I know there are paranoid managers out there but most laptop thieves wouldn't know or care about what was on the hard drives. You think that some thief is going to sell your emails about your internal ISO9002 audit?
I'm not sure that what's been done has actually been good for French culture. I was thinking about French movies, and how little comes out of France that is any good.
People like Truffaut and Godard made great movies before all this cultural protectionism. I am struggling to think of a great French movie of the past 10 years, except maybe Amelie.
I like OSS because I know that it can last for a long time, and is most likely to change based around what people want, not what suits a vendor. It's far more "free market".
Look at the VB situation - a lot of companies are going to be forced to convert to VB.NET if they want support. Go for an OSS option and support it yourself, or pay someone to. And ultimately, if a language is good, it will last and people will keep improving it.
There's another part of the "long term view". Get people using.sxw as the document standard, and we can all operate our word processing for free. There will be more competition in 3rd party tools, people will innovate the document format more.
One thing I've noticed from my own work - having people acting as "review points" can be really helpful. If I didn't go through things like system design reviews, I wouldn't get the best system design.
Likewise, if someone can write, produce and direct and the studio just accepts what comes out, where's the review points? If someone had given even me the script for AOTC, I'd have been flagging up all sorts of things.
Look at some of the Pixar "behind the scenes" things. They review, review, review. All that dialogue and arguing helps make something better. They spend a ton of time getting even the story right first.
I buy CDs from a lot of online shops. Right now, I'm looking to replace a Public Enemy album (It takes a nation of millions to hold us back). I can get it for about £7 from a store online. How much does an online store want for that?
I also know I'm going to get a sleeve, pressed CD, lyrics notes and all that.
If an online store can get me the same album for say... £3, I might be interested, but I imagine they want something like £10.
OK then. Fork OpenOffice.org to take all the Java out.
That's a much better position than OOo with Java, but is that really the highest priority? Maybe getting the OASIS file formats used a lot more is a bigger priority right now, though.
The biggest challenge I see as an OOo user is how to get two users in two companies to know that they are both using OOo and to not send each other files exported/imported to/from Word. If the user base size can be recognised, maybe it will gain in the world and we can all communicate without a Microsoft tax.
I read the article as saying that such a statement would also be true, but the point was to read what was actually said.
I think the Business Week article was great. I have read so much stuff in the "computer press" that is a dump of a press release. The best writing about computing is actually in serious newspapers as a rule.
I don't use Outlook but I've worked in places that do and the way it does all the Exchange shared calendars and the like is the difference.
The problem for Microsoft is that there's nowhere much to go with Outlook (same as most of the rest of MS Office) and the OSS developers are catching up.
I've found annoying differences between different versions of MS Office. When you used to do "File...New" it used to bring up a window. It now has it parked on the right hand side.
First time I did it, I was sitting there assuming something was up because my modal window didn't appear. Then I saw it and just thought "that's rubbish".
The storage system of OOo files make so much more sense to me. If a corruption occurs, you've got a lot more chance of resolving it.
I've had Word documents corrupt in such a way that the corruption was only recognised later (it occurred when you scrolled to a particular page). All the backups had the same corruption because it was there but not spotted. So, we had to print, scan and OCR the files and then reformat them all.
I recently had to give someone a quote for some machines and he wanted to keep the price as low as possible, so I suggested that instead of buying machines with MS Office SBE (that ends up then being 30% of the whole cost), they get OOo.
The reason they didn't want it was file incompatibility.
One thing that is starting to be noticable is how much MS Office raises the price of a PC. Dell's cheapest PC is £241. MS Office SBE OEM adds another £235. It almost doubles the PC price.
You don't have to wear a suit to "play ball in the business world". OK, sometimes (like client meetings) but even then, I've turned up for jobs that I'm subcontracting for, and the guy from the consultancy has been dressed casual. Interviews are a definite, though.
The great thing about being casual for me is that the suit I have is real nice, because I was happy to pay out good money as it gets almost no wear.
No-one gets judged on day to day work because of a suit. It's never so close that it's a swaying factor. People will find some other way to find a difference between 2 guys first.
It's bullshit anyway. The suit is dead here in the UK. It was triggered by the young start ups working on the "we don't have to do that" view and spread. Everyone who didn't realise it before realised that a suit doesn't mean a thing in terms of performance and professionalism. I haven't regularly worn a shirt and tie in 3 years.
Sure, when you go see a client for the first time, you need to drag it out of the back of the cupboard, but mostly, after meeting 1, I turn up in a shirt and good, clean trousers.
It isn't just the "geeks and nerds" either. I have an organisation round the corner from me (the UK equivalent of a Savings and Loans). It used to be shirt, tie and suit trousers. Now it's almost anything goes.
There used to be a dress policy on most nightclubs in the UK. Ben Elton (UK comedian) once did a skit on this along the lines that Hitler would get in and Jesus would not.
Only quoting, so please don't consider it as Godwin material.
I don't want to sound like a Linus kiss-ass, but I've always wanted to meet the guy because he makes me laugh. Something that's rare amongst people in computing.
to me, a film should be able to exist in its own right.
I've seen some films that book purists hated. Minority Report is a great film, but I bet there were millions of Philip K Dick fans who hated it.
Everyone should forget the book. I remember seeing American Psycho, and thought it was a slightly different reading of the book than what I had felt. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it - I did - just that it was different. And some of the stomach churning detail in the book - you couldn't show it, and anyway, it wouldn't have made sense to a viewer.
For my money, series 2 (Elizabethan times) and series 3 (Georgian times) are the best. I never quite got on with 4 (WW1) although there are some great moments. Series 1 is mostly not that good.
That's what Roger Avary (co-writer) said was the original thought. It's basically never revealed, and up to the audience to decide.
There's a term to quote people for this sort of a thing: MacGuffin. Check it out on Wikipedia.
The other one I've heard is that it's the soul of Marsellus Wallace, hence why he has a plaster on the back of his neck (although this is really because of a scar than Ving Rhames had got).
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I know there are paranoid managers out there but most laptop thieves wouldn't know or care about what was on the hard drives. You think that some thief is going to sell your emails about your internal ISO9002 audit?
Certain things are ridiculous and incompatible between EP1-3 and EP4-6. I won't write them here, but I'm sure you already know them.
People like Truffaut and Godard made great movies before all this cultural protectionism. I am struggling to think of a great French movie of the past 10 years, except maybe Amelie.
Look at the VB situation - a lot of companies are going to be forced to convert to VB.NET if they want support. Go for an OSS option and support it yourself, or pay someone to. And ultimately, if a language is good, it will last and people will keep improving it.
There's another part of the "long term view". Get people using .sxw as the document standard, and we can all operate our word processing for free. There will be more competition in 3rd party tools, people will innovate the document format more.
One thing I've noticed from my own work - having people acting as "review points" can be really helpful. If I didn't go through things like system design reviews, I wouldn't get the best system design.
Likewise, if someone can write, produce and direct and the studio just accepts what comes out, where's the review points? If someone had given even me the script for AOTC, I'd have been flagging up all sorts of things.
Look at some of the Pixar "behind the scenes" things. They review, review, review. All that dialogue and arguing helps make something better. They spend a ton of time getting even the story right first.
I also know I'm going to get a sleeve, pressed CD, lyrics notes and all that.
If an online store can get me the same album for say... £3, I might be interested, but I imagine they want something like £10.
That's a much better position than OOo with Java, but is that really the highest priority? Maybe getting the OASIS file formats used a lot more is a bigger priority right now, though.
The biggest challenge I see as an OOo user is how to get two users in two companies to know that they are both using OOo and to not send each other files exported/imported to/from Word. If the user base size can be recognised, maybe it will gain in the world and we can all communicate without a Microsoft tax.
I think the Business Week article was great. I have read so much stuff in the "computer press" that is a dump of a press release. The best writing about computing is actually in serious newspapers as a rule.
I wish the OOo team well with it, though.
The problem for Microsoft is that there's nowhere much to go with Outlook (same as most of the rest of MS Office) and the OSS developers are catching up.
First time I did it, I was sitting there assuming something was up because my modal window didn't appear. Then I saw it and just thought "that's rubbish".
I've had Word documents corrupt in such a way that the corruption was only recognised later (it occurred when you scrolled to a particular page). All the backups had the same corruption because it was there but not spotted. So, we had to print, scan and OCR the files and then reformat them all.
The reason they didn't want it was file incompatibility.
One thing that is starting to be noticable is how much MS Office raises the price of a PC. Dell's cheapest PC is £241. MS Office SBE OEM adds another £235. It almost doubles the PC price.
Another word: Access
Because sometimes the OSS alternatives just aren't good enough or are not supported adequately.
The great thing about being casual for me is that the suit I have is real nice, because I was happy to pay out good money as it gets almost no wear.
No-one gets judged on day to day work because of a suit. It's never so close that it's a swaying factor. People will find some other way to find a difference between 2 guys first.
Sure, when you go see a client for the first time, you need to drag it out of the back of the cupboard, but mostly, after meeting 1, I turn up in a shirt and good, clean trousers.
It isn't just the "geeks and nerds" either. I have an organisation round the corner from me (the UK equivalent of a Savings and Loans). It used to be shirt, tie and suit trousers. Now it's almost anything goes.
Only quoting, so please don't consider it as Godwin material.
I don't want to sound like a Linus kiss-ass, but I've always wanted to meet the guy because he makes me laugh. Something that's rare amongst people in computing.
I've seen some films that book purists hated. Minority Report is a great film, but I bet there were millions of Philip K Dick fans who hated it.
Everyone should forget the book. I remember seeing American Psycho, and thought it was a slightly different reading of the book than what I had felt. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it - I did - just that it was different. And some of the stomach churning detail in the book - you couldn't show it, and anyway, it wouldn't have made sense to a viewer.
For my money, series 2 (Elizabethan times) and series 3 (Georgian times) are the best. I never quite got on with 4 (WW1) although there are some great moments. Series 1 is mostly not that good.
There's a term to quote people for this sort of a thing: MacGuffin. Check it out on Wikipedia.
The other one I've heard is that it's the soul of Marsellus Wallace, hence why he has a plaster on the back of his neck (although this is really because of a scar than Ving Rhames had got).
Posting of the day for me. Very good.
There are some good bits if you can accept and ignore the ewoks being there.