BTW, I hope if our own economy collapses you're left holding the bag for things you couldn't have foreseen. I will consider that to be justice after your attitude towards others.
What a jerk!!!
I'm Icelandic, and I don't want anyone's economy to collapse. Well, except maybe Britain's a little, but no - ordinary Brits don't deserve that even though they're led by a cluster of turds.
If you have to interoperate with anyone doing high-end Word stuff you might struggle to switch to OOo. But if you can make EVERYONE you deal with use it ALL at once and the formatting stuff isn't that big a deal - then sure, it'll work for you.
The beautiful thing is, that MS is riding Iceland hard enough, that everyone just might. The stragglers may be forced to switch to be able to use those ODF files everyone keeps sending them.
Sweet, sweet irony
But these are not normal times and especially not in Iceland. Everything is in turmoil. Switching to Ubuntu+OO.o is nothing, and just may keep the company alive until the worst of the horrors are over.
And if everyone does it, and the MCPs are dead and their techies now run OS service companies, why should anyone switch back?
But they are going bankrupt. MS is driving their own customers bankrupt trying to suck out of them money that the final buyers of the licenses can't pay because they have gone bankrupt. Everyone responds by switching to free, and hopefully Free, software.
MS is being stupid and they're letting everyone in a whole country see what they're really about. And if the whole country moves away from MS stuff together, the network effects which have helped MS so much will from then on hurt them.
Of course, the Icelandic software developer I work for has already dropped all MS server software for linux and hosted services and is running a mix of windows, os/x and linux clients.
There is never enough porn to watch!
There, fixed that for ya.
It may of course very well be that they have developed an even better indicator of the risk you have of getting prostate cancer... but the article made it sound like this was a completely new thing.
Astronomer: "Scalpel..."
*slurp*
Astronomer: "crap... another one please..."
Python is absolutely unusable on real world projects (any project where you aren't the sole developer) due to that indentation crap.
Would you mind repeating that? I don't think the guys developing the following projects heard you:
I could go on... but you get the point.
If your software team is having problems with the significance of white spaces in Python, my bet would be that, no offense, the team was to blame.
The trick is to coordinate the "white space rules" between members of the team. If it can't pull that one off, I wouldn't trust them to write code for a production system anyways.
hosted vs. stand-alone
Yeah, I'm sure a hosted Operating System would totally rock!
Also, the US has routinely spied on their allies for decades. Nobody should be surprised if some of those allies spy back.
The list of examples is massive and includes both spying on friendly governments and industrial espionage on behalf of American companies.
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