I tried Sumatra (newest version) and while it's installed size is small, compared to the features it offers, it's bloated (ok, it's not bloated if you compare to Adobe, but it is compared to Foxit). But that's not the real problem with Sumatra: the gravest issue is the rendering: I thought I'll get a headache reading text rendered by Sumatra. It was very unpleasant at any zoom level.
Acrobat Reader is pretty universally despised. I was very surprised when I saw, on bittorrent, a WinXP iso slipstreamed with Adobe Acrobat. Oh well - some people are just, you know, crazy.
It's amazing that Foxit Reader has nearly all the functionality of the newest Acrobat Reader, but the installer is 10X smaller! And not to speak about how much more stable it is. Now I put Foxit on every computer I use. Foxit is so much better than Acrobat Reader, that every time I see it on a computer I think to myself "Are you effing kidding me????!!!"
I really don't understand how did the Adobe SW engineers manage to make such a bloated and unstable POS.
Unfortunately, there is still no reliable method for assessing the state of a battery, only whether the battery is completely ruined. The various electronic circuits built into laptop batteries are, sadly, a testament to this. The only accurate methods for assessing the state of chemical batteries are still, sadly, destructive.
That kind of test doesn't really work accurately. It only tells whether a chemical battery is completely (or almost) unusable, but otherwise it's remarkably unreliable.
That's exactly correct. Any addiction needs a support network for a succesful "disintoxication" and "continued state of sobriety", including game addiction.
"Serial divorcees"? This is a concept you just introduced ad-hoc in this last post.
At this point I feel satisfied that the original post was BS - the only way it can be truthful is if there is such a thing as serial divorcees. Not saying there isn't, just that it's an assumption that we can't make. The assumption we can make (because it's reasonable and doesn't require new concepts) is that a given marriage has a set average likelihood to end in divorce.
They didn't block IBM buying Informix - and I submit to you that Informix had a much larger portion of the same market in which DB2 plays, than MySQL. Informix is a true enterprise DBMS, and so is DB2, and both were (and lo, still are) rather popular.
So, I don't think the FTC will block the Oracle-Sun merger because of the database businesses.
Sound like the "divorce" statistic that is often quoted: "50% of marriages end up in divorce". the truth is that there are just as many long term marriages as ever, but at one time divorcees did not remarry. Now it is common to remarry and (re)divorce, skewing the statistics.
How would the fact that divorcees didn't remarry vs. they do remarry (and re-divorce) nowadays, change the percentage of divorced marriages? Honest question, don't attack me; I ran the logic in my head and it just comes out the same percentage, as long as a given marriage has the same likelyhood to end up in divorce.
...that not every network needs to be connected to the Internet. It sounds like an almost absurd idea, I know.
Oracle + Sun MUCH better than IBM + Sun
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IBM would have killed all of Sun's hardware (including their backup and storage gear, which is often forgotten and yet it's very large and important). No more SPARC and their cool-running, many-core (and open-source) Niagara platform.
IBM would have killed Solaris (they have their own Unix, AIX). Luckily, Solaris is open-source, so perhaps someone would have picked up the torch.
IBM would have killed Star/OpenOffice (they have their own office suite, no matter how crappy). Again, OpenOffice is opensource, so...
Oracle likes all of the above, to a varying but still high, degree.
Oracle is also a ruthless, almost barbaric company when considering their sales practices, but I prefer them to IBM any day. Oracle is like Attila's Huns - they pillaged for the money and the women, but they never tried to bullshit you with "we come in the name of the Lord" - that is IBM's style, with their fake and cynical pretense of contributing to open source and standards.
Which I thought this was. My ignorance of the facts in this case is caused by the deplorable non-reading of the article - I was in a hurry this morning, and just thought that there might have been a mixup between MW and GW.
However, our (well, Finnish) new reactor in Olkiluoto will be over 1.7 GW PWR (specifically, an European Pressurized Water Reactor, a new Areva design).
All Sun servers are certified for Linux (RHAS and maybe Suse, currently) and you will find the server with the specs you require. You won't easily find sturdier hardware than what Sun makes.
How about this: The user is presented with a short message that they have to mark as "Spam" or "Not Spam". If the spammers get really good at solving this problem, they've effectively written themselves out of a job. And if they can't do it, then they can't get new accounts.
That's freakin' genius!With the caveat that spammers will never completely destroy themselves - the situation will reach a balance, but at a lower threshold than today. Spam will certainly decrease dramatically, if your idea is to be implemented.
I was following the numbers on that page, and now when I checked, I see that the numbers are all wrong: I remember that the membership number was about 20500 last time I checked, and rising - but now it's 19999. What the heck is going on, do you have any idea?
I'm with you on that, 100%. Partly because I've been on the receiving end of such crap (disguised as -1 Offtopic !) and mostly because I see very insightful posts that say what has to be said even if it's unpopular, modded down.
This site should encourage the spelling out of unpopular but truthful views.
Lacking an unbiased 3rd party observer, I don't really have to believe these numbers.
As a side note: selling a game with no DRM is one thing; restricting the use of their online service is another. They could have an online service for gamers where they require a monthly or whatever subscription.
On the other hand, if the game is hard-coded to only be able to use some designated servers/network, then it means it's not free of DRM, and this whole point is pathetically moot.
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I tried Sumatra (newest version) and while it's installed size is small, compared to the features it offers, it's bloated (ok, it's not bloated if you compare to Adobe, but it is compared to Foxit). But that's not the real problem with Sumatra: the gravest issue is the rendering: I thought I'll get a headache reading text rendered by Sumatra. It was very unpleasant at any zoom level.
Pity it's how I know when to get a new battery...
Maybe it's the late hour, but I can't figure out whether you're agreeing or disagreeing with me. It kinda sounds like you're agreeing.
Acrobat Reader is pretty universally despised. I was very surprised when I saw, on bittorrent, a WinXP iso slipstreamed with Adobe Acrobat. Oh well - some people are just, you know, crazy.
It's amazing that Foxit Reader has nearly all the functionality of the newest Acrobat Reader, but the installer is 10X smaller! And not to speak about how much more stable it is. Now I put Foxit on every computer I use. Foxit is so much better than Acrobat Reader, that every time I see it on a computer I think to myself "Are you effing kidding me????!!!"
I really don't understand how did the Adobe SW engineers manage to make such a bloated and unstable POS.
What's that new design of lock? I'm looking for a reliable new bicycle lock.
Unfortunately, there is still no reliable method for assessing the state of a battery, only whether the battery is completely ruined. The various electronic circuits built into laptop batteries are, sadly, a testament to this. The only accurate methods for assessing the state of chemical batteries are still, sadly, destructive.
That kind of test doesn't really work accurately. It only tells whether a chemical battery is completely (or almost) unusable, but otherwise it's remarkably unreliable.
That's exactly correct. Any addiction needs a support network for a succesful "disintoxication" and "continued state of sobriety", including game addiction.
"Serial divorcees"? This is a concept you just introduced ad-hoc in this last post.
At this point I feel satisfied that the original post was BS - the only way it can be truthful is if there is such a thing as serial divorcees. Not saying there isn't, just that it's an assumption that we can't make. The assumption we can make (because it's reasonable and doesn't require new concepts) is that a given marriage has a set average likelihood to end in divorce.
They didn't block IBM buying Informix - and I submit to you that Informix had a much larger portion of the same market in which DB2 plays, than MySQL. Informix is a true enterprise DBMS, and so is DB2, and both were (and lo, still are) rather popular.
So, I don't think the FTC will block the Oracle-Sun merger because of the database businesses.
But, I've been wrong before :D
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Sound like the "divorce" statistic that is often quoted: "50% of marriages end up in divorce". the truth is that there are just as many long term marriages as ever, but at one time divorcees did not remarry. Now it is common to remarry and (re)divorce, skewing the statistics.
How would the fact that divorcees didn't remarry vs. they do remarry (and re-divorce) nowadays, change the percentage of divorced marriages? Honest question, don't attack me; I ran the logic in my head and it just comes out the same percentage, as long as a given marriage has the same likelyhood to end up in divorce.
Really, please explain.
...that not every network needs to be connected to the Internet. It sounds like an almost absurd idea, I know.
IBM would have killed all of Sun's hardware (including their backup and storage gear, which is often forgotten and yet it's very large and important). No more SPARC and their cool-running, many-core (and open-source) Niagara platform.
IBM would have killed Solaris (they have their own Unix, AIX). Luckily, Solaris is open-source, so perhaps someone would have picked up the torch.
IBM would have killed Star/OpenOffice (they have their own office suite, no matter how crappy). Again, OpenOffice is opensource, so...
Oracle likes all of the above, to a varying but still high, degree.
Oracle is also a ruthless, almost barbaric company when considering their sales practices, but I prefer them to IBM any day. Oracle is like Attila's Huns - they pillaged for the money and the women, but they never tried to bullshit you with "we come in the name of the Lord" - that is IBM's style, with their fake and cynical pretense of contributing to open source and standards.
That would make sense for a full scale plant.
Which I thought this was. My ignorance of the facts in this case is caused by the deplorable non-reading of the article - I was in a hurry this morning, and just thought that there might have been a mixup between MW and GW.
However, our (well, Finnish) new reactor in Olkiluoto will be over 1.7 GW PWR (specifically, an European Pressurized Water Reactor, a new Areva design).
He's been one of the most alive people I have ever known, and his life is still a great inspiration for me.
I'm guessing it's about 12 GW rather than MW. Nuclear plants' power is usually in the order of (a few) gigawatts.
If this is, indeed, a 12 GW power plant, it's one of the largest I've heard of.
All Sun servers are certified for Linux (RHAS and maybe Suse, currently) and you will find the server with the specs you require. You won't easily find sturdier hardware than what Sun makes.
How about this: The user is presented with a short message that they have to mark as "Spam" or "Not Spam". If the spammers get really good at solving this problem, they've effectively written themselves out of a job. And if they can't do it, then they can't get new accounts.
That's freakin' genius!With the caveat that spammers will never completely destroy themselves - the situation will reach a balance, but at a lower threshold than today. Spam will certainly decrease dramatically, if your idea is to be implemented.
I bet the Blu-ray version of Gigli will look terrific on Windows 7!
I was following the numbers on that page, and now when I checked, I see that the numbers are all wrong: I remember that the membership number was about 20500 last time I checked, and rising - but now it's 19999. What the heck is going on, do you have any idea?
I'm with you on that, 100%. Partly because I've been on the receiving end of such crap (disguised as -1 Offtopic !) and mostly because I see very insightful posts that say what has to be said even if it's unpopular, modded down.
This site should encourage the spelling out of unpopular but truthful views.
My post above was 100% on topic. Moderators, don't be assholes.
Lacking an unbiased 3rd party observer, I don't really have to believe these numbers.
As a side note: selling a game with no DRM is one thing; restricting the use of their online service is another. They could have an online service for gamers where they require a monthly or whatever subscription.
On the other hand, if the game is hard-coded to only be able to use some designated servers/network, then it means it's not free of DRM, and this whole point is pathetically moot.
Firefox won't pick up on those ideas in the foreseable future, perhaps never. I hope you enjoy your IE experience!
(for the record, I think the Crhome UI is excellent. Nothing superfluous, and rather pleasant to look at)