I can't say this enough, the Dish Network 7100/7200 player is about the worst peice of crap device I've ever seen. I'm sure glad EchoStar doesn't make air traffic control hardware
Charlie said as much on the Charlie Chat. He said
that Microsoft was unable to deliver stable software
for the thing, so they had to start from scratch
and write the software themselves for their new
model.
It was pretty funny, 'cause he said something like
"Well, I don't want to talk bad about anyone, but
Microsoft couldn't write the software." But he
definitely admitted that it was crap.
Actually, Charlie Ergen said that if the merger
goes through, they will use a combination of spot-beam
and regular transponders to carry the top 200 markets'
locals.
Most big companies have already standardized on MS Office and won't change so i don't know who they plan on selling this too
Exactly.
That's the point that people are missing. Yes, Sun
has a right to sell StarOffice for whatever price
they wish. But, in the long run, which course of
action will result in more revenue for Sun? I'm
not convinced that this one will. They aren't going
to sell more than a handful of licenses, as there
is insufficient reason to migrate from MS Office.
Now, when it was free, there was a great reason to migrate: you
could reduce your licensing costs tremendously since
you had not per-seat restrictions. I know of a company
that very nearly switched. The reason they didn't
switch was not that StarOffice was free; they didn't
switch because StarOffice 5.2 kind of sucked. There
was something accomplished, though. They were able
to negotiate down their MS Office licensing fees.
So, free StarOffice in that case helped to "cut off
Microsoft's air supply" just a little bit. Imagine
what a good, free StarOffice 6.0 could do. Sun could
do better giving away StarOffice, and making money
from support and server purchases, I suspect. I'm
pretty certain that they
won't make much money under the current plan, though.
kwm and twm both allow you to choose whatever
focus policy you prefer. With kwm, you choose
focus policy in the KDE Control Center. For twm,
I think you just tweak the.twmrc.
Naturally, they way it is always defined by the eco-warriors:
reputable scientist == agrees with him
Note that the person you replied to is the same
one who submitted the story summary which included
his extremely selective interpretation of the
story.
The challenge is just getting people to use the
other routes. Most people don't think there's
a problem. Mainly because they don't know what's
going on with ICANN.
I didn't mean to say that you specifically were any or all of those
things; I responded to the guy who asked where all
the liberals were coming from, with my theory on the matter, which
I stand by.
Where do they grow you liberal cocksuckers anyway?
Universities.
They are little more than leftist indoctrination centers
now. They breed wave upon wave of anti-American athiestic
know-it-alls who engage in the worst sort of Marxist
revisionism, and environmental chicken-littleism.
No, I'm not posting anonymously. Do your worst, moderators!
See if I care. This place has become too tiresome.
Re:It all depends on your reason ...
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If you are using Linux because of an irrational devotion to the "open source - free speech and free beer" ideology, then moving to Mac OS X would be a violation of your principles.
What if you use Linux because you have been screwed
in the past by proprietary vendors who abandon
you, leaving you with no options?
I am never going to put myself in that position again,
no matter how many pretty pictures Apple puts on
their desktop.
The Clinton administration had no particular gusto
with which it pursued Microsoft. Remember, it was
under the Clinton adminstration that Microsoft
was allowed to skate the first time around.
Face it, Microsoft is a major corporation and, yes,
a considerable influence on our economy. No
administration (that can actually get elected) is going to gleefully attack them,
because they fear the economic effects (yes, I
realize that any negative effect would likely be
short-lived, and would be more than made up for
by the subsequent explosion of new entrepreneurship,
but many people don't see things this way).
Slashdot Mirror
They most certainly do.
Have you not heard of the deterrent effect?
Charlie said as much on the Charlie Chat. He said that Microsoft was unable to deliver stable software for the thing, so they had to start from scratch and write the software themselves for their new model.
It was pretty funny, 'cause he said something like "Well, I don't want to talk bad about anyone, but Microsoft couldn't write the software." But he definitely admitted that it was crap.
Actually, Charlie Ergen said that if the merger goes through, they will use a combination of spot-beam and regular transponders to carry the top 200 markets' locals.
It is?
A web-enabled license for SQL Server on a dual-proc server is somewhere around $40,000. For that amount, you could hire that consultant for a while.
Let me add that, as a Dish customer, I am so glad that EchoStar is buying Hughes, as opposed to vice-versa.
Now, he's merely paying them back.
Exactly.
That's the point that people are missing. Yes, Sun has a right to sell StarOffice for whatever price they wish. But, in the long run, which course of action will result in more revenue for Sun? I'm not convinced that this one will. They aren't going to sell more than a handful of licenses, as there is insufficient reason to migrate from MS Office.
Now, when it was free, there was a great reason to migrate: you could reduce your licensing costs tremendously since you had not per-seat restrictions. I know of a company that very nearly switched. The reason they didn't switch was not that StarOffice was free; they didn't switch because StarOffice 5.2 kind of sucked. There was something accomplished, though. They were able to negotiate down their MS Office licensing fees. So, free StarOffice in that case helped to "cut off Microsoft's air supply" just a little bit. Imagine what a good, free StarOffice 6.0 could do. Sun could do better giving away StarOffice, and making money from support and server purchases, I suspect. I'm pretty certain that they won't make much money under the current plan, though.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of "we're the producers who make all this stuff (hardware, software, etc.), and we oppose this."
I know Intel and other big-name hardware companies are opposed to this bill. They ought to sponsor a march/techfest on Washington to make the point.
Use it for thrust, of course!
kwm and twm both allow you to choose whatever focus policy you prefer. With kwm, you choose focus policy in the KDE Control Center. For twm, I think you just tweak the .twmrc.
Naturally, they way it is always defined by the eco-warriors:
reputable scientist == agrees with him
Note that the person you replied to is the same one who submitted the story summary which included his extremely selective interpretation of the story.
I typed the wrong URL in my comment. But the correct one is in my sig.
One of them is OpenNIC.
The challenge is just getting people to use the other routes. Most people don't think there's a problem. Mainly because they don't know what's going on with ICANN.
It involves editing your named.conf.
See .sig for details.
Why? So you can suffer in pain while on the waiting list?
True. Then again, it's hard to enjoy your house when you're dead due to inferior medical care.
FWIW, I still think you are a revisionist WRT Japan.
I didn't mean to say that you specifically were any or all of those things; I responded to the guy who asked where all the liberals were coming from, with my theory on the matter, which I stand by.
Prove it.
Universities.
They are little more than leftist indoctrination centers now. They breed wave upon wave of anti-American athiestic know-it-alls who engage in the worst sort of Marxist revisionism, and environmental chicken-littleism.
No, I'm not posting anonymously. Do your worst, moderators! See if I care. This place has become too tiresome.
What if you use Linux because you have been screwed in the past by proprietary vendors who abandon you, leaving you with no options?
I am never going to put myself in that position again, no matter how many pretty pictures Apple puts on their desktop.
The breakup was "taken off the table" by an appeals court, not the Department of Justice.
Face it, Microsoft is a major corporation and, yes, a considerable influence on our economy. No administration (that can actually get elected) is going to gleefully attack them, because they fear the economic effects (yes, I realize that any negative effect would likely be short-lived, and would be more than made up for by the subsequent explosion of new entrepreneurship, but many people don't see things this way).
What's up with that?