Operating Systems progressing through research and improved hardware I can understand; but you DO NOT need a new version of a bleedin' word processor every year.
It's called refinement. The older versions might be perfectly adequate; lots of people manage perfectly with Linux 2.2 kernels; but that's no reason to stop development altogether. And research does not always have to translate into a new user interface or "features".
Word 200x looks remarkably similar to Word 95, and works as fast. That's an achievement, in this world of software bloat.
My point was, moving from Hotmail-with-OE to pure webmail is an improvement, for most users. Sure, it requires a bit more management with its space limitations and all.
Free Pop3 access for webmail is bad because it provides Spammers with a low(no)-cost way to use their spamming tools. It could be done with free webmail, but its not as straight-forward.
I'm surprised at the venom in this post. I would've thought webmail was good idea, unless you were running a personal mail server. Pop3 access to webmail is not a good idea IMHO, atleast for the common users. Virus propagation, Spamming etc are made a bit too easy with this.
If people are using OE to access mail in office, they still have the following options: 1) Keep using it - It hasnt changed much, and not much is needed eitherways. 2) Switch to another free mail client - Pegasus, Eudora, Opera M2, Mozilla mail or other CLI clients 2) Switch to MSO2K3 - Corporates have the money to buy this- and MS have supposedly reduced the bandwidth requirements of Outlook.
This issue was taken to court . The verdict was that in the absence of a voting card, there are 18 other types of documents which could be used to prove one's identity.(Passport,driving license etc).
As for why only 65% of population got the cards, I would be surprised if the number was that high.
Vote rigging was brought down mostly due to the efforts of one of the previous election commissioners. Drastic changes were brought in, such as limiting electoral expenditure, prohibiting canvassing 3 days before the election and a number of others.
However such things still happen; low literacy rates, limited awareness,inherent casteist beliefs, widespread corruption are not easy to wipe away.
Lots of posts say this is a wasteful development etc. I am a KDE user (since 2.2) and I find this incredibly useful.
As a rule, I use very little eye-candy, I prefer a subdued looking desktop. I turn off all that whiz-bang borrowed-from-Apple features like gleaming scroll-bars,flashy window decorations etc.
However, these little changes like font smoothing,sub-pixel rendering(cleartype),and menu hinting make KDE a lot more useful.
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Virtually, every single commercial website which is not collecting money from people, is surviving/or supported heavily through Ads.
So the moral is not that advertisements dont work, just that the bad ones dont.
What other software programs apart from iTunes can be used to buy from iTMS ?
He probably plans to develop using MS IDEs(faster learning curve) ,and deploy on Linux.
Not a bad idea at all.
First we complain MS products are built on a proprietary API, and we WINE.
Now they sell a product built on a published API, we whine.
Not to be prying or anything, but what's your role in your organization ?
CIO? Sysadmin? Architect ? Project manager? Consultant? Programmer?
Do you make architecture/infrastructure decisions ?
You mean, somebody actually uses last class' code ?
Woah !
Must have forgotten to add "SCO" in front ;)
Straws dont suck. people do.
I for one welcome our Useless Icy Floating rock overlords.
Hear hear.
Nope. Just enable multi-master replication ;)
Could be a Testing machine, DR backup etc.
Still a damn expensive thing to lose.
No, it should be Grue 8)
It's called refinement. The older versions might be perfectly adequate; lots of people manage perfectly with Linux 2.2 kernels; but that's no reason to stop development altogether. And research does not always have to translate into a new user interface or "features".
Word 200x looks remarkably similar to Word 95, and works as fast. That's an achievement, in this world of software bloat.
As a bonafide Perl script, I am extremely offended by your statement.
Us Perl scripts have feelings too..
Click here.
My point was, moving from Hotmail-with-OE to pure webmail is an improvement, for most users. Sure, it requires a bit more management with its space limitations and all.
Free Pop3 access for webmail is bad because it provides Spammers with a low(no)-cost way to use their spamming tools. It could be done with free webmail, but its not as straight-forward.
I'm surprised at the venom in this post. I would've thought webmail was good idea, unless you were running a personal mail server. Pop3 access to webmail is not a good idea IMHO, atleast for the common users. Virus propagation, Spamming etc are made a bit too easy with this.
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If people are using OE to access mail in office, they still have the following options
1) Keep using it - It hasnt changed much, and not much is needed eitherways.
2) Switch to another free mail client - Pegasus, Eudora, Opera M2, Mozilla mail or other CLI clients
2) Switch to MSO2K3 - Corporates have the money to buy this- and MS have supposedly reduced the bandwidth requirements of Outlook.
Doesnt sound too bad to me.
This issue was taken to court . The verdict was that in the absence of a voting card, there are 18 other types of documents which could be used to prove one's identity.(Passport,driving license etc).
,inherent casteist beliefs, widespread corruption are not easy to wipe away.
As for why only 65% of population got the cards, I would be surprised if the number was that high.
Vote rigging was brought down mostly due to the efforts of one of the previous election commissioners. Drastic changes were brought in, such as limiting electoral expenditure, prohibiting canvassing 3 days before the election and a number of others.
However such things still happen; low literacy rates, limited awareness
Have you greased your Modem lately? Most of the latency you experience is because of rust.
Polymorph into a nymph. Duh.
Only when there's an altar around :P
Lots of posts say this is a wasteful development etc. I am a KDE user (since 2.2) and I find this incredibly useful.
As a rule, I use very little eye-candy, I prefer a subdued looking desktop. I turn off all that whiz-bang borrowed-from-Apple features like gleaming scroll-bars,flashy window decorations etc.
However, these little changes like font smoothing,sub-pixel rendering(cleartype),and menu hinting make KDE a lot more useful.
Specifically, the Dotnet style.
Nice to see this turn up in Gtk/Gnome.
That's one favor the public can do without :P