So what we need is some kind of generic tool which atomises the word document (or any XML file) up into constituent parts and then feeds it to the OpenOffice, Abiword etc.?
How unloading more visitors onto Wikipedia when it can't cope with the ones it has fighting spammers?
If they want to fight spammers (and I'm assuming the ones who flood their sites with bogus comments), there is an incredibly easy way. Make people sign up before they can post a comment.
If that is too heinous, make them type a string from human readable bitmap or do other challenges from the reply page that make it impossible for spam to enter the system.
If it's any consolation, the screenshots suggest that the desktop has more than a pinch of Openlook in the theme - rounded controls and menus. Personally I think Openlook was a disgusting UI, but there you go.
Two approaches - either they reserve a bunch of numbers and you get one of them (unlikely) or there is a single number and you get an extension.
In either event you can expect to be paying for the incoming calls unless they happen to use a premium number. I'd also assume that it will cost more than making outgoing calls.
An iPod is an expensive external hard drive. Why not just use any of the numerous and cheaper models that are available. Some of them don't even need a PSU.
Unless you're SCO in which case any publicity is akin to sticking a calf's hoof up your arse or raping a chicken and expecting people to buy your products for it.
And in fact scientists have been growing VATS of cultured tissue for decades.
Where is the outcry that each and every day gallons and gallons of cells propogated from the late Henrietta Lacks are shipped out around the world to be experimented on?
Well yes, it is bullshit. Darwine allows you to compile Win32 source and link against Winelib. It does not allow you to run x86 binaries on the PPC. Maybe it will some day but not yet.
However it may be possible to build and link to winelib on non-x86 systems. This requires of course that every DLL you need can be built natively but at least that much can be done.
Linux as far as Sun is concerned is a discrete bundle of software which people use instead of their own software bundle. And since Linux runs on just about anything (unlike Solaris) it deprives Sun of hardware sales and support contracts which is their bottom line.
Now Sun do have a few fingers in the Linux pie, but I think they've traditionally tried to pitch it as a baby Unix. "Yes run Linux and when you're comfortable upgrade to Solaris".
Unfortunately the reality now is that Linux is quite capable of running in place of Solaris in the vast, vast majority of cases and more cheaply too. Large institutions are literally gutting their old Sun hardware and moving over to to blades running Linux. Perhaps a more sensible strategy would have been to make their hardware run Solaris *or* Linux and let the customer decide what to use.
Its also a teensy bit different since Red Hat provide the full source to their dist. The much touted OpenSolaris is just vapourware at the moment and won't be comparable until it is without restriction.
It's also a teensy bit different since Linux in general runs on vastly more hardware platforms than Solaris. Red Hat Solaris runs on Sun hardware first and a few select servers from the likes of Dell, Compaq etc. if you're lucky.
IBM is a friend at the moment, Sun definitely isn't and HP is just so punch drunk it has no idea what's going on.
Yes Sun do open source stuff but you just have to look at the way they're pitching themselves nowadays against Linux - head on. The whole Solaris 10 for free thing is to persuade people to stick with Sun even if in reality a "free" Solaris is anything but when you slap on support costs.
Owners of larger iPods might find the Shuffle useful for storing a few songs, but as a standalone player, the Shuffle is a POS. An equivalent priced MP3 player would have far more features, such as an LCD display for the same price. Its hard to fathom why anyone else would buy it.
I use Open Office every day and while it's pretty usable it's seriously lacking in some areas. It's only when you look for them that you realise how primitive they are in comparison to MS Office (or any other commercial suite). For example the drawing app is just evil, plain and simple. The revision control is also nothing to write home about and buried in a submenu. There's also no outline mode which is a major omission if you write big docs.
Still, I have OO 2.0 beta and there is hope that its going in the right direction. It's still not perfect but the UI seems to have been reworked to simplify some things and the drawing app is *much* better.
It's not the coding but the review process that is the bottleneck. To check in code you need a reviewer, a super reviewer and sometimes driver approval. Rounding up all these people can be a major pain. Then once you've done that you need to find someone who'll check in the code for you which is even harder since they need to test the patch to see if it builds.
Perhaps a better model would be if Bugzilla did not require a specific reviewer (unless the author wanted one) and instead a review request was placed in a pool that 5 or 6 module "owners" could read. Once people had marked the patch reviewed it would be automatically submitted to the super review pool and then to the approval pool.
Once it has passed these hurdles the bug could even offer the author the chance to submit the patch for checkin but the author would still be responsible for monitoring the tree while the patch took hold and backing it out if there was a problem.
How do they know you're in the 1st class seat, or does the ticket have some kind of unlock code? What I'm getting at is that you could be in the next carriage up and still get a signal from the 1st class section.
Given the amount of legacy OS/2 stuff out there and IBM's push on Linux, it is a wonder that they haven't released an OS/2 emulation layer for Linux. I can understand that it might not be possible to open source everything, but to not release nothing at all and advise to use someone elses product?
Something akin to WINE but for OS/2 with IBM's endorsement would be a useful thing. They could open source headers, specifications, internal docs and other unencumbered things to set things off.
Unlocking is an option, but as you say, doing so is "illegal". DRM & Apple has turned ordinary people who've bought music from their site into criminals.
You say "stole another guys idea", but how many open source programs (or commercial) programs are totally original?
As for stealing CPM, my understanding was that QDOS was a superficial look-a-like. If Kildall et al wanted to compete, perhaps they should have dropped their prices a bit.
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So what we need is some kind of generic tool which atomises the word document (or any XML file) up into constituent parts and then feeds it to the OpenOffice, Abiword etc.?
Definitely! After hearing the terrible acting I was half expecting the Star Wars theme to give way to hard core all holes filled action.
If they want to fight spammers (and I'm assuming the ones who flood their sites with bogus comments), there is an incredibly easy way. Make people sign up before they can post a comment.
If that is too heinous, make them type a string from human readable bitmap or do other challenges from the reply page that make it impossible for spam to enter the system.
If the IA-64 is in the top 4 platforms using Debian then there is your answer.
If it's any consolation, the screenshots suggest that the desktop has more than a pinch of Openlook in the theme - rounded controls and menus. Personally I think Openlook was a disgusting UI, but there you go.
In either event you can expect to be paying for the incoming calls unless they happen to use a premium number. I'd also assume that it will cost more than making outgoing calls.
An iPod is an expensive external hard drive. Why not just use any of the numerous and cheaper models that are available. Some of them don't even need a PSU.
Unless you're SCO in which case any publicity is akin to sticking a calf's hoof up your arse or raping a chicken and expecting people to buy your products for it.
Where is the outcry that each and every day gallons and gallons of cells propogated from the late Henrietta Lacks are shipped out around the world to be experimented on?
Well yes, it is bullshit. Darwine allows you to compile Win32 source and link against Winelib. It does not allow you to run x86 binaries on the PPC. Maybe it will some day but not yet.
However it may be possible to build and link to winelib on non-x86 systems. This requires of course that every DLL you need can be built natively but at least that much can be done.
Yes, they all did. But only after it happened.
Now Sun do have a few fingers in the Linux pie, but I think they've traditionally tried to pitch it as a baby Unix. "Yes run Linux and when you're comfortable upgrade to Solaris".
Unfortunately the reality now is that Linux is quite capable of running in place of Solaris in the vast, vast majority of cases and more cheaply too. Large institutions are literally gutting their old Sun hardware and moving over to to blades running Linux. Perhaps a more sensible strategy would have been to make their hardware run Solaris *or* Linux and let the customer decide what to use.
Its also a teensy bit different since Red Hat provide the full source to their dist. The much touted OpenSolaris is just vapourware at the moment and won't be comparable until it is without restriction.
It's also a teensy bit different since Linux in general runs on vastly more hardware platforms than Solaris. Red Hat Solaris runs on Sun hardware first and a few select servers from the likes of Dell, Compaq etc. if you're lucky.
In case you hadn't noticed, GNOME and OpenOffice aren't Linux.
Yes Sun do open source stuff but you just have to look at the way they're pitching themselves nowadays against Linux - head on. The whole Solaris 10 for free thing is to persuade people to stick with Sun even if in reality a "free" Solaris is anything but when you slap on support costs.
Owners of larger iPods might find the Shuffle useful for storing a few songs, but as a standalone player, the Shuffle is a POS. An equivalent priced MP3 player would have far more features, such as an LCD display for the same price. Its hard to fathom why anyone else would buy it.
Still, I have OO 2.0 beta and there is hope that its going in the right direction. It's still not perfect but the UI seems to have been reworked to simplify some things and the drawing app is *much* better.
By broadcasting it out into space. The greatest difficulty comes when trying to read it.
Perhaps a better model would be if Bugzilla did not require a specific reviewer (unless the author wanted one) and instead a review request was placed in a pool that 5 or 6 module "owners" could read. Once people had marked the patch reviewed it would be automatically submitted to the super review pool and then to the approval pool.
Once it has passed these hurdles the bug could even offer the author the chance to submit the patch for checkin but the author would still be responsible for monitoring the tree while the patch took hold and backing it out if there was a problem.
How do they know you're in the 1st class seat, or does the ticket have some kind of unlock code? What I'm getting at is that you could be in the next carriage up and still get a signal from the 1st class section.
Something akin to WINE but for OS/2 with IBM's endorsement would be a useful thing. They could open source headers, specifications, internal docs and other unencumbered things to set things off.
Stupid security mechanisms tends to do that.
As for stealing CPM, my understanding was that QDOS was a superficial look-a-like. If Kildall et al wanted to compete, perhaps they should have dropped their prices a bit.
Heh, you're right :) I've used view-source to view chrome before so I wonder what gives.