The Economist is qualified to make statements about the perceived financial benefits of different operating systems, they are not qualified to make predictions on software development. The only insight I gleened from your post is that the majority of Slashdot moderators run Windows.
Not worth the effort. Over the period I ran Opera only two ads appeared, the University of Phoenix and Opera. It wasn't close to being intrusive or distracting, and a small price to pay for a really nice piece of essentially free software.
You wish. There's an army of Gates and Balmers out there waiting to take their place. If things continue as they are in fifteen years we might be looking back whistfully on the good old Redmond days.
Posted before I could. The parent was post was a sleight of hand, link to a large list and hope no one confirms the contents. I'd wager most of them are divisions bought or created by the major labels. Warner and Virgin alone have at have five enties under their own name each.
Usenet has good and bad points. It's unimportant to marketing departments so they won't waste time astroturfing like they do on (cough.... cough) popular technology web forums. Normal users still have biases and product affiliations to read around, take a look at the ATI trolls on an Nvidia usenet forum. Most importantly, unless it's a regular there's no way to judge the quality of the source. A game could studder and balk for dozens of system-related reason completely unrelated to game code. I'd have to know the source very well before trusting a game review based on a KT133/Nvidia/SBLive review for example, a nasty combination of hardware to stabilize.
Which highlights an important point, without knowing the hardware, and possibly video drivers, of the computer an in-store demo might be of no value at all in judging a monitor. The only safe bet is a money back return agreement.
A car is speeding towards a tree. Someone calls out "That car is going to hit the tree!" You object that because bumper hasn't yet met bark, it won't? Extremely powerful and influential elements are at work to remove a minor part - the Sunset Clause - of a very large Act. Judging by the almost complete apathy of the American puplic to its passing, it looks to me to be a cakewalk. Claiming it's not going to happen is far more misleading that saying it is.
Tax is a perfect analogy. Income tax was enacted as a temporary measure to fund, if I recall, World War 1. Income Tax never left and neither will the Patriot Act once formalized. The government admits no accountability in passing it and they won't listen to your pleas for a repeal. This is about power, the utilitarianism you espouse is just another tool in its pursuit.
Defeat the Act now or accept that your grandchildren will know of democracy only through history books.
Poor reasoning. You simply picked something worse from the past and derivied a conclusion about current overall trends from a single static point on a curve. By similar reasoning, the Japanese had it good by not being forced to work on plantations. Look back on the 18th century, didn't Americans kept Africans as property? So things must be getting better now.
Over the last twenty years your civil liberties have taken a very hard hit. That it's still better than what the Japanese or Blacks went through is neither relevant or comforting. Unless you're of the opinion we don't need to worry until plantations and internment camps return (Guantanamo Bay excepted of course.)
Seeing as far, far fewer than 10% of all artists with a release stand a snowball's chance in hell of ever getting radio play, it wouldn't surprise me if the remaining 90% would take any publicity they could get. It's established, signed artist (and by no means all of them) who most vigourously defend their 'product'.
One recommendation, substitute the Morphix Lite CD for Knoppix. KDE and/or Gnome are a little heavy for a repair disk, ML is essentially IceWM-based Knoppix.
I wonder if there isn't another reason. The internal political climate of a company that large and successful can't be too conducive to radical product changes. Maybe this is a way to inject new ideas without ruffling feathers.
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WikiOffice?
Quality if implmentation has no relation to validity of concept.
The Economist is qualified to make statements about the perceived financial benefits of different operating systems, they are not qualified to make predictions on software development. The only insight I gleened from your post is that the majority of Slashdot moderators run Windows.
Opera is much faster than Mozilla and has a smaller memory footprint. Neither is really important on newer hardware, run what better suits your style.
Not worth the effort. Over the period I ran Opera only two ads appeared, the University of Phoenix and Opera. It wasn't close to being intrusive or distracting, and a small price to pay for a really nice piece of essentially free software.
You wish. There's an army of Gates and Balmers out there waiting to take their place. If things continue as they are in fifteen years we might be looking back whistfully on the good old Redmond days.
Posted before I could. The parent was post was a sleight of hand, link to a large list and hope no one confirms the contents. I'd wager most of them are divisions bought or created by the major labels. Warner and Virgin alone have at have five enties under their own name each.
Usenet has good and bad points. It's unimportant to marketing departments so they won't waste time astroturfing like they do on (cough.... cough) popular technology web forums. Normal users still have biases and product affiliations to read around, take a look at the ATI trolls on an Nvidia usenet forum. Most importantly, unless it's a regular there's no way to judge the quality of the source. A game could studder and balk for dozens of system-related reason completely unrelated to game code. I'd have to know the source very well before trusting a game review based on a KT133/Nvidia/SBLive review for example, a nasty combination of hardware to stabilize.
Which highlights an important point, without knowing the hardware, and possibly video drivers, of the computer an in-store demo might be of no value at all in judging a monitor. The only safe bet is a money back return agreement.
A car is speeding towards a tree. Someone calls out "That car is going to hit the tree!" You object that because bumper hasn't yet met bark, it won't? Extremely powerful and influential elements are at work to remove a minor part - the Sunset Clause - of a very large Act. Judging by the almost complete apathy of the American puplic to its passing, it looks to me to be a cakewalk. Claiming it's not going to happen is far more misleading that saying it is.
Defeat the Act now or accept that your grandchildren will know of democracy only through history books.
Over the last twenty years your civil liberties have taken a very hard hit. That it's still better than what the Japanese or Blacks went through is neither relevant or comforting. Unless you're of the opinion we don't need to worry until plantations and internment camps return (Guantanamo Bay excepted of course.)
Very nice but limited. No .avi support.
Seeing as far, far fewer than 10% of all artists with a release stand a snowball's chance in hell of ever getting radio play, it wouldn't surprise me if the remaining 90% would take any publicity they could get. It's established, signed artist (and by no means all of them) who most vigourously defend their 'product'.
I would think that by now the history of Microsoft's business practices rule out cynicism.
Usually they're not saying it isn't good if isn't Open Source, just saying it's better when it is.
One recommendation, substitute the Morphix Lite CD for Knoppix. KDE and/or Gnome are a little heavy for a repair disk, ML is essentially IceWM-based Knoppix.
I am humbled in the presence of such an intellect. To have brought joy to your day fulfills my purpose for being.
I wonder if there isn't another reason. The internal political climate of a company that large and successful can't be too conducive to radical product changes. Maybe this is a way to inject new ideas without ruffling feathers.