but don't change anything either. i can't see any indication that the ftc settlement is requiring any change in passport functionality/service. if it's objectionable enough to settle over, shouldn't there be some material change in how it works or the information they collect?
i hope i'm wrong and the details of the settlement address this concern, and also that m$ isn't choosing their own security auditors. i'm sure it will be discussed in detail here.
that's my extreme policy. word-of mouth is all any worthwhile product or service should require to sell it. i realize this is a theoretical ideal, especially in the case of a truly original product.
i truly believe, philosophically, that anybody advertising their product (in any media, but especially mass) would otherwise be unable to sell it.
Following the old Usenet tradition that every spelling and grammar flame must contain at least one spelling or grammar error, you meant "its." There's no apostrophe.
the apostrophe in "it's" is a correct possesive usage. (the money belonging to the css camp. it is the css camp's money. it's money.) i'm not so sure about the apostrophe in "money's". bob the angry flower didn't really enlighten me on that because i'm not sure i really understand the idiom "moneys worth". i suspect this is a plain pluralization, however, and doesn't warrant an apostrophe at all.
the flawed grammar in a post to slashdot can't possibly compare to that published by a "think tank". furthermore, all the slashdot posts together contain on average a great deal higher level of logic and substance. the adti study is shameful on many levels.
Tell that to Amazon.com, which claimed in a recent SEC filing that it saved $17 million in technology expenses by switching to Linux.
amazon switched from solaris and tru64 unix to linux and hpux and never used any m$ products for anything but the desktop. their savings were mostly attributable to new hp lease contracts more generous than the previous ones with compaq and sun.
Microsoft said the settlement would not harm competition since educators could ask to use their funds for Apple or other rival products.
it seems to me that this point is key if there is to be any real justice in this 'settlement'. the educators will just have to be educated, won't they? they should take the hardware and ask for m$'s software and support package portion in cash (retail value please), then take redhat's offer as well and use the money for real training and the rest of the peripherals required to make a useful distributed network.
If you paid Microsoft bashers are going to post FUD like this please make it a little less obvious.
nobody needs paid to bash m$. they bash themselves plenty good. any organization that believes bashing m$ is in their best interest knows this.
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but don't change anything either. i can't see any indication that the ftc settlement is requiring any change in passport functionality/service. if it's objectionable enough to settle over, shouldn't there be some material change in how it works or the information they collect?
i hope i'm wrong and the details of the settlement address this concern, and also that m$ isn't choosing their own security auditors. i'm sure it will be discussed in detail here.
that's my extreme policy. word-of mouth is all any worthwhile product or service should require to sell it. i realize this is a theoretical ideal, especially in the case of a truly original product.
i truly believe, philosophically, that anybody advertising their product (in any media, but especially mass) would otherwise be unable to sell it.
spam fits the bill just with me.
Wonder if the CSS camp got it's money's worth?
Following the old Usenet tradition that every spelling and grammar flame must contain at least one spelling or grammar error, you meant "its." There's no apostrophe.
the apostrophe in "it's" is a correct possesive usage. (the money belonging to the css camp. it is the css camp's money. it's money.) i'm not so sure about the apostrophe in "money's". bob the angry flower didn't really enlighten me on that because i'm not sure i really understand the idiom "moneys worth". i suspect this is a plain pluralization, however, and doesn't warrant an apostrophe at all.
the flawed grammar in a post to slashdot can't possibly compare to that published by a "think tank". furthermore, all the slashdot posts together contain on average a great deal higher level of logic and substance. the adti study is shameful on many levels.
but we all know that here:
Tell that to Amazon.com, which claimed in a recent SEC filing that it saved $17 million in technology expenses by switching to Linux.
amazon switched from solaris and tru64 unix to linux and hpux and never used any m$ products for anything but the desktop. their savings were mostly attributable to new hp lease contracts more generous than the previous ones with compaq and sun.
from the wired article:
Microsoft said the settlement would not harm competition since educators could ask to use their funds for Apple or other rival products.
it seems to me that this point is key if there is to be any real justice in this 'settlement'. the educators will just have to be educated, won't they? they should take the hardware and ask for m$'s software and support package portion in cash (retail value please), then take redhat's offer as well and use the money for real training and the rest of the peripherals required to make a useful distributed network.
If you paid Microsoft bashers are going to post FUD like this please make it a little less obvious. nobody needs paid to bash m$. they bash themselves plenty good. any organization that believes bashing m$ is in their best interest knows this.