Its still Microsoft Office 2007 Standard, Pro, Enterprise etc, and its still Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007 et al. They only rebadged the generics - 2003 Office systems, 2007 Office systems. The individual packages are still the same format as they always have been.
The F-22 can carry the standard USAF air delivered nuclear weapon as maintained within the US military arsenal today, either one internal or two external. The radiation from the weapons has no effect on the stealth, either before or after detonation (the stealth capability involved is an advanced form of that used on the B-2 and B-1B bombers, both of which were at their inception designed to be purely nuclear armed bombers).
Data wants to be free; Oh god, not that crap again - data isnt tangible, it doesnt want to *be* anything, let alone free. Its owned by someone, someone controls access to information and the price is whatever that someone says. Data doesnt sit on a hard disk somewhere tunneling under the wire, it doesnt hide in supply trucks, it sits there until an external entity does something to it.
we can only restrict distribution and charge $$ for it by making some artificial arrangement (which is always going to be defeatable).
Be very careful, because the only reason you can leave your car in a car park with a reasonable expectation of it being there when you get back is also because of artificial limitations called laws. Those same artificial limitations also are the reason why you have a reasonable expectation that you work gets paid for. Why is this any different?
with Google Spreadsheets is that theres a 500KB size limit on pre existing documents - every spreadsheet I have around here exceeds that limit. From what I can see, Google Spreadsheet is worth using, I jsut cant use it.
Anyone know if they have removed this size limit in the Google Apps version, because they certainly havent removed it in the free version.
Its highly likely that none of the parts that malfunctioned will be contained within the reentry package - theres no point in having those parts retrievable, all you want is the science package so thats all you bring to the ground. The rest will burn up in the atmosphere after seperation.
They are going through with the reentry because theres a chance they did get some debris, and they want to see if the reentry procedure works.
Its a test flight, its not as if the entire purpose of the flight was to do some skywriting, if they hadnt done this then they would have gone round and round in a figure of eight for exactly the same period of time. There were other reasons for this flight, which would have been the basis for the expenditure, this is jsut a little fun.
In the UK theres a scheme being done by many banks for religions that dont allow borrowing (yes, they do exist) - the bank buys the house, the bank *owns* the house, you pay the bank rent and after a period of time you own the house without repaying any money.
Its different to how its normally done because in the UK when you take out a mortgage you immediately own the house, the bank doesnt own it unless they reposses it.
I distinctly remember going to school aged 6 or 7 in Northern Ireland as a dependant of a British military personel toward the mid 1980s and being having a regular 'security' class taken by someone in combat fatigues every week (IE someone from the military). In that class we were shown explosive device designs in use by the IRA at that time - pipe bombs, nail bombs et al, anything we should not ever touch in any circumstance if we found.
I also went to school in Berlin toward the end of the 1980s (yes, I was there for the wall coming down) and there were adverts on TV (BFBC iirc) that detailed carbombs and how to check for them, along with what to look out for with regard to suspicious persons.
Some of us grew up in a security climate vastly worse than the current one. And no, Im not the AC above.
The TPM chip doesnt seem to be in Core2Duo iterations of Apple Macs - its not identifiable on the motherboard and it doesnt show up in an ioreg listing.
Or perhaps none of the above? Wasnt Microsoft one of the organisations that fairly recently called for patent reform? Maybe this patent application has something to do with that?
Wrong, nowhere in the Data Protection Act 1998 does it allow the subject of data retention (I.E. you) to request unmitigated deletion of data held. You can go to court to ask the judge to rule on deletion or correction (at the courts discretion) of incorrect or inappropriate data, but theres no clause held within the Act of Parliament to force a company to delete appropriate and correct retained data on request.
Many 'law' firms on the Internet have it wrong when they are suggesting deletion on request is required. Its very easy to check on these things, UK law is written plainly and available to the public:
The GPL version 3 is in limbo because its not finalised yet - so why should projects move to it when they dont even know what precisely it is they would be moving to?!
Some people really need to take a step back and breathe a little - theres no rush to move anything to the GPL v3, its not the cure for cancer and the situation wont have changed much in a year or two when no more changes are being made to it.
They were definitely helpful when some miscreant recently got hold of my Paypal login details somehow and transfered several thousand dollars around the world. I had a paypal account handler on the phone within a minute of ringing their (UK) number, she raised disputes on all the items, they were confirmed within 48 hours as problem transactions and they had all been cancelled within 72 hours.
My account was usable again a week later, but that was mainly my fault for cancelling the direct debits and cards linked to the paypal account the morning I discovered the activity, so I had to reset up the paypal - bank account conduits.
Funny thing is, I actually made money from all this:) Because the vast majority of transactions made were done through the direct debit system, Paypal could not stop them at that time, so we were waiting for them to fail. During this period tho, Paypal preempted themselves and applied a balance readjustment to take into account currency exchange rate changes, giving me over fifty dollars. The direct debits failed, no money actually left my bank account so no funds were needed to be returned, but Paypal point blank refused to admit that the fifty dollars wasnt mine, so by their admission I gained money!
All in all, I have had excellent customer support from Paypal and all the other anecdotal websites around dont match my experiences.
NASA flew the DC-X four times, with it being lost on the fourth flight. The US Airforce programme damanged the DC-X on its last flight with them and refused to spend funds on repairs, which was why NASA stepped in - they offered the funding to repair the vehicle and resume testing.
The weight was 2% over, but the aircraft is meeting its performance guarantees to customers so the weight 'problem' is solved - the Boeing 787 is also 2% overweight at the moment.
THe Boeing 747 was a year late, overweight for much of its development cycle, and had massive problems with the engines (resulting in over 30 aircraft sat at Boeing Field without engines). Would you have also called that aircraft 'vapourware'?
Again, the term 'vapourware' seems to be massively overused on this site.
You're correct. I was confusing the hydrogen tank explosion as having happened during the scheduled 1999 test flight. Replace X-33 with the DC-X, however, and you have the same result.
Again, I wouldnt class the DC-X as vapourware either - it flew, it was a prototype and it was cancelled by NASA. McDonald Douglas made no extravagant claims about its operation or production, it was cancelled by NASA after the prototype crashed and it was deemed a replacement would put the project overbudget.
Production delays are still delays. Until the first fully operational craft is delivered to a customer, it is still vaporware. I have no doubt that it will happen eventually, but that doesn't stop the vapor phase from occurring. And I still disagree with you - classing an aircraft that has received its type certification from the two most stringent aviation bodies in the world as vapourware is pushing the term somewhat.
If you are going to classify the A380 as vapourware, then you automatically need to classify every single aircraft project announced as vapourware as well, because they all fit the wikipedia definition in one form or another. And this includes Boeings 787 and 747-8 series, Bombardiers Cseries stretches, and numerous others.
Vapourware is another term that has lost its meaning on Slashdot.
Theres one prototype and 6 production airframes that have flown to date, and another 5 airframes that are awaiting spare capacity at the Hamburg cabin assembly line so that they can fly there.
It may be a screwed up project, but its far from vapourware.
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Microsoft themselves are supporting an opensource ODF convertor and exporter for Office -
http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/
Its still Microsoft Office 2007 Standard, Pro, Enterprise etc, and its still Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007 et al. They only rebadged the generics - 2003 Office systems, 2007 Office systems. The individual packages are still the same format as they always have been.
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/suites/FX101677
The F-22 can carry the standard USAF air delivered nuclear weapon as maintained within the US military arsenal today, either one internal or two external. The radiation from the weapons has no effect on the stealth, either before or after detonation (the stealth capability involved is an advanced form of that used on the B-2 and B-1B bombers, both of which were at their inception designed to be purely nuclear armed bombers).
Oh god, not that crap again - data isnt tangible, it doesnt want to *be* anything, let alone free. Its owned by someone, someone controls access to information and the price is whatever that someone says. Data doesnt sit on a hard disk somewhere tunneling under the wire, it doesnt hide in supply trucks, it sits there until an external entity does something to it.
we can only restrict distribution and charge $$ for it by making some artificial arrangement (which is always going to be defeatable).
Be very careful, because the only reason you can leave your car in a car park with a reasonable expectation of it being there when you get back is also because of artificial limitations called laws. Those same artificial limitations also are the reason why you have a reasonable expectation that you work gets paid for. Why is this any different?
with Google Spreadsheets is that theres a 500KB size limit on pre existing documents - every spreadsheet I have around here exceeds that limit. From what I can see, Google Spreadsheet is worth using, I jsut cant use it.
Anyone know if they have removed this size limit in the Google Apps version, because they certainly havent removed it in the free version.
Its highly likely that none of the parts that malfunctioned will be contained within the reentry package - theres no point in having those parts retrievable, all you want is the science package so thats all you bring to the ground. The rest will burn up in the atmosphere after seperation.
They are going through with the reentry because theres a chance they did get some debris, and they want to see if the reentry procedure works.
No, under the Distance Selling regulations the shipping charges (either way) dont have to be refunded, only the cost of the item when its returned.
All retail copies of OSX are full copies, theres no such thing as an upgrade.
Its a test flight, its not as if the entire purpose of the flight was to do some skywriting, if they hadnt done this then they would have gone round and round in a figure of eight for exactly the same period of time. There were other reasons for this flight, which would have been the basis for the expenditure, this is jsut a little fun.
Im using 1.5.0.9 at the moment, no 2.0 upgrade was ever pushed out to me, and checking now manually shows no updates waiting.
There is a cost involved, but thats the price of religion -
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/liv
In the UK theres a scheme being done by many banks for religions that dont allow borrowing (yes, they do exist) - the bank buys the house, the bank *owns* the house, you pay the bank rent and after a period of time you own the house without repaying any money.
Its different to how its normally done because in the UK when you take out a mortgage you immediately own the house, the bank doesnt own it unless they reposses it.
No, all retail copies of OSX are full versions at the same price.
I distinctly remember going to school aged 6 or 7 in Northern Ireland as a dependant of a British military personel toward the mid 1980s and being having a regular 'security' class taken by someone in combat fatigues every week (IE someone from the military). In that class we were shown explosive device designs in use by the IRA at that time - pipe bombs, nail bombs et al, anything we should not ever touch in any circumstance if we found.
I also went to school in Berlin toward the end of the 1980s (yes, I was there for the wall coming down) and there were adverts on TV (BFBC iirc) that detailed carbombs and how to check for them, along with what to look out for with regard to suspicious persons.
Some of us grew up in a security climate vastly worse than the current one. And no, Im not the AC above.
The TPM chip doesnt seem to be in Core2Duo iterations of Apple Macs - its not identifiable on the motherboard and it doesnt show up in an ioreg listing.
Or perhaps none of the above? Wasnt Microsoft one of the organisations that fairly recently called for patent reform? Maybe this patent application has something to do with that?
Wrong, nowhere in the Data Protection Act 1998 does it allow the subject of data retention (I.E. you) to request unmitigated deletion of data held. You can go to court to ask the judge to rule on deletion or correction (at the courts discretion) of incorrect or inappropriate data, but theres no clause held within the Act of Parliament to force a company to delete appropriate and correct retained data on request.
Many 'law' firms on the Internet have it wrong when they are suggesting deletion on request is required. Its very easy to check on these things, UK law is written plainly and available to the public:
1998 Data Protection Act
There has been no relevent update or amendment to this Act that adds the above rights either.
The GPL version 3 is in limbo because its not finalised yet - so why should projects move to it when they dont even know what precisely it is they would be moving to?!
Some people really need to take a step back and breathe a little - theres no rush to move anything to the GPL v3, its not the cure for cancer and the situation wont have changed much in a year or two when no more changes are being made to it.
It wasnt hard to find it at all.
They were definitely helpful when some miscreant recently got hold of my Paypal login details somehow and transfered several thousand dollars around the world. I had a paypal account handler on the phone within a minute of ringing their (UK) number, she raised disputes on all the items, they were confirmed within 48 hours as problem transactions and they had all been cancelled within 72 hours.
:) Because the vast majority of transactions made were done through the direct debit system, Paypal could not stop them at that time, so we were waiting for them to fail. During this period tho, Paypal preempted themselves and applied a balance readjustment to take into account currency exchange rate changes, giving me over fifty dollars. The direct debits failed, no money actually left my bank account so no funds were needed to be returned, but Paypal point blank refused to admit that the fifty dollars wasnt mine, so by their admission I gained money!
My account was usable again a week later, but that was mainly my fault for cancelling the direct debits and cards linked to the paypal account the morning I discovered the activity, so I had to reset up the paypal - bank account conduits.
Funny thing is, I actually made money from all this
All in all, I have had excellent customer support from Paypal and all the other anecdotal websites around dont match my experiences.
NASA flew the DC-X four times, with it being lost on the fourth flight. The US Airforce programme damanged the DC-X on its last flight with them and refused to spend funds on repairs, which was why NASA stepped in - they offered the funding to repair the vehicle and resume testing.
The weight was 2% over, but the aircraft is meeting its performance guarantees to customers so the weight 'problem' is solved - the Boeing 787 is also 2% overweight at the moment.
THe Boeing 747 was a year late, overweight for much of its development cycle, and had massive problems with the engines (resulting in over 30 aircraft sat at Boeing Field without engines). Would you have also called that aircraft 'vapourware'?
Again, the term 'vapourware' seems to be massively overused on this site.
Again, I wouldnt class the DC-X as vapourware either - it flew, it was a prototype and it was cancelled by NASA. McDonald Douglas made no extravagant claims about its operation or production, it was cancelled by NASA after the prototype crashed and it was deemed a replacement would put the project overbudget.
Production delays are still delays. Until the first fully operational craft is delivered to a customer, it is still vaporware. I have no doubt that it will happen eventually, but that doesn't stop the vapor phase from occurring. And I still disagree with you - classing an aircraft that has received its type certification from the two most stringent aviation bodies in the world as vapourware is pushing the term somewhat.
If you are going to classify the A380 as vapourware, then you automatically need to classify every single aircraft project announced as vapourware as well, because they all fit the wikipedia definition in one form or another. And this includes Boeings 787 and 747-8 series, Bombardiers Cseries stretches, and numerous others.
Vapourware is another term that has lost its meaning on Slashdot.
Yes there's a prototype for the A380.
Theres one prototype and 6 production airframes that have flown to date, and another 5 airframes that are awaiting spare capacity at the Hamburg cabin assembly line so that they can fly there.It may be a screwed up project, but its far from vapourware.