If you told me you only have Pi friends, I wouldn't be surprised. I would. That means one of his friends is.14159 of a person. Is that just a head, hooked up to a machine?
No, it isn't. Pages might be designed more towards page layout than pure word processing, but it is easy to use and having nice looking documents doesn't bother anyone. No, it doesn't compete with Quark, but neither does Word.
What iWork needs is a spreadsheet application, and possibly a database program.
To provide access to this tool, you need training and other support. It's not an option, it's not a extra nicety, it is as vital as the hardware. To fairly estimate the cost of this project, you must include this. The cost of the hardware is only important in that it lowers the total cost.
For just you, likely an experienced computer user (you're posting on/., after all), training is very little. Support probably isn't either. But if you were running a large IT department, and only included initial hardware cost when considering different solutions, rather than TCO, you wouldn't be running it long.
If you just drop these off at villages, they are useless, except possibly as doorstops.
That's one instance, and it sounds really stupid, but the rest of your points unfounded. A lot of electric cars have been made. They haven't failed because the big car companies did something bad to them. They failed up until now because they had very significant problems, and people are resistant to change.
Now, Tesla motors is looking like it might be able to make electric vehicles popular. It has seemingly sold well, and is good for what it is. Obviously, it is not practical for most things, but it shows a decent car can be electric. And they plan to make a $40k-ish sedan in the future.
Waste vegetable oil will never be a good source of energy for most cars. It is free or very cheap now because there is almost no demand, and it generally costs money to dispose of it. Used cooking oil would never supply all of our cars, and it is far more expensive to farm it than to drill for fossil fuels. From what I've read, it would also take much of the midwest to grow the fuel.
So ever other luxury is useless, but somehow art is okay? Maybe people have different tastes than you? Perhaps they would prefer a nice car, good food, television, or convenient internet access over some useless paintings on the wall (I am not bashing art, but it is no "better" than anything else), that might interest visitors for 10 seconds, and you for a few weeks.
My comment was clear, but it had a typo where I repeated two words. One of the posters above seemed to think that I had instead forgotten the commas from a different, strangely worded, statement.
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You just said I was wrong, then agreed with me.
That's only true if the population is even.
It's stupid to let a third party change your license at will. You're essentially giving the FSF full control of your software with that clause.
Safari passes since 2.02 . It was the first to do so, in fact.
No, no, no. He didn't mean "literal" in the literal sense.
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No, it isn't. Pages might be designed more towards page layout than pure word processing, but it is easy to use and having nice looking documents doesn't bother anyone. No, it doesn't compete with Quark, but neither does Word.
What iWork needs is a spreadsheet application, and possibly a database program.
The MacWorld Expo is coming soon.
It "proves" it? You have a very loose definition of the word "prove".
This doesn't even suggest that no training will be needed.
To provide access to this tool, you need training and other support. It's not an option, it's not a extra nicety, it is as vital as the hardware. To fairly estimate the cost of this project, you must include this. The cost of the hardware is only important in that it lowers the total cost.
/., after all), training is very little. Support probably isn't either. But if you were running a large IT department, and only included initial hardware cost when considering different solutions, rather than TCO, you wouldn't be running it long.
For just you, likely an experienced computer user (you're posting on
If you just drop these off at villages, they are useless, except possibly as doorstops.
But not nearly as much as a school, which would certainly cost less for the number of people it can serve.
Very few are going to pick up the laptops and educate themselves. They could be useful tools, but they in no way replace education.
That's one instance, and it sounds really stupid, but the rest of your points unfounded. A lot of electric cars have been made. They haven't failed because the big car companies did something bad to them. They failed up until now because they had very significant problems, and people are resistant to change.
Now, Tesla motors is looking like it might be able to make electric vehicles popular. It has seemingly sold well, and is good for what it is. Obviously, it is not practical for most things, but it shows a decent car can be electric. And they plan to make a $40k-ish sedan in the future.
Waste vegetable oil will never be a good source of energy for most cars. It is free or very cheap now because there is almost no demand, and it generally costs money to dispose of it. Used cooking oil would never supply all of our cars, and it is far more expensive to farm it than to drill for fossil fuels. From what I've read, it would also take much of the midwest to grow the fuel.
Those "virtual" assets are actually worth something. Virtual weapons aren't actually weapons.
All of those are true with knives and [improvised] blunt weapons also. But banning those would be ridiculous, and impossible.
Right?
They don't tax virtual earnings. What has been indicated that they might tax are real earning in virtual environments (i.e. games).
So ever other luxury is useless, but somehow art is okay? Maybe people have different tastes than you? Perhaps they would prefer a nice car, good food, television, or convenient internet access over some useless paintings on the wall (I am not bashing art, but it is no "better" than anything else), that might interest visitors for 10 seconds, and you for a few weeks.
The parent presented a very good argument, and was modded down purely because of disagreement. Good moderators should fix this, even if they disagree.
People openly admit to filesharing all the time, and face no punishment. Should he be targeted because of who he is?
My comment was clear, but it had a typo where I repeated two words. One of the posters above seemed to think that I had instead forgotten the commas from a different, strangely worded, statement.
People, as in the the people near you you can also see. Not people, as in billions of people across the earth.
You forgot to close your sarcasm tag, and the sarcasm formatting is spilling over to all of the comments below you!