how about laying down a bed of... say, concrete ?, and or melting the walls with high powered lasers, and setting up a simple decontam ( hazmat style ) should be cost-effective...
I see your 26 and raise you 20... call BS or go home? I'll see that 20 and raise you 23, thopse other 3 which are soooooooooooooo onerous can now be forgotten about ???
There is always a method of forcing compliance, and any ban on MS EU would take several years to implememnt, in which time all companies would transition in an orderly and cost efficient manner.
Google? I thought it would be dependent on use of Internet Exploder, not a search engine to access specific / particularly bank, sites on the web... I have found that when you email the higher ups and explain that their IT people are too lazy to actually code their sites, and end up with M$ specific sites, they usually find the wherewithal to accomodate people who use functioning / secure browsers...
don't they already hold this patent, or bought it in one of their " acquisitions " ? hehehe, but seriously, if only such a patent could be granted, and turned over to FOSS...
it's XML, therefore it is an open standard is it not, and therefore can not controlled by M$ or any other entity except the standards setting body ? Or did I miss something here ? And therefore presumably NZ (or other) Patent Office can not in reality, or good conscience for that matter, grant any such patents, despite M$ efforts to create such FUD and misperception in the eyes of the public ? This is clearly their latest embrace and bastardise project...
Incidentally, I've done my part to help the health care industry, and the tax-payers ( of which I unfortunately;) are one ) 39, and since childhood haven't been to a doctor... there was that time in 88 when I walked on adrove a rusted metal spike through my foot, went to a clinic and got a tetanus shot, that has been my sole-usage of our health care system... I'm in good shape, eat right, just quit smoking, walk a lot etc... should I require some care in my old age / dotage, then, I have everry right to expect it... I'm not like the vast majority, running to the emergency ward for every little sniffle ! This is what has been draining and destroying our health care system... particularly the influx of foreigners... there are millions more Ontario health cards than therre are citizens - how's that again ?
yeah keep your eyes on the farmers, while the gun registry is flaunted - I walked past a house in north east Toronto last evening and, while glancing in through the window, saw 4 rifles on the wall... not locked away, or trigger-locked etc anyone can see this, anyone can break in and steal these weapons... police? nope, more important things to do... invading my rights to have a conversation, and verbally condemning my unrepresentative government for being corrupt, and looting my country...
see, there's the sad-sacks amongst us... we have to fight their battles for them as well as our own... they do not comprehend that it is the little things that matter, the first little right to be infringed, the first little police state like behaviour that must be exposed to the light of freedom and threat to the commonweal. THESE then, are what are truly important. Expose and denounce, instantly, any such attempts to abrogate our rights and freedoms.
it is immaterial and irrelevant, whether or not I or others have " something to hide " - it is the PRINCIPLE. Of constant surveillance, of constant threats to our individual and collective privacy, of compiling that massive database of every little factoid about you to be used against you anywhere and everywhere possible, and anywhen. It is the principle of fighting Big Brother's attempts to control, subjugate, and manipulate the human condition, ensuring that freedom and rights continue to reign suprem e above any and all fleeting governments... outlasting these tyrants and other petty dictators... is it just me, or does anyone else find it amusing that as the
" Third " world, mid-east etc are finally beginning to get some rights and freedoms, that OUR enlightened democratic bodies are trying to suppress us, amd destroy our freedoms ?
what public pressure about American missle defence ? there was significant private pressure from the Quebec government, but nothing from the CITIZENS of Canada...
Privacy Commissioner ? completely ham-stringed and ineffectual... toady to his buddy the appointer, and appointed leader, Prime Minister Paul " Waffles " Martin...
sensationalist or not ? Either way, the man needs to be heard and we the people need to defend against any such attempts to strangle the population and our rights and freedoms. We must remain ever vigilant, particularly in this post 9/11 super-paranoid North American stronghold... Here in Canada, the new land of over-taxation WITHOUT representation, our corrupt government is WAY frickin' out of control, and in fact bald-facedly looting the country... maybe time for a little UN intervention right about here ? would Bushie ( leader of all that's right and good in the world ) permit such intervention ?
Oh, and some businesses NEED a browser that can view IE code, because some business apps require it
Obviously, these are businesses which are significantly behind the times ( dinosaurs ), and deserve to be extinct... any business which is still headed by incompetent twits that are unaware of standards, and MS' attempts to bastardise / monopolise / distort that which it can not pwn...
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SCO doesn't need another extension IBM even was gracious enough to include instructions on how to search through the code ...
I will go out on a limb, and guess at $100 / lb ...
then why isn't Toronto, Vancouver etc or other cities in Canada, and the US doing the roll-out thingey ?
but it can be " peer " reviewed -> by another AI
how about laying down a bed of ... say, concrete ?, and or melting the walls with high powered lasers, and setting up a simple decontam ( hazmat style ) should be cost-effective ...
I see your 26 and raise you 20 ... call BS or go home? I'll see that 20 and raise you 23, thopse other 3 which are soooooooooooooo onerous can now be forgotten about ???
There is always a method of forcing compliance, and any ban on MS EU would take several years to implememnt, in which time all companies would transition in an orderly and cost efficient manner.
is that an old Atari video toaster ?
Google? I thought it would be dependent on use of Internet Exploder, not a search engine to access specific / particularly bank, sites on the web ... I have found that when you email the higher ups and explain that their IT people are too lazy to actually code their sites, and end up with M$ specific sites, they usually find the wherewithal to accomodate people who use functioning / secure browsers ...
Excellent, they seem to be buying a heck of a lot of - eclectic ? items for promo, lately ...
on first read that looks more like a hook into the OS, than word-processing per se ...
don't they already hold this patent, or bought it in one of their " acquisitions " ? hehehe, but seriously, if only such a patent could be granted, and turned over to FOSS ...
or Mikerowesoft employees ?
it's XML, therefore it is an open standard is it not, and therefore can not controlled by M$ or any other entity except the standards setting body ? Or did I miss something here ? And therefore presumably NZ (or other) Patent Office can not in reality, or good conscience for that matter, grant any such patents, despite M$ efforts to create such FUD and misperception in the eyes of the public ? This is clearly their latest embrace and bastardise project ...
All your base are REALLY belong to us
Incidentally, I've done my part to help the health care industry, and the tax-payers ( of which I unfortunately ;) are one ) 39, and since childhood haven't been to a doctor ... there was that time in 88 when I walked on adrove a rusted metal spike through my foot, went to a clinic and got a tetanus shot, that has been my sole-usage of our health care system ... I'm in good shape, eat right, just quit smoking, walk a lot etc ... should I require some care in my old age / dotage, then, I have everry right to expect it ... I'm not like the vast majority, running to the emergency ward for every little sniffle ! This is what has been draining and destroying our health care system ... particularly the influx of foreigners ... there are millions more Ontario health cards than therre are citizens - how's that again ?
Over-taxation with or without representation isn't so hot either ... and in Canada - it is WITHOUT ...
yeah keep your eyes on the farmers, while the gun registry is flaunted - I walked past a house in north east Toronto last evening and, while glancing in through the window, saw 4 rifles on the wall ... not locked away, or trigger-locked etc anyone can see this, anyone can break in and steal these weapons ... police? nope, more important things to do ... invading my rights to have a conversation, and verbally condemning my unrepresentative government for being corrupt, and looting my country ...
see, there's the sad-sacks amongst us ... we have to fight their battles for them as well as our own ... they do not comprehend that it is the little things that matter, the first little right to be infringed, the first little police state like behaviour that must be exposed to the light of freedom and threat to the commonweal. THESE then, are what are truly important. Expose and denounce, instantly, any such attempts to abrogate our rights and freedoms.
it is immaterial and irrelevant, whether or not I or others have " something to hide " - it is the PRINCIPLE. Of constant surveillance, of constant threats to our individual and collective privacy, of compiling that massive database of every little factoid about you to be used against you anywhere and everywhere possible, and anywhen. It is the principle of fighting Big Brother's attempts to control, subjugate, and manipulate the human condition, ensuring that freedom and rights continue to reign suprem e above any and all fleeting governments ... outlasting these tyrants and other petty dictators ... is it just me, or does anyone else find it amusing that as the
" Third " world, mid-east etc are finally beginning to get some rights and freedoms, that OUR enlightened democratic bodies are trying to suppress us, amd destroy our freedoms ?
what public pressure about American missle defence ? there was significant private pressure from the Quebec government, but nothing from the CITIZENS of Canada ...
Privacy Commissioner ? completely ham-stringed and ineffectual ... toady to his buddy the appointer, and appointed leader, Prime Minister Paul " Waffles " Martin ...
sensationalist or not ? Either way, the man needs to be heard and we the people need to defend against any such attempts to strangle the population and our rights and freedoms. We must remain ever vigilant, particularly in this post 9/11 super-paranoid North American stronghold ... Here in Canada, the new land of over-taxation WITHOUT representation, our corrupt government is WAY frickin' out of control, and in fact bald-facedly looting the country ... maybe time for a little UN intervention right about here ? would Bushie ( leader of all that's right and good in the world ) permit such intervention ?
Oh, and some businesses NEED a browser that can view IE code, because some business apps require it Obviously, these are businesses which are significantly behind the times ( dinosaurs ), and deserve to be extinct ... any business which is still headed by incompetent twits that are unaware of standards, and MS' attempts to bastardise / monopolise / distort that which it can not pwn ...
AOHell, AIM, all the extra AOHell icons/menus/file folders ... and the necessaries to tie them together
gotta be good for at least 8 meg