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...would say find projects you really love and fight for them and don’t try to second-guess the marketplace. Work on things that are meaningful to you, because those are the ones that will ultimately get made...
...formatting instructions for Microsoft Word documents are locked up in a filing cabinet somewhere in Redmond, Washington, and Microsoft isn’t interested in sharing it. This means if you want to write or read Word files, you have two options: you can pay Microsoft, or you can guess. Most people take the first of these avenues, buying Word and never looking back. Others, such as those who created a program called Open Office, have had a good amount of success at reverse-engineering Word documents. However if Microsoft changes anything in the standard in a new version...
...open Word documents, you have to pay for the privilege. The ones that are best at doing it are the ones that run a Microsoft operating system. Aside from this relatively petty convenience, the amount of innovation that has been stifled as a result is anyone’s guess. But one thing is certain: because many, many billions of dollars are locked up in Word documents, entering the word processing business is a difficult feat unless you happen to be on Microsoft’s payroll, and that means good ideas are often overlooked...
...lives, former Crimson president and former Courier editor Robert E. Smith ’62 said that violence never deterred them from reporting. “It never occurred to me to be scared,” he said at the outset of the discussion. “I guess we were too busy being journalists...
...DeLay: No. I think doing lobbying reform is NOT the way to deal with this. The way to deal with this is: Take 'em on! Take the left on. We have done nothing wrong. Now, there have been people that have done something wrong. And guess what? They're going to prison. What laws do you need to change? They're going to prison. Abramoff, he's going to prison. [Former DeLay Chief of Staff]Tony Rudy's going to prison. [Former DeLay Press Secretary Michael]Scanlon's going to prison. They violated laws, they were caught and they...