And for the life of mine I don't see how this is bad for me.
I haven't used Office at all at home(MSOffice free since 1995), at work MSOffice it is a nice Excell and Word viewer and it is great to write CVs. What for are all those buttons and menus beats me.
I am sure there are 20 people (including MS Word developpers) that use all those wonderful options. But how many users really exploit Word almighty power?
My point is: as long as I can write a two page document once in a while, why should spend $$$$ in Office???
I got an IBM PC with Lotus (he, I don't even know the name of their word processor) and instead of rushing to buy (or pirate as many do) MSOffice or Word, I gave the product a fair try.
After a couple of months I realized that the product was perfectly suited for my needs.
Standards are set up by industry-wide agreement, not by monopolistic practices and user's apathy and lazyness.
I think the only valid way to probe expertise is obtaining references from previous clients and following them up. If you are spending ca 80000 US$ in a given project then surely you can spend 10 minutes per bidder to make a couple of phone calls.
Did you watch Cosmos? Walking with Dinosaurs? The complete cycle of Beethoven Symphonies conducted by Leonard Bernstein?
What about old movies that are worthwhile but will never get a new screening in commercial cinemas (Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai, Metropolis, The great dictator where available to me and many others thanks to TV).
Selective TV watching, in which you carefully choose worthwhile stuff is the answer, not childish technophobic hysteria (I know what I am going to watch one week in advance, more if I can).
By all means don not watch TV by impulse, but turning it off no matter what seems to me as lacking of common sense as spenidng all your free time watching the box.
Do I need to go and probe that 2+2=4? Or that mamals give birth to live progeny? Or that the Earth is spheric? (no nitpicks please)
No, I don't.
And regarding the Christians:
Do i need to study why some people believe the Erath is flat?
No. I do not need to do it.
The same with Evolution: it is a fact, we should concentrate in the details of how it works, but to debate anylonger if it works is childish and unproductive.
By the way, Evolution is not a belief system, I don't believe in Evolution. Evolution is a tool to understand the natural world and the way it works. Present me with a coherent alternative explantion (the bible is not one) and I mas sit down and discuss it.
Darwin was a devout Christian that was deeply troubled by his discoveries.
To adscribe atheism to Darwin is pure bad intention of whoever that does so.
Science does not have the power to repress anybody: arguments and evidence are the tools of (not ignorance and dogma), when the religious zealots come with more evidence than their faith and books written by nomadic shepards, about what they say is the truth, we may sit and listen.
Several known artists have complained about how most of them are in perpetual debt with the record companies to pay for the production of their next album.
Institutions and companies of all kinds have legal responsibilities, they can't allow people that do not speak officially in they behalf to say whatever they want regarding the innerworkings of the entity.
There are proper channels to scrutinize public institutions, and whistleblowers can always use anonymity to open the Pandora box when needed.
WWF and Greenpeace use different tactics for different problems in different places, so you over the board genralizations are absolutely innacurate and unfair.
FlexLM works exactly the same way in Sun machines.
And guess what? If you want, you can get a license file and fake the hostid and run any program you want.
Now, FlexLM is great for comapnies dealing with companies. The Sun machine in my desk is my companie's not mine, they can pretty much accept any leonine conditions imposed on them, that is none of my business (unless my expert, personal opinion is asked, in which case company gets piece of my mind).
But in my machine I don't want any spyware and I don't want any company tracking what I am doing.
So don't be so disingenous pretending you are stupid.
1.- If everybody does the same (bribing Universities to forcefully spoonfed their own wares) that does not mean it is correct. If you have some information (your links provide none) then show it to us and I assure most people would feel as uncomfortable as with the case at hand.
2.- The choice of language is important, moron. It should be choosen based on academic and practical grounds (easy to learn, wide industry acceptance, accesibility for students at a reasonable price). It should not be choosen to pander to any company. Or at least that should be the case with any serious University.
3.- Academic freedom. No, I guess you haven't hear about that.
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Lotus in IBM was a real winner for me. I still use it because I need nothing else, thank you very much.
I infer from your comment that either:
-Your wonderful "IT" people did not install WordPerfect filters when they installed Word (don;t tell me Word can;t read WP documents...).
-Your Wonderful "IT" people can't choose a format that is not tied to any particular product.
Grrrreat: to get an education you *must* use MSWord. Fscking fantastic.
And for the life of mine I don't see how this is bad for me.
I haven't used Office at all at home(MSOffice free since 1995), at work MSOffice it is a nice Excell and Word viewer and it is great to write CVs. What for are all those buttons and menus beats me.
I am sure there are 20 people (including MS Word developpers) that use all those wonderful options. But how many users really exploit Word almighty power?
My point is: as long as I can write a two page document once in a while, why should spend $$$$ in Office???
It is standard if you want it to be one.
I got an IBM PC with Lotus (he, I don't even know the name of their word processor) and instead of rushing to buy (or pirate as many do) MSOffice or Word, I gave the product a fair try.
After a couple of months I realized that the product was perfectly suited for my needs.
Standards are set up by industry-wide agreement, not by monopolistic practices and user's apathy and lazyness.
Who started the rumor? Yourself? Just now?
Jeez...
Most people don't have Macs.
Most people here rely on hardware neutral stuff that can run in several hardware and software platforms.
I want my NextII to support ogg now!
If you can have 256 small ones?
A player 4 times smaller has to be more expensive...
I think the only valid way to probe expertise is obtaining references from previous clients and following them up. If you are spending ca 80000 US$ in a given project then surely you can spend 10 minutes per bidder to make a couple of phone calls.
Now I understand why the original poster despairs...
I think I will dump my ageing TV set tonight...
Did you watch Cosmos? Walking with Dinosaurs? The complete cycle of Beethoven Symphonies conducted by Leonard Bernstein?
What about old movies that are worthwhile but will never get a new screening in commercial cinemas (Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai, Metropolis, The great dictator where available to me and many others thanks to TV).
Selective TV watching, in which you carefully choose worthwhile stuff is the answer, not childish technophobic hysteria (I know what I am going to watch one week in advance, more if I can).
By all means don not watch TV by impulse, but turning it off no matter what seems to me as lacking of common sense as spenidng all your free time watching the box.
Time still "moves" in only one direction and that is into the future.
Once an event has happened neither the people flying nor the ones Earth bound can revisit it.
If time travel was possible somebody would have visited us already making plain obvious it is achievable.
Ask your backup team what do they think about that.
Nothing more wasteful...
Do I need to go and probe that 2+2=4?
Or that mamals give birth to live progeny?
Or that the Earth is spheric? (no nitpicks please)
No, I don't.
And regarding the Christians:
Do i need to study why some people believe the Erath is flat?
No. I do not need to do it.
The same with Evolution: it is a fact, we should concentrate in the details of how it works, but to debate anylonger if it works is childish and unproductive.
By the way, Evolution is not a belief system, I don't believe in Evolution. Evolution is a tool to understand the natural world and the way it works. Present me with a coherent alternative explantion (the bible is not one) and I mas sit down and discuss it.
Darwin was a devout Christian that was deeply troubled by his discoveries.
To adscribe atheism to Darwin is pure bad intention of whoever that does so.
Science does not have the power to repress anybody: arguments and evidence are the tools of (not ignorance and dogma), when the religious zealots come with more evidence than their faith and books written by nomadic shepards, about what they say is the truth, we may sit and listen.
Several known artists have complained about how most of them are in perpetual debt with the record companies to pay for the production of their next album.
Examples like this make the argument in my book.
Institutions and companies of all kinds have legal responsibilities, they can't allow people that do not speak officially in they behalf to say whatever they want regarding the innerworkings of the entity.
There are proper channels to scrutinize public institutions, and whistleblowers can always use anonymity to open the Pandora box when needed.
So you appreciate loosers that after coding all day go home and continue coding.
Charming.
-Playing JS Bach "The well tempered klavier". All the Preludes and fuges. Both volumes. In a real piano. OK.
-Local chess genius. OK.
-Crosswords. reluctantly OK.
-Left handed. NooooooooooooooooooooooooOO!!!!!!
I have missed the 3ll33t test to detect good programmers.
You were violating the copyright of the copyright holder.
As long as people do not understand the difference there is little hope to stop this monumental mess.
... and AIX... ... and HP-UX .... ... and SCO ... ... and IRIX ...
WWF and Greenpeace use different tactics for different problems in different places, so you over the board genralizations are absolutely innacurate and unfair.
A "search Google" is not proof.
I think you are trolling.
FlexLM works exactly the same way in Sun machines.
And guess what? If you want, you can get a license file and fake the hostid and run any program you want.
Now, FlexLM is great for comapnies dealing with companies. The Sun machine in my desk is my companie's not mine, they can pretty much accept any leonine conditions imposed on them, that is none of my business (unless my expert, personal opinion is asked, in which case company gets piece of my mind).
But in my machine I don't want any spyware and I don't want any company tracking what I am doing.
So don't be so disingenous pretending you are stupid.
1.- If everybody does the same (bribing Universities to forcefully spoonfed their own wares) that does not mean it is correct. If you have some information (your links provide none) then show it to us and I assure most people would feel as uncomfortable as with the case at hand.
2.- The choice of language is important, moron. It should be choosen based on academic and practical grounds (easy to learn, wide industry acceptance, accesibility for students at a reasonable price). It should not be choosen to pander to any company. Or at least that should be the case with any serious University.
3.- Academic freedom. No, I guess you haven't hear about that.
In which ethics is something worn according to convenience.
They are a waste of time and money.