Hmmm. I'm an audio typist for the UK government and I use a lot of Word features. I wonder if I can persuade my boss to let me trial it for a month and see if Writer is a drop-in replacement for Word. I have a feeling that I wouldn't notice a great deal of difference.
Not sure I understand what you're getting at here. OLE is about putting one object like an Excel spreadsheet inside for example a Word doc. I'd be very surprised if OO can't do this sort of thing even on non-Windows platforms.
They licenced the tech in order to avoid anti-trust investigation and the consumer has benefitted a great deal. Microsoft decided to waste their time fighting a battle they couldn't win and the consumer has had to put up with all sorts of malware and bugs until they finally got their act together with XP SP2. Had they licensed Win32 and Office formats we would have all benefitted from the increased competition instead we're still stuck with the incompetent monolith.
If we leave it to private ventures the tech will never get developed due to it being incredibly expensive. Look at how long it's taken for commercial interests to even start space flights and that tech's been around since WW2 and I doubt any private company would be even thinking about it had several governments not already done a lot of the work for them.
In a truly competitive market that would be the case. The desktop and office suite markets are very far from that though. Intel have survived having to share their IP with AMD, why can't Microsoft do the same with their competitors instead of erecting artificial barriers in order to soak their customers and prevent any effective competition from emerging.
I'd love native apps for Linux. However I live in the real world where those don't magically appear since there is no financial reason for Microsoft, Blizzard, Intuit ad nauseum to port their apps to Linux. However a compatibility layer would mean that any pain of leaving Windows would be minimised. This goes double for any corp that has several Win32 apps that they would otherwise have to rewrite. It's crappy for sure, but it's practical.
That's still a $200 discount. Also it means that you are no longer tied to one platform/vendor by any application with Win32 calls in it thus easing the pain of any migration considerably. Why do so few people switch to Linux? Its perceived difficulty doesn't help but not having viable replacements for most of your Windows apps (especially bespoke corporate ones) is a far more compelling reason to stick to what you've got despite its flaws.
That's pretty dodgy, however malicious websites will never even pop up a box asking you if you want to install said software unless you add said site to the list of sites allowed to install stuff. I don't consider myself or my less clued-up friends and family to be 100% safe but your 'just click yes to install scenario' is a lot less likely with FF than with IE. Only if the malware makes it onto the trusted sites, or the site manages to fool FF will unwary users be caught out in nearly all cases. That's a lot less likely than letting all sites have the potential to install stuff.
You can put a url into Windows Explorer and it will take you to that website, therefore Internet Explorer is not gone. Or are you just playing tedious semantic games?
I can still play records now. I have no doubt I will still be able to buy a CD player in 20 years even if no-one makes them anymore. I will be able to play MP3s in 20 years because the source code exists for any number of mp3 players which just requires me to compile it. Do you know why? Because they are not dependent on the existence and willingness of a corporation to provide a network connection allowing me to ask permission to use what I've paid for. If Apple go out of business or get bought by a corp who have no interest in providing an ability to let me authorise my songs what do I do? Explain to me again why I should have to waste several blank CDs for the purpose? iOpener is my best option, it strips the unnecessary and insulting copy protection but I'm not sure if it's legal or not and Apple can no doubt keep moving the goalposts to limit its effectiveness. I don't care if the iPod is way cool (I do like it) and I'm not bashing an innovative and original company like Apple (because the world needs more of them), this is a rant against the media providers who insist on treating me like a criminal before I've even committed a crime and Apple's collusion with them. I want to buy their stuff but I'm not prepared to be told how I can use it. Only the IT industry have anything as ridiculous. I don't have Fiat telling me what I can do with my car, why do Apple as the agent of the recording industry have the right to tell me where and when I can listen to my music?
Does it support all music players like the mp3 format? Then it's crippled. I don't give a crap about how good the iPod is. Will the iPod still exist in 20 years? Dunno. Will I still want to listen to some of these songs in 20 years? Undoubtedly. Therefore the best format I can have is one that doesn't have any restrictions on it and doesn't tie me to the fortunes of one particular corporation. That format isn't AAC, irrespective of me having to waste time and a blank cd just to get music that I don't have to have an overpriced player or the permission of Apple to do with what I wish which is listen to it wherever and whenever I choose on whatever system I wish. I can do this with CDs, I can do this with MP3, I cannot do this with AAC.
gpedit.msc doesn't exist on XP Home. You have to intuitively change the intuitive and easy to find innovative registry key. Alternatively you could download tweakui but why should you have to just to turn it off?
However bypassing the copy protection to create mp3s for your portable player which is the 21st century equivalent is against the law. Hooray for progress.
Good marketing isn't the same as good capitalism. In pure capitalist theory if you make a better product you're bound to sell more than your competitors. However in the real world the advertising power of your competitor is more important. If that company has a heck of a lot more marketing power at its disposal then in most cases you're pretty much screwed.
The grammar checker in Word 2002 for the most part sucks. I've had perfectly good sentences underlined in green and when I check what I thinks it should be it would render the sentence nonsensical. My favourite one of many silly things is where it wanted to change the verb states to the noun States. I checked the reasoning but it didn't really make any sense in terms of removing the only verb in the sentence.
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Hmmm. I'm an audio typist for the UK government and I use a lot of Word features. I wonder if I can persuade my boss to let me trial it for a month and see if Writer is a drop-in replacement for Word. I have a feeling that I wouldn't notice a great deal of difference.
Not sure I understand what you're getting at here. OLE is about putting one object like an Excel spreadsheet inside for example a Word doc. I'd be very surprised if OO can't do this sort of thing even on non-Windows platforms.
We just need that Apple laptop from ID4, that thing can interface with alien technology, a mere IDE drive should be easy.
But how much of their junk is actually worth saving?
At the very least, holding people without trial is illegal even if you can deny that any torture or cruel or degrading treatment is going on.
Why are Amnesty insane on this? The US violating international law in the same way as the Iranian Bajiri is an absolute disgrace.
Europeans are quite a bloodthirsty lot, you should see our history.
I tried to play Wurm Online on both Linux and Windows and got Update Failed both times. So it's not just slow it's stop.
They licenced the tech in order to avoid anti-trust investigation and the consumer has benefitted a great deal. Microsoft decided to waste their time fighting a battle they couldn't win and the consumer has had to put up with all sorts of malware and bugs until they finally got their act together with XP SP2. Had they licensed Win32 and Office formats we would have all benefitted from the increased competition instead we're still stuck with the incompetent monolith.
If we leave it to private ventures the tech will never get developed due to it being incredibly expensive. Look at how long it's taken for commercial interests to even start space flights and that tech's been around since WW2 and I doubt any private company would be even thinking about it had several governments not already done a lot of the work for them.
In a truly competitive market that would be the case. The desktop and office suite markets are very far from that though. Intel have survived having to share their IP with AMD, why can't Microsoft do the same with their competitors instead of erecting artificial barriers in order to soak their customers and prevent any effective competition from emerging.
I'd love native apps for Linux. However I live in the real world where those don't magically appear since there is no financial reason for Microsoft, Blizzard, Intuit ad nauseum to port their apps to Linux. However a compatibility layer would mean that any pain of leaving Windows would be minimised. This goes double for any corp that has several Win32 apps that they would otherwise have to rewrite. It's crappy for sure, but it's practical.
That's still a $200 discount. Also it means that you are no longer tied to one platform/vendor by any application with Win32 calls in it thus easing the pain of any migration considerably. Why do so few people switch to Linux? Its perceived difficulty doesn't help but not having viable replacements for most of your Windows apps (especially bespoke corporate ones) is a far more compelling reason to stick to what you've got despite its flaws.
That's pretty dodgy, however malicious websites will never even pop up a box asking you if you want to install said software unless you add said site to the list of sites allowed to install stuff.
I don't consider myself or my less clued-up friends and family to be 100% safe but your 'just click yes to install scenario' is a lot less likely with FF than with IE.
Only if the malware makes it onto the trusted sites, or the site manages to fool FF will unwary users be caught out in nearly all cases. That's a lot less likely than letting all sites have the potential to install stuff.
You can put a url into Windows Explorer and it will take you to that website, therefore Internet Explorer is not gone. Or are you just playing tedious semantic games?
Just as a matter of interest, how much access to your system does a Firefox extension have as compared to an ActiveX control?
I can still play records now. I have no doubt I will still be able to buy a CD player in 20 years even if no-one makes them anymore. I will be able to play MP3s in 20 years because the source code exists for any number of mp3 players which just requires me to compile it. Do you know why? Because they are not dependent on the existence and willingness of a corporation to provide a network connection allowing me to ask permission to use what I've paid for. If Apple go out of business or get bought by a corp who have no interest in providing an ability to let me authorise my songs what do I do? Explain to me again why I should have to waste several blank CDs for the purpose? iOpener is my best option, it strips the unnecessary and insulting copy protection but I'm not sure if it's legal or not and Apple can no doubt keep moving the goalposts to limit its effectiveness.
I don't care if the iPod is way cool (I do like it) and I'm not bashing an innovative and original company like Apple (because the world needs more of them), this is a rant against the media providers who insist on treating me like a criminal before I've even committed a crime and Apple's collusion with them.
I want to buy their stuff but I'm not prepared to be told how I can use it. Only the IT industry have anything as ridiculous. I don't have Fiat telling me what I can do with my car, why do Apple as the agent of the recording industry have the right to tell me where and when I can listen to my music?
Deleting firefox.exe prevents you ever running firefox. Deleting iexplorer.exe doesn't prevent you running IE. So IE is not merely an application.
Providing tools? I thought that was the job of the male actors.
Does it support all music players like the mp3 format? Then it's crippled. I don't give a crap about how good the iPod is. Will the iPod still exist in 20 years? Dunno. Will I still want to listen to some of these songs in 20 years? Undoubtedly. Therefore the best format I can have is one that doesn't have any restrictions on it and doesn't tie me to the fortunes of one particular corporation.
That format isn't AAC, irrespective of me having to waste time and a blank cd just to get music that I don't have to have an overpriced player or the permission of Apple to do with what I wish which is listen to it wherever and whenever I choose on whatever system I wish. I can do this with CDs, I can do this with MP3, I cannot do this with AAC.
gpedit.msc doesn't exist on XP Home. You have to intuitively change the intuitive and easy to find innovative registry key. Alternatively you could download tweakui but why should you have to just to turn it off?
However bypassing the copy protection to create mp3s for your portable player which is the 21st century equivalent is against the law. Hooray for progress.
Good marketing isn't the same as good capitalism. In pure capitalist theory if you make a better product you're bound to sell more than your competitors. However in the real world the advertising power of your competitor is more important. If that company has a heck of a lot more marketing power at its disposal then in most cases you're pretty much screwed.
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The grammar checker in Word 2002 for the most part sucks. I've had perfectly good sentences underlined in green and when I check what I thinks it should be it would render the sentence nonsensical. My favourite one of many silly things is where it wanted to change the verb states to the noun States. I checked the reasoning but it didn't really make any sense in terms of removing the only verb in the sentence.