Economy is doing just fine thank you...if I recall correctly, I heard on NPR this morning that it's the first time national corporate profits have ever hit a combined total of over a trillion dollars for on quarter. So tell me, why would Bush want to cover up something that has never been achieved before? I guess maybe Bush has a heart...doesn't want to completely make Clinton look like the idiot that he really was by totally blaiming the bad economy on his presidency and we all know it was because of Clinton and his *let's help the poorest people* mentality. What a good laugh.
Wow, I almost agreed with you except at the very end...you just couldn't resist a cheap shot against God huh? Nice...try and get a clue. Children, teens and even moreso adults, need guidance. No one who is a normal biologically sounds person can resist such a temptation as having a computer in their room and not looking at porn. Even if they don't seek it out, with all of the pop-up advertising and dirty spam emails...you're bound to come face to face with the choice. And no amount of education will overcome nature. I agree education is good but it's a blanket statement and sheer ignorance to say it can be the end all cure towards people doing bad things. And yes looking at porn on the net is a bad thing.
hehe, nice troll. At least you could do a little better than that. You sound like you're a developer who works for Microsoft. Of course anything runs perfectly on the developer's computer. Nice try. I'm going to have to ask you to try again though.
I think this is an excellent point. Though I must state that when it comes to trust of a government versus trust of a company, I pick the company. I took microeconomics and I understand the laws of supply and demand. But money is cold and it selects whatever it wants - to succeed. Many times this does not work out to select the best product technically. It selects what consumers *think* is the best product. That's why I say, at least for software and maybe even hardware design (schematics), open source is an evolution of the free market system. And I say evolution because I mean it - Charles Darwin would understand and would probably use an open source operating system these days if he were consistent with his beliefs. Therefore, though Red Hat has provided the OSS community with excellent contributions, how can we expect any less? The company needs to make money to pay the paychecks of the employees and right now the enterprise market is where it's at for Red Hat. I think they might come back in time, but next time they might be too late. That's my biggest criticism of a lot of today's companies - they aren't willing to take risks anymore. But then again, what company has ever made hundreds of millions or billions of dollars without taking a risk at one point? Just my $0.02.
How do scientists know that this comes from the Big Bang? How do they assume that it's from this and not from an infinite number of other possible scenerios? What if it's from the "wake" of a passing comet or something like that. What if it's absolutely not the Big Bang at all because (assume for this model) that God created the universe and the Big Bang theory is really so far off the mark? I think the theories of space and ancient times is getting too narrow far too prematurely. This is not good science. Good science weighs all of the possibilities.
I think I agree with you. Though Linux is more modular than Windows is by nature so this might prevent these drivers from taking the entire Linux kernel down with it. Though there definitely are more isolated kernels out there than Linux.
Opera can do that I believe. I could be wrong though. I remember reading an article (probably linked from slashdot) about how msn.com was blocking out opera users. If you changed opera to set the HTTP-AGENT to IE then it rendered perfectly fine, even though it wasn't IE. Personally, I hate IE...the web in general might not have too many IE only pages anymore but many applications like CRM apps, GTR apps, aka those internal business apps that run on intranets and extranets, many of those are IE only to the extreme. And it's very very sad because most of these apps are written so poorly. The data design is good, but using VBScript to implement those is a joke...I would love to see a hacker have a hay-day with some of the apps that come out of where I work. Maybe then I could convince my CIO that it's time to go from Windows servers running all Microsoft software to some diversity and run some Apple servers, Linux servers and BSD variant servers.
Well, the one's who don't know about Linux right now that really matter right away are the people at work. These people aren't expected to setup their own copies of Linux for their work machines. That's what the IS staff is for. Once Linux is installed (same for Windows, try and have the average Joe install Windows 2003), and I assume you would put either KDE or Gnome on it, it's very intuitive and straighforward for anyone to use who's used a GUI before. My mom is a case-in-point...she went on my machine randomly without me even being home and found out how to check her email without even knowing that it wasn't Windows! When I told her it was Linux later, she remarked "oh, well that was easier than on Windows - the icon actually makes sense."
Nice try, I use Linux for everything - server and desktop. And yes I'm a hobbyist but at the same time not a hobbyist. I am in college and I need my Linux desktop to get a lot of important things done like typing papers, doing circuit simulations, math equations, etc. I am not tinkering with Linux when I'm doing this. I expect it to just work - and work it does. Quite well I might add, it's been about a year and a half since I loaded this computer with Linux and it's as fast as ever. There's been no degredation in performance like what occurs in every Windows version I've ever tried. I run Linux at work and, besides one other Mac OS X box for the graphics/video guy, it's a total Windows environment. I can do everything with the Windows network and all of my co-worker's boxes from my Linux desktop without having to tinker. Again, it just works. I say it's a matter of time before you start seeing Windows desktop market share start dropping by 5% figures every couple of months or so. And I welcome that day! True computer innovation can begin again where we left off before Microsoft became dominant. The open source model will bring unbelievable technology in the next decade. Linux is totally a desktop OS now.
Thank you very much for your moderation explanation. I very much appreciate that. Thank you also for being a great user of Abiword (meaning you use it and file bug reports - we need more like you). Abiword's implementation of RTF isn't perfect but there is a very large commitment amoung the developers to put a lot of time into its implementation and to polish it off till it *appears* to have no more bugs in it. Just this past week, there have been 3 patches submitted to the new CVS HEAD of Abiword (for 2.2) that reduces the load time of certain large RTF files by a very large factor. You may want to stick around and check out CVS HEAD after a while (actually right now is good because it's still very stable still being early after the 2.0 release).
No, it's a similar concept but it's not a magnet. Traditional wireless transmission works by resonating (or vibrating) the antenna at the current frequency of a fixed or tuneable circuit. This is not electromagnetic or else we'd be in a lot of trouble if it was. We couldn't do nearly the same things that we could wirelessly if it were all electromagnetic. Just think about that, if it were I believe in theory (meaning it's my idea, not something I've seen or proven), one could then take a relatively strong magnet and attrack all of the wireless magnetic signals just to themselves, greatly reducing and interfering with the reception for other people.
How on earth can my comment about RTF export be marked as a troll post? It is a fact...search google for it, go to ircd.gimp.org #abiword and ask dom about it. He's the head software developer for Abiword. Moderators get your facts straight before modding something down. Unless of course you're a Microsoft troll.:)
Hello, of course there's going to a bias. It's a press release for Gnome Office! Do you see KWord as a part of the Gnome Office suite of programs? Stop complaining, KDE gets an equal share of press coverage on./.
Actually, I agree. And it's just MIME-type games. But here's how it works. You save your file in Abiword 2.0 as a Microsoft Word.doc. What Abiword does is it is actually RTF but with the extension.doc. If you do want a true RTF with the proper extension, that option is there too. How's that work for you?
Nope, I've been running Abiword CVS HEAD for about a whole year (on a Gentoo stable box) and those types of problems haven't been around for months now. Are you trying this out with the Abiword 2.0 stable release or a pre-release?
Here's a fact about that: you can capture 100% of everything that Microsoft Word can do (yes this includes the very latest version, Office XP) by exporting to RTF. That's no lie, it's a fact.
Yes it will, as long as you have the GTK libraries installed (if you're using KDE or Gnome). KDE programs run under Gnome and Gnome apps run under KDE. That's the beauty of the window manager. It'll just put it's own decorations around the app but use the GUI toolkit the application was written for. Gnome is the desktop, not the GUI nor the window border/controls. Gnome and KDE are more about bringing these two components and making it a complete package (desktop).
I completely agree.:) And doesn't a spell check do this for you anyway? Now something that tries to incorporate some new and leading edge type stuff for a grammar checker would be cool. But I agree, MS Word's grammar checker is useless.
I think collaboration between the camps is fantastic. Take a look at freedesktop.org for this initiative. Other than that, a single thing is almost always a bad idea. Competition is a really good thing. There are plenty of talented open source programmers to go around for all of the projects. No need to put everyone in the same boat only to get people mad at each other for conflicting ideas. Then you get about 50% less people working on the project(s) because they can't express their ideas for program improvements. Bad, bad idea.:)
Contratulations goes out to all of the developers for the Abiword, Gnumeric and GNOME-DB office programs. These applications show the power of open source software and the open source process. Thanks for all of the hard work and the dedication to excellence!
I've found quite the opposite actually for Lilly. I live in Indy too and both my brother-in-law and sister work for Lilly in the IT department. They love their jobs there. Also, everyone that I ask (who lives in Indiana for a while) who wants to do something related to what Lilly offers as jobs wants to work for Lilly. May I ask why you have this opinion?
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Economy is doing just fine thank you...if I recall correctly, I heard on NPR this morning that it's the first time national corporate profits have ever hit a combined total of over a trillion dollars for on quarter. So tell me, why would Bush want to cover up something that has never been achieved before? I guess maybe Bush has a heart...doesn't want to completely make Clinton look like the idiot that he really was by totally blaiming the bad economy on his presidency and we all know it was because of Clinton and his *let's help the poorest people* mentality. What a good laugh.
Wow, I almost agreed with you except at the very end...you just couldn't resist a cheap shot against God huh? Nice...try and get a clue. Children, teens and even moreso adults, need guidance. No one who is a normal biologically sounds person can resist such a temptation as having a computer in their room and not looking at porn. Even if they don't seek it out, with all of the pop-up advertising and dirty spam emails...you're bound to come face to face with the choice. And no amount of education will overcome nature. I agree education is good but it's a blanket statement and sheer ignorance to say it can be the end all cure towards people doing bad things. And yes looking at porn on the net is a bad thing.
That is sweet...thanks a lot for providing the info. Now I don't have to finish them on the Windows computer!
hehe, you're right. Those are beer-goggles that make girls at tech campuses look hot.
hehe, nice troll. At least you could do a little better than that. You sound like you're a developer who works for Microsoft. Of course anything runs perfectly on the developer's computer. Nice try. I'm going to have to ask you to try again though.
I think this is an excellent point. Though I must state that when it comes to trust of a government versus trust of a company, I pick the company. I took microeconomics and I understand the laws of supply and demand. But money is cold and it selects whatever it wants - to succeed. Many times this does not work out to select the best product technically. It selects what consumers *think* is the best product. That's why I say, at least for software and maybe even hardware design (schematics), open source is an evolution of the free market system. And I say evolution because I mean it - Charles Darwin would understand and would probably use an open source operating system these days if he were consistent with his beliefs. Therefore, though Red Hat has provided the OSS community with excellent contributions, how can we expect any less? The company needs to make money to pay the paychecks of the employees and right now the enterprise market is where it's at for Red Hat. I think they might come back in time, but next time they might be too late. That's my biggest criticism of a lot of today's companies - they aren't willing to take risks anymore. But then again, what company has ever made hundreds of millions or billions of dollars without taking a risk at one point? Just my $0.02.
How do scientists know that this comes from the Big Bang? How do they assume that it's from this and not from an infinite number of other possible scenerios? What if it's from the "wake" of a passing comet or something like that. What if it's absolutely not the Big Bang at all because (assume for this model) that God created the universe and the Big Bang theory is really so far off the mark? I think the theories of space and ancient times is getting too narrow far too prematurely. This is not good science. Good science weighs all of the possibilities.
I think I agree with you. Though Linux is more modular than Windows is by nature so this might prevent these drivers from taking the entire Linux kernel down with it. Though there definitely are more isolated kernels out there than Linux.
Opera can do that I believe. I could be wrong though. I remember reading an article (probably linked from slashdot) about how msn.com was blocking out opera users. If you changed opera to set the HTTP-AGENT to IE then it rendered perfectly fine, even though it wasn't IE. Personally, I hate IE...the web in general might not have too many IE only pages anymore but many applications like CRM apps, GTR apps, aka those internal business apps that run on intranets and extranets, many of those are IE only to the extreme. And it's very very sad because most of these apps are written so poorly. The data design is good, but using VBScript to implement those is a joke...I would love to see a hacker have a hay-day with some of the apps that come out of where I work. Maybe then I could convince my CIO that it's time to go from Windows servers running all Microsoft software to some diversity and run some Apple servers, Linux servers and BSD variant servers.
Well, the one's who don't know about Linux right now that really matter right away are the people at work. These people aren't expected to setup their own copies of Linux for their work machines. That's what the IS staff is for. Once Linux is installed (same for Windows, try and have the average Joe install Windows 2003), and I assume you would put either KDE or Gnome on it, it's very intuitive and straighforward for anyone to use who's used a GUI before. My mom is a case-in-point...she went on my machine randomly without me even being home and found out how to check her email without even knowing that it wasn't Windows! When I told her it was Linux later, she remarked "oh, well that was easier than on Windows - the icon actually makes sense."
Nice try, I use Linux for everything - server and desktop. And yes I'm a hobbyist but at the same time not a hobbyist. I am in college and I need my Linux desktop to get a lot of important things done like typing papers, doing circuit simulations, math equations, etc. I am not tinkering with Linux when I'm doing this. I expect it to just work - and work it does. Quite well I might add, it's been about a year and a half since I loaded this computer with Linux and it's as fast as ever. There's been no degredation in performance like what occurs in every Windows version I've ever tried. I run Linux at work and, besides one other Mac OS X box for the graphics/video guy, it's a total Windows environment. I can do everything with the Windows network and all of my co-worker's boxes from my Linux desktop without having to tinker. Again, it just works. I say it's a matter of time before you start seeing Windows desktop market share start dropping by 5% figures every couple of months or so. And I welcome that day! True computer innovation can begin again where we left off before Microsoft became dominant. The open source model will bring unbelievable technology in the next decade. Linux is totally a desktop OS now.
Thank you very much for your moderation explanation. I very much appreciate that. Thank you also for being a great user of Abiword (meaning you use it and file bug reports - we need more like you). Abiword's implementation of RTF isn't perfect but there is a very large commitment amoung the developers to put a lot of time into its implementation and to polish it off till it *appears* to have no more bugs in it. Just this past week, there have been 3 patches submitted to the new CVS HEAD of Abiword (for 2.2) that reduces the load time of certain large RTF files by a very large factor. You may want to stick around and check out CVS HEAD after a while (actually right now is good because it's still very stable still being early after the 2.0 release).
No, it's a similar concept but it's not a magnet. Traditional wireless transmission works by resonating (or vibrating) the antenna at the current frequency of a fixed or tuneable circuit. This is not electromagnetic or else we'd be in a lot of trouble if it was. We couldn't do nearly the same things that we could wirelessly if it were all electromagnetic. Just think about that, if it were I believe in theory (meaning it's my idea, not something I've seen or proven), one could then take a relatively strong magnet and attrack all of the wireless magnetic signals just to themselves, greatly reducing and interfering with the reception for other people.
Yes, this is very true. Though it is harder to repeal a law than it is to get it as law in the first place.
How on earth can my comment about RTF export be marked as a troll post? It is a fact...search google for it, go to ircd.gimp.org #abiword and ask dom about it. He's the head software developer for Abiword. Moderators get your facts straight before modding something down. Unless of course you're a Microsoft troll. :)
Hello, of course there's going to a bias. It's a press release for Gnome Office! Do you see KWord as a part of the Gnome Office suite of programs? Stop complaining, KDE gets an equal share of press coverage on ./.
Actually, I agree. And it's just MIME-type games. But here's how it works. You save your file in Abiword 2.0 as a Microsoft Word .doc. What Abiword does is it is actually RTF but with the extension .doc. If you do want a true RTF with the proper extension, that option is there too. How's that work for you?
Nope, I've been running Abiword CVS HEAD for about a whole year (on a Gentoo stable box) and those types of problems haven't been around for months now. Are you trying this out with the Abiword 2.0 stable release or a pre-release?
Abiword 2.0 will handle all of that except for the auto table of contents which will be a new feature for the next version, 2.2.
Here's a fact about that: you can capture 100% of everything that Microsoft Word can do (yes this includes the very latest version, Office XP) by exporting to RTF. That's no lie, it's a fact.
Yes it will, as long as you have the GTK libraries installed (if you're using KDE or Gnome). KDE programs run under Gnome and Gnome apps run under KDE. That's the beauty of the window manager. It'll just put it's own decorations around the app but use the GUI toolkit the application was written for. Gnome is the desktop, not the GUI nor the window border/controls. Gnome and KDE are more about bringing these two components and making it a complete package (desktop).
I completely agree. :) And doesn't a spell check do this for you anyway? Now something that tries to incorporate some new and leading edge type stuff for a grammar checker would be cool. But I agree, MS Word's grammar checker is useless.
I think collaboration between the camps is fantastic. Take a look at freedesktop.org for this initiative. Other than that, a single thing is almost always a bad idea. Competition is a really good thing. There are plenty of talented open source programmers to go around for all of the projects. No need to put everyone in the same boat only to get people mad at each other for conflicting ideas. Then you get about 50% less people working on the project(s) because they can't express their ideas for program improvements. Bad, bad idea. :)
Contratulations goes out to all of the developers for the Abiword, Gnumeric and GNOME-DB office programs. These applications show the power of open source software and the open source process. Thanks for all of the hard work and the dedication to excellence!
I've found quite the opposite actually for Lilly. I live in Indy too and both my brother-in-law and sister work for Lilly in the IT department. They love their jobs there. Also, everyone that I ask (who lives in Indiana for a while) who wants to do something related to what Lilly offers as jobs wants to work for Lilly. May I ask why you have this opinion?