MSOffice most definitely has data corruption bugs. If you tried to write a large document (pictures, tables etc) in Word, every so often part of the document would become invisibly corrupted and Word ould refuse to save it. You would then have to go through the document cutting paragraphs until you worked out where the corruption was so you could save. I saw this many times at uni, normally just before group project deadlines.
I guess so. I suppose I was thinking more along the lines of using the file format. I'd have thought that a nice GUI front end using the gzip code as a back end should be pretty simple to write and would put WinZip and PkWare out of business.
Why is zip still so big in the Windows world? Gzip is available for pretty much every platform, completely free and produces smaller files by about 10% from my experiments).
Firstly, this could be seen as price dumping - deliberately charging low prices with the intent of driving competition out of business and extending a monopoly.
Secondly, this isn't so much an anti-MS story as a "Hey look, MS is hurting" story.
RTFA. That's five client licences, including support and updates for a year. Compare that to Microsoft's plans - maybe $2000 for the same setup, still with their $50-per-call support service.
It will in France (and possibly other continental European countries) - job application letters are expected to be handwritten and the quality of your handwriting is part of your assessment for the job. But then they do some crazy things over there.
Even if you can only type, you can still write in cursive - these guys will sell you the fonts!
Looking at that picture of 'cursive' writing in the article, I don't think I've ever seen anyone write like that, though. I guess it is a uniquely American way or something. Who cares what handwriting looks like anyway?
I know UK Police forces (West Yorks initially) were looking at a thin client Linux desktop deployment, which it was claimed could lead to greater Linux take-up in the public sector - story. Any connection I wonder? My favourite quote - "Linux is Unix done properly.".
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Well, there's palm linux (palm-linux.sourceforge.net). Doesn't work on my m100, dunno about the older Palms.
Oops. I would like to take this opportunity to apologise whole-heartedly to the entire rocket-scientist community for unfairly demeaning your academic abilities. It won't happen again.
The point is you can't figure it out. Demand for a product is some function of its 'desirability' and its price. Pirated software is free, so demand for pirated versions is high. If you took away the pirate option and instead offered only the expensive 'real thing', demand would fall away. That's what makes all these estimates so ridiculous - nobody can provide a real answer,so the BSA say whatever they want in order to guarantee themselves continued funding
The increasingly powerul anti-piracy measures being taken (BSA 'military-strike style' audits, WinXP activation etc.) can only be a good thing for Free software, surely? By increasing the effective cost of using non-free software, they make free software more attractive.
The only useful purpose the BSA serve is to provide silly stories like this to make me laugh on a dull mid-week afternoon. Thanks!
You're not the only one, but many people do care. Hence case mods etc.
In an normal office environment, things like appearance don't make much difference. But if you spend thousands decorating your home, why not spend money so that your computer looks good too?
It may not be news per se, but I don't think that the purpose of Slashdot is news alone(despite the subtitle). Slashdot serves a useful purpose in the geek community as a kind of central area for distributing useful bits of information.
Personally, I can think of many times that I have seen something in a story or comment on Slashdot that, while not news, was still extremely useful to me. For example, I found out about Plucker and WindowMaker through some random comments in stories like this.
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For the first year of my PhD I was stuck with a sparcstation 5 on my desk (32Meg ram, processor like a fast 486). It ran CDE and it was just too painful for words.
Installing FVWM gave me a faster, more usable desktop that kept me from going insane until we got the budget to buy a new computer (which unfortunately runs win2K, but I guess you can't have everything)
Yep, I moved from Debian stable + the kde 3.1 packages to Gentoo on my main desktop machine and haven't looked back since.
I still run Debian on my home server, for which it is (and always will be) ideally suited, but the extra speed and configurability of Gentoo have made me a convert.
Three a mobile company here in the UK has been selling handsets and access for a while that provides music/maps/video downloads and calls.
And nobody is buying them. The salespeople standing outside the Three shops in London look more desperate everytime I walk past. The introductory special offers have been extended in an attempt to boost flagging sales.
Mobile phones and SMS meet a basic need for communication, 3G and video phones don't really add anything to this. Look at the desperate advertising campaigns from Three etc trying to convince us that it's cool to be able to see someone while talking. Nobody is advertising 3G as 'useful' or talking about features - it's all image.
Yeah, but in the park you can see them cheating. In an online twitch game, you may only get half a second to work out if someone is cheating before you're dead and have to respawn. Was the person who killed you cheating or just good? Apart from the really obvious cheats (like, you empty a magazine into their head from behind and they survive) it's often hard to tell.
Personally I just don't understand the cheaters. It's a fucking game, not real life.
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MSOffice most definitely has data corruption bugs. If you tried to write a large document (pictures, tables etc) in Word, every so often part of the document would become invisibly corrupted and Word ould refuse to save it. You would then have to go through the document cutting paragraphs until you worked out where the corruption was so you could save. I saw this many times at uni, normally just before group project deadlines.
I guess so. I suppose I was thinking more along the lines of using the file format. I'd have thought that a nice GUI front end using the gzip code as a back end should be pretty simple to write and would put WinZip and PkWare out of business.
Why is zip still so big in the Windows world? Gzip is available for pretty much every platform, completely free and produces smaller files by about 10% from my experiments).
Firstly, this could be seen as price dumping - deliberately charging low prices with the intent of driving competition out of business and extending a monopoly.
Secondly, this isn't so much an anti-MS story as a "Hey look, MS is hurting" story.
Erm. How does $300x5 + 12*$50 = $900?
RTFA. That's five client licences, including support and updates for a year. Compare that to Microsoft's plans - maybe $2000 for the same setup, still with their $50-per-call support service.
Should spammers be held responsible for the spams they send out?
s/'be held responsible for'/'be made to print out and eat'Will cursive help you get a job? No.
It will in France (and possibly other continental European countries) - job application letters are expected to be handwritten and the quality of your handwriting is part of your assessment for the job. But then they do some crazy things over there.
Even if you can only type, you can still write in cursive - these guys will sell you the fonts!
Looking at that picture of 'cursive' writing in the article, I don't think I've ever seen anyone write like that, though. I guess it is a uniquely American way or something. Who cares what handwriting looks like anyway?
This means that some guy at the RIAA is sitting there at the moment actually feeling good about the fact he just stole $12,000.
Office politics in that office must be scary.
I know UK Police forces (West Yorks initially) were looking at a thin client Linux desktop deployment, which it was claimed could lead to greater Linux take-up in the public sector - story. Any connection I wonder? My favourite quote - "Linux is Unix done properly.".
Well, there's palm linux (palm-linux.sourceforge.net). Doesn't work on my m100, dunno about the older Palms.
Oops. I would like to take this opportunity to apologise whole-heartedly to the entire rocket-scientist community for unfairly demeaning your academic abilities. It won't happen again.
"That's when it came home to me what 1/2mv2 means"
This guy is a rocket scientist? I guess that's one stereotype debunked.
There's a scary thought. Kind of like Jack Nicholoson in that awful film - "what if this is as good as it gets?"
I think the point is that *Microsoft* word processing hit a peak with Word 97.
The point is you can't figure it out. Demand for a product is some function of its 'desirability' and its price. Pirated software is free, so demand for pirated versions is high. If you took away the pirate option and instead offered only the expensive 'real thing', demand would fall away. That's what makes all these estimates so ridiculous - nobody can provide a real answer,so the BSA say whatever they want in order to guarantee themselves continued funding
The increasingly powerul anti-piracy measures being taken (BSA 'military-strike style' audits, WinXP activation etc.) can only be a good thing for Free software, surely? By increasing the effective cost of using non-free software, they make free software more attractive.
The only useful purpose the BSA serve is to provide silly stories like this to make me laugh on a dull mid-week afternoon. Thanks!
You're not the only one, but many people do care. Hence case mods etc.
In an normal office environment, things like appearance don't make much difference. But if you spend thousands decorating your home, why not spend money so that your computer looks good too?
It may not be news per se, but I don't think that the purpose of Slashdot is news alone(despite the subtitle). Slashdot serves a useful purpose in the geek community as a kind of central area for distributing useful bits of information.
Personally, I can think of many times that I have seen something in a story or comment on Slashdot that, while not news, was still extremely useful to me. For example, I found out about Plucker and WindowMaker through some random comments in stories like this.
.For the first year of my PhD I was stuck with a sparcstation 5 on my desk (32Meg ram, processor like a fast 486). It ran CDE and it was just too painful for words.
Installing FVWM gave me a faster, more usable desktop that kept me from going insane until we got the budget to buy a new computer (which unfortunately runs win2K, but I guess you can't have everything)
Dammit I was kidding. And that -r is in the right place - works for me.
What the hell is going on? When did the whole world go through the rabbit hole?
/usr/src/linux -r
Personally, I reckon:
$>grep '(C) SCO'
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should settle the whole case.
Yep, I moved from Debian stable + the kde 3.1 packages to Gentoo on my main desktop machine and haven't looked back since.
I still run Debian on my home server, for which it is (and always will be) ideally suited, but the extra speed and configurability of Gentoo have made me a convert.
Three a mobile company here in the UK has been selling handsets and access for a while that provides music/maps/video downloads and calls.
And nobody is buying them. The salespeople standing outside the Three shops in London look more desperate everytime I walk past. The introductory special offers have been extended in an attempt to boost flagging sales.
Mobile phones and SMS meet a basic need for communication, 3G and video phones don't really add anything to this. Look at the desperate advertising campaigns from Three etc trying to convince us that it's cool to be able to see someone while talking. Nobody is advertising 3G as 'useful' or talking about features - it's all image.
Yeah, but in the park you can see them cheating. In an online twitch game, you may only get half a second to work out if someone is cheating before you're dead and have to respawn. Was the person who killed you cheating or just good? Apart from the really obvious cheats (like, you empty a magazine into their head from behind and they survive) it's often hard to tell.
Personally I just don't understand the cheaters. It's a fucking game, not real life.