The full version will sell for $300, and upgrades from a previous version of WordPerfect or a competing product will cost $150.
Have they been hanging out too close to the glue bins in the packaging department? Let's see, you want to grow your user base. So you have to convice people to leave Microsoft Office and not go with a lower to no cost (I know, there is TCO) solution that supports the same file format. And so you set your price right up there with Microsoft Office. WTF? Do they think they are competing only with Microsoft?
Making a superflu? Did they read the memo wrong? We need something to FIGHT a superflu! Hey guys, your scientist, we expected you pay a bit more attention to the details.
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If we were really number one, you wouldn't have just posted this here. You would have emailed it out to everyone you know and many addresses that don't exist but thought you would give them a try.
P.S. Don't use the To: field when there is a perfectly good BCC: field that will do
hereby terminate SCO's rights to redistribute any versions of
If we assume that NMap or any and all GPL software can do that (I've been reading the big debate above about wether they can/can not do this but here me out)and all GPL software begins to do this then, over time, you might get to a situation where computer users must pick between an ALL GPL'd system or an ALL Non-GPL'd system. I run both GNU/Linux one one machine and Microsoft Windows products laced with GPL'd software on another. The good news is that Microsoft is not as either bold or dumb as SCO so this future will not come to pass but I bet Richard M. Stallman wouldn't like ring-side seats for it.
Now, I doubt it would ever come to this. It could be possible to shun a particular system. Heck, Microsoft tried do this with it's OEM channel and the big PC makers.
In the end, I think this is fair but would make setting up a system that is legally complaint a little more difficult (than apparently SCO is trying to make it).
Doing some C/C++ programming, I put this in the same class with the concept of "garbage collection." After I read about it, I wondered why it hasn't been there from the beginning.
Self modifying code apps would be affected. And I think that is a good thing because you would want to ferret out such things in your systems.
Writing self-modifying code was the first thing my Assembler instructor put his foot down and said, "bad idea, don't even think about it." I could see you could do it easily with assembler.
I would entertain listening to cases where self-mod'ing code has its place.
I think this came from a Scott Adams (he was the telco industry and not yet the famous comic strip writer that we know and love) book, or maybe I heard it from somewhere else but it made sense: The challenge for telco's doing HighSpeed (DSL) was that they had mastered two-way personal communication but only at very low speeds. The phone system was designed for calls averaging only 3 minutes long. The cable companies knew how to deliver media, but only in one direction.
My power company only delivers 3 things: high bills (like I will want to give them extra money), power and, my favorite, power spikes (I've gone through two coffee pots, 3 baby monitors and a dozen AC adapters for various things). Yes, the equipment is built by someone else but it will be installed and managed by people that are delivering the first and third things above. This does not have warm and fuzzy written all over it.
We'll for some, a 3rd choice will be welcomed to drive rates down. For other's at least a single choice will be welcomed. More power to them.
And the winner shall be the search engine that get's what I want somewhere in the first page of results. I know this is a combination of the following:
Size: how many documents are in the index
Ease-of-Use: how intuitive is it and how much functionality is there for me to specify what I am looking for (try putting TLA's in your search, can you opt out of blogs or include them, etc.)
Rankings: how are the results ranked (tied to "Ease-of-use" above). Great the web page I want is on the 5th page. Trust me, 99% of us probably will give up before we find it.
When a web search says that it found 1.7 billion documents that might have what you need, your search criteria is not narrowed enough. An yes, when it shows that it found those 1.7 billion documents in 45msec, that is just some ego stroking.
Actually the most installed distro HAS to be Knoppix. I "install" it every time I reboot! (I have a laptop plugged into an outlet across the room and my 3yr old likes to kick the power out every other day). I alone am probably responsible for half the knoppix installations if such things could be tracked.
This type of information is interesting to know but is less useful than Linux as a whole (all distributions) and how it compares to competitors. This info could be made more useful if it is broken out by Sales vs. Free (as in beer) downloads and company/group for business use vs. hobbyist for personal or educaiton use.
I read a review of about a dozen distributions and being only familiary with very early Slackware and RedHat (from v.4) was supprised at how different they are. I just recently downloaded Knoppix and I see a real niche for it. I have some old equipment and want to know if there is a distro that will perform less sluggish than the latest RedHat 9 (either through a default config options or ommisions of unnecessary packages).
However, I have found value in going with the popular thing (how often is the majority wront?) sometimes so yes, after all this "useful?" speak, I see some value in these kinds of things from some angle.
Nah, this is nothing new. My three year old has tried to send every ballon he has got is hands on straight to Mars. We have started tying little loops in the string for his wrists to stop this.
If they can get a ballon that high, I say go for it.
A group of consultants and I played Age of Empires each week on our out-of-town gig. After several weeks, we got to be pretty good. I finally jumped on the Microsoft game server and played against a bunch of high-school and college kids and realized I could probably never win against them. I'm pretty sure it was because they had almost infinitly more time on the game than a working, traveling husband and father.
1) Looks like the IT work was being done on a budget. I mean they are not hiring Anderson to do this stuff right (OK, bad example, I know...)
2) But someone was paying SOME money if it could be subcontracted multiple times and the work was getting done...or was it.
3) It looks like it was contracted DOWN past someone's ability to do the job. It is kind of the opposite of the Peter's principle. Non interesting IT work keeps getting pushed down the chain until it is in the hands of someone that can't do the job. (If I just invented it, please don't call it the chamilto effect as I don't want my handle associated with this behaviour)
4) At the bottom of this there is always some careless sap that didn't know what they were doing wrong should get them slapped upside the head for thinking about it. This person was even worse because the article states that someone pointed out to him his error and then he...DID IT AGAIN!
Incidnet's like this require multiple wrongs and then will require a whole lot of legal work and policies and rules and regulations that will be once again thwarted by the idiots that inhabit this planet.
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I don't know why companies don't set up more in office guest friendly networks along side their intranets. Wi-Fi would be the perfect medium for them. I have been in sales and consulting for many years and am often on-site there at my customers/prospects completely cut-off from the rest of the world and not as productive as I could be just because it is too much of a bother to give me real network access.
My needs are small:
HTTP
POP/IMAP
VPN
SSH
Printer
I mean, you let me into security without checking for firearms...you think I have time to abuse a guest network?
We have just moved on from blaming Role Playing Games like Advancded Dungeons & Dragons to Video Games. Same story (my prayers are with the victims now) but different target.
Maxis, get busy on SimTeen. Force parents to play it so they can see how to get better scores. This is a story where the players wish they could open from a previous auto-save.
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Wow, I've seen the images sent back from the rover. Nevada is cool.
Yet another post by someone who didn't click-thru to the article
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If we assume that NMap or any and all GPL software can do that (I've been reading the big debate above about wether they can/can not do this but here me out) and all GPL software begins to do this then, over time, you might get to a situation where computer users must pick between an ALL GPL'd system or an ALL Non-GPL'd system. I run both GNU/Linux one one machine and Microsoft Windows products laced with GPL'd software on another. The good news is that Microsoft is not as either bold or dumb as SCO so this future will not come to pass but I bet Richard M. Stallman wouldn't like ring-side seats for it.
Now, I doubt it would ever come to this. It could be possible to shun a particular system. Heck, Microsoft tried do this with it's OEM channel and the big PC makers.
In the end, I think this is fair but would make setting up a system that is legally complaint a little more difficult (than apparently SCO is trying to make it).
Only in Atlanta would an idea like, "Shoot it a bunch of times and see if it goes away" would such a solution be born.
Doing some C/C++ programming, I put this in the same class with the concept of "garbage collection." After I read about it, I wondered why it hasn't been there from the beginning.
Writing self-modifying code was the first thing my Assembler instructor put his foot down and said, "bad idea, don't even think about it." I could see you could do it easily with assembler.
I would entertain listening to cases where self-mod'ing code has its place.
But then it is not SPAM anymore is it? SPAM is unsolicited commercial email. If you are aggregating it then it is no longer unsolicited.
Screw the traffic LED on the router, my lamps-a-blink'n.
My power company only delivers 3 things: high bills (like I will want to give them extra money), power and, my favorite, power spikes (I've gone through two coffee pots, 3 baby monitors and a dozen AC adapters for various things). Yes, the equipment is built by someone else but it will be installed and managed by people that are delivering the first and third things above. This does not have warm and fuzzy written all over it.
We'll for some, a 3rd choice will be welcomed to drive rates down. For other's at least a single choice will be welcomed. More power to them.
When a web search says that it found 1.7 billion documents that might have what you need, your search criteria is not narrowed enough. An yes, when it shows that it found those 1.7 billion documents in 45msec, that is just some ego stroking.
Actually the most installed distro HAS to be Knoppix. I "install" it every time I reboot! (I have a laptop plugged into an outlet across the room and my 3yr old likes to kick the power out every other day). I alone am probably responsible for half the knoppix installations if such things could be tracked.
I read a review of about a dozen distributions and being only familiary with very early Slackware and RedHat (from v.4) was supprised at how different they are. I just recently downloaded Knoppix and I see a real niche for it. I have some old equipment and want to know if there is a distro that will perform less sluggish than the latest RedHat 9 (either through a default config options or ommisions of unnecessary packages).
However, I have found value in going with the popular thing (how often is the majority wront?) sometimes so yes, after all this "useful?" speak, I see some value in these kinds of things from some angle.
Nah, this is nothing new. My three year old has tried to send every ballon he has got is hands on straight to Mars. We have started tying little loops in the string for his wrists to stop this.
If they can get a ballon that high, I say go for it.
A group of consultants and I played Age of Empires each week on our out-of-town gig. After several weeks, we got to be pretty good. I finally jumped on the Microsoft game server and played against a bunch of high-school and college kids and realized I could probably never win against them. I'm pretty sure it was because they had almost infinitly more time on the game than a working, traveling husband and father.
This has probably happened to each of us but we have yet done the proper google search to yet find out.
I see several problems:
1) Looks like the IT work was being done on a budget. I mean they are not hiring Anderson to do this stuff right (OK, bad example, I know...)
2) But someone was paying SOME money if it could be subcontracted multiple times and the work was getting done...or was it.
3) It looks like it was contracted DOWN past someone's ability to do the job. It is kind of the opposite of the Peter's principle. Non interesting IT work keeps getting pushed down the chain until it is in the hands of someone that can't do the job. (If I just invented it, please don't call it the chamilto effect as I don't want my handle associated with this behaviour)
4) At the bottom of this there is always some careless sap that didn't know what they were doing wrong should get them slapped upside the head for thinking about it. This person was even worse because the article states that someone pointed out to him his error and then he...DID IT AGAIN!
Incidnet's like this require multiple wrongs and then will require a whole lot of legal work and policies and rules and regulations that will be once again thwarted by the idiots that inhabit this planet.
My needs are small:
I mean, you let me into security without checking for firearms...you think I have time to abuse a guest network?
I read the article. I wonder if my job is at stake too! How far do the hands of Microsoft reach?
We have just moved on from blaming Role Playing Games like Advancded Dungeons & Dragons to Video Games. Same story (my prayers are with the victims now) but different target. Maxis, get busy on SimTeen. Force parents to play it so they can see how to get better scores. This is a story where the players wish they could open from a previous auto-save.