Office is originally a clone... Word is a ripoff from WordPerfect Excel a copy of 1-2-3 (and those copies of Visi-Calc and Visi-Text from early 80-s or was it late 70-s)
Yes Word and Excel has a lot of "features" like the ability to run viru^H^H^H^Hprograms and so on. But OOo is just as good for me (at a much nicer price tag)
1) Thousandths of an inch are useful in measuring machine tolerances, while millimeters are two gross and micrometers too fine.
Are you insane?? When machining certain prescition bearings the tolerance is single digit micrometers and 1 thousands of an inch is 25.4 um. (but in typical american style this is probably fixed by measuring it in x/32 thousands of an inch;->) Besides in the metric system that is easily fixed by using.02 mm or 20 um as your tolerance When we get to larger dimentions though... Shall I go from 1/4 inch to 3/8, 5/16, 9/32 or even 17/64 when I need bigger In metric You would define that as going from 3 mm to 3.1 or 3.12 or 3.095 and it would be clear both wich is bigger and which is more precise in measurement.
2) Celcius is not fine grained enough to figure out how to dress for the weather, while Fahrenheit allows one to easily judge whether or not to wear a jacket.
I suppose that is why American weather reports qualify the temp in 4-5 deg ranges and Canadian weather reports in 1-2 deg C ranges;->
3) In the English System, force is the fundemental unit and mass is the derived unit, while in the metric system, mass is fundemental and force is derived. This works well for science and engineering, but Joe Sixpack thinks in terms of weight on earth -- pounds of force.
Buddy, now you lost it completely! Joe Sixpack will just convert 1 kg as little over 2 pounds. He does not have a clue about how those units are defined scientifically.
Every time I drive south of the border I get confused though. 1 mile is how many feet? Why s it that an inch is split in 1/2,1/4,1/8,1/16 etc I guess the metric is to logical, 1 kilometer is 1000 meters and 1 meter is 1000 millimeters. Change one order of magnintude by moving the decimal point 1 position...
This was among the worst UltraCapitalist nonsense I have read. NSA was trying to create a safe, secure OS, presumably for own, government and public use. It is in the governments own interest to proceed with that. If a government agency can do this cheaper and/or better with tax money than Microsoft can, great that is in the taxpayers interest and to f--king bad for MS. If they cannot then they should not. However, with MS trackrecord I am absolutely certain that NSA can do it both better and cheaper. Remember that it would otherwise be taxpayer money that would subsidize Microsoft without any benefit to the taxpayer... GPL states that they would have to release it if it's to be used outside of NSA.
Not so at all. Red Hat is a Software company. They have created a lot of software that is OSS. Guess who created Red Had Package Manager for instance. Yes they are also a marketing company and a good portion of their revenue comes from selling CD's with a bunch of free software.
Anyone want to bet on the time before there is a virus that appears as if it was signed... That blew that benefit for Joe Sixpack Leaves only the benefit for Big Corp Inc. No more of that commie Linux thingie
Let me guess...you flunked math... Area always is pi * r^2 regarless of the unit you use. 2" circle is 2^2*3.14 = 6.28sqin 5.08 cm circle is 5.08^2 * 3.14 = 81.03 cm2 (incidentally the same actual area....)
I do belive that our friend Timothy tried, in a subtle way, to show the 2.54^2*3.14 increase in data density. 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm He should have known that it would wizz over the head of some...
Is it not reasonable to assume that if I was a would-be-robber I would use or at least point my illegal gun at you since there is a good chance that you may have one. If you then grab for yours... If that assumption is anywhere near true, your right to "protect" yourself is in fact harming you...
Yes, most people understand that, especially me who work a lot with big servers. Senior exec's may be a different story, they are much more affected by FUD. My point is that a senior exec may/will be FUD'ed into beliving that the fact that IBM is dropping Linux from Laptops may indicate that they'll drop it entirely and therefore buy Sun or even Windows...
If I was the purchasing VP at A Big Corporation, I'd look at this and say, so now they are nolonger supporting this on their entire line. How soon are they dropping off at the big irons? Let's go elsewhere.
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Office is originally a clone...
Word is a ripoff from WordPerfect
Excel a copy of 1-2-3
(and those copies of Visi-Calc and Visi-Text from early 80-s or was it late 70-s)
Yes Word and Excel has a lot of "features" like the ability to run viru^H^H^H^Hprograms and so on. But OOo is just as good for me (at a much nicer price tag)
Ah, well
Since they now ship things that looks just like CD's I guess I'll just join the pirate crowd
1) Thousandths of an inch are useful in measuring machine tolerances, while millimeters are two gross and micrometers too fine.
;->) .02 mm or 20 um as your tolerance When we get to larger dimentions though... Shall I go from 1/4 inch to 3/8, 5/16, 9/32 or even 17/64 when I need bigger In metric You would define that as going from 3 mm to 3.1 or 3.12 or 3.095 and it would be clear both wich is bigger and which is more precise in measurement.
;->
Are you insane?? When machining certain prescition bearings the tolerance is single digit micrometers and 1 thousands of an inch is 25.4 um. (but in typical american style this is probably fixed by measuring it in x/32 thousands of an inch
Besides in the metric system that is easily fixed by using
2) Celcius is not fine grained enough to figure out how to dress for the weather, while Fahrenheit allows one to easily judge whether or not to wear a jacket.
I suppose that is why American weather reports qualify the temp in 4-5 deg ranges and Canadian weather reports in 1-2 deg C ranges
3) In the English System, force is the fundemental unit and mass is the derived unit, while in the metric system, mass is fundemental and force is derived. This works well for science and engineering, but Joe Sixpack thinks in terms of weight on earth -- pounds of force.
Buddy, now you lost it completely! Joe Sixpack will just convert 1 kg as little over 2 pounds. He does not have a clue about how those units are defined scientifically.
Every time I drive south of the border I get confused though. 1 mile is how many feet? Why s it that an inch is split in 1/2,1/4,1/8,1/16 etc I guess the metric is to logical, 1 kilometer is 1000 meters and 1 meter is 1000 millimeters. Change one order of magnintude by moving the decimal point 1 position...
Sure they do. ;-)
Why would they otherwise have both Word and Wordpad
Sun skipped a few when Solaris went from 2.6 to 7
At the time I lived in Sweden and now I live in Canada. Fly Too High was #1 in most of Europe at the time.
Her most famous would be Fly Too High from -78 or -79
She has been active since late 60's
Yeah Thumb used for the ball, leaves 4...
This was among the worst UltraCapitalist nonsense I have read.
NSA was trying to create a safe, secure OS, presumably for own, government and public use. It is in the governments own interest to proceed with that. If a government agency can do this cheaper and/or better with tax money than Microsoft can, great that is in the taxpayers interest and to f--king bad for MS. If they cannot then they should not. However, with MS trackrecord I am absolutely certain that NSA can do it both better and cheaper. Remember that it would otherwise be taxpayer money that would subsidize Microsoft without any benefit to the taxpayer...
GPL states that they would have to release it if it's to be used outside of NSA.
Not so at all. Red Hat is a Software company. They have created a lot of software that is OSS.
Guess who created Red Had Package Manager for instance.
Yes they are also a marketing company and a good portion of their revenue comes from selling CD's with a bunch of free software.
Count me in
Anyone want to bet on the time before there is a virus that appears as if it was signed...
That blew that benefit for Joe Sixpack
Leaves only the benefit for Big Corp Inc. No more of that commie Linux thingie
Let me guess...you flunked math...
Area always is pi * r^2 regarless of the unit you use.
2" circle is 2^2*3.14 = 6.28sqin
5.08 cm circle is 5.08^2 * 3.14 = 81.03 cm2 (incidentally the same actual area....)
12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm
I do belive that our friend Timothy tried, in a subtle way, to show the 2.54^2*3.14 increase in data density.
He should have known that it would wizz over the head of some...
I do belive that our friend Timothy tried, in a subtle way, to show the 2.54^2*3.14 increase in data density. 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm
He should have known that it would wizz over the head of some...
Yes,
But the fact that he got in the mailbox x_hotmail@xyz.com means that the address was harvested of or sold by hotmail
He would then scrap x_hotmail@xyz.com.
No more spam just an angry email to some executive at hotmail (cc to lawyer...)
Is it not reasonable to assume that if I was a would-be-robber I would use or at least point my illegal gun at you since there is a good chance that you may have one. If you then grab for yours...
If that assumption is anywhere near true, your right to "protect" yourself is in fact harming you...
You learn something new every day :-)
Yes, most people understand that, especially me who work a lot with big servers. Senior exec's may be a different story, they are much more affected by FUD.
My point is that a senior exec may/will be FUD'ed into beliving that the fact that IBM is dropping Linux from Laptops may indicate that they'll drop it entirely and therefore buy Sun or even Windows...
If I was the purchasing VP at A Big Corporation, I'd look at this and say, so now they are nolonger supporting this on their entire line. How soon are they dropping off at the big irons? Let's go elsewhere.
RTFA They say it'll hold 27GB on a CD size...
We played Fortune and Star Trek (ancient textbased games) on a DG Nova. So this is not a new thing, It is probably a good thing, so keep it up.
Not only can you hot swap cpu's etc. The latest SunOS^H^H^H^Holaris can be upgraded or patched without reboot!
Add all other parts that makes it useful..
GNU/X/BSD/Minix/Gnome/KDE/etc/Linux