I'm English, so apologies if the phrae above doesn't mean quite what I think it would if it was in a business newspaper.
Open Source movers do need to persuade the large numbers of people who believe themselves to be dependent on the model Microsoft are most associated with advancing for a living, that they are actually not so dependent.
This includes those within Microsoft.
Even though the Microsofties who are sent to such a meeting may not be the most likely to undergo a change of mind, it is an opportunity to soften their view - so long as those thousand geeks don't pong too badly, and are not rude unpleasant or stupid about it.
And no, I generally assume if someone offers me lunch that they may have an agenda of their own, but they are not being rude.
I take the view that there is no merit in SCO, but if they were successful in asserting that they owned rightsin operating systems derived from Unix, they would surely have to continue with the argument in order to assert that all operating systems microsoft(that software house well-known to have adopted Xenix and then moved on to a new operating system re-implementing its functions - windows) produced, SCO had rights in.
It would be interesting to read the licence SCO sold for a reported $10M to MS.
There are 300 million of us at the moment and that is increasing with new member countries.
It would be cumbersome and the benefits are not immediately obvious to me to have a single election across the whole area.
We vote for UK members in UK constituencies, French members in French consituencies and the like, in a way similar to our American cousins voting for members of their federal gov from their area, not from the other 49 states, except for their president & vice. I am not conivinced we want or need one of those.
There is
Makes everything look so simple, doesn't it.
Starting from now, but looking the other way, into the future, anyone who can do two things
- predict which of the various possible alternative approaches to doing something in an OS distribution, or even a set of applications will in 2007 obviously have been the correct way to go;
- convince the rest of us that they can see it and are right
Is useful to have around, if somewhat scary.
It doesn't sound very credible that this chap
BBC report is more prolific and irritating than Mr Ralsky has been reported to be.
Or is the previously acknowleged king of spam in MS' sights as well?
The newspeak description of Free/Libre Software as "a different sort of monopoly" suggests to me the phrase passed through the Rt Hon MEP having come from a briefer.
So can anyone pinpoint the briefing person, company, or interest concerned?
I recently followed up such a lead in one of the 12 references to Linux in the record of the Houses of Parliament (Hansard) and determined that the Shadow Minister for Media etc had got his disinformation on DeCSS from the Daily Telegraph but I have yet to track it back through the Torygraph to wherever it was injected.
The obvious course of action for anyone who needed to edit Microsoft's office suite's documents at home was to download a copy of OpenOffice and use that.
People in small firms who do that and find it works well are likely to add a copy of OO to their work network when they next need an extra office suite seat, rahter than buying a further copy of MS' office suite. And then when MS upgrade time comes, what would anyone predict happens?
I'd assume that sufficient people have caught on to that, together with MS getting some visibility in their attacks on people who copy their software without their permission, that the sales of of MS' office suite that MS were hoping to produce by withdrawing their previous agreement that business users can install at home as well, had gone negative.
Actually the hereditary peers (whose only advantagesin government are that they have been expeosed to it from before birth, and can have a long view since until recently they couldn't be "recalled" make a decreasing proportion of the Upper House.
More are life peers, which is equivalent to an idea seen in other and republican legislatures - life senators etc.
Prime Ministers when they retire from the Commons are probably worth keeping on in some form, they get life peerages if they want.
It is tending toward some sort of elected assembly, but some of the examples available of that are less than thrilling.
In a similar era the man who did a lot of the Apple Mac's user interface design ("Tog") directed a film called "Starfire" for SUN.
The idea was that it was hard to produce a next generation interface, but relatively easy to fake it.
The film is on a video unfortunately in American format (so most of our UK/EU domestic VCRs don't play it) and is good.
The major item of the workstation or office desk is a screen about 2 metres across, 1.5 m high and continuou with the desk surface, IE with a tightening curve from horizontal to vertical.
At least part of it was to be scanner, so in a nice bit of theatrical business as well as accepting paper documents and adding their image to the workspace, half a sandwhich got scanned in, and then wiped with a swipe of the hand off into the virtual rubbish bin.
It is about time that appeared as a DVD, rather than a video.
Defending against an extinction level event such as the Yucatan strike described by Alvarez et al would be prudent on a scale of megayears, but is difficult to organise on a scale of election years.
Supposing I decide the music industry is not wholly beneficial, and choose to play music in my waiting room that is distributed under a free licence of one sort or another.
It'll play on a Linux box that is there for patients to browse for refercnes etc, or on the reception desk computer.
But how do I keep track of what is playing, and most importantly of the licencing conditions that allow it to be played.
As I consider this, I am either faced with writing some sort of licence tracking software, or buying some or hoping it will be all right (it quite likely would be, but...)... or of course setting up or signing up to the sort of organisation that irritated me in the first place by demanding fees to play records, and from various accounts remitting very little of those fees to the bands or artists that make the music.
Is there a FLOSS appliation or framework that would serve to show the (UK equivalent of) RIAA inspector that due dilligence or reasonable care had been taken to avoid breaching the licence on CDs?
If not, should there be - is there a business model?
FOr a collection of artists, or the universe of artists, maybe there is - shameware, or nagging conscienceware which keeps track of how often you(r staff) play each item, and encourages you to send a donation to where it may do rather more good than to the Sinatra estate or Moody Blues relicts.
The Opera browser, which I like, also includes two Google features:-
a search box in every browser window (Its an MDI if anyone isn't used to it already) next to teh URL slot;
and if you give a "URL" as
g mysearchstring
it involkes g.
"If there were any risk to public health posed by the (unlikely) re-entry of a failed space probe and the (even more unlikely) disintegration of a few pounds of Pu in an RTG on re-entry, we'd already be dead,"
Some are. More though are dead because of diagnostic radiation.
X-raying lower backs for backache is one of those things that seems sensible to people with backache who don't report xray images, but is not. usually.
The number of deaths caused by radiation is proportional (roughly) to the number of people times the amount of exposure.
Very very frightened people put a lot of radiation into the atmosphere and the environment, in various forms such as Radon, during the fifties, and as a result various people died of radiation induced cancers who would not have otherwise.
But we don't know which they were.
A one in a million chance applied to 4 billion people (4*10e9 although I'm English) comes up 4000 times, and if the result were death only anonymity prevents prosecution.
Recalculate for 1e-6 per year and so on, and for balance, thnk of the radiation from burning coal and from advertising sun-bathing holidays.
The odds seem fine to me for a nuclear battery or several, and I'm not about to criticise sending weapons grade Plutonium further away than Pluto - seems a nice locus to put it in, but that was a wild statement and wrong.
are some of the reasons that hyperbaric chambers are not widely used.
Another reason is that their usefulness is quite limited.
People who work in pressurised environments risk the bone in their hip joints dying, probably due to the formation of small bubbles blocking the blood vessels. It is bad enough news if you are building a bridge, but to work as a surgeon for a prolonged period of a creer there would have to be vry clear evidence of effectiveness. Which is lacking.
In particular, it doesn't matter what pressure of Oxygen you apply to the outside of a solid organ (someone mentioned kidneys) unless there is a blood flow through it the transfer of Oxygen to the cells is going to be negligibly affected.
And until the oran is removed, the ordinary blood flow is quite adequate.
Do they not (still) sell a ThinkPad with Linux pre-installed? I think it has only been a small proportion of the range, but ask.
I like ThinkPads, I havn't seen another portable that closes itself into a box, my Dell and Acer before it both have screens that hover over the keys when closed, and netiehr keep out fluff nor seem rigidly supported.
One of the worries quoted as obstructing attempts by the authors of software in a healthcare organisation to release it under Free or Open Source licence is the question of liability.
They write software they would like to make available, they are in an altruistic, cooperative environment, but the lawyers for the employing organisation fear that disclaimers of liability for the use of the code may not stand in the way of action against the originating organisation.
There is activity at a high level aiming to make it possible to release healthcare software as FLOSS and I believe it is a necessary condition for stable and effective healthcare software that it be Libre or open source, and I don't know how that will turn out, but your advice and opinion would be interesting.
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I'm English, so apologies if the phrae above doesn't mean quite what I think it would if it was in a business newspaper.
Open Source movers do need to persuade the large numbers of people who believe themselves to be dependent on the model Microsoft are most associated with advancing for a living, that they are actually not so dependent.
This includes those within Microsoft.
Even though the Microsofties who are sent to such a meeting may not be the most likely to undergo a change of mind, it is an opportunity to soften their view - so long as those thousand geeks don't pong too badly, and are not rude unpleasant or stupid about it.
And no, I generally assume if someone offers me lunch that they may have an agenda of their own, but they are not being rude.
Recently.
I take the view that there is no merit in SCO, but if they were successful in asserting that they owned rightsin operating systems derived from Unix, they would surely have to continue with the argument in order to assert that all operating systems microsoft(that software house well-known to have adopted Xenix and then moved on to a new operating system re-implementing its functions - windows) produced, SCO had rights in. It would be interesting to read the licence SCO sold for a reported $10M to MS.
"Sco -vs- IBM is between SCO and IBM." I am not persuaded that it is not between Microsoft and the world.
Back a while, the UK had some serious office automation. "A Computer Called LEO" is a nice book well-worth reading.
or, like many ideas, has it already been implemented?
There are 300 million of us at the moment and that is increasing with new member countries. It would be cumbersome and the benefits are not immediately obvious to me to have a single election across the whole area. We vote for UK members in UK constituencies, French members in French consituencies and the like, in a way similar to our American cousins voting for members of their federal gov from their area, not from the other 49 states, except for their president & vice. I am not conivinced we want or need one of those. There is
Makes everything look so simple, doesn't it. Starting from now, but looking the other way, into the future, anyone who can do two things - predict which of the various possible alternative approaches to doing something in an OS distribution, or even a set of applications will in 2007 obviously have been the correct way to go; - convince the rest of us that they can see it and are right Is useful to have around, if somewhat scary.
It doesn't sound very credible that this chap BBC report is more prolific and irritating than Mr Ralsky has been reported to be. Or is the previously acknowleged king of spam in MS' sights as well?
The newspeak description of Free/Libre Software as "a different sort of monopoly" suggests to me the phrase passed through the Rt Hon MEP having come from a briefer.
So can anyone pinpoint the briefing person, company, or interest concerned?
I recently followed up such a lead in one of the 12 references to Linux in the record of the Houses of Parliament (Hansard) and determined that the Shadow Minister for Media etc had got his disinformation on DeCSS from the Daily Telegraph but I have yet to track it back through the Torygraph to wherever it was injected.
The obvious course of action for anyone who needed to edit Microsoft's office suite's documents at home was to download a copy of OpenOffice and use that.
People in small firms who do that and find it works well are likely to add a copy of OO to their work network when they next need an extra office suite seat, rahter than buying a further copy of MS' office suite. And then when MS upgrade time comes, what would anyone predict happens?
I'd assume that sufficient people have caught on to that, together with MS getting some visibility in their attacks on people who copy their software without their permission, that the sales of of MS' office suite that MS were hoping to produce by withdrawing their previous agreement that business users can install at home as well, had gone negative.
What fun!
for your kind, thoughtful, considered and amiable response.
The short names /etc /bin /usr etc need little typing.
Carpal tunnel and other work-related upper limb conditions are an occuaptional hazard of people who work with keyboards a lot.
Giving it longer names makes this more likely.
As Mallory might have said.
Actually the hereditary peers (whose only advantagesin government are that they have been expeosed to it from before birth, and can have a long view since until recently they couldn't be "recalled" make a decreasing proportion of the Upper House.
More are life peers, which is equivalent to an idea seen in other and republican legislatures - life senators etc.
Prime Ministers when they retire from the Commons are probably worth keeping on in some form, they get life peerages if they want.
It is tending toward some sort of elected assembly, but some of the examples available of that are less than thrilling.
The idea was that it was hard to produce a next generation interface, but relatively easy to fake it.
The film is on a video unfortunately in American format (so most of our UK/EU domestic VCRs don't play it) and is good.
The major item of the workstation or office desk is a screen about 2 metres across, 1.5 m high and continuou with the desk surface, IE with a tightening curve from horizontal to vertical.
At least part of it was to be scanner, so in a nice bit of theatrical business as well as accepting paper documents and adding their image to the workspace, half a sandwhich got scanned in, and then wiped with a swipe of the hand off into the virtual rubbish bin.
It is about time that appeared as a DVD, rather than a video.
Picture
paper about their approach
Defending against an extinction level event such as the Yucatan strike described by Alvarez et al would be prudent on a scale of megayears, but is difficult to organise on a scale of election years.
Extinction
deep impact
Supposing I decide the music industry is not wholly beneficial, and choose to play music in my waiting room that is distributed under a free licence of one sort or another.
... or of course setting up or signing up to the sort of organisation that irritated me in the first place by demanding fees to play records, and from various accounts remitting very little of those fees to the bands or artists that make the music.
It'll play on a Linux box that is there for patients to browse for refercnes etc, or on the reception desk computer.
But how do I keep track of what is playing, and most importantly of the licencing conditions that allow it to be played.
As I consider this, I am either faced with writing some sort of licence tracking software, or buying some or hoping it will be all right (it quite likely would be, but...)
Is there a FLOSS appliation or framework that would serve to show the (UK equivalent of) RIAA inspector that due dilligence or reasonable care had been taken to avoid breaching the licence on CDs?
If not, should there be - is there a business model?
FOr a collection of artists, or the universe of artists, maybe there is - shameware, or nagging conscienceware which keeps track of how often you(r staff) play each item, and encourages you to send a donation to where it may do rather more good than to the Sinatra estate or Moody Blues relicts.
http://www.defoam.net/
The Opera browser, which I like, also includes two Google features:- a search box in every browser window (Its an MDI if anyone isn't used to it already) next to teh URL slot; and if you give a "URL" as g mysearchstring it involkes g.
"If there were any risk to public health posed by the (unlikely) re-entry of a failed space probe and the (even more unlikely) disintegration of a few pounds of Pu in an RTG on re-entry, we'd already be dead,"
Some are.
More though are dead because of diagnostic radiation.
X-raying lower backs for backache is one of those things that seems sensible to people with backache who don't report xray images, but is not. usually.
The number of deaths caused by radiation is proportional (roughly) to the number of people times the amount of exposure.
Very very frightened people put a lot of radiation into the atmosphere and the environment, in various forms such as Radon, during the fifties, and as a result various people died of radiation induced cancers who would not have otherwise.
But we don't know which they were.
A one in a million chance applied to 4 billion people (4*10e9 although I'm English) comes up 4000 times, and if the result were death only anonymity prevents prosecution.
Recalculate for 1e-6 per year and so on, and for balance, thnk of the radiation from burning coal and from advertising sun-bathing holidays.
The odds seem fine to me for a nuclear battery or several, and I'm not about to criticise sending weapons grade Plutonium further away than Pluto - seems a nice locus to put it in, but that was a wild statement and wrong.
are some of the reasons that hyperbaric chambers are not widely used.
Another reason is that their usefulness is quite limited.
People who work in pressurised environments risk the bone in their hip joints dying, probably due to the formation of small bubbles blocking the blood vessels. It is bad enough news if you are building a bridge, but to work as a surgeon for a prolonged period of a creer there would have to be vry clear evidence of effectiveness. Which is lacking.
In particular, it doesn't matter what pressure of Oxygen you apply to the outside of a solid organ (someone mentioned kidneys) unless there is a blood flow through it the transfer of Oxygen to the cells is going to be negligibly affected.
And until the oran is removed, the ordinary blood flow is quite adequate.
To decide what Hollywood thinks perhaps there should be a film?
But which studio, producer, and who should star?
Do they not (still) sell a ThinkPad with Linux pre-installed? I think it has only been a small proportion of the range, but ask.
I like ThinkPads, I havn't seen another portable that closes itself into a box, my Dell and Acer before it both have screens that hover over the keys when closed, and netiehr keep out fluff nor seem rigidly supported.
is more apposite.
Professor,
One of the worries quoted as obstructing attempts by the authors of software in a healthcare organisation to release it under Free or Open Source licence is the question of liability.
They write software they would like to make available, they are in an altruistic, cooperative environment, but the lawyers for the employing organisation fear that disclaimers of liability for the use of the code may not stand in the way of action against the originating organisation.
There is activity at a high level aiming to make it possible to release healthcare software as FLOSS and I believe it is a necessary condition for stable and effective healthcare software that it be Libre or open source, and I don't know how that will turn out, but your advice and opinion would be interesting.