Sense of humour failure, mods? More seriously, I'm sure that this is one of many ways that Google will use to drive adoption of Android & Chrome/web-interface. You wanna Flash? We havva Flash! And all the funny Flash videos you can eat!! Until they're big enough to 'fuck off' Adobe, that is, just like MSFT & Apple are trying to do. Of course, the hope is that the 'not evil' boys will achieve this with open, standards-based stuff instead of, for example, Silverlight.
Yup, daily. Drives me mad...for extra insanity points of course, you can always try pasting a table from Excel/Access, (for most 'Office' users the logical place to store tabular data, especially numeric), into Word or PPT.
it's incredibly frustrating that you can adjust some formatting in one application
Indeed. Want to highlight some text in PPT, like you can do very easily in Word? SOL... Of course, you can do it in 'presentation' mode, (F5) using the pen : (Ctrl+P then select highlighter). But that's not persistent, unless you save your annotations...which is 'all or nothing')
FTA: "The File button, by the way, replaces the Office orb button from Office 2007, which Microsoft says thoroughly confused people -- many thought it was a piece of branding eye candy rather than a functional button."
...now they have access to versions of Linux that run on everything from their SuperDome Supercomputer all the way down to cell phones. It's been the dream of HP for a long time to have one operating system that runs across the whole range of hardware that HP sells.quote>
Your point is valid, but rather simplistic. Whilst all *nix OS have certain similarities, they are far from being the same... The system and end-user requirements are vastly different between a SuperDome and a tablet.
Better still, how about making 'stifling innovation through frivolous patent suits' a Federal / criminal offense?
Just what we need, a law to compensate for the failure of the federal employees at the patent office.
That's exactly my point. It would appear that the patent office does not have the resources to effectively review new patents. Hence private organisations have to resort to the courts. But it's a one-way street - to me seeming like 'being guilty until proved innocent'. Some dick patent troll sues you. You then have to spend considerable time & money proving that they're a dick troll. (See SCO etc.) Time & money that you could and should be instead spending on innovating, creating jobs and better serving your customers. Just saying that a bigger barrier to trolling than just legal costs could be a way of deterring frivolous cases.
Many, of course, are not bad 'things', or even bad people, (unless you are morally/religiously against pornography, in which case pornographers are de facto 'bad'. Some, however, are very nasty 'things' indeed, preying on the young, weak, poor, drug-addicted...
We appreciate the jury's wisdom and remain committed to providing value to our customers, including through our Open Source Assurance program. We also remain stalwart in resisting bogus shakedown tactics.
Exactly why you should get your customers to pay RH for support, as I encourage mine to do. 'Free' software does not mean 'without cost'. The FOSS community needs people like RH, (urm, OK, and the slightly less 'not evil' IBM), helping out.
There's much discussion here & elsewhere about how to fix the broken US patent system. How about changing the law so that punitive damages could be awarded against blatant patent trolls such as Acacia? (Don't get me started about the cynical, useless bastards at SCO). Better still, how about making 'stifling innovation through frivolous patent suits' a Federal / criminal offense?
It's worth clicking through the obnoxious slide-show format to see them.
It's worth installing autopager instead. If there's no existing preset for your site, (quite rare), you can roll your own, then contribute to the community. Takes a lot of the pain out of those damn 'click to see the next page full of ads' sites. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925
In reality, the disc works fine; the problem stems from the Blu-ray players themselves. In order to run optimally, the firmware for these fancy Blu-ray machines needs to be updated regularly via a download from the Web.
Of course they need this, to try and avoid the problems with older DVD encryption that had to store the keys on the disk and the player. Hence easily broken. Still, it's a bit of stretch to think that everyone who has a Blueray DVD, (especially a stand-alone one), will be able to keep it updated via the tubes. As always, DRM punishes the honest customers, and is busted fast by the hackers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
Yeah, I remember having few drinks one evening with Bill Joy...he'd just left Sun. If I remember correctly, we rapidly agreed that Scott was better at self-aggrandisement than tech.
Am I the only one here who never really bought-in to Sun's latter-day 'open' evangelism?
To me Sun's 'open' efforts always seemed to me to fall into one of the following categories: 1. "Fsuk M$!" - e.g. Open Office 2. Forced to do it by their own guys - e.g. Java 3. Desperate attempt to stay alive/relevant (too late) - e.g. 'open' Solaris, (a bit of a FOSS joke, since most of the work was done by Sun employees)
I'll admit that I'm not fan of Scott McNealy, who - in my opinion - failed to navigate the dotcom bust, and subsequent massive fall in hardware revenues, and then presided over the gradual, sad demise of a formerly pretty good company. Putting aside my bias, I'll still advance that there are plenty of other people better qualified to be a FOSS tzar. Your nominations?
In more than one instance, troops, cops and other emergency services have found their personal devices, (cellphones, GPS and sometimes even weapons) very useful. In one case, I seem to remember that a cell helped stop an insurgent's bullet...OK, a rare and extreme example. Thankfully, coalition troops seem to have better cell and satellite phone tracking capability than their current opponents. Maybe avoid signing up for Google 'Latitude' tho...
A better question might be, why are we allowing cells to work in areas where we know they can be used for many purposes against our troops? (Remote detonation of IEDs, co-ordination of attacks, intelligence gathering). How about giving the troops secure personal phones, (surely trivial to implement), and deny others cell access?
Unsophisticated missiles are not THAT hard to get a hold of already, ranging from Palestinian homebrews to enhanced Scuds. But they don't have a great success rate, especially against military targets, and notably naval ones. Exocets, on the other hand, do have a good success rate, and can be launched from improvised platforms, as proven by the Argentines during the Falklands conflict. Whilst a major asset such as carrier is normally well-protected by a screen of other ships, it could be very vulnerable when in confined areas, such as the Straits of Hormuz... Would the Russian Government be happy to hand-out weapons that could just as easily be used against them? Maybe not. It's perhaps more likely that the Iranians will develop increasingly sophisticated weapons themselves. They're already quite well advanced...
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the /. "it'll never sell, it's just a giant itouch' crowd really knocked this one outta the park.
what can i say? when you're right 48 of the time, you're wrong 52 percent of the time.
Hell, that's better than average, right !? Oh wait...
Ahem. Sorry, did not make me 'thing', (wife does that). 'think'....
Thanks; made me laugh.
Also made me thing of this recent article:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/05/05/1840258/Convert-a-SIM-To-a-MicroSIM-With-a-Meat-Cleaver?art_pos=24
Interesting point. Of course, just as soon as someone got that working, the app would be banned from the iStore.
Sense of humour failure, mods?
More seriously, I'm sure that this is one of many ways that Google will use to drive adoption of Android & Chrome/web-interface.
You wanna Flash? We havva Flash! And all the funny Flash videos you can eat!!
Until they're big enough to 'fuck off' Adobe, that is, just like MSFT & Apple are trying to do.
Of course, the hope is that the 'not evil' boys will achieve this with open, standards-based stuff instead of, for example, Silverlight.
When will it be available for my iPhone & iPad?
have you tried working with tables, for example
Yup, daily. Drives me mad...for extra insanity points of course, you can always try pasting a table from Excel/Access, (for most 'Office' users the logical place to store tabular data, especially numeric), into Word or PPT.
it's incredibly frustrating that you can adjust some formatting in one application
Indeed. Want to highlight some text in PPT, like you can do very easily in Word? SOL...
Of course, you can do it in 'presentation' mode, (F5) using the pen : (Ctrl+P then select highlighter). But that's not persistent, unless you save your annotations...which is 'all or nothing')
Seriously, it's a very useful tool to get the gist of things.
More amusingly, it come up with gems like this, (FTA):
The circus is armed: who is better at cutting the world?
FTA: "The File button, by the way, replaces the Office orb button from Office 2007, which Microsoft says thoroughly confused people -- many thought it was a piece of branding eye candy rather than a functional button."
Indeed. Now how much do their UI people get paid?
Beeing a mech. eng. in the wind power industry is not bad at all, you have to do much of your work with a computer and Excel/VBA ;)
ps. :)
I for myself am one off them
Spellcheck in Excel: F7 :)
...now they have access to versions of Linux that run on everything from their SuperDome Supercomputer all the way down to cell phones. It's been the dream of HP for a long time to have one operating system that runs across the whole range of hardware that HP sells.quote>
Your point is valid, but rather simplistic. Whilst all *nix OS have certain similarities, they are far from being the same...
The system and end-user requirements are vastly different between a SuperDome and a tablet.
Until I read it to the end:
SOURCE AU Optronics Corp.
I'm not disputing the facts, but I'm damn sure a press release from AUO is not the best place to get an impartial view...
(And no, I'm not an LG sockpuppet).
Better still, how about making 'stifling innovation through frivolous patent suits' a Federal / criminal offense?
Just what we need, a law to compensate for the failure of the federal employees at the patent office.
That's exactly my point. It would appear that the patent office does not have the resources to effectively review new patents. Hence private organisations have to resort to the courts. But it's a one-way street - to me seeming like 'being guilty until proved innocent'. Some dick patent troll sues you. You then have to spend considerable time & money proving that they're a dick troll. (See SCO etc.) Time & money that you could and should be instead spending on innovating, creating jobs and better serving your customers.
Just saying that a bigger barrier to trolling than just legal costs could be a way of deterring frivolous cases.
Implying pornographers are a bad thing.
Many, of course, are not bad 'things', or even bad people, (unless you are morally /religiously against pornography, in which case pornographers are de facto 'bad'. Some, however, are very nasty 'things' indeed, preying on the young, weak, poor, drug-addicted...
We appreciate the jury's wisdom and remain committed to providing value to our customers, including through our Open Source Assurance program. We also remain stalwart in resisting bogus shakedown tactics.
Exactly why you should get your customers to pay RH for support, as I encourage mine to do.
'Free' software does not mean 'without cost'. The FOSS community needs people like RH, (urm, OK, and the slightly less 'not evil' IBM), helping out.
There's much discussion here & elsewhere about how to fix the broken US patent system.
How about changing the law so that punitive damages could be awarded against blatant patent trolls such as Acacia? (Don't get me started about the cynical, useless bastards at SCO).
Better still, how about making 'stifling innovation through frivolous patent suits' a Federal / criminal offense?
It's worth clicking through the obnoxious slide-show format to see them.
It's worth installing autopager instead. If there's no existing preset for your site, (quite rare), you can roll your own, then contribute to the community. Takes a lot of the pain out of those damn 'click to see the next page full of ads' sites.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925
FTA:
In reality, the disc works fine; the problem stems from the Blu-ray players themselves. In order to run optimally, the firmware for these fancy Blu-ray machines needs to be updated regularly via a download from the Web.
Of course they need this, to try and avoid the problems with older DVD encryption that had to store the keys on the disk and the player.
Hence easily broken.
Still, it's a bit of stretch to think that everyone who has a Blueray DVD, (especially a stand-alone one), will be able to keep it updated via the tubes.
As always, DRM punishes the honest customers, and is busted fast by the hackers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
Yeah, I remember having few drinks one evening with Bill Joy...he'd just left Sun.
If I remember correctly, we rapidly agreed that Scott was better at self-aggrandisement than tech.
Am I the only one here who never really bought-in to Sun's latter-day 'open' evangelism?
To me Sun's 'open' efforts always seemed to me to fall into one of the following categories:
1. "Fsuk M$!" - e.g. Open Office
2. Forced to do it by their own guys - e.g. Java
3. Desperate attempt to stay alive/relevant (too late) - e.g. 'open' Solaris, (a bit of a FOSS joke, since most of the work was done by Sun employees)
I'll admit that I'm not fan of Scott McNealy, who - in my opinion - failed to navigate the dotcom bust, and subsequent massive fall in hardware revenues, and then presided over the gradual, sad demise of a formerly pretty good company.
Putting aside my bias, I'll still advance that there are plenty of other people better qualified to be a FOSS tzar.
Your nominations?
And to us real old greybeards, going online used to be BBS...remember BIX?
(For you lawn-squatting youngsters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Information_Exchange)
To be fair flash is a piece of shit on all platforms. It only exists because it makes creating brain-dead content brain-dead easy.
Fixed that for you.
"Imagine a doctor in London performing surgery on your heart in New York!"
I'd rather not, frankly. I'd rather imagine my tax money being used to provide adequate local services such that this kind of tech was not needed.
In more than one instance, troops, cops and other emergency services have found their personal devices, (cellphones, GPS and sometimes even weapons) very useful. In one case, I seem to remember that a cell helped stop an insurgent's bullet...OK, a rare and extreme example.
Thankfully, coalition troops seem to have better cell and satellite phone tracking capability than their current opponents.
Maybe avoid signing up for Google 'Latitude' tho...
A better question might be, why are we allowing cells to work in areas where we know they can be used for many purposes against our troops? (Remote detonation of IEDs, co-ordination of attacks, intelligence gathering). How about giving the troops secure personal phones, (surely trivial to implement), and deny others cell access?
The planet isn't going nowhere .
*** WE ARE. ***
Fixed that for you.
Unsophisticated missiles are not THAT hard to get a hold of already, ranging from Palestinian homebrews to enhanced Scuds.
But they don't have a great success rate, especially against military targets, and notably naval ones.
Exocets, on the other hand, do have a good success rate, and can be launched from improvised platforms, as proven by the Argentines during the Falklands conflict.
Whilst a major asset such as carrier is normally well-protected by a screen of other ships, it could be very vulnerable when in confined areas, such as the Straits of Hormuz...
Would the Russian Government be happy to hand-out weapons that could just as easily be used against them? Maybe not.
It's perhaps more likely that the Iranians will develop increasingly sophisticated weapons themselves. They're already quite well advanced...