I don't know. I do know that governments have, in the past, only accepted MS formats, and that even MS doesn't have perfect compatibility, which means that if you don't want to deal with the complications of compatibility, you are forced to have at least one machine in the office with MS Office.
If that's really the concern here, should China be conducting a probe against itself, not Microsoft?
If the government using MSOffice and you have to send and receive documents from the government, the government effectively forces you to use proprietary software.
Does the Chinese government force people to send documents in a proprietary format for which is there is no free software that can create that format?
No government should be forcing its citizens into proprietary software which writes its data in proprietary ways without good, permanent ways to retrieve that data in the far future. Formats like OpenDoc are fully documented and open to public scrutiny. Not to mention the costs and risks of dealing with licensing; working with software that has no source code available.
If China wasn't conducting this probe, how would China be 'forcing' its citizens to use proprietary software? How is this probe removing the forcing of the use of proprietary software?
I'm suspecting the zeal MS is showing in challenging the US gov't has more to do with laying the groundword of "nation-states" being neutered. This is about power in the future. If they win against the US gov't this is just one more nail in the coffin of the battle to make governments useless. This goes hand in hand with the Trans Pacific and other trade agreements. These things are designed to strip power from government.
This is just one more step in the march of capitalism that will likely destroy civilization in the long run.
you will need a manual break to stop the car that just may be aimlessly costing.
Yeah, aimlessly costing is pretty bad. The car gets pretty expensive in only a few minutes. One time my grandparents cars computer completely died on them when they were on the interstate. They ended up coasting to the onramp, turning off the car and restarted it.
Do not assume that source of wireless coordination is always 100% trusty.
I don't think that the cars going 50 mph+ in the opposite direction of me, about two feet to the left are 100% trusty either. But they stay in their lanes such a high percentage of time, I'm still willing to go out on the road.
If a passenger in a diverless car needs to get the car to do some non-programmed maneuvers, they should hit a button, and let the a trained driver back at HQ take control of the car and do the maneuvers.
Please, please, teach them something besides how to code in Java. A little theory would be nice. Some basic understanding of what a computer actually does with that code they type in. Some idea of how algorithms are turned into programs. Please?
I think the reason why the students are being taught Java is so that the Professors can focus on those other things. For lots of students the gotcha's of native code get in the way of learning the theories, algorithm tuning, and data structures. So by using a managed language in the classes, the classes can spend more time focusing on something else besides language implementation details.
Java seems to be in the middle ground where it's more cumbersome than the "scripting" options, yet slower than the "native" options. Leaving not much of a reason to choose it in the vast majority of cases.
Compile time type checking is a major reason to pick Java over a scripted language. It's not like performance requirements are binary either. There's a lot of distance between optimized assembly and runtime type checking scripts.
Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of your speech, sweet cheeks.
Actually, isn't that what it's supposed to be. I'm sure pre-America British citizens were free to say whatever they wanted, they just had to deal with the consequences of their speech (imprisonment, torture, being blockaded from opportunity, etc). So the founding fathers of the US, put forth laws to prevent certain "consequences" from happening when people decided to speak their mind.
-Microsoft develops product in U.S, generating tax credit for R&D.
And paying salaries to U.S. employees who pay income tax on it and spend their money in the US, thereby also paying US sales taxes.
That is so incredibly irrelevant. We're talking about the taxing of one legal entity, don't try and push the conversation to knock on affects to other legal entities.
Oh, what the heck, let's talk about those other legal entities. If Microsoft paid all of the taxes from revenue generated in the US, those employees would have a lower tax bill, and could have better lives. As a matter of fact, perhaps all citizens of the US would have a lower tax burden. That might really help those who are just trying to find a way to eat every night.
But locked-down CORPORATE-user friendly? HELL YEAH.
Your IT department sets-up a computer with just 5 big bright icons on the desktop. These are the only applications you use for your job. You can't do anything else but launch these applications. It just keeps working like that 99.999% of the time. When something doesn't work, you call IT about it, move yourself to another computer and resume your work there. There is no way for any computer to possibly be more user-friendly than that.
Linux does it, Windows doesn't.
Are you saying that Windows can't be locked down with a white list of only authorized programs?
Why not have the auto-reply end at the end of your normal business hours the previous work day? typically no one is expecting you to work then anyway and then on Monday morning before 9am they aren't still getting the auto-replies.
You can. Nothing is preventing you from doing that.
So people who go on vacation aren't allowed to catch up when they get back? How about this; if you really want people to not check emails while away, disable their remote access. Turn off ActiveSync for that user, and don't allow them to VPN in.
I ask this as someone who hasn't touched it in many years: does it support adblock, noscript, ghostery, and httpseverywhere?
That depends upon how much you're worried about the functionality than the brand name. IE's plug-in model is different than Firefox and Chromes (which are, or at least started out, identical). So if you look up adblock's FAQ on IE, the author pretty much says he could write adblock for IE, but doesn't feel like it. So there are other ad blocking plugins for IE. I don't know about the others, but I'm sure the story is similar. But IE does have a feature called TrackingProtection which allows you to block anything you want that's coming from a third party website. Also, plugin's can be loaded on a whitelist per website basis. So you can accomplish all of the same functionality that those brand names give you, but by other means.
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Putin can and will rattle his Nuclear saber but he won't use it until the utmost end of need so at the moment those are empty threats.
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I don't know. I do know that governments have, in the past, only accepted MS formats, and that even MS doesn't have perfect compatibility, which means that if you don't want to deal with the complications of compatibility, you are forced to have at least one machine in the office with MS Office.
If that's really the concern here, should China be conducting a probe against itself, not Microsoft?
If the government using MSOffice and you have to send and receive documents from the government, the government effectively forces you to use proprietary software.
Does the Chinese government force people to send documents in a proprietary format for which is there is no free software that can create that format?
So which laws are being violated? Did China give Microsoft a specific list of complaints, and if so what are those complaints?
No government should be forcing its citizens into proprietary software which writes its data in proprietary ways without good, permanent ways to retrieve that data in the far future. Formats like OpenDoc are fully documented and open to public scrutiny. Not to mention the costs and risks of dealing with licensing; working with software that has no source code available.
If China wasn't conducting this probe, how would China be 'forcing' its citizens to use proprietary software? How is this probe removing the forcing of the use of proprietary software?
I'm suspecting the zeal MS is showing in challenging the US gov't has more to do with laying the groundword of "nation-states" being neutered. This is about power in the future. If they win against the US gov't this is just one more nail in the coffin of the battle to make governments useless. This goes hand in hand with the Trans Pacific and other trade agreements. These things are designed to strip power from government.
This is just one more step in the march of capitalism that will likely destroy civilization in the long run.
Do you think it'll happen by 2077?
you will need a manual break to stop the car that just may be aimlessly costing.
Yeah, aimlessly costing is pretty bad. The car gets pretty expensive in only a few minutes. One time my grandparents cars computer completely died on them when they were on the interstate. They ended up coasting to the onramp, turning off the car and restarted it.
Do not assume that source of wireless coordination is always 100% trusty.
I don't think that the cars going 50 mph+ in the opposite direction of me, about two feet to the left are 100% trusty either. But they stay in their lanes such a high percentage of time, I'm still willing to go out on the road.
If there's one lesson I learned from Star Trek it's that you always, ALWAYS, include a manual override.
You're making Gene Roddenberry cry. There are so many other good lessons in Star Trek.
If a driverless car has no manual means of steering, and if it broke down and you had to push it, how could you control it?
Hit the OnStar button (or whatever the equivalence is) and work with the drained driver on the other end.
You are giving up yet another freedom if you believe this is a good idea.
So every passenger in a car has given up freedoms?
If a passenger in a diverless car needs to get the car to do some non-programmed maneuvers, they should hit a button, and let the a trained driver back at HQ take control of the car and do the maneuvers.
Please, please, teach them something besides how to code in Java. A little theory would be nice. Some basic understanding of what a computer actually does with that code they type in. Some idea of how algorithms are turned into programs. Please?
I think the reason why the students are being taught Java is so that the Professors can focus on those other things. For lots of students the gotcha's of native code get in the way of learning the theories, algorithm tuning, and data structures. So by using a managed language in the classes, the classes can spend more time focusing on something else besides language implementation details.
Java seems to be in the middle ground where it's more cumbersome than the "scripting" options, yet slower than the "native" options. Leaving not much of a reason to choose it in the vast majority of cases.
Compile time type checking is a major reason to pick Java over a scripted language. It's not like performance requirements are binary either. There's a lot of distance between optimized assembly and runtime type checking scripts.
Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of your speech, sweet cheeks.
Actually, isn't that what it's supposed to be. I'm sure pre-America British citizens were free to say whatever they wanted, they just had to deal with the consequences of their speech (imprisonment, torture, being blockaded from opportunity, etc). So the founding fathers of the US, put forth laws to prevent certain "consequences" from happening when people decided to speak their mind.
-Microsoft develops product in U.S, generating tax credit for R&D.
And paying salaries to U.S. employees who pay income tax on it and spend their money in the US, thereby also paying US sales taxes.
That is so incredibly irrelevant. We're talking about the taxing of one legal entity, don't try and push the conversation to knock on affects to other legal entities.
Oh, what the heck, let's talk about those other legal entities. If Microsoft paid all of the taxes from revenue generated in the US, those employees would have a lower tax bill, and could have better lives. As a matter of fact, perhaps all citizens of the US would have a lower tax burden. That might really help those who are just trying to find a way to eat every night.
AFAIK it's the only mobile OS doing so.
Windows RT allows for multiple accounts.
But locked-down CORPORATE-user friendly? HELL YEAH. Your IT department sets-up a computer with just 5 big bright icons on the desktop. These are the only applications you use for your job. You can't do anything else but launch these applications. It just keeps working like that 99.999% of the time. When something doesn't work, you call IT about it, move yourself to another computer and resume your work there. There is no way for any computer to possibly be more user-friendly than that. Linux does it, Windows doesn't.
Are you saying that Windows can't be locked down with a white list of only authorized programs?
These Germans. Cant follow through on anything. Fascism, Nazism, linux ..... No wonder they got their asses whooped by Americans. USA ... USA ... USA ...
Because American's are following through on Linux?
Why not have the auto-reply end at the end of your normal business hours the previous work day? typically no one is expecting you to work then anyway and then on Monday morning before 9am they aren't still getting the auto-replies.
You can. Nothing is preventing you from doing that.
So people who go on vacation aren't allowed to catch up when they get back? How about this; if you really want people to not check emails while away, disable their remote access. Turn off ActiveSync for that user, and don't allow them to VPN in.
I ask this as someone who hasn't touched it in many years: does it support adblock, noscript, ghostery, and httpseverywhere?
That depends upon how much you're worried about the functionality than the brand name. IE's plug-in model is different than Firefox and Chromes (which are, or at least started out, identical). So if you look up adblock's FAQ on IE, the author pretty much says he could write adblock for IE, but doesn't feel like it. So there are other ad blocking plugins for IE. I don't know about the others, but I'm sure the story is similar. But IE does have a feature called TrackingProtection which allows you to block anything you want that's coming from a third party website. Also, plugin's can be loaded on a whitelist per website basis. So you can accomplish all of the same functionality that those brand names give you, but by other means.
Privacy will be a thing of the past in no time. The only matter is when do we reach the point of no return.
Start living honest lives...
This isn't an ipad? Crap this sucks.
That would most likely be due to the fact that they can actually learn on them instead of just goofing off.
There's a difference between software engineering and CS. Dealing with freeing memory pointers is SE, not CS.