I thought at first you wanted full-system emulation, so that's why I mentioned QEMU. If you specifically want "only Office" and not a full Windows session, there's Wine (winehq.com). Office runs integrated in the Linux desktop then. Compatibility varies from version to version, but tends to get progressively better. Personally, I only tried Wine with Word Viewer (the free download from microsoft.com) and that was many years ago; on my non-thorough tests it worked perfectly even back then.
There's a company who sells a proprietary extension of Wine called 'Crossover Office' which specifically adds tweaks to improve Office compatibility in Wine -- I know a few satisfied users.
For example, on my pet project I use GPL rather than BSD because I want to make sure that every derivative will be free-software, that's what I care about protecting. If I release content and someone has the right to make a DRM-encumbered version of it, this freedom is lost. To protect (the freedom of) that content, I use a license with anti-DRM clause.
But this is obviously not always the case. You have market bubbles. You have widely believed fallicies (Eg, if you survey in Kansas on evolutionary theory). Etc.
I think "with enough participants, you converge on correctnenss" still holds, you just didn't reach enough participants yet.
Apparently, unavailable.google.cn was shut down already (assuming it was up at some point). I guess Slashdot is not a good place to let the cat out of the bag.;)
No, the poster's point is that even if you have (apple && DRM), the "slashdotter code" will return good. (Think each if test as a global boolean variable).
Since my portuguese is only about a year and a half old, I don't know this: Do you guys use "o msn" as a noun for anything msn-messenger-related like in Spanish (dame tu msn, entra al msn, tienes msn? etc.)?
Yes. I've never seen the name MSN being used in Brazil in any non-MSN-Messenger-related context.
Before somebody says "68+66 does not add up to 100%" I suppose the submitter meant "While the percentage of men who are internet users (68%) is slightly larger than that of women (66%)"...
It would be nice to make a map with the geographical spread.
I live in Brazil. My only exclusively-AIM-or-Yahoo contacts are from people in the US. Most of my list is still ICQ because that was the "big one" here years ago, and I say "still" because most new users go to MSN and lots of the ICQ "early adopters" (me included) now have MSN accounts as well. So, I guess in order of popularity, it's:
Whatever happened to the standard that major feature releases increment the first number, minor feature releases increment the second number, and tweaks and bug fixes increment the third number? What is the point of numbering releases "2.0.1" if you're not going to follow the standard?
Well, because it's not a standard, really. The kernel x.y.z scheme used the odd/even y for stable/unstable; now the x.y.z.w scheme (with a pretty peculiar usage of -rc) is different still. While a number of projects use the scheme you described, I find it easier to remember examples where they don't.
Even if it was a standard, minor and major features are subjective terms. Now, if the numbering scheme took ABI and API compatibility as a parameter, that would be a good thing to 'standardize' to (as in, "z number upgrades are binary compatible, y number upgrades are source compatible" (and then you need to specify if compat is backward and/or forwards)).
I guess the fact that OpenOffice gets coverage in the Olive-XP-colored "IT" section can only be a good thing.
As an OOo user living mostly in the academic world, I have a question for those in the "corporate, IT world": how do you perceive the inroads OpenOffice has been making? How does upper management reacts when OOo is pointed as an alternative? Is it working satisfactory as a Microsoft Office alternative?
Wikipedia's strengths lie in the fact that it's editable by everyone. This attracts all sorts of people to contrtibute: potentially, an article on [[ninja]]s can have contributions written by a ninja; ditto for [[pirate]]s, [[astronaut]]s, etc.
[Talk: Ok, let's avoid the weasel terms, as pointed out by moonbender -- ~~~~]
Yes, the ones with angled keys suck when rearranging. The best ones for rearranging are, in first place, the IBM Model M (if you can get your hands in one) because it has keycaps that pop off independently of the keys, and then laptop-key style keyboards, since they're not angled. Steer away from laptops with trackpoint, though, as they make proper rearrangement impossible.
But yeah, nothing beats learning to touch type! (And no, it's not masochism!:) )
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome to the welfare state. Is what many of us aim for, actually.
GoDaddy has jumped the shark,
News at eleven
All your base to Microsoft.
I thought at first you wanted full-system emulation, so that's why I mentioned QEMU. If you specifically want "only Office" and not a full Windows session, there's Wine (winehq.com). Office runs integrated in the Linux desktop then. Compatibility varies from version to version, but tends to get progressively better. Personally, I only tried Wine with Word Viewer (the free download from microsoft.com) and that was many years ago; on my non-thorough tests it worked perfectly even back then.
There's a company who sells a proprietary extension of Wine called 'Crossover Office' which specifically adds tweaks to improve Office compatibility in Wine -- I know a few satisfied users.
Mod me troll, I don't care, but I think Cliff should be ashamed of having posted this.
'nuff said.
For example, on my pet project I use GPL rather than BSD because I want to make sure that every derivative will be free-software, that's what I care about protecting. If I release content and someone has the right to make a DRM-encumbered version of it, this freedom is lost. To protect (the freedom of) that content, I use a license with anti-DRM clause.
But this is obviously not always the case. You have market bubbles. You have widely believed fallicies (Eg, if you survey in Kansas on evolutionary theory). Etc.
I think "with enough participants, you converge on correctnenss" still holds, you just didn't reach enough participants yet.
The year that never happened.
(Still, there seems to be ways around it...)
Apparently, unavailable.google.cn was shut down already (assuming it was up at some point). I guess Slashdot is not a good place to let the cat out of the bag. ;)
The country this IP is from (Brazil) has won the World Cup 5 times (+5)
;-)
This means by the end of the year, my IP score will be one point higher!
No, the poster's point is that even if you have (apple && DRM), the "slashdotter code" will return good. (Think each if test as a global boolean variable).
That means x86 is a bag of crap. I bet you can emulate PPC nicely on IA64 too.
RADAR == RADAR Ain't a Damn Acronym for Radar
Since my portuguese is only about a year and a half old, I don't know this: Do you guys use "o msn" as a noun for anything msn-messenger-related like in Spanish (dame tu msn, entra al msn, tienes msn? etc.)?
Yes. I've never seen the name MSN being used in Brazil in any non-MSN-Messenger-related context.
Before somebody says "68+66 does not add up to 100%" I suppose the submitter meant "While the percentage of men who are internet users (68%) is slightly larger than that of women (66%)"...
It would be nice to make a map with the geographical spread.
I live in Brazil. My only exclusively-AIM-or-Yahoo contacts are from people in the US. Most of my list is still ICQ because that was the "big one" here years ago, and I say "still" because most new users go to MSN and lots of the ICQ "early adopters" (me included) now have MSN accounts as well. So, I guess in order of popularity, it's:
USA: AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ
Brazil: MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo
Other countries, anyone?
IIRC Microsoft actually owns a part of Apple, so there you go.
But still, he has a point.
Read all about it!
HTH HAND
Yes, people are bashing the "not yet" part of the article, but the cross-checking is something to be commended and encouraged! Kudos to Roblimo.
Whatever happened to the standard that major feature releases increment the first number, minor feature releases increment the second number, and tweaks and bug fixes increment the third number? What is the point of numbering releases "2.0.1" if you're not going to follow the standard?
Well, because it's not a standard, really. The kernel x.y.z scheme used the odd/even y for stable/unstable; now the x.y.z.w scheme (with a pretty peculiar usage of -rc) is different still. While a number of projects use the scheme you described, I find it easier to remember examples where they don't.
Even if it was a standard, minor and major features are subjective terms. Now, if the numbering scheme took ABI and API compatibility as a parameter, that would be a good thing to 'standardize' to (as in, "z number upgrades are binary compatible, y number upgrades are source compatible" (and then you need to specify if compat is backward and/or forwards)).
I guess the fact that OpenOffice gets coverage in the Olive-XP-colored "IT" section can only be a good thing.
As an OOo user living mostly in the academic world, I have a question for those in the "corporate, IT world": how do you perceive the inroads OpenOffice has been making? How does upper management reacts when OOo is pointed as an alternative? Is it working satisfactory as a Microsoft Office alternative?
Wikipedia's strengths lie in the fact that it's editable by everyone. This attracts all sorts of people to contrtibute: potentially, an article on [[ninja]]s can have contributions written by a ninja; ditto for [[pirate]]s, [[astronaut]]s, etc.
[Talk: Ok, let's avoid the weasel terms, as pointed out by moonbender -- ~~~~]
Yes, the ones with angled keys suck when rearranging. The best ones for rearranging are, in first place, the IBM Model M (if you can get your hands in one) because it has keycaps that pop off independently of the keys, and then laptop-key style keyboards, since they're not angled. Steer away from laptops with trackpoint, though, as they make proper rearrangement impossible.
:) )
But yeah, nothing beats learning to touch type! (And no, it's not masochism!