IANAL
1. Wikipedia != reliable reference
2. The corporate veil he was referring to is its existence as a legal entity.
3. A corporation is a legal body, you can not sue portions of that body.
4. You can however sue Bill Gates / Balmer / some other senior exec for a crime THEY have committed (IE: ordering the company to do something illegal).
Example: If you set yourself up to be a one man corporation and then proceed to kill somebody, the corporation has not committed a crime, and therefore will not be punished, you on the other hand will be guilty of murder and will be found guilty unless you use the chewbacca defense.
That's like saying Getting a medical degree is too difficult for the majority of stupid people, let's lower the requirements and "make it easy"(tm) so that they can all graduate with honors. Your comparison is completely invalid. The real example would be closer to let's have doctors who can give us an answer or doctors who will point us to the nearest medical school and tell us to go figure it out ourselves.
it implies that the person is simplistic or, more likely, stupid. Unfortunately what you call being "stupid" is just a person who does not understand something, and to be honest you must admit that Linux is highly confusing. I am sure that you do not understand high level quantum mechanics but you are not stupid because of this are you? Linux was designed by people with computer science as a hobby / job and propagated mostly by people who either have computer science degrees or are self taught programmers. Imagine if you went out and bought a car, you sat down in that car and saw that you could not use many of its basic functions without reading the manual, so you open the manual and that looks like gibberish to you, what would you feel like having to go out and buy a book teaching you how to read the manual of the car you had just bought? Sound silly to you? Well this is the situation many people encounter upon first meeting a man page.
If we look at the recent progress towards user friendliness such as Ubuntu, we see that Linux has actually started to progress to a state where it will be usable to the average person who is not interested in computer science or the workings of their computer. The problem that Linux suffers from, and this problem will keep it from blossoming as a major competitor to Windows is that of the code that powers the GUI. Since the majority of casual users utilize the GUI rather then CLI the first thing that the users will see is a system that reacts slowly. This is caused by several things, primarily the lack of cooperation on the part of Intel, Nvidia, Ati, and other video chipset manufacturers in helping make Linux drivers. The second major reason is that most GUI applications use GTK to power themselves and GTK has become a huge, bulky, and dirty piece of software that responds way too slowly. If GTK was re created from scratch in order to provide faster response times, X was optimized for speed, and the distributors of major flavors of Linux either adjust their license to allow for closed source drivers (which chipset manufacturers might be willing to help with) or provide powerfull, fully functional drivers, then Linux could push its way to becoming a major competitor in the desktop market.
Yes I encountered this when doing volunteer work for the DMV, and the local police station. They had docs that were 8-10 years old and the only way i was able to open them was to use old versions of office, because as you said the newer ones dont work, I did try OO but at the time it did not work, maybee the functionality has been added since.
Most gvt agencies are required by law to keep all the old records. Many of wich were created during the days of windows 3.1 and 3.2. For some odd reason documents created back then (this is all assuming they were made with microsoft office) can not be oppened with openoffice or any other present day software excluding microsoft office. Because the agencies will want to keep all their records uniform they will simply say that they prefer to keep using using microsoft office, and nothing will happen because nothing will ever force them to switch.
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so the enemy would see the inside parts instead of the outside of the plane?
like linux? oh the negative karma /cringe
great idea, just make Linux significantly more user friendly for computer illiterate people and then it will succeed.
IANAL
1. Wikipedia != reliable reference
2. The corporate veil he was referring to is its existence as a legal entity.
3. A corporation is a legal body, you can not sue portions of that body.
4. You can however sue Bill Gates / Balmer / some other senior exec for a crime THEY have committed (IE: ordering the company to do something illegal).
Example: If you set yourself up to be a one man corporation and then proceed to kill somebody, the corporation has not committed a crime, and therefore will not be punished, you on the other hand will be guilty of murder and will be found guilty unless you use the chewbacca defense.
If we look at the recent progress towards user friendliness such as Ubuntu, we see that Linux has actually started to progress to a state where it will be usable to the average person who is not interested in computer science or the workings of their computer. The problem that Linux suffers from, and this problem will keep it from blossoming as a major competitor to Windows is that of the code that powers the GUI. Since the majority of casual users utilize the GUI rather then CLI the first thing that the users will see is a system that reacts slowly. This is caused by several things, primarily the lack of cooperation on the part of Intel, Nvidia, Ati, and other video chipset manufacturers in helping make Linux drivers. The second major reason is that most GUI applications use GTK to power themselves and GTK has become a huge, bulky, and dirty piece of software that responds way too slowly. If GTK was re created from scratch in order to provide faster response times, X was optimized for speed, and the distributors of major flavors of Linux either adjust their license to allow for closed source drivers (which chipset manufacturers might be willing to help with) or provide powerfull, fully functional drivers, then Linux could push its way to becoming a major competitor in the desktop market.
I believe they meant that he pretended to be his father (who died 4 years ago) in order to not accept the summons.
Yes I encountered this when doing volunteer work for the DMV, and the local police station. They had docs that were 8-10 years old and the only way i was able to open them was to use old versions of office, because as you said the newer ones dont work, I did try OO but at the time it did not work, maybee the functionality has been added since.
Most gvt agencies are required by law to keep all the old records. Many of wich were created during the days of windows 3.1 and 3.2. For some odd reason documents created back then (this is all assuming they were made with microsoft office) can not be oppened with openoffice or any other present day software excluding microsoft office. Because the agencies will want to keep all their records uniform they will simply say that they prefer to keep using using microsoft office, and nothing will happen because nothing will ever force them to switch.