The problem I have with ANY e-mail filter is that there's always the chance that a genuine useful e-mail will accidentally be trashed. I'm not just saying this just for the sake of identifying a flaw; it's just the way I am that I would always feel twitchy about any e-mail going into a 'trash' folder without me looking at it to confirm it. And if I'm looking at it, I might as well not filter it at all.
This may be great if you communicate 100% of the time with people using Unix systems. Unfortunately, quite a few rather stupid e-mail clients (Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, notice a trend?) have HTML e-mail enabled by default, and your average user isn't about to turn it off. So if you're talking to average users, filtering HTML mail is not a good idea.
What would be fair- the government telling a business how much they are allowed to charge for their products? Thats bull crap and you know it.
If people are willing to pay for Office, then why on earth would Microsoft want to charge less? If you look at AMD vs Intel, AMD is not charging less for their chips because they want to be nice to the people that use them- they are charging highest price that the average consumer will pay for them. If they could charge more, they would. Its not unfair- its business.
I don't have a problem with Microsoft Office dominating the market, per se. What I have a problem with is them USING that domination to unfairly shut out any competition, by creating hard/impossible to decrypt file formats and then buying laws to make it illegal for any opposition to decrypt them anyway. That's what's wrong.
What would be fair is the government doing as much as it can to ensure a level playing field for ALL companies making office suites. They could start by abolishing that utter piece of crap, the DMCA.
What are you talking about? Your analogy is weak and irrelevant.
My analogy isn't the best one. It was just what immediately came to mind. Bear in mind I said *ALL* bread would rise in price, and that means NO ONE would come in and offer a cheaper product, because bread would be so hard to produce; obviously this is an artificial situation, designed to reflect the MS Office situation.
Do you have any clue about how capitalism works? There are a number of viable choices for office software that companies can choose from. Microsoft Office is a product with enough features and compatibility that almost everybody is willing to pay a premium price for it. If the features were not worth the price, I can guarantee you that people would not buy it.
No, I disagree. I think a LOT of people buy MS Office because they haven't heard of another product. Because Microsoft have been ruthlessly advertising their product and other companies have such a small market share that their products aren't half as well know. Because their friends have MS Office, and they much buy it to be able to swap.doc files with them (OpenOffice doesn't emulate the format perfectly). Because it comes as part of a software bundle that they get with their PC. But not because its features justify its price.
Microsoft may have a "monopoly", but its only because they make products that everybody wants. If people suddenly decide that they like the alternatives better, rest assured that the price on Microsoft Office would drop like a rock.
Yes, but people won't decide that, because they are _entrenched_ in the Microsoft Office way. You could say that exact same thing about Windows. If people like the alternatives better, yadda yadda. They WON'T change from their norm if they can help it; Microsoft's proprietory file formats don't help. This is creating an artificially large, and unhealthy, monopoly.
Give me a break. What is the point in having coding talent if (insert monopolistic company here) is just going to own 95% of the market, rendering YOUR skills useless? We've seen it happen a lot before. A *few* programmers make a *lot* of money out of shrinkwrapped software. Why should those few deserve vast sums of money, whilst many other programmers have to scrape a living? OSS is a great concept. If tools such as database servers, OSes, etc are made opensource, we can end the tyranny of large corporations selling this stuff, and force programmers on making money by providing direct services to a company. That's a far better way for a large number of people to make a decent wage, rather than a privileged few selling massively popular closed software.
Just like when "Evil Empire"(R) grabs a piece of BSDL software, hacks the hell out of it and then sells it. The original is still BSDL and you still have access to it. Why should you care if someone wishes to release under a PD or BSDL license?
I think your sentence answers itself. The 'Evil Empire' takes a nice piece of PD software, adds their GUI onto it, slightly changes protocol/file format/whatever to make is M$-exclusive, and establishes it as a 'standard' by ruthlessly distributing it for free with their OS. Witness what happened with Mozilla/IE (OK, Mozilla was licensed, but a similar scenario). End result? The piece of public domain software has sourcecode available for all, but it's not useless, because everyone uses Microsoft.
Office is priced as high as people are willing to pay for it. Despite what a typical slashdotter thinks, people are willing to pay for the features that Office offers.
This is 100% irrelevant to the ethical debate on Microsoft's licensing and pricing practices. If the price of bread went up 5000% universally tomorrow, people 'would be prepared to pay' that amount for it because bread is an important part of the diet. However, that doesn't make it by any means ethically right, or acceptable to society. The 'monopoly' that bread has (there wouldn't be a replacement product) means that people MUST pay the going rate for it, and as long as it doesnt *bankrupt* them, they will pay, as it is so important to them. The same is true of Office. If you say that that's a fair thing, you're an incredibly ruthless capitalist.
Solution: why not save the resume in.RTF? You might not be able to do stuff like Wordart, but really... do you need that for a professional document anyway?
All British schoolchildren have been shown the map of the British empire at the height of its powers, and given the standard lecture about how much better it was when the world was Pink. It's an oft-heard saying by older British Citizens. "Ahhh... I can remember when the world was Pink, and good King George was on the throne... etc. etc."
You're either joking, or dumb, I can't tell which. Britain does not teach schoolchildren about the British Empire in its 'hayday', unless perhaps you do a History degree. In which case, I'd expect any country's History degree to teach that.
Maybe I'm missing something, but wasn't the 'All-Red Route' indeed a transocean cable? Indeed, didn't it cross many oceans? It had to go from Britain to Australia!
Canadians are probably rather glad they didn't. If they had, they'd just be a yet further extension of the US now, complete with government which can be bought by large corporations.
How exactly do you people keep changing from casual to smart clothing every time you need to go visit a client? Does your office have a changing room, or something?:-)
Probably the best quote I ever heard was out of a MS book on programming. Its like a bowl of jello that is shaking. When that bowl is quivering least we ship.
LOL, and what's that saying about the quality of Microsoft programming, and Microsoft's dedication to a quality product? They should ship it when it's like a bowl of CONCRETE!:-)
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It doesn't matter, because Microsoft copied Apple as well, so they're all in the same boat.
You just echoed exactly what I was thinking.
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The problem I have with ANY e-mail filter is that there's always the chance that a genuine useful e-mail will accidentally be trashed. I'm not just saying this just for the sake of identifying a flaw; it's just the way I am that I would always feel twitchy about any e-mail going into a 'trash' folder without me looking at it to confirm it. And if I'm looking at it, I might as well not filter it at all.
And yes, that is how you spell Zimbabwe
This may be great if you communicate 100% of the time with people using Unix systems. Unfortunately, quite a few rather stupid e-mail clients (Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, notice a trend?) have HTML e-mail enabled by default, and your average user isn't about to turn it off. So if you're talking to average users, filtering HTML mail is not a good idea.
Whom's a perfectly valid word today, you moron. It's like saying 'dont say television when we can say tube'.
Maybe you should tell that to Matt Groening, because that's exactly how they're portrayed in The Simpsons.
Yes.
What would be fair- the government telling a business how much they are allowed to charge for their products? Thats bull crap and you know it.
If people are willing to pay for Office, then why on earth would Microsoft want to charge less? If you look at AMD vs Intel, AMD is not charging less for their chips because they want to be nice to the people that use them- they are charging highest price that the average consumer will pay for them. If they could charge more, they would. Its not unfair- its business.
I don't have a problem with Microsoft Office dominating the market, per se. What I have a problem with is them USING that domination to unfairly shut out any competition, by creating hard/impossible to decrypt file formats and then buying laws to make it illegal for any opposition to decrypt them anyway. That's what's wrong.
What would be fair is the government doing as much as it can to ensure a level playing field for ALL companies making office suites. They could start by abolishing that utter piece of crap, the DMCA.
What are you talking about? Your analogy is weak and irrelevant.
.doc files with them (OpenOffice doesn't emulate the format perfectly). Because it comes as part of a software bundle that they get with their PC. But not because its features justify its price.
My analogy isn't the best one. It was just what immediately came to mind. Bear in mind I said *ALL* bread would rise in price, and that means NO ONE would come in and offer a cheaper product, because bread would be so hard to produce; obviously this is an artificial situation, designed to reflect the MS Office situation.
Do you have any clue about how capitalism works? There are a number of viable choices for office software that companies can choose from. Microsoft Office is a product with enough features and compatibility that almost everybody is willing to pay a premium price for it. If the features were not worth the price, I can guarantee you that people would not buy it.
No, I disagree. I think a LOT of people buy MS Office because they haven't heard of another product. Because Microsoft have been ruthlessly advertising their product and other companies have such a small market share that their products aren't half as well know. Because their friends have MS Office, and they much buy it to be able to swap
Microsoft may have a "monopoly", but its only because they make products that everybody wants. If people suddenly decide that they like the alternatives better, rest assured that the price on Microsoft Office would drop like a rock.
Yes, but people won't decide that, because they are _entrenched_ in the Microsoft Office way. You could say that exact same thing about Windows. If people like the alternatives better, yadda yadda. They WON'T change from their norm if they can help it; Microsoft's proprietory file formats don't help. This is creating an artificially large, and unhealthy, monopoly.
Give me a break. What is the point in having coding talent if (insert monopolistic company here) is just going to own 95% of the market, rendering YOUR skills useless? We've seen it happen a lot before. A *few* programmers make a *lot* of money out of shrinkwrapped software. Why should those few deserve vast sums of money, whilst many other programmers have to scrape a living? OSS is a great concept. If tools such as database servers, OSes, etc are made opensource, we can end the tyranny of large corporations selling this stuff, and force programmers on making money by providing direct services to a company. That's a far better way for a large number of people to make a decent wage, rather than a privileged few selling massively popular closed software.
I believe you're supposed to mod a post '-1 Overrated' if a statement of fact is proveably wrong.
Erm.. that should be:
The original piece of public domain software has sourcecode available for all, but it's useless, because everyone uses Microsoft.
Just like when "Evil Empire"(R) grabs a piece of BSDL software, hacks the hell out of it and then sells it. The original is still BSDL and you still have access to it. Why should you care if someone wishes to release under a PD or BSDL license?
I think your sentence answers itself. The 'Evil Empire' takes a nice piece of PD software, adds their GUI onto it, slightly changes protocol/file format/whatever to make is M$-exclusive, and establishes it as a 'standard' by ruthlessly distributing it for free with their OS. Witness what happened with Mozilla/IE (OK, Mozilla was licensed, but a similar scenario). End result? The piece of public domain software has sourcecode available for all, but it's not useless, because everyone uses Microsoft.
Office is priced as high as people are willing to pay for it. Despite what a typical slashdotter thinks, people are willing to pay for the features that Office offers.
This is 100% irrelevant to the ethical debate on Microsoft's licensing and pricing practices. If the price of bread went up 5000% universally tomorrow, people 'would be prepared to pay' that amount for it because bread is an important part of the diet. However, that doesn't make it by any means ethically right, or acceptable to society. The 'monopoly' that bread has (there wouldn't be a replacement product) means that people MUST pay the going rate for it, and as long as it doesnt *bankrupt* them, they will pay, as it is so important to them. The same is true of Office. If you say that that's a fair thing, you're an incredibly ruthless capitalist.
Solution: why not save the resume in .RTF? You might not be able to do stuff like Wordart, but really... do you need that for a professional document anyway?
Apparently so. I can even spell evidently correctly.
And the only games that don't run on my computer are the new UT and America's Army
That's because America's Army uses the same shitheap of a gfx engine that UT2002 uses; the engine which virtually requires you to buy nVidia.
All British schoolchildren have been shown the map of the British empire at the height of its powers, and given the standard lecture about how much better it was when the world was Pink. It's an oft-heard saying by older British Citizens. "Ahhh... I can remember when the world was Pink, and good King George was on the throne... etc. etc."
You're either joking, or dumb, I can't tell which. Britain does not teach schoolchildren about the British Empire in its 'hayday', unless perhaps you do a History degree. In which case, I'd expect any country's History degree to teach that.
Two points:
:-)
1) There are plenty of images on the page, moreso, in fact, than most websites. Loads of pictures of maps, fields, etc.
2) The site looks crap. I could design a site which used half the bandwidth and looked much better.
Maybe I'm missing something, but wasn't the 'All-Red Route' indeed a transocean cable? Indeed, didn't it cross many oceans? It had to go from Britain to Australia!
Canadians are probably rather glad they didn't. If they had, they'd just be a yet further extension of the US now, complete with government which can be bought by large corporations.
How exactly do you people keep changing from casual to smart clothing every time you need to go visit a client? Does your office have a changing room, or something? :-)
Stargate SG-1 is a pile of shit.
Probably the best quote I ever heard was out of a MS book on programming. Its like a bowl of jello that is shaking. When that bowl is quivering least we ship.
:-)
LOL, and what's that saying about the quality of Microsoft programming, and Microsoft's dedication to a quality product? They should ship it when it's like a bowl of CONCRETE!
What way does the water swirl when you're bang on the equator? Does it just sort of flow down, not swirling at all?
And why do all the archived discussions seem to revert to 'flat' layout mode?