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Comment Re:OpenOffice variant? (Score 1) 331

Remember folks, it's the use of open standards that counts. Not the actual implementation - as long as that implementation is correct and follows the standard well, I'm happy. MS Word's lock-in with its doc format is the problem, not MS Word as such.

I would REALLY hope that this move along with the i4i lawsuit could somehow convince some stubborn people at MS to build in full support for ODF docs.

Odds are they'll just throw a crapload of money at their lawyers to appeal for the next 10 years (remember when MS was ordered to split up?)
and get a bunch of MS "partners" to agree to save all their documents in .docx format to push their own standard.

Comment Re:Motorola's great return? (Score 2, Insightful) 195

I think the fad slowed down, because eventually everyone that wanted a RAZR had one.
In the slim phone market I think the RAZR really beat the crap out of the competition.

Then like always, you get bored of your current gadget and want a new one.

I had a RAZR and loved it, then my work offered to buy me an iPhone.
The iPhone is cool for listening to music, and facebook, etc. but sometimes I miss the simplicity of having just a really well designed slim phone.

Comment Re:If the parents (Score 1) 1345

If the parents actively use everything as a teaching tool, then fine, otherwise it's just creating a steaming pile of ignorant burger flippers

Therein lies the problem.
Obviously *(see hundreds of posts above) there are a lot of problems with engaging kids in education, and public school systems may not be perfect at standardizing education,
but the odds are that your school teachers from K-12 were at least all paid, degreed professionals.

In most cases (mine too) some are complete idiots, but others are complete geniuses and can provide you with inspiration throughout your whole life.

There are SOME parents that fall into the latter category, raising the next Einsteins and DaVincis.
But a whole gigantic pile of parents that would make incredibly bad teachers, far worse than your worst teacher.

I really don't have a problem with the idea of unschool or homeschool, it just isn't for everybody.

Comment Re:Criticize inexperience and naivette (Score 1) 207

Now, when the most technologically-advanced Presidency â" remember all the endearing stories about his Blackberry, and the ridiculing of McCain's reluctance to use e-mail? â" can't put a web-site together, "having never done this before" is an excuse...

Pretty sure he's still the most technically advanced president.
He didn't put the website together himself obviously, unless you think he spends his afternoons in the basement of the whitehouse installing Linux and playing X-Box?
Odds are not.

It's more of a failure of the "Office of E-Government & Information Technology" than a failure of the man himself.
And I can pretty much guarantee you that since the site hit slashdot's news, he probably knows about it, and somebody at e-gov is going to get smacked.

Seriously though, do you really think McCain would have done better at this?

Seriously??

Comment Cloud to Cloud Fail? (Score 1) 408

The RSS feed shows they've been having problems since yesterday.
I got a 502 error today, not a huge deal for me, I just use it for personal but if I was paying for it I'd be mad, just like people at work get mad at IT when the Exchange server goes down.

Anybody know what kind of hardware setup they have there?

Maybe they contracted a third party company to store the data in the cloud and their service was interrupted?!

Comment Re:Inaccurate Summary? (Score 1) 233

Yeah, sounds like their only "award" was getting some freebie publicity on slashdot.

Apparently they missed the part about "$5,000 for winning the most votes as a startup building its application on Microsoft technologies"

Oops.

Anyways, IF they get approved by Apple, they only have to sell 1,672 times on the App Store to come up even with the team that used MS tech.

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