I forgot to mention that during the Q&A a gentleman stood up and said "Shut the f* up! I'll show you my theology!" or something to that effect. It made the whole trip worth it!
I was lucky enough to attend the lecture at the OU campus on the 6th. It was very well done and what you would expect of Dawkins. Very intelligent as always with a tongue-in-cheek humor about him. However he was also a little more direct. He immediately proceeded to shred Todd Thomsen when he began to speak. It was lovely!:)
Also on the agenda was a new documentary by Ben Stein called Sexspelled... about Sex theory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ThQQuHtzHM
http://freegeek.org/
These people are awesome. They teach people about computers and then let them have one of the computers they make. Spreads knowledge and community service. I wish we had one down in the south:)
I think a combination of name and birthdate might be suitable. While it would be possible for the parents to know it (obviously this is good), her brother may not. For instance, if her name is Brittany with a birthday of April 23rd, you can do a password of: b0r4i3t0t
I understand your argument is about TCO but this article isn't about determining the overall cost of a product. So you contend that Microsoft's software does not require any training whatsoever? All software requires training whether it be professional or self training. OpenOffice is similar enough in layout (in my opinion) to Office '03 that people familiar with it will find OO easy to navigate. Those who are not familiar with any office app will need training anyways. I am confused though... Does Microsoft, assuming it is able to set OOXML as an ISO standard, plan on releasing the OOXML specs or have they already? It would be a shame if competitors could not read their formats even though theres a plugin for OO to read docx format files. Now if Microsoft would just kindly do the same and have their Office software read ODF...
I never said anything about keeping the cost the same. If users want to have limits and pay fewer, that's fine. I'm willing to pay to sit and drink soda all day though as long as its guaranteed to always be there. If users don't want to stay there all day, then that's fine too.
However the arguments go, I think its undisputed that they should clearly define their limits and clearly define a user's expectations.
This is somewhat silly. When you buy bandwidth you, in my opinion, are buying however much bandwidth per second they are willing to give you. If you buy a 3Mbps connection, for example, you are purchasing 3 megabits of data per second. How much is that in a month of 30 days? Well a day has 86,400 seconds. A month has 2,592,000 seconds. So you are purchasing the right to 7,776,000 megabits in a 30 day month. About 7,593.75 gigabits a month(~950 GB I think...). The limit should be exactly what you pay for: your bandwidth limit per second. If there's a limit within a limit (think of a car commercial that offers a 30000 mile or 2 year, whichever happens first, warranty) then it should clearly be defined. Personally, I can not imagine myself using a terabyte a month but I do feel I am over the ambiguous limit set by Comcast. If they have not accounted for the total bandwidth capacity of a shared cable line and broken it down correctly then the fault should rest with them and they should install some extra lines or not sell it in the first place unless they agree to the limiting terms. Whatever the actual bandwidth capacity of a cable line is (tv+phone+data), surely they can divide it evenly per household or do they need a physicist to tell them what 100/3 is? I refuse to purchase cable because of the line sharing. Not only is it fluctuating throughout the day but the security is questionable. I actually consider internet availability based on where I consider living. On a side note, could they be including in their bandwidth limits the tv and phone information as well? Certainly a constant digital tv signal would eat up a considerable amount of bandwidth.
Nash, lately we have seen an uproar of self-proclaimed 'secure' browsers such as Firefox and Opera. Millions of users use these and it seems that IE is losing its way. How will IE7 stack up against these other browsers and how will it be different from IE6?
Was just thinking, and I dont think many people have realized that even though they are rich by today's standards, would it be so in the future? Would money even have value or would it all be obselete collectors items?
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The easy answer is go and get a microwave for the classroom. Make everybody their favorite microwave meal!
Well duh... How is Microsoft supposed to make any more money from you if they don't trash their old OS?
I forgot to mention that during the Q&A a gentleman stood up and said "Shut the f* up! I'll show you my theology!" or something to that effect. It made the whole trip worth it!
I was lucky enough to attend the lecture at the OU campus on the 6th. It was very well done and what you would expect of Dawkins. Very intelligent as always with a tongue-in-cheek humor about him. However he was also a little more direct. He immediately proceeded to shred Todd Thomsen when he began to speak. It was lovely! :)
Also on the agenda was a new documentary by Ben Stein called Sexspelled... about Sex theory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ThQQuHtzHM
http://freegeek.org/ These people are awesome. They teach people about computers and then let them have one of the computers they make. Spreads knowledge and community service. I wish we had one down in the south :)
I think a combination of name and birthdate might be suitable. While it would be possible for the parents to know it (obviously this is good), her brother may not. For instance, if her name is Brittany with a birthday of April 23rd, you can do a password of: b0r4i3t0t
I understand your argument is about TCO but this article isn't about determining the overall cost of a product.
So you contend that Microsoft's software does not require any training whatsoever? All software requires training whether it be professional or self training. OpenOffice is similar enough in layout (in my opinion) to Office '03 that people familiar with it will find OO easy to navigate. Those who are not familiar with any office app will need training anyways.
I am confused though... Does Microsoft, assuming it is able to set OOXML as an ISO standard, plan on releasing the OOXML specs or have they already? It would be a shame if competitors could not read their formats even though theres a plugin for OO to read docx format files. Now if Microsoft would just kindly do the same and have their Office software read ODF...
I never said anything about keeping the cost the same. If users want to have limits and pay fewer, that's fine. I'm willing to pay to sit and drink soda all day though as long as its guaranteed to always be there. If users don't want to stay there all day, then that's fine too. However the arguments go, I think its undisputed that they should clearly define their limits and clearly define a user's expectations.
This is somewhat silly. When you buy bandwidth you, in my opinion, are buying however much bandwidth per second they are willing to give you. If you buy a 3Mbps connection, for example, you are purchasing 3 megabits of data per second. How much is that in a month of 30 days? Well a day has 86,400 seconds. A month has 2,592,000 seconds. So you are purchasing the right to 7,776,000 megabits in a 30 day month. About 7,593.75 gigabits a month(~950 GB I think...). The limit should be exactly what you pay for: your bandwidth limit per second. If there's a limit within a limit (think of a car commercial that offers a 30000 mile or 2 year, whichever happens first, warranty) then it should clearly be defined. Personally, I can not imagine myself using a terabyte a month but I do feel I am over the ambiguous limit set by Comcast.
If they have not accounted for the total bandwidth capacity of a shared cable line and broken it down correctly then the fault should rest with them and they should install some extra lines or not sell it in the first place unless they agree to the limiting terms. Whatever the actual bandwidth capacity of a cable line is (tv+phone+data), surely they can divide it evenly per household or do they need a physicist to tell them what 100/3 is? I refuse to purchase cable because of the line sharing. Not only is it fluctuating throughout the day but the security is questionable. I actually consider internet availability based on where I consider living.
On a side note, could they be including in their bandwidth limits the tv and phone information as well? Certainly a constant digital tv signal would eat up a considerable amount of bandwidth.
Sorry if my math is a bit off.
Nash, lately we have seen an uproar of self-proclaimed 'secure' browsers such as Firefox and Opera. Millions of users use these and it seems that IE is losing its way. How will IE7 stack up against these other browsers and how will it be different from IE6?
Was just thinking, and I dont think many people have realized that even though they are rich by today's standards, would it be so in the future? Would money even have value or would it all be obselete collectors items?