I have the impression your former PM was very much a big pal of Bill Gates, was he not? Wasn't Bill Gates the first person Tony Blair talked to about computers in school? I would have started with an independant organization that actually knew something about schools, but who am I?
I agree with you. It was just a joke. I meant something like: we might not have a 'Free Market' like America has but we as customers are more Free. Why I was modded Insightful is not entirely clear to me.
I am very curious what Apple will do with the iPhone in Europe. I think pulling off the ridiculous AT&T-only lock-in prank is impossible here. Yes, we have locks on phones here too, but in principle you can buy any phone you like without a SIM-lock and use it with any provider. You only get a locked phone if you get it together with a contract, which is reasonable because the provider then wants you to stay with them. Exclusive use of particular phones with particular providers is unheard of here. And am I correct in thinking that locking a phone is illegal in Germany?
I read in the newspaper today that researchers had built dinosaurs in the computer that taught themselves to walk. They also modeled animals like dogs and humans and let them learn to walk too. Eventually they came up with ways to walk that were very similar to the way those creatures really walk. From this result the researchers concluded that the way the dinosaurs had walked in real life must be approximately the same as the way their computer models walked.
Artificial life may be possible within ten years. But then again, it may not. Predictions are usually useless, and predictions based on scientific progress are always useless. No one knows what we will have discovered in three months from now, let alone ten years.
You raise some very good points. I don't agree to all of them but why someone modded you Flamebait is beyond me. There are too many Apple fanboy moderators on/..
Yes it does. Remember video 2000? It was by far the best video system out there. It could show stationary pictures that were really stationary, fast-forward and -backward without the annoying lines in the picture, and you could swap the cassette like an audio cassette and record on the other side. The story goes that it failed because Philips refused to put porn on the cassettes, which is of course very bad marketing:)
Can iWorks handle ODF? Of so I might be tempted to switch from OpenOffice. I'm a bit sick of not being able to read my old files after switching office suits.
On a decade old machine, its possible to run a network and audio playback at real time speeds.
Even my G3 iMac with OSX 10.3.9, which it wasn't designed to run at all, could do that, using iTunes and running Firefox and Thunderbird and Skype (all memory- and CPU hogs) at the same time.
But that's still a problem. Microsoft's implementation becomes the de facto standard and all others must (attempt to) conform to the behavior of that implementation or be judged defective.
I wonder what happens if OOXML is not voted a standard. Will MS simply discard it, and embrace ODF, or will they continue to use.doc as if nothing happened? I guess they will do the latter since it's the most economical option for them. If that happens I'm curious what the EU will think of that, and how long it will take before MS is forced to use ODF as standard, if it ever comes to that.
It's illegal to kill pest animals here in the Netherlands too. If an animal is on the red list, you're not allowed to kill it. In Africa it's no different.
And a nice article was f***** up by the last sentences: Also, didn't HIV originate in the sooty mangabey (also known as the green monkey), Chlorocebus aethiops, which is a close relative of the vervet monkey? It kind of makes you wonder what might happen to the people if enough of them are bitten or.. otherwise abused.. by these monkeys?
You use common sense in your arguments. I don't think common sense has anything to do with any gouvernment, so I would be extremely careful and seek legal advice from a lawyer, instead of asking a bunch of geeks on/. what to do. No offence meant.
I just tried to explain this whole issue to someone and I tripped over the OO thing four times! Calling it Office Open XML was a brilliant move by MS, I have to give them that.
From the article: About 123 counties are participating in the vote. Does anyone here know which countries, and what they voted for, if they have voted already?
I don't agree with this. There are too many things I come across during writing that could be made easier and more logical. The handling of pictures in Word is abysmal, for instance. Integrating tables into text could be improved. Copy and paste is an issue in 2003... Integrating special characters in the text is difficult in Open Office... I don't think the development of word processors is at its end yet.
The problem might be that word processors, Open Office and Word alike, are made using a specific concept. We are used to thinking in popup menus and toolbars. Maybe we need a genious to come up with a whole new, more logical user interface.
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I have the impression your former PM was very much a big pal of Bill Gates, was he not? Wasn't Bill Gates the first person Tony Blair talked to about computers in school? I would have started with an independant organization that actually knew something about schools, but who am I?
Lugging your body around is sooo 2006!
I agree with you. It was just a joke. I meant something like: we might not have a 'Free Market' like America has but we as customers are more Free. Why I was modded Insightful is not entirely clear to me.
I am very curious what Apple will do with the iPhone in Europe. I think pulling off the ridiculous AT&T-only lock-in prank is impossible here. Yes, we have locks on phones here too, but in principle you can buy any phone you like without a SIM-lock and use it with any provider. You only get a locked phone if you get it together with a contract, which is reasonable because the provider then wants you to stay with them. Exclusive use of particular phones with particular providers is unheard of here. And am I correct in thinking that locking a phone is illegal in Germany?
Yes, but we live in Europe, the Continent of the Free...
I read in the newspaper today that researchers had built dinosaurs in the computer that taught themselves to walk. They also modeled animals like dogs and humans and let them learn to walk too. Eventually they came up with ways to walk that were very similar to the way those creatures really walk. From this result the researchers concluded that the way the dinosaurs had walked in real life must be approximately the same as the way their computer models walked.
It is easy but it will taste like cheese.
Artificial life may be possible within ten years. But then again, it may not. Predictions are usually useless, and predictions based on scientific progress are always useless. No one knows what we will have discovered in three months from now, let alone ten years.
I will buy a new iMac next week. Is that OK?
You raise some very good points. I don't agree to all of them but why someone modded you Flamebait is beyond me. There are too many Apple fanboy moderators on /..
Yes it does. Remember video 2000? It was by far the best video system out there. It could show stationary pictures that were really stationary, fast-forward and -backward without the annoying lines in the picture, and you could swap the cassette like an audio cassette and record on the other side. The story goes that it failed because Philips refused to put porn on the cassettes, which is of course very bad marketing :)
And please mod me down because my question has already been discussed here.
It was a troll because you said something negative about Apple. Welcome to /. where moderators run wild.
Oops that must be suites, not suits. :)
Can iWorks handle ODF? Of so I might be tempted to switch from OpenOffice. I'm a bit sick of not being able to read my old files after switching office suits.
On a decade old machine, its possible to run a network and audio playback at real time speeds.
Even my G3 iMac with OSX 10.3.9, which it wasn't designed to run at all, could do that, using iTunes and running Firefox and Thunderbird and Skype (all memory- and CPU hogs) at the same time.
But that's still a problem. Microsoft's implementation becomes the de facto standard and all others must (attempt to) conform to the behavior of that implementation or be judged defective.
.doc as if nothing happened? I guess they will do the latter since it's the most economical option for them. If that happens I'm curious what the EU will think of that, and how long it will take before MS is forced to use ODF as standard, if it ever comes to that.
I wonder what happens if OOXML is not voted a standard. Will MS simply discard it, and embrace ODF, or will they continue to use
This is not proof of OOXML being defective by design. It only shows that apparently MS's software isn't able to handle OOXML properly.
It's illegal to kill pest animals here in the Netherlands too. If an animal is on the red list, you're not allowed to kill it. In Africa it's no different.
And a nice article was f***** up by the last sentences: Also, didn't HIV originate in the sooty mangabey (also known as the green monkey), Chlorocebus aethiops, which is a close relative of the vervet monkey? It kind of makes you wonder what might happen to the people if enough of them are bitten or .. otherwise abused .. by these monkeys?
Why the fearmongery?
You use common sense in your arguments. I don't think common sense has anything to do with any gouvernment, so I would be extremely careful and seek legal advice from a lawyer, instead of asking a bunch of geeks on /. what to do. No offence meant.
I just tried to explain this whole issue to someone and I tripped over the OO thing four times! Calling it Office Open XML was a brilliant move by MS, I have to give them that.
That amazes me. I always thought DIN was the 'mother of all standards.'
From the article: About 123 counties are participating in the vote. Does anyone here know which countries, and what they voted for, if they have voted already?
I don't agree with this. There are too many things I come across during writing that could be made easier and more logical. The handling of pictures in Word is abysmal, for instance. Integrating tables into text could be improved. Copy and paste is an issue in 2003... Integrating special characters in the text is difficult in Open Office... I don't think the development of word processors is at its end yet.
The problem might be that word processors, Open Office and Word alike, are made using a specific concept. We are used to thinking in popup menus and toolbars. Maybe we need a genious to come up with a whole new, more logical user interface.