I was going to use my last mod point on you, and mod you up as insightful until you started ranting about Guantanamo and the detainees.
Trouble is, I can't work out whether you were seriously suggesting that a persons alleged actions or allegiances should make them less worthy of justice, or whether your sarcasm is too heavily masked.
Ah, well - the rest of the post was insightful and unusually well argued by AC standards.
I'm not qualified to comment on his technical arguments...
How do you come to the conclusion that the 'difficulty' is the worst argument, then?
Some of his technical arguments might be much, much worse...
Seriously, though - people at work who need to use a computer, need to use it to do their jobs.
Not to install cool screen savers. Not to look at pictures of Anna Kournikova. Not to piss around with the setup of an employer-provided tool for their job.
They need to know how to log in, run the apps they need to run, and log out again.
This is no different on a Linux box than a Windows box - the only difference is that Microsoft applications tend to pander to user pressure for more and more features, whereas Linux apps are cleaner and more functional (in the strict sense of functional, that less means more).
Being left-handed, and with a writing position that has my hand higher on the page than the pen - I need ink that dries fast enough not to smudge, and a pen that will write with the nib in any direction.
My current pen is a custom made rollerball with a turned and knurled slim aluminium barrel, using Hauser refills.
Most times I can write comfortably without smudging, though my script is still (as my infant-school headmistress pointed out some 35 years ago) "like a drunken spider randomly wandering across the page"
What tool you use to produce the open document format is immaterial - the only thing that matters is that you have a choice of tools that produce the same output, and render the document in the same way for display and printing.
RTF isn't such a bad idea - nearly everything reads and writes it, and it at least has open and well defined tagging.
It should be the Government that mandates an open format, and then it's up to the software producers to make their programs work to the standard.
Word was far from the only available WP package 10 years ago - most clueful shops were using Wordperfect 5.1, and I remember the howls of protest from the admin staff when it was decreed that Word was to be used instead (not to mention the howls of agony as we modified our document management to work with Word).
Nope - if anything had 95% market share, it would still suffer from the problem of people not patching their systems promptly.
The only solution to the patching problem is an automatic patch system trusted by the vast majority of users.
But with the diversity in hardware out there, it is more or less certain that any patch will nix a certain proportion of machines (however small), so unconditional trust of such a system is not possible.
Look at the current situation - even clueful admins of Microsoft systems typically wait and watch NTBUGTRAQ whenever a new patch is released, only patching after they are satisfied that they can trust the patch not to hose their systems.
This would be the case no matter what system has dominance, and with non-technical consumers connected to the Net, it doesn't matter what system they run - they just aren't up to patching every hole that appears.
Now OpenBSD / Linux with a default 'safe as possible' configuration will ameliorate the problems, but it won't make them go away.
We may deduce from the above that the poster was damaged by the forceps during the procedure (in which the pull of the obstetrician was definitely greater than his gravitational influence).
Someone, however anonymous, who knows that the only VB used in code sequencing was for controlling the machines that put x drops of solution y into cell z.
The implication of the delusional Greenspun is that VB is fit for anything more than noddy applications - this needs laughing at long and hard.
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So let me see - you'd have been better off, and your wife could have tried looking for a suitable job while you were in Indiana, with less financial pressure than you're under now.
Either you're henpecked, or an extremely foolish 'new man' type.
Hell, move yourself to Indiana, and go and see her once a month.
There's a little legal matter called the "Doctrine of First Sale", that means that once you've bought a product, it's yours to sell to others as you wish.
So the **AA can't do anything about the sales of used CDs / DVDs, which is why they haven't tried.
There's some interest in how this doctrine should apply to digital downloads, because there is no physical element involved in such transactions.
But the real reason the sales of CDs have been dropping worldwide is that they are overcharging in a declining market. Until they address this issue, they will continue to lose sales.
the programmer in question is too lazy to learn newer and better ways to program.
Lazy?
It's far easier to program in Java, but you never know what's happening in the interpreter.
At least with C/C++ you are talking directly to the machine, and it's your fault if it screws up.
What if you're really lazy, and rely on a JVM that you have no control over to provide your safety blanket?
Noone uses assembley any more (except for kudos purposes), but the closer you are to the hardware, the more care you have to take to make things right - interpreted languages make people lazy, and that must be a bad thing.
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Having said that, I agree with you completely on the POW status.
Trouble is, I can't work out whether you were seriously suggesting that a persons alleged actions or allegiances should make them less worthy of justice, or whether your sarcasm is too heavily masked.
Ah, well - the rest of the post was insightful and unusually well argued by AC standards.
Out of my brain on the System V.XV?
2. Tie little yellow fella to top of firework
3. Light blue touch paper, Profit!, and retire.
How do you come to the conclusion that the 'difficulty' is the worst argument, then?
Some of his technical arguments might be much, much worse...
Seriously, though - people at work who need to use a computer, need to use it to do their jobs .
Not to install cool screen savers.
Not to look at pictures of Anna Kournikova.
Not to piss around with the setup of an employer-provided tool for their job.
They need to know how to log in, run the apps they need to run, and log out again.
This is no different on a Linux box than a Windows box - the only difference is that Microsoft applications tend to pander to user pressure for more and more features, whereas Linux apps are cleaner and more functional (in the strict sense of functional, that less means more).
My current pen is a custom made rollerball with a turned and knurled slim aluminium barrel, using Hauser refills.
Most times I can write comfortably without smudging, though my script is still (as my infant-school headmistress pointed out some 35 years ago) "like a drunken spider randomly wandering across the page"
Might help to ease the pain if the contingency fees can't be paid due to the total lack of supporting evidence for the case...
I only remember back to around 1968 - I'm sure I remember it on Tomorrows World as having developed for the US space programme.
Nasa wasted millions developing a zero-G ballpoint, whereas the Russians used pencils.
Weekend daily?
Must be this creeping unemployment...
Peart had lots of drums, but couldn't keep the speed up for those multi-megabyte MP3 downloads.
It's a good job you didn't carry on, or poor Bruce would have disappeared completely!
;)
RTF isn't such a bad idea - nearly everything reads and writes it, and it at least has open and well defined tagging.
It should be the Government that mandates an open format, and then it's up to the software producers to make their programs work to the standard.
Word was far from the only available WP package 10 years ago - most clueful shops were using Wordperfect 5.1, and I remember the howls of protest from the admin staff when it was decreed that Word was to be used instead (not to mention the howls of agony as we modified our document management to work with Word).
The only solution to the patching problem is an automatic patch system trusted by the vast majority of users.
But with the diversity in hardware out there, it is more or less certain that any patch will nix a certain proportion of machines (however small), so unconditional trust of such a system is not possible.
Look at the current situation - even clueful admins of Microsoft systems typically wait and watch NTBUGTRAQ whenever a new patch is released, only patching after they are satisfied that they can trust the patch not to hose their systems.
This would be the case no matter what system has dominance, and with non-technical consumers connected to the Net, it doesn't matter what system they run - they just aren't up to patching every hole that appears.
Now OpenBSD / Linux with a default 'safe as possible' configuration will ameliorate the problems, but it won't make them go away.
Never.
We may deduce from the above that the poster was damaged by the forceps during the procedure (in which the pull of the obstetrician was definitely greater than his gravitational influence).
Poor AC.
soffice -headless -p
It runs OO in the background, prints and exits.
HTH.
;)
The implication of the delusional Greenspun is that VB is fit for anything more than noddy applications - this needs laughing at long and hard.
Either you're henpecked, or an extremely foolish 'new man' type.
Hell, move yourself to Indiana, and go and see her once a month.
So the **AA can't do anything about the sales of used CDs / DVDs, which is why they haven't tried.
There's some interest in how this doctrine should apply to digital downloads, because there is no physical element involved in such transactions.
But the real reason the sales of CDs have been dropping worldwide is that they are overcharging in a declining market. Until they address this issue, they will continue to lose sales.
Lazy?
It's far easier to program in Java, but you never know what's happening in the interpreter.
At least with C/C++ you are talking directly to the machine, and it's your fault if it screws up.
What if you're really lazy, and rely on a JVM that you have no control over to provide your safety blanket?
Noone uses assembley any more (except for kudos purposes), but the closer you are to the hardware, the more care you have to take to make things right - interpreted languages make people lazy, and that must be a bad thing.
If there is a will for enough people to be educated, and there aren't the trade schools, then unis will have to take up the slack.
If you want purity, then you'll have to change the whole idea of universities, and radically alter the sort of courses they're offering.
The proliferation of single user machines has led to a loss of focus on security, and this post points it out perfectly.