"A question that must be asked then is whether some of the time taken to master Office 2007 would be better used to gain a more advanced knowledge of Office 2003, with the rest of the time being used to do some productive work? After trialling Office 2007 for some weeks, while away from home base, I believe the answer is a resounding yes."
A better question would be 'whether some of the time taken to master Office 2007 would be better used to gain a knowledge of OpenOffice, reducing our need to jump every time Microsoft releases a new version of office'.
Would make tagging almost useless. There are many different ways you can view one thing and to limit the expressions used to tag something limits the possibilities of communication. On the other hand leaving the tags available as open ended can turn out to be redundant, you may as well just tag something as its complete description. Perhaps the best way would just be to let people make up their own minds.
I think my post got modded down because the moderator dissagreed with something that I posted on another topic. You watch this will get modded as flamebait or offtopic.
We should cut out everyones eyes in Iraq, because the insurgents there use their eyes to target western forces. We should also cut of their hands, because the insurgents there use their hands to hold the weapons used on western forces.
How is it not orwellian, trying to prescript human communication. Come on! Yeah sure he has fears about freedoms lost, and he's asking us to give up freedoms (by letting him do our thing for us). Extremism on either angle is always a bad thing.
"though he styles himself as a crusader for tech "freedom," Stallman labors mightily to control how others think, speak and act, arguing, in Orwellian doublespeak, that his rules are necessary for people to be "free." He won't speak to reporters unless they agree to call the operating system "GNU/Linux," not Linux."
The BSD and Minix compilers were around, but I'm not sure if he could have used either of them legally.
I don't see why he couldn't of used the Minix compiler if he had a license to use Minix, which presumably he did (seeing how a lot of the early development was done on Minix).
Where were you before 1993? Back before Linux was 1.0, GNU had gcc, g++, Emacs (yes, there was XEmacs too), libc, text utils, and quite a few others that were typically installed on AIX, SunOS, HPUX, Dynix, OSF, DOS (I used grep.exe, sort.exe and uniq.exe quite frequently), and IRIX among others. It was essentially required to have most of the GNU stuff on development Unixes as the standard Unix utilities sucked in comparison.
Credit where credit is due, GNU was everywhere before Linux ever started.
There is no disagreement there. That however does not mean that you couldn't have Linux without all the GNU stuff.
"He has never agreed with the ideals of the Free Software movement. In fact, he likes to call himself apolitical.
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But, as often happens when people say they are apolitical, in fact, they are espousing and promoting a particular political point of view and his political point of view is that the developer should have total power, the developer can simply decide whether you have freedom or not and that it's always wrong to disobey the developer. That is, it's always wrong to violate any software licence. That the view he has stated in the past.
If Linus wanted complete control over Linux, why oh why did he release it under the GPL?
"However, the confusion of thinking that the entire system was Linux, that it had all been developed by the college student in 1991 has been extremely harmful to the Free Software movement ever since because it broke the connection from our software to our philosophy.
When I'm running a windows box I don't say it's a MS Windows/Firefox/Gaim/Azuerus/etc OS. I don't see how it's any different for running a machine running Linux. Fair enough, credit where credit is due, however all the GNU stuff in the world amounted to nothing until the Linux kernel came along (and in all probability still would not of).
Moves like publishing exploits immediately force companies to patch their software faster. Chances are that if the researcher knows about the exploit, someone else does who is already using it for nefarious purposes.
would be to say that 2 in 5 people lie/don't hold their word. Where do people think that boss's come from? Hell. There are just a proportion of the population.
From Nietsche (a rough translation): "He who fights with monsters, should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you"
An example is of this is that during the cold war, the longer the cold war went on the more the tactics of either side became more like the tactics of the other.
I think perhaps some restraint is justified on the part of Journalist's. Reporting the possible discloser of 382,000 peoples private information is one thing. Telling the world that there is a laptop floating around somewhere in Chicago with that information on it is another.
Yeah, there's that problem; and also the fact that it is 100M known victims of identity theft.
From the article: "A stolen laptop at The Boeing Co. has pushed a widely watched tally of U.S. data breach victims past the 100 million mark". Saying that the 100M people are thought to have had data disclosed about them is not the same as saying that 100M people are known victims of identity theft.
I have a feeling that more and more reporting on this subject is going to make thieves take a closer look at what they are stealing in future, thus making identity theft a greater possibility.
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"A question that must be asked then is whether some of the time taken to master Office 2007 would be better used to gain a more advanced knowledge of Office 2003, with the rest of the time being used to do some productive work? After trialling Office 2007 for some weeks, while away from home base, I believe the answer is a resounding yes."
A better question would be 'whether some of the time taken to master Office 2007 would be better used to gain a knowledge of OpenOffice, reducing our need to jump every time Microsoft releases a new version of office'.
I don't think that the gp was implying that.
"This procedure can be done in a painless way and would not significantly impact the lives of the 'innocent'. Perhaps make it a volunteer program."
Would make tagging almost useless. There are many different ways you can view one thing and to limit the expressions used to tag something limits the possibilities of communication. On the other hand leaving the tags available as open ended can turn out to be redundant, you may as well just tag something as its complete description. Perhaps the best way would just be to let people make up their own minds.
Mod parent up.
I think my post got modded down because the moderator dissagreed with something that I posted on another topic. You watch this will get modded as flamebait or offtopic.
It might be something that reduces the threat of DRM completely making our computers useless.
We should cut out everyones eyes in Iraq, because the insurgents there use their eyes to target western forces. We should also cut of their hands, because the insurgents there use their hands to hold the weapons used on western forces.
How is it not orwellian, trying to prescript human communication. Come on! Yeah sure he has fears about freedoms lost, and he's asking us to give up freedoms (by letting him do our thing for us). Extremism on either angle is always a bad thing.
From http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.h tml:
"though he styles himself as a crusader for tech "freedom," Stallman labors mightily to control how others think, speak and act, arguing, in Orwellian doublespeak, that his rules are necessary for people to be "free." He won't speak to reporters unless they agree to call the operating system "GNU/Linux," not Linux."
The BSD and Minix compilers were around, but I'm not sure if he could have used either of them legally.
I don't see why he couldn't of used the Minix compiler if he had a license to use Minix, which presumably he did (seeing how a lot of the early development was done on Minix).
Or you could just do what most of the human population does and call it something simpler. i.e. Linux
Where were you before 1993? Back before Linux was 1.0, GNU had gcc, g++, Emacs (yes, there was XEmacs too), libc, text utils, and quite a few others that were typically installed on AIX, SunOS, HPUX, Dynix, OSF, DOS (I used grep.exe, sort.exe and uniq.exe quite frequently), and IRIX among others. It was essentially required to have most of the GNU stuff on development Unixes as the standard Unix utilities sucked in comparison.
Credit where credit is due, GNU was everywhere before Linux ever started.
There is no disagreement there. That however does not mean that you couldn't have Linux without all the GNU stuff.
Better yet IBM could buy SCO and then release SVRX under the GPLv2.
GNU however could be replaced with something else. e.g. the BSD userland/libraries. Would we then be obliged to call the operating system BSD/Linux?
"He has never agreed with the ideals of the Free Software movement. In fact, he likes to call himself apolitical.
[00:57:44]
But, as often happens when people say they are apolitical, in fact, they are espousing and promoting a particular political point of view and his political point of view is that the developer should have total power, the developer can simply decide whether you have freedom or not and that it's always wrong to disobey the developer. That is, it's always wrong to violate any software licence. That the view he has stated in the past.
If Linus wanted complete control over Linux, why oh why did he release it under the GPL?
"However, the confusion of thinking that the entire system was Linux, that it had all been developed by the college student in 1991 has been extremely harmful to the Free Software movement ever since because it broke the connection from our software to our philosophy.
When I'm running a windows box I don't say it's a MS Windows/Firefox/Gaim/Azuerus/etc OS. I don't see how it's any different for running a machine running Linux. Fair enough, credit where credit is due, however all the GNU stuff in the world amounted to nothing until the Linux kernel came along (and in all probability still would not of).
companies make it their policy to only purchase software which uses truly open standards to store their data.
Moves like publishing exploits immediately force companies to patch their software faster. Chances are that if the researcher knows about the exploit, someone else does who is already using it for nefarious purposes.
would be to say that 2 in 5 people lie/don't hold their word. Where do people think that boss's come from? Hell. There are just a proportion of the population.
From Nietsche (a rough translation): "He who fights with monsters, should look to it that he himself does not become a monster ... when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you"
An example is of this is that during the cold war, the longer the cold war went on the more the tactics of either side became more like the tactics of the other.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/793
http://kerneltrap.org/node/2761
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7211
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS
Have you Yanks done away with habeas corpus or something?
Who would buy it with Reiser3 being used less and less and with Reiser4 not fully implemented in the Linux Kernel?
I think perhaps some restraint is justified on the part of Journalist's. Reporting the possible discloser of 382,000 peoples private information is one thing. Telling the world that there is a laptop floating around somewhere in Chicago with that information on it is another.
Yeah, there's that problem; and also the fact that it is 100M known victims of identity theft.
From the article: "A stolen laptop at The Boeing Co. has pushed a widely watched tally of U.S. data breach victims past the 100 million mark". Saying that the 100M people are thought to have had data disclosed about them is not the same as saying that 100M people are known victims of identity theft.
I have a feeling that more and more reporting on this subject is going to make thieves take a closer look at what they are stealing in future, thus making identity theft a greater possibility.