I'm not saying that there are open-source alternatives for Access, but I AM saying that anyone using Access for a production project or anything but the basest prototyping or GUI access to a nice Oracle/MySQL/MSSQL server needs to be kidney-punched repeatedly for making stupid business decisions.
Even when I was first starting out (with Microsoft Works on a PentiumMMX Packard Bell, which had a grotesquely huge library of templates compared to Office 97/2000, natch), I can't remember finding the templates and design wizards to be useful at all.
Arguably, they were even more confusing than a blank page was.
Disclaimer: Haven't see the templates in Office XP/2003, don't know if they don't suck.
Either: A) Shows you have little faith in the first vest -or- B) Shows you're concerned about REALLY not getting shot even if it means taking a few extra inconvenient precautions.
Clearly you've had different experiences than I have...I've had direct-from-Intel 815s, 845s, and 875s all have massive stability problems compared to the same-chipset boards from Asus.
I submit anecdotal evidence from one source is pointless.
Actually, many genetically engineered crops are designed to be hardier so you can use MORE pesticide/weed killer on the fields for a greater chance of killing everything but your damn canola crop or whatever. =P
The more radical environmental groups ARE religions. Consider: They ignore facts and debate over facts (irradiated food dangers), despise anything that might help that isn't in their narrow band of solutions (nuclear vs. coal power, vs. solar or wind for one), have subjective beliefs as facts ("nature", whatever that is, is more important and seperate from humans), have creeds that may or may not be based in reality (human engineering is always stupider than nature, even if nature is random)...
Just because they're not theistic doesn't mean they're not a religion.
Hrm. Every time a Linux site gets a major breach, it's reported by the site itself. Even when there's no defacement and no one could have found out.
Do you think Microsoft would publically announce that the Windows Update (for example) server had been compromised unless forced or it was obvious? I can guarantee you they would not.
I work at a software company. We've been breached twice due to inadequate firewalling in the past year (and the previous network admin had to seek new employment), but we don't let our customers know that. It might help them to know, but not likely, and regardless it would only hurt our reputation so unless our website gets defaced for a significant period of time, we will NEVER admit to having been cracked.
I suspect it's much the same at any other company--you'll notice all those sites that announced breaches are NOT companies, but rather organizations that feel their constituents have a right to know.
Incidentally, pretty shitty troll. You're supposed to go for getting emotional responses, not post stupid shit that's basically refutable by anyone with a pulse.
"Airfoil data" in this context is a summary of performance data over various airspeeds for a given wing cross-sectional shape. There are endless books of these in hard-copy, and they're absolutely critical if you want to design an airframe without having access to a wind tunnel or extensive prototyping facilities.
We tried DDR, but unfortunately she's got chronic joint problems and can't play for more than maybe 10min at a time. Such is the peril of physical video games. =P
*grumble* Consider it a holdover from a business law class in which all the examples were that extreme because the prof wanted to make some sort of point (what? I don't have any idea.)
You are not reading what I am writing. It is established in common law and written law in the United States that if I walk into a Best Buy, and a guy in a Best Buy shirt and nametag sells me a TV for $5, rings it up and everything, I have a valid contract with Best Buy to buy that TV for $5 because I have a reasonable expectation that the guy is a legal authorized Best Buy employee. I don't have to return the TV. This is called the Doctrine of Apparent Authority.
Contrast this with my buying a TV from a guy in a trenchcoat and ski mask from a van parked near the loading dock of the Best Buy. In a situation like that, what you have said will apply.
Basically, while recieving stolen property gives no consideration in general, regardless of knowledge, there is an exception involving a transaction with a business where I, as a customer, have every reason to expect the transaction to be valid.
Wrong. Doctrine of Apparent Authority--the employee is liable, but the employee's actions are valid and binding if outsiders have a reasonable belief that the employee was authorized, regardless of whether he actually was.
RTFA, but the clearest example:
You run a store. Random Hoser A walks in while you're taking a leak in a store uniform, and sells a $300 TV to Random Hoser B for $5. Random Hoser B is not liable, and gets a $5 TV, because A looked and acted like an employee. B is definitely liable for theft and the remaining $295+damages. However, the TV stays with A.
Similarly, if a SCO employee released code in a genuine and apparently authorized manner (and the guy's manager did in fact post such), the code is licensed under the GPL to Linux, even if SCO's higher management didn't authorize it, under the same doctrine. Linux is indemnified and the transaction is valid, and it is the unauthorized employees who are at fault.
Granted, if it was really the fault of rogue employees at SCO, it might be a good-faith thing to do to replace the code, but seeing how SCO is acting like a rabid bear holding a shark, I see no reason to give them any consideration.
And the thing about this whole situation is that IBM/Linux are indemnified due to "apparent authority"--that is, any employee of SCO can be assumed by an outside party to be acting with authority granted by SCO, if a "reasonable person" would believe they would have the authority.
In this case, it's clear a "reasonable person" would believe that the head of Caldera/SCO's UnitedLinux department would have code release authority, and thus the most SCO could do is go after their own employees for violating trade secret laws and their employment agreements that siad they couldn't release.
My fiancee and I play Dynasty Warriors. Good blend of tactics and button-mashing, and it's fun to run around like a maniac and beat up 100s or 1000s of enemy troops basically single-handedly.
I hope you never want to run for political office or get involved in something where politics are heavy (higher corp. management, university prof, etc.).
Since you believe that it's not possible to atone for things you did decades ago, after all.
I can output my word document in a useful format using programs other than word, free fonts, etc. To my knowledge, the only program that can do anything useful with a Warcraft III map file is Warcraft III.
And if I were going to write anything with any software, you can bet I'd check the damn EULA to see if they were even thinking about claiming my words as their own. Because that matters.
Warcraft III maps, I don't give a shit about--they are only useful in one specific, very proprietary context. If that changes, I might be more upset--but if that changes, I bet there's a 3rd-party tool made to generate that filetype without restrictions too.
*shrugs* I think the real problem with the open source movement is that people want their free to be as in beer. If you weren't paying for a RHN subscription you really have no right to bitch about up2date service, especially as you could just download the patches from their ftp site manually if it was that big a deal.
Actaully, if you weren't paying for up2date and using it regularly or on more than one machine, congratulations! You helped sink consumer Red Hat.
The point is freedom of choice. If someone uses all Microsoft software except for the base OS, which is linux (the scenario you described), that's a win for linux and a loss for Windows. Also, a person running Office XP on Wine(X)/CrossoverOffice is probably much more likely to switch to OpenOffice fulltime, just as I'm more likely to run linux full-time if I have access to my NTFS partitions read-write reliably.
Finally, a VERY valid point is that Windows costs anywhere from $50 to $300ish for a desktop or pro edition. That's cash in the bank if I use Linux, even if I subsequently waste said cash on Office XP.
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To quote:
"Lemme guess, you're going to come over to beat me up, but you can't read the road signs to find the way to my house."
Seriously, I don't care how tough you are--do you realize the percentage of geeks who are angry firearms owners? =P
I'm not saying that there are open-source alternatives for Access, but I AM saying that anyone using Access for a production project or anything but the basest prototyping or GUI access to a nice Oracle/MySQL/MSSQL server needs to be kidney-punched repeatedly for making stupid business decisions.
Even when I was first starting out (with Microsoft Works on a PentiumMMX Packard Bell, which had a grotesquely huge library of templates compared to Office 97/2000, natch), I can't remember finding the templates and design wizards to be useful at all.
Arguably, they were even more confusing than a blank page was.
Disclaimer: Haven't see the templates in Office XP/2003, don't know if they don't suck.
Either:
A) Shows you have little faith in the first vest
-or-
B) Shows you're concerned about REALLY not getting shot even if it means taking a few extra inconvenient precautions.
Clearly you've had different experiences than I have...I've had direct-from-Intel 815s, 845s, and 875s all have massive stability problems compared to the same-chipset boards from Asus.
I submit anecdotal evidence from one source is pointless.
Possible conjunctions:
Biotech is viable and safe because they have prevented possible problems through genetic neutering.
Just one of many possible solutions to this fun and exciting word game you've proposed. =P
Actually, many genetically engineered crops are designed to be hardier so you can use MORE pesticide/weed killer on the fields for a greater chance of killing everything but your damn canola crop or whatever. =P
The more radical environmental groups ARE religions. Consider: They ignore facts and debate over facts (irradiated food dangers), despise anything that might help that isn't in their narrow band of solutions (nuclear vs. coal power, vs. solar or wind for one), have subjective beliefs as facts ("nature", whatever that is, is more important and seperate from humans), have creeds that may or may not be based in reality (human engineering is always stupider than nature, even if nature is random)...
Just because they're not theistic doesn't mean they're not a religion.
Radical Environmentalism is just as faith-based as any other religion, regardless of whether it's monotheistic or even has gods at all.
Hear, hear! Total agreement.
Hrm. Every time a Linux site gets a major breach, it's reported by the site itself. Even when there's no defacement and no one could have found out.
Do you think Microsoft would publically announce that the Windows Update (for example) server had been compromised unless forced or it was obvious? I can guarantee you they would not.
I work at a software company. We've been breached twice due to inadequate firewalling in the past year (and the previous network admin had to seek new employment), but we don't let our customers know that. It might help them to know, but not likely, and regardless it would only hurt our reputation so unless our website gets defaced for a significant period of time, we will NEVER admit to having been cracked.
I suspect it's much the same at any other company--you'll notice all those sites that announced breaches are NOT companies, but rather organizations that feel their constituents have a right to know.
Incidentally, pretty shitty troll. You're supposed to go for getting emotional responses, not post stupid shit that's basically refutable by anyone with a pulse.
Poor troll. YHL. FOAD.
"Airfoil data" in this context is a summary of performance data over various airspeeds for a given wing cross-sectional shape. There are endless books of these in hard-copy, and they're absolutely critical if you want to design an airframe without having access to a wind tunnel or extensive prototyping facilities.
We tried DDR, but unfortunately she's got chronic joint problems and can't play for more than maybe 10min at a time. Such is the peril of physical video games. =P
Okay, I'll accept that. =)
*grumble* Consider it a holdover from a business law class in which all the examples were that extreme because the prof wanted to make some sort of point (what? I don't have any idea.)
That would be the spammers and the people who are making money from hosting spammers.
And funny how only one of the blacklists (SPEWS, I think) is really heavy-handed, while the others are very reasonable...yet all get attacked.
I don't buy your premise.
You are not reading what I am writing. It is established in common law and written law in the United States that if I walk into a Best Buy, and a guy in a Best Buy shirt and nametag sells me a TV for $5, rings it up and everything, I have a valid contract with Best Buy to buy that TV for $5 because I have a reasonable expectation that the guy is a legal authorized Best Buy employee. I don't have to return the TV. This is called the Doctrine of Apparent Authority.
Contrast this with my buying a TV from a guy in a trenchcoat and ski mask from a van parked near the loading dock of the Best Buy. In a situation like that, what you have said will apply.
Basically, while recieving stolen property gives no consideration in general, regardless of knowledge, there is an exception involving a transaction with a business where I, as a customer, have every reason to expect the transaction to be valid.
Here's the contract: the social one. In the form of copyright law.
You = troll.
You = 0wn3d.
Wrong. Doctrine of Apparent Authority--the employee is liable, but the employee's actions are valid and binding if outsiders have a reasonable belief that the employee was authorized, regardless of whether he actually was.
RTFA, but the clearest example:
You run a store. Random Hoser A walks in while you're taking a leak in a store uniform, and sells a $300 TV to Random Hoser B for $5. Random Hoser B is not liable, and gets a $5 TV, because A looked and acted like an employee. B is definitely liable for theft and the remaining $295+damages. However, the TV stays with A.
Similarly, if a SCO employee released code in a genuine and apparently authorized manner (and the guy's manager did in fact post such), the code is licensed under the GPL to Linux, even if SCO's higher management didn't authorize it, under the same doctrine. Linux is indemnified and the transaction is valid, and it is the unauthorized employees who are at fault.
Granted, if it was really the fault of rogue employees at SCO, it might be a good-faith thing to do to replace the code, but seeing how SCO is acting like a rabid bear holding a shark, I see no reason to give them any consideration.
And the thing about this whole situation is that IBM/Linux are indemnified due to "apparent authority"--that is, any employee of SCO can be assumed by an outside party to be acting with authority granted by SCO, if a "reasonable person" would believe they would have the authority.
In this case, it's clear a "reasonable person" would believe that the head of Caldera/SCO's UnitedLinux department would have code release authority, and thus the most SCO could do is go after their own employees for violating trade secret laws and their employment agreements that siad they couldn't release.
My fiancee and I play Dynasty Warriors. Good blend of tactics and button-mashing, and it's fun to run around like a maniac and beat up 100s or 1000s of enemy troops basically single-handedly.
I hope you never want to run for political office or get involved in something where politics are heavy (higher corp. management, university prof, etc.).
Since you believe that it's not possible to atone for things you did decades ago, after all.
I can output my word document in a useful format using programs other than word, free fonts, etc. To my knowledge, the only program that can do anything useful with a Warcraft III map file is Warcraft III.
And if I were going to write anything with any software, you can bet I'd check the damn EULA to see if they were even thinking about claiming my words as their own. Because that matters.
Warcraft III maps, I don't give a shit about--they are only useful in one specific, very proprietary context. If that changes, I might be more upset--but if that changes, I bet there's a 3rd-party tool made to generate that filetype without restrictions too.
*shrugs* I think the real problem with the open source movement is that people want their free to be as in beer. If you weren't paying for a RHN subscription you really have no right to bitch about up2date service, especially as you could just download the patches from their ftp site manually if it was that big a deal.
Actaully, if you weren't paying for up2date and using it regularly or on more than one machine, congratulations! You helped sink consumer Red Hat.
Yeah, the Linux Fat32 driver is about on par with the Win98 driver, not the NT-based ones.
The point is freedom of choice. If someone uses all Microsoft software except for the base OS, which is linux (the scenario you described), that's a win for linux and a loss for Windows. Also, a person running Office XP on Wine(X)/CrossoverOffice is probably much more likely to switch to OpenOffice fulltime, just as I'm more likely to run linux full-time if I have access to my NTFS partitions read-write reliably.
Finally, a VERY valid point is that Windows costs anywhere from $50 to $300ish for a desktop or pro edition. That's cash in the bank if I use Linux, even if I subsequently waste said cash on Office XP.