It came as quite a shock to us Germans, too. The PISA studies have spawned a never-ending debate on the reform of the education system. Germany didn't do so well in other parts of the test, incidently. The discussion seems to be helping anyway, scores have improved... or maybe we've simply learned how to cheat the test.;)
JetBrains (who develop IDEA which really is the best Java IDE) aren't Russian either, they're Czech.
Also, I really don't think any of those programs are as unknown as you think. Most geeks will have heard of The Bat, (Win)RAR is used everywhere (most warez are packaged as RARs for one), and even IDEA is fairly well-known.
Well, apart from that one reproducible crash, OO was very stable for me. Not bad considering it's a beta. I was only up to ~24 pages, though, maybe it gets worse from there. What aggravated me more was that the auto-save function seemingly failed catastrophically. I checked, it was set to 15 minutes (default setting), but I'm sure I lost far more than that. Heh. I wasn't even worried when it crashed, thinking that it would just recover, and it did display the recovery tool, but the result wasn't what I hoped it would be. After that, I manually saved more often, set auto-save to 3 minutes and enforced the creation of backups.
I'm not sure what the auto-save does, anyway, because apparently it doesn't really save, it only writes recovery information to the disk. This is good because it doesn't overwrite anything unless you explicitly do so by manually saving, but it's bad because obviously it's not as reliable. Though, again, maybe it's better in the final.
MSword - can paste graphics from the clipboard (PrtScrn) without crashing, unlike OO.
Just tried it. Works fine here.
Supports "Table of Contents" instead of mysteriously deleting it each time you select "Update Index and Tables" unlike OO.
Just tried it. Problem happens for me, too. However, the problem isn't the update function itself. I haven't totally figured out how Writer generates a TOC, but it seems to be based on the outline numbering in the tools menu. It also seems to forget settings made there, resulting in an empty TOC on update. When I reapplied the settings in outline numbering and selected "Update Index and Tables", the TOC was back in place.
Anyway, both of those are bugs, which I'm sure have been or will be fixed. The absence of an outline mode as seen in Word is not a bug, though.
I wrote a paper in OO 2.0 beta a few weeks ago. I had never really used Writer before, and my experience was really very positive. Positive, apart from that one time when it crashed hard when selecting the macro tab of a frame and took an hour's worth of work with it, anyway (reproducible crash, too - when I tried to report the bug, the reporting tool crashed, too, d'oh!).
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Eh? I don't really care about this specific instance. I just think that the session saver extension the original poster referred to should include a way to suppress resuming a session.
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There should be a way to suppress resuming a session, like holding the shift key while starting FF. (Maybe there is a way - it seems like an obvious addition to me.) Or do it the Opera has been doing it since seemingly forever (well okay, version 5? 6?), display a dialogue after a crash prompting the user as to what to do.
That is a distinction that is completely lost on (C) law.
Huh? I don't know what sort of sick legislation is in place where you live, but copyright law certainly differentiates between commercial and non-commercial copyright infringement around these parts. The latter is usually fined, the former may result in prison.
It's not "about time". Posts that look like identical twins to the grandparent pop up in every discussion on either GPL enforcement or copyright infringement, and have been doing so for a looong time.
As noted above, they don't have any memory effect (that is: repeatedly discharging them to the same level is no problem). They do have a rather limited number of cycles, although I don't know how it compares to NiCd. Most importantly, they have an extremely good energy density - as far as I know, that is their largest advantage.
Judging by the summary, this one claims 1000 charges lead to only 1% loss in capacity. That's nothing compared to current technology. Heck, seems like current Li-Ions lose 1% overall capacity if you look at them the wrong way...
Straw man. Nobody is talking about that. You totally missed the point of the article. It's not that universities are doing the research now that will be relevant in 10 years or are developing the software we will use then. They might, or they might not, it's just not relevant to what he says. He says that the guys working and studying at the universities are using technology in ways that others will 10 years later. Stuff that's geeky now is totally normal in 10 years. Note that this doesn't mean that a) others haven't done it even earlier and b) others aren't doing it outside of universities. Internet stuff is an example (even though others did it earlier), DVD burning might be another (even though people outside of CS departments do it), whatever.
I'm not saying I agree with him, but at least I don't totally misunderstand him because I have a grudge with universities as you obviously have.
It doesn't mean market dominating in much the same way that piracy doesn't mean copyright violation. When people refer to Microsoft they talk about monopoly when Microsoft never had one but simply was dominating a market and abusing that domination to get an advantage in other markets. The two terms refer to different concepts, but most people probably don't differentiate between the concepts. Another comparable case (better then the piracy/copyright violation above) is referring to the USA as a democracy "when it's actually a republic," an old favorite among the more anal-retentive folks on Slashdot.
So I am wrong, huh? Care to tell me in what way? Obviously the term "Monopol" exists in German - I never claimed it didn't - with much the same meaning as the English word. But the more proper way to refer to Microsoft's position (in German, and probably in English, too) is calling it a market dominating one.
Note that I might be wrong - IANAL! and not an economist, either - but your post doesn't lead to that conclusion. The translation service also knows about "marktbeherrschend", BTW.
Incidently, in Germany the more proper term is (what translates to) market dominating. Microsoft is not a monopoly, but it certainly dominates the huge market of end-user desktop operating systems.
The Java class library is freely available as source, I don't know about the license, though. I doubt it's GPL-compatible. That's beside the point though, the Java API source code is available, but none of the Sun J2SE Virtual Machines' is.
You're right, there has been an enormous increase in J2ME execution speed as well as feature set in the recent past. I've been doing some J2ME developement some weeks back - it really is very easy to get into once you have an IDE running - and I was surprised. For instance, the popular Sony Ericsson T610 is just awful wrt to Java: it only supports the very basic MIDP1, and it's extremely slow. My own Nokia 6230 supports MIDP2 and is more than 10x as fast. But it doesn't end there, today's phones are still 2 or 3 times faster than that.
There is an excellent resource available at a French Java website, very much required reading if you're interested into J2ME development I'd guess. It lists most available Java phones, their feature set and speed.
Of particular interest in responce to Carmack is the comparison with P3 execution speed: "As fast as a PIII (without Java compiler) at 1,477.2MHz" (that's a Nokia 6630). That said, I don't see how even a 3G smartphone could equal the execution speed of a 1.5Ghz P3, so that kind of makes their whole benchmark a bit dubious. Unfortunately Carmack only mentions just one handy (Motorola i730) which isn't listed on the page (hey John, download their benchmark and send them the results!). The fastest Motorola they do list (V600) is as fast as, haha, a PIII 16.7 MHz (still twice as fast as a T610!), so maybe Motorola just stinks in terms of Java execution.
And I don't hear any Mac users complaining about it being hard to share information...
It's hard to hear much of anything from Mac users... you have to be -really- -quiet-. Some say they only come out at certain nights at full moon, others say they never existed.
I don't know, my iPod mini never shut down on me. I never ran with it, but I have it some shakes before I posted my original post and it didn't shut down. I doubt it would bounce harder than that if I went jogging with it. Maybe it does shut down when I drop it, but my scientific curiosity doesn't go that far...;)
Jogging with a HD-based player is a bad idea. And I would be surprised if the manual of your iPod didn't state that clearly.
It does not state anything remotely like that. In fact, Apple sells iPod mini arm bands intended to make the mini usable while jogging: "Take your iPod mini with you hiking, jogging or running errands."... "Accessorize your iPod mini in style and secure your tunes when you're riding, running or working out."
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There are also recent sci-fi flicks that don't stink: Primer. Well, that's one, I guess there are others.
It came as quite a shock to us Germans, too. The PISA studies have spawned a never-ending debate on the reform of the education system. Germany didn't do so well in other parts of the test, incidently. The discussion seems to be helping anyway, scores have improved... or maybe we've simply learned how to cheat the test. ;)
JetBrains (who develop IDEA which really is the best Java IDE) aren't Russian either, they're Czech.
Also, I really don't think any of those programs are as unknown as you think. Most geeks will have heard of The Bat, (Win)RAR is used everywhere (most warez are packaged as RARs for one), and even IDEA is fairly well-known.
Well, apart from that one reproducible crash, OO was very stable for me. Not bad considering it's a beta. I was only up to ~24 pages, though, maybe it gets worse from there. What aggravated me more was that the auto-save function seemingly failed catastrophically. I checked, it was set to 15 minutes (default setting), but I'm sure I lost far more than that. Heh. I wasn't even worried when it crashed, thinking that it would just recover, and it did display the recovery tool, but the result wasn't what I hoped it would be. After that, I manually saved more often, set auto-save to 3 minutes and enforced the creation of backups.
I'm not sure what the auto-save does, anyway, because apparently it doesn't really save, it only writes recovery information to the disk. This is good because it doesn't overwrite anything unless you explicitly do so by manually saving, but it's bad because obviously it's not as reliable. Though, again, maybe it's better in the final.
MSword - can paste graphics from the clipboard (PrtScrn) without crashing, unlike OO.
Just tried it. Works fine here.
Supports "Table of Contents" instead of mysteriously deleting it each time you select "Update Index and Tables" unlike OO.
Just tried it. Problem happens for me, too. However, the problem isn't the update function itself. I haven't totally figured out how Writer generates a TOC, but it seems to be based on the outline numbering in the tools menu. It also seems to forget settings made there, resulting in an empty TOC on update. When I reapplied the settings in outline numbering and selected "Update Index and Tables", the TOC was back in place.
Anyway, both of those are bugs, which I'm sure have been or will be fixed. The absence of an outline mode as seen in Word is not a bug, though.
I wrote a paper in OO 2.0 beta a few weeks ago. I had never really used Writer before, and my experience was really very positive. Positive, apart from that one time when it crashed hard when selecting the macro tab of a frame and took an hour's worth of work with it, anyway (reproducible crash, too - when I tried to report the bug, the reporting tool crashed, too, d'oh!).
Eh? I don't really care about this specific instance. I just think that the session saver extension the original poster referred to should include a way to suppress resuming a session.
There should be a way to suppress resuming a session, like holding the shift key while starting FF. (Maybe there is a way - it seems like an obvious addition to me.) Or do it the Opera has been doing it since seemingly forever (well okay, version 5? 6?), display a dialogue after a crash prompting the user as to what to do.
No, but I'm afraid there will be Intellectual Property saints.
That is a distinction that is completely lost on (C) law.
Huh? I don't know what sort of sick legislation is in place where you live, but copyright law certainly differentiates between commercial and non-commercial copyright infringement around these parts. The latter is usually fined, the former may result in prison.
It's not "about time". Posts that look like identical twins to the grandparent pop up in every discussion on either GPL enforcement or copyright infringement, and have been doing so for a looong time.
As noted above, they don't have any memory effect (that is: repeatedly discharging them to the same level is no problem). They do have a rather limited number of cycles, although I don't know how it compares to NiCd. Most importantly, they have an extremely good energy density - as far as I know, that is their largest advantage.
Judging by the summary, this one claims 1000 charges lead to only 1% loss in capacity. That's nothing compared to current technology. Heck, seems like current Li-Ions lose 1% overall capacity if you look at them the wrong way...
Universities DO NOT LEAD THE WORLD IN CS.
Straw man. Nobody is talking about that. You totally missed the point of the article. It's not that universities are doing the research now that will be relevant in 10 years or are developing the software we will use then. They might, or they might not, it's just not relevant to what he says.
He says that the guys working and studying at the universities are using technology in ways that others will 10 years later. Stuff that's geeky now is totally normal in 10 years. Note that this doesn't mean that a) others haven't done it even earlier and b) others aren't doing it outside of universities. Internet stuff is an example (even though others did it earlier), DVD burning might be another (even though people outside of CS departments do it), whatever.
I'm not saying I agree with him, but at least I don't totally misunderstand him because I have a grudge with universities as you obviously have.
Meh. I'm drawing the line. I think your argument is flawed, but arguing semantics is rather pointless, and I'm not an economist so, whatever.
It doesn't mean market dominating in much the same way that piracy doesn't mean copyright violation. When people refer to Microsoft they talk about monopoly when Microsoft never had one but simply was dominating a market and abusing that domination to get an advantage in other markets. The two terms refer to different concepts, but most people probably don't differentiate between the concepts. Another comparable case (better then the piracy/copyright violation above) is referring to the USA as a democracy "when it's actually a republic," an old favorite among the more anal-retentive folks on Slashdot.
So I am wrong, huh? Care to tell me in what way? Obviously the term "Monopol" exists in German - I never claimed it didn't - with much the same meaning as the English word. But the more proper way to refer to Microsoft's position (in German, and probably in English, too) is calling it a market dominating one.
Note that I might be wrong - IANAL! and not an economist, either - but your post doesn't lead to that conclusion. The translation service also knows about "marktbeherrschend", BTW.
Incidently, in Germany the more proper term is (what translates to) market dominating. Microsoft is not a monopoly, but it certainly dominates the huge market of end-user desktop operating systems.
The Java class library is freely available as source, I don't know about the license, though. I doubt it's GPL-compatible. That's beside the point though, the Java API source code is available, but none of the Sun J2SE Virtual Machines' is.
You're right, there has been an enormous increase in J2ME execution speed as well as feature set in the recent past. I've been doing some J2ME developement some weeks back - it really is very easy to get into once you have an IDE running - and I was surprised. For instance, the popular Sony Ericsson T610 is just awful wrt to Java: it only supports the very basic MIDP1, and it's extremely slow. My own Nokia 6230 supports MIDP2 and is more than 10x as fast. But it doesn't end there, today's phones are still 2 or 3 times faster than that.
There is an excellent resource available at a French Java website, very much required reading if you're interested into J2ME development I'd guess. It lists most available Java phones, their feature set and speed.
Of particular interest in responce to Carmack is the comparison with P3 execution speed: "As fast as a PIII (without Java compiler) at 1,477.2MHz" (that's a Nokia 6630). That said, I don't see how even a 3G smartphone could equal the execution speed of a 1.5Ghz P3, so that kind of makes their whole benchmark a bit dubious. Unfortunately Carmack only mentions just one handy (Motorola i730) which isn't listed on the page (hey John, download their benchmark and send them the results!). The fastest Motorola they do list (V600) is as fast as, haha, a PIII 16.7 MHz (still twice as fast as a T610!), so maybe Motorola just stinks in terms of Java execution.
Probably because those low-filesize screengrab videos are one of the coolest uses Flash has.
He wasn't mispeling (except once). Repeating leters is just unecesary. You, to, can improve keyboard longevity!
And I don't hear any Mac users complaining about it being hard to share information...
It's hard to hear much of anything from Mac users... you have to be -really- -quiet-. Some say they only come out at certain nights at full moon, others say they never existed.
You can't run a general-purpose XP box from a limited user account. It breaks nearly all legacy software and a disgraceful amount of new software.
Chicken and egg. If XP had defaulted to a non-privileged user account, most new programs would work fine. Shame about the legacy apps, though.
I don't know, my iPod mini never shut down on me. I never ran with it, but I have it some shakes before I posted my original post and it didn't shut down. I doubt it would bounce harder than that if I went jogging with it. Maybe it does shut down when I drop it, but my scientific curiosity doesn't go that far... ;)
Jogging with a HD-based player is a bad idea. And I would be surprised if the manual of your iPod didn't state that clearly.
... "Accessorize your iPod mini in style and secure your tunes when you're riding, running or working out."
It does not state anything remotely like that. In fact, Apple sells iPod mini arm bands intended to make the mini usable while jogging: "Take your iPod mini with you hiking, jogging or running errands."