For example, I consider the difficulty/inability to run iTunes on Ubuntu to be a relevant factor when considering Ubuntu vs. W7. On the other hand, the ready availability of a bizillion applications on Ubuntu affects my happiness regarding my choice of operating systems as well.
I don't know what you're ranting about here but iTunes runs in Wine if you really need to have it. There are also a bunch of alternatives that you can use which do a lot of similar things to iTunes (AmaroK is I think the closest)
Each new release of OS X might, at best, be compared to a service pack. That's Microsoft FUD and pure BS. It's the same as saying that Linux kernel 2.6 is a service pack to 2.4. There are a lot of differences between the several versions including but not limited to the kernel. Tiger for example was a 32-bit kernel with the ability to compile and run 64-bit apps and Classic. Leopard has fully 64-bit toolchains and frameworks and removed Classic support while Snow Leopard will be fully 64-bit (based on current pre-releases). Maybe you don't necessarily 'see' the developments because quite honestly, the GUI's for nearly all platforms are fairly mature (and don't necessarily need to be changed a lot like XP -> Vista just to make a difference) but on the inside and performance wise there is a lot of progress to be made on all platforms.
it sounds like the example you provided is an issue with the motherboard and the usb drive. These issues are not really Dells fault. Although Dell doesn't manufacture their own motherboards they can at least test their hardware to see if certain combinations work. I know there are some really unstable motherboards out there, I you build it yourself you just spend $25 more on a better one and all your problems mysteriously vanish. However Dell lately seems to ship the cheapest hardware available no matter whether it works or not. I have a few Dell's that are 5 years old, a few that are 3 years old and a few that are brand new. The 5 year olds are sturdy machines that are still running. The 3 year old machines still run but had all their peripherals die or fall apart (hard drives, keyboard, casing...). The brand new ones aren't even working great out of the box.
Not to mention they are way more expensive than their competitors (for some or another reason their 8-core Xeon Workstations are very expensive) and just bumping the CPU costs $1200/processor while the NewEgg/TigerDirect price has only about $200 difference) and as an alternative they offer the Core 2 Quad's with a crappy video card. Unfortunately the department I am buying for doesn't allow non-Dell otherwise I would've purchased a few Mac Pro's and installed Windows on it for 70% of the cost.
Dell is noteworthy for their crappy materials. Even most standard notebooks (especially older PowerBook and Thinkpads) can withstands 3-6 feet drops without a problem. I had a Dell once that couldn't withstand a 1 feet drop from a couch.
...looking for free alternatives to overpriced stuff. News at 11.
Nothing new really. We know Microsoft is going to die sooner or later. They've had their run in the industry but just like the RIAA their current models don't work well anymore in the current economies so they'll either adapt or die kicking and screaming in the courtroom. They chose the latter (just like the RIAA) because it seems to be the easiest way out (short term goals). The other way requires retooling and reshaping a lot of company structure, eliminating unnecessary management.
As mentioned here before, it doesn't deter artist nor programmers to do what they like.
Does the vast amounts of open source and freeware software (no strings attached software code) available make it that the market gets flooded with cheap knock-offs of said software or sold for vast amount of profits by some heartless corporation? Not as far as I can see (there are always examples but they are more the exception than the rule).
Before copyrights there were great artist (Da Vinci, Michelangelo) and people that copied them (some have brought out that Shakespeare might have been one of those leeching off others and many stories were told and retold and eventually somebody copied the best parts of those stories like the works of the brothers Grimm). Actually, usually art or the services of an artist were negotiated for a price and then the entity that bought it or bought the services of the artist could do whatever it wanted with it (eg. Michelangelo being hired by the Church, they could have decided just to make him paint some murals instead of the ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel).
These days it seems that what needs to be made and what the customers need to buy is decided by the artist and their management companies (as in the music industry but it's also like that for other forms of art).
Copyrights, in theory, are a deal between an artist and society. For a limited, government enforced monopoly the artist must document and register his work with the copyright office. Others can look at those works and build upon them as long they either buy out the copyright, wait until it's expired or build upon it in a way that the copyright is not violated.
However, patents and copyright where certainly not invented to hinder innovation or the arts, actually quite the opposite.
Now, this is the SPIRIT OF THE LAW (similar to how the constitution seems to be treated more as a philosophy rather than a basis of law) of course which doesn't seem to be very much related to new and nowadays LAWS (DMCA...)
Licensing is not copyright. Licensing is a contract you enter in depending on whether you want to use certain programs and it's code associated with. You can choose not to buy/use/change the program or you can haggle for better fitting licensing (whether it be cost or freedom). If you don't like it, make your own program that does the same job but better (or cheaper).
Copyright is forced upon you whenever the creator creates his product. Even if you go to a library or book store and DON'T buy the book, the thing is still copyrighted and you can't make copies of it nor can you make a similar book with the same or a similar story.
Copyrights are like patents in software/hardware. They prevent you from improving upon a certain work and they effectively lock the competition out of making anything that is vaguely similar or even an extension of a book.
Not quite. According to Wikipedia 1 liter of ink is about $3000, 30 kg is 30 L of water so 30 L would be about $60000 if ink has the same density than water. Of course quoted cocaine prices are for the US. 1M of coke in other parts of the world gives you much more substance. 1 kilo of coke can cost $1800 in Colombia (wholesale) but cost over $30000 in NYC. So by those standards coke CAN be cheaper than ink (don't sniff the paper)
How about Radio Shack? Sure most of their people are idiots just like at BB and CC but they got some variety of basic electronics in the older stores (newer stores are more geared towards cellphones).
I went to Circuit City once because I really needed a new printer to print my resumes and after they refused to give me my money back when it didn't work correctly offering me a 15% restocking fee and store credit. I left there and advised nobody to ever go there again. I went there just last week to see what they had left. A few $50 gold-connector USB cables (after discount) and $1500 32" LCD TV's left I told out loud that that's the reason they went out of business and they're idiots for selling even at these prices. Everybody there walked out disappointed and empty handed, the only sales they had were their shelving items.
Second that. I have an N800 and it's great. I have an external GPS device in case I need it ($50 at Geeks.com) but otherwise there is nothing I would need from the (more expensive) N810.
Although they use an SSD for another purpose, they said currently SSD's last about 6 months under heavy read/write conditions (cache on a RAID controller) even with leveling techniques. Hard drives last a whole lot longer for those purposes I would say.
I think SSD in a desktop-type system would be all right however I would suggest you invest in some fast disks instead of SSD until SSD matures and more lifetime data is available. Remember MTBF doesn't always mean that a piece of hardware will last that long. Most likely it will die long before that.
Christian: a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Christian: a person who has received Christian baptism or is a believer in Jesus Christ and his teachings.
Mormon: Those who believe in the Book of Mormon, a sacred text that adherents believe to be "another testament of Jesus Christ" and testifies of the Bible as part of the religion's canon. Mormon: A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The foundation of Mormonism is that Joseph Smith, Jr. was visited by God the Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. These divine beings instructed him that he was to join no organized religion and that he was to prepare himself for a greater work that would follow. Joseph Smith later brought forth (The Book of Mormon) that was written by ancient Christian Prophets who lived in the American Continent, and he also restored what he called the true religion as founded by Jesus Christ himself, with all rites, rituals, and doctrines as they were in primitive Christianity.
Let the definitions over to an encyclopedia or a dictionary. Don't know whether you can put Mormons under Christians because they do not believe in the Jesus from the Bible (I think, never investigated) but rather believe in 'another' Jesus from the Book of Mormon. Could have been a Mexican named 'Jesus' since their prophets lived in the American Continent and lived from 600 before our calendar started counting while the 'Christian' Jesus lived in the Palestine area somewhere from 2 to 34 on our calendar.
I don't know about any other sysadmin but I regularly need to go into the MSDOS shell in order to do something really fast or control something. eg. if you want to check why a certain file doesn't show up in explorer, you can drop down in shell and see the file and change it's attributes or delete/copy large amounts of files based on extension or any other part of the name (using * and ?)
What TomTom (and others) need to do is start using EXT2/3 on their external cards and then distribute Fuse with their software. This will force FAT and with that Microsoft tech slowly but surely out of the market.
What do you think will happen when all external media starts using alternative formatting?
Neither do I. I think he is referring to the days of IRC. Those were the days...
I don't really care about any of the social networking sites. The furthest I've gone is Jabber (with my own Jabber server) and it works great. Don't know why I need anything else. I've had my finger wetted with MSN Messenger but didn't really like it (ads and spam) and closed it after a good year.
Since PDF is Portable, does it affect other platforms as well. Or is it Windows specific? Does it affect other libraries than the Adobe ones? And why the fsck does a freakin' DOCUMENT have scripting in it? I can understand form elements but not something akin to shell scripting.
Pro: 1. Neither is Linux with KDE/Gnome 2. That's also true with KDE/Gnome although I believe Mac has more stable features and a really well integrated UI.
Con's 1. That's the hype and a similar problem with Dell. There is no exact date that Dell says their systems will be upgraded. Nobody cares. Either way, there will always be something new on the market. 2. iMac is simply 1-3 screws (depending on model) and all serviceable hardware is within reach. Just make sure you have a soft cloth to lay the screen on (a towel will do in most cases) Much better than some other systems I have literally cut my hand open on (and then you have to make sure your own blood didn't fall into any electronics (blood in a CPU socket is really hard to get out)). Mac Mini's (maybe because it's closer to a laptop than a desktop) might be a bit harder but Mac Pro's are really easy to service as well (no-one has modern laptops anymore that you can service anyway). 3. This is a hardware company making money on their hardware. They practically give their software away (compared to others). Go to HP or IBM if you really want to see overpriced hardware. It's always cheaper to do it yourself and with the right skills you can do so. There are even Apple Support pages on how to do it per model. Integrators in general are profiting of the layman that doesn't want to take risk to do stuff themselves. You could also pay your local computer shop to upgrade it ($50-$100 over here just to put in some RAM)
Well, apparently they shouldn't run their server in virtualization software.
Either way, I like Parallels better because it's so much better integrated (albeit more expensive) and easier to use. It also has better support for DirectX and OpenGL than VMWare which is something I needed (OpenGL).
Really, ever gone down south (white christian jury)? Or ever seen a large city court up north (black (christian) jury). Everybody is racist in their own way whether it be color, religion or text editor choice and if you get a small representative group with similar characteristics (living in the same area, hearing the same media propaganda) they will be biased in some way. So if you're somewhat dissimilar to the rest or your 'peers' and you're on trial for that dissimilarity or a stereotype/crime usually associated with your dissimilarity (blacks do drugs, whites are white-collar criminals, islamites are nut jobs, if you like emacs you're a masochist), you won't have a very good chance no matter if you did it or not.
The best solution would be to have 12 members of a jury from all parts of the country. This can be done these days very cheaply using telepresence and videoconferencing.
I believe that is because every single product they release commercially, they will try to use as a vehicle for their other stuff (for best or (usually) for worst). Windows 98 was a vehicle for their ad-based "channels" and the MSN network (a non-neutral internet of some sorts),.NET was initially a vehicle for VB and Visual Studio, later morphed being a vehicle for IIS (and subsequently Windows Server). The MSN portal instead of being informative has become a vehicle for all types of things including Microsoft Search, Messenger, Hotmail, MySpace and Facebook knockoffs,...
Same goes for their desktop software (Office, CRM) and server systems (AD, Communications Server and Sharepoint), they all lead to some type of vendor lock-in or it won't work well. Good for us, bad for them these days others begin to see the need to be open and they missed the train.
That is the real question. Is the atmosphere too thin to keep the water there or did it all freeze or go underground. Do we (earth) lose water as well?
...their calendar is off by about a month. It's not April just yet. Either way, even if this is more than an elaborate practical joke, what can it do that Java Applets can't do? I don't know if we need yet another framework to run binaries on computers.
Like "Universal Declaration of Human Rights"? There is no such thing as universal anything in this world. If you're rich you're going to get better (insert healthcare, police protection, jail time, housing, food, rights, tax benefits, jobs here), if you're poor nobody is going to care for you even if you require things that are listed in the "universal declaration of human rights" (food, health care, religious rights,...) and it doesn't really matter where you are.
Safari 4 is Beta and doesn't come bundled, it's a separate download. It's not even offered through software updates or pushed by marketing as the thing to load because it's still Beta. Just a link on the website, similar to Chrome. But Chrome isn't available on Mac and is only 90% complete. This is a decent software company that has a minor market share and can't afford losing their user base over sub-par software. Beta's come fully featured (like any decent software creator does) and have some minor/major bugs that need ironed out, not like Microsoft or Peoplesoft where they shift the meaning of Trunk to become Beta's, Alpha's to become Release Candidates and Beta's to Final Product.
State nor federal 'universal' health insurance will not do any good for anyone. I live in NYS where you can get 'universal' health care but nobody can get it because the income limit is too low and the total number of required beneficiaries too high (who really can survive on 30k with 2 parents and 4 kids? - numbers pulled from a dark place but it's in that ballpark, I know 50k is too high.
I have partial employer sponsored health care which is quite good but then you're on the whims of your employer (who ironically also has a public hospital) raising the prices and lowering the coverage. You would think getting health care at your own job would be free or at least lower cost, but short of a 10% coupon for glasses, there is nothing to get.
Now extend those examples to federal level where not only do they own or support a lot of public places of health care so they could force lower cost by threatening the financial support for these places but now there are several layers of incompetent administration headed by incompetent politicians who's bosses are incompetent companies whose income you're now threatening.
I know a few good places in the world to get free health care. The only reason they can afford it is by requiring all health care providers and insurance companies to be non-profits if they want to benefit from any subsidy and they require all personnel to work at a tariff income. The government subsidizes it largely by insane taxes (triple what you're currently paying for low-income and sales) and small contributions (~$200/year) for extended coverage (eg. international or (pre/post)natal coverage). In those countries the politicians have managed even to screw up those fund pools (although still recoverable). This is not something America (United States of) or American culture would want, need or even support.
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For example, I consider the difficulty/inability to run iTunes on Ubuntu to be a relevant factor when considering Ubuntu vs. W7. On the other hand, the ready availability of a bizillion applications on Ubuntu affects my happiness regarding my choice of operating systems as well.
I don't know what you're ranting about here but iTunes runs in Wine if you really need to have it. There are also a bunch of alternatives that you can use which do a lot of similar things to iTunes (AmaroK is I think the closest)
Each new release of OS X might, at best, be compared to a service pack.
That's Microsoft FUD and pure BS. It's the same as saying that Linux kernel 2.6 is a service pack to 2.4. There are a lot of differences between the several versions including but not limited to the kernel. Tiger for example was a 32-bit kernel with the ability to compile and run 64-bit apps and Classic. Leopard has fully 64-bit toolchains and frameworks and removed Classic support while Snow Leopard will be fully 64-bit (based on current pre-releases). Maybe you don't necessarily 'see' the developments because quite honestly, the GUI's for nearly all platforms are fairly mature (and don't necessarily need to be changed a lot like XP -> Vista just to make a difference) but on the inside and performance wise there is a lot of progress to be made on all platforms.
it sounds like the example you provided is an issue with the motherboard and the usb drive. These issues are not really Dells fault.
Although Dell doesn't manufacture their own motherboards they can at least test their hardware to see if certain combinations work. I know there are some really unstable motherboards out there, I you build it yourself you just spend $25 more on a better one and all your problems mysteriously vanish. However Dell lately seems to ship the cheapest hardware available no matter whether it works or not. I have a few Dell's that are 5 years old, a few that are 3 years old and a few that are brand new. The 5 year olds are sturdy machines that are still running. The 3 year old machines still run but had all their peripherals die or fall apart (hard drives, keyboard, casing...). The brand new ones aren't even working great out of the box.
Not to mention they are way more expensive than their competitors (for some or another reason their 8-core Xeon Workstations are very expensive) and just bumping the CPU costs $1200/processor while the NewEgg/TigerDirect price has only about $200 difference) and as an alternative they offer the Core 2 Quad's with a crappy video card. Unfortunately the department I am buying for doesn't allow non-Dell otherwise I would've purchased a few Mac Pro's and installed Windows on it for 70% of the cost.
Dell is noteworthy for their crappy materials. Even most standard notebooks (especially older PowerBook and Thinkpads) can withstands 3-6 feet drops without a problem. I had a Dell once that couldn't withstand a 1 feet drop from a couch.
...looking for free alternatives to overpriced stuff. News at 11.
Nothing new really. We know Microsoft is going to die sooner or later. They've had their run in the industry but just like the RIAA their current models don't work well anymore in the current economies so they'll either adapt or die kicking and screaming in the courtroom. They chose the latter (just like the RIAA) because it seems to be the easiest way out (short term goals). The other way requires retooling and reshaping a lot of company structure, eliminating unnecessary management.
As mentioned here before, it doesn't deter artist nor programmers to do what they like.
Does the vast amounts of open source and freeware software (no strings attached software code) available make it that the market gets flooded with cheap knock-offs of said software or sold for vast amount of profits by some heartless corporation? Not as far as I can see (there are always examples but they are more the exception than the rule).
Before copyrights there were great artist (Da Vinci, Michelangelo) and people that copied them (some have brought out that Shakespeare might have been one of those leeching off others and many stories were told and retold and eventually somebody copied the best parts of those stories like the works of the brothers Grimm). Actually, usually art or the services of an artist were negotiated for a price and then the entity that bought it or bought the services of the artist could do whatever it wanted with it (eg. Michelangelo being hired by the Church, they could have decided just to make him paint some murals instead of the ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel).
These days it seems that what needs to be made and what the customers need to buy is decided by the artist and their management companies (as in the music industry but it's also like that for other forms of art).
Copyrights, in theory, are a deal between an artist and society. For a limited, government enforced monopoly the artist must document and register his work with the copyright office. Others can look at those works and build upon them as long they either buy out the copyright, wait until it's expired or build upon it in a way that the copyright is not violated.
However, patents and copyright where certainly not invented to hinder innovation or the arts, actually quite the opposite.
Now, this is the SPIRIT OF THE LAW (similar to how the constitution seems to be treated more as a philosophy rather than a basis of law) of course which doesn't seem to be very much related to new and nowadays LAWS (DMCA...)
There you go, fixed that for ya.
Licensing is not copyright. Licensing is a contract you enter in depending on whether you want to use certain programs and it's code associated with. You can choose not to buy/use/change the program or you can haggle for better fitting licensing (whether it be cost or freedom). If you don't like it, make your own program that does the same job but better (or cheaper).
Copyright is forced upon you whenever the creator creates his product. Even if you go to a library or book store and DON'T buy the book, the thing is still copyrighted and you can't make copies of it nor can you make a similar book with the same or a similar story.
Copyrights are like patents in software/hardware. They prevent you from improving upon a certain work and they effectively lock the competition out of making anything that is vaguely similar or even an extension of a book.
Not quite. According to Wikipedia 1 liter of ink is about $3000, 30 kg is 30 L of water so 30 L would be about $60000 if ink has the same density than water. Of course quoted cocaine prices are for the US. 1M of coke in other parts of the world gives you much more substance. 1 kilo of coke can cost $1800 in Colombia (wholesale) but cost over $30000 in NYC. So by those standards coke CAN be cheaper than ink (don't sniff the paper)
How about Radio Shack? Sure most of their people are idiots just like at BB and CC but they got some variety of basic electronics in the older stores (newer stores are more geared towards cellphones).
I went to Circuit City once because I really needed a new printer to print my resumes and after they refused to give me my money back when it didn't work correctly offering me a 15% restocking fee and store credit. I left there and advised nobody to ever go there again. I went there just last week to see what they had left. A few $50 gold-connector USB cables (after discount) and $1500 32" LCD TV's left I told out loud that that's the reason they went out of business and they're idiots for selling even at these prices. Everybody there walked out disappointed and empty handed, the only sales they had were their shelving items.
Second that. I have an N800 and it's great. I have an external GPS device in case I need it ($50 at Geeks.com) but otherwise there is nothing I would need from the (more expensive) N810.
Although they use an SSD for another purpose, they said currently SSD's last about 6 months under heavy read/write conditions (cache on a RAID controller) even with leveling techniques. Hard drives last a whole lot longer for those purposes I would say.
I think SSD in a desktop-type system would be all right however I would suggest you invest in some fast disks instead of SSD until SSD matures and more lifetime data is available. Remember MTBF doesn't always mean that a piece of hardware will last that long. Most likely it will die long before that.
Christian: a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
Christian: a person who has received Christian baptism or is a believer in Jesus Christ and his teachings.
Mormon: Those who believe in the Book of Mormon, a sacred text that adherents believe to be "another testament of Jesus Christ" and testifies of the Bible as part of the religion's canon.
Mormon: A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The foundation of Mormonism is that Joseph Smith, Jr. was visited by God the Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. These divine beings instructed him that he was to join no organized religion and that he was to prepare himself for a greater work that would follow. Joseph Smith later brought forth (The Book of Mormon) that was written by ancient Christian Prophets who lived in the American Continent, and he also restored what he called the true religion as founded by Jesus Christ himself, with all rites, rituals, and doctrines as they were in primitive Christianity.
Let the definitions over to an encyclopedia or a dictionary. Don't know whether you can put Mormons under Christians because they do not believe in the Jesus from the Bible (I think, never investigated) but rather believe in 'another' Jesus from the Book of Mormon. Could have been a Mexican named 'Jesus' since their prophets lived in the American Continent and lived from 600 before our calendar started counting while the 'Christian' Jesus lived in the Palestine area somewhere from 2 to 34 on our calendar.
I don't know about any other sysadmin but I regularly need to go into the MSDOS shell in order to do something really fast or control something. eg. if you want to check why a certain file doesn't show up in explorer, you can drop down in shell and see the file and change it's attributes or delete/copy large amounts of files based on extension or any other part of the name (using * and ?)
What TomTom (and others) need to do is start using EXT2/3 on their external cards and then distribute Fuse with their software. This will force FAT and with that Microsoft tech slowly but surely out of the market.
What do you think will happen when all external media starts using alternative formatting?
Neither do I. I think he is referring to the days of IRC. Those were the days...
I don't really care about any of the social networking sites. The furthest I've gone is Jabber (with my own Jabber server) and it works great. Don't know why I need anything else. I've had my finger wetted with MSN Messenger but didn't really like it (ads and spam) and closed it after a good year.
Since PDF is Portable, does it affect other platforms as well. Or is it Windows specific? Does it affect other libraries than the Adobe ones? And why the fsck does a freakin' DOCUMENT have scripting in it? I can understand form elements but not something akin to shell scripting.
Pro:
1. Neither is Linux with KDE/Gnome
2. That's also true with KDE/Gnome although I believe Mac has more stable features and a really well integrated UI.
Con's
1. That's the hype and a similar problem with Dell. There is no exact date that Dell says their systems will be upgraded. Nobody cares. Either way, there will always be something new on the market.
2. iMac is simply 1-3 screws (depending on model) and all serviceable hardware is within reach. Just make sure you have a soft cloth to lay the screen on (a towel will do in most cases) Much better than some other systems I have literally cut my hand open on (and then you have to make sure your own blood didn't fall into any electronics (blood in a CPU socket is really hard to get out)). Mac Mini's (maybe because it's closer to a laptop than a desktop) might be a bit harder but Mac Pro's are really easy to service as well (no-one has modern laptops anymore that you can service anyway).
3. This is a hardware company making money on their hardware. They practically give their software away (compared to others). Go to HP or IBM if you really want to see overpriced hardware. It's always cheaper to do it yourself and with the right skills you can do so. There are even Apple Support pages on how to do it per model. Integrators in general are profiting of the layman that doesn't want to take risk to do stuff themselves. You could also pay your local computer shop to upgrade it ($50-$100 over here just to put in some RAM)
Well, apparently they shouldn't run their server in virtualization software.
Either way, I like Parallels better because it's so much better integrated (albeit more expensive) and easier to use. It also has better support for DirectX and OpenGL than VMWare which is something I needed (OpenGL).
Really, ever gone down south (white christian jury)? Or ever seen a large city court up north (black (christian) jury). Everybody is racist in their own way whether it be color, religion or text editor choice and if you get a small representative group with similar characteristics (living in the same area, hearing the same media propaganda) they will be biased in some way. So if you're somewhat dissimilar to the rest or your 'peers' and you're on trial for that dissimilarity or a stereotype/crime usually associated with your dissimilarity (blacks do drugs, whites are white-collar criminals, islamites are nut jobs, if you like emacs you're a masochist), you won't have a very good chance no matter if you did it or not.
The best solution would be to have 12 members of a jury from all parts of the country. This can be done these days very cheaply using telepresence and videoconferencing.
I believe that is because every single product they release commercially, they will try to use as a vehicle for their other stuff (for best or (usually) for worst). Windows 98 was a vehicle for their ad-based "channels" and the MSN network (a non-neutral internet of some sorts), .NET was initially a vehicle for VB and Visual Studio, later morphed being a vehicle for IIS (and subsequently Windows Server). The MSN portal instead of being informative has become a vehicle for all types of things including Microsoft Search, Messenger, Hotmail, MySpace and Facebook knockoffs, ...
Same goes for their desktop software (Office, CRM) and server systems (AD, Communications Server and Sharepoint), they all lead to some type of vendor lock-in or it won't work well. Good for us, bad for them these days others begin to see the need to be open and they missed the train.
That is the real question. Is the atmosphere too thin to keep the water there or did it all freeze or go underground. Do we (earth) lose water as well?
...their calendar is off by about a month. It's not April just yet. Either way, even if this is more than an elaborate practical joke, what can it do that Java Applets can't do? I don't know if we need yet another framework to run binaries on computers.
Like "Universal Declaration of Human Rights"? There is no such thing as universal anything in this world. If you're rich you're going to get better (insert healthcare, police protection, jail time, housing, food, rights, tax benefits, jobs here), if you're poor nobody is going to care for you even if you require things that are listed in the "universal declaration of human rights" (food, health care, religious rights, ...) and it doesn't really matter where you are.
Safari 4 is Beta and doesn't come bundled, it's a separate download. It's not even offered through software updates or pushed by marketing as the thing to load because it's still Beta. Just a link on the website, similar to Chrome. But Chrome isn't available on Mac and is only 90% complete. This is a decent software company that has a minor market share and can't afford losing their user base over sub-par software. Beta's come fully featured (like any decent software creator does) and have some minor/major bugs that need ironed out, not like Microsoft or Peoplesoft where they shift the meaning of Trunk to become Beta's, Alpha's to become Release Candidates and Beta's to Final Product.
State nor federal 'universal' health insurance will not do any good for anyone. I live in NYS where you can get 'universal' health care but nobody can get it because the income limit is too low and the total number of required beneficiaries too high (who really can survive on 30k with 2 parents and 4 kids? - numbers pulled from a dark place but it's in that ballpark, I know 50k is too high.
I have partial employer sponsored health care which is quite good but then you're on the whims of your employer (who ironically also has a public hospital) raising the prices and lowering the coverage. You would think getting health care at your own job would be free or at least lower cost, but short of a 10% coupon for glasses, there is nothing to get.
Now extend those examples to federal level where not only do they own or support a lot of public places of health care so they could force lower cost by threatening the financial support for these places but now there are several layers of incompetent administration headed by incompetent politicians who's bosses are incompetent companies whose income you're now threatening.
I know a few good places in the world to get free health care. The only reason they can afford it is by requiring all health care providers and insurance companies to be non-profits if they want to benefit from any subsidy and they require all personnel to work at a tariff income. The government subsidizes it largely by insane taxes (triple what you're currently paying for low-income and sales) and small contributions (~$200/year) for extended coverage (eg. international or (pre/post)natal coverage). In those countries the politicians have managed even to screw up those fund pools (although still recoverable). This is not something America (United States of) or American culture would want, need or even support.