A wrongful dismissal lawsuit might be helpful here. The man was innocent and the company should have supported him. If they did not trust him, they could have put him on leave. He should not have been fired unless his job performance was poor and even then they should have offered help.
The word "paytard" is all over the place, just like microtard and that idiotic "freetard" insult. People willing to pay hundreds of dollars for an OS that sucks like Vista does are really, really stupid. Microsoft slows your computer, so people at Microsoft are microtards. The phrase "freetard" is kind of a catch all used by the music and software industry as an insult to those smart enough to avoid giving them money. Ha ha, how funny. Collapsing revenues for the music and non free software industry show up how stupid the insult and those who use it are.
You know, like how you justify having two ISO standards for typesetting digital documents, how OOXML references to "Do this like Word for Mac" can be considered sane, or how 80% no turns into "yes".
I don't come here to talk about twitter or any other slashdot user. I smearing someone's pen name is the best you can do, please shut the fuck up.
GNU/Linux has had realtime ray tracing for a year now, even though it seems like an obvious joke when announced for Windows. That's something people would like to know and some good information that can come out of this bad joke.
Take your crazy Twitter hate and modpoint games someplace else. They are getting in the way of the conversation here.
Others have already read the OOXML docs and pointed out countless places it's incomplete, contradictory and impossible to implement. Worse, it has been pointed out that DOCX is already something different from the above. I have better things to do with my time than read 6000 pages of misdirection. NO ONE but MS is going to have a working implementation, if there can ever be such a thing. OOXML is a farce that will only fool the weakest minded non technical decision makers. It surely did not fool the majority of ISO representatives and we shall see if it really becomes a standard in light of all the irregularities. The organization's reputation is on the line. For prior art in this matter, look up Rich Text Format, the Microsoft last "open" specification that no one ever used.
Rational policy for the new documents is to return the thing to it's sender and ask for ODF. Editors can be had as a free download and they work well, so there's no reason for anyone to demand others buy a $400 text editor. It's that simple, for you and me to work together I can buy a $400 program or you can download one for free. Which do you think it's going to be most of the time?
If the British Standards Institution (BSI) registers a vote in favor, Office Open XML would pass one of two criteria to becoming a standard, but fail the other.
Worse for them, it's not a given the Policy Panel will switch the vote. The Register did not distinguish between the Technical Committee and the Policy Panel. The policy people don't have to do what the obviously undermined TC says and might not go through the tedious process of changing their previous recommendation.
Further, the lobbying of the TC by Microsoft may be yet another improper move. The members are not supposed to be known much less harassed, bribed and otherwise courted. That they were and came out with such a contradictory statement stinks.
Your other article, by the way, links to same text as the first. Thanks for looking it up.
Software freedom does not keep people from profiting. IBM makes billions each year from free software and there are thousands of other companies making other gobs of money with embedded systems and software services. Google is a free software maker and user.
The moral objection comes from stripping people of their software freedom. People who do this pretend that it's the only way for them to make money but it's clearly about means of extortion now. Non free software is bad for you, even if it does one or two things you like. It's owners think they have a right to tell you what you can and can not do. If you give them that they will simply take more from you.
Lots of reputable companies work with the ISO but look what Microsoft has done to them. Anything that Microsoft touches is suspect.
Correct processing of facts requires a memory. If the ISO case is not good enough for you, look up what they did to ACPI. Subtle changes can corrupt just about anything.
Where are these crashing Linux systems you mention? Is that what happens if you use Nvidia's non free drivers? I have used them and the do lower system stability but not to Windows levels. Nearly 100% of my crashes were due to Nvidia and they vanished when I moved to nv, along with pretty special effects. The crashes were just Xwindows restarts not full system stopping BSoD like you get in Windows. What's more, Intel graphics chips offer effects that are almost as good with free drivers that have no stability problems at all.
Such a dissaster would go a long way in explaining the Fermi Paradox. We don't run into aliens because they all destroy themselves soon after they form.
All that "more to it" is the problem and Comcast needs to be clear about network freedom. They can rig all sorts of schemes to make BitTorrent a traffic cop or to be some kind of traffic cop but none of that is appropriate. Comcast needs to do it's job, which is delivering bandwith. Everything else is bad for them and leads to real censorship.
All of this nonsense about "unauthorized reproduction" and single file copies being a criminal offense represent a tremendous and wrong expansion of copyright laws. Copyright disputes should be a civil matter of who deserves money earned from works. Copyright protection of restricted files violates the limited time provision of the Constitutional establishment clause and the whole point of copyright is to insure a rich public domain. Censoring the press (aka the internet) in order to enforce this new and unwholesome copyright idea violates yet another portion of the US Constitution.
Money that can't be earned in a free society is money that should not be earned. It would be better to live without mass produced entertainment than to live without a free press. Comcast and other ISPs should be at the forefront of the battle to preserve network freedom. As long as they insist on port blocks and traffic shaping, they are an enemy of freedom.
I'm not sure they have said anything but it looks like nothing good if they want to make a special deal with a single company. If they want some good attention, they can unblock ports and dedicate themselves to network buildouts. The core issue is one of network freedom. Without freedom, the internet is no better than cable TV.
This sounds more like, "sorry I got caught" than sorry:
BitTorrent traffic will be treated the same as that from YouTube Inc., Google Inc. or other Internet companies, he said.... "We are not happy about the companies' being in the limelight."
No one caught doing something wrong is happy about the attention but they need to admit what they did was wrong not because a company was involved but because it harmed their customers. The above makes it look like they think they still have the right to block traffic their customers want. Beware of special deals like this.
When IT ministers go to a free software conference to talk about how software patents are harmful to society and that everyone should use ODF, you know Stallman has been there in spirit if not in person. Stallman does not own the ideas but he has been clearly articulating them for a long time. People are finally starting to get it and that's a great thing. The man deserves a Peace Prize.
Blogger Richard Stallman pointed to an Atlantic Monthly analysis of the Great Wall of China. It is surprisingly technical and well researched. I have links and quotes here.
The short answer is that there will be almost no censorship for foreigners.
Expect to lose your job soon after the paperless office arrives. It's always just around the corner but something human gets in the way every time. AI will be much the same.
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A wrongful dismissal lawsuit might be helpful here. The man was innocent and the company should have supported him. If they did not trust him, they could have put him on leave. He should not have been fired unless his job performance was poor and even then they should have offered help.
SP1 was delayed by what? Why did Vista take six fine years to develop? Is there a trend here?
The word "paytard" is all over the place, just like microtard and that idiotic "freetard" insult. People willing to pay hundreds of dollars for an OS that sucks like Vista does are really, really stupid. Microsoft slows your computer, so people at Microsoft are microtards. The phrase "freetard" is kind of a catch all used by the music and software industry as an insult to those smart enough to avoid giving them money. Ha ha, how funny. Collapsing revenues for the music and non free software industry show up how stupid the insult and those who use it are.
Broken on IE 6? Ha ha, that just eliminated 75% of the botnet. Now I know what happened to the trolls. Stuffed! Nice work, Slashdot.
More than 80% of Slashdot readers use browsers that understand correct CSS. I suggest you upgrade soon it won't cost you anything.
Botnet operators will have to install new code.
Special is another word for paytard, isn't it?
reinlist.
I'm sorry it's not funny because the bigger scam was to not let people leave. For that lack of choice you all have my sympathy and condolences.
You would not want windows in the way when you inject your cyclotron.
Kids these days.
You know, like how you justify having two ISO standards for typesetting digital documents, how OOXML references to "Do this like Word for Mac" can be considered sane, or how 80% no turns into "yes".
I don't come here to talk about twitter or any other slashdot user. I smearing someone's pen name is the best you can do, please shut the fuck up.
GNU/Linux has had realtime ray tracing for a year now, even though it seems like an obvious joke when announced for Windows. That's something people would like to know and some good information that can come out of this bad joke.
Take your crazy Twitter hate and modpoint games someplace else. They are getting in the way of the conversation here.
Cairo, Longhorn and Windows 7 are all the same thing, vapor used to crush working implementations.
Others have already read the OOXML docs and pointed out countless places it's incomplete, contradictory and impossible to implement. Worse, it has been pointed out that DOCX is already something different from the above. I have better things to do with my time than read 6000 pages of misdirection. NO ONE but MS is going to have a working implementation, if there can ever be such a thing. OOXML is a farce that will only fool the weakest minded non technical decision makers. It surely did not fool the majority of ISO representatives and we shall see if it really becomes a standard in light of all the irregularities. The organization's reputation is on the line. For prior art in this matter, look up Rich Text Format, the Microsoft last "open" specification that no one ever used.
Rational policy for the new documents is to return the thing to it's sender and ask for ODF. Editors can be had as a free download and they work well, so there's no reason for anyone to demand others buy a $400 text editor. It's that simple, for you and me to work together I can buy a $400 program or you can download one for free. Which do you think it's going to be most of the time?
By your more recent source MSXML still fails:
Worse for them, it's not a given the Policy Panel will switch the vote. The Register did not distinguish between the Technical Committee and the Policy Panel. The policy people don't have to do what the obviously undermined TC says and might not go through the tedious process of changing their previous recommendation.
Further, the lobbying of the TC by Microsoft may be yet another improper move. The members are not supposed to be known much less harassed, bribed and otherwise courted. That they were and came out with such a contradictory statement stinks.
Your other article, by the way, links to same text as the first. Thanks for looking it up.
Software freedom does not keep people from profiting. IBM makes billions each year from free software and there are thousands of other companies making other gobs of money with embedded systems and software services. Google is a free software maker and user.
The moral objection comes from stripping people of their software freedom. People who do this pretend that it's the only way for them to make money but it's clearly about means of extortion now. Non free software is bad for you, even if it does one or two things you like. It's owners think they have a right to tell you what you can and can not do. If you give them that they will simply take more from you.
It was nice of you to post in English, good foreigner.
Lots of reputable companies work with the ISO but look what Microsoft has done to them. Anything that Microsoft touches is suspect.
Correct processing of facts requires a memory. If the ISO case is not good enough for you, look up what they did to ACPI. Subtle changes can corrupt just about anything.
Nvidia already dishes out specs and programmer time for 2D drivers. It's second rate treatment but it's a start. Nouveau and both Intel and ATI's full bore release of documentation will light a fire under Nvidia that should produce more.
Where are these crashing Linux systems you mention? Is that what happens if you use Nvidia's non free drivers? I have used them and the do lower system stability but not to Windows levels. Nearly 100% of my crashes were due to Nvidia and they vanished when I moved to nv, along with pretty special effects. The crashes were just Xwindows restarts not full system stopping BSoD like you get in Windows. What's more, Intel graphics chips offer effects that are almost as good with free drivers that have no stability problems at all.
What, did you expect anything else from something sponsored by Microsoft? It was easy to tell that the loser was going to be Apple or Ubuntu.
getthefacts baby!
Such a dissaster would go a long way in explaining the Fermi Paradox. We don't run into aliens because they all destroy themselves soon after they form.
All that "more to it" is the problem and Comcast needs to be clear about network freedom. They can rig all sorts of schemes to make BitTorrent a traffic cop or to be some kind of traffic cop but none of that is appropriate. Comcast needs to do it's job, which is delivering bandwith. Everything else is bad for them and leads to real censorship.
All of this nonsense about "unauthorized reproduction" and single file copies being a criminal offense represent a tremendous and wrong expansion of copyright laws. Copyright disputes should be a civil matter of who deserves money earned from works. Copyright protection of restricted files violates the limited time provision of the Constitutional establishment clause and the whole point of copyright is to insure a rich public domain. Censoring the press (aka the internet) in order to enforce this new and unwholesome copyright idea violates yet another portion of the US Constitution.
Money that can't be earned in a free society is money that should not be earned. It would be better to live without mass produced entertainment than to live without a free press. Comcast and other ISPs should be at the forefront of the battle to preserve network freedom. As long as they insist on port blocks and traffic shaping, they are an enemy of freedom.
I'm not sure they have said anything but it looks like nothing good if they want to make a special deal with a single company. If they want some good attention, they can unblock ports and dedicate themselves to network buildouts. The core issue is one of network freedom. Without freedom, the internet is no better than cable TV.
This sounds more like, "sorry I got caught" than sorry:
BitTorrent traffic will be treated the same as that from YouTube Inc., Google Inc. or other Internet companies, he said. ... "We are not happy about the companies' being in the limelight."
No one caught doing something wrong is happy about the attention but they need to admit what they did was wrong not because a company was involved but because it harmed their customers. The above makes it look like they think they still have the right to block traffic their customers want. Beware of special deals like this.
When IT ministers go to a free software conference to talk about how software patents are harmful to society and that everyone should use ODF, you know Stallman has been there in spirit if not in person. Stallman does not own the ideas but he has been clearly articulating them for a long time. People are finally starting to get it and that's a great thing. The man deserves a Peace Prize.
Blogger Richard Stallman pointed to an Atlantic Monthly analysis of the Great Wall of China. It is surprisingly technical and well researched. I have links and quotes here.
The short answer is that there will be almost no censorship for foreigners.
Expect to lose your job soon after the paperless office arrives. It's always just around the corner but something human gets in the way every time. AI will be much the same.