I don't recall Microsoft ever saying they were "state of the art". Even so, most people always ignore PR spin. Not even Linux is "state of the art", and I've heard nobody say it is.
But it's not at all surprising to see a company promoting it's products, and at the same time criticizing itself internally. In fact, I think looking inward to find where you can improve is a positive thing. Companies which stop doing that, and instead promote an attitude of "Don't criticize or risk being fired" so that everything seems happy and cheerful... until it all fails, are a bad thing.
I have "~/bin" and I put all my 3rd party apps in there.
Ok, so the impact is everything else in ~/bin, as well as anything and everything on the system that your account can write to, including networked drives, etc.
I'm assuming you have data? Maybe your resume? Letters to your mother? Financial data? Nakid pics of your girlfriend?
All gone.
Hey, but don't worry.../usr/bin/games is protected! You can still run xtetris!
I don't think people fully comprehend the damage a virus can do. The concern is not the system. A system can be recovered from CD. It's the data. And you better have good backups.
We already new FF isn't as secure as its supporters claim it is. That's not news, and I hope people who are promoting Firefox are doing so because of features and not a myth of security.
What was interesting, was the existence of the Linux virus. I'm pretty certain these things aren't supposed to be possible, because Linux is uber super secure from design.
Yet another myth bubble burst.
I guess next we'll hear about the big Apple MacOSX virus that also isn't supposed to be possible.
Maybe I'm hard on chairs. But after 8 years of spending $150 every two years buying some crappy chair at Officemax I finally broke down and bought a $500 chair at an office supply store.
It's a Herman Miller Equa-2, highback chair with fixed armrests. I even got to choose the color of fabric. (I actually prefer the Equa to the Aeron)
I've now had that chair for 6 years. It has a 10 year warranty. A year ago the bolts which attach the seating position to the base stripped out. I took it back to that office supply store, and they replaced the seat for free.
I fully suspect that this chair is going to last me another 6-10 years or so.
The thing is... I couldn't possibly afford to buy $50 chairs. Not just from the cost of yearly replacements, but also the back injuries.
All this advanced technology, and even the iPod people haven't figured out that the best volume control is a BIG FRICKING KNOB!
It's amazing. Back in the 1980s the stereo manufacturers tried to introduce the up/down arrows for volume control. And they worked worth shit. Then in the 1990s the car stereo makers made the same mistake.
Now virtually ever stereo receiver has a big fricking knob.
Well, I'm supposedly an MS Shill because I don't believe the usual Linux bullshit, but whatever...
First (but not foremost) in my opinion the sooner "compatibility with Microsoft" is dropped as the IT yardstick (really it is just a canard), the better.
This is correct, in a larger sense. The only way OpenOffice will be successful is if they can drop the "compatibility with Microsoft" claim. That is to say, when your primary measuring stick is comparing your product to the other guys and saying "Hey, we're almost as good." there is an incentive for the customer to just get the other guys product.
You don't see GM saying "Almost as good as Toyota, only available in red!"
The other standards aren't necessarily better (since that's an esoteric discussion unto itself anyway), but I can think of one that in the long run if adopted hints at greater interoperability than seen in a long time.
This is where your point fails. If these other standards(beyond Microsoft) aren't better, then there is no compelling technical reason for consumers to adapt them.
My point is, when you can drop the compatibility claim, then you've got marketshare potential, but that won't happen unless your product is better than the competitors.
How many times have you wasted valuable time at a meeting while attendees share paper copies of the pre-distributed incompatible (with their version of WORD) Word documents?
Not very often. Everyone at my company has Word XP.
The only time I had an issue with this was when I wrote a paper up on Word XP at home, brought it into the office and loaded it with Word 97. Features in XP dealing with stylesheets weren't available in 97.
No, this is a rather lame excuse. It was far more of an issue pre-2000 than it is today.
It's just not OpenOffice's fault anymore, and it's time to start defending it. I know it's a long shot. I know it's a long haul. And I know I'm getting modded troll and flamebait.
I know I'll get modded troll and flamebait for this, but really I think you claimed you were going to get modded as troll and flamebait in an appeal to get your post modded higher.;-)
Seriously, I don't think you understand how the industry works if you think the way to counter technical claims is with spin. That might work for Karl Rove dealing with Bushies approval ratings, but in the tech industry? Not so sure.
Umm. That's probably because Word documents are saved in Unicode... Trying to search for ASCII in a Unicode document is like trying to bail out the titanic with a beer bucket.
Like most people who thrive on control, McCarthy's problem was he was a fucking coward.
If you believe in your way of life, if you truly believe it will work... Then it either works, or you're proven wrong.
Communism was proven wrong. As an economic model, it was a complete utter failure. The capitalist model that the US had followed(up until recent years) created the biggest gain in economic wealth in the history of mankind.
McCarthy didn't believe in America. He thought we were going to fail. That's why he went after all these Communists with such a vengance, and then claimed everybody who disagreed with him was also out to get him.
He was weak, and a fucking coward, and probably psychotic to boot.
There's a difference between strength and cowardice. The strong survive. The Cowards try to control everybody else.
I have $20 million locked up in a bank in New Orleans. The only way I can get this out is to provide a security deposit to the bank to validate that I have sufficient funds.
If you give me $20,000... I shall give you 10% of the money I get from my bank deposit box.
No matter how many times a Linux zealot wets his pants over "M$", it doesn't make Linux any less valuable to the organisation.
It also doesn't make any more valuable.
I think that's a point that many people don't quite seem to grok, and as such they end up calling managers who don't subscribe to their religion, "clueless."
Technically... The Irish famine wasn't caused by free-market policies. It was caused by the British not allowing the Irish to be free.
Of course, most proponents of "Free Market" today aren't really advocating for a free market. They want freedom for themselves, and restrictions for everybody else. That's the Republican agenda, anyway...
Interesting, because I've read a great deal of Adam Smith, his contemporaries and I'm not sure exactly how wrong I am. Smith never advocated anarchy, he simply advocated for making the rules clear up front, and keeping government from mucking around too much.
Honestly, on the subject of charities. I don't much trust them, because they are by and large inefficient and unaccountable. You're in lala land if you can't see that many charities exist these days just to maintain their existance. If you don't believe me, go work with one.
I spent 4 years working with a local community group, about 75% of our fundraisers went to paying for our offices and equipment to run fundraisers.
This is interesting... Texas has had a mysterious increase in the amount of money received coincidentally occuring right around 2001. I see no similar increase for Arkansas occuring in 1993. Although their ratios don't add up for Texas, so I wonder if that isn't wrong.
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I don't recall Microsoft ever saying they were "state of the art". Even so, most people always ignore PR spin. Not even Linux is "state of the art", and I've heard nobody say it is.
But it's not at all surprising to see a company promoting it's products, and at the same time criticizing itself internally. In fact, I think looking inward to find where you can improve is a positive thing. Companies which stop doing that, and instead promote an attitude of "Don't criticize or risk being fired" so that everything seems happy and cheerful... until it all fails, are a bad thing.
Man. It has been 8 years now, hasn't it?
:-(
If only I could have all that time back... I could have written Windows from scratch.
I have "~/bin" and I put all my 3rd party apps in there.
/usr/bin/games is protected! You can still run xtetris!
Ok, so the impact is everything else in ~/bin, as well as anything and everything on the system that your account can write to, including networked drives, etc.
I'm assuming you have data? Maybe your resume? Letters to your mother? Financial data? Nakid pics of your girlfriend?
All gone.
Hey, but don't worry...
I don't think people fully comprehend the damage a virus can do. The concern is not the system. A system can be recovered from CD. It's the data. And you better have good backups.
We already new FF isn't as secure as its supporters claim it is. That's not news, and I hope people who are promoting Firefox are doing so because of features and not a myth of security.
What was interesting, was the existence of the Linux virus. I'm pretty certain these things aren't supposed to be possible, because Linux is uber super secure from design.
Yet another myth bubble burst.
I guess next we'll hear about the big Apple MacOSX virus that also isn't supposed to be possible.
Sorry it escaped you.
:-)
It was a joke from the Kerry/Bush debates.
Maybe I'm hard on chairs. But after 8 years of spending $150 every two years buying some crappy chair at Officemax I finally broke down and bought a $500 chair at an office supply store.
It's a Herman Miller Equa-2, highback chair with fixed armrests. I even got to choose the color of fabric. (I actually prefer the Equa to the Aeron)
I've now had that chair for 6 years. It has a 10 year warranty. A year ago the bolts which attach the seating position to the base stripped out. I took it back to that office supply store, and they replaced the seat for free.
I fully suspect that this chair is going to last me another 6-10 years or so.
The thing is... I couldn't possibly afford to buy $50 chairs. Not just from the cost of yearly replacements, but also the back injuries.
You're right. This has been GM's attitude in the past.
That might explain why I won't ever buy another GM car, and definately explains why they have been losing marketshare for the past 40 years.
You forgot Poland!
All this advanced technology, and even the iPod people haven't figured out that the best volume control is a BIG FRICKING KNOB!
It's amazing. Back in the 1980s the stereo manufacturers tried to introduce the up/down arrows for volume control. And they worked worth shit. Then in the 1990s the car stereo makers made the same mistake.
Now virtually ever stereo receiver has a big fricking knob.
Why can't the computer people figure this out?
Ok, Beavis.
Well, I'm supposedly an MS Shill because I don't believe the usual Linux bullshit, but whatever...
;-)
First (but not foremost) in my opinion the sooner "compatibility with Microsoft" is dropped as the IT yardstick (really it is just a canard), the better.
This is correct, in a larger sense. The only way OpenOffice will be successful is if they can drop the "compatibility with Microsoft" claim. That is to say, when your primary measuring stick is comparing your product to the other guys and saying "Hey, we're almost as good." there is an incentive for the customer to just get the other guys product.
You don't see GM saying "Almost as good as Toyota, only available in red!"
The other standards aren't necessarily better (since that's an esoteric discussion unto itself anyway), but I can think of one that in the long run if adopted hints at greater interoperability than seen in a long time.
This is where your point fails. If these other standards(beyond Microsoft) aren't better, then there is no compelling technical reason for consumers to adapt them.
My point is, when you can drop the compatibility claim, then you've got marketshare potential, but that won't happen unless your product is better than the competitors.
How many times have you wasted valuable time at a meeting while attendees share paper copies of the pre-distributed incompatible (with their version of WORD) Word documents?
Not very often. Everyone at my company has Word XP.
The only time I had an issue with this was when I wrote a paper up on Word XP at home, brought it into the office and loaded it with Word 97. Features in XP dealing with stylesheets weren't available in 97.
No, this is a rather lame excuse. It was far more of an issue pre-2000 than it is today.
It's just not OpenOffice's fault anymore, and it's time to start defending it. I know it's a long shot. I know it's a long haul. And I know I'm getting modded troll and flamebait.
I know I'll get modded troll and flamebait for this, but really I think you claimed you were going to get modded as troll and flamebait in an appeal to get your post modded higher.
Seriously, I don't think you understand how the industry works if you think the way to counter technical claims is with spin. That might work for Karl Rove dealing with Bushies approval ratings, but in the tech industry? Not so sure.
UTF stands for Unicode Transformation Format
Generally speaking when we talk about Unicode in the Windows world, we're referring to UTF-16 and not UTF-7. Sorry you didn't understand that.
In 1993 it was a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President, and they argued against it.
In 1997 it was a Republican Congress and a Democratic President, and they argued against it.
In 2005 it was a Republican Congress and a Republican President, and they argued for something.
So what's their political agenda again? I'll bet if it was flood control in New York, they'd be all for it.
all politics is local.
Umm. That's probably because Word documents are saved in Unicode... Trying to search for ASCII in a Unicode document is like trying to bail out the titanic with a beer bucket.
Like most people who thrive on control, McCarthy's problem was he was a fucking coward.
If you believe in your way of life, if you truly believe it will work... Then it either works, or you're proven wrong.
Communism was proven wrong. As an economic model, it was a complete utter failure. The capitalist model that the US had followed(up until recent years) created the biggest gain in economic wealth in the history of mankind.
McCarthy didn't believe in America. He thought we were going to fail. That's why he went after all these Communists with such a vengance, and then claimed everybody who disagreed with him was also out to get him.
He was weak, and a fucking coward, and probably psychotic to boot.
There's a difference between strength and cowardice. The strong survive. The Cowards try to control everybody else.
I have $20 million locked up in a bank in New Orleans. The only way I can get this out is to provide a security deposit to the bank to validate that I have sufficient funds.
If you give me $20,000... I shall give you 10% of the money I get from my bank deposit box.
Please send the money to my paypal account...
rekcusaru@gmail.com
You don't understand how our new President works.
Those people didn't vote for Bush, so therefore they aren't worth saving.
But we are looking into additional Tax Relief for Trent Lott who lost his mansion, so don't you worry none.
It also doesn't make any more valuable.
I think that's a point that many people don't quite seem to grok, and as such they end up calling managers who don't subscribe to their religion, "clueless."
Why do I have to pick either one of your choices? Neither of which matches the reality of what happens in the world.
I don't think in terms of black and white.
Technically... The Irish famine wasn't caused by free-market policies. It was caused by the British not allowing the Irish to be free.
Of course, most proponents of "Free Market" today aren't really advocating for a free market. They want freedom for themselves, and restrictions for everybody else. That's the Republican agenda, anyway...
Interesting, because I've read a great deal of Adam Smith, his contemporaries and I'm not sure exactly how wrong I am. Smith never advocated anarchy, he simply advocated for making the rules clear up front, and keeping government from mucking around too much.
Honestly, on the subject of charities. I don't much trust them, because they are by and large inefficient and unaccountable. You're in lala land if you can't see that many charities exist these days just to maintain their existance. If you don't believe me, go work with one.
I spent 4 years working with a local community group, about 75% of our fundraisers went to paying for our offices and equipment to run fundraisers.
Spread around?
This is interesting... Texas has had a mysterious increase in the amount of money received coincidentally occuring right around 2001. I see no similar increase for Arkansas occuring in 1993. Although their ratios don't add up for Texas, so I wonder if that isn't wrong.
"I don't think anyone would take issue with it as long as he kept up the anti-American rhetoric."
:-(
Frankly, this should concern us. How is it that someone can gain popularity by saying they hate America?
Sigh... I remember when they used to cheer for our President when he went on trips to foreign nations. Sad that was only 5 years ago now.
A Free Market has a solution for everything.
In the case of food shortages, the Free Market regulates the demand.
i.e. people die
Now, I'm a believer in a capitalistic system, and I think a market economy has many good things to be said for it. But it needs to be held on a leash.
How certain are we that this guy isn't part of the other 50%?