensive.
It would be nice to know if this bill also protects medium transfer for personal use (i.e. CD to MP3, VHS to DVD, etc).
And I like this... "The bills also would amend a 1998 law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that makes it a crime to circumvent technological protections built in to copyrighted works. Instead, consumers would be allowed to bypass the technology if the intent is to make a copy for personal use."
Now I can TIVO-ize my XBox!
What better community to use against Linux servers :)
Sing to the tune of the common march tune, and visualize Steve Balmer in a leprechaun outfit dancing and singing:
We will outsmart Open Source! we will, we will
We will beat Gnome with the Force! we will, we will
Linus and Red Hat will agree
Paying for Windows sure beats "free"
We will outsmart Open Source! We Will! We Will!
What's Behind Door #2?
1) Anna Nicole Smith's Dietician
2) Steve Case's New Office
3) Kernel 2.6.0
4) A Stash of PS2 Network Adapters
5) CowbotNeal's Playroom
My favorite parts:
1) Here we are in the top chamber of the pyramid. Here's all the graffiti of people here before (some in professional typeface, only thing not on the wall were Golden Arches), but here are some red marks of historical significance.
2) (After we see it's just another wall). "This is a very important discovery, and I am very pleased with what we found".
I think they could hear the TVs in America click off from Egypt!!
Right on XP's new interface, but it's real easy for a shop deploying XP to put the old interface back so users never see the horrible new interface.
I think Red Har has recognized that look and feel unification is a prerequisite to corporate entry. I understand the usual ./ user's opinion that desktop uniqueness is cool, but when you're a corporate help desk manager with a limited budget you don't need 2500 desktops looking different. It makes training more difficult too. The similarity of desktops is how MS can easily have people upgrade from Win98 to NT to 2000 to XP... the desktops are the same and retraining cost is minimal. Good for Red Hat!
You KNOW that'll be how it is descibed in keynote speeches in conventions for the next couple of years.
Maybe I can play DReaM stuff on my Dreamcast running Linux?
GoLive... bah.
Build the site graphically in Photoshop using real tools, slice it out, and import into DreamWeaver for the rest.
Comes around to byte 'em in the ass.
But on another note, how would this affect other Adobe products, like building a web page in Photoshop using these fonts and publishing?
Yelling at the 70-year-old polling volunteers that "My screen don't work! Hyelp!"
Got it for $40 after rebates at Best Buy a few weeks ago.
I guess it depends how you read it. I read the GPL language to mean if they are distinct functions that don't "intertwine" with GPL'd code then they are separate... kind of like it someone added an "email me" menu choice to CDEX. It would be called from the program, but internally have its own code block. It would not, however, be a separate executable program... I don't think that's what the GPL necessarily intends.