There are certain features that are missing, the most obvious one I know of (due to a personal interest) is http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4914Normal View And of course there is ongoing maintenance to keep up with data formats (Office 2007 writing is still not there?) but it's true that in general OO does the job.
Hardly surprising considering they have been working on it since 1984!
Remembering that StarTeam was a German software house, happily grinding away on StarOffice for many years before being bought by Sun; it looks to me like there is a well-established bureaucracy in StarTeam that expects correct procedures to be followed, and doesn't really care if those procedures are difficult for outsiders to follow.
So they got bought by Sun who has been on the mission to open source everything that might help damage Microsoft's monopolies. But StarTeam themselves probably had no interest in that and resent being forced to conduct things in public.
Spamcop reporters are NOT allowed to support "email they don't like" and lose their reporting privileges if they repeatedly do it.
That said, it is is somewhat open to abuse. However, there are much more aggressive blacklists out there, and notably Spamcop will automatically remove you from their lists if a day or two goes by and there is no further reports, whereas other lists are near-impossible to get off.
Thanks for the tip, but the digital setting illustrates the problem in a different way: it's in a tiny font that uses about 1% of the screen, and thus is actually harder to read.
I think you missed most of the point of my post. 6234 was just an example, and I know it's not a smartphone. Yes, I'm aware that the 6234 has a text mode clock (although it's rather small, and the one displayed normally on screen uses spindly fake LCD characters so it's hard to read). The point is that the developers obviously thought they were adding a great feature in making this hard-to-read, but cool lookng analog clock.
The one most obvious and simple example of where Apple gets it, and NO OTHER MANUFACTURER does, is the clock.
On Apple's iPhone screen is a big, nicely rendered, white, TEXT clock telling you the time.
Without exception, ll the other developers are completely blinded by marketing or geekery and think that the clock must look cool, so they damage it's function almost to uselessness. They have some wanky simulated LED, LCD or analog clock, with shiny gradients and 3D edges, some of them moronically without numbers, or in tiny fonts. My own cheap Nokia 6234 got a shiny looking analog clock with no numbers, not even any hour marks!
Yet, when the backlight goes off and you want to quickly read the on-screen clock at an angle, the Apple one is 10x as easy to read. The others' gradients just reduce contrast, the 3D look makes them incomprehensible, the fake real-world look makes the numbers harder or non-existent.
And many people don't wear a watch anymore, using a phone instead, so this happens A LOT. The most commonly used function EVERY DAY, and everyone but apple gets it wrong. This tells you how out of touch phone developers generally are.
and it seems to me that the RIAA lawyes have come up with a scheme that brazenly uses the legal system to threaten people (nothing new there) but ALSO that the legal system has tacitly gone along with it. The "old boys club" of judges has decided that it's OK for these dirty pirating scum to be hammered through their courts, because they are so sneaky that there is no other way.
To the older generation, copyright infringement like this seems very wrong and the fact that the internet allows it to be done anonymously, with no easy trackdown, also seems wrong and perverted.
So basically they have allowed the RIAA to jam some wedges into the court system and use it to get those naughty infringers.
If they were not at least partially comfortable with the RIAA doing this, surely, they would have close it down long ago, because the whole process is surpremely dodgy.
While cutting back is probably a bad idea, because the Olympics are hard enough to pull off even without cutbacks, part of me cheers because the Olympics is SO WASTEFUL and its good to see a little less waste. Billions of dollars to build a bunch of temporary facilities and showpieces that will have to be maintained at vast expense and eventually destroyed or converted to something else. And then it happens again in 4 years.
Though it would suck for everyone else, I sort of think the Olympics should just go around the same few venues and actually MAKE USE of the already built facilities.
Just another massively-over-selling, no-customer-service rock bottom webhost for people who want a brochure site and not much more, as far as I can see. Nothing special about them...
comments on newegg or any self-selected forum are also meaningless as a much higher percentage of people with problems will comment, than those without problems.
Thanks for the tip. However, I found it a bit dull, something like someone use emacs at high speed:) At least these wasteful 3d renders are interesting to watch...
From your own article "While the spread of the disease is a major new threat to all amphibians, the scientists reported that the greatest current danger to every threatened species is still the loss of habitat as cities and suburbs expand, streams and ponds and wetlands give way to the needs of farmers, and forest lands are destroyed. "
If we cause the climate and environment to change too quickly, no species gets a chance to adapt. It takes at least thousands, probably millions of years for species to actually adapt.
So, it's more likely we will kill off almost all species leaving just the small number that by sheer luck can cope with widely diverse conditions... like cockroaches.
I don't see what there is to argue about. Clearly, species are going extinct in great numbers, it's largely due to us, and most species are not adapting.
Indeed, but this is part of the problem: some people have figured out that you can spend unlimited amounts of money on a war so long as not too many of your soldiers die.
This is hardly unusual with touchscreens. Especially cheaper screens with low touch resolution (like 10x10 "pixels"). But they all have problems with things like greasy fingers, accuracy in finding the button, or just a mysterious inability to register a touch. This is one of the big reasons why ATMs have softkeys instead, I guess.
This sounds very interesting. One empirical study showing data and conclusions is worth millions of fanatical rants on Slashdot (or in company meetings). I think we in IT feel there are some odd reasons why users won't change, but can't articulate them or say how important they are.
The other post about MS Office being a standard part of the budget is a very interesting thought - obvious now I see it written down, but I didn't think of it before.
For some reason images are very zealously pursued, and the logic is largely done by somebody you don't know running a bot you never heard of, rather than up front. This makes it an exercise in frustration to upload anything the first few times.
By contrast, any text you like can be added and will only be removed much later if someone notices it's a direct copy of something important.
If USA owes this foolish amount of money, but no-one dares to ask for it back because of the military and economic power - then USA effectively owns the world, and might as well just declare itself debt free, and carry on living off the backs of its slaves.
The rest of us aren't going to do anything about it.
To be on such a large scale they must have been inserted by someone closely involved - perhaps a distributor but more likely the factory? They are supposed to be tamper resistant. Of course this is one reason that chip-and-pin is coming, because smartcard data can't be intercepted so easily. OTOH, as they say: if you have physical access other security is irrelevant...
But with SD you can just follow along with consumer flash and the high performance it gives. Anything you can buy to solder onto a chip (and available for more than a few months) will be slower and more expensive. We're finding that and thinking an SD card would be faster and easier.
Indeed. My father made some passing comments about my generation being the one which would see "indefinite life extension" which (unsurprisingly perhaps) got lodged in my mind. Recently I realised it's still probably a long way off and having to readjust a rather large assumption I hadn't realised I'd made....:(
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There are certain features that are missing, the most obvious one I know of (due to a personal interest) is http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4914Normal View
And of course there is ongoing maintenance to keep up with data formats (Office 2007 writing is still not there?) but it's true that in general OO does the job.
Hardly surprising considering they have been working on it since 1984!
Sorry, I meant StarDivision, not StarTeam.
Remembering that StarTeam was a German software house, happily grinding away on StarOffice for many years before being bought by Sun; it looks to me like there is a well-established bureaucracy in StarTeam that expects correct procedures to be followed, and doesn't really care if those procedures are difficult for outsiders to follow.
So they got bought by Sun who has been on the mission to open source everything that might help damage Microsoft's monopolies. But StarTeam themselves probably had no interest in that and resent being forced to conduct things in public.
Spamcop reporters are NOT allowed to support "email they don't like" and lose their reporting privileges if they repeatedly do it.
That said, it is is somewhat open to abuse. However, there are much more aggressive blacklists out there, and notably Spamcop will automatically remove you from their lists if a day or two goes by and there is no further reports, whereas other lists are near-impossible to get off.
Thanks for the tip, but the digital setting illustrates the problem in a different way: it's in a tiny font that uses about 1% of the screen, and thus is actually harder to read.
I think you missed most of the point of my post. 6234 was just an example, and I know it's not a smartphone.
Yes, I'm aware that the 6234 has a text mode clock (although it's rather small, and the one displayed normally on screen uses spindly fake LCD characters so it's hard to read). The point is that the developers obviously thought they were adding a great feature in making this hard-to-read, but cool lookng analog clock.
The one most obvious and simple example of where Apple gets it, and NO OTHER MANUFACTURER does, is the clock.
On Apple's iPhone screen is a big, nicely rendered, white, TEXT clock telling you the time.
Without exception, ll the other developers are completely blinded by marketing or geekery and think that the clock must look cool, so they damage it's function almost to uselessness. They have some wanky simulated LED, LCD or analog clock, with shiny gradients and 3D edges, some of them moronically without numbers, or in tiny fonts. My own cheap Nokia 6234 got a shiny looking analog clock with no numbers, not even any hour marks!
Yet, when the backlight goes off and you want to quickly read the on-screen clock at an angle, the Apple one is 10x as easy to read. The others' gradients just reduce contrast, the 3D look makes them incomprehensible, the fake real-world look makes the numbers harder or non-existent.
And many people don't wear a watch anymore, using a phone instead, so this happens A LOT. The most commonly used function EVERY DAY, and everyone but apple gets it wrong. This tells you how out of touch phone developers generally are.
I was just reading NYCL's article on this whole situation
http://beckermanlegal.com/Documents/080729LargeRecordingCompaniesVsTheDefenselessHTMLVERSION.htm
and it seems to me that the RIAA lawyes have come up with a scheme that brazenly uses the legal system to threaten people (nothing new there) but ALSO that the legal system has tacitly gone along with it. The "old boys club" of judges has decided that it's OK for these dirty pirating scum to be hammered through their courts, because they are so sneaky that there is no other way.
To the older generation, copyright infringement like this seems very wrong and the fact that the internet allows it to be done anonymously, with no easy trackdown, also seems wrong and perverted.
So basically they have allowed the RIAA to jam some wedges into the court system and use it to get those naughty infringers.
If they were not at least partially comfortable with the RIAA doing this, surely, they would have close it down long ago, because the whole process is surpremely dodgy.
Maybe we should let it go. Is there any other word with one 'o' but a long o sound? Lose might be the odd one out.
While cutting back is probably a bad idea, because the Olympics are hard enough to pull off even without cutbacks, part of me cheers because the Olympics is SO WASTEFUL and its good to see a little less waste. Billions of dollars to build a bunch of temporary facilities and showpieces that will have to be maintained at vast expense and eventually destroyed or converted to something else. And then it happens again in 4 years.
Though it would suck for everyone else, I sort of think the Olympics should just go around the same few venues and actually MAKE USE of the already built facilities.
Well, you've convinced me! I guess you did list the majority of all albums and they are all good!
Just another massively-over-selling, no-customer-service rock bottom webhost for people who want a brochure site and not much more, as far as I can see. Nothing special about them...
comments on newegg or any self-selected forum are also meaningless as a much higher percentage of people with problems will comment, than those without problems.
Thanks for the tip. However, I found it a bit dull, something like someone use emacs at high speed :) At least these wasteful 3d renders are interesting to watch...
From your own article
"While the spread of the disease is a major new threat to all amphibians, the scientists reported that the greatest current danger to every threatened species is still the loss of habitat as cities and suburbs expand, streams and ponds and wetlands give way to the needs of farmers, and forest lands are destroyed. "
If we cause the climate and environment to change too quickly, no species gets a chance to adapt. It takes at least thousands, probably millions of years for species to actually adapt.
So, it's more likely we will kill off almost all species leaving just the small number that by sheer luck can cope with widely diverse conditions... like cockroaches.
I don't see what there is to argue about. Clearly, species are going extinct in great numbers, it's largely due to us, and most species are not adapting.
Indeed, but this is part of the problem: some people have figured out that you can spend unlimited amounts of money on a war so long as not too many of your soldiers die.
This is hardly unusual with touchscreens. Especially cheaper screens with low touch resolution (like 10x10 "pixels"). But they all have problems with things like greasy fingers, accuracy in finding the button, or just a mysterious inability to register a touch. This is one of the big reasons why ATMs have softkeys instead, I guess.
This sounds very interesting. One empirical study showing data and conclusions is worth millions of fanatical rants on Slashdot (or in company meetings). I think we in IT feel there are some odd reasons why users won't change, but can't articulate them or say how important they are.
The other post about MS Office being a standard part of the budget is a very interesting thought - obvious now I see it written down, but I didn't think of it before.
Isn't most of it just drivers?
In which case it's hardly exciting as it could triple in size and the actual kernal features be exactly the same.
For some reason images are very zealously pursued, and the logic is largely done by somebody you don't know running a bot you never heard of, rather than up front.
This makes it an exercise in frustration to upload anything the first few times.
By contrast, any text you like can be added and will only be removed much later if someone notices it's a direct copy of something important.
If USA owes this foolish amount of money, but no-one dares to ask for it back because of the military and economic power - then USA effectively owns the world, and might as well just declare itself debt free, and carry on living off the backs of its slaves.
The rest of us aren't going to do anything about it.
To be on such a large scale they must have been inserted by someone closely involved - perhaps a distributor but more likely the factory? They are supposed to be tamper resistant.
Of course this is one reason that chip-and-pin is coming, because smartcard data can't be intercepted so easily. OTOH, as they say: if you have physical access other security is irrelevant...
But with SD you can just follow along with consumer flash and the high performance it gives. Anything you can buy to solder onto a chip (and available for more than a few months) will be slower and more expensive.
We're finding that and thinking an SD card would be faster and easier.
Indeed. My father made some passing comments about my generation being the one which would see "indefinite life extension" which (unsurprisingly perhaps) got lodged in my mind. Recently I realised it's still probably a long way off and having to readjust a rather large assumption I hadn't realised I'd made.... :(