I got MSO pretty much for free with the copy of WinXP I bought as a package from my university when I was building my computer, so I put it on there. My mom was taking online classes and so I decided the copy prevention technology wouldn't complain if I installed it on her machine, too, and was right. Why not Open Office for Mom? Because she isn't computer literate, and if she asks her online classmates for help, they'll be using MSO because that's what U of Pheonix recommended to them.
When I built my brother and sister computers, they got Open Office. This was because it was free, and because they are literate enough to figure things out on their own if they run into trouble. They understand how to save in different formats for compatibility with MSO and don't do advanced things that require complete interoperability. Mom wouldn't be able to put up with that sort of thing.
As expensive as MS Office is at full price, though, I recommend OO to anyone that can't get MSO for a heavy discount. It just isn't worth the cost for home users.
If you read reviews for mp3 players on places like CNET, you'll see that lots of people use WMA files.
I don't, personally, but I can see how some people would because using WMP to rip their CDs is easier than putting up with MusicMatch's artificially slowed ripping in the free version, or playing around with Winamp to make it into an mp3 encoder, before finally getting around to discovering a program like CDex.
Lots of mp3 players support WMA, as it is. Mine is RCA's first Lyra and is thusly fairly old, and it can play WMA files just fine.
Professional counterfitting outfits used to bleach small denominations and then use that paper to reprint a higher denomination. Turning $1 into $20 or whatever floats your boat.
That's why the newer anticopy techniques use watermarks and the little strips that say the denomination on them imbedded in the bill.
Why avoid them? Anyone that wants to access the documents can get the free readers from microsoft or get openoffice. Either way it's free and easy on the distributor.
Probably because if they can fully understand how this engineered virus gets around the immune system they can more easily figure out how natural viruses get around the immune system.
Then you'll have managed to cure a great host of viruses, and probably get yourself a nobel prize.
Besides, with a 100% mortality rate and death within a week, such a disease would not be capable of spreading quickly. It'd be like ebola, where you have an isolated outbreak where a bunch of people die but it can't really go anywhere because they die too quickly. Compare this to another virus with a 100% killrate, HIV, and how it kills so slowly as to make it far more of a threat to the world population than a virus like ebola.
What makes you think overpopulation has anything to do with overcrowding?
The logistics involved in supporting everyone is why there is overpopulation.
If you use a browser like Avant Browser, you can toggle Flash support on and off.
I keep it off except when I go to Homestarrunner or a similar site, for example.
Listeners to radio stations pay nothing.
File sharers pay nothing.
The radio station licensed the music.
Somewhere along the line, some of the sharers bought the CD to rip it for sharing.
It is fairly parallel from that standpoint, although it could be said that the industry makes more from radio stations.
Overpopulation and overcrowding are different things:)
Without nitrogen fertilizers we've already exceeded the farming output of the Earth, only technology has allowed the population to continue to grow. Logistics is the main problem for feeding the world today.
If for the sake of argument, we accept your biblical literalism, it should be possible to create preflood conditions again.
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go read Aesop's Fables and take everything literally so I miss the point of the stories entirely.
Right now I'm using an A4Tech 4D++ optical mouse with two scroll wheels. They both go up and down physically, but one is set to scroll right to left when it is used.
It works pretty well.
Interesting idea. How different are the penalties for an unauthorized derivative work of a copyrighted work? If they're lighter, it could be worth pleading.
It still had to reach a critical mass... civil rights would never have happened if a sufficient number of people wanted it to, whether or not govt is supposed to protect the minority.
No, the large scale sharers had to get that music from somewhere, and so they are probably the legitimate purchasers of music from the RIAA. The music has to come from a CD at some point in the chain.
I won't bother to correct your second statement, many others have done better than I care to take the time to.
And yet it isn't in the curriculum to learn how to write a Shakespearean play.
Leave cursive to writing enthusiasts who see it as art and let them leave the rest of us alone.
I use pen and paper, but I can't imagine students putting up with any professor that gave anyone trouble about either a computer or tape recorder to take notes.
You're there to teach, not to enforce luddite facism.
Nearly all of my professors put their notes on PDF and PowerPoint on the internet so you can bring them to class with to write in the margins if you don't want to take notes the old fashioned way.
I don't know what sort of backward university you teach at, but lay off the poor students. You may prefer ball point to fountain pens, too, but that doesn't give you the right to make them take notes in ballpoint, either.
I'm referring to the problems of disease threatening our increasingly homogenous crops. This can only be rectified through genetic engineering of the classical breeding or modern molecular approaches.
Current technology could feed the world with better logistics and ignoring a few economic problems that might occur. For example, for economic reasons some farmers receive stipends not to grow crops on portions of land so that the price does not collapse.
Another poster in this thread mentioned seeds that don't reproduce being a problem for poor people. While this is a concern, it does eliminate the problem of genetic contamination of the area that is arguably a larger concern. If you make GE crops that can reproduce then you have to worry about cross breeding. Which risk is greater probably varies with many factors.
While I agree that measuring superiority is a dangerous prospect, surely you realize that egalitarianism is ultimately false? It is useful doctrine, but everyone should realize that once you apply criteria to two different things one will be superior. It may vary depending on criterion, but there are differences none the less.
Genetic engineering is the only thing that can reliably prevent such famines.
It surely isn't the cause of banana or chocolate shortages, they're homologous genetically because of standard breeding techniques.
We could try to rebreed the plants, but that will take long enough that the famine will have occurred. Genetic engineering is more of a surefire way to go about it.
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Which is why America has shifted from an empire to a hegemony, which is a bit more stable and easier to maintain.
I like both MS Office and Open Office.
I got MSO pretty much for free with the copy of WinXP I bought as a package from my university when I was building my computer, so I put it on there. My mom was taking online classes and so I decided the copy prevention technology wouldn't complain if I installed it on her machine, too, and was right. Why not Open Office for Mom? Because she isn't computer literate, and if she asks her online classmates for help, they'll be using MSO because that's what U of Pheonix recommended to them.
When I built my brother and sister computers, they got Open Office. This was because it was free, and because they are literate enough to figure things out on their own if they run into trouble. They understand how to save in different formats for compatibility with MSO and don't do advanced things that require complete interoperability. Mom wouldn't be able to put up with that sort of thing.
As expensive as MS Office is at full price, though, I recommend OO to anyone that can't get MSO for a heavy discount. It just isn't worth the cost for home users.
If you read reviews for mp3 players on places like CNET, you'll see that lots of people use WMA files. I don't, personally, but I can see how some people would because using WMP to rip their CDs is easier than putting up with MusicMatch's artificially slowed ripping in the free version, or playing around with Winamp to make it into an mp3 encoder, before finally getting around to discovering a program like CDex. Lots of mp3 players support WMA, as it is. Mine is RCA's first Lyra and is thusly fairly old, and it can play WMA files just fine.
Professional counterfitting outfits used to bleach small denominations and then use that paper to reprint a higher denomination. Turning $1 into $20 or whatever floats your boat. That's why the newer anticopy techniques use watermarks and the little strips that say the denomination on them imbedded in the bill.
Why avoid them? Anyone that wants to access the documents can get the free readers from microsoft or get openoffice. Either way it's free and easy on the distributor.
Probably because if they can fully understand how this engineered virus gets around the immune system they can more easily figure out how natural viruses get around the immune system. Then you'll have managed to cure a great host of viruses, and probably get yourself a nobel prize. Besides, with a 100% mortality rate and death within a week, such a disease would not be capable of spreading quickly. It'd be like ebola, where you have an isolated outbreak where a bunch of people die but it can't really go anywhere because they die too quickly. Compare this to another virus with a 100% killrate, HIV, and how it kills so slowly as to make it far more of a threat to the world population than a virus like ebola.
What makes you think overpopulation has anything to do with overcrowding? The logistics involved in supporting everyone is why there is overpopulation.
If you use a browser like Avant Browser, you can toggle Flash support on and off. I keep it off except when I go to Homestarrunner or a similar site, for example.
Listeners to radio stations pay nothing. File sharers pay nothing. The radio station licensed the music. Somewhere along the line, some of the sharers bought the CD to rip it for sharing. It is fairly parallel from that standpoint, although it could be said that the industry makes more from radio stations.
He was bronze age, which is a bit past Neanderthals. He'd have to be a Homo sapien
Overpopulation and overcrowding are different things :)
Without nitrogen fertilizers we've already exceeded the farming output of the Earth, only technology has allowed the population to continue to grow. Logistics is the main problem for feeding the world today.
If for the sake of argument, we accept your biblical literalism, it should be possible to create preflood conditions again.
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go read Aesop's Fables and take everything literally so I miss the point of the stories entirely.
Right now I'm using an A4Tech 4D++ optical mouse with two scroll wheels. They both go up and down physically, but one is set to scroll right to left when it is used. It works pretty well.
Interesting idea. How different are the penalties for an unauthorized derivative work of a copyrighted work? If they're lighter, it could be worth pleading.
It still had to reach a critical mass... civil rights would never have happened if a sufficient number of people wanted it to, whether or not govt is supposed to protect the minority.
You can use it in a word processor to right click a word the spellchecker doesn't like to choose from the list of matches in the dictionary.
No, the large scale sharers had to get that music from somewhere, and so they are probably the legitimate purchasers of music from the RIAA. The music has to come from a CD at some point in the chain. I won't bother to correct your second statement, many others have done better than I care to take the time to.
Have you ever heard of a mule? Two different species, crossed horrifically!
And yet it isn't in the curriculum to learn how to write a Shakespearean play. Leave cursive to writing enthusiasts who see it as art and let them leave the rest of us alone.
I use pen and paper, but I can't imagine students putting up with any professor that gave anyone trouble about either a computer or tape recorder to take notes.
You're there to teach, not to enforce luddite facism.
Nearly all of my professors put their notes on PDF and PowerPoint on the internet so you can bring them to class with to write in the margins if you don't want to take notes the old fashioned way.
I don't know what sort of backward university you teach at, but lay off the poor students. You may prefer ball point to fountain pens, too, but that doesn't give you the right to make them take notes in ballpoint, either.
Everything in science is only theory, especially in regard to black holes.
There is no right to profit from anything, let alone creativity.
I'm referring to the problems of disease threatening our increasingly homogenous crops. This can only be rectified through genetic engineering of the classical breeding or modern molecular approaches.
Current technology could feed the world with better logistics and ignoring a few economic problems that might occur. For example, for economic reasons some farmers receive stipends not to grow crops on portions of land so that the price does not collapse.
Another poster in this thread mentioned seeds that don't reproduce being a problem for poor people. While this is a concern, it does eliminate the problem of genetic contamination of the area that is arguably a larger concern. If you make GE crops that can reproduce then you have to worry about cross breeding. Which risk is greater probably varies with many factors.
While I agree that measuring superiority is a dangerous prospect, surely you realize that egalitarianism is ultimately false? It is useful doctrine, but everyone should realize that once you apply criteria to two different things one will be superior. It may vary depending on criterion, but there are differences none the less.
Genetic engineering is the only thing that can reliably prevent such famines. It surely isn't the cause of banana or chocolate shortages, they're homologous genetically because of standard breeding techniques. We could try to rebreed the plants, but that will take long enough that the famine will have occurred. Genetic engineering is more of a surefire way to go about it.