More than a lot of the/. postings, this one needs a suddenoutbreakofcommonsense tag. Let's hope U.S. courts eventually come to the same conclusion as their UK counterparts.
> Joe Sixpack will start to see them as little more than greedy thugs.
You need to end your sentence with "but nothing will change." Joe Sixpack will read about all of this "Neat Piraty Stuff" and Google "Where to Download Harry Potter and the Prisoner of the Six Hour Movie." He'll click to download it, get an email from his ISP that will scare the crap out of him and he'll pray to the Lord of Hycones that if they don't come to get him in the middle of the night he'll never do it again. So then he'll go back to his regularly scheduled, over-priced cable bill and maybe, if he wants to be brave, he'll try this "Hulues" thing the kids at work talk about. At least until he starts getting emails threats about that, too.
One thing needs to be pointed out that almost always gets ignored is there's a difference between support for Israel and support for the Israeli government. As a concept, Israel as a county represents something important and core to Judaism. The Israeli government doesn't.
When MS bought Hotmail didn't they do just that by spending a ton of time and money trying to port it to some version of Windows server (whichever one they had out at the time)?
Actually, at least for federal employees, there's a "limited-personal use" allowance for surfing the Web. The limitations are no gambling sites, no porn and no so sites that are for running your own business (so technically you can go to eBay to check on an auction on which you're bidding but not one where you're selling something) and doing so during your break. That said, I haven't seen the WI employee handbook to know if that's the same for them. My question is, and I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something, but why is this a First Amendment right? They're free to say what they want, so they're 1st Amendment right isn't being curtailed. They're allowance to see someone else (or another group) exercise _their_ 1st Amendment is the issue.
I'm _far_ from a power user with Office, but I can get around with it. Having used Office 2008 for the Mac for years (and not wanting/able to spend the money on the upgrade) I got tired of how slow and unresponsive it got. I started looking around for a replacement. I didn't want to pick up iWork as I kept hearing mixed things about it. I started playing around with Abiword but realized I might as well find something more comprehensive so I could ditch Office entirely. Based on a number of reviews/articles I decided to get LibreOffice (I didn't know about the Oracle angle, but I don't think it would have mattered to me) because the native OS X version looked the most polished (and I kept seeing things about porting OpenOffice to OS X - note: I don't know if those were links to binaries already compiled or instructions on how to do so. I really didn't want to mess around with anything other than, "Hey look. I double-clicked and it works.) Like I said, I'm not a power user but to date LibreOffice has done what I need. I've exported and imported Doc files via Word and Google Docs, haven't seemed to lose formatting (although I haven't tried track changes).
Valid points. I always wondered how long it would be until they went down this road. Interesting to see their motivation. Of course, as someone else posted, this community could also just be a "beta" until they build something for non-employees.
Been done. Check out Breathers: A Zombie's Lament in which the main character is, "a newly risen zombie, he's forced to live in his parents' basement, attend Undead Anonymous meetings just to get out of the house, and endure abuse of all kinds from the living." A fun read.
> no money allowed by any public interest to be funneled to a politician
I'm OK with them getting money from special interest groups. With the caveat that like NASCAR drivers the elected officials have to wear sponsorship stickers on their suits so we know who has paid them off.
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Freedom is great. Period. How some people choose to exercise that freedom is sometimes the problem.
More than a lot of the /. postings, this one needs a suddenoutbreakofcommonsense tag. Let's hope U.S. courts eventually come to the same conclusion as their UK counterparts.
Court-ordered ones are.
> Joe Sixpack will start to see them as little more than greedy thugs.
You need to end your sentence with "but nothing will change." Joe Sixpack will read about all of this "Neat Piraty Stuff" and Google "Where to Download Harry Potter and the Prisoner of the Six Hour Movie." He'll click to download it, get an email from his ISP that will scare the crap out of him and he'll pray to the Lord of Hycones that if they don't come to get him in the middle of the night he'll never do it again. So then he'll go back to his regularly scheduled, over-priced cable bill and maybe, if he wants to be brave, he'll try this "Hulues" thing the kids at work talk about. At least until he starts getting emails threats about that, too.
One thing needs to be pointed out that almost always gets ignored is there's a difference between support for Israel and support for the Israeli government. As a concept, Israel as a county represents something important and core to Judaism. The Israeli government doesn't.
Anyone else remember, "Please do not run Minicom as root"?
And lest we forget, you should always use sunscreen. :)
When MS bought Hotmail didn't they do just that by spending a ton of time and money trying to port it to some version of Windows server (whichever one they had out at the time)?
Yet another is that Samuel Adams has never used "It'll Fawkes you up!" in one of its beer commercials.
And all of them will still have personally identifiable information that was accidentally left on the hard drives.
And how will they know who that is? Look in your mailbox for a Think Geek catalog?
So is there reliable AV software available for the droid?
Actually, at least for federal employees, there's a "limited-personal use" allowance for surfing the Web. The limitations are no gambling sites, no porn and no so sites that are for running your own business (so technically you can go to eBay to check on an auction on which you're bidding but not one where you're selling something) and doing so during your break. That said, I haven't seen the WI employee handbook to know if that's the same for them. My question is, and I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something, but why is this a First Amendment right? They're free to say what they want, so they're 1st Amendment right isn't being curtailed. They're allowance to see someone else (or another group) exercise _their_ 1st Amendment is the issue.
I'm _far_ from a power user with Office, but I can get around with it. Having used Office 2008 for the Mac for years (and not wanting/able to spend the money on the upgrade) I got tired of how slow and unresponsive it got. I started looking around for a replacement. I didn't want to pick up iWork as I kept hearing mixed things about it. I started playing around with Abiword but realized I might as well find something more comprehensive so I could ditch Office entirely. Based on a number of reviews/articles I decided to get LibreOffice (I didn't know about the Oracle angle, but I don't think it would have mattered to me) because the native OS X version looked the most polished (and I kept seeing things about porting OpenOffice to OS X - note: I don't know if those were links to binaries already compiled or instructions on how to do so. I really didn't want to mess around with anything other than, "Hey look. I double-clicked and it works.) Like I said, I'm not a power user but to date LibreOffice has done what I need. I've exported and imported Doc files via Word and Google Docs, haven't seemed to lose formatting (although I haven't tried track changes).
That's not what she told me ;)
This one goes to 11.
You're right. Geocities certainly represented the height of Internet civilization ;)
Valid points. I always wondered how long it would be until they went down this road. Interesting to see their motivation. Of course, as someone else posted, this community could also just be a "beta" until they build something for non-employees.
OK, now _that_ was funny :) Nicely played!
> but there is nobody who "needs" a CD changer
Oh yeah? Try a four-hour car ride with kids younger than 8 when you only have one Barney CD.
> Our sexy lawyers will be around shortly to give you a thorough debriefing!
There's an app for that.
Been done. Check out Breathers: A Zombie's Lament in which the main character is, "a newly risen zombie, he's forced to live in his parents' basement, attend Undead Anonymous meetings just to get out of the house, and endure abuse of all kinds from the living." A fun read.
> You don't need to take a picture of my penis to find out if I'm smuggling a grenade into the courthouse.
Nah, we just assumed you were happy to see us.
> no money allowed by any public interest to be funneled to a politician
I'm OK with them getting money from special interest groups. With the caveat that like NASCAR drivers the elected officials have to wear sponsorship stickers on their suits so we know who has paid them off.
I (4) your point. At least, there's certainly nothing to (2) about it :)