C'mon, why do people have to bring this up EVERY time Corel seems to be having problems (and sometimes even when they're not)? Yes they did try to port WordPerfect to Java, and they did. It was one of the better Java program ports, but it ended up that in order to make it small and fast enough, they had to take out features that people demanded. Remember that this was around 1996....everybody thought Java was god at the time.....so get over it already.
OK let's try to get somewhat informed on the situation before spouting a pile of crap will you? The government doesn't run the CBC, it just funds it. It's called a "crown corporation"....owned by taxpayers but run completely separate from the government. It's not under government control at all. It's like PBS...you wouldn't call that socialist control would you?
I'm no big fan of the CBC, I'd like to see it privatized or restructured, but it's definitely not the government mouthpiece you say it is.
Quattro, their other "advantage", runs excellently in native mode under Linux, but it's not Corel's any longer, since their merger with Borland/Inprise fell through.
Uh.....no. Corel owns Quattro Pro and has for awhile...it's been part of the WordPerfect suite since version 7 or earlier. (7 was Corel's first release.) And Quattro Pro doesn't run natively on linux either, it uses libwine like all the rest of WordPerfect Office.
I don't know if this guy is trying to be an asshole or what. I live in Canada, I agree with his points about high taxation and a messy federal government. (The provincial government is great, the federal is just being screwed up by Liberals who hopefully will be voted out soon).
His point that they stand no chance up here is a total load of crap, and it shows that he has no idea what's going on in Ottawa. Consider the companies in this area besides Corel: Nortel, Alcatel, Cognos, JDS Uniphase, MDS Nordion, JetForm, Rebel.com, Catena, Nokia, Cisco, Entrust, WorldHeart, webPLAN, Research in Motion, Dy4 Systems, Marconi, GSI Lumonics, CrossKeys, Lockheed Martin, E-Cruiter.com,....should I go on???
The point is, Canada has a huge talent pool, and the taxes are offset by the low currency value compared to the US dollar. Believe it or not, high-tech companies can exist outside the San Jose hellhole, and many are doing so very successfully, thank you.
GraphicCorp is just a division of Corel that controlled a library of images. I think the only product this affects is a web site where they sell rights to the photos. I doubt it was doing much business anyway. I think this is a good move to concentrate on their core products.
I'm from Ottawa, and something else that was in the news here today (which I doubt appeared anywhere else) is that they closed one of their satellite offices in town to consolidate into their main building. This is logical cost-cutting, and as it doesn't affect their main businesses, I think it's a Good Thing.
Holy crap man, you're calling Rogue "ugly"? Personally I think Anna Paquin is pretty cute, her look was exactly right for someone who is supposed to be a lonely, alienated girl.
As for your other points....who the fuck really cares where Wolverines claws come out of? Anybody???? (besides you). Further, this is supposed to take place at the beginnning of the X-Men, when the characters just don't know how to fly yet. Give them a break, there are at least 2 sequels coming up, you know.
Finally, this was far from a "lame action flick." In fact I wouldn't even call it an action movie at all, it's more like a drama that has action sequences in it. If you missed the intelligence of the plot, or are just looking for something more stupid, go rent Batman and Robin.
WordPerfect 8 is free, but they're selling WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux, which gives you the whole package, not just the word processor. Same with Photo-Paint...it's just basically a teaser for the commercial Draw 9 package that will be out soon.
I agree with you that their marketing is not ag good as it could be, but it's definitely not as bad as you say. Corel used to have ugly ads and packaging, that's for sure.....but their recent designs (the boxes for WordPerfect Office 2000 and Corel Draw 9) are very nice-looking. That's not to say that one of the things that Corel could really use is a good ad agency....they've always done that internally and they've never been great at it.
Emmett on his best behavior? LOL I don't think so....you should've seen him at the Slashdot booth at LinuxWorld Expo in February...man he's hilarious. I wanna add my name to the petition for emmett to be a GIS regular!
Actually he is right....the term "PC" is actually a registered trademark of IBM to describe their computers. However the whole term "IBM-compatible" is pretty much obsolete these days....IBM is now just another clone maker. It'd probably be more accurate to call them "Intel architecture" or something....but with AMD's growing popularity, that probably doesn't work either. So I dunno...
Obviously Battlefield Earth really, really sucked.....but I did enjoy it more than Mission to Mars. M2M was long, boring, with no action, stupid science and grating organ music. Battlefield Earth obviously made little to no sense (after 1000 years, planes still work? uh...no). But there was some action in there, and no organ music. The best way to see Battlefield Earth (assuming you really have to see it that bad) is to go with a bunch of friends. That way you can all make fun of the movie and laugh all the way through. That's what I did....fun for everyone:)
Make sure you read the release notes, and see if anything in there will fix your problem. Specifically, make sure you delete your old mozregistry.dat file in the Windows directory, if one is there.
ARM used to be owned/manufactured by DEC, but when they were bought by Compaq, the ARM division went to Intel. See Intel's product page on them here.
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The skin manager program hasn't been added to Mozilla yet, it will be coming before beta 2. But besides that, what Customize button are you talking about? I've got Netscape 6 PR1, and I sure as hell don't have one...
Star Trek is in serious trouble. Paramount knows this, and they are desperate to fix it and see it riding high once again. The only problem is, they don't know how to do this, and the people they are relying on to save this franchise are the same people who dug it into its current hole in the first place, namely Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.
Right now, Star Trek is at pretty much its lowest point since the 70s, when there was no series at all. The last movie was a disappointment, both critically and commercially, Voyager ratings are a pale shadow of what they were in early seasons (they're stable compared to last year, but that's only because they really can't go down very much more). Hell, today came the news that Kate Mulgrew's fan club has shut down. Granted this seems to be for personal reasons on the part of the founders, but the symbolism is profound. The fan club of the actress who plays the captain on a Star Trek show- noted for the dedication of its fans- is no longer. Pathetic.
Birth of the Federation sounds to me like an unbelievably stupid idea. Anybody who knows about Star Trek already has a pretty good idea of what happened back then. And frankly, we don't really care. Brannon Braga has never been noted for his dedication to consistency within the Star Trek universe, so now he's going to bring in a time-travel guy so he can fuck things up. We all know what this is going to mean- more weird-ass vortexes, more mindless fights, more anomalies-of-the-week, and probably more women in catsuits. The Baywatch-ization of Star Trek will be complete. But hell, even if they want more of an action focus, the Special Forces concept would be cooler than this.
I think it's time for Paramount to realize what alot of other people already have: the time has long since come for Braga and Berman to move on. The franchise needs a break. Finish Voyager, then just let it sit for a bit. Then call in some fresh blood, or some veteran blood that knows what it's doing. Ronald D. Moore's recent articles on Fandom show that he is a man who understands the franchise's problems and he has a pretty good idea how to fix them. He is one of the key people responsible for one of Star Trek's few recent successes, the final season of Deep Space Nine, which was brilliantly done. Moore would be the perfect candidate to resurrect Star Trek.
Obviously I haven't seen Birth of the Federation so I can't make any final judgments. But I'm definitely not optimistic. Having a Star Trek series cancelled in its first season would be a huge embarrasment and the biggest insult yet to a franchise that's already been largely stripped of its dignity. But having it die might be the only way to save it in the long run.
The "Hollywood Blockbuster" mentioned at the article is U-571, which looks like it's gonna be pretty cool. Doesn't it seem awfully coincidental that an enigma machine is stolen a mere 3 weeks before a movie about stealing an enigma machine opens? Hmmmm..... (play X-Files music here)
I wonder if this means Chilli will keep giving out demo copies of FrontPage (**shudder**) at Linux conferences. Hey emmett, you remember when we returned that CD to them in micro shards in New York? That was fun....
Nope, this was much, much worse than Jar Jar, who at least had a fairly realistic shape and decent texturing. The Mission to Mars alien didn't look even remotely close to being real.
Frankly, I found even the CGI to be at best unimpressive, and at worst, total crap. For something that cost $100 million, I have no idea where that money went. There was nothing, NOTHING in this movie that made me say "whoa" when I saw it. Hell, even Wild Wild West had some cool-looking stuff in it. This had nothing. In fact I'd go so far as to say that this was worse than Wild Wild West. And that's bad. Specific comments about the effects:
shots of the ships were well done, but that's just expected...and no better than you could see on Star Trek: Voyager every week on TV.
The sandstorm/tornado-type thing was OK, but The Mummy did a better job of that last year
Shots of Mars were remarkably dull. When the Tim Robbins character says "hello, beautiful" as they're approaching Mars, I was expecting a correspondingly beautiful shot of the planet. Instead, we get a faded red sphere with little texture and detail.
I don't know if that alien was supposed to look computer generated, or whether that was actually how the species supposedly looked like, but it was embarassingly amateurish and fake.
The explosion of the face thing and the escape of the alien craft at the end, the only fireworks in the entire movie, were extremely poorly done. Granted, it's hard to make fire look real with CGI, but with $100 million, they could've done a hell of a lot better than this. Look at the Deep Space Nine episode The Sacrifice of Angels. That is how you do CGI. And that's a TV show, something I can watch for free.
It speaks volumes about how bad a movie is when even the effects suck. It's not just De Palma, or the actors, or the scriptwriters who should be embarrased about this. It's all of Disney. There's just a staggering amount of incompetence showing on every level of this horrible movie...the first giant turkey of the millenium.
Apparently, it can do ETrade, but only some of the time, because of some weird timing bug. It will be fixed, but not in time for beta 1. Look at bug 24679.
As for mail filtering, I'm not sure exactly what the status is on that, although there are a few bug specifically relating to mail filtering: here, here and here.
Dan Rather is from Texas, so he doesn't qualify. Peter Jennings is from Ottawa, though, so he'd be fine.
I'd also like to nominate Amanda Marshall or Chantal Kreviazuk to sing this song...not as well known in the States yet, but they're both at least as good Celine Dion or Sarah Maclachlan, and haven't we heard enough from them already?
This is one of the books I was required to read for 10th grade english, and it's one of my favorite books from all the ones I was forced to read. Right up there with 1984 and Animal Farm, and way above crap like Wuthering Heights.
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C'mon, why do people have to bring this up EVERY time Corel seems to be having problems (and sometimes even when they're not)?
Yes they did try to port WordPerfect to Java, and they did. It was one of the better Java program ports, but it ended up that in order to make it small and fast enough, they had to take out features that people demanded. Remember that this was around 1996....everybody thought Java was god at the time.....so get over it already.
I'm no big fan of the CBC, I'd like to see it privatized or restructured, but it's definitely not the government mouthpiece you say it is.
Corel's any longer, since their merger with Borland/Inprise fell through.
Uh.....no. Corel owns Quattro Pro and has for awhile...it's been part of the WordPerfect suite since version 7 or earlier. (7 was Corel's first release.) And Quattro Pro doesn't run natively on linux either, it uses libwine like all the rest of WordPerfect Office.
His point that they stand no chance up here is a total load of crap, and it shows that he has no idea what's going on in Ottawa. Consider the companies in this area besides Corel: Nortel, Alcatel, Cognos, JDS Uniphase, MDS Nordion, JetForm, Rebel.com, Catena, Nokia, Cisco, Entrust, WorldHeart, webPLAN, Research in Motion, Dy4 Systems, Marconi, GSI Lumonics, CrossKeys, Lockheed Martin, E-Cruiter.com, ....should I go on???
The point is, Canada has a huge talent pool, and the taxes are offset by the low currency value compared to the US dollar. Believe it or not, high-tech companies can exist outside the San Jose hellhole, and many are doing so very successfully, thank you.
I'm from Ottawa, and something else that was in the news here today (which I doubt appeared anywhere else) is that they closed one of their satellite offices in town to consolidate into their main building. This is logical cost-cutting, and as it doesn't affect their main businesses, I think it's a Good Thing.
As for your other points....who the fuck really cares where Wolverines claws come out of? Anybody???? (besides you). Further, this is supposed to take place at the beginnning of the X-Men, when the characters just don't know how to fly yet. Give them a break, there are at least 2 sequels coming up, you know.
Finally, this was far from a "lame action flick." In fact I wouldn't even call it an action movie at all, it's more like a drama that has action sequences in it. If you missed the intelligence of the plot, or are just looking for something more stupid, go rent Batman and Robin.
Just to set your mind at ease....Draw (as well as all the other ported Corel apps) use libwine....so they run just fine.
WordPerfect 8 is free, but they're selling WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux, which gives you the whole package, not just the word processor. Same with Photo-Paint...it's just basically a teaser for the commercial Draw 9 package that will be out soon.
I agree with you that their marketing is not ag good as it could be, but it's definitely not as bad as you say. Corel used to have ugly ads and packaging, that's for sure.....but their recent designs (the boxes for WordPerfect Office 2000 and Corel Draw 9) are very nice-looking. That's not to say that one of the things that Corel could really use is a good ad agency....they've always done that internally and they've never been great at it.
Emmett on his best behavior? LOL I don't think so....you should've seen him at the Slashdot booth at LinuxWorld Expo in February...man he's hilarious. I wanna add my name to the petition for emmett to be a GIS regular!
Actually he is right....the term "PC" is actually a registered trademark of IBM to describe their computers. However the whole term "IBM-compatible" is pretty much obsolete these days....IBM is now just another clone maker. It'd probably be more accurate to call them "Intel architecture" or something....but with AMD's growing popularity, that probably doesn't work either. So I dunno...
Obviously Battlefield Earth really, really sucked.....but I did enjoy it more than Mission to Mars. M2M was long, boring, with no action, stupid science and grating organ music. Battlefield Earth obviously made little to no sense (after 1000 years, planes still work? uh...no). But there was some action in there, and no organ music. The best way to see Battlefield Earth (assuming you really have to see it that bad) is to go with a bunch of friends. That way you can all make fun of the movie and laugh all the way through. That's what I did....fun for everyone :)
They used to own Tropicana, but they sold it to Pepsi over a year ago.
Make sure you read the release notes, and see if anything in there will fix your problem. Specifically, make sure you delete your old mozregistry.dat file in the Windows directory, if one is there.
ARM used to be owned/manufactured by DEC, but when they were bought by Compaq, the ARM division went to Intel. See Intel's product page on them here.
The skin manager program hasn't been added to Mozilla yet, it will be coming before beta 2. But besides that, what Customize button are you talking about? I've got Netscape 6 PR1, and I sure as hell don't have one...
Right now, Star Trek is at pretty much its lowest point since the 70s, when there was no series at all. The last movie was a disappointment, both critically and commercially, Voyager ratings are a pale shadow of what they were in early seasons (they're stable compared to last year, but that's only because they really can't go down very much more). Hell, today came the news that Kate Mulgrew's fan club has shut down. Granted this seems to be for personal reasons on the part of the founders, but the symbolism is profound. The fan club of the actress who plays the captain on a Star Trek show- noted for the dedication of its fans- is no longer. Pathetic.
Birth of the Federation sounds to me like an unbelievably stupid idea. Anybody who knows about Star Trek already has a pretty good idea of what happened back then. And frankly, we don't really care. Brannon Braga has never been noted for his dedication to consistency within the Star Trek universe, so now he's going to bring in a time-travel guy so he can fuck things up. We all know what this is going to mean- more weird-ass vortexes, more mindless fights, more anomalies-of-the-week, and probably more women in catsuits. The Baywatch-ization of Star Trek will be complete. But hell, even if they want more of an action focus, the Special Forces concept would be cooler than this.
I think it's time for Paramount to realize what alot of other people already have: the time has long since come for Braga and Berman to move on. The franchise needs a break. Finish Voyager, then just let it sit for a bit. Then call in some fresh blood, or some veteran blood that knows what it's doing. Ronald D. Moore's recent articles on Fandom show that he is a man who understands the franchise's problems and he has a pretty good idea how to fix them. He is one of the key people responsible for one of Star Trek's few recent successes, the final season of Deep Space Nine, which was brilliantly done. Moore would be the perfect candidate to resurrect Star Trek.
Obviously I haven't seen Birth of the Federation so I can't make any final judgments. But I'm definitely not optimistic. Having a Star Trek series cancelled in its first season would be a huge embarrasment and the biggest insult yet to a franchise that's already been largely stripped of its dignity. But having it die might be the only way to save it in the long run.
The "Hollywood Blockbuster" mentioned at the article is U-571, which looks like it's gonna be pretty cool. Doesn't it seem awfully coincidental that an enigma machine is stolen a mere 3 weeks before a movie about stealing an enigma machine opens? Hmmmm..... (play X-Files music here)
I wonder if this means Chilli will keep giving out demo copies of FrontPage (**shudder**) at Linux conferences. Hey emmett, you remember when we returned that CD to them in micro shards in New York? That was fun....
Nope, this was much, much worse than Jar Jar, who at least had a fairly realistic shape and decent texturing. The Mission to Mars alien didn't look even remotely close to being real.
- shots of the ships were well done, but that's just expected...and no better than you could see on Star Trek: Voyager every week on TV.
- The sandstorm/tornado-type thing was OK, but The Mummy did a better job of that last year
- Shots of Mars were remarkably dull. When the Tim Robbins character says "hello, beautiful" as they're approaching Mars, I was expecting a correspondingly beautiful shot of the planet. Instead, we get a faded red sphere with little texture and detail.
- I don't know if that alien was supposed to look computer generated, or whether that was actually how the species supposedly looked like, but it was embarassingly amateurish and fake.
- The explosion of the face thing and the escape of the alien craft at the end, the only fireworks in the entire movie, were extremely poorly done. Granted, it's hard to make fire look real with CGI, but with $100 million, they could've done a hell of a lot better than this. Look at the Deep Space Nine episode The Sacrifice of Angels. That is how you do CGI. And that's a TV show, something I can watch for free.
It speaks volumes about how bad a movie is when even the effects suck. It's not just De Palma, or the actors, or the scriptwriters who should be embarrased about this. It's all of Disney. There's just a staggering amount of incompetence showing on every level of this horrible movie...the first giant turkey of the millenium.As for mail filtering, I'm not sure exactly what the status is on that, although there are a few bug specifically relating to mail filtering: here, here and here.
Dan Rather is from Texas, so he doesn't qualify. Peter Jennings is from Ottawa, though, so he'd be fine.
I'd also like to nominate Amanda Marshall or Chantal Kreviazuk to sing this song...not as well known in the States yet, but they're both at least as good Celine Dion or Sarah Maclachlan, and haven't we heard enough from them already?
This is one of the books I was required to read for 10th grade english, and it's one of my favorite books from all the ones I was forced to read. Right up there with 1984 and Animal Farm, and way above crap like Wuthering Heights.
I think that's a typo. According to this page at Thresh's, the number is 22 million. I think that sounds a lot better.