Does it do wordperfect files yet?
That is what stops my household from using 1.0.x Instead we're still using Corel 7
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if it NEVER supports WordPerfect files (not sure whether it does or not at the moment). They've already said they wouldn't support PFS: Write conversion, because the paid product has a plugin to do that. That's the problem with OS software that's part of a commercial project: sometimes the OS part can't give you something because it would undercut its own funding source.
here in the lab we adopted open office about a year ago as Microsoft did not give a comprehensive equation editor in which we could create our theorums
Given enough practice, even trolling may become an art. Bravo! You, sir, are on your way to becoming an artist.
[Note to slashdot readers: one does not "create theorems" in an equation editor. YHBT.]
BOFH her. Hide a tape recorder, get her on tape making advances. Then call her voicemail from an untraceable phone number and leave a copy of the conversation on her voice mail. While you're at it, download one of the kiddie pr0n viruses to her machine and create a scheduled task that will change her homepage to the kiddie pr0n and simultaneously email the link to her boss and her boss's boss with "hey, Bill, look at this great website I found" (but only if neither's name is really Bill, or your friend's), and will also email her boss an MP3 of the original recording. Reset it every week until she fires him for rejecting her advances.
[Seriously, please do NOT take this advice! This is just a JOKE! It is illegal, immoral, impractical, and irrational. And IANAL.]
Different platforms, different purposes. The G5 may erode a little of the low-end SGI market, but it can't compete on the high end. On the other hand, my wallet and my desk both want the G5, not the SGI.
Granted that there is file sharing that violates both the intent and the letter of US law, and that the law should be enforced: to what extent is the "enforcement" of such laws crippled by the behavior of the victims? What do you think of the argument that the ubiquity of illegal file sharing is less a function of the availability of the technology than of an imbalance between the cost to consumer of the works being illegally copied and the demand for those works? Or, by extension, that the artificial limits placed by the copyright holders on the legal distribution of their work (staggered release dates, different pricing in different markets, etc.) encourages illegal distribution to compensate for those limits?
At what point does the cost of enforcing these laws become the responsibility of the victims rather than of the majority of taxpayers who do not violate these laws?
Well, Sun changed the way some things work between version 1.3 and 1.4 breaking some GUI applications. They don't provide any backwards compatability. It's not the programmers fault.
A nice argument, except...we're talking about a new program here, not a legacy program.
They don't want to be seen as "doing business in Hungary" because that way they would have to adhere to Hungarian law, and they probably don't want the extra expense of having a Hungarian-trained lawyer in house to vet all their practices. Pick up a book on International Trade Law, it's pretty complex stuff.
This is just what I need, more Java stuff to slow down my PC.
Hmmmm... I think it can't be Java, because otherwise it would run on more than just Windows with IE.
You think wrong. There are version differences in Java, and some programmers are dumb enough to write to a particular Java implementation, like Java 1.3 for instance, for a particular platform, like Windows for instance, for a particular application, like IE for instance. RTF download page.
Tried downloading the general version. Don't work with Java 1.4. Tried downloading the version with Java 1.3. Don't work, probably because I still have Java 1.4 as well as Java 1.3 on there. Tried changing the Java version used in IE. Didn't help. Asked question, "why should I have to go through this kind of trouble to get search term highlighting in a browser I rarely use anyway?" Unintalled Java 1.3 and deleted the damned thing.
Try opening anything with Unicode in the Mac version - for instance, any document with any Greek in it (even something as minor as a few mus ( - it's even in Latin-1, for heaven's sake!). Depending upon how the original author encoded it, you may lose information.
Now, try opening a document with embedded EMF graphics in Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer. If there are any lines 1pt wide or smaller, watch them disappear! Now open it in WinXP, and watch them reappear!
There are version issues in MS Word. Also, I found WordPerfect 5.2 and 6.1 for Windows quite stable, it was 6.0 that was as buggy as a bayou in July (there was never a WordPerfect 1.0 for Windows; the first version for Windows was WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows).
You think he and his advisors haven't already discussed this? Remember, these comments are all based upon articles in on-line press - not an "Ask Slashdot" from the fellow himself.
Would take too damned long to get another shuttle up. Might have been possible with a complete power-down to minimal life support, but only if all the safety tests were neglected on the rescue flight (Discovery was I think next in line).
128 bit rate AAC, which quality-wise is better than the same bitrate under MPEG, but not THAT much better. But who cares? If I want an album, I buy the CD; if I just want one song to listen to on the iPod, I use ITMS. And I do not want League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - I'm not planning on paying to see the movie, I'm sure as hell not going to buy the soundtrack.
What they found was that users checking their e-mail through unencrypted POP connections vastly outnumbered those using a VPN or another encrypted tunnel
What's even more amazing is that if they checked the actual wired lines, they'd discover that users checking their email over wires through unencrypted POP connections vastly outnumbered those using a VPN or other encrypted tunnel. POP is by nature an unsecure protocol, like FTP and HTTP. Anyone who is savvy enough to find a WiFi convention interesting and uses POP without GPG or PGP is probably not sending email they care about having interecepted.
Sending unencrypted email is like sending a postcard. Sending it through WiFi is like stapling the postcard to an office wall. Either way, unintended recepients can look at it if they want to; the difference is only the quality and quantity of those unintended recipients.
10.3 is not a service pack. 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5, and 10.2.6 (and the forthcoming 10.2.7), THOSE are service packs - and all free downloads. Note that Windows 2K was Windows NT 5.0, and Windows XP was Windows NT 5.1 . So MS just charged you $199 for a service pack.
A $900 WintelPC is not comparable to a $1999 Mac. A $1700 WintelPC maybe. Bang for the hardware buck, the Wintel wins every time. But I'd be very interested in seeing COO numbers... my own sense is that downtime and freakish support issues are very rare with Macs (largely because of the closed hardware platform).
Me, I bought Mac because I always wanted a NeXT box when I was in grad school, and OS X is based on NeXT. A $1999 box running OS 9 I wouldn't go for. A $1999 closed hardware system running XP I wouldn't go for, however pretty it is. But a $1999 system, with specs similar to a low-end workstation, and running a NeXTlike operating system, where everything works? My order is going in next week.
Anyone else all for sending all these rich people into space (preferrably never to return)?
Wait, let's make them pay for R&D on something to shoot them with when they're up there before we launch any of 'em.
Yeah, let's have them pool all their resources to build three titanic colonizing spacecraft, and put them all aboard the first one we finish. We can call them the A, B, and C Arks, and put them on the B Ark...
Read more carefully. The implications of my posting: The cachers are providing a mechanism to have your work excluded at your request, providing you with a non-court means to remedy the caching if you choose. Since it is all publicly available information anyway, the potential economic damage is minimal. There are usually two remedies provided to a plaintiff after a lawsuit over copyright: the violater is ordered to stop violating, and the violater is ordered to provide monetary compensation. In this case, the first remedy is provided by the potential violator *without the need for court intervention*, and as I said, monetary considerations are likely to be minimal to nonexistent. So, given that there isn't likely to be a worthwhile remedy resulting from a lawsuit, lawsuits in these cases seem to me to be unlikely in the extreme.
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Would you be interested in providing a more complete review of OO for Greek in another comment?
Does it do wordperfect files yet? That is what stops my household from using 1.0.x Instead we're still using Corel 7
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if it NEVER supports WordPerfect files (not sure whether it does or not at the moment). They've already said they wouldn't support PFS: Write conversion, because the paid product has a plugin to do that. That's the problem with OS software that's part of a commercial project: sometimes the OS part can't give you something because it would undercut its own funding source.
here in the lab we adopted open office about a year ago as Microsoft did not give a comprehensive equation editor in which we could create our theorums
Given enough practice, even trolling may become an art. Bravo! You, sir, are on your way to becoming an artist.
[Note to slashdot readers: one does not "create theorems" in an equation editor. YHBT.]
BOFH her. Hide a tape recorder, get her on tape making advances. Then call her voicemail from an untraceable phone number and leave a copy of the conversation on her voice mail. While you're at it, download one of the kiddie pr0n viruses to her machine and create a scheduled task that will change her homepage to the kiddie pr0n and simultaneously email the link to her boss and her boss's boss with "hey, Bill, look at this great website I found" (but only if neither's name is really Bill, or your friend's), and will also email her boss an MP3 of the original recording. Reset it every week until she fires him for rejecting her advances.
[Seriously, please do NOT take this advice! This is just a JOKE! It is illegal, immoral, impractical, and irrational. And IANAL.]
Different platforms, different purposes. The G5 may erode a little of the low-end SGI market, but it can't compete on the high end. On the other hand, my wallet and my desk both want the G5, not the SGI.
Granted that there is file sharing that violates both the intent and the letter of US law, and that the law should be enforced: to what extent is the "enforcement" of such laws crippled by the behavior of the victims? What do you think of the argument that the ubiquity of illegal file sharing is less a function of the availability of the technology than of an imbalance between the cost to consumer of the works being illegally copied and the demand for those works? Or, by extension, that the artificial limits placed by the copyright holders on the legal distribution of their work (staggered release dates, different pricing in different markets, etc.) encourages illegal distribution to compensate for those limits? At what point does the cost of enforcing these laws become the responsibility of the victims rather than of the majority of taxpayers who do not violate these laws?
Well, Sun changed the way some things work between version 1.3 and 1.4 breaking some GUI applications. They don't provide any backwards compatability. It's not the programmers fault.
A nice argument, except...we're talking about a new program here, not a legacy program.
They don't want to be seen as "doing business in Hungary" because that way they would have to adhere to Hungarian law, and they probably don't want the extra expense of having a Hungarian-trained lawyer in house to vet all their practices. Pick up a book on International Trade Law, it's pretty complex stuff.
This is just what I need, more Java stuff to slow down my PC. Hmmmm... I think it can't be Java, because otherwise it would run on more than just Windows with IE.
You think wrong. There are version differences in Java, and some programmers are dumb enough to write to a particular Java implementation, like Java 1.3 for instance, for a particular platform, like Windows for instance, for a particular application, like IE for instance. RTF download page.
Tried downloading the general version. Don't work with Java 1.4. Tried downloading the version with Java 1.3. Don't work, probably because I still have Java 1.4 as well as Java 1.3 on there. Tried changing the Java version used in IE. Didn't help. Asked question, "why should I have to go through this kind of trouble to get search term highlighting in a browser I rarely use anyway?" Unintalled Java 1.3 and deleted the damned thing.
Next time, use a real browser, buddy.
Try opening anything with Unicode in the Mac version - for instance, any document with any Greek in it (even something as minor as a few mus ( - it's even in Latin-1, for heaven's sake!). Depending upon how the original author encoded it, you may lose information.
Now, try opening a document with embedded EMF graphics in Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer. If there are any lines 1pt wide or smaller, watch them disappear! Now open it in WinXP, and watch them reappear!
There are version issues in MS Word. Also, I found WordPerfect 5.2 and 6.1 for Windows quite stable, it was 6.0 that was as buggy as a bayou in July (there was never a WordPerfect 1.0 for Windows; the first version for Windows was WordPerfect 5.2 for Windows).
Catharsis theory as in Aristotle's Poetics?
[Yes, I did check the link; I'm just being a wiseacre.]
You think he and his advisors haven't already discussed this? Remember, these comments are all based upon articles in on-line press - not an "Ask Slashdot" from the fellow himself.
Would take too damned long to get another shuttle up. Might have been possible with a complete power-down to minimal life support, but only if all the safety tests were neglected on the rescue flight (Discovery was I think next in line).
But it's still existing music in that it was recorded on the movie studio's dime, not the record company's.
128 bit rate AAC, which quality-wise is better than the same bitrate under MPEG, but not THAT much better. But who cares? If I want an album, I buy the CD; if I just want one song to listen to on the iPod, I use ITMS. And I do not want League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - I'm not planning on paying to see the movie, I'm sure as hell not going to buy the soundtrack.
What they found was that users checking their e-mail through unencrypted POP connections vastly outnumbered those using a VPN or another encrypted tunnel
What's even more amazing is that if they checked the actual wired lines, they'd discover that users checking their email over wires through unencrypted POP connections vastly outnumbered those using a VPN or other encrypted tunnel. POP is by nature an unsecure protocol, like FTP and HTTP. Anyone who is savvy enough to find a WiFi convention interesting and uses POP without GPG or PGP is probably not sending email they care about having interecepted.
Sending unencrypted email is like sending a postcard. Sending it through WiFi is like stapling the postcard to an office wall. Either way, unintended recepients can look at it if they want to; the difference is only the quality and quantity of those unintended recipients.
XP is on SP1. But with at least a dozen security patches.
10.3 is not a service pack. 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5, and 10.2.6 (and the forthcoming 10.2.7), THOSE are service packs - and all free downloads. Note that Windows 2K was Windows NT 5.0, and Windows XP was Windows NT 5.1 . So MS just charged you $199 for a service pack.
A $900 WintelPC is not comparable to a $1999 Mac. A $1700 WintelPC maybe. Bang for the hardware buck, the Wintel wins every time. But I'd be very interested in seeing COO numbers ... my own sense is that downtime and freakish support issues are very rare with Macs (largely because of the closed hardware platform).
Me, I bought Mac because I always wanted a NeXT box when I was in grad school, and OS X is based on NeXT. A $1999 box running OS 9 I wouldn't go for. A $1999 closed hardware system running XP I wouldn't go for, however pretty it is. But a $1999 system, with specs similar to a low-end workstation, and running a NeXTlike operating system, where everything works? My order is going in next week.
IIRC, Harddrives are already vacuum sealed.. so it shouldn't matter if the surroundings have gravity or not.
What does vacuum sealing have to do with whether or not zero-gravity will cause problems for the drives?
Get a W and pay for the service. The C's range is about 50 ft indoors, and that's plenty for what WiFi was intended for.
Anyone else all for sending all these rich people into space (preferrably never to return)?
Wait, let's make them pay for R&D on something to shoot them with when they're up there before we launch any of 'em.
Yeah, let's have them pool all their resources to build three titanic colonizing spacecraft, and put them all aboard the first one we finish. We can call them the A, B, and C Arks, and put them on the B Ark ...
We bet on graphical user interface.
Funny, I seem to remember that someone else had already proven the GUI in the market when MS "bet" on it.
Gee, you think if you added everything in the Netscape package to Mozilla, it just might weigh in at 29.2M, too?
Well, since that was the implication of my posting, why, yes!!!
Read more carefully. The implications of my posting: The cachers are providing a mechanism to have your work excluded at your request, providing you with a non-court means to remedy the caching if you choose. Since it is all publicly available information anyway, the potential economic damage is minimal. There are usually two remedies provided to a plaintiff after a lawsuit over copyright: the violater is ordered to stop violating, and the violater is ordered to provide monetary compensation. In this case, the first remedy is provided by the potential violator *without the need for court intervention*, and as I said, monetary considerations are likely to be minimal to nonexistent. So, given that there isn't likely to be a worthwhile remedy resulting from a lawsuit, lawsuits in these cases seem to me to be unlikely in the extreme.