Actually, I worked for a computer games company for a year and we had localization deals around the globe. The german packages were smaller and generally more creative.
It turns out that (At least, I was told this) Germany taxes the companies with bigger packages.
MS won't be happy about making a version of office which will fall into the hands of linux and BSD *nix types.
Yes, they want everyone to use their software, but on their terms
and as much as us independent, liberty-for-all linux-types want linux to be mainstream, how many of us are ready for MS on linux?
MS won't let office run on OS X in a way that can be easily stolen. Expect it to rely on BLUEBOX (classic os 9) or on new OS X quartz/carbon.
However, there are MS official versions of IE5 and office.
look at www.mainsoft.com They have exclusive licensing with MS... They ported the win32 api to unix and have made native versions of IE and office. So, it IS possible, just not cost effective. (mainsoft doesn't do free software yet.)
you can't take a floppy adapter for smartmedia and put it in the mavica FD series cameras and expect it to A) work and B) recognize the larger media.
why?
because the floppy adaptors all work on the concept that you must install a windows driver first. the camera doesn't have any such driver or any such way to install said driver.
the camera acceots only dos formatted floppies. if you give it another format, it will happily dos-format your floppy for you.
IT is not legal to use SocSec numbers, but that never prevents the government from requiring them when it wants to.
two years ago, the state of North Carolina began requiring Social Security numbers for all dealings with the Dept. of Motor Vehicles... coincedentally at the same time as many immigrant workers were migrating to the state.
the result was, the state was able to conveniently deny immigrant and migrant workers driver's licenses based on their squeeky new policy. I an not an immigrant or a migrant worker, I lived there for 15 years and have always been a US citizen. When I asked them for a copy of my driving record, they demanded my Social Security no.
I pointed out the wording on the card where it says that the number is specifically not to be used for identity in any way. They laughed at me and said I couldn't get the driving record without it.
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You came from BE to linux? giving up anti-aliased fonts, near RTOS, meda-OS for LINUX???
wow.
I triple-boot, be, winBLAHs, and Mandrake. someday I'll have darwin, probably running X, to add to the mix.
AbiWord (www.abisource.com open-source word-processor) reads word docs and puts out html/rtf/and it's own.abw (which is xml)
Star, we all know, works with.doc.rtf, etc...
But nothing would have helped with today-- idiot secretary emailed me files containing news releases to add to our website (asking her to ftp is too much to handle for her, and I don't want to give up the responsibility and watch her delete mangle the whole site.) She sent everything in.dot format (word document template.) Star was useless. Abi was useless.
reboot to win98 useless
let's not forget bi-directional language problems... nothing does hebrew well yet.
Everyone is mentioning wired options, mostly cat5 and a few fiber comments--
I wired my parent's house with cat5 7 years ago. A port in my bedroom, a port in my dad's office, a port on the kitchen counter for my mom's thinkpad. We strung the cable from basement to attic, in a southern colonial style home.
Now that I'm thinking about my own place, and rental, not buying, as well as relocation being a possibility, I'm not prepared to enrage landlords and invest in tearing up wherever I land to make a network possible...
I don't need gigabit bandwidth, especially for internet. Why doesn't the apple airport with a few lucent waveLAN cards meet the need here?
I mean, HELL YES, I found it fun to take out the drill and string cable, and yes, it was cheaper than buying an airport and a few pcmcia and pci cards, but wireless is easily relocatable, as in, I don't have to leave my investment in the home installed when it's time to move on.
(besides, I keep reading about the various hacks here, antenna range extension and 128-bit security-- who says slashdot doesn't read slashdot!)
I looked all over IBM's as/400e site and couldn't find anything that matched your as/400e 20 box...
the 20 was the problem, model numbers just don't match that exactly, so I couldn't figure out exactly what you have. I'm sure that a linux is available that'll run on it, just not sure what since I can't find out about your box.
IBM has big fabs, and I believe they fab for AMD on some occasions. Can't recall if it's for AMD processor, AMD memory, or networking applications, but I'm fairly certain they do contract work for them.
Thank you to everyone who posted to say that DP4 and Aqua are not synonymous. When I submitted the article in the first place, I knew that.
I was attempting to be concise. The review that the link pointed to reviewed DP4. All the screenshots are of the UI (as they should be, after all, they are pretty pics!)
Apple's created a lot of terminology for us to deal with, Darwin, the BSD influenced core. Quartz, the layer on top of Darwin (pdf?), carbon and cocoa, and Aqua, sitting on top of it all as a pretty face.
Mostly, I'm glad people got to see the new screenshots, make mirrors, and read the review before it was removed.
Apple is very aware they have something people are interested in. They've had websites using the look taken down. They've had themes removed from themes.org, as well as people making themes that work in MacOS9.0.4 (appearance manager or kaleidoscope) themes. People are attracted to this interface. I know I'm ready to get a hands on experience and see if it performs, no matter how many "rules of good UI design" it breaks. Face it, this is the first modern interface for us, on a visual level.
on a linguistic level, we haven't even begun. Our computers don't communicate with us on any real level. The error messages are rarely coherent to an ordinary user. The only message we're asked at all tends to be "Do you want to save that file before quitting?"
When we see some development in this area, I'll be really excited. in fact, if anyone has thoughts for this I'd like to here them. Email me!
until then, I want to play with OSx (waiting waiting waiting)
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It turns out that (At least, I was told this) Germany taxes the companies with bigger packages.
MS won't be happy about making a version of office which will fall into the hands of linux and BSD *nix types.
Yes, they want everyone to use their software, but on their terms
and as much as us independent, liberty-for-all linux-types want linux to be mainstream, how many of us are ready for MS on linux?
MS won't let office run on OS X in a way that can be easily stolen. Expect it to rely on BLUEBOX (classic os 9) or on new OS X quartz/carbon.
However, there are MS official versions of IE5 and office.
look at www.mainsoft.com They have exclusive licensing with MS... They ported the win32 api to unix and have made native versions of IE and office. So, it IS possible, just not cost effective. (mainsoft doesn't do free software yet.)
you can't take a floppy adapter for smartmedia and put it in the mavica FD series cameras and expect it to A) work and B) recognize the larger media.
why?
because the floppy adaptors all work on the concept that you must install a windows driver first. the camera doesn't have any such driver or any such way to install said driver.
the camera acceots only dos formatted floppies. if you give it another format, it will happily dos-format your floppy for you.
and all the internet cafe's here in Israel have floppy locks, or tape over the drive. no one can insert a floppy, period.
why?
fear of viruses.
two years ago, the state of North Carolina began requiring Social Security numbers for all dealings with the Dept. of Motor Vehicles... coincedentally at the same time as many immigrant workers were migrating to the state.
the result was, the state was able to conveniently deny immigrant and migrant workers driver's licenses based on their squeeky new policy. I an not an immigrant or a migrant worker, I lived there for 15 years and have always been a US citizen. When I asked them for a copy of my driving record, they demanded my Social Security no.
I pointed out the wording on the card where it says that the number is specifically not to be used for identity in any way. They laughed at me and said I couldn't get the driving record without it.
wow.
I triple-boot, be, winBLAHs, and Mandrake. someday I'll have darwin, probably running X, to add to the mix.
Star, we all know, works with .doc .rtf, etc...
But nothing would have helped with today-- idiot secretary emailed me files containing news releases to add to our website (asking her to ftp is too much to handle for her, and I don't want to give up the responsibility and watch her delete mangle the whole site.) She sent everything in .dot format (word document template.) Star was useless. Abi was useless.
reboot to win98 useless
let's not forget bi-directional language problems... nothing does hebrew well yet.
As it is, to use VoIP I have to pay for the local call to my ISP... why should I pay double digits USD for a 5 minute call over regular billing!
outside the US, we pay per minute on a local call... international is killing me!
I wired my parent's house with cat5 7 years ago. A port in my bedroom, a port in my dad's office, a port on the kitchen counter for my mom's thinkpad. We strung the cable from basement to attic, in a southern colonial style home.
Now that I'm thinking about my own place, and rental, not buying, as well as relocation being a possibility, I'm not prepared to enrage landlords and invest in tearing up wherever I land to make a network possible...
I don't need gigabit bandwidth, especially for internet. Why doesn't the apple airport with a few lucent waveLAN cards meet the need here?
I mean, HELL YES, I found it fun to take out the drill and string cable, and yes, it was cheaper than buying an airport and a few pcmcia and pci cards, but wireless is easily relocatable, as in, I don't have to leave my investment in the home installed when it's time to move on.
(besides, I keep reading about the various hacks here, antenna range extension and 128-bit security-- who says slashdot doesn't read slashdot!)
the 20 was the problem, model numbers just don't match that exactly, so I couldn't figure out exactly what you have. I'm sure that a linux is available that'll run on it, just not sure what since I can't find out about your box.
IBM has big fabs, and I believe they fab for AMD on some occasions. Can't recall if it's for AMD processor, AMD memory, or networking applications, but I'm fairly certain they do contract work for them.
I was attempting to be concise. The review that the link pointed to reviewed DP4. All the screenshots are of the UI (as they should be, after all, they are pretty pics!)
Apple's created a lot of terminology for us to deal with, Darwin, the BSD influenced core. Quartz, the layer on top of Darwin (pdf?), carbon and cocoa, and Aqua, sitting on top of it all as a pretty face.
Mostly, I'm glad people got to see the new screenshots, make mirrors, and read the review before it was removed.
Apple is very aware they have something people are interested in. They've had websites using the look taken down. They've had themes removed from themes.org, as well as people making themes that work in MacOS9.0.4 (appearance manager or kaleidoscope) themes. People are attracted to this interface. I know I'm ready to get a hands on experience and see if it performs, no matter how many "rules of good UI design" it breaks. Face it, this is the first modern interface for us, on a visual level.
on a linguistic level, we haven't even begun. Our computers don't communicate with us on any real level. The error messages are rarely coherent to an ordinary user. The only message we're asked at all tends to be "Do you want to save that file before quitting?"
When we see some development in this area, I'll be really excited. in fact, if anyone has thoughts for this I'd like to here them. Email me!
until then, I want to play with OSx (waiting waiting waiting)