Learning from mistakes is sometimes a bad thing. The perfect example is people who sell their investments every time they drop in price.
Doesn't that imply there is only one lesson to learn? To take your example it would imply that somebody loses out by selling too late so they sell too early the next time. There ae two mistakes there and you can learn from both. The example you give is of someone learning from the first mistake and then refusing to learn from the second, third, fourth etc. .
Don't forget that learning is a dynamic process not a static one time event.
Much as I would love to see public bodies using Open Source software it's not strictly necessary for the purposes of storage longevity. You are mixing up Open Source and Open Standards. Open Standard formats are what is needed for storage of documents within public bodies. The licence under which they get the software to read such documents matters little within this argument.
Whilst I agree it's not news, TFS does say they pulled it from the unmetered download area. On that basis I would imagine the complaint would be that they have removed the ability for their punters to download it without using any of their bandwidth allocation.
On that basis OO.org or a mirror becomes irrelevant to the argument.
Even Microsoft tells you that they're collecting data, and lets you opt out.
Well they do now. Mostly because they or others have been caught before. Also you usually find opting out has some other penalties associated with it. Genuine [dis]Advantage anyone?
It's not really a huge gamble that the first result will be relevant.
With most of the searches I do these days I find three of the first five results are links to another search engine. So there's a pretty good chance the first result *won't* be relevant.
Nah they'd [let|make] the OEMs install time-limited versions[1]. So you get IE for 60 days and then start paying once you're "hooked" and if you've forgotten to download Firefox before the 60 days are up...?
[1] You know, kinda like they do for Office 2007 now.
according the TFS Ballmer said companies that were built around Open Source, not Open Source projects. This - to me - speaks more of people like Linksys, some of the CRMs (as suggested) or perhaps even TiVO . That is companies that use Open Source software in their products rather than those that specifically and only produce Open Source software.
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Truth is that there are probably hundreds of "days" designated for each calendar day each year. What normally happens of course is that the ones which can attract enough publicity get recognised - hence I suppose this - quite frankly - non news item being posted on/.:o)
[1] Site was responding slowly when I checked just now. Surely it hasn't been slashdotted?
There are lots of people in EU using linux distributions without any legal concerns that would be very damaged the very day that EU suddenly recognizes this troll patent.
I've seen this mentioned a few times before. Is there any evidence to suggest that the EU would - if they ever accepted software patents - wholesale recognise patents filed with the US patent office. If not and they do change the law then I predict an application rush as MS and hoardes of others file EU patents for things that they do not hold US patents for. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if MS had a stack of patent applications just waiting for the green light.
Thus the administrative workload alone would therefore hopefully make accepting software patents in the EU a bad idea.
You mean like discovering that hamsters recover from jetlag more quickly when given Viagra or that rats can't tell the difference between russion spoken backwards and Japanese spoken backwards. As long as there are scientists (and fools to cough up the grants) there will be research that makes the rest of us react as you have.
There are reasons that FOSS mail projects traditionally don't natively support MS Exchange. They are called Microsoft lawyers. The other reason is that Exchange uses closed proprietary formats (understandably) and that probably goes against the grain for most of the developers of apps like Thunderbird. If you mean that Thunderbird should have collaboration tools then I would say that would definitely make it more marketable to the business community. Not sure that is such a good thing though.
StarOffice had a PIM before Sun bought it, it wasn't that good though and I think the developers realised that a PIM integrated into an office suite would require collaboration tools as standard.
I said more-or-less because there are still major email programs that don't support it - like Outlook.
The fact that some applications do not support a format does not make it proprietary - not even more-or-less.
The mbox format is probably the best format out there right now, but if 90% of people can't use it then it doesn't do a whole lot of good.
Personally I prefer Maildir (which is what a number of IMAP servers use BTW) but that's me. Also I can't see what difference my choice of mail storage format would make to "90% of the people". Why is compatibility with another person's computer an issue? It's not like you are going to share the actual files and if you do then it's likely to be as e-mail messages than sharing the resource on the filesystem.
If you didn't know and you live in the UK (or an ex-pat) then you can petition Gordon brown at the Number 10 website on this matter. There are a number of petitions relating to Burma, including this one which asks him to "actually DO something instead of just threatening sanctions".
And if you do select to check it against Google you get a very clear warning in the form of Phishing Protection terms of service (shown below). You must indicate your acceptance of that before you can enable the feature.
"If you choose to check with Google about each site you visit, Google will receive the URLs of pages you visit for evaluation. When you click to accept, reject, or close the warning message that Phishing Protection gives you about a suspicious page, Google will log your action and the URL of the page. Google will receive standard log information, including a cookie, as part of this process. Google will not associate the information that Phishing Protection logs with other personal information about you. However, it is possible that a URL sent to Google may itself contain personal information. Please see the Google Privacy Policy for more information."
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Doesn't that imply there is only one lesson to learn?
To take your example it would imply that somebody loses out by selling too late so they sell too early the next time. There ae two mistakes there and you can learn from both.
The example you give is of someone learning from the first mistake and then refusing to learn from the second, third, fourth etc. .
Don't forget that learning is a dynamic process not a static one time event.
Much as I would love to see public bodies using Open Source software it's not strictly necessary for the purposes of storage longevity.
You are mixing up Open Source and Open Standards. Open Standard formats are what is needed for storage of documents within public bodies. The licence under which they get the software to read such documents matters little within this argument.
Whilst I agree it's not news, TFS does say they pulled it from the unmetered download area. On that basis I would imagine the complaint would be that they have removed the ability for their punters to download it without using any of their bandwidth allocation.
On that basis OO.org or a mirror becomes irrelevant to the argument.
Well they do now. Mostly because they or others have been caught before. Also you usually find opting out has some other penalties associated with it. Genuine [dis]Advantage anyone?
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were you being ironic or do you mean just the acronyms you haven't come across?
and then deal with the copyright lawyers from CBS.
With most of the searches I do these days I find three of the first five results are links to another search engine. So there's a pretty good chance the first result *won't* be relevant.
What does the London Underground have to do with this?
If you think they won't trust you just post the preview TinyURL as well.
These both link to this story..
http://tinyurl.com/yokfer
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yokfer
The latter will give them the chance to see the tinyurl does link to the same place.
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You forgot mice.
And we already know the dolphins are just grateful for the fish.
Nah they'd [let|make] the OEMs install time-limited versions[1]. So you get IE for 60 days and then start paying once you're "hooked" and if you've forgotten to download Firefox before the 60 days are up...?
[1] You know, kinda like they do for Office 2007 now.
Sorry, did you say "New"?
according the TFS Ballmer said companies that were built around Open Source, not Open Source projects.
This - to me - speaks more of people like Linksys, some of the CRMs (as suggested) or perhaps even TiVO . That is companies that use Open Source software in their products rather than those that specifically and only produce Open Source software.
It seems they can be. At least according to The White House (White Cane Safety day) and The Suzy Lamplugh trust[1] (National Personal Safety day - UK). Plus we're in National Bandana week in New Zealand and National School Lunch week in the USA.
Truth is that there are probably hundreds of "days" designated for each calendar day each year. What normally happens of course is that the ones which can attract enough publicity get recognised - hence I suppose this - quite frankly - non news item being posted on
[1] Site was responding slowly when I checked just now. Surely it hasn't been slashdotted?
Not all of them. Some of them you can't lick at all.
I've seen this mentioned a few times before. Is there any evidence to suggest that the EU would - if they ever accepted software patents - wholesale recognise patents filed with the US patent office.
If not and they do change the law then I predict an application rush as MS and hoardes of others file EU patents for things that they do not hold US patents for. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if MS had a stack of patent applications just waiting for the green light.
Thus the administrative workload alone would therefore hopefully make accepting software patents in the EU a bad idea.
Well we can hope can't we.
no, I found the phrase I'm looking for. It was "yawn!"
You could even say they have licence to print[1] money.
[1] yes I know they only mint coins but the phrase didn't right without "print"
You mean like discovering that hamsters recover from jetlag more quickly when given Viagra or that rats can't tell the difference between russion spoken backwards and Japanese spoken backwards.
As long as there are scientists (and fools to cough up the grants) there will be research that makes the rest of us react as you have.
There are reasons that FOSS mail projects traditionally don't natively support MS Exchange. They are called Microsoft lawyers.
The other reason is that Exchange uses closed proprietary formats (understandably) and that probably goes against the grain for most of the developers of apps like Thunderbird. If you mean that Thunderbird should have collaboration tools then I would say that would definitely make it more marketable to the business community.
Not sure that is such a good thing though.
StarOffice had a PIM before Sun bought it, it wasn't that good though and I think the developers realised that a PIM integrated into an office suite would require collaboration tools as standard.
The fact that some applications do not support a format does not make it proprietary - not even more-or-less.
Personally I prefer Maildir (which is what a number of IMAP servers use BTW) but that's me. Also I can't see what difference my choice of mail storage format would make to "90% of the people". Why is compatibility with another person's computer an issue? It's not like you are going to share the actual files and if you do then it's likely to be as e-mail messages than sharing the resource on the filesystem.
If you didn't know and you live in the UK (or an ex-pat) then you can petition Gordon brown at the Number 10 website on this matter. There are a number of petitions relating to Burma, including this one which asks him to "actually DO something instead of just threatening sanctions".
Why would we expect Firefox3 to be any different?
Move along.
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