They already know how to convert back and forth compatibly. odf-converter is supported by Microsoft "(Funding, Architectural & Technical Guidance and Project co-coordination)" and is under a BSD-style license. It works like a charm.
They deliberately went out of their way to make their new Excel SP2 format incompatible.
Who is to say that this will not be a landmark case revolutionising the openness of ideas that advances knowledge for all humanity. Perhaps by working with law he can push patent reform, thereby advancing the cause of science.
We need intelligent lawyers willing to stand up for individual liberties just as much as we need boffins in labs.
Damn right. Bugger these triangles, I want my hardware accelerated raytracing and/or voxel engine! Though by the time these ever get around to existing the triangles will be sub-pixel in size and it won't matter anymore...
Yep, Dell Australia offers no Ubuntu options anywhere. I was ready to buy one of their netbooks and all, but I really don't need another useless MS license tyvm. I also can't think of a reasonable basis for the decision, but I'm sure they have their reasons. I doubt it's due to any underhandedness, much more likely incompetence blessed by ignorance.
He may as well be, what with Paul Allen barely ever mentioned. Seeing as about all he's done with his wealth is buy a bunch of sport teams... oh and establish a foundation for his charity work years before Bill ever did.
Well, are there any native predators for these flies then? Or will it merely set off another even more vicious plague, one which attacks the native species instead of its intended target like most of these ill conceived schemes. If introducing one foreign pest is bad, introducing an entire food chain seems far worse to me.
So you confess to going into their store when you normally wouldn't and purchasing stuff? You utter bastard! Heaven forbid they earned a little more money that day. It's anarchists like you that make a mockery of cheap promotional stunts by honest, hardworking advertising executives.
Perhaps they could pat themselves on the back for attracting more people to their business perhaps, like McDonalds should be doing? Really, they put in free wifi to attract customers then complain that it attracts customers. Why not just scrap the wifi and look at your business walk out the door and down the road to the other guy with wifi and a crappy sandwich.
The usual image of a âoepolice stateâ includes secret police dragging people out of their homes at night, with scenes out of Nazi Germany or Stalinâ(TM)s USSR. The problem with these images is that they are horribly outdated. Thatâ(TM)s how things worked during your grandfatherâ(TM)s war â" that is not how things work now.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable statement to me. Context matters, people. It won't stop everyone shouting 'Godwin!' and giggling like imbeciles but it is actually a very good metaphor to use when talking about how the imagery people associate with police states is outdated.
Instead, I'm claiming "there are other legitimate reasons for them to not sell him the part, especially when he is refusing to cooperate with their requests."
Can you name a single legitimate reason to refuse selling him the part? As for their requests, they requested him to be added as an authorised user of a strangers account. This is quite an unreasonable request, for both him and the stranger, and he has every reason to dispute it.
Part of the problem is that the US is already waging its own one sided world war, with troops, tanks, planes, navies and missiles stationed in their thousands across the globe. It made little sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now, unless one was trying to perpetuate an Orwellian continuous war. The private sector and banking markets may collapse but the military industrial complex will roll onwards, escalating its domain of influence until it produces an overtly military controlled police state or collapses on itself. If America would simply arm itself with a defence force and be done with it the government and country won't need to bankrupt itself to stay afloat.
Indeed it does old chap. Why, just the other day I was bowled over by a fine gentleman rapper. I believe his composition was entitled Straight out of Surrey.
Using anything other than a human to judge the behaviour puts it outside of the Turing test. So not only does their proposed solution not match the goal they set, it should indeed be defeatable by another algorithm.
The habitable zone is not fixed in stone, we could perhaps find life outside of it. It would be worth examining chirality for any planet. Still, not much can be done until advances in astronomy let us get a decent view of these exoplanets.
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It's funny how the GP never claimed to have ever pirated a single game. Format shifted some movies and games perhaps, but not pirated them.
Did you miss the entire rest of his post where he talked about the openness that drew him to the platform? While sony markets it as a multimedia tool he needs a 3rd party hack to make that work for him. He copies the games he bought to the memory stick because it works better. If the pirates can consistently and easily make their device work better, that is Sonys fault for not keeping up with what some basement dwelling nerds hack together in their spare time.
Piracy is not the motivation for many to unlock their PSP, it's merely to have the machine the PSP could have been if Sony pulled their finger out.
Australia? Where you get charged $150 a gigabyte for excess usage? As detailed in the light grey text in smaller font underneath the plan? Yeah, we're doing great.
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They already know how to convert back and forth compatibly. odf-converter is supported by Microsoft "(Funding, Architectural & Technical Guidance and Project co-coordination)" and is under a BSD-style license. It works like a charm.
They deliberately went out of their way to make their new Excel SP2 format incompatible.
Who is to say that this will not be a landmark case revolutionising the openness of ideas that advances knowledge for all humanity. Perhaps by working with law he can push patent reform, thereby advancing the cause of science.
We need intelligent lawyers willing to stand up for individual liberties just as much as we need boffins in labs.
Tunnels.
Drift.
Valleys.
Echoes.
Poor reception.
Software bugs.
Hardware bugs.
Insectoid bugs.
I'm sure there's more. On the bright side, you could be travelling down a steep enough incline to roll home when the engine dies.
Damn right. Bugger these triangles, I want my hardware accelerated raytracing and/or voxel engine! Though by the time these ever get around to existing the triangles will be sub-pixel in size and it won't matter anymore...
It depends on whether I'm heading down to the shops or down to the beach.
No, you're thinking of Var'aq.
Yep, Dell Australia offers no Ubuntu options anywhere. I was ready to buy one of their netbooks and all, but I really don't need another useless MS license tyvm. I also can't think of a reasonable basis for the decision, but I'm sure they have their reasons. I doubt it's due to any underhandedness, much more likely incompetence blessed by ignorance.
Yeah, but we will have poisonous blood! Next on the project wishlist: radioactive spiders.
He may as well be, what with Paul Allen barely ever mentioned. Seeing as about all he's done with his wealth is buy a bunch of sport teams... oh and establish a foundation for his charity work years before Bill ever did.
Well, are there any native predators for these flies then? Or will it merely set off another even more vicious plague, one which attacks the native species instead of its intended target like most of these ill conceived schemes. If introducing one foreign pest is bad, introducing an entire food chain seems far worse to me.
So you confess to going into their store when you normally wouldn't and purchasing stuff? You utter bastard! Heaven forbid they earned a little more money that day. It's anarchists like you that make a mockery of cheap promotional stunts by honest, hardworking advertising executives.
Perhaps they could pat themselves on the back for attracting more people to their business perhaps, like McDonalds should be doing? Really, they put in free wifi to attract customers then complain that it attracts customers. Why not just scrap the wifi and look at your business walk out the door and down the road to the other guy with wifi and a crappy sandwich.
England+Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland all have separate and distinct legal systems. I guess perhaps NI is too small to include.
The usual image of a âoepolice stateâ includes secret police dragging people out of their homes at night, with scenes out of Nazi Germany or Stalinâ(TM)s USSR. The problem with these images is that they are horribly outdated. Thatâ(TM)s how things worked during your grandfatherâ(TM)s war â" that is not how things work now.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable statement to me. Context matters, people. It won't stop everyone shouting 'Godwin!' and giggling like imbeciles but it is actually a very good metaphor to use when talking about how the imagery people associate with police states is outdated.
Instead, I'm claiming "there are other legitimate reasons for them to not sell him the part, especially when he is refusing to cooperate with their requests."
Can you name a single legitimate reason to refuse selling him the part? As for their requests, they requested him to be added as an authorised user of a strangers account. This is quite an unreasonable request, for both him and the stranger, and he has every reason to dispute it.
There's also powder on the homebrew front. Likely there are several more.
Part of the problem is that the US is already waging its own one sided world war, with troops, tanks, planes, navies and missiles stationed in their thousands across the globe. It made little sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now, unless one was trying to perpetuate an Orwellian continuous war. The private sector and banking markets may collapse but the military industrial complex will roll onwards, escalating its domain of influence until it produces an overtly military controlled police state or collapses on itself. If America would simply arm itself with a defence force and be done with it the government and country won't need to bankrupt itself to stay afloat.
Wow, I know you guys hate vi, but to not even mention it as the Anticrist, damn that's cold.
Well that shouldn't be too hard. According to New Line Cinema, none of the original movies made a profit either.
Indeed it does old chap. Why, just the other day I was bowled over by a fine gentleman rapper. I believe his composition was entitled Straight out of Surrey.
Pleo faces extinction.
Using anything other than a human to judge the behaviour puts it outside of the Turing test. So not only does their proposed solution not match the goal they set, it should indeed be defeatable by another algorithm.
The habitable zone is not fixed in stone, we could perhaps find life outside of it. It would be worth examining chirality for any planet. Still, not much can be done until advances in astronomy let us get a decent view of these exoplanets.
It's funny how the GP never claimed to have ever pirated a single game. Format shifted some movies and games perhaps, but not pirated them.
Did you miss the entire rest of his post where he talked about the openness that drew him to the platform? While sony markets it as a multimedia tool he needs a 3rd party hack to make that work for him. He copies the games he bought to the memory stick because it works better. If the pirates can consistently and easily make their device work better, that is Sonys fault for not keeping up with what some basement dwelling nerds hack together in their spare time.
Piracy is not the motivation for many to unlock their PSP, it's merely to have the machine the PSP could have been if Sony pulled their finger out.
Australia? Where you get charged $150 a gigabyte for excess usage? As detailed in the light grey text in smaller font underneath the plan? Yeah, we're doing great.
Telstra: Additional usage charged at $0.15/MB.
Optus: Excess Data: $0.15/MB up to 2 GB then Speed Limited to 64 kbps