if not some of the development tools won't work and nor can they install service packs and bug fixes for their system to test them out.
If I as a developer have to wait for an admin to install the bug fixes and service packs for me, I'll get less work done and won't be able to function. Also VB 6.0 controls will refuse to work unless I am admin meaning I can no longer use some controls to program with.
I am not asking for admin rights on the server, just my own PC I am assigned to develop on. Jobs I had where they took away admin rights for my local PC were very hard as they tied one of my hands behind my back and made it hard to work.
Yeah Draco's star Thuban was the pole star a few thousand years ago. But during the pole shift it pointed to the Draco constellation instead of the Polaris star in the Ursa Minor constellation.
I didn't mention rotational axis points did I? I thought I was talking about the magnetic pole and magnetic field? Did you read what I posted, or just skim it and add in words I didn't say for a troll?
They will, like everything else,.blame the Americans for it. They might say something like all of our electronic useage has caused the magnetic drift of the North Pole to Russia. Just like they blame us for global warming, peak oil, and the New World Order that did 9/11 as an inside job, etc.
At one time the North Pole pointed to the Draco star instead of Polaris, and every few thousands of years the North Pole moves anyway before human beings even learned how to pollute or use fossil fuels or electronics, etc. That is because according to TFA the core of the Earth shifts and it effects the magnetic field.
Geomagnetic reversal is the key term here that most people are ignorant of, and they always want a scapegoat to blame for their problems anyway. Might as well be us Americans, the cause for all bad things on the planet, eh?
The only exception to this is to get a pro-bono (ie free) lawyer to take the case. In order to pass the bar exam for each court, a lawyer needs to take on pro-bono cases for a certain amount of billable hours in addition to passing the bar exam.
Some non-profit organizations like the ACLU will pay for legal fees under certain cases like discrimination.
In some cases the judge will award the winner of a law suit the legal fees from the other side, only if they judge decides to do that as part of the damages, etc that were filed, but in the case of Microsoft they keep delaying the case and running up costs until the plaintiff runs out of their own funds and is forced to settle out of court, drop the case, or take on huge debts and hope to finally win and hope that the judge adds in legal fees as part of the damages.
I don't think, like in Canada, that the winner gets the legal fees paid by the loser automatically in the USA, or tell the judge to cap the legal costs, but I could be wrong.
so will the MAFIAA then sue Google for caching the Torrent entries and listing links to them in their search engine?
Don't believe me, do a Google search by adding the word "torrent" to any downloadable product type.
Google "$show torrents" sometime and see what happens.
Google "Windows 7 Ultimate torrent" and see what happens.
Google "Elvis torrent" and see what happens.
Did you find some links to torrent sites and entries that allows a person to download a torrent? Google is becoming a massive torrent search engine. But the MAFIAA won't sue Google because they are too big a target and have expensive lawyers on their side.
All ISOHunt and other torrent sites are just search engines like Google, but they differ from Google in that they host BitTorrent trackers and torrent files.
like mental illnesses like schizoaffective disorder (which I suffer from), schizophrenia, and other mental illnesses that can be disability. Such a device can control brain chemistry by providing the brain with the proper signals to release chemicals to counter the chemical imbalances that cause these mental problems and mental illnesses.
I would volunteer for neurostim testing, as I suffer from schizoaffective disorder and it has caused disability and career killing. Just to see if it would help others with my mental illness. As long as I don't turn into a zombie cyborg controlled by other people or something.:)
MonoDevelop was designed to get Visual Studio Windows developers to use it to develop for Linux, Mac OS X, and other platforms that Mono exists for.
This is because high schools and colleges teach in C# and Visual BASIC instead of ANSI C++, Java, Python, and nedit with gcc and Makefiles. The programming students can keep their Visual Studio skills and still develop for Non-Windows platforms without having to learn new things very much.
The FOSS movement needs this type of application. Linux needs to match the same type of applications than run or at least come standard with Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X in order to better compete with them. Since Apple has a video editor built into Mac OS X, Linux needs one as well. As a bonus a Windows port would get the Windows users happy to use a video editor and help them migrate to Linux by using the same software in Windows and then later on in Linux.
The creative content software that is usually made for Mac OS X needs FOSS counterparts in Linux and Windows so that Apple doesn't have a monopoly in that area. Although the video editing was once a part of the Commodore Amiga systems via Genlock and Video Toaster before the Macintosh had them, it is good to see a FOSS alternative to video editing coming out soon.
I worked for one of the law firms that Microsoft hires to defend themselves from law suits. They may have even written part of the EULA that waves the right to sue for damages and lost of data.trust.
But if anyone does sue them, Microsoft can afford the best lawyers to fight it, and run up costs until it is a Pyrrhic victory that cost more in legal fees and court fees than they won from Microsoft.
I agree Synaptic for Windows would be a good idea. It would install open source Windows programs and libraries, but it wouldn't do Opera and other web browsers that aren't open sourced, not would it install IE if the user is stupid enough to choose it.
You'd need something like Linspire CNR or Click N Run software that does open source, free, and commercial software and each software vendor can add in their software. CNR is part Synaptic and part App Store, and that sort of Hybrid would be needed for Microsoft Windows to be built into the install CD/DVD.
Only if the people who hold the private stock sells it, or the company does an IPO and then Microsoft buys out a majority of it. With all of this publicity and free press, there might even be people who want to invest in i4i that they might want to do an IPO anyway to gather up more money to fight Microsoft with. If so, it would be a wild ride like when Google went public.
I assume that you have a web site for that government agency? While you cannot say you use open source software to save tax money, or even donate to open source projects, what you can do is use open source file formats on your agency web site for when you give out government documents. Save them in OpenOffice.Org and ODF format as well as RTF and MS-Word format, claim you are doing so for "accessibility" to many different types of software. If you have an audio file use MP3 and OGG formats, etc.
Ask your boss about beta testing software, if he says yes you can beta test the many open source projects. You don't need to be a programmer to be a beta tester. Tell your boss you are "evaluating" possible software your agency can use in the future to save money. I am sure he will say yes to that. While you cannot endorse open source software, you can test it.
Write user manuals and documentation for open source software, tell your boss you are writing "training manuals" to make the software better understandable. Use an open source license on the manuals and documentation so that open source organizations can use your words and modify them to make better manuals and user documentation. Write some eBooks in PDF and ODF and RTF format and submit them to Legal Torrents from your home system, not your work system. Wikibooks is another place to write those books in provided you learn HTML codes and Wiki markup. But if you do join, send me a message and I can try to help you out. I have Wiki markup and HTML and XML skills and I am glad to teach it to someone willing to learn or at least find Internet web sites that can help out on that matter.
> You, of course. would never sell your company for any amount of money.
When I did run a small business I was made offers for them. But I never sold them. So yes in answer to your question I would never sell my company for any amount of money. If I do, then I lose creative control of it, and it won't be managed or work the same way as it worked when I owned it.
>The shareholders would have to be willing to sell at a price Microsoft was willing to pay. My guess is that an offer was made and refused.
If the offered price was under $290M I can see why, they already got $290M in the lawsuit settlement if Microsoft does not change their code to avoid the patent infringement. But if Microsoft offers them $5 Billion, what then? Would Microsoft have that sort of money to buy them out? Will they buy them out this way?
Agreed I had friends who put down art, music, writing, comic books, and other stuff as their skills and hobbies and the managers threw their resumes in the trash and told me not to suggest any more of my friends with those things.
Classic management needs a major reform, because those people are good at other things as well and they can be applied to programming work. A programmer who can do artwork and writing can save the company money by doing artwork and writing for the web site and avoid having to hire an artist on contract and a writer on contract.
Actually if Microsoft just bought out the i4i company like it did Hotmail and others, it would then own those patents. Then they would pay the $290M to themselves, raid the i4i company for key personnel, IP, and other patents and source code, and then close it down after sucking all of the marrow out of i4i's bones.
Corporate Cannibalism is the word I would use to call that.
Many of us Nerds are already Cool. I majored in Computer Science but minored in Physics and Engineering, then in Information Systems and minored in Supervision Management, and then I went for Business Management and minored in e-Commerce and Computer Science. I've taken a wide variety of college courses from many colleges. Mostly I can do computers and business as I ran two small businesses in the past. After the Dotcom bubble burst many of us programmers learned a second or third career skill in order to survive.
You'll have an easier time getting current comp sci graduates to go back for business, art, law, science, etc than you can get non-comp sci majors to go back for comp sci. Computer science and programming is not for everyone. We've already had the market flooded with comp sci graduates that barely know what they are doing after the Dotcom busts as the high programmer salaries got many copycats but very few that are talented enough to be competent.
One of my friends Michael, he had a physics degree but he learned programming on the side, and worked at Apple debugging Macintosh System 7.5.X and after Apple laid him off he has worked for many different companies and even started up his own business. He is one of those 'Cool' Nerds but he struggles to find work due to his schizoaffective disorder that he suffers from.
Now me I have schizoaffective disorder and I did great at art and music when I was in school, but I had to hide those talents as employers didn't like me having them and I had to take them off my resume to get hired. I owned an Amiga 1000 and Deluxe Paint II and I used to paint stuff and use Music Construction Set to design music. But I don't have the software these days to do that anymore, although I could find FOSS music and art programs if I looked hard enough. But I used to design web sites and created my own art as well. Many who create web sites and program them already have art and music skills but we hide them.
I think I can better serve the FOSS community via writing, doing business and legal software and documents and templates and trying to meet the needs of small businesses like I used to run. But I can do art and music with the right software if I wanted to and become a 'Cool' Nerd.
eDuke32 is an open sourced Duke Nukem 3D project. It needs the Duke Nukem 3D game data files to work, and if you lost your Duke CD they can sell you a copy for $5.99. It works with Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX, but only the Windows version is compiled, you have to compile the Linux and Mac OSX versions; although they claim to have a link to precompiled Mac OSX files.
It is not Duke Nukem Forever but it has some advanced features and a link to Dukeworld to get fan made content creation and new maps and levels to keep you playing Duke Nukem almost forever. It can support resolutions the original couldn't and fixes a lot of game killing bugs the DOS version suffered from.
when I ran a business in 1995 to 1997 and 1999 to 2000, I could have used free and open source business documents and software.
Every job I had a manager would say "you nerds don't understand business" when we wrote programs for them, as to calling us programmers as nerds. I went for computer science and information systems college courses and then later went for business management and e-commerce courses so I could learn how to make those documents, do accounting and finances, etc.
I at one time worked for lawyers and wrote a program that filled out legal documents like you describe from their templates. I never kept any of their files nor templates and I wouldn't do things as they did.
But I do have an interest in developing open source business applications and automatically filling out forms via office templates and documents, but I would use OpenOffice.Org as well as MS-Office templates and documents.
But socialism is diet communism, and the top eight countries with socialism also use capitalism and private property and IP rights and other capitalistic things. All the socialists did was take communist ideas, lost the command/control markets, used Keynesian Economics (which is based on Marxism), and then cut their military (because of the USA providing military support for Europe, Japan, and Asia due to agreements after WWII to help prevent more world wars and police the areas) but those top 8 nations have major human rights violations, as well as their own recessions (it is a global recession), and high unemployment, and have changed their constitution so many times it is not funny because their socialist plans don't work and ruin everything else.
The point you miss is that communism, capitalism, socialism don't work, and neither do fascism, Islamic Law, Kingdoms, Dictatorships, collectivism, anarchy, or any other form of government or economic system known to man. Every major civilization has basically used them and failed in some way because of them. So we need to invent new systems that work.
Why won't a nation use Game Theory and the Nash Equilibrium Theory? Find a way to make supply equal demand for the optimum economic system to determine the best prices for all and grow the economy at the best rate for all and then things like health care, houses, cars, etc will be affordable enough so that everyone can afford them regardless of income.
Yeah but Firefox is more compatible with other web sites than Safari is, at least based on my experience with it. I was on Uncyclopedia and Safari users complained that the new MediaWiki software didn't work too well with Safari web browsers and they had to switch to Firefox to work with MediaWiki. There are also web sites designed for Internet Explorer that don't work with Safari or Firefox, but Firefox can use a browser agent plugin to emulate an IE browser agent sig and fool the web site to work. I am not aware of such a thing for Safari. Also Firefox has limited ActiveX control support via certain plugins that Safari won't render.
So it is not just about Safari HTML/Javascript apps at the Apple App store, but any web site or app someone wrote for the generic HTML/Javascript that Safari may not support so the user downloads Mozilla Firefox Mobile to work with web sites and apps that won't work with Safari.
Psystar ought to use the SAM440 PowerPC chip and build AmigaOS 4.1 compatible motherboards and systems because Amiga,Inc. does not care if AmigaOS is installed on non-Amiga branded PC systems. The Amiga was always better than the Macintosh anyway because the AmigaDOS/AmigaOS has a lower overhead but the same look and feel as MacOS or OS X and runs faster on older hardware with less RAM. I'll bet the Psystar AmigaOS systems will sell more than the Psystar Mac OS X systems.
Then again Psystar can just sell systems with Linux, *BSD Unix, AROS, OS/2 eComStation, and Windows, everything but Mac OS X and put Apple sales to shame and outmarket and outproduce Apple.
It seems there is a loophole in that Psystar cannot sell pre-loaded Mac OS X systems, but can sell the systems sans an OS and then sell the EFI mods to run Mac OS X on them separately and let the users install Mac OS X on EFI Rebel modified Psystar systems. Which means they will still sell Hackintosh systems but without the OS, and then make money on the EFI Rebel modification kits and let Apple sell Mac OS X to the Hackintosh fans because Apple has no verification system to tell if a user owns a Mac or Hackintosh when the EFI Rebel is done right to emulate Apple EFI and Apple hardware.
Write a 'Portable Application" that is not integrated with Windows System files to web browse to any web site and download any file and then run it. Default the startup page to a Google search for "web browsers" and let the user pick which link to follow and download. Then the 'Portable Application" can be deleted if the user so desires.
I would suggest that the 'Portable Application" be a FOSS web browser like Firefox and licensed from the Mozilla Foundation to work as a one time downloader. Then all web browsers have that annoying feature to detect that it is not the "Default browser" and ask the user to make it default and sets the default to "Yes and never ask again" so the user picks a web browser, downloads it, make it default and then if they want they can download a different web browser later on.
The whole DOJ and EU problem with Windows is that IE is the built in default web browser that is integrated with Windows system files so it cannot be removed. Just make the Windows 7 N-edition versions with the temp 'Portable Application" web browser that can download whatever web browser the user wants and give a system message that a temp web browser will be loaded to find a suitable web browser the user can download and install and then set as default.
That is just about as simple as you can make it. If you make the third part web browsers part of the Windows 7 install DVD they will be old versions and prone to vulnerabilities and skip some FOSS web browsers and any other web browser that comes out after the Install DVD is made.
Well the book called "The Oncoming Revolution" that is spreading around Europe and soon to hit the USA suggests that for a socialist revolution to murder the imperfects as the world is overcrowded. It is spreading around the underground and the climate cult already uses it as a guide. The European Black Bloc socialist units use it as their bible and their members are a milita that dress in all black with black masks and have run riots in
Actually since China implemented taxes and since the foreign trade bills that brought capitalism to build companies in China that have private property, China had to evolve to a hybrid communist/capitalist system in order to survive. This is not unlike the Easter European nations who had to do the same thing as the new Russian Federation did.
Before China did that they weren't the number #2 economy. But after offshoring US and European and Japanese jobs to China, they were able to grow their economy by evolving to a communist/capitalist hybrid system
The USA is undergoing such a change now with the Universal Heath Care and other communist programs as the government now owns corporations after bailing them out via stimulus programs. So the USA has become a hybrid capitalist/communist system now. See how the US economy was ruined after Bush turned to communism to save the economy and it kept getting worse than better and instead of change Obama did the same things Bush did with more communism and now we have a record 10% unemployment and a housing bubble burst and California is almost bankrupt with communist programs of their own. So ask someone in California how their communist economy is doing.
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if not some of the development tools won't work and nor can they install service packs and bug fixes for their system to test them out.
If I as a developer have to wait for an admin to install the bug fixes and service packs for me, I'll get less work done and won't be able to function. Also VB 6.0 controls will refuse to work unless I am admin meaning I can no longer use some controls to program with.
I am not asking for admin rights on the server, just my own PC I am assigned to develop on. Jobs I had where they took away admin rights for my local PC were very hard as they tied one of my hands behind my back and made it hard to work.
Yeah Draco's star Thuban was the pole star a few thousand years ago. But during the pole shift it pointed to the Draco constellation instead of the Polaris star in the Ursa Minor constellation.
I didn't mention rotational axis points did I? I thought I was talking about the magnetic pole and magnetic field? Did you read what I posted, or just skim it and add in words I didn't say for a troll?
They will, like everything else,.blame the Americans for it. They might say something like all of our electronic useage has caused the magnetic drift of the North Pole to Russia. Just like they blame us for global warming, peak oil, and the New World Order that did 9/11 as an inside job, etc.
At one time the North Pole pointed to the Draco star instead of Polaris, and every few thousands of years the North Pole moves anyway before human beings even learned how to pollute or use fossil fuels or electronics, etc. That is because according to TFA the core of the Earth shifts and it effects the magnetic field.
Geomagnetic reversal is the key term here that most people are ignorant of, and they always want a scapegoat to blame for their problems anyway. Might as well be us Americans, the cause for all bad things on the planet, eh?
Either set Linux and GNOME to look like XP yourself or use ReactOS instead as an alternative to Windows XP.
The only exception to this is to get a pro-bono (ie free) lawyer to take the case. In order to pass the bar exam for each court, a lawyer needs to take on pro-bono cases for a certain amount of billable hours in addition to passing the bar exam.
Some non-profit organizations like the ACLU will pay for legal fees under certain cases like discrimination.
In some cases the judge will award the winner of a law suit the legal fees from the other side, only if they judge decides to do that as part of the damages, etc that were filed, but in the case of Microsoft they keep delaying the case and running up costs until the plaintiff runs out of their own funds and is forced to settle out of court, drop the case, or take on huge debts and hope to finally win and hope that the judge adds in legal fees as part of the damages.
I don't think, like in Canada, that the winner gets the legal fees paid by the loser automatically in the USA, or tell the judge to cap the legal costs, but I could be wrong.
so will the MAFIAA then sue Google for caching the Torrent entries and listing links to them in their search engine?
Don't believe me, do a Google search by adding the word "torrent" to any downloadable product type.
Google "$show torrents" sometime and see what happens.
Google "Windows 7 Ultimate torrent" and see what happens.
Google "Elvis torrent" and see what happens.
Did you find some links to torrent sites and entries that allows a person to download a torrent? Google is becoming a massive torrent search engine. But the MAFIAA won't sue Google because they are too big a target and have expensive lawyers on their side.
All ISOHunt and other torrent sites are just search engines like Google, but they differ from Google in that they host BitTorrent trackers and torrent files.
like mental illnesses like schizoaffective disorder (which I suffer from), schizophrenia, and other mental illnesses that can be disability. Such a device can control brain chemistry by providing the brain with the proper signals to release chemicals to counter the chemical imbalances that cause these mental problems and mental illnesses.
I would volunteer for neurostim testing, as I suffer from schizoaffective disorder and it has caused disability and career killing. Just to see if it would help others with my mental illness. As long as I don't turn into a zombie cyborg controlled by other people or something. :)
MonoDevelop was designed to get Visual Studio Windows developers to use it to develop for Linux, Mac OS X, and other platforms that Mono exists for.
This is because high schools and colleges teach in C# and Visual BASIC instead of ANSI C++, Java, Python, and nedit with gcc and Makefiles. The programming students can keep their Visual Studio skills and still develop for Non-Windows platforms without having to learn new things very much.
The FOSS movement needs this type of application. Linux needs to match the same type of applications than run or at least come standard with Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X in order to better compete with them. Since Apple has a video editor built into Mac OS X, Linux needs one as well. As a bonus a Windows port would get the Windows users happy to use a video editor and help them migrate to Linux by using the same software in Windows and then later on in Linux.
The creative content software that is usually made for Mac OS X needs FOSS counterparts in Linux and Windows so that Apple doesn't have a monopoly in that area. Although the video editing was once a part of the Commodore Amiga systems via Genlock and Video Toaster before the Macintosh had them, it is good to see a FOSS alternative to video editing coming out soon.
I worked for one of the law firms that Microsoft hires to defend themselves from law suits. They may have even written part of the EULA that waves the right to sue for damages and lost of data.trust.
But if anyone does sue them, Microsoft can afford the best lawyers to fight it, and run up costs until it is a Pyrrhic victory that cost more in legal fees and court fees than they won from Microsoft.
I agree Synaptic for Windows would be a good idea. It would install open source Windows programs and libraries, but it wouldn't do Opera and other web browsers that aren't open sourced, not would it install IE if the user is stupid enough to choose it.
You'd need something like Linspire CNR or Click N Run software that does open source, free, and commercial software and each software vendor can add in their software. CNR is part Synaptic and part App Store, and that sort of Hybrid would be needed for Microsoft Windows to be built into the install CD/DVD.
Only if the people who hold the private stock sells it, or the company does an IPO and then Microsoft buys out a majority of it. With all of this publicity and free press, there might even be people who want to invest in i4i that they might want to do an IPO anyway to gather up more money to fight Microsoft with. If so, it would be a wild ride like when Google went public.
I assume that you have a web site for that government agency? While you cannot say you use open source software to save tax money, or even donate to open source projects, what you can do is use open source file formats on your agency web site for when you give out government documents. Save them in OpenOffice.Org and ODF format as well as RTF and MS-Word format, claim you are doing so for "accessibility" to many different types of software. If you have an audio file use MP3 and OGG formats, etc.
Ask your boss about beta testing software, if he says yes you can beta test the many open source projects. You don't need to be a programmer to be a beta tester. Tell your boss you are "evaluating" possible software your agency can use in the future to save money. I am sure he will say yes to that. While you cannot endorse open source software, you can test it.
Write user manuals and documentation for open source software, tell your boss you are writing "training manuals" to make the software better understandable. Use an open source license on the manuals and documentation so that open source organizations can use your words and modify them to make better manuals and user documentation. Write some eBooks in PDF and ODF and RTF format and submit them to Legal Torrents from your home system, not your work system. Wikibooks is another place to write those books in provided you learn HTML codes and Wiki markup. But if you do join, send me a message and I can try to help you out. I have Wiki markup and HTML and XML skills and I am glad to teach it to someone willing to learn or at least find Internet web sites that can help out on that matter.
> You, of course. would never sell your company for any amount of money.
When I did run a small business I was made offers for them. But I never sold them. So yes in answer to your question I would never sell my company for any amount of money. If I do, then I lose creative control of it, and it won't be managed or work the same way as it worked when I owned it.
>The shareholders would have to be willing to sell at a price Microsoft was willing to pay. My guess is that an offer was made and refused.
If the offered price was under $290M I can see why, they already got $290M in the lawsuit settlement if Microsoft does not change their code to avoid the patent infringement. But if Microsoft offers them $5 Billion, what then? Would Microsoft have that sort of money to buy them out? Will they buy them out this way?
Agreed I had friends who put down art, music, writing, comic books, and other stuff as their skills and hobbies and the managers threw their resumes in the trash and told me not to suggest any more of my friends with those things.
Classic management needs a major reform, because those people are good at other things as well and they can be applied to programming work. A programmer who can do artwork and writing can save the company money by doing artwork and writing for the web site and avoid having to hire an artist on contract and a writer on contract.
Actually if Microsoft just bought out the i4i company like it did Hotmail and others, it would then own those patents. Then they would pay the $290M to themselves, raid the i4i company for key personnel, IP, and other patents and source code, and then close it down after sucking all of the marrow out of i4i's bones.
Corporate Cannibalism is the word I would use to call that.
Many of us Nerds are already Cool. I majored in Computer Science but minored in Physics and Engineering, then in Information Systems and minored in Supervision Management, and then I went for Business Management and minored in e-Commerce and Computer Science. I've taken a wide variety of college courses from many colleges. Mostly I can do computers and business as I ran two small businesses in the past. After the Dotcom bubble burst many of us programmers learned a second or third career skill in order to survive.
You'll have an easier time getting current comp sci graduates to go back for business, art, law, science, etc than you can get non-comp sci majors to go back for comp sci. Computer science and programming is not for everyone. We've already had the market flooded with comp sci graduates that barely know what they are doing after the Dotcom busts as the high programmer salaries got many copycats but very few that are talented enough to be competent.
One of my friends Michael, he had a physics degree but he learned programming on the side, and worked at Apple debugging Macintosh System 7.5.X and after Apple laid him off he has worked for many different companies and even started up his own business. He is one of those 'Cool' Nerds but he struggles to find work due to his schizoaffective disorder that he suffers from.
Now me I have schizoaffective disorder and I did great at art and music when I was in school, but I had to hide those talents as employers didn't like me having them and I had to take them off my resume to get hired. I owned an Amiga 1000 and Deluxe Paint II and I used to paint stuff and use Music Construction Set to design music. But I don't have the software these days to do that anymore, although I could find FOSS music and art programs if I looked hard enough. But I used to design web sites and created my own art as well. Many who create web sites and program them already have art and music skills but we hide them.
I think I can better serve the FOSS community via writing, doing business and legal software and documents and templates and trying to meet the needs of small businesses like I used to run. But I can do art and music with the right software if I wanted to and become a 'Cool' Nerd.
eDuke32 is an open sourced Duke Nukem 3D project. It needs the Duke Nukem 3D game data files to work, and if you lost your Duke CD they can sell you a copy for $5.99. It works with Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX, but only the Windows version is compiled, you have to compile the Linux and Mac OSX versions; although they claim to have a link to precompiled Mac OSX files.
It is not Duke Nukem Forever but it has some advanced features and a link to Dukeworld to get fan made content creation and new maps and levels to keep you playing Duke Nukem almost forever. It can support resolutions the original couldn't and fixes a lot of game killing bugs the DOS version suffered from.
when I ran a business in 1995 to 1997 and 1999 to 2000, I could have used free and open source business documents and software.
Every job I had a manager would say "you nerds don't understand business" when we wrote programs for them, as to calling us programmers as nerds. I went for computer science and information systems college courses and then later went for business management and e-commerce courses so I could learn how to make those documents, do accounting and finances, etc.
I at one time worked for lawyers and wrote a program that filled out legal documents like you describe from their templates. I never kept any of their files nor templates and I wouldn't do things as they did.
But I do have an interest in developing open source business applications and automatically filling out forms via office templates and documents, but I would use OpenOffice.Org as well as MS-Office templates and documents.
Here is the OpenOffice.Org Templates website and I am sure you can search for some of them. OpenOfficeUSA.COM has more of them here and you can Google for "Legal Templates" or "Open Source Legal Documents" and see what comes up by varying your terms to narrow it down.
Yes there is Open Source tax Software and A Classic Slashdot story on Open Source tax software in case you missed it.
But socialism is diet communism, and the top eight countries with socialism also use capitalism and private property and IP rights and other capitalistic things. All the socialists did was take communist ideas, lost the command/control markets, used Keynesian Economics (which is based on Marxism), and then cut their military (because of the USA providing military support for Europe, Japan, and Asia due to agreements after WWII to help prevent more world wars and police the areas) but those top 8 nations have major human rights violations, as well as their own recessions (it is a global recession), and high unemployment, and have changed their constitution so many times it is not funny because their socialist plans don't work and ruin everything else.
The point you miss is that communism, capitalism, socialism don't work, and neither do fascism, Islamic Law, Kingdoms, Dictatorships, collectivism, anarchy, or any other form of government or economic system known to man. Every major civilization has basically used them and failed in some way because of them. So we need to invent new systems that work.
Why won't a nation use Game Theory and the Nash Equilibrium Theory? Find a way to make supply equal demand for the optimum economic system to determine the best prices for all and grow the economy at the best rate for all and then things like health care, houses, cars, etc will be affordable enough so that everyone can afford them regardless of income.
Yeah but Firefox is more compatible with other web sites than Safari is, at least based on my experience with it. I was on Uncyclopedia and Safari users complained that the new MediaWiki software didn't work too well with Safari web browsers and they had to switch to Firefox to work with MediaWiki. There are also web sites designed for Internet Explorer that don't work with Safari or Firefox, but Firefox can use a browser agent plugin to emulate an IE browser agent sig and fool the web site to work. I am not aware of such a thing for Safari. Also Firefox has limited ActiveX control support via certain plugins that Safari won't render.
So it is not just about Safari HTML/Javascript apps at the Apple App store, but any web site or app someone wrote for the generic HTML/Javascript that Safari may not support so the user downloads Mozilla Firefox Mobile to work with web sites and apps that won't work with Safari.
Psystar ought to use the SAM440 PowerPC chip and build AmigaOS 4.1 compatible motherboards and systems because Amiga,Inc. does not care if AmigaOS is installed on non-Amiga branded PC systems. The Amiga was always better than the Macintosh anyway because the AmigaDOS/AmigaOS has a lower overhead but the same look and feel as MacOS or OS X and runs faster on older hardware with less RAM. I'll bet the Psystar AmigaOS systems will sell more than the Psystar Mac OS X systems.
Then again Psystar can just sell systems with Linux, *BSD Unix, AROS, OS/2 eComStation, and Windows, everything but Mac OS X and put Apple sales to shame and outmarket and outproduce Apple.
It seems there is a loophole in that Psystar cannot sell pre-loaded Mac OS X systems, but can sell the systems sans an OS and then sell the EFI mods to run Mac OS X on them separately and let the users install Mac OS X on EFI Rebel modified Psystar systems. Which means they will still sell Hackintosh systems but without the OS, and then make money on the EFI Rebel modification kits and let Apple sell Mac OS X to the Hackintosh fans because Apple has no verification system to tell if a user owns a Mac or Hackintosh when the EFI Rebel is done right to emulate Apple EFI and Apple hardware.
Write a 'Portable Application" that is not integrated with Windows System files to web browse to any web site and download any file and then run it. Default the startup page to a Google search for "web browsers" and let the user pick which link to follow and download. Then the 'Portable Application" can be deleted if the user so desires.
I would suggest that the 'Portable Application" be a FOSS web browser like Firefox and licensed from the Mozilla Foundation to work as a one time downloader. Then all web browsers have that annoying feature to detect that it is not the "Default browser" and ask the user to make it default and sets the default to "Yes and never ask again" so the user picks a web browser, downloads it, make it default and then if they want they can download a different web browser later on.
The whole DOJ and EU problem with Windows is that IE is the built in default web browser that is integrated with Windows system files so it cannot be removed. Just make the Windows 7 N-edition versions with the temp 'Portable Application" web browser that can download whatever web browser the user wants and give a system message that a temp web browser will be loaded to find a suitable web browser the user can download and install and then set as default.
That is just about as simple as you can make it. If you make the third part web browsers part of the Windows 7 install DVD they will be old versions and prone to vulnerabilities and skip some FOSS web browsers and any other web browser that comes out after the Install DVD is made.
Well the book called "The Oncoming Revolution" that is spreading around Europe and soon to hit the USA suggests that for a socialist revolution to murder the imperfects as the world is overcrowded. It is spreading around the underground and the climate cult already uses it as a guide. The European Black Bloc socialist units use it as their bible and their members are a milita that dress in all black with black masks and have run riots in
Actually since China implemented taxes and since the foreign trade bills that brought capitalism to build companies in China that have private property, China had to evolve to a hybrid communist/capitalist system in order to survive. This is not unlike the Easter European nations who had to do the same thing as the new Russian Federation did.
Before China did that they weren't the number #2 economy. But after offshoring US and European and Japanese jobs to China, they were able to grow their economy by evolving to a communist/capitalist hybrid system
The USA is undergoing such a change now with the Universal Heath Care and other communist programs as the government now owns corporations after bailing them out via stimulus programs. So the USA has become a hybrid capitalist/communist system now. See how the US economy was ruined after Bush turned to communism to save the economy and it kept getting worse than better and instead of change Obama did the same things Bush did with more communism and now we have a record 10% unemployment and a housing bubble burst and California is almost bankrupt with communist programs of their own. So ask someone in California how their communist economy is doing.