She had Word installed because the spell checker in whatever she was using didn't work well enough for her. Is this true though? I usually spell fairly well and proofread what I write afterwards (not so much/. posts:) ). Have people had bad experiences with spell checkers in Star Office, Abiword, or others? What about Wordperfect, I would imagine the spell checker draws from the same dictionary on Linux as it does on Windows...
``Four Arab-looking guys reading the Koran are much less suspicious if they have the cards and can just slash them through card readers,'' [Harvard lawyer Dershowitz] said.
Which raises the question - how hard would these things be to hack? Is it just a magnetic strip that has this information, or maybe a flash chip like on the Smart Visa cards? So if I lose my wallet I might as well be some "Arab-looking guy reading the Koran." And what kind of comment is that anyway? Is it a crime to be "Arab-looking" and read the Koran?
This whole idea is so stupid and sick that I think I'm going to have a stroke.
Offtopic? What the hell? IsleOfView makes a very good point. Obviously he got modded up appropriately also, but this kind of shit is really starting to bug me.
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Re:The only bad thing about this cat...
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You can't train them and they don't move like Sony Aibo.:(
After I started working for an ISP a few months later and was getting free dialup, I stopped sending in payments. They cut me off after a couple of months but never came after me for the $400
That's great, that won't bite you in the ass until you try to buy a house!
I didn't know that about MS and IMAP. I thought IMAP was a fairly open protocol too. At my school (see link) all students have the option of using imap or pop on their mail folder. On the more secure itlabs subdomain we are only allowed to use imap via ssl (or something like that - I'm not well versed in mail).
What I want to know is why someone hasn't tried to develop something like IMAP that can do some of the things Exchange can do, like calander and contacts. Obviously keeping this secure would be important, but if it were made available over internet servers, not exchange servers - which afaik are usually behind corporate firewalls - the applications would be tremendous. My father connects to his office network from home to check his email, and even though it's over cable modem, he gets really frusterated by how long it takes for Outlook to syncronize all folders. Maybe that wouldn't be any better on IMAP - does anyone know the average email size in exchange compared to imap/pop? Obviously if people are using word as their email editor it would be pretty severe, but my father's organization uses rtf - but still have huge amounts of data in their mail folders. wtf?
Thank you, as you can see, I've amended my sig. I want to give credit where it's due!
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Exactly my point, however poorly I made it. This is a huge strength of open source/free software.
Support guy question : You aren't using the latest version of KDE? Why not?
Answer: There is no good reason not too. Especially cost. This is a big factor, as I see it and IMHO in total cost of ownership. An organization can implement and support any version of the free software they want to, without the barrier of costs and licensing getting in the way. The support costs for one version across the board is drastically reduced.
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And after 5 years I'll bet most KDE users are using pretty much the latest version. Nearly 7 years after its release it is not odd to find Windows 95 still in use (about 100 of the 500 boxes I support are running 95), enough so software and peripheral companies still benifit from supporting it. Why is it still in use? For one, the price of upgrading all the software, secondly, the value of not replacing old systems for many orginizations. Comparing KDE and its five years of development and any five years of development in Windows history demonstrates the strenth of free software.
A company should have a focus - instead of trying to be all things to all people (MS == content provider/os maker/game station maker/you name it). KDE is a great example of what is possible when a project is not non-competitive, and focuses on providing one thing, in this case a desktop environment. Some might argue that KDE's focus is too broad. I don't use it that much, so I couldn't say.
Why did this get modded down as redundant? The story is redundant, as the poster points out, but the post isn't. In fact, it's one of the first posts on the story. This should be modded up as informative, not down.
I've been really disappointed in the moderation I've been seeing lately (and I have been meta-moderating). Not only because I've taken some hits on comments that were not that bad, but also on others' comments. If you have mod points, read the guidelines, and think about what you're doing. You make this site better or worse to read. Right now, some of you are making it worse.
As long as there are customers who demand a product, there will be a seller. Especially because of all the infrastructure that has now been put in place. Providers aren't going to suddenly start digging up cables because broadband isn't as profitable as they thought.
Cringley says that the industry will see little or no growth, and then a sentence later he claims that will lead to its decline. That's just silly. Cable modem went up $10 bucks a month for me last month. That doesn't mean I'm going to give it up, it's just too nice. Besides, if it wasn't for my cable modem - I wouldn't be able to get thousands of dollars worth of free software.
I could be wrong, but I believe that Emacs is written in Lisp. I know that it contains its own Lisp interpreter for writing extensions. Does anyone know what language was used to develop Emacs?
And didn't each and every one of the hijackers present valid ID?
How long did it take them to identify every hijacker? Three days? Do we really think it actually took them that long, that they didn't just wait that long to announce it?
Sun: Well, we think everyone should have an ID card.
Thinker: Everyone does.
Sun: Well, it doesn't have Java.
Stupid Pol: Java is good, right? The people like Java? It's like coffee, people love coffee. I'm going to vote for this coffee card, people carry around coffee cards all the time, they get free coffee. Who wouldn't support that!?
Amen to that, and the people who buy software are too clueless to even think that they risk having it ready by anyone who wants to. What? My email is insecure, but AOL says that its safe! I think the market is the AOL types, who are completely unwilling to try anything if it requires any thought or concentration - ie, so easy, no wonder it's number 1!
I'm going to have to change my nick, I'm losing faith in mankind.
That is nice to hear. I can't say I had as much luck with it. I couldn't determine what device was my floppy drive (it wasn't fd0, like it should be) and was unable to mount floppies. It wasn't much of a problem, because I do most of my archiving to ftp, but a pretty important flaw nonetheless. When I went to look for help in the #mandrake chat rooms all I ended up doing was answering questions on installing programs and such.
For anyone whose been using Linux for awhile, but still considers himself a newbie, I would say don't hesitate to try Slackware or Debian. The installs are not all that hard, and speaking from experience the lack of 'user friendly tools' makes a lot of things easier if you just use your head. I used Redhat, then Mandrake, then Debian, and now Slackware. I wouldn't go back to Redhat/Mandrake ever again. I know Mandrake has its niche, and I think its great what the company is doing for Linux, but if you're reading/., you should be, IMHO, be using something like Slack or Debian.
Brrr. I think that's what is neccessary in creating a good operating system though. I followed that link hoping to get excited about the future but instead I'm more calmed about it, and to be honest I prefer calm. I like the fact that hot plugging is going to get better - I think that's important. It sounds like Linux is only going to get better, and not move into anything stupid.
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But I'll say it anyway...
4. Cycling
Two cyclists ride together on 10-speed bikes. One cyclist uses the 10th gear, pedaling slower but moving faster down the road and covering more distance with each stroke. The other cyclist uses 1st gear and has to pedal like a lunatic to achieve even close to the same speed on the road and cover the same ground.
Actually, pedaling with a higher cadence (turns of the pedals per minute) is more efficient. When Lance Armstrong came back from his cancer recovery to win the Tour d'France one of the main improvements he said he made was increasing his cadence about 20 revolutions per minute.
That, however, has no bearing on computer processors, the cycling analogy is simply misused.
but the 'XP' that is supposed to hype the new 'experience' you might have with WindowsXP, is supposed to suggest the 'extended performance' of AthlonXP.
Didn't anyone learn a lesson from the whole dot com thing? Plastering brand names on the space station is no different than buying the naming rights to a stadium -- it will be grossly overpriced for its value, and will be seen as a ridiculous waste of money in short time. That is, if any company does it in the first place.
Um...
It makes perfect sense to me. Actually, it's pretty funny. But if you're going to address God, why don't you ask him for something, rather than asking someone else to 'call an editor' immediately. Do you think God is incapable of summoning an editor?
On another note, does God use emacs, or vi?
Hmmmmm....
I don't know what version of Office 2000 you're running, but I run it on W2k and have problems all the time. Until I got the latest service pack Access would crash everytime I tried to make a report. Most of the time Outlook would never finish exiting, so I'd just have to terminate the process. I can't tell you how many instances I've said to myself, oh, this Microsoft product must not be compatible with this other Microsoft product. Pretty sad.
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She had Word installed because the spell checker in whatever she was using didn't work well enough for her. Is this true though? I usually spell fairly well and proofread what I write afterwards (not so much /. posts :) ). Have people had bad experiences with spell checkers in Star Office, Abiword, or others? What about Wordperfect, I would imagine the spell checker draws from the same dictionary on Linux as it does on Windows...
``Four Arab-looking guys reading the Koran are much less suspicious if they have the cards and can just slash them through card readers,'' [Harvard lawyer Dershowitz] said.
Which raises the question - how hard would these things be to hack? Is it just a magnetic strip that has this information, or maybe a flash chip like on the Smart Visa cards? So if I lose my wallet I might as well be some "Arab-looking guy reading the Koran." And what kind of comment is that anyway? Is it a crime to be "Arab-looking" and read the Koran?
This whole idea is so stupid and sick that I think I'm going to have a stroke.
It seems like Ellison wants this to be kept in an Oracle DB, doesn't anyone know that MySQL is the only app up to the task!!!!?!?
Offtopic? What the hell? IsleOfView makes a very good point. Obviously he got modded up appropriately also, but this kind of shit is really starting to bug me.
CmdrTaco: Why do you only let people Meta-Moderate once a day?
People: Metamoderate, make /. better than it already is!
You can't train them and they don't move like Sony Aibo. :(
That's two things. Sorry.
After I started working for an ISP a few months later and was getting free dialup, I stopped sending in payments. They cut me off after a couple of months but never came after me for the $400
That's great, that won't bite you in the ass until you try to buy a house!
I didn't know that about MS and IMAP. I thought IMAP was a fairly open protocol too. At my school (see link) all students have the option of using imap or pop on their mail folder. On the more secure itlabs subdomain we are only allowed to use imap via ssl (or something like that - I'm not well versed in mail).
What I want to know is why someone hasn't tried to develop something like IMAP that can do some of the things Exchange can do, like calander and contacts. Obviously keeping this secure would be important, but if it were made available over internet servers, not exchange servers - which afaik are usually behind corporate firewalls - the applications would be tremendous. My father connects to his office network from home to check his email, and even though it's over cable modem, he gets really frusterated by how long it takes for Outlook to syncronize all folders. Maybe that wouldn't be any better on IMAP - does anyone know the average email size in exchange compared to imap/pop? Obviously if people are using word as their email editor it would be pretty severe, but my father's organization uses rtf - but still have huge amounts of data in their mail folders. wtf?
Thank you, as you can see, I've amended my sig. I want to give credit where it's due!
Exactly my point, however poorly I made it. This is a huge strength of open source/free software.
Support guy question : You aren't using the latest version of KDE? Why not?
Answer: There is no good reason not too. Especially cost. This is a big factor, as I see it and IMHO in total cost of ownership. An organization can implement and support any version of the free software they want to, without the barrier of costs and licensing getting in the way. The support costs for one version across the board is drastically reduced.
And after 5 years I'll bet most KDE users are using pretty much the latest version. Nearly 7 years after its release it is not odd to find Windows 95 still in use (about 100 of the 500 boxes I support are running 95), enough so software and peripheral companies still benifit from supporting it. Why is it still in use? For one, the price of upgrading all the software, secondly, the value of not replacing old systems for many orginizations. Comparing KDE and its five years of development and any five years of development in Windows history demonstrates the strenth of free software.
A company should have a focus - instead of trying to be all things to all people (MS == content provider/os maker/game station maker/you name it). KDE is a great example of what is possible when a project is not non-competitive, and focuses on providing one thing, in this case a desktop environment. Some might argue that KDE's focus is too broad. I don't use it that much, so I couldn't say.
Anyway, good work KDE people! Keep it up!
Why did this get modded down as redundant? The story is redundant, as the poster points out, but the post isn't. In fact, it's one of the first posts on the story. This should be modded up as informative, not down.
I've been really disappointed in the moderation I've been seeing lately (and I have been meta-moderating). Not only because I've taken some hits on comments that were not that bad, but also on others' comments. If you have mod points, read the guidelines, and think about what you're doing. You make this site better or worse to read. Right now, some of you are making it worse.
Bill Gates would do this too, but he can't afford it.
As long as there are customers who demand a product, there will be a seller. Especially because of all the infrastructure that has now been put in place. Providers aren't going to suddenly start digging up cables because broadband isn't as profitable as they thought.
Cringley says that the industry will see little or no growth, and then a sentence later he claims that will lead to its decline. That's just silly. Cable modem went up $10 bucks a month for me last month. That doesn't mean I'm going to give it up, it's just too nice. Besides, if it wasn't for my cable modem - I wouldn't be able to get thousands of dollars worth of free software.
I could be wrong, but I believe that Emacs is written in Lisp. I know that it contains its own Lisp interpreter for writing extensions. Does anyone know what language was used to develop Emacs?
And didn't each and every one of the hijackers present valid ID?
How long did it take them to identify every hijacker? Three days? Do we really think it actually took them that long, that they didn't just wait that long to announce it?
Sun: Well, we think everyone should have an ID card.
Thinker: Everyone does.
Sun: Well, it doesn't have Java.
Stupid Pol: Java is good, right? The people like Java? It's like coffee, people love coffee. I'm going to vote for this coffee card, people carry around coffee cards all the time, they get free coffee. Who wouldn't support that!?
Amen to that, and the people who buy software are too clueless to even think that they risk having it ready by anyone who wants to. What? My email is insecure, but AOL says that its safe! I think the market is the AOL types, who are completely unwilling to try anything if it requires any thought or concentration - ie, so easy, no wonder it's number 1!
I'm going to have to change my nick, I'm losing faith in mankind.
That is nice to hear. I can't say I had as much luck with it. I couldn't determine what device was my floppy drive (it wasn't fd0, like it should be) and was unable to mount floppies. It wasn't much of a problem, because I do most of my archiving to ftp, but a pretty important flaw nonetheless. When I went to look for help in the #mandrake chat rooms all I ended up doing was answering questions on installing programs and such.
For anyone whose been using Linux for awhile, but still considers himself a newbie, I would say don't hesitate to try Slackware or Debian. The installs are not all that hard, and speaking from experience the lack of 'user friendly tools' makes a lot of things easier if you just use your head. I used Redhat, then Mandrake, then Debian, and now Slackware. I wouldn't go back to Redhat/Mandrake ever again. I know Mandrake has its niche, and I think its great what the company is doing for Linux, but if you're reading /., you should be, IMHO, be using something like Slack or Debian.
I'm Jon Katz. I was on Public Radio. Blah blah blah...
Brrr. I think that's what is neccessary in creating a good operating system though. I followed that link hoping to get excited about the future but instead I'm more calmed about it, and to be honest I prefer calm. I like the fact that hot plugging is going to get better - I think that's important. It sounds like Linux is only going to get better, and not move into anything stupid.
My comment: (-1, Offtopic)
But I'll say it anyway...
4. Cycling Two cyclists ride together on 10-speed bikes. One cyclist uses the 10th gear, pedaling slower but moving faster down the road and covering more distance with each stroke. The other cyclist uses 1st gear and has to pedal like a lunatic to achieve even close to the same speed on the road and cover the same ground.
Actually, pedaling with a higher cadence (turns of the pedals per minute) is more efficient. When Lance Armstrong came back from his cancer recovery to win the Tour d'France one of the main improvements he said he made was increasing his cadence about 20 revolutions per minute.
That, however, has no bearing on computer processors, the cycling analogy is simply misused.
but the 'XP' that is supposed to hype the new 'experience' you might have with WindowsXP, is supposed to suggest the 'extended performance' of AthlonXP.
Wouldn't that be 'EP' then?
I guess I don't know anything about marketing.
Didn't anyone learn a lesson from the whole dot com thing? Plastering brand names on the space station is no different than buying the naming rights to a stadium -- it will be grossly overpriced for its value, and will be seen as a ridiculous waste of money in short time. That is, if any company does it in the first place.
Nevermind Pepsico (Pizza Hut).
Um...
It makes perfect sense to me. Actually, it's pretty funny. But if you're going to address God, why don't you ask him for something, rather than asking someone else to 'call an editor' immediately. Do you think God is incapable of summoning an editor?
On another note, does God use emacs, or vi?
Hmmmmm....
Unlike Handspring, Pocket PC users have a choice when it comes to supported media formats.
Informative? How about (-1, Troll).
very stable and runs like a champ
I don't know what version of Office 2000 you're running, but I run it on W2k and have problems all the time. Until I got the latest service pack Access would crash everytime I tried to make a report. Most of the time Outlook would never finish exiting, so I'd just have to terminate the process. I can't tell you how many instances I've said to myself, oh, this Microsoft product must not be compatible with this other Microsoft product. Pretty sad.