True; I may finally retire my Win98 box, which I keep up and running for the Windows 95/98 games that don't run on WinXP.
Why not retire the XP box while you're at it, too? It still suffers from critical security flaws and poorly designed user permission defaults dating back to the DOS days that allow viruses and other malware to proliferate so well. Why not just throw out the whole ball of wax for something that's actually ready for the desktop (unlike Windows), you don't have to pay for (unlike Windows), and still lets you keep your old games (unlike every newer Windows version)?
No, it's much higher--for me Open Office fails to be a suitable replacement for Word/Excel during every single attempt to interoperate with the genuine article.
Given that the ISO standard for office documents is OpenOffice's native format, OO.o is the genuine article at this point. Microsoft's deliberately incompatable with the genuine article at this point. OO.o's import facilities do well enough to convert your legacy Microsoft-format documents to the genuine article.
However,Wine may be a little late to the game. Virtualization will give us all the features we once needed Wine for if done properly.
An application compatability layer is a hell of a lot more nimble than dragging the deadweight of an entire VM. And I've yet to see one that handles DX or GL at all, yet Wine handles it in stride.
ista API technologies are not even on the radar, and have the potential to shake up the next generation of application development.
Never mind the Vista compatability options already in wine.
By deleting the incomplete msxml dlls and setting winecfg's settings to use the native versions, then installing microsoft xml..
You don't even need to delete the native msxml dlls if you're using winecfg to override them with the Microsoft versions. (You got what is native to wine entirely backwards).
I do find it a little disappointing that Wine didn't set getting Office 2007 working out of the box as a goal for 1.0, as it really currently just relies upon finishing two DLLs.
Oh, boo hoo. It's not like OpenOffice.org doesn't do the same job better anyway.
I signed up in 2001 I believe but I've been here since the fall of 1997, there were no accounts early on and even after they were implemented there was no real benefit to having one. The Katz filter was the killer feature that got me to signup to be tracked =) Wuss. JonKatz was the daily gem of the day when he was around, sometimes if only for all the wrong reasons (post Hellmouth).
Why not, my UID is halfway through the 6 digits and I've been here since about 3 months after the site started. If that were true, your UID would have 2 or 3 digits.
The California Department of Health Services has concluded that, on the basis of a telephone survey, 120,000 Californians - and by implication one million Americans - have left their jobs because of electromagnetic pollution in the workplace. The people who have left their homes for such a reason are not being counted by anyone.
That wrongly assumes the rest of America is as fucked up and retarded as California and it's people (if you can really call Californians people).
How much do you want to bet that when it comes right down to it, Microsoft is going to argue that it's not actually IM because MSN Messenger doesn't use the de facto IM standard, XMPP?
I have a hard time having sympathy for those exporters that are going to have nobody to sell to except Canadians with money to burn: Just because the money is no longer coming from one source doesn't mean there isn't a new source...
It's not that hard to search the FCC database and see who has what where. AT&T has the A side of damn near every tower in the country. If they can't do it, nobody can.
Or use it when you're trapped in a confined space for an extended period of time (ie commuting on the train, in elevators, etc) or while driving... pretty much any context you wouldn't expect a phone booth...
Perhaps since nobody has better coverage than AT&T and yelling into a device pressed against your head instantly marks you as an obnoxious asshole, why not just go without a phone? Obviously it doesn't suit your needs in a socially acceptable manner.
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The California Department of Health Services has concluded that, on the basis of a telephone survey, 120,000 Californians - and by implication one million Americans - have left their jobs because of electromagnetic pollution in the workplace. The people who have left their homes for such a reason are not being counted by anyone. That wrongly assumes the rest of America is as fucked up and retarded as California and it's people (if you can really call Californians people).
Me. I thought the far right was dangerously powerful in the Clinton years. It's by no means better today.
Well, if they want draconian copyright, they know where to find it. I, for one, am willing to trade my citizenship for one of theirs.
How much do you want to bet that when it comes right down to it, Microsoft is going to argue that it's not actually IM because MSN Messenger doesn't use the de facto IM standard, XMPP?
WTF? No Debian Desktop?
Am I the only one who clicked on that and expected to see a potporri of newsbits featuring our beloved vaccuum cleaner icon?
Remember to keep your contact info up to date next time... registrars aren't psychic.
I have a hard time having sympathy for those exporters that are going to have nobody to sell to except Canadians with money to burn: Just because the money is no longer coming from one source doesn't mean there isn't a new source...
Whoa! Been a long time since the Quickies happened! And it's not even a Friday!
Why tie up a phone line and pay unnecessary 800 charges when you can just have asterisk tell them to fuck off and hang up automatically?
Oops, there goes your cred.... shouldn'ta knocked the beer...
And the difference is?
The government fails to realize that the service economy needs healthy people to accomplish anything more basic at all.
Can I exchange my coupons for national healthcare?
It's not that hard to search the FCC database and see who has what where. AT&T has the A side of damn near every tower in the country. If they can't do it, nobody can.
Or use it when you're trapped in a confined space for an extended period of time (ie commuting on the train, in elevators, etc) or while driving... pretty much any context you wouldn't expect a phone booth...
Perhaps since nobody has better coverage than AT&T and yelling into a device pressed against your head instantly marks you as an obnoxious asshole, why not just go without a phone? Obviously it doesn't suit your needs in a socially acceptable manner.
The phone makes an interruptive asshole out of anyone, you insensitive clod!