"Yes, it can be safely assumed from past experience that MS has a bias, but why does that automatically indicate a bias in people they fund?"
The people MS pay want more money from MS. If they publish something that MS does not like, especially if it is a report financed by MS then MS will not finance anymore studies with them. Simple, they therefore have a bias to provide reports that are consistent with what MS wants.
QED
How about "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"
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Yes I agree on Rigworld.
But I think for me the best Geek novel I have read recently (and the best Geek Novel Of the Century) is Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow.
Not a Geek certainly but Nerd maybe. His novels encourage the nerdish behaviur of descending into a fanasy world for months on end.
On the other hand his books' medievalist anti-technological bias is enough to make any real geek vomit. Anyway who would want to ba wasting their time on that crap when they coukd be doing something cool on their computer.
Java web applications are slow to load even on a fast machine over broadband.
I am a research chemist, a number commercial chemistry service online providers use Java 2D drawing applets as front ends to their databases and numerical engines. These apps though they work are slow and clunky.
Pubchem a chemical database provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has developed a 2D web drawing tool that apparently uses AJAX techniques for its instantaneous update:
A large portion of the world wants the US to tear up our constitution and remake ourselves in the image of the EU. And we aren't interested, now or ever.
No we don't we just want you to return to the spirit of your constitution and the inspiration of your founding fathers. Oh I guess that would make the US a bit more like the EU;)
I think we Europeans are far more influenced by Jefferson and Franklin than most Americans (except rms of course:)).
Yeah! The works of Mao Zedong would also be blocked. China calls itself a peoples' democracy. China just like the U.S. and most of the other countries of the world calls itself a democracy. Of course most of these governments have nothing to do with democracy in the real sense. Just lok at the fascist clique that runs the U.S. at the moment.
OpenOffice is better than MS Office insomuch that it stores its documents in an open standard format rather than a closed proprietary binary format. This has consequences for those concerned with long term storage of documents. Will you be able to open that document in ten or twenty years time.
This is the reason why the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is considering converting to OpenOffice.
For us on the real left the NYT is just a propaganda rag for the American empire - and yes "They're about as reliable a source of information as that former Iraqi information minister!"
Re:Different strokes for different folks
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I just installed one of the Mandrake kernel rpm's compiled for optimum multimedia performance on my 10.1 box. I found that compared the default mdk kernel it was loading applications much faster, for example OOo2Beta was loading in about one quarter the time.
I 'll have to check out what they did and start rolling my own
BTW I have far too little memory 128Mb.
Re:Microsoft Scared of Open Source?
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Windows will likely always exist
Like the dinosaurs, the dodo or homo neanderthalensis.
Linux will always be there as well but they certainly won't amass the domination that Microsoft has now.
Current projections indicate that Linux's share of the server market (total dollar sales of servers preloaded with Linux by the major manufactuers) will exceed that of MS by 2012.
IBM could release code of their Workplace Editor fork of OO as a plugin for the Eclipse RCP. If IBM wants to show its commitment to FOSS it should do so.
I would just love to try it out on my Linux box at home, rather than wait untill my company decides to upgrade from Notes 6.51 to Workplace. Alternatively maybe it will get Notes 7.5 with the future Hannover client (when it is released) that may or may not have the Workplace editors in it.
I don't know if IBM would like it, but I suspect that Red Hat with its commitment to Eclipse would by very interested in an opensourced OO based Editor plugin for the Eclipse RCP.
IBM have forked OOo to develop the Workplace Editors. They have not AFAIK released any code. Presumably the OOo derived poertion of Workplace is under SISSL so that they can release binaries only.
Perhaps Sun is changing the licensing to force IBM to open the code of its fork. So if they use any of OOo 2 in the Wokplace editors they will have to comply with the LGPL requirement to open the code.
Most Physicists first publish there preprints online in arXiv. They then go on to publish in to legacy peer reviewed journals. But really the peer reviewed journals are redundant. Since one can determine the citation status of a paper in arXiv over time one can determine the contribution a paper has made so peer review becomes unnecessary. Indeed many people have heard of horror stories about biased or plagiarist reviewers blocking good papers.
So what we need is an extension of the arXiv model to all the sciences and an abandonment of the peer reviewed journals.
The only games I play on my Linux box are chess and go. I guess thre are a lot more people out whose only computer games playing demands are the same. There are a lot more and better GUI interfaces to Gnugo for LInux than Windows.
Windsor-Tecumseh MP Joe Comartin, NDP justice critic, said MPs on the Commons justice committee who heard testimony about child pornography over the Internet concluded police do not have enough power to adequately investigate and prosecute offenders.
"Generally, members of the committee from all parties are concerned about the limitations police are operating under," said Comartin. "Our police forces always seem to be lagging behind."
Yeah! use a child pornography scare to take away a citizen's right to privacy. Maybe next the Liberals and the NDP (with the full support of those Canadian self-haters - the Conservatives) will want to follow Britain's example and allow the police to randomly execute anyone that they are suspicious of.
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The people MS pay want more money from MS. If they publish something that MS does not like, especially if it is a report financed by MS then MS will not finance anymore studies with them. Simple, they therefore have a bias to provide reports that are consistent with what MS wants. QED
But I think for me the best Geek novel I have read recently (and the best Geek Novel Of the Century) is Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow.
Looking forward to the Bichun Revolution :)
On the other hand his books' medievalist anti-technological bias is enough to make any real geek vomit. Anyway who would want to ba wasting their time on that crap when they coukd be doing something cool on their computer.
BTW This is true for 1.07 but Firefox 1.5RC2 does use the GNOME file selector. 1.5 looks totally Gnomeified :)
"wrong mistakes" Oh! I guess you must mean he did it right. Warning Canadian Tongue Trooper in action !
Vigor offers altermative employment for displaced Clippies.
Java web applications are slow to load even on a fast machine over broadband.
I am a research chemist, a number commercial chemistry service online providers use Java 2D drawing applets as front ends to their databases and numerical engines. These apps though they work are slow and clunky.
Pubchem a chemical database provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has developed a 2D web drawing tool that apparently uses AJAX techniques for its instantaneous update:
http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/edit/index.html
It far superior to any of the equivalent Java applets.
Exactly and Sun sells it on an Opteron based server - I see the business synergies here
A large portion of the world wants the US to tear up our constitution and remake ourselves in the image of the EU. And we aren't interested, now or ever. No we don't we just want you to return to the spirit of your constitution and the inspiration of your founding fathers. Oh I guess that would make the US a bit more like the EU ;)
I think we Europeans are far more influenced by Jefferson and Franklin than most Americans (except rms of course :)).
Yeah! The works of Mao Zedong would also be blocked. China calls itself a peoples' democracy. China just like the U.S. and most of the other countries of the world calls itself a democracy. Of course most of these governments have nothing to do with democracy in the real sense. Just lok at the fascist clique that runs the U.S. at the moment.
This is the reason why the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is considering converting to OpenOffice.
"Don't forget that XP will drive users to Linux in droves." It drove me
For us on the real left the NYT is just a propaganda rag for the American empire - and yes "They're about as reliable a source of information as that former Iraqi information minister!"
I 'll have to check out what they did and start rolling my own
BTW I have far too little memory 128Mb.
Like the dinosaurs, the dodo or homo neanderthalensis.
Linux will always be there as well but they certainly won't amass the domination that Microsoft has now.
Current projections indicate that Linux's share of the server market (total dollar sales of servers preloaded with Linux by the major manufactuers) will exceed that of MS by 2012.
I would just love to try it out on my Linux box at home, rather than wait untill my company decides to upgrade from Notes 6.51 to Workplace. Alternatively maybe it will get Notes 7.5 with the future Hannover client (when it is released) that may or may not have the Workplace editors in it.
I don't know if IBM would like it, but I suspect that Red Hat with its commitment to Eclipse would by very interested in an opensourced OO based Editor plugin for the Eclipse RCP.
Perhaps Sun is changing the licensing to force IBM to open the code of its fork. So if they use any of OOo 2 in the Wokplace editors they will have to comply with the LGPL requirement to open the code.
Just a thought.
So what we need is an extension of the arXiv model to all the sciences and an abandonment of the peer reviewed journals.
The only games I play on my Linux box are chess and go. I guess thre are a lot more people out whose only computer games playing demands are the same. There are a lot more and better GUI interfaces to Gnugo for LInux than Windows.
Windsor-Tecumseh MP Joe Comartin, NDP justice critic, said MPs on the Commons justice committee who heard testimony about child pornography over the Internet concluded police do not have enough power to adequately investigate and prosecute offenders.
"Generally, members of the committee from all parties are concerned about the limitations police are operating under," said Comartin. "Our police forces always seem to be lagging behind."
Yeah! use a child pornography scare to take away a citizen's right to privacy. Maybe next the Liberals and the NDP (with the full support of those Canadian self-haters - the Conservatives) will want to follow Britain's example and allow the police to randomly execute anyone that they are suspicious of.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
Where is the OSS answer to Exchange??
http://www.scalix.com/
Has anyone got any reliable installed base figures?
I already am - "No Logo"
Yes exactly - my library has a fair collection of punk from the seventies to the present which I am am slowly working my way though.
I legally download free music from artists and indie label websites and also from sites like epitonic.
I buy CD's but only from non RIAA/CRIA indie labels.
Lock out the pigopolists !
The fact they retracted it doesn't mean it wasn't true. They probably didn't have the funds to stand up against a massive lawsuit from MS.