Historically, disruptive economic shifts such as the Industrial Revolution **DO** create widespread job loss and suffering during the transition.

But.

On the other side of the transition, populations have always emerged **much** better off for their trouble.

History will likely repeat itself here. If we have a similar Computer and Information Revolution creating similar economic disruption, we should expect a lot of lost jobs to result. We should also expect new, better jobs to be created. But there will lag from one to the other, and it's really gonna suck for the generation caught in the middle.

Back then there wasn't as much opportunity from organizations like Arena Football or the Canadian Football League. Those organizations existed, but with lower numbers of teams and roster sizes, and there were fewer private club leagues. Most of the replacements were recent NFL cuts (and this group was counted as a regular NFL player vs simple replacement player) or had played in college, but otherwise were not directly involved with football.

I'm really curious to see some sample documents, and side-by-side renderings for how they look in MS Office, LibreOffice 5, and LibreOffice 6. Additionally, I'd like to see if the bug list for remaining known discrepancies... what features should I avoid if I want to make sure a document will render consistently across applications.

Agreed. This "pause to work on quality" approach leads to a "Mission Accomplished" attitude when developers go back to "real" feature work, where attitudes and approaches never changed. And with new features right on deck and waiting, they'll be right back where they were inside of two years. If they want success, they need to adopt something like *gasp* Microsoft's trustworthy computing initiative from a number of years ago, where the attitude permeates everything they do.

Walmart needs to become Amazon before Amazon can become Walmart.

I don't believe it would. The network would still be "Open" in the sense that anyone can connect and use it without authorization.

You can turn it back on with a registry key.

What makes this patch especially interesting is they also released it for Word 2007, which otherwise would be end of life and excluded from updates.

There's hacking, and then there's hacking. Current law treats any piddly little violation as if you're some l33t mastermind expert criminal.

I worry more about this in combination with the Russian government's influence over any certificate authorities located in the country that may be trusted by default by major operating systems and browsers.

OS X doesn't *really* do AD. It just does the central account/login system, and that's just one small part of of AD. The group policy and software deployment pieces are completely AWOL.

I give it two months following the first widespread implementations before an open source library accurately duplicates the mandatory closed-source portion. Maybe three if they did an especially good job on the algorithm.

Okay, somehow this comment is appearing on a different post than the one I was reading when it was submitted.

I give it two months following the first widespread implementations before there's a open source library the accurately duplicates the mandatory closed-source portion. Maybe three if they did an especially good job on the algorithm.

> For Python, I always use spaces since whitespace is part of the syntax. For other languages, I am not even sure. I would need to look at my .emacs file.

I think you've hit the crux of it. Emacs, Visual Studio, and Eclipse (at least) all use tabs by default. What we may be seeing is a selection for people who know enough about their environment to configure it to work for them.