I think it should be retained by the ISPs - ie the ISP should be required to charge $0.001 per email sent or whatever, and take this revenue into account when setting their access fees.
Access is useful for some things. I use it to keep track of my finances.
I need something that can handle things that are a bit more complex than the likes of Sage Instant, Quicken and GNUCash can handle, but it isn't complex enough to justify some Oracle app. I was able to set up Access to do what I want in about 1 hour, whereas other platforms would take a lot longer.
They want Google because their existing search results are provided by Inktomi. Inktomi was recently taken over by Yahoo, who is a major competitor to MSN. Microsoft don't want to be dependent on Yahoo for the continued existence of MSN.
I first noticed it round about the time Brightmail started up, and used a load of honeypot addresses which received 100% spam to identify spam messages.
Looking at my Spam/Spamassassin box, most of the spam seems to be from the US. It may have come from an open proxy in South Korea, but it looks very much like an American company that is looking for my money.
He means one of the only 100% free software distros remaining. The only other two I'm aware of are Fedora - not yet at release stage, and GNU/LinEx, a spannish distro.
Most of the other distros contain things like Pine, Netscape, the Flash Plugin, Real Player and Sun's Java packages. None of these are free software.
Stability used to be a major reason for avoiding MS operating systems. Win9x crashed frequently, others didn't.
As of Windows 2000 SP1, they managed to pretty much eliminate that problem. It took them about 5 years, but they got there in the end.
Possibly by the time Longhorn SP1 comes out, in about 2006, they will have pretty much sorted out the security problem. I guess it will still require stupid amounts of memory and CPI time compared to other systems, but that is becoming less of an issue as it gets cheaper.
The European parliament has voted to make spam illegal. It will become a criminal offence to send spam in the UK from 11th December, subject to a long list of exceptions. I suspect other EU countries will implement the directive around the same time.
At one point it was available for i386, alpha, ppc and mips. They dropped mips, cause nobody bought it, then IBM/Motorola pulled out of the ppc project for the same reason.
Alpha lasted a bit longer but was withdrawn as of Windows 2000.
More recently it has been ported to ia64, and they are working on a port to AMD's 64bit chip.
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I think it should be retained by the ISPs - ie the ISP should be required to charge $0.001 per email sent or whatever, and take this revenue into account when setting their access fees.
It has already reached that stage in Germany and some other countries.
And I have one problem about your suggesting SCO's ball of yarn might fall apart - it already has.
To deal with dates before 1970?
The date of birth field in most places will still require this.
Doesn't one of the games consoles already have it?
Access is useful for some things. I use it to keep track of my finances.
I need something that can handle things that are a bit more complex than the likes of Sage Instant, Quicken and GNUCash can handle, but it isn't complex enough to justify some Oracle app. I was able to set up Access to do what I want in about 1 hour, whereas other platforms would take a lot longer.
ASF might do something that no video format could do before.
I can't see what the Word 2003 file format can do that the Wordperfect 1.0 file format wasn't able to do.
Of course you only need to worry about this if you live in a country with silly patent laws like the USA.
They've invented an Intrusion Detection System. Useful, but what's so special about this one?
One of the assumptions of capitalism is that everyone has perfect information about what everyone else is charging.
..." joke to put here.
FatWallet is helping to make this happen.
Best Buy are the enemies of Capitalism and the Free Market.
Trying to think of an appropriate "In Soviet Russia
They want Google because their existing search results are provided by Inktomi. Inktomi was recently taken over by Yahoo, who is a major competitor to MSN. Microsoft don't want to be dependent on Yahoo for the continued existence of MSN.
I first noticed it round about the time Brightmail started up, and used a load of honeypot addresses which received 100% spam to identify spam messages.
Looking at my Spam/Spamassassin box, most of the spam seems to be from the US. It may have come from an open proxy in South Korea, but it looks very much like an American company that is looking for my money.
In Accountancy Age, a UK weekly for the accountacy profession.
Golden Shot Holdings Ltd
Executive Appointment, Accountant 30-35 per annum + health insurance.
Then it goes on about where it is located, and what they expect you to do for them.
If it was 30 to 35 per hour, I might consider it, but I believe their quoted salary could fall foul of the minumum wage act.
Debian comes with a "non-free" section.
That was actually the plan ...
The Free Software Foundation have a list of approved free software licenses. The Open Source Initiative have a list of approved open source licenses.
A 100% Free/OSS distribution is one where all the software in the distro is licenced under one of these approved licenses.
The download really is 100% OSS/Free Software, ie no pine, netscape, flash etc.
He means one of the only 100% free software distros remaining. The only other two I'm aware of are Fedora - not yet at release stage, and GNU/LinEx, a spannish distro.
Most of the other distros contain things like Pine, Netscape, the Flash Plugin, Real Player and Sun's Java packages. None of these are free software.
It is being bundled with Office X Professional at the moment.
Presumably they do make some $$$ from selling it. And they will probably make some more $$$ from selling Win32 software to Mac users.
That's a difficult one.
Stability used to be a major reason for avoiding MS operating systems. Win9x crashed frequently, others didn't.
As of Windows 2000 SP1, they managed to pretty much eliminate that problem. It took them about 5 years, but they got there in the end.
Possibly by the time Longhorn SP1 comes out, in about 2006, they will have pretty much sorted out the security problem. I guess it will still require stupid amounts of memory and CPI time compared to other systems, but that is becoming less of an issue as it gets cheaper.
The European parliament has voted to make spam illegal. It will become a criminal offence to send spam in the UK from 11th December, subject to a long list of exceptions. I suspect other EU countries will implement the directive around the same time.
A couple of IDEs you may want to look at.
Lazarus - http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org - aims to be source code compatible with Delphi. Not quite there yet, but certainly useable.
HBasic - http://hbasic.sourceforge.net - similar to Visual Basic - almost ready to roll.
http://www.google.com/search?q=nt%20power%20pc
The first link should do.
At one point it was available for i386, alpha, ppc and mips. They dropped mips, cause nobody bought it, then IBM/Motorola pulled out of the ppc project for the same reason.
Alpha lasted a bit longer but was withdrawn as of Windows 2000.
More recently it has been ported to ia64, and they are working on a port to AMD's 64bit chip.
NT has run on PPC chips in the past, so it won't be to much of a problem to port it.
There are absolutely no free speech issues in stopping people from engaging in unsolicited direct marketing.
This has already been decided in Compuserve v Cyberpromotions and Intel v Hamidi.
The GPL does not require you to release anything.
If you do decide to release GPL software, you must do so under the terms of the GPL, but you can charge whatever money you like for it.