Seriously, though, I'm an aspiring EE, it couldn't be hard to tear that thing down. This is, without a doubt, one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard of. As a matter of fact, this is right up there with the infamous list:
Copy-protected CDs
the RIAA legally hacking your boxen for mp3s
DoS'ing your boxen if you trade mp3s, moviez, et al
There are 2^1024 stupid people in the world. The list above is a marginal fraction of that number.
I used Soffice 5.2 for quite some time and was pretty happy with it. Although, like you, I feel that it is hella-ugly. At any rate, the best thing about 5.2 was how EASILY it synced with my palm. Actually, ALL the PIM features of 5.2 were excellent, and IMHO, exceeded microslop in every regard. So I downloaded 6.0 last night, and where the hell is all the PIM stuff? I don't want just a damn text editor, that's why God made emacs (or vi or pico or whatever). I Want An Office Suite. Where is the "Suite" part?
I agree wholeheartedly!
All these old schoolers preach about how OSS and Linux will never replace M$ on the desktop. You (melguin) are absolutely right on target. The only reason GUI apps (such as Evolution, KDE, Koffice, whathaveyou) are not as successful is because they haven't been around as long as the platforms/backends on which they run. For example, think of how far and fast KDE has travelled just this year! In less than a year's time, they have visually and functionally went from a win95 interface and then SURPASSED win2k in less than a year. Think of those 2 dates: 95 and 2000, that's a 5 yr difference. Open Source developers (I am not one of you yet); I salute you
This guy is absolutely right. This is the same situation as gun control. Taking away the right to bear arms is only taking away guns from people that abide by the law. Criminals will still find another way to get guns, or, in this case, Crypto without the hole in it. The idea of government institutions stepping into our technical and personal lives sickens me. This is not a socialist country, someone please inform your representative about that fact. Just my $.02, damn now I can't afford lunch.
Clearly, the plane that went down in PA was supposed to go somewhere else, not the woods. Some people in the media and government officials have speculated that it was bound for Camp David, other's say Pittsburgh. At any rate, _something_ interrupted the flight plan for that plane. At first I thought perhaps a passenger or few got up the balls to smash the hijacker-pilots face into the steering column, however a friend of mine postulated that perhaps we shot it down (we as in the USAF). The more I thought about it, the more plausible it sounded. Then this morning my girlfriend IMs me and and said that she heard from a caller on the Howard Stern show this morning that the caller (from Somerset PA) heard an explosion in the sky above, then saw the passenger plane going down with two jets soaring up through the smoke. If this is true, I find it entirely justifiable for the USAF to shoot down that plane. Although they killed innocent people, the loss of life was -- I'm sure -- reduced by downing it in an unpopulated area. Good job.
That already happened. Does T. McVeigh ring a bell? AFAIK, it didn't change any racists' views on minorities. We should have learned a lesson from McVeigh; he was the poster boy for white angst in a (in their view) "minorities rising up and destroying whites" world and just how far the notion of "crazy asshole" will take you. We learned nothing from him, although we should have.
Looks like Japanese to me. After all, "kamikaze" is a Japanese word, and -- apparently -- a Japanse pasttime. I'm not backing up my idea with ANY factual evidence, but, seriously, in order to know how to fly those planes, the person(s) had to learn from a flight simulator which costs millions of dollars (my father works in a flight simulator HQ). Sorry but these Llama-Llama guys don't have that kind of $$$. Just my chip-in to the fear factory.
My college (Youngstown State) as well as the University of Akron (where my girlfriend goes) have been closed as a result of this event. Update:
My girlfriend now reports that the University of Akron is being evacuated, as the Polymer Science building is a large supplier of the nation's polymer needs. All hell seems to breaking loose; very surreal
Cool trick. Uh. I think. I opened it with mozilla. I saw html. wtf? Just so i don't get modded down, i'll throw in my.02. Where is linux the kernel on this 64-bit bandwagon? Are we going to support it?
Everywhere here is saying "split them. make Ballmer prez of one, and Allchin prez of the other, etc" Who the hell said anything about competition? Face it, if you break them apart, you have absolutely no guarantee that they won't cooperate.
I appreciate everyone's input; sorry for seeming so absolutely judgemental in my first post. You've all made me consider dusting off my 2 java books. But tell me, I've got Core Java with SDK 1.0 (oh yeah, this is old stuff) and Graphical Java. Should I dump these books because Java has progressed beyond this?
So that's how it works, huh? Ask an open-ended question, state that you are obviously not well informed, plead to be proven wrong, be polite as possible, and you get flamed?! Screw you. I said I was not an expert, I asked why Java was increasing in popularity, NOWHERE did I say "Java sucks," I said it seems slow. Thanks for proving me wrong, try not to be such a prick next time.
Sorry, I don't buy this. I'm not an expert on Java however. As a matter of fact, I can't necesarily cite any programs I run that are built using Java exclusively. However, I do have some programs that use java in one part or another, and all I've noticed is that (sorry) Java is slow. Speed is of the essence at all times in our industry. Why is java picking up? I'd like to see somebody show me the light; show me a GUI program that runs on Java that is faster than a C++ program, and I'll gladly insert my proverbial foot into my proverbial mouth.
It's about time someone stood up for the goatse.cx guy! Poor guy's just trying to beatiful ASCII art, no harm in that...;^)
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You have got to be kidding me.
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Jon Katz gets knee deep in Onions as he investigates a ground-breaking website that is sarcastic at times, and always hilarious. It's called theonion.com, and this brand new website is making waves. Be sure not to miss it, and please leave your pesky brain at home. STFU Katz.
You are absolutely right. I'd be surprised to see any new game companies come out and successfully develop and sell games on any platform, let alone linux. What we need is this: more people using Linux. Once we have that, then we need the game shops that are already established (read: iD Software) to have a completely separate group of engineers that write the game parallel to the windows engineers so that both versions of the game are ready for release when they are done. Then let the user decide which one to buy. Think of this: one company now gets more profit than if they only sold windbloze-centric games as well. Seems like a good idea to me. iD are you listening?
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Seriously, though, I'm an aspiring EE, it couldn't be hard to tear that thing down. This is, without a doubt, one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard of. As a matter of fact, this is right up there with the infamous list:
Copy-protected CDs
the RIAA legally hacking your boxen for mp3s
DoS'ing your boxen if you trade mp3s, moviez, et al
There are 2^1024 stupid people in the world. The list above is a marginal fraction of that number.
That the picture at the top of this article that counts down the days to the XP release looks like a tombstone?
Now, THAT, is foreshadowing!
Go ahead and try it. Who here wouldn't retaliate against a terrorist/DoS attack?
I sure would.
So I say bring it on suckas, lets c what u got.
Are there this many idiots in the world?
No.
There are (2^1024)*idiots in the world.
or approximately
1.797693134862315907729305190789e+308 idiots in the world.
Jeez, didn't you know that?
WTF?
I used Soffice 5.2 for quite some time and was pretty happy with it. Although, like you, I feel that it is hella-ugly. At any rate, the best thing about 5.2 was how EASILY it synced with my palm. Actually, ALL the PIM features of 5.2 were excellent, and IMHO, exceeded microslop in every regard. So I downloaded 6.0 last night, and where the hell is all the PIM stuff? I don't want just a damn text editor, that's why God made emacs (or vi or pico or whatever). I Want An Office Suite. Where is the "Suite" part?
I agree wholeheartedly!
All these old schoolers preach about how OSS and Linux will never replace M$ on the desktop. You (melguin) are absolutely right on target. The only reason GUI apps (such as Evolution, KDE, Koffice, whathaveyou) are not as successful is because they haven't been around as long as the platforms/backends on which they run. For example, think of how far and fast KDE has travelled just this year! In less than a year's time, they have visually and functionally went from a win95 interface and then SURPASSED win2k in less than a year. Think of those 2 dates: 95 and 2000, that's a 5 yr difference. Open Source developers (I am not one of you yet); I salute you
Hey I'm on 24.154 and I didn't notice any latency when SSHing in to home. (Coming from a 208 at work, btw)
This guy is absolutely right. This is the same situation as gun control. Taking away the right to bear arms is only taking away guns from people that abide by the law. Criminals will still find another way to get guns, or, in this case, Crypto without the hole in it. The idea of government institutions stepping into our technical and personal lives sickens me. This is not a socialist country, someone please inform your representative about that fact.
Just my $.02, damn now I can't afford lunch.
Is there really an Easter Egg in Excel? How stupid...
Clearly, the plane that went down in PA was supposed to go somewhere else, not the woods. Some people in the media and government officials have speculated that it was bound for Camp David, other's say Pittsburgh. At any rate, _something_ interrupted the flight plan for that plane. At first I thought perhaps a passenger or few got up the balls to smash the hijacker-pilots face into the steering column, however a friend of mine postulated that perhaps we shot it down (we as in the USAF). The more I thought about it, the more plausible it sounded. Then this morning my girlfriend IMs me and and said that she heard from a caller on the Howard Stern show this morning that the caller (from Somerset PA) heard an explosion in the sky above, then saw the passenger plane going down with two jets soaring up through the smoke. If this is true, I find it entirely justifiable for the USAF to shoot down that plane. Although they killed innocent people, the loss of life was -- I'm sure -- reduced by downing it in an unpopulated area. Good job.
That already happened. Does T. McVeigh ring a bell? AFAIK, it didn't change any racists' views on minorities. We should have learned a lesson from McVeigh; he was the poster boy for white angst in a (in their view) "minorities rising up and destroying whites" world and just how far the notion of "crazy asshole" will take you. We learned nothing from him, although we should have.
Looks like Japanese to me. After all, "kamikaze" is a Japanese word, and -- apparently -- a Japanse pasttime. I'm not backing up my idea with ANY factual evidence, but, seriously, in order to know how to fly those planes, the person(s) had to learn from a flight simulator which costs millions of dollars (my father works in a flight simulator HQ). Sorry but these Llama-Llama guys don't have that kind of $$$.
Just my chip-in to the fear factory.
My college (Youngstown State) as well as the University of Akron (where my girlfriend goes) have been closed as a result of this event.
Update:
My girlfriend now reports that the University of Akron is being evacuated, as the Polymer Science building is a large supplier of the nation's polymer needs. All hell seems to breaking loose; very surreal
QUAKE 3!!
Oh wait, you said non-violent?
WTF is that?
Cool trick. Uh. I think. I opened it with mozilla. I saw html. wtf? Just so i don't get modded down, i'll throw in my .02. Where is linux the kernel on this 64-bit bandwagon? Are we going to support it?
Bring on the GUI apps. Guess now I've got yet another reason to learn Perl
Everywhere here is saying "split them. make Ballmer prez of one, and Allchin prez of the other, etc" Who the hell said anything about competition? Face it, if you break them apart, you have absolutely no guarantee that they won't cooperate.
I appreciate everyone's input; sorry for seeming so absolutely judgemental in my first post. You've all made me consider dusting off my 2 java books. But tell me, I've got Core Java with SDK 1.0 (oh yeah, this is old stuff) and Graphical Java. Should I dump these books because Java has progressed beyond this?
So that's how it works, huh? Ask an open-ended question, state that you are obviously not well informed, plead to be proven wrong, be polite as possible, and you get flamed?! Screw you. I said I was not an expert, I asked why Java was increasing in popularity, NOWHERE did I say "Java sucks," I said it seems slow. Thanks for proving me wrong, try not to be such a prick next time.
Sorry, I don't buy this. I'm not an expert on Java however. As a matter of fact, I can't necesarily cite any programs I run that are built using Java exclusively. However, I do have some programs that use java in one part or another, and all I've noticed is that (sorry) Java is slow. Speed is of the essence at all times in our industry. Why is java picking up? I'd like to see somebody show me the light; show me a GUI program that runs on Java that is faster than a C++ program, and I'll gladly insert my proverbial foot into my proverbial mouth.
It's about time someone stood up for the goatse.cx guy! Poor guy's just trying to beatiful ASCII art, no harm in that... ;^)
You have got to be kidding me.
Next week on Features:
Jon Katz gets knee deep in Onions as he investigates a ground-breaking website that is sarcastic at times, and always hilarious. It's called theonion.com, and this brand new website is making waves. Be sure not to miss it, and please leave your pesky brain at home.
STFU Katz.
You are absolutely right. I'd be surprised to see any new game companies come out and successfully develop and sell games on any platform, let alone linux. What we need is this: more people using Linux. Once we have that, then we need the game shops that are already established (read: iD Software) to have a completely separate group of engineers that write the game parallel to the windows engineers so that both versions of the game are ready for release when they are done. Then let the user decide which one to buy. Think of this: one company now gets more profit than if they only sold windbloze-centric games as well. Seems like a good idea to me. iD are you listening?
This is absolutely terrible. What a great company Loki is/was. Looks like I can forget about a Max Payne port... Damn, I'm so pissed.