Never mind the extraordinarily practical advantages of science, do you really want the next generation (incl. your kids, if you have any) where America despite it's "superpower" status ranks 3rd or 4th,
3rd or 4th in science/math achievement among students? Sure, that would be a marked improvement.
No, the US buys it for its own (government) use. But it spends way more than France does on OOo disks. You complain that France spends such an amount on disks, but you don't seem to care about how much the US government spends.
Microsoft is marginally worried about Openoffice in some geographies (mainly France where the government freely gives out OOo disks at the taxpayers' expense)
As opposed to the US, which buys Microsoft Office disks at the taxpayers' expense. And how much does an OOo disk cost? The price of CD-R?
In that case, what is penalty for an incompetent TSA employee? Or is it only mere citizens who should face sanctions?
More Americans die from firearms (or lack of health insurance) every year than from 9/11. Where's the "overriding state interest"? And to what extent can the government secure your life and property? Can the government save you disease? From RICO (oh wait, that is the government!)?
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Unions are a great thing to threaten management with and a lousy thing to have to actually live under. Go figure.
So are nuclear weapons!
I am not a rampant Microsoft fanboy, you insensitive clod! Are you suggesting I use my gmail or Comcast mail address instead?
But if Verlinde sucks hard enough, won't we stay on earth?
How long are we going to ignore China's blatant flouting of trade and IP law?
As long as the Chinese have nuclear weapons?
Never mind the extraordinarily practical advantages of science, do you really want the next generation (incl. your kids, if you have any) where America despite it's "superpower" status ranks 3rd or 4th,
3rd or 4th in science/math achievement among students? Sure, that would be a marked improvement.
How easily can one control a robot with an eight-year latency? How easily could we pilot an unmanned craft to Alpha Centauri given such latencies?
Some people do pay to be tourists, and those who don't pay (shuttle crews) are not tourists.
As for exploring the universe with robots, are we going to have subspace communications, or an eight-year latency with our robots near Alpha Centauri?
Won't we have 64-bit processors by then (with 64-bit integers)? You can get a 64-bit laptop these days.
Not if applied to the head. That's why they call it rubber hose cryptograhy.
No, the US buys it for its own (government) use. But it spends way more than France does on OOo disks. You complain that France spends such an amount on disks, but you don't seem to care about how much the US government spends.
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Microsoft is marginally worried about Openoffice in some geographies (mainly France where the government freely gives out OOo disks at the taxpayers' expense)
As opposed to the US, which buys Microsoft Office disks at the taxpayers' expense. And how much does an OOo disk cost? The price of CD-R?
Excel asks if you would like to use OpenOffice?
When salespeople and HR people have to crawl around and plug stuff in, yeah, then they get to dress like slobs.
They could start by releasing a *&^#@ MSI file for Windows and a deb/tar/rpm for Linux.
They have packages. Check www.adobe.com and look under Linux.
It isn't just PPC
From the post to which you responded:
Today, their webmaster stares to 40% of hits coming from Apple OS X and iPhone OS X based clients while they have nothing to serve to them.
OK, it should have been "stares at" instead of "stares to", but how good is Silverlight on Mac OS X?
Well, if you insist on dragging facts and logic into the discussion . . .
In that case, what is penalty for an incompetent TSA employee? Or is it only mere citizens who should face sanctions?
More Americans die from firearms (or lack of health insurance) every year than from 9/11. Where's the "overriding state interest"? And to what extent can the government secure your life and property? Can the government save you disease? From RICO (oh wait, that is the government!)?
I said he was smart enough to be on slashdot, not dumb enough to waste his time here. :-)
Professor Knuth is a Christian (see his 3:16), and I suspect he's smart enough to be on slashdot.
That would require that the target have python.
Oh, I thought he meant for it to run on water as a surface, not as a fuel. :-)
You forgot: There are schools that believe courses on word processing and using (not programming) spreadsheets are computer science.
And how many students in a typical Excel course learn to write macros?
Drug dealers! Drug dealers! Drug dealers! . . .