But this doesn't solve the issue of government documents being in a format that is cross-platform.
Next time you have to view a.doc from a government department, take the time to call said department and request a copy in an open format, so you can read it on your *nix/Solaris/Linux or whatever non-MS system.
If they decline, follow up the hierachy till you get to your elected member.
It seems simple that OpenDocument would be used for files where editing subsequent to publishing is considered necessary, and PDF would be used as an electronic paper replacement where editing is not required (or desirable)
I often laugh (to myself) when people complain about the time it takes to use public transport, when they get themselves stuck in an hour's worth of peak-time traffic twice a day, five days a week (or more).
On P-T, the time's your own, pretty much. At least there are many more possiblities for things to do, which can't be done when your attention is required for driving.
No Fished, you've got the cart before the horse.
Americans (US) drive long distances because fuel is cheap. The whole US infrastructure is geared around cheap transport fuels.
As for your GDP claims: Take a holiday some time.
I'm sorry, but when was the last time the government let a contract or start a new program worth about $1.7billion in a bid to reduce the road death toll?
Considering this funding on a per victim basis, this must be the most expensive public safety program yet.
Consider how many people have been killed in automobile accidents, and how comparatively little public money gets spent 'preventing' that carnage.
There might not be another terrorist attack on US soil for the next decade, but I'll guarantee that more than 40,000 people will die on US roads next year.
What I'd like to see is a power supply unit with two parallel internal supplies, one with a much lower max rating than the other, so that when the computer is on stand-by or other times when it is not actually using much power, it can switch to the lower capacity unit, thus saving overhead power losses.
Most power supplies are about 70% efficient at _full_ load, and much less so at part load.
This would make a heap more sense than one 1000W unit.
I did a lot of reading in the afternoons when I was not off trout fishing, including an early self-help book by the libertarian Harry Browne titled How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, which was full of practical wisdom for negotiating the normal vicissitudes of adult life, which I was just then coming to grips with. It allowed me to think of setbacks and problems not as personal affronts but as situations that yielded to certain straightforward adult skills. It informed me, for instance, that practically everyone is insecure. I'd mistakenly believed that I was special that way...
...which to this day I retain as a cardinal rule, namely, that of every room with one hundred people in it, ninety-nine of them believe they are the only ones who don't have their shit together -- and the hundreth one knows that the other ninety-nine are right!
Civil libertarians extoll the virtues of freedom of speech, freedom to view pr0n in the privacy of their own home and the like, but forget that these liberties impact on the liberties of others by way of creating a demand which is often supplied by less scrupulous players.
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So how many Tesla would you need?
But this doesn't solve the issue of government documents being in a format that is cross-platform.
.doc from a government department, take the time to call said department and request a copy in an open format, so you can read it on your *nix/Solaris/Linux or whatever non-MS system.
Next time you have to view a
If they decline, follow up the hierachy till you get to your elected member.
It seems simple that OpenDocument would be used for files where editing subsequent to publishing is considered necessary, and PDF would be used as an electronic paper replacement where editing is not required (or desirable)
Hear hear!
I often laugh (to myself) when people complain about the time it takes to use public transport, when they get themselves stuck in an hour's worth of peak-time traffic twice a day, five days a week (or more).
On P-T, the time's your own, pretty much. At least there are many more possiblities for things to do, which can't be done when your attention is required for driving.
No Fished, you've got the cart before the horse. Americans (US) drive long distances because fuel is cheap. The whole US infrastructure is geared around cheap transport fuels. As for your GDP claims: Take a holiday some time.
I beg to differ. There are certainly too many so-called SUVs in Australia.
To me, their title conveys the stupidity of the design. I mean, where's the 'sport' or 'utility' that is unique to this vehicle class?
Maybe the acronym should be changed to "Short Urethra Vehicles" instead.
I think it is sad that the Australian press has succumbed to such a stupid term.
Didn't someone say these stars were going to leave the Microsoft Way?
I'm sorry, but when was the last time the government let a contract or start a new program worth about $1.7billion in a bid to reduce the road death toll?
Considering this funding on a per victim basis, this must be the most expensive public safety program yet.
Consider how many people have been killed in automobile accidents, and how comparatively little public money gets spent 'preventing' that carnage.
There might not be another terrorist attack on US soil for the next decade, but I'll guarantee that more than 40,000 people will die on US roads next year.
What I'd like to see is a power supply unit with two parallel internal supplies, one with a much lower max rating than the other, so that when the computer is on stand-by or other times when it is not actually using much power, it can switch to the lower capacity unit, thus saving overhead power losses. Most power supplies are about 70% efficient at _full_ load, and much less so at part load. This would make a heap more sense than one 1000W unit.
by ripping one from a WinNT4.0 installation CD
Since it doesn't run on Linux, I'll still need IE for a while yet.
They wouldn't get far if they used your dictionery.
March of the Penguins Tops Office Boxes. Ahhh, one day...
You know you're getting old when your DVD drive is a classic...
Companies are not about making money. Companies are about supplying goods and services. The Fed is about making money.
Digital communication is what you use when somebody cuts you off while driving.
The terrorists will just get the FBI stoned by making them sniff loads of magic packets.
Except George W Bush... You are either with us, or you are against us, amongst other dichotomies.
I frequent wifi cafe's as the coffee stays hotter longer.
It's all in your mind.
Civil libertarians extoll the virtues of freedom of speech, freedom to view pr0n in the privacy of their own home and the like, but forget that these liberties impact on the liberties of others by way of creating a demand which is often supplied by less scrupulous players.