I agree. Every OS should have a totally different way of showing programs (none of this "windows" crap) using the mouse and keyboard, and not copy any features at all from each other.
Forbes posts an article that is highly controversial and incorrect, and in return they get a huge number of people rushing to their site? Doesn't exactly discourage posting such articles... I look to the future for "Why Bill Gates such be knighted" and "Is Linus Trovalds actually a pseudo-name for a drug-running FBI-sponsored company?"
If you state just price, then they are asking MS to be cheaper (or close to) the cost of Open Source. If you state price + too big etc then you are asking MS to be a _lot_ cheaper, in order to make up for everything else.
Do you honestly believe that this leak is the only reason for a 4 month delay? Nobody seems to have come close to a plausible explanation for a 4 month delay.
hmm, I wonder if the research into bunker blasters (or whatever they are called) would be useful here - designed to burrow down into a nuclear bunker as far as possible before exploding.
I got excitted that windows would be ported to use it.. but then:
"The Windows XP port is nearly finished. It's running user space applications and is generally in pretty good shape thanks to some hard work by the team over the summer. Of course, there are issues with releasing this code to others. We should be able to release the source and binaries to anyone that has signed the Microsoft academic source license, which these days has very reasonable terms. We are in discussions with Microsoft about the possibility of being able to make binary releases to a larger user community. Obviously, there are issues with product activation in this environment which need to be thought through."
It would be a bitch if it was ported, worked perfectly, but then nobody was able to use it.
Well kword and others just export to rtf, but give it the extension.doc - so word should always be able to handle it. OOo was thinking of doing the same iirc.
(btw for those that say rtf is less powerful - it's not. rtf can do everything the latest word can do - even ole objects etc)
it might backfire. I don't know how it works, but if you encrypt it, it might also be counted as a signing it.
So you whip out your digitial camera, takes pictures of the document, save the document to a floppy, and show the photo's to the judge. They order for the password to be given to view the document (or whatever) and because it is signed, it is proof that it did come from the accused and it unaltered.
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I agree. Every OS should have a totally different way of showing programs (none of this "windows" crap) using the mouse and keyboard, and not copy any features at all from each other.
Dumb ass.
What dumb arse modded this up?
It's a blatent troll.
I hope I metamoderate this
well yeah... that's the point duh
waiting..20 sec...10... waiting waiting sigh
hmm no - for that analogy to be correct, it would require the majority of people here to be windows and gnome lovers.
So let me get this straight...
Forbes posts an article that is highly controversial and incorrect, and in return they get a huge number of people rushing to their site?
Doesn't exactly discourage posting such articles...
I look to the future for "Why Bill Gates such be knighted" and "Is Linus Trovalds actually a pseudo-name for a drug-running FBI-sponsored company?"
By Vigor, I first thought he was talking about clippy - then I remember that was for vi.
http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/
1-D would be a line, not a point.
jeez, it's for TESTING.
you kinda get the feeling they are trying to make a MovieOS
No. :P
If you state just price, then they are asking MS to be cheaper (or close to) the cost of Open Source. If you state price + too big etc then you are asking MS to be a _lot_ cheaper, in order to make up for everything else.
Boy, that's an oldie - I remember reading that many years back.
Do you honestly believe that this leak is the only reason for a 4 month delay?
Nobody seems to have come close to a plausible explanation for a 4 month delay.
hmm, I wonder if the research into bunker blasters (or whatever they are called) would be useful here - designed to burrow down into a nuclear bunker as far as possible before exploding.
damn, I just used up my mod points. :)
I got excitted that windows would be ported to use it.. but then:
"The Windows XP port is nearly finished. It's running user space applications and is generally in pretty good shape thanks to some hard work by the team over the summer. Of course, there are issues with releasing this code to others. We should be able to release the source and binaries to anyone that has signed the Microsoft academic
source license, which these days has very reasonable terms. We are in discussions with Microsoft about the possibility of being able to make binary releases to a larger user community. Obviously, there are issues with product activation in this environment which need to be
thought through."
It would be a bitch if it was ported, worked perfectly, but then nobody was able to use it.
Wasn't the password protection on pdf's shown to be useless?
Well kword and others just export to rtf, but give it the extension .doc - so word should always be able to handle it.
OOo was thinking of doing the same iirc.
(btw for those that say rtf is less powerful - it's not. rtf can do everything the latest word can do - even ole objects etc)
It doesn't use the ISP's resources, and you don't need anyone elses server???
Wow, it is amazing. It must, like, teleport the messages to the users machine or something.
there is a similiar problem in lotus domino.
You can create documents that noone else can read.
Of course, same problem with pgp etc.
it might backfire. I don't know how it works, but if you encrypt it, it might also be counted as a signing it.
So you whip out your digitial camera, takes pictures of the document, save the document to a floppy, and show the photo's to the judge. They order for the password to be given to view the document (or whatever) and because it is signed, it is proof that it did come from the accused and it unaltered.
actually the home user can view the documents using the free IE plugin viewer as mentioned in the article.
or design, which no tool is going to help significantly with.
i've seen your sig for quite a while now - I really like. Where's the quote from, or is it yours?
>Is a society less free if it prohibits slavery?
He meant 'free' as in beer.
stupid english language
I know they were trying to make gtk faster, but this is ridiculous!