The point is that since they're single photons, the act of reading them destroys them. The message doesn't get through and the line is know to be compromised.
The ony way to break this would be to compromise the electronics or the humans at either end.
Please let us know about AbiWord screen rendering bugs. We're constantly improving things and our latest version 2.2.5 has tons of stuff fixed as will our 2.2.6 due Real Soon Now.
That said we are a true open-source project. We rely on our users to provides us with feedback and bug reports. We rely on contributors to write code. We accept good patches without you having to sign your code over to SUN. You can compile it form scratch in 10 minutes.
Our next version 2.4.0 due about the time of OO.0-2.0 will have many significant features not available in OO.0 (like an English- grammar checker) plus have a plugin system that allows the embedding of arbitary content in docs.
We have a math-plugin already, we're working on embedding charts for others well, the that people want this stuff, the sooner it will get done. The API is really simple.
Also remember that according to Microsoft's Ballmer, there is no significant Linux deployment anywhere on earth. One wonders where those revenues are coming from.
Ever heard of tiny little company called google?
At least 100,000 Linux boxes there.
I guess we have over 80% of OOo features (all the important stuff like: tables, text boxes, positioned objects, footnote,endotes, wrapped text) but our code base is an order magnitude smaller.
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Because I didn't say it with a straight face.
I mean how people here WOULD use it if actually cost them $650?
In any case I have no use for cracked software even under wine I have no idea what spyware/trojans etc it's going to install plus there is the whole it "Just not right" thing.
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I've never used Photoshop and I never will because I don't have $650 to spend on a photo retouching program. I'm amazed that so many people here on slashdot have paid $650 to touch up their digital photos which is basically all I use the GIMP for.
I mean professional graphic artists make up less than 1% of the population but judging from/. they're like 50% of the population.
So anyway, GIMP works fine for me. I have no idea about PS and suspect I never will.
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AbiWord uses native windows controls. Gnumeric doesn't but the gtk-WIMP theme makes it look very, very like a native windows app.
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No Need for AbiExcel. Gnumeric is the spreadsheet of gnome-office and we will continues to improve integration with it. Gnumeric now works well on Windows. Other gnome-office type apps will bubble out of the GNOME incubator into the rest of the world too.
For now Abiword copies and pastes nices with gnumeric. Select a region in gnumeric, copy, paste into word, you get a nice table containing Gnumeric's contents.
It is almost always a bad idea only have dialogs accessible from a context menu. This query being a case in point. The Gnome HIG talks about this and other things.
(We in AbiWord have been told off fo doing this too. Now we no longer do this.)
Just price it right and it will all work out. Energy is cheap now. If it were more expensive people wouldn't waste as much of it.
There are lots of alternative sources of energy that would be price competitive to just a factor of two rise in the price of energy.
If Oil stays above $40 a barrel these will go mainstream real fast.
Regarding Nuclear Energy, there is more than enough Uranium and Thorium on earth to last for millenia. These are 100% fissable with the right technology (either accelerator driven or fast breeders reactors)
No frankly OOo just sucks in this regard. AbiWord implements around 95% of OOo features in our pre-release of 2.2 and the startup speed is way faster than MS Word let alone OOo
"My theory is that it's really because it gives them total control over what you can do. You will never own anything. Just rent the service. You will always be trapped in the "pay your MS tax or you can't even open your own documents" nightmare. What a terrible plan for the users."
If this really is their plan it will make "selling" AbiWord a whole easier.
You own the code and your data with Open Sources apps:-)
pyGTK is a really nice GUI. Available on Unix (all sorts) and windows. It's totally free of course. Combined this with glade and libgalde and you can put nice apps together really fast.
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Oh right, sure. Defend your own turf without looking at what the GNOME project is really all about. Without looking at the *extensive* discussions we all have we each other, while watching our software being used by real people all the time.
Usability is the major force behind GNOME. "Computing Made Easy".
Don't believe me? Try it, report your problems. If developers agree they'll be fixed. Then you're part of the solution like thousands of others have been.
I see what you mean. Actually in this case, Hollywood uses Linux because all their custom apps had been written for Unix Workstations. It was much easier to port them to Linux on intel, which gives far better Price/Performance than Unix Workstations.
There's nothing inheritantly more difficult for a typical person (in this case the graphic artists) about using a properly configured Linux desktop. My 74 year-old mother copes just fine.
*sigh* why do people who seem to understand things say this sort of thing. Nothing is static. In fact if all you're doing is entering numbers in a spreadsheet Linux is probally a *better* solution for the desktop.
Linux loses to Windows on the desktop in the *range* of apps that is available and in the *range* of hardware that's available.
Linux is not useful to Windows Geeks who inhabit slashdot because it doesn't have all the cool hardware support provided by leading edge hardware supplier. Still there is lots of cool hardware that *does* work well with Linux.
Linux loses on the 20% of corp desktops that need a range of sophisticated apps. It loses in the consumer market because it doesn't come pre-configured and Johnny -down-the-street who maintains Joe-blows Windows box doesn't know Linux yet.
Once a beachhead on corp desktop is established for 80% of machines that just do routine things, other opportunities will become available.
KDE or GNOME are both excellent desktop environments.
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The point is that since they're single photons, the act of reading them destroys them. The message doesn't get through and the line is know to be compromised.
The ony way to break this would be to compromise the electronics or the humans at either end.
Please let us know about AbiWord screen rendering bugs. We're constantly improving things and our latest version 2.2.5 has tons of stuff fixed as will our 2.2.6 due Real Soon Now.
That said we are a true open-source project. We rely on our users to provides us with feedback and bug reports. We rely on contributors to write code. We accept good patches without you having to sign your code over to SUN. You can compile it form scratch in 10 minutes.
Our next version 2.4.0 due about the time of OO.0-2.0 will have many significant features not available in OO.0 (like an English- grammar checker) plus have a plugin system that allows the embedding of arbitary content in docs.
We have a math-plugin already, we're working on embedding charts for others well, the that people want this stuff, the sooner it will get done. The API is really simple.
Also remember that according to Microsoft's Ballmer, there is no significant Linux deployment anywhere on earth. One wonders where those revenues are coming from.
Ever heard of tiny little company called google? At least 100,000 Linux boxes there.
Australia signed a free trade agreemnt with the USA but haven't implemented the legislation to allow software patents yet.
Use AbiWord-2.2! It comes with a lovely Word Perfect importer plugin. Created by the libwpd guys.
Yeah! Me !
AbiWord-2.2 does a helluv a lot of stuff now.
I guess we have over 80% of OOo features (all the important stuff like: tables, text boxes, positioned objects, footnote,endotes, wrapped text) but our code base is an order magnitude smaller.
Because I didn't say it with a straight face.
I mean how people here WOULD use it if actually cost them $650?
In any case I have no use for cracked software even under wine I have no idea what spyware/trojans etc it's going to install plus there is the whole it "Just not right" thing.
I've never used Photoshop and I never will because I don't have $650 to spend on a photo retouching program. I'm amazed that so many people here on slashdot have paid $650 to touch up their digital photos which is basically all I use the GIMP for.
/. they're like 50% of the population.
I mean professional graphic artists make up less than 1% of the population but judging from
So anyway, GIMP works fine for me. I have no idea about PS and suspect I never will.
AbiWord uses native windows controls. Gnumeric doesn't but the gtk-WIMP theme makes it look very, very like a native windows app.
No Need for AbiExcel. Gnumeric is the spreadsheet of gnome-office and we will continues to improve integration with it. Gnumeric now works well on Windows. Other gnome-office type apps will bubble out of the GNOME incubator into the rest of the world too.
For now Abiword copies and pastes nices with gnumeric. Select a region in gnumeric, copy, paste into word, you get a nice table containing Gnumeric's contents.
Not full embedding yet but we'll get there.
Except for the SGI machine shipped to NASA which hit around 60 TF with a premilinary benchmark.
That really increases the SGI usefulness. Develop/Debug/setup on your laptop/desktop and ship to the Supercomputer for production.
This is a pretty useful thing I think.
"Right click on frame -> show properties"
Just nitpick on your excellent program.
It is almost always a bad idea only have dialogs accessible from a context menu. This query being a case in point. The Gnome HIG talks about this and other things.
(We in AbiWord have been told off fo doing this too. Now we no longer do this.)
Just price it right and it will all work out. Energy is cheap now. If it were more expensive people wouldn't waste as much of it.
There are lots of alternative sources of energy that would be price competitive to just a factor of two rise in the price of energy.
If Oil stays above $40 a barrel these will go mainstream real fast.
Regarding Nuclear Energy, there is more than enough Uranium and Thorium on earth to last for millenia. These are 100% fissable with the right technology (either accelerator driven or fast breeders reactors)
Maybe you want to use Linux on your desktop or maybe you don't have the $1000AUD it cost in oz.
(unless you're telstra and have a Linux pilot you can show you're MS reps.)
Or maybe you'll try AbiWord-2.2 and decide that there is really are better ways of doing word processing.
Actually we do a reasonable job with OOo. Not as good as doc, rtf or word Perfect though.
No frankly OOo just sucks in this regard. AbiWord implements around 95% of OOo features in our pre-release of 2.2 and the startup speed is way faster than MS Word let alone OOo
"My theory is that it's really because it gives them total control over what you can do. You will never own anything. Just rent the service. You will always be trapped in the "pay your MS tax or you can't even open your own documents" nightmare. What a terrible plan for the users."
:-)
If this really is their plan it will make "selling" AbiWord a whole easier.
You own the code and your data with Open Sources apps
pyGTK is a really nice GUI. Available on Unix (all sorts) and windows. It's totally free of course. Combined this with glade and libgalde and you can put nice apps together really fast.
Oh right, sure. Defend your own turf without looking at what the GNOME project is really all about. Without looking at the *extensive* discussions we all have we each other, while watching our software being used by real people all the time.
Usability is the major force behind GNOME. "Computing Made Easy".
Don't believe me? Try it, report your problems. If developers agree they'll be fixed. Then you're part of the solution like thousands of others have been.
This is just a ploy to extract a more favourable deal from MicroSoft...
Jeeze. Just nuke the windows crap and put in Fedora.
They browse whereever they want and get no of this stuff.
I see what you mean. Actually in this case, Hollywood uses Linux because all their custom apps had been written for Unix Workstations. It was much easier to port them to Linux on intel, which gives far better Price/Performance than Unix Workstations.
There's nothing inheritantly more difficult for a typical person (in this case the graphic artists) about using a properly configured Linux desktop. My 74 year-old mother copes just fine.
*sigh* why do people who seem to understand things say this sort of thing. Nothing is static. In fact if all you're doing is entering numbers in a spreadsheet Linux is probally a *better* solution for the desktop.
Linux loses to Windows on the desktop in the *range* of apps that is available and in the *range* of hardware that's available.
Linux is not useful to Windows Geeks who inhabit slashdot because it doesn't have all the cool hardware support provided by leading edge hardware supplier. Still there is lots of cool hardware that *does* work well with Linux.
Linux loses on the 20% of corp desktops that need a range of sophisticated apps. It loses in the consumer market because it doesn't come pre-configured and Johnny -down-the-street who maintains Joe-blows Windows box doesn't know Linux yet.
Once a beachhead on corp desktop is established for 80% of machines that just do routine things, other opportunities will become available.
KDE or GNOME are both excellent desktop environments.