But if you don't want to get blamed for your subordinates bad decisions, you use your power to reverse those decisions and/or get rid of the subordinates. Delegating does not absolve you of any responsibility for the actions of your delegates; it just adds the responsibility to keep track of what they're doing and head them off if they're doing something wrong.
He doesn't make the decisions or take the actions personally, but yes, he is responsible for them, and if he doesn't agree with them it is his responsibility to change those decisions. Remember, by choosing not to tell the DOJ that they are wrong on this one, he is effectively deciding that they are in the right.
If you don't have a lot of money for lawyers, and Microsoft does, and you are potentially a leading light on a GPL project that threatens Microsoft (which I definitely am not), I don't think it's "sad" to be wary of such things. When has Microsoft not demonstrated that they will go to the limit and beyond to get what they want?
Even if you can specify exactly how Microsoft would not have a legal leg to stand on (and I don't think that's a foregone conclusion by any means), it could still take years in court to make that determination. Time that would be better spent writing Free Software, IMHO.
OpenOffice is still based off of StarOffice, though - just fire it up and you'll see more similarities than differences, I guarantee. According to openoffice.org, OpenOffice is based on technology that Sun was developing for future versions of StarOffice - it's not quite "based on" but it sure looks like it to me.
I agree that it's a whole lot better than SO 5.2, which wouldn't even install properly for me.
The latest OpenOffice, based on the StarOffice codebase, is downloaded in one big chunk but then you can select which components to install. Rather than firing up the StarOffice "desktop" MDI, OpenOffice (as well as the next release of StarOffice) will be going to a more Unix-like single-window-per-document arrangement.
All right, all right. I thought that I had read where Microsoft was actually going to give them technical assistance and "partner" with Ximian to get it going; but I can't remember where.
Mono IS.Net in the important way - if it makes it possible for Linux users to use.Net and its centralized authentication services, then Microsoft has essentially conquered the big advantage of Linux: open and cheaply implemented protocols. Mono is the nose under the tent; of course Microsoft wants it to succeed, at least long enough to get the entire computing world hooked.
I wish Miguel luck on the "embracing and extending", but I think he's up against the master indeed. We'll see who gets embraced, and who gets extended:)
I'm not saying it's a bad strategy, although it does seem detrimental to the rule of law in Israel/Palestine. The big problem that everyone is having is that they can't really decide if they want to have a war or not, so you have situations where events that require a police response instead get military action, and vice versa. I hope that peace comes to the Middle East, but I don't think that will occur until everyone quits saying their actions are just "in retaliation" for the other guy. Most people are supposed to get past that blame-it-on-the-other-guy attitude once they're out of grade school, aren't they?
It's all well and good to be virtual, until of course you reach the Star Trek episode where the computer lets you know that your neighborhood was destroyed and so you have to show up at the friendly neighborhood casualty incinerator...
It's not that assassination is "beneath us", it's that no world leader wants to pin a target on their back by being the first to openly support assassination (well, except for Mr. Sharon recently). Personally, I'd much rather that a war with Iraq be over with quickly due to a head shot through Saddam's beret, than have to send troops there to die all in the interests of "fair play".
Plus, assassination is a democratizing influence - dictatorships can't survive the assassination of the head man, but a democracy will just keep trucking along after they elect another one.
I did not know about that. Thanks, I'll give that a try tonight. I suppose I could have RTFM'd, but then again I do think that a *nix office suite should automatically be prepared to work for multiple users.
If you just wanted to connect between two ReplayTVs to share the movies, couldn't you just use a crossover cable? That's relatively inexpensive. Or do you need the PC in order to manage the transfers?
But that might be sufficient for peer-to-peer transmission; if I send it to 15 people, who each send it to 15 people, etc. Or does it have some sort of serial copy protection, so that you can only send it once and your friend can't send on your copy to anyone else?
Also, the productivity packages don't have the maturity of the MS or Corel offerings, but for most people that
doesn't matter. The kind of people who would buy and be happy with Microsoft Works should find that
OpenOffice meets their needs quite nicely.
Strangely enough, just this week my wife finally quit rebooting into Windows for MS Works and started using OpenOffice. It's a step up in functionality for her, although it's a little slower (almost a minute to start up on a K6-2 250 MHz machine w/192 MB RAM). But it's much faster than rebooting, which is what counts.
My big complaint about OpenOffice: if I tell it to install in/usr/local/openoffice, then it tries to use directories under that location for file storage, temp files, etc. This causes a fun crash if those directories aren't world-writable and the program tries to save the first autosave file. Since apparently the autosave kicks in after you've typed the first word, my wife characterized it as the "you type the first space and it's gone" bug. I know the save directories, etc. are configuration options, but the program should default to reasonable settings like using/tmp for temp files, your home directory for documents, etc.
But wait, I thought Ximian and Microsoft were collaborating on.Net, not competing? How can it be that those sweet boys from Redmond aren't planning to play nice? Well, this is totally unexpected. I entirely share Miguel's dismay at this unforseeable and calamitous turn of events!
OK, maybe I'm not so dismayed after all:) I hope Miguel isn't surprised either...
3) It is illegal for my company to snoop my home email in any way, even if I'm accessing it from the office. It is in
fact a felony, since 1986's Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Obligatory text to avoid the postercomment compression filter. I'm beginning to think that the trolls are right about Taco not being able to code; considering how much ASCII art I've seen in the last couple weeks, it's amazing that my little bit of HTML won't fly...
My apologies - I was using "man" in the Otto-the-stoned-bus-driver-to-whom-everyone-is-eit her-"man"-or-"dude"-sense. So ladies and even eunuchs can be referred to as "man", although I can see that some folks would find that objectionable.
OK, now I really am offtopic. Too bad there's no check box for "No Score at all".
I have the link to inspire commentary. So far I've only been mildly successful, in that nobody centrally involved in the issue has really issued any response. I'm not sure how that's "picking on" someone; I just want to find out the truth, and so I'm trying to use one side of the story as a lever to spring the other side of the story out into the open. I'd be happy to quit "picking on" the parties in question if I could find out from them which parts of the link above constitute "picking on", and which parts are really the truth. So far, nothing, though.
Also, I haven't found a topic that I would be more interested in linking to. So, the censorware bit stays for now.
Scrutinize away on me, man - I admit my own mistakes quite readily:) (he said, being quite as anonymous as an AC himself...)
Excessively needy significant others aren't just a new IM phenomenon, you know:) Just another situation where you get to tell someone to leave you the hell alone for a while.
I guess I don't see the same problems as these people. I can and do live entirely without IM, so I know that's possible. As far as email goes, it sounds like people are making assumptions about the synchronicity of communication that aren't warranted. If you reply to people too quickly, then of course they assume that you will always do so. What works for me is to check fairly frequently, but put off most replies until two or three central times a day in batch mode. That way, you get the important information quickly, but without creating the expectation that you'll act immediately on everything you're sent.
I knew people in school who checked their email every hour or so; I found it amazing that they would do so. Then again, I've never been quite the social butterfly. Maybe that's why I have a hard time sympathizing with those who are:)
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But if you don't want to get blamed for your subordinates bad decisions, you use your power to reverse those decisions and/or get rid of the subordinates. Delegating does not absolve you of any responsibility for the actions of your delegates; it just adds the responsibility to keep track of what they're doing and head them off if they're doing something wrong.
He doesn't make the decisions or take the actions personally, but yes, he is responsible for them, and if he doesn't agree with them it is his responsibility to change those decisions. Remember, by choosing not to tell the DOJ that they are wrong on this one, he is effectively deciding that they are in the right.
This decision isn't a big surprise to me.
If you don't have a lot of money for lawyers, and Microsoft does, and you are potentially a leading light on a GPL project that threatens Microsoft (which I definitely am not), I don't think it's "sad" to be wary of such things. When has Microsoft not demonstrated that they will go to the limit and beyond to get what they want?
Even if you can specify exactly how Microsoft would not have a legal leg to stand on (and I don't think that's a foregone conclusion by any means), it could still take years in court to make that determination. Time that would be better spent writing Free Software, IMHO.
Quimby: "Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?"
I've just started using it at home, so far so good.
OpenOffice is still based off of StarOffice, though - just fire it up and you'll see more similarities than differences, I guarantee. According to openoffice.org, OpenOffice is based on technology that Sun was developing for future versions of StarOffice - it's not quite "based on" but it sure looks like it to me.
I agree that it's a whole lot better than SO 5.2, which wouldn't even install properly for me.
The latest OpenOffice, based on the StarOffice codebase, is downloaded in one big chunk but then you can select which components to install. Rather than firing up the StarOffice "desktop" MDI, OpenOffice (as well as the next release of StarOffice) will be going to a more Unix-like single-window-per-document arrangement.
All right, all right. I thought that I had read where Microsoft was actually going to give them technical assistance and "partner" with Ximian to get it going; but I can't remember where.
Mono IS .Net in the important way - if it makes it possible for Linux users to use .Net and its centralized authentication services, then Microsoft has essentially conquered the big advantage of Linux: open and cheaply implemented protocols. Mono is the nose under the tent; of course Microsoft wants it to succeed, at least long enough to get the entire computing world hooked.
I wish Miguel luck on the "embracing and extending", but I think he's up against the master indeed. We'll see who gets embraced, and who gets extended :)
I'm not saying it's a bad strategy, although it does seem detrimental to the rule of law in Israel/Palestine. The big problem that everyone is having is that they can't really decide if they want to have a war or not, so you have situations where events that require a police response instead get military action, and vice versa. I hope that peace comes to the Middle East, but I don't think that will occur until everyone quits saying their actions are just "in retaliation" for the other guy. Most people are supposed to get past that blame-it-on-the-other-guy attitude once they're out of grade school, aren't they?
It's all well and good to be virtual, until of course you reach the Star Trek episode where the computer lets you know that your neighborhood was destroyed and so you have to show up at the friendly neighborhood casualty incinerator...
It's not that assassination is "beneath us", it's that no world leader wants to pin a target on their back by being the first to openly support assassination (well, except for Mr. Sharon recently). Personally, I'd much rather that a war with Iraq be over with quickly due to a head shot through Saddam's beret, than have to send troops there to die all in the interests of "fair play".
Plus, assassination is a democratizing influence - dictatorships can't survive the assassination of the head man, but a democracy will just keep trucking along after they elect another one.
I did not know about that. Thanks, I'll give that a try tonight. I suppose I could have RTFM'd, but then again I do think that a *nix office suite should automatically be prepared to work for multiple users.
If you just wanted to connect between two ReplayTVs to share the movies, couldn't you just use a crossover cable? That's relatively inexpensive. Or do you need the PC in order to manage the transfers?
But that might be sufficient for peer-to-peer transmission; if I send it to 15 people, who each send it to 15 people, etc. Or does it have some sort of serial copy protection, so that you can only send it once and your friend can't send on your copy to anyone else?
Strangely enough, just this week my wife finally quit rebooting into Windows for MS Works and started using OpenOffice. It's a step up in functionality for her, although it's a little slower (almost a minute to start up on a K6-2 250 MHz machine w/192 MB RAM). But it's much faster than rebooting, which is what counts.
My big complaint about OpenOffice: if I tell it to install in /usr/local/openoffice, then it tries to use directories under that location for file storage, temp files, etc. This causes a fun crash if those directories aren't world-writable and the program tries to save the first autosave file. Since apparently the autosave kicks in after you've typed the first word, my wife characterized it as the "you type the first space and it's gone" bug. I know the save directories, etc. are configuration options, but the program should default to reasonable settings like using /tmp for temp files, your home directory for documents, etc.
But wait, I thought Ximian and Microsoft were collaborating on .Net, not competing? How can it be that those sweet boys from Redmond aren't planning to play nice? Well, this is totally unexpected. I entirely share Miguel's dismay at this unforseeable and calamitous turn of events!
OK, maybe I'm not so dismayed after all :) I hope Miguel isn't surprised either...
...but you're still encrypting it anyway, right?
I think your post was a policy failure at the "how about using paragraph breaks sometime" level :)
That's a feature, not a bug :)
Obligatory Netscape story.
Obligatory text to avoid the postercomment compression filter. I'm beginning to think that the trolls are right about Taco not being able to code; considering how much ASCII art I've seen in the last couple weeks, it's amazing that my little bit of HTML won't fly...
My apologies - I was using "man" in the Otto-the-stoned-bus-driver-to-whom-everyone-is-eit her-"man"-or-"dude"-sense. So ladies and even eunuchs can be referred to as "man", although I can see that some folks would find that objectionable.
Hell yes, you Feds exist just to to keep me safe! Keep up the good work, spliff!
Oh wait. Never mind.
OK, now I really am offtopic. Too bad there's no check box for "No Score at all".
I have the link to inspire commentary. So far I've only been mildly successful, in that nobody centrally involved in the issue has really issued any response. I'm not sure how that's "picking on" someone; I just want to find out the truth, and so I'm trying to use one side of the story as a lever to spring the other side of the story out into the open. I'd be happy to quit "picking on" the parties in question if I could find out from them which parts of the link above constitute "picking on", and which parts are really the truth. So far, nothing, though.
Also, I haven't found a topic that I would be more interested in linking to. So, the censorware bit stays for now.
Scrutinize away on me, man - I admit my own mistakes quite readily :) (he said, being quite as anonymous as an AC himself...)
Excessively needy significant others aren't just a new IM phenomenon, you know :) Just another situation where you get to tell someone to leave you the hell alone for a while.
I guess I don't see the same problems as these people. I can and do live entirely without IM, so I know that's possible. As far as email goes, it sounds like people are making assumptions about the synchronicity of communication that aren't warranted. If you reply to people too quickly, then of course they assume that you will always do so. What works for me is to check fairly frequently, but put off most replies until two or three central times a day in batch mode. That way, you get the important information quickly, but without creating the expectation that you'll act immediately on everything you're sent.
I knew people in school who checked their email every hour or so; I found it amazing that they would do so. Then again, I've never been quite the social butterfly. Maybe that's why I have a hard time sympathizing with those who are :)