I have read this a number of times and I can only assume you have never used a windows computer. The versions of office and windows are in no way restricted, I am running components form Office 2003, 2010 and 2013 on Windows 7 and Office XP, 2003 and 2010 on windows XP.
Windows Vista, 7 and 8 all have compatibility mode which tries with varying degrees of success to fool older pieces of software that they are running old versions of windows.
32 bit Office 2000 doesn't work on Windows 7.
Neither does it work on Windows 1. I have just had a quick google and there are lots of posts claiming to have it working on windows 8 however, you are looking back five versions of office before you find one which does not work.
Please name another software vendor who provide this level of support.
Further, the software packages of this type from Microsoft are tied to a specific version of the Windows Operating system; that is, you can not take a version of Office intended for use on Windows XP, and run it on Windows 7 or later versions of the Microsoft OS platform. This explicit and intentional tying is monopolistic in nature. Further, the glue code for the vertical market systems previously mentions, *also* will not run on non-XP platforms.
Effectively, this means that Microsoft is leveraging their monopoly position in operating systems - specifically, with regard to the discontinuation of support for XP - into additional sales of non-OS Microsoft products, and to sales of middleware components and development tools. As a necessary side effect, they create a market for third parties to port code they've already written to the new middleware and applications components running on the new platform, without actually providing additional value for the intentional binary incompatibility of the user space code.
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Forced "upgrades" which aren't actually "upgrades", since they don't provide fixes without damaging binary compatibility, are almost always a bad idea.
Not that Apple is completely innocent of this tactic with regard to new iOS versions; they've recently disabled the ability to turn off sync and update downloads happening over the cellular data connection, even though there are usage caps and extra costs to the user if this is left on, and they consistently pop up complaint dialogs when they can't fit the update into the storage on a 16G iPhone, and suggest you delete stuff to make room.
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In any case, the Windows XP end of life has been handled very, very badly, and the papers author has some great points, from a legal perspective, given the findings of fact on the monopolistic power by the courts in the Netscape case.
I have read this a number of times and I can only assume you have never used a windows computer. The versions of office and windows are in no way restricted, I am running components form Office 2003, 2010 and 2013 on Windows 7 and Office XP, 2003 and 2010 on windows XP.
Windows Vista, 7 and 8 all have compatibility mode which tries with varying degrees of success to fool older pieces of software that they are running old versions of windows.
Apple and Steve Jobs who you seem to hold up as the paragons of backwards compatibility virtue are(where) awful at any form of backwards compatibility or support Snow Leopard (10.6 released 08/09) does not get the same level of patching that the Lion (10.7 07/11) and Mountain Lion (10.8 07/12) and Mavericks (10.9 10/13) get Leopard (10.5 10/07) is unsupported.
Microsoft is no longer considered to be anti-trust the sanctions imposed expired in 2007, Microsoft agreed to a two year extension and offered to continue complying until 2012 although the DOJ turned down the offer. So a case brought in 2001 for actions in the 90s and all punishments or restrictions expired five years ago probably has little baring on 2014 where their market share has dropped form 95% to 65%
The US dollar may or may not lose it's status as the worlds reserve currency however, their is still a massive gap between that and losing credibility as a currency.
There are somewhere between 189 and 204 countries in the world depending on how you count them and they have about 190 currencies. where you place the US dollar in the order of credibility is up to the individual but I don't think many people are going to rank it below the Sudanese pound.
The best thing for a carrier group to do in this situation if they detect a sub and the rules of engagement prevent an attack is to pretend that it has not been detected. The only people who know if the carrier group was surprised is the US Navy and every one else is trying to guess what is better Chinese stealth or US sonar.
Just to up the pedantry once more the island or Ireland is however geographically part of the British Isles as is the Isle of Man. Wikipedia has a Venn diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venn_of_UK.png
You do realise that the most right wing European leaders would have problems getting elected as democrats in the USA due to their policy’s, such as socialised medicine and social security.
Plus the rest of the world has agreed on some rules for warfare that we mostly try to stick to, and one of the most important ones is not deliberately targeting civilians.
In 1945 targeting civilians was the norm, the USA had been bombing Japan and Germany for three years, The UK had been bombing Germany since 1940, Germany had been bombing the UK since 1940, and The Japanese had been killing civilians in China since 1930. The only people not killing foreign civilians on mass were the USSR because they were too busy killing their own civilians.
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I have read this a number of times and I can only assume you have never used a windows computer. The versions of office and windows are in no way restricted, I am running components form Office 2003, 2010 and 2013 on Windows 7 and Office XP, 2003 and 2010 on windows XP.
Windows Vista, 7 and 8 all have compatibility mode which tries with varying degrees of success to fool older pieces of software that they are running old versions of windows.
32 bit Office 2000 doesn't work on Windows 7.
Neither does it work on Windows 1. I have just had a quick google and there are lots of posts claiming to have it working on windows 8 however, you are looking back five versions of office before you find one which does not work.
Please name another software vendor who provide this level of support.
Further, the software packages of this type from Microsoft are tied to a specific version of the Windows Operating system; that is, you can not take a version of Office intended for use on Windows XP, and run it on Windows 7 or later versions of the Microsoft OS platform. This explicit and intentional tying is monopolistic in nature. Further, the glue code for the vertical market systems previously mentions, *also* will not run on non-XP platforms.
Effectively, this means that Microsoft is leveraging their monopoly position in operating systems - specifically, with regard to the discontinuation of support for XP - into additional sales of non-OS Microsoft products, and to sales of middleware components and development tools. As a necessary side effect, they create a market for third parties to port code they've already written to the new middleware and applications components running on the new platform, without actually providing additional value for the intentional binary incompatibility of the user space code.
...
Forced "upgrades" which aren't actually "upgrades", since they don't provide fixes without damaging binary compatibility, are almost always a bad idea.
Not that Apple is completely innocent of this tactic with regard to new iOS versions; they've recently disabled the ability to turn off sync and update downloads happening over the cellular data connection, even though there are usage caps and extra costs to the user if this is left on, and they consistently pop up complaint dialogs when they can't fit the update into the storage on a 16G iPhone, and suggest you delete stuff to make room.
In any case, the Windows XP end of life has been handled very, very badly, and the papers author has some great points, from a legal perspective, given the findings of fact on the monopolistic power by the courts in the Netscape case.
I have read this a number of times and I can only assume you have never used a windows computer. The versions of office and windows are in no way restricted, I am running components form Office 2003, 2010 and 2013 on Windows 7 and Office XP, 2003 and 2010 on windows XP.
Windows Vista, 7 and 8 all have compatibility mode which tries with varying degrees of success to fool older pieces of software that they are running old versions of windows.
Apple and Steve Jobs who you seem to hold up as the paragons of backwards compatibility virtue are(where) awful at any form of backwards compatibility or support Snow Leopard (10.6 released 08/09) does not get the same level of patching that the Lion (10.7 07/11) and Mountain Lion (10.8 07/12) and Mavericks (10.9 10/13) get Leopard (10.5 10/07) is unsupported.
Microsoft is no longer considered to be anti-trust the sanctions imposed expired in 2007, Microsoft agreed to a two year extension and offered to continue complying until 2012 although the DOJ turned down the offer. So a case brought in 2001 for actions in the 90s and all punishments or restrictions expired five years ago probably has little baring on 2014 where their market share has dropped form 95% to 65%
There are somewhere between 189 and 204 countries in the world depending on how you count them and they have about 190 currencies. where you place the US dollar in the order of credibility is up to the individual but I don't think many people are going to rank it below the Sudanese pound.
Oblig XKCD https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
An armed society is a polite society.
it obviously isn't.
He would be detained in the area of the airport which is legally outside the USA.
"Vunce ze rockets are up, who cares vere zey come down? "Zat's not mein department!" says Werner von Braun.
Werner von Braun's autobiography is called "I Aim For the Stars" the unofficial sub title is "But Sometimes I Hit London"
And therefore, I'm just going to go with "Phasers don't have to deliver 3 GJ to vaporize a Klingon."
Yes Klingons are generally bigger and wear armour.
That and they keep digging bodies up from his garden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Sexual_assault_charges http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012wjcx/Russia_The_Wild_East_Series_2_The_Secret_Speech_Scramble_for_Power/
You where a lot closer than the USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Civil_War
The last war between equal first world nations was the Falklands and carriers won it. Baby carriers with toy aircraft at that.
The best thing for a carrier group to do in this situation if they detect a sub and the rules of engagement prevent an attack is to pretend that it has not been detected. The only people who know if the carrier group was surprised is the US Navy and every one else is trying to guess what is better Chinese stealth or US sonar.
It would also make the UK government happy at the moment.
Cancer, Heart Attack, Massive car crash, Attacked on the street ...
So how are ISPs doing in Manhatten and LA?
That the church has committed these atrocities and corrupted governments just goes to show how well organised and effective the system is.
Just to up the pedantry once more the island or Ireland is however geographically part of the British Isles as is the Isle of Man. Wikipedia has a Venn diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venn_of_UK.png
All the British TV stations exist by government mandate
Ask SCO how well that worked against IBM
You do realise that the most right wing European leaders would have problems getting elected as democrats in the USA due to their policy’s, such as socialised medicine and social security.
1/ They got the credit for the bomb.
2/ The emergency services respond and the IRA could clame they where the target.
You have misread the story, the USS Enterprise is 1,123 ft (342 m) long and the USS Constitution is 204 ft (62 m).
Plus the rest of the world has agreed on some rules for warfare that we mostly try to stick to, and one of the most important ones is not deliberately targeting civilians.
In 1945 targeting civilians was the norm, the USA had been bombing Japan and Germany for three years, The UK had been bombing Germany since 1940, Germany had been bombing the UK since 1940, and The Japanese had been killing civilians in China since 1930. The only people not killing foreign civilians on mass were the USSR because they were too busy killing their own civilians.
"we're not even based in your country, so your laws mean precisely as much as we allow them to"
Ask Kim Dotcom and Megaupload how well that argument works.