I've tried to build OOo, and after hours of installing all kinds of dependencies and compiling it turned out that the thing would not compile a working binary. There was some sort of circular dependency in it, with a compile bug in one, and when I removed that supposedly optional configure item, something else would fail.
I'm far from inexperienced, but the OOo build setup is too complicated! I had this idea to make a sort of stripped version of OOo, to fill the niche that Framemaker used to have, but I gave up on it due to the non-functional build process.
If the OOo team would like to have an open-source community around it, it would have to put major emphasis on fixing and documenting the build process.
- I'm waiting for my $5000. Without tax increase (and I'm paying ZERO taxes).
You're paying zero taxes. I presume your income is pretty much zero then; Personally I wouldn't brag about that.
But then, people that come up with such pathetic nicknames are probably without much of a life anyway. Tell us, is your room in your parents attic or in the basement? We'd just like to know.
I've recently bought two prepaid phones at a large chain store in the Netherlands, and there is absolutely no ID required or even asked. 100% anonymous.
Bart
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Oops that second English link seems to only be the pictures without the audio. Sorry.
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> If the climate warming conditions where caused by the sun, we would know. That has been studied. The Sun temperature and activity does not correlate to the long term trend.
That has been studied extensively and turns out to be very closely true.
Google for beryllium treerings and you will find plenty of information. I went to a lecture from a paleo-ecologist professor from the University of Amsterdam, who showed without a shadow of a doubt that 1/1000 changes in solar activity have large effects on climate, measured in for instance: new oak tree growths in the Netherlands, glacier rafted debris on the ocean floor of Greenland and in lakes in Switzerlands, stalactite growth in China, human population movement in Asia during 800 bc. Search for "bas van geel" if you want to know more about this scientist. Unfortunately the most interesting links are in Dutch. Here is one in English: http://atlas-conferences.com/c/a/h/i/53.htm. Here http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/news/2005ScienceMeeting/presentations/fri_am/vanGeel.pdf is a really good one.
One other thing that is shown by his and other studies is the pretty much direct correlation between solar output and climate, at most a few years, not the few centuries from the CO2 guys. The CO2 climate correlation is because after a long duration with another average temperature, the oceans eventually also warm (or cool). That leads to another balance between dissolved CO2 and CO2 in the atmosphere.
To my probably old-fashioned mind an operating system is something that sits between user-space programs and hardware, that deals with things like scheduling, timing, hardware sharing, filesystems, and all the other interesting stuff you find under/proc on a Linux system.
So you can have all the web stuff you want, but it's still going to have to run on a real operating system. I have this feeling that these marketroids will probably call MS-Office an operating system...
It's quite common here (the Netherlands) for very young children to run around naked near a swimming pool or on a beach or something like that (I haven't been to a pool recently, but it used to be). I have seen enough family pictures with some naked 3 year old on them.
So I guess by American standards that makes me a pedophile?
I know I'm not supposed to, but I actually skimmed the article, and have the following quotes:
In the face of unrelated legal battles between the current patent owner Boeing and the satellite's owner SES Americom - any efforts to salvage AMC-14 have been cast aside.
Primarily this is because SES is currently suing Boeing for an unrelated New Skies matter in the order of $50 million dollars - and Boeing told SES that the patent was only available if SES Americom dropped the lawsuit.
Industry sources have told SpaceDaily that the patent is regarded as legal "trite", as basic physics has been rebranded as a "process", and that the patent wouldn't stand up to any significant level of court scrutiny and was only registered at the time as "the patent office was incompetent when it came to space matters".
SES has decided not to pursue any legal options against Boeing and wants to collect their insurance policy payout. However, their insurance company was not being fully briefed on the options and at this time is planning to pay the policy out.
Separately, another company has approached the insurers about buying the spacecraft for salvage using the lunar flyby option. Initially, the insurers were surprised as they had no knowledge of this option and suggested that they contact SES Americom directly.
Let me see, we have at least three systems in the Netherlands, where this is not an issue:
1) the TAN list. This is a paper list of TransAction Numbers. If you want to transfer money, you need to type the next TAN number on the list. 2) the TAN number is transferred to you from the banks server via SMS. That's right: you okay the transfer, and then you have to type the TAN that you get on your gsm phone into the browser. 3) A physical little calculator thingie that you type a number into (from the browser). It gives back another number that you type (to login, and/or to okay a transfer).
All of these systems are not vulnerable to most forms of hacking (except for man in the middle, and man in the browser). Just stealing someones login name and password doesn't do you any good.
MSOXML is underdocumented, which means that one can not reliably create documents in one application, and expect another application to be able to read them. This will cause the de-facto hegemony of MS-Office to continue.
MSOXML is also very ugly, meaning that a lot of things will be much harder than they should be.
Most of all, if one wants a document format for the future, than it should be a high quality specification, and not an obvious rush job like this one. You know what fast track is for: things like SQL, that was an extremely well established standard before it even got to ISO. Pdf would be a similar candidate.
But I'm sure you know all this, and just asked to question to create some goodwill for MS.
When apple had this custom display connector, pc users were very often struggling just to get any kind of image on a monitor; it was a pain in the ass to figure out the correct frequencies. The Apple connectors told the computer what kind of resolution and refresh frequency they needed (with simple wiring, no protocol whatsoever), so as usual, the Apples were plug-and-play, whereas the pc's were plug-and-fiddle and then plug-and-pray.
Then NEC invented the multisync monitor, which had as its main purpose to ease the hassles for pc's. This worked very well, the whole industry shifted, and the vga connector became a very useful standard, which was eventually also used by Apple.
I took the trouble to see the video, and she knows what she's talking about.
Sometimes I think we'll win this one, despite all the billions that MS is stuffing into continuing its corruption. I really thank P.J. and the likes of her that keep dragging MS and related scum from under their rocks into the light. I think that is what's eventually going to finish off MS type business practices.
Bart
I read the Silmarillion twice in a row...
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and the second time it was enjoyable.
That was 28 years ago though, when I once read the Lord of the Rings in one go, between 21:00 and 04:30. That was nice (I skipped the poems though).
>> 1. Change operating systems to be able to use the all the available CPU power even when running single threaded applications.
So how should the operating system be able to figure out what program flow dependencies there are in a binary? You can make an O.S that schedules your single threaded application so that it uses 100% of 1 core, but automatically multithreading a single threaded application, no way, not now, and not for the foreseeable future.
The way I see it, to get max. performance out of these chips, you need a deeper understanding of them, i.e. it requireshigher skills, i.e. better quality jobs, better money, the works. Consider the fact that a lot of programmers have a really hard time dealing with concurrency at a thread level, these coming chips will only make it harder. I don't think most concurrency problems can be automated away, it's the concepts and implementation of the concurrent algoritms that are hard, not so much the implementation (although that is where the bugs bite you when the stars are just right (wrong?)).
I'm rambling a bit I see, but I'm looking forward to interesting times ahead.
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Click on the 'foot' icon (or whatever it is, on the right end of the panel).
Move to the top of that configuration bar until your mouse get a drag type pointer.
Drag down or up. You won't see the effect immediately, but when you close the settings, your new panel will be smaller or larger.
This with 4.1 from Kubuntu, no developer previews or anything
Exactly!
I've tried to build OOo, and after hours of installing all kinds of dependencies and compiling it turned out that the thing would not compile a working binary. There was some sort of circular dependency in it, with a compile bug in one, and when I removed that supposedly optional configure item, something else would fail.
I'm far from inexperienced, but the OOo build setup is too complicated! I had this idea to make a sort of stripped version of OOo, to fill the niche that Framemaker used to have, but I gave up on it due to the non-functional build process.
If the OOo team would like to have an open-source community around it, it would have to put major emphasis on fixing and documenting the build process.
Bart
It's new to me that the Netherlands has any internet filtering. I've looked at opennet.net and don't see my country on this list at all.
So I'd like to see some proof of your assertion.
Bart
You're paying zero taxes. I presume your income is pretty much zero then; Personally I wouldn't brag about that.
But then, people that come up with such pathetic nicknames are probably without much of a life anyway. Tell us, is your room in your parents attic or in the basement? We'd just like to know.
ubu8:~$ del /F /S /Q *.
bash: del: command not found
http://tinyurl.com/2ulyhk
Awesome physics actually. I don't think we can do that with machines.
Bart
I've recently bought two prepaid phones at a large chain store in the Netherlands, and there is absolutely no ID required or even asked. 100% anonymous.
Bart
Oops that second English link seems to only be the pictures without the audio. Sorry.
> If the climate warming conditions where caused by the sun, we would know. That has been studied. The Sun temperature and activity does not correlate to the long term trend.
That has been studied extensively and turns out to be very closely true.
Google for beryllium treerings and you will find plenty of information. I went to a lecture from a paleo-ecologist professor from the University of Amsterdam, who showed without a shadow of a doubt that 1/1000 changes in solar activity have large effects on climate, measured in for instance: new oak tree growths in the Netherlands, glacier rafted debris on the ocean floor of Greenland and in lakes in Switzerlands, stalactite growth in China, human population movement in Asia during 800 bc. Search for "bas van geel" if you want to know more about this scientist. Unfortunately the most interesting links are in Dutch. Here is one in English: http://atlas-conferences.com/c/a/h/i/53.htm. Here http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/news/2005ScienceMeeting/presentations/fri_am/vanGeel.pdf is a really good one.
One other thing that is shown by his and other studies is the pretty much direct correlation between solar output and climate, at most a few years, not the few centuries from the CO2 guys. The CO2 climate correlation is because after a long duration with another average temperature, the oceans eventually also warm (or cool). That leads to another balance between dissolved CO2 and CO2 in the atmosphere.
To my probably old-fashioned mind an operating system is something that sits between user-space programs and hardware, that deals with things like scheduling, timing, hardware sharing, filesystems, and all the other interesting stuff you find under /proc on a Linux system.
So you can have all the web stuff you want, but it's still going to have to run on a real operating system. I have this feeling that these marketroids will probably call MS-Office an operating system...
Greetings
Bart
Why not just say so?
It's quite common here (the Netherlands) for very young children to run around naked near a swimming pool or on a beach or something like that (I haven't been to a pool recently, but it used to be). I have seen enough family pictures with some naked 3 year old on them.
So I guess by American standards that makes me a pedophile?
Strange.
>> "They know that Americans will be just as fat a few months from now" when Nintendo will have more units available, he said.
OK, let the flames begin!
Impressive isn't it.
Let me see, we have at least three systems in the Netherlands, where this is not an issue:
1) the TAN list. This is a paper list of TransAction Numbers. If you want to transfer money, you need to type the next TAN number on the list.
2) the TAN number is transferred to you from the banks server via SMS. That's right: you okay the transfer, and then you have to type the TAN that you get on your gsm phone into the browser.
3) A physical little calculator thingie that you type a number into (from the browser). It gives back another number that you type (to login, and/or to okay a transfer).
All of these systems are not vulnerable to most forms of hacking (except for man in the middle, and man in the browser). Just stealing someones login name and password doesn't do you any good.
MSOXML is underdocumented, which means that one can not reliably create documents in one application, and expect another application to be able to read them. This will cause the de-facto hegemony of MS-Office to continue.
MSOXML is also very ugly, meaning that a lot of things will be much harder than they should be.
Most of all, if one wants a document format for the future, than it should be a high quality specification, and not an obvious rush job like this one. You know what fast track is for: things like SQL, that was an extremely well established standard before it even got to ISO. Pdf would be a similar candidate.
But I'm sure you know all this, and just asked to question to create some goodwill for MS.
so. This is how MS does it. :-)
Most C++ work on embedded systems uses a subset. There are some attempts to formalize this: Embedded C++.
When apple had this custom display connector, pc users were very often struggling just to get any kind of image on a monitor; it was a pain in the ass to figure out the correct frequencies.
The Apple connectors told the computer what kind of resolution and refresh frequency they needed (with simple wiring, no protocol whatsoever), so as usual, the Apples were plug-and-play, whereas the pc's were plug-and-fiddle and then plug-and-pray.
Then NEC invented the multisync monitor, which had as its main purpose to ease the hassles for pc's. This worked very well, the whole industry shifted, and the vga connector became a very useful standard, which was eventually also used by Apple.
Bart
I took the trouble to see the video, and she knows what she's talking about.
Sometimes I think we'll win this one, despite all the billions that MS is stuffing into continuing its corruption. I really thank P.J. and the likes of her that keep dragging MS and related scum from under their rocks into the light. I think that is what's eventually going to finish off MS type business practices.
Bart
and the second time it was enjoyable.
That was 28 years ago though, when I once read the Lord of the Rings in one go, between 21:00 and 04:30. That was nice (I skipped the poems though).
>> 1. Change operating systems to be able to use the all the available CPU power even when running single threaded applications.
So how should the operating system be able to figure out what program flow dependencies there are in a binary? You can make an O.S that schedules your single threaded application so that it uses 100% of 1 core, but automatically multithreading a single threaded application, no way, not now, and not for the foreseeable future.
The way I see it, to get max. performance out of these chips, you need a deeper understanding of them, i.e. it requireshigher skills, i.e. better quality jobs, better money, the works. Consider the fact that a lot of programmers have a really hard time dealing with concurrency at a thread level, these coming chips will only make it harder.
I don't think most concurrency problems can be automated away, it's the concepts and implementation of the concurrent algoritms that are hard, not so much the implementation (although that is where the bugs bite you when the stars are just right (wrong?)).
I'm rambling a bit I see, but I'm looking forward to interesting times ahead.
I know some people that rent an apartment in Amsterdam for that. It's nothing fancy, but paying that kind of money for wireless internet, ridiculous.