Yeah, but it would be fun to drive my Ford to the fjord and ford the fjord.
Jerry Yeager wrote: > I should warn you though, the winters tend to be a bit chilly. > > Jerry > > On Jun 28, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Rob Kersting wrote: > >> In other words, if I want to avoid receiving any more of those >> ultra-annoying ".doc" files, I just move to Norway? >> >> It's worth it... >> >> >> Jerry Yeager wrote: >> >>> There was a lot of tech related news yesterday and this story seems to >>> have gotten lost by the mainstream press in all of that (I guess the >>> journalists are too worried about the short term impact of things like >>> Google's stock price -- hmm) >>> >>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/ >>> 1724237&threshold=-1&tid=198&tid=215&tid=109&tid=219 >>> >>> This news will have a big impact on things. >>> >>> Norway has announced that they (the Norwegian government) are moving >>> away from allowing documents, etc. that use proprietary file format to >>> those that use open standards (not quite the same thing as open source >>> that you hear about -- think Linux for open source). This is pretty big >>> because it will force software manufacturers (M$, Adobe, etc.) to open >>> up their undecipherable and closed file documents to ones that other >>> softwares can read and write to. >>> >>> While on the surface this may seem to be a small thing, Norway actually >>> has the clout to make it really take off. They are, after all, one of >>> the richest, most technologically advanced countries in today's world, >>> more so than the US is. This could pave the way to allow you to get a >>> word processor that can really read and write files that folks in other >>> states can read and write as well. >>> >>> Jerry >>> >>> ----------------------------------- >>> Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if >>> I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> >> > ----------------------------------- > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if > I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
