Early versions of OpenOffice rendered fonts relatively poorly. I haven't had that problem in a long time though. That said, I can't speak for Calibri -- I don't have that font installed on my Mac or my XP VM -- but my experience with problems with particular fonts (and not all fonts) had to do with the font files themselves.
Some font files provide only the "regular" version, and simulate italics by applying a transform to it. They look like crap as a result. Since it's up to the program (different versions of different programs do this different ways), expect different results onscreen and in print while using these different programs.
Some fonts have corruption that you may not attribute to that font -- crashing programs when accessing the font, font previews not working correctly, etc. It may have only a partial corruption that doesn't appear unless perhaps you use an em dash or some subset of characters.
The software you're accustomed to using may not have a dropdown for all the styles, so for instance instead of getting the Oblique you're getting the simulated Italic. Makes more difference when you go above (was it 8?) styles. Yes I have run into fonts with more than this number, I researched it and it was an OpenOffice limitation at that time. Apparently it wasn't an easy fix. I just chose a font with fewer versions as a workaround.
I hope you are joking. These are all good examples of companies who were #1 at one point. A bit of Googling or a trip to Wikipedia would help you understand. I would add Lotus to the list (the pre-acquisition by IBM Lotus).
If you have 100 tabs open you're doing it wrong. Seriously. I can't think of a single reason you'd want to do something like that. Especially if any of the pages auto-refresh.
I assume that you're starting with a single simple page that is accessible -- starting with a page that's not accessible (think work site when you're not connected via VPN) takes a few seconds to fail. Opening a complex page as your start page will slow you down. Opening many pages at once takes a few seconds to process. It's also possible that the auto-update is slowing you down.
I hear later today there might be some news which makes them even less important in the market.
Perhaps they should sell peaches instead of this whole phone thing. Peach selling is a developed market and it's bloody obvious they don't understand the phone business. Also, they might have an upside and possibility for growth instead of being slapped around as a distant #3 or #4.
I hope they begin to show competence at something and wish them good luck in their new peach venture.
Or perhaps strawberries is a better idea. I can't help but believe with all the manure they have on hand that strawberries are a very good move for them...
A subset of what you want may be available on Weather Underground http://www.wunderground.com/ . I don't think they use Java but worth a peek. (I'm just a user, not affiliated etc)
Yes this is a sane way to do it. We have passwords in an envelope in the CEO's safe. We do occasional cross-training sessions (usually this is our method for implementing a new app -- training the rest of MIS first). This cross-training helps people that for instance only work with Windows feel more comfortable when doing specific tasks in Linux and better understand how things work in our cross-platform environment.
Yep. And a single malicious incident could end my career. A career I've spent many decades and countless hours on. There's no way I'd risk it. And that's assuming that my morals would allow me to seriously consider jeopardizing it in the first place.
Obviously there are those with different goals and standards and it's not always easy to identify them. I'm not sure how to prevent that -- someone who over the years gradually gets more access and one day they decide to go rogue and do something harmful. Even minimizing the attack surface you usually have that single admin account that owns everything else. Maybe I should read the article.
It has its own issues (mostly limitations due to the iPhone not having a physical keyboard so you have a lot of floating menus that have to be tapped to toggle on/off). Although it's not free -- $9 for pro, $4 for lite -- at that price I don't have crazy expectations that it will grant world peace or anything... works for me. http://www.ajidev.com/touchterm/index.html
+1 insightful. Red Hat's doing well also... it seems that in a down economy you make do with less, but you still spend money on things that make you happy. Apple products seem to be wanted by a lot of people as a "splurge" or "luxury" brand. For a couple of hundred bucks you feel like you're able to do something you weren't able to do before.
Don't believe me? Try visiting an Apple store. They are mobbed... all... the... time. It's pretty interesting to watch to see just what they will do next.
When is the last time someone truly got excited by a computer? By a tablet? By a music player? Was it an HP product? Compaq? IBM? Microsoft? No, it was an Apple. Even 5-year-olds know what an iPod and iPad is -- and they want one. That is marketing done very very well.
All other things considered equal, I will take the company with smaller profit in total, but expressed as a much larger percentage of revenue. 6:36 vs 19:285 -- the former is the better ratio especially considering there is more room to grow.
Once you get to the final percentage points of market share it's much harder to grow, and once you get to an enormous revenue it's harder to grow. Let's not take that to the extreme with penny stocks or SMB's either though.
Very true. It's what has kept me away from aftermarket sound systems... too cumbersome to use with my iPod. The built-in support for my current car is meh, scrolling takes *forever* even with only a few thousand songs, and the iPod controls are disabled when connected. Connecting via Bluetooth gives crappy audio although the controls work.
I have the money for it when it's ready, and $400 sounds about right.
Perhaps the Nazgul will do us a favor and sweep down upon this company, rending it to pieces and providing warning through the broken skulls to anyone foolish enough to do such a thing again.
Oh, and if they fail there's always Apple's lawyers too.
If it doesn't stand up to peer review, or they don't bother to submit it to peer review, then this is likely snake oil. We (the proposed paying client) are not necessarily peers qualified to review their algorithms, but the peer community is. That is how peer review works.
Are you trying to be disingenuous, or did you really not understand the GP's point? Reading comprehension indeed.
-1, Flamebait. Politics does not relate to this discussion. You took the time to compose a decent reply, but managed to sound like an ass in the process.
It's Windows and it's IE. They have had a long time to create a reputation for security issues. This comes as just another fail behind a long long long string of fails. Face it, it's time to throw the code out and start fresh.
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I hope you are joking. These are all good examples of companies who were #1 at one point. A bit of Googling or a trip to Wikipedia would help you understand. I would add Lotus to the list (the pre-acquisition by IBM Lotus).
If you have 100 tabs open you're doing it wrong. Seriously. I can't think of a single reason you'd want to do something like that. Especially if any of the pages auto-refresh.
I assume that you're starting with a single simple page that is accessible -- starting with a page that's not accessible (think work site when you're not connected via VPN) takes a few seconds to fail. Opening a complex page as your start page will slow you down. Opening many pages at once takes a few seconds to process. It's also possible that the auto-update is slowing you down.
This one works too: Status-4-Evar. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/235283/
Ummm... just uncheck the "update add-ons automatically" checkbox in Preferences (Advanced... Update). Then you can do your manual updates as you wish.
I hear later today there might be some news which makes them even less important in the market.
Perhaps they should sell peaches instead of this whole phone thing. Peach selling is a developed market and it's bloody obvious they don't understand the phone business. Also, they might have an upside and possibility for growth instead of being slapped around as a distant #3 or #4.
I hope they begin to show competence at something and wish them good luck in their new peach venture.
Or perhaps strawberries is a better idea. I can't help but believe with all the manure they have on hand that strawberries are a very good move for them...
A subset of what you want may be available on Weather Underground http://www.wunderground.com/ . I don't think they use Java but worth a peek. (I'm just a user, not affiliated etc)
Not sure if SELinux can be used for this or not, but I think so. I don't think that helps you on AIX 4.2, sorry.
Yes this is a sane way to do it. We have passwords in an envelope in the CEO's safe. We do occasional cross-training sessions (usually this is our method for implementing a new app -- training the rest of MIS first). This cross-training helps people that for instance only work with Windows feel more comfortable when doing specific tasks in Linux and better understand how things work in our cross-platform environment.
+1 Insightful. Yes it's funny also but give him some karma for this.
Yep. And a single malicious incident could end my career. A career I've spent many decades and countless hours on. There's no way I'd risk it. And that's assuming that my morals would allow me to seriously consider jeopardizing it in the first place.
Obviously there are those with different goals and standards and it's not always easy to identify them. I'm not sure how to prevent that -- someone who over the years gradually gets more access and one day they decide to go rogue and do something harmful. Even minimizing the attack surface you usually have that single admin account that owns everything else. Maybe I should read the article.
It has its own issues (mostly limitations due to the iPhone not having a physical keyboard so you have a lot of floating menus that have to be tapped to toggle on/off). Although it's not free -- $9 for pro, $4 for lite -- at that price I don't have crazy expectations that it will grant world peace or anything... works for me. http://www.ajidev.com/touchterm/index.html
+1 insightful. Red Hat's doing well also... it seems that in a down economy you make do with less, but you still spend money on things that make you happy. Apple products seem to be wanted by a lot of people as a "splurge" or "luxury" brand. For a couple of hundred bucks you feel like you're able to do something you weren't able to do before.
Don't believe me? Try visiting an Apple store. They are mobbed... all... the... time. It's pretty interesting to watch to see just what they will do next.
When is the last time someone truly got excited by a computer? By a tablet? By a music player? Was it an HP product? Compaq? IBM? Microsoft? No, it was an Apple. Even 5-year-olds know what an iPod and iPad is -- and they want one. That is marketing done very very well.
All other things considered equal, I will take the company with smaller profit in total, but expressed as a much larger percentage of revenue. 6:36 vs 19:285 -- the former is the better ratio especially considering there is more room to grow.
Once you get to the final percentage points of market share it's much harder to grow, and once you get to an enormous revenue it's harder to grow. Let's not take that to the extreme with penny stocks or SMB's either though.
Very true. It's what has kept me away from aftermarket sound systems... too cumbersome to use with my iPod. The built-in support for my current car is meh, scrolling takes *forever* even with only a few thousand songs, and the iPod controls are disabled when connected. Connecting via Bluetooth gives crappy audio although the controls work.
I have the money for it when it's ready, and $400 sounds about right.
I'm pretty sure Apple makes more profit from smartphones than the others. Market share DNE profit. Here's a link: 39% of the industry's profits as of last JUNE. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/21/pie-chart-apples-outrageous-share-of-the-mobile-industrys-profits/
I'm sure they're quite fine with small market share and lion's share of profits... wouldn't you be OK with that?
And only the newest macs (only some high-end macs newer than Xserves) actually have WoL support.
I have a 2007 MBP that supports WOL. Go to System Preferences... Energy Saver... and click "wake for Ethernet network access". I found this article from 2006 discussing it so it's been there for awhile. http://www.mackb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/mac/16622/using-a-Macbook-Pro-headless-with-the-lid-closed
Now if you're trying to do this with an XServe, I'd ask "why?" But nevertheless it is also available on XServes http://images.apple.com/xserve/pdf/Xserve-Environmental-Report.pdf page 3.
Perhaps the Nazgul will do us a favor and sweep down upon this company, rending it to pieces and providing warning through the broken skulls to anyone foolish enough to do such a thing again.
Oh, and if they fail there's always Apple's lawyers too.
If it doesn't stand up to peer review, or they don't bother to submit it to peer review, then this is likely snake oil. We (the proposed paying client) are not necessarily peers qualified to review their algorithms, but the peer community is. That is how peer review works.
Are you trying to be disingenuous, or did you really not understand the GP's point? Reading comprehension indeed.
The beginning of the end was when they renamed Sci-Fi to Syfy...
In other words, like the machines in "Makers" by Cory Doctorow? http://craphound.com/makers/download
You have to run it ONCE in VZAccess though on Windows atm (coming soon for Mac) for authentication and the SIM card programming
Then the deal is off. I'm not interested in any device that doesn't work out of the box with my Mac.
Lemme guess, Obama voter.
-1, Flamebait. Politics does not relate to this discussion. You took the time to compose a decent reply, but managed to sound like an ass in the process.
It's Windows and it's IE. They have had a long time to create a reputation for security issues. This comes as just another fail behind a long long long string of fails. Face it, it's time to throw the code out and start fresh.