I've helped deal with an MS Office document which crashed MS Word when it was opened. Fortunately, I was able to chop it up with StarOffice and figure out that a certain page was causing the crash. One image on that page caused the problem -- with StarOffice I was able to clear the image and produce a document which the rest of the office could read. Something was very wrong with that image, but fortunately its content was not essential for the meaning of the document.
Even MS Office can't read all MS Word/MS Office documents, so why should anyone else be expected to? (And of course others mentioned the MS Word file incompatibilities...)
No, it's a $10 billion/year Microsoft innovation. Microsoft created the whole antivirus industry when they decided to not have MS-DOS use the protection hardware in the 286 (and later the 386). Leaving the hardware accessible to user programs was known to be a bad idea ten years earlier.
I wouldst connect to thee, o most remote of arachnid presenters!
When'er thine voice is delayed from reaching mine ears before sweet sleep approaches me, and I knowest that we be in the presence of yonder overlooking master of all things constructed, then my awareness shall be that the master hast brought his minions to overwhelm thine voice with their chanting and I shall be filled with woe and anticipation of what sweetness might I forsee in the morrow.
As mass and energy are equivalent, can't they just define the mass as a certain number of barrels of that cesium 133 light? Right now they just throw away that light each second, but they could recycle it.
A mass balance isn't exact either, as there is a distance between the masses and there are variations in density in the liquid rock under this thin crust that we're on. The density variations mean that you can't just treat gravity as a perfectly vertical and unchanging acceleration.
The BBC article has a link to the EU Competition Commission. Their August 30th MS press release is here (English version). The default version is HTML, and there is no MS "Smart Quotes" damage to it. An MS Word impaired version is available, for some reason.
One of the comments on the StarOffice article mentions that it doesn't import correctly all MS Office files.
The problem actually is that MS Office doesn't export its files correctly.
(Note to corporate document archivers: History suggests that your desktop MS machines won't be able to read your corporate MS Word documents within a few years. "Steve, can you retype these articles of incorporation?")
Yeah, on TV it would be harder to make a battle interesting. It's more visually interesting to move things than to have everyone standing around while Spock says "Another hit, we now have 74 health points..."
Transferring the passengers while in motion is only another engineering problem. They don't stop the ISS or Space Shuttle to transfer passengers, do they?
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The article says the gearbox will be using Linux, and that it will be talking to a Linux mainframe. It's not clear if the Linux mainframe is part of the gearbox, or if the Linux mainframe is where the stock exchange transaction is done (as opposed to messaging about transactions).
The transaction involves the actual business logic and database update, so whatever equipment does that is the actual electronic exchange system.
Your radio's behavior does not prove nor disprove anything about Media Player.
Yeah, I've done DXing routinely when outside metropolitan areas. In southern Minnesota, flipping to WLS Chicago around sunset, or listening to KOMA Oklahoma City (nice mix of live radio and music at the time). Driving between states also offers random events, such as a favorite program being replayed from Penn at a time when I could listen for several hours from Wisconsin, listening to hometown Minnesota stations in Colorado and Tenn, and Kentucky FM in Iowa.
I also happened to encounter a day when a TV antenna pointed toward Minneapolis was picking up a Toronto station instead of the Minneapolis station which was on the same channel. Minneapolis usually came in clearly due to the geometry being just right for picking up the first bounce of the signal, but one of these storms instead presented the signal from hundreds of miles beyond.
I've also tended to have a general coverage receiver for SWL, usually with a simple spiral loop antenna on the back of a bookcase that was at right angles to the direction I was interested in. I recently picked up a used digital SW receiver, which certainly makes it easier to hop right to a frequency to check if a station is coming in now.
I agree. Poor maintenance/administration can be what causes problems for an individual system of any type. It becomes worse the more systems which have the same problem. If a problem can be fixed in the system level by a manufacturer, then the problem is solved for that type of system -- but it's then not fixed in an individual machine until the fix is installed.
With Unix vs MS-DOS systems, the problem at the system-typ level is in the security philosophy. Unix requires that users (including the system) be isolated from each other (with some exceptions permitted). MS-DOS requires that vital hardware be accessible by all programs.
That's why the virus industry flourished under MS-DOS/Windows. Malicious programs could not be controlled on MS-DOS. The Unix security policy has allowed weaknesses to be closed because a malicious program has to violate the isolation policy.
Any malicious program on Unix has to work within the isolation security policy, or the hole it uses will be repaired at the system-type level by creators of kernels and distributions. After such a fix has been published, it's a matter of individual system maintenance whether the fix gets installed.
This is an idea which Gore literally dreamed up. A Google search for "Gore satellite Earth" will show several articles about it -- he dreamed it up at night while asleep. Scientific?
It would require an eight-inch telescope on the satellite, which would be 1.6 million Km from Earth, rather than the 36 thousand Km of geostationary weather satellites. Those existing weather satellites already let us see global weather 24 hours a day.
This Spaceviews article was a thorough description at the time the idea was proposed. The idea came to Gore at night, while he was not fully conscious.
I thought Slashdot had discussed this satellite, and the major points were that it would need an 8-inch telescope due to the distance, and existing weather satellites already give a better 24-hour view of weather patterns. Triana would have to be 1.6 million kilometers from Earth, rather than the 36,000 kilometers of a weather satellite's Clarke orbit. A 24-hour sunlit view could be created from the existing satellite images, as was mentioned in the link in the parent article.
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Even MS Office can't read all MS Word/MS Office documents, so why should anyone else be expected to? (And of course others mentioned the MS Word file incompatibilities...)
No, it's a $10 billion/year Microsoft innovation. Microsoft created the whole antivirus industry when they decided to not have MS-DOS use the protection hardware in the 286 (and later the 386). Leaving the hardware accessible to user programs was known to be a bad idea ten years earlier.
According to that document, the proper reference is ?ACM?: "Association for Computing Machinery (?ACM?)"
Yeah, that does rhyme in the original Klingon.
When'er thine voice is delayed from reaching mine ears
before sweet sleep approaches me,
and I knowest that we be in the presence of yonder overlooking master of all things constructed,
then my awareness shall be that the master hast brought his minions to overwhelm thine voice with their chanting
and I shall be filled with woe and anticipation of what sweetness might I forsee in the morrow.
It depends how hard you throw it at the aliens, whether they resemble birds, and whether there are at least two of them.
Second: The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
As mass and energy are equivalent, can't they just define the mass as a certain number of barrels of that cesium 133 light? Right now they just throw away that light each second, but they could recycle it.
Read the dictionary, not weigh it?
A mass balance isn't exact either, as there is a distance between the masses and there are variations in density in the liquid rock under this thin crust that we're on. The density variations mean that you can't just treat gravity as a perfectly vertical and unchanging acceleration.
It's a matter of making the number of bits divided by the Federal Express delivery time equal at least 28.8kbps.
So, registering i_am_in_icann_34567.net would allow me to join?
The BBC article has a link to the EU Competition Commission. Their August 30th MS press release is here (English version). The default version is HTML, and there is no MS "Smart Quotes" damage to it. An MS Word impaired version is available, for some reason.
The problem actually is that MS Office doesn't export its files correctly.
(Note to corporate document archivers: History suggests that your desktop MS machines won't be able to read your corporate MS Word documents within a few years. "Steve, can you retype these articles of incorporation?")
Yeah, on TV it would be harder to make a battle interesting. It's more visually interesting to move things than to have everyone standing around while Spock says "Another hit, we now have 74 health points..."
Transferring the passengers while in motion is only another engineering problem. They don't stop the ISS or Space Shuttle to transfer passengers, do they?
The transaction involves the actual business logic and database update, so whatever equipment does that is the actual electronic exchange system.
Is martial arts defense an art or a science?
Well, I think that if the astronauts lose all their teeth then they would just suck.
Your radio's behavior does not prove nor disprove anything about Media Player.
Yeah, I've done DXing routinely when outside metropolitan areas. In southern Minnesota, flipping to WLS Chicago around sunset, or listening to KOMA Oklahoma City (nice mix of live radio and music at the time). Driving between states also offers random events, such as a favorite program being replayed from Penn at a time when I could listen for several hours from Wisconsin, listening to hometown Minnesota stations in Colorado and Tenn, and Kentucky FM in Iowa.
I also happened to encounter a day when a TV antenna pointed toward Minneapolis was picking up a Toronto station instead of the Minneapolis station which was on the same channel. Minneapolis usually came in clearly due to the geometry being just right for picking up the first bounce of the signal, but one of these storms instead presented the signal from hundreds of miles beyond.
I've also tended to have a general coverage receiver for SWL, usually with a simple spiral loop antenna on the back of a bookcase that was at right angles to the direction I was interested in. I recently picked up a used digital SW receiver, which certainly makes it easier to hop right to a frequency to check if a station is coming in now.
"Have you Meta Moderated the Presidential Election Today?"
With Unix vs MS-DOS systems, the problem at the system-typ level is in the security philosophy. Unix requires that users (including the system) be isolated from each other (with some exceptions permitted). MS-DOS requires that vital hardware be accessible by all programs.
That's why the virus industry flourished under MS-DOS/Windows. Malicious programs could not be controlled on MS-DOS. The Unix security policy has allowed weaknesses to be closed because a malicious program has to violate the isolation policy.
Any malicious program on Unix has to work within the isolation security policy, or the hole it uses will be repaired at the system-type level by creators of kernels and distributions. After such a fix has been published, it's a matter of individual system maintenance whether the fix gets installed.
It would require an eight-inch telescope on the satellite, which would be 1.6 million Km from Earth, rather than the 36 thousand Km of geostationary weather satellites. Those existing weather satellites already let us see global weather 24 hours a day.
I thought Slashdot had discussed this satellite, and the major points were that it would need an 8-inch telescope due to the distance, and existing weather satellites already give a better 24-hour view of weather patterns. Triana would have to be 1.6 million kilometers from Earth, rather than the 36,000 kilometers of a weather satellite's Clarke orbit. A 24-hour sunlit view could be created from the existing satellite images, as was mentioned in the link in the parent article.
An article really should mention what the company does. In this case, it is not a music-related company...