No its not altogether how it works. In the UK, at least, user pays is at the judge's discretion, and the judge gets to decide what reasonable costs should be.
They also send us all the "Dell recommends Windows 7" business marketing - we have never bought a Microsoft product from Dell.
They get paid to do that. Its just one of MS's advertising channels, and I can see every reason why MS would want to market to people who do not buy their produce.
OO Write is very like the previous version of Word, so easier for many users than the current version of Word itself.
Calc has some shortcomings for very large spreadsheets. According to my very large spread sheet that is.01 percent of users. Another 0.9% do small spreadsheets, and the other 99% use it for tabulating data.
But if I just wanted to surf, write emails and do some light word-processing, I have to say Windows 7 would be fine for me.
That is because you are a geek. For the average users it precisely the other way round.
Linux gives them something that just works as much as any OS, is secure (and therefore easy because they do not have to think about things like anti-virus), is easier to install software on, and it is safer (you can research whether a download is safe, they cannot)
On the other hand they should use Windows if they need specialist software that is not available for Linux: this could be anything from a Reuters terminal (they do install it on your own PC these days) to an app for running a clinic.
That is why my father and my wife and my daughter use Linux.
The underlying problem is that you are looking at Linux as a Gentoo user: the experience of using Ubuntu or Mandriva is very different.
This is still far fewer keys than a Windows install has, and you still need to get the package into the repos as well (so you need to steal a key an crack a repo server).
In addition, no key will let you attack more than a fraction of Linux installs. It would be nasty if someone got hold of an Ubuntu key (as its the most popular distro) and they managed to place a package on the Ubuntu repo server, but most Linux installs would not even be exposed to the risk, and only those Ubuntu users who install the malware carrying package would actually be affected.
I doubt it would get very far before being spotted and removed.
I'm guessing users were trading child porn or the owner wasn't handling his taxes correctly
Either of those would have lead to criminal prosecutions.
In neither case is there is good reason for keeping it secret. You are effectively saying "I trust the government to only use their power properly so there is no need for trial before punishment". If you believe that, why not apply the principle more widely and abolish the right to a fair trial in all cases?
Timely and useful certainly, but not very inventive or original, as it largely comes to adding a feature to Javascript that every other language already had (either in the core or in standard/widely used libraries).
MS had precursors of the dock before Apple or NeXT, although I'm not sure they were the first
I doubt they were first, given that NextStep was launched in 1989.
Exchange+Outlook, as a fully-integrated groupware solution, had no serious competition for a long time.
Lotus Notes was launched in 1989, Exchange in 1996.
the very concept that an OS always comes with a web browser can be attributed to MS.
yes, their product bundling is very innovative. How wonderful that it saves users one download!
If they had Linux PCs correctly configured for assembly line work (i.e. only components necessary to that work installed, firewalls on PC as well as network, etc.) how many holes would have been left open by a failure to patch?
How many would have been left open on any other embedded device OS?
like a netbook, with a basic GPU, a small processor, and little to no HD space? It's only job would be, much like a thin client - would be to provide you access to the computing power in the "main" section of the house.
You mean like you can do right now by using the netbook as an X terminal?
That might be a product worth selling to, say, a family of four. "You can pay for four notebooks, or four netbooks and this powerful base station".
Much as people use old PCs as X-terminals (I have done it in a small office), except with the advantage of portability. I was thinking of buying a netbook to use in just this way.
In Asia "western governments" are used to justify bad legislation and censorship in the same way that terrorists and pedoophiles are used to justify the same in the west. There are so many handles you can use to push the sheeple where you want them to be.
Google does follow links in Javascript (yes, Googlebot can execute JS these days) and the PS on these sites presumably does contain links to.swf files.
in shipments of low-end handsets to Western Europe in the first quarter.
That is a pretty narrow measure. From what I have seen Noika is dominant at the low end, and strong in the mid-range in Asia.
The summary also goes wrong to in comparing Symbian to Iphone and Andriod: Nokia's high end phones use Maemo/Meego. I want one, but cannot really justify the expense until the spec improves a bit (a bit more storage - and a slightly bigger screen would not hurt either given the N900 has a smaller screen than the N810).
I also think Nokia marketing that sells it as a tiny computer rather than a really powerful mobile phone is a mistake.
In addition, if someone it taking a PC abroad, how on earth do you verify whether its reused or recycled? (for those who did not RTFA it advises giving PCs away for reuse rather than recycling).
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Given that The Economist is a British publication and most people in Britain opposed the Iraq war I think does make it very right wing.
E-books outsell hardcover books at Amazon.
Amazon is the dominant ebook seller and pushes ebooks very hard.
Unless Amazon have nearly half the hardback market, then hardbacks still outsell Kindle ebooks in total.
No its not altogether how it works. In the UK, at least, user pays is at the judge's discretion, and the judge gets to decide what reasonable costs should be.
Losing can still be very expensive.
At which point we become too busy to post much.
They also send us all the "Dell recommends Windows 7" business marketing - we have never bought a Microsoft product from Dell.
They get paid to do that. Its just one of MS's advertising channels, and I can see every reason why MS would want to market to people who do not buy their produce.
OO Write is very like the previous version of Word, so easier for many users than the current version of Word itself.
Calc has some shortcomings for very large spreadsheets. According to my very large spread sheet that is .01 percent of users. Another 0.9% do small spreadsheets, and the other 99% use it for tabulating data.
The typical user would not notice the difference. Try it out on a few naive users.
But if I just wanted to surf, write emails and do some light word-processing, I have to say Windows 7 would be fine for me.
That is because you are a geek. For the average users it precisely the other way round.
Linux gives them something that just works as much as any OS, is secure (and therefore easy because they do not have to think about things like anti-virus), is easier to install software on, and it is safer (you can research whether a download is safe, they cannot)
On the other hand they should use Windows if they need specialist software that is not available for Linux: this could be anything from a Reuters terminal (they do install it on your own PC these days) to an app for running a clinic.
That is why my father and my wife and my daughter use Linux.
The underlying problem is that you are looking at Linux as a Gentoo user: the experience of using Ubuntu or Mandriva is very different.
This is still far fewer keys than a Windows install has, and you still need to get the package into the repos as well (so you need to steal a key an crack a repo server).
In addition, no key will let you attack more than a fraction of Linux installs. It would be nasty if someone got hold of an Ubuntu key (as its the most popular distro) and they managed to place a package on the Ubuntu repo server, but most Linux installs would not even be exposed to the risk, and only those Ubuntu users who install the malware carrying package would actually be affected.
I doubt it would get very far before being spotted and removed.
You had radio? Luxury! We took turns to sit in a cardboard box pretending to be the radio, and we still only did two Yorkshiremen.
Having cloud in the name synergisticaly enhances perceived brand value.
Did it occur to you that the more experienced/advanced/technical users who tend to gravitate towards Linux
The proportion of naive users has grown a lot over the last few years, but the amount of malware has not (at least not in proportion)
I'm guessing users were trading child porn or the owner wasn't handling his taxes correctly
Either of those would have lead to criminal prosecutions.
In neither case is there is good reason for keeping it secret. You are effectively saying "I trust the government to only use their power properly so there is no need for trial before punishment". If you believe that, why not apply the principle more widely and abolish the right to a fair trial in all cases?
XMLHttpRequest
Timely and useful certainly, but not very inventive or original, as it largely comes to adding a feature to Javascript that every other language already had (either in the core or in standard/widely used libraries).
MS had precursors of the dock before Apple or NeXT, although I'm not sure they were the first
I doubt they were first, given that NextStep was launched in 1989.
Exchange+Outlook, as a fully-integrated groupware solution, had no serious competition for a long time.
Lotus Notes was launched in 1989, Exchange in 1996.
the very concept that an OS always comes with a web browser can be attributed to MS.
yes, their product bundling is very innovative. How wonderful that it saves users one download!
If they had Linux PCs correctly configured for assembly line work (i.e. only components necessary to that work installed, firewalls on PC as well as network, etc.) how many holes would have been left open by a failure to patch?
How many would have been left open on any other embedded device OS?
like a netbook, with a basic GPU, a small processor, and little to no HD space? It's only job would be, much like a thin client - would be to provide you access to the computing power in the "main" section of the house.
You mean like you can do right now by using the netbook as an X terminal?
That might be a product worth selling to, say, a family of four. "You can pay for four notebooks, or four netbooks and this powerful base station".
Much as people use old PCs as X-terminals (I have done it in a small office), except with the advantage of portability. I was thinking of buying a netbook to use in just this way.
On the other hand it is done at the behest of the government in France, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Japan.
It is quite likely to happen in the US - there are certainly legislators who support the idea.
As far as I can see the difference between China and "democratic" countries is gradually shrinking.
In Asia "western governments" are used to justify bad legislation and censorship in the same way that terrorists and pedoophiles are used to justify the same in the west. There are so many handles you can use to push the sheeple where you want them to be.
Google does follow links in Javascript (yes, Googlebot can execute JS these days) and the PS on these sites presumably does contain links to .swf files.
So I need to ensure that if I order a Meego phone, I do not end up owning a yeti?
The link merely says that the majority of visitors are American and that is not seen as a problem.
That is no reason to be insular, given that most of what is discussed here is global.
in shipments of low-end handsets to Western Europe in the first quarter.
That is a pretty narrow measure. From what I have seen Noika is dominant at the low end, and strong in the mid-range in Asia.
The summary also goes wrong to in comparing Symbian to Iphone and Andriod: Nokia's high end phones use Maemo/Meego. I want one, but cannot really justify the expense until the spec improves a bit (a bit more storage - and a slightly bigger screen would not hurt either given the N900 has a smaller screen than the N810).
I also think Nokia marketing that sells it as a tiny computer rather than a really powerful mobile phone is a mistake.
The most important thing is that docx import depends on Java - I used to have Java turned off until that became an issue.
Of course, the fact that OO contains an option to turn off Java ought to be a clue that it is not written in Java.
Of course its a US state:
Tony Blair
In addition, if someone it taking a PC abroad, how on earth do you verify whether its reused or recycled? (for those who did not RTFA it advises giving PCs away for reuse rather than recycling).