The problem comes in when someone writes a piece of code which can import the patented office-xml-documents. Also sun has to assist microsoft in lawsuits which ms starts against oo.org developers... So there's quite a big catch. Basically Sun has to assist MS in fighting the LGPL...
openoffice.org emphasises that open office is not the same as openoffice.org:
Because of trademark issues, OpenOffice.org must insist that all public communications refer to the project and software as "OpenOffice.org" or "OpenOffice.org 1.0," and not "OpenOffice" or "Open Office."
But the text says "generally known as open office" so here's a catch. On the other hand, Sun will never be able to remove code from openoffice.org:
From thje openoffice.org website:
3. Can Sun ever take away the code?
The simple answer to this is NO. Once code is released under the LGPL, it can never be taken away. Once LGPL, always LGPL. Sun has no plans to return to a closed-development model. Sun is subject to the same rules as the rest of the community, including giving back modifications under the LGPL (or a specification and reference implementation under the terms of the SISSL). Thus, Sun can never take away the code and the community's contributions to it. This code belongs to the community as guaranteed by the LGPL and the SISSL.
The 65 nm wafer-steppers have been on the market for some time already. ASML is already delivering machines fortesting with 45 nm wafersteppers. The next downscaling is already planned so it seems...
Currently I'm colleting stuff to put in my front garden as decoration and an ode to the tchnology. But remember to take all the boards out as they should be recycled. You don't want to have that high concentrations of heavy metals in the wild (your garden in this case). Also I'm thinking about a fishbowl from a monitor...
As always: trry google. 5 inch = 12.7 centimeters. But I just measured one and a cd is actuallually 12 centimeters = 4.72440945 inch (at least according to the almighty google). As the compact disc is licensed by philips, 12 cm would be a logical size (more logical then 5 inch anyway)
I've just been on holiday abroad and noticed (and knew before of course) that for almost all foreigners Holland equals The Netherlands. I myself am not from Holland but from North Brabant in The Netherlands:=)
I can only speak for Holland, but there's almost no public debate regarding privacy issues over here. The only ones making a real issue out of it are the people which are on the internet a lot (and are probably reading/. too). There's one active organisation, bits of freedom on digital rights, but that's it. Our governement wants to establish a new intelligence agency which gets the right to snoop on everyboduy they want, even if they're not suspects. Also another bill states that ISP's should keep track of all mail- and surfingtraffic for a year (Nobody knows how to do this yet...). Both aren't established yet, but will be in a year if we don't take care.
Also there's a famous beach-club who offers an option to implement RFID's under the skin to be able to pay at the bar and get faster entrance!!! That's a way to change the public opinion about RFID's...
Of course you're correct in this in theory. But nowadays a lot of laws are made on a more or less ad-hoc basis. Something happens, ie the WTC-bombing, and politicians throw up one or more new laws. What is criminal and what is not is not only decided by the politicians but also by the flood of media-attention something gets. There's talk about making cryptography illegal, so should we just adhere to that law? The governement in Orwell's 1984 had the same opinion, if you're not doing something illegal why would you mind? I mind knowing the governement (or someone else) is watching my every move. In Holland where I live the governement is talking about instituting a new intelligence agency which has the right to spy on people even if they're not suspects of a crime. Also the governement is going to pass a law which obliges ISP's to record all email- and surfingtrafic and store it for a year. If that's going to be the "democratic moral" then I'd rather be someone who resists the "society". Last (cheap shot on/. of course), what if linux is stated as "criminal" because it infringes on patents, shouldn't we use it anymore and hand over our life to ie microsoft?
And I'm not wearing a tin-foil hat (yet), I'm carrying my cellphone with me day and night, so every step I make could be tracked if the governement wants to. Sometimes though I start wondering if I should put my cellphone someplace safe or just get rid of it. The direction the whole law-making process is going is scaring me more and more.
and again the same debate which has been held many times before. At the moment being a member of for instance greenpeace is not illegal. But what if they try to name stopping a shipload of illegal wood coming in the harbour and politicians start labelling this act as "terroristic". There's a whole bunch of activities which are morally right, but which certain governements could call "illegal". Though this bill is no problem at the moment, it's a small step to use it in a way nobody (except them of course) would want them too.
Recently a couple of communigate-admins have been working on the integration of the blackberry with communigate which runs on 19 different platforms. Just do a search on the communigate mailing list. Also, I've been able to read my mail from the standard text-based browser on my nokia 3300. Don't have a blackberry so I'm not able to share any experiences with that.
The only good alternative I've found, though not open source, is communigate pro from stalker software. I've used it for some years now in my company. It includes an outlook-connector with all groupware and calendaring-features Outlook/Exchange offers with a price which is affordable. Moreover it runs on 19 different OS's.
Perhaps you're right. On the other hand it could just mean that MSNBC is really an independent business-unit of the MS-corporation. If I'd be a journalist, I would like to be able to write whatever I thought was the thruth, without being influenced by my corporate employer.
In Holland we have several systems (depending on the bank). The postbank, which I use for private banking) has just introduced a system in which a unique TAN (6 digit) is SMS-ed to a predefined number whenever you want to issue transactions. Of course one has to enter a username/password when accessing the banking-site. These can be self-chosen.
For my company I use the RABO-bank which uses a calculator in which you first have to enter a pin and then one has to enter the temporary 8-digit code which appears in the calculator.
The UK, France, Sweden and Ireland (the current presidency of the EU) have proposed to the EU to keep all traffic logs for a period of one to three years. Our Dutch government decided for a period for a year some time ago already...
We are the Dutch, all your traffic are belong to us
Over here in Holland, I didn't read anything about protecting the employee. The oncoming implementation of the antispam-law (sorry, didn't find English version yet) protects consumers, not employees. This protection is for dutch spam only. The law will be effective any day now (just has te be published in the official newspaper). Our government is of the opinion that unsolicited email received at the workplace is usefull for employees... Fortunately this is not the USA where people sue for seeing a nipple... Any employee which sues his/her employer because the employee receives spam will be laughed at...
Tapes which hold data had the same problem. I couldn't count the number of times my c64-tapes gave read-errors due to over-usage. Just a couple of bytes gone wrong and the program (usually game) was unussable.
You know what one can do with several billions? One could easily find a cure for aids, feed the world, switch to a hydrogen-economy etc etc. But no, we want to fly to Mars so we don't have to clean up the mess we created here and in a couple of billion years earth will be destroyed anyway....
We have this in the Netherlands too, I think since about three years now. I didn't hear anything about actions against users up till now though. I don't know how this system deals with crypotography either...
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The problem comes in when someone writes a piece of code which can import the patented office-xml-documents. Also sun has to assist microsoft in lawsuits which ms starts against oo.org developers... So there's quite a big catch. Basically Sun has to assist MS in fighting the LGPL...
But the text says "generally known as open office" so here's a catch. On the other hand, Sun will never be able to remove code from openoffice.org:
From thje openoffice.org website:
3. Can Sun ever take away the code? The simple answer to this is NO. Once code is released under the LGPL, it can never be taken away. Once LGPL, always LGPL. Sun has no plans to return to a closed-development model. Sun is subject to the same rules as the rest of the community, including giving back modifications under the LGPL (or a specification and reference implementation under the terms of the SISSL). Thus, Sun can never take away the code and the community's contributions to it. This code belongs to the community as guaranteed by the LGPL and the SISSL.
The 65 nm wafer-steppers have been on the market for some time already. ASML is already delivering machines fortesting with 45 nm wafersteppers. The next downscaling is already planned so it seems...
Currently I'm colleting stuff to put in my front garden as decoration and an ode to the tchnology. But remember to take all the boards out as they should be recycled. You don't want to have that high concentrations of heavy metals in the wild (your garden in this case). Also I'm thinking about a fishbowl from a monitor...
As always: trry google. 5 inch = 12.7 centimeters. But I just measured one and a cd is actuallually 12 centimeters = 4.72440945 inch (at least according to the almighty google). As the compact disc is licensed by philips, 12 cm would be a logical size (more logical then 5 inch anyway)
I've been looking for these for years now, ever since nestle announced these. Anyone know where to get these in Holland or online?
yep, that was it, although in my memory it was an oil platform... Thanks for the info:=)
I've just been on holiday abroad and noticed (and knew before of course) that for almost all foreigners Holland equals The Netherlands. I myself am not from Holland but from North Brabant in The Netherlands:=)
RFID can be used if you get lost? The range of RFID is about 2 meters most afaik...
Also there's a famous beach-club who offers an option to implement RFID's under the skin to be able to pay at the bar and get faster entrance!!! That's a way to change the public opinion about RFID's...
Or better still, that independent republic on that oil platform in the north sea (can't remember the name...)
Impressive hosts file. But not all is evil. Where would we be without osdn... (last entry in your file) and where would osdn be without ads???
Of course you're correct in this in theory. But nowadays a lot of laws are made on a more or less ad-hoc basis. Something happens, ie the WTC-bombing, and politicians throw up one or more new laws. What is criminal and what is not is not only decided by the politicians but also by the flood of media-attention something gets. There's talk about making cryptography illegal, so should we just adhere to that law? The governement in Orwell's 1984 had the same opinion, if you're not doing something illegal why would you mind? I mind knowing the governement (or someone else) is watching my every move. In Holland where I live the governement is talking about instituting a new intelligence agency which has the right to spy on people even if they're not suspects of a crime. Also the governement is going to pass a law which obliges ISP's to record all email- and surfingtrafic and store it for a year. If that's going to be the "democratic moral" then I'd rather be someone who resists the "society". Last (cheap shot on /. of course), what if linux is stated as "criminal" because it infringes on patents, shouldn't we use it anymore and hand over our life to ie microsoft?
And I'm not wearing a tin-foil hat (yet), I'm carrying my cellphone with me day and night, so every step I make could be tracked if the governement wants to. Sometimes though I start wondering if I should put my cellphone someplace safe or just get rid of it. The direction the whole law-making process is going is scaring me more and more.
and again the same debate which has been held many times before. At the moment being a member of for instance greenpeace is not illegal. But what if they try to name stopping a shipload of illegal wood coming in the harbour and politicians start labelling this act as "terroristic". There's a whole bunch of activities which are morally right, but which certain governements could call "illegal". Though this bill is no problem at the moment, it's a small step to use it in a way nobody (except them of course) would want them too.
Just tried this, but the article is showing up fine... free registration required (that's what this item is about after all....)
Recently a couple of communigate-admins have been working on the integration of the blackberry with communigate which runs on 19 different platforms. Just do a search on the communigate mailing list. Also, I've been able to read my mail from the standard text-based browser on my nokia 3300. Don't have a blackberry so I'm not able to share any experiences with that.
The only good alternative I've found, though not open source, is communigate pro from stalker software. I've used it for some years now in my company. It includes an outlook-connector with all groupware and calendaring-features Outlook/Exchange offers with a price which is affordable. Moreover it runs on 19 different OS's.
Perhaps you're right. On the other hand it could just mean that MSNBC is really an independent business-unit of the MS-corporation. If I'd be a journalist, I would like to be able to write whatever I thought was the thruth, without being influenced by my corporate employer.
In Holland we have several systems (depending on the bank). The postbank, which I use for private banking) has just introduced a system in which a unique TAN (6 digit) is SMS-ed to a predefined number whenever you want to issue transactions. Of course one has to enter a username/password when accessing the banking-site. These can be self-chosen. For my company I use the RABO-bank which uses a calculator in which you first have to enter a pin and then one has to enter the temporary 8-digit code which appears in the calculator.
We are the Dutch, all your traffic are belong to us
Over here in Holland, I didn't read anything about protecting the employee. The oncoming implementation of the antispam-law (sorry, didn't find English version yet) protects consumers, not employees. This protection is for dutch spam only. The law will be effective any day now (just has te be published in the official newspaper). Our government is of the opinion that unsolicited email received at the workplace is usefull for employees... Fortunately this is not the USA where people sue for seeing a nipple... Any employee which sues his/her employer because the employee receives spam will be laughed at...
Tapes which hold data had the same problem. I couldn't count the number of times my c64-tapes gave read-errors due to over-usage. Just a couple of bytes gone wrong and the program (usually game) was unussable.
You know what one can do with several billions? One could easily find a cure for aids, feed the world, switch to a hydrogen-economy etc etc. But no, we want to fly to Mars so we don't have to clean up the mess we created here and in a couple of billion years earth will be destroyed anyway....
Don't you forget the "right" to carry handguns? That alone costs more lives then the twintowers...
We have this in the Netherlands too, I think since about three years now. I didn't hear anything about actions against users up till now though. I don't know how this system deals with crypotography either...