On all occasions, they judged the underlying functionality by its presentation before they had even typed a word, and found somebody to provide a pirated copy of Office 2003.
I've found the same thing. Heck, I switched back myself, after finding OO.o's interface clunky and awkward, and greatly in need of at least a barrel of polish.
PDF is, however, not a web medium. PDF is a medium that is designed to be downloaded and later printed off, retaining all its formatting, imagery and fonts. I don't even get why people are comparing PDF to Flash animations, they're designed for completely different things.
The people who are really going to feel this are the people who actually buy the upgrades, who install the newer versions from CDs they've *bought*. In short, the people who buy Microsoft Products. They're going to buy the cheaper version and realise that they can't do everything they could with the new version that they could with the old one. So, they'll probably either switch back to the old, or see what the other options are.
Am I seriously the only person for whom Miranda has never worked (i.e. crashed repeatedly before even getting started up), despite trying it in three different versions of Windows?
Q. Why isn't the Windows version free?
A. Building X-Chat for Windows is a difficult process, it requires quite some skill and expertise to accomplish. It takes time, and is by no means automated.
Q. Has the license for X-Chat changed?
A. The Windows version is shareware, however, you may still download the source code, released under the G.P.L.
Q. What if I compile my own version from the source code?
A. You are quite welcome to do so, and redistribute it under the terms of the G.P.L. license.
They even have a link to a zip containing all the libraries you'll need.
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Did you try filling the bath with mercury?
You just wait until Clippy is replaced by the Bonzi Buddy.
You try running GTK apps under windows and you'll see the meaning of the word "clunk".
Not least because no sensible person would ever take a graphics card made by Intel off a shelf, let alone put one in a computer.
The restaurant chain Wagamama's does this at the moment with existing PDAs. It's shiny, but anyone could do it if they wanted to.
At least ReactOS users should be able to compile it happily. :)
Said Captain Open-minded.
Still, there's always Haiku.
The Microsoft Procurement Dept. were later slightly confused by the order for "100 barrels of hot, flaming napalm".
PDF is, however, not a web medium. PDF is a medium that is designed to be downloaded and later printed off, retaining all its formatting, imagery and fonts. I don't even get why people are comparing PDF to Flash animations, they're designed for completely different things.
Could you theoretically open up the end of the nanotube and bond it to something to eliminate that resistance, do you think?
How does having more email addresses solve the problem of spam devouring ISP bandwidth?
Then they could throw a new app into iLife, and sell something extra to go between TV and Mac... Probably not enough bandwidth to do AirView, alas.
Sure, if you want something that gets up to 85 degrees Celsius in your ass.
More and more american cars are finding their way into consumer reports top 10's and that's something that benefitted the population at large.
But, alas, not the environment.
The people who are really going to feel this are the people who actually buy the upgrades, who install the newer versions from CDs they've *bought*. In short, the people who buy Microsoft Products. They're going to buy the cheaper version and realise that they can't do everything they could with the new version that they could with the old one. So, they'll probably either switch back to the old, or see what the other options are.
They specifically dropped the prices of their keyboards and mice for the Macmini launch, to try and sell more with them.
I hear Deep Blue only started winning when they added some flashing blue lights and a transparent side panel.
Excuse me while I get my tinfoil hat and conspiracy marker.
Trillian's UI bugged me constantly, for the whole month or so I used it. And yes, I tried other skins and they were all equally nasty.
Am I seriously the only person for whom Miranda has never worked (i.e. crashed repeatedly before even getting started up), despite trying it in three different versions of Windows?
They even have a link to a zip containing all the libraries you'll need.
And then, ultimately:
At least with an open protocol, over half the clients for it might properly support its file transfer features.