You can do better than that! M$ is at the top of their game, right? The ISO scandal has not touched their reputation in the least and the Norwegian standards body can safely be ignored. Everyone is going to be migrating to OOXML because they all love M$ Office and Vista! Pass the crack pipe!
As usual, you have nothing on topic to say. Not even you would care to defend M$'s doomed effort to capture the better free software programs under Winblows. They know that the effort drains resources that would be better spent making free software better. What they don't know is that the free software world has the resources to waste and that most people understand that the further you get from M$ the better off you are. The tipping point passed years ago and the exodus is accelerating. Young people know they can find better software in the free world and are not going to waste much time porting it to an OS they don't need.
Do you have anything new to add to this conversation? The GP already mentioned that "more is better" and not even you can believe what you "had" to write what you did. Someone who knew something could point out technical details of Wii's GPU and how that translates into something less than what you might expect from the average PC game or PS3. Even a link to a review would be cool. Everyone already knows you have an obssesive hatred of twitter but no one ever cared.
The core of Sir John Sulston's complaint is the privatization of scientific knowledge but that is a core mission of the Gates Foundation. Every "gift" and grant comes with typical M$ strings, including software use and they demand a servile "respect" for "intellectual property". Real charity does not come with conditions, it is freely given out of love. The Gates foundation is all about Gates moving M$'s ethics into medicine but it should be rejected. Patient care is more important than profit. Control of medical information for profit may not be a crime now but it should be.
I know, you probably don't watch much TV or go outside but broadcasters have been showing crowds with identifiable people for commercial purposes for decades. Google's static images are less intrusive than that why would you make them jump through more hoops? There is a big difference between pictures of a public place and coopting someone's image for commercial purposes and this the case law is well established.
Did someone strike a nerve, loser? You should ask for a raise to put up with that kind of abuse. Too bad you won't get it because you work for the biggest pricks on Earth.
Who says a non exclusive deal is a merger? Even Enderle thinks the deal is legitimate but that M$ might be able to pull the wool over regulator's. We should all cry foul about things like this.
Freedom of press is when anyone can publish their opinions without fear or reprisals and shutdown. Granting a few publishers the ability to shut others down is the opposite of free press and it disregards the work of the majority. No one should accept third party control of their computers or their network.
Their study showed that most attacks were against old exploits. This is because non free software is so difficult to upgrade, update and repair. Rebuilding a Windows from scratch is still a huge hassle. Most people cling to their install as long as they can because they don't want to have to feed CDs, reboot and go through the terribly user hostile process of reinstalling expensive programs like photoshop. Then there are service packs, three of them for XP by now... the proof is in the traffic. Windows security is still an oxymoron.
Let's just say that it's easier to grade one or two pages of 80 column text than it is to click through each and every cell used in a calculation. That should rule out Excel/OpenOffice for all but trivial purposes.
Then you get to practical problems. Do you know it this guy has the latest and greatest version of Excel? Will he be able to render all of the fonts he might get? Do you really want to enable macros and take stuff from worm infested student machines?
Then there's cost. Why require your students to purchase an OS and Office when they could use GCC or Watcom and learn something useful?
goofballs are not good for the engineering or physics student.
Most people with that kind of knowledge are in research, writing papers. You might wonder if any organization that owns these kinds of weapons and won't forswear first use is a terrorist organization. Jimmy Carter was talking about the futility of anyone owning such things.
I'm glad that I'm costing you more mod points than you can farm. This keeps you from being able to make trouble elsewhere and that is my intent. Face it, you have failed.
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they said they rewrote it from scratch as usual.
You can do better than that! M$ is at the top of their game, right? The ISO scandal has not touched their reputation in the least and the Norwegian standards body can safely be ignored. Everyone is going to be migrating to OOXML because they all love M$ Office and Vista! Pass the crack pipe!
Do you LOVE THIS COMPANY? Let me hear you say it.
As usual, you have nothing on topic to say. Not even you would care to defend M$'s doomed effort to capture the better free software programs under Winblows. They know that the effort drains resources that would be better spent making free software better. What they don't know is that the free software world has the resources to waste and that most people understand that the further you get from M$ the better off you are. The tipping point passed years ago and the exodus is accelerating. Young people know they can find better software in the free world and are not going to waste much time porting it to an OS they don't need.
Oh my.
It would be nice it you and your sock puppets took a gaming vacation.
Hi, Dedazo, willyhill, or whatever M$FT account you really are.
Do you have anything new to add to this conversation? The GP already mentioned that "more is better" and not even you can believe what you "had" to write what you did. Someone who knew something could point out technical details of Wii's GPU and how that translates into something less than what you might expect from the average PC game or PS3. Even a link to a review would be cool. Everyone already knows you have an obssesive hatred of twitter but no one ever cared.
How would you know?
The core of Sir John Sulston's complaint is the privatization of scientific knowledge but that is a core mission of the Gates Foundation. Every "gift" and grant comes with typical M$ strings, including software use and they demand a servile "respect" for "intellectual property". Real charity does not come with conditions, it is freely given out of love. The Gates foundation is all about Gates moving M$'s ethics into medicine but it should be rejected. Patient care is more important than profit. Control of medical information for profit may not be a crime now but it should be.
I know, you probably don't watch much TV or go outside but broadcasters have been showing crowds with identifiable people for commercial purposes for decades. Google's static images are less intrusive than that why would you make them jump through more hoops? There is a big difference between pictures of a public place and coopting someone's image for commercial purposes and this the case law is well established.
What a crap flood you made here.
You hate this place and everything it stands for.
Did someone strike a nerve, loser? You should ask for a raise to put up with that kind of abuse. Too bad you won't get it because you work for the biggest pricks on Earth.
tool
No one can enlighten you. It comes from within for some, for others never.
Ugh, not this again. Cue dedazo, willyhill and all the other trolls.
Well, they should get something for their money.
One or two of the above is worth the money. The others are not going to sell very well.
Who says a non exclusive deal is a merger? Even Enderle thinks the deal is legitimate but that M$ might be able to pull the wool over regulator's. We should all cry foul about things like this.
Freedom of press is when anyone can publish their opinions without fear or reprisals and shutdown. Granting a few publishers the ability to shut others down is the opposite of free press and it disregards the work of the majority. No one should accept third party control of their computers or their network.
Your offtopic rant is not particularly useful.
Oh there you go again, missing the point and mouthing off. You claim to have been a victim of tyranny but advocate every tool of the same.
Good thing it's going away.
Their study showed that most attacks were against old exploits. This is because non free software is so difficult to upgrade, update and repair. Rebuilding a Windows from scratch is still a huge hassle. Most people cling to their install as long as they can because they don't want to have to feed CDs, reboot and go through the terribly user hostile process of reinstalling expensive programs like photoshop. Then there are service packs, three of them for XP by now... the proof is in the traffic. Windows security is still an oxymoron.
Let's just say that it's easier to grade one or two pages of 80 column text than it is to click through each and every cell used in a calculation. That should rule out Excel/OpenOffice for all but trivial purposes.
Then you get to practical problems. Do you know it this guy has the latest and greatest version of Excel? Will he be able to render all of the fonts he might get? Do you really want to enable macros and take stuff from worm infested student machines?
Then there's cost. Why require your students to purchase an OS and Office when they could use GCC or Watcom and learn something useful?
goofballs are not good for the engineering or physics student.
Most people with that kind of knowledge are in research, writing papers. You might wonder if any organization that owns these kinds of weapons and won't forswear first use is a terrorist organization. Jimmy Carter was talking about the futility of anyone owning such things.
Oh, and I get modded down all the time for it
I'm glad that I'm costing you more mod points than you can farm. This keeps you from being able to make trouble elsewhere and that is my intent. Face it, you have failed.
Windows 7. Hyped because Vista is a failure.