SPF would have put a serious dent in this problem. Too bad MS singelhandedly killed it by refusing to implement it and pushing their proprietary framework instead.
I say we go back to SPF, and start refusing email from anybody who does not have an SPF record. It won't solve the problem but it will reduce it greatly.
Well this is a great first step. Pretty soon (in the next year or so I would think) MA is going to mandate ODF. Your SO (significant other) is going to download the ODF plug in and continue to use word.
If there are new employees then the state agency is going to save money by not buying them an office license but instead using OO or a cheaper office suite from IBM or SUN or whatever.
Everybody wins, the agency saves money, the taxpayers save money, and documents are available to all forever.
There is no doubt 9/11 was the largest failure of intelligence in the history of the US. I am including Pearl Harbor in that because back in those days we just didn't have the capability gather intelilgence like we do today.
Lucky for us the Bush administration has given out very large rewards for the heads of the FBI, CIA and everybody else who was involved in this failure and the failure of the planning and execution of the Iraq war.
Nothing breeds personal responsibility and comptence like rewarding failure.
I am fully convinced that you are incapable of absorbing information that disagrees with your already made up irrational beliefs. Furthermore I am fully convinced that you remain wilfully ignorant so that you will not be exposed to ideas that might cause you to actually think about whether your beliefs are based on fact.
That makes you a republitard. In fact that's the definition of the word.
It doesn't "bust" it, it just provides a finer grained detail about the voting patterns inside of richer and poorer states. It admits that richer states vote democratic and also admits that there is a higher degree of agreement inside the rich states regardless of income level.
If you read that article and came to conclusion it "busted" anything then you seriously need to brush up on your comprehension skills.
I'll even create a URL for you because I know how incompetent you are. Here. It's a lot of words though so you are going have to read OK? I'll pull out a quote for you.
"Liberals have the highest education level of any typology group 49% are college graduates and 26% have some postgraduate education. But the Enterprisers also include a relatively high percentage of college graduates (46%), although fewer Enterprisers than Liberals have attended graduate school (14%).
Pro-Government Conservatives stand out among Republican groups for their modest incomes. About half (49%) have annual household incomes of less than $30,000; just 13% of Enterprisers and 26% of Social Conservatives have incomes in that range. Pro-Government Conservatives' annual household incomes are comparable to those of Disadvantaged Democrats and Bystanders, and much lower than those of other GOP groups.
Huge disparities in education also divide both Democratic and Republican typology groups. Just 13% of Disdvantaged Democrats have completed college (9% college grads, 4% postgraduate), compared with nearly half of Liberals. Educational differences between Liberals and Conservative Democrats are nearly as large (49% vs. 16%).
Among Republicans, just 15% of Pro-Government Conservatives have completed college, compared with 45% of Enterprisers. There also are wide disparities in education among the three independent groups, with Upbeats (37%) far more likely to have completed college than Bystanders (13%) or Disaffecteds (11%). "
That's from the Pew research center. There are more if you want to read about it.
So you are still convinced that I am the same killjoe that is playing those games huh? Good for you. You don't let any logic enter into your brain at all. Keep your wilfull ignorance. You are going to need it when you vote.
Finally I am glad the republitard meme is catching on. The world needs less people like you and the best way to do that is to shine a light on your kind.
And RFID key or a card would accomplish the same thing. Why surgically implant one on yourself. At worst you are asking people to carve you up because they want to steal your car instead of just taking your keys or your wallet.
LIberterian: Somebody who belives no two people can have the same nym. Somebody who takes the word of a web site as an authoritive source on the geographical location of a nym.
Nope, that's not a liberterian. The liberterians I know tend to be pretty smart people. At a minimum they don't confuse liberals with communists and they seem to be savvy enough to do google searches.
If you are liberterian you are an especially stupid one. SInce the term republitard covers all people who are gullable then it's an accurate description of you. The fact you call yourself a liberterian does not negate your obvious feeble mind and willingness to accept absurd facts.
"But you don't hear google complaining about that. "
That's what this complaint is. You can bet it will be brought up in the court case (I am presuming there will be one).
"You don't hear CNN saying they should be the default home page, or Comcast or BellSouth or Verizon or AOL claiming they should be able to pay MS to make their "gateways" be the default home page."
AOL has already struck deals with MS. CNN etc are not in the same business (primarily). When MS enters into television then they will complain too.
"If Java is valueless, why are the clamours for its open sourcing so loud? "
Because the java programmers would benefit from a java that is ubiquitus on all platforms. It's better for the developers. Sun doesn't think it's better for them so they have resisted the call of the java developers. Java developers want people who are running linux, windows, mac, solaris etc to have equal access to their programs, that's why they chose to program in a cross platform language in the first place. Right now it's a royal pain to distribute java on linux.
"Are you really stupid enough to think that the rights to Java aren't worth anything?"
Are you stupid enough to think that Sun would lose it's trademark, copyright, test suites or any other rights if they open source the language? You must be.
"IBM or Microsoft would pay plenty for control over it."
MS doesn't care. They already forked java twice, one is called J++ the other is C#. They no longer care about java. IBM already has a JVM for their PPC chips (sun refuses to write one for it) so they don't care either. Paying a few thousand dollars for a license is pocket change for IBM.
It's the java developers who are getting the shaft, not MS or IBM.
MS is a monopoly. It's bad enough they are "dumping" products by giving them away for nothing or sbusidizing them with their monopoly profits.
You don't see anything wrong with it but I do. It's bad for the IT industry to have no competition and to have one monopoly swinging it's weight around and crushing any new company that might spring up and offer a better product or service.
What's amazing to me is that people still actually cosider partnering up with MS. After all the partners they stabbed in the back you'd think people would wise up.
I never called you a republican. I called you a republitard.
I don't for once second believe that somebody who is unable to read and unable to do google searches is educated. If you are going to shcool then it must really suck.
"Why can't you answer these questions and enter into mature discourse."
Because it's impossible to have a mature discussion with a republitard. You refuse to absorb information that contradicts your zealotly held positions. Fundamentalists are like that.
"Their competitors now have something they didn't have before. Sun have lost the opportunity to sell the exclusive rights to Java. And so on."
So what? They don't make money on it now anyway.
"Sun own Java. That confers benefits. "
What benefits?
"Open Sourcing it will certainly have adverse effects. "
Again what and how? I certainly don't see any adverse effects.
"If you're not addressing those issues, don't expect anyone of significance to be very interested in your views on open sourcing Java, because it's not your decision to make."
Java will be open sourced. Sun has said repeatedly that they are now an open source company. The open sourced openoffice, netbeans, their application server and solaris. All of these (especially solaris) were profitable businesses.
It's just a matter of time and what license they use.
Ok java is an asset. An asset they make no money off of (by their own adminission). If they open soure is how does it not become an asset? They still own the trademark, they still own the brand, they still own the compliance tests, they still own everything else.
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SPF would have put a serious dent in this problem. Too bad MS singelhandedly killed it by refusing to implement it and pushing their proprietary framework instead.
I say we go back to SPF, and start refusing email from anybody who does not have an SPF record. It won't solve the problem but it will reduce it greatly.
"What happens when a document contains VBA?"
If the state decrees that ODF is the only format acceptable then documents with VBA will not be accepted.
The idea of ODF is not be locked into a format that's only available from one vendor.
Well this is a great first step. Pretty soon (in the next year or so I would think) MA is going to mandate ODF. Your SO (significant other) is going to download the ODF plug in and continue to use word.
If there are new employees then the state agency is going to save money by not buying them an office license but instead using OO or a cheaper office suite from IBM or SUN or whatever.
Everybody wins, the agency saves money, the taxpayers save money, and documents are available to all forever.
MS is not mean, they would never sabotage their competitors products. I know because I asked them and they told me. Why would they lie?
There is no doubt 9/11 was the largest failure of intelligence in the history of the US. I am including Pearl Harbor in that because back in those days we just didn't have the capability gather intelilgence like we do today.
Lucky for us the Bush administration has given out very large rewards for the heads of the FBI, CIA and everybody else who was involved in this failure and the failure of the planning and execution of the Iraq war.
Nothing breeds personal responsibility and comptence like rewarding failure.
I am fully convinced that you are incapable of absorbing information that disagrees with your already made up irrational beliefs. Furthermore I am fully convinced that you remain wilfully ignorant so that you will not be exposed to ideas that might cause you to actually think about whether your beliefs are based on fact.
That makes you a republitard. In fact that's the definition of the word.
So yes, I am still convinced of all that "junk".
It doesn't "bust" it, it just provides a finer grained detail about the voting patterns inside of richer and poorer states. It admits that richer states vote democratic and also admits that there is a higher degree of agreement inside the rich states regardless of income level.
If you read that article and came to conclusion it "busted" anything then you seriously need to brush up on your comprehension skills.
I'll even create a URL for you because I know how incompetent you are.
Here. It's a lot of words though so you are going have to read OK? I'll pull out a quote for you.
"Liberals have the highest education level of any typology group 49% are college graduates and 26% have some postgraduate education. But the Enterprisers also include a relatively high percentage of college graduates (46%), although fewer Enterprisers than Liberals have attended graduate school (14%).
Pro-Government Conservatives stand out among Republican groups for their modest incomes. About half (49%) have annual household incomes of less than $30,000; just 13% of Enterprisers and 26% of Social Conservatives have incomes in that range. Pro-Government Conservatives' annual household incomes are comparable to those of Disadvantaged Democrats and Bystanders, and much lower than those of other GOP groups.
Huge disparities in education also divide both Democratic and Republican typology groups. Just 13% of Disdvantaged Democrats have completed college (9% college grads, 4% postgraduate), compared with nearly half of Liberals. Educational differences between Liberals and Conservative Democrats are nearly as large (49% vs. 16%).
Among Republicans, just 15% of Pro-Government Conservatives have completed college, compared with 45% of Enterprisers. There also are wide disparities in education among the three independent groups, with Upbeats (37%) far more likely to have completed college than Bystanders (13%) or Disaffecteds (11%). "
That's from the Pew research center. There are more if you want to read about it.
So you are still convinced that I am the same killjoe that is playing those games huh? Good for you. You don't let any logic enter into your brain at all. Keep your wilfull ignorance. You are going to need it when you vote.
Finally I am glad the republitard meme is catching on. The world needs less people like you and the best way to do that is to shine a light on your kind.
"Yes, but you never posted the link that you claim to have."
So you are not convinced that educated people tend be more liberal (er I mean communist) right.
And RFID key or a card would accomplish the same thing. Why surgically implant one on yourself. At worst you are asking people to carve you up because they want to steal your car instead of just taking your keys or your wallet.
LIberterian: Somebody who belives no two people can have the same nym. Somebody who takes the word of a web site as an authoritive source on the geographical location of a nym.
Nope, that's not a liberterian. The liberterians I know tend to be pretty smart people. At a minimum they don't confuse liberals with communists and they seem to be savvy enough to do google searches.
If you are liberterian you are an especially stupid one. SInce the term republitard covers all people who are gullable then it's an accurate description of you. The fact you call yourself a liberterian does not negate your obvious feeble mind and willingness to accept absurd facts.
"But you don't hear google complaining about that. "
That's what this complaint is. You can bet it will be brought up in the court case (I am presuming there will be one).
"You don't hear CNN saying they should be the default home page, or Comcast or BellSouth or Verizon or AOL claiming they should be able to pay MS to make their "gateways" be the default home page."
AOL has already struck deals with MS. CNN etc are not in the same business (primarily). When MS enters into television then they will complain too.
Sofa is not software.
"If Java is valueless, why are the clamours for its open sourcing so loud? "
Because the java programmers would benefit from a java that is ubiquitus on all platforms. It's better for the developers. Sun doesn't think it's better for them so they have resisted the call of the java developers. Java developers want people who are running linux, windows, mac, solaris etc to have equal access to their programs, that's why they chose to program in a cross platform language in the first place. Right now it's a royal pain to distribute java on linux.
"Are you really stupid enough to think that the rights to Java aren't worth anything?"
Are you stupid enough to think that Sun would lose it's trademark, copyright, test suites or any other rights if they open source the language? You must be.
"IBM or Microsoft would pay plenty for control over it."
MS doesn't care. They already forked java twice, one is called J++ the other is C#. They no longer care about java. IBM already has a JVM for their PPC chips (sun refuses to write one for it) so they don't care either. Paying a few thousand dollars for a license is pocket change for IBM.
It's the java developers who are getting the shaft, not MS or IBM.
MS is a monopoly. It's bad enough they are "dumping" products by giving them away for nothing or sbusidizing them with their monopoly profits.
You don't see anything wrong with it but I do. It's bad for the IT industry to have no competition and to have one monopoly swinging it's weight around and crushing any new company that might spring up and offer a better product or service.
Actually why not? I mean if the DOJ won't take care of it why can't the people.
The only downside I see is that google will get blames for it.
What's amazing to me is that people still actually cosider partnering up with MS. After all the partners they stabbed in the back you'd think people would wise up.
Google is in the IT industry. Google makes money. That's abominable to MS. They want to be the only company in the IT industry.
So have you googled about the relationship between having degrees and voting for democrats (er I mean communists) yet?
W00t. So you saw the word "killjoe" there and decided that...
A) I am the same person.
B) That Xfire is an authoritive source on the location of people who adopt pseudonyms.
What a fucking republitard!.
LOL I am canadian??? Where did you get that from? You really can't read can you.
"You still dropped all of my questions, because you can't provide a proper response, because you know that you are wrong."
Wrong again. I gave you links. You were unable to read and understand them.
I never called you a republican. I called you a republitard.
I don't for once second believe that somebody who is unable to read and unable to do google searches is educated. If you are going to shcool then it must really suck.
"Why can't you answer these questions and enter into mature discourse."
Because it's impossible to have a mature discussion with a republitard. You refuse to absorb information that contradicts your zealotly held positions. Fundamentalists are like that.
"Their competitors now have something they didn't have before. Sun have lost the opportunity to sell the exclusive rights to Java. And so on."
So what? They don't make money on it now anyway.
"Sun own Java. That confers benefits. "
What benefits?
"Open Sourcing it will certainly have adverse effects. "
Again what and how? I certainly don't see any adverse effects.
"If you're not addressing those issues, don't expect anyone of significance to be very interested in your views on open sourcing Java, because it's not your decision to make."
Java will be open sourced. Sun has said repeatedly that they are now an open source company. The open sourced openoffice, netbeans, their application server and solaris. All of these (especially solaris) were profitable businesses.
It's just a matter of time and what license they use.
I will repeat myself.
You are a republitard. You and people like you are a stain on America. You and your ilk give the rest of the country a bad name.
Why don't you go and do some reading for a change. Stop getting all your news from talk radio and fox news.
Simple. I can't run your great java application on my linux machine.
How does that help you?
Ok java is an asset. An asset they make no money off of (by their own adminission). If they open soure is how does it not become an asset? They still own the trademark, they still own the brand, they still own the compliance tests, they still own everything else.