Speak for yourself. In nearly all cases race is the only quality of those three that a person can't do anything about. You're attacking a person for who they are, not the choices they make.
Have you taken a look at MS Office 2007? They're going to need major re-training either way, so a jump to FOSS suddenly isn't as daunting.
In fact, OOo behaves more like MS Office 2003 than MS Offics 2007 does. (Okay, so OOo also behaves more like MS Offics2000 than it does MS Office 2003 but that's beside the point)
And no, it is not easier to believe in christianity when one considers it is based the idea that a woman got pregant without being touched by a man when we know for an absolute fact the only way for a woman to get pregnat is to be impregnated by a man.
If that's all that's holding you back then I suggest you look up parthenogenesis some time.
Well mp3 really does need to die. It was a nice wee novelty back in 1997 (yes, ten years ago) when most computers had crappy little multimedia speakers and we didn't care about audio quality at usable bitrates. But, like with XGA screens, the world has moved on and there are much, much better alternatives that are less encumbered with patent evils.
Until you find out that Microsoft's WMA licence for players is an exclusive one, only allowing for inferior (ie higher-bitrate needed for the same quality) formats such as mp3. If your player does Vorbis for example, you can forget about getting a licence for WMA.
(Personally, I see that as a plan with no drawbacks, but others might see it differently)
In essence you've quoted two tiny, largely irrelevant edge conditions, when clearly I'm talking about light bulbs you have in a bedside lamp (see the other inane headlights/whatever comments for the same sort of nonsense).
Oh good, so you're ready to retract your claim, "anyone who walks into a store and buys an incandescent is either a) stupid, b) very stupid, or c) they live in an apartment with unmetered electricity", then? Perhaps you could instead add "d) Has a legitimate reason to choose incandescent light bulbs over CF/LED/candles".
Simple economics tell me that it's far less energy that what each unit saves.
Really? Simple economics can tell you how much energy is used to make a product? I'd love to know how you came to that conclusion. Please, enlighten me.
That's interesting. I wonder what the quality of power to your house is like? The ballasts have a rather limited power-cycle count and tend to burn out faster if power fluctuates. This is also the reason you're probably better with incandescants in lavatories or other rapid-cycle locations.
We had one light socket that kept eating CFs in a matter of months. I know this not because I have an amazing memory, but I date-stamp all my CFs for longevity studies. Turned out the socket had dodgy wiring behind it and was giving a less-than-perfect sine wave. I still have a couple of CFs from 1999 burning bright in other sockets. Otherwise the lifespan seems to be about 4 years.
Having said all of that, anyone who walks into a store and buys an incandescent is either a) stupid, b) very stupid, or c) they live in an apartment with unmetered electricity.
Great. Can you please point me to where I can buy replacement CF bulbs for my outdoor security spotlights? Or 500W CF heat-lamps for my bathroom in mid-winter? Thanks.
Also tell me, how much energy goes into producing each of those CF bulbs, as opposed to evacuated glass bulbs with a bit of tungsten and a plug? Did you take that into account when buying them?
CFs are great for 90% of household applications but certainly not all.
Well, comparing the specs and real-world performance of recent consoles, I'd say the Wii barely fits either category. It can barely keep up with a PS2(*), so I'd be putting it back in Generation 6.
(*) which is still outselling the Wii in pretty much every market.
So what's the story...the fact that he's doing the right thing here?
He's suing the correct person for (if the accusations are true - and you've seen Wikipedia troll edits, they probably are) a legitimate reason. So the story is that he's not an idiot suing Wikipedia like the rest of the idiots would?
I'm guessing you're from somewhere in the United States of America?
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Speak for yourself. In nearly all cases race is the only quality of those three that a person can't do anything about. You're attacking a person for who they are, not the choices they make.
Oh, you mean like a cluster? Wow, imagine.
So... they're seeing what their potential customers want and giving it to them, right?
And you call that arrogance?
Interesting.
Have you taken a look at MS Office 2007? They're going to need major re-training either way, so a jump to FOSS suddenly isn't as daunting.
In fact, OOo behaves more like MS Office 2003 than MS Offics 2007 does. (Okay, so OOo also behaves more like MS Offics2000 than it does MS Office 2003 but that's beside the point)
So... it's been missing until 2 years ago but was used in The Mummy (1999)? How did they get a hold of it if it was 'missing' then?
And no, it is not easier to believe in christianity when one considers it is based the idea that a woman got pregant without being touched by a man when we know for an absolute fact the only way for a woman to get pregnat is to be impregnated by a man.
If that's all that's holding you back then I suggest you look up parthenogenesis some time.
to something more descriptive of what it is actually used for?
/cfg /HKLM
How about
or
However, I don't know of any chips that have the ability to directly receive laser light pulses from a source and convert them to 1's and 0's.
Uh, wouldn't that be a phototransistor? How do you think fibre optic channels work?
FWIW, XP SP2 still BSoDs for me on different machines regularly.
Well mp3 really does need to die. It was a nice wee novelty back in 1997 (yes, ten years ago) when most computers had crappy little multimedia speakers and we didn't care about audio quality at usable bitrates. But, like with XGA screens, the world has moved on and there are much, much better alternatives that are less encumbered with patent evils.
While not prevalent in the industry yet, but this chip is a start.
Until you find out that Microsoft's WMA licence for players is an exclusive one, only allowing for inferior (ie higher-bitrate needed for the same quality) formats such as mp3. If your player does Vorbis for example, you can forget about getting a licence for WMA.
(Personally, I see that as a plan with no drawbacks, but others might see it differently)
In essence you've quoted two tiny, largely irrelevant edge conditions, when clearly I'm talking about light bulbs you have in a bedside lamp (see the other inane headlights/whatever comments for the same sort of nonsense).
Oh good, so you're ready to retract your claim, "anyone who walks into a store and buys an incandescent is either a) stupid, b) very stupid, or c) they live in an apartment with unmetered electricity", then? Perhaps you could instead add "d) Has a legitimate reason to choose incandescent light bulbs over CF/LED/candles".
Simple economics tell me that it's far less energy that what each unit saves.
Really? Simple economics can tell you how much energy is used to make a product? I'd love to know how you came to that conclusion. Please, enlighten me.
That's interesting. I wonder what the quality of power to your house is like? The ballasts have a rather limited power-cycle count and tend to burn out faster if power fluctuates. This is also the reason you're probably better with incandescants in lavatories or other rapid-cycle locations.
We had one light socket that kept eating CFs in a matter of months. I know this not because I have an amazing memory, but I date-stamp all my CFs for longevity studies. Turned out the socket had dodgy wiring behind it and was giving a less-than-perfect sine wave. I still have a couple of CFs from 1999 burning bright in other sockets. Otherwise the lifespan seems to be about 4 years.
Having said all of that, anyone who walks into a store and buys an incandescent is either a) stupid, b) very stupid, or c) they live in an apartment with unmetered electricity.
Great. Can you please point me to where I can buy replacement CF bulbs for my outdoor security spotlights? Or 500W CF heat-lamps for my bathroom in mid-winter? Thanks.
Also tell me, how much energy goes into producing each of those CF bulbs, as opposed to evacuated glass bulbs with a bit of tungsten and a plug? Did you take that into account when buying them?
CFs are great for 90% of household applications but certainly not all.
You haven't been keeping up have you? Prior art is no longer a valid defense against a software patent.
It's no longer first-to-invent, but first-to-file.
Ah, but will it run Linux?
Uh, I'm pretty sure scroll bars are patented. Probably not by MS, but by someone. You don't need source code to see them.
Yes, that's how stupid the US patent system has become. Scroll bars.
How about ignoring such petty nonsense and getting on with our lives?
Well, comparing the specs and real-world performance of recent consoles, I'd say the Wii barely fits either category. It can barely keep up with a PS2(*), so I'd be putting it back in Generation 6.
(*) which is still outselling the Wii in pretty much every market.
Gosh, two Americans in two days! Welcome.
So what's the story...the fact that he's doing the right thing here?
He's suing the correct person for (if the accusations are true - and you've seen Wikipedia troll edits, they probably are) a legitimate reason. So the story is that he's not an idiot suing Wikipedia like the rest of the idiots would?
I'm guessing you're from somewhere in the United States of America?
...but... in his autobiography^Wessay "The Cathedral & The Bazaar" he's described as an Accidental Revolutionary.
That's funny, I'm sure I recall someone else using that phrase in a popular biography...
A logo, what's that? I switched to Low Bandwidth in my /. preferences some time ago. As well as saving a lot of bandwidth it cuts out a lot of crap.
Which brings one to the conclusion that you(*), the purchaser of Microsoft products are not the customer. The shareholder is the customer.
You are the product.
(*) - That's "you" in a general sense. I in no way mean to accuse you personally of actually purchasing said software.