Also, I wonder if terrorism is what has fueled this dangerous direction they have taken.
30 years of terrorist activity from the IRA didn't require ID cards or this level of snooping, don't bother saying "what about the London underground bombings?" either, they were all Brits.
This is being done because they can and the civil service have always wanted to.
It's a bitch but who you vote for will make no difference until a political party will shoot 75% of the civil service and make the other 25% do a proper days work.
Last I heard OOXML was an ECMA approved specification that had received 19 contradictions from around the world when put forward to ISO for approval as a standard.
ODF on the other hand is a standard, ISO/IEC 26300:2006, the confusion between specification and standard has been 'enhanced' recently.
A decent warship could do the job before breakfast Apart from the fact that our dearest Tony B.liar has left us without one that has enough fuel and ordanance to accomplish said mission your probably correct;)
Why did MS think that businesses want to be the guinea pigs? Has the entire executive team at MS lost it?
Perhaps they knew businesses wouldn't, so this was a way of "releasing" the software in 2006 rather than 2007 but still having an extra 10 weeks to work on patches before support became an issue.
Or maybe they may have had to refund money from some of their contracts if a new OS was not released before 2007?
this is a very valid point, things cn become too complex to be useful.
It would appear the MS products are approaching this limit at a fast rate of knots.
PS I posted because I screwed moderation on you:P
I think we Linux geeks have "failure to launch" syndrome.
This is exactly correct.
There was a fortunate* accident at home last week where the main computer (dual boot Xtreamly Painful and Ubuntu) became a little damp whilst switched on.
This sytem spent most of its time in XP due to various preferences from the kids and SO:(
My laptop runs ( was supplied with as well ) Ubuntu, so I set up accounts for all and sundry sorted Java for a game, Flash *choke* and set some standard bookmarks.
Result is silence, not even a 'how do I do this', kids range 6 - 17, logs are filling up quickly so the strange thing is that something is going right.
I have yet to decide if I have time to fix the main box, I'd love my laptop back but the constant lack of 'whats gone wrong?' questions is almost worth buying another laptop for me.
did I say fortunate? damn Freudian slips I meant un.. unfortunate,
Very very slowly, EU pen pushers use it internally,
individual countries pen pushers use it because 'they' use it
very large companies that deal directly with national companies use ti because 'they' use it,
sub-contractor companies etc etc etc
Once the penpushers in Europe start using it, it will force its way down the chain, same as with MS formats.
amounts to "If you think of looking for a patant that we might violate your so fscking FIRED"
No company can afford to do due dilligence as this would mean triple damages in the following court case.
It would also mean not writing any software whilst you check all these over generalised obvious patant grants.
Yes every single one is obvious, why?
Once one paper process has been computerised it becomes obvious that they all can.
My IBM/Lenovo T50 laptop came with Ubuntoo installed, I have re-installed it because of a failed HD and it was one of the easiest installs I have ever done.
As long as you have a network connection to the net it really is a piece of piss.
No, it's not a troll, It's someone speaking reality.
Yamamoto knew that the production capabilities of the US far outweighed the production capabilities of Japan, in machines, technology and men, the comment is correctly modded as funny, it is also true.
I always put Anti-Vir on Microsoft based PC's It's German and very efficient at what it does.
It has a real-time scanner as well that uses about 3% on a 2 GHz Celeron
They have also developed a version for *nix type systems for e-mail scanning
You can definitely do worse than this crowd
Cluster/grid it, if you use multi core CPU's you have fewer machines, one of those machines go down and you lose major processing power.
Remember to ask yourself, "How much is MY job worth if those trades DON'T get processed because of something I recommended?."
Plan your response accordingly
Your boss is already looking for a potential scapegoat, make sure your not it.
Ignore the humourless man above, I had a chuckle, BTW, I have never used a mac in any manner shape or form, so I never comment regarding them, however I do find the MS windows gui clunky. But I'm more used to having a gui so I can open a few CLI's to hop about in, definite bias in my case since all my experience of MS CLI's is less than 'nice'
fraid not AC, the PDP 11 was a lovely 16 bit system with, eventually, a 22 bit address bus, I used to fix them at component level along with
PDP 8's 12 bits and effectively the first risc processors,
VAX 32 bit and very nice as well.
Your probably thinking of the DEC System 10 and 20's those were 36 bit and were meant to compete with IBM at the time.
It would appear that most people have missed the point of an unelected house.
It has no actual legal right to prevent the law passed by the commons from passing into statute. Its only right is to delay and ask for reconsideration. It is allowed to inject new clauses for reconsideration by the commons but should have no expectation of any clauses being kept.
It is effectively a revision chamber only.
The parliment act is used to bypass this process.
Parliment itself has had several opportunities to introduce an elected chamber of officials as a revision chamber, but have rejected this option as it would dilute the power of the commons.
Tony B. Liar is aware of this and would never allow a second chamber that would be fully legitimate, this would go for most british prime ministers
As to software implementations, Microsoft is not aware of any patent claims it owns or controls that would be necessarily infringed by a software implementation that conforms to the specification's extensions. If Microsoft later becomes aware of any such necessary patent claims, Microsoft also agrees to offer a royalty-free patent license on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions to any such patent claims for the purpose of publishing and consuming the extensions set out in the specification.
Is this the same reasonable and non-discriminatory terms that exclude open source from other MS extentions etc?
Well I don't know about a Long Tail, but over this side of the pond it's called shaking the tail and is a term that comes from the game of cricket ( bloody boring but has some good sayings).
Although it does sound like that it is not the primary purpose.
In the UK the various moblie providers also provide phones that are locked to their network.
Unlocking the phone allows you to use the phone on any network, the bypassing of the IMEI is a side effect. If the theif was any good at all he would have had a chain to pass it to to get it out of the UK and unlocked elsewhere.
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30 years of terrorist activity from the IRA didn't require ID cards or this level of snooping, don't bother saying "what about the London underground bombings?" either, they were all Brits.
This is being done because they can and the civil service have always wanted to.
It's a bitch but who you vote for will make no difference until a political party will shoot 75% of the civil service and make the other 25% do a proper days work.
Last I heard OOXML was an ECMA approved specification that had received 19 contradictions from around the world when put forward to ISO for approval as a standard.
:)
ODF on the other hand is a standard, ISO/IEC 26300:2006, the confusion between specification and standard has been 'enhanced' recently.
Can't think why that might be
Thus proving they're not dyslexic
Yes, that would be that poxy crazy frog ditty. Yes that was the UK
/me hangs head in shame at poor taste of young Brits
Regarding number 2, it was APPLE that he expected to make OS/X run on generic INTEL hardware not hackers.
Regarding number 5 guess he reckons IBM is pissing off their customer base somehow.
Or maybe they may have had to refund money from some of their contracts if a new OS was not released before 2007?
this is a very valid point, things cn become too complex to be useful. It would appear the MS products are approaching this limit at a fast rate of knots. PS I posted because I screwed moderation on you :P
This is exactly correct.
There was a fortunate* accident at home last week where the main computer (dual boot Xtreamly Painful and Ubuntu) became a little damp whilst switched on.
This sytem spent most of its time in XP due to various preferences from the kids and SO
My laptop runs ( was supplied with as well ) Ubuntu, so I set up accounts for all and sundry sorted Java for a game, Flash *choke* and set some standard bookmarks.
Result is silence, not even a 'how do I do this', kids range 6 - 17, logs are filling up quickly so the strange thing is that something is going right.
I have yet to decide if I have time to fix the main box, I'd love my laptop back but the constant lack of 'whats gone wrong?' questions is almost worth buying another laptop for me.
did I say fortunate? damn Freudian slips I meant un
Very very slowly, EU pen pushers use it internally,
individual countries pen pushers use it because 'they' use it
very large companies that deal directly with national companies use ti because 'they' use it,
sub-contractor companies etc etc etc
Once the penpushers in Europe start using it, it will force its way down the chain, same as with MS formats.
Welcome to Slashdot
Where the readers never RTFA and they've stopped reading the bloody comments properly as well.
amounts to "If you think of looking for a patant that we might violate your so fscking FIRED"
No company can afford to do due dilligence as this would mean triple damages in the following court case.
It would also mean not writing any software whilst you check all these over generalised obvious patant grants.
Yes every single one is obvious, why?
Once one paper process has been computerised it becomes obvious that they all can.
My IBM/Lenovo T50 laptop came with Ubuntoo installed, I have re-installed it because of a failed HD and it was one of the easiest installs I have ever done.
As long as you have a network connection to the net it really is a piece of piss.
No, it's not a troll, It's someone speaking reality.
Yamamoto knew that the production capabilities of the US far outweighed the production capabilities of Japan, in machines, technology and men, the comment is correctly modded as funny, it is also true.
Whats the problem with that?
Clueless, uses MS Windows + AOL
Non-clueless, block all that is AOL,
Non-clueless, internet experience improves 30,000%
No problem
I always put Anti-Vir on Microsoft based PC's It's German and very efficient at what it does.
It has a real-time scanner as well that uses about 3% on a 2 GHz Celeron
They have also developed a version for *nix type systems for e-mail scanning
You can definitely do worse than this crowd
So now we have completely different lifeforms available does that mean we have to go and kill them?
Cluster/grid it, if you use multi core CPU's you have fewer machines, one of those machines go down and you lose major processing power.
Remember to ask yourself, "How much is MY job worth if those trades DON'T get processed because of something I recommended?."
Plan your response accordingly
Your boss is already looking for a potential scapegoat, make sure your not it.
Ignore the humourless man above, I had a chuckle, BTW, I have never used a mac in any manner shape or form, so I never comment regarding them, however I do find the MS windows gui clunky.
But I'm more used to having a gui so I can open a few CLI's to hop about in, definite bias in my case since all my experience of MS CLI's is less than 'nice'
fraid not AC, the PDP 11 was a lovely 16 bit system with, eventually, a 22 bit address bus, I used to fix them at component level along with
PDP 8's 12 bits and effectively the first risc processors,
VAX 32 bit and very nice as well.
Your probably thinking of the DEC System 10 and 20's those were 36 bit and were meant to compete with IBM at the time.
It would appear that most people have missed the point of an unelected house.
It has no actual legal right to prevent the law passed by the commons from passing into statute. Its only right is to delay and ask for reconsideration. It is allowed to inject new clauses for reconsideration by the commons but should have no expectation of any clauses being kept.
It is effectively a revision chamber only.
The parliment act is used to bypass this process.
Parliment itself has had several opportunities to introduce an elected chamber of officials as a revision chamber, but have rejected this option as it would dilute the power of the commons.
Tony B. Liar is aware of this and would never allow a second chamber that would be fully legitimate, this would go for most british prime ministers
As to software implementations, Microsoft is not aware of any patent claims it owns or controls that would be necessarily infringed by a software implementation that conforms to the specification's extensions. If Microsoft later becomes aware of any such necessary patent claims, Microsoft also agrees to offer a royalty-free patent license on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions to any such patent claims for the purpose of publishing and consuming the extensions set out in the specification.
Is this the same reasonable and non-discriminatory terms that exclude open source from other MS extentions etc?
Well I don't know about a Long Tail, but over this side of the pond it's called shaking the tail and is a term that comes from the game of cricket ( bloody boring but has some good sayings).
it couldn't possibly be expected could it?
Although it does sound like that it is not the primary purpose.
In the UK the various moblie providers also provide phones that are locked to their network.
Unlocking the phone allows you to use the phone on any network, the bypassing of the IMEI is a side effect.
If the theif was any good at all he would have had a chain to pass it to to get it out of the UK and unlocked elsewhere.