Where are you getting that from? Of course they should be held accountable. I was saying that the only businesses that need to worry about government intervention are those that break the law.
One of the reasons that Be failed was that Microsoft had prevented the OEMs from offering both Windows and BeOS in a dual-boot configuration. Yes, there were deals on the table to put BeOS on mainstream PCs. At the time, the only practical way to offer BeOS on a mainstream desktop PC was with Windows (due to application support). Microsoft killed this. Hence, Be's shot at internet appliances, where MS didn't have a market presence and dual booting was irrelevant.
BeOS has been doing that for a long time. Select a program's name in the Deskbar and you can either switch to it, close all windows or hide all windows...just for the one program.
When I say "store things the same," I mean they would all use xls (Excel) and doc formats. That way, the only way a program would have trouble opening a file made with another program is if that program didn't have as many features as the original program. IE Excel 95 would have trouble handling some of the formulas in the spreads I created in Office 97 (assuming that I used the Office 95 file format that is common to both).
RTF loads just as quickly as Word-format files in Word, if not much faster. Go to www.edgarscan.com and download some public company 10K filings, which are in RFT, that can reach a meg or two in size and can be several hundred pages long. Time how long it takes Word to open it. Now, open a much smaller Word document and time it. There isn't much difference at all.
Why not do both? Even if you open up the file formats, that doesn't necessarily mean that Gnumeric, KOffice and StarOffice are going start implementing everything identically. Each program will still have its own sets of features and functions and whatnot. However, they will store everything in the same container format. It would still be possible to save a complex spreadsheet under Gnumeric or StarCalc and not have it work in KSpread since KSpread is still a bit lacking. Likewise, there are still a couple things I can do in Excel that Gnumeric hasn't quite mastered yet.
That being said, I'd like to see a version of Office for Linux and I'd like to see the file formats opened up. This would take nothing away from the quality or usability of Office. I hear the OS X version is actually better than the PC version.
"What does having a watch that takes you five times as long to read have to do with homosexuality?"
Well, you're certainly not going to be attracting girls with this watch.
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I have a Swatch.beat watch. I like the little animation that pops up after holding down the light button for a few seconds. Anyway...
Even though the beat system is supposed to be used as a "world" time, it is not based upon good old GMT. Instead, the base time zone for beats is located in Switzerland, using Swatch headquarters as some sick, perverted prime meridian. Beat time is truly useless.
Here is what I did with my.beat time: I synchronized it with my time zone, GMT-5, Eastern Standard. I could have used GMT, but it's not practical to me in day-to-day use. Now, when I see the beat time of @000, it's midnight EST. @500 is 12noon EST. Right now I can see that 75.9% of the day has passed.
We have something like that on our outgoing company mail, but we have it typed into our.sig files and have to append it manually. It's no different than those messages you see on faxes and is, in a nutshell, a polite, but formal, request to not read the possibly confidential information contained in the message if it's been sent to you in error.
Yes, let's stop a car remotely in the middle of a busy road and watch the bloody carnage that ensues from the pile-up. If you want that much control over how people behave on the road, make a push for greater use of public transportation, where such control is feasible. Otherwise, stay the hell out of my car.
Mix in lots of chardonnay for 3-4 hours, followed by yucky micro-brew (are you listening Triumph?), then a small glass of Jack Daniels and CocaCola. Buy a pair of socks at the shoe store next to the bar for no reason. Shake all the ingredients well by falling out of your boss's Chev Tahoe.
He stopped after "Jeff Schick from IBM" installed Windows 95 on his computer. Then Howard's enthusiasm about computers stopped. Let's look at that in slo-mo:
Running OS/2: Can't stop talking about all the cool things he can do on his computer.
Running Windows95: Stops talking about computers altogether.
He used to talk about it *a lot* and the alt.fan.howard-stern newsgroup actually turned into on OS/2 advocacy group for quite some time. Howard saying "Jeff Schick from IBM" 1,000x is burned into my mind permanently. I got into OS/2 around 1994/1995 because of Howard Stern. I even called into his show as "King of All OS/2 Users" and talked about the OS/2 command prompt. Howard described me as "another geek who can't get laid." For several years after that, he was right.
The macro (VB script) is a very useful feature of any spreadsheet program, included MS Excel, which is a part of Office. My company uses it quite a bit in some complex finance models. The company policy is to make sure macros are disabled before opening any spreadsheet, unless dealing with a certain trusted set of files.
I say keep the scripting in and let the stupid people suffer for opening unknown files. If a plain tin can appeared on your doorstep, would you just go ahead and open it? Just apply a little real-world common sense and you'll be ok.
Some of us really do need attachments. My clients and I frequently send spreadsheets back and forth for projects. Each of us makes additions and changes to the spreadsheets and sends it back. Therefore, it is not feasible to put a static document up on a web server.
There is a really easy step we take to make sure that our attachments don't fsck us...we email or phone one another to let the other know that a spreadsheet is coming along. We also use descriptive names for the files that relate to the task at hand, like "Company XYZ Projections."
Any attachment that arrives outside of this protocol is suspect.
To explain to others why Windows-based firewalls like ZoneAlarm and BlackIce are inherently less secure than dedicated firewall devices and dedicated Linux firewall solutions...the fact that they run on Windows means they can be knocked dead by a virus.
And speaking of antivirus software...everyone at my company received a warning email about this virus today from the admin. I took the opportunity to reply back to his email with the following:
*****
On the topic of virii, Mcafee and Symantec's Norton AV may be leaving a "backdoor" open in its future product updates to accomodate the FBI's Magic Lantern virus for Outlook. I doubt the government really wants to spy on us, but think of this:
As soon as someone figures out how to mimmick Magic Lantern's signature/fingerprint/code/etc., crackers everywhere will have an easy way into any computer protected by Mcafee or Norton AV. Wave good-bye to confidentialty. This is rather alarming. Here's a link to an article from Wired:
Actually, the goal isn't to maximise "profits" now and immediately, the goal is to maximise shareholder value and ensure *long-term* growth in shareholder value. So, from time to time, a company will actually experience a dip in earnings while they are re-tooling themselves for long term survivability. On income statements for public companies, you'll often see a line item for "restructuring charges" that reflect the company going through growing pains and adaptation.
Therefore, if the record companies hold on to their dying business models and do not adapt in light of newer, sustainable models (such as emusic) right in front of them, their boards of directors really do deserve what's coming to them.
I seriously doubt a keyboard shortcut is going to hang a program. When I press ctl-shift-v the last folder I moved something to is highlighted. I can use the up, down, left and right arrows to choose whatever folder I want to file a message to. This is in Outlook 2000, btw.
"With PINE, if you want to save a message to a different mailbox, you hit "S "."
Pine is my all-time favorite email app since that's what we used in college, but we have to use Outlook at work. In Outlook, the same can be accomplished without drag 'n' drop. Just hit CTL-SHIFT-V, then arrow-key to the mail folder you want. All of the keyboard commands are listed next to the menu drop-downs, so they're pretty easy to pick up if you want to migrate away from the rodent.
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to the first 1337 hacker that commandeers the laser and carves "CHA" into Siberia!
Where are you getting that from? Of course they should be held accountable. I was saying that the only businesses that need to worry about government intervention are those that break the law.
The only businesses that have to worry are those that knowingly and blatantly break the law on an ongoing basis.
Read the findings of fact and you'll have your answer.
One of the reasons that Be failed was that Microsoft had prevented the OEMs from offering both Windows and BeOS in a dual-boot configuration. Yes, there were deals on the table to put BeOS on mainstream PCs. At the time, the only practical way to offer BeOS on a mainstream desktop PC was with Windows (due to application support). Microsoft killed this. Hence, Be's shot at internet appliances, where MS didn't have a market presence and dual booting was irrelevant.
BeOS has been doing that for a long time. Select a program's name in the Deskbar and you can either switch to it, close all windows or hide all windows...just for the one program.
When I say "store things the same," I mean they would all use xls (Excel) and doc formats. That way, the only way a program would have trouble opening a file made with another program is if that program didn't have as many features as the original program. IE Excel 95 would have trouble handling some of the formulas in the spreads I created in Office 97 (assuming that I used the Office 95 file format that is common to both).
RTF loads just as quickly as Word-format files in Word, if not much faster. Go to www.edgarscan.com and download some public company 10K filings, which are in RFT, that can reach a meg or two in size and can be several hundred pages long. Time how long it takes Word to open it. Now, open a much smaller Word document and time it. There isn't much difference at all.
Why not do both? Even if you open up the file formats, that doesn't necessarily mean that Gnumeric, KOffice and StarOffice are going start implementing everything identically. Each program will still have its own sets of features and functions and whatnot. However, they will store everything in the same container format. It would still be possible to save a complex spreadsheet under Gnumeric or StarCalc and not have it work in KSpread since KSpread is still a bit lacking. Likewise, there are still a couple things I can do in Excel that Gnumeric hasn't quite mastered yet.
That being said, I'd like to see a version of Office for Linux and I'd like to see the file formats opened up. This would take nothing away from the quality or usability of Office. I hear the OS X version is actually better than the PC version.
"What does having a watch that takes you five times as long to read have to do with homosexuality?"
Well, you're certainly not going to be attracting girls with this watch.
I have a Swatch .beat watch. I like the little animation that pops up after holding down the light button for a few seconds. Anyway...
.beat time: I synchronized it with my time zone, GMT-5, Eastern Standard. I could have used GMT, but it's not practical to me in day-to-day use. Now, when I see the beat time of @000, it's midnight EST. @500 is 12noon EST. Right now I can see that 75.9% of the day has passed.
Even though the beat system is supposed to be used as a "world" time, it is not based upon good old GMT. Instead, the base time zone for beats is located in Switzerland, using Swatch headquarters as some sick, perverted prime meridian. Beat time is truly useless.
Here is what I did with my
Hey, I registered for the Cotton Quiz and every time I log in, it just takes me back to their home page. wtf?
We have something like that on our outgoing company mail, but we have it typed into our .sig files and have to append it manually. It's no different than those messages you see on faxes and is, in a nutshell, a polite, but formal, request to not read the possibly confidential information contained in the message if it's been sent to you in error.
Yes, let's stop a car remotely in the middle of a busy road and watch the bloody carnage that ensues from the pile-up. If you want that much control over how people behave on the road, make a push for greater use of public transportation, where such control is feasible. Otherwise, stay the hell out of my car.
Anyone can get email (witness AOL). You have to be *important* to receive a fax.
(I've got Karma to burn)
Mix in lots of chardonnay for 3-4 hours, followed by yucky micro-brew (are you listening Triumph?), then a small glass of Jack Daniels and CocaCola. Buy a pair of socks at the shoe store next to the bar for no reason. Shake all the ingredients well by falling out of your boss's Chev Tahoe.
He stopped after "Jeff Schick from IBM" installed Windows 95 on his computer. Then Howard's enthusiasm about computers stopped. Let's look at that in slo-mo:
Running OS/2: Can't stop talking about all the cool things he can do on his computer.
Running Windows95: Stops talking about computers altogether.
CoINcidence?
He used to talk about it *a lot* and the alt.fan.howard-stern newsgroup actually turned into on OS/2 advocacy group for quite some time. Howard saying "Jeff Schick from IBM" 1,000x is burned into my mind permanently. I got into OS/2 around 1994/1995 because of Howard Stern. I even called into his show as "King of All OS/2 Users" and talked about the OS/2 command prompt. Howard described me as "another geek who can't get laid." For several years after that, he was right.
The macro (VB script) is a very useful feature of any spreadsheet program, included MS Excel, which is a part of Office. My company uses it quite a bit in some complex finance models. The company policy is to make sure macros are disabled before opening any spreadsheet, unless dealing with a certain trusted set of files.
I say keep the scripting in and let the stupid people suffer for opening unknown files. If a plain tin can appeared on your doorstep, would you just go ahead and open it? Just apply a little real-world common sense and you'll be ok.
Some of us really do need attachments. My clients and I frequently send spreadsheets back and forth for projects. Each of us makes additions and changes to the spreadsheets and sends it back. Therefore, it is not feasible to put a static document up on a web server.
There is a really easy step we take to make sure that our attachments don't fsck us...we email or phone one another to let the other know that a spreadsheet is coming along. We also use descriptive names for the files that relate to the task at hand, like "Company XYZ Projections."
Any attachment that arrives outside of this protocol is suspect.
To explain to others why Windows-based firewalls like ZoneAlarm and BlackIce are inherently less secure than dedicated firewall devices and dedicated Linux firewall solutions...the fact that they run on Windows means they can be knocked dead by a virus.
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And speaking of antivirus software...everyone at my company received a warning email about this virus today from the admin. I took the opportunity to reply back to his email with the following:
*****
On the topic of virii, Mcafee and Symantec's Norton AV may be leaving a "backdoor" open in its future product updates to accomodate the FBI's Magic Lantern virus for Outlook. I doubt the government really wants to spy on us, but think of this:
As soon as someone figures out how to mimmick Magic Lantern's signature/fingerprint/code/etc., crackers everywhere will have an easy way into any computer protected by Mcafee or Norton AV. Wave good-bye to confidentialty. This is rather alarming. Here's a link to an article from Wired:
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,48648
Here is a link to an article on the topic from the Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.77.html
This is just a junior analyst's opinion, but I would begin seeking virus protection alternatives.
*****
Actually, the goal isn't to maximise "profits" now and immediately, the goal is to maximise shareholder value and ensure *long-term* growth in shareholder value. So, from time to time, a company will actually experience a dip in earnings while they are re-tooling themselves for long term survivability. On income statements for public companies, you'll often see a line item for "restructuring charges" that reflect the company going through growing pains and adaptation.
Therefore, if the record companies hold on to their dying business models and do not adapt in light of newer, sustainable models (such as emusic) right in front of them, their boards of directors really do deserve what's coming to them.
I seriously doubt a keyboard shortcut is going to hang a program. When I press ctl-shift-v the last folder I moved something to is highlighted. I can use the up, down, left and right arrows to choose whatever folder I want to file a message to. This is in Outlook 2000, btw.
"With PINE, if you want to save a message to a different mailbox, you hit "S "."
Pine is my all-time favorite email app since that's what we used in college, but we have to use Outlook at work. In Outlook, the same can be accomplished without drag 'n' drop. Just hit CTL-SHIFT-V, then arrow-key to the mail folder you want. All of the keyboard commands are listed next to the menu drop-downs, so they're pretty easy to pick up if you want to migrate away from the rodent.