As is the case in most WordPefect places I have encountered, there was probably a self-important WordPerfect guru who nobody could stand. A mid-40's lady with bright orange hair who uses too much perfume, but she knows that control-alt-leftshift-rightshift- is the keystroke sequence you need to accomplish that little thing that's required for your document.
Probably 40 other people in the deparment celebrated over lunch together when Word was installed on their machines. I can hear the chorus of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" in my mind now....
Hey Rob, you haven't done a Life Insurance story in ages. I know a few agents who would love to help you put together a feature article about this contest they're throwing....
Hey, that's a great idea! Send in gunboats to force Australia to allow the credit-card billing of their citizens on porn sites.
I imagine that 150 years ago when the British were sending gunboats into China, to force the Chinese to allow them to sell opium to the Chinese people, that some of the same reasoning was in force.
Umm, yes, generally it is viewed as okay for parents to protect their children from influences they feel are harmful. That's been true for a long, long time. You aren't going to try to claim parents don't have the right (within reason, of course) to raise their children the way they want to are you?
Gonna roll out government tanks to "force" them to expose their children to what you feel is they should see? How noble of you!
It's reasonable to assume that as time goes on, the filtering technology will evolve along with everything else.
I really don't understand the need to 'censor' porn on the net, though. The real key to eliminating porn on the net is at the cash register. Laws could be passed which make it illegal to bill people for services rendered. After a few credit-card-payment driven porn sites discovered that they can't enforce collecting a dime from anybody within certain localities, they themselves will block access to their sites from those localities.
The average porn customer isn't going to fight a law which says he can't be forced to pay for the "goods."
I think the above posts argue the stand against ACs quite well.
Except that anybody who is trying to get A.C. posting on this site eliminated should be producing such kinds of comments here, to turn up the heat. I suspect as much every time I see someone "abusing" the A.C. feature.
Ummm, MFC isn't before any standards body because it's a proprietary class library designed to run on a single platform (family).
If Microsoft had developed MFC to run on bare hardware, or as a cross-platform "run anywhere" class library, you can bet a lot of us would expect to see it before a standards body.
For a website filled with people who claim to hate Microsoft, it sure pops up as the benchmark a lot.
Do you really think that if Linux wasn't based almost entirely on pre-existings standards, and a well-known defacto standard called Unix (heard of it?) that Linus would have had any possibility of putting together what the Linux kernel has grown to be?
It is NOT Linus's vision of what the kernel needed that holds the Linux project together. It's everybody's vision of what Unix is that does that.
Comparing Java to Linux is an incredibly flawed analogy.
Do you really think that if all (or most) of the Sun licencees decided to en-mass ditch Sun's control of the language and instead adopt an ECMA standardized "clone" of Java, that Sun would have a snowball's chance in hell of holding on to the "Java Vanguard?"
Standards bodies are in general very conservative bodies. That makes sense, as they, umm... are there to set standards.
As a result of this, they rely on established bodies of law, and historical precedent. The notion that it's somehow a bad thing that standards bodies "don't know about" Open Source licenses and therefore don't embrace them is as ridiculous as attacking the New York Philharmonic because they won't "cover" the latest RAP songs.
Well, it's kind of academic, but I ran APL on an early "Personal Computer" called the IBM 5100 in ~1976. Granted the 5100 was an expensive IBM precursor to the PC, but it wasn't a mainframe. It had a handle on it and was completely self contained, which are not characteristics of a mainframe.
From a Linux perspective you're right. The NFS code in Linux is poor.
The unfortunate thing is that everybody assumes there's something wrong with NFS.
If Microsoft had adopted NFS and was sabatogueing it with as bad an implementation as Linux, you can bet people would be howling "embrace and cripple."
If they didn't break much of the stuff that was insured, the rates should have dropped. But the rates won't drop if UPS is the only shipper in town, and they try hard to be that. UPS is a big mean monopoly, mark my word.
I receive more packages than I like through UPS. At least the Grid-Dip Meter* I have on it's way right now (I hope the guy has shipped it) is coming by USPS.
I have seen UPS as the "Microsoft" of parcel delivery services for years. They have extremely low quality-of-service. They recently (in the last several years) started refusing cash for COD parcels picked up at the will-call desk. They're big, they're stupid, and they've not been doing a good job. And we depend on them for a lot of tech stuff ordered over the net. Amazon.com will be hurting if UPS is damaged by this issue.
* (uber-geek item most 'geeks' wouldn't know how to use)
You're right. A virus can't affect a Linux system if it's operator is using it like an antique "Glass Teletype" machine.
Here's a secret you might need to hear: Most people don't use their machines as glass teletypes anymore. Frightening as it may seem to you, most people have moved beyond the 1970's computing paradigms. As (I should really say if) Linux becomes more popular, the viruses will proliferate. Unless you can convince people to get all nostalgic and embrace the TTY non-GUI.
Second, since the FoF were realeased Microsoft has done nothing but repeat the aurguments that they presented in court even though Judge Jackson clearly rejected them. If they continue to present these same arguments in court, can they be found in contempt of court?
Microsoft is through making arguements to Judge Jackson. They can make their case to his superiors however they want.
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As is the case in most WordPefect places I have encountered, there was probably a self-important WordPerfect guru who nobody could stand. A mid-40's lady with bright orange hair who uses too much perfume, but she knows that control-alt-leftshift-rightshift- is the keystroke sequence you need to accomplish that little thing that's required for your document.
Probably 40 other people in the deparment celebrated over lunch together when Word was installed on their machines. I can hear the chorus of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" in my mind now....
There isn't anywhere near the excess of law school graduates in Mexico as there is up north.
In many localities it is illegal to call yourself an "engineer" without any formal training.
Hey Rob, you haven't done a Life Insurance story in ages. I know a few agents who would love to help you put together a feature article about this contest they're throwing....
And I guess we can just assume that your Engineering degree is from an accredited institution??
Hey, that's a great idea! Send in gunboats to force Australia to allow the credit-card billing of their citizens on porn sites.
I imagine that 150 years ago when the British were sending gunboats into China, to force the Chinese to allow them to sell opium to the Chinese people, that some of the same reasoning was in force.
There is a good deal of irony in discussing censorship on a highly-censored forum here, isn't there?
Yes, isn't the irony delicious?
Umm, yes, generally it is viewed as okay for parents to protect their children from influences they feel are harmful. That's been true for a long, long time. You aren't going to try to claim parents don't have the right (within reason, of course) to raise their children the way they want to are you?
Gonna roll out government tanks to "force" them to expose their children to what you feel is they should see? How noble of you!
It's reasonable to assume that as time goes on, the filtering technology will evolve along with everything else.
I really don't understand the need to 'censor' porn on the net, though. The real key to eliminating porn on the net is at the cash register. Laws could be passed which make it illegal to bill people for services rendered. After a few credit-card-payment driven porn sites discovered that they can't enforce collecting a dime from anybody within certain localities, they themselves will block access to their sites from those localities.
The average porn customer isn't going to fight a law which says he can't be forced to pay for the "goods."
It's not "evil", it's just tasteless and offensive.
One could also ask, "What's wrong with bringing up the subject of the size of one's penis at a dinner party?" It's the same sort of thing.
I think the above posts argue the stand against ACs quite well.
Except that anybody who is trying to get A.C. posting on this site eliminated should be producing such kinds of comments here, to turn up the heat. I suspect as much every time I see someone "abusing" the A.C. feature.
Ooops, in your eagerness to make a point, you somehow forgot to mention Edward Teller.
There, now I've done it for you.
You have a sadly limited view of history.
Of course there will always be men who in the name of God try to limit and control their fellow men.
Cutting and pasting in just the bad stuff, and trying to foist it off on us as the whole truth is a form of deceit.
Ummm, MFC isn't before any standards body because it's a proprietary class library designed to run on a single platform (family).
If Microsoft had developed MFC to run on bare hardware, or as a cross-platform "run anywhere" class library, you can bet a lot of us would expect to see it before a standards body.
For a website filled with people who claim to hate Microsoft, it sure pops up as the benchmark a lot.
Do you really think that if Linux wasn't based almost entirely on pre-existings standards, and a well-known defacto standard called Unix (heard of it?) that Linus would have had any possibility of putting together what the Linux kernel has grown to be?
It is NOT Linus's vision of what the kernel needed that holds the Linux project together. It's everybody's vision of what Unix is that does that.
Comparing Java to Linux is an incredibly flawed analogy.
Do you really think that if all (or most) of the Sun licencees decided to en-mass ditch Sun's control of the language and instead adopt an ECMA standardized "clone" of Java, that Sun would have a snowball's chance in hell of holding on to the "Java Vanguard?"
Standards bodies are in general very conservative bodies. That makes sense, as they, umm... are there to set standards.
As a result of this, they rely on established bodies of law, and historical precedent. The notion that it's somehow a bad thing that standards bodies "don't know about" Open Source licenses and therefore don't embrace them is as ridiculous as attacking the New York Philharmonic because they won't "cover" the latest RAP songs.
Well, it's kind of academic, but I ran APL on an early "Personal Computer" called the IBM 5100 in ~1976. Granted the 5100 was an expensive IBM precursor to the PC, but it wasn't a mainframe. It had a handle on it and was completely self contained, which are not characteristics of a mainframe.
From a Linux perspective you're right. The NFS code in Linux is poor.
The unfortunate thing is that everybody assumes there's something wrong with NFS.
If Microsoft had adopted NFS and was sabatogueing it with as bad an implementation as Linux, you can bet people would be howling "embrace and cripple."
An OEM is a partner. We should be careful not to redefine terms for our own convenience. That doesn't work well in a court of law.
If they didn't break much of the stuff that was insured, the rates should have dropped. But the rates won't drop if UPS is the only shipper in town, and they try hard to be that. UPS is a big mean monopoly, mark my word.
I receive more packages than I like through UPS. At least the Grid-Dip Meter* I have on it's way right now (I hope the guy has shipped it) is coming by USPS.
I have seen UPS as the "Microsoft" of parcel delivery services for years. They have extremely low quality-of-service. They recently (in the last several years) started refusing cash for COD parcels picked up at the will-call desk. They're big, they're stupid, and they've not been doing a good job. And we depend on them for a lot of tech stuff ordered over the net. Amazon.com will be hurting if UPS is damaged by this issue.
* (uber-geek item most 'geeks' wouldn't know how to use)
You're right. A virus can't affect a Linux system if it's operator is using it like an antique "Glass Teletype" machine.
Here's a secret you might need to hear: Most people don't use their machines as glass teletypes anymore. Frightening as it may seem to you, most people have moved beyond the 1970's computing paradigms. As (I should really say if) Linux becomes more popular, the viruses will proliferate. Unless you can convince people to get all nostalgic and embrace the TTY non-GUI.
Second, since the FoF were realeased Microsoft has done nothing but repeat the aurguments that they presented in court even though Judge Jackson clearly rejected them. If they continue to present these same arguments in court, can they be found in contempt of court?
Microsoft is through making arguements to Judge Jackson. They can make their case to his superiors however they want.