Huh. I guess another strike against LibreOffice is its updater doesn't quite work. My version is sitting and 3.5.7.2 and seems to think it's up to date when it checks for updates.
(PS - thanks for letting me know there's a newer version)
In the business, it doesn't matter. Customers simply see it as sending me something and me not being able to work with it. They don't care if that reason is a standards problem, or MS being jerks.
They just see it as I can't do the job with what they have, and they'll find someone else who can.
Longer answer: OpenOffice (and LibreOffice) chokes on documents created in newer versions of Office (2010, possibly 2012). It can leave out parts of the document entirely. The elements are usually the geometry objects (line arrows, word balloons, etc). This little problem actually got a customer pretty pissed off at me because I referred to the document missing some key components that were actually there when viewed in MS Word.
For personal use, advanced users, or environments where you can strictly control document formats, OpenOffice can work. However, if you need to be able to read documents coming from uncontrolled sources, it still has a very long way to go to become viable replacement for Microsoft Office.
Well, I still receive packages and my bills via the USPS, so I imagine shutting it down would cause some problems in those departments.
And they get an ENORMOUS discount to send out thousands of flyers and coupons
Mailing companies don't get enormous discounts. They actually do the majority of the USPS's work themselves. They take care of the presorting and processing of all the mail, and will even do drop shipments of the presorted mail to the delivery facilities directly. The only real part that the USPS does is take the sorted mail and have their carriers deliver it. It removes a large portion of the process, such as address analysis and routing processing. USPS also get revenue from the mandatory quarterly software updates used for sorting and processing of the mail.
Typical setups enable Nagle's algorithm by default, meaning the OS will queue up the smaller packets for a connection into a single frame (given enough data - it won't wait forever). It's a fairly safe assumption that most packets leaving the network will fall around the 1400-1500 byte range (unless the submitter is download a lot of sub - 1450 byte connections).
Assuming that the 48 bytes is causing the ~25% overhead cost, that means his average packet size is 192 bytes. I'm sticking with my assumption that someone's not measuring the data correctly, and this isn't an overhead issue.
Someone has suggested that AT&T may be measuring packet overhead and the article poster might not be.
Overhead isn't 20-30%. Assuming a typical setup using mostly UDP/TCP/IP over a PPP connection, he's losing, at most, 48 bytes for every 1500. That's a whopping 3.2%.
A more likely explanation is that someone's not measuring correctly (either the submitter or AT&T). It's feasible that AT&T is fudging the numbers. It's also feasible that the submitter isn't correctly monitoring traffic, such as only measure routed traffic and ignoring packets to the internet originating from the router, such as DNS, NTP, etc.
Of course it is... AT&T was the company in the SCOTUS case regarding those clauses. Albeit, it was their mobile phone terms, but it made a quick jump to everything the next day. I actually think I received a new ToS notice before/. had the story about the SCOTUS case.
A lot of speculation about MS's new console says that Kinect will be a built-in feature. Originally, I had the same thought as you. Then I remembered we're about 1 year out from a new generation Xbox with this stuff built in, so no disconnecting for us.
Family Ties, Different Strokes, One Day at a Time and lots of others.
Those shows, despite being dumb sitcoms, still tried to teach some valuable lessons. Some even went to the point to touch some socially taboo topics (Different Strokes had a 2-part pedophilia plot).
The lessons of reality shows seem to be "get drunk, plow loose women, be a douche, get in fights, and tan." They're the equivalent of going to the zoo to watch monkeys have a poop fight.
No, because you can still verify the certificate is the correct certificate. If you're expecting a certificate with a fingerprint of 0xF00B4R12 and your error-causing certificate is 0xDEADBEEF, it's not the right certificate. Ideally, you let the built-in libraries to the analysis for you by loading your CA certificate and letting the framework do the comparison for you.
Dev monkey proved they didn't understand how to fix the problem.
The last time I came across this in the real world, I was writing a.NET application. The.NET framework offers a delegate to handle exactly this situation. I assume the Java, and any C API (worth its salt) offers a similar functionality. These functions are intended to extend the trust chain validation. You can analyze the chain and verify that your certificate (and only your certificate) caused the error, and that the error was within parameters (typically, an untrusted CA).
You don't need to allow everything under the sun, nor should you ever do so. You don't need to control the authority on the end system, just understand how certificate validation works.
Dev monkey updates app to not choke on bad certs [...] PHB blames dev monkey
The PHB got the blame exactly right. The Dev Monkey proved he didn't understand SSL as soon as he did a blanket "trust everything." Dev Monkey screwed the pooch.
Why watch on XBox Live? I'm assuming in addition to the XBox, a television is required to do this. And once you have the television, the XBox is unnecessary. Is your XBox connected to a monitor that doesn't receive OTA signals? Do you do it for the interactive aspect (polls)? Just curious.
Several reasons.
1) Interactivity - They poll the viewers while the debate is ongoing relating to the questions. They provide interesting factoids about the viewers.
2) Social Aspects - You can use parties to discuss stuff with your friends while watching the debate without having to physically be there. You can also chat with friends who are in games.
3) HD - Cable companies charge you extra for HDTV, even if the original broadcast is in HD. If you don't have an HD package, this will still let you watch the debates in HD.
4) Access - Some of us don't have cable or satellite, and only gets media from streaming sources. Since OTA access isn't available to some people (like myself; north-facing ground floor condo with a no antenna policy), watching via the Xbox/streaming is our only real option.
Bending over sideways? Not sure how trying to mandate hardware manufacturers open their drivers by licensing calls to an API is bending over sideways, unless you mean they're bending over sideways to make life more difficult. Either way, with the negative rep Win8 has been getting and Valve (among others) opening up to porting game software to Linux, there was a door slowly opening that Linux could've used to gain a better footing on the desktop market.
This guy just attempted to slam shut it for purely philosophical reasons.
Ron Paul is feared for his stance being against the norm.
That's not why I feared Ron Paul winning. His hard-line anti-regulatory stance is what terrifies me. If you thought consumer abuse and corporatism is rampant now, you're in for a troubling surprise if he gets elected and is allowed to enact his agendas. I like some of Ron Paul's ideas, but his regulatory views are very, very naive. However, I do like that he is shaking up things within his party.
write in your vote
Write-in candidates can never win - it's not possible with current election regulations. There have been instances in my local government where a winning candidate was disallowed office because of regulatory loopholes, and that was someone actually on the ballot. Write-ins will not have the proper documentations and signatories, so they will be denied office based on that alone.
The thing about lying in court is they don't care about your motivations, only that you're intentionally lying. If they can prove he intentionally lied during jury selection, then their job is done and the juror is in a lot of trouble.
Yea, we do to an extent. But this wasn't a case of "oops, we accidentally spied on you," this was a case of "we intentionally spied on you, and it turns out that was illegal."
Ignorance of the law doesn't make you exempt from the punishment for your crime.
I think the problem that rubs people the wrong way is the government issuing an outright ban. It's "protecting me from myself" style of legislation. Don't misunderstand that point - I'm in favor of bans for things that are legitimately harmful (for example, lead-based pipes, using asbestos in residential homes). But when they start using bans to make "the proper choice" for me, it becomes a slippery slope.
There are better methods to handle this situation. As other commenters have said, give people incentives to change over, don't slap an outright ban on a product.
Actually, there's a provision that states if you knowingly make a false claim, it's a criminal offense as well. However, I've never actually seen that enforced.
Yea, good programmers create bugs, and nobody will ever code a flawless system. But Bethesda really raises the bar in the "screwing things up" department. Some of the problems they have had in original releases and patches would have never cleared a preliminary round of testing in a "professional software development" environment. They also have a knack of reintroducing bugs fixed in previous patches. Their problems range from glaringly obvious but cosmetic problems (such as displaying the entirely wrong buttons/keys in game for actions if you changes any keybindings - doubly so for 'hidden' action associations) to enormous, game-breaking problems (patches wiping out all system settings and save files).
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As a side effect of work, yes I am. But there are a few bugs with 3.5.x that make it a pain to use, so I'll try my luck with 3.6.
Huh. I guess another strike against LibreOffice is its updater doesn't quite work. My version is sitting and 3.5.7.2 and seems to think it's up to date when it checks for updates.
(PS - thanks for letting me know there's a newer version)
In the business, it doesn't matter. Customers simply see it as sending me something and me not being able to work with it. They don't care if that reason is a standards problem, or MS being jerks.
They just see it as I can't do the job with what they have, and they'll find someone else who can.
Short answer: No.
Longer answer: OpenOffice (and LibreOffice) chokes on documents created in newer versions of Office (2010, possibly 2012). It can leave out parts of the document entirely. The elements are usually the geometry objects (line arrows, word balloons, etc). This little problem actually got a customer pretty pissed off at me because I referred to the document missing some key components that were actually there when viewed in MS Word.
For personal use, advanced users, or environments where you can strictly control document formats, OpenOffice can work. However, if you need to be able to read documents coming from uncontrolled sources, it still has a very long way to go to become viable replacement for Microsoft Office.
And they get an ENORMOUS discount to send out thousands of flyers and coupons
Mailing companies don't get enormous discounts. They actually do the majority of the USPS's work themselves. They take care of the presorting and processing of all the mail, and will even do drop shipments of the presorted mail to the delivery facilities directly. The only real part that the USPS does is take the sorted mail and have their carriers deliver it. It removes a large portion of the process, such as address analysis and routing processing. USPS also get revenue from the mandatory quarterly software updates used for sorting and processing of the mail.
I figured someone would point this out.
Typical setups enable Nagle's algorithm by default, meaning the OS will queue up the smaller packets for a connection into a single frame (given enough data - it won't wait forever). It's a fairly safe assumption that most packets leaving the network will fall around the 1400-1500 byte range (unless the submitter is download a lot of sub - 1450 byte connections).
Assuming that the 48 bytes is causing the ~25% overhead cost, that means his average packet size is 192 bytes. I'm sticking with my assumption that someone's not measuring the data correctly, and this isn't an overhead issue.
Someone has suggested that AT&T may be measuring packet overhead and the article poster might not be.
Overhead isn't 20-30%. Assuming a typical setup using mostly UDP/TCP/IP over a PPP connection, he's losing, at most, 48 bytes for every 1500. That's a whopping 3.2%.
A more likely explanation is that someone's not measuring correctly (either the submitter or AT&T). It's feasible that AT&T is fudging the numbers. It's also feasible that the submitter isn't correctly monitoring traffic, such as only measure routed traffic and ignoring packets to the internet originating from the router, such as DNS, NTP, etc.
Of course it is... AT&T was the company in the SCOTUS case regarding those clauses. Albeit, it was their mobile phone terms, but it made a quick jump to everything the next day. I actually think I received a new ToS notice before /. had the story about the SCOTUS case.
Or like how Steam tries to bombard users with popup ads anytime they want to play the games they've already paid for?
I'm not sure how you're using Steam, but this has never happened to me.
A lot of speculation about MS's new console says that Kinect will be a built-in feature. Originally, I had the same thought as you. Then I remembered we're about 1 year out from a new generation Xbox with this stuff built in, so no disconnecting for us.
Family Ties, Different Strokes, One Day at a Time and lots of others.
Those shows, despite being dumb sitcoms, still tried to teach some valuable lessons. Some even went to the point to touch some socially taboo topics (Different Strokes had a 2-part pedophilia plot).
The lessons of reality shows seem to be "get drunk, plow loose women, be a douche, get in fights, and tan." They're the equivalent of going to the zoo to watch monkeys have a poop fight.
No, because you can still verify the certificate is the correct certificate. If you're expecting a certificate with a fingerprint of 0xF00B4R12 and your error-causing certificate is 0xDEADBEEF, it's not the right certificate. Ideally, you let the built-in libraries to the analysis for you by loading your CA certificate and letting the framework do the comparison for you.
Dev monkey proved they didn't understand how to fix the problem.
.NET application. The .NET framework offers a delegate to handle exactly this situation. I assume the Java, and any C API (worth its salt) offers a similar functionality. These functions are intended to extend the trust chain validation. You can analyze the chain and verify that your certificate (and only your certificate) caused the error, and that the error was within parameters (typically, an untrusted CA).
The last time I came across this in the real world, I was writing a
You don't need to allow everything under the sun, nor should you ever do so. You don't need to control the authority on the end system, just understand how certificate validation works.
Dev monkey updates app to not choke on bad certs [...] PHB blames dev monkey
The PHB got the blame exactly right. The Dev Monkey proved he didn't understand SSL as soon as he did a blanket "trust everything." Dev Monkey screwed the pooch.
Why watch on XBox Live? I'm assuming in addition to the XBox, a television is required to do this. And once you have the television, the XBox is unnecessary. Is your XBox connected to a monitor that doesn't receive OTA signals? Do you do it for the interactive aspect (polls)? Just curious.
Several reasons.
1) Interactivity - They poll the viewers while the debate is ongoing relating to the questions. They provide interesting factoids about the viewers.
2) Social Aspects - You can use parties to discuss stuff with your friends while watching the debate without having to physically be there. You can also chat with friends who are in games.
3) HD - Cable companies charge you extra for HDTV, even if the original broadcast is in HD. If you don't have an HD package, this will still let you watch the debates in HD.
4) Access - Some of us don't have cable or satellite, and only gets media from streaming sources. Since OTA access isn't available to some people (like myself; north-facing ground floor condo with a no antenna policy), watching via the Xbox/streaming is our only real option.
When talking length, we're not always talking about page count.
Gary Johnson = Republican Governor who got badly beaten in the primaries and dropped out early, now running as Libertarian.
Bending over sideways? Not sure how trying to mandate hardware manufacturers open their drivers by licensing calls to an API is bending over sideways, unless you mean they're bending over sideways to make life more difficult. Either way, with the negative rep Win8 has been getting and Valve (among others) opening up to porting game software to Linux, there was a door slowly opening that Linux could've used to gain a better footing on the desktop market.
This guy just attempted to slam shut it for purely philosophical reasons.
Ron Paul is feared for his stance being against the norm.
That's not why I feared Ron Paul winning. His hard-line anti-regulatory stance is what terrifies me. If you thought consumer abuse and corporatism is rampant now, you're in for a troubling surprise if he gets elected and is allowed to enact his agendas. I like some of Ron Paul's ideas, but his regulatory views are very, very naive. However, I do like that he is shaking up things within his party.
write in your vote
Write-in candidates can never win - it's not possible with current election regulations. There have been instances in my local government where a winning candidate was disallowed office because of regulatory loopholes, and that was someone actually on the ballot. Write-ins will not have the proper documentations and signatories, so they will be denied office based on that alone.
The thing about lying in court is they don't care about your motivations, only that you're intentionally lying. If they can prove he intentionally lied during jury selection, then their job is done and the juror is in a lot of trouble.
No, we also take mistakes into account.
Yea, we do to an extent. But this wasn't a case of "oops, we accidentally spied on you," this was a case of "we intentionally spied on you, and it turns out that was illegal."
Ignorance of the law doesn't make you exempt from the punishment for your crime.
That's what I get for reading the headline and assuming it's actually true.
I think the problem that rubs people the wrong way is the government issuing an outright ban. It's "protecting me from myself" style of legislation. Don't misunderstand that point - I'm in favor of bans for things that are legitimately harmful (for example, lead-based pipes, using asbestos in residential homes). But when they start using bans to make "the proper choice" for me, it becomes a slippery slope.
There are better methods to handle this situation. As other commenters have said, give people incentives to change over, don't slap an outright ban on a product.
Actually, there's a provision that states if you knowingly make a false claim, it's a criminal offense as well. However, I've never actually seen that enforced.
Yea, good programmers create bugs, and nobody will ever code a flawless system. But Bethesda really raises the bar in the "screwing things up" department. Some of the problems they have had in original releases and patches would have never cleared a preliminary round of testing in a "professional software development" environment. They also have a knack of reintroducing bugs fixed in previous patches. Their problems range from glaringly obvious but cosmetic problems (such as displaying the entirely wrong buttons/keys in game for actions if you changes any keybindings - doubly so for 'hidden' action associations) to enormous, game-breaking problems (patches wiping out all system settings and save files).