Liberate the specturm or you will suffer digital restrictions. Vista's checking of line voltages to make sure no one has clipped on an analog recording device should tell you where all of this is going. The RIAA has been screaming about "radio pirates" for 50 years. Digital broadcast gives them a way to close the "analog hole" they so dread. If the makers colude with broadcasters, only "authorized" players will have keys to decode "HD" signals. If the specturm is liberated, everything will be high quality because no one but big publishers wants to degrade music.
To further strengthen their brand recognition, I've heard that the duopoly is going to merge and rename themselves. The incumbent POTS service will be known as Pravda and the cable people will be Tass. No others will be allowed to enter the market because these two will have all the truth and news you need.
Really. How is it that companies cooperating is advertised as competition?
A bill that outlaws GNU/Linux and Mac has nothing to do with M$TF? What citizen and "consumer" interest is there in that? Please accept my humble apology as a US citizen for the actions of the RIAA, MPAA and M$TF. I can only hope that your government represents your interests better than theirs.
Who is this "off" that everyone talks about when they are being screwed?
If it was not stupid and scary, you would not be intimidated. You are being conditioned to respond submissively to idiotic and petty rules. The airport is a great place to start that. There are dozens of useless, stupid and humiliating things that people must do in order to catch their flight. Stepping into a strip search machine, routine patdowns, limits on shampoo and infant formula, easily forged IDs and blacklists that catch political opposition, the list goes on and on. What matters most is that you obey as if you might be taken to the only room in the airport and strangled if you don't get everything right or show some nerve. The end result is that you get used to standing in line and doing as you are told.
This kind of police state servility will be demanded everywhere when people get used to it.
Most hospitals now use some form of Windoze client like Impact. The staff surf the web with IE on the same machines. Do you think HIPA means anything in an environment like that? You might as well let Google serve records to people's home PCs because there's no difference between home and hospital now.
Don't forget about the EEE PC, that's hot too but it does not include the "Win" part. This just kind of goes to show that good software can sell out good hardware while bad software will drive sales to the bottom.
It's funny to watch Windows Fanboys write about Mac. Somehow, they always loop the discussion around to their favorite software. Check out this exchange from the fine Apple Watch article:
"iMacs are growing and the Windows desktop ain't. No matter how you look at it, Apple is outperforming Windows." [Stephen, CEO of NDP]
A statement like that raises the question: Is Windows Vista the problem? The operating system has met with a cool reception, even with Microsoft claiming 140 million licenses have been shipped.
"I don't believe that Vista's to blame," Stephen responded. "The vast majority of consumers don't care [about the installed operating system]."
Really? For about a year now, studies have shown that everyone knows about Vista but no one wants it. It's poor performance has convinced all but the most self loathing of people that Windows is not going anywhere. But finally, Apple is now using almost exactly the same hardware - How can anyone not see that the only remaining difference is software that does not suck?
You have to wonder if any of these people have ever used anything but Windows for more than a week in the last ten years.
People who use computers at home do something better with them than Solitare but it is still some kind of common lowest denominator.
Solitare is "popular" because it's on every corporate desktop at every big dumb company where people are better at looking busy than they are at getting work done... when they have any to do. Everyone also knows that the really fun things you can do with a computer will get you fired. For some reason, people big dumb company types let anti-social wastes of time slide but anything useful is punished. Self improvement, religion, language studies and unauthorized training are explicitly prohibited at most companies looking to fire lots of people.
One of the nicest things about free software is that it only takes about 15 minutes to wipe and reload everything with a fresh install. Then you can get the date you need and care about by sftp when you are past customs and wipe it out before you go home.
Freedom is not just about being able to fix it yourself, it's about not getting screwed around. It's nice for people to be able to fix things that but the project goal is to get knowledge to kids and you can't do that on the ever shifting sands of non free formats. Free software can be trusted to not sabotage things, that's what's going to make Sugar and the XO last longer than the average Dell.
Unless you mean they solve this problem b/c you could just give the book away to whoever wants a copy - but that would be illegal, now wouldn't it?
A single copy is not a publication and copyright is all about publication. In most settings, this is the equivalent of Xeroxing an article which is expressly allowed. Even more allowances are made for educational purposes. The point of copyright law is to advance the state of the art and expand the public knowledge, anything that gets in the way of that violates the US Constitution.
There are lots of ways to make copyright work that don't involve invasion of privacy, draconian punishment and the utter stupidity of DRM which will make public libraries impossible. The GP post named a few good ones. Others involve advertising which seems to be working very well for Google, Craiglist, and almost every newspaper ever published in the US.
That's what's so insidious about the current copyright reign of terror. It's not about AC/DC, it's about freedom of press and without that you and I will never learn of those other serious abuses you are talking about. Real families have already been thrown out of their homes and stripped of their life savings on the flimsiest of evidence about sharing RIAA crap that both of us can agree is trivial. If it's so trivial, why submit to such massive punishment? Don't be fooled, though, this is all about control of public knowledge, opinion and culture. It includes control of entertainment but it's also about domestic spying and neutralization of political opposition such as yourself.
I think you need to recalibrate your morals. Killing is bad even when you think you have split the world into enemies and friendlies. It's generally done to steal resources.
According to TFA, Office 2007 OOXML is very conformant to ISO OOXML Transitional. But its not very comformant to ISO OOXML Strict.
You must have read a different article. The one I read was quoted in the summary,
Office 2007 failed miserably. If you go by the strict OOXML schema, you get a 17 MiB file containing approximately 122,000 errors, and 'somewhat less' with the transitional OOXML schema.
If you consider somewhat less of a miserable failure to be "very conformant" you might think OOXML is a worthy standard. The rest of the world thinks it's train wreck.
You either conform to a standard or you don't. A standard that allows non conforming versions is no standard. That is the point of all of this, OOXML is not a standard at all. If it would take 2 to 4 years for M$ to properly implement and document their crappy little standard, it should take 2 to 4 years for people to believe they had a standard worthy of ISO approval.
The ODF people did exactly that, but even 2 to 4 years is fast enough to blindside M$ these days.
Everyone wants to do useful things with their time and that's why we hate M$. Slashdot is the least of efforts and it pales in comparison to the time wasted intentionally by non free software every day. If you and your M$ friends had any balls, you would not need NDAs or to waste people's time with harmful changes.
The next problem is that M$ would like to own everyone's effort by patent extortion, hardware and vendor manipulation and so on and so forth. The non free way is a threat to everyone, not just it's users, and it must die.
The thing really getting on your nads, M$AC, is that the non free software way is failing. Twitter has precious little to do with your own crappy business model.
How about you tell your bosses in Redmond to GPL their code and quit trying to fuck the free software community? That way, all of us could get more useful work done. Thanks and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
I wonder what these clowns think about municipal fiber to the home, like Lafayette, Louisiana is rolling out... Oh yeah, they hate it. Too bad for them. Municipal services, water, electricity and so on have always been cheaper and better than what nation scale companies can provide.
IBM is banned but squeaky clean M$ gets a pass and ISO certification. I suppose the EPA needed to make room in it's budget for Vista, new word processors and the supercomputers required to run them. The Bush administration has zero credibility in technical and scientific matters but this is a staggering new low.
You have the suck backwards too. IBM will miss 1% of their revenue much less that taxpayers will miss their services. The last time I looked, IBM was delivering product people wanted. What's going to take it's place? Dell servers running vapor and Windows 7? What nuts.
BSI's 98 pages of disapproval comments begins with the observation that the name Office Open XML is much too similar to Open Office XML and should be changed. Further into the document the BSI states that inappropriate PR hyperbole should be removed from the document. After many pages of edit and technical correction suggestions, on page 26 BSI begins suggesting that Office Open XML must interoperate with OpenDocument standard. On page 34 objections to DrawingML and VML are brought up. On page 39 the BSI says It looks very much like it is mapping directly to the arbitrary choices of a single vendor's application. This clause should be rewritten to express this feature in an application- and platform-neutral way. Much of the remainder of comments are about legacy formats and interoperability problems and edit corrections.BSI's 98 pages of disapproval comments begins with the observation that the name Office Open XML is much too similar to Open Office XML and should be changed. Further into the document the BSI states that inappropriate PR hyperbole should be removed from the document. After many pages of edit and technical correction suggestions, on page 26 BSI begins suggesting that Office Open XML must interoperate with OpenDocument standard. On page 34 objections to DrawingML and VML are brought up. On page 39 the BSI says It looks very much like it is mapping directly to the arbitrary choices of a single vendor's application. This clause should be rewritten to express this feature in an application- and platform-neutral way. Much of the remainder of comments are about legacy formats and interoperability problems and edit corrections.
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Liberate the specturm or you will suffer digital restrictions. Vista's checking of line voltages to make sure no one has clipped on an analog recording device should tell you where all of this is going. The RIAA has been screaming about "radio pirates" for 50 years. Digital broadcast gives them a way to close the "analog hole" they so dread. If the makers colude with broadcasters, only "authorized" players will have keys to decode "HD" signals. If the specturm is liberated, everything will be high quality because no one but big publishers wants to degrade music.
I like the things he told Datamation better. His respect for upstream developers and software freedom was more apparent than it is here.
To further strengthen their brand recognition, I've heard that the duopoly is going to merge and rename themselves. The incumbent POTS service will be known as Pravda and the cable people will be Tass. No others will be allowed to enter the market because these two will have all the truth and news you need.
Really. How is it that companies cooperating is advertised as competition?
A bill that outlaws GNU/Linux and Mac has nothing to do with M$TF? What citizen and "consumer" interest is there in that? Please accept my humble apology as a US citizen for the actions of the RIAA, MPAA and M$TF. I can only hope that your government represents your interests better than theirs.
Who is this "off" that everyone talks about when they are being screwed?
Groups that control a lot of IP addresses will still have sock puppets. That includes companies and botnets.
We can be sure M$, AOL, and Yahoo will do their part.
If it was not stupid and scary, you would not be intimidated. You are being conditioned to respond submissively to idiotic and petty rules. The airport is a great place to start that. There are dozens of useless, stupid and humiliating things that people must do in order to catch their flight. Stepping into a strip search machine, routine patdowns, limits on shampoo and infant formula, easily forged IDs and blacklists that catch political opposition, the list goes on and on. What matters most is that you obey as if you might be taken to the only room in the airport and strangled if you don't get everything right or show some nerve. The end result is that you get used to standing in line and doing as you are told.
This kind of police state servility will be demanded everywhere when people get used to it.
Most hospitals now use some form of Windoze client like Impact. The staff surf the web with IE on the same machines. Do you think HIPA means anything in an environment like that? You might as well let Google serve records to people's home PCs because there's no difference between home and hospital now.
Don't forget about the EEE PC, that's hot too but it does not include the "Win" part. This just kind of goes to show that good software can sell out good hardware while bad software will drive sales to the bottom.
It's funny to watch Windows Fanboys write about Mac. Somehow, they always loop the discussion around to their favorite software. Check out this exchange from the fine Apple Watch article:
Really? For about a year now, studies have shown that everyone knows about Vista but no one wants it. It's poor performance has convinced all but the most self loathing of people that Windows is not going anywhere. But finally, Apple is now using almost exactly the same hardware - How can anyone not see that the only remaining difference is software that does not suck?
You have to wonder if any of these people have ever used anything but Windows for more than a week in the last ten years.
People who use computers at home do something better with them than Solitare but it is still some kind of common lowest denominator.
Solitare is "popular" because it's on every corporate desktop at every big dumb company where people are better at looking busy than they are at getting work done ... when they have any to do. Everyone also knows that the really fun things you can do with a computer will get you fired. For some reason, people big dumb company types let anti-social wastes of time slide but anything useful is punished. Self improvement, religion, language studies and unauthorized training are explicitly prohibited at most companies looking to fire lots of people.
One of the nicest things about free software is that it only takes about 15 minutes to wipe and reload everything with a fresh install. Then you can get the date you need and care about by sftp when you are past customs and wipe it out before you go home.
Freedom is not just about being able to fix it yourself, it's about not getting screwed around. It's nice for people to be able to fix things that but the project goal is to get knowledge to kids and you can't do that on the ever shifting sands of non free formats. Free software can be trusted to not sabotage things, that's what's going to make Sugar and the XO last longer than the average Dell.
Unless you mean they solve this problem b/c you could just give the book away to whoever wants a copy - but that would be illegal, now wouldn't it?
A single copy is not a publication and copyright is all about publication. In most settings, this is the equivalent of Xeroxing an article which is expressly allowed. Even more allowances are made for educational purposes. The point of copyright law is to advance the state of the art and expand the public knowledge, anything that gets in the way of that violates the US Constitution.
There are lots of ways to make copyright work that don't involve invasion of privacy, draconian punishment and the utter stupidity of DRM which will make public libraries impossible. The GP post named a few good ones. Others involve advertising which seems to be working very well for Google, Craiglist, and almost every newspaper ever published in the US.
That's what's so insidious about the current copyright reign of terror. It's not about AC/DC, it's about freedom of press and without that you and I will never learn of those other serious abuses you are talking about. Real families have already been thrown out of their homes and stripped of their life savings on the flimsiest of evidence about sharing RIAA crap that both of us can agree is trivial. If it's so trivial, why submit to such massive punishment? Don't be fooled, though, this is all about control of public knowledge, opinion and culture. It includes control of entertainment but it's also about domestic spying and neutralization of political opposition such as yourself.
I think you need to recalibrate your morals. Killing is bad even when you think you have split the world into enemies and friendlies. It's generally done to steal resources.
According to TFA, Office 2007 OOXML is very conformant to ISO OOXML Transitional. But its not very comformant to ISO OOXML Strict.
You must have read a different article. The one I read was quoted in the summary,
If you consider somewhat less of a miserable failure to be "very conformant" you might think OOXML is a worthy standard. The rest of the world thinks it's train wreck.
You either conform to a standard or you don't. A standard that allows non conforming versions is no standard. That is the point of all of this, OOXML is not a standard at all. If it would take 2 to 4 years for M$ to properly implement and document their crappy little standard, it should take 2 to 4 years for people to believe they had a standard worthy of ISO approval.
The ODF people did exactly that, but even 2 to 4 years is fast enough to blindside M$ these days.
Everyone wants to do useful things with their time and that's why we hate M$. Slashdot is the least of efforts and it pales in comparison to the time wasted intentionally by non free software every day. If you and your M$ friends had any balls, you would not need NDAs or to waste people's time with harmful changes.
The next problem is that M$ would like to own everyone's effort by patent extortion, hardware and vendor manipulation and so on and so forth. The non free way is a threat to everyone, not just it's users, and it must die.
The thing really getting on your nads, M$AC, is that the non free software way is failing. Twitter has precious little to do with your own crappy business model.
How about you tell your bosses in Redmond to GPL their code and quit trying to fuck the free software community? That way, all of us could get more useful work done. Thanks and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
I wonder what these clowns think about municipal fiber to the home, like Lafayette, Louisiana is rolling out... Oh yeah, they hate it. Too bad for them. Municipal services, water, electricity and so on have always been cheaper and better than what nation scale companies can provide.
He has to say something answer every twitter post and those of six others ... at least! Work must be so hard.
Ha ha.
IBM is banned but squeaky clean M$ gets a pass and ISO certification. I suppose the EPA needed to make room in it's budget for Vista, new word processors and the supercomputers required to run them. The Bush administration has zero credibility in technical and scientific matters but this is a staggering new low.
You have the suck backwards too. IBM will miss 1% of their revenue much less that taxpayers will miss their services. The last time I looked, IBM was delivering product people wanted. What's going to take it's place? Dell servers running vapor and Windows 7? What nuts.
BSI had a lengthy critique when it voted no last time.
This has to be a bad April Fools joke. Ask BECTA.
ActiveX is the "kernel" that minds the rest of the processes! How else can you cram if full of !NET?
Meet the new IE, same as the old IE.
You became a paytard