The side effects of these sorts of drugs are not yet fully known, although many neuroscientists think that they may lead to 'mental clutter' or task-obsessiveness."
Sounds like some of the symptoms of a serious mental disorder, but 'Oh, wait. We have drugs for that'.
No, of course not. Not unless they were fixing a bug. And for a company where interoperability itself is a bug...
I don't believe that interoperability is actually a bug. The fact that "some features may not be compatible with the version you are using" is more marketing than interoperability. When enough of the "early adopters" hits a critical mass, the majority of customers will "upgrade". This supplies the vendor with a somewhat predictable revenue projection. I've been support for "Office" for most of a decade and have seen the scenario repeated enough to realize that it is not because of bugs but bucks.
Yes, and Openoffice.org rings up significantly less because... it's free. It does most of what the higher priced software for "Office Productivity" users need. Comparisons between closed, propreitary, for profit, software and sales of prepackaged support releases are not a benchmark of quality or popularity.
There's a philosophy in politics that goes like this: "It doesn't matter what they're saying about you, as long as they're talking about you. When they stop talking about you, you are dead".
I seem to recall something about a Blacks vs Koreans "issue" around the time of the whole Rodney King kafluffle. I don't think that had any direct corelation on the initiating event.
You're right "[everything] change[s]; the attitudes don't".
Apple is not the criminal. This is their SOP. Hardware lock-in coupled with software/service lock-in. It is their business model. It is their choice. You like it or you lump it.
PDF files, created with a version lower that v.6, are not inherently accessible. This is why the are not recommended as a W3C format but only an alternate format. Hint:blind users can't benefit from zooming, screen readers are the prefered tool.
Yea, right. That makes for how many blind people?
Can you offer a link to more numbers, not hardbreathing accusations, leftie?
How many people of all ages have a vision impairment?
National estimates for the overall prevalence of vision impairment vary, depending upon the definition utilized.
* An estimated 7.9 million persons (age 6 and older) have difficulty seeing words and letters in ordinary newspaper print, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses (McNeil, 2001).
* Approximately 8.3 million persons of all ages (3.1%) are "blind in one or both eyes or report some other trouble seeing" (Adams, Hendershot, & Marano, 1999).
How many middle aged and older adults report some form of vision problem?
* One in six Americans (17%), 45 years of age or older, representing 16.5 million middle-age and older adults, report some form of vision impairment even when wearing glasses or contact lenses (The Lighthouse Inc., 1995).. From here.
Slightly pedantic response but, you asked.
P.S. I don't have a right hand, so I guess I am a "leftie".
Slashdot Mirror
Martian squeegee=kids?
I still think it should be represented as S-COX.
Is this not the same Laura DiDio who has been so reviled by Slashdot in the past as being less than tech-savvy and a mouth-piece for corporations?
Each of these claims have had some merit as well as critisism of the Yankee Group reports.
Are they another firm that waits until the writing on the wall is written in neon and suddenly pipe up with a resounding "Me too!"
When enough of the "early adopters" hits a critical mass, the majority of customers will "upgrade".
This supplies the vendor with a somewhat predictable revenue projection.
I've been support for "Office" for most of a decade and have seen the scenario repeated enough to realize that it is not because of bugs but bucks.
Yes, and Openoffice.org rings up significantly less because... it's free.
It does most of what the higher priced software for "Office Productivity" users need.
Comparisons between closed, propreitary, for profit, software and sales of prepackaged support releases are not a benchmark of quality or popularity.
$Moo!$
Running SCOLinux by any chance?
That means 19 million Americans don't have to sign up for the "Do Not Call" list.
If your company has "40,000 XP workstations", I would expect that you are firewalled up the wazoo anyway. No problem there.
All we have to do is get rid of the stupid dependancy on javascript. Javascript creates an insecure and often inaccessible browsing environment.
There's a philosophy in politics that goes like this: "It doesn't matter what they're saying about you, as long as they're talking about you. When they stop talking about you, you are dead".
I seem to recall something about a Blacks vs Koreans "issue" around the time of the whole Rodney King kafluffle. I don't think that had any direct corelation on the initiating event.
You're right "[everything] change[s]; the attitudes don't".
Go to OldVersion and get vers. 5.0 or 5.05.
You might have better luck.
... and we can all live in a happy place where we can be safe and secure in the knowledge that a profitable company will support us.
GAK!
Apple is not the criminal. This is their SOP. Hardware lock-in coupled with software/service lock-in.
It is their business model.
It is their choice.
You like it or you lump it.
You bought the Shrek 2 DVD?
You poor sod. I feel your pain. I only rented it and was sorely disappointed.
If everyone did, this crap would stop.
Naa, they'd just blame it on piracy.
Acronym fun:
GOSLOL
Good Old Sollog-LOL
I see the high level of your point but "Where's the beef?".
"When does spin doctoring cross the line and become false advertising?"
When your product fails to perform, as advertised, in the environment you specify.
Most of us call this lying to your customers.
Well, a PC should boot to something.
It might as well boot to something free.
PDF files, created with a version lower that v.6, are not inherently accessible. This is why the are not recommended as a W3C format but only an alternate format.
Hint:blind users can't benefit from zooming, screen readers are the prefered tool.
National estimates for the overall prevalence of vision impairment vary, depending upon the definition utilized.
* An estimated 7.9 million persons (age 6 and older) have difficulty seeing words and letters in ordinary newspaper print, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses (McNeil, 2001).
* Approximately 8.3 million persons of all ages (3.1%) are "blind in one or both eyes or report some other trouble seeing" (Adams, Hendershot, & Marano, 1999).
How many middle aged and older adults report some form of vision problem?
* One in six Americans (17%), 45 years of age or older, representing 16.5 million middle-age and older adults, report some form of vision impairment even when wearing glasses or contact lenses (The Lighthouse Inc., 1995).. From here.
Slightly pedantic response but, you asked.
P.S. I don't have a right hand, so I guess I am a "leftie".