Since you put it like that.... I now realize I overlooked your point. Yep, CW *is* chock-full of content, colors and such. What cool is that if you have acorns (CW's currency) you can buy stereos and other things for your room or for your friends. You can give yourself a stylable avatar...
Well, if everyone posts this on their facebook and other pages, and a firestorm starts, a Trend could be reversed. I don't recall using the T4 software, but the name is somehow familiar.
The fact that the box and contents can be forensically examined is a plus. That the software SOLD is another plus. The court has VERY LITTLE wiggle room, and Trend, if forensically wrong/mis-speaking, needs to STFU, grin and bear it. If Goran Fransson is fibbing, then he'll be punished. But, I don't see why T4 has to have sold MILLIONS to fit a claim of prior art. THAT IT WENT *PUBLICLY* available is GOOD ENOUGH.
I don't see a comparison (resemblance) between MySpace and CyWorld. I prefer CW MUCH more than I do MySpace. However, I don't very often visit my CW account, but I go to it more than I do my MySpace account.
CyWorld is fun, and maybe I'm partial to it because I'm studying Hangul (Korean) and have an affinity to Korean things...
Speaking of Korean things (hint to the mods having an urge to slam "off-topic" on me, this is an aside here), I would like to have the Samsung Instinct, but I have NO intention of getting into another 2-year contract at this time, don't want to pay $200 for a phone, then wait 10 WEEKS for the rebate, am tired of billing issues, and so on.
If Metro had sexier phones and better coverage, i'd go to them. Maybe I'll check out Credo or something else, but I want my options open past Feb of the next year.
But back to CyWorld.... CyWorld probably has more pervasive activity per registered user, if i understand correctly.
What i don't like about MySpace is all the crappy-assed, jacked-up coloration and crazy-ass fonts some of my friends use. Some are so horrendous that they are very hard to read, and more often than not i cannot intercept the crap by hitting the "stop" button to prevent the css shit from taking over the reasonable readability of things. So, i might only visit MySpace maybe 2-3 times a week whereas just last year I'd be on it 2-3 times a day.
Also, facebook (branded as "facebook", not "Facebook"... see Wikipedia...) has FEWER users in the US than does MySpace... about half as many (36.x M vs ~76M, respectively).
Moreover, facebook's gain is mainly from Canada, an increasing number in Asia, and lots of European locales.
Also, facebook's founder/s may be back in court based on information dug up from their hard drives about the origins of facebook code. However, the ConnectU people had previously signed off on a settlement, which is trying the patience of the judge on the case.
What'll be interesting is to see if Korea's CyWorld will make massive inroads into the US market than they already have. Granted, it's a different culture, probably a vastly more impressive per capita penetration and appreciation of personal technology there than in the US among the younger demographic, so that may explain CyWorld's massive popularity in Asia. But, outside of Korea, CyWorld has opened up more, but in non-Korean, and with fewer features and such than available in the Korean-based CyWorld system. It would be interesting if CyWorld and the facebook systems blended but without diminishing either one...
"BONE-OC-U-LARS", for the low-low price of $69.99.
Butt, WAIT: Act NOW and get a FREE cortical stimp-lulator (yes, STIMP is a word boyz-n-gurlz) for those who like nice ass-trough-turf beneath their noses...
Then the BONE-US COULD be OHN-US. These things could help musicians, artist, poets, the audiences of mimes, and so on. Police could use them, sure, but so could hikers, nature observers, and scores of other types of people.
Why does that f&cking device have to be announced solely as a military gadget? Sexy seduction of tax payers' dollars is probably why. I'm sure they DO product non-combat gear, but dammit, I'm tired of my tax dollars going to producing shit for those who want or prepare to kill when they can produce expensive, but affordable stuff for the masses. Oh, maybe they'll sub-license under some brand non-related to their name....
This could single-handedly (bun, umm, pun intended) reserect the Porn vs Beta arguMENts and breath mints in one fellow swoop.
Now, all those "angle of the dangle" jokes could be reserected, tool. Now, tie this device in with an ocular implant (7 of Mine/NINE comes to mind), with a Vinculum, and all those back-alley adult film studios and we're talking about serous... umm seerious sin-sory overload.
NorGrum might have better luck positing this thing at the porn industry. But, since it records images going on in the brain, strapping one of these onto prisoners might help prevent jail riots, monitor thoughts of those about to be executed, or just ferret out perverted pilots who are in their own single-handed miles-high clubs or troopers in their own Six-inch-trench clubs.
(No, you're NOT free to hook up one of those things to my brain or brains...)
To help old codger politicians up their gains when combined with Viagra.
Imagine: The Love Guru Meets Linthicum Meets Issac Hayes' The Chef Meets Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing Meets The Teletubbies Meets....
Well, this might have some "knock-on" effects if it can be tied to porn and the x-box. QOS will take on a hole.. umm, WHOLE new MEANING when tele-sex can be used to keep the POP-ul-LASH-ON under complete control.
Talk about visual stimulation.
But, even if this thing pans out to its claims for it, this might end up causing sensory overload for the military personnel.
ONE WAY TO DEFEAT THIS: fire multitudes of multi-spectral weapons at the wearers. They won't TRUST the damned thing, and even if it discriminates real from seduction targets, eventually the device and the wearer will become worn out. To ensure the device doesn't "learn" to discriminate correctly, make sure the seduction/distraction launchers fire as few duplicates as possible...
EXACTLY. So, it should be no surprise that i am QUITE dismayed that China is NOT opening an anti-trust probe against mshaft. They KNOW ms didn't get to it's stature in China by being nice. Well, unless you count the long-time non-prosecution of pirates. But, now that msoft have been stepping up anti-piracy campaigns, China MUST open a probe, AND they MUST forge ahead with Asianux & Red Flag Linux.
China -- and Asia in general -- CAN NOT afford to be "enslaved" the the msoft machine when now and for the past few years Asian countries have been in a angst of how to increase security (against US-mandated back doors in the software sold by US companies where encryption facilities exist in the apps/wares), and to increase local market share and capabilities.
China, by not opening the probe, you are reducing the force and intent of the EU sanctions against msoft. DO NOT 'kow tow" to microsoft. If corruption exists in the country, then along with dicked-up agriculture and other ministers who were executed, maybe China might consider (or, at least intimate that it might) execute corrupt business executives who weakened the country on a massive scale and who are not helping the country gain independence from msoft.
China, if you want to remain competitive with Indian and Korean an Filipino programmers, you might want to generate and cultivate a local base of programmers whose sole mission is to prepare the country for the convulsive and painful need for rejection of msoft's pervasive penetration.
From a practical standpoint, don't keep thinking "Oh, microsoft is huge and won't go away". They may/might NOT go away, but that shouldn't stop non-US companies from using large-scale indigenous Open Source/OS-agnostic development and deployment tools. And, your indigenous code is flavored to YOUR liking, and also you don't have to reel or recoil or react every time ms decides to bring product to end-of-life status.
I know, i know, creating an OS from scratch is EXPENSIVE. But, Open Source has done much of the work. Don't let RFL slip into oblivion. JUST because a company helps lift you up doesn't mean you are beholden to it for life. After all, you're looking at a company which for YEARS was considered (among) the most stingy, non-philanthropic companies in the US until years of BAD PR had to be countered.
And, imagine if all those under-employed laborers and artisans and such in China could be coaxed into programming. Money's going to be spent either for health, legal or other social reasons. May as well pay people to stay in school. Oh, wait, I forget: China already DOES crank out THOUSANDS of programmers a year...
Just some more of my "revolutionary" or "inciting" ideas.
Mod me a troll if you want, but, i'd say there's some slight "revisionist historian" work going on here, by gates... He's probably trying to "clean up his legacy" image...
The REAL secret of ms' success is that they are fucking RUTHLESS cut-throats. Hell, gates & company for years didn't play the lobbyist game, failing to pay homage to DC, until, that is, they figured it was to their tax, legislation and overseas-business advantages.
Any SMART board and administration in a company would hire and exploit the best talent it could afford to buy, so msoft is no great difference here. It comes down to ruthlessness, the kind that MOST companies CHOOSE NOT TO ENGAGE IN. They way microsoft plays is like gangsters or ninjas joining a game with weapons or rules-bending tactics while others try to play by the rules, even if they are at a disadvantage by playing by such rules.
Yeh, I TOO would like to know what that man or his writers are/were smoking.
Well, if that government is Swedish Borg and looks like the femme fatale Annika Seven of Nine, then they can tunnel me and my data all the time...
(Seven: Ensign Kim, would you like to have sex?
Kim: (Flustered) Bwa, bwa, why do you ask THAT?
Seven: Your perspiration has increased, your pupils are dilated, your temperature has elevated, and you are emitting pheromones. Those are common indicators in your species...)
Oh, and if you want to read FANFICTION about 7 of 9...
OK, this is now starting to feel like bastardly smarmyism. Not one of da boyz so not gonna get posted... maybe after two days this little prick will forget he posted to the firehose, but he's got excellent karma on the panel, but script-blacklisted from getting published.
Geez, i was half-assed expecting some bullshit polemic such as "don't offend or insult" the readers outside of slashodot, bekauze after all, we're trying to look like a responsible journal that can be referenced by The New Yourk Tymes...
What we therefore need is somebody or some organization (GOOGLE, ARE YOU LISTENING???!!!) to fund the acquisition of around 1000 (why not 1024?) network analyzers to put into the hands of local community groups which could then go door-to-door performing network penetrations testing.
On the ONE hand, *fuck* the FCC, if they won't share the info without the public having to FIGHT for its contents. Japan and Korea and probably even Saudi Arabia and the UAE have better "penetration" than we do here. On the OTHER hand, it's good that the FCC IS out there differentiating the types of access and levels of penetration.
But, obviously, they are beholden to broadband and other interests trying to jockey around for marketability of the information. THIS, therefore, is the PERFECT "open source" activity for nerds, their friends, families and others to join in on.
But, if this penetration assessment campaign (hey, PAC) gains traction, we can visualize the local police and neighborhood watch people being told by Comcast, AT&T, Cox and others to not allow in their homes anyone not a badge-wearing utilities representative. So, for that, then, just ask them to run a 50-foot cable into the door, plug it in, and let them watch the hand-held scanner.
To "warnings" about viruses? Well, then, ask them just how protected THEY are even without the presence of the PAC people at their door...
I agree, they were not a good ROI, but taking out only 34 ships was a dismally low number. However, the fright factor was enormous, if I understand correct/ly.
As for suicide bombers, the ones who are manipulated or threatened into going out with the bomb probably are victims more than cowards. They are threatened and made to understand they'll have 70 virgins (what gender, who knows...) waiting for them, and that their families will be well cared for if they carry out the mission.
I am willing to concede that some are buying into the missions, but i will assume they found some emotional fervor or rage by which to carry out the attacks. Waste of a life. Most of the time, they could just plant the bomb and remote-detonate it, or just go with timers and run like hell. Nothing glorious about blowing up WITH the bomb unless one feels like someone who has to go down with a sinking ship. Not exactly like shoving an old lady away from a bus and taking the hit for her.
NEWAY, it's late... gotta check for light leaks...
"Are you trying to be funny? What is your surname"
"Suparman."
"Guard! Arrest this man..."
I read that pretty much the above was what transpired until they checked his passport. Why the hell didn't the customs guy simply as for his passport FIRST, and THEN quiz him while pulling up the records for the p/p number/issuance/etc.?
obviously missing a genetic link (or have a redundant bad one) when they fail to realize WOMEN PROGRAMMERS are the missing link in aesthetics in software programming.
Hell, I would DARE to say there were fewer than 10% women code contributors to Open Office.org, but I could be wrong. OO.o might be a HELLUVA lot better in appearances AND functionality if MORE women are on that project... And, I'd beg them to dump it and start over by mimicking more of Lotus SmartSuite...
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"simply a symptom of America's slip from "world superpowe""
"BANG!" "POW!" "SPLAT"
YOU are Batman, umm, I meant, Bruce Wayne, aye?
Or, are you trying to say the whirled is banging and ganging up on the USA, hehhehe?
When u bust a CAP or a capLET in PC-Illin's digital ass...
Since you put it like that.... I now realize I overlooked your point. Yep, CW *is* chock-full of content, colors and such. What cool is that if you have acorns (CW's currency) you can buy stereos and other things for your room or for your friends. You can give yourself a stylable avatar...
Well, if everyone posts this on their facebook and other pages, and a firestorm starts, a Trend could be reversed. I don't recall using the T4 software, but the name is somehow familiar.
The fact that the box and contents can be forensically examined is a plus. That the software SOLD is another plus. The court has VERY LITTLE wiggle room, and Trend, if forensically wrong/mis-speaking, needs to STFU, grin and bear it. If Goran Fransson is fibbing, then he'll be punished. But, I don't see why T4 has to have sold MILLIONS to fit a claim of prior art. THAT IT WENT *PUBLICLY* available is GOOD ENOUGH.
What?
I don't see a comparison (resemblance) between MySpace and CyWorld. I prefer CW MUCH more than I do MySpace. However, I don't very often visit my CW account, but I go to it more than I do my MySpace account.
CyWorld is fun, and maybe I'm partial to it because I'm studying Hangul (Korean) and have an affinity to Korean things...
Speaking of Korean things (hint to the mods having an urge to slam "off-topic" on me, this is an aside here), I would like to have the Samsung Instinct, but I have NO intention of getting into another 2-year contract at this time, don't want to pay $200 for a phone, then wait 10 WEEKS for the rebate, am tired of billing issues, and so on.
If Metro had sexier phones and better coverage, i'd go to them. Maybe I'll check out Credo or something else, but I want my options open past Feb of the next year.
But back to CyWorld.... CyWorld probably has more pervasive activity per registered user, if i understand correctly.
What i don't like about MySpace is all the crappy-assed, jacked-up coloration and crazy-ass fonts some of my friends use. Some are so horrendous that they are very hard to read, and more often than not i cannot intercept the crap by hitting the "stop" button to prevent the css shit from taking over the reasonable readability of things. So, i might only visit MySpace maybe 2-3 times a week whereas just last year I'd be on it 2-3 times a day.
Also, facebook (branded as "facebook", not "Facebook"... see Wikipedia...) has FEWER users in the US than does MySpace... about half as many (36.x M vs ~76M, respectively).
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/facebook-no-longer-the-second-largest-social-network/
Moreover, facebook's gain is mainly from Canada, an increasing number in Asia, and lots of European locales.
Also, facebook's founder/s may be back in court based on information dug up from their hard drives about the origins of facebook code. However, the ConnectU people had previously signed off on a settlement, which is trying the patience of the judge on the case.
See:
http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentReader.aspx?Item=5_868446983
What'll be interesting is to see if Korea's CyWorld will make massive inroads into the US market than they already have. Granted, it's a different culture, probably a vastly more impressive per capita penetration and appreciation of personal technology there than in the US among the younger demographic, so that may explain CyWorld's massive popularity in Asia. But, outside of Korea, CyWorld has opened up more, but in non-Korean, and with fewer features and such than available in the Korean-based CyWorld system. It would be interesting if CyWorld and the facebook systems blended but without diminishing either one...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyworld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_web_culture
http://www.micronichesocialnetworks.com/cyworld.html
And, the SINA topic...
http://english.sina.com/technology/1/2008/0620/167775.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
to same-sex males the ...
"BONE-OC-U-LARS", for the low-low price of $69.99.
Butt, WAIT: Act NOW and get a FREE cortical stimp-lulator (yes, STIMP is a word boyz-n-gurlz) for those who like nice ass-trough-turf beneath their noses...
sumers...
(rant on)
Then the BONE-US COULD be OHN-US. These things could help musicians, artist, poets, the audiences of mimes, and so on. Police could use them, sure, but so could hikers, nature observers, and scores of other types of people.
Why does that f&cking device have to be announced solely as a military gadget? Sexy seduction of tax payers' dollars is probably why. I'm sure they DO product non-combat gear, but dammit, I'm tired of my tax dollars going to producing shit for those who want or prepare to kill when they can produce expensive, but affordable stuff for the masses. Oh, maybe they'll sub-license under some brand non-related to their name....
(rant off)
This could single-handedly (bun, umm, pun intended) reserect the Porn vs Beta arguMENts and breath mints in one fellow swoop.
Now, all those "angle of the dangle" jokes could be reserected, tool. Now, tie this device in with an ocular implant (7 of Mine/NINE comes to mind), with a Vinculum, and all those back-alley adult film studios and we're talking about serous... umm seerious sin-sory overload.
NorGrum might have better luck positing this thing at the porn industry. But, since it records images going on in the brain, strapping one of these onto prisoners might help prevent jail riots, monitor thoughts of those about to be executed, or just ferret out perverted pilots who are in their own single-handed miles-high clubs or troopers in their own Six-inch-trench clubs.
(No, you're NOT free to hook up one of those things to my brain or brains...)
(Multi-spectral response here....)
To help old codger politicians up their gains when combined with Viagra.
Imagine: The Love Guru Meets Linthicum Meets Issac Hayes' The Chef Meets Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing Meets The Teletubbies Meets....
Well, this might have some "knock-on" effects if it can be tied to porn and the x-box. QOS will take on a hole.. umm, WHOLE new MEANING when tele-sex can be used to keep the POP-ul-LASH-ON under complete control.
Talk about visual stimulation.
But, even if this thing pans out to its claims for it, this might end up causing sensory overload for the military personnel.
ONE WAY TO DEFEAT THIS: fire multitudes of multi-spectral weapons at the wearers. They won't TRUST the damned thing, and even if it discriminates real from seduction targets, eventually the device and the wearer will become worn out. To ensure the device doesn't "learn" to discriminate correctly, make sure the seduction/distraction launchers fire as few duplicates as possible...
Doomoo ari-datou.. Missu-ta Roh-baa-tou..
EXACTLY. So, it should be no surprise that i am QUITE dismayed that China is NOT opening an anti-trust probe against mshaft. They KNOW ms didn't get to it's stature in China by being nice. Well, unless you count the long-time non-prosecution of pirates. But, now that msoft have been stepping up anti-piracy campaigns, China MUST open a probe, AND they MUST forge ahead with Asianux & Red Flag Linux.
China -- and Asia in general -- CAN NOT afford to be "enslaved" the the msoft machine when now and for the past few years Asian countries have been in a angst of how to increase security (against US-mandated back doors in the software sold by US companies where encryption facilities exist in the apps/wares), and to increase local market share and capabilities.
China, by not opening the probe, you are reducing the force and intent of the EU sanctions against msoft. DO NOT 'kow tow" to microsoft. If corruption exists in the country, then along with dicked-up agriculture and other ministers who were executed, maybe China might consider (or, at least intimate that it might) execute corrupt business executives who weakened the country on a massive scale and who are not helping the country gain independence from msoft.
China, if you want to remain competitive with Indian and Korean an Filipino programmers, you might want to generate and cultivate a local base of programmers whose sole mission is to prepare the country for the convulsive and painful need for rejection of msoft's pervasive penetration.
From a practical standpoint, don't keep thinking "Oh, microsoft is huge and won't go away". They may/might NOT go away, but that shouldn't stop non-US companies from using large-scale indigenous Open Source/OS-agnostic development and deployment tools. And, your indigenous code is flavored to YOUR liking, and also you don't have to reel or recoil or react every time ms decides to bring product to end-of-life status.
I know, i know, creating an OS from scratch is EXPENSIVE. But, Open Source has done much of the work. Don't let RFL slip into oblivion. JUST because a company helps lift you up doesn't mean you are beholden to it for life. After all, you're looking at a company which for YEARS was considered (among) the most stingy, non-philanthropic companies in the US until years of BAD PR had to be countered.
And, imagine if all those under-employed laborers and artisans and such in China could be coaxed into programming. Money's going to be spent either for health, legal or other social reasons. May as well pay people to stay in school. Oh, wait, I forget: China already DOES crank out THOUSANDS of programmers a year...
Just some more of my "revolutionary" or "inciting" ideas.
thought I read "POTABLE Water Found on Mars".... Whew!
Mod me a troll if you want, but, i'd say there's some slight "revisionist historian" work going on here, by gates... He's probably trying to "clean up his legacy" image...
The REAL secret of ms' success is that they are fucking RUTHLESS cut-throats. Hell, gates & company for years didn't play the lobbyist game, failing to pay homage to DC, until, that is, they figured it was to their tax, legislation and overseas-business advantages.
Any SMART board and administration in a company would hire and exploit the best talent it could afford to buy, so msoft is no great difference here. It comes down to ruthlessness, the kind that MOST companies CHOOSE NOT TO ENGAGE IN. They way microsoft plays is like gangsters or ninjas joining a game with weapons or rules-bending tactics while others try to play by the rules, even if they are at a disadvantage by playing by such rules.
Yeh, I TOO would like to know what that man or his writers are/were smoking.
Well, if that government is Swedish Borg and looks like the femme fatale Annika Seven of Nine, then they can tunnel me and my data all the time...
(Seven: Ensign Kim, would you like to have sex?
Kim: (Flustered) Bwa, bwa, why do you ask THAT?
Seven: Your perspiration has increased, your pupils are dilated, your temperature has elevated, and you are emitting pheromones. Those are common indicators in your species...)
Oh, and if you want to read FANFICTION about 7 of 9...
http://www.geocities.com/voyagerbluealert/VOYORGY.html
OK, this is now starting to feel like bastardly smarmyism. Not one of da boyz so not gonna get posted... maybe after two days this little prick will forget he posted to the firehose, but he's got excellent karma on the panel, but script-blacklisted from getting published.
Hmmm....
Geez, i was half-assed expecting some bullshit polemic such as "don't offend or insult" the readers outside of slashodot, bekauze after all, we're trying to look like a responsible journal that can be referenced by The New Yourk Tymes...
I guess I'm not going to rant about allusions of nepotism or "who you know" being the key to getting article submissions in one's own name....
http://tech.slashdot.org/~davidsyes/journal/
(submitted with no karma bonus/ no subscriber bonus)
My ass.
What we therefore need is somebody or some organization (GOOGLE, ARE YOU LISTENING???!!!) to fund the acquisition of around 1000 (why not 1024?) network analyzers to put into the hands of local community groups which could then go door-to-door performing network penetrations testing.
On the ONE hand, *fuck* the FCC, if they won't share the info without the public having to FIGHT for its contents. Japan and Korea and probably even Saudi Arabia and the UAE have better "penetration" than we do here. On the OTHER hand, it's good that the FCC IS out there differentiating the types of access and levels of penetration.
But, obviously, they are beholden to broadband and other interests trying to jockey around for marketability of the information. THIS, therefore, is the PERFECT "open source" activity for nerds, their friends, families and others to join in on.
But, if this penetration assessment campaign (hey, PAC) gains traction, we can visualize the local police and neighborhood watch people being told by Comcast, AT&T, Cox and others to not allow in their homes anyone not a badge-wearing utilities representative. So, for that, then, just ask them to run a 50-foot cable into the door, plug it in, and let them watch the hand-held scanner.
To "warnings" about viruses? Well, then, ask them just how protected THEY are even without the presence of the PAC people at their door...
I agree, they were not a good ROI, but taking out only 34 ships was a dismally low number. However, the fright factor was enormous, if I understand correct/ly.
As for suicide bombers, the ones who are manipulated or threatened into going out with the bomb probably are victims more than cowards. They are threatened and made to understand they'll have 70 virgins (what gender, who knows...) waiting for them, and that their families will be well cared for if they carry out the mission.
I am willing to concede that some are buying into the missions, but i will assume they found some emotional fervor or rage by which to carry out the attacks. Waste of a life. Most of the time, they could just plant the bomb and remote-detonate it, or just go with timers and run like hell. Nothing glorious about blowing up WITH the bomb unless one feels like someone who has to go down with a sinking ship. Not exactly like shoving an old lady away from a bus and taking the hit for her.
NEWAY, it's late... gotta check for light leaks...
"Electronic (Help-Our-Selves)Self-Help"...
And your name?
"Batman?"
"Are you trying to be funny? What is your surname"
"Suparman."
"Guard! Arrest this man..."
I read that pretty much the above was what transpired until they checked his passport. Why the hell didn't the customs guy simply as for his passport FIRST, and THEN quiz him while pulling up the records for the p/p number/issuance/etc.?
http://gizmodo.com/tag/batman-bin-suparman/
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/04/03/singapore-superhero-batman-bin-suparmen/
http://www.atai.org/softwarewar.png
or...
http://mshiltonj.com/software_wars/current/
Or, just hang some old motherboards and 5"-thick hard drives on the wall...
Ask for Silvia (of ST:TOS "Catspaw") or the Scalosians (ST:TOS "Wink of an Eye")...
obviously missing a genetic link (or have a redundant bad one) when they fail to realize WOMEN PROGRAMMERS are the missing link in aesthetics in software programming.
Hell, I would DARE to say there were fewer than 10% women code contributors to Open Office.org, but I could be wrong. OO.o might be a HELLUVA lot better in appearances AND functionality if MORE women are on that project... And, I'd beg them to dump it and start over by mimicking more of Lotus SmartSuite...