I use Impress for all of my presentations and at the meeting they inevitably are displayed on some other computer running MS PowerPoint. I've never noticed any problems... they look great.
Let's see... The Economist posts a complimentary article on a woman who is heading the Mozilla org saying nice things about what she has done to help revive competition in the browser world.
So far we have...
- she's ugly
- she's socially inept
- she's a lawyer
- she has a bad hair cut
- she's obviously "not a leader"
- she's not a geek (this was posted as a bad thing)
- she doesn't care about the code
- she only cares about marketing
- Mozilla never fixed my pet bug (several times).
- the software crashes on me every day
Back to your basements, little boys, or your mother will spank you.
I ripped my entire CD collection (only about 250 CDs) while I was working at home on other projects. I went very smoothly (used CDEX).
I put everything on an old IBM laptop (running Ubuntu) and hooked it up to my stereo... I call it my "BigPod"... works great!
License can be royalty-free but also include terms to prohibit use in GPL software... such as no redistribution... they've already done this with some of their "free and open" licenses. (Kind of like Fox's "fair and balanced").
Before you assume that the ACLU doesn't defend the second amendment, you should do a little research on their web site. A search for "second amendment" retrieves 27 articles where they are acting to assist second amendment rights. Many of these are in reference to the "Patriot Act" where national identification cards are being proposed and are they are working with the NRA, the Second Ammendment Foundation, and others to restrict government use of ID.
So as I said, the ACLU does often have to support odious or unpopular people and organizations to support all of our civil rights.
The ACLU supports civil rights. The way "the system" works is that it takes away the civil rights of the most despised (terrorists, etc.) and disenfranchised (poor, underclass) first and most people support these actions since these people are "evil".
The problem is that once "they" have established the right to take away civil rights, they can come after anyone (even you) if they don't like what you are saying or doing... it's a slippery slope.
The result is that the ACLU often finds itself defending some pretty odious people on principle. This clearly turns off most conformist people who don't understand the basic prinicples that are being defended.
The old saying... "I may not agree with what you are saying but I will defend (to the death) your right to say it." (attributed to Voltaire)
Now if you are a true Republican (American Republican, not of the French Republic), you will disavow this since Voltaire was FRENCH.
I haven't read the article (this is/. afterall and if I read the article then I would just be falling prey to the Register's marketing scam) but I agree this should be an April 1 joke.
First, installing and maintaining a Linux box is much easier than Windows. Try Ubuntu, for example, complete install with latest patches in less than an hour versus the 6+ hour install last time I had to reinstall Windows due to spyware corruption (Windows install, SP installs, patch updates, application installation - MS Office plus patches... don't forget to install and configure firewall and anti-virus).
Second, Linux was designed from the ground up as a multi-user system which means that the security to prevent viruses and spyware is built into the architecture, not patched on top of an insecure architecture like Windows. The fact that Linux users aren't plagued by viruses and spyware is because they are secure by default.
I don't think this will help. The problem in Iraq is not that they don't understand what we are saying... it's that they DO understand what we are saying and they don't like it. Time to bring our embattled troops home.
Last corporation I worked for used Office97 and it was just fine. Some oddities opening newer Office formats but far fewer problems with all of the new "features" added to later Office versions.
The few documents I did have problems with were handled well by OpenOffice.org
Yes, we all know that OSX is wonderful and has good language support.
My point is that even the wonderful OSX doesn't support all of the languages in the world. However, there are local projects to port many languages to Linux and it is better to support these efforts than the closed OSX. As wonderful as OSX is, open source does have a big advantage. (OSX roxs, dude.)
One of the most important factors in making a computer that people can USE is having it in their own language.
"Tinkering" with the OS to put it into the local language is very high on the list of mods. Linux already has very many languages supported and this project should stimulate more.
Microsoft has never been successful in an area where they couldn't leverage their desktop monopoly. Since they don't have a monopoly on the net, they'll have difficulty here.
I just went to microsoft.com to patch this bug. It started hassling me with it's "Genuine Microsoft" initiative and it wanted me to enable ActiveX and load some special software to check if I had a legitimate version of Windows (I do... this is a Dell laptop with factory installed WindowsXP).
I don't trust Microsoft, I don't trust ActiveX. I didn't get the patch... time to switch to Linux...
Although most new cell phones come equipped with Global Positioning System capabilities that can pinpoint their locations, the tracking technology used for transportation agencies does not depend on that.
Instead, it takes the frequent signals that wireless phones send to towers and follows the movement of the phones from one tower to another. Then it overlays that data with highway maps to determine where the phones are and how fast they are moving. Lumping thousands of those signals together can indicate traffic flow.
To keep from being tracked, motorists could turn off their cell phones.
A Delcan demonstration Web site developed for Baltimore uses various shades of green, yellow and red to show block-byblock whether vehicles are moving at or below the speed limits. As rush hour started on a recent workday, observers could watch as green turned to yellow and then red on roads heading out of downtown.
A cell phone tracker can tell how fast traffic is moving by knowing how fast each particular phone traveled from point A to point B. You don't really need to know how many cars/busses/trucks are on the road. You only need one cell phone traveling to tell the speed of the traffic which is the important information here.
If you had RTFA, you would know that this works without the user talking on the phone... the phone is always in contact with the towers so that the phone company knows where to find it even when you are not talking.
I agree completely. The Gates Foundation is doing a lot of good and a lot of the right things with its money.
It's always problematic to speculate about motives. Bill may have just come to the realization that he had more money than he could possibly spend and decided to do some good with it. I think he fits into the mold of the robber barons of the gilded age at the turn of the last century. Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan and others were ruthless businessmen who donated large sums to charity. Like Gates, their companies (Standard Oil and US Steel)ran afoul of the Sherman anti-trust act.
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I use Impress for all of my presentations and at the meeting they inevitably are displayed on some other computer running MS PowerPoint. I've never noticed any problems... they look great.
I just opened a small text file with OO.org and it takes up all of 13Meg. The same file with Winword uses 34Meg.
YMMV
So far we have...
- she's ugly
- she's socially inept
- she's a lawyer
- she has a bad hair cut
- she's obviously "not a leader"
- she's not a geek (this was posted as a bad thing)
- she doesn't care about the code
- she only cares about marketing
- Mozilla never fixed my pet bug (several times).
- the software crashes on me every day
Back to your basements, little boys, or your mother will spank you.
I ripped my entire CD collection (only about 250 CDs) while I was working at home on other projects. I went very smoothly (used CDEX). I put everything on an old IBM laptop (running Ubuntu) and hooked it up to my stereo... I call it my "BigPod"... works great!
OTOH, Windows explorer.exe is currently at 33 Meg!!! WHAT is it doing? It's just listing files!
However, people respect Torvalds and respect his opinion. He's not your average person.
I don't think he was advocating that Grandma do this herself... this is something for technical nerd type people to do and sell to Grandma.
License can be royalty-free but also include terms to prohibit use in GPL software... such as no redistribution... they've already done this with some of their "free and open" licenses. (Kind of like Fox's "fair and balanced").
So as I said, the ACLU does often have to support odious or unpopular people and organizations to support all of our civil rights.
The ACLU supports civil rights. The way "the system" works is that it takes away the civil rights of the most despised (terrorists, etc.) and disenfranchised (poor, underclass) first and most people support these actions since these people are "evil".
The problem is that once "they" have established the right to take away civil rights, they can come after anyone (even you) if they don't like what you are saying or doing... it's a slippery slope.
The result is that the ACLU often finds itself defending some pretty odious people on principle. This clearly turns off most conformist people who don't understand the basic prinicples that are being defended.
The old saying... "I may not agree with what you are saying but I will defend (to the death) your right to say it." (attributed to Voltaire)
Now if you are a true Republican (American Republican, not of the French Republic), you will disavow this since Voltaire was FRENCH.
I haven't read the article (this is /. afterall and if I read the article then I would just be falling prey to the Register's marketing scam) but I agree this should be an April 1 joke.
First, installing and maintaining a Linux box is much easier than Windows. Try Ubuntu, for example, complete install with latest patches in less than an hour versus the 6+ hour install last time I had to reinstall Windows due to spyware corruption (Windows install, SP installs, patch updates, application installation - MS Office plus patches... don't forget to install and configure firewall and anti-virus).
Second, Linux was designed from the ground up as a multi-user system which means that the security to prevent viruses and spyware is built into the architecture, not patched on top of an insecure architecture like Windows. The fact that Linux users aren't plagued by viruses and spyware is because they are secure by default.
I don't think this will help. The problem in Iraq is not that they don't understand what we are saying... it's that they DO understand what we are saying and they don't like it. Time to bring our embattled troops home.
Last corporation I worked for used Office97 and it was just fine. Some oddities opening newer Office formats but far fewer problems with all of the new "features" added to later Office versions. The few documents I did have problems with were handled well by OpenOffice.org
Yes, we all know that OSX is wonderful and has good language support.
My point is that even the wonderful OSX doesn't support all of the languages in the world. However, there are local projects to port many languages to Linux and it is better to support these efforts than the closed OSX. As wonderful as OSX is, open source does have a big advantage. (OSX roxs, dude.)
"Tinkering" with the OS to put it into the local language is very high on the list of mods. Linux already has very many languages supported and this project should stimulate more.
Microsoft has never been successful in an area where they couldn't leverage their desktop monopoly. Since they don't have a monopoly on the net, they'll have difficulty here.
I don't trust Microsoft, I don't trust ActiveX. I didn't get the patch... time to switch to Linux...
Well, they are starting in a swamp...
I know that under the terms of the license they don't have to do anything but it's always nice to share... and all that.
I use Bank of America... works great in Firefox.
From TFA:
Although most new cell phones come equipped with Global Positioning System capabilities that can pinpoint their locations, the tracking technology used for transportation agencies does not depend on that. Instead, it takes the frequent signals that wireless phones send to towers and follows the movement of the phones from one tower to another. Then it overlays that data with highway maps to determine where the phones are and how fast they are moving. Lumping thousands of those signals together can indicate traffic flow. To keep from being tracked, motorists could turn off their cell phones. A Delcan demonstration Web site developed for Baltimore uses various shades of green, yellow and red to show block-byblock whether vehicles are moving at or below the speed limits. As rush hour started on a recent workday, observers could watch as green turned to yellow and then red on roads heading out of downtown.
A cell phone tracker can tell how fast traffic is moving by knowing how fast each particular phone traveled from point A to point B. You don't really need to know how many cars/busses/trucks are on the road. You only need one cell phone traveling to tell the speed of the traffic which is the important information here.
If you had RTFA, you would know that this works without the user talking on the phone... the phone is always in contact with the towers so that the phone company knows where to find it even when you are not talking.
It's always problematic to speculate about motives. Bill may have just come to the realization that he had more money than he could possibly spend and decided to do some good with it. I think he fits into the mold of the robber barons of the gilded age at the turn of the last century. Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan and others were ruthless businessmen who donated large sums to charity. Like Gates, their companies (Standard Oil and US Steel)ran afoul of the Sherman anti-trust act.