Is it reasonable for an ISP to censor webpages they don't agree with during contract negotiations?
On this side of the Atlantic the answer is a big fat NO. The only exception I could imagine is if the the Union is publishing libelous statements about them. Of course Canadian law may differ.
It is easy to imagine that these two groups are slowly diverging, as they engage in different diets, breed within their own groups and engage in different physical activities.
That might actually apply to humans as well. I mean take Conservatives and Liberals. They engage in different physiclal activities and (mostly) breed within their own groups. So will the two eventually evolve into seperate species, Homo Conservativis and Homo Liberalis? Probably, however, due to the high population denisty among humans they will also be unable to escape having to interact with each other. So the two resultant species and their behavioral patterns will influence each others evolution won't they? I mean you would for example expect the Homo Conservativis to evolve sophisticated selective hearing in order to avoid hearing anything that Homo Liberals might say that contradicts with their religious ideas while the Homo Liberals will grow thick Neanderthal like skulls due to Homo Conservatives incessantly thumping theim on the head with a Bible.
but how many people in the last 20 years have a SMALL ELECTRONICS degree? Hell do they even offer that anymore?
Do you mean Electronics Engineering as in (eggheads who among other things) design analog circuits for signal processing? That is still a very lively field. Of course these days they spend alot more time programming and working with digitized signals than they do building classic analog circuits. Alot of the guys I went to school with who took this speciality were taught alot of classical analog circuitry wisdom but ended up spending most of their time implementing say a bandpass filter to get rid of unwanted transient noise by programming a DSP and passing the signal through it rather than putting together a pure analog solution. The field still exists it has merely changed... alot!
What TFA says is that it looks like HDMI/HDCP will become a requirement for watching digital content on PC systems. Microsoft is only adding support for this crap for Windows users that happen to have the corresponding hardware. I can't blame them for that and I can't see how they stand to gain very much. It seems to me that the ones to blame are the greedy content owners and media manufacturers and the ones who really stand to gain are monitor manufacturers since only a small minority of PC monitors sold today seems to have support for this stuff and unless monitor manufacturers offer upgrades to enable you to watch DRM protected material this means people will have to buy new monitors. What really stinks is that I just bought an expensive new 23" LCD monitor. Since I use it alot to watch movies it looks like I will have to scrap it in what? A couple of years? Those greedy sons of b*tches can't be serious about doing forcing N million PC users out there to scrap their monitors and buy new ones?
All they EU is doing is facing the reality of the way technology is changing business practices and legislating appropriately which is so normal it should not be newsworthy. The old ways of doing business in the music industry are dying. You can either react to that by suing people who download music left right and center in the hope of keeping change from happening or you can do like Apple did and embrace the new way of doing business. Piracy not withstanding going into the online music business certainly does not seem to have done Apple any harm since people do seem to be prepared to pay for downloadable music even though they have the option of downloading pirated materials free of charge. I suppose you could make the argument that the law suits have actually discouraged people from consuming pirated music and thus helped online oufits like iTunes but I don't buy that argument since the chances of being caught while downloading pirated music are still very small.
You want to know who leads the world in spam output; its the wealthy EU countries....
Both the USA and the EU have approximately the same number of internet users (US 200 million vs. EU 215 million as of March 2005) and their share of the total spam generation rate (US 22.8% vs. EU 24.7%) roughly roughly corresponds to those numbers. This is not surprising since alot of the spam generators are zombie Windows boxen owned and operated by people with a very limited computer knowledge. It seems to me that all we can conclude from these statistics is that the level of 'computer-cluelessness' among the general public is about the same on both sides of the pond. Even so, I care fairly little about where the actual Spam Servers/Zombie PCs churning out the crap mail are located. What would be more interesting is a statistical analysis of where the people owning or controlling all these spam servers and zombies are located? Which countries are failing to deal with the spam companies causing the problem? Take a look at the top ten list at the bottom of this page the USA claims no less than six of the top ten ROKSO spammers I don't see a single spam king from an EU country on that list.
From the sound of it he is referring to the Sikorsky X-Wing The idea was to build a conventional helicopter that had rotors who generated lift no matter how they were oriented by using compressed air that was bled over the rotor surfaces to create lift. I am no aerodynamicist but I think this concept is called a boundary layer control system (like blown flaps). The X-Wing would thus be able to take off like a Helo but could fix the rotors in place and have them act like conventional wings for high speed flight. The X-Wing was abandoned in favor of the V-22 which is a more elegant if troubled solution. I rather liked the X-Wing though it was the closest engineers ever got to creating a real world AirWolf.
...whereas a lot of Windows admins I meet are "Next, OK, Apply, Cancel" kind of guys. Plus Windows is becoming more command line oriented (Thank God!).
I agree, I went from UNIX/LINUX only to woking with Windows servers as well and I must say I'm rather glad of it. Expanding into Windows has made me more employable and having started out in the UNIX world made me a better professional than I would have been if I had taken the Microsoft certification route and then moved into UNIX. Having worked mostly with Win 2003 rather than Win 2000 Server (thank god because the latter really sucks) I am constantly amazed by how the WinOnly admins worship the graphical tools. The first thing I did to my Win 2003 boxen was installing some of the Gnu tools and Gvim(hint: if you really want to have some fun introduce a freshly hatched MCSE to vim). Since then I have written several command line utilities in C#, which is not really all that hard if you know a little Java or C++, just to fill in some of the blanks in the Windows command line toolbox. I can now administrate those Win 2003 boxes completely from the command line which surprises many (though by no means all) Windows admins. The concept of solving time consumig tasks with custom scripts and programs seems to be alien to many Window guys whereas it is commonplace in the UNIX community.
I disagree You are assuming zero sum theft is the only kind of theft where somebody gets hurt. It is, however, possible to harm somebody by copying software with the intent of avoiding paying the author for the privilege:
actus reus: The perpetrator unlawfully copied property (software) of another.
mens rea: The perpetrator acted with the purpose of avoiding having to pay the lawful owner of the property (software) the fee reqired by the owner for use of said property (software).
attendant circumstances: The perpetrator had no legal right to use the software since he had not paid for the privilege.
harm: The victim is deprived of the income he/she would have gained if the perpetrator had paid for the use of the property (software) as he/she should have done.
An analogy would be releasing a copyrighted book on the internet and claiming nobody got hurt becaue the original autor still has a copy. That, however, ignores that his sales went down so you have harmed him by depriving him of income. You can't possibly hope to convince people that software piracy does not hurt anybody.
Piracy isn't theft. Theft is the action in wich one denies others acces to the stolen goods. Piracy doesn't deny anoyne acces to the pirated goods. So piracy is per definition not theft.
I am no lawyer but from what I remember of the legeal course I took at Uni, the definition of theft consists of two parts:
Actus Reus - The unauthorized taking or use. Mens Rea - The intent to deprive.
So if you use pirated software you first take a copy of a piece of Software that somebody else put alot of effort and money into. Does that act in it self qualify as Actus Reus? I suppose that can be debated. However you then use this software without compensating the original maker of the product knowing full well that you are supposed to pay for the privilege. Now to me that is definetly Mens Rea. You are making a copy of that software with the intent to deprive the producer of the software of the revenue your use of a copy of this product would otherwise generate for him. This intent to deprive automaically makes the act of making and using your pirated copy of said software Actus Reus. So, so it would seem to me that using pirted software does indeed fulfill the definition of theft. It is not traditional zero-sum theft but a form of theft none the less. If you are pirating software at least be honest about the fact the you are doing something wrong.
As a result, they ended up having contracts with people who didn't care all that much about their data, or what it meant. This is another example of why that's so screwed up.
Now, things will even out. All the smaller outsourcing firms will lose out and only the big players will remain - they may charge more, but they also pay more and will usually have procedures in place that will prevent this sort of thing.
So you are saying that greedy managers everywhere have yet again been reminded of something the rest of us mortals already know? That quality costs money, even in outsourcing. What a surprise! Professionalism may cost less money in India but it will still costs more than average.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."
One word... Leningrad... Patton was a great general and one of the few Allied commanders the Germans geuinely respected but he was also an arrogant bastard (and he probably would have enjoyed being called that). Although he unfairly dismissed the value of fortifications he did have a point. The Romans for example preferred to besiege an enemy that was prepared to give battle. The reasoning being that it was cheaper in lives and money to starve him out. In this case one might actually argue that it is Micro$oft who is trying to starve out the pirate consumers by denying them access to updates rather than that Micro$oft is throwing up fortifications to hide behind. So let's not underestimate Micro$oft. Clamping down on OS piracy will certainly play into the hands of Linux and especially OS.X to some degree but alot of people will still cough up the money for one of those so-called "Student and Teacher" versions of XP.
Using OO on a Mac works, but not as well as a native OS X app would
What about NeoOffice? Has anybody tried to do some real-world work with this suite? They have a three phase roadmap aimed at NeoOffice becoming a truly native app complete with the Aqua look and feel.
No, the amusement is in realizing that if the earthquake caused a break underwater, that it's not going to be fixed in ~2 hrs, thus indicating the cluelessness of the question pondered.
Why? That underwater link that guy mentioned might still be broken, if was indeed broken they probably activated an auxiliary/backup link to route their traffic through and are still working on the severed cable. I rely on a connection via a series of undersea links that have been severed a few times over the last few years by anything from fishermen to mechanical diggers and underwater sand-mining operations. Over here it rarely takes the local telecom more than half an hour to start routing traffic through backup connections but then of course we don't get as quite as many earthquakes here as they do in California
And people wonder why there is a skyrocketing reliance on religion by our political leaders, who pander and are willing to teach nonsense like "Intelligent Creation" alongside scientific evidence of darwinism and natural selection.
I am an agnostic (which Christian fundamentalists in particlular frequently confuse with atheism) and I am also a believer in Darwinism/Evolution. It alwasy amuses me the way the anti-religious and the religious fundamentaists in the USA keep trying to shove either Evolutionism or Creationism down the throats of each others children. Why does either theory have to be excluded from the curriculum in schools? Wouldn't it be better to disccuss the merits of both theories so that students can make up their own minds? I have met Christians who have reconciled the concepts of devine creation and evolution. They believe that the Bible should not be taken literally and that Creation is a still ongoing process which sounds like reasonable enough compromise to me.
it's still nice to finally see some real competition to Photoshop, especially considering that the price of Acrylic will be much lower than that of Photoshop.
True, if some competition brings the price of Photoshop down a few pegs then that would be nice. Still, one is left hoping that this isn't the beginnign of "Operation kill Adobe". Photoshop may be expensive but at least it is available on more platforms than just Windows.
Now, imagine what would happen to America's high tech industry if Communist China invaded...
I can also imagine what the US Pacific fleet would do to the PLANAF if it invaded. Now, if the Chinese Army could drive its tanks to Taiwan the country would have been history decades ago. As it is they still don't have the Naval strength. Taiwans high tech industry and its importance to US defense contractors and 'fabless' high thech firms might actually be its best guarantee of US support in the event of a 'skirmish' with China.
I love the rest of the world and international types... but you gotta remember that every company thinks of their country and locale first.
Don't credit corporations with having deep rooted feelings of patriotism, you will be disappointed if you do. Every company (that is not being mismanaged) thinks about the most profitable market first so that it can bring the only people it truly cares about, the shareholders, managers and key employees, a good profit/reward. Google is launching this service in the US because they did their math and concluded it's the biggest and most profitable market.
Now, they will have negligible margins on Dell in the benchmarks
There is more to those benchmark results than just the processor, like for example the OS, ie. OS.X vs Windows. Not that benchmarks really matter all that much except perhaps if your are a hardcore gamer. Believe it or not most people, myself included, did not buy a Mac for the sake of performance or because it has a PPC processor but rather usability and ergonomics. From Apple's point of view this architecture change allows them to offer laptops with competitive performance some time soon and it it is definetly looking like they would not have been able to do that with the PPC. This is important since laptops just outsold desktop systems. In essence this switch to Intel chips doesn't worry me at all. Even if an Intel PowerBook won't beat a Dell Laptop at the benchmarks, something tells me the PowerBook will still make the Dell look like a brick and unlike the Dell it still won't run Windows.
.... they don't Photoetch the 'Intel Inside' logo into the metal casings of future PowerBooks. It used to be the first thing I removed back when I was a PC user. That being said do I have to toss my PPC only Microsoft Office 2004 suite when I invest in a brand new IntelMac PowerBook next year?
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Is it reasonable for an ISP to censor webpages they don't agree with during contract negotiations?
On this side of the Atlantic the answer is a big fat NO. The only exception I could imagine is if the the Union is publishing libelous statements about them. Of course Canadian law may differ.
It is easy to imagine that these two groups are slowly diverging, as they engage in different diets, breed within their own groups and engage in different physical activities.
That might actually apply to humans as well. I mean take Conservatives and Liberals. They engage in different physiclal activities and (mostly) breed within their own groups. So will the two eventually evolve into seperate species, Homo Conservativis and Homo Liberalis? Probably, however, due to the high population denisty among humans they will also be unable to escape having to interact with each other. So the two resultant species and their behavioral patterns will influence each others evolution won't they? I mean you would for example expect the Homo Conservativis to evolve sophisticated selective hearing in order to avoid hearing anything that Homo Liberals might say that contradicts with their religious ideas while the Homo Liberals will grow thick Neanderthal like skulls due to Homo Conservatives incessantly thumping theim on the head with a Bible.
...a few tens of thousands of downloads I'd like to see their bill.
but how many people in the last 20 years have a SMALL ELECTRONICS degree? Hell do they even offer that anymore?
Do you mean Electronics Engineering as in (eggheads who among other things) design analog circuits for signal processing? That is still a very lively field. Of course these days they spend alot more time programming and working with digitized signals than they do building classic analog circuits. Alot of the guys I went to school with who took this speciality were taught alot of classical analog circuitry wisdom but ended up spending most of their time implementing say a bandpass filter to get rid of unwanted transient noise by programming a DSP and passing the signal through it rather than putting together a pure analog solution. The field still exists it has merely changed... alot!
What TFA says is that it looks like HDMI/HDCP will become a requirement for watching digital content on PC systems. Microsoft is only adding support for this crap for Windows users that happen to have the corresponding hardware. I can't blame them for that and I can't see how they stand to gain very much. It seems to me that the ones to blame are the greedy content owners and media manufacturers and the ones who really stand to gain are monitor manufacturers since only a small minority of PC monitors sold today seems to have support for this stuff and unless monitor manufacturers offer upgrades to enable you to watch DRM protected material this means people will have to buy new monitors. What really stinks is that I just bought an expensive new 23" LCD monitor. Since I use it alot to watch movies it looks like I will have to scrap it in what? A couple of years? Those greedy sons of b*tches can't be serious about doing forcing N million PC users out there to scrap their monitors and buy new ones?
... Windows fanboys over here, but yeah I have real world experience with zombies.
All they EU is doing is facing the reality of the way technology is changing business practices and legislating appropriately which is so normal it should not be newsworthy. The old ways of doing business in the music industry are dying. You can either react to that by suing people who download music left right and center in the hope of keeping change from happening or you can do like Apple did and embrace the new way of doing business. Piracy not withstanding going into the online music business certainly does not seem to have done Apple any harm since people do seem to be prepared to pay for downloadable music even though they have the option of downloading pirated materials free of charge. I suppose you could make the argument that the law suits have actually discouraged people from consuming pirated music and thus helped online oufits like iTunes but I don't buy that argument since the chances of being caught while downloading pirated music are still very small.
You want to know who leads the world in spam output; its the wealthy EU countries ....
Both the USA and the EU have approximately the same number of internet users (US 200 million vs. EU 215 million as of March 2005) and their share of the total spam generation rate (US 22.8% vs. EU 24.7%) roughly roughly corresponds to those numbers. This is not surprising since alot of the spam generators are zombie Windows boxen owned and operated by people with a very limited computer knowledge. It seems to me that all we can conclude from these statistics is that the level of 'computer-cluelessness' among the general public is about the same on both sides of the pond. Even so, I care fairly little about where the actual Spam Servers/Zombie PCs churning out the crap mail are located. What would be more interesting is a statistical analysis of where the people owning or controlling all these spam servers and zombies are located? Which countries are failing to deal with the spam companies causing the problem? Take a look at the top ten list at the bottom of this page the USA claims no less than six of the top ten ROKSO spammers I don't see a single spam king from an EU country on that list.
Hmm... are you referring to the V22 Osprey?
From the sound of it he is referring to the Sikorsky X-Wing The idea was to build a conventional helicopter that had rotors who generated lift no matter how they were oriented by using compressed air that was bled over the rotor surfaces to create lift. I am no aerodynamicist but I think this concept is called a boundary layer control system (like blown flaps). The X-Wing would thus be able to take off like a Helo but could fix the rotors in place and have them act like conventional wings for high speed flight. The X-Wing was abandoned in favor of the V-22 which is a more elegant if troubled solution. I rather liked the X-Wing though it was the closest engineers ever got to creating a real world AirWolf.
...whereas a lot of Windows admins I meet are "Next, OK, Apply, Cancel" kind of guys. Plus Windows is becoming more command line oriented (Thank God!).
I agree, I went from UNIX/LINUX only to woking with Windows servers as well and I must say I'm rather glad of it. Expanding into Windows has made me more employable and having started out in the UNIX world made me a better professional than I would have been if I had taken the Microsoft certification route and then moved into UNIX. Having worked mostly with Win 2003 rather than Win 2000 Server (thank god because the latter really sucks) I am constantly amazed by how the WinOnly admins worship the graphical tools. The first thing I did to my Win 2003 boxen was installing some of the Gnu tools and Gvim (hint: if you really want to have some fun introduce a freshly hatched MCSE to vim). Since then I have written several command line utilities in C#, which is not really all that hard if you know a little Java or C++, just to fill in some of the blanks in the Windows command line toolbox. I can now administrate those Win 2003 boxes completely from the command line which surprises many (though by no means all) Windows admins. The concept of solving time consumig tasks with custom scripts and programs seems to be alien to many Window guys whereas it is commonplace in the UNIX community.
I disagree You are assuming zero sum theft is the only kind of theft where somebody gets hurt. It is, however, possible to harm somebody by copying software with the intent of avoiding paying the author for the privilege:
actus reus: The perpetrator unlawfully copied property (software) of another.
mens rea: The perpetrator acted with the purpose of avoiding having to pay the lawful owner of the property (software) the fee reqired by the owner for use of said property (software).
attendant circumstances: The perpetrator had no legal right to use the software since he had not paid for the privilege.
harm: The victim is deprived of the income he/she would have gained if the perpetrator had paid for the use of the property (software) as he/she should have done.
An analogy would be releasing a copyrighted book on the internet and claiming nobody got hurt becaue the original autor still has a copy. That, however, ignores that his sales went down so you have harmed him by depriving him of income. You can't possibly hope to convince people that software piracy does not hurt anybody.
Piracy isn't theft. Theft is the action in wich one denies others acces to the stolen goods. Piracy doesn't deny anoyne acces to the pirated goods. So piracy is per definition not theft.
I am no lawyer but from what I remember of the legeal course I took at Uni, the definition of theft consists of two parts:
Actus Reus - The unauthorized taking or use.
Mens Rea - The intent to deprive.
So if you use pirated software you first take a copy of a piece of Software that somebody else put alot of effort and money into. Does that act in it self qualify as Actus Reus? I suppose that can be debated. However you then use this software without compensating the original maker of the product knowing full well that you are supposed to pay for the privilege. Now to me that is definetly Mens Rea. You are making a copy of that software with the intent to deprive the producer of the software of the revenue your use of a copy of this product would otherwise generate for him. This intent to deprive automaically makes the act of making and using your pirated copy of said software Actus Reus. So, so it would seem to me that using pirted software does indeed fulfill the definition of theft. It is not traditional zero-sum theft but a form of theft none the less. If you are pirating software at least be honest about the fact the you are doing something wrong.
As a result, they ended up having contracts with people who didn't care all that much about their data, or what it meant. This is another example of why that's so screwed up.
Now, things will even out. All the smaller outsourcing firms will lose out and only the big players will remain - they may charge more, but they also pay more and will usually have procedures in place that will prevent this sort of thing.
So you are saying that greedy managers everywhere have yet again been reminded of something the rest of us mortals already know? That quality costs money, even in outsourcing. What a surprise! Professionalism may cost less money in India but it will still costs more than average.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."
One word... Leningrad... Patton was a great general and one of the few Allied commanders the Germans geuinely respected but he was also an arrogant bastard (and he probably would have enjoyed being called that). Although he unfairly dismissed the value of fortifications he did have a point. The Romans for example preferred to besiege an enemy that was prepared to give battle. The reasoning being that it was cheaper in lives and money to starve him out. In this case one might actually argue that it is Micro$oft who is trying to starve out the pirate consumers by denying them access to updates rather than that Micro$oft is throwing up fortifications to hide behind. So let's not underestimate Micro$oft. Clamping down on OS piracy will certainly play into the hands of Linux and especially OS.X to some degree but alot of people will still cough up the money for one of those so-called "Student and Teacher" versions of XP.
Using OO on a Mac works, but not as well as a native OS X app would
What about NeoOffice? Has anybody tried to do some real-world work with this suite? They have a three phase roadmap aimed at NeoOffice becoming a truly native app complete with the Aqua look and feel.
No, the amusement is in realizing that if the earthquake caused a break underwater, that it's not going to be fixed in ~2 hrs, thus indicating the cluelessness of the question pondered.
Why? That underwater link that guy mentioned might still be broken, if was indeed broken they probably activated an auxiliary/backup link to route their traffic through and are still working on the severed cable. I rely on a connection via a series of undersea links that have been severed a few times over the last few years by anything from fishermen to mechanical diggers and underwater sand-mining operations. Over here it rarely takes the local telecom more than half an hour to start routing traffic through backup connections but then of course we don't get as quite as many earthquakes here as they do in California
And people wonder why there is a skyrocketing reliance on religion by our political leaders, who pander and are willing to teach nonsense like "Intelligent Creation" alongside scientific evidence of darwinism and natural selection.
I am an agnostic (which Christian fundamentalists in particlular frequently confuse with atheism) and I am also a believer in Darwinism/Evolution. It alwasy amuses me the way the anti-religious and the religious fundamentaists in the USA keep trying to shove either Evolutionism or Creationism down the throats of each others children. Why does either theory have to be excluded from the curriculum in schools? Wouldn't it be better to disccuss the merits of both theories so that students can make up their own minds? I have met Christians who have reconciled the concepts of devine creation and evolution. They believe that the Bible should not be taken literally and that Creation is a still ongoing process which sounds like reasonable enough compromise to me.
...the procedure tends to be very messy.
it's still nice to finally see some real competition to Photoshop, especially considering that the price of Acrylic will be much lower than that of Photoshop.
True, if some competition brings the price of Photoshop down a few pegs then that would be nice. Still, one is left hoping that this isn't the beginnign of "Operation kill Adobe". Photoshop may be expensive but at least it is available on more platforms than just Windows.
Now, imagine what would happen to America's high tech industry if Communist China invaded...
I can also imagine what the US Pacific fleet would do to the PLANAF if it invaded. Now, if the Chinese Army could drive its tanks to Taiwan the country would have been history decades ago. As it is they still don't have the Naval strength. Taiwans high tech industry and its importance to US defense contractors and 'fabless' high thech firms might actually be its best guarantee of US support in the event of a 'skirmish' with China.
I love the rest of the world and international types... but you gotta remember that every company thinks of their country and locale first.
Don't credit corporations with having deep rooted feelings of patriotism, you will be disappointed if you do. Every company (that is not being mismanaged) thinks about the most profitable market first so that it can bring the only people it truly cares about, the shareholders, managers and key employees, a good profit/reward. Google is launching this service in the US because they did their math and concluded it's the biggest and most profitable market.
Could Apple's Intel Desktop Threaten Linux?
Does this mean that OS.X will now take over from Windows as the 'Root of all Evil'?
...take a look at Dilbert's mission statement generator.
Now, they will have negligible margins on Dell in the benchmarks
There is more to those benchmark results than just the processor, like for example the OS, ie. OS.X vs Windows. Not that benchmarks really matter all that much except perhaps if your are a hardcore gamer. Believe it or not most people, myself included, did not buy a Mac for the sake of performance or because it has a PPC processor but rather usability and ergonomics. From Apple's point of view this architecture change allows them to offer laptops with competitive performance some time soon and it it is definetly looking like they would not have been able to do that with the PPC. This is important since laptops just outsold desktop systems. In essence this switch to Intel chips doesn't worry me at all. Even if an Intel PowerBook won't beat a Dell Laptop at the benchmarks, something tells me the PowerBook will still make the Dell look like a brick and unlike the Dell it still won't run Windows.
.... they don't Photoetch the 'Intel Inside' logo into the metal casings of future PowerBooks. It used to be the first thing I removed back when I was a PC user. That being said do I have to toss my PPC only Microsoft Office 2004 suite when I invest in a brand new IntelMac PowerBook next year?