Is your copy of OpenOffice really that slow that it's quicker to go online, login to your Google account and then launch an AJAX application and load your data into that? Sounds like a problem with OpenOffice more than anything else. MS Office loads up pretty quickly, even on my Mac.
- Email viruses. Ack! All I did was open my mail on Outlook express!
I remember doing tech support for a local ISP about 10 years ago and someone called up frantically saying that they got a message warning them about an e-mail virus going around and if you opened a message with a subject of "Good times" you'd get infected. I thought "that's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard of, you can't infect your computer with a simple ASCII text e-mail" and low and behold, I traced it down to a hoax. Little did I know that within a few short years Microsoft would invent the world's first e-mail virus proliferation platform. Now THAT is true innovation from Redmond. Bravo.
OK, here goes. In one model, I have to trust you that what you say is true. In the other, I can see for myself. I like seeing for myself.
Case in point: Peer-to-peer programs and the proliferation of spyware. Many many users will just download and install a popular peer-to-peer application without any realization that they're infecting their machine with difficult to remove trojans that clog up their system. When's the last time you used a popular open source product that had intentional trojan horses in it? Somebody would just patch it and rerelease it under another name and the original project would die. That's not so easy to do with proprietary closed-source applications (although they tried it with Kazaa Lite for instance).
Is anyone else bothered that there is no mention of private funding or participation only, "NASA, NASA, NASA"?
Nope. Apparently only the outspoken NASA-hating trolls like to point out stuff like that. The rest of us are quite proud of NASA and the accomplishments they have made to advance space exploration for all mankind.
Having said that, perhaps the 700w (and subsequent Windows versions) will help with the learning curve for execs.
The synergy between the Windows OS and the Treo platform certainly creates an exciting new paradigm shift in the handheld market. Executives will see this as a new way to integrate wireless devices into their business processes in a way that will empower their knowledge workers while providing a solid return on investment for the company's strategic initiatives.
Being open source, it is available to the US, if you could get around the NIH syndrome.
Knowing my fellow Americans we'd buy some expensive Diebold voting machines that ran a stripped down version of Microsoft Windows XP on them with some horribly clunky ASP.net based website and IIS running on each machine. Each machine would cost about $10,000 a piece and require a team of software programmers to update each one before an election to load the new candidate data on it.
I think what the submitter was getting at is that Disney owns ABC so there would be a definite conflict of interest there. NBC's not going to sell its shows through a competitor's service. While we're rumor-mongering I heard that Google was going to buy SCO and open source the Linux kernel and that Microsoft was going to buy Apple and put Windows on all the new Macs.
Hmmm, it doesn't seem to like Mozilla at all. IE works fine to get past that point. No thanks, I'm not that interested in receiving your snail mail spam to lower myself to using IE on Winblows to get a free 99 cent sandwich. Hopefully no one is giving them legitimate information other than the address to get the coupon.
Will people with Starter not be able to use your program because they're missing certain functionality? Will you be able to burn DVDs with Home Basic, or does that functionality only come with Premium and Ultimate?
Obviously the solution is to simply pirate the Windows Vista Ultimate volume license key version from work.:-)
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Is your copy of OpenOffice really that slow that it's quicker to go online, login to your Google account and then launch an AJAX application and load your data into that? Sounds like a problem with OpenOffice more than anything else. MS Office loads up pretty quickly, even on my Mac.
I remember doing tech support for a local ISP about 10 years ago and someone called up frantically saying that they got a message warning them about an e-mail virus going around and if you opened a message with a subject of "Good times" you'd get infected. I thought "that's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard of, you can't infect your computer with a simple ASCII text e-mail" and low and behold, I traced it down to a hoax. Little did I know that within a few short years Microsoft would invent the world's first e-mail virus proliferation platform. Now THAT is true innovation from Redmond. Bravo.
Case in point: Peer-to-peer programs and the proliferation of spyware. Many many users will just download and install a popular peer-to-peer application without any realization that they're infecting their machine with difficult to remove trojans that clog up their system. When's the last time you used a popular open source product that had intentional trojan horses in it? Somebody would just patch it and rerelease it under another name and the original project would die. That's not so easy to do with proprietary closed-source applications (although they tried it with Kazaa Lite for instance).
Nope. Apparently only the outspoken NASA-hating trolls like to point out stuff like that. The rest of us are quite proud of NASA and the accomplishments they have made to advance space exploration for all mankind.
The synergy between the Windows OS and the Treo platform certainly creates an exciting new paradigm shift in the handheld market. Executives will see this as a new way to integrate wireless devices into their business processes in a way that will empower their knowledge workers while providing a solid return on investment for the company's strategic initiatives.
Knowing my fellow Americans we'd buy some expensive Diebold voting machines that ran a stripped down version of Microsoft Windows XP on them with some horribly clunky ASP.net based website and IIS running on each machine. Each machine would cost about $10,000 a piece and require a team of software programmers to update each one before an election to load the new candidate data on it.
I think what the submitter was getting at is that Disney owns ABC so there would be a definite conflict of interest there. NBC's not going to sell its shows through a competitor's service. While we're rumor-mongering I heard that Google was going to buy SCO and open source the Linux kernel and that Microsoft was going to buy Apple and put Windows on all the new Macs.
Hmmm, it doesn't seem to like Mozilla at all. IE works fine to get past that point. No thanks, I'm not that interested in receiving your snail mail spam to lower myself to using IE on Winblows to get a free 99 cent sandwich. Hopefully no one is giving them legitimate information other than the address to get the coupon.
Obviously the solution is to simply pirate the Windows Vista Ultimate volume license key version from work. :-)