NO!!
We are violating your liberty to steal my work and violate my rights as the author.
-- Carlie Coats
author/distributor of >380,000 lines of GPL/LGPL environmental modeling code
I had a DOC that was crashing my Word 2007 and I got it opened with...LibreOffice.
MS Word's doc-parser has been flaky for <drumroll>...decades</drumroll>.
Both I at my office (environmental modeling) and my wife (corporate
legal) have had abiword and Openffice save the day many times when MSWord declared documents to be corrupt. Frankly, the opensource doc-parser library is much more robust than the one from Redmond. Do you know how much fun it is to be 8 hours from an NSF grant-deadline and have MSWord declare your proposal corrupt
when yoo go to do the final printing? Abiword saved us that time -- way back in 1996! (and the situation hasn't improved much since.)
If you are ordering a computer from a brand name: Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, HP, Sony, etc. it's near impossible to order one without Windows unless you happen to be a business...
Even if you are a business, it is impossible to buy a non-Windows workstation class machine from Dell. And you can't
get the disk nor screen configuration you want, either.
Been there, done that. And after the machine finally arrived (3 months late!), it took another two months to get the video/screen hardware right: they don't know how to connect a T7500 workstation to one of their own 3008WFP monitors.
There's one benchmark here that could reasonably be compiled on a processor specific basis, to show what the processor really can do (as opposed to all the other benchmarks, which are based on proprietary least-common-denominator executables: Euler3D.
And there are processor specific enhancements that could have great influence (150%?) on this code's performance...
As it happens, this benchmark the one of greatest professional interest to me, anyway:-)
I'd really like to know how its performance would compare with Gulftown, if the benchmark were compiled for SandyBridge, with the latest (SandyBridge-supporting) edition of ifort.
Suppose a security flaw is found in a commonly used library...
To solve "dependency hell"...
One problem I've had -- many times! is having a system level shared library update break a mission-critical userspace applications. And frankly, the vendor probably can't test updates as well as it tests the original distro-releases -- instead, it has to trust the library-authors.
Who make mistakes from time to time.
Another problem I have as an author of environmental modeling software
is in distributing user-space applications to a broad user community, across several dozen distributions/versions, to a user community
that frequently does not have root access to the servers
they're running on. And I don't have access to all those kinds of systems, obviously.
There are two ostensible solutions: to distribute statically linked binaries,
which your ideology has made very difficult, or to distribute source and have the user community compile and link. And then they have the trouble of finding the libraries, and we still have 'dependency hell." Unless I make them "compile the whole universe" -- which has become common practice in the environmental community. Thanks to your self-centered ideology, damn it!
My wife has a Blackberry from AT&T. It's her device. She paid for it. She's installed Blackberry Maps on it. And AT&T keeps
going behind her back and erasing it.
Why should that not be (felony) violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
Raleigh NC is not a tiny village. But there's only one place
in town that has 1920x1200 monitors (and only a single model of that!).
There are 1920x1080's out the wazoo here, however.
Other build-package problems
on
Autotools
·
· Score: 1
And there's worse -- supporting multiple simultaneous build targets.
Most of my stuff I build
{optimized, debug, optimized-profiling}
x {gfortran/gcc, g95/gcc, sunf95/suncc, ifort/icc}
for a set of 12 simultaneous build-targets.
Conventional build systems do not support multiple simultaneous
build-targets well.
In 1789, there was no public education to speak of. Unfortunately, government run education has become a place in which children are "socialized" with little regard for the wishes of their parents, especially when those parents are an ethnic or religious minority...
Actually, of you study nineteenth century history you will find that public schools were introduced as an anti-Catholic/anti-immigrant measure, as a place where "undesirable" culture could be conditioned out of the younger generation.
IMHO, anything that disturbs the teaching going on in the classroom should be squashed.
OK. let's outlaw the NEA. That teachers union has done far more to hinder and disturb actual learning than any amount of speech by actual students.
All in the interest of their own greed.
Don't the majority of home-schoolers do it because they're afraid of evil secular concepts like evolution and geological history?
This turns out not to be the case.
For what it's worth, historians of science note an amazing number of British "polymath geniuses" from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries -- all of them home-schooled.
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IMNHO, copyright law gives the copyright holder far too much power in this matter, but that's the way the law is written.
I've got one word to describe you: Thief! -- Carlie Coats
Author of >380,000 lines of GPL/LGPL environmental modeling code.
NO!! We are violating your liberty to steal my work and violate my rights as the author.
-- Carlie Coats
author/distributor of >380,000 lines of GPL/LGPL environmental modeling code
And FWIW, Gates is known to have Aspbergers, too.
MS Word's doc-parser has been flaky for <drumroll>...decades</drumroll>.
Both I at my office (environmental modeling) and my wife (corporate legal) have had abiword and Openffice save the day many times when MSWord declared documents to be corrupt. Frankly, the opensource doc-parser library is much more robust than the one from Redmond. Do you know how much fun it is to be 8 hours from an NSF grant-deadline and have MSWord declare your proposal corrupt when yoo go to do the final printing? Abiword saved us that time -- way back in 1996! (and the situation hasn't improved much since.)
Even if you are a business, it is impossible to buy a non-Windows workstation class machine from Dell. And you can't get the disk nor screen configuration you want, either.
Been there, done that. And after the machine finally arrived (3 months late!), it took another two months to get the video/screen hardware right: they don't know how to connect a T7500 workstation to one of their own 3008WFP monitors.
There's one benchmark here that could reasonably be compiled on a processor specific basis, to show what the processor really can do (as opposed to all the other benchmarks, which are based on proprietary least-common-denominator executables: Euler3D.
And there are processor specific enhancements that could have great influence (150%?) on this code's performance... As it happens, this benchmark the one of greatest professional interest to me, anyway :-)
I'd really like to know how its performance would compare with Gulftown, if the benchmark were compiled for SandyBridge, with the latest (SandyBridge-supporting) edition of ifort.
One problem I've had -- many times! is having a system level shared library update break a mission-critical userspace applications. And frankly, the vendor probably can't test updates as well as it tests the original distro-releases -- instead, it has to trust the library-authors. Who make mistakes from time to time.
Another problem I have as an author of environmental modeling software is in distributing user-space applications to a broad user community, across several dozen distributions/versions, to a user community that frequently does not have root access to the servers they're running on. And I don't have access to all those kinds of systems, obviously.
There are two ostensible solutions: to distribute statically linked binaries, which your ideology has made very difficult, or to distribute source and have the user community compile and link. And then they have the trouble of finding the libraries, and we still have 'dependency hell." Unless I make them "compile the whole universe" -- which has become common practice in the environmental community. Thanks to your self-centered ideology, damn it!
Why should that not be (felony) violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
Ditto about other stuff being written here...
"...fairly reasonably"? The cheapest 1600x1200 on NewEgg is $859.
Right now, NewEgg has exactly two 1600x1200 LCD monitors. The cheaper is $859: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824002361
I call bullshit
When a monitor dies, I need a replacement now, not some time next week.
You are not alone.
Human-factors engineering says that text is most readable in formats having 56-68 columns.
Raleigh NC is not a tiny village. But there's only one place in town that has 1920x1200 monitors (and only a single model of that!). There are 1920x1080's out the wazoo here, however.
And there's worse -- supporting multiple simultaneous build targets. Most of my stuff I build {optimized, debug, optimized-profiling} x {gfortran/gcc, g95/gcc, sunf95/suncc, ifort/icc} for a set of 12 simultaneous build-targets. Conventional build systems do not support multiple simultaneous build-targets well.
IANAL, but I know how to say laches, thanks to the course in contract law that reading Groklaw amounts to...
Actually, of you study nineteenth century history you will find that public schools were introduced as an anti-Catholic/anti-immigrant measure, as a place where "undesirable" culture could be conditioned out of the younger generation.
OK. let's outlaw the NEA. That teachers union has done far more to hinder and disturb actual learning than any amount of speech by actual students. All in the interest of their own greed.
Did not work for me in any of the 3.1.1's (Mandriva or direct download, 32- or 64-bit). Had to revert to Mandriva's 3.0.1.
Just checked, and works for me in 32-bit direct download of 3.2.0.
Works fine with 3.2.0 -- the bug is gone.
FWIW, the National Spelling Bee has been dominated Statistically, the case that home-schoolers average far better than public-schoolers is iron-clad.
This turns out not to be the case.
For what it's worth, historians of science note an amazing number of British "polymath geniuses" from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries -- all of them home-schooled.
I'm quite willing to custom-hosts blacklist CSS-servers, too.
FWIW.
That's one of the things wrong with MS Office.