The goal of this license is precisely to attest the basic competency of a person in office-like software. This is an exam. This is not a training course at all, but could serve as an evaluation before and/or after a training course. Maybe in the U.S. this is taken for granted, but the ECDL is precisely the proof that you have this competencies. Also the people never feels bad, because when they don't pass successfully one of the seven modules, then they can retry a few weeks later until they obtain their ECDL. BTW each module is made of 30 questions, which you must answer to in 30 minutes, and you must answer correctly to 21 of them to succeed. IIRC from the 30 questions, 21 are really basic, 6 are a little harder, and the last 3 are for "advanced" users.
I'm the technical person in one french accredited ECDL center (Faculty of Medicine of Nice).
It should be platform agnostic, in fact it was because it worked in all web browsers with a recent java plugin. The server was under WinNT + IBM's DB2 though. The new system uses both client and server executables which works only under windows unfortunately.
But the content itself is more plateform agnostic, and it's really of great importance to at least the french company who leads ECDL in France (http://www.pcie.tm.fr). It's true that all screenshots are made under Windows, probably because of lack of people, but I've personnally passed (sucessfully) the StarOffice tests since I've almost never used MS Office.
> First, in order to enforce such a law you would > have to create some sort of governmental agency > where you would send your spam complaints
Fortunately for us, in France, we already have such an agency since 1978. It's called the CNIL (http://www.cnil.fr) for "Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés" (National Commission for Computing an Liberties), and principally deals with privacy issues and personnal information storage and retrieval.
Last year they opened a spam mailbox, for people to forward them spam messages, expecting about ten messages a day or so, but in a few days the mailbox quota exploded with more than 65000 messages...
It seems that it's your so-called biggest democracy of the world which has finally "Gone With the Wind.".
Hoping you'll have better laws/politics someday...
Peace.
(c) 1920-???? The USA letters and the USA flag are both copyrighted material of the Walt Disney Company. All infringements will be sentenced with the death penalty.
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What do you expect to do to suicide bombers ?
A real suicide bomber is dead, and doesn't care anymore about how you treat him.
> Even Linux Zealot switched to using macs
:
There's a typo, it should be
"Even Linux Zealot switched to using Emacs"
Problem is: you won't be able to jump down. You'll stay sticked to the ceiling.
> enlightened society
Not sure if these two words can coexist.
> No, more like knowing the account is named 'root'
:
> but not having the password.
At the LILO prompt, they just have to pass some additionnal arguments to bypass to launch of the init command
LILO: linux init=/bin/bash
They don't need to know the root password.
Well, maybe LILO is protected by a password too...
No problem ! Where should I sign ? :-)
Just call it GNU !
> Imagine if every time you ran ls you got some
> companies name listed along with your directory
> listing.
I'd suggest you to patent this very good idea before someone else does ! (no kidding)
> Now, can someone tell me what practical
> applications there might be of this?
An application would be to make better doughnuts, I suppose.
> Hell, we can get software from my school for so
> dirt cheap, ($30 for Windows XP Pro) they might as
> well give it away for free.
But they don't !
BTW most Free Software is available at no cost to all.
It's TOLKIEN !!!
The goal of this license is precisely to attest the basic competency of a person in office-like software. This is an exam. This is not a training course at all, but could serve as an evaluation before and/or after a training course.
Maybe in the U.S. this is taken for granted, but the ECDL is precisely the proof that you have this competencies.
Also the people never feels bad, because when they don't pass successfully one of the seven modules, then they can retry a few weeks later until they obtain their ECDL. BTW each module is made of 30 questions, which you must answer to in 30 minutes, and you must answer correctly to 21 of them to succeed. IIRC from the 30 questions, 21 are really basic, 6 are a little harder, and the last 3 are for "advanced" users.
Hi,
I'm the technical person in one french accredited ECDL center (Faculty of Medicine of Nice).
It should be platform agnostic, in fact it was because it worked in all web browsers with a recent java plugin. The server was under WinNT + IBM's DB2 though.
The new system uses both client and server executables which works only under windows unfortunately.
But the content itself is more plateform agnostic, and it's really of great importance to at least the french company who leads ECDL in France (http://www.pcie.tm.fr). It's true that all screenshots are made under Windows, probably because of lack of people, but I've personnally passed (sucessfully) the StarOffice tests since I've almost never used MS Office.
Hoping this helps
No, I didn't realize this until after I hit [Submit].
Next time I'll read more carefully, but I find this joke really funny anyway.
BTW, the only time you'll see my ass is when I'll poop on your face.
In my ideal world, there would be no country at all.
Note that this doesn't mean : only one country.
> And if you're French by any chance: next time the :o)
> nazis are sipping cofee in Paris, I hope you ask
> for the "inspectors to have more time".
Oh, and if Lafayette hadn't come to help save your collective asses from English tiranny, you all would still be speaking english today !
err... wait a minute...
At least THIS is fun !
Thanks for the laugh.
> hopefully the us and europe will never be at war
> at the same time.
No doubt that Europe some day will be the next on the US' countries-to-invade-because-god-told-us-so list.
> First, in order to enforce such a law you would
> have to create some sort of governmental agency
> where you would send your spam complaints
Fortunately for us, in France, we already have such an agency since 1978. It's called the CNIL (http://www.cnil.fr) for "Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés" (National Commission for Computing an Liberties), and principally deals with privacy issues and personnal information storage and retrieval.
Last year they opened a spam mailbox, for people to forward them spam messages, expecting about ten messages a day or so, but in a few days the mailbox quota exploded with more than 65000 messages...
Now they ARE aware !
For very high reliability, the space shuttle seems to be a bad example, just like anything which tries to fly...
Slavery ?
It seems that it's your so-called biggest democracy of the world which has finally "Gone With the Wind.".
Hoping you'll have better laws/politics someday...
Peace.
(c) 1920-???? The USA letters and the USA flag are both copyrighted material of the Walt Disney Company. All infringements will be sentenced with the death penalty.
I'd laugh if only this wasn't so sad !
I just forgot : happy wedding Rob !
Kathleen's back orifice gets slashdotted !