Ask yourself what microsoft has done to innovate office in the last 5 years. Fortunately, office software isn't a moving target to compete with. Innovation is only the best thing to do in this case, not the only thing to do.
Personally I'd just like to see OO get a better UI, and move away from JAVA. With all the help from Sun, Java is probably here to stay, but we can hope for the UI improvement.
Insulting slackware users isn't the answer. This will eventally get ported to slackware by a package maintainer, but it's really not worth the trouble for a 'beta candidate'
Why do the software developers always prepackage for the big releases that dont need any help? I say put that extra work into making the source usable.
Your comment brings some good insight. I fail to see a few things that some of the Harvard supporters seem to assume.
1: Harvard has a legitimate reason to withhold information considering admission from their students?
2: Accessing a site with information pertaining to yourself is of course unethical considering you had help from a 1337 d00d.
What possible explanation does Harvard have for storing the status of their students on the same database as they serve their website on? What reason does Harvard have to with-hold this information from perspective students? Applications require planning ahead on the part of students, these students dont have a chance to apply to more schools after they've been turned down by one, etc.
Second, This information was about the perspective student who accessed it. There is no rule of ethics that says you can't discover something about yourself.
Finally, what did Harvard have to loose? This was not a teachers gradebook situation where you could assume someone was snooping in hopes of "fixing" a grade. The information is purely read-only, and it's not information that would not be disclosed, it's information that would be disclosed later. Why?
This is an idea I've been thinking about, more for email than websites, because you dont get to choose what you get in your inbox.
If a non-profit group could put together a 'safe content' stamp that would provide suitability guarantees, I wouldn't have any trouble getting people to use it.
It seems like anti-moral groups have gone to so much trouble putting junk in front of people, it's time to take more powerful action. There isn't really a conclusive test (like boiling water to avoid sickness) that a consumer can take, the legit content providers need to stamp content as 'safe' at least to some bedrock standard.
You didn't introduce any new insight, this idea has been known for years here on slashdot and it seems to be addressed in the article as well.
The fact is, this statement doesn't help anything. Even if insecurity was only dependent on targeting windows would still not be an optimal platform just because of MS practices and ideology.
First to see this case in it's whole meaning you need to think outside the box. This guy is a libertarian, and he probably wouldn't like showing an ID at his fitness center, or giving a CC number for a 'free' trial of WoW.
In this case, a policy/law difference doesn't matter, the airline officials were quoting rules or laws... if these were in fact single airline policies they have a lot of explaining to do.
There's so much to this case, so much that is just wrong, but it's everywhere. Think about this: If the airline didn't want him to fly, they were denying him service, and therefor should have refunded his ticket. Did this transaction take place (if it did, I'd be surprised)?
The airline rules preventing this libertarian from flying seem to be rules imposed by the TSA, which is a government organization. The government is already involved in the rules of airlines, and it appears they need to do a better job.
I understand that view and please dont get me wrong, the main thing I dont like about paper reciepts is (even more) costs. Voters (and taxpayers) are spending enough to keep these machines running, and shouldn't have the added burden of paying for paper.
More important is the validity of 'paper reciept safeguarding.' The problem with this safeguard is that it introduces more chance for error than it avoids. The chance of a open source, program that properly prints reciepts miscounting a integer number is very low. By using paper reciepts we introduce more error in a possible printer malfunction, or human counting malfunction.
I felt the same way. Honestly the only problem I have with this bill is the paper reciepts (well, other than it being supported by the two premiere democrats.)
I'm sure that this bill will only have a positive effect if it gets voted in, but paper reciepts are pretty useless and a waste of money IMHO.
If you have a leak in your sink, the first thing to do is to fix the plubming. After that's taken care of you can clean up the wet mess all over the floor.
Blockbuster has recently started using completely fraudulent advertising, and I'm glad NJ is knocking them down. As you can tell by reading random comments right here, a lot of people dont know that blockbuster was lying. Everyone knows by now that cell phones are a scam, and that you can never trust a car dealer.
Fixing old incorrect practices are not as helpful as going to the frontier and shutting down new nonsense. Few people will be hurt by old dishonest practices (hopefully cell phone companies will) but we cant expect the consumers to keep up with an ever growing pile of fraud.
P.S. Just because a fine print document says the opposite of an advertisement doesn't mean the advertisement wasn't fraudulent. In fact, it just makes proving dishonestly trivial.
walla.com hasn't worked in mozilla for sending email for a while. As a whole, mozilla still provides better compatibility.
Microsoft pretty well set a precident that monopolizing is ok with their netscape crashing back in the win9x days, so I dont see how they'll get stuck with anything now.
Apple's warranty is ok, considering dell and gateway really are in the same business as Apple. The architecure is different, the aim is different.
If Dell or Gateway were trying to make asthetically pleasing devices they probably wouldn't look as bad as they do. Gateway/Dell are trying to ship out many units at low-mid profit per unit. Apple has always tried to sell at high profit to my knowlege.
Simply, an xbox is more like a gateway than a mini mac is.
If apple's mini mac is really a different business than gateway/dell clunkers, you'd have to define apple's business. Apple always tries to stay out of well a business definition, so I guess you'd just have to put them in with 'Apple computers'
That said, this would be a lousy warranty, apple has been known for their reliability all along. With the mini mac being covered by such a short warranty, there's reason to suspect that it wont hold up.
You're obviously not thinking clearly. This is a teacher/student problem and it should be handled internally period. Here's why...
The action this student took was not a crime, it's a mistomener.
People get away with real computer crimes all the time, and there's no reason for charging this kid legally. Which would you prefer, locking up your neighbor's kid because he's smarter and lazier than a teacher, or locking up spammers?
He was cheating, and that's wrong. Just give him an F, and move on.
It's really simple, I'm surprised even a mainstream media has accepted these charges. I'm really disappointed that slashdot has accepted this school decision, because it's the wrong decision.
The meaning of unique is pretty simple, and I think this project accomplishes nique status by the following.
Mad penguin is almost certainly going to publish this as a book, and make sure things are organized. Looking at the main site (slackersbible.org) you can see they've already picked 4 catagories for articles.
This work will be unique by the organization of its community based content, even though moderation is done by a community. Think about everything2, the amount of useful content is enormus but you can't learn much because the organization is lacking.
There's two basic reasons why volunteering sucks, and unfortunately, volunteering for firefox is just as bad as regular volunteering.
1. You don't get paid, that's why its called volunteering.
2. Nobody respects you. This is the worst problem, it's simple really. If an organization doesn't value your help, working for them will be much harder than if you were getting paid.
Case in point: Try to fix phone lines for a local nonprofit. I end up standing around for 30 minutes to talk to a decision maker, only to be passed by someone with no apparent contribution. If I was on the clock, they would have respected my time if not only to avoid high fees.
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Ask yourself what microsoft has done to innovate office in the last 5 years. Fortunately, office software isn't a moving target to compete with. Innovation is only the best thing to do in this case, not the only thing to do.
Personally I'd just like to see OO get a better UI, and move away from JAVA. With all the help from Sun, Java is probably here to stay, but we can hope for the UI improvement.
Insulting slackware users isn't the answer. This will eventally get ported to slackware by a package maintainer, but it's really not worth the trouble for a 'beta candidate'
Why do the software developers always prepackage for the big releases that dont need any help? I say put that extra work into making the source usable.
I'd fully support that position. If you're going to talk for 1 hour on average supporting OOo it's worth getting $30 for it.
You have to remember, anyone silly enough to pay someone else to load their software isn't going to know how to use it.
Why not just post a torrent in base64 while you're at it?
Your comment brings some good insight. I fail to see a few things that some of the Harvard supporters seem to assume.
1: Harvard has a legitimate reason to withhold information considering admission from their students?
2: Accessing a site with information pertaining to yourself is of course unethical considering you had help from a 1337 d00d.
What possible explanation does Harvard have for storing the status of their students on the same database as they serve their website on? What reason does Harvard have to with-hold this information from perspective students? Applications require planning ahead on the part of students, these students dont have a chance to apply to more schools after they've been turned down by one, etc.
Second, This information was about the perspective student who accessed it. There is no rule of ethics that says you can't discover something about yourself.
Finally, what did Harvard have to loose? This was not a teachers gradebook situation where you could assume someone was snooping in hopes of "fixing" a grade. The information is purely read-only, and it's not information that would not be disclosed, it's information that would be disclosed later. Why?
This is an idea I've been thinking about, more for email than websites, because you dont get to choose what you get in your inbox.
If a non-profit group could put together a 'safe content' stamp that would provide suitability guarantees, I wouldn't have any trouble getting people to use it.
It seems like anti-moral groups have gone to so much trouble putting junk in front of people, it's time to take more powerful action. There isn't really a conclusive test (like boiling water to avoid sickness) that a consumer can take, the legit content providers need to stamp content as 'safe' at least to some bedrock standard.
I'm sure the poster wouldn't care. You might want to know the common name 'nitrogen' refers to N2, the diatomic substance.
This whole discussion seems irrelivent to me, isn't the magnetic field responsible for stopping nearly all of the sun's hurtful rays?
You didn't introduce any new insight, this idea has been known for years here on slashdot and it seems to be addressed in the article as well. The fact is, this statement doesn't help anything. Even if insecurity was only dependent on targeting windows would still not be an optimal platform just because of MS practices and ideology.
Dont complain about the options... but what about all of us who don't live in Europe?
First to see this case in it's whole meaning you need to think outside the box. This guy is a libertarian, and he probably wouldn't like showing an ID at his fitness center, or giving a CC number for a 'free' trial of WoW.
In this case, a policy/law difference doesn't matter, the airline officials were quoting rules or laws... if these were in fact single airline policies they have a lot of explaining to do.
There's so much to this case, so much that is just wrong, but it's everywhere. Think about this: If the airline didn't want him to fly, they were denying him service, and therefor should have refunded his ticket. Did this transaction take place (if it did, I'd be surprised)?
The airline rules preventing this libertarian from flying seem to be rules imposed by the TSA, which is a government organization. The government is already involved in the rules of airlines, and it appears they need to do a better job.
I understand that view and please dont get me wrong, the main thing I dont like about paper reciepts is (even more) costs. Voters (and taxpayers) are spending enough to keep these machines running, and shouldn't have the added burden of paying for paper. More important is the validity of 'paper reciept safeguarding.' The problem with this safeguard is that it introduces more chance for error than it avoids. The chance of a open source, program that properly prints reciepts miscounting a integer number is very low. By using paper reciepts we introduce more error in a possible printer malfunction, or human counting malfunction.
I felt the same way. Honestly the only problem I have with this bill is the paper reciepts (well, other than it being supported by the two premiere democrats.)
I'm sure that this bill will only have a positive effect if it gets voted in, but paper reciepts are pretty useless and a waste of money IMHO.
Bet the drivers suck for a year as usual, just in time for the next product line....
Which were you talking about, the 777 or the Toyota?
If you have a leak in your sink, the first thing to do is to fix the plubming. After that's taken care of you can clean up the wet mess all over the floor.
Blockbuster has recently started using completely fraudulent advertising, and I'm glad NJ is knocking them down. As you can tell by reading random comments right here, a lot of people dont know that blockbuster was lying. Everyone knows by now that cell phones are a scam, and that you can never trust a car dealer.
Fixing old incorrect practices are not as helpful as going to the frontier and shutting down new nonsense. Few people will be hurt by old dishonest practices (hopefully cell phone companies will) but we cant expect the consumers to keep up with an ever growing pile of fraud.
P.S. Just because a fine print document says the opposite of an advertisement doesn't mean the advertisement wasn't fraudulent. In fact, it just makes proving dishonestly trivial.
Its the headline it must be true
walla.com hasn't worked in mozilla for sending email for a while. As a whole, mozilla still provides better compatibility. Microsoft pretty well set a precident that monopolizing is ok with their netscape crashing back in the win9x days, so I dont see how they'll get stuck with anything now.
Hire someone else who is competent and doesn't need training for a simple computer program. (I'm available, but not in california)
Now the other two people who care about license garbage can through you a party!
The rest of us are just sick of Adobe's software patents and rediculously high prices.
I think it's important to make a distinction at least morally of who got hit with the $2mil damages.
For example, I'm pretty sure the lad vampire has done some significant ddos damage, but stealing from fake banks is cool with me.
MCSE
I'm not so sure about the language, but the figure does intrest me.
Why isn't there a frivolous patent infringment classification? It would be cool if XFire had a chance to gain something by beating this case.
Apple's warranty is ok, considering dell and gateway really are in the same business as Apple. The architecure is different, the aim is different.
If Dell or Gateway were trying to make asthetically pleasing devices they probably wouldn't look as bad as they do. Gateway/Dell are trying to ship out many units at low-mid profit per unit. Apple has always tried to sell at high profit to my knowlege.
Simply, an xbox is more like a gateway than a mini mac is.
If apple's mini mac is really a different business than gateway/dell clunkers, you'd have to define apple's business. Apple always tries to stay out of well a business definition, so I guess you'd just have to put them in with 'Apple computers'
That said, this would be a lousy warranty, apple has been known for their reliability all along. With the mini mac being covered by such a short warranty, there's reason to suspect that it wont hold up.
You're obviously not thinking clearly. This is a teacher/student problem and it should be handled internally period. Here's why...
The action this student took was not a crime, it's a mistomener.
People get away with real computer crimes all the time, and there's no reason for charging this kid legally. Which would you prefer, locking up your neighbor's kid because he's smarter and lazier than a teacher, or locking up spammers?
He was cheating, and that's wrong. Just give him an F, and move on.
It's really simple, I'm surprised even a mainstream media has accepted these charges. I'm really disappointed that slashdot has accepted this school decision, because it's the wrong decision.
The meaning of unique is pretty simple, and I think this project accomplishes nique status by the following.
Mad penguin is almost certainly going to publish this as a book, and make sure things are organized. Looking at the main site (slackersbible.org) you can see they've already picked 4 catagories for articles.
This work will be unique by the organization of its community based content, even though moderation is done by a community. Think about everything2, the amount of useful content is enormus but you can't learn much because the organization is lacking.
There's two basic reasons why volunteering sucks, and unfortunately, volunteering for firefox is just as bad as regular volunteering.
1. You don't get paid, that's why its called volunteering.
2. Nobody respects you. This is the worst problem, it's simple really. If an organization doesn't value your help, working for them will be much harder than if you were getting paid.
Case in point: Try to fix phone lines for a local nonprofit. I end up standing around for 30 minutes to talk to a decision maker, only to be passed by someone with no apparent contribution. If I was on the clock, they would have respected my time if not only to avoid high fees.