The Office game is almost over, OOO is good enough, and existing anti-trust, most recently in Russia increases the challenge.
AD and Exchange are currently coporate lock-ins and the Open Source community must look for its commercial partners, Google, IBM and Oracle to help fund drop-in replacements.
It is very unlikely that MS will get a lot of traction with a new proprietary program, especially outside the USA
The Expenses scandal has already claimed Jacki Smith (Home Secretary aka Minister of Justice), and Brown and the Labour Party will be massacred by the electorate at the polls.
Sorry, if people dont buy RIAA music and goto MPAA films they will soon run out of money.
No AWARE new artist(s) need to get screwed by them again, The front game is OVER. The Internet, and with it (almost) free publishing and (absolutely) free publicity emerged into the world.
The MPAA & RIAA cannot pack the genie back in the bottle, and their business model is defunct, they will go bust on their own if you simply excercise your freedom and ignore them.
You quote demonstrates that (a) first you, and (b) the culture you would wish to represent are hopelessly damaged, If you don't see why it is way too late to help you... but a hint, different dosn't mean worse or racist.
Quite apart from the problems which you face since you don't have a diversity of other kids for yours to socialize with, you do not have the depth and breadth of academic and educational experience to adequately challenge bright children.
While I would not challenge your _RIGHT_ to HomeSchool, I would strongly question the _WISDOM_ of doing so.
I would worry about the paucity of other children yours will meet and maybe befriend. As for teaching, you can not hope to compete with the best. Though an Athiest, at age 8, I was fortunate to be educated in a Jesuit school from 6 to 15 and I could never have gotten the breadth and depth of the 30 PhD priests who taught me. Only an Oxford Mathematics Wrangler taught me more.
So the danger of HomeSchool is that teaching of the less driven, by the mediocre, can be less than good, except if you only want to control your child.
Those who suggested that that you help your child to be street aware, and be prepared to look after helself have it right. She should be able to get you called or tell the Police where she lives ASAP.
Finally, do remember as sense of proportion, and do not damage your own child as you try to protect her, you also have a duty to nurture and help her to develop to the best of her ability.
Many Enterprises Already Contribute and employ OS developers, but for the biggest this needs to extend for those not directly in the IT business. Fortune 100 companies could make a larger contribution and still get FOSS essentially FREE.
More importantly large companies should try to make a contribution to the eco-system in which they live by exerting pressure and making monetary contribution to help remove the enterprise linux killers,
MS Exchange, calendar Flash ODF MS apps on the desktop AP
I am writing this on an HP Presario V6000 with Brother MFC240 printer on SuSE 10.3 11.0 11.1 and all works out of the box bought at Staples and MediaMarkt.
The reason some stuff dosnt work is it is carp or a one-week remaindered junk line WallMart bought up.
What about asking "will it work with linux" and getting an undertaking to take it back if it dosnt.
I cant speak too highly of Brother support, and their MFC's dont cost more than a tomer cartridge. Dont use the wrong refill inks, they need dye inks with 10% flush added. If they sold replacement heads they would last 10 years. Do not buy Lexmark or GDI printers. They can do very high colour quality and are fully programmable for paper type and ink-dry time. The fax functionality is also fully programmable
On the laptop I have WiFi and Bluetooth and an external USB SIDE disk, 2G, replaced 320G SIDE internal so I hardly use my desktop unless I need more than 2 CPUs.
If I need to run some Windows only stuff I have Wine that runs Office an VISIO and AutoCAD just fine using a windows partition I share with a VMWare Windows install where I can run the BMW ETK + TIS for my car and test web pages for IE tolerance.
Microsoft Works Tirelessly to make sure you have little glitches, by breaking every Open Standards it can get its grubby hands on, if you want examples look no further than the Kerberos extensions which they tried to NDA until MIT's lawyers pointed out that the extension was a derivative of copyright work and the laughable Excel ODF formula screw up.
They dont want to interoperate but will be forced to do so.
Like the USA, Switzerland is a federation, much smaller, but beautifully formed. The Kantons (18?) are the main source of power, not the federal government. And Direct Democracy means that the equivalent of Presedential signing is a referendum on legislation AFTER is is passed by the Bundesrat. Actually the referendum is negative, ie it vetos what the pols passed.
This is _why_ Switzerland is not in the EU, last time the pols tried it was thrown out by a 87% majority and that was the second asking so it wont come back for 30 years. Switzerland is in EFTA and has a bilateral treaty with the EU and is implementing the Shengen accord. Less strict frontier controls. If a question is decided at referendum it can normally be asked once again, but if voted down it is rude, and pointless to bring it back so pols cant saw, or piggy back the way they can in the US.
Many parts of Switzerland do use open source, The City of Zurich (Stadt Zürich) uses it extensively, as does Academia. Kanton Zürich provides tax preparation software free for Linux, Mac & M$Win.
The notion that children need longer in school is pc and daft! And the idea that you can teach a cohort of children for 15 years, as is now done in the UK is ludicrous. First children differ hugely in ability and are profoundly affected by their environment, here in Switzerland most 10 year olds are tri-lingual, because, in this tower of babel it is easy to become so. Since we stream and have different types of school, as do Germany and France, kids get the type of schooling their minds need and become satisfied and succeed at what they are asked to do, and when they leave, go on to higher education or ON THE JOB training.
Kids leave Berufschule or Ecole Artisanel at 17, reasonably numerate and able to read and write, normally in two languages. The academic kids go to University or one of the Federal Technical Highschools eg ETZ Zurich. There they can do a first degree or PhD as fast as they can, or more slowly.
The US system has stopped working since it seeks to achieve equality of achievement, not equal opportunity, which leads to endless erosion of standards since no one can fail. Thus you have a politicised school systems in which I pity the academically bright student.
You need to get your priorities right, get the bright kids out of normal High School and into somewhere where they can progress as fast as they can. In my view, 5-6 years in school is enough for anyone, two years for basic numeracy and literacy in two languages, two years maths and another one/two years in science. Before some of the teaching profession jump up and pontificate about History, Geography, Religious Studies and Social Sciences I say the kids can do RS on Sundays and pick up most of the rest as part of coursework, your kids should read the Constitution and Bill of Rights, ours UDI at Ruetli Field (1291).
Finally you _do_ need to teach maths first, you cannot understand science otherwise.
I assume the parent failed every numerate course he ever took, and never took any kind of statistics for idiots course, and has not bothered to read and understand the attack.
An continues to spread FUD.
The attack requires a Man in the Middle scenario, if I ssh into a random machine the MiM is __VERY__ unlikely to work unless the NSA and my ISP are in cahoots and I dont notice that connection takes a nonsensically longer time (15min v 3s),... then I have to tolerate 100000 failures/connection.
Now comes the idiot who talks about rsync, and scripted connections, which, for brevity I did not address and tries to use multipicative probability leveling to try to convince us we have a problem; sorry now you need 1000+ MiM attacks, and fail to notice that they are failing, so you also dont notice a net cable kicked out, or a cable cut by a backhoe.
Look guys, get real, if you want to use statistics or probability learn some and understand contingent probability which is essential to risk evaluation.
This was never a real threat, just another piece of Academic FUD. To be vulnerable as an interactive ssh user you would have to ignore 100,000 aborted sessions to expose 14 bits of plaintext, I think I would notice, and block the attacker.
There are a whole suite of cyphers, including AES aka Rijhndael are configurable, have you done yours?, and not vulnerable.
Finally the protocol is trivially fixed.
Now I for one, whilst I have the highest respect for the work done by people like Ross Anderson and Schnieer am fed up to the back teeth with alarmism from governments, NGOs and academics -- all of which add up to give us more money.
If you dont know these researchers were working for the UK equivalent of Homeland Security and failed to inform SSH of the details of the attack, doubtless quoting National Security.
These people who parade nonsense should be tarred an feathered and sent on the next rail.
1 People dont realise that TeX sets with any of Metafont, Adobe & Truetype (you just need a.tfm file).
2 people claim that manual-set is better, nonsense, anyway find a Linotype machine
People talk about Word as if anyone would use it to set Books or more complex documents such as Plane manuals.
The first thing Word does not do cleanly is separate format and content, which is fatal for large or complex documents. Then as another poster said you can spot Word output from the Moon since it is so ugly.
If the folks in M$ wanted to make a change they wouldnt be adding more menus and advanced features they would, instead, fix the bugs in their existing code.
"And it cost nothing but time to learn" You don't value your own time.
Simply tells me that you are an idiot and a stupid cunt to boot!
All tools take learning, eg PCB & VLSI CAD tools can take months, even simple tools like compilers & debuggers take days or weeks to really get to grips with.
The ONLY problem with TeX is that Knuth's TeXbook is ideosyncratic and often opaque but there are lots of good TeX and LaTeX tutorial/intro books.
TeX (and MetaFont, which is now very marginal) has a difficult to master, and professionally oriented font management system which combined with.ttf/.pfa mechanisms makes font management a problem for beginners. This is the BAD side of 80% good enough.
For most Linux users the CTAN and distributions hide this and it just works, __beautifully__.
The answer is a concerted set of Mann & Sherman anti-trust violations and a kit-bag of dirty tricks, OOXML anyone.
Now the world is wiser, and at least in the EU there is no chance and since the GDP of the EU is now significantly bigger than that of the USA, Go F. Nellie Kroes
Since TeX is open source, and not very big, as programs go you would think, since the source is Open, M$ would get a Google Summer of Code Intern to rip out the crap and just copy TeX
You sir are a fucking idiot, and an example of why it will be so hard to get to rearing decent scientists in the USA. What earlier comments have been about is the difference between excellent and "good enough" but then I would not expect a M$ shill to understand that.
Word's text layout algorithms suck, and always have, it does math badly, and it wastes users time tweaking the output by hand.
Few users understand templates, or use them properly, and fewer yet can create new styles fluently.
As an ex-University teacher, I am not surprised that your academics favor straight-through, do not follow this even if you intend to become an academic. We already spend too many years learning, or rather being taught, and most need to learn to apply what they know.
Unless you are very young or prodigy material take two years out between first and second degrees. Be very careful what you choose to do in your masters, since, unless you are a frustrated pure-mathematician there is a lot of pseudo-mathematical cruft in masters programs.
One advantage of the time out is that, hopefully, you will find out what interests you.
Microsoft have just broken interoperability, and been caught doing it.
Many functions/formulas have a natural mathematical or functional meaning and it is those that will appear in useful spread sheets, together with 'spreadsheeting convention'. What is needed here is not further functional expansion, it is concensus based around improving software, not gaming the standards process.
OOXML was an international disaster demonstrating that ISO, and its employees, are simply guns for hire, do it "like office 95" is nonsense.
We can just expect M$ to continue with this, and that in itself is why it should be broken up.
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This comment says almost nothing:
The Office game is almost over, OOO is good enough, and existing anti-trust, most recently in Russia increases the challenge.
AD and Exchange are currently coporate lock-ins and the Open Source community must look for its commercial partners, Google, IBM and Oracle to help fund drop-in replacements.
It is very unlikely that MS will get a lot of traction with a new proprietary program, especially outside the USA
The Expenses scandal has already claimed Jacki Smith (Home Secretary aka Minister of Justice), and Brown and the Labour Party will be massacred by the electorate at the polls.
Sorry, if people dont buy RIAA music and goto MPAA films they will soon run out of money.
No AWARE new artist(s) need to get screwed by them again, The front game is OVER. The Internet, and with it (almost) free publishing and (absolutely) free publicity emerged into the world.
The MPAA & RIAA cannot pack the genie back in the bottle, and their business model is defunct, they will go bust on their own if you simply excercise your freedom and ignore them.
You quote demonstrates that (a) first you, and (b) the culture you would wish to represent are hopelessly damaged, If you don't see why it is way too late to help you ... but a hint, different dosn't mean worse or racist.
Idiot!
Quite apart from the problems which you face since you don't have a diversity of other kids for yours to socialize with, you do not have the depth and breadth of academic and educational experience to adequately challenge bright children.
While I would not challenge your _RIGHT_ to HomeSchool, I would strongly question the _WISDOM_ of doing so.
I would worry about the paucity of other children yours will meet and maybe befriend. As for teaching, you can not hope to compete with the best. Though an Athiest, at age 8, I was fortunate to be educated in a Jesuit school from 6 to 15 and I could never have gotten the breadth and depth of the 30 PhD priests who taught me. Only an Oxford Mathematics Wrangler taught me more.
So the danger of HomeSchool is that teaching of the less driven, by the mediocre, can be less than good, except if you only want to control your child.
Those who suggested that that you help your child to be street aware, and be prepared to look after helself have it right. She should be able to get you called or tell the Police where she lives ASAP.
Finally, do remember as sense of proportion, and do not damage your own child as you try to protect her, you also have a duty to nurture and help her to develop to the best of her ability.
Many Enterprises Already Contribute and employ OS developers, but for the biggest this needs to extend for those not directly in the IT business. Fortune 100 companies could make a larger contribution and still get FOSS essentially FREE.
More importantly large companies should try to make a contribution to the eco-system in which they live by exerting pressure and making monetary contribution to help remove the enterprise linux killers,
MS Exchange, calendar
Flash
ODF
MS apps on the desktop
AP
I am writing this on an HP Presario V6000 with Brother MFC240 printer on SuSE 10.3 11.0 11.1 and all works
out of the box bought at Staples and MediaMarkt.
The reason some stuff dosnt work is it is carp or a one-week remaindered junk line WallMart bought up.
What about asking "will it work with linux" and getting an undertaking to take it back if it dosnt.
I cant speak too highly of Brother support, and their MFC's dont cost more than a tomer cartridge. Dont use
the wrong refill inks, they need dye inks with 10% flush added. If they sold replacement heads they would
last 10 years. Do not buy Lexmark or GDI printers. They can do very high colour quality and are fully programmable
for paper type and ink-dry time. The fax functionality is also fully programmable
On the laptop I have WiFi and Bluetooth and an external USB SIDE disk, 2G, replaced 320G SIDE internal
so I hardly use my desktop unless I need more than 2 CPUs.
If I need to run some Windows only stuff I have Wine that runs Office an VISIO and AutoCAD just fine using
a windows partition I share with a VMWare Windows install where I can run the BMW ETK + TIS for my car and
test web pages for IE tolerance.
I typed UTF-8. But the junk is an attempt at an HTML entity.
Microsoft Works Tirelessly to make sure you have little glitches, by breaking every Open Standards it can get its grubby hands on, if you want examples look no further than the Kerberos extensions which they tried to NDA until MIT's lawyers pointed out that the extension was a derivative of copyright work and the laughable Excel ODF formula screw up.
They dont want to interoperate but will be forced to do so.
Like the USA, Switzerland is a federation, much smaller, but beautifully formed. The Kantons (18?) are the main source of power, not the federal government. And Direct Democracy means that the equivalent of Presedential signing is a referendum on legislation AFTER is is passed by the Bundesrat. Actually the referendum is negative, ie it vetos what the pols passed.
This is _why_ Switzerland is not in the EU, last time the pols tried it was thrown out by a 87% majority and that was the second asking so it wont come back for 30 years. Switzerland is in EFTA and has a bilateral treaty with the EU and is implementing the Shengen accord. Less strict frontier controls. If a question is decided at referendum it can normally be asked once again, but if voted down it is rude, and pointless to bring it back so pols cant saw, or piggy back the way they can in the US.
Many parts of Switzerland do use open source, The City of Zurich (Stadt Zürich) uses it extensively, as does Academia. Kanton Zürich provides tax preparation software free for Linux, Mac & M$Win.
That is the kind of thinking that is an exact problem with your education.
You dont need a heard, and you cant use one, you need _brilliant_ engineers 10-20 per generation.
Your problem is the two years you spent getting an MBA taught you all the wrong things!
The notion that children need longer in school is pc and daft! And the idea that you can teach a cohort of children for 15 years, as is now done in the UK is ludicrous. First children differ hugely in ability and are profoundly affected by their environment, here in Switzerland most 10 year olds are tri-lingual, because, in this tower of babel it is easy to become so. Since we stream and have different types of school, as do Germany and France, kids get the type of schooling their minds need and become satisfied and succeed at what they are asked to do, and when they leave, go on to higher education or ON THE JOB training.
Kids leave Berufschule or Ecole Artisanel at 17, reasonably numerate and able to read and write, normally in two languages.
The academic kids go to University or one of the Federal Technical Highschools eg ETZ Zurich. There they can do a first degree or PhD as fast as they can, or more slowly.
The US system has stopped working since it seeks to achieve equality of achievement, not equal opportunity, which leads to endless erosion of standards since no one can fail. Thus you have a politicised school systems in which I pity the academically bright student.
You need to get your priorities right, get the bright kids out of normal High School and into somewhere where they can progress as fast as they can. In my view, 5-6 years in school is enough for anyone, two years for basic numeracy and literacy in two languages, two years maths and another one/two years in science. Before some of the teaching profession jump up and pontificate about History, Geography, Religious Studies and Social Sciences I say the kids can do RS on Sundays and pick up most of the rest as part of coursework, your kids should read the Constitution and Bill of Rights, ours UDI at Ruetli Field (1291).
Finally you _do_ need to teach maths first, you cannot understand science otherwise.
__STOP__ USING WINDOWS, and don't allow users to get root.
I assume the parent failed every numerate course he ever took, and never took any kind of statistics for idiots course, and has not bothered to read and understand the attack.
... then I have to tolerate 100000 failures/connection.
An continues to spread FUD.
The attack requires a Man in the Middle scenario, if I ssh into a random machine the MiM is __VERY__ unlikely to work unless the NSA and my ISP are in cahoots and I dont notice that connection takes a nonsensically longer time (15min v 3s),
Now comes the idiot who talks about rsync, and scripted connections, which, for brevity I did not address and tries to use multipicative probability leveling to try to convince us we have a problem; sorry now you need 1000+ MiM attacks, and fail to notice that they are failing, so you also dont notice a net cable kicked out, or a cable cut by a backhoe.
Look guys, get real, if you want to use statistics or probability learn some and understand contingent probability which is essential to risk evaluation.
This was never a real threat, just another piece of Academic FUD. To be vulnerable as an interactive ssh user you would have to ignore 100,000 aborted sessions to expose 14 bits of plaintext, I think I would notice, and block the attacker.
There are a whole suite of cyphers, including AES aka Rijhndael are configurable, have you done yours?, and not vulnerable.
Finally the protocol is trivially fixed.
Now I for one, whilst I have the highest respect for the work done by people like Ross Anderson and Schnieer am fed up to the back teeth with alarmism from governments, NGOs and academics -- all of which add up to give us more money.
If you dont know these researchers were working for the UK equivalent of Homeland Security and failed to inform SSH of the details of the attack, doubtless quoting National Security.
These people who parade nonsense should be tarred an feathered and sent on the next rail.
This thread demonstrates so much stupidity
.tfm file).
1 People dont realise that TeX sets with any of Metafont, Adobe & Truetype (you just need a
2 people claim that manual-set is better, nonsense, anyway find a Linotype machine
People talk about Word as if anyone would use it to set Books or more complex documents
such as Plane manuals.
The first thing Word does not do cleanly is separate format and content, which is fatal for large or complex documents. Then as another poster said you can spot Word output from the Moon since it is so ugly.
If the folks in M$ wanted to make a change they wouldnt be adding more menus and advanced features they would, instead, fix the bugs in their existing code.
The quality of your M$ shilling ...
.ttf/.pfa mechanisms makes font management a problem for beginners. This is the BAD side of 80% good enough.
"And it cost nothing but time to learn" You don't value your own time.
Simply tells me that you are an idiot and a stupid cunt to boot!
All tools take learning, eg PCB & VLSI CAD tools can take months, even simple
tools like compilers & debuggers take days or weeks to really get to grips with.
The ONLY problem with TeX is that Knuth's TeXbook is ideosyncratic and often opaque
but there are lots of good TeX and LaTeX tutorial/intro books.
TeX (and MetaFont, which is now very marginal) has a difficult to master, and professionally
oriented font management system which combined with
For most Linux users the CTAN and distributions hide this and it just works, __beautifully__.
The answer is a concerted set of Mann & Sherman anti-trust violations and a kit-bag of dirty tricks, OOXML anyone.
Now the world is wiser, and at least in the EU there is no chance and since the GDP of the EU is now significantly bigger than that of the USA, Go F. Nellie Kroes
Bestens und kunnen de kracht met u zijn
Since TeX is open source, and not very big, as programs go you would think, since the source is Open, M$ would get a Google Summer of Code Intern to rip out the crap and just copy TeX
You sir are a fucking idiot, and an example of why it will be so hard to get to rearing decent scientists in the USA. What earlier comments have been about is the difference between excellent and "good enough" but then I would not expect a M$ shill to understand that.
Word's text layout algorithms suck, and always have, it does math badly, and it wastes users time tweaking the output by hand.
Few users understand templates, or use them properly, and fewer yet can create new styles fluently.
First TeX is almost bug free, that's useful not obsolete,
and it produces __beautifully__ typeset output
and it separates document structure from content, which all
graphic visual editors do not
and you can use any text editor of your choice.
And it cost nothing but time to learn
As an ex-University teacher, I am not surprised that your academics favor straight-through, do not follow this even if you intend to become an academic. We already spend too many years learning, or rather being taught, and most need to learn to apply what they know.
Unless you are very young or prodigy material take two years out between first and second degrees. Be very careful what you choose to do in your masters, since, unless you are a frustrated pure-mathematician there is a lot of pseudo-mathematical cruft in masters programs.
One advantage of the time out is that, hopefully, you will find out what interests you.
Are you dumb, or what?
Microsoft have just broken interoperability, and been caught doing it.
Many functions/formulas have a natural mathematical or functional meaning and it is those that will appear in useful spread sheets, together with 'spreadsheeting convention'. What is needed here is not further functional expansion, it is concensus based around improving software, not gaming the standards process.
OOXML was an international disaster demonstrating that ISO, and its employees, are simply guns for hire, do it "like office 95" is nonsense.
We can just expect M$ to continue with this, and that in itself is why it should be broken up.
Pfaff ist aus Deutschland,
aber Bernina wird in der Schweiz hergestellt!
The nonsense in parent is right up there with witch-doctors, so, so far we have:
a) Nonsense
b) CYA
c) embezzlement, as suggested solutions,
BTW what a the bosses credentials in Physics or Computer Enginering?