I can't believe this remark gets +5 Informative! Everyone is responsible for their own security! If I get a lock installed on the door of my new house, with a key that is the same as the key on 140000 other doors, guess what I am going to do next, install a new lock or wait until someone empties my house and blame the company that installed the lock.
BTW I am a customer of the same company since a few months, and Welkom01 is not the default password anymore. It is a random string.
So, let me get this: Data collected by TomTom is used by the government to identify bottlenecks in traffic and do something about them. -> Everybody cheering, cuz that's the government's job and it is great that this satnav stuff can help...
Data collected by TomTom is used by the government to identify spots where people are breaking the law more than elsewhere. -> Everybody tossing their TomTom cuz it's the bloody fscking government that is using this data and they should know better!
Can someone please explain the difference in attitude?
What people tend to forget is that any newsoutlet needs to pay for the content they deliver, either through paying journalists or through paying press agencies. Because newspapers do not get enough money from advertising, they currently need to let journalists go. Press agencies need to lower prices as well, because newspapers expect more for less. The current business model is not maintainable, everyone is losing. Most of all the readers, who are more and more getting the exact same news from any paper, without the indepth research we should be able to expect from journalists. The current business model has to give, and this is a first step.
You may not like paying for your news, in the end someone has to pay for it...
It never ceases to amaze me the lemming mentality of Business when it come to using propriety formats and how they seem to think that it allows for portability and interoperability (Biz talk) when that format is under the control (ie. Intellectual Property) of one company
Well, most companies are not worried about document formats, they just want to be able to communicate with anybody (within the company or outside of it) in a straightforward way. At the moment, using MS Office provides the way to do that 99.xx% of the time. So why care whether MS Office is using a proprietary format?
What is even stranger is that format sometimes cannot even be read properly by the same companies software after a few years.
That's true, but for most of a business's documents (legal documentation are an exception) that's not relevant, because the document will be outdated or superceded by a new version of the content. Apart from that I doubt whether ODF can be made backwards compatible indefinitely, which means you would run into the same problem.
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I can't believe this remark gets +5 Informative! Everyone is responsible for their own security!
If I get a lock installed on the door of my new house, with a key that is the same as the key on 140000 other doors, guess what I am going to do next, install a new lock or wait until someone empties my house and blame the company that installed the lock.
BTW I am a customer of the same company since a few months, and Welkom01 is not the default password anymore. It is a random string.
So, let me get this:
Data collected by TomTom is used by the government to identify bottlenecks in traffic and do something about them.
-> Everybody cheering, cuz that's the government's job and it is great that this satnav stuff can help...
Data collected by TomTom is used by the government to identify spots where people are breaking the law more than elsewhere.
-> Everybody tossing their TomTom cuz it's the bloody fscking government that is using this data and they should know better!
Can someone please explain the difference in attitude?
What we want to know here is: Do they have Net Neutrality!
What people tend to forget is that any newsoutlet needs to pay for the content they deliver, either through paying journalists or through paying press agencies. Because newspapers do not get enough money from advertising, they currently need to let journalists go. Press agencies need to lower prices as well, because newspapers expect more for less. The current business model is not maintainable, everyone is losing. Most of all the readers, who are more and more getting the exact same news from any paper, without the indepth research we should be able to expect from journalists.
The current business model has to give, and this is a first step.
You may not like paying for your news, in the end someone has to pay for it...
So how is photog pronounced?
Ehm, if you fail to cut your 'grass' you get a fine, but you're suspicious when you grow pot plants?
I must say I fail to see the logic.....
Must've been some glitch in the system.
Good news is I saved them for you!
Just post your Email and I will forward them to you.
Well, most companies are not worried about document formats, they just want to be able to communicate with anybody (within the company or outside of it) in a straightforward way. At the moment, using MS Office provides the way to do that 99.xx% of the time. So why care whether MS Office is using a proprietary format?
That's true, but for most of a business's documents (legal documentation are an exception) that's not relevant, because the document will be outdated or superceded by a new version of the content.
Apart from that I doubt whether ODF can be made backwards compatible indefinitely, which means you would run into the same problem.