Music lovers listen to music, audiophiles listen to stereos. Whatever you 'audiophiles' say, a lot of it is pure nonsense. I cannot tell about the tube/transistor discussion (I think it is *very* hard to find the difference if you do not know), but there is a lot to be found (this, and this (sorry Dutch, couldn't find an English article). And then, you decide to buy a 20,000 euro set and put it in a room with the acoustics of a cardboard box. Good luck trying to find the 'perfect sound', I'll just play my lossy mp3s over EUR2,95 cables and a second hand stereo. And guess what, I think I enjoyed it even more.
I am pretty proud of my code. How? I design my program before I start programming. I think before I fix a bug. I test. A lot. And after that, I test again.
Good example I had today. There was a bug in my code that was a bitch to fix on-site (I work as a systems programmer in industrial automation). My boss tells us to never, NEVER program on-site, and there is a reason to that. When I got the code back at the office, made some tests to simulate the results and did some severe thinking, I fixed the bug by changing 2 bytes. Yes, you read it right, two bytes. If a bug is fixed that easily, it means your code design was pretty correct.
Adn this is not an incident. In the same project I had more simple fixes to seemingly complex problems before. For me, a sign of good design and proof that I am FUCKING BRILLIANT;-).
Nonsense. I wrote both my bachelor's and master's thesis in StarOffice and OpenOffice respectively. At our company we use OpenOffice to write *any* document needed to get the project finished. Another use is creating invoices and other documents dynamically from a in house developed intranet application. It's all about what you are used at using. I probably will get screaming crazy using MSOffice, in the same way you 'can't keep comments, styles, formating etc straight' in OOo.org.
I don't get the complaints about OOo or Thunderbird. It makes documents, it reads mail. What more do you need? IMHO all these extras are not nearly as important as the core functionalities. It's all about content.
It's pretty well documented that his movies are far more propoganda than actual fact
Just out of curiosity, could you give me some pointers to those documents?
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It's no wonder I hear it so much from anti-american assholes.
I am not anti-American. I am anti hypocrisy, anti war and anti 'we-will-tell-you-what-to-think'. And thank you for calling me an asshole, based on a single remark.
I do not approve the witch burnings, the slave trade (which my grandparents were responsible for), dropping the A-bomb, the war in Iraq, the destroying of Buddha statues by the Taliban, etc.
I realise things were different in the past, and I realise that dropping the A-bomb probably saved lives (you never know, by the way). The only point that I am trying to make is that USA seems to use different arguments all the time, using whatever suits them best. When I am giving criticism on the USA, for example that they are trying to be the world-police, forcing their views on countries that do not share them, I get the answer "yeah, but you liked it when they liberated Europe!". That was a different time, so it doesn't apply, right?
I don't like the 'we are right and you are wrong' point of view of the USA, without any self-criticism, or ever admitting they might have been wrong. That's why I like Michael Moore. From where I am standing, he is one of the few that actually is self-criticising. And he is certainly not anti-American.
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This is the same sort of fuzzy logic we see with USA possessing nuclear weapons and yet demanding that Iran be prevented from ever having any.
When, in fact, it is even worse. USA is the only one ever even to actually use the nuclear weapons. 250,000 dead... talking about WMD.
Thank you for the link. I knew Bruce Schneier already as somebody that actually has a clue, but this article made me join his crypto-gram mailing list. The article in particular really makes you wonder why the People In Charge don't know or act correctly on this. How can they overreact as somebody that doesn't have all the information or time to make a good decision? Stuff that is happening in the USA (of course, as somebody from the Netherlands I can only judge these things from what I get from the media) actually make me worry a little about the future. I sure hope that some people that have a open mind will come to power one time.
Am I missing something here, or is everybody making a choice? I have *both* webmail and thunderbird looking into the same IMAP folders. Is that black magic to all of you (I seriously doubt that). When on the road, I use the web client, when in the office, I use thunderbird.
Can you comment on that a little more? I am a professional programmer (in the industrial automation business) and I use Ubuntu now for the last 2 years or so. I must say I am very happy with it, and it lets me do everything I want in a Linux distribution. It has a vast repository of tools and programs and everything works nice next to eachother. As an example: I use Eclipse for development, and in testing I write my own stuff and also use the 'socket' program (a better netcat, IMO) and wireshark.
Must say that the user interfaces are built in Borland on Windows, or with C# (the Visual C# UI editor is unsurpassed). But the main work I do is not on UI anyway.
1. The 'American' in ASCII says something about where the standard was made, nothing about the information it conveys. 2. No. It has 26 letters. German has 27; it includes ringel-s, which is being used less and less now. Dutch is a Germanic language, but has a lot of influences from Latin as well. Besides, English isn't a Latin language as well. The 'latin' in latin charset refers to the alphabet. The letter symbols I am using right now are called 'Latin characters' (as opposed to Greek, Hebrew, etc).
The DNS system might be designed with the English language in mind, it most definately is not limited to that language.
Of course you mean: in the latin charset. We (dutch) use that same alphabet and we (dutch) have our own country namespace (.nl; having relatively the most registered names in a country namespace in the world) and we use our own language (dutch) for that.
In my work, I created a SVG-based SCADA-like package. I had to build it to run in Adobe's SVG Viewer, because the native Firefox and Opera implementations couldn't run it. Note that I wrote the whole thing with the W3C docs in my hand, not with trial-and-error in the plugin.
The Firefox implementation misses critical things (the viewbox has some problems) and it is very heavy and slow, compared to Adobe's implementation. The Adobe plugin works right in IE, crashes in Firefox under Windows. Firefox in Linux has to use the beta version.
I like SVG and what you can do with it, but the implementations should get better, much better (think Flash-like performance and possibilities; it's all in the standard) to catch on and be that Flash-killer it is supposed to be.
After reading all the comments, I guess we can be sure that there a lot of movies breaking all kinds of science laws. The question arises, then, which movies have it right? And again, with the same rules: major movie, and no science fiction.
Argh. What an elitist snob you are. Just because you don't need or use it, it is crap? And everyone that wants to use their PC and is not ready to read cryptic messages about signatures is stupid?
Computers nowadays are so all omnipresent that not just professors and researchers use it, but also the woman next door that writes a letter to her sister and wants that pink flashy kitten in the middle talking to her. Part of the reason that PCs are so cheap now (and that you and I can actually buy one, or even more) is that they are omnipresent.
Oh, and on the 'fancy features', I remember a big Dutch electrical company (Essent) that has important business procedures stored in Excel and my friend was hired to script them. In the company I work, a open-source minded, Linux developing, automator, we use Excel sheets that can not be imported into OpenOffice, just because of legacy. They were developed a few years back, when OpenOffice was not available. Yes, we could rebuild them, but doing so costs time, which we don't always have. We actually have to work.
The difference is that a Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will kill X and give you a command prompt, whereas Windows has no such option.
You can always use [WinKey] - [R] for a run dialog, and type in 'explorer' there. Or, use ctrl-alt-del to get to that system menu (reboot, etc), which has a 'Run command' option. I had explorer crash many times and in this way I had it back without rebooting.
I don't know about you, but i think the inventor should set the standards.
As long as that is possible. And as long as the standard is documented properly. XMLHTTPRequest was first implemented as an ActiveX component, making it hard to implement in other OS's. Besides, the whole behaviour is not documented properly (I tried searching for it, and the one good reference I found was from Apple, showing me also the native Mozilla implementation).
Inventors should set standards, but they should do it properly and openly.
Take that same roman citizen, and train them in the use of a BMW. Now ask them which one they will remember more easily after they are forced to walk around without either for 2 months. Chances are they'll remember more about driving a BMW.
Huh? This sentence is totally incomprehensible. I read it at least 7 times and still I don't get it.
Nowhere in the article does it even mention Firefox or indeed, any browsers at all.
And why would that matter so much to them? Explorer isn't making any money for Microsoft, and after all, being a business, Microsoft wants to make money. The fact that they haven't brought a major release in the last few years would mean something. More interesting products would be Office, Windows and their server software. I doubt if Microsoft would go any worse if everybody would start to use Firefox (or any browser for that matter) tomorrow.
All in all, I have the feeling Microsoft is getting better. They pulled IE for Mac, which was an ugly beast (according to comments here), they are communicating with Firefox (even it is as small as an icon) and they are giving stuff away for free (Visual Studio Express).
I'd like to see one person who has made something with OpenOffice that was published professionally.
Well, we use OpenOffice in our company. All documentation by the programmers (yes, we make documentation!) is done in OOo. We use master document features to create documents with some kind of standard.
Also, my master's thesis was done in Writer, my defense with Impress. I did my Bachelor's thesis with StarOffice 5.2, but you might not find that professional enough.
The main reason for me to switch is that I wanted to switch from Windows to Linux on my desktop. All what was stopping me was a good Office suite, and (then) StarOffice was it.
I love the native PDF export, which is the reason I can use it to collaborate with other people. I have the feeling OOo has the features somebody needs or actually learns to use and be a faster document-producer. I *love* the stylist, the fact that numbering 'just works', the referencing etc. Learning how to use that was easier and more consistent than I have ever seen in MS Word. Though I have to add that I haven't used MS Office for real in the last few years. My last experience with Excel was a few days ago when I found out that CSV files were actually SSV files (semicolon, instead of comma). I found Excel to be very stubborn in opening those files. Gnumeric for example really didn'tcare what the separator was (comma, semicolon, tabs, it ate it all).
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Music lovers listen to music, audiophiles listen to stereos. Whatever you 'audiophiles' say, a lot of it is pure nonsense. I cannot tell about the tube/transistor discussion (I think it is *very* hard to find the difference if you do not know), but there is a lot to be found (this, and this (sorry Dutch, couldn't find an English article). And then, you decide to buy a 20,000 euro set and put it in a room with the acoustics of a cardboard box. Good luck trying to find the 'perfect sound', I'll just play my lossy mp3s over EUR2,95 cables and a second hand stereo. And guess what, I think I enjoyed it even more.
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I am not tone deaf.
I am pretty proud of my code. How? I design my program before I start programming. I think before I fix a bug. I test. A lot. And after that, I test again.
;-).
Good example I had today. There was a bug in my code that was a bitch to fix on-site (I work as a systems programmer in industrial automation). My boss tells us to never, NEVER program on-site, and there is a reason to that. When I got the code back at the office, made some tests to simulate the results and did some severe thinking, I fixed the bug by changing 2 bytes. Yes, you read it right, two bytes. If a bug is fixed that easily, it means your code design was pretty correct.
Adn this is not an incident. In the same project I had more simple fixes to seemingly complex problems before. For me, a sign of good design and proof that I am FUCKING BRILLIANT
Nonsense. I wrote both my bachelor's and master's thesis in StarOffice and OpenOffice respectively. At our company we use OpenOffice to write *any* document needed to get the project finished. Another use is creating invoices and other documents dynamically from a in house developed intranet application. It's all about what you are used at using. I probably will get screaming crazy using MSOffice, in the same way you 'can't keep comments, styles, formating etc straight' in OOo.org.
I don't get the complaints about OOo or Thunderbird. It makes documents, it reads mail. What more do you need? IMHO all these extras are not nearly as important as the core functionalities. It's all about content.
Just out of curiosity, could you give me some pointers to those documents?
It's no wonder I hear it so much from anti-american assholes.
I am not anti-American. I am anti hypocrisy, anti war and anti 'we-will-tell-you-what-to-think'. And thank you for calling me an asshole, based on a single remark.
I do not approve the witch burnings, the slave trade (which my grandparents were responsible for), dropping the A-bomb, the war in Iraq, the destroying of Buddha statues by the Taliban, etc.
I realise things were different in the past, and I realise that dropping the A-bomb probably saved lives (you never know, by the way). The only point that I am trying to make is that USA seems to use different arguments all the time, using whatever suits them best. When I am giving criticism on the USA, for example that they are trying to be the world-police, forcing their views on countries that do not share them, I get the answer "yeah, but you liked it when they liberated Europe!". That was a different time, so it doesn't apply, right?
I don't like the 'we are right and you are wrong' point of view of the USA, without any self-criticism, or ever admitting they might have been wrong. That's why I like Michael Moore. From where I am standing, he is one of the few that actually is self-criticising. And he is certainly not anti-American.
This is the same sort of fuzzy logic we see with USA possessing nuclear weapons and yet demanding that Iran be prevented from ever having any.
When, in fact, it is even worse. USA is the only one ever even to actually use the nuclear weapons. 250,000 dead... talking about WMD.
Thank you for the link. I knew Bruce Schneier already as somebody that actually has a clue, but this article made me join his crypto-gram mailing list. The article in particular really makes you wonder why the People In Charge don't know or act correctly on this. How can they overreact as somebody that doesn't have all the information or time to make a good decision? Stuff that is happening in the USA (of course, as somebody from the Netherlands I can only judge these things from what I get from the media) actually make me worry a little about the future. I sure hope that some people that have a open mind will come to power one time.
Am I missing something here, or is everybody making a choice? I have *both* webmail and thunderbird looking into the same IMAP folders. Is that black magic to all of you (I seriously doubt that). When on the road, I use the web client, when in the office, I use thunderbird.
Can you comment on that a little more? I am a professional programmer (in the industrial automation business) and I use Ubuntu now for the last 2 years or so. I must say I am very happy with it, and it lets me do everything I want in a Linux distribution. It has a vast repository of tools and programs and everything works nice next to eachother. As an example: I use Eclipse for development, and in testing I write my own stuff and also use the 'socket' program (a better netcat, IMO) and wireshark.
Must say that the user interfaces are built in Borland on Windows, or with C# (the Visual C# UI editor is unsurpassed). But the main work I do is not on UI anyway.
9. Storage Space: With Vista taking as much as 10 Gbytes of hard drive space, big and fast hard drives will be a must.
Hardly relevant, any hard drive sold within the last few years will allow > 100GB.
I beg your pardon, you are saying that my OS should take up around 10% of my storage space? Ridiculous.
1. The 'American' in ASCII says something about where the standard was made, nothing about the information it conveys.
2. No. It has 26 letters. German has 27; it includes ringel-s, which is being used less and less now. Dutch is a Germanic language, but has a lot of influences from Latin as well. Besides, English isn't a Latin language as well. The 'latin' in latin charset refers to the alphabet. The letter symbols I am using right now are called 'Latin characters' (as opposed to Greek, Hebrew, etc).
The DNS system might be designed with the English language in mind, it most definately is not limited to that language.
I'd rather URLs are all English.
Of course you mean: in the latin charset. We (dutch) use that same alphabet and we (dutch) have our own country namespace (.nl; having relatively the most registered names in a country namespace in the world) and we use our own language (dutch) for that.
In my work, I created a SVG-based SCADA-like package. I had to build it to run in Adobe's SVG Viewer, because the native Firefox and Opera implementations couldn't run it. Note that I wrote the whole thing with the W3C docs in my hand, not with trial-and-error in the plugin.
The Firefox implementation misses critical things (the viewbox has some problems) and it is very heavy and slow, compared to Adobe's implementation. The Adobe plugin works right in IE, crashes in Firefox under Windows. Firefox in Linux has to use the beta version.
I like SVG and what you can do with it, but the implementations should get better, much better (think Flash-like performance and possibilities; it's all in the standard) to catch on and be that Flash-killer it is supposed to be.
After reading all the comments, I guess we can be sure that there a lot of movies breaking all kinds of science laws. The question arises, then, which movies have it right? And again, with the same rules: major movie, and no science fiction.
There was a rule that sci-fi movies were not allowed. Read the first page of the article.
Argh. What an elitist snob you are. Just because you don't need or use it, it is crap? And everyone that wants to use their PC and is not ready to read cryptic messages about signatures is stupid?
Computers nowadays are so all omnipresent that not just professors and researchers use it, but also the woman next door that writes a letter to her sister and wants that pink flashy kitten in the middle talking to her. Part of the reason that PCs are so cheap now (and that you and I can actually buy one, or even more) is that they are omnipresent.
Oh, and on the 'fancy features', I remember a big Dutch electrical company (Essent) that has important business procedures stored in Excel and my friend was hired to script them. In the company I work, a open-source minded, Linux developing, automator, we use Excel sheets that can not be imported into OpenOffice, just because of legacy. They were developed a few years back, when OpenOffice was not available. Yes, we could rebuild them, but doing so costs time, which we don't always have. We actually have to work.
I would refer to the comic where Scrooge runs after a taxi instead of a bus, so he saves more money.
And I in the .nl. For me, all the bix/info/nu/cc/whatever TLDs feel very unprofessional. Somehow I trust a .nl more than a .nu.
The difference is that a Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will kill X and give you a command prompt, whereas Windows has no such option.
You can always use [WinKey] - [R] for a run dialog, and type in 'explorer' there. Or, use ctrl-alt-del to get to that system menu (reboot, etc), which has a 'Run command' option. I had explorer crash many times and in this way I had it back without rebooting.
just like the Kung Fu Death Grip and such.
What is that exactly? I tried your link, and a google search, but I cannot find what it actually means.
I don't know about you, but i think the inventor should set the standards.
As long as that is possible. And as long as the standard is documented properly. XMLHTTPRequest was first implemented as an ActiveX component, making it hard to implement in other OS's. Besides, the whole behaviour is not documented properly (I tried searching for it, and the one good reference I found was from Apple, showing me also the native Mozilla implementation).
Inventors should set standards, but they should do it properly and openly.
Take that same roman citizen, and train them in the use of a BMW. Now ask them which one they will remember more easily after they are forced to walk around without either for 2 months. Chances are they'll remember more about driving a BMW.
Huh? This sentence is totally incomprehensible. I read it at least 7 times and still I don't get it.
Nowhere in the article does it even mention Firefox or indeed, any browsers at all.
And why would that matter so much to them? Explorer isn't making any money for Microsoft, and after all, being a business, Microsoft wants to make money. The fact that they haven't brought a major release in the last few years would mean something. More interesting products would be Office, Windows and their server software. I doubt if Microsoft would go any worse if everybody would start to use Firefox (or any browser for that matter) tomorrow.
All in all, I have the feeling Microsoft is getting better. They pulled IE for Mac, which was an ugly beast (according to comments here), they are communicating with Firefox (even it is as small as an icon) and they are giving stuff away for free (Visual Studio Express).
My master's thesis can be found in the university's library, and the documentation I talked about is provided with the software to the clients.
I'd like to see one person who has made something with OpenOffice that was published professionally.
Well, we use OpenOffice in our company. All documentation by the programmers (yes, we make documentation!) is done in OOo. We use master document features to create documents with some kind of standard.
Also, my master's thesis was done in Writer, my defense with Impress. I did my Bachelor's thesis with StarOffice 5.2, but you might not find that professional enough.
The main reason for me to switch is that I wanted to switch from Windows to Linux on my desktop. All what was stopping me was a good Office suite, and (then) StarOffice was it.
I love the native PDF export, which is the reason I can use it to collaborate with other people. I have the feeling OOo has the features somebody needs or actually learns to use and be a faster document-producer. I *love* the stylist, the fact that numbering 'just works', the referencing etc. Learning how to use that was easier and more consistent than I have ever seen in MS Word. Though I have to add that I haven't used MS Office for real in the last few years. My last experience with Excel was a few days ago when I found out that CSV files were actually SSV files (semicolon, instead of comma). I found Excel to be very stubborn in opening those files. Gnumeric for example really didn'tcare what the separator was (comma, semicolon, tabs, it ate it all).