You are much more stupid than I had imagined possible, the point I made was that a quality work ethic means that you do not need huge managemant overhead which is as true in middle America as it is in Switzerland, the difference is here, it still works.
If I have a problem, normally it is dealt with at the first level, more complex issue go to the geminde, only very rarely do we need to get into all the legal crap you love.
You are either trolling or an extream dumb ass. The ribbon interface absolutely sucks and its only point was to inspire in PHBs since, like earlier windows itself, earlier versions of Office are the majority competitor, in the enterprise, to the entry of new versions.
I use OO a lot and I don't want ribbons and, since it will come, the ability to turn it off will become a major selling point.
What I would like the OO developers to work on is the build system and openness since extending/fixing OO is a PIA to work with.
Why KDE, Mozilla, and OO cannot follow the configure; make; make install; paradigm I do not know... If they need special pre-requisites, eg cmake, then make a clear pointer to where, how, and give example download commands if you only support git, hg or svn.
Or, better yet include what you need. I am sick and tired of, for example, needing a special old version of automake, with gcc, since some developers seem not to understand.am files.
It wasn't a complement, It was a rational assessment that most American MBA's are stupid assholes, and are almost as bad as their law school brothers, and far too many European Managers _DO_ copy their tricks, which means that you can not trust the quality or integrity of anything they touch. Eg Apple exploding batteries!
The implication of that is that you create __TWO__ huge bureaucracies, one in industry, to provide compliance data, and another, in government, to process it. THAT is why the US healthcare system sucks.
This leads to BIG GOVERNMENT, which is already hopelessly corrupt, and for which there is no real check since the pols and media can always fix the result and there is no real limit to government power.
In contrast, the idea of The Good Swiss, who does his job, properly, the first time, on his own, is still strong here. It is like that because people think that is (C) The Right Thing To Do.
One, very obvious, consequence is TAX, in Kanton Zuerich we pay ~ 13% employment tax and 7.6% sales tax, most Kantons are cheaper.
One pass, haul ass, do it RIGHT the first time (a) works, (b) explains the Swiss attitude to quality.
Oracle likes M$ just as much as I do, Ellison has a consistent history of OPPOSING M$ where ever he can. So:
1. Change OO to encourage community support and kill SUN's crazy management influence, this will at least, triple OO's rate of progress, and royally piss off M$ especially if someone outside M$ implements OOXML, preferably as a plugin.
2. Do a real, as opposed to Yahoo ZIMBRA, Exchange Server+Client, which means we will be able to tell the PHB's that "I want all my team on Linux", why not, without getting the I can't schedule meetings shit any more.
3. Work to improve Enterprise collaboration in Linux and make security, ie strong encryption, seemless, support USB dongles aand SMART cards in distributions, and make sure that VPN connections work seemlessly.
A tiny investment for Oracle, and one which would bring real Linux acceptance for many, (there are too... many) Oracle core technologies.
No, WORD, having started out very well is now a hopeless mess. Most large teams have a WORD specialist, whose job is to mentor users and pick up the regular WORD failures due to instability, as clearly set out above.
Never use WORD for big > 50 page documents, for large ones use LaTeX, which will go to > 100,000 pages without problems. For everything short <1000 pages you can use OO, which is much, much more stable.
I have used OO for nearly 10 years now, and even when it was much better than WORD, and had far fewer mis-features, which is the real problem, WORD encourages on-the-fly formatting, which is OK for a 1 page poster, but disasterous for long and complex documents.
Long documents need to be designed, which is what Tech Writers did before they became the Wicked Witch form the West for WORD. Then yoy can use NOTEPAD, VI or EMACS to write and spell check text without worrying about format, and they can develop their text using a simple editor and standard version control tools.
And before the usual M$ fanbois start up I have Win-7 plus most versions of IE and WORD virtualized, and I normally only use them to make the management clear on the risk of committing to WORD for large documents. Each generation brings a new crop of MBA managers who swallow M$ Koolaid, and it is interesting when you showcase the (dead) careers of their predecessors.
LaTeX or FrameMaker are the only ways that really work, and FrameMaker has gone down hill since V2.
Another moral is that you cannot design software by "the wisdom of crowds" which leads to endless feature creap.
Idiot, it is very, very well thought out and well written, If I got 10% reports in the quant-pricing arena that were as well written as Ms Granger's Essays, I would be saved 3 hours per day finding out what their bad English was intended to mean.
So, So Right, I am helped/cursed by Ford's, (latter USG) McNamara, who had a lot of his employee's children taught how to speed read, which hast cost me a lot of money as I read about 3 novels/week.
Most of the classics c. 1990 are hugely over-rated by people who rate characterization over plot. Thomas Hardy is one of the most boring, and Harry Potter is much better. The problem is that English Lit teachers mostly like boring drivel and are perjoritive of anything that has a plot eg Heinlen, Asimov, AE van Volgt, Dr. EE Smith all wrote riviting books; Clancy et al also write good books.
The problem seems to be teachers in French and English Literature, as most of the German stuff is a quite good, and fun read.
Sadly there is very little good original Science Fiction except (maybe) in English
This is MORE American stupidity, Tell the kids that their phone must be off in School and give Six-stokes-of-the-cane, on their bare backside, of both sexes to the first caught, in School Assembly.
Cane $10, and it would fix a lot more problems too.
The really interesting part of all this that the Central East African countries, North and South Rhodisa and Nyaserland had both the malaria and other insect born diseases effectively conquered by the mid 1950s. They used low dose DDT to kill and prevent the emergence of water born lavae eg mosquitos on the great lakes and other waterways. Then the environment lobby got into the act, and now these countries are back in the stone age, need constant aid, much of which ends up under Bahnhofstrasse, in Zuerich
Meanwhile, the use of high dose DDT, in Kansas et al, was the source of the environmental problem, which lead to the wordwide banning, of DDT, and BTW any other insecticides that actually work. So, as a result of mis-use in the USA, we now need to swat houseflies here in Europe and rampant Malaria, Nile Fever and Tuberculosis is back in the Middle-East, and Africa, and with the modern world, will be with us soon eg H1N1.
In addition, we now have vocal, and well funded NGOs, with a vested interest in keeping the third world poor, but pacified. If they, and CNN, with all its hippocracy kept out of places like Uganda and Somalia the populace would quickly rise up and kill their dictators like they used to do.
Sorry, insects and politicians that cause death, ignorance and disease need killing, not paying. Honduras is the classic example of armchair liberals, in the first world, making problems out vanity, ego and stupidity.
This is a suggestion to play by the "M$ Playbook" which is (1) anti the Google Playbook, (2) is Evil, and (3) would make people avoid the modified search like the PLAGUE, this is exactly what M$ is known for (a) dishonesty, and (b) malfeasant astroturf.
I just want the best search results,... and I can tell the quality.
I am 68, and when my Nokia N95 stopped charging, as it happened because the SMT to battery mount solder had failed, a VERY common fault for this model, I fixed it with some BlueTak, Araldite, a 15w soldering iron and a frying pan, some thought, and a lot of care. Including re-designing the 3 prong SMD to battery interface so that it wouldn't fail again.
Hint, with SMD keep things warm, solder melt-30C, use glue, Araldite sets in about 7 seconds, if very warm, to stabalise what you will solder. Pre-heat frying pan, use upside down to keep PCB warm, solder quickly and properly, easy. I have removed and replaced a gull wing i486 with 180+ legs using a solder sucker, warm air and a lot of patience. Can be done.
This meme, linux an pirated windows is so much __crap__, if you want to use windows, were it not for M$ trying to bulk the latest version sales numbers, here we go again with W-7, users would get a pre-install + activation key for one-off purchases, and install whatever they wanted, including linux legally. This is end-user only.
In SOHO->Worldwise_Enterprise, the game is very different, first the OEM price of Windoze+Crapware is essentially zero, since M$, like all computer companies expect to make their buck on upgrades and service, which BTW includes licences for userland and per connection on servers. These statistics serve only to FUD small users, since the end of the GW Bush era, and the economic downturn has fixed, ie forced out the MBA CIOs. Also Enterprise __has__ the muscle to buy without Windoze, if they want, but generally choose not to since their cost is < 10$ and they get the Win Sticker, which is worth faar more thaat 10$ in licence management costs in a hybrid environment.
A lot of businesses got a real wakeup call since September 2008, and have fixed lots of problems, mostly CIOs who did not understand IT, as it really is, and the business. This is especially obvious in High Frequency Trading (including market co-location) and Troubled Asset pricing. The guys who think Windows can run servers are essentially dead, eg the UK H1N1 Pandemic Tamiflu server. Hosed in a day.
We, the Linux community, have only one serious remaining problem in the Enterprise, replacing and inter-operating seemlessly with Outlook-Express. Wine/Win-VM is so effective I can test IE4 on Win-ME, when I want to and I can do it on part of a single 16 core, 64 GB server fast, before triaging failing test cases on a i486+256MB, that lets me do a full regression in a day, not 3 weeks.
The FUD is using pre-install numbers, but it is very limited, in spite of M$ astroturfing. It fools neither the technically aware, in their private capacity, or the Enterprise.
If I go to HP, Dell etc, and order 10,000 machines with call off, and give them a install DVD they will deliver the machines, pre-installed, with anything I want, UNLESS I tell them that I Intend Making a Press Announcement. Try it.
The __EVER_BROKEN_US_LEGAL_SYSTEM__ should allow "costs in cause" in all litigation, what you have just encourages abuse, since you can sue people with little risk.
The USPTO needs to be sanctioned and regulated, right now it is stupid disaster.
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You are much more stupid than I had imagined possible, the point I made was that a quality work ethic means that you do not need huge managemant overhead which is as true in middle America as it is in Switzerland, the difference is here, it still works.
If I have a problem, normally it is dealt with at the first level, more complex issue go to the geminde, only very rarely do we need to get into all the legal crap you love.
And still got it wrong, the Story of Redmond.
Have OO have an option to output LaTeX.
You are either trolling or an extream dumb ass. The ribbon interface absolutely sucks and its only point was to inspire in PHBs since, like earlier windows itself, earlier versions of Office are the majority competitor, in the enterprise, to the entry of new versions.
... If they need special pre-requisites, eg cmake, then make a clear pointer to where, how, and give example download commands if you only support git, hg or svn.
.am files.
I use OO a lot and I don't want ribbons and, since it will come, the ability to turn it off will become a major selling point.
What I would like the OO developers to work on is the build system and openness since extending/fixing OO is a PIA to work with.
Why KDE, Mozilla, and OO cannot follow the configure; make; make install; paradigm I do not know
Or, better yet include what you need. I am sick and tired of, for example, needing a special old version of automake, with gcc, since some developers seem not to understand
It wasn't a complement, It was a rational assessment that most American MBA's are stupid assholes, and are almost as bad as their law school brothers, and far too many European Managers _DO_ copy their tricks, which means that you can not trust the quality or integrity of anything they touch. Eg Apple exploding batteries!
The implication of that is that you create __TWO__ huge bureaucracies, one in industry, to provide compliance data, and another, in government, to process it. THAT is why the US healthcare system sucks.
This leads to BIG GOVERNMENT, which is already hopelessly corrupt, and for which there is no real check since the pols and media can always fix the result and there is no real limit to government power.
In contrast, the idea of The Good Swiss, who does his job, properly, the first time, on his own, is still strong here. It is like that because people think that is (C) The Right Thing To Do.
One, very obvious, consequence is TAX, in Kanton Zuerich we pay ~ 13% employment tax and 7.6% sales tax, most Kantons are cheaper.
One pass, haul ass, do it RIGHT the first time (a) works, (b) explains the Swiss attitude to quality.
Rictig!
ONLY if you are foolish to use M$ software!
Can I say CRAP!
Oracle likes M$ just as much as I do, Ellison has a consistent history of OPPOSING M$ where ever he can. So:
1. Change OO to encourage community support and kill SUN's crazy management influence, this will at least, triple OO's rate of progress, and royally piss off M$ especially if someone outside M$ implements OOXML, preferably as a plugin.
2. Do a real, as opposed to Yahoo ZIMBRA, Exchange Server+Client, which means we will be able to tell the PHB's that "I want all my team on Linux", why not, without getting the I can't schedule meetings shit any more.
3. Work to improve Enterprise collaboration in Linux and make security, ie strong encryption, seemless, support USB dongles aand SMART cards in distributions, and make sure that VPN connections work seemlessly.
A tiny investment for Oracle, and one which would bring real Linux acceptance for many, (there are too... many) Oracle core technologies.
No, WORD, having started out very well is now a hopeless mess. Most large teams have a WORD specialist, whose job is to mentor users and pick up the regular WORD failures due to instability, as clearly set out above.
Never use WORD for big > 50 page documents, for large ones use LaTeX, which will go to > 100,000 pages without problems. For everything short <1000 pages you can use OO, which is much, much more stable.
I have used OO for nearly 10 years now, and even when it was much better than WORD, and had far fewer mis-features, which is the real problem, WORD encourages on-the-fly formatting, which is OK for a 1 page poster, but disasterous for long and complex documents.
Long documents need to be designed, which is what Tech Writers did before they became the Wicked Witch form the West for WORD. Then yoy can use NOTEPAD, VI or EMACS to write and spell check text without worrying about format, and they can develop their text using a simple editor and standard version control tools.
And before the usual M$ fanbois start up I have Win-7 plus most versions of IE and WORD virtualized, and I normally only use them to make the management clear on the risk of committing to WORD for large documents. Each generation brings a new crop of MBA managers who swallow M$ Koolaid, and it is interesting when you showcase the (dead) careers of their predecessors.
LaTeX or FrameMaker are the only ways that really work, and FrameMaker has gone down hill since V2.
Another moral is that you cannot design software by "the wisdom of crowds" which leads to endless feature creap.
Idiot, it is very, very well thought out and well written, If I got 10% reports in the quant-pricing arena that were as well written as Ms Granger's Essays, I would be saved 3 hours per day finding out what their bad English was intended to mean.
So, So Right, I am helped/cursed by Ford's, (latter USG) McNamara, who had a lot of his employee's children taught how to speed read, which hast cost me a lot of money as I read about 3 novels/week.
Most of the classics c. 1990 are hugely over-rated by people who rate characterization over plot. Thomas Hardy is one of the most boring, and Harry Potter is much better. The problem is that English Lit teachers mostly like boring drivel and are perjoritive of anything that has a plot eg Heinlen, Asimov, AE van Volgt, Dr. EE Smith all wrote riviting books; Clancy et al also write good books.
The problem seems to be teachers in French and English Literature, as most of the German stuff is a quite good, and fun read.
Sadly there is very little good original Science Fiction except (maybe) in English
Or, better, if they had a gun, knew how to use it, and could hit the right thing, or arm the teachers, and THIS IS NOT sarcasm
This is MORE American stupidity, Tell the kids that their phone must be off in School and give Six-stokes-of-the-cane, on their bare backside, of both sexes to the first caught, in School Assembly.
Cane $10, and it would fix a lot more problems too.
The really interesting part of all this that the Central East African countries, North and South Rhodisa and Nyaserland had both the malaria and other insect born diseases effectively conquered by the mid 1950s. They used low dose DDT to kill and prevent the emergence of water born lavae eg mosquitos on the great lakes and other waterways. Then the environment lobby got into the act, and now these countries are back in the stone age, need constant aid, much of which ends up under Bahnhofstrasse, in Zuerich
Meanwhile, the use of high dose DDT, in Kansas et al, was the source of the environmental problem, which lead to the wordwide banning, of DDT, and BTW any other insecticides that actually work. So, as a result of mis-use in the USA, we now need to swat houseflies here in Europe and rampant Malaria, Nile Fever and Tuberculosis is back in the Middle-East, and Africa, and with the modern world, will be with us soon eg H1N1.
In addition, we now have vocal, and well funded NGOs, with a vested interest in keeping the third world poor, but pacified. If they, and CNN, with all its hippocracy kept out of places like Uganda and Somalia the populace would quickly rise up and kill their dictators like they used to do.
Sorry, insects and politicians that cause death, ignorance and disease need killing, not paying. Honduras is the classic example of armchair liberals, in the first world, making problems out vanity, ego and stupidity.
This is a suggestion to play by the "M$ Playbook" which is (1) anti the Google Playbook, (2) is Evil, and (3) would make people avoid the modified search like the PLAGUE, this is exactly what M$ is known for (a) dishonesty, and (b) malfeasant astroturf.
... and I can tell the quality.
I just want the best search results,
Should sue Apples ass.
It is long past time both the FCC and FTC had at this Apple AT&T crap.
AT&T needs a re-assement of its monopoly position and Apple needs to be class-action sued over 'bricking'.
I am 68, and when my Nokia N95 stopped charging, as it happened because the SMT to battery mount solder had failed, a VERY common fault for this model, I fixed it with some BlueTak, Araldite, a 15w soldering iron and a frying pan, some thought, and a lot of care. Including re-designing the 3 prong SMD to battery interface so that it wouldn't fail again.
Hint, with SMD keep things warm, solder melt-30C, use glue, Araldite sets in about 7 seconds, if very warm, to stabalise what you will solder. Pre-heat frying pan, use upside down to keep PCB warm, solder quickly and properly, easy. I have removed and replaced a gull wing i486 with 180+ legs using a solder sucker, warm air and a lot of patience. Can be done.
The retail end user market is zilch in the big picture, see IDG for example
This meme, linux an pirated windows is so much __crap__, if you want to use windows, were it not for M$ trying to bulk the latest version sales numbers, here we go again with W-7, users would get a pre-install + activation key for one-off purchases, and install whatever they wanted, including linux legally. This is end-user only.
In SOHO->Worldwise_Enterprise, the game is very different, first the OEM price of Windoze+Crapware is essentially zero, since M$, like all computer companies expect to make their buck on upgrades and service, which BTW includes licences for userland and per connection on servers. These statistics serve only to FUD small users, since the end of the GW Bush era, and the economic downturn has fixed, ie forced out the MBA CIOs. Also Enterprise __has__ the muscle to buy without Windoze, if they want, but generally choose not to since their cost is < 10$ and they get the Win Sticker, which is worth faar more thaat 10$ in licence management costs in a hybrid environment.
A lot of businesses got a real wakeup call since September 2008, and have fixed lots of problems, mostly CIOs who did not understand IT, as it really is, and the business. This is especially obvious in High Frequency Trading (including market co-location) and Troubled Asset pricing. The guys who think Windows can run servers are essentially dead, eg the UK H1N1 Pandemic Tamiflu server. Hosed in a day.
We, the Linux community, have only one serious remaining problem in the Enterprise, replacing and inter-operating seemlessly with Outlook-Express. Wine/Win-VM is so effective I can test IE4 on Win-ME, when I want to and I can do it on part of a single 16 core, 64 GB server fast, before triaging failing test cases on a i486+256MB, that lets me do a full regression in a day, not 3 weeks.
The FUD is using pre-install numbers, but it is very limited, in spite of M$ astroturfing. It fools neither the technically aware, in their private capacity, or the Enterprise.
If I go to HP, Dell etc, and order 10,000 machines with call off, and give them a install DVD they will deliver the machines, pre-installed, with anything I want, UNLESS I tell them that I Intend Making a Press Announcement. Try it.
OK, the real problem is expectation and marketing, from the story, the encryption is (egregiously) useless.
... ) misrepresents that.
If the device is in your hands, you can physically remove the memory, and then examine it breaking the weak encryption on the fly.
The marketing (surprise
The trick, instead, is concentrating and protecting important information
The __EVER_BROKEN_US_LEGAL_SYSTEM__ should allow "costs in cause" in all litigation, what you have just encourages abuse, since you can sue people with little risk.
The USPTO needs to be sanctioned and regulated, right now it is stupid disaster.
I have doctorates in mathematics an recht (law).
And no, I just shout at idiots.
No, it would be OK, but you forgot about The __OTIGINALITY__ test so your whole post is __CRAP__, read the law before posting!