However, the author does take the time to congratulate you on ignoring the Linux wielding "propeller-head geek" and refering to the Mozilla "insurgency"... a term overused these days as a synonym for "terrorist uprising".
So I wouldn't call this article *completely* unbiased. It is more like a back-handed compliment than a glowing endorsement.
Maybe some are confused between the nautical inch and the statute inch... oh wait...
Maybe another reason is that some people are believing the doctored rulers they have laying around... for... ummm... "discrete" measurement verification...
Let's see... that makes an *average* of 73 mph... that does seem speedy! Especially considering that is not peak speed.
Now who is going to analyze the film using known distances (lane stripe length and pitches, distances between intersections, etc.) to calculate his instantaneous speed throughout the trip?:]
Heh... fair enough... your response further illustrates my point that people would rather argue over peripheral issues though.
I would love to see some frank discussion about core, real, unskewed, uncoloured data rather than the continuing debate about the wording of the questions and the language of the answers.
Information is a much more solid foundation to base an opinion on than propeganda.
... or just classic misdirection of a discussion to argue the absurd. Both sides of the nuclear debate use this technique.
Q:"Is nuclear power useful?" A:"No, you idiot, nukes are bad!"
Q:"Is waste from nuclear power managable?" A:"Would you hippies rather be breathing coal dust?"
Never answer the question... just answer the question that you wished was asked that makes the other side look stupid... oh and make sure your answer is derogatory.
How about some discussion regarding breeder vs. non-breeder reactors. Or half-life of waste. Or decommissioning of reactors. Or standardized independent safety inspection and rules... nope... everyone would rather spew the same old rhetoric that has been regurgitated for nearly 60 years. Surely we have learned something in all that time to add to the debate?
The bug has been around for quite some time. It also doesn't affect everyone trying to dual boot. It happened to me about a year ago and all that I had to do was set up windows to do the dual booting. Anyone who says that the steps you need to do to set up dual booting correctly in Linux is onerous should try to set it up for windows/NTLDR to do it. It is not an entirely automagic thing to say the least nor do the tools exist by default to get the job done entirely in windows.
Will we find one of these things in eBay in 10 years selling for $10 and feel all nostalgic about those days when that amount of storage media was the size of a room?
I misinterpreted that statement... it was not saying that OO.o was better at reading old.docs than Office 2003 but rather saying that Writer was better are reading.doc than Calc was at reading.xls , etc. Oops.
However, considering that some MS Apps have a policy of not being able to read data generated from their predecessors 2 generations old (see MS Project), I would guess that OO.o might do well importing very old MS formated data.
The article states in the Cons for OO.o: " File-format compatibility issues Although OpenOffice.org does a good job of handling Microsoft Office file formats, small formatting inconsistencies will require reworking of complex documents." Yet in the page before it states: "In general, though, of the OpenOffice.org applications we evaluated, Writer presented the fewest file-format-compatibility problems."
So OO.o imports old MSOffice 97 and 2000.docs better than MSOffice 2003 (something that I suspected for some time) yet it is viewed as worse than MSOffice for its file compatibility? I would imagine that this means that OO.o doesn't handle MSOffice 2003 documents as well as MSOffice 2003 does... but that isn't quite fair. I wonder how well MSOffice 2003 does with OO.o's documents in OO.o's native format?
He stated which distros he had issues with but not which sound card. "Mainstream Onboard Intel sound system" isn't quite specific enough. Conveniently this doesn't allow anyone to refute his claim. Smells like FUD. The ALSA working once until reboot stinks of the common mute-by-default confusion.
Isn't a motor that "uses magnetism to perpetuate the motor motion" called an electric motor? How is that new? He made a motor that has an 80% reduction in torque so it uses 80% less power, no? You can make a motor that will run on a smallest trickle of electrical power and run really fast... put it in a vacuum with good low-friction bearings and don't expect it to accelerate quickly.
After a bit more research , it seems that the latest Fedora Core 2 test kernels have problems with the ATI drivers. I guess the trick is to compile a vanilla kernel.
I didn't see any mention of the 2.6 kernel series in the readme. Would there be any problems with using these with the 2.6 kernel (for instance with the Fedora Core 2 test 1 distro)? Has anyone tried this out yet?
I would suspect not but I wanted to get people's first hand experience.
One possible way for anti-virus companies to survive is to offer insurance against damage caused by viruses much like UPS companies offer some insurance against power-surges damaging your equipment. I am not sure if they do that presently.... or they could get their virus researchers to start generating viruses that attack MS-AV directly, "accidentally" let them escape into the wild and guard against them with their product.
As good a long term plan as this is, I think that the current cynicism will hinder it. Because it is politically motivated, even the staunchest space-travel supporter is giving cautious support to this. Not because it is unrealistic, not because it wouldn't be a great thing to do, but rather because their dream is being used as a tool in exactly the same way that Bush Sr. did. I hope that I am wrong.
The protection that MS extended to their customers only covers the cost of the MS software purchased and nothing more. So if someone suffered extensive damages and lost business due to a flaw in MS software, good luck to them in recovering more than the $300 it cost to buy Windows.
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However, the author does take the time to congratulate you on ignoring the Linux wielding "propeller-head geek" and refering to the Mozilla "insurgency" ... a term overused these days as a synonym for "terrorist uprising".
So I wouldn't call this article *completely* unbiased. It is more like a back-handed compliment than a glowing endorsement.
I want to be able to use two mice on the same computer on the same screen ... can this be done?
I particularly like them giving away the username and password of the presentation computer at the end of this archived ogg stream:
- vo rbis-high.2004-06-27-18:47:39.ogg
:]
http://stream1.hia.no/ogg/dump/room1/ogg-theora
It proves the high fidelity that ogg has to offer
Maybe some are confused between the nautical inch and the statute inch ... oh wait ...
... for ... ummm ... "discrete" measurement verification ...
... my rocket *does* go 100 km up.
Maybe another reason is that some people are believing the doctored rulers they have laying around
Ya baby
I am a fan of teamspeak2 ... it it not open source but it is free, cross platform and works quite well for conference/gaming type communication.
"Trip: 695.3 miles in 9.5 hours"
... that makes an *average* of 73 mph ... that does seem speedy! Especially considering that is not peak speed.
:]
Let's see
Now who is going to analyze the film using known distances (lane stripe length and pitches, distances between intersections, etc.) to calculate his instantaneous speed throughout the trip?
Heh ... fair enough ... your response further illustrates my point that people would rather argue over peripheral issues though.
I would love to see some frank discussion about core, real, unskewed, uncoloured data rather than the continuing debate about the wording of the questions and the language of the answers.
Information is a much more solid foundation to base an opinion on than propeganda.
... or just classic misdirection of a discussion to argue the absurd. Both sides of the nuclear debate use this technique.
... just answer the question that you wished was asked that makes the other side look stupid ... oh and make sure your answer is derogatory.
... nope ... everyone would rather spew the same old rhetoric that has been regurgitated for nearly 60 years. Surely we have learned something in all that time to add to the debate?
Q:"Is nuclear power useful?"
A:"No, you idiot, nukes are bad!"
Q:"Is waste from nuclear power managable?"
A:"Would you hippies rather be breathing coal dust?"
Never answer the question
How about some discussion regarding breeder vs. non-breeder reactors. Or half-life of waste. Or decommissioning of reactors. Or standardized independent safety inspection and rules
The bug has been around for quite some time. It also doesn't affect everyone trying to dual boot. It happened to me about a year ago and all that I had to do was set up windows to do the dual booting. Anyone who says that the steps you need to do to set up dual booting correctly in Linux is onerous should try to set it up for windows/NTLDR to do it. It is not an entirely automagic thing to say the least nor do the tools exist by default to get the job done entirely in windows.
You are obviously a pr0n novice ... true professionals would do it in a fraction of that time.
Will we find one of these things in eBay in 10 years selling for $10 and feel all nostalgic about those days when that amount of storage media was the size of a room?
I misinterpreted that statement ... it was not saying that OO.o was better at reading old .docs than Office 2003 but rather saying that Writer was better are reading .doc than Calc was at reading .xls , etc. Oops.
However, considering that some MS Apps have a policy of not being able to read data generated from their predecessors 2 generations old (see MS Project), I would guess that OO.o might do well importing very old MS formated data.
The article states in the Cons for OO.o:
.docs better than MSOffice 2003 (something that I suspected for some time) yet it is viewed as worse than MSOffice for its file compatibility? I would imagine that this means that OO.o doesn't handle MSOffice 2003 documents as well as MSOffice 2003 does ... but that isn't quite fair. I wonder how well MSOffice 2003 does with OO.o's documents in OO.o's native format?
" File-format compatibility issues Although OpenOffice.org does a good job of handling Microsoft Office file formats, small formatting inconsistencies will require reworking of complex documents."
Yet in the page before it states:
"In general, though, of the OpenOffice.org applications we evaluated, Writer presented the fewest file-format-compatibility problems."
So OO.o imports old MSOffice 97 and 2000
He stated which distros he had issues with but not which sound card. "Mainstream Onboard Intel sound system" isn't quite specific enough. Conveniently this doesn't allow anyone to refute his claim. Smells like FUD. The ALSA working once until reboot stinks of the common mute-by-default confusion.
Isn't a motor that "uses magnetism to perpetuate the motor motion" called an electric motor? How is that new? He made a motor that has an 80% reduction in torque so it uses 80% less power, no? You can make a motor that will run on a smallest trickle of electrical power and run really fast ... put it in a vacuum with good low-friction bearings and don't expect it to accelerate quickly.
"Just imagine one of these!" doesn't have the same ring ...
After a bit more research , it seems that the latest Fedora Core 2 test kernels have problems with the ATI drivers. I guess the trick is to compile a vanilla kernel.
I didn't see any mention of the 2.6 kernel series in the readme. Would there be any problems with using these with the 2.6 kernel (for instance with the Fedora Core 2 test 1 distro)? Has anyone tried this out yet?
I would suspect not but I wanted to get people's first hand experience.
One possible way for anti-virus companies to survive is to offer insurance against damage caused by viruses much like UPS companies offer some insurance against power-surges damaging your equipment. I am not sure if they do that presently. ... or they could get their virus researchers to start generating viruses that attack MS-AV directly, "accidentally" let them escape into the wild and guard against them with their product.
"Putting something in the Internet is like peeing in a swimming pool."
... I have never seen a more appropriate analogy to MS source code "leakage" than this!
Wow
Well said.
OK ... can you now make a plugin to hook up bittorrent to everyone's browser cache and eliminate the slashdot effect in the first place?
;]
*Then* I'd be impressed.
Arrr ... matey ... I reckon 'tis gold in dem particle collectors!
"claims enquiries by several companies already"
SCO must claim "tell us how we infringe or we'll sue your pants off" as an inquiry.
As good a long term plan as this is, I think that the current cynicism will hinder it. Because it is politically motivated, even the staunchest space-travel supporter is giving cautious support to this. Not because it is unrealistic, not because it wouldn't be a great thing to do, but rather because their dream is being used as a tool in exactly the same way that Bush Sr. did. I hope that I am wrong.
The protection that MS extended to their customers only covers the cost of the MS software purchased and nothing more. So if someone suffered extensive damages and lost business due to a flaw in MS software, good luck to them in recovering more than the $300 it cost to buy Windows.