You can think negatively of pirating all you want, but my point was that, in spite of the OP's claim that pirating is some kind of fringe behaviour, getting whatever music and films one wants from pirate sites instead of purchasing a CD or DVD, is normal for a majority of people in many countries now.
The most accessible and desirable content is likely to be the big budget Hollywood product. "Frozen" was translated into over 50 languages. Which sort of sucks if you are trying to preserve a national, regional or ethnic culture --- or build an export market of your own.
It's important that a browser protect me and my rights on my system, not the business model of other DRM-happy corporations.
DRM may be Important to you, but, quite clearly, looking at the success of streaming media services like Netflix, Pandora, etc., it is far less important to others.
The question then becomes whether protected content will be distributed through a general purpose web browser or a dedicated, branded and proprietary app --- an app that can absorb many of the functions of a browser and be installed across many in-home and mobile devices.
The geek who fears the "walled garden" needs to think this problem through carefully.
Zuckerberg spends $100 million to prove that throwing money at broken public schools does not fix them.
Zuckerberg spent $100 million in a botched attempt to funnel selected students into for-profit charter schools. Helping to break the public school system for those left behind.
Can't they have their legal guardians sign the liability waivers?
The waiver won't silence the news of a child being severely injured by a laser, milling machine, etc.
I don't know how you frame a waiver that will stand up in court if a child under your supervision loses control of an inherently dangerous machine he was clearly too young and inexperienced to handle.
Rapid Price Changes are part of a infantile system. As the system matures, and becomes wider spread, pricing will stabilize.
IF it matures AND IF it becomes wide spread.
Although almost half (48%) of American adults now know what Bitcoin is, just 13% say they would choose to invest in it over gold, according to a new Harris Interactive poll on behalf of Yodlee, a financial software firm.
The poll was conducted in December 2013 among 2,039 adults ages 18 and older.
Support for the digital currency was strongest among younger respondents:
20% of 18-34 year-olds who know what Bitcoin is said they would choose to invest in Bitcoin over gold. Thirty-nine percent were not in favor of any government being able to regulate Bitcoin, compared with 28% among 45-54 and 24% among 55-year-olds and older.
Other findings:
55% of Westerners said they'd heard of Bitcoin, but just 7% said they'd choose it over gold, the lowest in any region.
Only 35% of women across the country have heard of Bitcoin, compared with 63% of men. Only 10% of women said they'd choose Bitcoin over gold.
The Northeast is America's most pro-Bitcoin region, with 19% saying they'd choose the digital currency over gold. 51% said they'd heard of it.
So I can sit down in front of a machine running a completely in-house language, and be proficient in it in less than a day, very skilled in under a week.
The in-house language implies unusual and specialized applications --- which I very much doubt can be mastered in a week.
It is ridiculously easy to convince yourself that you understand a new language --- be it English or C++ --- and still fall flat on your face when you try to apply that knowledge to a specific set of circumstances,
99.9%+ of the people alive today will not live to see the crisis, or even live long enough to know whether or not the crisis will actually occur.
Investment strategies and estate planning. The ice is melting. The seas will rise. That will have a negative effect on the value of coastal properties long before they are flooded.
you dont join class actions. Everyone should know by now that the only people who get rich in class actions are the lawyers.
It is not easy to get a US federal court to proceed with a class action --- and generally very bad news for the plaintiff when one goes forward.
To assume that a class action benefits only the lawyers is nonsense.
In a victory for opponents of mandatory arbitration, Charles Schwab & Co. has agreed to pay $500,000 and remove a controversial provision from customer contracts that would require arbitration of class action claims.
The settlement stems from a complaint by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. in February 2012 that Schwab had violated Finra rules by including class action waivers in more than 6.8 million customer contracts.
In February 2013, a Finra panel ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act superseded the regulator's rules and allowed Schwab to include language in its customer contracts blocking customers from consolidating multiple claims in arbitration or participating in judicial class actions, even when the agreement violated Finra rules.
In this case, the board stepped in and overturned the hearing panel's initial decision, finding that ''the FAA does not preclude Finra's enforcement of its rules,â the board said in its decision.
''Over the last year, [a Schwab representative said,] we heard clearly that a number of our clients and members of the general public have strong feelings about maintaining access to class action lawsuits. 'We have agreed with Finra to remove the waiver from our account agreements, rather than seeking further legal appeals on the matter.''
This story gets all the more interesting when you realize what FINRA is and does.
FINRA is a private corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization (SRO). FINRA is the successor to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD) and the member regulation, enforcement and arbitration operations of the New York Stock Exchange. It is a self-regulatory organization, a non-governmental organization that performs financial regulation of member brokerage firms and exchange markets. The government agency which acts as the ultimate regulator of the securities industry, including FINRA, is the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All told, FINRA oversees about 4,250 brokerage firms, about 162,155 branch offices and approximately 629,525 registered securities representatives.
FINRA offers regulatory oversight over all securities firms that do business with the public, plus those offering professional training, testing, and licensing of registered persons, arbitration and mediation, market regulation by contract for the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., the American Stock Exchange LLC, and the International Securities Exchange, LLC; and industry utilities, such as Trade Reporting Facilities and other over-the-counter operations.
FINRA operates the largest arbitration forum in the United States for the resolution of disputes between customers and member firms,
as well as between brokerage firm employees and their firms.
Those laws come primarily from the Jim Crow era, an effort to keep Blacks effectively slaves. An armed Black man did not have to be concerned about hooded characters invading his property, because they'd be dead and the hood removed in short order.
The geek's faith in his guns is touching, if a little irrational.
The last stand ---the one against the many. It makes a pretty picture. But in the real world, you are good as dead.
Free to all, not a sampling, and includes all resources needed for off-line instruction and activities.
Basic programming concepts are introduced in the second session ("The Maze") using graphical building blocks. You can expose the equivalent JavaScript code.
You may fool the camera but you won't fool the eye and masks weird people out. It's too much like having a chance encounter with The Joker. In a concealed carry state I wouldn't be caught wearing one of these things if you paid me.
Sensationalism. Propaganda. We'll be sure to think of the children as ew teach the tairists a lesson.
Think about it.
Knight was an active duty enlisted member of the Navy assigned to the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. He worked as a systems administrator in the carrier's nuclear reactor department. He is accused of conducting some of his unlawful hacking while aboard.
''Essentially I am in trouble for posting all of the stuff on Twitter,''Knight told ABC News by email in his first interview. ''Although a lot of people are saying I was the leader of some crime organizations that was out to get people which wasn't true. Just a group of people that were dumb and did dumb things.''
In criminal information filed Monday, prosecutors allege that while Knight served in the Navy as a systems administrator in the nuclear reactor department of the USS Harry S. Truman, he was also leading a double life as a self-proclaimed ''nuclear black hat'' and the leader of a hacking group called Team Digi7al that stole or attempted to steal confidential or private information and post it online.
After the attacks, the group then bragged about their accomplishments on Twitter, with Knight acting as the main ''publicist,'' according to the Department of Justice.
The court filing noted that three alleged members of the group were minors when they joined.
Prosecutor Ryan Souders, who is involved in the case, told ABC News that generally when a suspect is charged in a criminal information filing, rather than an indictment, that means the defense has indicated they will not contest the charges.
Who cares if Fox has to be cut in, does Disney not really care about the results $3B in profit that would result from a HD recoversions of the untouched original?
3.2 million copies of "Frozen" were sold on its first day of DVD and Blu-Ray release --- returning about $65 million gross.
"Frozen" as a global cultural phenomenon is damned impressive even by geek fan-boy standards. I would expect an HD restoration of the 37 year old Star Wars to be financially viable ---- but, as these numbers suggest, not the pot of gold at rainbow's end.
The concept of an overland connection crossing the Bering Strait goes back before the 20th century. William Gilpin, first governor of the Colorado Territory, envisioned a vast ''Cosmopolitan Railway'' in 1890 linking the entire world via a series of railways. Two years later, Joseph Strauss, who went on to design over 400 bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge, put forward the first proposal for a Bering Strait railroad bridge in his senior thesis. The project was presented to the government of the Russian Empire, but it was rejected.
A syndicate of American railroad magnates proposed in 1904 (via a French spokesman) a Siberian-Alaskan railroad from Cape Prince Wales in Alaska through a tunnel under the Bering Strait and across northeastern Siberia to Irkutsk via Cape Deshnev, Verkhnekolymsk and Yakutsk. The proposal was for a 90-year lease, and exclusive mineral rights for 8 miles (13 km) each side of the right-of-way. It was debated by officials and finally turned down on March 20, 1907.
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Aside from the obvious technical challenges of building two 40-kilometre (25 mi) bridges or a more than 80-kilometre (50 mi) tunnel across the strait, another major challenge is that, as of 2011, there is nothing on either side of the Bering Strait to connect the bridge to.
The Russian side, in particular, is severely lacking in infrastructure, without any highways for almost 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) (the nearest is M56) and no railroads or paved highways for over 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) in any direction from the strait.
On the American side, at least 800 kilometres (500 mi) of highways or railways would have to be constructed in order to connect to the American transport network
My point is that the injunction or its dissolution is not important, but the speed in which they accessed court authority is meaningful.
You request an injunction when speed is essential.
An injunction is a court order requiring a person to do or cease doing a specific action. Temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions are temporary injunctions. They are issued early in a lawsuit to maintain the status quo by preventing a defendant from becoming insolvent or to stop the defendant from continuing his or her allegedly harmful actions. Choosing whether to grant temporary injunctive relief is a discretionary power of the court.
There is a balancing test that courts typically employ in determining whether to issue an injunction. The defendant's 5th Amendment due process rights are weighed (heavily) against the possibility of the defendant becoming judgment-proof, and the immediacy of the harm allegedly done to the plaintiff (i.e., how badly does the plaintiff need the injunction). When it is possible, the defendant must always be put on notice of the injunction hearing, and the duration of the injunction is typically as temporary as possible. Additionally, in many jurisdictions, plaintiffs demanding an injunction are required to post a bond.
I don't think Elon expected to win that easy, but look how much publicity he got for filing a simple claim and getting a temporary injunction.
I'm looking but I'm not finding much.
The truth is that stories like this rarely make the front page or survive a single 24 hour news cycle before they are shoved into the back of the fridge and more or less forgotten.
Does this number include the duplicate HD channels, the spanish channels, the religious channels, or the pay-per-view channels?
The Spanish speaking market is far from trivial.
May 07--Univision Communications Inc. executive Randel Falco is warning that Comcast Corp.'s proposed $45.2 billion deal for Time Warner Cable Inc. could create a single cable-TV company that serves 91 percent of the nation's Hispanic households.
''That gives this new company staggering influence over Hispanic consumers,'' Falco said this week.
The nation's Hispanic population would be concentrated in the big Comcast/Time Warner Cable markets of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami.
While the "average viewer" may only watch about twenty channels, they won't be not be the same channels, even in the same household. Disney understands this, which is why ESPN sports and Disney family entertainment are very successfully and very profitably bundled.
I recently ran across a bizarre claim that the average office worker's time is dominated by outlook (duh) but that Microsoft Word was number two at a paltry few minutes per day, and Powerpoint even less than that.
No mention of Excel?
Not that it matters. You don't choose an office suite for the "average worker." You choose what best serves the needs of your clerical staff as a whole, whether it be ten workers, a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand.
casual users needs can be met by a wide variety of FOSS projects
FOSS remains solidly anchored in the era of the stand-alone office suite --- sans Outlook.
Slashdot Mirror
You can think negatively of pirating all you want, but my point was that, in spite of the OP's claim that pirating is some kind of fringe behaviour, getting whatever music and films one wants from pirate sites instead of purchasing a CD or DVD, is normal for a majority of people in many countries now.
The most accessible and desirable content is likely to be the big budget Hollywood product. "Frozen" was translated into over 50 languages. Which sort of sucks if you are trying to preserve a national, regional or ethnic culture --- or build an export market of your own.
It's important that a browser protect me and my rights on my system, not the business model of other DRM-happy corporations.
DRM may be Important to you, but, quite clearly, looking at the success of streaming media services like Netflix, Pandora, etc., it is far less important to others.
The question then becomes whether protected content will be distributed through a general purpose web browser or a dedicated, branded and proprietary app --- an app that can absorb many of the functions of a browser and be installed across many in-home and mobile devices.
The geek who fears the "walled garden" needs to think this problem through carefully.
Zuckerberg spends $100 million to prove that throwing money at broken public schools does not fix them.
Zuckerberg spent $100 million in a botched attempt to funnel selected students into for-profit charter schools. Helping to break the public school system for those left behind.
Can't they have their legal guardians sign the liability waivers?
The waiver won't silence the news of a child being severely injured by a laser, milling machine, etc.
I don't know how you frame a waiver that will stand up in court if a child under your supervision loses control of an inherently dangerous machine he was clearly too young and inexperienced to handle.
Rapid Price Changes are part of a infantile system. As the system matures, and becomes wider spread, pricing will stabilize.
IF it matures
AND IF it becomes wide spread.
Although almost half (48%) of American adults now know what Bitcoin is, just 13% say they would choose to invest in it over gold, according to a new Harris Interactive poll on behalf of Yodlee, a financial software firm.
The poll was conducted in December 2013 among 2,039 adults ages 18 and older.
Support for the digital currency was strongest among younger respondents:
20% of 18-34 year-olds who know what Bitcoin is said they would choose to invest in Bitcoin over gold.
Thirty-nine percent were not in favor of any government being able to regulate Bitcoin, compared with 28% among 45-54 and 24% among 55-year-olds and older.
Other findings:
55% of Westerners said they'd heard of Bitcoin, but just 7% said they'd choose it over gold, the lowest in any region.
Only 35% of women across the country have heard of Bitcoin, compared with 63% of men. Only 10% of women said they'd choose Bitcoin over gold.
The Northeast is America's most pro-Bitcoin region, with 19% saying they'd choose the digital currency over gold. 51% said they'd heard of it.
13% Of Americans Would Choose Bitcoin Over Gold
The gender gap in the states --- more like a chasm, really --- is the one big surprise here. Not that it exists. But that it is so large.
So I can sit down in front of a machine running a completely in-house language, and be proficient in it in less than a day, very skilled in under a week.
The in-house language implies unusual and specialized applications --- which I very much doubt can be mastered in a week.
It is ridiculously easy to convince yourself that you understand a new language --- be it English or C++ --- and still fall flat on your face when you try to apply that knowledge to a specific set of circumstances,
Its easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Not always. Not everywhere.
My first instinct when a geek summons up a Slashdot meme to make his case is to do precisely the opposite of what he suggests.
99.9%+ of the people alive today will not live to see the crisis, or even live long enough to know whether or not the crisis will actually occur.
Investment strategies and estate planning. The ice is melting. The seas will rise. That will have a negative effect on the value of coastal properties long before they are flooded.
you dont join class actions. Everyone should know by now that the only people who get rich in class actions are the lawyers.
It is not easy to get a US federal court to proceed with a class action --- and generally very bad news for the plaintiff when one goes forward.
To assume that a class action benefits only the lawyers is nonsense.
In a victory for opponents of mandatory arbitration, Charles Schwab & Co. has agreed to pay $500,000 and remove a controversial provision from customer contracts that would require arbitration of class action claims.
The settlement stems from a complaint by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. in February 2012 that Schwab had violated Finra rules by including class action waivers in more than 6.8 million customer contracts.
In February 2013, a Finra panel ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act superseded the regulator's rules and allowed Schwab to include language in its customer contracts blocking customers from consolidating multiple claims in arbitration or participating in judicial class actions, even when the agreement violated Finra rules.
In this case, the board stepped in and overturned the hearing panel's initial decision, finding that ''the FAA does not preclude Finra's enforcement of its rules,â the board said in its decision.
''Over the last year, [a Schwab representative said,] we heard clearly that a number of our clients and members of the general public have strong feelings about maintaining access to class action lawsuits. 'We have agreed with Finra to remove the waiver from our account agreements, rather than seeking further legal appeals on the matter.''
Schwab pays $500,000 to settle Finra dispute over class action waivers
This story gets all the more interesting when you realize what FINRA is and does.
FINRA is a private corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization (SRO). FINRA is the successor to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD) and the member regulation, enforcement and arbitration operations of the New York Stock Exchange. It is a self-regulatory organization, a non-governmental organization that performs financial regulation of member brokerage firms and exchange markets. The government agency which acts as the ultimate regulator of the securities industry, including FINRA, is the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All told, FINRA oversees about 4,250 brokerage firms, about 162,155 branch offices and approximately 629,525 registered securities representatives.
FINRA offers regulatory oversight over all securities firms that do business with the public, plus those offering professional training, testing, and licensing of registered persons, arbitration and mediation, market regulation by contract for the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., the American Stock Exchange LLC, and the International Securities Exchange, LLC; and industry utilities, such as Trade Reporting Facilities and other over-the-counter operations.
FINRA operates the largest arbitration forum in the United States for the resolution of disputes between customers and member firms, as well as between brokerage firm employees and their firms.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Those laws come primarily from the Jim Crow era, an effort to keep Blacks effectively slaves. An armed Black man did not have to be concerned about hooded characters invading his property, because they'd be dead and the hood removed in short order.
The geek's faith in his guns is touching, if a little irrational.
The last stand ---the one against the many. It makes a pretty picture. But in the real world, you are good as dead.
K-8 Intro to Computer Science Course (15-25 Hours)
Free to all, not a sampling, and includes all resources needed for off-line instruction and activities.
Basic programming concepts are introduced in the second session ("The Maze") using graphical building blocks. You can expose the equivalent JavaScript code.
or call it the "uncanny valley" if you like.
You may fool the camera but you won't fool the eye and masks weird people out. It's too much like having a chance encounter with The Joker. In a concealed carry state I wouldn't be caught wearing one of these things if you paid me.
A gang of men threatening people in Duston and demanding cash while wearing 'Jason' style masks from the Friday the 13th films is being linked to another knifepoint robbery
Woman in Darth Vader mask arrested for early morning armed robbery
Would-be rapist wearing Scream mask jailed for 13 months, Attorney-General might appeal
Sensationalism. Propaganda. We'll be sure to think of the children as ew teach the tairists a lesson.
Think about it.
Knight was an active duty enlisted member of the Navy assigned to the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. He worked as a systems administrator in the carrier's nuclear reactor department. He is accused of conducting some of his unlawful hacking while aboard.
Feds: Sailor hacked Navy network while aboard nuclear aircraft carrier
That cuts a little too close to the bone.
It gets better:
''Essentially I am in trouble for posting all of the stuff on Twitter,''Knight told ABC News by email in his first interview. ''Although a lot of people are saying I was the leader of some crime organizations that was out to get people which wasn't true. Just a group of people that were dumb and did dumb things.''
In criminal information filed Monday, prosecutors allege that while Knight served in the Navy as a systems administrator in the nuclear reactor department of the USS Harry S. Truman, he was also leading a double life as a self-proclaimed ''nuclear black hat'' and the leader of a hacking group called Team Digi7al that stole or attempted to steal confidential or private information and post it online.
After the attacks, the group then bragged about their accomplishments on Twitter, with Knight acting as the main ''publicist,'' according to the Department of Justice.
The court filing noted that three alleged members of the group were minors when they joined.
Prosecutor Ryan Souders, who is involved in the case, told ABC News that generally when a suspect is charged in a criminal information filing, rather than an indictment, that means the defense has indicated they will not contest the charges.
Alleged Navy Hacker Says His Group Just 'Did Dumb Things'
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Who cares if Fox has to be cut in, does Disney not really care about the results $3B in profit that would result from a HD recoversions of the untouched original?
3.2 million copies of "Frozen" were sold on its first day of DVD and Blu-Ray release --- returning about $65 million gross.
"Frozen" as a global cultural phenomenon is damned impressive even by geek fan-boy standards. I would expect an HD restoration of the 37 year old Star Wars to be financially viable ---- but, as these numbers suggest, not the pot of gold at rainbow's end.
Do you have any idea how much money people are willing to pay for a faithfully restored version of the original trilogy???
I haven't got a clue and I doubt that you have either.
I don't see anything happening until Disney's take on Star Wars is solidly anchored and begins to rival its success with Marvel Comics.
The concept of an overland connection crossing the Bering Strait goes back before the 20th century. William Gilpin, first governor of the Colorado Territory, envisioned a vast ''Cosmopolitan Railway'' in 1890 linking the entire world via a series of railways. Two years later, Joseph Strauss, who went on to design over 400 bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge, put forward the first proposal for a Bering Strait railroad bridge in his senior thesis. The project was presented to the government of the Russian Empire, but it was rejected.
A syndicate of American railroad magnates proposed in 1904 (via a French spokesman) a Siberian-Alaskan railroad from Cape Prince Wales in Alaska through a tunnel under the Bering Strait and across northeastern Siberia to Irkutsk via Cape Deshnev, Verkhnekolymsk and Yakutsk. The proposal was for a 90-year lease, and exclusive mineral rights for 8 miles (13 km) each side of the right-of-way. It was debated by officials and finally turned down on March 20, 1907.
-----
Aside from the obvious technical challenges of building two 40-kilometre (25 mi) bridges or a more than 80-kilometre (50 mi) tunnel across the strait, another major challenge is that, as of 2011, there is nothing on either side of the Bering Strait to connect the bridge to.
The Russian side, in particular, is severely lacking in infrastructure, without any highways for almost 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) (the nearest is M56) and no railroads or paved highways for over 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) in any direction from the strait.
On the American side, at least 800 kilometres (500 mi) of highways or railways would have to be constructed in order to connect to the American transport network
Bering Strait crossing
My point is that the injunction or its dissolution is not important, but the speed in which they accessed court authority is meaningful.
You request an injunction when speed is essential.
An injunction is a court order requiring a person to do or cease doing a specific action. Temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions are temporary injunctions. They are issued early in a lawsuit to maintain the status quo by preventing a defendant from becoming insolvent or to stop the defendant from continuing his or her allegedly harmful actions. Choosing whether to grant temporary injunctive relief is a discretionary power of the court.
There is a balancing test that courts typically employ in determining whether to issue an injunction. The defendant's 5th Amendment due process rights are weighed (heavily) against the possibility of the defendant becoming judgment-proof, and the immediacy of the harm allegedly done to the plaintiff (i.e., how badly does the plaintiff need the injunction). When it is possible, the defendant must always be put on notice of the injunction hearing, and the duration of the injunction is typically as temporary as possible. Additionally, in many jurisdictions, plaintiffs demanding an injunction are required to post a bond.
Injunction
I don't think Elon expected to win that easy, but look how much publicity he got for filing a simple claim and getting a temporary injunction.
I'm looking but I'm not finding much.
The truth is that stories like this rarely make the front page or survive a single 24 hour news cycle before they are shoved into the back of the fridge and more or less forgotten.
If I want to take an informed risk, I should be allowed to have that opportunity.
You don't know if the driver has a license to drive, insurance, a criminal record, or that his vehicle is being properly maintained.
That isn't a calculated risk --- it's a roll of the dice that may be loaded against you.
Does this number include the duplicate HD channels, the spanish channels, the religious channels, or the pay-per-view channels?
The Spanish speaking market is far from trivial.
May 07--Univision Communications Inc. executive Randel Falco is warning that Comcast Corp.'s proposed $45.2 billion deal for Time Warner Cable Inc. could create a single cable-TV company that serves 91 percent of the nation's Hispanic households.
''That gives this new company staggering influence over Hispanic consumers,'' Falco said this week.
The nation's Hispanic population would be concentrated in the big Comcast/Time Warner Cable markets of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami.
Comcast's deal-making worries Univision exec
While the "average viewer" may only watch about twenty channels, they won't be not be the same channels, even in the same household. Disney understands this, which is why ESPN sports and Disney family entertainment are very successfully and very profitably bundled.
Your typewriter needs a new ribbon.
The quality of the product only matters until they achieve lock-in. After that, they don't care if the program even runs.
Microsoft continues to dominate in the workplace.
The geek is only fooling himself when he claims that Microsoft isn't consistently delivering top-tier products and services.
Microsoft Works is still in use by people. Your memory is pretty selective if you're only considering Microsoft Office.
When was the last time anyone here has needed to open a document in a Works file format in the professional/small business/enterprise environment?
I recently ran across a bizarre claim that the average office worker's time is dominated by outlook (duh) but that Microsoft Word was number two at a paltry few minutes per day, and Powerpoint even less than that.
No mention of Excel?
Not that it matters. You don't choose an office suite for the "average worker." You choose what best serves the needs of your clerical staff as a whole, whether it be ten workers, a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand.
casual users needs can be met by a wide variety of FOSS projects
FOSS remains solidly anchored in the era of the stand-alone office suite --- sans Outlook.
While Microsoft positions MS Office as simply one component of an integrated office system that sales to an enterprise of any size. Microsoft Office 365 for Health Organizations
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