I disagree. This won't show anyone the uses of FOSS - many people I've shown Firefox to say, "This is the same as what I'm already using (IE)." Firefox isn't a good way to introduce FOSS because the main competitor is also free (as in beer).
My view, then, is to start by installing OpenOffice.org as the default office suite. This will demonstrate to the employees - as well as the management - that FOSS can be just as effective as closed source software.
But what purpose would that serve? MS has backwards compatibility built in to Windows XP already, and I don't think that they'll take a feature out of their next OS.
Now I can run Windows, OSX, Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD at the same time!
As usual, I fail to see the point of this. I mean honstly, running Windows from Linux I can see - you get the security of Linux with the compatibility of Windows. But other OSes under Windows? I don't see the point.
Actually, probably not. While the end user wouldn't notice a major difference if Dell used AMD chips, they certinly would notice if Dell stopped using Windows. Most end users dont care about what goes into their boxes, but what they see on the screen is what counts.
Prehaps. But Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, makes his entire income through donations. Does that mean that he is going to come and shut down development of BT just because he's raised some money? I dobut it.
They suspended his account already:
"account suspended
Your account has been suspended. We have sent you an email explaining why. This email should also contain information on how you can unsuspend your account."
Better than Mr. Darl McBride. He would've said something like...
"Well... we were holistically mitigating our funds so we would have the money to sue the pants off every person who has ever ridden our planes, while trying to forcast how we plan to make a profit....."
I appricate the FCC for actually improving on the CAN-SPAM act, however...
Will this really do anything?
Most spammers will continue to plunder our inboxes with usless crap that we don't want. And it's not exactly like it is easy to report spammers anyway. I Googled for the e-mail address of the place to forward spam to.
It took me about 25 minutes. This is the biggest problem that the FCC faces. Actually getting people to report spammers, rather than simply deleting the e-mails.
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No, it's an official MPAA thing... see the PDF linked from the bottom: http://mpaa.org/press_releases/2006_05_09.pdf
... they'll have patches next patch Tuesday!
I disagree. This won't show anyone the uses of FOSS - many people I've shown Firefox to say, "This is the same as what I'm already using (IE)." Firefox isn't a good way to introduce FOSS because the main competitor is also free (as in beer).
My view, then, is to start by installing OpenOffice.org as the default office suite. This will demonstrate to the employees - as well as the management - that FOSS can be just as effective as closed source software.
But what purpose would that serve? MS has backwards compatibility built in to Windows XP already, and I don't think that they'll take a feature out of their next OS.
Now I can run Windows, OSX, Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD at the same time! As usual, I fail to see the point of this. I mean honstly, running Windows from Linux I can see - you get the security of Linux with the compatibility of Windows. But other OSes under Windows? I don't see the point.
Actually, probably not. While the end user wouldn't notice a major difference if Dell used AMD chips, they certinly would notice if Dell stopped using Windows. Most end users dont care about what goes into their boxes, but what they see on the screen is what counts.
Prehaps. But Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, makes his entire income through donations. Does that mean that he is going to come and shut down development of BT just because he's raised some money? I dobut it.
If you gave $0.02, Paypal would have taken it away in fees anyway ;)
They suspended his account already: "account suspended Your account has been suspended. We have sent you an email explaining why. This email should also contain information on how you can unsuspend your account."
on his website.
Wonder what his reaction is?
"Microsoft Patents Air!"
Who modderated this as funny? WebSideStory is the real name of the site...
RTFA. It wasn't a power failure.
+1 for creationism!
That was pretty funny.
but it had better be at a $200 price tag
So? Even if it's expensive, http://woot.com/Woot will get it cheap somehow....
Better than Mr. Darl McBride. He would've said something like...
"Well... we were holistically mitigating our funds so we would have the money to sue the pants off every person who has ever ridden our planes, while trying to forcast how we plan to make a profit....."
Actually, it's the other way around.
Is the product named NuCalc? I dobut it? It the company Pacific Tech (hence PacificT)? Yes.
I rest my case.
They can defend IE because they develop it. M$ and their hordes are the only people who will defend IE. Ever.
I appricate the FCC for actually improving on the CAN-SPAM act, however... Will this really do anything? Most spammers will continue to plunder our inboxes with usless crap that we don't want. And it's not exactly like it is easy to report spammers anyway. I Googled for the e-mail address of the place to forward spam to. It took me about 25 minutes. This is the biggest problem that the FCC faces. Actually getting people to report spammers, rather than simply deleting the e-mails.
May conflict with other pop-up blockers and cause you to not be able to click on anything at all.
And what happens with the SP2 pop-up blocker...?
Atcually it's not; that was talking about the record they broke. This article is talking about how the actually broke it :)
No, this is just 1.0 Final :)
.. considering that most people won't upgrade to SP2 for a long time yet, since most users don't know how/why to use Automatic Updates...
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