Posts by Doctor Syntax

That one wasn't so simple. It was civil servants own pension system affected. The learning mechanism there should be rather different.

Re: I'll have what she's having

When they see one flying overhead how do they know whose it is? Either they let some US ones through or take down some of their own.

Absolutely agree that there's a role for the online collaboration version. It's the one that fills your need. LibreOffice running locally doesn't but given that what does a locally running version of the online version do for you?

We have a online versions of LO: COOL (paid for) and CODE (community edition).

We have an offline version fo LO: LO itself.

We now have an offline version of the online version CODA. What's the niche that this the this fills from the user's PoV?

We're talking about a local app running in the browser instead of its own AI. Have we gone so far down the road to hell that we've forgotten how to use anything that's not in a browser?

DOOD!

I suppose I'm looking at it from the user's point of view. There is a local version that doesn't need a web server - it's called LibreOffice, no Electron style bloat. If I need a local version that's what I use. If I needed online collaborative office collaboration I'd use the online version. But then I'm not looking to sell something for local use and trying to persuade customers to not look at things that way.

What would really be cool, if not COOL, would be to get together with Tbird and make a combined app. That might even be worth buying.

Re: Why? Just why?

"I can only assume that by pushing the UI into a web/browser technology that the LO UI development can be offloaded on to external browser development projects."

The original Netscape Communicator and its current incarnation, SeaMonkey sort of used this approach for the UI of the mail/news client but that wasn't altogether surprising as the application was (and is) a combined browser and mail client.

What's slightly more surprising is that Thunderbird continues with this, using an internal browser. Perhaps Collabora could look at some sort of merge because there really is a need to combine the office suite functionality with mail/calendar/etc functionality. I believe that early versions of Open Office included Seamonkey code for a mail-merge function. It's a pity it was never surfaced as part of the overall application.

Re: a modernized UI with a ribbon

"Or better yet go real old-school and program your software to be UI dependent so people can put a UI on top"

This, to some extend, is what LO does. Not to impersonate some other product but to suite different platforms.

Re: So, the cause was...

"I assume the coroner by now has a custom form for Simon's workplace."

With a roll of carpet or a quickly summoned up skip lorry there's no need to trouble the coroner.

Re: Reset Buttons

The downside is that if you really need to reset or switch off in a hurry there'll be no pencil or key handy.

Re: So, the cause was...

Or was Stefan a PFY?

Re: Outrageous

"Besides, a fire alarm would probably precipitate a fire suppression dump of some sort"

That was the essence of the threat implied in the two options.

Re: Reg readers need to think this one through

I'd add

3. The faster requests come in from any IP address or block of IP addresses the slower they get served. In the event of really fast requests when somebody starts pounding return is they think they're not being served quick enough the connection is dropped and reconnections refused for the next 10 minutes. This is made quite clear to users as is the suggestion that if they want to make frequent pulls they set up their own cache. Alternatively they can have a private cache set up on the server provided they pay for it, solving the problem of who pays for the infrastructure.

Re: Tragedy of the commons

Common land in England was never in some sort of public domain. The land itself had an owner, usually the manorial lord. Certain people (e.g. householders or manorial tenants) had certain rights (e.g. pasturage, pannage, turbary, collecting dead-wood). Grazing would be limited by some form of rationing (stinting, agistment).

There were also complications of visenage or inter-commoning where two communities would have common rights on the lnd between them. If lordship demanded boundaries there might be differences between the neighbours' definitions of those boundaries leading to disputes, violence and even death. The commoners taking part were, I think, often pawns and victims in disputes between their manorial lords.

Enclosure goes back a long way, e.g. the peak of the English population in late Edward II/early Edward III. If the population grew beyond what existing cultivation could support extra land would be granted (asserts). When the population collapsed, e.g. in the famine of the late 1310s or the Black Death a generation later, come of these assarts were abandoned. When it rose again more common was enclosed well before the Parliamentary enclosures. I'm currently trying to work out how one common came to have been largely enclosed, apparently by a neighbouring estate, mostly by at least half a century before its Act. I've also seen an instance where the post-Enclosure field layout as seen on the 1st ed OS 6" map differed from that in the Commissioners' map; I suspect it was following previous encroachments which had already enclosed a substantial part of it, again from a neighbouring estate although this time they didn't get to keep it.

Re: No such thing ..

"I think the economist Milton Friedman coined that one."

What one is that one? If you mean "tragedy of the commons", no he didn't.

Re: Easy solution

How does your billing infrastructure work?

Re: Benjamin Franklin and human rights

Nd did he subsequently oppose that? Answer yes or no.

"A currency that cannot be hoarded...there's a problem to solve."

What sort of problem to solve? The problem of nothing ever being done because there's no accumulation of capital to get good but difficult stuff started. Be careful you don't invent the medieval economy.

Re: Blaming the wrong people

guy in charge whom you elected is a horrible human being's horrible human being.

Re: Kathy Burke said it best...

Before it was called "woke" it was called "politically correct" and the politically correct had the mantra of not being judgemental. Anyone with who they disagreed was judged as being judgemental. Cognitive dissonance was unknown to them.

The Boss turnover is suspiciously high anyway. Fortunately the management records will not show this.