Tragically, that would still make them money. With satellite service as of right now, you need an antenna to receive over-the-air HD channels. I did not know this; it turned out to be cheaper to cancel Dish Network's service than to purchase and install a large enough antenna.
Compared with my $20,000 platinum Vertu Communications Instrument (Flash), a $900 phone would be quite cheap. I would buy this "Nokia N90" if only it had a concierge button and some jewel-encrusted highlights.
The RAZR was "too expensive" for a few months; now you can find it for free* with a service contract.
* $1,200 minus $500 activation rebate minus $400 service activation credit minus $150 rebate which must be filed no sooner than 90 days and no later than 120 days from time of activation minus $150 rebate which must be filed no sooner than 180 days and no later than 210 days from time of activation equals FREE!
I will absolutely not buy this so-called "phone." For $900 I can get:
A Nintendo DS on which to play games
A small 4-megapixel camera with which to take photos
An Archos PXF-78-MNpL-1 Personal Media Player Jukebox that will extract the photos, sew them into a DivX movie, synchronize with all seven of my Linux boxen, and perform many other tasks that an iPod cannot do
A free cellular phone from any carrier I wish
A portable DVD player on which I will watch movies
A large backpack to haul this around
As is common in these discussions, I believe I speak for everyone in this forum when I state that because I do not want this product, none of you should ever even consider purchasing it.
While you're paying at least $30 per month to use hotspots and cell phones to access your "ubiquitous web fileservice," I'll be enjoying my files on a hard drive and backing them up later to hard drives that I own.
The "computer paradigm" was all centralized-this and ubiquitous-that in the mainframe era, yet businesses and civilians have shown that they would rather own their own computer. How is Google making progress by reviving that business model where others have struggled?
Technically, it's only "built in" at the driver level. The video card in my 12" PowerBook (GeForce something Go) doesn't have a driver which supports rotation, so even external displays can't be turned. The 15" and 17" PowerBooks use ATI cards with drivers which support rotation, though.
I have a 12" PowerBook and have found it to be very fragile. Aluminum is quite malleable. Your laptop won't crack, but (1) it'll bend and (2) the plastic ports that line the sides will crack. Apple wants $700 for a new logic board if it finds even one port with any bit of damage during a repair, regardless of anything. Due to a slightly-chipped Ethernet port that still worked, Apple tried to charge me $700 for a new logic board when replacing a busted hard drive, for example.
Sure. Back before Google was the only search engine, Yahoo and Altavista results got incredibly polluted with people who performed keyword spamming. They never addressed the problem and instead decided to de-emphasize search in favor of becoming all-things-to-all-people "portals."
If Google doesn't want to avoid the same path*, they should stop playing with JavaScript and get back to their search engine work.
* Not like that's horrible; Yahoo is still enormously profitable and successful today
Instead of fostering discussion about the Video iPod, in which I get to hear bitching that it doesn't play Xvid/Divx/Grand Ogg Tarkin, I get to hear semantics arguments about why the word "vivisection" is not appropriate. Boo.
Perhaps that porn is so advanced it is even more obscene? According to Futurama, you'll need to be more than 55 years old to view Ultraporn once it's available.
Congratulations -- you understood that "as effective and legally-binding" implied that neither one is effective or legally binding at all.
The next time you meet someone who thinks a disclaimer makes sense, ask them to put a hundred-dollar bill on a park bench with a post-it note on it stating "This is oneeyedelf1's $100. Use of this banknote by any other party is not permitted." That's about as forceful.
If it were on the top, it would occupy the entirety of the preview pane, effectively making the preview pane useless for reading e-mail. Putting the disclaimer on the bottom is every bit as effective and legally-binding as putting it on the top.
That's okay. All the really important e-mail has a disclaimer at the bottom noting that it is for the intended recipients only. That makes it illegal for another person to read it. If another person reads it, they have to notify the sender and delete the message.
Wouldn't the same thing have happened if you switched to a shorter domain as well? I would think that the loss of business would have been because everyone had your-company@ibm.net in their address books, so when that address went away you effectively disappeared.
People keep address books for freakishly long times, judging by how many wrong-number calls I get at home for the same business that used to have the number many years ago.
whereas it's possible to actually find Microsoft employees who actually have minds of their own. Please show me _one_ that has done this in any public fashion and has not be fired. Saying "oh, I talked to one in an MS-Toilet(tm) and he said, hey, I use Linux and an IPod", is not much of an argument IMO. You keep fighting the good fight, though. Ten years from its inception as an open source project, OpenOffice.org might hope to achieve the 10% market share established as a victory point by Mozilla/Firefox advocates. You might want to work on the fact that this Free As In Beech software looks like crap, isn't compatible with the VBA macros that businesses use daily (but which you would childishly dismiss with name-calling and "I don't use that, so it's not important" rhetoric), and is slow even compared to Microsoft Office**. Geez, you have to work for MS to be such a shill or you and Bill make man-boy love weekly. Why would you get so emotional over a stupid freaking company and some software? To answer some of your stupid points, IMO OOo doesn't look like crap, I like the interface and it is pretty darn close to MS Office, so if you think OOo looks like crap, well you must think MS office looks like crap as well. As far as this stupid point: isn't compatible with the VBA macros that businesses use daily (but which you would childishly dismiss with name-calling and "I don't use that, so it's not important" rhetoric) So VBA crap is waht business use daily? So I take it you have worked for _all_ business that use MS office and know that they use VBA crap daily? Wow, you are great. Me personally, I have only worked for 3 fortune 500 companies and not one has use VBA in any production software. The fortune 500 I am at now would never deploy VBA office crap as an "application" and expect it to be stable and our user to use it. So get over _your_ childish crap that "all" business use VBA, because it just isn't true. Any "application" I have seen based on MS office and VBA has crumbled once the concurrent users have gotten over a very small number and _more_ money had to be spent on programmers like me to create real applications that are not based on VBA and MS office. You also missed the point where I said I don't want USENET-style replies. I'm not having a vocal conversation with you, so stop pretending like we're having a back-and-forth chat, point for point. Huh? This is/. reject. If you don't like the way/. works, than don't post. It is a simple as that. * Programmers, engineers, whatever. Uhh... not quite dummy. There is a huge difference. To program software you don't even need a stinking education, just some stupid MS "certification in VB" can get you in the door to many companies. Now, try to go and engineer a bridge or some electrical systems of a rocket with just some MS "certification" and see how far you get.
An XML document's visual presentation is stored by semantically defining styles in CSS or by translating XML into any other desired format using an XSLT document.
You don't need any "corporate MS crap," so instead you're going to live in your own little dream world where everything you agree with on Slashdot is true. I've met Microsoft engineers* who speak their mind just fine -- they own iPods, they have hacked Xboxes and PS2s, and they even use Linux! (Some even use Linux and open-source tools at work!) You seem to believe that all Microsoft employees are required to parrot the marketing line of "Microsoft rules Linux is teh suck," whereas it's possible to actually find Microsoft employees who actually have minds of their own.
You keep fighting the good fight, though. Ten years from its inception as an open source project, OpenOffice.org might hope to achieve the 10% market share established as a victory point by Mozilla/Firefox advocates. You might want to work on the fact that this Free As In Beech software looks like crap, isn't compatible with the VBA macros that businesses use daily (but which you would childishly dismiss with name-calling and "I don't use that, so it's not important" rhetoric), and is slow even compared to Microsoft Office**.
You also missed the point where I said I don't want USENET-style replies. I'm not having a vocal conversation with you, so stop pretending like we're having a back-and-forth chat, point for point.
* Programmers, engineers, whatever. ** Even on the Mac, where Microsoft doesn't bore deep into the OS to preload libraries on boot.
Based on your Slashdot comments, I have moved to Canada. Thank you. It is nice up here. I like the boobies on TV and the health care. You have changed my life.
Slashdot Mirror
Tragically, that would still make them money. With satellite service as of right now, you need an antenna to receive over-the-air HD channels. I did not know this; it turned out to be cheaper to cancel Dish Network's service than to purchase and install a large enough antenna.
Compared with my $20,000 platinum Vertu Communications Instrument (Flash), a $900 phone would be quite cheap. I would buy this "Nokia N90" if only it had a concierge button and some jewel-encrusted highlights.
The RAZR was "too expensive" for a few months; now you can find it for free* with a service contract.
* $1,200 minus $500 activation rebate minus $400 service activation credit minus $150 rebate which must be filed no sooner than 90 days and no later than 120 days from time of activation minus $150 rebate which must be filed no sooner than 180 days and no later than 210 days from time of activation equals FREE!
I will absolutely not buy this so-called "phone." For $900 I can get:
As is common in these discussions, I believe I speak for everyone in this forum when I state that because I do not want this product, none of you should ever even consider purchasing it.
</coffee>While you're paying at least $30 per month to use hotspots and cell phones to access your "ubiquitous web fileservice," I'll be enjoying my files on a hard drive and backing them up later to hard drives that I own.
The "computer paradigm" was all centralized-this and ubiquitous-that in the mainframe era, yet businesses and civilians have shown that they would rather own their own computer. How is Google making progress by reviving that business model where others have struggled?
Christmas is not good enough. You need something with broad appeal across the Open Source community, like Life Day .
Technically, it's only "built in" at the driver level. The video card in my 12" PowerBook (GeForce something Go) doesn't have a driver which supports rotation, so even external displays can't be turned. The 15" and 17" PowerBooks use ATI cards with drivers which support rotation, though.
I have a 12" PowerBook and have found it to be very fragile. Aluminum is quite malleable. Your laptop won't crack, but (1) it'll bend and (2) the plastic ports that line the sides will crack. Apple wants $700 for a new logic board if it finds even one port with any bit of damage during a repair, regardless of anything. Due to a slightly-chipped Ethernet port that still worked, Apple tried to charge me $700 for a new logic board when replacing a busted hard drive, for example.
Worker: HEY BOSS!
Boss: What is it?
Worker: Hoshino doesn't want one of our 20 inch laptops.
Boss: SHIT!! SHUT DOWN PRODUCTION!
(klaxons blare, equipment screeches to a halt)
Worker: But he does want a 14" laptop.
Boss: Oh. We still make those. RESTART PRODUCTION!
To send a text message, my provider charges 5 cents. Are you implying that most blog posts are worth 5 cents to publish?
Sure. Back before Google was the only search engine, Yahoo and Altavista results got incredibly polluted with people who performed keyword spamming. They never addressed the problem and instead decided to de-emphasize search in favor of becoming all-things-to-all-people "portals."
If Google doesn't want to avoid the same path*, they should stop playing with JavaScript and get back to their search engine work.
* Not like that's horrible; Yahoo is still enormously profitable and successful today
I've ripped all* my CDs to ATRAC3 format so they can play on Minidisc players for years to come. Bring it on, Sony!
* Except for the ones Sony Music produces, of course. Those are rip-proof.
Instead of fostering discussion about the Video iPod, in which I get to hear bitching that it doesn't play Xvid/Divx/Grand Ogg Tarkin, I get to hear semantics arguments about why the word "vivisection" is not appropriate. Boo.
Yes, there is.
There are also automation programs like ffmpegX (for Mac) that can write appropriate movie files.
Perhaps that porn is so advanced it is even more obscene? According to Futurama, you'll need to be more than 55 years old to view Ultraporn once it's available.
Congratulations -- you understood that "as effective and legally-binding" implied that neither one is effective or legally binding at all.
The next time you meet someone who thinks a disclaimer makes sense, ask them to put a hundred-dollar bill on a park bench with a post-it note on it stating "This is oneeyedelf1's $100. Use of this banknote by any other party is not permitted." That's about as forceful.
If it were on the top, it would occupy the entirety of the preview pane, effectively making the preview pane useless for reading e-mail. Putting the disclaimer on the bottom is every bit as effective and legally-binding as putting it on the top.
Don't you mean "it"? (flash, sound)
That's okay. All the really important e-mail has a disclaimer at the bottom noting that it is for the intended recipients only. That makes it illegal for another person to read it. If another person reads it, they have to notify the sender and delete the message.
Wouldn't the same thing have happened if you switched to a shorter domain as well? I would think that the loss of business would have been because everyone had your-company@ibm.net in their address books, so when that address went away you effectively disappeared.
People keep address books for freakishly long times, judging by how many wrong-number calls I get at home for the same business that used to have the number many years ago.
Jeez, I'm bored with this thread. Good night.
/. reject. If you don't like the way /. works, than don't post. It is a simple as that.
--- Original Message ---
whereas it's possible to actually find Microsoft employees who actually have minds of their own.
Please show me _one_ that has done this in any public fashion and has not be fired. Saying "oh, I talked to one in an MS-Toilet(tm) and he said, hey, I use Linux and an IPod", is not much of an argument IMO.
You keep fighting the good fight, though. Ten years from its inception as an open source project, OpenOffice.org might hope to achieve the 10% market share established as a victory point by Mozilla/Firefox advocates. You might want to work on the fact that this Free As In Beech software looks like crap, isn't compatible with the VBA macros that businesses use daily (but which you would childishly dismiss with name-calling and "I don't use that, so it's not important" rhetoric), and is slow even compared to Microsoft Office**.
Geez, you have to work for MS to be such a shill or you and Bill make man-boy love weekly. Why would you get so emotional over a stupid freaking company and some software? To answer some of your stupid points, IMO OOo doesn't look like crap, I like the interface and it is pretty darn close to MS Office, so if you think OOo looks like crap, well you must think MS office looks like crap as well. As far as this stupid point:
isn't compatible with the VBA macros that businesses use daily (but which you would childishly dismiss with name-calling and "I don't use that, so it's not important" rhetoric)
So VBA crap is waht business use daily? So I take it you have worked for _all_ business that use MS office and know that they use VBA crap daily? Wow, you are great. Me personally, I have only worked for 3 fortune 500 companies and not one has use VBA in any production software. The fortune 500 I am at now would never deploy VBA office crap as an "application" and expect it to be stable and our user to use it. So get over _your_ childish crap that "all" business use VBA, because it just isn't true. Any "application" I have seen based on MS office and VBA has crumbled once the concurrent users have gotten over a very small number and _more_ money had to be spent on programmers like me to create real applications that are not based on VBA and MS office.
You also missed the point where I said I don't want USENET-style replies. I'm not having a vocal conversation with you, so stop pretending like we're having a back-and-forth chat, point for point.
Huh? This is
* Programmers, engineers, whatever.
Uhh... not quite dummy. There is a huge difference. To program software you don't even need a stinking education, just some stupid MS "certification in VB" can get you in the door to many companies. Now, try to go and engineer a bridge or some electrical systems of a rocket with just some MS "certification" and see how far you get.
The styles are not locked away with a binary key. According to the XML schemata (ZIP file), they're stored in XML just like the document text itself.
An XML document's visual presentation is stored by semantically defining styles in CSS or by translating XML into any other desired format using an XSLT document.
You don't need any "corporate MS crap," so instead you're going to live in your own little dream world where everything you agree with on Slashdot is true. I've met Microsoft engineers* who speak their mind just fine -- they own iPods, they have hacked Xboxes and PS2s, and they even use Linux! (Some even use Linux and open-source tools at work!) You seem to believe that all Microsoft employees are required to parrot the marketing line of "Microsoft rules Linux is teh suck," whereas it's possible to actually find Microsoft employees who actually have minds of their own.
You keep fighting the good fight, though. Ten years from its inception as an open source project, OpenOffice.org might hope to achieve the 10% market share established as a victory point by Mozilla/Firefox advocates. You might want to work on the fact that this Free As In Beech software looks like crap, isn't compatible with the VBA macros that businesses use daily (but which you would childishly dismiss with name-calling and "I don't use that, so it's not important" rhetoric), and is slow even compared to Microsoft Office**.
You also missed the point where I said I don't want USENET-style replies. I'm not having a vocal conversation with you, so stop pretending like we're having a back-and-forth chat, point for point.
* Programmers, engineers, whatever.
** Even on the Mac, where Microsoft doesn't bore deep into the OS to preload libraries on boot.
Dear sir.
Based on your Slashdot comments, I have moved to Canada. Thank you. It is nice up here. I like the boobies on TV and the health care. You have changed my life.
Sincerely,
Jason
I haven't seen any Microsoft easter eggs in a long time. Rumor has it that due to government requirements for software, "Microsoft can't include undocumented features, including Easter eggs, in its software." This started with Windows XP, but I haven't seen Office easter eggs since the legendary Excel 97 flight simulator.
Not like Linux has been any more fun -- I think the printer on fire error was removed at some point. Spoil sports.
Tools > Options > Save > "Save Word files as:"
On the Mac: Word > Preferences > Save > "Save Word files as:"