[discuss] Re: Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-14 Thread John Thompson
On 2005-11-14, Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 14:34 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: I would hate to be that student working on my term paper that needs to be handed in tomorrow when the network connection goes down due to a problem with one of the many hops that I have

Re: [discuss] Re: Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-14 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/14/05, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do if there is a power cut? Uninterruptible power supply? Mine lasts through the vast majority of outages, and gives me plenty of time to save my work if it looks like th outage will last longer than the battery. I think

[discuss] Re: Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-11 Thread Andrew Brown
Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: This actually goes back to my request for a blogger button on OOoWriter. You know that Caolan Macnamara has developed something that sounds like that? http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/oooblogger/oooblogger.zip I haven't tried it

[discuss] Re: Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew Brown
Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:dkueeu$uu8$1 @sea.gmane.org: Personally, I can't imagine using an office suite over the Internet. Unless I was hooked up over really fast, fat, pipes all the way, the delay would drive me nuts. Maybe in a University environment over a LAN that

[discuss] Re: Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-10 Thread Martin J Hooper
Lars D. Noodén wrote: BTW If anyone has a working link to the Halloween Documents, please post it. OSI no longer has them and ESR has not yet put them at his site. -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business. Keep them out of

Re: [discuss] Re: Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-10 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/9/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I can't imagine using an office suite over the Internet. Unless I was hooked up over really fast, fat, pipes all the way, the delay would drive me nuts. Maybe in a University environment over a LAN that had a multi-Gbps ISP hookup,

Re: [discuss] Re: Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-10 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Thanks Martin and Nicu. Halloween I and II point out the importance of commoditized protocols, something which is relevant also to file formats and, ultimately, to OOo. There's been enough documented through court records, aritcles and press releases over the last decade to show the real

[discuss] Re: Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-10 Thread Randomthots
Andrew Brown wrote: Agreed. But the idea of having my data on a secure bit of the cloud, and saving to and from the internet, has much more appeal. There was a reference in Jonathan Schwartz's blog the other day -- an dhe is a man who has some influence on the devleopment of the program.

[discuss] Re: Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes theory

2005-11-10 Thread Paul Mirowsky
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:31 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: . That's not a slam against OOo, merely a suggestion that a online version of OOo (like, perhaps, the one Google is developing) would be a good idea right about now. Maybe, maybe not. I wouldn't want everything

Re: [discuss] Re: Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-09 Thread Rigel
I have tried writely over broadband cable at 5 Mbps, and it's pretty darn fast! Once it loads the interface, the actual back and forth data transfer is minimal. Everything happens localy on your machine until you tell it to save the document. If you click the special characters button, it gets