If you have a court case which requires the documents, I'm pretty sure that printing out your electronic copy won't really work, because you could have easily modified it while it was stored there.
To answer original question - I have a big file. Sometimes I prefer having something physical that can be brought out as proof.
The GUI layout editor which comes in Eclipse works. Granted some times you just want to type your code in yourself, but otherwise its simple drag and drop for the most part.
Eclipse's "Workspace paradigm" is very useful if you do lots of different things with it. Got bored working on mobiles, swap the workspace to your Java one and you have everything you left - settings included. Want to do something else, use another workspace. Its a great idea.
Perspectives again.. take a short while to get used to... but then you get a cleaner UI which is geared towards a single task.
Every 2 months or so someone revolutionizes Solar Cells. Or at least that's what the articles suggest. Now I admit I don't keep to breast with current technologies, but has ANY of them reached production?
They barely have touchscreen devices? They've had the Torch out for a while, and the Storm out for even longer. They're adding touch to the curve and the bold this year.
BB Storm:November 14, 2008 iPhone: June 29, 2007 Nokia 5800 Xpress: January 2, 2008
Bit late to the whole touchscreen party don't you think? These weren't the first phones to have touchscreen on them. Now tons of phones have touchscreens... and they have... wow... 2. One of which is 2 and a half years old. Oh right and the playbook. Heh. - The Modern market isn't buying mobiles just to phone with them. They get them for the apps. Which is why having good sound quality isn't much of a large sales emphasis as you may think. Granted, blackberries are good PHONES, compared to well.. other phones, but you're not going to use them as an app platform. Which I don't think is such a good way of surviving in this modern market.
Plus they're expensive, they're aroudn the same price as one of those modern mobile phones which actually has a ton of apps.
My impression is that RIM phones are kinda like Jags. You buy them to 'show off' that you're a buisinessy type.
You'd expect a hot-shot businessman to use serious phones like Blackberries. You don't expect him to mingle with the rest of us and our androids or iOSes.
BB had been technologically backwards for ages. They barely have any touchscreen devices (its 2011 people), and the app store is more 'serious'.
So I don't know, I think RIM was dying for ages. Just that its a 'show off' phone, so its aimed at people who want to look 'fessional but don't know jack about technology. So lots of people.
You can easily use the public files instead. When I want to distribute something to my friends, that's what I do. This however requires you to put the file in the 'public' folder, which is proof you intended to share it.
However, this way they 'steal them off your account'. So there's no real repudiation. "No, I didn't give fileshare that illegal file, I just kept a backup for myself and someone stole it from my account or something"
I'm with dropbox on this one. The idea of converting dropbox into some sort of filesharing/torrent service, for passing potentially illegal files around is not good.
I can see why Dropbox doesn't want to be linked to such a thing, when the big media people come a knocking, who do you think is going to end up getting sued?
And just because its open source doesn't make it right, or wrong, or change anything.
I remember seeing an article about how little they were taking care of the really poor workers which did all the 'dangerous' jobs. Something about not letting them leave when they saw the tsunami or something like that.
I think it makes the government look like a bunch of savages and I'm pretty sure that sort of stuff will disappear very quickly. Not just the "Don't eat bananas, they're radioactive" rubbish.
Now I admit I've never used it myself, but LibreOffice base is a 'database program' which should be comparable to access.
Instead of 'proprietary' I meant 'custom-made'. In fact, if you read the article...
"The core software used by the company is LAS, a Java-based claims-processing application of its own design"
So its fine. No troubles there.
I'm not sure what software most Offices run, but for the most cases you can get the equivalent (or better) on linux. Be it a calender, office suite, or whatever. Works out of the box in many cases.
I mean, they probably just use Office Suites (which linux has), and i they use some sort of proprietary software they'll have to modify it a bit if it wasn't written in java or something.
I honestly don't see why many companies don't just switch really. If you don't need a windows box to run windows software, you can get better results with a Linux machine.
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If you have a court case which requires the documents, I'm pretty sure that printing out your electronic copy won't really work, because you could have easily modified it while it was stored there.
To answer original question - I have a big file. Sometimes I prefer having something physical that can be brought out as proof.
The GUI layout editor which comes in Eclipse works. Granted some times you just want to type your code in yourself, but otherwise its simple drag and drop for the most part.
Eclipse's "Workspace paradigm" is very useful if you do lots of different things with it. Got bored working on mobiles, swap the workspace to your Java one and you have everything you left - settings included. Want to do something else, use another workspace. Its a great idea.
Perspectives again.. take a short while to get used to... but then you get a cleaner UI which is geared towards a single task.
Every 2 months or so someone revolutionizes Solar Cells. Or at least that's what the articles suggest. Now I admit I don't keep to breast with current technologies, but has ANY of them reached production?
That 100% of people who ever died on the earth were at some point in contact with this substance.
This should be more than enough proof.
Proteins must be amazingly scary in that case.
They barely have touchscreen devices? They've had the Torch out for a while, and the Storm out for even longer. They're adding touch to the curve and the bold this year.
BB Storm:November 14, 2008
iPhone: June 29, 2007
Nokia 5800 Xpress: January 2, 2008
Bit late to the whole touchscreen party don't you think? These weren't the first phones to have touchscreen on them. Now tons of phones have touchscreens... and they have... wow... 2. One of which is 2 and a half years old. Oh right and the playbook. Heh.
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The Modern market isn't buying mobiles just to phone with them. They get them for the apps. Which is why having good sound quality isn't much of a large sales emphasis as you may think. Granted, blackberries are good PHONES, compared to well.. other phones, but you're not going to use them as an app platform. Which I don't think is such a good way of surviving in this modern market.
Plus they're expensive, they're aroudn the same price as one of those modern mobile phones which actually has a ton of apps.
My impression is that RIM phones are kinda like Jags. You buy them to 'show off' that you're a buisinessy type.
You'd expect a hot-shot businessman to use serious phones like Blackberries. You don't expect him to mingle with the rest of us and our androids or iOSes.
BB had been technologically backwards for ages. They barely have any touchscreen devices (its 2011 people), and the app store is more 'serious'.
So I don't know, I think RIM was dying for ages. Just that its a 'show off' phone, so its aimed at people who want to look 'fessional but don't know jack about technology. So lots of people.
Never said it was hard. Just comparing it to running a 2 line command to install KDE makes it harder by comparison.
If you don't like unity so much, install GNOME/KDE/Whatever on it. Its a very simple process.
Or switch to *ubuntu. (Kubuntu,Xubuntu or whatever)
Much easier than trying to configure Debian...
Narwhals presumably.
But can I get an understandable car analogy here?
If you put an alternative for people to use instead of your new and improved pay-for version, you're not going to sell as much.
Apps'R'Us
You can easily use the public files instead. When I want to distribute something to my friends, that's what I do. This however requires you to put the file in the 'public' folder, which is proof you intended to share it.
However, this way they 'steal them off your account'. So there's no real repudiation. "No, I didn't give fileshare that illegal file, I just kept a backup for myself and someone stole it from my account or something"
That sure worked for the tons of other cases when sites were taken down.
I'm with dropbox on this one. The idea of converting dropbox into some sort of filesharing/torrent service, for passing potentially illegal files around is not good.
I can see why Dropbox doesn't want to be linked to such a thing, when the big media people come a knocking, who do you think is going to end up getting sued?
And just because its open source doesn't make it right, or wrong, or change anything.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/
Someone else publish more papers than [these two researchers] saying that [video games don't cause violence].
The additional quantity will disprove them.
Right, so basically the US is the second most internet-free country, from a list of countries.
Hold the presses.
I'm the richest man in the world if we only take homeless people as my 'world'.
"the US silver"
This enough is proof how bogus this ranking is.
I remember seeing an article about how little they were taking care of the really poor workers which did all the 'dangerous' jobs. Something about not letting them leave when they saw the tsunami or something like that.
I think it makes the government look like a bunch of savages and I'm pretty sure that sort of stuff will disappear very quickly. Not just the "Don't eat bananas, they're radioactive" rubbish.
Now I admit I've never used it myself, but LibreOffice base is a 'database program' which should be comparable to access.
Instead of 'proprietary' I meant 'custom-made'. In fact, if you read the article...
"The core software used by the company is LAS, a Java-based claims-processing application of its own design"
So its fine. No troubles there.
I'm not sure what software most Offices run, but for the most cases you can get the equivalent (or better) on linux. Be it a calender, office suite, or whatever. Works out of the box in many cases.
I mean, they probably just use Office Suites (which linux has), and i they use some sort of proprietary software they'll have to modify it a bit if it wasn't written in java or something.
I honestly don't see why many companies don't just switch really. If you don't need a windows box to run windows software, you can get better results with a Linux machine.
"Meanwhile, others are asking whether Sony should compensate users..."
Right, and while we're there I'd like some world peace too.
Just spent half a day looking for REST stuff and this pops up.
Its almost like I'm being tracked. *tinfoil hat*