You are a dentist in Nowhere, Nebraska, and need a temp for next week? Looking for student trainees and senior volunteers to staff an inner city public library? You say you have seventy-five seats to fill before the April re-opening of your corporate headquarters? No problem.
There is an immense pool of workers trained in Microsoft Office that can be drawn upon anywhere.
It is a mistake as well to ignore the number of applications that can be integrated into Office or share a common look and feel.
the fact that Linux has traditionally been compared to Microsoft's Windows brand products and not the other Unix variants will most likely lead the general public to perceive all this as Linux sailing on to new horizons while Microsoft stalls out. This perceptual shift should totally reverse the previous mainstream view that Microsoft and Intel were somehow at the forefront of high technology computing -- thereby pushing Linux over the magic edge of a social tipping point."
It is difficult to read such mush cold sober. To the general public, Unix has an artic remoteness, something Apple understands very well. Microsoft and Intel brought computing to the masses. That was the social tipping point. It took computing out of the hands of the wizards, the nerds, the geeks.
If the images are public domain, one person can pay for the high-res images and then upload them to WikiMedia so others can access them freely.
You want everything free, even if it means the library can no longer cover expenses or raise some much needed cash through sale or rental of the images. Then you wonder why the collection has disappeared from the net or been licensed to Corbis, under terms that quarantee no one will be making a gift of high-res scans to a Wiki.
If it comes out that this guy didn't have the right to sell Dos to them, then all Microsoft's subsequent OS's could see some additional legal issues coming up.
There is almost always a statute of limitations or an equitable rule which says that you must bring your case into court in a timely fashion or see it declared legally dead. When Klidall let the clock run out in the eighties it was "game over."
He was as much an inventor as Bill Gates is a programmer. Above all, he was a businessman. Most of "his" inventions were actually created by the people working for him.
Edison was born in 1847, by 1870, he had a national reputation for his work in telegraphy, and by 1879 he had been granted 170 patents. Edison's Patents 1868-1879
It is funny to bring up the most obvious mistake, which realy is an emblem of the disconnect between MS and the average user.
Perhaps more a measure of the disconnect between the Geek and the average user, who is less likely to object to a touch of color and animation on the office desktop.
Their method worked in the past, but now it's a dying paradigm. It's still working well enough because were all used to the idea of exchanging money for a tangible good. But when everyone gets adjusted to the idea of only getting bits of data for their money, then the music industry will be toast...
A ticket to the big game simply gives you the right to experience the event. You take home nothing tangible, only memories. The entertainment industry is all about the sale of intangibles, pure data, if you like, and it has existed and prospered in recognizable form in the United States since before the Civil War.
If Office was $79 or $99 (for the version with all the bells and whistles) I would by it, but im going to have to stick with 2000 for a long time on my windows box
Amazon lists MS Office Standard Student and Teacher Edition 2003 for $125. Installs on three PCs, no student-teacher ID required. Ranks #3 on the Amazon software sales chart. Student-Teacher Office 2004 for the Mac is $136. Ranks #18.
Even though they know IE doesn't render correctly, even though they know that it allows all kinds of spyware, and even though they constantly have to close popups.
I have been running IE6 SP2 since its release last August.
Pages load without problems. Suppressing popups is trivial, and neither AdAware or MS's AntiSpyware tool log anything more annoying than the occassional tracking cookie.
Really weird.
Not at all. It may just mean that their experience is different from you own.
Now that the control over what various ideas and concepts mean, has been, quite literally, handed over to the people at large.
Not to the people generally, but rather to the determined minority who have the desire, stamina, organization and ruthlessness to impose their will on a public forum.
You want Creationism to displace the teaching of Evolution in the schools, this is how you get there.
Encyclopedias are the fast food of the book publishing business, with encyclopedia editors writers being the short order cooks among editors and writers.
The Brittanica has rarely been associated with second-rate minds and talents. I have always found something original and of value in the oldest of sets, for example, Bruno Bettelheim's essay on the psychology of the Nazi Concentration Camps, published in 1945.
You won't be sued until the MPAA has established a pattern of behavior that leaves you with no defense: in the real world no one downloads ten, fifty, one-hundred, A-list theatrical titles by chance.
Copyright cannot be applied to nondefinite, unwritten material. Soundwaves should not be copyrightable.
That will be news to the audio hobbiests and professionals who have been recording ambient sounds for their historic, theatrical, scientific or nostalgic value since the introduction of Edison's wax cylinders.
Funny, if it it illegal, than why aren't the cops knocking down the doors of all those 12 year olds? I seem to only remember law suits, landing in civil court as opposed to criminal court, where they prosecute people for "illegal" things. It's just colloquial asshatery.
It is convenient and cost-effective to pursue the uploaders.
But the downloader who is over-confident, greedy, dangerously exposed, and has somehow managed to seriously piss off the DOJ can still find himself in federal criminal court, where copyright infringement is treated as a felony, even when no money changes hands. CYBERCRIME
In the American system, judges play the devil's advocate on appeal, an attorney has to be prepared for a very tough, skeptical, cross-questioning that is intended to expose any flaws in his presentation.
I suspect a good appellate attorney worries more when a judge sleeps through his arguments in dead silence than when he rises to challenge them openly.
No, the real question is: Why are you afraid? Downloading music is never illegal. Sharing copyrighted music is copyright infringement. Downloading music is not.
It is convenient and cost-effective to pursue the uploader, but, under American law, the downloader does indeed infringe copyright and may be pursued in the civil courts by the copyright holder, and in the federal criminal courts, by the government, if the offense reaches the statutory threshold.
I don't think HDTV is worth the price. I'm not about to plunk down $1000 for a new TV $100 for a HDTV converter, when my existing TV works good enough.
CRT based wide-screen HDTV receivers with tuners are at $900 and below. There isn't much lacking technically in these sets, and most include every I/O option you could ask for. If you are accustomed to paying for HD resolution in a PC monitor and graphics card, HDTV isn't that big a leap.
Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) U-Boat Commander in World War One. Resisted the Nazi takeover of the churches. Freed from Dachau by U.S. troops in 1945 after surviving eight years in the concentration camps. Martin Niemöller
I detest the trivialization of quotations from men of this stature. The broadcast flag sets limits on the recording and redistribution of high definition television broadcasts. Nothing more.
But do you really think the defection from IE is six times as much among savvy users than among the grandmothers whose computers the savvy users maintain?
Windows installed base is in the hundreds of millions, leaving Granny is pretty much on her own. There just aren't that many Geeks to be found in the wild.
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This isn't a migration from Microsoft Office, but simply a discounted upgrade of Word Perfect.
Perhaps more than a little bit dated.
Yorktown was decommisioned in December 2004. The Yorktown was on active service in the Persian Gulf as late as the summer of '04. CG 48 Yorktown
The Ronald Reagon, ninth (and last) of the Nimitz class carriers uses W2K based smart ship components developed by Microsoft Federal Systems.
You are a dentist in Nowhere, Nebraska, and need a temp for next week? Looking for student trainees and senior volunteers to staff an inner city public library? You say you have seventy-five seats to fill before the April re-opening of your corporate headquarters? No problem. There is an immense pool of workers trained in Microsoft Office that can be drawn upon anywhere.
It is a mistake as well to ignore the number of applications that can be integrated into Office or share a common look and feel.
It is difficult to read such mush cold sober.
To the general public, Unix has an artic remoteness, something Apple understands very well.
Microsoft and Intel brought computing to the masses. That was the social tipping point. It took computing out of the hands of the wizards, the nerds, the geeks.
How exciting.
But I'd still like to see the numbers for Windows system sales at your shop and the Wal-Mart down the road.
You want everything free, even if it means the library can no longer cover expenses or raise some much needed cash through sale or rental of the images.
Then you wonder why the collection has disappeared from the net or been licensed to Corbis, under terms that quarantee no one will be making a gift of high-res scans to a Wiki.
Talk on the forums is all you get. If isn't headline news, no one else will give a damn.
There is almost always a statute of limitations or an equitable rule which says that you must bring your case into court in a timely fashion or see it declared legally dead.
When Klidall let the clock run out in the eighties it was "game over."
Edison was born in 1847, by 1870, he had a national reputation for his work in telegraphy, and by 1879 he had been granted 170 patents. Edison's Patents 1868-1879
Perhaps more a measure of the disconnect between the Geek and the average user, who is less likely to object to a touch of color and animation on the office desktop.
A ticket to the big game simply gives you the right to experience the event. You take home nothing tangible, only memories. The entertainment industry is all about the sale of intangibles, pure data, if you like, and it has existed and prospered in recognizable form in the United States since before the Civil War.
Amazon lists MS Office Standard Student and Teacher Edition 2003 for $125.
Installs on three PCs, no student-teacher ID required. Ranks #3 on the Amazon software sales chart. Student-Teacher Office 2004 for the Mac is $136. Ranks #18.
I have been running IE6 SP2 since its release last August.
Pages load without problems. Suppressing popups is trivial, and neither AdAware or MS's AntiSpyware tool log anything more annoying than the occassional tracking cookie.
Really weird.
Not at all. It may just mean that their experience is different from you own.
Not to the people generally, but rather to the determined minority who have the desire, stamina, organization and ruthlessness to impose their will on a public forum.
You want Creationism to displace the teaching of Evolution in the schools, this is how you get there.
The Brittanica has rarely been associated with second-rate minds and talents. I have always found something original and of value in the oldest of sets, for example, Bruno Bettelheim's essay on the psychology of the Nazi Concentration Camps, published in 1945.
You won't be sued until the MPAA has established a pattern of behavior that leaves you with no defense: in the real world no one downloads ten, fifty, one-hundred, A-list theatrical titles by chance.
That will be news to the audio hobbiests and professionals who have been recording ambient sounds for their historic, theatrical, scientific or nostalgic value since the introduction of Edison's wax cylinders.
It is convenient and cost-effective to pursue the uploaders.
But the downloader who is over-confident, greedy, dangerously exposed, and has somehow managed to seriously piss off the DOJ can still find himself in federal criminal court, where copyright infringement is treated as a felony, even when no money changes hands. CYBERCRIME
Tell me how Apple competes with your cable branded PVR which rents for maybe $8/mo when bundled into your internet/digital cable TV service.
You do not export products that will never clear customs.
I suspect a good appellate attorney worries more when a judge sleeps through his arguments in dead silence than when he rises to challenge them openly.
It is convenient and cost-effective to pursue the uploader, but, under American law, the downloader does indeed infringe copyright and may be pursued in the civil courts by the copyright holder, and in the federal criminal courts, by the government, if the offense reaches the statutory threshold.
CRT based wide-screen HDTV receivers with tuners are at $900 and below. There isn't much lacking technically in these sets, and most include every I/O option you could ask for. If you are accustomed to paying for HD resolution in a PC monitor and graphics card, HDTV isn't that big a leap.
Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) U-Boat Commander in World War One. Resisted the Nazi takeover of the churches. Freed from Dachau by U.S. troops in 1945 after surviving eight years in the concentration camps. Martin Niemöller
I detest the trivialization of quotations from men of this stature. The broadcast flag sets limits on the recording and redistribution of high definition television broadcasts. Nothing more.
Windows installed base is in the hundreds of millions, leaving Granny is pretty much on her own. There just aren't that many Geeks to be found in the wild.