I agree AJAX would be much better suited to creating a browser based office suite from scratch, so... Why is everyone assuming that if Google and Sun do something for office apps on the web it would be AJAX based? Like there aren't 20,000 browser plugins already. What's one more. Just because AJAX is the new buzzword for web apps doesn't mean that everyone will use it. Some companies may actually look at the issues around the problem they are attempting to solve, and chose a soloution that suits the problem well.
Well, whether I patch or not, who knows and/or cares? My point is that if I gey MY system the way I want it then no one has a right to mess with it. Black hat or white hat it doesn't matter. It's not their system. They have laws that include prison time and/or fines for the black hats. Will the fact that the white hats didn't MEAN to do something bad give them immunity? What about patches that break things? Automatically updating/upgrading a box can make for wonderful evenings of reinstalls/rebuilds. My time is valuable.
But, as you point out with your "theft of resources" comment, it's not their computer, it's mine. I know from the article that the worms are strictly controlled, and are supposed to exist on the corporate/ISP networks and shouldn't touch my system, but if they do, can I sue them? Under current laws would they be just as liable as the black hat worm writers? If their nematodes get out in the wild due to some bug or configuration error, do they get the same punishments as say, someone that wrote the slammer worm?
Well, I read it. It doesn't claim that it's theft. It claims it's infringement. It in no way compares it to theft of services either. If you are trying to compare it to theft of services, you need to offer a better arguement than the flawed logic you did. If you are attempting to inform people that copyright infringement is illegal, they quite probably know that already
laptops are so popular because people want to work on things here, there, and everywhere in between. To do that I need to take my apps and data with me since there is no guarentee that the systems there and in between will have them. That would no longer be an issue if the apps and data are available. The only true need for a laptop in the scenerio presented would be if you actuall need to work on the compute while in transit, say at the airport waiting for a flight. I have two laptops, well three actually. One for work, and two for personal use of which I use the new one, and the old one is around just in case. If I didn't have to carry them around to access my data wherever I went that would be so nice.
I would love to have access to my data without dragging around that damn laptop bag with two batteries, external cd since the tiny case doesn't hold an internal, and so on.
Even in your rewriting of the text from the great grandparent post, more mainstream is still modifying Linux distributions. It's not until you re-rewrite the sentence and insert the word "other", that does not exist in the other iterations of the sentence, that it reads the way that you imagine it. Hope that helps.
P.S. Just shy of 2000 books on the shelves in the basement. Of those about 1600 have been read, 300 abandoned because the style/plot/storyline sucked too bad, and 100 await reading. Also I've been diagramming sentences with my 4th grade son.
That's like saying, "If you don't like me driving on the sidewalk and running over little kids then don't leave your house." What the artical was alluding to was that liability laws won't allow many industries to simply license out liability. I can't build a car, and then have the sales contract say "we have no liability if this vehicle bursts into flame and kills the occupants if rear ended." When Pintos did that in the 70's, Ford got bitch slapped. You notice Ford didn't rear end anyone, but they were still held negligent for making a car that explodes when rear ended. Why can software companies do this just because they license their products to their users rather than selling them?
Microsoft is perfectly free (beer and speech) to impliment the OpenDocument standard in Office. They can even release a patch that would make their older versions of the product compliant. Nothing stopping them at all. But I'm willing to bet the day they do that is the day several MS execs do swan dives into Kilauea.
Why so? I cannot see why it should read "until disgusted" rather than "forever" since the process will not end when either you or I become disgusted, or sick of it.
Unless you were commenting on my post rather than the process of technology maturation. If so you can simply not read my posts and that should fix the problem
I don't know anything about diverging fieldds and such, but it's simply a sign that the technologies have become commodities. At the early part of a technologies lifecycle only the early adopters and geeks get into it and have to know the nuts and bolts of how it works because you have to make it and maintain it. Then some others come in and you have to maintain it for them. Then the tech gets matured to the point that it becomes a commodity and they still need many of the originl geeks and adopters to maintain it, but they don't do nearly as much down in the guts of the tech anymore. Very few tech geeks nowadays could tell you all the parts that go into a working steam turbine electrical generating system, but they can sure plug in a gadget and use the electricity. This allows the next generation to focus their efforts on the next new technology, which will eventually become the next commodity, ad infinitum.
Here, I'll explain it for you. In the movie General Grievous comments that he is going to add Obi-Wan and Anakins light sabres to the collection he has from the other jedi he has killed, but nowhere in the movies is Grievous shown killing a jedi. Therefore Grievous is not ever shown killing a jedi which he must have done to get a collection of jedi light sabres. OK? With it so far? The collection consisted of more than one light sabre which is all he would have obtained from the deleted scene, so... we don't get to see him off any of the other jedi either.
So the OP was commenting that they deleted the only scene filmed that pertained to an action that must have happened several times in the storyline for Grievous to have a collection of jedi light sabres.
In the comment above mine in the thread, the poster mentioned that BSD was a devil worshiping cult. I informed him that BSD users like myself are a daemon worshiping cult. I also use linux, but don't worship penguins since I find them tasty, and consider it rather gauche to consume ones diety.
I will. Blizzard uses Bittorrent to distribute its patches for World of Warcraft, and I will be seriously hacked off if I can't get my patches and the servers lock me out because of that.
Hey, almost all schools sell "Krispy Kreme Cards". this allows you to receive a free box of donuts when you purchase one at regular price, so there is no reason that there wouldn't be TWO boxes of cargo in the vehicle.
A decent locomotive can get 400 ton-miles/gallon of diesel fuel. Your SUV gets about 20. Bit of an advantage to the loco there.:0 And a tractor trailer can get 120 ton-miles/gallon.
Oh, no argument there. Google stock is like a majority of the stocks listed today, overvalued. Actually, it is one of the MOST over valued, but it's in great company.
Isn't that what stock splits are for? Take the $600 share do a 3-1 split, and the price will adjust to somewhere around $200 a share. The holders of the stock don't make or lose any significant value, and people can now buy in to a piece of the company at a more reasonable price. Several of the stocks I own have done this ove the years.
You are correct on the mod guidelines. When you get mod points it specifically says to attempt to use them to mod up good posts rather than mod down posts that you do not like or agree with.
Oh, and for the GP I do read at -1. I'm a glutton for punishment I guess.
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I agree AJAX would be much better suited to creating a browser based office suite from scratch, so... Why is everyone assuming that if Google and Sun do something for office apps on the web it would be AJAX based? Like there aren't 20,000 browser plugins already. What's one more. Just because AJAX is the new buzzword for web apps doesn't mean that everyone will use it. Some companies may actually look at the issues around the problem they are attempting to solve, and chose a soloution that suits the problem well.
Well, whether I patch or not, who knows and/or cares? My point is that if I gey MY system the way I want it then no one has a right to mess with it. Black hat or white hat it doesn't matter. It's not their system. They have laws that include prison time and/or fines for the black hats. Will the fact that the white hats didn't MEAN to do something bad give them immunity? What about patches that break things? Automatically updating/upgrading a box can make for wonderful evenings of reinstalls/rebuilds. My time is valuable.
But, as you point out with your "theft of resources" comment, it's not their computer, it's mine. I know from the article that the worms are strictly controlled, and are supposed to exist on the corporate/ISP networks and shouldn't touch my system, but if they do, can I sue them? Under current laws would they be just as liable as the black hat worm writers? If their nematodes get out in the wild due to some bug or configuration error, do they get the same punishments as say, someone that wrote the slammer worm?
Well, I read it. It doesn't claim that it's theft. It claims it's infringement. It in no way compares it to theft of services either. If you are trying to compare it to theft of services, you need to offer a better arguement than the flawed logic you did. If you are attempting to inform people that copyright infringement is illegal, they quite probably know that already
laptops are so popular because people want to work on things here, there, and everywhere in between. To do that I need to take my apps and data with me since there is no guarentee that the systems there and in between will have them. That would no longer be an issue if the apps and data are available. The only true need for a laptop in the scenerio presented would be if you actuall need to work on the compute while in transit, say at the airport waiting for a flight. I have two laptops, well three actually. One for work, and two for personal use of which I use the new one, and the old one is around just in case. If I didn't have to carry them around to access my data wherever I went that would be so nice.
I would love to have access to my data without dragging around that damn laptop bag with two batteries, external cd since the tiny case doesn't hold an internal, and so on.
Even in your rewriting of the text from the great grandparent post, more mainstream is still modifying Linux distributions. It's not until you re-rewrite the sentence and insert the word "other", that does not exist in the other iterations of the sentence, that it reads the way that you imagine it. Hope that helps.
P.S. Just shy of 2000 books on the shelves in the basement. Of those about 1600 have been read, 300 abandoned because the style/plot/storyline sucked too bad, and 100 await reading. Also I've been diagramming sentences with my 4th grade son.
I read the grandparent post as saying that Linux was more mainstream than OpenBSD, not that OpenBSD was a version of linux.
That's like saying, "If you don't like me driving on the sidewalk and running over little kids then don't leave your house." What the artical was alluding to was that liability laws won't allow many industries to simply license out liability. I can't build a car, and then have the sales contract say "we have no liability if this vehicle bursts into flame and kills the occupants if rear ended." When Pintos did that in the 70's, Ford got bitch slapped. You notice Ford didn't rear end anyone, but they were still held negligent for making a car that explodes when rear ended. Why can software companies do this just because they license their products to their users rather than selling them?
Then I need Marajuana, and lots of it.
No, you didn't tick me off. I was just genuinly curious as to your reason. Hope the tone didn't come off as being upset.
Microsoft is perfectly free (beer and speech) to impliment the OpenDocument standard in Office. They can even release a patch that would make their older versions of the product compliant. Nothing stopping them at all. But I'm willing to bet the day they do that is the day several MS execs do swan dives into Kilauea.
Why so? I cannot see why it should read "until disgusted" rather than "forever" since the process will not end when either you or I become disgusted, or sick of it.
Unless you were commenting on my post rather than the process of technology maturation. If so you can simply not read my posts and that should fix the problem
that last sentence should begin "This process allows..."
I don't know anything about diverging fieldds and such, but it's simply a sign that the technologies have become commodities. At the early part of a technologies lifecycle only the early adopters and geeks get into it and have to know the nuts and bolts of how it works because you have to make it and maintain it. Then some others come in and you have to maintain it for them. Then the tech gets matured to the point that it becomes a commodity and they still need many of the originl geeks and adopters to maintain it, but they don't do nearly as much down in the guts of the tech anymore. Very few tech geeks nowadays could tell you all the parts that go into a working steam turbine electrical generating system, but they can sure plug in a gadget and use the electricity. This allows the next generation to focus their efforts on the next new technology, which will eventually become the next commodity, ad infinitum.
Here, I'll explain it for you. In the movie General Grievous comments that he is going to add Obi-Wan and Anakins light sabres to the collection he has from the other jedi he has killed, but nowhere in the movies is Grievous shown killing a jedi. Therefore Grievous is not ever shown killing a jedi which he must have done to get a collection of jedi light sabres. OK? With it so far? The collection consisted of more than one light sabre which is all he would have obtained from the deleted scene, so... we don't get to see him off any of the other jedi either.
So the OP was commenting that they deleted the only scene filmed that pertained to an action that must have happened several times in the storyline for Grievous to have a collection of jedi light sabres.
In the comment above mine in the thread, the poster mentioned that BSD was a devil worshiping cult. I informed him that BSD users like myself are a daemon worshiping cult. I also use linux, but don't worship penguins since I find them tasty, and consider it rather gauche to consume ones diety.
Hope that clears things up.
Will anyone miss P2P if it goes away?
I will. Blizzard uses Bittorrent to distribute its patches for World of Warcraft, and I will be seriously hacked off if I can't get my patches and the servers lock me out because of that.
No, we are a daemon worshiping cult.
Hey, almost all schools sell "Krispy Kreme Cards". this allows you to receive a free box of donuts when you purchase one at regular price, so there is no reason that there wouldn't be TWO boxes of cargo in the vehicle.
A decent locomotive can get 400 ton-miles/gallon of diesel fuel. Your SUV gets about 20. Bit of an advantage to the loco there. :0 And a tractor trailer can get 120 ton-miles/gallon.
That would be the Guardian Ad Litem that they requested.
Guardian Ad Litem : a guardian appointed by a court of justice to conduct a particular suit
Oh, no argument there. Google stock is like a majority of the stocks listed today, overvalued. Actually, it is one of the MOST over valued, but it's in great company.
Isn't that what stock splits are for? Take the $600 share do a 3-1 split, and the price will adjust to somewhere around $200 a share. The holders of the stock don't make or lose any significant value, and people can now buy in to a piece of the company at a more reasonable price. Several of the stocks I own have done this ove the years.
You are correct on the mod guidelines. When you get mod points it specifically says to attempt to use them to mod up good posts rather than mod down posts that you do not like or agree with.
Oh, and for the GP I do read at -1. I'm a glutton for punishment I guess.
Either you're not American, or you missed the mandatory "I got mine, screw you" economics seminar.