Somehow, I'm not sure "bootlegged" is the right word for Sony making a copy of this film.
I agree, but "really frelling bad optics" is more than one word. As you point out - it's their gorram movie, they can use a real commercially produced disk and have that extra bit of (positive) advertising. "Stupid" seems a little too weak a phrase to describe it.
Yes, but you've quoted BigBootie (Bigbooté! boo-tay!). You must have meant:
"Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy"
or maybe
"History is-a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."
TFA: "Microsoft had to be "prodded and dragged, kicking and screaming" to make its software accessible"
Okay, so MicroSoft must have developed some sort of aides for the handicapped, right?
TFA: "None of the prominent desktop applications that can create and save documents in OpenDocument currently work well with screen readers, magnifiers and other assistive technologies -- at least at a level comparable to that of products from Microsoft"
Okay, so the sticking point is working well with "assistive technologies", but what did MicroSoft do to achieve this? What products have they created to make MSOffice documents accessible to these "assistive technologies"?
TFA: "Freedom Scientific supports Office, Notes and Corel's WordPerfect Office with its market-leading Job Access With Speech screen reader"
Apparently nothing - there are third parties working on creating "assistive technologies". TFA explains that the ODF adoption is just too small to be included in the list of supported formats from Freedom Scientific.
So, other than having a large market share, what has MicroSoft done after being dragged so far? What has the "40-person Accessibility Technology Group" done to be "widely praised by disabilities advocates?"
Anyone here have some experience with this that can shed some light on what MicroSoft's accomplishments are/have been?
MANY people can't use anything but Windows, because they're not computer-oriented, have been trained with Windows-XX and Word/Excel-YY and wouldn't conceive anything else exists, must less be able to use it.
Well, that's the problem - MicroSoft is a victim of its own success and will have to make sure that they don't make things too difficult to learn for the people migrating from older versions of Windows. If Vista is too different, some of those people may actually go over to Linux (or Mac OS X, or AmigaOS - okay, maybe not AmigaOS, but check the.sig below).
I personally doubt that this will happen, but it's a possibility.
These non-employees seem to be more helpful and easier to find than regular employees of retail outlets. I think that the next time I go shopping, I'm just going to ask the other shoppers questions, rather than the employees.
The 2nd law states that "entropy" always increases, until we hit the "heat death" of the universe. If the bumping of our brane and the "anti-brane" actually reduces the entropy of our universe somehow (like shaking an Etch-a-sketch to clear it) this would certainly help things. We'd suddenly get a bunch of free (usable) energy. (Again, this nothing new - it has been a source of speculation for a long time.)
I'm not sure if it's that MicroSoft PR monkeys are geographically challenged, simply lying, or planning total continental conquest, but everything is neglecting to mention that Canadian computers are also being hit by the mandatory spyware download of WGA through the update service.
I realise that everyone says "don't blame anything on malicious intent when the source is so obviously clueless that they couldn't conceive the idea to be evil", so I must take it to be that they don't realise there is another country just north of Washington, or that they simply look and see the default language of the operating system is English.
The Word document that is the Technology Overview for this beta indicates IE7 now supports transparent PNG files. These are described as follows: "A PNG is a typographical file format". Hmmm.
Remember, as MicroSoft says, "the software should not be used in mission-critical environments".
There are actually two dangers with the Internet Explorer method of doing things. One being the problem that the original poster's friend "discovered", the other being that lazy (or less desirable adjective) web developers would only develop for MS IE, and their sites would be unusable by other browsers. (This is less the case now, but some time ago, it was a major problem.)
As the parent poster says, this is a long standing problem with IE, and it should be on the list of things that MS code monkeys should be poking with their sharpest sticks. It's a shame that they haven't fixed it in IE 7.
There are likely several of these out there, but The Missing Matter by Thomas R. McDonough is an interesting SciFi piece with "changing constants" and parallel universes.
A more serious article was published about a year ago on similar changes in constants.
So, what I hear you saying is that no matter how many times you're eaten by a grue, you don't know that the next time your lamp dies, you'll get eaten.
Whoa, slow down cowboy - that is too radical a change in universal constants. I can accept that alpha isn't constant, but the grue always gets you...
Well, I did find a web site which supports your 30%, but I also see another which says Oz has less than 25%. I guess it all depends on how you measure it.
Canada is the current largest producer at... hmm... 30%. 8-)
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But let us not forget our more distant cousins, the gibbons.
We also have to remember that we are apes. And apes have to stick together. Which I guess leads us back to the original article, eh?
In Canada, we have four letter agencies. Any Tor proxies in Canada will not be scanned by mere 3 letter agencies.
Not that we'd look. After all, we're a polite people.
I agree, but "really frelling bad optics" is more than one word. As you point out - it's their gorram movie, they can use a real commercially produced disk and have that extra bit of (positive) advertising. "Stupid" seems a little too weak a phrase to describe it.
RTFA? What FA?
Thanks for the note.
Yes, but you've quoted BigBootie (Bigbooté! boo-tay!). You must have meant:
"Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy"
or maybe
"History is-a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."
Surely you mean Dr. Everett Von Scott?
Of course, the real heros are engineers.
Here I am on my second pint of Timmy's(*) in two hours, longing to be a sensitive type.
(* Coffee)
Photons are pulled from neighbouring universes.
Laugh-a if you want monkey-boy, but that's what I sold my soul for. Well, that and enormous riches and a pretty wife and ...
Another pissy email from oh, but that would be telling ...
Okay, so MicroSoft must have developed some sort of aides for the handicapped, right?
TFA: "None of the prominent desktop applications that can create and save documents in OpenDocument currently work well with screen readers, magnifiers and other assistive technologies -- at least at a level comparable to that of products from Microsoft"
Okay, so the sticking point is working well with "assistive technologies", but what did MicroSoft do to achieve this? What products have they created to make MSOffice documents accessible to these "assistive technologies"?
TFA: "Freedom Scientific supports Office, Notes and Corel's WordPerfect Office with its market-leading Job Access With Speech screen reader"
Apparently nothing - there are third parties working on creating "assistive technologies". TFA explains that the ODF adoption is just too small to be included in the list of supported formats from Freedom Scientific.
So, other than having a large market share, what has MicroSoft done after being dragged so far? What has the "40-person Accessibility Technology Group" done to be "widely praised by disabilities advocates?"
Anyone here have some experience with this that can shed some light on what MicroSoft's accomplishments are/have been?
Well, that's the problem - MicroSoft is a victim of its own success and will have to make sure that they don't make things too difficult to learn for the people migrating from older versions of Windows. If Vista is too different, some of those people may actually go over to Linux (or Mac OS X, or AmigaOS - okay, maybe not AmigaOS, but check the .sig below).
I personally doubt that this will happen, but it's a possibility.
These non-employees seem to be more helpful and easier to find than regular employees of retail outlets. I think that the next time I go shopping, I'm just going to ask the other shoppers questions, rather than the employees.
The 2nd law states that "entropy" always increases, until we hit the "heat death" of the universe. If the bumping of our brane and the "anti-brane" actually reduces the entropy of our universe somehow (like shaking an Etch-a-sketch to clear it) this would certainly help things. We'd suddenly get a bunch of free (usable) energy. (Again, this nothing new - it has been a source of speculation for a long time.)
And what is that one click? Infect me now
You mean he will find me, but he *won't* kill me? That's a relief.
Arrogant Worms! With a song like that, the Worms must have some tendancies towards copying ... of course the Dead Trolls would not approve ;-)
I realise that everyone says "don't blame anything on malicious intent when the source is so obviously clueless that they couldn't conceive the idea to be evil", so I must take it to be that they don't realise there is another country just north of Washington, or that they simply look and see the default language of the operating system is English.
Remember, as MicroSoft says, "the software should not be used in mission-critical environments".
As the parent poster says, this is a long standing problem with IE, and it should be on the list of things that MS code monkeys should be poking with their sharpest sticks. It's a shame that they haven't fixed it in IE 7.
"I will try to be as nice as anyone has ever seen me be:
PAM is completely and utterly broken and cannot be fixed."
It is as polite as anyone has seen him being.
A more serious article was published about a year ago on similar changes in constants.
Whoa, slow down cowboy - that is too radical a change in universal constants. I can accept that alpha isn't constant, but the grue always gets you ...
Canada is the current largest producer at ... hmm ... 30%. 8-)