There's nothing wrong with wanting a presentation to be polished. Otherwise you'd be better to stay home and read the book.

Remember...

If your job can be done from home, it can be done from India.

Banks will not say they are having an outage if their ATM's aren't working and the power is out in the area (which many have battery backups but they only...

I think MS was dancing around on this one, fooling themselves. Yes it was not an 'outage' in the way that MS anticipated, but that does not mean it's not...

Conspiracy theories appear whenever something of such big import occurs, whether its a terrorist attack or a historical occurance like the moon landing. We will never know if it was...

we have a third party app that is absolutley horrendous with this. About 1 or 2 times a week the whole app drags to a halt because one of their...

I had that happen to me some years ago with Verizon. They made a big deal about that I could sign up for flat rates to selected areas for an...

thank you. You've basically summed it up.

It's a mistake to think of this as an 'open source' issue.

The 'Open Office' compatiblity issue would be just as much a concern if you were running a 'closed source'...

That's true. When I am looking for tech info on the MS site,  there are many times that I could not find what I wanted using the site search, but...

I might also add that even though software may be high priced in the richer parts of the world, this creates opportunity for developers in the developing world to create...

It might be a matter of cart-before-the-horse.

Where life issues are water, food, shelter, disease fighting and political stability, software is of little importance.

Diesels would be a lot more popular if the US didn't keep moving the emissions goalpost. Much of the mechanical problems with Ford and other diesels in the past few...

Restoring tapes sometimes is very iffy. A disk is almost certain to be readable. Even a drive that has been in storage for a few years is very likely readable......

As some people have pointed out, this type of security is primarily a human problem. This is not new, throughout history some trusted people were always necessary, whether bankers, keepers...