So the discs are readable, in that one could make a complete and perfect bit-for-bit copy? The issue is that the error-correction is being used after all that time?
It has many more functions that are not found in Excel, but ALSO having support for everying Excel supports means that any Excel sheet can be opened and used in Gnumeric.
Gnumeric is compatible. It is faster. It does more. That seems better to me, even when ignoring the price tag and lack of Evil(tm) technology.
Just get/. to further crowd the good schools and increase the requirements for those of us planning to attend one. (Everyone knows that the University of Bob has the best technical courses. MCSE certification with no test for $20, and a PhD in point-n-clicking for $200.)
I see that as a great 3d interface, available in Linux for quite a while. Rather than reinventing everything, just make several different layers of 2d environments, and stack them. Give them opaque backgrounds with a single interface for navigation on top. By flipping the slides, you can access different sets of open programs.
My favorite implimentation of this is that of OpenBox(and the other boxes). I can wheel on the empty background to switch desktops. No wasteful program runs as a background, and I can move a window from one desktop to another by dragging it across the edge. With this method, I can keep my editor and compile on one desktop, and instantly flip to a web browser if I need to check documentation.
Mac OS 9 and Linux(by which I mean XFree86 w/ a decent wm on any platform) also have the ability to shrink to just their titlebar upon a double click. Not as essential as virtual desktops, but definitely worth the ~30 lines of code it takes to impliment.
Panther's Expose uses a different approach by which all windows, or all those of the current application, are resized to fit on the screen. Clicking on one exposes it. The idea has potential.
(Windows has kept the same interface for the past 8 years, but not because it's the best.)
Windows has been the de facto virus target, but that doesn't seem to have increased code quality...
I think a paranoid requirement for security, at the cost of hardware support and "cool features", makes for the best security. Look at OpenBSD. It doesn't have SMP support, or many of the other features of FreeBSD. What it does have is a system in which every incoming line of code is reviewed for security implications, one of the most secure on this planet.
But then I realized he was referring to "companies". Linux is the way it is because it was made by people who care, and the same can be said (possibly to a lesser extent) about other unices(Linux walks, talks, and quacks like UNIX. So does BSD/QNX/etc.)
Don't get me wrong, I like nearly all Linux distros for the guts beneath them. I just prefer Debian over Redhat/Suse because of the complete lack of commercialization; I can get ALL of the available software in the same interface, with nothing held back "for paying customers".
1. It is decentralized, like email.
2. Anyone with a domain can use it, even on a lan that isn't connected to the internet. I am sheenmaster@frob.us
3. It has "transports" to access the other IM services.
4. It has clients for literally everything, and is easy to program for.
but the effect was an even more oppressive (if less inbred) government. If a revolution comes full-circle, it's a failure.
I think a few minor trade colonies taking on the british empire was more impressive, in that it took us more than 200 years to start back on the downward spiral. Give it another hundred years, and we'll have street riots against the RIAA for placing a 1000% tax on anything that can transfer or store information of any kind, and a mandate of DRM.
Non-portable C++,Psuedo Java with all the crap of and the portabiltiy of neither(C#), Wannabe Java(J#), and Beginner's Anal Soviet Interogation Code (VB.NET).
Thank goodness I'm in Linux with gcc, gcj, and Java. All of which are free, and all of which are portable. I don't have to pay Microsoft, I can keep my code compatible, and I can compile to hundreds of platforms. When was the last time Visual anything supported compiling to the TI-89, Mac OS X, and Solaris platforms from a single codebase on a single computer?
"I don't do America/Russia jokes anymore, haven't for ten years. Now I do observational commedy about relationships and stuff.", Yackov Shmirnov to Bobby Hill
(Do we really want the soviets building ANYTHING that is REMOTELY dangerous? Don't give me that "cold war is over" crap either, I saw Stalin burst out of his coffin on the Simpsons!)
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Where did they get the money to advertise on MSN?
Different schematic, different patent.
Did the patent in question use a dragonball processor? I think not.
did the patent in question allow for user programmability and expansion of memory? I think not.
Should the issue go to cout? Yes; just to dismiss it once and for all.
When Microsoft offers your $10 million for an unenforcable patent, take it.
I consider that a feature.
So the discs are readable, in that one could make a complete and perfect bit-for-bit copy? The issue is that the error-correction is being used after all that time?
The Furby can run PicoGUI.
It has many more functions that are not found in Excel, but ALSO having support for everying Excel supports means that any Excel sheet can be opened and used in Gnumeric.
Gnumeric is compatible. It is faster. It does more. That seems better to me, even when ignoring the price tag and lack of Evil(tm) technology.
A few projects use a butchered version of the GNU GPL. It could be be placed under the Microsoft GPL ($199 and 1 soul per license).
General Public License doesn't necesarrily mean GNU's GPL.
Just get /. to further crowd the good schools and increase the requirements for those of us planning to attend one. (Everyone knows that the University of Bob has the best technical courses. MCSE certification with no test for $20, and a PhD in point-n-clicking for $200.)
But they'd probably do "shared source" crap, and no one would pay attention to, much less touch, the code.
I see that as a great 3d interface, available in Linux for quite a while. Rather than reinventing everything, just make several different layers of 2d environments, and stack them. Give them opaque backgrounds with a single interface for navigation on top. By flipping the slides, you can access different sets of open programs.
My favorite implimentation of this is that of OpenBox(and the other boxes). I can wheel on the empty background to switch desktops. No wasteful program runs as a background, and I can move a window from one desktop to another by dragging it across the edge. With this method, I can keep my editor and compile on one desktop, and instantly flip to a web browser if I need to check documentation.
Mac OS 9 and Linux(by which I mean XFree86 w/ a decent wm on any platform) also have the ability to shrink to just their titlebar upon a double click. Not as essential as virtual desktops, but definitely worth the ~30 lines of code it takes to impliment. Panther's Expose uses a different approach by which all windows, or all those of the current application, are resized to fit on the screen. Clicking on one exposes it. The idea has potential.
(Windows has kept the same interface for the past 8 years, but not because it's the best.)
Windows has been the de facto virus target, but that doesn't seem to have increased code quality...
I think a paranoid requirement for security, at the cost of hardware support and "cool features", makes for the best security. Look at OpenBSD. It doesn't have SMP support, or many of the other features of FreeBSD. What it does have is a system in which every incoming line of code is reviewed for security implications, one of the most secure on this planet.
No X11R4 integration :)
It might be fun to pipe that output to an automailer, replacing OpenServer with Linux.
So that's why my copies of OpenServer and UNIXWARE keep pingflooding kernel.org...
This is the Yackov Shmirnov slashdot. We no longer do russia/america jokes, just observations about life and such.
Debian/Gentoo vs. Redhat/Suse/Mandrake.
But then I realized he was referring to "companies". Linux is the way it is because it was made by people who care, and the same can be said (possibly to a lesser extent) about other unices(Linux walks, talks, and quacks like UNIX. So does BSD/QNX/etc.)
Don't get me wrong, I like nearly all Linux distros for the guts beneath them. I just prefer Debian over Redhat/Suse because of the complete lack of commercialization; I can get ALL of the available software in the same interface, with nothing held back "for paying customers".
which spawn several download processes to grab bandwidth from other sockets.
Maybe one of those "fast downloaders" patented the technique of using a specific amount of bandwidth?
Doesn't the Russian Mafia use base solutions to desolve "enemies", letting their flesh run down the drain, leaving only bones?
The real reason is to identify McBride's remains after his speech at Defcon.
SCO recently copyrighted Walrus DNA, and both creatures use the pattented Symmetric Multi-Cell technology.
Anyone using a sea sponge better pay up and admit their blatent violation of others' IP.
1. It is decentralized, like email.
2. Anyone with a domain can use it, even on a lan that isn't connected to the internet. I am sheenmaster@frob.us
3. It has "transports" to access the other IM services.
4. It has clients for literally everything, and is easy to program for.
get it
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Use the commandline you lazy troll!
I'm more concerned about wifi. My agenda was a nice little pda, or would be if I could use ethernet instead of PPP.
I'll be sticking with my zaurus until I find a pda with a usb host controller, everlasting power cell, or wifi range equivalent to my iBook's.
but the effect was an even more oppressive (if less inbred) government. If a revolution comes full-circle, it's a failure.
I think a few minor trade colonies taking on the british empire was more impressive, in that it took us more than 200 years to start back on the downward spiral. Give it another hundred years, and we'll have street riots against the RIAA for placing a 1000% tax on anything that can transfer or store information of any kind, and a mandate of DRM.
Non-portable C++,Psuedo Java with all the crap of and the portabiltiy of neither(C#), Wannabe Java(J#), and Beginner's Anal Soviet Interogation Code (VB.NET).
Thank goodness I'm in Linux with gcc, gcj, and Java. All of which are free, and all of which are portable. I don't have to pay Microsoft, I can keep my code compatible, and I can compile to hundreds of platforms. When was the last time Visual anything supported compiling to the TI-89, Mac OS X, and Solaris platforms from a single codebase on a single computer?
"I don't do America/Russia jokes anymore, haven't for ten years. Now I do observational commedy about relationships and stuff.", Yackov Shmirnov to Bobby Hill
(Do we really want the soviets building ANYTHING that is REMOTELY dangerous? Don't give me that "cold war is over" crap either, I saw Stalin burst out of his coffin on the Simpsons!)
to be non-denominational.