Ever read the rules for the U.S. Eleventh Circuit? The cruelest State Court is a warm and friendly womb when there is a court where a brief gets bounced for having 48, (not 50) words single spaced.
You miss the point. Business software is not free if you have to spend hours learning to use it. Is my network cheaper than long hand? If I type and print, yes? If I have to dump hour after hour learning TCP/IP, maybe not.
"OpenOffice is equally as good and costs nothing?" It is not free and it does not do as good a job.
First, the time spent learning a new program is lost time. If I spent twenty hours learning open office, that is twenty hours lost and $7,000 less in the bank.
Second, there are features in word perfect, some for lawyers, some for engineers, some for other professions that nobody has copied.
For example, in my profession, the law, where there are thousand of members, only a handful of us actually go to court. When we do, we have to write a form of term paper we call a brief. Briefs have a very formal style which requires a very arcane table of contents.
With WordPerfect I hit one button and it generates a table of contents and table of authorities which meet the nitpicking requirements of the anal rednecks before whom I practice. Word requires two hours of typing by a $25 per hour legal secretary; or four hours of my $350 an hour time. Assuming I had the time to download, install and troubleshoot an open source word processor, it still would not have my beloved "generate" button.
WordPerfect does exactly what Word does only cheaper and better and takes less space on my harddrive. Why not pay for a superior product?
A poster remarks, "Equally, no-one needs to run the risk of trying to repair things that are orbiting the Earth; it's guaranteed to be cheaper to junk it and build a new one."
How can that be. You assume there is no value to an object in orbit as opposed to the same item on the ground. The cost of lifting things into space, particularly when you use the goofy reusable space plane, is very high. Hook it to the space tug, tow it out to L-1 and the Hubble can provide useful observations for decades to come.
You say, "Obviously you have never lived in a country that kills its OWN citizens." I live in Florida. Why if it wern't for Texas, we would kill more of our OWN citizens than anybody else in the world.
We can't count, but, we can kill.
Don't. In a free country you would be able to give as much of your money as you want to somebody whose ideas you agree with. I like what you say. Use this money to say it louder.
Skilled labor has value because of the experence of the worker. If you want to work in a tech field, start working. Learn by doing. If you love learning, go to college. If you want to make the world a better place, get a job.
We can't let spammers have free speech, 'cause then we'd have to let everyone say what they want.
Must love Bush, must love Bush, must love Bush, must love Bush, must love Bush, must love Bush, must love Bush!
Does anyone? Is there a single scrap of evidence that computers are more useful to teachers than chalk?
As far as I can see, we spend billions on computers in our schools without a shred of evidence that they help teachers teach.
Shuttles should go back and forth from the moon. One shot capsules, made on the moon should bring cargo down.
I want to pay for an effectives space program, not the "reuseable space plane" that was never a good idea.
And, it was the perfect three act play.
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If you watch carefully, despite the modern gloss, The Matrix was a tradition Greek play in three acts. In the work of the movie there was unity of time, place and action. All in three distinct acts.
Little known fact. The king of England instituted the Royal Mail so that he could read anything posted. Private mail was illegal, all letters had to be posted RM. Thus, wax seals on letters.
... go after only the people who attack us first. Oh, wait, . . . those who attack us first and those our leaders decide might attack us first based on stuff too secret to let us see.
Lawyers go to court and present evidence to a jury. In court, lawyers are like programers writing code; out of court they know no more than anybody else.
Yet out of court, when the blab on and on we listen to them. Why? Society listens to lawyers when it is clear they don't have any special expertise. That's the law's fault?
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"It's a 3 day suspension to add software yourself, or change your desktop picture," I'm sure that leads to creativity.
Ever read the rules for the U.S. Eleventh Circuit? The cruelest State Court is a warm and friendly womb when there is a court where a brief gets bounced for having 48, (not 50) words single spaced.
You miss the point. Business software is not free if you have to spend hours learning to use it. Is my network cheaper than long hand? If I type and print, yes? If I have to dump hour after hour learning TCP/IP, maybe not.
"OpenOffice is equally as good and costs nothing?" It is not free and it does not do as good a job. First, the time spent learning a new program is lost time. If I spent twenty hours learning open office, that is twenty hours lost and $7,000 less in the bank. Second, there are features in word perfect, some for lawyers, some for engineers, some for other professions that nobody has copied. For example, in my profession, the law, where there are thousand of members, only a handful of us actually go to court. When we do, we have to write a form of term paper we call a brief. Briefs have a very formal style which requires a very arcane table of contents. With WordPerfect I hit one button and it generates a table of contents and table of authorities which meet the nitpicking requirements of the anal rednecks before whom I practice. Word requires two hours of typing by a $25 per hour legal secretary; or four hours of my $350 an hour time. Assuming I had the time to download, install and troubleshoot an open source word processor, it still would not have my beloved "generate" button. WordPerfect does exactly what Word does only cheaper and better and takes less space on my harddrive. Why not pay for a superior product?
Beer isn't free, but, it is open source.
Have you not read the Federalist Papers?
Nonsense. Name one example of anonymous free speech on an issue important to America. Sincerly, Publius
Oh, paper... I'll tell you, we dreamed of having paper. You were lucky. We were so poor we had to write on tablets of clay.
A poster remarks, "Equally, no-one needs to run the risk of trying to repair things that are orbiting the Earth; it's guaranteed to be cheaper to junk it and build a new one." How can that be. You assume there is no value to an object in orbit as opposed to the same item on the ground. The cost of lifting things into space, particularly when you use the goofy reusable space plane, is very high. Hook it to the space tug, tow it out to L-1 and the Hubble can provide useful observations for decades to come.
You say, "Obviously you have never lived in a country that kills its OWN citizens." I live in Florida. Why if it wern't for Texas, we would kill more of our OWN citizens than anybody else in the world. We can't count, but, we can kill.
Don't. In a free country you would be able to give as much of your money as you want to somebody whose ideas you agree with. I like what you say. Use this money to say it louder.
Skilled labor has value because of the experence of the worker. If you want to work in a tech field, start working. Learn by doing. If you love learning, go to college. If you want to make the world a better place, get a job.
What is the cost of a textbook? How long does it last? What is the cost the special wiring and staff needed to keep the textbook working?
We can't let spammers have free speech, 'cause then we'd have to let everyone say what they want. Must love Bush, must love Bush, must love Bush, must love Bush, must love Bush, must love Bush, must love Bush!
You just try and sue your teacher. You will be bounced out of court so fast ... Show me a reported case where a student has sucessfully sued.
Does anyone? Is there a single scrap of evidence that computers are more useful to teachers than chalk? As far as I can see, we spend billions on computers in our schools without a shred of evidence that they help teachers teach.
But, they don't belong in the classroom any more than computers do.
Shuttles should go back and forth from the moon. One shot capsules, made on the moon should bring cargo down. I want to pay for an effectives space program, not the "reuseable space plane" that was never a good idea.
If you watch carefully, despite the modern gloss, The Matrix was a tradition Greek play in three acts. In the work of the movie there was unity of time, place and action. All in three distinct acts.
Little known fact. The king of England instituted the Royal Mail so that he could read anything posted. Private mail was illegal, all letters had to be posted RM. Thus, wax seals on letters.
But, content filtering programs don't work. And who but a slashdot loving techno nerd can out hack a teenaged boy hot on the trail of porn?
In a free society, shouldn't I be able to give a candidate running for office as much of my money as I want to? Who are you to say I can't speak?
... go after only the people who attack us first. Oh, wait, . . . those who attack us first and those our leaders decide might attack us first based on stuff too secret to let us see.
Lawyers go to court and present evidence to a jury. In court, lawyers are like programers writing code; out of court they know no more than anybody else. Yet out of court, when the blab on and on we listen to them. Why? Society listens to lawyers when it is clear they don't have any special expertise. That's the law's fault?
Forget NATO or the UN, FIFA is the real world governing body.