Weird, never seen this behavior with the most recent version of the software. Could be worse, though. You could be using the five year old version of the OO spreadsheet.
Perhaps the real reason that Microsoft has been slow to adapt tabs in IE is they realize how they screwed up in eliminating MDI, instead of just improving its interface. They want to postpone the inevitable day when they have to resurrect MDI with tabs, and the associated ribbing they'll get from the rest of the industry when they do that.
I doubt it. They are already (and have been for nearly 10 years) using a tabbed MDI scheme for Visual Studio (their development software).
Do you also never open more than one document at a time in a given instance of Word or Excel?
Both of these applications went SDI a LONG time ago. The technical answer to your question, though, is yes. Subsequent documents are opened in the same instance of the program, but each document lives in a seperate top level window.
Well, you can actually hire lawyers. As employees. Trades the whole percentage/hourly billing thing for a nice yearly salary. So assuming they have a few lawyers and small army of paralegals (who are fairly inexpensive) doing the majority of the gruntwork I'd answer your question with "very little".
The problem with that is that Google (for now?) has zip, zilch, nada, and nil to gain directly by ranking any given server up or down.
I disagree. As Microsoft is a competetor anything that Google can do to cut into their bottom line nets them something. Reduced revenue seems to quickly affect R&D budgets. And R&D is where Microsoft writes off a lot of attempted forrays into Google's space.
I'm not bill g and don't work at microsoft, but I'll wager my left testicle that the backlash from them breaking *every* vb app with a service pack or security update would be so violent and sudden that it simply won't happen. You have (or you may) no idea about the sheer volume of legacy custom code floating around out there that was written in VB. The idea that they would actually break all of that is nothing but the wet dream of a thousand open source zealots wanting to chirp "I told you so" over and over. Ain't gonna happen.
Um, and the betas for VS.NET 2005 are also free (as in gratis). The only thing that has changed here is that MS is actually telling developers they can release software written with the beta versions in production environments.
Now I can't understand why anyone would actually WANT to do this, but all they did was give people the option.
What about the county courthouse, they have your warranty deeds and trustee deeds on file with your addresses on those as well.
Funny you mention this. The counties are usually willing to sell the entire file and provide a (usually cobol) record layout for this information. I'm smack dab in the middle of a project merging these databases from the counties in my state (for now) into a single, searchable entity.
Coins are more expensive to make (both in material and actual money), are bulkier (this more difficult/expensive to ship) and heavy. So no, paper currency isn't likely to go anywhere.
Coins are are actually more cost effective. They generally last about 30 years. Bills usually last about 18 months.
How about the same idea, just no robots. They could use something similar to today's "full service attendant".
Since you would always be doing a one for one trade on the battery so there would be no net loss in that number to the stations. The attendant could make sure that a battery is in good enough shape for trade and perhaps sell a new (or refurbished) unit when it started looking rough. And you can bet that the cost of having to occaisionally replacing a bum battery will be factored into the price you pay for a "refill".
A model like this solves one of the biggest problems of electric cars (which is not the limited range as much as it is the downtime before you can drive again after you have exhausted the battery) that it should be at least given some consideration.
I'm pulling for these guys. Companies tend to have the nasty habit of using what they call contractors to get out of paying taxes and benifits that they really should be. If you go to the IRS website and look up the rules which are used to determine whether someone is an employee or contractor it's clear that rules are being broken.
If a company uses DRM to place unacceptable restrictions on what I purchase I'll simply not buy it. It's really that simple. And I'm sure a lot of other people will do the same. All the DRM will do is stop people from using it in a way which the companies don't "like". Which is fine by me as the choice to buy or not to buy is always going to be mine to make.
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It tends to align the interests of consumers and Microsoft.
Then please explain to me why the the only people who seem really passionate about this don't even use windows?
Does google filter its content for china?
They let it slip by them in the DOS days when they released a nifty shell the thing with an executible named DOSHELL.EXE.
We all know microsoft doesn't trust windows to run its webservers!
Weird, never seen this behavior with the most recent version of the software. Could be worse, though. You could be using the five year old version of the OO spreadsheet.
Perhaps the real reason that Microsoft has been slow to adapt tabs in IE is they realize how they screwed up in eliminating MDI, instead of just improving its interface. They want to postpone the inevitable day when they have to resurrect MDI with tabs, and the associated ribbing they'll get from the rest of the industry when they do that.
I doubt it. They are already (and have been for nearly 10 years) using a tabbed MDI scheme for Visual Studio (their development software).
Do you also never open more than one document at a time in a given instance of Word or Excel?
Both of these applications went SDI a LONG time ago. The technical answer to your question, though, is yes. Subsequent documents are opened in the same instance of the program, but each document lives in a seperate top level window.
Well, you can actually hire lawyers. As employees. Trades the whole percentage/hourly billing thing for a nice yearly salary. So assuming they have a few lawyers and small army of paralegals (who are fairly inexpensive) doing the majority of the gruntwork I'd answer your question with "very little".
The problem with that is that Google (for now?) has zip, zilch, nada, and nil to gain directly by ranking any given server up or down.
I disagree. As Microsoft is a competetor anything that Google can do to cut into their bottom line nets them something. Reduced revenue seems to quickly affect R&D budgets. And R&D is where Microsoft writes off a lot of attempted forrays into Google's space.
And all of the uber loot that the players have spent real money purchasing is going to be going bye bye? I'd be worried about folks suing.
When's the last time Rare made a game, period?
No one takes their sweet time quite like them.
I'm not bill g and don't work at microsoft, but I'll wager my left testicle that the backlash from them breaking *every* vb app with a service pack or security update would be so violent and sudden that it simply won't happen. You have (or you may) no idea about the sheer volume of legacy custom code floating around out there that was written in VB. The idea that they would actually break all of that is nothing but the wet dream of a thousand open source zealots wanting to chirp "I told you so" over and over. Ain't gonna happen.
I think you are thinking of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool which is not quite the anti-spyware tool that they also produce.
Did the vbrun dlls explode last week? Did some time based code lock them out and cause them quit working and FORCE you to upgrade?
Um, and the betas for VS.NET 2005 are also free (as in gratis). The only thing that has changed here is that MS is actually telling developers they can release software written with the beta versions in production environments.
Now I can't understand why anyone would actually WANT to do this, but all they did was give people the option.
Yeah, but they are not actually selling it. So much for that theory.
Dell already bundles a non-MS office suite. I have about 10 of the cd's sitting around at the office. Want one? Hell, want 10?
What about the county courthouse, they have your warranty deeds and trustee deeds on file with your addresses on those as well.
Funny you mention this. The counties are usually willing to sell the entire file and provide a (usually cobol) record layout for this information. I'm smack dab in the middle of a project merging these databases from the counties in my state (for now) into a single, searchable entity.
Coins are more expensive to make (both in material and actual money), are bulkier (this more difficult/expensive to ship) and heavy. So no, paper currency isn't likely to go anywhere.
Coins are are actually more cost effective. They generally last about 30 years. Bills usually last about 18 months.
How about the same idea, just no robots. They could use something similar to today's "full service attendant".
Since you would always be doing a one for one trade on the battery so there would be no net loss in that number to the stations. The attendant could make sure that a battery is in good enough shape for trade and perhaps sell a new (or refurbished) unit when it started looking rough. And you can bet that the cost of having to occaisionally replacing a bum battery will be factored into the price you pay for a "refill".
A model like this solves one of the biggest problems of electric cars (which is not the limited range as much as it is the downtime before you can drive again after you have exhausted the battery) that it should be at least given some consideration.
Dell already puts a WordPerfect suite on most new machines, so I doubt they would have any trouble bundling a different one.
It's not perfectly legal.
I'm pulling for these guys. Companies tend to have the nasty habit of using what they call contractors to get out of paying taxes and benifits that they really should be. If you go to the IRS website and look up the rules which are used to determine whether someone is an employee or contractor it's clear that rules are being broken.
This one was, a few weeks ago. Not sure if it still does.
If a company uses DRM to place unacceptable restrictions on what I purchase I'll simply not buy it. It's really that simple. And I'm sure a lot of other people will do the same. All the DRM will do is stop people from using it in a way which the companies don't "like". Which is fine by me as the choice to buy or not to buy is always going to be mine to make.