I wonder how long it will be before Wine will support emulation of Vista?
Truely, I found that my soundcard driver and various other thing would hard-lock my system in XP... very annoying when you're in the middle of a game. Most of the windows games I run play nicely on Wine/Cedega, some even better (as in the case of my laptop, where the video driver will not update in windows).
If Cedega gains more support for newer games, all the more reason for me to stick with it and/or linux. XP is bad enough, I certainly wouldn't want to upgrade to vista just to play a few newer games.
Interestingly, older mothers had a slower rate of aging than young mothers.
It makes sense in a way. Let's say you get a limited supply of extra cells that help healing, regeneration, etc...
If you're younger, they might be used up along with some of the other 'resources' in your body, or lost during chemical changes. If you're older, the cells are more recently added, and might help prevent/repair some of the more dangerous aging symptoms later in life.
What I'd wonder is if the cells themselves are a way for the body to compensate for the other dangers of childbirth. It is hard on the body in many ways, and brings other medical risks, so perhaps these cells are there as a way of fixing some of the other things that break along the path of pregnancy?
Darwinism strikes at the genders equally. How many more women than men suffer dangerously abusive relationships, end up in prostitution (not that there aren't males of this persuation, but I know of more females... supply and demand), or other such avenues that might shorten one's lifespan.
How about applying make-up while driving for a start... I've seen that more than once.
In a way, you may be connecting through 1GB and just not know it. At the networks here, we have a 1GB connection from the server to the switch, when then splits into 10/100 connections. This means that multiple network machines can grab data in the 10/100 range, but the overall data consumption from machines connected to the server will not be bottlenecked at 100MB/s.
Of course, depending on what is being done the data rate is still limited by the hardware on the server (drive speeds, etc), but it does have some noticable speedup over plan 10/100 on all switch ports.
OK, even going without the concept that google most certainly pays somebody for their own bandwidth: without the servers of google and other service providers, WTF would anyone use the internet for. If there was nothing to use, then WTF would anyone pay Verizon for internet service, etc.
I've heard of companies paying little regard to the customer, but the fact that Verizon is completely disregarding that many people are paying them for the service which provides access to google's service is rather insane. Verizon, if you smell something brown and stinky, perhaps it's about time to remove your head from where you've been sticking it the last while...
I don't write apps to show off, I write them to make life convenient for me. Of course, in that case I don't sell them either, though I do often enough post code online.
Suppose instead people shouted things like "nigger" when something didn't go their way
I don't know about WoW, but I've been called "nigger" any number of times whilst playing Warcraft III. Funny thing is that I'm not black, nor does my nickname indicate I am. Some people use racial slurs on a regular basis independant of their meaning, mainly because such people are idiots. Unfortunately Blizz seems to do little about the idiots in War3.
One thing I wonder, for such generally used and rather offensive words, why not have a chat-filter that checks them? I know games such as "gunbound" etc use them to make the language more friendly, but wouldn't it be easy enough for blizzard to log and or automate warnings to players that use such words?
As you have shown, maturity was brought upon by the hefty requirement for survival. What I would wonder is how this might 'erode' over time as the responsibility is lessened, and/or they children are exposed to the more carefree individuals of a similar age.
Moreover, how well do your children interact with children of their own age? I have a family member who adopted a young girl from Russia. She's been with his family for a long time now and you really couldn't much tell where she came from, but in the beginning she seemed to carry a very heavy load.
Also, to you and all who are willing to give these children an extra chance at life: bless you, and may happiness smile upon you and your family.
You might just call the cinematics eye-candy, or you might call it a reward. Some missions were a real pain in the butt, but it was worth it to see the cool FMV's after various points.
Fast-forward to Warcraft III and realtime-rendering cutscenes. While this could have been done with a better engine to be more impressive, it simply was not Starcraft. It was less rewarding, and even a bit sappy. One could argue that the overall plot was sappy at points, but I think a more little rewarding FMV (there were some, and there were good) would have gone farther, particularly with Frozen Throne.
But it's simply not as true anymore. Yes, render-farms can still churn out some stunning cinematics, but I've seen some pretty impressive examples of realtime-rendered graphics as well.
Some of the better ones use combinations, e.g. some really impressive texturing or animated textures for background, etc, combined with realtime rendered character graphics etc.
Game engines and graphics cards have come a long way since FF7. Render farms can do a better job as well, of course, but at some point there will be a trade-off and I think the realtime may just win out.
First, I'll add that to achieve a desired level of stimulation often (but not always) requires more complexity as time goes on, partly to continue being a challenge. However, I work in schools where many of the children are learning typing skills through games like "Tuxtype" and others.
Educational games can be one of the best ways to engage young people. Taking a child that is otherwise reticent to learn and making it 'fun' will have him or her suddenly wanting to do the activity, not realizing that her or she is actually learning in the process.
As for chemistry... I've seen some screensavers that show the arrangement of various molecules in common substances. Perhaps a play on this could be made into a game using a tetris-like meme or something similar? How about pokemon meets scrabble, where you can choose the molecule to combine, but a more complex arrangement may beat your opponent's 'hand' (similar to having longer words with less common letters).
Is if the portal players had an auto-normalization feature or auto-volume-adjust. Even my car stereo etc can scare the bejeezus out of me if my playlist goes from a classical (quieter, so volume up) to hard rock (louder volume, blasting) song without me expecting it.
Still, the user has ultimate control over volume. If you're putting it too high, you carry the blame for what it does. Really this isn't much smarter than sueing MacDonalds for one's own obesity....
I've seen the same dude online, same nickname. His actual nick was something against Asians (which I'm not, but I've many Asian friends and I still find it offensive), which would merit an easy banning.
What gives somebody a right to patent a method of using two products that *I* created.
Granted this might be a novel idea, but to patent the methods of interacting between two of a specific product (belonging to somebody else) VS one that was, say, aimed at speedsheet/database apps in general...
I don't agree with MS stealing the idea, but being able to patent it seems equally wrong.
Well, my experience with Wine/Cedega has been that for the games and applications that work, the disk-access tends to be faster. Not necessarily because the actual disk is being accessed faster, but because the filesystem (in my case reiserfs) is speedier to read.
The other wonderful thing I've found about Wine is the graphics abstraction layer. My laptop has a GeForce FX5600 (mobile) card in it. It's actually rather spiffy for most games still, but sucked ass at Battlefield 2 in windows, popping up the warning that my graphics drivers were out of date. Well, it seems that the drivers are tied to the laptop in windows to co-habitate with the power-saving etc etc... so I couldn't update from the official NVidia ones. And of course, my laptop vendor doesn't offer updates for anything over a year old it seems.
In linux, however, the normal NVidia accelerated driver works. The game runs on that faster than in windows, and with better detail levels. I don't know if it's just that the Cedega HAL does a better emulation for the software bits, or if it's due to the more-up-to-date driver, but it's a much less painful experience in Linux.
Lastly, my soundcard. SB Live 5.1. Abit dated, but with livedrive still a very nice functional card, except that the windows drivers will eventually/randomly freeze in most directX intensive games. Running in linux... no problemo. That's actually why I switched to Cedega/Debian almost completely (too many losses in Warcraft from lockups).
When I am testing something I might like to implement at work, I generally try it on my own servers first. Partly because it's a learning experience for me either way (and the more practice, the better) and also because killing my home server just annoying a bunch of unpaying users whom I host... killing the work server means pissing off the bigwigs which is much less cool.
I'm not a WoW player, but I still play War3 on a regular basis. I've run into a few individuals whose names are racial ephitets, and who regularly bash people who are gay, asian, black, etc.
I've reported several, mainly because I'm there to play the game not listen to some troll scream out about asian gamers, and never gotten a satifsactory response from blizzard.
But then, maybe that just applies to WoW as it is the big moneymaker right now.
A charge of distribution starts when distribute. Possession with intent to distribute applies to drugs, but I'm not sure about other illegal mediums. Certainly if there isn't such a law it might be an idea to amend one (say >2 copies of the same illegal item indicating an intent to distribute).
It's not about fair use or illegal backups, it's the overall claim that burning is creation. If he'd been charge with "intent to distribute" I doubt anyone here would be arguing so heatedly.
He joined the chain at the time he downloaded the articles. Until or unless the material was pass on to another individual - thus creating another link in the chain - he had already become a member and the downloading was a moot point.
We're not arguing that what the guy did wasn't an illegal act, we're just argueing which parts of it are actually illegal vs the creation of new definitions of illegality.
At some point though, it sounds like he was supporting the production of child pornography, and that is what they should have nailed him for. Instead, they've come up with this burning=making precedent, which could be misused in so many other cases it's scary. From the linked article though, I catch very little about burning and a lot about downloading... the PDF goes into more about the burning.
Now, there are a few points:
a) He got the pictures from a Russian website. From my experience with porn websites in general, you probably aren't going to get much content from a single site, so chances are they he was using some sort of paysite. In a way, he was in fact funding the creation of such content.
b) In the PDF, possibly unrelated, the guy had spycams which he used to take pictures/videos of a foreign exchange student staying at his house. It doesn't detail the age of the student though... but it might be beyond the age of majority.
c) We're not talking about a few CD's... there were approximately 50 of them. This in itself indicates a dangerously obsessive behavior, but again if they were all different I don't agree with the arguement that burning=creation. Certainly it seems a stretch to put somebody who archives such things on the same rack as the person forcing children into sexual acts. However, it doesn't indicate whether there were multiple copies of the same clips, or 50 discs worth of unique content. This in itself could be important, as if may be that the defendent was in fact producing media for purpose of distribution. Again, not necessary a charge of creation in itself, but pushing the line a bit.
What scares me:
it found that one who burns a computer image onto a CD-R is making a reproduction or copy. The court
ruled that "the crime is committed when the person clicks the mouse to reproduce the image onto
the CD-R." The circuit court also rejected defendant's argument that MCL 750.145c(2) was
OK, fine so we've got a copy. A reproduction.
But above that we have
After reviewing the dictionary definition of the word "make," the circuit court stated that the bottom line was that, following the mechanical and technical act of burning images onto the CD-Rs, something new was created or made that did not previously exist.
Which dictionary did they use... the judge's book of court-convenience? Also, what didn't exist? The disc existed, the files existed, they simply were not located on the disc at that time.
Personally, I have no problem with them nailing the guy properly under the existing laws. He possessed, funded the creation of, and possibly had intent to distribute an illegal material. There are also the other charges in relation to his cameras. However, this sets a terrible precent and I think it is incredibly stupid overall to use the given arguement. Now the Supreme has the choice of junking a very stupid legal decision/precedent and letting out a pedophile (again, 50 discs shows a rather dangerous obsession), or approving it and letting it stick for later cases involving copying of files to CD.
The issue at here isn't whether acting as a pedophile should be illegal, but whether the courts are far stretching laws in order to catch such individuals, to the detriment of society as a whole.
But you can also use that money to create a positive influence now that will grow over time. It's one thing to drop $40billion in a few decades, but how about if I dropped $1billion into the research for AIDS, cancer, etc that one day lead to a cure? Maybe by the team you've passed away the cute has been found... after all there are many things that depend as much on time as money, but at a given moment money might be what starts the ball rolling.
Both are good ideas, and truely with that much money there's no reason you couldn't do some of both...
To make people think about things right along the lines of this article/thread...?
Really, I think people here are too black and white though. Yes, if Bill G makes a large/fast move I'd watch for waves... however I must also agree that sometimes a spade is just a spade and I doubt that Bill lives and breathes Microsoft 100% of his life.
Unless you are extremely lucky, you won't end up being rich by being a saint. However, there's no rules that means once you are rich that you can't be magnimonious with what you've earned. Just as I'm sure Bill G does many nice things for himself with his money, unlike many he also donates an extraordinary amount to generous causes. This has been happening for some time, and personally it's results that matter... and in this case the result is good for the overall population.
Personally I think comparing one person to another is just stupid. Dislike Bill for some the evil things he or his influence at MS has caused, like him for the good things he does. He's not applying to become a saint but neither should you make a devil out of him.
It might be noted that a jet also gets you places a whole hell of a lot faster, and sometimes speed is a necessity. You can look at any company, even a relativistically good one, and pick apart some things that could be considered bad.
So if they're taking their private jet home from work everyday, that would be bad. If they're using it to fly to meetings halfway around the country... what do you expect them to do, take a Greyhound?
I was quite happy to see Dreamweaver in there, NVU really never made it anywhere. I'd also like to see some nice DVD-authoring software that works... I have DVDauthor/qDVDauthor... which almost works but tend to segfault near the end and it's not quite... polished.
I doubt DVD media authoring falls high on corporate lists though, unless they plan on using it to replace powerpoint.
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I wonder how long it will be before Wine will support emulation of Vista?
Truely, I found that my soundcard driver and various other thing would hard-lock my system in XP... very annoying when you're in the middle of a game. Most of the windows games I run play nicely on Wine/Cedega, some even better (as in the case of my laptop, where the video driver will not update in windows).
If Cedega gains more support for newer games, all the more reason for me to stick with it and/or linux. XP is bad enough, I certainly wouldn't want to upgrade to vista just to play a few newer games.
Interestingly, older mothers had a slower rate of aging than young mothers.
It makes sense in a way. Let's say you get a limited supply of extra cells that help healing, regeneration, etc...
If you're younger, they might be used up along with some of the other 'resources' in your body, or lost during chemical changes. If you're older, the cells are more recently added, and might help prevent/repair some of the more dangerous aging symptoms later in life.
What I'd wonder is if the cells themselves are a way for the body to compensate for the other dangers of childbirth. It is hard on the body in many ways, and brings other medical risks, so perhaps these cells are there as a way of fixing some of the other things that break along the path of pregnancy?
Darwinism strikes at the genders equally. How many more women than men suffer dangerously abusive relationships, end up in prostitution (not that there aren't males of this persuation, but I know of more females... supply and demand), or other such avenues that might shorten one's lifespan.
How about applying make-up while driving for a start... I've seen that more than once.
In a way, you may be connecting through 1GB and just not know it. At the networks here, we have a 1GB connection from the server to the switch, when then splits into 10/100 connections. This means that multiple network machines can grab data in the 10/100 range, but the overall data consumption from machines connected to the server will not be bottlenecked at 100MB/s.
Of course, depending on what is being done the data rate is still limited by the hardware on the server (drive speeds, etc), but it does have some noticable speedup over plan 10/100 on all switch ports.
OK, even going without the concept that google most certainly pays somebody for their own bandwidth: without the servers of google and other service providers, WTF would anyone use the internet for. If there was nothing to use, then WTF would anyone pay Verizon for internet service, etc.
I've heard of companies paying little regard to the customer, but the fact that Verizon is completely disregarding that many people are paying them for the service which provides access to google's service is rather insane. Verizon, if you smell something brown and stinky, perhaps it's about time to remove your head from where you've been sticking it the last while...
I don't write apps to show off, I write them to make life convenient for me. Of course, in that case I don't sell them either, though I do often enough post code online.
Suppose instead people shouted things like "nigger" when something didn't go their way
I don't know about WoW, but I've been called "nigger" any number of times whilst playing Warcraft III. Funny thing is that I'm not black, nor does my nickname indicate I am. Some people use racial slurs on a regular basis independant of their meaning, mainly because such people are idiots. Unfortunately Blizz seems to do little about the idiots in War3.
One thing I wonder, for such generally used and rather offensive words, why not have a chat-filter that checks them? I know games such as "gunbound" etc use them to make the language more friendly, but wouldn't it be easy enough for blizzard to log and or automate warnings to players that use such words?
As you have shown, maturity was brought upon by the hefty requirement for survival. What I would wonder is how this might 'erode' over time as the responsibility is lessened, and/or they children are exposed to the more carefree individuals of a similar age.
Moreover, how well do your children interact with children of their own age? I have a family member who adopted a young girl from Russia. She's been with his family for a long time now and you really couldn't much tell where she came from, but in the beginning she seemed to carry a very heavy load.
Also, to you and all who are willing to give these children an extra chance at life: bless you, and may happiness smile upon you and your family.
You might just call the cinematics eye-candy, or you might call it a reward. Some missions were a real pain in the butt, but it was worth it to see the cool FMV's after various points.
Fast-forward to Warcraft III and realtime-rendering cutscenes. While this could have been done with a better engine to be more impressive, it simply was not Starcraft. It was less rewarding, and even a bit sappy. One could argue that the overall plot was sappy at points, but I think a more little rewarding FMV (there were some, and there were good) would have gone farther, particularly with Frozen Throne.
But it's simply not as true anymore. Yes, render-farms can still churn out some stunning cinematics, but I've seen some pretty impressive examples of realtime-rendered graphics as well.
Some of the better ones use combinations, e.g. some really impressive texturing or animated textures for background, etc, combined with realtime rendered character graphics etc.
Game engines and graphics cards have come a long way since FF7. Render farms can do a better job as well, of course, but at some point there will be a trade-off and I think the realtime may just win out.
First, I'll add that to achieve a desired level of stimulation often (but not always) requires more complexity as time goes on, partly to continue being a challenge. However, I work in schools where many of the children are learning typing skills through games like "Tuxtype" and others.
Educational games can be one of the best ways to engage young people. Taking a child that is otherwise reticent to learn and making it 'fun' will have him or her suddenly wanting to do the activity, not realizing that her or she is actually learning in the process.
As for chemistry... I've seen some screensavers that show the arrangement of various molecules in common substances. Perhaps a play on this could be made into a game using a tetris-like meme or something similar? How about pokemon meets scrabble, where you can choose the molecule to combine, but a more complex arrangement may beat your opponent's 'hand' (similar to having longer words with less common letters).
Is if the portal players had an auto-normalization feature or auto-volume-adjust. Even my car stereo etc can scare the bejeezus out of me if my playlist goes from a classical (quieter, so volume up) to hard rock (louder volume, blasting) song without me expecting it.
Still, the user has ultimate control over volume. If you're putting it too high, you carry the blame for what it does. Really this isn't much smarter than sueing MacDonalds for one's own obesity....
Well, don't you know that most blogs are shit? If there's anything a pigeon knows... that would be it
On the other hand, if pigeons could blog it would be rather funny:
"Managed to hit dead center on the hood of a new silver BMW, missed the Mercedes but nailed a bald dude right on the forehead. Score!"
I've seen the same dude online, same nickname. His actual nick was something against Asians (which I'm not, but I've many Asian friends and I still find it offensive), which would merit an easy banning.
What gives somebody a right to patent a method of using two products that *I* created.
Granted this might be a novel idea, but to patent the methods of interacting between two of a specific product (belonging to somebody else) VS one that was, say, aimed at speedsheet/database apps in general...
I don't agree with MS stealing the idea, but being able to patent it seems equally wrong.
Well, my experience with Wine/Cedega has been that for the games and applications that work, the disk-access tends to be faster. Not necessarily because the actual disk is being accessed faster, but because the filesystem (in my case reiserfs) is speedier to read.
The other wonderful thing I've found about Wine is the graphics abstraction layer. My laptop has a GeForce FX5600 (mobile) card in it. It's actually rather spiffy for most games still, but sucked ass at Battlefield 2 in windows, popping up the warning that my graphics drivers were out of date. Well, it seems that the drivers are tied to the laptop in windows to co-habitate with the power-saving etc etc... so I couldn't update from the official NVidia ones. And of course, my laptop vendor doesn't offer updates for anything over a year old it seems.
In linux, however, the normal NVidia accelerated driver works. The game runs on that faster than in windows, and with better detail levels. I don't know if it's just that the Cedega HAL does a better emulation for the software bits, or if it's due to the more-up-to-date driver, but it's a much less painful experience in Linux.
Lastly, my soundcard. SB Live 5.1. Abit dated, but with livedrive still a very nice functional card, except that the windows drivers will eventually/randomly freeze in most directX intensive games. Running in linux... no problemo. That's actually why I switched to Cedega/Debian almost completely (too many losses in Warcraft from lockups).
When I am testing something I might like to implement at work, I generally try it on my own servers first. Partly because it's a learning experience for me either way (and the more practice, the better) and also because killing my home server just annoying a bunch of unpaying users whom I host... killing the work server means pissing off the bigwigs which is much less cool.
I'm not a WoW player, but I still play War3 on a regular basis. I've run into a few individuals whose names are racial ephitets, and who regularly bash people who are gay, asian, black, etc.
I've reported several, mainly because I'm there to play the game not listen to some troll scream out about asian gamers, and never gotten a satifsactory response from blizzard.
But then, maybe that just applies to WoW as it is the big moneymaker right now.
A charge of distribution starts when distribute. Possession with intent to distribute applies to drugs, but I'm not sure about other illegal mediums. Certainly if there isn't such a law it might be an idea to amend one (say >2 copies of the same illegal item indicating an intent to distribute).
It's not about fair use or illegal backups, it's the overall claim that burning is creation. If he'd been charge with "intent to distribute" I doubt anyone here would be arguing so heatedly.
Unless you mean by downloading...
He joined the chain at the time he downloaded the articles. Until or unless the material was pass on to another individual - thus creating another link in the chain - he had already become a member and the downloading was a moot point.
We're not arguing that what the guy did wasn't an illegal act, we're just argueing which parts of it are actually illegal vs the creation of new definitions of illegality.
At some point though, it sounds like he was supporting the production of child pornography, and that is what they should have nailed him for. Instead, they've come up with this burning=making precedent, which could be misused in so many other cases it's scary. From the linked article though, I catch very little about burning and a lot about downloading... the PDF goes into more about the burning.
Now, there are a few points:
a) He got the pictures from a Russian website. From my experience with porn websites in general, you probably aren't going to get much content from a single site, so chances are they he was using some sort of paysite. In a way, he was in fact funding the creation of such content.
b) In the PDF, possibly unrelated, the guy had spycams which he used to take pictures/videos of a foreign exchange student staying at his house. It doesn't detail the age of the student though... but it might be beyond the age of majority.
c) We're not talking about a few CD's... there were approximately 50 of them. This in itself indicates a dangerously obsessive behavior, but again if they were all different I don't agree with the arguement that burning=creation. Certainly it seems a stretch to put somebody who archives such things on the same rack as the person forcing children into sexual acts. However, it doesn't indicate whether there were multiple copies of the same clips, or 50 discs worth of unique content. This in itself could be important, as if may be that the defendent was in fact producing media for purpose of distribution. Again, not necessary a charge of creation in itself, but pushing the line a bit.
What scares me:
it found that one who burns a computer image onto a CD-R is making a reproduction or copy. The court ruled that "the crime is committed when the person clicks the mouse to reproduce the image onto the CD-R." The circuit court also rejected defendant's argument that MCL 750.145c(2) was
OK, fine so we've got a copy. A reproduction.
But above that we have
After reviewing the dictionary definition of the word "make," the circuit court stated that the bottom line was that, following the mechanical and technical act of burning images onto the CD-Rs, something new was created or made that did not previously exist.
Which dictionary did they use... the judge's book of court-convenience? Also, what didn't exist? The disc existed, the files existed, they simply were not located on the disc at that time.
Personally, I have no problem with them nailing the guy properly under the existing laws. He possessed, funded the creation of, and possibly had intent to distribute an illegal material. There are also the other charges in relation to his cameras. However, this sets a terrible precent and I think it is incredibly stupid overall to use the given arguement. Now the Supreme has the choice of junking a very stupid legal decision/precedent and letting out a pedophile (again, 50 discs shows a rather dangerous obsession), or approving it and letting it stick for later cases involving copying of files to CD.
The issue at here isn't whether acting as a pedophile should be illegal, but whether the courts are far stretching laws in order to catch such individuals, to the detriment of society as a whole.
But you can also use that money to create a positive influence now that will grow over time. It's one thing to drop $40billion in a few decades, but how about if I dropped $1billion into the research for AIDS, cancer, etc that one day lead to a cure? Maybe by the team you've passed away the cute has been found... after all there are many things that depend as much on time as money, but at a given moment money might be what starts the ball rolling.
Both are good ideas, and truely with that much money there's no reason you couldn't do some of both...
To make people think about things right along the lines of this article/thread...?
Really, I think people here are too black and white though. Yes, if Bill G makes a large/fast move I'd watch for waves... however I must also agree that sometimes a spade is just a spade and I doubt that Bill lives and breathes Microsoft 100% of his life.
Unless you are extremely lucky, you won't end up being rich by being a saint. However, there's no rules that means once you are rich that you can't be magnimonious with what you've earned. Just as I'm sure Bill G does many nice things for himself with his money, unlike many he also donates an extraordinary amount to generous causes. This has been happening for some time, and personally it's results that matter... and in this case the result is good for the overall population.
Personally I think comparing one person to another is just stupid. Dislike Bill for some the evil things he or his influence at MS has caused, like him for the good things he does. He's not applying to become a saint but neither should you make a devil out of him.
It might be noted that a jet also gets you places a whole hell of a lot faster, and sometimes speed is a necessity. You can look at any company, even a relativistically good one, and pick apart some things that could be considered bad.
So if they're taking their private jet home from work everyday, that would be bad. If they're using it to fly to meetings halfway around the country... what do you expect them to do, take a Greyhound?
I was quite happy to see Dreamweaver in there, NVU really never made it anywhere. I'd also like to see some nice DVD-authoring software that works... I have DVDauthor/qDVDauthor... which almost works but tend to segfault near the end and it's not quite... polished.
I doubt DVD media authoring falls high on corporate lists though, unless they plan on using it to replace powerpoint.