Just look at the list of applications supported by Wine and you'll understand why I say that. Basically, if I can run Civ IV, Heroes IV and other strategy games on Linux, and with Matlab having a Linux version, there's very little to justify my using Windows. OK, there's Fruityloops, but that's it!
This sort of people always finds a good job to land into. Psychopats are extremely charismatic as well as capable of selling the most incredible lie as truth - take Christopher Rocancourt for example. These people leave a trail of destruction in the lives of the people they touch. In this case, the hundreds (thousands?) of people sued by this psychopat, who probably enjoyed in their misery.
As a judge, he'll be able to cause even more misery. Be afraid.
Asus are selling a PC with an outdated* version of Windows for slightly less than a slightly-higher-speced Linux machine, and all of the sudden, words like "commitment" and the wild notion of Asus losing 20% of their customers is being tossed around. Hopefully people won't fail to notice that you're just making things up by mentioning some of the words I used, without making any connection to the meaning they had or the context they were in. By simply taking a few words from my post you can distort the meaning of what I said to the point of making it nonsensical, albeit the original was really short and clear. At this point I don't anymore know whether you even understand that post. You seem adamant to find some hidden meaning in it. Well, there isn't one - I meant only what I wrote, not one iota more or less.
You are attacking an argument that I didn't make. I hope at least some of those who read your and my post will see this: I never said Asus has to have a commitment to Linux. I also didn't say Asus doesn't have to have a commitment to Linux. That just wasn't a topic in my post.
And it was a fairly short post, too - how you managed to warp it so it can fit your agenda (or bad mood), is emblematic.
The Amstrad PCW series computers have one or two 3" drives, use CP/M as operating system, and the best part is - they are still in use by a lot of people for their word processing needs, so there is still a thriving community (believe it or not) of people ready to help you out, as well as a few businesses selling spares for the PCW. I have the PCW8256, and after replacing the rubber belt in the drive, it works perfectly - just like new. These babies can be equipped with a 3.5" floppy drive, and also they have a serial interface. Either of these goodies should allow you to transfer your softwares, eventually, onto a more modern media.
Anyhow, I strongly recommend that you look into getting a PCW or getting in touch with someone who has one and will help you with this transfer.
(the 701 model, to be clear), I have this to say to Asus: I understand what is your level of commitment to Xandros Linux on your computers, so I hope you will be happy of losing one of your customers. And perhaps some 10-20% of other potential customers, too.
The Eee PC was my first step out of the MS upgrade treadmill nightmare, and you want to pull me right back? Sorry, no can do.
You can compare OO.o with Office as much as you like - and in fact, compared to it, OO.o shines, at least for my purposes. Because, as I said, formulas are much better implemented in OO.o Write than in Word (for one thing).
Formulas in OO.o are still better than in Word, even when inserted inline as in your example (even and especially fractions). And the OP was complaining about the lack of features of a FREE product (OO.o), while not thinking that a for-money product like Word makes a worse job at some of those features he requests. As someone answered him: boy you got a lot of work to do!
What is "math typesetting"? If it refers to formulas, I must admit I have never had any problems with them in OO.o, and I do a great amount of use of formulas in my docs.
Yeah, hat book is a treasure trove. Worth having it in hardback, as the spine will survive much more usage. The other classic in electronics is perhaps "Physics of Semiconductor Devices" by Sze.
But damn if the whole JSC is depressing in a "we don't have nearly as much money as we used to and sadly no one cares about spaceflight anyway" kind of way. We have that, too. Except, we never had the "as we used to" part - it's always been rather tight money-wise. Well, we do get to buy new equipment, that's true. But salaries suck the big one. I don't really complain, though, as I knew what I was getting into when I chose the research career path. Eternal poverty.
... pirated copies of the aforementioned software.
I guess that, as the public in general becomes more educated about the dangers and drawbacks of this (or any) kind of DRM, they will resort to piracy more and more.
Even very cheap multimeters will suffice an electronics beginner, and (if we're talking digital multimeters), no need to worry about calibration, ever.
Rather, it's the breadboard where I wouldn't skimp: cheap, bad quality bread boards will last just maybe a few dozen insertions (depends a lot on the pin width), and after that are useless. Good quality breadboards which cost only twiceas the cheap chinese ones, will last practically forever, without fatigue problems in the contacts.
does not cover practical stuff. What? I just jumped from my chair (imagine it as comically as you like) when I read that! The ARt of Electronics is one of the most practical-oriented book on electronics you'll ever find. The only thing is, it's oriented to practical problems AND is also 100% correct/accurate in its presentation - just like the most academic of electronics books. This accuracy puts it in a category of its own, while making it even more practically useful, because it leaves very little ambiguity. Take the "Sequential functions available as ICs" chapter, and tell me with a straight face that it doesn't have practical value. I feel it helps enormeously to get involved with PAL programming by actually understanding what the eff you're doing.
Or is the average/. reader convinced that there's not tech outside of IT? I work in micro and nanotechnology, and I think my job as well as my workplace, are some of the coolest in TECH. I also think the guys working on the new martian probes, work in a pretty cool place, too.
Nystagmus is a condition where your eyes oscillate at a frequency of about 1 Hz (roughly), usually horizontally. Having rows and especially columns coloured differently helps very much for someone affected by Nystagmus, to distinguish between columns.
BTW, a wider font like Verdana is also highly recommended.
Thanks to the huge success of the Eee PC, Xandros is gaining a lot of new users. And I, for one, am finding it very nice (once you switch to the "Advanced desktop" on the Eee). Things seem to work fine, and I can launch the apps I need - and that's pretty much all I ask of the OS.
But no, our corporate masters want to have it both ways. To be honest, they want to have it one way only - they don't give a flying duck about human rights or freedom of speech, in China or otherwise.
I dunno about your place, but here we only have to put "Ei mainoksia" ("No commercials") on the door/postbox, and voilà, no more junk mail. Besides, physical junkmail is much easier to fight because it costs SOMETHING to send. It costs NOTHING to send e-mails - hence the problem (for most of us anyway - looks like you have lucked out).
Hasn't this crap been going on long enough? Aren't people tired of spam - tired, as in totally pissed! I know I am.
Something drastic should be done about it, yesterday. Doesn't matter if it fails at first, I just want to see some political will. As it is, it seems like noone who has the power, gives a sh*t.
I used to know a man that had such profession, years ago. Died of cancer: the damn thing metastasised all over his brain. I hope your neighbour is doing better.
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Just look at the list of applications supported by Wine and you'll understand why I say that. Basically, if I can run Civ IV, Heroes IV and other strategy games on Linux, and with Matlab having a Linux version, there's very little to justify my using Windows. OK, there's Fruityloops, but that's it!
This sort of people always finds a good job to land into. Psychopats are extremely charismatic as well as capable of selling the most incredible lie as truth - take Christopher Rocancourt for example. These people leave a trail of destruction in the lives of the people they touch. In this case, the hundreds (thousands?) of people sued by this psychopat, who probably enjoyed in their misery.
As a judge, he'll be able to cause even more misery. Be afraid.
...when is it that we're totally screwed?
You are attacking an argument that I didn't make. I hope at least some of those who read your and my post will see this: I never said Asus has to have a commitment to Linux. I also didn't say Asus doesn't have to have a commitment to Linux. That just wasn't a topic in my post.
And it was a fairly short post, too - how you managed to warp it so it can fit your agenda (or bad mood), is emblematic.
The Amstrad PCW series computers have one or two 3" drives, use CP/M as operating system, and the best part is - they are still in use by a lot of people for their word processing needs, so there is still a thriving community (believe it or not) of people ready to help you out, as well as a few businesses selling spares for the PCW. I have the PCW8256, and after replacing the rubber belt in the drive, it works perfectly - just like new. These babies can be equipped with a 3.5" floppy drive, and also they have a serial interface. Either of these goodies should allow you to transfer your softwares, eventually, onto a more modern media.
Anyhow, I strongly recommend that you look into getting a PCW or getting in touch with someone who has one and will help you with this transfer.
Problem solved.
(the 701 model, to be clear), I have this to say to Asus: I understand what is your level of commitment to Xandros Linux on your computers, so I hope you will be happy of losing one of your customers. And perhaps some 10-20% of other potential customers, too.
The Eee PC was my first step out of the MS upgrade treadmill nightmare, and you want to pull me right back? Sorry, no can do.
You can compare OO.o with Office as much as you like - and in fact, compared to it, OO.o shines, at least for my purposes. Because, as I said, formulas are much better implemented in OO.o Write than in Word (for one thing).
Formulas in OO.o are still better than in Word, even when inserted inline as in your example (even and especially fractions). And the OP was complaining about the lack of features of a FREE product (OO.o), while not thinking that a for-money product like Word makes a worse job at some of those features he requests. As someone answered him: boy you got a lot of work to do!
What is "math typesetting"? If it refers to formulas, I must admit I have never had any problems with them in OO.o, and I do a great amount of use of formulas in my docs.
Hells yeah. My $10 would be there in a heartbeat.
Yeah, hat book is a treasure trove. Worth having it in hardback, as the spine will survive much more usage.
The other classic in electronics is perhaps "Physics of Semiconductor Devices" by Sze.
... pirated copies of the aforementioned software.
I guess that, as the public in general becomes more educated about the dangers and drawbacks of this (or any) kind of DRM, they will resort to piracy more and more.
Even very cheap multimeters will suffice an electronics beginner, and (if we're talking digital multimeters), no need to worry about calibration, ever.
Rather, it's the breadboard where I wouldn't skimp: cheap, bad quality bread boards will last just maybe a few dozen insertions (depends a lot on the pin width), and after that are useless. Good quality breadboards which cost only twiceas the cheap chinese ones, will last practically forever, without fatigue problems in the contacts.
Or is the average /. reader convinced that there's not tech outside of IT? I work in micro and nanotechnology, and I think my job as well as my workplace, are some of the coolest in TECH. I also think the guys working on the new martian probes, work in a pretty cool place, too.
Nystagmus is a condition where your eyes oscillate at a frequency of about 1 Hz (roughly), usually horizontally. Having rows and especially columns coloured differently helps very much for someone affected by Nystagmus, to distinguish between columns.
BTW, a wider font like Verdana is also highly recommended.
Thanks to the huge success of the Eee PC, Xandros is gaining a lot of new users. And I, for one, am finding it very nice (once you switch to the "Advanced desktop" on the Eee). Things seem to work fine, and I can launch the apps I need - and that's pretty much all I ask of the OS.
I dunno about your place, but here we only have to put "Ei mainoksia" ("No commercials") on the door/postbox, and voilà, no more junk mail. Besides, physical junkmail is much easier to fight because it costs SOMETHING to send. It costs NOTHING to send e-mails - hence the problem (for most of us anyway - looks like you have lucked out).
Hasn't this crap been going on long enough? Aren't people tired of spam - tired, as in totally pissed! I know I am.
Something drastic should be done about it, yesterday. Doesn't matter if it fails at first, I just want to see some political will. As it is, it seems like noone who has the power, gives a sh*t.
I used to know a man that had such profession, years ago. Died of cancer: the damn thing metastasised all over his brain. I hope your neighbour is doing better.
I do ;) I couldn't live without Gmail's exemplary spam filtering and great search feature.