Your points are well taken, however you have not considered that Explorer is effectively free, like Firefox. So, Firefox has to be _much_ better simply to gain any consideration. The fact that OOO is free while MS Office comes at a premium price will eventually be worth shouting from the rooftops. Still, I suspect it's too soon for any one-off ad to have much effect.
NeoOffice/J uses Java to meld OOO with OS X, without using X11. They've even managed to pull off native OS X-like menus in the latest builds. NeoOffice also uses all installed fonts. It works well for me, and the price (free!) can't be beat with a stick. Your mileage may vary.
From the site (neooffice.org): "NeoOffice/J uses a combination of Carbon and Java to make a truly native open source office suite. It has all of the features of OpenOffice.org 1.1 X11 and more! NeoOffice/J features Aqua menus in our alpha release, with more native controls still to come."
Did you bother to read the parent message to which I responded? That was in fact the comment--that only the US has a say. That's why I put it in quotes: because it was, you know, a quote. Yes, only Americans get to say who's the President of the US. As far as "resonding in kind" go for it. I'm still free to ignore you, as is the rest of the nation. So you don't get to easily see the campaign web site, so what? Look elsewhere for news. There's no shortage. The campaign clearly does not and properly should not care about persuading non-voters with their web site. Btw, bugger off first? That's telling me.
"Whoever gains office next week doesnt just affect the US, it affects the world, but only the US gets to say who gains office."
Don't like it? Emigrate to the US and become a citizen. Then you can have a say in our elections. Otherwise, bugger off.
The US has not banned foreign reporters. Thus, your comparison is not valid to the point of silliness. The President's campaign web site is simply not serving pages to overseas viewers. There is no shortage of US-based political news sources available to foreign readers.
AOL has been doing this very thing for years. Such promotional placements are more valuable because the ad is relevant to the context in which the reader sees it (more so than rotating banner ads,for example). Ad placements and intrusiveness will rise until readers reach the limits of their patience and traffic begins to drop off, or ad effectiveness (by whatever measure the ad industry prefers to use) fades. Since the web is still relatively young, no one quite knows where that point is.
>>It's just as likely that Lindows is being self-serving as it is that Microsoft is being malicious.
Those two possibilities are not mutually exclusive.
I upgraded my 233 beige MT and it runs just fine with Jaguar. Check Wegener Media. I bought a G4 ZIF upgrade there for less than $100 and overclocked it to 450Mhz. You'll have to fiddle with clock settings and jumper pins, but it's pretty straightforward. Check www.xlr8yourmac.com for a link to instructions . I also added an 80 GB drive for $80 after rebate. Add all the memory you can afford. I have 768MB installed. Make sure it's all exactly the same brand and type. Also, be sure that the 256MB DIMMs are not made with high density chips. Your machine will only be able to use 128MB of the full 256MB. The DIMMs you want have chips on both sides of the DIMM, not just one (or just buy memory guaranteed to work in your beige machine). Leave only one DIMM in place while installing Jaguar or the screen may go blank on you and the install won't complete. One last note: If you have a Royal voltage regulator, forget about adding a G4 upgrade (you'll fry your computer). Only a few beiges have the Royal VRM. Once again, the helpful xlr8yourmac.com site has details on how to identify the VRM
Good heavens. There should be a way to mod a post down on grounds of grammatical incoherence. It's difficult to follow your train of thought. You might have something important to say, I simply can't tell without a peforming a lot of mental work I don't feel obliged to undertake. Complete sentences don't cost extra.
Yup. How about I say it again too? One of the worst jobs I ever had was bundling newspapers for minimum wage--it was mind-numbing, repetitive, soul killing work. I wonder how many people stare that in the face ever day for 40 years or so.
When an entrepreneurial enterprise does well, it's due primarily to the vision, skill, and persistence of the founder, not merely the special wonderfulness of the people writing code. Technical expertise is relatively common, business acumen less so, and vision rare. The founder/owner/entrepreneur supplies the second two qualities which make the first valuable. They reap the greatest reward not only because they assume great risks, but also because the skills they bring to the table are essential and scarce commodities.
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Your points are well taken, however you have not considered that Explorer is effectively free, like Firefox. So, Firefox has to be _much_ better simply to gain any consideration. The fact that OOO is free while MS Office comes at a premium price will eventually be worth shouting from the rooftops. Still, I suspect it's too soon for any one-off ad to have much effect.
NeoOffice/J uses Java to meld OOO with OS X, without using X11. They've even managed to pull off native OS X-like menus in the latest builds. NeoOffice also uses all installed fonts. It works well for me, and the price (free!) can't be beat with a stick. Your mileage may vary.
From the site (neooffice.org): "NeoOffice/J uses a combination of Carbon and Java to make a truly native open source office suite. It has all of the features of OpenOffice.org 1.1 X11 and more! NeoOffice/J features Aqua menus in our alpha release, with more native controls still to come."
Did you bother to read the parent message to which I responded? That was in fact the comment--that only the US has a say. That's why I put it in quotes: because it was, you know, a quote. Yes, only Americans get to say who's the President of the US. As far as "resonding in kind" go for it. I'm still free to ignore you, as is the rest of the nation. So you don't get to easily see the campaign web site, so what? Look elsewhere for news. There's no shortage. The campaign clearly does not and properly should not care about persuading non-voters with their web site. Btw, bugger off first? That's telling me.
"Whoever gains office next week doesnt just affect the US, it affects the world, but only the US gets to say who gains office." Don't like it? Emigrate to the US and become a citizen. Then you can have a say in our elections. Otherwise, bugger off.
The US has not banned foreign reporters. Thus, your comparison is not valid to the point of silliness. The President's campaign web site is simply not serving pages to overseas viewers. There is no shortage of US-based political news sources available to foreign readers.
Isn't this what Richard MacDuff was working on?
So, you're a newlywed, eh?
If it had to be a dog, it should have been Clarus the dogcow--that's almost a dog.
Is "cocoa in a nutshell" redundant?
AOL has been doing this very thing for years. Such promotional placements are more valuable because the ad is relevant to the context in which the reader sees it (more so than rotating banner ads,for example). Ad placements and intrusiveness will rise until readers reach the limits of their patience and traffic begins to drop off, or ad effectiveness (by whatever measure the ad industry prefers to use) fades. Since the web is still relatively young, no one quite knows where that point is.
>>It's just as likely that Lindows is being self-serving as it is that Microsoft is being malicious. Those two possibilities are not mutually exclusive.
I upgraded my 233 beige MT and it runs just fine with Jaguar. Check Wegener Media. I bought a G4 ZIF upgrade there for less than $100 and overclocked it to 450Mhz. You'll have to fiddle with clock settings and jumper pins, but it's pretty straightforward. Check www.xlr8yourmac.com for a link to instructions . I also added an 80 GB drive for $80 after rebate. Add all the memory you can afford. I have 768MB installed. Make sure it's all exactly the same brand and type. Also, be sure that the 256MB DIMMs are not made with high density chips. Your machine will only be able to use 128MB of the full 256MB. The DIMMs you want have chips on both sides of the DIMM, not just one (or just buy memory guaranteed to work in your beige machine). Leave only one DIMM in place while installing Jaguar or the screen may go blank on you and the install won't complete. One last note: If you have a Royal voltage regulator, forget about adding a G4 upgrade (you'll fry your computer). Only a few beiges have the Royal VRM. Once again, the helpful xlr8yourmac.com site has details on how to identify the VRM
Good heavens. There should be a way to mod a post down on grounds of grammatical incoherence. It's difficult to follow your train of thought. You might have something important to say, I simply can't tell without a peforming a lot of mental work I don't feel obliged to undertake. Complete sentences don't cost extra.
As John Cleese once said, if you hadn't forgotten to patent the language, we'd be paying England the most enormous royalties.
Yup. How about I say it again too? One of the worst jobs I ever had was bundling newspapers for minimum wage--it was mind-numbing, repetitive, soul killing work. I wonder how many people stare that in the face ever day for 40 years or so. When an entrepreneurial enterprise does well, it's due primarily to the vision, skill, and persistence of the founder, not merely the special wonderfulness of the people writing code.
Technical expertise is relatively common, business acumen less so, and vision rare. The founder/owner/entrepreneur supplies the second two qualities which make the first valuable. They reap the greatest reward not only because they assume great risks, but also because the skills they bring to the table are essential and scarce commodities.