Then they came up with two wheezes: no tax for artists, to try and encourage them to live (or more correctly officially live) there, and a complete free for all based on EU money, which transferred taxpayers money from the rest of the EU to some very, very nasty criminal gangs with connections at the highest level of government
You know, anyone with even half a brain could easily check the internet to demonstrate how completely false and vicious are your assertions.
Firstly, the tax-free regime for artists was introduced in 1969 - our boom didn't begin until 1989 when Intel established its first manufacturing plant outside of the US in Leixlip, Ireland. That led to a flood of US companies following suit: IBM, HP, Google, CitiCorp, the list goes on. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s Ireland attracted more than 50% of all Foreign Direct Investment into Europe. For a country with less than 4 million people it was an incredible achievement.
The EU likes to boast about the investment it made in Ireland, but it was trivial in comparison to the investment made my US corporations here.
But people like you, lazy slurmongerers, with a racist agenda, will never let the facts get in the way of your vicious polemics.
Terrific package. It's the only office product w use. We use tons of features and rarely have problems. But....
Finally, after months of dishing out gobbledygook, someone has decided to explain the new features in plain English. Keep it up.
If they are serious about this project they won't slip back into this:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.3.0.html
which is all we've had until very recently.
After all the effort put into 2.3, couldn't somebody have sat down to write a couple of paragraphs in plain English explaining what the new features are?
Do the leaders of this project live in a marketing stone age?
A system I have been using for some years now beats any approach I have seen, whether it be Bayesian, blacklisting or whatever. As soon as I get spam on an email address I terminate that address, create a new one and inform all relevant parties, explaining that my address has been compromised. People understand. It works. Since November I have not received one single spam message and I get at least ten emails per day.
Why would this administration have rolled over when they had Microsoft over a barrel? Campaign contributions you might say. Possibly, but let me suggest a more likely reason. This administration is comitted to the "Project for an American Century". If you read this document you will find that one of it's goals is to ensure American domination of world commerce using all forms of leverage at its disposal, including military. I suggest that this idealogically driven administration views Microsoft as a tool in this program. The compete domination of worldwide computer technology via the WinTel platform is a major component of economic power.
The following extract from the Columbia report speaks volumes for sort of politically expedient trash which is allowed to "Administer" this once great institution:( cf.Section 5.8 p117) "Testifying the same day,Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Sean O'Keefe indicated the Administration's agreement with the planned performance gate: The concept presented by the task force of a decision gate in two years that could lead to an end state other than the U.S.core complete Station is an innovative approach,and one the Administration will adopt.It calls for NASA to make the necessary management reforms to successfully build the core complete Station and operate it within the $8.3 billion available through FY 2006 plus other human space flight resources. If NASA fails to meet the standards, then an end-state beyond core complete is not an option.The strategy places the burden of proof on NASA performance to ensure that NASA fully implements the needed reforms. Mr.O'Keefe added in closing: A most important next step -one on which the success of all these reforms hinges is to provide new leadership for NASA and its Human Space Flight activities. NASA has been well-served by Dan Goldin. New leadership is now necessary to continue moving the ball down the field with the goal line in sight.The Administration recognizes the importance of getting the right leaders in place as soon as possible,and I am personally engaged in making sure that this happens. A week later,Sean O'Keefe was nominated by President Bush as the new NASA Administrator." End of extract
Microsoft confirms its allout focus on enterprise computing in this release. Combined with Windows server 2003, which is doing exceptionally well in the Enterprise arena, they are determined to assume the market dominance in server computing that they have already achieved in the consumer area. Of course there is no reason for the home user to upgrade. I use Office 97 (on a slow machine) at home and wouldn't dream of wasting money on any upgrade. For home or stand alone computing Mozilla offerings combined with OpenOffice are a nobrainer for any computer literate end consumer with a reasonably fast machine.
Will Microsoft win the Enterprise war? You bet they will. Will Opensource survive and flourish? You can bet on that also. The present and future environment is a win-win for both approaches.
This is right on the mark. The single most effective weapon in the opensource community's armor right now is silence. Every posting which fails to point out the real nature of this lawsuit - a stock scam - gives it credibility and feeds the scam. Seasoned operators in the financial services community understand this, which is why the stock will continue to be pumped as long as the opensource community fails to switch off the SCO loudspeaker. In effect, Slashdot and sites like it are functioning as amplifiers for the SCO case, and are simply pawns in a game they don't understand.
Unfortunately, even the most intelligent civilisations will ultimately run out of energy in the cold dark end point of the universe. No way 'round the old 2nd law. All the food in the Restaurant will be served ice-cold.
Red Hat, Suse and other Linux distributors need to understand that some businesses will require a form of indemnity insurance if they are to adopt Linux. The very nature of the OS model leaves it wide open to SCO style abuse. Distributors could easily set up a scheme whereby for an additional premium they indemnify their clients against IP claims. A large insurance company could take on the risk analysis and reinsurance companies would spread the risk. Companies who felt the need would pony up the insurance premium. What these distributors and most commentators have failed to understand is that this flaw in the OS model cannot be fixed by recoding, it needs a modification of the commercial package on offer to business.
MSFT's stock price performance since the beginning of this year, where it has badly underperformed its peers, is very telling. The market senses the worm is turning, MSFT has acknowledged the threat, and now they are beginning to take it seriously.
But the more attention they give to opensource competition the more publicity they give it. That's the beauty of the OS model, MSFT marketing dollars go to raise the OS profile.
"as long as you're not trying to assign individual IP addresses to trillions of nanobots."
Excuse moi, but how else are we expected to fight the invaders from fluidic space ?
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Then they came up with two wheezes: no tax for artists, to try and encourage them to live (or more correctly officially live) there, and a complete free for all based on EU money, which transferred taxpayers money from the rest of the EU to some very, very nasty criminal gangs with connections at the highest level of government
You know, anyone with even half a brain could easily check the internet to demonstrate how completely false and vicious are your assertions. Firstly, the tax-free regime for artists was introduced in 1969 - our boom didn't begin until 1989 when Intel established its first manufacturing plant outside of the US in Leixlip, Ireland. That led to a flood of US companies following suit: IBM, HP, Google, CitiCorp, the list goes on. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s Ireland attracted more than 50% of all Foreign Direct Investment into Europe. For a country with less than 4 million people it was an incredible achievement. The EU likes to boast about the investment it made in Ireland, but it was trivial in comparison to the investment made my US corporations here. But people like you, lazy slurmongerers, with a racist agenda, will never let the facts get in the way of your vicious polemics.
I would appreciate it more if they didn't require "OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 or later Novell edition for Windows"
Terrific package. It's the only office product w use. We use tons of features and rarely have problems. But.... Finally, after months of dishing out gobbledygook, someone has decided to explain the new features in plain English. Keep it up. If they are serious about this project they won't slip back into this: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.3.0.html which is all we've had until very recently.
After all the effort put into 2.3, couldn't somebody have sat down to write a couple of paragraphs in plain English explaining what the new features are? Do the leaders of this project live in a marketing stone age?
A system I have been using for some years now beats any approach I have seen, whether it be Bayesian, blacklisting or whatever. As soon as I get spam on an email address I terminate that address, create a new one and inform all relevant parties, explaining that my address has been compromised. People understand. It works. Since November I have not received one single spam message and I get at least ten emails per day.
Why would this administration have rolled over when they had Microsoft over a barrel? Campaign contributions you might say. Possibly, but let me suggest a more likely reason. This administration is comitted to the "Project for an American Century". If you read this document you will find that one of it's goals is to ensure American domination of world commerce using all forms of leverage at its disposal, including military. I suggest that this idealogically driven administration views Microsoft as a tool in this program. The compete domination of worldwide computer technology via the WinTel platform is a major component of economic power.
The following extract from the Columbia report speaks volumes for sort of politically expedient trash which is allowed to "Administer" this once great institution:( cf.Section 5.8 p117)
"Testifying the same day,Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Sean O'Keefe indicated the Administration's agreement with the planned performance gate:
The concept presented by the task force of a decision gate in two years that could lead to an end state other than the U.S.core complete Station is an innovative approach,and one the Administration will adopt.It calls for NASA to make the necessary management reforms to
successfully build the core complete Station and operate it within the $8.3 billion available through FY 2006 plus other human space flight resources. If NASA fails to meet the standards, then an end-state beyond core complete is not an option.The strategy places the burden of proof on NASA performance to ensure that NASA fully implements the needed reforms.
Mr.O'Keefe added in closing:
A most important next step -one on which the success of all these reforms hinges is to provide new leadership for NASA and its Human Space Flight activities. NASA has been well-served by Dan Goldin. New leadership is now necessary to continue moving the ball down the field with the goal line in sight.The Administration recognizes the importance of getting the right leaders in
place as soon as possible,and I am personally engaged in making sure that this happens.
A week later,Sean O'Keefe was nominated by President Bush as the new NASA Administrator." End of extract
Microsoft confirms its allout focus on enterprise computing in this release. Combined with Windows server 2003, which is doing exceptionally well in the Enterprise arena, they are determined to assume the market dominance in server computing that they have already achieved in the consumer area. Of course there is no reason for the home user to upgrade. I use Office 97 (on a slow machine) at home and wouldn't dream of wasting money on any upgrade. For home or stand alone computing Mozilla offerings combined with OpenOffice are a nobrainer for any computer literate end consumer with a reasonably fast machine. Will Microsoft win the Enterprise war? You bet they will. Will Opensource survive and flourish? You can bet on that also. The present and future environment is a win-win for both approaches.
This is right on the mark. The single most effective weapon in the opensource community's armor right now is silence. Every posting which fails to point out the real nature of this lawsuit - a stock scam - gives it credibility and feeds the scam. Seasoned operators in the financial services community understand this, which is why the stock will continue to be pumped as long as the opensource community fails to switch off the SCO loudspeaker. In effect, Slashdot and sites like it are functioning as amplifiers for the SCO case, and are simply pawns in a game they don't understand.
Unfortunately, even the most intelligent civilisations will ultimately run out of energy in the cold dark end point of the universe. No way 'round the old 2nd law. All the food in the Restaurant will be served ice-cold.
Memo to Redmond: Get on to Pete Townsend pronto and buy the licence to Pinball Wizard. What a launch we'll have ! We'll call it Tilting at Windows
Red Hat, Suse and other Linux distributors need to understand that some businesses will require a form of indemnity insurance if they are to adopt Linux. The very nature of the OS model leaves it wide open to SCO style abuse. Distributors could easily set up a scheme whereby for an additional premium they indemnify their clients against IP claims. A large insurance company could take on the risk analysis and reinsurance companies would spread the risk. Companies who felt the need would pony up the insurance premium. What these distributors and most commentators have failed to understand is that this flaw in the OS model cannot be fixed by recoding, it needs a modification of the commercial package on offer to business.
MSFT's stock price performance since the beginning of this year, where it has badly underperformed its peers, is very telling. The market senses the worm is turning, MSFT has acknowledged the threat, and now they are beginning to take it seriously. But the more attention they give to opensource competition the more publicity they give it. That's the beauty of the OS model, MSFT marketing dollars go to raise the OS profile.
"as long as you're not trying to assign individual IP addresses to trillions of nanobots." Excuse moi, but how else are we expected to fight the invaders from fluidic space ?