Open Office (I think) supports the Oasis format for word processor documents. However, if you're talking about MSWord, the only standard is the one Microsoft defines.
You're thinking of the ancient Olympics. Those don't count. The modern Olympic games were started in 1896, well after the word "Olympic" had been introduced into the language.
I don't think you're getting the concept of context sensitive ads. The point is to put up advertising based upon whatever is playing at the very moment.
To use your example, the father would get beer commercials during his sports games, the mother would get camping or natural foods ads during the nature show, the older child would get ads for movies or other tie-ins to the sitcom, and the younger child would get ads for toys and other stuff related to the cartoon.
The ads that come on would be a function of what programming the TV is playing, not the person watching.
Yes, but until my car stereo accepts USB connections, I'll be burning CDs.
Also, I don't think that the RIAA is really going after home users in this case (unlike the campaign against P2P). Instead they're going after people who buy a single CD and burn hundreds of copies for the purpose of selling. I've seen people on street corners selling the latest 50 Cent album for $3 to $5.
If Open Office could really handle every single.doc or.xls that a vendor or a customer sent in, I think the final resistance to Linux would start to disappear.
The moment that occurs, Microsoft will alter the document format to destroy cross-compatibility. Heck, Microsoft has done it before (compatibility issues between Office '97 and 2000) in order to force consumers to upgrade.
What really will create support for Linux/OSS would be a set of open standards, supported by all parties, dealing with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The only way this will come about is if OSS advances enough independently to create significant market pressure for Microsoft to support the open document standard.
But the main thrust of my argument remains. The competing instant messaging clients are not interoperable, and therefore a person experiences "lock-in", where they've got themselves and their circle of friends on one network, creating prohibitive costs for switching.
There's a huge difference between mail and instant messaging. Mail is essentially standardized using POP and SMTP. If I'm logged into my GMail account, I can send mail to my Yahoo account and be confident that the message will get through.
The same does not apply to instant messaging. There are no standardized instant message protocols, so a message sent using AIM cannot be received using MSN. This greatly increases the cost of switching, ensuring that people will generally pick the network that most of their friends are on, and stick with it, regardless of the technical superiority (or inferiority) of the protocol.
The nice thing will be that you'll be able to search iTunes directly from Google. For example, if I'm looking for Bob Dylan stuff, and I do a Google search, I could get links to Bob Dylan songs on iTunes. Its reasonable for Google search to diversify into multimedia.
I never thought Diablo really deserved it's M rating...
Exactly. In terms of blood and violence, I'd put Starcraft (rated T) in front of Diablo (rated M). If you don't know what I mean, try dumping psi storm on a bunch of stimpacked Space Marines, and you'll see what I mean.
I'd bet that if you took any calculus textbook you'd find that at least 50% of the excercises appear in exactly the same form in previously published text
Forget form, I've seen textbooks that have carried problems verbatim from one edition to another, just scrambling the numerical order of the problems in order to force one to buy the newest edition.
First, not all books are bought with the anticipation that they will become reference books. Some of my physics books (e.g. Physics study guides) were bought with the intent to sell them back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. However, I ended up keeping them as some of the problems and explanations are better than the ones inside the official text. If I had bought these books electronically, I would not have that option.
Second, I can sell paper books on Amazon or E-bay for a significant fraction of their original value, especially if the books have been rarely used and are in otherwise good condition. With E-books, I'm not sure that cost savings upfront is worth the loss of ability to sell books later on.
Would you really know? Or would the restrictions be buried in a EULA that is itself impossible to read before purchasing the book?
More importantly, if books are solely published in an electronic format, what is to prevent their obsolescence. I can pick up a book from the 18th century and still read it. If our books are published online, what is to say that someone from the 23rd century will be able to read our works.
AFAIK, ice is a non-issue when it comes to launches. If you look at the videos of Apollo or Gemini launches, you'll see huge pieces of ice sloughing off the rocket without adversely affecting anything.
The reason for having insulating foam on the shuttle is to prevent ice from hitting the delicate heat tiles on the shuttle body. If a piece of insulating foam could cause catastrophic damage, imagine the trauma that a much denser piece of ice would inflict.
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You have a point, though personally I would characterize both Objective-C and C++ as improvements on C.
Silly Windows user, what do you think C++ improved upon?
Does the invention of the entire C programming language count?
Open Office (I think) supports the Oasis format for word processor documents. However, if you're talking about MSWord, the only standard is the one Microsoft defines.
You're thinking of the ancient Olympics. Those don't count. The modern Olympic games were started in 1896, well after the word "Olympic" had been introduced into the language.
This is the best summary explanation of IC design that I've read in a long time.
To use your example, the father would get beer commercials during his sports games, the mother would get camping or natural foods ads during the nature show, the older child would get ads for movies or other tie-ins to the sitcom, and the younger child would get ads for toys and other stuff related to the cartoon.
The ads that come on would be a function of what programming the TV is playing, not the person watching.
Yes, but until my car stereo accepts USB connections, I'll be burning CDs.
Also, I don't think that the RIAA is really going after home users in this case (unlike the campaign against P2P). Instead they're going after people who buy a single CD and burn hundreds of copies for the purpose of selling. I've seen people on street corners selling the latest 50 Cent album for $3 to $5.
I don't know either, but you might not be able to play them on a Linux box.
I have heard of DRM'd media causing trouble on older CD players.
Actually Slashdot prevents robots from spidering its comment pages...
So your point is totally moot...
The moment that occurs, Microsoft will alter the document format to destroy cross-compatibility. Heck, Microsoft has done it before (compatibility issues between Office '97 and 2000) in order to force consumers to upgrade.
What really will create support for Linux/OSS would be a set of open standards, supported by all parties, dealing with text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The only way this will come about is if OSS advances enough independently to create significant market pressure for Microsoft to support the open document standard.
Yes, but at least some of those CPU cycles will be made up for by the fact that you have to push less data to the user.
Yes, so there is a standard. I was mistaken.
But the main thrust of my argument remains. The competing instant messaging clients are not interoperable, and therefore a person experiences "lock-in", where they've got themselves and their circle of friends on one network, creating prohibitive costs for switching.
There's a huge difference between mail and instant messaging. Mail is essentially standardized using POP and SMTP. If I'm logged into my GMail account, I can send mail to my Yahoo account and be confident that the message will get through.
The same does not apply to instant messaging. There are no standardized instant message protocols, so a message sent using AIM cannot be received using MSN. This greatly increases the cost of switching, ensuring that people will generally pick the network that most of their friends are on, and stick with it, regardless of the technical superiority (or inferiority) of the protocol.
Its like some kind of circle of references. iTunes dropping adSense links, which lead to iTunes songs...
Yes but filtering can be mandated in order for the library to receive federal funding.
The nice thing will be that you'll be able to search iTunes directly from Google. For example, if I'm looking for Bob Dylan stuff, and I do a Google search, I could get links to Bob Dylan songs on iTunes. Its reasonable for Google search to diversify into multimedia.
Exactly. In terms of blood and violence, I'd put Starcraft (rated T) in front of Diablo (rated M). If you don't know what I mean, try dumping psi storm on a bunch of stimpacked Space Marines, and you'll see what I mean.
And the acronym works too: SSDD (same shit, different day).
Forget form, I've seen textbooks that have carried problems verbatim from one edition to another, just scrambling the numerical order of the problems in order to force one to buy the newest edition.
First, not all books are bought with the anticipation that they will become reference books. Some of my physics books (e.g. Physics study guides) were bought with the intent to sell them back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. However, I ended up keeping them as some of the problems and explanations are better than the ones inside the official text. If I had bought these books electronically, I would not have that option.
Second, I can sell paper books on Amazon or E-bay for a significant fraction of their original value, especially if the books have been rarely used and are in otherwise good condition. With E-books, I'm not sure that cost savings upfront is worth the loss of ability to sell books later on.
obviously you'd know before you bought it,
Would you really know? Or would the restrictions be buried in a EULA that is itself impossible to read before purchasing the book?
More importantly, if books are solely published in an electronic format, what is to prevent their obsolescence. I can pick up a book from the 18th century and still read it. If our books are published online, what is to say that someone from the 23rd century will be able to read our works.
How?
AFAIK, ice is a non-issue when it comes to launches. If you look at the videos of Apollo or Gemini launches, you'll see huge pieces of ice sloughing off the rocket without adversely affecting anything.
The reason for having insulating foam on the shuttle is to prevent ice from hitting the delicate heat tiles on the shuttle body. If a piece of insulating foam could cause catastrophic damage, imagine the trauma that a much denser piece of ice would inflict.
Yes, but where do Windows, Internet Explorer, and other proprietary pieces of software fit?