Do you think economic jingoism by Brazil is right? Would you like your own country to do it as well? Your silence and changing the subject says volumes.
The US and Europe wrote the book on this sort of thing.
On the one hand they espouse free markets whilst subsidising inefficient industries and imposing massive import tarrifs. Farming and coal are a particularly good example.
It's a bit lame to complain when other countries do the same thing.
Indeed. The reason I originally downloaded OpenOffice was to open newer Word and Excel documents.
For our next project at work we're going to be using OOWrite for the documentation. One of the key reasons is filesize, one of my 500k RTF files is only 34k as an OO doc.
The PDF export feature (now integrated) is also incredibly useful. It's nice to be able to send a document to a customer and actually be confident what it will look like at the other end.
Whilst I like the case it's a bit pricey. In fact it costs 3 times as much as the lasty base unit I bought.
You can achieve a quiet PC for much less cash. I bought:
A Big HSF with 80mm temp controlled fan (normally runs at 200rpm).
A Fortron PSU with 120mm fan.
2 temp controlled case fans which run at 1300rpm
For about $100 you can make your machine so quiet you can barely tell it's on.
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I write military embedded software.
Our software executes direct from flash and has a startup time of 250ms, which includes all initialisation and checksumming all the code.
The last computer I bought came with a HSF that ran at 6000 rpm. The noise was ridiculous. The PSU also made quite a racket.
I bought an Artic Cooling temperature controlled HSF that achieves the same performance running at 2000 rpm. I also bought a Forton PSU with 120mm fan. I now have trouble telling whether my computer is switched on.
If computer noise annoys you, take a look as this site.
Indeed.
Here's a conversation I had with a sales droid last week:
British Telecom (Woman with thick Indian accent following a script): Hello. I'm sure you've heard of broadband internet.
Me: We have it.
BT: Sorry?
Me: We already have broadband. Surely you should know, BT are the service provider.
BT: What sort of internet connection do you have?
Me: ADSL
BT: H.....B.....
Me: ADSL is broadband. We get it from you.
BT: Are you interested in receiving broadband?
Me: No
I seem to recall they had a 'travelator' on Gladiators.
A steep uphill travelator going the wrong way followed by a rope swing would certainly liven up a trip through the airport.
You're right that hardware limitations play a big part in OS choice for engine controllers and the like.
Plus of course you don't actually need a lot of the functionality that is provided by Linux.
If your Kernel requirements specify a 200ms start-up time, 32k code space and 8k RAM your choices are rather limited.
You could add loads of external memory, but that pushes up the unit cost, increases EMC and means you can't use the bus for I/O.
I don't remember what the de facto standard was when I was at school. It certainly wasn't the same as it is now. Technology changes constantly, that is its nature. When I as at school we used BBC micros, then Acorn Archimedes. 15 years ago this could have been described as the 'de facto' standard.
Children need to be learn general principles not how to use Microsoft Office 2000 SP2. Quite right. Given that for most users one word processor is much the same as another, I'd love to see MSOffice dropped just because of it's enormous cost. Especially as the constantly changing file structures force schools into an expensive upgrade cycle.
Is there anywhere in the world where an EULA such as this would actually be enforceable?
Most EULA's start by claiming that the software is provided with no warranty. In most of Europe this is not permitted, something must be fit for the purpose. Claiming that it's a licence and not a sale doesn't help either, many countries treat anything that is sold as a product as a normal sale and subject to normal laws on purchasing.
Whilst I haven't done any background checking on the Initiative for Software Choice I think what they seem to be saying is that the best tool for any particular job should be picked.
It's the usual suspects (MS included). A bill which requires Open Source to be considered will harm their business model. Therefore it must be stopped.
Note that the bill doesn't prevent the use of proprietary software, it merely requires people who procure software for the public sector to consider open source. That sounds like software choice to me.
"The ISC believes that if this 'preference' legislation were to be enacted it would severely limit software choices for South Australiaâ(TM)s government, harming not only its citizens, but also South Australiaâ(TM)s vibrant information and communications technology (ICT) industry."
Paraphrasing: This bill will reduce the amount of money being payed to the Microsoft Corporation. They indirectly pay my salary so please don't do it.
I would urge anyone who hasn't done so to read the bill in question. It's a marvelous piece of plain speech quite unlike the normal utterings of a politician.
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The US and Europe wrote the book on this sort of thing.
On the one hand they espouse free markets whilst subsidising inefficient industries and imposing massive import tarrifs. Farming and coal are a particularly good example.
It's a bit lame to complain when other countries do the same thing.
If this were introduced a large proportion of the population (including me) would lose their driving licence within one day.
The latest Gillette ones are over $3 per blade.
But who really needs 3 razor blades anyway? Isn't two enough? I bought a Sainsbury's (supermarket) razor and the blades are only 50c.
For our next project at work we're going to be using OOWrite for the documentation. One of the key reasons is filesize, one of my 500k RTF files is only 34k as an OO doc.
The PDF export feature (now integrated) is also incredibly useful. It's nice to be able to send a document to a customer and actually be confident what it will look like at the other end.
You can achieve a quiet PC for much less cash. I bought:
A Big HSF with 80mm temp controlled fan (normally runs at 200rpm).
A Fortron PSU with 120mm fan.
2 temp controlled case fans which run at 1300rpm
For about $100 you can make your machine so quiet you can barely tell it's on.
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It was built in 1953 and had a 3 speed crash gearbox
They look like this.
I write military embedded software. Our software executes direct from flash and has a startup time of 250ms, which includes all initialisation and checksumming all the code.
I bought an Artic Cooling temperature controlled HSF that achieves the same performance running at 2000 rpm. I also bought a Forton PSU with 120mm fan. I now have trouble telling whether my computer is switched on.
If computer noise annoys you, take a look as this site.
British Telecom (Woman with thick Indian accent following a script): Hello. I'm sure you've heard of broadband internet.
Me: We have it.
BT: Sorry?
Me: We already have broadband. Surely you should know, BT are the service provider.
BT: What sort of internet connection do you have?
Me: ADSL
BT: H.....B.....
Me: ADSL is broadband. We get it from you.
BT: Are you interested in receiving broadband?
Me: No
As you can imagine this is unlikely to go down well.
You might think that, but I took part in an eVoting trial earlier this year. The voting system wouldn't work with Mozilla and required me to use IE.
I've got this terible pain in all the diodes down my left side.
We run PC-Lint or Splint on your source code.
Then we tart up the output, stick it in a report and charge you 10 grand.
I seem to recall they had a 'travelator' on Gladiators. A steep uphill travelator going the wrong way followed by a rope swing would certainly liven up a trip through the airport.
Firebird has much beter a startup time than Mozilla does at the moment.
I buy CDs from play. They cost about 9 quid delivered.
I also notice that www.msnbot.co.uk is available to be registered. Anybody fancy buying it and redirecting it to www.google.co.uk?
You're right that hardware limitations play a big part in OS choice for engine controllers and the like.
Plus of course you don't actually need a lot of the functionality that is provided by Linux.
If your Kernel requirements specify a 200ms start-up time, 32k code space and 8k RAM your choices are rather limited.
You could add loads of external memory, but that pushes up the unit cost, increases EMC and means you can't use the bus for I/O.
The next major Mozilla version (1.5) will use Firebird as the browser. Check out the roadmap for more details.
When I as at school we used BBC micros, then Acorn Archimedes. 15 years ago this could have been described as the 'de facto' standard.
Children need to be learn general principles not how to use Microsoft Office 2000 SP2.
Quite right. Given that for most users one word processor is much the same as another, I'd love to see MSOffice dropped just because of it's enormous cost. Especially as the constantly changing file structures force schools into an expensive upgrade cycle.
Most EULA's start by claiming that the software is provided with no warranty. In most of Europe this is not permitted, something must be fit for the purpose.
Claiming that it's a licence and not a sale doesn't help either, many countries treat anything that is sold as a product as a normal sale and subject to normal laws on purchasing.
Has anyone ever actually read an EULA anyway?
Here's a link to the bill.
The lobby group consists of these people.
It's the usual suspects (MS included). A bill which requires Open Source to be considered will harm their business model. Therefore it must be stopped. Note that the bill doesn't prevent the use of proprietary software, it merely requires people who procure software for the public sector to consider open source. That sounds like software choice to me.
"The ISC believes that if this 'preference' legislation were to be enacted it would severely limit software choices for South Australiaâ(TM)s government, harming not only its citizens, but also South Australiaâ(TM)s vibrant information and communications technology (ICT) industry."
Paraphrasing:
This bill will reduce the amount of money being payed to the Microsoft Corporation. They indirectly pay my salary so please don't do it.
I would urge anyone who hasn't done so to read the bill in question. It's a marvelous piece of plain speech quite unlike the normal utterings of a politician.