The sloppy fat geek computer genius semi-buried in a pile of pizza boxes and cola cans is a mythical creature, best buried deep, never to be seen again.
Yeah it's possible to re-pioneer something that already existed before he left MS. Typical MS thinking, just because you noticed something doesn't mean you pioneered it.
What about ISO safety standards ? Should I be concerned that some of the safety standards may be purely motivated by company profits rather than actual safety ? Is my ISO certified bicycle helmet actually safe or is it "safe" for some companies profit ? Maybe we need a new standards org for safety standards as it seems ISO can no longer be trusted.
C: The man didn't have the right form. S: What man? C: The man from the cat detector van. S: The looney detector van, you mean. C: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest. S: What cat detector van? C: The cat detector van from the Ministry of Housinge. S: Housinge? C: It was spelt like that on the van (I'm very observant!). I never seen so
many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could pinpoint
a purr at four hundred yards! And Eric, being such a happy cat, was a
piece of cake. S: How much did you pay for this? C: Sixty quid, and eight for the fruit-bat. S: What fruit-bat? C: Eric the fruit-bat. S: Are all your pets called Eric?
Also came accross this
Disclosure: In January 2007, Rick became embroiled in a controversy after mentioning in his XML.COM blog an approach from Microsoft for a several-day contract job to correct some Wikipedia entries from a neutral point of view, as an experienced technical writer with credible first-hand knowledge of standards and procedures. This was incorrectly reported as being a secret plot to subvert Wikipedia. With the support of many editors on Wikipedia, with complete transparency, and with care to respect the Wikipedia rules, Rick has started participating on the Wikipedia entries.
The company that is the co-owner of Topologi has a long-standing training business and will be providing some presenters for some Microsoft sponsored-events in 2007 in Australasia. It is highly likely that Rick will be one of the presenters on standards matters at some of these. link
Australia has been entirely corrupted by Microsoft. An Ecma employee is attending the BRM on Australias behalf. This makes me ashamed about my country. got any links about this ? It's time to annoy the government:)
Microsoft is moving toward what you said you wanted, having IE support more standards. Because this what they appear to be doing, not what they are really doing. The path of least resistance will still be creating non standards compliant pages that are tied to the Windows platform and that is what our complaints revolve around.
You made your choice by living outside the 60 km zone of any of the 5 big cities (ADSL is now available in CBD and Zone 1 areas in all 5 major cities).
and there is nowhere in Australia where Telstra is the only choice or even the best choice. My option is Cable Only, Telstra or Optus and Optus doesn't allow you to run a server, PSTN or satellite have other problems.
Anyone that treats telstra's free downloads as a good selling point simply has no idea about other ISP's in Australia. Well duh, it is Telstra making the claims.
The point is that Telstra said that we don't need lots of bandwidth as we can download large files *on request* from the free download area and now they are attempting to restrict what can be downloaded. Thus they have reduced the value of their service.
only the very clueless within Australia use Telstra as an ISP ADSL isn't everywhere you know, some of us have no choice in the matter.
People should note that the "free" download area provided by Telstra is a selling point of their service and is often used as a defense for their high usage charges, if it is now only Telstra sanctioned files that can be downloaded they have degraded the service without notification.
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The sloppy fat geek computer genius semi-buried in a pile of pizza boxes and cola cans is a mythical creature, best buried deep, never to be seen again.
But RMS isn't going anywhere !
Xtree Xtree, Read all about it.
Now that was a good product name. Xtree History
but let's just hope it doesn't follow through.
Because we like you and many of us are concerned by this.
I propose they try it with lawyers next. I can provide a short list if they want.
Yeah it's possible to re-pioneer something that already existed before he left MS.
Typical MS thinking, just because you noticed something doesn't mean you pioneered it.
This guy pioneered the idea of shareware. Microsoft busy trying to rewrite history again ?
Star Wars is to SF what cargo cults are to real planes. It looks like SF from a distance but that's about all.
As Stanley Schmidt, the current editor of Analog magazine said "Star Wars is just cowboys and Indians set in space".
So it's either a spoof or just really bad
That was my first thought too. I really hope that Nation/Darrow are involved, between the 2 of them they are B7.
What about ISO safety standards ? Should I be concerned that some of the safety standards may be purely motivated by company profits rather than actual safety ? Is my ISO certified bicycle helmet actually safe or is it "safe" for some companies profit ? Maybe we need a new standards org for safety standards as it seems ISO can no longer be trusted.
C: The man didn't have the right form.
S: What man?
C: The man from the cat detector van.
S: The looney detector van, you mean.
C: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
S: What cat detector van?
C: The cat detector van from the Ministry of Housinge.
S: Housinge?
C: It was spelt like that on the van (I'm very observant!). I never seen so
many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could pinpoint
a purr at four hundred yards! And Eric, being such a happy cat, was a
piece of cake.
S: How much did you pay for this?
C: Sixty quid, and eight for the fruit-bat.
S: What fruit-bat?
C: Eric the fruit-bat.
S: Are all your pets called Eric?
That was my first thought, the last of the big 3. I blame them and my father for me being on slashdot now :)
Daleks of course !
Also came accross this Disclosure: In January 2007, Rick became embroiled in a controversy after mentioning in his XML.COM blog an approach from Microsoft for a several-day contract job to correct some Wikipedia entries from a neutral point of view, as an experienced technical writer with credible first-hand knowledge of standards and procedures. This was incorrectly reported as being a secret plot to subvert Wikipedia. With the support of many editors on Wikipedia, with complete transparency, and with care to respect the Wikipedia rules, Rick has started participating on the Wikipedia entries.
The company that is the co-owner of Topologi has a long-standing training business and will be providing some presenters for some Microsoft sponsored-events in 2007 in Australasia. It is highly likely that Rick will be one of the presenters on standards matters at some of these. link
Seems he has lots of involvement with MS.
but is he Emacs or Vi ?
You made your choice by living outside the 60 km zone of any of the 5 big cities (ADSL is now available in CBD and Zone 1 areas in all 5 major cities).
hehe, I live well within 60km of Sydney.
and there is nowhere in Australia where Telstra is the only choice or even the best choice.
My option is Cable Only, Telstra or Optus and Optus doesn't allow you to run a server, PSTN or satellite have other problems.
Anyone that treats telstra's free downloads as a good selling point simply has no idea about other ISP's in Australia.
Well duh, it is Telstra making the claims.
The point is that Telstra said that we don't need lots of bandwidth as we can download large files *on request* from the free download area and now they are attempting to restrict what can be downloaded. Thus they have reduced the value of their service.
only the very clueless within Australia use Telstra as an ISP
ADSL isn't everywhere you know, some of us have no choice in the matter.
People should note that the "free" download area provided by Telstra is a selling point of their service and is often used as a defense for their high usage charges, if it is now only Telstra sanctioned files that can be downloaded they have degraded the service without notification.
We miss you RAH.