Oh, well that's fantastic! So, all I have to do is be ready for a quick recovery so that if it powers-down suddenly, all I have to do is stick my foot out. If my concentration gets side-tracked by things like pedestrians, automobiles and what-not, it's my own damn fault. Yeah, I have to say I agree with you, that makes sense to me.
I don't know why kids don't do that when they hit rocks with their skateboard wheels. Stupid kids!
OpenOffice documents are, ironically, not as desirable to automate the production of as PDF documents, I think.
With XML libraries maturing at their current rate, and transformation schemes abounding (XSL, scripting, etc.), I think that XML being the format of any word processing document format is simply less in-demand these days. Those that need to can certainly build OpenOffice documents quite easily, but I think most people are generating HTML, man pages and PS/PDF documents from source DocBook or simple YAML sources.
In a nutshell, it's not that OpenOffice isn't living up to the hype, it's that so much is crashing down on Microsoft Office in so many different ways that looking only at OpenOffice will not give you the whole story.
It's the only global forum for free speech. Period. The verbage of this article makes the internet sound possibly pointless, as if there were alternatives that better fill the bill.
That doesn't sound like Torvald's at all. There's some fairly poor grammar in that letter, and its tone is completely unlike anything I've ever seen from Torvald's. I strongly doubt it's him.
Also, if you or anyone you know is, or has, rejected job applications from ex-SCO employees simply because they worked for SCO, you're a fucking scumbag. People have to eat, asshole. Give me a clue to your identity and we'll see how much rejection YOU can handle.
While most of us use the x86 architecture, both Windows and Linux run happily on a couple different processors, so we're not really "locked in" by conventional proprietary semaphores. This is more a matter of economics; the x86 is cheap, powerful and prolific, so it's what we use. We're far from "locked in" though.
This review was a bit half-assed and I couldn't get much further than his statement that user-generated events are particular to X and that Win32 doesn't have them.
Uhm, okies.
The list of GUI toolkits, though, I'm sure is useful to many people, so that much was nice. Go check them out for yourselves though, folks.
I don't think I can make a blanket statement promoting using paper more because I think you're right on a lot of points, and for those reasons I still do a lot of paperless things.
I haven't been doing enough of it to really have a solid philosophy about it, but I do take a lot more hand-written notes than I used to (I always made notes right in Outlook or in my PDA) and when I've taken the plunge and printed out a long document I needed to read, I found it was just more accessible to have it in my hand than on my screen.
It's odd that way, because I know I still need it bookmarked or at least stored somewhere on my system so I can search for words inside it, but more often that search I will just hold the document, read it and flip back and forth between sections. I find that the flipping around part is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH easier to do with a hand-held paper printout than on the computer. Whether in OpenOffice browsing a document or Firebird browsing a web site, both have trouble letting me jump quickly around; they're just not good at "holding" your place in one place while you go read in another. Also, there's something about being able to see more of the document at once that helps me really get into it.
No, you misunderstand me. I didn't mean to imply that anyone should go 100% paper, as I clearly couldn't survive long that way.
If I were working with you and had a document I wanted you to see, I would email you the source document right off the bat.
What I meant was, make more hand-written notes and try to do that less in your PDA. Also, if you have any document (either a word processor document or a web site page you've bookmarked) that you might need to refer back to over a long period of time or might need to do extensive reading on, try just printing it.
I found I was bookmarking everything and keeping everything on the computer and avoiding printing as much as possible. Ever since I started printing things out, I find I get more reading done, my notes are more accessible and editable to me; everything is just easier, the more I print.
Obviously though, there are advantages to NOT printing, such as sharing a document, or when you need to search for something in a document where a poor, or no, index exists.
I hope that made what I meant to say more clear this time. If not, another death threat should motivate me to try again.
I have to say, I agree. Unsolicited advice: try using paper more too. I've re-discovered hand-written notes and printing out documents that I used to try to read online when I got hooked into the "paperless office" notion back in the early-90's, and I must say, the more stuff I have on paper rather then on my computer, the easier my life is and the more productive I am. I know violent environmentalists are probably going to start sending me death threats, but I can't deny it: paper is just better for SO many things, and for SO many reasons.
The fear probably is irrational, I can't argue that because I ran away from Python before I really found out. I have to admit that I'm just too much of a Ruby fan to even want to address the issue.
I believe you. But I don't believe I would be as lucky.
Between whitespace problems and my fear of whitespace problems, I don't know which is worse. Even if, in actuality, there were NO whitespace issues at all, my reasoned fear that there are is just too much stress to have while programming.
I liked everything I have heard about Python, except for that one thing, and it's too much to overlook.
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Oh, well that's fantastic! So, all I have to do is be ready for a quick recovery so that if it powers-down suddenly, all I have to do is stick my foot out. If my concentration gets side-tracked by things like pedestrians, automobiles and what-not, it's my own damn fault. Yeah, I have to say I agree with you, that makes sense to me.
I don't know why kids don't do that when they hit rocks with their skateboard wheels. Stupid kids!
Are you saying that if my car battery runs out of juice, I can expect to be picking up my teeth out from between the subway grating?
Combining this service with RFID tags...
OpenOffice documents are, ironically, not as desirable to automate the production of as PDF documents, I think.
With XML libraries maturing at their current rate, and transformation schemes abounding (XSL, scripting, etc.), I think that XML being the format of any word processing document format is simply less in-demand these days. Those that need to can certainly build OpenOffice documents quite easily, but I think most people are generating HTML, man pages and PS/PDF documents from source DocBook or simple YAML sources.
In a nutshell, it's not that OpenOffice isn't living up to the hype, it's that so much is crashing down on Microsoft Office in so many different ways that looking only at OpenOffice will not give you the whole story.
It's the only global forum for free speech. Period. The verbage of this article makes the internet sound possibly pointless, as if there were alternatives that better fill the bill.
There are NO alternatives.
That doesn't sound like Torvald's at all. There's some fairly poor grammar in that letter, and its tone is completely unlike anything I've ever seen from Torvald's. I strongly doubt it's him.
Also, if you or anyone you know is, or has, rejected job applications from ex-SCO employees simply because they worked for SCO, you're a fucking scumbag. People have to eat, asshole. Give me a clue to your identity and we'll see how much rejection YOU can handle.
I see a whole lot of great IT jobs in India's future!
Yeah, I said Jabber.
Damn it.
While most of us use the x86 architecture, both Windows and Linux run happily on a couple different processors, so we're not really "locked in" by conventional proprietary semaphores. This is more a matter of economics; the x86 is cheap, powerful and prolific, so it's what we use. We're far from "locked in" though.
Troll? Oh, did the thought police catch me not having a community-approved thought?
Heaven forbid anyone should be held accountable for irresponsibly reporting an exploit! He did those customers a favor, yeah!
iDiotic.
Take away their free email program and they'll be FORCED to buy our commercial products! Ha!
Quick Smithers, find the Mozilla development team and kill them all!
... cheap!
I highly doubt Canada will be taking over when everyone is immortal; ketchup probably isn't the best bet.
Quite clearly: cannibalism.
This review was a bit half-assed and I couldn't get much further than his statement that user-generated events are particular to X and that Win32 doesn't have them.
Uhm, okies.
The list of GUI toolkits, though, I'm sure is useful to many people, so that much was nice. Go check them out for yourselves though, folks.
I don't think I can make a blanket statement promoting using paper more because I think you're right on a lot of points, and for those reasons I still do a lot of paperless things.
I haven't been doing enough of it to really have a solid philosophy about it, but I do take a lot more hand-written notes than I used to (I always made notes right in Outlook or in my PDA) and when I've taken the plunge and printed out a long document I needed to read, I found it was just more accessible to have it in my hand than on my screen.
It's odd that way, because I know I still need it bookmarked or at least stored somewhere on my system so I can search for words inside it, but more often that search I will just hold the document, read it and flip back and forth between sections. I find that the flipping around part is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH easier to do with a hand-held paper printout than on the computer. Whether in OpenOffice browsing a document or Firebird browsing a web site, both have trouble letting me jump quickly around; they're just not good at "holding" your place in one place while you go read in another. Also, there's something about being able to see more of the document at once that helps me really get into it.
Rubs me fine. I'm not delusional; I'm getting a BOATLOAD of more work done by going into Outlook less and reaching for 3x5 cards more.
No, you misunderstand me. I didn't mean to imply that anyone should go 100% paper, as I clearly couldn't survive long that way.
If I were working with you and had a document I wanted you to see, I would email you the source document right off the bat.
What I meant was, make more hand-written notes and try to do that less in your PDA. Also, if you have any document (either a word processor document or a web site page you've bookmarked) that you might need to refer back to over a long period of time or might need to do extensive reading on, try just printing it.
I found I was bookmarking everything and keeping everything on the computer and avoiding printing as much as possible. Ever since I started printing things out, I find I get more reading done, my notes are more accessible and editable to me; everything is just easier, the more I print.
Obviously though, there are advantages to NOT printing, such as sharing a document, or when you need to search for something in a document where a poor, or no, index exists.
I hope that made what I meant to say more clear this time. If not, another death threat should motivate me to try again.
I have to say, I agree. Unsolicited advice: try using paper more too. I've re-discovered hand-written notes and printing out documents that I used to try to read online when I got hooked into the "paperless office" notion back in the early-90's, and I must say, the more stuff I have on paper rather then on my computer, the easier my life is and the more productive I am. I know violent environmentalists are probably going to start sending me death threats, but I can't deny it: paper is just better for SO many things, and for SO many reasons.
I wonder how loud it is.
The fear probably is irrational, I can't argue that because I ran away from Python before I really found out. I have to admit that I'm just too much of a Ruby fan to even want to address the issue.
I believe you. But I don't believe I would be as lucky.
Between whitespace problems and my fear of whitespace problems, I don't know which is worse. Even if, in actuality, there were NO whitespace issues at all, my reasoned fear that there are is just too much stress to have while programming.
I liked everything I have heard about Python, except for that one thing, and it's too much to overlook.
Give Ruby a good, solid try folks, really. Python has NOTHING on Ruby, trust me.