RM might be bad, but MS are far worse. They (in the UK will charge schools for installing linux[1]. They, on anti-competitive grounds wont let people know how much MS in schools costs [2]
"This relates to circumstances where schools using Microsoftâ(TM)s School Agreement licensing model, are required to pay Microsoft licensing fees for computers based on Linux, or using OpenOffice.org. Finding ourselves in a position whereby a school pays (say) £169 for a device only to be faced with for example a £30 per year after year payment to Microsoft, for a system that is not running any of their software would just not be acceptable to Becta. Indeed I donâ(TM)t think many people would consider that fair. "
Google have paid for the wine project to port Photoshop so that they can run it in Linux. But theres no market? odd. Maybe not quite a big enough one to make it worth the effort?
Adobe are big open-source fans so hopefully linux will be the next target for them
I think that Obama would have put himself in line for a kicking at the hands of the republicans if he had voted for this.
Obamas weakest polling figures are on his state security and military areas. If he voted against these powers he would have been plastered for being weak on terror.
The Republicans would have explained that he was not capable of defending the country. "Look: he even votes against giving the CIA powers to wiretap terrorists".
The expediency of the decision, doesn't make it nicer for liberals. It also doesn't make it right. I think that he will try and use the bill as "his new breed of consensus politics". Using it to win friends within the republican party.
Hopefully when he wins he will actually be able to achieve something. For everyone who thinks fisa is the most important thing. It's the economy stupid.
They have released a limited trial of application hosting. Only python at the moment - its called the Google App Engine and its like a free (for limited use) version of Amazon's EC2 Cloud.
27% of all the machines were owned by a marketing company. Its sunk in.
Sudo copied Windows - hmmmm... "Sudo was originally written by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer "around 1980" at the Department of Computer Science at SUNY/Buffalo".
As for the virus remark - Its more difficult to write Linux viruses. User level permissions are more rigorous. The browsers don't have ActiveX. People who use Linux tend to know what a firewall is; and don't click yes in reply to "would you like to install" dialogues so much.
The 900 million euros was for manipulating the server operating system market to disenfranchise competitors. Microsoft refused to change and got fined for the refusal. The matter is over (bar the appeal of the amount).
Microsoft is currently being investigated:
- for not using standard html/css in its web browsers forcing every other browser maker to produce a quirks mode so that MS-HTML oriented websites are visible. Complaint made by Opera - Quite right as far as I'm concerned.
- for manipulating its monopoly in the Office arena. Refusing to implement international standards (ODF, MathML, SVG, HTML (properly) into there product so that no-one can compete on features. At the same time patenting the proprietary features so that no-one can re-implement them. They also use some unusual tactics* to get OOXML through so that government's can pass using Microsoft Office as in there due-diligence for procurement.
I'm sure he [Walt Brown] has some "unique" perspectives. Although without peer-review of his work; I imagine that his musings will not get into the scientific body of knowledge.
Over tens of millions of years don't you think that lots of quirky things have happened on this planet? The soup theory is one of many; basically they are all theorising potential answers.
You have just espoused that "logic" says something that no evidence exists for, did it? Genius.
And how is that "much more logical" than combining chemicals, electricity, high and low temperatures, over billions of years, happening to produce spontaneous life? Have you seen animals that live next to undersea vents?
I think that scientists are well aware of the God argument. Many believe in God. But I don't think most scientists find there research stimulating if the only answer they are 'allowed' to give is "God Knows"?
If God exists please post me some lab reproducible examples.
But not for the OS. This is a Firefox, Flash, and Flex bash. From my point of view a bit of competition in the RIA arena might be good for Flash/Flex. But I really think that if you're outputting documents online the best plan would be HTML.
And as for Firefox - Firefox 3 is by far the best browser I have used. When its out of beta I reckon Europe could go 50/50 with Microsoft.
basically Microsoft has suggested over 1000 corrections and modifications to the current specification via ECMA to the ISO. Therefore; the documents you save as.docx are about as ISO OOXML complaint as they are jam. These are just suggested modifications, and no-one really knows what the OOXML standard would look like. in the unlikely event that it managed to become an ISO standard we may then see a copy of the standard many months later.
If your feeling bored you can read the comments, and the comments about the comments, and the comments about the comments about the comments; here
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and tweets are too short to be worth reading; which leaves one in a quandary?
RM might be bad, but MS are far worse. They (in the UK will charge schools for installing linux[1]. They, on anti-competitive grounds wont let people know how much MS in schools costs [2]
"This relates to circumstances where schools using Microsoftâ(TM)s School Agreement licensing model, are required to pay Microsoft licensing fees for computers based on Linux, or using OpenOffice.org. Finding ourselves in a position whereby a school pays (say) £169 for a device only to be faced with for example a £30 per year after year payment to Microsoft, for a system that is not running any of their software would just not be acceptable to Becta. Indeed I donâ(TM)t think many people would consider that fair. "
[1] http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/microsoft-tax-on-linux-in-schools-must-end-says-becta.html
[2] http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/08/microsoft-gags-uk-schools
Google have paid for the wine project to port Photoshop so that they can run it in Linux. But theres no market? odd. Maybe not quite a big enough one to make it worth the effort?
Adobe are big open-source fans so hopefully linux will be the next target for them
- Joel
I'm in the UK. So ignore at your pleasure.
I think that Obama would have put himself in line for a kicking at the hands of the republicans if he had voted for this.
Obamas weakest polling figures are on his state security and military areas. If he voted against these powers he would have been plastered for being weak on terror.
The Republicans would have explained that he was not capable of defending the country. "Look: he even votes against giving the CIA powers to wiretap terrorists".
The expediency of the decision, doesn't make it nicer for liberals. It also doesn't make it right. I think that he will try and use the bill as "his new breed of consensus politics". Using it to win friends within the republican party.
Hopefully when he wins he will actually be able to achieve something. For everyone who thinks fisa is the most important thing. It's the economy stupid.
- Joel
on 2. On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets demonstrates that the paranoid should be even more fearful of Tinfoil hats.
They have released a limited trial of application hosting. Only python at the moment - its called the Google App Engine and its like a free (for limited use) version of Amazon's EC2 Cloud.
Fair cop ... I actually meant iWork Pages, but I could have meant Writely (now google docs) either. I think I got a mid-sentence brain scramble.
- Joel
I think what the legislators were saying was
Other good news....
its a good year for document freedom.
- Joel
27% of all the machines were owned by a marketing company. Its sunk in.
Sudo copied Windows - hmmmm ... "Sudo was originally written by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer "around 1980" at the Department of Computer Science at SUNY/Buffalo".
As for the virus remark - Its more difficult to write Linux viruses. User level permissions are more rigorous. The browsers don't have ActiveX. People who use Linux tend to know what a firewall is; and don't click yes in reply to "would you like to install" dialogues so much.
The 900 million euros was for manipulating the server operating system market to disenfranchise competitors. Microsoft refused to change and got fined for the refusal. The matter is over (bar the appeal of the amount).
Microsoft is currently being investigated:
* There a huge list.. but my personal favourite was sending regional MS employees as delegates for war-torn African nations, all in order to pass the vote.
Linux and coke, must be the fair-trade Ubuntu Cola
I was referring to this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/275738.stm when I was talking about Ocean Vents.
I'm sure he [Walt Brown] has some "unique" perspectives. Although without peer-review of his work; I imagine that his musings will not get into the scientific body of knowledge.
I recommend reading http://www.amazon.co.uk/Origin-Species-Charles-Darwin/dp/0517123207/ref=pd_sim_b_img_2 its a thoroughly good introduction to evolution.
I'll bite.
Over tens of millions of years don't you think that lots of quirky things have happened on this planet? The soup theory is one of many; basically they are all theorising potential answers.
You have just espoused that "logic" says something that no evidence exists for, did it?
Genius.
And how is that "much more logical" than combining chemicals, electricity, high and low temperatures, over billions of years, happening to produce spontaneous life? Have you seen animals that live next to undersea vents?
I think that scientists are well aware of the God argument. Many believe in God. But I don't think most scientists find there research stimulating if the only answer they are 'allowed' to give is "God Knows"?
If God exists please post me some lab reproducible examples.
But not for the OS. This is a Firefox, Flash, and Flex bash. From my point of view a bit of competition in the RIA arena might be good for Flash/Flex. But I really think that if you're outputting documents online the best plan would be HTML.
And as for Firefox - Firefox 3 is by far the best browser I have used. When its out of beta I reckon Europe could go 50/50 with Microsoft.
- Joel
If your feeling bored you can read the comments, and the comments about the comments, and the comments about the comments about the comments; here