There are options in Word that you can set to allow you to just place the cursor anywhere on the page, and start typing, without having to properly set tabs and other such "set up" issues. Are you just not utilizing Word's features??
That's the problem - next time I place cursor in slightly different place and then text looks different and it doesn't show why it looks different.
Nobody ever need all Word's features and it's a headache to find out what you need to know and what needn't...
Try asking your mom/grandmother if they've heard of StarOffice or WordPerfect. That is your answer.
Common, you are mixing completely different things.
WordPerfect was MS Word's rival in DOS times.
A lot of people worked with it.
So maybe your mom or grandmother still have copy of it
on floppy;)
What are you talking about? This particular project made on OpenBSD kernel. It could be called "distro" in Linux speak, but it's not a fork in any way.
It's obvious that video games play a minor part in the decadence of society. However, games like Grand Theft Auto III, Postal, and Doom should never make it into the hands of minors.
Hmmm, maybe.. I actually think GTA3 should never make it into the hands of adults;)
Honestly - it's just disgusting to play criminal.
Doom is different - it has some moral base, (to defend Earth) kinda;)
It is impolite to imply Sheldon read ASP.NET book and write M$ software. If you don't like his arguments, please don't try to insult your opponent;)
How is the GPL an anti-corporate license?
Do you have an example of succesfull company, selling GPLed or LGPLed software? Or at least profitable company?
Let's imagine Universities release ALL their works under GPL - not only software, but ALL their research.
Then results of ALL R&D that implemented in goods and service should be published. Then, Surprise! Surprise!
we are buying very cheap goods from China, Russia and elsewhere where different laws or no laws at all...
And then where are the companies that spent money for that R&D? Price for their goods or service include cost of R&D and therefore could not compete. So companies are gone.. And how about taxes for
universities? And then who'll do R&D at all?
The problem isn't stupid automobile engineers... it's stupid management types who relegate their engineers to the status of secretaries. I've got a friend who spent 5 years at Carnegie Mellon to get a degree in mechanical engineering because he wanted to design cars. He got a job at Ford, and is quitting, going back to school for his MBA and going to start a restaurant. Why? Because since he's been at Ford, he hasn't been anywhere near designing a car.. he just looks at specs from vendors and approves them or disapproves them.
Your friend just got job in a wrong department at Ford... And maybe he never wanted to design cars, that's why he's getting MBA, not MME.
Common, have you tried to tune Apache? Process-per-connection not a problem - you just have to keep process pool big enough..
There are some other tricks, but you could saturate 100Mbit network with p3/500 and Apache as well.
Re:Prestige, Cost, Market: Three explanations
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Mac Users May Be Smarter
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This is the biggest bullshit comment in the history of slashdot. Its a fucking computer! It is in no way art and it does not make you any smarter if you buy a mac or a pc. Just some gay ass marketing scam that morons like you are going to feed into.
Common - computer is not a god's gift and nobody ever was born with it;))) It's about choices, preferences and motivations.
And it's statistics. Like statistically educated people are smarter then uneducated, but it doen't mean particular uneducated person is dumb. So you, PC user is smart, perhaps, but all of you.... And of course buying new Porsche doesn't make you rich - you have to be rich to buy one;)
If Americans really believed in freedom of expression they would stop interfering in other nations' politics and let their people express themselves as they wanted.
Like let their people express themselves in killing other people?
By the way where is the place where people could express themselves? Usually there are politics, military or mobsters which could something do for yourselves and not other people..
There was Soviet Union which fought Nazist Germany, not Russia ( which had pseudostate as part of USSR). There were official soviet numbers about Soviet loss in WWII - about 20 millions. More then half of them was civilians in occupied territories, which were Belarus,
Ukraine, Moldova, Lituania, Latvia, Estonia and some parts of Russia.
There is a trend in Russia - to forget such peculiarities...
Unfortunately today's Russia have Parliament consisting mostly from robber barons and mobsters.
Moving to more freedom and market economy is just convenience for them. It's only hope something good comes from it.
Technically, you're correct, but in the larger view, there is a historical pattern where free code gets 'adopted' by a company, and the company adds lots of functionality to the free code, so that eventually the free code is no longer competitive, and everyone switches over to using the closed-source product. At that point, the code is no longer free (except for the "old" code which is no longer useful or used, and thus doesn't count). This is what happened to Unix in the 70's and 80's, leading to Unix's fragmentation and irrelevance as a platform. With GPL code, you don't have to worry so much about v2.0 coming out as closed-source, leaving you with a choice between staying with v1.0 or losing the benefits of open source.
1. It's not happened to Unix - AT&T version was proprietary and BSD used some code from it (anybody who used BSD should also had obtained license from AT&T). BSDi and Regents of the University of California got sued because of it and was forced to reissue code without AT&T-written parts.
Most of Unix clones was licensed from AT&T (which also included BSD code though).
2. If company added features to code and there are too many of them so code could not be rewritten - it means it just could be never written using GPL licence.
So in your examle we'd be stuck forever with version 1.0 and nobody would have written version 2.0.
3. And it's irony that "free" GPL code couldn't be used inside BSD code because then BSD code became non-BSD code (GPL infection). Then included code should be rewritten from scratch, as it's proprietary - it defeats purpose of "free" GPL license.
Re:Not a zoo. Linux is good enough
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FreeBSD 4.6
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Well, I believe (and some experience helped) that FreeBSD is preferable on servers. More stable, more upgradable, less bloted, cleaner designed.
So your consideration may include your company's model - what's your production site? If all your business all around your website like Google, for example, I'd choose FreeBSD. If your company's business does not require much web presence or does not have many servers (like number crunching) - you need only some IT stuff, just stick to what your developers use - if they use the same OS.
Re:Why the fuck we have to drag around libraries??
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Is RPM Doomed?
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You just made it up without thinking about, don't you?
You are talking about static linking for everything - it could work until some point. One of the points is disk capacity - when instead couple kilobytes for simple program you'll have couple megabytes, and instead couple megabytes for complex program you'll have couple hundred megabytes... Another point is memory considerations - when you load dynamically linked program into memory you load dynamic library as well, and when you load another program, using the same library, you use preloaded dynamic library. Well, you also save on loading time for second program. If you load two static programs - you just load the same binary into memory twice and if you load more you could exhaust memory and start using swap. Then your box perfomance go down the drain...
Current state of software could be characterized by one word - BLOATED.
You just want to replicate it everywhere...
Make it MEGABLOATED.
It's nice to have somebody around who really knows stuff;)
I, for example, had no time to figure out how to upgrade rpm.rpm on RH 6.x, cause new packages use newer one.
If I download new rpm package and try to install it with rpm - it breaks because old rpm could not read new rpm files.
OK, I go with src install. I try to recomplie it - no, can't be done, I need some new libraries. And you remember - I have old rpm, so I can't install libraries rpms. I then have to find sources and recompile. Then again there are some dependencies and dependencies...
Well I never have time to go all way through, so I avoid rpms, (and Linux) if it possible.
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That's the problem - next time I place cursor in slightly different place and then text looks different and it doesn't show why it looks different.
Nobody ever need all Word's features and it's a headache to find out what you need to know and what needn't...
WordPerfect was MS Word's rival in DOS times.
A lot of people worked with it.
So maybe your mom or grandmother still have copy of it on floppy ;)
On apple.com in configuraion:
700MHz PowerPC G4
128MB SDRAM
40GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo drive (DVD/CD-RW)
56K internal modem
it listed as $1099.0
Well, you could add some memory (not from Apple) and
use student discount.
So it's about the same price ;)
What are you talking about? This particular project made on OpenBSD kernel. It could be called "distro" in Linux speak, but it's not a fork in any way.
Any chance?
Well, Army will not answer, of course ;)
Sony-made SACDs are mostly one-layered.
Anyway it's not customer-bending - they just don't care
Hmmm, maybe.. I actually think GTA3 should never make it into the hands of adults
Honestly - it's just disgusting to play criminal. ;)
Doom is different - it has some moral base, (to defend Earth) kinda
Materialistic women often do not have children, because it's just too expensive in terms of time and money of course.
It is impolite to imply Sheldon read ASP.NET book and write M$ software. If you don't like his arguments, please don't try to insult your opponent ;)
How is the GPL an anti-corporate license?
Do you have an example of succesfull company, selling GPLed or LGPLed software? Or at least profitable company?
Let's imagine Universities release ALL their works under GPL - not only software, but ALL their research. Then results of ALL R&D that implemented in goods and service should be published. Then, Surprise! Surprise! we are buying very cheap goods from China, Russia and elsewhere where different laws or no laws at all...
And then where are the companies that spent money for that R&D? Price for their goods or service include cost of R&D and therefore could not compete. So companies are gone.. And how about taxes for universities? And then who'll do R&D at all?
The problem isn't stupid automobile engineers... it's stupid management types who relegate their engineers to the status of secretaries. I've got a friend who spent 5 years at Carnegie Mellon to get a degree in mechanical engineering because he wanted to design cars. He got a job at Ford, and is quitting, going back to school for his MBA and going to start a restaurant. Why? Because since he's been at Ford, he hasn't been anywhere near designing a car.. he just looks at specs from vendors and approves them or disapproves them.
Your friend just got job in a wrong department at Ford... And maybe he never wanted to design cars, that's why he's getting MBA, not MME.
Common, have you tried to tune Apache?
Process-per-connection not a problem - you just have to keep process pool big enough.. There are some other tricks, but you could saturate 100Mbit network with p3/500 and Apache as well.
Common - computer is not a god's gift and nobody ever was born with it ;))) ;)
It's about choices, preferences and motivations. And it's statistics. Like statistically educated people are smarter then uneducated, but it doen't mean particular uneducated person is dumb. So you, PC user is smart, perhaps, but all of you....
And of course buying new Porsche doesn't make you rich - you have to be rich to buy one
Is it your university website in your signature?
;)))
The problem is rather of limited oil supplies, not economy...
it's kinda guys who created Open Source Initiative didn't know about Open System Interconnect (or did they?
If you creating some acronym it should be unique at least in this namespace.
Case fans blow IN,
power supply fans blow out.
Like let their people express themselves in killing other people?
By the way where is the place where people could express themselves? Usually there are politics, military or mobsters which could something do for yourselves and not other people..
There was Soviet Union which fought Nazist Germany, not Russia ( which had pseudostate as part of USSR). There were official soviet numbers about Soviet loss in WWII - about 20 millions. More then half of them was civilians in occupied territories, which were Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Lituania, Latvia, Estonia and some parts of Russia.
There is a trend in Russia - to forget such peculiarities...
Unfortunately today's Russia have Parliament consisting mostly from robber barons and mobsters. Moving to more freedom and market economy is just convenience for them. It's only hope something good comes from it.
And it's done, for example in MicroBSD - http://www.microbsd.net
Technically, you're correct, but in the larger view, there is a historical pattern where free code gets 'adopted' by a company, and the company adds lots of functionality to the free code, so that eventually the free code is no longer competitive, and everyone switches over to using the closed-source product. At that point, the code is no longer free (except for the "old" code which is no longer useful or used, and thus doesn't count). This is what happened to Unix in the 70's and 80's, leading to Unix's fragmentation and irrelevance as a platform. With GPL code, you don't have to worry so much about v2.0 coming out as closed-source, leaving you with a choice between staying with v1.0 or losing the benefits of open source.
1. It's not happened to Unix - AT&T version was proprietary and BSD used some code from it (anybody who used BSD should also had obtained license from AT&T).
BSDi and Regents of the University of California got sued because of it and was forced to reissue code without AT&T-written parts.
Most of Unix clones was licensed from AT&T (which also included BSD code though).
2. If company added features to code and there are
too many of them so code could not be rewritten - it means it just could be never written using GPL licence.
So in your examle we'd be stuck forever with version 1.0 and nobody would have written version 2.0.
3. And it's irony that "free" GPL code couldn't be used inside BSD code because then BSD code became non-BSD code (GPL infection). Then included code should be rewritten from scratch, as it's proprietary - it defeats purpose of "free" GPL license.
More stable, more upgradable, less bloted, cleaner designed.
So your consideration may include your company's model - what's your production site?
If all your business all around your website like Google, for example, I'd choose FreeBSD.
If your company's business does not require much web presence or does not have many servers
(like number crunching) - you need only some IT stuff, just stick to what your developers use - if they use the same OS.
You are talking about static linking for everything - it could work until some point. One of the points is disk capacity - when instead couple kilobytes for simple program you'll have couple megabytes, and instead couple megabytes for complex program you'll have couple hundred megabytes...
Another point is memory considerations - when you load dynamically linked program into memory you load dynamic library as well, and when you load another program, using the same library, you use preloaded dynamic library. Well, you also save on loading time for second program. If you load two static programs - you just load the same binary into memory twice and if you load more you could exhaust memory and start using swap. Then your box perfomance go down the drain...
Current state of software could be characterized by one word - BLOATED.
You just want to replicate it everywhere... Make it MEGABLOATED.
I, for example, had no time to figure out how to upgrade rpm.rpm on RH 6.x, cause new packages use newer one.
If I download new rpm package and try to install it with rpm - it breaks because old rpm could not read new rpm files.
OK, I go with src install. I try to recomplie it - no, can't be done, I need some new libraries.
And you remember - I have old rpm, so I can't install libraries rpms. I then have to find sources and recompile. Then again there are some dependencies and dependencies...
Well I never have time to go all way through, so I avoid rpms, (and Linux) if it possible.
depending where are you buing from.
So it's just $2-$3 increase from CDs prices.
No big deal.
"DRESS like a professional" ?
Don't wear tie? Don't wear jeans?
Or don't wear tie on the West Coast and don't wear jeans on the East Coast?