I was active in terms of bug reports and mail list support. Unfortunately I found the code a bit beyond me, maybe there's still time to revisit this. If there was a way to support the project financially I would.
Well, if I *do* have to justify it: the latest release from 2013 is for Windows, Mac and Linux. I can't get it to compile on recent Linux distros, it won't run on new Mac OS versions, there are features I have to avoid to workaround crashes on Windows. Features that I'd like will never be added and problems I encounter will never be fixed.
This! This is a key reason why I tell everyone to keep notes. There's a saying in healthcare: "If you don't write it down it didn't happen" and it applies to so many spheres. Even if your notes aren't recognised as an official record, you're most of the way to winning an argument if you've got contemporaneous notes to fall back on. Yes a VP might not accept them but other parties will quickly flounder when eyes turn to them in an awkward meeting...
Vim's great (and it's still actively developed). But Amaya gives me a WYSIWYG-ish layout so I can have indented bullets, quoted text, etc. I can also include images, so easier to include a screenshot or a graph (a picture paints a thousand words -- no matter how good the text editor!).
Submitter here.
It's got a crash bug I can work around to avoid and I think XHTML is a dead end.
And yes, I wondered what else was about. I normally have one file per year so I thought if I was going to change for 2016, it was time to see what the options were.
Thanks all for suggestions so far!
Open Source advocate Dr. Richard Stallman for one.
Eeek! I think you mean "Free software advocate Dr. Richard Stallman...". The distinction is important as the term emphasises the social benefits as well as the engineering benefits of being able to inspect and improve such systems.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
Anyway: there is definitely need for a more "fair" and equal approach to manufacturing of IT goods.
I've been wondering for a while why there's been no attempt to create a "Fairtrade" phone. E.g. built by workers with fair pay, union recognition, healthcare, etc., materials (esp. coltan) that have been sourced in an ethical/auditable way, etc. I bet that wouldn't increase the price by more than $50 (perhaps much less) and there's surely enough of a market. Presumably the electronics industry want to suppress such thinking as it would draw attention to their dubious (at best) manufacturing practices...
Offtopic, British lords are so hilarious. There's a secretary of transport called Lord Adonis. Had to chuckle at that.
Adonis is his real name (formerly Andrew Adonis, he's of Greek descent) and has the ironic nickname "Muscles". In fairness however he's doing a great job (unlike Mandy aka The Sinister Minister). The really rubbish thing is that both Adonis and Mandleson are key government ministers and neither are elected. The pretense of democracy is looking pretty thin now...
"Private companies are always better"??? The private sector only works effectively when there's competition which rarely exists in infrastructure-type services. So you end up with a contrived competition mechanism and the lowest bidder. For major infrastructure services the government can't afford for the companies to go bust so often ends up subsidising them in some way. And if the contract needs renegotiating in the future due to changes in circumstances not allowed for originally the company is under no obligation to provide any change in service typically requiring renegotiation with extraordinary increases in cost. Is this really better than having a (well run) public body that is accountable directly to the government and the public?
I thought I'd add a voice that has only good experiences with NeoOffice. On my Intel Mac it starts fast enough, it's locked up once in 6 months. The UI's fine and I do all my course work on it.
I'm surprised to see so many bad experiences with it...
I'm sure I read somewhere that part of the problem is cheaper devices have poor efficiency in stand-by mode.
A good example in the UK is set-top boxes for digital TV. The government and suppliers are pushing these to reclaim the analog TV spectrum and part of the sweetner is keeping the boxes cheap. These boxes use barely less power in stand-by (around 10W IIRC) than they do in operation and this is purely a repercussion of cost-cutting.
Surely it would be possible to legislate about power usage in stand-by, e.g. max 1W?
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I was active in terms of bug reports and mail list support. Unfortunately I found the code a bit beyond me, maybe there's still time to revisit this. If there was a way to support the project financially I would.
Well, if I *do* have to justify it: the latest release from 2013 is for Windows, Mac and Linux. I can't get it to compile on recent Linux distros, it won't run on new Mac OS versions, there are features I have to avoid to workaround crashes on Windows. Features that I'd like will never be added and problems I encounter will never be fixed.
This! This is a key reason why I tell everyone to keep notes. There's a saying in healthcare: "If you don't write it down it didn't happen" and it applies to so many spheres. Even if your notes aren't recognised as an official record, you're most of the way to winning an argument if you've got contemporaneous notes to fall back on. Yes a VP might not accept them but other parties will quickly flounder when eyes turn to them in an awkward meeting...
Quite! And I don't have to rely on my writing being legible. A digital log I can search, back up, and copy text and images into and out of.
Vim's great (and it's still actively developed). But Amaya gives me a WYSIWYG-ish layout so I can have indented bullets, quoted text, etc. I can also include images, so easier to include a screenshot or a graph (a picture paints a thousand words -- no matter how good the text editor!).
Submitter here. It's got a crash bug I can work around to avoid and I think XHTML is a dead end. And yes, I wondered what else was about. I normally have one file per year so I thought if I was going to change for 2016, it was time to see what the options were. Thanks all for suggestions so far!
Open Source advocate Dr. Richard Stallman for one.
Eeek! I think you mean "Free software advocate Dr. Richard Stallman...". The distinction is important as the term emphasises the social benefits as well as the engineering benefits of being able to inspect and improve such systems. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
Anyway: there is definitely need for a more "fair" and equal approach to manufacturing of IT goods.
I've been wondering for a while why there's been no attempt to create a "Fairtrade" phone. E.g. built by workers with fair pay, union recognition, healthcare, etc., materials (esp. coltan) that have been sourced in an ethical/auditable way, etc. I bet that wouldn't increase the price by more than $50 (perhaps much less) and there's surely enough of a market. Presumably the electronics industry want to suppress such thinking as it would draw attention to their dubious (at best) manufacturing practices...
Should've called it British Experimental Rocket Group... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Quatermass [p
Actually "Free as in Freedom" is a very Prisoner-esque concept...
Offtopic, British lords are so hilarious. There's a secretary of transport called Lord Adonis. Had to chuckle at that.
Adonis is his real name (formerly Andrew Adonis, he's of Greek descent) and has the ironic nickname "Muscles". In fairness however he's doing a great job (unlike Mandy aka The Sinister Minister). The really rubbish thing is that both Adonis and Mandleson are key government ministers and neither are elected. The pretense of democracy is looking pretty thin now...
"Private companies are always better"??? The private sector only works effectively when there's competition which rarely exists in infrastructure-type services. So you end up with a contrived competition mechanism and the lowest bidder. For major infrastructure services the government can't afford for the companies to go bust so often ends up subsidising them in some way. And if the contract needs renegotiating in the future due to changes in circumstances not allowed for originally the company is under no obligation to provide any change in service typically requiring renegotiation with extraordinary increases in cost. Is this really better than having a (well run) public body that is accountable directly to the government and the public?
I thought I'd add a voice that has only good experiences with NeoOffice. On my Intel Mac it starts fast enough, it's locked up once in 6 months. The UI's fine and I do all my course work on it. I'm surprised to see so many bad experiences with it...
I'm sure I read somewhere that part of the problem is cheaper devices have poor efficiency in stand-by mode. A good example in the UK is set-top boxes for digital TV. The government and suppliers are pushing these to reclaim the analog TV spectrum and part of the sweetner is keeping the boxes cheap. These boxes use barely less power in stand-by (around 10W IIRC) than they do in operation and this is purely a repercussion of cost-cutting. Surely it would be possible to legislate about power usage in stand-by, e.g. max 1W?