"Is there a reason to worry that there might be a secret NSA/FBI/CIA/KGB/Russian Mafia/Rush Limbaugh/Gary Coleman back door? Depends on whether you trust the security vendor."
Yeh, there might be an FSA/NBI/CGB/KIA/Ruffian Masha/Rush Coleman/Gary Limbaugh side door. It is not unpossible that an insecurity vendor might do this.
Speaking of Laws of the Sea/Admiralty/etc. This craft will be unmanned. Who will pay the bill for escort services? If it's approached, found to be unmanned/unoccupied, in international waters, is there gray area to declare it a derelict (tho it's autonomous)? Could it be seized (might be to small to be "boarded") for a "prize crew"? If someone fired warning shots across its bow, and it didn't heave to, what happens?
Some enterprising types might even steal it and auction it off for $2,000...
Maybe he wore a costume, and had props, like put the computers in boulders? Or dressed up like Ford or Spielberg?
Or, the thieves sent in scantily-clad whip-wielding women to (the wrong set to) distract the guards by Romancing Their Stones? Maybe they told the disguarded guards "Those briefs that were briefs-ly yours are now impermanently mine... It's entire not unpossible... to whip guards unto sub-mission...
By telling them and making them agree to using ONLY GENUINE windows XP software, they probably also mean NO OPEN SOURCE.
Using Samba, Webmin, Cups, Apache, K-Mail and open source mail servers? Look OUT. Here comes OUTLOOK! Using any Python/Pearl/PHP/Eclipse? Here comes active x, and various incarnations of windows framework stuff.
If you comply with this audit, AND dump Open Source, then you don't value nor deserve "freedom". Give rise to inertia, momentum, impetus to FREEDOM of CHOICE of software AND operating system. Don't fall into the coercion tactics. Come clean, or else. Coming clean can mean buying the LEGIT copies BEFORE your employees rat you out. THEN after getting ONLY the copies of windoze you NEED, put everyone else on OO.o or Lotus SmartSuite, EXCEPT where you NEED the exact ms copies. Otherwise, get creative. Stop being lazy.
IBM should copy the Lotus SMARTSUITE interface, then update it to 2007. SmartSuite has non-modal palettes/pallets that are very useful when wanting to change properties. The side-bar-like think in Symphony IS useful, but it eats up screen real estate. Symphony REALLY ought to have its own look and feel--SmartSuite has nice colors and already has a database application (Lotus Approach) that won awards in the 90's but woefully needs updating and needs to be OS-agnostic.
It boggles my mind that IBM and Lotus come out the gate with an OO.o clone. Surely, IBM, you can pay off the stalwarts holding some of the S/S patents, can't you?
I hope you can use your attorney powers to gather up some like-minded friends...
TWO topics here: Patents/Symphony
Patents
I may be mistaken, but I think that Raining Data's Omnis Studio had such features BACK IN 1994!
When I was a contractor back at Bay Networks in/~ 1993/94(formerly Synoptics and Wellfleet, BN later bought by Nortel, I think...) I used the Mac version of Omnis's Omnis database (later I began playing with Omnis Studio, but that's another topic), and I think the developers there had some such options.
I think even Borland Paradox had such features, or something similar.
Really, whether one database application can or cannot do EXACTLY what IBM claims depends on the technology, but in effect, there are ways to simulate the patent claim, or outright cobble code to do it. It might look ugly, be inelegant, but work.
Honestly, I have not READ the patent claim in entirety, but I think that if enough older developers review the patent and can demonstrate they had created prior art, then this would be good (not to be attacking IBM) but to show how hosed up the USPTO still is. I know (I think I read somewhere) that the USPTO is opening up to more input prior to issuing/awarding/granting patents, but maybe I misread.
SYMPHONY
I'd RATHER see IBM's money spent on ditching Symphony's underpinnings and replacing it with Lotus SMARTSUITE, 2007. I suppose, though, they'll claim they don't own all the patents inside SmartSuite and signed a document that they would not try to imitate/reproduce/assist in doing so any component of SmartSuite (which excludes Notes). It's a shame, because I was decidedly underwhelmed, disappointed in fact, with Symphony. OO.o, I have to say, did a MUCH better job at opening and handling my company's ms-word-created tables and revision notes (tho, in OO.o I did not try to do any revision tracking stuff... can OO.o even do so?). I WISH SmartSuite were IBM's choice of platform.
IBM, c'mon. Reign in your attorney head count and divert that money to developers who want to help you make a better splash than you did with Symphony. There's nothing even remotely reminiscent of Lotus Symphony of old in the IBM Lotus Symphony of new.
C'mon, IBM. Bring your vast arsenal to bear by liberating SmartSuite, and using patents to protect things like SmartTabs, Smart Properties, and other features that WON AWARDS for SmartSuite when ms office wasn't EVEN WINNNG awards. YOUR property WON awards, when Corel didn't, and when ms probably was issuing payola to mag reviewers to bolster ms office's stand and market takeover.
IBM, C'MON! SmartSuite is a treasure trove of potential patents. Cross-license with Sun/OO.o so Symphony can be as strong as Lotus SmartSuite, 2007.
For this large a market, Apple need not tie itself to ONE carrier. It sounds of "take" to me. SOMEbody in AT&T and SOMEbody in Apple is getting VERY wealthy off there being ONLY one carrier. I suppose the desires of the few outweigh the hopes/desires of the many.
There are too MANY of these exclusive deals. I suppose Apple and its board feel that AT&T just won't EVER go away or stop spending money. Heck, I worked for a foreign-owned (supposedly it was, at least by board) company that in 2000 claimed its financial woes were due to AT&T no any longer buying its already-overpriced, underdesired optical equipment, leading to 2 or 3 silent layoffs then to some 4 or 5 rounds of publicised layoffs.
Spreading eggs around is better for the Customers. Companies that care ONLY about the shareholders ought be run out of business. Apple doesn't NEED to rely solely on AT&T. Maybe there are some idiots or other super-beholden to the letter "A" over there. Here's to conjuring a slight impediment to AT&T's well-being so that Apple wakes up. Some people don't LIKE AT&T. I'll keep my eyes open for a Samsung phone. Doesn't NEED to be an iPhone killer, just other than an iPhone until Apple lets ME make MY right choice.
Well, that seems to me we should all just throw in the towel and let Christianity take over. Then, Hell will continue to have a legitimate existence. After all, life must be BORING in heaven: My queen to your king, level 3, God... Or, maybe being sent down as a guardian angel is the last meaningful purpose of heaven?
So, what would you prefer, cutters & cruisers christened by wives of heads of departments of countries that INVITE or exacerbate the need for "combatants" as jobs-creation programs and ever-continual shift of wealth to just a FEW countries and individuals?
Sheesh. The only reason I'm coming off as "whackier than a pissed fruitbat" is because currently people REFUSE to opt for massive changes in the status quo. I'm not suggesting revolution, but attitude and mindset change.
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"Is there a reason to worry that there might be a secret NSA/FBI/CIA/KGB/Russian Mafia/Rush Limbaugh/Gary Coleman back door? Depends on whether you trust the security vendor."
Yeh, there might be an FSA/NBI/CGB/KIA/Ruffian Masha/Rush Coleman/Gary Limbaugh side door. It is not unpossible that an insecurity vendor might do this.
And, what about quantum slipstreams, wormholes, and subspace eddies?
Speaking of Laws of the Sea/Admiralty/etc. This craft will be unmanned. Who will pay the bill for escort services? If it's approached, found to be unmanned/unoccupied, in international waters, is there gray area to declare it a derelict (tho it's autonomous)? Could it be seized (might be to small to be "boarded") for a "prize crew"? If someone fired warning shots across its bow, and it didn't heave to, what happens?
Some enterprising types might even steal it and auction it off for $2,000...
Dave, I detect that you are trying to cross a large body of water. This could be dangerous. Do you want to:
COntinue?
Stop?
As more questions?
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml
With the help of GPS, some small Azipods from
http://www.abb.com/cawp/seitp161/d9b2b9b6ef1f600cc1256fdf003b2929.aspx
(hey, maybe they will be willing to sponsor a LINUX-controlled craft?)
and some backing from other sources and I'm sure this can be done. After all, it's not as if Omega or LORAN are the navigation sources.
WHY can't we all just STRUM along?
I prepose the not unpossible:
An superconducting, semi-colllliding, laser-optro guitar that reacts to finger interruption. This way, I don't have to toon my geetar.
What kind of thimbles will I need for protecting my fingers?
In SPACE, no one can year you STREAM...
SPACE?
Maybe he wore a costume, and had props, like put the computers in boulders? Or dressed up like Ford or Spielberg?
Or, the thieves sent in scantily-clad whip-wielding women to (the wrong set to) distract the guards by Romancing Their Stones? Maybe they told the disguarded guards "Those briefs that were briefs-ly yours are now impermanently mine... It's entire not unpossible... to whip guards unto sub-mission...
He.. will be.. a-decimated...
By telling them and making them agree to using ONLY GENUINE windows XP software, they probably also mean NO OPEN SOURCE.
Using Samba, Webmin, Cups, Apache, K-Mail and open source mail servers? Look OUT. Here comes OUTLOOK! Using any Python/Pearl/PHP/Eclipse? Here comes active x, and various incarnations of windows framework stuff.
If you comply with this audit, AND dump Open Source, then you don't value nor deserve "freedom". Give rise to inertia, momentum, impetus to FREEDOM of CHOICE of software AND operating system. Don't fall into the coercion tactics. Come clean, or else. Coming clean can mean buying the LEGIT copies BEFORE your employees rat you out. THEN after getting ONLY the copies of windoze you NEED, put everyone else on OO.o or Lotus SmartSuite, EXCEPT where you NEED the exact ms copies. Otherwise, get creative. Stop being lazy.
*I* don't listen to *HIP HOP*
But, who gets Aniken?
Noooohhhh!!!!
IBM should copy the Lotus SMARTSUITE interface, then update it to 2007. SmartSuite has non-modal palettes/pallets that are very useful when wanting to change properties. The side-bar-like think in Symphony IS useful, but it eats up screen real estate. Symphony REALLY ought to have its own look and feel--SmartSuite has nice colors and already has a database application (Lotus Approach) that won awards in the 90's but woefully needs updating and needs to be OS-agnostic.
It boggles my mind that IBM and Lotus come out the gate with an OO.o clone. Surely, IBM, you can pay off the stalwarts holding some of the S/S patents, can't you?
Funny, Captcha: "impress"
I hope you can use your attorney powers to gather up some like-minded friends...
TWO topics here: Patents/Symphony
Patents
I may be mistaken, but I think that Raining Data's Omnis Studio had such features BACK IN 1994!
When I was a contractor back at Bay Networks in/~ 1993/94(formerly Synoptics and Wellfleet, BN later bought by Nortel, I think...) I used the Mac version of Omnis's Omnis database (later I began playing with Omnis Studio, but that's another topic), and I think the developers there had some such options.
I think even Borland Paradox had such features, or something similar.
Really, whether one database application can or cannot do EXACTLY what IBM claims depends on the technology, but in effect, there are ways to simulate the patent claim, or outright cobble code to do it. It might look ugly, be inelegant, but work.
Honestly, I have not READ the patent claim in entirety, but I think that if enough older developers review the patent and can demonstrate they had created prior art, then this would be good (not to be attacking IBM) but to show how hosed up the USPTO still is. I know (I think I read somewhere) that the USPTO is opening up to more input prior to issuing/awarding/granting patents, but maybe I misread.
SYMPHONY
I'd RATHER see IBM's money spent on ditching Symphony's underpinnings and replacing it with Lotus SMARTSUITE, 2007. I suppose, though, they'll claim they don't own all the patents inside SmartSuite and signed a document that they would not try to imitate/reproduce/assist in doing so any component of SmartSuite (which excludes Notes). It's a shame, because I was decidedly underwhelmed, disappointed in fact, with Symphony. OO.o, I have to say, did a MUCH better job at opening and handling my company's ms-word-created tables and revision notes (tho, in OO.o I did not try to do any revision tracking stuff... can OO.o even do so?). I WISH SmartSuite were IBM's choice of platform.
IBM, c'mon. Reign in your attorney head count and divert that money to developers who want to help you make a better splash than you did with Symphony. There's nothing even remotely reminiscent of Lotus Symphony of old in the IBM Lotus Symphony of new.
C'mon, IBM. Bring your vast arsenal to bear by liberating SmartSuite, and using patents to protect things like SmartTabs, Smart Properties, and other features that WON AWARDS for SmartSuite when ms office wasn't EVEN WINNNG awards. YOUR property WON awards, when Corel didn't, and when ms probably was issuing payola to mag reviewers to bolster ms office's stand and market takeover.
IBM, C'MON! SmartSuite is a treasure trove of potential patents. Cross-license with Sun/OO.o so Symphony can be as strong as Lotus SmartSuite, 2007.
TROLL?? It was meant to be a pun, you insensitive clod.
implementing...
Preparation...
"SH"
(Cometary Solar Hurricane Hemorrhoid Removal)
(Yes, I am expecting to hear: 'you dou*he bag' from somebody...)
They should look for the eyes or the umbilical "coords"...
Reminds me of the old Wendy's commercial from the late 70's or early 80's
(I can't remember the EGGZAKT food items, but the robot part I do.....)
Customer: Excuse me, is this the cheeseburger with onions, or the hamburger with no mayo?
Multi-lighted computer bank on wall: Hold... it.. up.. to... my... EYES... I-CAN'T--TELL...
Mwo? (Huh?)
For this large a market, Apple need not tie itself to ONE carrier. It sounds of "take" to me. SOMEbody in AT&T and SOMEbody in Apple is getting VERY wealthy off there being ONLY one carrier. I suppose the desires of the few outweigh the hopes/desires of the many.
There are too MANY of these exclusive deals. I suppose Apple and its board feel that AT&T just won't EVER go away or stop spending money. Heck, I worked for a foreign-owned (supposedly it was, at least by board) company that in 2000 claimed its financial woes were due to AT&T no any longer buying its already-overpriced, underdesired optical equipment, leading to 2 or 3 silent layoffs then to some 4 or 5 rounds of publicised layoffs.
Spreading eggs around is better for the Customers. Companies that care ONLY about the shareholders ought be run out of business. Apple doesn't NEED to rely solely on AT&T. Maybe there are some idiots or other super-beholden to the letter "A" over there. Here's to conjuring a slight impediment to AT&T's well-being so that Apple wakes up. Some people don't LIKE AT&T. I'll keep my eyes open for a Samsung phone. Doesn't NEED to be an iPhone killer, just other than an iPhone until Apple lets ME make MY right choice.
Hmmm, Anti-Christ?
Well, that seems to me we should all just throw in the towel and let Christianity take over. Then, Hell will continue to have a legitimate existence. After all, life must be BORING in heaven: My queen to your king, level 3, God... Or, maybe being sent down as a guardian angel is the last meaningful purpose of heaven?
So, what would you prefer, cutters & cruisers christened by wives of heads of departments of countries that INVITE or exacerbate the need for "combatants" as jobs-creation programs and ever-continual shift of wealth to just a FEW countries and individuals?
Sheesh. The only reason I'm coming off as "whackier than a pissed fruitbat" is because currently people REFUSE to opt for massive changes in the status quo. I'm not suggesting revolution, but attitude and mindset change.
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