"OpenOffice has basically no visibility. If you don't read one of a few technical websites, where the hell are you going to hear about it?"
Things are bad enough with exagerating.
While OpenOffice may lack commercial visibility, StarOffice is on Fry's and CompUSA's retail shelves all over America.
Yes, StarOffice is not free, but at about $70 it's $400-500 cheaper than MS Office.
Besides, even if OOo did not exist, StarOffice is definitely worth $70.
I hold out hope that OOo will surface in some weird way. Maybe companies will start using StarOffice and when employees go to their sysadmins for home installations the sysadmins will just say, "Use OpenOffice."
"Labor unions rely on compulsion in most cases - if you work here, you must belong to the union. This works - no one can circumvent it."
Not in Texas it doesn't. Texas is a "right-to-work" state. More importantly, the concept of unions run contrary to the Texas way of thinking... always have.
There's something that no one has mentioned here: These first tests were static.
Although, it will probably not be necessary, a more realistic test would include flexing and vibrating the wing during the test.
And before anyone says, "what difference could would that make," remember that the NASA engineers originally said the foam wasn't capable of any damage in the first place.
The Columbia had three big, friggin' engines running and the entire vehicle was under all sorts of dynamic stress. These tests ignore those factors.
"Actually, IE/Mac is a pretty decent web browser."
Yes, it's pretty good, so long as you don't state this opinion comparatively.
Compared to Safari or Mozilla or Omniweb or the other browsers, for instance, it ain't so good.
I no longer have IE installed on my Macs and I do not test my web pages against IE. I test against two open source, Internet standards compliant web browsers. If they look bad in IE, tough shit.
"'5 (d) Stolen Account Information Your Responsibility You are solely and entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and for any and all activities that occur under your account.'
So if somebody hacked its site and downloaded user info en masse I am responsible as well?"
Probably, but that's nothing new. You act surprised.
They would either have to admit responsibility or you'd have to prove your innocence in court.
"The rental industry is getting killed by movie piracy online."
Slashdot users vastly over-estimate their own importance. Funny how people dismiss the overstated piracy figures of the MPAA until it begins to feed their egos.
Ten lonely guys gathered in a dorm room don't constitute any sort of problem for anyone but themselves.
Years ago everyone was fretting about the dubbing of VHS rental tapes. In the end, it didn't matter.
You get what you pay for, even if it's a digitally perfect rip-off.
I've lobbied Ximian about this. I'm really interested to see now long it will take them to add Bayesian filtering. A search on their website didn't return even one hit for me a couple weeks ago.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't it bad enough that most of MS Office's defects have been faithfully reproduced already? Must we expose innocent people to Access, too?
What did they ever do to you to deserve that?
--Richard
"OpenOffice has basically no visibility. If you don't read one of a few technical websites, where the hell are you going to hear about it?"
Things are bad enough with exagerating.
While OpenOffice may lack commercial visibility, StarOffice is on Fry's and CompUSA's retail shelves all over America.
Yes, StarOffice is not free, but at about $70 it's $400-500 cheaper than MS Office.
Besides, even if OOo did not exist, StarOffice is definitely worth $70.
I hold out hope that OOo will surface in some weird way. Maybe companies will start using StarOffice and when employees go to their sysadmins for home installations the sysadmins will just say, "Use OpenOffice."
--Richard
"Labor unions rely on compulsion in most cases - if you work here, you must belong to the union. This works - no one can circumvent it."
Not in Texas it doesn't. Texas is a "right-to-work" state. More importantly, the concept of unions run contrary to the Texas way of thinking... always have.
It's just a cultural thing.
--Richard
Lemme guess...
You have a really big Beta tape collection at home.
"Uh... Patch for what? I was unaware I could apply a "patch" that would prevent me from getting viruses."
Actually, there are a lot of patches for this problem... Mozilla, Evolution, Safari...
--Richard
Actually, the correct term is chicken "fluffer".
There's something that no one has mentioned here: These first tests were static.
Although, it will probably not be necessary, a more realistic test would include flexing and vibrating the wing during the test.
And before anyone says, "what difference could would that make," remember that the NASA engineers originally said the foam wasn't capable of any damage in the first place.
The Columbia had three big, friggin' engines running and the entire vehicle was under all sorts of dynamic stress. These tests ignore those factors.
Just an observation...
--Richard
PS: The new OmniWeb is great.
Yes, McSink was awesome. I also used Sigma Edit a lot, too. Sigma Edit hit the sweet spot for me.
--Richard
You forgot about the other emulations that you ought to run at the same time...
http://emulation.net
--Richard
Transfering a file from a remote server and mounting a remote directory in the local file system are completely different things.
If might be convenient for some people to use local apps with the remotely mounted directory, I suppose. I could see that.
--Richard
"Actually, IE/Mac is a pretty decent web browser."
Yes, it's pretty good, so long as you don't state this opinion comparatively.
Compared to Safari or Mozilla or Omniweb or the other browsers, for instance, it ain't so good.
I no longer have IE installed on my Macs and I do not test my web pages against IE. I test against two open source, Internet standards compliant web browsers. If they look bad in IE, tough shit.
A luxury, I know.
--Richard
" Corporations don't exist to help their customers, they exist to employ people..."
Wow, wouldn't it be cool if that were true?
--Richard
"... due to the fact Gecko is bloated, and too slow."
Gecko is bloated, perhaps, but it's very excellent otherwise.
A couple weeks ago I moved from Safari/AppleMail combo to Mozilla on my OS X box and I'm constantly impressed with Mozilla.
Now, I like Safari but it crashed several times a week on me. Safari is a bit faster but not as reliable as Mozilla. I'm sure it will be soon.
No need to run the Mozilla project in the ground yet.
At least wait until Safari's out of beta.
--Richard
Worth noting that in the Mac OS X world, Omniweb, a commercial browser, is still in business, too.
--Richard
"You overlooked listening WITHOUT burning. Throw that in, and Real's prices look a lot better."
And you overlooked those months when I don't want to download any music.
Those month's Apple's service still costs $0.00.
"'5 (d) Stolen Account Information Your Responsibility
You are solely and entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and for any and all activities that occur under your account.'
So if somebody hacked its site and downloaded user info en masse I am responsible as well?"
Probably, but that's nothing new. You act surprised.
They would either have to admit responsibility or you'd have to prove your innocence in court.
This isn't even a high-tech issue.
"How much is enough, Hollywood?"
As much as they deserve?
--Richard
"The rental industry is getting killed by movie piracy online."
Slashdot users vastly over-estimate their own importance. Funny how people dismiss the overstated piracy figures of the MPAA until it begins to feed their egos.
Ten lonely guys gathered in a dorm room don't constitute any sort of problem for anyone but themselves.
Years ago everyone was fretting about the dubbing of VHS rental tapes. In the end, it didn't matter.
You get what you pay for, even if it's a digitally perfect rip-off.
--Richard
Wow, real simple.
I've lobbied Ximian about this. I'm really interested to see now long it will take them to add Bayesian filtering. A search on their website didn't return even one hit for me a couple weeks ago.
--Richard
"Why isn't defragging recommended?"
:)
I guess a lot of people here are using Windows
--Richard
"I always worry that I'll want the file again soon, and backing it up to CD is too much bother right now."
I agree. Compact Discs: the modern floppy.
Backup across a network.
--Richard
"Care to elaborate?"
Nope.
...and six-inches is thiiiiiis loooong.
--Richard
You are a fucking bigot.
--Richard
"I think the general idea is that the 50-something programmer will most likely wish to retire soon."
Why do you think that?
--Richard