This always remind me of that jwz's phrase of xml, which was quoted from some awk thing I guess..
Anyway, you miss the point. Yes, docx, odf are zipped files with xml inside. And.pages used to be a folder with xml inside.
This doesn't preserve the document, it preserves the strings. Not much better than "strings file.doc" does.
What I meant is that you will have from 20 years now on the SAME document in latex. The same formatting, positioning and archaic appearance. None of them you have stripping xml - which is quite dumb anyway.
I was looking at their page now. Things seems to be changed. They now have a "we recommend vista" somewhere on their page, although they still have a rebranded ubuntu version - namely 8.04.
Which is something that minix, *bsd, linux and others does for free for decades.
These are commodity today. No, they are not worth $250. Getting a free (as in speech) one and building somthing better over that wouldn't hurt. Hey, someone already did that! http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html
Yes, I do. A major gripe of academics and students has been that there was no good bibliographic software available for Linux, and that Endnote does not interact with OpenOffice, while many major scientific journals are happy with submissions made in OpenOffice formats.
Are they? I'm yet to see one journal in CS that accepts something else than word, pdf or LaTeX.
Anyway, I don't care. LaTeX will still be readable long past the time ODT, DOC, DOCX and whatever new incarnation/version of those are more than unreadable.
I strongly regret writing my monograph in MacWord 1.0... I mean, Word 2008 must read it, right? Wrong...
So, from the M$ POV, Vista is a total commercial success, and that's what really matters for them, despite all the complains from angry slashdotters.
Not really.
In the win98/xp times, windows was the undisputed option. Linux was crap for desktop, and what were macs then? Expensive incompatible machines.
Vista created such a PR disaster that people (regular people, not slashdotters) started HEARING about other options. Heavy requirements made manufacturers deliver cheapo machines with their own linux versions. People started switching to macs to not coming back.
The company I worked for used to sell 200,000 computers with linux per year, two or three years ago. When MS stopped selling XP to them, do you really think they went to Vista? No, they went to Ubuntu. Vista was sold as a per-client basis.
There was a huge difference between running xp which you installed yourself and getting some dell/hp/sony/acer/whatever default installation, which usually came with crappy programs to handle hardware in a way that was worse than xp default (wifi and bluetooth come to my mind).
I'm about to see one of those programs that can do the job better than the OS's default. (The exception would be zydas 1211 on the mac. But it's their fault not doing a decent driver the os could recognize).
Way worse was when the system included bloatware for HW that wasn't even on your computer! (Like some thinkpads with the bluetooth crap loaded but with no hardware at all).
Some because the lack of tech support for office 2000. Some because the marketing people told them. Some because the company did the upgrade just like microsoft wants.
I wonder if this is feasible. I mean, look at FTP, which is something very well understood for ages... And still there are issues with some clients and servers...
I carry some unbranded chinese bluetooth mouse with me. It shows no lag. Takes about 2 seconds to connect the first time, and I never changed batteries. It's just three months anyway.
Dunno 'bout you, but I've been using computers for so long that even DESKS were to right-handed people. Never got why there was a part of the table on the right lowered (especially before the mouse), but people always used that as a mousepad placeholder.
So even being left-handed, I use mouse w/right hand..
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No, he is probably downloading stuff like everyone else and his sister.
Seriously. The same thing that happened to audio cds is going to happen to dvd. They will become obsolete as long as bandwidth keeps increasing.
This always remind me of that jwz's phrase of xml, which was quoted from some awk thing I guess..
Anyway, you miss the point. Yes, docx, odf are zipped files with xml inside. And .pages used to be a folder with xml inside.
This doesn't preserve the document, it preserves the strings. Not much better than "strings file.doc" does.
What I meant is that you will have from 20 years now on the SAME document in latex. The same formatting, positioning and archaic appearance. None of them you have stripping xml - which is quite dumb anyway.
No. What I'm trying to say is that those things are not worth $250.
No, I was in Brazil.
I was looking at their page now. Things seems to be changed. They now have a "we recommend vista" somewhere on their page, although they still have a rebranded ubuntu version - namely 8.04.
http://www.preview.com.br/
No, they are not only resellers. They are manufacturers, although one of their factories does MSI stuff in Brazil.
File systems, threading, memory management, security, networking, printing, hardware abstraction...
Which is something that minix, *bsd, linux and others does for free for decades.
These are commodity today. No, they are not worth $250. Getting a free (as in speech) one and building somthing better over that wouldn't hurt. Hey, someone already did that! http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html
Yes, I do. A major gripe of academics and students has been that there was no good bibliographic software available for Linux, and that Endnote does not interact with OpenOffice, while many major scientific journals are happy with submissions made in OpenOffice formats.
Are they? I'm yet to see one journal in CS that accepts something else than word, pdf or LaTeX.
Anyway, I don't care. LaTeX will still be readable long past the time ODT, DOC, DOCX and whatever new incarnation/version of those are more than unreadable.
I strongly regret writing my monograph in MacWord 1.0... I mean, Word 2008 must read it, right? Wrong...
So, from the M$ POV, Vista is a total commercial success, and that's what really matters for them, despite all the complains from angry slashdotters.
Not really.
In the win98/xp times, windows was the undisputed option. Linux was crap for desktop, and what were macs then? Expensive incompatible machines.
Vista created such a PR disaster that people (regular people, not slashdotters) started HEARING about other options. Heavy requirements made manufacturers deliver cheapo machines with their own linux versions. People started switching to macs to not coming back.
The company I worked for used to sell 200,000 computers with linux per year, two or three years ago. When MS stopped selling XP to them, do you really think they went to Vista? No, they went to Ubuntu. Vista was sold as a per-client basis.
No, you should be able to set up in BIOS SETUP your video card for 1megabyte, something which was possible years ago.
Then yes, that memory would revert for your windows to fill with viruses.
And NT 3.51 run happier than anything with 16 meg.
There was a huge difference between running xp which you installed yourself and getting some dell/hp/sony/acer/whatever default installation, which usually came with crappy programs to handle hardware in a way that was worse than xp default (wifi and bluetooth come to my mind).
I'm about to see one of those programs that can do the job better than the OS's default. (The exception would be zydas 1211 on the mac. But it's their fault not doing a decent driver the os could recognize).
Way worse was when the system included bloatware for HW that wasn't even on your computer! (Like some thinkpads with the bluetooth crap loaded but with no hardware at all).
Some because the lack of tech support for office 2000. Some because the marketing people told them. Some because the company did the upgrade just like microsoft wants.
I'm not sure which piece of the equation is making a glorified word processing program page fault on 1GB of RAM but I think that's a bit ridiculous.
Yeah? Try Office 2007. Well, my comment is probably redundant as well - What would you expect from MS?
Dos this version have the 3-app limit? What are the minimum memory requirements, and how much of that will be eaten by the OS itself?
I remember previous versions minimum requirements being enough to open paintbrush and wordpad...
Besides, those netbooks are not exactly known for their huge amounts of memory not for their easy upgrades...
I wonder if this is feasible. I mean, look at FTP, which is something very well understood for ages... And still there are issues with some clients and servers...
Actually, their MSX computer was pretty good as well.
shhh, don't tell them or they will bork those too!
What happened to last.fm?
he was talking about bluetooth emulating usb, wasn't he?
I carry some unbranded chinese bluetooth mouse with me. It shows no lag. Takes about 2 seconds to connect the first time, and I never changed batteries. It's just three months anyway.
Oh yes, I use it the whole day.
one of the few relevant posts of the whole thread. thank you.
Dunno 'bout you, but I've been using computers for so long that even DESKS were to right-handed people. Never got why there was a part of the table on the right lowered (especially before the mouse), but people always used that as a mousepad placeholder.
So even being left-handed, I use mouse w/right hand..
I had three of those from dealextreme. None of them worked.
Let's not forget ELITE. Spore's space level is just a remake of a 30-year old 32k game.
nor can you use a railgun on emacs.
That was 92 or 93, I guess, I was entering high school. Pre-1.0 kernel.
Installed, and tried to connect to my bbs. What, do I need to use the terminal do connect and use? Terminal was for REXX stuff! No BlueWave?
So I went back to OS/2 and ZOC, I guess.