Is M$ flooding/. with all the FUD in here? I'm always amazed how many people don't understand M$ only wants money, while open-source is about freedom. These are two very different things. I'd rather be free and give my money to charity.
I'm a literalist. Look at a definiton of Fascism: "tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control." (Merriam-Webster Online, http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=fascist )
Now consider the effect of closed-source, proprietary formats, e.g. Micrsoft says it has unilaterally decided how its products will be developed and marketed, and how your content will be formatted in order for you to access it. Open standards are an expression of free-thinking people asserting their indpendance from such autocratic and dictorial control imposed by a single corporation.
In the best tradition of Mr. Ben Franklin, free-thinker, give the people freedom, and they will innovate. A 100 years from now, the 30 year history of Microsoft will look like some kind of facist take-over attempt of the illuminati. Thank's to Zeus we put and end to that already.
Just how are government employees going to use.doc without using MS Office? Oh, yeah Open Office will be used to save the standard document as some format of MS Word. At least the tax payers won't be required to pay for MS Word if they don't want to. Freedom of Choice wins.
"Queen Amadala is young and naive." Not so Mini, whatever the game really is. The anti-microsofties should just continue to snipe and troll on his blog. If we make enough noise, the microsofties won't be able to fix themselves.
The same gene for digesting milk makes you high from caffeine. The proff is the success of Starbucks, and those drive-through Espresso stands that are starting to show up in California now, many years after they appeared in Seattle. This just proves that people in California take more time to think about things, or maybe we're just "slow"? How come, if we needed caffeine more, we got it later?
Is it legal to program a Linux server to emulate the player, then respond to any unrequested IP packets from the manufacture with the II'm hacked' message whatever it is? Who owns/controls/deterimine what is legally acceptable hand-shaking after all?
I feel cruel today, so let him feel a portion of the pain and anguish he has caused the several thousand developers Microsoft fired over the past few years becuase they weren't as popular as the other 9 out of 10 developers. The Roman army used to arbitrarily kill 1 of every 10 soldiers to maintain discipline, and this is the origin of the word 'decimate.' As near as we can tell, Microsoft has been doing this since the late 1990's. Balmer called this "good attrition." In fact the practice comes from GE, where all job reviews are done at the same time for everyone, and everyone is graded on a curve. The number one question every job recruit should ask: Are job reviews done individually or en masse? Do you want to be graded on a curve, and have to compete with your co-workers, or just focus on improving your career? America used to focus on making each worker better. Now, more and more corporations are just focused on treating each worker like an expendable commodity. Am I crying too much?
Only a facist government would make a citizen use Windows to read documents, when an open (and IMHO better) alternative is available. The argument that Windows and Word are better is like suggesting we should all drive a certain type of car because it has some particular properties that seem politically expediant. Sometimes we have to forego something to protect the rights of all citizens, including these who have less poltical power than others. Even if Linux users are a minority, exclusion from the political process because they choose not to use Windows or Word is a violation of their civil rights guaranteed by the supreme law of the land. What I hate are facists who want to make me use Windows! If Microsoft doesn't support a format that grants equal access to all, then let them do business with someone other than our governments.
Someday soon I hope! I'd rather have an Open Office documents from the government. This way we can still read the documents after we overthrow the bastards that let 10,000 peoples suffer for days and days in New Orleans!
Parents should negotiate the acceptable use policy with the district for their child. Don't let the district dictate what acceptable use is or is not. I will allow my child to do whatever they want as long as no physical or financial harm comes to anyone else.
Shouldn't society save felony punishment for violent crimes? These kids just changed the arrangement of some digital bits in a very small subset of our electronic infrastructure. Where is the finanical damange even? I teach my childern to question authority, and remember that the government only serves at the pleasure of the people. This case could end up in the Supreme Court.
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Is M$ flooding /. with all the FUD in here? I'm always amazed how many people don't understand M$ only wants money, while open-source is about freedom. These are two very different things. I'd rather be free and give my money to charity.
I'm a literalist. Look at a definiton of Fascism: "tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control." (Merriam-Webster Online, http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=fascist ) Now consider the effect of closed-source, proprietary formats, e.g. Micrsoft says it has unilaterally decided how its products will be developed and marketed, and how your content will be formatted in order for you to access it. Open standards are an expression of free-thinking people asserting their indpendance from such autocratic and dictorial control imposed by a single corporation.
In the best tradition of Mr. Ben Franklin, free-thinker, give the people freedom, and they will innovate. A 100 years from now, the 30 year history of Microsoft will look like some kind of facist take-over attempt of the illuminati. Thank's to Zeus we put and end to that already.
Just how are government employees going to use .doc without using MS Office? Oh, yeah Open Office will be used to save the standard document as some format of MS Word. At least the tax payers won't be required to pay for MS Word if they don't want to. Freedom of Choice wins.
Someone just started Anti-Microsoft parody http://antimsft.blogspot.com/ Looks the same and stuff...
"Queen Amadala is young and naive." Not so Mini, whatever the game really is. The anti-microsofties should just continue to snipe and troll on his blog. If we make enough noise, the microsofties won't be able to fix themselves.
The same gene for digesting milk makes you high from caffeine. The proff is the success of Starbucks, and those drive-through Espresso stands that are starting to show up in California now, many years after they appeared in Seattle. This just proves that people in California take more time to think about things, or maybe we're just "slow"? How come, if we needed caffeine more, we got it later?
So, tell us what you're doing to help the storm victims afterall. Can we help you help them some how?
Is it legal to program a Linux server to emulate the player, then respond to any unrequested IP packets from the manufacture with the II'm hacked' message whatever it is? Who owns/controls/deterimine what is legally acceptable hand-shaking after all?
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I feel cruel today, so let him feel a portion of the pain and anguish he has caused the several thousand developers Microsoft fired over the past few years becuase they weren't as popular as the other 9 out of 10 developers. The Roman army used to arbitrarily kill 1 of every 10 soldiers to maintain discipline, and this is the origin of the word 'decimate.' As near as we can tell, Microsoft has been doing this since the late 1990's. Balmer called this "good attrition." In fact the practice comes from GE, where all job reviews are done at the same time for everyone, and everyone is graded on a curve. The number one question every job recruit should ask: Are job reviews done individually or en masse? Do you want to be graded on a curve, and have to compete with your co-workers, or just focus on improving your career? America used to focus on making each worker better. Now, more and more corporations are just focused on treating each worker like an expendable commodity. Am I crying too much?
Only a facist government would make a citizen use Windows to read documents, when an open (and IMHO better) alternative is available. The argument that Windows and Word are better is like suggesting we should all drive a certain type of car because it has some particular properties that seem politically expediant. Sometimes we have to forego something to protect the rights of all citizens, including these who have less poltical power than others. Even if Linux users are a minority, exclusion from the political process because they choose not to use Windows or Word is a violation of their civil rights guaranteed by the supreme law of the land. What I hate are facists who want to make me use Windows! If Microsoft doesn't support a format that grants equal access to all, then let them do business with someone other than our governments.
Someday soon I hope! I'd rather have an Open Office documents from the government. This way we can still read the documents after we overthrow the bastards that let 10,000 peoples suffer for days and days in New Orleans!
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Parents should negotiate the acceptable use policy with the district for their child. Don't let the district dictate what acceptable use is or is not. I will allow my child to do whatever they want as long as no physical or financial harm comes to anyone else.
Shouldn't society save felony punishment for violent crimes? These kids just changed the arrangement of some digital bits in a very small subset of our electronic infrastructure. Where is the finanical damange even? I teach my childern to question authority, and remember that the government only serves at the pleasure of the people. This case could end up in the Supreme Court.
Wasn't Why, the lucky stiff, there. Can anyone share that experience?
I choose Microsoft (I mean I choose to work there), and wait, they did fire me!