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Massachusetts finds unintended consequences in health care reform

Massachusetts finds unintended consequences in health care reformWell, duh.The hallmark of socialism is shortages. Massachusettes socializes it's health care, and wow, shock, just like Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Oregon and Hawaii, shortages appear.lol...[i]By putting 340,000 new customers on the rolls demand for service has skyrocketed. Doctors just can’t keep up.[/i]That...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Massachusettes, health care

Discussion threads 2008-04-07

Massachusetts says it's open to multiple formats

Massachusetts says it's open to multiple formatsWell, Massachusettes really has drawn a lot of atention to document formatsThis is all very healthy. Hopefully this will lead to continuing debates and knowledge of the importance of document formats. Microsoft would rather that we nobody thought about document formats.Another thing, Microsoft would...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), MSXML, Microsoft Corp., Massachusettes, OpenDocument Format, XML

Discussion threads 2005-12-14

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Storing wind power in cold stores

Storing wind power in cold storesOff Peak storageOff peak storage has been an ongoing issue for the nuclear power industry. They aren't like a hydrocarbon plant, wich can be throttled back. The nuclear reaction is a constant heat source.Water is the cheapest method to store kinetic energy. India developed using...

Tags: Digital Clock, Wind-Power, Westinghouse, load balancing, cold calling

Discussion threads 2007-02-10

Mass. to use Microsoft Office in OpenDocument plan

Mass. to use Microsoft Office in OpenDocument planWell, as long as they make a researched and reasoned decisionthey could do whatever. I'm sure OpenDocument will address any accessibility issues that crosses it path, and then govt agencies can either continue using MS, Corel, Lotus, or StarOffice and their native...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2006-08-24

Mass. holding tight to OpenDocument

Mass. holding tight to OpenDocumentMass. is right, others should followIt makes complete sense to use an ISO document standard for long term document stoarge and archiving. If an Office plug-in is developed that meets the ODF standard then that will be OK as well. What the shills tend to scream...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), game, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2006-07-05

Mass. names acting CIO, sticks with OpenDocument

Mass. names acting CIO, sticks with OpenDocumentI agreeThank God for Massachusetts, once again it's symbolically throwing the tea into the harbor. No single company should control public documents, much less the officials which maintain them. If I must purchase a certain overpriced product from a specific vendor to communicate...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format, open standard

Discussion threads 2006-01-06

Mass. assault on monoculture

Mass. assault on monocultureUse XMLStore everything in XML, this is the most flexible format. Then use XSL to convert to whatever format you wanthttp://otherthingsnow.blogspot.comSame old leopard'Q. The patent license associated with the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas states that "Microsoft may have patents and/or patent applications that are necessary for you...

Tags: Microsoft Office, patent, Microsoft Corp., monoculture

Discussion threads 2005-11-29

Sun, Google ink multiyear deal

Sun, Google ink multiyear dealAm I reading this right?The whole BIG deal is pretty much simplified to a friggin checkbox on the DL of JRE?A Google branded version of OpenOffice is comming.But, the next question is how they will run it as a network application. We need a tight little...

Tags: Web browsers, Big Deal, XWindows, Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenOffice, multiyear deal

Discussion threads 2005-10-04

Microsoft to support PDF in Office 12

Microsoft to support PDF in Office 12It is about time.WordPerfect has supported publishing to PDF for several versions. On top of that WordPerfect is easier to use than Word.WoW!I can already do this with OpenOffice.Amazing new features from MS. WOW!OpenOffice has had this for some time. Microsoft is feeling...

Tags: Word processors, OpenOffice, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Corp., Office 12, Corel WordPerfect, Microsoft Office, Adobe Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-10-03

Microsoft vs Mass.: What ever happened to 'The customer is always right'?

Microsoft vs Mass.: What ever happened to 'The customer is always right'?Finally someone that gets it and has the cajonesto pursue it. Go Massachusettes! Kick their fanny's and let them know they can no longer bully people around and charge outrageous prices for re-hashes of old software.Well, duhOne of the...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-09-22

IBM's potential MS-Office killer to roll out by year's end

IBM's potential MS-Office killer to roll out by year's endWell, that bitesAll I needed to start me gagging was seeing that this is modeled on Lotus Notes. What's the point of having standards-based documents if the fool things are locked away in a binary blob, never to return without...

Tags: Groupware, Enterprise software, Even IBM, Microsoft Corp., killer, IBM Corp., Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Notes

Discussion threads 2005-09-20

Microsoft could face fresh EU case

Microsoft could face fresh EU caseCan MS dominate the EU like it doesour legal system. They are obviously not paying EU members enough payola.It's obvious MS has already bought and paid for our legal system. Come on MS, Europe is worth more than you are paying right now!!!EU...

Tags: sanction, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-09-20