Explain the existence of citizen hostile firms such as Grigsby and Cohen who do all they can to prevent a citizen from being hired. What is of note, is that those citizens were qualified in the first place. Simple, in the current market being American and expecting your rights is a disadvantage, so companys would rather employ non-Americans who will happily be trodden on!
It's cheaper to buy some legislation and hire marginally skilled H1-B workers who will work very hard for a rather low salary. Isn't that the problem that too many US workers are the disgruntled slashdot types, who spend all day here instead of working hard to compete.
Capitalism means competition everywhere, including for YOUR job.
I think its the other way round, he told them hed give them they key so they didn't have to keep on phoning up that Indian woman to re-licence their copies of XP
well i dont know what pre-school is like in the US, but here in the UK it has a few important benifts 1) teaches children to interact with thier peers 2) teaches children the basics of reading, counting & playing 3) allows parents to go back to work, some families cant afford to have a parent out of work for 5 years, especially as their now supporting a kid.
While i agree that taking away a childhood is wrong that isn't what pre-school does. And arguing that it replaces parenting is also wrong as there's no such thing as a pre-school-boarding school, they still spend more time at home that at school.
Given that they use AC because they cant be bothered to organise a proper air cooling system (pumping the hot air out of the back of server, instead of cooling all the air in the room, etc), its simply because its cheaper to use AC than actually organise anything.
You do have a good point though, use of a non conductive oil, that was cooled against water pipes, would mean the servers are just as safe as they are at the moment.
Tossing money at pre-K is not going to create a bunch of prodigies. No but it could be enough, to get everybody to the same level before kindergarten so that from kindergarten onwards the education system can work more efficiently.
Just to clarify, i was talking about vista. but i do concede that (k)ubuntu is probably not the most responsive distro, that bug is just one of its many flaws, which just makes it even more embarrassing, when you think how well vista would do against arch or gentoo (assuming the user knows what their doing)
He actually says that you can set-up binaries in a home dir, so i dont see why your disagreeing with him.
besides as its always a good idea to mount/home with noexec, the only easy place a user can install the dancing bunnies to is/tmp, which is cleared on shartup
I spent all of yesterday at pro-Tibet rallies in London, and i found that the comments do not go far enough. I know the pro-Chinese protesters, were probably not representative of chinese people in England I general but what they were say was shocking. Generally these were rich Chinese groups (the kind wearing full fur clothes through to those who only wear name breand clothes fro head to toe), they had no useful comments all they could do was denounce our comments (which was hard due to the photographic evidence, and 1st hand information), by calling us lies, and asking if wed been to china. When that failed they resorted to simply provoking the Tibetans by swearing, and singing the Chinese national anthem (or other stuff in Chinese I didn't understand), interestingly the Tibetans remained calm (at least at the protests I was at), while the failure to get a reaction caused the Chinese to get angrier and angrier.
The fact that the pro-china protestors were free of censorship suggested two important things to me: 1) The masses (both here and in china), just want to get a job, and get on with their lives, they're not happy that china is occupying Tibet but dont care enough either way to say/do anything. 2) The Chinese build strong communities*, (like Chinatown), where self censorship prevails and the same way that sex & drugs dont come up around family dinner tables, Tibet, Tienanmen, freedom of speech, just dont get spoken about. From these self censored communities, those that misunderstand the situation (either accidental or deliberately) will come out in support of Tibetan oppression.
The do have private property, which is pretty much all you need for capitalism.
The rest of the things you list are to do with freedom, and actually quite lacking in many capitalist countries including the US.
Although Americans seam to argue that politician compass is biased (mainly because everybody else has much more liberal politics), the distinction it makes between freedom and economics are completely correct. controlling companies (regulation, taxes, etc) is very different from controlling people (laws, privacy, etc)
Great. Let's have multiple forks of glibc then! And the kernel! and coreutils! what you mean like the individual distro kernels, each distro is supposed to stabilise their own kernel, sure most of it gets merge upstream, and no major changes are made but its still a fork.
I think inconsistency is a good thing, as an end user, i dont need a gentoo level of controll or a RedHat level of buisness apps, i need something like this or ubuntu. The fact that distros are (on the whole) binary compatible is just a bonus
1) because i get something back, in exchange for tracking me, they get more data about what i want and their searches are more tailored. 2) because they dont charge me, in exchange for good search results they track me and give me non intrusive ads. 3) because its very easy to switch, if they change their privacy policy im not tied to searching with them for another 6-12 months 4) because they do good stuff with the money ( FF, SOC, etc) 5) because theyre geeks, the main way the information is mis used is if somebody hacks in and steals it, i doubt this will happen with google, but after BT pushed out insecure linux routers to thousands of homes, i cant say id have faith. 5) be
Wouldn't this be much better for picking up if somebody else is using the computer, e.g tell if another person is using my laptop and hide the porn stash. Id leave username/pass for login but, if your computer doesnt think its you it could lock the keychain preventing access to anything that youve chosen to lock down.
a modular version of Windows (consisting of core OS, drivers, networking, and a basic browser suitable for downloading a better browser with) where I can install as much or as little of it as I wish, and a VM to run my old shit that won't work with this new modular Windows. Everybody wins: The geeks are happy because we pay nothing, and get the core then build whatever we want onto it, The home users are happy because they get whatever but as its modular, its more stable. The rich idiots are happy because they can by module XYZ to get everything The marketers are happy because they can ship version for windows 7 basic, home, business, advanced, etc The OEM are able to differentiate their hardware again based on what modules they support (and avoid the stupid vista capable problem)
With any luck it will be the last windows 'release', they will then shift to linux style development where the core, interface, driver, audio, etc systems are all improve at thier own pace. I dont see it as too hard to pushed paid for updates, while allowing security updates for free.
I dont really care what happens with the legal side of this, it doesnt matter how many times microsoft get caught with its trousers down, the uninformed masses just dont care (or worse say that its what you do when you have a monopoly? )
What i do want to see, is microsoft having thier asses handed to them on the technological side. With gnome office onboard there is a real chance that microsoft isnt going to have the best implimentation of thier own standard, its much harder to take a finished product and tweak it to conform to the new OOXML changes (without breaking anything), than it is to start from scratch and design a fully OOXML complient (when theres nothing to break). If the gnome team get OOXML implimented well, a small unix style aplication could easily allow convertion between OOXML and ODF ( go crazy and call it OOXML2ODF., Simply install it into the OS, and allow ODF complient programs to use OOXML programs without even relising and visa-versa, this would kill the document office suite link which is microsofts main weapon.
The problem is everybody is too busy bitching about OOXML to realise that MS have given us a chace to beat them on thier home turf.
In case of all errors, use the alternate install CD, if you know what ubuntu is like you dont really need the live one anymore. Im a ralative noob but i always install with a knoppix + alternate combo. If you want to do anything slightly different, encryption/lilo/evm/etc, knoppix lets you edit existing OSes into shape and the altCD outperforms the liveCD.
I do agree tho, there is little need for an end user to upgrade (especially every 6 months, just upgrade when you need to, and avoid betas). Infact the same can be said for vista or a new ubuntu, theres no point updating unless 1) you need a cutting edge feature (but you can back port them most of the time) 2) you need to install an OS, so you might aswell go with the newer one 3) your a geek who wants to play with it.
KDE4 uses more resources than KDE3, the bad benchmark was quickely corrected but this myth seams to have spread anyway, the resource increase is minimal it could run on 1.6GHz and 256MB. I can better 1.6GHZ with 512, it ran aceptably on 256 ( i just couldnt run firefox and compiz with all the bells and whistles without a slowdown, this is on kubuntu, not the lightest distro).
I got vista when i smashed up my laptop (without a screen itll make a good PVR tho), i played with it for about an hour before trashing it while installing kubuntu. I found it ran like my 256mb system on 512MB, everything would get done but stuff tended to freeze up for abit when doing anything intensive (ironically other than using firefox, which performed fine). I think that it has moved towards being like gnome, run everything though 1 program and it figures out what your trying to do, or in the place of one program 1 interface. The 'eye candy' was well completly lacking, its about level with kde3, but cant touch KDE4 or compiz. The control pannel, i found actually suggests usefull wizards now, which is nice for newbies, but the price it paid for this is even making the navigation even harder, the adress bar would take me to seamingly random places while all i wanted to do was find the defragmenter. I suppose they're going after the newbie users thier loosing to the mac crowd, much more than the geeks their loosing to linux.
My short experience was not as bad as expected, even my non-geek friend(s) were abit too harsh about, but it was unimpressive enough to tell my dad one of the "I cant switch to linux, I NEED office" crowd, to stick with xp indefinatly. Theres no point him relearning how to manage his system when theres nothing to be gained (same reason im not switching him to ubuntu).
uneditedable, not sure if this one is possible. besides prntscr + OCR will bypass most measures. secure so only certain people can read it, encrypt the file, current PDFs are ok if you do this secure so you know its unedited, signing & certificates.
I cannot think of a way where you give somebody access to the data in a file but try and prevent them doing stuff with it that will work, perhaps the trick is to not give all the data. Getting around the openness of format/software, can be done by including encryption keys that are only added to verified readers, that arnt going to do bad stuff like ignore DRM. Although im not sure if this is legal for GPL(or any other open source license), and ofc security systems where you give people the keys can usually be got round by reading the memory.
So in an open format you could probably reach DRM quality protection (which is broken by design) or just accept the limitations of PGP and work from that
What happens when a person who can walk & driver, gives you a lift somewhere? Oh wait you cant get out because there's no space? Also gamers regularly drive cars with no use of their feet (ok so their not driving sims but thats not the point). we only use feet to break, accelerate because its more convenient not because its safer.
In other words, copying Office? yeah, but giving the users the choice, so effectively copying but beating them.
User interface that changes based on where your cursor happens to be is a Bad Idea. Consistency = not having to remember where to find things at any given time. perhaps mi posted it wrong the 1st time but basically you have the buttons that are always avalible in one section, then the buttons that are only usable when an item is selected in another. Its hard to explain but it allows more buttons to be available, while still letting the document be visible. For example table buttons would just waste space space when your editing a picture and visa versa, so only 1 space for table/picture buttons is needed. |A A A A A A| T T T T T T | A A |A A A A A A| P P P P P P | A A All the usable buttons are in the same place when their usable, nobody is going to be looking for a P button when they have a table selected so it doesn't matter that they're not there. I think KDE do some stuff like this but im not sure.
Probably because there are like 10 people who actually need those in real life. the ability to attach a company logo to a graph would be useful, when doing comparisons.
That'd be very cool; and yet also very irritating. I personally hate the way PDF opens in browser, requiring me to go to task manager to kill it if I want my 80MB of memory back. (I've since turned that off...) well its up to the browser weather to use the plugin.
This was a joke, right? Not really, compiz boosted linux adoption, have it optional sure, but if something looks better, people will think it IS better. And fancy graphics sometimes do useful stuff (fast zooming, color shifting, etc). Flipping pages as a way of changing the page, could allow for the page to look asif it were sitting on top of a stack of pages, giving the user a clear idea of where they are in the document (like desktop cube helps some users have a clear idea of which desktop their on)
Oh do they have inline search (like firefox) yet? Because that's a definite improvement on dialog boxes for find, and even simple replace (and Im sure something could be worked out for the more complex replace options)
Not really. The majority of people don't use the majority of features in MS Office. But unless OO has features that people want (or think they want), people will never switch.
any chance theyre going to stop copying MS and start beating them? How about: *A themable interface so it can look like office 07 or pre-07 *Dynamic toolbars so that when you select a table the top toolbar gains table buttons, but removed non-usable buttons (dims ones that arnt directly to do with tables, like formatting) *Intelligent, spell checker, for years spell checkers haven't changed, if it picked out words that made sense in the context of the sentence that would be a huge step forwards. *A more intuitive interface, with pointless effects, yeah people like them. For example turning pages by the corner, dragging text FF3 style, clicking on a small graph to have it expand to full size. *Firefox plugins, so that we can view presentations in browsers. *New graph types, we all see statistics abused on TV, why cant we abuse them at home. For example have objects fill up acording to data (by either height or volume), attack logos to lines on graphs **(This isn't really in their scope, as their not a scientific data suit, but meh ill post it anyway) Marking of anomalous data points and ignoring them when plotting the graph. **Marking of the 3 lines of best fit, when using error-bars
And while they're at it how about they remove their stupid clause, and make it fully GPL
Playing catchup with Microsoft (or anybody) is pathetic, if MS office still has more features few people will care that thief docs arnt portable.
isnt that exactly where a unix aproach would pay off. a root outlook looker, looks at outlook (but the looker is small so hard to exploit) a non-root unzip, unzips and passes it on a non-root scanner, to scan the file then pass on the conclusion a root cleaner, to take any actions (may not even need root)
by reducing the code that runs with root privileges you reduce the chances of an exploit in root code.
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Capitalism means competition everywhere, including for YOUR job.
I think its the other way round, he told them hed give them they key so they didn't have to keep on phoning up that Indian woman to re-licence their copies of XP
well i dont know what pre-school is like in the US, but here in the UK it has a few important benifts
1) teaches children to interact with thier peers
2) teaches children the basics of reading, counting & playing
3) allows parents to go back to work, some families cant afford to have a parent out of work for 5 years, especially as their now supporting a kid.
While i agree that taking away a childhood is wrong that isn't what pre-school does. And arguing that it replaces parenting is also wrong as there's no such thing as a pre-school-boarding school, they still spend more time at home that at school.
Given that they use AC because they cant be bothered to organise a proper air cooling system (pumping the hot air out of the back of server, instead of cooling all the air in the room, etc), its simply because its cheaper to use AC than actually organise anything.
You do have a good point though, use of a non conductive oil, that was cooled against water pipes, would mean the servers are just as safe as they are at the moment.
Just to clarify, i was talking about vista. but i do concede that (k)ubuntu is probably not the most responsive distro, that bug is just one of its many flaws, which just makes it even more embarrassing, when you think how well vista would do against arch or gentoo (assuming the user knows what their doing)
Not sure whether this is +1 funny, or +1 insightful given the recent scandals.
He actually says that you can set-up binaries in a home dir, so i dont see why your disagreeing with him.
/home with noexec, the only easy place a user can install the dancing bunnies to is /tmp, which is cleared on shartup
besides as its always a good idea to mount
As was pointed out here http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=499300&cid=22863446 they dont care if the English speaking population have free access to information, they are already part of the upper class and so don't care about the plight of the poor. This is reinforced by http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=513156&cid=22983132 which states the firewall is easy to bypass, but fails to notice that this is only by those that have the skill & will to do this.
I spent all of yesterday at pro-Tibet rallies in London, and i found that the comments do not go far enough. I know the pro-Chinese protesters, were probably not representative of chinese people in England I general but what they were say was shocking. Generally these were rich Chinese groups (the kind wearing full fur clothes through to those who only wear name breand clothes fro head to toe), they had no useful comments all they could do was denounce our comments (which was hard due to the photographic evidence, and 1st hand information), by calling us lies, and asking if wed been to china. When that failed they resorted to simply provoking the Tibetans by swearing, and singing the Chinese national anthem (or other stuff in Chinese I didn't understand), interestingly the Tibetans remained calm (at least at the protests I was at), while the failure to get a reaction caused the Chinese to get angrier and angrier.
The fact that the pro-china protestors were free of censorship suggested two important things to me:
1) The masses (both here and in china), just want to get a job, and get on with their lives, they're not happy that china is occupying Tibet but dont care enough either way to say/do anything.
2) The Chinese build strong communities*, (like Chinatown), where self censorship prevails and the same way that sex & drugs dont come up around family dinner tables, Tibet, Tienanmen, freedom of speech, just dont get spoken about. From these self censored communities, those that misunderstand the situation (either accidental or deliberately) will come out in support of Tibetan oppression.
The do have private property, which is pretty much all you need for capitalism.
The rest of the things you list are to do with freedom, and actually quite lacking in many capitalist countries including the US.
Although Americans seam to argue that politician compass is biased (mainly because everybody else has much more liberal politics), the distinction it makes between freedom and economics are completely correct. controlling companies (regulation, taxes, etc) is very different from controlling people (laws, privacy, etc)
I think inconsistency is a good thing, as an end user, i dont need a gentoo level of controll or a RedHat level of buisness apps, i need something like this or ubuntu. The fact that distros are (on the whole) binary compatible is just a bonus
1) because i get something back, in exchange for tracking me, they get more data about what i want and their searches are more tailored.
2) because they dont charge me, in exchange for good search results they track me and give me non intrusive ads.
3) because its very easy to switch, if they change their privacy policy im not tied to searching with them for another 6-12 months
4) because they do good stuff with the money ( FF, SOC, etc)
5) because theyre geeks, the main way the information is mis used is if somebody hacks in and steals it, i doubt this will happen with google, but after BT pushed out insecure linux routers to thousands of homes, i cant say id have faith.
5) be
Wouldn't this be much better for picking up if somebody else is using the computer, e.g tell if another person is using my laptop and hide the porn stash.
Id leave username/pass for login but, if your computer doesnt think its you it could lock the keychain preventing access to anything that youve chosen to lock down.
The geeks are happy because we pay nothing, and get the core then build whatever we want onto it,
The home users are happy because they get whatever but as its modular, its more stable.
The rich idiots are happy because they can by module XYZ to get everything
The marketers are happy because they can ship version for windows 7 basic, home, business, advanced, etc
The OEM are able to differentiate their hardware again based on what modules they support (and avoid the stupid vista capable problem)
With any luck it will be the last windows 'release', they will then shift to linux style development where the core, interface, driver, audio, etc systems are all improve at thier own pace. I dont see it as too hard to pushed paid for updates, while allowing security updates for free.
The TV version lacks in style but lacks a lot less in plot than the movie version.
I suppose as im used to southpark and indie movies i think that the plot matters alot more than the effects, same reason i wont be getting a HDTV.
I dont really care what happens with the legal side of this, it doesnt matter how many times microsoft get caught with its trousers down, the uninformed masses just dont care (or worse say that its what you do when you have a monopoly? )
What i do want to see, is microsoft having thier asses handed to them on the technological side. With gnome office onboard there is a real chance that microsoft isnt going to have the best implimentation of thier own standard, its much harder to take a finished product and tweak it to conform to the new OOXML changes (without breaking anything), than it is to start from scratch and design a fully OOXML complient (when theres nothing to break). If the gnome team get OOXML implimented well, a small unix style aplication could easily allow convertion between OOXML and ODF ( go crazy and call it OOXML2ODF., Simply install it into the OS, and allow ODF complient programs to use OOXML programs without even relising and visa-versa, this would kill the document office suite link which is microsofts main weapon.
The problem is everybody is too busy bitching about OOXML to realise that MS have given us a chace to beat them on thier home turf.
In case of all errors, use the alternate install CD, if you know what ubuntu is like you dont really need the live one anymore. Im a ralative noob but i always install with a knoppix + alternate combo. If you want to do anything slightly different, encryption/lilo/evm/etc, knoppix lets you edit existing OSes into shape and the altCD outperforms the liveCD.
I do agree tho, there is little need for an end user to upgrade (especially every 6 months, just upgrade when you need to, and avoid betas). Infact the same can be said for vista or a new ubuntu, theres no point updating unless
1) you need a cutting edge feature (but you can back port them most of the time)
2) you need to install an OS, so you might aswell go with the newer one
3) your a geek who wants to play with it.
KDE4 uses more resources than KDE3, the bad benchmark was quickely corrected but this myth seams to have spread anyway, the resource increase is minimal it could run on 1.6GHz and 256MB. I can better 1.6GHZ with 512, it ran aceptably on 256 ( i just couldnt run firefox and compiz with all the bells and whistles without a slowdown, this is on kubuntu, not the lightest distro).
I got vista when i smashed up my laptop (without a screen itll make a good PVR tho), i played with it for about an hour before trashing it while installing kubuntu. I found it ran like my 256mb system on 512MB, everything would get done but stuff tended to freeze up for abit when doing anything intensive (ironically other than using firefox, which performed fine). I think that it has moved towards being like gnome, run everything though 1 program and it figures out what your trying to do, or in the place of one program 1 interface.
The 'eye candy' was well completly lacking, its about level with kde3, but cant touch KDE4 or compiz.
The control pannel, i found actually suggests usefull wizards now, which is nice for newbies, but the price it paid for this is even making the navigation even harder, the adress bar would take me to seamingly random places while all i wanted to do was find the defragmenter. I suppose they're going after the newbie users thier loosing to the mac crowd, much more than the geeks their loosing to linux.
My short experience was not as bad as expected, even my non-geek friend(s) were abit too harsh about, but it was unimpressive enough to tell my dad one of the "I cant switch to linux, I NEED office" crowd, to stick with xp indefinatly. Theres no point him relearning how to manage his system when theres nothing to be gained (same reason im not switching him to ubuntu).
uneditedable, not sure if this one is possible. besides prntscr + OCR will bypass most measures.
secure so only certain people can read it, encrypt the file, current PDFs are ok if you do this
secure so you know its unedited, signing & certificates.
I cannot think of a way where you give somebody access to the data in a file but try and prevent them doing stuff with it that will work, perhaps the trick is to not give all the data.
Getting around the openness of format/software, can be done by including encryption keys that are only added to verified readers, that arnt going to do bad stuff like ignore DRM. Although im not sure if this is legal for GPL(or any other open source license), and ofc security systems where you give people the keys can usually be got round by reading the memory.
So in an open format you could probably reach DRM quality protection (which is broken by design) or just accept the limitations of PGP and work from that
zombie feyman begs to differ! http://www.xkcd.com/397/
What happens when a person who can walk & driver, gives you a lift somewhere? Oh wait you cant get out because there's no space?
Also gamers regularly drive cars with no use of their feet (ok so their not driving sims but thats not the point). we only use feet to break, accelerate because its more convenient not because its safer.
|A A A A A A| T T T T T T | A A
|A A A A A A| P P P P P P | A A
All the usable buttons are in the same place when their usable, nobody is going to be looking for a P button when they have a table selected so it doesn't matter that they're not there.
I think KDE do some stuff like this but im not sure. Probably because there are like 10 people who actually need those in real life. the ability to attach a company logo to a graph would be useful, when doing comparisons. That'd be very cool; and yet also very irritating. I personally hate the way PDF opens in browser, requiring me to go to task manager to kill it if I want my 80MB of memory back. (I've since turned that off...) well its up to the browser weather to use the plugin. This was a joke, right? Not really, compiz boosted linux adoption, have it optional sure, but if something looks better, people will think it IS better.
And fancy graphics sometimes do useful stuff (fast zooming, color shifting, etc). Flipping pages as a way of changing the page, could allow for the page to look asif it were sitting on top of a stack of pages, giving the user a clear idea of where they are in the document (like desktop cube helps some users have a clear idea of which desktop their on)
Oh do they have inline search (like firefox) yet? Because that's a definite improvement on dialog boxes for find, and even simple replace (and Im sure something could be worked out for the more complex replace options) Not really. The majority of people don't use the majority of features in MS Office. But unless OO has features that people want (or think they want), people will never switch.
any chance theyre going to stop copying MS and start beating them?
How about:
*A themable interface so it can look like office 07 or pre-07
*Dynamic toolbars so that when you select a table the top toolbar gains table buttons, but removed non-usable buttons (dims ones that arnt directly to do with tables, like formatting)
*Intelligent, spell checker, for years spell checkers haven't changed, if it picked out words that made sense in the context of the sentence that would be a huge step forwards.
*A more intuitive interface, with pointless effects, yeah people like them. For example turning pages by the corner, dragging text FF3 style, clicking on a small graph to have it expand to full size.
*Firefox plugins, so that we can view presentations in browsers.
*New graph types, we all see statistics abused on TV, why cant we abuse them at home. For example have objects fill up acording to data (by either height or volume), attack logos to lines on graphs
**(This isn't really in their scope, as their not a scientific data suit, but meh ill post it anyway) Marking of anomalous data points and ignoring them when plotting the graph.
**Marking of the 3 lines of best fit, when using error-bars
And while they're at it how about they remove their stupid clause, and make it fully GPL
Playing catchup with Microsoft (or anybody) is pathetic, if MS office still has more features few people will care that thief docs arnt portable.
isnt that exactly where a unix aproach would pay off.
a root outlook looker, looks at outlook (but the looker is small so hard to exploit)
a non-root unzip, unzips and passes it on
a non-root scanner, to scan the file then pass on the conclusion
a root cleaner, to take any actions (may not even need root)
by reducing the code that runs with root privileges you reduce the chances of an exploit in root code.