All I'm asking is that if people are going to compare MS Office to OpenOffice then take into account that *legitimate* use of MS Office costs you money whereas legitimate use of OO does not.
Ink jet cartridges cost $50 a pair, and other consumables in proportion. I couldn't care less that OEM Office didn't come free, over the life of the system, it has been a trivial expense.
I suggest, then, that you have little or no experience of Open Source software. There is a wealth of information, FAQs, discussion boards, mailing lists, etc. on just about every OSS package there is.
Like I haven't been down this road before. Thanks, but no thanks.
Most home users use MS Office because they get it for free from a borrowed or copied CD which, to them, is easier than downloading OpenOffice from the Internet. If those same users had to *pay* for MS Office, then the take up of OpenOffice would be far greater.
I've never known anyone who has paid full retail list for a legit copy of Office. The three-seat Student-Teacher Edition is available everywhere for #125-150 US, no ID required.
The MS Office home page is colorful and inviting, with one stop shopping for tutorials and resources. Communication with end users is Microsoft's strength.
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of high-end (home-user) sales are gaming oriented.
I'll take that bet. The high end is beginning to look like MCE Home Theater.Plix Entertainment Media Center. The Sixpacks won't be buying OEM Linux until a media player can handle subscription services and other DRM'd content gracefully (and legally) out-of-the-box.
Gates is out there trying to keep Microsoft looking cool to their most important audience. Too bad he's easily outcooled by an expat Finn and a cartoon penguin.
"Looking cool" is superficial, an appeal to the second-rate. Ambition. Talent. Performance. These are the things that Microsoft is looking for.
Beginning at what age? The PCs at our village library are used both by our senior volunteers and seven year old kids. Content is generally an ordinary web page with minimal interaction or a simple library form that has been greatly magnified to assist the bifocal generation.
If someone gives me a picture to post to my blog of this guy smoking something with a woman, "Post this, it's funny. But you didn't get it from me". It's a funny picture, so I post it as-a humor piece.
This should set off alarms. You are publishing a photograph without the consent of the subjects and simply holding them up to ridicule. Libelous on its face. Whatever defense you had under a shield law has just gone up in smoke. Be thankful it's only the new Mayor you're about to piss off and not the Columbian drug lord in town on business.
The reason why Clinton is on board with this is she's trying to steal votes from republicans to look more family friendly.
Clinton is strong in the inner city. Strong in the suburbs. She speaks from a position of power and gamers had better listen to what she has to say. Because, quite frankly, if you want to break the hold of the christian right this is the ground you have to take.
If I feel that I can give my kid $50 and know that he's not going to buy something stupid (drugs, etc.) then I trust that he knows right from wrong enough that some violent game won't make him decide to go postal in the real world.
You trust your kid. But would you repeal the laws against the sale of alcohol to minors? Kids make mistakes. Mistakes are sometimes fatal.
My niece began with XP at age four. Her parents and grandparent have had twenty-five years of experience with MSDOS and Windows. There may be a lost tribe of Pacific island headhunters that has never seen or touched a Windows laptop. But they are not your market.
Dell should want to make money, selling the box for *more* when it does *not* have the Windows tax doesn't make much sense.
"Dell was added to the S & P 500 on September 6, 1996. According to the S & P, Dell was the best performing stock of the S&P 500 for the decade of the 1990s. Dell is currently ranked No. 28 among the Fortune 500 companies and No. 84 in the Fortune Global 500." Frequently Asked Questions
The default OEM Windows install has very, very, suceessful for Dell.
You can not talk about copyright infringement as "theft" because it is not a criminal offense.
The first criminal provision in our copyright laws was a misdemeanor penalty added in 1897 for unlawful performances and representations of copyrighted dramatic and musical compositions.... In order to constitute a criminal violation, the defendant's conduct was required to have been "willful and for profit." Section 104 of the general copyright revision of 1909 extended this penalty to all types of copyrighted works. Legislative History - Copyright Felony Act (1992), 18 U.S.C. 2319 Criminal Infringement of a Copyright
Tell me again, since when copyright infringement became theft?
In the popular mind, any crime against property is a form of theft. The idea is deeply embedded in the english language and there is no hope of eradicating it now.
The criminal justice system is not supposed to work that way, copyright is not a part of criminal law and a single mom and the RIAA are not the ideal equal oponents required to gain justice in a civil case.
You would not care if you presumed the woman guilty, as you and the RIAA have
The plaintiff in a civil action begins as he must with the assertion that the defendant has done him wrong. Cause of Action.
with aerial photographs, this is getting easier and easier as time goes on. Blueprinted building and track ways makes this even more trivial, and once you get down to it, a map is just a graphical representation of the factual geography of a location.
The map of the London Underground that makes so striking a poster is a stylish and intelligible abstraction. Facts are simplified or distorted for clarity.
Truth at ground level is not always to be found in an aerial photograph. There is a road cut into the Niagara Escarpment that seems unremarkable on Google. Locals know it as Suicide Hill.
Most people I know who still run windows have at least a once a month cussing session when they get hosed, and have to haul their borked windows box to the smiling local MS fixit guy for folding money "repair".
I can't call myself a Geek, and lord knows they are thin on the ground here. But I haven't spent a dime on clean-up and repair in ten years of running Windows.
but once large corporations start changing, and those people go home and run that stuff on their home machines, then they tell their friends and family, and etc...well, MS is on the way out
The home is not the office. The home pc is not the corporate desktop. Dell is moving rapidly towards making Windows MCE and the wide-screen display the default home install. Media and game oriented systems that can also run standard "productivity" apps.
Or turn to online sources for liberated versions. Even your average users are more inclined to download from illegal sources online, if they can't use their music in the way they see fit.
You have a choice:
1 Spend hours trolling the P2P nets for a single, quality, mp3 rip.
or
2 Click once on a Rhapsody playlist. Click again to export the music to your portable devices. It's a rental service, of course, but if the catalog is deep enough, who cares?
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Or from the reverse perspective, what prevents consoles from finally killing off PC gaming?
I think there are times when you want to play alone. Shut out the world in exchange for total immersion in the game.
Copyright was never intended to benefit artists; it was created to benefit the public. So yes, I do feel entitled to the X-Men cartoon series, as well as any other media, because I actually am entitled to it!
The bridge onto the island is a public benefit, but privately owned. The state still requires that I have to pay the toll or forfeit some privileges.
The Public Domain is the natural state of intellectual works
Which is why artists like Shakespeare sought the protection of patrons known to be dangerous to cross.
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Ink jet cartridges cost $50 a pair, and other consumables in proportion. I couldn't care less that OEM Office didn't come free, over the life of the system, it has been a trivial expense.
I suggest, then, that you have little or no experience of Open Source software. There is a wealth of information, FAQs, discussion boards, mailing lists, etc. on just about every OSS package there is.
Like I haven't been down this road before. Thanks, but no thanks.
I've never known anyone who has paid full retail list for a legit copy of Office. The three-seat Student-Teacher Edition is available everywhere for #125-150 US, no ID required.
The MS Office home page is colorful and inviting, with one stop shopping for tutorials and resources. Communication with end users is Microsoft's strength.
PC Magazine Guide Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 , in paperback, at $16.49, added October 11th, ranks #90,125 in sales, as of 4 PM ET.
I'll take that bet. The high end is beginning to look like MCE Home Theater.Plix Entertainment Media Center. The Sixpacks won't be buying OEM Linux until a media player can handle subscription services and other DRM'd content gracefully (and legally) out-of-the-box.
This is a what a web developer is likely to see: OS Platform State (Septenber 2005. The Windows family with a 90% share.
You couldn't bag a Geek in this town if you staked out your cousin who works at Hooters as bait, but somehow we manage without one.
"Looking cool" is superficial, an appeal to the second-rate. Ambition. Talent. Performance. These are the things that Microsoft is looking for.
Beginning at what age? The PCs at our village library are used both by our senior volunteers and seven year old kids. Content is generally an ordinary web page with minimal interaction or a simple library form that has been greatly magnified to assist the bifocal generation.
This should set off alarms. You are publishing a photograph without the consent of the subjects and simply holding them up to ridicule. Libelous on its face. Whatever defense you had under a shield law has just gone up in smoke. Be thankful it's only the new Mayor you're about to piss off and not the Columbian drug lord in town on business.
Dell seems to moving very rapidly towards making MCE the default home install. Even Walmart wants a slice of the HTPC pie.
Clinton is strong in the inner city. Strong in the suburbs. She speaks from a position of power and gamers had better listen to what she has to say. Because, quite frankly, if you want to break the hold of the christian right this is the ground you have to take.
You trust your kid. But would you repeal the laws against the sale of alcohol to minors? Kids make mistakes. Mistakes are sometimes fatal.
My niece began with XP at age four. Her parents and grandparent have had twenty-five years of experience with MSDOS and Windows. There may be a lost tribe of Pacific island headhunters that has never seen or touched a Windows laptop. But they are not your market.
"Dell was added to the S & P 500 on September 6, 1996. According to the S & P, Dell was the best performing stock of the S&P 500 for the decade of the 1990s. Dell is currently ranked No. 28 among the Fortune 500 companies and No. 84 in the Fortune Global 500." Frequently Asked Questions
The default OEM Windows install has very, very, suceessful for Dell.
wonderful. first the Gimp and now the Goof.
The first criminal provision in our copyright laws was a misdemeanor penalty added in 1897 for unlawful performances and representations of copyrighted dramatic and musical compositions. ... In order to constitute a criminal violation, the defendant's conduct was required to have been "willful and for profit." Section 104 of the general copyright revision of 1909 extended this penalty to all types of copyrighted works. Legislative History - Copyright Felony Act (1992), 18 U.S.C. 2319 Criminal Infringement of a Copyright
In the popular mind, any crime against property is a form of theft. The idea is deeply embedded in the english language and there is no hope of eradicating it now.
A minor correction here: Keaton's character tries to enlist, but as an engineer, he is desperately needed right where he is.
The movie is based on the Anderson raid, "The Great Locomotive Chase."
You would not care if you presumed the woman guilty, as you and the RIAA have
The plaintiff in a civil action begins as he must with the assertion that the defendant has done him wrong. Cause of Action.
Copyright infringement is a part of american criminal law. Criminal Intellectual Property Laws
Dispensing tea and yympathy is not the business of the american federal courts. The soccer mom can expect to take her lumps just like anyone else.
with aerial photographs, this is getting easier and easier as time goes on. Blueprinted building and track ways makes this even more trivial, and once you get down to it, a map is just a graphical representation of the factual geography of a location.
The map of the London Underground that makes so striking a poster is a stylish and intelligible abstraction. Facts are simplified or distorted for clarity.
Truth at ground level is not always to be found in an aerial photograph. There is a road cut into the Niagara Escarpment that seems unremarkable on Google. Locals know it as Suicide Hill.
I can't call myself a Geek, and lord knows they are thin on the ground here. But I haven't spent a dime on clean-up and repair in ten years of running Windows.
but once large corporations start changing, and those people go home and run that stuff on their home machines, then they tell their friends and family, and etc...well, MS is on the way out
The home is not the office. The home pc is not the corporate desktop. Dell is moving rapidly towards making Windows MCE and the wide-screen display the default home install. Media and game oriented systems that can also run standard "productivity" apps.
You have a choice:
1 Spend hours trolling the P2P nets for a single, quality, mp3 rip.
or
2 Click once on a Rhapsody playlist. Click again to export the music to your portable devices. It's a rental service, of course, but if the catalog is deep enough, who cares?
Or from the reverse perspective, what prevents consoles from finally killing off PC gaming? I think there are times when you want to play alone. Shut out the world in exchange for total immersion in the game.
The bridge onto the island is a public benefit, but privately owned. The state still requires that I have to pay the toll or forfeit some privileges.
The Public Domain is the natural state of intellectual works
Which is why artists like Shakespeare sought the protection of patrons known to be dangerous to cross.