In fact its downright prohibited by law in CT,MA,NH for a cop to ticket you, if you travel just 5-10 MHPH above speed limit.
Add GA (10 MPH) to that list.
The cops were real nice and they just warned me to get the headlight fixed the first thing in morning.
Compare this with MS cops who were downright rude and laughing when they handed the ticket.
Their demeanor was such that whatever i said could be used against me.
That's probably a reflection of the individual cops, not the jurisdiction. Just the other night, my girlfriend's brother had an accident (swerved to avoid an oncoming car that had crossed the center line and hit the curb hard enough that the airbags deployed). I had driven his mom out there to keep him company while waiting for the tow truck.
One cop stopped behind us, blinded us with the spotlight on his cruiser, yelled at me when I tried to walk over to ask him what he wanted, accused us of tresspassing (we were on a main road, on the publically-owned easement), and then drove off when he found out what the situation was.
Then, not five minutes later, another cop showed up, immediately walked over to see what the problem was (instead of mysteriously sitting in his car, shining lights on us), called a new tow truck for us (because we'd been waiting for a very long time -- here's a tip: tow trucks summoned by cops arrive much faster than those summoned by the insurance company!), and then waited with us until it came, all the while making friendly conversation.
The first cop was old (gray-haired) and employed by the county police. The second was young and with the sheriff's department. Were either age or agency a factor in their demeanor? Nah, I think the first guy was just an asshole.
I'm a Comcast subscriber with heavy usage, but I don't pay much attention to exactly how much I'm using or how fast it is. I've been noticing slow speeds every once in a while for a long time now, but I have no idea how to go about carefully measuring it. What's an easy way to do so?
You know what the worst part is? Even if there weren't any "technical issues," OOXML shouldn't be a standard because ISO already has an existing standard covering the same thing! And that preexisting standard leverages other standards (eg. SVG, MathML) while Microsoft's travesty doesn't! So even regardless of "technical issues," making OOXML a standard is ludicrously stupid!
Oh, what a load of crap! So-called "education" majors are worthless -- catch pans for people who flunked out of real majors. It's a Hell of a lot better for anyone wanting to be a techer to get their degree in the field they intend to teach instead.
Of course my opinion affected reality! You (and others) read and thought about it, didn't you?
Besides, your argument doesn't make any sense. My opinion is "invalid" because I expressed it on Slashdot? That's what Slashdot is for! Yeah, sure, if I cared so deeply that I wanted to make the damn thing my life's calling I'd be writing to my congressman about it instead of posting here, but that doesn't make posting here "invalid." And if it did, then your opinion would be equally "invalid" too!
Anyway, back to the point: you want an ugly truth? The ugly truth is that assorted computer fraud probably costs the economy billions of dollars each year (and yes, I'm guessing wildly -- this is Slashdot, after all!). And the vast majority of that fraud is enabled and perpetuated by computer-illiterate, incompetent users who couldn't secure their Windows box if their life depended on it and jump for joy when their Nigerian friend tips them off to another great "business deal!"
No, I'm not about to go invent the "luser police." But that doesn't change the ugly truth that the economy and the Internet would be better off if all the incompetents shut off their zombified, spam-spewing machines until they learned how to properly admin them!
however, you have to admit that completely emulating the look and feel of the windows os is a better tack than being passive aggressive at them to switch to an utterly foreign gui
No, we don't! Why? Because if a user is unable to comprehend a slightly different GUI -- and any GUI is not all that different from any other -- that just indicates that the user is computer-illiterate to begin with, and has no business using the computer at all! Users like that are a danger to themselves and others because they're likely to be (or already have been) victims of malware or phishing. Better they sit on their hands and watch daytime TV than have their virus-ridden, botnet-serving computer stealing all their credit card numbers!
In other words, if a person is competent to use Windows, they're also competent to use a Mac. If they can't use a Mac, then they shouldn't be using Windows either!
There's no such thing as a "reasonably designed word processor." Text editors and markup languages can be reasonably designed, and publishing/layout applications can be reasonably designed. But "word processing" applications, as the bastard combination of both, are inherently poorly designed.
...so why not expect that cost to be passed along to customers?
Because the average customer isn't willing to pay. Therefore, in order to have network neutrality happen, it has to be forced to happen by government fiat.
No, if they're working only at hone then there's no problem keeping the repository on the laptop. Either the development is distributed (and a server is needed), or it's not (and a sever isn't needed). Those are the only two possibilities.
Okay, but if your distributed "repository" isn't connected to anybody else, then you're still not making a "commit" anyway -- so I still don't see the point.
If I'm primarily developing code on my laptop, but need to make changes to a test machine, then I'd have to fire up my laptop in order to commit those changes from the test machine if I'm using SVN.
Even if you're primarily developing code on your laptop, the repository still ought to be on a server. Then you don't have to fire up the laptop. That's how SVN is supposed to work -- putting the repository on your laptop is doing it wrong.
With SVN, you have to set up a central repository (not difficult, but tedious) and if you're working with the code on multiple machines that aren't always on the same network you either have to have a SVN repository on each one and manage syncing them somehow, or one machine can't make commits when the other isn't on the network. Frustrating.
...what?
The way SVN is supposed to work is that you set up one machine to hold the repository (which ought to be accessible from either the Internet or a VPN, I suppose, if you move around a lot or something), and you can make commits to it from anywhere. You seem to be trying to say you find this difficult, but I don't understand how. Is it really that hard to connect to the Internet when you want to commit code?
Also, I was always told that free software was about "free as in speech" not "free as in I'm sleeping on your couch."
In the case of copyleft, it's also "free as in I can give you all the same rights I have." In order to be able to fulfill that when a patent license is involved, the license has to be sublicensable and transferrable. The issue is not cost; the issue is that the software and all associated licenses have to be able to travel from persons A to B to C without them having to get permission from some random third party!
Clearly the ISO bodies are being corrupted (packed) by MS and I really don't understand why. MS has never obeyed any standard and they will not obey this one either.
Well, obviously Microsoft doesn't care about standards itself. However, others do, and Microsoft wants to abuse that fact. Understand now?
The existence of shit like that in the spec -- not to mention the obsolete HTML export described in the post below yours -- indicate that the OOXML architecture is just as shoddy as the grandparent post asserts!
In other words, he's right and you're trolling, so STFU and HAND.
It is available under a reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) license.
Right, and nowadays, with the existence of Free Software, the only licenses that should qualify as "reasonable and non-discriminatory" are ones that Free Software can use!
Wouldn't that only work if multiple customers were attached to the same swarm? In my experience, swarms tend to be in the tens of people range, distributed all over the world -- I think it's highly unlikely that anybody would be on the same network.
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Add GA (10 MPH) to that list.
That's probably a reflection of the individual cops, not the jurisdiction. Just the other night, my girlfriend's brother had an accident (swerved to avoid an oncoming car that had crossed the center line and hit the curb hard enough that the airbags deployed). I had driven his mom out there to keep him company while waiting for the tow truck.
One cop stopped behind us, blinded us with the spotlight on his cruiser, yelled at me when I tried to walk over to ask him what he wanted, accused us of tresspassing (we were on a main road, on the publically-owned easement), and then drove off when he found out what the situation was.
Then, not five minutes later, another cop showed up, immediately walked over to see what the problem was (instead of mysteriously sitting in his car, shining lights on us), called a new tow truck for us (because we'd been waiting for a very long time -- here's a tip: tow trucks summoned by cops arrive much faster than those summoned by the insurance company!), and then waited with us until it came, all the while making friendly conversation.
The first cop was old (gray-haired) and employed by the county police. The second was young and with the sheriff's department. Were either age or agency a factor in their demeanor? Nah, I think the first guy was just an asshole.
I'm a Comcast subscriber with heavy usage, but I don't pay much attention to exactly how much I'm using or how fast it is. I've been noticing slow speeds every once in a while for a long time now, but I have no idea how to go about carefully measuring it. What's an easy way to do so?
No, but they should be.
Right, and nobody dies from HIV either, but that doesn't stop the colloquialism "he died of AIDS" from being a useful and descriptive term.
We should really call it Obnoxiously Offensive XML, to cut down on confusion.
You know what the worst part is? Even if there weren't any "technical issues," OOXML shouldn't be a standard because ISO already has an existing standard covering the same thing! And that preexisting standard leverages other standards (eg. SVG, MathML) while Microsoft's travesty doesn't! So even regardless of "technical issues," making OOXML a standard is ludicrously stupid!
Oh, what a load of crap! So-called "education" majors are worthless -- catch pans for people who flunked out of real majors. It's a Hell of a lot better for anyone wanting to be a techer to get their degree in the field they intend to teach instead.
Of course my opinion affected reality! You (and others) read and thought about it, didn't you?
Besides, your argument doesn't make any sense. My opinion is "invalid" because I expressed it on Slashdot? That's what Slashdot is for! Yeah, sure, if I cared so deeply that I wanted to make the damn thing my life's calling I'd be writing to my congressman about it instead of posting here, but that doesn't make posting here "invalid." And if it did, then your opinion would be equally "invalid" too!
Anyway, back to the point: you want an ugly truth? The ugly truth is that assorted computer fraud probably costs the economy billions of dollars each year (and yes, I'm guessing wildly -- this is Slashdot, after all!). And the vast majority of that fraud is enabled and perpetuated by computer-illiterate, incompetent users who couldn't secure their Windows box if their life depended on it and jump for joy when their Nigerian friend tips them off to another great "business deal!"
No, I'm not about to go invent the "luser police." But that doesn't change the ugly truth that the economy and the Internet would be better off if all the incompetents shut off their zombified, spam-spewing machines until they learned how to properly admin them!
No, we don't! Why? Because if a user is unable to comprehend a slightly different GUI -- and any GUI is not all that different from any other -- that just indicates that the user is computer-illiterate to begin with, and has no business using the computer at all! Users like that are a danger to themselves and others because they're likely to be (or already have been) victims of malware or phishing. Better they sit on their hands and watch daytime TV than have their virus-ridden, botnet-serving computer stealing all their credit card numbers!
In other words, if a person is competent to use Windows, they're also competent to use a Mac. If they can't use a Mac, then they shouldn't be using Windows either!
If that were true, you wouldn't be here. Therefore, since you're here, you're wrong. QED. : )
There's no such thing as a "reasonably designed word processor." Text editors and markup languages can be reasonably designed, and publishing/layout applications can be reasonably designed. But "word processing" applications, as the bastard combination of both, are inherently poorly designed.
Because the average customer isn't willing to pay. Therefore, in order to have network neutrality happen, it has to be forced to happen by government fiat.
Ah, ok -- now it makes sense!
No, if they're working only at hone then there's no problem keeping the repository on the laptop. Either the development is distributed (and a server is needed), or it's not (and a sever isn't needed). Those are the only two possibilities.
Okay, but if your distributed "repository" isn't connected to anybody else, then you're still not making a "commit" anyway -- so I still don't see the point.
Even if you're primarily developing code on your laptop, the repository still ought to be on a server. Then you don't have to fire up the laptop. That's how SVN is supposed to work -- putting the repository on your laptop is doing it wrong.
...what?
The way SVN is supposed to work is that you set up one machine to hold the repository (which ought to be accessible from either the Internet or a VPN, I suppose, if you move around a lot or something), and you can make commits to it from anywhere. You seem to be trying to say you find this difficult, but I don't understand how. Is it really that hard to connect to the Internet when you want to commit code?
In the case of copyleft, it's also "free as in I can give you all the same rights I have." In order to be able to fulfill that when a patent license is involved, the license has to be sublicensable and transferrable. The issue is not cost; the issue is that the software and all associated licenses have to be able to travel from persons A to B to C without them having to get permission from some random third party!
Actually, it was "tits" -- the first guy was talking about his hairy man-boobs.
Also, Slashdot doesn't censor anything; he censored himself (because he was too stupid to swear properly).
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Well, obviously Microsoft doesn't care about standards itself. However, others do, and Microsoft wants to abuse that fact. Understand now?
'Nuff said.
The existence of shit like that in the spec -- not to mention the obsolete HTML export described in the post below yours -- indicate that the OOXML architecture is just as shoddy as the grandparent post asserts!
In other words, he's right and you're trolling, so STFU and HAND.
Right, and nowadays, with the existence of Free Software, the only licenses that should qualify as "reasonable and non-discriminatory" are ones that Free Software can use!
Wouldn't that only work if multiple customers were attached to the same swarm? In my experience, swarms tend to be in the tens of people range, distributed all over the world -- I think it's highly unlikely that anybody would be on the same network.
You're talking to a guy who's eagerly awaiting the (phase 2) OpenMoko. So, yes.
I was (sarcastically) making the point that, as far as I'm concerned, Windows Mobile is no better than, and just as proprietary as, the iPhone's OS.