A new out-of-the-box computer with no browser at all would not be fun - especially for the non-computer-literate user who doesn't have another system to download with.
So, if a manufacturer is shipping a box with Windows, why not supply the latest version of Internet Explorer??
This is the exact same thing as buying a copy of Red Hat linux (or any other commercial distribution). You pay for free software. In exchange for your money, the vendor usually provides some additional services. Certainly you can argue about the worth of those services relative to their cost - but this practice is hardly unique to Open Office.
In fact, this is the entire business model of Red Hat, Inc.
To each their own I suppose but I would never want to see a similar situation arise in my country.
You don't say what country you live in; but it's a fair bet they censor one or more of (a) child pornography; (b) instructions on constructing nuclear weapons; or (c) anti-government or pro-anarchy speech.
can be mixed with fruit juice, sugar, and food coloring to produce jam
Jam is typically made with fruit/fruit juice and sugar. To make silk-based jam, you add in silk (essentially zero nutritional content) and food coloring to disguise the fact you've added silk. WTF?
You still need to bring the fruit juice (heavy) and sugar (heavy) up into orbit with you. Why not just bring some decent jam?
Any company has a large number of existing documents. To switch to a different file-incompatible program would be silly; the cost of converting would far exceed any possible savings, not to mention the IT cost of changing every user simultaneously.
If OpenOffice/etc. are guaranteed 100% compatible with Word documents, they aren't promoting that fact very well. If they aren't compatible, they're not serious competition.
But the simple truth is that any Lexus, Acura, or Infiniti is just a Toyota, Honda, or Nissan (respectively) with different styling
Actually, they are just the same car with a different badge. If you travel to Tokyo, you won't find a single Lexus, Acura, or Infiniti - they are all badged as Toyota/Honda/Nissans. These "upmarket" brands were created solely for the US market.
In Canada it's even worse - the highest trim level of the Honda Civic (badged the EX in the USA) is badged as an Acura.
If you want something permanently in place, you need an electrician, and no less. Because you need a huge On-Off-On lever switch to ensure you never attempt to power the house from both the generator and grid simultaneously.
This point is extremely important. Things like furnaces are usually hardwired into the house electrical system - so you can't just "unplug" it and plug it in to an extension to your generator. As a result, many people build themselves a "male to male" extension cord - a power line null modem, if you will - and plug one end into the generator, the other end into any house outlet. That reverse-powers the entire house.
However, it also provides entertainment when the AC power comes back on line.
If you're going to do this, then (a) turn off the house from the AC at the main breaker FIRST; (b) plug the male-male extension into the house first, then into the generator last (otherwise you're walking around with a power cord with a LIVE male end). But, it is still not recommended.
Also note that if you do this... you have no way of knowing when the power comes back.
If the driver is
one sex and the vehicle is registered
to the opposite sex, a notice is sent,
not a ticket.
So, in Arizona, transvestites never get a speeding ticket??
I'd say "cool", but living in Arizona when you aren't a straight white Christian is probably more punishment then you deserve for a lifetime's worth of speeding.
Religious discrimination isn't prohibited, per se. Try applying for a job at your local Catholic church if you're an atheist and see what I mean.
Talking about jobs.... Diskeeper seems to have a lot of job openings. Maybe their religious bias is evident during the job application process - with the economy the way it is, any company with that many open positions looks very suspicious.
Many US citizens liked slavery, once. And not letting women vote. The fact that only a minority is being oppressed doesn't make it not oppression, and it doesn't make it right.
Don't give all of your examples in the past tense.... Many US citizens still support oppressing the rights of gay people. Many US citizens support the unconstitutional searches, seizures, and wiretaps that have gone on since 9/11. A huge number of US citizens supported invading a foreign country and overthowing their government.
A majority of Americans support the Children's Internet Protection Act - and so a majority of Americans also support censorship of the Internet, just like the Chinese do.
I'm not up on the details, but I've heard that ther is this program called "bittorrent" is extremely popular with gamers.... If you don't install it yourself, I'm sure your average 15 year old PC user will figure it out pretty quickly.
This is why Nintendo 64 and Nintendo DS cartridges never grew larger than 0.3 gigabytes, and why for the Cube and Wii they abandoned the solid state cartridge in favor of discs. Discs are simpler and therefore cheaper.
Invalid comparison. The memory in a N64/DS cartridge is ROM, not RAM - it is not writeable. The technology involved is significantly different, and ROM prices are far lower than RAM.
There is the issue on a gaming console of saving game progress. Most cartridges did include a small amount of Flash RAM on them for this; you cannot do that on a disc. That's why consoles like the Cube and Wii allow for separate flash memory.
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A new out-of-the-box computer with no browser at all would not be fun - especially for the non-computer-literate user who doesn't have another system to download with.
So, if a manufacturer is shipping a box with Windows, why not supply the latest version of Internet Explorer??
Does the law cover rented or leased games? You don't actually "buy" a MMO, you pay a monthly fee to play.
To confuse things further: many of those versions also come in both 32 bit and 64 bit flavors.
Why Win7 is not purely 64 bit is beyond me - any recent machine can run the 64 bit version, any older machine should be running XP anyway.
Just because something is bad doesn't make it terrorism.
Tell that to the people who are being charged with terrorism merely for swearing at a flight attendant: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/01/25/bad_behavior_on_flights_prosecutable_under_patriot_act/
This is the exact same thing as buying a copy of Red Hat linux (or any other commercial distribution). You pay for free software. In exchange for your money, the vendor usually provides some additional services. Certainly you can argue about the worth of those services relative to their cost - but this practice is hardly unique to Open Office.
In fact, this is the entire business model of Red Hat, Inc.
To each their own I suppose but I would never want to see a similar situation arise in my country.
You don't say what country you live in; but it's a fair bet they censor one or more of (a) child pornography; (b) instructions on constructing nuclear weapons; or (c) anti-government or pro-anarchy speech.
can be mixed with fruit juice, sugar, and food coloring to produce jam
Jam is typically made with fruit/fruit juice and sugar. To make silk-based jam, you add in silk (essentially zero nutritional content) and food coloring to disguise the fact you've added silk. WTF?
You still need to bring the fruit juice (heavy) and sugar (heavy) up into orbit with you. Why not just bring some decent jam?
Why thank you for your kind words. However, Microsoft has a free download allowing older copies of Word to open up documents in newer versions of the .doc file format. Our corporation has a mix of different versions of Office, and all happily play together.
Any company has a large number of existing documents. To switch to a different file-incompatible program would be silly; the cost of converting would far exceed any possible savings, not to mention the IT cost of changing every user simultaneously.
If OpenOffice/etc. are guaranteed 100% compatible with Word documents, they aren't promoting that fact very well. If they aren't compatible, they're not serious competition.
But the simple truth is that any Lexus, Acura, or Infiniti is just a Toyota, Honda, or Nissan (respectively) with different styling
Actually, they are just the same car with a different badge. If you travel to Tokyo, you won't find a single Lexus, Acura, or Infiniti - they are all badged as Toyota/Honda/Nissans. These "upmarket" brands were created solely for the US market.
In Canada it's even worse - the highest trim level of the Honda Civic (badged the EX in the USA) is badged as an Acura.
The best part is, it never expires!
However, its value decreases by 5% every year if not used.
Bill Gates no longer works at Microsoft full time, and is only their chairman when he does show up. So his role is 0% technical.
Funny, there wasn't all of the discussion and hand-wringing about Bill leaving Microsoft two years ago.....
Android *is* new - but is hardly newsworthy by now.
If you want something permanently in place, you need an electrician, and no less. Because you need a huge On-Off-On lever switch to ensure you never attempt to power the house from both the generator and grid simultaneously.
This point is extremely important. Things like furnaces are usually hardwired into the house electrical system - so you can't just "unplug" it and plug it in to an extension to your generator. As a result, many people build themselves a "male to male" extension cord - a power line null modem, if you will - and plug one end into the generator, the other end into any house outlet. That reverse-powers the entire house.
However, it also provides entertainment when the AC power comes back on line.
If you're going to do this, then (a) turn off the house from the AC at the main breaker FIRST; (b) plug the male-male extension into the house first, then into the generator last (otherwise you're walking around with a power cord with a LIVE male end). But, it is still not recommended.
Also note that if you do this... you have no way of knowing when the power comes back.
The Domino server is one of the most reliable server systems ever built
That may be. The main point here, however, is that Lotus Notes has a horrible UI 99.9999% of the time.
Doesn't this break the US Government laws on requiring closed captioning?
I've got a Windows phone - and there are nowhere near a million apps that run on it. A few thousand, maybe.
And I'm not even going to think about the speed of emulating the x86 instruction set on a slow cellphone processor.
If the driver is one sex and the vehicle is registered to the opposite sex, a notice is sent, not a ticket.
So, in Arizona, transvestites never get a speeding ticket??
I'd say "cool", but living in Arizona when you aren't a straight white Christian is probably more punishment then you deserve for a lifetime's worth of speeding.
The IP addresses of all government institutions are known. Why not just block them from editing Wikipedia pages?
Religious discrimination isn't prohibited, per se. Try applying for a job at your local Catholic church if you're an atheist and see what I mean.
Talking about jobs.... Diskeeper seems to have a lot of job openings. Maybe their religious bias is evident during the job application process - with the economy the way it is, any company with that many open positions looks very suspicious.
Quick quiz: which is the capitalist country, and which is the communist one?
Many US citizens liked slavery, once. And not letting women vote. The fact that only a minority is being oppressed doesn't make it not oppression, and it doesn't make it right.
Don't give all of your examples in the past tense.... Many US citizens still support oppressing the rights of gay people. Many US citizens support the unconstitutional searches, seizures, and wiretaps that have gone on since 9/11. A huge number of US citizens supported invading a foreign country and overthowing their government.
A majority of Americans support the Children's Internet Protection Act - and so a majority of Americans also support censorship of the Internet, just like the Chinese do.
I'm not up on the details, but I've heard that ther is this program called "bittorrent" is extremely popular with gamers.... If you don't install it yourself, I'm sure your average 15 year old PC user will figure it out pretty quickly.
Well, if we believe the article, that means that all Southerners are demented.
Nah, that couldn't possibly be true.
This is why Nintendo 64 and Nintendo DS cartridges never grew larger than 0.3 gigabytes, and why for the Cube and Wii they abandoned the solid state cartridge in favor of discs. Discs are simpler and therefore cheaper.
Invalid comparison. The memory in a N64/DS cartridge is ROM, not RAM - it is not writeable. The technology involved is significantly different, and ROM prices are far lower than RAM.
There is the issue on a gaming console of saving game progress. Most cartridges did include a small amount of Flash RAM on them for this; you cannot do that on a disc. That's why consoles like the Cube and Wii allow for separate flash memory.