but would SOMEBODY please web-cam / tape it and make it available online somewhere?
Some people just can't make it to LA on short notices like this (not to mention it's a week long excursion). Especially (and ironically) people that have to be in Japan during that time, like myself, actually.
Got some good and bad news for ya.
The good news is that someone has already snagged a copy of most all of these movies! Heck, you don't even have to wait in line, much less visit lovely downtown Hollywood, or the really cool Egyptian theater.
The bad news... I know this is going to be one of those WAY out there wacky ideas. This is so OUT there that you probably would have never thought of it yourself. I'm here to help. Brace yourself for a monster paradigm shift without a clutch my friend, this may sting a bit.
You could *gasp* BUY these titles on DVD! That's right, you're hard earned Dollars and/or Yen can be donated directly to the artists and distributors that make this possible in an otherwise clandestine system known as "The Free Market", and sometimes by it's often derrided name, "Capitalism".
It may seem strange at first, but by utilizing this system you could then watch these movies at any time! It's wacky that way. So go and travel to Japan and enjoy your time there. "The Free Market" will be waiting for you when you get back at a variety of web sites and corner video stores near you!
...most people are happy with their old P2s and P3s...
Get all of Mozilla to compile from source code in under 5 minutes, then I'll be happy.
Of course the downside to this is that by the time machines get that fast we'll all have cabling hooked into the back of our heads as we float about in orange goo.
Well, right now I have a Web Cam in my desk that doesnt work under Windows XP or 2000, only works under Windows 9x.
In all fairness though, the problem isn't the driver itself. If Microsoft stopped totally reinventing how their OS interacts with drivers, your old driver would still be working under XP.
But, this same camera works great under Linux using an free software driver.
Odds are that this would be true even with a binary driver as Linux hasn't fundamentally changed how it interacts with devices in a very long time. Stability in the underlying platform is what allows even an old crusty driver to keep on going years after the OEM has either stopped supporting it, or gone out of business.
I do totally agree that it is far preferrable to have the open source driver available for the long haul though. There's definitely a lot more consumer protection for everyone, even those stinky Windows users:)
but why didn't they manage to do this intern like other projects do?
I believe that was the point of all this. Keith did try to work this internally and was unable to. He felt that he was being edged out, while the rest of the core team seems to be of the opinion that he was attempting an end run around them.
In all fairness to the core team, their fears may rest with the notion that to develop a more open and democratic process to their development it will actually introduce more politics rather than code improvements. Other projects out there have had similar problems with elected folks rather than selected ones.
I actually do wish Keith the best of luck with his endeavor though. If he is successful in producing a viable alternative to XFree86 while maintaining compatibility there's an outstanding chance that both projects will benefit greatly.
A great example of this type of scenario in action would be the BSD's. Each of these running seperate projects while keeping an eye on what the others are doing. Code that makes sense is passed around amongst the projects making each of them stronger than any one would be otherwise.
Another example is the Linux kernel that's forked a dozen ways to Sunday. Stuff that makes sense gets added back to Linus' fork, then shared with the rest of the distros. That process is a little messier, but it sure seems to be working.
X is simply far too important a technology to rest only with a single project. If Keith really can bring more developers to the table and simplify the entire process, this can only be a good thing for all of us desktop using kinda folks.
Don't forget that it's a freakin' buttload of work to do! X has been around for decades now...
I don't believe the notion behind the xwin site is to replace X by starting over from scratch. This is more along the lines of where Berlin is headed.
Based on the various linked articles, this will be a code fork, not a ground up rewrite. Take the stuff that works, then split it up into bite size chunks that individual developers can manage more efficiently. This isn't reinventing the wheel. Sounds more like trying to make it round again.
wouldn't be allowed write access to it once he had handed it over. What a ridiculous policy!
Well, yes and no. For example, I occasionally work up a new port for FreeBSD, which then gets submitted via a problem report. Someone who has commit rights may, or may not, commit this to the official tree. I've not submitted nearly enough of a body of work into that tree to have anyone trust me to write directly to it. This means that if I need to edit what I've done, I once again have to submit another problem report.
There's nothing at all wrong with this model. It insures that every aspect of what is being committed to the tree has had at least some review by those folks who have taken on the responsibility of the entire project. If that driver in question really is stable, and the author has more to contribute in the way of code to it, then eventually commit access very well may be granted. One lump of code does not automatically default into full trust.
Another example relating to port submissions: I recently did up a port for an application I submitted via a PR. I felt I did a pretty good job on the various pieces that go into this. Turned out someone else did the same thing, but from a different platform. Apparently there were issues with what I did compiling on an Alpha that I couldn't have possibly known about. Both submissions were taken together to produce one correct version that worked across the board.
The point of this is that the folks actively involved with the bigger picture of a project are going to be more aware as to how various pieces need to fit and work together. That's why there's a need for a hiearchy and commit control within any project. I would think this to be especially true for one as large and complex as XFree86.
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It is quite useful, because a binary is now a binary, no matter what is required
Isn't there a teensy bit of a virus issue with doing something like this to a Linux box? Seems like it would be well worth the time to manually create shortcuts that launch Wine rather than just let any Windows code run unchecked.
It's this kind of thing that got Windows in trouble with viruses in the first place.
You could always have taken that $300 and donated it
You silly fool. Nobody could possibly trust individuals to use their own money to help invest and fund research. People are too stupid and ignorant for that to happen. That's why we need government to do it!
Oh wait, the article said the the government was too stupid to spend the money in the appropriate places. By gosh, every darn environmentlista out there has expressed how stupid Bush is. Robert Redford even said so, and he's an actor!
...newer kind of safer nuclear plant, uranium pebbles cooled by helium
Safety issues aren't the huge problem with nuclear plants. What do you do with the waste produced? Provide an answer that'll satisfy all of the enviromentalista out there and we may be on to something.
(most likely the Toyota Prius, although the Honda Civic Hybrid looks good, too).
Was recently in the car buying mode myself. Took a test drive in the Toyota Prius. Kind of an interesting little thing. Looks dorky as hell on the outside. Inside it's amazingly roomy. Being 6'2" there are some cars I just don't fit comfortably in. This could easily seat 4 adults.
The acceleration was obviously attenuated down to maximize the effiency. I was able to get on the freeway with it okay, and it seemed to handle reasonably well. It feels like there's some kind of energy bleed off from the braking. The braking just felt weird. Don't know how else to describe it. It wasn't bad, or giving the impression that it wasn't going to stop. Just weird. You'd have to drive it to see what I'm talking about.
After all was said and done, I spent about the same amount of money and got me an SUV! A Hyundai Santa Fe. Gets about 20MPG and an option for a 10 year bumper to bumper warranty. That warranty thing suckered me in big time! So far, couldn't be happier with it. Well, if the very same vehicle were getting 60MPG I could be a lot happier I suppose.
I drove a Geo Storm for about 10 years (yes, the very same one), and I had decided I wanted something a bit bigger and nicer. Had the hybrid fit what I was looking for in a vehicle, or had been significantly lower in price it may have been a viable option. Maybe in another 10 years:)
Building a hydrogen fuel station means.... only a rare amount of customers.
Supply and Demand 101.
Where I believe the article jumps way off base is putting the responsibility for investment in the filling stations on to the tax payer. All those existing gas stations got there without having to do this! A demand existed from the customers, which in turn gave incentive for investing in those gasoline stations.
A whole lotta "ifs" a coming... If someone manages to work out how to extract hydrogen efficiently, the first place we'll likely see this deployed will be to replace heating oil in homes. If this allows consumers to heat their homes in the winter more cheaply, an increased demand on manufacturers of other goods will result. If folks like GM, Toyota, Ford, Honda, etc., are claiming a high demand for these types of vehicles, the hydrogen stations WILL be there.
Every day around the US there's a gas station getting overhauled to replace it's aging pumps, changing hands, or just getting things to look snazzier to attract more customers. How much more effort is there in adding the additional capability to also offer hydrogen? As of yet, nobody really knows.
This very same chicken and egg thing happened following the move to unleaded gasoline. Every gas station in the country had to retool to support this. It didn't happen all at once, or overnight. It did happen.
Everything stated keeps coming back to the basic premise. Can you produce hydrogen cheaply? Can it be stored cheaply and safely? Can it be fed into a mobile vehicle to act as a reasonably efficient fuel source? Can those cars be produced at a cost that consumers can actually afford?
Answer those questions, and the stations will be there waiting.
They're all standing against us invading a foreign nation
France, Germany, Russia, and China do not constitute stating this. There's approximately 3 dozen nations out there that definitely support not appeasing the dictator.
France has multiple interests that negate it's involvement. For one, they've been enjoying some damn cheap oil from Iraq due to this "containment" that the United States military has kept in place for over a decade. They have a long history of selling Iraq mulititudes of weaponry, to include the bulk of their air force. Let's not forget either that it was a French nuclear reactor that Israel bombed to prevent furthering Iraq's nuclear program. They've made a mighty fortune feeding the dictator.
Russia is owed billions of dollars by the Iraqi regime. They are also heavily involved with arms sales to that country. Where do you think SCUDs came from in the first place? On top of all that, they never did like us playing around in what they consider their backyard. This was the primary reason why Clinton totally bypassed the security council to take actions in Kosovo. Russia promised to veto it.
As for Germany, that one is hard to say. They've had a long history of selling chemical weaponry to various countries over the years, to include Iraq.
China just likes voting against the US. It's a hobby of theirs.
For these, and the other nations opposed to actually doing something since Saddam is "contained", how about having one of them step up and continue to "contain" this wacko? Oh yeah, move the French in there to try and hold back the tide. LOL!:)
In all fairness, Excel nabbed a fair amount of ideas from QP. The biggie that I personally recall was the notion of a multi-tabbed worksheet, and how they interact with eachother. That sure felt like a direct pull from how QP was doing things long before Excel got into it.
What really relegated the rest of the office suites to second class citizens was how MS finally got the various components of theirs to come together as a single product. Nobody at that time had that seemless integration working nearly as well. After that, the battle for the office suite was over.
It's an important lesson to keep in mind as OpenOffice moves forward into the market place. The other lesson here is that there is no such thing as too many features for an office application.
Considering the fact that Microsoft killed Corel (WordPerfect) for the sake of its own products...
Oh yeah, I'm sure the entire Microsoft executive staff was losing sleep over the almighty rise of WordPerfect to the scene. At any moment, WP was about to double it's market share into the 2% realm and give that Bill and his crew a real go for their money.
Fading back out of the dream sequence for a moment here... Microsoft Office kicked WordPerfect's ass on a fairly even playing field many a year before Corel came anywhere near it. The day when MS felt that either WordPerfect or AmiPro was a real competitive threat is so far back as to be museum ready.
Whatever reason Microsoft had for investing in Corel, it sure as heck had nothing at all to do with WordPerfect. More likely it was concerned about the impending threat of a desktop focused Linux distro that might prove fruitful a couple of years down the road. Corel was uniquely poised to do this as they were the only distro out there that actually brought a suite of applications into the mix as well. On that front, WP might have proven to be a competitor. Certainly not on any Windows based machine though.
You can now return to dreaming about Wordperfect's rise to market relevance again. Don't forget to fluff your pillow.
Crappy management wimped out and took their little M$ bribe when they could have made something new and useful.
Also worth noting that the crappy management in question was in the process of a major turnover. I honestly don't recall if it was just before or just after though. Right about the same time the MS cash came in the front door, Cowpland was out the back door.
The truly sad part here is that with the notion of Linux at the desktop finally gaining serious traction as of late, Corel would have been in a potentially excellent place to profit from this. Instead they decided to reinvest into a platform they will NEVER gain market share in with their product line. They could have owned the Linux graphics market lock, stock and barrel for a couple of years at least! Hell, just the cash from the movie studios moving heavily to Linux for graphics production would have made the effort worth it.
Corel lost the fight for market share on Windows years ago, and their sure as heck isn't any rematch in site. This is what I call a dead company.
Been struggling with allowing customers access to me when I'm sitting down in front of my pc, and I've done a bit of a test.
Probably a bad idea out of the gate. IM's primary business use is allowing for more efficient internal communications. I'd never give a customer my IM name as a contact, as I couldn't possibly guarantee I'd be right in front of my computer to respond.
This is where E-Mail is a far better solution. Best tool for the job and all.
Did I miss something in the article or what? I didn't see ANY mention of how AOL plans on turning a profit. Not much more than the very old news that there "should" be a way to turn that many eyeballs into dollars. I wouldn't bet on it.
As to all the folks whining on about how awful IM is in the workplace, I couldn't disagree more. A couple years back our sales force started using IM to message eachother, as it was the only way to communicate while on the phone. This spread to other areas of the company, and has grown in importance to how we do business.
For example, say a salesman has a customer on the phone and needs detailed inventory data that only the purchasing folks have. Rather than putting that customer on hold, an IM over to the right person and the call never has to go on hold to get an answer.
Like any other Internet technology, there's a fair amount of non-business related communication going on. This doesn't even begin to outweigh the benefits IM has had at my company. YMMV.
Sounds like a fancy version of FreeBSD's Jails. Due to the hardware involved you still share the CPU and memory, but it behaves pretty much like a stand alone machine.
Primarily implemented for security reasons, it's also a great way to prototype a network of multiple boxes using only one.
Furthermore, if I buy a new stereo for the car, I can sell the old one.
Ya know, maybe not being able to sell the OEM version isn't such a bad thing. I mean, when was the last time you saw someone driving around a computer that said, "No operating system in chassis"?
Might also explain the very rare occurance of computer jackings.
It is the object of all of my hate and bitterness towards this world.
You really should get out a bit more. Live a little. There's a great big beautiful world out there just waiting for you to embrace it, and discover that there's so much more to hate and be bitter about. Don't let your hatred be so limited.
Did I miss some setting for in syntax highlighting or is this just not a big priority for the editor?
For those of you browsing at 1 or better, this was an AC post. inquiring about JS and VB syntax hi-liting support in JEdit.
JEdit's default JS support was rather limited in my opinion out of the box. I primarily work on PHP for web use within it, and JavaScript is rather important to me. Thankfully there are two very cool features to the hi-liting that make this easy to fix.
First off, the schema for any of the language syntaxes is stored in XML. I'm certainly no XML expert, but I sure can copy and paste! The original JS schema was really an ECMA schema only, leaving out many of the keywords commonly used on the web. I took an hour aside and put the keywords of interest to me in there.
Secondly, one of the coolest aspects to JEdit's schemas is that they are embeddable. For example, within the PHP schema there are short statements including the schemas for JavaScript, CSS, and of course HTML.
I had been working on getting the work I've done on both the PHP and JavaScript schema into the final release of JEdit, but got seriously sidetracked with other issues. Came down to the difference between good enough and ready to publish. Also, there were some newer features available for the upcoming release that I hadn't fully implemented or tested yet. I suppose I'd best finish that stuff!:)
To the best of my knowledge, no other editor out there has hi-liting support for as many different languages as JEdit. It's one of the easiest I've run across to expand upon what is already written. Also a pretty friendly mailing list that's worth a look.
I know there's support for vbscript, but I've never written anything in that language. Even if it is sparse, updating it to suit your needs is nearly trivial.
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...starts to put the price into perspective
Try upgrading 6 boxes. The licensing alone REALLY puts the price into perspective.
but would SOMEBODY please web-cam / tape it and make it available online somewhere?
Some people just can't make it to LA on short notices like this (not to mention it's a week long excursion). Especially (and ironically) people that have to be in Japan during that time, like myself, actually.
Got some good and bad news for ya.
The good news is that someone has already snagged a copy of most all of these movies! Heck, you don't even have to wait in line, much less visit lovely downtown Hollywood, or the really cool Egyptian theater.
The bad news... I know this is going to be one of those WAY out there wacky ideas. This is so OUT there that you probably would have never thought of it yourself. I'm here to help. Brace yourself for a monster paradigm shift without a clutch my friend, this may sting a bit.
You could *gasp* BUY these titles on DVD! That's right, you're hard earned Dollars and/or Yen can be donated directly to the artists and distributors that make this possible in an otherwise clandestine system known as "The Free Market", and sometimes by it's often derrided name, "Capitalism".
It may seem strange at first, but by utilizing this system you could then watch these movies at any time! It's wacky that way. So go and travel to Japan and enjoy your time there. "The Free Market" will be waiting for you when you get back at a variety of web sites and corner video stores near you!
"Road Trip!"
...most people are happy with their old P2s and P3s...
Get all of Mozilla to compile from source code in under 5 minutes, then I'll be happy.
Of course the downside to this is that by the time machines get that fast we'll all have cabling hooked into the back of our heads as we float about in orange goo.
Well, right now I have a Web Cam in my desk that doesnt work under Windows XP or 2000, only works under Windows 9x.
:)
In all fairness though, the problem isn't the driver itself. If Microsoft stopped totally reinventing how their OS interacts with drivers, your old driver would still be working under XP.
But, this same camera works great under Linux using an free software driver.
Odds are that this would be true even with a binary driver as Linux hasn't fundamentally changed how it interacts with devices in a very long time. Stability in the underlying platform is what allows even an old crusty driver to keep on going years after the OEM has either stopped supporting it, or gone out of business.
I do totally agree that it is far preferrable to have the open source driver available for the long haul though. There's definitely a lot more consumer protection for everyone, even those stinky Windows users
but why didn't they manage to do this intern like other projects do?
I believe that was the point of all this. Keith did try to work this internally and was unable to. He felt that he was being edged out, while the rest of the core team seems to be of the opinion that he was attempting an end run around them.
In all fairness to the core team, their fears may rest with the notion that to develop a more open and democratic process to their development it will actually introduce more politics rather than code improvements. Other projects out there have had similar problems with elected folks rather than selected ones.
I actually do wish Keith the best of luck with his endeavor though. If he is successful in producing a viable alternative to XFree86 while maintaining compatibility there's an outstanding chance that both projects will benefit greatly.
A great example of this type of scenario in action would be the BSD's. Each of these running seperate projects while keeping an eye on what the others are doing. Code that makes sense is passed around amongst the projects making each of them stronger than any one would be otherwise.
Another example is the Linux kernel that's forked a dozen ways to Sunday. Stuff that makes sense gets added back to Linus' fork, then shared with the rest of the distros. That process is a little messier, but it sure seems to be working.
X is simply far too important a technology to rest only with a single project. If Keith really can bring more developers to the table and simplify the entire process, this can only be a good thing for all of us desktop using kinda folks.
Don't forget that it's a freakin' buttload of work to do! X has been around for decades now...
I don't believe the notion behind the xwin site is to replace X by starting over from scratch. This is more along the lines of where Berlin is headed.
Based on the various linked articles, this will be a code fork, not a ground up rewrite. Take the stuff that works, then split it up into bite size chunks that individual developers can manage more efficiently. This isn't reinventing the wheel. Sounds more like trying to make it round again.
wouldn't be allowed write access to it once he had handed it over. What a ridiculous policy!
Well, yes and no. For example, I occasionally work up a new port for FreeBSD, which then gets submitted via a problem report. Someone who has commit rights may, or may not, commit this to the official tree. I've not submitted nearly enough of a body of work into that tree to have anyone trust me to write directly to it. This means that if I need to edit what I've done, I once again have to submit another problem report.
There's nothing at all wrong with this model. It insures that every aspect of what is being committed to the tree has had at least some review by those folks who have taken on the responsibility of the entire project. If that driver in question really is stable, and the author has more to contribute in the way of code to it, then eventually commit access very well may be granted. One lump of code does not automatically default into full trust.
Another example relating to port submissions: I recently did up a port for an application I submitted via a PR. I felt I did a pretty good job on the various pieces that go into this. Turned out someone else did the same thing, but from a different platform. Apparently there were issues with what I did compiling on an Alpha that I couldn't have possibly known about. Both submissions were taken together to produce one correct version that worked across the board.
The point of this is that the folks actively involved with the bigger picture of a project are going to be more aware as to how various pieces need to fit and work together. That's why there's a need for a hiearchy and commit control within any project. I would think this to be especially true for one as large and complex as XFree86.
It is quite useful, because a binary is now a binary, no matter what is required
Isn't there a teensy bit of a virus issue with doing something like this to a Linux box? Seems like it would be well worth the time to manually create shortcuts that launch Wine rather than just let any Windows code run unchecked.
It's this kind of thing that got Windows in trouble with viruses in the first place.
You could always have taken that $300 and donated it
You silly fool. Nobody could possibly trust individuals to use their own money to help invest and fund research. People are too stupid and ignorant for that to happen. That's why we need government to do it!
Oh wait, the article said the the government was too stupid to spend the money in the appropriate places. By gosh, every darn environmentlista out there has expressed how stupid Bush is. Robert Redford even said so, and he's an actor!
Oh my, this is confusing.
...newer kind of safer nuclear plant, uranium pebbles cooled by helium
Safety issues aren't the huge problem with nuclear plants. What do you do with the waste produced? Provide an answer that'll satisfy all of the enviromentalista out there and we may be on to something.
Just kidding, Canada. Please don't bomb the Baldwin residence.
Just one. Just one good reason why this shouldn't happen. Has to be a good reason. Might settle for an okay one if you get too bogged down there.
(most likely the Toyota Prius, although the Honda Civic Hybrid looks good, too).
:)
Was recently in the car buying mode myself. Took a test drive in the Toyota Prius. Kind of an interesting little thing. Looks dorky as hell on the outside. Inside it's amazingly roomy. Being 6'2" there are some cars I just don't fit comfortably in. This could easily seat 4 adults.
The acceleration was obviously attenuated down to maximize the effiency. I was able to get on the freeway with it okay, and it seemed to handle reasonably well. It feels like there's some kind of energy bleed off from the braking. The braking just felt weird. Don't know how else to describe it. It wasn't bad, or giving the impression that it wasn't going to stop. Just weird. You'd have to drive it to see what I'm talking about.
After all was said and done, I spent about the same amount of money and got me an SUV! A Hyundai Santa Fe. Gets about 20MPG and an option for a 10 year bumper to bumper warranty. That warranty thing suckered me in big time! So far, couldn't be happier with it. Well, if the very same vehicle were getting 60MPG I could be a lot happier I suppose.
I drove a Geo Storm for about 10 years (yes, the very same one), and I had decided I wanted something a bit bigger and nicer. Had the hybrid fit what I was looking for in a vehicle, or had been significantly lower in price it may have been a viable option. Maybe in another 10 years
Building a hydrogen fuel station means .... only a rare amount of customers.
Supply and Demand 101.
Where I believe the article jumps way off base is putting the responsibility for investment in the filling stations on to the tax payer. All those existing gas stations got there without having to do this! A demand existed from the customers, which in turn gave incentive for investing in those gasoline stations.
A whole lotta "ifs" a coming... If someone manages to work out how to extract hydrogen efficiently, the first place we'll likely see this deployed will be to replace heating oil in homes. If this allows consumers to heat their homes in the winter more cheaply, an increased demand on manufacturers of other goods will result. If folks like GM, Toyota, Ford, Honda, etc., are claiming a high demand for these types of vehicles, the hydrogen stations WILL be there.
Every day around the US there's a gas station getting overhauled to replace it's aging pumps, changing hands, or just getting things to look snazzier to attract more customers. How much more effort is there in adding the additional capability to also offer hydrogen? As of yet, nobody really knows.
This very same chicken and egg thing happened following the move to unleaded gasoline. Every gas station in the country had to retool to support this. It didn't happen all at once, or overnight. It did happen.
Everything stated keeps coming back to the basic premise. Can you produce hydrogen cheaply? Can it be stored cheaply and safely? Can it be fed into a mobile vehicle to act as a reasonably efficient fuel source? Can those cars be produced at a cost that consumers can actually afford?
Answer those questions, and the stations will be there waiting.
They're all standing against us invading a foreign nation
:)
France, Germany, Russia, and China do not constitute stating this. There's approximately 3 dozen nations out there that definitely support not appeasing the dictator.
France has multiple interests that negate it's involvement. For one, they've been enjoying some damn cheap oil from Iraq due to this "containment" that the United States military has kept in place for over a decade. They have a long history of selling Iraq mulititudes of weaponry, to include the bulk of their air force. Let's not forget either that it was a French nuclear reactor that Israel bombed to prevent furthering Iraq's nuclear program. They've made a mighty fortune feeding the dictator.
Russia is owed billions of dollars by the Iraqi regime. They are also heavily involved with arms sales to that country. Where do you think SCUDs came from in the first place? On top of all that, they never did like us playing around in what they consider their backyard. This was the primary reason why Clinton totally bypassed the security council to take actions in Kosovo. Russia promised to veto it.
As for Germany, that one is hard to say. They've had a long history of selling chemical weaponry to various countries over the years, to include Iraq.
China just likes voting against the US. It's a hobby of theirs.
For these, and the other nations opposed to actually doing something since Saddam is "contained", how about having one of them step up and continue to "contain" this wacko? Oh yeah, move the French in there to try and hold back the tide. LOL!
NOBODY anywhere uses it for anything significant.
In all fairness, Excel nabbed a fair amount of ideas from QP. The biggie that I personally recall was the notion of a multi-tabbed worksheet, and how they interact with eachother. That sure felt like a direct pull from how QP was doing things long before Excel got into it.
What really relegated the rest of the office suites to second class citizens was how MS finally got the various components of theirs to come together as a single product. Nobody at that time had that seemless integration working nearly as well. After that, the battle for the office suite was over.
It's an important lesson to keep in mind as OpenOffice moves forward into the market place. The other lesson here is that there is no such thing as too many features for an office application.
Considering the fact that Microsoft killed Corel (WordPerfect) for the sake of its own products...
Oh yeah, I'm sure the entire Microsoft executive staff was losing sleep over the almighty rise of WordPerfect to the scene. At any moment, WP was about to double it's market share into the 2% realm and give that Bill and his crew a real go for their money.
Fading back out of the dream sequence for a moment here... Microsoft Office kicked WordPerfect's ass on a fairly even playing field many a year before Corel came anywhere near it. The day when MS felt that either WordPerfect or AmiPro was a real competitive threat is so far back as to be museum ready.
Whatever reason Microsoft had for investing in Corel, it sure as heck had nothing at all to do with WordPerfect. More likely it was concerned about the impending threat of a desktop focused Linux distro that might prove fruitful a couple of years down the road. Corel was uniquely poised to do this as they were the only distro out there that actually brought a suite of applications into the mix as well. On that front, WP might have proven to be a competitor. Certainly not on any Windows based machine though.
You can now return to dreaming about Wordperfect's rise to market relevance again. Don't forget to fluff your pillow.
Crappy management wimped out and took their little M$ bribe when they could have made something new and useful.
Also worth noting that the crappy management in question was in the process of a major turnover. I honestly don't recall if it was just before or just after though. Right about the same time the MS cash came in the front door, Cowpland was out the back door.
The truly sad part here is that with the notion of Linux at the desktop finally gaining serious traction as of late, Corel would have been in a potentially excellent place to profit from this. Instead they decided to reinvest into a platform they will NEVER gain market share in with their product line. They could have owned the Linux graphics market lock, stock and barrel for a couple of years at least! Hell, just the cash from the movie studios moving heavily to Linux for graphics production would have made the effort worth it.
Corel lost the fight for market share on Windows years ago, and their sure as heck isn't any rematch in site. This is what I call a dead company.
Been struggling with allowing customers access to me when I'm sitting down in front of my pc, and I've done a bit of a test.
Probably a bad idea out of the gate. IM's primary business use is allowing for more efficient internal communications. I'd never give a customer my IM name as a contact, as I couldn't possibly guarantee I'd be right in front of my computer to respond.
This is where E-Mail is a far better solution. Best tool for the job and all.
Did I miss something in the article or what? I didn't see ANY mention of how AOL plans on turning a profit. Not much more than the very old news that there "should" be a way to turn that many eyeballs into dollars. I wouldn't bet on it.
As to all the folks whining on about how awful IM is in the workplace, I couldn't disagree more. A couple years back our sales force started using IM to message eachother, as it was the only way to communicate while on the phone. This spread to other areas of the company, and has grown in importance to how we do business.
For example, say a salesman has a customer on the phone and needs detailed inventory data that only the purchasing folks have. Rather than putting that customer on hold, an IM over to the right person and the call never has to go on hold to get an answer.
Like any other Internet technology, there's a fair amount of non-business related communication going on. This doesn't even begin to outweigh the benefits IM has had at my company. YMMV.
Sounds like a fancy version of FreeBSD's Jails. Due to the hardware involved you still share the CPU and memory, but it behaves pretty much like a stand alone machine.
Primarily implemented for security reasons, it's also a great way to prototype a network of multiple boxes using only one.
Furthermore, if I buy a new stereo for the car, I can sell the old one.
Ya know, maybe not being able to sell the OEM version isn't such a bad thing. I mean, when was the last time you saw someone driving around a computer that said, "No operating system in chassis"?
Might also explain the very rare occurance of computer jackings.
It is the object of all of my hate and bitterness towards this world.
You really should get out a bit more. Live a little. There's a great big beautiful world out there just waiting for you to embrace it, and discover that there's so much more to hate and be bitter about. Don't let your hatred be so limited.
This is like that.
Not being forced to purchase a product you didn't want in the first place is like being killed? Is that you Steve? Bill maybe?
Did I miss some setting for in syntax highlighting or is this just not a big priority for the editor?
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For those of you browsing at 1 or better, this was an AC post. inquiring about JS and VB syntax hi-liting support in JEdit.
JEdit's default JS support was rather limited in my opinion out of the box. I primarily work on PHP for web use within it, and JavaScript is rather important to me. Thankfully there are two very cool features to the hi-liting that make this easy to fix.
First off, the schema for any of the language syntaxes is stored in XML. I'm certainly no XML expert, but I sure can copy and paste! The original JS schema was really an ECMA schema only, leaving out many of the keywords commonly used on the web. I took an hour aside and put the keywords of interest to me in there.
Secondly, one of the coolest aspects to JEdit's schemas is that they are embeddable. For example, within the PHP schema there are short statements including the schemas for JavaScript, CSS, and of course HTML.
I had been working on getting the work I've done on both the PHP and JavaScript schema into the final release of JEdit, but got seriously sidetracked with other issues. Came down to the difference between good enough and ready to publish. Also, there were some newer features available for the upcoming release that I hadn't fully implemented or tested yet. I suppose I'd best finish that stuff!
To the best of my knowledge, no other editor out there has hi-liting support for as many different languages as JEdit. It's one of the easiest I've run across to expand upon what is already written. Also a pretty friendly mailing list that's worth a look.
I know there's support for vbscript, but I've never written anything in that language. Even if it is sparse, updating it to suit your needs is nearly trivial.
In short, I think you did miss something there.