Oh and even if you have your friends over, your game will lag by all of you having to use Battlenet from one connection:(
Sure, if you're connection is an ISDN line. Anyone with a modern cable or DSL connection that ranges in the 5-6mbit range isn't going to see this lag you speak of.
I'm extrapolating from what I hear on Slashdot, what I hear on other online sites, and what I see and hear in my own workplace and personal life.
So basically you have little to no basis to make such a sweeping claim.
I don't know of any scientific studies that have investigated the matter, but if you know of some proving that the ribbon is the best thing since sliced bread, please feel free to share them with us.
No one said that the ribbon is the best thing since sliced bread, but to claim make a claim that the ribbon is "the single most reviled "feature"" requires some actual evidence beyond what a few tech sites say. If one were to listen to what Slashdot users and other tech sites say, people were supposed to have dropped Microsoft and anything closed-source years ago and we're all supposed to be running Linux on our desktops.
They want to take what's probably the single most reviled "feature" of MS Office 2007 and put it into OpenOffice?
Do you have any evidence that the ribbon is actually reviled in mass among the majority of users or are you just wrongly extrapolating to all users based on what people on sites like Slashdot say? Plenty of people where I work absolutely love the new ribbon interface and mention how they don't want to have to go back to any previous version once they get really used to it.
Yeah, because there are never bugs in open source software that don't linger for months or years without being fixed. Nope they are all fixed within sheer minutes of the bug report. Oh wait...
So, if I need Photoshop as part of my job to feed my family, I'm just a corporate type with the corportista mindset and I should either switch to Gimp and pull my hair and lose time and clients or let my family starve?
But with The GIMP you get to waste weeks of your time trying to wade through it's crappy codebase trying to fix it's buginess and try to cram in features that it still doesn't have that Photoshop has had for almost a decade. You non-corportistas just don't understand how this is a benefit and not a flaw of the software!
No, it just means that if you willfully facilitate others infringing copyright that your actions are against the law. This is a 36 year old precedent and nothing new.
Only because of the DMCA, which is a steaming pile of bullshit which should never have been passed in the first place.
Sorry, but that's false. Elektra Records Co. v. Gem Electronic Distributors, Inc. from 1973 established precedent that secondary liability for copyright infringement exists in "enabling or inciting another to infringe, at least when the enabler knows that her conduct will result in infringement". The Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. which established the fair use right of time-shifting didn't override this precedent because it was decided that in Sony's case they know way of knowing what precisely the end users were doing once the device left their hands contrary to the Elektra case where the record shop knew full well that their selling of tapes was directly facilitating others to infringe.
Sure, maybe he enabled a few folks to violate copyright; however, unless he was placing copyrighted code onto their modded consoles, he only made some software and hardware modifications on boxes that had been legally purchased with the owner's consent.
Facilitating copyright infringement is against the law.
Yeah, it's pretty funny that a piece of software that has nothing to do with Microsoft that gets loaded on hardware that Microsoft has nothing to do with by the OEMs themselves through a deal with a completely different company is not mentioned in a Microsoft commercial about Windows. Or actually, it's really not.
I really don't get the replies of only 256 byte (octet?) max length? Pascal (PL/I, Algol, etc) strings can have up to unlimited length depending on language, computer, etc implementation.
Because Pascal strings stored the length in a single byte and that single byte could only represent an unsigned integer up to 2^8 - 1 or 255. Hence the comments about pascal strings and 255 character lengths.
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Oh and even if you have your friends over, your game will lag by all of you having to use Battlenet from one connection:(
Sure, if you're connection is an ISDN line. Anyone with a modern cable or DSL connection that ranges in the 5-6mbit range isn't going to see this lag you speak of.
I'm extrapolating from what I hear on Slashdot, what I hear on other online sites, and what I see and hear in my own workplace and personal life.
So basically you have little to no basis to make such a sweeping claim.
I don't know of any scientific studies that have investigated the matter, but if you know of some proving that the ribbon is the best thing since sliced bread, please feel free to share them with us.
No one said that the ribbon is the best thing since sliced bread, but to claim make a claim that the ribbon is "the single most reviled "feature"" requires some actual evidence beyond what a few tech sites say. If one were to listen to what Slashdot users and other tech sites say, people were supposed to have dropped Microsoft and anything closed-source years ago and we're all supposed to be running Linux on our desktops.
You click the office button and then go to print. Wow, that was hard.
They want to take what's probably the single most reviled "feature" of MS Office 2007 and put it into OpenOffice?
Do you have any evidence that the ribbon is actually reviled in mass among the majority of users or are you just wrongly extrapolating to all users based on what people on sites like Slashdot say? Plenty of people where I work absolutely love the new ribbon interface and mention how they don't want to have to go back to any previous version once they get really used to it.
Because they probably also want On2's patent portfolio and trade secrets as well as the people.
You should be dynamically linking anyway so you only have to recompile the libs not the entire program.
Yeah, because there are never bugs in open source software that don't linger for months or years without being fixed. Nope they are all fixed within sheer minutes of the bug report. Oh wait...
Oops that was supposed to be "corportistas" not "non-corportistas".
So, if I need Photoshop as part of my job to feed my family, I'm just a corporate type with the corportista mindset and I should either switch to Gimp and pull my hair and lose time and clients or let my family starve?
But with The GIMP you get to waste weeks of your time trying to wade through it's crappy codebase trying to fix it's buginess and try to cram in features that it still doesn't have that Photoshop has had for almost a decade. You non-corportistas just don't understand how this is a benefit and not a flaw of the software!
Except CSV isn't a standard.
The IETF might disagree with you.
No, it just means that if you willfully facilitate others infringing copyright that your actions are against the law. This is a 36 year old precedent and nothing new.
Only because of the DMCA, which is a steaming pile of bullshit which should never have been passed in the first place.
Sorry, but that's false. Elektra Records Co. v. Gem Electronic Distributors, Inc. from 1973 established precedent that secondary liability for copyright infringement exists in "enabling or inciting another to infringe, at least when the enabler knows that her conduct will result in infringement". The Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. which established the fair use right of time-shifting didn't override this precedent because it was decided that in Sony's case they know way of knowing what precisely the end users were doing once the device left their hands contrary to the Elektra case where the record shop knew full well that their selling of tapes was directly facilitating others to infringe.
Sure, maybe he enabled a few folks to violate copyright; however, unless he was placing copyrighted code onto their modded consoles, he only made some software and hardware modifications on boxes that had been legally purchased with the owner's consent.
Facilitating copyright infringement is against the law.
No, you can thank Republican Representative Howard Coble for the DMCA. You know, him being the originator of the bill and all.
Yes, you can sell public domain works. No one can stop you since no one holds a copyright to it.
Yeah, it's pretty funny that a piece of software that has nothing to do with Microsoft that gets loaded on hardware that Microsoft has nothing to do with by the OEMs themselves through a deal with a completely different company is not mentioned in a Microsoft commercial about Windows. Or actually, it's really not.
No, any security analyst will tell you that relying on security by obscurity ALONE is bullshit.
I really don't get the replies of only 256 byte (octet?) max length? Pascal (PL/I, Algol, etc) strings can have up to unlimited length depending on language, computer, etc implementation.
Because Pascal strings stored the length in a single byte and that single byte could only represent an unsigned integer up to 2^8 - 1 or 255. Hence the comments about pascal strings and 255 character lengths.
I agree. 255 characters ought to be enough for anyone!
He knocked up 3 admin assistants, and the guy that fixes the copier.
Is this some weird new Judd Apatow/Junior hybrid movie?
I think all the people who's lives have been saved by the medical research done on the ISS would disagree.
Such as?