The Tivo/DVR watchers are skipping the commercials because for the most part they are annoying. This should be seen as a strong feedback signal to the advertisers that their methods do more to annoy than to inform.
1. I know of no customer who has switched browsers at a corporate level.
maybe he should stop by and check out all the Netscape / Safari installed on the machines here at school. or does ~1000 workstations count as corporate?
OE's ability to retrieve from hotmail owes to MS owning both of them. and I'm wondering, is there anyone who receives anything besides spam at their hotmail address?
I'm fairly sure the decision was based on Microsoft's failure to support Hebrew in MS Office for MacOS, despite supporting other right-to-left languages. this was mentioned in another/. story noting that Israel had suspended all contracts with Microsoft.
I guess MS can't get away with cutting too many corners anymore...
"real user-friendliness" and "automated support of recent consumer hardware" are very different things. a lot of people find the GNOME and KDE desktop environments to be very user-friendly, as far as the current state of the Linux application base and hardware support go.
I, for one, find it very friendly that I can install and upgrade my OS for free, and that when I do so, it includes all of the things I need (web and internet applications, media software, graphics software, office and productivity)... with the base installation.
as mr. szulik says, improved hardware support will depend on hardware manufacturers' cooperation, for the most part, and thankfully that has been improving of late.
there's *still* no legal way to purchase them at all, except for going to pawn shops / thrift stores / soon, antique stores... DRM rental *isn't* a purchase any more than renting a video from blockbuster is a purchase.
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oh, for a mod point.
the reason NYTimes is annoying is because a link to the article is not a link to the article, but to some redirector crap. mod grandparent up.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/emmy.html
some of them are pretty convincing
you stole my fucking page widener! asshole!
oh yeah, loving pureftpd. thanks!
maybe he should stop by and check out all the Netscape / Safari installed on the machines here at school. or does ~1000 workstations count as corporate?
OE's ability to retrieve from hotmail owes to MS owning both of them. and I'm wondering, is there anyone who receives anything besides spam at their hotmail address?
only internet hipsters say "I'm gunna google fer'it".
you're thinking of the "Only English Dictionary."
a sad day at slashdot when 'virii' makes the front page.... tsk, tsk
I don't know what ancient build of gaim you've tried, but it does file transfers quite well.
SCORE!
of course, if really need a quality mathematics typesetting solution, neither MS Office nor OO.org are going to help you much.
It doesn't matter if WordPerfect has more functionality if we cannot import our old WordStar documents.
I guess MS can't get away with cutting too many corners anymore ...
firebird is beta software. if you need a production grade browser, use mozilla 1.5. have a nice day.
woah, no kidding?
I, for one, find it very friendly that I can install and upgrade my OS for free, and that when I do so, it includes all of the things I need (web and internet applications, media software, graphics software, office and productivity) ... with the base installation.
as mr. szulik says, improved hardware support will depend on hardware manufacturers' cooperation, for the most part, and thankfully that has been improving of late.
you call it "my house" as opposed to "my concrete slab".
XML checker results
The document appears to be well-formed. What gives?
sucks, eh?
there's *still* no legal way to purchase them at all, except for going to pawn shops / thrift stores / soon, antique stores ... DRM rental *isn't* a purchase any more than renting a video from blockbuster is a purchase.
haha "windows firewire port"
keep 'em comin!
no, THAT's windows messenger. the IM client is MSN messenger. get it straight WinBoi!
I buy new records on vinyl all the time. in fact, most records I buy are new releases. you must be going to the wrong shops :-)
you have almost nothing to gain compiling *anything* from source unless it's a kernel, a kernel module, or bleeding-edge multimedia software.