Actually, BT stands for nothing - its a contraction of 'BT Group plc'. British Telecom stopped trading in 2001 when mmO2 plc and BT Group plc diverged and started trading as two separate companies.
Did he even take the offer to the shareholders? That question is going to feature prominently in this case, I think you will see...
Basically, yes he may have been doing 'a good thing' by blowing Microsoft off, but did he go about it in the right way? Was the offer rejected unilaterally or were the owners of the company, the shareholders, allowed any say in the matter? From what I can see, no they were not.
For a long time Google Calendar worked perfectly in IE and in Firefox, but didn't work in Safari. So no, its not write-once, run-everywhere (apart from IE).
You went to both as a child? Go back as an adult and I guarantee you will change your mind. Stonehenge looks like it does because it has been rebuilt several times in the past 100 years - whether they actually are representative of how they stood thousands of years go is still subject to discussion.
The best thing about Avebury is that its not a stage managed tourist trap - you simply park your car and go wandering, you can even touch the stones if you wish and theres no entrance fee. The sheer size of the monument is fantastic.
Its always baffled me why Stonehenge gets all the attention, when there's a much more impressive stone circle and causeway monument four times the size only 20 miles away at Avebury - and its hardly been investigated!
I'm not sure what you're getting at. In Europe when you want a new phone you have to shell out several hundred dollars, there are no free phones or discounts. The phone companies here give them away for free*. It really gets on my nuts when people do this - the UK is part of Europe, and I can currently walk into *any* high street mobile phone shop (Orange, O2, Link, Carphone Warehouse et al) in the UK and within 10 minutes walk out with a contract and a free or subsidised handset.
Check out the following Orange UK store handset page - note the text at the bottom which says 'The prices shown here are a guide based on an average plan costing £35 a month. The price of your phone or device may change according to the plan you choose.':
Honestly, I don't think having normal users run as Administrator is a major Windows problem, I'm sure Linux and OSX can be configured to do exactly the same thing, it just so happens that Microsoft already configured it to.
Its exactly that default behaviour which is wrong in this instance - on OSX Safari still downloads silently by default, but it goes into a specific Downloads folder and not to the desktop, and OSX also confirms that you know the original source of the file the first time you access it.
Both of these two 'protections' are available in the latest versions of Windows (XP SP2 and Vista), but Safari for Windows does neither - it downloads them to the desktop and fails to set the check bit required.
Seriously, sharepoint? Costs way too much, is buggy, hard to extend (workarounds workarounds workarounds) and looks like crap. I won't argue with the cost aspect, as thats in the eye of the beholder, but I don't consider it particularly buggy, I have no problem extending it (both through webparts, site templates and custom applications), and I have no particular problems with the way it looks (its corporate, its meant to be corporate, and its functional).
(rethorical)Did you ever came across a well architected, customized, extensible SharePoint implementation? Yes, the one I currently admin.
Seriously, what is the fucking deal with Sharepoint? Why do people really like this thing? At my last job we had just started making headway getting people to start using Wikis and then in comes the Sharepoint servers. The wikis get abandoned and now Sharepoint works great...for everyone using Windows and IE. Everyone using Macs, Linux, and Firefox tough luck. Hmm, interesting - I just fired up our SharePoint (MOSS 2007) Intranet site in FireFox and got.... exactly the same site as I do in IE. There are a couple of minor things that do not work because they rely on ActiveX, but nothing that stops me using the site.
Sorry, but I don't know where your comment comes from - the site layout is identical in both IE and FF (FF 3 RC 1), document libraries work identically, lists work identically, even adding and removing webparts works fine (apart from dragging them around to the position you want).
From what I have just seen, I would have no trouble using the SharePoint site with FireFox as my main internal browser.
Oh and every little department got their own Sharepoint site, which you needed to be separately granted access to, only they never remembered that and would constantly send out Sharepoint links that nobody else had permissions to access. And we had no cross-site search facilities (I assume *that* at least is possible, our people just didn't implement it) so if you didn't know which of a dozen different sharepoint sites your document was on, tough luck. Thats an implementation issue, you could have the exact same issue with any other prepackaged Intranet system out there. And yes, cross-site search does indeed exist, if your admin sets it up.
Yeah there's nothing I like better than wanting to look up a list of networks, which should be nothing more than a few lines of text, but instead I get to download an MS Word document or an Excel Spreadsheet and load up the respective clients, in my browser, from my office 2,000 miles away from the Sharepoint server. Several minutes later I can now read a dozen lines of plain text! WOOO! Create a SharePoint list then, thats what they are there for. No need to load up Word or Excel, and a lot of functionality included by default.
Hang around in #MacOSX on Freenode for the next week, I guarantee you will see hosed systems:) (And not just from random people popping in, regulars will be hit as well). Happens every release.
Sod the libraries, license them however you wish - give us full and unfettered access to the specifications so those of us that wish to produce a BSD licensed or Public Domain set of libraries can do so. Don't assume that any license you choose for the libraries today will be good enough for everyone tomorrow.
The GPL exits because copyright law exists, if copyright law did not exist the GPL would not be required.... Why not? Lack of copyright law doesn't mean source code would suddenly be available to any and all.
Its because the contract you mention has zero bearing on the tying laws that this case was prosecuted under - the fact that there is an EULA you can reject is entirely secondary to the matter at hand, its the fact that the purchase of one product was tied to another. Under the same laws, this case could have involved the customer returning the PC and retaining the Windows license.
Does that mean Asus should sell computers without a hard disk, or a graphics card, or a case (just the bits in the box)? Where does the definition of 'tie in' end when you have a situation like you do with computers - lots of separate parts made by separate companies that go together to make a whole? Why is the OS license special in this case?
Your entire post just basically says 'Exchange is bad to use because bad system admins have left vastly out of date versions running when the vast majority of their problems would be solved by a newer version.'
Your problem is not Exchange, its bad system administration.
Its pretty obvious you haven't actually got any knowledge of Exchange at all, other than what you seem to have picked up here on Slashdot.
Exchange provides Pop3, IMAP and SMTP interfaces as standard. 'Other email clients' can work fine with those.
Exchange 2003 upwards provides a webmail interface that does not necessarily rely on IE to work - yes, it has added functionality in IE, but it will work just fine in Firefox and Safari.
Since Outlook 2003, the local folder size has been 20GB.
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Actually, BT stands for nothing - its a contraction of 'BT Group plc'. British Telecom stopped trading in 2001 when mmO2 plc and BT Group plc diverged and started trading as two separate companies.
Did he even take the offer to the shareholders? That question is going to feature prominently in this case, I think you will see...
Basically, yes he may have been doing 'a good thing' by blowing Microsoft off, but did he go about it in the right way? Was the offer rejected unilaterally or were the owners of the company, the shareholders, allowed any say in the matter? From what I can see, no they were not.
I read this in his official illustrated book out in the mid 1990s, so it most certainly is not news!
For a long time Google Calendar worked perfectly in IE and in Firefox, but didn't work in Safari. So no, its not write-once, run-everywhere (apart from IE).
Why is no one forcing Amazon to accept Google Checkout then? I personally think this whole case is ludicrous.
Because Firefox deviates badly from the W3C specification?
Why is Firefox assumed to be the reference implementation which must be matched?
You went to both as a child? Go back as an adult and I guarantee you will change your mind. Stonehenge looks like it does because it has been rebuilt several times in the past 100 years - whether they actually are representative of how they stood thousands of years go is still subject to discussion.
The best thing about Avebury is that its not a stage managed tourist trap - you simply park your car and go wandering, you can even touch the stones if you wish and theres no entrance fee. The sheer size of the monument is fantastic.
Its always baffled me why Stonehenge gets all the attention, when there's a much more impressive stone circle and causeway monument four times the size only 20 miles away at Avebury - and its hardly been investigated!
Check out the following Orange UK store handset page - note the text at the bottom which says 'The prices shown here are a guide based on an average plan costing £35 a month. The price of your phone or device may change according to the plan you choose.':
http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/handsets/pay_monthly/all/all
Honestly, I don't think having normal users run as Administrator is a major Windows problem, I'm sure Linux and OSX can be configured to do exactly the same thing, it just so happens that Microsoft already configured it to.
Its exactly that default behaviour which is wrong in this instance - on OSX Safari still downloads silently by default, but it goes into a specific Downloads folder and not to the desktop, and OSX also confirms that you know the original source of the file the first time you access it.
Both of these two 'protections' are available in the latest versions of Windows (XP SP2 and Vista), but Safari for Windows does neither - it downloads them to the desktop and fails to set the check bit required.
You seem to have no idea what SharePoint actually is...
Sorry, but I don't know where your comment comes from - the site layout is identical in both IE and FF (FF 3 RC 1), document libraries work identically, lists work identically, even adding and removing webparts works fine (apart from dragging them around to the position you want).
From what I have just seen, I would have no trouble using the SharePoint site with FireFox as my main internal browser. Oh and every little department got their own Sharepoint site, which you needed to be separately granted access to, only they never remembered that and would constantly send out Sharepoint links that nobody else had permissions to access. And we had no cross-site search facilities (I assume *that* at least is possible, our people just didn't implement it) so if you didn't know which of a dozen different sharepoint sites your document was on, tough luck. Thats an implementation issue, you could have the exact same issue with any other prepackaged Intranet system out there. And yes, cross-site search does indeed exist, if your admin sets it up. Yeah there's nothing I like better than wanting to look up a list of networks, which should be nothing more than a few lines of text, but instead I get to download an MS Word document or an Excel Spreadsheet and load up the respective clients, in my browser, from my office 2,000 miles away from the Sharepoint server. Several minutes later I can now read a dozen lines of plain text! WOOO! Create a SharePoint list then, thats what they are there for. No need to load up Word or Excel, and a lot of functionality included by default.
Regardless, there are always systems that worked before, and then don't work after - what would an end user blame?
Hang around in #MacOSX on Freenode for the next week, I guarantee you will see hosed systems :) (And not just from random people popping in, regulars will be hit as well). Happens every release.
So utilise Gmails POP3 or IMAP interfaces and use a classic email client...
Thats almost certainly whats intended - the Sun is nothing more than a fearmongering, story hunting tabloid which I wouldn't even wipe my arse on.
So? That's called 'Freedom'. I'd rather have too much of it than too little.
Sod the libraries, license them however you wish - give us full and unfettered access to the specifications so those of us that wish to produce a BSD licensed or Public Domain set of libraries can do so. Don't assume that any license you choose for the libraries today will be good enough for everyone tomorrow.
Its because the contract you mention has zero bearing on the tying laws that this case was prosecuted under - the fact that there is an EULA you can reject is entirely secondary to the matter at hand, its the fact that the purchase of one product was tied to another. Under the same laws, this case could have involved the customer returning the PC and retaining the Windows license.
Does that mean Asus should sell computers without a hard disk, or a graphics card, or a case (just the bits in the box)? Where does the definition of 'tie in' end when you have a situation like you do with computers - lots of separate parts made by separate companies that go together to make a whole? Why is the OS license special in this case?
Your entire post just basically says 'Exchange is bad to use because bad system admins have left vastly out of date versions running when the vast majority of their problems would be solved by a newer version.'
Your problem is not Exchange, its bad system administration.
Its pretty obvious you haven't actually got any knowledge of Exchange at all, other than what you seem to have picked up here on Slashdot.
Exchange provides Pop3, IMAP and SMTP interfaces as standard. 'Other email clients' can work fine with those.
Exchange 2003 upwards provides a webmail interface that does not necessarily rely on IE to work - yes, it has added functionality in IE, but it will work just fine in Firefox and Safari.
Since Outlook 2003, the local folder size has been 20GB.