AOL is like the kiss of death. Time Warner found this out the hard way. About the only thing going for it is it's IM tool and that is not enough of a reason to buy this.
The death of Google will not come entirely because of somehting like AOL, but rather from a lack of direction. To me it seems as if Google is going 10,000 directions at once and eventually this will cause it to fracture. They got a bucket of cash from the IPO and it seems like they can't find a way to get rid of it fast enough.
Soon enough that bucket will be empty and then Google is going to have a huge basket of toys that they won't know what to do with because the only thing they have in common with one another is that they are owned by Google.
I'm reserving final judgement on this until I get to use it. It is impossible to judge a UI based on screen shots alone. I need to get my hands on it before I condemn it.
I have noticed that they've tended to group common tasks together on tabs which strikes me as a good thing. I hated the toolbar clutter and when I needed to go after some feature I didn't use regularly, it was a pain to hunt and peck around the menus. It seems to me that the grouping of tasks may eliminate a lot of hunt and peck.
For a while now there has been a discussion of using nukes as a method of bunker busting. If I understand it correctly the bunker busting nuke buries itself into the ground and a nuclear equivalent of a shaped charge blasts even the deepest bunkers.
USA intel believes Osama and his band of trained apes are hiding deep in the caverns of Afghanistan where we cant get at him with our super special high tech stand off weaponry. We could get them by sending enough troops in on the ground and actually taking control of the place, but our troops are a little busy elsewhere fixing a clusterf*ck brought on by Bush and his band of trained apes.
So the next <airquoute style="sarcasism:high;">"logical"</airquote> step is to ask for and get authorization to use nukes. The only way that this could be done covertly is to seek authorization for a blanket preemtive use of nukes.
If you can patent a chemical such as any pesticide which has a molecular formula (a recipe if you will) then you can patent a file format which is also by the same logic a recipe.
Outside of the EFF, there are very few lawyers that know what grep is, much less how to use it in the first place. They use Westlaw, and the result is often Westlaw is the only place to get the document. Thus access is restricted to the few that can afford Westlaw's services which in turn makes the file format irrelevant to the core issue of access.
If the state truely wants to provide unrestricted access to public documents, then the state must provide the documents and not require access through expensive third party private corporation. The file format is important, but it is a secondary issue at best.
The real problem isn't Open Office v MS Office and which standard is best. It is all irrelevant when you have to pony up to some private company to get the public documents in the first place.
Just try to get something out of the court system of your choice. Access to public documents is VERY expensive, so what format the item is doesn't matter really as joe citizen can't aford it. Westlaw pretty much has a monopoly on public docs - so much so that often a state has to pay Westlaw to get copies of docs the state created in the first place! Yes Westal provides value in it's index, but there is no alternative and that is the problem
I'd rather see the access problem solved first. Most people have access to MS Word or at least something that can open it, so IMO the real barrier to democracy isn't the file format.
Isn't Open Office v MS Office or which standard is best. It is all irrelevant when you have to pony up to some really evil org to get the public documents in the first place. Just try to get something out of the court system of your choice. Access to public documents is VERY expensive, so what format the item is doesn't matter really as joe citizen can't aford it. Westlaw pretty much has a monopoly on public docs.
I'd rather see the access problem solved first. Most people have access to MS Word or at least something that can open it, so IMO the real barrier to democracy isn't the file format.
I'd spend some time looking it over, making sure the anti-virus etc was set up correctly and if I found a password taped to the bottom, you can bet I'd try it to see what happened. I cannot fault a child for anything I would do myself. However once I identified what that password was associated with, you can bet I'd be on the phone and raise holy hell with the asshat that was incompetent enough not to memorize the admin password and taped it to each computer.
There seems to be the presumption that Dell and the others won't want to sell thier PC's with OSX. Dell will sell a PC with whatever OS will generate the sale.
The barrier is Apple. If Apple wants to license OSX for OEM distribution then companies like Dell will certainly offer it on thier PC's. If Apple opts to keep the OS in house, then they are trading ubiquity for a known revenue stream.
Demand though for OSX is high and where there is demand, then there is the opportunity for hell to freeze over again. Jobs isn't stupid. If there is enough demand Apple will eventually make an OEM version. No one ever thought iTunes would make it to Windows, but given teh demand there was no real choice. Similarly there really isn't a choice about OSX. Trust me, eventually the market will force Apple to make it available.
"we are having difficulty understanding your request."
If they cant understand this then put them in a short bus and drive them to a place where the "special" people at verisign can get help for their problem.
I was recently on a trip to Mexico and while browsing the Mercados - not the tourist ones, the one's the people of Mexico use - I found stall after stall of vendors selling CDs and DVDs where the box art was a bad color or b/w copy of the original and the disc inside was either a CD-R or DVD-R with the label written in sharpie.
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AOL is like the kiss of death. Time Warner found this out the hard way. About the only thing going for it is it's IM tool and that is not enough of a reason to buy this.
The death of Google will not come entirely because of somehting like AOL, but rather from a lack of direction. To me it seems as if Google is going 10,000 directions at once and eventually this will cause it to fracture. They got a bucket of cash from the IPO and it seems like they can't find a way to get rid of it fast enough.
Soon enough that bucket will be empty and then Google is going to have a huge basket of toys that they won't know what to do with because the only thing they have in common with one another is that they are owned by Google.
I have noticed that they've tended to group common tasks together on tabs which strikes me as a good thing. I hated the toolbar clutter and when I needed to go after some feature I didn't use regularly, it was a pain to hunt and peck around the menus. It seems to me that the grouping of tasks may eliminate a lot of hunt and peck.
Bob?
Why Afghanistan? Bunker busting nukes is why.
For a while now there has been a discussion of using nukes as a method of bunker busting. If I understand it correctly the bunker busting nuke buries itself into the ground and a nuclear equivalent of a shaped charge blasts even the deepest bunkers.
USA intel believes Osama and his band of trained apes are hiding deep in the caverns of Afghanistan where we cant get at him with our super special high tech stand off weaponry. We could get them by sending enough troops in on the ground and actually taking control of the place, but our troops are a little busy elsewhere fixing a clusterf*ck brought on by Bush and his band of trained apes.
So the next <airquoute style="sarcasism:high;">"logical"</airquote> step is to ask for and get authorization to use nukes. The only way that this could be done covertly is to seek authorization for a blanket preemtive use of nukes.
If you can patent a chemical such as any pesticide which has a molecular formula (a recipe if you will) then you can patent a file format which is also by the same logic a recipe.
If the state truely wants to provide unrestricted access to public documents, then the state must provide the documents and not require access through expensive third party private corporation. The file format is important, but it is a secondary issue at best.
The real problem isn't Open Office v MS Office and which standard is best. It is all irrelevant when you have to pony up to some private company to get the public documents in the first place. Just try to get something out of the court system of your choice. Access to public documents is VERY expensive, so what format the item is doesn't matter really as joe citizen can't aford it. Westlaw pretty much has a monopoly on public docs - so much so that often a state has to pay Westlaw to get copies of docs the state created in the first place! Yes Westal provides value in it's index, but there is no alternative and that is the problem I'd rather see the access problem solved first. Most people have access to MS Word or at least something that can open it, so IMO the real barrier to democracy isn't the file format.
I'd rather see the access problem solved first. Most people have access to MS Word or at least something that can open it, so IMO the real barrier to democracy isn't the file format.
I'd spend some time looking it over, making sure the anti-virus etc was set up correctly and if I found a password taped to the bottom, you can bet I'd try it to see what happened. I cannot fault a child for anything I would do myself. However once I identified what that password was associated with, you can bet I'd be on the phone and raise holy hell with the asshat that was incompetent enough not to memorize the admin password and taped it to each computer.
There seems to be the presumption that Dell and the others won't want to sell thier PC's with OSX. Dell will sell a PC with whatever OS will generate the sale. The barrier is Apple. If Apple wants to license OSX for OEM distribution then companies like Dell will certainly offer it on thier PC's. If Apple opts to keep the OS in house, then they are trading ubiquity for a known revenue stream. Demand though for OSX is high and where there is demand, then there is the opportunity for hell to freeze over again. Jobs isn't stupid. If there is enough demand Apple will eventually make an OEM version. No one ever thought iTunes would make it to Windows, but given teh demand there was no real choice. Similarly there really isn't a choice about OSX. Trust me, eventually the market will force Apple to make it available.
The other white meat. Gonna have pork for lunch now....
"we are having difficulty understanding your request." If they cant understand this then put them in a short bus and drive them to a place where the "special" people at verisign can get help for their problem.
Has anyone tried calling/contacting verisign directly?
VeriSign Worldwide Headquarters 487 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043 Phone: 650-961-7500 FAX: 650-961-7300
Atlanta Area Office 3740 DaVinci Court 3rd Floor Norcross, GA 30092 Phone: 770-248-1005 Toll Free: 888-777-4313
Boston Area Office 401 Edgewater Place, Suite 280 Wakefield, MA 01880-6206 Phone: 781-245-6996 FAX: 781-245-6006
Kansas Office 7400 West 129th St Overland Park, KS 66213 Phone: 913-814-6200 FAX: 913-814-6501
Chicago Area Office 500 W. Madison Street Chicago, IL 60661 Phone: 312 660-7800
Baltimore Office - Federal Markets Phone: 650-426-5115 E-mail: verisales@verisign.com
Virginia Office 21355 Ridgetop Circle Dulles, VA 20166 Phone: 703-742-0400
Georgia Office 222 W Oglethorpe Ave Savannah, GA 31401 Phone: 912-234-8899
Seattle Area Office 4501 Intelco Loop SE PO Box 2909 Olympia, WA 98507 Phone: 360-493-6000
DNS Assurance Solutions Phone: 650-426-5310 E-mail: dnssales@verisign.com
I was recently on a trip to Mexico and while browsing the Mercados - not the tourist ones, the one's the people of Mexico use - I found stall after stall of vendors selling CDs and DVDs where the box art was a bad color or b/w copy of the original and the disc inside was either a CD-R or DVD-R with the label written in sharpie.