Probably that most politicians say one thing and does to other...
Or that it's impossible to find a politician that agree with everything you want... It especially hard to find any politicians with interest in computers etc... Since the majority of votes don't care about these issues, nobody borders to have a clear policy on these issues...
Though I as a European would say that like the EU. Maybe it's democracy could be better... And once in a while you may argue that EU officials have a lot of power, and the national media doesn't really care much about EU either...
- But sometimes it's also good that the voters doesn't decide everything:)
I'm running Ubuntu Feisty with OpenOffice 2.2, and it's fairly quick... No where near as slow as 2.1 and 2.0, Actually I've been using 1.9.x too, and there's most certainly been great improvements...It takes what 2-3 seconds to open Writer, back in 2.0 it was a lot slower... It's steadily improving, so don't bash too much before you've tried the new version...
By the way, I like the extensions idea... But when I was looking into it a few days ago, the APIs were very confusing...
I don't know much about document standards, but something sure stinks if the document format specifies backward compatibility...
- Applications should implement backward compatibility, not the formats.
We have to break backward compatibility, else we'll have bugs from word 97 in OpenOffice.Org 2050:)
It shouldn't necessarily be possible to convert all older document to the new format, without loosing something.
The only things I use Windows for is MathCad and AutoCad (both required by my school)... Now I guess AutoCad is too big, and probably impossible... But Linux already has CAS systems like Maxima, even commercial ones... But a free (as in freedom) CAS system with a GUI, that would run on both Linux and Windows... Would without doubt replace MathCad, both on my school and my computer, very fast.
Now I know we've got different frontends to Maxima, putting LaTeX ontop of it, but none of them are usable for non-geeks, like my mates.
I think you should consider it, since you might be able to do a better job than Microsoft... Nevertheless there is AFAIK no silverlight SDK for OS X...
And giving Moonlight a bigger market share will only benefit Mono and Moonlight... Especially if Moonlight becomes faster or better featured than Silverlight...
The free market is a good thing... BUT it needs be controlled in order to stay free!
The market forces will NOT take care of these issues... Most normal people/non-geeks would not be able to understand how replacing ads would be possible... THEY wont care... There are millions of other issues that the customers are worried about...
This won't even make it to the mainstream news, Why? because it would take 30 minutes to explain the problems to average Joe... Besides there's not really much he can do anyway!
The problem is that only experts/geeks and other people who have a great technical insight will ever care about these issues... And if we let the free market control everything, then customers will be confused because there suddenly is 10.000 different issues he must address when he chooses ISP... The average customer will not care about these issues, and in the end it'll all be about who's best at marketing...
And since we all know Micosoft is the best at marketing, the conclusion must be:
If we let the free market forces control everything, the world will only consist of Microsoft and companies with similar business practice... So we must control the free market in ability to keep it free.
Off topic, but GPL i not an EULA.... The GPL only restricts your redistribution of GPL'ed software or software deriviated from GPL'ed software (ei modifications of GPL software)... As long as you don't redistribute an application the GPL doesn't give you anything but rights...
Sorry, but I don't see anything wrong in that...
I have a nickname I use many places, and all my profiles links to my website, where there's both image, phone number, address etc...
I've had it like that for quite some years now... (Which means that it was also there when I was a kid)
My guess is that it's a little overrated, just because you reveal your identity doesn't mean your stupid...
As far as I know you can run windows under Xen, and other paravirutalized environments, if your CPU has support for paravirtualization technology like AMD's Pacifica and Intels Vanderpool... Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen#Windows_as_guest/
So using ReactOS shouldn't be necessary, don't think anybody would every use it for important thinks ever.
By the way, there's hopefully nobody running anything close to mission critical on ISS/Windows...
That's a joke, right?
Seriously, I could not imagine that it would cost Dell anything... Dell does have to offer source, but they may even charge a small fee for it. Source distribution is NOT an issue.
And be the way, the average user would never realize that he/she is not using Microsoft Office. Yes, many users would, but I wouldn't be sure if the majority would?
Right now there's a block on top of every wikipedia page asking you to donate money... Why not just use one small Google ad, and remove it as soon as the wanted amounts of funds have been raised. You could even make it possible to disable the ads under settings, where you also can change the theme...
I don't see the problem, as long they use some random algorithm to place different ads like google ads does...
How come developing pages for Firefox/Konqueror/Opera/Safari and comply with W3C standards be an easy job? And developing pages for Internet Explorer be a complete task?
Are you planing to do anything about this in future releases of Internet Explorer?
And I always wondered what's up with the HTML, DOM, DHTML and JScript documentation you can find on MSDN? Isn't the W3C standards good enough for you?
If you need an editor then take a look at:
http://www.jahshaka.org/
I haven't got many expirences with, but it supose to be a little different from all other major video editors...
If you need to do any encoding, you might find and editor that can do it, but you will properbly be very good of with ffmpeg...
Yes, I would like the waiter to warn me if the lamb is bad!
That's what we call service, you job isn't to make money, but to give you client the best service. If you think that you client would be better of without windows, then help your client...
Linux is best (Joke???)! Just because the majority uses Windows doesn't mean that Windows is best!
Just because there are many Windows users doesn't mean Windows is best, it means that we have many bad and irresponsible computer users!
It's impossible to decide who is best. Microsoft has enought money to develop the next 3 version of Windows... They don't need to make money to survive... Linux companies has to!
So we will properbly never see Microsoft go down, and as long as that haven't happened it impossible to decide who's number one...
(From an Ubuntu user)...
The funny part is the it's America that's responsable for the climate changes...
Most if not all of Europe takes part in international campaigns against CO2 polution. I Denmark (Europe) one Gallon of (car) fuel cost 7.12 USD.
- What do you pay?
- And how does that affect the environment?
GPL offers you the right to charge a "small fee" for distribution CDR, DVD or bandwidth. If you put on a small fee, only for the packages you've changed, and tell people that they can download the unchanged packages for free from the distro you derived from. They will most likely do so, else you'll probably make 5$ to pay for the bandwidth.
I agree, companies like yahoo, Microsoft, Google and IBM for that matter, should NOT be allow to buy each other. Or merge for that matter.
I know that in Denmark (country in Europe) we have competition-control-authority prohibiting things like that. But US is proberly too liberal to bloack things like that, right?
Bigger cooperations are NOT good for competition! It creates monopols and destroys innovation...
yes, kde apps requires many packages... but We all like when amaroK, downloads a wikipedia article about the band we are playing... and we can't do that without konqueror...
The keywords is reuse and intergration... which is why kde apps depends on many different packages...
No offence but I think you are getting paranoid:)
Remember the government is here to help everyone, not to be a pain in the ass. Cause if that all the government is to you, the why don't you vote for dictatorship or chaos...:)
- where are you if you can't trust your own government... I'm from Denmark - Europe so it not a problem to me:)
I have a lot of reservations about getting the government involved with open source standards. The whole idea of government in the first place seems anti open source, anti competitive to me.
I really can't follow you on this one. Open standart is pro competitive, and if the European Union decied to force Microsoft to include native support for.odt, that would be fine by me, actually I think it is a good idea.
By the way if you from US (which I assume) I would understand if you could not trust Bush, or just couldn't trust the american implementation of democrazy...
And you might think what does fair mean?
Is it the court or the law? to me the american laws seems fairly insane! It would not supprise me if americans thought the same about our (european) laws...
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Probably that most politicians say one thing and does to other... Or that it's impossible to find a politician that agree with everything you want... It especially hard to find any politicians with interest in computers etc... Since the majority of votes don't care about these issues, nobody borders to have a clear policy on these issues... Though I as a European would say that like the EU. Maybe it's democracy could be better... And once in a while you may argue that EU officials have a lot of power, and the national media doesn't really care much about EU either... - But sometimes it's also good that the voters doesn't decide everything :)
I'm running Ubuntu Feisty with OpenOffice 2.2, and it's fairly quick... No where near as slow as 2.1 and 2.0, Actually I've been using 1.9.x too, and there's most certainly been great improvements...It takes what 2-3 seconds to open Writer, back in 2.0 it was a lot slower... It's steadily improving, so don't bash too much before you've tried the new version... By the way, I like the extensions idea... But when I was looking into it a few days ago, the APIs were very confusing...
I don't know much about document standards, but something sure stinks if the document format specifies backward compatibility... - Applications should implement backward compatibility, not the formats. We have to break backward compatibility, else we'll have bugs from word 97 in OpenOffice.Org 2050 :)
It shouldn't necessarily be possible to convert all older document to the new format, without loosing something.
The only things I use Windows for is MathCad and AutoCad (both required by my school)... Now I guess AutoCad is too big, and probably impossible... But Linux already has CAS systems like Maxima, even commercial ones... But a free (as in freedom) CAS system with a GUI, that would run on both Linux and Windows... Would without doubt replace MathCad, both on my school and my computer, very fast. Now I know we've got different frontends to Maxima, putting LaTeX ontop of it, but none of them are usable for non-geeks, like my mates.
Yea, the thing is you can't get that kind of experience in Europe. Unless of cause you export a lot to the US... :)
I think you should consider it, since you might be able to do a better job than Microsoft... Nevertheless there is AFAIK no silverlight SDK for OS X... And giving Moonlight a bigger market share will only benefit Mono and Moonlight... Especially if Moonlight becomes faster or better featured than Silverlight...
The free market is a good thing... BUT it needs be controlled in order to stay free! The market forces will NOT take care of these issues... Most normal people/non-geeks would not be able to understand how replacing ads would be possible... THEY wont care... There are millions of other issues that the customers are worried about... This won't even make it to the mainstream news, Why? because it would take 30 minutes to explain the problems to average Joe... Besides there's not really much he can do anyway! The problem is that only experts/geeks and other people who have a great technical insight will ever care about these issues... And if we let the free market control everything, then customers will be confused because there suddenly is 10.000 different issues he must address when he chooses ISP... The average customer will not care about these issues, and in the end it'll all be about who's best at marketing... And since we all know Micosoft is the best at marketing, the conclusion must be: If we let the free market forces control everything, the world will only consist of Microsoft and companies with similar business practice... So we must control the free market in ability to keep it free.
Off topic, but GPL i not an EULA.... The GPL only restricts your redistribution of GPL'ed software or software deriviated from GPL'ed software (ei modifications of GPL software)... As long as you don't redistribute an application the GPL doesn't give you anything but rights...
Sorry, but I don't see anything wrong in that... I have a nickname I use many places, and all my profiles links to my website, where there's both image, phone number, address etc... I've had it like that for quite some years now... (Which means that it was also there when I was a kid) My guess is that it's a little overrated, just because you reveal your identity doesn't mean your stupid...
As far as I know you can run windows under Xen, and other paravirutalized environments, if your CPU has support for paravirtualization technology like AMD's Pacifica and Intels Vanderpool... Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen#Windows_as_guest/
So using ReactOS shouldn't be necessary, don't think anybody would every use it for important thinks ever.
By the way, there's hopefully nobody running anything close to mission critical on ISS/Windows...
Well, I agree great idea... But perhaps they should donate the fines to FSF or some other project... That would seriously make MS mad... :)
That's a joke, right? Seriously, I could not imagine that it would cost Dell anything... Dell does have to offer source, but they may even charge a small fee for it. Source distribution is NOT an issue. And be the way, the average user would never realize that he/she is not using Microsoft Office. Yes, many users would, but I wouldn't be sure if the majority would?
Nice... My designed for windows sticker is on my trash can, since windows was designed for it :)
Right now there's a block on top of every wikipedia page asking you to donate money... Why not just use one small Google ad, and remove it as soon as the wanted amounts of funds have been raised. You could even make it possible to disable the ads under settings, where you also can change the theme... I don't see the problem, as long they use some random algorithm to place different ads like google ads does...
How come developing pages for Firefox/Konqueror/Opera/Safari and comply with W3C standards be an easy job? And developing pages for Internet Explorer be a complete task? Are you planing to do anything about this in future releases of Internet Explorer? And I always wondered what's up with the HTML, DOM, DHTML and JScript documentation you can find on MSDN? Isn't the W3C standards good enough for you?
If you need an editor then take a look at: http://www.jahshaka.org/ I haven't got many expirences with, but it supose to be a little different from all other major video editors... If you need to do any encoding, you might find and editor that can do it, but you will properbly be very good of with ffmpeg...
Yes, I would like the waiter to warn me if the lamb is bad! That's what we call service, you job isn't to make money, but to give you client the best service. If you think that you client would be better of without windows, then help your client...
Linux is best (Joke???)! Just because the majority uses Windows doesn't mean that Windows is best! Just because there are many Windows users doesn't mean Windows is best, it means that we have many bad and irresponsible computer users! It's impossible to decide who is best. Microsoft has enought money to develop the next 3 version of Windows... They don't need to make money to survive... Linux companies has to! So we will properbly never see Microsoft go down, and as long as that haven't happened it impossible to decide who's number one... (From an Ubuntu user)...
The funny part is the it's America that's responsable for the climate changes... Most if not all of Europe takes part in international campaigns against CO2 polution. I Denmark (Europe) one Gallon of (car) fuel cost 7.12 USD. - What do you pay? - And how does that affect the environment?
GPL offers you the right to charge a "small fee" for distribution CDR, DVD or bandwidth. If you put on a small fee, only for the packages you've changed, and tell people that they can download the unchanged packages for free from the distro you derived from. They will most likely do so, else you'll probably make 5$ to pay for the bandwidth.
I agree, companies like yahoo, Microsoft, Google and IBM for that matter, should NOT be allow to buy each other. Or merge for that matter. I know that in Denmark (country in Europe) we have competition-control-authority prohibiting things like that. But US is proberly too liberal to bloack things like that, right? Bigger cooperations are NOT good for competition! It creates monopols and destroys innovation...
Pointing out the obvious: All this story tells you is that the majority of Americans are stupid :)
yes, kde apps requires many packages... but We all like when amaroK, downloads a wikipedia article about the band we are playing... and we can't do that without konqueror... The keywords is reuse and intergration... which is why kde apps depends on many different packages...
And you might think what does fair mean? Is it the court or the law? to me the american laws seems fairly insane! It would not supprise me if americans thought the same about our (european) laws...