Well, at least in the USA they don't close independent TV stations and kill inconvenient journalists. But surely you are right and I am wrong, and you will be free-er in Russia than the USA. A colleague of mine returned to Saint Petersburg because he gets a higher salary, so please, don't let anything stop you from going to your homeland. Best of luck.
I am reading page 2 of the article, and I feel less and less sorry for him. He sent ever more e-mails, after a minister tried to unsubscribe? Wow, talk about accumulating bad Karma. And in the wrong country, at that.
Read the McAfee writeup - they (McAfee) don't give any proof that this didn't actually happen! Just the fact that the original article referfences an earlier such case (which turned out not to be "such" - i.e. the previous murder wasn't related to spamming (although it was related to mafia)).
The recovery sucked ass. The end result was the same as what I have saved 2 hours earlier.
Yeah, all software crashes, I guess. Still, I remember when I was doing my thesis in Word, it never crashed. I had all sorts of embedded OLE stuff, way too little RAM and a combressed drive. At times it was chugging like a steam-engine locomotive, but it didn't crash.
For the record, I have MS for a lot of reasons. But Word didn't crash on me.
I am a student (MEMS) and so I need to handle formulas and export in PDF.
OOo 2.3 Writer:
+ handles complex mathematical formulas + produces a very nice.pdf file + allows for complex text formatting and precise placement of diagrams + It has macros! + It will open documents written in many formats. + It saves your document in many, many formats.
but
- Quite often the display is not refreshed and you have no idea anymore, what the page looks like. It reminds me a bit of the olde versions of Finale, but there you had a special "Refresh display" function. Here you don't. The only option is to restart Writer. -- Seems prone to crashing. It crashed twice in the week I have been using it. - Can't include/insert.svg files! This is a shame.
We had a competence transfer about patents and IP, and as the tutors were explaining what can be patented, the techies in the audience (me included) would exclaim, from time to time "what, you can patent that?" We were just so surprised that you don't need to come up with something original or complicated, not even the software algorithm. I had the impression as if we were almost encouraged to patent the most broad possible vaggueties - the word "idea" only barely applies.
...and if it wasn't Microsoft's "long reach" to push this guy off, it sure looks like it!
I don't know. I love my country, but it has been increasingly corrupt in the last 2-3 years. I blame it on the influence of some foreign CEOs. My previous employer "Nokia" was fuxored up quite badly, in that period.
Anyways, I'd love to be able to say that in Finland we sort out these kinds of situations, and that justice and truth ultimately prevail. Sadly, I'm not sure anymore.
Wasn't that just the fixed-line infrastructure company?
Not, it's not, it's all their network stuff. Fixed line, hah, Nokia didn't work on that in the longest time. At best it was marginal already 7 years ago. Nokia left that business to Ericsson, instead concentrating on mobile network equipment (in the broadest sense).
Nokia is the largest wireless network hardware and phone company in the world.
I guess you were not paying attention when Nokia spun off its network infrastructure operation earlier this year. Together with Siemens Networks, they formed Nokia Siemens Networks - a company that sucks in so many ways, not being profitable is just one of the symptoms of how badly it does. So many people left it in the last few months, I bet it's broken all records in attrition level.
First Amazon opens an all-DRM-free MP3 shop (as a classical music lover, at least I am satisfied with the selection of titles) which also features lower prices especially for albums.
Then the iPhone/iBrick thing intensifies and rumors of a class action suit begin circulating.
And finally, I decided I won't be buying an iBook after all, in spite of peer pressure from fellow scientists and students. I decided I don't need to be conformist to feel good about myself. -1 customer for Apple!
Actually, current most definitely DOES flows through the body of the presenter. The skin effect is, however, small in the case of tesla coil frequencies. Fortunately, rather small current densities and high voltage allow for the cells not to be damaged, and the relatively high frequency will make possible for the nervous cells not to detect the current and no heart (or other muscle) spams occurs.
Anyhow, current flows through their bodies, and whether they are grounded or not does not change this fact.
The water in the research at hand is clean (distilled) to a high degree, to avoid ionic conductivity. The water in living cells is VERY conductive and when you use high direct voltages, does Bad Things to these cells.
Now, high grequency alternating voltage would cause no adverse effect because it would cause for the electric current to flow on the surface of the body, but that's another story, and it does not affect the fluid inside the cells (think Tesla holding a glowing gas discharge lamp in his hand).
..nowadays than just 3 years ago. However, I don't have any particularly egzotic hardware, or need for top-speed from my graphic card (you can tell I am not into 3D gaming).
However, where I do feel the pain is, when Linux doesn't recognize my soundchip. That drives me bonkers, and it's still a running concern. I guess Linux users are not into music that much. I just tried booting the newest Xubuntu live CD, and my otherwise puny soundchip wasn't detected. (worked fine on the laptop, though, so it's hit and miss) I hope Novell's efforts will bring at least a small improvement in this area.
Where do you live? I thought it was only in Finland that the UPS employs untrained monkeys.
The image I have of the UPS is that of an abject, mindless, clueless, arrogant and destructive company. I mean, heck, USPS gets the job done for far less, and yet the parcels are not mangled, punctured or delivered weeks later. If USPS, FedEx, DHL, GLS etc. etc. can all do it, why can't UPS?
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Well, at least in the USA they don't close independent TV stations and kill inconvenient journalists. But surely you are right and I am wrong, and you will be free-er in Russia than the USA. A colleague of mine returned to Saint Petersburg because he gets a higher salary, so please, don't let anything stop you from going to your homeland. Best of luck.
I am reading page 2 of the article, and I feel less and less sorry for him. He sent ever more e-mails, after a minister tried to unsubscribe? Wow, talk about accumulating bad Karma. And in the wrong country, at that.
Read the McAfee writeup - they (McAfee) don't give any proof that this didn't actually happen! Just the fact that the original article referfences an earlier such case (which turned out not to be "such" - i.e. the previous murder wasn't related to spamming (although it was related to mafia)).
The recovery sucked ass. The end result was the same as what I have saved 2 hours earlier.
Yeah, all software crashes, I guess. Still, I remember when I was doing my thesis in Word, it never crashed. I had all sorts of embedded OLE stuff, way too little RAM and a combressed drive. At times it was chugging like a steam-engine locomotive, but it didn't crash.
For the record, I have MS for a lot of reasons. But Word didn't crash on me.
I am a student (MEMS) and so I need to handle formulas and export in PDF.
.pdf file
.svg files! This is a shame.
OOo 2.3 Writer:
+ handles complex mathematical formulas
+ produces a very nice
+ allows for complex text formatting and precise placement of diagrams
+ It has macros!
+ It will open documents written in many formats.
+ It saves your document in many, many formats.
but
- Quite often the display is not refreshed and you have no idea anymore, what the page looks like. It reminds me a bit of the olde versions of Finale, but there you had a special "Refresh display" function. Here you don't. The only option is to restart Writer.
-- Seems prone to crashing. It crashed twice in the week I have been using it.
- Can't include/insert
...and took 2 hours of work with it. I was this close to crying.
Write joke myself, or just lay back and wait for the flow...
The who IS? (check sig)
Thanks, Japan, for cracking me up, and providing me with a new sig. I love you.
1) Solve scarcity
2) ???
3) Not profit?
I feel there's a "In Soviet Russia" joke somewhere in there, but my brain is not relaxed enough to find it.
Make Godzilla!
Not really, no.
We had a competence transfer about patents and IP, and as the tutors were explaining what can be patented, the techies in the audience (me included) would exclaim, from time to time "what, you can patent that?" We were just so surprised that you don't need to come up with something original or complicated, not even the software algorithm. I had the impression as if we were almost encouraged to patent the most broad possible vaggueties - the word "idea" only barely applies.
I'm sure other companies do exactly the same.
I have issues with that domain name.
...and if it wasn't Microsoft's "long reach" to push this guy off, it sure looks like it!
I don't know. I love my country, but it has been increasingly corrupt in the last 2-3 years. I blame it on the influence of some foreign CEOs. My previous employer "Nokia" was fuxored up quite badly, in that period.
Anyways, I'd love to be able to say that in Finland we sort out these kinds of situations, and that justice and truth ultimately prevail. Sadly, I'm not sure anymore.
Wasn't that just the fixed-line infrastructure company?
Not, it's not, it's all their network stuff. Fixed line, hah, Nokia didn't work on that in the longest time. At best it was marginal already 7 years ago. Nokia left that business to Ericsson, instead concentrating on mobile network equipment (in the broadest sense).
Nokia is the largest wireless network hardware and phone company in the world.
I guess you were not paying attention when Nokia spun off its network infrastructure operation earlier this year. Together with Siemens Networks, they formed Nokia Siemens Networks - a company that sucks in so many ways, not being profitable is just one of the symptoms of how badly it does. So many people left it in the last few months, I bet it's broken all records in attrition level.
Among young scientists, engineering professors and students in Helsinki, yes, it is. If you don't tote a Macbook, you're the odd one.
"Pamala Jones, at groklaw, totally rips apart the Novell/Deal patent protection deal."
What's that Novell/Deal? Something along the lines of GNU/Linux?
First Amazon opens an all-DRM-free MP3 shop (as a classical music lover, at least I am satisfied with the selection of titles) which also features lower prices especially for albums.
Then the iPhone/iBrick thing intensifies and rumors of a class action suit begin circulating.
And finally, I decided I won't be buying an iBook after all, in spite of peer pressure from fellow scientists and students. I decided I don't need to be conformist to feel good about myself. -1 customer for Apple!
Actually, current most definitely DOES flows through the body of the presenter. The skin effect is, however, small in the case of tesla coil frequencies. Fortunately, rather small current densities and high voltage allow for the cells not to be damaged, and the relatively high frequency will make possible for the nervous cells not to detect the current and no heart (or other muscle) spams occurs.
Anyhow, current flows through their bodies, and whether they are grounded or not does not change this fact.
The water in the research at hand is clean (distilled) to a high degree, to avoid ionic conductivity. The water in living cells is VERY conductive and when you use high direct voltages, does Bad Things to these cells.
Now, high grequency alternating voltage would cause no adverse effect because it would cause for the electric current to flow on the surface of the body, but that's another story, and it does not affect the fluid inside the cells (think Tesla holding a glowing gas discharge lamp in his hand).
..nowadays than just 3 years ago. However, I don't have any particularly egzotic hardware, or need for top-speed from my graphic card (you can tell I am not into 3D gaming).
However, where I do feel the pain is, when Linux doesn't recognize my soundchip. That drives me bonkers, and it's still a running concern. I guess Linux users are not into music that much. I just tried booting the newest Xubuntu live CD, and my otherwise puny soundchip wasn't detected. (worked fine on the laptop, though, so it's hit and miss) I hope Novell's efforts will bring at least a small improvement in this area.
I didn't have to wait a minute to have a 100 MB file copied, with XP. One would, with Vista.
Where do you live? I thought it was only in Finland that the UPS employs untrained monkeys.
The image I have of the UPS is that of an abject, mindless, clueless, arrogant and destructive company. I mean, heck, USPS gets the job done for far less, and yet the parcels are not mangled, punctured or delivered weeks later. If USPS, FedEx, DHL, GLS etc. etc. can all do it, why can't UPS?
WTF is wrong with UPS Finland?