I don't know how many home users really try to access files that are over a decade old.
I have a whole directory of my wife's old Wordperfect 5 for DOS documents dating back to to 1990 sitting on my Gutsy system. I even reinstalled WP5 on Dosemu to enable hear to happily use them even though you can load them perfectly well into Openoffice. They have been migrated through DOS 5, DOS 6, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win 98, Caldera OpenLinux 2, Red Hat 6, Mandrake Linux (8, 9 and 10) to Ubuntu (Breezy, Dapper, Feisty and Gutsy) and they are still needed.
A central question for this approach is whether the feedback of non-linearities into the evolution equations can significantly modify the background, volume-averaged FRW universe and explain the accelerated expansion without the introduction of new matter, or a cosmological constant [13]. Key to this issue is that interpreting observations made on a particular scale tacitly also requires the smoothing of theoretical predictions on that scale, and the smoothing operation does not commute with time evolution [14]. The Einstein equations are non-linear, and this non-commutivity means that the FRW equations, for which quantities have been averaged prior to inclusion, will not be the same as the equations and then averaging the equations.
This defines exactly the questions Wiltshire seems to be addressing. His most recent paper on arXiv posted on 24 Dec (from a yet unpublished confrerence contribution) is here:
It seems like a good review. He may be right, but then again he might not. Only careful testing against the observational data will tell. He proposes to outline the differences in observational predictions between his "Fractal Bubble" model and the current Lamba CDM model in a forthcoming paper.
What you do is mathematically discover the set of all possible set and then compute it - and wow! your god! Hey I've always fancies that me first - your in my emulation.
Serves you right for supporting Reform.. Populist right-wingers always end up being used by neo-cons like Harper who are in the pay of big corporations and a foreign power (you know who).
What did you expect? You guys are as weird and dumb as the US "libertarians" who end up putting the freedom of capital ahead of the freedom of people.
Communism goes even beyond that; but enough to say that Communism is based on the concept of unlimited availability of all worldly goods, and on unlimited consumption of those as your needs dictate.
It seems clear that the price of gold is in fact a very poor analogy to the price of music, because music is a) NOT in limited supply (one could argue the supply is infinite,
The Pistols on the unlimited supply of music:
there's unlimited supply
and there is no reason why
i tell you it was all a frame
they only did it 'cos of fame
who?
e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
to many people had the suss
too many people support us
an unlimited amount
too many outlets in and out
who?
e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
and sir and friends are crucified
a day they wished that we had died
we are an addition we are ruled by none
never ever never
and you thought that we were faking
that we were all just money making
you do not believe we're for real
or you would lose your cheap appeal?
don't judge a book just by the cover
unless you cover just another
and blind acceptance is a sign
a stupid fools who stand in line
like
e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
unlimited edition
with an unlimited supply
that was the only reason
we all had to say goodbye
unlimited supply e.m.i.
there is no reason why e.m.i.
i tell you it was all a frame e.m.i.
they only did it 'cos of fame e.m.i.
i do not need the pressure e.m.i.
i can't stand the useless fools e.m.i.
ulimited supply e.m.i.
hallo e.m.i. goodbye a & m
Yes given that Churchill "crossed the floor" (a Member of Parliament changing parties) from the Liberals to the Conservatives (Tories) that interpretation of the quote is likely correct.
The US is of course an anomaly in the civilized world probably because of it's empire, so socially and politically the prevailing viewpoint it more like that of 19th century England than those prevalent in the modern world. However political terminology has tended to mean different things in different countries at different times. In 19th century England, liberal meant supporting free trade and opposing the "Corn Laws" while conservative meant being against free trade and supporting agricultural protectionism.
Like most people who regard themselves as socialist or left libertarians I deplore the perversion and highjacking of the term "libertarian" by a group of right wing American loonies as do American socialist libertarians like Chomsky.
Actually senior government officials in Nigeria need large amounts of cash stuffed in large envelopes and handed to them in cafe's in Switzerland. Of course this practice is not unique to Nigeria at least one former prime minister here in Canada have been known to indulge in this.
I don't know if this has anything to do with it my Gmail account is no longer working with POP on thunderbird (both Linux at home and Windows at work). I don't have IMAP available yet on my Gmail account.
I'm on Mandriva now, which is a massively improved user experience, where most of my stuff worked perfectly out the box (except my wireless, which took a bit of work, but I got there eventually). However, I'm now in a position where I want to install subversion and tomcat, and it's really not easy. Windows wins in this situation, because of the ease of automated installers.
It would have been easier still if you had stayed with Ubuntu. Both Subverion and Tomcat are in the default repositories for Feisty.
I moved the other way From Mandriva to Ubuntu a couple of years ago and I am vey happy with the move though I liked Mandrake/Mandriva a lot (I started with Mandrake 8.2) but I found the system began to break after a certain amount of time. The final straw was when I had a file system failure and it wouldn't even reformat the disk in any filesystem, while Ubuntu Breezy reformatted it in Reiser FS without a problem. So I have been with Ubuntu ever since.
Have you tried using OO for anything related to earning money? Yes
At work my system has MS Office 2003 on XP at home I have OOo 2.2 on Ubuntu Feisty. I work on documents both.doc and.xls and also.ppt between the two systems. It works fine no more formatting problems as there used to be a few years ago. OOo is no longer slow compared to Office and now load up time is a little faster for OOo on my home machine but document loading is a little slower with OOo. The two systems have similar but not identical hardware, my home system is if anything marginally slower.
>p>
In my opinion Writer is a better and more intuitive WP than Word 2003. As for Calc at work we have validated spreadsheets developed on Excel, they work perfectly on Calc. I have been been presenting with Powerpoint at work,.ppt presentations prepared using Impress at home for about four years now. In the OOo 1.x period I had some minor problems with formatting (OK I had the opportunity to clear this up using my work system before the meeting) but everything seems fine now.
OK, I am not using this for financial work. I am using it to help me earn my living as a research chemist. The documents are mostly short research reports together with filling in some government.doc templates and the spreadsheets are for calculating data in our work templates. My presentations are deliberately kept simple for personal preference and contain no embedded audiovisual stuff (animated gifs of rotating molecules is about the most geewiz graphics I use), they are scientific presentations after all.
So overall OOo 2.x has enabled my to take work home and to work productively on a Linux box that is Windows free.
It seems to me that these statements by Ballmer are a clear Lanham Act violation under Section 43(a)(1)(B) which can be used when false or misleading statements are alleged to have hurt a business.
Except since Ballmer was speaking in London it is not clear if US law applies here - maybe thats why he made his statement there. Turn up the FUD escape the legal consequences.
Slashdot Mirror
I have a whole directory of my wife's old Wordperfect 5 for DOS documents dating back to to 1990 sitting on my Gutsy system. I even reinstalled WP5 on Dosemu to enable hear to happily use them even though you can load them perfectly well into Openoffice. They have been migrated through DOS 5, DOS 6, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win 98, Caldera OpenLinux 2, Red Hat 6, Mandrake Linux (8, 9 and 10) to Ubuntu (Breezy, Dapper, Feisty and Gutsy) and they are still needed.
from the article
This defines exactly the questions Wiltshire seems to be addressing. His most recent paper on arXiv posted on 24 Dec (from a yet unpublished confrerence contribution) is here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3984
It seems like a good review. He may be right, but then again he might not. Only careful testing against the observational data will tell. He proposes to outline the differences in observational predictions between his "Fractal Bubble" model and the current Lamba CDM model in a forthcoming paper.
What you do is mathematically discover the set of all possible set and then compute it - and wow! your god! Hey I've always fancies that me first - your in my emulation.
Serves you right for supporting Reform.. Populist right-wingers always end up being used by neo-cons like Harper who are in the pay of big corporations and a foreign power (you know who).
What did you expect? You guys are as weird and dumb as the US "libertarians" who end up putting the freedom of capital ahead of the freedom of people.
Yes and install Dream Linux and it will look like a Mac and behave more like a Mac than you will ever get XP or Vista to.
Obvious duh!
Been using it on a off for about four years now. Found a lot interesting bands I hadn't heard of before and a lot of other good stuff.
Works with software.
Maybe NS offered Kyocera big bucks to sign onto the patent agreement like they did with Novell.
I never said they did RTFP !
The Pistols on the unlimited supply of music:
there's unlimited supply
and there is no reason why
i tell you it was all a frame
they only did it 'cos of fame
who?
e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
to many people had the suss
too many people support us
an unlimited amount
too many outlets in and out
who?
e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
and sir and friends are crucified
a day they wished that we had died
we are an addition we are ruled by none
never ever never
and you thought that we were faking
that we were all just money making
you do not believe we're for real
or you would lose your cheap appeal?
don't judge a book just by the cover
unless you cover just another
and blind acceptance is a sign
a stupid fools who stand in line
like
e.m.i. e.m.i. e.m.i.
unlimited edition
with an unlimited supply
that was the only reason
we all had to say goodbye
unlimited supply e.m.i.
there is no reason why e.m.i.
i tell you it was all a frame e.m.i.
they only did it 'cos of fame e.m.i.
i do not need the pressure e.m.i.
i can't stand the useless fools e.m.i.
ulimited supply e.m.i.
hallo e.m.i. goodbye a & m
The US is of course an anomaly in the civilized world probably because of it's empire, so socially and politically the prevailing viewpoint it more like that of 19th century England than those prevalent in the modern world. However political terminology has tended to mean different things in different countries at different times. In 19th century England, liberal meant supporting free trade and opposing the "Corn Laws" while conservative meant being against free trade and supporting agricultural protectionism.
Like most people who regard themselves as socialist or left libertarians I deplore the perversion and highjacking of the term "libertarian" by a group of right wing American loonies as do American socialist libertarians like Chomsky.
Wow I am intrigued. You must tell me where you got a Mac Mini for under 200 bucks. I'll run out and buy one to install Linux on.
Wow! I have been desperately looking for the name for a Red hat clone I am about to Launch, now I have found it !
Actually senior government officials in Nigeria need large amounts of cash stuffed in large envelopes and handed to them in cafe's in Switzerland. Of course this practice is not unique to Nigeria at least one former prime minister here in Canada have been known to indulge in this.
Exactly. The Pentagon knows it couldn't even win a war against the Iranian army let alone the PLA.
Yes, for the past four years all the ppt presentations I give at work are prepared on Impress at home.
Jeremy Allison the Samba co-founder is an EU citizen resident in the US. Does this help ?
I don't know if this has anything to do with it my Gmail account is no longer working with POP on thunderbird (both Linux at home and Windows at work). I don't have IMAP available yet on my Gmail account.
From the Financial Post "Copyright might follow U.S. model":
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/printedition/story.html?id=375efc16-3e14-488d-915e-b880fae33d4a
I am surpeised that there hasn't been a thread on this.
We are already helping to cure that by having Bush brown-noser Harper as Prime Minister.
St. Ignucious
It would have been easier still if you had stayed with Ubuntu. Both Subverion and Tomcat are in the default repositories for Feisty.
I moved the other way From Mandriva to Ubuntu a couple of years ago and I am vey happy with the move though I liked Mandrake/Mandriva a lot (I started with Mandrake 8.2) but I found the system began to break after a certain amount of time. The final straw was when I had a file system failure and it wouldn't even reformat the disk in any filesystem, while Ubuntu Breezy reformatted it in Reiser FS without a problem. So I have been with Ubuntu ever since.
At work my system has MS Office 2003 on XP at home I have OOo 2.2 on Ubuntu Feisty. I work on documents both .doc and .xls and also .ppt between the two systems. It works fine no more formatting problems as there used to be a few years ago. OOo is no longer slow compared to Office and now load up time is a little faster for OOo on my home machine but document loading is a little slower with OOo. The two systems have similar but not identical hardware, my home system is if anything marginally slower.
>p> In my opinion Writer is a better and more intuitive WP than Word 2003. As for Calc at work we have validated spreadsheets developed on Excel, they work perfectly on Calc. I have been been presenting with Powerpoint at work, .ppt presentations prepared using Impress at home for about four years now. In the OOo 1.x period I had some minor problems with formatting (OK I had the opportunity to clear this up using my work system before the meeting) but everything seems fine now.
OK, I am not using this for financial work. I am using it to help me earn my living as a research chemist. The documents are mostly short research reports together with filling in some government .doc templates and the spreadsheets are for calculating data in our work templates. My presentations are deliberately kept simple for personal preference and contain no embedded audiovisual stuff (animated gifs of rotating molecules is about the most geewiz graphics I use), they are scientific presentations after all.
So overall OOo 2.x has enabled my to take work home and to work productively on a Linux box that is Windows free.
Except since Ballmer was speaking in London it is not clear if US law applies here - maybe thats why he made his statement there. Turn up the FUD escape the legal consequences.