FTA: "Satnav’s only the tip of the iceberg. Connect your phone to access your music collection, read your Twitter feed, check the latest headlines or perform any other function on your dashboard"
As a motorcyclist I really hope I'm not anywhere near a car driver reading their Twitter feed or the latest headlines on their dashboard! It's bad enough when they're sending SMS or changing the song! Yes I know they probably mean that you should do this when stationary but to be honest for most of the drivers I see this means "while at the lights or in traffic". The last thing they need is more distraction.
I think the issue is that by seeking, reading and bringing to the jury room information on Rape Trauma Syndrome she was promoting the idea of the "alleged victim" as simply "victim". The jury were there to decide whether the accused committed the rape, it could be argued that the forewoman's actions prejudiced the jury in that decision. If she had read it before that's fine because she didn't know what case she was going to be on.
You're correct I did write that with some irony but the philanthropists were not the subject here. And let's not forget that many a philanthropic gesture coincides with a tax rebate claim.
Perhaps not unexpectedly TFA doesn't mention licencing of the software but there are several free software stop motion applications available. I've not tried them all but I've posted that link here if people are interested.
A recent Microsoft video on OpenOffice is naively seen by some as validating the open source tool. As InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues shows, the video is really a hatchet job on OpenOffice.
and from TFA:
But considering the 90 percent-plus share Microsoft Office has in the office productivity market, why would Microsoft validate OpenOffice.org?
I think both have missed the point. Those claiming that MS has validated OOo as a viable alternative are not suggesting that this was the intention. It would be virtually impossible for anyone to see that video and presume MS were somehow endorsing OOo. By attacking it they are MS not also implying it is a threat to MS Office. They are saying it a competing product which potential customers might choose or existing customers migrate to. If MS weren't worried by OOo they wouldn't have produced this marketing video decrying it: they would have ignored it.
Whatever your opinion of the suitability of OOo, this video suggests that MS think it's worth making to prevent people going over to OpenOffice.org.
> But we do have teenage gangs, teenage pregnancies and teenagers walking around with knives on the street - bad education, crap parents, whatever the reason, they need to stop, take a deep breath and think about the consequences of what they're thinking of doing.
You did a nice job of pre-empting most of the traditional comebacks that a post like yours will get but you missed one. It's not just teenagers. We also have adult gangs, pregnancies* and adults walking around with knives on the street. They also need to "stop, take a deep breath and think about the consequences of what they're thinking of doing". They should also know better.
*that have similar consequences to the teenage ones you are referring to.
It's also the routing. I once had a case where two adjacent sockets (on different lines) got entirely different speeds. Turned out one went direct across the road to the exchange and the other took a left out the building, went round the block for about 4 miles and came back to the Exchange across the road.
The fact that there is no way to say "grant this permission but not that one" is a shortcoming which needs to be fixed. There should probably be an "Advanced..." dialog for that, and some system that catches runtime violations and asks if you want to change your settings to allow them or not.
Couldn't agree more. There should also be some way to find out _why_ this app needs access to those services and whether they can be disabled within the app. For example a game that says it needs access to the Internet might only "need" it if you use the high scores submissions part, but would otherwise be safe to use if you disable that bit.
You're not old fashioned. It's always been fashionable to dismiss the generation that comes after you. When the young people of today get to your age they'll do the same.
[Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.." Aristotle
Just imagine what happens when the printer gets an e-mail which has a standard "Think of the planet before printing this e-mail" footer attached. Oh the irony.
Not to mention the static widths used. Here I am running a monitor at 1680 pixels wide and this thing restricts the whole page to 800! I just get half a screen of red. By all means cater for those who have smaller viewports but use *relative* widths not absolute ones.
There [we|a]re other ways to prove your age and ID though: drivers licence for one. True not everybody has a need for one of those though.
The ID card itself was never the issue as far as (and most of the people I know) were concerned. We've had ID cards here before: during and after the second world war for example and carrying some form of ID is common place for many. The main issue was the national registration database behind the cards (which is also about to be scrapped).
Odd I don't recall seeing it when I read TFS the first few times. Anyway, point taken about the date. I think there is some "'evidence' of anything about the USA" given that memorial day is a holiday in that country only (as far as I know) and thus putting such a comment into the summary will really only immediately mean something to readers from the USA. As someone else said the rest of us need to look it up.
Okay I have learned to live with things like putting "Portugal, Europe" instead of just Portugal but was there a reason that "Memorial Day weekend" seemed more appropriate than an actual date? This kind of thing does nothing to dispel the rumours that the USA doesn't recognise places outside of its borders you know.
If you'd like a good summary of what kind of "newspaper" The Daily Mail is (and the other three come to that) have a look at the Daily Mail song here (flash required)
This is not the horror story which the headline and TFS seem to imply. The key points are:
* The software company (Red Sky) sold the software without letting the customer (Kingsway) try it or read any operating documents * Kingsway thus bought it based *solely* on the sales advice of Red Sky * When the software failed to live up Red Sky's promise, Kingsway tried to get their money back * Red Sky tried to rely on a clause in its standard T&C which said that the only remedy available to customers was to make use of its maintenance and support functions. Thus it said that Kingsway could not sue it for a refund * The High Court disagreed and said that Red Sky's clause was unfair under the Unfair Contract Terms Act. It said that this Act applied and protected Kingsway because negotiations between the companies had been one-sided on the issue of liability
From TFA:
"Red Sky's' standard terms were predicated on the fact that a prospective customer would investigate Entirety [the software] and make up its own mind whether or not to purchase based on demonstrations and the Operating Documents which Red Sky had previously supplied," said the ruling. "It did not apply to circumstances in which the customer relied on Red Sky's' advice in deciding to purchase Entirety"
In brief: If you are going to make promises about your unseen and untested product, you cannot prohibit the customer from getting a refund if it turns out you misled/misinformed them.
Seems fair to me and it has no real issues for software vendors or OSS people unless they also allow their sales people to make promises that the development team cannot support
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FTA: "Satnav’s only the tip of the iceberg. Connect your phone to access your music collection, read your Twitter feed, check the latest headlines or perform any other function on your dashboard"
As a motorcyclist I really hope I'm not anywhere near a car driver reading their Twitter feed or the latest headlines on their dashboard! It's bad enough when they're sending SMS or changing the song! Yes I know they probably mean that you should do this when stationary but to be honest for most of the drivers I see this means "while at the lights or in traffic". The last thing they need is more distraction.
I think the issue is that by seeking, reading and bringing to the jury room information on Rape Trauma Syndrome she was promoting the idea of the "alleged victim" as simply "victim". The jury were there to decide whether the accused committed the rape, it could be argued that the forewoman's actions prejudiced the jury in that decision. If she had read it before that's fine because she didn't know what case she was going to be on.
You're correct I did write that with some irony but the philanthropists were not the subject here. And let's not forget that many a philanthropic gesture coincides with a tax rebate claim.
Yes because there is a history of those with a lot of money being prepared to give any of it away
Perhaps not unexpectedly TFA doesn't mention licencing of the software but there are several free software stop motion applications available. I've not tried them all but I've posted that link here if people are interested.
TFS says
A recent Microsoft video on OpenOffice is naively seen by some as validating the open source tool. As InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues shows, the video is really a hatchet job on OpenOffice.
and from TFA:
But considering the 90 percent-plus share Microsoft Office has in the office productivity market, why would Microsoft validate OpenOffice.org?
I think both have missed the point. Those claiming that MS has validated OOo as a viable alternative are not suggesting that this was the intention. It would be virtually impossible for anyone to see that video and presume MS were somehow endorsing OOo. By attacking it they are MS not also implying it is a threat to MS Office. They are saying it a competing product which potential customers might choose or existing customers migrate to. If MS weren't worried by OOo they wouldn't have produced this marketing video decrying it: they would have ignored it.
Whatever your opinion of the suitability of OOo, this video suggests that MS think it's worth making to prevent people going over to OpenOffice.org.
I presumed the reason was that Libre (freedom) is distinct from Gratis (zero cost), both of which can be written as Free in English.
> But we do have teenage gangs, teenage pregnancies and teenagers walking around with knives on the street - bad education, crap parents, whatever the reason, they need to stop, take a deep breath and think about the consequences of what they're thinking of doing.
You did a nice job of pre-empting most of the traditional comebacks that a post like yours will get but you missed one. It's not just teenagers. We also have adult gangs, pregnancies* and adults walking around with knives on the street. They also need to "stop, take a deep breath and think about the consequences of what they're thinking of doing". They should also know better.
*that have similar consequences to the teenage ones you are referring to.
Brilliant! That has a real touch of Adams about it.
From the screenshots it looks like this theme infringes on some MS trademarks - wallpaper, start button etc. Is this wise?
It's also the routing. I once had a case where two adjacent sockets (on different lines) got entirely different speeds. Turned out one went direct across the road to the exchange and the other took a left out the building, went round the block for about 4 miles and came back to the Exchange across the road.
Couldn't agree more. There should also be some way to find out _why_ this app needs access to those services and whether they can be disabled within the app. For example a game that says it needs access to the Internet might only "need" it if you use the high scores submissions part, but would otherwise be safe to use if you disable that bit.
So ably demonstrated by your extensive use of the shift key.
You're not old fashioned. It's always been fashionable to dismiss the generation that comes after you. When the young people of today get to your age they'll do the same.
Just imagine what happens when the printer gets an e-mail which has a standard "Think of the planet before printing this e-mail" footer attached. Oh the irony.
Not to mention the static widths used. Here I am running a monitor at 1680 pixels wide and this thing restricts the whole page to 800! I just get half a screen of red. By all means cater for those who have smaller viewports but use *relative* widths not absolute ones.
There [we|a]re other ways to prove your age and ID though: drivers licence for one. True not everybody has a need for one of those though.
The ID card itself was never the issue as far as (and most of the people I know) were concerned. We've had ID cards here before: during and after the second world war for example and carrying some form of ID is common place for many. The main issue was the national registration database behind the cards (which is also about to be scrapped).
Odd I don't recall seeing it when I read TFS the first few times. Anyway, point taken about the date. I think there is some "'evidence' of anything about the USA" given that memorial day is a holiday in that country only (as far as I know) and thus putting such a comment into the summary will really only immediately mean something to readers from the USA. As someone else said the rest of us need to look it up.
Okay I have learned to live with things like putting "Portugal, Europe" instead of just Portugal but was there a reason that "Memorial Day weekend" seemed more appropriate than an actual date? This kind of thing does nothing to dispel the rumours that the USA doesn't recognise places outside of its borders you know.
If you'd like a good summary of what kind of "newspaper" The Daily Mail is (and the other three come to that) have a look at the Daily Mail song here (flash required)
It's not that tricky if you put it back into the context of Jesus then paying tax to Caesar after saying it.
unbiased opinion is an oxymoron. All opinion is biased. That's why it's called opinion.
This is not the horror story which the headline and TFS seem to imply. The key points are:
* The software company (Red Sky) sold the software without letting the customer (Kingsway) try it or read any operating documents
* Kingsway thus bought it based *solely* on the sales advice of Red Sky
* When the software failed to live up Red Sky's promise, Kingsway tried to get their money back
* Red Sky tried to rely on a clause in its standard T&C which said that the only remedy available to customers was to make use of its maintenance and support functions. Thus it said that Kingsway could not sue it for a refund
* The High Court disagreed and said that Red Sky's clause was unfair under the Unfair Contract Terms Act. It said that this Act applied and protected Kingsway because negotiations between the companies had been one-sided on the issue of liability
From TFA:
"Red Sky's' standard terms were predicated on the fact that a prospective customer would investigate Entirety [the software] and make up its own mind whether or not to purchase based on demonstrations and the Operating Documents which Red Sky had previously supplied," said the ruling. "It did not apply to circumstances in which the customer relied on Red Sky's' advice in deciding to purchase Entirety"
In brief: If you are going to make promises about your unseen and untested product, you cannot prohibit the customer from getting a refund if it turns out you misled/misinformed them.
Seems fair to me and it has no real issues for software vendors or OSS people unless they also allow their sales people to make promises that the development team cannot support
whoosh!
Why not ban HTML in e-mails, then all URLs shown won't be masked.