Just say "NO" to OpenXML in an OpenOffice.org fork. Make it an optional package download, and make it a non-default setting, but don't fork the code.
That's basically what the press release says - it will be available via open source pluggins for OOo. The "forking" thing was just added to sensationalize the issue and poison the well against Novell. Looks like it worked.
So many people refer to Google as if it were a human looking at web sites and giving it the big thumbs up or down. As part of the indexing if the spider finds "violations" such as presenting a different page to spiders than to humans, it risks being dropped from the index. To expect a human response to why each site triggered the de-indexing is not reasonable.
I'm not saying I think he should have been contacted (you need to keep your own house in order, not expect everyone else to do it for you), but there is no reason why the contact couldn't be automated as well. Spider finds "violations", looks up contact information said domain and fires of an email before removing it from indexing. Notifying could be automated trivially if you're already automating the search for violations.
So Yahoo seems to be advertising its own search service more than anything else. Huh...who'd have though a search company advertising their own search service - the horror. They are hardly pushing it - that'd be forcing you to download IE7 with the yahoo toolbar bundled and blocking dedicated FF+typically Google users like me.
Yup, you get the same kind of thing visiting Microsoft's Live search page when using Firefox. You'd think that Microsoft at least would want to push IE, but all they want to do is put their search into Firefox's search box. Oh, and anecdotally, I find the Live add to be the most unobtrusive out of all of them - which I appreciate.
Given this information, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that any operating system should not run very comfortably using a tiny fraction of my system's resources, no matter how many bells and whistles it has.
That doesn't make any sense. The more bells and whistles you throw in, the more power you will need to run the OS - by definition. Look at games for example. Modern games look a hell of a lot better than games that were made 5-10 years ago. Do they require the same minimum hardware? Hell no. Should they? Of course not.
Of course, it's another argument entirely if all the bells and whistles are worth it. The graphical improvements made in games have still resulted in some pretty terrible games. So, it's not a question of whether Vista should run with all the bells and whistles on 10 year old hardware (I'm not arguing that Vista is optimized by the way) - it's whether the hardware to run Vista with all the bells and whistles is worth it.
You should also remember Netscape used to be a commercial product that people paid for. When MS bundled IE for free it seriously dented their income. More importantly, by bundling it free they seriously damaged their ability to grow. They may have had 90% of the market at one time, but that was long before the surge in use of the internet. It was that surge MS took advantage of, rather than converting existing users.
Yes, and I agree with you completely on this point - this is obviously what MS got in trouble from. I was just pointing out (anecdotally) that I started using IE instead of Netscape way back then since it was superior and not because it was free/bundled and, as a corollary, that I no longer use it despite that same status. If there is a compelling reason to switch, people will do so.
Holy sandy vagina batman - far be it for me to tell anyone how to implement code (I was?). I was regurgitating information I've read somewhere, which I think I made pretty clear, especially with the caveat of "unless I'm completely mistaken".
You're frustrated with my attitude? Wow, just wow.
Conversely, IE holds a privileged position in Windows and cannot be removed easily.
It's my understanding that IE has a privileged role because it is used to render HTML in other places in the OS - help files and whatnot if I'm not completely mistaken. This seems like a fairly logical reuse of existing code, and I recall that it was due to engineering reasons that IE was bundled in the first place.
I do think it was a mistake, but it's harder to remember why now. All operating systems include browsers now - offering any kind of OS without some sort of web browser would be fairly ridiculous now (aside from server OS I suppose).
Third, Apple has not used Safari to crush competitors.
True. However, I would like to point out that the Netscape vs IE thing was at least partially Netscape's fault. I didn't stop using Netscape way back when because IE was included with windows - I stopped using it because IE was better. I know it's hard to believe, but IE was actually the best browser at one point. Heck, IE being bundled with windows certainly isn't stopping me from using Firefox now, and I will continue to use Firefox until something better comes around, which will surely happen at some point.
One might suggest that the reason that it is difficult to build a successful business is ethics. Perhaps I'm wrong, I've never performed the experiment of trying to build to separate businesses, one ethically and one like MS. Has anyone else done this and produced some results? How much easier does a complete lack of concern for one's fellow man make business building?
I'm sorry, but since when is Bill Gates some sort of evil supervillain? It's one thing to complain about strongarm, monopolistic business practices and quite another to claim he has a "complete lack of concern for one's fellow man". I know this is Slashdot, but I find it hard to believe that what you typed is actually something other than parody of the groupthink.
Is Bill Gates a cutthroat business man? Yes, he is, like many, many people out there (though more successful than most). Does this make him some sort of monster? No, it certainly does not, and I believe his philanthropy can attest to that as well.
Also there is no real environment in just about every city.
Exactly - this seems like an argument against having large, sprawling cities though. As per my example, Los Angeles is extremely spread out and certainly doesn't seem to have a smaller environmental impact compared to New York. I would think that you would want smaller, denser cities to lower the overall footprint. You also gain, as per the GP, in energy efficiency due to public transport, etc.
So ? Total energy consumption per surface area (which is all that matters to the environment) is definitely NOT up to par with 1920.
Hunh? Why would total energy consumption per surface area be important? I would think per capita figures would be more important. You seem to be saying that if the population of New York was far more spread out it would be more environmentally friendly. You've obviously never been to Los Angeles.......
I really hope that he was also a student or something or else that's pretty sad. Maybe that's why US jobs get outsourced - the 40 hour work week is apparently unreasonable (not referring to your joke, but to the GP). Of course, I can't really complain since my current job is basically outsourced from the good old US of A:)
Glossy screens do suck. You do get used to it, though. The M1210 was the only machine that met all of my needs, so I took a chance on the screen. Now that I've used it for a while, I don't really notice unless there's sunlight glaring off of it. Had they used a non-glare screen, though, it would be perfect.
Cool, thanks for the info. My thought process is basically very similar to what you're describing. I just find it hard to bite the bullet on a bigger ticket item when there is one glaring shortcoming (sorry:). The other two leading options for me are the Dell D620 and Macbook Pro, though both of those have their issues as well (expensive options to bring it up to spec with M1210 and odd front protruding extended battery for the D620 and relative size + 'soft' feeling keyboard for the macbook pro).
I'm really just being far too anal though, I guess:)
It's amazing to see Blizzard actually re-instate these accounts, and I'm damned glad they did.
I agree - I'm shocked. The language they use in their account banning messages is rather severe:
...this account has been closed and will not be reopened under any circumstances
How do I know? I was (un)fortunate enough to receive an arbitrary banning in the past few weeks. Why the "un" in parentheses? Well, the quasi-amusing thing is that I hadn't actually logged in for a few weeks and was seriously contemplating putting the game down for good. While I could try and raise a stink to get it reactivated now (I'm still clueless as to why it happened other than luck of the draw:P), I think I'm going to take the hint and just not look back. This latest move of their is certainly kudos worthy, but it is also completely _uncharacteristic_ of the way they typically seem to behave, and I'm glad I wont be giving them anymore of my money (though, they may not really notice).
As a sidenote, Travian is my new timekiller - MMO strategy goodness and free to boot. I also don't think they'll ban you for using linux since it's browser based:)
I've been looking at the M1210, but the one thing that has kept me away is the screen. I find high gloss LCD's to be fairly annoying in general and though I've never used one on an extended basis, the few times I have tried them I've found the glare to be overpowering. If the M1210 had an option without the glossy screen I'd probably already have one.
Firefox, for as long as I can remember, has allowed you to set a master password, without which the password manager will not populate any password feilds and will not allow the viewing of any stored passwords.
This is true, though since it was his computer that someone else used, he probably had the master password.
solicited a 13-year-old girl (really a sheriff's deputy)
I'm curious as to how this works. Based on the article, it seems as though he is being charged based solely on what occurred between him and the sheriff pretending to be a little girl.
Michael John Simmons, 47, of Spotsylvania, Va., was charged with sending nude pictures of himself to the fictitious teen
I'm sorry, but does nobody else find something wrong with this? I'm not saying that this guy didn't necessarily deserve it, but how can it possibly make sense for him to be charged for sending images of himself to a 'fictitious' person (i.e. the sheriff pretending to be a little girl). In other words, if the sheriff hadn't lied about his identity, there wouldn't have been a crime here, even if the man had done the same thing?
I'm all for stopping/getting help for people like that, but how on Earth is the above a crime?
How do you folks balance the desire for a fun job with the need to pay off debt?
This seems to be the crux of it, at least to me. Debt can seriously limit your options, now and in the future. If the debt you refer to is significant, taking the higher paying job now and resolving that issue would probably let have more freedom in picking your workplace in the future. If you are debt-free taking a job for less money but which is more interesting is surprisingly more palatable than if the bank is knocking down the door:)
Is anyone testing these video cards in 3840x1024 yet?
I don't think many games would support that resolution (I'm assuming that's what you're referring to when you say testing). Also, would you even want to play a game across multiple displays? For one thing, I'd imagine the bezel around each monitor would get annoying.
By sitting in line for a PS3, you're perhaps creating a slight advantage for yourself, but you are unoptimizing the situation for everyone else. You don't smell nice either, and you look like vagrants standing around in front of Best Buy.
It is not the people waiting in line that are causing/will cause a backlog, it is Sony - they are the ones that have created a semaphore on the PS3. The people waiting in line will simply be the first eaters to get a table, to borrow from your metaphor (i.e. all consumers are eaters, here, none are holders).
Whats worse is, from what I've heard, Sony is deliberately providing an inadequate number of tables so that not everyone will be able to sit - thankfully, the nice people at Nintendo are passing out barstools, so only the foolish will wait for a table:)
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That's basically what the press release says - it will be available via open source pluggins for OOo. The "forking" thing was just added to sensationalize the issue and poison the well against Novell. Looks like it worked.
Drat, and here I was thinking that there was finally proof of life in Canada.
I'm not saying I think he should have been contacted (you need to keep your own house in order, not expect everyone else to do it for you), but there is no reason why the contact couldn't be automated as well. Spider finds "violations", looks up contact information said domain and fires of an email before removing it from indexing. Notifying could be automated trivially if you're already automating the search for violations.
So Yahoo seems to be advertising its own search service more than anything else. Huh...who'd have though a search company advertising their own search service - the horror. They are hardly pushing it - that'd be forcing you to download IE7 with the yahoo toolbar bundled and blocking dedicated FF+typically Google users like me.
Yup, you get the same kind of thing visiting Microsoft's Live search page when using Firefox. You'd think that Microsoft at least would want to push IE, but all they want to do is put their search into Firefox's search box. Oh, and anecdotally, I find the Live add to be the most unobtrusive out of all of them - which I appreciate.
A bit late, but I don't think OSX can topple Windows as long as it is tied solely to one hardware manufacturer. My two cents.
That doesn't make any sense. The more bells and whistles you throw in, the more power you will need to run the OS - by definition. Look at games for example. Modern games look a hell of a lot better than games that were made 5-10 years ago. Do they require the same minimum hardware? Hell no. Should they? Of course not.
Of course, it's another argument entirely if all the bells and whistles are worth it. The graphical improvements made in games have still resulted in some pretty terrible games. So, it's not a question of whether Vista should run with all the bells and whistles on 10 year old hardware (I'm not arguing that Vista is optimized by the way) - it's whether the hardware to run Vista with all the bells and whistles is worth it.
Yes, and I agree with you completely on this point - this is obviously what MS got in trouble from. I was just pointing out (anecdotally) that I started using IE instead of Netscape way back then since it was superior and not because it was free/bundled and, as a corollary, that I no longer use it despite that same status. If there is a compelling reason to switch, people will do so.
Holy sandy vagina batman - far be it for me to tell anyone how to implement code (I was?). I was regurgitating information I've read somewhere, which I think I made pretty clear, especially with the caveat of "unless I'm completely mistaken".
You're frustrated with my attitude? Wow, just wow.
It's my understanding that IE has a privileged role because it is used to render HTML in other places in the OS - help files and whatnot if I'm not completely mistaken. This seems like a fairly logical reuse of existing code, and I recall that it was due to engineering reasons that IE was bundled in the first place.
I do think it was a mistake, but it's harder to remember why now. All operating systems include browsers now - offering any kind of OS without some sort of web browser would be fairly ridiculous now (aside from server OS I suppose).
True. However, I would like to point out that the Netscape vs IE thing was at least partially Netscape's fault. I didn't stop using Netscape way back when because IE was included with windows - I stopped using it because IE was better. I know it's hard to believe, but IE was actually the best browser at one point. Heck, IE being bundled with windows certainly isn't stopping me from using Firefox now, and I will continue to use Firefox until something better comes around, which will surely happen at some point.
I'm sorry, but since when is Bill Gates some sort of evil supervillain? It's one thing to complain about strongarm, monopolistic business practices and quite another to claim he has a "complete lack of concern for one's fellow man". I know this is Slashdot, but I find it hard to believe that what you typed is actually something other than parody of the groupthink.
Is Bill Gates a cutthroat business man? Yes, he is, like many, many people out there (though more successful than most). Does this make him some sort of monster? No, it certainly does not, and I believe his philanthropy can attest to that as well.
Exactly - this seems like an argument against having large, sprawling cities though. As per my example, Los Angeles is extremely spread out and certainly doesn't seem to have a smaller environmental impact compared to New York. I would think that you would want smaller, denser cities to lower the overall footprint. You also gain, as per the GP, in energy efficiency due to public transport, etc.
Pffft - that's been posted dozens of times. Plus, you beat me to it by about 30 seconds.
Hunh? Why would total energy consumption per surface area be important? I would think per capita figures would be more important. You seem to be saying that if the population of New York was far more spread out it would be more environmentally friendly. You've obviously never been to Los Angeles.......
So that people in the US could use their distro without issue? I guess if they wanted to deliberately ignore the US market it wouldn't be an issue.
Hmmm, with exchange rate, that's nearly as much as my outsourced IT (not tech support, just to be clear) job. Maybe he's on to something :)
I really hope that he was also a student or something or else that's pretty sad. Maybe that's why US jobs get outsourced - the 40 hour work week is apparently unreasonable (not referring to your joke, but to the GP). Of course, I can't really complain since my current job is basically outsourced from the good old US of A :)
Cool, thanks for the info. My thought process is basically very similar to what you're describing. I just find it hard to bite the bullet on a bigger ticket item when there is one glaring shortcoming (sorry :). The other two leading options for me are the Dell D620 and Macbook Pro, though both of those have their issues as well (expensive options to bring it up to spec with M1210 and odd front protruding extended battery for the D620 and relative size + 'soft' feeling keyboard for the macbook pro).
I'm really just being far too anal though, I guess :)
I agree - I'm shocked. The language they use in their account banning messages is rather severe:
How do I know? I was (un)fortunate enough to receive an arbitrary banning in the past few weeks. Why the "un" in parentheses? Well, the quasi-amusing thing is that I hadn't actually logged in for a few weeks and was seriously contemplating putting the game down for good. While I could try and raise a stink to get it reactivated now (I'm still clueless as to why it happened other than luck of the draw :P), I think I'm going to take the hint and just not look back. This latest move of their is certainly kudos worthy, but it is also completely _uncharacteristic_ of the way they typically seem to behave, and I'm glad I wont be giving them anymore of my money (though, they may not really notice).
As a sidenote, Travian is my new timekiller - MMO strategy goodness and free to boot. I also don't think they'll ban you for using linux since it's browser based :)
I've been looking at the M1210, but the one thing that has kept me away is the screen. I find high gloss LCD's to be fairly annoying in general and though I've never used one on an extended basis, the few times I have tried them I've found the glare to be overpowering. If the M1210 had an option without the glossy screen I'd probably already have one.
What is your experience with the m1210?
This is true, though since it was his computer that someone else used, he probably had the master password.
I'm curious as to how this works. Based on the article, it seems as though he is being charged based solely on what occurred between him and the sheriff pretending to be a little girl.
I'm sorry, but does nobody else find something wrong with this? I'm not saying that this guy didn't necessarily deserve it, but how can it possibly make sense for him to be charged for sending images of himself to a 'fictitious' person (i.e. the sheriff pretending to be a little girl). In other words, if the sheriff hadn't lied about his identity, there wouldn't have been a crime here, even if the man had done the same thing?
I'm all for stopping/getting help for people like that, but how on Earth is the above a crime?
Calm down - not everything is Microsoft's fault. Here, take this kleenex and wipe away the foam from your mouth.
There, now doesn't that make much more sense?
This seems to be the crux of it, at least to me. Debt can seriously limit your options, now and in the future. If the debt you refer to is significant, taking the higher paying job now and resolving that issue would probably let have more freedom in picking your workplace in the future. If you are debt-free taking a job for less money but which is more interesting is surprisingly more palatable than if the bank is knocking down the door :)
I don't think many games would support that resolution (I'm assuming that's what you're referring to when you say testing). Also, would you even want to play a game across multiple displays? For one thing, I'd imagine the bezel around each monitor would get annoying.
It is not the people waiting in line that are causing/will cause a backlog, it is Sony - they are the ones that have created a semaphore on the PS3. The people waiting in line will simply be the first eaters to get a table, to borrow from your metaphor (i.e. all consumers are eaters, here, none are holders).
Whats worse is, from what I've heard, Sony is deliberately providing an inadequate number of tables so that not everyone will be able to sit - thankfully, the nice people at Nintendo are passing out barstools, so only the foolish will wait for a table :)
(I already posted this reply, but it seems to have disappeared.)