It's my understanding that OOXML isn't even a standard that microsoft uses or can implement and microsoft intends to replace it in the very near future. So what was the point of this exercize? To make sure that a true open standard has a harder time getting a foothold until microsoft brings out their "real" open standard.
Now-- there is another issue... OOXML is not a true open standard-- it is patent encumbered for one thing, and can't be implemented for another.
Openoffice does a better job of opening my older word files than Word does at this point (in fact, at least a couple times a year I use it to FIX MSword documents at work that get corrupted section headers and crash Word). The thing that started this entire mess is that some governments noticed this fact with regard to their documents (i.e. Microsoft making not just the word processor you are using obsolete but making your *data* obsolete-- and in under 10 years) and passed laws saying documents were required to be in an open format so they could be read 50 years from now.
Microsoft word format is a standard-- its just not a very stable standard (changing substantially every few years) and it is not an OPEN standard. If ISO wanted to vote OOXML "the standard way one version of Word stores data" it might have been true. But they didn't-- they voted it an "Open" standard which has legal meaning to all those governments passing laws that their documents must be stored in an open format. It was a huge-- corrupt- scam job where Microsoft essentially got a standards body to label a white flour roll an apple so it would be immune to new laws saying kids had to have fruit instead of rolls with their school lunches.
Catastrophic failures are up. Staff productivity is way down.
Combination of SOX, offshoring & out-hosting of our hardware.
When things do fail- there is an increasingly small staff (last time one guy worked 48 hours straight to save the company (multi-billion dollar co)). If he had told them to shine on each day after putting in a 10 hour day, the company would have lost millions. And yet... they are still probably considering continuing to outsource to the people who could do nothing to help us when that happened.
They seem to think, if you looked at the code 2 years ago, you are going to be competent to keep it running in a crisis.
Put a box on the counter with candy bars and a sign "take a candy bar, leave a dollar". It works fine-- the candy bars are cheaper-- someone doesn't have to be physically present to sell them-- until the culture breaks down.
Once people think it is okay to steal the candy bars then they are $1.50, you can only buy them when someone is there (or the machine is full).
Boards of directors are like that. The board and the executive class in general used to take care of everyone to some extent-- noblesse oblige... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige). Now, they believe you should take what you can- but the power disparity between them and the non-executive class is huge. The end result of such a situation is often bloody revolution because nothing can stop the noble class from taking so much that the only way out is to overturn the system.
Excellent -- yes you are correct. You own the physical instance (and should that include a binary image of a downloaded song on my drive? -- I think so.)
I disagree... Vista fails with me because I'm just tired of paying "rent" for the operating system and applications.
I made a commitment 5 years ago to go OS/Agnostic on applications. It has taken a while, but i'm pretty much there now. I may get windows computers in the future for special purposes (like playing EQ until it dies) but my next "main" PC will be a linux computer. My documents will be in ODF. My office suite will be openoffice (for now), p2p is azureus, sound editing is audacity, pixel editing will be mtPaint, etc.
Microsoft ruined windows by integrating a lot of non-O/S stuff with the OS. There should be a stable O/S which will last the next 10 years with appropriate drivers and modules that change on top of it. They did this so they could fight competitors by saying "well this is part of the O/S". It goes even to the extent of Word and other office programs and development environments (SQL, VB6) which has shared DLLS that should probably not be so tightly integrated with the O/S. There is no reason that "end of support" should mean that a product will probably be broken by an O/S patch shortly thereafter. I still use some older programs that work fine because they are just programs, not extensions of the operating system.
As a person of expertise, how do you think that a national healthcare that covered the first $5,000 (so all that prevention.. and even some broken arms & minor emergency stuff) would work?
I think that a minimal health care plan that we could afford would be good for us as citizens, workers, and even good for businesses (which are competing against companies with national health care or no health care). However, I think any unlimited health-care system will disintegrate (we just can't pay 2 million a piece in health bills for everyone) and/or collapse to rationing where the rich use money to bypass rationing (which is really where we are now).
My poke is at the *business* hiring them which is making me pay for part of it's cost of doing business so it has higher profits. That's the main thing corporations do-- find ways to push their costs outside of their company onto society as a whole.
If businesses were required to pay fair wages and we didn't provide free health care and schooling, the illegal immigrant problem wouldn't really exist. It would be more like back in the 50's when it was background noise (and teenagers did the work of illegal immigrants) as opposed to the 4 million that crossed the border last year alone (850k were caught and sent back.. the rest are here now)
Really, people like that need to be allowed to kill themselves before they reproduce.
In a few thousand years, heroin will be about as dangerous as alcohol (which kills but at an acceptable rate apparently).
Give people the freedom to kill themselves once they are grown up. It's sad. But knowing people who started, lost control, and died is very effective at preventing their friends & relatives who are not using yet from starting.
What we shouldn't do is support them, feed them, and keep them hanging around for years as they get worse and worse or commit crimes, etc.
I agree prohibition is completely non-productive and I would further say that it is actively destructive to society corrupting our government, our police force, and our judicial system in multiple ways (bribery/death threads to making money off criminals becoming addicted to having a large criminal population to keep a prison company going or prison labor available to fix roads).
And actually... since you do quite well for the most part, in reality I am paying for it.
My health insurance rates are set so that you can be paid your normal wage, the rent can be paid, the bills for drugs can be paid despite providing mandated free healthcare for people without healthcare.
Something like this Pays/Cost/Unpaid $0/300/$300 Illegal Immigrant/Young Party Animal/Homeless saint who helped society/Single Unemployed Widowed Mother $680/300/0 Four people with insurance getting the same thing done. ($30 goes to the insurance company, $50 sales tax)
The problem comes externalizing costs becomes the majority (which it sort of is now...something like 60% of people in the US rely on other people to pay for some or all of their healthcare). Which is why Medicare is going to be completely bankrupt in 2019 (hey... 11 YEARS away-- very soon).
Society is a super-delegate placing 6,000 votes to your "1".
Society is rhode island getting 2 senators to california's 2 senators.
I prefer the parent poster's point that many things are "legal" or "illegal" for completely arbitrary and random reasons that have nothing to do with right or wrong, good or evil, etc.
1) If it is property... then Riaa is going to start paying taxes on it. And of course property tax is value based so RIAA will have a reason to value their property lower.
2) As the value approaches zero, the tax approaches zero. If you sell 1,000 songs for $1.00-- the tax on 1,000 songs is 8 cents (or.008 cents).
I'll take a side... I hope the guy wins at least a hundred million dollars.
It won't help little guys in the future tho-- the contracts will be more tightly written as time goes on so ordinary folks like this end up with squat.
There was a major company that pwned mainframe change control.
So completely that they raised prices over 100% in one year, laid off 50% of their support staff, and reduced commissions to their salespeople.
It so pissed off their customer base that they basically died in 2005 to 2007 period. It didn't matter what they did to try to make things right, the customers were so angry that they were not going back regardless. My large corp will no longer use them by policy.
Human beings lead companies. If the top 3-5 human beings have a brain fart, (say like Bear Stearns) then the rest of their workers get pulled along for the ride.
Oh.. and at my large corp, they specifically only listen to ignorant outside contractors advice for the last 12-15 years, ignoring the advice of the experts they hired (and wonder why their staff is quasi pissed off-- hmm hire an expert and then ignore his advice over that of clueless newbs).
I agree your process is what happens in a well managed company-- probably 10-15% of major corps.
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It's my understanding that OOXML isn't even a standard that microsoft uses or can implement and microsoft intends to replace it in the very near future. So what was the point of this exercize? To make sure that a true open standard has a harder time getting a foothold until microsoft brings out their "real" open standard.
Now-- there is another issue... OOXML is not a true open standard-- it is patent encumbered for one thing, and can't be implemented for another.
Openoffice does a better job of opening my older word files than Word does at this point (in fact, at least a couple times a year I use it to FIX MSword documents at work that get corrupted section headers and crash Word). The thing that started this entire mess is that some governments noticed this fact with regard to their documents (i.e. Microsoft making not just the word processor you are using obsolete but making your *data* obsolete-- and in under 10 years) and passed laws saying documents were required to be in an open format so they could be read 50 years from now.
Microsoft word format is a standard-- its just not a very stable standard (changing substantially every few years) and it is not an OPEN standard. If ISO wanted to vote OOXML "the standard way one version of Word stores data" it might have been true. But they didn't-- they voted it an "Open" standard which has legal meaning to all those governments passing laws that their documents must be stored in an open format. It was a huge-- corrupt- scam job where Microsoft essentially got a standards body to label a white flour roll an apple so it would be immune to new laws saying kids had to have fruit instead of rolls with their school lunches.
There was a lot more of this before companies spent several decades laying people off.
Would you be able to love another person when you knew they would cut you off from ever seeing them again at random in 3-5 years?
No- you'd find another person you could trust. But the nature of society says you can't trust any company any more.
So now you have to get the training and skills from them and leave them before they leave you.
Costs are down...
Catastrophic failures are up. Staff productivity is way down.
Combination of SOX, offshoring & out-hosting of our hardware.
When things do fail- there is an increasingly small staff (last time one guy worked 48 hours straight to save the company (multi-billion dollar co)). If he had told them to shine on each day after putting in a 10 hour day, the company would have lost millions. And yet... they are still probably considering continuing to outsource to the people who could do nothing to help us when that happened.
They seem to think, if you looked at the code 2 years ago, you are going to be competent to keep it running in a crisis.
It's a cultural thing...
... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige). Now, they believe you should take what you can- but the power disparity between them and the non-executive class is huge. The end result of such a situation is often bloody revolution because nothing can stop the noble class from taking so much that the only way out is to overturn the system.
Put a box on the counter with candy bars and a sign "take a candy bar, leave a dollar". It works fine-- the candy bars are cheaper-- someone doesn't have to be physically present to sell them-- until the culture breaks down.
Once people think it is okay to steal the candy bars then they are $1.50, you can only buy them when someone is there (or the machine is full).
Boards of directors are like that. The board and the executive class in general used to take care of everyone to some extent-- noblesse oblige
Well new york does have about 10% of your potential customers tho. Someone will serve them and take the tax hit.
Excellent -- yes you are correct. You own the physical instance (and should that include a binary image of a downloaded song on my drive? -- I think so.)
Actually,
isn't it more like me mailing you a letter and then saying you cannot sell it or publish it?
(Which I have a fuzzy memory that this has been ruled that I own the copyright on my letter and you can only read it.)
I disagree...
Vista fails with me because I'm just tired of paying "rent" for the operating system and applications.
I made a commitment 5 years ago to go OS/Agnostic on applications. It has taken a while, but i'm pretty much there now. I may get windows computers in the future for special purposes (like playing EQ until it dies) but my next "main" PC will be a linux computer. My documents will be in ODF. My office suite will be openoffice (for now), p2p is azureus, sound editing is audacity, pixel editing will be mtPaint, etc.
Microsoft ruined windows by integrating a lot of non-O/S stuff with the OS. There should be a stable O/S which will last the next 10 years with appropriate drivers and modules that change on top of it. They did this so they could fight competitors by saying "well this is part of the O/S". It goes even to the extent of Word and other office programs and development environments (SQL, VB6) which has shared DLLS that should probably not be so tightly integrated with the O/S. There is no reason that "end of support" should mean that a product will probably be broken by an O/S patch shortly thereafter. I still use some older programs that work fine because they are just programs, not extensions of the operating system.
See spun, as a 4 digit, you got the joke.
As a 5 digit, Sancho just can't understand the humor because he hasn't been around long enough.
As a 6 digit, I have no clue what both of you are even talking about and I'm surprised at myself for being cheeky enough to post at all.
Let me ask you this Nick...
As a person of expertise, how do you think that a national healthcare that covered the first $5,000 (so all that prevention.. and even some broken arms & minor emergency stuff) would work?
I think that a minimal health care plan that we could afford would be good for us as citizens, workers, and even good for businesses (which are competing against companies with national health care or no health care). However, I think any unlimited health-care system will disintegrate (we just can't pay 2 million a piece in health bills for everyone) and/or collapse to rationing where the rich use money to bypass rationing (which is really where we are now).
So what do you think?
And also, you wouldn't see restrictions on the ability to play songs by one french band all day restricted.
My poke is not at illegal immigrants.
My poke is at the *business* hiring them which is making me pay for part of it's cost of doing business so it has higher profits. That's the main thing corporations do-- find ways to push their costs outside of their company onto society as a whole.
If businesses were required to pay fair wages and we didn't provide free health care and schooling, the illegal immigrant problem wouldn't really exist. It would be more like back in the 50's when it was background noise (and teenagers did the work of illegal immigrants) as opposed to the 4 million that crossed the border last year alone (850k were caught and sent back.. the rest are here now)
I have no problem with having a "we use drugs" league and a "we are normal humans" league.
The lie the sports figures engage in is to compare to them selves to the truly great players before them who were not using steroids.
Really, people like that need to be allowed to kill themselves before they reproduce.
In a few thousand years, heroin will be about as dangerous as alcohol (which kills but at an acceptable rate apparently).
Give people the freedom to kill themselves once they are grown up. It's sad. But knowing people who started, lost control, and died is very effective at preventing their friends & relatives who are not using yet from starting.
What we shouldn't do is support them, feed them, and keep them hanging around for years as they get worse and worse or commit crimes, etc.
I agree prohibition is completely non-productive and I would further say that it is actively destructive to society corrupting our government, our police force, and our judicial system in multiple ways (bribery/death threads to making money off criminals becoming addicted to having a large criminal population to keep a prison company going or prison labor available to fix roads).
And actually... since you do quite well for the most part, in reality I am paying for it.
My health insurance rates are set so that you can be paid your normal wage, the rent can be paid, the bills for drugs can be paid despite providing mandated free healthcare for people without healthcare.
Something like this
Pays/Cost/Unpaid
$0/300/$300 Illegal Immigrant/Young Party Animal/Homeless saint who helped society/Single Unemployed Widowed Mother
$680/300/0 Four people with insurance getting the same thing done. ($30 goes to the insurance company, $50 sales tax)
The problem comes externalizing costs becomes the majority (which it sort of is now...something like 60% of people in the US rely on other people to pay for some or all of their healthcare). Which is why Medicare is going to be completely bankrupt in 2019 (hey... 11 YEARS away-- very soon).
Nah...
Society is a super-delegate placing 6,000 votes to your "1".
Society is rhode island getting 2 senators to california's 2 senators.
I prefer the parent poster's point that many things are "legal" or "illegal" for completely arbitrary and random reasons that have nothing to do with right or wrong, good or evil, etc.
No... it's drug abuse when you flush them down the toilet.
;)
Or when you beat them and tell them they are bad, ugly drugs with no redeeming value.
would there be problems if you read this and then worked on an open source project that covered a similar domain?
Which is why most of europe has a negative population growth and will be islamic.
Some groups in certain settings choose toys over babies.
The desire to have babies is cultural. The desire to have sex is built in.
Two points
.008 cents).
1) If it is property... then Riaa is going to start paying taxes on it. And of course property tax is value based so RIAA will have a reason to value their property lower.
2) As the value approaches zero, the tax approaches zero. If you sell 1,000 songs for $1.00-- the tax on 1,000 songs is 8 cents (or
I'll take a side... I hope the guy wins at least a hundred million dollars.
It won't help little guys in the future tho-- the contracts will be more tightly written as time goes on so ordinary folks like this end up with squat.
BR will be a premium item until I start seeing BR's of decent movies go for $10 and players go for $100.
Well the ladies burst out laughing first but then we joined in...
It was basically
"Hey, your hot- and there is a jail door behind you"
"okay let's do it!"
and off they went.
Without actually saying those words even.
Ahh... if life were only that simple.
I'm going to blow my moderation and chip in.
There was a major company that pwned mainframe change control.
So completely that they raised prices over 100% in one year, laid off 50% of their support staff, and reduced commissions to their salespeople.
It so pissed off their customer base that they basically died in 2005 to 2007 period. It didn't matter what they did to try to make things right, the customers were so angry that they were not going back regardless. My large corp will no longer use them by policy.
Human beings lead companies. If the top 3-5 human beings have a brain fart, (say like Bear Stearns) then the rest of their workers get pulled along for the ride.
Oh.. and at my large corp, they specifically only listen to ignorant outside contractors advice for the last 12-15 years, ignoring the advice of the experts they hired (and wonder why their staff is quasi pissed off-- hmm hire an expert and then ignore his advice over that of clueless newbs).
I agree your process is what happens in a well managed company-- probably 10-15% of major corps.
My corp was afraid of unprotected legal liability mainly.
And they wanted to have a vendor to scream at if the product didn't work.