I can't use all of the features in Office 200 yet....
The "Output to Parchment" feature is very nice but support for non-Latin fonts is terrible. I did find that the "detect heresy" macro wouldn't work properly until the Council of Nicea service pack, but that's a wait of 123 years. Well, actually, that's about the right amount of time between service packs
The user is not a guinea pig that you can f*ck around with.
The user isn't going to be using 0.xx releases. These are for early adopters, developers and testers, who are only to happy to f*ck around with themselves. If the user wants this program, then the user can wait for a milestone or until the code hits the magical 1.0 release.
Do you remember Illustrator 1.0? I do. Most users would not find it very useful at all.
The SCO fiasco crap could have easily ended if Linus could produce some sort of audit trail, send it to SCO, and say "here's who contributed what, go take it up with the author".
"It's not our side that isn't identifying the code. We'll work damn hard to identify everything they care to name," Torvalds said. "In fact, the source control system is out there in the public, and it identifies the source and the reason for patches," mentioning the BitKeeper repository he's used for the past two years to keep track of code in the heart, or kernel, of Linux
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No. I allege that SCO is full of it, and that the Linux process is already the most transparent process in the whole industry. Let's face it, nobody else even comes close to being as good at showing the evolution and source of every single line of code out there. The only party that has had serious problems clarifying what they are talking about is SCO, and now when details start emerging like with RCU, it's clearly about IP that they had nothing to do with, and don't even own. I'm sure that they are confident that they own the collective work of Unix, but that's a separate thing entirely legally from being the actual copyright owner of any specific section of code.
How much more of an audit trail do you want? The SCO-job was gonna happen. One way or another.
You can legally lend a commercial CD to a friend, give him a blank CD-R, let him use your computer, and help him burn the CD-R which he can keep for his own private use.
The law does not state with specificity what "making a copy for a friend" entails and any friend of mine is going to say that she's the one who typed:
I'll continue to exercise my right to engage in the fair use of my legally-purchased, copyrighted material without worrying about a knock on my door in the wee hours just because I contravened the letter of the law.
Just wait until they replace analog outs with digital speaker connections. Completely unnecessary, but it keeps you from plugging the old tape deck straight in.
Unless they replace your ears with wireless digital implants, you don't get noise from the speakers without DAC. The point at which the DAC occurs is the point at which you tap the signal. A few dollars worth of wire, 15 minutes of time and less than an ounce of solder will get back your un-DRM'd analog audio stream.
Yes, we're all impressed that you've read No Logo. Your strident over-simplification still makes you seem like a 15-year old slamming his bedroom door in a fit of pique.
I was pointing out that your manner of expression weakens your message. If the Republican/Randian dig is aimed at me, you couldn't be further from my political leanings
Guess it was too much to expect that the ".ca" would tip you off that our world views might be a liiiitle different.
I am sorry, but if so is the case, then why aren't scientifics and/or government agencies takinng care of it instead.
From the FA, had you chosen to read it:
'As a major risk carrier, the insurance industry can only responsibly support the introduction of a new technology if it can evaluate and calculate its inherent risks,' says Swiss Re. 'A risk needs to be identified before its consequences can be measured and a decision can be reached on the optimal risk management approach...
... A concern for many insurance companies could be that claims such as those related to asbestos exposure could be repeated. Recent illness-related claims have sometimes dated back to exposure in the 1970s, and have cost insurance companies billions of euro.
It seems to me that a the board of directors of a corporation that may find itself financially affected by unintended consequences which arise from the use of nanotechnology probably has a duty to its shareholders to be at least a little nervous about possible future liabilities.
Look, I am not trying to defend Microsoft here. But I do have small tool kit, a first aid kit, a pressure guage, and a fire extinguisher in my car. Purchased at my own expense; not provided by the auto manufacturer.
Did you install your own airbags, brakelines, windshield and headlights? Those came standard with my car--and (metaphorically) with my OS.
I really dont see what the big fuss from some politicians about going to Mars. 500 years ago sailors went to the New World (risking their lives) with really no garunteed return on investments.
Yeegads, you're right! The two problems are nearly identical. Like the Portuguese and Spanish, we'll just draw on our thousands of years of spaceflight experience and apply it in an inventive way to this new challenge.
That Jesus lived is accepted historical fact. That he rose from the dead was witnessed by over 500 people many of whom were tortured and killed for saying that they had seen him.
None of this "evidence" would meet minimum evidentiary standards today. The Gospels seem to consist of third hand accounts compiled many years after the alleged "historical facts" took place. Their authorship cannot be definitively asserted. Whatever their religious importance, they are not historical documents.
Sorry, but we do not have any extant "documentary evidence" that the events described in the Gospels actually occurred. Neither of the contemporary historians who mentioned Jesus confirmed the details contained in the Gospels, and there are inconsistencies within the Gospels themselves./P>
Would they really do that if it was a conspiracy?
If I say "yes", I'm not engaging in any more outrageous supposition than what you're putting forward.
Prove with documentary evidence that is didn't happen.
Right after you "prove with documentary evidence" that it did. You haven't and you can't since you'll open the Gospels themselves up to a level of scrutiny which they cannot withstand.
Believe what you need to believe, by all means, but you might not want to rely on the authenticity of the 4 canonical Gospels as historical documents. It doesn't lend your argument the weight that you need.
I can't see it taking much of openoffice's market share.
It's very cool that we're discussing OpenOffice and "marketshare" in the same sentence.
Or are we getting ahead of ourselves here?
Re:Cone of Silence? More like cone of annoyance.
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The scene in Minority Report which has the Tom Cruise character walking through a gauntlet of targeted advertising ("John Anderson, wouldn't you like a Guiness right now?" "John Anderson, this car offers you...") is my personal hell.
Will doesn't like the Debian installer. He says there are things about it that annoy him. Got it?
I've installed 10s, maybe 100s of debian boxes and never had any problem with the installer.
Will has installed "10s" of Debian boxes and he says there are things about the install process that annoy him. Although you're undoubtedly 7337, you haven't offered him anything which would make those annoyances go away. So the things about the Debian install process which have bothered him will continue to bother him [1]. Got it?
It's 15 minutes of work to do partitioning, basic hardware config and bootstrapping, reboot, select the packages you need, let it update and pur for a while.
Unless, like Will, the things which annoy you about Debian cannot be solved with 15 minutes of work, selecting the packages, then letting it update and purr for a while... Got it?[2]
If you have real problems with the installer you should ask yourself if Debian's the right distro for you, maybe something that hides the complexity (as you see it) like Knoppix or Lindows is better for you.
Will asked himself that question and decided that "no, Debian is not always the distro for me". That was before someone else pointed out that the next-gen installer is approaching useability, and Will said he'd give it a try. Got it?
Relax, faithful Debian centurion. You'll still be allowed to use your favorite distro. Who knows the new Debian installer may even have solved Will's problems. Soon, everyone might be happy.
Got it?
Good.
[1] As someone else has pointed out, this is a manpower issue, not necessarily Debian's fault, got it?
[2] Will did say that he likes Debian once it's up and running, it's just that the install process has some show-stopping annoyances. Got it?
If Scott wants to stand on a street-corner and shout his views on why his advertising should be embraced by all users to all passers by, he is invited to do so.
He may run afoul of municipal noise bylaws, however. Freedom of speech is still no guarantee of freedom to be heard.
Except for the Slashdot mind control rays which force you to tediously click on the link, tediously skim past the story and then tediously post about the tedious futility of it all.
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this article has a farily severe misspelling
We need a "+1 Unintentional Irony" modifier.
I can't use all of the features in Office 200 yet....
The "Output to Parchment" feature is very nice but support for non-Latin fonts is terrible. I did find that the "detect heresy" macro wouldn't work properly until the Council of Nicea service pack, but that's a wait of 123 years. Well, actually, that's about the right amount of time between service packs
The user is not a guinea pig that you can f*ck around with.
The user isn't going to be using 0.xx releases. These are for early adopters, developers and testers, who are only to happy to f*ck around with themselves. If the user wants this program, then the user can wait for a milestone or until the code hits the magical 1.0 release.
Do you remember Illustrator 1.0? I do. Most users would not find it very useful at all.
The SCO fiasco crap could have easily ended if Linus could produce some sort of audit trail, send it to SCO, and say "here's who contributed what, go take it up with the author".
Linus did say that.
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How much more of an audit trail do you want? The SCO-job was gonna happen. One way or another.
Whatever.
From the link:
The law does not state with specificity what "making a copy for a friend" entails and any friend of mine is going to say that she's the one who typed:cdrecord --pad -v --eject dev=0,0,0 speed=8 ./*.wav [enter]
I'll continue to exercise my right to engage in the fair use of my legally-purchased, copyrighted material without worrying about a knock on my door in the wee hours just because I contravened the letter of the law.
Just wait until they replace analog outs with digital speaker connections. Completely unnecessary, but it keeps you from plugging the old tape deck straight in.
Unless they replace your ears with wireless digital implants, you don't get noise from the speakers without DAC. The point at which the DAC occurs is the point at which you tap the signal. A few dollars worth of wire, 15 minutes of time and less than an ounce of solder will get back your un-DRM'd analog audio stream.
What right do you have to make a copy for your friend?
This one?
Be interesting to see how well this initiative flies in a global marketplace.
Yes, we're all impressed that you've read No Logo. Your strident over-simplification still makes you seem like a 15-year old slamming his bedroom door in a fit of pique.
I was pointing out that your manner of expression weakens your message. If the Republican/Randian dig is aimed at me, you couldn't be further from my political leanings
Guess it was too much to expect that the ".ca" would tip you off that our world views might be a liiiitle different.
I am sorry, but if so is the case, then why aren't scientifics and/or government agencies takinng care of it instead.
From the FA, had you chosen to read it:
It seems to me that a the board of directors of a corporation that may find itself financially affected by unintended consequences which arise from the use of nanotechnology probably has a duty to its shareholders to be at least a little nervous about possible future liabilities.
Aaah, to be 15 again.
There is, to the best of my recollection, only one Venus.
In this universe!
Well, Phillip Greenspun does pose a very interesting question about that exact issue.
And that just proves you're not Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Look, I am not trying to defend Microsoft here. But I do have small tool kit, a first aid kit, a pressure guage, and a fire extinguisher in my car. Purchased at my own expense; not provided by the auto manufacturer.
Did you install your own airbags, brakelines, windshield and headlights? Those came standard with my car--and (metaphorically) with my OS.
It was published 4 years after 1984!
Well, if it had been published before 1984, it would be considered proto-Orwellian.
HTH
I really dont see what the big fuss from some politicians about going to Mars. 500 years ago sailors went to the New World (risking their lives) with really no garunteed return on investments.
Yeegads, you're right! The two problems are nearly identical. Like the Portuguese and Spanish, we'll just draw on our thousands of years of spaceflight experience and apply it in an inventive way to this new challenge.
That should work.
That Jesus lived is accepted historical fact. That he rose from the dead was witnessed by over 500 people many of whom were tortured and killed for saying that they had seen him.
None of this "evidence" would meet minimum evidentiary standards today. The Gospels seem to consist of third hand accounts compiled many years after the alleged "historical facts" took place. Their authorship cannot be definitively asserted. Whatever their religious importance, they are not historical documents.
Sorry, but we do not have any extant "documentary evidence" that the events described in the Gospels actually occurred. Neither of the contemporary historians who mentioned Jesus confirmed the details contained in the Gospels, and there are inconsistencies within the Gospels themselves. /P>
Would they really do that if it was a conspiracy?
If I say "yes", I'm not engaging in any more outrageous supposition than what you're putting forward.
Prove with documentary evidence that is didn't happen.
Right after you "prove with documentary evidence" that it did. You haven't and you can't since you'll open the Gospels themselves up to a level of scrutiny which they cannot withstand.
Believe what you need to believe, by all means, but you might not want to rely on the authenticity of the 4 canonical Gospels as historical documents. It doesn't lend your argument the weight that you need.
I can't see it taking much of openoffice's market share.
It's very cool that we're discussing OpenOffice and "marketshare" in the same sentence.
Or are we getting ahead of ourselves here?
The scene in Minority Report which has the Tom Cruise character walking through a gauntlet of targeted advertising ("John Anderson, wouldn't you like a Guiness right now?" "John Anderson, this car offers you...") is my personal hell.
What is wrong with you people?
Will doesn't like the Debian installer. He says there are things about it that annoy him. Got it?
I've installed 10s, maybe 100s of debian boxes and never had any problem with the installer.
Will has installed "10s" of Debian boxes and he says there are things about the install process that annoy him. Although you're undoubtedly 7337, you haven't offered him anything which would make those annoyances go away. So the things about the Debian install process which have bothered him will continue to bother him [1]. Got it?
It's 15 minutes of work to do partitioning, basic hardware config and bootstrapping, reboot, select the packages you need, let it update and pur for a while.
Unless, like Will, the things which annoy you about Debian cannot be solved with 15 minutes of work, selecting the packages, then letting it update and purr for a while... Got it?[2]
If you have real problems with the installer you should ask yourself if Debian's the right distro for you, maybe something that hides the complexity (as you see it) like Knoppix or Lindows is better for you.
Will asked himself that question and decided that "no, Debian is not always the distro for me". That was before someone else pointed out that the next-gen installer is approaching useability, and Will said he'd give it a try. Got it?
Relax, faithful Debian centurion. You'll still be allowed to use your favorite distro. Who knows the new Debian installer may even have solved Will's problems. Soon, everyone might be happy.
Got it?
Good.
[1] As someone else has pointed out, this is a manpower issue, not necessarily Debian's fault, got it?
[2] Will did say that he likes Debian once it's up and running, it's just that the install process has some show-stopping annoyances. Got it?
In a right-wing Christian government...
Actually, I think it's because of who Stewart doesn't golf with.
Martha Stewart. Not as rich as Bill, of course, but probably about as well-known in the US.
How do you expain Ken Lay?
If Scott wants to stand on a street-corner and shout his views on why his advertising should be embraced by all users to all passers by, he is invited to do so.
He may run afoul of municipal noise bylaws, however. Freedom of speech is still no guarantee of freedom to be heard.
Except for the Slashdot mind control rays which force you to tediously click on the link, tediously skim past the story and then tediously post about the tedious futility of it all.
Once scientists are done "reverse engineering" our brains it will be quite feasible.
Say do you think I should stick around for this? I was going to dash across the street to get a coffee.
What makes you think that silicates will outperform carbon-based electro-colloids?