Hardly. Europe will brush themselves off, and switch to Linux.
If it happens gradually, yes. If, as was suggested, MS flip a switch and all MS installations in the EU stop working, then the EU, the largest economy in the world per GDP, would collapse and people would become very nervous. Nobody can even begin to foresee what consequences this would have.
You don't really believe that if the MS computers at, for example, E.on, Siemens and DaimlerChrysler, not to speak of all European governments stopped working, they would "brush it off"? If they could, they would have switched already.
Unfortunately, the result of that is likelhy to be Microsoft using a remote kill-switch to erase every hard drive on a windows machine set to an European time zone, and sadly I can see Bush backing them up
I don't think that MS or Bush are above this, but you do realize that this would mean that both are willing to risk World War 3 for preventing to open their stupid protocols, yes?
There are already viable OS products being GIVEN AWAY that run plenty of software and are more stable.
Are you stupid? I've seen your rants further up, and you seem to have no idea about the issue at all. Those products you speak of are severely hampered because they can't interoperate with the entrenched quasi-monopolist, and this is what the ruling was about: MS was ordered to document their stuff so that interoperation is possible in the interest of the user. MS didn't comply and thought they can weasle out of this. They have been fined, and rightly so.
Well, they can accompany the binaries with a written offer to deliver the source code on request. They can then charge whatever it costs them to provide it (within reasonable limits I presume).
so you can deny having stored porn when your gf tells you to show her
You know, I see this a lot on/. about gfs and wives, and enough is enough.
I don't know if you people have no gfs or wives, or if you live in the US, or what. If you can't tell your gf/wife what porn you like you have a bigger problem than how to encrypt it. How the fuck do you think you can have a satisfying relationship if you can't reveal intimate desires?
Get out into the real world or, respectively, move to a place where the christian idiots didn't brainwash everyone, where females are into porn and all kinds of other fun things.
DONT allow users to install applications. What kind of a security policy do you have that allows users to just install software
We have 10,000 consultants with laptops that are in the field except on Fridays. They interact with clients all the time, might need to install in-house client apps, need to install printer drivers for the cients' printers, and so on. No way to disallow them to install software.
Actually IIRC there is significant lag of ca. 0.3-0.5 secs between input reaching your sensory organs and cerebrum reaction. Your brains just pretends to itself that it has zero lag. Reference IIRC somewhere in here,
We're training people to be ready to enter their administrator passwords whenever they're prompted to
I can only speak for Ubuntu, which is the most significant Linux Distro that does this, and IIRC I am only prompted after I actively clicked on an entry in the Administration menu.
Thanks for the info. Her connection isn't the fastest but not all that bad. It might very well have to do with the Linux version of Skype we use, which is still 1.2. We both have Windows only on the company laptops, and they don't allow installation of Skype. An AC told me a 1.3 beta is on the site which finally supports ALSA, I'll give it a try.
Exactly the same here. Do you also usually have frequent dropouts and/or hangups and often quite some lag? I never used skype except to China, and don't know how reliable it is expected to work, and what the expected quality is. I think we have to redial at least 5 times per hour because the connection simply dropped or we can't hear the other person anymore. We both use the Linux version on Ubuntu btw.
In this case I wouldn't call it word choice, but grammatic, and I'm the first to accept that my handle one the English tense system is far from perfect. Can you elaborate?
I thought that saying "I never make mistakes" would mean that I don't make mistakes at all, neither in the past, nor do, nor do I expect i will make any in the future. (Which obviously is not what I tried to express).
And that "I have never made mistakes" would be used to connect the past to the present when the situation described extends through both. Again not what I wanted to express, which was that in the past I didn't, but I do today.
Oh and btw, I didn't claim that I ever spelled perfectly. I just said I didn't make these specific mistakes, probably because I learned the spellings consciously at the same time I learned the word as such, as opposed to first learning the word phonetically and later learning the spelling.
its not it's. Does anyone else have the experience that his spelling deteriorates after reading/. for too long? I learned English as a second language, and probably because of that I *never* made mistakes based on different spellings for similar pronounciation (their/they're, loose/lose, its/it's, and all the other typical/. stuff). Nowadays though....
If I leave my FireFox pointing at a auto-refreshing page for a couple of days it *will* OOM my machine
It might not be the best solution in general, but firefox has several settings to limit it's memory usage if you run it in non-typical situations. The relevant settings are really easy to google (first hit for 'firefox "memory usage"'), surely quicker than writing your post;)
Indeed. In fact, in one of his earlier books, Tufte argues that Challenger was a breakdown of communication completely independent from PPT. He had examples of hastily typed + handwritten tables that were used to communicate the data of previous launches, which made it impossible to connect the dots.
Which is fitting, since Challenger happened in 1986 and PowerPoint 1.0 was released in 1987. I don't know why he would suddenly argue differently, but then I don't follow him anymore all that much. I think it went downhill from the wonderful first three books (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, and Visual Explanations. I haven't read his very newest, Beuatiful Evidence, of which the PowerPoint essay is a part).
In fact I have used the incomprehensible data on Tufte's examples and, following his example, created a completley obvious chart that would have prevented the start in the instant somebody of the launch team would have looked at it - in PowerPoint, for a visualization training for the consultants in the company.
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Hardly. Europe will brush themselves off, and switch to Linux.
If it happens gradually, yes. If, as was suggested, MS flip a switch and all MS installations in the EU stop working, then the EU, the largest economy in the world per GDP, would collapse and people would become very nervous. Nobody can even begin to foresee what consequences this would have.
You don't really believe that if the MS computers at, for example, E.on, Siemens and DaimlerChrysler, not to speak of all European governments stopped working, they would "brush it off"? If they could, they would have switched already.
Unfortunately, the result of that is likelhy to be Microsoft using a remote kill-switch to erase every hard drive on a windows machine set to an European time zone, and sadly I can see Bush backing them up
I don't think that MS or Bush are above this, but you do realize that this would mean that both are willing to risk World War 3 for preventing to open their stupid protocols, yes?
Yes, I'm sure you know much more about the fundamentals of business, that's why it's you, AC, who has this in his/her CV, and not Neelie Kroes:
There are already viable OS products being GIVEN AWAY that run plenty of software and are more stable.
Are you stupid? I've seen your rants further up, and you seem to have no idea about the issue at all. Those products you speak of are severely hampered because they can't interoperate with the entrenched quasi-monopolist, and this is what the ruling was about: MS was ordered to document their stuff so that interoperation is possible in the interest of the user. MS didn't comply and thought they can weasle out of this. They have been fined, and rightly so.
But any propaganda from any extremist group is "mostly correct".
I take it you've never been to a neonazi website.
Well, they can accompany the binaries with a written offer to deliver the source code on request. They can then charge whatever it costs them to provide it (within reasonable limits I presume).
so you can deny having stored porn when your gf tells you to show her
/. about gfs and wives, and enough is enough.
You know, I see this a lot on
I don't know if you people have no gfs or wives, or if you live in the US, or what. If you can't tell your gf/wife what porn you like you have a bigger problem than how to encrypt it. How the fuck do you think you can have a satisfying relationship if you can't reveal intimate desires?
Get out into the real world or, respectively, move to a place where the christian idiots didn't brainwash everyone, where females are into porn and all kinds of other fun things.
DONT allow users to install applications. What kind of a security policy do you have that allows users to just install software
We have 10,000 consultants with laptops that are in the field except on Fridays. They interact with clients all the time, might need to install in-house client apps, need to install printer drivers for the cients' printers, and so on. No way to disallow them to install software.
doesn't mean the police should stop arresting kids for stealing candy
The police should stop doing that in any case, and I find it horrific having to live under a jurisdiction that allows it in the first place.
"Will Wii games disturb us". Wiierd.
something in the last 500 years
T'ai Chi Ch'üan
A pointer isn't enough for an RTS
That's why there are buttons on the remote, the nunchuck with an analog stick and buttons (and also positional input), and optional attachments.
high speed interface with zero lag
Actually IIRC there is significant lag of ca. 0.3-0.5 secs between input reaching your sensory organs and cerebrum reaction. Your brains just pretends to itself that it has zero lag. Reference IIRC somewhere in here,
We're training people to be ready to enter their administrator passwords whenever they're prompted to
I can only speak for Ubuntu, which is the most significant Linux Distro that does this, and IIRC I am only prompted after I actively clicked on an entry in the Administration menu.
Thanks for the info. I guess the difference is mainly in the stupid chinese firewall,
Thanks for the info. Her connection isn't the fastest but not all that bad. It might very well have to do with the Linux version of Skype we use, which is still 1.2. We both have Windows only on the company laptops, and they don't allow installation of Skype. An AC told me a 1.3 beta is on the site which finally supports ALSA, I'll give it a try.
Cool, thanks AC
Exactly the same here. Do you also usually have frequent dropouts and/or hangups and often quite some lag? I never used skype except to China, and don't know how reliable it is expected to work, and what the expected quality is.
I think we have to redial at least 5 times per hour because the connection simply dropped or we can't hear the other person anymore. We both use the Linux version on Ubuntu btw.
You complained about punctuation (actually you complained about spelling when his error was actually punctuation, but I'll skip over that), yet ...
Dude, I complained about my own punctuation.
Cool, thanks
I think I don't understand what you tell me. So what's the correct tense for "I never made this mistake in the past, but I do now?".
And I find it rather odd to say that grammar and word choice are essentially the same thing.
In this case I wouldn't call it word choice, but grammatic, and I'm the first to accept that my handle one the English tense system is far from perfect. Can you elaborate?
I thought that saying "I never make mistakes" would mean that I don't make mistakes at all, neither in the past, nor do, nor do I expect i will make any in the future. (Which obviously is not what I tried to express).
And that "I have never made mistakes" would be used to connect the past to the present when the situation described extends through both. Again not what I wanted to express, which was that in the past I didn't, but I do today.
Oh and btw, I didn't claim that I ever spelled perfectly. I just said I didn't make these specific mistakes, probably because I learned the spellings consciously at the same time I learned the word as such, as opposed to first learning the word phonetically and later learning the spelling.
its not it's. Does anyone else have the experience that his spelling deteriorates after reading /. for too long? I learned English as a second language, and probably because of that I *never* made mistakes based on different spellings for similar pronounciation (their/they're, loose/lose, its/it's, and all the other typical /. stuff). Nowadays though ....
If I leave my FireFox pointing at a auto-refreshing page for a couple of days it *will* OOM my machine
;)
It might not be the best solution in general, but firefox has several settings to limit it's memory usage if you run it in non-typical situations. The relevant settings are really easy to google (first hit for 'firefox "memory usage"'), surely quicker than writing your post
Give it a rest.
Indeed. In fact, in one of his earlier books, Tufte argues that Challenger was a breakdown of communication completely independent from PPT. He had examples of hastily typed + handwritten tables that were used to communicate the data of previous launches, which made it impossible to connect the dots.
Which is fitting, since Challenger happened in 1986 and PowerPoint 1.0 was released in 1987. I don't know why he would suddenly argue differently, but then I don't follow him anymore all that much. I think it went downhill from the wonderful first three books (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, and Visual Explanations. I haven't read his very newest, Beuatiful Evidence, of which the PowerPoint essay is a part).
In fact I have used the incomprehensible data on Tufte's examples and, following his example, created a completley obvious chart that would have prevented the start in the instant somebody of the launch team would have looked at it - in PowerPoint, for a visualization training for the consultants in the company.