Well, as a linux/freebsd chap myself, I'd have to say good. On the one hand, it'll move 64-bit up into the standard relm (ie, everything has it and cheaper) and I'll be taking eveyone's "deprecated" athlon-xp's and pentium 4s:).
The PC is not in the same category as the Xbox (or PSX). As part of being the jack of all trades, it should be able to do all trades - not just the trades Microsoft wants to play.
All they are about is lock in anymore. Kill off OpenGL with DirectX, kill off PDF with Metro. Its not even embrace and extend anymore. Its just create a rival and use our monopoly power to shove it down people's throats whether its better or not. That said, most of the coders I know (even the *nix folk) rave about.NET.
Well, what rubs me the wrong way is that "Windows" is trademarked. Does Coke have the trademark on "One" or on "Coke One"? (I honestly don't know). I don't know about you, but when I think Windows, I think of those big glass things in the wall.
What if he had made that blast retardant stuff for glass windows. The stuff that keeps the windows from shattering in an explosion. Would that still have left him needing to give up the name? Now, if he had called it Microsoft Windows Defender that'd be another story.
In the end, its probably still not worth the legal fees.
Slashdot has effectively been trolled. Was this intentional, Zonk?
I sort of think Zonk's job is to be as inflamatory as possible. Take a look at all of the articles his posts in comparison to the rest of the editors. His articles are always phrased or titled in such a way to cause the most outrage. He's sort of the fox news of slashdot.
Great for click throughs and ad views; not so good for journalistic integrity.
And though everyone is always hung up on OpenOffice, I made it through college with Abiword. Today I use Abiword and Gnumeric pretty much exclusively as my office apps. Ocassionally I'd like to have something that lets me do powerpoint (gtk app ideally). With evince supposed to be getting the support to view PPTs though, thats one step closer.
Also, abiword runs on OS X and I know work is being done to pretty much put gnumeric everywhere. That'll be a good day:).
Well yes, me. I just opted for the 30" CRT Television (HDTV widescreen) instead of the 30" LCD. The reason? True black on the CRT and better colors overall. People have mentioned size constraints with televisions and yes, I got a slim fit CRT but it sits on an entertainment center which houses my reciever and DVD player. Since thats a dedicated area for the TV, I don't have a problem with that space being used for the TV and having the best picture I can. When it goes kaboom, I figure LCDs will be the standard and the picture will have improved.
Now, my desk is another story. I have a CRT for my computer there too but when that goes, the LCD cometh...
I don't believe the second example will work (haven't tried it). Abiword-2.4.0's Release Notes indicated that OpenDocument export wasn't yet included (but would make it in during the 2.4 series). So, you can do.odt to.doc, just not vice versa (yet).
Recruiters like.doc's so they can delete your contact information. That way the company has to go through them and pay them their finders fee for you. That's much harder to do with a PDF.
*shrug* The resume that got me my current job was ASCII pasted into a website.
(yes I still don't know how to uninstall a generic packages..like when I download something, untar; make; make install : where can I find out where it put all it's stuff?)
Easiest way is probably to use Checkinstall. I'm using 1.5.3 and 1.6.0 doesn't seem to like me, but its as simple as./configure, make, checkinstall -S (instead of make install) and it'll make install a slackware package that you can remove with pkgtool like everything else.
I don't know that that is the analogy that I would use. Different versions of Vista aren't different models - they're different trim levels.
And buying a car; that can be confusing as hell. With alot of makes, you can have trim levels and then packages on trim levels which change things inside of a trim level. So you my have a CE with better specs then the LE despite the fact that LE is Luxary and CE is the economy. Cross-eyed yet?
For different models - there I would say 2000, XP, Vista, etc.
For different makes - Windows, MacOS, BSD, Linux, OS/2, AmigaOS, BeOS, some OS I'm missing and will be flamed for...
While good, neither of those are the manual wiki of which the grandparent has requested Slashdot-Asylum.
However, the manual wiki doesn't open for me here so I'm guessing its already been blasted off the face of the web. I'd hope the grandparent would just take it offline until the storm passes...
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This story made me laugh out lound...even Microsoft's game console has a BSD!
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Umm, you mean a BSOD? I mean, I'm sure given time the Xbox 360 will have a BSD but I doubt today
Has anyone given any thought to how many of these peering points have excess power capacity for 5000 Opterons? Hmmmmm?
Come on, we've got Mr Fusion right?
Yeah, I thought both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD were going to support H.264/MPEG-4. I guess maybe that support isn't there yet?
Well, as a linux/freebsd chap myself, I'd have to say good. On the one hand, it'll move 64-bit up into the standard relm (ie, everything has it and cheaper) and I'll be taking eveyone's "deprecated" athlon-xp's and pentium 4s :).
Yeah I figured the fact that it was a software product for Windows that did him in.
:). It makes sense that Coke is a trademark and not really One.
Your explaination of Coke was also helpful
The PC is not in the same category as the Xbox (or PSX). As part of being the jack of all trades, it should be able to do all trades - not just the trades Microsoft wants to play.
.NET.
All they are about is lock in anymore. Kill off OpenGL with DirectX, kill off PDF with Metro. Its not even embrace and extend anymore. Its just create a rival and use our monopoly power to shove it down people's throats whether its better or not. That said, most of the coders I know (even the *nix folk) rave about
Well, what rubs me the wrong way is that "Windows" is trademarked. Does Coke have the trademark on "One" or on "Coke One"? (I honestly don't know). I don't know about you, but when I think Windows, I think of those big glass things in the wall.
What if he had made that blast retardant stuff for glass windows. The stuff that keeps the windows from shattering in an explosion. Would that still have left him needing to give up the name? Now, if he had called it Microsoft Windows Defender that'd be another story.
In the end, its probably still not worth the legal fees.
Depending on which CPU your program ran on, you'd get a right or wrong answer.
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Hmm, my university apparently used that same setup for the program grading our bubblesheets
Slashdot has effectively been trolled. Was this intentional, Zonk?
I sort of think Zonk's job is to be as inflamatory as possible. Take a look at all of the articles his posts in comparison to the rest of the editors. His articles are always phrased or titled in such a way to cause the most outrage. He's sort of the fox news of slashdot.
Great for click throughs and ad views; not so good for journalistic integrity.
Ah yes, so many puns to be made here. Perhaps you're looking for a powerstroke diesel? :)
Bigger ... yes. ... eh, probably not.
Better
And though everyone is always hung up on OpenOffice, I made it through college with Abiword. Today I use Abiword and Gnumeric pretty much exclusively as my office apps. Ocassionally I'd like to have something that lets me do powerpoint (gtk app ideally). With evince supposed to be getting the support to view PPTs though, thats one step closer.
:).
Also, abiword runs on OS X and I know work is being done to pretty much put gnumeric everywhere. That'll be a good day
Well yes, me. I just opted for the 30" CRT Television (HDTV widescreen) instead of the 30" LCD. The reason? True black on the CRT and better colors overall. People have mentioned size constraints with televisions and yes, I got a slim fit CRT but it sits on an entertainment center which houses my reciever and DVD player. Since thats a dedicated area for the TV, I don't have a problem with that space being used for the TV and having the best picture I can. When it goes kaboom, I figure LCDs will be the standard and the picture will have improved.
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Now, my desk is another story. I have a CRT for my computer there too but when that goes, the LCD cometh
And then I noticed where your homepage was set to so I'm guessing you know this better than me. I'll stop being helpful now :).
I don't believe the second example will work (haven't tried it). Abiword-2.4.0's Release Notes indicated that OpenDocument export wasn't yet included (but would make it in during the 2.4 series). So, you can do .odt to .doc, just not vice versa (yet).
So is Jack Thompson Snowball or Napoleon?
*puts Animal Farm back down*
Recruiters like .doc's so they can delete your contact information. That way the company has to go through them and pay them their finders fee for you. That's much harder to do with a PDF.
*shrug* The resume that got me my current job was ASCII pasted into a website.
Though you were modded up and I got nothing!
:)
Damnit!
(yes I still don't know how to uninstall a generic packages..like when I download something, untar; make; make install : where can I find out where it put all it's stuff?)
./configure, make, checkinstall -S (instead of make install) and it'll make install a slackware package that you can remove with pkgtool like everything else.
Easiest way is probably to use Checkinstall. I'm using 1.5.3 and 1.6.0 doesn't seem to like me, but its as simple as
I don't know that that is the analogy that I would use. Different versions of Vista aren't different models - they're different trim levels.
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And buying a car; that can be confusing as hell. With alot of makes, you can have trim levels and then packages on trim levels which change things inside of a trim level. So you my have a CE with better specs then the LE despite the fact that LE is Luxary and CE is the economy. Cross-eyed yet?
For different models - there I would say 2000, XP, Vista, etc.
For different makes - Windows, MacOS, BSD, Linux, OS/2, AmigaOS, BeOS, some OS I'm missing and will be flamed for
While good, neither of those are the manual wiki of which the grandparent has requested Slashdot-Asylum.
...
However, the manual wiki doesn't open for me here so I'm guessing its already been blasted off the face of the web. I'd hope the grandparent would just take it offline until the storm passes
Ok, not to be pedantic, but it was 1885 - you know, 100 years before the first movie which was 1985.
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He also perfected that machine that made breakfast automatically in the morning which was a mess when he tried it in 1985.
Oh and yeah, a time machine powered by steam but thats the only part of the movie I didn't find plausable
Adblock Plus doesn't seem to have this problem. I'm using it currently with Filterset.G and Flash works without issue on 1.5 Beta :).
No, not that Big Mac ...
This Big Mac
Mmm, Big Mac is right.
Umm, the Copyright Office isn't the same thing as the Patent and Trademark Office. They're not even in the same state ...