As to how Microsoft is going to beat Linux according to Gates, it seems to be via its software's value, rather than the price. Bill Gates is trying to create software that needs little maintainance and little support. By doing so, he hopes to cut down the number of IT administrators needed on companies (a good admin costs overall up to $200,000 per year for a given company here in the Bay Area, for example). On the other hand, Linux rivals (e.g. Red Hat) are making money primarily by support calls and require capable administrators. Gates hopes to elliminate this need.
A while ago, we received an notice from a company claiming that we were violating some of their patents, and that they had found this out by looking at our code.
we are not aware of any patents that we may be violating.
Did i get this right - they didn't tell you what patents you are supposed to be violating?
In that case their claims don't sound very credible IMHO.
The technology, called "proximity communication," aims to let one chip transmit signals directly to another next to it, instead of through the tangle of pins, wires and circuit boards employed today.
So all the communications inside the computer will be implemented with radio waves? It will be even easier for them to eavesdrop all the extremely secret activities I use my computers for. Naturally I cannot tell you what they are, but they are related to a certain Internet service that - under a legitimate- and innocent-looking cover, of course - is designed to harm certain people by making their servers catch fire as well as making their bandwidth bill increase unbelievable amounts.
We have this charset called ISO-8859-1 aka. ISO-Latin-1, which consists of 192 different characters. Here's a little problem: 192 different characters simply are not enough. Ok, we'll just switch to another charset... which has the limit of 192 different characters as well?
Unicode really solves the problem. I love zsh, but I'm also forced to use bash because zsh doesn't support UTF-8 correctly. I wish I or someone else had the time to implement it.
The logic of the site layout though, loads the ads first, then the site, so we appeared to be down.
In today's world (with CSS) the order of things in the layout is one thing, and the order of elements in the actual HTML is wholly another thing. You (meaning any webdesigner who reads this, not parent) should put the stuff into the markup in order of importance.
Of course I don't need a stereo for I am a human beat box.
I thought marriage was supposed to fix that!
Now that it was mentioned, are there beatboxers in the/. community? I have practised the fine art of vocal percussion for a while, but i'm pretty much a beginner when compared to the masters such as Killa Kela, Kenny Muhammad, Rahzel, Scratch, etc.
Humanbeatbox.com is a good site for information about beatboxing.
I wonder if any non-Microsoft®Office® spreadsheet program supports VBA scripting? Being able to run such useful Excel® programs as Pacelman and Excellence would be very important for the FOSS community. Apparently there has been some effort to make a Visual® Basic® interpreter for Linux, but the project doesn't seem to have made any progress.
As for the description of gravity being incorrect, I hate to tell you this, but general relativity solves *so* many problems that cannot be solved otherwise that it's preposterous at this point to consider anything else. Gravitational lensing, bending of light by masses, binary pulsar decay, Mercury's perihelion precession... etc. etc... NO other theory of gravity explains any of this, unless it starts with General Relativity and expands on it.
The theory of relativity works very well in large scale, but it doesn't work in small scale, i.e. the subatomic particle scale. It and the quantum field theory simply refuse to work together. That's why a general theory of everything is needed.
One very promising theory is called the string theory. I recommend exploring the website, it's very interesting reading.
So whereas you will get wireless nets that otherwise have no traffic at the moment, you won't get any that don't broadcast their SSID.
Security Alert
Your Access Point Is Currently Broadcasting An Internet SSID Identification. With this Identification, Someone Can Immediately Begin Attacking Your Network!
(The spreadsheet in the zip file works in Microsoft(R) Office(R) 2000(R) and preferably with a fast processor. It seems to work even slower in newer versions of Excel(R). Unfortunately it doesn't work in any other spreadsheet software; even i can't view it myself...)
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An alien reading TFA would probably find this quote amusing and/or pathetic: (emphasis mine)
You can write any ASCII text with just those buttons. Simply hold down the desired combination of bits and then press START to enter the character.
Example:
See, it's as simple as that.
I believe you missed something - maybe a technical problem.
Here's the article text:
From the article (emphasis mine):
Wasn't it supposed to be Linux that kills jobs?
Did i get this right - they didn't tell you what patents you are supposed to be violating?
In that case their claims don't sound very credible IMHO.
Heh, you totally got me until that part.
So all the communications inside the computer will be implemented with radio waves? It will be even easier for them to eavesdrop all the extremely secret activities I use my computers for. Naturally I cannot tell you what they are, but they are related to a certain Internet service that - under a legitimate- and innocent-looking cover, of course - is designed to harm certain people by making their servers catch fire as well as making their bandwidth bill increase unbelievable amounts.
Sorry, but no, it isn't.
We have this charset called ISO-8859-1 aka. ISO-Latin-1, which consists of 192 different characters. Here's a little problem: 192 different characters simply are not enough. Ok, we'll just switch to another charset... which has the limit of 192 different characters as well?
Unicode really solves the problem. I love zsh, but I'm also forced to use bash because zsh doesn't support UTF-8 correctly. I wish I or someone else had the time to implement it.
Are you sure that's not a typo?
In today's world (with CSS) the order of things in the layout is one thing, and the order of elements in the actual HTML is wholly another thing. You (meaning any webdesigner who reads this, not parent) should put the stuff into the markup in order of importance.
Here's a good site with CSS resources, and here's an example of what can be done with CSS.
Einstürzende Neubauten.
s/suffer/enjoy/
Nope. Apparently the account was legitimate, but it was stolen by the scammer(s).
A non-root user can only destroy him-/herself (the home directory), not the whole system. The apps won't "go bye-bye"
Now that it was mentioned, are there beatboxers in the /. community? I have practised the fine art of vocal percussion for a while, but i'm pretty much a beginner when compared to the masters such as Killa Kela, Kenny Muhammad, Rahzel, Scratch, etc.
Humanbeatbox.com is a good site for information about beatboxing.
I wonder if any non-Microsoft®Office® spreadsheet program supports VBA scripting? Being able to run such useful Excel® programs as Pacelman and Excellence would be very important for the FOSS community. Apparently there has been some effort to make a Visual® Basic® interpreter for Linux, but the project doesn't seem to have made any progress.
The theory of relativity works very well in large scale, but it doesn't work in small scale, i.e. the subatomic particle scale. It and the quantum field theory simply refuse to work together. That's why a general theory of everything is needed.
One very promising theory is called the string theory. I recommend exploring the website, it's very interesting reading.
"Again"?
It's here.
Security Alert
Your Access Point Is Currently Broadcasting An Internet SSID Identification. With this Identification, Someone Can Immediately Begin Attacking Your Network!
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I tried it as well, the bug exists indeed. The \n really was missing from the output.
But i'm not so desperate i'd want to date design patterns.
ans-excellence.zip
(The spreadsheet in the zip file works in Microsoft(R) Office(R) 2000(R) and preferably with a fast processor. It seems to work even slower in newer versions of Excel(R). Unfortunately it doesn't work in any other spreadsheet software; even i can't view it myself...)
No, you got it wrong. The name is a compliment; it clearly implies that USA considers "French" to be equal to "Freedom".