Why don't we "terraform" the Sahara desert, the Gobi desert, Antarctica, and the various dust bowls around the world before trying to tackle Mars.
Because there are to many riskfactors involved in projects like these. Changing course of water streams that used to go to Sahara could cause other areas that are now fertile and have water to become deserts. This could cause huge amount of starving people in places that are now densily populated.
Right now, we can't even keep existing, fertile land from turning into desert right here on earth, with plenty of water and air around.
This is more political and economical than technical problem. The logging, farming and mining industries are destroying those areas for purpose, money. It is agaist free capitalism to stop somebody to do their businis according to local laws. And there are certainly no politicans who would give up their support for tobacco or mining companies just for saving some rainsforest.
Otherhand, directing other peoples tax money to make something big and historical, like space programs, will just give them press time for being ahead of time.
Politicans aren't about to put lawyers out of work by making the legal system intelligible to the common citizen.
But you should be able to put those politicans out of the job if they don't want to rewrite the law. Politican may not want to risk jobs of their buddies, but for certain, they don't want to put themself out of job. Except, if they are the only ones that can read the new law.
Microsoft made a mistake if they assumed the license agreement would deter people from doing this sort of thing. Besides, they've already given a huge part of the program away, why NOT give the add-in functionality away as well?
Licence agreements are there to tell people what they can do and what they can't. If you get something for free, it doesn't mean that you can get everything or do everything you want to. If somebody wants to give something away for free and charge for something else, it is their right to do so. They may place any limitations they like, it is users choice to use that certain product or use something else.
If developers don't have to follow rules on license agreements, shouldn't I be able to get some GPL'ed code and compile it to my companys product. And NOT to distribute the modified code. After all, it's only licence agreement that says I couldn't do it, and they have already given the code away for free.
Did you forget to take the receipt from the clueless fourteen year old (if they forget, you remember). Only a pirate wouldn't have the receipt. How would the store know that it was actually this media that you just bought and they forgot to activate it? You could have just bought one and steal 10 and then go to different clerk every time to activate stolen CD's.
And how can you prove that it is actually a receipt that they have printed?
After all, we are talkin about movies and music. MAFIAA layers haw no problems of proving that you have carried out 100lb's of CD's with that same CD that you try to activate now.
- They are increasingly becoming a war power US has invaded more countries than any other I can think of.
Romans, Persians, Chinese, Mongolians, Russians, Germans, French, England. Just few that I can think of at the moment. Most of those countries existed in era when there were a lot more smaller countries to be invaded.
US bullying isn't anything new, it's been trend for most superpowers in their times before collapsing.
I am afraid, nowadays we are not intelligent enough to find those things.
There are many things preventing us from finding those lost arts again, I'd say that inteligence isn't one of those.
The lost forgotten arts weren't found on timescale that we nowadays accept as development time for something. It might have taken generations to come up with something like creating damascus steel or building pyramids. Each generation of apprentices learned everything from their masters and might found something new in the process to make it better. Eventually some of these trades were so specialized that we nowadays consider those as lost arts when not in use anymore. Many of these old secrets held by few masters are nowadays know as common information that even kids would know it.
For medicines the thing is a bit different. We don't do that much human testing anymore and medicines with 50% or less survival percentage are not accepted or used. Medics in older days were able to try out things with living patients and if the cure didn't work they would meet in next life, nowadays in court rooms.
Increased supply of workers will make wages rise. Which school of economics did you go to ?
You are mixing globalization and imigration here. We are not talking about moving workers to local markets, but moving jobs to other places. Amount of workers isn't rising in 3rd world countries, amount of work is. When there isn't enough skilled people in 3rd world countries to meet the needs of globalizatiolized jobs, companies have to start fighting fot the best. And I'm not talking about Guantamo like coding camps, but hard cash. If you want the best, you have to pay for it, therefore increasing the rates.
And what happens once they've learned? There is now more competition for you - with which, at your income, at your tax level you may not be able to compete. If this were to continue on, you'd find quite a few jobless people. And jobless people cannot pay taxes. Yes, I'm generalizing, but hopefully you get the idea.
Usually what happens when people learn skill to do their job, their market value increases. They get more work that they can handle with their original rate. Usually smart people understand that they make the same by raising their rate and losing some customers for others working cheaper.
To get local jobs, you have to lower your rates until they start to be better deals for skills and services you provide for your local customer. Once the rates around the world start going up, you may also raise your rates. While waiting you better start to increase your skills to offer better service. Most customers know to look for quality/cost ration instead of cheapest price tag.
I used to be programmer, now I do maintenance and design for local customers and programming has gone to somewhere in India. There starts to be local programming jobs availeble after few silent years, customers are coming back to their local suppliers for the service they can provide for current rates.
Globalization has some bad effects if you happen to be too greedy. Due the globalization local rates have gone down, but so has the living cost, mainly thanks to cheap imported goods.
Or roughly $20,000 dollars an hour. Unless the 50 employees they are talking about are lobbyist, I just don't see this as accurate.
Obviously you have never been lobbyed(or being lobbying), $20,000$ will never cover your 'expences' on changing your view, so there is few zeros missing on the correct numbers. There are 100 people in senate, you need more then 2billion to talk to them.
Oh, my mistake, this study was done on govermental people doing something.
These studies all operate on the "presumption" that if they didn't "surf the web", they would be more productive. If they didn't have the Web, they would find some other way to occupy their time, and it most probably would not be work related.
There are times in work that you have to wait for something to happen. For example, I have to boot servers sometimes, and it will take sometime(5-10 min.) to do so. While waiting something to happen, I tend to "Surf the Net", or have a smoke. Unfortunatelly, it usually takes more than the mandatory wait time. Usually this is done in night time, so there is no harm done, but doing something that requires a wait period and you extend it due your surfing, usually means that there several othrer people waiting for your confirmation about things going like planned. If I wait for ping replyes on other terminal session and read/. on other while waiting something to happen and then not to get back to immediately work when there is a 'good' ping received, I have 'lost' some work time. Not to mention other people waiting for my responce.
So yes, some time of net surfing cannot be included in productive hours, but it usually is. Time you spend surfing on the net and others are waiting for your respoce, is not just your time lost, but also the time others have been waiting for nothing. They might also spend that time surfing, but it is still time spend just for waiting.
I don't know you personally so I can't say I hate you, but if I ever figure out who you set these policies up with, I would never work for them.
Most of the people just dont understand computers in workplaces. I don't blame you to have your own opinion.
I just don't get people that talk about THEIR work computer not doing something with their employers net access and policies. It is called PC(Personal Computer), but if you can't give me receipt that you have bought it, then it is companys TOOL that is ment to allow you to do your work. Why fo people complain that 'their' work computer doesn't do some things that they arent supposed to do, but I don't see people complaining about their skrewdriver not being able to paint their home yellow. Company PC's are tools to do whatever is the business required by that said company. People tend to think tht their workstation is somehow THEIR computer. No, it is not. it is a tools that has been designed to help you to do your work. If you are not allowed to bring porn magazines to your work place, why should your tools be allowed to do such things?
But why in the world would you block non-official email, financial sites and sports sites?
Why would the company have to pay their salary for the time that they spent online on those sites. If an employee have to take some work back home, they will write it as overtime. Why should they allowed to have different standards at office and at home? You spent your working hours doing stuff that you could do at home and expect to be paid for it. Then you take some work to home and expect to paid for that also.
at the water cooler, at smoking place, coffee brake
These are times that you spend talking to your co-workers. Yes, most of that ime goes to talk about non-work raleted things, but it is all about time spent to create personal realations between co-workers. I'm a smoker and I spend some time at the smoking area. There I meet and talk with my co-workers or customers about many different things. Most of those are non-work related, but when something happens and we need to work as team to get things done, these are the people that I know and know how to handle them. With non-smokers I have to waste a lot of time to find out what they are really meaning. The 'Smokers' group has nothing in common in working responsibilities, but when something goes down, this group can easily analyze the whole damage to network. All this just because few weeks ago I talked to some smokers about their workload and duties and find out they are responsible for product X.
If we had an open netaccess and could spend our time on porn sites, we wouldn't have any information about other departments key-people on problem situations. OK, that was not true, company policy is not to have open net, but few selected have(like the smokers in our office building)
I'd say it's not that France takes pride in all things France, it's more that they wont consider anything outside France to be better in any way. Something similar happens in Japan. The Japanese will often only buy Japanese products, because they don't like helping outside companies.
Buying local goods has almost nothing to do with the pride of goods made locally, but the economical need of developed countries to support local companies. Made in insert your home country doesn't really tell you where it was originally made, not just assembled. In developed countries local goods usually are more expensive, not counting govermental substitutes. By buying local goods I know that that I'm paying my neighbours salary so that they can by goods that my company produces. Therefore whole pride of local goods thing is just thinking of your own income.
Of course you have the possibility to compare local products, products from other developed countries and products made in sweatshops in developing countries. Then you have to deside price/quality ratio to make your purchasing decision.
A lot of businesses (and lets face it, government administration is a business) know that pdf/ms-doc works, they have been using it for a long time. They are used to the crappy interface, they are used to the updates/pop ups/etc. They are used to the fact that it works and they are used to the error messages that pop up. They and their accountants are used to the monthly charges for PDF/office software.
The GUI that people are used to work with has next to nothing to do with the format it saves the information. My home Windows-machines Word 2000 allows me to work with older Word formats with several other possibilities, like WordPerfect. Saving file in different format might lose some of the formating options that certain format allows. I write documentation most of the day(working hours) and haven't really had any problems on different formats. It's all about well designed templates.
Article is suggesting that the documentation should be availeble in ODF for the public. And that the new created documents should be in ODF. It has nothing to do with open source software. Just the format that should be used. Goverment can use whatever piece of software they want, but they have to distribute public documents in such format, that I can read them without buying a new version of certain software that will only work on half of my home machines.
I have all rights to have access to goverments public information. If they require me to upgrade my soon illegal sutdent version of MS Office to have access to their information, they should pay for it. Or they can just publish it in such format, that I can read it without paying to third party.
I just don't understand why the Europeans don't develop a BETTER OS
I think one of the Northern Europeans did something like this, but it didn't get that popular. I think it was called Linux or something. Sorry, no links, it doesn't seem to exist in any servers in internet.
So if cocaine was legal in the UK and they sold it to people in the US then the feds shouldn't go after them? (Replace cocaine with any product or service that fits) Just because something is legal in one country doesn't mean one can't face prosecution in another country where it's illegal if that product/service is offered in the other country.
If all transactions have been done in region where it is legal, there should be no prosecution. It is legal for me in my country, like in most others, to talk about democary and free speech, but should I be arrested when traveling to China.
It's his own fault for violating US laws (that happen to be well known in the gambling community) and thinking that he could travel here without getting arrested.
So, everyone should expect to be arrested while traveling to any country, where they have possibly violated some local law in any other place that it has been legal. Smoking hash is illegal in US, like in my country, but should I be arrested just because I have passed a joint in a coffeeshop in Amsterdam. If I would do it here at home, I would know that I break several laws and would get arrested. But it is up to me to know what is legal to do in the country that I'm located.
It would be illegal for a coffeeshop to expand to here, but there is should be no law to them market their services in their country, even if I have access to it. It i for my country to prevent access to such illegal site if they choose so, like China has chosen to require search engines to block most of sites that are illegal in there.
I worked briefly for a company that ran a gambling website in the UK I have no interest to check all possible laws at the moment, but working for gambling industry would propably be illegal in most states. I would suggest that you stay at home and wait for feds to come up to arrest you for your illegal activities. Like you said, you should expect to be arrested in US, if you have done something wrong in any other country.
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I don't think someone has a right to criticize the military
You should ba allowed to criticize every govermental instance. At least in democacy.
Military is a intance that should be controlled by the people, not the one controlling the people.
unless they've been a part of it, even for a little bit.
You shouldn't be criticizing soldiers, unless you know what you are talking about.
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and if our military personell are indeed purchasing large quantities of bootleg content from locals, what kind of message does it send
Capitalism and free market rocks? I mean, if there is no copyright or any other IP laws, locals are supplying goods that are required by their customers. Isn't this parts of the 'free-world' thinking that the troops should be exporting to there?
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niether was forward deployed as the troops in Iran are.
I tought that the war on Iran wasn't scheduled to be started until late 2007.
No, it just means that you are using a parking spot for more than its original intended time period This wasn't the case you were trying to prove on the original parent post. Not using something like it is supposed to be used isn't lazynes, it's using the shown oppurtunities to suit your needs.
If I work downtown, I can either 1) pay $20 to park in a garage, or 2) tap a button on my phone every couple of hours to pay for parking. #2 even done 8 times a day is $2.40 in 'convenience' fees plus say $0.25 per hour.
On my area normal fees for garage are 15-25 for a 8 hour, but not quite sure about your math in following #2 option. You gotta be kidding for price of $0.25, try more like 3 for hour. With those prices few extra cents for redial is nothing. So yes, if I plan to stay more than few hours in downtown, garage is the best option; cheaper, guarded and out of rain. For 1-3 hours, I rather be lazy.
more people too lazy to walk down the street and burn off that big mac to put more change in the meter.
Most of the downtown parking spaces in my city are for 1 hour meter only. I go to meetings in there, usually lasting more than the max hour I'm allowed. Does it make me, and most of the people I know lazy. Mayby I'm too lazy to interrupt a meeting to go put a change on meter when I can just open my phone and press 'continue parking'.
The price should be the same, this will allow the city to cut labor costs involved in collection of change from meters.
But it's not the city collecting your money from the meters, it's the company providing the service. They pay to the city for time that you have parked. It's still citys duties to collect money from the meters from those who use cash. And give you ticket if you have overstayd.
City is propably charging less from the company than from you, but thats just business.
Oh come on, you know full well half if not more of software value is created by support and updates and upgrades and other services that extend over time.
Key thing in here is the over time. We are not talking about MS getting wiped out of Europe over-night, but slowly by each govermental project not accepting any illegal bids, like anything including MS. These bids going to Linux, Apple, Sun, IBM, or any other non-MS-system would increase the need for support on that field. It's demand for MS-jobs that have created base of MS-embloyees. I moved from AS/400 and AIX to Windows just because of the demanpd for support people. If there would be increase on sales for these systems, I'd be back on that area as son as possible.
Killing MS would hurt a lot For MS mayby, not for that many others. Trick is knowing on what end of gun you stand.
Besides, I don't want some government regulating my usage of software But they are regulating your usage of software. This meaning you have leagally purchased your version software that is allowed to be sold in your country.
There's only one thing worse then a monopolistic business and that's a state-regulated business. I'd say worse would be business regulated states, but hey, thats just me and my dislike for monopolies and their power.
If they would just hire people to actually write the documentation extensively and properly and make sure they conform to it, there would be no issue.
This is API-documentation that EU is wanting. Any decent software house should have these for any software that is on beta testing level. And we are now talking about is releasing API-documantation for production releases. There are no excuses for not having them.
When writing software for bigger companies, you are bound to have external partners on projects, like hardware manufacturers. For these you have own set of documentation, for strict internal use there is another set with greater details.
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Why don't we "terraform" the Sahara desert, the Gobi desert, Antarctica, and the various dust bowls around the world before trying to tackle Mars.
Because there are to many riskfactors involved in projects like these. Changing course of water streams that used to go to Sahara could cause other areas that are now fertile and have water to become deserts. This could cause huge amount of starving people in places that are now densily populated.
Right now, we can't even keep existing, fertile land from turning into desert right here on earth, with plenty of water and air around.
This is more political and economical than technical problem. The logging, farming and mining industries are destroying those areas for purpose, money. It is agaist free capitalism to stop somebody to do their businis according to local laws. And there are certainly no politicans who would give up their support for tobacco or mining companies just for saving some rainsforest.
Otherhand, directing other peoples tax money to make something big and historical, like space programs, will just give them press time for being ahead of time.
Politicans aren't about to put lawyers out of work by making the legal system intelligible to the common citizen.
But you should be able to put those politicans out of the job if they don't want to rewrite the law. Politican may not want to risk jobs of their buddies, but for certain, they don't want to put themself out of job. Except, if they are the only ones that can read the new law.
Microsoft made a mistake if they assumed the license agreement would deter people from doing this sort of thing. Besides, they've already given a huge part of the program away, why NOT give the add-in functionality away as well?
Licence agreements are there to tell people what they can do and what they can't. If you get something for free, it doesn't mean that you can get everything or do everything you want to. If somebody wants to give something away for free and charge for something else, it is their right to do so. They may place any limitations they like, it is users choice to use that certain product or use something else.
If developers don't have to follow rules on license agreements, shouldn't I be able to get some GPL'ed code and compile it to my companys product. And NOT to distribute the modified code. After all, it's only licence agreement that says I couldn't do it, and they have already given the code away for free.
Did you forget to take the receipt from the clueless fourteen year old (if they forget, you remember). Only a pirate wouldn't have the receipt.
How would the store know that it was actually this media that you just bought and they forgot to activate it? You could have just bought one and steal 10 and then go to different clerk every time to activate stolen CD's.
And how can you prove that it is actually a receipt that they have printed?
After all, we are talkin about movies and music. MAFIAA layers haw no problems of proving that you have carried out 100lb's of CD's with that same CD that you try to activate now.
- They are increasingly becoming a war power
US has invaded more countries than any other I can think of.
Romans, Persians, Chinese, Mongolians, Russians, Germans, French, England. Just few that I can think of at the moment. Most of those countries existed in era when there were a lot more smaller countries to be invaded.
US bullying isn't anything new, it's been trend for most superpowers in their times before collapsing.
I am afraid, nowadays we are not intelligent enough to find those things.
There are many things preventing us from finding those lost arts again, I'd say that inteligence isn't one of those.
The lost forgotten arts weren't found on timescale that we nowadays accept as development time for something. It might have taken generations to come up with something like creating damascus steel or building pyramids. Each generation of apprentices learned everything from their masters and might found something new in the process to make it better. Eventually some of these trades were so specialized that we nowadays consider those as lost arts when not in use anymore. Many of these old secrets held by few masters are nowadays know as common information that even kids would know it.
For medicines the thing is a bit different. We don't do that much human testing anymore and medicines with 50% or less survival percentage are not accepted or used. Medics in older days were able to try out things with living patients and if the cure didn't work they would meet in next life, nowadays in court rooms.
Increased supply of workers will make wages rise. Which school of economics did you go to ?
You are mixing globalization and imigration here. We are not talking about moving workers to local markets, but moving jobs to other places. Amount of workers isn't rising in 3rd world countries, amount of work is. When there isn't enough skilled people in 3rd world countries to meet the needs of globalizatiolized jobs, companies have to start fighting fot the best. And I'm not talking about Guantamo like coding camps, but hard cash. If you want the best, you have to pay for it, therefore increasing the rates.
And what happens once they've learned? There is now more competition for you - with which, at your income, at your tax level you may not be able to compete. If this were to continue on, you'd find quite a few jobless people. And jobless people cannot pay taxes. Yes, I'm generalizing, but hopefully you get the idea.
Usually what happens when people learn skill to do their job, their market value increases. They get more work that they can handle with their original rate. Usually smart people understand that they make the same by raising their rate and losing some customers for others working cheaper.
To get local jobs, you have to lower your rates until they start to be better deals for skills and services you provide for your local customer. Once the rates around the world start going up, you may also raise your rates. While waiting you better start to increase your skills to offer better service. Most customers know to look for quality/cost ration instead of cheapest price tag.
I used to be programmer, now I do maintenance and design for local customers and programming has gone to somewhere in India. There starts to be local programming jobs availeble after few silent years, customers are coming back to their local suppliers for the service they can provide for current rates.
Globalization has some bad effects if you happen to be too greedy. Due the globalization local rates have gone down, but so has the living cost, mainly thanks to cheap imported goods.
When he is off.. surf to couple of really bad porn sites on his computer
He was surfing only on the GOOD sites(historylist), now I'm hooked on those also. Damn you and your advice.
Or roughly $20,000 dollars an hour. Unless the 50 employees they are talking about are lobbyist, I just don't see this as accurate.
Obviously you have never been lobbyed(or being lobbying), $20,000$ will never cover your 'expences' on changing your view, so there is few zeros missing on the correct numbers. There are 100 people in senate, you need more then 2billion to talk to them.
Oh, my mistake, this study was done on govermental people doing something.
These studies all operate on the "presumption" that if they didn't "surf the web", they would be more productive. If they didn't have the Web, they would find some other way to occupy their time, and it most probably would not be work related.
/. on other while waiting something to happen and then not to get back to immediately work when there is a 'good' ping received, I have 'lost' some work time. Not to mention other people waiting for my responce.
There are times in work that you have to wait for something to happen. For example, I have to boot servers sometimes, and it will take sometime(5-10 min.) to do so. While waiting something to happen, I tend to "Surf the Net", or have a smoke. Unfortunatelly, it usually takes more than the mandatory wait time. Usually this is done in night time, so there is no harm done, but doing something that requires a wait period and you extend it due your surfing, usually means that there several othrer people waiting for your confirmation about things going like planned. If I wait for ping replyes on other terminal session and read
So yes, some time of net surfing cannot be included in productive hours, but it usually is. Time you spend surfing on the net and others are waiting for your respoce, is not just your time lost, but also the time others have been waiting for nothing. They might also spend that time surfing, but it is still time spend just for waiting.
I don't know you personally so I can't say I hate you, but if I ever figure out who you set these policies up with, I would never work for them.
Most of the people just dont understand computers in workplaces. I don't blame you to have your own opinion.
I just don't get people that talk about THEIR work computer not doing something with their employers net access and policies. It is called PC(Personal Computer), but if you can't give me receipt that you have bought it, then it is companys TOOL that is ment to allow you to do your work. Why fo people complain that 'their' work computer doesn't do some things that they arent supposed to do, but I don't see people complaining about their skrewdriver not being able to paint their home yellow. Company PC's are tools to do whatever is the business required by that said company. People tend to think tht their workstation is somehow THEIR computer. No, it is not. it is a tools that has been designed to help you to do your work. If you are not allowed to bring porn magazines to your work place, why should your tools be allowed to do such things?
But why in the world would you block non-official email, financial sites and sports sites?
Why would the company have to pay their salary for the time that they spent online on those sites. If an employee have to take some work back home, they will write it as overtime. Why should they allowed to have different standards at office and at home? You spent your working hours doing stuff that you could do at home and expect to be paid for it. Then you take some work to home and expect to paid for that also.
at the water cooler, at smoking place, coffee brake
These are times that you spend talking to your co-workers. Yes, most of that ime goes to talk about non-work raleted things, but it is all about time spent to create personal realations between co-workers. I'm a smoker and I spend some time at the smoking area. There I meet and talk with my co-workers or customers about many different things. Most of those are non-work related, but when something happens and we need to work as team to get things done, these are the people that I know and know how to handle them. With non-smokers I have to waste a lot of time to find out what they are really meaning. The 'Smokers' group has nothing in common in working responsibilities, but when something goes down, this group can easily analyze the whole damage to network. All this just because few weeks ago I talked to some smokers about their workload and duties and find out they are responsible for product X.
If we had an open netaccess and could spend our time on porn sites, we wouldn't have any information about other departments key-people on problem situations. OK, that was not true, company policy is not to have open net, but few selected have(like the smokers in our office building)
I'd say it's not that France takes pride in all things France, it's more that they wont consider anything outside France to be better in any way. Something similar happens in Japan. The Japanese will often only buy Japanese products, because they don't like helping outside companies.
Buying local goods has almost nothing to do with the pride of goods made locally, but the economical need of developed countries to support local companies. Made in insert your home country doesn't really tell you where it was originally made, not just assembled. In developed countries local goods usually are more expensive, not counting govermental substitutes. By buying local goods I know that that I'm paying my neighbours salary so that they can by goods that my company produces. Therefore whole pride of local goods thing is just thinking of your own income.
Of course you have the possibility to compare local products, products from other developed countries and products made in sweatshops in developing countries. Then you have to deside price/quality ratio to make your purchasing decision.
A lot of businesses (and lets face it, government administration is a business) know that pdf/ms-doc works, they have been using it for a long time. They are used to the crappy interface, they are used to the updates/pop ups/etc. They are used to the fact that it works and they are used to the error messages that pop up. They and their accountants are used to the monthly charges for PDF/office software.
The GUI that people are used to work with has next to nothing to do with the format it saves the information. My home Windows-machines Word 2000 allows me to work with older Word formats with several other possibilities, like WordPerfect. Saving file in different format might lose some of the formating options that certain format allows. I write documentation most of the day(working hours) and haven't really had any problems on different formats. It's all about well designed templates.
Article is suggesting that the documentation should be availeble in ODF for the public. And that the new created documents should be in ODF. It has nothing to do with open source software. Just the format that should be used. Goverment can use whatever piece of software they want, but they have to distribute public documents in such format, that I can read them without buying a new version of certain software that will only work on half of my home machines.
I have all rights to have access to goverments public information. If they require me to upgrade my soon illegal sutdent version of MS Office to have access to their information, they should pay for it. Or they can just publish it in such format, that I can read it without paying to third party.
I just don't understand why the Europeans don't develop a BETTER OS
I think one of the Northern Europeans did something like this, but it didn't get that popular. I think it was called Linux or something. Sorry, no links, it doesn't seem to exist in any servers in internet.
So if cocaine was legal in the UK and they sold it to people in the US then the feds shouldn't go after them? (Replace cocaine with any product or service that fits) Just because something is legal in one country doesn't mean one can't face prosecution in another country where it's illegal if that product/service is offered in the other country.
If all transactions have been done in region where it is legal, there should be no prosecution. It is legal for me in my country, like in most others, to talk about democary and free speech, but should I be arrested when traveling to China.
It's his own fault for violating US laws (that happen to be well known in the gambling community) and thinking that he could travel here without getting arrested.
So, everyone should expect to be arrested while traveling to any country, where they have possibly violated some local law in any other place that it has been legal. Smoking hash is illegal in US, like in my country, but should I be arrested just because I have passed a joint in a coffeeshop in Amsterdam. If I would do it here at home, I would know that I break several laws and would get arrested. But it is up to me to know what is legal to do in the country that I'm located.
It would be illegal for a coffeeshop to expand to here, but there is should be no law to them market their services in their country, even if I have access to it. It i for my country to prevent access to such illegal site if they choose so, like China has chosen to require search engines to block most of sites that are illegal in there.
I worked briefly for a company that ran a gambling website in the UK
I have no interest to check all possible laws at the moment, but working for gambling industry would propably be illegal in most states. I would suggest that you stay at home and wait for feds to come up to arrest you for your illegal activities. Like you said, you should expect to be arrested in US, if you have done something wrong in any other country.
I don't think someone has a right to criticize the military
You should ba allowed to criticize every govermental instance. At least in democacy.
Military is a intance that should be controlled by the people, not the one controlling the people.
unless they've been a part of it, even for a little bit.
You shouldn't be criticizing soldiers, unless you know what you are talking about.
and if our military personell are indeed purchasing large quantities of bootleg content from locals, what kind of message does it send
Capitalism and free market rocks? I mean, if there is no copyright or any other IP laws, locals are supplying goods that are required by their customers. Isn't this parts of the 'free-world' thinking that the troops should be exporting to there?
niether was forward deployed as the troops in Iran are.
I tought that the war on Iran wasn't scheduled to be started until late 2007.
No, it just means that you are using a parking spot for more than its original intended time period
This wasn't the case you were trying to prove on the original parent post. Not using something like it is supposed to be used isn't lazynes, it's using the shown oppurtunities to suit your needs.
If I work downtown, I can either 1) pay $20 to park in a garage, or 2) tap a button on my phone every couple of hours to pay for parking. #2 even done 8 times a day is $2.40 in 'convenience' fees plus say $0.25 per hour.
On my area normal fees for garage are 15-25 for a 8 hour, but not quite sure about your math in following #2 option. You gotta be kidding for price of $0.25, try more like 3 for hour. With those prices few extra cents for redial is nothing.
So yes, if I plan to stay more than few hours in downtown, garage is the best option; cheaper, guarded and out of rain. For 1-3 hours, I rather be lazy.
more people too lazy to walk down the street and burn off that big mac to put more change in the meter.
Most of the downtown parking spaces in my city are for 1 hour meter only. I go to meetings in there, usually lasting more than the max hour I'm allowed. Does it make me, and most of the people I know lazy. Mayby I'm too lazy to interrupt a meeting to go put a change on meter when I can just open my phone and press 'continue parking'.
The price should be the same, this will allow the city to cut labor costs involved in collection of change from meters.
But it's not the city collecting your money from the meters, it's the company providing the service. They pay to the city for time that you have parked. It's still citys duties to collect money from the meters from those who use cash. And give you ticket if you have overstayd.
City is propably charging less from the company than from you, but thats just business.
8. Check out ATM and find your account empty. Oops, that wasn't official card reader...
I'll be carefull any time I enter ATM to check out there is no external readers attached to it. And I use only ones that are mounted on bankwalls.
With these credit card enabled parking meters, how are you going to know that this would be legal version.
Oh come on, you know full well half if not more of software value is created by support and updates and upgrades and other services that extend over time.
Key thing in here is the over time. We are not talking about MS getting wiped out of Europe over-night, but slowly by each govermental project not accepting any illegal bids, like anything including MS. These bids going to Linux, Apple, Sun, IBM, or any other non-MS-system would increase the need for support on that field. It's demand for MS-jobs that have created base of MS-embloyees. I moved from AS/400 and AIX to Windows just because of the demanpd for support people. If there would be increase on sales for these systems, I'd be back on that area as son as possible.
Killing MS would hurt a lot
For MS mayby, not for that many others. Trick is knowing on what end of gun you stand.
Besides, I don't want some government regulating my usage of software
But they are regulating your usage of software. This meaning you have leagally purchased your version software that is allowed to be sold in your country.
There's only one thing worse then a monopolistic business and that's a state-regulated business.
I'd say worse would be business regulated states, but hey, thats just me and my dislike for monopolies and their power.
If they would just hire people to actually write the documentation extensively and properly and make sure they conform to it, there would be no issue.
This is API-documentation that EU is wanting. Any decent software house should have these for any software that is on beta testing level. And we are now talking about is releasing API-documantation for production releases. There are no excuses for not having them.
When writing software for bigger companies, you are bound to have external partners on projects, like hardware manufacturers. For these you have own set of documentation, for strict internal use there is another set with greater details.