While we're on the subject, I should also note that second only to windows, Apple updates are capable of breaking things in wildly spectacular ways - moreso than I've ever experienced with ubuntu. Yeah, Ubuntu updates never break things in spectacular ways. Oh wait...
http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/08/22/still-learning-what-long-term-support-means/
What many people misunderstand is that the S/N ratio on Facebook is the value add. The ability to consume your friends "news" of totally useless crap like Vampires, semi-useless crap like status updates and marginally useful crap like events and photos is the value of Facebook. Its a way of being connected to your social group without leaving your chair, because, in meatspace, most social interaction is also "useless crap".
The ability to provide a centralised and reasonably private way of sharing this stream of useless crap is the value of Facebook.
I'm not a fan of human suffering, but let's not kid ourselves about it: keeping a few million uneducated people from starving is only beneficial to those few million uneducated starving people.
You still need an ISP to use satellite internet, and generally that ISP is in your home country. Of course, even if you managed to set-up an account internationally from Myanmar, they could always come and smash your satellite dish...
The network stack in Vista uses 40% CPU time for simple file transfers - up from 15% in XP and 9% in Linux. This proves that the design deision to rewrite the BSD-stack was a flawed approach, and not a BUG.
Unless Microsoft can demonstrate superior performance with Vista on identical hardware, users will conclude that DRM is such a burden on resources, and avoid using Vista as long as they practically can. This isn't FUD, it's FACT.
Agreed, Vista is rubbish, but you should get your facts straight before calling others out on them.
Q: What are the differences between StarOffice 8 software and the OpenOffice.org 2.0?
A:
StarOffice 8 software is a commercial product built on OpenOffice.org's open source code to provide the best value, multi-platform Microsoft compatible office suite aimed at organizations and consumers. OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the leading open-source project aimed at users of free software, independent developers and the open source community. StarOffice includes licensed-in, third-party technology such as:
Spellchecker and thesaurus
Mail Merge Wizard does not have the ability to send mail merge documents as emails.
Select fonts including Windows metrically equivalent fonts and Asian language fonts
Select filters, including Asian word processor filters
Integration of additional templates and extensive clipart gallery
Migration Tools and Macro Migration Wizard. The converted macros does not run in OpenOffice.org
Sun Java System Configuration Manager for Solaris, Linux and Windows.
In addition to product differences, StarOffice offers:
Updates/upgrades on CD
Sun installation and user documentation
24x7 Web based support for enterprises and consumers
Help desk support
Warranties and indemnification guarantee Training
Professional services for migration and deployment
Farmer is a general term for a MMORPG player who attempts to acquire ("farm") items of value within a game, usually in order to exploit repetitive elements of the game's mechanics. This is usually accomplished by carrying out in-game actions (such as killing an important creature) repeatedly to maximize gains, sometimes by using a program such as a bot or automatic clicker. More broadly, the term could refer to a player of any type of game who repeats mundane actions over and over in order to collect in-game items. An organization which organizes farmers is known as a shop.
Slashdot Mirror
"How long before TextRunner is slashdotted?"
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>A simple frameset document</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET cols="20%, 80%">
<FRAMESET rows="100, 200">
<FRAME src="contents_of_frame1.html">
<FRAME src="contents_of_frame2.gif">
</FRAMESET>
<FRAME src="contents_of_frame3.html">
<NOFRAMES>
<P>This frameset document contains:
<UL>
<LI><A href="contents_of_frame1.html">Some neat contents</A>
<LI><IMG src="contents_of_frame2.gif" alt="A neat image">
<LI><A href="contents_of_frame3.html">Some other neat contents</A>
</UL>
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html
Except that he was a member of the Nazi party and the SS.
Ploughing the ocean waves is always difficult when the horses keep sinking.
The fourth R which is no longer taught is RTFAing
Exactly - this is why we need a legislative charter of rights!
Damn those cheap foreign knock-offs of quality American designs! Oh wait...
Two counter examples come to mind:
The abominable <marquee> is a microsoft invention, while <abbr> is still not supported by IE7.
I'm sure there are plenty more out there.
What many people misunderstand is that the S/N ratio on Facebook is the value add. The ability to consume your friends "news" of totally useless crap like Vampires, semi-useless crap like status updates and marginally useful crap like events and photos is the value of Facebook. Its a way of being connected to your social group without leaving your chair, because, in meatspace, most social interaction is also "useless crap". The ability to provide a centralised and reasonably private way of sharing this stream of useless crap is the value of Facebook.
*whoosh*
You still need an ISP to use satellite internet, and generally that ISP is in your home country. Of course, even if you managed to set-up an account internationally from Myanmar, they could always come and smash your satellite dish...
Blender is the GIMP of 3d applications: It does most of what people need, but is ultimately doomed because of a ridiculous UI.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
Do we really need content descriptors such as "Crude Humor", "Alcohol Reference", and most shocking of all, "Comic Mischief"?c riptors
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp#des
Or the serial number protection in the original Starcraft (not the expansion) where a valid serial number could be guessed in about twenty attempts.
Does anyone else find the idea of a wikipedia article about the tyranny of the majority somewhat ironic?
In Soviet America, Microsoft slaps YOU.