Now if only they would say the same thing about the Windows based version of Internet Explorer...
How 'bout this:
' the webpage suggests 'that Windows users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or even your kids LeapFrog., because let's face it... Internet Explorer stanks!'"
Although I am always happy to bash Micro$oft, the posisition of multiple open standards is a good concept in theory, but in practice it would end up as the status quo if not managed by disinterested third-parties.
If no one other than M$ has maintained the source, and then things change significantly at M$ -- open standard or not people risk a serious lack of access.
Personally, I have switched to OpenOffice because my business needs to be able to access document created today, 20+ years down the road. But what's to say there isn't a better standard WITHOUT a little competition??
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A Flu Pandemic?
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Viruses mutate almost continuously, so it's really not an overstatement; but rather a fact.
The real unknown is whether or not any mutation would facilitate it being more easily transmitted between its animal host (stupid chickens), and humans.
Also, is how well it would be transferred from person to person is still an unknown. But the WHO and many other scientists are predicting that it would be transerred easily.
According to a breifing I attended a few months ago, the virus currently spreads rather poorly between the animal. However- it DOES spread, so if a mutation were to occur to make more it infectious when spread via that source the worst case scenario would occur.
Once thing is important to understand- they have to err on the side of predicting disaster. But trust me, the information I originally got far preceded any media report-- and it was very scary.
Let's all just hope it does amount to nothing.
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Now if only they would say the same thing about the Windows based version of Internet Explorer... How 'bout this: ' the webpage suggests 'that Windows users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or even your kids LeapFrog., because let's face it... Internet Explorer stanks!'"
Although I am always happy to bash Micro$oft, the posisition of multiple open standards is a good concept in theory, but in practice it would end up as the status quo if not managed by disinterested third-parties. If no one other than M$ has maintained the source, and then things change significantly at M$ -- open standard or not people risk a serious lack of access. Personally, I have switched to OpenOffice because my business needs to be able to access document created today, 20+ years down the road. But what's to say there isn't a better standard WITHOUT a little competition??
Viruses mutate almost continuously, so it's really not an overstatement; but rather a fact. The real unknown is whether or not any mutation would facilitate it being more easily transmitted between its animal host (stupid chickens), and humans. Also, is how well it would be transferred from person to person is still an unknown. But the WHO and many other scientists are predicting that it would be transerred easily. According to a breifing I attended a few months ago, the virus currently spreads rather poorly between the animal. However- it DOES spread, so if a mutation were to occur to make more it infectious when spread via that source the worst case scenario would occur. Once thing is important to understand- they have to err on the side of predicting disaster. But trust me, the information I originally got far preceded any media report-- and it was very scary. Let's all just hope it does amount to nothing.
I only need one reason -- IT'S WINDOWS!