We use Office because all our company's documents, dating back years and years are all made in office. It would be time consuming and usually not very good looking to convert them to another format. Also most documents we receive from customers and partners is also in Office format, don't want to convert back between different formats all the time. No, I don't like this one bit, but so far nobody has an adequate solution.
That's kind of the idea for KFile plugins, is that the system will be able to understand new file formats as they are developed without needing the user to figure out. Yes users have intelligence, but so do the developers:) Better that the developers spend their time to develop a feature rather than putting the burden on everyone. Yes you can do the same thing with a bunch of shell commands, but not everyone wants to. Again, it's your choice:)
While true in many cases, this is mostly because they were being paid way more than they should have been because the market was a crazy place during the boom.
If you don't want to use it, it will likely be possible to disable it. Voila, no bloat. On the other hand, I've always wanted a good way to search within documents / metadata on Linux (KDE in particular) that's integrated with the environment. And yes, before anyone mentions it, I do know about grep and use it daily in my coding but it's not the same. grep can't search through formats other than text, of which there are a lot of (OpenOffice, KOffice, etc formats come to mind). Also I'm sure this feature will be able to utilize KDE's Kfile framework to allow you to search for different characteristics of different file types. Far from being bloat, I think this sounds USEFUL above all. Going out on a limb here, but I think if you combine this with the up and coming ReiserFS4 and its plugins and metadata support, you could have a *really* powerful way to organize your files. But hey, if you don't want that, don't use it. It is OSS after all, there's plenty of choices in desktop environment and applications.
According to their website, Neuros doesn't ship to Canada, and apparently ThinkGeek doesn't ship this product to Canada either... a bit strange I think, maybe there's some restrictions on the device or Neuros just isn't letting them sell it here. Either way, I've sent Neuros an email asking how I can get one here. Looks like a great player, and I'm pretty excited about the open development platform.
It's hard enough already as it is. I'm still wondering if I should wait for dual layer or just go ahead and buy a single layer writer now. The drives are available now, though not nearly as large of a selection as single layer, especially when it comes to external drives. Dual layer media is currently not readily available retail here in western Canada and reportedly will not be till early next year, and then there will be yet ANOTHER format? What a pain! In contrast, I've had my CD-RW for over 4 years now, it's been the same media and format the whole time. Upgrading CPU's, video cards, memory etc is not such a big deal, but constantly changing media formats for your removable disks is a hassle. A hard drive will work in any machine (even SATA ones have adapters available), but these new DVD types will likely require drives that support them. You can't count on everyone to upgrade their DVD drives every year so you will be able to transfer data to them...
And this is modded funny because??? Sounds like a good idea to me, you could do some really flexable analysis of the signals with an FPGA, and even integrate it in to the rest of your system.
Funny thing, Windows XP was running just fine on my sister's PII-400 and was perfectly useable for all her day-to-day stuff, web browsing, word processing, email, chat, and even some graphics. I just upgraded her to my old Duron 1GHz to improve the performance of PaintShop, but other than that it was fine.
And yes, Microsoft *did* make mistakes (doesn't everyone?) and if she wants to improve her OS, she *will* have to spend $100 for it. A worthwhile investment, IMO, if it saves you hours of fighting with your computer or having to recover a severely borked 98 install.
She'll probably have to upgrade that 8MB HD though:P
Busses do not need seatbelts. In fact, studies have been done that show that seatbelts in a bus are more likely to cause injury than if the rider was without one. I wish I could find and quote the study on the net right now, but unfortunately i don't have the time to find it.
That's why you should keep a log, preferably a dated lab note book of any kind of research or work you do. If he had such a book that contained the history of his ideas and went back to before his employment at Alcatel, he would likely have been able to win this court case.
I can back this up. We have some of these laptops at our company, and the battery life is incredible. Some people recently reported 9 hours on the extended life battery.
WA5 does exactly what you describe as well. You can select a bunch of songs in the Media Library and then edit their tag information together. I haven't tried iTunes yet, but it sounds quite similar. I've just heard that iTunes uses a lot of memory, but I'll probably end up giving it a try anyway
I noticed the Zope and Plone documentation follows this model too. Unfortunately the developers appear to have neglected the docs and don't incorporate the changes very quickly.
I've been trying to find a project to write docs for for quite some time, but I usually don't get any replies when I email authors of various software. If they don't want to communicate with me I don't want to be wasting my time writing documentation for them.
So how about this, if you have an OSS project that needs some docs, contact me. If I find it interesting maybe I will help out.
Maybe someone should set up a site where doc writers can offer their services and software authors can request to have docs written for their programs. Just an idea.
You can buy transparent sheets suitable for this purpose at most electronics shops (real ones, not Radio Shack...) for at most $1 a sheet. Then you can print on to it with a laser printer or use a photocopier. You can then use a regular clothing iron to iron on the ink to the board. I made tube amplifier circuit boards this way and it worked really great.
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We use Office because all our company's documents, dating back years and years are all made in office. It would be time consuming and usually not very good looking to convert them to another format. Also most documents we receive from customers and partners is also in Office format, don't want to convert back between different formats all the time. No, I don't like this one bit, but so far nobody has an adequate solution.
Better yet, someone can make an extension to disable the extension blocking and install button wait time :)
And you are on a site with the title News for Nerds why?
Not to mention the mummy thing too. The worst kind of /.'ers, those who don't even bother to read the article titles ;)
That's kind of the idea for KFile plugins, is that the system will be able to understand new file formats as they are developed without needing the user to figure out. Yes users have intelligence, but so do the developers :) Better that the developers spend their time to develop a feature rather than putting the burden on everyone. Yes you can do the same thing with a bunch of shell commands, but not everyone wants to. Again, it's your choice :)
While true in many cases, this is mostly because they were being paid way more than they should have been because the market was a crazy place during the boom.
If you don't want to use it, it will likely be possible to disable it. Voila, no bloat. On the other hand, I've always wanted a good way to search within documents / metadata on Linux (KDE in particular) that's integrated with the environment. And yes, before anyone mentions it, I do know about grep and use it daily in my coding but it's not the same. grep can't search through formats other than text, of which there are a lot of (OpenOffice, KOffice, etc formats come to mind). Also I'm sure this feature will be able to utilize KDE's Kfile framework to allow you to search for different characteristics of different file types. Far from being bloat, I think this sounds USEFUL above all. Going out on a limb here, but I think if you combine this with the up and coming ReiserFS4 and its plugins and metadata support, you could have a *really* powerful way to organize your files. But hey, if you don't want that, don't use it. It is OSS after all, there's plenty of choices in desktop environment and applications.
According to their website, Neuros doesn't ship to Canada, and apparently ThinkGeek doesn't ship this product to Canada either... a bit strange I think, maybe there's some restrictions on the device or Neuros just isn't letting them sell it here. Either way, I've sent Neuros an email asking how I can get one here. Looks like a great player, and I'm pretty excited about the open development platform.
It's hard enough already as it is. I'm still wondering if I should wait for dual layer or just go ahead and buy a single layer writer now. The drives are available now, though not nearly as large of a selection as single layer, especially when it comes to external drives. Dual layer media is currently not readily available retail here in western Canada and reportedly will not be till early next year, and then there will be yet ANOTHER format? What a pain! In contrast, I've had my CD-RW for over 4 years now, it's been the same media and format the whole time. Upgrading CPU's, video cards, memory etc is not such a big deal, but constantly changing media formats for your removable disks is a hassle. A hard drive will work in any machine (even SATA ones have adapters available), but these new DVD types will likely require drives that support them. You can't count on everyone to upgrade their DVD drives every year so you will be able to transfer data to them...
As long as we're on the topic of Unibroue beers, I tried Trois Pistoles at a conference early this year, and it was very good.
And this is modded funny because??? Sounds like a good idea to me, you could do some really flexable analysis of the signals with an FPGA, and even integrate it in to the rest of your system.
Hard to find a model that supports RPN? That's funny, I see two here .. three here ... and one here
How about you just ask someone? Nicely? A lot of people have GMail invites sitting around.
...for Jabberwocky in Brainf*ck.
Funny thing, Windows XP was running just fine on my sister's PII-400 and was perfectly useable for all her day-to-day stuff, web browsing, word processing, email, chat, and even some graphics. I just upgraded her to my old Duron 1GHz to improve the performance of PaintShop, but other than that it was fine.
:P
And yes, Microsoft *did* make mistakes (doesn't everyone?) and if she wants to improve her OS, she *will* have to spend $100 for it. A worthwhile investment, IMO, if it saves you hours of fighting with your computer or having to recover a severely borked 98 install.
She'll probably have to upgrade that 8MB HD though
I've been wanting to get one of these, but what do you use as a case?
Busses do not need seatbelts. In fact, studies have been done that show that seatbelts in a bus are more likely to cause injury than if the rider was without one. I wish I could find and quote the study on the net right now, but unfortunately i don't have the time to find it.
That's why you should keep a log, preferably a dated lab note book of any kind of research or work you do. If he had such a book that contained the history of his ideas and went back to before his employment at Alcatel, he would likely have been able to win this court case.
I can back this up. We have some of these laptops at our company, and the battery life is incredible. Some people recently reported 9 hours on the extended life battery.
WA5 does exactly what you describe as well. You can select a bunch of songs in the Media Library and then edit their tag information together. I haven't tried iTunes yet, but it sounds quite similar. I've just heard that iTunes uses a lot of memory, but I'll probably end up giving it a try anyway
I noticed the Zope and Plone documentation follows this model too. Unfortunately the developers appear to have neglected the docs and don't incorporate the changes very quickly.
Sorry, the info should be available now. Forgot to show my email and ICQ on /. :)
I tried contacting Lauri before but never got a reply to my email, maybe it was just missed... i might give it another try.
I've been trying to find a project to write docs for for quite some time, but I usually don't get any replies when I email authors of various software. If they don't want to communicate with me I don't want to be wasting my time writing documentation for them.
So how about this, if you have an OSS project that needs some docs, contact me. If I find it interesting maybe I will help out.
Maybe someone should set up a site where doc writers can offer their services and software authors can request to have docs written for their programs. Just an idea.
You can buy transparent sheets suitable for this purpose at most electronics shops (real ones, not Radio Shack...) for at most $1 a sheet. Then you can print on to it with a laser printer or use a photocopier. You can then use a regular clothing iron to iron on the ink to the board. I made tube amplifier circuit boards this way and it worked really great.