The only reason anyone even considered dumping all their internal macros and development work to move away Wordperfect was for document compatibility with MS Word.
Perfect compatibilty with MS Word is the main force which pushes MS Word into everyone's workplace. Word did not spread from proprietary lock-in, that merely entrenched it. Word spread because businesses were foolishly using its proprietary documents for document exchange.
If Word were a superior product, then yes, lock-in through proprietary programs and macros would create a lock-in effect, but it's hard to argue that Word's macros, programming and document format is any less proprietary.
If used properly, a wordprocessor should be used to apply styles which structure the document. Otherwise, for example, how would a wordprocessor autogenerate a table of contents?
Now Desktop Publishing all but ignores structure of documents. But you're right, a lot of people abuse their Word Processors to behave like DTP apps and wind up with documents that are crap to handle, especially if printing to a different printer.
"If you have properly sealed the attic you should not need more attic ventilation. Attic ventilation is overrated. In winter, the cold outside air cannot hold much humidity or carry moisture away from the attic. In summer, attic temperatures are more affected by the sun and shingle colour than by the amount of ventilation."
They do add: "Building codes require attic ventilation. Ventilation may make a difference in..."
To ensure you don't violate a copyright, you just have to track the origin and life of the work. To ensure you don't violate a patent, you have to have a full understanding of the full body of active software patents in all countries which you are trying not to violate a patent in.
I would be shocked if there were not hundreds of patent violations in the Linux kernel.
Shocked.
The only reason it's slipped by is because there is no incentive to sue... If you win, the GPL stops the kernel from distributing the software, so you can't profit, but you're guaranteed a legal battle.
Add to this that nowadays, interested parties will open up their patent warchest and attack you.
On that note, does anything prevent a malicious company from seeking cash from BSD users?
You tweak the presentations and use them for ideas.
I disagree that every presentation has to be different... at least in so far as the presentation materials have to be different.
The best presentations I've seen or given have been ones which have been given out multiple times. You can fine tune the presentation, reorder parts, sort out the timing, include obvious questions or omit them to pull in audience participation.
It's not such a bad idea. Using them unmodified is a bit risky, but having a repository of presentations would be great as source material to create your own presentation.
From one of his presentations, he has a concept and graphic of a corporate adoption doughnut. That's a pretty nice little slide, if I had to give a similar sales pitch to an educational institution, I might think about including something like that. People understand doughnuts.
I suspect that the fellow who posted the question is competant enough to put this together. He just needs a subdirectory somewhere to shove his files, and an asbestos suit until some kind volunteers convert his PPT and DOC files into OpenOffice documents...
I'm also a bit confused. This looks like the shuffle feature of the ipod which is playing favourites. I thought the iPod shuffle perhaps suffered from some compression artifacts which corrupted particular songs.
The funny thing is that if they just had a way to block or feedback on the particular banner ad to begin with, blocking software wouldn't be so popular.
Instead, by having no way to block the ad, they've thrown away valuable feedback and clear messages of "I'm not interested in this product"
Just imagine if you had a profile with Slashdot or something where they knew what you weren't interested in and wouldn't show you those ads?
With that, one would hope that interrupting, animated, visually jarring advertising would generate enough strong disinterest that the tactic would be thrown out in preference to providing content or new information.
There's so much potential for instant feedback in advertising, but it is being squandered in this screwed up sex, materialism and lies model from magazines, and interruption-based advertising model borrowed from T.V. and Radio.
Yeah, I think that's lighting and costume. I think I also saw a couple spots where they were looking at the camera. That doesn't help either:-)
There were some really great shots in the trailer and some really bad ones. I'm not sure why since the trailer drags on far too long and really says nothing about the film.
Maybe a fan of the fan group could create a fan-group phantom edit of the original trailer.
You said "in most lives"... I'd like to suggest to you that 1. the vast majority of people in North America watch T.V., and 2. the vast majority of those are not selective about what they watch, and 3. a large number of those do not enjoy what they watch.
No, really! You're the exception.
I would set myself up with full cable and a Tivo if I didn't live with somebody who couldn't control themselves. The thing would be on every waking hour of the day. As it is now, it's just the antenna and it's on almost every waking hour of the day anyways.
Television does not take the place of those activities in most lives.
In my experience that's exactly what they do. Notice the number of T.V.'s running in the livingrooms of the houses you're cycling past? Notice people honking you off the road? Notice any other cyclists?
T.V. is a lazy, cheap form of entertainment. It's antisocial, habit forming and a waste of life.
"Fedora IS Red Hat Linux. Isn't that what most of ya'll care about?"
It's nearly impossible to explain that to IT Auditors who, when told that they need RHEL for support, think to MS EULAs and think that Fedora is somehow not for commercial use. Redhat's website was very careful not to talk about whether or not you could copy Fedora, and especially careful about simply not mentioning that most, if not all of the contents of a RHEL distribution is under one Open Source license or another.
So, since you work for Redhat, can we copy RHEL and install it on multiple machines legally, simply forgoing support on those systems until we pay for a support contracct? ( "license" being a word which the RH website avoids.. last I checked) You know, for testing or to expidite deployment of new servers?.......... trivial IT auditing being one of the nicest features of Linux?!
I'll have to check out SuSE's performance as of late. Novell, being decades old in the tech support arena has an upper hand in the trust department when they're still supporting crufty old versions of NetWare. Redhat, the company which shifts into vague license models and drops support for their major OS versions faster than software vendors can certify them for technical support, is beneath my trust radar, and is only deployed where I work right now because managemnt finds it hard to break old habits.
The sentence was probably light on this guy because it was a property crime.
As I understand it, Britain has a lot of problems with this... also, while you can't carry a handgun, you can put razor-wire over your fence. Yeah, Britain's weird.
The only way to fix the problem would be more jobs and better living conditions for these guys. Lifting drug prohibition might help too... keeps the criminal records away from the casual users, gets a lot of non-violent people out of jain, lowers prices through competition and brings addiction problems closer to the medical system.
Not free like sex, lunch, herpes, a cell phone, or a Gilette razor,
It's close to the kind of free you get when you pick options for your car, except with a car, there are no third party option packages available, so you can't really price compare unless you look at the price of the whole car...
Free like metallic paint on a car with no warranty.
You do know that Kyoto creates a market for clean energy by increasing the cost of dirty energy right?
Carbon credits and stuff?
The treaty is a clever solution to put a cost on the destruction of the commons, and a bennefit to the restoration of the commons.
Yes, those not bound by the treaties can still destroy the commons, but we might see pressure from within the U.S. from environmentally sound corporations trying to earn carbon credits. If there's money to be made, lobby groups will harass the government.
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It's not product lockin!
Wordperfect is better for what they do.
The only reason anyone even considered dumping all their internal macros and development work to move away Wordperfect was for document compatibility with MS Word.
Perfect compatibilty with MS Word is the main force which pushes MS Word into everyone's workplace. Word did not spread from proprietary lock-in, that merely entrenched it. Word spread because businesses were foolishly using its proprietary documents for document exchange.
If Word were a superior product, then yes, lock-in through proprietary programs and macros would create a lock-in effect, but it's hard to argue that Word's macros, programming and document format is any less proprietary.
An MBA with no management work experience is worthless... monitarily speaking.
Many universities won't even accept you into their program you unless you're in a management role.
If used properly, a wordprocessor should be used to apply styles which structure the document. Otherwise, for example, how would a wordprocessor autogenerate a table of contents?
Now Desktop Publishing all but ignores structure of documents. But you're right, a lot of people abuse their Word Processors to behave like DTP apps and wind up with documents that are crap to handle, especially if printing to a different printer.
I thought the original motive was to set 0 as the coldest attainable laboratory temperature of the time and 100 as the temperature of the human body.
I don't think it is that simple.
http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/burema/gesein/abhose /abhose_ce13.cfm
Horrible quote, reliable source:
"If you have properly sealed the attic you should not need more attic ventilation. Attic ventilation is overrated. In winter, the cold outside air cannot hold much humidity or carry moisture away from the attic. In summer, attic temperatures are more affected by the sun and shingle colour than by the amount of ventilation."
They do add: "Building codes require attic ventilation. Ventilation may make a difference in ..."
There's also the risk of one-patent companies with no products (http://www.eolas.com/) suing corporations with enormous patent portfolios and assets.
The only reason I think it is not commonplace is because lawyers cost money.
...although, one might be able to divert some of the ambulance-chasers in the U.S. into such lawsuits for a cut of the take.
I'm sure they're a matter of public record.
In other words, they're not available.
"exucated risks"
Somewhere between calculated, educated and lethal execution?
Are you talking about patents or copyright?
To ensure you don't violate a copyright, you just have to track the origin and life of the work. To ensure you don't violate a patent, you have to have a full understanding of the full body of active software patents in all countries which you are trying not to violate a patent in.
Can WalMart can break the collusion between the labels?
I would be shocked if there were not hundreds of patent violations in the Linux kernel.
Shocked.
The only reason it's slipped by is because there is no incentive to sue... If you win, the GPL stops the kernel from distributing the software, so you can't profit, but you're guaranteed a legal battle.
Add to this that nowadays, interested parties will open up their patent warchest and attack you.
On that note, does anything prevent a malicious company from seeking cash from BSD users?
You tweak the presentations and use them for ideas.
I disagree that every presentation has to be different... at least in so far as the presentation materials have to be different.
The best presentations I've seen or given have been ones which have been given out multiple times. You can fine tune the presentation, reorder parts, sort out the timing, include obvious questions or omit them to pull in audience participation.
It's not such a bad idea. Using them unmodified is a bit risky, but having a repository of presentations would be great as source material to create your own presentation.
From one of his presentations, he has a concept and graphic of a corporate adoption doughnut. That's a pretty nice little slide, if I had to give a similar sales pitch to an educational institution, I might think about including something like that. People understand doughnuts.
I suspect that the fellow who posted the question is competant enough to put this together. He just needs a subdirectory somewhere to shove his files, and an asbestos suit until some kind volunteers convert his PPT and DOC files into OpenOffice documents...
I'm also a bit confused. This looks like the shuffle feature of the ipod which is playing favourites. I thought the iPod shuffle perhaps suffered from some compression artifacts which corrupted particular songs.
The funny thing is that if they just had a way to block or feedback on the particular banner ad to begin with, blocking software wouldn't be so popular.
Instead, by having no way to block the ad, they've thrown away valuable feedback and clear messages of "I'm not interested in this product"
Just imagine if you had a profile with Slashdot or something where they knew what you weren't interested in and wouldn't show you those ads?
With that, one would hope that interrupting, animated, visually jarring advertising would generate enough strong disinterest that the tactic would be thrown out in preference to providing content or new information.
There's so much potential for instant feedback in advertising, but it is being squandered in this screwed up sex, materialism and lies model from magazines, and interruption-based advertising model borrowed from T.V. and Radio.
Yeah, I think that's lighting and costume. I think I also saw a couple spots where they were looking at the camera. That doesn't help either :-)
There were some really great shots in the trailer and some really bad ones. I'm not sure why since the trailer drags on far too long and really says nothing about the film.
Maybe a fan of the fan group could create a fan-group phantom edit of the original trailer.
There's a whole school of daytraders who base their speculations on hype. Hype being more predicatble than innovation.
The only question is... do you dump the stock before the conference call, or do you expect the hype to endure?
But yeah, 6500mAh AA cells? Not in one press release.
You said "in most lives"... I'd like to suggest to you that 1. the vast majority of people in North America watch T.V., and 2. the vast majority of those are not selective about what they watch, and 3. a large number of those do not enjoy what they watch.
No, really! You're the exception.
I would set myself up with full cable and a Tivo if I didn't live with somebody who couldn't control themselves. The thing would be on every waking hour of the day. As it is now, it's just the antenna and it's on almost every waking hour of the day anyways.
Television does not take the place of those activities in most lives.
In my experience that's exactly what they do. Notice the number of T.V.'s running in the livingrooms of the houses you're cycling past? Notice people honking you off the road? Notice any other cyclists?
T.V. is a lazy, cheap form of entertainment. It's antisocial, habit forming and a waste of life.
Lately I've seen the odd site which does something worse...
http://www.grassegger.at/xperimente/css-switching/ popup.php
...Pop-ups implemented in CSS.
"Fedora IS Red Hat Linux. Isn't that what most of ya'll care about?"
It's nearly impossible to explain that to IT Auditors who, when told that they need RHEL for support, think to MS EULAs and think that Fedora is somehow not for commercial use. Redhat's website was very careful not to talk about whether or not you could copy Fedora, and especially careful about simply not mentioning that most, if not all of the contents of a RHEL distribution is under one Open Source license or another.
So, since you work for Redhat, can we copy RHEL and install it on multiple machines legally, simply forgoing support on those systems until we pay for a support contracct? ( "license" being a word which the RH website avoids.. last I checked) You know, for testing or to expidite deployment of new servers?.......... trivial IT auditing being one of the nicest features of Linux?!
I'll have to check out SuSE's performance as of late. Novell, being decades old in the tech support arena has an upper hand in the trust department when they're still supporting crufty old versions of NetWare. Redhat, the company which shifts into vague license models and drops support for their major OS versions faster than software vendors can certify them for technical support, is beneath my trust radar, and is only deployed where I work right now because managemnt finds it hard to break old habits.
You're leaving your wife because she's into porn?
Please tell me there's more to it than that?
The sentence was probably light on this guy because it was a property crime.
As I understand it, Britain has a lot of problems with this... also, while you can't carry a handgun, you can put razor-wire over your fence. Yeah, Britain's weird.
The only way to fix the problem would be more jobs and better living conditions for these guys. Lifting drug prohibition might help too... keeps the criminal records away from the casual users, gets a lot of non-violent people out of jain, lowers prices through competition and brings addiction problems closer to the medical system.
... in theory :-)
Not free like beer,
Not free like speech,
Not free like sex, lunch, herpes, a cell phone, or a Gilette razor,
It's close to the kind of free you get when you pick options for your car, except with a car, there are no third party option packages available, so you can't really price compare unless you look at the price of the whole car...
Free like metallic paint on a car with no warranty.
Don't be so condescending to OSS. Prior to MacOS X, the Mac was an OS in the dark ages.
If MacOS didn't gut BSD, it would still be using cooperative multitasking.
You do know that Kyoto creates a market for clean energy by increasing the cost of dirty energy right?
Carbon credits and stuff?
The treaty is a clever solution to put a cost on the destruction of the commons, and a bennefit to the restoration of the commons.
Yes, those not bound by the treaties can still destroy the commons, but we might see pressure from within the U.S. from environmentally sound corporations trying to earn carbon credits. If there's money to be made, lobby groups will harass the government.