Apparently Microsoft's tour bus crashed because of a faulty driver.
Edinburgh police reports state that the driver swerved to avoid a bug in the road and suddenly encountered a Blue Sign of Death that read "Fatal OE Exception in Module 0AE253F27," at which point the bus crashed and had to be restarted.
Until OO is 100% comptible with MSOffice, it will not be likely a small business would switch to it.
But there's the problem -- because MS Office file formats are proprietary and can change at any time, OpenOffice (and other third-party apps for that matter) will probably never be "100% compatible" with MS Office. This is why we need open standards.
See here for the outline of a talk that one of my college professors gave a couple years back regarding this.
United States Patent Application 20040055446 Kind Code A1 Robbin, Jeffrey L. ; et al. March 25, 2004 Graphical user interface and methods of use thereof in a multimedia player
Abstract
In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for providing user supplied configuration data are described. In one embodiment, a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface are provided. A first order, or home, interface provides a highest order of user selectable items each of which, when selected, results in an automatic transition to a lower order user interface associated with the selected item. In one of the described embodiments, the lower order interface includes other user selectable items associated with the previously selected item from the higher order user interface. Inventors: Robbin, Jeffrey L.; (Los Altos, CA) ; Jobs, Steve; (Palo Alto, CA) ; Wasko, Timothy; (High River, CA) Correspondence Name and Address:
BEYER WEAVER & THOMAS LLP
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Assignee Name and Adress: Apple Computer, Inc. Cupertino CA
Serial No.: 282861 Series Code: 10 Filed: October 28, 2002
U.S. Current Class: 84/615 U.S. Class at Publication: 084/615 Intern'l Class: G10H 001/18; G10H 007/00 Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A method of assisting user interaction with a multimedia asset player by way of a hierarchically ordered user interface, comprising: displaying a first order user interface having a first list of user selectable items; receiving a user selection of one of the user selectable items; and automatically transitioning to and displaying a second order user interface based upon the user selection.
2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the second order user interface includes a second list of user selectable items associated with the selected item.
3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the second order user interface is a proper subset of the first order user interface.
4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first list of user selectable items includes at least a playlists item, an artists item, and a songs item.
5. A method as recited in claim 4, wherein when the selected item is the playlists item, then the second list of user selectable items includes a list of configurable playlists.
6. A method as recited in claim 4, wherein when the selected item is the artists item, then the second list of user selectable items includes a list of all artists and a list of particular artists.
7. A method as recited in claim 4, wherein when the selected item is the songs item, then the second list includes a list of all songs.
8. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the transitioning is pathwise bidirectional.
9. In a portable media asset player, a method of selecting and playing a media asset from a group of media assets stored therein, comprising: displaying at a first user interface displayed on the portable media asset player a first number of items each of which is associated with a particular grouping of the stored media assets; receiving a selection of one of the first number of items; automatically transitioning to a second user interface displayed on the portable media asset player based upon the selected one of the first number of items wherein the second user interface includes a second number of items each of which is associated with the selected item.
10. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising: selecting one of the second number of items; automatically transitioning to a third user interface displayed on the portable media asset player based upon the selected one of the second number of items wherein the third user interface includes a third number of items each of which is associated with the selected one of the second number of items.
11. A method as recited in claim 10, wherein when each o
IMHO, there are some serious safety issues with these wooden peripherals. I mean, first we had to worry about carpal tunnel and RSI, now we'll need to add slivers to the list.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered C community when IDC confirmed that C market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that C has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. C is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Programming Language Usage Audit.
You don't need to be Scott McNealy to predict C's future. The hand writing is on the wall: C faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for C because C is dying. Things are looking very bad for C. As many of us are already aware, C continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
C++ is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time C developers Mark Markup and Sally Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: C is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
C++ leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of C++. How many users of C# are there? Let's see. The number of C++ versus C# posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 C# users. C++ posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of C# posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of C++. A recent article put C# at about 80 percent of the C market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 C++ users. This is consistent with the number of C++ Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Redmond, abysmal sales and so on, C++ went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft who sell another troubled programming language. Now C# is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that C has steadily declined in market share. C is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If C is to survive at all it will be among language dilettante dabblers. C continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, C is dead.
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Slashdot Mirror
Looks like your mirror is /.'ed. Can anyone loan this guy a spare E40?
Apparently Microsoft's tour bus crashed because of a faulty driver.
Edinburgh police reports state that the driver swerved to avoid a bug in the road and suddenly encountered a Blue Sign of Death that read "Fatal OE Exception in Module 0AE253F27," at which point the bus crashed and had to be restarted.
My thoughts exactly! Don't be a sheep at all and listen to college radio.
Quick! Download KCEasy off of Kazaa while you can!
Does this mean we can ping our kids now?
Until OO is 100% comptible with MSOffice, it will not be likely a small business would switch to it.
But there's the problem -- because MS Office file formats are proprietary and can change at any time, OpenOffice (and other third-party apps for that matter) will probably never be "100% compatible" with MS Office. This is why we need open standards.
See here for the outline of a talk that one of my college professors gave a couple years back regarding this.
The king is dead, long live the king.
If a wood-case gets slashdotted on the web and nobody sees it, does it make a sound? ;-)
:)
Better check the server logs and find out.
Or he could bake it in a pie.
and r0x0r y0ur 0wn b0x0r!
Use a box to build yourself a new box so you can run Box inside of Bochs on your box!
Actually, troll, I was using Mozilla Firefox.
United States Patent Application 20040055446
Kind Code A1
Robbin, Jeffrey L. ; et al. March 25, 2004
Graphical user interface and methods of use thereof in a multimedia player
Abstract
In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for providing user supplied configuration data are described. In one embodiment, a hierarchically ordered graphical user interface are provided. A first order, or home, interface provides a highest order of user selectable items each of which, when selected, results in an automatic transition to a lower order user interface associated with the selected item. In one of the described embodiments, the lower order interface includes other user selectable items associated with the previously selected item from the higher order user interface.
Inventors: Robbin, Jeffrey L.; (Los Altos, CA) ; Jobs, Steve; (Palo Alto, CA) ; Wasko, Timothy; (High River, CA)
Correspondence Name and Address:
BEYER WEAVER & THOMAS LLP
P.O. BOX 778
BERKELEY
CA
94704-0778
US
Assignee Name and Adress: Apple Computer, Inc.
Cupertino
CA
Serial No.: 282861
Series Code: 10
Filed: October 28, 2002
U.S. Current Class: 84/615
U.S. Class at Publication: 084/615
Intern'l Class: G10H 001/18; G10H 007/00
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A method of assisting user interaction with a multimedia asset player by way of a hierarchically ordered user interface, comprising: displaying a first order user interface having a first list of user selectable items; receiving a user selection of one of the user selectable items; and automatically transitioning to and displaying a second order user interface based upon the user selection.
2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the second order user interface includes a second list of user selectable items associated with the selected item.
3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the second order user interface is a proper subset of the first order user interface.
4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first list of user selectable items includes at least a playlists item, an artists item, and a songs item.
5. A method as recited in claim 4, wherein when the selected item is the playlists item, then the second list of user selectable items includes a list of configurable playlists.
6. A method as recited in claim 4, wherein when the selected item is the artists item, then the second list of user selectable items includes a list of all artists and a list of particular artists.
7. A method as recited in claim 4, wherein when the selected item is the songs item, then the second list includes a list of all songs.
8. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the transitioning is pathwise bidirectional.
9. In a portable media asset player, a method of selecting and playing a media asset from a group of media assets stored therein, comprising: displaying at a first user interface displayed on the portable media asset player a first number of items each of which is associated with a particular grouping of the stored media assets; receiving a selection of one of the first number of items; automatically transitioning to a second user interface displayed on the portable media asset player based upon the selected one of the first number of items wherein the second user interface includes a second number of items each of which is associated with the selected item.
10. A method as recited in claim 9, further comprising: selecting one of the second number of items; automatically transitioning to a third user interface displayed on the portable media asset player based upon the selected one of the second number of items wherein the third user interface includes a third number of items each of which is associated with the selected one of the second number of items.
11. A method as recited in claim 10, wherein when each o
IMHO, there are some serious safety issues with these wooden peripherals. I mean, first we had to worry about carpal tunnel and RSI, now we'll need to add slivers to the list.
* rim shot *
In Soviet Russia, game developers outsource income!
How can something with the same kernel, and the same ancestry go the other way
Because Mozilla exists "to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet" and their browser isn't loaded with corporate crap.
It's not gonna happen.
Will this release make my penis larger?
NO!
It is official; Netcraft confirms: C is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered C community when IDC confirmed that C market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that C has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. C is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Programming Language Usage Audit.
You don't need to be Scott McNealy to predict C's future. The hand writing is on the wall: C faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for C because C is dying. Things are looking very bad for C. As many of us are already aware, C continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
C++ is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time C developers Mark Markup and Sally Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: C is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
C++ leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of C++. How many users of C# are there? Let's see. The number of C++ versus C# posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 C# users. C++ posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of C# posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of C++. A recent article put C# at about 80 percent of the C market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 C++ users. This is consistent with the number of C++ Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Redmond, abysmal sales and so on, C++ went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft who sell another troubled programming language. Now C# is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that C has steadily declined in market share. C is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If C is to survive at all it will be among language dilettante dabblers. C continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, C is dead.
Fact: C is dying
That's not my dog.
A CEO buys an SCO/Linux license.
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They could have named it Lindex. :)
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Jobs to India -- A Broad Look
Apple is sending Steve Jobs to India?
Oh, jobs with a lowercase J.