LibreOffice is spreading the way that OpenOffice.org did, primarily by being added to distros and probably at this point by a few IT departments. Anybody with any interest in getting work done has already abandoned OO.org as there's little if any development work going on there.
There's varying degrees of that. Sometimes employees are specifically paid to work on certain aspects of the project and other times they use time that the employer provides as a perk to develop the project.
They wanted to do that in the first place, but Oracle owns the trademark for OpenOffice. IIRC at that time Oracle wasn't interested in granting a license under favorable terms to the project.
You would have to pay taxes on the food, rent and anything else that the company gave you. Which could mean that they would seize all that back when you couldn't pay your tax bill on it and probably send you to prison for falsifying the tax forms.
That has nothing to do with it. By that argument all businesses of any size are already paying their taxes. Except that smaller businesses tend not to have the resources or incentive to invest in an army of accountants and tax attorneys to evade their taxes.
Theoretically, it might require somebody to come back and collect it. Which is necessary in cases where there is a proper air gap even though it greatly increases the risk of being caught.
That's a very good question. It's the same reason why many Americans get up in arms when union workers go on strike.
Without the unions we'd be in a much worse place, most unions don't just represent the workers, they end up representing the rest of us who use their services. One of the ways that unions fight for more wages is typically to insist upon better standards for certifications. You do find times when the unions fight against increased standards, but it's usually a case where the upgrades make no sense and would just harm the customers or add little value while making services prohibitively expensive.
I take it you don't have a degree from a quality institution of higher learning. I got a degree from one of the top public colleges in the US, and I definitely wouldn't care to trade that education for the Khan Academy education, even if you threw in a new automobile.
A college degree is more than just the book learning, it's the connections and the insights that come from going to class and interacting with the students. It gives one access to ideas that aren't necessarily going to come via the internet. A 3 second thought that you probably wouldn't log into the website for can easily lead to things of great significance later on. Or not, but you have to be in it to win it.
Do you have any evidence at all to support that claim, or are you just full of it?
The free market is precisely what is ruining the educational system in the US. Generally, you don't need to be an expert to identify people that are well educated, however being well educated in the end tells you absolutely nothing about how that came to be.
Vouchers are probably one of the most damaging things to come along in the educational world in a good long time. At some point the poor achievement needs to be addressed, and if you keep closing schools that aren't achieving at some point you run into a problem. Education is more of an art ultimately than a science, and having the time to develop and improve the curriculum is invaluable. I realize that it might come as a shock to somebody with no training in education, but you can't just ship students from one school to another hoping that the next school will get it right. By that time the student is probably in high school and completely screwed. It might help the next set of students, but I doubt it, because those students are likely to be dealing with the same constantly changing set of schools as well.
If you read up a bit on pedagogy, particularly the history over the last 100 years or so, you'll see what I mean, education is changing constantly, and a lot of it is garbage.
Ultimately, capitalism is about providing things as cheaply as possible. It's one of the reasons why the US has some of the lowest standards for teachers of foreign languages in the developed world. It's cheaper to just hire random native speakers from other countries than it is to ensure that they've been trained in the relevant techniques necessary to be productive. Teaching a language isn't the same as teaching a content area, and the training necessary isn't the same. There's some commonality, but there's a lot of linguistic gotchas that aren't necessarily obvious.
Actually, when you think of it, it's rather inspired. AMD does eventually drop support for old cards after a period, providing an opensource option allows for programmers to maintain support indefinitely. Plus, I'm guessing that this will increase the number of programmers interested in working on the drivers.
Probably not, I have a feeling that this might have more to do with AMD not wanting to maintain drivers forever. Previously they would just be dropped, but if there's an opensource driver, people could maintain a Win XP driver for a particular card indefinitely, same goes for video cards that will eventually not be supported by new versions of Windows due to a lack of drivers.
That is true, however, there isn't a reasonable basis for suggesting that there's informed consent when the ToS are full of legalese requiring an attorney to decipher. Legally, it doesn't matter, but in terms of what a reasonable person thinks, it's absurd.
Ultimately, most politicians are either rich or attorneys, and the latter is usually also the former. It's astonishing to me how folks seem to think that paying an attorney $300 every time they come in contact with a EULA or ToS is reasonable.
No, hyperbole aside, there's an increasing number of things that one is locked out of if one doesn't choose to do business with FB. Things like contests and sometimes jobs. It's scummy, but there are employers that insist upon having access to view a potential employees FB page, even though it's extremely poor judgment.
The bad thing about that is that you don't necessarily have any idea as to whether you have grounds to sue Facebook or not. I don't have an account, but even if I did, I'm sure there are plenty of accounts where pictures of me could theoretically filter to. Either passed around chain letter style or lifted from other sites.
I doubt that is the case, but I don't have any way of knowing. At this point, there really does need to be some consequences for companies like FB that profit from such invasion of privacy.
Because at this point it's a moot point. Once the public knows who you are, there's no guarantee that you'll ever be able to arrange for yourself to be forgotten. It kind of reminds me of what I've heard about Greta Garbo, she did her last work in 1948 and spent the next 40 years or so being out of the spotlight. In the modern era, she'd be completely unable to maintain that as every time somebody did sight her there would be a tagged image on the net.
What personally concerns me is that it's not just celebrities that end up online like that, an increasing number of people are posted and tagged by friends and complete strangers without any control. Just look at the people of walmart site.
You can already buy color e-ink books, the prolem is that they aren't very good. They're color, but they're color sort of the same way that the Gameboy Color was, as in you do get colors, but they're somewhat faint and quite limited in the colors that can be displayed.
In the future though, I could totally see the technology being used for boardgames and billboards, almost certainly for bus schedules. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point we ended up with something similar to the Hitchhikers guide.
Nice trolling. Nowhere in my post did I not say that it's a real problem. The big problem is that Ubuntu is being run like Apple, but without any pretense of competency in the field. I don't think that a rational person would consider the decision to move an experimental and buggy interface into a mainstream release as anything other than a problem.
Yes, people can install a working UI, but at that point you might as well install Debian or Linux Mint.
Right now you still have that option, but I don't understand why you would want to wait until the last release to switch. I haven't seen anything that suggests that they're going to back down on it or that it's going to suck any less on large screens than it does now. With the possible exception of bug fixes, what they have now is likely to be there until they realize how stupid it is and back down.
You can, but it's symptomatic of the way that Ubuntu is being run. I remember awhile back upgrading to the next release, only to find that they had decided to include Unity. At that point, unity was at best a polished turd, it didn't behave consistantly, sometimes the menu would stay open and other times it would close. They insisted upon it being put on the left side, which meant that those using it in a VM had to have a monitor edge there, otherwise it was really annoying.
I'm curious what you're planning to do when Wayland is prematurely included, by the time you remove that an install something else, you might as well install a sane distro.
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LibreOffice is spreading the way that OpenOffice.org did, primarily by being added to distros and probably at this point by a few IT departments. Anybody with any interest in getting work done has already abandoned OO.org as there's little if any development work going on there.
There's varying degrees of that. Sometimes employees are specifically paid to work on certain aspects of the project and other times they use time that the employer provides as a perk to develop the project.
They wanted to do that in the first place, but Oracle owns the trademark for OpenOffice. IIRC at that time Oracle wasn't interested in granting a license under favorable terms to the project.
You would have to pay taxes on the food, rent and anything else that the company gave you. Which could mean that they would seize all that back when you couldn't pay your tax bill on it and probably send you to prison for falsifying the tax forms.
That has nothing to do with it. By that argument all businesses of any size are already paying their taxes. Except that smaller businesses tend not to have the resources or incentive to invest in an army of accountants and tax attorneys to evade their taxes.
I think they're usually called "officer."
Theoretically, it might require somebody to come back and collect it. Which is necessary in cases where there is a proper air gap even though it greatly increases the risk of being caught.
That's a very good question. It's the same reason why many Americans get up in arms when union workers go on strike.
Without the unions we'd be in a much worse place, most unions don't just represent the workers, they end up representing the rest of us who use their services. One of the ways that unions fight for more wages is typically to insist upon better standards for certifications. You do find times when the unions fight against increased standards, but it's usually a case where the upgrades make no sense and would just harm the customers or add little value while making services prohibitively expensive.
I take it you don't have a degree from a quality institution of higher learning. I got a degree from one of the top public colleges in the US, and I definitely wouldn't care to trade that education for the Khan Academy education, even if you threw in a new automobile.
A college degree is more than just the book learning, it's the connections and the insights that come from going to class and interacting with the students. It gives one access to ideas that aren't necessarily going to come via the internet. A 3 second thought that you probably wouldn't log into the website for can easily lead to things of great significance later on. Or not, but you have to be in it to win it.
Do you have any evidence at all to support that claim, or are you just full of it?
The free market is precisely what is ruining the educational system in the US. Generally, you don't need to be an expert to identify people that are well educated, however being well educated in the end tells you absolutely nothing about how that came to be.
Vouchers are probably one of the most damaging things to come along in the educational world in a good long time. At some point the poor achievement needs to be addressed, and if you keep closing schools that aren't achieving at some point you run into a problem. Education is more of an art ultimately than a science, and having the time to develop and improve the curriculum is invaluable. I realize that it might come as a shock to somebody with no training in education, but you can't just ship students from one school to another hoping that the next school will get it right. By that time the student is probably in high school and completely screwed. It might help the next set of students, but I doubt it, because those students are likely to be dealing with the same constantly changing set of schools as well.
If you read up a bit on pedagogy, particularly the history over the last 100 years or so, you'll see what I mean, education is changing constantly, and a lot of it is garbage.
Ultimately, capitalism is about providing things as cheaply as possible. It's one of the reasons why the US has some of the lowest standards for teachers of foreign languages in the developed world. It's cheaper to just hire random native speakers from other countries than it is to ensure that they've been trained in the relevant techniques necessary to be productive. Teaching a language isn't the same as teaching a content area, and the training necessary isn't the same. There's some commonality, but there's a lot of linguistic gotchas that aren't necessarily obvious.
The typically provide links to discussions here.
Actually, when you think of it, it's rather inspired. AMD does eventually drop support for old cards after a period, providing an opensource option allows for programmers to maintain support indefinitely. Plus, I'm guessing that this will increase the number of programmers interested in working on the drivers.
Probably not, I have a feeling that this might have more to do with AMD not wanting to maintain drivers forever. Previously they would just be dropped, but if there's an opensource driver, people could maintain a Win XP driver for a particular card indefinitely, same goes for video cards that will eventually not be supported by new versions of Windows due to a lack of drivers.
That is true, however, there isn't a reasonable basis for suggesting that there's informed consent when the ToS are full of legalese requiring an attorney to decipher. Legally, it doesn't matter, but in terms of what a reasonable person thinks, it's absurd.
Ultimately, most politicians are either rich or attorneys, and the latter is usually also the former. It's astonishing to me how folks seem to think that paying an attorney $300 every time they come in contact with a EULA or ToS is reasonable.
No, hyperbole aside, there's an increasing number of things that one is locked out of if one doesn't choose to do business with FB. Things like contests and sometimes jobs. It's scummy, but there are employers that insist upon having access to view a potential employees FB page, even though it's extremely poor judgment.
I don't use FB, I hope you're not suggesting that I have no reason to be concerned about what FB might have on me indirectly.
Nothing, you do realize that the phrase predates 4Chan by quite a bit, right?
The bad thing about that is that you don't necessarily have any idea as to whether you have grounds to sue Facebook or not. I don't have an account, but even if I did, I'm sure there are plenty of accounts where pictures of me could theoretically filter to. Either passed around chain letter style or lifted from other sites.
I doubt that is the case, but I don't have any way of knowing. At this point, there really does need to be some consequences for companies like FB that profit from such invasion of privacy.
I don't think it's fair to expect him to foresee the basic invention he worked on being used in conjunction with technology he had nothing to do with.
Because at this point it's a moot point. Once the public knows who you are, there's no guarantee that you'll ever be able to arrange for yourself to be forgotten. It kind of reminds me of what I've heard about Greta Garbo, she did her last work in 1948 and spent the next 40 years or so being out of the spotlight. In the modern era, she'd be completely unable to maintain that as every time somebody did sight her there would be a tagged image on the net.
What personally concerns me is that it's not just celebrities that end up online like that, an increasing number of people are posted and tagged by friends and complete strangers without any control. Just look at the people of walmart site.
You can already buy color e-ink books, the prolem is that they aren't very good. They're color, but they're color sort of the same way that the Gameboy Color was, as in you do get colors, but they're somewhat faint and quite limited in the colors that can be displayed.
In the future though, I could totally see the technology being used for boardgames and billboards, almost certainly for bus schedules. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point we ended up with something similar to the Hitchhikers guide.
Sounds like a good reason to go job hunting before getting fired for his incompetence.
Nice trolling. Nowhere in my post did I not say that it's a real problem. The big problem is that Ubuntu is being run like Apple, but without any pretense of competency in the field. I don't think that a rational person would consider the decision to move an experimental and buggy interface into a mainstream release as anything other than a problem.
Yes, people can install a working UI, but at that point you might as well install Debian or Linux Mint.
Right now you still have that option, but I don't understand why you would want to wait until the last release to switch. I haven't seen anything that suggests that they're going to back down on it or that it's going to suck any less on large screens than it does now. With the possible exception of bug fixes, what they have now is likely to be there until they realize how stupid it is and back down.
You can, but it's symptomatic of the way that Ubuntu is being run. I remember awhile back upgrading to the next release, only to find that they had decided to include Unity. At that point, unity was at best a polished turd, it didn't behave consistantly, sometimes the menu would stay open and other times it would close. They insisted upon it being put on the left side, which meant that those using it in a VM had to have a monitor edge there, otherwise it was really annoying.
I'm curious what you're planning to do when Wayland is prematurely included, by the time you remove that an install something else, you might as well install a sane distro.