If I recall correctly, the pH of the vagina has some effect on the probability of a male vs. a female child being concieved.
I no longer recall whether the X or Y sperms prefered a more acidic environment, but allegedly female gorillas eat certain foods in order to adjuct their vagina's pH so as to favour one or the other.
And certain other foods in order to induce an abortion, but that's not pertinent.
Not to mention that in certain discussions it may well be considered flamebait.
Personally, I welcome the change, because it will give me one more reason to tell people to install Open Office. Who knows? This may have been the work of a sinister OSS advocate within Microsoft out to drive more people away from MS Software.
Do you think that's what Daniel Robbins did in Microsoft?
What you do is you have two systems. One MSWind97 (that sounds wrong!) and the other whatever the current version is. You work on the MSWind97 system and do translations on the current system. You send the translations over a network from the current MSWind system to the working one.
What the fsck are you talking about?
How are you going to convert documents from one format to another when the old software cannot save the document in the new format, while the new software won't open a document in the old format?
Third-party applications?
I mean, sure. But then let's show people that OpenOffice.org really can open both the old and the new documents. And convert them to whichever format they like.
Incidentally, it's an office suite as well. And you paid how much for MS Office?
The problem here is that old MS systems don't recognize modern hardware. So you'll need to be running it under emulation. To control expenses, you want a free system to run you emulated system under. As time goes one you may eventually need to be running nested levels of emulation, as, e.g., modern emulators emulate hardware that MSWind95 doesn't recognize. The last time I checked there was still a work around, but I haven't tried to reinstall MSWind95 recently.
I don't know how this is pertinent to this discussion anyway, but you're only proving my point: just dump MS Office if you need MS Office compatibility.
Paradoxical as it may sound.
Ultimately this is another nail in the coffin for MS for it proves that you can't use ANY MS Office file format for reliable long term storage - unless you are prepared to walk the MS Upgrade Treadmill.
Nope.
It's even worse.
This problem only occurs if you do walk the MS Upgrade Treadmill; should you choose to remain true to the good old Office 97, all will be fine.
OK, so the problem of opening new documents someone sends you occurs in that case, but you can't have it all.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't type of game: either you lose old documents or you lose new ones.
The bottom line, therefore, is: you lose anyway.
Whatever you do, if you go with Microsoft, you will lose.
Best case scenario: all you lose is lots of time. However much is necessary for converting all the old documents.
Do add that to the price of Office itself.
Well, if your grandparents are morons I suppose that's hard.
My Grandmother was a teacher and principal for all her life, she knows a thing or two about thinking.
My Grandfather was a nuclear physicist, and moved away from that to professing. He's so bright as to the point of a social handicap.
Or maybe they're just old.
My grandfather, who was an engineer, is showing some early signs of dementia. So no matter how bright he still may be, if an interface is too complicated, he will not be able to remember it.
He was so happy when we got him a satellite dish and a DVD/VCR. But coping with three remotes, along with two universal ones left over from his old TV (he's a remote jockey, so he wears them out pretty quickly), makes it quite difficult for him.
I spent quite a while until I explained him how it was all connected, how to program a recording, how to record a satellite programme, how to access some of the programmes, the proper sequence of the remotes...
Hell, it took me a while to get it all, and not only do I know quite a bit about it, but have also translated quite a number of manuals for similar devices.
So now I have to explain everything to my grandmother as well; she was never very technical, but she can be trusted to remember the magic sequence of the remotes and associated keys. My grandfather will try to understand it all, but can't hold it all in his mind any more, so it all gets mixed up.
Apple's remote is amazing. The remote on my mother's TV, with even the numeric keypad ordered in a non-standard way (1 2 3 4\n5 6 7 8\n9 0 - --) is a disaster, as it is different from practically every single remote we'd used in the last... oh, 15 years at the very least.
Certain parts of the existing interfaces are really the best possible (or at least the most feasible); most others were just added on in a mechanical way. Which kind of reminds me of my usual rant on school system design nearly everywhere in the world, so I guess this kind of design isn't limited to consumer electronics.
It would have to work nearly instantly, though... imagine a sleepy driver. The car's computer can detect the drowsiness, make a surprising, loud noise to snap the driver awake, and spray a mist of this drug in his face. Enough to get home safely, but not enough to hamper the real sleep he'll get when he gets home.
False. The price is still set by the seller, who is under no obligation to sell/give away — however saturated the market may be.
The price may be still set by the seller, but that's the point: people don't feel like paying it.
And currently, the supply of music is such that:
you can never ever listen to it all. My gf has enough music on her computer to last her the whole February, 24/7. And that's on some 40 GB of disk space. iPod Classic comes in 80 and 160 GB sizes, IIRC. You do the math.
you can buy music legally, and, more often than not, have to deal with DRM. Or you can "steal" it, by downloading it from a p2p network for the sole price of bandwidth.
The problem is, the record companies are no longer the sole suppliers. Much as they'd like to be.
And their competition is so unfair: they charge absolutely nothing. Or, in the case of allofmp3.com or whatever it was called, offering their product at the price people were actually willing to pay, in a format they were actually willing to purchase.
FTFA
"programs written for Mac OS X or Windows that you can buy online or in a retail store won't work on the Linux-based gPC--it's mainly a Web-based PC."
Amazing concept. Absolutely brilliant. There must be some kind of prize or medal to get this reviewer... Yes as opposed to programs written for Linux that you can get for free online and usually have a port that will work on Mac OS X or Windows as well.
Not to mention the fact that some Windows programs can be made to work under Linux.
The only difference is, Apple is a minority, and people actually want to use Apple products, whereas people are most often forced to use MS products -- but that is not a legal difference.
I always thought that MS being a monopoly made it a legal difference as well.
That's why Apple may do some things, while if MS did the same, that would be anti-competitive.
I don't see how forcing everyone to publish their additions to your code means "locking down", just like I don't understand some hicks on my university's forum who demand their right to spam and flood, as moderating it is fascism and restricting their right to free speech.
The GPL allows you everything, and for free -- the only thing you have to do in exchange is to provide like for like. If you got a program with a source code, the least you can do is publish any improvements you made to it.
The catch is that the GPL is forcing people do it using the laws people behind it consider unfair and pointless.
That's the thing I like about the GPL: it plays by the rules. We may not like the rules, but we play by them, and by playing, we show that the rules need to change.
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If I recall correctly, the pH of the vagina has some effect on the probability of a male vs. a female child being concieved.
I no longer recall whether the X or Y sperms prefered a more acidic environment, but allegedly female gorillas eat certain foods in order to adjuct their vagina's pH so as to favour one or the other.
And certain other foods in order to induce an abortion, but that's not pertinent.
Not to mention that in certain discussions it may well be considered flamebait.
Do you think that's what Daniel Robbins did in Microsoft?
You're trying to say that simply forbidding stuff is better than giving the user an option. Cancel or Allow?
What the fsck are you talking about?
How are you going to convert documents from one format to another when the old software cannot save the document in the new format, while the new software won't open a document in the old format?
Third-party applications?
I mean, sure. But then let's show people that OpenOffice.org really can open both the old and the new documents. And convert them to whichever format they like.
The problem here is that old MS systems don't recognize modern hardware. So you'll need to be running it under emulation. To control expenses, you want a free system to run you emulated system under. As time goes one you may eventually need to be running nested levels of emulation, as, e.g., modern emulators emulate hardware that MSWind95 doesn't recognize. The last time I checked there was still a work around, but I haven't tried to reinstall MSWind95 recently.Incidentally, it's an office suite as well. And you paid how much for MS Office?
I don't know how this is pertinent to this discussion anyway, but you're only proving my point: just dump MS Office if you need MS Office compatibility.
Paradoxical as it may sound.
Nope.
It's even worse.
This problem only occurs if you do walk the MS Upgrade Treadmill; should you choose to remain true to the good old Office 97, all will be fine.
OK, so the problem of opening new documents someone sends you occurs in that case, but you can't have it all.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't type of game: either you lose old documents or you lose new ones.
The bottom line, therefore, is: you lose anyway.
Whatever you do, if you go with Microsoft, you will lose.
Best case scenario: all you lose is lots of time. However much is necessary for converting all the old documents.
Do add that to the price of Office itself.
Quite right. And it was proved by Mr Sato, the Professor of Statistics at Tokyo University.
It sounds so much better when backed up by credible-sounding sources, eh?
Now you're mixing Ubuntu releases with a browser. Clearly you don't know what you're talking about.
Whoosh.
1. was your comment really just bollocks?
then follow up by:
2. how can you keep your comment from becoming total bollocks
3. how can you write comments that don't sound like bollocks
By the FSM's noodly appendage, this sounds like /. Clippy.
Please, please don't tell me you'll use it as an example of open source innovation.
OTOH, we can use the vigor vs. Clippy improvement as an example of perfecting a closed source idea.
Ah, a kindred spirit, I see.
Glad to see I'm not alone in that.
My Grandmother was a teacher and principal for all her life, she knows a thing or two about thinking.
My Grandfather was a nuclear physicist, and moved away from that to professing. He's so bright as to the point of a social handicap.
Or maybe they're just old.
My grandfather, who was an engineer, is showing some early signs of dementia. So no matter how bright he still may be, if an interface is too complicated, he will not be able to remember it.
He was so happy when we got him a satellite dish and a DVD/VCR. But coping with three remotes, along with two universal ones left over from his old TV (he's a remote jockey, so he wears them out pretty quickly), makes it quite difficult for him.
I spent quite a while until I explained him how it was all connected, how to program a recording, how to record a satellite programme, how to access some of the programmes, the proper sequence of the remotes...
Hell, it took me a while to get it all, and not only do I know quite a bit about it, but have also translated quite a number of manuals for similar devices.
So now I have to explain everything to my grandmother as well; she was never very technical, but she can be trusted to remember the magic sequence of the remotes and associated keys. My grandfather will try to understand it all, but can't hold it all in his mind any more, so it all gets mixed up.
Apple's remote is amazing. The remote on my mother's TV, with even the numeric keypad ordered in a non-standard way (1 2 3 4\n5 6 7 8\n9 0 - --) is a disaster, as it is different from practically every single remote we'd used in the last... oh, 15 years at the very least.
Certain parts of the existing interfaces are really the best possible (or at least the most feasible); most others were just added on in a mechanical way. Which kind of reminds me of my usual rant on school system design nearly everywhere in the world, so I guess this kind of design isn't limited to consumer electronics.
I don't know about you, but I'll take my chance with the grue.
I do wonder if it can be applied as a quick fix.
It would have to work nearly instantly, though... imagine a sleepy driver. The car's computer can detect the drowsiness, make a surprising, loud noise to snap the driver awake, and spray a mist of this drug in his face. Enough to get home safely, but not enough to hamper the real sleep he'll get when he gets home.
False. The price is still set by the seller, who is under no obligation to sell/give away — however saturated the market may be.
The price may be still set by the seller, but that's the point: people don't feel like paying it.
And currently, the supply of music is such that:
The problem is, the record companies are no longer the sole suppliers. Much as they'd like to be.
And their competition is so unfair: they charge absolutely nothing. Or, in the case of allofmp3.com or whatever it was called, offering their product at the price people were actually willing to pay, in a format they were actually willing to purchase.
The market evolves. Adapt or become extinct.
When supply outdid demand.
Have collapsible toolbars.
Really, the only thing I miss in Firefox that was in Netscape since 4.something.
Seamonkey has it, though.
... shutting down, shutting down
AOL was shutting down
my fair lady...
Well, am I surprised to see a mymincity link under that one as well?
Especially since I don't remember any kind of critical, infamous bug in Netscape 7.
If you have something to stand it on, a laptop works just fine, too.
"programs written for Mac OS X or Windows that you can buy online or in a retail store won't work on the Linux-based gPC--it's mainly a Web-based PC."
Amazing concept. Absolutely brilliant. There must be some kind of prize or medal to get this reviewer... Yes as opposed to programs written for Linux that you can get for free online and usually have a port that will work on Mac OS X or Windows as well.
Not to mention the fact that some Windows programs can be made to work under Linux.
So how is something made to keep working for the anti-virus programs, but not web browsers?
Why the discrepancy?
Microsoft is a part of the W3C.
That means they first make the standards, then when everybody else implements them, they decide not to comply.
I always thought that MS being a monopoly made it a legal difference as well.
That's why Apple may do some things, while if MS did the same, that would be anti-competitive.
I don't see how forcing everyone to publish their additions to your code means "locking down", just like I don't understand some hicks on my university's forum who demand their right to spam and flood, as moderating it is fascism and restricting their right to free speech.
The GPL allows you everything, and for free -- the only thing you have to do in exchange is to provide like for like. If you got a program with a source code, the least you can do is publish any improvements you made to it.
The catch is that the GPL is forcing people do it using the laws people behind it consider unfair and pointless.
That's the thing I like about the GPL: it plays by the rules. We may not like the rules, but we play by them, and by playing, we show that the rules need to change.
I so much prefer evolution to revolution.
IP - intellectual property vs. IP - Internet Protocol.
I can't have been the only slashdot reader who thought that with that juicy headline on the OP.
Definitely. I also thought "What's not to believe in Internet Protocol?" when I read the headline.
I guess in an hour or four some mods will see the light, and others will be meta-moderated in due time.